Chinwe Ifejika Speranza from the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern receives an ERC Consolidator Grant for the SUSTAINFORESTS project. Image: Manu Friederich
Chinwe Ifejika Speranza from the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern receives an ERC Consolidator Grant for the SUSTAINFORESTS project. Image: Manu Friederich - Two researchers from the University of Bern will receive an ERC Consolidator Grant this year. The coveted European Research Council (ERC) grants go to physicist Akitaka Ariga and geographer Chinwe Ifejika Speranza. An ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) provides support to outstanding researchers to establish or maintain their own research team at a public or private research institution within the EU or an associated country. The grants, which are part of the EU research framework program "Horizon 2020", are each endowed with approximately 2 million euros and are awarded for a period of five years. Relevant for Europe. At the University of Bern, this year's grant will fund the FASERnu project of PD Dr. Akitaka Ariga from the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) and the SUSTAINFORESTS project of Chinwe Ifejika Speranza from the Institute of Geography."The success in this competitive bid in Europe is proof that research which is relevant for Europe is being conducted at the University of Bern," says Daniel Candinas, Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Bern.
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