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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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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
Case Study
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) Science: Planetary and Cometary Atmospheres

Authors: Martin Cordiner, Alexander Thelen, Thibault Cavalie, Richard Cosentino, Leigh N. Fletcher, Mark Gurwell, Katherine de Kleer, Yi-Jehng Kuan, Emmanuel Lellouch, Arielle Moullet, Conor Nixon, Imke de Pater, Nicholas Teanby, Bryan Butler, Steven Charnley, Stefanie Milam, Raphael Moreno, Mark Booth, Pamela Klaassen, Claudia Cicone, Tony Mroczkowski, Luca Di Mascolo, Doug Johnstone, Eelco van Kampen, Minju Lee, Daizhong Liu, Thomas Maccarone, Amelie Saintonge, Matthew Smith, Sven Wedemeyer

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

Peer reviewers: Andrey Baryshev, Hideo Sagawa, Kaustubh Hakim, Takahiro Iino

Published: December 12, 2024
Method Article
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Oriented artificial nanofibers and laser induced periodic surface structures as substrates for Schwann cells alignment

Authors: Sebastian Lifka, Cristina Plamadeala, Agnes Weth, Johannes Heitz, Werner Baumgartner

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Harald Luksch, Sandra VIEIRA, Tak Ho Chu

Published: October 22, 2024
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Determinants of screening participation of disadvantaged populations in France: a qualitative study

Authors: Alice Le Bonniec, Amandine Andrin, Alexandra Lelia Dima, Laurent Letrilliart

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

Peer reviewers: Angela Hassiotis, Emma Parry, Hollyanna Wilson, johann cailhol

Published: October 17, 2026
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
Research Article

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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
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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
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
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
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
Research Article
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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
Brief Report

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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
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
Review

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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
Essay

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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
Case Study

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The Value of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Human Geography and Bioethics

Authors: Daniel P. Jones, Kristien Hens

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

Peer reviewers: Michiel De Proost, Søren Holm, Tomasz Zuradzki

Published: March 4, 2024
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Linking the ECRIN Metadata Repository with the BBMRI-ERIC Directory to connect clinical studies with related biobanks and collections

Authors: Christian Ohmann, Steve Canham, Kurt Majcen, Vittorio Meloni, Luca Pireddu, Alessandro Sulis, Giovanni Delussu, Francesca Frexia, Petr Holub

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Catherine McCarty, Maryam Abdollahyan, VALENTINA COLCELLI

Published: October 7, 2024
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Vitality structures in ‘addictive’ game design

Authors: Veli-Matti Karhulahti

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

Peer reviewers: Charlotte Eben, Max Birk, Sebastian Deterding, Seth Giddings

Published: October 14, 2024
Research Article

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Addressing ocean planning challenges in a highly crowded sea space: a case study for the regional sea of Catalonia (Western Mediterranean)

Authors: Daniel Depellegrin, Stefano Menegon, Andrej Abramic, Simón Aguado Hernandez, Francesca Larosa, Santiago Salvador, Carolina Marti Llambrich

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Aurelija Armoskaite, Humood Naser

Published: March 1, 2024
Research Article

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Integrated coplanar waveguide coil on diamond for enhanced homogeneous broadband NV magnetometry

Authors: Hossein Babashah, Elena Losero, Christophe Galland

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Bing Chen, Jixing Zhang, Suvechhya Lamichhane, Wojciech Gawlik

Published: March 1, 2024