European Research Council

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European Research Council company profile

The European Research Council is a European funding initiative, designed to support the scientists, engineers, and scholars in Europe. Researchers from any field can compete for the substantial grants that support pioneering projects, in areas as varied as new cancer therapies, next generation radars for airports, innovative ways to generate bio-fuels, new 3-D printers or robots, and more. Its mandate is to encourage the high quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence. The ERC is composed of an independent Scientific Council, its governing body consisting of distinguished researchers, and an executive agency in charge of the implementation.