Frequently asked questions

Yes, as specified in the ERC Work Programme 2022, a PI whose proposal was evaluated as category A or category B at step 2 in an ERC 2021 Starting (StG), Consolidator (CoG) or Advanced (AdG) call, can submit a proposal to the ERC Advanced Grant 2022 (ERC-2022-ADG) call.

No, under call ERC-2022-AdG, a Principal Investigator (PI) whose proposal was evaluated as category C in the step 1 of Starting (StG), Consolidator (CoG), Advanced (AdG) Grant or Synergy Grant (SyG) calls for proposals under ERC Work Programme 2020 and 2021 may not submit a proposal to the AdG call under Work Programme 2022. For more information, please refer to the restrictions on submission of proposals in the ERC Work Programme 2022.

Combination of funding is possible if the other funding source covers the same activity and is to some extent aligned with the timing of this call. In this case, the applicant has to describe in the proposal the synergy and combination of funding to be used.

The Rules of Contest of the ERC-2022-PERA recognition prize require that applications are submitted using the submission system. Applicants can submit any supporting documents and material only through hyperlinks. They can include up to two hyperlinks by award criterion in Part B of the application form. These hyperlinks serve as evidence to support the entry. They should not be an essential part of the entry.

The application form is available in English.

An application can be submitted in any official language of the EU. However, for reasons of efficiency, the use of English or the provision of translations into English is strongly advised.

If needed, a machine translation into English can be processed free of charge via this web page.

Applications submitted in another EU official language than English and retained for the jury selection will be translated using computer-aided technology prior to the jury evaluation.

The names of the winners will be announced in a ceremony and published on the ERC website in the third quarter of 2022. The exact date will be announced on the ERC website.

The Principal Investigators (PIs) can submit their proposals in one of the three categories “Involve (citizen science)”; “Inspire (public outreach)”; “Influence (media and policy)”.

It is up to the PIs to decide in which category to submit the proposal, taking into account the award criteria (strategy, creativity and impact) and in which category they believe their proposal will be most competitive.

Yes. One application is allowed to be submitted to one award category per ERC funded frontier research project which is either ongoing or has ended on or after 31 December 2019.

For the ERC Consolidator Grant 2022 (ERC-2022-COG) call, the budget table and description of resources are part of the online submission form Part A (Section 3 - Budget). The description and justification of the resources should be provided in the text box (Section C. Resources) under the budget table. The budget section contains the proposal budget including the ‘total eligible project costs’ and the ‘Requested EU contribution’ for the project.

For more details, please read the Information for Applicants to the Starting and Consolidator Grant Calls 2022, Section 3 – Budget, pages 21 and 22.

Yes, this is possible as long as the Principal Investigator (PI), at the time of submission, is supported by one organisation acting as Host Institution (applicant legal entity) based in an EU Member State or an Associated Country; through the Host Institution support letter, this organisation must commit itself to host and engage the PI for the whole duration of the action as well as to ensure that the project will be performed under the guidance of the PI (who is expected to devote 40% of his/her working time to the ERC-funded project). Specific circumstances, where the minimum time requirement of the call (40%) results from the sum of more than one employment contract of the PI with different organisations, may be accommodated in case the proposal is selected for funding.

Other organisation(s) hosting team members should be referred to as (an) additional partner(s) in the proposal and their details should be given in the administrative proposal submission form in the Funding & Tenders Portal.