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How do scientists study living things, from single cells to whole ecosystems?

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What new materials and substances do chemists create, and what are they for?

Ages 13-19

Physics and space

From quantum particles to distant galaxies: what do we still not know?

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How do computers learn to recognise, predict and help?

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Where do abstract mathematical ideas turn up in the real world?

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What is happening to the climate, the oceans and the soil, and how do we measure it?

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How are new medicines made, and how do scientists fight disease?

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How are the machines, materials and energy of the future designed?

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HE2025–20272 countries

MIGTRIBUTION · Migration Waves and their Contributions to Economic and Political Institutions in Origin Countries

The project Migration Waves and their Contributions to Economic and Political Institutions in Origin Countries (MIGTRIBUTION) did not start. The researcher withdrew before the planned start date (1 September 2025), and therefore no activities, tasks, research actions, training, dissemination, or project-related work we…

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HE2025–20272 countries

OUTCOME · ecO-evolUTionary dynamics in COMmunitiEs

Ecological communities are composed of a vast number of interacting species. Individuals of different species interact for feeding, survival or many other services, like protection or transport. Such interactions form ecological networks.

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HE2024–20262 countries

SPATHS · Spatial skills and mathematics, towards a causal understanding of mechanisms

Difficulties in learning maths usually begin at the start of education and are robust over time. The number of students not reaching basic levels of maths achievement remains a major societal challenge, at a time when societies are increasingly demanding maths skills due to scientific and industrial progress (e.g., gro…

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HE2024–20262 countries

HURO · Leading in the brave new world: human - robot dynamics

The interface between physical and digital domains is rapidly fading, raising questions about the ramifications that technological innovations have for organisations. Despite offering plenty of opportunities, a more digitalised world of work changes the nature and flow of information, inevitably creating novel challeng…

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HE2024–20262 countries

LEARN-UCJ · Social Learning for Urban Climate Justice in Latin America

Latin America is the most urbanized and unequal region in the world. It is also the second most disaster-prone region globally. Its vulnerability to floods, landslides, droughts, storms, sea level rise, and infectious diseases is rapidly increasing due to the climate crisis.

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HE2024–20273 countries

RELIGIOMICS · Religion and Comics: New Forms of Mediation of Religion

RELIGIOMICS aims at capturing new forms of religion and spirituality represented and experienced in comics by both artists and audiences. Considering the growth of comics production and consumption, this project is crucial for understanding the transformations of religious phenomena in Western societies and their relat…

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HE2024–20272 countries

e-Authopia · Authoritarian Smart City

The smart city fulfils a utopian picture of a future where data-driven, citizen-centred, and just cities thrive. What if this vision of the smart city is combined with the prospect of smart control? What about the sociotechnical imaginaries of authoritarian smart cities?

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HE2024–20262 countries

HeartRepairKIT · Structural, kinetic, and biophysical analysis and engineering of KIT.METRNL signalling to boost heart tissue regeneration after myocardial infarction

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, with millions of patients suffering from long-term complications after heart attacks. One of the major medical challenges is the limited ability of the heart to regenerate damaged tissue, which often results in reduced quality of life and high healthcare…

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HE2024–20275 countries

CanDoIt · Intelligent Breast Cancer DiagnOsis and MonItoring Therapeutic Response Training Network

A breakthrough in precision diagnostics and treatement for breast cancer Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment face persistent challenges, with current methods often lacking the precision and ease of use required for optimal patient care. Existing techniques may lead to misdiagnosis, delayed intervention or non-adapted…

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HE2024–20286 countries

PROSAFE · Smart Integration of Process Systems Engineering & Machine Learning for Improved Process Safety in Process Industries

The process industries – chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and energy – are cornerstones of our modern society. However, they operate under conditions that present inherent safety risks. We're seeing increasing plant complexity, aging infrastructure, and the potential for subtle, hard-to-detect failures that can…

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HE2024–20287 countries

Inter-oPEn · Interoperability of the Power Electronics dominated grid by openness

Power Electronic Converters are essential for integrating more renewables into Europe’s electricity system, yet the present PE dominated grid faces an “interoperability ice age”: Multi vendor HVDC converters are added ad hoc, while proprietary control software, unclear IP regimes and fragmented regulation hinder inform…

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HE2024–20276 countries

STUDIES-DIG · Models and Instruments for Transforming Higher Education Systems through Transnational Multi-Sector Links

In the digital era society is evolving at a rapid pace and investing in education have vast social and economic advantages for it. It is the education that allows people to have access to SDGs 4 and the consortium is created as a platform for collaboration with the purpose to research and identify successful contempora…

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HE2024–20276 countries

SOVEREIGN · distributed ledger technologies and user-driven automation towards self-SOVEREIGN mobile data access in beyond 5G networks

Towards the forthcoming transition to a fully connected world (e.g., Internet of Senses, digital twins), support of connected intelligence requires service advertisement, discovery, negotiation and management that goes beyond the complexity and scalability that existing technologies and subscription-driven mobile netwo…

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HE2024–20276 countries

ReDes_Ling · Resisting Language Inequlity/ Resistir la Desigualdad Lingüística

Resisting Language Inequality/Resistir la Desigualdad Lingüística (ReDes_Ling) is a network of organizations whose goal is to research language inequality and propose innovative strategies to revert its pernicious social effects. By language inequality we mean an asymmetrical relationship among language groups that tra…

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HE2024–20262 countries

MAGRITTE · Recovering plasma-facing components temperatures in fusion devices from IR camera measurements

Infrared (IR) cameras are key diagnostics to monitor and control plasma-facing components (PFCs) in fusion devices. Nevertheless, the use of all-metallic PFCs with low and variable emissivity (ε ~ 0.1-0.5) makes it difficult to obtain a correct surface temperature measurement. The radiance collected by the IR camera in…

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HE2024–20262 countries

COMPTEACH · Computational mechanisms of teacher-pupil knowledge transfer

Reinforcement learning is how humans and other animals learn through trial and error: we act, observe outcomes, and adjust. This kind of learning shapes everyday life, from mastering motor skills and planning efficiently to preparing for exams or refining medical decisions based on past results. Computational models of…

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HE2024–20262 countries

SPUCS · Software architectures for Secure, Private, User-Controlled Smart devices

This project developed new tools to give European citizens greater transparency and control over their smartphones and other smart devices. European citizens rely on billions of smart electronic devices in their daily lives, from smartphones to smart watches, for communication, work, health, and access to public servic…

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HE2024–20288 countries

AIM-NEXT · Accelerate the design and Insertion of nonCRM hard Materials for Next generation EXTreme applications (AIM-NEXT)

AIM-NEXT focuses on accelerating the design and integration of hard materials using non-critical raw materials, effectively addressing economic and environmental challenges within the European Union. Through a comprehensive interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and international training program, AIM-NEXT collaborates with…

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HE2024–20262 countries

ESICRI · Effects of Socio-economic Inequalities in Childhood Respiratory Infections

Respiratory infections (RIs) are the most common health problem in childhood, yet substantial inequalities in their burden persist across Europe. Children from disadvantaged socio-economic circumstances experience higher risks of severe RI outcomes, including hospitalisation, but the causal pathways underlying these in…

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HE2024–20279 countries

HumanIC · Human - Centric Indoor Climate for Healthcare Facilities

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) represent one of the most significant challenges facing modern healthcare systems. In the European Union alone, it is estimated that more than 4 million patients annually acquire at least one HAI during hospitalization, with the problem affecting on average 80,000 individuals per…

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HE2024–20287 countries

MISSION-CCS · Material Science Innovation for Accelerated, Sustainable and Safe Implementation of Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a key technology for achieving climate neutrality in Europe, particularly for hard-to-abate industries such as cement, steel, and chemicals. However, large-scale deployment remains limited due to uncertainties related to system reliability, safety, and cost. A major challenge is the…

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HE2024–20263 countries

TiR · Together in Research: collaboration and relationships between researchers and social movements. Learning from South African experience.

The issue of collaboration between researchers and social movements is dramatically back in the spotlight, both in the academic and in the public debate. In the face of global challenges that demand profound social and environmental transformation, researchers are increasingly encouraged to maximize the transformative…

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HE2024–20289 countries

INDEEP · INtervention on the DEterminants of, and Expertise in, Physical activity behaviours

Physical Activity (PA) positively impacts a broad range of markers for health (King et al., 2019) and reduces the risk of mortality (Ekelund et al., 2026). The World Health Organisation (WHO) outline that almost 500 million people will develop noncommunicable diseases attributable to physical inactivity between 2020 an…

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HE2024–20278 countries

PRAETORIAN · EuroPean Training NetwoRks to TArget DAMPs and NETs: novel apprOaches in pRecision SepsIs pAtieNt care

Sepsis remains one of the major challenges for societies worldwide, causing an estimated 7-9 million deaths every year. It is the leading cause of death at intensive care units in the EU. This high mortality persists because at present methods for timely diagnosis are lacking and no effective therapy is available.

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HE2024–20278 countries

REWORLDING · Repositioning Participatory Design to Tackle Socio-Environmental Challenges

The REWORLDING Doctoral Network addresses the growing societal need for inclusive and participatory responses to socio-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. These issues are experienced differently by communities, organisations, and individuals, often leading to societal polarisation that…

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HE2024–20276 countries

ArCHe · Archaeological Coastal Heritage: Past, present and future of a hidden prehistoric legacy

Coastal zones all over the world face growing pressure from climate change and development, with archaeological sites in these areas at increasing risk. The HORIZON MSCA Doctoral network ArCHe addresses the increasing vulnerability of the material remains of Stone Age coastal hunter-fisher-gatherer (HFG) societies (c.…

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HE2024–20262 countries

CREATIVR · Creativity in Virtual Reality

The rapid digital transformation of work, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the expansion of immersive technologies, has fundamentally reshaped how and where knowledge work takes place. Increasingly, organizations rely on hybrid and remote work models, while virtual reality (VR) technologies are emerging as pote…

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HE2024–20262 countries

OSpaMa · Objects, Spaces and Material Culture. Gender and Politics in Early Modern European Republics (Venice, Genova, XV-XVIII centuries)

The project OSPaMa – Objects, Spaces and Material Culture: Gender and Politics in Early Modern European Republics (Venice and Genoa, 15th–18th centuries) addresses a major historiographical gap in the study of early modern republics. Traditional political history has relied primarily on institutional and normative sour…

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HE2024–20263 countries

PROTRUST · Public Trust in Contemporary Europe: Trusting the Antitrust (PROTRUST)

The PROTRUST project investigates how the politicisation of EU antitrust enforcement affects citizens’ trust in the European Commission and in large digital firms. PROTRUST combines media analysis and experimental research to examine how public discourse and trust outcomes are linked. The project advances academic know…

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HE2024–20262 countries

EuBrand · Patronage and European perspective in Brandenburg Prussia: the painter Etcher Johann Friedrich Wentzel (1670-1729)

The aim if EuBrand was to shed light on a forgotten chapter of Europe’s intellectual and artistic history based on the following research question: how did painting contribute to the creation of a visual language of absolutism during the reign of the first Prussian king Frederick I? EuBrand should foster research and i…

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HE2024–20262 countries

SONIC · Sense Of Number in Invertebrate Cognition

Understanding how numerical cognition emerges across species is a central question in cognitive science and evolutionary biology. True counting abilities — such as recognising numbers across different procedures and sensory modalities or spontaneously ordering them along a mental continuum — are often considered unique…

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HE2024–20273 countries

SOLVE-H · Mapping social value of participation in collaborative housing: From a knowledge-based to evidence-based perspective

The SOLVE-H project addresses pressing socio demographic and governance challenges in European housing by focusing on collaborative housing (CoH) as an alternative model capable of delivering social, environmental, and community value. Across Europe, housing systems face increasing pressures related to affordability, a…

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HE2024–202710 countries

CLEAR · “CLEAR”: Cell Envelope Antibacterials

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has escalated into a global health crisis, with more than one million estimated deaths in 2019 attributable to infections with antibiotic resistant pathogens. Gram-positive bacteria are responsible for a large share of these and among them, the methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus…

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HE2024–20286 countries

MetacMed · Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials for biomedical and energy harvesting applications

MetacMed addresses a major gap in Europe’s innovation ecosystem: the translation of advanced acoustic and mechanical metamaterials (MMs) from laboratory research into practical solutions for healthcare, energy harvesting and noise reduction. The project combines metamaterial design, numerical modelling, artificial inte…

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HE2024–20262 countries

HEADS · Health, Embalming and Dating: Investigating Life and Death in Ancient Egypt

In ancient Egypt, death was the beginning of a new life, and the body was the anchor for the soul. Complex mummification practices and burial rituals were needed to ensure a successful transition to the afterlife. These have so far mainly been explored through the study of texts and archaeological contexts, which are p…

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HE2024–20286 countries

MECANO · The Mechanics of Canon Formation and the Transmission of Knowledge from Graeco-Roman Antiquity

To consider a text canonical is to invest it or its author with prestige, authority, or even timeless value. Canons set standards and define what is deemed worthy of transmission. Canonical texts or authors become part of reference frames and contribute to shaping shared identities.

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HE2024–20273 countries

RISEN · Hip at what cost? How the human pelvis adapted to bipedalism and childbirth

When our ancestors began walking upright millions of years ago, the human pelvis underwent a dramatic transformation. This shift to bipedalism — walking on two legs — was one of the defining moments in human evolution, but it came at a cost. As the pelvis reshaped itself to support an upright posture, and as the human…

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HE2024–20262 countries

GEOLEARN · Real-time hydrogen-storage monitoring via energy-efficient deep learning

The adoption of renewable hydrogen as green fuel and energy storage is key to achieve the European Green Deal. However, its large-scale storage is still facing significant challenges. Deep learning (DL) measurement inversion is a state-of-the-art approach used for underground storage-site monitoring and detection.

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HE2024–20262 countries

DesiRTA · Localize and Controlled co-delivery of AuNPs conjugated siRNA by Cationic Shear-thinning Gel Matrix for Treatment of Arthritis (DesiRTA)

DesiRTA: A Targeted Nanotherapeutic Approach for Revolutionizing Arthritis Treatment Arthritis, a prevalent global health concern affecting over 350 million individuals, substantially burdens healthcare systems. This chronic condition, characterized by joint pain, edema, and restricted mobility, significantly impairs p…

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HE2024–20279 countries

SHARE-CTD · Sharing and re-using clinical trial data to maximise impact

Clinical trial data sharing is important for trustworthy and efficient health research. When trial data can be shared responsibly, study results can be checked independently, research questions can be revisited, and evidence can be reused for the benefit of patients and society. Clinical trial data sharing is crucial p…

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HE2024–20262 countries

JUSTCARBON · Just Carbon Transitions

The Justcarbon project addresses a critical and evolving area in environmental governance: the role of domestic politics, expertise, and institutional structures in shaping national climate and environmental policies over time. The project's core objective is to comparatively analyze how Denmark and Norway develop thei…

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HE2024–20262 countries

ecofem.indi · Indigenous women, nonhuman world and gender: Comparing the Amazon and Siberia

The overall purpose of the project was to investigate the relations between Indigenous women and the non-human world, with particular attention to women’s traditional ecological knowledge, their ontological relations with animals, landscapes, and other non- human beings, and the extent to which this knowledge affects t…

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HE2024–20272 countries

LAGOSTECH · Africa’s Silicon Landscapes: negotiating Information and Communication Technology in Lagos

Across sub-Saharan Africa, technology districts modelled (and often dubbed) after California's Silicon Valley are reshaping cities, economies and everyday life. Nigeria has hosted the highest number of tech hubs on the continent since 2019, and the city of Lagos has become a central node of this transformation, with ne…

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HE2024–20262 countries

TRAFFICKER · Human Traffickers: The social circuits of human trafficking and transnational, organised crime

During the past decades, millions of euros have been spent by national governments and international organisations on combatting human trafficking and on offering assistance to victims of trafficking. However, we know surprisingly little about the people who facilitate, manage and orchestrate human trafficking: the tra…

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HE2024–20262 countries

BITE · Bite's evolution: a biomechanical study of Pleistocene humans in Europe

Diet has played a central role in shaping the evolutionary history of the genus Homo. Changes in food resources, food processing strategies, and behavioural adaptations are closely linked to the progressive transformation of the human cranio-dental system. Understanding how extinct human species used their dentition pr…

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HE2024–20253 countries

ROC3Risks · Economic and Financial Impacts from Rapid-Onset Compound and Cascading Climate related Risks

It concerns the following changes: 1. GA termination (early termination) These change(s) are necessary for the following reason(s): Arthur Hrast-Essenfelder, the researcher who applied for the grant, decided to withdraw BEFORE the start of the project. The reason for it is that he received took up a new position at the…

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HE2023–202815 countries

FutureData4EU · Training Future Big Data Experts for Europe

FutureData4EU is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND programme designed to address the growing demand for highly skilled researchers capable of navigating the societal, economic and ethical challenges posed by data-driven transformations in Europe. The project is embedded in the broader European policy context shaped by th…

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HE2023–20252 countries

MS2DCOFO · Multiswtichable Two-dimensional Covalent Organic Framework-based Optoelectronics

Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are crucial elements for the fabrication of flexible, wearable, and biocompatible electronic devices. As miniaturization is approaching its limits, bringing an end to Moore’s law, beyond−CMOS devices, “More-than-Moore” technologies aimed at functional diversification are emergin…

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HE2023–20274 countries

PortADa · Port Arrivals Data. Automatic data collection for a large-scale comparative history of 19th century shipping: a Digital Humanities approach to maritime heritage

In the nineteenth century, during the transition from sail to steam, port cities were central hubs of imperial colonialism and capitalist economies, embedded in maritime networks linking local and regional economies to globalisation and the international division of labour. They were points of entry for goods and capit…

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HE2023–20274 countries

CLUSTER-INN · Cluster for innovative energy (CLUSTER-INN)

Energy generation and use obtained new urgency the last year when Russia invaded Ukraine. European and other countries encountered harsh realities when problems related to energy availability and affordability had to be tackled. An urgent need for faster and more efficient transitioning towards renewable sources is evi…

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HE2023–20277 countries

SAV · Spatial Audio Virtualization and Gamification for Hearing Assessment and Enhancement

The SAV (Spatial Audio Virtualization and Gamification for Hearing Assessment and Enhancement) project addresses a crucial gap in current auditory testing and training approaches. Traditional hearing assessments often fail to capture the complex, real-world listening scenarios that people face daily, such as conversing…

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HE2023–202714 countries

INCASI2 · A New Measure of Socioeconomic Inequalities for International Comparison

The overall objective of the INCASI2 project is to establish a global cross-sectoral network of experts working on a joint research programme aimed at building a new analytical model of socioeconomic inequalities in order to: a) To produce effective advances in the understanding of the complex phenomena of socioeconomi…

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HE2023–20253 countries

SIREN · Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy in liquid biopsy for breast cancer

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and early detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes. However, current diagnostic approaches often rely on invasive procedures or lack sufficient sensitivity at early stages. The SIREN project aimed to address this challenge by developing advanced, lab…

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HE2023–20287 countries

GAP · image-Guided computational and experimental Analysis of fractured Patients

Bone fractures, particularly those related to bone fragility, represent a growing challenge for European societies. Increasing life expectancy and age-related conditions such as osteoporosis are driving a rise in fragility fractures, which often result in pain, long recovery periods, loss of independence and reduced qu…

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HE2023–20277 countries

MicrocombSys · Photonic System Engineering with Microcombs

The MicrocombSys Doctoral Network aims to advance the scientific, technological, and industrial foundations for chip-scale optical frequency combs (microcombs), a key enabling technology for next-generation communication systems, precision metrology, LiDAR, quantum technologies, and mid-IR spectroscopy. The project bri…

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HE2023–20252 countries

ENLIVEN · hiErarchical metal-orgaNic framework@covaLent organic framework (MOF@COF) on carbon nanofIbers for electrocatalytic CO2 conVErsioN

Climate change remains one of the most pressing global challenges, driven largely by the continued increase of greenhouse gas emissions. Among these, carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major contributor to global warming. Reaching climate neutrality by 2050, as targeted by the European Green Deal, requires not only reducing emi…

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HE2023–20252 countries

ECODEM · The Building Guilds of Interwar Europe: An Experiment in Economic Democracy

In the aftermath of the First World War, European cities witnessed a massive expansion of producer cooperatives in the building sector. Drawing on ideas for industrial reform that were shared widely across borders, these producer cooperatives, or building guilds, not only aimed to improve urban housing but also to demo…

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HE2023–20252 countries

GBV_COP_SOC · Exploring Complex Realities Around Gender Based Violence, Multiple Legal Orders and Role of Police in Addressing GBV Cases in Pakistan and Pakistani Immigrant Community in Norway

Gender-Based Violence (GBV) within Pakistani society and among Pakistani immigrant communities in Norway is a serious issue. The study examined how entrenched patriarchal norms and power imbalances perpetuate violence against marginalized groups, particularly women, across both national and diasporic contexts. Hosted b…

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HE2023–20262 countries

WCOLW · Women's Criminality in the Ottoman Literary World (1860-1922)

This research investigates the evolving representation of female criminality in Ottoman and early Republican Turkish literature between 1870 and 1926. It contextualizes this inquiry within the broader transformations of the Ottoman criminal justice system, gender norms, and the emergence of new literary genres, particu…

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HE2023–20273 countries

PANICOCENE · PANICOCENE. Reframing Climate Change-induced Mobilities

PANICOCENE investigates how printed and online news media in the United States and Italy have represented climate change–induced mobilities (CCIM) over the past two decades. The project arises from a growing concern that media coverage often adopts alarmist, securitized, or apocalyptic framings, portraying cross-border…

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HE2023–20252 countries

JANUSHOPE · Two-Faced Hopes: Football, Migration, and Religion Between West Africa and Europe

The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship project "JANUSHOPE: Football, Migration, and Religion Between West Africa and Europe" was situated at the intersection of social anthropology and human geography and addressed pressing questions concerning migration, inequality, and future-making. Football has become a major driver of m…

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HE2023–202710 countries

OWIN6G · Optical and wireless sensors networks for 6G scenarios

In the Optical and WIreless sensors Networks for 6G scenarios (OWIN6G) MSCA DN project, key industry and academic stakeholders are brought together with the aim of developing a structured European training programme (TP) in optical technologies to facilitate disruptive wireless sensor applications within sixth-generati…

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HE2023–20279 countries

VIMAS · Visitor monitoring and management in protected and recreational areas: new challenges, novel solutions for the Anthropocene

The VIMAS project aims to address the challenges of sustainable management of nature areas due to increased participation in outdoor recreation. The project acknowledges the diversification in visitor behaviour and the subsequent socio-ecological impacts. The main objective of VIMAS is to develop efficient governance o…

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HE2023–20274 countries

Training42Phase · Next generation turbomachinery with two-phase flow

Training42Phase addresses critical technological challenges in the energy transition by advancing two-phase turbomachinery for next-generation energy-conversion systems. Two-phase turbomachines are flow devices operating with fluids that are partly liquid and partly vapor, and lie at the core of key emerging technologi…

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HE2023–20279 countries

RE-MAKE · REFURBISHMENT AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ACCOMPLISHED BY KINETIC DEPOSITION

Ambitious goals of the European Green Deal call for new sustainable and material-efficient manufacturing technologies that can reduce energy and raw material consumption; this objective can be upheld by extending the product life via optimized production methods, recovering product performance through refurbishing, and…

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HE2023–20252 countries

BionovFOOD · GREEN PROCESSING AND VALORIZATION OF ORGANIC BY-PRODUCTS OF DISTILLERIES, AS NOVEL APPROACHES FOR CLIMATE-SMART PROTEIN APPLICATIONS FOR ALTERNATIVE FOOD AND CIRCULAR BIO-ECONOMY

Food systems are under growing pressure to deliver safe, healthy, accessible, and affordable nutrition for a rapidly expanding global population, projected to reach 10 billion by 2050. This challenge is intensified by climate change, pandemics, economic instability, and rising demand for dietary supplements. Meeting th…

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HE2023–20276 countries

GreenX3 · Innovative and sustainable materials, processes and technologies for a GREENer and circular economy

Environmental and economical sustainability requires a multidisciplinary approach to fill the gap that is currently significantly limiting technology transfer from research to marketable innovation. GreenX3 is a multidisciplinary and innovative project designed to use chemical tools to address the current global enviro…

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HE2023–20276 countries

DurAMat · Sustainable production, processing and modelling of durable additive manufactured materials for enhanced performance and long-term service in complex environments.

In the context of Europe’s urgent push toward sustainability, industrial innovation, and digital transformation, the DurAMat project emerges as a game-changer in materials science. It addresses a persistent and critical bottleneck: the slow adoption of sustainable materials in high-impact sectors such as energy, transp…

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HE2023–202711 countries

IVORY · AI for Vision Zero in Road Safety

IVORY - ‘AI for Vision Zero in Road Safety’ is an industrial doctorates network aiming to develop a new framework for optimal integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in road safety research, and train a new generation of leading researchers in the field. It addresses the UN Sustainable Development Goals target 3.6…

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HE2023–20279 countries

NUTRIOME · Precision nutrition and postprandial immune responses

A grand challenge for sustainable development in Europe is to improve public health through reducing incidence of non-communicable diseases, premature mortality and health costs. An unhealthy diet is one of the most important risk factors for the global burden of diseases. Therefore, changing the dietary habits in the…

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HE2023–202710 countries

EarthSafe · Unveiling Earth’s Critical Resources for Clean Energy and a Sustainable Future

EarthSafe sets the stage for a transformational leap in the exploration and assessment of deep geothermal energy and critical minerals. As humanity approaches the third energy transition, the demand for low-carbon and renewable energy sources is rising sharply, accompanied by a rapidly increasing need for critical mine…

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HE2023–20288 countries

IN2AQUAS · Human footprint on water from remote cold areas to the tropical belt. INtegrated Approach TO secure water QUAlity by exploiting Sustainable processes

Access to water is a fundamental human right, and clean water and sanitation are key goals of the UN 2030 Agenda. However, industrialization, population growth, and climate change are intensifying water scarcity and pollution, turning water and food security into major global challenges. Ensuring safe and clean water r…

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HE2023–202711 countries

TOPOCOM · Topological solitons in ferroics for unconventional computing

Time and energy limitations of modern computers have triggered the search for conceptually new approaches, also referred to as “unconventional computing”. The latest computational demands require the ability to deal with large and complex data, which presents a great obstacle for traditionally applied computing schemes…

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HE2023–20252 countries

TaphArt · exploring the potential existence of rock art paintings in the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa and its destruction due to the action of taphonomic processes

The advent of symbolic material culture and the storage of information outside the human brain through the production of artefacts and images imbued with meaning was a landmark in human evolution. Although it has been generally considered as the consequence of an European Upper Palaeolithic "revolution" that took place…

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PENTEX · Pentecostal exorcisms in London: creative and integrative rituals in a multicultural city

This project focused primarily on the analysis of Pentecostal exorcisms in London, although fieldwork was also conducted in Brussels and on digital platforms. The research includes substantial material from the Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal church, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), as well as from other Pe…

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X-KIN · Exploring patterns of prehistoric kinship from socio-cultural anthropological perspectives

Over the past decade, the rapid expansion of ancient DNA (aDNA) research has transformed the study of prehistoric communities by making biological relatedness newly visible in the archaeological record. This “ancient DNA revolution” has triggered a renewed focus on prehistoric kinship, yet within archaeogenetics kinshi…

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PROSTarget · Understanding the aggressive nature and key molecular drivers of metastatic dissemination in lethal PCa.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most diagnosed cancer in men worldwide, with 1.5 million new cases in 2020 across 112 countries and the second leading cause of death. PCa arises from the aberrant proliferation of epithelial cells, termed prostate intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), and is an androgen-dependent cancer type. N…

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NET · Nutrition, Place, and Climate. Nietzsche’s Environmental Ethics.

The environmental crisis we are witnessing today is becoming always more severe. Life on planet Earth is at the risk of extinction and we have almost arrived at a point of no return. We, human beings, cannot continue behaving as we did over the course of history so far, almost completely ignoring the needs of nature an…

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TESCCO · Teaching science in the Colonial Era: knowledge weaponization and cultural integration from Europe to the Jesuit missions

Human cultures have always defined their identity in relation to and in opposition to other cultures. Through this comparison, different cultures are often perceived as culturally worthy or not, which can justify practices of subjugation, domination, and repulsion when indigenous cultures are deemed unworthy. During th…

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JOPHIL · Re-orienting the foundations of 'new science': John Philoponus and the modern theories of space and void (1520-1604)

JOPHIL opens a new window onto one of the most fundamental questions in the history of science: where do our modern ideas of space and emptiness come from? Today, we hardly pause to think about it – we simply assume that objects occupy three dimensions, and that empty space exists all around us, whether in the natural…

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TAKEBACK · Environmental gentrification and emerging collectives in uncertain times

In the Global North in the face of the looming threats of manifold environmental “crises”, there is an increasing sense of urgency to enhance cities’ sustainability. Yet, top-down paradigms of urban regeneration can contribute creating enclaves of environmental privilege, thereby excluding lower income and minority gro…

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RECONSTRUCT · Reconstructing fragmented bones, reconstructing fragmented lives

Human skeletal remains can offer key information on diverse aspects of past life but, like all archaeological materials, they only give a glimpse into the life of past individuals; hence, a fragmented perspective into our ancestors’ lives. Their interpretative potential is greatly inhibited by the fact that such remain…

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QCDchallenge · QCD challenges in precision physics at the LHC

The next decade of experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will put highly stringent tests on the Standard Model of particle physics. This will require to compare the experimental measurements of the very high precision, which will approach the percent level, with the theoretical predictions based on the Stan…

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DataCom · A new EU Framework for an Ethical Re-use of Health Data

In recent years, health data sets have turned into an economic asset, directly or indirectly monetized by companies and institutions, to such an extent that a health marketplace has been created. They are also being employed in the public sector for a large number of applications: disease control and fighting; pandemic…

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OMHI · Omitted from history: How workers on India's building sites mediated twentieth-century modernity

Uncovering the People Who Built Modern India When we study India's cities today—the apartment buildings, office complexes, and infrastructure that define urban life—we often focus on the policies that formed them or the planners and architects that designed them. The construction workers, contractors, and engineers who…

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Identifications · Identifications. A Psychoanalytic/Political Study of Performances Countering intra-European Cultural Racism

The enlargement of the European Union to include Central and Eastern Europe (2004, 2007) has been followed by the rise in power of rightwing politics in Europe. Factors that contributed to the ensuing institutionalisation of right-wing parties include: the European debt crisis (2009-2018), the imposing of austerity mea…

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PLANTID · Conserved develoPmentaL trAjectories chaNnelling laTeral root prImorDium morphogenesis

One of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century is sustaining agricultural productivity in the face of mounting environmental stress. Root systems are central to this challenge, as they anchor plants in the soil and control the uptake of water and nutrients. Their spatial configuration, referred to as root syst…

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REMEDY · The Effect of Resistance to Epidemic Measures on Disease Spread and Mortality – What’s the Role of Online Misinformation?

Aim: The REMEDY project will provide innovative interdisciplinary empirical research that explores the driver and health consequences of resistant behaviour against epidemic measures, leveraging social science insights, economic and statistical methods and data science techniques. Background: In the advent of the COVID…

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HYHP · salt HYdrate Heat Pipes; a breakthrough in thermal energy transfer methods

Heat pipes (HPs) are highly efficient passive devices employed for heat transfer between different regions. Due to their high thermal conductivity, HPs are capable of transferring heat through their evaporator and condenser sections without a significant temperature gradient. Recent advances in HP technology have demon…

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STRATEGUS · STRATEgic GUide to Smart manufacturing

Manufacturing is undergoing a major digital transformation. Over the last decade, advances in low-cost sensors, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence have made it possible for factories to become smart, adapting to changing demand, integrating new processes, and cooperating with human operators. Initi…

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VolcanAI · Volcan Activity monItoring by light cycled dynamic opeRation of metal oxide gas sensors

There exists a direct relation between gas emissions and earth’s dynamics and climate: the impact of anthropogenic emissions and volcanic eruptions on the climate are well known and from the opposite, the effect of the climate on the volcano activity remains mainly unexplored. To develop climate-volcano models and impr…

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YouCDF · Young Children of Disadvantaged Families: A Comprehensive Analysis of Parental Human Capital Investment and Child Health

Promoting the health of newborns and children is a key priority for sustainable development. However, disparities in access to healthcare persist, particularly for vulnerable groups such as undocumented migrants and children living in poverty. The lack of universal health coverage (UHC) is also a significant barrier fo…

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ARCHAIC · Diversity of bacteriophages in the ancient human microbiome

The ARCHAIC project addressed a critical gap in microbiome research: the lack of evolutionary insight into the human virome, specifically bacteriophages (phages), through deep-time metagenomic analyses. Previous paleogenomic efforts primarily focused on bacterial components, leaving viral fractions, especially phages,…

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ChimSep · Chemistry improvement thanks to Separation by membrane processes

Two of the major hurdles for the chemical industry transition toward the “chemical factory of the future” are the ability to design (i) efficient and selective catalytic transformations of renewables and (ii) eco-efficient separation processes to retrieve and purify the product(s) and catalyst(s). Future generations of…

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ELIXIRION · rEaLIzing healthcare 4.0 eXploIting the 6G netwoRk evolutION

ELIXIRION will create the first fully-integrated, inter- and multi-disciplinary, highly-innovative training and research network that will set the foundations of the emerging H4.0 paradigm by leveraging, developing, and advancing 6G technologies targeting to: i) provide all citizens/patients with a wide range of servic…

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EXACT-6G · EXplainable Automation for Continuum 6G infrastructures

EXACT-6G is an MSCA Doctoral Network which proposes a novel and agile 6G system architecture based on enabling technologies that combine RIS with a Compute Continuum infrastructure and Distributed, Intelligent orchestration. The novel paradigm seamlessly integrates Cloud, Edge and Far Edge nodes under a self-synthesize…

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HUMVAR · Disability, Discrimination and Linguistic Justice: A Human Variation Perspective

This Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action is titled “Disability, Discrimination and Linguistic Justice: A Human Variation Perspective,” and it aims to advance knowledge on a particular disability model, the human variation model (HVM). The HVM claims that differences in individual characteristics are a matter of degree. Once…

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SILKRAA · The Silk Route Across the Alps. Craftsmen Migrations, Commercial Exchanges & Social Relations Between France & Italy in the Early Modern Period

The project explores the socio-economic dynamics of silk weavers’ migration between France and the Italian peninsula during the Early Modern period. By combining migration studies, labour and urban history, gender studies, the history of technology, and material culture, it aims to move beyond traditional interpretatio…

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COMMONCITY · A new frontier in EU urban policy-making: commons-inspired co-production arrangements

A new trend is emerging in EU urban policymaking: the adoption of co-production arrangements to support the emergence and development of urban commons. Some pioneering cases stand out, such as the Urban Commons Regulation in Bologna (2014), the Commons Transition Plan in Ghent (2017) and the Citizen Assets Programme in…

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PROMISE · Proteomic optimization of methods for ancient skeletal elements

The PROMISE fellowship aimed to improve methods for the study of skeletal proteomes from the Pleistocene and thereafter apply these methods to archaeological sites in the Levant. Palaeoproteomic analyses can allow for the study of evolution and ecology of past organisms, including extinct hominins. These analyses are,…

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JASMINE · Jamming and Spoofing Resilient Deep Learning Based Software-Defined Multi-Antenna Multi-GNSS Receiver (JASMINE)

JASMINE tackles a critical PNT challenge: ensuring GNSS integrity and resilience in complex environments facing deliberate threats such as jamming and spoofing, requiring robust, intelligent, and scalable protection. The project’s overarching goal is to advance GNSS integrity monitoring and interference resilience by l…

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ICAT-PACHO · Implementing Cationic Paths in Aliphatic C-H Oxidation

The oxidation of carbon-hydrogen (C–H) bonds in simple organic molecules is a key chemical transformation. This is because many biologically active and pharmaceutical compounds contain oxidized frameworks, and introducing carbon-oxygen (C–O) bonds into these molecules allows for the creation of a wide range of useful p…

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LANDSCAPEforCHANGE · A LANDSCAPE approach to cultural heritage management in the context of climate CHANGE

It is acknowledged by International declarations and policy guidance documents that cultural heritage (CH) can contribute directly to many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including resilience and adaptation to climate change (SDG 13). Yet, the integration of CH into the wider framework of sustainable urban…

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ITACOMICS · From Dale Arden to Valentina. Americanisation and gender representation in Italian comics, 1934-1965.

Comics are a powerful medium and expression of popular culture, capable of shaping and reflecting perceptions of identity and society. In 1930s Italy, American adventure comics entered the national publishing landscape and quickly became part of Italian popular culture, as well as a good consumed daily. With their wide…

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RIDETHERISK · A Quantitative Risk Assessment for fragmental rockfall

Rockfalls are a significant and growing hazard in mountainous regions, increasingly exacerbated by climate change. Rising temperatures, permafrost degradation, and more frequent extreme weather events are destabilizing slopes and increasing the frequency and intensity of rockfall events. These hazards pose serious thre…

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MULTIOpStruct · Developing Multifunctionally Optimal composite Structures for construction and transportation applications with an emphasis on environmental sustainability

Europe is facing an unprecedented climate emergency: the record-breaking heatwaves of 2022 caused over 12,000 deaths and the worst drought on the continent in 500 years. A major driver of this crisis is the construction and transportation sectors, which collectively accounted for approximately 60% of the EU’s greenhous…

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EcoSENSES · The Sensory Ecology of Water: A Multisensory Anthropological Study of Outdoor Swimming in the Arctic

Outdoor swimming in Norway has surged since the COVID 19 pandemic, promoted as a way to improve health, social connection, and a sense of belonging to nature. Yet most research on “blue spaces” focuses on warmer climates and treats wellbeing as a purely human concern. This leaves a gap in understanding how Arctic water…

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ReBond · A Universal platform for recycling plastic waste using dynamic covalent bonds

Despite the ubiquity of plastics in daily life, our capacity to recycle end-of-life plastic products remains limited. Today, most plastic waste collected in the EU is either sent to landfill or incinerated for energy recovery, which releases large amounts of greenhouse gases. A promising strategy for transforming the p…

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TAMIZDAT · Transnational Book Diplomacy beyond the Cultural Cold War: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the Tamizdat

The TAMIZDAT project undertook a comprehensive analysis of the transnational production, circulation, and reception of Soviet (S) and East European (EE) literature published abroad – known as tamizdat (which literally means “published over there”), which refers to S and EE texts that were censored or unpublished in the…

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CRYOCHICK · Innovative cryopreservation methods for chicken germplasm

Poultry products are the most consumed source of animal protein globally. To enable current and future poultrygenetic improvement towards climate adaptation and sustainable farming practices to meet future nutritional demands it is essential to maintain and make available the existing genetic diversity within and betwe…

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VAMP · Voices from the Anthropocene. Maps and Frameworks for Ecological Conflicts

The aim of the project is to develop an innovative framework for a better understanding of ecological crisis. The current approach is based on the idea that we are going through a global crisis of nature. However, the Anthropocene hypothesis, a geological epoch marked by industrial activities, shows that what we are fa…

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ENVIMP · Environmental resolution mechanisms beyond the nation state. A comparative analysis of the implementation of court judgements and managerial agreements

The implementation of decisions on European and international environmental obligations are crucial tools to protect the environment from harm. This includes different so-called ‘resolution mechanisms’: court rulings on environmental legal obligations and conflicts as well as managerial decisions from non-compliance or…

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PURC · The Politics of Urban Regime Construction in Spain: 2015-2019

PURC examined attempts by Spanish ‘Radical Municipalist’ administrations to transform urban political economies towards deepened democracy, sustainability and social justice between 2015 and 2023. In 2015, social movement-led left coalitions were elected to city hall 18 Spanish cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants,…

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CripRJ · Advancing Crip Reproductive Justice: Understanding women with intellectual disabilities' experiences of reproductive control in Spain

In 2020, Spain abolished and criminalised the forced sterilisation of people with disabilities, a practice that had been explicitly permitted by law and used predominantly against women and girls with intellectual disabilities. At least one thousand people were sterilised under this provision in the decade before the b…

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MACROML · Machine Learning Macroeconometric Methods for Dynamic Causal Inference

The literature on microeconometric methods based on statistical learning techniques has grown substantially over the last decade, yet macroeconometrics literature lacks an understanding of such methods which could be applied to answer causal inference questions. The primary goal of the macroml research project is to pu…

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SPEEDY · SPin tExturEs and DYnamics in 3D complex nanostructures

In a world driven by technological advances, the "SPEEDY" project aims to deepen the understanding of three-dimensional nanomagnetic systems. These systems, with novel and unconventional spin textures, are an exciting platform to explore new magnetic phenomena making them promising systems for the development of more e…

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Entrust · Next Generation of Trustworthy Agri-Data Management

EnTrust is a doctoral network funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) which is a part of Horizon Europe. MSCA is the European Union’s flagship funding programme for doctoral education and the postdoctoral training of researchers. The aim of EnTrust is to enable farmers to become equal partners in the agri-data…

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ECO-HERITAGES · Heritage Ecologies: culture, resilience and development in Island States

This project investigates the role of cultural heritages in promoting local economic development and sustaining social and environmental resiliencies in the context of Small Island States (SIS), Small Island and Developing States (SIDS), and Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) located in Europe and in Indian Ocea…

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PIONEER · Phase-matched nonlInear Optics iN layEred sEmiconductoRs

Light is one of the most powerful tools in our hands to study the world around us. Lasers have indeed revolutionized our daily life. Since they only work at a few fixed wavelengths, it is crucial to convert their wavelength into the required one.

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AquaDrugs · Uncovering the effects of pharmaceuticals in the wild, beyond individuals to animal communities

Pharmaceutical compounds with potent neuroactive and endocrine-disrupting effects are now widespread in aquatic systems worldwide. Their pollution rate is surpassing other major environmental trends, such as rising CO2 emissions, yet their complex ecological impacts remain poorly understood. Changes in animal behaviour…

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CUPOLA · Carbon-neutral pathways of recycling marine plastic waste

Global plastic production is currently at a rate of 200,000 tonnes per year, and it is projected to increase to 33 billion tonnes per year by 2050. Approximately 10% of the plastic produced is in the seas and oceans. Plastic pollution in marine and coastal environments is a growing concern worldwide.

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ClimRes · Quantifying the resilience of vertebrates to changing climates worldwide

Climate change is reshaping ecosystems across Europe and worldwide, yet species differ greatly in their ability to cope with these changes. Some populations rebound quickly after environmental shocks, while others decline. Understanding why such differences exist is central to biodiversity conservation and to predictin…

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INOVEC · a research and InNOvation Partnership for enhancing the surveillance and control of mosquito VECtors of emerging arboviruses

Over the past decade, arboviral diseases like dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever have (re)emerged with increasing prevalence and severity worldwide, including in Europe. Without effective vaccines or treatments, prevention relies on controlling mosquito vectors and reducing human-vector contact. However, the r…

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NanoCosmos · Nanoencapsulation of bioactive compounds from plant by products to produce sensitive skin cosmetics

NanoCosmos project is a Εuropean initiative to address the challenges of environmental sustainability and industrial competitiveness through bioscience and nanotechnology by transforming plant waste into high-quality ingredients for cosmetics, especially for sensitive skin. The main aim of the NanoCosmos project is to…

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REMARKABLE · Rural Environmental Monitoring via ultra wide-ARea networKs And distriButed federated Learning

The REMARKABLE project addresses a critical global challenge: reducing the urban-rural digital divide by enabling transformative digital transformation in rural areas through Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies. Rural regions, which cover significant portions of Europe and Africa, suffer fro…

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ReCharged · Climate-aware Resilience for Sustainable Critical and interdependent Infrastructure Systems enhanced by emerging Digital Technologies

The performance of interdependent Transport and Energy systems, Lifelines and Assets (iTESLA) is increasingly challenged by natural hazards intensified by climate change. European natural and built ecosystems have been affected by flash floods, medicanes, wildfires, and cascading events such as landslides and debris fl…

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CARSI · Caucasus and Central Asia Research on Social Innovation: Development Assistance, Innovation and Societal Transformation

Development assistance to the Caucasus and Central Asian regions has grown significantly. Not only do these regions attract international attention for some of the largest world reservoirs of natural resources, but they are also considered fertile markets for their proximity and links to Europe. What possibly distingui…

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FIRE-ADAPT · The Role of Integrated Fire Management on Climate Change Adaptation for Ecosystem Services in Tropical and Subtropical Regions

In the last few years, extreme wildfires have risen to international prominence, with widespread media coverage and political attention triggered by devastating fires in many places of the world, e.g. France, Greece, Italy, Brazil (the Amazon), and California. Such fires get out of control and devastate large areas cau…

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VILLAGE · Virtual Innovative Learning Laboratories for Global Engineering Education (VILLAGE)

The aim of VILLAGE is to re-examine the post-pandemic teaching processes and needs of engineering instructors and students for laboratory practice in a multidimensional, multicultural, and multidisciplinary context, and to determine roadmaps for new instructional design models in line with the opinions of the stakehold…

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OMINO · Overcoming Multilevel INformation Overload

In today's world, access to information thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; is often considered as a benefit or even as an indisputable human right. There is, however, the “dark side” of information: the abundance of data beyond one’s capacity to process them leads to so-called information overload (IOL). This…

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DASH · Deliver sAfe and Social Housing

Over 1 billion people worldwide live in inadequate housing - a figure expected to double by 2030. In response, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 11.1) call for ensuring access to adequate and affordable housing by 2030, prompting governments to scale up housing delivery. Yet, many current policies fall short, as s…

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PoPMeD-SuSDeV · Population Medicine and Sustainable Development: European Opportunities in collaborating with China to improving global health.

The overarching objective PoPMeD-SuSDeV is to form an international network of organizations from Spain, Germany, Slovenia, China, and Japan, working on a joint research program in the fields of health, development economics, sustainability, and anthropology. Population medicine is a new medical paradigm that aims to i…

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BlueShellfish · Solutions to prevent and mitigate the impacts of HABs in Aquaculture and Fisheries, in the context of global warming

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are characterized by the excessive growth of toxic phytoplankton. Driven by global warming and human activities, HABs are increasing in certain regions worldwide. These events have been linked to human illnesses mostly caused by the consumption of contaminated seafood.

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MOCCA · Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia

Corruption has become, without a doubt, a buzzword in both academic and policy debates over the last three decades. The initial view that “corruption greases the wheels of economic growth” in the newly independent states of Africa and Asia has lost its validity in light of the current ever-growing global coalition agai…

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HESPRI · Elevating Higher Education public policies: an empowering SPRIngboard

The current world of higher education (HE) has been shaped by two forces: the humanistic traditions of university governance and the neo-liberal reforms of the past thirty years. With its successes and discontents, this hybrid system faces major crises that affect its ability to respond to the needs of society: the ten…

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SHAPE · Sharing the Pronoun. Extreme violence, social resistance and the shaping of cultural memory in Spanish American contemporary documentary poetry

SHAPE proposes a groundbreaking cultural approach to the study of 21st-century Spanish American documentary poetry, examining its role as a form of social and community resistance in shaping a collective memory of extreme violence in Latin America. This unique poetic genre integrates a wide range of external sources—et…

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LongEmergency · The Long Emergency: The Postcolonial State, Labour and the Railway Strike of 1974.

The focus of the project has moved away from the early decades after independence to investigate more closely the turbulent decades of 1960s and 1970s. Previously, it was envisaged that a substantial part of the project will be devoted to the emergence of railway workers as citizens in early postcolonial India, the foc…

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FoodMAPP · Local Food supply communicated through a transactional searchable MAP based APPlication (FoodMAPP) to promote short food supply chains; food security; business development and reduction in food waste.

The European strategic plan to fight climate change requires impactful changes to the food industry and a reduction in food waste, as well as a change in the fragile, complicated supply chain of industrial-scale food producers and the creation of a novel, fair and sustainable food industry. The EU-funded FoodMAPP proje…

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Speak4Nature · Speak for Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice

"Speak4Nature" addresses the urgent challenges posed by anthropogenic global changes and the impact of human activities on nature. The project aims to reassess knowledge and practices in social sciences and civil awareness, enhancing our understanding of humanity's relationship with Nature. It focuses on "ecological ju…

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EcoDiv · An ecological framework to advance crop diversification in southern Africa

Crop diversification is critical to sustainable agriculture, offering opportunities to utilise positive interactions between different crops to increase productivity and resilience, and minimise the need for economically and environmentally costly agricultural inputs. EcoDiv investigates how ‘option by context’ interac…

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W2WGCO2 · Waste to Worth: A green solution for waste concrete powder and incinerator bottom ash reinforced by CO2 capturing in concrete

Climate change and environmental degradation pose an existential threat to Europe and the world. To overcome these challenges, the European Union (EU) has adopted a set of proposals under the European Green Deal (EGD) to align climate, energy, and taxation policies with the target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissio…

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LEmobAB · Law Enforcement mobilities Across Borders

The MSCA post-doctoral fellowship project Law Enforcement mobilities Across Borders (LEmobAB) investigates the interdependency between localized policing-practices across border-regions and European legal-political practices in the field of police cooperation and interrogates the ways that policing contributes to shapi…

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ProPA · Pro-Democracy Platform Advocacy: Fostering Social Media's Accountability to Dissident Voices under Authoritarianism

Digital platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, have long touted themselves as defenders of freedom of expression, yet their content moderation rules have faced global criticism, amongst others for failing to tackle authoritarian repression of dissident voices. Government trolls successfully run malicious reporting ca…

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IPELSEE · International Political Ecologies of Land in Southeast Europe: Policymaking, everyday experiences, and alternative political imaginaries

IPELSEE studied the transformations of land and landscapes in South East Europe (SEE). It paid particular attention to the parallel processes of postsocialist transformation, different stages and paths of EU integration, and the restructuring of global capital flows. It also included regional imperial histories that sh…

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MWGaiaDN · Revealing the Milky Way with Gaia

Gaia, ESA’s major space satellite was successfully launched in Dec 2013. It has completed its extended mission to map some two billion stars in our Milky Way. It’s first three data releases, of primarily astrometric and photometric data, in 2016, 2018, 2020 have already proved to be a `game changer’ for astronomy.

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MOTOBOOM · The Current Impact of Motorcycle Motorisation on Amazonian Indigenous Peoples

Over the last century, the indigenous landscape of the South American Lowlands has been increasingly shaped by steamboats, railways, trucks, chainsaws, and electric generators, introduced by missionaries, extractive industries, armies, development projects, and NGOs. However, anthropological and historical research has…

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DECADES · Design of Catalytic Processes with Deep Eutectic Solvents

Solvents are necessary for the synthetic reactions that produce the daily-used chemicals. However, their use accounts for a significant proportion of the generated waste, particularly CO2, through their ultimate incineration. Incorporating newly designed solvents to ameliorate such impact is crucial for future, more su…

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PRESILIENT · Post-pandemic resilient communities: is the informal economy a reservoir for the next generation of digitalized and green businesses in the Global South?

Around two billion people worldwide―more than sixty percent of the global workforce―earn their living in informal jobs. These workers face high vulnerability and lack basic protections, while governments lose crucial tax revenues and struggle to plan beyond urgent crises. The COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened these c…

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GlycoNoVi · Understanding the Role of Glycans in Human Norovirus Infection: a Key to Unlock New Therapies

Norovirus infections are a major global health concern, causing acute gastroenteritis outbreaks with significant socio-economic impact. The GlycoNoVi project aims to unravel the role of glycans in norovirus infections, paving the way for novel antiviral strategies. By combining synthetic chemistry, structural biology,…

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VORTEX · Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism

VORTEX (Coping with Varieties of Radicalisation into Terrorism and Extremism) represents an innovative and integrative doctoral network of practitioners and academics for training of doctoral candidates in radicalization studies. The understanding of radicalization is currently trapped between securitisational approach…

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HE2023–20252 countries

SEQoSOIL · Spatial evaluation and quantification of soil multifunctionality potential and actual state across Europe.

Healthy soils are essential for sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, water regulation, and biodiversity. However, soils across Europe are under increasing pressure from land use, degradation, and climate change. The SEQoSOIL project (“Spatial evaluation and quantification of soil multifunctionality potential an…

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HE2023–20272 countries

PERSEVERE · Physics-informed nEuRal networks for SEVERe wEather event prediction

Currently, there is constant word about how artificial intelligence is affecting our daily lives and how its progress may have a significant impact in the way we approach our daily tasks and challenges. Neural networks, a particular kind of artificial intelligence resembling the human brain, are entering our work envir…

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HE2023–20252 countries

SCISM · Sexual conflict in the sexually cannibalistic Springbok mantis (Miomantis caffra)

Conflict between the sexes is widespread in nature and occurs when the evolutionary interests of males and females are different. Sexual cannibalism—which occurs when a female eats her mate before, during or after mating—is considered a classic example of sexual conflict since females gain a meal but males lose their l…

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HE2023–20278 countries

RELAX · Relaxed Semantics Across the Data Analytics Stack

The RELAX European Doctoral Network is training a cohort of 12 highly adaptable researchers to become experts in the design of scalable and efficient data-intensive software systems. The research fellows are learning to master the specific skill of navigating the semantics or correctness conditions of applications, wit…

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HE2023–202711 countries

HOTBIO · A holistic approach to training a new generation of scientists in marine biodiscovery

Being a MSCA Doctoral Network, the main goal of the HotBio project is to train a new generation of experts within the field of natural products drug discovery. From a scientific point of view, the goal is to identify new bioactive natural products from marine microorganisms that can be developed into new medicines. Hot…

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HE2023–20278 countries

ROOTED · Root Phenotyping Integrated Educational Doctoral Network

Soil is a finite resource, but the land we currently grow on is significantly degraded in many regions of the world. There is no more land that can be reclaimed for agricultural production, therefore one of the major food challenges we face in the 21st Century is how to maximise the productivity of our land, while limi…

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HE2023–20275 countries

D-Carbonize · Biocarbon based Polymers for Sustainable Material Development

Our societies heavily depends on the use of fossil fuels to supply us with an energy source and a feedstock for chemical synthesis. Ever since the industrial revolution, carbon emissions have risen culminating in the highest recorded CO2 concentration around 430 ppm, see https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/. As increasing ca…

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HE2023–20267 countries

HYBRIDS · Hybrid Intelligence to monitor, promote and analyse transformations in good democracy practices

In an era where fake news, disinformation, and hate speech proliferate across digital platforms, the integrity of democratic societies is increasingly under threat. The spread of manipulated narratives and misleading content has serious consequences, fueling polarization, inciting violence, and undermining public trust…

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HE2023–20277 countries

C-Urge · Anthropology of Global Climate Urgency

The overarching objective of this DN is to respond to a growing urgency expressed by European research councils and funding agencies, as well as by governments, publics and students, that the social sciences should contribute to our understanding of and engagement with climate change. We propose that the need for urgen…

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HE2023–20252 countries

PANIC · Pan-Ideologies in Central Europe: Paradoxes of Right-Wing Self-Orientalism.

This research project was conceived at a time when Hungary had already undergone significant authoritarian transformation under a right-wing populist regime, while Slovakia’s political trajectory remained uncertain. Despite their differences, both countries demonstrated a growing revival of panideological traditions—su…

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HE2023–20252 countries

EVALUATOR · EVALUation of heAlthy-susTainable fOod pRoteins

Access to healthy and sustainable foods is an existential priority as recognized by the UN, WHO, and EU. Replacing animal-based proteins with their plant-based counterparts or even with other potential (more sustainable) ingredients is expected to be a major step forward. In order to speed up this transition, methods n…

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HE2023–20252 countries

MELA · Mechanisms of Early Language Acquisition

One of the most exciting moments in every child’s development is when they start to talk. It is astounding to observe the speed with which young children add words to their growing vocabularies. Things become even more interesting when they start to communicate their ideas by combining words – “Baby drink”.

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HE2023–20252 countries

POLARPOL · A look inside: domestic features and the implementation of human and environmental risk measures in European Antarctic Treaty Parties

Antarctica’s governance is exceptional: no country owns it, yet over sixty nations cooperate under the Antarctic Treaty System to ensure peaceful, scientific, and environmentally responsible presence in the continent. While this regime has prevented sovereignty disputes and supported collaboration since 1961, it depend…

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HE2023–20252 countries

IMi-Vision · Indigenous Migration Law - Emic Visions on Borders

IMi-Vision aimed to pursue three specific objectives (SO): • SO1) identify Indigenous, domestic and international norms and regulations governing migration through two case-studies: one in Europe (Saami communities) and another in Latin America (Cofán communities) – this objective is reached by applying an interdiscipl…

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HE2023–20252 countries

BTA · Beyond the average: An examination of the specificity of intergenerational transmission of parenting

It is often believed that how people were parented is key to how they parent their own children. Although research generally supports this idea, the degree of so-called intergenerational transmission of parenting also varies across families. Little is known about the conditions under which intergenerational transmissio…

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HE2023–20262 countries

PHILTRANS · Philosophy as Translation: Toward a Translational Education

The conviction at the heart of this project is that philosophy can no longer postpone systematic reflection on translation. This is not only due to a widespread "translational turn" in the humanities but because translation is at the core of Europe and of philosophy itself. In the European multilingual context, transla…

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HE2023–20262 countries

SHIPPAN · A transnational history of health control and hygiene onboard of liners (1894-1946)

SHIPPAN seeks to demonstrate how health management on shipping lines and liners—from the second half of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century—was central to understanding and regulating sanitary issues globally. The objective is to develop a transnational history of health at sea in the Late Modern per…

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HE2023–20252 countries

ARGOT · The Anarchist Translation Flows and World Literature Project (ARGOT)

The Anarchist Translation Flows and World Literature Project (ARGOT) - Grant agreement ID: 101065157 Anarchist periodicals worldwide historically offered readers an uncommon and often outlawed experience of world literature. Yet, their countless literary translations, as well as the editors and translators involved in…

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