{"id":139324,"date":"2025-05-08T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/startingunipi-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:23:44","slug":"startingunipi-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/research\/support-and-incentives\/ercunipi\/startingunipi-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting@UNIPI 2026 &#8211; The call to support your application for the ERC Starting grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-teams=\"true\">With Starting@UNIPI the University of Pisa supports researchers in the submission of projects to the ERC Starting Grant 2027 call, which is expected to be published on <strong>July 2026<\/strong> with deadline in <strong>October 2026.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The recipients of the grant are researchers of any nationality who choose the University of Pisa as the Host Institution for their project proposal on the ERC-StG 2026 call. It is not required to be under contract with UNIPI.<\/p>\n<p>The support will consist of a comprehensive and interactive review process on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CV and scientific profile of the Principal Investigator (PI);<\/li>\n<li>Project idea and its presentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This support will be provided by a consulting agency selected by the University of Pisa in collaboration with the Research Development Unit.<\/p>\n<h2>Submission procedure<\/h2>\n<p>The application consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Letter of acknowledgment from the hosting Department (Attachment 1).<\/li>\n<li>CV of the PI + project idea (Attachment 2).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Proposal evaluation<\/h2>\n<p>The evaluation will be carried out by a Commission composed of expert reviewers for the three ERC domains. Up to a maximum of\u00a0<strong>10 proposals will be selected<\/strong>. Projects are evaluated based on the criteria of scientific excellence and the candidate&#8217;s profile, following the ERC-StG criteria.<\/p>\n<h2>Timeline<\/h2>\n<p>Call opening: <strong>15 May 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deadline for submitting application:\u00a0<strong>21 June 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evaluation of applications:\u00a0<strong>June 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Start of support:\u00a0<strong>July 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Call document and annexes<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bando-Starting@UNIPI_EN_2026-1.pdf\">Starting@unipi call_2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/Allegato-1_Bando-Starting@UNIPI_2026.docx\">Annex 1_2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/Allegato-2_Bando-Starting@UNIPI_2026.docx\">Annex 2_2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Application documents must be submitted through the starting@unipi wizard, which can be accessed after registration here: <a href=\"https:\/\/survey.unipi.it\/applicant\/starting\/index.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">starting@unipi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applications submitted through any other channel will not be accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Starting@UNIPI the University of Pisa supports researchers in the submission of projects to the ERC Starting Grant 2027 call, which is expected to be published on July 2026 with deadline in October 2026.\u00a0 The recipients of the grant are researchers of any nationality who choose the University of Pisa as the Host Institution for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":139530,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"default-template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-139324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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