The conditions specific to ERC grants are described in the ERC Work Programme 2025 under the heading 'Admissibility and eligibility criteria' and in the ERC Rules of Submission. An overview is provided below:

Admissible and eligible proposals: All proposals must be complete, readable and accessible. They must be submitted by eligible Principal Investigators before the relevant call deadline. A complete proposal needs to include all parts or sections (see 'Proposal submission and description' below). Proposals which do not meet these criteria may be declared inadmissible. The content of the proposal must relate to the objectives and to the grant type set out in the call, as defined in the ERC Work Programme 2025. If a proposal is considered not to relate to the objectives of the grant and/or call for proposals, it will be declared ineligible.

Applications where the Principal Investigator proposes to commit less time in the EU or an Associated Country, or to the project than the minimum percentages set out in the section 'Minimum time commitment' of the Work Programme will be declared ineligible. If it becomes clear before, during or after the peer review evaluation phase that one or more of the admissibility or eligibility criteria have not been met, the proposal will be declared inadmissible or ineligible and it will be rejected. Where there is a doubt on the admissibility or eligibility of a proposal, the peer review evaluation may proceed pending a decision following an admissibility and eligibility review committee.

Eligible Principal Investigators:The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State orAssociated Country (see Annex 3 of theERC Work Programme 2025).Principal Investigators may be of any age and nationality andmay reside in any country in the world at the time of the application.

All Principal Investigators funded through an ERC Advanced Grant must spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in an EUMember State or Associated Country and a minimum of 30% of their working time on the ERC project.

Eligible Host Institution:The Host Institution (Applicant Legal Entity) must engage and host the Principal Investigator for at least the durationof the project, as defined in the grant agreement. It must either be established in an EU Member State orAssociated Country (see Annex 3 of theERC Work Programme 2025)as a legal entity created under national law, or it may be an international European research organisation (such as CERN, EMBL, etc.), the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) or any other entity created under EU law.International organisations with headquarters in a Member State or Associated Country will be deemed to be established in that Member State or Associated Country.Any type of legal entity, public or private, including universities, researchorganisations and undertakings can host Principal Investigators and their teams.

Restrictions on submission of proposals:The restrictions for submission related to the outcome of the evaluation in previous calls are designed to allow unsuccessful Principal Investigators the time necessary to develop a stronger proposal. For further details please consult theERC Work Programme 2025, heading'Restrictions on submission of proposals'or theFrequently Asked Questions.

Proposal submission and description:

• The Administrative form Part A(including the Ethics Issues Table, the Security Issues Table and the Budget Section) is available in the submission tool below.The budget table and the description of resources are part of this online form Part A (Section 3 - Budget). For more details, please refer to section 2.2 of the ERC Information for Applicants to the Advanced Grant 2025 call.
• Part B1, Part B2and theHost Institution Binding Statement of Supporttemplates are provided in the submission systemas Word templates(they should be completed, uploaded and submitted via the submission tool as PDF files).
• The Equipment tabletemplate is provided in the submission systemas an Excel template(it should be completed, uploaded and submitted via the submission tool as an Excel file).

Acomplete proposalconsists of the following elements (with the following page limits):

1. Extended Synopsis: 5 pages (Part B1)
2. Curriculum Vitae and Track Record: 4 pages max. (Part B1)
3. Scientific Proposal: 14 pages (Part B2)
4. Budget (Part A, Section 3) and Time Commitment (Part A, Section 5)
5. Equipment table
6. Host Institution Binding Statementof Support
7. Ethics Issues Table (Part A, Section 4)
8. Security Issues Table (Part A, Section 4)

Complete proposals must be submitted via the submission tool available through theFunding & Tenders Portal(to access the submission tool, you need to register first).

The conditions specific to the ERC are described in the ERC Work Programme 2025 under the heading 'Admissibility and eligibility criteria' and in Annex 3. An overview is provided below:

The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State or Associated Country (see Annex 3 of theERC Work Programme 2025). Principal Investigators may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application. Principal Investigators funded through the ERC Advanced Grants shall spend a minimum percentage of their working time on the ERC project (30%) and a minimum percentage of their working time in an EU Member State or Associated Country (50%).

For details about the eligibleHost Institution(Applicant Legal Entity)see section 1 above on 'Admissibility and Eligibility Conditions'.

Financial capacity: Please refer to the ERC Rules of Submission,section 4, 'Award Decision and Preparation of Grant Agreements'.

Operational capacity: As indicated in theERC Work Programme 2025, applicants whose proposals are recommended for funding are deemed to fulfil the operational capacity requirements of Article 198(3)of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046(the 'EU Financial Regulation').

Exclusion:Please refer to theERC Work Programme 2025, section 'Prior Information of Candidates, Tenderers, Grant Applicants, and remunerated experts - registration of information in the Early Detection and Exclusion System (EDES)'.Applicants that are subject to the administrative sanctions of exclusion or are in one of the exclusion situations set out by the EU Financial Regulation are banned from receiving EU grants and can NOT participate.

The conditions specific to ERC are described in the ERC Work Programme 2025 under the heading 'Evaluation procedure and criteria' and in theERC Rules of Submission. An overview is provided below:

Evaluation procedure:For the Advanced Grant call asingle submission of the proposalwill be followed by atwo-step evaluation. The evaluation will be conducted by means of a structure of high-level peer review panels as listed in Annex 1 of theERC Work Programme 2025. The panels may be assisted by independent external experts working remotely.

Evaluation criteria:For all of the ERC main grants,scientific excellence is the sole criterion of evaluation. It will be applied in conjunction to the evaluation of both: the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of the research project and the intellectual capacity, creativity and commitment of the Principal Investigator. The detailed evaluation elements applying to the excellence of the research project and the Principal Investigator are set out in theERC Work Programme 2025.

Please refer to the ERC Work Programme 2025 under the heading 'Indicative summary of calls from the 2025 budget'.

Please refer to the Multi & Mono Grant Agreement for Lump Sum Grants and Annex 5 of the MGA used for ERC actions under Horizon Europe (HE General MGA).