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European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. 🦋https://t.co/Y9s8R2t8Qr.
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Joined January 2012
Good news! 🏅 Philippe Aghion was awarded the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - together with Joel Mokyr & Peter Howitt - for having explained innovation-driven economic growth. #FrontierResearch #EUfunded
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Today, Philippe Aghion, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with two substantial ERC grants, has been awarded the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel...
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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: https://t.co/GrCj9o43d4
#DSA #DigitalServicesAct #OnlineSafety #Disinformation #ProtectionOfMinors #OpenScience
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Are you attending the Brain Innovation Days in Brussels? Our colleagues from the ERC's Scientific Department are already there, ready and willing to answer questions on 🇪🇺 ERC #research #funding! 👉 https://t.co/ox8HyIJ9mx
@BrainDays #BrainInnovationDays #grants
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How can we guide the body’s own healing? 🧬 @LiesbetGeris uses digital twins & tissue-engineered scaffolds to map bone & cartilage repair - a step towards living implants & personalised regenerative medicine. 👉 https://t.co/czafPiCAcf 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch @Cerhum3D
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We’re now 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: https://t.co/3iWGxaMjv8
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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? Apply by 15 January 2026. More info 👉 https://t.co/UxqmuS3FsL [Current or recent ERC grantees can compete] #ERCengage #SciComm
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Since 2018, Philippe Aghion was awarded €4.41 million in ERC funding. The topics of his ERC projects directly link to the work for which he received the 2025 Economic Sciences Nobel Prize. He is the 15th ERC grantee to take home a Nobel prize. Others 👇
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The Nobel Prizes are awarded by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind."It takes place every year and...
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“It’s fantastic, Peter, isn’t that great? Yes! Yes!” Listen to the moment Philippe Aghion shares his joy with his friend and co-laureate Peter Howitt, captured as part of this call made shortly after the public announcement of the 2025 economic sciences prize. In this interview,
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Are you an ERC grantee? Join other researchers in sharing your passion for science with pupils and students! 🚀🧠🔭🧬 Apply to showcase your project at #ScienceisWonderful!2026 by 20 October: 👉 https://t.co/3gJXGhP7Oy
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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. 🇪🇺
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
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“Any house is stronger if the foundation is done well.” Conny Aerts, ERC, on daring science and ERC at #POLITICOCompetitiveSummit. ”We need a broad pool of fundamental science.” ”It’s the foundation of the house of #innovation”. Replay 📺 (0’46’50) https://t.co/tFuklizD8R 🇪🇺
🍿 That’s all, folks! Thanks for joining our #POLITICOCompetitiveSummit, two days jam-packed with fascinating debates on Europe's quest to regain its competitive edge. Reread all our snap analysis or rewatch the summit here:
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How have massive stars formed and sculpted our universe? #EUResearch is uncovering the birth of the giants and why they hold the key to the physical & chemical evolutions of galaxies. ⤵️ https://t.co/lmKvwkXSrT
#SpaceWeek @ERC_Research
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🍄’Instead of fighting nature, we work with it.’ In Slovenia, Anna & Anja’s EU-supported team is developing fungal coatings that protect buildings, self-heal & clean the air: https://t.co/V8LJLRlO8h The EU stands for science. Do you? #Science4EU
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Did you attend our webinar on 2026 grant competitions? You can now find the answers to questions we didn't manage to address live 👉 https://t.co/YOpixxAiWT
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Water on Mars❓💧 Researchers @C_Astrobiologia hope to open the door to better understanding of how the planet could have once supported life. Learn about their work. ➡️ https://t.co/hEpu6wSqzw
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For researchers in Canada and the USA 👇 Online info session with @EURAXESS_NA about ERC research grants, on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 12:00 noon ET (9:00 AM PT, 6:00 PM CEST). The meeting is free but advance registration is required. https://t.co/NoiXi3EY96
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EURAXESS North America will host an online meeting with officials from the European Research Council Executive Agency, which administers ERC grants, as well as current ERC grantees, who will share...
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Today we launched the European Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science. It harnesses the power of AI to boost scientific excellence and innovation leadership, positioning Europe as a global hub for AI-driven scientific discoveries ⤵️ #AI4Science
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Congratulations!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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Live from Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 The Danish model of backing top research - that’s on the menu at the event this morning, also with a string of ERC grantee. Watch the livestream 🎥 https://t.co/IZu6cATjEq
Tue 7 Oct at 15.00 High-level event in Copenhagen during #EU2025DK on competitiveness & frontiers science with: -Minister @ChristinaEgelun -Nobel laureate Anne L’Huillier -Breakthrough Prize laureate Sir David Klenerman - science leaders Livestream🎥 https://t.co/l2EHJfQZ2S 🇪🇺
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Now time for a panel debate to explore the role of frontier research in shaping Europe’s global competitiveness. With @laoneill111, Maria Leptin, Manuel Heitor, Maria Cristina Messa, Ernst Kuipers and Diarmuid O’Brien. Live now! https://t.co/i14ljgrvZI
Starting! A powerful line up of speakers will delve into the topic competitiveness and frontier research - timely to take stock a year after the #DraghiReport and look ahead. Livestream https://t.co/TKt2NNFiTd Programme https://t.co/zGX2zdzJvU 🇪🇺 🇩🇰
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