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ERC Advanced Grants

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What are the ERC Advanced Grants?

ERC Advanced Grants (AdG) support excellent PIs at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. The pplicant must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of his/her scientific proposal. For more details see ERC Advanced Grants summary 2024  .

Who can apply for the ERC Advanced Grant?

Independent leading senior researchers from anywhere in the world who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years (can be extended beyond ten years, in case of certain career breaks).

Why to apply for the ERC Advanced Grant?

  • It is a prestigious opportunity to develop your own independent research laboratory and to undertake your breakthrough, high-risk research ideas.
  • You can get financial support up to 2.5 M € for 5 years, the grant can cover up to 100% of the total eligible costs. (NEW for the 2024 call: ERC Advanced Grants are funded through a Lump Sum, not Actual Costs payment).
  • Additional 1 M € can be available to cover (i) eligible “start-up” costs for researchers moving from a third country to the EU or an Associated Country; (ii) the purchase of major equipment; (iii) access to large facilities; (iv) major experimental and field work costs.
  • You can do your research in any of the EU Member States (MS) or Associated Countries (AC).

When to apply for the ERC Advanced Grant?

The nearest call deadline ERC AdG 2024 is on Thu 29 August 2024 17:00 CET.

  Please inform the Project Office about your intention.  
  Do not hesitate to contact us anytime for consulting, discussion or help.  

How toapply for the ERC Advanced Grant?

  1. Find and read programme guidelines.
  2. Contact the host institution and negotiate the institutional support. For IOCB official agreement with project submission, please complete form in the electronic project proposal approval system. Please, contact the Project Office.
  3. Create or use your EU account in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal and activate your access to the call
  4. Select one of the 28 panels which is the most relevant to the field of your research (see ERC 2024 Evaluation Panels  )
  5. Create a draft proposal; fill in pre-registration data for the proposal. These details will be used by the ERCEA in order to plan the evaluation. You will not have access to this page again once it is completed. Be careful to choose the correct Participant Identification Code (PIC) number for your Host Institution.
  6. Edit contact details; fill in the name and e-mail of the PI and the Main Host Institution Contact person. Once you save the changes, an automatic invitation is sent to all contacts’ e-mail addresses. The invited persons can access your proposal after logging in to the EU Funding & Tenders Portal
  7. Prepare the budget and justification using the IOCB budget template (available from projectoffice@uochb.cas.cz), making sure that it is concise but at the same time provides clear justification of projected expenses. The justification comprises six text boxes:
    • A. Personnel – max. 2500 characters incl. spaces,
    • B. Subcontracting (if applicable) - max. 1000 characters,
    • C. Purchase costs – max 3500 characters,
    • D. Internally invoiced goods and services (if applicable) – max 1000 characters,
    • Request for additional funding (if applicable) – max. 1000 characters,
    • Funding from other sources (if applicable) – max 1000 characters.
  8. Fill in your online Administrative form (Part A) at the EU Participant Portal.
    • General information: Title, Panel choice, Keywords, Abstract, Declarations;
    • Administrative data: Host Institution, Department, Principal investigator, Contact Address;
    • Budget;
    • o Resources and time commitment (detailed description of resources, max. 10000 characters, incl. Spaces, comprising six text boxes: A. Personnel – max. 2500 characters incl. spaces, B. Subcontracting (if applicable) - max. 1000 characters, C. Purchase costs – max 3500 characters, D. Internally invoiced goods and services (if applicable) – max 1000 characters, Request for additional funding (if applicable) – max. 1000 characters, Funding from other sources (if applicable) – max 1000 characters);
    • Ethics and security issues tables;
    • Call specific questions.
  9. Complete the ERC AdG offline Research proposal B1 (use template B1  ) and make a PDF of the final version. Visual figures, tables and graphs are highly recommended in the proposal. Part B1 will be evaluated in steps 1&2. Discuss your proposal with other scientists, the Project Office and the Czech national contact point.
    • Cover page;
    • Extended synopsis of the scientific proposal (max 5 pages, references do not count towards the page limit);
    • Curriculum Vitae and Track Record (max 4 pages).
  10. Complete the ERC AdG offline Research proposal B2 (template B2  , max 14 pages, references do not count towards the page limit) and make a PDF of the final version. Visual figures, tables and graphs are highly recommended in the proposal. Part B2 will be evaluated in step 2. Discuss your proposal with other scientists, the Project Office and the Czech national contact point.
    • State-of-the-art and objectives;
    • Methodology;
    • Funding ID table = any on-going grants and submitted grant applications (will not count towards the page limits).
  11. Finalise your application in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
    • Administrative form online Part A (applicant & Project Office)
    • Research proposal offline Part B1 (use template B1  ; applicant)
    • Research proposal offline Part B2 (use template B2  ; applicant)
    • Letter of Commitment of the host institution (Project Office)
    • If applicable, the ethics/security self-assessment explaining how the ethics/security issues will be treated (applicant & Project Office)
  12. Validate your application. Once there is a consolidated version of the proposal, the “SUBMIT” button must be pressed. The system performs a limited automatic validation of the proposal. Any problems such as missing data, wrong file format or excessive file size will appear as a list of warnings and/or on the screen. You may submit your proposal with warnings (marked in yellow), but it is not possible to submit a proposal until all errors (marked in red) are corrected. Please note that the electronic checks by the submission system do not replace the formal eligibility review and do not confirm that the contents of these files respond to the requirements of the call.
  13. Submit your application before Thu 29 August 2024 17:00 CET (IOCB deadline is on Mon 19 August 2024). Within a few minutes of submission your proposal will be available for download with an e-receipt in the system. You will receive a confirmation e-mail with the summary data of the submitted proposal. You may continue to modify the proposal and submit revised versions overwriting the previous one right up until the call deadline.
  14. Pre-screen results will be announced by 31 Jan 2025 (Step 1), invitations for interviews will be sent in approx. November 2024. Be prepared to present your project to the ERC evaluation panel. The interview will be held online in Jan/Feb 2025. At Step 2 the full proposal (Part B1, Part B2 and Section 3 – Budget, present in the submission form) will be evaluated.


Final evaluation results will be announced to applicants by 13 June 2025.
The earliest start date of the project is June/July 2025. Successful applicants are able to start their project within 6 months of receiving an invitation letter from the ERC.

European Research Council
ERC-2023-ADG-APPLICANTS@ec.europa.eu, ERC-ETHICS-REVIEW@ec.europa.eu, ERC-OPEN-ACCESS@ec.europa.eu
NCP: Technology Centre CAS
Lyudmyla Tysyachna, tysyachna@tc.cz, ☎: +420 607 006 110


Other ERC Grants


IOCB

IOCB participation (3) in ERC Advanced Grants

  • Pavel Jungwirth: Q-SCALING - Doing Charges Right: Modelling Ion-Controlled Biological Processes with the Correct Toolbox (2023-2028; ERC link)
  • Josef Michl: Arrays of Artificial Surface-Mounted Dipolar Molecular Rotors (2009–2014; ERC link)
  • Detlef Schröder: New Horizons for Mass Spectrometry (2009–2012; ERC link)