Academy members René Bernards, Carsten de Dreu, Nynke Dekker, Piet Gros, Bert Meijer, Ann Rigney and Young Academy alumnus Bart Lambrecht have been awarded Advanced Grants by the European Research Council. The Advanced Grant is the ERC’s largest grant (up to € 2.5 million) and is awarded annually to exceptional, trendsetting senior researchers to support new research in their field.
Academy members
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René Bernards Research project: Senescence therapy for cancer |
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Carsten de Dreu Research project: Pressured to Attack: How Carrying-Capacity Stress Creates and Shapes Intergroup Conflict |
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Nynke Dekker Research project: Eukaryotic DNA replication: a single-molecule approach to the study of yeast replication on chromatin |
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Piet Gros Research project: Complement: to clear or not to clear |
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Bert Meijer Research project: Synthesis of Functional Multi-Component Supramolecular Systems and Materials |
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Ann Rigney Research project: Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe since 1871 |
Young Academy Alumnus |
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Bart Lambrecht Research project: Role of protein crystallization in type 2 immunity and asthma |
ERC Advanced Grants: Statistics
- A total of 269 researchers in Europe were awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, representing EUR 650 million in research funding.
- These researchers will be carrying out their projects at universities and research centres located in twenty different countries within the European Research Area. The UK will host the largest number of projects (66 grants); the Netherlands is in sixth place with 16 projects.
- There are 27 different nationalities in the group of grant recipients. Thirteen Dutch nationals have received an ERC Advanced Grant. This puts the Netherlands in seventh place along with Switzerland.
- The ERC received 2167 research proposals, with 269 of these (12%) being awarded funding.
- Female researchers submitted approximately 17% of the proposals and 17.5% (47) of the grants were awarded to women.
- Not only does the ERC Advanced Grant allow researchers to carry out groundbreaking research, but it also creates jobs for approximately 2000 postdoctoral fellows, PhD candidates and other staff.
See ERC Advanced Grants 2017 Outcome: Indicative statistics (Source: ERC, 2018)