• H2020
• Excellent Science
• European Research Council

The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the awarding of 59 starting grants following on from the 291 already awarded to early career researchers in December.

The funding has been provided by Horizon 2020.

In the entire call, the ERC supported 350 researchers with almost €515m. They received grants, worth up to €1.5m each, to build their own teams and carry out research in all scientific domains at the frontiers of knowledge. The grants will enable them to employ an estimated 1,200 postdocs, PhD students and other expert staff.

Altogether, the highest number of grants in this 2015 competition was awarded to researchers in the UK (61), Germany (53), the Netherlands (38) and France (35). The grantees represent 38 nationalities with Germans in the lead (56) followed by the Italians (37). The overall success rate in the competition was around 12%.

See for the new grantees.