ERC Consolidator Grant 2024 Call

ERC Consolidator Grant Call supports 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 research proposal.

Applicants are expected be awarded their first PhD at least 7 and up to 12 years prior to 1 January of the call year. The reference date of the ERC-2024-CoG call is 1 January 2024, and researchers who have made their first doctoral defence between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2016 can apply to this call.

The effective elapsed time since the award of the first PhD can be reduced in certain properly documented circumstances like: maternity, paternity leave, long-term illness or clinical training. For example, for maternity the effective elapsed time since the award of the first PhD will be reduced by 18 months for each child born before or after the PhD award.

Project Duration: Up to 5 years

Project Budget: 2 Million Euros (However, this budget may go up to a maximum of 3 Million Euros to cover (a) eligible "start-up" costs for Principal Investigators moving to the EU or an Associated Country like Turkey from elsewhere as a consequence of receiving the ERC grant and/or (b) the purchase of major equipment and/or (c) access to large facilities (d) and other major experimental and field work costs.)

Deadline: December 12, 2023

Please click here for detailed information.

You can also apply for TÜBİTAK ERC Principle Investigator Advancement Program (EBAG) which has been launched to increase Turkey’s ERC success rate. 

The deadline to apply for the TÜBİTAK Program is October 28, 2023.

Important Note: OpenCosmos Platform, of which we are a member, offers free Proposal Evaluation support if you are notified at least 1 month before the call closes and the project proposal is uploaded to the system up to 10 days before. You can benefit from this service via the External Evaluation link. You can also access the training provided by OpenCosmos regarding ERC here. To benefit from OpenCosmos services, do not forget to become a member of the platform via this link!