EU Projects

The European Union supports researchers at different stages of their careers through the EU research program Horizon Europe (2021–2027), which has different funding lines. These include, in addition to different grants from the European Research Council (ERC), Postdoctoral Fellowships for Early Career Researchers within the scope of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions and funding for European cooperation projects.

Overview of EU-funded projects

European Research Council (ERC) grants

An overview of current ERC grants is available in Universität Hamburg's Research Portal.

Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Acronym	Title	Project head / department	Running time from	Running time to
NANO-PEFIS	A combined photoelectrochemical and fluorescence imaging system for investigating nanoparticle-cell interactions	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Parak & Bo Zhou / Nanostructure and Solid State Physics	09/24	09/26
MariTamil:	Insights into a Maritime World: Understanding Indian Ocean Trade through an Old Tamil Littoral Narrative	Prof. Dr. Eva Wilden & Dr. Roland Ferenczi / Asia Africa Institute	09/24	08/26
CorpCONTROL-in-TAX	Are big firm control and ownership structures crucially shaped by entwined fiscal policies?	Dr. Domenico Imparato & Prof. Wolf-Georg Ringe / Law	08/23	08/26
Completed
SCISM	Sexual conflict in the sexually cannibalistic Springbok mantis (Miomantis caffra)	Prof. Dr. Jutta Schneider & Dr. Nathan Burke / Biology	09/23	08/25
SIHAFA	The Ideosphere of the Late Ottoman Arabic Press: Mapping the Discursive Field of Authors and Texts through Computational Approaches	Dr. Till Grallert & Prof. Konrad Hirschler / Asia Africa Institute	09/23	08/25
HSV1ENTRY-PROTEINMAP	Spatial arrangement and interactions of HSV-1 cell entry associated proteins on the native viral envelope	Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald & Dr. Emily Machala / Chemistry	03/23	02/25
MESE	At the Margins of Equality: A Theory of Vulnerability to Social Exclusion	Prof. Dr. Christine Straehle & Dr. Giacomo Floris / Philosophy	10/22	09/24
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	10/21	09/24
MOBILESITES	Mobilizing Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem: Representations of the Islamic Holy Sites in the Ottoman Empire	Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann / Asia Africa Institute	08/21	07/24
LowCollICM	Unraveling effects of anisotropy from low collisionality in the intracluster medium	Prof. Dr. Marcus Brüggen / Hamburg Observatory	10/21	09/23
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 / Center of Natural History	03/20	02/23
QuasiHyp	Quasi-random hypergraphs	Prof. Dr. Mathias Schacht / Mathematics	10/18	04/22
THE CROSSMODAL BRAIN	Neural mechanisms of crossmodal activity in blind and sighted individuals	Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder / Psychology	02/20	02/22
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 Science	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 Spectroscopy of Quantum Structures	Dr. Tobias Kipp & Prof. Alf Dr. Mews / Chemistry	08/15	08/17

Doctoral networks

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Module Code	Title	Project head / department	Running time from	Running time to
HEATDDR	Harnessing the DNA Damage Response to improve plant tolerance to heat stress	Prof. Dr. Arp Schnittger / Biology	03/25	02/29
SWEET	Social aWareness for sErvicE roboTs	Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter / Informatics	02/25	01/29
EPACE	European compact accelerators, their applications, and entrepreneurship	Prof. Dr. Gudrid Moortgat-Pick / Physics	01/25	12/28
CAARE	Characterization and Recovery of Bionanoparticles for Vaccine Delivery and Gene Therapy	Dr. Irene Fernandez-Cuesta / Physics	10/24	09/28
TRAIL	TRAnsparent InterpretabLe robots	Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter / Informatics	03/23	02/27
CISSE	Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity Effect	Prof. Dr. Carmen Herrmann / Chemistry	01/23	12/26
Completed
AUTOBarge	European training and research network on Autonomous Barges for Smart Inland Shipping	Prof. Dr. Qing Liu / Maritime Economics	10/21	09/25
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
POEM	PARTICIPATORY MEMORY PRACTICES.	Prof. Dr. Gertraud Koch / Cultural Studies	04/18	03/22
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
SALTGIANT	Understanding the Mediterranean Salinity Crisis	Prof. Dr. Jörn Peckmann / Geology	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 / Informatics	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 / Informatics	09/15	08/19

Staff exchanges

Acronym	Title	Project head / department	Running time from	Running time to
PLACES	PLAsticity of perception in real and virtual spacES	Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke / Informatics	05/23	04/27
EAJADE	Europe-America-Japan Accelerator Development and Exchange Programme	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillert & Dr. Marc Wenskat / Physics	03/23	02/27
EWALD	Earth Observation for Early Warning of Land Degradation at European Frontier	Prof. Dr. Olena Dubovyk / Earth System Sciences	12/22	11/26
Completed
HIGHLANDS.3	Collective Approach of Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Highland	Prof. Dr. Martina Neuburger / Earth System Sciences	01/20	08/25
PRODIGEES	Promoting Research on Digitalisation in Emerging Powers and Europe toward Sustainable Development	Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schneider / Social Sciences	01/20	06/25
ULTRACEPT	Ultra-layered perception with brain-inspired information processing for vehicle collision avoidance	Prof. Dr. Jianwei Zhang / Informatics	12/18	09/24
STEP2DYNA	Spatial-temporal information processing for collision detection in dynamic environments	Prof. Dr. Jianwei Zhang / Informatics	07/16	06/20
SLAFNET	Slavery in Africa: a dialogue between Europe and Africa	Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi / Humanities	06/17	05/21

More EU projects

Module Code	Title	Project head / department	Running time from	Running time to
EAST-STROKE	Early treatment of Atrial fibrillation for Stroke prevention Trial in acute STROKE	Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt / Health Care Management	12/24	11/30
NET-ROL	Networks and the Rule of Law: Uncovering Socio-Economic Outcomes	Participation of Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt / Law	03/25	02/28
dAIbetes	Federated virtual twins for privacy-preserving personalised outcome prediction of type 2 diabetes treatment	Prof. Dr. Jan Baumbach / Center for Bioinformatics	01/24	12/28
CVDLINK	A federated paradigm of real-world data sources utilization for the empowerment of diagnosis, prognosis and risk assessment of cardiovascular conditions	Prof. Dr. Jan Baumbach / Center for Bioinformatics	01/24	12/27
PRESENCE	a toolset for hyper-realistic and XR-based human-human and human-machine interactions	Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke / Informatics	01/24	12/26
QUANTIFY	Quantum enhANced phoTonic Integrated sensors For MetrologY	Prof. Dr. Roman Schnabel / Physics	01/24	06/28
EXPECT	Towards an Integrated Capability to Explain and Predict Regional Climate Changes	Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr / Experiment Oceanography	04/24	03/28
AI4PEX	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Enhanced Representation of Processes and Extremes in Earth System Models	Prof. Dr. Tatiana Ilyina / Oceanography	04/24	03/28
INTEGRATE	The Integrate study : An adaptive platform trial for the development of a new intervention to combat Lassa fever in Africa	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wicha / Chemistry	07/23	06/28
UPTAKE	Bridging current knowledge gaps to enable the UPTAKE of carbon dioxide removal methods	Dr. Thorben Amann / Geology	09/23	08/27
Microb-AI-ome	Federated artificial intelligence for privacy-preserving international stratification of colorectal cancer patients	Prof. Dr. Jan Baumbach / Center for Bioinformatics	04/23	03/28
3D-BRICKS	3D Biofabricated high-perfoRmance dna-carbon nanotube dIgital electroniCKS	Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger / Nanostructure and Solid-State Physics	05/23	12/26
SOLACE	Strengthening the screening of Lung Cancer in Europe	Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt / Health Care Management	04/23	03/27
HI-PRIX	Health Innovation Next Generation Payment & Pricing Models	Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg / Business Administration	01/23	12/25
FLASH	Flexible Approaches to Support Health through financing	Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann / Economics	01/23	12/26
ESSnuSBplus	Study of the use of the ESS facility to accurately measure the neutrino cross-sections for ESSnuSB leptonic CP violation measurements and to perform sterile neutrino searches and astroparticle physics	Dr. Tamer Tolba / Physics	01/23	12/26
QCFD	Quantum Computational Fluid Dynamics	Prof. Dr. Dieter Jaksch / Physics	11/22	10/26
WorldTrans	WorldTrans—Transparent Assessments for Real People	Prof. Dr. Jana Sillmann / Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS)	12/22	11/26
COST CA22165	CA22165 - Redressing Radical Polarisation: Strengthening European Civil Spheres facing LLLiberal Digital Media (DepolarisingEU)	Dr. Matthias Revers / Social Sciences	11/23	11/27
MarinePlan	Improved transdisciplinary science for effective ecosystem-based maritime spatial planning and conservation in European Seas	Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann / Biology	10/22	06/27
EPOC	Explaining and Predicting the Ocean Conveyor	Prof. Dr. Eleanor Frajka-Williams / Earth Systems Sciences	07/22	06/27
REPO4EU	Precision drug REPurpOsing For EUrope and the world	Prof. Dr. Jan Baumbach / Center for Bioinformatics	09/22	08/29
FOCI	Non-CO2 Forcers and their Climate, Weather, Air Quality and Health Impacts	Prof. Dr. David Grawe / Meteorology	09/22	08/26
UNITE4TB	ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY UNITED INNOVATION AND TREATMENT FOR TUBERCULOSIS	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wicha / Chemistry	06/21	05/28
Completed
TERAIS	Towards Excellent Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at a Slovak university	Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter / Informatics	10/22	09/25
MISSION ATLANTIC	Mapping and Assessing the present and future status of Atlantic marine	Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann / Biology	09/20	08/25
DT-GEO	A Digital Twin for GEOphysical extremes	Prof. Dr. Jörn / Mathematics	09/22	08/25
BAM	Super Bio-Accelerated Mineral Weathering: A New Climate Risk Hedging Reactor Technology	Prof. Dr. Michael Fröba / Chemistry	09/21	08/25
NextGEMS	Next Generation Earth Modelling Systems	Prof. Dr. Juan Pedro Mellado González / Institute of Meteorology	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 / Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS)	09/21	08/25
EHAWEDRY	Energy Harvesting via Wetting / Drying Cycles with Nanoporous Electrodes	Prof. Dr. Jens Hartmann / Geology	07/21	06/25
FutureEnzyme	Technologies of the Future for Low-Cost Enzymes for Environment-Friendly Products	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit / Biology	06/21	05/25
Onto-DESIDE	Ontology-based Decentralized Sharing of Industry Data in the European Circular Economy	Dr. Fenna Blomsma / Business Administration	05/22	04/25
CARE	Corona Accelerated R&D in Europe	Prof. Dr. Chris Meier / Chemistry	04/20	03/25
COST Action CA20104	CA20104 – Network on evidence-based physical activity in old age (PhysAgeNet)	Prof. Dr. Bettina Wollesen / Human Movement Science	06/24	10/24
COST IG18109	Sustaining AGITHAR – building a Global Tsunami Model Association	Prof. Dr. Jörn Behrens / Mathematics	11/23	10/24
PROVIDE	Paris Agreement Overshooting—Reversibility, Climate Impacts and Adaptation Needs	Prof. Dr. Jana Sillmann / Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS)	09/21	08/24
FutureMARES	Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity	Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann / Biology	09/20	08/24
CHARTER	Drivers and Feedbacks of Changes in Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity	Prof. Dr. Otto Habeck / Social and Cultural Anthropology	08/20	07/24
OceanNETs	Ocean-based Negative Emission Technologies—analyzing the feasibility, risks, and cobenefits of	Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß / Lan ;Prof. Dr. Jens Hartmann / Earth System Sciences	07/20	06/24
EASIER	Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation	Thomas Hanke / Institute of German Sign Language	01/21	12/23
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
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 common future ocean in the Earth system-quantifying coupled cycles of carbon, Oxygen, and nutrients	Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann / Biology	09/19	08/23
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 Sciences	02/20	07/23
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
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
Nunataryuk	Permafrost thaw and the changing arctic coast: science for socio-economic adaptation	Dr. Dobrynin Mikhail / 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	Erfassung des Wertes immaterieller Vermögenswerte in Mikrodaten zur Förderung von Wachstum und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der EU	Dr. Felix Roth / Economics	02/19	01/22
INTAROS	Integrated Arctic observation system	Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer / Earth System Sciences	12/16	11/21
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 / Informatics	12/17	05/21
LEGVALUE	Fostering sustainable legume-based farming systems and agrifeed and food chains in the EU	Prof. Dr. Sascha Rohn / Chemistry	06/17	05/21
CRISEA	Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia	Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky / Humanities	11/17	02/21
Blue-Action	Arctic Impact on Weather and Climate	Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr / Experimental Oceanography	12/16	02/21
GoJelly	GoJelly—A gelatinous solution to plastic pollution	Prof. Dr. Dörte Müller-Navarra / Biology	01/18	12/21
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
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 System 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 System Sciences	03/15	08/19

EU projects in the Faculty of Medicine / University Medical Center Eppendorf

EU projects at UKE