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Профиль VivelyEuropean Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Meet Adrian M. Ionescu, Ambassador for the ERC from Switzerland 🇨🇭 ! At EPFL, he rethinks the building blocks of computing, developing nanoelectronic devices and technologies designed to make computing systems more energy efficient. 🔗 bit.ly/4eAoICf #Amb4ERC
What helps friendships form and thrive? This International Day of Friendship, discover how ERC grantee Antonia Hamilton @ucl.ac.uk is investigating the science of #friendship and how curiosity-driven research could help tackle loneliness. 🔗 buff.ly/5tNYptB @antoniahamilton.bsky.social
Deadline reminder ⏰ Just a few weeks left to submit your ERC Advanced Grant application! 📅 Application deadline: 27 August 2026 Find all the details and apply 👉 buff.ly/zvQYMhg
Heading to the coast this summer? 🌊 André Colonese @uab.cat suggests that Indigenous knowledge and centuries-old fishing traditions could help shape more sustainable fisheries policies today. Read more 🔗 bit.ly/3TmMjQ1
What drives human behaviour in the most complex and challenging situations? Emilie Caspar of Ghent University is investigating how empathy, guilt, social influence and obedience shape moral and immoral decision-making: buff.ly/OxuHkSa @emiliecaspar.bsky.social
10,000 YouTube subscribers - thank you! The ERC YouTube channel is your place for practical guidance on ERC grants, proposal writing and evaluation, insights from grantees, webinars and stories from frontier research across disciplines. 📺 👉 t.co/Lu2T5NU07O
🟠 Now open: ERC Starting Grant 2027 call for proposals! 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Oct 2026 📄 Call details: link.europa.eu/RwNMpX Planning to apply? Let our ERC Classes videos guide you through the application evaluation process. 👉 t.co/qGPy7Y8UhS #ERCStG #FrontierResearch @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
Interested in a traineeship at the European Research Council? 📢 Applications are now open for the European Commission's Blue Book Traineeship! 📆 Apply by 28 August 2026, 10:00 a.m. (Brussels time) More info: link.europa.eu/YNDggC
The ERC Work Programme 2027 has been adopted. Planning to apply for an ERC grant? The first call, Starting Grants, opens on 22 July. Find out more 👉 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
New ERC Work Programme sets out 2027 funding opportunitiesThe European Commission has today adopted the European Research Council (ERC) Work Programme 2027, setting out the funding opportunities, grant budgets, competition timetable and application rules for...erc.europa.euEU Gender Equality Champions Award Who can apply? Universities and research performing organisations in EU Member States, Horizon Europe Associated Countries, as well as EU candidate countries.
EU Science, Research & Innovation🎓🧪 Are you our next #GenderEquality champion in research and innovation? Apply by 29 Sept 2026 to win our EU Gender Equality Champions Award. You can make a difference in academic & research organisations See how to apply & what prize awaits you: 👉https://link.europa.eu/pmhM77
This week, we explored one thread of #FrontierResearch: who asks the questions, who owns the data, who benefits? Catch up with the #ERCMagazine issue on equity and trust in global science 👉 buff.ly/lvib6Uz #ResearchEquity #OpenScience @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
In some contexts, talking about your research topic is already seen as a political act. Marta Bucholc of the University of Warsaw on navigating equity, ethics and polarisation in research on human rights and abortion - in the latest #ERCMagazine 👉 buff.ly/oDpPHmK
On this International Day of Criminal Justice, Mojca M. Plesničar, Ambassador for the ERC for Slovenia 🇸🇮, shares a common misconception people have about criminal behaviour. 🔗 Learn more about @mplesnicar.bsky.social's research 👉 bit.ly/4gucCeM #Amb4ERC #JusticeMatters
'If we already have so many rules, what will it actually take to inspire people to act ethically?' Pamela Andanda of the University of the Witwatersrand on values, ethics dumping and the TRUST Code, in the latest #ERCMagazine 👉 link.europa.eu/fc4yjK #TRUSTCode #ResearchEthics #ResearchEquity
Written codes changed science. But unwritten rules still shape who gets fully included, writes historian Joris Vandendriessche in the latest #ERCMagazine. From the 1992 Baltimore Charter to the TRUST Code 🔭 👉 link.europa.eu/4hyHCv @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu #SpaceTelescope @stsci.edu
Who gets to use the world's largest telescopes? Who decides the rules? ERC grantee Marijke Haverkorn of Radboud University, and science diplomat Daan du Toit on trust, access and equity in mega-science 🔭 in the latest #ERCMagazine. 👉 link.europa.eu/jkMFhQ @marijkehaverkorn.bsky.social
Bonne fête du 14 juillet à toute la France! 🇫🇷 Celebrating France’s frontier research with Mathilde Touvier, winner of the 2024 ERC Public Engagement with Research Award, whose work is helping bring nutrition science closer to the public. Learn more 👉 link.europa.eu/YjmV3C @inserm.fr #ERCengage
'Excellence and equity are not competing ambitions -they reinforce one another' Harriet Bulkeley and Liselotte Højgaard's editorial on why fairness and trust are foundations of excellent science, not extras, in the latest #ERCMagazine. 👉 t.co/SZSrlvndih @harrietbulkeley.bsky.social