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Here, we used 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding to investigate bacterial and archaeal diversity in 22 geothermal wells spanning broad gradients in temperature (30°C-110°C), pH (7.0-11.0), and bedrock age (0.01-15 Myr). We observed highly variable microbial assemblages, with several dominant taxa affilia",{"id":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":19,"institution":20,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":22},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2017-cog-773023-intransition","Learning from the past: Intergenerational transmission of aggressive conflict resolution between intimate partners predicts harsh and inconsistent parenting","Pin Hao Chen","University of Oxford","GB","= 29.66 in parenthood), and later G2's partner and G3 were followed from G2's adolescence to adulthood. The sample comprised 1178 G1-G2 dyads, including 222 G1-G2-G3 triads. Path analyses provided evidence for (1) intergenerational transmission, that is, G1's aggressive conflict resolution in G2's mid-adolescence weakly predicted G2's aggressive conflict resolution in G2's adulthood and (2) spillover effects, that is, G2's aggressive conflict resolution predicted G2's harsh and inconsistent disc",{"id":24,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":25,"piName":26,"institution":27,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":29},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-cog-2020-1010003293-palaeochem","Evolutionary constraints on anuran melanin for 45 million years","Daniel Falk","University College Cork","IE","Fossil evidence of melanin is a remarkable palaeobiological resource, but the evolution of melanin through deep time is poorly resolved, partly because few studies have integrated data from fossils and their extant relatives. Here, we use data on melanin-rich organelles - melanosomes - in extant and fossil anurans to show that the evolution of melanin in the skin during the last 45 million years is decoupled from that in the eyes and internal tissues. Skin melanosomes differ in geometry (i.e., l",{"id":31,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":32,"piName":33,"institution":34,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":36},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-consolidator-grant-101089193","Increased plasma fibronectin mirrors intimal phenotypic switching of vascular smooth muscle cells in moyamoya arteriopathy","Caroline Asselman","Ghent University Hospital","BE","Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a rare cerebrovascular disorder characterized by progressive stenosis of large intracranial arteries and formation of fragile collateral vessels that can be triggered by a broad range of genetic and immune factors. Central to MMD pathology is excessive proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in the intima of affected arteries associated with contractile-to-synthetic phenotypic switching, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. To identify d",{"id":38,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":39,"piName":40,"institution":41,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":42},"openalex-european-research-council-award-2018-cog-816268","Measurement and Analysis of Vibronic Coupling in Two Dysprosium(III) Complexes of Opposite Magnetic Anisotropy","David P. Mills","University of Manchester",", corresponding to an electronic excitation which varies depending on the direction of external magnetic field applied. These findings demonstrate the complicated effect of magnetic anisotropy on the vibronic coupling in SMMs and demonstrate the power of FIRMS to study these effects.",{"id":44,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":45,"piName":46,"institution":47,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":49},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-cog-648141","Synergistic regulatory mechanisms in glycolysis revealed by pathway transplantation","Ewout Knibbe","Delft University of Technology","NL",", allow efficient and balanced pathway operation under dynamic conditions. These findings, therefore, reveal a new aspect of yeast glycolysis, one of the best-studied metabolic pathways.",{"id":51,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":52,"piName":53,"institution":54,"country":55,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":56},"openalex-european-research-council-award-cog-101124939-hydrochiral","Discovery of two new isomers of cyanoacenaphthylene (C \u003Csub>12\u003C\u002Fsub> H \u003Csub>7\u003C\u002Fsub> CN) in the Taurus molecular cloud 1 with the QUIJOTE line survey","J. Cernicharo","Instituto de Física Fundamental","ES","We report the discovery of the 3- and 4-cyano isomers of acenaphthylene (C 12 H 8 ) using the QUIJOTE line survey of the Taurus molecular cloud 1 (TMC-1). The frequency range of the line survey in the Q band (31.2–50.3 GHz) was complemented with data from a new receiver installed at the Yebes 40m radio telescope that covers the K and K a bands (18–32 GHz). The identification of 3-cyanoacenaphthylene was based on the detection of 135 individual lines that correspond to 194 rotational transitions.",{"id":58,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":59,"piName":60,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":61},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-cog-101039103","Surface Mobility of a Glass-Forming Polymer in an Ionic Liquid","Thomas Salez","does exist in ionic liquids. Numerical solutions of the thin-film equation, incorporating appropriate boundary conditions, show that the surface mobility of PS films in ionic liquids can match that of PS films in vacuum. Thus, while ionic liquids alter the polymer flow process, they do not eliminate the dynamical heterogeneity inherent to glassy polymers.",{"id":63,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":64,"piName":65,"institution":47,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":66},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-cog-am-imate-101088968","Piezoelectric truss metamaterials: data-driven design and additive manufacturing","Saurav Sharma","The inherent directionality of piezoelectric materials is constrained by the symmetry of their crystal structure, which limits the property space in natural piezoelectric materials. To alleviate this limitation, one could leverage geometry or architecture at the mesoscale. Here, we present a framework for designing and 3D-printing piezoelectric truss metamaterials with customizable anisotropic responses. We employ generative machine learning to design truss metamaterials and achieve unconvention",{"id":68,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":69,"piName":70,"institution":71,"country":72,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":73},"openalex-european-research-council-award-cog-101043457","Writing the Engram: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory Allocation","Isabella Tarulli","École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne","CH","Memory allocation, the selective recruitment of neurons into ensembles that encode, store and retrieve experience, so-called engram cells, designates the initial step of every memory's formation. Historically thought to be governed primarily by intrinsic neuronal excitability, recent studies highlight a critical role for transcriptional and epigenetic heterogeneity in biasing neuronal engram inclusion. Here, we review mechanisms that influence this process, including CREB-mediated excitability, ",{"id":75,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":76,"piName":77,"institution":78,"country":79,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":80},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-consolidator-beyond-anderson-no-101045135","Assessing the performance of free-space optical links utilizing structured light. The case of Tornado waves","Panagiotis Michailidis","University of Crete","GR","Abstract We theoretically study, by means of numerical simulations, the performance of free space optical links (FSOs) utilizing structured light. Using Tornado waves as an example, in addition to ring-Airy and Gaussian beams, we evaluate each stage of the FSO receiver module, and identify the main factors that affect link performance. Our findings underscore the necessity of evaluating the entire optical receiver chain when conducting realistic performance analyses of FSO links. Adopting this e",{"id":82,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":83,"piName":84,"institution":85,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":87},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2021-cog-101045083-codina","Numerical Homogenization of Sand from Grain-level Simulations","Yilu Chen","Institute of Science and Technology Austria","AT","The realistic simulation of sand, soil, powders, rubble piles, and large collections of rigid bodies is a common and important problem in the fields of computer graphics, computational physics, and engineering. Direct simulation of these individual bodies quickly becomes expensive, so we often approximate the entire group as a continuum material that can be more easily computed using tools for solving partial differential equations, like the material point method (MPM). In this paper, we present",{"id":89,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":90,"piName":91,"institution":20,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":92},"openalex-european-research-council-award-consolidator-grant-101003083","CO2e (best) avoided? How people experience CO2e avoided on the Too Good To Go app","Emilie Vrain","Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2e) avoided is increasingly communicated to individuals through digital media. Too Good To Go – a food waste app – presents users with a personalised CO2e avoided figure. Each time they collect food from a supermarket, café or restaurant their number increases. How do users experience CO2e avoided on the app? We explore this question through a longitudinal research project with 10 households in Oxfordshire, involving three interviews, five self-report surveys and a 2",{"id":94,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":95,"piName":14,"institution":96,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":98,"abstract":99},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101125498","Multifunctional nano-bio INterfaces wIth deep braiN reGions","FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA","IT","€2,992,875","Capturing the dynamics of brain activity in its multifaceted components is a key challenge for neural interfaces. Deciphering the complex electrical and chemical signaling exchanged by the different constituents of the brain tissue will result in a better understanding of neural circuits and functions, informing and enabling novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Next generation of research tools should therefore aim at a multifunctional and fully integrated approach, probing and triggerin",{"id":101,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":102,"piName":14,"institution":103,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":105,"abstract":106},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124895","Transition from Transport Reindeer Herding to Reindeer Pastoralism: A study of Indigenous Governance during Change","SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET","SE","€1,989,816","Aboriginal societies around the world have independently transitioned their production mode. In northern Eurasia, the transition manifested itself in a movement away from transport reindeer herding towards reindeer pastoralism from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although this was one of the most significant changes affecting circumpolar people across the region, much remains unknown about the drivers of this transition, and even less about its consequences for indigenous governance and s",{"id":108,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":109,"piName":14,"institution":110,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":111,"abstract":112},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124175","IDENTITY COMPRESSION: a fundamental breakthrough in social identity, social information, and social polarization","UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK","€1,999,980","The breakthrough to be pursued in ID-COMPRESSION is that social polarization is information compressibility, where attitudes provide redundant information about group membership. ID-COMPRESSION proposes that a polarized social information system is a socially comprehensible one, where it is easy to categorize people into groups and identify social outliers. Since comprehensibility depends on regularities, this will consequently be a compressible social information system. If successful, this rad",{"id":114,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":115,"piName":14,"institution":116,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":117,"abstract":118},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124973","Resource spirits: An interactionist approach to animism and extractivism in Southeast Asia","OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN","€1,981,951","Indigenous populations in Southeast Asia and elsewhere have become a major source of inspiration for more sustainable relations with the environment. Their animist orientations – attributing agency, personhood or spiritual powers to the non-human world – is what prevents them from treating the environment as a resource to be exploited. Extractive industries, by contrast, are seen to objectify the environment as an entity separate from human beings, which is what allows them to extract resources ",{"id":120,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":121,"piName":14,"institution":122,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":123,"abstract":124},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170780","Dissecting hepatocyte heterogeneity in liver growth to devise liver gene therapies for pediatric patients","UNIVERSITA VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE","€1,993,750","In vivo genetic engineering of hepatocytes may represent a definitive cure for monogenic metabolic diseases. Integration of the therapeutic transgene into the target cell genome is essential for long-term expression after a single dose early in life and can be achieved by semi-randomly integrating lentiviral vectors or site-specific genome editing. Maintenance of the genetic modification upon hepatocytes proliferation in liver growth and turnover requires targeting the cells underlying these pro",{"id":126,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":127,"piName":14,"institution":128,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":130,"abstract":131},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124199","Deconstructing the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface  by Novel NMR Methodology","WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE","IL","€2,228,750","More efficient rechargeable batteries must be developed for utilizing sustainable energy sources and stopping the rapidly advancing climate change. The current technology cannot be merely extended for the next-generation storage systems. New approaches are required, especially for understanding and controlling the complex chemistry at the electrode-electrolyte interface. It has already been established that such control can, in principle, be realized by the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), a ",{"id":133,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":134,"piName":14,"institution":135,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":137,"abstract":138},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171621","Decoding neuropeptide function in inhibitory amygdala microcircuits","DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR NEURODEGENERATIVE ERKRANKUNGEN EV","DE","€1,999,621","Adaptive behaviour to ever-changing environments is crucial for an animal’s survival in conditions of immediate threat. Meanwhile, there is growing evidence that psychiatric conditions, including anxiety disorders, are at least partly based on maladaptive learning. Neuropeptide signalling plays a key role in regulating synaptic plasticity and hence learning in a state-dependent manner, and dysregulated peptide signalling has been observed in patients suffering from psychiatric disorders. Due to ",{"id":140,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":141,"piName":14,"institution":96,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":142,"abstract":143},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101125054","Neuromodulatory control of brain network dynamics","€1,999,438","Spontaneous brain activity, the most expensive metabolic process of the human brain, is highly dynamic and continually evolves over timescales of seconds. Human neuroimaging has made it possible to map dynamic patterns of spontaneous network activity with increasing precision. However, our understanding of the origin, function and organization of this phenomenon remains alarmingly limited. This project aims to elucidate the physiological mechanisms and operational principles that govern spontane",{"id":145,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":146,"piName":14,"institution":147,"country":148,"year":13,"amount":149,"abstract":150},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101125637","Cosmological phase transitions of Standard Model Matter and their gravitational wave signatures","EOTVOS LORAND TUDOMANYEGYETEM","HU","€1,839,769","The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions, describing the elementary particles of nature at microscopic length scales. The precise theoretical predictions of the Standard Model are put to the test in contemporary and future high-energy particle collider experiments. Besides explaining matter around us in the present, the Standard Model also predicts the distant past of our Universe, by describing the behavior of particles at tempera",{"id":152,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":153,"piName":14,"institution":154,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":155,"abstract":156},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124390","Monocyte-to-Macrophage Trajectories After Lung Injury: Spatio-temporal investigation, molecular regulation & functional implications for lung regeneration and immunity","UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE","€1,999,863","The lung is particularly exposed to airborne and blood-borne insults. The mechanisms underlying lung tissue repair are therefore of fundamental biological importance and have critical implications for the prevention life-threatening inflammatory and tissue-damaging responses. Lung-resident tissue macrophages and inflammatory monocyte-derived macrophages (InfMoMac) are key players in the maintenance of homeostasis, repair responses and disease pathogenesis. Yet, to date, the complexity of lung ma",{"id":158,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":159,"piName":14,"institution":160,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":162,"abstract":163},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169862","Prediction of genetic values and adaptive potential in the wild","NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU","NO","€1,704,982","In order to halt the ongoing biodiversity loss, we need a radically better understanding of key evolutionary and ecological processes of wild populations. The revolutionary methods of my project will enable us to utilize the rapidly-increasing volumes of high-density genomic data for wild populations, and open up unseen opportunities for genomic modeling of eco-evolutionary processes in wild systems. As a result, we will gain an improved understanding of why some species can cope better with the",{"id":165,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":166,"piName":14,"institution":167,"country":55,"year":13,"amount":168,"abstract":169},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101126022","Improving plant immunity by synthetic exploitation of the ubiquitin system","UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA","€1,850,374","Plants are continuously attacked by pathogens and pests, resulting globally in large agricultural losses and food insecurity at high economic cost. To counter infection, plants have developed sophisticated immune responses in which the post-translational modifier, ubiquitin, plays indispensable roles. Ubiquitination is a versatile protein modification that regulates the amplitude and intensity of immune responses, thereby establishing durable resistance. Substrate ubiquitination is performed by ",{"id":171,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":172,"piName":14,"institution":173,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":174,"abstract":175},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170158","Digital Forest Twins for AI-based Wildfire Assessment","CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITAET  ZU KIEL","€1,986,200","Wildfires have a devastating impact on the environment, infrastructure, animals, and human lives. The complex physical dynamics paired with their unpredictable development makes wildfires a dangerous natural phenomenon that is difficult to counteract. Recently, digital twins have emerged as a concept that combines geometric modeling, image synthesis, and physical simulation with broad applications in predicting real world processes. This proposal aims to develop digital twins for wildfires – 3D ",{"id":177,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":178,"piName":14,"institution":179,"country":180,"year":13,"amount":181,"abstract":182},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170899","Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project","UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE","PT","€1,999,870","Understanding the evolutionary journey of our species demands an exploration into the diverse environments that our earliest ancestors inhabited. This involves investigating the impact that these landscapes had on the cultural and biological adaptations of early Homo. The Western Rift Archaeological and Paleoenvironment (WRAP) Project directly addresses this important topic by answering the question: How and when did Homo ergaster adapt to the diverse ecotone environments of the Western Rift com",{"id":184,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":185,"piName":14,"institution":186,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":187,"abstract":188},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171357","Extraction, Modelling and Analysis of the Brain Vessel Tree","EURECOM GIE","€1,978,935","The brain vessel tree is essential to brain function. However, we still have limited knowledge about this structure compared to other organs that have been extensively studied. While atlases have been helpful in advancing our understanding of the brain in neurosciences, the same progress has not been seen for the brain vessel tree. Its extraction, modelling, and analysis still pose several methodological challenges, making it impossible to accurately, robustly, reliably, and reproducibly quantif",{"id":190,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":191,"piName":14,"institution":192,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":194},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101125348","Unravelling extracellular vesicle heterogeneity to inspire improved therapeutic RNA delivery systems","UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT","€2,000,000","The growing number of classes of RNA therapeutics, including siRNA, mRNA and RNA components of the CRISPR\u002FCas9 machinery, hold the promise of providing new treatment possibilities for almost any disease. However, these interventions require delivery of therapeutic RNA to their final intracellular targets in diseased cells, and delivery efficiency by current RNA nanocarriers is unsatisfactory. Endogenous nanoparticles called extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as promising novel RNA deliver",{"id":196,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":14,"institution":122,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":198},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170262","Deciphering autoreactive T cell immunity in human inflammatory peripheral neuropathies.","Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare heterogenous inflammatory peripheral neuropathy usually triggered by a preceding infection and causing a potentially life-threatening progressive muscle weakness. While the disease is generally considered to have an autoimmune basis, the underpinning immune-mediated mechanisms remain mostly elusive. This aspect poses a significant medical challenge in terms of accurate diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Building on our recent findings revealing that auto",{"id":200,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":201,"piName":14,"institution":202,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":203,"abstract":204},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171952","Nurturing Environment - BioPrinting Human Renal Organ Networks","UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT","€2,374,988","Chronic kidney disease (CKD) results in loss of kidney function in patients, ultimately requiring organ transplant. Critical organ shortage and organ rejection after transplant make extended dialysis inevitable and the only therapy available. To exacerbate this problem, the incidence of CKD is increasing worldwide, with >14% of the general population affected. Hence, there is an urgent need for novel therapies. Induced pluripotent stem cells have been used to create kidney organoids representing",{"id":206,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":207,"piName":14,"institution":208,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":209,"abstract":210},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170512","Environment-Mediated Genetics: The Power of Biological Non-Determinism for Mental Health","STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM","€1,997,169","Mental health problems are associated with variation in the brain and genome. The mechanisms underlying these associations are extremely hard to discern because they are subtly distributed across thousands of genes and not specific to neural processes. Meanwhile, a focus on biology tends to induce feelings of helplessness among those affected by mental health problems, as biology is typically seen as deterministic. I propose that both our mechanistic understanding and the sense of personal agenc",{"id":212,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":213,"piName":14,"institution":202,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":214,"abstract":215},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124651","The Pursuit of Wellness in Southeast Asia: New Encounters and Inequalities in an Emerging Industry","€1,999,764","WELL-ASIA studies the commercialization of wellbeing as ‘wellness’ in twenty-first century Southeast Asia, a region with one of the fastest growing wellness industries in the world. People from within and beyond Asia are travelling more than ever before in search of yoga, meditation and spa retreats, detoxifying diets, anti-ageing therapies, and emotionally-healing experiences. This growing interest in wellness takes shape in the context of increasing anxiety, longevity in a rapidly ageing world",{"id":217,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":218,"piName":14,"institution":219,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":220,"abstract":221},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101125590","Next Generation Quasi-Adiabatic Propagator Path Integral (Quapi) Methods for Condensed Phase Quantum Dynamics","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","€1,999,491","The inevitable interaction of a quantum system with the environment leads to energy relaxation and decoherence which can result in novel phenomena and opportunities not present in isolated quantum systems. Of particular interest is the non-equilibrium relaxation dynamics subject to non-Markovian memory and at strong interaction with the environment. In such situations, novel and generally applicable computational methods are necessary for precise and reliable simulations of the many body dynamic",{"id":223,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":224,"piName":14,"institution":225,"country":226,"year":13,"amount":227,"abstract":228},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171844","Intelligence-Oriented Verification&Controller Synthesis","Masarykova univerzita","CZ","€1,995,000","Software making decisions or controlling cyber-physical systems is ubiquitous, hence its correctness is of paramount importance. While the increasing complexity makes manual implementation extremely error-prone, verification can provide formal guarantees on correctness. Verification of hardware and software has seen many successes and industrialization, making systems safe and reliable and their development more efficient. Controller synthesis goes one step further and avoids the manual implemen",{"id":230,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":231,"piName":14,"institution":232,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":234,"abstract":235},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170086","A new framework to interrogate molecular mechanisms mediating antagonistic diatom-bacteria interactions","THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER","UK","€2,299,893","Interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria play key roles in mediating carbon and nutrient fluxes in the oceans, yet the mechanistic basis and environmental impacts of such interactions are poorly understood. DIACIDAL addresses crucial unknowns in our understanding of the interactions of one of the most globally abundant phytoplankton, the diatoms, and their bacterial pathogens. This proposal builds on my teams recent advances developing an innovative sampling pipeline to isolate environmen",{"id":237,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":238,"piName":14,"institution":239,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":240,"abstract":241},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171769","PlantDevComm: Defining the plant species and development communication ID","BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV","€2,028,750","Plants communicate through various mechanisms to adapt to their environment and coordinate survival and reproduction. Understanding plant communication is crucial for developing resilient crops, reducing agricultural environmental impact, and decoding natural ecosystem dynamics. While studies have focused on alarm signaling, in which a plant that is exposed to a stressor emits signals that cause neighboring plants to activate stress-coping mechanisms, the realm of constitutive, steady-state plan",{"id":243,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":244,"piName":14,"institution":232,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":245,"abstract":246},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171610","Education in Graeco-Roman Egypt: An Intercultural Approach","€1,999,484","EduGRE proposes a radically novel approach to ancient education. Tackling the urgent need to investigate diversity in knowledge transmission in the ancient Mediterranean, the project will comprehensively collate and analyse all school artefacts from Graeco-Roman Egypt, including Egyptian, Greek and Latin material, to set Graeco-Roman education in its specific Egyptian context and explore intercultural osmosis. Challenging the traditional view of Greek education as a tool for perpetuating and dis",{"id":248,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":249,"piName":14,"institution":250,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":251,"abstract":252},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171324","Molecular interconnections between transcription, translation and DNA repair in bacteria","EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY","€2,614,460","This proposal brings together the fields of bacterial transcription, translation and DNA repair with state-of-the art single-molecule biophysics in vitro and in vivo, biochemistry and structural biology to address a central but understudied question in biology: how are different macromolecular processes interconnected and functionally coupled? I aim to elucidate this by investigating the crosstalk between central processes in bacterial gene expression: transcription, translation and DNA repair.F",{"id":254,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":255,"piName":14,"institution":256,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":257,"abstract":258},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171795","High-Field Magic-Angle Spinning Electron Paramagnetic Resonance","TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY","€3,000,000","Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) is the most widely applicable method for solving the main problem of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR): its low sensitivity. This is achieved by polarization transfer from electron spins to nuclear ones, allowing for up to two orders of magnitude signal enhancement, which enabled the expansion of NMR to multiple systems previously unamenable to it. Despite two decades of extensive research, DNP is yet to reach its full potential, the bottleneck being the quantum",{"id":260,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":261,"piName":14,"institution":173,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":262,"abstract":263},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171036","ESTimation of the prehistoric population of Eurasia based on a large number of Records","€1,981,430","Understanding population trends over the past 12,000 years is crucial for unraveling the complexities of social development. Population size influences social structures, exchange systems, environmental interactions, cultural transmission, and societal resilience. Current global population figures, derived since the 1970s, are educated guesses based on limited data and deductive methods, hindering accurate prehistoric assessments. Regional studies, emerging data sources, and innovative methods o",{"id":265,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":266,"piName":14,"institution":267,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":268,"abstract":269},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170886","Tracking memory during sleep: understanding how re-play of complex information affects memory and mental health","ZENTRALINSTITUT FUER SEELISCHE GESUNDHEIT","€1,984,125","The field studying the processing of memory during sleep has been gaining attention lately, leading to some significant progress in our understanding. However, the challenge now is to translate these in-sights into practical psychotherapeutic options for mental disorders that are traditionally hard to treat. Our research aims to address this gap by using innovative behavioral paradigms and advanced neuro-scientific methods to tap into the therapeutic potential of sleep.Rather than treating clini",{"id":271,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":272,"piName":14,"institution":273,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":274,"abstract":275},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170791","New Frontiers in Projection-Free Methods for Continuous Optimization","TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY","€1,785,000","Efficient algorithms for continuous and in particular convex optimization have revolutionized science and engineering in the past decades, providing the engine that drives numerous key technical and computational practices used across  almost every scientific and engineering discipline. In particular, it is one of the main pillars of the ongoing data science and AI revolution.  For many important large scale optimization problems that include constraints that are complex yet highly-structured, t",{"id":277,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":278,"piName":14,"institution":279,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":280,"abstract":281},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170965","Wage Negotiations and Gender Pay Gaps: Exploring the Role of Fairness Attitudes in Europe","UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD","€1,999,955","In the EU, addressing the gender pay gap, defined as the difference in earnings between men and women, is a significant policy challenge. Despite concerted efforts, this disparity persists, exhibiting noticeable differences across member states. Recent changes in the European labor market, such as the reduced role of unions and the shift towards individual pay negotiations, may amplify these disparities. Individual pay negotiations increase the responsibility of employees in determining their pa",{"id":283,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":284,"piName":14,"institution":128,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":285},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169837","Sexual adaptation across evolution: the neural basis of female sexual motivation","What are the molecular mechanisms that determine intra- and inter-species behavioral variation? We propose to address this key outstanding question in evolutionary neuroscience by exploring a striking example of adaptive evolution of female sexual behavior. Comparing two closely related nematode species that use different mating strategies, we discovered that while androdioecious (hermaphrodite-male) C. elegans hermaphrodites are indifferent to males, dioecious (female-male) C. afra females exhi",{"id":287,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":288,"piName":14,"institution":289,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":290,"abstract":291},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171475","Renewing the World: A Philosophical History of Early Modern Ecology","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA","€1,999,663","This project undertakes the first comprehensive investigation of early modern ecology. NEWWORLD counters the standard historiographical argument that ecological concern is a recent phenomenon. A key element in that claim is the assumption that the terminology of environmental care is recent: the term 'ecology' was invented in the 19th century by Ernst Haeckel; 'sustainability' is a 20th-century coinage; 'the environment' was used for the first time in English by Thomas Carlyle in 1827. Yet, thes",{"id":293,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":294,"piName":14,"institution":295,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":296,"abstract":297},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169614","Feynman Graph Expansions for high Precision","THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH","€1,999,448","To an astonishing degree the laws of physics are described by the Standard Model of particle physics. Having discovered its final miTo an astonishing degree the laws of physics are described by the Standard Model of particle physics. Having discovered its final missing piece, the Higgs boson, CERNs Large Hadron Collider has now entered its high-precision phase challenging not only the SM but also our abilities to draw sufficiently precise predictions from it. A formidable challenge will be to br",{"id":299,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":300,"piName":14,"institution":301,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":302,"abstract":303},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171852","The Higher Structure of Symmetries","UPPSALA UNIVERSITET","€1,999,259","Quantum field theories (QFTs) are among the most powerful tools of modern theoretical physics, with wide applications from condensed matter to elementary particle physics, phase transitions, and quantum gravity. Over the past decade, and with tremendous progress over the past two years, QFT is undergoing a revolution: a generalized notion of symmetries, capable of giving conserved quantum numbers to extended field configurations, has emerged. Generalized symmetries are radically changing many as",{"id":305,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":306,"piName":14,"institution":307,"country":308,"year":13,"amount":309,"abstract":310},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171067","Quantum System-on-Chip based on silicon carbide","LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY","LU","€2,998,371","A key question for modern quantum technology is: can isolated demonstrator experiments be united to implement real-world applications?Theory shows that by connecting quantum memories and processors, e.g., on a chip, surprisingly small systems can immediately achieve a quantum advantage. But the experimental implementation remains a grand challenge.Today, optically active spins in solids (colour centres) already implement quantum communication, computing, and memories – albeit individually. Pione",{"id":312,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":313,"piName":14,"institution":314,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":315,"abstract":316},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169652","Local Heroes, Global Impact: The Unsung Power of Micro and Small Enterprises in Global Value Chain Reconfiguration","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA","€1,248,100","Recent geopolitical and economic shocks have led to a profound transformation in global production processes. In response, many companies are restructuring their operations by relocating business activities closer to or within their home countries. This shift is altering the dynamics of Global Value Chains (GVCs), intricate networks that are central to producing a variety of goods. While scholarly attention focuses on large multinational firms, the role of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in G",{"id":318,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":319,"piName":14,"institution":320,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":321,"abstract":322},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171648","Advanced Studies in Transfusion Epidemiology: Using ‘Big Data’ to safeguard the blood supply of the future","KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET","€1,995,048","The lifetime risk of receiving a transfusion is almost 20%, meaning that close to 100 million EU citizens will receive a transfusion at some point in their lives. Consequently, the issue of blood transfusion safety—in a wide sense—are highly relevant for population health. It is therefore disconcerting that blood safety is often narrowly defined, focusing almost exclusively on the elimination of known transfusion-transmitted disease, ignoring donor health and failing to consider unconventional p",{"id":324,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":325,"piName":14,"institution":326,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":327},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169447","Single-molecule visualization of transcription dynamics to understand regulatory mechanisms of cofactors","STICHTING HET NEDERLANDS KANKER INSTITUUT-ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK ZIEKENHUIS","Transcription is a multi-step process involving many regulatory factors, including cofactors such as Mediator, chromatin remodelers and chromatin modifiers. Cofactors are thought to enhance transcription efficiency, but a detailed mechanistic understanding of cofactor action is still lacking. Inside single cells, the transcriptional process is highly dynamic, with regulatory factors transiently associating to DNA, and transcription occurring in stochastic bursts of high transcriptional activity,",{"id":329,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":330,"piName":14,"institution":331,"country":55,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":332},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170337","Early bilingualism boosts the brain's resilience to dyslexia","BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE","Learning to read strongly depends on phonological development that is largely influenced by environmental factors. BIBALANCE will investigate the extent to which the early acquisition of two phonological systems in early bilingualism impacts the organisation of the ‘phonological mind’ and determines the success of reading trajectories.  BIBALANCE will examine the mechanism of ‘hemispheric rebalance’ to explain the effects of bilingualism on reading acquisition. We will show that early bilinguali",{"id":334,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":335,"piName":14,"institution":336,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":337,"abstract":338},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171468","Radical Habits of the Heart: Emotions, Embodiment and Strong, Individual Commitment in Ancient Radical Religion","UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN","€1,995,676","More than two decades of intense radical religion research since 9\u002F11 has brought attention to radicalisation, violence, and radical beliefs, and a strong emphasis on Islam in the contemporary era. Yet, radical religion is as burning an issue for societies today as ever, and individuals persist in staying committed. Strong, individual commitment shapes any form of radical religion, but it is rarely studied empirically, let alone historically. RADHEART ambitiously proposes to analyse how strong i",{"id":340,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":341,"piName":14,"institution":342,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":343,"abstract":344},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169799","Biases in prospective learning and dynamic choice","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE","€1,644,025","Many important economic decisions are made after individuals have had opportunities to acquire information. For example, investors can do research about the fundamentals of companies to estimate their future stock prices; consumers can read reviews before making purchase decisions; managers can experiment with different organizational structures before settling on one. As information acquisition is costly, decision-makers must evaluate its benefit ex ante by engaging in prospective learning, tha",{"id":346,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":347,"piName":14,"institution":348,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":349,"abstract":350},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169908","X-ray Measurements of Accreting black holes with Polarimetric-Spectral-timing techniques","UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE","€1,999,695","Black hole (BH) X-ray binaries (XRBs) radiate a huge X-ray flux from the BH vicinity. The X-ray signal, radiated by a hot corona and a cooler disk, contains information on the BH mass and spin, and the strong gravitational field close to its horizon. However, the X-ray emitting region is unresolvable, necessitating indirect mapping techniques. I pioneered forward-modelling spectral-timing techniques that exploit rapid spectral variability, and played a key role in the first studies of X-ray pola",{"id":352,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":353,"piName":14,"institution":354,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":355,"abstract":356},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170495","Dissecting Protective and Pathogenic Long-lasting Humoral Immunity","UNIVERSITE PARIS XII VAL DE MARNE","€1,995,918","Long term humoral immunity essentially relies on two types of cells exported from germinal centers (GC): plasma cells (PCs), which secrete antibodies, and memory B cells (MBCs). Both subsets of cells can survive for decades in humans, being responsible for the extended protection afforded by the most successful vaccines but also therapeutic failures in the context of B-cell mediated autoimmune diseases. Which cells are selected and what drives them to become long-lived, in normal or pathological",{"id":358,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":359,"piName":14,"institution":360,"country":55,"year":13,"amount":361,"abstract":362},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170207","Design and Chemical Construction of Quasi-living Phagocytic Synthetic Cells for Artificial Phagocytosis of Bacteria","FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA","€1,999,375","The growing occurrence of antimicrobial-resistant infections, compounded with the stalling development and approval of new antibiotic drugs, has created a therapeutic gap, threatening a global health crisis. Resistance emerges when bacteria mutate their molecular targets for antibiotics, evading their action. Is it conceivable to design synthetic cells assembled from abiotic synthetic macromolecules, capable of mimicking the most salient features of phagocytosis —Nature’s most selective, effecti",{"id":364,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":365,"piName":14,"institution":256,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":366},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170373","Foundations of Algorithmic Contract Theory","Algorithmic game theory (AGT) lies at the intersection of algorithms and incentives, offering a framework for the design of algorithms that provide incentives for collaboration in computational markets. AGT has played a pivotal role in shaping vital computing platforms. One of the most influential fields within AGT is algorithmic mechanism design, providing incentives for truthful revelation of private information.An equally important intersection of algorithms and incentives arises in the desig",{"id":368,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":369,"piName":14,"institution":370,"country":371,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":372},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169720","Controllable Magnetic Cores for Transformers and Electrical Machines","TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR","FI","Ferromagnetic cores are used in transformers and electrical machines to allow producing a large magnetic flux with a small electric current. These cores have been traditionally designed for guiding a predefined magnetic flux to a predefined location, leaving them uninvolved with the actual control of the energy conversion process. As the consequence, there are millions of power and distribution transformers and variable-speed electrical motors in the EU alone whose performance, compactness and r",{"id":374,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":375,"piName":14,"institution":376,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":377,"abstract":378},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170298","Universal Platform for Infra-Red Imaging","THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY","€2,999,999","Infra-red (IR) cameras are critical for many applications ranging from medical diagnosis and food quality control to gas and heat leakage and night vision. These applications each rely on cameras designed to work at different IR sub-bands, e.g. near-IR, mid-IR or long-IR. No single camera can detect all IR bands simultaneously. Moreover, unlike charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras that operate in visible range, IR cameras are low in pixel numbers and often require low temperature (down to -200°C)",{"id":380,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":381,"piName":14,"institution":382,"country":226,"year":13,"amount":383,"abstract":384},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169641","Politics and aesthetics of indexical representation in digital games and VR","UNIVERZITA KARLOVA","€1,792,888","Many contemporary digital games and VR experiences – including the Assassin’s Creed series of historical games – claim to provide realistic representations of places or people. But how is this realism achieved and which places and people get included? To answer this question, GAMEINDEX focuses on indexical representations – traces of real-life objects or people in the simulated worlds of digital games and VR. Such indices include 3D scans of buildings or the likenesses and performances of actors",{"id":386,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":387,"piName":14,"institution":388,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":389,"abstract":390},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170022","Multifunctional Cavity Mirrors for Next-Generation Ultra-Stable Lasers","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BRAUNSCHWEIG","€1,972,500","Ultra-stable laser cavities (USLCs) lie at the heart of humankind’s most precise measurement instruments. Developing compact, multi-wavelength, USLCs will greatly benefit applications such as quantum sensing, spectroscopy, metrology, and quantum computing.In this research program, I propose to explore novel versatile cavity mirrors by integrating low-noise meta-devices with multi-layer photonic integrated circuits into complex laser resonator geometries. I envisage a fully integrated USLC by inc",{"id":392,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":393,"piName":14,"institution":394,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":395,"abstract":396},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169640","Loneliness Across Time and Space","RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM","€1,998,018","The places where people live and spend their time seem to matter for loneliness, but previous research provides mixed evidence for this link. The core argument of LOTIS is that to understand why, when, and for whom places contribute to loneliness, the current perspective on the link between place and loneliness needs to be fundamentally shifted towards a dynamic view. I propose a novel theoretical framework linking a person’s momentary loneliness to how the place is subjectively perceived by thi",{"id":398,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":399,"piName":14,"institution":394,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":400,"abstract":401},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101125730","Flexible Dimensionality of Representational Spaces in Category Learning","€2,141,929","Our visual system frequently has to classify complex, high dimensional inputs. A key learning objective of the brain is thus to identify diagnostic dimensions. Often, tasks require simultaneous consideration of multiple dimensions. Yet, learning many dimensions is computationally challenging. Here, I ask how the visual system tackles the challenge of learning high dimensional tasks. Some theories suggest that the brain does so by compressing dimensions, while others suggest dimensionality expans",{"id":403,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":404,"piName":14,"institution":405,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":406,"abstract":407},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171832","Diverse Knowledges and Sensing Practices in Peatlands for Inclusive Climate Futures","UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL","€2,223,255","PEATSENSE will devise and test a ground-breaking approach to decision-making in peatland sites designated priority areas in recent climate assessments, redefining the meaning and practices of inclusion for future global climate mitigation. The project is contextualised by an important ecological challenge: we now know that although peatlands cover only 3-4% of the earth’s surface, they hold 33% of its carbon reserves. Following paradigm-shifting findings in biophysical research on the role of pe",{"id":409,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":410,"piName":14,"institution":202,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":411,"abstract":412},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170543","Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe","€1,999,996","A key assumption about postwar migration in Europe is incorrect – that nearly all who moved from the European South to work in the booming northwestern European economies were men. In fact, anywhere between 25 and 30% were women, but their role was erased by policy-makers, and subsequently by researchers, who framed labour migration as male. The resulting epistemological fog has led to claims that the feminisation of migration is a recent phenomenon. Women’s work trajectories, and experiences of",{"id":414,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":415,"piName":14,"institution":416,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":417,"abstract":418},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171215","Polygenic Adaptation across Space","UNIVERSITAT WIEN","€1,915,829","Rapid advances in sequencing are making an unprecedented amount of genomic data available from diverse organisms. However, theoretical and statistical frameworks for analysing sequences lag far behind, yet are crucial for identifying functionally important regions of the genome and predicting their contributions to key traits, e.g., disease risk in humans, yield in crops and environmental maladaptation in endangered populations. While numerous tools of genomic prediction, notably Genome-Wide Ass",{"id":420,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":421,"piName":14,"institution":416,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":422,"abstract":423},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171337","Tracking the dispersal of humans from the African Rift to the Pacific Rim using biomolecular approaches","€2,710,949","Modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved in Africa, dispersed into Eurasia, and reached the vast landmass of Sahul (present-day Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Tasmania) by ~60,000 years ago. During this remarkable expansion, interbreeding between H. sapiens and other hominin taxa shaped and redefined our species’ genetic profile. Yet, the scarcity of fossils and ancient molecular data from Africa and Sahul, the starting and ending points of this journey, leave unanswered questions regarding the or",{"id":425,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":426,"piName":14,"institution":416,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":427,"abstract":428},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170218","In-silico simulations for early detection of abnormal bone loads to prevent the development of bony deformities","€1,924,258","Bones are pivotal to long-term health, providing structural support and facilitating mobility. However, various patient groups commonly develop torsional bony deformities, leading to numerous clinical problems. Understanding, monitoring, and ultimately modifying bone growth is crucial for improving the functional mobility of these patients and preserving lifelong health. Despite recognizing, since the 19th century, that bone growth is influenced by mechanical loads, the specific loading environm",{"id":430,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":431,"piName":14,"institution":416,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":432,"abstract":433},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171485","Genome Enhancer Network Exploration – Tuning expression through enhancer collaboration","€1,999,968","Enhancers are the central regulators of temporal and spatial gene expression patterns, but how enhancers control their target genes from vast distances remains enigmatic. Individual enhancers do not work in isolation but are embedded into the genomic context, often together with other enhancer elements. The synergy arising from multiple enhancers can activate a target gene across distances that the individual elements cannot bridge. Therefore, the synergy of enhancers plays an essential role in ",{"id":435,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":436,"piName":14,"institution":437,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":438,"abstract":439},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169953","REGULARITY AND SINGULARITY OF SOLUTIONS TO GEOMETRIC VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA","€1,655,000","Solutions of geometric variational problems describe equilibrium configurations of physical systems or provide preferred representatives in homology and homotopy classes. Their singularities can be linked to concentration of energy or to topological obstructions, and their study is then of fundamental importance in their applications to Geometry and Physics.This project  intends to leverage on a series of novel techniques introduced by the PI  in recent years to significantly improve our knowled",{"id":441,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":442,"piName":14,"institution":443,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":444,"abstract":445},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170179","Right-hemispheric homotopic circuits for language at single-neuron resolution","KLINIKUM DER TECHNISCHEN UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN (TUM KLINIKUM)","€2,103,467","Language is the bedrock of human civilization. It shapes how we connect, communicate and collaborate, and how we think, feel and experience. Language is typically viewed as a left-brain function. In contrast, the role of the right brain in language processing is unclear and heavily contested. Compelling evidence suggests that the right hemisphere harbors a language system that is mirror-symmetric to the left and contributes to the reorganization of language functions after brain injury. However,",{"id":447,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":448,"piName":14,"institution":449,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":450,"abstract":451},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171995","Data Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Digital Food Systems","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","€1,998,860","Across the world, digitalization has been heralded as the start of a new agricultural revolution. Data collected from digital sensors implanted into soil, satellites, and mobile phones offer the possibility of gathering unprecedented amounts of data. Combined with predictive analytics of artificial intelligence, this data promises critical insights for governments, food producers, and the private sector to address the challenges of food insecurity and climate change. Yet with these new flows of ",{"id":453,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":454,"piName":14,"institution":256,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":455},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171091","How domain mimicry shapes genetic conflicts between hosts and viruses","Viral mimicry is a prevalent evolutionary mechanism for the acquisition of host-protein domains in order to hijack cellular pathways. By leveraging the similarity between the original host and the mimicked domain, the viral mimic forms interactions with host proteins. This introduces genetic conflict since these interactions are advantageous for the virus and deleterious for the host.The host is limited in its capacity to avoid mimics because evolving to escape them can disrupt the host interact",{"id":457,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":458,"piName":14,"institution":459,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":460,"abstract":461},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169829","Antarctic Canyon Experiment (ACE):  How do Ice sheets affect turbidity currents and organic carbon cycling?","UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH","€2,997,020","Turbidity currents, akin to underwater avalanches, are rapid, destructive, sediment-rich bodies of water that flow down-slope. They destroy seafloor infrastructure and transport and store organic carbon (OC), impacting climate over long (>1,000 yr) timescales. Global climate is controlled by atmospheric carbon dioxide, so understanding the processes influencing OC transfer and burial between Earth’s major stores is crucial to predict and mitigate against future climate change. Currently turbidit",{"id":463,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":464,"piName":14,"institution":465,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":466,"abstract":467},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171325","Pseudospin-based Antiferromagnetic Magnonics","BAYERISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN","€1,999,688","Spin-based information processing is a viable alternative to charge-based approaches, enabling low-power devices. In magnetically ordered systems, spin information can be transported via the quantized excitations of the magnetic lattice, called magnons. In an antiferromagnetic system, we generally find two degenerate magnon modes with opposite Néel precession chirality, i.e., opposite spin. These two modes can couple and give rise to complex dynamics and superposition states. I could show that t",{"id":469,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":470,"piName":14,"institution":471,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":472,"abstract":473},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170073","The politics of aspiring sovereignty: Understanding separatist politics from a performative perspective","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","€1,997,994","Existing analytical approaches are poorly equipped to make sense of political entities that aspire sovereign statehood and present themselves accordingly, but which lack a recognised status. The prevalent scholarship struggles to categorize sovereignty-aspiring entities.This project departs from the extant literature in that it places the unsettled nature of sovereignty-aspiring entities – their defiance of categories – at the heart of the equation. Rather than resolving the interpretative “to b",{"id":475,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":476,"piName":14,"institution":219,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":477,"abstract":478},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171720","Semi-Structural Econometric Methods for the Analysis of Inequality","€1,580,832","Rising income inequality and related disparities, accompanied by high persistence of socioeconomic outcomes across generations, have become a major public policy concern around the world. Documenting inequality, understanding its determinants, and evaluating policies with the goal of reducing inequality is an important part of empirical research in economics. Widely used statistical tools for quantifying the importance of various drivers of inequality and intergenerational mobility have produced",{"id":480,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":481,"piName":14,"institution":382,"country":226,"year":13,"amount":482,"abstract":483},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170338","Fluid dynamics of binary systems composed of stars and black holes","€2,310,044","This project aims to conduct previously unachievable (magneto)hydrodynamical simulations of binary systems involving stars, planets, neutron stars, and black holes. The phenomena occurring in these systems lie at the heart of some of the most important unsolved astrophysical problems, such as the evolutionary origin of gravitational wave sources, the acceleration sites of high-energy particles, and the coevolution of galaxies with their supermassive black holes. Advancements in the theoretical u",{"id":485,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":486,"piName":14,"institution":192,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":487,"abstract":488},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169963","Heterochromatin repair: mechanisms and roles across scales","€1,999,825","Cells face continuous challenges from insults that damage their DNA. To safeguard DNA integrity, a range of repair mechanisms have evolved, which are crucial for organismal survival. However, the eukaryotic nucleus contains different chromatin domains, each requiring specific repair mechanisms to ensure genome stability. In particular, the compact and transcriptionally silenced heterochromatin domains, which are riddled with repetitive DNA and developmental genes, are a challenging environment t",{"id":490,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":491,"piName":14,"institution":492,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":493,"abstract":494},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171670","Molecular Imaging to Guide Repair and Advance Therapy: Targeting the inflammation-fibrosis axis in ischemic heart disease and remote organs","MEDIZINISCHE HOCHSCHULE HANNOVER","€1,933,148","Myocardial infarction triggers a complex interplay between inflammation and fibroblast activation, which contributes to success or failure of adequate repair. Targeted therapeutic approaches to modulate these processes have not yet been implemented clinically. The dynamic and multicellular nature of the inflammatory and fibrotic repair process in the heart is thought to be variable among individuals. Additionally, cardiac injury and treatment affect distant organs through systems-based interacti",{"id":496,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":497,"piName":14,"institution":498,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":499,"abstract":500},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170215","Probing the quantum nature of gravity at all scales","RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG","€1,987,603","To understand the quantum structure of spacetime, we must confront proposed theories of quantum gravity with experimental data. This is a challenge, because quantum-gravity effects are generally assumed to manifest at the Planck length, which lies far beyond current experimental reach. I challenge this assumption by probing quantum gravity at different scales. To achieve this, I propose to use lever arms that translate predictions of quantum gravity at the Planck scale into predictions at larger",{"id":502,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":503,"piName":14,"institution":394,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":504,"abstract":505},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171851","Exploiting Laser-driven Plasma Chemistry for Ultra-high Repetition Rate Nonlinear Optics","€2,201,881","Nonlinear optical methods play a crucial role in science and technology and enables scientists across the globe to manipulate light at will and access the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from X-rays to Terahertz (THz) waves via frequency conversion. Accessing material nonlinearities requires high input light intensity, thus novel laser sources are instrumental in advancing nonlinear optics (NLO). The first revolution in NLO was enabled by wide access to femtosecond (fs-) laser sources, that ens",{"id":507,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":508,"piName":14,"institution":509,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":510},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171243","Hierarchic structure in pictorial communication","TILBURG UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG","Creating pictures is a unique human capacity, yet pictorial communication has received less focus in the study of cognition than other domains like language. Indeed, graphics are often viewed as reflecting perception alone with no complex representational properties like the hierarchic combinatoriality permeating throughout linguistic structures. Yet, various theories have argued that graphics also use hierarchic combinatoriality, both in individual pictures and visual narrative sequences, raisi",{"id":512,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":513,"piName":14,"institution":514,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":515,"abstract":516},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170767","The Underbelly of Migration Governance: Exploring the Intersection of Transnational Crime and Migration Governance","SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA","€1,999,392","UNDERGOV investigates the role of transnational criminal groups in migration governance. Although this topic has attracted increasing global attention due to the intersection of migration management and crime, academic research remains limited. Most studies tend to view criminal groups merely as threats to migration governance or as peripheral actors. UNDERGOV advocates for a significant paradigm shift in conventional debate on transnational governance. Rather than merely viewing criminal groups",{"id":518,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":519,"piName":14,"institution":279,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":520,"abstract":521},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169874","Finance and Risk in the Lives of Working People in Market Socialist Asia","€2,422,760","The rise of household financial activities such as mortgages, consumer credits and private insur-ance among working people in China, Vietnam and Laos signals new patterns of accumulation alongside the commodification of labour that has been central to their national development. In these market socialist countries, where marketization is deepening under the rule Communist par-ty states, governments are turning to financialization to ensure growth and fill the gaps of social provisioning. Via fin",{"id":523,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":524,"piName":14,"institution":525,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":526,"abstract":527},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171011","Feeding the Roman Army, Making the Empire","CARDIFF UNIVERSITY","€1,998,825","FRAME capitalises on advances in archaeological science and a critical mass of archaeological material to examine how the Roman Empire’s frontiers in Europe functioned as economic as well as militarised zones. The Empire’s expansion and longevity relied on the capability to maintain large armies and provincial garrisons for long periods. The army comprised c. 300,000 soldiers, mainly concentrated on frontiers and supply was a vast challenge, yet how it was achieved remains poorly understood. Int",{"id":529,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":530,"piName":14,"institution":531,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":532,"abstract":533},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170008","Property transformation of Grain Boundaries","ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG","€1,995,938","Property transformation of grain boundaries (ProGB) is a challenge and a big opportunity. Besides being indispensable in many semiconductor compounds, grain boundaries (GBs) are found to be often detrimental in most bulk and thin-film solar cells limiting devices’ efficiency. This is because understanding how the detrimental properties can be intentionally transformed remains difficult and often impossible. Therefore, ProGB aims to understand and even transform the GBs properties on the nanoscal",{"id":535,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":536,"piName":14,"institution":537,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":538,"abstract":539},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171750","Symmetries and Spectra","UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM","€1,999,876","Symmetry is ubiquitous in nature. It is a fundamental concept and organising principle in quantum field theory, the common language of modern theoretical physics. The past few years have witnessed a radical evolution in the notion of symmetry that transcends the paradigm of groups and representation theory and marches into the realm of higher mathematics. This is known as categorical symmetry. The field has experienced a period of rapid discovery and exploration but the underlying mathematical s",{"id":541,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":542,"piName":14,"institution":256,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":543,"abstract":544},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169966","Discovering how T6SS effectors are deployed in the recipient cytoplasm","€1,999,188","Interbacterial competition is a key driver of the emergence of new bacterial strains. A widely used strategy during interbacterial competition is delivering toxins into competitors’ cytoplasm, where they target conserved components. The type VI secretion system (T6SS), a machine that delivers toxic effectors into neighboring cells, is a major player in interbacterial competitions. It fires an effector-loaded tube that penetrates the recipient cell envelope. Although many T6SS effectors target th",{"id":546,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":547,"piName":14,"institution":154,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":548},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171391","Entangled Histories of the Proximal Senses (1350-1650): A Mediterranean History of (Subjective) Knowledge","The proximal senses—taste and touch—were linked historically to the body, femininity, and subjectivity. This both fed adverse socio-cultural, religious, and gender stereotypes and allowed the voices of women, subaltern subjects, and Mediterranean people to be dismissed as irrelevant to knowledge-making. It also influenced modern scholarship, which has given undue weight to sight and the observation practices of seventeenth-century Northern European men as signals of the advent of modern science.",{"id":550,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":551,"piName":14,"institution":552,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":553},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170592","Modelling Inter-Scale Energetics in  GastroIntestinal ElectroMechanics","UNIVERSITA CAMPUS BIO MEDICO DI ROMA","The MiGEM proposal targets one of the remaining grand challenges in biomechanics: the development of a comprehensive, inter-scale, thermodynamically and energetically coherent multiphysics model of gastrointestinal (GI) motility. Despite the importance of gastrointestinal disorders as a primary global health problem, electromechanical modelling of gastrointestinal motility still presents significant theoretical and experimental limitations compared to more advanced fields such as cardiovascular ",{"id":555,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":556,"piName":14,"institution":557,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":558},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101167761","Magmatic Triggering of Cenozoic Climate Changes","UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA","By preventing all the Earth’s carbon to be released into the oceans and atmosphere or to be stored within rocks, the geological carbon cycle acts as a global long term thermostat, linking the evolution of climate and life to plate tectonics. The uncertainty regarding CO2 emissions from continental magmatic arcs, a primary natural input of carbon into the ocean and atmosphere, is currently the greatest limitation to our quantitative understanding of the geological carbon cycle. The high-gain targ",{"id":560,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":561,"piName":14,"institution":160,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":562,"abstract":563},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170817","Molecules as electronically open quantum systems","€1,996,840","To control chemistry we must understand it, and this requires a fundamental quantum mechanical description. Today we have a highly mature state of accurate quantum chemical modeling of molecules. A central assumption in these models is that the molecules have a fixed number of electrons, i.e., that they are electronically closed.  Recent experiments show great promise for probing chemical understanding and inducing chemical reactivity by passing a current of electrons through the molecule. Hence",{"id":565,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":566,"piName":14,"institution":567,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":568,"abstract":569},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171380","Reconstruction and Unification of Neural and Ecological Systems","Northeastern University - London","€1,996,580","In the last two decades, network science has revolutionized our understanding of diverse biological, social, and technological systems, becoming a cornerstone across various scientific and technological domains. Traditional network models, however, predominantly focus on pairwise interactions, often overlooking the complexity of higher-order interactions (HOIs) that involve more than two elements. This oversight is significant, as emerging evidence increasingly demonstrates that HOIs are not onl",{"id":571,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":572,"piName":14,"institution":573,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":574,"abstract":575},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169608","Multi-modal platforms to drive vapour deposition of modular hybrid perovskite devices","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€2,965,779","Disruptive new technologies for generation, storage and use will be essential to drive the green energy transition and progress society. Such technologies must be developed with sustainable, high-throughput manufacturing, and maintain high-performance over long-term use. VAPOURISE will provide solutions by developing ground-breaking technologies for electricity generation (high-performance photovoltaics), storage (photoelectrochemical production of high-value chemicals) and use (quantum computin",{"id":577,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":578,"piName":14,"institution":579,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":580},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171427","Towards a Diachronic Music Theory","THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM","This proposal argues for a quantum shift in the way we theorize about music. In the past three decades, music theory has been dominated by synchronic theories based upon typologies. The value of these theories notwithstanding, there are three significant “blindspots” that arise from a purely synchronic perspective. First, synchronic approaches are incapable of explaining trends – they at best capture “snapshots” along a timeline, but cannot explain processes: how one snapshot progressed to anoth",{"id":582,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":583,"piName":14,"institution":584,"country":226,"year":13,"amount":585,"abstract":586},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170544","Using Kleptoplasty to illuminate the Evolution of Plastids and the Order of Steps during endosymbiosis","BIOLOGICKE CENTRUM AKADEMIE VID CESKE REPUBLIKY VEREJNA VYZKUMNA INSTITUCE","€1,998,698","Plastids, the photosynthetic organelles of eukaryotes, arose via endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria by a eukaryotic host and were subsequently spread across eukaryotic diversity by additional endosymbioses. These events greatly impacted the evolution of eukaryotes, introducing a novel lifestyle and shaping their diversity, yet we still know very little about the steps taking place during plastid endosymbiosis. The traditional view considers this a straightforward uptake and retention of the symbiont",{"id":588,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":589,"piName":14,"institution":590,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":591,"abstract":592},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169737","Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep","UNIVERSITY OF YORK","€1,999,769","What we remember and forget lies at the core of who we are. But how do our brains shape our memories of the past? Sleep promotes the flexible use of memory by reactivating and thereby strengthening information that is most relevant to our future needs. Whether memory reactivation in sleep also weakens unwanted components of prior experience is unknown, but represents a major gap in our understanding of memory and how sleep influences our autobiographical identities. SLEEPAWAY combines an innovat",{"id":594,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":595,"piName":14,"institution":596,"country":597,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":598},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171955","Welcoming immigrants in Central and Eastern Europe: lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine","LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATE","LV","The negative attitudes towards immigration in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries were on clear display during the 2015\u002F2016 immigration crisis, particularly in the Visegrád Group countries, but also in the Baltics. Against this backdrop, the overwhelming support for Ukrainians fleeing the war in CEE has come as a surprise to many. It has highlighted the huge inequalities in the treatment of Ukrainians vs. other third country asylum seekers and clearly revealed conditionality of migrati",{"id":600,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":601,"piName":14,"institution":602,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":603},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171462","A Foundation Model for Next-Generation Generalizable AI in Neuro-Radiology","UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM BONN","Medical artificial intelligence (AI) holds immense promise for transforming radiology by introducing advanced diagnostic capabilities. Yet, traditional AI models face challenges like extensive data annotation needs and are task-specific with limited generalizability to different scenarios. This problem of robust and label-efficient generalization continues to be a key translational challenge for medical AI models and has prevented their broad uptake in real world healthcare settings. AI-Next wil",{"id":605,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":606,"piName":14,"institution":336,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":607},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171893","Understanding the law's complex association between criminal insanity and mental disorders","The fundamental legal doctrine of criminal insanity is found in most legal orders. It concerns a defendant’s lack of capacity for responsible action and defines the justifiable use of punishment. It is a key entrance point for comprehending how law conceives of agency and deviancy, but also a highly controversial legal construct. A major concern is that there is a mismatch between how criminal insanity has been paradigmatically understood in law and how it is today inevitably associated with men",{"id":609,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":610,"piName":14,"institution":382,"country":226,"year":13,"amount":611,"abstract":612},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171645","Community Through Constitution. REsearching how CONstitutions Construct Identity and LEgitimacy in Europe and MENA","€1,999,784","Constitutionalism provides a shared-meaning space, in which the idea of rights has served to emancipate individuals. This rights-based constitutionalism is in decline. It has ossified, became isolated from politics, and alienated from people in the West and faced difficulties to take roots in other cultural backgrounds. The problem is that the rights-based constitutionalism is unable to foster collective identity due to its conceptual limitations. Populist movements (secular and religious alike)",{"id":614,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":615,"piName":14,"institution":616,"country":371,"year":13,"amount":617,"abstract":618},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169986","Particle composition in relativistic jets","AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR","€2,357,623","Relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes are the most extreme and energetic persistent phenomena in the Universe. They are capable of accelerating particles to energies inaccessible by particle accelerators on Earth, and deposit enormous amount of energy in their surroundings during their lifetime. They are believed to have a significant impact on galaxy evolution via feedback mechanisms. Yet, despite decades of studies, one of the most fundamental properties, the composition of th",{"id":620,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":621,"piName":14,"institution":622,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":623,"abstract":624},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170525","The meanings of ancestral remains from former German colonies at the University of Strasbourg in contexts of repatriation. Crossed perspectives between Africa, France and Germany","ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES","€1,999,063","Over the past years, the return of cultural objects and human remains from former European colonies housed in museums and universities worldwide has been repeatedly described as the most central topic in the cultural heritage sector today. Because the seizure, preservation, and study of ancestral remains participated in a dehumanization of persons from former colonies, repatriations bear several challenges: re-humanize ancestral remains, shed light on the role of science in the development of ra",{"id":626,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":627,"piName":14,"institution":628,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":629},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170578","Enabling Global-Scale Mine-Level Indicators from Satellite Observations","WIRTSCHAFTSUNIVERSITAT WIEN","The global surge in mining, driven by decarbonisation and digitalisation, has uncovered a critical gap in our understanding of its environmental and social impacts and risks. Despite the seemingly abundant knowledge about mining operations, they remain largely unmeasured, even within the European Union, posing a challenge to sustainable development efforts. Essential indicators, such as geographical locations, waste generation, and details of extracted minerals and commodities, are surprisingly ",{"id":631,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":632,"piName":14,"institution":219,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":633,"abstract":634},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171233","The Challenge of Islam and the Transformation of Eastern Christian Normative Regimes, ca. 630-1100","€1,999,281","In the crucial half-millennium between the death of the Prophet Muhammad and the First Crusade, an absolutely essential part in the origins of Christian-Muslim relations has been overlooked, namely how the normative regimes of Eastern Christians  including those of Byzantium, the Islamicate world and the space in between  grappled with the rise of Islam. Exploring this history has important implications for our understanding of the development of Christian-Muslim relations in the premodern perio",{"id":636,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":637,"piName":14,"institution":638,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":639},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170430","Collaborative Machine Intelligence","CISPA - HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR INFORMATIONSSICHERHEIT GGMBH","Machine learning models are growing larger and more complex, making training increasingly resource-demanding. Concurrently, our world, and hence the training data is perpetually evolving. This requires continual model updating or retraining to address changing training data. Presently, the most reliable course to handle such distribution shifts is to retrain models from scratch on new training data. This results in substantial resource usage, increased CO2 footprint, elevated energy consumption,",{"id":641,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":642,"piName":14,"institution":128,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":643,"abstract":644},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101167854","Improving forest drought resilience through tree xylem eco-physiological mechanisms","€1,999,831","Trees play a major role in Earths water and carbon cycles. Climate change puts trees under a growing threat of drought-induced mortality. This already happens in Europe, where summers are becoming hotter and drier, and across global forest biomes. Due to their large size and long lifespan, trees need time to adapt and migrate, time they lack under the fast rate of global change. On the other hand, foersts are amog the most important ecosystems we simply cannot afford to lose.Loss of xylem hydrau",{"id":646,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":647,"piName":14,"institution":648,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":649,"abstract":650},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171473","New Direct Empirical Evidence on Wage Setting","UNIVERSITA COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI","€1,721,563","Our project proposes to provide new empirical evidence on wage setting. This evidence will enhance our understanding of industrial relations, and of wage inequality.First, we will open up the collective bargaining process between incumbent employees and their employers in both France and the US. We will conduct textual analysis of collective bargaining agreements. We will design two-sided high-frequency surveys to follow the bargaining process within firms (e.g. offer sequences) and to measure t",{"id":652,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":653,"piName":14,"institution":654,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":655,"abstract":656},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170304","Lattice QCD simulations at the dawn of European Exascale Computing","BERGISCHE UNIVERSITAET  WUPPERTAL","€1,993,375","Large-scale simulations of lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) can provide crucial input for searches of new physics at the precision frontier, like in the calculation of the hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. To find evidence of new physics beyond the current knowledge provided by the Standard Model will require to reach per-mille precision. Attaining such accuracy in the hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in lattice QCD can only",{"id":658,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":659,"piName":14,"institution":471,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":660,"abstract":661},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171170","Innovation and documentation: Reconstructing the paradigm of transitional justice from the ground up","€1,999,750","Transitional justice (TJ) is the field of scholarship and practice that examines how societies deal with the consequences of massive human rights violations. A decade of critical TJ scholarship may create an impression of a field in crisis. Yet, TJ practice seems to be thriving: TJ language and initiatives are travelling to increasingly diverse contexts, which are often very different from those in which TJ emerged. Examples are TJ initiatives to address ongoing conflict or historical injustice.",{"id":663,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":664,"piName":14,"institution":590,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":665,"abstract":666},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169578","Understanding the psychology of the manosphere and how to protect young people from its negative influence","€1,973,814","In the last 10 years, online misogyny has increased at an alarming rate. Social media influencers within the ‘manosphere’ preach that women are fundamentally inferior to men and ought to be subordinated to them. Women are derogated as innately illogical, greedy and scheming. These attributions are used to justify harassment, coercive control and discrimination. Teenagers, who get much of their news and entertainment from social media, are bombarded with this content on a daily basis. Teachers, p",{"id":668,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":669,"piName":14,"institution":670,"country":55,"year":13,"amount":671,"abstract":672},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171779","Unchaining diagnostic and therapeutic tools for syphilis in pregnancy, neurosyphilis and treatment failure.","FUNDACION  FLS DE  LUCHA CONTRA ELSIDA LAS ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSASY LA  PROMOCION DE  LA SALUD Y LACIENCIA","€2,999,975","For over 50 years, the tools for diagnosing, preventing, and treating syphilis have seen minimal progress, partly due to limitations in bacterial cultivation. Existing tools were primarily drawn from research on early-stage syphilis and evidence extrapolated to severe forms of the infection, leaving important unmet needs like the lack of predictive markers for neurosyphilis and mother-to-child-transmission, limited evidence on treatments for these conditions, and challenges in monitoring treatme",{"id":674,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":675,"piName":14,"institution":676,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":677},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171358","Interaction of Elasto-inertial Turbulence and material microstructure – INTER-ET","KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN","Transport and handling of complex fluids is an important contributor to World energy consumption (10% is estimated to come from pumping suspensions), and improving their mixing and heat transfer is a key for new applications from process industry to medicine. A tiny amount of polymers, making the fluid viscoelastic, can completely change its flow, reducing turbulent friction and pumping power by around 70 % at large scales, but creating a whole new kind of turbulence at small scales. Elastic tur",{"id":679,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":680,"piName":14,"institution":681,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":682},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170490","Dissect the impact, safety and effectiveness of gene therapy at the whole organismal level by cell-free DNA signatures","OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE SRL","Gene therapy (GT) with integrative vectors has emerged as a revolutionary intervention for the treatment of inherited and acquired disorders. Despite the great achievements, a major challenge pertains to the heterogeneity of responses that can be obtained in patients. The success of these applications critically depends on the ability of engineered cells to functionally integrate within the patients’ tissues to re-establish the physiological functions. Intrinsic features of the cellular drug pro",{"id":684,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":685,"piName":14,"institution":686,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":687,"abstract":688},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170147","Computational Complexity of Highly Nonlinear Approximations","RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN","€1,996,375","The efficient numerical treatment of partial differential equations on high-dimensional spaces often requires approximation methods involving a high degree of nonlinearity, such as low-rank tensor representations or neural networks. By exploiting structural features of solutions, such approaches in many cases promise extremely efficient approximations. However, due to the corresponding greater difficulty of computing highly compressed representations, such results need to be considered in conjun",{"id":690,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":691,"piName":14,"institution":219,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":692,"abstract":693},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170460","Zooming in on small-molecule ligands by magnetic resonance","€1,999,969","Small molecules are critical players in the chemistry of life. In the role of substrates, cofactors, solvent, inhibitors or activators, they steer the activities of proteins and nucleic acids. For mechanistic studies, it would be desirable to single out a small ligand from a large macromolecular complex, even if their sizes lie several orders of magnitude apart, and follow its fate during chemical and structural transformations. Few experimental techniques would achieve this under native conditi",{"id":695,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":696,"piName":14,"institution":697,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":698,"abstract":699},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170227","Touch-induced brain network signatures for social processing and stress reduction","FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITÄT JENA","€1,994,571","As the digital nature of society increases, the frequency of human contact decreases. This seemingly inevitable relationship has potentially devastating consequences for the mental and emotional health of billions of people. Clear understanding and appropriate action are the only path to mitigating this looming crisis.Currently, the field of interpersonal touch research is a patchwork of theoretical frameworks and, worse still, lacks robust, ecologically valid experimental data. Objective One of",{"id":701,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":702,"piName":14,"institution":219,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":703,"abstract":704},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171038","Rewriting the End of Cuneiform Culture","€1,997,950","In the prevailing view, cuneiform script survived until the first century CE because it was the only way to write the most enduring Mesopotamian science, astronomy. This view, however, is skewed by the nature of the data: while astronomical texts are easy to date, the vast majority of non-astronomical tablets cannot be dated and are overlooked in histories of the period. Yet, the vitality of cuneiform in its terminal phase suggests that a wealth of late literary and scholarly tablets awaits the ",{"id":706,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":707,"piName":14,"institution":573,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":708,"abstract":709},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169866","Modularity and Reciprocity: a Robust Approach","€1,473,013","Many of the most important questions in number theory and arithmetic geometry can be approached through the theory of Galois representations. A powerful tool to understand such representations is the Langlands programme, which describes the conjectural relations between Galois representations and automorphic forms. Landmark results in this direction include the proof of the modularity conjecture for (the Galois representations associated to) elliptic curves over the field of rational numbers and",{"id":711,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":712,"piName":14,"institution":573,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":713,"abstract":714},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170844","Linking vector, virus and immunity to the evolving fitness of dengue virus","€2,169,106","Across pathogens, it remains unclear why some lineages persist while others die out. Population immunity pressure coupled with relative abilities to infect and disseminate in hosts are likely to play a critical role. There are key data and methodological gaps that prevent us from identifying and quantifying drivers of pathogen fitness. We need robust measures of fitness and be able to apply these measures to sequences from the same ecological disease system over many years. We also need to under",{"id":716,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":717,"piName":14,"institution":718,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":719,"abstract":720},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169813","Light as a signal for nonchemical cell-to-cell communication in synthetic and biological cell communities","UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER","€2,436,875","Engineering cell-to-cell communication is fundamental –yet highly challenging– for programming multicellular systems and interfacing living and biomimetic synthetic cells. The problem lies in developing specific communication that is independent of existing chemical signaling and in connecting it to cell behavior. Both the high complexity of intercellular signaling in living cells and the fairly limited capabilities of synthetic cells severely restrict possibilities to engineer communication in ",{"id":722,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":723,"piName":14,"institution":724,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":725,"abstract":726},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170033","Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project","NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH","€1,999,698","Deploying a complex methodological apparatus drawing on transnational history, this project breaks new ground by providing an original global history of fascism (1919-1945). INTEMPO argues that the fascist national revolutions were part of a global project of overhauling the liberal international order and replacing it with a fascist one. It does so by approaching transnational fascism through the lens of temporality, showing the centrality of a specific temporal structure to fascist ideology. F",{"id":728,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":729,"piName":14,"institution":147,"country":148,"year":13,"amount":730,"abstract":731},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170308","Higher Observational Type Theory","€1,897,375","Recent advancements have enabled proof asistants to formally verify world-class mathematics: the liquid tensor experiment, the four colour theorem and the odd order theorem were formalised. Computer checked arguments are important for mathematicians who want to be certain their reasoning is sound, and for computer scientists to prevent bugs in safety critical software. Examples are formally verified parts of Google's Chrome web browser and verified implementations of the C and ML programming lan",{"id":733,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":734,"piName":14,"institution":735,"country":736,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":737},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170679","DNA Encoded Omniphobicity","ERCIYES UNIVERSITESI","TR","Encoded surfaces have a rich set of applications that range from anti-counterfeiting to sensing. A desirable characteristic is the synergetic combination of molecular specificity with macroscopic changes that can be detected with simple infrastructure. Wetting is a macroscopic property, with transitions identifiable even with the naked eye. As the genetic information carrier, DNA is perfectly suited for molecular encoding. A grand challenge is generating macroscopically visible changes in wettin",{"id":739,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":740,"piName":14,"institution":686,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":741,"abstract":742},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101168203","Tailoring the plasticity of intermetallics - from understanding and predicting deformation mechanisms to new materials","€1,999,794","TAILORPLAST focuses on understanding and predicting plastic deformation mechanisms in intermetallic phases for advanced structural and functional materials. The traditional approach of manipulating microstructures in metal-based alloys has been immensely successful, but new materials and predictive materials design strategies are needed to enable new functionalities and sustainability in transportation, production, energy conversion and storage. TAILORPLAST seeks to address this challenge by ado",{"id":744,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":745,"piName":14,"institution":471,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":746,"abstract":747},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169786","Towards a Kid-Centric, Dynamic and Hybrid Theory of Consumer Socialization to Understand the Dynamics and Implications of the Kidfluencer Phenomenon.","€1,999,830","KIDFLUENCER will examine the dynamics of the kidfluencer phenomenon to understand its implications for children’s consumer socialization process. Kidfluencers are generation alpha children (born after 2010) that have highly popular profiles (+ 1.000 subscribers) on social media (e.g., Instagram or YouTube) on which they endorse fun and entertaining content, often containing (sponsored) brand endorsements. Past research merely focused on the negative impacts of kidfluencer activities, such as the",{"id":749,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":750,"piName":14,"institution":394,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":751,"abstract":752},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170459","Is there mechano in Mechanochemistry?","€1,999,605","At present, mechanochemistry is transferring an ever-growing number of chemical reactions from conventional wet-chemical procedures into the solid-state environment of ball mills. As an electrified and largely solvent-free synthesis concept, it addresses the call for greater sustainability in chemistry, while simultaneously unrevealing a widely unexplored academic frontier with often markedly different product selectivities.Applied in organic and inorganic chemistry, in the synthesis of polymers",{"id":754,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":755,"piName":14,"institution":289,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":756,"abstract":757},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171012","Engineering wide band-gap LOW-DImensional systems for advanced perovskite optoelectronics","€1,991,250","Engineering new solutions for powering smart portable devices is key to sustain billion-scale connected objects and to provide a greener alternative to batteries. Indoor Photovoltaics (PVs) - with a projected market of $850 million by 2023 - relying on conversion of visible indoor light- can sustain this challenge, capitalizing on the development of flexible, semi-transparent, colored and easily integrated energy generation devices.Despite the urgency and the large market potential, current PV t",{"id":759,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":760,"piName":14,"institution":761,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":762},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171587","Governing Health, Family and Religion: The Biopolitics of Genetic Counselling and Religious Family Formations","SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER","RELI-GENE is an interdisciplinary project which examines minorities’ attitudes towards genetic counselling and reproductive options in the case of inherited genetic recessive disorders and analyses how healthcare policies govern communities’ family formations. It focuses on close-knit religious minorities that emphasise consanguineous and endogamous marriages to strengthen communal bonds to provide a sense of solidarity and of safeguarding lineage and purity. Current scholarship focuses predomin",{"id":764,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":765,"piName":14,"institution":766,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":767,"abstract":768},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170859","Remote Work and Social Change: An Anthropological Approach","UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN","€1,999,999","Remote work has become normalised as an important aspect of people’s lives across different professions, social classes and geographic regions. In the knowledge economy, work is now less tied to specific physical locations and is re-spatialised in new hybrid ways. But what are the consequences of remote work and always-on-connectivity on people's everyday lives? How do these affect social institutions such as the home, family, household and friendship, and broader processes of social change? ReW",{"id":770,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":771,"piName":14,"institution":772,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":773,"abstract":774},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170037","The missing stellar physics component for atmospheric evaporation of exoplanets","LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR ASTROPHYSIK POTSDAM (AIP)","€2,034,375","The aim of this ambitious project is to use stellar physics to overcome a roadblock in our understanding of how exoplanets lose their primary hydrogen-helium atmospheres and make space for secondary, life-enabling ones. The best observing window for evaporating primary atmospheres are transit observations in the near-infrared metastable helium lines. However, correctly interpreting the observed absorption is extremely challenging. How much of the planetary helium is in the metastable state is co",{"id":776,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":777,"piName":14,"institution":778,"country":779,"year":13,"amount":780,"abstract":781},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101168587","Were They Modern Humans?  The Problem of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic in West Central Asia","UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI","PL","€2,556,730","The Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) is a term describing lithic assemblages dated roughly to 50–40 kya in the Near East, Central Europe and North-Eastern Asia, which show traits of the emergence of blade technology, traditionally associated with the expansion of modern human groups. Several sites with IUP traits have also been recently recognised in West Central Asia (Uzbekistan and Tajikistan), but astonishingly they date to a period between 77 and 43 kya (Obi-Rakhmat, Khudji, Katta Sai 2, Kho",{"id":783,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":784,"piName":14,"institution":785,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":786},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170065","Understanding Long-term Trends in Multi-pathogen Epidemiology in Africa using Multiplex Serological and Molecular Assays","INSTITUT PASTEUR","Enormous progress is being made in the fight against parasitic diseases such as malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, which is driving a long-term epidemiological shift in the burden of infectious diseases. Until recently, most febrile patients presenting to rural health facilities were presumptively treated for malaria. However, the decline in malaria cases coupled with the roll out of rapid diagnostic tests has revealed a substantial burden of non-malaria fevers. I hypothesise that the predominant di",{"id":788,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":789,"piName":14,"institution":416,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":790,"abstract":791},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170265","The evolution of morphosyntactic categorization: Formal typology, diachrony, and comparative reconstruction of the mental lexicon","€1,960,640","Linguistic categories serve as cognitive tools for humans to organize, understand, and navigate the complex world around them. Categorizers - elements that formally mark lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives - belong to the core building blocks of the mental lexicon. However, it is still unclear how and why new categories and categorizers arise and how their function changes over time. Bridging the gap between disciplines, the EVOCAT project aims to unravel this puzzle by uncov",{"id":793,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":794,"piName":14,"institution":416,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":795,"abstract":796},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170435","The Ottoman Core: A Spatial Exploration of the Emergence of Ottoman Governance Practices","€1,999,903","The OTTOMANCORE project seeks to redefine the understanding of how the Ottoman Empire was governed during its much-debated formative period (14th16th centuries). It challenges the prevalent statist narrative in historiography that envisages Ottoman rulership as a top-down, preordained construct and proposes a novel regional perspective to examine governance practices from a spatially aware and actor-centered viewpoint. Leveraging a robust analytical foundation that assimilates information from a",{"id":798,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":799,"piName":14,"institution":416,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":800,"abstract":801},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124629","Symbioses between plants and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria sustain coastal 'blue carbon' ecosystems","€1,999,496","Sea- and saltmarsh grasses thrive along most of Earths coastlines. They form the basis for some of the most ecologically and economically valuable ecosystems on the planet that are also major blue carbon sinks. One of the main challenges these marine flowering plants faced during their evolution back into the sea millions of years ago, and one that global change is currently intensifying, is toxic sulfide accumulation around their roots, produced by microorganisms. Like on land, marine plants as",{"id":803,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":804,"piName":14,"institution":805,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":806,"abstract":807},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101125034","The role of nuclear architectural RNAs in the long-term maintenance of the neural epigenome","FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG","€1,999,970","Neurons in the brain must function for a life-time with limited replacement; thus, they need to robustly maintain their identity and function. Understanding the mechanisms underlying the longevity and persistence of neurons will be key for preventing and treating age-related neurological diseases. By focusing on epigenetic mechanisms regulated by nuclear RNAs, the project aims at understanding the fundamental mechanisms underlying the long-term maintenance of neural identity and their biological",{"id":809,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":810,"piName":14,"institution":811,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":812,"abstract":813},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170717","Studying Threads Intricately Complex Hydrodynamics","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","€2,380,750","When knitting meets fluid dynamics. Knitting generates fabrics by meticulously guiding yarn into interlocking loops and stitches. Inspired by the legacy of this ancient craft, we propose to study the formation and deformation of complex entangled assemblies “stitched” by the liquid rope coiling instability. We will study the periodic stichlike patterns forming when a viscous thread falls and buckles onto a moving substrate, such as the coils created when honey is poured onto toast. Here, we focu",{"id":815,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":816,"piName":14,"institution":811,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":817,"abstract":818},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101168540","Educational Inequalities and Generative AI: A Focus on Language Diversity","€2,195,500","ChatEQUITY investigates the impact of generative AI (GenAI) on educational inequalities amid growing societal linguistic diversity. The central hypothesis is that although multilingual GenAI can overcome linguistic barriers, mere access to it is insufficient because competent use is essential. Moreover, since GenAI language models are trained on and steered by human language—which reflects social class, ethnic, and gender differences—GenAI might reproduce biases and educational disparities. Rese",{"id":820,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":821,"piName":14,"institution":128,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":822},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170729","The neural language of song: Brain mechanisms for sensorimotor syntax control","Our motor sequences obey syntax rules. From tying shoes to giving a speech, choosing the next action requires our brain to remember past actions, bridge across many seconds, and apply rules that create hierarchical syntax. Whereas past studies revealed how primary motor cortex drives actions, we poorly understand the transition mechanisms by which the brain strings actions into hierarchical variable sequences. The key obstacle is identifying deep hierarchical syntax rules in behavior and in neur",{"id":824,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":825,"piName":14,"institution":826,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":827,"abstract":828},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170541","Dynamics underlying learning in complex environments","ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE","€1,925,875","Learning and adaptation play a central role in interacting with a changing environment, yet the neural substrateunderlying such flexible, goal-directed behaviors has remained elusive. Neuroscience experiments have traditionally focused on how individual brain regions perform abstract, highly simplified tasks. However, recent technological advances, coupled with powerful AI-accelerated software, have rapidly enabled the monitoring of large populations of neurons over many days, across multiple br",{"id":830,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":831,"piName":14,"institution":832,"country":736,"year":13,"amount":833,"abstract":834},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171563","Advancing Mountable Endoscopic Cap for Precision Oesophageal Mucosal Resurfacing with Non-Thermal Ablation","IZMIR BIYOTIP VE GENOM MERKEZI","€1,596,250","Treatments that minimize adverse effects on deep tissues may be critical for successful therapy in a superficial pre-cancerous condition such as Barrett's oesophagus. Although endoscopic therapeutic interventions efficiently eradicate superficial abnormal tissues in the oesophagus, the main challenge with their current deployments is that the therapy depth typically has a more profound thermal injury than the target layer. The project's objective is to develop a novel endoscopic cap that provide",{"id":836,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":837,"piName":14,"institution":838,"country":839,"year":13,"amount":840,"abstract":841},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171985","Right to Housing: The Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945-1991)","INSTITUT ZA POVIJEST UMJETNOSTI INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY","HR","€2,370,438","Housing.Yu researches the production of spaces of everyday life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991), which still constitutes about 60–70% of the current housing stock of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. The project will employ a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and methodologically innovative approach to the government’s actions, urban planners, architects, contractors, and citizen-users. The project aims to understand the critical phenomena of mass housing in",{"id":843,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":844,"piName":14,"institution":845,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":846},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171415","Markov Chain Monte Carlo using couplings toward scalable statistical inference","ASSOCIATION GROUPE ESSEC","This project develops a statistical toolbox for the approximation of probability distributions that commonly arise in data analysis. The problem of approximating probabilities arise in many tasks of data science: in Bayesian statistics and its many variants, in classical hypothesis testing with p-values, in likelihood-based methods when the model involves latent variables, in models with intractable likelihoods, in the construction of knockoffs for principled variable selection, for example. Sta",{"id":848,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":849,"piName":14,"institution":320,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":850},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171304","Unlocking the Dynamics of Dopamine in Aging: Balancing Pre- and Post-Synaptic Mechanisms for Optimal Brain Function across the adult lifespan","Many older adults experience impairment of cognitive functions, such as memory. While changes to the aging brain are often assumed to underlie cognitive decline, but it has turned out surprisingly hard to identify coupled brain-cognitive changes in aging. This challenge is magnified when searching for potentially modifiable brain alterations that could serve as targets for various kinds of interventions. A promising candidate mechanism is age-related alterations in neurotransmitters like dopamin",{"id":852,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":853,"piName":14,"institution":449,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":854,"abstract":855},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169685","Enumerative and Arithmetic Geometry of Logarithmic curves","€1,999,598","The PI has recently developed new techniques to understand the structure of the double ramification cycle, a geometric object playing a central role in the degeneration of curves and jacobians. In this project we will use these tools and results to count algebraic curves in manifolds, and to count solutions in the rational numbers to polynomial equations. Our counts of curves will be algebraic Gromov-Witten invariants, which play a role in diverse areas including physics (where they are one of t",{"id":857,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":858,"piName":14,"institution":256,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":859,"abstract":860},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171412","The Effect of Large Language Models (LLM) on Engagement in Online Peer Production Communities","€1,853,125","This project explores the impact of generative AI technologies, specifically large language models (LLMs) on online peer production content communities, such as Wikipedia and GitHub. These communities depend heavily on the existence of a vibrant community and its members wiliness to contribute voluntarily and the introduction of LLM applications is expected to have transformative effect on the engagement dynamics within those production communities. The proposal is structured around three primar",{"id":862,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":863,"piName":14,"institution":864,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":865,"abstract":866},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170566","TabulaRasa. Clay, wax, and the impact of erasable writing technologies on manuscript cultures","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI L'ORIENTALE","€1,990,000","TabulaRasa takes the use of clay and wax tablets in the Ancient Near East, the Classical world, and Medieval to Early Modern Europe as the centerpiece of a comprehensive exploration of the role of rewritability in manuscript cultures. Across diverse societies, the recycling of written surfaces proves not only desirable but essential in contexts such as education, note-taking, literary creation, economy and administration. Its profound implications range from palaeographic developments to the acq",{"id":868,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":869,"piName":14,"institution":870,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":871,"abstract":872},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170187","Enacting Decommodified Housing in Southern Europe: crises, family relations, and the future of collective property","POLITECNICO DI TORINO","€1,959,768","Faced with increased housing inequalities worldwide, calls are emerging for housing models that are non-speculative and resident-led. ‘Decommodified’ housing - such as co-operative rental and limited equity ownership - is seen as a pathway for a more caring and just urban future, in contrast to global crises of housing security and affordability. Such housing models aim to transform economic, social, and political relations by transforming the role of housing in wealth inequalities, and by outli",{"id":874,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":875,"piName":14,"institution":471,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":257,"abstract":876},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124369","It takes a village: an interdisciplinary community neuroscience approach to characterize multigenerational interactions","While many of our daily interactions involve people of different ages, little is known about how the human brain supports naturalistic communication between generations. InterCom combines laboratory research with real-world experimentation, and intrapersonal analyses with interpersonal measures (e.g. ‘brain-to-brain synchrony’), to better understand multi-generational communication, both within and beyond family contexts. Do age-related differences in brain rhythms inhibit conversational flow? H",{"id":878,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":879,"piName":14,"institution":880,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":881,"abstract":882},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170567","Delineating Convergent and Divergent Cortico-Cerebellar pathways in motor Control","ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM","€2,625,000","The CODI-MAP aims to address a fundamental question: How do the cerebral cortex and cerebellum cooperate to generate and regulate movements? Despite their pivotal contribution to motor control, the complex nature of cortico-cerebellar interaction remains a mystery. Our recent work has demonstrated a significant interdependency between the cortical and cerebellar activities, however the precise architecture and computational strategy that cortico-cerebellar circuits employ to generate and maintai",{"id":884,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":885,"piName":14,"institution":886,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":887,"abstract":888},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170362","Computing with Light and Sound","GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER","€2,998,560","In contemporary times, intricate challenges, whether they pertain to climate dynamics or economic processes, necessitate the handling of big data and sophisticated intelligent systems. At the core of these systems are digital neural networks that can undergo training. Neural networks based on photonic connections can be an adequate alternative, as they come with a broad bandwidth, high processing speed, and integrability with existing electronic chips. However, so far optical neural networks are",{"id":890,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":891,"piName":14,"institution":892,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":893,"abstract":894},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170284","Using short radio flashes to probe the remnants of neutron star mergers","UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM","€2,991,325","Neutron stars are the densest objects in the Universe, but an ongoing mystery is how massive can they get? By examining what happens when two neutron stars merge, we can help unravel this mystery. Some mergers will leave behind a black hole, while others instead make an even more massive neutron star. This massive neutron star will be spinning exceptionally fast and have a huge magnetic field (known as a magnetar). How long this magnetar lives completely depends on its mass, its spin energy and ",{"id":896,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":897,"piName":14,"institution":898,"country":35,"year":13,"amount":899,"abstract":900},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171143","Connecting prey attacks and cell cycle switches in predatory bacteria","UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN","€1,999,174","Bacterial predators offer a unique avenue to identify novel molecular weapons that could be harnessed against antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Obligate predatory bacteria thrive by consuming other bacteria, either vampirizing prey from inside (endobiotic predation) or from the surface (epibiotic predation). However, critical aspects of predatory attacks and predator proliferation remain enigmatic. The VAMPIRE project aims to fill this gap by elucidating the molecular devices used for prey attack ",{"id":902,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":903,"piName":14,"institution":904,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":905,"abstract":906},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170410","Resolving troubling discord in Boreal versus Austral late Holocene temperature history","GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET","€2,094,176","According to temperature reconstructions based on natural climate proxy archives (ice cores, lake sediments, tree rings etc.), Northern and Southern Hemisphere (NH, SH) temperature histories differ in important features over the past millennia. This stands in contrast to the broad hemispheric agreement found in corresponding climate model simulations.I hypothesize that a new tree-ring proxy, based on quantitative wood anatomy, can be used to improve temperature reconstructions in both hemisphere",{"id":908,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":909,"piName":14,"institution":904,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":910,"abstract":911},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171508","The molecular foundation of cervical mucus plug protection from intrauterine infection during pregnancy","€1,999,461","During pregnancy, the cervix undergoes dramatic remodelling characterised by the emergence of mucus secreting goblet cells (GCs) that generate a cervical mucus plug (CMP) in the cervical canal. The CMP is thought to act as a barrier that is crucial for maintaining uterine sterility, thereby protecting the foetus from ascending bacterial infections. However, this view is based on relatively little experimental evidence and our knowledge of specific endogenous or exogenous factors that may regulat",{"id":913,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":914,"piName":14,"institution":915,"country":97,"year":13,"amount":916,"abstract":917},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169850","Quantum-Native Communication Networks: from Quantum Message to Quantum Functioning","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II","€1,999,531","The Quantum Internet (QI) – a global network interconnecting remote quantum devices – is envisioned as the final stage of the quantum revolution, unlocking unprecedent communication functionalities. However, the key engineering challenge yet to be solved is the design of a protocol suite for the QI that can fully leverage the marvels of quantum mechanics. Current state-of-the-art proposals for the QI protocol suite adopt a layering model, mimicking TCP\u002FIP standard-de-facto protocol stack of clas",{"id":919,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":920,"piName":14,"institution":892,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":921,"abstract":922},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171968","Towards globally accessible language technology and its alignment to cultural contexts","€1,998,926","My research project focuses on natural language processing (NLP), an area of artificial intelligence concerned with automatic interpretation and generation of human language. NLP is well-known for its widely-used applications, such as machine translation (MT), text mining, question answering or dialogue systems. Much of this technology is now powered by large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, which take a natural language instruction or question as input, and generate a fluent response. D",{"id":924,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":925,"piName":14,"institution":926,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":227,"abstract":927},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170366","In-Vivo Software Security Analysis at Scale","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV","Project AT_SCALE will develop the most scalable and reliable techniques for the automatic discovery, diagnosis, and repair of security flaws in software systems to-date. AT_SCALE will make fundamental breakthroughs in empirical methods for reasoning about software systems as they are running in production.Existing scalable techniques for automatic vulnerability discovery and detection provide unreliable results, which limits their utility and threatens the security of our digital world. Static a",{"id":929,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":930,"piName":14,"institution":926,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":931,"abstract":932},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169924","Revealing Accreting Planets Through Observations and Refined simulations","€2,131,233","Recent multi-wavelength observations disclosed a groundbreaking discovery—an accreting giant planet surrounded by a circumplanetary disk within the gap of the young circumstellar disk PDS 70. We now witnessplanet formation, one of the forefront themes in modern astrophysics, in action. With over 5,000 detected planetary systems, we have learned that nearly every star in our galaxy hosts at least one planet. The crucial insightinto how these planets form lies in the conjunction of theoretical stu",{"id":934,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":935,"piName":14,"institution":926,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":936,"abstract":937},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170168","Engineering pollen-independent seed and fruit production in crops","€1,997,188","Seed development in most flowering plants is coupled to fertilization, which leads to the formation of two structures: the embryo, which forms the next generation; and the nourishing endosperm. Some plant species, however, can produce seeds without fertilization. This phenomenon is called apomixis and, although relatively infrequent, it occurs in several plant families. This type of asexual reproduction via seeds is highly desirable in agriculture: first, it would allow the fixation of hybrid vi",{"id":939,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":940,"piName":14,"institution":926,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":941},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169761","Steering the Quantum Dynamics of Confined Molecular Materials","Molecular materials are often present in forefront technologies targeting new sustainable energy alternatives. However, most of these alternatives currently fall short of the needs of industry and society. QUADYMM will investigate new fundamental mechanisms that could lead to paradigmatic changes in the design of such technologies. We will explore two main thematic avenues, from a theoretical perspective: 1) tuning the atomic and electronic properties of molecular materials in confined structure",{"id":943,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":944,"piName":14,"institution":945,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":946,"abstract":947},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170110","Egressibility: a paradigm shift in evacuation research","LUNDS UNIVERSITET","€1,999,499","The Egressibility project aims at a paradigm shift in the field of building evacuation research by addressing the critical need for inclusive emergency evacuation. While accessibility and universal design have contributed to significant developments in creating inclusive built environments, this research will transform current evacuation design into universally accessible evacuation design, particularly focusing on vulnerable groups such as older populations and people with disabilities. This pr",{"id":949,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":950,"piName":14,"institution":951,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":952,"abstract":953},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170381","Twisting light and spin by chiral perovskites","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN","€1,999,100","Chirality, a fundamental property in chemistry and physics, plays a pivotal role in determining drug efficacy, advancing biomolecular analysis, and guiding the development of chiral optoelectronic devices. This concept becomes even more intriguing when integrated with halide perovskites, which are renowned for their exceptional optoelectronic properties. This integration gives rise to emergent phenomena such as chiral optical activity and chiral induced spin selectivity. These phenomena provide ",{"id":955,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":956,"piName":14,"institution":951,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":957},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170309","Force-Responsive Heterogeneous Catalysts","Efficient catalytic materials are essential for the sustainable energy transition. To design such materials, we have a lot to learn from Nature, where bio-catalysts enzymes can perform many reactions that are virtually impossible for chemists to replicate. Enzymes operate by dynamically confining reactants and transition states, during the catalytic reaction, with high geometric and chemical precision. While we can mimic static confinement with existing nanoporous catalysts, we do not have in-si",{"id":959,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":960,"piName":14,"institution":961,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":962,"abstract":963},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170133","Towards a Dynamic Algorithms Centric Theory of Linear Programming","UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK","€1,994,106","This proposal explores the interplay between two key concepts in theoretical computer science.(I) Linear programs (LPs) have historically played a pivotal role in the development of the field of algorithm design. The simple abstraction of an LP, which optimizes a linear function subject to a set of linear constraints, is powerful enough to encode a wide variety of  combinatorial optimization problems. Accordingly, LP-based techniques are so ubiquitous today that any textbook on algorithms would ",{"id":965,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":966,"piName":14,"institution":967,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":968,"abstract":969},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169739","Palaeoenvironments of Human Behavioural Evolution in Africa","NORCE RESEARCH AS","€2,171,640","The emergence of Homo sapiens' behavioural complexity represents a fundamental milestone in the evolution of humankind. Still, the causes of this critical transformation remain debated. For the African Middle Stone Age (MSA, ~300 000–40 000 years) a key question is whether and how climate variability contributed to the increasing behavioural complexity in modern humans. However, behavioural-environmental hypotheses remain untestable because the existing palaeoclimatic datasets are spatially, str",{"id":971,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":972,"piName":14,"institution":973,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":974,"abstract":975},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171803","mega-thRust Earthquake SystEm Theory","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","€2,492,625","Plate tectonics and mantle convection drive motions and slip buildup along plate boundaries. The locations where slip will be released during earthquakes are inferred from satellite observations. However, inversions ignore plate tectonic and mantle mechanics and much of the available data. Recent vertical velocities suggest megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones could rupture twice closer or farther from the coast. That could make the difference between shock and world-class disaster for one",{"id":977,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":978,"piName":14,"institution":973,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":979,"abstract":980},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171583","Interface-mediated fast ionic conductivity in nanocomposite solid-state electrolytes","€2,145,000","Ion conduction in solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) is the bedrock of several electrochemical devices like batteries and fuel cells which are vital to our modern society. High conductivity is crucial for such applications, and increasing the intrinsically low conductivity of SSEs has been of enormous technological interest. The discovery that the conductivity of SSEs can increase or decrease by orders of magnitude at their interface with a non-conductor (e.g., oxides) has led to much interest in t",{"id":982,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":983,"piName":14,"institution":984,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":985,"abstract":986},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171289","Dynamic Megabar Chemistry","UNIVERSITAET ROSTOCK","€1,998,106","Pressures above 1 Mbar, equivalent to energy densities stored in chemical bonds, are predicted to severely reshape the periodic table of the elements as we know it. Such extreme conditions can radically alter the electronic structure and chemical properties of materials, especially when heating these to temperatures of several thousand kelvins, which suggests new approaches for the synthesis of so-far unknown material structures and compounds. However, due to a lack of predictive modelling and e",{"id":988,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":989,"piName":14,"institution":990,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":991},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171880","Is International Refugee Law Effective?","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN","Is International Refugee Law effective?  This is the central question of RefLex, a project that will offer the first comprehensive empirical study of the workings and effectiveness of International Refugee Law (IRL), a body of law partly imbricated with International Human Rights Law (IHRL), domesticated and judicialized to an extraordinary degree across the globe.  There are many theoretically and empirically rich studies of effectiveness of International Human Rights Law (IHRL), as well as man",{"id":993,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":994,"piName":14,"institution":990,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":995},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169707","New Histories of British Moral Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (c. 1690–1800)","Women continue to be excluded and marginalized in histories of eighteenth-century British moral philosophy. BMoral addresses this by advancing a novel transdisciplinary methodology that brings together philosophical methods of close reading and interpretation with recent computational methods used by digital humanities researchers. Research on women philosophers has often focused on individual figures. BMoral’s new approach moves beyond the study of individual women philosophers and analyses int",{"id":997,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":998,"piName":14,"institution":990,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":999},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170232","Sustainable and Collaborative Research Information for Bibliodiverse Ecosystems: A Transnational Study","This project aims to understand the conceptualisation of ‘open’ in the open access movement and the development of open research infrastructure from a transnational perspective by identifying boundaries and constraints that hinder the growth of bibliodiversity in three different geographical regions. Its objectives are to shed light on an overlooked research area in knowledge production: the relationship between standards, geopolitics and transnational knowledge flows by examining the antithesis",{"id":1001,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1002,"piName":14,"institution":1003,"country":1004,"year":13,"amount":1005,"abstract":1006},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170678","Peptide-drug conjugates for weight loss maintenance","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","DK","€1,999,610","The worldwide rise in obesity rates is causing significant harm to human health. While effective weight loss therapies are emerging, the challenge of maintaining weight loss remains unresolved. With this project, we will leverage expertise in drug development to engineer novel peptide-drug conjugates designed to obstruct homeostatic weight regain in a cell specific fashion. In the food deprived state, a subset of hunger promoting neurons undergo structural changes that increases excitability and",{"id":1008,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1009,"piName":14,"institution":990,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":1010},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171839","Rethinking Law's framing of the Parent\u002FChild Link","Legal parenthood (i.e. the package of legal recognition, rights and obligation that typically attaches to the parent-child nexus) has undergone incremental change in response to scientific developments in assisted reproductive technology (ART) and human rights challenges but has fragmented due to its inadequacy to reflect the complexity of modern family life. The legal rules establishing the parent-child link now encompass different and conflicting regulatory functions at the same time – establi",{"id":1012,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1013,"piName":14,"institution":1014,"country":371,"year":13,"amount":1015,"abstract":1016},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171163","Unified theory of sexual selection","JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO","€1,848,004","Sexual selection and sexual strategies include some of the most fascinating and widely-studied phenomena in evolutionary biology. Yet they are also among the most debated and disputed topics. Our ability to understand causal relationships and to fully engage with disagreements and controversies is limited by the disjointed nature of theory, which does not typically engage with the gamete level where central concepts are defined. CAUSEX will seek a common causal and mathematical structure that ap",{"id":1018,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1019,"piName":14,"institution":973,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":1020,"abstract":1021},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171685","Combinatorially and Algebraically Decomposing Search spaces: Better Worst-case Bounds for Hard Search Tasks","€1,877,500","Search tasks are computational tasks with a curious property: while their solutions are easily verifiable when given, finding those solutions from scratch appears much more arduous. A central algorithmic paradigm to solve such tasks is that of search space decomposition. This paradigm solves a search task by breaking it up in subtasks such that a solution to the original problem can be quickly recovered from solutions of the subtasks. Despite its basic nature and its ubiquitous use, it still hol",{"id":1023,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1024,"piName":14,"institution":973,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":1025,"abstract":1026},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170816","Geo-analytical transformations for answering questions with data","€1,999,500","Geographic information systems (GIS) and corresponding data sources are of major importance for answering the questions posed by data scientists from various domains of application. The recent trend of adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based methods in Geography and Geoscience has spurred hopes that geographic information can be successfully reused across disciplines without requiring the technical skills of GIS. In this context, geographic question-answering (GeoQA) methods are particularly",{"id":1028,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1029,"piName":14,"institution":1030,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":1031,"abstract":1032},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171002","Biocompatible Polymer Virucides for a One Health World","THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM","€2,458,551","We are in a constant and ever evolving battle with viruses. Our only defence are vaccines or antivirals. Both are typically developed in response to viral outbreaks meaning that any defence we mount is reactive and not proactive. Despite the clear need for improved interventions against viruses, there is a lack of innovation, novel materials, targeted approaches and systematic studies. Building on my experience in extracellular antivirals, I have recently identified a series of star polymer mate",{"id":1034,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1035,"piName":14,"institution":1036,"country":1037,"year":13,"amount":1038,"abstract":1039},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171158","The rise and fall of Maltese terraced landscapes","UNIVERSITA TA MALTA","MT","€1,999,711","Human-modified landscapes modulate the effects of climate change on human societies. For example, concrete surfaces increase flood risks and dense cities exacerbate the effects of warming. However, urbanisation is not the only major form of landscape modification. Agricultural terraces represent one of the largest-scale human modifications of the planet, and have many positive effects for cultivation, soil retention, carbon and water storage, and biodiversity. Despite their profound importance f",{"id":1041,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1042,"piName":14,"institution":1003,"country":1004,"year":13,"amount":432,"abstract":1043},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170559","Encoded Knowledge: Epistemology of  Computer Technology in Modern Economics","Modern economics has become an influential scientific discipline, but its ability to explain, predict, and provide solutions to socioeconomic problems has been questioned. The criticism of and debates about economics, including the philosophical discussions, ignore the role that computer technology has played in economic research. ENCODED argues for putting the focus on digital data and algorithms at the centre of the philosophical analyses of economics to achieve substantial breakthroughs in un",{"id":1045,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1046,"piName":14,"institution":1003,"country":1004,"year":13,"amount":1047,"abstract":1048},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101125480","Quantifying AI-infused Science","€1,999,591","The recent The recent public release of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can master natural language has sparked a debate about the capabilities of AI and whether it can produce scientific content. Despite the ongoing debate, AI-generated written content has already entered the world of science: Papers co-written by AI are published, companies release models to assist scientists with producing scientific content, and a large fraction of scientists use AI-based tools to augment their writing. We",{"id":1050,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1051,"piName":14,"institution":116,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":1052,"abstract":1053},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101125392","Families and inequality in a flexible world of work","€1,994,648","Families often lead time-intensive lives, having to balance the demands arising from the workplace and the family. With the recent shift towards flexible working – enabling employees to decide (partly) where and when to work – the spatial and temporal segregation of employment and family has been substantially reconfigured. Greater flexibility is one of the most important labour market transformations of our time.FLIN creates new knowledge on how contemporary families combine employment and fami",{"id":1055,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1056,"piName":14,"institution":1057,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":1058},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170830","Gas-Phase Sono-Photonics","DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY","Over the past decades, modern photonics has evolved from a niche activity to a field of utmost scientific and economic importance. Strikingly, photonic devices ranging from lenses and fibres to complex machines such as lasers and microscopes rely almost exclusively on tailored interactions of light with solid matter. This fundamental principle imposes constraints, limiting e.g. the wavelength range of photonic devices due to absorption and the optical power due to damage.In a ground-breaking eff",{"id":1060,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1061,"piName":14,"institution":103,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":1062,"abstract":1063},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101126239","Developing GRAFTing to enABLE hybridisation of new species for agriculture and forestry","€1,999,880","Modern agriculture depends on developing new crops and techniques to enhance yields, disease resistance and tolerance to drought and extreme temperatures. One such innovation has been the development of plant grafting whereby two plants are cut and joined together to combine their best properties. At the graft junction, cells from the different plants expand, divide and in some instances exchange genetic material including DNA. This exchange of DNA forms hybrid cells between the two plants. Our ",{"id":1065,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1066,"piName":14,"institution":579,"country":129,"year":13,"amount":1067,"abstract":1068},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124770","Majorana zero mode control and detection platform","€1,997,500","The non-abelian state of matter has not been experimentally confirmed and remains an important field of research. Its detection and manipulation are critical in order to develop a coherent quantum computer in the future. The overarching goal of this proposal is to build a working topological qbit based on the braiding of Majorana zero modes (MZMs). But there are two main challenges. The first is to create a 2D environment where such states can be adiabatically spatially exchanged, while the seco",{"id":1070,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1071,"piName":14,"institution":250,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":1072,"abstract":1073},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170068","Visualizing trans-splicing molecular machines across scales","€1,999,451","Trans-splicing is an essential mRNA processing step for a significant portion of living organisms. In trans-splicing, exons from two pre-mRNA precursors merge into a single mRNA, while cis-splicing rearranges exons within the mRNA. Despite recent technical advancements in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) that movie-like resolved different stages of cis-splicing, the trans-splicing mechanism is still a black box: input and output are defined, but the single steps of how the trans-spliceosome as",{"id":1075,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1076,"piName":14,"institution":1077,"country":371,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":1078},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101169653","Why evening-types accumulate health issues and die younger than others?","HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO","Individuals differ in daily timing of sleepwake behavior, alertness, body temperature, cardiovascular functions and hormonal secretion, having innately different circadian types from morningness to eveningness. Evening-types show poorer health already since childhood with increasing severity of health issues at adulthood with major impact on performance\u002Fwellbeing and health care burden. However, it is largely unknown WHY health issues accumulate to evening-types. It is likely that underlying fac",{"id":1080,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1081,"piName":14,"institution":1082,"country":180,"year":13,"amount":1083,"abstract":1084},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171793","3-in-1 Self-Powered Hybrid Energy-Driven Wearable Technologies: Unifying Energy Harvesting and Storage","REQUIMTE REDE DE QUIMICA E DE TECNOLOGIA ASSOCIACAO","€1,992,329","In the landscape of wearable electronics, there is a demand for self-powered systems to address the challenges posed by discontinuous and limited power supply. Low-grade heat and moisture are two ubiquitous clean energy sources with great potential for electrical energy production. 2-in-1 technologies combining thermal or moisture-induced energy harvesting (EH) with electrochemical energy storage (ES) are attractive self-charging solutions for wearables. However, their performance remains incons",{"id":1086,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1087,"piName":14,"institution":1088,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":1089,"abstract":1090},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171921","Relational Harm: Targeting the Family in War and Oppression","KING'S COLLEGE LONDON","€1,990,933","This project will examine the novel concept of ‘relational harm’ (defined in the project as harm that individuals and communities experience through the targeting and control of their intimate relationships). The project will focus on ‘forced separation’ as a specific and topical manifestation of relational harm. While existing research has examined the specific vulnerability of children on their own and the long-term impact of familial separation on minors, little has been written about the exp",{"id":1092,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1093,"piName":14,"institution":1088,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":1094,"abstract":1095},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170121","Actually Existing Development: Twentieth Century International Development and the Global South","€1,970,046","International development—the cross-border transfer of funds and expertise for developmental purposes—formed a core plank of the twentieth century international system. But we still know very little about the grassroots dynamics of international development in the twentieth century. DEVHIST will be the first project to systematically examine the encounters between individuals, groups and worldviews that both attended and often reshaped international development at points of implementation across",{"id":1097,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1098,"piName":14,"institution":1088,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":1099,"abstract":1100},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171301","Regaining the liveability of place: emancipatory futures under climate risk","€1,997,558","This research investigates how individual transformations in response to a changing climate alter perceptions of habitability in at risk places. By evaluating how individuals react to and understand these changes, this work provides concrete entry points for engaging climate-affected and low-income populations in climate change action. Further, by engaging with the idea of transformation, the project rejects narratives that accept the current socio-economic conditions as necessarily extending in",{"id":1102,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1103,"piName":14,"institution":1104,"country":48,"year":13,"amount":725,"abstract":1105},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170507","A detailed reconstruction of the early Milky Way from its most metal-poor stars","RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN","The Gaia mission is providing many details on the dynamical complexity of our Galaxy, now and in the past. However, the picture of the Milky Way history becomes very incomplete at early times. The scarcity of well-studied early generations stars throughout different environments, represented by the lowest metallicity stars, limits us severely to study the era of First Stars and early Galaxy assembly. Next generation massively multiplexed instruments will soon complement Gaia astrometry to its fa",{"id":1107,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1108,"piName":14,"institution":1109,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":1110},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170898","Food web control of the global topsoil carbon cycling","SENCKENBERG GESELLSCHAFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG","Soil food webs process 90% of the terrestrial primary production and regulate the second largest carbon pool on Earth – soil organic matter. Soil food webs themselves are regulated by soil animals through changes in microbial functioning, detritus quality, and physical soil structure. However, neither drivers of soil food web structure and functions nor their effects on global biogeochemistry and carbon stabilisation are quantified across large environmental gradients. CARBONWEB addresses this c",{"id":1112,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1113,"piName":14,"institution":1114,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":1115,"abstract":1116},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101171428","Intergenerational Mobility, Inequality, and Entrepreneurship along the Path of Development","STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET","€1,776,805","A society where individuals can pursue their dreams, striving to become whatever they desire, excels both in efficiency and equity. However, throughout history, following parents' occupations was the norm, changing social class an exception. The question remains: what caused the increase in social mobility? My research program aims to answer these questions with three interconnected projects. Project I tackles the main obstacle to studying mobility: the availability of long-run individual-level ",{"id":1118,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1119,"piName":14,"institution":1120,"country":233,"year":13,"amount":1121,"abstract":1122},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101170962","Energy Divides in Europe: Closing Gaps in Understanding for Transformative Alleviation of Energy Poverty","UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW","€1,998,869","Despite emphatic political rhetoric promising just energy transitions, the harsh reality of energy poverty in Europe remains a stark contradiction. Vulnerable communities are not only largely excluded and sometimes negatively impacted by the energy transition but are increasingly facing a reality where living without energy is their new norm due to worsening socioeconomic and infrastructural conditions, with significant societal impacts. These energy divides manifest in the use of alternative fu",{"id":1124,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1125,"piName":14,"institution":1126,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":1127,"abstract":1128},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101124778","Tools for Protecting Data and Function Privacy","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT","€1,999,640","Privacy is a fundamental right and ideally both users’ data and organizations’ intellectual property are protected. Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) can protect data and function privacy. A mature PET to protect data is Multi-Party Computation (MPC). Further PETs are Private Set Intersection (PSI) to compute functions on sets of elements, and Private Function Evaluation (PFE) to protect data and functions. 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