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New ERC Consolidator Grant for the UC3M

BODYinTRANSIT project receiving almost 2 million Euros

12/9/20

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is receiving almost 2 million Euros from the European Research Council (ERC) after obtaining a new Consolidator Grant. This grant, aimed at European research staff who have been working for 7 to 12 years and would like to consolidate a research group, has been obtained by researcher Ana Tajadura Jiménez from the University’s Computer Science and Engineering Department with a project called BODYinTRANSIT.

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The ERC funds the Consolidator Grant as part of Horizon 2020 (H2020), the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation in the European Union. They are awarded to the best researchers in Europe to carry out projects that contribute to scientific excellence and competitiveness. The aim is that young scientists with good ideas can consolidate themselves as research group leaders.

Sensory technologies

“BODYINTRANSIT: Sensory-driven Body Transformation Experiences On-the-move” is the title of the research project being led by Ana Tajadura that has secured ERC funding for the next five years. Its aim is to establish a new fundamental knowledge base about “Body Transformation Experiences” (BTE), using new sensor-based sensory feedback devices. The results of the project could find application in the design of new medical therapies (for example in the case of chronic pain, stroke, etc.) and also in the world of sports, robotics or virtual reality.

The knowledge of how to create BTE using sensory signals and its effects on people is limited, as up until now, research has been conducted in highly controlled environments. This project aims to transfer these findings to real life settings for application to specific practical problems. To do this, methodologies from different areas of science will be combined, from cognitive neuroscience focused on the multi-sensory perception of the body to physical computing for signals, going through data modelling and human-computer interaction.

This European ERC CoG 2020 call, with a success rate of 13 percent, gives 655 million Euros to 327 research projects across the continent (chosen from 2,506 proposals). The UC3M is one of seven Spanish universities that has secured funding for this call.

Following this new grant, the UC3M has 12 ERC projects (8 Starting Grants and 4 Consolidator Grants) with a total funding of almost 17 million Euros from H2020. The UC3M is ranked among the top 20 Spanish organisations for economic return within the scope of H2020, among the top 5 institutions in the Community of Madrid, according to the latest report from the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI, in its Spanish acronym) at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

More information: Consolidator Grants ERC 2020