ERC Grants

Since 2018, the Department of Criminology has secured a total of four prestigious grants from the European Research Council (ERC), with three researchers receiving a total of four grants.

Jean-Louis van Gelder: Project CRIMETIME – How short-term mindsets encourage crime and how the future self can prevent it – ERC Consolidator Grant 772911, Start date 1 April 2018, End date 31 March 2024
Isabel Thielmann: Project KNOW-THYSELF – Increasing Self-Knowledge to Promote Moral Behavior – ERC Starting Grant 101039433, Start date 1 November 2022, End date 31 October 2027
Hannes Rusch: Project MANUNKIND – Determinants and Dynamics of Collaborative Exploitation – ERC Starting Grant 101040002, Start date 1 December 2022, End date 30 November 2027
Jean-Louis van Gelder: Project YourFutureU – An Intelligent Conversational Agent to Increase Future Orientation and Decrease Self-defeating Behavior – ERC Proof of Concept Grant

ERC Consolidator Grants support excellent researchers whose independent research group is in its consolidation phase. They are granted to researchers with 7–12 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal. They provide financing of up to EUR 2 million. The applicants’ success rate in this competition is estimated at under 15%.

ERC Starting Grants target talented young researchers at the start of their independent careers. They are granted to scientists with 2–7 years of experience since completion of PhD who have already produced excellent supervised work, are ready to work independently and show potential to be a research leader. Up to EUR 1.5 million can be awarded. The applicants’ success rate in this competition is estimated at under 15%.

ERC Proof of Concept Grants are made available only to principal investigators who already have an ERC award to establish proof of concept of an idea that was generated in the course of their ERC-funded projects. Proof of Concept Grants aim at maximizing the value of the research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e., activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research Grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC-funded projects. The grant is endowed with the lump sum of EUR 150,000 for a period of 18 months.