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The 2026 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects is open as of October 19 2026.

According to the press release issued on September 5, 2025. The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the list of recipients of Starting Grants for 2025. The Lyon metropolitan area has two projects: one led by François Rousset at the International Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Lyon on conflicts between bacteria and viruses, and the other by Katja Doose at the Rhône-Alpes Historical Research Laboratory on the history of non-Western discourses on environmental change.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the list of recipients of its ‘Consolidator’ grants. Among them are two Lyon-based projects led by Marie-Cécile Caillaud and Aurèle Piazza, both members of the ENS de Lyon.

Zayna Chaker, CNRS researcher at the IGFL, and Daniel Stilck França, Inria researcher, LIP member, have been awarded the prestigious "Starting" Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Join one of ENS de Lyon's top-level research units to get your project off the ground. Our school's supports will assist you in setting up and submitting your project. Call open until September 11, 2024.

Fabien Duveau is a CNRS researcher at LBMC. He has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for his eGRIDE project.

Horizon, the EU Research & Innovation Magazine, focuses on the project led by Francis Albarède, recipient of an ERC Advanced grant in 2016.

The international attractiveness of ENS de Lyon is a strategic priority, both in terms of training and research. As the new 2023 academic year begins, we take a look at some of the signs of the vitality and international recognition of our institution. 

Louis-Alexandre Couston, Associate Professor of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University at the Physics Laboratory, and Benjamin Wesolowski, CNRS Research at UMPA, have been awarded the prestigious "Starting" Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Through its Consolidator grant, the ERC is supporting the PLEIOTROPY project, led by Marie Sémon (prof. at ENS de Lyon, LBMC) and her team.

Among the ERC Advanced Grant 2022 grantees: TEMPO, Teva Vernoux' proposal.

Find the selected project for the 2022 JoRISS call.

The European research project ELOBIO (2023-2026) aims to produce carbon-free hydrogen from biomass. Coordinated by IRCELYON, ELOBIO brings together a consortium of researchers, including members of ENS de Lyon's Chemistry Laboratory.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just communicated the list of "Consolidator" grant recipients. Among them, Mathieu Couttenier's project: ArtiMinDev

The DEEP-SEE project is one of the projects selected by the European Research Council (ERC). It is led by Alain Manceau, Geochemist, emeritus researcher at the Chemistry Laboratory. Stefan Steinmann, researcher at the Chemistry Laboratory, is the scientific leader.

Benoît Libert, Octavie Paris and Sébastien Canard received the Special Jury Award for the H2020 PROMETHEUS project.

Solid-state NMR spectroscopy is a powerful tool for analyzing matter. With PANACEA, it is no longer limited to the academic community at the forefront of this field. The broader public research sector and industry can now access this highly valuable technology throughout Europe. The project is coordinated by the Very High Field NMR Center of Lyon (CNRS / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / ENS de Lyon).
CNRS regional press release, Monday, February 21, 2022.

EquipEx+ supported by ENS de Lyon, Spatial-Cell-ID proposes a national device to identify and characterize the spatio-temporal transcriptome of single cells in their tissue.

Audrey Bienfait, CNRS researcher at LPENSL - Physics Laboratory, is one of the recipients of the prestigious ERC Starting Grant.

Regional press release on April 22, 2021

Turbulent flows, like planetary atmospheres, oceans, or flow around an airfoil or a wind turbine, undergo strong fluctuations. Sometimes, the system may even undergo abrupt transitions between entirely different flow configurations. Such transitions seem to occur at random times, in an unpredictable manner.

On April 10, 2020, ANR announced the funding of 86 projects concerning Covid-19. Six are associated with ENS de Lyon laboratories.
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The European Research Council (ERC) has just communicated the list of beneficiaries of the Advanced grants. Each recipient will have up to €2.5 million over five years for his or her research project. Among the 185 projects funded is the LDRam project by Alice Guionnet.

The selection committee met on January 23, 2020 and announced the six winning projects from the Tech4Earth call for proposals. Two of them are carried by ENS de Lyon.

For the second edition, the CNRS call for projects '80 Prime' has once again given special emphasis to interdisciplinarity and risk-taking.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions support researchers at all stages of their careers, regardless of age and nationality. Researchers working across all disciplines are eligible for funding. The MSCA also support cooperation between industry and academia and innovative training to enhance employability and career development.

The 'AI Chairs' aim to offer researchers substantial resources to build a team and carry out an ambitious project whose visible impact is expected.

As part of IDEXLYON, 5 projects were selected from the call for the Scientific Breakthrough Program to receive funding of up to 1.2 million euros per project.

While students are entering the ENS de Lyon, researchers are just as active.

The selection committee met on January 17, 2019 and announced the eight winning projects from the Tech4Inclusion call for proposals. Two of them are carried by ENS de Lyon.

ERC Consolidator Grants support promising researchers who are at the beginning of an independent research career. The consolidation of their own research team will be funded with the grant.

As part of IDEXLYON, 6 projects were selected from the call for the Scientific Breakthrough Program to receive funding of up to 1.2 million euros per project.

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