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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.

Research to make Europe a leader in the quantum field
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20 October 2025

Did you hear the one about how the brain organises sounds?
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17 October 2025

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