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Pioneering Sustainable Recovery in Steelmaking: Hydrogen-Based Technology for Byproduct Management (Dust2Value)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Clean Steel (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Germany
Call: Circular economy solutions for the valorisation of low-quality scrap streams, materials recirculation with high recycling rate, and residue valorisation for long term goal towards zero waste (Clean Steel Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4602250.0
EU funding (EUR): 4602250.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The Dust2Value project aims to transform the steelmaking residue recycling process by introducing an innovative hydrogen reduction technology that efficiently recovers valuable metals, such as zinc and iron, from steelmaking residue streams. This environmentally-friendly technology supports the circular economy, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and contributes to a sustainable future for the steel industry. The Dust2value process utilizes green hydrogen to reduce zinc oxide and iron oxide present in the residue, converting them into gaseous zinc that evaporates, re-oxidizes with water vapor to fine-dispersed ZnO particles which leave the furnace via the off-gas system and are recovered in bag house filters. Additionally, a secondary DRI is produced. The novel design of the Dust2Value process recovers heat and hydrogen generated during the re-oxidation of gaseous zinc to fine-dispersed ZnO particles, optimizing its energy efficiency. The project will design, construct and optimize a prototype rotary kiln that enables optimized heat transfer and gas-solid interactions, ensuring effective metal recovery. A key aspect of the Dust2Value project is the integration of digitalization and machine learning techniques for process modelling and optimization. The project will leverage machine learning algorithms trained on kinetic data from thermogravimetry to create an accurate and comprehensive process model. This model will be used for the dimensioning of the prototype and will be further developed into a digital twin, providing a real-time representation of the physical process. The digital twin will enable continuous monitoring, analysis, and optimization of the process, ensuring optimal performance, and facilitating the rapid implementation of improvements. This advanced approach to process modelling will significantly enhance the Dust2Value process optimisation, driving innovation in the field of steelmaking residue recycling.

Keywords: circular industry,hydrogen reduction technology,heat recovery,hydrogen recovery,steelmaking residue recycling,co2 emission reduction
European left-wing populism and sovereignty: a comparative analysis of the national-popular discourses of the Belgian (PTB), French (LFI), Northern Irish (Sinn Féin) and Spanish (Podemos) cases (EuLeSov)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Scholars have long mainly associated the concept of populism – and its corollaries, such as sovereignty – with radical right political parties. However, in Europe, since the 2010s, the rise and electoral breakthroughs of the radical left have been based on populist elements, i.e. on rhetoric (1) opposing the people to the elite, and (2) demanding a radicalisation of democracy through the concept of popular sovereignty. Most scholars retain a minimal definition of populism based on three elements (people- centrism, anti-elitism, popular sovereignty) and therefore consider national sovereignty as a corollary of left-wing populist discourses. On the contrary, EuLeSov will consider national sovereignty as a constitutive element of (partisan) left-wing populism. The project focuses on internal party dynamics (membership and leadership) and aims to examine why and how the people the people-centrism and anti-elitism of European left-wing populist parties is built on the concept of popular sovereignty (plebs-people) but also on that of national sovereignty (nation-people). The project applies a mixed-methods research design to the comparative study of four political organizations (La France insoumise [Unbowed France, LFI], Parti du travail de Belgique [Workers’ Party of Belgium, PTB], Podemos [We Can] and Sinn Féin [Ourselves]) in four countries (France, Belgium, Spain and Northern Ireland). This empirical approach will provide a better understanding of the mutations that the radical left party family has known since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Examining the articulation between left-wing populism and national sovereignty is today crucial as some of these parties have succeeded in taking power and others are at the verge of power. Understanding their relationship to national sovereignty contributes to the understanding of the major political changes that Western Europe has experienced since the Great Recession.

Keywords: left wing populism sovereignty mixed methods comparative politics radical left political parties national popular nationalism
Synthetic Bimodal Photoredox Catalysis: Unlocking New Sustainable Light-Driven Reactivity (SYNPHOCAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1920260.0
EU funding (EUR): 1920260.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Solar light is an inexhaustible, abundant, and free reactant that can promote the construction and transformation of molecules. The chemistry community is particularly interested in photocatalysis, which uses light energy to promote a chemical transformation. Photocatalysts (PCs) play a key role in transformative light-driven processes by donating or receiving electrons to or from the target substrate. The selection and structural refinement of PCs can channel reactivity to diverse mechanistic pathways, but often proceeds via trial and error. Here, I will use structure-property relationships to: 1) define novel bimodal organic PCs able to catalyse thermodynamically demanding and opposite photoredox events exploiting their electronically excited state; 2) explore the PCs reactivity by means of their radical ions, going beyond conventional photoredox approaches; 3) capitalise on the new reactivity and bimodal way of action of the PCs to implement novel selective transformations of biological targets under physiological conditions. These project core concepts will be accomplished by the rational evaluation and optimisation of the PCs physicochemical and structural properties as well as the careful analysis of the mechanistic features subtending the light-driven chemical events. Overall, SYNPHOCAT will deliver new conceptual and experimental tools for the sustainable light-driven construction and functionalisation of biorelevant molecules, opening the way to a new dimension of sustainable light-driven chemistry.

Keywords: photoredox catalysis,organocatalysis
Digital Twinning for Personalized Atrial Fibrillation Care (TwinCare-AF)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Austria,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183600.96
EU funding (EUR): 183600.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of the TwinCare-AF project is to develop innovative core methodologies for accurate and real-time calibration of cardiovascular electrophysiological models and to support medical decisions in the context of atrial fibrillation and catheter ablation therapy planning. The proposed approach will focus on the generation of digital twins of patient hearts, calibrated through robust and efficient machine learning techniques, and able to replicate measured clinical data, such as electrocardiogram and electrogram recordings. Specifically, physics-informed and/or deep-learning techniques will be extended and implemented within the context of anatomically-accurate and biophysically-detailed cardiac electrophysiology, to accelerate the solution of classical forward electrophysiological model, and to solve inverse problems for identifying patient-specific physical and tissue properties of the heart. Additionally, a robust methodology for verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification will be adopted to showcase the agreement between model predictions and empirical observations, and to provide reliable estimates of confidence in the model predictions. The developed approach will be used to predict atrial fibrillation progression and determine potential ablation sets for individual patients. The predictions of the developed model will undergo testing through in vivo intraoperative clinical measurements. To enhance easy flow, robust analysis, and interpretation of patient-specific data, the novel real-time mathematical workflow for atrial fibrillation simulations will be integrated into a clinically viable platform. These tasks will leverage leading-edge mathematical methodologies, improve the observation-to-diagnosis clinical process by efficiently handling patient-specific data, and support therapy planning, ultimately enabling a scalable translation to large population cohorts.

Keywords: cardiac digital twins,electrophysiology,machine learning,uncertainty quantification,atrial fibrillation,cardiovascular modeling
Analytic Number Theory and Arithmetic Statistics over Function Fields (Function Fields)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2029-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499543.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499543.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

An archetypal problem in multiplicative number theory is to determine the factorization statistics in a given set, such as the set of values of an integral polynomial, or of the function raising an integer to a non-integral power and taking the integral part, the set of integers n for which there exists an integer 0 < a < n/10 such that n divides a^3-2, or the set of discriminants of cubic extensions of a number field. One is particularly interested in estimating the number of primes in such sets. We study analogs of such problems over function fields (in one variable over a finite field). Almost every problem over number fields admits a sensible (although not necessarily obvious) analog over function fields, and solutions to such problems carry over as well. On the other hand, the Riemann Hypothesis has been resolved in a most definitive form by Deligne in the function field setting. While solutions of problems over function fields do not translate to solutions of analogous problems over number fields, new insights are gained, and connections to geometry, topology, and homological stability emerge. Function field analytic number theory problems often reduce to obtaining cancellation in sums of trace functions of l-adic etale sheaves over the points of a variety over a finite field. The Grothendieck--Lefschetz trace formula, in conjunction with Deligne’s theorem, gives us cancellation once strong upper bounds on the dimensions of the cohomology groups of our sheaves are available. The main proposed innovation is a bound on the dimensions of cohomology groups of sheaves built using the six operations from more basic sheaves, approached using Massey's bound involving the characteristic cycle. Our methods involve also judicious choices of l for which the reduction of our sheaves mod l simplifies them. These will be combined with the circle method to serve as an off-the-shelf approach to function field problems.

Keywords: etale cohomology,homological stability,vanishing cycles,perverse sheaves,characteristic cycle
Old anD Young Star clusterS tracing Evolution and assemblY (ODYSSEY)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the standard framework of galaxy evolution, galaxies form in a two-phase scenario that comprises a quasi-monolithic formation of an in-situ population, followed by the accretion of of lower-mass galaxies. As these merger processes significantly alter the morphology and kinematic state of a galaxy, reconstructing the assembly history of galaxies is a challenging but fundamental task to understand galaxy evolution. In that context, dense star clusters such as globular clusters, young massive clusters, and nuclear star clusters, that still contain information of their birthplace and subsequent evolution imprinted in their stellar population are potentially powerful tracers of galaxy assembly. While ancient globular clusters are fossil records of early star formation and galaxy accretion, young massive star clusters trace recent star formation episodes and interactions, and nuclear star clusters provide an unique window into the evolution of a galaxy's central region. The ODYSSEY action aims to fully unlock the potential of these star clusters as tracers of galaxy evolution by employing a comprehensive framework that combines for the first time the insights provided by globular clusters, young massive clusters and nuclear clusters. To achieve this, ODYSSEY has two main objectives: 1) exploring the complex interplay between galaxies and the star clusters they host and b) constructing a flexible semi-analytical model that constrains the assembly history of individual galaxies from their star clusters. The proposed research programme will greatly advance our understanding of the mechanisms that shape star clusters and of how they are connected to the evolution of their host galaxies, while at the same time providing a new methodology of how galaxy evolution can be studied.

Keywords: star clusters,globular clusters,nuclear star clusters
Raw material provisioning and mobility patterns throughout the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in NW Tuscany (MobiliTy)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MobiliTy investigates Middle and early Upper Palaeolithic human organisation to exploit the landscape resources in NW Tuscany. Hunter-gatherers’ (HGs) mobility patterns are understood to be in a spectrum between residential and logistical mobility. HGs have shown to have site-furniture, personal and situational gear, with different levels of manufacture and maintenance curation. Around 40 ka cal BP a technological and human species’ shift occurred in Europe, referred as the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition. The northern Tyrrhenian region is one of the few European areas that yielded a cluster of last Neanderthal sites and the presence of early H. sapiens. It is a required passage between southern France and the rest of the Italian Peninsula, and the further investigation of this area could shed light on the colonisation process of H. sapiens and its relationship with the demise of H. neanderthalensis. The sites in NW Tuscany are showing a different raw material provisioning, in particular early H. sapiens introduced the exotic Scaglia Marchigiana chert, showing a long-extended network that spans from NW Italy until the central eastern Apennines. The action is an interdisciplinary endeavour to better understand differences of land-use patterns and reconstructing mobility patterns in the NW Tuscany across the Middle-Upper Transition period, through the technological analysis of the artefacts and the definition of raw material circulation.

Keywords: h sapiens,neanderthal,chert,mobility,italian peninsula
FMO1 Multifunctionality for improved Plant health (MultiPly)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Denmark,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs) are a highly conserved family of enzymes present in prokaryotes, fungi, animals, and plants. Among plant FMOs, the N-hydroxylating FMO1 is essential for pathogen resistance. FMO1 catalyses the biosynthetic reaction to synthesize N-hydroxy-pipecolic acid (N-Pip), the critical signalling molecule for Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR) defense priming. Since the identification of FMO1 functionality in 2018, targeted analysis of the N-Pip pathway shows high potential for metabolic engineering to enhance disease resistance in dicotyledons. A fully analogous role for N-Pip SAR in monocotyledonous crops, however, is less clear. In fact, preliminary analysis by the Neilson Group (UCPH) suggests the FMO1 from barley (Hordeum vulgare) and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) has diversified functionality compared to activity observed in the FMO1 from Arabidopsis. Unbiased analysis of potential FMO1 multifunctionality has not yet been addressed, and detailed analysis of FMO1 evolution throughout the plant kingdom is lacking. The proposed project – ‘MultiPly: FMO1 Multifunctionality for improved Plant health’–will employ an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the evolution and functionality of the significant Plant FMO1s. Specifically, this project will combine bioinformatics (phylogeny reconstruction, protein modelling, and docking) with enzyme kinetic studies and in planta analysis to assess FMO1 multifunctionality throughout the plant kingdom. The in planta FMO1 characterization will primarily occur in barley to unravel the mode of SAR in these agriculturally important crops. In addition, MultiPly is designed to utilize my background in protein biochemistry and bioinformatics. I will also receive significant training within the new technical fields of metabolomics and plant physiology, as well as scientific management, leadership, and mentorship to establish an independent research group in academia.

Keywords: fmo1,phylogeny,evolution,enzymology,biochemistry,multifunctionality,plant physiology,metabolomics,sar,volatile organic compound,voc,crop production
LIterature For Empowerment against manipulation (LIFE)

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: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 288859.2
EU funding (EUR): 288859.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

LIFE examines if and how literary reading can be used to help raise awareness of disempowering manipulative influences exerted by one’s environment and the media and foster empowerment to mitigate their effects. It will develop a new cross-disciplinary tool to measure literature’s potential effects on manipulation perception and on the sense of empowerment. It will provide an ‘empowerment canon’ of expert-selected and empirically validated literary texts that can be particularly helpful in this task. The tool will draw from the disciplines of literary studies, psychology, sociology, and communication and will be empirically tested and validated in two diverse countries: Italy and the United States. The media and the environment can exert disempowering influences on one’s life. Indeed, the news, advertising, gaming and social media industries often propel insecurity, social division, consumerism and addictive behaviours, while one’s immediate environment may imbed limiting beliefs and conformism. While the empirical study of literature has been able to show some of literature’s prosocial effects, its potential impact on kindling the sense of empowerment is yet to be determined. LIFE tackles this challenge by researching how literature can help raise awareness of such disempowering manipulative influences and foster empowerment. LIFE will advance the emergent interdisciplinary research area of the empirical study of literature.

Keywords: empirical study of literature,effects of reading,empowerment,manipulation,reading