{"id":14477,"date":"2017-08-02T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=14477"},"modified":"2017-08-01T21:04:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:04:11","slug":"erc-grants-competition-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2017\/08\/02\/erc-grants-competition-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"ERC grants competition opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The European Research Council (ERC) in Brussels, an independent funding body supported by the European Commission, has announced \u20ac1.86 billion (US$2.2 billion) in four types of 2018 grants for early- and mid-career principal investigators (PIs).<\/h4>\n<p><a class=\"wpn-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/files\/2016\/10\/piggybank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11183 wpn-image\" title=\"piggybank\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/files\/2016\/10\/piggybank-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"piggybank\" width=\"835\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/files\/2016\/10\/piggybank-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/files\/2016\/10\/piggybank-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/a>Applications for two grant schemes open on <strong>3 August<\/strong>, including \u2018<strong>Starting<\/strong>\u2019 grants of up to \u20ac1.5 million for up to 5 years for PIs who earned their PhD within 2-7 years ago; and a new collaborative programme, the \u2018<strong>Synergy<\/strong>\u2019 grant, which will fund 2-4 PIs in a cross-disciplinary project. The Synergy scheme, which awards up to \u20ac10 million for 6 years, was piloted in 2012 and 2013. The deadline is 17 October for Starting grant applications and 14 November for Synergy applications.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for <a href=\"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/funding\/proof-concept\">\u2018Proof of Concept\u2019<\/a> grants will be accepted starting in September, and for <a href=\"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/funding\/consolidator-grants\">\u2018Consolidator\u2019<\/a> grants starting in October.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 grant programme will collectively fund about 900 PIs and is estimated to support 6,000 PhD students, postdocs and other lab members. ERC\u2019s grant-success rate is 10-15%.<\/p>\n<p>To apply for a Starting grant, click <a href=\"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/funding\/starting-grants\">here<\/a> . For a Synergy grant application, click <a href=\"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/funding\/synergy-grants\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Good luck!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a bit of related reading and listening material.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/06\/25\/erc-funding-maximize-your-chances\/\">Maximise your chances<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/naturejobs\/science\/articles\/10.1038\/nj7518-449a\">Starting grants <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for two grant schemes open on 3 August, including \u2018Starting\u2019 grants of up to \u20ac1.5 million for up to 5 years for PIs who earned their PhD within 2-7 years ago; and a new collaborative programme, the \u2018Synergy\u2019 grant, which will fund 2-4 PIs in a cross-disciplinary project. The Synergy scheme, which awards up to \u20ac10 million for 6 years, was piloted in 2012 and 2013. The deadline is 17 October for Starting grant applications and 14 November for Synergy applications.&nbsp; <a href=\"\/naturejobs\/2017\/08\/02\/erc-grants-competition-opens#more-14477\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2017\/08\/02\/erc-grants-competition-opens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,185,1371,86,195,204,199,1],"tags":[3600089,1269,161,7774991,2929727,7774993],"class_list":["post-14477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia-2","category-collaboration-2","category-competition-2","category-europe","category-faculty-2","category-funding-2","category-research-2","category-uncategorized","tag-early-career-researcher","tag-european-research-council","tag-funding","tag-g","tag-grant","tag-principal-investigator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}