European Research Council (ERC @ERC_Research@respublicae.eu

🌋 Thanks to global plate reconstruction models @tamsinmather & team @UnivOxford @OxUniEarthSci identified the main #geological process from the Toarcian age that 🔗 to #volcanic events & #climatechange.

👉 https://bit.ly/3PuG0Uu

#inorganicchemistry #geology @CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1606197967983357952

@tanjaslotte & team @Stockholms_univ have solved the long-standing riddle of the supergene that causes efficient #crosspollination in 🌺.

Read more about sequence length variation at the #DNA level 👉 https://bit.ly/3FUzZ0l

#genetics @CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1605871951582760962

Can a virus can be blocked from entering a human cell, to prevent global health emergencies such as #covid19?

David Alsteens @nBIO_lab uses #nanotechnology to decipher how a virus and a cell interact.

👉 https://bit.ly/3PGU39N

#EUHealthResearch @UCLouvain_be @EU_Health @WHO

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1605518948992430080

At our #CitizenScience event in early December, several ERC funded researchers presented their work.

To find out what they discovered, read the slides or watch the recording 🎥.

👉 http://erc.europa.eu/news-events/events/citizen-science-and-frontier-research-erc-annual-event-2022

@mhaklay @ucl @jacobsherson @Aarhus_BSS @CSIC @ispex_eu @UniLeidenNews

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1605492275714592769

#CitizenScience has the potential to strengthen our sustainable development and also make research more democratic.

Dorte Riemenschneider, @EuCitSci Director, & Silke Voigt-Heucke, head of Citizen Science @mfnberlin, explain its transformatory power.

👉https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine-article/transformative-potential-citizen-science

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604852461386227713

Some 80 ERC projects contributed evidence to @IPBES latest reports providing robust scientific basis for today’s #COP15 deal on #biodiversity protection.
Read more about ERC-funded research in the area 👉https://erc.europa.eu/tags?f%5B0%5D=tag%3A488.
RT @vonderleyen: I welcome the historic outcome of #COP15.
The world has agreed on unprecedented and measurable nature protection and restoration goals and on a Global Biodiversity Fund.

And investing into nature als…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604833885816332291

Do you ever wonder why #Neanderthals disappeared?

It looks like #char from ancient fires and #stalagmites in caves hold important clues. Researchers @Unibo & @ULL use 🆕 techniques for new results.

👉 https://bit.ly/3Yp5WoH

#geochemistry #ethnoarchaeology #paleoanthropology

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604768992404832256

#UrbanRural connections could boost #resilience in the face of change - research from @IanScoones & team @PASTRES_erc @IDS_UK.

👨‍🌾 Read about the benefits of a livestock-raising lifestyle 👉 https://bit.ly/3VUZxjz

#governance #environmentalscience #pastoralism #biodiversity

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604454024321044481

Enlightening discussion between the newest @NobelPrize winners.

On their breakthroughs, on how ideas come about and more.

"Nobel Minds" with @TheZeinabBadawi.

🎥 Watch it back @svt
(click ‘spela’)
https://www.svtplay.se/video/KD95z2R/nobel-2022-snillen-spekulerar
From the UK, watch on the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gyp0/nobel-minds

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604420781471055872

#Celldivision is fundamental to life, but still not fully understood.

@SPOREMOHAN & his team @warwickuni take a closer look at the the complex ring of #proteins that guide the process.

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3YkSgv3

#microscopy #biochemistry #biomolecules #genetics

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604068922512539648

To enable Indigenous Peoples to record and show how #climatechange affects their #environment, Victoria Reyes-García & her team worked to create a #CitizenScience platform.

How did it pan out? 👉 http://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine-article/bringing-indigenous-and-local-knowledge-climate-change-research

@UABBarcelona @LICCI_ERC @ICTA_UAB 📷 ©Joel Redmano

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1603795080279887872

RT @EACrone: Three days of hard work during the @ERC_Research plenary meeting in Brussels. During a wonderful dinner we said goodbye to my fellow vice-presidents Andrzej Jajszczyk and Nektarios Tavernarakis; I will miss working with them, thanks for these inspiring 2 years

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1603721389768429569

Want to know why Thomas Pesquet is interested in
#citizenscience? Catch up with the rest of the event👉http://bit.ly/ERC22eventCS

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1603708981167390720

Scientists @uc3m are working to understand novel fundamental properties of #sound, to improve #acoustic technologies.

Find out more about their ERC-funded research 👉 https://bit.ly/3WCr4X1

@ServInvestUC3M @PhonoMeta #metamaterials #phononics

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1603348948806434817

#DYK that #cancer is the 2nd leading cause of mortality in 🇪🇺 countries?

For early diagnosis, @kjaer_andreas developed a 🆕 scanning technique to locate & identify the #tumours which present the greatest risks.

Read 👉 https://bit.ly/3FqkLyG

#ResearchImpactEU #MissionCancer

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1603048591253438465

"It requires a certain humbleness stepping back and being open to learn from others."

ERC Vice-President Eveline Crone explores the significance of #CitizenScience for her own work and that of ERC funded researchers.

Read the rest in the ERC Magazine 👉http://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine-article/knowledge-everywhere

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1602964254172274689

Are you running an ERC Proof of Concept project with research results that could form the basis of innovation & new business?

You might also be eligible for an EIC Transition grant.

For the latest info, tune in to the @EUeic today at 11:15 - 12:15 CET

👉http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/european-innovation-council-online-info-day-work-programme-2023
RT @EUeic: Starting 🔜!

Discover the 2023 #EUeic work programme today at the dedicated Info Day! 🚀

⌚ 9:30 CET
💻 Online
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1602593193505308672

🏅Anton Zeilinger thanked his parents for fostering his curiosity and taxpayers, also in Europe, for enabling him to do pure curiosity-driven research.🇪🇺

Listen e.g. to his #Nobel lecture from 1’26’:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/zeilinger/lecture/

More on his #EUfunded research
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/2022-Nobel-physics-prize
RT @euronews: Anton Zeilinger, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, said he was grateful to you, Austrian and Eur…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1602020950970699779

"It took many decades to go from the first evidence of that extraordinary property of the quantum world to the first applications. That lesson should be recalled to our governments and their funding agencies."

Important words from Laureate Alain Aspect in his #NobelPrize speech.
RT @NobelPrize: "The conclusion is now clear: Einstein’s view on physical reality cannot be upheld. Entanglement is confirmed in its strangest aspects."

Listen in on physics laureate …

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1601924022450659329

🏅The 2022 #Nobel week ends with today’s prize ceremony!

3 laureates were backed by the EU - Svante Pääbo reminded of the need for funding:

“The ERC’s support for curiosity-driven research is essential for the European research ecosystem." 🇪🇺

More here:
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/events/follow-nobel-week-3-erc-grantees-awarded-2022-nobel-prizes

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1601589904273596416