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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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Science at the Secretariat of the International Seabed Authority: post-normal science for recalibration of policy instruments.

Authors: Aistė Klimašauskaitė, Paul Dees, Silvio Oscar Funtowicz, Laura Elisabet Drivdal, Ola G. Berta

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

Peer reviewers: Alastair Neil Craik, Elisabetta Menini, Matteo De Donà, Nitin Agarwala

Published: June 30, 2025
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Numerical model of aluminothermic reduction vessel preheating and charge heating with graphite heating rods

Authors: Sergey Semenov, Patrick Namy, Aditya Kale, Sello Tsebe

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Kagan Benzesik, Mickael ANTONI

Published: November 22, 2024
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Separation Time of Aluminothermic Reduction Products for Sustainable Silicon Production

Authors: Javier Bullón, Óscar Crego, José Luis Ferrín, Dolores Gómez, Iván Martínez, Luis Javier Pérez-Pérez

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Mita Dasog, Navneet Randhawa, Zulfiadi zulhan

Published: January 3, 2025
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Numerical model of a top-blown rotary converter preheating and charge heating with an oxy-fuel burner

Authors: Sergey Semenov, Patrick Namy, Aditya Kale, Sello Tsebe

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Laura Donato, Neeraj Kumar Bhoi, Theresa Coetsee, shibo kuang kuang

Published: July 4, 2025
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Data analytics for research on complex brain disorders

Authors: Michail Kontoulis, George Doukas, Theodosios Pountridis, Loukas Ilias, George Ladikos, Vaggelis Lamrpou, Kostantinos Alexakis, Dimitris Askounis, Christos Ntanos

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Ali Husnain, Yu-Fang Yang

Published: November 8, 2024
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SentemQC - A novel and cost-efficient method for quality assurance and quality control of high-resolution frequency sensor data in fresh waters

Authors: Sofie Gyritia Madsen van't Veen, Brian Kronvang, Joachim Audet, Thomas Alexander Davidson, Erik Jeppesen, Esben Astrup Kristensen, Søren Erik Larsen, Jane Rosenstand Laugesen, Eti Ester Levi, Anders Nielsen, Peter Mejlhede Andersen

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Andrea Lami, Arno Hooijboer, guohw@mail.nankai.edu.cn Guo

Published: May 29, 2025
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Towards ‘retroliberalism’ or food security?: Donor development aid to the agricultural sectors of four Melanesian states, 2008-2021

Authors: Charles Hawksley, Jonas Brouillon, Nichole Georgeou, Severine Blaise, Nidhi Wali, Severine Bouard

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

Peer reviewers: Melodie Al Daccache, Rusha Begna Wakweya, Taufiq Nawaz

Published: November 7, 2024
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A 2024 inventory of test methods relevant to thyroid hormone system disruption for human health and environmental regulatory hazard assessment

Authors: Lucia Vergauwen, Lola Bajard, Sabrina Tait, Ingrid Langezaal, Anita Sosnowska, Alessandra Roncaglioni, Ellen Hessel, Annick D van den Brand, Ann-Cathrin Haigis, Jiří Novák, Klára Hilscherová, Natalia Buławska, Nafsika Papaioannou, Elisavet Renieri, Eliana Spilioti, Anastasia Spyropoulou, Arno C Gutleb, Henrik Holbech, Dimitra Nikolopoulou, Miriam N Jacobs, Dries Knapen

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

Peer reviewers: Andrea Cediel-Ulloa, Jean-Baptiste FINI, Josef KÖHRLE, Pieter Vancamp

Published: November 6, 2024
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Protocol for Surveying Participants and Professionals’ Experiences in an International Kidney Transplant Clinical Trial

Authors: Janet Delgado, David Rodríguez-Arias, Alberto Molina-Pérez, Anibal Monasterio-Astobiza, Gonzalo Diaz-Cobacho, Gregor Bond, TTVguideTX consortium

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Chiara Crico

Published: October 30, 2024
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NOVEL INVENTION OF SPORE INDUCTION IN A SISTER SPECIES TO GROUP 4 DICTYOSTELIA

Authors: Pauline Schaap

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Tamao Saito, Yusuke Morimoto, shweta Saran

Published: December 5, 2024
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Ethical Impact Assessment of Sharing Nanosafety Data

Authors: Ineke MALSCH, Egon Willighagen, Candida F. Sánchez Burmester, Cyrus Mody

Funders: Horizon 2020, Industrial Leadership

Peer reviewers: Benjamin Punz, Siviwe Bangani, ajay vikram singh

Published: April 6, 2026
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Risk assessment for Na-Zn liquid metal batteries

Authors: Norbert Weber, Carolina Duczek, Gleidys Monrrabal, William Nash, Martins Sarma, Tom Weier

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Binghe Liu, Farooq Ahmad

Published: October 25, 2024
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Microhomology-mediated end-joining Knock-In approaches to delete the allergenic domain of trout parvalbumin beta-1. Preliminary results in F0 animals and feedback

Authors: Veronique Lebret, Cecile Duret, Amaury Herpin, Pierre-yves Rescan

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: JITENDRA SUNDARAY, Joana Costa, Qing Xiong

Published: February 25, 2025
Open Letter

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Ten lessons for future MSCA/COFUND applicants

Authors: Emma S Cowley, Theoni Massara, Ciara Wilton, Laurella Noble, Irina Reichert, Anne Schultz Vognsen, Carolyn Wynne, Rabia Arshad, Jennie Eldridge, Katrine Sonne-Hansen

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

Peer reviewers: Mario Coccia, Vrinda Acharya

Published: October 25, 2024
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Targeting deeply-sourced seeps along the Central Volcanic Zone

Authors: Deborah Bastoni, Mauricio Aguilera, Felipe Aguilera, Jenny M. Blamey, Joy Buongiorno, Agostina Chiodi, Angelina Cordone, Alfredo Esquivel, Marco Giardina, Cristobal Gonzalez, Joaquin Gutierrez, Nahun Irarrazabal, Viola Krukenberg, Susana Layana, Jacopo Pasotti, Carlos J. Ramirez, Alejandro Rodriguez, Timothy J. Rogers, Claudia Rojas, Jorge Sánchez-SanMartín, Matt O. Schrenk, Hector Vallejos, Gerdhard L. Jessen, Peter H. Barry, J. Maarten de Moor, Karen G. Lloyd, Donato Giovannelli

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

Peer reviewers: Francesco Ricci, Magdalena Osburn, Mark Alexander Lever

Published: October 18, 2024
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A queen’s tale: An experimental palaeoproteomic study of a honey bee queen cell specimen from Natural History Museum Denmark

Authors: Tuuli Kasso, Meaghan Mackie, Max Ramsøe, Lars Vilhelmsen, Carsten Gundlach, Sina Baier-Stegmaier, Alberto J. Taurozzi, Matthew J. Collins

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

Peer reviewers: Luca Fontanesi, Nelson Enrique Arenas Suarez, Richard Bernstein, Simon Hammann

Published: July 8, 2025
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Experimental Modelling of Water-Wave Interactions with a Flexible Beam

Authors: Wajiha Rehman, Tim Bunnik, Onno Bokhove, Mark Kelmanson

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Changqing Jiang, zhaolong yu

Published: October 18, 2024
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The gut microbiota-brain axis role in neurodegenerative diseases and implications according to the sex

Authors: Marina Mora-Ortiz, Helena García-Fernández, Pablo Perez-Martinez, Antonio Camargo

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

Peer reviewers: Janis Rebecca Dr. Bedarf, Peppino Mirabelli

Published: May 11, 2026
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Digital marketplaces in European research landscape: A systematic literature review

Authors: Georgios Nikoletos, Iordanis Papoutsoglou, Georgios Spanos, Alexandros Nizamis, Antonios Lalas, Konstantinos Votis, Dimitrios Tzovaras

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Fadi Al-Turjman, Mihaela Constantinescu, Santiago Andrés Azcoitia

Published: October 17, 2024
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SCAPE-APA: a package for estimating alternative polyadenylation events from scRNA-seq data

Authors: Guangzhao Cheng, Tien Le, Ran Zhou, Lu Cheng

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

Peer reviewers: Wenbin Ye

Published: March 7, 2025
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Exploring self-care and self-development practices among refugee adolescents through photos: An art-based participatory qualitative study

Authors: Marjan Mohammadzadeh, Asra Taras, Christiane Stock

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

Peer reviewers: David Marshall, Kate Pincock

Published: October 15, 2024
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How physical activity opportunities seized by adolescents differ between Europe and the Pacific Islands: the example of France and New Caledonia

Authors: Thibaut Derigny, Marie-Jeanne Urvoy, Guillaume Wattelez, Pierre-Yves Leroux, Paul Zongo, Christophe Schnitzler, Olivier Galy, Francois Potdevin

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

Peer reviewers: Fitria Dwi Andriyani, Nuttanun Siriaporn

Published: October 15, 2024
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Profiling of linear B-cell epitopes against human coronaviruses in pooled sera sampled early in the COVID-19 pandemic

Authors: Emil Bach, Mustafa Ghanizada, Nikolaj Kirkby, Søren Buus, Thomas Østerbye

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Erin Scherer

Published: October 11, 2024
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Transnational readings in the Trumpocene: Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Chris Beckett’s America City

Authors: Dolores Resano

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

Peer reviewers: Carl Death, Luke Cooper, Matteo Nicolini

Published: March 24, 2025
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Post-trial access practices in conducted clinical trials for Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) across Sub-Saharan African countries: A quantitative study

Authors: Yemisrach Seralegne, Cynthia Khamala Wangamati, Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, Ibrahim Mdala, Martha Zewdie, Hawult Taye Adane

Funders: Horizon 2020, European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)

Peer reviewers: George Ayodo, Irene Kyomuhangi, Promise Okereke, Richard Idro

Published: November 11, 2025