Vienna (OTS) – The European Research Council (ERC) announced that a total of 218 projects in 20 countries across Europe will be funded in the 2022 call for advanced fellowships. established researchers in order to be able to carry out ambitious and potentially innovative research projects. Four of these prestigious prizes, each with a funding volume of around €2.5 million, go to researchers from Austrian scientific institutions. The Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research, Martin Polaschek, congratulates the successful candidates for this great success.
For Elly Tanaka, from the Institute for Research in Molecular Pathology (IMP), this year’s award is already the third ERC Advanced Grant. His research focuses on axolotls, which have the remarkable ability to rebuild their limbs and organs. Using these highly regenerative organisms, Elly Tanaka explores neuron regeneration and types of plasticity and their limitations.
Quantum physicist Jörg Schmiedmayer of the Vienna University of Technology is also an ERC Multiple Fellow, having received his first ERC Advanced Grant in 2012. His second ERC research project is on the emergence in quantum physics, i.e. the question of how seemingly limitless variety emerged from a small number of simple components. The main concern is the experimental study of emergence in the quantum world in all details, from the microscopic physics of elementary (atomic) components to a hierarchy of effective models in general.
Another ERC Advanced Grant this year goes to experimental physicist Leonard Grill of the University of Graz. It investigates how individual molecules can be moved on a surface. The findings of your research project could, for example, contribute to the development of tiny electronic components or molecular machines.
The fourth ERC Advanced Grant goes to cultural and social anthropologist Manuela Ciotti, from the University of Vienna, who will work on the theme of the anthropology of the future. Her specific field of investigation will be the art world, an area that is characterized by a high degree of experimentation, future orientation and risk-taking and which during the pandemic has had to rapidly develop innovative digital solutions to replace physical events. Her work will focus on the new, fully integrated physical and digital system of the post-pandemic art world, with a particular focus on developments in the Global South, exemplified by India and Pakistan.
A total of 1650 applications were evaluated by the ERC in this round of tenders, of which 13.2% are now being funded with a total budget of €544 million. This time, 23% of funded projects were presented by women. This corresponds to the highest quota of women in an advanced grant application to date.
If you are interested in the various ERC calls for proposals, the FFG, as a National Contact Point (NCP), offers a wide range of support, which includes information and training events on application submission, as well as feedback on projects and interview training. Horizon Europe:
https://www.ffg.at/europa/heu/erc
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