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The Late Scholastic Transformation of Hylomorphism. Philosophical Discussions of Form and Matter in Context, 1400-1600 (TRANSFORM)

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: Belgium
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): 2498985.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498985.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

TRANSFORM investigates the development of hylomorphism – the philosophical theory that every physical object is composed of structurable matter and structuring form (“hyle” and “morphe” in Greek) – in the period 1400-1600. For most of its 2500-year history, from its Aristotelian beginnings to modern-day metaphysics, hylomorphism has been a fundamental philosophical notion. From around 1200, when the works of Aristotle and his Arabic commentators were translated into Latin, hylomorphism became central to scholastic thought, underpinning theories in, for example, cosmology, psychology, medicine, and theology. TRANSFORM focuses on the largely unstudied hylomorphic theory in the era of the first European-wide university network, of new cultural impulses like humanism and Reformation, and of philosophical, scientific, and medical ferment. TRANSFORM’s research hypothesis is that in order to properly understand major aspects of late-medieval and Early-Modern thought, we must first understand the transformation of hylomorphic thought in the period 1400-1600. To show this, the project proceeds in three steps: First, cataloguing the period’s hylomorphic texts (in manuscripts and in early prints). Second, through close analysis of selected thinkers and debates, studying the evolution of the period’s hylomorphism and bringing the important and new positions, arguments, and methods to light. Third, producing a synthetic view of late-scholastic hylomorphic thought including contextual issues, such as: what role did the period’s universities and other educational institutions play in the spread of hylomorphic ideas? How did the new intellectual and religious impulses affect the hylomorphic discussion? Conducting groundbreaking research, TRANSFORM will illuminate for the first time this pivotal chapter in hylomorphism’s history as the medieval world turned to the modern, offering new insights to change our view of medieval and Early Modern intellectual history more broadly.

Keywords: aristotelianism,history of metaphysics,history of natural philosophy,history of philosophical psychology,history of universities,knowledge transmission,manuscripts,early printed texts,renaissance,reformation
Establishing the EuroGEO Secretariat to support the EuroGEO initiative (EuroGEOSec)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Italy,Greece
Call: Support to EuroGEO initiative coordination/establishing a EuroGEO secretariat (HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2159495.81
EU funding (EUR): 1998674.38
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The EuroGEOSec project (led by ARMINES) brings together a European consortium built from the core group of the team involved in the H2020 e-shape (EuroGEO Showcases: Applications powered by Europe) project and will collaborate with the Joint Research Centre Knowledge Center on Earth Observation (JRC-KCEO) to support the EuroGEO vision and to prepare the transition of the EuroGEO initiative into a sustainable endeavour, by setting-up a EuroGEO secretariat. The overarching goal of the EuroGEOSec project is to support the coordination of the EuroGEO initiative and develop a sustainability plan guiding its long-term operation. This will be achieved by establishing the EuroGEO Secretariat with the mission to (i) strengthen GEO-related coordination mechanisms at European and national levels, (ii) support increased innovation, space application development and reinforcement of the European space data ecosystem concept; (iii) foster international cooperation to help stimulate the market and promote European technology and services; (iv) contribute to the European Green Deal objectives and the European strategy for data (EU Data Spaces) by further deploying and exploiting the use of EO towards a strengthened Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The project delivers the definition, set-up, operation and ramp-up of the EuroGEO Secretariat serving the EuroGEO initiative and its ecosystem of actors, and developing support services and a sustainability strategy that will inform the long-term operation of the EuroGEO initiative. Project url website: www.eurogeosec.eu

Keywords: eurogeo geo environmental observations eu policy contributions priorisation of randi funding eurogeo sustainability and legal business models combining,cooperating and coordinating
Elite Politics in Electoral Autocracies (ELITE)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-08
End date: 2026-01-07
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Today most dictators exploit democratic institutions such as multiparty elections or legislatures to cover their autocratic rule. To carry out this form of rule, dictators need a loyal coalition of politicians to gather supporters, advance policies and win elections. While this loyalty is central to regime survival, elite divisions within authoritarian governments can induce political change. Yet, what type of divisions matter and whether such change will be democratizing are unclear. Defectors might have the resources to embolden pro-democracy groups, but they may also face repression, worsening democratization prospects. What type of divisions within the ruling elite can weaken modern autocracies? What are the mechanisms that underpin the relationship between defections and democratization? ELITE offers a new theoretical framework, innovative data, and empirical research to identify and explain the strains and disruptions within authoritarian governments that induce democratization. It develops a theory of the elite origins of regime (in)stability, focusing on divisions within the ruling elite. ELITE builds a novel dataset on political elites’ resources and dissent strategies in 28 prominent electoral autocracies—today's most common form of autocracy. Cutting-edge mixed methods test why and how elite divisions strengthen anti-regime groups and weaken leaders' tools to stay in power. Findings will inform academic and policy debates on the processes that weaken modern dictatorships. Dr. Adrián del Río Rodríguez has broad expertise on the topic of elite politics in autocracies and methodological skills to carry out the ELITE project. The Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, will host Dr. del Río, and Prof. Carl H. Knutsen–a top international scholar in autocratic politics—will supervise him. The hosting arrangements provide excellent opportunities for networking, training, and potential for research collaboration during the MSCA fellowship.

Keywords: dictatorships,elite studies,political parties,electoral fraud,repression,co optation,elections,democratization
Unravelling and predicting degradation of canvas paintings: a multiscale and multiphysics framework (VANGOGH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499748.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499748.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Predicting the degradation of canvas paintings is not only one of the grand challenges in the field of art conservation but also a major scientific problem. Canvas paintings experience complex instability, fracture, and degradation mechanisms across several length scales triggered by the interaction between multiple physical fields. These degradation processes impact the appearance, integrity, and longevity of the painted surfaces and are thus a paramount concern for heritage conservators. This proposal targets a novel integrated computational-experimental framework that aims to realize a breakthrough in predicting the lifespan of canvas paintings by unravelling the underlying multiscale and multiphysics processes that affect their appearance and integrity. VANGOGH departs from developing advanced numerical multiscale and multiphysics models formulated within the framework of computational mechanics. These models will describe the complex constitutive response of paint and canvas materials and their effect on the degradation of canvas paintings under the coupled influence of moisture diffusion, thermal conduction, mechanical deformation, and fracture and instability mechanisms. The modelling framework will be fully integrated with a novel non-invasive multiscale experimental strategy combining quantitative mechanical testing and in-situ microscopic observations on original paint and canvas samples. The synergetic computational-experimental approach will advance the mechanistic understanding of the fundamental origin of the most critical failure scenarios in canvas paintings as a function of environmental variations and structural conservation treatments. This will allow for the first time to quantitatively predict the degradation and thus the lifetime of canvas paintings. The proposed integration of computational and experimental multiscale mechanics with art conservation will provide a paradigm shift in the scientific approach to cultural heritage preservation.

Keywords: canvas paintings,multiscale mechanics,multiphysics failure,mechanical behaviour of paint and canvas materials,non invasive experiments
A new science of parenthood (PAR2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany
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): 1999035.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999035.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

How does life, how does a person change when one becomes a parent? Are new parents really lost as close friends? Are they actually better listeners because they have learned to put themselves second? Why are some parents caring and attuned to their children’s needs when others struggle? It is surprising that researchers have so far overlooked the transition to parenthood as a driver for social-developmental change and have hardly zoomed in on parenting as social behaviour. Like any other social behaviour, substantial individual differences can be found between parents but research has neglected various likely determinants. PAR2 changes this by 1) elucidating whether, indeed, parents develop differently in the social realm compared to people without children, and 2) using the methodological tools of social development research to test why parents differ in the ways they parent. To achieve this, we compare parents and people without children on social-emotional skills and social behaviour using longitudinal cohorts that span multiple decades across adolescence and adulthood (WP1). How parenting behaviour -as a unique social behaviour in adulthood- is being shaped under different circumstances and in different people, is central in work packages 2-4. We use longitudinal social networks (WP2), multiple-generation cohorts (WP3), and social genome data (WP4) to understand the influence of 1) family, partner, friends, and other parents, 2) social relationships prior to becoming a parent, and 3) own, partner, and child genes on parenting. PAR2 significantly innovates research on social development by explicitly conceptualizing parenthood as a crucial transition and parenting as social behaviour. Viewing parenthood as driver of developmental change and parenting as social behaviour means that PAR2 generates a novel direction in research and will result in significant theoretical and methodological innovation to our understanding of variation in human development.

Keywords: parenting,parenthood,social development,multiple generation cohort,social network,social genome
Sea straits and biogeography: the role of the Strait of Gibraltar in shaping European-African heathland plant biodiversity (BIGHEATH)

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 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The Strait of Gibraltar is a unique hotspot of plant biodiversity within the Mediterranean basin, considered as both a glacial refugium and a relatively permeable biogeographical barrier for plant biodiversity, due to its geological, edaphic and climatic singularities. At both sides of this strait, two heathland habitats of high conservation value and shared edaphic features (acid, infertile and sandy soils) deserve attention: Mediterranean dry heat (herriza) and temperate Atlantic wet heath, whose floras present a peculiar population genetic structure pointing to eco-evolutionary processes such as successful colonisations across the Strait of Gibraltar and isolation by ecogeographic barriers as main drivers in shaping heathland plant biodiversity. Nevertheless, the knowledge about this is still limited. In the present project, a multidisciplinary approach integrating genomics, phylogeography, phylogenomics, demographic inference and community ecology is proposed to contribute to a proper understanding of the role of the Strait of Gibraltar as biogeographical bridge/barrier for both heathland habitats, although particularly relevant for the forgotten but threatened wet heath flora. Likewise, the proposed project will enable to detect key biodiversity areas (probable glacial refugia) and the potential response of heathland plant biodiversity to climate change, essential information for its effective management and conservation.

Keywords: phylogeography,evolutionary history,mediterranean plants,strait of gibraltar,climate change
Application-driven Challenges for Automata Networks and Complex Systems (ACANCOS)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Italy,France,Finland,Brazil,Chile
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 437000.0
EU funding (EUR): 437000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The ACANCOS project aims to lay the foundation for a solid, and internationally competitive research, which is deeply rooted in a context of numerous prior collaborations (but non structured in an unique network on a worldwide scale) on Automata Networks, Cellular Automata, and modelling of complex systems by these discrete models. ACANCOS connects the scientific expertise and excellence of research groups from five countries, two of them outside EU, including experts from two distinct communities (AN and CA), from two distinct orientations (theory-oriented and application-oriented), and from three distinct disciplines (computer science, mathematics, and biomedicine). The scientific objectives of the project are: a) Increasing the knowledge on the relations among the architecture/properties of the underlying graph of AN and the dynamical properties of DTDS defined by AN; b) Understanding the sensitivity/robustness of AN to (a)synchronism; c) Understanding AN through the concept of intrinsic simulation, i.e. the capacity of instances of the computational model to simulate the dynamical behaviour of other instances of the same model; d) Targeting and understanding wide classes of CA both exhibiting the complex behaviours of general CA and with decidable dynamical properties; e) Designing efficient decision algorithms for the dynamical properties describing the dynamical behaviour of DTDS defined by the above mentioned classes of CA; f) Understanding the complexity of the problems regarding the dynamics of DTDS defined by CA with both finite and infinite lattice. g) AN for new conceptualisation and modelling of GRN: theoretical validations and applicative validations on real GRN; h) New CA-based methods for data encryption; Sharing knowledge among different cultural and scientific environments will be crucial to achieve the scientific objectives of the project. The partnership will be strengthened through summer schools and workshops.

Keywords: automata networks,cellular automata,complex systems,discrete time dynamical systems,dynamical system modelling,computational complexity
Exploring the Relationship between Climate, Environment, and Health in Antiquity through the Papyri from Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (RECLEAN)

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,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-06-03
End date: 2028-06-02
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 320924.16
EU funding (EUR): 320924.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

RECLEAN aims to study the impact of human activities on the environment of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt (ca. III c. BCE - VII c. CE), the effects of climate variability and pollution on the health of the inhabitants of Egypt, and the people’s degree of awareness of environmental issues and their consequences on health. Research will focus on a body of sources that have not yet been comprehensively analysed, the papyri from Egypt written in Greek and Latin, which will be integrated with literary and historical sources, archaeological finds and inscriptions, and with the results of studies based on palaeoclimate proxies and palaeopathological samples. The outgoing phase of RECLEAN (years 1 and 2) will take place at the Departement Altertumswissenschaften of the University of Basel, which hosts the Basel Climate Change and Ancient History Lab, an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to the study of ancient environmental issues: here the fellow will receive specific training in Environmental History of Antiquity, essential for the pursuit of the project’s objectives, in a vibrant and multidisciplinary environment that brings together specialists in the Humanities and in the Environmental Sciences. The return phase (year 3) will take place at the Dipartimento di studi umanistici e del patrimonio culturale of the University of Udine, where the fellow will consolidate her preparation in Papyrology and further delve into the subject of “environmental awareness” in Antiquity. The results of RECLEAN will be made available to the scientific community through open access publications and presentations at conferences, while the communication activities will reach a wider audience with the aim of stimulating a reflection and debate on environmental issues in a historical perspective, thus contributing to raising awareness of the magnitude that environmental problems have reached today when compared to the past and the need for urgent intervention.
Developing Institutional open Access publishing Models to Advance Scholarly communication (DIAMAS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Netherlands,Spain,Finland,Croatia,Norway,Italy,Germany,Greece,Poland,United Kingdom
Call: Capacity-building for institutional open access publishing across Europe (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2602276.25
EU funding (EUR): 2518057.5
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

In the transition towards Open Access (OA), institutional publishing is challenged by fragmentation and varying service quality, visibility, and sustainability. To address this issue, DIAMAS gathers 23 organisations from 12 European countries, well-versed in OA academic publishing and scholarly communication. The project will: 1. Map the current landscape of Institutional Publishing Service Providers (IPSPs) in 25 countries of the ERA with special attention for IPSPs that do not charge fees for publishing or reading. This will yield a taxonomy of IPSPs and an IPSP landscape report, a basis for the rest of the project. 2. Coordinate and improve the efficiency and quality of IPSPs by developing a European Quality Standard for Institutional Publishing (EQSIP). This quality seal will professionalise, strengthen and reduce the fragmentation of institutional publishing in Europe. EQSIP will serve as a benchmark for a gap analysis of the data in (1). Buy-in and capacity-building is ensured by co-creation with the relevant IPSP communities of practice, creating a Common Access Point for IPSPs, an IPSP registry with 80% of IPSPs in the ERA, publishing guidelines, training materials, self-assessment tools, financial models, and shared cost frameworks. DIAMAS embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion by addressing gender equity in OA publishing and multilingualism in 15 European languages. Special attention is paid to building and enabling the financial sustainability of IPSPs. 3. Formulate community-led, actionable recommendations and strategies for institutional leaders, funders/sponsors/donors, and policymakers in the European Research Area (ERA). Workshops and targeted networking actions will reach and engage institutional decision-makers. In 36 months, DIAMAS will deliver an aligned, high-quality, and sustainable institutional OA scholarly publication ecosystem for the ERA, setting a new standard for OA publishing, shared and co-designed with all stakeholders.

Keywords: open science,institutional publishing,diversity,equity,and inclusion,european quality standard for institutional open access publishing eqsip,rfo,rpo,scholarly society,diamond,era