Dirk Inze
@InzeDirk
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Director emeritus VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology | Laureate of the World Agriculture Prize 2017 | Member of the Scientific Council of the ERC
Ghent, Belgium
Joined March 2016
Here are some facts and figures from the 2025 Consolidator Grant call: 🔶 €728 million in funding 🔶 349 mid-career researchers from Europe and beyond 🔶 44 different nationalities All of them pushing the frontiers of knowledge. Congratulations!
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Hamas is the only army in the world that wears civilian clothes during war and puts on uniforms during ceasefires.
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The French Revolution was a disaster: killed 2 million people, led to the rise of Napoleon--perhaps the world's first totalitarian fascist dictator, who began wars of conquest that killed an additional 4 million people, led to the restoration of slavery, to the restoration of the
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Maria Leptin re-appointed as ERC President 🇪🇺 ERC Vice Presidents: This is excellent, ensuring continuity at a critical moment. On behalf of the Scientific Council, we thank Maria for her leadership & strong commitment that has taken ERC to new heights. https://t.co/rjsVGrvC9r
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Cocoa production has been increasing threatened by disease. Gene editing has contributed to developing disease resistant cocoa. Gene editing can contribute to mitigating many production threats. It boggles the mind that organics & eNGOs are opposed.
psu.edu
In a development that could help protect one of the world's most beloved agricultural commodities, a research team at Penn State has successfully created disease-resistant cacao plants using gene-e...
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The world can count on Europe's climate leadership. Our Nationally Determined Contribution will range between 66.25% and 72.5%. And we are working full speed on -90% by 2040. We are on our way to climate neutrality ↓
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"We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do." ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during #RIDaysEU discussion of how a bottom up approach, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps us meet future challenges.
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👏 India releasing two rice varieties developed through genome editing, at a public sector research lab. Way to go!
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"In five to 10 years, gene technologies can achieve what a selective [apple] breeding programme would take 60 years to do. Thanks to the impacts of climate change, the industry can't wait 60 years. Climate change will have buggered us by then." https://t.co/aant0g31PB
rnz.co.nz
Explainer - The current GMO regime is out of date, experts agree. But proposed changes sideline Māori, some say.
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Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC. We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail. @Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU
https://t.co/Ak8XiokMRI
research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu
Research and innovation news alert: As part of the next long-term EU budget 2028-2034, the Commission is proposing to double the budget of the research and innovation framework programme to €175...
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📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants! The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme. Read more 👉 https://t.co/62GOFDjQYq
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @EUScienceInnov
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A newly published report highlights the results of ERC Proof of Concept (#ERCPoC) funding between 2014 and 2023. During this period, 1 731 projects across 30 EU and Associated Countries were supported, with a total investment of €259 million. 👉 https://t.co/hYSLW721uP
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Pleasure to meet the President of the @ERC_Research @mleptin. Europe's strength and competitiveness depend heavily on our R&D ecosystem and ability to turn scientific achievements into commercial success stories. For that, cutting the red-tape & excessive regulation must be
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EU research proposes dual system: one EU-wide organic label for “organic without NGTs” and another for “organic with NGTs,” so preserving transparency and consumer choice while allowing more progressive organic farmers to benefit from targeted innovation. https://t.co/aQjUv4l7HS
seedworld.com
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth urge allowing gene editing in organic crops to increase yields and support sustainable farming, calling for updated organic standards.
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Science builds our future. In Europe it has the freedom and support it needs. To find the next cure and develop the next ground-breaking technology. Our mission is clear: We want the brightest minds and boldest innovators to "Choose Europe!" ↓
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Science is part of Europe’s story — now we write the next chapter. At today’s Competitiveness Council, Team Europe showed why we choose science, and why science should #ChooseEurope. Over 60 initiatives support international researchers: https://t.co/0R3KFqkSym
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Are you based in the U.S. 🇺🇸 or Canada 🇨🇦 & thinking of doing research in Europe? ERC grants offer up to €4.5 million to support groundbreaking, investigator-driven frontier research in all fields. Watch the info session for researchers in your region👉 https://t.co/387mdaiANz
Today, a decision to increase ERC support for researchers moving to Europe was adopted. On top of normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories/research teams in Europe. This extra is now x2 (up to €2 million!)
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A huge step forward as India release #GeneEdited crop varieties after USA, Canada & Japan. Gene-edited crops without foreign genes are exempted from being treated as transgenics under current regulations! @icarindia @ChouhanShivraj #Rice #ClimateAction #Agriculture #Innovations
Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan will announce the successful development of the India's first-ever genome-edited rice varieties (2) developed by #ICAR @PMOIndia
@ChouhanShivraj @AgriGoI @DDKisanChannel @PIB_India @mygovindia
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🕊️ Today, the Netherlands marks #80JaarVrijheid. What underpins freedom? 🇳🇱 ERC-funded research explores: 🔸Resistance & memory 🔗 https://t.co/XXNgddMJms 🔸Digital democracy (@WUR) 🔗 https://t.co/KWjSV6yIbT 🔸Wartime blockades (@UvA_Amsterdam)🔗 https://t.co/UESmk6fNtk
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#Historic_Day in Indian Science and Agriculture May 04, 2025. India will release two #GenomeEdited_Rice varieties, developed by @icarindia With this, India Joins the USA and Japan to have commercially available genome-edited crops. #CRISPR
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