Topic - European Research Council

The European Research Council (ERC) is the first European Union funding body set up to support investigator-driven frontier research. It is part of the Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7), which succeeded FP6 in 2007. The European Research Council is similar to the United States' National Science Foundation. - Source: Wikipedia

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