ERC Advanced Grants

What’s the European Research Council (ERC)?

Funding from the European Research Council (ERC), the EU body supporting excellent researchers under the Horizon 2020 program finances unconventional multidisciplinary and bottom-up proposals. The ERC main objective is to strengthen the European "frontier" research, in support of pioneering projects on the initiative of researchers from different scientific, technical and academic fields.

Apply for ERC advanced grants

By 28th February 2025 complete the personal data form you can find here 

Choose UniBg as host institution

The University of Bergamo welcomes researchers from all over the world and offers them the opportunity to work in a challenging academic environment.
We invite expression of interest from researchers interested in submitting an ERC grant application with the University of Bergamo as the host institution.

Support offered

  • highly skilled staff ready to offer all the support needed;

  • support and guidance to develop the applications that we judge to be promising and that fit into one of our research area.

Research funds

  • the University of Bergamo offers extra research funds for phd scholarship, post-doctoral fellowship and scientific lab equipment;

  • extra fundings from Fondazione Cariplo (this grant is subordinated to the approval of the funding Institution).

To register your expression of interest in an ERC Grant with the University of Bergamo as the host institution, please get in touch with us as soon as possible by sending an email to [email protected]