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Today the call for the Synergy Grant of the ERC has been opened. This type of project, which made its debut last year, are characterized for:
  • 2 to 4 PIs from any country (EU or Associated).
  • Maximum 15,000,000 € in 6 años (that makes 2.5 Mo a year).
  • Like all the Ideas program, themes are decided by the researchers themselves.
These projects are as ambitious in their scope as difficult to obtain: there may be only 10 funded projects this year in all scientific domains.
The deadline is January 10, 2013. In order to submit a project, pay attention to:

The ERC is innately flexible. It tends to change what it doesn't like, even eliminating whole programs. For that reason, whatever happened in last year's call, which is still unresolved, may be misleading. This compels the careful reading of this year's documents (including the Guide for Applicants which is still unavailable), to ward off unforeseen mistakes.