RCaz/eu-funding-proposals-sft huggingface dataset:
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Describe the novelty, innovation potential and advance beyond the state of the art for 'Environmental epidemiology - health effects of cadmium pollution from smelting in China' (1994-1998).

assistant: **Innovation**

To obtain increased knowledge in humans about:* Dose-response relationship between cadmium exposure and kidney dysfunction* Bone effects of cadmium (Cd) and its relationship to kidney dysfunction* Adverse effects of Cd on male reproduction* Preventive measures against the adverse human health effects of cadmiumExpected OutcomeThe studies will generate new and important knowledge about the dose-response relationships for kidney dysfunction using both well established and newly developed bioindicators. It will demonstrate effects of Cd exposure on bone density in an area outside of Japan. Such information will be of crucial importance in risk assessments for cadmium since the occurrence of bone effects outside of the original Japanese areas where itai-itai diseases occurred is much debated. Since effects of Cd on male reproductive function has been extensively documented in animals , it will be of great value to obtain information in humans concerning the absence or occurrence of such effects in a Cd exposed group of male persons. Data obtained can be directly used for preventive action by Chinese Health Authorities participating in studies.Population groups with high and medium Cd exposure via rice will be compared with controls concerning: measured Cd concentration in urine (indicator of cumulative exposure), indices of kidney dysfunction (urinary beta-2-microglobulin, albumin and other protein). Bone density will be measured in selected population groups by external measurements and biomarker of bone effects will be analysed in blood samples from the same groups. Male persons will be invited to join a sex function test (assessment of semen quality and sexual hormones in serum). The same measurements will be performed also on a group of persons from the selected areas,
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Describe the novelty, innovation potential and advance beyond the state of the art for 'New materials for volume holographic technologies' (NMVHTS).

assistant: **Innovation**

Volume holography brings attractive and unique technological applications related to its capability to store a number of holograms in the same volume of a light-sensitive material (multiplexing). Multifunction optical devices or holographic data storage me dia faster and bigger than conventional ones, are only two examples, among a variety of others, some of them unthought yet. Proposed research will cover the physical basis of the volume holographic recording and multiplexing, as well as physiochemical mech anisms occurring in new potentially suitable materials to be used in volume holographic technologies. To reach the outcome of the project, it is proposed to build a unique apparatus capable of concurrently recording and evaluating multiplexed holograms by different multiplexing methods. Chalcogenide glasses (e.g. compounds of S and/or Se with As and/or P) will be the first family of photosensitive materials to be studied. Even though the capability of these materials to store high-resolution light patterns, via the variety of photoinduced effects they exhibit, is well-known, the proposed specific research on volume holography still has not been carried out, and it is expected, therefore, to get high-impact results quite early. Thick chalcogenide films will b e deposited onto suitable substrates both by thermal evaporation and by spin coating of a solution of the bulk starting material in an organic solvent. The optimisation of these deposition techniques, in order to reach the standards required for volume hol ographic recording media, will be carried out.
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Compose a compelling abstract for 'Multiple-access space-time coding testbed' demonstrating excellence, impact and implementation quality for a Sixth Framework call.

assistant: **Abstract**

The MASCOT proposal aims at design and implementation of novel techniques in the area of Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) wireless systems. Future wireless systems will require significantly higher data rates than those available today, provided at almost wireline quality, and with moderate infrastructure cost. The use of MIMO antenna technology has been recognized to hold the promise of achieving these ambitious goals.However, research in the MIMO area focused almost exclusively on single-user point-to-point links. Little is known for MIMO terminals and base stations in a cellular multi-user context. The MASCOT proposal addresses such MU-MIMO wireless systems. Our research ranges from the design to the prototypical implementation of multi-user space-time codecs in a VHDL library. In particular, the real-time MU-MIMO testbed at ETH Zurich will be used as a platform for implementing, testing, and benchmarking the algorithms developed in the course of the project under real-world conditions.
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Compose a compelling abstract for 'Economic iNsTRuments to Achieve Climate Targets in Europe' demonstrating excellence, impact and implementation quality for a Seventh Framework call.

assistant: **Abstract**

The ENTRACTE research project assesses the EU’s climate policy portfolio. While the EU ETS is key to promote the transition towards a low-carbon economy, ambitious GHG emissions reductions will be reached only if this scheme is improved and supported by complementary policies. A carefully considered policy design has to take into account existing market failures other than the climate externality, suboptimal outcomes of international agreements, the necessity to secure competitiveness and reduce carbon leakage and the co-existence and interaction with several other political goals. ENTRACTE looks at the EU ETS and additional policy instruments like energy efficiency standards, renewable policies, carbon taxes, innovation policies, and trade measures. ENTRACTE provides a deep understanding of how climate policy instruments interact with each other and with related policy instruments. It takes the “real-world” and its imperfections comprehensively into account and considers practical barriers in the implementation (like information asymmetry, uncertainty, political and legal constraints, behavioural aspects). ENTRACTE integrates empirical findings from ex-post assessments using broad sets of empirical data as well as ex-ante analyses with simulation models and experimental approaches with theoretical findings in order to optimize the policy mix. By adopting a project-wide harmonization of assumptions and scenarios about the current and future policy environment, ENTRACTE allows to pursue an integrated approach and and to arrive at a synthesis of research results which identifies strengths and weaknesses of different instrument mixes. Based on these findings, ENTRACTE makes a major step in providing practically applicable recommendations for policy makers on how to design
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Compose the 'Concept and Approach' section for a Horizon 2020 proposal on 'Development of nano-Photocatalytic Materials for Indoor Air Purification and Odour Elimination'.

assistant: **Concept**

Pollutants released directly to the air are particularly harmful compared to soil and water pollutants. These pollutants severely affect people’s life quality and life expectancy. Indoor air purification at highly populated urban areas is technically challenging, because indoor air contaminants arise from both outside and indoor sources. The most hazardous indoor pollutants are volatile organic components, toxic inorganics, dust, bacteria, pollen and mold spores. Conventional ventilation brings outdoor air pollution inside the buildings and thus increases energy consumed for cleaning per room. Adapting new technological advances will help meeting requirements of a compact, reliable, and eco-friendly design. The main objective of this proposal is therefore to develop the next generation air purifiers where photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) technologies will allow elimination of a variety of hazardous indoor air pollutants, and bad odour caused by such pollutants, when illuminated by low-power light sources on-the-fly. The proposed project composes of four different phases: the state-of-the-art design of photocatalysts, selection of proper illuminating source, configuration of PCO system, and preparation of the first prototype. In this study, we will address the limited work performed within the field hitherto, such as the mechanism of catalyst deactivation, efficiencies of odour removal, generation of by-products, electron-hole recombination phenomenon, and the ways of providing anti-bacterial/good hygiene properties. We will carry out an in-depth investigation on optimization of PCO air purification system within an interdisciplinary work at Arçelik Central R&D.  After designing a viable configuration, we will focus on the production of a PCO air purifier prototype. In acc
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Explain the overall concept, methodology and approach for the project 'Characterizing dynamics and drivers of resilience across scales in Patagonian rangelands' (REPAIR).

assistant: **Concept**

Increasing aridity due to climate change is a major factor that has dramatically altered the structure of Patagonian drylands, which has resulted in changes in ecosystem structure and functioning, e.g., a loss of vegetation, biodiversity, and soil erosion. Such changes ultimately lead to a loss of resilience, the system's ability to resist and recover from external disturbances while retaining the same function and structure. Although our ability to monitor resilience at large scales has been accelerated by remote sensing data and techniques, greater insights into the role of certain biotic and abiotic variables (e.g., species richness or soil carbon) on resilience at the local scale, would create new opportunities to support sustainable management to increase resilience across Patagonia. In this project, I will bridge these scales, by linking remote sensing time series data and a unique database (MARAS) of continuous field observations across Patagonian rangelands (managed by Argentinian partners). Specifically, I will 1) characterize changes in resilience in response to increasing aridity based on remote sensing between 2000 - 2025, 2) collect and analyze ground observations, and 3) investigate drivers of resilience dynamics across Patagonian rangelands integrating the remote sensing-based resilience and field data. To achieve this, I will use state-of-the-art methods in ecology and data science (e.g., time series analysis and machine learning) to deliver a better understanding of which environmental variables impact resilience in what way. I will carry out the research at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) at the Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, under the guidance of Dr. Miguel Berdugo; and I will undertake a secondment with the Soil Conse
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Write the concept and methodology overview for 'Development of a safe, efficacious bluetongue virus vaccination strategy for europe (BLUETONGUE VACCINATION)' under Fifth Framework.

assistant: **Concept**

Bluetongue virus (BTV) has a track record of incursion into the EU & causing severe disease & financial losses to our livestock industry. However, the EU has no coherent vaccination policy, which makes BTV incursions difficult or impossible to control. This project will enable an effective policy to be established for the first time by testing the existing live virus vaccines for efficacy & safety, & by providing clear science-based recommendations on their use or otherwise in Europe. The project will also seek to develop & produce inactivated vaccines conferring enhanced protection using state of the art technology with engineered virus-like particles" & slow release delivery systems. In addition, by sequencing live vaccine strains of BTV & wild strains isolated in the field around Europe, database will be established to enable sourcing of European BTV incursions & early detection of vaccine breakdown thus facilitating targeting of control measures."
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Describe how 'Topological defects in nematic liquid crystals of active colloidal rods' will create measurable scientific, societal and economic impact aligned with Horizon 2020.

assistant: **Impact**

Active liquid crystals are out-of-equilibrium systems that display intriguing dynamic phenomena, arising from the interplaybetween topological defects and collective motion. Here, we propose to experimentally study for the first time (i) thedynamics of topological defects in the active colloidal nematic phase and (ii) the interplay between these topological defectsand collective dynamics, in three dimensions, at the single particle level, and with full control over the defects. To reachthese objectives, we first use a combination of advanced colloidal synthesis and surface modification techniques in order todevelop a model system of active colloidal rods of controlled size, aspect ratio and surface properties. We then confine thisnewly developed model system in microfluidic channels, where the colloidal rods form a nematic liquid crystal. Topologicaldefects will be induced in the nematic phase using specific geometric constraints, which can be varied to control thelocations and strengths of the defects, or by optical trapping techniques. Finally, we use state-of-the-art confocal microscopyand sophisticated image analysis techniques to follow, in real time and 3D real space, both the individual particle motion andthe collective dynamics in the system. Our work will thus provide experimental verification of the intriguing link betweentopological defects and collective dynamics in active liquid crystals and inspire novel theories and simulation codes capableof capturing the intrinsic complexity of coupling structure, orientation and activity.


**Keywords:** active matter, soft matter, topological defects, liquid crystals, anisotropic colloids, confocal, microscopy, optical trapping, microfluidics
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Draft an executive summary for the EU project 'New Algorithmic and Mathematical Tools to Construct a Net of Life' (LIFENET) targeting Seventh Framework.

assistant: **Abstract**

Phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among groups of species, is a well-established interdisciplinary scientific field. Until today, phylogeneticists put a lot of effort into the precise reconstruction of evolutionary trees. However, in recent years, the research focus on reconstructing phylogenetic trees is turning towards the reconstruction of phylogenetic networks because evolution cannot be properly represented as a tree. For example, a comparison of several trees that all represent a given set of present-day species and have been reconstructed for different genetic loci often reveals conflicting tree topologies. These discrepancies are not always due to missampling or uncertainty in the tree reconstruction method, but rather due to reticulation (e.g. horizontal gene transfer, hybridization, or recombination).Since phylogenetic networks are far more complex than phylogenetic trees, new mathematical and computational tools are needed. This proposal suggests new directions of research within the broad area of phylogenetic networks. First, we will develop new (fixed-parameter) algorithms to analyze intrahost recombination in viruses and apply them to biological data sets. This will provide new insight into the evolution of RNA viruses (e.g. HIV), which is essential in the development of any medication. Second, noting that many questions that are polynomial-time solvable for phylogenetic trees are NP-hard for when stated in terms of networks, we will tackle these harder questions by using novel methodology. Instead of directly solving a problem for a network, we will transform a given network into a tree by using the concept of tree-decompositions, and then solve an `easier' problem for the obtained tree. In particular, we will investigate problems rel
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Describe the specific objectives and expected outcomes for 'Reinforcement learning and training for autonomous agents' in the context of a Fourth Framework call.

assistant: **Objectives**

The purpose of this project is the development of new algorithms for reinforcement learning (RL) problems in partially observable and noisy real-world environments. This is a typical situation found in designing effective behaviors policies in autonomous robots. The analysis of theoretically optimal behaviors and the use of consolidated machine learning techniques will be the basis for the development of the new algorithms. The unsupervised RL techniques are usually inefficient when applied to real-world environments. Therefore the new algorithms have to be trained and checked in supervised frameworks. In our approach, robustness and high learning rates will be achieved by using reward strategies that match the behavioral pattern structure to be learned. The basic structure of the trainer is independent from the specification of the agent and is applied to a specific context (tasks and environment) by a high level interface.
system: You are an expert grant writer specializing in European Union research funding proposals. You write compelling, well-structured proposal sections that demonstrate excellence, impact, and implementation quality, using precise EU terminology and following best practices for Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and earlier framework programmes.

user: Compose the 'Concept and Approach' section for a Horizon Europe proposal on 'Enhanced Urban Nature Plans for Biodiversity Mainstreaming in Society'.

assistant: **Concept**

It is now widely acknowledged that to make adequate and timely progress in the direction of biodiversity mainstreaming, three critical aspects – previously overlooked or insufficiently handled by supranational policies – need to be emphasised and further explored in their transformative potential:1) The establishment and operation of bottom-up and especially City- and Community- driven initiatives, which may adequately complement the Country level National Sustainable Development Plans and Green Growth Strategies;2) The introduction and refinement of appropriate methodologies, and capacity-building activities, to enable the engagement of all key societal stakeholders (notably including market players, citizens and local government actors) in concerted actions to restore the most compromised elements of the natural environments;3) Continuous work on enabling nature-based solutions by identifying the connections, and addressing the disconnects, between biodiversity conservation and social, economic, and technological challenges. To meet the requirements of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and of the recent Commission proposal for a Nature Restoration Regulation, the UNP+ consortium proposes a 3-year long action research plan, engaging 11 academic partners and 5 European Cities as “Lighthouse” and “Greening” testbeds, ready to share knowledge and scale up from their ongoing experiences in UNP design and NBS implementation & scaling, to a next-generation strategy for urban and periurban ecosystem transformation, mainstreaming biodiversity, ecosystem services, and natural capital in urban policies and economies through adopting a whole of society approach.


**Keywords:** policy mainstreaming, ecosystem services, whole of society