EU Projects

Horizon Europe

In 2021 the current framework programme "Horizon Europe" started. First applications of researchers of Leipzig University have been evaluated positively. Here you find the most important ones:

• Prof. Dr. Alexej Bufetov
  ERC Starting Grant "Integrable Probability" (2022-2027)

ERC-Project (European Research Council)

• Professor Alexej Bufetov
  ERC Starting Grant "Integrable Probability" (2022 – 2027)

Collaborative Projects as Coordinator

• SOLO – Soils for Europe
  Coordinator: Dr. Carlos António Bastos de Morais Guerra (iDiv)

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)

Horizon 2020 projects

In the Framework Programme "Horizon 2020", which ran 2014-2020, the average budget secured each year has been significantly higher than that of previous programmes. There have been some 75 projects, the most important ones are listed below.

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)
• "Landesinnovationspromotionen 2023" (Projekt-Nr. 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