34 ERC Starting Grants for Swiss Research

(European Research Council, September 04, 2020)

The European Research Council (ERC) recently awarded 34 highly coveted ERC Starting Grants to Swiss-based early-career scientists and scholars in order to help them build their own teams and conduct pioneering research across a wide range of disciplines. This diversity is also reflected in the universities and research centers that host these new laureates, which include CERN, Empa, EPFL, ETH Zurich, the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the University of Basel, the University of Bern, the University of Geneva, the University of Lausanne and the University of Zurich. For this round of the ERC Starting Grants competition, 436 of the 3,722 (approximately 13%) submitted proposals were selected for funding, worth in total €677 million.