Horizon 2020 Projects

The final day of the 2014 annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has opened in Chicago, USA.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of the latest competition for its top-up funding, ‘Proof of Concept’.

An Oxford University professor is using an ERC Advanced Grant to explore the processes that underpin social relationships to discover whether the mechanisms involved in social cohesion can be extended to modern urbanised societies.

Scientists at Imperial College London have developed an ‘intelligent knife’ that can tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not.

Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés has been appointed the new vice-president of the European Research Council.

Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo has applauded the European Research Council for its landmark role in science and innovation in Europe.

The European Research Council has selected 312 top scientists in its first Consolidator Grant competition.

The European Research Council will attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland for the second time.

The European Commission has appointed three new members to the governing body of the European Research Council.

The European Research Council has awarded its first Consolidator Grant to Professor Özgür Bariş Akan of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Koç University, Turkey.

LERU has congratulated Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon on his appointment as the new president of the European Research Council

The European Research Council has announced the winners of 13 Synergy Grants, who will share a total of €150m.

The European Commission has appointed Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon as the next President of the European Research Council.

A total budget of €1.7bn has been announced by the European Commission to support projects selected by the ERC in 2014 under Horizon 2020.

The publication dates, deadlines, and budgets for the 2014 ERC draft work programmes have been finalised.

The president of the European Research Council, Professor Helga Nowotny, has welcomed the European Parliament’s approval of Horizon 2020.

The first grants from the European Research Council under Horizon 2020 have been announced.

A new initiative has been launched to boost opportunities for early-career Korean scientists to come to Europe to join the research teams of European Research Council grantees.

The president of the European Research Council, Professor Helga Nowotny, has visited Italy and called for the country to focus on developing the country’s attractiveness for scientists.

The European Research Council has met in the Dutch city of Utrecht for the first time.