EU Projects

Horizon Europe

(Duration: 2021-2027)

Horizon 2020

(Duration: 2014-2020)

European Research Council (ERC) Grants

ERC Starting Grants

Acronym	Title	Project leader/Department	Project start	Project end
CompactBINARIES	Compact binaries as strong gravitational wave sources and progenitors of type Ia supernovae	Prof. Thomas Kupfer / Observatory - physics	9/23	8/28
BioValCat	Enhanced Biomass Valorisation by Engineering of Polyoxometalate Catalysts	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jaob Albert / chemistry	09/23	08/28
QUANTWIST	Enhanced quantum resilience through twists	Dr. Thore Posske / physics	03/23	02/28
BIoRead	Reading DNA in real time for medical applications	Dr. Irene Fernandez-Cuesta / physics	10/22	02/24
HEPMASITE	Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts as Sites of Engagement	Dr. Yoav Meyrav / Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion	10/22	9/27
HIGH-Q	Breaking resolution limits in ultrafast X-ray diffractive imaging - HIGH-Q	Prof. Tais Gorkhover / humanities	4/22	3/27
AxionDM	Searching for axion and axion-like-particle dark matter in the laboratory and with high-energy astrophysical observations	Dr. Manuel Meyer / physics	6/21	5/26
MalSwitch	Uncovering the Mechanisms Behind Adaptive Gene Expression Switching in Malaria Parasites	Prof. Michael Filarsky / biology	3/21	2/26
FLATBANDS	Exploring strong correlations in flat bands	Prof. Guillaume Salomon / physics	9/20	8/25
TrackingMinds	Tracking the decisions of others with the own mind	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gluth/ psychology	01/21	12/25
REPLAY	The Function of Hippocampal and Cortical Memory Replay in Humans	Prof. Dr. Nicolas Schuck / psychology	04/20	03/25
ANYON	Engineering and exploring anyonic quantum gases	Dr. Christof Weitenberg/ physics	01/19	12/23
TERIFIC	Targeted Experiment to Reconcile Increased Freshwater with Increased Convection	Prof. Dr. Eleanor Frajka-Williams / oceanography	11/18	10/23
DRANOEL	Deciphering RAdio NOn-thermal Emission on the Largest scales	Jun.- Prof. Dr. Annalisa Bonafede/ physics	09/17	08/22
Finalized
FLUINEMS	Suspended Fluidic nanochannels as optomechanical sensors for single molecules	Dr. Irene Fernandez-Cuesta/ physics	06/17	11/22
MAGCOW	The Magnetised Cosmic Web	Dr. Franco Vazza/ physics	09/17	08/22
DRANOEL	Deciphering RAdio NOn-thermal Emission on the Largest scales	Jun.- Prof. Dr. Annalisa Bonafede/ physics	09/17	08/22
MesoFermi	Mesoscopic Fermi gases	Prof. Dr. Henning Moritz/ physics	10/13	10/19
2D-Synetra	Two-dimensional colloidal nanostructures – Synthesis and electrical transport	Prof. Dr. Christian Klinke/ chemistry	10/13	10/18
NAMASTE	Thermodynamics of the Climate System	Prof. Dr. Valerio Lucarini/ meteorology	09/10	08/15
CCMP	Physics Of Magma Propagation and Emplacement: a multi-methodological Investigation	Dr. Eleonora Rivalta/ Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences	07/10	07/15
Ethio-SPARE	Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia. Salvation, Preservation, Research	Dr. Denis Nosnitsin/ Asien-Africa-Institute (AAI)	12/09	06/15
Neurodevelopment	A neurodevelopmental approach to human language processing	Dr. Claudia K. Friedrich/ psychology	09/08	09/14

ERC Consolidator Grants

ERC Advanced Grants

Acronym	Title	Project leader/Department	Project start	Project end
Conformal-EIC	From conformal symmetries and integrability to the Electron-Ion Collider	Prof. Sven-Olaf Moch/physics	10/23	9/28
INSPIRATION	From inspiral to kilonova	Prof. Stephan Rosswog/ physics	10/22	9/27
DeLiCaTe	The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories	Prof. Jost Gippert/ Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures	4/22	3/27
VISUAL_SCEPTICISM	Visual Scepticism. Towards an Aesthetic of Doubt	Prof. Margit Kern/ cultural studies	11/21	10/26
PoetryDA	Poetry in the Digital Age	Prof. Dr. Claudia Benthien/ Institute for german studies	01/21	12/25
ADMIRE	Atomic-scale Design of Majorana states and their Innovative Realspace Exploration	Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger/ physics	01/19	12/23
Finalized
MassQ	Massive-Object Quantum Physics	Prof. Dr. Roman Schnabel/ physics	09/14	02/20
Islamic Empire	The Early Islamic Empire at Work - The View from the Regions Toward the Centre	Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann/ Asien-Africa-Institute (AAI)	04/14	10/19
NETamil	Going from Hand to Hand – Networks of Intellectual Exchange in the Tamil Learned Traditions	Dr. Eva Wilden / AAI + Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient, Paris	03/14	09/19
TraCES	From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages	Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi/ Asien-Africa-Institute (AAI)	03/14	01/20
ASTONISH	Atomic-scale STudies Of the Nature of and conditions for Inducing Superconductivity at High-temperatures	Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger/ physics	01/14	01/19
SUREPIRL	Picosecond Infrared Laser for Scarfree Surgery with Preservation of the Tissue Structure and Recognition of Tissue Type and Boundaries	Prof. Dr. Dwayne R. J. Miller/ physics	12/12	12/17
CriticalBrainChanges	Development and plasticity of multisensory functions to study the principles of age dependent learning plasticity in humans	Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder/ psychology	12/10	11/16
POR	The Perception of Other Religions in the Christian Occident during the Early and Central Middle Ages (5th-12th centuries)	Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Goetz/ history	04/09	04/12
FURORE	FUndamental studies and innovative appROaches of REsearch on magnetism	Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger/ physics	01/09	01/14

ERC Synergy Grants

Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions

Individual Fellowships

Acronym	Title	Researcher/Project leader/Department	Project start	Project end
SIHAFA	The Ideosphere of the Late Ottoman Arabic Press: Mapping the Discursive Field of Authors and Texts through Compu-tational Approaches	Dr. Till Grallert/ Prof. Konrad Hirschler/ Asien-Africa-Insitute	9/2023	08/2025
CorpCONTROL-in-TAX	Are big firm control and ownership structures crucially shaped by entwined fiscal policies?	Dr. Domenico Imparato/ Prof. Wolf-Georg Ringe/ law	8/2023	08/2026
REGAIN	Responsible Neuro-Technologies of Pain: Understanding Vulnerability in Pain Care with Minimally and Non-Invasive Neuro-Technologies for Pain Modulation in the United States	Dr. Benjamin Lipp/ sociology	10/2021	09/2024
LowCollICM	Unraveling effects of anisotropy from low collisionality in the intracluster medium	Prof. Dr. Marcus Brüggen/ Hamburg Observatory	10/2021	09/2023
MOBILESITES	Mobilizing Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem: Representations of the Islamic Holy Sites in the Ottoman Empire	Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann/ Africa-Asia-Institute	08/2021	07/2024
Finalized
HighThroughFROGS	Reviving ghosts of taxonomy past: Identifying cryptic species using high-throughput sequencing of historical museum specimens for Asian ranids with gastromyzophorous tadpoles	Prof. Dr. Alexander Haas/ Centre of Natural History	03/20	02/23
THE CROSSMODAL BRAIN	Neural mechanisms of crossmodal activity in blind and sighted individuals	Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder/ psychology	02/20	02/20
QuasiHyp	Quasi-random hypergraphs	Prof. Dr. Mathias Schacht/ mathematics	10/18	10/21
SKDWONTRACK	Room temperature stabilization and all-electrical manipulation of chiral spin structures in metallic multilayers	Dr. Roberto lo Conte - Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger/ physics	01/18	01/21
REGPROP	Regularity properties, definability and combinatorics on the real line	Dr. Yurii Khomski - Prof. Dr. Benedikt Löwe/ mathematics	03/17	03/19
ISOTOP	Interactions, Spins and Edges in Optical Lattices with Topological Band Structures	Dr. Benno Rem - Prof. Dr. Klaus Sengstock/ physics	05/16	04/18
East-West	Exploring the Eastern and the Western Debate: the Case of Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Knowledge and Students’ Achievement - A Comparative Study between Germany and China	Dr. Xinrong Yang - Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kaiser/ Educational sciences	02/16	02/18
BIOCLIMA	Microbial BIOdiversity – CLIMAte feedbacks during environmental crises in semi-enclosed basins: lessons from the Late Miocene (Messinian)	Dr. Marcello Natalicchio - Prof. Dr. Jörn Peckmann/ geology	01/16	12/17
ASB	Amplitudes, String and Branes	Dr. Arthur Lipstein - Prof. Dr. Rutger Boels/ physics	10/15	11/17
FASTQUANTUM	Ultrafast Sepctroscopy of Quantum Structures	Dr. Tobias Kipp - Prof. Alf Dr. Mews/ chemistry	08/15	08/17

Innovative Training Networks (ITN)

Acronym	Title	Project leader/Department	Project start	Project end
AUTOBarge	European training and research network on Autonomous Barges for Smart Inland Shipping	Prof. Dr. Qing Liu/ Maritime Economics	10/2021	09/24
SPIN	Seismological Parameters and INstrumentation	Prof. Dr. Céline Hadziioannou/ Earth System Sciences	03/21	02/25
SPEAR	Spin-orbit materials, emergent phenomena and related technology training	Dr. Kirsten von Bergmann/ physics	03/21	02/25
HeatNMof	Heating triggered drug release from nanometric inorganic-metal organic framework composites	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Parak/ physics	03/20	02/24
NeuroTrans	NEUROtransmitter TRANSporters: from single molecules to human pathologies	Prof. Dr. Arwen Pearson/ physics	02/20	01/24
Finalized
POEM	PARTICIPATORY MEMORY PRACTICES. Concepts, strategies, and media infrastructures for envisioning socially inclusive potential futures of European Societies through culture	Prof. Dr. Gertraud Koch/ Cultural Studies	04/18	03/22
SALTGIANT	Understanding the Mediterranean Salinity Crisis	Prof. Dr. Jörn Peckmann/ geology	01/18	12/21
SynCrop	Synthetic Circuits for Robust Orthogonal Production	Prof. Dr. Zoya Ignatova/ chemistry	01/18	12/21
MEICOM	Meiotic Control of Recombination in Crops	Prof. Dr. Arp Schnittger/ biology	01/18	12/21
RAMP	Rationalising Membrane Protein crystallisation	Prof. Dr. Arwen Pearson/ biology	03/17	08/21
4PHOTON	Novel Quantum Emitters monolithically grown on Si, Ge and III-V substrates	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hansen/ physics	01/17	06/21
IQCE	Improving Quality of Care in Europe	Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg/ Business Administration	01/17	12/20
SOCRATES	Social Cognitive Robotics in The European Society	Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter/ Computer Science	11/16	10/20
OMT	OMT - Optomechanical Technologies	Prof. Dr. Roman Schnabel/ physics	10/16	09/20
GEM-STONES	Globalisation, Europe and Multilateralism - Sophistication of the Transnational Order, Networks and European Strategies	Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit, Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte, Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schnapp/ Social Sciences	09/16	08/20
MARmaED	MARine MAnagement and Ecosystem Dynamics under climate change	Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann/ biology	10/15	09/19
SECURE	Safety Enables Cooperation in Uncertain Robotic Environments	Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter/ Computer Science	09/15	08/19

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

Other EU Programs

Research and Innovation Action (RIA)

Acronym	Title	Project leader/Department	Project start	Project end
Onto-DESIDE	Ontology-based Decentralized Sharing of Industry Data in the European Circular Economy	Dr. Fenna Blomsma/ Business Administration	05/22	04/25
BAM	Super Bio-Accelerated Mineral weathering: a new climate risk hedging reactor technology	Prof. Dr. Michael Fröba/ Chemistry	09/21	08/25
MYRIAD-EU	Multi-hazard and sYstemic framework for enhancing Risk-Informed mAnagement and Decision-making in the E.U.	Prof. Dr. Jana Sillmann/ CLICCS	09/21	08/25
NextGEMS	Next Generation Earth Modelling Systems	Prof. Dr. Juan Pedro Mellado González/ Meteorological Institute	09/21	08/25
PROVIDE	Paris Agreement Overshooting – Reversibility, Climate Impacts and Adaptation Needs	Prof. Dr. Jana Sillmann/ CLICCS	09/21	08/24
EHAWEDRY	Energy harvesting via wetting/drying cycles with nanoporous electrodes	Prof. Dr. Jens Hartmann/ Geology	07/21	06/25
UNITE4TB	ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY UNITED INNOVATION AND TREATMENT FOR TUBERCULOSIS	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wicha/ Chemistry	06/21	05/28
FutureEnzyme	Technologies of the Future for Low-Cost Enzymes for Environment-Friendly Products	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit/ Biology	06/21	05/25
EASIER	Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation	Thomas Hanke/ Institute for German Sign Language	01/21	12/23
CHARTER	Drivers and Feedbacks of Changes in Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity	Prof. Dr. Otto Habeck/ Ethnology	08/20	07/24
FutureMARES	Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity	Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann/ Biology	09/20	08/24
MISSION ATLANTIC	Mapping and Assessing the present and future status of Atlantic marine	Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann/ Biology	09/20	08/25
OceanNETs	Ocean-based Negative Emission Technologies - analyzing the feasibility, risks, and cobenefits of	Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß/ Law; Prof. Dr. Jens Hartmann/ Earth Systems Sciences	07/20	06/24
CARE	Corona Accelerated R&D in Europe	Prof. Dr. Chris Meier/ Chemistry	04/20	03/25
GrapheneCore3	Graphene Flagship Core Project 3	Prof. Dr. Tim Wehling/ Physics	04/20	09/23
HBP SGA3	Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 3	Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Brigitte Röder/ Psychology	04/20	09/23
COMFORT	Our commen future ocean in the Earth system-quantifying coupled cycles of carbon, Oxygen, and nutients	Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann/ Biology	09/19	08/23
FeatureCloud	Privacy preserving federated machine learning and blockchaining for reduced cyber risks in a world of distributed healthcare	Prof. Dr. Jan Baumbach/ Center for Bioinformatics	01/19	12/23
REPO-TRIAL	An in silico-based approach to improve the efficacy and precision of drug REPurpOsing TRIALs for a mechanism-based patient cohort with predominant cerebro-cardiovascular phenotypes	Prof. Dr. Jan Baumbach/ Center for Bioinformatics	02/18	07/23
Euroship	Closing gaps in social citizenship. New tools to foster social resilience in Europe	Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger/ Social Studies	02/20	07/23
Finalized
STRONG-2020	The strong interaction at the frontier of knowledge: fundamental research and applications	Prof. Dr. Gudrid Moortgat-Pick/ Physics	06/19	05/23
OXiNEMS	Oxide Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Ultrasensitive and Robust Sensing of Biomagnetic Fields	Dr. Alexander Schwarz/ Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics	05/19	04/23
ICEI	Interactive Computing E-Infrastructure for the Human Brain Project	Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Brigitte Röder/ Psychology	01/18	03/23
Nunataryuk	Permafrost thaw and the changing arctic coast: science for socio-economic adaptation	Dr. Dobrynin Mikhail/ Earth System Sciences, Institute of Oceanography	11/17	10/22
Stance4Health	Smart Technologies for personAlised Nutrition and Consumer Engagement	Prof. Dr. Sascha Rohn/ Food Chemistry	10/18	09/22
PANDORA	Paradigm for Novel Dynamic Oceanic Resource Assessments	Prof. Dr. Myron Peck/ Biological Oceanography	05/18	05/22
DEMOS	Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe	Prof. Dr. Dr. Lydia Mechtenberg/ Economics	12/18	04/22
GLOBALINTO	Capturing the value of intangible assets in micro data to promote the EU's growth and competitiveness	Dr. Felix Roth/ Economics	02/19	01/22
INTAROS	Integrated Arctic observation system	Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer/ Earth Sciences	12/16	11/21
CERES	Climate change and European aquatic RESources	Prof. Dr. Myron Peck/ Biology	03/16	02/20
CRESCENDO	Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, Knowledge, Dissemination and Outreach	Prof. Dr. Victor Brovkin/ Earth Systems Sciences	11/15	10/20
EuPRAXIA	Proposal for a Horizon 2020 Design Study on the “European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications“ (EuPRAXIA)	Dr. Andreas Maier/ Physics	11/15	10/19
INMARE	Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit/ Microbiology and Biotechnology	04/15	04/19
FIDUCEO	Fidelity and Uncertainty in Climate data records from Earth Observations	Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler/ Earth Systems Sciences	03/15	08/19
RelReS	Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies	Prof. Dr. Guiseppe Veltri/ Humanities	02/18	07/21
COMED	Pushing the boundaries of Cost and Outcome analysis of Medical Technologies	Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg/ Business Administration	01/18	06/21
HOLOBALANCE	HOLOgrams for personalised virtual coaching and motivation in an ageing population with BALANCE disorders	Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke/ Computer Sciences	12/17	05/21
CRISEA	Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia	Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky/ Humanities	11/17	02/21
LEGVALUE	Fostering sustainable legume-based farming systems and agrifeed and food chains in the EU	Prof. Dr. Sascha Rohn/ Chemistry	06/17	05/21
Blue-Action	Arctic Impact on Weather and Climate	Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr/ Experimental Oceanography	12/16	02/21

Innovation Action (IA)

Cooperation and Support Actions (CSA)

EU projects at Faculty of Medicin / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

EU projects at UKE

Acronym	Title	Project leader/Department	Project start	Project end
BeInf	Beyond Influence: The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity	Prof. Aaron Butts/ Asien-Africa-Institute (AAI)	9/22	8/27
LINCHPIN	A platform to link between chemistry and physics of colloidal nanomaterials	Prof. Dr. Dorota Koziej/ physics	01/20	12/24
Finalized
PEPCo	Problems in Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics	Prof. Dr. Mathias Schacht/ mathematics	10/17	09/22
SloMo	Slow Motion: Transformations of musical time in perception and performance	Prof. Dr. Clemens Wöllner/ culture studies	04/17	03/22
FeREDCOUPLS	Reduced Iron Catalysts for Reduction and Coupling Reactions	Prof. Dr. Axel Jacobi von Wangelin/ chemistry	10/16 (UHH since 04/18)	09/21
COBHUNI	Contemporary Bioethics and the History of the Unborn in Islam	Prof. Dr. Thomas Eich/ Asien-Africa-Institute (AAI)	09/15	02/21

Acronym	Title	Project leader/Department	Project start	Project end
LEVIATHAN	Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good	Prof. Dr Ulf Schmidt/ history	10/20	09/26
FASTCORR	Ultrafast dynamics of correlated electrons in solids	Prof. Dr. Alexander Lichtenstein/ physics	06/20	05/26
PLAMORF	Plant Mobile RNAs: Function, Transport and Features	Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr/ biology	04/19	03/25
Finalized
AXSIS	Frontiers in Attosecond X-ray Science: Imaging and Spectroscopy	Prof. Dr. Franz X. Kärtner; Prof. Dr. Henry N. Chapman/ physics	08/14	07/21

Acronym	Title	Project leader/Department	Project start	Project end
HIGHLANDS.3	Collective Approach of Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Highland	Prof. Dr. martina Neuburger/ Earth Systems Sciences	01/20	12/23
PRODIGEES	Promoting Research on Digitalisation in Emerging Powers and Europe toward Sustainable Development	Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schneider/ Social Studies	01/20	12/23
Finalized
ULTRACEPT	Ultra-layered perception with brain-inspired information processing for vehicle collision avoidance	Prof. Dr. Jianwei Zhang/ Computer Science	12/18	11/22
SLAFNET	Slavery in Africa: a dialogue between Europe and Africa	Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi/ Humanities	06/17	05/21
STEP2DYNA	Spatial-temporal information processing for collision detection in dynamic environments	Prof. Dr. Jianwei Zhang / Computer Science	07/16	06/20

Acronym	Title	Project leader/Department	Project start	Project end
NanoQIQO	Twinning towards the Russian-Armenian University’s scientific excellence and innovation capacity in nanomaterials for quantum information and quantum optics	Prof. Dr. Gabriel Bester/ Chemistry, Physics	01/21	12/23
Finalized
JUDGTRUST	Regulation BIa: a standard for free circulation of judgments and mutual trust in the EU	Prof. Dr. Peter Wetzels/ Law	11/18	11/20
CANVAS	Constructing an Alliance for Value-driven Cybersecurity	Prof. Dr. Hannes Federrath/ Informatics	09/16	08/19