ERC publications

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

This report, prepared again this year under the authority of the ERC Scientific Council, sets out the ERC's activities and achievements in 2009. It will be disseminated widely to both the scientific community and other key stakeholders with the aim of building awareness and increasing the transparency of the ERC's strategy and operations.

The European Research Council (ERC) marks a new approach to investing in frontier research in Europe. Funded through the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) as the implementation of the Ideas Specific Programme, the ERC aims at reinforcing excellence, dynamism and creativity in European research by funding investigator-driven projects of the highest quality at the frontiers of knowledge. This report, prepared again…