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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 activiti…

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.

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 increasi…

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 wor…

Latin America is the most urbanized and unequal region in the world. It is also the second most disaster-prone region globally.

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 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?

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 da…

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. E…

The process industries – chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and energy – are cornerstones of our modern society. However, they operate under conditions that present inherent safety risks.

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 propriet…

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 f…

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…

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 languag…

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 cor…

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 ex…

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 smartphone…

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 interdisciplinar…

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…

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 duri…

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 uncertai…

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 transfo…

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 deve…

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.

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 communiti…

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 m…

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…

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. Tradit…

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 pu…

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 re…

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 sp…

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. Acro…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

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, char…

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 f…

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'…

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, landscape…

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,…

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 ab…

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 crani…

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…

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 Eur…

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…

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…

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.

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 co…

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…

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 stage…

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…

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…

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.

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 cooperativ…

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 g…

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…

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 ofte…

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 m…

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 technolo…

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-ecol…

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 ar…

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 optimi…

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, pandem…

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 innova…

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…

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 researc…

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 f…

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 sourc…

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…

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 d…

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 a…

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 chu…

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 tri…

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 prost…

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.

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, d…

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 thre…

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 encl…

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.…

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 wil…

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 s…

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 archite…

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 part…

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 upta…

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 statist…

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…

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 changin…

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 volcan…

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 pover…

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 primari…

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 proces…

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 technol…

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 parad…

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 cla…

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 te…

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 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…

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 overarchi…

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…

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 (S…

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 pa…

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…

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 s…

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 wellbein…

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 release…

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…

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 essentia…

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.

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…

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 coalition…

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…

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 causa…

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 ne…

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.

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), an…

Light is one of the most powerful tools in our hands to study the world around us. Lasers have indeed revolutionized our daily life.

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…

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.

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.

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 o…

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 cosmeti…

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.…

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 flo…

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…

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 Amaz…