ERC Synergy Grant 2020
34 projects were funded under the ERC Synergy Grant in 2020, across 14 countries.
Most-funded institutions
- MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV5
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS4
- ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE2
- AARHUS UNIVERSITET1
- AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS1
- CENTRUM ASTRONOMICZNE IM. MIKOLAJA KOPERNIKA POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK1
- ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE1
- EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH1
Funded projects
Material Minds: Exploring the Interactions between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artifacts, and Embodied Visual Search
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €10,279,971
Activity-Based Profiling of Glycoprocessing Enzymes for Human Health and a Sustainable Society
UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL · €9,057,250
Atmospheric WAter Cycle over Antarctica: Past, Present and Future
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €13,967,282.50
Do liquid crystal-like phases of proteins organize membrane compartments?
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €11,237,500
In-situ spatiotemporal imaging of membrane hydration, electrostatics, tension and curvature to understand cell response to osmotic shocks and cell migration.
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €4,947,465
GENIE: GeoEngineering and NegatIve Emissions pathways in Europe
AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €9,187,901.75
Single Molecular Devices by Atomic Manipulation
IBM RESEARCH GMBH · CH · €9,068,885
Entropy in engineered quantum systems - Mesoscopic thermodynamics of correlated quantum states
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €13,476,506
MOmentum and position REsolved mapping Transmission Electron energy loss Microscope
UNIVERSITAT WIEN · AT · €13,999,105
From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory
GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET · SE · €9,759,609
Integration of the Biochemical and Mechanical Networks of Cell Division
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €10,613,236
Switchable rhodOpsins in Life Sciences
PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT · CH · €7,971,388.75
Structure and functions of the brain extracellular space
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €9,992,472.50
A background-free experiment to discover the nature of neutrinos based on single Barium Atom Light Detection
FUNDACION DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER · ES · €9,373,587
Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions
FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES · ES · €13,121,676.86
Plasmodesmata, Symplasmic pores for plant cell-to-cell communication
HEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORF · DE · €10,582,000
Disruptive Modes and Materials of Energy Storage
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €5,748,695.99
Population Codes for Space in the Mammalian Cortex
NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · NO · €9,976,875
Artificial Motor Proteins: toward a designed, autonomous protein motor built from non-motor parts
LUNDS UNIVERSITET · SE · €9,999,892
Decoding the organization and regeneration of locomotor neuronal networks in tetrapods by integrating genomics, systems neuroscience, numerical modeling, and biorobotics
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €9,559,650
The ultimate Time scale in Organic Molecular opto-electronics, the ATTOsecond
FUNDACION IMDEA NANOCIENCIA · ES · €11,726,141
Beyond super-resolution: ultra-resolution imaging provides solutions for synapse physiology and brain pathology
UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN GOETTINGEN - GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAET GOETTINGEN - STIFTUNG OEFFENTLICHEN RECHTS · DE · €11,100,221
Microglia Control of Physiological Brain States
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €10,000,000
Nano bubbles: how, when and why does science fail to correct itself?
UNIVERSITE PARIS 13 · FR · €8,325,461
Smart Water Futures: designing the next generation of urban drinking water systems
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY · €9,982,320
Reverse engineering the assembly of the hippocampal scaffold with novel optical and transgenic strategies
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €9,091,074
Highly Informative Drug Screening by Overcoming NMR Restrictions
ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE · FR · €13,992,719
Analysis of the T cell’s Tactical Arsenal for Cancer Killing
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €9,999,017
Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers & Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE to c.1860 CE
THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE · €10,465,382
Understanding and predicting PATHOgen COMmunities
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €9,945,744
Sub-percent calibration of the extragalactic distance scale in the era of big surveys
CENTRUM ASTRONOMICZNE IM. MIKOLAJA KOPERNIKA POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK · PL · €13,997,076
Quantify disturbance impacts on feedbacks between Arctic permafrost and global climate
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €9,979,335
Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification
UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN · NO · €9,900,025
Unraveling the complexity of fungal drug tolerance at multiple scales of biology
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €9,690,918