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ERC Synergy Grant 2020

37 projects were funded under the ERC Synergy Grant in 2020, across 15 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH2
  • INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE2
  • AARHUS UNIVERSITET1
  • CHARITE - UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN1
  • COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES1
  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET1
  • DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV1
  • ECOLE D'ECONOMIE DE PARIS1

Funded projects

  • DEEP PURPLE: darkening of the Greenland Ice Sheet

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €11,007,344

  • Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics

    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · UK · €9,998,875

  • Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts

    ECOLE D'ECONOMIE DE PARIS · FR · €9,813,903

  • Understanding our Galactic ecosystem: From the disk of the Milky Way to the formation sites of stars and planets

    COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR

  • Controlling epileptic brain networks with computationally optimized weak electric fields

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €9,998,177

  • Using cell-cell interactions to unlock new cancer treatments: Forcing neural crest tumors back onto the developmental path

    MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · AT · €9,377,151

  • Lipid droplet hypertrophy : the link between adipocyte dysfunction and cardiometabolic diseases

    UNIVERSITE DE TOULOUSE · FR · €9,741,774

  • ASsembly and phase Transitions of Ribonucleoprotein Aggregates in neurons: from physiology to pathology.

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · IT · €7,741,799

  • Thorium nuclear clocks for fundamental tests of physics

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · AT · €13,789,990

  • Redesigning the Photosynthetic Light Reactions

    LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €7,496,829

  • Cosmological Visionaries: Shamans, Scientists, and Climate Change at the Ethnic Borderlands of China and Russia

    KING'S COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €6,458,201

  • Quantum hyperpolarisation for ultrasensitive nuclear magnetic resonance and imaging

    UNIVERSITAET ULM · DE · €9,374,860

  • Integrating genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives on Eastern Central Europe, 400-900 CE

    OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN · AT · €9,996,574

  • Dna Damage REsponse: Actionabilities, Maps and Mechanisms

    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €8,865,965

  • A Planetary Inventory of Life – a New Synthesis Built on Big Data Combined with Novel Statistical Methods

    JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO · FI · €12,620,310

  • Quantifying the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity

    THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER · UK · €11,750,827

  • Methane and Ammonium Removal In redoX transition zones

    STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NL · €7,610,000

  • Ultrafast dynamics of correlated electrons in solids

    UPPSALA UNIVERSITET · SE · €7,746,125

  • Probing the deep Earth's interior by synergistic use of observations of the magnetic and gravity fields, and of the rotation of the Earth.

    KONINKLIJKE STERRENWACHT VAN BELGIE · BE · €4,595,074

  • How body relevance drives brain organization

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €8,309,114

  • Claustrum function in cortical processing and putative claustral dysfunction in schizophrenia

    UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE · CH · €5,000,000

  • Molecular origins of aneuploidies in healthy and diseased human tissues

    RUDER BOSKOVIC INSTITUTE · HR · €9,999,750

  • Ubiquitin Chains in Viral Infections

    FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FONDATION · CH · €7,649,848

  • Fault Activation and Earthquake Rupture

    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €13,797,250

  • Foundations of nonlocal and nonabelian condensed-matter systems

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €9,975,273

  • Systems biology of the individual stochastic timer of aging

    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €8,687,500

  • Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials

    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · UK · €9,999,283

  • Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning

    DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV · DE · €9,847,988

  • Monitoring Earth Evolution Through Time

    UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES · FR · €12,805,031

  • Modern Aspects of Geometry: Categories, Cycles and Cohomology of Hyperkähler Varieties

    RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN · DE · €8,529,641

  • Structure and Cellular Dynamics of the Sarcomere

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €10,936,440

  • urbisphere - coupling dynamic cities and climate

    IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS · EL · €12,720,904

  • Gender and Health Inequalities : from embodiment to health care cascade

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €9,974,447

  • 3-D Super resolution Ultrasound Real time imaging of Erythrocytes

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €9,980,899

  • Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good

    CHARITE - UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN · DE

  • Three-dimensional magnetization textures: Discovery and control on the nanoscale

    FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH · DE · €11,880,356

  • Unravelling the secrets of Cu-based catalysts for C-H activation

    UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €9,885,988