ERC PLUS GRANTS
Overview
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프로그램: Horizon Europe (HORIZON) · Call: Call for Proposals for ERC PLUS Grant · Call ID: ERC-2026-PLUS
Quoted from the announcement
- “The content of the proposal must relate to the objectives and to the grant type set out in the call, as defined in the ERC Work Programme 2026 (section 1.1 Objectives of ERC Grant Schemes ). If a proposal is considered n”source
- “Eligible Principal Investigators: The ERC grant schemes are open to researchers of any age and nationality, residing anywhere in the world at the time of application, and wishing to carry out their research in one of the”source
- “Eligible Host Institution: Any type of legal entity, public or private, including a university, a research organisation or an undertaking can host a Principal Investigator and their team.”source
- “International organisations with headquarters in an EU Member State or an Associated Country shall be deemed to be established in that Member State or Associated Country.”source
- Category
- R&D
- Industry
- Needs verification
- Technology
- Needs verification
- Target stage
- Needs verification
- Project duration
- Needs verification
- Estimated preparation
- Needs verification
Funding
Award size and how it is paid
- Award range
- up to €7M
- Currency
- EUR
- Total programme budget
- €210M
- Support type
- Needs verification
- Co-funding
- Needs verification
- Matching fund
- Needs verification
- Disbursement
- Needs verification
- Note
- -
Eligibility
Can we actually apply?
Eligibility: The content of the proposal must relate to the objectives and to the grant type set out in the call, as defined in the ERC Work Programme 2026 (section 1.1 Objectives of ERC Grant Schemes ). If a proposal is considered not to relate to the objectives of the grant or call for proposals, it will be declared ineligible. . Eligible Principal Investigators: The ERC grant schemes are open to researchers of any age and nationality, residing anywhere in the world at the time of application, and wishing to carry out their research in one of the EU or Associated Country-based Host Institutions (see Annex 3 of the ERC Work Programme 2026 ). . All Principal Investigators funded through an ERC Plus Grant must spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in an EU Member State or Associated Country and a minimum of 30% of their working time on the ERC project. . Eligible Host Institution: Any type of legal entity, public or private, including a university, a research organisation or an undertaking can host a Principal Investigator and their team. The host institution (Applicant Legal Entity) must engage and host the Principal Investigator for at least the duration of the project, as defined in the grant agreement. It must be established either in an EU Member State or an Associated Country (see Annex 3 of the ERC Work Programme 2026 ) as a legal entity created under national law, or it may be an international European research organisation (such as CERN, EMBL, etc.), or any other entity created under EU law. International organisations with headquarters in an EU Member State or an Associated Country shall be deemed to be established in that Member State or Associated Country. . Eligible countries: . The conditions specific to the ERC are described in the ERC Work Programme 2026 under the heading ' Admissibility, eligibility and resubmission restrictions ' and in Annex 3 . An overview is provided below: . The ERC actions are open to researchers of any age and nationality, residing anywhere in the world at the time of application, and wishing to carry out their research in one of the EU Member State or Associated Country-based Host Institutions (see Annex 3 of the ERC Work Programme 2026 ). Principal Investigators funded through the ERC frontier research grants shall spend a minimum percentage of their working time on the ERC project (30% for the ERC Plus Grant) and a minimum percentage of their working time in an EU Member State or an Associated Country (50%). . Eligible Scientific Field: Applications in any field of science are eligible for the ERC funding and the ERC welcomes research proposals of an interdisciplinary nature. . Restrictions on applications: Given the large number of applications received every year, and the need to uphold the quality and integrity of the evaluation process, restrictions apply. For further details please consult the ERC Work Programme 2026 , heading ' Restrictions on applications ’ and the corresponding Table 6 or the Frequently Asked Questions . . . .
Quoted from the announcement
- “The content of the proposal must relate to the objectives and to the grant type set out in the call, as defined in the ERC Work Programme 2026 (section 1.1 Objectives of ERC Grant Schemes ). If a proposal is considered n”source
- “Eligible Principal Investigators: The ERC grant schemes are open to researchers of any age and nationality, residing anywhere in the world at the time of application, and wishing to carry out their research in one of the”source
- “Eligible Host Institution: Any type of legal entity, public or private, including a university, a research organisation or an undertaking can host a Principal Investigator and their team.”source
- “International organisations with headquarters in an EU Member State or an Associated Country shall be deemed to be established in that Member State or Associated Country.”source
- Company age
- Needs verification
- Employees
- Needs verification
- Revenue limits
- Needs verification
- Consortium
- Needs verification
Location Requirements
Geography and legal-entity conditions
- Primary country
- 🇪🇺 European Union
- Also eligible
- 🇪🇺 European Union
- Foreign companies
- Needs verification
- Local entity
- Required
- Location condition
- EU/associated country에 설립된 법인 또는 컨소시엄 참여가 일반적으로 요구됩니다(원문 확인 필요).
Required Documents
Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions
Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.
Application Process
How you apply
Application process not captured.
Evaluation
Review process and criteria
Evaluation process not captured.
Timeline
Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution
Process steps were not captured.
Equity & Financial Terms
Equity, loans and contract conditions
- Equity required
- Needs verification
- Loan
- Non-dilutive grant
- Duplicate funding
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Exclusivity
- Needs verification
- Right of first refusal
- Needs verification
- Audit & settlement
- Needs verification
Risk Intelligence
Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)
Chance of failing eligibility, location or legal-entity rules
Co-funding, matching funds, reimbursement and loan exposure
Paperwork load, timeline pressure, reporting and audit duties
Exclusivity, right of first refusal, duplicate-funding limits
How much technical detail you must hand over, and who owns it
- 12Eligibility not collected· evidence needs verification
Eligibility conditions were not collected and must be read at the source.
- 10Own contribution not stated· evidence needs verification
R&D and pilot programmes commonly require one. Confirm the ratio.
- 10Required documents not collected· evidence needs verification
The list of required documents was not collected.
- 9Deadline approaching
The deadline is not far away.
- 8Local-entity requirement not stated· evidence needs verification
The announcement does not say whether a local entity is required.
- 8Payment timing not stated· evidence needs verification
Advance versus reimbursement makes a large difference to cash flow.
- 7Overseas eligibility not stated· evidence needs verification
Whether an overseas company may take part has to be confirmed.
- 7Exclusivity not stated· evidence needs verification
Any exclusivity clause has to be checked.
- · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
- · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
- · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
- · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a local entity is required is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether an overseas company may apply is not stated (needs verification).
- · Eligibility information was not collected (needs verification).
- · The required own-contribution ratio is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a matching fund is required is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether payment is in advance or in arrears is not stated (needs verification).
- · The level of settlement and audit obligation is not stated (needs verification).
- · The award size is not stated (needs verification).
- · The duplicate-support rule is not stated (needs verification).
Generated by local:rules-v1 · 2026.08.20
IP / Idea Protection
How much of your technology and idea you must disclose
The announcement does not say what has to be submitted, so the disclosure exposure cannot be judged. the scope of the material requested is not stated. The awarding body is European Commission. 8 fields could not be read and must be checked in the announcement and the grant agreement.
Quoted from the announcement
- “The content of the proposal must relate to the objectives and to the grant type set out in the call, as defined in the ERC Work Programme 2026 (section 1.1 Objectives of ERC Grant Schemes ). If a proposal is considered n”source
- “Eligible Principal Investigators: The ERC grant schemes are open to researchers of any age and nationality, residing anywhere in the world at the time of application, and wishing to carry out their research in one of the”source
- “Eligible Host Institution: Any type of legal entity, public or private, including a university, a research organisation or an undertaking can host a Principal Investigator and their team.”source
- “International organisations with headquarters in an EU Member State or an Associated Country shall be deemed to be established in that Member State or Associated Country.”source
- NDA
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Data rights
- Needs verification
- Disclosure depth
- Needs verification
- File patent first?
- Not applicable
- Reuse of submissions
- Needs verification
- Publicity obligation
- Needs verification
- Exposure score
- Needs verification
- · The problem your product solves, and the market definition
- · Your value proposition and quantified results (improvement rates, throughput)
- · Anything already public: granted patents, papers, press coverage
- · Team composition, capabilities and a summary of past delivery
- · Architecture-level diagrams at module granularity, without internal implementation
- · Core algorithms: formulae, hyper-parameters and pre-processing rules
- · Raw training data and the details of your collection pipeline
- · Full source code and build or deployment scripts
- · Cost structure and unit-price formulae
- · Named customers, contract terms and pricing
- · How an unfiled invention is actually implemented
- HIGHPoC/공동개발 IP 귀속 조항 확인
공동개발 산출물의 지분·개선발명(improvement) 귀속·배경지식(background IP) 분리 조항을 협약서에서 확인하십시오.
- MEDIUMRequest an NDA
Ask in writing for a mutual NDA before submitting detailed technical material; if it is refused, keep what you submit at summary level.
4 evidence item(s) from the source
- UNKNOWN
No document list was collected, so the exposure of technical material cannot be judged.
Source link - UNKNOWN
No NDA clause could be found.
Source link - UNKNOWN
IP ownership terms could not be found.
Source link - UNKNOWN
Ownership of the deliverables terms could not be found.
Source link
- · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
- · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
- · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
- · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
- · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
- · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
This assessment is derived from the stored announcement, document and contract fields. Anything the source does not state is marked "needs verification" — it never asserts that your idea will be taken. Generated by local:rules-v1 · 2026.08.20
AI Analysis
Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness
From paperwork and review stages
Heuristic from award size and type
Amount, terms and IP combined
Weighted average of five dimensions
- Needs verification
- Needs verification
- ! 해외기업 지원 가능 여부가 공고에서 확인되지 않았습니다 (확인 필요).
- ! IP 귀속 조항이 확인되지 않았습니다 (확인 필요).
- ! 중복 수혜 제한 규정을 사전에 확인하십시오.
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Source & Provenance
Every value carries its source URL and fetch time
- Application URL
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ERC-2026-PLUS
- Last fetched
- 2026.09.02
- Human review
- Not reviewed — check the official announcement
- First seen
- 2026.08.20
- Data status
- Needs review
- AI enrichment
- ec.europa.eu/call-document@2 · 3h ago
- PRIMARYEU Funding & Tenders Portal — ERC-2026-PLUS
Fetched 24d ago
- DATASETgrantsTenders.json (reference dataset)
Fetched 24d ago
- · 2026.08.20 — 최초 수집 (0004b27e)