Research Funding Services in Kumpula organize an info session about ERC (European Research Council) grants on Monday 25.5.2015 from 14:00 to 16:00. The session will be held in Exactum Room D122. 

If you are planning to apply in the 2016 calls (deadlines not yet announced) or would just like more information about ERC, please join us. No registration is required.

Preliminary program

• ERC basics, eligibility criteria, evaluation process etc.: Research Funding Advisor Ulrika Backman
• How Research Funding Services can help you?: Research Funding Advisor Ulrika Backman
• ERC Starting Grantee’s experiences: University Lecturer Mikael Ehn
• Questions, comments and discussion

More information on ERC grants

The ERC grants are for researchers of any age and any nationality with scientific track record showing great promise.

• ERC Starting Grant: 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD 
• ERC Consolidator Grant: over 7 and up to 12 years of experience since completion of PhD
• ERC Advanced Grant active researchers having an outstanding track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years

Research proposed for funding to the ERC should aim high, both with regard to the ambition of the envisaged scientific achievements as well as to the creativity and originality of proposed approaches, including unconventional methodologies and investigations at the interface between established disciplines. Proposals should rise to pioneering and far-reaching challenges at the frontiers of the field(s) addressed, and involve new, ground-breaking or unconventional methodologies, whose risky outlook is justified by the possibility of a major breakthrough with an impact beyond a specific research domain/discipline. Further information on the ERC is available on the ERC's website at http://erc.europa.eu/ .

Information on the ERC grants previously awarded to researchers of University of Helsinki is available athttp://www.helsinki.fi/tutkimus/tutkijat/erc-hankkeet.html .

You are warmly welcome!

Ulrika Backman & Satu Väisänen
Senior Research Funding Advisors, Kumpula Campus