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European Research Council

2 open and forthcoming calls published by European Research Council, the nearest closing 17 Sept 2026. Every condition below is read from what the funder itself published.

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Open calls
2
open and forthcoming
Published budget
€654M
summed across topics
Grants expected
773
projects that will be funded
Closing within 30 days
1
move now or wait for the next round

What this programme is

All 2 of the calls open under it now accept a single applicant, so there is no consortium to assemble. Where a funding rate is published it is typically the full cost of the action, so no co-financing is expected.

The published expectation across these calls is 773 funded projects, the honest denominator when you weigh whether to spend a month writing. 1 call uses lump-sum funding, where you are paid for delivering work packages rather than for reporting costs. The next cut-off is 17 Sept 2026.

When it closes

2 months carry a cut-off. Each links to every call closing that month, across all programmes.

September 20261 cut-offOctober 20261 cut-off

Closing soonest

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The nine nearest cut-offs under this programme. Everything else is in the full list, where you can filter by deadline, applicant type and funding rate.

CallNext cut-offPer grant
ERC Proof of Concept GrantsERC-2026-POC · European Research Council · single applicant* 17 Sept '26in 11d €150Kper grant ERC Starting GrantERC-2027-STG · European Research Council · single applicant* 14 Oct '26in 38d €1.6Mper grant

Other funders in European Union

ProgrammeOpen callsPublished budgetSoonest cut-off
Horizon Europe 482 €16B 09 Sept '26
European Defence Fund 37 €7.3B 29 Sept '26
LIFE Programme 31 €775M 08 Sept '26
EU External Action (EuropeAid) 23 , 24 Aug '26
Digital Europe Programme 23 €329M 24 Sept '26
Connecting Europe Facility 11 €2.7B 30 Sept '26
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values 8 €163M 15 Sept '26
Research Fund for Coal and Steel 7 €65M 16 Sept '26

Figures are computed from what European Research Council itself publishes. A call appears here only while a cut-off is still ahead of it.

About European Research Council

Who can apply to European Research Council calls?
It is set per call, not per programme. 100% of these calls accept a single applicant; 0 require a consortium. Where the conditions state the requirement we quote the sentence they state it in; where they do not, we infer it from the type of action and mark it as inferred, and an inferred value never appears without that mark.
What does the budget figure mean?
It is the sum of what the funder published per call, in the funder's own currency, converted once at the European Central Bank rates this build holds. Calls that publish no budget contribute nothing rather than an estimate, so the total is a floor, not a guess.
How often does this page change?
The corpus is re-synced nightly and the site is rebuilt with it. Cut-offs and countdowns are recomputed at build time, so a call that closed since the last sync leaves this page rather than sitting here with a stale date.
Can I see only the calls I could win?
Yes, the fit check reads every call on this page against your organisation on the gates that decide admissibility, and it runs in your browser with no account. Calls that block you are shown with the condition that blocks them, because sometimes it is one you can change.

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