According to the conditions of the ERC Starting Grant 2021 call, as long as no PhD document or equivalent is uploaded in the submission tool of the Funding & Tenders Portal, it will not be possible to validate/submit the proposal. A warning message will inform the applicant of the missing document. If another document is uploaded instead and the PhD certificate is missing, the ERCEA may contact the PI and ask for a clarification and the missing document.
For more information, see section 'Admissibility and eligibility criteria' of the ERC Work Programme 2021.
Before engaging in communication activities expected to have a major media impact, European Research Council (ERC) grantees (beneficiaries/participants) must inform the ERC Executive Agency via their project officers or via the mailbox ERC-PRESS@ec.europa.eu.
The European emblem (flag) may be used by third parties only if is not:
The European Research Council (ERC) logo and European emblem can be downloaded from the ERC website "logos and banners" page. The ERC logo can be used by beneficiaries of ERC funding support for the sole purpose of acknowledging that suppport. No explicit permission is necessary to use the ERC logo in this case.
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The European Research Council (ERC) Grant agreement provides guidance for grant holders on how to acknowledge ERC funding.In any communication activity, the European Union emblem/flag and ERC logo should be displayed and EU/ERC funding acknowledged. For projects funded by Horizon 2020: Three different model statements to acknowledge ERC funding and support are provided in the Model Grant Agreement. In particular, for scientific publications and dissemination activities, including open access, Article 29.4 provides the following text:"This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° xxxx/".For more information please see Articles 27.3, 28.2, 29.4, 38.1.2 of the ERC Model Grant Agreement for Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants (Multi- and Mono-Beneficiary) and for Proof-of-concept (Multi- and Mono-Beneficiary). For projects funded by the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7): Two model statements to acknowledge ERC funding and support are provided in the Model Grant Agreement. In particular, a model statement to acknowledge ERC funding in scientific publication and dissemination activities (including open access) is provided in Article II.30: "The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ ERC gran agreement n° xxxx". For more information, please see Articles II.3.1.e) and II.3.bis).1.e) respectively, II.12, II.28, II.30 of the General conditions to the ERC Grant Agreement (Single and Multi-Beneficiary) and Articles II.12, II.28 and II.30 of the General Conditions to the ERC CSA Grant Agreement.
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For actual cost-based H2020 actions & MSCA actions
Beneficiaries are also highly encouraged to shift their tasks whenever possible. For instance, tasks where physical presence is needed on the ground (e.g. experiments/lab work, etc.) may be postponed after the confinement measures are over and meanwhile remote work could be done instead (desk work, drafting of reports, etc.) Costs will still be eligible for the work carried out under the action even if such shifting entails deviations from the initial timing set out in Annex 1.
Additional possibility for H2020 MSCA actions:
MSCA COFUND: Institutions have flexibility to decide how to spend the management unit cost. The latter should be used primarily for the management of the action. Yet, beneficiaries (or other host institutions with whom they have shared the management unit cost) may allocate some of these amounts to help maintaining the salary of the researchers that are prevented from implementing the action due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation. There is also no time limit for the use of these funds.
Additional clarifications for ERC actions:
Yes. Any SME (as defined by Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC) can be a Host Institution (HI) for an ERC grant as long as it meets the conditions of eligibility of the HI laid down in the ERC Work Programme 2021.
Under the ERC-2021-AdG call, the Scientific Proposal (Part B2) can be maximum 14 pages.
Since the ERC-2019-AdG call, the budget table and description of resources are part of the administrative proposal submission form (Part A, 3 - Budget) and do not count towards the page limit of the Scientific Proposal (Part B2).
The justification of the project costs and description of time commitment (Resources and Time Commitment) can be maximum two pages, i.e. Section C. Resources may have a maximum length of 8000 characters, including spaces. Please note that 4000 characters, font size 11, single line spacing, correspond to one A4 text page.
The budget table itself does not count towards the page limit.
Yes, as specified in the ERC Work Programme 2021, a PI whose proposal was evaluated as category A or category B at step 2 in an ERC 2020 Starting (StG), Consolidator (CoG) or Advanced (AdG) call, or evaluated A or B at step 3 in the ERC 2020 Synergy (SyG) call, may submit a proposal to the ERC Advanced Grant 2021 (ERC-2021-ADG) call.
No, under call ERC-2021-AdG, a Principal Investigator (PI) whose proposal was evaluated as category C in the step 1 Starting (StG), Consolidator (CoG), Advanced (AdG) Grant or Synergy Grant (SyG) calls for proposals under ERC Work Programme 2019 and 2020 may not submit a proposal to the ADG call under Work Programme 2021. For more information, please refer to the restrictions on submission of proposals in the ERC Work Programme 2021.