The European Research Council
The European Research Council (ERC) promotes scientific quality and bold, innovative, and cutting edge research by investing in the best researchers, and the best ideas.
The ERC is a unique funding programme in the category of excellent research in EU's key funding programme for research and innovation.
The ERC have several funding models: Starting Grants (StG) for young researchers, Consolidator Grants (CoG) for mid-career researchers, and Advanced Grants (AdG) for experienced researchers.
For projects where researchers collaborate across national borders and disciplines, and which have such ambitious goals that they cannot be carried out by a single research team alone, the ERC has the Synergy Grant (SyG) scheme.
ERC-projects at the Faculty og Humanities
ERC Starting Grants
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A Comparative Study of Poetry under Censorship in the Iberian Dictatorships (DESCENSURA)
The project studies how poets were censored and how they resisted the dictatorships of Salazar and Franco between 1933 and 1978, and how this legacy lives on today.
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Before Copyright (BE4COPY)
The BE4COPY project examines the long-term history of printing privileges from a cross-disciplinary and European perspective.
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Brokering China's Extraversion (BROKEX)
Chinese global engagements are deepening across sectors and geographic regions. The ERC-funded project Brokering China's extraversion (BROKEX) provided insight into the mechanisms of China’s global expansion.
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Dynamic Territory (DynamiTE)
Climate change will have consequences for how we manage and distribute the planet's resources. The project will develop a normative framework for territory.
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Epigraphic Centres of Medieval Scandinavia (EpiCentres)
The project investigates the introduction and spread of Latin and the Latin alphabet in Scandinavian inscriptions, and their relationship to the vernacular languages and to runes.
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Pathways to Possible Presents (CoFutures)
How can contemporary future fictions contribute to our understanding of global issues?
Completed projects
ERC Consolidator Grants
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An Ecological History of Eurasian Art
With a focus on early modern Eurasia, the project aims to rewrite art history as a history of ecological interconnections.
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Attention norms and their role in practical reason, epistemology, and ethics (GoodAttention)
What is good attention and what is bad attention? This project looks into normative questions about attention.
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Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel (JEUX)
We investigate how literary games led novelists to rethink fiction, narrative form, and literary history.
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Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia (MARGO)
The project explores ritual practices and environmental change in Asia, focusing on popular goddesses such as Guanyin, Mazu, and Benzaiten.
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The Survival of Damaged Medieval Polychromed Heritage in the Nordics (POLYCHROME)
POLYCHROME investigates evolving attitudes to devotional images that have been selectively mutilated since the Reformations, and the influence of restorers on how this heritage is interpreted today.
Completed projects
ERC Advanced Grants
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Construction in the formal sciences (C-FORS)
The project develops new, groundbreaking applications of a highly idealized constructional approach, successfully used in set theory.
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Minuscule Texts: Marginalized Voices in Early Medieval Latin Culture c. 700–c. 1000 (MINiTEXTS)
The project studies early medieval minuscule texts, short texts which were added in large numbers to blank spaces of Latin manuscripts.
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Norwegian Romantic Nationalisms (NORN)
How were collective emotions related to the idea of the nation harnessed, activated, and constructed through literature and theater?
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The Mathematization of Nature (MatNat)
The project investigates Plato´s mathematical world view, how it was influenced by the Early Pythagoreans and interpreted by Plato’s students in the Academy.
ERC Synergy Grants
Exploring the ethics of synthetic DNA (WritingLife)
Advances in synthetic biology and AI now make it possible to design DNA from scratch. How does this reshape our understanding of nature, human heredity, and endangered species?
Ecological Archaeologies of the Afrotropics (EcoArch)
The project investigates how people and climate have shaped landscapes and biodiversity across Africa and Arabia.