The European Research Council (ERC) is the funding organization of the European Union. Each year, it selects research proposals from researchers of all nationalities whose projects are carried out in Europe.

Starting Grants provide funding of up to 1.5 million euros to excellent early-career researchers for a period of five years.
ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded to researchers seven to twelve years after completion of their doctorate. The research must be carried out in a public or private research institution in an EU member state or associated country.

The Advanced Grant supports experienced excellent researchers with up to 2.5 million euros over a maximum period of five years.

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Advanced Grant des ERC

• CellularPQCD - Cellular Strategies of Protein Quality Control-Degradation    
  Professor Thorsten Hoppe, CECAD – Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (2024) 
   
• HyAngle - Challenging the fundamental limit of angular dispersion by hybridizing light and matter
  Professor Malte Gather, Department for Chemistry (2023)
   
• REWILDING - Rewilding the Anthropocene. Human-Animal Assemblages in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area
  Professor Michael Bollig. Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology (2022) 
   
• Missions - Molecular Spectra of Missing Ions in the Laboratory and in Space
  Professor Dr. Stephan Schlemmer, Institute for Astrophysics (2021)
   
• Exo-Oceans - Searching and Characterizing Extraterrestrial Subsurface Oceans
  Professor Joachim Saur, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology (2020)

Consolidator Grant des ERC

• ENTRENCHED - Elite Capture and Social Mobility
  Prof. Erik Hornung, Professorship for Economic History (2025)
   
• ModEv - Modular Forms are Everywhere
  Professor Katrin Bringmann, Mathematical Institute (2021)
   
• MINORITYRULE - Democracy without Majorities:  Political Representation under Minority Rule
  Professor Sven-Oliver Proksch, Cologne Center for Comparative Politics (2021)
   
• ONCOFUM - Integrating the tissue-specificity and chronology of hereditary renal cancer predisposition
  Professor Christian Frezza, CECAD (2019)
   
• APOSITE – Apoptotic foci: composition, structure and dynamics
  Professor Ana García Sáez, Institute for Genetics, CECAD (2019)
   

Starting Grant des ERC

• ROSE - Reconstruction of Specialized Metabolite Evolution Through Molecular Switches
  Prof. Dr. Markus Stetter, Institute for Plant Sciences and Cluster of Excellence CEPLAS (2025)
   
• VIRAL - Viral Narratives:  The Role of Narratives for Economic Belief Formation
  Prof. Dr. Christopher Roth, Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB) and Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute (2025)
   
• OPPORTUNITY - Inequalities in decision-making at critical junctions in life: The role of ability signals for sorting and selection
  Professor Pia Pinger, Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy (2024)
   
• METABIONT - Dissection of the host-microbe crosstalk that controls metabolism and physiology in intestinal symbiosis
  Dr Gilles Storelli CECAD – Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (2023)
   
• HYPERION - Optical Sequencing inside Live Cells with Biointegrated Nanolasers
  Professor Marcel Schubert, Biointegrated Photonics (2022)
   
• Managing People - Managing People - How Employees’ Social Preferences Shape the Returns to Management Practices
  Professor Matthias Heinz, Professorship for Strategy (2022)
   
• HIPPO - Housing, Inequality and Public Policies
  Professor Sebastian Siegloch, Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy (2022)
   
• METAMOLE - Learning from naked mole-rats how to prevent ischaemic heart disease
  Dr Jane Reznick, CECAD – Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (2021)
   
• Kinmatrix - Uncovering the Kinship Matrix: A New Study of Solidarity and Transmission in European Families
  Professor Thomas Leopold, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology (2020)

ERC Synergy Grant

• SHAPE - The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages
  Professor Pamela Perniss, Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation (2025)
   
• BATPROTECT - Learning from Bats: New Strategies to Extend Healthspan and Improve Disease Resistance
  Professor Björn Schumacher, CECAD – Cluster of Excellence Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (2024)