Meet the MSCA: young researchers who will change the world
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Kamaljit Moirangthem, Silvia Muceli, David Martín Sánchez, Judith Schlenter, Judith SchlenterViews
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15.04.2026
Submission Deadline
16.04.2026
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17.04.2026
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Earth Sciences
05/05/2026
Cracks in the Earth: Why is East Africa Losing...
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Maarten Wynants, Aloyce I. Amasi, William H. Blake, Pascal...
Biodiversity
16/04/2026
Powering the Planet Sustainably Without Harming...
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Antonella Gorosábel, Jonas Geldmann
Chemistry and Materials
16/04/2026
How a Tiny Filter Can Make Chemistry Greener
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Foroozan Keshavarzi, Bart Van der Bruggen, Murielle...
Human Health
16/04/2026
Why Doctors Might Make Copies of People’s Spines
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Rémy Benais, Cristina Bignardi, Alessandra AldieriAbout this collection
Do you like to find solutions to problems? Do you sometimes come up with new ideas to make life better? Then this collection is for you! Meet young researchers from around the world who share your enthusiasm for fixing problems and finding solutions.
Funded through the European Union’s prestigious Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA), the scientists in this collection came up with new ways to protect the environment, improve Artificial Intelligence, explore the cosmos creatively, make better medicine and many more brilliant inventions.
Learn about:
• Saving animals and stopping climate change at the same time
• Why doctors make copies of your spine
• How your body can learn to fight cancer
• Speeding up chemical reactions with the help of molecular pumpkins
• Fusing nanocrystals like two droplets of water to make better screens
• Making Artificial Intelligence greener
• Creating better filters to reduce pollution
• Citizen science in East Africa to fight soil erosion
• Spiders weaving silk and how this helps us create sustainable t-shirts
• The multiverse and where to find it
• Crystals that make lasers travel backward helping our satellites
• Dark matter and where it might be hiding
• The perfect recipe for a better and more accurate Artificial Intelligence
• New ways of working with artificial intelligence to solve collective problems
And discover the wonderful researchers and their teams behind this work. We hope that the collection will leave you with two impressions. First, that science is big. It has enough room for those who are interested in spiders and those who are interested in space – and even those who are curious about space spiders!
And second, science is for everyone who is curious. Enjoy sharing the wide-ranging curiosity of these world-changing researchers.
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