Address the “neutron stars hyperon puzzle” (contradiction between the observation of 2-solarmasses neutron stars and microscopical predictions of a softening of the nuclear equation-of-state due to the presence of strange-quark hadrons) through combined theoretical and experimental studies of (anti)hypernuclei and bound strange-meson systems produced in hadronic collisions at various c.m. energies.

Development of combined software, data sharing, and methodologies in lattice QCD theory across Europe along 4 axes: (i) hadron spectroscopy and structure, (ii) hadrons under extreme conditions, (iii) hadrons in the SM and beyond, (iv) novel numerical algorithms and computing for lattice hadron physics.

Extraction of QGP transport coefficients from new high-precision theoretical calculations and experimental measurements of the production of open and closed heavy flavour (HF) quarks (charm and beauty) in A-A collisions at the LHC. Accurate measurements of total c-cbar, b-bbar cross sections in p-p, p-A and A-A collisions. Development of a new data-theory interface (with a Rivet-like standard format) to compare event-byevent experimental results to MC predictions.