ERC Projects

Bocconi currently hosts 35 ERC Projects (including Staring, Consolidator and Advanced Grants schemes), having hosted 68 overall. This dedicated website area is constantly updated.
 

For more information on how to participate to ERC calls, and to attend the dedicated info sessions, please contact grants.office@unibocconi.it

• Access area for ‘FRAILIFE: Child Disability and Family Life’ website area.
  The project contributes to the field of family demography, as the analysis of extremely frail families has relevance for the general functioning of all families facing adverse events, with the aim of bringing families with a disabled child out of their invisibility, offering new and important insights on their functioning, characteristics, and challenges, while informing effective family-centered policy. It has been approved and funded by the European Research Council by way of a ‘Starting Grant' for the period 2023-28.

   

• Access the ‘IMMUNE: Modelling the Impact of Human Behaviours on Infections Spread’  website area.
  The project is meant to incorporate dynamic human behavior and, particularly, vaccination decisions into epidemiological models. In the envisaged new models, these elements can change as a function of internal and external factors, such as disease dynamics, vaccine availability and vaccine scares, panic, social norms and peer effects. It has been approved and funded by the European Research Council by way of a ‘Consolidator Grant’ for the period 2021-26.
  
   
• Access the 'INTEGRATOR: Incorporating Demographic Factors into Natural Language Processing Models’ website area.
  The project introduces demographic factors into language processing systems, which will improve algorithmic performance, avoid racism, sexism, and ageism, and open up new applications. It has been approved and funded by the European Research Council by way of a ‘Starting Grant’ for the period 2021-26.

• Access the ‘LOSS: Narratives of Loss: Unravelling the Origins of Support for Socially Conservative Political Agendas’ website area.
  The project aims at unraveling how economic hardship affects support for socially conservative political agendas aimed at restricting the rights of marginalised groups (ethnic linguistic and religious minorities migrants LGBTQIA + and women) and how local and national policy contexts affect this relationship. It has been approved and funded by the European Research Council by way of a ‘Consolidator Grant’ for the period 2020-25. 

   

• Access area for ‘SAIM - A Scientific Approach to Innovation Management’ website area.
  This project studies whether managers and entrepreneurs can improve their ability to make these decisions by adopting a scientic approach based on the formulation of models tested with data, such as scientists do. The project develops a framework that explains the mechanisms and implications of this approach, and tests them through a large-scale RCT in six international sites. The framework shows that a scientic approach improves performance by pursuing valuable innovations and by terminating unsuccessful projects earlier. It also helps decision-makers to interpret signals: in particular, they understand better how to change a project in response to negative signals. It has been approved and funded by the European Research Council by way of a ‘Advanced Grant' for the period 2021-26.
  
   
• Access the ‘Spoils of War: The Economic Consequences of the Great War in Central Europe’ website area.
  The project sets a new standard in the economic history of the world wars by investigating how the First World War affected regional economic development and industrial organisation in the Habsburg Empire and its successor states. It has been approved and funded by the European Research Council by way of a ‘Starting Grant' for the period 2019-24.