Horizon 2020 Projects

A researcher at University College London has won a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to help fund an investigation into agriculture.

The ERC has awarded €2.2m of funding to an India scientist to help investigate human DNA. The researcher is one of 13 Indians to receive ‘blue sky’ research grants from the EU body.

Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London, have been awarded a €2.43m grant from the European Research Council to help develop the first 3-dimensional human ‘tumour microenvironment’.

Consolidator and Starting Grant applications for early-career researchers to the European Research Council have risen by nearly 50% according to the latest figures from the organisation.

The European Research Council has closed the door on new funding applications under the Seventh Framework Programme and announces possible delays to future grants under Horizon 2020.

The European Research Council has part-funded new research at the Karolinska Institutet near Stockholm, Sweden into amputees’ sensation of experiencing phantom limbs.

A European Research Council Synergy Grants has been awarded to two scientists at Imperial College London to help fund research into an implant used to tackle the causes of obesity in humans.

The secretary general of the European Research Council, Professor Donald Dingwell, has travelled to major cities in India in an attempt to attract new applications from the country ahead of Horizon 2020.

New seasonal deadlines have been announced for Horizon 2020 European Research Council funding, enabling leading scientists in Europe to carry out pioneering high quality new research.

The head of the European Research Council, Helga Nowotny, has repeated her concerns over cuts to the EU’s research budget amid discussions on the Multiannual Financial Framework.

Further political pressure has begun to secure the budget for Horizon 2020 after the head of the ERC said she was frustrated by the European Council’s Horizon 2020 budget.

A group representing top UK universities have spoken out against cuts to EU research funding. The alliance says research “excellence” was being threatened as member states sought to protect other budgets.

The European Research Council has announced the winners of grants worth €150,000 as part of the ‘Proof of Concept’ funding scheme.

An independent committee has begun searching for potential candidates to succeed Professor Helga Nowotny as president of the European Research Council, a position she has held since 2007.

The European Research Council has announced a major round of funding to leading scientists in Europe in which it will award grants to 302 senior research leaders in 24 different countries across Europe.

A milestone grant of €1.8m from the European Research Council will be given to Professor Christian Keysers, making him the 3,000th scientist to be awarded funding by the ERC.