ERC awards €500 million to 48 synergy projects for the 2026 call

News Tank Academic - Brussels - News #460452 - Published on 12/11/26 at 17:35
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The European Research Council (ERC) awarded a total of €500 million in 2026 Synergy Grants to 48 projects, representing 172 researchers, it announced on 12/11/2026.

Of the projects, 23 involve grantees based in the United Kingdom, 22 in Germany and 14 in France. Furthermore, 17 of them involve researchers based outside Europe. The successful projects will receive, on average, €10.4 m each.

Synergy Grants support groups of at least two principal investigators (PIs) in combining their complementary skills, knowledge and resources to pursue a research project. In total, 957 proposals were submitted to this call. That gives a success rate of 5.02 %; in 2025, it was 9.2%.

Ekaterina Zaharieva, European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, said: "Synergy Grants highlight the…

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