ERC PLUS GRANTS
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Objectives and profile of the ERC Plus Grant Principal Investigator
The ERC Plus Grant supports outstanding Principal Investigators who address a major scientific challenge. Applications for ERC Plus Grants should be for projects that could not be carried out with a regular ERC grant. Applicants should explain how the proposed project aims go beyond those of a regular ERC project, for example, because they have a vision to transform their field or open a new field of research. Scholars at all career stages can apply for an ERC Plus Grant if they have an outstanding record of scientific achievement at the forefront of their field. Their intellectual leadership will be evaluated in comparison to peers at their own career stage.
It is expected that a researcher may be the Principal Investigator of only one ERC Plus Grant in their lifetime. Applicants should be aware that every year, only some 30 ERC Plus Grants can be awarded across all fields and all career stages, compared to approximately 1000 Starting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants. This level of competitiveness should be taken into account when considering whether to submit an application.
Size of ERC Plus Grants
ERC Plus Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 7 000 000 for a minimum of four years or forty-eight months and up to seven years or eighty-four months. The maximum amount of the grant is not reduced pro rata temporis for proposals of shorter duration. No additional funding is provided for ERC Plus Grants.
The ERC Plus Grant is awarded as a single lump sum contribution for the entirety of the project (broken down by beneficiaries – where applicable) based on a realistic estimate of the actual cost of the project, and fully covering the work to be implemented in the proposed action.
For further information, please see the ERC Work Programme 2026.
- Status
- Closed
- Deadline
- (time not stated)
- Opens
- Published
- Total budget
- €210,000,000
- Grant range
- up to €7,000,000
- Country
- European Union (EU-wide)
- Programme
- Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
- Funder
- European Commission
- Official page
- Open at the source portal
What applying involved
7 steps, all of them taken from this call's own documents.
This call is closed. The steps below show what applying involved, and are kept for reference only.
Understand the call
- Read the call on the source portal and download its documents
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Check the grant's legal and financial set-up
standard for this programme
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) — conditions §6
- Check the amount you plan to request against the call's range
Check you are eligible
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Be able to show financial and operational capacity
Financial capacity: Please refer to the ERC Rules of submission and evaluation under Horizon Europe section 4, Award Decision and Preparation of Grant Agreements. Operational capacity : As indicated in the ERC Work Programme 2026 , page 41 (footnote 79): Applicants that are subject to the administrative sanction 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. See … — conditions §4
Prepare the documents
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Complete the ethics issues table
standard for this programme
A complete proposal consists of the following elements (with the following page limits): · The Administrative form Part A (including the Ethics Issues Table and the Budget Section ) is available in the submission tool below. — conditions
- Prepare the data management plan standard for this programme
Submit
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Submit before the closing date shown above
The source states the closing day but no closing time — check the portal before the last day. — calls.deadline
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Where this came from
- Source document
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/data/topicDetails/erc-2026-plus.json
- Document fingerprint
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- First recorded here
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Data source
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