Eight grants were awarded to UPF by the European Union at the last Marie Curie call within the 7 ^th Framework Programme for young, talented, highly qualified researchers.

By  departments, most noteworthy is the success achieved by the social and human sciences: three projects for the Department of Economics and Business, two for Humanities and one for  Law. Other departments at UPF whose projects were selected are:  Translation and Language Sciences and the  Centre for Brain and Cognition of the  DTIC.

It should be noted, moreover, that Laia Pujol's (LEarning of Archeology through Presence - LEAP) project, supervised by  Sandra Montón, ICREA research professor of the  Department of Humanities, was awarded the highest score: 100 points; a proposal within the field of Virtual Archaeology, which intersects cultural heritage, new technologies and human-computer interaction.

Stefano Biagetti, of the Department of Humanities, is to carry out the PastoralMod project under the guidance of professor  Marco Madella. It is an archaeological and ethnographic project dealing with how people have adapted to living in rural areas in geographically arid parts of the world.

Enrico Crema, also under the supervision of Marco Madella, is to undertake the  NiCoSS project which concerns the relationship between human and plant communities through various computer-simulated models based on the existing biological and anthropological theories.   

Christian Felix Michel, of the  Department of Economics and Business, supervised by professor  Juan José Ganuza, will be embarking on the OrgaIO project, whose main aim is to develop an empirical framework enabling studying the relationship between organizational structures in companies and general competition in industry.

Julian di Giovanni will be pursuing his project  FirmsFluctuations directed by professor  Jaume Ventura at the Department of Economics and Business. This research will provide a detailed description of the function of different companies in the generation of aggregate fluctuations, based on data on French companies between 1990 and 2007.

Teresa Marques, at the  Department of Law, under the watchful eye of professor  Josep Joan Moreso, will undertake the CAND project which deals with collective attitudes and normative disagreement, combining different disciplines of philosophy and jurisprudence.

Paula Menéndez, overseen by Louise McNally, professor of the Department of Translation and Language Sciences, is to start the MODALNET project, whose main aim is to introduce improvements in the understanding of natural language. The study will collect data from corpus and questionnaires written in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Alexandre Hyafil, directed by  Gustavo Deco, ICREA research professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, and director of UPF's  Centre for Brain and Cognition, will be carrying out the project entitled "A unified framework for Perceptual Inference in Sensory cortices" (CEMNet). The researchers propose constructing a unified model of perception as a theoretical framework for the inference of complex naturalistic environments.