The funding for the more than 300 globally dispersed researchers is valued at €838m.
The European Research Council (ERC) has today (23 June) announced the winners of the latest Advanced Grant competition which is part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. The ERC gives senior researchers the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects with the potential to result in major scientific breakthroughs.
319 leading researchers based all across Europe and globally will receive a share of the funding which is valued at €838m. Grantees are located at universities and research centres in 24 EU Member States, including five researchers from Ireland, working out of Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin (UCD).
Thirteen of the researchers are currently based outside of Europe amounting to 4pc of all winners and were selected from the US, Australia and Canada.
Awardees from Trinity include Rhodri Cusack’s InfantNeuroAI project which explores the development of visual cognition in infants and machines and Richard Layte’s Flourish, which covers the foundations of life course outcomes in relationships and social connection.
