The winners of 2024 ERC Synergy Grants from the CNRS
The results of the 'ERC Synergy Grant' call for 2024 have just been published: 10 of the winning projects involve CNRS researchers or researchers from joint research units.
As provided for by the Horizon Europe framework programme for research and innovation, the European Research Council has selected 57 projects to benefit from a total budget of €571 million. France is a partner in 13 projects - just behind Germany (with 34 projects) and the United Kingdom (18 projects). 10 of the winning French projects involve researchers from joint units managed by the CNRS and its partners.
These grants have a 6-year duration and a maximum value of €10 million1 . They are intended to enable groups of 2 to 4 scientists from European member or associate countries to "address some of the world’s most formidable research problems spanning a range of scientific disciplines".
Nearly 32% of the researchers who are part of the winning projects are women, the highest proportion since the scheme began. This marks a notable increase compared to 2023 (18.5%).
Moreover, 22 of the 57 groups include one researcher based outside Europe: in the US, Switzerland, Australia and - for the first time – the Republic of Korea.
At CNRS level, while the success rate (16.2%) is in line with the high average observed to date, the number of projects submitted and the number of projects selected on behalf of the organisation are the highest since this type of call was launched.
The projects involving the CNRS that have been awarded a Synergy 2024 grant are:
- Brice BATHELLIER and Srdjan OSTOJIC – CHRONOLOGY – CNRS Biology
- Valérie BERTHE – DynAMiCs – CNRS Informatics
- Valérie CASTELLANI – SUNRISE – CNRS Biology
- Fabrice GAILLARD – GEOASTRONOMY – CNRS Earth & Space
- Leone GAZZIERO – RevLog Redux – CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences
- Bruno GIORDANO – Nasce – CNRS Biology
- Paul-André MELLIES and Carlos SIMPSON – MALINCA – CNRS Informatics
- Frank SEIFART – Shape – CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences
- Lameen SOUAG – nilomorph – CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences
- Pierre-Henri TOURNIER – PSINumScat – CNRS Mathematics
- 1Additional funding may be provided under special conditions.