Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – EPFL, the federal polytechnical school in Lausanne, estimates it will receive €40 million in grant money awarded to researchers by the European Research Council (ERC) a grant-making body for frontier research funded by the European Commission. EPFL researchers lead other institutions Europe-wide in the number of grants received.
EPFL has already won 11 advanced project grants, which are worth €2.5mn each, according to EPFL. The Weizman Institute in Israel received grants for eight projects, while Oxford University and Imperial College, London obtained seven each.
The school’s researchers have already been awarded eight grants for starting research projects, worth €2mn each. In all, ERC shortlisted 219 projects for funding in 2009.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 7 September 2009.
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Tags: EPFL, ERC, European Commission, grant-making body, Imperial College, Israel, London, Oxford University, research grants, research projects, Weizman Institute
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