Prestigious European Funding Award for UCC Academic

Dr Ron Pinhasi, a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, UCC has become the first UCC Researcher to be awarded funding by the European Research Council (ERC). The European Research Council (ERC) is the first European funding body set up to support the best of the best research across all fields of scholarship. Of its two major funding programmes, the ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grants competition is designed to raise the status and visibility of European frontier research by identifying the next generation of top research leaders. Indeed, because of the focus on excellence and the highly competitive nature of their programmes, success in the ERC is now widely identified throughout Europe as being the newest and most significant barometer of a country's achievement and ranking in research. Read more...