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

HRJust
Project title: States’ Practice of Human Rights Justification: a study in civil society engagement and human rights through the lens of gender and intersectionality
PI: Elisa Fornalé (World Trade Institute)

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

GEYEDANCE
Project title: AI guidance for robot-assisted eye surgery
PI: Raphael Sznitman (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research)

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)

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)

Synergy Grants

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

Consolidator Grants

Successful projects submitted to the European Research Council (ERC) and now receiving Swiss funding.

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)

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

Starting Grants

Successful projects submitted to the European Research Council (ERC) and now receiving Swiss funding.

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)

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

Doctoral Networks

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

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

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)

TALENTS
Project title: The doctoral rift science network for the energy transition
PI: Nadia Mercader Huber, Daniela Rubatto (Institute of Geological Sciences)

Regenerate-IT
Project title: Learning from animals how to regenerate: multidisciplinary training programme in regenerative biology
PI: Marco Herwegh (Institute of Anatomy)

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

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Synergy Grants

EXPLO
Project title: Exploring the dynamics and causes of prehistoric land use change in the cradle of European farming
Uni Bern PIs: Albert Hafner (Institute of Archaeological Sciences), Willy Tinner (Institute of Plant Sciences)

Advanced Grants

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

SPACE4AMPS
Project title: Chemical Space for Antimicrobials on a Peptide Basis
PI: Jean-Louis Reymond (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Consolidator Grants

TransReg
Project title: Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of cardiac regenerative capacity in the zebrafish
PI: Nadia Mercader (Institute of Anatomy)

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)

SPACE TIE
Project title: Unifying the three pillars of Geodesy using space ties
PI: Adrian Jäggi (Astronomical 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)

PROMOTING
Project title: Prograde metamorphism modeling: a new petrochronological and computing framework
PI: Pierre Lanari (Institute of Geological Sciences)

COMPASS
Project title: Is environmental justice necessary for human well-being? Comparative analysis of certification schemes, inclusive business, and solidarity economy strategies
PI: Christoph Oberlack (Centre for Development and Environment)

AlgoHex
Project title: Algorithmic Hexahedral Mesh Generation
PI: David Bommes (Institute of Computer Science)