BU Research Blog

Since the UK joined the Horizon Europe programme this year, many academics have shown interest in applying to different streams of ERC grants. I am always happy to speak with you individually, however, I would also encourage those interested in applying to participate in events organised by UKRI/UKRO. UKRO as the ERC UK National Contact Point is funded by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology.

UKRO has announced a series of webinars to cover the following topics:

• ERC Advanced Grant 2024 Applicants Webinar, 19 August 2024 from 10:00 to 12:00 UK time. More information following this link: ERC Advanced Grant 2024 Applicants Webinar – UKRO
• ERC 2025 Synergy Grant: Call Information Webinar, 30 August 2024 from 10:00 to 12:30 UK time. More information following this link: ERC 2025 Synergy Grant: Call Information Webinar – UKRO
• Webinar on ERC Work Programme 2025, 12 September 2024 from 14:00 to 15:30 UK time. More information following this link: Webinar on ERC Work Programme 2025 – UKRO

Webinars are free of charge, to access more details by following the above links, you may be required to provide login details to access the UKRO portal.

The ERC, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe. More information about funder may be found on ERC webpage.

The ERC offers 4 core highly competitive grant schemes:

• Starting Grants
• Consolidator Grants
• Advanced Grants
• Synergy Grants

For more information regarding ERC grants feel free to get in touch with Research Facilitator International.