A total of 284 researchers are to receive up to €3.5 million each for basic research, while 33 top-up grants will test the commercial potential of leading ideas.
Researchers across Europe have won grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for projects including exploring the limits of life on Mars and considering the inequalities in capitalist societies, as well as closer-to-market activities such as the development of a tablet PC-based application for detecting consciousness after coma in real-time and creating a web-based tool to make digital mapping more accessible to non-expert users.
