EU Projects at the University of Bern

Cluster 1: Health

BE-SAFE
Project title: Implementing a patient-centred and evidence-based intervention to reduce benzodiazepine and sedative-hypnotic use to improve patient safety and quality of care
PI: Nicolas Rodondi (Institute of Primary Health Care)

Better4U
Project title: Preventing obesity through biologically and behaviorally tailored interventions for you
PI: Stavroula Mougiakakou (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research)

ESCAPE
Project title: Efficient and rapidly scalable EU-wide evidence-driven pandemic response plans through dynamic epidemic data synthesis
PI: Nicola Low (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)

GO GREEN NEXT
Project title: Promoting Future Health in Ciites
PI: Claudio Nigg (Institute of Sport Science)

IntelliLung
Project title: Intelligent Lung Support for Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
PI: Martin Faltys (Department of Intensive Care Medicine)

MELISSA
Project title: Mobile Artificial Intelligence Solution for Diabetes Adaptive Care
PI: Stavroula Mougiakakou (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research)

RECONNECTED
Project title: A complex systems approach to promote resilience and connect vulnerable European citizens in the community in times of change
PI: Thomas Berger (Institute of Psychology)

SP-EU
Project title: Social prescribing to promote and improve access to health and care services for people in vulnerable situations in Europe
PI: Stéphanie Baggio (Institute of Primary Health Care)

Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society

UNTWIST
Project title: Policy recommendations to regain feminist losers as mainstream voters
PI: Leandra Bias and Michèle Amacker (Institute of Political Science)

Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space

SNOWCOP
Project title: Unlocking the full potential of Copernicus data and infrastructure to improve meltwater monitoring in the Andes
PI: Carolina Adler (Centre for Development and Environment)

Cluster 5: Climate, Energy and Mobility

ClimTip
Project title: Climate Tipping Points: Uncertainty-aware quantification of Earth system tipping potential from observations and models and assessment of associated climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic impacts
PI: Christoph Raible (Physics Institute)

P2F
Project title: Past to Future: Towards fully paleo-informed future climate projections
PI: Frerk Pöppelmeier (Physics Institute)

TipESM
Project title: Exploring Tipping Points and Their Impacts Using Earth System Models
PI: Thomas Frölicher (Physics Institute)

Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

BOOSTER
Project title: Boosting drought tolerance in key cereals in the era of climate change
PI: Zerihun Tadele (Institute of Plant Sciences)

European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP3)

MBOTE-SK
Project title: Mpox Biology, Outcome, Transmission and Epidemiology Study in South Kivu
PI: Nicola Low (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)

European Innovation Council

European Innovation Council projects can be found in the list of all EU projects above.

European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking

6G-CLOUD
Project title: Service-oriented 6G network architecture for distributed, intelligent, and sustainable cloud-native communication systems
PI: Torsten Braun (Institute of Computer Science)

Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change

healthRiskADAPT
Project title: User-driven health risk assessment services and innovative adaptation options against threats from heatwaves, air pollution, wildfire emission and pollen
PI: Stefan Brönnimann (Institute of Geography)

JustREACH
Project title: Just Climate Resilience through Enhanced Adaptation and Capacity Harnessing
PI: Susan Thieme (Institute of Geography)

Mission: Cancer

PredictAYA
Project title: Prediction and prevention of late effects in AYA cancer survivors
PI: Michael von Wolff (Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics)

Widening participation and spreading excellence

iRISE
Project title: Improving Reproducibility In Science
PI: Hanno Würbel (Veterinary Public Health Institute)

EBRAINS 2.0
Project title: A Research Infrastructure to Advance Neuroscience and Brain Health
PIs: Mihai Petrovici, Walter Senn (Department of Physiology)

Synergy Grants

DEMI
Project title: Directed Evolution of Metastable Electrocatalyst Interfaces for Energy Conversion
PI: Matthias Arenz (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

CARAMEL
Project title: Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery
PI: Paola Luciani (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

MitoContact
Project title: Mitochondrial Contact Site Functional Diversity Revealed by Molecular Memory, Smart Microscopy, and Correlative Cryo-EM Tomography
PI: Wanda Kukulski (Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine)

Consolidator Grants

PSII
Project title: Planetary Systems from Interstellar Ingredients
PI: Maria Drozdovskaya (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Starting Grants

BAC-MUNITY
Project title: Unravelling bacterial immunity against predatory bacteria: the last line of defence
PI: Simona Gabriele Huwiler (Institute for Infectious Diseases)

BGCTip
Project title: Unraveling tipping dynamics of marine biogeochemistry from past climate transitions
PI: Frerk Pöppelmeier (Physics Institute)

LeGO
Project title: Legal Governmentality - governing climate activism through criminal law and human rights in Europe
PI: Jevgeniy Bluwstein (Institute of Social Anthropology)

Proof of Concept

UniADLP
Project title: Universal Acoustic Digital Light Processing 3D Printing
PI: Daniel Ahmed (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research)

Successful projects that were submitted to the European Research Council (ERC) but funded by Switzerland.

Advanced Grants

CNS-IP
Project title: Understanding how the brain barriers orchestrate central nervous system immune privilege
PI: Britta Engelhardt (Theodor Kocher Institute)

Consolidator Grants

CANWAS
Project title: Canopy Waves - Herbivore-Induced Volatile Dynamics Across Multiple Plants
PI: Matthias Erb (Institute of Plant Sciences)

SenseLife
Project title: Remote sensing of living organisms with full Stokes spectro-polarimetry
PI: Demory Brice-Olivier (Center for Space and Habitability)

ENERGETICS
Project title: Explaining the energetics of solar flares
PI: Lucia Kleint (Astronomical Institute)

RACE-GO
Project title: Rapid Active Coronagraphy of Exoplanets from a Ground Observatory
PI: Jonas Kühn (Physics Institute)

Starting Grants

META-MORPHOSIS
Project title: Identifying how life cycle variation drives biodiversity in changing environments over time and space
PI: Anne-Claire Fabre (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)

FoBEx
Project title: Food webs and biodiversity change in an extreme world
PI: Madhav Thakur (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)

OpenRing
Project title: Forest biodiversity-stability relationships across spatiotemporal scales
PI: Rubén Delgado Manzanedo (Institute of Plant Sciences)

DryCO2
Mechanisms of gas-driven mineral weathering in a changing climate
PI: Anna Harrison (Institute of Geological Sciences)

VolCOPE
Project title: Climate impact and human consequences of past volcanic eruptions
PI: Heli Huhtamaa (Institute of History)

CoGS
Project title: Collective Guilt and Shame
PI: Benjamin Matheson (Institute of Philosophy)

MOANA
Project title: Mechanistic model simulations of the marine biological carbon pump
PI: Charlotte Laufkötter (Physics Institute)

Doctoral Networks

BRIDGE-AI
Project title: Brain disease monitoring through the life span powered by artificial intelligence
PI: Richard McKinley (Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology)

CONTRABASS
Project title: Zero-CO2 cement through carbonation of calcium silicates and aluminates
PI: Sergey Churakov (Institute of Geological Sciences)

ENERPOL
Project title: Using smart contracts and policies to reduce energy-related risk and inequality among households
PI: Doina Radulescu (Center for Public Management)

FADOS
Project title: Fundamentals and Applications of Doped Organic Semiconductors
PI: Natalie Banerji (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

HaloVerse
Project title: Advancing Europe's Next Generations on the Path to Sustainability – Expanding the Universe of Enzymatic Halogenation Chemistry
PIs: Rebecca Buller, Francesca Paradisi (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

HUM.AI.N_ACCENT
Project title: Bridging Communication Gaps in Human and Human-AI Interactions: The Role of Accented Speech on Neurocognitive Mechanisms and Social Dynamics
PI: Erez Levon (Walter Benjamin Kolleg)

InnoGuard
Project title: Hybrid and Generative Intelligence for Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems
PI: Sebastiano Panichella (Institute of Computer Science)

LipidBRIGHT
Project title: Lipids as promising bridge between novel disease insights and improved therapy
PI: Döring Yvonne (Clinic of Angiology)

Mac4Me
Project title: Macrophage Targets for Metastatic Treatment
PI: Mark Rubin (Department for BioMedical Research)

MetRaZymes
Project title: Metal-containing Radical Enzymes
PI: Francesca Paradisi (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)

MIRACLE
Project title: Multilevel inflammatory regulation in cardiometabolic disease
PIs: Inti Zlobec (Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology)

OncoProTools
Project title: Protease-guided tumor targeting tools to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment
PIs: Axel Romiger (Department of Nuclear Medicine)

RAPTORplus
Project title: Right-time adaptive particle therapy of cancer - personalisation through anatomical plus biological adaptation
PI: Antje-Christin Knopf (sitem-insel)

Regenerate-IT
Project title: Learning from animals how to regenerate: multidisciplinary training programme in regenerative biology
PI: Nadia Mercader Huber, Daniela Rubatto (Institute of Anatomy)

TALENTS
Project title: The doctoral rift science network for the energy transition
PI: Marco Herwegh (Institute of Geological Sciences)

ThromboRisk
Project title: From cells to systems: Pioneering multi-level thrombosis risk prediction models
PIs: Dominik Obrist (ARTORG), Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk (Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiology)

Tools4Teams
Project title: Research Training to Design and Implement Tools Supporting Safe Teamwork in Healthcare
PI: Guido Beldi (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine)

TReND
Project title: Translational Research Network in Motor Disorder Rehabilitation: Advancing understanding of variability in motor control and rehabilitation
PI: Ernst-Joachim Hossner (Institute of Sport Science)

Staff Exchanges

CHIRON
Project title: The role of the non-canonical death receptor signalling in cancer and immune cells
PI: Philippe Krebs (Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology)

SENSE
Project title: Search for new physics and technological advancements from neutrino experiments at the high intensity frontier. A cooperative Europe - United States - Brazil effort.
PI: Michele Weber (Physics Institute)

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships can be found in the list of all EU projects above.

Advanced Grants

TETHER
Project title: Targeting the essentialome of radiotherapy-resistant cancer
PI: Sven Rottenberg (Institute of Animal Pathology)

Consolidator Grants

SUSTAINFORESTS
Projekttitel: Tropical forest patches under pressure: Dynamics, functions and sustainable management in agricultural landscapes of the West African forest and savannah zones
PI: Chinwe Ifejika Speranza (Geographisches Institut)

FASERnu
Projekttitel: Studying Neutrinos at the High Energy Frontier
PI: Akitaka Ariga (Physics Institute)

Starting Grants

WePredict
Project title: Microbiota and immune responses at weaning predict the susceptibility to chronic inflammatory diseases in adulthood
PI: Ziad Al Nabhani (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine)

PRENEMA
Project title: Plant responses to the third trophic level as a novel determinant of multitrophic interactions
PI: Christelle Robert (Institute of Plant Sciences)