On Monday March 9, IXA-GO is organizing, in collaboration with RVO, a general information session on the prestigious and competitive ERC grant.
The ERC grant is a grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC) of the European Commission. They offer three personal grant types:
- Starting Grant: for early career stage scientists with 0-10 years of experience since completion of PhD;
- Consolidator Grant: for scientists who want to establish a research team and have 5-15 years of experience since completion of PhD;
- Advanced Grant: for exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.
This information session specifically targets the researchers eligible for Starting and Consolidator grant. However, researchers eligble for the Advanced grant (and new to ERC) are of course also welcome to join.
For this session we invite our national contact point RVO (The Dutch Enterprise Agency) to inform us about the criteria and procedure in general and update us about the recent changes. After following this session you will know if your CV, career stage and project idea are a good match for one of the ERC personal grants.
This session is the kick-off of our internal ERC StG Training Programme. Please contact us and the head of your department if you would like to know more about joining this Training Programme and/or if you are planning to submit an ERC grant.
IXA-GO, VU Grants Office e-mail: subsidiedesk@vu.nl
