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[The CIVIS Newsroom ](https://civis.eu/en/the-civis-newsroom) 2. 5 CIVIS member universities have been awarded ERC Advanced grants 5 CIVIS member universities have been awarded ERC Advanced grants ================================================================= 1 April 2020 On Tuesday 31 March 2020, the European Research Council announced the laureates of its annual Advanced grants competition. This year, with a total fund of 450 million euros, 185 top researchers from various field of research will be funded by the ERC to develop their cutting-edge and innovative research projects. Among the awarded institutions, **five CIVIS member universities have received grants from this highly competitive call**. ##### Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS - ###### Researcher: MIGNOT Tâm Research project: A Multiscale Analysis of Bacterial Predation Further information: ##### Université Libre de Bruxelles - ###### Researcher: BLANPAIN Cedric Research project: Tracking and Targeting Tumor States at single-cell resolution in real-time in vivo ##### Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - ###### Researcher: MARTÍN Fernando Research project: Imaging, DEcoherence, and AttoSecond probing of ionization-induced charge migration in molecules ##### Sapienza Università di Roma - ###### Researcher: ROSELLINI Michela Research project: Priscian’s Ars grammatica in European Scriptoria. A Millennium of Latin and Greek Scholarship - ###### Researcher: SCIARRINO Fabio Research project: QUantum advantage via nonlinear BOSon Sampling - ###### Researchers: ROBB John and TAFURI Mary Anne Research project: Making Ancestors: The Politics of Death in Prehistoric Europe Coordinated by the University of Cambridge and Sapienza University as co-beneficiary Further information: ##### University of Tübingen - Researcher: BORN Jan Research project: Sleep balancing abstraction and forgetting of memory For further information on the 2019 ERC Advanced grant competition: ##### European Research Council: The European Research Council, set up by the European Union, funds top researchers of all nationalities helping them develop their visionary research projects at the frontiers of knowledge. The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence. ###### ERC competitions ERC competitions are part of the Horizon 2020 programme and are open to researchers, scientists and scholars of any nationality. 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