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Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societies (CECC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project investigates how children in three small-scale Indigenous societies develop moral understandings and behavior in relation to different environments and environmental transformations. Communities across the world are experiencing rapid changes to the spaces they inhabit, such as deforestation or changing land use, forcing them to radically alter their ways of life and subsistence. But we know very little about how these may impact the moral development of children. Environments are frequently invoked as playing important roles in the formation of morality, from the immediate home environments that provide the contexts for a child’s ontogenetic development, to the evolutionary environments in which the human species evolved particular moral dispositions, such as cooperation or altruism. But on either timescale, environments are mostly taken for granted as providing stable contexts for human action. To date there is no detailed study of the concrete ways in which environmental affordances and moral socialization interact, and of consequences of environmental transformations. The aim of this project is to develop a new framework for the study of the role of environments in human moral development through longitudinal, family-based ethnography in three Indigenous former hunter-gatherer communities in Paraguay, Malaysia, and Namibia. These communities have experienced dramatic environmental changes and settled in villages or town, but they also still go on extended foraging treks in nearby nature reserves. Comparing these two environments allows us to examine differences between past and present modes of existence and understand how environmental change impacts sociality and morality. Through video-based analysis, ethnography, interviews, and psychological experiments, the international team of researchers will analyze children’s everyday interactions with caregivers and peers across environments, as well as reflexive understandings of attendant moral values.

Keywords: children,sharing,cooperation,ethics,morality,indigenous people,hunter gatherers,social change,environmental change,family ethnography,video ethnography,linguistic anthropology,conversation analysis,child development,psychological anthropology
Merging an interconnected innovation ecosystem of deep-tech and critical technologies to boost circularity through resilient transformation in the EU (MOSAIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Bulgaria
Call: Mutual learning and support scheme for national and regional innovation programmes (HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 99625.0
EU funding (EUR): 99625.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

MOSAIC will look for the interaction with talented SMEs and start-ups working on critical technologies and deep tech, to help reaching Industry 5.0 while creating an innovation ecosystem. These companies will enrich the value chains in digital and deep-tech innovation, clean technologies, and net-zero technologies. Like this, MOSAIC will create an excellence hub established in different major pillars of deep-tech innovation, where the partners bring and exchange knowledge and technology transfer. Involving local, regional and national stakeholders MOSAIC will call for better coordination at all levels for better synergies between EU funds and programs that aim to stimulate resilient innovation and circularity. Collaborations between the public sector, universities, businesses and society will be acknowledged as critical to innovation and to increase the competitiveness of regions' different development levels to bring solutions tailored to regional and local needs. As a result, MOSAIC will provide a Design Options Paper showing the outcomes of the execution of the ecosystem actions providing guidance to future developments of the innovation ecosystems, including the compilation of conclusions from mapping & integration of MOSAIC stakeholders and regions for the generation of the hub-network, selection of 4 deep-tech and critical technology enterprises based on the potential for the ecosystem and the analysis of the agencies and agents that count on EIC Accelerator certification to apply to the Plug-in scheme.

Keywords: smes and startups support,innovation mechanisms,mobilisation of policies
Private interests in public functions: Framing a new paradigm of power in the cities of the Roman Empire, from the end of the Republic to Diocletian (PECUNIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999350.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999350.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Examining the hundreds of cities which formed the basis of the Roman Empire (70 BC-AD 284), PECUNIA interrogates the material and pecuniary interests made available to local elites by their political activity. It investigates how positions in local institutions were structurally associated with private opportunities and how this phenomenon was conceived and regulated at both levels of the imperial system, i.e. the Roman centre and the cities. In the civic milieu, the flow of gifts and mandatory contributions of the well-off to their communities has been extensively explored by scholarship, while the fields of re-sources made available to them by the government of the cities have remained unaddressed. This mainly results from the focus on contributions of members of the political elites which is found in the inscriptions, engraved under the direction of the governing bodies of the cities, in praise of their actions. Based on the observation that sources also account for legal and illegal gains, PECUNIA instead aims at producing a comprehensive analysis of private interest in public affairs, by (1) using an empire-wide inquiry, whereas in institutional and social studies the civic world has so far only been approached regionally, (2) harnessing heterogeneous data from classical sources and also from less sought corpora, (3) using investigative concepts and data modelling stemming from political science and sociological studies of the elites, to elaborate new interpretative paths about the production of stability in local governance in the Roman Empire. By gaining substantial and systematic evidence and devising new questions capable of navigating it, PECUNIA thus illuminates the expectations regarding participation in public life by the various sub-groups in the elites and it frames a new paradigm of local power, considering all stakeholders and their attitudes to the realities of private interests in local functions, from the local people to the Roman administration.

Keywords: roman empire,high empire,municipal government,local elites,italy,provinces,epigraphy,documentary evidence
Ultrafast Photochemistry in Organic Aerosols (PHAERO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3197095.0
EU funding (EUR): 3197095.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Much of the current discussion of the causes of global warming and mitigation of its impacts focuses on greenhouse gas emissions and net-zero CO2 targets. However, atmospheric aerosols also contribute significantly, and in ways that remain more poorly quantified, to the radiative balance that determines Earth’s climate. The PHAERO project addresses a major gap in our knowledge of the sunlight-driven photochemistry of organic aerosol particles in the lower atmosphere. For the first time, PHAERO will apply cutting-edge time-resolved spectroscopy and mass spectrometry methods to explore directly the photochemistry of organic compounds dissolved in aqueous aerosol droplets with picolitre volumes, and with femtosecond to microsecond time resolution. The chosen organic compounds represent chemical species proposed to be responsible for organic aerosol growth, as well as those present in brown-carbon aerosol particles formed by the burning of plants and trees, for example in wildfires and agricultural land clearance. This project is timely because of the increasing incidences worldwide of such fires and their associated emissions of particulate matter, as exemplified by poor air quality in many cities and major fires in Europe, north America and the Arctic. PHAERO will explore how the photochemical pathways of atmospherically important organic molecules are changed by confinement in micron-dimension aqueous aerosol droplets, for example through solute accumulation at the water-air interface, supersaturated concentrations in evaporating aerosols, and inhibited diffusion in viscous aerosol particles. The outcomes will advance our understanding of climate science and air quality. Applying the same methods to the photochemistry of droplets containing molecules of biological importance, the project will also provide new insights into the UV-induced degradation of the molecular components of pathogens in exhaled respiratory droplets by sunlight or germicidal UVC radiation.

Keywords: ultrafast spectroscopy,organic aerosol,brown carbon aerosol,organic photochemistry,aqueous droplets,atmospheric chemistry
Religion and Healing: Collaborative and Participatory Methodologies (RHEAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands,Denmark,Indonesia,Tanzania, United Republic of,Brazil,Japan,Korea, Republic of
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 846690.0
EU funding (EUR): 846690.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

RHEAL investigates innovative interdisciplinary methodologies for fostering collaboration between researchers, healthcare professionals, religious and traditional healers, people with lived experience of mental health conditions, and their carers. Drawing upon the interdisciplinary approaches of anthropology, creative arts, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry, RHEAL addresses pressing issues in mental health by investigating how different therapeutic approaches can better communicate to improve care and knowledge exchange. Focussing on mental health and practices of spiritual trance and possession, this project aims to bridge the epistemological divide between biomedical and religious/spiritual and traditional perspectives, identifying best practices for cooperation in healing. In order to achieve this scientific breakthrough, RHEAL draws upon the methodologies of ethnography, micro-phenomenology, and creative participatory approaches to develop co-designed, person-centred knowledge transfer models. Visual arts and multimodal approaches – including participatory video, photography, and sensory engagement – are used to access lived and embodied experiences of healing, in order to rethink the production of knowledge about healing cooperation through the sensorial engagement in everyday life with materialities and images, and encourage inclusive, sustainable and collaborative policies. In bringing together the fields of humanities, life and social sciences, RHEAL aims to create an interdisciplinary, applied methodological toolkit for mental healthcare research and practice. By advancing innovative practices of healing cooperation, it seeks to inform sustainable healthcare policies and contribute to the global discourse on integrative healing. By 'sustainability’, RHEAL intends to work towards systems that are inclusive of the person’s experiences and traditional knowledge, and able to accommodate side by side different epistemologies and therapeutic approaches.

Keywords: religion mental health visual and participatory methods knowledge transfer healing cooperation
Hidden Cascade Modelling for the Identification of Hidden Tip Chains in Stock Markets (HiddenTipChains)

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: Finland,Denmark,India
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Consider a scenario in a financial market where investors privately share important insider information within their social circles. Although financial authorities could monitor investors' transactions, it remains challenging to identify which investors have received and are exploiting insider information. I term this scenario a hidden cascade problem, in which the true states of agents cannot be directly observed. This particular form of cascade modelling, involving the inference of agent states from indirect observations, has received limited attention in the existing literature. This proposal, "HiddenTipChains", introduces approaches based on Topological Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and probabilistic modeling to reveal hidden information transfer through investors’ social connections and to detect suspicious trading based on insider information. This supports European Commission goals for financial stability and investor protection. In a broader context, the methods will enable us to analyse hidden cascade models when direct observations of agents' true states are not directly observable. I expect that in future research, these approaches can find application in addressing hidden cascade challenges across various fields, such as epidemiology, climate science, and information security. The empirical part of the project is based on world-wide unique and exceptionally extensive datasets, providing us with full access to investors’ full market-wide trading history on all the securities they traded. Additionally, we have observable social connections among insider investors, allowing us to track how news tips about future events propagate within this network. The approached developed in this project will be verified with synthetic data with extensive Monte-Carlo experiments. The project contributes to the Computer Science literature by developing techniques for hidden cascade problems and within the Quantitative Finance domain for identifying market abuse.

Keywords: information cascades,insider information,machine learning,topological data analysis
Biological Factors in Fleas: Determinants of Physiology and Pathogen Transmission (FACTORS)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Vector-borne diseases are caused by pathogens transmitted by hematophagous arthropods (vectors) and affect millions of people worldwide. The rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is a major vector for several pathogens, including Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of bubonic plague. Despite periodic outbreaks of this and other flea-borne diseases, research on flea biology remains neglected. Understanding the biological processes underlying flea physiology and their ability to transmit human pathogens is crucial for comprehending the dynamics of flea-borne diseases and implementing sustainable control strategies. This project aims to uncover the biological FACTORS in fleas that contribute to pathogen transmission, with a specific focus on the plague agent. Under identical experimental conditions, different rat flea strains exhibit variations in blood feeding, colony development, and Y. pestis infection, leading to the hypothesis that strain-specific biological factors in fleas impact their physiology and the transmission of the plague agent. Through comparative studies between flea strains from regions with high or low plague prevalence, FACTORS aims to uncover the role of (1) genes expressed in the gut, (2) flea-associated microbiota, and (3) immune cells in flea feeding, development, and Y. pestis infection, all of which dictate pathogen transmission. FACTORS will address a largely neglected area of flea biology, generating profound insights into the biological processes contributing to the dynamics of plague, while also identifying new targets for the development of innovative vector control strategies. This aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goal of promoting health and well-being. Additionally, the training in soft skills, expanded networks, and the excellence of science resulting from this fellowship will be invaluable for the applicant's career goal of becoming a distinguished scientist.

Keywords: flea,plague,vector competence,hematophagy,hemocytes,microbiota,insect microbe interactions
Strenghtening Extreme Events Detection for Flood and Drought (SEED-FD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Austria,Italy,Kenya,Germany,Belgium
Call: Copernicus for Emergency Management (HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3521492.88
EU funding (EUR): 2994911.13
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

“Today, one third of the world’s people, mainly in least developed countries and small island developing states, are still not covered by early warning systems... This is unacceptable, particularly with climate impacts sure to get even worse. Early warnings and action save lives. To that end, today I announce the United Nations will spearhead new action to ensure every person on Earth is protected by early warning systems within five years.” - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on World Meteorological Day 2022/03/23 The ambition of the Strengthening Extreme Events Detection for Floods and Droughts (SEED-FD) project proposal is to give Europe, with the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, a leading position with this regard by breaking the current limitations of hydrological simulation accuracy and reliability and providing skillful floods and droughts forecasts available anywhere in the world, including in the global south for lower and middle-income countries, typically the most impacted by extreme hydrological events but also where the current knowledge gap in hydrological simulation and forecasting is highest. Combining state-of-the-art science with crucial advances in EO and non-EO technologies, the project's global objective is to enhance the quality and portfolio of the CEMS EWS for floods and droughts and improve the reliability of predictions all over the world. SEED-FD will target every critical part of the CEMS Hydrological Forecasting Modelling chain by applying state-of-the-art science to transform new observational information into high-quality hydrometeo extreme event forecast products. It will invest in better representing hydrological processes and parameterisation techniques of the CEMS core hydrological engine (LISFLOOD) and combine the model enhancements with innovative techniques to integrate EO and non-EO data with the near real-time hydrological processing chain for reducing hydrological forecasting errors.

Keywords: flood,drought,forecast,eo,enhanced hydrological science,remote sensing,extrem events
Biohydrogel 3D printing: a feasible circular economy strategy for eco-friendly cellulose obtention from olive waste and its application in various fields (HYDROGEL0LIVE3D)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This research responds to the pressing need to shift away from the wasteful linear economic model, which generates environmental problems and lacks sustainability. We focus on the Circular Economy (CE), which aims to reduce waste, conserve resources, and improve material and energy efficiency. The specific goal is to tackle the issue of unused agricultural waste, particularly olive waste in Mediterranean countries. This waste is a significant problem, with about 70% currently going unused, causing environmental and economic challenges. The approach involves extracting cellulose from olive waste to create valuable biohydrogels (BHGs), promoting waste valorization and sustainable resource management. The proposal combines innovative materials science with CE principles, green cellulose extraction, and advanced 3D printing techniques to create functional and sustainable materials from agricultural waste with versatility in production and application. Our team has expertise in agriculture, waste valorization, green materials science, and 3D printing technology. We are well-prepared to address this challenge through our experience and collaboration with the Technological Center for Plastics, Andaltec (AND). The research aligns with the European Commission's priority of transitioning to a circular economy, reducing waste, and enhancing resource efficiency. It is also timely given the urgency of environmental issues. Furthermore, our project provides a platform for skill development, collaboration, and interdisciplinary research, preparing us to contribute to MSCA-PF grants and sustainable research and innovation in Europe.

Keywords: biopolymer life cycle analysis additive manufacturing waste reuse separation process