ERC Synergy Grants

Call updates

13 November 2024

Deadline: 15 November 2023

Available budget: 571 500 000 €

The ERCEA, assisted by independent experts, has completed the evaluation of proposals submitted to the above call. The names of the experts that evaluated Horizon Europe proposals are published, collectively for each part of Horizon Europe and once per year, on the FUNDING & TENDERS PORTAL

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted: 548

Number of inadmissible proposals: 1

Number of ineligible proposals: 4

Number of above-threshold proposals [1]: 73

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals [1]: 749 747 704 €

We informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals on 15 October 2024.

[1] The number of proposals that can finally be funded depends on the available budget and the completion of the formal procedures needed to conclude grant agreements.

The first grant agreements are expected to be signed in November 2024.

Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS.

Oct 18, 2023 3:05:31 PM

The submission session is now available for: ERC-2024-SyG(HORIZON-ERC-SYG)

Oct 18, 2023 11:55:08 AM

Please note that the deadline for the call ERC-2024-SyG has been postponed to 15.11.2023. For more details, please consult the ERC webpage: Extension to deadlines for ERC grant applications | ERC (europa.eu)

Jul 13, 2023 9:21:31 AM

The submission session is now available for: ERC-2024-SyG(HORIZON-ERC-SYG)

ERC SYNERGY GRANTS

TOPIC ID: ERC-2024-SyG

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: Call for proposals for ERC Synergy Grant (ERC-2024-SyG)
Type of action: HORIZON-ERC-SYG HORIZON ERC Synergy Grants
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 12 July 2023
Deadline date: 08 November 2023 17:00:00 Brussels time

Objective:
The aim is to provide support for a small group of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone. Synergy projects should enable substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, stemming, for example, from the cross-fertilization of scientific fields, from new productive lines of enquiry, or new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines. The transformative research funded by Synergy Grants should have the potential of becoming a benchmark on a global scale.

Principal Investigators of any career stage are welcome and must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. Principal Investigators must also demonstrate that their group can successfully bring together the scientific elements necessary to address the scope and complexity of the proposed research question.

One of the Principal Investigators must be designated as the Corresponding Principal Investigator. At any one time, one Principal Investigator per Synergy Grant Group except the Corresponding one can be hosted or engaged by an institution outside of the EU or Associated Countries.

Size of ERC Synergy Grants

Synergy Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 10 000 000 for a period of 6 years. The maximum amount of grants is reduced pro rata temporis for projects of a shorter duration.

However, up to an additional EUR 4 000 000 in total can be requested in the proposal to cover (a) ‘start-up’ costs for Principal Investigators moving to the EU or an Associated Country from elsewhere as a consequence of receiving the ERC grant and/or (b) the purchase of major equipment and/or (c) access to large facilities and/or (d) other major experimental and field work costs, excluding personnel costs. Additional funding is not subject to pro rata temporis reduction for projects of shorter duration. All funding requested is assessed during evaluation.

Profile of the ERC Synergy Grant Principal Investigators

The 'Synergy Grant Group' applying for the ERC Synergy Grant must be made up of a minimum of two and a maximum of four Principal Investigators with competitive track records as appropriate to their career stage and, as necessary, their teams.

Each Principal Investigator must present as part of the proposal a Curriulum Vitae and a Track Record.

For further information, please see the ERC Work Programme 2024.