Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness

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The Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness pillar supports research relating to societal challenges and reinforces technological and industrial capacities through clusters. It sets EU-missions with ambitious goals tackling some of our biggest problems. It also includes activities pursued by the Joint Research Centre which supports EU and national policymakers with independent scientific evidence and technical support.

Open Letter

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BEYOND Guidelines for Preventing and Addressing Research Misconduct

Authors: Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Pooja Aryal, Alina Coman, Keziah Chanyisa Khayadi Dash, Tonje Lossius Husum, Eero Kaila, Erika Löfström, Kalypso Iordanou, Vivian Nchanchou Mbanya, Anni Sairio,, Kadri Simm, Ian Slesinger, Anu Tammeleht

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 12, 2026
Research Article

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Lithium-ion battery degradation mode quantification for 2nd life using half-cell data and machine learning techniques

Authors: Mikel Arrinda, Xabier Picabea, Lukas Haneke, Sotiris Athanasiou, Hartmut Popp, Francisco-Javier Mendez, Elixabete Ayerbe, Izaskun Aizpurua

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 6, 2026
Software Tool Article
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Digital Passport Model Assessment Workbench: SHACL-based assessment, use-case coverage, and integration guidance for digital passport model ecosystems

Authors: Riccardo Boero, Miguel Las Heras Hernández

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Foivos Psarommatis, Pieter Pauwels, Prof. Dr. Omid Fatahi Valilai, Syed Awais Hassan Munawar

Published: September 3, 2026
Method Article
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A lightweight computational method for monitoring lexical response convergence in LLM-based synthetic populations

Authors: Rodrigo Alvarez, Mina Soroberto, Fernando De la Prieta, Mario Cartón

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: AKIN OLUWADAYISI, Oleg Illiashenko

Published: August 8, 2026
Systematic Review
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Factors shaping non-expert trust in AI: A systematic snowballing review of explainable AI design considerations

Authors: Laura Wright, Iker Legarda, Ganix Lasa, Oscar Escallada

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Alexander Hammer, Oluwaseun Olaniyi

Published: September 1, 2026
Essay

Peer review process completed

Arguments for a rhetorical model of the knowledge ecosystems. Interpersonal communication and the intersubjectivity systems

Authors: Codrin Dinu Vasiliu

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Johan Siebers, Michael Kearney

Published: November 11, 2025
Method Article

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Food Microbiome Metabolic Modules (F3M), a tool suite for functional profiling of food microbiomes

Authors: Julien TAP, Nacer MOHELLIBI, Colin TINSLEY, Valentin LOUX, Stéphane CHAILLOU

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 22, 2025
Research Article
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Redefining the concept of interoperability: A multidimensional approach for the energy sector

Authors: Joep van Genuchten, Laia Guitart, Carlos Ayon Mac Gregor, René Kuchenbuch, Thomas I. Strasser

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe, Innovative Europe

Peer reviewers: Amalia Suryani, Tharindu Ranathunga, eric lambert

Published: May 20, 2026
Research Article

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The multifaceted LEGOFIT approach to tackling barriers to energy-positive homes

Authors: G. De Aloysio, L. Laghi, P. Savorani, Ben Alpagut, E. Miguel Mitre, M. Mermertaş, O. Tabanoğlu, Z. Özcan

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Apostolos Vavouris, Temitope Omotayo

Published: April 14, 2025
Research Article

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Home energy optimization using vehicle-to-home

Authors: Shuo Zhang, Sean Byrne, Liam Fennelly, Divyanshu Sood, James O'Donnell, Terence O'Donnell

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Soumia Ayyadi, Weng Kean Yew

Published: February 10, 2025
Systematic Review

Peer review process completed

Systems Leadership: a qualitative systematic review of advice for policymakers

Authors: Paul Cairney, Claire Toomey

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Justin Waring, Richard Bolden, Vesa Koskimaa

Published: January 10, 2025
Brief Report

Peer review process completed

Common errors in Generative AI systems used for knowledge extraction in the climate action domain

Authors: Denis Havlik, Marcelo Rita Pias

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Bo Qin, Stefano Materia

Published: October 16, 2024
Study Protocol
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Determining the relationship between mobile phone network signal strength and radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure: protocol and pilot study to derive conversion functions

Authors: Nekane Sandoval-Diez, Lea Belácková, Adriana Fernandes Veludo, Hamed Jalilian, Florence Guida, Isabelle Deltour, Arno Thielens, Marco Zahner, Jürg Fröhlich, Anke Huss, Martin Röösli

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Dirk Heberling, Leonidas Gavrilas, Pablo-Luis Lopez-Espi, rosa orlacchio

Published: March 31, 2025
Open Letter
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Unmasking metabolic disruptors: The NEMESIS project's quest for Novel Biomarkers, Evidence on Adverse Effects, and Efficient Methodologies

Authors: Henriikka Hakomäki, Sini Pitkänen, Anna-Liisa Levonen, Paavo Honkakoski, Dario Greco, Nicoletta D'Alessandro, Laura Aliisa Saarimäki, Susana Viegas, Cristina Godinho, Nanna Fyhrquist, Emma Wincent, Volker M Lauschke, Janne Hukkanen, Jukka Hakkola, Ludovic Vallier, Vittorio Fortino, Antreas Afantitis, Toshiaki Sawatani, Tereso J Guzman, Miriam Cnop, Tim Nawrot, Sophia Harlid, Marie-Therese Vinnars, Adonina Tardon, Joan O Grimalt, Jenni Küblbeck, Jaana Rysä

Funders: Excellent Science, Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ishfaq Sheikh, Sofie CHRISTIANSEN

Published: December 9, 2025
Brief Report
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Co-designing ab initio electronic structure methods on a RISC-V vector architecture

Authors: Rogeli Grima Torres, Pablo Vizcaíno, Filippo Mantovani, José Julio Gutiérrez Moreno

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ahmed Kamaleldin, Flavio Vella, Keichi Takahashi, Roman Wyrzykowski, William Dawson

Published: September 9, 2025
Research Article
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Navigating the challenges of passenger name record data and the way forward

Authors: Christiana Aposkiti, Freideriki Makri

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Asif Gill, Elaine fahey, Elif Mendos Kuskonmaz, Laura Drechsler, Maria Tzanou, Niovi Vavoula

Published: May 19, 2025
Method Article

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A framework for early-stage sustainability assessment of innovation projects enabled by weighted sum multi-criteria decision analysis in the presence of uncertainty

Authors: John Henderson, Robert Peeling

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Shankha Shubhra Goswami, Soumava Boral, Syed Hammad Mian

Published: August 5, 2024
Research Article

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Getting ready for the European Health Data Space (EHDS): IDERHA's plan to align with the latest EHDS requirements for the secondary use of health data

Authors: Rada Hussein, Irina Balaur, Anja Burmann, Hanna Ćwiek-Kupczyńska, Yojana Gadiya, Soumyabrata Ghosh, Prabath Jayathissa, Florian Katsch, Andreas Kremer, Jaakko Lähteenmäki, Zhaoling Meng, Kathrin Morasek, Rebecca C. Rancourt, Venkata P. Satagopam, Stefan Sauermann, Simon Scheider, Tanja Stamm, Christian Muehlendyck, Philip Gribbon

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Filipe Andrade Bernardi, Gunnar Piho, SUBHASHIS DAS, Snezana Savoska

Published: July 30, 2024
Research Article
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Railway security checks at the border: between intrusive security technologies and fundamental traveller rights

Authors: Kacper Kubrak, Grigore M. Havârneanu

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ridwan Arifin, Terence Garrett

Published: October 15, 2024
Study Protocol
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Prospective cohort study on non-specific symptoms, cognitive, behavioral, sleep and mental health in relation to electronic media use and transportation noise among adolescents (HERMES): study protocol

Authors: Hamed Jalilian, Nekane Sandoval-Diez, Valentin Jaki Waibl, Michael Schmutz, Simona Trefalt, Nasrullah Arslan, Adriana Fernandes Veludo, Laura Tincknell, Irina Wipf, Lena Steck, Stefan Dongus, Agnieszka Jankowska, Gabriela P. Peralta, Kinga Polanska, Maja Popovic, Milena Maule, Patricia de Llobet, Monica Guxens, Martin Röösli

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Atanu Pati, Payam Sajadi

Published: November 24, 2025
Open Letter

Peer review process completed

The OPEVA Manifest: OPtimisation of Electrical Vehicle Autonomy, a Research and Innovation project

Authors: Alper Kanak, Salih Ergün, Ibrahim Arif, S. Halit Ergün, Cengiz Bektaş, Ali Serdar Atalay, Oguzhan Herkiloğlu, Dominique Defossez, Ahmet Yazıcı, Luis Lino Ferreira, Martin Strelec, Karel Kubicek, Martin Cech, Luka Davoli, Laura Belli, Gianluigi Ferrari, Dilara Bayar, Ali Kafalı, Yunus Karamavuş, Asaf Mustafa Sofu, Ahu Ece Hartavi Karcı, Patrick Constant

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Dr Rajkumar Singh Rathore

Published: June 19, 2024
Research Article
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An in-depth analysis of data reduction methods for sustainable deep learning

Authors: Javier Perera-Lago, Victor Toscano-Duran, Eduardo Paluzo-Hidalgo, Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz, Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo, Matteo Rucco

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ekaterina Rapinchuk, Tianzhixi Yin

Published: September 18, 2024
Research Article
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A scoping review of the ethics frameworks describing issues related to the use of extended reality

Authors: Shereen Cox, Alina Kadlubsky, Ellen Svarverud, Jonathan Adams, Rigmor C. Baraas, Rosemarie D.L.C Bernabe

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Abraham Mhaidli, Josh Fisher, Mark McGill, Philip Nickel

Published: February 10, 2025
Open Letter

Peer review process completed

Enhanced identification of endocrine disruptors through integration of science-based regulatory practices and innovative methodologies: The MERLON Project

Authors: Terje Svingen, Anna-Maria Andersson, Julianna Angelova, Marta Axelstad, Julie Bakker, Lisa Baumann, Anna Beronius, Nora Bouftas, Frederic Chalmel, Sofie Christiansen, Charlotte Cornil, Pauliina Damdimopoulou, Deepika Deepika, Martijn E. T. Dollé, Monica Kam Draskau, Margit Bistrup Fischer, Casper P. Hagen, Ellen Hessel, Marie Louise Holmer, Samantha Hughes, Genon Jensen, Hanna Katarina Lilith Johansson, Anders Juul, Vikas Kumar, Saurav Kumar, Aurélie Lardenois, Katharina M. Main, Severine Mazaud-Guittot, S. Jannicke Moe, Gylli Mola, Anne-Simone Parent, Rafael Pineda, Antoine Rolland, Anna Kjerstine Rosenmai, You Song, Antonio Suglia, Manuel Tena-Sempere, Lydia Wehrli, Johanna Zilliacus, Majorie van Duursen

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Andrea Terron, Qi Wang

Published: April 12, 2024
Essay
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Rituals as Nature-Based Governance of reciprocity between people and nature

Authors: Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

Funders: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Cecily Maller, Ronald Trosper

Published: August 7, 2024