BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam//NONSGML v1.0//EN NAME:ERC general information session METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260309T100000 DTEND:20260309T113000 DTSTAMP:20260309T100000 UID:2026/erc-general-information-s@8F96275E-9F55-4B3F-A143-836282E12573 CREATED:20260422T162717 LOCATION:Agora 1 VU Main Building 1081HV Amsterdam SUMMARY:ERC general information session X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Interested to learn mor e about the ERC grant? Then this information session is for you!

On Monday March 9, IXA-GO is organizing, in collaboration with R VO, a general information session on the prestigious and competitive ERC grant.

The ERC grant is a grant funded by the European Resear ch Council (ERC) of the European Commission. They offer three persona l grant types:

Starting Grant: for earl y career stage scientists with 0-10 years of experience since complet ion of PhD;
Consolidator Grant: for scient ists who want to establish a research team and have 5-15 years of exp erience since completion of PhD;
Advanced Grant: for exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significan ce of their research contributions.

This informatio n session specifically targets the researchers eligible for S tarting and Consolidator grant. However, researchers eligble for the Advanced grant (and new to ERC) are of course also welcome t o join.

For this session we invite our national contact p oint RVO (The Dutch Enterprise Agency) to inform us about the criteri a and procedure in general and update us about the recent changes. Af ter 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 Pro gramme. Please contact us and the head of your department if you woul d like to know more about joining this Training Programme and/or if y ou are planning to submit an ERC grant.

IXA-GO, VU Grants Office e-mail: subsidiedesk @vu.nl

DESCRIPTION: On Monday March 9, IXA-GO is organizing, in collaboration with RVO, a general information session on the prestigious and compe titive ERC grant. The ERC grant is a grant funded by the European Resea rch Council (ERC) of the European Commission. They offer three person al grant types:

Starting Grant: for early career stage scientists with 0-10 years of experience since completio n of PhD;

Consolidator Grant: for scientis ts who want to establish a research team and have 5-15 years of exper ience since completion of PhD;

Advanced Grant: for exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.
This information se ssion specifically targets the researchers eligible for Start ing and Consolidator grant. However, researchers eligble for the Advanced grant (and new to ERC) are of course also welcome to jo in. For this session we invite our national contact point RVO ( The Dutch Enterprise Agency) to inform us about the criteria and proc edure in general and update us about the recent changes. After follow ing this session you will know if your CV, career stage and project i dea 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 c ontact us and the head of your department if you would like to know m ore 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 ; Interested to learn more about the ERC grant? The n this information session is for you! END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR