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erc funding instruments• ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grants (up to 2 mio. €)• ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 2 mio. €)• ERC Advanced Investigator Grants (up to 3.5 mio. €)• Proof of Concept (up to 150,000 €)• Synergy Grants (up to 15 mio. €)

The EuropeanResearch CouncilThe European Research Council (ERC) wasestablished in 2007 as the first Europeanfunding body designed to support investigator-driven frontier research through open anddirect competition.Europe by supporting and encouraging the verybest, truly creative researchers to identify andexplore new opportunities and directions in anyfield of research.

Key features• Scientific excellence is only criterion• Competitions are open to top researchers from anywhere in the world, provided they are based in or are moving to europe• Disposes of an annual budget of over € 1 billion • Has announced 10 calls for proposals• Has supported more than 3,000 projects, includ-ing 59 with a Danish host institution (2007-2012)

erc grant schemes: annual BudgetDistribution 2007-2013The ERC budget represents 15 % (€ 7.51) of the overall FP7 budget (€ 50.5 billion)Mio.€1.8001.5001.2009006003000

The DFF Sapere Aude programmeLaunched for the first time in 2010 as DFF’smost ambitious initiative so far. The researchcareer programme seeks to attract and retain thegreatest research talents by offering them thebest possible conditions for pursuing their ownoriginal ideas and research ambitions.Aim:to strengthen the coming generation ofresearchers, to lift up more female researchersto the top, and to be a launching point to theinternational elite.dff-Postdoc grants are aimed at the best young researchers at postdoc level.dff-starting grantsare intended for top researchers whohave completed their postdocs and are going to establish themselves as heads of their own research groups.dff-advanced grants are for researches who have become Associate Professors or Professors early on in their careers, and who have ambitious research goals.

DFF Sapere Aude interactionwith the ERC Grant Schemesthe sapere aude Programme – a launchingpoint for the research eliteThe research career programme Sapere Aude cre-ates incentives for applying to large internationalpools, ie. ERC and EU’s Seventh FrameworkProgramme – partly by creating the best possibleconditions for developing exceptional researchprojects, and partly by preparing applicants forinternational application processes by conductinginterviews as a part of the selection procedure.

Key features• Scientific excellence is only criterion• Competitions are open to top researchers from anywhere in the world, provided that their research is considered of ben-efit to danish research• DFF allocates more than 250 mio. DKK of its annual budget to the Sapere Aude programme• Is announced annually since 2010• Has supported 197 projects (2010-2012)

ERC’s three main grant schemesERC Starting Independent Researcher GrantsThe objective is to support the independent careers of outstandingresearchers, who are at the stage of establishing or consolidatingtheir first research teams or programmes.ERC Consolidator GrantsThe objective is to support researchers at the stage at which theyare consolidating their own independent research team or pro-gramme. The scheme will strengthen independent and excellentnew individual research teams that have been recently created.ERC Advanced Investigator GrantsThe objective is to support pioneering frontier research projects byleading established researchers.

The Danish Council forIndependent ResearchThe Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) fundsspecific research activities, within all scientific areas, that arebased on the researchers’ own initiatives and that improve thequality and internationalisation of Danish research.The Danish Council for Independent Research also providesscientific advice in all scientific areas for the Danish Ministerfor Science, Innovation and Higher Education, the DanishParliament and the Danish Government.

the danish council for Independent research is comprisedof a Board of directors and five scientific research councils:dff | humanitiesdff | natural sciencesdff | social sciencesdff | Medical sciencesdff | technology and Production sciencesThe portraits illustrating this folder are a selection of researchers whohave been awarded grants under the Sapere Aude programme.