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Six new Studentships ERC for Portuguese scientists

TheEuropean ResearchCouncil (ERC) has awarded six new Studentships with a total value of 11.1 million euros to Portuguese researchers developing their scientific activity in FCT Units. These Studentships, called Starting Grants, are intended for researchers in early career, with 2 to 7 years. In the recent list of results disclosed, this program has awarded a total of 677 million euros to 436 European scientists. The Studentships have a duration of five years and allow the winners, from different scientific areas, to form their own research groups to develop their project approved for funding. 

The national researchers and projects contemplated in Call Starting Grants 2020 are:

Ricardo Agarez, from the Interdisciplinary Center for History, Cultures and Societies of the University of Évora, with the project ReARQ.IB - Built Environment Knowledge for Resilient, Sustainable Communities: Understanding Everyday Modern Architecture and Urban Design in the Iberian Peninsula (1939-1985), which aims to focus on the readjustment and revaluation of existing buildings rather than new construction, saving economic and material resources.

Elias Barriga, from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with the project MOVE_ME: Mechanical and Electrical Guidance of Collective Cell Migration in vivo;

Sónia Cruz, from the Center for Environment and Sea Studies (CESAM) at Aveiro University, with the project KleptoSlug - Kleptoplasty: The sea slug that got away with stolen chloroplasts, which focuses on the kleptoplasty process in sea slugs of the order Sacoglossa;

Bárbara Gomes, from the CIBB (Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology) at the University of Coimbra, with the project EOLinPLACE - Choice of where we die: a classification reform to discern diversity in individual end of life pathways, a study on citizens' experiences regarding where they prefer to die and where they actually die;

Albino Oliveira Maia, from the Champalimaud Foundation, with the CalorieRL project : Reinforcement learning from post-ingestive calories: from body to brain in health and disease, which will investigate food choice in humans;

Paulo Rocha, from the University of Coimbra, with the project GREEN: Generating Energy from Electroactive Algae, which aims to generate clean and sustainable energy through the communication between algae;

Filipe Calvão, Portuguese researcher working at the Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Developpement, in Switzerland, with the SYNTHLIVES - Synthetic Lives: The Futures of Mining project.