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Horizon 2020 was the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness.

Seen as a means to drive economic growth and create jobs, Horizon 2020 had the political backing of Europe’s leaders and the Members of the European Parliament. They agreed that research is an investment in our future and so put it at the heart of the EU’s blueprint for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and jobs.

By coupling research and innovation, Horizon 2020 helped to achieve this with its emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges. The goal was to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation and makes it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in delivering innovation.

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Nonlinear network inference reveals two independent axes of ecological organisation in the rumen microbiome

Authors: Wanxin Lai, Andy Leu, Torgeir Rhoden Hvidsten, Phillip B. Pope, Rainer Roehe

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: September 28, 2026
Research Article

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Inverted rift-orthogonal thrust systems in the Greenland–Iceland–Faroe Ridge: implications for the nature of the crust and plate tectonics

Authors: Jean-Baptiste Koehl

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: September 24, 2026
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Validity and reliability of a new culturally-sensitive affect scale: The Brazilian Portuguese Affect Scale ( EAPB - Escala de Afeto do Português-Brasileiro)

Authors: Elaine Nabeth Torres, Mateus Silvestrin, Adriano Costa, Attalya Felix, Claudinei BIAZOLI

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 12, 2026
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Heterogeneity and contaminants in dairy processing waste sludge in the north of France

Authors: Ángel Velasco Sánchez, Isabelle Trinsoutrot-Gattin, Nidal Khalaf, Lisa Perez, Gabriel Y.K. Moinet, Nadia Bennegadi-Laurent

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 17, 2026
Research Article

Peer review process completed

Active machine learning using MCMC Bayesian neural networks

Authors: Devesh Jawla, John Kelleher, Maria Chiara Leva

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

Peer reviewers: Mohsen Mohammadagha

Published: September 22, 2026
Review

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Connecting public responses to engagement practice in CCS deployment: an integrative framework

Authors: Christian Oltra

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 9, 2026
Research Article

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Seeing Crops in 3D: Remote Sensing for Smarter Precision Farming

Authors: Artur Krukowski, Emmanouela Vogiatzaki, Izzet Kale

Funders: Horizon 2020, Industrial Leadership, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 9, 2026
Data Note

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The HEADSpAcE Data Center: An international data and biospecimen resource for head and neck cancer translational research

Authors: Shama Virani, Laia Alemany, Wolfgang Ahrens, Shaymaa AlWaheidi, Lidia Arantes, Aude Bardot, Paul Brennan, Cristina Canova, Amelie Chabrier, David I Conway, Grant Creaney, Mauricio Cuello, Cecilia Cuffini, Maria Paula Curado, Ana Carolina de Carvalho, Evandro de Souza, Brenda Diergaarde, Tom Dudding, Valerie Gaborieau, David Hayes, Claire Healy, Ivana Holcatova, Rayjean Hung, Jens Klussmann, Pagona Lagiou, Areti Lagiou, Geoffrey Liu, Clovis Lopes Pinto, Silvia Lopez de Blanc, Louise McNeilage, Laura Mendoza, Jose Carlos Oliveira, Andrew Olshan, Hernan Ortiz, Sandra Perdomo, Shahid Pervez, Jerry Polesel, Miranda Pring, Luis Felipe Ribeiro Pinto, Lorenzo Richardi, Max Robinson, Paula Rodriguez-Urrego, Pierre-Eric Roux, Pierre Saintigny, Stacey Santi, Deborah Saunders, Marta Vilensky, Sandra von Zeidler, Tim Waterboer, Kazem Zendehdel, Ariana Znaor, HEADSpAcE Consortium

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 7, 2026
Method Article

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Heat-crater: A passive structure to induce local heatwaves in the field for plant and soil science

Authors: Andreu Cera Rull, Quentin Lambert, Sophie Brunel-Muguet, Servane Lemauviel-Lavenant

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 7, 2026
Research Article

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Who are you calling Mother Nature? Exploring metaphor resonance among young women farmers: A comparative study in the US and France

Authors: İlkay UNAY-GAILHARD

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 6, 2026
Research Article

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Mitochondrial genome and morphological variability of Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae) from an organic olive orchard in Southern Spain

Authors: Imen BLIBECH, José Luis Ruiz de la Cuesta, Francisco José Cabrero Sañudo

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 6, 2026
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Did the language of medieval inquisition records become richer over time? A diachronic lexical richness perspective on heresy trial proceedings from Languedoc and Italy, 1231–1400

Authors: Gideon Kotzé, David Zbíral, Robert L.J. Shaw, Zoltán Brys

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 6, 2026
Research Article

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Decentring artistic practice beyond national narratives. An analysis of the European pavilion as a post-national model

Authors: Alice Golisano

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 17, 2026
Research Article

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Harmonization, interoperability and an open architecture for all the stakeholders of a pan-European electrical system: the vision of the project OneNet

Authors: Ivelina Stoyanova, Mario Couto, Ferdinando Bosco, Matteo Troncia, Katharina Wehrmeister, Alberto Dognini, Konstantinos Kotsalos, José Pablo Chaves Ávila, Jacob Mason, Ilias Zafeiropoulos, Alessio Coccia, Vassilis Sakas, Juan Adolfo Galeano Martinez, Helena Gerard, Vincenzo Croce, Apostolos Kapetanios, Helias Karagozidis, Antonello Monti

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: October 16, 2026
Research Article

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Onshore surface–subsurface correlation of orogenic structures and the continuation of the late Paleozoic Gondwanides in the Tierra del Fuego fold-and-thrust belt, southern Patagonia

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Rocio E. Gallardo Jara, Juan Ortiz, John Ballesteros Prada, Benjamín Sandoval-Leal, Sebastián Parra Irribarra

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: September 24, 2026
Method Article

Peer review process completed

Using Bayesian test relationship between categorical random variables on small sample sizes: application on the relationship between the weight status of parents and their children in understudied populations living in Pacific Island countries and territories

Authors: Guillaume Wattelez, Thibaut Demaneuf, Solène Bertrand-Protat, Olivier Galy

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

Peer reviewers: Julien Jean Malard-Adam, Valen Johnson

Published: August 22, 2026
Method Article

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A standardized field framework for integrated microbiological and geochemical sampling of deeply-sourced seeps across large-scale geological gradients

Authors: Donato Giovannelli, Gerdhard L. Jessen, Joost Maarten de Moor, Peter H. Barry, Karen G. Lloyd

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: September 18, 2026
Review
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Engineering Polymeric Vectors for Nucleic Acid Delivery: Linking Molecular Architecture, Biological Function, and Computational Design

Authors: Joachim Emeka Arikibe, Anna Maria Mazzetta, Lisa Casagrande, Aglaé René de Cotret, Cassidy Tomlinson, Denis Gris, Paolo Caliceti

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

Peer reviewers: Bruno Delgado González, HyunJin Kim

Published: October 7, 2026
Method Article

Peer review process completed

A methodological framework for the standardised evaluation of olive genetic resources: GEN4OLIVE harmonized protocols

Authors: Hristofor Miho, Diego Barranco Navero, Isabel Trujillo Navas, Pablo Morello Parra, Georgios Koubouris, Carlos Trapero Ramirez, Álvaro López-Bernal, Amira Oueslati, David Flores Mesas, M. Teresa García López, Pedro Valverde Caballero, R. Efe Deger, Esteban Meca, Enzo Perri, Elena Santilli, Juan Moral Moral, Cristina Estudillo Cazorla, Diego Cabello Pozo, Meelad Yousef Yousef, Songul Acar, Melek Gurbuz-Veral, Feliciano Priego Capote, Asma Zahiri, Sara Oulbi, Maria Isabel Márquez Pérez, Concepción M. Díez

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Nunzio D'Agostino

Published: September 2, 2026
Research Article

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Diagnostic frameworks and abortifacient findings in domestic ruminant abortions: a multicountry European study (2022–2024)

Authors: René van den Brom, Sue Neale, Katja Mertens-Scholz, Christian Menge, Laurent Delooz, Reinie Dijkman, Liesbeth Allais, Anneleen Matthijs, Marcella Mori, Elsa Jourdain, Elodie Rousset, Tom N. McNeilly, Gorka Aduriz, Ana Hurtado

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: September 1, 2026
Research Article

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Contact and recruit – the importance of acoustic communication in the foraging strategy of a flightless seabird

Authors: Andréa Thiebault, Chloé Huetz, Thierry Aubin, Lorien Pichegru, Tegan Carpenter-Kling, Alistair McInnes, Isabelle Charrier

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: September 10, 2026
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Exploring Actinomycetes-derived natural products for activity against Streptococcus suis

Authors: Ayelén Perez Falcón, Marianna Iorio, Margherita Sosio, Florencia Correa-Fiz, Stefano Donadio, Virginia Aragón

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

Peer reviewers: Ali Majhool, Iqbal Ahmad

Published: October 20, 2026
Research Article

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“A Symptom of Social Disease”: Newspaper framings of the 1985 Limassol anti-Arab riot

Authors: Antonis Pastellopoulos

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

Peer reviewers: No information provided

Published: August 7, 2026
Research Article

Peer review process completed

Identified barriers and solutions for sustainable water in Europe: an analysis of seawater and wastewater mining

Authors: Carlos Picon, Wytze van der Gaast

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Alfonso Expósito García

Published: August 4, 2026
Research Article

Peer review process completed

Bridging the adoption gap: The role of agricultural consultants behavior in decision support system adoption

Authors: Jotham Jea Akaka, Aurora García-Gallego, Nikolaos Georgantzis, Efi Vasileiou

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Ataharul Chowdhury

Published: July 29, 2026