Changes in the evaluation procedure and application forms of ERC Calls 2024

The Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC), decided on changes to the ERC’s application forms and evaluation procedures for the 2024 calls for proposal, which are expected to be announced around summer 2023.

So far, it has been announced that the current CV and Track Record templates will be combined and simplified and applicants will be able to add short narrative descriptions to explain the information provided. The ERC Scientific Council has also decided to explicitly weigh the project proposal, more than the past achievements of the applicant during the evaluation.

The aforementioned changes will be presented in detail in the upcoming ERC Work Programme 2024.

In this frame, the Scientific Council also decided to sign the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment published last July.

ERC was established in 2007, as the top European funding organisation for the support of frontier research. ERC is funded under Pillar I “Excellent Science” of Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme of the EU for Research and Innovation 2021-2027 and supports excellent researchers in all stages of their research career (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced, Synergy, Proof of Concept), in order to implement ground breaking projects.