STARS Grants Program for Individual Research 2025
The STARS @UNIPD 2025 call is active from 20 December 2024 to 21 March 2025, at 13.00 (Italian time).
The STARS @UNIPD 2025 call funds research projects, lasting 30 months, in one of the 28 scientific areas included in the disciplinary groupings established by the University Macro-areas, which correspond to the three domains of the European Research Council (ERC):
- EP: Physical Sciences and Engineering
- LS: Life Sciences
- SH: Social Sciences and Humanities.
The call offers three types of funding with a "bottom-up" approach, without predefined thematic areas. It is open to Principal Investigators (PIs) of any age and nationality who wish to conduct their research activity at a Department of the University of Padova. Applicants must demonstrate the innovativeness, ambition and feasibility of the scientific proposal submitted.
STARS Starting Grant (STARS-StG): for PIs, also external to the University of Padova, in the start-up phase of their team and / or their independent research activity, who have supported the final discussion of the first PhD dissertation for no more than 5 years on 1 January 2025 (eligibility window: 01/01/2020 - 31/12/2024 included);
STARS Consolidator Grant (STARS-CoG): for PIs, who already carry out research activities at Unipd, in the consolidation phase of their team and / or their independent research activity, who have supported the final discussion of the first PhD dissertation from a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 10 years on January 1, 2025 (eligibility window: 01/01/2015 - 31/12/2019 included);
STARS Wild Card Grant (STARS-WiC): for PIs who already carry out research activities at Unipd and who have submitted an ERC project proposal in the 2023 and 2024 calls, indicating Unipd as Host Institution, but who, despite having obtained the final score "A" in the second evaluation step, have not been funded due to budget constraints.
