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In particular, it is focused on addressing Thompson's conjecture about conjugacy classes, a longstanding problem in group theory that has captivated researchers for over four decades. We bring together insights from diverse disciplines, weaving together concrete conjectures concerning character value bounds, the independence number of normal Cayley graphs, and most critically,",{"id":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":21,"abstract":22},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161364","Inference in High Dimensions: Light-speed Algorithms and Information Limits","INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA","AT","€1,662,400","Extracting information from data is the key challenge of our time, and in many applications (e.g., genome-wide association studies, data compression, and virtual assistants such as ChatGPT) both the data and the machine learning model used to extract information are increasingly high-dimensional. As traditional statistical theory is ill-equipped to face this explosion in the dimensionality of the problem, machine learning is now predominantly experimental. However, empirical approaches come with",{"id":24,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":25,"piName":10,"institution":26,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":28,"abstract":29},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165466","Semi-Centralized Platforms for Steering Online Multi-Learner Environments","UNIVERSITA COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI","IT","€1,316,544","In scenarios like online advertising markets and financial exchanges, autonomous, self-interested learning agents engage in strategic interactions via a shared platform. Platforms typically opt for a passive role, providing the shared infrastructure necessary for the operation of the multi-learner environment, while keeping learning procedures decentralized. Fully centralized systems can potentially yield superior outcomes by optimizing shared objectives like social welfare, but they are seldom ",{"id":31,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":32,"piName":10,"institution":33,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":34,"abstract":35},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162848","Wide-ranging Probabilistic Physics-guided Machine Learning Approach to Break Down the Limits of Current Fatigue Predictive Tools for Metals","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE","€1,499,954","It appears paradoxical how today's frontier & high-impact research seeks for designing new materials to delay structural failures – especially fatigue – while the same effort is not seen concerning the way materials can be efficiently and safely used in real structural applications. BREAKDOWN aims to transform engineering products’ design methods by identifying and including a set of (sub)micro-scale material inhomogeneities characteristics in a novel probabilistic framework. The time has come t",{"id":37,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":38,"piName":10,"institution":39,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":40,"abstract":41},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164614","A Theory of Neural Networks for Control","TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY","€1,493,750","As neural networks are delivering groundbreaking performance in various machine learning frameworks --- ranging from the basic framework of supervised learning to the powerful and challenging framework of control --- immense efforts focus on developing underlying mathematical theories.  Recent years witnessed breakthrough contributions to the theory of neural networks for supervised learning, by myself and others.  Yet, from a theoretical perspective, much is left to be elucidated about neural n",{"id":43,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":44,"piName":10,"institution":45,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":47},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163973","Flexible Lightweight AI-Aided Receivers","BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV","€1,500,000","Artificial intelligence (AI) is envisioned to play a key role in future wireless technologies, with deep neural networks (DNNs) enabling digital receivers to learn to operate in challenging communication scenarios. However, wireless receiver design poses unique challenges that fundamentally differ from those encountered in traditional deep learning domains. The main challenges arise from the dynamic nature of wireless communications, which causes continual changes to the data distribution, combi",{"id":49,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":50,"piName":10,"institution":51,"country":52,"year":13,"amount":53,"abstract":54},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164343","A breakthrough in the two-way coupling within a wave-current-atmosphere system","UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN","NO","€1,499,996","The Wave-Current-Atmosphere (WCA) system in the upper ocean is an air-sea interface that drives the physical, chemical, and biological processes crucial to our global climate and environment. Observations and simulations over the last two decades have revolutionized our picture of the roles of small-scale wave processes in the large-scale oceanic circulations controlled by the WCA system, offering a promising direction to correcting long-standing biases and errors in key indicators in climate mo",{"id":56,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":57,"piName":10,"institution":39,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":58,"abstract":59},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116585","When Humans and Algorithms Co-Supervise Workers: Algorithmic Management Under Conventional Employment","€1,467,455","In recent years, we have been witnessing a move to algorithmic management, in which supervisory tasks—instructing workers; appraising their performance; and determining their compensation—are being delegated to software applications. Current understanding of such effects is limited, however, as most research on algorithmic management focuses on gig-economy platforms in which traditional supervisory relationships are absent. The proposed research thus aims to explore: How does the introduction of",{"id":61,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":62,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":63,"abstract":64},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162665","Privacy-Preserving Large-Scale Computation: Foundations and Applications","€1,496,711","In In the era of exponential growth in available data, privacy and security have become paramount concerns for a wide range of domains, including healthcare, financial services, and many more. Classical tools developed in the cryptography community, e.g., the ability to perform computation on encrypted data without revealing the underlying information, could have the potential to address these challenges. However, most results do not fit modern large-scale distributed settings due to communicati",{"id":66,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":67,"piName":10,"institution":68,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":70,"abstract":71},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116560","Uncovering the coevolution between microbial predators and prey","EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY","DE","€2,269,196","Predation plays a key role in the planet’s ecology and evolution. The most prevalent and diverse predators on the planet are protozoans, single-cell eukaryotes that live from consuming bacterial prey. Protozoan predation massively impacts bacterial diversity, shapes microbial ecosystems, is essential for nutrient cycling and has been linked to the emergence of bacterial virulence. Yet, despite its importance, it remains largely elusive how protozoan predators and bacterial prey coevolve. To unde",{"id":73,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":74,"piName":10,"institution":75,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":77,"abstract":78},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116685","Back to the Future: Anticipatory synchronisation as a core mechanism for interarea brain communication","UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT","NL","€1,499,750","Our brain processes multitudes of signals based on recurrent network activity involving feedforward and feedback interarea communication. To funnel information efficiently between areas, low-frequency rhythmic neural activity patterns couple to each other. It is an unresolved question how early sensory cortex (SC) can couple efficiently to both feedforward sensory information flow and feedback information flow arriving from higher order regions such as prefrontal cortex (PFC). Since PFC and sens",{"id":80,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":81,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":82,"abstract":83},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115332","ab initio PRediction Of MaterIal SynthEsis","€1,496,991","ab initio simulation techniques have evolved to the point that we can reliably predict many properties of materials before they have been synthesized. This paradigmatic change has led to databases that contain millions of theoretically predicted materials with desirable attributes. However, all this information is of little use if we cannot predict if these novel materials can be made at all. I will develop a framework based on first-principles computer simulations to predict if and how a materi",{"id":85,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":86,"piName":10,"institution":87,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":88,"abstract":89},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164050","Deciphering Antigen-Specific Circuits Orchestrating Tolerance.","WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE","€2,175,000","Peripheral regulatory T cell (pTreg) responses are critical in inhibiting inflammation to external harmless antigens. Studying their regulation and function is crucial for developing treatments to conditions like allergies and inflammatory bowel disease. Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) play a pivotal role in governing tolerance: they induce pTreg, support their terminal differentiation and maintenance and are also modulated by pTreg cells in their antigen-specific tasks. However, unclear finding",{"id":91,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":92,"piName":10,"institution":93,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":94,"abstract":95},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164375","Succinct Cryptographic Proof Systems: Theory and Practice","BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY","€1,498,819","A proof system allows a power prover to convince a weak party (the verifier) of the validity of large computations. Proof systems are a powerful and versatile tool that is central to complexity theory and cryptography. Since their introduction, they have led to breakthroughs such as the celebrated PCP theorem, zero-knowledge proofs, hardness of approximation, and more. The rise of cloud computing, lockchain technologies, and distributed computing have created a vast demand for practical implemen",{"id":97,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":98,"piName":10,"institution":87,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":99},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163917","Realizing non-abelian anyons in van der Waals materials","Demonstrating non-abelian exchange statistics holds the promise of leading science to new terrains where we can manipulate exotic quasiparticles. Unlike fermions, bosons, and abelian anyons, the many-body wavefunction of indistinguishable non-abelian anyons is entirely altered when swapping their positions. With the theoretical groundwork for uncovering exotic exchange properties, pioneering experiments provided preliminary evidence of the lowest-order non-abelian anyons, indicating the topologi",{"id":101,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":102,"piName":10,"institution":103,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":105},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165900","High Dimensional Probability and Combinatorics","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","UK","This project concerns three related topics concerning high dimensional probability and combinatorics. The first part concerns fundamental questions concerning random matrices. These include the problem of finding sharp bounds on the singularity probabilities for discrete random  matrices; and determining the limiting spectral distributions of ``sparse'' matrix models. The second major goal of this project is to make progress on the hypergraph Ramsey numbers and the multi-colour Ramsey numbers. T",{"id":107,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":108,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":111,"abstract":112},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165414","Hydrogen Embrittlement mitigation through Layered diffusion patterns in Metals","UNIVERSIDAD DE BURGOS","ES","€1,499,375","Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) of metallic materials is one of the main challenges for the adoption of green H2 as a clean fuel. Degradation of pipelines and vessels is nowadays avoided by conservative design and material selection, but novel mitigation strategies for hydrogen embrittlement will foster cost-effective technologies.I envisage an Additive Manufacturing strategy to tune hydrogen diffusion as an effective and novel method to mitigate or even supress HE. The success of this framework req",{"id":114,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":115,"piName":10,"institution":116,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":77,"abstract":117},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162856","Discovering the developmental transition of cortical parenchyma cells into different cell fates","LEIBNIZ - INSTITUT FUER PFLANZENGENETIK UND KULTURPFLANZENFORSCHUNG","The root cortex is a primary ground tissue of the root organ and plays an important and adaptive role in plant growth and function. Root cortical parenchyma, thin-walled cells in the cortex, have great potential to change both in structure and function during plant development, even after cell differentiation. Root cortical cells can have many different post-differentiation fates that form different cortical tissues (e.g. aerenchyma, exodermis) in succession, or even simultaneously through the d",{"id":119,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":120,"piName":10,"institution":87,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":121,"abstract":122},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161909","Analytic Number Theory and Arithmetic Statistics over Function Fields","€1,499,543","An archetypal problem in multiplicative number theory is to determine the factorization statistics in a given set, such as the set of values of an integral polynomial, or of the function raising an integer to a non-integral power and taking the integral part, the set of integers n for which there exists an integer 0 \u003C a \u003C n\u002F10 such that n divides a^3-2, or the set of discriminants of cubic extensions of a number field. One is particularly interested in estimating the number of primes in such set",{"id":124,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":125,"piName":10,"institution":87,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":126,"abstract":127},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165541","Spin glasses and random polynomial systems: structure, algorithms and connections","€1,433,796","The project focuses on two areas in the study of random functions in high-dimensions: mathematical Spin Glass theory and random systems of polynomial equations. Research in these fields is currently conducted by two separate mathematical communities. The study of algorithms for solving random systems has so far mostly focused on the well-known 17th problem of Steve Smale posed in 1998, which originally concerns complex polynomials. Mean-field spin glass models, on the other hand, deal with real ",{"id":129,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":130,"piName":10,"institution":131,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":132},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161856","The Political Lives of Migrants: Perspectives from Africa","ARNOLD-BERGSTRAESSER INSTITUT FUR KULTURWISSENSCHAFTLICHE FORSCHUNG EV","Refugees and other migrants continue to arrive in new places all across the world. Their reception, long-term prospects and lives in their new homes remains one of the most pressing socio-political issues of our times. What about the migrant in all of this? How do they see their life, role and political agency? Migration research has thus far under-conceptualised and under-researched political migrant agency, especially from a Global South perspective and in interaction with states and non-state",{"id":134,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":135,"piName":10,"institution":136,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":137,"abstract":138},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116869","Structural studies of the human mitochondrial RNA life cycle","UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN GOETTINGEN - GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAET GOETTINGEN - STIFTUNG OEFFENTLICHEN RECHTS","€1,499,754","Mitochondria maintain an organellar genome that encodes for subunits of the respiratory chain. Its coordinated expression is essential for eukaryotic life, and defects in this process lead to severe disease in humans. Mitochondrial gene expression is carried out by unique dedicated molecular machineries, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain poorly characterized. During my previous work as a PhD student and Project Leader, I provided the structural basis of human mitochondrial transcrip",{"id":140,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":141,"piName":10,"institution":142,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":144,"abstract":145},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117449","Decolonizing International Biodiversity Law : Digital Sequence Information as a revealer","UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE","BE","€1,499,841","Access & benefit sharing (ABS) mechanisms - where access to genetic resources (generally in developing countries) is bargained against benefits used for conservation actions  were formed to mitigate deep inequalities between countries and biodiversity actors originating in the colonial history of plant genetic resources collection and use. However, these inequalities are currently under threat by technological innovation such as Digital Sequence Information (DSI), which alter the nature of bio-b",{"id":147,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":148,"piName":10,"institution":103,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":149},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162933","Lipid Diversity at the Onset of Life","The origin of cell membranes is a major unresolved issue in evolution. Evolutionary biology points to the existence of primitive cells with compositionally diverse membranes that could actively participate in genetic and metabolic processes. However, the assumption that such lipid diversity is dependent upon enzymatic chemistry has generated models comprising compositionally minimal membranes (binary or ternary mixtures of short-chain fatty or phosphatidic acids) that passively host genetic or m",{"id":151,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":152,"piName":10,"institution":75,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":153},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162658","New methodologies for automated modeling of the dynamic behavior of large biological networks","In silico models aim to capture and elucidate the complex and emergent interactions of biological systems, with the goal of expediting research and potential clinical translation. For example, ordinary differential equation (ODE) models of toxin and drug transport are being developed to bring safer therapies to chronic kidney disease patients. Despite recent progress, these cutting-edge ODEs only model transport in steady state and remain limited regarding the amount and complexity of dynamic tr",{"id":155,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":156,"piName":10,"institution":68,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":157},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117769","Resolving metabolic interactions between the gut microbiota and the host with multi-omics-based modelling","The gut microbiota is essential to human health: microorganisms in the human body help to digest nutrients, engage in host metabolism, immunity, behaviour and brain functions. Since the gut microbiota, in contrast to the human genome, can be modified through dietary and therapeutic interventions, modulating the microbiota is a promising path to improve human health and to prevent or treat diseases. However, predicting the effects of microbiota perturbations on the host metabolic phenotype remain",{"id":159,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":160,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":163},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160122","The genomic impact of ancient structural variants on species extinction","NATURHISTORISKA RIKSMUSEET","SE","In this proposal, I seek to quantify the impact of structural variants on species genome diversity and extinction by sequencing ancient genomes of extinct megafauna. Structural variants are large genomic rearrangements capable of significantly affecting gene function and fitness. While in previous work I have investigated the genomes of extinct species at the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) level, the accurate identification of structural variants has been hampered by molecular and computat",{"id":165,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":166,"piName":10,"institution":167,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":168,"abstract":169},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165927","Smart E-skins for Life-like Soft Robot Perception","THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH","€1,486,463","Nature, through millennia of evolution, has endowed living organisms with unmatched sensory adaptability. As robotics weave more deeply into the fabric of human society, a compelling challenge emerges: mimicking the sensory intelligence intrinsic to these life forms. The intricate synergy between the organism’s skin and brain, delivering unrivalled sensory insight and data interpretation, epitomises a domain in robotics still uncharted. Cultivating such perceptive sense in robots is crucial; it ",{"id":171,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":172,"piName":10,"institution":173,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":175,"abstract":176},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162014","Market Design and Participation:  Comprehensive Design for Matching Markets","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE","FR","€1,479,414","Market Design combines theoretical and empirical methods to design, analyze, and enhance real-world assignment markets. Many of these markets involve limited or no monetary transfers: civil servants (e.g., teachers), daycare placement for children, organ allocation for patients and so on. These markets often interact with external opportunities or themselves over time. For example, a patient in need of a kidney may have multiple treatment options, families must choose from various childcare alte",{"id":178,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":179,"piName":10,"institution":39,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":180,"abstract":181},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164200","Mechanisms of memory formation in cortical networks during learning of goal-directed behaviors","€2,110,000","A central hypothesis in neuroscience is that changes in connectivity patterns between neurons support learning and memory formation. Most methods for examining connectivity between individual neurons rely on ex vivo experiments (e.g., in brain slices). However, in vivo measurements are required to study how neurons causally influence each other's activity ('causal connectivity') in the living brain, and how these causal interactions change over time. Thus, while brain networks are among the most",{"id":183,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":184,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":185,"abstract":186},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165631","Unveiling the mysteries of stellar dynamics: a pioneering journey in magnetoasteroseismology","€1,499,309","While stellar evolution has been considered one of the most well-understood astrophysical processes for decades, a massive revolution is in motion thanks to probes of dynamical processes in stellar interiors with asteroseismology. Through this study of stellar oscillations, core rotation-rate measurements point out a very efficient extraction of angular momentum in the depths of stars. It represents one of the most fundamental, yet poorly understood, processes throughout stellar evolutionary jou",{"id":188,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":189,"piName":10,"institution":190,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":191},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115046","SecuStack: Securing the Leaky Hardware\u002FSoftware Boundary","STICHTING VU","Problem: Side-channel leaks via timing, cache, and speculation can expose sensitive information across traditional isolation barriers, putting our data at risk. Unfortunately, despite decades-long attempts to eliminate these leaks, new attacks are discovered by the day. Fundamentally, this is due to the following mismatch: Today's hardware is extremely complicated because of its myriad fast paths and performance optimizations, yet, we reason about it based on coarse, implicit, and inaccurate mod",{"id":193,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":194,"piName":10,"institution":195,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":196,"abstract":197},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116226","The Milky Way as key to understanding the inward transport of matter to the centre of galaxies","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL'INSUBRIA","€1,499,281","Gas accreting onto supermassive black holes that sit at the centres of galaxies fuels the most powerful engines in the universe, Active Galactic Nuclei, shaping the formation and evolution of their host galaxies. Yet, we have a poor understanding of how the gas is transported from typical galactic radii, R=several kpc, down to the area of influence of the black holes, less than a few pc. The centre of the Milky Way can be studied in much greater detail than any other galactic nucleus and is a Ro",{"id":199,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":200,"piName":10,"institution":39,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":201,"abstract":202},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116258","Foundations of Generalization","€1,419,375","Arguably, the most crucial objective of Learning Theory is to understand the basic notion of generalization: How can a learning agent infer from a finite amount of data to the whole population? Today's learning algorithms are poorly understood from that perspective. In particular, best practices, such as using highly overparameterized models to fit relatively few data, seem to be in almost contradiction to common wisdom, and classical models of learning seem to be incapable of explaining the imp",{"id":204,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":205,"piName":10,"institution":206,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":207,"abstract":208},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117043","Re-thinking Psychological Acculturation: From Explicit to Implicit Cultural Affiliations","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","€1,700,000","The topic of psychological acculturation  i.e., changes in psychological and behavioural patterns due to sustained contact with another culture  is both timely and relevant: 29 pct. of European citizens are ethnic minorities and integration is omnipresent in debates on inequality and societal tension. Yet, our scientific understanding of this process is still poor. The current approach to acculturation narrowly focuses on ethnic minorities explicit willingness to (not) be part of a culture, as r",{"id":210,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":211,"piName":10,"institution":212,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":213,"abstract":214},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117395","Naming the world: Semantic associations and form-meaning mappings in the mental lexicon across sign languages","UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG","€1,490,840","Words in sign languages are rich in visual meaning. They contain shapes, movements, relations in space, etc. that depict objects and actions as symbolic metaphors; e.g., the action of pulling words out of the head in one language means ‘to ponder’. Yet, signs are also encoded into units of form that are articulated in simultaneous constructions, unlike sequences of consonants and vowels in spoken words. How, then, do signers store richly symbolic words that occur in highly simultaneous forms in ",{"id":216,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":217,"piName":10,"institution":218,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":219,"abstract":220},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116206","MountBuzz: relating context-dependent bee-flower interactions to macroevolution","UNIVERSITAT WIEN","€1,498,634","Adaptive evolution of flowers to optimize pollen transfer by animal pollinators is considered a key driver of plant speciation and the success of flowering plants. Plant-pollinator interactions are embedded in complex abiotic (climatic) and biotic (other plants\u002Fpollinators) contexts, and the structure and function of interaction networks changes across such contexts. To date, however, we lack a broad-scale perspective on how these contexts affect which flower phenotypes are fit, and how flowers ",{"id":222,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":223,"piName":10,"institution":39,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":224},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116555","Wireless magnetothermal entero-modulation","Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders affect over 40% of the world population. Pharmacological agents that modulate cell function and subsequently impact processes involved in such disorders, suffer from limited spatiotemporal specificity and accompanying side effects. Despite the advances in the field of bioelectronic medicine which have enabled localized modulation of electrogenic cells, it still requires invasive hardware, impeding their use in soft and continuously moving organs. We recently showe",{"id":226,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":227,"piName":10,"institution":228,"country":229,"year":13,"amount":230,"abstract":231},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101114939","Ways of imagining in children's lives with information texts","UNIVERZITA KARLOVA","CZ","€1,499,865","What makes a piece of information personally engaging, and what does it even mean when it is experienced as such? Adopting a child-centred view on an emergent form of literate life, I will investigate what imaginative experiences fuel the current boom of children’s nonfiction picturebooks (CNPs). How do these books make children imagine, that is, shift their perception of the sensory world and oneself? What niche may they come to occupy in children’s day-to-day dealings with information?Contempo",{"id":233,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":234,"piName":10,"institution":235,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":236,"abstract":237},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117370","Trade Unions and Workers’ Health","UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES","€1,498,694","The core purpose of UHealth is to assess the relationship between trade unions and workers’ health taking a broad definition of what trade unions are and looking at several health indictors including physical and mental health and wellbeing. This innovative project will assess the specific dimensions the underlie such a relationship within three work packages (WP). WP1 will employ several longitudinal British Birth Cohorts to examine the extent to which trade union membership and trade union pre",{"id":239,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":240,"piName":10,"institution":241,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":242,"abstract":243},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115100","Redox flow batteries charging tomorrow’s world through the in-depth understanding and enhanced control over battery hydrodynamics","UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN","€1,498,614","Electrochemical energy storage is essential if we wish to increase the usage of intermittent energy sources such as windmills and solar panels. With intermittent energy sources it is crucial that energy can be stored to meet demand when production is too low. When targeting stationary storage with large capacity and long storage times, redox flow batteries stand out. However, in order to compete with other energy storage technologies several fundamental challenges remain to be resolved. Mass tra",{"id":245,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":246,"piName":10,"institution":87,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":247},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117689","Neural OmniVideo: Fusing World Knowledge into Smart Video-Specific Models","The field of computer vision has made unprecedented progress in applying Deep Learning (DL) to images. Nevertheless, expanding this progress to videos is dramatically lagging behind, due to two key challenges: (i) video data is highly complex and diverse, requiring order of magnitude more training data than images, and (ii) raw video data is extremely high dimensional. These challenges make the processing of entire video pixel-volumes at scale prohibitively expensive and ineffective. Thus, apply",{"id":249,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":250,"piName":10,"institution":190,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":251},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117530","Heat in the driver’s seat: unlocking the full potential of pulsed photothermal catalysis","The climate catastrophe urgently calls for greening and intensifying chemical reactors. Most chemical reactors use catalysts to speed up reactions, but their operation at steady-state temperature impairs rate, selectivity, and energy efficiency. To go beyond these limitations, applying short heat pulses theoretically leads to >100× higher reaction yield, lower energy use, and a controlled product distribution. However, pulsed heating has remained out of reach because it is hard to heat catalysts",{"id":253,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":254,"piName":10,"institution":255,"country":256,"year":13,"amount":257,"abstract":258},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117443","Planning for Sustainable Ocean Use in Antarctica Under Global Environmental Change","FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA","PT","€1,499,819","Planning of marine areas is being developed worldwide to support ocean sustainability. However, few existing marine spatial planning (MSP) initiatives consider climate change explicitly. This is a critical oversight in a rapidly changing world.At the same time, no formal MSP initiatives are envisioned for Antarctica; it is the only ocean basin globally without MSP under development. Antarctica is changing rapidly with potential repercussions around the planet, particularly for sea-level rise, cl",{"id":260,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":261,"piName":10,"institution":262,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":263,"abstract":264},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115657","Toward an epidemiology of gynaecological violence","UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD","€1,384,403","GYNVEPI will lay the foundations of an epidemiology of gynaecological violence (GV).  GV refers to sub-optimal experiences of care that can be perceived as abusive or dehumanising (e.g. non-consented medical acts, discrimination). Understood as a structural and gendered form of violence, it is a phenomenon that is yet to be fully defined and investigated: in contrast to the neighbouring field of obstetric violence, it has not been researched. Taking Germany as an exemplary setting, GYNVEPI aims ",{"id":266,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":267,"piName":10,"institution":87,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":268,"abstract":269},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117863","Visualizing microbial societies: exposing the principles of single-cell phenotypic heterogeneity via massively multiplexed imaging","€1,499,084","Bacteria are social organisms that interact and coordinate their behaviors to shape our world. Whereas their clonal populations are genetically identical, they contain phenotypically distinct members. This diversity provides resilience to unpredictable environmental changes, such as antibiotic exposure or nutrient depletion. It also facilitates cooperative interactions between different sub-population via specialization in costly activities such as virulence factor production, forming an extende",{"id":271,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":272,"piName":10,"institution":273,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":274,"abstract":275},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117399","Biosensing by Sequence-based Activity Inference","UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG","€1,499,453","The ability of cells to sense and respond to signals is an essential requirement of life. Genetically encoded biosensors meet this need by detecting, for example, chemicals and triggering gene expression in response. This concept is used across the life sciences to sense molecules in basic research, diagnostics and treatment. Crucially, biosensors can be used to isolate and engineer microbes that sustainably produce value-added chemicals and thus play a key role in the transition to a circular e",{"id":277,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":278,"piName":10,"institution":45,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":279,"abstract":280},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117478","Quantum Materials for Quantum Devices","€2,457,970","In the past decade the study of Quantum Materials for Quantum Devices (QuantuMDs) has been recognized as an important research goal in both academia and industry. QuantuMDs are predicted to be the building blocks of next-generation modern technology. The material group most suitable for use in QuantuMDs is the group of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), which exhibit exotic properties, such as superconductivity, charge order, Mott physics and topological states.My main goal is to develop n",{"id":282,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":283,"piName":10,"institution":284,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":285,"abstract":286},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117101","A molecular proxy for gender contrasts at the Neolithic to Bronze Age transition","UNIVERSITE DE TOULOUSE","€1,487,116","The project anthropYXX proposes an archaeogenomic exploration of the status and life of women and men during the key transitional period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age in occidental Europe, with the ambition to better understand the deep roots of gender contrasts in present-day societies. Inequalities today can be measured through economical markers, health or education levels. As these metrics are not directly accessible in prehistoric periods, alternative proxies have to be exploited",{"id":288,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":289,"piName":10,"institution":290,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":291,"abstract":292},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117173","A Social Demography of Widowhood across Ageing Societies","FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES","€1,463,840","Widowhood is a critical event entailing profound grief. Although the frequency of this high risk event is increasing across ageing societies, many countries have cut survival benefits exposing more bereaved spouses to dire short- and long-term consequences. Despite its growing relevance, widowhood research remains underdeveloped compared to other disruptive events, such as divorce. This ground-breaking research moves beyond the state-of-the-art in at least four ways to establish a social demogra",{"id":294,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":295,"piName":10,"institution":296,"country":297,"year":13,"amount":298,"abstract":299},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115709","Reinventing Power Electronic Architectures for a Fully-Integrated Power Converter-on-a-Chip","PANEPISTIMIO PATRON","EL","€1,965,063","As the world undergoes an unprecedented transformation towards de-carbonized energy generation and electrification of the transportation sector, there is an increasing need for efficient, compact and lightweight power electronics. However, miniaturization of contemporary energy conversion systems is hindered by the performance limitations of the power devices and the size and weight restrictions of the passive components. The ENRICH project proposes a fundamental reconsideration of the entire el",{"id":301,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":302,"piName":10,"institution":303,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":304,"abstract":305},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115822","Cut-and-paste conjectures and multicurves","RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM","€1,444,860","Knot theory has seen extraordinary developments over the past decades.  The arrival of modern homological knot invariants has had far-reaching implications beyond low-dimensional topology, giving insight into old problems through deep ties between knot theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory, Floer theory, and physics.My ERC project aims to establish a new perspective on knot homology theories using a new type of invariants, so-called multicurves.  As objects of Fukaya categories of si",{"id":307,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":308,"piName":10,"institution":309,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":310},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117138","quantum-enhanced shadows: scalable quantum-to-classical converters","UNIVERSITAT LINZ","Large-scale quantum experiments do not work in isolation. Substantial classical computing power is required to control the experiment and process the results. This necessarily creates information-transmission bottlenecks at the interface between quantum and classical realms. These bottlenecks create scalability issues that prevent us from using existing architectures to the best of their capabilities and may even impair our ability to further scale up system sizes.In this project, we adopt a uni",{"id":312,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":313,"piName":10,"institution":26,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":314,"abstract":315},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116095","Personalized and Subjective approaches to Natural Language Processing","€1,499,775","My project, PERSONAE, will make language technology (LT) accessible and valuable to everyone. I will revolutionize research in subjective tasks in NLP such as abusive language detection and sentiment and emotion analysis by developing a new field called personal NLP, yielding new datasets, tasks, and algorithms. This new research area will explore subjective tasks from the perspective of the individual as information receiver, making users active actors in the creation of LTs instead of mere rec",{"id":317,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":318,"piName":10,"institution":319,"country":320,"year":13,"amount":321,"abstract":322},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117251","Mapping the behavioural causes of weight change variability with genetic lottery","TARTU ULIKOOL","EE","€1,497,500","Obesity is a heritable chronic condition, costing 2% GDP worldwide. Many obesity treatments - behavioural, pharmacological, and surgical have been developed. Intriguingly, people’s responses to treatments vary widely - some may lose a lot of weight whereas others may even gain weight! To predict such weight change variability, close to 200 measures have been proposed in the past. The measures can be organised into a PEBBL framework across five domains – Psychosocial, Environment, Behavioural, Bi",{"id":324,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":325,"piName":10,"institution":326,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":327},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117429","Corpora in Greater Gandhāra: Tracing the Development of Buddhist Textuality and Gilgit\u002FBamiyan Manuscript Networks in the First Millennium of the Common Era","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","The foundation of the academic study of the development of Buddhism lies in the research of surviving textual material first composed in Indic languages over centuries before and into the first millennium. In the last several years, fantastic manuscript finds have surfaced opening new windows into the scholarly study of the development of Buddhist literature. I am one of the few scholars to have access to such material. This project represents a multifaceted, holistic approach to the study of an",{"id":329,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":330,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":331,"abstract":332},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101118064","Orbital Chern Insulators in van der Waals Moiré Systems","€1,831,500","Topological electronic phases manifest fascinating phenomena, including electronic transport via topologically-protected edge states, anomalous responses to external fields, and excitations with anyonic statistics. Harnessing these phenomena in electronic devices will lead to a technological breakthrough. The main obstacle to this has been the lack of topological systems that are simultaneously clean, versatile, robust, and highly tunable. We argue that the recent discovery of orbital Chern insu",{"id":334,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":335,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":336,"abstract":337},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117951","Controlling Electrodeposition Processes at the Nanoscale with Well-Ordered Nano-Structured Electrolytes","€1,722,500","Even though electrodeposition processes have been used since the nineteenth century, it is remarkably challenging to control their behaviour on the nanoscale. To the naked eye, deposited metal surface appears homogeneous, yet their morphology at the nanoscale is anything but smooth, with ramified metal structures (dendrites) forming on their surface. The utility of electrodeposition for advanced technologies such as NextGen high-energy metal batteries is proportional to our ability to control me",{"id":339,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":340,"piName":10,"institution":341,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":342,"abstract":343},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116766","Engineered symbionts elucidate gut T cell memory and its (dys)regulation","JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG","€1,600,683","A detailed understanding of intestinal T cell memory is crucial for novel treatments against inflammatory bowel disease but also for efficient vaccine design. Th cells induced by the gut microbiota are important for pathogen defence and tolerance, but it is unknown whether they form immunological memory characterised by long-term, antigen-independent maintenance. This has been due to the technical inability of disconnecting T cell induction from bacterial persistence in the gut. The GuT Memory p",{"id":345,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":346,"piName":10,"institution":347,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":321,"abstract":348},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115568","The Mathematical Analysis of Extremal Black Holes and Gravitational Radiation","UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG","The Einstein equations constitute a system of geometric, nonlinear partial differential equations that describe gravitational dynamics in the framework of Einstein's theory of general relativity. The last decade has seen tremendous progress towards understanding dynamical aspects of the Einstein equations.  At the mathematical level, great insight has been gained due to recent advances in the study of partial differential equations, differential geometry and microlocal analysis. The present prop",{"id":350,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":351,"piName":10,"institution":218,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":352},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115765","Molecular mechanisms, functions and applications of  RNA-guided DNA transposons","Genome engineering has transformed life science research and enabled revolutionary applications in biotechnology and medicine. Despite recent advances brought by the development of CRISPR-associated genome editing nucleases, a universal strategy for efficient site-specific gene editing and insertion in a range of organisms or cell types is currently unavailable. Transposons are natural genome remodelers and gene delivery vectors that modify and transfer genetic information across the tree of lif",{"id":354,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":355,"piName":10,"institution":356,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":357,"abstract":358},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116856","Robotic Fluids for artificial muscles, wearable cooling, and active textiles","POLITECNICO DI BARI","€1,498,750","Fluid circulation is ubiquitous in both living creatures and machines, and it serves multiple functions: temperature regulation, transport of nutrients, mechanical actuation. A beating heart is a soft pump that keeps animal alive through blood circulation.ROBOFLUID will merge fluids capabilities with electrical control to equip robots and wearables with the superpowers of fluids. By untangling the interaction between intense electric fields and fluid mechanics, ROBOFLUID will develop a new class",{"id":360,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":361,"piName":10,"institution":362,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":363,"abstract":364},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101118016","MAPPING EMERGING GENDER ARTIVISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ARAB PUBLIC SPACE","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI L'ORIENTALE","€1,478,750","MEGAMAPS aims to produce a transnational in-depth study on Artivism for gender equality in the Mediterranean Arab public space after the 2011 uprisings, by using an interdisciplinary novel methodology, where History and Social Movements Theory intersect Gender studies, Visual Arts and Digital Humanities. By focusing on 4 countries (Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia) the project aims to innovate the global academic knowledge on the Arab region by the writing of an unprecedented history from below",{"id":366,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":367,"piName":10,"institution":368,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":369,"abstract":370},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162753","Prognostic assessment of valvular aortic disease treatment coupling Immunological and biomechanical profiles","POLITECNICO DI MILANO","€1,498,295","Aortic valve diseases are degenerative conditions that develop progressively and insidiously. Once symptoms become evident, life expectancy is significantly reduced. While treatments for these pathologies are widely available, there remains a remarkably high rate of procedural complications. These complications have been shown to have a negative impact on cardiac mortality and the likelihood of rehospitalization for heart failure. This underscores the need for further technological advancements.",{"id":372,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":373,"piName":10,"institution":374,"country":375,"year":13,"amount":376,"abstract":377},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101114910","Deciphering the origins of cell differentiation and developmental gene regulation in animals","UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY","IE","€1,872,506","During animal development the process of cell differentiation gives rise to terminally differentiated cell types with cell-type-specific gene expression programs. In the most closely related group to animals, the choanoflagellates, cell differentiation occurs but cells do not commit irreversibly to specific fates. Instead, they transition through cell identities as they progress through their life cycle, known as temporal cell differentiation. Animal cell differentiation is thought to have evolv",{"id":379,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":380,"piName":10,"institution":381,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":382},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116545","The Ocean’S role in miTIgating climAte change: Mechanistic understanding of the legacy of anthropogenic heat and carbon in the ocean under net-negative carbon dioxide emissions","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL (GEOMAR)","The ocean has absorbed vast amounts of “anthropogenic” carbon and heat (Canth and Hanth, respectively), due to humans' carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the atmosphere and resultant atmospheric warming. We expect absorbed Canth and Hanth to leak back to the atmosphere under net-negative emissions and atmospheric cooling. Yet, such leakage and its impact on Earth’s climate evolution are poorly understood. Earth system models used for such research do not resolve the most energetic features of the",{"id":384,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":385,"piName":10,"institution":87,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":386,"abstract":387},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163696","Uncovering the molecular mechanisms of oligodendrocyte plasticity in cognitive aging.","€1,498,665","Myelin, an oligodendrocyte membrane spirally wrapped around axons, has only recently been appreciated to be a plastic structure, which constantly remodels in response to experience. Myelin plasticity is based on proliferation and maturation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) to form new myelinating oligodendrocytes (oligodendrogenesis), in conjunction with remodelling of myelin that is already established. The cellular and molecular mechanisms governing myelin plasticity and how it contri",{"id":389,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":390,"piName":10,"institution":391,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":392,"abstract":393},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115653","The Self After Interpersonal Loss","LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET","€1,491,741","Losing someone can feel like losing a part of oneself. Do we need others to be ourselves? What happens to the self when we lose a loved one? How can people be adequately supported in times of grief?SAIL combines, for the first time, phenomenological evaluation, computational modeling, neuroimaging, psychopharmacology, and behavioral experiments to characterize the grieving self and to develop a novel, mechanism-based intervention with the goal of supporting adaptative processing of the loss.In a",{"id":395,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":396,"piName":10,"institution":397,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":398,"abstract":399},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116135","Microwave Metadevices based on Electrically Tunable organic Ion-electron Conductors","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA","€2,216,250","MiMETIC will lay the foundation for a new generation of electrically reconfigurable microwave devices actively tuned by organic electrochemical transistors, a class of electronic devices that exploits the unique properties of organic mixed ion-electron conductors. The project will study the unexplored fundamental properties of these emerging materials in the microwave spectrum, as well as address the groundbreaking implications of this novel metadevice tuning strategy within the fields of tunabl",{"id":401,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":402,"piName":10,"institution":403,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":404,"abstract":405},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117175","T cell regulation by fed state bacterial metabolites","CEMM - FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN GMBH","€1,499,548","Intestinal microbial communities expand the functional capabilities of the host via their metabolic attributes. From energy harvest to the production of vitamins, the gut microbiota shapes mammalian physiology and is often considered a postnatally developed organ. Yet, the microbiome poses a formidable challenge to the immune system: How can we host trillions of bacteria without mounting an inflammatory response? Gut immune homeostasis relies on the balanced action of suppressive and inflammator",{"id":407,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":408,"piName":10,"institution":409,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":410,"abstract":411},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117469","Optimize risk prediction after myocardial infarction through artificial intelligence and multidimensional evaluation","FUNDACION PARA LA INVESTIGACION DE MALAGA EN BIOMEDICINA Y SALUD","€1,405,894","Myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of death worldwide. After MI, long-term antithrombotic therapy is crucial to prevent recurrent events, but increases bleeding, that also impacts morbidity and mortality. Giving these competing risks prediction tools to forecast ischemic and bleeding are of paramount importance to inform clinical decisions, but their current precision is limited. Improve events prediction, by discovering novel and innovative markers of risk would have a tremendous imp",{"id":413,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":414,"piName":10,"institution":26,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":415,"abstract":416},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116015","Digitalization of Public Service Delivery and Inclusive Development","€1,498,500","An estimated 5.7 million people die every year and another 100 million are pushed into extreme poverty due to limited access to essential public services in low-income countries (Lancet Health Commission, 2018). Governments across the globe have responded by adopting digital technologies — e.g., by making services available to citizens virtually — in the hopes of providing broader, faster, and cheaper access to public services. While high-income countries have made impressive strides in this reg",{"id":418,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":419,"piName":10,"institution":420,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":421,"abstract":422},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115973","Managing Performative Science","GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER","€1,499,520","Scientific models often do more than predict or explain. Especially in the social realm, they can also influence their targets  a capacity that is called performativity. By influencing policy making and individual behavior, models from economics, epidemiology, or machine learning increasingly perform the social world in significant ways. This development should be of utmost importance to philosophers, for two reasons:First, performativity can impair scientific prediction and explanation. If, for",{"id":424,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":425,"piName":10,"institution":426,"country":427,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":428},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115323","Reversible and irreversible cardiac electroporation: Establishing the fundamentals to advance cardiac treatments","UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI","SI","Cardiovascular diseases are the No. 1 healthcare challenge in the world, among which ischemic heart disease and atrial fibrillation are the most prevalent. Better treatment strategies are greatly needed to reduce the medical, economic, and social burden of these conditions.Electroporation (application of intense pulsed electric field) is showing tremendous potential for treatment of atrial fibrillation, enabling a safer and shorter treatment procedure compared with existing thermal ablation appr",{"id":430,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":431,"piName":10,"institution":432,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":433,"abstract":434},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115565","ICE³: Modelling the global multi-century evolution of glacier ICE in 3D","VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL","€1,496,941","Glaciers are key contributors to sea-level rise and are critical water resources that supply fresh water to hundreds of millions of people around the world. It is therefore of paramount importance to accurately simulate the future evolution of these precious ice bodies.Despite recent progress in modelling the global evolution of glaciers, existing simulations suffer from vast uncertainties related to (i) model input, (ii) a simplified representation of glacier processes, and (iii) an important m",{"id":436,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":437,"piName":10,"institution":438,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":439,"abstract":440},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117243","Mixed (ar)rivals:  Perceptions of threat, inequality, and the risk of violence between different (forced) migrant groups in North Africa","UNIVERSITAT FUR WEITERBILDUNG KREMS","€1,499,888","Host communities often perceive certain refugee or migrant groups as more ‘threatening’ (e.g. security or employment) than others. This can be seen from the recent arrivals of Ukrainian refugees in Europe, but also in many other regions of the world. In Morocco, for example, Sub-Saharan migrants are less favored than others. Unequal treatment by nationality, ethnicity, or time of arrival regarding status, access to employment or residence is often the consequence. Yet, little is known about what",{"id":442,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":443,"piName":10,"institution":45,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":444},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117338","de Sitter Space Holography and Quantum Information","New approaches to de Sitter (dS) space holography open a promising avenue for quantum gravity in dS space. Simultaneously, newly developed quantum information tools allow us to study those proposals and their properties. It is the objective of this project to study holography in dS space using quantum information tools.I would like to use quantum information to find an alternative description of dS space in terms of an exact quantum mechanical model. For this, I will explore different recent app",{"id":446,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":447,"piName":10,"institution":448,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":449,"abstract":450},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115856","Management at a distance","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","€1,487,141","Multinationals (MNCs) are key drivers of economic growth, accounting for 33% of global output (OECD 2018). However, within MNCs, the economic performance of foreign affiliates declines markedly with distance from headquarters (HQ). This pattern implies the existence of frictions that restrict how much economic growth foreign direct investment (FDI) can generate in host countries. Understanding the underlying mechanisms has important implications for the economic benefits of FDI and FDI policy. Y",{"id":452,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":453,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":454,"abstract":455},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117542","Task-relevant cognitive maps and their role in spatial decision-making","€1,499,721","One of the hallmarks of our cognition is the ability to decide by thinking several steps ahead using an internal cognitive map. In the wild, map-based decisions can enable animals to select a target location based on the amount of food available and the cost of reaching there. But how are such decisions made? For example, how does the brain evaluate a nearby location with a small amount of food versus a distal location with more food? What if the route to the distal location is steep? Such spati",{"id":457,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":458,"piName":10,"institution":459,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":460},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165402","Controlling Large Language Models","TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY","Large language models (LMs) are quickly becoming the backbone of many artificial intelligence (AI) systems, achieving state-of-the-art results in many tasks and application domains. Despite the rapid progress in the field, AI systems suffer from multiple flaws inherited from the underlying LMs: biased behavior, out-of-date information, confabulations, flawed reasoning, and more.If we wish to control these systems, we must first understand how they work, and develop mechanisms to intervene, updat",{"id":462,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":463,"piName":10,"institution":464,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":465,"abstract":466},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117408","The Lost Manuscripts of Medieval Europe: Modelling the Transmission of Texts","ECOLE NATIONALE DES CHARTES","€1,499,235","LostMa aims at understanding how human cultures are constituted and evolve, through the question of the transmission of written cultural artefacts. It strives to establish in what measure the transmission (and subsequent preservation or loss) of written artefacts, texts and ideas deviates from pure chance, and, if it deviates, by how much and why it does. It will do so by analysing the way that texts in manuscript form were copied, transformed or destroyed, in a similar way to the evolution of l",{"id":468,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":469,"piName":10,"institution":470,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":471,"abstract":472},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101114976","Evolution of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits","ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ETUDES","€1,443,750","A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand and predict the evolution of phenotypic traits influenced by many genes, a.k.a. quantitative traits, which represent the majority of adaptive traits. For this, we require an accurate knowledge of the genetic architecture of a trait, here defined as the statistical distribution of the effects of the genes on the phenotype. However, it has not been possible to firmly check theoretical predictions against empirical data, due to a lack of me",{"id":474,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":475,"piName":10,"institution":476,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":477,"abstract":478},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115741","Data Aware efficient models of the urbaN microclimaTE","SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA","€1,450,560","The share of the worlds population living in cities is rapidly increasing, and it is expected to rise to 80% by 2050. It is therefore crucial to develop new efficient and reliable methods to model the urban microclimate; in fact, these models can support urban planners and policymakers to create more comfortable and sustainable cities. High computational requirements limit existing numerical methodologies, and DANTE fits in this context and aims to create a new paradigm for fast and reliable num",{"id":480,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":481,"piName":10,"institution":459,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":482,"abstract":483},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161795","5D Electro-Mechanical Bio-Interface for Neuronal Tissue Engineering","€1,750,000","The cellular microenvironment is tightly regulated by biochemical and physical cues. While state of the art electrical and mechanical devices can perturb the biophysical cell niche in 2D monolayers, 3D tissue cultures are considered a much more comprehensive and representative model of the in vivo microenvironment. However, the available biomodulation “toolkit” does not meet the required level of complexity, specificity, and accuracy. This limitation hinders the ability to address basic question",{"id":485,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":486,"piName":10,"institution":212,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":487,"abstract":488},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116282","Rain and cloud Organization in the Trades using ObseRvations and models","€1,499,768","Our climate fundamentally depends on the abundance and behaviour of its smallest clouds: shallow trade cumulus clouds. Their response to climate change is a major uncertainty in climate projections, with the most pressing but least understood question being: What is the role of mesoscale convective organization in trade cumulus feedbacks? Rain affects convective organization through its re-evaporation, which triggers downdrafts and cold pools. Cold pools can create large ‘cloud holes’ surrounded",{"id":490,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":491,"piName":10,"institution":492,"country":493,"year":13,"amount":494,"abstract":495},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165283","New molecular understanding of mental disorders through deep cerebrospinal fluid phenotyping","REGION HOVEDSTADEN","DK","€1,499,070","Psychiatry is lacking truly objective markers and the limited molecular understanding of disease mechanism underlying mental disorders inhibits us to design new therapies, for which identification of novel treatment targets are urgently needed. No study has yet conducted deep phenotyping of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which is the biological material closest to the brain that is assessable for direct investigations in intra vitam, and no large longitudinal CSF studies on mental disorders curr",{"id":497,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":498,"piName":10,"institution":26,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":499,"abstract":500},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117537","Stereotypes and Opportunities: Fostering Interactions and Awareness","€1,499,875","Stereotypes are often at the origin of biased behaviour and can contribute to the widening of socioeconomic inequalities in diverse societies. This is especially true in the schooling context, where both teachers and students may hold negative stereotypes towards certain groups. The overarching goal of this proposal is to study the formation of stereotypes and test policies designed to mitigate educational inequalities, building on insights from behavioural economics and causal machine learning ",{"id":502,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":503,"piName":10,"institution":241,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":504,"abstract":505},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117328","Pushing Boundaries in Pre-clinical Aortopathy Research","€1,494,848","Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) entails a high risk for aortic dissection and rupture, which is a prominent cause of death in Western countries. Prophylactic surgery significantly reduces the mortality risk, but complications are relatively common. Moreover, in severe TAA conditions aneurysms often develop at other locations afterwards, exposing patients to repeated surgeries and, thus, threats. Current drug options only modestly slow down dilatation, without preventing dissections or ruptures. C",{"id":507,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":508,"piName":10,"institution":26,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":509},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115804","Financial Institutions and Regulation for Development","This proposal consists of three empirical projects to advance our understanding on the specific conditions and frictions faced by financial institutions operating in low and middle-income countries. Understanding these aspects is crucial to elaborate policies of financial regulation and government intervention that promote structural transformation and development.1. Ethnic Banking and Central Bank Independence. This project plans to study the political economy frictions behind financial regulat",{"id":511,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":512,"piName":10,"institution":513,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":514,"abstract":515},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162742","Why do transcription factors bind what they bind when they bind?","STICHTING HET NEDERLANDS KANKER INSTITUUT-ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK ZIEKENHUIS","€1,496,725","Transcription factor binding is orchestrated by a complex interplay between DNA sequence, chromatin composition, protein interactions, and transcription factor concentration. These regulatory features determine the binding kinetics: how long it takes for a certain amount of transcription factor to associate, and subsequently dissociate from specific binding sites. These kinetics are in turn determined by the thermodynamic properties of each interaction.It is currently not possible to measure the",{"id":517,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":518,"piName":10,"institution":519,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":520,"abstract":521},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116890","Optimization of Radio Detectors of Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos through Deep Learning and Differential Programming","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DORTMUND","€1,738,721","Detection of neutrinos at ultra-high energies (UHE, E >10^17eV) would be one of the most important breakthroughs in astroparticle physics in the 21st century and would open a new window to the most violent phenomena in our universe. Radio detection remains the only viable technique at these energies. However, owing to the expected small flux of UHE neutrinos, the detection rate will be small, with just a handful of events per year, even for large future facilities like the IceCube-Gen2 neutrino ",{"id":523,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":524,"piName":10,"institution":525,"country":526,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":527},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115076","Direct measurements of collective swimming forces at the mesoscale","AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR","FI","Swimming is ubiquitous in nature and crucial for the survival of a wide range of organisms. Many swimmers move together in intricate swarms, widely believed to save energy through collective hydrodynamic interactions. While the physics behind swimming and swarming of viscosity-dominated microswimmers and inertia-dominated macroswimmers has been extensively studied, little is known about the intermediate regime (~ 0.1–10 cm), where both viscous and inertial forces are important. This mesoscale is",{"id":529,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":530,"piName":10,"institution":476,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":531,"abstract":532},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117427","Finance and Innovation to couple Negative emissions and sustainable Development","€1,499,825","The FIND project will develop an innovative framework to assess the feasibility and social desirability of limiting global warming through the diffusion of negative emission technologies. Current global climate action is deeply insufficient to deliver the objectives of the Paris Agreement and containing global warming to 1.5 °C will likely require the deployment of carbon dioxide removals. However, the technologies to sequestrate and store carbon from the atmosphere are currently immature, risky",{"id":534,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":535,"piName":10,"institution":536,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":537,"abstract":538},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116539","Collaboration and Pseudepigraphy. Facing the Anonymous in Imperial Greek Literature","UNIVERSITAET GRAZ","€1,499,255","In Classical Philology, a discipline which has long relied on the figure of the author, authorless texts are an ‘elephant in the room’. In antiquity, however, long before the introduction of copyright, texts were the universal commons of all those who drew on them. Authorship was frequently faked, forged, or anonymized. Because authorless texts resist the author-based gravitational structure of literary history, they continue to pose a challenge to scholars in the field and have often been margi",{"id":540,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":541,"piName":10,"institution":542,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":543,"abstract":544},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117327","Social Inequalities in Work-Family Strategies Within and Across 24 Industrialized Countries","EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE","€1,499,146","The gender revolution framework predicts a seemingly linear progression leading to a dramatic convergence in men’s and women’s roles in paid work and at home. Yet gender convergence appears stalled by conflicting structural and cultural factors across industrialized countries. Existing theoretical perspectives fail to simultaneously predict how the gender revolution shapes couple-level work-family patterns across countries and time for those with lower, middle, and higher socio-economic resource",{"id":546,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":547,"piName":10,"institution":548,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":549,"abstract":550},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116996","Temporal processing in Drosophila melanogaster","MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAT GRAZ","€1,294,994","All information processing in nervous systems relies on spatial and temporal patterns of neural activity. While spatial patterns are dictated by neuroanatomy, the mechanisms that give rise to temporal activity patterns are diverse. They range from fast voltage dynamics of single neurons at one end of the spectrum to slow transcriptional and structural changes at the other, but the rules that shape signals at timescales in between milliseconds and minutes are poorly understood. The proposed resea",{"id":552,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":553,"piName":10,"institution":290,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":554,"abstract":555},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117844","Returns to Work in Occupational, Relational, and Corporate Settings","€1,497,986","The rise of platforms and remote work has refashioned concerns about work security and flexibility in public debates. Academic studies have documented an increase in non-standard work over decades, including polarization of rewards, shifting occupational boundaries, and winding paths among women and other marginalized groups. These findings had important policy implications but left questions about the unfolding of individual labor market experiences amid the more noticeable changes. This projec",{"id":557,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":558,"piName":10,"institution":559,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":560},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101114633","A circuit perspective on olfaction – how learning and context shape the propagation of information between brain areas","UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HAMBURG-EPPENDORF","Sensory information is initially processed in specialized brain areas but only integration with previously acquired knowledge provides meaningful information for flexible action selection. This requires the propagation of information from sensory to association areas, where sensory information is put into context and memories are acquired. The entorhinal-hippocampal network is of particular importance for information integration and memory formation. Recent findings about learning-induced change",{"id":562,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":563,"piName":10,"institution":564,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":565,"abstract":566},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116694","Connecting Random Conformal Geometry and Teichmüller theory","INSTITUT DES HAUTES ETUDES SCIENTIFIQUES","€1,499,938","Random conformal geometry deals with the analysis of conformally invariant systems using probabilistic methods. Random geometric objects, such as the random fractal SLE curves, arise from statistical mechanics models and are of central interest in modern probability theory and mathematical physics. Teichmüller theory as originally introduced studies complex structures on a surface. Teichmüller spaces carry a rich geometric structure and have been an important research topic since the mid-twentie",{"id":568,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":569,"piName":10,"institution":570,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":571,"abstract":572},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117155","Unravelling the first Babbles of the Earth Inner Core History","UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER","€1,633,404","The existence of Earth's inner core was a major discovery almost a century ago, and since then the timing of its nucleation remains highly debated. This major event in the Earths history enhanced the energy necessary to maintain the magnetic field to the present-day, making our planet habitable. Earth has thus escaped the fate of planets like Mars that lost its protective shield. While the community agreed to place the inner core formation at ~600 million years ago in the Ediacaran Period, new e",{"id":574,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":575,"piName":10,"institution":241,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":576,"abstract":577},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117107","GovErning humaN rights through partnErShIpS: investigating the normative and operational interface of international law and multistakeholder governance","€1,488,784","The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals hail multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) as key actors in achieving sustainable development. MSPs that bring together states, businesses, philanthropy and civil society are increasingly in the frontlines of providing public goods that are human rights such as food, health, education and water. In these domains, partnerships are spearheading the continued expansion of multistakeholder governance into international ",{"id":579,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":580,"piName":10,"institution":581,"country":256,"year":13,"amount":582,"abstract":583},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117053","FINGERprinting cold subduction and Plate Tectonics using key minerals","UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA","€2,499,961","Plate Tectonics (PT) is a well-established framework of moving plates made of oceanic and continental lithosphere. The main driving force of this system is the slab pull, a force imposed as the older and colder subducting plate sinks into the asthenosphere at convergent boundaries, producing Low Temperature\u002FHigh Pressure (LT-HP) metamorphic rocks. Although our understanding about PT has improved in the last decades, there are major unknowns remaining, namely when and how its onset took place, a ",{"id":585,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":586,"piName":10,"institution":587,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":588,"abstract":589},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116408","Structuring spatial knowledge through domain-general, non-spatial learning mechanisms","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA","€1,499,688","Is space the main organizer of our mental reality? The answer to this question is apparently yes. According to recent views, nearly any type of knowledge would be organized through low-dimensional geometries relying on the same computations that are at play in the navigation of the physical space, as attested by the involvement of the hippocampal-entorhinal region in high-level cognition. From an evolutionary standpoint, spatial processing mechanisms might have thus developed from originally map",{"id":591,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":592,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":593,"abstract":594},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116500","The missing link: inhibitory interneurons as the core of anxiety and depression comorbidity","€2,012,500","Rates of depression and anxiety are constantly surging, resulting in a growing global mental health crisis. These two disorders have a remarkably high prevalence of comorbidity, with anxiety generally preceding depression. However, the biological basis of these disorders and their comorbidity is poorly understood, leaving millions of patients with inadequate treatments and thus an urgent need for improved medications. Accumulating evidence suggests that both disorders involve GABAergic deficits,",{"id":596,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":597,"piName":10,"institution":598,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":599,"abstract":600},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117267","Environmental control of physiology through the brain-gut axis","INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE EPINIERE","€1,929,674","A series of tightly controlled processes ensure that energy is either stored or consumed within an organism. This control is central to survival and prosperity of the animal, yet we only partly understand it. Communication between the brain and the gut, the so called “brain-gut axis”, has emerged as a key player in regulating aspects of animal physiology by directly affecting energy stores. Nevertheless, due to the astonishing anatomical complexity of the underlying neural circuits in mammals, a",{"id":602,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":603,"piName":10,"institution":604,"country":52,"year":13,"amount":605,"abstract":606},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116211","Internal Fortress: Regulating European Freedom of Movement within the Nation-State, 1950-1980","NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU","€1,426,851","Against the prevailing view that freedom of movement lowered internal barriers to movement while raising walls against outsiders to create a ‘fortress Europe,’ this project investigates how the introduction of freedom of movement may have strengthened national political authority over European migration within the member states of the European Economic Community (EEC). InternalFortress suggests that as governments gradually lifted entry restrictions across the EEC, they also built out new intern",{"id":608,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":609,"piName":10,"institution":610,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":611,"abstract":612},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117317","Novel subglacial ocean models to accurately predict Ice-shelf Ablation rates at high resolution and low computational cost","UNIVERSITE LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD","€1,497,861","Ice shelves fringing the Antarctic coastline limit sea-level rise by slowing down the flow of grounded ice into the sea. They are thinning because of warming and intensifying ocean currents. Building upon my expertise in multi-scale flow dynamics and subglacial oceanography, I will resolve the two main bottlenecks that impair our ability to assess and project the state of Antarctic ice shelves. These are: (i) a poor understanding of the relationship between ice-shelf ablation rates and ocean pro",{"id":614,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":615,"piName":10,"institution":616,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":617,"abstract":618},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117441","Using deep neural networks to understand functional specialization in the human visual cortex","JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITAET GIESSEN","€1,494,750","Over the last few decades, neuroscientists have identified multiple brain regions that perform distinct, often highly specialized functions such as processing faces, understanding language, and even thinking about what other people are thinking. Despite our increased understanding of the computations performed in these regions, the precise causes and origins of functional specialization in the brain are still a mystery and not accessible to direct experimental approaches.Here, we propose to comb",{"id":620,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":621,"piName":10,"institution":622,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":623,"abstract":624},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116047","Desynchronizing weak cortical fields during deep brain stimulation","UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE","€1,498,914","Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical treatment for Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders. By applying pulsed, alternating electric currents to targets deep in the brain, DBS induces widespread changes in neural network activity. Although motor symptoms can be reduced by DBS in most patients, some patients suffer from severe side effects or insufficient symptom relief.Many attempts have been made to optimize the therapeutic effects of DBS, but these attempts have been restric",{"id":626,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":627,"piName":10,"institution":628,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":629,"abstract":630},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117791","How do drug-associated contexts drive behaviour?  The role of entorhinal circuitry in addiction","UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM HEIDELBERG","€1,498,475","Addiction to drugs is a ubiquitous neuropathological disease that inflicts immense societal costs. A core aspect of addiction that poses a major challenge for treatment is the propensity to relapse in environmental contexts that are associated with drug use. Identification and mechanistic characterization of novel addiction-relevant circuitry linking the motivation to take drugs to the complex spatial and non-spatial features that constitute a drug-associated context are at the core of this prop",{"id":632,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":633,"piName":10,"institution":634,"country":375,"year":13,"amount":635,"abstract":636},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115749","Ex-Soldiers of Empire: Colonial Veterancy in the Interwar World","NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH","€1,196,801","COLVET will develop the first comprehensive and comparative account of colonial veterancy in what was the foundational era for modern conceptions of the veteran, the interwar period. Grounded in a collaborative and comparative methodology, the project will trace and analyse the contrasts and commonalities in the evolution and reception of veteran policy within, across, and between the French Empire, the Italian Empire, the American colonial empire, British-ruled East Africa, and British-ruled In",{"id":638,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":639,"piName":10,"institution":640,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":641},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116064","Identifying the Fast-acting Antidepressant Signatures of Treatment Response with psychedelic compounds using a novel behavioral tracking system and single-cell resolution","KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET","Mental health disorders affect 84 million people across Europe and are associated with an economic burden of €600 billion\u002Fyear. New evidence from clinical trials suggests that a single treatment with psychedelic compounds, such as psilocybin, can produce a fast (hours) and sustained (months) antidepressant (AD) response. However, many questions still remain about its mechanism of action, due to methodological challenges such as lack of knowledge of the brain cells and circuits where AD effects a",{"id":643,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":644,"piName":10,"institution":645,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":646,"abstract":647},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117470","Studying the metabolism and function of myeloid dendritic cells and neutrophils in distinct tissues in health and aging","FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA)","€1,499,500","Myeloid cells, such as dendritic cells (DCs) and neutrophils, reside in various organs to respond to insults and are key to control immunity and inflammation. However, their aberrant activities in the elderly can cause immunosenecence and inflammaging. Different tissues comprise highly distinct milieus that impose context-dependent biochemical challenges on their resident cells, which further change when tissues age. Yet, it is not known how DCs and neutrophils survive in their different homing ",{"id":649,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":650,"piName":10,"institution":432,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":651},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116328","Competition in the Digital Era: Technology and Geopolitics in the XXI Century","The Competition in the Digital Era (CODE) project investigates the competition between China, Europe and the United States (US) for access and control of three critical technological sectors: semiconductors, cloud computing and space. These sectors are, respectively, the backbone, the brain and the legs of the current wave of technological innovation and they have a fundamental impact on economic, military and geopolitical hierarchies.CODE proposes a multidisciplinary theoretical framework and a",{"id":653,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":654,"piName":10,"institution":655,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":656,"abstract":657},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101103502","POROus media: Life and dEath of their wAves and Flames","OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES","€1,499,942","Turbulent combustion of fossil fuel remains an important source of energy creation and propulsion worldwide, generating pollutant emissions endangering both human health and climate. A major factor inhibiting the mitigation of emissions pertains to combustion instabilities, i.e.: large pressure oscillations resulting from a coupling between unsteady combustion and pressure waves. Carrying out the combustion within porous inert media holds great promise for lean combustion, owing notably to a str",{"id":659,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":660,"piName":10,"institution":661,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":662},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116355","Light-Frozen Dynamic Covalent Synthesis of Organic Semiconducting Materials","UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS","Designing the materials of tomorrow requires the development of conceptually different synthetic methodology. Creating large conjugated molecular scaffolds often requires many synthetic steps, hindering their exploration and the discovery of new organic semiconductors. PhotoFreeze is a synthetic methodology that combines the best features of dynamic covalent chemistry and conventional covalent synthesis. With this novel chemical approach, a wide range of new functional materials will be develope",{"id":664,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":665,"piName":10,"institution":87,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":666,"abstract":667},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163979","Electrochemical Borylation via Borylene Species: Bridging a Gap in Synthetic Chemistry","€1,499,643","Carbenoids (carbene and nitrene) have revolutionized the field of organic chemistry, reshaping and improving the molecular construction landscape and unveiling previously inaccessible reaction pathways. This chemistry has massively simplified the synthesis of complex molecular structures, such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and polymers. In contrast with the essential role of carbenes and nitrenes, the boron analogue - borylene - has received limited attention in synthetic chemistry. A basic",{"id":669,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":670,"piName":10,"institution":671,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":672,"abstract":673},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115916","Industrial Wood: European Industrialisation as Seen from the Forests (1870-1914)","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO","€1,489,901","INWOOD studies industrialisation through the most important pre-industrial resource: wood. Scholarship on industrialisation has concentrated on the introduction and spread of new energy sources and materials, paying scant attention to the pre-existing resources. However, available data shows that wood was fundamental in the key sectors driving industrialisation, while its consumption increased during this process.INWOOD analyses the role that wood played during industrialisation and the impact o",{"id":675,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":676,"piName":10,"institution":640,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":677,"abstract":678},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116274","Control of body weight by specialized brain-adipose loop neurons","€1,499,521","Disruption of energy homeostasis can lead to obesity, a major health issue worldwide. Therapeutic efforts to reduce adiposity are nullified by metabolic adaptations. The mechanisms underlying these phenomena are unclear, precluding efficient intervention. Although it is well established that important hormonal factors control adiposity, it is less appreciated that fat (white adipose tissue, WAT) is innervated by sympathetic and sensory fibres forming, with discrete brain nuclei, loop circuits. T",{"id":680,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":681,"piName":10,"institution":218,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":682},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116021","Methane paradox revisited: Unravelling the impacts of eutrophication on microbial methane cycling in aquatic ecosystems","Aquatic ecosystems are a major source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, accounting for half of the global methane emissions. Biogenic methane is microbially produced in anoxic sediments and typically rapidly consumed by methanotrophic microorganisms, largely limiting emissions to the atmosphere. However, methane concentrations are often elevated in oxic surface waters of oceans and lakes (“methane paradox”). Aerobic methane production in surface waters might constitute a particularly importa",{"id":684,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":685,"piName":10,"institution":686,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":687,"abstract":688},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163211","When your enemy becomes your friend: Evolution of the interaction between fungi and land plants","EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN","€1,499,190","Plants live in close association with microbes, establishing interactions that range from beneficial to detrimental. Molecular plant-microbe interactions have been extensively studied in flowering plants, whereas research in non-seed plant lineages has been hindered by the lack of pathosystems reflecting natural plant-microbe interactions. My team and I identified the first example of a fungus that establishes opposite interactions with flowering and non-seed plants. We discovered that the fungu",{"id":690,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":691,"piName":10,"institution":692,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":693,"abstract":694},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117111","The Evolution of Visual Information Encoding","UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES","€1,495,191","Language leaves no trace in the fossil record. However, an important component of the human language capacity, symbolic combinatoriality, might have “fossilized” after all. In the Paleolithic, hominins have embarked on their journey from Africa into the rest of the world. On their way, they have left artefacts which provide a window into their mind. Some of these bear early examples of visual information encoding: geometric signs. In the Middle Paleolithic, when Homo neanderthalensis roamed the ",{"id":696,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":697,"piName":10,"institution":698,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":40,"abstract":699},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115870","Specializing TEmporal Planning using Reinforcement Learning","FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER","Planning - devising a strategy to achieve a desired objective - is one of the basic forms of intelligence. Temporal planning studies the automated synthesis of strategies when time and temporal constraints matter. Temporal planning is one of the most strategic fields of Artificial Intelligence, with applications in autonomous robotics, logistics, flexible production, and many other fields.Historically, the research on temporal planning follows a general-purpose framework: a generic engine search",{"id":701,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":702,"piName":10,"institution":703,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":704,"abstract":705},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116340","Tellurium-free Thermoelectric Technology for Near-room-temperature Applications","LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FUR FESTKORPER UND WERKSTOFFORSCHUNG DRESDEN EV","€1,498,895","Thermoelectric (TE) technology  whereby heat is converted to electrical power and vice versa  holds great potential for cooling and power generation in many applications because its unique solid-state nature enables TE devices to be free from emissions and maintenance; thus providing extraordinary reliability. Realizing this potential requires developing modules that have high performance at around room temperature (-70 C to 300 C). Currently, almost all commercial modules are based on bismuth t",{"id":707,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":708,"piName":10,"institution":709,"country":710,"year":13,"amount":711,"abstract":712},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117761","Avatar agency. Moral responsibility at the intersection of individual, collective, and artificial social entities in emergent avatar communities.","UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI","RO","€1,494,688","This project investigates how avatar agency impacts practices of ascribing moral responsibility in emergent avatar communities (Metaverse, augmented Metaverse, and Human-Cybernetic Avatar societies). These communities challenge traditional frameworks of agency and moral responsibility. The unprecedented persistent and continuous use of multiple avatars by both humans and organisations, has the potential to permeate prior boundaries of the physical, the augmented and the virtual world. We propose",{"id":714,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":715,"piName":10,"institution":218,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":716,"abstract":717},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115501","Modelling Religiopolitics. The Imperium Christianum via its Commoners","€1,498,755","From the 10th c. onwards, new polities emerged on the periphery of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE), the new centre of Christendom. Endowing Christianity as an institutional system was integral to the emperor’s power, expanding his influence and securing his rule in the new kingdoms. Previous narratives have been generally constructed on the basis of limited written accounts, which mainly concern the higher echelons of society, emphasising the role of secular and ecclesiastical elites. However, the e",{"id":719,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":720,"piName":10,"institution":721,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":722},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116071","Design and synthesis of bulk-active polymeric organic electrocatalysts for efficient electroorganic synthesis","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB","As the top industrial energy consumer, the chemical industry must rapidly develop new low-carbon technologies to lower the industrys carbon footprint for preparing chemicals and materials for our everyday life. Current synthetic approaches have a low atom economy and rely on the functionalization of reagents with reactive groups that form desired products at elevated temperatures or pressures. These processes are wasteful and energy-intensive, they form hazardous side products and require energy",{"id":724,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":725,"piName":10,"institution":326,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":726},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115787","Strain engineering to design functional  4D polymorphism in nanostructured materials","It is often easy to observe the ability of polymorphic materials to undergo a phase transition through changes in colour, conductivity, photovoltaic efficiency, or other functional properties. In contrast, it is challenging to control under which external stimuli–stress, temperature, adsorption–these materials switch. Yet, enabling such polymorphic material design would be a game changer for pressing societal challenges, from access to drinkable water to producing green energy. This requires a f",{"id":728,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":729,"piName":10,"institution":303,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":730,"abstract":731},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161287","Hard work, plastic flow: a data-centric approach to dislocation-based plasticity","€1,498,839","Metals as structural materials are at the core of our society. Almost everything we physically interact with includes some form of metal manufactured to specific properties and formed into a desired shape. Consequently, the understanding and design of the balance between ductility and strength of metals are one of the primary disciplines of materials science. On a fundamental level, this is the description of crystalline line defects called dislocations. At the atomic scale, the current understa",{"id":733,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":734,"piName":10,"institution":326,"country":143,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":735},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116562","The Congo-Ubangi watershed : An interdisciplinary approach to the genesis of a linguistic accretion zone in Central Africa","Central Africa’s Congo-Ubangi watershed spans multiple ecozones in the northern margins of the rainforest. It is a major hotbed of linguistic, cultural and human genetic diversity with deep occupation history. This linguistic accretion zone is home to a complex mosaic of genealogically and typologically diverse languages spoken by small-size communities with different societal organizations, material cultures, and subsistence specializations. Despite the myriad of new insights it could generate ",{"id":737,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":738,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":740},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115401","Shedding light on three-dimensional gene regulation","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV","The orchestration of precise gene expression patterns during differentiation and development is dependent on the cis-regulatory elements of the genome, which interact and communicate in three-dimensional (3D) chromatin structures. It is not well understood how these interactions are formed and influence gene expression. Our ability to identify the molecular mechanisms involved is hampered by a lack of tools that provide control over the function of regulatory proteins with high temporal precisio",{"id":742,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":743,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":744,"abstract":745},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164796","Active galactic nuclei and Population III stars in early galaxies","€1,582,491","The first stars must have started the generation of heavy elements and the formation of the first galaxies in the earliest phases of the Universe. At the same epoch, the seeds of the supermassive black holes which are detected in the centres of all nearby massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way, must have formed. While theoretically predicted, the detection of these first stars and seed black holes is an outstanding observational challenge in modern astronomy. With the proposed APEX projec",{"id":747,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":748,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":749,"abstract":750},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116866","Coherent Control of Chiral Molecules","€1,809,735","The ambitious goal of this project is to create an enantiomer-pure beam of chiral molecules, starting from a racemic sample, using an experimental coherent state preparation scheme.The basic elements of the proposed experiments are the following.A cold, gas-phase beam of chiral molecules is created via supersonic jet expansion. Two levels of a triad of rotational states that are connected via electric dipole allowed transitions are emptied using resonant UV depletion in combination with simultan",{"id":752,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":753,"piName":10,"institution":754,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":755,"abstract":756},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117806","The ontogenesis of abstract thought – higher-order representations in the maturing brain","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT NURNBERG","€1,647,655","Thinking about the world–what is and what might be–is fundamental to human life. The foundation for this world-understanding is laid in the preschool years of childhood. Around the age of 4, children begin to reason not only about the real world but also about what is possible or what people believe about the world. The acquisition of these abstract representations of the world is reflected in a major developmental breakthrough across domains of human cognition. The mechanisms that drive this br",{"id":758,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":759,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":760,"abstract":761},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116417","Quantum Controlled X-ray Spectroscopy of Elementary Molecular Dynamics","€1,401,103","Elementary processes in nature, chemical synthesis, and functional materials critically rely on photochemical transformations. Monitoring these events on the most fundamental level and recording movies of individual molecular motions has been a long-standing dream of chemists and physicists. To this end, time-resolved spectroscopy uses carefully timed sequences of short laser pulses to concatenate stroboscopic frames of information, in analogy to a video camera. This has recently been pushed to ",{"id":763,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":764,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":765,"abstract":766},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117424","Spin-momentum locking and correlated phenomena in chiral topological materials","€2,442,508","Chiral topological semimetals are a new class of quantum materials at the intersection of structural and electronic chirality. We discovered the first example of this material class three years ago and have since demonstrated that they host new fermionic quasiparticles without analogue in high-energy physics, which carry large and controllable topological charges. ChiralTopMat will go beyond these initial works and aims to discover new extraordinary properties that have only been predicted for t",{"id":768,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":769,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":770,"abstract":771},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116721","Immigrant-native health disparities in ageing societies: an intersectional approach","€1,499,616","Immigrants arrive to receiving countries in excellent health. Yet compared to natives their health deteriorates more rapidly. Why this is the case remains poorly understood due to the scarce availability of large longitudinal datasets useful to explain the dynamic of immigrants’ health over the life-course. In the near future, the immigrant-native health gap is likely to be further exacerbated by population ageing. In order to formulate effective policies to reduce immigrant-native health gaps, ",{"id":773,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":774,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":775,"abstract":776},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115758","Emergence in quantum materials: from relativistic quantum criticality to non-Fermi liquids and unconventional superconductivity","€1,387,500","Understanding and controlling novel states of matter is at the heart of condensed matter research. In modern quantum materials we find a rich resource of extraordinary states which emerge from the complex interplay of quantum effects and many-body physics. They pose the fundamental challenge of describing an interacting system with many constituents in the quantum realm and hold the key for future quantum technology.A major common trait behind the complex phase diagrams of many correlated quantu",{"id":778,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":779,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":780,"abstract":781},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164996","Search for physics beyond the standard model with highly charged ions","€2,499,833","Spectroscopy has been a central tool in modern physics: it has helped us understand atomic structure, the expansion of the universe and the composition of exoplanet atmospheres. Today, high-precision spectroscopy is one of the most promising tools for investigating some of the most fundamental open questions: many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics can be tested by detecting tiny changes in atomic transition frequencies caused by the interaction with new particles, new forces",{"id":783,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":784,"piName":10,"institution":785,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":786,"abstract":787},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117483","Planetary stewardship in view of Earth-Space sustainability","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","€1,499,625","Space-based satellite infrastructures have become indispensable for daily activities on Earth. These opportunities are shaped by an increasing number and variety of actors: from hegemonic rivalry among leading nation states to competition between billionaire companies to build satellite constellations. The rapid expansion of Space activities has led to growing Space debris that challenges the long-term sustainability of the Earths orbit. These developments are furthermore causing global injustic",{"id":789,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":790,"piName":10,"institution":791,"country":493,"year":13,"amount":792,"abstract":793},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163534","Simulating coastal HydrOdynamics and particle tRansport procEsses","DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET","€1,497,100","Beaches are eroding at many locations around the world and, with the pending climate change (sea level rise and increased storminess in Northern Europe), coastal erosion is expected to potentially worsen. State-of-the-art practical engineering models for predicting sand and particle transport struggle with the cross-shore processes (perpendicular to the beach), and they even have difficulties predicting the sign right (offshore transport vs. onshore transport), in an experimental setting where t",{"id":795,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":796,"piName":10,"institution":797,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":798,"abstract":799},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115798","Empirical and mechanistic foundations for synergistic predictive processing in the sensory brain","BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE","€1,499,945","Humans effortlessly process over 200 spoken words per minute in casual conversation. Speech recognition algorithms still fail at this challenging task. Our superior performance stems from our capacity to predict what the speaker may say next. Understanding how the brain uses these predictions to process the sensory input is crucial to understand perceptual function and dysfunction: dyslexia, autism and psychosis have all been linked to an impaired handling of predictions.Hierarchical predictive ",{"id":801,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":802,"piName":10,"institution":803,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":804,"abstract":805},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117670","Budgeting for the Future: Understanding the Allocation of Climate Finance in the Global South","UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM","€1,499,899","The impact of climate change on people’s lives and livelihoods is increasingly hard to ignore, and is moreover characterized by trenchant inequities: wealthy countries generate the vast majority of global CO2 emissions, but poor nations overwhelmingly suffer the consequences. In response, wealthy nations have pledged to mobilize US$100 billion annually in “climate finance” to help their more vulnerable counterparts. The past decade has seen climate finance nearly double, but we know very little ",{"id":807,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":808,"piName":10,"institution":803,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":809,"abstract":810},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115677","Farm animal value-scapes: veterinarians and the contrasting values of European livestock production","€1,499,884","VetValues is a comparative ethnographic study of how European livestock farming juggles food security and economic viability with mounting concerns about biodiversity loss and global warming, the development of antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic diseases, and the compromised welfare needs of farm animals. It approaches the wicked problems of livestock production as questions of valuation and valuingof what to value, when, and how. Specifically, it explores how the values of economic productio",{"id":812,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":813,"piName":10,"institution":803,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":814,"abstract":815},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117716","Moonlighting: understanding the quality and consequences of working multiple jobs","€2,094,859","MOONLIGHT is a transdisciplinary and multi-method study of the quality of work and wellbeing of contemporary multiple jobholders. Working in the new economy is increasingly of a flexible and fragmented nature. Moonlighters, or multiple jobholders [MJHs], can be considered emblematic of how work fragmentation and combinations affect the quality of work and total worker wellbeing. MOONLIGHT will research the quality of work in first, second and other jobs and how this translates into total worker ",{"id":817,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":818,"piName":10,"institution":803,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":819,"abstract":820},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115769","Time to pay up? Reparations and global development challenges","€2,059,661","Reparations have become a popular demand in global development contexts. Disenfranchised groups from around the world and countries from the Global South increasingly call for reparations. They ask for apologies for past harm, symbolic and institutional measures that recognize and prevent such harm, and – most controversially – for monetary payments. Reparations are meant to respond to environmental pollution, mitigate the worst effects of climate change, compensate for infectious disease outbre",{"id":822,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":823,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":824,"abstract":825},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117882","Non-abelian anyons in programmable lattices","€1,499,334","Non-abelian anyons are conjectured topological quasi-particles which shatter our understanding of quantum statistics. Exchanging two such quasi-particles can transform the quantum state in a way that cannot be undone without unwinding the exchange. The exotic properties of non-abelian anyons have puzzled researchers for decades, and the robustness associated with their statistics makes them an appealing platform for topological quantum computing. Despite broad research over the past decades, non",{"id":827,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":828,"piName":10,"institution":829,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":830,"abstract":831},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162721","Conjugated polymers with interchain aromaticity","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN","€1,499,103","INTERCHAIN aims to develop and investigate a ground-breaking new molecular design concept for conjugated polymers. The concept is expected to enable the occurrence of stacked-ring aromaticity between polymer chains, drastically advancing our fundamental understanding of stacked-ring aromaticity and introducing a route to exploit this effect for the development of conjugated polymers with excellent charge transport properties.For conjugated polymers with excellent charge transport properties, str",{"id":833,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":834,"piName":10,"institution":803,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":835},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116987","Responsible Link-Recommendations in Dynamic Environments","This proposal aims to develop, for the first time, new computational models to systematically evaluate 1) the long-term societal impacts of link-recommendation algorithms in online social networks and 2) design a new paradigm of link-recommenders that incentivize cooperation, collective action, and misinformation control.It is urgent to understand how algorithms used in online social media impact human behavioural dynamics given the widespread use of social media platforms and the evidence that ",{"id":837,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":838,"piName":10,"institution":829,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":839,"abstract":840},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162908","Deep learning of chemical reactions","€1,499,285","The exploration of reactions is a central topic in chemistry. Compared to the success of machine learning for molecules, the modeling of reactions is lagging behind, especially for stereo- and regioselective reactions. Since current efforts toward  sustainable synthesis such as asymmetric organocatalysis or biocatalysis rely on the accurate prediction of enantio- and regioselective reaction pathways, new modeling approaches are needed. The proposed project aims toward developing new, data-driven",{"id":842,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":843,"piName":10,"institution":844,"country":493,"year":13,"amount":845,"abstract":846},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101114850","Moral Elites: The Historical Positioning of Civil Society Leaders in National Moral Economies","COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL","€1,486,924","Objective: Conduct a ground-breaking historical-relational comparative study of civil society elites’ integration in and effects on four European countries’ moral economies, explaining diverging paths through career trajectories and position-takings.Question: Why, how, and with what consequences were civil society elites historically integrated into national moral economies?Hypothesis: The position and position-taking of civil society elites since the mid-19th century crucially shaped national m",{"id":848,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":849,"piName":10,"institution":850,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":851,"abstract":852},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164646","FrOm RupturE procesS to Earthquake Early warnING","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II","€1,231,718","FORESEEING means “FrOm RupturE procesS to Earthquake Early warnING” and is a groundbreaking research project halfway between the investigation of the earthquake generation processes and the implementation of methods for real-time risk mitigation actions. Incredible progress in earthquake source characterization and modelling has been achieved in the last decades. However, the mechanism of nucleation, radiation and arrest of seismic fractures is still poorly understood and with that, the fundamen",{"id":854,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":855,"piName":10,"institution":856,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":857,"abstract":858},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117162","Islands in the Stream: Climate-related Disasters and the Rhythms of Caribbean Music","UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI  VENEZIA","€1,302,500","For decades, Caribbean musics have seen unparalleled global popularity, becoming key to the regions tourism economy. Yet today, Caribbean live music scenes are in peril, reeling from recurring climate-related disasters. In light of musics centrality to Caribbean tourism economies and cultural life and the increasing frequency and severity of climate related events, the stakes for understanding the role of live music in recovery processes is particularly high. Focusing on three urban contexts - S",{"id":860,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":861,"piName":10,"institution":829,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":862,"abstract":863},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117125","Stochastic PDEs and Renormalisation","€1,498,849","The field of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) has been revolutionised in the last decade by breakthrough works of Hairer, Gubinelli-Imkeller-Perkowski, and many others. A new understanding of renormalised solution theories emerged, solving long-standing singular equations arising in various areas of probability and mathematical physics. The purpose of this project is to study a number of important questions in the field, open new directions, and challenge central open problems:(",{"id":865,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":866,"piName":10,"institution":791,"country":493,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":867},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164292","Explaining human decision-making by combining choice and process data","Decision-making is a core element of human activity, and the decisions we make can have significant consequences for ourselves, others, and the world we live in. Thus, the ability to explain and predict decision-making is vital for improving individual and societal outcomes, especially when addressing global challenges like climate change, sustainable energy, ageing populations, and public health. Mathematical models of decision-making can help us to understand and predict human behaviour.Despit",{"id":869,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":870,"piName":10,"institution":829,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":871,"abstract":872},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117519","Experiencing Access with Interactive Technologies","€1,499,910","How is access experienced in interaction with modern technologies? Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has a tradition of asking questions around functionality in the context of assistive and accessible technologies.  However, the additional aspects of lived experiences with disabilities are often secondary to the questions and interests driven by non-disabled researchers. This approach risks producing artefacts that might be functionally accessible, but are deemed as undesirable, unwanted or even ",{"id":874,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":875,"piName":10,"institution":856,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":876,"abstract":877},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115616","Arabic Linguistic Discourse in the Making","€1,496,241","The ALiDiM project proposes a metalinguistic analysis of the process of standardization of Classical Arabic as it has been described by early Arabic scholars.By analyzing the earliest Arabic grammatical texts under one metalinguistic roof, this project aims to find new ways to account for and analyze texts that challenge conventional conceptions of the origins of the Arabic linguistic tradition. Embedding linguistic production into a wider cultural framework, the project introduces methodologica",{"id":879,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":880,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":881},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116043","Three Dimensional Quantum Nanomaterials","Quantum nanomaterials are highly relevant for today’s society, playing a key role in existing technologies, and promising revolutionary changes addressing global issues, with the possibility for new computing architectures, and highly efficient devices.Until now, most studies of quantum nanomaterials have been two dimensional. Extending to three dimensions results in opportunities for increased density and interconnectivity, with the possibility to go beyond the physics of planar systems. This h",{"id":883,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":884,"piName":10,"institution":885,"country":297,"year":13,"amount":886,"abstract":887},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164009","How the middle class housed itself in the Eastern Mediterranean","IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS","€1,499,913","MCH-EsMed critically explores housing as a blind-spot in the post-war history of the Eastern Mediterranean, one of the world’s most volatile regions, marked by war, ethnic tensions, migration flows, and climate change. The research focuses on the vast spread of mid-sized condominium apartment buildings during the second half of the 20th century in four prominent cities: Athens, Ankara, Cairo, and Tel Aviv. Known as ‘polykatoikía’ in Greece, ‘müteahhit yapımı apartman’ in Turkey, ‘al-'Imara’ in E",{"id":889,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":890,"piName":10,"institution":885,"country":297,"year":13,"amount":891,"abstract":892},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101166144","Shadow Trade: Unraveling Maritime Smuggling Between the Russian and Ottoman Empires (1853-1914).","€1,490,250","STASH deals with the history of maritime smuggling between port cities of the Russian and Ottoman Empires during the transformative period 1853 to 1914, focusing on three maritime regions  the Black Sea, the Azov Sea, and the Southeastern Mediterranean.The two empires, at the core of the Eastern Question, occupied a central position in European economic, social, and political upheavals. Within the context of the ongoing shifts between two empires and the development of legal trade relations in a",{"id":894,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":895,"piName":10,"institution":896,"country":375,"year":13,"amount":897,"abstract":898},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117105","Towards a connected history of population, environmental change, capital and conflict in Russian Eurasia, 1860s-1920s","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN","€1,499,978","Land Limits is a ground-breaking environmental history that explores the ecological impact of population growth in Eurasia, from the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 to the close of the civil war in the early 1920s: a period of unprecedented mobility and demographic flux. It redefines the field of late imperial Russian and early Soviet history by challenging assumptions that in a sparsely populated political territory stretching across a sixth of the worlds surface, population pressures occurre",{"id":900,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":901,"piName":10,"institution":902,"country":526,"year":13,"amount":903,"abstract":904},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101114653","Smart Hybrid Materials for Opto(electro)ionics","TURUN YLIOPISTO","€2,123,241","Modern technologies increasingly require smart and sustainable materials that adapt to their operating conditions in functional devices, such as those for efficient energy production and nanorobotics. Their development requires controlling complex material functions in response to external stimuli. While molecular machines demonstrated remarkable potential in a wide range of stimuli-responsive functions, this remains a challenge in the solid state, hampering their use in functional devices. Over",{"id":906,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":907,"piName":10,"institution":791,"country":493,"year":13,"amount":908,"abstract":909},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117888","Probing how value comes to matter in the energy transition: Good-by-Devicing?","€1,475,751","While the climate crisis accentuates the need to decouple economies from fossil fuels, local opposition in Europe increasingly delays the transition to renewable energy. Arguing that the energy transition has been organised as an expert issue pursued by design tools based in techno-economic valuation, Good-by-Devicing proposes that resistance to renewable energy cannot be solved when opposition has already solidified in the phase of project planning and development. Instead, this project seeks t",{"id":911,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":912,"piName":10,"institution":913,"country":297,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":914},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117958","On-chip energy harvesting and management enabled by Thermal engineering of two-dimensional MAterials","NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DEMOKRITOS\"","Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals layered materials have been acclaimed for their great potential in several fields of condensed matter physics. As applications are starting to appear, increased effort is dedicated to understand their unique electronic, optical, mechanical and chemical properties. However, thermal and thermoelectric (TE) properties of 2D materials remain largely underexplored despite their profound potential impact on one of the most important current scientific and technologic",{"id":916,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":917,"piName":10,"institution":918,"country":526,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":919},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160605","The coming of age of a new legal discipline: developing the general doctrine of energy law","ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO","INTEL makes a ground-breaking contribution to energy law scholarship by developing the general doctrine of energy law in a European context. While all well-established legal disciplines have an understanding of their doctrine, energy law does not. A general doctrine consolidates the foundations of a discipline and guides legislators, courts and lawyers in identifying, valuing and interpreting legal norms. In light of the energy transition and the energy crisis in Europe, it is imperative to soli",{"id":921,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":922,"piName":10,"institution":923,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":924,"abstract":925},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163093","Unleashing the predictive power of tidal disruption events","THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM","€1,499,853","Tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been known for decades as unique probes of otherwise quiescent supermassive black holes and their environment, in a mass range inaccessible by any other techniques. However, fulfilling this potential has so far been hindered by a crucial lack of understanding of the physics causing the emission. My program will solve this theoretical bottleneck and unleash the predictive power of TDEs at the dawn of an observational golden era provided by the Rubin Observatory",{"id":927,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":928,"piName":10,"institution":929,"country":493,"year":13,"amount":930,"abstract":931},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115754","Decoding Dark Matter with Stellar Streams from Beyond the Milky Way","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","€1,686,734","One of the key questions driving astrophysics research today is the nature of dark matter, which comprises 80% of the matter in the Universe. Stellar streams are sensitive to the distribution of dark matter and to the population of dark matter subhalos in galaxies, both of which depend on the mass and interactions of the dark matter particle. My proposed work will use the wealth of incoming stellar stream data materializing over the next five years from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the",{"id":933,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":934,"piName":10,"institution":935,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":936},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101114664","Chemo-enzymatic processing of bio-based building blocks to circular functional materials","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA","Recent advances driven by the society’s need of implementing a more sustainable polymer chemistry, led to the development of several bio-based materials and the booming of the interest of using biocatalysts for polymer processing and recycling.The aim of CIRCULARIZE is to develop appropriate chemo-enzymatic methods to process bio-based resources to obtain advanced functional materials via the exploitation of highly selective reactions following the green chemistry principles. Further, the aim is",{"id":938,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":939,"piName":10,"institution":918,"country":526,"year":13,"amount":940,"abstract":941},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101118083","Protecting the planet’s bloodstream: feasible and just opportunities to safeguard freshwater’s Earth system functions","€1,498,561","Freshwater has a fundamental role in regulating the state of the Earth system. Various human actions modify the water cycle, disturbing the Earth system functions it provides, such as mediating the planets energy balance and sustaining ecosystems. Humanitys impact on these functions has not been quantified comprehensively, nor do we know what human actions drive water cycle modifications (WCMs) in different parts of the world. This knowledge gap has made it impossible to acknowledge freshwater's",{"id":943,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":944,"piName":10,"institution":945,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":946,"abstract":947},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163546","Statistical theory and methodology for the combination of heterogeneous and distributed data","UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK","€1,499,689","Data is now collected at unprecedented scales across many industries, meaning that there is huge potential for evidence-based advances in science, technology and public policy. However, to harness this potential we must navigate repositories that are often a far cry from the idealised datasets, carefully collected and curated under perfect conditions, that are usually imagined when new statistical methodology is introduced. Data are often gathered quickly and cheaply, patched together from multi",{"id":949,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":950,"piName":10,"institution":785,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":951,"abstract":952},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115643","The Journey Matters: Pathway Complexity in Polyplex Formation","€2,308,125","A vast number of pathologies have a genetic origin. Yet, using gene therapy to directly intervene at the genetic root remains a rarity within today’s pharmaceutical arsenal. The main hurdles in promoting gene therapy from the lab to the clinic are the complex delivery pathways and biological instability of the therapeutic nucleic acids. Polyplexes, nanoscale coacervates of nucleic acids and (synthetic) polymers, hold the prospect of being highly tunable, scalable and robust transport vehicles an",{"id":954,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":955,"piName":10,"institution":956,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":957,"abstract":958},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115751","Unravelling and predicting degradation of canvas paintings: a multiscale and multiphysics framework","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN","€1,499,748","Predicting the degradation of canvas paintings is not only one of the grand challenges in the field of art conservation but also a major scientific problem. Canvas paintings experience complex instability, fracture, and degradation mechanisms across several length scales triggered by the interaction between multiple physical fields. These degradation processes impact the appearance, integrity, and longevity of the painted surfaces and are thus a paramount concern for heritage conservators.This p",{"id":960,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":961,"piName":10,"institution":956,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":962,"abstract":963},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116550","Information Theoretic Foundations of Joint Communication and Sensing","€1,499,618","The integration of radio communication and sensing services in the same network infrastructure will be a key feature of next-generation wireless technology. It is envisaged that wireless base-stations will communicate with active devices, and simultaneously detect, localize and track passive targets within their vicinity; all using the same spectrum and hardware. This emerging joint communication and sensing (JCAS) paradigm, currently at the frontier of wireless research, will revolutionize a br",{"id":965,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":966,"piName":10,"institution":785,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":967,"abstract":968},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115529","Homescapes make the world we live in? A multi-sited study to unpack more-than-human homes in the urban South","€1,498,875","Global South cities have managed public services through socio-technical configurations that provide differentiated alternatives depending on social position. Populations living in low-income neighbourhoods, which in the South accounts for 60–70% of urban housing, seldom have regular access to piped water. They rely on small-scale providers, rain harvesting, and other arrangements. Nevertheless, we do not know much about what happens once the water is transported\u002Fstored inside patios, kitchens a",{"id":970,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":971,"piName":10,"institution":896,"country":375,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":972},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101040270","Investigating Fictional Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Contemporary Culture: Myths and Understanding","Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a critical issue facing contemporary societies, and one which inspires many fictional representations in creative cultural works. Despite CSA's prevalence and potentially serious consequences, it remains relatively taboo and stakeholders refer to a societal 'flinch', or aversion, from engaging with the issue, which hinders survivors' wellbeing. This avoidant response seems to have been inadvertently replicated in literary and cultural studies, in which CSA as a theme ",{"id":974,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":975,"piName":10,"institution":976,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":977,"abstract":978},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117820","Flows, Waves, and their Asymptotic Stability","CY CERGY PARIS UNIVERSITE","€1,310,233","Equations of waves and flows are used extensively in physics and biology, to describe phenomena ranging from the flow past an airfoil, to the collective motion of cells and to the motion of water surface. A major issue is to explain how the propagation through space and the concentration to various scales can emerge from these mathematical models. Fundamental progress have been made since the beginning of the millenium around the role played by specific solutions that either propagate or shrink ",{"id":980,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":981,"piName":10,"institution":982,"country":983,"year":13,"amount":617,"abstract":984},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115022","GROUP MINDS IN ANCIENT NARRATIVE","UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS","CY","Social cognition is a crucial category of both life and narratives. We read stories about people who engage in social interactions, act on shared emotions and thoughts, and often view themselves as part of specific groups. But how does narrative representation of collective consciousness serve as a mode of coming to grips with everyday social and distributed cognition? My project aims to build a bridge between narrative theory and a phenomenological take on cognition as socially extended and dis",{"id":986,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":987,"piName":10,"institution":785,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":988,"abstract":989},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115666","Making Sense of Communities of Arms","€1,499,918","This project is an ethnographic study of the everyday deployment of firearms and their societal impact. It examines and compares the various ways firearms produce communities, and focuses on groups that are overlooked in the field of gun studies, such as gun owners associations and hunting clubs. ARMIES hypothesises that these communities are disruptive and transformative ones that exert tremendous power. For an accurate understanding of firearms, these communities must take centre stage. ARMIES",{"id":991,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":992,"piName":10,"institution":686,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":993,"abstract":994},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117556","Graphs without Labels: Multimodal Structure Learning without Human Supervision","€1,499,438","Multimodal learning focuses on training models with data in more than one modality, such as videos capturing visual and audio information or documents containing image and text. Current approaches use such data to train large-scale deep learning models without human supervision by sampling pair-wise data e.g., an image-text pair from a website and train the network e.g. to identify matching vs. not matching pairs to learn better representations.We argue that multimodal learning can do more: by c",{"id":996,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":997,"piName":10,"institution":998,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":999,"abstract":1000},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165518","What Matters for a Good Life?  A Novel Approach to Essential Preferences, Skills, and Personal Attributes","RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN","€1,499,574","FELICITAS revolutionizes the way we think about preferences, skills, and other latent personal attributes (PSAs), estimates their heterogeneity along with its determinants, and provides policy implications.PSAs are key drivers of a myriad of decisions which combine to create an individual’s life story. Differences in PSAs, together with constraints and luck, underlie inequalities in outcomes. Knowledge of PSAs is essential for policymakers to design effective public policy. Self-knowledge of PSA",{"id":1002,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1003,"piName":10,"institution":1004,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":1005,"abstract":1006},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117700","The active travel backlash paradox: opposition and acceptability determinants of built environment-based sustainable travel interventions","UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA","€1,499,873","Transport policy is a contentious issue. In recent years, ambitious proposals aiming at reducing car use and creating a more sustainable, equitable, and healthy transportation system have been met with strong opposition movements.  However, little is known about the factors and nature of these opposition movements. At the same time, mayors, and elected leaders worldwide, who have pushed for ambitious built environment-based travel demand policies, have later been vindicated by major re-election ",{"id":1008,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1009,"piName":10,"institution":1010,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":1011,"abstract":1012},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116134","A Gamma-ray Infrastructure to Advance Gravitational Wave Astrophysics","STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN","€1,658,500","When galaxies merge, do their central supermassive black holes also merge?  How does the merger affect star formation and the evolution of galaxies? How does physics beyond the Standard Model of particles affect the Universe? The detection and characterisation of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) will address these fundamental and longstanding questions of astronomy and cosmology. Supermassive black holes at the centres of merging galaxies are expected to form binary systems whose orbital ",{"id":1014,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1015,"piName":10,"institution":1016,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":1017,"abstract":1018},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165611","Bacterial Alkaloid Biosynthesis off the Beaten Path: Compartmentalization and Non-Enzymatic Transformations in Non-Canonical Alkaloid Biosynthesis","JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN","€1,499,998","Nature is a remarkable pharmaceutical chemist. More than 50% of approved drugs are natural products (NPs) or have drawn inspiration from them. According to the central dogma of bacterial NP biosynthesis all transformations responsible for the formation and modification of a NP scaffold are carried out by enzymes encoded in a biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC).Sophisticated genome mining algorithms have been developed to identify NP BGCs in microbial genome sequences. These algorithms excel in recog",{"id":1020,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1021,"piName":10,"institution":1004,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":1022},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163544","Carolus Magnus’s Oral Legends:  Unravelling and Safeguarding","CAROLUS responds to the urgent need to safeguard the endangered oral traditions related to Carolus Magnus and his heroes. The project addresses the imminent extinction of these cultural treasures in Europe and remote corners of South America and Africa. Through immersive fieldwork and interdisciplinary studies, CAROLUS aims to document, study, and revitalize these intangible heritages, ensuring their preservation for future generations.The project employs a sophisticated research methodology, wh",{"id":1024,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1025,"piName":10,"institution":1026,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":1027,"abstract":1028},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116429","B-resonance Algorithm using Rare Decays","DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY","€1,479,375","The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics provides a cogent, yet incomplete, description of matter and its fundamentalinteractions. Many theories aim to describe particles and forces beyond the SM of particle physics, but after ten years of data taking atthe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and hundreds of experimental measurements, only one deviation from the predictions of the SM hasbeen observed .The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics provides a cogent, yet incomplete, description of matter",{"id":1030,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1031,"piName":10,"institution":1010,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":1032},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116991","Chip production without friction","Friction contributes to the global computer chip shortage: friction and wear limit the positioning accuracy and throughput in chip production. As future positioning requirements approach the atomic scale, contact, friction and wear need to be understood at this scale to inspire new positioning solutions which are more urgently needed than ever before.CHIPFRICTION will focus on a key interface in chip production: carbon based material-on-silicon subjected to nanoslip in a hydrogen-rich environmen",{"id":1034,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1035,"piName":10,"institution":1036,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":1037},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161475","Plant adaptation in a changing pollination climate","LUNDS UNIVERSITET","Pollinator population declines and changes in assemblage composition are among the best documented and most worryDeclines in pollinator populations and changes in the composition of local pollinator assemblages are among the best documented and most worrying consequences of ongoing environmental disruptions. The POLLCLIM project aims to better understand the consequences of these changes in “pollination climate” for animal-pollinated plants. We will develop a novel conceptual framework for analy",{"id":1039,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1040,"piName":10,"institution":1036,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":1041,"abstract":1042},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117081","Refugee Finance: Histories, Frameworks, Practices","€1,498,756","Over the last decade, following a general decline in aid from traditional bilateral and multilateral donors, the international community has dramatically changed the way in which it seeks to fund humanitarian responses to refugee flows, with an increasing reliance on 'refugee finance'. Refugee finance is the term used to refer to new financial instruments aimed at attracting private capital: refugee bonds, technical assistance funds and concessional loans. These instruments are promoted by inter",{"id":1044,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1045,"piName":10,"institution":1046,"country":256,"year":13,"amount":1047,"abstract":1048},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116461","Hydrophobic Eutectic Solvents for Tailored Metal Separation and Recycling","UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO","€1,499,851","DESignSX proposes the application of bio-inspired non-ionic hydrophobic eutectic solvents (DES) to the solvent extraction (SX) separation of lanthanides (Ln) based on the understanding of these complex mixtures that are defined by hydrogen-bonded supramolecular self-assembly. Sustainable metallurgy stands uniquely poised to reduce the environmental impact of existing processes whilst recovering the metal value in end-of-life devices, thereby closing the resource loop. Despite their growing deman",{"id":1050,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1051,"piName":10,"institution":1036,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":1052,"abstract":1053},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116763","Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical","€1,487,796","FABRIC develops a new ethics of migration by understanding and utilizing the moral insights and the moral ideas that faith-based refugee relief organizations develop and deploy in practice for the cross-disciplinary debate about the ethics of forced migration in Europe. Globally, forced migration is one of the most pressing and one of the most pervasive challenges. Europe has been pushed to a social and political breaking point over migration. The fallout is a death toll that makes the border ar",{"id":1055,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1056,"piName":10,"institution":885,"country":297,"year":13,"amount":1057,"abstract":1058},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117624","The first multi-messenger detection of a supermassive black hole binary","€1,711,750","Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are a natural outcome of galaxy mergers. They can be identified as quasars with periodic variability in time-domain surveys, or from strong gravitational waves (GWs) by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs), making them exceptional multi-messenger sources. Despite their expected ubiquity, they have remained undetected, but upcoming data of unprecedented quantity and quality from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and increasingly more sensitive PTAs will b",{"id":1060,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1061,"piName":10,"institution":1004,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":1062,"abstract":1063},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116435","Fostering  Internet-based  Values of the  Environment","€1,489,325","Nature-experiences are on the decline, but does that mean environmental values are as well? — Where the decrease of experiences of nature is often cited as a cause for dwindling appreciation of nature and consequently less commitment to environmental stewardship, I argue that the internet is an overlooked factor in multiplying nature experiences, creating nature values, and fostering environmental stewardship, thus counteracting the ‘extinction of experiences’ of nature. With more than half of t",{"id":1065,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1066,"piName":10,"institution":1067,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":1068,"abstract":1069},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117889","Female Leadership and Effects from African Droughts","GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET","€1,499,568","Fem-LEAD challenges present scholarship by proposing a new link between climate change and gender: What if weather-related disasters, such as droughts, risk hurting recent advances of women as political leaders in African countries? Focusing on droughts, public opinion and political representation, its objective is to gain theoretical and empirical insights of links between weather-related disasters and womens political standing. I pose two major questions; Q1. How and why do droughts affect the",{"id":1071,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1072,"piName":10,"institution":1010,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":499,"abstract":1073},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115901","The online-offline nexus in cybercrime: Examining online and offline pathways into and out of cybercrime","Cybercrime is on the rise and the digitization of crime raises an array of fundamental questions. The CybercrimePathways Programme focuses on one of the major issues in criminology today: changing offline and online pathways in and out of cybercrime. Individuals do not become cybercriminals overnight. They tend to move through different stages, with each stage bringing them a little closer to crime involvement. The opposite is true for desistance, the process of quitting crime, whereby each step",{"id":1075,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1076,"piName":10,"institution":39,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":1077,"abstract":1078},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116792","Understanding and targeting cancer persister cells","€1,728,750","Despite tremendous progress in cancer therapy, many patients still succumb to the disease following an initial successful response to treatment. In addition to the long-appreciated contribution of genetically mutated cells to disease recurrence, persister cells, a rare subpopulation of cells that evade therapy in the absence of any known resistance-mediating mutation, have recently emerged as orthogonal drivers of therapy failure. While there has been much progress in targeting genetic resistanc",{"id":1080,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1081,"piName":10,"institution":1082,"country":229,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":1083},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117861","Mechanisms of human co-translational quality control and it’s role in neural tissue.","Masarykova univerzita","Ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) is crucial for degrading truncated nascent proteins produced on aberrant mRNAs. This is done by elongation of the nascent chain on the large ribosomal subunit in the absence of mRNA and the small ribosomal subunit (CAT tailing) and by marking the nascent chain for degradation. Mutations in RQC components cause neurodegeneration both in animal models and human patients. Moreover, RQC insufficiency and subsequent protein aggregation critically contribute t",{"id":1085,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1086,"piName":10,"institution":1087,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":1088,"abstract":1089},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117339","Unmasking the dynamic influence of the hematopoietic niche as an oncogenic path to myeloid neoplasms evolution","UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE","€1,911,428","Although oncogenic driver mutations are found in healthy tissues sometimes at a prenatal stage, they do not often result in overt cancer. This genotype – phenotype discrepancy warrens the search for extrinsic mechanisms of cancer development and maintenance, such as aging or exposition to specific environments. Using myeloid neoplasms as a cancer model, I aim here at dissecting the hematopoietic-niche partnership at the “pre-leukemic”, “leukemic” and “post-leukemic” stage to identify innovative ",{"id":1091,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1092,"piName":10,"institution":1093,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":1094,"abstract":1095},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101116688","Unraveling pacemaker (dys)function using novel stem cell-derived human heart models","STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC","€1,797,105","The pacemaker cells of the sinoatrial node (SAN) trigger three billion heartbeats in an average human life span. At the start of each beat, the SAN must generate enough current to drive the surrounding atrial tissue, which contains 10,000 times as many cells as the SAN itself. This extraordinary biological feat is a result of intrinsic features such as SAN tissue architecture. In addition, SAN function is modulated by extrinsic inputs from the autonomic nervous system, which adjusts the pace fro",{"id":1097,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1098,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":69,"year":13,"amount":1099,"abstract":1100},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117619","Mechanisims of nuclear self-assembly","€1,499,974","Shape and function of the vertebrate nucleus depend on the choreographed interplay between lipids, proteins, and DNA to form the nuclear envelope. Even small molecular changes, such as point mutations in the proteins of the nuclear envelope (the lamina) cause detrimental human diseases including premature aging, cancer, and heart disease. To date, a clear, mechanistically compelling explanation for the dynamic coupling of lipids, proteins, and DNA to safeguard nuclear shape and function is still",{"id":1102,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1103,"piName":10,"institution":1104,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":1105,"abstract":1106},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161596","Credible Inference for Empirical Macroeconomics","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","€1,438,705","Following the credibility revolution, macroeconomists have sought plausibly exogenous instruments and other sources of variation to identify causal effects. Given the complex nature of the macroeconomy, characterised by simultaneous causality and intemporal dependence, this is a high bar. Thus, in the pursuit of exogenous variation, researchers often use minor sources of variation or subtle features of the data to identify the effects of interest. 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