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The choice of Se source influences the physiological response of the plant and the Se metabolites produced. We looked at selenium uptake, distribution and metabolization in wheat exposed to selenite, selenate and a 1:1 molar mixture of both to determine the impact of each treatment on the Se speciation in roots, shoots, and grains. To achieve a comprehensive quantification of the Se species, th",{"id":17,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":19,"piName":14,"institution":20,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":21},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064402","Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","Mathematical Challenges of Higher-Order Interactions in Collective Dynamics, and Applications","UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA","The mathematical analysis of collective dynamics has experienced a prominent growth in the last years leading to new frontiers with cutting-edge fields in physics, biology and social sciences (e.g. complex networks, active matter or crowd dynamics). The deep breakthrough is that unveiling self-organization in a large group of agents can be tackled using strong mathematical methods from nonlinear and nonlocal PDEs, like harmonic analysis, energy methods, optimal transport and fluid mechanics. HIC",{"id":23,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":24,"piName":14,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":27},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065960","Tracking impacts of climate change in the Arctic marine ecosystems through cephalopod diversity and life histories","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL (GEOMAR)","DE","Climate change is impacting global ecosystems, especially in the polar areas of the Earth. Countering climate change effects is stated as one of the key goals of both global development, in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and of regional development, e.g. EU strategy of managing the Arctic. Cephalopoda (Phylum Mollusca) are pivotal components in marine food webs and have life history and physiological characteristics that make them potential winners of climate change. This group, du",{"id":29,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":30,"piName":14,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":34},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101060007","Middlebrow Modernity: Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","BE","€175,920","This project explores Irish writers’ connections with The New Yorker, shedding new light on the literary transactions between the US and Ireland in the mid-twentieth century. I investigate how Irish writers engaged with the American metropolitan magazine’s post-war liberalism; I also consider the extent to which the connection with TNY can help us redefine Ireland’s “isolated” literary environment in relation to global modernity.Many important Irish writers contributed regularly to TNY. While it",{"id":36,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":37,"piName":14,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":39},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063656","A thermoelectric generator for low-grade heat to electricity\u002Fhydrogen conversion (H2E)","€191,760","Heat-to-power conversion can be achieved by thermoelectric generators (TEGs), devices that exploit the Seebeck effect to build up an electric potential across a stack of semiconductors subjected to a temperature difference. This physical effect has long been known, but widespread application has remained limited because of the low efficiency (less than 5%) and high cost of available semiconductors, often containing rare metals and featuring high toxicity and poor thermal stability. Compared to a",{"id":41,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":42,"piName":14,"institution":43,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":44},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101052595","Short-wave infrared photodetectors based on low-cost, environmentally friendly InSb colloidal quantum dots","FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES","The development of low-cost optoelectronic devices in the short-wave infrared (SWIR, 1-2 um), would open up a huge number of applications, such as 3D and adverse weather imaging, night vision for surveillance and automotive safety, chemical hazard detection, environmental sensing, and biomedical diagnostics etc. leading to a direct and huge impact on quality of life, health, and security, provided that such technologies are available at low cost and high volumes, to serve consumer electronics ma",{"id":46,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":47,"piName":14,"institution":43,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":48},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062306","Machine learning algorithm pipeline for endothelial damage detection and adverse outcome prediction.","Endothelial cells form the lining of the blood vessels of the entire vascular system, from the heart to the smallest capillary, regulating vascular tone, immune response and exchange of materials in and out the blood stream among others. Endothelial damage has been observed in the early stages of most cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis or in patients with iflammatory and infectious diseases (e.g. COVID-19, septic shock). Typically endothelial damage is measured by means of blood test analy",{"id":50,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":51,"piName":14,"institution":52,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":54},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066981","Multifrequency and Machine Learning methods to Search for Early Super Massive Black Holes","FCIENCIAS.ID - ASSOCIACAO PARA A INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DE CIENCIAS","PT","Early Super Massive Black Holes (SMBH) continuously push our understanding of the formation of galaxies and structures in the Universe. SMBH accreting matter under the radio\u002Fjet mode produces powerful relativistic jets and emit beamed non-thermal radiation from radio up to very high energy gamma-rays. Those jets pointing directly to Earth create the so-called Blazar phenomena, where the source appears exceptionally bright due to relativistic magnification (beaming) effects. We can spot Blazars u",{"id":56,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":57,"piName":14,"institution":58,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":59},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068013","Quantum GRavity seArches with Neutrino Telescopes","FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG","The Standard Model of particle physics and General Relativity are expected to merge into a new theory of Quantum Gravity (QG) at energies approaching the Planck scale. However, none of the proposed QG approaches has been validated to date. In this context, several signatures of QG effects in accessible energy regimes, known as Windows on Quantum Gravity, have been postulated. In particular, quantum decoherence (QD) or QG-induced violation of Lorentz invariance (LIV), could cause modifications in",{"id":61,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":62,"piName":14,"institution":63,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":65},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059188","The affective economies of emergent private renting markets: understanding tenants and landlords in post-communist Romania","UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI","RO","This proposal aims to understand, through the conceptual lens of home, tenants’ and landlords’ practices in ‘hidden’ private rental sectors, where informal transactions increase risks and hide vulnerability away from state regulatory gaze - as the Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly exposed across much of the globe. Taking the post-communist context as an example of an emerging and hidden PRS and drawing on a specific view of home as assemblage of materials, money, relations and affects, this rese",{"id":67,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":68,"piName":14,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":69},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068850","Development of a simulation platform to study the role of joint hyper-resistance in functional tasks in children with cerebral palsy.","Joint hyper-resistance to movement affects 85% of children with cerebral palsy (CP), the most common cause of physical disability in children. Joint hyper-resistance is an important treatment target in CP. Yet, its contribution to gait and balance impairments is poorly understood because it has been hard to associate clinical test outcomes to gait and balance deficits. Here, we will test a novel hypothesis about the mechanisms underlying joint hyper-resistance. We hypothesize that the neural com",{"id":71,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":72,"piName":14,"institution":73,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":75},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063989","Opera Fandom in the Digital Age","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA","IT","Today, interactions between audiences and theatres occur to a significant extent via online platforms and digital media. OPANDA studies the impact of these transformative technologies on opera fandom. Although recent research has addressed the digital dissemination of opera, the phenomenon of cyber-fandom remains under-researched. Situated at the intersection of musicology, sociology and media studies, the project asks how opera fans perform their passion digitally. This entails the investigatio",{"id":77,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":78,"piName":14,"institution":79,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":80},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067060","Novel electroactive polymeric materials for dielectric elastomers actuators and soft robots","UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA","Interfacing between humans and machine using the sense of touch through haptic devices, is becoming increasingly important for consumer electronics, robotics, medical and automotive applications. One bio-inspired way to achieve this is by developing soft haptic skins that can both part and receive information through touch.  However, developing soft haptic skins which have a significant tactile response and are robust enough for daily use in heavy use consumer applications is challenging.  Our a",{"id":82,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":83,"piName":14,"institution":84,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":85},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101061304","Digital Observatory of Political Discourse","EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE","At a time when online discourse is increasingly controlled by private platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and when fake news risks affecting elections and public health in Europe and the United States, there is a growing need for more transparency in online discourse. DIGIPOL argues that misinformation is one attribute of a larger digital information ecosystem over which we urgently require oversight. It launches a digital observatory of political discourse in the form of an online dashboard th",{"id":87,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":88,"piName":14,"institution":89,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":90},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065174","Fabrication of Wide Bandgap Chalcopyrite Photovoltaics at Low Temperatures for Prospective Tandem Solar Cells","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM BERLIN FUR MATERIALIEN UND ENERGIE GMBH","Adapting photovoltaics as a reliable renewable energy source, advanced technological solutions must be brought at the cell level. The power conversion efficiency targets must be higher than the currently available commercial single-junction solar cells of silicon (Si) or low-bandgap copper indium gallium selenide (CIGSe). The efficiency of photovoltaics can be increased by joining two cells in a single stack (top\u002Fbottom) called a tandem solar cell. Such a configuration needs a wide bandgap solar",{"id":92,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":93,"piName":14,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":94},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067759","Incrementally learning new classes with generative classification","Learning continually from non-stationary streams of data is a key feature of natural intelligence, but an unsolved problem in deep learning. Particularly challenging for deep neural networks is the problem of class-incremental learning, whereby a network must learn to distinguish classes that are not observed together. In deep learning, the default approach to classification is learning discriminative classifiers. This works great in the i.i.d. setting when all classes are available simultaneous",{"id":96,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":97,"piName":14,"institution":98,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":99},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062450","Dynamics of communities and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in Wastewater","FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE RECERCA DE L'AIGUA","Environmental antibiotic resistance is a major threat to human and veterinary health and a key issue addressed by the European One Health Action Plan Against Antimicrobial Resistance. City sewers shelter rich and diverse bacterial communities that are continuously exposed to antibiotic residues from human excreta, thus becoming a reservoir of resistance. Predicting the risk of antibiotic resistance evolution in city sewers requires a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics and evolution of w",{"id":101,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":102,"piName":14,"institution":103,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":104},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065654","Impacts of MEtal and CLImate change on NUTrient cycling in the rhizosphere of phytoremediating plants","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH - UFZ","At a global level, the management of contaminated sites (including soils) is gaining relevance in environmental and political agendas. Metal contamination in soils poses an important risk to environmental and human health. Even though research on metal contamination has received plenty of attention over the last decade, major knowledge gaps exist about the impacts of metals on nutrient cycling processes. Even less is known about the coupled effects of metal contamination and climate change condi",{"id":106,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":107,"piName":14,"institution":108,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":109},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064384","Demography and social structure of Polynesian outliers: genomic investigations of over 100 individuals buried in Namu, Taumako island","EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN","Oceanians are descendants of two main migration waves: the early migration of modern humans out-of-Africa more than 50,000 years ago (ya), which ended in the Solomon Islands (Near Oceania); and the Austronesian expansion, that started around 5,000 ya in Taiwan and peopled the remaining unexplored territories of Oceania (Remote Oceania) up to Polynesia from 3,000 ya. Subsequent migrations within the region created a complex genetic landscape. Near Oceanian populations moved into Remote Oceania at",{"id":111,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":112,"piName":14,"institution":113,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":114},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101060666","From paradise to mass extinction: correlating and comparing low and high latitude basins during the greatest Permian extinction events and subsequent faunal recoveries.","Institut Català de Paleontologia Fundacio Privada","Drastic global climate change during the Permian resulted in two of the greatest mass extinction events of all time, one around 260 Ma ago and the other around 252 Ma ago. Arguably the best record of these events on land is preserved in the main Karoo Basin (MKB) of South Africa, which was situated in higher latitudes (~60° S) at those times. Because of the relatively poorer fossil record from lower (0-15°) palaeolatitudes, latitudinal differences in faunal assemblages, and lack of precise radio",{"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-101059938","Cognitive Aspects of Mithraic Rituals in Pannonia","UNIVERSITAT WIEN","AT","Traditional scholarship focusing on the examination of archaeological material from the Roman province of Pannonia has ignored cognitive and sensory theoretical approaches, particularly when it comes to the study of Roman religion and ritual. Although the cult of Mithras was extremely popular in Roman Pannonia, we still know little about 1) how ritual practices were learned, performed, remembered, diffused and transformed between different Mithraic communities in Pannonia, and 2) how Mithraic re",{"id":122,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":123,"piName":14,"institution":124,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":125},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063202","Reimagining Urban Growth in the Mérida Region through Long-Term Adaptive Indigenous Practices: An applied archaeology for sustainable urban development","UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES","REMIND strives to enhance the appreciation of indigenous urban form and practices that can benefit sustainable urban development. The Urban Region of Merida (URM), Mexico, experiences unsustainable rapid urbanisation. Weak urban planning policies and globalised urban design generate problematic urban patterns that marginalise the relevance of precolonial Maya rural-urban integration, indigeneity persistent in current urban life, and vernacular urban design. In contrast, URM accommodated urban ce",{"id":127,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":128,"piName":14,"institution":118,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":129},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101056826","Controlled Synthesis of Panchromatic Electrochromic Polytriarylamines","The goal of COSY-PANTERA is to develop a synthetic route giving access to easy-to-tailor electrochromic panchromatic pi-conjugated polymers that will undergo a clear transparent to color change with high durability, strong color contrast, and fast switching time. To achieve it, I envisage preparing structurally-controlled polymers with multiple redox states (polyelectrochromes) that can be obtained by superimposing individual visible-light-absorbing electrochromes. This is engineered by installi",{"id":131,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":132,"piName":14,"institution":133,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":134},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063675","Imaging of MUscle Shape Changes during eLEctrically-stimulated contractions","UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN","When we move, our muscles contract, and by doing so change shape. While such shape changes are obvious and are required for a muscle to increase its force, we know little about its functional role in force production. Muscle force is one of the most important parameters in the science of movement, yet it remains impossible to measure in humans. Understanding the precise link between muscle shape changes and muscle forces and advancing methodologies for measuring such muscle shape changes can thu",{"id":136,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":137,"piName":14,"institution":138,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":139},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065425","Slaves of Religion: Paternalism and Resistance, Brazil.","Faculdade de letras da Universidade de Lisboa","SLAVESRELIGION is an interdisciplinary proposal aimed at understanding the process of implementation, exploitation and perpetuation of slavery in the properties of the Luso-Brazilian Benedictine Congregation between 1750 and 1871, highlighting issues related to Gender, Race and Slavery in the Atlantic world. It also intends to analyse the resistance strategies built by enslaved men and women against the disciplinary and moralising measures of the Order of Saint Benedict. The project aims to demo",{"id":141,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":142,"piName":14,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":143,"abstract":144},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068328","Schelling’s philosophy of nature and the environmental challenge","€190,242","The contemporary environmental crisis has triggered a revival of discussions on the concept of nature. Among scientists, philosophers, policy makers and citizens questions regarding environmental practices and the overall state of nature have become a matter of central concern. But what exactly is nature beyond the specific phenomena studied by specialized natural sciences, such as physics, chemistry or biology? Is there something else beyond these particular phenomena? What is the relationship ",{"id":146,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":147,"piName":14,"institution":148,"country":149,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":150},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068646","Heart Attack Monitoring Patch (HAMP)","KOC UNIVERSITY","TR","Every year more than 60 million people live with Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), and more than 1.8 million people die as a result of CVD, accounting for 36% of all deaths. Among different types of CVD, heart attack and stroke are the leading cause of death in the EU. The recognized guidelines identify the first one hour after the onset of a heart attack as the golden hour to receive proper medical assistance and prevent death or damage to organs. Hence, there is a vital need for a compact and easy",{"id":152,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":153,"piName":14,"institution":20,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":154},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064724","Metal-organic frameworks as concerted proton-electron transfer mediators for electrocatalysis","As the consequences of the anthropogenic contamination become more evident and irreversible, there is an increasingly urgent need to switch towards more sustainable paradigms in the chemical industry. In this context, the utilization of renewable energy sources via electrocatalysis has emerged as a highly active field of research during the past decades, although further efforts are required to provide economically viable technologies with practical applications. eCat-MOF project aims at develop",{"id":156,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":157,"piName":14,"institution":158,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":159},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067645","Spying on Ultrafast Structural Changes Through Three Sets of Eyes","EUROPEAN X-RAY FREE-ELECTRON LASERFACILITY GMBH","Modern ultrafast laser technologies have initiated a 'femtosecond revolution' revolution in chemical physics, allowing the motion of nuclei within molecules to be visualised on the femtosecond (millionth of a billionth of a second) timescale. The insights from femtochemistry experiments allow detailed probing of the mechanics underpinning chemical reactions, and are therefore invaluable for fundamental investigations into molecular structure and reactivity. This proposal aims to advance understa",{"id":161,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":162,"piName":14,"institution":163,"country":164,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":165},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064097","Nanobubbles Stabilization for Cleaning Applications","UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI","SI","Bulk nanobubbles (i.e. bubbles with a sub-micrometer size) are believed to have a diverse range of potential applications in fields such as: waste treatment, cleaning and purification technologies, biomedicine, food processing, drag reduction, sonoreactors and sonocatalysis. However, rigorous scientific evidence on how bulk nanobubbles (BNBs) may remain stably in solution is to date not existent. A number of methods for BNBs generation using mechanical, chemical or electrochemical approaches hav",{"id":167,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":168,"piName":14,"institution":169,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":171},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065545","Futuring Peace: the Politics of Water Conflict in a Post-truth Age","UPPSALA UNIVERSITET","SE","The international peace and security architecture is undergoing urgent change to accommodate a conflict environment that will be increasingly shaped by the quality of environmental governance in a context of climate change. Water problems  with its associated drought, wild fires and flooding  are at the centre of changing conflict dynamics. The 2021 Report of the Independent Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) devoted 200 pages to this issue alone, highlighting the vulnerability of weak states and ag",{"id":173,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":174,"piName":14,"institution":175,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":176},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065824","Bearing Witness in Wartime: The East India Company’s Soldiers in the Public Domain, 1764-1857","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","Former U.S. Army analyst Chelsea Manning became notorious after releasing classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010. Manning’s 35-year prison sentence, commuted in 2017, provoked acrimonious debate not just about American military operations overseas, but about the extent to which values of transparency and accountability apply in the defence sector. Manning is the famous face of a larger trend, as new social media have enabled soldiers to publicize their experiences of combat environments thr",{"id":178,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":179,"piName":14,"institution":118,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":180},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064206","Quantitative Analysis for Modern Signal Processing","Cell phones, digital cameras, medical imaging, and environmental monitoring: signal processing is at the core of our modern world. Motivated by the emergence of telecommunications in the 1960s, mathematical signal processing succeeded in providing a theoretical framework for the digital transmission of analog data in communication systems. However, as new technologies and applications arrived, much of the existing theory falls short of providing a sufficient formal description to support them. T",{"id":182,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":183,"piName":14,"institution":184,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":185},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068158","Spatially rEsolved Single-cell Approaches in Haematologic MalignanciEs","UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM HEIDELBERG","A global understanding of therapy response and therapy resistance in haematologic malignancies, including multiple myeloma and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, in which cancerous cells accumulate in the bone marrow, is still lacking. This is due to the complex nature of the bone marrow. Therefore, the goal of SESAHME is to determine the difference of the bone marrow microenvironment in healthy individuals and patients suffering from multiple myeloma and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. This will hel",{"id":187,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":188,"piName":14,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":189},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065519","Street Harassment as a Public Problem: The Circulation of Policy Frames and Solutions in Europe","Supranational organizations working on street harassment face the challenge of developing initiatives to address this issue around the world, while considering local specificities in what exactly is locally understood to be the problem. An ethnographic study of the production and circulation of policy frames of and solutions to street harassment, HarassEU contributes to our understanding of how policies and frames travel, and how governmental and non-governmental organizations operating on a loc",{"id":191,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":192,"piName":14,"institution":193,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":194},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062601","Advanced Biofuels Production from Waste Olive Pomace of Olive Oil Industries","UNIVERSIDAD DE JAEN","Olive pomace waste from edible olive oil industry cannot be currently used due to its acidic pH, high salinity, high phenolic contents, and phytotoxic properties. Its disposal is challenging and creates environmental pollution. Utilization of olive pomace waste for biofuels production is one of the promising solutions. However, conventional methods for production of olive pomace biofuels are using expensive enzymes, corrosive & toxic acids, and are not effective due to high inhibitors content. O",{"id":196,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":14,"institution":198,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":200},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067179","PRehistoric fISheries assisTing marIne baseliNEs","MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE","FR","Ensuring sustainable fisheries is one of the key issues to address the conservation of marine biodiversity and socio-economic development. Such approaches usually operate based on fisheries records from the last decades, which are proved to be inappropriate reference criteria for evaluating long-term impacts of fish exploitation whereas archaeological data is increasingly admitted as an essential source of information. One of the most severely threatened marine regions is the Indo-Pacific, which",{"id":202,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":203,"piName":14,"institution":118,"country":119,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":204},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059683","DENIsovan anCESTORs in Sahul: deciphering human evolution through molecular techniques","Field and science-based discoveries over the last decade have revolutionised our understanding of human evolution outside of Africa. We now know that at least 6 or 7 hominin groups lived in Eurasia in the past 200,000 years. Some of these, i.e. Denisovans, Neanderthals and early modern humans, met and interbred with genes from extinct archaic hominins passing down to modern humans living today. Recent DNA studies have shown that selected populations in Southeast Asia, and Oceania in particular, ",{"id":206,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":207,"piName":14,"institution":208,"country":209,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":210},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065747","Full-field experimental and numerical investigation of novel fire resistant fibre reinforced concrete for tunnel lining","ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION","EL","The problem of tunnel fires is one of the most complex areas of fire research. Under fire, concrete linings spall resulting in the collapse of the tunnel structure causing a significant scourge in the economy, society and the environment. In summary, the design of tunnel concrete linings is based on thermal calculations, which ignore spalling. Based on such calculations new types of more durable, strong and hence denser concrete have been introduced on the market recently that are much more prob",{"id":212,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":213,"piName":14,"institution":163,"country":164,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":214},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068435","Public Health in Transition. Health Care at the dawn of the Habsburg Empire (1918–1924)","This project will investigate the transition of the public health system of the multinational Habsburg Empire in successor national states during and after the Empire’s collapse at the end of WWI. The project’s aim is to analyse how health institutions dealt with epidemic diseases and mental illnesses resulting from the war and geopolitical upheavals which reshaped the sense of self and created identity disorientation. As a case study, it will focus on the macro-area between the former imperial ",{"id":216,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":217,"piName":14,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":218},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062130","Ordered Nanoporous Carbon Architectures from Biobased Building Blocks","Ordered nanoporous carbons are gaining appreciable interest in several green technology applications (efficient charge storage, metal-free carbocatalysis). Nevertheless, at present they can only be fabricated using fossil fuel-based building blocks, through energy-intensive processes with large ecological footprint, and with potential environmental pollution. The overall aim of this project is to provide more sustainable alternatives to these fossil fuel-derived materials by fabricating ordered ",{"id":220,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":221,"piName":14,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":222},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066910","The political (in)significance of extreme weather events","Tackling the climate crisis in an appropriate way - making governments sign international climate agreements and letting citizens live up to them - proves difficult. A much-given explanation for this problem is the fact that many of the crisis' consequences are only about to happen in a distant future complicates making them visible and tangible in the present. However, extreme weather events (e.g., floods, heatwaves, hurricanes) might have the potential to break this pattern. This project inves",{"id":224,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":225,"piName":14,"institution":226,"country":227,"year":13,"amount":228,"abstract":229},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101086381","Overcoming Digital Divide in Europe and Southeast Asia","EKONOMICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE","SK","€1,352,400","Digitalization has been in the epicenter of interest during the hard times of COVID-19 and has enabled governments and individuals to cope with the scientific and socio-economic problems created by the pandemic. Both, basic and advanced digital technologies, as well as digital skills have been engaged to sustain the functioning of the economy and society by allowing the work to continue, tracking the spread of the virus, and accelerating research for medications and vaccines. COVID-19 pandemic h",{"id":231,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":232,"piName":14,"institution":233,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":234},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067640","Study of molecular events triggering the cytosolic enrichment of SUMO activating enzyme and its implications in seed quality.","CENTRE DE RECERCA EN AGRIGENOMICA CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB","Post-translational modifications by SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifier) modulate protein activity through regulation of subcellular localization, protein activity and stability, and protein-protein interactions. In plants, SUMO is essential during seed development, modulates hormone signaling, and biotic\u002Fabiotic stress responses. Several studies point to a nuclear enrichment of SUMO conjugation machinery, which is consistent with a preferential nuclear localization of the SUMO targets. Nonethel",{"id":236,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":237,"piName":14,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":238},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067706","Molasses provisioning to disrupt the mutualistic association of the biocontrol agent Oecophylla smaragdina weaver ants with honeydew-producing pest insects in mango in Thailand","Oecophylla smaragdina weaver ants are important biocontrol agents of fruit crops in Thailand but their mutualistic association with honeydew-producing insect pests can result in an ineffectual crop protection and cause economic harm to farmers. I will take an innovative, application-oriented, and interdisciplinary approach by disrupting the weaver ant-Hemiptera mutualism in Thailand with sugarcane molasses as honeydew and sugar alternative in mango (Mangifera indica) and eventually improve the y",{"id":240,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":241,"piName":14,"institution":242,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":243},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066882","Investigation on the vaccination potential of IL4i1 deficient dendritic cells in Chronic lymphocytic leukemia","DEUTSCHES KREBSFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM HEIDELBERG","Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a common leukemia in adults characterized by an extremely immune suppressive microenvironment, which leads to the failure of otherwise effective immunotherapy regimens including dendritic cell (DC) based tumor vaccines. Recent attempts to understand immune suppression in CLL provided substantial evidence and identified that over-expression of amino acid catabolizing enzyme interleukin-4-induced 1 (IL4i1) in CLL and immune cells as key phenomenon in CLL mediated im",{"id":245,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":246,"piName":14,"institution":247,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":248},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101061026","Coupled Flow Processes in Fractured Media across Scales: Insights into Hydraulic Fracture Growth and Radiated Seismic Energy","GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG","Actively seeking viable “clean\u002Fgreen” energy sources is essential for human to maintain sustainable development. Geothermal energy provides an important alternative to fossil fuels and gas in our life. However, most geothermal resources are deep-seated and are either deficient in fluid or permeability, or both. The deep-seated, dry, and tight geothermal reservoirs need to be hydraulically fractured for permeability improvement, thereby promoting fluid circulation and the harvest of heat energy f",{"id":250,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":251,"piName":14,"institution":252,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":253},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068893","Hippocampus unites Memory Systems by preserving Sequential Order","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","It is generally assumed that there are two distinct memory systems in the human brain:  declarative memory supports memories for facts and events, while the procedural memory supports motor skills. However, recent evidence suggests that these multiple memory systems are less independent than originally thought and that the hippocampus, historically associated with declarative memory, is also involved in procedural motor memory. Accordingly, the project MemUnited (Hippocampus unites Memory System",{"id":255,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":256,"piName":14,"institution":257,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":258},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063997","The mechanobiology of hypoxia during bone regeneration","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN","Bone regeneration is a challenging clinical problem. Each year, millions of patients worldwide experience bone fracture: one every two-to-three seconds. Over 10-15% of these fractures suffer from impaired healing. Especially the elderly population is disproportionately affected being associated with permanent impairment and increased mortality. Two critical events early in fracture repair determine the outcome of the healing process: lack of oxygen caused by blood vessel rupture and mechanical i",{"id":260,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":261,"piName":14,"institution":175,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":262},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059732","Imperial Science and the Habitability of Central Asia and Mesopotamia, 1815-1914: A History of the Societal Consequences of Changing Environmental Limits","Following a summer where parts of Europe flooded while others burned, this research addresses a fundamentally relevant question: what happens to societies when habitable places become uninhabitable? The large scale effects of anthropogenic climate change are new, but divisions of the world into 'habitable' and 'uninhabitable' regions are not, and have long shaped humanity. My project examines a pivotal part of this longer history by showing how between 1815 and 1914, British and French imperial ",{"id":264,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":265,"piName":14,"institution":133,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":266},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064150","Tissue-specific induction of autophagy as an innovative therapeutic strategy in cardiovascular and metabolic disease.","Western-style diets are hypercaloric and characterized by high fat and high sugar content. They are responsible for an epidemic of cardiovascular disease, including atherosclerosis (AS), and metabolic disorders, including Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). The European population is becoming increasingly exposed to these disorders, for which the only available therapeutic option is lifestyle modification. This typically involves dietary changes and physical activity, but patient complian",{"id":268,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":269,"piName":14,"institution":270,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":271},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101061720","Western Images of the Steppe Empresses. Literary and Film Portraits of Genghisid Women between Fascination and Fear (20th-21st centuries)","UNIVERSITE PARIS III SORBONNE NOUVELLE","Since the Middle Ages, the name of Genghis Khan has been associated in the West with the idea of the Apocalypse. In accordance with this negative representation, the women who contributed to the rise of his empire have long been described as sinister witches and warriors, indistinguishable from the men of their horde. However, studies carried out starting in the last century, thanks to the opening of Mongolia to the West and the rediscovery of new local sources, have led Western scholars to a pr",{"id":273,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":274,"piName":14,"institution":275,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":276},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059659","Decadal to multi-deCadal Global Predictions of Compound Events","BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION","Compound events (CEs) can pose significant threats to societies, economies and ecosystems around the world, especially when amplified by anthropogenic climate change (ACC). There is therefore a strong need for skillful, reliable and actionable predictions of how CEs are expected to change in the next decades, to support governments and stakeholders in implementing robust adaptation strategies. In this project, we will develop a method to improve near-term projections of CEs at the global scale, ",{"id":278,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":279,"piName":14,"institution":280,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":281},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059893","Relationships of receptive grammar acquisition with musical rhythm processing and executive functions","UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM","Language is one of the hallmarks of what it means to be human and grammar is a core linguistic ability that makes us able to understand (receptive grammar) and express (expressive grammar) the relationships between words in sentences. This ability is fundamental for participating in the educational, economic, social and cultural life of society, while impairments of grammar can lead to life-long difficulties in these areas. The acquisition of grammar is, thus, one of the most important developme",{"id":283,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":284,"piName":14,"institution":285,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":286},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062788","Play to learn: ludic video games and interactive experiences to improve critical and computational thinking skills","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA","This project investigates the use of primarily ludic video games and interactive experiences aimed at transferring skills within the Critical and Computational Thinking skill sets – e.g., literacy, numeracy – using gameplay as opposed to presentation. This niche of products is under-researched, compressed between serious games and purely ludic games, and suffers from a lack of systematic design and evaluation guidelines. The main objective is to define a framework of design and evaluation princi",{"id":288,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":289,"piName":14,"institution":285,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":290},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065736","Gravitational waves and primordial black holes from cosmological phase transitions","In 2015, nearly a century after their existence was predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, the LIGO detectors observed gravitational waves directly for the first time. The significance of these observations can be compared to the pioneering observations of astronomical objects made by Galileo Galilei in the 17th century at visible wavelengths of light. Both observations opened a new window to the Universe, and, in the same way observations made across the electromagnetic spectrum ",{"id":292,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":293,"piName":14,"institution":247,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":294},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066069","Earthquake Energy Radiation Across Spectrum: a multidisciplinary study","Destructions left after an earthquake are mostly caused by high-frequency ground motion that originates from the seismic source. I will exploit the natural continuity between geodetic and seismological data to illuminate high-frequency sources and their relations with changes in earthquake rupture speed. I propose an innovative Bayesian 2-step kinematic inversion in the frequency domain to investigate these destructive and poorly constrained high-frequency sources. This probabilistic approach is",{"id":296,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":297,"piName":14,"institution":73,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":298},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059918","The Musical Avant-garde in Rome in the 1960s: Actors and Networks in Music History","ROMAVANTGARDE aims to reveal a particular phenomenon in the history of music: the effervescence of avant-garde networks in Rome during the 1960s. This phenomenon saw the first steps of influential figures to come: Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran, and Ennio Morricone. But it is also of particular interest as it involved a large number of artists from varied national and cultural horizons, connected diverse institutions (schools, bars, religious establishments), and saw the encounter of various gen",{"id":300,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":301,"piName":14,"institution":302,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":303},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062671","Brain Correlates of Socially Interactive Language Learning","UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA","More and more Europeans acquire a second language (L2) during adulthood. However, people greatly differ in their learning success across different learning settings, such as phone apps or in-class. Due to its key role in acquiring our first language during childhood, social interaction might also play an important and underappreciated role in L2 learning. Nevertheless, understanding the role and underlying processes of social interaction in L2 learning has been hindered so far by an enormous tec",{"id":305,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":306,"piName":14,"institution":307,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":308},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063104","Grammar Assistance Using Syntactic Structures: Fast parsing with formal grammars deployed for Spanish grammar coaching.","UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA","Grammar Assistance Using Syntactic Structures.In the times when a human's right to a cultural identity is often at odds with the standardized requirements placed by e.g. employment systems, automatic grammar coaching serves an important purpose of advising on standard grammar varieties while not imposing social pressures typical for a traditional grammar classroom or reinforcing established social roles. Such systems already exist but most of them are for English and few of them offer meaningful",{"id":310,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":311,"piName":14,"institution":312,"country":313,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":314},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059502","Passive Solar Evaporators for Green Desalination Technologies","UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK","IE","Clean freshwater is an essential ingredient for healthy human life. However, over 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to freshwater. With our already depleted natural freshwater resources and push towards climate neutrality, outlined by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, there is significant stress on the world’s water purification technologies. Capillary-driven solar evaporation provides a very promising basis for the development of cost-effective, deployable, and eco-friendly freshwa",{"id":316,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":317,"piName":14,"institution":318,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":319},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062864","Accurate and efficient ab initio Quantum Chemistry calculations  on current and near-term noisy intermediate-scale Quantum Computers for relevant chemical problems","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB","Quantum computing has the potential to provide an exponential speedup compared to classical computers, but the practical implementation is still in its infancy.Two central questions are: (1) in which field the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware can provide benefits compared to classical computers and (2) which methods and algorithms enable this advantage?The aim of this project is to answer these questions by enabling accurate and efficient Quantum Chemistry calculations on",{"id":321,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":322,"piName":14,"institution":169,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":323},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066502","A simple, systematic and integrity-preserving model for values in science","In the face of controversial debates about appropriate influence of values in the assent phase of science (where hypotheses\u002Ftheories are accepted or rejected), which provide only complicated guidelines on a case-by-case basis, a confused image of science arises in the view of policy makers, the wider public, and even scientists. Such unsettled debate has a potential negative impact on the trust the general public puts in science. Worse, it can be used by science deniers to support their undermin",{"id":325,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":326,"piName":14,"institution":73,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":327},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065365","the role of Stress History on the EARthquake potential of faults","The extent to which earthquake phenomena can be accurately assessed ultimately depends on how well the underlying physical processes are understood. Earthquake physics is primarily controlled by fault frictional properties and fluid pressure, which have been widely tested in laboratory rock deformation experiments. During the last 50 years, these experiments have provided fundamental contributions to our understanding of earthquake physics. However, in most experiments, the fault is loaded towar",{"id":329,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":330,"piName":14,"institution":331,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":332},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067943","Unravelling the crosstalk between Stellate cells and Kupffer cells and its role in maintaining Stellate cell quiescence","VIB VZW","Liver diseases are a global cause of mortality, accounting for two million deaths a year, of which half are attributed to liver fibrosis. Activated stellate cells are the major source of excessive extracellular-matrix deposition that drives fibrosis. The signals that convert quiescent stellate cells into pathogenic myofibroblasts remain largely unknown. Spatial analysis from the Guilliams lab has recently revealed that each quiescent stellate cell is paired with a Kupffer cell (KC) in the steady",{"id":334,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":335,"piName":14,"institution":336,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":337},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064433","Multi-attribute values’ OntologiEs to improve Built Heritage InformatiOn assessment in cluStered territories","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA","MOEBHIOS (Multi-attribute values’ OntologiEs to improve Built Heritage InformatiOn assessment in cluStered territories) aim is to develop an innovative Value-Based Decision-Making approach on historical Built Heritage on the cross-border contexts of clustered territories. The improvement of Information Systems for territorial geo-mapping with Multi-attributes Values from Social Sciences fields will be pursued, developing advanced Information Ontologies specifically suited for landscape and Built",{"id":339,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":340,"piName":14,"institution":341,"country":342,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":343},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068320","Intermarriage and ethnic identity","EOTVOS LORAND TUDOMANYEGYETEM","HU","An important element of social cohesion and contact between majorities and sub-state ethnic minorities are intermarriages, which are either welcomed as vehicles easing the tensions between nations and sub-state minorities, or criticized as important drivers of assimilation and the destroyers of ethnic minority communities. The social aspects, family dynamics and identity construction of family members in intermarriages were not studied methodically in CEE and the WB. Therefore, the goal of the I",{"id":345,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":346,"piName":14,"institution":73,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":347},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067991","Latin American Testimonies in Italy: a Living Library Between the Mediterranean and the Andes","The aim of the project Latin American Testimonies in Italy: a Living Library Between the Mediterranean and the Andes is the collection, analysis, and dissemination of testimonies of Latin American migration to Italy during the last thirty years. The study will be carried out from a gender perspective, focusing on the migration of women and LGBTQ people, to underline cultural and literary aspects related to migration and determined by migrants' intersectional conditions.In addition, particular at",{"id":349,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":350,"piName":14,"institution":73,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":351},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065771","Variational coarse-graining of lattice energies for crystal defects: Applications to partial dislocations and stacking faults","Defects are omnipresent in crystalline materials and the understanding of their emergence and interaction is essential for the prediction of the macroscopic material behaviour. Thus, there is a huge interest to pass in a rigorous mathematical way from atomistic models for crystal defects to macroscopic models, e.g., for crystal plasticity. From a variational viewpoint this can be addressed by deriving effective limiting energies from lattice energies when the lattice spacing vanishes. A powerful",{"id":353,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":354,"piName":14,"institution":355,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":356},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064466","Efficient Detection of Squeezed Light on Nanophotonic Chips using Subwavelength-Engineered Superconducting Nanowire Avalanche Photodetectors","UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER","Quantum photonics has become a key driver for the development of novel applicationssuch quantum information processing and sensingthat leverage quantum effects to open new possibilities beyond classical capabilities. Squeezed states of light are particularly promising for such applications and have been employed, e.g., to conduct Gaussian boson sampling experiments. Despite the success of these experiments, the use of bulk optical components hinders scalability and phase stabilization. Thus, hig",{"id":358,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":359,"piName":14,"institution":108,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":360},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066521","‘The world is bigger than five’: Identity, discourse, and the transformation of Turkey’s foreign policy since 2011 (IDandTFP)","ID&TFP examines Turkey’s foreign policy reorientation during the 2010s and contributes to academic debates on foreign policy transformation and foreign policy's role in domestic politics. During the Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s first decade in power, it prioritised Turkey’s European Union (EU) membership and sought to increase Turkey’s influence through soft power instruments. However, soon after the Arab Spring protests broke out in 2011, the AKP began asserting its ambition to shape t",{"id":362,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":363,"piName":14,"institution":302,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":364},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066954","Evaluation of Autism SpEctrum Disorder in children with Cerebral Palsy (EASED-CP)","Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability in childhood and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of its most common and impactful comorbidities. Proper identification of ASD in CP is clinically important but state-of-the-art diagnostic methods rely on behavioural symptoms that overlap with the motor and speech difficulties seen in CP. This makes ASD diagnosis very challenging and limits the validity and usability of standardized clinical instruments. Consequently, some children ",{"id":366,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":367,"piName":14,"institution":247,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":368},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064307","Understanding the influence of sediment dynamics on postglacial landscape evolution","Repeated glacial-interglacial cycles during the Quaternary have significantly impacted the topography of many mountain ranges around the world. Yet, the response of landscape evolution to repeated climate oscillations has not been well quantified. In recently deglaciated landscapes, the transition from glacial to fluvial\u002Fhillslope processes have induced progressive topographic adjustments, and the large amounts of sediments inherited from glacial periods and generated through landsliding of over",{"id":370,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":371,"piName":14,"institution":20,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":372},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064851","Aerobic and Resistance Exercise Training for Improving Brain-related Outcomes","Problem. Coronary heart disease (CHD) patients have a 45% higher risk of cognitive impairment and dementia. Currently, there is no effective therapy to prevent or cure those brain-related diseases. Recent studies showed that physical activity is associated with better cognitive functioning and a risk reduction of cognitive impairment and dementia in the general population. However, studies in CHD patients are largely absent. Evidence about the brain-related health benefits of physical activity a",{"id":374,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":375,"piName":14,"institution":376,"country":377,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":378},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101056825","A New Generation of Active Matter Models","UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG","LU","The development of non-equilibrium statistical physics has provided a powerful tool to understand anddescribe the collective dynamics of a wide range of chemical, biological and social systems. In thisframework, active matter has raised as one of the most significant topics in this domain, mainlyaddressing the features of many-body dynamics with self-propelled units such as bacteria colonies, birdflocks and pedestrians walks. Based on the observation of collective motion like size synchronizatio",{"id":380,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":381,"piName":14,"institution":382,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":383},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066568","Frustrated systems with low-dimensional magnetism for magnetic refrigeration and hydrogen liquefaction","JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ","Carbon-free hydrogen represents one of the pillars of global energy transformation. However, higher efficiency within the hydrogen supply chain, including liquefaction, is the crucial prerequisite to reduce its cost and trigger its wider use. Magnetic refrigeration, which utilizes the magnetocaloric effect, promises to double the efficiency of hydrogen liquefaction compared to gas-compression cryocooling, but the technologies available at present mostly employ magnetocaloric materials containing",{"id":385,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":386,"piName":14,"institution":387,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":388},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068321","REgulatory sandBOx fOr a Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO","AI applications are on the rise. This is the case in terms of both number and value, and is coupled with a prominent EU investments in the field and in related research. AI-driven innovations promise great benefits, but also come with clear and concerning risks for data protection that are hard to predict and only-partially covered by GDPR. There is an urgent need to understand if and how regulators should intervene in this clash between AI innovations and data protection. Regulatory sandboxes a",{"id":390,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":391,"piName":14,"institution":169,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":392},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064678","Materializing Renewable Capital","The International Energy Agency’s recent Net Zero by 2050 report concludes that by 2030 four trillion USD of annual global investment into clean energy is needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Yet in the last four years such investments have averaged just one trillion. Critical economic geography has emphasized the role of non-price factors in this renewable investment gap. Materializing Renewable Capital (MaRC) advances this inquiry through a survey of how the 'materiality' of the produc",{"id":394,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":395,"piName":14,"institution":108,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":396},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065866","Judging Plausible Deniability","Plausible deniability (PD) can be used strategically to convey content without dealing with the repercussions of asserting it explicitly. For instance, one might say “I admire your courage for wearing this dress” to convey an insult without incurring the social costs of explicit aggression. PD underlies such important phenomena as politeness, covert threats, political dog whistles, and flirting. Despite this, PD is understudied and as of yet imperfectly understood. Arguably, PD cannot be reduced",{"id":398,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":399,"piName":14,"institution":285,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":400},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066941","Conceptualizing Oppression-Related Emotions","CORE proposes the category of Oppression-Related Emotions (ORE) to identify a cluster of painful emotions related to experiences of oppression (especially in the terms of gender) and their relationship to oppression, knowledge, and painful manifestations. The main research hypothesis is that oppression-related emotions are influenced by the axes of oppression: i.e., these emotions may be experienced differently depending on the dimension of gender, class, race, etc. The project will focus on the",{"id":402,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":403,"piName":14,"institution":404,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":405},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065432","Impact of Reactive Oxygen Species produced by their sand fly vector on Leishmania sexual hybrid formation","INSTITUT PASTEUR","By transmitting hundreds of pathogens causing important human mortality and morbidity, vector insects are a major public health threat. Even if intrinsic insect parameters such as immune response are known to impact their vectorial capacities, the vector\u002Fpathogen interaction is still little understood. Phlebotomine sand flies are responsible for the transmission of Leishmania parasites, causing Leishmaniasis. This disease produces a wide spectrum of symptoms, due to a high genetic diversity of p",{"id":407,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":408,"piName":14,"institution":404,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":409},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062386","Characterization of the Mobility and Evolution of Non-Transmissible Plasmids","Bacteria are extraordinarily adaptive organisms spread all over the globe and making up about half of the cells in our bodies. Their main source of novel functions is horizontal gene transfer, usually prompted by mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, that provide them with a wide range of traits. Plasmid conjugation is the main mechanism of dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), an increasingly important health problem. However, more than half of the plasmids found in bacterial gen",{"id":411,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":412,"piName":14,"institution":413,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":414},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064065","FEED your mind: Investigating the nature, ontogeny and evolution of cognitive processes underlying food behaviors, to pave a way toward efficient interventions promoting healthy eating in early life","UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE","The rise of food-related health disorders calls for action. Food behaviors take shape early in life and track well into adulthood. Thus, efficient evidence-based interventions promoting healthy food practices in early life are key to tackling these challenges. The aim of the project is to shed light on the cognitive processes underlying food learning in infancy and provide empirical bases to design such interventions.The project adopts a novel perspective on food learning. Current research has o",{"id":416,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":417,"piName":14,"institution":331,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":418},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067670","Characterization of spinal learning in a repetitive yet skilled locomotor task","Animals adjust movement throughout their life to adapt to a changing environment and to learn new motor skills. The underlying mechanisms have been studied for decades, almost exclusively as a function of the brain. Interestingly, however, the spinal cord adapts and learns motor sequences without the brain, using only spinal sensory feedback. Therefore, the spinal cord must contain adequate neuronal circuitry for motor learning. This project aims to characterize brain-independent mechanisms of l",{"id":420,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":421,"piName":14,"institution":422,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":423},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059695","DEcoding Metabolic Effectors in plant sTress Response and Acclimation","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO","The European Commission aims at promoting agricultural innovation while preserving biodiversity and without increasing arable land surface. Understanding how plants respond to stress is therefore vital to design new, improved agricultural solutions that meet these requirements.General and conserved plant stress responses to pathogens rely on systemic propagation of Calcium (Ca2+) signalling and reactive oxygen species (ROS) from the site of attack to distant organs. An unexpected, essential link",{"id":425,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":426,"piName":14,"institution":427,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":428},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068341","Near-Earth Object's Forcast of Collisional Events","OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS","The modern world is subject to many natural, man-made and social dangers. Many of them are global in nature, as they threaten the very existence of human civilization. Notable among them is the danger of Earth collision with space bodies of cometary and asteroid nature. At present, there is no doubt about the importance and urgency of this problem. In particular, this is evidenced by a report of the National Science and Technology Council, USA, where the importance to detect and characterize the",{"id":430,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":431,"piName":14,"institution":387,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":432},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064953","General Relativistic numerical models of accretion disks and magnetic reconnection with the PLUTO code","Magnetic fields shape the dynamics of relativistic plasmas that orbit around astrophysical black holes (BHs), as observed in current general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) models. A primary example is magnetic reconnection, i.e. the rearrangement of the structure of magnetic field lines, which converts magnetic energy into kinetic and thermal energy and accelerates particles to relativistic velocities, thus producing the high-energy non-thermal radiation observed from accreting compact",{"id":434,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":435,"piName":14,"institution":302,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":436},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067143","Improvising Europe: Jazz, Cultural Globalisation and the Reinvention of Multiethnic Identities","The research project focuses on issues of musical socialisation, cultural assimilation, financial strategies and gender inequalities within the jazz scenes of three major European cities: Barcelona, Budapest and Manchester. These three cities are illustrative of fundamental changes in the way that contemporary music scenes in Europe are responding to challenges of globalisation and cultural assimilation. This is most apparent in the many hybrid musical forms being developed by Europe’s tradition",{"id":438,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":439,"piName":14,"institution":133,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":440,"abstract":441},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065370","Ferroptosis Inhibitors For Neurodegenerative Disorders","€239,700","FERROptosis inhibitors for NEUROdegenerative disorders (NeuroFerro) will focus on the development of potent compounds with improved pharmacokinetic properties, including blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability for future application in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. Ferroptosis is non-apoptotic programmed cell death that has been linked to the pathophysiological processes of many diseases, including dementia, Huntingtons disease, Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease and amyotroph",{"id":443,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":444,"piName":14,"institution":445,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":446},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062195","Towards high-affinity ligands for orphan receptors GPR3, GPR6 & GPR12","PHILIPPS UNIVERSITAET MARBURG","The family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) comprises more than 800 human cell surface receptors that perceive and transmit extracellular stimuli into the cell interior. Due to their involvement in numerous biochemical processes, GPCRs represent prime targets for the treatment of various diseases and are modulated by more than 30% of approved drugs today. However, a large proportion of the druggable GPCRome remains pharmacologically untapped, including the so-called ‘orphan’ GPCRs (oGPCRs)",{"id":448,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":449,"piName":14,"institution":450,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":451},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064482","Designing Stretchable Hydrogel Electrolytes and 2-Dimensional MXene Electrodes for Energy Harvesting via Ionic Thermoelectrics","LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET","Recently, energy harvesting technologies based on the concept of thermoelectricity with direct conversion of waste heat into electricity has received great attention. Thermoelectric (TE) devices have already been used in various industries such as combustion engines, coupled to photovoltaic cells, and to power small home appliances.  Conventional TE devices based on electronic conducting materials working through the thermo-diffusion of electrons and holes have been intensively studied and achie",{"id":453,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":454,"piName":14,"institution":455,"country":456,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":457},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063551","Inverting α-glucosidase inhibitors as potential drugs for SARS-CoV-2","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","NL","Viral infections are still a major challenge in medical therapy. The recent outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has again shown the immense threat these pathogens pose. In contrast to the direct-acting antivirals approach (targeting viral proteases, polymerases or other viral enzymes involved in replication), which is mostly followed by the pharmaceutical industry, this proposal targeting host cell enzymes involved in the biogenesis of infectious virions. In this context inverting α-glucosidases are of speci",{"id":459,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":460,"piName":14,"institution":461,"country":209,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":462},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065089","The BIOarchaeology of SOCIO-POLitical changes in AmphipolIS: Exploring the impact of broad historical trends and status quo transitions on human lifeways and deathways, through a multi-proxy approach","ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS","This project will develop a new interpretive model to reveal the extent to which multiple socio-political transitions, representing different forms of urbanism, affect human lifeways and deathways, in a diachronic perspective. This is achieved by implementing an interdisciplinary methodology combining archaeological and historical theory, macroscopic bioarchaeological approaches and stable isotopes. The diachronic case of Amphipolis in Northern Greece experiencing many different political models",{"id":464,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":465,"piName":14,"institution":466,"country":456,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":467},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062426","Divergence times, Evolution, and Anatomy Deciphered in early Sharks","STICHTING NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER","The ancient elasmobranchs (sharks + rays) have the potential to provide great insight into evolutionary processes over large timescales, but this potential is limited by a poor understanding of the relationships between living and extinct groups and the timing of major divergence events. In this project I will address these knowledge gaps by combining new 3D tomographic data on key Mesozoic elasmobranch body fossils with genomic and anatomical data from their living relatives. I will then use th",{"id":469,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":470,"piName":14,"institution":257,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":471},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063183","Model theory, locally compact groups and solution of Hilbert's 5th problem","The main goal of the project is to apply advanced techniques from the model theory (a branch of mathematical logic) to the class of locally compact groups arising from the solution of Hilbert's 5th problem (so at the end, to the class of Lie groups), to answer the following question: how much geometry can model theory recognize? There does not exist a general (first-order) model-theoretic description of the locally compact groups, thus our first goal will be to develop such a description. Then, ",{"id":473,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":474,"piName":14,"institution":475,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":476},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101069067","Metabolic imprinting of Th17 cells in disease pathogenesis","JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG","Autoimmune diseases affect an estimated 3-9% of the population and cause major personal and socio-economic consequences. IL-17-producing CD4+ T cells (Th17) are recruited to inflamed tissues and involved in autoimmune pathogenesis but were recently also shown to have homeostatic function in tissues. Preliminary data from the outgoing host indicate that Th17 cells are transcriptionally distinct in different tissues. How tissue Th17 cells acquire such specialized characteristics remains elusive. B",{"id":478,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":479,"piName":14,"institution":480,"country":481,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":482},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101058904","Interplay of multiplicative number theory and additive combinatorics","TURUN YLIOPISTO","FI","This project concerns multiplicative number theory and its interplay with the emerging topic of additive combinatorics. Multiplicative number theory is an area of number theory concerned with the study of prime numbers and multiplicative functions. One of the most important unsolved questions in this area and in all of number theory is the twin prime conjecture, asserting that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers differing by two.  In 1965, Chowla formulated an influential conjecture",{"id":484,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":485,"piName":14,"institution":486,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":487},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066847","Problem-based learning trajectories in discrete mathematics education","UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER","Our research project is inscribed into the domain of mathematics education (didactic of mathematics): a research domain at the interface of mathematics and social sciences. The project is based on the collaboration of three researchers: Katalin Gosztonyi as Experienced Researcher, assistant professor at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest; Viviane Durand-Guerrier as Principal Supervisor, emeritus professor at the University of Montpellier; and Simon Modeste as Co-Supervisor, assistant profe",{"id":489,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":490,"piName":14,"institution":491,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":492},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064728","Collective Responsibility towards Nature and Future Generations","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA","This research proposal aims at rethinking a collective and proactive concept of responsibility towards nature and future generations, on the basis of the understanding of nature developed by German Idealism in the early 19th century and the theory of responsibility first advanced by Hans Jonas in the 20th century. I will articulate my research into two steps, which aim at two objectives: 1) I will first work on the rational foundation of collective proactive responsibility towards the world in w",{"id":494,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":495,"piName":14,"institution":496,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":497},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101061011","Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Enabled millimetre Wave Communication for Beyond 5G Cellular Networks","FUNDACION IMDEA NETWORKS","The 5G mobile communication era has just started, and we are already experiencing the dominance of various new applications with enhanced broadband connectivity requirements. These requirements will become even more critical with the integration of cellular networks in different sectors of society. Conventional sub-6 GHz-based cellular networks represent a short-term solution, where available spectral opportunities are limited and will unquestionably dry up soon. To this end, RISE-MM aims to set",{"id":499,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":500,"piName":14,"institution":501,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":502,"abstract":503},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062523","Reliable Epidemic monitoring And Control under geographic and demographic heTerogeneities","KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN","€305,928","The current COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the failure of existing epidemic monitoring techniques in timely predicting the epidemic situation and facilitating efficient policy recommendations. Because of being open-loop or linearization-based, these techniques cannot handle model and data uncertainties effectively. Designing a feedback mechanism to enable reliable, closed-loop epidemic monitoring is crucial but challenging because of the nonlinearity and heterogeneities of the epidemic spread p",{"id":505,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":506,"piName":14,"institution":280,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":507},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067829","Certainty in an Uncertain World:  A Philosophy of Opinion","This research proposes to examine what comprises 'opinion' in today's world of instantaneous communication. How, might it be said, does thought lapse into opinion? It is an urgent question in a time when the world, with its modes of global interconnection and digital platforms, is so heavily characterized by chaotic political debate and image proliferation. The project aims to develop, by reinterpreting select German scholarship, a philosophical, social and critical theory of what it means to ar",{"id":509,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":510,"piName":14,"institution":511,"country":149,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":512},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062272","Energy- and Spectrally-Efficient sub-THz Transmitter Array Towards Indoor 6G Infrastructure","SABANCI UNIVERSITESI","6G have already been pronounced even we just met with 5G. Extreme data-rates with extremely low latency envisioned to open path to applications like real-time holographic communications. In the line of technological innovations and developments to increase the wireless data-rates, considerations on energy efficiency have remained silent. This proposed action aims to cover ultra-high data-rate, energy-efficiency, low-latency and low-cost as well as supporting beam-steering capabilities for mobili",{"id":514,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":515,"piName":14,"institution":516,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":517},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064252","Developing sustainable, high performance polyurethanes with chemical circularity","UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO\u002F EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA","Since the development of the first fully synthetic plastics in the early 20th century, these materials have become ubiquitous in our daily life. The production of plastics has increased considerably, reaching 368 million tons in 2019 and it is expected to double again by 2035. Today’s plastics are designed for performance, cost and durability without taking into consideration their life after use. This has resulted in an annual generation of plastic solid waste of 150 million tonnes. Tackling pl",{"id":519,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":520,"piName":14,"institution":175,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":521},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067782","Climate Models and Climate Scientific Understanding","What exactly is the epistemic goal of constructing climate models? Can these models help us in our endeavour to understand Earth’s climate system and our role in climate change? This is a very important question that hasn’t yet received the attention it deserves in the recent philosophy of climate science. My overall research objective in this project is to address this important lacuna. I plan to do this by developing an account of climate scientific understanding and the means by which we can ",{"id":523,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":524,"piName":14,"institution":331,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":525},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064088","Unravelling the pathogenic cell-cell circuits underlying the tissue memory of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease","With the obesity epidemic, global prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is currently at 25% and rising. NAFLD results from accumulation of excessive fat in the liver and covers a spectrum of disease states from simple steatosis (fatty liver) to severe non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). NAFLD patients are also at increased risk of developing secondary pathologies, including infections and paracetamol-induced liver damage, although the mechanisms behind this remain unclear. As",{"id":527,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":528,"piName":14,"institution":529,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":530},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068493","Inspiring Creativity: investigating how a digital arts intervention can enhance creative mind-wandering","ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE","Mind-wandering research in the cognitive sciences shows that a significant portion of novel ideas and breakthrough “aha!” moments happen when attention is shifted internally, away from tasks in the external environment. However, research has not explored how to encourage these creative mental wanders. Inspired by how exposure to art leads to generating innovative ideas, this project investigates the hypothesis that a digital arts intervention can enhance creative thoughts when mind-wandering. Th",{"id":532,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":533,"piName":14,"institution":534,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":535},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065294","Genomic and single-cell approaches to establish the molecular basis of stony coral resilience to climate change-related stressors.","FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA","Scleractinian corals are the main builders of the marine reefs that provide a home to roughly a quarter of all marine species. In addition, their photosynthetic symbionts contribute to Earths oxygen, absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, and provide the coral host with most of its metabolic needs. Global changes drastically affecting ocean acidification and temperatures cause the breakdown of this symbiosis. This process is also known as coral bleaching, and it results in a mass decline in coral reefs",{"id":537,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":538,"piName":14,"institution":133,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":539},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067141","Does hybridization facilitate explosive speciation of Lake Baikal amphipods?","The adaptive radiation of amphipods in Lake Baikal has brought forward more than 340 species (20% of the world’s freshwater amphipods), making it one of the largest species flocks after the famous African cichlid radiations, and one of the only large radiations in temperate climates. Despite this iconic status the radiation has not yet been subject to detailed genomic investigation. During my PhD I was able to demonstrate excessive amounts of parallel adaptation among the transcriptomes of speci",{"id":541,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":542,"piName":14,"institution":543,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":544},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066898","STUCCO. Stuccoes from the Roman necropolises of Pozzuoli (1st-3rd century CE, Campania, Italy)","UNIVERSITE PARIS NANTERRE","The STUCCO project deals with the exceptional stucco decorations (lime and marble powder) from the Roman necropolises of Puteoli (1st-3rd century CE)- an important city of ancient Italy - which were removed in the 17th-18th century and bought by collectors: 70 stucco bas reliefs are nowadays preserved in the collections of the greatest European museums. STUCCO aims to 1) study the craftsmanship of the Pozzuoli (current name) workshops, 2) acquire data on the iconography in order to add a chapter",{"id":546,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":547,"piName":14,"institution":193,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":548},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066032","Mass spectrometry assisted sustainable green approaches for food safety and authenticity","The agri-food chain from the original product to its commercialization has thorough controls. Authenticity and food safety are highly supported by protocols and are legislated by different organizations. PlasMOF aims to propose novel cutting-edge solutions based on state-of-the-art mass spectrometry (MS) and novel design materials. The use of novel ionization methods based on dielectric barrier ionization (DBDI) and green sample preparation techniques enhanced by using Metal-Organic Frameworks (",{"id":550,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":551,"piName":14,"institution":552,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":553},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062754","A Theory of Memory Causation","UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES","On the causal theory of memory, remembering an event requires a causal connection to a past experience. I can remember my last birthday because I have experienced it before. On the simulation theory, in contrast, remembering a past event is very much like imagining a future one: in both cases, a causal connection to a first-hand experience of the event is not necessary. The debate between causalists and simulationists has been at center stage in the thriving new field of philosophy of memory. De",{"id":555,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":556,"piName":14,"institution":163,"country":164,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":557},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068428","Modelling and computer simulations of post-release movements of European Lynx species to improve decision-making and success of conservation translocations","Conservation translocations (CT) assist to restore populations of relevant animal species for ecosystem and biodiversity enhancement, such as the two emblematic species of lynx in Europe: the Eurasian and the Iberian lynx. Often, CT show partial success due to multiple environmental and local human factors. Moreover, the selection of release sites is mostly based on expert knowledge and habitat selection analyses of animals in their source environment. Critical to improving release site selectio",{"id":559,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":560,"piName":14,"institution":561,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":562},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068728","Spray-induced gene silencing using bacterial extracellular vesicles for dsRNA delivery to manage fungal diseases in agricultural and forest systems","UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID","Fungal plant diseases are responsible for yield and quality losses in agroecosystems, and also threaten the sustainability of forest ecosystems worldwide. The management of fungal diseases in agroecosystems often relies on the intensive use of chemical fungicides, which have negative impacts on the environment and may lead to the emergence of resistant strains. At the same time, fungal diseases are rarely managed in forest systems due to the scarcity of viable options. Spray-Induced Gene Silenci",{"id":564,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":565,"piName":14,"institution":257,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":566},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068895","Developing near-infrared persistent room-temperature phosphorescence for down-conversion OLEDs","The continuous progress of persistent room-temperature phosphorescence (p-RTP) emitting in near infrared (NIR) with high potential for long-lifetime and flexible optoelectronic applications is spearheaded by the development of novel materials. Much of this interest is also due to the concomitant advantages of the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology. Future OLED displays are envisioned to comprise an additional NIR pixel for imaging and security protocols. Equally such NIR OLEDs can be",{"id":568,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":569,"piName":14,"institution":20,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":570},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066571","A Fast Numerical Solver for Electromagnetic Compatibility Assessment of Aircrafts Made Using Nano- and Micro- Engineered Materials","The electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) certification methods of aircrafts are predominantly based on experimental testing to fulfill some standard (e.g. DO-160). This phase involves costly measurement techniques, and high rework costs are required when EMC weaknesses and vulnerabilities are detected, especially at late development stages. To alleviate this situation, numerical solvers are increasingly considered to complement and support experimental means. Numerical solvers enable the engineer",{"id":572,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":573,"piName":14,"institution":73,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":574},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064614","Beam self-cleaning for spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers","Mode locking (ML) is the most important technique to generate ultrashort laser pulses. Tremendous progress has been made in locking longitudinal modes in lasers with a single transverse mode, e.g., single-mode fiber lasers. Spatiotemporal mode-locking (STML) has been proposed by locking transverse and longitudinal modes in multimode fiber (MMF) lasers to generate ultrafast spatiotemporal pulses, opening new directions in studies of nonlinear wave propagation. Thanks to fiber multimodality, such ",{"id":576,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":577,"piName":14,"institution":578,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":579},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062705","Ancient irrigation detection and analysis using advanced remote sensing methods","Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica","Ancient irrigation systems are probably the first human large-scale landscape modifications. The analysis of the ancient irrigation systems that gave rise to and sustained the first urban civilisations goes well-beyond the study of ancient irrigation to touch topics such as climate change, sustainability, population dynamics, and ancient economy, all at the core of urbanisation as a deeply human phenomenon, perhaps the most important change in the history of humanity.For many decades ancient wat",{"id":581,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":582,"piName":14,"institution":252,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":583},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064763","A circular economy platform for treatment of wastewater by blue green microalgae","Water pollutions and increasing atmospheric CO2 levels are two critical environmental issues causing significant harmful effects on the environment and human health. Biological wastewater treatment using microalgae has been intensively studied in recent years. However, its implementation has been hindered due to challenges associated with the high costs of harvesting and drying steps. Therefore we aimed to design an integrated platform utilizing microalgae with the minimized cost of harvesting w",{"id":585,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":586,"piName":14,"institution":587,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":588},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068156","Beta-Lactamase Inhibitors Synthesised through in Situ click chemistry","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA","Herein, kinetic-guided target synthesis (KTGS) will be used to discover novel boronic acids inhibitors of KPC-2, a clinically relevant serine beta-lactamase, with the aim to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and restore beta-lactams antibiotic activity. Boronic acids transition state inhibitors (BATSIs) have been extensively employed to inhibit beta-lactamases, a class of bacterial enzymes responsible for the most widespread mechanism of AMR against beta-lactam antibiotics. However, the stru",{"id":590,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":591,"piName":14,"institution":592,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":593},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066736","Catalytic Hairpin Assembly-based Point of Need Detection Device for Noroviruses","INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY","CHAMPION aims to develop a rapid, point-of-need (PON) diagnostic kit for the detection of Noroviruses (NoV), one of the leading causes of foodborne infectious disease outbreaks. The main motivations to perform this work is to provide an easy-to-use, economically convenient and standardized NoV diagnostic kit with high specificity and sensitivity Currently, the most effective protocol is the real time PCR (RT-PCR) for  the detection of NoV from food matrices. However, RT-PCR assays are designed f",{"id":595,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":596,"piName":14,"institution":597,"country":598,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":599},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067295","Study of functionalised Pluronic® polymer doping in thermoelectric ionic polymer gels for tuning of ionic Seebeck coefficient and application in harvesting heat to electricity","VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE","CZ","Thermoelectric ionic polymer gel (TEIPG) materials are rising generation of thermal energy harvesting materials which can harvest thermal energy by temperature gradient difference assisted thermo-diffusion of ions within the gel matrix. TEIPGs are claiming a bright future due to wide applications in heat harvesting and powering wearable electronics devices. However, a long way needs to be taken concerning material optimization and structural design to enhance the efficiency of these materials an",{"id":601,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":602,"piName":14,"institution":318,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":603},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068764","Modelling plating morphology in lithium-ion batteries for enhanced safety","EU will aim to have at least 30 million zero-emission vehicles by 2030, primarily powered by the current energy storage technology of choice - lithium-ion batteries. Despite remarkable achievements in developing control strategies over recent decades, many fundamental scientic issues underpinning the safety of these batteries remain elusive, due to a lack of control-oriented models for predicting the internal phenomena that can trigger internal short circuits and the consequent thermal runaway. ",{"id":605,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":606,"piName":14,"institution":193,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":607},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062775","Multidimensional Approaches for Comprehensive Olive Oil Authentication","Virgin olive oil is probably the most representative and iconic component of the Mediterranean diet. No industrial processes or chemicals are added during production, thus providing an extra value reflected in its higher price compared to most edible oils. For this reason, the assessment of the quality, safety and authenticity is of importance from both economic and health perspectives. Considerable effort has been put during the last decades in this direction. Organizations such as the European",{"id":609,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":610,"piName":14,"institution":611,"country":53,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":612},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063722","Machine Learning for Structural Health Monitoring of Cultural Heritage","UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO","Europe is home to about 400 UNESCO world heritage sites and has a growing tourism industry employing many people directly and indirectly. Hence, it is of concern to ensure the cultural heritage (CH) buildings are inspected properly and correct damage diagnosis is performed. Incorrect damage diagnosis will lead to loss of cultural value and may lead to the closing of the monument, thus affecting society in general and the livelihood of people associated with it. The proposed MLCULT project is mot",{"id":614,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":615,"piName":14,"institution":616,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":617},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068861","The evolution of long-necked dinosaurs of Africa before the Cenomanian-Turonian extinction","UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACION A DISTANCIA","The overall research goal of this proposal is to develop a multidisciplinary study of the little known long-necked dinosaurs of North Africa using virtual paleontology techniques (developed in my PhD thesis) histological data on the fossil material, pneumatic apparatus reconstruction and phylogenetic analysis to understand the significance of a range of new species. The project will have a major impact in the fields of paleontology and biology, generating critical new data on the large terrestri",{"id":619,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":620,"piName":14,"institution":501,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":621},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064544","Virus-host interactions in the Baltic Sea","Dr. Bell proposes to work with Prof. Andersson at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, to study VIrus-hoSt Interactions in the BaLtic sEa (VISIBLE). Bacteriophages (bacteria specific viruses) are the most abundant biological entity on the planet, yet we are only beginning to grasp the impact they have upon ecosystem functioning. Using state-of-the-art metagenomics, viromics and bioinformatics, the fellow will uncover novel genomes of virus populations in the Baltic Sea and the prokaryotic ",{"id":623,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":624,"piName":14,"institution":73,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":625},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066209","Posture and bodily movements in the Bible and biblical religions","Postures and movements are relevant for both a linguistic and a socio-anthropological investigation. From a cross-linguistic perspective, verbs of posture and motion show several interesting idiomatic and metaphorical usages, and can be employed to express abstract concepts (e.g., psychological states) and grammatical aspects (e.g., urgency or gradual progression of an action). From a socio-anthropological perspective, posture and body language can express real or assumed power relationships and",{"id":627,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":628,"piName":14,"institution":455,"country":456,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":629},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066185","The biological and social profiles of women in pre-pharaonic Egypt and Nubia (4th–3rd millennium BC): a biocultural approach","WOmen-PRO explores the life course of women in pre-pharaonic Egypt and Nubia, during the transition to complex society. Despite the volume of Predynastic research, women have been noticeably less investigated than men for this period. Therefore, WOmen-PRO's goal is to tackle the research gap on gender in the field, by investigating how this transitional period shaped the social role, identity and life course of women in the sample compared to men. To do so, I apply a cutting-edge, interdisciplin",{"id":631,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":632,"piName":14,"institution":633,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":634},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101060162","Quantum Many-Body Dynamics and Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers: Interconnections, Near-Term Applications, and Novel Simulation Schemes","GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER","Simulating the dynamics of quantum many-body systems is notoriously difficult as the computational requirements grow dramatically with increasing system size. While fully-fledged quantum computing may provide a means to handle this challenge, today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are prone to errors and decoherence. This interdisciplinary project promises significant progress in the understanding of nonequilibrium quantum systems and in leveraging the capabilities of NISQ devic",{"id":636,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":637,"piName":14,"institution":638,"country":639,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":640},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064124","Young planetesimal belts","INSTITUT ZA FIZIKU","RS","Recent discoveries of numerous and diverse exoplanetary systems and their debris discs have revolutionized our understanding of how planets and planetesimals form. One of the exciting recent developments is detection of a large number of young systems which appear to be hosting belts of planetesimals, yet also unexpectedly show high amounts of gas. To explain these observations novel computational models must be developed, which take into account all key physical processes shaping the distributi",{"id":642,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":643,"piName":14,"institution":644,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":645},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066771","Food storage in the late fifth, fourth and third millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA","FoodStore investigates food storage systems in the Northern Fertile Crescent (western inner Syria, south eastern Turkey, northern Iraq) during the late fifth, fourth and third millennia BC, in order to define the relationship between storage practices, socio-economic complexity and ecological conditions. During these millennia, the area experienced different trajectories leading to the emergence of complex societies, and the storage of food staples was central to these developments. The project ",{"id":647,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":648,"piName":14,"institution":649,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":650},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064994","Modeling and forecasting supply networks using functional time series and mathematical programming","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN","In NETOPT, we will develop an innovative high-frequency forecasting model that analyses complex spatial and temporal dynamics in large-scale networks under demand and supply constraints. Using supply networks as an example, NETOPT aims to model and forecast large-scale network flows using a Functional Time Series (TS) and Mathematical Programming (MP) approach. The network model proposed in NETOPT can optimize decision planning and efficient scheduling by reducing financial and technical risks i",{"id":652,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":653,"piName":14,"institution":455,"country":456,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":654},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062984","The role of pentagons in the conversion of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons into fullerenes in the interstellar space","The Unidentified Infrared (UIR) bands are discrete emission features observed in the interstellar medium (ISM), circumstellar regions, galactic and extragalactic sources. The UIR bands are very characteristic for the C=C and C-H vibrational modes of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are thought to occur in the ISM either in the neutral, cationic, protonated, hydrogenated, dehydrogenated or substituted forms. In spite of many theoretical and experimental investigations for several dec",{"id":656,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":657,"piName":14,"institution":658,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":659},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063961","Improving water management in semi-arid regions: Insights in hydrological and environmental controls of lakes using triple oxygen isotopes","UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA","Lakes provide an important water resource for agricultural and industrial purposes, and form a critical habitat for plants and animals. Understanding the hydrological functioning of lakes is fundamental to understand hydrological feedbacks related to changing environmental conditions in the context of current climate change and also of increasing importance for environmental policy. Stable isotope ratios of water (2H\u002F1H, 18O\u002F16O) are widely used in lake hydrology studies, providing information o",{"id":661,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":662,"piName":14,"institution":663,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":664},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063276","Music, Religion and Civic Identity in Renaissance Avignon (c.1500–1630)","UNIVERSITE DE TOURS","This interdisciplinary project will reveal how musical life in Renaissance Avignon (c.1500–1630) was directly interlinked with events happening on a broader religious, social and political level. Alongside being the first in-depth study of Avignon’s musical life during this period, it represents a significant and much-needed departure from the Parisian\u002Froyal court focus that has typified almost all previous scholarship on French Renaissance music. Two fundamental issues will provide the basis fo",{"id":666,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":667,"piName":14,"institution":480,"country":481,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":668},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065356","Elucidating the crosstalk between the immune system and brown adipose tissue in humans","Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a promising therapeutic target to improve cardiometabolic health. However, BAT metabolism is dysfunctional in obesity. Hence, it is highly relevant to ascertain which mechanisms modulate BAT function and how it can be improved in this context.Mice studies indicate that the immune cells-brown adipocytes molecular interactions within BAT modulate its function. Indeed, mice knockout for the transcript Mecp2 in BAT macrophages show impaired BAT function and develop obes",{"id":670,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":671,"piName":14,"institution":672,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":673},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059348","Perception in Action: Neural Dynamics of Sensorimotor Interactions in Touch","KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET","Self-touch is perceived as less intense than physically identical touch from an external source. Current computational theories propose that the brain predicts and dampens the sensory consequences of actions, a phenomenon referred to as sensory attenuation. When prediction mechanisms fail, it can have powerful consequences for perception, from mild perceptual disturbances to more extreme hallucinations and delusions that are characteristic of psychosis-spectrum disorders such as schizophrenia. P",{"id":675,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":676,"piName":14,"institution":677,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":678},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067977","Unravelling the intertwined correlated states of matter in moiré superlattices","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRIESTE","The recent observation of many quantum correlated phases, including superconductivity and correlated insulating states, in twisted bilayers of 2D materials, has sparked tremendous interest and boosted intense research activity to understand these phases. The ability of robustly engineering quantum states of matter with few tunable experimental knobs, e.g. the twist angle between the two 2D materials, represents a major breakthrough of these so-called moiré materials, which started the new field ",{"id":680,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":681,"piName":14,"institution":682,"country":481,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":683},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067269","Chirality based all-optical logic gates","AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR","With the ever-growing demand for carrying and processing data in a fast and efficient way, optical computing and processing methods have become a promising candidate for the next-generation computing and processing applications, due to many advantages, such as high-speed and parallel data processing, compared to their electronic counterparts. In this project, I plan to construct the world first chirality-based all-optical logic gates. The initial plan is to significantly extend the preliminary r",{"id":685,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":686,"piName":14,"institution":687,"country":598,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":688},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062703","Constrained convergence: does pleiotropy constrain convergent alpine adaptation?","UNIVERZITA KARLOVA","Is evolution predictable? In CONstrainCONverge, I aim to understand evolutionary mechanisms governing predictability in adaptive evolution, by asking why some genes are more likely reused by adaptation than others. Despite a rich theoretical background, systematic analysis of the mechanisms underlying convergence is lacking in complex multicellular organisms. That limits application of convergent evolutionary concepts in repeated evolution of socio-economically relevant traits such as resistance",{"id":690,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":691,"piName":14,"institution":692,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":693},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064341","Targeting the interrelation between microglia, neurons, and astrocytes to counteract tau-mediated synaptic impairments and neurodegeneration in AD.","UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE","The overall aim of SynapTau is to evaluate the contribution of microglia on tau-mediated synaptic loss in Alzheimers disease (AD), based on synaptosomal changes, which may help to develop therapeutic strategies against AD. Determining the impact of tau accumulation on synaptic loss is critical since it correlates with cognitive decline in AD. Beyond tau and amyloid- pathologies, gliosis is also an AD hallmark and is thought to play a pivotal role on synaptic loss. Despite the link between tau, s",{"id":695,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":696,"piName":14,"institution":252,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":697},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062428","Developing User-centred Approaches to Technological Innovation in Literary Translation (DUAL-T)","Recent years have seen a growing research interest on the application of translation technology to literary translation workflows, mostly in the form of Machine Translation (MT) or post-editing of MT output. In these studies, literary translators' voices are virtually absent. This project will address the discrepancy between research in Computer Science\u002FAI and Translation Studies, as well as the absence of literary translators from the conversation surrounding technological innovation in their p",{"id":699,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":700,"piName":14,"institution":701,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":702},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062851","Feminist movements responses to the gendered impact of crises (Gender, Resilience and Activism in Crisis Europe)","UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID","The gendered effects of the current pandemic crisis – i.e. how the economic, social, and political problems prompted by the COVID-19 health crisis affect women, men, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex people differently – are amongst the most visible and significant ones, yet continue to be largely underestimated in the mainstream political, policy, and academic debates. Women have and will continue to endure the social, economic and political damage generated by the crisis, due t",{"id":704,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":705,"piName":14,"institution":20,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":706},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101060228","Microbial activity at the Bentonite barrier in a deep geological nuclear waste repository","Management of nuclear waste is a serious worldwide environmental problem all. Deep geological repositories have been internationally proposed as the safest option for the disposal of these hazardous materials. The concept is based on a multi-barrier storage system with waste containers, surrounded by a bentonite buffer buried deeply within a stable geological formation. The bentonite formations in Almeria were characterized as a bentonite buffer reference material. However, few studies have desc",{"id":708,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":709,"piName":14,"institution":79,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":710},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065027","New measurement of ultra-high energy interactions using radio detection of cosmic ray air showers","The Pierre Auger Observatory detects extensive air showers that are initiated by protons or nuclei reaching Earth'satmosphere with energies exceeding 10**18 eV (ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR)). The center-of-mass energy of the initial interaction of the CRs in the atmosphere exceeds the energies reached at the LHC by more than an order of magnitude.One of the key results of Auger is the discovery that these interactions of UHECRs do not behave as expected. Compared to simulations the meas",{"id":712,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":713,"piName":14,"institution":175,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":714},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101058981","Opto-valleytronic moiré polaritons","The emerging field of opto-valleytronics based on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has the potential to revolutionize quantum information processing by enabling all-optical quantum photonic circuits with nonlinear and non-reciprocal devices, such as optical switches and isolators. Such devices are inherently difficult to realize because photons generally do not interact and flow in both directions due to time-reversal symmetry. In this action, I propose to develop nov",{"id":716,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":717,"piName":14,"institution":108,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":718},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068378","Protein-engineering based approach to detect oxidative stress-induced changes in the neuronal proteome","Neurodegenerative disorders are characterised by the progressive deterioration and loss of certain neuronal populations. Distinct clinical features are associated with different diseases, but common fundamental processes have been identified. One example of this is injury via oxidative stress. The production of oxidative species is linked to mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation, which have been demonstrated to occur early in these disorders. Identifying the proteins that are involved in th",{"id":720,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":721,"piName":14,"institution":722,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":723},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067998","Engineering Hybrid Metal Nitrides\u002FCarbon-Atom Wire Novel Materials for high-performance Electrochemical Energy Storage","POLITECNICO DI MILANO","An escalated demand and subsequent high consumption of energy in the coming decades directed toward the development of a suitable energy storage device. Supercapacitor, also known as Electrochemical capacitor, technology steps forward as a promising solution to unlock the capacity of renewable energy exploration. However, the major drawback of supercapacitors is the limited energy density which necessitates further research and development. The performances and potential of supercapacitor techno",{"id":725,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":726,"piName":14,"institution":727,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":728},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067163","Blackness Imagery in the Construction of European Identity\u002Fies: The Case of the Czech Lands in a Transnational Perspective","HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN","This project conceives (self-)Africanisation as a rhetorical strategy of symbolic exclusion of the “other”, despite being European, from Europe by either the voluntary assumption or the imposed ascription of a surrogate identity. Starting from the hypothesis that the cultural, artistic and scientific output of a “non-colonial” nation can also be considered as a form of colonial discourse, this project seeks to  examine Blackness imagery in Czech-German and Czech-French cultural relations and tra",{"id":730,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":731,"piName":14,"institution":732,"country":733,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":734},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067654","Hopes and Futures of Academia: Reimagining Bacon's New Atlantis","NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU","NO","ATLANTIS tackles the multifaceted challenges facing academia today by focusing on alternatives articulated within or at the boundaries of higher education. These challenges are not only practical, but also deeply theoretical and engage fundamental epistemological and ontological discussions about the intertwinedness of science and society, and the knowledge this relation generates. Using Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1626) as a reference point, this project’s ambition is to co-create different n",{"id":736,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":737,"piName":14,"institution":738,"country":456,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":739},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063130","Adipose tissue-Liver Macrophage CrossTalk in NASH and Fibrosis","UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT","Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by hepatic steatosis and damage. This drives liver inflammation, promoting the progression to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver fibrosis. There are currently no approved therapies for NASH and fibrosis, which is in part due to a lack of knowledge of the immunological events underpinning NASH and fibrosis. The pathogenesis of NASH is strongly influenced by crosstalk with other tissues. There is increasing evidence that specif",{"id":741,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":742,"piName":14,"institution":175,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":743},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066396","Autonomous Plasmon-Enhanced Photocatalytic Microrobots Powered by Lorentz Force","The 1966 sci-fi film, Fantastic Voyage, portrayed a scientist who miniaturized a submarine to enter his body to remove a blood clot. It is only recently that scientists have been able to assemble microrobots from scratch to autonomously move and perform complex tasks, such as catching and delivering cargo, and\u002For performing chemical reactions. The bots use energy from their surroundings or from an external stimulus, and turn it into motion. Light-driven motion in photocatalytic robots is excepti",{"id":745,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":746,"piName":14,"institution":747,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":748},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101067180","Theoretical Investigation of Surface Phonon Polariton-Based Quantum Photonic Circuits","UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID","The primary goal of the PhonologiQ research program herein described is to produce a simple and clear set of analytical expressions that detail the dependence of the efficiency of a surface phonon polariton-based integrated quantum photonic circuit on the material and geometric parameters of its nanoscopic components. This research will focus on three primary areas of novelty: 1) incorporating radiation into models of interactions between phononic waveguides and quantum emitters and antennae, 2)",{"id":750,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":751,"piName":14,"institution":752,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":753},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064650","Dependencies and volatility spillovers among carbon, energy, and stock markets in the EU","FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI","The EU is now on course to accomplish its 2020 climate and energy targets, and has finalized the regulatory framework required to attain its 2030 and 2050 emissions reduction goals. The EU Emission Trading System (ETS) was established in 2005 with the objective of limiting global warming and maintaining a balance between economic development and environmental protection. Financial and energy markets are the main driving forces of the prices of the carbon future market. It's also conceivable that",{"id":755,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":756,"piName":14,"institution":757,"country":456,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":758},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063247","Mycobacteriophages to treat tuberculosis - Passed station or future promise?","STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM","The emergence of drug-resistance to tuberculosis (TB) drugs poses an increasing challenge to TB control and new treatment options are urgently needed. Novel or repurposed antibiotics are still being introduced, but this pipeline will dry out in the near future. Bacteriophages are viruses that kill bacteria. They have been used to treat infections before the introduction of antibiotics. With the emergence of drug-resistance there is renewed interest in this ancient treatment option. Clinical use ",{"id":760,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":761,"piName":14,"institution":762,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":763},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066836","Brain Endothelium - TARgeted Gene therapy to improve Aβ clearance in Alzheimer’s Disease","FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA","Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia (60-80% of cases) with a prevalence near 50 million people. There is no cure available and there are only two classes of approved drugs that are effective in treat some of the cognitive symptoms and potentially delay the clinical decline. Despite the considerable progress achieved in the research of best performing disease-modifying agents, the main clinical challenge remains the accomplishment of an efficient and safe therapeutic optio",{"id":765,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":766,"piName":14,"institution":578,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":767},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065142","Networking food plant imports in Roman Italy","The emergence of the Roman Empire marked a series of significant political and socio-economic changes across modern-day Italy as well as across a very large part of modern-day Europe. Among these, the establishment of a new transport network and the development of trade and commerce that this facilitated, was one of the most important and lasting changes. NetFoodIt aims at using imported food plants, for the study of Roman transport and movement and the socioeconomic dynamics that this establish",{"id":769,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":770,"piName":14,"institution":771,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":772},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063539","Rust and Revolution: Understanding Social Technologies in Enlightenment Europe through metaphorology","FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN","This project asks how, if we take rust with its connotations of change and corruption as a starting point, we can return to three very different clusters of phenomena, each of which has been called a Revolution - the Chemical, the French and the Industrial - to understand how texts implicated in each interact. Not only do such texts exchange metaphors which structure thought and concept",{"id":774,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":775,"piName":14,"institution":776,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":777},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064374","Machine-learning-guided design of perovskite lanthanum oxide cathodes for solid oxide fuel cells","FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA EN ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA","Microscale thin-film-based solid oxide fuel cells (μSOFCs) are an emerging alternative for portable power supply due to their high efficiency, fuel flexibility and high volumetric and specific power densities. Promising cathode materials for μSOFCs are perovskite lanthanum-based oxide materials which have improved oxygen transport properties and resistance to the high operating temperatures. However, the physicochemical factors influencing the performance of these materials are yet to be well un",{"id":779,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":780,"piName":14,"institution":687,"country":598,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":781},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062201","The Russian automotive industry 1991-2020","Since the fall of the USSR, the Russian automotive industry has undergone enormous changes. The latter is inextricably linked to Western industrial groups. The present study is designed to examine the transformation of the Russian automotive industry since 1991, specifically taking into account the context of international relations. This project will investigate: the policy of foreign investors in the Russian market, the factors influencing its attractiveness for FDI and the impact of internati",{"id":783,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":784,"piName":14,"institution":785,"country":598,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":786},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066324","effects of Climatic extremes On eCOsystem Stability","CESKA ZEMEDELSKA UNIVERZITA V PRAZE","Ecosystems provide many key services essential for our wellbeing. These services depend on the temporal stability of plant communities. In turn, stability depends on resistance, which is the capacity of plant communities to withstand exogenous perturbations, and on recovery from their impact. Extreme climatic events disrupt the stability of ecosystems, with unpredictable consequences on ecosystem services. As the intensity and frequency of climatic extremes is expected to rise, understanding how",{"id":788,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":789,"piName":14,"institution":790,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":791},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063547","Synthesis of Transition metal dichalcogenides Optimized for MRAMs","FUNDACION IMDEA NANOCIENCIA","Energy use in information and computation technology (ICT) is growing unsustainably. The pandemic has further accelerated this trend: greenhouse gas emissions were lower in 2020 than in 2019 globally (due to overall decreased economic activity) but the increase in demand for digital connection translated in ICT using 8% of the world's electricity  a figure that keeps rising yearly. It is therefore imperative to reduce computing power consumption.Aim of this project is the functionalization of 2D",{"id":793,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":794,"piName":14,"institution":795,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":796},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068871","Synaptic dendritic architecture as a determinant for processing emotional information of opposite value in amygdalar-hippocampal subnetworks","FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA","The ability to form emotional memories of aversive or rewarding stimuli is a crucial ability to determine avoidance or approaching behavior. Recent reports identify specific populations of nThe ability to form emotional memories of aversive or rewarding stimuli is a crucial ability to determine avoidance or approaching behavior. Recent reports identify specific populations of neurons within the basal and lateral nucleus of the amygdala (BLA) and their corresponding projections that are selective",{"id":798,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":799,"piName":14,"institution":252,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":800},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068487","Teaching Greek in Eleventh-Century Byzantium. Schedography and Its Methods","Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar that was popular from the eleventh century to the early modern period. The study of this method enables a better understanding of 1) which kind of Greek was taught and how its teaching was conducted in medieval schools; 2) the influence of school curriculum on writing and reading practices in Byzantium; 3) the purposes of Byzantine education and cultural politics. The existent studies offer sound, but general, overviews and several sch",{"id":802,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":803,"piName":14,"institution":804,"country":481,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":805},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101061173","Fostering Participation Action Research to Develop Online Bereavement Support Application to support Bereaved Parents after a Traumatic Death of Their Child.","TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR","\"After a homicide, suicide, malpractice, or death of a child, there can be terribly deep bitterness and anger at the perpetrator, making the grieving unable to move forward in life when death cannot be accepted (Anna Liisa Aho, 2020). Among all events leading to bereavement, the death of a child is categorized as the most devastating event, leaving bereaved parents with effects on their health, psychology, and social relationships. To date, there is a lack of understanding regarding parental gri",{"id":807,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":808,"piName":14,"institution":809,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":810},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066867","When Biotechnology Meets Chemistry: Metabolic and Chemical Stable Isotope Labelling of RNA Building Blocks for the Modular Synthesis of (2H\u002F13C\u002F15N)-N1-Methylpseudouridine (m1Ψ) compounds","SILANTES GMBH","The development of processes for the utilisation of renewable resources is one of the main challenges of our society. Autotrophic fermentations, in which CO2 is converted into biomass, constitute a strategy towards sustainable carbon-cycle economy. In its cutting-edge research project, SI-MEPSI will combine biotechnological and chemical approaches to create an efficient route from CO2 fixation to the production of fine chemicals. In the first stage, SI-MEPSI will optimise H2\u002FO2\u002FCO2-based autotro",{"id":812,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":813,"piName":14,"institution":732,"country":733,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":814},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063373","Low capillary number flow in phase change porous media: permeability and liquid water capacity of snow.","The effective hydraulic conductivity of snow is highly impacted by its microstructure, introducing a variability of at least three orders of magnitude, impacting seasonal flooding and glacier hydrology. Yet, the mechanisms of unsaturated flow and the impact of local phase transitions have never been investigated at the pore scale. This inhibits improving on the constitutive laws for larger scale models of snow hydrology using upscaling methods. Micro computer tomography is a very effective metho",{"id":816,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":817,"piName":14,"institution":818,"country":819,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":820},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059766","HerInt: Cultural heritage participation patterns among immigrants and their influence on integration.  The case of Ukrainians in Poland and Poles in Norway.","UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI","PL","How do immigrants engage with ancestral and new homeland heritage and what factors stand behind their heritage participation patterns? Can cultural heritage participation facilitate the process of immigrants´ integration, and if so, how? These are the central research questions addressed in this project, which has an ambition to contribute to Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Societies cluster of the Horizon Europe´s second pillar. Public institutions in European countries promote the heritage o",{"id":822,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":823,"piName":14,"institution":738,"country":456,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":824},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062186","AI IN THE LEAD? WHEN, WHY, AND HOW AI LEADERSHIP WILL (NOT) WORK","Millions of employees around the globe work for an AI manager that structures their tasks and monitors their performance. While companies hope that such AI managers will lead to substantial performance benefits, it is critical that AI transits from a bureaucratic manager to an inspiring, transformational leader if companies want employee performance and satisfaction to peak. To date, however, research on the consequences of AI leadership cannot give relevant insights because scholars have studie",{"id":826,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":827,"piName":14,"institution":516,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":828},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065346","Rectifiability and Density in Carnot and Homogeneous Groups, and Applications to Partial Differential Equations","The core of this project is Geometric Measure Theory (GMT) in Homogeneous Groups. The PI suggests exploring exciting original research avenues regarding the interplay between the concepts of flatness, density, and regularity of measures, and their applications to the theory of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) and Free Boundary Problems (FBPs) in non-Euclidean spaces. The projects potential for groundbreaking discovery is achieved by focusing on the investigation of i) the extension of the v",{"id":830,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":831,"piName":14,"institution":832,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":833},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059091","Lower THz rAdio propagation channeL sounding, parameter Estimation and modeliNg Towards 6G and beyond","LUNDS UNIVERSITET","The new lower THz band from 100 GHz to 1 THz is considered as a candidate for 6G and beyond systems towards 2030 that require even larger system bandwidths. As wireless systems must be designed with constraints set by the radio propagation channels, understanding the lower THz channel characteristics is essential for realistic system design and performance analysis of communication, positioning and sensing operating at this band. However, they are almost remaining unknown with a few works report",{"id":835,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":836,"piName":14,"institution":837,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":839},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062923","Optimal Power Conversion and Energy Storage System for Safe and Reliable Urban Air Mobility","AALBORG UNIVERSITET","DK","The research proposal addresses the design challenges in the power conversion and the energy storage systems in the electric aircraft used for urban air mobility (UAM). The success of UAM as an alternate transportation system is strongly dependent on designing the overall system to be safe, efficient and reliable. This proposal focuses on improving the power conversion efficiency and designing a smart wireless battery management system (BMS) with accurate battery state-of-charge (SoC) and state-",{"id":841,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":842,"piName":14,"institution":837,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":843},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062614","A Giant Leap for Keyword Spotting","Speech technologies like keyword spotting (KWS), which is concerned with the detection of keywords from an audio stream comprising speech, are nowadays in vogue thanks to their integration in many electronic devices in order to comfortably interact with them by means of the voice. Despite all the research progress made over the last decades, the performance of speech technologies is still severely degraded when acoustic distortions like background noise or reverberation are present. This can mak",{"id":845,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":846,"piName":14,"institution":847,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":848},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064818","Environmental contexts during the Iberian Neanderthal Extinction: Insight from the ecology of ungulate preys - EnvINExt","UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA","The Middle-Upper Paleolithic (MP-UP) transition is a key period for human evolution, as it corresponds to late Neanderthal’s disappearance and their replacement by Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH), after both species briefly co-occurred. This multifactorial event happened at different spatial and temporal scales across Europe. Climate constitutes a strong driver of species evolution. For Neanderthal, there is no consensus regarding the impact of climate on its disappearance, although it happened",{"id":850,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":851,"piName":14,"institution":852,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":853},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065785","Ecological impacts of floating photovoltaics in lake ecosystems","UNIVERSITE DE TOULOUSE","The need to mitigate the ecological effects of climate change is accelerating the development of renewable energy technologies. Floating photovoltaic systems (FPV) is an important advance of the energy industry and is spreading fast across the globe. A key challenge remains to ensure that climate mitigation strategies are not triggering novel, unexpected and counterproductive impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems that can counterbalance their ecological benefits. FPV can affect lakes’ ecosystem",{"id":855,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":856,"piName":14,"institution":857,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":858},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063496","Hydrogen Storage in Electric Field Responsive Metal Organic Frameworks Studied by Machine Learning Potentials","RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM","Hydrogen storage is a key technological barrier to the development and widespread use of hydrogen energy in transportation, stationary, and portable applications. The safe and efficient storage of H2 is an important and still challenging issue. In this regard, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) possessing large surface areas, a variety of topological\u002Fchemical structures, high porosities, and  high stabilities are considered promising nanoporous materials for gas storage applications. Theoretical st",{"id":860,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":861,"piName":14,"institution":20,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":862},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059332","RRR-XAI: Right for the Right Reason eXplainable Artificial Intelligence","Deep Deep Learning (DL) is a form of machine learning (ML) that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. This hierarchy allows a DL model to learn complicated concepts by building them out of simpler ones. A graph of these hierarchies would be many layers deep, and thus its name. A Deep neural network (DNN) is based on an artificial neural network model, and its core strength is that there is no need for human assistance to formally",{"id":864,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":865,"piName":14,"institution":866,"country":199,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":867},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068306","Upscaling Mixing and Reactive Transport through Random Granular Media","UNIVERSITE DE RENNES","Modeling reactive transport of solutes in aquifers and other porous formations is a field with key applications for a wide range of problems in contaminant transport, soil remediation, subsurface CO2 sequestration and geothermal energy. The wide range of scales at which fluid flows are governed by physical heterogeneities in porous media is a major obstacle in developing practical and accurate reactive transport models. The local mixing process governs (and may limit) the ability of reactants th",{"id":869,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":870,"piName":14,"institution":837,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":871},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068736","Improved SoiL-cable Interaction mooriNG simulaTiONs","Moorings of floating oil and gas (O&G) structures exhibit surprisingly large failure rates. In the O&G industry this problem is simply handled by redundancy in the design. It is unlikely that marine renewables - in order to obtain a competitive levelised cost of energy (LCOE) can afford such redundancy in the mooring design. ISLINGTON has the overall objective to reduce uncertainties in estimated fatigue damage of mooring cables due to soil-cable interaction in the touch down zone (TDZ); and sub",{"id":873,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":874,"piName":14,"institution":875,"country":481,"year":13,"amount":876,"abstract":877},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101086142","FLuorescent nanO-agents for super-Resolution Imaging and seNsing","ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO","€791,200","Since Alzheimer disease (AD) affects up to 50% of individuals above 85, we will witness the three-fold increase in the number of patients by 2050 if no efficient therapy will be found. The FLORIN offers non-invasive real-time monitoring of key mechanisms involved in the AD pathogenesis by avant-garde bioimaging at temporal resolution less than 1 millisecond and spatial resolution 20 - 50 nm combined with the simultaneous all-optical thermal control with 20 mK accuracy. FLORIN relies on three pil",{"id":879,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":880,"piName":14,"institution":881,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":882},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062347","Impact of climate change on zoonotic vector-borne diseases and their potential transmission increase and introduction risk: An innovative approach with a selected disease model","UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA","Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) pose a major threat to the health of societies around the world, with more than 80% of the global population at risk of at least one major VBD. VBDs are particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change, which will affect the distribution of vectors, the spatial and temporal patterns of the diseases vectors transmit, as well as the efficiency and intensity with which vectors transmit pathogens. A climate-driven phenomenon of outbreaks of VBDs, many of them zo",{"id":884,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":885,"piName":14,"institution":886,"country":456,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":887},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101059875","Flying companion for floating litter collection","UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE","Plastic pollution is considered one of the most challenging environmental risks globally, and rivers have been identified as a dominant pathway for the accumulation of plastic in the oceans. The Flyflic (FLYing companion for Floating LItter Collection) project addresses this global challenge by deploying a first-of-its-kind robotic platform composed of multiple unmanned aerial robots to effectively collect litter from rivers and canals, thus preventing such litter from reaching our oceans. Chiar",{"id":889,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":890,"piName":14,"institution":891,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":892},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068203","Thinking Infrastructurally about Business Activities and Economic Value for a Socio-Ecological Transformation","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","More than 70% of global carbon emissions responsible for climate change are nowadays produced by only 100 firms.  This makes transforming corporations towards more sustainable pathways a crucial challenge of today. ReValue explores an innovative approach to meet this challenge, by combining new infrastructural perspectives in legal analysis with philosophy and the use of social science methods.  Until now, the policy and scholarly focus has been placed on setting ambitious carbon-neutrality goal",{"id":894,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":895,"piName":14,"institution":597,"country":598,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":896},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063710","Diaminodicyanoanthroquinodimethanes: Electrically driven molecular micromotors","Electric field-powered Micro\u002FNano motors (e-MNMs) are tiny devices that convert electric energy into mechanical movements. e-MNMs are the potential candidates for the range of applications from physics to biology. Most of the existing e-MNMs have been shown to propel in various fuel media, like H2O2, hydrazine, and hydroquinone, limiting their toxicity applications. The majority of their fabrication processes are expensive, time-consuming, and complicated, highlighting the need for a simple fabr",{"id":898,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":899,"piName":14,"institution":891,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":900},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062473","Finding the Lost Library: Hernando Colón's Dispersed Books Worldwide","The overarching aim of the FILOL project is to track down for the first time the dispersed books from Hernando Colns Universal Library. In the early 16th century, Hernando Coln (1488-1539) established in Seville the first documentation centre in the Western world, in which he aimed to gather copies of every book on every subject in every language. Almost the entirety of his collection was comprised of printed books. Unlike other Renaissance intellectuals, Coln collected not only fine editions bu",{"id":902,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":903,"piName":14,"institution":891,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":904},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063449","To Care Or To Kill: When The Needs Of The Many Outweigh The Needs Of The Few.","As epitomized by epidemics and pandemics throughout human history, including the ongoing SARS CoV-2 pandemic, social life carries risks of substantial and rapid spread of infectious diseases. Termites living in pathogen-rich environments have evolved remarkably robust social immunity mitigation strategies that effectively prevent diseases from spreading within colonies. Individual termites carefully balance whether to care for a sick nestmate and save the colony worker resources, or kill the sic",{"id":906,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":907,"piName":14,"institution":169,"country":170,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":908},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063659","Pregnancy- and Childbirth-Related Media Use to Support Maternal Mental Health","This interdisciplinary research project is situated on the crossroads of womens health and media psychology. The supervisor and the fellow, will combine their expertise to study how exposure to pregnancy- and childbirth-related content on the popular social media platform YouTube can affect pregnancy-related anxiety (PRA). We know from the womens health literature that pregnancy-related anxiety is a serious issue and many pregnant women seek health information online, and we know from the media ",{"id":910,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":911,"piName":14,"institution":891,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":912},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101062721","Structures in Ionized Models of Dusty Protoplanetary Disks","Understanding how planets form in disks around young stars is a fundamental part of astrophysical research. With the advent of the Atacama Large (Sub-)Millimeter Array (ALMA) and other large-scale telescopes and interferometers, the field of planet formation has been transformed by the stunningly complex structures observed in disks around young stars in the solar neighborhood. But at the same time, theoretical models have struggled to explain these observations, in part because many physical pr",{"id":914,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":915,"piName":14,"institution":891,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":916},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065374","Evolution and merger of dynamical assembly black holes in AGN disks","The growing list of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected in gravitational waves (GWs) by LIGO\u002FVirgo, have been used to put tight constraints on Einstein's Theory of Gravity. However, their astrophysical origin still remains a major open question. Recently, active galactic nuclei (AGN) disks have been suggested to be a promising location for forming BBH mergers. In such environments, black holes (BHs) either form in the disk or are captured through gas-drag from the surrounding nuclear star c",{"id":918,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":919,"piName":14,"institution":891,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":920},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101069156","PSEUDOPIN","Pseudouridine () is abundant in major classes of non-coding RNA (ncRNA), including ribosomal RNA, transfer RNA, and spliceosomal RNAs. The Watson-Crick base pairing potential of  is identical to that of uridine, but  may stabilize RNA structures and engage in RNA interactions distinct from those of uridine, probably explaining its requirement for cellular viability. In addition to the many constitutive -sites in major ncRNAs, recent reports have uncovered  induced by specific stimuli or present ",{"id":922,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":923,"piName":14,"institution":682,"country":481,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":924},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101061892","Nanostructures and nanoelectromechanical devices for precise control of topological defects\u002Fmatter in superfluid helium","Since Richard Feynman's famous talk There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom in 1959, the following decades saw the booming of nanotechnology. One of the fields in which nanotechnology can never be ignored is the development of scientific instruments. Scientific instruments based on nanotechnology have revolutionized many research fields. However, using current instruments to study superfluid He is still challenging, especially for the topological defects (TDs) and topological matter (TM) because t",{"id":926,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":927,"piName":14,"institution":891,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":928},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101064250","Recurrent miscarriage as a complex phenotype: Harnessing large-scale clinical data to uncover underlying biological pathways","Recurrent miscarriage (RM) affects 1% of couples trying to conceive and has a wide range of negative physical and mental impacts yet still has few evidence-based, preventative treatments. RM is used as a catch-all term for an event with diverse underlying causes. Broad categorisation hampers research targeting specific causes that could identify potential therapeutic avenues. This generalisation compounds trauma for patients and the path to successful pregnancy is unclear.As a MSCA fellow at the",{"id":930,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":931,"piName":14,"institution":891,"country":838,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":932},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101063285","Hybrid spin-mechanical quantum systems","In the last years the field of optomechanics, which studies the interaction of light with mechanical oscillators, has advanced considerably. Many pioneering experiments have demonstrated the ability to achieve quantum control of meso- and macroscopic systems. However, the intrinsic Gaussian nature of optomechanical systems makes the creation of complex non-classical states of motion challenging. In order to access them a quantum non-linearity, such as an electronic spin, needs to be introduced. ",{"id":934,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":935,"piName":14,"institution":124,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":936},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101066305","Resistance to anti-gender politics: The role of coalitions and affects","Gender and sexuality became highly politicized, especially after the emergence of the first anti-gender campaigns in Europe in the mid-2000s. Mobilisations took place in several countries against sexual and reproductive rights, LGBTQI rights, childrens rights, gender, laws and policies against hate speech and discrimination. While the expanding literature on anti-gender campaigns has allowed us to gain significant insights about the larger political project of those involved, we know less about ",{"id":938,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":939,"piName":14,"institution":732,"country":733,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":940},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101068779","Sustainable Aluminium Reinforced Seawater Concrete","Freshwater is a very precious natural resource and it is widely reported that the world reserve of freshwater is fast depleting. This problem is becoming more complex due to development in infrastructure which is demanding more quantity of concrete and pressurizing freshwater resources. Focusing on this issue, this project utilizes seawater for concreting (mixing + curing) to conserve freshwater resources. But, the corrosion of steel reinforcement is inevitable with the use of seawater (due to c",{"id":942,"funder":18,"programme":8,"title":943,"piName":14,"institution":944,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":945},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-101065967","Towards next Generation UV Optical Waveguides","INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM","Information processing, sensing and life science technologies are currently subject to a revolution driven by integrated photonics that promises high sensitivities and low-power consumption. Photonics based on silicon and silicon nitride cover well the infrared and visible spectrum of light, respectively, and even allow for a low-cost co-integration with complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS) electronics. 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