[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-erc-synergy-grant-2026":3,"awarded-stats-erc-synergy-grant":451},{"awarded":4,"total":450},[5,16,23,30,35,42,49,56,63,70,77,84,90,96,103,110,115,120,127,133,140,146,152,158,163,169,174,180,186,191,197,202,208,214,220,226,232,238,244,249,255,260,267,273,278,284,290,296,302,308,313,319,326,331,337,342,348,354,360,365,370,376,381,387,392,398,404,410,416,423,429,435,440,445],{"id":6,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":9,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":15},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-syg-101071793","European Research Council","ERC Synergy Grant","Myosin II–independent contraction of actin filaments in membrane nanotubes","Mostafa Ashraf","Raman Research Institute","IN",2026,null,"The ability to generate active stresses within filamentous actin matrices is a fundamental and evolutionarily conserved process driving locomotion and morphogenetic changes in cells. The generation of pushing forces by actin polymerization is reasonably well understood, and is known to drive lamellipodia based motility and filopodial extension. Actin filaments decorated with myosin motors can also generate contractile stresses as in the cell cortex or in cytokinetic rings. In this article we use",{"id":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":19,"institution":20,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":22},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-synergy-grant-2019-watch-810331","POMC AMPKα1 deletion drives male-specific BAT thermogenesis and obesity resistance","Ismael González‐García","Universidade de Santiago de Compostela","ES","Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC) play a critical role in energy homeostasis. 5'-adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a serine\u002Fthreonine kinase, which acts as the main energy sensor in the cell. The heterotrimeric AMPK results from the combination of a catalytic α subunit (α1, α2) with two regulatory subunits, β (β1, β2) and γ (γ1, γ2 and γ3). Hypothalamic AMPK plays a key role in the control of energy balance, but current e",{"id":24,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":25,"piName":26,"institution":27,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":29},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-synergy-biosfer-101071773","Age at First Marriage or Cohabitation Among First-, Second-, and 2.5-Generation Immigrant Women, Finland 1987–2020","Citlali Trigos-Raczkowski","University of Helsinki","FI","Immigrants and their descendants are increasingly forming families across Europe, yet little is known about how immigration background shapes first union entry in emerging immigration contexts. Here, we examine whether immigrant generation, age at arrival, and sending region are associated with entry into opposite-sex first unions for women in Finland from 1987 to 2020. Treating cohabitation and direct marriage as competing events, we estimate cause-specific hazards in separate accelerated failu",{"id":31,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":32,"piName":33,"institution":14,"country":14,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":34},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-syg-2019","Video compression for spatiotemporal Earth system data","Gustau Camps‐Valls","Large-scale Earth system datasets, from high-resolution remote sensing imagery to spatiotemporal climate model outputs, exhibit characteristics analogous to those of standard videos. Their inherent spatial, temporal, and spectral redundancies can thus be readily exploited by established video compression techniques. Here, we present xarrayvideo, a Python library for compressing multichannel spatiotemporal datasets by encoding them as videos. Our approach achieves compression ratios of up to 250x",{"id":36,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":37,"piName":38,"institution":39,"country":40,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":41},"openalex-european-research-council-award-adam-synergy-grant-856405","Chemist Eye: a visual language model-powered system for safety monitoring and robot decision-making in self-driving laboratories","Francisco Munguia-Galeano","University of Liverpool","GB","The use of robotics and automation in self-driving laboratories (SDLs) can introduce additional safety complexities, beyond those already present in conventional research laboratories. Personal protective equipment (PPE) is an essential requirement for ensuring the safety and well-being of workers in all laboratories, self-driving or otherwise. Fires are another important risk factor in chemical laboratories. In SDLs, fires that occur close to mobile robots, which use flammable lithium batteries",{"id":43,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":44,"piName":14,"institution":45,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":47,"abstract":48},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224766","the ethics of AI enabled synthetic DNA","UNIVERSITETET I OSLO","NO","€5,859,854","The spiral helix structure of DNA is instantly recognisable. It holds a powerful place in the public imagination. The central role of DNA in concepts of identity, family, health, and life itself is reinforced by specialised legal and regulatory frameworks. While designing DNA from scratch is beyond human capability, AI-enabled design and modeling have opened new horizons with synthetic DNA (synDNA). SynDNA allows the creation of organisms with no evolutionary counterparts. This could be seen as ",{"id":50,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":51,"piName":14,"institution":52,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":54,"abstract":55},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224056","Land and life in the Anthropocene: Landscape reform","ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM","NL","€8,333,333","How can we learn to live on earth in new ways? This is the challenge of the Anthropocene. We propose a novel 4Ps framework to investigate land–life dynamics, which, for the first time, will connect perspectives on human–nonhuman relations (Partners), property-making (Property), land regimes (Profit) and land–climate systems (Planet). We will draw on critical perspectives from both environmental humanities and agrarian studies, bringing together diverse traditions from human–nonhuman anthropology",{"id":57,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":58,"piName":14,"institution":59,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":61,"abstract":62},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225004","The role of Turbulence in the Physics of Clouds","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV","DE","€13,685,754","Earth’s dominant cloud type per area covered is Stratocumulus. These low-level, shallow, and Earth’s dominant cloud type per area covered is Stratocumulus. These low-level, shallow, and horizontally spread-out clouds cover one-fifth of the Earth’s surface. Changes in cloud cover may amplify rather than mitigate global warming but the magnitude of this is highly uncertain. One of the greatest challenges in climate science is to predict how clouds in general, and stratocumuli in particular, will c",{"id":64,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":65,"piName":14,"institution":66,"country":67,"year":13,"amount":68,"abstract":69},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224232","Party Systems and Social Cleavages in the Post-Ottoman Space of the MENA Region","USTAV MEZINARODNICH VZTAHU V.V.I.","CZ","€9,846,714","Chronic instability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is linked to the difficulties political systems face in arbitrating conflicts and divisions within societies. Political parties and party systems play a crucial role in channeling social demands, articulating various political offers, and building compromises. Yet, there exists no comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of party politics in the MENA. The CLOSER project aims to address this gap using new empirical evidence, ",{"id":71,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":72,"piName":14,"institution":73,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":75,"abstract":76},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224892","Mitochondrial Contact Site Functional Diversity Revealed by Molecular Memory, Smart Microscopy, and Correlative Cryo-EM Tomography","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE","CH","€12,278,709","Mitochondria are central to modern eukaryotic life, but how they carry out their functions in space and time within the cellular milieu is remarkably enigmatic. Contributing to the complexity of this question, mitochondria face dual existential challenges: supporting their life cycle as self-reproducing, DNA-containing organelles; and supporting the energetic and signaling needs of the host cell. A universal feature in how mitochondria address these challenges is via engagement in membrane conta",{"id":78,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":79,"piName":14,"institution":80,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":82,"abstract":83},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224129","Fire safety in space exploration","CENTRALE LILLE INSTITUT","FR","€13,774,718","The FireSpace research proposal aims to address the critical challenge of fire safety in space exploration, particularly in environments with increased oxygen concentrations, reduced pressure, and reduced gravity. The main objective is to generate fundamental knowledge on the fire behavior of materials used in spacecraft and habitats under these extreme conditions and to develop strategies for mitigating fire risks. This will be achieved through a combination of experimental investigations, the ",{"id":85,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":86,"piName":14,"institution":87,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":88,"abstract":89},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224824","Genome control by DNA-looping motors: from folding to function","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT","€10,000,000","Our genome is not merely an information code but also a physical object: a long polymer of DNA with a dynamic three-dimensional organisation that is crucial for its function. Recently, we and others discovered that SMC protein complexes are a novel class of remarkable molecular motors that extrude loops of DNA. While insights into how this motor activity shapes chromosomes are revolutionising our understanding of chromosome structure, it is becoming clear that SMC motors are also key to controll",{"id":91,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":92,"piName":14,"institution":93,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":94,"abstract":95},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224273","Innovative New Strategies in Generating High-impact Chemical Transformations","UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG","€9,984,944","Earth's growing population puts immense pressure on ecosystems due to increasing demands for natural resources, which are transformed into materials or energy for human use. Chemical catalysis is our primary tool for converting molecules, and advancements over the last century have made these processes more sustainable. While catalysis holds promise for addressing the urgent need for efficient, sustainable resource conversion, current discovery and optimization methods are too slow to meet globa",{"id":97,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":98,"piName":14,"institution":99,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":101,"abstract":102},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224640","Verification of Probabilistic Security Systems","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","UK","€7,944,004","Critical digital infrastructure is increasingly threatened by attacks such as payment fraud, data breaches, and ransomware. Formal methods have  been developed to rigorously analyse security protocols, which are the backbone of current digital security. Notably, automated tools, such as ProVerif, have been vital in analysing real-world protocols including TLS and Signal.A significant limitation in current formal methods stems from abstracting probabilistic behaviours to simplify the analysis. Th",{"id":104,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":105,"piName":14,"institution":106,"country":107,"year":13,"amount":108,"abstract":109},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224813","Northern Peatlands in the face of climate warming and abrupt changes","STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET","SE","€12,562,113","CLIMPEAT aims to transform our understanding and ability to quantify the response of northern peatlands to climate change and their feedback on future warming. Northern peatlands hold huge stocks of vulnerable carbon and nitrogen, and their release risks amplifying climatic warming. Increasingly prevalent reports of abrupt changes to peatland environments from thawing permafrost, extreme fires and droughts suggest massive reorganisation of Arctic and Boreal ecosystems, with impacts lasting sever",{"id":111,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":112,"piName":14,"institution":87,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":113,"abstract":114},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224664","Digital RF Power - Time-Domain-RF-Power Signal Generation","€9,993,525","Wireless communications has made fantastic progress. Yet, the gravest concern is the relentless exponential increase in energyconsumption of next-generation networks that adopt massive multi-input\u002Fmulti-output (mMIMO) technology (e.g., in 5G\u002F6G).Without any major breakthroughs, these networks will devour a big portion of the global electricity production in 2030. The chiefculprit is the incumbent analog-intensive radio-frequency (RF) transmitter (TX) architecture of its front-end part, which inv",{"id":116,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":117,"piName":14,"institution":45,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":118,"abstract":119},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224871","Ecological Archaeologies of the Afrotropics","€12,089,947","The growing climate crisis and threats to biodiversity have alerted the scientific community of the need to develop a clearer understanding of what has driven landscape changes and how these have impacted biodiversity and ecosystems. The lack of observationally constrained quantitative estimates of those impacts have led to large differences in the scenarios currently used for climate simulations. Nowhere is this more pressing than in the Afrotropics—a biogeographical region of nearly one billio",{"id":121,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":122,"piName":14,"institution":123,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":125,"abstract":126},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224071","Real-time endoscopic diagnosis and therapy of gastrointestinal tumors through multimode nonlinear fibers","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA","IT","€6,396,343","MULTIPROBE introduces a revolutionary photonic technology that represents a significant advancement in the field of optical diagnostics and therapy. Our approach is based on cutting-edge research into pulse propagation within nonlinear complex structures. We are developing an endoscopic device that seamlessly combines optical biopsy and cold atmospheric plasma treatment. This dual-functionality device harnesses the spatiotemporal control of powerful light in multimode fibers, which were previous",{"id":128,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":129,"piName":14,"institution":130,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":131,"abstract":132},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224126","Co-evolutionary dynamics of viral pathogens  and human antibody response","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS","€9,999,997","Vertebrates, like ourselves, use adaptive immune cells to protect themselves from pathogens. Predicting mutations of these pathogens, together with the immune response, is essential for the design of vaccines and therapies. CoEvolve will map the co-evolution of immune repertoires and viral populations, to forecast likely properties of future infecting strains and to design interventions that improve immune control.Much effort has been devoted to evolving viral pathogens, but most studies focus e",{"id":134,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":135,"piName":14,"institution":136,"country":137,"year":13,"amount":138,"abstract":139},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224119","Beyond Modification: Defining Hidden Roles of snoRNPs in Ribosome Assembly","UNIVERSITAET GRAZ","AT","€9,993,362","The assembly of new ribosomes is a conserved and tightly regulated process required for the growth of all living beings. Successful ribosome production requires the coordinated action of hundreds of cellular factors, including small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein particles (snoRNPs). Human snoRNP defects or alterations in snoRNP expression are linked to bone marrow disorders, neurodegeneration, and cancer. We recently discovered that a specialized class of snoRNPs play central yet underappreciated ",{"id":141,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":142,"piName":14,"institution":143,"country":144,"year":13,"amount":88,"abstract":145},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224844","Zee-Zoom-Zap: a new paradigm for cancer theranostics","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","DK","We propose a disruptive concept overcoming the fundamental limit of concurrently achieving specific, high-resolution imaging at depth in tissue. Our Zee-Zoom-Zap concept will serve as a one-stop-shop by combining early detection of cancer through small lumens (‘zee’), non-invasive “biopsies” (‘zoom’), and local therapy (‘zap’).The main challenge in realising early detection of cancer is to overcome the fundamental limitation in concurrently achieving specific, high-resolution imaging at the cell",{"id":147,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":148,"piName":14,"institution":149,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":150,"abstract":151},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224374","Laboratory Underground for Nuclear Astrophysics New Observatory for Solar Neutrino Reactions","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV","€13,989,810","Nuclear astrophysics studies the processes that generate energy and control the chemical makeup of the universe. One area of nuclear astrophysics has recently entered the 1% precision domain: Big Bang nucleosynthesis. However, another area of nuclear astrophysics with even greater importance is still lagging behind: Our Sun. Here, the precision breakthrough is still missing, and hampering not only the solar but all stellar models. LUNANOVA ideally combines a great effort from nuclear experiment,",{"id":153,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":154,"piName":14,"institution":155,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":156,"abstract":157},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225120","Red teaming the H0 Tension","UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA","€12,041,153","Despite the spectacular success of the standard cosmological model over the past two decades, recent observations from large sky surveys and distance measurements with a broad range of cosmological probes suggest cracks to the accepted paradigm: differences now appear in measurements of quantities the current cosmological model predicts as equal. These are called “tensions”. The most important tension concerns the Hubble parameter, H0, which quantifies the expansion rate of the Universe now, som",{"id":159,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":160,"piName":14,"institution":130,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":161,"abstract":162},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225127","Hydrothermal iron from the earth’s interior as fertiliser of photosynthesis in the ocean","€13,567,192","HARVEST investigates how iron released from submarine volcanoes stimulates the growth of phytoplankton, especially in nutrient-poor ocean regions. Iron is known to be a limiting nutrient for photosynthesizing plankton, but research has mostly focused on iron delivery via atmospheric dust. The contribution of iron from hydrothermal sources – leached out of hot rock along the volcanically active plate boundaries – has been largely overlooked. This process, however, may drive a significant componen",{"id":164,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":165,"piName":14,"institution":166,"country":67,"year":13,"amount":167,"abstract":168},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224040","THREE STOP CODONS TO GET OVER TO FLOURISH","MIKROBIOLOGICKY USTAV AV CR V.V.I","€9,755,098","An accumulating body of evidence reveals that the Genetic Code, canonically interpreted in codons of three nucleotides, is not universal. In dogma challenging findings, we have observed in unicellular protists a remarkable malleability of genetic decoding that is mostly governed by tRNAs that interpret codons as having different meanings depending on their location in the genome. For example, coding sequences of our model protist Blastocrithidia nonstop are rich in stop codons and unique tRNA ar",{"id":170,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":171,"piName":14,"institution":172,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":88,"abstract":173},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225036","Unlocking the neurovascular interface of peripheral nerves in homeostasis, disease and repair","OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE SRL","The extensive network of peripheral nerves develops concurrently and in close contact with the vascular system. This spatial and functional relationship persists into adulthood, forming a neurovascular (NV) interface that shields the vulnerable neural tissue through a blood-nerve barrier (BNB), akin to the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Despite its pivotal role in peripheral nervous system (PNS) health, our understanding of the BNB is limited, impacting the design of therapies for PNS disorders link",{"id":175,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":176,"piName":14,"institution":177,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":178,"abstract":179},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224087","Capturing and cONtrolling coniCal intErsections in Real Time","POLITECNICO DI MILANO","€9,998,941","Conical intersections (CIs) are regions in the potential energy surface of molecules where different electronic energy levels intersect, leading to the breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and promoting non-adiabatic transitions between electronic states. CIs preside over essential ultrafast processes in photobiology, photochemistry, and materials science as they can be viewed as “doorways” through which a photoexcited vibrational wave packet (WP) is efficiently funnelled to a lower-e",{"id":181,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":182,"piName":14,"institution":183,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":184,"abstract":185},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224873","Accelerating SUStainable TECHnological trajectories with computational chemistry and machine learning","UNIVERSITA DI PISA","€9,761,394","SUSTECH addresses a critical paradox at the heart of modern society: synthetic chemicals have been instrumental in societal advancement in their manifold uses ranging from materials to fertilizers and pharmaceuticals. Yet, they pose escalating risks to human health and environmental sustainability. There is an urgent need to reorient technological development toward safer and more sustainable alternatives. This project aims to generate a comprehensive understanding of the technological pathways ",{"id":187,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":188,"piName":14,"institution":59,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":189,"abstract":190},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224535","Translational Control by Molecular Chaperones: The Unexplored Mechanisms Coordinating Protein Synthesis and Proteostasis in Health and Genetic Reprogramming","€10,828,378","CHAPEROME aims to establish a new concept in which molecular chaperones regulate central aspects of mRNA translation in human cells under physiological conditions, in response to proteotoxic stress, and during cellular differentiation. Recent findings indicate that the folding of translation factors relies on specific chaperone proteins to achieve their functional states. We hypothesize that chaperones play a pivotal role in aligning translation rates, efficiency, and mRNA selection with the cel",{"id":192,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":193,"piName":14,"institution":194,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":195,"abstract":196},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224406","Magnetically enhanced electrocatalysis","FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA","€12,417,798","In the last years, electrochemistry and electrocatalysis are increasing their impact across several fields. A major driving force comes from the promise of substituting current fossil-fuel powered thermal methods in the industry by electrochemical alternatives, driven by renewable electricity. However, electrochemical methods are still far from reaching the desired target performance. In this landscape, the recent discovery of magnetic fields enhancing electrocatalytic processes offers a plausib",{"id":198,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":199,"piName":14,"institution":200,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":201},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101167454","Uncovering Lost Knowledge from the Ancient Library of Herculaneum: Overcoming Damage and Reviving the Human Experience using  Physical Evidence, AI, and the Structuring of Diverse Data","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II","The loss of something precious triggers an immediate instinct to find it. But what if the quest does not end there? We see it and find it, yet the precious object is irreparably damaged, and its true knowledge is locked away behind its damage, frustratingly denying us access to the information it holds. In such cases, the object essentially remains lost. Each day, in fact, treasured relics bearing unique witness to the human experience are lost to decay and damage due to the elements of the envi",{"id":203,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":204,"piName":14,"institution":205,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":206,"abstract":207},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224116","When and where do we reach the limits of adaptation to riverine flood risk?","GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG","€9,997,114","As climate change and urbanization of low-lying areas increase flood risk, accelerated flood adaptation by households is urgently required (e.g. elevating homes, flood proofing), in addition to adaptation by the government (e.g. dikes) and insurance (cover residual risk). However, there are limits to the adaptability of societies. For instance, social vulnerability factors such as low income or high age may reduce households’ adaptation efforts leading to higher physical vulnerability of their h",{"id":209,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":210,"piName":14,"institution":211,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":212,"abstract":213},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224630","Modulation of Liver Metabolism\u002FInflammation at Different Disease Stages by Leveraging ADAR-based RNA Editing","EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN","€9,969,748","RNA base editing, catalyzed by ADAR enzymes, is a natural process that diversifies protein function by modifying mRNA. Redirecting ADAR activity with RNA-based drugs holds significant promise for correcting genetic mutations and uniquely enables precise modulation of protein function. However, major challenges remain to fully unlock this potential.In this collaborative effort, we present a target discovery platform and demonstrate in vivo proof-of-concept (PoC) that targeted RNA base editing can",{"id":215,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":216,"piName":14,"institution":217,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":218,"abstract":219},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224987","AdaptAIR: Climate Adaptation through Artificial Ice Reservoirs (AIRs) in the Himalayas","KING'S COLLEGE LONDON","€9,999,443","Shrinking glaciers and more frequent extreme weather events threaten the water security of 55 million people living in the Himalayan Mountain range. Artificial ice reservoirs (AIRs) – annually created stores of ice formed each winter through diverting streams or pumping groundwater into the air – are being rapidly implemented across the northern-most Indian Union Territory of Ladakh. However, the construction of AIRs has been conducted without consideration of the social and environmental contex",{"id":221,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":222,"piName":14,"institution":223,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":224,"abstract":225},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224192","Fostering Learning and Adaptation through Predictability","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA","€3,977,438","The FLAP project explores the intricate relationship between environmental predictability, early-life conditions, and avian cognition. Environmental predictability refers to the consistency of environmental cues linked to responses, while cognitive abilities include flexibility, inhibitory control, and attentional focus. We hypothesise that birds’ early understanding of predictability can have lasting effects on their cognition and temperament. FLAP examines this question across ontogeny (how co",{"id":227,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":228,"piName":14,"institution":229,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":230,"abstract":231},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224259","DNA for Reconfigurable Nano-Opto-Mechanical Systems","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€9,033,975","Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS, NEMS) have enabled highly successful technologies, encompassing acceleration sensors, inkjet cartridges, digital mirror projectors, and more. However, despite decades of chip development in the semiconductor industry, fabrication and energy costs remain high with poor materials utilisation and we lack devices that are reconfigurable on the nanometer scale. In contrast to these top-down approaches, DNA nanotechnology has emerged as a powerful botto",{"id":233,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":234,"piName":14,"institution":235,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":236,"abstract":237},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224291","Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery (CARAMEL)","UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA","€9,949,929","Finding new synthetic compounds that facilitate membrane transport of impermeable bioactive molecules constitutes one of the grand scientific challenges in chemistry, biology, and medicine. Until today, the design principles of artificial transporters have been mainly restricted to membrane-targeting molecules with segregated hydrophilic and hydrophobic domains. We propose a disruptive strategy that uses boron clusters as membrane carriers that abandon the classical amphiphilic topology and expl",{"id":239,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":240,"piName":14,"institution":241,"country":137,"year":13,"amount":242,"abstract":243},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224197","On the Degradability of Protein Aggregates by Autophagy","UNIVERSITAT WIEN","€9,980,111","The removal of misfolded and aggregated proteins is essential for cellular homeostasis and organismal health. The accumulation of protein aggregates is associated with several devastating neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease. It has been generally assumed that autophagy has the ability to degrade large aggregates, and considerable efforts are underway to harness this pathway to remove disease-associated aggregates for therapy. However, it is becoming clear that large, solid p",{"id":245,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":246,"piName":14,"institution":229,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":247,"abstract":248},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224687","GENomes Evolve in a Landscape of TEs","€9,998,525","Understanding how genomes work is intimately entangled with understanding how they evolved. Although most individual mutations are single-base, more sequence is changed through structural variation, which itself is in large part driven by transposable elements (TEs), frequently with greater functional and reproductive consequences. Here we will take a multi-pronged and interdisciplinary approach to advance our understanding of how the genomes of multicellular eukaryotes and their TEs co-evolve, ",{"id":250,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":251,"piName":14,"institution":252,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":253,"abstract":254},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224275","Harmonic Analysis with Lean Formalization","RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN","€6,443,439","Recent advances in formalization have brought the longstanding vision of machine-verifiable mathematics within reach. Formed by world leading experts in harmonic analysis and formalization, HALF is the first research initiative to concurrently achieve breakthrough results in a foundational mathematical area while formalizing them in the proof assistant Lean.HALF tackles pivotal and long-standing open problems in harmonic analysis, with an emphasis on multilinear and nonlinear operators. These fu",{"id":256,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":257,"piName":14,"institution":258,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":259},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224581","The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Europe","UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER","AbstractFrom the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, slave traders of mostly European origin violently transported more than 12.5 million African men, women, and children to the Americas. This was the largest forced transoceanic migration in human history. Scholars have focussed on the effects of this migration on African and American history, while treating the slave trade’s effects on European societies as marginal. This supposition of marginality stems from two biases in existing research:",{"id":261,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":262,"piName":14,"institution":263,"country":264,"year":13,"amount":265,"abstract":266},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225084","Popular Government in Global Perspective: History, Principles, Institutions, and Experimentations","UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN","BE","€9,258,028","Representative government is characterized by the guarantee of basic political liberties, the centrality of elections, restricted avenues for citizen participation, and the relative independence enjoyed by representatives. It has become the dominant alternative to authoritarian government worldwide, to a point where it has eclipsed the diversity of ways to organize collective self-government. This is regrettable because representative government 1) relies on elitist premises that are increasingl",{"id":268,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":269,"piName":14,"institution":270,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":271,"abstract":272},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224668","CenAGE, a 'Centromeric' view on AGEing: unveiling centromere instability in ageing","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE","€9,968,201","Ageing is the primary risk factor for chronic diseases. Amongst the ageing hallmarks, genomic instability has emerged as a unifying cause of ageing, since it drives most of the other hallmarks, namely senescence and chronic inflammation. These hallmarks are all typically portrayed by the aged immune system, with compelling evidence pointing to genomic instability in immune cells as a driver of organismal ageing. Intriguingly, while the role of telomeres, mutations, transposons, etc, in age-relat",{"id":274,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":275,"piName":276,"institution":277,"country":144,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":14},"openalex-european-research-council-award-synergy-grant-854796","Real-Time Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging using the Erythrocytes","Sebastian Kazmarek Præsius","Technical University of Denmark",{"id":279,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":280,"piName":281,"institution":282,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":283},"openalex-european-research-council-award-synergy-grant-marix-8540088","Strongly reducing sediments hinder restoration of a eutrophic coastal marine ecosystem","Niels van Helmond","Radboud University Nijmegen","Abstract Anthropogenic activities are causing deoxygenation of coastal waters leading to degradation of such ecosystems globally. In the Dutch Southwest Delta, coastal management has turned tidal waters into marine lakes. The ensuing stagnation and stratification in combination with eutrophication has caused a decline in water quality, including decreased oxygen (O 2 ) saturation. Restoring such systems is challenging as exemplified by Lake Veere, which was reconnected to the tidal marine Easter",{"id":285,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":286,"piName":287,"institution":288,"country":40,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":289},"openalex-european-research-council-award-101118880-synergy-plague","An absolutely dated mid-Holocene English yew chronology offers new opportunities for archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research","Tatiana Bebchuk","University of Cambridge","Research on Holocene climate variability and human history greatly benefits from annually resolved and absolutely dated tree-ring chronologies. The quality and quantity of such records, however, decline back in time, with little tree-ring evidence available for the Early and Middle Holocene. Here, we present a tree-ring width (TRW) chronology from 100 subfossil yews (\u003Ci>Taxus baccata\u003C\u002Fi> L.) excavated from peat-rich soils in the Fenland region of eastern England. To precisely date the record, we",{"id":291,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":292,"piName":293,"institution":294,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":295},"openalex-european-research-council-award-synergy-grant-856455","Falling behind unequally: labour market outcomes of Italian couples after childbirth*","Michele Bavaro","Scuola Normale Superiore","This study explores how childbirth differently shapes the career trajectories of men and women within the same couples, with a particular focus on gender disparities in experiencing downward labour transitions following the birth of their first child. Using a unique survey-administrative linked dataset, we track couples’labour market trajectories to analyse transitions from employment to unemployment, full-time to part-time employment, and higher-paid to lower-paid jobs. Additionally, the datase",{"id":297,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":298,"piName":299,"institution":300,"country":40,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":301},"openalex-european-research-council-award-synergy-grant-project-856455-dina-","The gender wealth gap and the role of private pension wealth in Great Britain","Brian Nolan","University of Oxford","Abstract Research on gender wealth gaps is hampered by the fact that most wealth surveys gather information on wealth at the household or family level rather than for individuals, and also often do not include pension wealth. Here we exploit the rich data on individual wealth including private pension wealth (occupational and personal) obtained by the British Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) to assess the gender wealth gap in Great Britain between 2006–08 and 2018–20, with a particular focus on th",{"id":303,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":304,"piName":14,"institution":305,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":306,"abstract":307},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225119","Waves, Physics, Information, and Computation","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN","€9,864,001","From Marconi’s telegraph without wires to today’s cellular networks, wireless communication has shaped our world, with deep impacts on virtually all aspects of society. This astonishing development is the result of parallel progress in physics (propagation, antennas, radio-frequency (RF) devices, semiconductors) and engineering (information theory, digital signal processing, computer architectures). Nevertheless, the ever-growing demand for wireless capacity is pushing the current technology tow",{"id":309,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":310,"piName":14,"institution":130,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":311,"abstract":312},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225056","Spatially patterned organoids: regionalization, cell fate and lamination in cortical development and neuronal migration disorders","€9,202,804","The development of the mammalian cerebral cortex depends on the precise control of cell proliferation, migration, and neuronal diversity along both radial and tangential dimensions which ensure cortical regionalization and lamination and ultimately the formation of functional areas. These processes depend on the formation of focal organizing centers within the early neural plate. These centers secrete morphogens in gradients to pattern the developing cortex at short range and locally produce the",{"id":314,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":315,"piName":14,"institution":316,"country":144,"year":13,"amount":317,"abstract":318},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224055","Greenland’s Melting Firn and Ice Sheet Response","Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland","€13,007,197","TheThe FirnMelt ERC Synergy project focuses on the Greenland Ice Sheet’s reaction to surface melting across its vast firn plateau, currently covering almost 90 % of its surface. Firn is the up to 100 metres thick, porous near-surface layer of compressed snow. Most of Greenland’s firn plateau experienced only occasional melt in the past but ever rising temperatures increase melting and it is uncertain how much of the melt refreezes or runs off. Current state-of-the-art firn models were built on t",{"id":320,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":321,"piName":14,"institution":322,"country":323,"year":13,"amount":324,"abstract":325},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224324","Cell-mediated sculptable living platforms as highly efficient hybrid units to bioengineer human microtissues","UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO","PT","€9,999,343","Geometrical, mechanical, and biochemical signals are master regulators of differentiation and other cellular processes. Biomaterials have been used to create artificial 3D niches recapitulating such favourable cues, traditionally optimized through progressive and laborious design-build-test-learn cycles. In native environments, however, cells dynamically interact and modify their surroundings, engaging in feedback loops that alter their phenotype and trigger collective effects. Based on such pri",{"id":327,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":328,"piName":14,"institution":329,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":330},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224803","Probe of the first microseconds of the Universe with cosmological magnetic fields","UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE","Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure constitute the threesolid observational grounds of modern Cosmology. However, we currently lack a probe of the state ofthe primordial plasma during the first microseconds of the Universe’s history. Surmounting this frontierin our knowledge of the Universe is particularly compelling, since during this period, crucial beyond-Standard-Model phenomena should have happened: the thermalisation of the Universe, the spontane",{"id":332,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":333,"piName":14,"institution":334,"country":107,"year":13,"amount":335,"abstract":336},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224965","LUMES  LUng cancer Metastasis Evolutionary Studies","KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN","€11,542,341","Metastatic disease, describing the development of secondary malignant growths at a distance from a primary site of cancer, is associated with over 90% of cancer-related deaths. There exists a significant unmet clinical need to better understand the biology of aggressive cancers leading to metastatic disease and the underlying mechanisms that can facilitate the metastasis. Previous studies exploring metastasis have suffered from scarcity of samples, insufficient resolution and breadth of experime",{"id":338,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":339,"piName":14,"institution":130,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":340,"abstract":341},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224739","Universal Equation for Non Equilibrium Correlations in Interacting Particle Systems","€8,062,008","An open system out of equilibrium exchanges matter, energy, or information with its surroundings through directed currents that break time-reversal symmetry. Far from equilibrium, the arrow of time becomes crucial. While equilibrium physics is well explained by statistical physics, understanding non-equilibrium systems is a major challenge in modern physics. Do universal laws exist far from equilibrium? How can complex systems’ dynamics be characterized?Interacting particle systems (IPS), driven",{"id":343,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":344,"piName":14,"institution":345,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":346,"abstract":347},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224726","Deciphering the role of adipose tissue in cardiac health and disease: ADIPOhealth","FUNDACION SECTOR PUBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACIONAL INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS CARLOS III","€10,176,526","Obesity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), primarily due to its disruption of heart metabolism and the alteration of crucial signaling pathways involved in maintaining cardiac function, including those regulating energy homeostasis, myocardial contractility, and stress response. Nevertheless, the underlying mechanisms for these effects remain poorly understood. Obesity leads to changes in the secretion, by adipose tissue (AT), of metabokines—proteins, peptides, metabolites",{"id":349,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":350,"piName":14,"institution":351,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":352,"abstract":353},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224625","Connected Communities in early medieval Europe","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","€11,194,464","The Connected Communities project aims to re-evaluate the traditional image that, after the collapse of the Roman state in the West, a united and interconnected Europe disintegrated into a fragmented continent divided into a series of ethnic kingdoms. The image created by the writers of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages still determines much of what is thought about the post-Roman ‘migration period’. Yet these writers belonged to the political and intellectual elite of the population, wri",{"id":355,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":356,"piName":14,"institution":357,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":358,"abstract":359},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225153","Tracing and harnessing the ancestry of RNA-guided nucleases","FOUNDATION IMMUNE ENGINEERING FOR GLOBAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH","€10,717,446","The phylogenetic, biochemical and functional diversity of these linked RGNs suggest a common origin that gave rise to the innumerable variations we observe today. However, little is known about these ancestors and the evolutionary paths that led to their modern counterparts. Recently, our team showed that reconstructed ancestors of Cas9 and Cas12a RGNs exhibit flexible substrate recognition and collateral activities distinct from any modern counterpart. This work sets the stage to uncover the ev",{"id":361,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":362,"piName":14,"institution":143,"country":144,"year":13,"amount":363,"abstract":364},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224937","Photon-based scalable quantum information science","€11,490,257","A grand challenge of our age is to develop platforms for quantum information processing. The optical photon plays a key role: it allows quantum information to be transmitted over long distances and the encoded quantum information is robust, making photons attractive qubits for quantum computing. Resource states consisting of a small number of entangled photons constitute the fundamental building block that subsequently can be fused into larger entangled states by interference – a simple operatio",{"id":366,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":367,"piName":14,"institution":229,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":368,"abstract":369},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225225","The biology of innate behaviour","€9,983,139","Instinctive or innate behaviours such as eating, social interaction, mating, parental care, defence and aggression, are fundamental for survival and reproduction. Innate behaviours do not need to be learned, are encoded by developmentally hard-wired subcortical circuits and are conserved across mammalian species. In this highly ambitious synergistic research programme, which builds on our track record of discoveries, our aim is to deliver a step-change in the understanding of mammalian innate be",{"id":371,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":372,"piName":14,"institution":373,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":374,"abstract":375},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225080","Politcal Parties in Africa and Democracy","UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE","€9,957,415","Democracy across Africa is in decline (V-Dem 2024), with Africa’s political parties widely blamed as a major source of democratic weakness. Yet, in at least some African countries, parties appear to be playing important roles in defending and expanding democracy, and we currently lack a clear understanding of how, and under what conditions, they engage in this activity. This has critical implications for both our theoretical knowledge, and practical democracy support efforts. We request an ERC S",{"id":377,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":378,"piName":14,"institution":379,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":380},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225087","Integrating the physics and social-psychology of crowd movement","FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH","Since the late 19th century scientists have tried to understand human movement in crowds. Although research has demystified crowds (they are neither swarms, homogeneous, nor irrational), coordinated movement in crowds remains a scientific puzzle. We know crowds have different repertoires (walking, forming lanes, queuing) and can rapidly transition between them. This behaviour is important for practical safety reasons and for fundamental understanding of mass behaviour. But current models do not ",{"id":382,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":383,"piName":14,"institution":384,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":385,"abstract":386},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224694","Imaging the Dynamics of Electrons with Attosecond and Angstrom resolution","DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY","€13,975,000","IDEAA targets the synergistic creation of experimental and theoretical toolboxes, leveraging innovative attosecond time-resolved X-ray techniques, to capture electron dynamics within molecules with unprecedented ångström and attosecond resolution in space and time. Access to the electron time scale in molecules has opened tremendous new perspectives to direct chemistry through pathways otherwise not accessible by conventional chemistry, ultimately creating novel light harnessing approaches that ",{"id":388,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":389,"piName":14,"institution":130,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":390,"abstract":391},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224255","Generative machine learning for combined process control and materials design","€9,314,934","GEMPROMISE aims to tackle the grand challenge of materials science, namely to identify the process parameters leading to a structure with targeted properties and performance. Compared to the current trial-and-error approach, mastering the Process-Structure-Property-Performance (Proc.→Struc.→Prop.→Perf.) relationships would speed up materials discovery with a huge societal impact (e.g., for energy transition). From a fundamental standpoint, there is no theory for these relationships. Thanks to hi",{"id":393,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":394,"piName":14,"institution":395,"country":60,"year":13,"amount":396,"abstract":397},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224497","Ultimative Photovoltaics","ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG","€9,985,893","The transition towards a society powered by 100% renewable energy necessitates the widespread de-ployment of photovoltaics. This poses a challenge due to the limited availability of resources and space. To address this, breakthrough technologies that consume fewer resources and achieve higher conversion efficiencies than the dominant silicon technology are required. The overarching goal of UltiMatePV is to re-invent the modern solar cell and open the gate to a new generation of resource-saving p",{"id":399,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":400,"piName":401,"institution":402,"country":40,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":403},"openalex-european-research-council-award-101020940-synergy","Coordination behaviour in travel mode choice: An experiment on autonomous vehicle services","Thomas O. Hancock","University of Leeds","• We examine travellers’ choices between autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs) under different information conditions. • A repeated mode-choice game was implemented where participants made decisions based on varying levels of information about travel outcomes. • Mixed multinomial logit (MMNL) models were estimated to analyse the factors influencing travellers’ choices. • Learning patterns, heterogeneous preferences, and fairness concerns significantly influence mode choice in",{"id":405,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":406,"piName":14,"institution":407,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":408,"abstract":409},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101225089","Rebuilding interphase nuclei into mitotic chromosomes","UNIVERSITAT ZURICH","€10,137,286","The remarkable morphological transformation that cells undergo during mitosis has been studied for >140 years, but how mitotic chromosomes are built from interphase nuclei remains unknown and challenging to study. We propose to uncover the mechanisms for this process at high-resolution in cells and in vitro, a task that requires coordinated implementation of innovative experimental designs in several disciplines. We will engineer mutant and hybrid cell lines that enter mitosis with minute-by-min",{"id":411,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":412,"piName":14,"institution":413,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":414,"abstract":415},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224262","The Causes of the Global Increase in Early Onset Colorectal Cancer","CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SUR LE CANCER","€10,396,565","Colorectal cancer diagnosed under 50 years of age has been rapidly increasing over recent decades such that early onset colorectal cancer is soon expected to become the leading cause of cancer-related death in young adults. The cause of the increased incidence is not known. We have developed extensive pilot data supporting the hypothesis that, over recent decades, a global increase in the prevalence of mutagen-producing microbes in the colonic microbiome of infants has caused increased mutation ",{"id":417,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":418,"piName":14,"institution":419,"country":420,"year":13,"amount":421,"abstract":422},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224224","The Life Cycle of a Memory Trace: a New Understanding of Learning and Memory from Circuits to Synapses and Molecules","HUN-REN Kiserleti Orvostudomanyi Kutatointezet","HU","€9,782,317","In MemoryLoci, we seek to understand the mammalian brain’s remarkable capacity to learn and remember. Episodic memory is central to most cognitive efforts and requires robust mechanisms to encode and retain salient features of our experiences while forgetting spurious details. What are the neural substrates of a memory trace, and how does the brain arbitrate among experiences for long-term storage? These central questions remain unresolved due to pervasive experimental roadblocks to our mechanis",{"id":424,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":425,"piName":14,"institution":426,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":427,"abstract":428},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224449","East African Mountain social ecological dynamics (AFRI-CAN)","UNIVERSITY OF YORK","€9,988,220","Mountains globally are under pressure from a perfect storm of changing climates, growing populations, biodiversity threats and agricultural transformations; challenges that increasingly impact not just mountain communities, but also the surrounding lowlands that rely on highlands for the provision of resources, most obviously water. But such changes have global impacts too, since mountains are often hotspots of biodiversity and act as carbon sinks. These services provided by ecosystems are refer",{"id":430,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":431,"piName":14,"institution":432,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":433,"abstract":434},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224354","Probing the non-perturbative regime of Quantum Electrodynamics with extreme light","COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES","€13,937,624.75","The NP-QED project aims at testing the predictions of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) – the theory of light matter interactions – in yet unexplored, extreme regimes. The first of these is the strong-field regime of QED, which begins when light amplitude hits the threshold of vacuum breakdown, occurring at the Schwinger field limit ~1018V\u002Fm.  At this threshold, it is predicted that a light beam can deflect another light beam in a vacuum – violating Maxwell’s equations- and even generate electron po",{"id":436,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":437,"piName":14,"institution":229,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":438,"abstract":439},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224877","Robustness and plasticity of epithelial architectures","€8,480,623","\"Animal cells display characteristic, cell-type specific shapes that are precisely adapted to cell function. Cell shape alterations are a hallmark of pathology, commonly used in diagnostics. Yet, cells can also rapidly change shape in response to molecular or mechanical signals. How the balance between cell shape stability and plasticity is achieved is not understood. \n\nTight coupling between shape robustness and function is particularly important in epithelial cells, which adhere to each other ",{"id":441,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":442,"piName":14,"institution":426,"country":100,"year":13,"amount":443,"abstract":444},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224035","Investigating alternative trajectories for human demographic growth in temperate northern Holocene societies","€10,496,252","After the end of the last Ice Age, warmer and more stable climates of the Holocene led to the development of entirely new kinds of food systems which in turn triggered population booms across mid-latitude environments globally. These momentous changes are often reduced to a simple linear narrative that tracks progression from mobile foraging to settled farming and from there to urbanisation and state formation. This ‘agri-centric’ narrative is problematic because in most cases behaviours typical",{"id":446,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":447,"piName":14,"institution":45,"country":46,"year":13,"amount":448,"abstract":449},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101224858","Current and future shifts of snow regimes in extreme environments","€9,999,956","The UN Decade of Action on Cryospheric Sciences aims to reduce uncertainties regarding the causes and effects of changes in snow, ice, and permafrost. Snow is a major contributor to these uncertainties due to the incomplete understanding and representation of snow processes in climate models. SnowShifts seeks to significantly enhance our comprehension of snow volume and mass, their non-linear dynamics and properties and, specifically, snow regime shifts within the Earth and climate systems. This",74,{"programme":8,"total":452,"withPiName":453,"firstYear":454,"lastYear":13,"countryCount":455,"perYear":456,"topInstitutions":488,"topCountries":543},335,21,2013,28,[457,459,461,464,466,469,472,475,478,481,484,487],{"year":454,"count":458},11,{"year":460,"count":458},2014,{"year":462,"count":463},2015,2,{"year":465,"count":463},2018,{"year":467,"count":468},2019,27,{"year":470,"count":471},2020,37,{"year":473,"count":474},2021,34,{"year":476,"count":477},2022,8,{"year":479,"count":480},2023,33,{"year":482,"count":483},2024,38,{"year":485,"count":486},2025,58,{"year":13,"count":450},[489,492,495,496,499,501,504,506,508,511,513,515,517,519,521,522,525,527,529,531,533,535,537,539,541],{"name":490,"count":491},"Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften Ev",24,{"name":493,"count":494},"Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS",16,{"name":288,"count":477},{"name":497,"count":498},"Institut National de la Sante Et de la Recherche Medicale",6,{"name":500,"count":498},"Kobenhavns Universitet",{"name":502,"count":503},"Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas",5,{"name":505,"count":503},"Stichting Radboud Universiteit",{"name":507,"count":503},"Universitetet I Oslo",{"name":509,"count":510},"Commissariat A L Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives",4,{"name":512,"count":510},"Forschungszentrum Julich Gmbh",{"name":514,"count":510},"Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Ntnu",{"name":516,"count":510},"Technische Universiteit Delft",{"name":518,"count":510},"Tel Aviv University",{"name":520,"count":510},"Universitat Wien",{"name":300,"count":510},{"name":523,"count":524},"Aarhus Universitet",3,{"name":526,"count":524},"Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne",{"name":528,"count":524},"Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich",{"name":530,"count":524},"European Molecular Biology Laboratory",{"name":532,"count":524},"Gfz Helmholtz-Zentrum Fur Geoforschung",{"name":534,"count":524},"Humboldt-Universitaet Zu Berlin",{"name":536,"count":524},"Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine",{"name":538,"count":524},"King's College London",{"name":540,"count":524},"Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn",{"name":542,"count":524},"Universite Catholique de Louvain",[544,546,548,550,551,552,554,555,557,558,560,562,564,566,567,568,569,570,572,574,576,579,581,583,584],{"name":60,"count":545},82,{"name":81,"count":547},43,{"name":100,"count":549},29,{"name":21,"count":468},{"name":53,"count":491},{"name":74,"count":553},18,{"name":124,"count":553},{"name":144,"count":556},14,{"name":46,"count":556},{"name":137,"count":559},12,{"name":107,"count":561},10,{"name":563,"count":477},"IL",{"name":264,"count":565},7,{"name":40,"count":510},{"name":67,"count":524},{"name":28,"count":524},{"name":420,"count":524},{"name":571,"count":524},"IE",{"name":573,"count":463},"HR",{"name":575,"count":463},"PL",{"name":577,"count":578},"CN",1,{"name":580,"count":578},"CY",{"name":582,"count":578},"EL",{"name":12,"count":578},{"name":585,"count":578},"LU"]