European Research Council (ERC @ERC_Research@respublicae.eu

Happy Day of the Restoration of the State, #Lithuania!

@GiedreMotuzaite, based in 🇱🇹, recently won a #ERCCoG to use innovative modelling techniques to track millet agriculture in the EU. This could help secure #foodsecurity & #biodiversity

👉 https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/consolidator-grants-2022-examples-projects#Milways

@VU_LT

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1626174597925318657

🧠When the brain meets the spine: @DominiciNad at @amsterdamumc researches the neural origin of toddler’s first steps, with an important potential for #rehabilitation before the age of two.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3HLp1tA

#neurobiology #physiotherapy
@CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1626129320694681602

The Scientific Council is having its first meeting of the year - this time in Brussels.

Very happy to welcome our new members of the governing body that sets the ERC’s strategy!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1625803162367021057

More children than ever survive #cancer, but treatments can cause serious health problems. Using DNA sequencing, the ERC-funded research project @BoxtelLab @prinsesmaximac aims to diminish the detrimental effects.
👉https://europa.eu/!cTYhwM
#MissionCancer
#EUCancerPlan
#ICCD2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1625782016116654082

💕 Everyone is getting ready to look beautiful for #ValentinesDay and so are brightly coloured #guppies!
Population geneticist Deborah Charlesworth @EdinburghUni looks closer into colouration mutations accumulating on the Y #chromosome in 🐟
👉 https://bit.ly/3YhhlGO
@CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1625532916058165250

#Droughts pose a significant challenge, yet our understanding of them remains limited. Prof. Diego Miralles @ugent developed 🆕 frameworks to explain how they start & evolve, as well as for #accurate #forecasts
👉 https://bit.ly/3jIIQty
#climate
@CORDIS_EU @HCEL_Ghent @FbwUGent

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1625506083761721344

ERC President Maria Leptin was pleased to convey a message to the audience at the 20th Czech Days for European Research #CZEDER where ERC grantees shared their stories for inspiration.
Important event.

More info and livestream 🎥
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/events/erc-czech-days-european-research-czeder
@TC_Praha
RT @TC_Prague: In the second part of the conference program, we focus on ERC grants. ERC President @mleptin sent her regards and started this sect…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1625488324390699009

Happy Valentine's Day to all the science enthusiasts out there! Just like love, research is full of wonder and discovery. ❤️🧪📖🔭 #ValentinesDay #ScienceLove

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1625415539945357313

RT @harrietbulkeley: Full on first day with @ERC_Research Science Council - in awe of the annual budget (2bn) we oversee and the precious goal of supporting & enabling bottom-up, frontier research we protect and nurture. Looking forward to Day 2!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1625235585613852681

Missed one of the most watched sessions at #WEF?

ERC grantees @JRockstrom & Joyeeta Gupta shared latest findings on “Leading the Charge through Earth’s New Normal” with @AlGore etc.

A first that science took centre stage in #Davos plenary.

🎥 Watch here
https://www.weforum.org/event_player/a0P68000000ZvnvEAC/sessions/leading-the-charge-through-earths-new-normal

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1624805188518268933

🎉This weekend we marked #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience!🎉

Let's celebrate amazing role models inspiring many to pursue scientific careers & engaging new generation to take on the 🌍's greatest research challenges!
@gonzalezlab_bcn
@LCATMon
@EuropeanYouthEU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1624741579218120705

Are you looking for a #research job?
We have collected for you tweets about #vacancies at ERC-funded teams.

Take a look! 👉 https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/timelines/1399385761724649480

#careers #jobsearch #EUfunded #PhDposition #postdocjobs

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1624738036461473792

ERC grantee Bruno Sicardy @LesiaAstro and an international team of astronomers discover unexpected new ring system in our own solar system.
RT @CNRS: #Communiqué 🗞️ Une équipe internationale, impliquant des scientifiques français du @CNRS, de l’@Obs_Paris, de @Sorbonne_Univ_, a découvert, autour de l'objet transneptunien Quaoar, un anneau... qui ne devrait pas exister. 🪐

➡️ https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/decouverte-improbable-dun-anneau-autour-de-lobjet-transneptunien-quaoar

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1623719422899650561

Discover some recent findings from ERC-funded projects!

🖥️ An open source platform to investigate living cells - @VicidominiLab
🦟 A genetic screen on how malaria parasites become male or female when infecting mosquitos - @billker_lab

And many others👉

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1623601076862857216

☁️ Do you find yourself with your head in the clouds often? Next time, pay attention as you can discover interesting things like the cloud's role in #climatechange, #modelling & #predicting climate.
👉 https://bit.ly/3HLGGRY
@CORDIS_EU @CNRS
#meteorology #greenhousegas #cumulus

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1623601004666306560

🌱 Watch the playback of today’s @SciBiz event with VP @vestager, Minister @RPourmokhtari and many more.

Session on “The science of #sustainability: a new paradigm for R&I?” with ERC President Maria Leptin, @antoine_petit_, @andersatlife - from 1’30’.
🎥 https://vimeo.com/792978092
RT @mleptin: Remember it was *scientists* who identified and understood the greenhouse effect (1820s-60s), measured and modelled changes in the atmosphere (late 18th and early 19th c) …

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1623048506155073536

RT @CNRSinBrussels: ⁦@antoine_petit_⁩ & ⁦@mleptin⁩ share visions on the need of fundamental research in sciences for sustainability ⁦@scibus⁩ todays. Obviously sharing the same horizon ! ⁦

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1622963801334202370

RT @mleptin: Remember it was *scientists* who identified and understood the greenhouse effect (1820s-60s), measured and modelled changes in the atmosphere (late 18th and early 19th c) and who first warned society about the dangers of global warming (1936, 1988)
More of this at 10.30👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1622884665416613888

Don’t miss the discussion today at 10.30 AM:

With ERC President @MLeptin, @EdBrinksmaEUR, @antoine_Petit_, @AndersatLife.

Part of @SciBus conference on “Sustainable horizons: Does our future depend on science?” 🌎 🌱

Register to follow online👇
https://sciencebusiness.net/events/sustainable-horizons-does-our-future-depend-science

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1622854814836178947

What's the latest on the ERC's 2023 Synergy Grants?

The #ERCSyG Call for Proposals closed on 8 November 2022. We received 395 applications, made on behalf of 1,350 researchers.

More figures and stats 👉 https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/applications-erc-synergy-grants-2023-facts-and-figures

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1622596522641870849