{"id":102404,"date":"2025-11-07T21:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=102404"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:40:43","slug":"knusts-prof-george-meyiri-bob-milliar-joins-global-team-awarded-prestigious-erc-synergy-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=102404","title":{"rendered":"KNUST\u2019s Prof. George Meyiri Bob-Milliar\u00a0joins global team awarded prestigious ERC Synergy Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prof. George Meyiri Bob-Milliar of the Department of History and Political Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been named as one of the principal investigators in a major European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant, joining a global team of scientists selected to tackle some of the world\u2019s most complex scientific challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ERC Synergy Grant, awarded under the European Union\u2019s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, supports collaborative research teams bringing together leading experts from different disciplines and countries.<\/p>\n

This year, 66 international research teams comprising 239 researchers will share \u20ac684 million to pursue frontier science projects ranging from fundamental physics and biosciences to climate and social systems research.<\/p>\n

Professor Bob-Milliar is the only Ghana-based researcher in the awarded cohort, positioning KNUST among a select group of global research institutions contributing to cutting-edge frontier science.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the announcement, Prof. Bob-Milliar noted that the award reflects growing confidence in African scientific excellence and the increasing relevance of research contributions from institutions such as KNUST.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis collaboration demonstrates that impactful scientific discovery is strengthened when diverse perspectives and knowledge systems come together. KNUST is fully part of that global conversation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva, highlighted the significance of the increasing international participation, noting that <\/strong>28 of the selected teams include researchers based outside Europe, including Ghana.<\/p>\n

\u201cEurope\u2019s frontier research has never been so international,\u201d she said. \u201cThis global collaboration strengthens scientific excellence and brings leading researchers from around the world closer to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

President of the ERC, Professor Maria Leptin, added: \u201cCollaboration is at the heart of the ERC Synergy Grants. These teams are joining forces to address the most complex scientific problems \u2013 this year more internationally than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

About the ERC<\/p>\n

The ERC, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes:\u00a0Starting Grants<\/u>,\u00a0Consolidator Grants<\/u>,\u00a0Advanced Grants<\/u>\u00a0and\u00a0Synergy Grants<\/u>. With its additional\u00a0Proof of Concept Grant<\/u>\u00a0scheme, the ERC helps grantees to bridge the gap between their pioneering research and early phases of its commercialisation. The ERC is led by an independent governing body, the\u00a0Scientific Council<\/u>. Since November 2021, Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC. The overall ERC budget from 2021 to 2027 is more than \u20ac16 billion, as part of the\u00a0Horizon Europe<\/u>\u00a0programme, under the responsibility of European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"KNUST\u2019sProf. George Meyiri Bob-Milliar of the Department of History and Political Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been named as one of the principal investigators in a major European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant, joining a global team of scientists selected to tackle some of the world\u2019s most complex scientific challenges.<\/p>\n

The ERC Synergy Grant, awarded under the European Union\u2019s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, supports collaborative research teams bringing together leading experts from different disciplines and countries.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12110,11770,10,9,12111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erc-synergy-grant","category-hp-research-1","category-politics","category-popular","category-prof-george-meyiri-bob-milliar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}