Maria Leptin

“We are falling dangerously behind our competitors.”

ERC President Maria Leptin on the next EU R&I budget:

“Maintaining the Commission proposal is the minimum. Strengthening it would be strategic.”

Listen to the hearing at the European Parliament (9’32’30)
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Our Scientific Council met for the first plenary in its new constellation!

Meet our six new members and our three new Vice-Presidents:
link.europa.eu/NdwjMm

Learn more about our independent governing body:
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Curiosity, adventure and discovery.

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Giulia Giordano, Eleonora Macchia and Géraldine Laloux share what inspired them to choose a career in science, from early curiosity to inspiring teachers.

#WomenInScience #GirlsInScience #IDWGS #STEM

Even when the focus is on research with immediate industrial applications, many policymakers recognise that breakthroughs start with fundamental science. That's why Mario Draghi recommended doubling the ERC’s budget.

ERC President spoke at @sciencebusiness.net Annual Conference earlier this week.

Great group of new colleagues on the ERC Scientific Council, welcome to all of you! There's a lot of work to be done!

very much looking forward to working with Lotte, Torsten and Nicola!!

Today is #Nobel Day! 🏅

Watch the festive ceremony with speeches - a true celebration of blue sky discovery and scientific curiosity!
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Philippe Aghion, funded by EU via the ERC, is among the 2025 laureates!
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Congratulations to all!

The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣

349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!

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#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope

@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

🏅#NobelPrize week began in enlightened fashion with a dazzling light show in Stockholm.

ERC grantee Philippe Aghion won the Economics Prize for work on “innovation-driven economic growth”.

Watch his Nobel lecture:

⏰ MON 8/11 from 14.30

🎥 Livestream
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Fruitful meeting between Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva and the ERC Scientific Council last Friday.

Much common ground on key topics including academic freedom, boosting the budget for cutting-edge research, gender and diversity issues, and widening participation in ERC calls.

@marialep.bsky.social, President of @erc.europa.eu:

“President von der Leyen wants research at the heart of the EU’s economy. Since 2007, the European Research Council has delivered breakthroughs that boost industry and competitiveness.”

#2025YearsOfEBS #EBS2025 #ChooseEurope

what amazing company I find myself in!

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!

We are uniting two research powerhouses.

For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.

Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

Breaking Nobel news!🏅

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants.
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Happy to have been given another two years to work for the research community together with the wonderful staff @erc.europa.eu

Super visit to the IIT with demos of their robotics with @erc.europa.eu funded projects by Antonio Bicchi, @awykowska.bsky.social and others. Maria Fossati’s artificial ‘soft hand’ is much better than my neuro-impaired natural one! @ercgrantees.bsky.social @axc.bsky.social @giorgiometta.bsky.social

Horizon Europe 2028 - 2034: twice bigger, simpler, faster and more impactful Research and innovation news alert: As part of the next long-term EU budget 2028-2034, the Commission is proposing to double the budget of the research and innovation framework programme to €175 billi...

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC.

We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail.

@Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU

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I use that example, too!

The report identifies factors that limit innovation in Europe: fragmentation, both of markets and of regulatory frameworks, incl different national implementations of EU legislation, no true financial union, incompatible standards, insufficient R&D funding, risk-averse regulatory culture.

🥁 New article 📢: #Mechanobiology of #development during #Drosophila #gastrulation using #Brillouin microscopy, now in @natcomms.nature.com : rdcu.be/ev6ZX
Collab. w/ @Prevedel_Lab @embl.org , Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social, @abhisha-thayambath.bsky.social, Julio Belmonte @ncstate.bsky.social

🇩🇰🇪🇺 During the Danish EU Presidency which officially opened today, the ERC will visit Copenhagen.

A high-level event on EU competitiveness will be held on 7 October, with research leaders including a Nobel laureate and political figures.

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@eu2025dk.bsky.social #FrontierResearch

ERC President Maria Leptin was awarded the De Sanctis Europa Award.🏅

Congratulations to the winners - all prominent European figures in the fields of art, humanities & science - including
@president.europarl.europa.eu, ECB president.ecb.europa.eu ,
H.M. Queen Mother of the Belgians Paola.

Great Scientific Council meeting @durhamuniversity.bsky.social incl. roundtable with some of the UK research community, and Minister Vallance joining online. Inspiring research presentations from ERC grantees.

Huge thanks to our hosts Durham Uni and Council member @harrietbulkeley.bsky.social !

So proud to be among this group of extremely eminent and fun people!

Estonian scientists are talented and ambitious. So inspiring to see that they strive for even greater success!
Estonia hosts 20 ERC grantees.

In Tallinn, we had great meetings with Prime Minister Kristen Michal, Ministers Kristina Kallas and Erkki Keldo, and the scientific community.

We are passionately hoping for more funding in the next framework programme (And have publicly called for doubling EU research funding)) to rectify this!

Valid point! The ERC Scientific Council is very well aware of this, but there are no fair measures that would prohibit this behavior without hurting justified applications or introducing tons of bureaucracy and red tape that nobody wants

many of them are! Several governments, national funders and private philantrophies gie grants tio the 'unfunded A' applications, or even all those who made it to the final interview!

Congratulations! The new Advanced Grant winners are great news.
But yet again, many scientists - around 260 - with ground-breaking ideas were rated as excellent, but remained unfunded due to a lack of funds at the ERC. Hope that more funding will be available in the future!

Pleasure to visit Vilnius!

Good discussions with Prime Minister Paluckas and Vice Foreign Minister Mitkus, and uplifting to meet the scientific community including all 6 ERC grantees and the Research Council.

Good progress in science in Lithuania over the last years!

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