
The ERC - European Research Council funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run frontier projects across Europe.
6 researchers in Turkey have been selected for funding with a total budget of 11.3 Million EUR in the first ERC calls (ERC-2021-StG and ERC-2021-CoG) under the Horizon Europe Programme. They all have been supported by the TÜBİTAK's Principle Investigator Advancement Programme.
Among these researcher Dr. Sedat NIZAMOGLU is the first double grantee in Turkey. His first ERC project was NOVELNOBI.
We congratulate our eminent researchers and their host institutions.
![]() | Dr. Mustafa YÜCEL ERC 2021 Consolidator Grant Host Institution: Middle East Technical University Project title: DeepTrace: Tracing nanoparticle-fuelled co-mobilization of catalyst metals across Earth's deep-sea redox interfaces to pave the way for habitability detection in Ocean Worlds Project budget: 2.4 Million EUR |
![]() | Dr. Sedat NİZAMOĞLU ERC 2021 Consolidator Grant Host Institution: Koc University Project title: MESHOPTO: Retinal Mesh Optoelectronics Project budget: 2 Million EUR |
![]() | Dr. Levent BEKER ERC 2021 Starting Grant Host Institution: Koc University Project title: 2ND-CHANCE: Implantable sensors and ultrasonic data link with triggered bioresorption for next-gen wireless cardiac monitoring Project budget: 2.5 Million EUR |
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| Dr. Özgür ATALAY ERC 2021 Starting Grant Host Institution: Istanbul Technical University Project title: TEXWEAROTS: Textile-Based Wearable Soft Robotics with Integrated Sensing, Actuating and Self Powering Properties Project budget: 1.5 Million EUR |
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| Dr. Onur ERGEN ERC 2021 Starting Grant Host Institution: İstanbul Technical University Project title: QUEEN: Quantum Super-Exchange Energy Storage Platform Project budget: 1.4 Million EUR |
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| Dr. Emre BÜKÜŞOĞLU ERC 2021 Starting Grant Host Institution: Middle East Technical University Project title: LCFlow: Liquid Crystals in Flow: A New Era in Sensing and Diagnostics Project budget: 1.5 Million EUR |
Turkey hosts in total 29 ERC Grants.
More information and project highlights can be found on the ERC webpage.
Please contact us as TÜBİTAK ERC National Contact Points if you are interested in ERC Calls through the email ncperc@tubitak.gov.tr.