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HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council

Institution for basic research funding in the European Union

erc.europa.eu

Grants since 2016: 6 824
Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published): €12.5B
Funded works, last 5 years: 10k
Funded works, all time: 10.1k

Grants

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Waves, Physics, Information, and Computation

€9.9MAdvanced Wireless Communication Technologies

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

A Hardware-Aware AI Execution Framework for Edge AI Accelerators

€150kAdvanced Neural Network Applications

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Drone Spin Code: Superscatterer Stickers for Radar Recognition of Drones

€150kUAV Applications and Optimization

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Power Electronics As Edge Computing Grid Components

€2M

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Context-dependent Circadian Clock Synchrony across Cells and Tissues

€2.5M

2026–2031 · research · HORIZON-ERC

Overcoming criticality for PDEs with randomness

University of Edinburgh

€1.5MAdvanced Mathematical Physics Problems

2026–2030 · research · HORIZON-ERC

Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe

University of Glasgow

€2.5MCriminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

2026–2030 · research · HORIZON-ERC

Phase Separation and Oscillations in DNA Damage Response

Kobenhavns Universitet

€1.5MRNA Research and Splicing

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Green Integrated Aqueous RechaRgeable potassIum batteries with fertiliZer optimiZed recOvery

€150k

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

MicroSwiss: Affordable Add-On for Polarization, Lifetime, and Super-Resolved Imaging and Tracking

€150kAdvanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques

2026–2031 · research · HORIZON-ERC

Potential impact of sea level rise related salinization on lowland tropical coastal peatlands

University of Göttingen

€2MCoastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Mining the ubiquitin system for catalytic activities through advanced ubiquitin probes

€2MUbiquitin and proteasome pathways

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

TBX4 enhancer based precision gene targeting for lung health

€150k

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Development of Armored targeted CAR-T cells for immune reset of T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases

€150kCAR-T cell therapy research

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Simulation-based Protein Engineering with Transferable Implicit Transfer Operators

€2MProtein Structure and Dynamics

2026–2031 · research · HORIZON-ERC

Satellite imaging swarms with distributed onboard intelligence

Politecnico di Torino

€3M

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

In/visible women of the sea. Gendering fishery politics and advocacy

€2M

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Diverse Sounds: How Prenatal Language Experience Shapes Fetal Brain Development and Later Language Learning. A Longitudinal Study.

€1.5M

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Before the Image: The Political Ontology of Image-Making for Legal and Social Justice

€2MLaw in Society and Culture

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Gold Radiosensitizers for Advanced Proton therapy

€150kRadiation Therapy and Dosimetry

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Universal Acoustic Digital Light Processing 3D Printing

€150k

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Past-aware material networks towards tomorrow’s textile robots

€2MAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

AdaptAIR: Climate Adaptation through Artificial Ice Reservoirs (AIRs) in the Himalayas

€10MCryospheric studies and observations

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Deciphering Biomacromolecular Heterogeneity by Single Molecule Mass Spectrometry

€2.3M

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Proactive Mental Health through Multimodal Smartphone App

€150kDigital Mental Health Interventions

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

reimagining the diagnosis and monitoring of Lung diseases through the unveiling of Ultrasound Mechanisms of Interaction with pulmonary tissue LUMI

€2MUltrasound in Clinical Applications

2026–2031 · research · HORIZON-ERC

Nanoliter-Scale NMR of Biomolecule Solutions using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Goethe University Frankfurt

€1.5MAdvanced NMR Techniques and Applications

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Elections, Ecological Inference and Social Capital in Historical Perspective

€2M

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Mutagenic chemotherapy and inhibition of mismatch repair as a strategy to boost anti-tumor immune response

€150kGenetic factors in colorectal cancer

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Theory of nonradiative decay with two or more electrons at play

€2MAtomic and Molecular Physics

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Dissecting the Contributions of Neurogenesis-Defined Subpopulations of Hippocampal Neurons to Balancing Memory Stability and Malleability

€2MNeurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Scalable Brillouin spectrum engineering in thin film lithium niobate

€150kPhotorefractive and Nonlinear Optics

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Cancer-Osteocyte NeTwoRk Atlas

€2M

2026–2031 · research · HORIZON-ERC

Early Giants in Context: How could Galaxies Grow so Rapidly in the First Billion Years?

Max-planck-gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften Ev

€1.5MGalaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena

2026–2030 · research · HORIZON-ERC

Shaping the Future of Cloud for the Next Era of Computing

Imperial College London

€1.5MCloud Computing and Resource Management

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Stocking the Past: Isotopic and Genomic Approaches to Pastoralism in Prehistory

€2.5M

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Intrinsic Flame Instabilities for Engine Control: Translating Hydrogen Combustion Physics into Control Strategies

€150k

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Discovery of druggable antiviral targets across viral families through chemical probing

€3.3M

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

FUTUREFAUNA: Reshaping the FUTURE of animal computer interaction through a Framework for Animal User Needs and Agency

€1.5MHuman-Animal Interaction Studies

2026 · grant · HORIZON.1.1

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas of Migrant Solidarity

€2M