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ERC Grants

All researchers and projects that have received the prestigious grants for frontier science from the European Research Council (ERC).

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The (ERC) is a part of the EU's research programme Horizon Europe. The ERC promotes听high-quality research by funding the best researchers and the best ideas in Europe. The topics are proposed by the researchers themselves and selected through strong competition.
ERC funding is considered one of the most prestigious awards a researcher can receive.

Ongoing ERC funded research听at 幸运飞艇计划

Synergy Grants
, Department of linguistic, literary and aestethic studies	听(2025-2031) The Medieval Book and Networks of Northern Europe c. 1000鈥�1500: Texts, Crafts, Fragments.听 The project will investigate the significance of the medieval manuscript book in shaping Northern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, focusing on a unique collection of over 50,000 parchment book fragments found in five Nordic countries.
Andrea Bender, Department of Psychosocial Science	QUANTA (2021-2027) The Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification QUANTA investigates when, why, and how humans developed number systems,and why those vary so massively across cultures.
Advanced Grants
Jill Walker Rettberg,听 Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies	AI STORIES (2024-2029) This project explores how narrative archetypes shape AI outputs.
Rolv Skj忙rven,听 Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care	(2019-2025) A woman's reproductive experience: Long-term implications for chronic disease and death The purpose of the new research project is to investigate how pregnancy complications affect women's future health. Read more here.
Consolidator Grants
,听 Faculty of Law	COMPLEX (2025-2030) Understanding the criminal law鈥檚 complex association between criminal insanity and mental disorders. In this project we will explore the legal relevance of mental disorders for criminal accountability and punishment, through cross-country, empirical and interdisciplinary legal studies.
,听 Department of Clinical Science	AuditeMatrem (2025 - 2030) Temporary inconvenience or early warning signs? A new take on maternal symptoms in early pregnancy and their consequences. In this project, we investigate the cause of symptoms in early pregnancy and study their relationship with consequences for women and their children.
Bettina Huseb酶, Department of Global Public听Health and Primary Care/ Centre for Elderly and Nursing Home Medicine	5-D听(2024-2028) Decoding Death and Dying in people with Dementia by Digital thanotyping. This project is investigating how sensing technology can be used to recognize symptoms among people with dementia at the end of life.听
Kjetil V氓ge,听 Geophysical Institute/ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research	ROVER (2024-2028) Resilient northern overturning in a warming climate In this project we investigate how the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation responds to reduced sea-ice extent in a warming climate.听
Cristian Gebhardt,听 Geophysical Institute/ Bergen Offshore Wind Centre 听	DATA-DRIVEN OFFSHORE (2023 - 2028) Data-Driven Approaches in Computational Mechanics for the Aerohydroelastic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines 听
Karl Magnus Laundal, Department of Physics and Technology/ Birkeland Centre for Space Science	Dynamit (2023-2027) Dynamic Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere coupling The project will investigate how Earth's atmosphere is dynamically coupled to space.听
Hallvard Moe, Department of Information and Media Studies	PREPARE听(2023-2027) Distributed and prepared. A new theory of citizens鈥� public connection networks in the age of datafication.听
Pawel Burkhardt,听 Michael Sars Centre	ORIGINEURO听(2023-2027) Tracking the deep evolutionary origins of neurons. The project will investigate the special nervous system of ctenophores (comb jellies) with a focus on their anatomy, development and function and could challenge the standard view that neural networks always consist of individual neurons.
Inga Berre, Department of Mathematics	MaPSI (2021-2026) Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Process-Structure Interaction in Fractured Geothermal Systems The project will develop new mathematical models and numerical methods, and use these in the simulation of processes in geothermal systems that has not been possible to quantify previously.
Ragnhild Muriaas,听 Department of Government	SUCCESS (2021-2026) Gender-Gap in Political Endurance: a novel political inclusion theory Professor听Ragnhild听Muriaas听at the Department of Comparative Politics will shed light on what makes women leave politics faster than men, and what makes them stay. With the project, she听will launch听a completely new way of understanding gender balance in politics. Read more here.
Nele Meckler,听 Department of Earth Sciences	(2021-2026) Fluid Inclusion Microthermometry in Speleothems Nele Meckler and her colleagues will reconstruct past climate, by studying stalagmites in tropical caves, where tiny drops of ancient water are preserved in the rocks and can tell them about climate at the time when the water dripped from the cave ceiling.
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten,听 Department of Government	听(2021-2026) Openings to the Inclusion of Muslim Minorities in Today鈥檚 Democracies Professor Elisabeth听Ivarsflaten听receives the ERC Consolidator Grant for the project "INCLUDE".听The project addresses one of听the听most fundamental challenges听of our time; how to live peacefully together as diverse societies.听听
Saket Saurabh,听 Department of informatics	LOPRE听(2019-2025) Lossy preprocessing Saket Saurabh听aims to revolutionise how we handle, utilise and compress Big Data.
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,听 Department of Mathematics	OCEANCOUPLING (2024-2029) This project takes on the quest to understand how extreme ocean surface waves affect us. Such waves pose a threat to ships and infrastructure, becoming increasingly frequent and extreme due to climate changes.
Aaron Spitzer,听 Department of Comparative Politics	CONFRONT (2024-2029) Contested frontiers: Rights clashes and the (re)constitution of settler-state peripheries This project studies how liberal-democratic settlers/states deploy rights-claims to domesticate borderland jurisdictions, and how Indigenous peoples deploy countervailing rights-claims to resist such domestication
Marry-Anne Karlsen, Department of Social Anthropology	ASYKNOW (2023-2028) Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation ASYKNOW investigates how expert knowledge is mobilized, contested, and constituted in and through asylum appeal processes
Justas Zalieckas,听 Department of Physics and Technology	SmartGROW (2023-2027) Fractals and metamaterials support 3D diamond growth for industrial coatings
Vadim Kimmelman, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies	Nonmanual (2023-2027) The project 鈥�Fundamentals of formal properties of nonmanuals: A quantitative approach鈥� (NONMANUAL)听will study facial expressions and body and head movements in five different sign languages, using large datasets, Computer Vision and advanced statistical analysis.
Carlo Koos, Department of Government	(2022-2026) The Micro-Level Effects of Civil Wars on Multiple Dimensions of Women鈥檚 Empowerment The project investigates if, how and under which conditions violence in Civil Wars affects women's empowerment and gender relations.
Adriana Bunea,听 Department of Comparative Politics	(2019-2025) Effects of stakeholder consultations on the inputs, processes and outcomes of executive policymaking The project aims to investigate stakeholder consultations as institutions of political participation and representation, and to systematically study their听effects on executive policymaking in the EU.
Iain G. Johnston,听 Department of Mathematics	(2019-2025) Uncovering and engineering the principles governing evolution and cellular control of bioenergetic organelles听 EvoConBiO will investigate a hypothesised universal tension between robustness and control that shapes how organelle genomes have evolved, how they are controlled and protected by modern-day cells, and how scientists may intervene to improve bioenergetic performance in important crop and biofuel species.听
Randi Jacobsen Bertelsen,听 Department of Clinical Science	BRuSH (2019-2024) Oral Bacteria as determinants for respiratory health BRuSH will examine of bacteria in the oral cavity can have an influence on the health of our respiratory system.听听
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Some researchers have not started their ERC project yet, and are therefore not added to the list.
Researchers who have received an ERC award but are carrying out or have carried out their ERC projects at other institutions are not added to the list.

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Completed ERC projects

Synergy Grant

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Eystein Jansen听&听
Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu,听
Department of Earth Science/
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

(2014-2019)听Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Ice Sheet Sensitivity

Advanced Grants

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John Birks,
Department of Biology

HOPE (2017-2024)
Humans on Planet Earth-Long term impact on biosphere dynamics
We know that humans have changed the Earth in the last 8000 years, through agriculture, erosion, modifying water and nutrient budgets and so on. The HOPE project wants to elucidate whether early humans modified these major ecological processes.

Kenneth Hugdahl ,听Department of Biological and Medical Psychology
(2 grants)

ONOFF听(2016-2021)
Perception of voices that do not exist: Tracking the temporal signatures of auditory hallucinations

VOICE听(2011-2016)
From cognition to brain systems

Bruce Kapferer ,听Department of Social Antrhopology

EGALITARIANISM听(2014-2019)
Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons

Nikolai听脴stgaard, Department of Physics and Technology

TGF-MEPPA听(2013-2018)
Terrestrial Gamma Flashes-the Most Energetic Photon Phenomenon in our Atmosphere

P氓l Rasmus Nj酶lstad,听Department of Clinical Science

SELECTionPREDISPOSED听(2012-2017)
Novel Tools for Early Childhood Predisposition to Obesity

Fedor Fomin,听Department of Informatics

PREPROCESSING听(2011-2016)
Rigorous Theory of Preprocessing

Christopher Henshilwood,听Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion

(2010-2015)
Tracing the evolution of symbolically mediated behaviours within variable environments in Europe and southern Africa

Frede Tingstad, Department of Biological Sciences

(2010-2015)
Microbial Network Organisation

Consolidator Grants

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Jill Walker Rettberg,听
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies

MachineVision听(2018-2024)
Machine Vision in Everyday Life:听Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media
Jill Walker Rettberg studied how new algorithmic images are affecting us as a society and as individuals.听

Harald Sodemann,
Geophysical Institute/ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

ISLAS听(2018-2023)
Isotopic links to atmospheric water's sources
Harald Sodemann will use new technology to trace water vapour and its significance for weather prediction and climate models.听

Thomas Arnesen,听
Department of Biomedicine

NterAct听(2018-2023)
Discovery and functional significance of posttranslational N-terminal acetylation
Thomas Arnesen studied a gene that controls cell motion and how it is turned on and off.

Marit Skivenes,
Department of Government

听(2017-2023)
Discretion and the child麓s best interests in child protection
Marit Skivenes researches discretionary decision-making in child protection services in different countries.

Andreas H. Hejnol,
Michael Sars Centre

(2015-2020)
The evolution of mesoderm and its differentiation into cell types and organ systems

Noel Keenlyside,Geophysical Institute /
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

听(2015-2020)
Synchronisation to enhance reliability of climate prediction

Starting Grants

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Scott Bremer,听
Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities

CALENDARS (2018-2023)
Co-production of seasonal representations for adaptive institutions
Scott Bremer is looking at how rapid seasonal changes are affecting institutions in society and how we can re-learn and adapt to seasonal change in new ways.听

Hans Christian Steen-Larsen,听
Geophysical Institute/ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

SNOWISO (2018-2024)
Signals from the Surface Snow: Post-Depositional Processes Controlling the Ice Core Isotopic Fingerprint
Steen-Larsen will analyze isotopes from ice cores to create a better understanding of past climate variations, and thus better climate models.

Timothy Lynagh,听
Michael Sars Centre

iGLURs- A NEW VIEW (2018-2024)
Exposing Nature鈥檚 View of Ligand Recognition in Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors
This project aimed to establish the complete evolutionary and chemical basis for ligand recognition in ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs).听

Daniel Lokshtanov, Department of Informatics

(2017-2022)听
Pareto-Optimal Parameterized Algorithms

Nele Meckler, Department of Earth Science /
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

(2015-2020)听
Climate change across Cenozoic cooling steps reconstructed with clumped isotope thermometry

Saket Saurabh, Department of Informatics

(2012-2017)听
Parameterized Approximation听

Proof of Concept Grants

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Harald Sodemann,
Geophysical Institute/ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research听听

VISOR听-听Versatile water vapour isotope calibration device for laboratory and field use.

Noel Keenlyside,听
Geophysical Institute/ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

TOSCP听鈥撎�Towards Operational Supermodel Climate Prediction

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This page is updated by Katie Anders听and 脜shild Nylund

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ERC grantee number 10 000

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ERC grants

Prestigious research funding with applicants from all over the world. Awarded by the (ERC).听

ERC Synergy Grant

Awarded to ambitious projects in a group of 2-4 outstanding researchers.
Up to听鈧�10 million over 6 years.

ERC Advanced Grant

Awarded to established world-class researchers.
Up to听鈧�2.5 million over 5 years.

ERC Consolidator Grant

Awarded to established researchers 7-12 years after their PhD.
Up to 鈧�2 million over 5 years.

ERC Starting Grant

Awarded to researchers 2-7 years after their PhD.
Up to 鈧�1.5 million over 5 years.

ERC Proof of Concept Grant

Innovation funding for ERC grantees.

Professor Inga Berre was celebrated as ERC grantee number 10 000 in 2021.

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Skjermdump

In 2020, 幸运飞艇计划 ran the campaign "Friends of the ERC", urging the EU to increase funding for the ERC in the next long-term budget. The campaign gained support from 24,000 researchers plus stakeholders and politicians from Europe and beyond.

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These projects have received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union鈥檚 Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe research and innovation programmes. Photo: EU

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Top European grants to the University of Bergen

Associate Professor Marc Vaudel and Professor Linda Gr枚ning at the University of Bergen have each been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant.

Nordic research team receives 鈧�13 million to explore medieval book culture鈥�

脜slaug Ommundsen from the University of Bergen, along with three Nordic research partners, has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant to investigate how books and literary networks shaped Northern Europe between 1000 and 1500 CE.鈥€€�

Wave Researcher Awarded ERC Starting Grant

Yan Li receives prestigious research support for the quest to understand how extreme ocean surface waves affect us. Such waves pose a threat to ships and infrastructure, becoming increasingly frequent and extreme due to climate changes.

ERC wants to see what shapes the stories AI tells us

Professor Jill Walker Rettberg receives an ERC Advanced Grant to see how narrative archetypes influence the future of artificial intelligence.

Eystein Jansen elected Vice President of the ERC

Climate scientist Eystein Jansen has been elected Vice President of the European Research Council (ERC). He is the first Norwegian researcher to join the leadership of the elite division for European research.

ERC grants to Huseb酶 and Valen

Bettina Huseb酶 and Eivind Valen have received funding for ground-breaking research projects through the European Research Council (ERC). In total, 幸运飞艇计划 has been awarded six ERC Consolidator Grants in 2023.

ERC Starting Grant to research on migration and diamond coating

Pioneering research ideas on migration and diamond coating have given Marry-Anne Karlsen and Justas Zalieckas at the University of Bergen a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Portretter av Moe, Burkhardt, Kimmelman og Koos

Four researchers win ERC funding for frontier science

Hallvard Moe, Pawel Burkhardt, Vadim Kimmelman, and Carlo Koos have received 幸运飞艇计划's first ERC grants from Horizon Europe.

ERC funding for Sars Centre research on deviations from the Neuron Doctrine

Pawel Burkhardt is awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant for his exciting project ORIGINEURO

Prestigious grant for sign language researcher

Linguistics professor Vadim Kimmelman receives high-level funding from the EU. Now he will be able to build a research team and explore different properties in five different sign languages.

A jigsaw puzzle of climate change in the Arctic

What will be the consequences of ice on Greenland and in the Arctic melting at an alarming pace? This was one of the questions Professor Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu and colleagues wanted to find answers to in the largest ever ERC project in the Nordic countries; the Synergy Grant Ice2Ice project.

Inga Berre is ERC recipient number 10,000

As grantee number 10,000 to receive funding from the European Research Council (ERC), Inga Berre will use applied mathematics in order to understand what happens underground when heat is extracted from the Earth's interior.

Four 幸运飞艇计划 researchers receive top European grants

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Nele Meckler, Ragnhild Muriaas, and Inga Berre have been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant.

Count 鈥� and I know who you are

Humans are the only species that uses symbols to express quantities, and researchers now want to find out why number systems vary so much between cultures.

Did our ancestors change the climate?

John Birks is Principal Investigator in the project HOPE, which aims to discover the impact prehistoric people had on the biosphere. The project is made possible by the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant.

Portretter av Laundal, Gebhardt, V氓ge og Puy

Four researchers awarded ERC Consolidator Grants

Karl Magnus Laundal, Cristian Gebhardt, Kjetil V氓ge, and Arnald Puy have received funding to conduct groundbreaking research through the European Research Council (ERC).

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Ongoing ERC funded research听at 幸运飞艇计划