ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant

Agency:

European Research Council (ERC)

Value:

€100,000 - €400,000/year

Eligible:

• Applications may be made in any field of research

• The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who would like to set their research activity up in any European Union Member State as well as any Associated or Associated- Candidate Country.

• The Principal Investigator can be of any age and nationality and he/she can reside in any country in the world at the time of the application.

• He/she must have been awarded his/her first PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) more than 2 and less than 9 years prior to the deadline of the call for proposals.

• Extensions of this period may be allowed only in case of eligible career breaks which must be properly documented: maternity (1 year per child born after the PhD award) & paternity leave (accumulation of actual time off) and leave taken for long-term illness, national service. Leave taken for unavoidable statutory reasons (e.g. clinical qualifications) may also count as an extension. The cumulative eligibility period should not in any case surpass 12 years following the award of the first PhD.

• DCU is an eligible host University

Duration:

Up to 5 Years

Assessment Criteria:

• Principal Investigator: Potential to perform world class research

• Quality of the proposed research project

• Research Environment

Closing Date:

25 April 2007 at 17.00 (Brussels local time).  It is expected that this Funding Instrument will be run again in 2009.

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