Researchers at our university have made successful bids for numerous EU projects in recent years. Here we present the most important projects in the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme and its Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.
ERC projects (funded by the European Research Council)
- Prof. Dr. Christine Beemelmanns
ERC Starting Grant "Deciphering Bacteria-induced Morphogenesis and Protection in marine Eukaryotes" (2022-2024) - Prof. Dr. Lukasz Grabowski
ERC Startoing Grant "Limits of Structures in Algebra and Combinatorics" (2022-2025) - JP Dr. Sebastian Grüneise
ERC Starting Grant „ORIGINSOFCORRUPTION – The developmental origins of corruption: A cooperative perspective” (2021 – 2026) -
Prof. Dr. Axel Körner
ERC Advanced Grant „Transopera – Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe 1815-1914” (2021 – 2026) - Dr. Ruth Stassart
ERC Starting Grant „AxoMyoGlia – Spatio-functional cellular interplay in peripheral nerve diseases” (2021 – 2025) - Prof. Dr. Stefan Hallermann
ERC Consolidator Grant „PreSynPlast - Molecular mechanisms of presynaptic plasticity“ (2020 – 2025) - Prof. Dr. Alfons Käs
ERC Advanced Grant „HoldCancerBack – What Holds Cancer Cells Back?“ (2017 – 2022) - Prof. Dr. Ralf Seidel
ERC Consolidator Grant „ZIPgeting – Quantitative understanding of target recognition on DNA based on directional zipping processes“ (2017 – 2022) - Prof. Dr. László Székelyhidi
ERC Consolidator Grant „DIFFINCL – Differential Inclusions and Fluid Mechanics“ (2017 – 2022) - Prof. Dr. Nico Eisenhauer
ERC Starting Grant „ECOWORM – Ecosystem Responses to Exotic Earthworm Invasion in Northern North American Forests” (2016 – 2021) - Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath
ERC Advanced Grant „FormGram – Form-frequency correspondences in grammar” (2015 – 2020)
Coordinated collaborative projects
- PAPA-ARTIS – Paraplegia Prevention in Aortic Aneurysm Repair by Thoracoabdominal Staging with ‘Minimally-Invasive Segmental Artery Coil-Embolization’: A Randomized Controlled Multicentre Trial (2017–2022)
Project director: Prof. Christian Etz
- CONTESTED_TERRITORY – From Contested Territories to alternatives of development: Learning from Latin America (2020 – 2024)
Project director: Dr. Michael Janoschka
Collaborative projects with over 600,000 euros of EU funding for Leipzig University
- BETA3_LVH – A multi-center randomized, placebo-controlled trial of mirabegron, a new beta3-adrenergic receptor agonist on left ventricular mass and diastolic function in patients with structural heart disease (2015–2020)
Project director: Dr Oana Brosteanu - RETHRIM – Restoring tissue regeneration in patients with veceral Graft versus Gost Disease (2015–2021)
Project directors: Prof. Dietger Niederwieser (emeritus) / Dr. Michael Cross - ImSAVAR – Immune Safety Avatar: nonclinical mimicking of the immune system effects of immunomodulatory therapies (2019–2025)
Project director: Prof. Markus Löffler - ENZYCLE - Microbial ENZYmes for treatment of non-recyCLEd plastic fractions (2020 – 2024)
Project director: Prof. Dr. Jörg Matysik
Structural Funds projects
Leipzig University also receives European money via the Structural Funds. A variety of research projects have already been funded under the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). A complete overview is provided by a biannual list of projects funded in the Free State of Saxony under the ESF and ERDF.
The largest current project, Data Mining und Value Creation, is a collaboration with the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy (IMW).
"Increase in equipment in the strategic research field "Intelligent Methods and Materials" to strengthen application-oriented research" (2020 - 2021)
"Increase in equipment in the strategic research field "Sustainable Principles for Life and Health" to strengthen application-oriented research" (2020 - 2021)
FP7 projects
In the EU’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7), which ran from 2007 until 2013, researchers at our university succeeded in securing 75 projects with a total budget of around 26 million euros. These are composed as follows:
• 57 collaborative projects, five of them as coordinator
• 5 ERC projects (European Research Council awards based on individual merit)
• 11 institutional Marie Curie projects, one of them as coordinator
• 2 individual Marie Curie projects