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11 researchers in Sweden to receive an ERC Advanced Grant 2025
The ERC has published the results of last years call for ERC Advanced Grant. 319 researchers from 24 different countries are awarded the grant. 11 of them are affiliated to a Swedish host institution.
ERC Advanced Grant is intended for active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last ten years, and the average grant is 2,5 million EUR.
Under the call 2025, 319 researchers from 24 countries will share 840 million EUR. Among the 11 researchers in Sweden receiving ERC Advanced Grant, 5 are active within life sciences, 4 within social sciences and humanities and 2 within physical sciences and engineering.
ERC recieved 3 329 applications. The approval rate was 9,6 percent.
Approved research projects
University of Gothenburg
- Maria Falkenberg with the project MITOLOOP: Regulatory Mechanisms of the Mitochondrial Control Region
- Johannes Lindvall with the project OCCPOL: Dying Occupations and Political Change
Karolinska institutet
- Thomas Helleday with the project RECODE: Reprogramming inflammation via the DNA damage response-Metabolic axis control
- Kristina Gemzell Danielsson with the project INSPIRE: INnovative Solutions for Pregnancy Intervention and Regulation: Translating Endometrial Science into Contraceptive Innovation and Ectopic Pregnancy Treatment
Stockholm University
- Ville Kaila with the project bioenergetic: Currents of Life – Molecular Mechanism of Long-Range Biological Energy Transduction
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Guillaume Chapron with the project ConservationFailures: Making Nature Conservation Fail to Fail
Uppsala University
- Katja Petzold with the project DynaMech: RNA Dynamics, a Regulatory Mechanism
- Dan Andersson with the project EVOHR: Evolution of Heteroresistance
- Eszter Borbas with the project ReImagiN2: Reimagining the nitrogen economy with lanthanide photocatalysts
- Valbona Muzaka with the project Health-Wealth: Transforming Global Public Health Issues into Financial Assets
- Lisa Hultman with the project WARCRIMES: The International Politics of War Crimes
The ERC website has more statistics and a list of all the grant recipients External link.
Deadline for next call of ERC Advanced Grant is 27 August 2026. External link.
The Swedish Research Council supports researchers applying for grants from the ERC
We organise webinars to prepare researchers at Swedish universities for interviews with the ERC panel, as well as information meetings ahead of upcoming calls for proposals.
On 20 April, we organised an information meeting on the ERC Advanced Grant. Parts of the webinar were recorded and can be viewed in the link below.
ERC Advanced Grant information webinar
On 26 May, we organised an information meeting on the ERC Starting Grant and Consolidator Grant. Parts of the webinar were recorded and can be viewed in the link below.
ERC Starting and Consolidator Grant information webinar
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