European Research Council
IIASA has worked with the European Research Council in the following areas:
ERC Funding News
How is the digitalization of daily life impacting climate change?
IIASA researcher Charlie Wilson has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant to study how the digitalization of our everyday lives impacts climate change and to explore how it can be steered to help, rather than hinder climate action. More
Harnessing the power of crowd-driven artificial intelligence
The European Research Council (ERC) will fund the development of an innovative platform incorporating the IIASA crowdsourcing game Picture Pile. IIASA Strategic Initiatives Program Director Steffen Fritz will lead the project. More
Assessing the impacts of global climate change on population trends
The European Research Council (ERC) will fund groundbreaking research led by IIASA World Population Program Deputy Director Raya Muttarak, which will comprehensively address the impacts of climate change on population dynamics. More
Combatting climate change – how to best use new technologies?
A new grant from the European Research Council (ERC) will fund an international research project on negative emissions technologies. IIASA Energy Program Director Keywan Riahi is one of the project leaders. More
New ERC grant to explore making pension policies more fair
The IIASA World Population Program has received a new grant from the European Research Council to explore how to make pension policies more equitable by identifying fair normal pension ages and ensuring new measures of population ageing are up-to-date. More
New ERC grant to explore human wellbeing as criterion for sustainable development
IIASA World Population Program Director Wolfgang Lutz has received a new grant from the European Research Council. Lutz is scientific director of the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), and professor of applied statistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). These institutions are part of the Wittgenstein Center, which Lutz leads. More
New grant supports climate innovation research
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a prestigious Starting Grant to Charlie Wilson, a researcher at IIASA and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the UK. More
Horizon 2020 grant supports aging and health research
A new grant from the European Union will support an international research project on aging and health, including IIASA population researchers. More
ERC grant to support energy poverty & climate research
IIASA energy researcher Narasimha D. Rao has received a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a project on energy, climate change, and decent living standards. More
ERC funds IIASA crowdsourcing project
The European Research Council has awarded a highly competitive Consolidator Grant to Steffen Fritz, leader and creator of IIASA’s citizen science project, Geo-Wiki. More
ERC grant supports international project on fertilizer and environment
Researchers from Austria, Spain, Belgium, and France will explore the worsening environmental problems related to nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon under a new grant from the European Research Council. More
Redefining age: IIASA population researcher wins ERC Advanced Grant
IIASA demographer Sergei Scherbov has won an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to explore population aging and its impacts on Europe and beyond. More
Energy from the Sahara Desert? New study to explore the risks
In the future, Europe might get a large part of its energy from solar and wind farms in the Sahara. IIASA researcher Anthony Patt has received a major EU research grant to examine the risks and consequences of such a project. More
01 September 2009
New research investigates the challenges of aging
and demographic change in Europe
The social, economic and policy challenges associated with aging and demographic change in Europe will be the focus of new research to be undertaken at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and funded through a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) award.
11 November 2008
New study to consider how society adapts to climate change
Understanding how societies will be able to adapt to the increasingly severe impacts of climate change will be the focus of new research made possible by a prestigious grant awarded to the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
ERC-Funded Projects
Decent Living Energy
Energy and emissions thresholds for providing decent living standards to all. There is confusion surrounding how poverty eradication will contribute to climate change. This is due to knowledge gaps related to the material basis of poverty, and the relationship between energy and human development. Addressing this issue rigorously requires bridging gaps between global justice, economics, energy systems analysis, and industrial ecology, and applying this knowledge to projections of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. More
Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies
This project aims to achieve a better understanding of ageing by identifying patterns of healthy ageing pathways or trajectories and their determinants, the critical points in time when changes in trajectories are produced, and to propose timely clinical and public health interventions. More
Forecasting Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
This project is testing the basic hypothesis that societies can develop the most effective long-term defense against the dangers of climate change by strengthening human capacity - primarily through education. More
Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective
The Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective (Re-Aging) project will develop new approaches to the study of age and aging that are appropriate for 21st century conditions. More
European Research Council
European Research Council (ERC) grants support individual researchers of any nationality and age who wish to pursue their frontier research