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Linguistic traces: low-frequency forms as evidence of language and population history (LiTra)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498135.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498135.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

We know remarkably little about the early history that formed the known European languages and cultures. While advances in genetics have led to new debates about population histories, they cannot tell us about the languages spoken. In the absence of written records, language appears ephemeral: changes through time seemingly erase all traces of earlier speech, leaving only abstract ‘proto-languages’ to be reconstructed. Such erasures are not, however, complete, as language change always leaves behind a tail of residual forms. Very little research has dealt with the low-frequency variation that forms part of all natural language, even though it is known that residual forms are often resistant to change and may show stable geographical patterns. This project explores the potential of such patterns to provide linguistic ‘fingerprints’ allowing the reconstruction of much earlier linguistic configurations. It also addresses the general question of low-frequency variation as a carrier of meaning: how can the systematic study of minor variants refine current views of linguistic variation and change? We will study the spread and interactions of linguistic and cultural groups in early England − Celtic, Scandinavian and West Germanic − through geographically coherent patterns of minority variants (‘micro-patterns’) in a set of historical, purpose-built text corpora. Such an approach has not been attempted before, and is made possible by the combination of philological expertise and the development of corpus annotation methods based on deep learning technology. The project is expected to lead to a breakthrough in the study of linguistic variation, where small-scale patterning has largely been ignored. Linguistic traces, combined with the findings of archaeology and genetics, are expected to form a powerful means of reconstructing the past, throwing light on past linguistic areas and interactions as well as on the maintenance of local and regional identities.

Keywords: language contact,language change,linguistic variation,medieval history,mapping,populations,onomastics,celtic languages,old norse,old english,dialectology,low frequency variation
Transport Research Arena 2026: Budapest (TRA2026)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Belgium,Ireland
Call: Support for dissemination events in the field of Transport Research (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D6-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1503607.15
EU funding (EUR): 1458312.51
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The TRA2026 project aims to support the organisation of the TRA conference in Budapest in 2026 and deliver the related competitions. This proposal aligns with the specified criteria of the call, namely: • It addresses the expected outcomes, including enhanced visibility of the transport sector, contributions to advancing knowledge, improved cooperation opportunities, as well as increased attractiveness of transport-related studies, as well as recognition of outstanding achievements in this field. • It features a partnership representing the host country and city authorities, as well as the academic and professional realm, with a strong international reach. The proposal involves partners with experience across all transport modes and cross-modal themes, as well as in organising past TRA conferences and researcher competitions. A member state responsible for the Council of the European Union in 2026 is also represented in the consortium. • The partners will work together and with relevant stakeholders, drawing on the traditions of previous TRA editions to bring together key actors in the transport sector to find joint solutions for current and upcoming transport-related challenges.

Keywords: transport research arena,budapest
MUSICVIM: Musical Instruments as Conveyor of Visual Messages. The case of Ancient Near Eastern Lutes (MUSICVIM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

At a time when electronic and digital musical instruments are increasingly replacing acoustic musical instruments, this project will show that acoustic instruments are complex objects that have historically appealed to multiple senses beyond hearing, suggesting that they cannot easily be excluded from performance. The case of Ancient Near Eastern lutes will be used to explore this idea. While modern long-necked lutes have a resonator covered with rawhide, the cuneiform texts from the 'Craft Archive' in the Mesopotamian city of Isin during the second millennium BCE specifically describe the use of black-dyed leather to make the cover for the resonator of a tigidla ('lute' in Sumerian). This project will explore the acoustic and socio-cultural implications of this particular fabrication by combining ANE Philological & Material Studies, Ethnomusicology, Experimental Archaeology, and Acoustics, and by bringing together academic and non-academic expertise (tanners, dyers, and instrument makers). Four tigidla replicas with covers of rawhide, black-dyed rawhide, undyed leather, black-dyed leather will be made using the extant ANE evidence. The sound of these replicas will be analysed by considering different textures, playing techniques, and recording spaces. The information from these recordings will be finally used to shed new light on many aspects of musical traditions and societies in the ANE region and beyond. This project will scientifically impact the fields of Musicology, most notably Sound Archaeology, and ANE Studies on economy, society, music, and colour. The value of traditional tanning, dyeing, and instrument-making will also be highlighted. They currently lack guaranteed generational handover but can contribute to the climate emergency, since they use eco-friendly products. Under the guidance of leading sound archaeology expert Rupert Till, the experienced researcher will be trained in tanning, dyeing, instrument making, and sound recording and analysis.

Keywords: musical instruments visual messages ancient near east lutes colours
Small Flows with Big Consequences: Wave-, Turbulence- and Shear current-Driven mixing under a water surface (WaTurSheD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1958705.0
EU funding (EUR): 1958705.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The triple interactions of surface waves, turbulence, and shear currents (WTS) in the upper layer of the ocean play a key role in the Earth’s climate and ecology by controlling fluxes of heat, gas, and momentum between ocean and atmosphere. Climate simulations have large systematic errors because the mixing of waters due to WTS flow is not properly modelled, yet these flows remain little investigated and poorly understood. We urgently need to learn how WTS mixing depends on flow parameters, but none of today's research approaches can produce the empirical data which is needed. WaTurSheD presents the only practical way out of this stalemate: an extensive experimental campaign where each WTS parameter is individually controlled and systematically varied. I will make use of the new, large water channel laboratory at NTNU, the only facility where such an experimental campaign is currently possible, and combine experiments with new theory and a novel data analysis method. Through WaTurSheD the WTS-driven mixing in the upper ocean can for the first time be modelled based on direct empirical evidence. WaTurSheD is a unique opportunity for progress, combining my group's specialised expertise on wave-current interactions through both theory and experiment, and one-of-a-kind laboratory where my team can create a faithful, fully tuneable scale model of upper ocean WTS flow. The theory framework for ocean waves and currents must be advanced in order to accommodate the new insights, a task I will attend to myself. We will develop a completely new way to analyse near-surface turbulence: By detecting the imprints they leave on the surface using a computer vision technique, the most essential turbulent structures can be selected, allowing trends in WTS data to emerge which would otherwise be obscured by fast fluctuations. All WaTurSheD's components will unite towards its final goal: a universal scaling law for WTS flows valid from centimetres to hundreds of metres.

Keywords: waves,turbulence,shear currents,ocean mixing
A Pan-African Research Infrastructure for Collaborative Biomedical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence in Respiratory Care (AFRICAI-RI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Mozambique,Ghana,Ethiopia,Gabon,Uganda,Congo, The Democratic Republic of the,Nigeria,Senegal,Malawi,Netherlands,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative digital health solutions for sub-Saharan Africa (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2024-01-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999075.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999075.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

AFRICAI-RI is a groundbreaking initiative designed to substantially improve healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by establishing the region's first federated, multi-institutional imaging research infrastructure. The project will leverage European and African expertise to adapt successful data infrastructures and imaging solutions to diverse environments across SSA. AFRICAI-RI will address the critical challenges posed by infectious diseases and the scarcity of medical imaging experts in the region. Furthermore, it will foster healthcare innovation by deploying federated learning technologies to enhanced access to large imaging data in a privacy-preserving, trusted fashion. Furthermore, the project will develop AI tools optimised for the diagnosis of tuberculosis and pneumonia in both adults and children, while ensuring their applicability across different imaging modalities such as X-ray and ultrasound. AFRICAI-RI is also committed to building local capacity by enhancing expertise in AI and clinical research through extensive training and stakeholder engagement. Additionally, the project aims to drive academic and economic opportunities by promoting new models of IP management and AI certification specific to the needs of SSA. The consortium will work closely with both local and international public health organisations to develop ethical guidelines and policy frameworks that enable the sustainable integration of AI in imaging diagnostics across SSA. Ultimately, AFRICAI-RI aspires to create a lasting infrastructure that not only addresses immediate healthcare needs but also fosters ongoing innovation and collaboration within the African continent and beyond.

Keywords: research infrastructure,open data,medical imaging,respiratory diseases,trustworthy ai,digital health
Transcending limitations of translational research on Multiple Sclerosis and Autism Spectrum Disorder - Spectral, brain-related disorder, patient outcomes, cognition, effect, symptoms (TRANSCEND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Denmark,Norway,Portugal,Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,France,Italy
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4023427.32
EU funding (EUR): 4023427.32
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

TRANSCEND brings together expertise in biomedical, computational, behavioural, clinical, epidemiological and philosophical research to advance translational research in medicine. TRANSCEND aims to add to the chronological and epistemic order of research from bench to bedside to practice with a more networked-based understanding of translation. This is particularly important in translational research on complex and chronic neurological conditions where the few low-hanging fruits of reductionist approaches seem to have been picked. TRANSCEND involves nine interlinked laboratories from clinical, biomedical, metamethodological, and philosophical sub-projects, which focus on autism spectrum disorder and multiple sclerosis. These conditions are characterised by an interconnected set of physical, cognitive and psychological symptoms, and unknown underlying disease mechanisms. While healthcare has been moving away from a purely single-cause view of medicine towards interconnected concepts of positive health, such a more complicated and nuanced notion of health and dis/ability is unintegrated within biomedical research. Most research designs are not well-suited to consider patient-relevant outcomes, the biological and social complexity of these conditions, and their implications in real-world healthcare settings, because their epistemology is oriented towards purification and reduction concerning research questions, disease models, and experiments. TRANSCEND proposes an integrative approach to translational research that embraces instead of reduces the complexity and diversity of the biological, clinical and social manifestations of the diagnoses. It will provide an innovative, interdisciplinary training along four research objectives to overcome key limitations of translational research on complex, chronic conditions: (1) making animal models more translational; (2) focusing on patient outcomes and scoping “disease” categories; (3) rethinking theragnostic strategies.
bridGing gaps in caRdiAC health managEment (GRACE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Innovative Health Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: IHI (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Estonia,Greece,France,Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Korea, Republic of,Israel
Call: Improving clinical management of heart disease from early detection to treatment (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2024-07-single-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2029-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19249125.0
EU funding (EUR): 11736302.5
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

The GRACE integrated solution aims to transform the healthcare ecosystem by providing essential knowledge and innovative public-private partnership for (1) reorganizing healthcare services (2) with embedded innovative technologies and tools, helping identifying and overcoming barriers and gaps that are now hindering CVD management, ensuring a seamless continuum of care and optimized care pathways. Our vision is that introducing effective health technology and interventions is economically, societally and environmentally sustainable if and only accompanied by a substantial healthcare service re-organization. Accordingly, GRACE will focus on an end-to-end clinical pathway CVD, considering an holistic view of the patient and optimizing healthcare services leveraging on advanced technological solutions. GRACE intervention will be multifold aiming at: (1) guiding strategic policies, (2) drive market innovation, and (3) foster effective healthcare delivery practices in CVD, generating value for patients, healthcare workers and system. GRACE will enable early and personalized interventions, fostering coordination of multidiscipline healthcare teams, triggering more intense and person-specific management using innovative technologies, AI and digital solutions for early detection of red flags, promoting patient empowerment, while comprehensively containing CVD risk factors and burden. A multidisciplinary consortium of experienced and competitive partners will implement this vision and implement the proposed solution in a novel multidiscipline manner.

Keywords: continuum of care,cardiovascular disease management,healthcare services,healthcare delivery practices,optimaize care pathways,innovative technologies
In Situ Nanoscale Mapping of CO2 Photoreduction over Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Photocatalysts (ISaaC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 388940.52
EU funding (EUR): 388940.52
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The conversion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) into high-value chemicals and fuels by using solar-powered devices represents a promising and sustainable strategy to achieve the target of climate neutrality by 2050. The development of an efficient technology for photocatalytic CO2 reduction (CO2RR) requires an in-depth knowledge of the reaction mechanism, which is, to date, still elusive. In particular, photocatalysts often consist of nanomaterials which are difficult to study at the single-entity level. In this context, ISaaC represents an effective solution to unlock the working principles of photocatalytic devices for CO2RR. To guide the design of future advanced photocatalysts with improved performances, this project proposes an in situ photochemical nanoscopy of CO2RR over low-dimensional semiconductors and plasmonic metal-semiconductor heterojunctions judiciously designed through top-down nanofabrication. Based on a unique nanoprobe, combining at-source photonic and electrochemical functionalities, ISaaC aims at realizing via light-assisted scanning electrochemical microscopy (Photo-SECM) in situ photochemical analysis of individual nanocatalyst entities, as well as mapping with unprecedented local illumination conditions (sub-100 nm). The collected nanoscale information will be correlated with data provided by operando Raman spectroscopy to confirm the role of the device towards CO2RR. ISaaC identifies three objectives to enable mechanistic insights into individual nanoscale photocatalysts for CO2RR: 1) development of a Photo-SECM plasmonic probe as an individual photocatalyst. Investigation of its plasmon-assisted photochemical response; 2) development of optimized Photo-SECM nanotip with nanoscale light irradiation. Demonstration of improved spatial mapping of nanostructured semiconductor photocatalysts; 3) investigation of CO2RR over nanoengineered photocatalysts via combined in situ Photo-SECM and operando Raman spectroscopy.

Keywords: low dimensional semiconductors,plamsonic metal semiconductor nanohybrids,scanning electrochemical microscopy,in situ nanoscopy,operando raman spectroscopy
Mixotrophy: an uncharted carbon flux in the plant world (MIXOTROPH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1986701.25
EU funding (EUR): 1986701.25
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Plants need light to grow. They use energy from sunlight to produce organic carbon. However, new findings – including my own work – now hint that up to 35% of all plant species can also obtain carbon from root-associated fungi when light availability is insufficient for growth. This calls into question much of what we thought we knew about how plants survive in the understory. The goal of this project is to determine the frequency and magnitude of this newly discovered form of ‘mixotrophy’ in our terrestrial ecosystems. I will achieve this exciting goal by working at the intersection of physiology, ecology, evolutionary and molecular biology. The vast majority of land plants transfer part of the organic carbon they produce by photosynthesis to root-associated ‘arbuscular mycorrhizal’ (AM) fungi, which help plants to take up nutrients and water from the soil. My previous findings demonstrate that this carbon can be subsequently taken up by rare non-green plants that tap into the same fungal network. This paved the way for the discovery of AM mixotrophy, in which common green plants take up carbon from AM fungi. However, the plant and fungal diversity involved in AM mixotrophy are unknown. Likewise, the environmental drivers that influence carbon uptake have never been measured, nor do we know about its evolution and geographic distribution. This is problematic because we are unable to quantify or understand the role of AM mixotrophy in our natural world. With field studies, laboratory experiments, and genetic screening of natural history collections, I will (1) identify AM mixotrophic plants and their habitats; (2) reveal environmental drivers that regulate carbon uptake; (3) expose fungal networks that sustain AM mixotrophs; and (4) measure the magnitude of AM mixotrophy across evolutionary and geographic scales. This will lead to a fundamental shift in our understanding of carbon uptake by plants, with profound effects for carbon cycling models and conservation.

Keywords: carbon transfer,mycoheterotrophy,mycorrhiza,plant distribution,plant diversity