ERC Projects

Sorbonne Université is the 1st university in France in terms of projects and funding acquired by the European Research Council (ERC) and 4th in the ranking that includes national research organisations.

As Europe's leading funding body for excellence in exploratory research, the European Research Council funds research projects in all disciplines.

ERC Projects

Since 2021, under the Horizon Europe programme:

25 ERC projects were awarded to Sorbonne Université, for €32,4M, including 5 Affiliated Entities, with a success rate of 21,7%

  • 10 ERC Consolidator Grants (COG)
  • ERC Advanced Grants (ADG)
  • ERC Starting Grant (STG)
  • ERC Synergy Grant (SyG)
  • 2 ERC Proof of Concept (POC)

The ERC projects obtained are spread across 15 of the 28 existing panels: 14 in Physical Sciences & Engineering, in Life Sciences, and 3 in Social Sciences & Humanities.

The remaining 2 are ERC Proof of Concept projects.

These projects are led by 17 men and 6 women

Acronym

Title

Project duration

Role

Principal Investigator

Laboratory

 

Strategies of 3-D growth in brown algae

01/02/2023 - 31/01/2028

AFFILIATED ENTITY

 

Anyon Statistics in Tiny Electronic Colliders

01/11/2023 - 31/10/2028

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

Environmentally-informed functional characterisation of the secondary red chloroplast proteome

01/01/2023 - 31/08/2028

AFFILIATED ENTITY

 

dynaBBO 

(Terminated)

Dynamic Selection and Configuration of Black-box Optimization Algorithms

01/10/2024 - 30/09/2029

AFFILIATED ENTITY

 

Exponential Motives and Arithmetic Gevrey Series

01/09/2025 - 31/08/2030

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

Impact Of The Gut Microbiota On Host Cells Energy Metabolism: Role In Health And In Inflammatory bowel disease

01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

FireSpace

Fire safety in space exploration

 

BENEFICIARY

 

Development and validation of a framework using multiple sources of real-world data to assess the benefit-risk balance of advanced therapies in inflammatory bowel disease

01/12/2024 - 30/11/2029

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

HERON

Opening a new window on the violent Universe with the Hybrid Elevated Radio Observatory for Neutrinos

 

BENEFICIARY

 

Interacting Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Wave Equations

01/02/2024 - 28/02/2029

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

Linguistic Texts of Roman Antiquity. Collecting fragments, sources and lexicon in a digital environment

01/01/2025 - 31/12/2029

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

Decoding the Mechanisms Underlying Metal-Organic Frameworks Self-Assembly

01/12/2022 - 30/10/2027

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

Retinal Mesh Optoelectronics

01/11/2022 - 31/10/2027

BENEFICIARY

IDV

 

Method for Integrated All-Optical Biological Analysis at Scale

01/10/2024 - 31/03/2026

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

LJP

 

Mott Insulator Transition in a Quantum Fluid of Light

01/10/2023 - 30/09/2028

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

LKB

 

Miniature Trace Gas Analyzers with FFP microcavities

01/10/2023 - 30/10/2025

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

LKB

 

Modelling Enlightenment: Reassembling Networks of Modernity through data-driven research

01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027

BENEFICIARY

 

Quantum Optical Physics with Neutral-Atom Waveguide-QED

01/10/2023 - 30/09/2028

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

LKB

 

A sonogenetic brain-machine interface for neurosciences and visual restoration

01/06/2024 - 31/05/2030

AFFILIATED ENTITY

IDV

 

Private interests in public functions: Framing a new paradigm of power in the cities of the Roman Empire, from the end of the Republic to Diocletian

01/01/2024 - 31/12/2028

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

Proteome diversification in evolution

01/09/2023 - 31/08/2028

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

ReStruCt

From short to long time scales: Resonances and Structure in Computation

 

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

 

Biological Isotopy of Lithium in Littoral Zones

01/04/2024 - 31/03/2029

AFFILIATED ENTITY

LOV

 

SinGular Monge-Ampère equations

01/01/2025 - 31/12/2029

BENEFICIARY

 

Understanding degradation mechanisms of metallic materials in extreme environments using element-resolved electrochemistry

01/01/2026 - 31/12/2030

COORDINATOR - Principal Investigator

About the ERC

ERC Starting Grant: Funding for early-career scientists to build their research teams around ambitious and risky projects. Grant: €1,5 millions

  • Eligibility: 2 to 7 years post PhD until 2026 calls (0 to 10 years after 2027)

ERC Consolidator Grant: Funding for early-career scientists to strengthen their research teams around projects on ambitious and risky topics. Grant: €2 millions

  • Eligibility:  8 to 12 years post PhD (5 to 15 years after 2027)

ERC Advanced Grant: Funding aimed at established researchers wishing to develop an innovative exploratory research topic that breaks with their current scientific activity. Grant: €2,5 millions

  • Eligibility:  more than 12 years post PhD

ERC Synergy Grant: Funding for collaborative projects led by two to four researchers, with no restrictions on their career stage. Grant: €10 millions

ERC Proof of Concept: Funding enabling ERC grant recipients to explore the innovation potential of promising results from their project. Grant: €150k