ERC 2026 Starting and Consolidator Grant
Dear Reader, we are delighted that you have decided to apply for ERC funding with the University of Helsinki! 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 (tentative)
- Starting Grant 2026: opening date 9 July 2025, call deadline 14 October 2025
- Consolidator Grant 2026: opening date 25 September 2025, call deadline 13 January 2026
Important documents
Other useful materials
- Project (3-4 pages)
- (2025 call version, partly relevant) See the changes in the 2026 call template summarized by ERC.
- 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 (v. 25.7.2025) 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 institutes: erla-finance@helsinki.fi
- Remember that your proposal budget must be sent for internal approval in the SAP Fiori system no later than 2 weeks before the call deadline.
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
STARTING GRANT 2026 CALL
- Call page: ERC-2026-STG
- (applies mostly to SSH fields). 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 2024 call (some members might be the same in the 2026 call)
CONSOLIDATOR GRANT 2026 CALL
- Call page: ERC-2025-COG
- To be updated 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 2024 call (some members might be the same in the 2026 call)
TRAININGS
| UPCOMING TRAININGS | |
UH Consolidator Grant 2026 Seminar Series 24 September-17 December 2025 | Read more and access materials |
| PAST TRAININGS | |
UH ERC Starting Grant and Consolidator Grant 2026 Info 5 March 2025 | – Senior Advisor Mathias Haeggström – Grant Coaches Katja Ritari & Taina Tuori How and Why to Apply for ERC funding – ERC grantee and panelist Professor Jan Klabbers (no presentation) |
Yellow Research Training: How to Write a Successful ERC StG & CoG Proposal 7-8 April 2025 | Access to the 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 |
UH City Centre Campus: StG 2026 Workshop 29 April-2 September 2025 | Meeting 1 (29 April 2025): Meeting 2 (11 June 2025): Meeting 3 (18 August 2025): Recordings: Budget / CV and Track Record / Ethics. Slides: / / Meeting 4 (2 September 2025): |
UH Starting Grant 2026 Seminar Series 28 May-17 September 2025 | |
UH City Centre Campus: CoG 2026 Workshop 17 September-4 December 2025 | Meeting 1 (17 September 2025): Meeting 2 (29 October 2025): Tips for preparing your proposal Meeting 3 (5 November 2025): Recordings: Budget / CV and Track Record / Ethics. Slides: Budget / CV and Track Record / Ethics Meeting 4 (4 December 2025): |
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:
- A list of successful ERC Proposals published online by ERC Principal Investigators
- Spanish web site on funded ERC projects