[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship-2018":3,"awarded-stats-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship":982},{"awarded":4,"total":981},[5,16,23,29,35,41,46,52,57,62,67,72,78,83,88,93,98,104,111,115,121,126,131,136,141,147,152,159,165,170,176,181,185,190,195,200,206,210,215,220,225,231,236,242,246,251,256,262,268,273,278,283,288,292,298,303,308,313,317,321,326,331,335,339,345,349,354,359,364,368,372,377,381,386,390,394,398,403,408,413,418,422,427,432,436,441,446,451,456,461,466,471,475,479,483,488,493,498,503,508,513,518,523,528,534,539,544,549,554,559,564,568,574,579,584,589,595,600,604,608,613,618,622,626,630,634,639,644,649,654,660,665,670,675,679,684,688,693,697,701,706,711,716,721,728,732,737,741,746,751,757,761,765,770,774,778,783,788,793,798,802,807,811,815,819,824,828,833,838,842,846,851,855,860,864,869,874,878,884,888,892,896,900,905,909,914,919,923,927,931,935,939,944,948,953,957,962,966,971,976],{"id":6,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":9,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":15},"openalex-h2020-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-individual-fellowship-702048","H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship","Metal support effects in electrocatalysis at hexagonal boron nitride","Cameron L. Bentley","University of Warwick","GB",2018,null,"A scanning electrochemical droplet cell technique has been employed to screen the intrinsic electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanosheets supported on different metal substrates (Cu and Au). Local (spatially-resolved) voltammetry and Tafel analysis reveal that electronic interaction with the underlying metal substrate plays a significant role in modulating the electrocatalytic activity of h-BN, with Au-supported h-BN exhibiting significa",{"id":17,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":19,"piName":14,"institution":20,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":22},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796315","Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","Investor Cliques in Stock Markets","TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR","FI","Complex networks theory during the last two decades has gained novel results and profound insights into many complex systems in engineering, social and biological and also financial fields. This proposed data-driven research programme will apply cross-disciplinary complex network approaches to identify investor cliques in stock markets and to explain the impact of investor behaviour on asset price dynamics. My research extends current knowledge on investor networks by focusing on the identificat",{"id":24,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":25,"piName":14,"institution":26,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":28},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749731","Activation of PI3K signalling in the pathogenesis of Vascular Anomalies","FUNDACIO INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIO BIOMEDICA DE BELLVITGE","ES","Vascular anomalies are rare soft tissue tumours and malformations formed by abnormal vascular elements of various types, and mainly affect infants, children and young adults. These lesions are painful, many lead to bleeding, infections, organ dysfunction, and they can damage and metastasise to other tissues. Current treatment strategies are invasive, not fully efficient, and there is a high risk of recurrence. To date no specific targeted therapies have been developed. Most of the studies on vas",{"id":30,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":31,"piName":14,"institution":32,"country":33,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":34},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-753685","Video streaming services with Software-Defined Networking","ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS - RESEARCH CENTER","EL","Recent advances in mobile devices and video streaming services have motivated large-scale media consumption both in fixed and mobile environments. In this context, the main objective of network operators and service providers is to improve the Quality of Experience (QoE) of the end-users by providing high quality services and mechanisms for seamlessadaptation to the specific network conditions of each user. However, the initial design of the Internet as a best-effort network makes it inappropria",{"id":36,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":37,"piName":14,"institution":38,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":40},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799150","European Best Practices for Endangered Language Revitalisation","THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH","UK","Language endangerment has become a global crisis. According to estimates only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in theworld are ‘safe’ from the threat of extinction. In Europe we have an increasing amount of expertise in language revitalisationfor endangered languages. These are skills and knowledge that are transferable to other language revitalisation movements worldwide giving Europe the potential to be a leader in the field. However, as we develop revitalisation techniques and as they become ",{"id":42,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":43,"piName":14,"institution":44,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":45},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748592","On the Frontiers of Peace. Cross-cultural Peacebuilding on the Global Frontiers of the Iberian Empires (1500-1580)","UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE","This research project investigates the historical roots of cross-cultural peacebuilding. European expansion during the sixteenth century was characterised by a high degree of violence, which was fuelled by cultural differences and religious radicalisms. The meeting of different cultures created new forms of violence, but, at the same time, generated new forms of cross-cultural encounters that were driven to construct a lasting peace. This project explains the transition from the violent conflict",{"id":47,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":48,"piName":14,"institution":49,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":51},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799411","Cellular mechanisms of predictive processing and its effects on perception","HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN","DE","Predictive processing is a leading theory of brain function. However, despite several conjectures it is unknown how predictive processing is implemented at the neural level. We will try to understand the exact role of the computations of the layer 5 pyramidal (L5p) cells within the framework of predictive processing. The experimental paradigm and the computational model used here are designed to answer, whether L5p cells carry predictions, as the theory of predictive processing suggests, or are ",{"id":53,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":54,"piName":14,"institution":55,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":56},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752276","The Brain Dynamics of Human Fluid Intelligence","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","Human fluid intelligence is characterized by a structured sequence of cognition, resulting in efficient application of rules to novel problems. In the brain, metabolic neuroimaging and lesion studies have linked fluid intelligence to a specific frontoparietal network, here called the multiple-demand (MD) network, comprising regions of lateral frontal, insular, dorsomedial frontal and parietal cortex. But how do MD functions determine fluid intelligence across stages of cognition? My extensive ex",{"id":58,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":59,"piName":14,"institution":60,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":61},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-800154","Impacts of the North Atlantic Decadal variability on European Climate: mechanisms and predictability","BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION","During the last century, the North Atlantic sea surface temperature exhibited superimposed long-term warming trend and multidecadal fluctuations. This multidecadal variability is referred to as the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV). The AMV has been pointed as the source of marked climate anomalies and associated human impacts over many areas of the globe. This includes droughts in Africa and North America, decline in sea-ice, changes of tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic, as well a",{"id":63,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":64,"piName":14,"institution":65,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":66},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795905","New circular polarized light-emitting electrochemical cells.","FUNDACION IMDEA MATERIALES","Light emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) are key devices in the future development of lighting technologies as they are much more competitive than OLEDs from an economic\u002Fmanufacturing point of view. In addition, the compatibility of LECs with metal free electrodes allow the design of flexible\u002Fprintable\u002Fcustomizable devices. Despite their potential to overcome the OLEDs, this technology has been limited by the sparse number of emissive complexes that have produced good performing LECs and the ",{"id":68,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":69,"piName":14,"institution":70,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":71},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793615","When saying the world is just backfires: elites' expression of the belief in a just world, perceived immorality, moral outrage and punishment wishes","UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID","Saying that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, can be considered as a moralizing discourse. Past research has shown that this “just world” discourse is well regarded when conveyed by ordinary citizens. The main goal of this project, however, is to show that it can backfire against those who enact it. Specifically, this programme intends to show that when financial\u002Fpolitical elites resort to a “just world” discourse, it may lead to punishment wishes against those elites, incl",{"id":73,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":74,"piName":14,"institution":75,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":77},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797451","GridEye State Estimation of Medium Voltage Distribution Systems","DEPSYS SA","CH","GEiMS will be the first ever project to enable the realistic and prompt application of decentralized State Estimation (SE) at Medium Voltage (MV) Distribution Systems (DS) of electricity. A wide, concise, adaptive and straight-forward SE framework for MV DS will be delivered, based on the novel, but readily available features of the GridEye Base Module (GBM) equipment, which is integrated over GridEye Network Supervision, a fully operational monitoring and control ICT platform, both developed by",{"id":79,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":80,"piName":14,"institution":81,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":82},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-750961","Backreaction of Financial Networks: Risk Estimation and Asset-Management","MUNCHENER RUCKVERSICHERUNGS-GESELLSCHAFT AG","The financial market is a relevant part of our economy.  Its crisis spread all over the countries and affect our daily life. Understanding these phenomena has become a crucial field of academic research and a holy grail for investors. In this project, I aim to study and develop models to forecast and manage the risk propagation along simplified structures called dynamical networks with particular emphasis on the morphological changes occurring as back-reaction to the risk spread.",{"id":84,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":85,"piName":14,"institution":86,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":87},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797433","Love Across the Divide in Northern Irish Literature and Culture: 1968 - present","THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST","LOVE will enable the experienced researcher, Dr. Alison Garden (AG) to undertake a 24-month fellowship at Queen’s University Belfast QUB) to deliver a project on ‘Love across the Divide’ in Northern Irish literary and cultural texts from 1968 onwards, under the supervision of Professor Fran Brearton (FB). This period of mobility will see AG learn new research-specific skills through working closely with academic experts at QUB; continue her professional development by attending courses offered b",{"id":89,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":90,"piName":14,"institution":91,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":92},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795845","Researching Environments that Magnify Health Everyday (REMEDHY)","FUNDACION PRIVADA INSTITUTO DE SALUD GLOBAL BARCELONA","Research continues to demonstrate that people of all ages and abilities enjoy higher levels of health and wellbeing when they have nature nearby in parks, gardens, naturalized schoolyards as well as landscaping at home and work. Access to and engagement with nature is associated with greater longevity, more physical activity, restoration from stress, and a greater sense of wellbeing. However, urbanization and changing lifestyles are compromising our interactions with natural environments and suc",{"id":94,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":95,"piName":14,"institution":96,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":97},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793580","The interoceptive link between anxiety and breathing perception","UNIVERSITAT ZURICH","Anxiety is one of the most common mental health issues, and debilitating anxiety symptoms can be present across a spectrum of diseases and disorders. While dysfunctional interoception (monitoring of the internal state of the body) is thought to be both a cause and effect of anxiety, the brain mechanisms leading to perturbed interoception remain unclear. Breathing offers a unique insight into our interoceptive processing, as the continuous swap between subconscious and conscious control provides ",{"id":99,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":100,"piName":14,"institution":101,"country":102,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":103},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-743553","Sustainability Assessment based on Decision Aiding","POLITECHNIKA POZNANSKA","PL","There is a pressing need for clear and understandable information regarding the sustainability of products, companies and policies. To achieve this, one of the main priorities for the European Commission is strengthening the integration of Sustainable Development (SD) principles into the policy-making processes. For this to occur there is an impelling need for: (i) enhancing the economic profitability of businesses employing the principles of a circular economy;  (ii) providing consumers with a ",{"id":105,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":106,"piName":14,"institution":107,"country":108,"year":13,"amount":109,"abstract":110},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799171","The neural signature of numerosity: Tracking the cerebral correlates of numerical and continuous magnitude extraction with a frequency-based approach","UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES","BE","€160,800","Mathematical skills are critical in modern societies and their development has considerable financial impact on the GDP per capita. Moreover, mathematical difficulties are a frequent factor in children’s learning difficulties. The ability to handle approximate large quantities has been identified as a building block of mathematical skills but the mechanism allowing to extract numerical magnitudes (i.e., numerosity) from environmental stimuli is still debated. Most authors agree that humans have ",{"id":112,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":113,"piName":14,"institution":60,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":114},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-747607","Exploring terra incognita: terrestrialization of arthropods in the era of genomics","Terrestrialization – the colonization of the land habitat by plants and animals – is amongst the most important events in the history of life on Earth. Understanding terrestrialization is, therefore, key to understanding biological adaptation. From all animals, arthropods constitute the most successful phylum, manifest in extreme species richness and successful radiation into nearly every ecological niche. Arthropods colonized the land multiple times independently and at different times in Earth",{"id":116,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":117,"piName":14,"institution":118,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":120},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752098","Intergovernmental relations in divided societies","ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO","IT","Many divided societies in Europe and beyond are grappling with identity-based political tensions and conflicts.  Most recent examples are the post-election violence in Kenya, the ethnic unrest in Ethiopia, and, in Europe, the continuing uncertainties about the territorial integrity of countries like Spain, the United Kingdom and Belgium in the face of secessionist claims. These and many other countries use territorial autonomies, within a federal or decentralised framework, to manage their divid",{"id":122,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":123,"piName":14,"institution":124,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":125},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796499","Evolution of cell mechanisms underlying human dental reduction in Europe","UNIVERSITY OF KENT","The human skeleton has continued to evolve over the past 40,000 years in Europe, long after the emergence of our species. During this period, major social, technological and demographic changes occurred as a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle gave way to sedentary farming villages, and then cities. This was accompanied by biological changes to our skeletons, which are retained into the present day. One of the most striking changes is the reduced size of our teeth and jaws. This dental reduction co",{"id":127,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":128,"piName":14,"institution":129,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":130},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796461","A New Perspective On Star Formation and Spiral Structure in Our Home Galaxy","THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER","Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are the principal sites of star formation. The derivation of cloud properties are complicated by their large spread in distance along the line of sight. Consequently, to gain insight into the GMCs' physical states one compares parsec-sized clouds of a few hundred solar masses in the solar neighbourhood to the largest, million-solar-mass GMCs in the distant Milky Way. The main goal of my project is to produce the first map of the Perseus Spiral Arm in our outer Galax",{"id":132,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":133,"piName":14,"institution":134,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":135},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799041","Sustainability Innovations in Global Production Networks – Addressing Socio-Ecological Challenges in the Global Economy","THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER","In the 21st century,researchers, policy makers and practitioners are confronted with formidable environmental and societal mega problems. Sustainability innovations that address these issues are gaining stature in research and policy. The development of innovative and context-adapted solutions is a complex issue; how to develop sustainable solutions that adequately address local and global needs is the critical challenge of our times. The aim of the project is to investigate opportunities and ba",{"id":137,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":138,"piName":14,"institution":139,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":140},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793317","Understanding and Supporting Peer Feedback at Massive Learning Scale","UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID","Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer high quality education from the worlds' top universities in a wide range of areas. MOOCs can be freely accessed by millions around the world via a valid Internet connection; however not every individual accessing MOOCs equally benefits from them. The dropout of learners with limited or no background is inevitable as instructors cannot monitor every student and provide timely formative feedback and guidance tailored to their unique needs. As a result, MOO",{"id":142,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":143,"piName":14,"institution":144,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":146},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797286","Comparing the Predictive Ability of Forecasting Models","ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM","NL","Constructing accurate predictions on different macroeconomic variables is a key issue for any central bank and other policy making institutions. For example, obtaining accurate inflation forecasts is important for setting interest rates. These institutions typically rely on a set of models to construct their forecasts and the question that often arises is which of these models performs the best in terms of predictive ability. The purpose of this project is to show that, when strong identificatio",{"id":148,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":149,"piName":14,"institution":150,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":151},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-745891","Self-healing geological construction materials and structures","CARDIFF UNIVERSITY","Geological materials are used in significant quantities for construction purposes, structurally and for cladding, but are subject to damage, deformation and deterioration through natural weathering processes in combination with the stress state induced in service. As a consequence, structural performance can be reduced, durability is compromised and there may be aesthetic or heritage issues with regard to preservation of the original structural form. Currently, such issues are addressed either t",{"id":153,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":154,"piName":14,"institution":155,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":157,"abstract":158},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-753717","Male Family Caregiver’s Well-being: Balancing Work and Long-Term Care in France and Japan","FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES","FR","€185,076","Rapid demographic ageing in Europe, as highlighted in Horizon 2020 health priorities, makes the challenge of long-term care increasingly pressing. Despite substantial discussions on caregivers in policy making and academic research, a rapidly emerging new group of relatively young male family primary caregivers who often also work are largely understudied and increasingly risk giving up their employment. Inadequate understanding of gendered caregivers jeopardises not only carers but also care re",{"id":160,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":161,"piName":14,"institution":162,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":164},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749022","Modelling Complex Networks Through Graph Editing Problems","UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN","NO","The goal of the PROXNET project, which will be realised during the mobility of Christophe Crespelle in the Algorithms groupof Bergen, is to open a new way for analysing, modelling and managing complex networks, through graph editing problems.The reason why these networks are said to be complex is that they are loosely structured, due to the part of uncertainty andrandomness they contain. On the other hand, the real-world context where they come from strongly constrains theirorganisation and give",{"id":166,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":167,"piName":14,"institution":168,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":169},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-794947","Genetic basis of herbivore-induced physiological canalization.","UNIVERSITAET BERN","Herbivores can interact with each other indirectly via the shared host plant, for instance via the induction of plant defenses. Indirect plant-mediated interactions strongly influence herbivore behavior and performance and shape plant-associated arthropod communities. The order of herbivore arrival is often critical for the outcome of plant-mediated interactions, yet the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, a specialist belowground herbivore of maize, ref",{"id":171,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":172,"piName":14,"institution":173,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":175},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793808","Value to Linguistic Differences: Misspelled Inscriptions from Ancient Spain","HUN REN NYELVTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT","HU","VaLiD aims to reconsider the nature and the significance of deviant spellings and errors in Latin inscriptions in the light of territorial and sociological diversities, by applying modern approaches to the ancient materials. The privileged field of study will be the Roman province Hispania Citerior but comparisons with other territories represent an essential aspect of the investigation. The project is expected to return important information about the spoken Latin of Hispania as well as about t",{"id":177,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":178,"piName":14,"institution":179,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":180},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796781","Modelling of Oxide Interfacial Reconstruction","ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA EN NANOCIENCIAS CIC NANOGUNE","One of the most challenging problems in material science is establishing a relation between material’s properties and interfacial structure. The presence of interfaces may strongly affect the properties of most polycrystalline materials. Interfaces play a determining role in properties of functional oxide heterostructures – artificial materials that attracted an increased attention over the past decade due to the wide range of properties they exhibit. The ability to predict equilibrium atomistic",{"id":182,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":183,"piName":14,"institution":96,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":184},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-746223","Multi-particle scattering amplitudes for precision collider physics","Scattering amplitudes determine the probability of interactions between fundamental particles.  They are essential ingredients for phenomenological predictions in high-energy physics.  Experiments at modern colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, are probing fundamental interactions at previously unexplored scales of energy.  The high energy involved in these interactions is responsible for the production of many particles in the final state, which needs to be theoretically u",{"id":186,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":187,"piName":14,"institution":188,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":189},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749084","Motivation–cognition interaction in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease","UNIVERSITY OF KEELE ROYAL CHARTER","Europe is greying. This has enormous economic and social costs for the entire society, through greater numbers of healthy older adults with cognitive decline, and of people with neurodegenerative disorders that can lead to dementia, such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). MOTIVAGEING aims to address this issue by proposing a new approach for the enhancement of working memory (WM) capacity, in order to improve cognitive function, quality of life and wellbeing of healthy older adults and PD patients. In",{"id":191,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":192,"piName":14,"institution":193,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":157,"abstract":194},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-753743","Multi-compartmental Organ-on-a-Chip","ELVESYS","Drug development is stuck in an innovation gap, in which it incurs staggering expenses and takes many, ten to fifteen, years to get a drug to market, furthermore, during the process many animals are sacrificed in preclinical work, and in the end many times the results from the animal studies does not accurately predict what will happen in humans, resulting in failures, delays, and recalled drugs. There is currently a gap in the preclinical testing platform for therapeutics. Organ-on-a-chip techn",{"id":196,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":14,"institution":198,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":199},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749664","Testing the role of thermo-chemical piles in the generation and continuation of plate tectonics","UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM","The mechanics of plate tectonics (the movement of the Earth's surface) is a fundamental scientific question in understanding the recycling of mantle volatiles in processes that affect habitability. The emergence of plate tectonics on Earth set the planet apart from others in our solar system allowing for the propagation of life, yet the fundamentals of how it all began remain unresolved. Present-day geophysical imaging of the deep mantle show anomalous chemical piles thought to originate from th",{"id":201,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":202,"piName":14,"institution":203,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":205},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752199","Mapping the functional connectome for speed control in spinal motor circuits","INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE EPINIERE","€173,076","The study of spinal circuits underlying locomotion has a rich history, spanning over 100 years of research. Great efforts have been made to map out the connection patterns between motor neurons and different muscle targets. Yet, we know little about how premotor networks govern the recruitment of motor neurons and the control of speed. Recent advances in optogenetics, 3D light patterning and fluorescent-targeted patch clamp recordings of identified neurons now enable to map the functional connec",{"id":207,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":208,"piName":14,"institution":168,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":209},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-744257","Maternal Enteric Microbiota for Offspring's Repertoire development and Illness Susceptibility","Recently, it has emerged that early life exposure to commensal microbes is crucial to instruct our immune system and prevent later life autoimmune and metabolic diseases. The host lab now showed that this education begins even earlier – during gestation by signals from the maternal intestinal microbiota. Using the E. coli strain HA 107, genetically engineered to grow in vitro without the ability to persist in vivo, they demonstrated that transient intestinal colonisation of pregnant germ-free mo",{"id":211,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":212,"piName":14,"institution":213,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":214},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752813","Effects of global change on the social behaviour of marine organisms","NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU","The IPCC projects a 0.2-0.3 unit decrease in oceanic pH and a concurrent 1.0-3.7°C increase in sea surface temperature by 2100. These changes will have considerable impacts on marine organisms and are a threat to European and global biodiversity, food security, and socioeconomic productivity. While physiological impacts associated with marine global change have been well documented, behavioural impacts are less well known, even though behaviour has a major influence on the structure and function",{"id":216,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":217,"piName":14,"institution":218,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":219},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-747597","Amorphous Precursors in Biomineralization.","UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES","Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is a widely studied inorganic compound very abundant in nature as a mineral and a biomineral. It is an important building block of biological bodies, making up the structure of invertebrate organisms. CaCO3 is also a key compound for CO2 sequestration strategies. Recent investigations have reported a so-called non-classical pathway for CaCO3 formation, which involves the formation of an amorphous precursor: amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), which acts as an intermediat",{"id":221,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":222,"piName":14,"institution":223,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":224},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752143","Functional Low-Intensity Light Upconverting Inks for Everyday Applications","BASF SE","Spectral downconversion of visible or UV-light, that is the transformation of high-energy light into lower energy radiation, is used for a broad range of commercial products or applications and is therefore part of everyday life of most people. For example, highlighter pen inks contain organic dyes able to transform ambient UV-light into visible radiation making surfaces such as paper or fabric look bright. In contrast, optical effects based on light upconversion, that is the transformation of l",{"id":226,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":227,"piName":14,"institution":228,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":229,"abstract":230},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-750464","Re-Empower the BOdy after Tetraplegia.","FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA","€244,269","REBoT will move its steps towards the understanding of the interrelationships between training-induced brain reorganization and sensorimotor function after cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The final goal is to promote a “rewiring” of the cortex (or supra-spinal circuits) to bypass pathways interrupted by SCI through a progressive adaptation of the rehabilitative intervention.REBoT’ s concept is based on the hypothesis that practicing upper-body control of personalized physical or virtual inter",{"id":232,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":233,"piName":14,"institution":234,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":235},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-743880","High Attenuation Recycling Materials as sustainable barriers for waste disposal sites","THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD","The need to minimize the amount and foster the safe treatment of waste, and thereby reduce the risk of contamination; emphasises the importance of promoting technologies which are environmentally sound with products suitable for re-use\u002Frecycling. This project establishes a laboratory experimental study to determine the performance of clay mixed with construction and biomass plant waste (fine recycled aggregates, FRA, and\u002For biomass bottom ashes, BBA) as materials for the enhanced attenuation of ",{"id":237,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":238,"piName":14,"institution":239,"country":240,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":241},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-753819","Functional role of neuronal spontaneous activity for sensory processing","FUNDACAO D. ANNA DE SOMMER CHAMPALIMAUD E DR. CARLOS MONTEZ CHAMPALIMAUD","PT","Understanding how the brain processes sensory stimuli to guide behavior is still an unresolved mystery in neuroscience. The view that behavior may be passively guided by the senses is challenged by the observation that the brain is always spontaneous active. Even cortical areas that are supposed to represent features of the sensory environment manifest spontaneous activity (SA) in the absence of external inputs. The similarity between SA and sensory-evoked activity (EA) has been interpreted as l",{"id":243,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":244,"piName":14,"institution":65,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":245},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749192","Characterization and Modelling of dislocation-INterface Interactions in MetAllic Laminates at multiple scales","The global market will increase from $11 billion in 2012 to $22.5 billion in 2018 for micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS), and from $1.9 billion in 2012 to $6.6 billion in 2018 for BioMEMS. Recently, metallic nanolaminates have attracted application as mechanical parts in MEMS and BioMEMS manufacturing. This is due to their superior properties, i.e. large flow strength, high indentation hardness, excellent ductility, good radiation damage resistance, qualified electrical\u002Fmagnetic response, a",{"id":247,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":248,"piName":14,"institution":249,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":250},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-750887","The Age of Planning. Planning as a paradigm for policy history of post-war Europe: national cases and the European integration process (1940s-1960s)","EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE","The project aims at defining, conceptualizing and historicizing the paradigm of planning in order to analyze public policies in Western Europe at the national, transnational and supranational level between 1945 and the late 1960s. The fields of public policies covered by the project are economic planning, social planning, urban\u002Fspatial planning.The project will start with a comparative analysis of four national cases (France, Great Britain, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy), of the approach to",{"id":252,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":253,"piName":14,"institution":254,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":255},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-747698","Development of a smart workflow based on high resolution mass spectrometry for the assessment of the performance of wastewater treatment technologies","FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE RECERCA DE L'AIGUA","Discharges from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are one of the major sources of aquatic pollution. The increased detection of a wide range of organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment shows the limitations of conventional WWTPs (developed and designed to protect natural aquatic systems and water resources mainly by removing loads of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous) in removing these compounds. Therefore, advances in WWTP technologies are crucial to limit the burden of WW-originated",{"id":257,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":258,"piName":14,"institution":259,"country":108,"year":13,"amount":260,"abstract":261},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748032","The virulence potential of human pathogens: how Acinetobacter baumannii survives Acanthamoeba castellanii predation","UNIVERSITE DE NAMUR","€172,800","The human pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii represents a deadly threat to human health. Despite its established clinical relevance, the pathogenicity of this nosocomial superbug is poorly understood. The biphasic amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii is a cellular infection model broadly used to decipher the virulence mechanisms of human pathogens, as bacterial resistance upon amoebal predation (grazing) are often correlated with their pathogenicity potential in human. However, high-throughput screenin",{"id":263,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":264,"piName":14,"institution":265,"country":266,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":267},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752620","Movement restoration with Adaptive EEG And Immersive Neurofeedback","GUGER TECHNOLOGIES OG","AT","Despite very extensive efforts to help millions of people in the EU alone who seek therapy to improve motor function after a stroke, most stroke patients are left with lifelong motor disability. Recent work from our group and others has shown that new methods and devices that can noninvasively monitor and stimulate brain activity could substantially improve recovery. EEG data collected from portable electrode caps can detect each patient’s motor imagery and thereby influence multimodal feedback ",{"id":269,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":270,"piName":14,"institution":271,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":272},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-740654","Semi-Parametric Econometric Models: Health, Obesity and Patient Expenditures","UNIVERSITY OF YORK","Econometric modelling of healthcare costs serves many purposes: to obtain key parameters in cost-effectiveness analyses; to implement risk adjustment in insurance systems; and to examine the impact of risk factors such as smoking and obesity. Modelling healthcare costs is challenging because the cost data are typically non-negative, heavy tailed and highly skewed. Filling the gap in the literature: SPEM will develop an ambitious research programme that simultaneously meet these conditions: (1) n",{"id":274,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":275,"piName":14,"institution":276,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":277},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749909","Amplitudes and form factors via integrability","QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","Our theoretical description of natural phenomena is mostly limited to the regime where the interaction among fundamental particles is sufficiently weak, making the understanding of strongly-coupled gauge theories one of the main challenges of current research in theoretical physics. This proposal aims to study the structure of form factors -- important off-shell generalizations of scattering amplitudes of great phenomenological relevance -- in the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at al",{"id":279,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":280,"piName":14,"institution":281,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":282},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-750553","Institutions for Resilient Groundwater Dependent Rural Economies","BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET MINIERES","Groundwater is a strategic resource for modern economies worldwide; yet it is over-exploited at an alarming rate. New forms of governance are sought, in particular in rural areas with intensive agricultural irrigation where authorities lack the means to regulate large numbers of dispersed users. During the Fellowship, I will develop new understanding of strategies and institutional arrangements for increasing the resilience of groundwater dependent rural economies, and develop and test a methodo",{"id":284,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":285,"piName":14,"institution":286,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":287},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-746190","Photocatalysis induced by copper complexes supported on Silica materials-Study in Flow processes","FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA","PhoCuS-Flow project aims to contribute to the European Research Area (ERA) by developing a new generation of sunlight activated copper photocatalysts supported on mesoporous silica. Three novel concepts are proposed: i) use of tris(triazolyl)methanol-Cu-complexes (developed in the host group) as photocatalysts in organic reactions, ii) the immobilization of the complexes on mesoporous silica materials to be used as heterogeneous and recyclable catalysts and iii) implementation of a continuous fl",{"id":289,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":290,"piName":14,"institution":129,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":291},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749224","Elucidating continental-scale patterns of bird migration with weather radars","Migration is a wide-spread phenomenon which allows animals of many different taxa to take advantage of seasonal variation in resource abundance. Radar is a powerful tool to observe and track migratory flights. In this action I will use the existing European network of weather radars to investigate bird migration behaviour and patterns at the continental-scale in relation to topography, weather and insect migration. A unique aspect of this action is that I will have access not only to bird migrat",{"id":293,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":294,"piName":14,"institution":295,"country":296,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":297},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-747114","Deciphering cell-cell and cell-microbiome interactions of innate lymphoid cells at the single cell level","WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE","IL","Battling acute and chronic enteric disease is a priority in Europe and worldwide, especially now at the age of widespread antibiotic resistance. A network of gut immune and epithelial cells tolerates commensal microbes, while retaining its ability to initiate a potent response upon pathogenic infection. Whether and how commensal gut microbes affect the capacity of immune system to fight enteric infection remains largely unknown.This project aims to reveal how the microbiome modulates immune syst",{"id":299,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":300,"piName":14,"institution":301,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":302},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752921","Aeroponic Inulin and Rubber","KEYGENE NV","Natural rubber is an essential commodity for the European society. However, the natural rubber market is seriously endangered. Finding an alternative rubber source for the rubber tree is an urgent issue for EU. The EU has funded several projects on alternative rubber crops in the past. Taraxacum koksaghyz (TKS) was identified as the most promising alternative. However, this wild plant is small and does not produce sufficient rubber to be economically profitable. Rubber production can be increase",{"id":304,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":305,"piName":14,"institution":306,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":307},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752053","Paternity leave and the gender gap in pay and earnings","DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FUR WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG DIW (INSTITUT FUR KONJUNKTURFORSCHUNG) EV","This project will estimate the impact of the gender split in parental leave on gender gaps in labour market outcomes and domestic work. I will address this topic, which is of Europe-wide policy relevance, by examining the parental leave policy in Germany. To provide causal estimates, I will make use of variation in the gender split in leave that is due to a cap in the income-related benefit payments at 1,800€ per month. A preliminary step for the analysis, is to confirm empirically that the cap ",{"id":309,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":310,"piName":14,"institution":311,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":312},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-746985","Advancing cancer immunotherapy using natural killer cells for hematological and metastatic cancers","FUNDACION PARA LA INVESTIGACION MEDICA APLICADA FIMA","The development of monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to target tumor cells has tremendously improve cancer immunotherapy and benefit the treatment of aggressive cancer such as some types of lymphomas, leukemias, multiple myeloma and metastatic cancers. One of the mechanisms of action is the induction of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicty (ADCC) through the activation of CD16 on NK cells after binding to the Fc portion of Ab-coated tumor cells. Therefore, strategies that combine NK cell activation",{"id":314,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":315,"piName":14,"institution":193,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":316},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-753785","A microfluidic chip for automating three-dimensional cell culture for personalized medicine","A paradigm shift in health-care towards personalized medicine is slowly under way to tailor treatments to each unique individual’s needs. A key avenue for developing this field consists in recreating in vitro models of specific body parts with cells. In particular, cells need to be placed in three-dimensions (3D) to truly recapitulate their normal environment in the body; yet current commercial assays only facilitate culture of cells in two-dimensions, which causes cells to behave very different",{"id":318,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":319,"piName":14,"institution":286,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":320},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-746965","Macrocyclic receptors for selective anion extraction","Developing selective receptor molecules for biologically relevant anions will enable major technological advances for rapid sensing, and extraction and removal of toxic components from waste waters. However, selective binding in water with synthetic receptors is difficult to achieve since water effectively competes with receptor-anion interactions. MAREXT aims to offer pioneering solutions for the selective binding of targeted anions in water by novel calixpyrrole assemblies: micelles with hydro",{"id":322,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":323,"piName":14,"institution":324,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":325},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749058","Beta-lactams for Tuberculosis Treatment","FUNDACION AGENCIA ARAGONESA PARA LA INVESTIGACION Y EL DESARROLLO","Tuberculosis (TB) is the most deadly infectious disease worldwide. TB therapy takes 6 months with unpleasant side effects that leads to poor adherence and the development of drug resistance. Patients infected with multi (MDR) or extensively (XDR) drug resistant strains must undergo longer treatments (up to 24 months) associated with even severe side effects and only 30-50% positive treatment outcomes. New treatments are urgently needed.Beta-lactams (BLMs) are the safest antibiotics in the market",{"id":327,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":328,"piName":14,"institution":329,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":330},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-747836","Detection of visual motion in the cortex","FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FONDATION","Direction selectivity is a feature of selected neurons in the visual cortex that is conserved in evolution. The emergence of cortical direction selectivity has been extensively studied but its circuit mechanism is still debated. My goal is to understand the circuit mechanism of cortical direction selectivity that is independent of retinal direction selectivity. I plan to approach this by using two animal models in which retinal direction selectivity has been disrupted. I will investigate the neu",{"id":332,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":333,"piName":14,"institution":86,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":334},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752060","Shakespeare and Indian Cinematic Traditions","Current work on Shakespeare and India has largely ignored the cinematic idiom. Working with acknowledged expert in global Shakespeare, Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (MTB) of Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), experienced researcher, Dr Rosa María García Periago (RMGP), will undertake a fellowship that comprehensively examines for the first time the role of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, with a focus on regionalism, diversity, locality and gender. Rather than simply engaging with ‘Bollywood’, th",{"id":336,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":337,"piName":14,"institution":218,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":338},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793570","Does Cross-border Cooperation relate to a Humanist-ETHical cOde of valueS? Theorizing the institutionalization of a cross-border governance humanist ethical code.","Is there an ethical dimension in cross-border cooperation (CBC)? How and to what extent are peoples’ lives affected by CBC and what is the role people play in shaping the CBC social order? What are the ethical values promoted by the European Union (EU) through CBC? Although European Union border scholars and practitioners highlight how important is to consider the ethical dimension of CBC for its successful management, this dimension has been so far neglected and understudied because of the lack",{"id":340,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":341,"piName":14,"institution":342,"country":343,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":344},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-753736","The Development of a Multiscale Modeling Framework for Investigating Marine Soft Clays","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB","SE","The planning and construction on or in soft marine clays has been proven to remain a challenge for geotechnical engineering. These type of clays are often instable, difficult to characterize and reinforce (i.e. ground improvement), and very common in coastal areas all over the world. The presence of marine soft clays are often the reason for landslides, with hazardous consequences. The complexity of these natural material has hindered the understanding of how macroscopic properties (>meters) suc",{"id":346,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":347,"piName":14,"institution":162,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":348},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-750379","The Symbolism of the Body in Northern Europe. Cognitive Metaphors and Old Norse Myth from the Viking Age to Late Medieval Times","The aim of the proposed research is to investigate the integrative function of bodily metaphors within the Old Norse Literature and Culture. The research will span the culturally important transition from pre-Christian culture to the products of Christian literacy. Its starting point will be the mythic narratives connected with initiation and sacrifice, which have a foremost position in the pre-Christian religion and which are especially rich in the cognitive metaphors of the human body. These m",{"id":350,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":351,"piName":14,"institution":352,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":353},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748006","Room temperature stabilization and all-electrical manipulation of chiral spin structures in metallic multilayers","UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG","The constantly increasing energy consumption associated with the functioning of micro-electronic devices calls for the design of more energy efficient technologies. While semiconductor technologies have reached their intrinsic limitations, spintronics offers a new path towards the design of memory and logic devices with high density and low power consumption. However, present spintronic devices such as magnetic-RAMs still suffer from high current density requirements. These drawbacks call for th",{"id":355,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":356,"piName":14,"institution":357,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":358},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749924","Basin modes of the ocean: their role in the interannual to interdecadal climate variability","UNIVERSITE DE BREST","Decadal climate predictions are a strong societal need for both EU and non-EU communities. However, mechanisms of low-frequency variability of the climate system remain unclear, preventing accurate prediction of decadal climate changes. Several mechanisms have been proposed so far and they can be sorted in three categories: ocean only, atmospheric only and coupled dynamics. My project falls in the first category, focussing on the intrinsic variability of the ocean forced by prescribed steady (or",{"id":360,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":361,"piName":14,"institution":362,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":363},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748625","SAfeguarding Biodiversity and Ecosystem seRvices by integrating CULTURAL values in freshwater management: learning from Māori","ASOCIACION BC3 BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE - KLIMA ALDAKETA IKERGAI","Freshwater ecosystems are essential to people´s economic, cultural and social wellbeing, yet are still one of the most seriously threatened ecosystems on the planet. This conflict is reflected in political regulations that ask to halt the loss of, restore and safeguard freshwaters, their biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide. Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM), a holistic approach advocated to help doing so, involves an overarching regulatory framework and local solutions with trade",{"id":365,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":366,"piName":14,"institution":139,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":367},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799885","Carbon Accumulation over Succession to Enhance mitigation of CO2 emissions","Former agricultural lands, also known as old-fields, can have great potential as carbon (C) sinks and could act as naturally occurring, low cost mechanism to mitigate CO2 emissions. However, many studies on C fixation have focused on mature forests, not properly considering abandoned agricultural lands. Through this project, the experienced researcher (ER), Dr. Eduardo Velázquez, aims to; (i) study the process of C accumulation in old-fields over ecological succession, predicting their C sequest",{"id":369,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":370,"piName":14,"institution":134,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":371},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752874","Gender gap in students’ achievement: the role of social, economic, geographical and cultural variables","The study of academic achievement as function of ‘gender’ has received an increasing interest. Nevertheless, this topic seems still topical, at least for the following reasons: until now, some explanatory variables have been picked out but, probably, further unexplored factors exist; 2) the relationship between those factors has not been disclosed yet, i.e. it is not clear if interaction effects between them exist. In particular, the sectorial literature has investigated gender-related stereotyp",{"id":373,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":374,"piName":14,"institution":375,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":376},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752489","Unlocking the potential of ultrahigh field 23Na magnetic resonance to quantify tissue sodium content for probing viability of the heart: where physics, biology and medicine meet","MAX DELBRUECK CENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT (MDC)","Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death with 60% of CVDs associated with coronary artery diseases (CAD). CAD is the major cause of myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as heart attack, which can be life threatening and places a huge socio-economic burden on the EU. The most widely used therapy for CAD is revascularization, and myocardial viability is a determining factor and predictor for patient outcomes. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a mainstay of clini",{"id":378,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":379,"piName":14,"institution":213,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":380},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-751510","INnovation through bIg daTa and socIal enTreprEneurship","The power of big data and their applications is evident through the enormous attention they have received over the past few years, with the majority of the research focusing on solving technical and business problems. However, the challenge remains on how to harness the potential of big data in order to come up with innovative solutions on various societal problems. Big data has the potential to change the way entrepreneurs, as well as the other stakeholders of a social ecosystem, take decisions",{"id":382,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":383,"piName":14,"institution":384,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":385},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-747599","Molecular glues for perovskite materials","UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA","This project aims at optimizing the interface between halide perovskites and different semiconductors through the use of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). Such interface engineering will be applied to perovskite solar cells where SAMs will play the role of “molecular glues” between the active perovskite layer and charge transport layers (n- and p-type metal oxides as well as organic semiconductors). Through the grafting and self-assembly of short bifunctional molecules, PerovSAMs will ensure a s",{"id":387,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":388,"piName":14,"institution":134,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":389},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749815","Sources and sinks for excess Xe and Ar on the Moon","Noble gases trace the evolution of reservoirs inside terrestrial planetary bodies because their isotopic signatures are diagnostic of volatile sources. In addition, original compositions can be modified by radioactive decay of rock forming elements, providing constraints on the chemistry of an interior reservoir and the time at which it was isolated (since when noble gases were retained). Some lunar samples are known to preserve signatures in xenon and argon that were degassed from one or more i",{"id":391,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":392,"piName":14,"institution":276,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":393},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748305","Mechanobiology of METAstatic and DORMant cancer cells in bone marrow lesions","While cancer survival rates have improved significantly in recent years, survival decreases dramatically after tumour metastasis. One of the most common sites for metastatic tumours to develop is bone. Intriguingly, evidence suggests that once they have invaded the bone marrow, individual metastatic cancer cells can persist for years in a quiescent or “dormant” state, and are resistant to both radiation and chemotherapy treatment. These dormant cells can reside for months or years while the canc",{"id":395,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":396,"piName":14,"institution":162,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":397},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-750156","Decadal changes in the Atlantic Equatorial Mode. Origin and dynamics.","Understanding the multidecadal variations of the Atlantic Equatorial Mode (EM) is important for climate prediction and climate services, because it is the first mode of variability in the tropical Atlantic in summer and has a worldwide impact on climate, including the West African Monsoon, rainfall in Nordeste (Brasil), European heat waves and ENSO phenomenon. Recently, two studies of the applicant and the group in which she is working, have pointed that the EM could present multidecadal variati",{"id":399,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":400,"piName":14,"institution":401,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":157,"abstract":402},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-751344","Chaos-based information processing using spintronic nano-oscillators","UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY","ChaoSpin is a frontier research project at the interface between nanomagnetism, spintronics, and nonlinear dynamics. It is motivated by the premise that the rich behaviour of nonlinear systems, in particular chaos, can be leveraged for alternative computing paradigms. The primary objective is to establish the utility and feasibility of the nanocontact vortex oscillator, a nanoscale spintronic device, as a universal building block for chaos-based information processing by demonstrating key techno",{"id":404,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":405,"piName":14,"institution":406,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":407},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-746695","Geochemical Controls on the Ice Nucleating Efficiency of Volcanic Ash","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","Ice formation in the atmosphere has a major impact on the properties and lifetime of clouds yet is one of the least well understood processes indirectly affecting the Earth’s climate. Heterogeneous ice nucleation by airborne solid particles (‘ice nuclei’) exerts a profound influence on clouds by raising the temperature at which ice can form relative to by homogeneous freezing of supercooled water droplets. Volcanic ash from explosive eruptions is increasingly recognised to be capable of acting a",{"id":409,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":410,"piName":14,"institution":411,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":412},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-746518","Saline Fluids in the Mantle - Experimental Investigation of Their Role in Diamond Formation and Kimberlite Magmatism","UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER","The majority of natural diamonds that have great economic importance for the gem industry are formed at great depth beneath old continents in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM). The main carrier of these diamonds are kimberlites, deep volcanic rocks that transport fragments of the SCLM to the Earth’s surface. Both diamond formation and kimberlite genesis are still heavily debated processes in the Geosciences. Growing evidence from natural samples, such as fluid inclusions in diamonds,",{"id":414,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":415,"piName":14,"institution":416,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":417},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-753319","Using Phase Change Materials for the Base Suspension in the Creation of NanoFluids","UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID","Nano-fluids (fluid bases with a nano-particle suspension) and Phase Change Materials (PCM) provide innovative ways to handle the increased need for heat transfer and thermal efficiency. But information regarding the thermal properties (thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, enthalpy of transformation, enthalpy of fusion\u002Fmelting, enthalpy of vaporization, specific heat, melting temperature, and crystallization temperature) of nano-fluids and PCMs is limited and antiquated. Therefore, is the p",{"id":419,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":420,"piName":14,"institution":406,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":421},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748647","Testing communication strategies to save lives in emergency evacuation","The EU urgently seeks to improve emergency evacuation preparedness. EU public spaces are getting more crowded. Fires and terrorist attacks require emergency evacuation. Faster evacuation from public buildings during emergencies saves more lives. Observations of actual emergencies show that people tend to be slow to respond to evacuation alarms (taking up to 10 minutes) and take the familiar route out instead of the nearest exit. The EU calls for evidence-based recommendations for evacuations, wh",{"id":423,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":424,"piName":14,"institution":425,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":426},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-745734","Innovative Biodegradable Poly(ionic liquid)s for Bioelectronics","UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO\u002F EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA","Poly(ionic liquid)s or PILs are expanding classical property profiles of polymers and stirring great interest in the development of diverse areas, as green chemistry, energy, biotechnology, materials or membrane science. One of the common concerns of PILs consist of its biodegradability due their bioaccumulation and negative effects to the environment and the human body. The main goal of this project is to develop the first generation of biodegradable PILs. The most successful biodegradable poly",{"id":428,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":429,"piName":14,"institution":430,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":431},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748749","Targeting the Endocannabinoid System within Islets of Langerhans to Protect against Immune Destruction.","FUNDACION PARA LA INVESTIGACION DE MALAGA EN BIOMEDICINA Y SALUD","Europe has the highest prevalence per capita of children with type 1 diabetes (T1D), an autoimmune disease with no cure that results in progressive destruction, and finally an absolute loss, of insulin-producing beta (β) cells in islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. This means that patients require exogenous insulin administration for life. Additionally, prolonged uncontrolled blood glucose levels increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, peripheral neuropathy, renal failure and numerous in",{"id":433,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":434,"piName":14,"institution":124,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":435},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-746363","Understanding children's empathy: an ethnographic study among the indigenous Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon","The phenomenon of empathy is receiving growing interest in the European public sphere and scientific community. In particular, the question of how one learns to feel empathy towards the environment and the beings which inhabit it has been identified as a key issue to address at this time of environmental crisis.The proposed project investigates how empathy is learnt by children from an Amazonian indigenous community in Ecuador. It explores how and under what circumstances indigenous children in ",{"id":437,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":438,"piName":14,"institution":439,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":440},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752310","The effect of pro-aging and pro-youthful blood factors in normal ageing and Alzheimer’s disease: a multimodal approach","FUNDACIO BARCELONABETA BRAIN RESEARCH CENTER","The overall aim of the planned research is to test whether pro-aging and pro-youthful blood factors are associated with cognitive performance and neuroimaging outcomes in normal ageing and in individuals at risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and whether this association is modified by lifestyle habits (e.g. exercise or diet) or genetic factors. Ageing is the most important risk factor for AD. However, the exact mechanism that link ageing and AD is still unknown and, up to now, potential therapies",{"id":442,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":443,"piName":14,"institution":444,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":445},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748452","(Un)Just Neighbourhoods Socio-Spatial Justice in Urban Neighbourhoods","OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY","Rapid urbanisation, growing process of globalisation, and the neoliberal hegemony have culminated in the omnipresence of socio-spatial inequalities at the neighbourhood scale regarding racial segregation, deprivation, stigmatisation, and degradation. European and North American cities, among others, have initiated neighbourhood-oriented urban redevelopment schemes to mitigate the burden of urban injustice. However, there is no integrated framework to evaluate their achievements, the contribution",{"id":447,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":448,"piName":14,"institution":449,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":450},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-743582","Integrating climate impact and spatial microsimulation modelling for improved climate change adaptation decision-making","POTSDAM-INSTITUT FUR KLIMAFOLGENFORSCHUNG EV","Minimising the welfare cost of climate change requires effective adaptation policies. Consequently, the EU strategy on climate change adaptation prioritises the creation of ‘frameworks, models and tools to support decision-making and to assess [the effectiveness of] various adaptation measures’. Accurate measurement of welfare cost is a prerequisite for effective policy prioritisation. The current state of the art quantifies welfare costs using aggregated methodologies. This has been shown to bi",{"id":452,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":453,"piName":14,"institution":454,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":455},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748213","The DIffuse Galaxy Expansion SignaTures In Various Observables project: understanding the emergence of diffuse, low surface brightness galaxies and the link to their dark matter haloes","INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS","I propose to carry out the ‘DIffuse Galaxy Expansion SignaTures In Various Observables’ (DIGESTIVO) project, a joint theoretical and observational effort alongside observers at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), to study the evolution and formation of Low Surface Brightness galaxies (LSBs), including the recently discovered Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs). LSBs are extremely dark matter dominated, faint objects hardly distinguishable from the night sky. In the last decade it has becam",{"id":457,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":458,"piName":14,"institution":459,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":460},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-746168","Civil society organizations and the politics of long-term care reform: coalitions and multiple inequalities","SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE","Population ageing and gender inequality are cross-cutting political and societal challenges facing Europe. AGenDA meets this challenges by implementing novel and interdisciplinary state-of the-art research on the interaction between multiple intersecting inequalities in Long-Term Care (LTC) reforms. It focuses on the impact of civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilizing around gender, age and disability in reform coalitions in Italy and Spain. Through research and public engagement, AGenDA’s s",{"id":462,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":463,"piName":14,"institution":464,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":465},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-751782","Global Ecological Custodianship: Innovative International Environmental Law for the Anthropocene","UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN","International environmental law (IEL), with multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) as its main component, has not been able to address the underlying causes that are responsible for the socio-ecological crisis of the Anthropocene and it seems unable to respond to this crisis. By providing the fellow with a sustained opportunity to interrogate IEL’s principal MEAs in the context of the Anthropocene, this project seeks to investigate a) the normative implications of the Anthropocene for law ",{"id":467,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":468,"piName":14,"institution":469,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":470},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-750086","Aural Paris: The Changing Identities of The City of Sound in Music, Film and Literature, 1870-1940.","ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES","This project examines the creative assimilation of the city of Paris into the music, film and literature of the French Third Republic (1870-1940). In this period, demarcated by two war defeats, France had to find its new place within global politics, and the arts participated vividly in these debates. As the city of Paris changed rapidly from a world-leading metropolis to an impoverished city in need of architectural, political and moral reconstruction, its symbols acquired different connotation",{"id":472,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":473,"piName":14,"institution":20,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":474},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-742981","Understanding the impact of EU policies on the deinstitutionalization of child care in non-EU Eastern European countries","The project will investigate the effects of EU policies on the deinstitutionalization of child care in non-EU countries of Eastern Europe. These countries have large numbers of children in orphanages and, in recent years, have been moving towards family-based child care policies. The study will be conducted in two parts. Firstly, a unique dataset on national deinstitutionalization reforms and relevant EU interventions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia will be",{"id":476,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":477,"piName":14,"institution":218,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":478},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-750920","The origin of the IMF through multi-scale analysis of molecular clouds: unification of PDF and power spectrum analysis","The omnipresence of filamentary structures inside nearby molecular clouds observed by the Herschel space observatory challenges our comprehension of the star formation process. We now know that most of the cold dense cores appear to form within those filaments, which suggest a possible link between the characterisation of the filamentary structure of molecular clouds and the core mass function (CMF). Physical processes such as turbulence, gravitational fragmentation and the influence of magnetic",{"id":480,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":481,"piName":14,"institution":406,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":482},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748369","Shear Stress Induced Arterial and Venous Specification through Piezo1","Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are characterised by abnormal connections between arteries and veins due to defects during vascular remodelling.  Although often asymptomatic, AVMs can cause intense pain and patients affected present higher risk for strokes and aneurysms. Hereditary AVMs have a prevalence of 18 in 100000 people causing a two-fold increase in mortality in patients younger than 60 years of age. Hereditary AVMs are linked to defective Notch\u002FBMP signalling, however they represent ",{"id":484,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":485,"piName":14,"institution":486,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":487},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749671","Advanced graphene nanodevices with functional hydrogels for DNA sequencing","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","With this proposal, I propose a new chemical approach inspired by DNA gel electrophoresis to slow down DNA translocation through a graphene nanopore or a nanogap, and to reduce the mechanical fluctuations of the graphene membrane as DNA translocates. Thus far using graphene nanodevices to sequence DNA molecules in real time has been hampered by two major drawbacks: i) the too fast translocation of single DNA molecules through a graphene nanodevice, and ii) the very large low frequency electronic",{"id":489,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":490,"piName":14,"institution":491,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":492},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-749611","Volcanoes: eruptive style, pre-eruptive evolution and risk","UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA","This project will use the compositions and crystal cargoes of erupted magmas to study pre-eruptive behaviour of magmatic systems. The aim is to understand their relationship to, and control on, periodicity and style of volcanic eruptions to mitigate hazards and risks. To do this we will undertake detailed description of the whole-rock composition and mineral chemistry of volcanic rocks from active intra-plate and subduction-related volcanoes. New knowledge about zircon behaviour will then be con",{"id":494,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":495,"piName":14,"institution":496,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":497},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-747466","Definition, analysis and interpretation of a new typology of the Roman House: The Tetrastyle Courtyard House, a domus with a hybrid cultural conception sheltered by a global civilization of Antiquity","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA","In the recent decades, some studies have found a particular typology of Roman house in different parts of the Empire. This typological feature is the result of a hybrid house scheme be-tween the Greek and Roman conceptions of the house. The new typology has been observed in different Roman cities with a Greek past, but in different geographical contexts and chronologies. This type of home, with its variants, has not been enough analysed by the Roman domestic architecture studies. There are still",{"id":499,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":500,"piName":14,"institution":501,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":502},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799330","Gender and Ethnic Integration in Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship","UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA","While gender and ethnic diversity have increased in the workforce, the evidence is much less clear on whether there has been an increase in gender and ethnic integration, i.e., people actually working together across gender and ethnic lines. This project will analyse large databases (1) to assess trends in gender and ethnic integration in science, innovation, and entrepreneurship, (2) to understand the causes and consequences of gender and ethnic integration as well as potential barriers, and (3",{"id":504,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":505,"piName":14,"institution":506,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":507},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-800242","The Europeanisation of Jazz during the Interwar Period: Beyond National Narratives","ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC","EURJAZZ looks at the role played by music in the process of cultural europeanisation. It examines how a cultural product coming from outside Europe can become fully part of European culture and identity. Taking jazz as an example of such cultural expression, the project explores how its diffusion outside the United States (USA) led to the development of a unified European jazz world, which was distinctive and independent from the American one. Three aspects of europeanisation are examined in lig",{"id":509,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":510,"piName":14,"institution":511,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":512},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799288","Assessing safety of food packaging through computational toxicology","SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE SA","Thousands of chemicals contained in food packaging may potentially migrate into foods and result in consumer exposure. There is an increasing alarm about their potential toxicological effects since most of them lack data, while others (e.g. bisphenol A) have created significant debate because of their documented endocrine properties. This project, SafePack, aims to offer a publicly usable in silico strategy to establish rapidly and cost-efficiently the level of safety concern of packaging chemic",{"id":514,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":515,"piName":14,"institution":516,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":517},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-794646","Multi-fidelity design optimization of long-span bridges considering probabilistic wind-induced instabilities of flutter and buffeting and hydrodynamics","UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER","Efficient transport structure is considered as fundamental for the economic growth and social cohesion of communities. Long-span suspension bridges have served to cross large physical barriers for decades as one of the most challenging structures in civil engineering. Several major suspension bridges are currently under planning; Coastal Highway E39 Route in Norway with floating foundation, Canakkale Bridge in Turkey, Tokyo Bay Bridge in Japan to name a few. The span length of suspension bridges",{"id":519,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":520,"piName":14,"institution":521,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":522},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-789551","Healing Multiphysics of Asphalt Materials","ASTON UNIVERSITY","HMAM aims to train a talented research Fellow through an interdisciplinary project focused on modelling the coupled healing multiphysics in asphalt materials (AMs) including the processes of chemical bonding, mechanical responses, environmental condition variations and microstructural morphology changes. The primary deliverables resulting from the HMAM include a better understanding of AMs’ healing mechanisms, an accurate performance prediction framework and evaluation protocol for healing-capab",{"id":524,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":525,"piName":14,"institution":526,"country":343,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":527},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796426","Robust WIrelesS Caching for Mobile NEtworks (RISE)","KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN","With the development of smart terminals and emerging new applications, current mobile infrastructure cannot graduallymeet ever-increasing user requirements. A new generation of mobile networks is needed in near future. Wireless caching isone of the promising techniques. The main idea of wireless caching is to pre-store popular user data near end terminals.Thus, the request can be satisfied locally, rather than from remote servers. Then, the network throughput is improved andthe response latency ",{"id":529,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":530,"piName":14,"institution":531,"country":532,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":533},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798131","Effects of sleep deprivation and adrenergic inhibition on glymphatic flow in humans","REGION HOVEDSTADEN","DK","Sufficient sleep is a key determinant of health, and sleep loss is associated with severe health risks. Nevertheless, the reason for why we sleep is not yet understood. Recently, a molecular function of sleep was described in rodents. The ‘glymphatic system’ (GS) is a sleep dependent macroscopic pathway of the brain that facilitates the removal of metabolites, including amyloid-beta. This project will for the first time reveal a sleep-driven human GS and show whether glymphatic flow (GF) can be ",{"id":535,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":536,"piName":14,"institution":537,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":538},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793504","Dipolar Droplets in Quantum Ferrofluids","GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER","Cooled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are some of the cleanest, most flexible, many-body quantum systems available. They have been used to answer fundamental questions for a large variety of physical phenomena with remarkable clarity, as well as for the discovery of new physics. The field is currently in the midst of a revolution, thanks largely to the development of such key technologies as the ability to create dilute BECs of rare-ea",{"id":540,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":541,"piName":14,"institution":542,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":543},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797914","Human IMMune profiling of Graphene NanoRibbons","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN","To promote the Safe and Healthy use of ‘Future and Emerging Technologies’ such as innovative carbon-based nanomaterials, the study of their interactions with blood immune cells is of fundamental importance for any translational medicine application, in particular, those requiring intravenous injection.Taking Graphene Nanoribbons (GNRs) as model, IMM-GNRs will overcome the limits of conventional nano-immunotoxicology to achieve a comprehensive picture of their immune activity in relation to their",{"id":545,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":546,"piName":14,"institution":547,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":548},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793026","Concentration, geometric and topological phenomena in nonlocal elliptic equations.","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO","In this proposal I aim to study three different phenomena in elliptic problems of nonlocal character, with the fractional Laplacian as main operator. First, we will study concentration phenomena for fractional-type Schrödinger equations, a line of research that has been recently open by authors like Valdinoci, Dipierro, del Pino, Dávila or Musso, among others. With their works as starting point, we will study existence and characterization of multi-peak solutions for the Dirichlet problem, analy",{"id":550,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":551,"piName":14,"institution":552,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":553},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793472","Ultra Right Media And Communication","LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY","The question that animates my research is: what are the reasons behind the continuous presence and, in some cases, enhanced visibility and electoral success, of the ultra-right in Europe? In an attempt to address this question, the research focuses on the media and communication strategies of the ultra-right, with the intent of understanding whether, and if so, how, those strategies have played a role in the mobilization and normalization of anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic and, in some cases, openl",{"id":555,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":556,"piName":14,"institution":557,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":157,"abstract":558},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-794594","The effects of magmatic systems maturation on geophysical signals recorded in volcanic areas.","UNIVERSITE SAVOIE MONT BLANC","The analysis and interpretation of geophysical signals and images are used to monitor active volcanoes and determine the presence and characteristics of magma chambers. The signals that are measured and inversed, i.e. seismic wave velocities, densities, electrical resistivities, or ground deformation, depend on rocks temperature, melting degree and volatile content. Those parameters are interdependent and evolve in time as the magma system grows and matures. We propose to numerically simulate th",{"id":560,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":561,"piName":14,"institution":562,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":563},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798118","Understanding globalization outside 'global cities': European provincial cities in the first globalization, 1880-1914","FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN","EPCFG explores how populations in three provincial European cities (Leipzig, Germany; Lille, France; Manchester, England) understood and responded to the experience of globalization. The period of focus is 1880-1914, a critical phase in the history of the phenomenon, sometimes known as 'the first globalization'. A confluence of developments in travel, communications, trade, and cultural exchange led contemporaries to observe that the world was 'shrinking', increasingly understanding themselves a",{"id":565,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":566,"piName":14,"institution":20,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":567},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793835","Urban Gamification for City Reappropriations","In a grey, but not yet cold, autumn day, people walk through the city centre minding their own business, looking at the pavement and ignoring the other passers-by. Then something happens: they stop abruptly, they appear perplexed, for a moment and then, slowly, their eyes are filled with awe: someone is playing some games over there, in the city streets! The citizens' reaction to moments of urban playfulness is often the same: a simple, almost childish, joy at seeing the anonymity of modern citi",{"id":569,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":570,"piName":14,"institution":571,"country":296,"year":13,"amount":572,"abstract":573},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793800","Re-meshing of a given triangle mesh surface to a quad mesh using physically motivated methods based on the Ginzburg--Landau potential and solved efficiently solved via numerical splitting scheme","TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD","€263,385","Geometric curved objects are ubiquitous in numerous computational science and engineering problems. Representing curved domains in a computer is typically achieved using triangle mesh surfaces. However, it is often beneficial to use quad meshes instead. Namely, discrete surfaces that are composed of quad faces, connected via edges and vertices. Unfortunately, existing re-meshing methods of triangle surfaces are somewhat limited and non-robust, motivating the following research. In this action we",{"id":575,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":576,"piName":14,"institution":577,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":157,"abstract":578},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792101","Vibrational Strong Coupling for Organic Chemistry and Catalysis","UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG","The ability to selectively alter the energies of specific molecular vibrations has enormous consequences for chemical reactivity. Very recently, the groups of Ebbesen (physical chemistry) and Moran (organic chemistry and catalysis) showed that the rates of simple ground state reactions of organic molecules can be modified through Vibrational Strong Coupling (VSC) of a vibrational mode involved in the transition state of the reaction.  However, most aspects of the application of VSC to chemical r",{"id":580,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":581,"piName":14,"institution":582,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":583},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798836","Miniaturized automated patch-clamp system combined with high-density microelectrode arrays for multi-scale functional mapping of neuronal networks","MAXWELL BIOSYSTEMS AG","More than one billion people worldwide (165 million in Europe) suffer from diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). With Europe's aging societies, the European Commission identified brain research as one of the key research areas under healthcare (https:\u002F\u002Fec.europa.eu\u002Fresearch\u002Fhealth\u002F). Many neurodegenerative diseases are still without cure (e.g., Parkinson’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer’s) and repeated failures in clinical trials increase the demand for novel screenin",{"id":585,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":586,"piName":14,"institution":587,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":588},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799433","Maturation of plant autophagosomes: mapping the route to sustainability","RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG","Autophagy (from the Greek for “self eating”) is a catabolic process, by which eukaryotic cells degrade and recycle their content. This mechanism removes superfluous, damaged or harmful molecules or organelles and thus greatly impacts fitness of the organism. Autophagic cargo destined for degradation is delivered to the lytic compartment by specialized vesicles, autophagosomes. As of yet, the path from the plant autophagosomes assembly site to the lytic vacuole is uncharted territory. The first o",{"id":590,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":591,"piName":14,"institution":592,"country":593,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":594},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795377","Topological Colloidal Double Layers","UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI","SI","Charged colloidal suspensions consist of charged micron-sized particles dispersed in a solvent with nanometer-sized ions, and they find ample applications in material science, food industry and drug development. The particle charge, together with a diffuse ion cloud that screens this particle charge, is called the electric double layer and it is pivotal in understanding the phase behaviour and interactions in these suspensions. However, no attention has been paid to the topological properties of",{"id":596,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":597,"piName":14,"institution":598,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":599},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797464","Metabolic Dynamics in Colorectal Cancer","FONDAZIONE DEL PIEMONTE PER L'ONCOLOGIA","Metabolic reprogramming has recently emerged as a key hallmark of cancer. Despite many efforts made to identify metabolic properties of cancer cells, there is a complete lack of understanding of the specific steps in the tumorigenic process when this metabolic rewiring occurs and its biological consequences. In this regard, our previous work has revealed a critical role of glucose metabolism in driving tumor initiation, in particular in the intestine. Importantly, recent studies have demonstrate",{"id":601,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":602,"piName":14,"institution":276,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":603},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792432","Tropical Differential Geometry","The all-pervading utility of differential equations, and therefore of methods for their solution, in mathematics and the physical sciences, especially in mechanical and electronic engineering, is undisputable.  The heat and wave equations are star examples. The subject has a long history, including its interactions with modern algebra since it was brought into that framework by Ritt in the late 1930s.Tropical geometry, introduced two decades ago, is a rapidly developing area of mathematics offer",{"id":605,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":606,"piName":14,"institution":150,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":607},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795348","WoodJam—Sediment dynamics of instream wood jams and managed installations","Natural flood management practices, including engineered logjam installations, can slow floodwaters in upstream catchments, promoting infiltration and reducing flood severity.  In order to reduce flood damages and prepare for an expected increase in severe floods due to climate change, the EU Water Framework Directive encourages the use of engineered logjams and other natural flood management interventions. It is necessary to consider the effects of channel-spanning engineered log jam installati",{"id":609,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":610,"piName":14,"institution":611,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":612},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798961","The role of CD63 in lysosomal degradation of insulin granules in pancreatic beta cells in T2D diabetes","CENTRE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHE EN BIOLOGIE ET EN MEDECINE","The pancreatic β cell harbors an exemplary nutrient sensing machinery that is coupled to secretion of insulin. While mechanisms governing regulation of insulin secretion in response to nutrients were widely investigated, little is known about how nutrients impact on other basic cellular processes such as insulin granule turnover, autophagy and cellular growth, deregulation of all of which have been demonstrated to be involved in β cell failure in type 2 diabetes (T2D). T2D represents a major hea",{"id":614,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":615,"piName":14,"institution":616,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":617},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798916","TWO-Dimensional nanomaterial-based metasurfaces for enhanced Plasmonic Sensing","UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES","In the past decade, biosensors have provided an effective way for the physical and chemical science to improve the quality of the life in the modern society. The biosensors are usually based on systems that can detect electronic or optical signals in terms of the concentrations of biological molecules. Thus, it allows the monitoring of molecular interactions from the signal change. Useful applications so far include DNA analysis, glucose concentration test in human blood, sensing of toxins in th",{"id":619,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":620,"piName":14,"institution":384,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":621},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792668","How much is a man worth. Slavery and market of individual identities in early modern Naples and Valencia","This research aims to study the identity formation processes of slaves and captives in the Mediterranean between 16th and 17th centuries. It will do so by analysing the slaves markets of Naples and Valencia, two of the most important trading cities of the Spanish Empire. The project will combine different types of unexplored archival sources including the trials on slaves to be found within the Archivo del Reino of Valencia and a unique source represented by the book nr. 42 coming from Secretarí",{"id":623,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":624,"piName":14,"institution":276,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":625},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-790666","The Single Optical Fibre Scalpel","Modern laser microsurgery requires compact ultrafast laser sources and miniature fibre-optic probes. The aim of this project is to develop the world’s first scanner-free and ultra-thin (\u003C1mm) single multimode optical fibre scalpel to perform image-guided high-precision microsurgery. In this timely project, we will tackle the key challenges in the field of laser microsurgery: i) The lack of robust and compact ultrafast laser sources; ii) bulky laser-pulse delivery probes; and iii) the lack of sim",{"id":627,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":628,"piName":14,"institution":96,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":629},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798196","Investigating metal-organic frameworks using excited-state dynamics and theoretical spectroscopy","The success of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is rooted in their structural flexibility enabling limitless possibilities for topology design and applicability. An exhaustive synthesis for potential candidate screening is however tedious and inefficient with regard to material consumption and human resources. Theoretical approaches have thus become indispensable for the simulation and prediction of electronic and structural properties.With the project ''MOFdynamics'', we will make a contribution",{"id":631,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":632,"piName":14,"institution":155,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":633},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793347","New dimensions and approaches to anti-corruption policy","Corruption continues to be a central issue in the governance of institutions (public, private or mixed). The scholars and practitioners working on the topic are facing with two challenges: (1) measurement of corruption, which is a thorny issue on empirical studies of corruption, and (2) the increasing awareness of the failure of most anti-corruption policies. The overarching objective of ANTICORPOL is to introduce a new dimension in the discussion of corruption: the degree of corruption (i.e., t",{"id":635,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":636,"piName":14,"institution":637,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":638},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795214","THE ARCHAIC ROMAN ECONOMY (8TH – 4TH CENTURIES BC) SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, PRODUCTION AND TRADE IN AN EARLY MEDITERRANEAN STATE","ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE","The economic history of early Rome has been mainly investigated as a local phenomenon and often only on thebasis of literary evidence. We propose a long-term and regional approach: the early Roman economy as part of theeconomic history of central Tyrrhenian Italy from the 8th to the 4th century BC, and its interactions with the widerMediterranean networks of exchange.This aim will be achieved by means of the following objectives and methods.Objective 1: Systematic and critical review of the lite",{"id":640,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":641,"piName":14,"institution":642,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":643},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796053","THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN PEACEBUILDING: THE CYPRUS CASE","COVENTRY UNIVERSITY","The lasting separation between Turkish and Greek Cypriots on the small island of Cyprus has long been one of the contentious issues of the Eastern Mediterranean. Much effort and energy has been spent trying to find a comprehensive resolution to the dispute. However, the rationale behind the strategy of conflict resolution, which has been mainly based on negotiations between subsequent leaders, remains problematic. The lack of (or limited) direct involvement of societies, particularly disengageme",{"id":645,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":646,"piName":14,"institution":647,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":648},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795877","Patroller monocytes as modulators of diabetic retinopathy","OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE SRL","Diabetic retinopathy is the first vascular complication of diabetes and the leading cause of legal blindness among adults in Europe. The fact that diabetic retinopathy is preceded by a long latency period has suggested to us that its natural history could incorporate a phase of vascular repair, active after short duration of diabetes and eventually losing efficacy over time. “Patroller” monocytes, a discrete subpopulation of circulating monocytes, patrol healthy vessels by “crawling” on the endo",{"id":650,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":651,"piName":14,"institution":652,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":653},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796245","Interaction of squalene-based anti-cancer and neuroprotective drugs with cell membranes: in silico study","UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTE","Squalene is a natural lipid precursor, which plays a crucial role in the  biosynthesis of sterols in the cells . Squalene is 100% biocompatible, not toxic and is able to enter into the cells easily. This makes it very promising for creating highly efficient drugs and drug delivery systems. The so-called squalenoylation technology is based on fusing hydrophobic squalenic acidwith the molecules of water-soluble drugs. Resulting conjugated molecules spontaneously self-assemble into nanoparticles, w",{"id":655,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":656,"piName":14,"institution":657,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":658,"abstract":659},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798181","IdentiFication of brain deveLopmental gene co-expression netwOrks to Understand RIsk for SchizopHrenia","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO","€262,269","Schizophrenia risk is largely determined by genetic variation and is associated with altered development of several brain regions. Since there are likely thousands of genetic risk variants, the biology of risk and its effects on neural development cannot be determined by examining one gene at a time. Rather, it is important to understand how these genes converge into molecular pathways that determine overall risk. Genes converge into pathways because they are coordinated in response to environme",{"id":661,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":662,"piName":14,"institution":663,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":664},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799281","Pilot scale hybrid Photocatalytic Processes for the simultaneous removal of Pathogens and Pharmaceuticals from wastewaters","CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ENERGETICAS MEDIOAMBIENTALES Y TECNOLOGICAS","In recent years the presence of pharamceuticals (PhAcs) in wastewater treatment plant effluents, drinking water and groundwater has become an issue of emerging concern.The global concentration of these compounds constitutes an effluent organic matter which often serves as precursor for the formation of hazardous disinfection by-products during conventional water disinfection processes. The potential effects of pharmaceutically active compounds on humans and aquatic ecosystems are not completely ",{"id":666,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":667,"piName":14,"institution":668,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":669},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798917","Plant Particle based Hybrid Bicontinuous Oleogels","UNILEVER INNOVATION CENTRE WAGENINGEN BV","Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) continue to be the major cause of death in the EU, it accounts for over 1.8 million deaths and estimated economic burden of €210 billion a year to EU. One main dietary risk factor long associated with CVDs is the consumption of hardstock fats. Substitution of saturated fats by unsaturated fats is not always possible since it brings major technological challenges such as products that leak oil and have overall poor quality. To overcome this, a promising strategy is ",{"id":671,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":672,"piName":14,"institution":673,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":674},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793403","Climate, Hydrology, and Alpine Glaciers","ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY","Global warming is clearly evidenced by receding glaciers and is largely threatening water supplies. Future glacier retreat in the European Alps, known as the »water towers« of Europe, will drastically affect the regional hydrology, since it is estimated that about 55-85% of summer glacier runoff will be lost by the end of the 21st century. Future water security is dependent on sustainable management of water resources, which is one of key policy challenges in the Alpine region. For developing po",{"id":676,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":677,"piName":14,"institution":38,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":678},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-789492","Defining the Oligodendrocyte Lineage in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions by Single Cell RNA-Sequencing","At which stage in oligodendrocyte (OL) differentiation does remyelination in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions fail? Answering this is essential for developing new therapies for progressive MS patients in whom failed remyelination leads to neurodegeneration. Current neuropathological technologies using antibody labelling are insufficiently sensitive to detect each of the possible stages at which the process might fail. In MuSeq, I will therefore use single cell and single nuclear RNA-sequencing (s",{"id":680,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":681,"piName":14,"institution":682,"country":266,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":683},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799805","Security controversies: exploring the governance of knowledge, innovation and techno-scientific risks","INSTITUT FUR HOHERE STUDIEN - INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES","The EU is one of the key proponents of knowledge-based economy, i.e. an economic system based on research, development, and knowledge production. However, techno-scientific progress may bring not only benefits and well-being to the society, but also undesired side-effects and new dilemmas. Apart from social, ethical, or environmental controversies that scientific research opens, innovation is now increasingly linked with security controversies, characterized by the concerns over a potential misu",{"id":685,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":686,"piName":14,"institution":38,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":687},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797794","Cosmological joint-probe analyses: constraining the effect of baryon physics on the matter distribution","Among the most pressing questions in physics are the nature of dark energy and dark matter. The former is the driving force behind the current accelerated expansion of the Universe while the latter accounts for the vast majority of matter and is responsible for the growth of the large-scale structure in the Universe. No satisfactory explanation has been put forward for either of these two mysterious substances, however. Future cosmological surveys, such as Euclid, will elucidate the nature of da",{"id":689,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":690,"piName":14,"institution":691,"country":296,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":692},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796045","The Development of Students' Identities as Knowledge Builders","UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA","This fellowship addresses the vital societal and educational challenge of preparing school students to successfully take part in the new knowledge society. The research component will examine students’ identities as knowledge builders as they study human body systems and climate change within fifth-grade classrooms designed as knowledge building communities. The objectives of the research address both theory and practice, aiming to (a) elucidate a conceptual framework on how boys' and girls' ide",{"id":694,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":695,"piName":14,"institution":521,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":696},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-789827","Churches, Arks of Migratory Narratives: A Comparative Study of the Greek-Orthodox Religioscapes in Germany and Great Britain","The proposed research project deals with the Greek and Greek-Cypriot migrant communities in Germany and Britain, with reference to the religiocultural evidence found in the public sphere, which illustrate the particularities of their establishment and integration in the receiving country. As regards the Greek Gastarbeiter, they identified their communities with their parishes, as the church often functioned as head of community and a mediator between them and the state. The bulk of the Greek-Cyp",{"id":698,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":699,"piName":14,"institution":150,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":700},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793021","Circular Built Environment Design - Applying the Circular Economy to the Design of Social Housing","The proposal aims to help the Applicant to resume research after a career break and attain a position of professional independence and maturity. These objectives will be achieved through the enhancement of her creative and innovative research potential and the increment of her skills firstly by carrying out a research project in a pioneering field, secondly by advanced training and thirdly by inter-sectoral mobility. The project will provide guidance material to assist housing associations and r",{"id":702,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":703,"piName":14,"institution":704,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":705},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793163","The Influence of Information Search on Preference Formation and Choice","THE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING","Cost-benefit analyses are routinely used by policy makers when designing environmental policy to weigh the costs and benefits of different policy alternatives, and stated choice experiments are used to value the non-marketed costs and benefits included in such analyses. Standard practice in stated choice experiments is to create a hypothetical market environment in which people choose among competing policy alternatives under the assumptions that they have complete information about all availabl",{"id":707,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":708,"piName":14,"institution":709,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":710},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-746992","Fostering Knowledge and Applications of New Aerogel Superinsulation in Architecture and Construction","EIDGENOSSISCHE MATERIALPRUFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT","Old, poorly insulated buildings represent a tremendous potential  for saving energy in Europe. Aerogel building materials are characterized by very low thermal conductivities and ideal physical properties in building applications both in retrofits and new constructions. While several products have been developed and become commercially available in the last decade, knowledge with building professionals - such as architects, building designers, engineers and owners on their successful practical a",{"id":712,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":713,"piName":14,"institution":714,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":715},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795161","Visible Light-Mediated Copper Photoredox-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Transformations of Activated Small Ring Aza-Heterocycles and Carbacycles","UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG","PhotoCuRiOT is envisaged and designed to develop novel synthetic tactics to biologically significant cyclic and acyclic nitrogenous organic compounds via visible light-mediated Cu(I)-based photoredox catalyst-assisted ring-opening transformation of small ring aza-heterocycles and aminocarbacycles. Considering the earth abundance and low cost, Cu(I)-based complexes, especially copper(I) phenanthroline derivatives, are recently being used as efficient photocatalysts and as low-cost alternative to ",{"id":717,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":718,"piName":14,"institution":719,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":720},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798824","Information Processing in Tax Compliance Decisions","TILBURG UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG","Various economic and socio-psychological factors have been identified as determinants of tax compliance, such as audit probability, level of fine, social norms, and considerations of fairness. However, these factors have an observable influence in some situations but not in others. Empirical studies neither reveal consistent effects of purely economic factors (audits, fines) on tax payments, nor of socio-psychological factors (social norms, fairness considerations). To determine when these facto",{"id":722,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":723,"piName":14,"institution":724,"country":725,"year":13,"amount":726,"abstract":727},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-789083","PREeclampsia risk stratification test: development of a suitable CALIbration framework for the analysis of a multiplex panel of endogenous compounds by LC-MS","METABOLOMIC DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED","IE","€175,866","PREeclampsia risk stratification test: development of CALIbration framework for the analysis of a multiplex panel of endogenous Compounds by LC-MS. Metabolomic Diagnostics (MDx)  is an innovative company which is developing tests for pre-eclampsia in pregnancy.  MDx consists of a team of scientists and entrepreneurs with clinical support. The enterprise and the experienced researcher propose to combine their expertise to support the development of a robust test for the risk stratification of pre",{"id":729,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":730,"piName":14,"institution":673,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":731},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799462","The Politics of Legitimacy: Non-partisan global governance and networked INGO power in the global governance of post-war states","POLINGO maps, analyses and theorizes the contribution of informal interpersonal networks to shaping the policies, programmes, and approaches of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) in the international governance of crisis areas, particularly post-war states. By accompanying, complementing or even contradicting institutional linkages between state and non-state agencies, interpersonal networks transcend and bypass the conventional divide between governmental and non-governmental ",{"id":733,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":734,"piName":14,"institution":735,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":736},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-786490","Brexit and Deportations: towards a comprehensive and transnational understanding of a new system targeting EU citizens","UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON","With Brexit and the abandonment of the free movement and residence principle, the UK will define its new immigration policy concerning EU nationals. The new immigration policies will aim to control and circumscribe the mobility of the citizens of the EU member states, currently free to travel, live and work in the UK. They may also be returned or deported only under very specific circumstances. Following Brexit, those who will not comply with the new regulations will become deportable. The aim o",{"id":738,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":739,"piName":14,"institution":129,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":740},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792215","Causes and consequences of senescence in wild insects","This project will study the evolutionary ecology of senescence – how and why biological performance declines with age. Understanding senescence in nature requires us to study interactions between the environment and natural and sexual selection and how they shape patterns of ageing. I will study life-history trade-offs in both lab and natural environments exploiting an existing project on a wild cricket population that has amassed 12 years of data. My study system consists of annual generations ",{"id":742,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":743,"piName":14,"institution":744,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":745},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798971","Predicting speech: what and when does the brain predict during language comprehension?","BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE","The ability to recognise spoken words relies on extracting phonological features from the acoustic input that distinguish a word from its cohort competitors. Neuronal circuits were suggested to use context to predict and pre-activate specific speech features. Bottom-up feature recognition is enabled by phase and amplitude coupling between cortical oscillations and acoustic signals and this process is facilitated by top-down predictive processing. Predictions may be critical for the speed, accura",{"id":747,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":748,"piName":14,"institution":749,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":750},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793114","Integrated Modelling and Analysis of Multiple Component Carbides in Welded hardfacings","LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY","The proposed project aims to investigate the crystal\u002Flattice structure and properties of multi-component carbides M7C3, and the mechanisms of carbide refinement in welded hardfacing process through integrated physical based predictive simulation and analysis. The main objectives: 1. To investigate the effects of different solution elements including RE elements on the crystalline\u002Flattice structure and properties of primary M7C3 carbides using the first principle calculation. 2. To develop a new ",{"id":752,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":753,"piName":14,"institution":754,"country":755,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":756},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797061","5G DRIVEn Resource Efficient Mobile Aggregation Networks","RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE","LV","The fifth generation (5G) cellular networks set ambitious goals that require technological advances in both wireless and transport network infrastructures, especially regarding cost and carbon footprint. In this context, a promising architecture for 5G aggregation networks is the recently proposed Claud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN). However, it will face the serious challenges related to (1) efficient use of network resources, (2) low-latency requirements, and (3) scalability. Seems that optical",{"id":758,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":759,"piName":14,"institution":577,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":157,"abstract":760},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795222","THE NON-ABELIAN HODGE THEORY OF AN ORBIFOLD KLEIN SURFACE","For centuries, mathematical concepts have inspired technological progress. As the distance between fundamental research and applications shortens, the impact of mathematics on our everyday lives becomes stronger, and the long-standing European tradition of excellence in mathematical research reaffirms itself as a key factor of sustainable economic growth. In line with that tradition, the goal of the present project is to achieve and disseminate high-impact research results in the field of Differ",{"id":762,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":763,"piName":14,"institution":496,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":764},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797012","JUpiter Modeling Platform","The exploration of the Jovian system is a priority for present (Juno NASA’s mission) and upcoming (Juice ESA’s mission) spacecraft missions. This research project focuses on Jupiter’s internal dynamics. This is crucial as it sets the whole planetary environment, including the giant magnetosphere. Unfortunately, despite being the nearest gas planet from Earth, the internal dynamics of Jupiter is poorly constrained from present observations. However, Jupiter's observable zonal winds constitute pri",{"id":766,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":767,"piName":14,"institution":768,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":769},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792532","Molecular and functional evolution of human CD8+ T cell repertoires","Stichting Sanquin Bloedvoorziening","Humans are equipped with a sophisticated immune system, especially adaptive immunity, which is characterized by the finest antigen specificity. The evolution of such fine antigen specificity across human lifespan is far from being known, although it is observe that the strength of the adaptive immune response varies throughout human lifetime. Published data suggest that T cells receptors (TCRs) continuously change their characteristics. I aim to provide fundamental knowledge on the evolution of ",{"id":771,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":772,"piName":14,"institution":642,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":773},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799153","Inside\u002FOut: using storytelling to understand the politics of exclusion in Europe and South Africa","Contemporary political narratives in the UK and South Africa are explicitly orientated around ideas about who does, and does not, belong. The UK and South Africa, while different, share trends towards inequality and the othering of migrants as responsible for social problems. Both inside and outside groups express a powerful sense of alienation and hopelessness. This fellowship will use storytelling to generate new bottom-up narratives to challenge dominant top down discursive politics of exclus",{"id":775,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":776,"piName":14,"institution":162,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":777},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793147","The Art of Deleting: A Study of Erasure Poetry, Practices of Control, Surveillance, and Censorship","The research project “The Art of Deleting” (ARTDEL) investigates the topic of deletion and redaction as a poetic, aesthetic, and political act. ARTDEL aims to analyze works of erasure poetry as forms of resistance and activism in digital culture. The project addresses various levels of erasure poetry, by focusing on its social, political, and aesthetic dimensions, and by tracing its antecedents. The first stage of the project involves researching archive material and developing methodological to",{"id":779,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":780,"piName":14,"institution":781,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":782},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793774","Polarimetry with spatially coherent detection for ultrasensitive detection","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE","It has long been known that chiral objects interact asymmetrically with chiral electromagnetic fields, but chiroptical effects are typically very small because the wavelength of light is so much larger than the size of biological molecules. The POLARSENSE project proposes a new ground-breaking approach for the detection and quantification of chirality that will permit ultrasensitive chiral discrimination through optical means. Its objective will be to set up a coherent detection method that will",{"id":784,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":785,"piName":14,"institution":786,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":787},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-748164","NON-WESTERN MILITARY INTERVENTIONS AND THE CHARACTER OF WARFARE IN THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY","SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA","While Western countries regularly intervene militarily abroad, recent years have seen increasing levels of military intervention by non-Western authoritarian and weakly-democratic states in the EU periphery. Non-Western interventions profoundly impact the security dynamics of an increasingly fragile EU neighbourhood. Despite this, the patterns and character of resulting conflicts are ill-understood, especially compared to recent conflicts involving Western states (on which much of the recent con",{"id":789,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":790,"piName":14,"institution":791,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":792},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-747439","Artistic Animation Rendering with Stylization","BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY","Computer animation is a key technology for the creative industries and has strong links to many key sectors of digital economy, including gaming and post-production. Its annual global market value is €200 billion and it is growing 7% annually. Although the European Commission has established policies and initiatives for creative industries, 60% of the global animation market is shared between the US (supported by strong finance and advanced technology) and the Asia-Pacific countries (bolstered b",{"id":794,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":795,"piName":14,"institution":796,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":797},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-747490","GET READY - a  unique intervention addressing activity reduction co-designed with Care Home residents and University students, following a service-learning methodology","THE GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY","The ‘Get Ready’ project aims to integrate service-learning methodology into Physical Therapy and Sport Sciences University degrees by offering students individual service opportunities (placements) with Residential Care Homes, in order to co-create the best suited physical activity (PA)\u002F sedentary behaviour (SB) intervention with researchers, older adults (end-users) in care homes, health professionals and policy makers. The project will use a Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology and ",{"id":799,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":800,"piName":14,"institution":234,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":801},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-752644","optimal design of Admixtures for concrete embedded Large Scale Antenna Array","Large scale antenna array (LSAA) has been introduced into 5G cellular networks to address the capacity crunch indoors. LSAAs will increase the physical dimension of the base station (BS), generating negative consequences on weight, wind load and visual impact. A potential solution of deploying LSAA indoors is to embed it into building structures, e.g., concrete walls. However, how the concrete impacts the wireless performance of concrete embedded antenna array (CEAA) has not been well studied. I",{"id":803,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":804,"piName":14,"institution":805,"country":108,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":806},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798109","Mind-wandering in everyday event comprehension: Memory, attention, and the brain","UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE","Mind-wandering (MW) is the occurrence of thoughts that are decoupled from immediate perceptual inputs and unrelated to the activity at hand. MW represents a substantial part of our daily thinking time and it has substantial negative effects on reading, memory, and the ability to focus attention. At the same time, MW can enhance creativity and afford opportunities to plan for the future. However, most of what we currently know about MW comes from laboratory studies where the tasks from which the ",{"id":808,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":809,"piName":14,"institution":744,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":810},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795807","Multimodal characterization of the visual word form area: An integrative computational model","The ventral occipito-temporal (vOT) association cortex contributes significantly to recognize different types of visual patterns. It is widely accepted that a subset of this circuitry, including the visual word form area (VWFA), becomes trained to identify word forms. Nevertheless, due to heterogeneous experimental procedures across studies and intrinsic limitations of functional and structural MRI tools, the exact cortical location of what it is referred as the VWFA typically differs between st",{"id":812,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":813,"piName":14,"institution":744,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":814},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792331","Metacognition and bilingualism in linguistic and non-linguistic domains","Over the last decades a great deal of studies have been done to explore the cognitive benefits of bilingualism, or to challenge the bilingual advantage in cognitive control. But almost nothing is known about the effect of bilingualism on  metacognition, namely, the ability to monitor one’s own cognitive performance and the outcome of the cognitive processes across different task domains (linguistic and non-linguistic). Metacognitive processing may be influenced by the experience of a given indiv",{"id":816,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":817,"piName":14,"institution":228,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":818},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-794560","Routing Energy Transfer via Assembly of Inorganic Nanoplatelets","Investigation of artificial light-harvesting systems is an important part of the European research effort towards the development of sustainable and carbon-free energy sources. This research proposal aims to develop a new type of semiconductor heterostructures – solution-processed nanoplatelet assemblies capable of harvesting and transferring energy of light similar to antenna complexes of photosynthetic organisms. Towards this goal, the research project will use quantum-confined 2D semiconducto",{"id":820,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":821,"piName":14,"institution":822,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":823},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793449","UWB wearable apparatus for bone fracture imaging and recovering monitoring","LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY LBG","Global changes in healthcare funding, an increasingly ageing demographic, explosions of new technologies are converging to transform our relationship with healthcare. Breakthrough innovations formed outside traditional healthcare industries are needed to change business models, reshape the future for better health outcomes and value for consumer. Thus, research on novel diagnostic and monitoring imaging modalities is essential. UWB imaging has recently emerged as one of the most promising non-in",{"id":825,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":826,"piName":14,"institution":271,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":827},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797586","SOUND AS INTANGIBLE HERITAGE: PRESERVING THE ACOUSTICS OF CATHEDRALS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM","Cathedral acoustics represents a key part of Europe’s intangible cultural heritage at risk of being altered by architectural deterioration or restoration work. This multidisciplinary project aims to preserve the acoustics of four English cathedrals, which represent the diversity of this group of heritage buildings, by characterising their acoustic behaviour through impulse response measurements as well as by recreating their sound environment throughout history using computer models. Virtual aco",{"id":829,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":830,"piName":14,"institution":831,"country":108,"year":13,"amount":109,"abstract":832},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792629","Black Cinema-Going in New York of the Interwar Period","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","This project aims to re-construct the experience of cinema-going in black communities of New York during the interwar period. In drawing on a plethora of multidisciplinary resources – personal correspondence, diary entries, cinema records, fan letters, local news stories and articles from historical black press – it will investigate the roles played by cinema, the dominant form of entertainment at the time, in shaping the lives of African-American women in Manhattan. New York is a fruitful site ",{"id":834,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":835,"piName":14,"institution":836,"country":174,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":837},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795111","Towards topological hybrid states in graphene","BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM","Majorana fermions (MF) are novel excitations of solid-state nanostructures, which obey non-abelian exchange characteristics. This property, together with their topological protection made MFs candidates for basis of topological quantum computation.  So far most of the experimental studies concentrated on 1D nanowire systems. In the project TopGraph we will choose a different path to engineer MFs using 2D systems. Our platform is graphene, a single layer of graphite, which has Dirac spectrum and ",{"id":839,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":840,"piName":14,"institution":571,"country":296,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":841},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792789","Accuracy assessment of the annual average indoor radon concentration based on measurements of different duration","Radon is an important carcinogenic factor causing lung cancer. To reduce this risk legislators limit the annual average indoor radon (AAIR) concentration in buildings. However, the reliable assessment of AAIR is a problem, because indoor radon has significant temporal (daily, weekly and seasonal) variations. Despite the AAIR is tested in many countries for several decades, none of national regulations (the measurement protocol in USA, ISO and IAEA recommendations), provide an assessment of the A",{"id":843,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":844,"piName":14,"institution":542,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":845},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-744332","Development of deformation-based method for the behavior of masonry bracing elements,  considering the cracked and inelastic state  “CIC-BREL” Cracked  Inelastic Calculation of BRacing ELements","The MSCA Fellowship is an excellent chance for the Training of the Experienced Researcher through Teaching and Research TTR. The research subject will be a topic for Habilitation, a strong prerequisite for Professorship of the Experienced Researcher.The main goal of CIC-BREL project (Cracked and Inelastic Calculation of BRacing Elements) is to develop an innovative analytical method, using the deformation-based approach, to distribute horizontal forces on bracing elements of a building consideri",{"id":847,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":848,"piName":14,"institution":849,"country":240,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":850},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792848","Detecting and characterizing exoplanets around evolved stars with NASA's TESS mission","CENTRO DE INVESTIGACAO EM ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA DA UNIVERSIDADE DOPORTO ASSOCIACAO","The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA space mission, with launch scheduled for March 2018, that will perform an all-sky survey for planets transiting bright stars. Furthermore, TESS's excellent photometric precision, combined with its fine time sampling and long intervals of uninterrupted observations, will enable asteroseismology (i.e., the study of stars by the observation of their natural, resonant oscillations). Asteroseismology is proving to be particularly significant ",{"id":852,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":853,"piName":14,"institution":107,"country":108,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":854},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793661","Bootstrapping Inflationary Cosmology","Cosmic inflation is one of the most promising explanations for the origin of the structure in the observed universe. However, while quantum-mechanical fluctuations during an early epoch of inflationary expansion provides a remarkably good description of the data, establishing the precise field content during inflation is a fundamental challenge for primordial cosmology. Since it is almost certain that the inflationary era involved physics beyond the Standard Model, this is also an incredible opp",{"id":856,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":857,"piName":14,"institution":858,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":859},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-794526","Interactions of insect and soil microbial communities with insect pathogenic fungi","EIDGENOESSISCHES DEPARTEMENT FUER WIRTSCHAFT, BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG","Entomopathogenic fungi belong to the most important antagonists of arthropods in soil. Due to their antagonistic function, entomopathogenic fungi have a great potential for us in biological control of insect and mite pests. However, knowledge on how abundance and diversity of these fungi is affected by environmental factors is limited. While a number of studies have assessed effects of abiotic factors, effects of biotic factors such as microbial and arthropod communities have remained largely un",{"id":861,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":862,"piName":14,"institution":162,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":863},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-785793","Material counting technologies in numerical cognition","Material counting technologies (MaCoTech) play a critical role in developing human numerical concepts like numbers, numerical relations, and arithmetical operations. Yet today, our understanding of how these concepts emerge is still very restricted, as the influential effects of prehistoric MaCoTech and Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) mathematics are difficult to assess and have been mostly neglected in modern-day research.The comparison of ANE MaCoTech to its extant counterparts of Oceania will allo",{"id":865,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":866,"piName":14,"institution":867,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":868},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-799652","Blingual Literacy and Input Knowledge Outcomes: Tracing Heritage Language Bilingual Development","UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET","Bilingual Literacy and Input Negotiates Knowledge Outcomes: Tracing Heritage Language Bilingual DevelopmentThis project significantly adds to a burgeoning—roughly 2 and half decades long—sub-field of bilingualism studies, namely Heritage Language Bilingualism (HLB). We propose a novel approach that combines offline and online methods and focuses on a severely understudied, yet crucially important age group of heritage speaker (HS) bilinguals in an effort to fill crucial gaps in the available lit",{"id":870,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":871,"piName":14,"institution":872,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":229,"abstract":873},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795514","Sex, disPlacements, And cross-Cultural EncounterS","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA","While for a long time historians of ideas have highlighted the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Northern European liberal genesis of the idea of tolerance, recent historical research has indeed revealed its medieval and early modern gestation across the Mediterranean area. SPACES aims to originally investigate these attitudes by analyzing the links between two apparently disjointed aspects: religious and sexual toleration in the early modern Mediterranean world. Thanks to a survey of the sour",{"id":875,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":876,"piName":14,"institution":406,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":877},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-793812","Tracking children in their best interests: electronic monitoring in three European juvenile justice systems","The implementation of alternatives to deprivation of liberty throughout the juvenile justice procedure has been on the agenda of international children’s rights for about 28 years. The urgent need for alternatives is based on the requirement of the UN Convention on the Rights of Child to use measures that deprive children’s liberty as last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time. Accordingly, states have to develop suitable alternatives to detaining children for justice purposes. ",{"id":879,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":880,"piName":14,"institution":881,"country":882,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":883},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-786560","Smart Cholesterol-Mopping Polymer Nanoparticles in Niemann-Pick Disease Type C","ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI","TR","Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (NPC), also known as “childhood Alzheimer’s”, is a rare genetic disorder caused by the accumulation of cholesterol particularly in the brain with subsequent cognitive and mobility decline. In the EU NPC has an incidence of 1 per 100,000 people. Most cases are detected during childhood and progress to cause life-threatening complications by the second or third decade of life. Cyclodextrins (CDs), a family of naturally occurring sugars, have recently gained considerable",{"id":885,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":886,"piName":14,"institution":134,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":887},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792967","A theoretical, experimental and numerical study of the formation of coarse dry granular fronts and spontaneously self-channelizing levees in debris flows","The aim of the GraFrontLev project is to investigate coarse dry granular fronts and self-channelizing levees in debris flows by virtue of a combined study of theory, numerical computation and the experiment. Precisely, the applicant will collaborate with Prof. Gray who is an expert in the field of grain-size segregation of dry granular flows to develop a mathematical model. Analogous to the way in which large grains are segregated to the surface and preferentially transported to flow fronts by v",{"id":889,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":890,"piName":14,"institution":406,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":891},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796215","Mediterranean Gypsies. A forgotten history beyond diaspora, nomadism, marginality in three Western Mediterranean areas of the Spanish Crown (Andalusia, Sicily, Sardinia, 16th- early 18th century)","Thanks to the collaboration in Leeds between an expert in Gypsy and Italian history (the fellow, Dr Aresu, who will restart his academic career) and a scholar in modern Spanish history (the supervisor, Dr Alonso), MediterraneanGypsies aims at a rethinking of the way the history of Gypsy people has been framed to date. It proposes an innovative interpretative paradigm, which it applies to a specific study case: Gypsy mobility in three Western-Mediterranean areas of the Spanish Crown (Andalusia, S",{"id":893,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":894,"piName":14,"institution":213,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":895},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796535","Transgenic dissection of the neural circuitry of memory and dementia","Our memories are arguably what make us who we are, making dementia a particularly cruel disease. Decades of research have revealed that two interconnected brain regions, the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) and hippocampus (HP), are required for successful spatial memory formation in mammals. Each region contains specialized neurons that fire relative to the animal`s position in physical space: grid cells in the MEC have regularly-repeating spatial firing fields throughout the entire environment (",{"id":897,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":898,"piName":14,"institution":486,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":899},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792916","Accurate halo masses in the precision cosmology era","Weak gravitational lensing is a very powerful tool for investigating the relation between galaxies and their host dark matter halos.Thanks to current photometric surveys such as KiDS, DES and HSC, the quality of the data available for weak lensing studies is rapidly improving.However, there has not yet been a corresponding improvement in the methods used for the analysis of this data: most weak lensing studies are still carried out by stacking the signal in bins, resulting in a net loss of infor",{"id":901,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":902,"piName":14,"institution":903,"country":266,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":904},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792006","Genesis of Ethnicities and Nations in Textual Evidence for Scandinavia, c. 750-c. 1000","OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN","Traditional narratives of Scandinavian history generally see the early Middle Ages, or ‘Viking Age’, as the period in which the three kingdoms of Norway, Denmark and Sweden were created (or ‘unified’). Such narratives draw mainly on the 13th-century Icelandic Sagas, written several centuries after the events they portray. This project will challenge these narratives by developing and testing two hypotheses:1) that contemporary and near-contemporary sources, rather than the  sagas, should provide",{"id":906,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":907,"piName":14,"institution":486,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":908},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797758","COLOPHONS AND SCHOLARS: TOWARDS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE IN BABYLONIA DURING THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BCE","My Colophons and Scholars project will undertake an infrastructural intervention into the history and sociology of science urgently required for the one of the longest-living traditions of learning. It will open a major new data set and exploit it for evidence on the production, consumption, and transmission of knowledge in Babylonia. Why are colophons important? The entire lives of scribes, keepers of knowledge, can be traced through the colophons appended at the bottom of their works. As parat",{"id":910,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":911,"piName":14,"institution":912,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":913},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-800060","Gravitation of Rubble-pile Asteroid with Internal N-body Structure","POLITECNICO DI MILANO","The study of asteroids addresses a number of questions relevant for space engineers, planetary scientists and physicists. Near Earth Asteroids are a great opportunity for technological, human exploration missions and for asteroids resources exploitation. Sadly, they can also represent a threat for the planet. The scientific and technological exploitation and the implementation of mitigation actions for hazardous asteroids rely upon our knowledge of their properties. Remote surveys play a fundame",{"id":915,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":916,"piName":14,"institution":917,"country":343,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":918},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798861","Towards Efficient and Stable Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes","LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET","Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on organometallic halide perovskites have attracted increasing interest due to their unique properties, such as high colour purity, easily tunable optoelectronic properties, and solution processable for low-cost and large-arear manufacturing, showing great potential in displays and lighting applications. Even though the photonic and electronic properties of perovskites are very attractive, the poor stability and relatively low photoluminescent efficiency are tw",{"id":920,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":921,"piName":14,"institution":213,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":922},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-789476","Heat Transfer Enhancement during Oscillatory Flows: Impact Quantification of Heat Transfer Coefficient","To reduce Green-House-Gas emissions by promoting the use of sustainable energy (SE), the European Union (EU) has a target to achieve 20% share of renewable energy (RE) in gross final energy consumption by 2020. Among various options of SE, the EU has 33.3 GWth of solar thermal technology (a High Heat Flux Removing Device: HHFRD, one among the target groups of this project) saving 4.3 million tonnes of CO2 emission per year. However, the current research proves that the Two-Phase Flow Instabiliti",{"id":924,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":925,"piName":14,"institution":406,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":926},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-795471","Algebraic, Geometric, and Field-Theoretic Aspects of Integrable Many-Body Systems","This project is concerned with integrable many-body systems of Calogero-Ruijsenaars type. It aims at finding new models, related algebraic structures, and connections to various field theories. The most important outcomes to be expected are the following:1. Discovery of quantum and classical Lax pairs for hyperbolic, trigonometric, and elliptic relativistic models containing multiple couplings.2. Solution of the classical and quantum dynamics of new compactified trigonometric relativistic system",{"id":928,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":929,"piName":14,"institution":357,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":157,"abstract":930},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-797405","'A transregional and interdisciplinary study of the societal impact of the shipworm epidemic in the North Sea region in the eighteenth century'","This transregional and interdisciplinary research proposal analyses the impact of the shipworm epidemic on coastal societies along the North Sea in the eighteenth century. The shipworm is a mollusc that scavenges floating or submerged wood in a marine environment. Lodged in the wooden hulls of returning East Indiamen, the shipworm was brought to Europe around 1730. Within a few years the shipworm had destroyed man-made wooden structures all along the North Sea coast. North-Western Europe faced a",{"id":932,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":933,"piName":14,"institution":38,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":934},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792387","VEhicles as High-status Indicators in the CUlture of Late Antiquity","VEHICULA is a study of vehicles as means for elite self-representation and the visualization of social hierarchies in the late Roman empire: its aim is to produce a comprehensive study of cultural history, which will be of interest to those in all fields of classics and history. In late antiquity, the increasing hierarchisation of society was matched by a need for the visualization of its structure: every citizen was bound not only to occupy his or her own place in society, but also to exhibit t",{"id":936,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":937,"piName":14,"institution":547,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":938},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-792815","Through Her Own Looking Glass: Rethinking ‘Woman’ in Italian Feminist Dramaturgy","Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines feminist theory, Italian Studies, and women’s writing for theatre, this project will offer the first full-length investigation of the entwined dynamics between the rise of active feminism in 1970s Italy and the coeval theatrical practice. The twofold research objective represents a novelty with respect to the scant existing criticism on the subject. The study will 1) look at how the dramaturgical served as an ideological vehicle for feminism i",{"id":940,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":941,"piName":14,"institution":942,"country":266,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":943},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-788215","Scalable DSP algorithms for high performance hardware applied to 5G MaMi systems","INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA  AG","There is persistent demand for radical advancements in telecommunication systems.  The digital baseband processing unit (or Digital Signal Processor – DSP) is of paramount importance for the overall performance and it consumes a significant part of the total power. Breakthroughs in terms of accuracy, speed and efficiency are required in custom DSP implementations. To this end we propose to employ ideas that lead to advances in quantum algorithms for scientific computing to obtain silicon integra",{"id":945,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":946,"piName":14,"institution":301,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":947},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-791867","Discovering susceptibility genes to Rhizoctonia solani in rice as breeding targets for sheath blight disease resistance","Rice is a main staple food providing more than 50 percent of the world’s calories intake. However, grain yield and quality are drastically reduced by the sheath blight disease (ShBD), the second most important disease. ShBD is caused by the soilborne, necrotrophic fungal pathogen, Rhizoctonia solani. No rice germplasm providing complete resistance is available, preventing improvement of cultivated rice varieties. Generally, dominant resistance genes are used to generate resistance to pathogens. ",{"id":949,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":950,"piName":14,"institution":951,"country":882,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":952},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-798482","Automating Timed Automata Design","MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY","Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are everywhere, from autonomous vehicles to medical devices to smart buildings. Designing such CPSs that achieve complex tasks is a tedious and error prone process. During the design, high-level specifications describing desired functionalities, safety measures, physical properties and restrictions, and optimality criteria have to be considered. Furthermore, as people’s life may depend on CPSs, their correctness is of critical importance. This IF project aims at dev",{"id":954,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":955,"piName":14,"institution":26,"country":27,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":956},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-796581","DNA MEthylation for HPV-related disease among women living with HIV","Background: The current screening methods for cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV (WLHIV) have previously shown high sensitivity but poor specificity for the detection of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN2+), resulting in over-referral for colposcopy and overtreatment of cervical lesions that may have low potential for progression to cancer. 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