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Tue 30 Nov
Training

ERC INFODAY ONLINE

The European Research Council (ERC), through its different funding schemes (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced), offers individual funding to conduct frontier research on topics proposed by the researchers.
The next deadlines foreseen in the second Horizon Europe Work Programme (ERC-WP-2022) are the following:
Starting Grant: January 13th 2022
Consolidator Grant: March 17th 2022
Advanced Grant: April 28th 2022 (tbc)

The infoday, held in Italian, is open to postdocs, researchers and professors of the Politecnico di Torino, aims to provide an overview of the opportunities offered by the programme, to illustrate the key features of an ERC idea and of a Principal Investigator profile, to present the novelty of the program in Horizon Europe and the support offered by theResearch Support Department to our candidates and winners.

The workshop will be held by Dr. Maria Onorato, who has been the ERC program advisor since 2012, Valeria Di Caro (Research Support Department), with the participation of Prof. Laura Fabris who will present his experience as winner of an ERC Consolidator Grant 2019.

Agenda
10:00 - Why is ERC important for your career?
What does the ERC fund? Purpose of the ERC Work Programme, features of the ERC calls and what's new in Horizon Europe
ERC project evaluation criteria
How to organise the scientific part of the proposal
11.00 - Prof. Laura Fabris' experience as PI of the ERC CoG project ANFIBIO:
Strengths of her CV and project
Q&A
11:20 - PI evaluation criteria
How to organise the CV and track record
11:45 - European, Italian and Politecnico participation in the ERC
12:00 - Initiatives of the Research Support Department to support ERC candidates and winners
Q&A
12:30 - Conclusion

The event, open to Politecnico di Torino staff only, will be held on the TEAMS platform.
You can register by 25 November at the link (filling in the form will not result in a confirmation response).

For further information, please contact Dr Onorato Maria (tel 3307) and Valeria Di Caro (tel 5931) of the Research Excellence and Researcher Mobility Office at europoli@polito.it.