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ERC 2026 Starting and Consolidator Grant

Last modified by Sanna Villikka on 2025/03/20 11:17

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

2026 call dates

  • Starting Grant: Call opens: early summer 2025, DL:  October 2025 (TBC)
  • Consolidator Grant: Call opens: autumn 2025, DL: January 2026 (TBC)

Important documents

Other useful materials

Budgeting

University of Helsinki budget template (revised version 5.12.2024 (to be updated)) - please contact Financial Services for budgeting support:

City Centre: keskusta-finance@helsinki.fi

Kumpula: kumpula-finance@helsinki.fi

Meilahti: meilahti-finance@helsinki.fi

Viikki: viikki-finance@helsinki.fi

Independent institute: erla-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

Language revision

University of Helsinki employees can have their foreign-language proposals revised free of charge at the Language Centre’s Language Services

 

TRAINING MATERIALS FOR ALL APPLICANTS

ERC Starting Grant and Consolidator Grant Info 5.3.2025

The Basics of ERC funding & RFS support – Senior Advisor Mathias Haeggström

How to develop your research idea – Grant Coaches Katja Ritari & Taina Tuori

How and Why to Apply for ERC funding – ERC grantee and panelist Professor Jan Klabbers (no presentation)

Recording of the event

Chat Q&A

Yellow Research training (to be updated)

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

Handout Slides (pdf)

STARTING GRANT CALL

Important links and documents

UH Starting Grant Seminar Series 2025 (to be updated)

Read more and access materials.

UH City Centre Campus, Starting Grant Workshop Slides (to be updated)

  • Meeting 1: Application Part B2
  • Meeting 2: Budget  /  CV and Track Record / Ethics 
  • Meeting 3: Application Part B1

CONSOLIDATOR GRANT CALL

Important links and documents

UH Consolidator Grant Seminar Series 2025

Read more and access materials.(to be updated)

UH City Centre Campus, Consolidator Grant Workshop (to be updated)

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Successful ERC proposals

Please note that old ERC proposals may have a slightly different application template.
StG 2015 SH5 / BUMP, Elselijn Kingma (University of Southampton)
StG 2011 SH2 / NEWSITES, Morag Mcdermont (University of Bristol)
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 2010 PE1 / PotentialTheory, Vilmos Totik (Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem)
AdG 2009: PE2 / POLBAR, Hans Ströher (Forschungszentrum Julich GMBH)

See also: