ERC Advanced Grant Call supports excellent Principal Investigators who have already shown a record which identifies them as an exceptional leader in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of their research proposal.
Advanced Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of 2.5 Million Euros for a period of 5 years. However, this budget may go up to a maximum of 3.5 Million Euros to cover (a) eligible "start-up" costs for Principal Investigators moving to the EU or an Associated Country like Turkey from elsewhere as a consequence of receiving the ERC grant and/or (b) the purchase of major equipment and/or (c) access to large facilities and/or (d) other major experimental and field work costs excluding personnel costs.
Contact:
For your questions regarding the call, to receive support in preparing your proposal and to discuss the relevance of your project idea please contact us, the ERC National Contact Points at TÜBİTAK, via ncperc@tubitak.gov.tr.
Information Regarding the ERC-2025-AdG Call:
The ERC-2025-AdG call is launched on 22 May 2025 and is expected to close on 28 August 2025.
Official Call Page
Important documents for the call:
ERC Work Programme 2025 (updated version)
Information for Applicants to the Advanced Grant 2025 Call
Standard Application form (HE ERC AdG) (Fillable forms in .rtf format can be accessed through the application system)
ERC Historical Data on Personnel Costs for Lump Sum Evaluations
ERC Guide for Peer Reviewers (AdG) (To be published shortly)
Multi & Mono Grant Agreement for Lump Sum Grants
Important Notes:
Note 1: The ERC Scientific Council will provide an additional €1 million on top of the existing €1 million start-up funding that researchers applying from outside Europe can request for activities such as establishing a laboratory, building a team, or purchasing equipment, provided they will carry out their research in an EU Member State or Associated Country. This means that up to €2 million in additional funding will be available under the StG, CoG and AdG calls. For example, a researcher applying to the ERC-2025-AdG call from the United States will be able to request up to €2 million in additional funding on top of the standard maximum grant of €2.5 million. Scientific excellence will remain the sole evaluation criterion, and the request for additional funding will not provide any advantage during the evaluation process.
Note 2: The ERC Scientific Council decided to the use of lump sum funding as a pilot for Advanced Grant calls. A new frequently asked questions page is available on ERC website. Also a webinar organized by the ERC can be watched in YouTube and the presentation of the webinar can be downloaded here. There has been no change in the funding model of other calls.
Note 3: For the preparation of your ERC-2025-AdG application, you can apply to the ERC Principal Investigator Development Program (EBAG) developed by TÜBİTAK to receive support from experts or institutions during your project preparation process.
Projects applying to the EBAG program are expected to be mature enough to meet the ERC first-stage evaluation criteria (a draft B1 form will be required at the application stage). If your application is supported, you may:
(1) Participate in proposal writing and submission training,
(2) Receive pre-evaluation support (for consultancy companies or experts including ERC Mentoring Initiative),
(3) Receive interview training if you are invited to the second-stage evaluation
After the approval of your general application, a separate sub-application is required for each service procurement in accordance with TÜBİTAK's criteria. The EBAG program is accepting applications for the ERC-2026-AdG call. Applications will be accepted until 45 days before the call deadline (14 July 2025). Evaluations are conducted on a rolling basis, so you do not need to wait for the final deadline to apply. It is advised to consider that the experts or consultant companies providing these services may be busy or have a high workload as the call closing dates approach.
Note 4: You can review the projects funded in previous Advanced Grant calls, along with their principal investigators and the panels that funded them, via the ERC Dashboard. By clicking on the project acronyms, you will be directed to the CORDISpage, where you can access interim/final reports, open-access data and publications, as well as related news.
Note 5: You can write to ncperc@tubitak.gov.tr to access the video recordings and presentations of the previously organized information days and training sessions.
List of ERC Panel Members
2008-2023 AdG List of Panel Members (aggregated)
Note: You can review the Panel Members serving since 2014 using the search engine available on the ERC's website. (new!)
Additional Documents
EU Grants AGA - Annotated Model Grant Agreement
EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
Association agreements to Horizon Europe
Information Regarding the Closed ERC-2024-AdG Call:
The ERC-2024-AdG call was launched on 29 May 2024 and closed on 29 August 2024.
Indicative evaluation timeframe for this call is available in this link.
You can access the initial statistics regarding the applications here. This call received a total of 2534 applications, reflecting a 38.5% increase compared to the previous call. As stated in the ERC 2024 Work Programme, approximately 285 projects are planned to be funded with €703 million.
Official Call Page (call is closed)
