Researchers at our university have made successful bids for numerous EU projects in recent years. Here we present the most important projects.
ERC-Projects (European Research Council)
- Professor Robert Fledrich
ERC Consolidator Grant „Metabolic adaptation in injuries of the peripheral nervous system“ (2025 – 2030) - Professor Berend Isermann
ERC Advanced Grant „Targeting mechanisms of Thrombo-inflammation“ (2024 – 2029) - Professor Alexej Bufetov
ERC Starting Grant "Integrable Probability" (2022 – 2027) - Professor Gesa Hartwigsen
ERC Consolidator Grant “The Flexible Brain: (Re-)shaping Adaptation in Semantic Cognition” (2023 – 2027) - Professor Ana Bastos
ERC Starting Grant "Forest vulnerability to compound extremes and disturbances in a changing climate" (2024 – 2027) - Professor Dejan Gajic
ERC Starting Grant "The Mathematical Analysis of Extremal Black Holes and Gravitational Radiation" (2022 – 2028)
Collaborative Projects with more than 600,000 Euro funding
- OpenWebSearch.EU – Piloting a Cooperative Open Web Search Infrastructure to Support Europe's Digital Sovereignty (2022-2025)
Juniorprof. Dr. Martin Potthast (Institut für Informatik) - DYNAMO – DYnamic control in hybrid plasmonic NAnopores: road to next generation multiplexed single MOlecule detection (2022-2026)
Prof. Dr. Ralf Seidel (Peter-Debye-Institut für Physik der weichen Materie) - CREATIC – Central European Advanced Therapy and Immunotherapy Centre (2023 - 2029)
Dr. Dr. Maik Friedrich (Institut für Klinische Immunologie) - CERTAINTY – A CEllulaR immunoTherapy virtuAl twin for personalIsed cancer treatmeNT (2023 - 2028)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Neumuth (ICCAS - Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery) - ARTEMIS – AcceleRating the Translation of virtual twins towards a pErsonalised Management of fatty lIver patients (2024 - 2027)
Dr. Stefan Höhme (IZBI - Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Bioinformatik)
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 – 2023)
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.
- "Landesinnovationspromotionen 2025" (Project-No. 100747627, 2025–2028)
- "Vorhaben zur Vereinbarkeit von Familie und wissenschaftlicher Karriere 2025–26"
(Project-No. 100747632, 2025–2026) - "Landesinnovationspromotionen 2023" (Project-No. 100670471, 2023–2027)
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