The European Research Council (European Research Council – ERC) is the European Union body that funds frontier research (frontier research). Established in 2007, it supports outstanding researchers of any age and nationality who intend to carry out research in the Member States of the European Union or in associated countries.The ERC offers five main funding schemes:ERC Starting GrantERC Consolidator GrantERC Advanced GrantERC Synergy GrantERC Proof of Concept Grant, aimed at ERC grant holders who wish to capitalise on the innovation potential of their research findings. ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant Giulia Rossi BioMNP – Understanding the interaction between metal nanoparticles and biological membranes Anna Stagno ANTIGONE – Archaeology of Sharing Practices: The Material Evidence of Mountain Marginalisation in Europe (18th–21st centuries AD) Enrico Terrone PEA – The Philosophy of Experiential Artifacts Giovanni Alberti SAMPDE – Sample complexity for inverse problems in PDEs Alessio Sardo HABITAT – How European Big Cities and Legal Systems Trigger Urban Inequality: An Inquiry into Law and Economics Alessandro Pellis CIRCULARIZE – Chemo-enzymatic processing of bio-based building blocks to produce circular functional materials Luca Calatroni MALIN – Model-aware learning for imaging inverse problems in fluorescence microscopy Monica Frega Neuron2Brain – From single neuron to brain: a multi-level strategy and digital twins for personalised treatment prediction ERC Consolidator Grant Lorenzo Rosasco SLING – Efficient algorithms for sustainable machine learning Agnese Seminara RIDING – Physics informed algorithms for sensing and navigating turbulent environments Denise Bezzina PatriFem – Charting Female Property and Patrimonial Rights in Law and Practice Across Western Europe (12th-16th Centuries) ERC Advanced Grant Giovanni Solari THUNDERR – Detection, simulation, modelling and loading of thunderstorm outflows to design wind-safer and cost-efficient structures Luca Giuseppe Queirolo Palmas SOLROUTES – Solidarities and migrants' routes across Europe at large