ERC Starting Grant

• Full name: ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant
• Description: The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, based on scientific excellence.
  Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader? The ERC Starting Grant could be for you.
  These grants are for researchers with 2-7 years of experience since the completion of their PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.
• Call for applications:Yearly calls for proposals covering all scientific fields (It is foreseen from July to October)
• Project Grant: Up to € 1.5 million for a period of 5 years
• Salary: Salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the institutional salary scales.
• Funding body: European Commission
• Website:
  Starting Grants | ERC: European Research Council (europa.eu)

Ramón y Cajal

• Full name: Ayudas para contratos Ramon y Cajal (RyC)
• Description: These grants are intended to promote the incorporation of research personnel, Spanish or foreign, with an outstanding career, in Spanish R&D centers, in order to acquire the skills and abilities that allow them to obtain a stable position in a research organization of the Spanish System of Science, Technology and Innovation.
• Call for applications:  It is foreseen from January to February
• Duration: 3 years + 2 years (in order to access to the 2 extra years R3 accreditation is mandatory)
• Salary: from 33.300 €  to 39.900 €.
  
• Complementary grant: 42.000 € will be granted, to cover expenses directly related to the   execution of their research activities. It includes support staff.
• Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

• Website:
  Buscador de Convocatorias | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (aei.gob.es)

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.