ERC Starting Grant
Award year: 2025
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Starting Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
“Our daily life at work is an important factor for our social wellbeing,” says Prof. Dr. Adrian Meier, Professorship for Communication Science at FAU. “This is why it’s worrying that loneliness among employees has risen worldwide.” One in five feels lonely most of the time, with the numbers rising, and this holds many risks for staff members, organizations and companies. How are the most recent changes to the world of work, such as hybrid working and hybrid interactions, affecting social wellbeing? Are they contributing to the “loneliness epidemic” or could they be part of the solution? These are the questions Prof. Adrian Meier is now investigating in his HYIHY project funded by the ERC.