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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.

How an underground water tank might hold the universe’s secrets
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17 July 2026

Resolving computational bottlenecks in complex wave interactions
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17 July 2026

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