First ERC+ grant call set to launch next May, foreshadowing a revamp for the European Research Council after 2028
Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council. Photo credits: @mleptin / Twitter
The European Research Council (ERC) is set to launch its first seven-year €7 million super grant call in May next year.
The grants, called ERC+, will be open to researchers at all career stages and in all fields. But applicants will have to wait until autumn 2026 to find out all the details.
“We are still working on it,” Angela Liberatore, head of the ERC scientific department, told researchers in a webinar on July 10. “The good news is that there is more budget for this grant, and the scientific council agreed about the fact that this will be used for grants of up to seven years, up to €7 million, open to all fields of science and grantees of any cohort.”
The ERC scientific council hopes to launch this call in May next year, with a submission deadline in September, added Liberatore.
Further details, including the budget of the call, will be confirmed in an update to the ERC 2026 work programme…
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