Four Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council Advanced Grants
The funding will enable these researchers to explore their most innovative and ambitious ideas. The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the award of 218 Advanced Grants to outstanding research leaders across Europe, as part of the Horizon Europe programme. The grants, totalling ¤544 million, support cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields from medicine and physics to social sciences and humanities. The ERC is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. The ERC Advanced Grant funding is amongst the most prestigious and competitive EU funding schemes, providing researchers with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs. Grants are awarded to established, leading researchers with a proven track record of significant research achievements over the past decade. The University of Cambridge's grant awardees are: Anna Korhonen, Professor of Natural Language Processing in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, for her project Towards Globally Equitable Language Technologies.
