The European Research Council
(ERC) on Tuesday earmarked 600 million euros in funding for 301
European researchers including 23 Italians.
Only seven of the Italians, however, will carry out their
projects in Italy.
The Italian researchers are in fourth place behind Germans,
French and Dutch.
The funding, called consolidator grants, is aimed at
researchers with at least seven years of experience after their
doctoral degrees.
It aims to consolidate their scientific activity on "projects
of excellence", the ERC said.
The projects are funded within the framework of the EU
Horizon 2020 research programme.
They are groundbreaking projects ranging from edible
electronic food that controls health to the ways in which
climate change will modify the Earth's surface.
The winners are from 37 nationalities and will carry out
their projects in the universities and research centres of 24
different countries all around Europe.
Germany is in top spot with 52 projects funded.
It is followed by the UK with 50, Frnance with 43 and the
Netherlands with 32.
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