[CALL] ERC-2027 Starting Grant [StG]

14.10.2026

Deadline: 2026-10-14

Internal deadline: 2026-09-30

For promising early-career researchers who have defended their PhD > 0 and ≤ 10 years prior to 1 January 2027

please notice the internal submission procedure:
  1. submit (electronically) your application (full proposal) 2 weeks prior deadline to the University Office for Research Services & Career Development (eu.fsnf@univie.ac.at)
  2. Please have a closer look to the ERC WIKI-page of the Research Services University of Vienna.

» ERC-Workplan for the Proposal Submission Phase


Objectives

The Starting Grant supports excellent Principal Investigators starting or having recently started their own independent research team or programme. A Starting Grant Principal Investigator should have already shown evidence of the potential for research independence, for example, by having produced at least one important publication as its main author or a publication without the participation of their PhD supervisor.

Size of ERC Starting Grants

Starting Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 1 500 000 for a period of 5 years. The maximum size of the grants is reduced pro rata temporis for proposals of shorter duration.

Additional funding up to EUR 1 000 000 can be requested to cover further eligible costs (e.g. start-up costs, major equipment, access to large facilities, major experimental and field work costs) when these are necessary to carry out the proposed work. The requests for additional funding must be duly justified in the proposal.

The maximum amount of the grant is reduced pro rata temporis for proposals of shorter duration. Additional funding is not subject to pro rata temporis reduction for projects of shorter duration.

Both the grant amount requested, as well as any additional funding are assessed during evaluation.

Profile of the ERC Starting Grant Principal Investigator

The Principal Investigators shall have successfully defended their PhD > 0 and ≤ 10 years prior to 1 January 2027


Please contact projektSERVICE as soon as you plan to submit for this call!.