GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Synergy Grant may award up to maximum of €10.000.000 for a period of 6 years. However, additional funding up to €4.000.000 can be requested in the proposal to cover the following eligible costs when these are necessary to carry out the proposed work:

• “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
• the purchase of major equipment; and/or
• access to large facilities; and/or
• other major experimental and field work costs, excluding personnel costs.

Reimbursements will be budget-based and will cover actual costs or unit costs depending on the cost category.

The estimated number of grants is 48.

Each Principal Investigator funded through an ERC Synergy grant shall spend a minimum of 30% of their working time on the ERC project and a minimum of 50% of their working time in the European Union or Associated Country.

Applications must be submitted by a group of a minimum of two and a maximum of four innovative and active Principal Investigators (Synergy Grant Group), with competitive track records as appropriate to their career stage.

Synergy Grant Groups are expected to demonstrate that they can successfully bring together those elements – such as skills, knowledge, experience, expertise, disciplines, methods, approaches, teams, access to infrastructures – necessary to address the scope and complexity of the proposed research question. Applicants are expected to describe the contribution of each PI, their team, and the resources to achieve the objectives proposed.