[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-erc-starting-grant-2025":3,"awarded-stats-erc-starting-grant":1121},{"awarded":4,"total":1120},[5,15,21,28,35,41,48,55,62,69,75,81,88,94,100,107,113,119,126,132,139,144,150,157,164,170,175,182,189,195,201,206,212,218,224,231,236,242,248,253,259,264,271,276,282,289,295,300,306,311,318,323,329,335,341,346,352,356,362,369,374,380,386,391,396,402,407,413,419,425,431,435,441,447,453,460,466,472,477,483,488,494,498,504,510,515,521,526,531,538,542,548,552,558,565,571,576,582,587,593,599,604,609,615,620,626,632,638,644,650,656,660,665,670,676,682,687,694,699,705,711,716,722,726,730,736,740,745,751,757,761,766,771,777,782,788,793,799,804,808,813,819,824,830,836,841,847,851,857,863,868,873,878,882,886,891,895,901,905,910,915,920,926,931,937,943,949,955,960,965,970,976,981,986,991,995,999,1003,1008,1012,1017,1023,1028,1033,1037,1043,1047,1052,1057,1063,1068,1073,1079,1083,1088,1093,1098,1103,1109,1114],{"id":6,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":9,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":14},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-101041000","European Research Council","ERC Starting Grant","Volumetric three-dimensional experimental measurement of vortex dynamics in a rotating wake","Johannes N. Hillestad","Norwegian University of Science and Technology","NO",2025,null,{"id":16,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":17,"piName":18,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":14},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2016-stg-714567","Evolution of users’ subjective experience over three training sessions with an EEG Motor-Imagery Brain–Computer Interface (MI-BCI)","Aline Roc","Université de Bordeaux","FR",{"id":22,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":23,"piName":24,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":27},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc2019-stg-853272-palaeofarm","Imputation of ancient canid genomes reveals inbreeding history over the past 10,000 years","Katia Bougiouri","University of Copenhagen","DK","> 0.9) imputation accuracy for dogs with coverage as low as 0.5× and for wolves as low as 1.0×. We then imputed a dataset of 90 ancient dog and wolf genomes to assess changes in inbreeding during the last 10,000 y of dog evolution. Ancient dog and wolf populations generally exhibit lower inbreeding levels than present-day individuals. Regions with low ROH density maintained across ancient and present-day dogs were significantly associated with genes related to immunity and chemosensory receptors",{"id":29,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":30,"piName":31,"institution":32,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":34},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-949572","Multimessenger lensing time delay as a probe of the graviton mass","Elena Colangeli","University of Portsmouth","GB","Gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology and astrophysics. With the prospect of the first strongly lensed gravitational waves on the horizon, we highlight an opportunity to test fundamental physics. In this work, we assume a nonzero mass for the graviton, which leads to gravitational waves following timelike geodesics instead of null geodesics. We derive standard gravitational lensing equations, such as the scattering angle, the time-delay between different images and the magnifica",{"id":36,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":37,"piName":38,"institution":39,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":40},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-101041933-ki-net","A Versatile Strategy for Light‐Driven Active Transport of Ions","Sani Yahaya","Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique","Abstract Transport across compartments is essential for biology to drive its vital processes. Chemists have developed synthetic transport systems, focusing mainly on passive transport, where cargo species move along a concentration gradient. However, active transport—moving substances against a concentration gradient—remains a challenge. Light is a promising energy source for driving active transport due to its precise spatiotemporal control, high selectivity, and operation without waste accumul",{"id":42,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":43,"piName":44,"institution":45,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":47},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2019-stg-853272-palaeofarm","A 120-y time series of genomes reveals the consequences of closed breeding in German Shepherd Dogs","Lachie Scarsbrook","Research Network (United States)","US","Many contemporary breed dogs display reduced genomic health compared to mixed-breed dogs, including reduced heterozygosity and increased genetic load, likely due to strong directed breeding. Lack of historical genomes, however, has made it difficult to disentangle the timing and drivers of these declines given complex and breed-specific demographic histories, artificial selection, and crossbreeding. Here, we sequenced genomes of nine 20th-century museum specimens (1906-1993) of pedigree German S",{"id":49,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":50,"piName":51,"institution":52,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":54},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-853566","Unequal Content: Search Engine Personalization Influences Exposure to Information Regarding the Israel–Palestine Conflict","Íris Damião","X-Fab (Germany)","DE","Search engines serve as primary gateways to information, and users tend to trust them, despite being algorithmic black boxes and customizing results in non-transparent ways. Personalization, such as tailoring content based on a user’s location, is useful for routine content searches (e.g., finding nearby restaurants). However, this same personalization becomes problematic - and potentially harmful - when users seek information on sensitive or contentious geopolitical topics. In this work, we pre",{"id":56,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":57,"piName":58,"institution":59,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":61},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-nanocomp-679124-","POM‐Based Water Splitting Catalyst Under Acid Conditions Driven by Its Assembly on Carbon Nanotubes","M.C. Gimenez-Lopez","Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases","ES","]⁺ groups functionality, enabling high hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) efficiency, with an onset potential of -0.07 V, close to Pt\u002FC, and 94% Faradaic efficiency. Mechanistic studies, strongly supported by in-operando confocal microscopy and theoretical calculations, reveal that the modulation of crystal interactions and the local microenvironment is key to orchestrating the OER\u002FHER tuning. OER is proposed to proceed via an alcohol oxidation reaction (AOR), while HER benefits from TRIS⁺ moieti",{"id":63,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":64,"piName":65,"institution":66,"country":67,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":68},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-758580","dFlpTag, a RMCE-based tool for simultaneous endogenous protein tagging and cell labeling in Drosophila","Ling Li","Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University","CN","Conditional protein tagging is a potent technique for elucidating protein expression patterns. The existing MiMIC and CRIMIC insertion collections in Drosophila genome offer a foundation for rapidly generating conditional protein tagging strains. In this study, we introduce dFlpTag, a new tool designed to create both constitutive and conditional protein tagging strains from MiMic or CRIMIC insertions. Moreover, dFlpTag enables co-labeling of the source cells of the protein of interest in a cell ",{"id":70,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":71,"piName":72,"institution":73,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":74},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-2024-replicate","Emergent properties of supramolecular peptide assemblies","Álvaro Vila","Universidade de Santiago de Compostela","The self-assembly of supramolecular monomers can change their chemical properties and produce emergent functions that are absent in their dispersed state. In this review article, we describe structural and functional material properties emerging from the self-assembly of peptides, which are based on interactions between neighbouring monomers and the supramolecular environments they create. The non-covalent cooperativity of peptides is here discussed in terms of emergent properties like catalysis",{"id":76,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":77,"piName":78,"institution":79,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":80},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-cc-charged-101077332","Mesoionic N‐Heterocyclic Olefins, Imines, Thiones, Phosphinidenes and Their Application in Catalysis","Max M. Hansmann","TU Dortmund University","(mNHOs), ═NR (mNHIs), ═PR (mNHPs), and ═S (mNHTs), have evolved as ligands for coordination chemistry, reactive species for the activation of small molecules, as well as efficient metal-free catalysts for various challenging organic transformations, driven by their strong nucleophilicity. This minireview documents recent breakthroughs in the synthesis, reactivity, and catalytic applications of mNHOs, mNHIs, mNHTs, and mNHPs.",{"id":82,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":83,"piName":84,"institution":85,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":87},"openalex-european-research-council-award-starting-grant-101040376-lactins-and-outs","Human Milk Sampling Protocols: Is the Mean Macronutrient Composition of Pre- and Post-Feed Samples the Average of One Entire Feed?","Wietske Verveld","University of Twente","NL","BACKGROUND: Human milk sub-sampling protocols are used in lactation research to estimate milk composition, while minimizing interference with normal breastfeeding. However, macronutrient concentrations in human milk can be highly variable, and the accuracy of sub-sampling protocols for a single breastfeed is currently unknown. AIM: We investigated the accuracy of three milk sub-sampling protocols for estimating the macronutrient concentrations of a complete feed: the mean of pre- and post-feed s",{"id":89,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":90,"piName":91,"institution":92,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":93},"openalex-european-research-council-award-101076997-starting-grant-ensync-","High-throughput mechanical characterization of giant unilamellar vesicles by real-time deformability cytometry","Maximilian Kloppe","TU Bergakademie Freiberg","consistent with literature values for different lipid compositions. Compared to traditional techniques such as micropipette aspiration, our approach offers orders of magnitude higher throughput without mechanical contact, making it particularly suitable for GUV population studies. Beyond mechanical phenotyping, this framework opens new avenues for sorting vesicle populations based on membrane mechanics, a capability of growing interest in synthetic biology and soft matter research.",{"id":95,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":96,"piName":97,"institution":98,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":99},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-101077573","SDSS-V LVM: Resolving physical conditions in the Trifid Nebula","Natascha Sattler","Heidelberg University","Aims . The chemical abundance of the interstellar medium sets the initial conditions for star formation and provides a probe of chemical galaxy evolution models. However, unresolved inhomogeneities in the electron temperature can lead to a systematic underestimation of the abundances. We aim to directly test this effect. Methods . We used the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper to spatially map the physical conditions of the Trifid Nebula (M 20), a Galactic H II region ionized by a single mid-type O-star",{"id":101,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":102,"piName":103,"institution":104,"country":105,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":106},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2020-stg-949301-mumott","Non-destructuve 3D microstructure mapping for large samples with complex microstructure","Mads Carlsen","Paul Scherrer Institute","CH","Scanning 3D x-ray diffraction is a non-destructive synchrotron technique for mapping the 3D microstructure of polycrystalline materials where a focused hard x-ray beam is scanned across the sample to obtain spatially-resolved microstructure information. We demonstrate a new approach to such an experiment which extends the capabilities of existing techniques to be able to handle more complex and highly deformed microstructures. We demonstrate this by mapping the formation of sub micro meter sized",{"id":108,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":109,"piName":110,"institution":111,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":112},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-3dtop-101165504","There and back again: a cell biologist’s journey from organelles to molecules","Emma J. Fenech","University of Cologne","Eukaryotic life is defined by the presence of organelles. Organelles, in turn, were classically defined as specialized membrane-bound compartments composed of a unique set of macromolecules which support specific functions. Over the last few decades, a concerted effort into uncovering which components are present in each organelle has shaped our view of cell biology. However, despite some organelles already being visualized over 100 years ago, we are still discovering new organelle residents. Fu",{"id":114,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":115,"piName":116,"institution":117,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":118},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2017-stg-757923","A combined machine learning and finite element modelling tool for the surgical planning of craniosynostosis correction","Itxasne Antúnez Sáenz","Mondragon Unibertsitatea","Craniosynostosis is a medical condition that affects the growth of babies' heads, caused by an early fusion of cranial sutures. In recent decades, surgical treatments for craniosynostosis have significantly improved, leading to reduced invasiveness, faster recovery, and less blood loss. At Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), the main surgical treatment for patients diagnosed with sagittal craniosynostosis (SC) is spring assisted cranioplasty (SAC). This procedure involves a [Formula: see text] ",{"id":120,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":121,"piName":14,"institution":122,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":124,"abstract":125},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165171","Deciphering information encoded on the nanoscale","UNIVERSITAET GRAZ","AT","€1,499,916","Despite the natural ubiquity of nano- and microparticles and their increasing production and emission in anthropogenic processes, we struggle to understand their direct impact on environment and health. This is anchored in their elusive nature and analytical challenges arising from it. Although current approaches can retrieve some facets, we are blind for a majority of properties or cannot retrieve them coherently. We are in a dire need to decipher basic traits of particles and gain more compreh",{"id":127,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":128,"piName":14,"institution":129,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":130,"abstract":131},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161992","Cognitive and Neural Computations of Semantics","UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA","€1,496,563","In our everyday lives, we rely on existing relations among elements in our environment (i.e., semantic information) to interact efficiently with the world. This information can either be used to facilitate understanding by exploiting redundant (congruent) evidence or to signal out salient stimuli by highlighting unexpected (incongruent) elements. This duality raises fundamental questions about how and when our brains utilize stored semantic knowledge as its influence seems to vary depending on t",{"id":133,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":134,"piName":14,"institution":135,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":137,"abstract":138},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101166131","Sentencing architecture: Building a decision-making matrix","INSTITUT ZA KRIMINOLOGIJO PRI PRAVNI FAKULTETI V LJUBLJANI","SI","€1,598,495","The act of sentencing represents a critical juncture at which the power of the state to punish intersects with the personal freedoms of the individual. It is governed by an intricate set of decision-making dynamics, for which we lack a cohesive understanding. This ground-breaking project seeks to fill this gap by introducing a fresh perspective rooted in choice architecture, aiming to devise a comprehensive theoretical matrix that systematically captures the multi-dimensional nature of sentencin",{"id":140,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":141,"piName":14,"institution":142,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":143},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164120","Floodplain Weathering","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","Chemical weathering of rocks is central to Earths biogeochemical cycles. It exchanges CO2 with the atmosphere, balances CO2 emission from the mantle, and stabilizes Earths climate. Years of research have established data and models of weathering in eroding landscapes, because erosion supplies unweathered rocks to the surface of the Earth. However, the sediment eroded from mountains can continue to weather during temporary storage in wide floodplains. Recent estimates indicate that floodplain sed",{"id":145,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":146,"piName":14,"institution":147,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":149},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164895","Boosting QCD Studies with Bootstrap Tools","ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE","€1,500,000","In this project we are embarking on the ambitious and exciting journey to advance our understanding of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in 4d, a fundamental theory that describes interactions among quarks and gluons. Our primary focus will be on studying QCD in two different regimes: in the physical regime with two flavours of quarks and in the conformal window. In the physical regime QCD is the theory of Strong interactions responsible for the existence of mesons, baryons and nuclei. QCD in the con",{"id":151,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":152,"piName":14,"institution":153,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":155,"abstract":156},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162044","Recovering Global Exchanges from Sub-Saharan Africa's Cultural and Political Magazines in the Age of Black Internationalism, 1918-68","VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL","BE","€1,497,659","Sub-Saharan Africa is often bypassed in global histories and its print cultures seldom approached through a transnational lens. To recover a lost history of global engagement, AFROPRESS will turn to the subcontinents cultural and political magazines from the period 1918-68a vast, yet slowly disappearing archive. These magazines played key roles in effecting change, from fuelling decolonisation to creating literary and artistic canons. AFROPRESS advances the hypothesis that magazines shaped this ",{"id":158,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":159,"piName":14,"institution":160,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":162,"abstract":163},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165373","Dynamic Markets with Information Asymmetries: Strategic and Non-Strategic Information  Transmission","LUISS LIBERA UNIVERSITA INTERNAZIONALE DEGLI STUDI SOCIALI GUIDO CARLI","IT","€1,136,046","This proposal aims to advance our understanding of information transmission in dynamic markets by examining two specific scenarios: (i) information transmission by strategic agents and (ii) information transmission by algorithms. Its core focus revolves around the analysis of competition in dynamic markets with asymmetric information. The proposal encompasses both positive and normative analyses, offering insights into the ongoing discourse on predatory and algorithmic pricing. The project compr",{"id":165,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":166,"piName":14,"institution":167,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":168,"abstract":169},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160778","Understanding the Role of Economic Imagination for Advancing Decarbonization in Europe","UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN","€1,499,875","How do we imagine the decarbonized economy of the future? While research suggests that opposition to climate mitigation is often driven by economic concerns, we have little systematic knowledge of how decarbonization is actually imagined as a socio-economic transition, nor do we know about the economic images, symbols, narratives and assumptions underlying such visions and fears.REIMAGINE brings economic sociology’s recent interest in economic imaginaries and imagined futures to the study of cli",{"id":171,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":172,"piName":14,"institution":142,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":173,"abstract":174},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162291","Internal state drivers of behavioral flexibility and their underlying neural circuitry in the zona incerta","€1,494,634","Survival requires accurate and rapid implementation of adaptive behavior. In a world where our physiological needs and surrounding environment are ever changing, one wrong move could make the difference between life and death. How does the brain successfully compute changes in internal state and external cues, while factoring in experience, to drive the most appropriate behavioral outcome from moment-to-moment? Mounting evidence suggests that the zona incerta, a little studied region, is a centr",{"id":176,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":177,"piName":14,"institution":178,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":180,"abstract":181},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101166026","Maximising f-element oxidation states","THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER","UK","€1,543,941","The applicant is a rising early-career scientist with an international reputation in frontier rare earth and actinide science. This StG project melds synthesis and electrochemistry with computational and spectroscopic methods to afford a transformative advancement in electronic structure and oxidation state control in f-elements. By advancing our understanding of the design principles which influence the properties of these complexes, we propose to maximise their stability and expand beyond the ",{"id":183,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":184,"piName":14,"institution":185,"country":186,"year":13,"amount":187,"abstract":188},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164939","SHADES of Bullying: Studying Heterogeneity and Adjustment in Different Environments","TURUN YLIOPISTO","FI","€1,498,858","SHADES holds great potential for scientific breakthroughs in unravelling the complexities of school bullying by advancing the understanding of heterogeneous youth who bully their peers and persistent bullying, genetic underpinnings behind them, and life-course of different types of bullies. This will help develop targeted interventions to tackle bullying more efficiently and thus prevent long-lasting suffering of victimized youth and mitigate consequences for bullies.In order to move the field f",{"id":190,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":191,"piName":14,"institution":192,"country":186,"year":13,"amount":193,"abstract":194},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163162","Modeling Misspecification: Incorporating Information Processing Biases into Economic Models","AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR","€1,487,820","Differences in how individuals interpret the same information have proven to play an important role in societal decision making. Yet, most economic models assume individuals not only interpret information correctly but fundamentally agree on how information should be interpreted. In ModelMisspec, I will develop a unified framework that links two approaches to modeling information processing biases. I plan to (i) develop a unified framework to model information processing biases, (ii) develop too",{"id":196,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":14,"institution":198,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":199,"abstract":200},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163095","Hyperfluorescent guest@TADF-MOF Materials for the 5th Generation of OLEDs","UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA - LA MANCHA","€1,614,000","Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are among the most efficient optoelectronic devices for multiple displays and illumination technologies. Their superior performance over conventional sources has boosted this discipline, reaching to what is considered as the 4th generation of OLEDs. These OLEDs are based on a novel concept known as hyperfluorescence (HF), in which a thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) material acts as sensitizer of a narrow-band fluorescent emitter via Förster res",{"id":202,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":203,"piName":14,"institution":204,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":205},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160908","Fragmentation in Turbulence Revisited - Toward a universal theory for turbulent emulsification","UNIVERSITAT LINZ","Droplets and bubbles are omnipresent in many environmental and industrial applications that involve atomization and emulsification processes, and the ability to control the size of these dispersed elements in turbulent multiphase flows is essential for design and optimization purposes. Despite the importance of the fragmentation of one fluid in another one by turbulent eddies, a universal theory applicable to a majority of the scenarios is still missing. Following the seminal work of Hinze on ch",{"id":207,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":208,"piName":14,"institution":209,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":210,"abstract":211},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162607","Development of an Advanced Airway-On-A-Chip Model to Investigate Neuronal Hypersensitivity in Chronic Cough","UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM AACHEN","€1,498,775","Coughing is one of the most frequent reasons for physician appointments, and chronic coughing affects one in every 10 people in Europe. It has severe consequences on the patients’ quality of life. Treatment options are limited. Because animal models do not accurately replicate the human disease, the underlying mechanisms that trigger the onset of chronic coughing remain unclear and several promising drug candidates have failed in clinical testing. Human in vitro models could overcome these hurdl",{"id":213,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":214,"piName":14,"institution":215,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":216,"abstract":217},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161432","Skills Markets: Marriage and Labor","GROUPE DES ECOLES NATIONALES D ECONOMIE ET STATISTIQUE","€1,313,131","The distribution of workers across jobs and across different geographic areas has major implications for growth, social welfare and inequality. It is complex but essential to understand the mechanisms behind the allocation of talents in the economy, that is, how skilled individuals choose their jobs and where they live. However, the existing literature on the distribution of skills faces two major challenges. First, it has largely neglected the role of the marriage market and family constraints,",{"id":219,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":220,"piName":14,"institution":221,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":222,"abstract":223},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165107","Sparse Measurement-Based Reduced-Order Models of Fluid-Structure-Interactions","UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER","€1,499,159","Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in industry such as ocean engineering, biomedicine, aerospace and a driven idea for hydrokinetic energy conversion. Strong nonlinear interactions between flow and structures, as well as turbulent flow bring a huge challenge for understanding and dynamics prediction of the FSI systems. Facing with this challenge and the rising motivation of harnessing clean energy from natural fluids, SMARTFLUIDS aims to build a framework of developing ",{"id":225,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":226,"piName":14,"institution":227,"country":228,"year":13,"amount":229,"abstract":230},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160990","Catalytic Atroposelective Synthesis for Revealing Elusive Bioactive Conformations and Shapes","USTAV ORGANICKE CHEMIE A BIOCHEMIE, AV CR, V.V.I.","CZ","€1,499,041","Atropisomeric molecules (atropisomers) are separable conformational isomers arising from restricted rotation around a single bond. Atropisomers have revolutionized the treatment of several deadly diseases. The principal goal of AtropShape is to create pharmaceutical leads with unusual conformations and shapes by developing catalytic stereoselective (atroposelective) synthesis methods toward difficult-to-access drug-like atropisomers. Because atropisomers are chiral, they give rise to two or more",{"id":232,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":233,"piName":14,"institution":234,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":235},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163928","CLIMate policy integration – a comPLEXITY trap?","RHEINLAND-PFALZISCHE TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT","Public policy research finds integrating climate change into other policy sectors a key to achieving climate goals. The EU has set climate as a horizontal priority and adopted a multitude of policies across sectors. Yet, the EU is projected to miss its net-zero goal for 2050. Why? I propose an explanation. As climate-related policies proliferate, they do not necessarily add up coherently and pave the way for a complexity trap. However, we do not have a system-level picture of synergistic and con",{"id":237,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":238,"piName":14,"institution":239,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":240,"abstract":241},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165213","STARs as GRAvitational wave Source Progenitors","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","€1,583,000","Massive stars are fundamental engines in cosmic evolution, providing strong radiative and kinetic feedback to their environment through their copious ionizing radiation and energetic explosions. They also drive the chemical evolution of their hosts. Despite their importance, large uncertainties remain in our understanding of massive stars, including processes such as mass loss, interactions with close companions, and the formation of compact objects at the end of their evolution. The detection o",{"id":243,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":244,"piName":14,"institution":245,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":246,"abstract":247},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162723","Add in choice: optimizing students' dynamic and interdependent decisions","FONDATION JEAN JACQUES LAFFONT,TOULOUSE SCIENCES ECONOMIQUES","€1,447,000","The diversity of educational opportunities has the potential to improve the situation of everyone by providing an environment, adapted to the needs and goals of all. Letting parents or students choose their trajectory can improve welfare as it allows them to sort into the right program, using their private information on comparative advantages and preferences. However, personal choices are not necessarily in line with society’s objectives because of externalities. Apart from financial externalit",{"id":249,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":250,"piName":14,"institution":185,"country":186,"year":13,"amount":251,"abstract":252},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163370","Dwelling alone or together: An integrated framework of peer victimization, (co-)rumination, and mental health","€1,499,855","Why do some youth suffer debilitating depression or anxiety after being victimized by peers yet others grow hostile? Why do some youth dwell alone on their problems (rumination) yet others dwell with their friends (co-rumination)? When does talking to friends about problems (e.g., victimization) help or hurt? Despite the serious (and potentially long-lasting) consequences of peer victimization, these questions remain unanswered. We lack a detailed understanding on how victimization, (co-)ruminat",{"id":254,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":255,"piName":14,"institution":256,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":257,"abstract":258},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163768","Bottom-up assembly of synthetic neural networks from biological matter","CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITAET  ZU KIEL","€1,767,048","The long-term objective of my lab is the construction of “synthetic” neural networks from biological matter. In this way, we not only will understand how to build sustainable computing architectures but also provide a novel bottom-up approach towards understanding biological neural networks. To make progress in this direction, I ask: What is the minimal assembly of biological components that allows for bio-realistic electrical information processing? Clearly, voltage-sensitive ion channels form ",{"id":260,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":261,"piName":14,"institution":262,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":263},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101166145","Global China in Urban Europe: Understanding the role of Chinese actors, media, cultures, and capital in European urban development","SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER","The concept of global China understands China’s influence as manifested in outward flows of capital, infrastructure, migrants, media, cultural programmes and international and civil society engagement, yet for an area of study that purports to be ‘global’ scholarship in the field of global China has focused almost exclusively on the role of Chinese citizens, Chinese institutions, and carriers of Chinese capital (hereafter, Chinese actors) and Chinese capital in developing countries and the Globa",{"id":265,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":266,"piName":14,"institution":267,"country":268,"year":13,"amount":269,"abstract":270},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163749","Jumbo Phages In Translational Enzyme Research","VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS","LT","€1,499,124","Jumbo phages are large viruses of prokaryotes with 200 to 800 kilo base-pair (kb) genomes, well beyond the size of small phages that average around 50 kb. While investigation of small phages over the last  century has transformed fundamental and translational biosciences, jumbo phages research is only in its infancy. The majority of jumbo phage genes are uncharacterized and cannot be annotated by comparative genomics. Thus, it is unknown how the genes function in jumbo phage biology. Importantly",{"id":272,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":273,"piName":14,"institution":274,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":275},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165000","Cross-kingdom symbionts: plant pathogens as insect mutualists.","STICHTING VU","By vectoring plant pathogens, herbivorous insects are key determinants in the epidemiology of numerous plant blights. For a vector-borne phytopathogen, natural selection favors upgrading insect fitness to enhance transmission to an uninfected plant. It is currently unclear how a microbe balances this dual symbiotic lifestyle, featuring markedly different interaction outcomes: as a plant pathogen and an insect mutualist. Likewise, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying pathogen",{"id":277,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":278,"piName":14,"institution":279,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":280,"abstract":281},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160788","Children as Agents of Cultural Evolution","UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM","€1,499,640","Cultural evolutionary theory is quickly gaining traction as a unifying framework for the social sciences. However, research into culture acquisition paints a picture of children as vessels for inheriting evolved culture from adults, rather than cultural producers in their own right. ChACE aims to overturn this long-established orthodoxy by taking child and adolescent peer cultures as a focal point. Neglected by cultural evolutionary theorists, peer cultures are incredibly well conserved across g",{"id":283,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":284,"piName":14,"institution":285,"country":286,"year":13,"amount":287,"abstract":288},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163887","Observing, Modeling, and Parametrizing Oceanic Mixed Layer Transport Processes","TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY","IL","€2,422,688","Although crucial in determining the oceanic distribution of heat, biological nutrients, carbon, and pollutants, the circulation dynamics that governs oceanic vertical transport processes of physical and biogeochemical properties through the near surface layer (i.e., mixed-layer; ML) are yet to be comprehensively quantified. Recently we and others have demonstrated that submesoscale currents (SMCs) -- newly discovered flow structures consisting of fronts, filaments, and eddies -- have a strong in",{"id":290,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":291,"piName":14,"institution":292,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":293,"abstract":294},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222063","Spatiotemporal models of tissue patterning and cellular commitment during embryonic development","MAX DELBRUECK CENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT (MDC)","€1,498,683","One of the most remarkable processes in biology is how animals develop from a single fertilized egg within a short time of rapid growth and an explosion in spatial and cellular diversity. Embryonic development is highly deterministic and consistent among different embryos and conserved across species. Astonishingly, embryos reuse the same signaling pathways in diverse developmental contexts to robustly pattern tissues. The advent of single-cell genomics in the last decade has allowed to chart th",{"id":296,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":297,"piName":14,"institution":298,"country":228,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":299},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160767","Microfoundations of Collective Defence","UNIVERZITA KARLOVA","Does the success of military alliances ultimately hang on the whims of public opinion? The historical record shows that allied states often do not honour their collective defence commitments, but existing scholarship has not yet explained the role of public views in these high-stakes decisions. The MICROCODE project aims to initiate a new research agenda on the microfoundations of collective defence that puts public opinion in allied countries at the centre of inquiry. Building on cutting-edge a",{"id":301,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":302,"piName":14,"institution":303,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":304,"abstract":305},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163222","Beyond the breadline: Charitable food provision and survival strategies of the urban poor in a comparative perspective","UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT","€1,499,144","Food charities have become essential pillars in assisting the urban poor, offering a crucial buffer between food insecurity and hunger. Their significance, particularly after the Great Recession, is underscored by two pivotal shifts: one towards the sustainable utilisation of food surplus and waste reduction, and the other reflecting societal changes with diminishing welfare benefit provision. While considerable research addresses food insecurity and support, the literature lacks a robust framew",{"id":307,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":308,"piName":14,"institution":309,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":310},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165036","A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","How did caretakers rooted in families, communities and societies nurture very young children across historical time? And, how have care practices changed across different peoples, states and political economies in the dynamic 20th century? This ambitious project answers these important, yet mostly overlooked, questions with a comparative study of early childcare in central and eastern Europe from 1905 to 2004.  The late Habsburg Empire and, after 1918, six of its successor states offer an ideal ",{"id":312,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":313,"piName":14,"institution":314,"country":315,"year":13,"amount":316,"abstract":317},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222764","Disentangling self-paced from cued action initiation in the motor thalamus","FUNDACAO D. ANNA DE SOMMER CHAMPALIMAUD E DR. CARLOS MONTEZ CHAMPALIMAUD","PT","€1,499,768","The initiation of movement, whether triggered by an internal (self-paced) or external stimulus (cued), relies on complex neural circuitry involving the pre-motor and motor cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, midbrain, and thalamus. The motor thalamus (mThal) integrates inputs from these structures to orchestrate the shift of cortical activity from a preparatory into an execution mode, resulting in action initiation. However, it is unclear whether the activity in the mThal that releases the motor ",{"id":319,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":320,"piName":14,"institution":153,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":321,"abstract":322},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165527","CoRe Defense: fortifying the resident gut microbiota’s colonization resistance to combat intestinal bacterial infections.","€2,035,888","Currently, we rely on antibiotics to combat potentially life-threatening gastrointestinal (GI) bacterial infections. However, the susceptibility to infection and the severity of symptoms can vary significantly among individuals exposed to the same pathogen.1–3 If we could unravel the factors responsible for differences in infection susceptibility, we could formulate strategies to reduce the incidence of symptomatic infections, ultimately saving lives and reducing the need for antibiotics. Tradit",{"id":324,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":325,"piName":14,"institution":326,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":327,"abstract":328},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162747","Optimal Local Algorithms via Topology-Sensitivity","CISPA - HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR INFORMATIONSSICHERHEIT GGMBH","€1,499,456","Considering the rapid growth of data sets and network sizes over the past decade, there is little doubt that the future of computation is distributed. One central aspect lying at the heart of distributed algorithms is the question of locality: what can be computed using only local information, and how much information is needed? While answering this question is essential for obtaining highly efficient algorithms for many important distributed problemssuch as load balancing in massive networks, l",{"id":330,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":331,"piName":14,"institution":332,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":333,"abstract":334},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165305","Domestic forests and wood culture in the continental Euro-Atlantic region (1300 – 1600 CE): explaining change and redressing biased perspectives","MINISTERIE VAN ONDERWIJS, CULTUUR EN WETENSCHAP","€2,246,000","Woodlands in the continental Euro-Atlantic region became heavily exploited from the Late Middle Ages onwards. The timber demand of growing cities and fleets promoted changes in oak (Quercus sp.) forestry practices and long-distance timber trade, aiming to provide a fast and sustainable turnover of construction wood. Progressively, changes in timber-framed buildings and ship designs took place during the 15th and 16th centuries, concurrently with shifts in woodworking techniques. Whether and how ",{"id":336,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":337,"piName":14,"institution":338,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":339,"abstract":340},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163214","Advancing neuroscience by imaging BRAin Cortical fibErs","UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT","€1,499,736","MRI provides the unique opportunity to investigate the relation between brain structure and function non-invasively, which is key to understand the functioning of the brain and unravel disease processes. An important technique is diffusion MRI (dMRI), which allows to reconstruct the structural connections through which brain structures communicate. Conversely, no technique can reconstruct the internal wiring of brain structures such as the cortex in living humans, where cognitive functions are p",{"id":342,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":343,"piName":14,"institution":344,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":345},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165441","The Everyday Politics of Famine","UNIVERSITY OF BATH","Famines are becoming more frequent and deadly, with 250,000 people experiencing famine in 2022 and 35 million people being on the edge of famine.  For decades there has been a scholarly consensus that famine is the result of political failure or design, and never solely the result of natural disasters.  However, a political culture that makes famine politically unconscionable and that ends famine has not emerged.  To understand why famines persist we need to deepen our understanding of famine po",{"id":347,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":348,"piName":14,"institution":349,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":350,"abstract":351},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165343","Unleashing gaze: Neuro-cognitive processes underlying gaze control and perception across free-viewing eye movements","HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN","€1,499,228","We constantly move our eyes to explore our surroundings. In between short periods of fixation, saccades cause drastic changes to the visual input – yet, we experience a continuous and stable world from the incessant flow of snapshots. While the perceptual consequences of saccadic eye movements are manifold, experiments to study them are surprisingly similar, and lean towards a paradoxically passive investigation of active visual perception. Instead of isolated, stereotyped eye movements directed",{"id":353,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":354,"piName":14,"institution":309,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":355},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164150","Growing Up in the Digital Age of Disinformation","Disinformation is a growing and pervasive problem in modern society. Adolescents spend over 6.5 hours per day on their smartphones and many use social media as a primary information source. There is ample indication in the developmental science literature that adolescents might be particularly susceptible to disinformation. Yet surprisingly little is known about how susceptibility to disinformation changes throughout adolescence and how we might foster youths resilience against disinformation. H",{"id":357,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":358,"piName":14,"institution":359,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":360,"abstract":361},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164400","Hunting for Dark Matter using Magnetically-Levitated Superconductors","OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN","€2,436,971","Magnetically-levitated superconductors have strong potential to revolutionise inertial sensing and magnetic field sensing. In this project I will develop levitated superconductor sensors with unprecedented sensitivities, and use an array of these sensors to search for well-motivated dark matter candidates in unexplored parameter regimes.The sensors will consist of gram-scale superconducting particles stably confined within anti-Helmholtz-like magnetic traps. I will precisely measure the motion o",{"id":363,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":364,"piName":14,"institution":365,"country":366,"year":13,"amount":367,"abstract":368},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163629","Holistic Rigorous Numerical Verification","UPPSALA UNIVERSITET","SE","€1,498,976","My goal is to make rigorous numerical verification widely applicable and practically usable. Rigorous verification proves at compile-time that a program computes for all valid inputs what it is expected to. It is especially important for numerical programs, which are widely used across application domains and are often safety-critical. However, automated verification of numerical programs over finite-precision (e.g. floating-point) numbers is currently limited. Finite precision introduces roundi",{"id":370,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":371,"piName":14,"institution":372,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":373},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162100","Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement","UNIVERSITAT FUR WEITERBILDUNG KREMS","In todays world, the majority of refugees originate from states plagued by civil war and extreme violence, where the legitimacy of the state as guarantor of protection is unsettled. Furthermore, refugees often find themselves subjected to various forms of violence at the hands of state actors in host states  regardless of whether they seek refuge in authoritarian or democratic ones. Yet, little is known about how refugees perceive and engage with the state throughout their displacement journeys,",{"id":375,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":376,"piName":14,"institution":377,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":378,"abstract":379},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101166044","New excited state methods for overcoming challenges in sunlight conversion","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRIESTE","€1,499,999","The dynamics of charges and atoms when electrons are excited to energy levels above the ground state underpins energy conversion in photosynthesis, photocatalysis and solar cell technologies. Modelling excited electronic states remains however a major challenge. While density functional theory (DFT) has been hugely successful in predicting ground state properties of systems with several atoms and electrons, excited state extensions based on time-dependent formulations often lack the required acc",{"id":381,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":382,"piName":14,"institution":383,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":384,"abstract":385},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161899","The Scale Revolution in Physics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives","UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE","€1,455,058","The ideal of a final theory has shaped much of modern physics and its philosophical interpretations. Physicists have used it as a blueprint to construct theories of space, time, matter, and motion that apply in principle everywhere and under any circumstances. Philosophers have used it as a guide to interpret existing theories and depict the entire universe in terms of a bedrock of fundamental entities. Although this ideal still plays an important role today in quantum gravity, the situation has",{"id":387,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":388,"piName":14,"institution":389,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":390},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165138","Neutrino flavor Transformations in dense Astrophysical Environments","GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FUR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH","This project NeuTrAE is aimed to advance our understanding on lingering puzzles on the flavor evolution of neutrinos and their implication in particle and nuclear astrophysics. Neutrinos are characterized by their flavors that can change as they propagate in a phenomenon known as neutrino flavor oscillations. The oscillations in vacuum and ordinary matter are well understood and confirmed by several experiments. Astrophysical compact objects, such as core-collapse supernovae and the violent merg",{"id":392,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":393,"piName":14,"institution":309,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":394,"abstract":395},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163140","What’s wrong? Ancient corrections in Greek papyri from Egypt","€1,499,279","This project aims to transform the study of the Ancient Greek language by shifting the focus away from famous literary authors towards the language as it was produced in everyday life. The large corpus of 60.000 Greek texts written on papyrus between 300 BCE and 800 CE provides an important source for our knowledge of the ancient world and offers an excellent opportunity to study the Greek language as written by non-scholarly writers in antiquity. In order to really change our views of what ‘cor",{"id":397,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":398,"piName":14,"institution":399,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":400,"abstract":401},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163189","Sublinear Quantum Computation","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€1,496,791","The rapid rise in the scale of data is a shaping force in the evolution of computer science. With the ubiquity of massive datasets in recent years, there is an urgent need for ultra-fast algorithms that run in sublinear time, i.e., much faster than it takes to even read their input.In the quantum era, this need is even more imperative, since the dimension of a quantum system scales exponentially in the number of quantum bits. Indeed, the description size of a system with merely 127 quantum bits ",{"id":403,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":404,"piName":14,"institution":405,"country":315,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":406},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165303","Technologically mediated landscapes: Examining the adaptive benefit of the early Oldowan.","UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE","Tool production is intrinsically tied to the evolution of our species as it allows us to occupy nearly every environment on the planet. The widespread production of sharp-edged tools known as the Oldowan, 2.6 million years ago, is regarded as a major adaptive leap as it may have fundamentally changed the ecology of our ancestors. This major adaptative shift resulted in a change in diet, enhanced ecological versatility for a range of environments, and, ultimately, the proliferation of the human l",{"id":408,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":409,"piName":14,"institution":410,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":411,"abstract":412},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162783","Expanding the genome editing toolbox by rational reprogramming of tyrosine recombinase DNA specificities","KEMIJSKI INSTITUT","€1,599,500","Gene therapies aim to cure genetic diseases by modifying the DNA blueprint. An ideal gene therapy should be durable, safe, and efficient, which often requires integration of large therapeutic DNA cargo at precise genomic locations. Advanced DNA editors with programmable specificities, such as the CRISPR technology, are limited by the nuclease-based mechanism and poor efficiency of large DNA insertions. Increased efficiency, specificity and precision of large edits are required to address a broad",{"id":414,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":415,"piName":14,"institution":416,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":417,"abstract":418},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163359","Supramolecular Self-Replicating Antimicrobials","UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA","€1,499,496","This project aims to address the urgent need for new antimicrobial agents by developing a conceptually new strategy to damage bacterial membranes with supramolecular fibres.Dormant (non-assembling) precursors will accumulate in the membrane of bacteria for in situ switch-on of self-assembly and membrane lysis. Specific metabolic routes of bacteria, absent in mammalian cells, will be used to transport supramolecular precursors into the membrane of bacteria with full cell specificity. Once in the ",{"id":420,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":421,"piName":14,"institution":422,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":423,"abstract":424},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222381","Dielectric Electro-Active-Polymer-driven Elastocaloric machines for a new generation of cooling systems","UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES","€1,499,500","While the global demand for cooling is rising exponentially with growing data center capacities and space cooling demands in highly populated regions (China, India, Indonesia), there is no alternative to inefficient and environmentally harmful vapor-compression systems. The search for more efficient and sustainable cooling solutions has drawn attention to novel solid-state cooling technologies like magneto-, elasto-, or electrocalorics. Specifically, elastocalorics (EC) research is showing promi",{"id":426,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":427,"piName":14,"institution":428,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":429,"abstract":430},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162743","Collective Regulation of Cell Decisions","EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY","€2,486,429","Developing systems show an unmatched complexity due to an entangled regulation across different levels of organization. Errors in this regulation often lead to tissue and organ malformations and disease. Accordingly, cell decisions like division, fate or motility are not only guided by local signals generated at the cell micro-environment, but also integrate cues propagated by collective properties at the tissue-level, such as tissue rigidity. How the cells macro-environment impacts cell decisio",{"id":432,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":433,"piName":14,"institution":309,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":434},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165743","Diversity Outdoors: Embodied ethnoracial inequalities and outdoor recreation in Europe","This project seeks to investigate how social inequalities are embodied through a comparative analysis of participation in outdoor recreation in Europe. Outdoor recreation  such as hiking, climbing, swimming, but also birdwatching and camping  is as a pivotal arena where racialized encounters and practices manifest. Given the current international attention to diversity and (lack of) anti-racism in Europe on the one hand, and the understudied emerging grassroots outdoor movements that challenge t",{"id":436,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":437,"piName":14,"institution":438,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":439,"abstract":440},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160604","Memristive self-organizing dendrite networks for brain-inspired computing","ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA","€1,487,500","Artificial Intelligence needs a hardware revolution to sustain the ever-growing demand of computing power in our society, where the huge energy consumption and environmental impact of computation with current technologies is unsustainable. In the race toward future computing, bioinspired technologies have been shown as promising hardware solutions for computing beyond the Turing model and the classical von Neumann architectures. Going beyond transistor-centred hardware solutions, the research co",{"id":442,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":443,"piName":14,"institution":444,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":445,"abstract":446},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165261","Hernando Colón’s universal library. European culture and intellectual production at the dawn of the global world","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA","€1,495,625","While newly printed books were circulating widely around Europe, when more than half a century had passed since Gutenbergs invention, Hernando Coln (1488-1539), second son of Christopher Columbus, undertook the extraordinary challenge of keeping physical track of the proliferation of knowledge. He not only purchased everything, incessantly, and everywhere, marking on the books place and date of purchase, the local price, and the conversion to Spanish currency; for accessing, managing and reusing",{"id":448,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":449,"piName":14,"institution":450,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":452},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165497","Network Fairness: A novel complex network approach for tackling inequalities in society and algorithms","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ","€1,481,736","Social inequalities are on the rise and will have devastating impacts on education, healthcare, economiesand societies for many generations to come. Structural barriers to equality, despite being complex and dynamic,are poorly understood through the lens of complex evolving social networks. More crucially, withthe rise of AI and machine-learning algorithms, it is extremely important to detect, forecast, and mitigatethose inequalities in a systematic manner in order to avoid unintentional algorit",{"id":454,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":455,"piName":14,"institution":456,"country":457,"year":13,"amount":458,"abstract":459},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219218","Quantitative projection problems in geometric measure theory","INSTYTUT MATEMATYCZNY POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK","PL","€1,033,125","This project is in the field of geometric measure theory (GMT), an area of analysis seeking to solve geometric problems using the tools of measure theory. A classical line of research in GMT concerns estimating the size of orthogonal projections of planar sets, and the most important results in this topic are the projection theorems of Besicovitch and Marstrand. In the last few decades, it became increasingly clear that obtaining stronger, more quantitative projection results is connected to ope",{"id":461,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":462,"piName":14,"institution":463,"country":315,"year":13,"amount":464,"abstract":465},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161858","Space-Time and Vectorial Meta-Optics for High-Power Structured Laser-Matter Interactions","INESC MICROSISTEMAS E NANOTECNOLOGIAS - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES PARA OS MICROSISTEMAS E AS NANOTECNOLOGIAS","€1,499,789","Plasma is an extreme form of matter at the heart of important applications like fusion and particle acceleration. The creation and control of plasma require high-power lasers, now increasingly within reach, often operating at terawatt or petawatt levels. One of the six grand challenges in Plasma Science and Engineering is mastering the art of molding plasmas with lasers, yet a gap exists: the need for advanced beam control at high power levels.metaPOWER aims to fill this gap by developing high-d",{"id":467,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":468,"piName":14,"institution":469,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":470,"abstract":471},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163627","The Perturbative Scattering Amplitude Bootstrap","THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH","€1,499,484","The Standard Model of particle physics represents one of the major achievements of modern science, and with the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider its predictions have been tested to unprecedented levels of precision. These measurements will continue to improve as more data is collected in the coming years, allowing us to probe the fundamental laws of physics to an unparalleled degree. However, to benefit from these measurements, the precision with which we can make theore",{"id":473,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":474,"piName":14,"institution":475,"country":457,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":476},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162091","Petrification of ius commune through printed paratexts","UNIWERSYTET IM. ADAMA MICKIEWICZA WPOZNANIU","Between the 1460s and 1620s, printed editions of canon and civil law texts witnessed a constant development of marginal paratexts, such as glosses, summaries, cases or commentaries. They were added to authoritative legal sources because the printers were interested in improving the quality and attractiveness of new source editions. They often hired legal experts who offered them new tools, resources, and ideas. These were incorporated into printed books using new printing techniques. In conseque",{"id":478,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":479,"piName":14,"institution":480,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":481,"abstract":482},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162444","Expressing Value in Language","UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL","€1,499,589","Evaluative adjectives—words like ‘good’, ‘ugly’, ‘tasty’ and ‘elegant’—have interpretations that appear to depend on the context. If you describe a knife, a bear or an act of charity as ‘good’, you do not seem to be saying that it has some fixed property of goodness. Rather, the context in which you are speaking affects the interpretation of ‘good’. Evaluative adjectives are closely linked to concepts of central importance in philosophy, such as moral goodness, beauty, and value. Hence their app",{"id":484,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":485,"piName":14,"institution":444,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":486,"abstract":487},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162173","Optical polarization for ultrafast computing","€1,499,928","Computing impacts every aspect of modern science and society. Von-Neumann computers are inefficient in addressing important combinatorial optimizations widespread from networks to artificial intelligence. Finding alternative paradigms to tackle these intractable problems is now vital as digital hardware approaches its ultimate performance limit. A promising strategy maps the optimization in spin models implemented on a physical setup that evolves as a spin system to the solution. This fascinatin",{"id":489,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":490,"piName":14,"institution":491,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":492,"abstract":493},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163405","Mesoscopic understanding of supported catalysts with overlapping electric double layers","FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH","€1,441,000","A defossilized global energy ecosystem hinges on efficient conversion between renewable electrical energy and chemical energy stored in molecules. This conversion requires precious catalysts to drive relevant reactions at practical rates. Many catalysts are employed in the form of nanoparticles (NP) dispersed on support materials. All relevant reactions occur in a nanoscale region at the interface between the solid catalyst and an electrolyte solution, i.e., an electric double layer (EDL).Our cu",{"id":495,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":496,"piName":14,"institution":274,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":497},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164084","Tests and Applications of a Peripheral Interference Theory of Reading","Reading ability is essential in modern society. Yet, for many people it comes with considerable difficulty; and to cognition scientists it remains rather mysterious.Here I outline a plan for testing and applying a novel cognitive theory of reading. The plan expands my recent model, PONG (Snell, 2024, Psych Rev), with a groundbreaking perspective on visuo-spatial attention to capture many reading behaviours (WP1). The exciting prospect is that PONG in a single stroke informs three big debates: pa",{"id":499,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":500,"piName":14,"institution":501,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":502,"abstract":503},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162169","A Multimodal Framework for Body-Brain Dynamics in Health and Disease","UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER","€1,498,820","Rhythmic peripheral signals like respiratory, cardiac, and gastric activity not only serve our bodies’ strive for homeostasis, but actively modulate brain activity and behaviour. However, what are the functional mechanisms and signalling pathways by which these rhythms orchestrate brain function? An ever-growing number of studies show that body-brain interactions are of prime importance when we assign functional roles to brain activity. Yet, little is known about how body-brain coupling is gover",{"id":505,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":506,"piName":14,"institution":507,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":508,"abstract":509},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165230","Entanglement Theory: a Quantum Odyssey, from the Generalised Quantum Stein's Lemma to Quantum Gravity","SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE","€1,499,850","Quantum entanglement fuels the most important quantum information processing protocols and is central to modern physics. However, the most profound questions concerning its operational meaning remain unanswered. Most importantly, we do not know how efficiently mixed-state entanglement can be (i) manipulated or (ii) detected, (iii) whether it is possible to formulate a thermodynamical theory of entanglement revolving around a unique entropic measure, and finally (iv) how entanglement can be explo",{"id":511,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":512,"piName":14,"institution":129,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":513,"abstract":514},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163654","Metal-Organic REagents for Light-Enabled Shuttling of protons and electrons","€1,498,250","Protons and electrons are the currency of energy conversion and play a key role in some of the most transformative technologies such as the reduction of N2, CO or CO2.  Exploiting water and sunlight as renewable resources for these transformations offers a means for solar-to-chemicals conversion. Thus, our ability to control the transfer of protons and electrons preventing the more favourable formation of H2 poses an exciting fundamental problem.Strategies based on proton coupled electron transf",{"id":516,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":517,"piName":14,"institution":518,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":519,"abstract":520},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163311","Imaging The Topological Defects of Light-Induced Phases in Quantum Materials","FUNDACION IMDEA NANOCIENCIA","€2,498,960","Quantum materials host many exotic and useful phases, and harnessing these states has spurred tremendous research effort. However, the full potential of quantum materials lies in the rich landscape of higher-energy hidden phases, those which are not thermally accessible. Ultrafast laser excitation has recently emerged as a way access these hidden phases, leading to the idea of re-writing material properties on demand, but these states usually only survive for hundreds of picoseconds. Thus a key ",{"id":522,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":523,"piName":14,"institution":501,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":524,"abstract":525},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163114","Unraveling novel Archaeal Metabolic Pathways impacting Greenhouse Gas Emissions","€1,485,968","Archaea are remarkable microorganisms that form next to bacteria and eukaryotes one of the three domains of life and have shaped Earth’s biogeochemistry and climate for billions of years. These microorganisms are the main producers of the greenhouse gas methane. Especially in view of climate change, it is crucial to understand all factors impacting greenhouse gas emissions. Methanogenic archaea are at the center of my research. Recent breakthroughs in this field have been driven by the discovery",{"id":527,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":528,"piName":14,"institution":399,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":529,"abstract":530},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219207","STEPS: Biomechanical simulations of hominin locomotion across complex terrains","€1,499,522","Human bipedalism is a rare and distinct form of locomotion, unlike that of any other animal. Despite its uniqueness, its evolutionary origins and ecological significance remain elusive. By walking on two legs, early hominins not only freed their hands to hold, manufacture, and use stone tools, but also gained the ability to interact with the environment in new ways, driving innovations in social structure, diet, and survival strategies. This ultimately led to the success of Homo, our genus, whic",{"id":532,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":533,"piName":14,"institution":534,"country":535,"year":13,"amount":536,"abstract":537},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101214615","Geometry and Rigidity in the Complex Plane and in Surfaces","ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS","EL","€1,265,125","The main objective of the proposal is to develop novel methods for the study of the quasiconformal geometry of metric surfaces and of subsets of the complex plane.Geometry of metric surfaces: The uniformization problem asks for conditions on a fractal metric space so that it can be transformed to a smooth space with a well-behaved transformation that preserves the geometry. In joint work with Romney the PI has resolved a major open problem and proved a general quasiconformal uniformization resul",{"id":539,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":540,"piName":14,"institution":239,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":423,"abstract":541},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222000","Large-Volume Electron Spectroscopy for Neutrino Mass Measurement","Neutrinos, assumed massless in the Standard Model of particle physics, must have masses to explain the observation of neutrino oscillations. However, the absolute neutrino mass scale remains elusive. Laboratory measurements using tritium beta decay provide the most direct and model-independent means of determining neutrino mass. Yet, current experiments utilizing molecular tritium sources face fundamental sensitivity limits. This project aims to develop a groundbreaking resonant cavity detector ",{"id":543,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":544,"piName":14,"institution":545,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":546,"abstract":547},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219318","Psychiatric partitions: the politics of mental illness in states of collapse","THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER","€1,499,832","Psychiatric Partitions will transform our understanding of the relationship between politics and psychiatry in the twentieth century. Through its distinctive focus on the global phenomenon of partition – the practice of dividing and redistributing territory, population, and sovereignty – since the First World War, it will contribute the first systematic account of how questions around mental health and psychiatry mattered in these times of acute political and social crisis spanning decades and c",{"id":549,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":550,"piName":14,"institution":309,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":551},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163762","GOLGITACs: Targeted Degradation of Golgi Apparatus residing Carbohydrate Processing Enzymes","Oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates, a hugely diverse class of biomolecules, are closely associated with health and many diseases. Carbohydrate metabolism relies mainly on glycosidases and glycosyltransferases which are carbohydrate processing enzymes (CPEs) that break and create glycosidic bonds, respectively. Controlling their activities is vital for understanding pathological processes in, and developing therapeutics for glycan-related diseases. Recently, new targeted protein degradation (TP",{"id":553,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":554,"piName":14,"institution":555,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":556,"abstract":557},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161457","Koopman-Operator-based Reinforcement Learning Control of Partial Differential Equations","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DORTMUND","€1,499,000","An unprecedented energy crisis is looming over us. In order to transition to a greener and more energy-efficient society, existing technologies need to be improved and novel techniques such as nuclear fusion developed. This requires the stabilization of aerodynamics, heat transfer or combustion and fusion processes and thus, the development of efficient control strategies for large-scale dynamical systems. In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a highly promising data-driven",{"id":559,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":560,"piName":14,"institution":561,"country":562,"year":13,"amount":563,"abstract":564},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220165","Every smell you take – Smell-induced conditioning of the immune system during infections","SVEUCILISTE U RIJECI, MEDICINSKI FAKULTET","HR","€1,993,125","The nervous and immune systems are the body’s primary sensory interfaces, perceiving and responding to environmental stimuli. Both systems can recall past challenges, enabling them to mount responses that anticipate and adapt to ever-changing situation.Recent research indicates that the brain can recall past infections, forming a new axis between neurological memory and immune response. A notable example of such interaction is Pavlovian or classical conditioning, where organisms learn the timing",{"id":566,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":567,"piName":14,"institution":568,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":569,"abstract":570},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165368","Minimal submanifolds in Arbitrary Geometries as Nodal sEts: Towards hIgher Codimension","UNIVERSITA COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI","€1,420,400","The goal of this research proposal is to advance the calculus of variations of area in codimension higher than one, specifically existence and regularity of its critical points (minimal submanifolds) and properties of its gradient flow (mean curvature flow). These are central objects in mathematics since three centuries and contributed to the birth of geometric analysis, geometric measure theory, and calculus of variations. Their (non-)existence often reveals deep links between small-scale geome",{"id":572,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":573,"piName":14,"institution":285,"country":286,"year":13,"amount":574,"abstract":575},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165294","Revealing the Hidden Universe: A Comprehensive Study of Low-Mass Galaxies Beyond the Local Group","€2,250,000","Low-mass (dwarf) galaxies, with masses under a few billion solar masses, hold significant importance in astrophysics. They are the key objects in challenging dark matter models on small scales, yet considerable uncertainties remain in our understanding of their baryonic physics. Dwarfs also hold important clues on early star formation and chemical enrichment, and on the buildup of galaxies and the black holes within them. However, studying them has been hard  their low surface brightness nature ",{"id":577,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":578,"piName":14,"institution":579,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":580,"abstract":581},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164015","Integrating ecosystem resilience around thresholds in aridity: unveiling nature-based mechanisms to endure abrupt desertification","UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID","€1,499,950","Resilience (the ability of ecosystems to withstand disturbances without losing its structural or functional properties) is crucial to confront changes imposed by climate change such as ongoing increases in aridity. This is especially relevant for drylands, which have been shown to exhibit abrupt changes in their structure and functioning once that certain aridity thresholds are crossed. However, we have very little understanding on the drivers and patterns of resilience around aridity thresholds",{"id":583,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":584,"piName":14,"institution":122,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":585,"abstract":586},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160928","Designing Social Media Recommendation Algorithms for Societal Good","€2,037,464","Social media platforms are central for civic discourse yet evidence is mounting that they play a causal role in deteriorating social cohesion. User behaviour on social media platforms is governed by content recommendation algorithms that maximise engagement, leading to unintended consequences such as the promotion of outrage.The EU's newly enacted Digital Services Act mandates social media platforms to assess their systemic risks for society. However, the current challenge lies in translating ab",{"id":588,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":589,"piName":14,"institution":590,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":591,"abstract":592},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221417","Lysosomal lipid logistics","MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAT INNSBRUCK","€1,497,278","Lysosomes are the central degradative organelle of all cells and function as logistic centres of cellular metabolite flux. Their dysregulation underlies ~70 monogenetic lysosomal storage disorders, metabolic syndromes, neurodegenerative maladies, and aging, thus affecting an ever-growing portion of the human population. A frequent denominator in these pathophysiological conditions is the deposition of lipids and lipid metabolites in the lysosomal lumen which leads to the accumulation of dysfunct",{"id":594,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":595,"piName":14,"institution":596,"country":457,"year":13,"amount":597,"abstract":598},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101218797","Flood Adaptation under Climate Change with the European Socio-Hydrological Model","UNIWERSYTET SZCZECINSKI","€1,473,000","European riverine and coastal floodplains are highly managed systems, where different human actions can both increase or decrease flood risk. For instance, the “levee effect” could reduce the effectiveness of structural flood protection by encouraging exposure growth and lack of individual precaution, increasing impacts when a severe flood eventually overwhelms the dikes. On the other hand, frequent flooding has been shown to reduce vulnerability through adoption of local precautionary measures ",{"id":600,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":601,"piName":14,"institution":239,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":602,"abstract":603},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162708","Minimally invasive and closed-loop ultrasound neuromodulation and recording for the treatment of focal epilepsy","€1,499,575","Epilepsy is a common and debilitating chronic neurological disorder. Furthermore, a large fraction of patients suffers from refractory (drug-resistant) epilepsy. Responsive electrostimulation is a state-of-the-art treatment for refractory epilepsy but is invasive and not cell-type selective. As a result, the surgery is susceptible to complications, e.g., haemorrhage and infection, and overstimulation due to false-positive epilepsy detection can cause brain region overactivity and even induce sei",{"id":605,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":606,"piName":14,"institution":607,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":608},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161771","Understanding and designing inorganic materials properties based on two- and multicenter bonds","BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -PRUEFUNG","A major challenge for the green transition is our inability to rationally design inorganic materials with tailor-made properties. This project will tackle this inability by transforming our understanding of chemical bonding in inorganic materials.Understandable rules based on chemical bonds have greatly advanced chemistry but are missing for most material properties, severely limiting the rational design of materials. Until recently, quantum chemical bonding analysis of inorganic materials has o",{"id":610,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":611,"piName":14,"institution":612,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":613,"abstract":614},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165321","The role of the HYPOrheic zone on the transporter-transformer functions of River corridors.","POLITECNICO DI MILANO","€1,482,520","Reactive substances transported in river corridors undergo several transformations having important implications for the fate of toxic chemicals and the health of fluvial ecosystems. Delivery of substances into the slow and geochemically-microbially rich hyporheic zone delays their downstream transport and promotes opportunities for biogeochemical reactions. The resulting delay and reactivity at larger scales are shaped by the ubiquitous heterogeneity of environmental porous media and the tempor",{"id":616,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":617,"piName":14,"institution":618,"country":366,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":619},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162195","Harnessing Localized Charges for Advancing Polar Materials Engineering","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB","Semiconductor functionality hinges on the behaviour of excess charges, especially electrons and holes, crucial for storing, transporting, and converting energy. In certain semiconductors, charges can localize within lattice distortions, forming polarons or self-trapped excitons. While these entities alter material traits, there remains a gap in understanding their nature, especially in complex inorganic and organometallic materials, and methods for their reliable control and identification are l",{"id":621,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":622,"piName":14,"institution":623,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":624,"abstract":625},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164097","Towards a Theory of Rational Desire","UNIVERSITETET I INNLANDET","€998,633","The standard framework for rational decision making is expected utility theory. In this framework, decision makers are modelled as having a probability function, which represents their degrees of belief about what is likely to happen, as well as a utility function that represents how desirable they find each possible outcome. Expected utility theory has been influential in many disciplines, including philosophy, but it has important limitations and flaws. In particular, desires are typically tre",{"id":627,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":628,"piName":14,"institution":629,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":630,"abstract":631},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221238","Genome editing of noncoding regions to map sequence-function relationships at scale","THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED","€1,499,511","Deciphering how genetic variants lead to disease can advance precision diagnostics and mechanistically informed therapies. Yet, our ability to link variants in the human genome’s vast noncoding regions to phenotypic consequences is highly limited. This stems largely from a lack of experimental evidence on individual variants’ functional effects. Here, we propose to develop and deploy a suite of new genome editing methods to generate functional data for noncoding variants at unprecedented scale.F",{"id":633,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":634,"piName":14,"institution":635,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":636,"abstract":637},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219172","Insubordinate Finance? The postcolonial politics of financial centers in the Global South","INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT","€1,896,000","Cities in the global North have served for centuries as the command-and-control centers of global finance. They have long determined the unequal access to credit and often harsh conditions of debt repayment for people, businesses, and states across the world. This control has maintained colonial power inequalities that many scholars now characterize as 'international financial subordination'. Yet in recent years, an increasing number of officials, citizens, and professionals across the Global So",{"id":639,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":640,"piName":14,"institution":641,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":642,"abstract":643},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164934","Rethinking work beyond productivism from labour law and its uses","UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES","€1,498,511","Despite the diagnosis that rethinking work beyond productivism is key for ecological transition, research on the future of work is confined to a general and abstract level, and therefore remains inoperative. This ERC aims to elucidate the role that national systems of labour law, which define and organise work, already play, and could play further, in the emancipation of work from productivism. To think about the future of work, we propose to start from present institutions, and uses, of labour ",{"id":645,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":646,"piName":14,"institution":647,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":648,"abstract":649},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164505","Navigating the Marketplace of Indicators","NORSK UTENRIKSPOLITISK INSTITUTT","€1,499,970","Most policy fields in global governance have an abundance of country performance indicators (CPIs) and new CPIs proliferate apace. States are now measured and ranked on a dizzying array of cross-cutting metrics. Prima facie, the era of indicators promises a revolution: armed with ever improving data, policymakers can better allocate scarce resources to address global challenges. Yet, the era of indicators generates a problem and a paradox: while each individual CPI strives to simplify complexity",{"id":651,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":652,"piName":14,"institution":653,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":654,"abstract":655},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161197","Wrap It Up: Deciphering experience-dependent myelin growth across development.","PHILIPPS UNIVERSITAET MARBURG","€1,497,540","Humans start life fully dependent on the care of others, yet we go on to acquire skills no other species is capable of. What is the biological basis of this remarkable plasticity? Animal studies suggest a critical role of myelin in learning and brain plasticity, while post-mortem assessments of the human brain show that myelin maturation, which is completed around birth in other species, continues until adulthood. How does this uniquely protracted myelin development enable and constrain our apti",{"id":657,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":658,"piName":14,"institution":338,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":659},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161713","Human genetic determinants of invasive group A streptococcal host-pathogen interactions","Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a major, human specific, bacterial pathogen. Most people suffer from mild infections, while only a few develop invasive GAS (iGAS) infections. These cases of iGAS infections are unexplained as they strike otherwise healthy people. The human specificity of GAS and the interindividual variability upon infection with GAS are poorly understood. My proposal aims to close both knowledge gaps: I hypothesize that single-gene defects of antistreptococcal immunity increase s",{"id":661,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":662,"piName":14,"institution":450,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":663,"abstract":664},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165216","Keyless Cryptography for Efficiency and Security","€1,497,941","Cryptographic primitives are the foundation of security in any secure information system.Permutations and similar keyless cryptographic primitives have risen to great popularity in recent years thanks to their flexibility and performance.They power new lightweight cryptography standards or serve as core building blocks of post-quantum cryptography and advanced privacy-preserving protocols.However, the security analysis of these designs still follows the traditional cryptanalytic methodology base",{"id":666,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":667,"piName":14,"institution":142,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":668,"abstract":669},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160935","Activate Repair In StrokE","€1,499,979","The brain exhibits remarkable capacities to initiate self-repair mechanisms after brain injury as a prerequisite for the recovery of lost functions. ARISE will unveil fundamental, yet not understood principles how brain repair mechanisms are orchestrated and how they can be further enhanced. Due to technical constraints, it was previously impossible to uncover 1) how individual neurons rewire and reconnect after CNS injury, 2) why some surviving neurons participate in repair processes and others",{"id":671,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":672,"piName":14,"institution":673,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":674,"abstract":675},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164035","Reassessing Late Medieval Pharmacology: Logical and Metaphysical Tools in the Medical Context","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO","€1,498,828","ReMedY addresses the metaphysical, logical and epistemological implications of late medieval pharmacological classifications. Medieval pharmacology was often divided into a rational and a practical part. Rational pharmacology dealt with the theories of drug classification, explaining how to recognise the substance and the qualities of a drug and how to differentiate it from other drugs. Rational pharmacology was thoroughly re-systematised during the 14th century in various university milieus, ha",{"id":677,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":678,"piName":14,"institution":679,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":680,"abstract":681},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161791","The role of olfactory sensitivity  on task specialization in a social insect","UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY","€1,864,575","Division of labor and task specialization are key elements explaining the remarkable ecological success of human and animal societies. Social insect colonies are characterized by a highly effective division of labor, with workers specializing in brood care early in life and in foraging later in life. Various theoretical models have been proposed to explain division of labor, most prominently the response threshold model, which postulates that individuals differ in their response threshold to tas",{"id":683,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":684,"piName":14,"institution":685,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":686},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164797","Programmable interfaces: towards reliable and recyclable composite materials via debonding on demand","MONTANUNIVERSITAET LEOBEN","The combination of different materials is often key to the functionality of engineering components. For instance, metal films on polymers are omnipresent composite materials, from food packaging to satellite insulation and flexible electronic displays. Thereby, interfaces are often the weakest link, associated with dissimilar physical properties of adjacent layers or joining parts. A common strategy to prevent interface failure is enhancing adhesion. However, strong (inseparable) interfaces limi",{"id":688,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":689,"piName":14,"institution":690,"country":691,"year":13,"amount":692,"abstract":693},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162819","Food identities: biomolecular archaeology reveals multiple and dynamic social identities","TARTU ULIKOOL","EE","€2,404,561","The major challenge of archaeological identity studies stems from the dynamic, multidimensional, performative and contextual nature of identities, which are hard to grasp through the material remains alone. To tackle the complexities of different identity manifestations, one possible solution is to investigate the social phenomena that bridge both daily and special events, apply to all members of a community, cover different social categories, and are not limited to material culture. One of thes",{"id":695,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":696,"piName":14,"institution":274,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":697,"abstract":698},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162096","Unravelling the history of underSEA oceanic plateau VOLCanism and its environmental impact in Earth’s past","€1,499,670","Oceanic plateaus are amongst the largest geological phenomena on Earth, and their undersea volcanic formation had profound environmental effects, such as climate warming and ocean anoxia. Whilst huge progress has been made to link their land-based counterparts, continental flood basalt provinces, with climate change and mass extinctions, oceanic plateaus have been comparatively understudied due to their limited accessibility and relatively benign ecological impact. Yet, plateau volcanism trigger",{"id":700,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":701,"piName":14,"institution":702,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":703,"abstract":704},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163266","Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic (LEARN)","FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES","€1,499,853","Health crises, natural disasters, and violent conflicts pose global threats to children’s educational development. The frequency and severity of such disruptive events is intensifying due to climate change and the growing instability of the global security architecture. Yet, we lack a systematic understanding of how major disruptive events affect children’s educational development, largely because such events tend to also disrupt the collection of high-quality data on children’s education.Due to",{"id":706,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":707,"piName":14,"institution":708,"country":186,"year":13,"amount":709,"abstract":710},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163472","A Systematic Exploration of Interreal Translations in the Media Multiverse","TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR","€1,439,590","What will be the shape of the mediated reality to come? Current models include a single interconnected immersive metaverse, an increasing integration between physical reality and ambient technology, and a postdigital disaffection towards immersive technologies. InterReal argues that the most probable outcome, in the near future, will not be the identification of a clear avenue, but rather a multiplication of “realities”: a Media Multiverse. This multiverse encompasses all kinds of media-generate",{"id":712,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":713,"piName":14,"institution":185,"country":186,"year":13,"amount":714,"abstract":715},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161789","From the Margin to the Centre: Rights Development, Transitional Justice and Indigeneity in the Nordics","€1,498,109","Globally, indigenous peoples’ rights appear to become recognised to a greater extent, but are indigenous groups more included in settler states’ laws and societies? Built on the strong foundation of legal mobilisation, rights development and transitional justice theories, MARCEN aims to inaugurate a paradigm-shifting legal inclusion theory with broad implementation possibilities.With the goal of establishing a new scientific foundation to understand the interplay between supranational and nation",{"id":717,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":718,"piName":14,"institution":719,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":720,"abstract":721},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220843","Neural Mechanisms and Non-invasive Deep Brain Stimulation of Mood and Well-being","UNIVERSITA VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE","€1,477,500","Our expectations about the world shape our mood and well-being. In extreme contexts, mood can become pathologically depressed as in mood disorders or dementia. Recent studies have begun to suggest a mechanism for how expectations (and their violation) impact human moods. Unfortunately, this mechanism relies on correlational studies since we currently lack tools able to directly manipulate these circuits in healthy humans. UltraDeepMood will combine cutting-edge ultrasound stimulation with imagin",{"id":723,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":724,"piName":14,"institution":192,"country":186,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":725},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164993","Life-inspired physical feedback coupling in multidimensional hydrogels","Towards the new frontier of self-regulated, autonomous, and adaptive synthetic materials, DIMENSION aims to bring a breakthrough by introducing coupled physical feedback loops in multidimensional hydrogels. Physical feedback mechanisms allow remote powering and interplay with the environmental stimuli and have proven to be instrumental in achieving groundbreaking material functionalities. However, the state-of-the-art physical feedback systems are all limited to single negative feedback loops wi",{"id":727,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":728,"piName":14,"institution":239,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":168,"abstract":729},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162972","sustainable LUnar Metal, Oxygen and Cement eXtraction methodology development","Raw materials scarcity and the geographical dependency for critical materials is a growing concern within the EU. As demands for materials and minerals keeps on increasing, directing our view to space becomes an option to be considered. Humankind has continued to expand its reach beyond Earth, for which establishing a permanent base on the Moon is necessary. Launching technology has a large economic and ecological footprint. Producing resources, such as metals, cement-like materials and oxygen, ",{"id":731,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":732,"piName":14,"institution":733,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":734,"abstract":735},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161207","Beyond Turing: Reaction-diffusion mechanisms of embryonic self-organization","THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN","€1,488,736","Developing embryos display a remarkable capacity for self-organization, generating diverse shapes, patterns and structures de novo. First conceived in the 1950s, Turing’s reaction-diffusion hypothesis proposes that this self-organization is driven by interacting and diffusing signalling molecules.  Indeed, mathematical Turing models recapitulate patterning in silico. However, key limitations cast doubt on the relevance of Turing models in vivo.  First, current models are highly simplified and ex",{"id":737,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":738,"piName":14,"institution":612,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":739},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164071","Uncertainty Integration for a Transition in Energy and Sustainability","Geopolitical and socio-economic uncertainties are putting the European and Global energy transitions at stake. These deep uncertainties affect the analytical assessments underpinning energy and climate policies. For example, the models used to inform energy planning rely on uncertain forecasts and assumptions for future energy demands, macroeconomic indicators, social acceptance, fuel prices, technology costs, and climate scenarios. Due to fundamental methodological, computational, and data chal",{"id":741,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":742,"piName":14,"institution":399,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":743,"abstract":744},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162746","Analytic number theory and higher order Fourier analysis","€1,493,135","Many of the central problems in analytic number theory concern the existence of patterns in the primes or the randomness properties of the Möbius function. The aim of this proposal is to make progress on such questions, using in particular methods from higher order Fourier analysis.Two fundamental conjectures about randomness of the Möbius function are the Chowla and Sarnak conjectures. This proposal aims to make progress on these conjectures and their variants, in particular by studying a conje",{"id":746,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":747,"piName":14,"institution":748,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":749,"abstract":750},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165038","Resolving the Multiscale, Multiphase Universe","RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG","€1,492,750","Galaxies grow through the reciprocal cycling of gas between disks and their massive surrounding halos. Despite major strides in observations and simulations, the physics regulating this galactic ecosystem remains unclear, primarily due to the multiphase, multiscale nature of circumgalactic gas.All current cosmological simulations fail to capture the multiphase structure of galactic halos and exhibit a lack of convergence in even the first order gas properties such as the amount of cold gas found",{"id":752,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":753,"piName":14,"institution":754,"country":366,"year":13,"amount":755,"abstract":756},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165699","Structure and Function-based Design of Vaccine Antigens and Antiviral Immunotherapies","KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET","€1,499,525","Vaccines are critical in preventing viral diseases, and recent advances in vaccine development and delivery platforms have enhanced their reach and efficacy. Viral glycoproteins that mediate host cell entry are the primary target of the humoral immune response and thus the main antigenic component of vaccines. However, for many viruses, we lack fundamental biological insights that would easily allow transforming their glycoproteins into highly effective vaccine antigens.In this proposal, I intro",{"id":758,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":759,"piName":14,"institution":285,"country":286,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":760},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164755","Massive-binary EvoluTion Across the metallicity Ladder","Do massive stars undergo supernova explosions when collapsing into black holes? What mechanisms drove the Cosmos into an epoch of reionization? How was dust produced in the Early Universe? Scarcely any field of astronomy remains unaffected by massive stars: stars born with more than eight solar masses. Yet, studies in the Local Universe reveal substantial gaps in our understanding of massive stars related to mass loss, internal mixing, core-collapse, and stellar interactions. Uncertainties worse",{"id":762,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":763,"piName":14,"institution":690,"country":691,"year":13,"amount":764,"abstract":765},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162204","Empire of solidarities: a connected history of private charity across a decentred Romanov Empire, 1855–1914","€1,499,954","By the late nineteenth century, the Romanov Empire stretched half-way across the globe, turning inhabitants of the territory stretching from todays Tallinn to Vladivostok into subjects of one and the same empire. Yet, we know little about whether the population felt any impulse to help one another in times of need. Under what circumstances did people feel compassion towards distant others and how far-ranging did their sympathies extend? What did these solidarities mean, how were they enacted and",{"id":767,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":768,"piName":14,"institution":167,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":769,"abstract":770},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164130","Investigating virus-induced morbidity in filarial infections","€1,499,808","Filarial parasites cause over 200 million infections globally. Filarial morbidity was presumably limited to the skin, eyes, and lymphatic vessels. However, my research generated evidence that Onchocerca volvulus infection also induces neurological disease including Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE). However, the causal mechanisms for neurological symptoms linked to O. volvulus infection are still unknown.Recently my research group co-discovered a virus (OVRV1) within O. volvulus. Being re",{"id":772,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":773,"piName":14,"institution":774,"country":186,"year":13,"amount":775,"abstract":776},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162434","Multi-kingdom biodiversity in residential environments  and immune-mediated diseases in children","SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS","€1,730,426","All organisms constantly shed traces of their DNA in the environment. Scientists can collect this DNA and explore who is or was there, across kingdoms of life. Our immune system is also aware of organisms in the environment as it screens everything it faces. During the first months of life, the immune system adapts to its current environment. Limited exposure to bacteria or fungi during this sensitive developmental period can lead to misdirected immune responses and development of immune-mediate",{"id":778,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":779,"piName":14,"institution":545,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":780,"abstract":781},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162711","Formation and Evolution of Exocometary Discs","€1,499,321","The last two decades of exoplanet discoveries have revolutionised our view of planetary systems and our place in the cosmos, bringing us closer to answering fundamental questions about how these systems form and evolve. These advancements have, however, mainly focused on the inner regions of these systems due to the difficulties of probing their colder outer regions, despite their importance for the formation and evolution of planets. These barriers are, nevertheless, breaking thanks to observat",{"id":783,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":784,"piName":14,"institution":785,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":786,"abstract":787},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163620","The Mathematics of Quantum Propagation","EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN","€1,480,403","Strongly interacting and strongly correlated quantum many-body systems are at the forefront of modern quantum physics. Experimentalists have obtained unprecedented control on the interaction parameters and are able to reliably produce striking fundamental phenomena. These problems demand a rigorous mathematical treatment, but analytical methods are extremely scarce. Outside of special scaling limits, the gold standard are Lieb-Robinson bounds (LRBs) which provide an a priori bound on the speed o",{"id":789,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":790,"piName":14,"institution":215,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":791,"abstract":792},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220742","Efficient infinite-dimensional optimization over measures","€1,499,632","Optimization over probability measures has become a powerful approach for solving complex problemsthat involve probabilistic modeling. Advanced by the PI and collaborators, it extends finite-dimensionaloptimization to the infinite-dimensional space of probability measures. This framework provides a princi-pled way to address in particular the task of sampling, that refers to the process of drawing samples froma complex probability distribution, either to approximate it or generate new data. In B",{"id":794,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":795,"piName":14,"institution":796,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":797,"abstract":798},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164102","The Quark-Gluon Plasma through Energy Correlators","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE","€1,499,275","The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is an exotic state of matter made of deconfined quarks and gluons, which behaves as a strongly-coupled fluid, with no discernible microscopic particle-like dynamics. Understanding how this strongly-coupled liquid emerges from matter which, at very short distances, is made of weakly-coupled partons stands as one of the paramount challenges in heavy-ion physics for the coming decade. T",{"id":800,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":801,"piName":14,"institution":802,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":803},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162681","Antigen-specific treatments to target autoimmune kidney diseases","UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HAMBURG-EPPENDORF","Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects around 10% of the population worldwide and is associated with significant overall and cardiovascular mortality. CKD is a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by alterations in kidney structure and function and is progressive in nature. Autoimmune diseases are a common cause of CKD and responsible for its most aggressive and progressive forms, mainly in younger patients. Autoantibodies play major pathogenic roles in most of these disorders and multip",{"id":805,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":806,"piName":14,"institution":239,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":807},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160805","Climate impacts on diatom genomes over micro- and macroevolutionary timescales","Diatoms are a group of highly diverse, globally dominant microalgae which contribute significantly to global carbon fixation and biogeochemical cycling. Understanding how diatoms adapt to changes in their environment is therefore a major research interest. However, whereas the phenotypic outcomes of adaptation have received considerable attention, we understand little about the genomic underpinnings of evolution and adaptation in diatoms. Within DIADAPT, I will investigate the genomic processes ",{"id":809,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":810,"piName":14,"institution":399,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":811,"abstract":812},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160971","Deciphering the regulatory logic of the ubiquitin system","€1,528,843","As the primary route through which eukaryotic cells achieve selective protein degradation, the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) plays a key role in virtually all critical cellular processes. A major unresolved question concerns how the ubiquitin system attains such high selectivity towards its myriad of substrates. The main specificity determinants are the E3 ubiquitin ligases, which recognise cognate ‘degron’ motifs found in substrate proteins. However, for the majority of the ~600 E3 ligases ",{"id":814,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":815,"piName":14,"institution":816,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":817,"abstract":818},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165245","Complete Characterization of Photochemical Reactions by Time- and Energy-Resolved Electron Scattering","FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN EV","€2,492,679","Many processes in nature and industry are intricately linked to the structure-function relationship of molecules, which optical stimuli can profoundly alter. Chemists and physicists have long sought to unravel the ultrafast structural changes of photochemical reactions. Using two short pulses with precisely synchronized time delays, a series of snapshots of the evolving electronic and molecular structures at various reaction times can be collected, analogous to assembling frames in a video. Meas",{"id":820,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":821,"piName":14,"institution":822,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":823},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164006","Hormone-Induced Resistance to GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Diabetes: Unraveling the Molecular Complexities","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA","Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) have revolutionized the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, a subset of patients does not respond to these agents or develop treatment resistance, which poses a significant clinical challenge. Emerging evidence from our work in humans and mice shows that endogenous amidated hormones synergize with GLP-1RAs to reduce glycated hemoglobin, and their absence promotes GLP-1RA resistance. This proposal explores the intricate mecha",{"id":825,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":826,"piName":14,"institution":827,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":828,"abstract":829},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163633","Roads to Sustainability: exploring the infrastructures of a sustainable future","THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS","€1,367,444","Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human\u002F nonhuman relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led ",{"id":831,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":832,"piName":14,"institution":833,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":834,"abstract":835},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162145","Circadian structural transitions of chromatin","INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA","€1,624,563","Transcription factors (TFs) distinctly mark regions of the genome for expression and are the pillars of cell identity. Yet, even at the basic level of DNA recognition by TFs, we know very little about how this is achieved. In eukaryotes, all DNA-templated processes occur in chromatin; however, most studies elucidating the molecular mechanisms of transcription have been performed on histone-free DNA. In the proposed project, we will use TFs as centerpieces to understand how, in the circadian syst",{"id":837,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":838,"piName":14,"institution":839,"country":366,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":840},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164562","Causes and consequences of higher host specialisation in the tropics – the role of ecological and evolutionary processes, and of data bias","SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET","While the latitudinal diversity gradient is one of the rare patterns that might be considered general and widely accepted in ecology, the latitudinal specialisation gradient remains controversial. Ecological specialisation varies greatly across the tree of life, with clades that depend on a host organism for survival being among the most specialised. Understanding the processes that produce the global pattern of increasing host specialisation with decreasing latitude would be a breakthrough in t",{"id":842,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":843,"piName":14,"institution":844,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":845,"abstract":846},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164099","A road to remember: Neural plasticity through the lens of gut-brain interactions","UNIVERSITAT WIEN","€1,499,755","The fact that the brain is influenced by the microorganisms that make up the gut microbiome substantially widens the scope of how we need to view human neurocognition and behaviour. However, a clear understanding of underlying mechanisms is scant and mainly grounded in animal work. This proposal aims at major contributions towards overcoming these limitations. The core hypothesis is that gut bacteria are key in shaping neural plasticity, and in this way, influence human memory abilities. Changes",{"id":848,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":849,"piName":14,"institution":142,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":850},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101117531","Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of \u2028Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societies","This project investigates how children in three small-scale Indigenous societies develop moral understandings and behavior in relation to different environments and environmental transformations. Communities across the world are experiencing rapid changes to the spaces they inhabit, such as deforestation or changing land use, forcing them to radically alter their ways of life and subsistence. But we know very little about how these may impact the moral development of children.Environments are fr",{"id":852,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":853,"piName":14,"institution":854,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":855,"abstract":856},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165883","Continual and Sequential Learning for Artificial Intelligence","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT NURNBERG","€1,259,375","Machine Learning systems, while promising, lack the autonomy needed for many real-world applications beyond mere proof-of-concept stages. The key challenge lies in enabling AI to continuously adapt to shifting data distributions and proactively seek information under high uncertainty.Fields such as drug discovery and micro-chemistry are expecting breakthroughs from AI, given the vast and intricate search spaces they deal with, coupled with expensive data acquisition. It is vital for algorithms t",{"id":858,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":859,"piName":14,"institution":860,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":861,"abstract":862},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163939","The role of animal-microbe interactions in the early evolution of animal social life","UNIVERSITAT BAYREUTH","€1,483,126","Animal social life is widespread and highly diverse, and has been heavily scrutinized due to its crucial impact on the diversity and complexity of life on earth. However, a key ecological driver of social life remains poorly understood: interactions with microbes. Traditionally viewed as an obstacle to social life, microbes are increasingly recognized for the benefits they can provide to their host, and a growing number of studies shows that interactions with microbes can shape key aspects of an",{"id":864,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":865,"piName":14,"institution":167,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":866,"abstract":867},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162710","Unravelling the Politics of Basic Income: How Responsive Are Policymakers to Public Opinion?","€1,495,160","In light of growing debates on the idea of basic income (BI), the BI-RESPONS project investigates under which conditions policymakers respond to public opinion about BI. I argue that BI is a scientifically challenging case because it poses a theoretical puzzle that has hitherto not been addressed empirically. On the one hand, BI is a likely case for responsiveness to occur because its introduction would directly impact the lives of many citizens. On the other hand, BI is an unlikely case compare",{"id":869,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":870,"piName":14,"institution":871,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":872},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164040","Science and Dogma: Tracing Natural Knowledge within Scholastic Theology (1545–1789)","RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM","The early modern period is usually viewed as a time of profound change, including the so-called ‘Scientific Revolution’ and the Protestant\u002FCatholic Reformation. Historians have linked these two seemingly disparate transformations in many different ways, but one important dimension is yet to be uncovered. SCIGMA’s main hypothesis is that natural knowledge significantly influenced dogmatics as a central branch of theology in the early modern university. University textbooks eagerly addressed many ",{"id":874,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":875,"piName":14,"institution":876,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":877},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101155767","Lightsheet Brillouin Nanoscopy: mechano-sensitive superresolution imaging for regenerative medicine","UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET","Better microscopes have always triggered scientific discovery. Lightsheet microscopy and nanoscopy are no exception and have initiated knowledge jumps in structural and dynamical imaging. However, they do not inform us on mechanical properties. The domain of mechano-sensitive microscopy is still in its infancy yet has already unveiled a stark dependence of cellular development on local stiffness and viscoelasticity. For instance, coordinated strain on the sub-millimetre scale is a key ingredient",{"id":879,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":880,"piName":14,"institution":303,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":423,"abstract":881},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220305","Using a principled causal approach for causal queries: the Ostracism Causal Project","Ostracism—being ignored or excluded— manifests in many forms in everyday life, such as ghosting, bullying, microaggressions, and cancel culture. For decades, psychologists have examined its real-world impacts, including depression, suicide risk, violence, extremism, societal divides, and inequalities. However, much of this evidence is not causal due to the absence of tools for quantifying the causal effects of naturally occurring exposures in psychological science. Relying on the existing approa",{"id":883,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":884,"piName":14,"institution":754,"country":366,"year":13,"amount":378,"abstract":885},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165552","Unveiling the Molecular Secrets of Reproductive Mood Disorders: a Multi-Omics Approach Project","Reproductive mood disorders (RMDs), including premenstrual disorder and postpartum depression, have a significant impact on women and their families, contributing to the well-known gender gap in mental health. However, effectively diagnosing and treating RMDs remains an ongoing challenge. These conditions are closely tied to hormonal changes during menstruation and childbirth, indicating a shared vulnerability. While the precise mechanisms are not yet fully understood, emerging data, including m",{"id":887,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":888,"piName":14,"institution":178,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":889,"abstract":890},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163249","Nanotechnology-enabled deep profiling of the blood and brain proteome at the intersection of neurodegeneration and neurooncology","€1,494,954","NanoNeuroOmics ambition is to bring together nanotechnology, proteomics and blood biomarker discovery at the emerging intersection of neurodegeneration and neurooncology. NanoNeuroOmics proposes a nanotechnology-based innovative solution for the integrative profiling of the blood and brain tissue proteomes to address two interconnected challenges: i) The unmet clinical need for early diagnostic and disease-monitoring blood biomarkers for two of the most challenging Central Nervous System disorde",{"id":892,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":893,"piName":14,"institution":365,"country":366,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":894},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165689","Scattering Amplitudes for Effective Field Theory: Simplicity and Structures from Classical to Quantum","I propose a research program that may forever change the way we build and apply effective field theory to connect with formal theories and experiments. This will be achieved through the lenses of scattering amplitudes, which are the central observables in quantum field theory.  By manifesting fundamental principles using scattering amplitudes in effective field theory,  we can uncover surprising simplicity and new structures. My research has already led to the discovery and developments of this ",{"id":896,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":897,"piName":14,"institution":898,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":899,"abstract":900},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220703","From Spins to Birds to Traders: Model Adaptation in the Study of Critical Behavior","PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG","€1,499,687","Is there a common ground between the behavior of a flock of starlings and the polarization of opinions within human communities? Can we represent traders in a financial market just like spins in a magnet? For years, scientists have conjectured that a certain type of collective behavior ubiquitous in nature adhere to common principles, which can be captured by the physics of criticality. Originally, this idea was largely speculative, but the last three decades have witnessed an increase in the nu",{"id":902,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":903,"piName":14,"institution":303,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":904},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165167","Soft Enforcement of EU Migration Law","This project will establish soft enforcement of EU migration law as a new research field in which legal and political science scholars will be equally active. Migration is a salient issue for the EU, and we are witnessing deep shifts in the implementation and enforcement landscapes of EU migration law. Traditional enforcement methods, such as Court of Justice proceedings initiated by the European Commission against Member States, have met their limit. Soft enforcement is becoming a flexible and ",{"id":906,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":907,"piName":14,"institution":844,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":908,"abstract":909},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163944","The politics of alter-biotic innovation: Examining the making of alternative regimes of biomedical innovation in response to the global health crisis of antimicrobial resistance","€1,499,173","Modern antibiotics greatly contributed to fighting infectious diseases. However, today we face a resurgence of deadly drug-resistant microbes due the excessive use of antibiotics – a phenomenon known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR is not only a pressing public health problem, but a unique and fundamental crisis that profoundly challenges existing regimes of pharmaceutical innovation that have for long provided societies with powerful, easily available antibiotics. However, long-term solu",{"id":911,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":912,"piName":14,"institution":844,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":913,"abstract":914},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163057","Unveiling the Shadows: Illuminating Late Pleistocene Human-Carnivore Interactions in Europe","€1,499,813","Caves played a vital role for Pleistocene human and carnivore populations, serving as shelters, scavenging sites, and feeding grounds. They remain the primary context preserving archeological and faunal remains in Europe. Carnivores competed with Pleistocene humans for resources and significantly contributed to cave bone accumulations and modification. Notably, evidence of carnivore behaviors largely derives from anthropogenic contexts, studied through an anthropo-centric lens. However, carnivor",{"id":916,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":917,"piName":14,"institution":844,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":918,"abstract":919},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101115642","Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change","€1,499,743","Beyond Thalidomide will trace the historical rise of patient engagement with drug related disability through the second half of the twentieth century to understand how a novel empowered group transformed conceptions of (reproductive) health and disease in science and society. The project will map the conditions in which patient became engaged with antenatal drug use, and reconstruct how their action has created political and scientific urgency since 1960. This multifaceted engagement resulted in",{"id":921,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":922,"piName":14,"institution":923,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":924,"abstract":925},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164219","The epistemology of costly communication – offline and online","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO","€1,389,776","In our digital era, characterised by easy access to both information and misinformation, understanding the mechanisms that encourage truthful communication is more crucial than ever. Despite the social and ethical importance of these issues, however, we lack a unified framework to systematically investigate the social incentives that motivate speakers to communicate truthfully. COST-X will inaugurate a novel, interdisciplinary, empirically-minded approach to studying communicative norms. The pro",{"id":927,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":928,"piName":14,"institution":844,"country":123,"year":13,"amount":929,"abstract":930},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101160656","Getting Ahead of Landslides: Understanding Social and Environmental Interactions to Anticipate Future Urban Landslide Risk","€1,499,153","Global landslide casualties will rise due to greater exposure, lack of practical measures, and informed policies addressing growing landslide risks.Global urban population has grown from 30% in 1950 to about 50% today and will likely reach 68% by 2050, increasing the number of people exposed to landslides to 90 million from today's 65 million. This surge in the urban population and associated landscape modifications, often unplanned, exacerbate landslide risk, especially in the tropics. For exam",{"id":932,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":933,"piName":14,"institution":934,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":935,"abstract":936},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162083","An anthropological study of truth wars from marginalized standpoints","UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA","€1,492,305","In today’s age of post-normal science and fragmentation of the public sphere, truth itself has become an increasingly contentious and contested concept. De-CRIPT will introduce theoretical andmethodological innovations into research on truth-making processes to expand current understandings of the nexus between controversial truth claims (particularly those labelled conspiracy narratives) and socioeconomic disadvantage. Comparing four paradigmatic communities subject to longstanding or newly-eme",{"id":938,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":939,"piName":14,"institution":940,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":941,"abstract":942},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163784","Unraveling mechanisms of drug resistance: APOBEC3A as a genomic and post-transcriptional driver of treatment resistance in pancreatic cancer","KLINIKUM DER TECHNISCHEN UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN (TUM KLINIKUM)","€1,880,615","Pancreatic cancer is predicted to become the third leading cause of cancer-related death in Europe. Drug resistance to even the most effective anti-cancer-targeted therapies constitutes a major contributor to poor prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Kirsten rat sarcoma virus (KRAS) mutations are found in >90% of PDAC, being an important oncogenic driver. Although KRAS-targeted therapies have the potential to transform the clinical management of PDAC drastically, only a subset o",{"id":944,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":945,"piName":14,"institution":946,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":947,"abstract":948},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162816","Observing the Mechanisms of Earthquake Nucleation","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA","€2,143,975","Earthquakes are one of the most expressive phenomena of our planet, able to suddenly reshape the surface of the Earth and affect countless lives every year. Any effort towards earthquake forecast and hazard mitigation must rely on a profound comprehension of seismogenesis. However, earthquakes are phenomena that emerge from a complex, dynamic system of mechanisms that operate at inaccessible depths within the Earth. The impossibility to directly observe the birth of an earthquake (i.e., the “nuc",{"id":950,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":951,"piName":14,"institution":952,"country":136,"year":13,"amount":953,"abstract":954},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220974","Brokers of Non-Alignment: Biographical and Network Approaches to the Making of the Third World","INSTITUT ZA NOVEJSO ZGODOVINO","€1,499,080","Brokers-of-NAM will make a groundbreaking contribution to the literature on the Cold War by analyzing the history of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) through the lens of transnational political networks and relying on an innovative methodological approach combining biographical and network analysis. It will study the lives of five characters who played a central part in the global politics of non-alignment by crafting political networks across Latin America, the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean,",{"id":956,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":957,"piName":14,"institution":946,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":958,"abstract":959},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163496","Feedback mechanisms approach to resolve regime shifts in ecological systems.","€1,377,554","Our planet is changing at a pace never experienced before. Ecosystems worldwide are impacted by multiple anthropogenic pressures and are experiencing abrupt changes, sometimes leading to regime shifts. Marine ecosystems are prone to these dynamics and regime shifts are at the spotlight of research which seeks to reduce the uncertainties related to our incomplete understanding of these processes. Three main questions need to be answered to understand regime shifts: when they happen; i.e. detectio",{"id":961,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":962,"piName":14,"institution":802,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":963,"abstract":964},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161748","Lysosomal exocytosis of metastable proteins to control synaptic function","€2,037,356","The extreme length and small caliber of neuronal processes entail complex local regulation of protein turnover. In light of the high metabolic demand and dynamic protein exchange imposed by synaptic neurotransmission, several surveillance mechanisms should be in place to sense protein damage that will otherwise cause synaptic dysfunction. However, it is still essentially unclear how local control of the metastable proteome, whose proteins have a high copy number and are crucial for synaptic func",{"id":966,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":967,"piName":14,"institution":968,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":969},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162923","The Multitudes of Mosquito Viruses and Their Impact on Arbovirus Disease Ecology","INSTITUT PASTEUR","The mosquito virome constitutes not only human pathogenic arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) but also mosquito-specific viruses, whose host range is restricted to the mosquito. While metagenomics studies have revealed the mosquito virome to be richly diverse and abundant, our knowledge of these viruses is mostly limited to genome sequence information, and we have little insight into their biology and interactions with the mosquito host. Importantly, the cellular and immunological mechanisms b",{"id":971,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":972,"piName":14,"institution":973,"country":154,"year":13,"amount":974,"abstract":975},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164582","Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","€1,499,655","Aristotles impact on philosophy, science, and theology has been overwhelming, especially in the late medieval and early modern periods: hundreds of Aristotelian manuscripts survive to attest how strongly his works belong to the written culture of the pre-modern intellectual world. The understanding of Aristotles thought was decisively shaped by Latin translations from the 12th and 13th centuries. Translators efforts to preserve the exact phrasing of the texts and readers struggles to determine t",{"id":977,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":978,"piName":14,"institution":946,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":979,"abstract":980},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163003","measuriNg nEURal dynamics with label-free OpticaL multI-DomAin Recordings","€1,634,825","The growing societal burden of brain diseases is one of the most significant health challenges globally. To help diagnose or treat these pathologies, there is widespread agreement that a deeper understanding is needed on the origin of neural disorders linked to electrical neural activity, neuromodulators dynamics and molecular alterations. To this aim, the combination of optical methods with genetically expressed molecular probes has enabled great advances in understanding brain mechanisms. Howe",{"id":982,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":983,"piName":14,"institution":653,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":984,"abstract":985},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164033","Reconstruction of global redox transitions based on an evolving Precambrian biological carbon pump","€1,771,359","The history of life on Earth is intricately tied to the story of molecular oxygen (O2). Given that we breath O2 every day, the quest to understand its rise over billions of years is inherently tied to the fundamental question of our existence. However, critical turning points in our planets oxygenation, including the Great Oxidation Event, continue to escape our full comprehension. O2s narrative involves a complex interplay of microbial life, biogeochemical processes, and geological factors, all",{"id":987,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":988,"piName":14,"institution":989,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":990},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164683","Retirement across countries: A tripartite analysis of the welfare state, family care networks, and the retirement industry","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","In a rapidly ageing world, today’s retirees are moving across borders at unprecedented rates. Existing studies have analysed this group through single-focused approaches to welfare, family care networks, or the retirement industry at one point in time. RETIREWEL will be the first study to take an integrated approach to individual experiences of spending and planning for their retirement in more than one country and their complex relationships with the welfare state, family care networks, and the",{"id":992,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":993,"piName":14,"institution":989,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":994},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164093","Formalised Reasoning about Expectations: Composable, Automated, Speedy, Trustworthy","Automatic Differentiation (AD) systems, like TensorFlow, and probabilistic programming languages (PPLs), like Stan, automate complex computations of derivatives and Bayesian inference tasks. By stream- lining these computations for non-expert users, these high-level systems have accelerated progress across science and society (e.g. by enabling machine learning). Yet, the theoretical foundations needed to build a high-level system for composable programming with derivatives and probabilities are ",{"id":996,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":997,"piName":14,"institution":989,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":998},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161804","Roles of cytoplasmic bridges in cell-cell cohesion and communication","During development, cells divide and make fate decisions. Canonically, cell division ends with the severing of the link between daughter cells in the process called abscission. Yet, across the tree of life, cells can remain connected through cytoplasmic bridges by delaying or inhibiting abscission. Curiously, while bridges are important conserved structures sustaining cellular function, there are little evidence to explain how bridge impact cell function. The aim of the proposal is to investigat",{"id":1000,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1001,"piName":14,"institution":989,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":1002},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162980","Diving into Data Diversity for Fair and Robust Natural Language Processing","Despite great progress in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), the field is still struggling to ensure the robustness and fairness of models. So far, NLP has prioritized data size over data quality. Yet there is growing evidence suggesting that the diversity of data, a key dimension of data quality, is crucial for fair and robust NLP models. Many researchers are therefore trying to create more diverse datasets, but there is no clear path for them to follow. Even the fundamental questi",{"id":1004,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1005,"piName":14,"institution":785,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":1006,"abstract":1007},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165179","Artificial Scientific Discovery of advanced Quantum Hardware with high-performance Simulators","€1,499,221","The experimental capabilities to generate, control, and measure complex quantum systems have dramatically improved over the last few years. With ingenious proposals for practical applications, a powerful new paradigm of technology emerges that exploits quantum superposition and quantum entanglement. As these systems get more advanced, designing new quantum experiments and hardware becomes ever more intricate for human scientists. To exploit the full potential of quantum physics, researchers have",{"id":1009,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1010,"piName":14,"institution":989,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":1011},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165535","Machine learning in science and society: A dangerous toy?","Deep learning (DL) models are encroaching on nearly all our knowledge institutions. Ever more scientific fields—from medical science to fundamental physics—are turning to DL to solve long-standing problems or make new discoveries. At the same time, DL is used across society to inform and provide knowledge. We urgently need to evaluate the potentials and dangers of adopting DL for epistemic purposes, across science and society. This project uncovers the epistemic strengths and limits of DL models",{"id":1013,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1014,"piName":14,"institution":989,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":1015,"abstract":1016},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162754","RESPIRE: Planetary Breathing in Asphyxiating Times","€2,440,313","We live in a time of multispecies suffocation. This is not a metaphor but a material process of contemporary multispecies living and dying on this planet. RESPIRE will address the fact that we do not know what this planetary multispecies suffocation consists of and will investigate how we can comprehend and transform it. It will do so through extensive fieldwork that includes collaboration with natural scientists, organisations, artists, and stakeholders. This approach is needed because the natu",{"id":1018,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1019,"piName":14,"institution":1020,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":1021,"abstract":1022},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164610","Fundamental Understanding of Solar Driven Interfacial Evaporation using 3D hierarchical hybrid structures","THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM","€1,495,250","Facing water scarcity that affects two-thirds of the global population, our planet's demand for sustainable solutions has never been more critical. Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) is a promising method to produce fresh water using solar energy. Despite many advancements in material development, the fundamentals of interfacial transport have been left untouched. With localized heating proximate to the interface, SDIE departs from conventional evaporation mechanisms by creating pronoun",{"id":1024,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1025,"piName":14,"institution":1026,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":1027},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165122","Magnetic counterparts of unconventional superconductors for spin-conserved and non-dissipative electronics","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV","Our recent discovery of altermagnets has opened science and technology opportunities unparalleled in the two conventional classes of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Moreover, the direct analogy of a d-wave spin-polarization order in altermagnets to the unconventional d-wave superconducting order in cuprates suggests that we now hold a key to a vast uncharted territory of unconventional magnetism. In my project, I will identify unconventional forms of magnetism beyond the d-wave cuprate counte",{"id":1029,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1030,"piName":14,"institution":1026,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":1031,"abstract":1032},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164752","Brainstem circuits supporting adaptive instinctive behaviours","€1,522,288","Instinctive behaviours that achieve defence, feeding, aggression and parental care have evolved across animal phyla to ensure survival without the need for learning. Contrary to common belief, instinctive behaviours are not ‘hard-wired’ reflexes, but can be flexible in both action selection and execution. They are modulated by internal states, such as stress, hunger or oestrous  cycle, and may undergo short- and long-lasting adaptations in order to accommodate environmental changes and individua",{"id":1034,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1035,"piName":14,"institution":1026,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":1036},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162335","Ecological and evolutionary role of specialized bacteria in algae health and carbon sequestration","Marine algae fixing CO2 into organic matter is central to the global carbon cycle. While the food chain and marine bacteria consume roughly half of the fixed carbon, a harder-to-degrade fraction remains in the ocean, naturally sequestering CO2 and lessening climate change effects. This remaining fraction is mainly derived from algal complex glycans that provide structural support, defense against microbial pathogens, and can be a carbon source for the algae microbiome. The specialized bacteria f",{"id":1038,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1039,"piName":14,"institution":1040,"country":161,"year":13,"amount":1041,"abstract":1042},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163668","Fluid gap Electro-Active-Polymer machines for a new generation of mechatronic systems","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO","€1,486,161","While mechatronic solutions become increasingly pervasive, there are areas, such as the space or the ocean depths, that are still difficult to reach and exploit through conventional technologies. Yet, such areas represent an immense source of materials and energy. A bottleneck is represented by actuation\u002Fgeneration technologies, which struggle in unconventional environments.  Electrostatic drives based on electroactive polymers (EAPs) have long been regarded as a potentially game-changing soluti",{"id":1044,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1045,"piName":14,"institution":1026,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":1046},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164280","Force-free microstructures host intrinsic dynamics of orbital phases in AV3Sb5 Kagome metals","Electron correlations significantly modify electron self-organization in quantum materials, resulting in a landscape of competing orders and exotic quantum phenomena. The recently discovered AV3Sb5 family Kagome superconductors is an intriguing example of competing correlated orders with robust entanglement, as manipulating one order can affect or modify another, akin to the unique electromagnetic responses of multi-ferroics. These strongly entangled orders have led to an exciting hypothesis of ",{"id":1048,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1049,"piName":14,"institution":1026,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":1050,"abstract":1051},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101163783","ILLUMINATING ROUTES TO 3D ORGANOBORON MOLECULES","€1,457,385","With a steadily growing, aging population, there is significant strain on the pharmaceutical sector to produce state of the art therapeutics for societal needs whilst respecting the finite resources provided by the environment. Prominent advances in drug design are reliant on chemical synthesis platforms allowing the efficient exploration of chemical space to discover next generation functional molecules. As a result, innovation is currently limited by the practical implementation of enabling me",{"id":1053,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1054,"piName":14,"institution":1026,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":1055,"abstract":1056},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165100","Kinesthetic Displays: Creating Embodied Experiences of Movement Using Vibrotactile Feedback","€1,492,798","Kinesthesia – awareness of position and movement of body parts – is essential in all aspectsof life. Kinesthesia enables mundane activities such as typing or lifting a glass to our lips, aswell as feats like playing a piano concert or competing in an elite sport. It not only providesinformation about our body, but also helps form an embodied understanding of the world aroundus. Although kinesthesia is central to human experience, it is barely used in human-computerinteraction (HCI). However, exi",{"id":1058,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1059,"piName":14,"institution":1060,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":1061,"abstract":1062},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165545","Walls of Secrecy and Silence in the Human Organ Trade:  Facilitating, Concealing and Laundering Illegal Transplants","ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM","€1,499,955","The organ trade is a relatively new but neglected crime that is proliferating globally. The trade is prohibited universally, yet, the growing gap between organ supply and demand has led to an illegal organ market that converges with altruistic organ procurement systems. In this market, growing numbers of desperate patients from the global north travel to the global south to buy organs, often returning with severe medical complications. Similarly, the growing global economic divide and the rise i",{"id":1064,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1065,"piName":14,"institution":1060,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":1066,"abstract":1067},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101161004","Impact of the embryonic obesogenic environment on programming of cardiovascular diseases across the life course","€1,499,998",">50% of all pregnancies occur in couples with overweight or obesity, leading to tremendous risks for pregnancy and long-term offspring cardiovascular complications. My hypothesis is that an embryonic obesogenic environment, induced by the mother and father-to-be, predisposes to placental and embryonic programming of cardiovascular diseases across the life course. This leads to the intergenerational cycle of the cardiovascular disease epidemic. Lifestyle interventions in pregnancy are emerging, b",{"id":1069,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1070,"piName":14,"institution":1026,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":1071,"abstract":1072},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221560","Theory of Noisy Quantum Simulation of many-body Physics","€1,364,126","Analog quantum simulation protocols, which aim to use quantum hardware without performing error correction to solve large quantum many-body problems, have emerged as a near-term as well as experimentally accessible alternative to a building a fault tolerant quantum computer for these problems. However, from a theoretical standpoint, whether analog simulators can be trusted to provide accurate results for large quantum many-body problems and if they provide an advantage over classical computers r",{"id":1074,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1075,"piName":14,"institution":1076,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":1077,"abstract":1078},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220029","A Neonatal anaerobic Gut-microbiome-on-a-Chip  to decode bacterial colonization  and infant gut T cell maturation","UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM","€1,499,996","Developing a healthy host-microbiome symbiosis during the first 1000 days of human life is critical for lifelong health. Despite its importance, our understanding is limited and derives from animal studies or associative human trials. Therefore, there is a pressing need for an infant gut model to capture dynamic microbiome-epithelium-immune interactions in early life. In NeoGutChip I will develop and validate a first-of-its-kind in vitro human Infant Gut-Microbiome-Immune-on-a-chip model (iGuMI)",{"id":1080,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1081,"piName":14,"institution":1076,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":148,"abstract":1082},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165317","SpatioTemporal Reconstruction of Interacting People for pErceiving Systems","People constantly interact with objects to perform tasks. To help people accomplish these, computers need to perceive Human-Object Interactions (HOI), and for this, they need to reconstruct HOI from whole-body color images of people interacting with objects or scenes. This is challenging, due to the occlusions between bodies and objects, motion blur, depth ambiguities, and the low image resolution of hands and graspable object parts. There has been significant prior work on estimating 3D humans ",{"id":1084,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1085,"piName":14,"institution":1076,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":1086,"abstract":1087},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221473","Cell type-Specific Disease Resistance Against Vascular Xanthomonas Plant Pathogens","€1,843,713","Plants restrict entry of pathogens through physical barriers, and via Plants restrict the entry of pathogens through physical barriers and an innate immune system that recognizes pathogenic activity and initiates immune responses to halt the infection. As pathogens employ distinct infection strategies to invade plant tissues, immune responses are not uniform but rather specific for different cell and tissue types. This highlights the need to challenge the current concept of plant immunity and ex",{"id":1089,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1090,"piName":14,"institution":1076,"country":86,"year":13,"amount":1091,"abstract":1092},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101166174","Beyond compliance: Rethinking the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Regimes","€1,494,898","The European, African and inter-American human rights regimes seem not to be effective vis--vis non-democratic states. Besides undermining the international rule-based order, this situation has dire implications for human rights victims. Conventional theories, based on the experience of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), equate the effectiveness of regional courts with compliance. This perspective is inadequate to explain the status quo, where illiberal states may execute individual rul",{"id":1094,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1095,"piName":14,"institution":142,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":1096,"abstract":1097},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101165667","Quantum simulation of far-from-equilibrium gauge theories","€1,498,369","Gauge theories (GT) are the staple of the Standard Model, and their far-from-equilibrium dynamics opens a window into the most fundamental questions of high-energy physics (HEP) and the nature of equilibration in isolated quantum many-body systems. However, this dynamics is often highly nonperturbative and difficult to probe using classical methods due to entanglement buildup. Through quantum advantage and tunability, quantum simulators (QS) emerge as a particularly suitable venue to solve this ",{"id":1099,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1100,"piName":14,"institution":1101,"country":179,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":1102},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101164357","Applied stereotypes, social networks, and self-fulfilling prophecies: how stereotypes reinforce social inequalities","UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX","Social inequalities are reinforced within the education system. Stereotypes may have a major role in this, since they may lead to differential treatment of minority students, resulting in self-fulfilling prophecies that hinder their academic outcomes. Beyond the obvious role of teachers, that of peers is also crucial, as they are important parts of students socialisation: how they are perceived by peers could affect their motivation, interests, achievements, and relationships. 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