ERC publications

Many ERC projects in the Geosciences address key societal challenges. The projects presented in this brochure are investigating the role of organic aerosols in climate change and air pollution, the long-term management of forests in the preservation of the ecosystem, microscopic processes that govern the flow of magma in volcanic eruptions, the development of a new 3 dimensional model of the Earth’s mantle or the monitoring of the atmosphere through GPS for predicting tsunamis.

Supporting Top Women in Frontier Research

Many ERC-funded projects in this field address fundamental issues, such as the roots of food globalisation in prehistory, mobility of people and ideas during the Bronze Age, urban diversification in global cities across the years, the prediction of people’s response to water disasters, or the historical dimensions of herding practices in Europe.

Many of these projects address public health challenges and emerging areas in neurosciences for example: projects that deal with memory, information coding and processing in the brain, genesis and repair of the nervous system, neuronal circuits in drug addiction, cell and gene therapy for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases or computation models for man-machine interaction.

An insight into ERC projects

ERC Grantees at ESOF 2012

Some ERC projects in this field

Annual report on the ERC activities and achievements in 2011

Some striking ERC projects

Frontier Research: The European Challenge High-Level Expert group Report