According to the conditions of the ERC Consolidator Grant 2017 call, there is no eligibility restriction to holders of a 'habilitation'. The reference date used for calculation of the applicant's eligibility is the PhD award date or medical doctor degree award date.
For more information please consult the ERC policy on PhD and equivalent doctoral degrees in the ERC Work Programme 2017, Annex 2.
According to the conditions of the ERC Consolidator Grant 2019 call, for medical doctors who have been awarded both a medical doctor degree and a PhD, the date of the earliest degree that makes the applicant eligible takes precedence in the calculation of the eligibility time-window (7-12 years after the date of award of the PhD or 9-14 years past the medical doctor degree completion for Consolidators).
For more information, please consult the ERC policy on PhD and equivalent doctoral degrees in the ERC Work Programme 2019 – Annex 2.
No, a PhD is not formally required to submit a proposal to the ERC Advanced Grant 2020 (ERC-2020-AdG) call. As specified in the ERC Work Programme 2020, excellence is the sole criterion for the evaluation of a proposal. However, a Principal Investigator (PI) is expected to have outstanding research results within the last 10 years. For more information, please refer to the ERC Work Programme 2020, or the Information for Applicants relevant for the call.
Yes, an experienced researcher is welcome to apply to the ERC Advanced Grant 2020 (ERC-2020-AdG) call at any stage of their career if they can prove - independently of their age - that they are still active with recent outstanding results. As stated in the ERC Work Programme 2020, Principal Investigators (PIs) may be of any age and nationality and may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application. The commitment and official support of a Host Institution is nevertheless required for the whole duration of the grant. For more information, see the ERC Work Programme 2020 or the Information for Applicants to the Advanced Grant call.
This information will not be provided to the evaluators and it will not be evaluated. Please note that the absence of a Gender Equality Plan will not prevent the signature of the grant agreement for the ERC 2021 Calls.
For ERC calls under Horizon Europe, the information requested in Part A on the career stage of the PI will not be provided to the reviewers of your proposal and will not be part of the evaluation. This data is gathered for statistical purposes and used to evaluate the Horizon Europe Programme as a whole.
Only the extension circumstances listed in the ERC Work Programme 2021 are eligible.
For the ERC-2021-COG call, no specific extension due to COVID-19-related circumstances is listed among the eligible reasons for extension. However, even if COVID is not among the valid reasons for the eligibility extension, it might have led to a situation that could be the basis for granting such an extension (e.g. a documented (part-time) leave to take care of the children e.g. during the school closure, due to lock-down or a documented medical condition of the PI or a close family member due to COVID-19 together with the related leave taken).
According to the ERC Work Programme 2021: “A researcher participating as Principal Investigator in an ERC frontier research project may not submit a proposal for another ERC frontier research grant, unless the existing project ends no more than two years after the call deadline.” Therefore, you will only be eligible for the ERC-2021-COG call if your current project finishes before 20-04-2023.
Please note that in case at some point you request and are granted an extension to the current project, your application to the ERC-2021-COG call will become automatically ineligible if, with such extension, the project’s duration goes beyond the two years after the ERC-2021-COG call deadline.
As indicated in the ERC Work Programme 2021, for the ERC Consolidator Grant 2021 (ERC-2021-COG) call, the eligibility periods can be extended in case of specific and properly documented circumstances. In case of maternity, the PIs may request 18-months extension for each child born before or after the PhD award. If the applicant can document a longer maternity leave, the eligibility period will be extended by the documented amount of actual leave taken until the call deadline.
The ERCEA is trying to follow the national rules in order to accommodate different couple/family scenarios. Hence, for the partner who was entitled to ‘maternity leave’ according to the national rules we would apply the same, provided that it is properly documented.
If, in light of the above, the male applicant considers that he should be entitled to the extension based on maternity leave, he should make the case and together with his application submit all relevant supporting documentation, including also documents from the national Social Security scheme (see more details on the supporting documents in the Information for Applicants document).
According to the conditions of the ERC Consolidator Grant 2021 (ERC-2021-COG) call, for applicants holding a degree in medicine who have been awarded both a degree in medicine and a PhD, the date used for the calculation of the eligibility period (i.e. medical degree plus two years or PhD award date) is the date of the earliest degree that makes the applicant eligible. For more information please consult the ERC policy on PhD and equivalent doctoral degrees in the ERC Work Programme 2021 – Annex 2 and section 4.3 of the Information for Applicants document to the Starting and Consolidator Grant 2021 Calls.
