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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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The myth of the De Geer Zone: a change of paradigm for the opening of the Fram Strait

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

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

Peer reviewers: Filippo Carboni, Peter D Clift, TUNCAY TAYMAZ, Uri Schattner

Published: March 17, 2025
Research Article

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Textual heritage and digital archives – the case of the Hyakugo Archive in Kyoto

Authors: Edoardo GERLINI

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

Peer reviewers: David Harvey, Hideaki AKAMATSU, Titia van der Werf

Published: December 20, 2023
Brief Report
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Mapping secondary data gaps for social simulation modelling: A case study of the journeys of Syrian asylum seekers to Europe

Authors: Sarah Nurse, Martin Hinsch, Jakub Bijak

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

Peer reviewers: Alejandra Rodríguez Sánchez, Alireza Jahani, Denis Kierans, Edgar Scrase

Published: October 7, 2024
Essay
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Translation Notes: Heidegger, Derrida, and the Chance for (a) Philosophy

Authors: Elena Nardelli

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

Peer reviewers: Aaron Turner, Douglas Robinson, Mette Lebech, Richard Polt

Published: May 28, 2024
Case Study

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Women and Power in Zimbabwe: The Need for Feminist Approaches in Considerations of Political Elites

Authors: Norita Mdege

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

Peer reviewers: Kim Barker, Tendai Mangena, mandiedza parichi

Published: January 17, 2024
Open Letter

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Belowground carbon transfer across mycorrhizal networks among trees: Facts, not fantasy

Authors: Tamir Klein, Ido Rog, Stav Livne-Luzon, Marcel G.A. van der Heijden, Christian Körner

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

Peer reviewers: David Perry, Jason Hoeksema, Marc-André SELOSSE

Published: October 3, 2023
Essay

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“You left a void that we will never be able to fill”: The legacy of Edmond Amran El Maleh in a contemporary Moroccan novella

Authors: Fernanda Fischione

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

Peer reviewers: Cristina Dozio, Richard Ajah

Published: September 29, 2023
Data Note

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Data Note: The Digital Ludeme Project Database

Authors: Cameron Browne, Matthew Stephenson, Walter Crist

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

Peer reviewers: Aris Politopoulos, Jorge Nuno Silva

Published: September 28, 2023
Research Article

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Measuring data access and re-use in the European Legal Framework for Data, from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law to the Proposed Data Act: the case of vehicle data

Authors: Tommaso Crepax, Mitisha Gaur, Barbara da Rosa Lazarotto

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

Peer reviewers: Chiara Gallese Nobile, Marco De Vincenzi, Md. Toriqul Islam, Stergios Aidinlis

Published: November 7, 2023
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Fabrication of hydrogel mini-capsules as carrier systems

Authors: Elisa Roberti, Gaia Petrucci, Francesco Bianciardi, Stefano Palagi

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

Peer reviewers: Bradley NELSON, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Minsoo Kim, Samuel Stealey, Sudhir Warkar

Published: July 25, 2025
Review

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Lab-on-chip (LoC) application for quality sperm selection: An undelivered promise?

Authors: Shiva K Shukla, Pierre Gaudriault, Antoni Corbera

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

Peer reviewers: Abhijit Majumder, David Martín Hidalgo, Natan Shaked

Published: October 30, 2023
Software Tool Article
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PyFMLab: Open-source software for atomic force microscopy microrheology data analysis

Authors: Javier López-Alonso, Mar Eroles, Sébastien Janel, Massimiliano Berardi, Jean-Luc Pellequer, Vincent Dupres, Frank Lafont, Felix Rico

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

Peer reviewers: Mi Li, Stylianos - Vasileios Kontomaris

Published: July 24, 2024
Research Article

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Out-of-plane performance of structurally and energy retrofitted masonry walls: geopolymer versus cement-based textile-reinforced mortar combined with thermal insulation

Authors: Szymon Cholostiakow, Ioanna Skyrianou, Lampros Koutas, Christos Papakonstantinou

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

Peer reviewers: Dionysios BOURNAS, Jitong Zhao, MOHANA R, Veerabhadragouda B. Patil

Published: October 30, 2023
Open Letter

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Establishing a national research software award

Authors: Isabelle Blanc Catala, Roberto Di Cosmo, Mathieu Giraud, Daniel Le Berre, Violaine Louvet, Sophie Renaudin, College of experts for source code and software Committee for Open Science

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Karthik Ram

Published: October 25, 2023
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Boundaries of the built environment: defining the significance of the material presence of spatial morphology in social life

Authors: Benjamin N. Vis

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

Peer reviewers: Heike Delitz, Karl Kropf, OLUWAGBEMIGA PAUL AGBOOLA

Published: June 10, 2024
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Exploring the potential of blockchain technology for citizen engagement in smart governance

Authors: Niccolò Testi, Rebecca Marconi, Edna Pasher

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

Peer reviewers: Evrim Tan, Gasim Alandjani, J Ebenesar Anna Bagyam, Negar Noori

Published: January 3, 2025
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Promising images of love: a qualitative-ethnographic study about the mediatised memories of weddings

Authors: Marie-Therese Mäder

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

Peer reviewers: Ilya Parkins, Julia Carter, Matt Wade, Tal Morse, marc ouellette

Published: December 5, 2024
Software Tool Article
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A search tool based on language modelling developed for The Index of Middle English Prose

Authors: Alpo HONKAPOHJA, Jacob Thaisen, Anders Nøklestad

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

Peer reviewers: Cristina Marras, Ondřej Tichý

Published: March 11, 2024
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Talent has no race, has no face - but it has a skin colour: The ‘appropriate femininity’ with the case of Kurdish-Swedish Actress Evin Ahmad

Authors: Özlem Belçim Galip

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

Peer reviewers: NECLA Acik, Stéphane Narcis

Published: November 10, 2023
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Implications of Timanian thrust systems in the Barents Sea and Svalbard on using paleontological constraints for plate tectonics reconstructions

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

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

Peer reviewers: Alexandre Kounov, Alfonsa Milia, Esther Izquierdo

Published: July 12, 2024
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Quasi-static and dynamic mechanical properties of a linoleic acid-modified, low-modulus bone cement for spinal applications

Authors: Salim Ghandour, Iain Christie, Caroline Öhman Mägi, Cecilia Persson

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

Peer reviewers: Jakub Szabelski, Marcin Wekwejt

Published: May 21, 2024
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Open Problems in Computational Historical Linguistics

Authors: Johann-Mattis List

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

Peer reviewers: Jeff Good, John Nerbonne, Michael Pleyer, Siva Kalyan, Thomas Brochhagen

Published: May 29, 2024
Study Protocol

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Protocol for a web survey experiment studying the feasibility of asking respondents to capture and submit photos of the books they have at home and the resulting data quality

Authors: Patricia A. Iglesias, Melanie Revilla, Birgit Heppt, Anna Volodina, Clemens Lechner

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

Peer reviewers: Berislav Žmuk, Ioannis Andreadis, Tarek Al Baghal

Published: November 20, 2023
Method Article
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Practical guidelines for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

Authors: Joëlle Barido-Sottani, Orlando Schwery, Rachel C. M. Warnock, Chi Zhang, April Marie Wright

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

Peer reviewers: Bruna M. Farina, Daniel Casali, David Černý, Grégoire Clarté, Peter Beerli, Sungsik Kong, Zhirui Hu

Published: October 13, 2026
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Surveys on migration aspirations, plans and intentions: a comprehensive overview

Authors: Mathilde Bålsrud Mjelva, Jørgen Carling

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

Peer reviewers: Anita Brzozowska, Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Ilse Ruyssen, Luděk Jirka, Sandra Morgenstern

Published: September 11, 2023