The European Commission has today appointed Professor Torsten Persson, a distinguished economist, as new member of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council. Current member Professor Gerd Gigerenzer has been…

The ERC announced the winners of the Synergy Grants 2023 call on 26 October 2023. Thirty-seven projects have been selected for funding. Here are four examples. 

Is it possible to mitigate the risk of surprise volcanic disasters? Do bats hold the secret of health and longevity? Can speech analysis predict and prevent mental psychotic episodes? And how do plants sense water and can this help us design climate…

The closing dates of the Starting and Synergy Grants calls have been postponed due to the situation in the Middle East.

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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, both funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

20th anniversary of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IT), Genua, Italy

Heino Falcke from Radboud University Nijmegen and Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn has won the 2023 Balzan Prize for “being the first to envision imaging the immediate surroundings of a black hole, and for his leadership of the Event…

On behalf of the ERC Scientific Council, I welcome the good news about the agreement in principle on the association of the UK to the EU research and innovation programme Horizon Europe.This decision represents a long-awaited signal for renewed…

The 2023 Starting Grants will help 400 researchers from 24 countries to set up their own teams and conduct research on the topics of their choice. To illustrate the variety of supported science, we selected five examples of projects proposed by…