ERC Consolidator Grant
European Research Council · Grant topic
Summary
A Polish company can use this call for R&D.
Funds independent research programmes led by qualifying principal investigators at eligible host institutions, with up to €2 million plus justified additional funding.
- Who can apply
- Unclear from the source: individual, other.
- Amount
- €3M per projectTotal budget €618,500,000
- Deadline
- 12 Jan 2027 01:00 CETin 80 days
- Status
- Openopened 24 Sept 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Scope:
Objectives
The Consolidator Grant supports excellent Principal Investigators who are consolidating their own independent research team or programme. A Consolidator Grant Principal Investigator should have already shown evidence of research independence.
Size of ERC Consolidator Grants
Consolidator Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 2 000 000 for a period of 60 months. The maximum amount of the grants is reduced pro rata temporis for proposals of shorter duration.
Additional funding up to EUR 1 000 000 *1 can be requested to cover further eligible costs for any cost category when these are necessary to carry out the proposed work. The request for additional funding must be duly justified in the proposal.
The maximum amount of the grant is reduced pro rata temporis for proposals of shorter duration. Additional funding is not subject to pro rata temporis reduction for projects of shorter duration.
Both the grant amount and any additional funding requested are assessed during evaluation.
*1 Except for Principal Investigators in Starting, Consolidator, or Advanced Grant re-locating to the EU or an Associated Country from elsewhere to take up their ERC grant. In this case, the maximum additional funding shall be EUR 2 000 000. Applicants requesting more than EUR 1 000 000 as additional funding must be based outside the EU or an Associated Country at the time of the call deadline for the increased maximum additional funding to apply.
Profile of the ERC Consolidator Grant Principal Investigator
The Principal Investigators will be eligible for a Consolidator Grant if they have defended their PhD in the five to fifteen-year period preceding the 1st of January 2027. Cut-off dates: Successful defence of PhD between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2021 (inclusive)*2. Principal Investigators who have already held a Starting or a Consolidator Grant in the past will not be able to apply for the same type of grant. Other eligibility or resubmission criteria might also apply.
The eligibility period may be extended beyond 15 years in some well-documented circumstances or events. See section 1.4 Admissibility, Eligibility, Resubmission Restrictions of the ERC Work Programme 2027.
*2 A Principal Investigator applying for an ERC Starting or Consolidator Grant must hold a PhD or an equivalent doctoral degree at the time of the call deadline.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- Individual, Other
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 2 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- Host institution must be established in an EU Member State or Associated Country.
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Single applicant
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Per project
- €3M
- Topics
- Investigator-led research
- Independent research teams
- Research programme development
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Applicant type
- Principal Investigator and a host institution established in an EU Member State or Associated Country; PI must have defended first PhD more than 5 and no more than 15 years before 1 January 2027 (extensions may apply).
- Other condition
- Consolidator PI must devote at least 40% of working time to the project and 50% in an EU Member State or Associated Country.
- Other condition
- Maximum additional funding is EUR 1,000,000 generally; for a Principal Investigator relocating to the EU or an Associated Country from elsewhere to take up a Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grant, maximum additional funding is EUR 2,000,000. This is additional to, not a replacement for, the base maximum grant amount.
- Project duration, maximum
- 60 month
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €618,500,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Eligible cost
- Actual-cost grants reimburse eligible direct costs at 100% plus a 25% flat rate for indirect costs. Additional funding may support any eligible cost category when necessary and duly justified.
- Project funding, maximum
- €2,000,000
Maximum ERC grant amount per Consolidator project is EUR 2,000,000 for up to 60 months, reduced pro rata for shorter duration. This is a maximum, not an expected contribution. The separate maximum additional funding is EUR 1,000,000; it rises to EUR 2,000,000 only when the Principal Investigator relocates to the EU or an Associated Country from elsewhere to take up the grant.
Personnel and services
Researcher
Required staff
PI commits at least 40% working time to project and 50% in EU/Associated Country. Grant is awarded to the Host Institution, which hosts PI and team. No salary rate or cap is specified in this Work Programme.
Call facts
- Opens
- 24 Sept 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- European Research Council · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- ERC-2027-COG · Call for Proposals for ERC Consolidator Grant
- Types of action
- HORIZON ERC Grants
- Keywords
- Consolidator Grants
- ERC
- European Research Council
- Excellent Science
- Frontier Research
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 25 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.