The European Research Council (ERC) is the first pan-European funding body set up to support investigator-driven frontier research.
The main aim of the newly-established body is to stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, engineers and scholars to be adventurous and take risks in their research. The scientists should go beyond established frontiers of knowledge and the boundaries of discipline.
The ERC complements other funding activities in Europe such as those of the national research funding agencies, and is a flagship component of the 'Ideas Programme' of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Contact
PT-DLR
EU-Büro des BMBF
Salim Chehab
Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1
53227 Bonn
Germany
E-Mail: salim.chehab(at)dlr.de,
Phone: 0228 3821-1368
Fax: 0228 3821-1649
