Consolidator Grants

Europe currently offers insufficient opportunities for young investigators to develop independent careers and make the transition from working under a supervisor to being independent researchers in their own right. This structural problem leads to a dramatic waste of research talent in Europe. It also limits or delays the emergence of the next-generation of research leaders, who bring new ideas and energy, and it encourages highly talented researchers at an early stage of their career to seek advancement elsewhere.

ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support researchers at the stage at which they are consolidating their own independent research team or programme. The scheme will strengthen independent and excellent new individual research teams that have been recently created.

ERC Consolidator Grants in brief

• For researchers of any nationality with over 7 and up to 12 years of experience since completion of PhD and scientific track record showing great promise
• An excellent research proposal
• Research must be conducted in a public or private research organisation (known as a Host Institution/HI) located in one of the EU Member State or Associated Countries 
• Funding per grant: up to € 2 million (in some circumstances up to € 2.75 million)
• Duration: up to 5 years
• Sole evaluation criterion: scientific excellence of researcher and research proposal
• Calls for proposals: published once a year  

More information : https://erc.europa.eu/consolidator-grants