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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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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
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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
Research Article

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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
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Standard Operating Procedure for the determination of trace elements in hydrothermal fluids by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)

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

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

Peer reviewers: Maria Carmen Barciela-Alonso, Zikri Arslan, sadhan deb

Published: July 24, 2024
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A triple helix model for the diffusion of Industry 4.0 technologies in firms in the Marche Region

Authors: Niccolò Testi

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

Peer reviewers: Andrea FERRANNINI, Petrus Letaba

Published: November 23, 2023
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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
Software Tool Article
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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
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
Research Article

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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
Research Article

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Lateral flow immunoassay-based laboratory algorithm for rapid diagnosis of diphtheria

Authors: Vyacheslav G. Melnikov, Anja Berger, Alexandra Dangel, Andreas Sing

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

Peer reviewers: Irina Gladysheva, Louisy Santos, Sylvain Brisse

Published: April 25, 2023
Method Article

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An automated sonic tomography system for the inspection of historical masonry walls

Authors: Javier Ortega, Marnix F.L. Meersman, Sofía Aparicio, Juan Carlos Liébana, Rodrigo Martín, José Javier Anaya, Margarita González

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

Peer reviewers: Jorge GOSALBEZ, Marco Francesco Funari

Published: April 21, 2023
Open Letter
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Foresight in clinical proteomics: current status, ethical considerations, and future perspectives

Authors: Filip Mundt, Nicolai J. Wewer Albrechtsen, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Peter Treit, Medini Ghodgaonkar-Steger, Martina O’Flaherty, Reinout Raijmakers, Juan Antonio Vizcaíno, Albert J.R. Heck, Matthias Mann

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Kellye Cupp-Sutton, Maria Hernandez-Valladares, Nurhan Ozlu

Published: November 1, 2023
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Gaussian process models for geographic controls in phylogenetic trees

Authors: Frederik Hartmann, Gerhard Jäger

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

Peer reviewers: Frederic Blum, Grégoire Clarté, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Thomas Brochhagen, Tiago Tresoldi

Published: January 22, 2024
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Foreign language acquisition of perceptually similar segments: evidence from Lower Sorbian

Authors: Phil J. Howson

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

Peer reviewers: Claire Nance, David Bolter

Published: February 15, 2024
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Developing and testing a protocol using a common data model for federated collection and analysis of national perinatal health indicators in Europe

Authors: Jennifer Zeitlin, Marianne Philibert, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, Marzia Loghi, Luule Sakkeus, Željka Draušnik, Adela Recio Alcaide, Mélanie Durox, Jan Cap, Jelena Dimnjakovic, Janis Misins, Enrique Bernal Delgado, Martin Thissen, Mika Gissler, Euro-Peristat Research Group

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Rema Ramakrishnan, Russell S. Kirby

Published: September 4, 2023
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Prevalence, causes and contexts of childhood overweight and obesity in the Pacific region: a scoping review

Authors: Solene Bertrand-Protat, Juliana Chen, Aurélie Jonquoy, Stéphane Frayon, Si Thu Win Tin, Amerita Ravuvu, Corinne Caillaud, Olivier Galy

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

Peer reviewers: Haley Cash, Marie-Pierre Moisan

Published: November 20, 2023
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Children learn ergative case marking in Hindi using statistical preemption and clause-level semantics (intentionality): evidence from acceptability judgment and elicited production studies with children and adults

Authors: Ramya Maitreyee, Gaurav Saxena, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Dipti Misra Sharma, Pruthwik Mishra, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Soumitra Samanta, Ben Ambridge

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

Peer reviewers: Aaricia Ponnet, Archna Bhatia, Vsevolod Kapatsinski

Published: September 13, 2023
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Systemic treatment with cigarette smoke extract affects zebrafish visual behaviour, intraocular vasculature morphology and outer segment phagocytosis

Authors: Alicia Gómez Sánchez, Patrizia Colucci, Ailis Moran, Alexandro Moya López, Basilio Colligris, Yolanda Álvarez, Breandán N. Kennedy

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

Peer reviewers: Balasubramaniam Annamalai, Ross Collery

Published: November 23, 2023
Open Letter
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The ESCAPE Open-source Software and Service Repository

Authors: Thomas Vuillaume, Mohammad Al-Turany, Matthias Füßling, Tamas Gal, Enrique Garcia, Kay Graf, Gareth Hughes, Mark Kettenis, Dmytro Kresan, Jutta Schnabel, Christian Tacke, Marjolein Verkouter

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Anne Fouilloux, Cristobal Bordiu, Diomidis Spinellis, Kirstie Jane Whitaker, Michael Zingale

Published: November 14, 2023