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decision making of aspiring remigrants to and within the eu the case of labour marketleading migrations from asia

despite the global covid19 pandemic europe continues to be a major destination for transnational migrants notably from asia and africa the way in which this phenomenon has been unfolding underlines the urgent need to further conceptualise transnational migration by analysing the decisionmaking of aspiring remigrants this scholarly enterprise is critically important as mainstream migration theories put more of a focus on broader social processes and dynamics thereby overlooking the human aspects of migration basing itself on several migration theories in various disciplines this proposal adopts a framework that humanises research on nonmigration decisionmaking ie highlighting its human aspects in three ways engendering decolonising and situating the analysis in temporal psychological relational and social contexts as a case study this research project will examine the decisionmaking of aspiring remigrants from selected southeast and east asian countries china japan philippines thailand vietnam to and within selected eu member countries belgium the czech republic germany italy portugal finland these migrants are oriented towards the eu labour markets where they are concentrated in ethnic niches employing qualitative and participatory research methodologies the study will map the extent to which spatial mobility policies at the eu and national levels take into account aspiring remigrants behaviour identify the micro and mesolevel drivers of remigration aspiration andor intention and determine the temporality of aspiring remigrants decisionmaking the results of this project will provide concrete information as to how individuals migration decisions change over time and on the specific stage at which mobility policies are more likely to play a role in shaping migration outcomes which will enhance eu migration policies
mesopotamian orality and the anthropology of writing

this project seeks to understand the interplay between writing and orality in ancient mesopotamia c 3400 bce ad 100 what was written down what circulated only in the oral realm athis project seeks to understand the interplay between writing and orality in ancient mesopotamia c 3400 bce ad 100 what was written down what circulated only in the oral realm and why the result will be a cohesive model of orality and writing in ancient mesopotamia which will in turn shed light on ancient societies with less documentation enabling a muchneeded leap forward in the study of ancient writing and orality beyond mesopotamia alone it will also open up a new subfield within mesopotamian studies and offer new ways of thinking about mesopotamian writingsmesors goals will be met by three work packages first it aims to establish the facts about what sort of things were usually written down and what sort of things were not and about how this varied across time place context and type of written documentsecondly the project aims to interpret and explain the distribution which it identified to take some simple examples why are there no cuneiform graffiti why do cuneiform sources hardly mention begging what did and did not get embraced by the written tradition the project will be the first time such questions are addressed in an organic and systematic way use will be made of wideranging ethnographic parallels thirdly the project will work out the implications and applications of its findings these extend across all aspects of the lived experience from administration to education to religionthe projects methods will unite traditional close reading with corpusdriven quantitative data analysis and its investigation will transcend established disciplinary boundaries it will combine akkadian and sumerian philology the anthropology of reading and writing the history of literacy studies orality studies and sociocultural history
gravity perception molecular cellular and adaptive behavior

although gravity sensation is not easy to sense it is extrapolated by combining multisensory information due to this integrative nature of gravity perception the knowledge regarding the molecular and neural basis of gravity sensing is highly reduced the relevance of geotaxis behaviors in insect pest crop survival has been well documented for instance harvesting maize imposes a positive geotaxis behavior on the european corn borer ostrinia nubilalis where diapause larvae and pupae are found close to the ground contrary to what is observed in wild conditions this adaptive behavior increases its survival and indeed its agricultural damage in addition larvae show a stereotype orientation when diapausing suggesting that gravity vector plays a critical role in maggot spatial perception and physiology in drosophila a wellstudied insect genetic model the maggot has a positive geotaxis at early stages which changes to negative geotaxis at the wandering time prepupariation period however magot gravity perception has never been confirmed or studied interestingly wandering larvae exit the food source searching for an appropriate pupation site displaying body position and orientation changes herein i propose to take advantage of wandering orientation changes to set up a novel geotaxis behavioral assay and disclose gravity sensory modality in the maggot by i screening for sensory organs involved in gravity sensing ii disclosing the neurocircuitry involved in puparium orientation behavior and iii studying the consequences of puparium orientation alteration on adult fitness i expect this exploratory proposal to establish a solid basis for working further in the physiological impact of insect spatial orientation and the practical use of this knowledge on pest management
geometric and harmonic analysis for weights

our research focuses on the study of geometric and analytical aspects of various classes of weight functions that are ubiquitous in harmonic analysis the main goals of this project are to substantially improve some of the wellknown fundamental norm inequalities for muckenhoupt weights the reverse hölder inequality and bmo functions the johnnirenberg estimate to continue developing the theory of bkollbonami weights in all dimensions and to describe the geometry of the extension domains for both classes of weights our methods combine classical tools in harmonic and geometric analysis with more sophisticated probabilistic techniques that have been employed in the theory of caldernzygmund operators in the setting of nondoubling measures and in sharp maximal inequalitiesthe proposal is based at the department of mathematical sciences imf ntnu trondheim norway with karlmikael perfekt as the supervisor of the fellowship in addition to the research outcomes the plan include lecturing and supervising activities dissemination of the results in conferences and participation in outreach activities organized by the ntnu the research will be carried out within the research group fourier analysis and multiplicative analysis at the same department whose principal investigator is kristian seip
novel longterm electricity storage technologies for flexible hydropower

the overarching aim of store2hydro is to introduce a new mindset for storage of electricity in connection with existing hydropower relatively small adjustments to existing hydropower facilities by retrofitting reversible pump turbine technology would allow the european electricity storage capacity to increase by 22twhy or more the aim will be achieved by i validated innovative mechanical solutions to trl45 for largerscale pumped longerduration storage of electricity in existing high head reservoirtoreservoir rtr and low head runofriver ror hydropower facilities ii mapping untapped hydropower sources for long term electricity storage in europe increasing the availability robustness and safety of energy storage solutions the novel technologies will enable the operators to run hydropower stations in a more efficient cost effective and flexible manner than today also adapting to the energy system this is without changing the regulating heights or volume of the reservoirriver reaches following the european green deal priorities also turbine manufacturers can introduce new components for costeffective retrofitting of pumped storage the technology will be validated with detailed lca and by consideration of capex and opex of potential future plant the 1st innovation is based on unique design solutions for a retrofittable reversible pump turbine technology enabling a costeffective solution free of cavitation enhanced flexibility and reduced losses the 2nd innovation is enabled by digital twins including hydraulic and sediment dynamics for pumpedstorage these tools give detailed information about the status of the current storage increasing the availability and robustness of the mechanical storage of electricity in existing ror and rtr systems adapting to for example predictions of generation of intermittent electricity from wind and solar practically this will imply new storage of electricity in existing reservoirs and river stretches
confidetly changing colonial heritage

objectives conciliare centers on the ongoing changes in colonial cultural heritage cch with a threefold aim 1 identifying and analyzing changes in cch across four pivotal domains textbooks public spaces museums and cultural consumption of products and traditions 2 advancing knowledge on reactions to and representations of changes in cch in the four domains held by diverse sociodemographics groups ethnic gender generation and cultural contexts 3 propose four different methods one per domain to promote confidence in changes in cchhow they will be achieved to accomplish these objectives conciliare proposes an interdisciplinary social sciences and humanities studies and multimethodological small scale applied qualitative and quantitative approach each domain will be covered by a specific work package wp14 with methodologies linked to two axes axis 1 respecting to cch changes reactions and representations and axis 2 to promoting confidence in changes in cch four small scale pilot trials will be carried out one per domain in different european countries to test the effectiveness assumptions and applications of the four proposed methods in fostering confidence in cch changes across the diversity of europetheir relevance to the work programme the accomplishment of these objectives will allow conciliare to meet the two envisaged expected outcomes of contributing to a deeper and broader understanding of the constantly changing nature of cultural heritage and of how this understanding can be effectively shared by citizens and to the the development of evidencebased methods tested in small scale to help citizens face current and future societal transformations with greater confidence
interoperable applications suite to enhance european identity and document security and fraud detection

combatting frauds on identity and travel documents is a key mission of law enforcement agencies and border guards industries have been working on new means to combat frauds on identity and public authorities are using numerous technologies to accomplish their mission but permanent innovation is required to fight highly skilled defrauders a number of european innovation projects have tested new ways to combat fraud but few of them reached an operational leveleinstein objectives is to enhance significantly existing public authorities means through innovation building on technologies proven in the labs but not mature for an operational usage yet einstein will deliver six applications essential to fight identity frauds 1 online id issuance using a secure cloudbased server for realtime biometric quality checks and fraud detection 2 mobile document and identity checks using commercially available smartphones 3 document authentication module to detect fraudulent documents 4 preregistration for landborder crossings including biometrics and dtc 5 ees kiosk with advanced fraud detection using video surveillance 6 fast track for enrolled travelers using onthemove face and iris to ensure trl7 at a minimum practitioners will run six different pilot use cases in their own environment a key objective is also to ensure interoperability and flexibility of all the components developed in the project so that they can be reused in different contexts possibly by different providers design of open welldefined standardized interfaces will allow achieving this objectiveprivacy being an essential concern of all european citizens and governments einstein will take into account privacybydesign principles developing flexible components to ease their customization in order to meet not only the european legislation on data protection but also national legislations on this matter which vary significantly from one country to the other
highdimensional mathematical methods for large agent and particle systems

interacting particle or agentbased systems are ubiquitous in science they arise in an extremely wide variety of applications including materials science biology economics and social sciences several mathematical models exist to account for the evolution of such systems at different scales among which stand stochastic differential equations optimal transport problems fokkerplanck equations or meanfield games systems however all of them suffer from severe limitations when it comes to the simulation of highdimensional problems the highdimensionality character coming either from the large number of particles or agents in the system the high amount of features of each agent or particle or the huge quantity of parameters entering the modelthe objective of this project is to provide a new mathematical framework for the development and analysis of efficient and accurate numerical methods for the simulation of highdimensional particle or agent systems stemming from applications in materials science and stochastic game theory the main challenges which will be addressed in this project aresparse optimization problems for multimarginal optimal transport problems using moment constraints numerical resolution of highdimensional partial differential equations with stochastic iterative algorithmsefficient approximation of parametric stochastic differential equations by means of reducedorder modeling approachesthe potential impacts of the project are huge making possible such extremescale simulations will enable to gain precious insights on the predictive power of agent or particlebased models with applications in various fields such as quantum chemistry molecular dynamics crowd motion or urban traffic
leveraging the energy transition by gamified learning and ai guided by cross sectoral integrated services and digital twin models to foster accessible and humancentered energy saving experiences

the energenius project provides an innovative pathway dedicated to cultivating an inclusive communitydriven energy transition underpinned by the ethos of leave no one behind at its heart is the energenius suite a comprehensive onestopshop digital platform providing a wide range of interlinked services including digital twin models serious games crosssectoral dashboards marketplace and aidriven recommendations this robust ecosystem amalgamates data across various sectorsfrom energy healthcare and finance to traffic social media real estate and tourismdelivering customized aipowered solutions for energy efficiency by harnessing the collective intelligence of its community energenius not only offers personalized energysaving advice but also reciprocally enriches multiple sectors upholding the highest standards in interoperability and privacybydesign energenius is establishing new milestones for secure seamless crosssectoral data exchange
prokaryote proteomics at high temperature for single cells

a sustainable climate and an ecosystemfriendly economy demands novel cell factories in which organisms convert renewable biomass into various biomaterials that would otherwise be derived from fossil fuels or harsh chemistry especially promising is the use of thermophilic bacteria and archaea that operate at high temperatures as this can enable more efficient production processes however we currently know very little about the cellular protein machinery or proteome of thermophiles which limits our ability to efficiently use them in cell factories the prohits project therefore creates a network for nine doctoral candidates to develop mass spectrometry ms driven proteomics approaches to study the in vivo proteome of thermophiles and to apply the obtained insights to cell factory development the first aim is to perform proteomics on single prokaryotic cells using advanced microfluidics ms instrumentation and data analysis to observe how proteomes vary in individual cells the second aim is to enable thermal proteome profiling approaches for thermophiles to observe how their proteomes respond to temperature changes the third aim is to apply the proteomics insights for predicting how in vivo proteins respond to high temperatures and to create more detailed genomescale models of thermophiles this information is used to improve an existing cell factory that produces lipids for medicine encapsulation and to expand knowledge of thermophiles that can be used as cell factories to achieve this prohits creates an integrated pipeline of experimental and computational approaches built within a collaborative network of academics and industry the doctoral candidates will obtain comprehensive and highly complementary skills ranging from cuttingedge proteomics analysis over data analysis and prediction to systems biology approaches to optimize cell factories which will enable them as future leaders of a thriving and forwardlooking european bioeconomy
western rift archaeology and palaeoenvironment project

understanding the evolutionary journey of our species demands an exploration into the diverse environments that our earliest ancestors inhabited this involves investigating the impact that these landscapes had on the cultural and biological adaptations of early homo the western rift archaeological and paleoenvironment wrap project directly addresses this important topic by answering the question how and when did homo ergaster adapt to the diverse ecotone environments of the western rift compared to the more open mosaic environments of the east african rift while historically the unique adaptability of early homo has been linked to open savanna grasslands recent studies challenge this notion proposing that a broader range of environments influenced their adaptive flexibility however these hypotheses heavily rely on geographically limited research areas biased toward mosaic open grassland landscapes in eastern and southern africabeyond these historically wellstudied regions lies the albertine rift in uganda a unique biodiversity hotspot and ecological ecotone between central african tropical forests and east african savannah grasslands during the pleistocene although increasingly arid this region possessed a similar diverse range of tropical humid environments as today recognizing the need to search beyond the intensively studied ecologically similar regions of eastern and southern africa to areas with evidence of pleistocene hominin occupation in new diverse environments this innovative project will conduct extensive fieldwork to identify new archaeological sites within the western rift of uganda through systematic surveys and targeted excavations combined with cuttingedge remote sensing biomolecular and geochronological analyses the wrap project will for the first time provide a holistic understanding of pleistocene hominins occupations and behaviour across the western rifts diverse biomes
oral antibiotic outpatient therapy vs placebo in the treatment of uncomplicated acute appendicitis a randomized doubleblind placebocontrolled noninferiority trial

acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies worldwide for over a century surgical removal of the appendix has been considered the only treatment option landmark trials by our experienced appac team have shown that imaging confirmed uncomplicated acute appendicitis is not a surgical emergency defining antibiotics to safe and effective also with only oral antibiotics avoiding unnecessary surgeries resulting in major cost and resource savings however the role of antibiotics remains a major knowledge gap our pilot appac iii showed that even symptomatic treatment placebo may be sufficient warranting a larger noninferiority trial to assess whether antibiotics are needed in the treatment of uncomplicated acute appendicitisappac iv is a randomized doubleblind multicenter clinical trial comparing oral moxifloxacin with placebo in an outpatient setting appac iv aims to evaluate whether antibiotics and hospitalization or both can be omitted in the treatment of uncomplicated appendicitis further significantly increasing cost savings and patient satisfaction almost 23 of all appendectomies approx 550000 operations in europe the associated hospital stays and potentially also antibiotics could be avoidedthe growing global health issue of antibiotic resistance threatens effective prevention and treatment of infections studies on rational use of antibiotics are warranted and especially in the changing treatment paradigm of such a common disease the translational mappac ii microbiology appac substudy includes serum rectal and fecal samples of the appac iv trial patients pre and posttherapy the effects of antibiotics on gut microbiota gut health and correlation to serum cytokines are evaluated in this unique reallife randomized patient cohort the development of antibiotic resistance and the underlying bacterial defence mechanisms will be evaluated in e coli and microbiome using microbial singlecell technologies and metagenomics
meteorological assimilation from galileo and drones for agriculture

the magda project aims at developing a toolchain for atmosphere monitoring weather forecasting and severe weatherirrigationcrop monitoring advisory with gnss including galileo at its core to provide useful information to agricultural operators magda will exploit the untapped potential of assimilating gnssderived dronederived copernicus eoderived datasets in situ weather sensors into very highresolution shortrange 12 days ahead and very shortrange less than 1 day ahead numerical weather forecasts to provide improved prediction of severe weather events rainfall snow hail wind heat and cold waves as well as of weatherdriven agriculture pests and diseases to the benefit of agriculture operations also in light of ongoing effects of climate change these targets will be achieved by setting up a database of variables of interest and an assimilation system to feed a numerical weather prediction model which in turn drives a hydrological model for irrigation performance and water accounting to assess water use and related productivity in addition to already existing observational networks new dedicated networks of sensors including gnss and drones to monitor atmospheric variables at high spatial resolution will be deployed in the vicinity of large farms and cultivated areas to provide data with high spatial and temporal resolutions for the assimilation into the weather model the delivery of the augmented forecasts and irrigation advisories to farmers will be enabled by a dedicated dashboard and apis to already existing farm management systems the tools developed within magda will represent the technical and methodological components based on which services to support agricultural operations will be defined