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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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COVID-19 vs. stakeholder engagement: the impact of coronavirus containment measures on stakeholder involvement in European energy research projects

Authors: Diana Süsser, Andrzej Ceglarz, Vassilis Stavrakas, Johan Lilliestam

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

Peer reviewers: Michael Fell, Walter LEAL

Published: October 14, 2021
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What’s Wrong with Democracy? The Peculiar Power of Kratos

Authors: John McGuire

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

Peer reviewers: Fredrik Sixtensson, Vasileios Adamidis

Published: November 28, 2022
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Embodying an artificial hand increases blood flow to the investigated limb

Authors: Giovanni Di Pino, Alessandro Mioli, Claudia Altamura, Marco D'Alonzo

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

Peer reviewers: Henrik EHRSSON, Valeria Peviani

Published: April 21, 2022
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Skilled we-intentionality: Situating joint action in the living environment

Authors: Julian Kiverstein, Erik Rietveld

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

Peer reviewers: Anthony CHEMERO, Glenda Satne

Published: September 27, 2021
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How many online workers are there in the world? A data-driven assessment

Authors: Otto Kässi, Vili Lehdonvirta, Fabian Stephany

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

Peer reviewers: Paola Tubaro, Richard Heeks, Valeria CIRILLO, annarosa pesole

Published: October 15, 2021
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Fewest switches surface hopping with Baeck-An couplings

Authors: Mariana T. do Casal, Josene M. Toldo, Max Pinheiro Jr, Mario Barbatti

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

Peer reviewers: Julia Westermayr, Lluís BLANCAFORT, Sebastian Fernadez-Alberti

Published: March 9, 2022
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Coexistence of chaotic attractor and unstable limit cycles in a 3D dynamical system

Authors: Dana Constantinescu, Gheorghe Tigan, Xiang Zhang

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

Peer reviewers: Regilene Oliveira, Valerij ROMANOVSKIJ

Published: May 17, 2021
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Protecting antiquities in early modern Rome: the papal edicts as paradigms for the heritage safeguard in Europe

Authors: Chiara Mannoni

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

Peer reviewers: Madalena Costa Lima, Stefania Ventra

Published: May 13, 2021
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Direct oligonucleotide sequencing with nanopores

Authors: Sachin Chalapati, Conor A Crosbie, Dixita Limbachiya, Nimesh Pinnamaneni

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Fumihito Miura, Jeff Nivala

Published: August 24, 2021
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Data Management Plans in Horizon 2020: what beneficiaries think and what we can learn from their experience

Authors: Daniel Spichtinger

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Daniel Mietchen, Daniela Hausen, Ron Dekker

Published: February 21, 2022
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Finite difference magnetoelastic simulator

Authors: Frederic Vanderveken, Jeroen Mulkers, Jonathan Leliaert, Bartel Van Waeyenberge, Bart Sorée, Odysseas Zografos, Florin Ciubotaru, Christoph Adelmann

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Greg Carman, Martí Gich, Mathias Weiler

Published: April 19, 2021
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A data processing approach with built-in spatial resolution reduction methods to construct energy system models

Authors: Christian Etienne Fleischer

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

Peer reviewers: Tim Tröndle, William Usher

Published: February 10, 2022
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Do fluorocarbons substantially increase transdermal oxygen delivery? A proof-of-principle study in mice

Authors: Lars Kaestner, Matthias W. Laschke, Thomas John, Christian Wagner, Anna Bogdanova

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

Peer reviewers: Alessandro Santini, Amin Shavandi, Christian Bollensdorff, Michele Samaja

Published: September 30, 2021
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The challenges and considerations for emerging or future entrepreneurial researchers in microphysiological systems

Authors: Francois Taute, Antoni Homs-Corbera, Pierre Gaudriault

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

Peer reviewers: Ignacio Ochoa, John Wikswo

Published: April 19, 2021
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Doctoral Studies as part of an Innovative Training Network (ITN): Early Stage Researcher (ESR) experiences

Authors: Roshni Biswas, Axel Schiller, Chiara Casolani, Elza Daoud, Albi Dode, Eleni Genitsaridi, Laure Jacquemin, Nuwan Liyanage, Matheus Lourenco, Punitkumar Makani, Vinay Parameshwarappa, Constanze Riha, Jose L Santacruz, Maryam Shabbir, Jorge Simoes, Natalia Trpchevska, Stefan Schoisswohl

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

Peer reviewers: John Morrissey, Sioux McKenna

Published: September 6, 2021
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Tower of Babel: transcendental linguistics in Friedrich von Hardenberg’s (Novalis) Fichte Studies

Authors: Alexander Knopf

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

Peer reviewers: Augustin Dumont, Felix Christen, Katie Terezakis

Published: April 1, 2021
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The existential stakes of platform governance: a critical literature review

Authors: Charilaos Papaevangelou

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

Peer reviewers: Joao Carlos Magalhaes, Philip Napoli, Terry Flew

Published: July 1, 2021
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Presence, flow, and narrative absorption: an interdisciplinary theoretical exploration with a new spatiotemporal integrated model based on predictive processing

Authors: Federico Pianzola, Giuseppe Riva, Karin Kukkonen, Fabrizia Mantovani

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

Peer reviewers: Julian Kiverstein, Karl Friston

Published: July 23, 2021
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Protocol for ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS) mutagenesis application in rice

Authors: Rasim Unan, Ilyas Deligoz, Kassim Al-Khatib, Husrev Mennan

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

Peer reviewers: Ashok somalraju, Riana Kleynhans

Published: February 14, 2022
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A genomic exploration of the early evolution of extant cats and their sabre-toothed relatives

Authors: Michael V Westbury, Ross Barnett, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Graham Gower, Filipe Garrett Vieira, Marc de Manuel, Anders J Hansen, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Lars Werdelin, Tomas Marques-Bonet, M Thomas P Gilbert, Eline D Lorenzen

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

Peer reviewers: Daniel Foerster, Manuel J. Salesa

Published: June 21, 2021
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The abTEM code: transmission electron microscopy from first principles

Authors: Jacob Madsen, Toma Susi

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

Peer reviewers: Colin Ophus, Hamish Brown

Published: May 21, 2021
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A Google Earth Engine-enabled Python approach for the identification of anthropogenic palaeo-landscape features

Authors: Filippo Brandolini, Guillem Domingo-Ribas, Andrea Zerboni, Sam Turner

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

Peer reviewers: Richard Boothroyd, Stefano Campana, Tobias Ullmann

Published: September 3, 2021
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Naïve, unenculturated chimpanzees fail to make and use flaked stone tools

Authors: Elisa Bandini, Alba Motes-Rodrigo, William Archer, Tanya Minchin, Helene Axelsen, Raquel Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Shannon P. McPherron, Claudio Tennie

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

Peer reviewers: Jean-Baptiste Leca, Kirsty Graham, Mark Moore

Published: July 15, 2021
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Building a safety buffer for European food security: the role of small-scale food production and local ecological and gastronomic knowledge in light of COVID-19

Authors: Renata Sõukand, Raivo Kalle, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Andrea Pieroni

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

Peer reviewers: Lukasz Luczaj, Mark Nesbitt

Published: October 21, 2021
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Label-free super-resolution imaging below 90-nm using photon-reassignment

Authors: Alberto Aguilar, Adeline Boyreau, Pierre Bon

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

Peer reviewers: Jerome Mertz, Jörg Enderlein, Sophie Brasselet

Published: March 24, 2021