{"id":183346,"date":"2025-11-06T14:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=183346"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:58","slug":"europese-synergy-grant-voor-twaalf-nederlandse-teamspelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/11\/06\/europese-synergy-grant-voor-twaalf-nederlandse-teamspelers\/","title":{"rendered":"European Synergy Grant for twelve Dutch \u2018team players\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twelve researchers from Dutch research institutions have been awarded a European Synergy Grant. Together with their international colleagues, they will receive up to 10 million euros for their research project. Jun Borras, professor of Agrarian Studies at the ISS and Erasmus Professor, is among the recipients.<\/p>\n

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Erasmus Professor Jun Borras is among the recipients of the research grant.<\/span><\/p>

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The grants are part of the Horizon Europe research programme. In total, the European Research Council (ERC) is allocating<\/a> 684 million euros to 66 international teams.<\/p>\n

A wide range of topics is being researched. One team, for example, is studying the very first microseconds of the universe. Another will map how East African mountain communities adapt to ecological and social change.<\/p>\n

Land grabbing<\/h2>

Erasmus Professor Jun Borras is one of the recipients of the Synergy Grant. Borras, professor of Agrarian Studies at the ISS, researches land politics. He is currently focusing on land grabbing in countries in South America, Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n

Together with researchers from Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom, Borras is receiving the research grant for the project \u2018Land and life in the Anthropocene: landscape reform\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\t

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