Extended European Research Council grants are centrepiece of €500 million Choose Europe package
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The EU will invest €500 million to make itself ”a magnet for researchers” as it positions itself to attract the best international talent, and in particular to secure disaffected US scientists keen to flee Donald Trump’s budget cuts and assaults on academic freedom.
The centrepiece of this Choose Europe package, announced on May 5, will be seven-year European Research Council (ERC) super grants. These will “offer a longer-term perspective to the very best,” according to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
Like other ERC grants, these super grants will be open to individual researchers of any nationality working at, or ready to move to, a host institution in a Horizon Europe country. They will last for seven years, rather than the customary five years, but otherwise there are no details yet on how much funding they will bring or how many will be available.
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