ERC awards
The idea for establishing the European Research Council (ERC) came out of widespread discussions between European scientists, scholars and research umbrella organisations at a time when no clear European mechanism to support basic research on a broad front existed. For this reason, Europe had to establish the necessary institutional structures for achieving it. It's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, on the basis of scientific excellence. The ERC complements other funding activities in Europe such as : the national research funding agencies, and is a flagship component of Horizon 2020, the European Union's Research Framework Programme for 2014 to 2020.
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