Sapienza has been awarded ten Marie Skłodowska-Curie grants, for total funding of €2,097,046.56. With this result, the best obtained to date, Sapienza is the third University in Italy for the number of grants awarded within this important European research programme.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme funds excellent researchers to carry out innovative research projects at a European or non-European organisation other than their own.

Thanks to the result of the 2020 call, Sapienza will recruit ten researchers from Switzerland, Belgium, France, United Kingdom and Germany who have chosen our University to carry out their research project. The projects will be conducted in collaboration with important foreign institutions such as New York University, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, Macquarie University, the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the International University of Rabat. Sapienza thus strengthens its international dimension, also in the field of research.

The winning projects, covering different subject areas, are:

• DmandEFT – Dark Matter and Effective Field Theories, presented by Angelo Esposito and Antonio Davide Polosa of the Department of Physics

• IMPACTUM – Mapping the impact of the Augustan colonies on the Early Roman Empire, presented by Sergio España Chamorro and Gianluca Gregori from the Department of Ancient World Studies

• InteroceptionAction – Unraveling the role of interoceptive abilities in aesthetic appreciation of movement, presented by Andrea Orlandi and Matteo Candidi from the Department of Psychology

• NOSTER – Nonlinear spatiotemporal light bullets: origin and stability, presented by Pedro Parra and Stefan Wabnitz from the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications

• PARCA – Advance in Proteomics and Analysis of dyes and Recovery of Charred and Aged textiles, presented by Ilaria Serafini and Roberta Curini from the Department of Chemistry

• PUSKURUM – Characterising the proximal pyroclastic deposits in Central Anatolia to improve the recent explosive volcanic history, synchronise sedimentary records, and better assess volcanic hazards in Turkey, presented by Ivan Sanye Puchol and Silvio Mollo from the Department of Earth Sciences

• REALSEI – opeRando chEmical spAce- and time-resoLved quantification of Solid Electrolyte Interphase in hard carbon anode for sustainable sodium-ion batteries, presented by Giorgia Greco and Sergio Brutti from the Department of Chemistry

• RITMO – The place-making function of ritual movement in Roman religion, presented by Giorgio Ferri and Alessandro Saggioro from the Department of History, Anthropology, Religion, Arts and Performing Arts

• StaMACS – Statistical Mechanics and transport phenomena in Active Colloidal Solids, presented by Helena Massana-Cid and Roberto Di Leonardo from the Department of Physics

• TRANSECT – Transnational Maghreb and the International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Pluralism, inclusiveness, and peaceful coexistence in the contemporary Maghrebi novel, presented by Fernanda Fischione and Alessandro Saggioro from the Department of History, Anthropology, Religion, Arts and Performing Arts