Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://erc.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&topicID=66
Sponsor/Award: EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - ADVANCED INVESTIGATORS GRANT - SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES PANEL - 2010 SPRING COMPETITION

Grant Amount: 2.5M EURO FOR UP TO 5 YEARS
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Mar 31, 2010
Sponsor's: Apr 07, 2010

Subject Areas:
Description:

The ERC Advanced Investigator Grant (ERC Advanced Grant) funding scheme complements the ERC Starting Grant funding scheme by targeting researchers who have already established themselves as independent research leaders in their own right. ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders in any field of science, engineering and scholarship to pursue frontier research of their choice. They aim to encourage risk-taking and interdisciplinarity, and supports pioneering frontier research projects.

The aim is to fund individual teams led by established, innovative and active advanced investigators - called Principal Investigators (PI) in the funding scheme - regardless of nationality, age or current location. Being highly competitive and awarded on the sole criterion of excellence without restriction to particular areas of research, these grants will support the very best of research to be conducted in any EU Member State or Associated Country, adding value to research investments at the national level. An ERC grant can cover up to 100% of the total eligible direct costs of the research plus a contribution up to 20% of the total eligible costs (excluding the direct eligible costs for subcontracting and the costs of resources made available by third parties which are not used on the premises of the host institution) towards indirect costs.

Application Details:

Applicants for the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years. Although there are no restrictions regarding age, nationality, or current place of residence, the Principal Investigators should be exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions. Principal Investigators of Advanced Grant proposals will be expected to demonstrate a record of achievements appropriate to their field(s) of research. Potential Principal Investigators may include leading scientists in Europe and those of the European community overseas or non-Europeans wishing to establish themselves in Europe to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk research that opens new directions in their respective research fields or other domains.

ERC grant applications can be submitted only in response to a 'call for proposals'. Calls announced in the ERC Work Programme 2010 are published on the ERC website, the CORDIS website and in the Official Journal of the European Union. Deadlines for the submission of ERC grant applications are specified in each 'call for proposals'. Submission is accepted only via the web-based Electronic Proposal Submission Service EPSS. The application procedure consists of a single submission stage using EPSS.

INDIRECT COSTS OF 20% MUST BE INCLUDED IN THE PROJECT BUDGET

NOTE: Letters of Intent and Full Applications are to be processed through Research Development Services for institutional signatures, and are to be accompanied by a completed RDAF form (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean signatures). Requests for Institutional signatures should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline.
Western Contacts: Pocock,Katy
Russelo,Theresa M

Sponsor Contacts:

SDME 2/2
B-1049 Brussels
Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium