Objectives The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. Size of ERC Consolidator Grants Consolidator Grants may be awarded up to […]
Horizon Europe to be launched: Europe’s new Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
The European Commission presented the Work Programme 2021 for the European Research Council. This is the first work programme under Horizon Europe, Europe’s new Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for 2021-2027. It includes three main calls for proposals for frontier research actions for a total amount of €1.9 billion. The European Research Council (ERC) […]
Horizon Europe : Council presidency reaches political agreement with the European Parliament
The EU has come closer to adopting its next multiannual framework programme for research and innovation. The German presidency of the Council reached a provisional political agreement with the European Parliament’s negotiators on the proposed regulation establishing Horizon Europe, the EU framework programme for research and innovation for the years 2021 to 2027. The main […]
Horizon Europe: views on priorities for the next four years
To design the ambitious EU research and innovation programme that supports the green and digital transitions for a sustainable coronavirus recovery the DIRECTORATE-GENERAL for Research and Innovation (European Commission) ask for your your say on Horizon Europe’s first Strategic Plan. Horizon Europe Horizon Europe, the next EU research and innovation programme, will launch in 2021. […]
Horizon Europe: online consultation open
The Commission is preparing the implementation of Horizon Europe, the next and most ambitious EU research and innovation programme (2021-2027) with a proposed budget of €100 billion, in an intensiveco-design process. The process will help shape European research and innovation investments in the coming years. You can now take part in the online consultation that has been launched. The […]
Horizon 2020: Commission to invest €11 billion in new ways to address societal challenges and boost jobs and growth
Today the European Commission announced how it will spend the last and biggest annual share of €11 billion of the EU research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020. Focus on topics In this final year the Commission will focus on fewer and crucial topics such as climate change, clean energy, plastics, cybersecurity and the digital […]