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Diapause-mediated cattle embryo storage (DIASTORE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Embryo transfer is a key enabling technology in the farming industry, playing an essential role in expanding genetic improvement and its associated economic and environmental benefits. The procedure requires estrous synchronized recipient animals, which are often not available at the same time and location than the embryos. The only solution available to circumvent this problem is to arrest embryo development by cryopreservation, a technique that allows embryo storage but reduces embryo viability and requires time, training and specialized equipment. Diapause is the natural way to temporarily arrest embryo development and it could provide an alternative means to store embryos before transfer. In this project we will employ an advanced embryo culture system developed by the project StG-757886-ELONGAN -able to sustain embryo development beyond blastocyst hatching- as a platform to test different media modifications to induce diapause in bovine embryos. The development of a diapause-inducing medium will constitute a better solution than cryopreservation, as it avoids the mechanical damage and exposure to cryoprotectants, circumvents the need of special equipment, and provides a faster and easier to learn protocol to store embryos.

Keywords: embryo,diapause,ungulate,farm animal,embryo transfer,bovine,developmental biology
Books in the Borderlands of the Iberian Worlds: Jesuit Libraries and Cultural Transformation in South America (17th and 18th Centuries) (JesLibSouth)

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: Spain,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Society of Jesus played a key role in the evangelisation of Indigenous peoples, particularly in the borderlands of the Iberian empires, and contributed to the development of what may be called Catholic and Iberian globalisation. One important aspect of this activity was the creation of libraries, which helped introduce writing and new media technologies to these regions. Over the last thirty years, international research on the Jesuits has increased significantly, with global history-based perspectives analysing the Society of Jesus as a worldwide network for the circulation of science and art and as a key interlocutor with non-European populations. By focusing on the books and libraries that existed in actual Jesuit missions, my project proposes that this image is biased—as it does not accurately reflect the religious objectives of the Jesuits, which were aimed at a complete transformation of culture and society. JesLibSouth then suggests that books and libraries served simultaneously as tools of discipline and subjectification, influencing both Jesuits and Indigenous people. Most of the books in these libraries were far from the types of knowledge that have interested recent Jesuit global history; instead, they largely consisted of pragmatic-normative content, focused on reinforcing Catholic behaviours while encouraging voluntary engagement through introspection, sensory training, and emotional stimulation. The sources for the project include the inventories of the missions, which contain lists of the remarkable number of around 25,000 books in the libraries, as well as descriptive chronicles, histories, and the books themselves. For analysing these documents, I have developed an original and innovative methodology inspired by book history, media studies, and digital humanities, which will involve using databases, statistical techniques, web publishing, data visualisation tools, and algorithmic information processing.

Keywords: libraries,indigenous literacy,evangelisation,south america,iberian studies,society of jesus,jesuit missions,circulation of books,digital humanities,religious orders,colonial studies
ACACIA Hop-on (ACACIA Hop-on)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,France
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 599900.0
EU funding (EUR): 599900.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

ACACIA is a Horizon Europe project that enhances resilience to floods and tropical cyclones in Sub-Saharan Africa by improving the production, communication and use of climate services. Through the Hop-On Facility, the Université de La Réunion (UR), with its Laboratoire de l’Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), will join the consortium to strengthen ACACIA’s scientific scope and regional reach. Réunion is an EU Outermost Region located in the south-west Indian Ocean, one of the world’s most active cyclone basins. LACy has internationally recognised expertise in coupled atmosphere–ocean modelling of tropical cyclones and close links with Météo-France’s Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC) La Réunion, responsible for operational cyclone forecasts. By joining ACACIA, UR/LACy will: - Re-simulate past intense cyclones with a convection-permitting coupled model under multiple ocean states, to assess how ocean variability and climate change influence cyclone intensity, rainfall and predictability. - Integrate these insights into the evaluation of sub-seasonal forecasts, complementing ACACIA’s existing focus on atmospheric drivers. - Expand regional training and capacity-building activities by embedding coupled-modelling and subseasonal forecasting into SWIOCOF and university-level training, enabling wider participation from Réunion, Madagascar and neighbouring islands. This contribution broadens ACACIA’s scientific ambition by strengthening the climate change component and improving understanding of multi-scale drivers of cyclone risk. It also enlarges the project’s geographical coverage, enabling comparative analysis across Madagascar, Réunion and southern Africa in coordination with the CLARE-funded REPRESA project. The result will be more robust scientific knowledge, improved climate services, and enhanced capacity for anticipatory action and adaptation in cyclone-prone regions.
The BLOSSOM Innovative Approach based on Bankable Transformative Climate Solutions in order to Improve Sustainable Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Measures (BLOSSOM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Adaptation to climate change
Destination: Adaptation to climate change
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Greece,Poland,Spain,Portugal,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Denmark,Switzerland,Cyprus
Call: Demonstration of approaches to improve bankability of solutions by design, addressing the co-benefits (mitigation and adaptation) to improve revenues streams (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10123568.75
EU funding (EUR): 8999093.75
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

BLOSSOM introduces a systemic approach that links public authorities (cities-regions) with private partners (e.g., banks, insurance companies and venture capitals) to cope with the disconnections and gaps related to the adoption of bankable transformative adaptation and mitigation measures. Starting from the Communities of Practice, we will set up Living Labs, i.e. collaborative environments in which citizens, experts and other stakeholders will have the possibility to test and hone the methodology and the technologies. Innovative financing and investing schemes will be tested and assessed for the adoption of the most promising bankable solutions. BLOSSOM will follow already proven co-creation/design processes (including local communities), as well as the adoption and further adjustment of technologies that use data and collective intelligence to perform ex-ante simulation on-going and ex-post assessment in collaborative environments (digital twins and dashboards). By using AI-based tools a draft business model including a visual chart with elements describing the value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and financial elements of each investing scheme will be generated, also identifying the best exploitation form based on the nature of the results and ownership structure (e.g., creation of spin-offs, products producing and selling, licensing of products/services, patenting, etc.). Once the best business model has been selected, a preliminary Business Plan will be developed with the industrial partners being the main contributors. The bankable solutions will be demonstrated in our Front Runner Cities (Birmingham, Lisbon and Kielce), which will test the methodology and make it available for replication up to the planning stage in the Replicating case studies (Regions of West-Vlaanderen and Alentejo, and cities of Parma and Aarhus.

Keywords: living labs,communities of practice,innovative investing schemes,bankable solutions,digital twins,innovative financial and insurance products
Nuclear RNA Sorting (NuRS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499988.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499988.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mammalian genomes are hyperactively transcribed and, paradoxically, a major part of the produced RNA is turned over soon after its synthesis. But the situation is even more bizarre. This is because individual transcription units (TUs), that generate standard functional transcripts, also give rise to a flock of shorter labile isoforms. Overall, this presents an extraordinarily chaotic situation where the expression of functional RNA, both at the genomic- and at the single TU-level, is embedded within a sea of futile transcription products. Being predominantly transcribed by RNA polymerase II, labile RNAs share common features with their functional counterparts, which motivates the basic question of the NuRS proposal: Which molecular mechanisms dictate the sorting of nuclear RNAs into stable, functional ribonucleoprotein particles vs. those destined for degradation? The major challenge of mechanistically rationalizing RNA sorting has for long been without concrete and testable hypotheses. However, recent breakthroughs by us, and others, have found that the essential ARS2 protein holds binary functions in RNA maturation and degradation. Given its cap-proximal omnipresence on nascent RNA, we hypothesize that transcript fate is governed by the competitive interaction of ARS2 with productive and destructive factors. Through a delineation of the responsible protein complexes and domains, we will dissect the underlying molecular logic, both at steady state and in the dynamic context of stem cell differentiation. This includes exploring our provocative finding that the domain of ARS2, interacting with RNA processing and degradation factors, can also interact with transcription factors. How these transcriptional and post-transcriptional links impinge on RNA sorting will be uncovered, which will disclose the fundamental question of how cells cope with a massive genomic output without erroneously degrading functional RNA or leaving spurious transcripts ignored.

Keywords: rna quality control rna maturation rna degradation transcription initiation transcription elongation transcription termination nuclear rna sorting
The Jewish Library in Late Antiquity: Forgotten Texts and Non-Rabbinic Jews (JLib)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2308896.0
EU funding (EUR): 2308896.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the study of ancient Judaism, a debate has been raging over the place of the rabbinic movement in late antique Jewish society. On the one hand, there is the extensive body of rabbinic literature, which has much to say about the rabbis’ own world, and relatively little to say about non-rabbinic Jews, thus creating the impression that the rabbis were the only significant social factor in late antique Jewish society. On the other hand, there is an impressive, and constantly growing, body of archaeological evidence – and especially the synagogues of late antique Palestine and their elaborate mosaics – which seems to imply that the rabbis had relatively little impact on the religious and artistic sensitivities of many Jewish communities. This apparent gap between the literary and the archaeological evidence generated an enormous body of scholarly literature, with some scholars arguing that rabbinic Judaism was normative in late antique Jewish society and other scholars claiming that the rabbis were just a small minority, and that most Jews did not pay much attention to what the rabbis thought or said. Rather than joining this debate, JLib will offer a different perspective from which to examine ancient Jewish culture, by reconstructing many non-rabbinic texts from the ‘Jewish library’ of late antiquity. Some of these texts were found in archaeological excavations, but most are found in the Cairo Genizah and in other collections of medieval Hebrew manuscripts. Their late antique origins are demonstrated by their use of Aramaic – mostly Jewish Palestinian Aramaic – by their contents, and by external evidence of their use in late antique Jewish society. JLib will offer an edition of these hitherto neglected texts, an analysis of their relations with similar non-Jewish texts and with rabbinic literature, and a re-evaluation of the complex question of the place of rabbinic Judaism in late antique Jewish society.

Keywords: late antiquity,jewish history,ancient judaism,rabbinic literature,astrology,divination,proverbs,magic,cross cultural contacts
Connecting Random Conformal Geometry and Teichmüller theory (RaConTeich)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499938.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499938.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Random conformal geometry deals with the analysis of conformally invariant systems using probabilistic methods. Random geometric objects, such as the random fractal SLE curves, arise from statistical mechanics models and are of central interest in modern probability theory and mathematical physics. Teichmüller theory as originally introduced studies complex structures on a surface. Teichmüller spaces carry a rich geometric structure and have been an important research topic since the mid-twentieth century. These two fields are traditionally far apart. However, via the introduction of the Loewner energy, the PI showed surprisingly that SLE is closely related to Weil-Petersson Teichmüller space and made the first contact between SLE theory and Teichmüller theory. Further developments exploring the link and recent progress in probabilistic Liouville conformal field theory also suggest that the connection between the two areas is stronger than currently known and we believe exploring the connection is of major scientific interest. The ambition of this project is to break new ground in establishing links between fundamental concepts in random conformal geometry and Teichmüller theory by combining in a pioneering way techniques from probability, complex analysis, geometric analysis, Kähler geometry, spectral theory, and representation theory. We focus on three objectives: 1. Advance the understanding of the deep reason behind the link between SLE and the Kähler geometry of Weil-Petersson universal Teichmüller space. 2. Establish the link between Liouville actions and projective structures in a systematic way. 3. Identify the holography of Loewner energy and explore the uncharted territory of holographic principles of random conformal geometry. The successful completion of this program will substantially reshape our understanding of both areas and has the potential to bring revolutionary development to them both.

Keywords: random conformal geometry,schramm loewner evolution,loewner energy,weil petersson metric,teichmuller theory,holography,liouville conformal field theory
Female Prophecy in Early Modern European Religion (EUROPROP)

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: Norway,Canada,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 275523.36
EU funding (EUR): 275523.36
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This project is the first attempt to create a theoretical account of female prophecy in sixteenth century Italy, Spain and England as a key to understanding crucial political concepts such as authority, discipline, spirituality, agency and expectation. It identifies sixteenth-century Italian ‘living saints’ and humanists; Spanish beatas and conversas; and English visionaries as privileged actors of prophetic charisma and challenges assumptions that prophecy responds just to national or local interests and debates. A transnational approach is needed to demonstrate the close parallels and exchanges in Italy, England and Spain in this era of extensive religious mobility. Without neglecting the differences, this project explores the circulation of female prophecy in Italy, England and Spain before the Universal Church was completely divided. The analysis will concentrate on a corpus of women prophets, i.e. the texts written by women prophets and their male counterparts (confessors, hagiographers and devotees), as well as by secular women (such as humanists) in order to identify interconnections and models of female prophecy in early modern religion. This corpus includes sermons, visions, spiritual letters and poems, hagiographies and inquisitorial trials. The project’s supervision by Unn Falkeid, historian of ideas at the University of Oslo, and by Nicholas Terpstra, social-cultural historian at the University of Toronto, as well as the excellent research environment of the host institutions, will ensure the project’s success. The University of Oslo hosts a growing research team on Renaissance and early modern women and religion, and so is the most fitting environment to carry out my project during the return phase. The University of Toronto (outgoing phase) is the perfect place in which to acquire new methodologies and archival sources, thanks to Terpstra’s expertise, to its digital humanities structures and its centers for the study of the Renaissance and Reformation.

Keywords: prophecy,religion,women,early modern europe,reformation,counter reformation,history of concepts
Safe, sustainable and high performance adhesives and coatings from industrial softwood bark (SuperBark)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Latvia,Austria,Luxembourg,Slovenia,Spain,Türkiye
Call: Bio-based coatings, barriers, binders, and adhesives (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4687071.75
EU funding (EUR): 4468890.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Adhesives and coatings are an integral part of consumer products used in our daily lives. Today, the vast majority of adhesives and coatings on the market are formulated using fossil-based and harmful chemicals, which conflicts with the EU-level goal of reducing our dependency on non-renewable resources and protecting the health and well-being of citizens and the environment. The SuperBark project will exploit natural components in softwood bark, a major industrial side stream of forest industry, to develop ≥ 95% bio-based adhesives and coatings for wood panels and packaging paper with the functional, safety, and sustainability standards required by the industry and consumers. The project partners will deliver this through 1) extraction of polyphenols from bark using a novel alkaline fractionation technology and conversion of cellulose-rich bark residues into cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) 2) development of adhesive and coating formulations using bark polyphenols and CNF that meet technical requirements and build on Safe and Sustainable by Design principles set out by the JRC and 3) combination of digital technologies in process design, system dynamics modelling, and data analysis to accelerate the adhesive and coating developments and evaluate technical, socio-economic and market opportunities. The project findings will be disseminated to scientists, policy makers, society, and industrial actors in relevant sectors, including furniture, construction, transportation and packaging, to raise awareness on the benefits of the adhesives and coatings developed from bark components. The exploitation of results from SuperBark will have a measurable economic impact on the consortium companies and will also translate into clear environmental and health impacts to the society, in alignment to the objectives set in the CBE JU annual work program.

Keywords: packaging,wood construction,forest industry,bark,alkaline extraction,plywood,particleboard,mdf,barrier coating,digital technologies,zero waste,circularity,sustainability,safety