UK-based researchers won the largest share of 222 advanced research grants announced by the European Research Council on 28 March. The grants have a total value of €540 million.

An ERC Grant is the most prestigious award for excellent European research projects. A team with three researchers from the ETH Domain had also applied for such a grant. Today, Gabriel Aeppli from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Henrik Rønnow from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL and Nicola Spaldin from ETH Zurich, together with their colleague Alexander Balatsky from Nordita, Stockholm University, received the contract signed by the EU confirming the extraordinary 14 million euro funding.

329 Consolidator Grants worth €630 million.

The ERC has announced today the awarding of the Consolidator Grants that go to 329 top researchers across Europe.

€605 million to 406 researchers across Europe.

The European Commission should give Framework 9 applicants access to the full evaluation reports for their proposals, a Swiss position paper on the programme has said.

The European Research Council is planning to reduce the budgets for its single-investigator grants in 2018, to fund the return of the multi-investigator Synergy Grants.

Horizon 2020 would need four times its budget to fund all of the high-quality proposals it receives, the interim evaluation of the programme has found.

Commission hopes awards will help researchers find other sources of funding.

Updates of the model grant agreement.

The Swiss parliament approved a law to limit immigration by giving its residents priority access to employment vacancies, in an effort to shore up ties with the EU.

Researchers must have grants to win grants, new study says.

The European Commission’s flagship investment scheme is imbalanced towards the EU’s richest countries, according to a report by the European Investment Bank.

Study highlights the true cost of low success rates in Horizon 2020.

Rich-get-richer effect in the EU research funding success

The EU Commission is canvassing views on whether the process of assessing research projects should be more open to public eyes.

A political impasse and a mounting pile of debts pose a threat to research in Europe.

A new agreement with the European Union means that Swiss researchers are eligible for some Horizon 2020 grants.

Negotiations on the European budget could result in cuts to Horizon 2020, the European University Association has warned.

Changes in scope and focus of European project anger factions of neuroscience community.

Demand for ERC Starting Grants stabilizes after Switzerland being not eligible for the first time.