UC3M obtains a new ERC Consolidator Grant

It has received almost 2 million euros from the European Research Council 2/6/23 The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has received almost two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) after obtaining a new Consolidator Grant, aimed at research staff with 7 to 12 years of experience who want to consolidate a research group. UC3M is one of the eleven Spanish universities that have obtained funding in this call. The project was presented by Juan Antonio Mayoral Díaz-Asensio, from UC3M's Dept. of Social Sciences. The ERC funds Consolidator Grants through Horizon Europe, the European Union (EU)'s main funding programme in the field of research and innovation. They are aimed at research staff of any nationality with a promising scientific career and an excellent research proposal to be developed in Europe. This European call, with a success rate of 14 percent, is allocating 657 million euros to 321 research projects from all over the continent (selected from 2,222 proposals).