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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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Development and comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for predictive atmospheric corrosion modeling

Authors: Jose Manuel Perales Fernández, María López Abelairas, Arturo Sánchez-Ramos, Lila Otero-Gonzalez

Funders: Horizon 2020, Industrial Leadership

Peer reviewers: Atwakyire Moses, Leonardo Bertolucci Coelho, Zhongheng Fu

Published: December 2, 2025
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Evaluating the solar energy potential for Positive Energy Districts (PED) through advanced 3D Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis

Authors: Hande Demirel, Ayşenur Koçyiğit, Ben Alpagut, Damla Muhcu

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Gokhan Sahin, Mert KOMPIL, Rovick Tarife, Sassi Rekik

Published: July 14, 2025
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Recent earthquakes in Svalbard sourced from transform-parallel thrust systems: implications for linear earthquake swarms and earthquake risk

Authors: Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar, María T. Pedrosa-González, Gemma Ercilla, Gillian R. Foulger

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

Peer reviewers: Rita de Nardis, Wolfram Geissler, Yanghui Zhao

Published: March 26, 2025
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Improving Fleet Size Estimation for Factory Logistics Under Demand, Speed, and Efficiency Uncertainty

Authors: Dionysis Balser-Altanis, Giorgos Altanis

Funders: Horizon 2020, Industrial Leadership

Peer reviewers: Cabell Hodge, Milos Milenkovic

Published: March 25, 2025
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Dimensions, stability, and deformability of DOPC-cholesterol giant unilamellar vesicles formed by droplet transfer

Authors: Elisa Roberti, Elisa Linda Petrocelli, Dario Cecchi, Stefano Palagi

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

Peer reviewers: David Everett, Josep Julve, Martin Eduardo Villanueva, Nikoleta Ivanova

Published: October 7, 2025
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Machine learning-based identification of key biotic and abiotic drivers of mineral weathering rate in a complex enhanced weathering experiment

Authors: Iris Janssens, Thomas Servotte, Tullia Calogiuri, Steven Mortier, Harun Niron, Thomas Corbett, Reinaldy P. Poetra, Lukas Rieder, Michiel Van Tendeloo, Abhijeet Singh, Steven Latré, Siegfried E. Vlaeminck, Jens Hartmann, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Anna Neubeck, Alix Vidal, Ivan A. Janssens, Mathilde Hagens, Sara Vicca, Tim Verdonck

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: David Manning, Nathaniel Looker, Xiying Sun

Published: September 11, 2025
Brief Report
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Evaluation of Mediterranean sponges as natural samplers for environmental DNA (eDNA)

Authors: Nicolas Garcia-Seyda, Marielle Garcia, Dorian Guillemain, Aurélie Bonin

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

Peer reviewers: Dannise Ruiz Ramos, Rachael Chidugu-Ogborigbo, Ramon Gallego, Rosalie Dowell, Soo-Je Park, mykle hoban

Published: March 10, 2026
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Moral articulations of economic life in returns to Ecuador and Cuba

Authors: Valerio Simoni, Jérémie Voirol

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

Peer reviewers: Remus Gabriel Anghel, maurizio ambrosini

Published: March 17, 2025
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Capturing attention: media and institutional narratives on carbon capture, utilisation, and storage in three EU countries

Authors: Luciana Miu, Daniela Panica, Ana-Maria Niculicea

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Paola Massyel García Meneses, Sebastien Chailleux

Published: March 12, 2025
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Copilot in service: Exploring the potential of the large language model-based chatbots for fostering evaluation culture in preventing and countering violent extremism

Authors: Irina van der Vet, Leena Malkki

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: James Chow, Krithi Pushpanathan

Published: April 17, 2025
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The relationship between interindividual differences and global/local processing

Authors: Alberto De Luca, Stephan Verschoor, Bernhard Hommel

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

Peer reviewers: Chiara Saracini

Published: March 6, 2025
Case Study
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Force majeure impact on citizen science: Perspective from an EU funded project

Authors: Huma Shah, M. Pocs, J. Vallverdu, M. Hinsenkamp, Tiberius Ignat, Maayan Zhitomirsky-geffet

Funders: Horizon 2020, Science with and for Society

Peer reviewers: Cosmos Nike Nwedu, Giorgio DI PIETRO, Michael Jopling

Published: May 8, 2025
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Global truffle market: Theoretical aspects and empirical evidence

Authors: PABLO PODADERA-RIVERA, FRANCISCO J. CALDERÓN-VÁZQUEZ

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

Peer reviewers: Jesus Perez Moreno, Patrick Hatzenbuehler, Sakhr Alhuthali

Published: April 17, 2025
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Enacting semi-periphery: conditions of post-accession migration from Poland to the UK

Authors: Viktoryia Vaitovich

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

Peer reviewers: Shaddin Almasri, Tomasz Komornicki, kate golebiowska

Published: June 25, 2025
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Asking the experts: A focus group and review on eyewitness memory in the multicultural context of South Africa

Authors: Laura Anne Weiss, Eva A. J. van Rosmalen, Annelies Vredeveldt

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

Peer reviewers: Alyssa Jones, Nkansah Anakwah, Richard Kemp

Published: February 24, 2025
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Micromegas with GEM preamplification for enhanced energy threshold in low-background gaseous time projection chambers

Authors: Juan Francisco Castel Pablo, Susana Cebrián Guajardo, Theopisti Dafni, David Díez Ibáñez, Javier Galán Lacarra, Juan Antonio García Pascual, Álvaro Ezquerro Sastre, Igor García Irastorza, Gloria Luzón Marco, Cristina Margalejo Blasco, Héctor Mirallas Sánchez, Luis Obis Aparicio, Alfonso Ortiz de Solórzano, Óscar Pérez Lázaro, Jorge Porrón Lafuente, María Jiménez Puyuelo

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: David Attié, Ignacio Lázaro Roche, Ludovic MATHIEU

Published: March 18, 2025
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Gender discrimination in the Tarim Basin: A preliminary examination of the Kharoṣṭhī documents from the Niya site

Authors: Raminder Kaur

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

Peer reviewers: Rachel Pope, Tomas Larsen Høisæter

Published: February 13, 2025
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Too many hats: The challenges of opening up funding agencies to ethical stakeholder participation

Authors: Stefanie Schuerz, Constanze Fetting

Funders: Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: AlexJie YANG, Anne-Floor Scholvinck, Gerd Gigerenzer

Published: February 10, 2025
Open Letter
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Freshwater monitoring across the globe: the role of citizen science within the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and opportunities to incentivize the collaboration with environmental regulators

Authors: Bruna Gumiero, Leonardo Veronesi, Luisa Galgani, Riccardo Gaetano Cirrone, Alessio Corsi, Andrea Tafi, Steven Arthur Loiselle

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

Peer reviewers: Ahmet Erkan KIDEYS, Laura Verbrugge, Rajaram Prajapati

Published: August 20, 2025
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Solvolytic recycling of unsaturated polyester resin-based sheet moulding composites

Authors: John van de Moosdijk, Annemieke van de Runstraat, Richard van Someren, Mark Roelands

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Andrejs Krauklis, Farshid Nazemi, Norshah Aizat Shuaib, Roksana Muzyka

Published: February 7, 2025
Study Protocol
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Pre-protocol of the Virtual Spatial Configuration Task (VSCT): A Novel Virtual Reality-Based Tool for Assessing Cognitive Map Formation Abilities

Authors: Alberto Massimiliano Umiltà, Giorgio Li Pira, Ford Burles, Giovanni Ottoboni, Alessia Tessari

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Alastair Smith, David Uttal, Jozsef Katona, Julian Keil, Laura Miola, Marta Matamala Gomez, Meytal Wilf, Simon Lhuillier

Published: October 31, 2025
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A smart energy service for the commercial rented sector: decision making points and business model considering the learnings from the pilot sites of the SmartSPIN project in Ireland, Spain and Greece

Authors: Luciano De Tommasi, Ruchi Agrawal, Padraig Lyons

Funders: Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Charalampos ALEXOPOULOS, Marcele Elisa Fontana, Paulina Golinska-Dawson, Robert Moehler

Published: December 16, 2025
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Do mental health professionals react to verbal aggressiveness differently if it is gender-related? An experimental study employing case-vignettes

Authors: Francisco José Eiroa-Orosa, Cecilia Sanchez-Moscona

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

Peer reviewers: Emmanuel Biracyaza, Johannes Fuss

Published: February 3, 2025
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Perceived stress in relation to working hours and caring responsibilities: A cross-sectional study during the COVID-19 pandemic

Authors: Karen van Hedel, Stéfanie C.H. André, Janna W. Besamusca, Irene G. M. van Valkengoed, Mara A. Yerkes

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

Peer reviewers: Anita Maharani

Published: February 3, 2025
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Higher-Order Logical Reasoning in Preschool Children: Evidence from Intonation and Quantifier Scope

Authors: Uli Sauerland, Ayaka Sugawara, Kazuko Yatsushiro

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

Peer reviewers: Daniele Panizza, Myrto Grigoroglou, Nopita Trihastutie

Published: February 3, 2025