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The Excellent Science pillar aims to increase the EU’s global scientific competitiveness. It supports frontier research projects defined and driven by top researchers themselves through the European Research Council, funds fellowships for experienced researchers, doctoral training networks and exchanges for researchers through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and invests in world-class research infrastructures

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A new roadmap for an age-inclusive workforce management practice and an international policies comparison

Authors: Niloofar Katiraee, Nicola Berti, Ajay Das, Ilenia Zennaro, Riccardo Aldrighetti, Vlado Dimovski, Darja Peljhan, Debra Dobbs, Christoph Glock, Gail Pacheco, Patrick Neumann, Ami Ogawa, Daria Battini

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Bernadeta Gostautaite, Francesco Lolli, Seyyed Ehsan Hashemi-Petroodi

Published: June 24, 2024
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On elastic deformations of cylindrical bodies under the influence of the gravitational field

Authors: Hamed Barzegar, Piotr T. Chruściel, Elisabeth Steininger

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ilya Svetlizky, Matthew Maitra, Michele BRUN, Robert Beig

Published: December 4, 2024
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Universal mental health training for frontline professionals (UMHT)’s feasibility analysis

Authors: Viktoriia Gorbunova, Vitalii Klymchuk, Philip Santangelo

Funders: Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Kathryn Kanzler, RODOLFO BUSELLI, ling wang

Published: March 21, 2025
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Liquefied capsules containing nanogrooved microdiscs and umbilical cord-derived cells for bone tissue engineering

Authors: Mariana Carreira, Manuel Pires-Santos, Clara R Correia, Sara Nadine, João F Mano

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Jeroen Rouwkema, Mani Diba, Paula Vázquez Aristizabal, Tiziano Serra

Published: September 9, 2024
Systematic Review

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Promoting physical activity and healthy diets by modifying the social and/or physical environment at local level: a scoping review of evidence-based policy actions.

Authors: Elisa Chilet Rosell, Marta Puig García, Blanca Lumbreras, María Pastor Valero, Ildefonso Hernández Aguado, Lucy Anne Parker

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Sven Messing

Published: July 12, 2024
Data Note

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Greenland 2022 GHOST project: Sampling Greenland geothermal springs - expedition report

Authors: Donato Giovannelli, Matteo Selci, Margaret Cramm, James A. Bradley, J. Maarten de Moor, Peter H. Barry, Shaunna M. Morrison, Monica Correggia, Luciano di Iorio, Angelina Cordone, Stefano Caliro, Saemundur A. Halldórsson

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Jaime Alcorta, Jian Gong, Stephen Noell

Published: April 19, 2024
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Orogenic bridge theory: towards a predictive tool for past and future plate tectonics

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Gillian Foulger

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Gabriela Fernandez-Viejo, Juan I. Soto, Laurent Jolivet, Samuel Rybar, Valentin Rime, William Sager, Zhong-Hai Li, zhikun ren

Published: May 23, 2025
Data Note
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Introducing the Democratic Electoral Systems data, 1919-1945

Authors: Nils-Christian Bormann, Lea Kaftan

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Daniela Pastarmadzhieva, Duzgun Arslantas, Pedro Riera

Published: September 6, 2024
Study Protocol

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Industry 5.0 concepts and enabling technologies, towards an enhanced conservation practice: systematic literature review protocol

Authors: Alejandro Jiménez Rios, Margarita L. Petrou, Rafael Ramirez, Vagelis Plevris, Maria Nogal

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: James Hutson, Stacy Vallis

Published: April 18, 2024
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The Mousterian in North-Western Tuscany: publishing fieldwork documentation leads to a new stratigraphical interpretation of the Piano di Mommio sites

Authors: Jacopo Gennai

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Juan Manuel Jiménez Arenas, Kévin Di Modica, Marko Banda, Paolo Biagi

Published: June 21, 2024
Brief Report
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Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison

Authors: Johann-Mattis List, Nathan W. Hill, Frederic Blum, Cristian Juárez

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ander Egurtzegi, Erich Round, Ewan Dunbar, Jelena Prokic, Stephen Bothwell, Susanto Susanto, Wei Zhao

Published: August 20, 2024
Software Tool Article
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The NOMAD mini-apps: A suite of kernels from ab initio electronic structure codes enabling co-design in high-performance computing

Authors: Isidre Mas Magre, Rogeli Grima Torres, José María Cela Espín, José Julio Gutierrez Moreno

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ernesto Dufrechou, Jerzy Proficz, Sarah Neuwirth

Published: April 10, 2025
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Caledonian reactivation and reworking of Timanian thrust systems and implications for latest Mesoproterozoic to mid-Paleozoic tectonics and magmatism in northern Baltica

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Eirik Stokmo

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Ed Landing, Gustavo Martins, Wenjiao Xiao, simon stewart

Published: October 15, 2024
Essay
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Positionality statements in science

Authors: Veli-Matti Karhulahti

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ingo Rohlfing, Nicki Lisa Cole

Published: June 21, 2024
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Hard Candy Production and Quality Parameters: A review

Authors: Baris Ozel, Sena Kuzu, Mehmet Ali Marangoz, Sarper Dogdu, Robert H. Morris, Mecit H. Oztop

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Diana Lo, Indri Juliyarsi

Published: March 26, 2024
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Natural sea water and artificial sea water are not equivalent in plastic leachate contamination studies

Authors: Clemens Vinzenz Ullmann, Maria Ina Arnone, Eva Jimenez-Guri

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Amitava Mukherjee, Atsuko Sato, Seren Acarer Arat

Published: October 17, 2024
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Diriliş: Resurrection theme in the populist regime of ‘New Turkey’

Authors: Hazal Aydin

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Nazlı Özkan, Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay

Published: March 20, 2024
Software Tool Article
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Alrecon: computed tomography reconstruction web application based on Solara

Authors: Gianluca Iori, Philipp Hans, Ibrahim Foudeh, Mustafa Alzu’bi, Malik Al Mohammad, Salman Matalgah

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Chang-Chieh Cheng, Edoardo Pasca - STFC UKRI Pasca, LUISA VIGORELLI, Tristan van Leeuwen, Vania V. ESTRELA, Viktor Nikitin

Published: May 28, 2024
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Spectra without stories: reporting 94% dark and unidentified ancient proteomes

Authors: Yun Chiang, Frido Welker, Matthew James Collins

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Glendon Parker, Timothy Cleland, Virginia Harvey

Published: April 15, 2024
Method Article
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Chlorophyll-a determinations in mesocosms under varying nutrient and temperature treatments: in-situ fluorescence sensors versus in-vitro measurements

Authors: Eti Ester Levi, Erik Jeppesen, Jens C. Nejstgaard, Thomas Alexander Davidson

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Catherine Schmechtig, Kaisa Kraft, Karsten RINKE, Marju Tamm, Michela Rogora, Tammi Richardson

Published: February 13, 2025
Open Letter

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CO 2 emissions: A challenge but also a big opportunity for Spain

Authors: Paolo Dessi, Teresa Bosch-Vilardell, Sebastià Puig

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Paniz Izadi, Pedro Linares

Published: April 12, 2024
Research Article

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Social Embeddings: Concept and Initial Investigation

Authors: Séverin Lemaignan, Antonio Andriella, Lorenzo Ferrini, Luka Juricic, Youssef Mohamed, Raquel Ros

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Carlo Mazzola, Tatjana A. Nazir

Published: April 11, 2024
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The release of host-derived antibodies bound to the variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) of Trypanosoma brucei cannot be explained by pH-dependent conformational changes of the VSG dimer

Authors: Patrick Eirich, Pavel Nesterov, Sergey Shityakov, Ekaterina V. Skorb, Bodo Sander, Jens Broscheit, Thomas Dandekar, Nicola G. Jones, Markus Engstler

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Monica Mugnier, Rajender Kumar

Published: April 24, 2024
Study Protocol

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Archaeological evidence of resource utilisation of walrus, Odobenus rosmarus, over the past two millennia: A systematic review protocol

Authors: Danielle L. Buss, Katrien Dierickx, Mohsen Falahati-Anbaran, Deirdre Elliot, Lisa K. Rankin, Peter Whitridge, Brenna Frasier, Jean-Simon Richard, Youri van den Hurk, James H. Barrett

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Aikaterini Glykou, Jeff Higdon

Published: April 24, 2024
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Advancements in integrated robotic sensing: A European perspective

Authors: Carmelo Mineo

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Hamidreza Nemati, Morteza Tabatabaeipour

Published: July 2, 2024