The ERC Work Programme 2027 will be published in July, but key changes have already been announced. Now is the time to plan ahead. ERC Consolidator Grant 2027 offers a valuable opportunity for researchers looking to strengthen and expand their research team.

ERC CoG supports individual researchers with and excellent track-record that are consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Applicants should have already shown evidence of research independence.
Success rate: ~11,2% (call 2025).

Internal candidates without a professorial position and external ones must submit their candidature to servizio.ricerca@usi.ch by 4 September:

• eligibility form,
• CV + publication list,
• motivation letter,
• letter/s of support from USI professor/s.

The procedure lasts approx. 2 months.

ERC funds frontier research in any discipline. It welcomes proposals addressing new and emerging fields of research, or introducing unconventional, innovative approaches and scientific inventions. Applicants must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their proposal.

• Now open to researchers 5–15 years after PhD (instead of 7-12 yrs.)
• Applicants may receive only 1 ERC Starting Grant and 1 ERC Consolidator Grant in their career.

• Up to € 2 M + additional funding up to € 1M (€ 2M for extra-EU based)
• Budget covers 100% of the project costs, incl. 25% OHs
• Co-funding is not required
• Duration: up to 5 yrs, pro rata for shorter duration

Proposals are evaluated by selected international peer reviewers and by discipline-specific panels in a two-step evaluation procedure. Selected applicants are invited for an online interview taking place in early fall 2027. Final results are expected in December 2027.

Check out the projects funded in the latest ERC call. The ERC database lets you filter by discipline and access project abstracts. A helpful way to identify the most suitable panel for your proposal.