European Research Council
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Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest updates on ERC science projects and funding opportunities visually explained! The European Research Council, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premiere European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. Every year, it selects and funds the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based in Europe. It offers four core grant schemes: Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy Grants. With its additional Proof of Concept grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to bridge the gap between their pioneering research and early phases of its commercialisation. To date, ERC funded more than 12 000 projects and over 10 000 researchers.