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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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Matching cities by their climate change measures and blockages profile for mutual-learning.

Authors: Fred Sanders, Claudia Oliveira

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

Peer reviewers: Emilio Laino, Halvor Dannevig, João Dias, Peter Eckersley, Tineke van der Schoor

Published: July 29, 2024
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Single-cell imaging and transcriptomic analyses of firm adhesion between patient-derived cancer and endothelial cells under shear stress

Authors: Camilla Cerutti, Lucilla Luzi, Giulia De Michele, Valentina Gambino, Enrica Migliaccio, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci

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

Peer reviewers: Hongyi Liu, Jun Nakayama

Published: July 17, 2023
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WALIS dashboard: An online tool to explore a global paleo sea-level database

Authors: Sebastián Garzón, Alessio Rovere

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

Peer reviewers: Jennifer Walker, Jessica Creveling, Selasi Avornyo, Stephen Chua

Published: March 1, 2024
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VISproPT: A high-precision instrument for 3D shape analysis of parabolic trough panels

Authors: Marco Montecchi, Giuseppe Cara, Arcangelo Benedetti

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Ibrahim Yilmaz, Jesús FERNÁNDEZ-RECHE, Qiliang Wang

Published: November 28, 2023
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A survey of security, privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain.

Authors: Sharifah Yaqoub Fayi, Zhengguo Sheng

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

Peer reviewers: Marco Gramaglia, Omprakash Kaiwartya

Published: October 25, 2023
Research Article

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Exiled lives on the stage: Support networks and programs for artists at risk from Turkey in Germany

Authors: Pieter Verstraete

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

Peer reviewers: Deniz Başar, Kerem Oktem, Özlem Savas

Published: July 6, 2023
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Early medieval vernacular Celtic glosses: originals or translations? A case study on the Vienna Bede

Authors: Bernhard Bauer

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

Peer reviewers: Aaron Griffith, Chantal Kobel, Pádraic Moran

Published: March 6, 2024
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Ergolide mediates anti-cancer effects on metastatic uveal melanoma cells and modulates their cellular and extracellular vesicle proteomes

Authors: Husvinee Sundaramurthi, Valentina Tonelotto, Kieran Wynne, Fiona O'Connell, Eve O’Reilly, Marcel Costa-Garcia, Csenger Kovácsházi, Marzia Pendino, Agnes Kittel, Simone Marcone, Alfonso Blanco, Eva Pallinger, Szabolcs Hambalkó, Jose Maria Piulats Rodriguez, Péter Ferdinandy, Jacintha O'Sullivan, David Matallanas, Lasse D. Jensen, Zoltán Giricz, Breandán N. Kennedy

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

Peer reviewers: Alexandre Moulin, Shivani Malpotra

Published: November 13, 2023
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scikit-matter : A Suite of Generalisable Machine Learning Methods Born out of Chemistry and Materials Science

Authors: Alexander Goscinski, Christian A. Jorgensen, Victor Paul Principe, Guillaume Fraux, Sergei Kliavinek, Benjamin Aaron Helfrecht, Rhushil Vasavada, Philip Loche, Michele Ceriotti, Rose Kathleen Cersonsky

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

Peer reviewers: Andrew Rosen, Brian DeCost, Ekaterina Pas, Robert Meißner

Published: December 26, 2025
Case Study

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Organising the self-employed: combining community unionism, coworking and cooperativism across contexts

Authors: Frederick Harry Pitts, Paolo Borghi, Annalisa Murgia

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

Peer reviewers: Aurora Trif, Flora Bajard, Nathan LILLIE

Published: May 16, 2023
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Dynamics of single mothers’ semantic strategies in Anglophone non-fiction

Authors: Dmitrii Sergeev

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

Peer reviewers: Jai Mackenzie, Sucharita Sarkar, Valerie Renegar

Published: August 8, 2023
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Food shaped photosynthesis: Photophysiology of the sea slug Elysia viridis fed with two alternative chloroplast donors

Authors: Luca Morelli, Paulo Cartaxana, Sónia Cruz

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

Peer reviewers: Rachael Wade, Yoichi Yusa

Published: March 13, 2024
Data Note
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Euclide, the crow, the wolf and the pedestrian: distance metrics for linguistic typology

Authors: Matías Guzmán Naranjo, Gerhard Jäger

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

Peer reviewers: Dan Dediu, Ezequiel Koile, Francesca Di Garbo

Published: July 2, 2024
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A feasibility study for a unified, multimodal analysis of online information foraging in health-related topics

Authors: Szilvia Zörgő, Gjalt-Jorn Peters, Anna Jeney, David Williamson Shaffer, Andrew R. Ruis, Rik Crutzen

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

Peer reviewers: Ljerka Luić, Seung Lee

Published: March 6, 2024
Data Note
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Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages

Authors: Yunfan Lai, Johann-Mattis List

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

Peer reviewers: Alexis Michaud, Mark Alves, Norihiko Hayashi

Published: October 18, 2023
Research Article

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Investigating antiquities trafficking with generative pre-trained transformer (GPT)-3 enabled knowledge graphs: A case study

Authors: Shawn Graham, Donna Yates, Ahmed El-Roby

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

Peer reviewers: Dante ABATE, Martin Berger

Published: June 20, 2023
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Experiences with a training DSW knowledge model for early-stage researchers

Authors: Marie-Dominique Devignes, Malika Smaïl-Tabbone, Hrishikesh Dhondge, Roswitha Dolcemascolo, Jose Gavaldá-García, R. Anahí Higuera-Rodriguez, Anna Kravchenko, Joel Roca Martínez, Niki Messini, Anna Pérez-Ràfols, Guillermo Pérez Ropero, Luca Sperotto, Isaure Chauvot de Beauchêne, Wim Vranken

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

Peer reviewers: Christine Kirkpatrick, Fotis Psomopoulos, Natalie Meyers, Rob Hooft

Published: June 19, 2023
Open Letter

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Patient and community engagement in clinical platform trials

Authors: Hannes Jarke, Claas Röhl, Annekatrin Krause, Mathieu Boudes, Fiona Greenhalgh

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges, Science with and for Society

Peer reviewers: Douglas Fernald, Teresa Finlay

Published: May 3, 2023
Open Letter

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The ERC PuppetPlays project: contribution for a non-linear history of the European theatre

Authors: Didier Plassard

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

Peer reviewers: Nancy Delhalle, Stefano Locatelli, tiffany stern

Published: May 2, 2023
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The Heritage Digital Twin: a bicycle made for two. The integration of digital methodologies into cultural heritage research

Authors: Franco Niccolucci, Béatrice Markhoff, Maria Theodoridou, Achille Felicetti, Sorin Hermon

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Livio DE LUCA, Silvana Bruno

Published: April 28, 2023
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Automated news in practice: a cross-national exploratory study

Authors: Samuel Danzon-Chambaud

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

Peer reviewers: Julian Maitra, Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel

Published: November 1, 2023
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Standard operating procedure for the analysis of major ions in hydrothermal fluids by ion chromatography

Authors: Monica Correggia, Luciano Di Iorio, Alessia Benedicta Bastianoni, Mustafa Yucel, Angelina Cordone, Donato Giovannelli

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

Peer reviewers: Dzenita Kasapovic, Juris BURLAKOVS, Łukasz Nuckowski

Published: July 29, 2024
Case Study
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Playing with the cultural pilgrimage to stimulate tourism: the xFORMAL project on cultural heritage and informal learning.

Authors: Anna Siri, Annalisa Di Nuzzo, Simona Marchesini

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

Peer reviewers: Chiara Cecalupo, Estefanía López Salas, Piera Buonincontri

Published: August 13, 2024
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Thickening the border: a transnational sovereign assemblage and the privatization of sovereignty

Authors: Sara Riva

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

Peer reviewers: Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Martin Klatt

Published: June 12, 2023
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Interspecific competition affects spore germination and gametophore development of mosses

Authors: Jingmin Cheng, Isidora Lončarević, Nils Cronberg

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

Peer reviewers: Jennifer Rowntree, Linda Fuselier, Marko Sabovljevic, Maxine Watson

Published: January 22, 2024