European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants are highly-competitive grants enabling senior scientists to explore their most daring research ideas. On 31 March 2020, the ERC announced the 185 winners of its annual advanced grants competition. EUI researchers Youssef Cassis, Laura Lee Downs, Anton Hemerijck, Liesbet Hooghe and Glenda Sluga were among the researchers who were awarded five-year grants. Their projects address topics ranging from the memory of financial crises, the history and future of welfare, to polarisation and the economic ideas behind globalisation.
Their achievement has garnered significant news coverage, including in La Repubblica, intoscana, and ANSA.
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