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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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Machine Learning Inspired Nanowire Classification Method based on Nanowire Array Scanning Electron Microscope Images

Authors: Enrico Brugnolotto, Preslav Aleksandrov, Marilyne Sousa, Vihar Georgiev

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

Peer reviewers: Chen Luo, Jin Chang, Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir, Ning Yu

Published: June 28, 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
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The lure of the foreign stage: Chronicles of Italian mobility to France in the long eighteenth century

Authors: Elisa Cazzato

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

Peer reviewers: Bruno Forment, Elena Mazzoleni, Tatiana Korneeva

Published: February 22, 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
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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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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
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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
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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
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Universal mental health training for frontline professionals: evaluation of pilot trial in Ukraine

Authors: Viktoriia Gorbunova, Vitalii Klymchuk, Nataliia Portnytska, Olha Savychenko, Iryna Tychyna, Georges Steffgen

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

Peer reviewers: Joerg Fegert, Monica Georgiana Brînzac, Roberto Mediavilla

Published: June 13, 2024
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Comparison of radiant intensity in aqueous media using experimental and numerical simulation techniques

Authors: Adithya Pai Uppinakudru, Cintia Casado, Ken Reynolds, Simon Stanley, Cristina Pablos, Javier Marugán

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

Peer reviewers: Jorge Garcia-Marquez, Sainath Waghmare, Wenjun Ge

Published: October 18, 2024
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Controlling the environment with Artificial Intelligence risks intensifying social inequalities and colonization

Authors: Ingrid CAMPO RUIZ

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

Peer reviewers: Loveleen Gaur, Ross Boyd

Published: January 11, 2024
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Genealogy, critique, and decolonisation: Ibn Khaldun and moving beyond filling the gaps

Authors: Sertaç Sehlikoglu

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

Peer reviewers: Alaka Wali, Karen Sykes, Patrícia Ferraz de Matos, Stephen Campbell, gennaro ascione

Published: May 16, 2025
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Modelling the Archipelago: Corfu as a Case Study for a Digital Edition of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum

Authors: Benedetta Bessi, Daniele Fusi

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

Peer reviewers: Anna Foka, Eleni-Melina Tamiolaki, Elton Barker, Emeri Farinetti, Eric Poehler

Published: January 8, 2024
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Threshold studies for a hot beam superradiant laser including an atomic guiding potential

Authors: Martin Fasser, Christoph Hotter, David Plankensteiner, Helmut Ritsch

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Dylan Young, Fabian Finger, Stuart Masson, Tiantian Shi

Published: January 8, 2024
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A novel and advanced control method based on Fuzzy-PI for joint wear simulators

Authors: Kaushikk Ravender Iyer, David Keeling, Richard M Hall

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

Peer reviewers: Minos Niu, Nasir awad

Published: January 8, 2024
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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
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COVID-19 and (ir)responsible (im)mobility: Reading counter-practices through Levinas and Derrida

Authors: Raffaela Puggioni

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

Peer reviewers: Arleen Ionescu, Carina van de Wetering, Gaja Maestri

Published: October 7, 2024
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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
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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
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Inter-array cabling optimization in offshore wind power plants, a new reliability indicator for radial grids

Authors: Ramon Abritta, Alexey Pavlov, Damiano Varagnolo, Børre Tore Børresen

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

Peer reviewers: Georgios Fotis, Miftahul Fikri, Xinwei Shen

Published: May 28, 2024
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Key opinion shapers’ perceptions of climate migration: Why and how to put climate justice at the centre of climate change education.

Authors: Maria Sakellari

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

Peer reviewers: Laurie Parsons

Published: December 1, 2023
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Understanding the influence of swarming timing on the dispersal of Ostrea edulis larvae in the Northern Adriatic Sea

Authors: Camilla Bertolini, Roberto Pastres

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

Peer reviewers: Ane Pastor, Tomislav Džoić

Published: November 28, 2023
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Inadequate Social Housing and Health: The Case of Oliver Bond House, The Liberties, Dublin

Authors: Lidia Katia C. Manzo, Hannah Grove

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

Peer reviewers: Declan Redmond, Erin Ruel, Nicholas Pleace, Roberta Cucca

Published: March 13, 2024
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Barriers and facilitators to older adults’ acceptance of camera-based active and assisted living technologies: a scoping review protocol

Authors: Natalie An Qi Tham, Anne-Marie Brady, Martina Ziefle, John Dinsmore, visuAAL - Privacy-Aware and Acceptable Video-Based Technologies and Services for Active and Assisted Living

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

Peer reviewers: Ashish Patel, Bruna Maria Vittoria Guerra, Wei Qi Koh

Published: November 24, 2023