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Ana Cristina Santos, Principal Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES-UC), has just won funding of 2 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) to lead the TRACE project – Queer Citizenship Over Time: Ageing, ageism and LGBTI+ policies in Europe. This is the second time that the ERC has honoured this researcher’s work.