ERC Advanced Grants (up to € 3.5 million euros for a max. of five years) are awarded for innovative projects proposed by outstanding established researchers from all disciplines, whose highly innovative research promises to lead to significant advances in the current state of the art and opens new horizons.
Die ERC Consolidator Grants (bis zu drei Millionen Euro über maximal fünf Jahre) richten sich an herausragende Nachwuchsforscherinnen und -forscher aller Fachbereiche, deren eigene unabhängige Arbeitsgruppe sich in der Konsolidierungsphase befindet.
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to €3 million euros for a max. of five years) are intended to fund innovative projects proposed by outstanding mid-career researchers from all disciplines, whose own independent research group is in the consolidation phase.
The European Research Council (ERC) uses the highly competitive Synergy Grant to support projects that lead to "progress at the frontiers of knowledge" through interdisciplinary collaboration. Interdisciplinary teams of two to four scientists are funded for six years with up to 14 million euros.
* Contract signed with LMU as Host Institution, but ERC Grantee has left LMU in the meantime
** ERC Grantee was not yet at LMU when the grant was awarded.