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Applications for ERC Consolidator Grants 2019: Facts and figures

The call for ERC Consolidator Grants 2019 closed for applications on 7 February 2019. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals: The ERC received 2,452 proposals for Consolidator Grants, an increase of 2.6% compared to the 2018 call…
The call for ERC Consolidator Grants 2019 closed for applications on 7 February 2019. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals: The ERC received 2,452 proposals for…
The call for ERC Consolidator Grants 2019 closed for applications on 7 February 2019. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals: The…
The call for ERC Consolidator Grants 2019 closed for applications on 7 February 2019. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals: The ERC received 2,452…
The call for ERC Consolidator Grants 2019 closed for applications on 7 February 2019. These are the preliminary data on the…
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Spotting the killjoy cell

A microchip device to detect tumour cells in the blood, at a glanceThere are trillions of cells in the human body of different sizes and shapes. In such a densely populated environment, the chances of detecting a single tumour cell circulating in…
A microchip device to detect tumour cells in the blood, at a glanceThere are trillions of cells in the human body of different sizes and shapes. In such a densely populated environment…
A microchip device to detect tumour cells in the blood, at a glanceThere are trillions of cells in the human body of different sizes and shapes. In…
A microchip device to detect tumour cells in the blood, at a glanceThere are trillions of cells in the human body of different sizes and shapes. In such a densely populated…
A microchip device to detect tumour cells in the blood, at a glanceThere are trillions of cells in the human body of…
role of R&I ahead of the next EU Framework Programme

Women in science - Gender balancing at the ERC

In order to achieve equal access and participation in science, the United Nations declared 11/2 the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We took this opportunity to speak with Isabelle Vernos, a member of the ERC’s Scientific Council…

Neutrinos: a salt mine of information

Alina Badescu is a young researcher, with her head in the sky and her thoughts firmly buried under layers of rock – in some of her native Romania’s most stunning salt mines. Her work focuses on neutrinos, small subatomic particles that can tell us a…
Alina Badescu is a young researcher, with her head in the sky and her thoughts firmly buried under layers of rock – in some of her native Romania’s most stunning salt mines. Her work…
Alina Badescu is a young researcher, with her head in the sky and her thoughts firmly buried under layers of rock – in some of her native Romania’s…
Alina Badescu is a young researcher, with her head in the sky and her thoughts firmly buried under layers of rock – in some of her native Romania’s most stunning salt mines…
Alina Badescu is a young researcher, with her head in the sky and her thoughts firmly buried under layers of rock – in some…
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Research centres - UPB Romania's funding successes

Romania has recently started its 6 month presidency of the Council of the EU. We take this opportunity to interview Mihnea Costoiu, Rector of the University Politehnica of Bucharest (UBP).
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Unconscious bias – avoidable or inevitable?

All decisions we make as humans are subject to implicit bias - simply a distortion in our thinking process, a cognitive shortcut we take to come to a decision. It comes in many forms, but all have the consequence of error prone decisions.It can be…
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Finanțarea centrelor de cercetare – noul succes al Universității Politehnica din București (UPB)

România a preluat de curând președinția rotativă a Consiliului Uniunii Europene. În acest context am profitat de această ocazie și am avut un interviu cu rectorul Universității Politehnica din București, domnul Mihnea Costoiu.

A new weapon against pancreatic cancer on the way ?

Tamoxifen, a drug used in breast cancer treatment, may be repositioned to treat pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of death by cancer in Europe. It has a very low survival rate with less than 1 per cent of sufferers…
Tamoxifen, a drug used in breast cancer treatment, may be repositioned to treat pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of death by cancer in Europe. It has a very…
Tamoxifen, a drug used in breast cancer treatment, may be repositioned to treat pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of death…
Tamoxifen, a drug used in breast cancer treatment, may be repositioned to treat pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of death by cancer in Europe. It…
Tamoxifen, a drug used in breast cancer treatment, may be repositioned to treat pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer is the…
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Secrets of the PoC proposal evaluation process

Have you ever wondered what a grant proposal evaluator is looking for in a successful application? An evaluator for the ERC's Proof of Concept (PoC) grants gives her views. Maria Moura Oliveira is Director of technology commercialisation at the…

Proof of Concept: ERC awards 60 grants for innovation

Sixty ERC grant holders receive top-up funding to explore the commercial or innovation potential of the results of their EU-funded frontier research. The selected innovative projects cover a variety of topics, ranging from new health therapies to…
Sixty ERC grant holders receive top-up funding to explore the commercial or innovation potential of the results of their EU-funded frontier research. The selected innovative projects…
Sixty ERC grant holders receive top-up funding to explore the commercial or innovation potential of the results of their EU-funded frontier research…
Sixty ERC grant holders receive top-up funding to explore the commercial or innovation potential of the results of their EU-funded frontier research. The selected innovative…
Sixty ERC grant holders receive top-up funding to explore the commercial or innovation potential of the results of their EU…
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