11 Jul 2022
ERC announces Work Programme for 2023 with budget of € 2.2 billion
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced its Work Programme for 2023, with a total budget of around €2.2 billion for grants. This amount will support more than a thousand top researchers across Europe. Established by the ERC Scientific Council, the Work Programme for the coming year was adopted by the European Commission on 11 July 2022.
In addition to the ERC's established grant schemes (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy Grants), the Work Programme also contains some new elements:
- The budget for the Proof of Concept grant scheme will increase from €25 million to €30 million
- Two additional grounds for extension of the eligibility windows for the candidates for Starting and Consolidator Grants will be introduced for researchers seeking asylum or being a victim of a natural disaster
- A special grant is foreseen to support ERC Science Journalism Initiative that will entail a support for journalists wishing to spend time at research institutions to better understand frontier research
The Work Programme 2023 includes a tentative calendar of grant competitions. The call for Starting Grants is planned to open on 12 July 2022, the Synergy Grant call on 13 July 2022, the Consolidator Grant call on 28 September 2022, the Proof of Concept Grant call on 28 October 2022, and the Advanced Grant call on 8 December 2022.
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