The European Research Council (ERC) grants support individual researchers of any nationality and age who wish to pursue their frontier research. The ERC particularly encourages ground-breaking proposals, pioneering ideas, and applications that introduce unconventional or innovative approaches.

The aim of the programme is to fund the highest quality research in Europe and to support Principal Investigators on the basis of scientific excellence and creativity, independence, as well as ground-breaking research are the main ingredients for an ERC project.

Here are some interviews to learn more about each researcher’s experience and tips on how to prepare a convincing ERC proposal.
The full list of ERC grantees working at the University of Padua is available here.

ERC grantees

ELISA CIMETTA

MICRONEX

High risk... high gain!

MAURIZIO CORBETTA

ERC Synergy Grant

Like going to the moon... it’s the travel that matters

JUDIT GERVAIN

BabyRythm

… Then I got one of these “Ah-ah” moments!

GRAZIANO MARTELLO

MetEpiStem

A Pluripotent... Research Grant!

MATTEO MILLAN

PREWArAs

Working with a research group, promoting the knowledge and skills of each researcher to obtain a global result … these are just some of the advantages an ERC grant can give a PI!

ZULEIKA MURAT

SenSArt

...To the STARS and beyond!