Announced at the end of November 2022, four hundred eight researchers have won this year’s European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants. The funding is worth in total €636 million and is part of the Horizon Europe programme. It will help excellent younger scientists, who have 2 to 7 years’ experience after their PhDs, to launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their most promising ideas.
There are nationals of 46 countries among those successful, including Germans (70 researchers), Italians (41), Israeli (30) and Dutch (28). From the grants awarded, 70 had the UK as the main host country, so congratulations to all those successful through this process.
The grants will be invested in a wide variety of scientific related projects, spanning all areas of research from engineering to life sciences to humanities.
More information on this year’s grants can be found on the ERC Europa webpages (link to https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/starting-grants-2022-call-results)
Interested in finding out more about UK related 2023 ERC Grant opportunities?
UKRO recently ran webinars on applying to the 2023 ERC Advanced Grant Call which are now available to watch on the on the UKRO ERC National Contact Point Portal, where you can also find a copy of the slides.
This includes a representative from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) that joined the first webinar to give a short update on UK association to Horizon Europe.
Questions or comments? Contact EURAXESSUK@britishcouncil.org