ERC 2025 Starting and Consolidator Grant
Dear Reader, we are delighted that you have decided to apply for ERC funding! The Research Funding Services at UH are ready to support you during the application process. You can reach your faculty's Senior Advisor and Grant Coach via researchfunding-services@helsinki.fi.
Do note that the advice and tips shared on this Wiki page are based on our knowledge and experiences, which are limited. Thus, you should always trust your own judgement as a researcher preparing a project that you will be responsible for carrying out.
The page is continuously updated as more materials become available and the calls open.
General information
2025 call dates
- Starting Grant: Call opens: 10 July 2024, DL: 15 October 2024
- Consolidator Grant: Call opens: 26 September 2024, DL: 14 January 2025
Important documents
Other useful materials
- Project (3-4 pages)
- by the Research Funding Services
- ERC review panel members database
- ERC Magazine article: Application advice from authors of successful grant proposals
- Enspire Science articles on assessing risk and non-incrementality
Budgeting
- University of Helsinki (revised version 5.12.2024) - please contact Financial Services for budgeting support at keskusta-finance@helsinki.fi.
Creating your application
- Applications are created and submitted in Funding & Tenders Portal, the online submission system. To use the Portal, you'll need an EU Login.
- University of Helsinki validated PIC-code is 999994535.
- University of Helsinki short name is UH.
- The legal name of UH is Helsingin yliopisto.
- Remember to add your Senior Funding Advisor from Research Funding Services as a contact person to your application.
Data management, Open access and Research ethics
- UH Data Support
- European Commission's guide: How to complete your ethics self-assessment
Language revision
University of Helsinki employees can have their foreign-language proposals revised free of charge at the Language Centre’s Language Services
ERC Starting Grant and Consolidator Grant Info 9.4.2024
9:30 – Senior Advisor Mathias Haeggström
10:15 – Grant Coaches Katja Ritari & Taina Tuori
10:45 – ERC grantee Jaakko Tahkokallio
Training opportunities FOR ALL APPLICANTS
Upcoming |
STARTING GRANT CALL
Important links and documents
- Call page: ERC-2025-STG
- . NB: This is only an example of what a budget might look like. Always consider your specific project needs and use the latest UH template to draft your own budget. Please contact Financial Services for budgeting support.
- Panel members for the StG 2023 call (some members might be the same in the 2025 call)
UH Starting Grant Seminar Series 2025
Read more and access materials.
UH City Centre Campus, Starting Grant Workshop Slides
- Meeting 1:
- Meeting 2: / /
- Meeting 3:
CONSOLIDATOR GRANT CALL
Important links and documents
- Call page: ERC-2025-COG
(updated 5.12.2024) NB: This is only an example of what a budget might look like. Always consider your specific project needs and use the latest UH template to draft your own budget. Please contact Financial Services for budgeting support.
Panel members for the CoG 2023 call (some members might be the same in the 2025 call)
UH Consolidator Grant Seminar Series 2025
Read more and access materials.
UH City Centre Campus, Consolidator Grant Workshop
- Meeting 1:
- Meeting 2: / /
- Recording of the event (Budget from the beginning, CV and Track Record in the beginning at 29.30min, Ethics at 53.00 min)
- Meeting 3:
Training Materials from Yellow Research
Access to both webinar recordings and the handout material are available via the Yellow Research online platform. As a reminder, please note that the link itself is enough to provide access to the course.
Participants will still need an account to track their progress and for Yellow Research to view who has access to it upon request from the university.
https://yr-courses.teachable.com/purchase?product_id=5569318
Successful ERC proposals
Please note that old ERC proposals may have a slightly different application template.
StG 2023 SH2 / EUROTYPES, Adina Akbik (Leiden University)
StG 2015 SH5 / BUMP, Elselijn Kingma (University of Southampton)
StG 2011 SH2 / NEWSITES, Morag Mcdermont (University of Bristol)
CoG 2016 SH2 / FASDEM, Staffan I. Lindberg (Goeteborgs Universitet)
CoG 2015 SH2 / GROUPVIOLENCE, Don Weenink (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
CoG 2014 PE5 / DECRESIM, Alejandro Gaita Ariño (Universitat de Valencia)
CoG 2020 SH / AISLES (Part B1), Henning Trüper (The Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL))
AdG 2013 LS2 / IMMUNEMESIS, Detlef Weigel (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften EV)
AdG 2010 PE1 / PotentialTheory, Vilmos Totik (Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem)
AdG 2009: PE2 / POLBAR, Hans Ströher (Forschungszentrum Julich GMBH)
See also:
- A list of successful ERC Proposals published online by ERC Principal Investigators
- Spanish web site on funded ERC projects