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Ages 13-19

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

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Showing 24 of 153 projects

HE2025–20273 countries

LIVART · LIVING WITH ART. Domestic decorative sculpture in Western Roman Empire: reconstructing display, sociocultural dynamics, and addressing productive and economic processes

The project ‘LIVART – Living with Art’ explores the role of decorative sculpture in domestic contexts of the Western Roman Empire. While monumental sculpture in public spaces has long been studied, much less attention has been paid to the artistic expressions found inside Roman homes—both urban domus and rural villae.…

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HE2024–20262 countries

PhLex · Phylogenetic Lexification: Patterns of meaning through time

Languages encode knowledge, culture, and identity, yet more than half of the world’s languages are currently endangered, and many are represented only through short, fragmentary wordlists. These sparse records restrict our ability to understand how languages evolve, how meanings change, and how linguistic diversity dev…

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

HE2024–20262 countries

RESOMFEM · Reconstructing social memory through Moroccan women's writing: female prison literature between the 1970's and the 2010's

In the current context of a globalised world, where migration flows are constant, the Mediterranean region is strategic. The Southern and Northern shores of the Mediterranean are (and have been) constantly in contact. However, there is, in general, a lack of knowledge and understanding in Northern societies of democrat…

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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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HE2024–20262 countries

POPAMLO · Constructing AMLO: Political Persona, Visual Media and Populism in Mexico

The rise of right-wing populist movements in Europe and beyond is of growing concern, particularly given their track record regarding human rights, media independence and mis/disinformation. This threatens the resilience, inclusivity and democracy of European societies. Though usually based on the central antagonism of…

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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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HE2024–20286 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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HE2023–202710 countries

EPISTEAM · Epistemology in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths.

EPISTEAM stands for Epistemology in Art, Science and Technology. The objective of the Consortium of 14 partners behind this project is to develop an intersectoral and interdisciplinary common research program for cutting-edge strategies of technological mediation and innovation with a direct impact on society and knowl…

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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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HE2023–20263 countries

ForM · FORGED MEMORIES: the Church of Late Antique Iran and the West. The Textual Construction of a Relation with the Western Church and State Through Hagiographies, Epistles, Documents (4th-5th century)

According to some sources of diverse typology and different historical reliability - hagiography, historiography, epistles, ecclesiastical documents -, the Church of the East, in some moments of its history, turned to the West searching for support and legitimation; this happened in particular during the 4th-5th centur…

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HE2023–20262 countries

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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HE2023–20262 countries

CLaRMaV · Coastal Landscapes and Roman Maritime Villas: A Comparative Regional Study of Architectural Models and Environmental Settings

The CLaRMaV project addresses a critical gap in understanding Roman maritime villas across Mediterranean provinces during the Roman period (1st century BC - 5th century AD). While Italian examples are well-studied, provincial maritime villas remain poorly documented, limiting our comprehension of architectural transfer…

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HE2023–20252 countries

EarthSea · Ecocritical Approach to Land Subsidence in Italy's Po Delta region

EarthSea investigates the ways in which literature and visual media addressed forms of water-soil relationships– with a particular focus on land subsidence – in the context of the Po Delta in Italy. The Po Delta, a significant anthropogenic river delta in Europe, endured a long history of disruptive soil transformation…

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HE2023–20252 countries

CLINIAR · Celtic Language and Identity in Northern Italy and the Alpine Region

In northern Italy and the adjacent Alpine region between the late 7th and the 1st century BC, a number of local languages were written with alphabet variants which had been derived from the Etruscan alphabet of central Italy. The documents are exclusively inscriptions on objects such as gravestones or ceramics, usually…

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HE2023–20262 countries

DOMES · Architectural Technology Transfer on the Silk Road: Iranian Double-Shell Domes and the West: 14th to 20th Century

DOMES explores the shared architectural heritage of Europe and the Middle East by tracing the transmission of architectural knowledge along the Silk Road during two historical periods: from Seljuk and Ilkhanate Iran to medieval Italy during the 11th-14th century, and from Italy to Iran during the second half of the 20t…

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HE2023–20263 countries

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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HE2023–20263 countries

EUROPROP · Female Prophecy in Early Modern European Religion

During the 16th century secular and temporal powers fought to gain monopoly on the future, striving to gradually eliminate religious expectations from the domain of political decision-making. This project looks at this struggle, that peaked in this era, from the standpoint of female prophets, and from a transnational p…

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HE2023–20263 countries

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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HE2023–20266 countries

CAPHE · Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment

The CAPHE project is aimed towards fostering artistic collaboration and community engagement across various global locales, with a dedicated push on notion of hybrid environment as milieu of the action. What fuels the CAPHE project? C is for Community of communication We believe that new communication channels and plat…

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HE2023–20262 countries

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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HE2023–20264 countries

EA-DIGIFOLK · An European and Ibero-American approach for the digital collection, analysis and dissemination of folk music

Music is an element that is present in our daily lives. There are different styles of music, including classical, jazz, pop, rock, etc. There is a kind of music, folk music, which is of great interest due to its peculiar characteristics and the social context it represents or has represented.

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HE2023–20262 countries

IEIA · Imagination in the Experience of Installation Art

Several works by Ernesto Neto present huge, warm-colored, pleasantly smelling Lycra tunnels. They are cases of installation art: the public is supposed to enter the tunnels and interact with the physical environment, experiencing the works from within. Works of installation art resemble buildings because they envelop t…

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HE2023–20252 countries

LOMUS · LOcal sound for a new MUSicality. Enhancing musical participation through a local sonic practice

Participation in creative and artistic activities has been shown to produce personal and social benefits. Similarly, making music reduces stress, enhances confidence, facilitates social interactions and leads to an overall increase in the individuals’ wellbeing. However, access to music-making is reserved for people wh…

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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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