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  Are you interested to participate in ERC projects? Do you have a breakthrough scientific idea? Here are some tips helping you through the grant application process Watch the ERC Classes on Youtube by clicking here!  

SMALL, GREEEN AND SAFE   Slovenians like to joke that it is the only country in the world with love in its name! It is a small yet diverse, green and safe country for the 2 million people who call it home. As a multicultural and multilingual society, Slovenia is seen as a welcoming place to all...

  The European Commission launched Open Research Europe, a publishing platform for scientific papers that will be accessible to everyone. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon...

  The European Commission is organising a serial of webinars related to participation in the Horizon Europe Programme. The first webinar was organised on March 24, 2021, and the title was "How to prepare a successful proposal in Horizon Europe". The aim was to bring closer the details on...

Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth. The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens...

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) are the European Union’s flagship programme for the mobility and training of researchers, as well as the development of doctoral programmes, with a strong structuring effect on participating institutions. Following the European Commission’s commitment to...

The ERC Starting Grants 2021 call closed for applications on 12 April 2021. These are the preliminary data on submitted proposals. This year the ERC received 4,056 applications. This is a 24% increase compared to the previous Starting Grants call.  The highest number of applications was...

The Paris Peace Forum (PPF), of which the European Commission is a Strategic Partner, will hold its fourth edition on November 11th-13th, 2021. The aim is to place global governance at the top of the international agenda. Different stakeholders discuss global governance issues and cooperate on...

  This year the ERC will reach an important milestone: soon 10 000 scientists and scholars from Europe and beyond will have received ERC funding to pursue their best ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. During an online ceremony, the ERC will welcome the 10 000th grantee and will highlight a few...

At dawn on Monday 3rd May, #TheEUandMe Roadshow and Pop-Up Photo Exhibition bus set off from Freetown on a one week journey of discovery around the country, to visit a selection of EU supported projects and to gather testimonials from the communities who have first-hand experience of their impact...