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ERC Starting Grants 2026

European Research Council · European Union

Deadline: August 17, 2026
Amount: up to 1,500,000 EUR
Award type: Grant
Career stage: Early Career
Duration: 60 months
Posted: July 27, 2026

Up to €1.5M over five years for talented early-career researchers (2–7 years post-PhD) to build their own teams and conduct frontier research.

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