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The Starting Grant supports excellent Principal Investigators starting or having recently started their own independent research team or programme. A Starting Grant Principal Investigator should have already shown evidence of the potential for research independence, for example, by having produced at least one important publication as its main author or a publication without the participation of their PhD supervisor. Proposals for Starting calls are submitted by the Principal Investigator, on behalf of the Host Institution; The proposal is evaluated in two steps with interviews taking place at Step 2. The evaluation is carried out by peer review panels that may be assisted by independent external experts working remotely. Also the Principal Investigators shall have successfully defended their first PhD at least 2 and up to 7 years prior to 1 January 2026.

HORIZON EUROPE – European Research Council The European Research Council supports frontier research, cross disciplinary proposals and pioneering ideas in new and emerging fields which introduce unconventional and innovative approaches. The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence.

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