Looking for an interesting traineeship starting March 2025? Join us at the ERC! Recent interns Klara Pelin and Lisa Motzig give you a taste of just one role we offer 👇 ⏰ Application deadline: 30 August 2024 (10:00am CEST) Remember to select the "Directorate of the European Research Council Executive Agency" as your preferred workplace! 👉 More info and application form: traineeships.ec.europa.eu #EUCareers #EUJobs #EUScienceJobs #internship #stage #traineeship #trainee #research #communication #Bluebook EU Careers by EPSO European Commission
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The ERC funds top researchers in Europe, of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at frontiers of knowledge.
About us
Set up in 2007 by the European Union, the European Research Council (ERC) aims to stimulate scientific excellence in Europe by encouraging competition for funding between the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age from anywhere in the world. As part of Horizon Europe, the EU programme for research and innovation for 2021 to 2027, the ERC has a total budget of over €16 billion. The ERC has an 'investigator-driven', 'bottom-up' approach, which allows researchers to identify new opportunities in any field of research (Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities). On the sole basis of excellence, the ERC provides attractive long-term funding to individual top scientists and their teams to pursue ground-breaking research. The funded projects are expected to lead to scientific advances and to set clear and inspirational targets for frontier research across the world. By supporting the brightest minds, the ERC grants help to bring about new and unpredictable scientific and technological discoveries in Europe.
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http://erc.europa.eu/
External link for European Research Council (ERC)
- Industry
- Research Services
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 2007
- Specialties
- Research funding and Frontier research
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Place Charles Rogier
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels 1210, BE
Employees at European Research Council (ERC)
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Inge M. Ruigrok
Strategic Communication Expert | Communication Adviser @ European Research Council | #EffectiveCommunication #PublicDiplomacy #GlobalEngagement | PhD…
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David Kurz
Head of Sector, ERC Executive Agency
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Stephen T.
Strategic Coordinator @ North Adriatic Hydrogen Valley JWG
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Geoffrey Noble
Strategy and Process improvement consultant and trainer
Updates
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What caused the collapse of the diverse and thriving culture of the Bronze Age is one of the consuming questions of archaeology. “It is generally agreed they collapsed in a short space of time, less than 100 years,” explains archaeologist Barry Molloy at University College Dublin. He is investigating metal artefacts, in order to reveal patterns of movement in the Bronze Age. 👉 https://bit.ly/3yGPIiE You can also read this article in Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano & Polski. Just click on the link and then select the language option at the top of the page. #FrontierResearch 📷 ©The Fall_Barry Molloy
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💉 T-cells are used in a common treatment for certain cancers. New research has found a way to enhance their #tumour-targeting success. Sebastian Kobold and his team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München have advanced Adoptive T-cell therapy (ACT) by engineering and gene-editing suppressive molecules to reduce immune suppression in the body. More at 👉 https://bit.ly/3A8SsWj You can also read this article in Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano & Polski. Just click on the link and then select the language option at the top of the page. #Oncology #EUCancerPlan #FrontierResearch
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🍕 In Europe’s cities, food procurement is a social act. Cristina Grasseni at Universiteit Leiden is exploring the impact of #diversity and #culture in #urban #food networks. The goal is to represent the diverse ways citizens engage, highlighting the rich cultural tapestry of urban food practices. 👉 https://bit.ly/3WCoNxw You can also read this article in Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano & Polski. Just click on the link and then select the language option at the top of the page. #FrontierResearch #CulturalAnthropology #Governance Leiden University Press
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Out and about this summer? Make sure you don't forget your power bank! Listen to this #CORDIScovery podcast discussing advancements in a technology we use daily but rarely consider - until we need to charge our phones: batteries. 🔋Juan José Vilatela at IMDEA Materials Institute explores #silicon that stores energy 10x better than graphite, offering huge potential for lithium-ion #batteries by boosting energy density and durability. 👉 🎧 https://bit.ly/3SzNPLy #FrontierResearch #RenewableEnergy #Decarbonisation
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New aerospace and building materials could repair themselves thanks to fungi and bacteria. #FrontierResearch from Kunal Masania at the Delft University of Technology and Anna Sandak at the Univerza na Primorskem.
#EUFunded researchers are using biological matter to create unique new materials that can adapt to their environment and repair themselves. These innovations, made from fungi and bacteria, are paving the way for sustainable solutions in aerospace and construction. Want to learn more about how this groundbreaking research could make our world more sustainable? Read the full article here ➡️ europa.eu/!b4NgYB #ResearchImpactEU #HorizonMagazine
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📣 Are you preparing an application for the 2024 ERC Advanced Grant call? Tune in on Monday, 19 August at 11.00 CEST and we will answer your remaining questions during our webinar. Perhaps you are still uncertain about how to deal with the new lump sum budgeting - or you are having other problems with the application form. We are here to help. 📌 Find here the connection details, the list of questions answered from the last session, and its recording 👉 https://bit.ly/46rGyD9 #ERCAdG #research #funding #grant #application
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Stretched 💎 diamonds for better quantum bits! A common problem when using qubits are high cooling costs. Mete Atatüre has come up with a new technique which works with significantly reduced equipment and expense. Color centers in diamonds can function as qubits, the quantum mechanical analogue of a classical bit, that are used in quantum technologies. His team engineered a way to lay a thin film of diamond over hot glass. As the glass cools, it contracts more slowly than the diamond, stretching the diamond on a molecular level and making it operable at more accesible temperatures. This research at the University of Cambridge eliminated one of the major barriers in quantum computing and opens the door to more widespread use of qubits. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e2SQZQSg #FrontierResearch
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The first-ever polarised light image of #SagittariusA*, the supermassive #BlackHoles at our galaxy's centre. Using the #EventHorizonTelescope a global team captured this groundbreaking image, revealing strong, organised magnetic fields spiralling at the edge of Sgr A*. Luciano Rezzolla, Michael Kramer and Heino Falcke of the #BLACKHOLECAM team helped unveil this image. Many other researchers worldwide, including ERC-funded Anton Zensus's team working on the M2FINDERS project at the Max Planck Institute and Carolina Casadio's SMILE team working at the Institute of Astrophysics, FORTH were also involved in the research. Spoiler alert: the magnetic structure is similar to that of the black hole in the M87 galaxy. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/45QGlJf You can also read this article in Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano & Polski. Just click on the link and then select the language option at the top of the page. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Radboud University Max Planck Society INNOMEM Project #Astronomy #BlackHole #Astrophysics #QuantumPhysics #DarkMatter #Cosmology
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Why do insects circle lights at night? A new study found that it is the unfortunate consequence of a neat trick that evolved over millions of years, but was foiled by artificial lighting. Most insects that fly at night evolved to tilt their backs to wherever is brightest. For millions of years, this was the sky rather than the ground. With artificial lighting, moths found themselves now tilting their backs to streetlamps. This sends them into endless loops around the lamps, trapped by their evolutionary instincts. This study suggests that artificial lighting may not draw flying insects out of the darkness but simply trap those that fly past, like a net. Researchers have long warned that light pollution is a big driving force in the dramatic decline in insect populations. More 👉 https://bit.ly/46jC8y1 #FrontierResearch from Huai-Ti 懷玓 Lin 林 at the Imperial College London.