Call for ERC Advanced Investigators Grants

The European Commission has published a call for European Research Council Advanced Investigators Grants. Pursuing non-conventional or high-risk research projects is a well recognised way to promote major scientific advances but many funding agencies find it difficult to set ...

The European Commission has published a call for European Research Council Advanced Investigators Grants.

Pursuing non-conventional or high-risk research projects is a well recognised way to promote major scientific advances but many funding agencies find it difficult to set aside significant amounts of funding for this purpose.

European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants are intended to promote substantial advances in the frontiers of knowledge, and to encourage new productive lines of enquiry and new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines.

By awarding grants on a competitive basis solely on the criterion of excellence the ERC will establish clear benchmarks for quality which will help to raise the level of all European research. In these ways the grants will complement and add value to existing funding schemes and investments at the national and European levels.

As well as leading researchers already established in Europe, recipients are expected to include returnees from the European 'diaspora' who wish to establish themselves in Europe. Additionally, the ERC is particularly keen to encourage excellent proposals which involve the establishment of a new research activity in the EU or the associated countries by a principal investigator who is moving from a third country into the EU or the associated countries.To see the official call announcement, please consult:
OJ No C 335 of 16 November 2011 and the following link