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The 19th Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan Conference: Strategic energy technologies for a competitive, secure and sustainable Europe. (SETplan 2025)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Cluster 5 other
Destination: Other Climate, Energy and Mobility destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Support for the SET Plan Conference in 2025 (Presidency event) (HORIZON-CL5-2025-SETPLAN-IBA, 2025)
Start date: 2025-04-11
End date: 2026-02-10
Duration (months): 10.0
Total project cost (EUR): 306250.0
EU funding (EUR): 250000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities presents a proposal to host the 19th SET Plan Conference 2025 in Odense, Denmark during the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The 19th SET Plan Conference will take place on 4th and 5th of November 2025. It will focus on the intersection of critical energy technologies, security of supply and green energy innovation to strengthen Europe's competitiveness and energy sovereignty under the title: The 19th Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan Conference: Strategic energy technologies for a competitive, secure and sustainable Europe. Denmark is a leader in many areas for clean technology and the discussion of how we can broaden this to many more countries in the EU will be addressed, and the Conference will provide a platform for in-depth discussions on Europe’s most pressing energy challenges. The agenda will feature both plenary and parallel sessions, offering diverse formats such as keynote speeches, expert panel discussions, site visits, social opportunities and networking events. The Conference is expecting approximately 300 participants, and the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities is planning the conference in close cooperation with the European Commission. The Conference will promote energy research and innovation across the EU and enable discussions among different public and private stakeholders. The results will include, among others, recommendations for the SET Plan Implementation Working Groups, and for the future of the EU research and innovation programs.

Keywords: set plan,resilience,energy,utility,climate,energy systems
Intent-based data operation in the computing continuum (INTEND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Norway,Austria,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Hungary,Portugal,Bulgaria,Korea, Republic of,Sweden,Romania
Call: Cognitive Computing Continuum: Intelligence and automation for more efficient data processing (AI, data and robotics partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7383522.16
EU funding (EUR): 5790541.76
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The EU strategic autonomy in the digital economy requires more and more data to be processed in the Cloud-Edge-IoT computing continuum, instead of only the central cloud. This requires advanced automation and intelligence of the continuum. At the same time, recent breakthroughs in AI research have shown unprecedented intelligence to handle creative tasks. Such human-like intelligence will eventually disrupt how people use the cloud and continuum. INTEND aims at bringing such human-like intelligence into the cognitive continuum, to achieve the novel concept of intent-based data operation, which is capable of: (1) continually learning how to manage and adapt heterogeneous cloud/edge resources for more efficient data processing, (2) strategic decision making across the decentralized continuum for end-to-end data security and sustainability, and (3) human-friendly interaction with data stakeholders in natural language, for effective and trustworthy human-entric data operation. To achieve this ambitious objective, INTEND builds a strong consortium of world-class AI researchers and leading companies that cover the complete supply chain of the computing continuum. The project will deliver 11 novel software tools, which integrate into an INTEND toolbox. The approach and the tools will be tested and validated on 5 vertical domains, to achieve the novel intent-based data operation for video streaming pipelines, machine data platform, 5G data infrastructure, urban data space, and robotic AI applications. An open platform will be provided to support the extension with new hardware, management tools and AI models into the cognitive continuum. The outputs pave the way of migrating EU's data industry from cloud to the continuum, and implements EC's strategy of human-centric AI in the domain of data processing and computing continuum.

Keywords: ai,human machine interaction,data operation,edge,intent based data operation,generative ai
MICRObiome Biobanking (RI) Enabler (MICROBE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,United Kingdom,France,Germany
Call: R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools and methods (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5804683.0
EU funding (EUR): 5804682.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Microbiomes comprise communities of microorganisms (i.e., microbiota that includes bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi and microalgae) and their "theatre of activity" (i.e., structural elements, metabolites, signal molecules, mobile genetic elements, as well as surrounding environmental conditions). Microbiomes play a key role in maintaining life on Earth by providing a range of essential ecosystem services and are indispensable for the health of plants, animals and humans. Thus, there is a wide consensus that by harnessing microbiome functions society would be better placed to tackle global challenges such as food security, health and wellbeing, food waste management, and climate change mitigation. To facilitate the science necessary to achieve key advances in microbiome research, methodologies and technologies to capture or create, ensure stable long-term maintenance, and experimentally perturb microbiomes are required. Research infrastructures currently lack optimized methodologies and technologies to preserve and provide access to microbiome samples and massive amounts of associated data MICROBE is designed to address these issues by building upon and connecting: (1) technical solutions for microbiome preservation, propagation and functionality assessment, (2) novel ecological concepts (i.e. “core microbiome” and “microbial keystone taxa”), and (3) data infrastructures. In addition, MICROBE will address essential framework issues such as standardization, ethical and legal requirements and new business opportunities. Participation of relevant European research infrastructures, i.e., BBMRI-ERIC, MIRRI, ELIXIR and EMBRC-ERIC, to ensure that community needs are properly addressed and that developed solutions are efficiently taken up by the infrastructures themselves and by their user communities. Long term ambition is to ensure widespread uptake in microbiome research communities and thus support the development of novel microbiome-based applications.

Keywords: microbiome,biobanking,data infrastructure
Business Angels and Crowdinvestors for Startups’ Human Capital (BAC4SHC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,France
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 331200.0
EU funding (EUR): 331200.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims at developing both an advancement on the extant research on the role of Human Capital (HC) within two major actors of the entrepreneurial finance ecosystem, Business Angels (BAs) and Crowdinvestors (CIs) and an original set of competencies generated by a partnership of academic and non-academic institutions. Direct objective of the project is building a competence network able to improve employability and career prospects both in and outside academia in the entrepreneurship and finance sector, thanks to a fully international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility of EU researchers. A total of 91 out-going secondments and 91 in-coming secondments of researchers will be committed from the partners involved in three Countries. The objective of the project is to design, develop and maintain a EU dataset on different dimensions of BAs’ and CIs’ innovative HC characteristics and their impact on startup survival and success performances. Research on the relationship between investors' HC and the growth and performance of startups within the entrepreneurial finance ecosystem is still at a seminal level, considering the the impact of digitization, the study of competences related to green and sustainability investing, and female entrepreneurship. The project will help advancing these research streams, going beyond traditional HC features and assessing their impact on startup survival, subsequent financing channels and a comprehensive set of financial and non-financial performance indicators, through its training and dissemination activities. The project is expected to generate a large scientific, economic, and societal impact. The results will offer useful suggestions to market operators and policy-makers for emphasizing the contribution of BAs and CIs towards digitization and green transition in the finance sector.

Keywords: business angels crowdfunding human capital green digitization female entrepreneurs
Limits to Migration as Adaptation through Loss and Damage (MiLoDa)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230184.72
EU funding (EUR): 230184.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Migration is increasingly recognised in research and policy as an autonomous adaptation strategy that can help climate-affected households to diversify their livelihoods. However, in the absence of supportive policies and legal frameworks, migration in the context of climate change can also result in loss and damage (L&D) for migrants and their families or households, which can undermine the success of migration as adaptation. Yet, L&D experienced through migration are yet to be fully and explicitly elaborated. The overall goal of the project, therefore, is to develop and validate, through empirical research in Bangladesh, a novel conceptual framing of migration-related L&D (MLD). Working with translocal households (consisting of migrants in places of destination and their families in places of origin) in Bangladesh, I will (i) identify context-specific socially differentiated MLD, (ii) examine the links between MLD and trade-offs in wellbeing, equity and sustainability across translocal households and their implications for limits to migration as climate adaptation, and (iii) co-produce contextually relevant solutions for addressing MLD. This novel conceptualisation of MLD underpinned by research evidence will advance scholarship and feed into policy debates on migration and L&D, act as a guide for assessments of limits to migration as adaptation, and support the development of appropriate measures that respond to migration-related economic and non-economic L&D. In Bangladesh, participation in the qualitative and deliberative research and co-produced context-specific responses to MLD will empower affected groups to access L&D funding and to advocate for their meaningful engagement in discussions about addressing L&D.

Keywords: loss and damage,climate change adaptation,qualitative methods,bangladesh
Artificial atoms in Silicon Photonics for Error-corrected Quantum Technologies (ASPEQT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2115405.0
EU funding (EUR): 2115405.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Light is one of the most powerful tools we have to interrogate Nature and to develop new technologies. However, at its most fundamental level, light is extremely fragile: single photons can be easily lost and their state inevitably erased. Quantum error correction offers a solution to tolerate such noises by encoding quantum information in the entanglement between multiple photons, making quantum states of light resilient to noise. Successfully implementing this would enable advanced quantum applications, such as quantum computations beyond the reach of conventional computers and unconditionally secure quantum networks. However, challenges in generating robust entanglement with photons have so far posed severe limitations to demonstrating photonic quantum error correction. ASPEQT will develop a new generation of quantum photonic devices that can generate entanglement at the scale required to support quantum error correction. It will do so by advancing foundational hardware building blocks through the integration of emerging color centers in scalable silicon photonic circuits. The project will develop novel techniques for embedding and controlling color centers within silicon nanostructures, achieving highly coherent spin-photon interfaces in silicon—a transformative development for scalable photonic quantum technologies. The technology will be benchmarked by generating robust entanglement between multiple photons and spins, culminating in the experimental realization of quantum error correction of logical photonic qubits that can tolerate photon loss, the dominant noise mechanism for quantum light. This project represents a highly promising and innovative approach to scalable quantum hardware, building on the applicant's unique expertise in solid-state photonic devices and quantum error correction with photons. Success will unlock transformative possibilities for scaling quantum technologies, from robust quantum networks to photon-based quantum computers.
Wood-Derived Hybrid Particles for Stabilized Dispersions (PARTIPERSION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Aqueous particle dispersions are elemental to many aspects of every-day life, from food and pharmaceuticals to construction materials. However, today’s dispersion science faces a grand challenge in developing colloidal particles with outstanding functionality in a sustainable manner. To enable society’s transformation from oil-based economy to bioeconomy, there is an urgent need to develop sophisticated biocompatible materials, such as particle dispersions, from biomass-derived precursors through sustainable conversion routes. Current bio-based alternatives to synthetic dispersions are entering the market rather slowly, primarily because key technologies to achieve superior functionality to justify industrial adaptation of biobased polymers are lacking. I will promote the findings of my fundamental ERC CoG project on hierarchical particles from two of the most abundant, but underused biopolymers: lignin and hemicelluloses. PARTIPERSION will establish a green route to sophisticated hierarchical architectures - hemicellulose-coated lignin particles - utilizing abundant bioresources. The project will lead to a breakthrough in colloid and interface science and contribute to more sustainable use of Earth’s resources.

Keywords: lignin nanoparticles,hemicelluloses,dispersions,stability
Flooding-tolerant C2-selective CO2 reduction electrode based on hydrophobic Cu-W tandem electrocatalyst (FOTOCER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-15
End date: 2025-11-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

CO2 conversion to value-added mono/multicarbon products is an appealing area of research to achieve negative CO2 emissions while exploiting CO2 as a C-based feedstock. The CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) powered by renewable electricity provides a way to effectively utilize CO2. Gas diffusion electrode (GDE)-based CO2RR reactors significantly increase current density to commercially relevant levels due to thinner mass transport layers that overcome the aqueous system’s diffusion constraint. Nevertheless, it is still challenging to achieve highly stable GDE, especially in high current density operation, owing to electrolyte flooding as a consequence of hydrophobicity decline. So, the GDE is the primary driver of CO2RR’s viability, but improving its performance is paramount. What sets this proposal apart from previous researches is that we seek to demonstrate a compelling way to reinforce the structure of Cu-based GDEs via the formation of bimetallic structures pursuing tandem effect without using precious metals, which enhances the selectivity toward C2 products. An improvement in the performance and C2 selectivity is envisaged thanks to the formation of noble metal-free Cu-W heterostructures for the first time, giving rise to heteroatomic reaction sites between oxophilic W and Cu atoms to reduce the bonding energy of adsorbed CO. At the same time, flooding is minimized by the obtained hydrophobic surface topology. The surface topology endows high surface area with adequate hydrophobicity to the GDE to establish an electrode/electrolyte interface, which not only traps more CO2 along the hierarchical Cu-W surface as tandem active sites, but also efficiently prevents electrolyte flooding even at high rates. FOTOCER's achievements will lead to advancements in cutting-edge industrial CO2 to useful C2+ products, which are essential in achieving the EU's environmental targets at an affordable scale-up cost.

Keywords: co2 reduction reaction co2rr,tandem electrocatalyst,hydrophobic gas diffusion electrode gde,c2 selective product,solar powered co2 electroreduction
Enhancing the implementation security of quantum key distribution (EIS-QKD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The advent of quantum computers poses a severe threat to the security of our existing communication infrastructure. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), which bases its security on the laws of physics rather than unproven computational assumptions, has been proposed as the ultimate solution to protect the long-term security of our communications. However, due to inevitable imperfections in the devices used to implement QKD protocols—particularly the sources—practical QKD systems suffer from security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized information, thus invalidating QKD's seemingly ironclad security guarantees. Recently, the scientific community has started to address this critical issue, with initiatives aimed at both developing security proofs resistant against device imperfections, and at experimentally quantifying their magnitude. However, these security proofs have tended to consider imperfections in isolation, and are thus unsuitable for real-world implementations suffering from multiple imperfections simultaneously. Moreover, the existing experimental works have not focused on quantifying the specific parameters required to apply these security proofs, limiting their practical utility. In this project, we aim to significantly enhance the implementation security of QKD through two primary objectives. The first is the development of a rigorous and robust security proof that, by integrating previous approaches, incorporates all possible device imperfections, and could thus secure practical implementations against all attacks aiming to exploit them. The second objective is the development of source characterization tests that can measure the specific parameters needed to apply this security proof, demonstrating its ability to secure real-life implementations. Achieving these objectives would significantly strengthen QKD's potential as a solution to ensure the long-term security of our communication infrastructure.

Keywords: quantum key distribution,quantum cryptography,quantum communication,implementation security