Grant directory

Pays researchers consolidating their own independent lab up to EUR 2 million over five years for frontier research.

Pays outstanding researchers up to EUR 7 million for a major scientific challenge a regular ERC grant couldn't fund.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to test the commercial or social potential of their funded research.

Awards ERC grant holders up to EUR 10,000 for outstanding public engagement with their ERC-funded research.

Pays early-career researchers up to EUR 1.5 million over five years to launch their own independent research team.

Pays a group of two to four Principal Investigators up to EUR 10 million to jointly tackle a research problem none of them could solve alone.

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Funds eligible Princeton researchers inventing or applying new research technology through one- or two-year grants.

Awards $3,000 to one or two Education for Sustainable Development projects that any organization worldwide has run for at least three years.

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Funds EURES organisations to place and support around 4,000 mobile jobseekers and apprentices across the EU and EEA.

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Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women under 35 who have founded breakthrough European innovation companies.

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Pays a share of a EUR 220,000 prize to women founders of breakthrough European innovations, with no age limit.

Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women founders with a direct link to the EIT Community who lead breakthrough European innovations.

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Funds European Researchers' Night events and Researchers at Schools visits that bring researchers face to face with the public and pupils across Europe.

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Funds Brussels R&D SMEs participating in Eurostars international collaboration projects, covering 40 to 80 percent of project costs depending on company size and project type.

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Funds Swedish SMEs and their international partners to bring near-market R&D to launch.

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Funds international R&D and innovation projects led by an SME through each country's own national funding body.

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Supports Portugal researchers with structured pathways in scientific employment opportunities for early-career PhDs, from planning to deployment.

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Funds Portuguese research mobility projects through grants supporting researcher and institutional mobility activities.

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Supports Portugal researchers with structured pathways in PhD-level research continuity across Portuguese institutions, from planning to deployment.

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Supports Portugal researchers with structured pathways in industry-linked PhD development in public hosts, from planning to deployment.

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Funds Brussels companies checking the technical feasibility of their innovation, covering 50 to 70 percent of a technical feasibility study carried out in-house or with a specialist consultant.

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Reimburses up to EUR 60,000 in EIC Ecosystem Partner service costs — R&D infrastructure, prototyping, IP/legal support and more — to companies that already hold an EIC award.

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Pays one European coordination project up to EUR 3 million to map European science diplomacy players and launch a shared platform for the field.

Funds US scholars with a PhD to teach, research or work professionally in Romania.