The 2027 call opens on 24 September. With a € 618.5M budget to support ~296 projects, the ERC Consolidator Grant (CoG) is a strategic opportunity for researchers to consolidate their research team. Switzerland is currently eligible to ERC; this may change from 2028.
Success rate: ~11.2% (call 2025).

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.

Internal candidates w a professorial position are invited to send an expression of interest to servizio.ricerca@usi.ch by 2 November, including provisional abstract and title of the proposal.

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 and 1 ERC Consolidator in their career.
• Feasibility of the scientific approach is no longer assessed at Step 1.
• No more pre-defined cost categories for additional funding.

• 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.

Contact us for:
• Detailed information about the call and an eligibility check
• Confirmation of institutional support (Commitment Letter)
• Access to dedicated USI guidelines
• Budgeting support and access to the budget calculator
• Book a one-to-one online meeting