Division 2.2.1 Calls for proposals

Proposals are submitted in response to calls for proposals (‘calls’)^f1. The content and timing of calls are set out in the Ideas work programme, and are published in the Official Journal of the European Union (‘call text’) on Commission website(s)^f2, as well as on the ERC website, which will provide hyperlinks to the Commission website(s).

Calls for frontier research projects may specify an indicative budget for the entire call or give indicative budgets for specific areas of research within the frame of the call that will be evaluated by separate Panels of independent experts.

A call will also specify whether a single or two-stage submission and/or a single or two-step peer review evaluation procedure is to be followed. In the case of a two-stage submission, only those whose proposals were positively evaluated in a first stage are invited to submit complete proposals in a second stage.