Sorry I thought it was 24 hours . <| sep |> I keep refreshing this sub and fb for updates but here ' s the latest from my fb newsfeed . What a nice thing to see . A sea of lights . <| sep |> If the team you are in has won grants then the grant will have accounted for your input if you ' re working on it . Well , the thing is that the big thing we ' ve won is for buying a superexpensive piece of equipment , that ' s going to be dedicated to research only which is rare in a hospital . But this grant had only money for the machine , with the understanding that the structure who won it would pay for the personell with other means . And now we need to find money to hire people . One person with medical skills can be hired by the hospital to do full time research . Hiring a full time algorithm guy is harder to justify . We even have troubles keeping some nonphysician life scientists , as we ' ve recently finished at the same time two very huge FP 7 projects . So yeah , I agree that if they need you they should find the money , but if I can help myself everything would be much easier and potentially higher paying . ERC starting grants indeed sound very well for someone in my position set aside for a second the problems with the extreme competitiveness . However , as a physicist it ' s quite hard for me to propose to be a PI for research in a field where the lab leaders are generally physicians and the lab themselves are 40 % physicians , 40 % life scientists , 30 % mathphyseng people . Furthermore my university does not even offer degrees in technical topics , but only life sciences , so forming a math based research lab would be uberdifficult . It ' s not really clear what you want this grant for . Until you ahve worked out exactly what you want the grant to pay for only then can you identify which funding sources you need to target . It sounds like you haven ' t got much experience applying for grants I strongly suggest you go and speak to your university research office . They will be able to guide you . On the basis that it sounds like you ' re looking for relatively small pots to cover consumablesminor equipment then your best bet maybe institutionlevel awards , or national funding agencies rather than European funders . I want the grant for the money , mostly D . I don ' t really care under which pretense . I was trying to see which thing are available , if they are . Then try to see if one is good for me . BTW , indeed I have very little experience with grants . I ' ve helped a lot others writing grants , and I ' m writing an ETN at the moment , but never one for me . It ' s just that , as I ' m writing this ETN , I ' ve seen the huge amount of money that the EU is willing to dump on a single individual in ETN and I ' ve tought what if there ' s something similar for me ? ?