ERC Starting Grants for Post-doctoral Researchers 2621 views

ERC Starting Grants for Post-doctoral Researchers

 Overview

ERC Starting Grants are awarded to excellent researchers (any nationality) with 2-7 years of experience after PhD completion, a scientific track-record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

A Starting Grant (StG) typically has a duration of five (05) years with a budget of 1.5 Mio Euros. As such, these funds contribute to the establishment of an independent team to implement a research project. In order to be eligible to apply for an ERC 2020 Starting Grant, the ERC requests:

1. Principal Investigator (PI) shall have been awarded her/his first PhD at least two and up to seven years prior (Cut-off dates: PhD awarded from January 1st 2020 to December 31st 2020 (inclusive)).
2. PIs have to spend a minimum of 50% of their total working time on the ERC StG.

 EPFL Benefits

EPFL welcomes outstanding candidates wishing to apply to this unique career funding scheme, under the following conditions:

1. An EPFL full or associate professor must be ready to host the candidate for the entire duration of the project
2. The Director of Institute and the Dean of the school in which the laboratory is integrated must support the candidate

 Application Process

For interested candidates, please start by reading carefully the EPFL Instructions and procedure in detail and apply online (see below) and contact as soon as possible a host professor.