Direção de Projectos (DP)

On November 5, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the projects selected for the Call ERC Synergy Grant 2024, which aims to fund projects to tackle highly complex and interdisciplinary scientific challenges.

The Synergy Grant aims to foster collaboration between researchers, allowing them to set more ambitious goals that they would not be able to tackle individually. Fifty-seven projects were selected, totaling 571 million euros.

In this set, there is one project that includes a researcher in charge working in Portugal, and one project that includes a researcher of Portuguese nationality working abroad:

• Maria Helena Godinho, CENIMAT/NOVA, part of a consortium with two researchers from institutions in the United Kingdom and Luxembourg, with the ALCEMIST project – “Atypical Liquid Crystal Elastomers: from Materials Innovation to Scalable processing and Transformative applications”.
• Cristina Pina, Brunel University of London and graduate in Medicine from the University of Lisbon, is part of a consortium with three researchers in charge in Spain, the Netherlands and Finland, with the project MakingBlood – “Engineering an integrated platform for generation of human blood stem cells from pluripotent sources“.

With these results, research carried out in institutions of the National Science and Technology System (SNCT) has surpassed the mark of 100 million euros raised and reached 75 projects coordinated at the ERC’s Calls since the start of Horizon Europe (2021), the framework program for European funding of research and innovation for the period 2021-2027.

FCT coordinates national representation and participation in the European Research Council and, as announced at the Science 2024 Meeting, has been developing a series of new programs covering the various cycles of national participation in the ERC’s Calls . ERC-PT Pre-Assessment and ERC-PT Careers stand out .

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