Consolidator Grants: ERC unleashes €627m in grants to fuel excellent research across Europe

Out of 2,130 candidates, the European Research Council (ERC) has selected 308 researchers for this year’s Consolidator Grants. The funding will support excellent scientists and scholars at the career stage where they may still be consolidating their own independent research teams to pursue their most promising scientific ideas. Worth in total €627 million, the grants are part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. 

The grants will support scientific projects spanning all disciplines of research from engineering to life sciences to humanities. 

Women won 39% of grants in this competition, highest ever share for Consolidator Grants. The laureates of this grant competition will carry out their projects at universities and research centres in 22 EU Member States and other countries associated with Horizon Europe. Among the EU countries, the highest numbers of grants will be located in Germany (66 projects), Netherlands (36), France (23) and Spain (23). There are nationals of 43 countries among the winners of this call, notably Germans (56 researchers), Italians (36) and Dutch (27). The grants will create around 1,800 jobs for postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and other staff at the host institutions.  

Since the entire list of projects is extremely varied, here you can take a look at what types of research are funded this time in the list singled out by the ERC.