European Research Council (ERC @ERC_Research@respublicae.eu

🏝️ Islands are particularly vulnerable to the decline of biodiversity.

On #BiodiversityDay we look at a new ERC funded project from @AnnaTraveset who aims to explore their valuable and unique ecosystems.

👉 http://bit.ly/ISLANDLIFE

#ForNature @EU_ENV @UNBiodiversity @CSIC

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1528292087036186627

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting @Davos starts on 22/5.
Important to bring the latest scientific insights to the debate! ERC President @MLeptin & ERC grantees @jRockstrom, Jeremy O'Brien, @MartinVetterli take part.
Find out more:
https://erc.europa.eu/event/erc-world-economic-forums-annual-meeting-2022-davos
#wef22
#EUatDavos

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527639938698776578

It's 10:30 Saturday and you just woke up? Don't worry, sleeping 💤 can be good for your mental health!

ERC grantees @unibern identified how the brain processes emotions during dreams and how it could help the treatment of PTSD.

Find out more 👉 https://bit.ly/3wFdHd5

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527929701301248001

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting @Davos starts on 22/5.
Important to bring the latest scientific insights to the debate! ERC President @MLeptin & ERC grantees @jRockstrom, Jeremy O'Brien, @MartinVetterli take part.
Find out more:
https://erc.europa.eu/event/erc-world-economic-forums-annual-meeting-2022-davos
#wef22
#EUatDavos

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527639938698776578

Happy 20th anniversary to LERU - a huge supporter of frontier research! Thank you @LERUnews & @KurtDeketelaere.

On this occasion, ERC President @mLeptin was interviewed - the heading describes the ERC as “ruthlessly bottom up”.👇
https://www.leru.org/news/the-erc-independent-excellent-and-ruthlessly-bottom-up
RT @LERUnews: Honoured to have Prof. @mleptin, President @ERC_Research, with us this afternoon. As she said before, LERU i…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527616907028873216

Have a listen - podcast with 2021 physics #NobelPrize winner Giorgio Parisi! 👇
#ERCfunded
RT @NobelPrize: With a curiosity that can be compared to a child’s, physics laureate Giorgio Parisi tells us about how he started to read numbers at the age of 3.

We had the pleasure of chatting with him, listen to our podcast episode with the 2021 physics laureate: https://shows.acast.com/nobelprizeconversations/episodes/giorgio-parisi-no…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527390329762107394

RT @CarelStolker: ERC-President Maria Leptin @mleptin is our final speaker of today. Great and entertaining talk!

What I also liked is the attention she paid to the humanities and the legal disciplines and their rightful place in the @ERC_Research.
#20yearsLERU @UniLeiden

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527351448232611844

Are predators keeping the world green? How does colour influence the arts and literature? Are we closer to treating childhood leukaemia?
Learn more from 2021 ERC research highlights 👉 https://bit.ly/3yOD6nk

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527270871886348293

Which organisations host the most ERC grantees? ⭐️
Have a look at the list of top 30👇

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527269182517149697

Almost 9/10 grantees were already residents in the country of their Host Institution at the time they applied for a grant. Almost 3% of grantees came from other countries.

More details 👉 https://bit.ly/3a4dw3f

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527267880588431366

Researchers from UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Israel have consistently performed well across most ERC evaluation panels.
11 countries host currently at least one grant from each panel. 🌍

More details 👉 https://bit.ly/3a4dw3f

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527267711457296385

There was a positive upward trend in the share of both female ERC applicants and ERC grantees during the @EU_Commission’s R&I funding programme from 2014 to 2020, #Horizon2020

More details 👉 https://bit.ly/3a4dw3f

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527267413716353026

Ever wondered what is the median age of an ERC applicant? Here is the answer 👇

More details 👉 https://bit.ly/3a4dw3f

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527267161735045121

The ERC’s 2021 Annual Report is out.

A year in review and a gold mine of information about ERC grant competitions and funded research.
👉 https://bit.ly/ANNUALREPORT_2021

Below is a thread with highlights 👇

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527266748990476288

🌌 Black holes (@BlackHoleCam),
〰️ Earthquake detection (@BleteryQ ),
🇪🇺 Europe's nature governance (@EUnaturelawsUCD ),
⚡ Cooperation in conflicts (@ckwdedreu)

Check the latest results and publications of ERC-funded projects 👉 https://bit.ly/3tdjre4

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527223797660545024

What if, in the not-too-distant future, robots could help elderly people live independently for longer? Seems unrealistic? Maybe not! 🤖

Some EU-funded research sees robots as a useful solution to tackle issues related to the ageing European population👉 https://bit.ly/37RzkxS

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1527187225351315456

ERC grantee @anna_coclite from @tugraz developed a "smart skin" for #robotics and machines. It can detect information even more sensitively than human fingertips can. 🖐

Learn more at @ScienceDaily 👉 https://bit.ly/3Nnuw35

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1526919211661938689

An ERC-funded 🇪🇺 research found a way to get medication past the hard-to-cross blood-#brain barrier. 🧠
This research is paving the way for the treatment of central nervous system diseases. 💡

More details 👉 https://bit.ly/37RVvEO

@CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1526865186765672449

Seeking for a new job opportunity in the research world ? 🔬

Have a look at our Twitter Moment gathering the vacancies in ERC-funded projects 👉 http://bit.ly/3vET7Zz

#jobsearch #innovation #research #EUfunded #careers

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1526821998160056321

Is your research project funded by the ERC?

Does it include aspects of #CitizenScience and #ClimateAction?

If so, we would like to hear from you.

Please get in touch via DM, or add a comment below and we will get back to you 👇

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