Project description
Boosting ERC and NCP excellence and support to applicants
Funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the mERCury project will promote ERC efforts and support ERC national contact points (NCPs) across Europe. To achieve this, the project will strengthen national and local support for applicants, especially in widening countries, to enhance the quality and quantity of applications and NCPs. Moreover, it will encourage transnational cooperation and capacity building among ERC NCPs to ensure consistent and harmonised support. This will improve ERC NCP competence and services, in addition to reducing gaps in participation and accessibility between countries.
Objective
mERCury will help to 1)facilitate the transnational co-operation and capacity building among ERC National Contact Points (NCPs) to achieve a consistent and harmonized level of support 2)strengthen national and local support to potential ERC applicants, in particular to those from countries with weak participation 3)identify and sharing good NCP practices and raising the general standard of support to ERC applicants 4)enhance the competence of ERC NCPs, including helping less experienced NCPs rapidly acquire the know-how accumulated by NCPs in other countries 5)reach a higher quality and quantity of applications especially from Horizon Europe Widening countries by coaching potential ERC applicants. Our project aims at reaching 3 Specific Objectives (SO): SO1: Improve, professionalise and harmonise services of ERC NCPs. SO2: To Increase capacities of less experienced and Widening countries NCPs, facilitate their work and reduce the gap increasing the participation of applicants from those countries and in any country with weaker participation. SO3: strengthen national and local support to potential ERC applicants, in particular to those from countries with weak participation in the ERC programme. We will reach our SOs thanks to 4 Work Packages that include twinnings, meet&exchange workshops, online working groups, train the trainer events, training sessions and workshops for applicants. These activities will focus on issues specific to the ERC programme and to the ERC NCP work. These activities will be shaped and their topic identified by the same ERC NCPs through a benchmarking questionnaire which will deliver NCPs knowledge, capacity building and upskilling needs. 23 beneficiaries –12 from Widening countries- from all levels of ERC experience will be part of the consortium.
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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00184 Roma
Italy
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00184 Roma
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700 13 IRAKLEIO
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06100 Ankara
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00-801 Warszawa
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105 REYKJAVIK
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4362 Esch Sur Alzette
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LV-1050 RIGA
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51147 KOLN
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010362 BUCURESTI
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811 04 BRATISLAVA
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LT-01103 Vilnius
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1075 Nicosia
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0014 YEREVAN
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KKR 1320 KALKARA
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1113 SOFIA
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1000 BRUSSELS
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75005 Paris
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1051 Budapest
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1090 Wien
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6812511 Jerusalem
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SN2 1FL SWINDON
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28100 ALCOBENDAS
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3007 BERN
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