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Fundamental Research

The European Research Council (ERC), set up by the European Union in 2007, is a European funding organisation dedicated to advancing cutting-edge scientific research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age to run innovative projects based across Europe.

The ERC's mission is to support the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to encourage investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, based on scientific excellence.

This page displays the latest CORDIS articles dedicated to ERC frontier research projects.

A better understanding of the sophistication behind ant navigation

25 October 2024

The evolutionary secrets of the nervous system

18 October 2024

Identifying human remains from Pleistocene Eurasia

18 October 2024

Training the next generation of geospatial scientists

18 October 2024

Tracing genetic and cultural interactions in the Neolithic Transition

18 October 2024

Collective cognition in ants augmented by individual consciousness

18 October 2024

EU-backed scientist awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

16 October 2024

How symbiotic bacteria have helped beetles thrive

14 October 2024

Spatiotemporal firing patterns during tactile processing in sensory cortex

Exploring the ‘ifs’ and ‘hows’ of turning science into business

Paving the way for secure quantum communication networks

18 September 2024

Building a bulwark against the future quantum threat

11 September 2024

Unlocking the secrets to what makes water unique

Mercury pollution and its impact on Amazonian bird life

Interdisciplinary research tackles cosmic questions from atomic to planetary scales

Tracing the flow of silver in the ancient Mediterranean basin

Mobile app promotes a more active urban lifestyle in over 55s

Solving a mystery as old as the Big Bang

Do migrating animals get jet-lagged?

New insights into how we perceive the world

Understanding how we express and infer positive emotions

Hand gesture use in baboons shines a light on our language evolution

Comparing implicit and explicit learning in primates

Exploring the role of citizen science volunteers in scientific discovery

Electroreception in air: invisible strands of connection all around us

Neuroscience elucidates how decisions form in the brain

Awarding citizen science projects par excellence

Counting insects for farmland biodiversity

Heard it through the grapevine: Unfurling plant life via history

A new way to predict chronological age