ERC Advanced Grant 2025

Call open: 22 May, 2025

Deadline: 28 August, 2025

Expression of interest (internal candidate w professorial position): 30 June, 2025

ERC Advanced Grant supports for excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements.

Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of their research proposal.

The ERC grants operate on a 'bottom-up' basis without predetermined priorities and fund ground-breaking, ambitious long-term projects.

Eligibility

• Researchers of any nationality.
• Active and established research leader with a track record of significant research achievements.
• Exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.
• No specific eligibility criteria with respect to the academic requirements are foreseen.

Funding and duration
Up to € 2.5 million for a period of 5 years (pro rata for projects of shorter duration) with an extra €1M possible for start-up costs, major equipment, or facilities (€2M for researchers moving to EU). Budget covers 100% of the direct costs plus a contribution of 25% towards indirect costs.

Success rate

Advanced Grants have a success rate of approximately 11%.

Deadline for internal applicants with a professorial position
Internal applicants with a professorial position are invited to send the expression of interest to Research Service by 30 June, 2025 including provisional abstract and title of the proposal.

More information
ERC Advanced grant website

Contact
Sara Caspani, Research service