Frequently asked questions

There has been a change compared to previous calls: the budget table and description of resources have moved from Part B2 to the Part A ‘online submission form’ (Section 3 - Budget). All the resources have to be described and justified in the text box under the online budget table (Section C. Resources).  The applicant should NOT include any description of resources or budget table in Part B2.

The budget table and description of resources will be extracted from the online submission form (Part A, Section 3 - Budget) and provided to the peer reviewers evaluating the proposal. The evaluators will have no access to the rest of the submission form.

The budget section contains the table of the proposal budget including the total estimated project costs and the requested EU contribution for the project. The budget table will provide automatically one budget line per beneficiary. The budget is subdivided in personnel costs, travel, equipment, consumables, publications (including any costs related to Open Access), other additional direct costs, internally invoiced goods and services, costs of in kind contributions not used on the beneficiary’s premises, and any envisaged subcontracting costs. The costs should be given in whole Euros (not kilo Euros). Please carefully check all values of the budget table. Please note that while the total estimated eligible costs in the budget table are calculated automatically, the requested EU contribution has to be filled manually.In the resources section you must also indicate the percentage for the working time the Principal Investigator (PI) dedicates to the project over the period of the grant. We recommend applicants to describe and justify the requested resources heading by heading using the terminology of the budget table. If additional funding is requested for the project, describe and justify the request clearly under a separate dedicated heading. Bear in mind that unjustified budgets will be reduced.More explanation can be found in the guidelines of the Information for Applicants to the Starting and Consolidator 2020 Grants (pages 19-20).

According to the conditions applied to the ERC-2019-ADG call or any other ERC 2019 frontier research Grants, there are three main restrictions to be considered for PIs in this regard:1) A PI may submit proposals to different ERC frontier research Grant calls made under the same Work Programme, but only the first eligible proposal will be evaluated.2) A researcher may participate as PI in only one ERC frontier research project at any one time (NB: A new frontier research project can only start after the duration of the project fixed in a previous frontier research grant agreement has ended).3) A researcher participating as PI in an ERC frontier research project may not submit a proposal for another ERC frontier research grant, unless the existing project ends no more than two years after the call deadline (NB: This is according to the duration of the project fixed in the previous frontier research grant agreement).

These restrictions are specified in the ERC Work Programme 2019 and may be modified in future Work Programmes by the ERC Scientific Council in light of experience. As a team member, it is possible to participate in more than one ERC Grant.