European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, 2015

European Research Council (ERC) grants are available to support researchers in carrying out frontier research projects.
The European Research Council (ERC) is a European funding initiative, designed to support the best scientists, engineers and scholars in Europe. Its mandate is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence.

The ERC Starting Grant
supports up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish or consolidate a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe. The scheme targets promising researchers who have the proven potential of becoming independent research leaders. It will support the creation of excellent new research teams and will strengthen others that have been recently created.

In brief:
Candidates can be of any nationality, with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD (or equivalent degree) and scientific track record showing great promise.
Host organisation: legally recognised public or private research organisation situated in an EU Member State or an Associated Country. The Associated Countries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Israel, the Faroe Islands, FYR Macedonia, Norway, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Switzerland, and Turkey.
Funding: up to EUR 1.5 M per grant (in some circumstances up to 2 million)
Duration: up to 5 years
Calls for proposals: published annually

Further details:
http://eurodesk.eu