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Bringing EMPHASIS to operation: European Infrastructure for multi-scale Plant Phenomics and Simulation for food security in a changing climate (EMPHASIS-GO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Belgium,Israel,Serbia,Portugal,Estonia,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany,Ireland
Call: Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – Individual support for ESFRI projects (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1317750.01
EU funding (EUR): 1317750.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Plant production is central in agriculture, food systems, and in bio-economy applications, which is essential to address future challenges related to growing population, climate change, scarcity of agricultural land, loss of biodiversity etc. Integrated solutions and new technologies are needed to improve plant production, based on knowledge-driven innovation to the farming sector, agricultural and seed industries. Therein, the analysis of crop performance with respect to structure, function, quality and interaction with the environment (“phenotyping”) is key for the exploitation of crop genetic diversity required for the enhancement of plant productivity and progress in plant breeding. This requires substantial and concerted action to develop and to increase the availability of phenotyping infrastructures. The European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) has thus identified “Plant Phenotyping” as a priority for the European research area and EMPHASIS has been listed on the ESFRI ROADMAP, addressing primary plant production as the key step in future European agro-food-systems and bio-economy transformation. The Preparatory Phase project (EMPHASIS-PREP, 2017-2021) paved the way towards implementation and subsequent operation. It developed a business plan and established the Interim General Assembly, as main decision-making body, comprising high-level representation from policy and science. EMPHASIS-GO will build on the successful work in the Preparatory Phase, extend the membership with partners from eleven countries fully committed to support EMPHASIS and bring EMPHASIS into operation to fully explore the potential European plant phenotyping by i) developing and deploying services, ii) implement the legal, financial and organisational framework and iii) consolidating the business plan for future operations.

Keywords: plant phenotyping,research infrastructure,service provision,bioeconomy,data management,governance
Innovation and Demonstration of Selective Electrodialysis for Sustainable Lithium Extraction (SelectLithium) (SelectLithium)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing global demand for lithium-ion batteries, driven by the rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and grid-scale energy storage systems, necessitates the development of more efficient, scalable, and sustainable lithium extraction technologies. Traditional lithium extraction from hard rock mining and evaporation ponds is energy-intensive, slow, and environmentally taxing, often leading to significant water consumption and land degradation. Direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies have emerged as a promising solution, enabling higher lithium recovery rates with reduced environmental impact. Among various DLE approaches, electrodialysis using ion-selective membranes shows great promise but existing membranes have low ion selectivity. With the support of ERC-funded curiosity-driven fundamental research, we have developed a new generation of ion-selective membranes with great potential for lithium extraction. This proof-of-concept proposal focuses on advancing the commercialization of ion-selective membranes for DLE. The core objectives include: (1) optimizing membrane chemistries and compositions to improve selectivity of lithium towards other monovalent and divalent ions, as well as mechanical stability and chemical resistance; (2) Optimizing the selectivity of anion exchange membranes used in the electrodialysis system, (3) scaling up the single electrodialysis cell to electrodialysis stack prototype demonstrations to validate performance in complex brine environments; and (4) performing techno-economic assessments to evaluate cost-effectiveness and commercial viability. This project aims to accelerate technology transfer from laboratory research to industrial-scale applications and involves collaboration with industrial partners including large energy and small start-up companies. The outcomes of this work will support the development of a more sustainable and resilient lithium supply chain for the EU.
Mid-infrared Wearable for Non-invasive biomarker monitoring (MiWear)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Netherlands,Finland,Romania,Spain
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Towards the Healthcare Continuum: technologies to support a radical shift from episodic to continuous healthcare (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3991297.0
EU funding (EUR): 3991297.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Modern medicine has improved dramatically through a better understanding of what causes a condition or what it is correlated to. However, the healthcare system still follows an episodic (reactive) model, where patients only seek medical advice when there are symptoms, which, for certain medical conditions, has proven critically insufficient. In this context, one of the main burdens for our socioeconomic system in Europe by a single disease is without question the metabolic syndrome (MbS). MbS is prominently visible in the large and ever-growing number of overweight or obese individuals. Yet, its true negative dramatic consequences among others are arteriosclerosis, hereby induced myocardial infarction, and stroke. Several biomarkers such as uric acid, albumin, or ketone bodies correlate with MbS and often indicate different aspects of the metabolic syndrome. The more biomarkers can be measured and quantified with high accuracy, the easier it becomes to make conclusive decisions on the patient’s status. False negatives as well as false positives can be avoided much better with more parameters – if each of them is measured individually and directly without the need for indirect methods where evaluations are easily overfitted. We provide an alternative approach for the measurement of biomarkers, using a miniatured Mid-Infrared spectrometer, a technology that is only used in laboratories due to its size and cost. The result of the project will be a wearable device to detect biomarkers non-invasively and pain-free in the interstitial fluid in the skin. For MiWear, we have gathered an impressive consortium combining expert knowledge on biomarkers, optical spectroscopy, laser physics, business management, finances, and the gender dimension of biomarkers. During the project, we will generate opportunities for young researchers, and engage with different stakeholders to ensure maximum outreach of our research and development activities.

Keywords: midinfrared spectroscopy non invasive biomarker monitoring proactive healthcare medtech wearables personalised medicine precision medicine healthtech next generation healthcare devices gender medicine artificial intelligence explainable artificial intelligence generative artificial intelligence
Biological Microswimmers for Cargo Delivery Systems: Modelling, Simulations and Experiments (BIOMICAR)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Bacteria, protozoa and microalgae have evolved mechanisms to self-propel. The interactions between different types of Biological Microswimmers (BM) are relevant in natural processes such as the regulation of carbon and oxygen biogeochemical cycles and the toxin releasing by phytoplankton blooms under certain environmental conditions, but also in development of technological applications due to the emergence of a collective behaviour and a spatio-temporal synchronization. BM have been used as transporters, showing promising results at carrying and releasing a cargo in a specified target. However, there is still a lack of sharp control of the collective movement of BM towards a target, which implies a poor delivery of the cargo at the desired place. This flaw comes from the fact that, in real scenarios, BM swim through complex porous media where interact with passive and active agents, and are subjected to external fields, such as light, concentration of chemicals and global background flow, that highly affect their motion and hinders its predictability. Up to date, the concomitant effects of confinement, external fields and interactions with other BM or active agents, have not been taken into account in current simulations or experiments. The proposed action, therefore, aims to develop a new computational approach that enables simulation of suspensions of interacting BM in complex confined environments, at the same time subjected to external fields, providing a platform to gain fundamental knowledge on the control of the collective behaviour of mixtures of BM under conditions compatible with the conceptual design of efficient cargo delivery systems. The simulation platform will be feedbacked and tested with experiments, in which suspensions containing phototactic (C. reinhardtii) and chemotactic (E. coli) BM will be studied with microfluidics.

Keywords: computer simulations,active matter,swimmers
RHE-MEDiation - Responsive hub for long term governance to destress the Mediterranean Sea from chemical pollution (RHE-MEDiation)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Portugal,Greece,Türkiye,Belgium
Call: Mediterranean sea basin lighthouse - Actions to prevent, minimise and remediate chemical pollution (HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7040396.25
EU funding (EUR): 5794495.38
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The RHE-MEDiation lighthouse aims at establishing a responsive hub deploying long-term governance centred on the mission to destress the Mediterranean Sea from chemical pollution, including peak concentrations in known HOT SPOTs. In particular, the most impacting components that currently affect Mediterranean resources and threaten its survival in the short term if no action is taken, like heavy metals, pesticides and PFAS & "forever chemicals", should be stopped and removed from the fresh and waste waters before they enter the sea. The RHE-MEDiation hub governance at the base of this transformation will a) deploy chemical pollution remediation technologies based on micro-algae solutions to enhance relevant TRL when integrated in existing water / wastewater treatment systems practises and assessed in their benefits with the involvement of the local communities; b) set-up a combined fixed and mobile cooperative monitoring system based on smart drifters to provide surface and depth water detection and measurement of pollutants; c) demonstrate through 3 piloting sites efficiency of scaled prototype solutions and quantify capacity in the longer term for the full scale configuration; d) assess and validate the responsiveness of the local community to manage this transformation; e) replicate the evaluation of the expected benefits by RHE-MEDiation approach potential over additional 5 “associated regions” demo cases, selected to maximise the validated technology basket exploitation; f) quantify the achieved technology and governance efficiency transfer from the lighthouse to the citizens, stakeholders, and policy makers, as main recipients of the RHE-MEDiation action stream for bridging benefits to next generations; g) test the “RHE-MEDiation Local Communities approach as primary driver for a critical mass mobilisation to free the Mediterranean Sea from chemical pollution, thus increasing the overall human health as a consequence of healthier seafood and products.

Keywords: micro algae micro system for chemical pollution recognition fixed and mobile measurement stations machine learning cooperative systems chemical data for emodnet
Building Responsible Technology: Global Digital Transformations, Tech Workers’ Agency and the Making of Artificial Intelligence (BehindAI)

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: Ireland,Germany,United States,Brazil,India
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 334757.04
EU funding (EUR): 334757.04
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

How could developers and deployers of digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) make ‘social responsibility’ a key element in everyday industry practices and technological decisions? To answer this question – at the core of the EU Digital Compass 2030 and the recent publication of the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI – BehindAI will open up the “algorithm black box” and deploy an innovative international action research in collaboration with ThoughtWorks, a major global technology and consultancy company spearheading innovative responsible tech initiatives. Carrying out close studies of how decisions are taken during software design and development, the project will explain those decisions by understanding team members’ reflexive perspectives on tech and how those were shaped by their personal and professional trajectories. Furthermore, it will analyse concrete workplace organizational set-ups and the ways in which they allow or limit the application of those ethical and social perspectives in the everyday reality of the global tech industry. As a MSCA Global Fellowship BehindAI will be carried out by Sébastien Antoine under the supervision of EU tech industry expert Seán Ó Riain and organized through a closely coordinated transnational team from Europe (Maynooth/Ireland), Latin America (UFRGS/Brazil), Asia (HK PolyU/China) and the US (UPenn/USA) with strong organic links between the academic and industry partners. In this way, the project will provide a new perspective on how the socialization, learning and reflexive negotiation of tech developers can address critical ethical and social issues in AI. This will provide new directions for addressing both theoretical challenges and policy dilemmas currently being considered at the highest levels, ensuring that the key principles of ethical AI championed by the EU reach the shop floor of the tech industry, shaping concrete software developments and broader digitalization processes of economy and society.

Keywords: technology information ai transnational global inequality organisations work workplace democratisation participatory
Imaging and Characterization for a Sustainable World (I4WORLD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Finland,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United States,France,China,Sweden,Denmark,Norway,Czechia,Brazil,Poland,Germany,New Zealand,Ireland,Canada,Spain
Call: MSCA COFUND 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-COFUND-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3360000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3360000.0
Participants: 51
Project status: SIGNED

I4WORLD - Imaging and Characterization for a Sustainable World - is a novel international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral doctoral programme for 25 ESRs hosted at the University of Oulu. The programme trains future research and innovation leaders for the global challenges of sustainability transition in UN Sustainable Development Goals topics: Good Health and Wellbeing, Affordable and Clean Energy, Sustainable Industries and Production and Clean Water, Biodiversity, and Environment. I4WORLD is based on full exploitation of the possibilities of modern imaging and characterisation methods in multidisciplinary research. The Programme combines six faculties and 24 research units of UOULU and is driven together with 18 international academic partners, 9 private companies, five research organizations, two public sector organisations and an industrial association. I4WORLD brings together the complementary expertise of world-class researchers in training ESRs with interdisciplinary visions in highly relevant UN SDGs research areas. The programme will provide ESRs comprehensive understanding on aspects of the sustainability and first-hand understanding on how research develops from science findings to interdisciplinary innovations and commercially valuable applications. Equality and diversity are inbuild values of the Programme in its training actions as well as in dissemination and communication. I4WORLD provides structured doctoral training responding to the need to train skilled next-generation ESRs to European job markets in industry, public sector and academia. Programme exploits local, national and international strengths of the network partners having excellence in research, cutting-edge infrastructures, and collaboration networks. I4WORLD builds upon a critical mass of expertise and provides a unique combination of complementary methodological approaches for high-quality training that would not be possible to implement at any site or organisation alone.

Keywords: imaging,characterization,synchrotron,infrastructure,sustainability,spectroscopy,unsdg
Next generation multiplatform Ocean observing technologies for research infrastructures (GEORGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Spain,France,Germany,Italy,Norway,United Kingdom,Ireland,Belgium
Call: R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools and methods (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7705725.25
EU funding (EUR): 7705725.25
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

The ocean is a major component of the global carbon cycle absorbing about a quarter of anthropogenic CO2 emissions every year, modulating the rate of accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere and hence global warming. Increased levels of CO2 in the ocean cause a decline in seawater pH, also known as ocean acidification, with now well-known potential ecological consequences. Sustained, long-term in situ observations are, therefore, crucial to better understand and predict the impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems, increase resilience and develop sound mitigation and adaptation strategies. Furthermore, long-term sustained in situ ocean observations are required to support environmental and climate policies, such as the European Green Deal, and related policies aiming to reach net zero carbon and achieve a sustainable blue economy. To meet this challenge, GEORGE will advance the global technological competitiveness of European ocean observing research infrastructures (EMSO, ICOS, Euro-Argo) through the development and demonstration of a state-of-the-art biogeochemical, multi-platform observing system for characterisation of the ocean carbon system. GEORGE will advance the technology readiness level of novel sensors enabling for the first time systematic autonomous, in situ seawater CO2 system characterisation, and CO2 fluxes on moving and fixed platforms. These sensors will be integrated on state-of-the-art platforms augmented with the latest in autonomous technology enabling new observing capability. Technologies, methods and SOPs for carbon observing will be harmonised across a framework for multi-platform, cross-ERIC ocean observing, from sensor to data repositories. GEORGE will build capacity in ERICs through the provision of training in the use of new technologies and SOPs on data handling and reporting to staff and member organisations. Technology will be co-developed between industry and ERICs ensuring direct route to market and potential for scalability.

Keywords: ocean observations,co2,climate change,innovation