Professors Lucie Cluver, Frederic Dias, Tobias Hauser, Orla Muldoon, Philipp Stockhammer and Mathilde Touvier have been each awarded the 2024 ERC Public Engagement with Research Awards. The prize recognises European Research Council (ERC) grantees who successfully engage audiences outside their academic domain.
Philipp Stockhammer
ERC
Philipp Stockhammer from LMU Munich was awarded ‘for innovative public engagement on the ancient origins of the Mediterranean diet, reaching global audiences through edutainment and media.
The contest for the ERC Public Engagement with Research Award closed for applications on 21 February 2024. The ERC received 99 applications from ERC grantees across 20 countries. A pre-selection was organised to choose the best proposals for the jury review.
The Jury of the award, composed of experts in public engagement and science communication, consequently selected six winners. Each laureate will receive a prize of €10 000. The ERC, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe.
The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants. With its additional Proof of Concept Grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to bridge the gap between their pioneering research and early phases of its commercialisation.
The ERC is led by an independent governing body, the Scientific Council.
Maria Leptin has been the President of the ERC since November 2021. T
he overall ERC budget from 2021 to 2027 is more than €16 billion, as part of the Horizon Europe programme, under the responsibility of European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Iliana Ivanova.
