ERC's Work Programme for 2023 Nearly €2.2b in Grants
The ERC’s Work Programme for 2023 has a total budget of around €2.2 billion for grants. The Programme will support more than a thousand top researchers across Europe.
The plan contains usual grant schemes: Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy Grants. However, the next year’s Programme will see some new elements:
- The budget for the Proof of Concept grant scheme will increase from €25 million to €30 million
- Two additional grounds for extension of the eligibility windows for the candidates for Starting and Consolidator Grants will be introduced for researchers seeking asylum or being a victim of a natural disaster
- A special grant is foreseen to support ERC Science Journalism Initiative that will entail support for journalists wishing to spend time at research institutions to better understand frontier research
How and when to apply for ERC’s Work Programme
The Work Programme includes a tentative calendar of grant competitions.
The call for Starting Grants opens on 12 July 2022 followed by the Synergy Grant call on 13 July 2022.
More about the Work Programme 2023.
What is the ERC
The European Research Council (ERC) is the European Union's funding organisation for excellent frontier research.
It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe.
The ERC offers four core grant schemes:
With its additional Proof of Concept Grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to bridge the gap between their pioneering research and the early phases of its commercialisation.
The overall ERC budget from 2021 to 2027 is more than €16 billion as part of the Horizon Europe Programme. Learn tips and tricks about Horizon Europe.