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Programmes ERCThe results of the 2024 European Research Council (ERC) Advancd Grant call (call deadline 29 August 2024) were published. Advanced Grants are open to active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements. The Principal Investigators (PIs) should be exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.
Proposals are evaluated in 28 evaluation panels in three research domains (Physical Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities and Life Sciences) composed of top scientists and scholars coming from all over the world and in addition by remote referees with necessary specialised expertise (usually two to five per proposal).
Of the 2534 submitted proposals 281 researchers with 32 different nationalities received an ERC Advanced Grant: 83 In Life Sciences, 118 in Physical Sciences and Engineering and 80 in Social Sciences and Humanities. Beside the list of selected researchers in the ERCEA news articles more background on the evaluation results, call statistics, and several project examples are highlighted.
However the statistics and list of successful candidates for this call are provisional since it is expected that Switzerland will only be formally associated to Horizon Europe in 2025. The scope of the association agreement does not cover award procedures implementing the 2024 budget. No grant agreements will therefore be signed with host institutions established in Switzerland under the 2024 Advanced Grant call. Switzerland-based applicants may only receive EU funding if they transfer their proposed project to an eligible host institution.
Among the 281 selected researchers are fifteen based at Flemish host institutions. The projects of these fifteen Principal Investigators (PIs) are presented in the news articles of Universiteit Antwerpen, Universiteit Gent, KU Leuven and VIB.
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The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.
