The EU's next Research and Innovation Programme is called «Horizon 2020». It will run from 2014 to 2020 with an 79 billion euros budget.
ERC STARTING GRANTS
ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.
Target applicants: researchers between 2 and 7 years after the PhD (4-9 years after MD).
Budget: 1 500 000 euros for up to 5 years.
Deadline: 25th March 2014
ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS
ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. This action is open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any Member State or Associated Country.
Target applicants: researchers between 7 and 12 years after the PhD (9-14 years after MD).
Budget: 2 000 000 euros for up to 5 years.
Deadline: 20th May 2014
MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS: INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORKS (ITN)
The Innovative Training Networks (ITN) aim to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit. ITN will raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training, extending the traditional academic research training setting, and equipping researchers with the right combination of research-related and transferable competences. It will provide enhanced career perspectives in both the academic and non-academic sectors through international, interdisciplinary and inter-sector mobility combined with an innovation-oriented mind-set.
Deadline: 9th April 2014
HEALTH, DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND WELLBEING
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