Lo European Research Council (ERC) è l’organismo dell’Unione europea che finanzia i ricercatori di eccellenza di qualsiasi età e nazionalità che intendono svolgere attività di ricerca di frontiera negli Stati membri dell’UE o nei paesi associati.
L’ERC supporta progetti di ricerca ad alto rischio, condotti da Principal Investigator (PI) con curriculum di rilievo a livello internazionale. I progetti sono finanziati sulla base delle idee progettuali presentate dai ricercatori, in qualsiasi campo della scienza, senza argomenti di ricerca predefiniti, e valutati sulla base del solo criterio dell’eccellenza scientifica.
I bandi ERC si dividono in cinque principali linee d'azione:
Starting Grant (StG) – Si rivolge a ricercatori di qualsiasi nazionalità, leader emergenti della ricerca, con 2-7 anni di esperienza maturata dopo il conseguimento del dottorato (o di un altro titolo equipollente). Il finanziamento può arrivare a 1.5 milioni di euro per singolo progetto per una durata massima di 5 anni.
Consolidator Grant (CoG) – È destinato a ricercatori di qualsiasi nazionalità con 7-12 anni di esperienza maturata dopo il conseguimento del dottorato di ricerca (o di un altro titolo equipollente) e con un curriculum scientifico molto promettente. Il finanziamento può arrivare a 2 milioni di euro per singolo progetto per una durata massima di 5 anni.
Advanced Grant (AdG) – Permette a leader della ricerca eccezionali ed affermati di qualsiasi età e nazionalità di portare avanti progetti innovativi e ad alto rischio in grado di aprire nuove direzioni nei rispettivi campi di ricerca e in altri settori. I ricercatori devono essere scientificamente indipendenti, attivi nella ricerca negli ultimi dieci anni ed avere un profilo che li identifichi come leader del rispettivo settore di ricerca. Il finanziamento può arrivare a 2,5 milioni di euro per singolo progetto per una durata massima di 5 anni.
Synergy Grant (SyG) – È destinato a gruppi costituiti da un minimo di due e da un massimo di quattro Principal Investigator (PI), ognuno dei quali potrà avere il proprio gruppo di ricerca. Il finanziamento può arrivare a 10 milioni di euro per singolo progetto per una durata massima di 6 anni.
Proof of Concept (PoC) – Mira a garantire il collegamento tra ricerca di base e mercato. È rivolto ai ricercatori già assegnatari di una borsa ERC, che abbiano un progetto ancora in corso o terminato da non più di 12 mesi dalla data di pubblicazione del bando. I beneficiari accedono ad un contributo pari a 150mila euro per 18 mesi.
Titolo del progetto: TabulaRasa. An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural study of rewritable manuscript technologies
Responsabile del progetto: prof. Michele Cammarosano
Settori disciplinari / settori ERC coinvolti:
Data inizio progetto: 01/05/2025
Data fine progetto: 30/04/2030
Acronimo: TabulaRasa
Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101170566/it
Abstract: The project ‘TabulaRasa. An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural study of rewritable manuscript technologies’ aims to address an aspect of manuscript cultures that has far-reaching practical and theoretical implications, but has never been the subject of a systematic investigation: the intersection between the perishable nature of the written word and the reusability of writing supports embodied in the development of rewritable media. In several contexts, the recycling of the written surface happens to be desiderable and even necessary: among them are schooling, note-taking, literary creation, and administration. The challenge of developing techniques to facilitate the reuse of the writing surface has produced a bewildering variety of ingenious solutions, with far-reaching implications for palaeographic developments, the acquisition of writing, and the relationship between memory, orality, and textuality.
Titolo del progetto: MEGAMAPS: Mapping Emerging Gender Artivism in the Mediterranean Arab Public Space
Responsabile del progetto: prof.ssa Sara Borrillo
Settori disciplinari / settori ERC coinvolti:
Data inizio progetto: 01/05/2024
Data fine progetto: 30/04/2029
Acronimo: MEGAMAPS
Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101118016
Abstract: The main objective of the project is to innovate the global scientific knowledge production on the relation between art, gender, creative practices and social change by the writing of an original history from below and by the creation of a participative digital archive which could document the reconfiguration of the methods of contention, participation and dissent in the MENA public space after 2011, and in particular in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan and Palestinian Territories.
Titolo del progetto: The Domestication of Hindu Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and South-East Asia
Responsabile del progetto: prof.ssa Florinda De Simini
Settori disciplinari / settori ERC coinvolti:
Data inizio progetto: 01/05/2019
Data fine progetto: 31/10/2026
Acronimo: DHARMA
Website: https://erc-dharma.github.io/
Abstract: Censuses report over a billion “Hindus” in the world today. But what is “Hinduism”? In answer, many accounts describe the doctrinal evolutions of various quite different currents of thought. To try to reply using material and social evidence is difficult because so many vital primary sources for institutional history remain inaccessible. What were the material foundations of the constellation of religious movements today classed as “Hindu”? How have different forms of religious agency shaped the institutional and religious landscape of a large sweep of Asia? How did such “Hindu” traditions, associated primarily with the ideas and practices of ascetics questing for liberation, become institutionally rooted? And what were the repercussions of the widespread patronage of pious foundations? Three types of sources will be examined: inscriptions, manuscripts, archaeological remains. Inscriptions are crucial because most of our historical knowledge of early South and Southeast Asia is based on epigraphy. We will explore, mine and diffuse these sources with the tools of digital humanities (rich mark-up of proper-names, technical terms, geodata, etc.). In order to contextualise epigraphy, unpublished prescriptive texts and new archaeological data will be adduced. Our goal is to identify and to map regional and interregional patterns of patronage. The actors are varied: “lettrés”, holy men and priestly intermediaries, as well as their patrons, often grandees of the state; but also cenobitic communities with their statutes, their libraries, their educational activities, and their incipient bureaucracy. Through a comparative approach (concentrating on “Hinduism”, but also considering the so-called “heretic” religions Buddhism and Jainism), and in a broad range of regional contexts, we shall attempt to uncover with unprecedented historical depth the complex interplay of religion, state and society in a formative period, the “Śaiva Age”, between the 6th and 13th centuries.
Titolo del progetto: The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion 1150-1850
Responsabile del progetto: prof. Roberto Tottoli
Settori disciplinari / settori ERC coinvolti:
Data inizio progetto: 01/04/2019
Data fine progetto: 31/03/2026
Acronimo: EUQU
Website: https://euqu.eu/
Abstract: EuQu is an ambitious six year research project (2019-2025) studying the ways in which the Islamic Holy Book is embedded in the intellectual, religious and cultural history of Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Our research studies how the Qur’an has been translated, interpreted, adapted and used by Christians, European Jews, freethinkers, atheists and European Muslims in order to understand how the Holy Book has influenced both culture and religion in Europe.
Titolo del progetto: Translocal Identities. The Śivadharma and the making of regional religious traditions in premodern South Asia
Responsabile del progetto: prof.ssa Florinda De Simini
Settori disciplinari / settori ERC coinvolti:
Data inizio progetto: 01/12/2018
Data fine progetto: 30/11/2025
Acronimo: SHIVADHARMA
Website: https://shivadharmaproject.com/
Abstract: The Śivadharma project aims at examining the impact of the spread of the Śaiva religion on the formation of regional religious identities in South Asia from the Middle Ages to early modern times. The Principal Investigator and her team will examine the historical evidence connected with a still little studied but highly influential tradition of Sanskrit texts collectively referred to as Śivadharma, which have been transmitted in some of the most representative regions of South Asia to exhibit the continuing influence of Śavisim. The impact of this literature can be traced in multiple literary, epigraphical and iconographic sources, making it particularly suitable for a multidisciplinary study in which the analysis and edition of texts goes hand in hand with that of the inscriptions and archaeological context. The regions that will be considered for this project are: Nepal, the Deccan area (with connections to the Andhra coast), the north-eastern area of the Bay of Bengal (present-day West Bengal and Odisha), Tamil Nadu and Kerala.