EGEE is engaged with scientists from the European Research Council programme (ERC), the first European funding body set up to support investigator-driven frontier research. The ERC's main aim is to stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, scholars and engineers to be adventurous and take risks in their research. The scientists are encouraged to go beyond established frontiers of knowledge and the boundaries of disciplines. The ERC complements other funding activities in Europe such as those of the national research funding agencies, and is a flagship component of the "Ideas Programme" of the European Union's Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). Further to an open letter to the grantees of the ERC sent by the Project Director, the project thus received nine expressions of interest in using EGEE's infrastructure and technology:

1. Erik Lindahl
   Research Area:  Extreme parallelization techniques for molecular simulations
   NA4 contact: Vincent Breton, Marius Sterzel

2. Anja Mudring
   Research Area: Bandgap prediction of thermoelectrics
   NA4 contact: Marius Sterzel

3. Claudio Conti
   Research Area: Light-complex matter interaction
   NA4 contact: Tiziana Ferrari on behalf of Italian Regional NA4 team

4. Jernej Ule
   Research Area: Gene expression
   NA4 contact: Abdeslem Djaoui on behalf of UKI Regional NA4 team

5. Minna Palmroth
   Research Area: Earth observation / Meteorology
   NA4 contact: Horst Schwichtenberg and Monique Petitdidier

6. Michael Matschiner
   Research Area: Molecular evolutionary biology
   NA4 contact:  Christophe Blanchet

7. Christian Wolfrum
   Research Area: Molecular systems biology
   NA4 contact: Christophe Blanchet

8. Inaki Ruiz
   Research Area: Molecular evolution
   NA4 contact: Christophe Blanchet

9. Christian Serre
   Research Area: Drug delivery/discovery; molecular simulation/modeling
   NA4 contact: Vincent Breton

10. Bas de Bruin
   Research Area: Computational Chemistry
   NA4 contact: Marius Sterzel