The European Research Council Synergy Grants are open until 5 November 2025.

The European Research Council Synergy Grants (ERC SyG) support groups of two to four principal investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be solved by the researchers and their teams working alone. Researchers should bring complementary skills, knowledge, and resources to address these problems from different perspectives and disciplines. Some of the key features of these grants are:

- Applications can be submitted in any field of research, with no predefined priorities. The sole evaluation criterion is scientific excellence, which includes the intrinsic synergistic effect of the proposal.

- Applicants must present a track record of achievements appropriate to their career stage.

- Research must be conducted in one or more public or private research organizations (known as host institutions) established in one of the EU Member States or associated countries. One of the principal investigators per group may be affiliated with an institution outside the EU or associated countries.

- Fellowships have a duration of up to six years and a maximum budget of €10 million per project.

All the necessary documentation to prepare a Synergy Grant project proposal is available on the European Commission's Funding Portal.

To help prepare applications for the next ERC Synergy Grant 2026 call, a webinar organized by the European Office of FECYT will take place next Wednesday, July 23, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., with the following agenda:

10:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Welcome

• José Luis García – Spanish Representative on the ERC Program Committee, CIB-CSIC, NCP Spain

10:10 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Synergy Grant 2026 Call

• Giuliano Scalzi – Scientific Officer, ERCEA, Synergy Call Coordination Team

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Tips and advice for applying for an ERC Synergy Grant. A project perspective: TRANSDIFFUSE - Discovering Flow Control in Transonic Diffusing Passages - Prof. Eusebio Valero Sánchez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, UPM).

11:15-11:30 Suggestions and advice for applying for an ERC-Synergy Grant. A project perspective: MakingBlood - Engineering an integrated platform for generating human blood stem cells from pluripotent sources - Prof. Anna Bigas (Hospital del Mar, Researchmar)

11:30-12:00 Q&A

To attend, you must register at this link.

If you are a researcher at the University of Valencia and are interested in submitting your proposal with the UV as your host institution, you can contact us at sti.internacional@uv.es to prepare it.