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Skills for the European Open Science Commons: Creating a Training Ecosystem for Open and FAIR Science (Skills4EOSC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EOSC (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Belgium,Poland,Finland,Sweden,Estonia,France,Spain,Norway,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Denmark,Greece,Bulgaria,Serbia,North Macedonia,Germany
Call: Supporting an EOSC-ready digitally skilled workforce (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6476667.63
EU funding (EUR): 6476658.0
Participants: 47
Project status: SIGNED

Skills4EOSC brings together leading experiences of national, regional, institutional and thematic Open Science (OS) and Data Competence Centres from 18 European countries with the goal of unifying the current training landscape into a common and trusted pan-European ecosystem, in order to accelerate the upskilling of European researchers and data professionals in the field of FAIR and Open Data, intensive-data science and Scientific Data Management. Competence Centres (CC) are seen as centres of gravity of OS and EOSC activities in their countries. These entities can either be established national initiatives (as is the case of ICDI in Italy) or initiatives under establishment (e.g. Austria, Greece and the Nordic countries) or organizations which have the leading or mandated contribution to the OS activities nationally. CCs pool the expertise available within research institutions, universities and thematic and cross-discipline research infrastructures. They offer training and support, empowerment, lifelong learning, professionalization and resources to a variety of stakeholders, including not only researchers and data stewards, but also funders, decision makers, civil servants, and industry. Thanks to their position at the heart of the above described multi-stakeholder landscape, the CCs represented by the Skills4EOSC partners play a pivotal role in national plans for Open Science and in the interaction with scientific communities. They also have close access to policy makers and the related funding streams. The Skills4EOSC project will leverage this reference role to establish a pan-European network of CCs on OS and data, coordinating the work done at the national level to upskill professionals in this field. The Skills4EOSC CC network will drive the co-creation of harmonised trainer accreditation pathways, academic and professional curricula and skills quality assurance, recognition frameworks, and learning material creation methodologies.

Keywords: competence centres,eosc,fair,open science,data intensive,research data management,evidence based policy,data stewards,networking,science commons,training
FOsteRing innovation culture for a new generation of GEorgian AI research community (FORGE-AI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Georgia,Germany,France,Armenia
Call: ERA Talents (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-03, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2750875.0
EU funding (EUR): 2750875.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Georgia, EU candidate country and one of the Widening countries in Horizon Europe Programme, needs urgent improvements in its Research and Innovation (R&I) system to cope with the fast pace of Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution and to become a valuable contributor to the European AI strategy implementation. The FORGE-AI project aims to significantly improve the innovation potential of the Georgia’s R&I system and provide a sustainable conditions for boosting research careers of young researchers across sectors, especially in the area of AI, by (1) strengthening innovation-related capacities of leading young AI researchers and research managers (“Talents”); (2) introducing and demonstrating the added value of cross-sectoral mobility & knowledge circulation, and (3) modernizing the national innovation supporting funding mechanisms to incorporate career-boosting principles. The innovation training component will involve at least 20% of all AI R&I talents of Georgia plus representative from neighbouring Armenia in the comprehensive blended learning innovation and entrepreneurship programme, thus equipping the young talents with competences for successful cross-sector careers. The secondment programme will allow 25 talents to spend, in total, 234 months on cross-sector cross-border secondments contributing to their employability and career prospects. The experiences collected through the project activities will compose a basis for national practices and policies in the field of research training improvements. The participation of major R&I funders, leading AI research performers, AI startups and NGOs from Georgia plus AI research company from Armenia, as well as leading European AI research centre, German University innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and large European entrepreneurship and innovation network provides the critical mass of expertise.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,ai act,rtd funding policy,seamless innovation,technology transfer
Mediterranean Mass Mobilities and Displacements in the Age of Steam (1869-1914) (MedMaD)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the technological revolution profoundly reshaped maritime transport, accelerating the circulation of passengers and allowing steamships to be used for the first time to move large masses of people across the sea cheaply. Alongside migrants crossing the sea to relocate within the Mediterranean basin or to reach hub ports for transoceanic migration, steamships teemed with masses of refugees, pilgrims, deportees, workers engaged in cyclical or occasional movements to access integrated labour markets and even enslaved people, often smuggled as ordinary passengers. In their movements, they all experienced varying degrees of freedom and coercion, determined by the vital interest of colonial empires and nascent nation-states in controlling and managing mass flows across the Mediterranean for political, economic and public health reasons. Once at sea, however, these heterogeneous masses were all forcibly united by a single carrier, the steamship, and the same status of passengers. MedMaD proposes a novel approach to the study of mass mobility in the “wider Mediterranean”, including the Black Sea and the Red Sea, between the opening of the Suez Canal, in 1869, and the beginning of the First World War, in 1914. The project's overall objective is to examine from a global perspective the development of mass transport maritime services in the Mediterranean during the age of steam and analyse their impact on inter- and extra-Mediterranean mobilities and displacements of passengers travelling in low-cost classes (third- and fourth-class or deck passengers, as defined by the ticket).

Keywords: maritime history,low cost mass transport,transport revolution,shipping companies,transition from sail to steam navigation,passenger lines,mediterranean,red sea,black sea,mobility,migration
The neural and cognitive mechanisms of adaptive and maladaptive emotion-behaviour interactions in naturalistic tasks (EMOBB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499681.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499681.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Deciding what to do when for how long – self-organizing one’s behaviour – is an important feature of daily life. Emotions arise providing short-cuts for the computational complexities. Yet, we still know relatively little about the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms. EMOBB will establish the computational, cognitive and neural underpinnings of the rich interplay between emotions and self-organized behaviour in naturalistic environments overcoming three key challenges. First, previous work has almost exclusively relied on tasks structured into experimenter determined trials – thus how people self-organized behaviour could not be measured. To overcome this, EMOBB will combine novel naturalistic tasks in which people have freedom what to do when for how long with subjective and objective measures of emotions. This will be made possible through a computational modelling approach that allows dissecting and quantifying even complex behaviour-emotion interactions. Second, many previous decision-making tasks have limited relevance for real-life cognition and individual differences. EMOBB will address this by relating the computational task measures to individual differences in real-life behaviours and emotional traits. This effort will culminate in the creation of a video game platform providing a large population benchmark. Third, brain imaging has primarily relied on correlations, often focusing on individual regions. EMOBB will go beyond this testing the causal role of brain networks and their shifting compositions to cognitive state changes combining functional magnetic resonance brain imaging and non-invasive ultrasound brain stimulation. While the challenges are important by themselves, combining all aspects in one project will allow a breakthrough in our understanding across all levels from neural underpinning to individual differences. Specifically, it will deliver a model of naturalistic emotion-behaviour interplay and its mediating brain mechanisms

Keywords: computational modelling decision making naturalistic tasks cognitive neuroscience functional magnetic resonance imaging transdiagnostic approach brain stimulation computational psychiatry
Chemical speciation of A Revolution In Art History (ARIAH)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 288859.2
EU funding (EUR): 288859.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

A revolution in art happened in the 15th century: The transition from tempera to oil painting in Italy marked the beginning of the great period of Renaissance art and the creation of some of the most revered masterpieces of all time. Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Leonardo da Vinci, are examples of artists who were shifting away from the use of predominantly egg-based tempera to the use of oil. But how did this transition occur? The simplistic assumption that pigments were solely either mixed with egg or oil-based binding media has been rejected. Artists continued to use egg in parallel or in combination with oil, and prepared paints and binding media of complex chemistry, which is still not understood today. The overarching goal of ARIAH (A Revolution In Art History) is to discover the atomic- and molecular-level chemical composition of mixed media paint layers (oil-protein mixtures) in original Renaissance artefacts and map the distribution of their constituents at the nanoscale, to understand the revolution of painting techniques in Renaissance Italy. The project will tackle this challenge by introducing, for the first time, high-resolution X-ray Raman Scattering (XRS), 2D and 3D XRS chemical speciation imaging, and scanning transmission x-ray microscopy in combination with mass spectrometry of painting samples. We will establish an analytical protocol based on the techniques, which will be released to the scientific community to serve as a benchmark for the molecular and atomic-level understanding of artworks. Atomic and molecular data will contribute to the most ambitious objective of understanding the materiality and the technology of the transition from egg to oil in Renaissance Italy. Results of this interdisciplinary research will be widely disseminated within the art history, chemical science and physical science communities by following an open access policy.

Keywords: renaissance paintings x ray imaging x ray spectroscopy chemical speciation atomic and molecular level composition heritage science nanoscale characterization oil protein binders
AQUASERV – RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES FOR SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE, FISHERIES AND THE BLUE ECONOMY (AQUASERV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Services and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,France,Netherlands,Spain,Norway,Denmark,Sweden,Belgium,Italy,Türkiye,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Hungary,Greece,Finland,Czechia
Call: Research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing main challenges and EU priorities (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14157482.77
EU funding (EUR): 14157482.52
Participants: 40
Project status: SIGNED

The overarching objectives of AQUASERV are to bring together, enhance, integrate and customise RI capacities (including facilities, instruments and expertise) and through the provision of transnational access (on-site or remote) and/or virtual access, to significantly further scientific advance and promote and facilitate the implementation of European Common Fisheries Policy, the Farm to Fork Strategy, the Sustainable Blue Economy and the European Green Deal. AQUASERV will achieve these objectives by offering scientists from academia and business remote and on-site transnational (TA) and virtual (VA) access to an advanced set of European research infrastructures and its nodes related to research and management of marine and freshwater biological resources, food and biotechnology. These include the European Marine Biological Resource Centre ERIC (EMBRC), the Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems ERIC, The Aquaculture for Excellence for Aquaculture in Fish (Aquaexcel), and the Infrastructure for Promoting Metrology in Food and Nutrition (METROFOOD), as well as the International Council for Exploration of the Sea, both a service provider and stakeholder. It also includes the Research Infrastructure for Science and Innovation Policy Studies (RISIS) to bring contributions from the social sciences and to bring results nearer to policy makers ensuring societal impact. To enhance, integrate and customise RI capacities, collaboration between partners and new pipelines to meet the objectives of the project will be developed during the first 3 years and will make available to users. To ensure these capacities will not be lost, a sustainability work package involving stakeholders will address the project legacy. To maximize impact, AQUASERV will build a communication network among the partnership and develop a dissemination and outreach programme. Furthermore, an advanced training programme will be developed to capture future users and will be updated during the p

Keywords: marine biotechnology,fisheries,marine biotechnology,biofuels,food processing,biodiversity,transnational access
Between Fixism and Evolutionism: The Origin of Species in Medieval Thought (SPECIES)

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: Italy
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): 2424186.0
EU funding (EUR): 2424186.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

It is commonly believed that the debate on the nature of living species and their possible evolution has no real history prior to the 18th century. The roots of this assumption lie in the belief that the entire previous tradition had been dominated by the combination of the Aristotelian doctrine of the eternity of species (fixism) and Jewish, Christian and Islamic creationism. The core hypothesis of SPECIES is that, on the contrary, the Middle Ages produced a significant and sophisticated series of reflections on the constancy and fluidity of species, and that the originality of these doctrines can be traced to the use of arguments based on divine omnipotence. The ambition of SPECIES is to rewrite the history of the concept of species. To this end, it will develop through four specific questions, which correspond to the four fundamental objectives [O] of the project: 1. [ORIGO] Are species eternal or do they have a temporal beginning? O1: Show that pre-evolutionary theories are by no means a monolithic and undifferentiated whole. 2. [ORDO] Do species represent an unchanging essential order or can they be subject to variation? O2: Show that hypotheses relating in various ways to the variability or new generation of species arose and were discussed long before the 18th and 19th centuries. 3. [PRAEDICATIO] What is the relationship between species as natural kinds and species as logical predicables? O3: Clarify the relationship between logical and natural classifications in the pre-modern period, allowing a precise disambiguation of the different meanings of ‘species’. 4. [DESCENSUS] Are species hierarchically ordered among themselves? And do they allow for any internal subdivision? O4: Offer a first precise reconstruction of the genesis of a number of (still) burning issues, such as those related to intraspecific racism, speciesism, and the balance between individual and specific interests (a topic of increasing interest in the field of intergenerational ethics).

Keywords: medieval philosophy species fixism catastrophism creationism divine omnipotence
Molecular mechanisms of thyroid hormone synthesis: from atoms to organoids (THYROMOL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Metabolic functions in vertebrates are ruled by thyroid hormones, produced by the thyroid gland and secreted into the bloodstream. Thyroid hormone levels modulate growth, development and many other key processes across the lifespan, and their impairment severely affects human health. Despite extensive studies, controlling hormone levels in vivo remains a major challenge. Synthesis of thyroid hormones occurs extracellularly, via iodination of thyroglobulin. They must then undergo endocytosis before they can be released into the bloodstream. Yet, most thyroglobulin forms a colloid matrix within the gland, enabling iodine and hormone storage for the body. How these three mechanisms are balanced to provide physiological levels of hormones to the organism remains an outstanding question. Using an integrative structural biology approach, the proposed research will focus on unravelling the molecular mechanisms underlying the major checkpoints of thyroid hormone synthesis. My research group will combine electron cryo-microscopy with biochemical and light microscopy tools to study thyroid hormone regulation at different scales: from in vitro reconstituted systems to native thyroid organoids. First, we will elucidate how thyroglobulin iodination modulates hormone yields and modifies thyroglobulin structure. Second, we will determine the mechanism of thyroglobulin endocytosis regulated by two main receptors. Third, we will decipher the mechanism of storage and depletion of the thyroglobulin storage matrix. These approaches will allow us to reproduce the complexity of thyroid hormone synthesis at high resolution and in a native environment. My expertise in structural biology and my pioneering work on thyroglobulin puts me in an ideal position to carry out this work. The expected outcome and method development of this research will open a new front in thyroid structural biology and inspire alternative strategies for the control of thyroid hormone synthesis in vivo.

Keywords: thyroid hormones,cryo em,in situ cryo et,thyroglobulin,iodination,organoids,endocytosis,extracellular matrix