Press Release: Top early-career researchers to receive €800 million in EU funding

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the selection of 536 early-career top researchers for funding totalling almost €800 million. 'ERC Starting Grants' of up to €2 million per project will enable the most promising scientists to develop ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. It will also allow them to build their own research teams with more than 3,000 postdocs and PhD students, thereby supporting a new generation of top scientists in Europe.

In its biggest grant award ever, the ERC will support researchers of 41 nationalities across 21 European countries. Projects selected cover a wide range of topics, from the social impacts of trans-Mediterranean renewable energy cooperation, to laser-based hearing aids and optical remote sensing technology for civil engineering works.