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Brussels/Brno – The European Analysis Council (ERC) awarded 57 scientific groups and allotted grants totaling 571 million euros (14.4 billion CZK). Among the many researchers who, along with their overseas colleagues, have obtained these prestigious grants, there are two Czechs – Miroslav Vořechovský from the Brno College of Expertise and Ondřej Novák from the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The European Analysis Council introduced this in its assertion.
“The grants help collaboration between excellent researchers and allow them to attach their experience and sources to push the boundaries of scientific discovery,” stated the ERC. The grants are a part of the Horizon Europe analysis program. “Innovation thrives by way of collaboration, particularly in addressing the urgent challenges of our time. The ERC Synergy grants are linked with funding from Horizon Europe to attach sensible minds throughout states,” commented Commissioner for Innovation, Analysis, Tradition, Schooling, and Youth Iljana Ivanova on the grant awards. “I’m notably happy to see researchers from nations with traditionally fewer ERC grants among the many awardees, reflecting our mission to help the scientific neighborhood throughout Europe,” she added.
The European Analysis Council has obtained a complete of 548 functions, with 201 researchers concerned within the 57 profitable initiatives, who will implement their initiatives at 184 universities and analysis facilities in 24 nations throughout and past Europe. Nearly all of scientists come from Germany, Britain, France, the USA, Spain, and the Netherlands. Nonetheless, researchers from the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and Portugal, that are nations that haven’t but obtained numerous grants, are additionally collaborating in six initiatives, famous the ERC in its assertion.
The ERC grants are thought of globally very prestigious, with most initiatives funded by these grants resulting in vital discoveries. Nonetheless, the Czech Republic has lengthy achieved below-average ends in acquiring ERC grants in comparison with different nations. (November 5)
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