Maria Leptin

@mleptin

Passionate about fundamental research and human curiosity and creativity in all areas, my lab, EMBO (past director), ERC (current president). But family wins.

Joined February 2012

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Maria Leptin @mleptin 15h

Please sign “Fund Science. Fund the Future” for a substantially stronger EU research budget:
eu-life.eu/fund-rdi-fund-… have tractors to convince politicians to fund agricultural subsidies, we have only our names and our reputation to lobby for research funding - please use yours!

Maria Leptin @mleptin Feb 16

Very informative and enlightening meeting indeed! We found it easy to agree on the value of fundamental research for society - whether for health, climate, societal cohesion, or even defense.

Nadia Calviño @NadiaCalvino Feb 16

Very good meeting with @ERC_Research President @mleptin.

🇪🇺 is a skills and research powerhouse.

At the @EIB Group we’re working alongside our partners to scale up support for trailblazing projects to reinforce Europe’s competitiveness and technological leadership.

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Maria Leptin @mleptin Jul 23, 2025

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC.

We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail.

@Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU

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research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu Horizon Europe 2028 - 2034: twice bigger, simpler, faster and more impactful Research and innovation news alert: As part of the next long-term EU budget 2028-2034, the Commission is proposing to double the budget of the research and innovation framework programme to €175...

Maria Leptin @mleptin Jan 31, 2025

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long time no post, I'm now on Bluesky. Some random pix from the last weeks (solar power station Sevilla, lemons from the garden, panel in Davos w @HengartnerMP @tegmark @ramin_m_h, great take-off in Zürich) for a farewell on X. Come and see me at marialep.bsky.social

Maria Leptin @mleptin Dec 21, 2024

Wonderful news to end the year with: the agreement between the European Union and Switzerland, which includes Switzerland's association with Horizon Europe, has been signed! I look forward to welcoming our colleagues from Switzerland back into the ERC!