The European Research Council (ERC) grants support excellent researchers to pursue frontier research. Researchers are selected by their innovative ideas for duture research as well as the exceptional quality of the previous work and the grants are awarded solely on the basis of scientific quality.
With a success rate of around 10% of applications submitted, these grants are highly competitive, which turns out to be a proof of excellency.
Principal Investigator - António Jacinto
Grant – Starting Grant
Project - RESEAL-Epithelial Resealing
Amount – 1,150,000 €
Timeframe - 2008-2014
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Principal Investigator - Miguel Ferreira
Grant – Starting Grant
Project - UNIVERSAL BANKING - Universal Banking, Corporate Control and Crises
Amount – 1,174,000 €
Timeframe - 2013-2018
Academic Unit – Nova School of Business and Economics
Principal Investigator - Mariana Pinho
Grant – Starting Grant
Project – PROTEINLOCALIZATION - Finding New Mechanisms for Protein Localization in Bacteria
Amount – 1,656,960 €
Timeframe - 2013-2018
Academic Unit – ITQB NOVA
Principal Investigator - Carla Fernandes
Grant – Starting Grant
Project – BLACKBOX - A collaborative platform to document performance composition: from conceptual structures in the backstage to customizable visualizations in the front-end
Amount – 1,378,200 €
Timeframe - 2014-2019
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Principal Investigator - Ana Cecília Roque
Grant – Starting Grant
Project – SCENT - Hybrid Gels for Rapid Microbial Detection
Amount – 1,500,000 €
Timeframe - 2015-2020
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
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Principal Investigator - Luís Pereira
Grant – Starting Grant
Project – NEW_FUN - New era of printed paper electronics based on advanced functional cellulose
Amount – 1,429,719 €
Timeframe - 2015-2020
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
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Principal Investigator - Pedro Barquinha
Grant – Starting Grant
Project – TREND - Transparent and flexible electronics with embedded energy harvesting based on oxide nanowire devices
Amount – 1,500,000 €
Timeframe - 2017-2021
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
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Principal Investigator - Francisco Freire
Grant – Starting Grant
Project – CAPSAHARA - Critical Approaches to Politics, Social Activism, and Islamic Militancy in the Western Saharan Region (Mauritania, Western Sahara, Southern Morocco)
Amount – 1,192,144 €
Timeframe - 2017-2020
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
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Principal Investigator - Catarina Homem
Grant – Starting Grant
Project – StemCellHabitat - Metabolic and Timed Control of Stem Cell Fate in the Developing Animal
Amount – 1,700,000 €
Timeframe - 2018-2022
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
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Principal Investigator - Cláudia Nunes dos Santos
Grant - Starting Grant
Project - Zooming the link between diet and brain health: how phenolic metabolites modulate brain inflammation (LIMBo)
Amount - 1.500.000 €
Timeframe - 2018 - 2023
Academic Unit - iBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica e Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica
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Principal Investigator – João Conde
Grant - Starting Grant
Project - Cancer heterogeneity and therapy profiling using bioresponsive nanohydrogels for the delivery of multicolor logic genetic circuits (GelGeneCircuit)
Amount – €1,435,312
Timeframe - 2020-2025
Academic Unit – NOVA Medical School
Principal Investigator – Alex Armand
Grant – Starting Grant
Project – GLOBCOADEV: The global impact of coastal water contamination on economic development
Amount – €1,474,496
Timeframe - 2022-2027
Academic Grant – NOVA SBE
Principal Investigator - Elvira Fortunato
Grant – Advanced Grant
Project – INVISIBLE - Advanced Amorphous Multicomponent Oxides for Transparent Electronics
Amount – 2,250,000 €
Timeframe - 2009-2014
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Principal Investigator - Elvira Fortunato
Grant - Advanced Grant
Project - Multifunctional Digital Materials Platform for Smart Integrated Applications | DIGISMART
Amount - 3.500.000 €
Timeframe - 2018 - 2023
Academic Unit - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
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Principal Investigator – Mariana Pinho
Grant – Advanced Grant
Project – MissingLinks: Finding the missing links in the bacterial cell cycle
Amount – €3,000,000
Timeframe - 2024-2029
Academic Unit - ITQB NOVA
Principal Investigator - Cristina Silva Pereira
Grant – Consolidator Grant
Project – MIMESIS - Development of biomaterials through mimesis of plant defensive interfaces to fight wound infections
Amount – 1,795,968 €
Timeframe - 2015-2020
Academic Unit – ITQB NOVA
Principal Investigator - Isabel Ferreira
Grant – Consolidator Grant
Project – CapTherPV - Integration of Capacitor, Thermoelectric and PhotoVoltaic thin films for efficient energy conversion and storage
Amount – 1,999,375 €
Timeframe - 2015-2020
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
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Principal Investigator - Ana Rita Duarte
Grant – Consolidator Grant
Project – Des.solve - When solids become liquids: natural deep eutectic solvents for chemical process engineering
Amount– 1,877,006 €
Timeframe - 2017-2020
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Principal Investigator - Mariana Gomes de Pinho
Grant - Consolidator Grant
Project – ChronosAntibiotics - Exploring the bacterial cell cycle to re-sensitize antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Amount – 2.600.000 €
Timeframe - 2018-2022
Academic Unit – ITQB NOVA
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Principal Investigator - Maria de Lurdes Rosa
Grant - Consolidator Grant
Project - VINCULUM; Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries)
Amount - 1.600.000 €
Timeframe - 2018-2023
Academic Unit - NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH)
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Principal Investigator – Susana Viegas
Grant – Consolidator Grant
Project – Film and Death: Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death
Amount – €1,700,000
Timeframe - 2023-2028
Academic Unit - NOVA FCSH
Principal Investigator – Manuel Mendes
Grant – Consolidator Grant
Project – X-STREAM - Power-to-X: STREAMing Hydrogen from 3-Band Solar Cells boosted with Photonic Management
Amount – €1,999,608
Timeframe - 2024-2028
Academic Unit – NOVA FCT
Principal Investigator - António Jacinto
Grant – Proof of Concept
Project – EMODI - Epithelial resistance modulation to treat disease
Amount – 147,500 €
Timeframe - 2016-2018
Academic Unit – Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Principal Investigator - Isabel Maria Mercês Ferreira
Grant - Proof of Concept Grant
Project - Cellulose Aluminium Polymer multi-ions composite Solid-electrolyte (CAPSEL)
Amount - € 150,000
Timeframe - 2018-2020
Academic Unit - FCT NOVA - Association for Research and Developement and Innovation (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da NOVA)
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Principal Investigator – Isabel Maria Mercês Ferreira
Grant – Proof of Concept Grant
Project - Integrated Solar Energy System (INSOLENSYS)
Amount – €150,000
Timeframe - 2021-2022
Academic Unit - FCT NOVA
Principal Investigator – Ana Cecília Roque
Grant – Proof of Concept Grant
Project – ENSURE: Non-invasive follow-up of urinary tract cancers
Amount – €150,000
Timeframe - 2022-2023
Academic Unit – FCT NOVA
Principal Investigator – Pedro Barquinha
Grant – Proof of Concept Grant
Project – FLETRAD: Flexible and transparent platform based on oxide transistors for detection and readout of ionizing radiation
Amount – €150,000
Timeframe - 2022-2024
Academic Unit – FCT NOVA
Principal Investigator – Ana Rita Duarte
Grant – Proof of Concept Grant
Project – CryoDES: Nature-inspired Cryopreservation Systems using Natural Deep Eutectic Systems
Amount – €150,000
Timeframe - 2022-2024
Academic Unit – FCT NOVA
Principal Investigator – Luís Nunes Pereira
Grant – Proof of Concept Grant
Project – EXCELL: CELLuloe nanocomposite separators for the next generation of smart batteries
Amount – €150,000
Timeframe - 2023-2024
Academic Unit - NOVA FCT
Principal Investigator – Ana Rita Duarte
Grant - Proof of Concept Grant
Project - Improvita: Improve the shelf life of perishable goods through stabilization of vitamins
Amount - 150,000 €
Timeframe - 2023-2025
Academic Unit - NOVA FCT
Principal Investigator – Cristina Silva Pereira
Grant – Proof of Concept Grant
Project – SNAIL: High performance hydrophobic suberin nanoparticles for the generation of liquid-air biphasic droplets with application in food and therapeutics
Amount – 150 000,00 €
Timeframe - 2024-2025
Academic Unit – ITQB NOVA
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Principal Investigator – Ana Cecília Roque
Grant – Proof of Concept Grant
Project – UNMASK: Unraveling Parkinson´s disease diagnostic
Amount – 150 000,00 €
Timeframe - 2024-2025
Academic Unit – NOVA FCT
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Principal Investigator – Cristina Brito
Grant – Synergy Grant
Project – 4-OCEANS - Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers & Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE to c.1860 CE
Amount – €1,796,858
Timeframe - 2021-2026
Academic Unit - NOVA FCSH