Horizon 2020 Projects

The ERC is visiting Australia and New Zealand as a part of its ‘ERC goes Global’ awareness-raising campaign.

284 well established senior researchers are set to receive €660m in the latest funding round from the ERC.

The ERC has released updated information regarding its calls for the first year of the next research and innovation framework programme.

The ERC has announced that 33 top researchers will receive up to €150,000 each to bridge the gap between pioneering ‘blue sky’ research and marketable innovation.

The ERC has announced that it has joined an international partnership supporting arXiv, one of the major scientific repositories in the areas of physics and mathematics.

Professor Helga Nowotny, has described the ‘Summer Davos’ in China as a “golden opportunity” for the European research funding body to increase co-operation with other international partners and raise its profile.

A delegation from the European Research Council, headed by Professor Helga Nowotny, will take part in a major economic conference in China.

The European Research Council is visiting China in order to foster global research relations between Beijing and Brussels.

Professor Helga Nowotny has recognised the Alpbach Technology Forum as a key engine for research and encouraging growth and innovation. Pioneering fundees receiving grants from the ERC participated at the conference.

The European Research Council has announced the members of its Starting Grant panels who will act in the peer review process.

Scientists have discovered that disorder at the molecular level of flexible plastic solar cells improves the polymers’ performance.

A researcher from the University of Limerick has one of the ERC’s prestigious Starting Grants. Dr David Hoey was awarded €1.5m to pursue research into developing treatments for bone-loss diseases.

The number of women receiving European Research Council Starting Grants is now a third, according to the latest statistics.

The European Research Council has selected 287 top scientists in its sixth Starting Grant competition, the last one to fall under the Seventh Framework Programme.

The Slovak Academy of Sciences have been awarded funding by the ERC to continue their research into the combination of glycomics with biochip sensors based on nanoparticles and nanotubes.

A researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, has been awarded funding from the European Research Council to support his work on quantum simulations with ultracold atoms and ions.

The European Research Council is meeting in Bratislava for a second day of talks to agree the ERC’s work programme for 2014, as part of Horizons 2020.

A professor at the University of Cyprus has secured a major funding boost from the European Research Council’s Advanced Grants funding scheme. The money will be used to investigate the European labour market.

Professor Donald Dingwell, the secretary general of the European Research Council, has told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that the country is in an excellent position to apply for more European funding.

ERC-funded Austrian researcher Peter Zoller and Spanish physicist Juan Ignacio Cirac have won the prestigious Wolf Prize in physics in recognition of their work in quantum physics.