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ERC Synergy Grant 2021

34 projects were funded under the ERC Synergy Grant in 2021, 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES · ES

  • Integration of the Biochemical and Mechanical Networks of Cell Division

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €10,613,236

  • 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

  • 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

  • Entropy in engineered quantum systems - Mesoscopic thermodynamics of correlated quantum states

    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €13,476,506

  • Quantify disturbance impacts on feedbacks between Arctic permafrost and global climate

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €9,979,335

  • Analysis of the T cell’s Tactical Arsenal for Cancer Killing

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €9,999,017

  • 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

  • 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

  • Atmospheric WAter Cycle over Antarctica: Past, Present and Future

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

  • Microglia Control of Physiological Brain States

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €10,000,000

  • GENIE: GeoEngineering and NegatIve Emissions pathways in Europe

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory

    GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET · SE · €9,759,609

  • Single Molecular Devices by Atomic Manipulation

    IBM RESEARCH GMBH · CH · €9,068,885

  • Population Codes for Space in the Mammalian Cortex

    NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · NO · €9,976,875

  • Activity-Based Profiling of Glycoprocessing Enzymes for Human Health and a Sustainable Society

    UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL · €9,057,250

  • The ultimate Time scale in Organic Molecular opto-electronics, the ATTOsecond

    FUNDACION IMDEA NANOCIENCIA · ES · €11,726,141

  • MOmentum and position REsolved mapping Transmission Electron energy loss Microscope

    UNIVERSITAT WIEN · AT · €13,999,105

  • Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind

    GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZENTREN BERLIN EV · DE · €10,237,750

  • 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

  • Smart Water Futures: designing the next generation of urban drinking water systems

    UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY · €9,982,320

  • Plasmodesmata, Symplasmic pores for plant cell-to-cell communication

    HEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORF · DE · €10,582,000

  • Artificial Motor Proteins: toward a designed, autonomous protein motor built from non-motor parts

    LUNDS UNIVERSITET · SE · €9,999,892

  • Disruptive Modes and Materials of Energy Storage

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE

  • Nano bubbles: how, when and why does science fail to correct itself?

    UNIVERSITE PARIS 13 · FR · €8,325,461

  • Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification

    UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN · NO · €9,900,025

  • Highly Informative Drug Screening by Overcoming NMR Restrictions

    ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE · FR · €13,992,719

  • 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

  • Do liquid crystal-like phases of proteins organize membrane compartments?

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €11,237,500

  • Understanding and predicting PATHOgen COMmunities

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €9,945,744

  • Structure and functions of the brain extracellular space

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

  • Unraveling the complexity of fungal drug tolerance at multiple scales of biology

    TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €9,690,918