ERC budget presentation guide – How to do it right
ERC aims to support excellent PIs in executing their frontier research. To successfully achieve this, researchers are awarded with academic freedom that is significantly greater than in other funding schemes. This academic freedom provides PIs with flexibility throughout their research project. Amongst other aspects, such flexibility is also portrayed in the way ERC applications are expected to present the budget. Simply put – academic freedom does not go hand in hand with a rigid and highly detailed budget structure. So how should the budget b