Successful ERC holders

Horizon Europe Programme

Grant awarded /implementation period	Grant type	Institute	Investigator	Acronym	Name of the project
11/2025	COG	Institute of Ethnology	Deborah Nadal	INVANISH	INtruders and VANISHers. Living with wildlife on the move amidst a changing climate
10/2025	SYG	Institute of Microbiology; Biology Centre	Leoš Valášek; Julius Lukeš	3Stops2Go	Three Stop Codons to Get Over to Flourish
10/2025	SYG	Oriental Institute	Jan Zouplna	CLOSER	Party Systems and Social Cleavages in the PostOttoman Space of the MENA Region
12/2024	COG	Institute of Ethnology	Martin Fotta	RAW	Romani Family in an Age of War
12/2024	COG	Biology Centre	Elisabeth Hehenberger	KLEPTOS	Using Kleptoplasty to illuminate the Evolution of Plastids and the Order of Steps during endosymbiosis
12/2024	COG	Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry	Tomáš Pluskal	TerpenCode	Decoding the Biochemistry of Terpene Synthases
12/2024	COG	Institute of Plasma Physics	Karel Žídek	COINED	Control over interfaces in metal oxide optical coatings: the missing piece of the puzzle
11/2024 2025-2031	SYG	Institute of Experimental Botany	Ondřej Novák	STARMORPH	Unravelling Spatiotemporal Auxin Intracellular Redistribution for Morphogenesis
09/2024 2024-2029	STG	Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry	Paulo Paioti	AtropShape	Catalytic Atroposelective Synthesis for Revealing Elusive Bioactive Conformations and Shapes
04/2024 2024-2029	COG	Institute of Experimental Botany	Matyáš Fendrych	MORpH	Dissecting the role of rapid auxin responses in plant morphogenesis
2023	COG	Institute of Molecular Genetics	Ondřej Štěpánek	ActSwiftly	Activation and switch of fates in T lymphocytes
3/2023	ADG	Institute of Physics	Tomáš Jungwirth	ALTERMAG	Altermagnetism and spintronics without magnetization and relativity
3/2023	ADG	Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry	Pavel Jungwirth	Q-SCALING	Doing Charges Right: Modelling Ion-Controlled Biological Processes with the Correct Toolbox
1/2023	COG	Biology Centre	Jan Hrček	EcoEvoDiv	Eco-evolutionary dynamics and the maintenance of organismal diversity
2022-2027	STG	Institute of Physics	Tim Verhagen	Sandwich	2D sandwiches, artificial layered building blocks for multifuncional materials
2022-2027	STG	Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry	Hana Macíčková Cahová	StressRNaction	Non-canonical RNA caps – cellular reaction to environment and stress
2022-2027	STG	Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry	Tomáš Slanina	SOLBATT	Storage of Electrons into Chemical Bonds: Towards Molecular Solar Electrical Batteries
2022-2027	STG	Institute of Biotechnology	Kateřina Rohlenová	InterMet	Intercellular trading in nucleotide metabolism: an emerging target
2023-2027	COG	Biology Centre	Alena Zíková	MitoSignal	Mitochondrial signaling drives parasite differentation
2022-2024	POC2	Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry	Milan Vrábel	CHEMCELL	Chemical Engineering of Natural Killer Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
2022-2024	POC2	Institute of Scientific Instruments	Tomáš Čižmár	StrokeGATE	Singel-fibre based holographic endoscope for observations of stroke in deep brain structure
2023-2029	SyG	Institute of Biotechnology	Zdeněk Lánský	TubulinCode	Uncovering the molecular effects of the tubulin code and their impact on organism-wide functions
2024-2028	STG	Institute of Ethnology	Johana Wyss	MEMPOP	Memory and Populism from Below
2022-2027	COG	Institute of Archeology	project participant	MAMBA	Investigating mammoth bone collections in Central Europe

Horizon 2020

Grant awarded /implementation period	Call	Institute	Investigator	Acronym	Name of the project
2015-2020	COG	Institute of Molecular Genetics	Petr Svoboda	D-FENS	Dicer-DePendent Defense in Mammals
2015-2021	ADG	Biology Centre	Vojtěch Novotný	Diversity6continents	Ecological determinants of tropical-temperale trends in insect diversity
2016-2021	STG	Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry	Milan Vrábel	SWEETTOOLS	Smart Biologics: Developing New Tools in Glycobiology
2016-2021	STG	The Economic Institute	Filip Matějka	INATTENTION	Behavioral and Policy Implications of Rational Inattention
2017-2022	COG	Biology Centre	David Doležel	InPhoTime	Insect Photoperiodic Timer
2018-2023	COG	The Economic Institute	Jakub Steiner	BEHAVFRICTIONS	Behavioral Implications of Information-Processing Frictions
2019-2023	STG	Institute of Molecular Genetics	Ondřej Štěpánek	FunDiT	Functional Diversity of T cells
2018-2023	STG	Biology Centre	Kateřina Sam	BABE	Why is the world green: testing top-down control of plant-herbivore food webs by experiments with birds, bats and ants
2019-2024	COG	Masaryk Institute and Archives	Michal Frankl	UnRef	Unlikely refuge? Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century
2020-2026	SyG	Institute of Microbiology	project participant	PhotoRedesign	Redesigning the Photosynthetic Light Reactions
2020-2025	COG	Institute of the Ethnology	Luděk Brož	BOAR	Veterinarization of Europe? Hunting for Wild Boar Futures in the Time of African Swine Fever
2021-2026	STG	Institute of the Geophysics	Christian Sippl	MILESTONE	Microseismicily Illuminates Subduction Zone Processes
2021-2026	STG	Institute of Philosophy	Ota Pavlíček	ACADEMIA	Reconstructing Late Medieval Quests for Knowledge: Quodlibetal Debates as Precursors of Modern Academic Practice
2021-2026	COG	The Economic Institute	Filip Matějka	ATTENTION	Economics of Inattention
2015-2020	COG	Institute of Physics	project participant	EXMAG	Excilonic Magnelism in Strongly Correlated Materials
2016-2022	ADG	Institute of Molecular Genetics	project participant	SIDSCA	Defective DNA Damage Responses in Dominant Neurodegenerative Diseases
2017-2022	STG	J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry	project participant	TSUNAMI	Trans-Spin NanoArchitectures: from birth to functionalities in magnetic field
2022-2027	COG	Institute of the Geophysics	project participant	MAST	Imaging Magmatic Architecture Using Strain Tomography

7th Framework Programme

Grant awarded /implementation period	Call	Institute	Investigator	Acronym	Name of the project
2009-2013	ADG	Ústav organické chemie a biochemie	Detlef Schroeder (PI)	HORIZOMS	New Horizons for Mass Spectrometry
2009-2014	ADG	Ústav organické chemie a biochemie	Josef Michl (PI)	DIPOLAR ROTOR ARRAY	Regular Arrays of Artificial Surface-Mounted Dipolar Molecular Rotors
2010-2015	ADG	Biofyzikální ústav	project participant	BIOINCMED	Bioinorganic Chemistry for the Design of New Medicines
2011-2017	STG	Filosofický ústav	project participant	OVERMODE	Origins of the Vernacular Mode. Regional Identities and European Networks in Late Medieval Europe
2011-2016	ADG	Fyzikální ústav AV ČR	Tomáš Jungwirth (PI)	0MSPIN	Spintronics based on relativistic phenomena in systems with zero magnetic moment
2011-2016	ADG	Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR	účastník projektu	RESOCEA	Regime and Society in Eastern Europe (1956 - 1989). From Extended Reproduction to Social and Political Change
2012-2016	STG	Botanický ústav AV ČR	Peter Szabo (PI)	LONGWOOD	Long-term woodland dynamics in Central Europe: from estimations to a realistic model
2013-2018	ADG	Matematický ústav AV ČR	Eduard Feireisl (PI)	MATHEF	Mathematical Thermodynamics of Fluids
2014-2018	ADG	Matematický ústav AV ČR	Pavel Pudlák (PI)	FEALORA	Feasibility, logic and randomness in computational complexity
2014-2020	SYG	Fyzikální ústav AV ČR	účastník projektu	SC2	Spin-charge conversion and spin caloritronics at hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces
2014-2019	COG	Fyzikální ústav AV ČR	Constantinos Skordis (PI)	THEMODS	Theories and Models of the Dark Sector: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Gravity