The evaluation results of the 2020 Starting grant call have been announced by ERCEA. 436 applications are eligible for funding out of a total of 3272 applications submitted. Among the 436 Principle Investigators are 14 PIs affiliated with a Flemish host institution.

• Michiel Dusselier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘Z-EURECA- ZEolite synthesis in Unusual Reactors for Enhanced Catalysts’, panel PE5
• Anna Kaczmarek, Universiteit Gent, ‘NORTH - NanOthermomteRs for THeranostics’, panel PE5
• Francisco Molina Lopez, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘3DALIGN - Enhancing the performance of 3D-printed organic thermoelectrics by electric field-assisted molecular alignment’, panel PE7
• Martin Virte, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ‘COLOR-UP - All-optical sub-THz signal filtering with multi-COLOR lasers’, panel PE7
   
• Inge De Clercq, Universiteit Gent, ‘COSI Understanding organelle communication through contact sites in plant stress responses’, panel LS3
• Isabel Beets, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘FLEXPEPNET - Nervous system reprogramming by flexible neuropeptidergic networks’, panel LS5
• Isabelle Meyts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘MORE2ADA2, Multi-omics research applied to Human ADA2 deficiency and beyond’, panel LS7
• Nele, Vandersickel, Universiteit Gent, ‘SMARTHEART, Directed networks as a novel approach for improving the management of cardiac arrhythmias’, panel LS7
• Marthe De Boevre, Universiteit Gent, ‘HUMYCO - Investigating the Human Mycobolome through Uniting Large-scale Epidemiological and Mechanistic Poly-omic Designs’, panel LS9
   
• Claudia Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ‘CURIAE VIRIDES - How the third wave of global judicial (and social) activism is filling ecological governance gaps and challenging the liability-remedy paradigm.’, panel SH2
• Katrien Van Poeck, Universiteit Gent, ‘LESTRA - Transactional investigations of learning in view of sustainability transitions’, panel SH3
• Heidi Mertes, Universiteit Gent, ‘DIME – Disruptive innovation in healthcare requires disruptive innovation in medical ethics’, panel SH5
• Kevin Smets, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ‘REEL BORDERS, Fiction Film and Borderlands’, panel SH5
• Christophe Snoeck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ‘LUMIERE - Landscape Use and Mobility in EuRopE - Bridging the gap between cremation and inhumation’, panel SH6

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