The preliminary statistics on submitted proposals for the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants for 2016 show that the Number of applicants increased 12% comparing with the previous Consolidator Grant call. The highest number of applications was submitted in the domain of Physical Sciences and Engineering (1075), followed by Life Sciences (713), and Social Science and Humanities (516). The ERC Work Programme has earmarked €605 million for an estimated number of 335 Consolidator Grants in 2016.
Source: https://erc.europa.eu/