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ERC Synergy Grant 2025

66 projects were funded under the ERC Synergy Grant in 2025, across 17 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS5
  • THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE4
  • UNIVERSITETET I OSLO3
  • KING'S COLLEGE LONDON2
  • KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET2
  • MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV2
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT2
  • UNIVERSITY OF YORK2

Funded projects

  • Personalized molecular reprogramming of the tumor immune microenvironment and engineered adoptive cell transfer in synergy with ion-beam radiotherapy for next-generation curative cancer treatments

    UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM HEIDELBERG · DE · €13,999,999

  • Planetary Anthropology and Interspecies Nurture: A Political Ontology of Human-Eel Relations.

    ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · IT · €11,082,605

  • JOINING UNIQUE STRATEGIES TOGETHER FOR INTERROGATIVE COERCION ELIMINATION

    THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE · €10,403,515

  • the ethics of AI enabled synthetic DNA

    UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €5,859,854

  • Land and life in the Anthropocene: Landscape reform

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM · NL · €8,333,333

  • The role of Turbulence in the Physics of Clouds

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €13,685,754

  • Fire safety in space exploration

    CENTRALE LILLE INSTITUT · FR · €13,774,718

  • Capturing and cONtrolling coniCal intErsections in Real Time

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €9,998,941

  • Modulation of Liver Metabolism/Inflammation at Different Disease Stages by Leveraging ADAR-based RNA Editing

    EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · DE · €9,969,748

  • Innovative New Strategies in Generating High-impact Chemical Transformations

    UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG · DE · €9,984,944

  • Genome control by DNA-looping motors: from folding to function

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €10,000,000

  • Harmonic Analysis with Lean Formalization

    RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN · DE · €6,443,439

  • Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery (CARAMEL)

    UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA · ES · €9,949,929

  • The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Europe

    KING'S COLLEGE LONDON · GB · €9,999,323.81

  • Mitochondrial Contact Site Functional Diversity Revealed by Molecular Memory, Smart Microscopy, and Correlative Cryo-EM Tomography

    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €12,278,709

  • Magnetically enhanced electrocatalysis

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · ES · €12,417,798

  • Real-time endoscopic diagnosis and therapy of gastrointestinal tumors through multimode nonlinear fibers

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · IT · €6,396,343

  • Unlocking the neurovascular interface of peripheral nerves in homeostasis, disease and repair

    OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE SRL · IT · €10,000,000

  • When and where do we reach the limits of adaptation to riverine flood risk?

    GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG · DE · €9,997,114

  • On the Degradability of Protein Aggregates by Autophagy

    UNIVERSITAT WIEN · AT · €9,980,111

  • Zee-Zoom-Zap: a new paradigm for cancer theranostics

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €10,000,000

  • THREE STOP CODONS TO GET OVER TO FLOURISH

    MIKROBIOLOGICKY USTAV AV CR V.V.I · CZ · €9,755,098

  • GENomes Evolve in a Landscape of TEs

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €9,998,525

  • Beyond Modification: Defining Hidden Roles of snoRNPs in Ribosome Assembly

    UNIVERSITAET GRAZ · AT · €9,993,362

  • Digital RF Power - Time-Domain-RF-Power Signal Generation

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €9,993,525

  • Co-evolutionary dynamics of viral pathogens and human antibody response

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €9,999,997

  • Translational Control by Molecular Chaperones: The Unexplored Mechanisms Coordinating Protein Synthesis and Proteostasis in Health and Genetic Reprogramming

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €10,828,378

  • Ecological Archaeologies of the Afrotropics

    UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €12,089,947

  • Northern Peatlands in the face of climate warming and abrupt changes

    STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET · SE · €12,562,113

  • Verification of Probabilistic Security Systems

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €7,944,004

  • DNA for Reconfigurable Nano-Opto-Mechanical Systems

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €9,033,975

  • AdaptAIR: Climate Adaptation through Artificial Ice Reservoirs (AIRs) in the Himalayas

    KING'S COLLEGE LONDON · GB · €9,999,443

  • Fostering Learning and Adaptation through Predictability

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT · €3,977,438

  • Popular Government in Global Perspective: History, Principles, Institutions, and Experimentations

    UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN · BE · €9,258,028

  • Accelerating SUStainable TECHnological trajectories with computational chemistry and machine learning

    UNIVERSITA DI PISA · IT · €9,761,394

  • Hydrothermal iron from the earth’s interior as fertiliser of photosynthesis in the ocean

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €13,567,192

  • Red teaming the H0 Tension

    UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA · ES · €12,041,153

  • Laboratory Underground for Nuclear Astrophysics New Observatory for Solar Neutrino Reactions

    HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV · DE · €13,989,810

  • Party Systems and Social Cleavages in the Post-Ottoman Space of the MENA Region

    SOCIOLOGICKY USTAV AV CR V.V.I. · CZ · €9,846,714

  • Deciphering the role of adipose tissue in cardiac health and disease: ADIPOhealth

    FUNDACION SECTOR PUBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACIONAL INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS CARLOS III · ES · €10,176,526

  • Rebuilding interphase nuclei into mitotic chromosomes

    UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · CH · €10,137,286

  • CenAGE, a 'Centromeric' view on AGEing: unveiling centromere instability in ageing

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €9,968,201

  • Cell-mediated sculptable living platforms as highly efficient hybrid units to bioengineer human microtissues

    UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO · PT · €9,999,343

  • LUMES LUng cancer Metastasis Evolutionary Studies

    KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €11,542,341

  • Integrating the physics and social-psychology of crowd movement

    FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH · DE · €9,379,839.75

  • The biology of innate behaviour

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €9,983,139

  • Spatially patterned organoids: regionalization, cell fate and lamination in cortical development and neuronal migration disorders

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €9,202,804

  • Tracing and harnessing the ancestry of RNA-guided nucleases

    FOUNDATION IMMUNE ENGINEERING FOR GLOBAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH · CH · €10,717,446

  • Connected Communities in early medieval Europe

    UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL · €11,194,464

  • Waves, Physics, Information, and Computation

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN · DE · €9,864,001

  • Ultimative Photovoltaics

    ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG · DE · €9,985,893

  • Universal Equation for Non Equilibrium Correlations in Interacting Particle Systems

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €8,062,008

  • Greenland’s Melting Firn and Ice Sheet Response

    Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland · DK · €13,007,197

  • Generative machine learning for combined process control and materials design

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €9,314,934

  • Politcal Parties in Africa and Democracy

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GB · €9,957,415

  • Imaging the Dynamics of Electrons with Attosecond and Angstrom resolution

    DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY · DE · €13,975,000

  • Probe of the first microseconds of the Universe with cosmological magnetic fields

    UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE · FR · €9,962,434.23

  • Photon-based scalable quantum information science

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €11,490,257

  • Probing the non-perturbative regime of Quantum Electrodynamics with extreme light

    COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR · €13,937,624.75

  • Current and future shifts of snow regimes in extreme environments

    UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €9,999,956

  • Investigating alternative trajectories for human demographic growth in temperate northern Holocene societies

    UNIVERSITY OF YORK · GB · €10,496,252

  • The Life Cycle of a Memory Trace: a New Understanding of Learning and Memory from Circuits to Synapses and Molecules

    HUN-REN Kiserleti Orvostudomanyi Kutatointezet · HU · €9,782,317

  • The Causes of the Global Increase in Early Onset Colorectal Cancer

    CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SUR LE CANCER · FR · €10,396,565

  • East African Mountain social ecological dynamics (AFRI-CAN)

    UNIVERSITY OF YORK · GB · €9,988,220

  • Robustness and plasticity of epithelial architectures

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €8,480,623

  • Florian Luca

    On Erdős’ last equation

    Stellenbosch University · ZA