The European Research Council'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. The ERC is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any demographic, to run projects based across Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants. With its additional Proof of Concept Grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to explore the innovation potential of their ideas or research results.  During the grant writing session, useful information will be shared on how to best prepare your ERC grant applications, including tips, dos and don’ts . The session will be followed by Q&A time.