Since these substantial grants were first introduced, to the amount of 2-2.5 million euros per project, the projects of fifteen lecturers at UPF have been awarded Advanced (seven) or Starting grants (eight). It is notable that of these 15 grants, five have been awarded to researchers at the Research Centre for International Economics (CREI). For UPF Group as a whole, the figure rises to twenty-two, if we include the two advanced and the five starting grants obtained by the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), in which UPF participates.

By areas, UPF's Department of Economics and Business has eight of the fifteen (three advanced and five starting); the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) has been awarded three (one advanced and two starting);  two go to the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (CEXS), one for each of the two modalities and, finally, the Political and Social Sciences and Humanities departments have been awarded with one advanced grant each. All seven awarded to the CRG belong to the branch of Life Sciences.

The seventh Advanced Grants

Hans-Joachim Voth, lecturer of the Department of Economics and Business at UPF and ICREA researcher. His research focuses on gathering data on different types of assets during times of crisis, and how it affects the different ethnic and social groups.

Jordi Galí, professor of Foundations of Economic Analysis at the Department of Economics and Business at UPF and director of the CREI, was chosen for going into greater depth on labour markets, economic fluctuations and monetary policies.

Jaume Ventura, director of the doctoral programme of the Department of Economics and Business at UPF and CREI researcher is leading a project that upholds that "economic bubbles" are not caused by the irrationality of market participants, but rather they arise as a consequence of a failure that existed previously in the market. The main aim of his work is to develop this point of view and draw up an empirically relevant macroeconomic framework.

Sociologist Gösta Esping-Andersen, professor of Political and Administration Science at the Department de Political and Social Sciences and ICREA researcher, has been chosen to carry out a project in which he will study behavioural dynamics and trends as well as relationships of kinship that are established in contemporary families.

Xavier Serra, lecturer in Computing Science and Artificial Intelligence and coordinator of the Music Technology Research Group of the DTIC, as well as being an ICREA researcher, has been chosen to carry out the CompMusic project: musical information technologies with a multicultural approach.

Historian Juan Carlos Garavaglia and ICREA researcher at UPF's Department of Humanities is studying the process of the construction of the states in Latin America during the 19th century.

Jordi Sunyer, professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the CEXS, co-director of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), and director of the IMIM Research Programme in Epidemiology and Public Health will carry out a project to study the effects of atmospheric pollution on human neurological development.

Eight projects embarked upon thanks to the Starting grants

Marta Reynal-Querol, ICREA researcher at UPF's Department of Economics and Business is working on conflict resolution and consequences; the causes of civil wars; ethnic polarization and the economics of the institutions.

Jan Eeckhout, from the University of Pennsylvania (USA) joined UPF's Department of Economics and Business. His lines of investigation deal with the areas of applied theory, game theory and microeconomics.

Gino A. Gancia, researcher at the CREI, a UPF affiliated centre, and temporary part-time lecturer at the Department of Economics and Business at UPF, is studying international trade, economic growth and macroeconomics.

Nicola Gennaioli,  CREI researcher and temporary part-time lecturer at UPF's Department of Economics and Business is working on the study of the legal and political aspects of the economy, the theory of contracts and economic development.

In the field of the social sciences, Fernando Ariel Broner, CREI researcher and lecturer at UPF's Department of Economics and Business is studying capital flows on an international level as well as the emerging markets.

In life sciences, Tomás Marqués-Bonet, researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), is researching into what identifies and characterizes structural variability in the genome of primates.

Within the area of social sciences and the humanities, and, more concretely in the category: study of the complexity of the human mind, Salvador Soto Faraco, ICREA researcher of the DTIC, is concentrating his work on the study of multisensorial integration with regard to attention.

Finally, in the field of physical sciences and engineering, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, ICREA researcher at UPF's DTIC is developing a project on non-asymptotic aspects in Shannon's Information Theory, which establishes the fundamental limits of information processing theories.

On a European scale (in absolute terms), the third edition has been led by the United Kingdom as regards the number of awards per country (53), followed by Germany (45) and France (32); Catalonia and Norway (7) are in tenth place, ahead of Austria (6) and the rest of the Spanish State (6), Denmark (5), Belgium (5) and Finland (4).

By institutions, in the last edition in which UPF was awarded three advanced grants, we highlight the Max Planck Institute in Germany and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France, awarded twelve Advanced Grants each, and Cambridge University (UK), with nine.