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President says Italy needs “culture of excellence”
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.
30/10/13 Read more › -
Netherlands in top European research elite
The European Research Council has met in the Dutch city of Utrecht for the first time.
25/10/13 Read more › -
ERC visits Australia and New Zealand
The ERC is visiting Australia and New Zealand as a part of its ‘ERC goes Global’ awareness-raising campaign.
01/10/13 Read more › -
EU funding for top researchers
284 well established senior researchers are set to receive €660m in the latest funding round from the ERC.
27/09/13 Read more › -
ERC to release first new work programmes in 2013
The ERC has released updated information regarding its calls for the first year of the next research and innovation framework programme.
25/09/13 Read more › -
ERC announces ‘blue sky’ grant winners
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.
20/09/13 Read more › -
ERC joins major open access repository
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.
17/09/13 Read more › -
Dalian: “natural platform for the ERC”
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.
12/09/13 Read more › -
Nowotny to address Chinese World Economic Forum
A delegation from the European Research Council, headed by Professor Helga Nowotny, will take part in a major economic conference in China.
11/09/13 Read more › -
ERC develops Chinese relations
The European Research Council is visiting China in order to foster global research relations between Beijing and Brussels.
03/09/13 Read more › -
ERC recognises Alpbach’s contribution
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.
28/08/13 Read more › -
ERC announces review panel members
The European Research Council has announced the members of its Starting Grant panels who will act in the peer review process.
16/08/13 Read more › -
Plastic solar cells: disorder means improvement
Scientists have discovered that disorder at the molecular level of flexible plastic solar cells improves the polymers’ performance.
05/08/13 Read more › -
UL awarded ERC grant to investigate osteoporosis
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.
25/07/13 Read more › -
More women awarded ERC Starting Grants
The number of women receiving European Research Council Starting Grants is now a third, according to the latest statistics.
22/07/13 Read more › -
Early career researchers awarded €400m
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.
22/07/13 Read more › -
ERC awards funding for glycomics study
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.
17/07/13 Read more › -
ERC grant for quantum simulations
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.
11/07/13 Read more › -
ERC meets in Slovakia
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.
18/06/13 Read more › -
EARTIS will bridge the ‘valley of death’
An organisation has been launched to help bring more medical products to market and support the development of the European Research Area.
06/06/13 Read more ›