Magnetic fields exist in many stars, including the Sun. Yet they remain insufficiently understood to be represented reliably in stellar evolution models, limiting how accurately researchers can ...

The ERC Starting Grants 2027 call closed for applications on 14 October 2026. Preliminary figures show the following: ...

Could an ancient grain hold clues to today’s agricultural resilience? Archaeologist Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė studies ancient plant remains, chemical traces and isotopic evidence to piece ...

The European Research Council’s work programme adopted today includes over EUR 2.4 billion to fund grants for some 1,100 excellent scientists and scholars in the EU and associated countries. This is ...

The ERC has been working on introducing a new way of awarding grants, namely as ‘lump sums’, which will be put in place as a pilot scheme for Advanced Grants starting with the 2024 cal The ERC has ...

321 researchers have won 2022 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants. The funding - worth in total €657 million – is part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. 321 researchers have won ...

In view of the major revision of the ERC panel structure for the 2021 and 2022 calls, the ERC Scientific Council has decided to publish the full panel structure well ahead of time. In view of the ...

How will climate change shape the Earth’s surface? What are the long-term health effects of food additives? How can online tools change political advocacy and what does this mean for democracy? How ...

Curing cancer, tackling climate change, forecasting earthquakes - such challenges and other scientific quests are simply too big to address for one researcher - even the most excellent. That is why ...

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Biodiversity is essential for preserving the health and stability of ecosystems, fostering a delicate ecological balance that ensures nature's ability to provide essential resources such as food, ...