ERC calls 2013: What's new?

A number of changes apply in this year's ERC calls for proposals.

Please note that only the information below published on the Participant Portal should be considered official.

The main changes include:

• The introduction of the "ERC Consolidator grant":
  The previous ERC Starting grant scheme will be divided into two separate calls:
  - Starting grant (StG): for researchers who have been awarded their first PhD at least 2 and up to 7 years prior to the publication date of the call.
  - Consolidator grant (CoG): for researchers who have been awarded their first PhD over 7 and up to 12 years prior to the publication date of the call. 
  A Consolidator grant is worth up to €2 million (under certain circumstances up to €2.75 million). 
• One single deadline for each call, and not different deadlines for the three domains as in the past. 
• The publication of the next Advanced grant (AdG) call is now published on 10 July (not in the autumn as previously), with the deadline for applications in the autumn (not in spring as in the past). 
• In sum, the publication dates and deadlines for these calls are as follows: 

Funding Scheme	Publication date	Deadline
Starting Grant (ERC-2013-StG)	10 July 2012	17 October 2012
Advanced Grant (ERC-2013-AdG)	10 July 2012	22 November 2012
Synergy Grant (ERC-2013-SyG)	10 October 2012	10 January 2013
Consolidator Grant (ERC-2013-CoG)	7 November 2012	21 February 2013
For ERC grantees only (top-up grant): Proof of concept (ERC-2013-PoC)	10 January 2013	24 April and 3 October 2013

For further information: Please check regularly the ERC homepage and the Participants' Portal.