On this occasion, Giorgio Parisi, who jointly won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, commented: “The ERC is extremely important in the whole of Europe: it supports basic research that is the basis of future applications. In my case, most of the support in the last ten years came from the ERC.”

Benjamin List was jointly awarded the Chemistry Prize and said: “To gain momentum, every good idea in science needs freedom and confidence. With its trust in my research and its generous funding, the ERC has been an incredible help to ignite the spark of Asymmetric Organocatalysis.”

The laureates first receive their medals in their home countries, after which these events are woven together on 10 December with a Prize Award ceremony in Stockholm, with a local audience present.

See online programme below.

Nobel Prize ceremonies:

6 December 
Rome, Italy - Sapienza University 
18.00 CET: Prize Ceremony for laureate Giorgio Parisi with Ambassador Jan Björklund.
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7 December 
Berlin, Germany - Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 
14.00 CET: Nobel Symposium: interviews with two Nobel laureates including Benjamin List (in German). Interviewer: Ranga Yogeshwar
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18.00 CET:  Prize Ceremony for two laureates including  Benjamin List with Ambassador Per Thöresson.
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10 December
16:30 CET: Nobel Prize award ceremony
Watch the award ceremony from the Blue Hall at the Stockholm City Hall in Sweden.
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Nobel Prize lectures:

8 December
from 9:00 CET: Nobel Prize lectures in physics
Syukuro Manabe: Physical Modelling of Earth’s Climate
Klaus Hasselmann: The Human Footprint of Climate Change
Giorgio Parisi: Multiple equilibria
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11:00 CET: Nobel Prize lectures in chemistry
Benjamin List: Asymmetric Organocatalysis
David W.C. MacMillan: Asymmetric Organocatalysis: Democratizing Catalysis For a Sustainable World
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The 2021 laureates follow that of seven other ERC grantees who won a Nobel Prize:

 9 December
13:00-17:00 CET: Nobel Week Dialogue - “The City of the Future”
16:40 - 17:30 CET
ERC grantee and 2012 Nobel Laureate Serge Haroche is interviewed on creativity and takes part in a session on smart cities. ERC Grantee Juleen Zierath from the Nobel Assembly is moderating”
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11 December
10:00–12:00 CET: Nobel Peace Prize Forum – The Food Effect
This year's forum will feature keynote speeches on the fight for food security and a sustainable future, including by ERC grantee Johan Rockström.
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The 2021 laureates follow that of seven other ERC grantees:

• Prof. Konstantin Novoselov was the first ERC grantee to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene. He held a Starting Grant and in 2010 was amongst the youngest Nobel prize winners in history.
• Prof. Serge Haroche, ERC Advanced Grant holder, was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
• Professors Edvard I. Moser and May-Britt Moser, both ERC Advanced Grant holders, received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
• Prof. Jean Tirole, ERC Advanced Grant holder, received the 2014 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work on examining competition, analysing how large companies should be regulated to prevent monopoly behaviour and protect consumers.
• Prof. Bernard Feringa, ERC Advanced Grant holder, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
• Prof Peter J. Ratcliffe, ERC Advanced Grant holder, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”

In addition, the ERC has funded several researchers who were already Nobel Prize laureates when they won their ERC grants.