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The winners of 2025 ERC Synergy Grants from the CNRS

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The results of the 'ERC Synergy Grant' call for 2025 have just been published: 13 of the winning projects involve CNRS researchers or researchers from joint research units.

As provided for by the Horizon Europe framework programme for research and innovation, the European Research Council has selected 66 projects to benefit from a total budget of €684 million. 712 proposals were submitted in response to the 2025 'ERC Synergy Grant' call for projects. France is a partner in 21 projects - just behind Germany (with 29 projects). 13 of the winning French projects involve researchers from joint units managed by the CNRS and its partners.

These grants have a 6-year duration and a maximum value of €10 million. They are intended to enable groups of 2 to 4 scientists from European member or associate countries to "address some of the world’s most formidable research problems spanning a range of scientific disciplines". 

The projects involving the CNRS that have been awarded a Synergy 2025 grant are:

  • GEMPROMISE – Cyril AYMONIER (CNRS/Bordeaux INP/Université de Bordeaux) – CNRS Chemistry
  • PLANETARY EEL – Tamatoa BAMBRIDGE (CNRS/École Pratique des Hautes Études-Paris Sciences et Lettres/Université Perpignan Via Domitia) – CNRS Ecology & Environment
  • UniCIPS – Olivier BÉNICHOU (CNRS/Sorbonne Université) – CNRS Physics and Aurélien GRABSCH (CNRS/Sorbonne Université) – CNRS Chemistry and CNRS Physics
  • UltiMatePV – Stéphane COLLIN (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay/Université Paris Cité) – CNRS Physics and CNRS Engineering
  • WePhICom – Marco DI RENZO (CNRS/CentraleSupélec/Université Paris-Saclay/INRIA) – CNRS Informatics
  • CenAGE – Danièle FACHINETTI (CNRS/Institut Curie/Sorbonne Université) – CNRS Biology
  • HARVEST – Cécile GUIEU (CNRS/Sorbonne Université) – CNRS Earth & Space and Karin SIGLOCH (CNRS/IRD/Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur/Université Côte d'Azur) – CNRS Earth & Space
  • snoOPERA – Anthony HENRAS (CNRS/Université de Toulouse) – CNRS Biology
  • HERON – Kumiko KOTERA (CNRS/Sorbonne Université) – CNRS Earth & Space
  • 3Stops2Go – Olivier NAMY (CNRS/CEA/Université Paris-Saclay) – CNRS Biology
  • PathCorg – Alessandra PIERANI (CNRS) – CNRS Biology and Stéphanie DESCROIX (CNRS/Institut Curie/Sorbonne Université) – CNRS Physics
  • VePaSS – Mahsa SHIRMOHAMMADI (CNRS/Université Paris Cité) – CNRS Informatics, Véronique CORTIER (CNRS/Université de Lorraine) – CNRS Informatics and Sébastien TAVENAS (CNRS/Université Savoie Mont Blanc) – CNRS Mathematics
  • CoEvolve – Aleksandra WALCZAK (CNRS/École Normale Supérieure-Paris Sciences et Lettres/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris Cité) – CNRS Physics