European Research Council (ERC)

The first round of the 2026 ERC Proof of Concept Grant results is out! 🎉 182 researchers receive a total of €27.3 million to explore the commercial and societal potential of their ERC-funded findings. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4vD2uH6 #ERCPoC #FrontierResearch

🟠 The ERC Starting Grant 2027 call is now open! Planning to apply? Our ERC Classes videos guide you through the application and evaluation process. 👉 youtube.com/playlist?list=… 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Oct 2026 #ERCStG

Interested in a traineeship at the European Research Council? 📢 Applications are now open for the European Commission's Blue Book Traineeship! 📆 Apply by 28 August 2026, 10:00 a.m. (Brussels time) More info: link.europa.eu/YNDggC

🇧🇪 Bonne fête nationale! Fijne nationale feestdag! Alles Gute zum Nationalfeiertag! Celebrating ERC-funded projects in Belgium with ERC grantee Bert De Rybel, whose team studies plant vascular development to help shape the crops of the future 🌱 More 👉 bit.ly/4wRWRoO

The ERC Work Programme 2027 has been adopted. Planning to apply for an ERC grant? The first call, Starting Grants, opens on 22 July. Read more 👉 erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…

All week, we have explored one thread in #FrontierResearch: who asks the questions, who owns the data, who benefits. Catch up with the #ERCMagazine issue on equity and trust in global science 👉 link.europa.eu/JFFYYH #ResearchEquity #OpenScience @EUScienceInnov @EU_JRC

In some contexts, talking about your research topic is already seen as a political act. Marta Bucholc @UniWarszawski on navigating equity, ethics and polarisation in research on human rights and abortion in the latest #ERCMagazine 👉 link.europa.eu/Wxdfnt @EUScienceInnov

On the Day of International Criminal Justice, Ambassador for the ERC for 🇸🇮 Mojca M. Plesničar shares one common misconception people have about criminal behaviour. 🔗 Learn more about her work: bit.ly/4gucCeM #Amb4ERC

'If we already have so many rules, what will it actually take to inspire people to act ethically?' Pamela Andanda @WitsUniversity on values, ethics dumping and the TRUST Code in the latest #ERCMagazine 👉 link.europa.eu/fc4yjK #TRUSTCode #ResearchEthics #ResearchEquity

Written codes changed science. But unwritten rules still shape who gets fully included, writes historian Joris Vandendriessche in the latest #ERCMagazine. From the 1992 Baltimore Charter to the TRUST Code 🔭 👉 link.europa.eu/4hyHCv @SpaceTelescope @EUScienceInnov

🍹 Science is even better over a drink! Join ERC grantees on 🗓️5/07 @the #GeracaoCiencia Festival, for “A Glass Full of Science” = cocktails + informal chats with researchers. 🔗 bit.ly/ERCatGenScience 👇 First sip w Joana Gonçalves de Sá, ERC Ambassador for 🇪🇺🇵🇹 Portugal

'Ethics requirements don't have to be contrary to rational intuition.' Doris Schroeder @Uni_Lancashire, architect of the #TRUSTCode, on why equitable research partnerships don't need more rules - just clearer values 🌍 Op-ed in the new #ERCMagazine 👉 link.europa.eu/FDb39V

Who gets to use the world's largest telescopes? Who decides the rules? ERC grantee Marijke Haverkorn @RadboudUni and science diplomat Daan du Toit on trust, access and equity in mega-science 🔭 in the latest #ERCMagazine 👉 link.europa.eu/jkMFhQ @SKA_telescope @EUScienceInnov

What does equitable collaboration look like when you are running a project across continents and communities? Read the experiences of ERC-funded researchers in the latest #ERCMagazine – from shared data to ethics in everyday decisions 👉 link.europa.eu/FKhH4m @EUScienceInnov

Bonne fête du 14 juillet à toute la France! 🇫🇷 Celebrating France’s frontier research with Mathilde Touvier, winner of ERC Public Engagement with Research Award 2024, whose work is helping bring nutrition science closer to the public. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4jjNSGd

'Excellence and equity are not competing ambitions -they reinforce one another' Harriet Bulkeley and Liselotte Højgaard's editorial on why fairness and trust are foundations of excellent science, not extras, in the latest #ERCMagazine 👉 link.europa.eu/Gxf3h3 @EUScienceInnov

📢 The new #ERCMagazine is out! Who defines the question? Who owns the data? Who benefits? This edition explores how equity is woven into excellent frontier science, with concrete examples from the field. 👉 link.europa.eu/JFFYYH #FrontierResearch @EUScienceInnov @EU_JRC

The ERC was pleased to have been able to support both Professor Hill's #FrontierResearch at @UniofOxford from 2012 to 2017 and Prof Mottonen's research @AaltoUniversity from 2021 to now. More on these projects: 👉 link.europa.eu/mPm6DX 👉 link.europa.eu/9JJj3Y.

Congratulations to Sir Adrian Hill and Mikko Mottonen, both recognised in the @EPOorg's 2026 European #InventorAward category for research. Professor Hill won the category and Professor Mottonen was shortlisted.

How can materials learn to respond to external stimuli such as light? Meet Arri Priimägi, Ambassador for the ERC from Finland 🇫🇮 , who leads the Smart Photonic Materials research group at Tampere University! 🔗 bit.ly/4vhanla #Amb4ERC #FrontierResearch

The Imagine Adaptation researchers propose that for climate adaptation to work, we need to recognize everyday actions alongside formal plans. & that listening to lived experience and local knowledge is essential for more equitable and effective responses. imagineadapt.bc3research.org

Feeling the heat? We all want to protect ourselves, but the weather also prompts thoughts of climate change. How, when and why does the average person start to adapt to climate change? #FrontierResearch @BC3Research youtube.com/watch?v=t-gLPy…