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For Career Development Programmes the survey’s results are the following:
Eligibility
Criteria:
Completeness
of the application
General fit of the
proposal with
the Instrument’s
purpose
Timeliness
of the submission
Institutional,
regional, national
affiliation of
applicants
Other
Total of 27
Respondents
92.6%
25/27
70.4%
19/27
74.1%
20/27
66.7%
18/27
51.9%
14/27
For Career Development Programmes, and pertinent to the five categories mentioned before, the following specific eligibility criteria may also
be considered in addition to the general items provided above:
Eligibility
Criteria:
Completeness
of the application
General fit of the
proposal with
the Instrument’s
purpose
Timeliness
of the submission
Institutional,
regional, national
affiliation of
applicants
Other
Total of 25
Respondents
88.0%
22/25
84.0%
21/25
84.0%
21/25
56.0%
14/25
40.0%
10/25
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1. Doctoral Training Grants
• Applicant’s Career Stage:
– Full-time graduate students pursuing a doctoral
study (diploma equivalent to the minimum
qualification needed to study for a doctorate in
a given country),
– Completed graduate coursework (usually for
grants awarded by universities a certified list of
the exams/courses taken at university, grades/
marks awarded and (if applicable) the final
degree result is required);
• Two or three letters of recommendation or the
names of two or three academic referees.
2. Postdoctoral Fellowships and Grants
• Applicant’s Career Stage:
– Candidates are eligible after the successful completion
of their PhD degree,
– There is a wide-ranging upper limit for the
eligibility condition in terms of the time after
completion of the PhD degree of the applicants.
This range generally varies from four to
10 years;
• Two letters from referees;
• Mobility: Candidates are often required (or
encouraged) to conduct their postdoctoral training
in universities and institutes other than those
they graduate from;
• Appropriateness of the host institution.
3. Grants for the creation of Independent
Research Groups
• Applicant’s Career Stage:
– Eligible during the two to 12 year period following
the completion of their PhD (exceptions may
be made in some organisations for periods not
spent in research – notably compulsory military
service, parental leave).
4. Advanced career grants
• Applicant’s Career Stage:
– At least 10 years of significant research achievements
(for example for the ERC Advanced Grant
Scheme: three major research monographs of
which at least one is translated into another
language – especially for humanities and social
science – 10 publications as senior author in
major international peer-reviewed multidisciplinary
scientific journals, and/or in the leading
international peer-reviewed journals of their
respective field66).
5.3.2 Evaluation criteria
The general evaluation criteria that can be used in
these programmes are described in §4.7.2 in Part I
of this Guide.
Besides these, for Individual Research Projects
particular attention should be devoted to:
• Independent thinking and leadership abilities of
the applicant;
• The balance between the disciplines involved in
the case of interdisciplinary proposals.
In the case of Career Development Programmes some
different criteria can be applied according to the
target category of the funding programme:
1. Doctoral Training Grants
66. See http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/Guide_for_Applicants_%20
Avanced_Grants_2011.pdf pp. 11-12.
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