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14
Oct
2026
ERC Starting Grants (ERC-2027-STG)

For promising researchers with 0-10 years of experience since completion of PhD

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12
Jan
2027
ERC Consolidator Grants (ERC-2027-CoG)

For excellent researchers with 5 to 15 years experience after PhD

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Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann
ERC grantee Peter Hegemann shares Nobel Prize in Medicine
5 Oct 2026
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Five ERC grantees win 2026 Wolf Prizes
2 Oct 2026
Europe’s biotech frontier: New ERC report charts breakthrough potential and barriers
Europe’s biotech frontier: New ERC report charts breakthrough potential and barriers
30 Sep 2026
New ERC panel on the fundamentals of AI
ERC to introduce evaluation panel on the fundamentals of AI
29 Sep 2026
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Equitable research is not rocket science
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Big science, fair access
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Harriet & Liselot
Excellence through equity 
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Bringing the Venetian archipelago to digital life
Bringing the Venetian archipelago to digital life
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July
2026
18.00 - 23.30 WEST
ERC at Geração Ciência festival 2026
10
September
2026
15.00 - 16.30 CEST
Webinar on ERC Work Programme 2027
15
October
2026
16.00 - 17.15 CEST
EURAXESS Latin America and the Caribbean info session on ERC grants
23
October
2026
9.30 - 12.20 CEST
Building ERC Capacity in Widening Countries
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