Join the ERC session @ebsummiteurope.bsky.social tomorrow 19/11 at 11:30: ‘Breakthrough discovery & innovation: Securing Europe’s competitive edge?’ - Nobel Laureate in economics Ph. Aghion - Pascal Lamy - J-F van Boxmeer Livestream (quick, free registration): ebsummits.eu/live/ #EBS2025 🇪🇺

When groundwater demand exceeds safe pumping limits, governments must step in, says Marc Bierkens. Farmers can: ✅ Grow crops that use less water & improve irrigation Authorities can: ✅ Implement aquifer recharge & desalinate coastal water 👉 shorturl.at/fNTgS @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

How do you get parenting support to millions of families during a pandemic? Lucie Cluver, laureate of the 2024 #ERCengage Award, figured it out well 👉 t.co/XxhP16D18a 🏆 2026 competition now open 👉 t.co/fFic8g294I @ox.ac.uk @dspi-oxford.bsky.social

📢 Save the date: ERC annual conference will take place on 28 January 2026! Its theme will be ‘One Health’. Discover the programme and register now 👉 t.co/SBat1iYccr #OneHealth @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu @ecdc.europa.eu @efsa.europa.eu

The opening of the ERC Proof of Concept Call 2026 is postponed by about three weeks. The new date will be announced on the ERC website once confirmed. Eligible ERC grantees will be informed by email. All the details 👉 erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/...

The Earth contains around 20 million km³ of groundwater. However, some of it lies too deep to extract, while other reserves are being depleted faster than they can be replenished. Will we run out of it? 👉 bit.ly/43sx1vl #COP30 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

This year’s #STOA & @erc.europa.eu Pairing Scheme brought together policymakers and top EU researchers for a day of collaboration, strengthening the dialogue between science and policy. 🧵 #EUResearch #SciencePolicy

We’re at the @europarl.europa.eu, where ERC grantees meet MEPs to bridge frontier research and policy. 📺Tune in on Wed 12 Nov at 14.30 europarl.europa.eu/streaming/?e... Who benefits from such exchanges between scientists and politicians? Hear from ERC President Maria Leptin.

We are live at @europarl.europa.eu to discuss how science can inform policy for a greener, fairer Europe 🌱 Tune in here 👉 www.europarl.europa.eu/streaming/?e...

Frédéric Dias, laureate of the 2024 #ERCengage Award, brought science to life in Ireland’s #AranIslands by hiring local fishermen ⚓, inspiring students 🏫 and building lasting community ties 🌊🤝 . 🏆 2026 competition now open 👉 buff.ly/GmZ9FQ2 @ucddublin.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️ @rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h #ERCSyG

Watch the replay from Berlin! ‘International Research Cooperation in a Fragmented World’ With Maria Leptin, Hugh Brady, Astrid Lambrecht, Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Thierry Coulhon, Bettina Rockenbach. Starting from 1’55’ 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8cO...  #FallingWalls25

Dynamic crowds, a common phenomenon, have intrigued researchers for over a century 👣 Anna Sieben, Tom Postmes and Armin Seyfried will use their ERC Synergy Grant to explore the physics and social psychology of crowd movement. @fz-juelich.de @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h #ERCSyG

⏰ At 1PM! Don’t miss the session on defending academic freedom. 🎥 Livestream - register here (free of charge): falling-walls.com/livestream-2... 🇪🇺

What happened during the very first microseconds after the Big Bang? 💥 Andrii Neronov, Franco Vazza, Chiara Caprini and Axel Brandenburg will try to discover what happened during those first crucial instants of the Universe’s evolution. 👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h #ERCSyG

‘Academia under attack: action against anti democratic threats’ ⏰ Today 1 PM ERC President @marialep.bsky.social, @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de, @dziblatt.bsky.social, Jens Martin Gurr, Anna-Sara Lind, Eva Ines Obergfell falling-walls.com/programme/ac... Tune in!🎥 falling-walls.com/livestream-2025

Today is the International Day Against Violence and Bullying at School. An ERC-funded research has revealed that bullying triggers the same stress responses in the brain as physical threats. Let’s continue raising awareness, offering support, and speaking up. 👉

‘International Research Cooperation in a Fragmented World’ Tune now to the Science Summit and #FallingWalls2025 in Berlin with Maria Leptin among the speakers. Find out more: forschungsgipfel.de/2025/english Livestream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=j8cO...

Leoš Valášek, Julius Lukeš, Olivier Namy (@onamy.bsky.social) and Mark Osborn are among the winners of 2025 Synergy Grants. They'll investigate premature termination codons, the genetic 'stop signals' that cut production of proteins short causing disorders. 🧬🔬 👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h #ERCSyG

The newly announced ERC Synergy Grant includes research on: ✴️ genetic drug design ✴️ the Big Bang's first microseconds ✴️ crowd movement ✴️ nature-society interactions 👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h Congrats to the 66 awarded research teams! #FrontierResearch

📣 Meet the new ERC Synergy Grant awardees! Sixty-six research teams have been selected for funding, bringing together 239 scientists. Congratulations to all! ➡️ buff.ly/PSn3bi9 #EUfunded #HorizonEurope #ERCSyG

🎤 #EBS2025: Panel Announcement! Join us for a panel on "Breakthrough Discovery and Innovation: Securing Europe's Competitive Edge?" 🗣Featuring speakers from @erc.europa.eu, ERT, @delorseurope.bsky.social, and 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. Register now: ebsummits.eu/our-summits/…

Laureate of the 2024 #ERCengage Award, @orlamuldoon.bsky.social’s work on gender-based violence has deepened public understanding, driven media awareness, and inspired concrete policy change. 🏆 2026 competition now open 👉 t.co/UxqmuS3FsL @unioflimerick.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Deadline this Friday!

Deadline this Friday!

New #research into a receptor in prostaglandins may pave the way for #painkillers with fewer side effects. From a team including #pain expert Pierangelo Geppetti. 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch at Università degli Studi di Firenze and Gemelli University Hospital Rome 🧪

As AI & neurotechnology advance, ERC researchers call for a renewed focus on understanding consciousness, one of science’s greatest challenges. Read more on these ethical and societal questions: 👉 link.europa.eu/gvJ678

Hear from Jan Lagerwall, physics professor and #Amb4ERC 🇱🇺 Sharing his inspiration for joining the Ambassadors for the ERC network and the value of connecting different communities 🤝 🔗 Read more about his research 👉 bit.ly/4nw9bWN @ercgrantees.bsky.social

#WorldStrokeDay. Around 7.7M Europeans live with post-stroke disabilities. @arthurliesz.bsky.social at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social explores how our own immune system can drive brain repair after stroke. 🔍 Read more here: buff.ly/O755w7U #FrontierResearch #Stroke #Research #Repair 🧪

Seeking work in a research group run by an ERC-funded researcher? You can find more than 145 positions open for application on the #Euraxess website 👉 buff.ly/ROwXHf6 #ChooseEurope #jobs #research

A new partnership between the ERC and the African Academy of Sciences signed today opens opportunities for top African researchers and ERC grantees. 🇪🇺🌍👉 bit.ly/3WXAka1

@tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, laureate of the ERC's #ERCengage Award, created a tool with young people living with #OCD; showing how engagement makes research stronger. Read about his experience in the ERC's magazine: buff.ly/dQbMfJz

Unprecedented opportunities for researchers to access data from very large online platforms and search engines! ⏰ Join us this afternoon to learn about the potential generated by Digital Services Act #DSA Article 40 on data access. 📅 22 October 2025 ⏰ 13.30 – 15.30 CEST 💻 link.europa.eu/pjRBFK

“Diversity is not just an add-on – it’s what allows us to build new things.” 💫 Discover Milena Arciniegas’ inspiring success story of defying stereotypes and advancing #nanomaterials science at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. 👉 link.europa.eu/Rffpnh #diversity #research #ERCMagazine

Don’t know how to measure your skills? Use the newly launched Self-Assessment Tool based on ResearchComp! This online tool will allow researchers to assess their strengths and areas for improvement, and identify their skills' gaps through a multiple-choice questionnaire: link.europa.eu/KJYD49

Research reveals that the daily #yogurt consumption of the world’s oldest woman is linked to her much younger #cell #age. From a team including Maria A. Blasco at @cniostopcancer.bsky.social. 🇪🇺 #FrontierResearch @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu #cancer @manuelansede.bsky.social 🧪

Did you know that confined water challenges the laws of physics? When water is compacted to spaces of just 1-2 nanometers it becomes extremely conductive to electricity and develops a gigantic capacity to store energy. Research supported by the ERC 🧪 . Article in Espagnole👇

Who shapes the future of research? 🔍 President, @marialep.bsky.social, ERC grantee @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social and other insightful speakers on “Rethinking Discovery” and EU in the global competition. #GESDASummit Moderation: @alokjha.bsky.social. Watch session 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3A...

🗓 Join us online on 12 November! How can Europe achieve #fair and #sustainable #growth? 🌱 What do we mean by #prosperity? #Researchers & members of the 🇪🇺 European Parliament will come together to find out. Watch 👉 link.europa.eu/gqRg6G @epstoa.bsky.social @europarl.europa.eu #MEPs

New video 📹 ! Changes to #eligibility #rules for ERC Starting & Consolidator Grant applicants, as explained by ERC President Maria Leptin. Watch the full 🆕 interview bit.ly/4otIva9 👀 Read the explanatory text (from 15/9/25) 📑 link.europa.eu/hP3WWF #Research #Grant #Funding #AcademicSky 🧪

📈 Record interest in ERC Starting Grants 2026! 4,807 proposals - a 22% increase compared to last year’s call. 👩‍🔬 Women submitted nearly 43% of proposals - the highest share ever recorded in an ERC call. More stats 👉 bit.ly/4hcYJln #ChooseEurope

The ERC workshop on Data Access under the Digital Services Act (DSA) is happening soon! 📅 Date: 22 October 2025 ⏰ Time: 13.30 – 15.30 CEST 💻 Where: buff.ly/KPrkzXA #DSA #DigitalServicesAct #OnlineSafety #Disinformation #ProtectionOfMinors #OpenScience

Are you, perchance, attending the Brain Innovation Days today or tomorrow? Our colleagues from the ERC's Scientific Department are already at this event in Brussels, and are ready to answer your questions on 🇪🇺 ERC research funding! 👉 buff.ly/Gcc8m6P #BrainInnovationDays #grants #research #funding

How can we guide the body’s own healing? 🧬 Liesbet Geris uses digital twins & tissue-engineered scaffolds to map bone & cartilage repair - a step towards living implants & personalised regenerative medicine. 👉 buff.ly/aj2Od8S 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #RegenerativeMedicine #DigitalTwin

@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu is on Bluesky! You will find: 🔬 EU-funded science news & breakthroughs 💰 Calls, tenders & funding tips (Horizon Europe, ERC, MSCA…) 🚀 Projects growing from TRL 1 to market-ready 📊 Tools & resources for researchers Join the conversation!

The contest for ERC Public Engagement with Research Award 2026 is officially open! 🎉 This year we have up to 8 prizes of €10,000. Interested? Submit your application by 15 January 2026. More info 👉 link.europa.eu/jkX9f4 [Only current or recent ERC grantees can compete] #ERCengage #SciComm

🏅 Good news (in case you missed it)! Philippe Aghion was awarded the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - together with Joel Mokyr & Peter Howitt - for explaining innovation-driven economic growth. #FrontierResearch #AcademicSky 🧪 link.europa.eu/YWNbyC

Are you an ERC funded researcher? Join up to share your passion for science with pupils and students! 🚀🧠🔭🧬 Apply to showcase your project at #ScienceisWonderful!2026 Deadline: 20 October. All the details 👉 link.europa.eu/vgTTr4 @ercgrantees.bsky.social #SciComm

Breaking Nobel news!🏅 Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants. 🇪🇺