27 researchers from 16 UNICA universities granted with ERC Consolidator grants
21 March 2022 | From UNICA
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– Projects in Social Sciences and Humanities lead the funded projects in UNICA universities
– ERC Consolidator Grants support mid-career researchers
UNICA is proud to share that the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded 27 researchers in 16 member universities with Consolidator grants from the 2021 call. The funding, which is part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, will support mid-career researchers and will help them consolidate their teams and conduct pioneering research on topics and with methods of their choosing. In total, the Consolidator Grant scheme awarded 313 researchers across 24 EU Member States and associated countries, accounting for a total of €632 million to tackle major questions across all scientific disciplines.
Out of the UNICA universities that were funded, the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and the University of Oslo (Norway) are the ones with the most number of projects, with 4 each. In terms of research domains, the area of Social Sciences and Humanities leads with 14 projects. It is then followed by Physical Sciences and Engineering with 10 projects. Finally, there are three funded projects in the area of Life Sciences.
Here is the complete list:
| Country | University | Researcher | Project | Area |
| Austria | University of Wien | Markus Wagner | PARTISAN – Partisan Prejudice: Origins, Consequences and Remedies in European Multiparty Democracies | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Austria | University of Wien | Benedikt Warth | EXPOMET – Deciphering the Exposome by Metabolomic Technology in Breast Cancer | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| Belgium | Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) | Nathan Goldman | LATIS – Local Addressing of Topological Interacting Systems | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| Belgium | Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) | Luis Simón | SINATRA – Subject or Object? SINoAmerican competition and European sTRAtegic autonomy | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Denmark | University of Copenhagen | Maria Escudero Escribano | ATOMISTIC – Atomic-Scale Tailored Materials for Electrochemical Methane Activation and Production of Valuable Chemicals | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| Denmark | University of Copenhagen | Maria Malksoo | RITUAL DETERRENCE – Ritual Action: Making Deterrence Matter in International Security and Memory Politics | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Denmark | University of Copenhagen | Kamilla Miskowiak | ALTIBRAIN – Altitude-like hypoxia cognition training to target brain erythropoietin as a novel mechanism of longlasting enhancement of neuroplasticity and cognitive functions | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Denmark | University of Copenhagen | Hannes Schroeder | ChewArch – Ancient Chewing Gums and the Archaeology of Alpine Lake Settlements | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Finland | University of Helsinki | Pekka Katajisto | Geometric Fate – Niche geometry as the regulator of communal metabolism and cell fate | Life Sciences |
| Finland | University of Helsinki | Tuuli Toivonen | GREENTRAVEL – GREENER URBAN TRAVEL ENVIRONMENTS FOR EVERYONE: From measured wellbeing impacts to Big Data analytics | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Finland | University of Helsinki | Mikko Voutilainen | JEC4HL-LHC – Jet Energy Corrections for High-Luminosity LHC | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| Germany | Freie Universität Berlin | Islam Dayeh | KNOW – Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Germany | Humboldt University of Berlin | Elahe Haschemi Yekani | TODO – Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Iceland | University of Iceland | Sigurdur Yngvi Kristinsson | Edit-SMM – Early Detection and Intervention in Smoldering Multiple Myeloma: Population-Based Screening and Treatment | Life Sciences |
| Norway | University of Oslo | Mathew Domeier | EPIC – Untangling Ediacaran Paleomagnetism to Contextualize Immense Global Change | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| Norway | University of Oslo | Jonas Hjort | ACCESS – Market Access and Economic Development | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Norway | University of Oslo | Trude Storelvmo | STEP-CHANGE – State-dependent cloud phase feedbacks: enhancing understanding and assessing global effects | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| Norway | University of Oslo | Eivind Ystrøm | GeoGen – The PsychoGeography of Intergenerational Mobility: Early life socioeconomic position, mental health, and educational performance | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Poland | University of Warsaw | Marta Bucholc | Abortion Figurations – Using Human Rights to Change Abortion Law: Involvement Patterns and Argumentative Architectures in the Global Figuration of Human Rights | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Spain | University Complutense Madrid | Alexander Robinson | FORCLIMA – Forecasting climate surprises on longer timescales | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| Sweden | Stockholm University | Ingvild Almås | UNEQUALWITHIN – From Household Allocations to Global Inequality: New Methods, Facts and Policy Implications | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Switzerland | University of Lausanne | Manuel Mameli | SVEN – Raphe-to-habenula — a serotonin subsystem for valence encoding | Life Sciences |
| Switzerland | University of Lausanne | Stephanie Steinmetz | PROFEM – Improving Female Migrants’ Labour Market Positioning – An Intersectional Approach to Occupational Segregation Processes Across Countries and Over Time | Social sciences and Humanities |
| The Netherlands | University of Amsterdam | Timothy Noel | FlowHAT – Site-selective C(sp3)–H functionalization with gaseous reagents using Hydrogen Atom Transfer photocatalysis in flow | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| The Netherlands | University of Amsterdam | Ho Lun Tommy Tse | China Fashion Power – Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Re-thinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer Agency along China-Africa Fashion Value Chains | Social sciences and Humanities |
| Turkey | Middle East Technical University (METU) | Mustafa Yusel | DeepTrace – Tracing nanoparticle-fuelled co-mobilization of catalyst metals across Earth’s deepsea redox interfaces to pave the way for habitability detection in Ocean Worlds | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| United Kingdom | University of Edinburgh | Miguel Oscar Bernabeu Llinares | microKinetic – Predicting oxygen and drug kinetics at the micrometre scale in glioblastoma | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
About the ERC
The ERC, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants.
The overall ERC budget from 2021 to 2027 is more than €16 billion, as part of the Horizon Europe programme, under the responsibility of the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.