The European Research Council has awarded €250 million in the return of its massive collaborative Synergy Grants, but only 15 per cent of the winners are women.
The ERC announced with much fanfare on 23 October that 27 successful Synergy Grant project proposals will each be given an average of €9.3m over up to six years. It is the first time that Synergy Grants have been awarded since a pilot ended in 2013. They are the ERC’s biggest awards and its only collaborative ones, being shared among two to four principal investigators.
“Relaunching the Synergy Grants was a bold step by the ERC Scientific Council to show its commitment to more interdisciplinary research,” said ERC president Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. “The selected projects represent truly daring ideas put forward by some of Europe’s top scientists.”
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