Emanuele Arioli awarded a European Research Council Excellence Scholarship
This is a first, and the company is delighted and proud to now have a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant winner in its ranks
.Eric Markiewicz – Vice-président RechercheThe ERCs are clearly a marker of international recognition and one of the pillars of our ability to fund exploratory projects at the frontiers of knowledge, with scientific excellence as the sole criterion. UPHF's laboratories are well aware of this, particularly in the context of the scheme to host our teacher-researchers on delegation for research activities at the CNRS, and more recently in the context of the Junior Professorship scheme. There is no doubt that this first success, through the internal dynamic it will create and the reinforcement of our support, will encourage others and for all categories, in particular Consolidator Grants (8 to 12 years post-doctorate) and Advanced Grants (senior researcher).
The European Research Council has just announced the award of 494 "Starting Grant" grants to young scientists and academics across Europe. This funding, totalling almost 780 million euros, supports cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields, from life sciences and physics to the social sciences and humanities. It will help early-career researchers launch their own projects, build their teams and pursue their most promising ideas. This funding is part of the EU's Horizon Europe program.
This competition attracted 3,474 submissions, which were evaluated by reading committees made up of internationally renowned researchers. 14.2% of applications received funding. 49 grants went to researchers from French universities or research centers.
Congratulations to Emanuele Arioli, a teacher-researcher at LARSH, whose dossier on the theme of Charlemagne's legends (Carolus Magnus's Oral Legends: Unravelling and Safeguarding) was selected from 1,039 dossiers in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It is one of ten grants in the "Study of Cultures and the Arts" subfield.
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Emanuele Arioli, enseignant-chercheur au LARSHCAROLUS responds to the urgent need to safeguard the vanishing traditions associated with Charlemagne and his heroes. The project tackles the imminent extinction of these cultural treasures in Europe and in remote corners of South America and Africa. Through fieldwork and interdisciplinary studies, CAROLUS aims to document, study and revitalize these intangible heritages, ensuring their preservation for future generations. The project employs a sophisticated research methodology, weaving diachronic links between local expressions and their medieval origins, and carrying out synchronic and comparative analyses of performances, sung narratives and forms of traditional theater. This comprehensive approach spans a millennium and encompasses literature, the performing arts, philology, sociology and anthropology. CAROLUS is a transdisciplinary exploration of oral and written traditions from the Middle Ages to the present day. It is distinguished by its transcultural scope, spanning three continents and diverse linguistic areas. The project aspires to be a bastion for the defense and safeguarding of this threatened human heritage in our globalized world.