05/11/2020 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday, 5 November, the European Research Council (ERC) announced that 34 research groups will receive Synergy Grants worth a total of €350 million, allocated as part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, of which the ERC is in charge. The 34 projects selected (involving 116 researchers from 86 universities and research centres) cover areas such as the brain’s immune system, the study of “past of human interactions with the oceans”, and the...