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Ground Operations of LIquid hydrogen AircrafT (GOLIAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Hungary,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Portugal,Czechia
Call: Hydrogen-powered aviation (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D5-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15203387.63
EU funding (EUR): 10800156.97
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Developing aircraft using hydrogen is seen as a major lever to reach net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 and to secure the long-term sustainability of air travel. In order to enable a widespread development of hydrogen aviation, it is essential for airport operators that a future regulatory framework is implemented for the handling of large quantities of hydrogen at airports and that there is a clear understanding of how hydrogen-powered aircraft will be integrated into airport operations and the required changes to current aircraft ground handling operations are known. In parallel to this, and for industrial partners, it is also necessary to develop new ground-handling equipment for hydrogen aircraft, and more specifically liquid hydrogen refuelling equipment that will enable safe and efficient turn-around operations. GOLIAT will demonstrate liquid hydrogen aircraft ground operations at three different types of European airports using a small hydrogen operated aircraft allowing the necessary procedures to be developed. It will also, through two demonstrators, showcase several critical technologies needed for future certified high-performance liquid hydrogen refuelling. In parallel, GOLIAT will answer key questions that will lay the foundations for the standardisation and certification framework of future safe hydrogen operations. Indeed, a key output of the project will be the gap analysis of certification rules and requirements for ground operations and equipment. Finally, GOLIAT will also assess the sizing and economics of hydrogen value chains for airports, critical for the competitive development of hydrogen powered aviation. To achieve its goals, GOLIAT reunites technology providers (aircraft manufacturers, liquid hydrogen suppliers, logistics experts, cryogenic component manufacturers and standardisation experts) and academia as well as several European airport operators all of whom will be supported by EASA.

Keywords: ground aircraft based refuelling technology,refuelling demo,aircraft ground operations,airport h2 infrastructure demand,liquid h2,h2 safety,standardisation,certification,techno economic study
Flows, Waves, and their Asymptotic Stability (FloWAS)

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: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1310233.0
EU funding (EUR): 1310233.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Equations of waves and flows are used extensively in physics and biology, to describe phenomena ranging from the flow past an airfoil, to the collective motion of cells and to the motion of water surface. A major issue is to explain how the propagation through space and the concentration to various scales can emerge from these mathematical models. Fundamental progress have been made since the beginning of the millenium around the role played by specific solutions that either propagate or shrink while keeping the same shape, such as solitary waves for example. These specific solutions are the key to understand the global dynamics. The goal of this project is to push forward the current knowledge on their stability, their emergence over time, and the dynamics they are responsible in several equations. The FloWAS project will study seemingly unrelated models, whose solutions in fact display remarkably close behaviours. First, we aim at describing how a thin layer of fluid can detach off a boundary and be ejected away in a stream. This is a key phenomenon to understand the drag exerted on moving objects. For this we will study singular solutions of the unsteady Prandtl system of fluid mechanics. Second, we will study concentration phenomena arising in the movement of bacteria. For that we will consider nonlinear structures appearing in the Keller-Segel system: how they can collapse, and how they can interact. Third, we will consider how, from initially disordered wave packets, order appears over time and traveling waves emerge. This study will be made on the critical wave equation. Applications to weak wave turbulence will be pursued. Describing all these phenomena lies at the frontier of current research, and we expect applications to a wide range of models.

Keywords: fluid mechanics,mathematical biology,dispersive equations,singularity formation,long time dynamics,stability
High-performance syngas upgrading into medium-chain carboxylates in high mass transfer gas-phase bioreactors with in situ product extraction (Syn2Value) (Syn2Value)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-22
End date: 2026-02-21
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

There is an urgent need to foster the transition to renewable energies, decarbonize the EU economy, and consolidate a circular economy. This requires the development of alternative and sustainable routes for producing fuels, chemicals, and intermediates. Biorefineries are a promising solution for producing a wide range of energy and marketable products while addressing another global environmental problem: organic waste management. Globally, > 9400 Mt of agricultural lignocellulosic waste could be used for biorefinery purposes. Syn2Value will engineer and validate a novel integrative biorefinery platform capable of converting lignocellulosic waste-derived syngas (H2:CO:CO2) into value-added liquid fuels and medium-chain carboxylates (MCC). Syn2Value will address two critical scientific challenges of syngas fermentation and chain elongation, namely the poor mass transport of gas substrates and the low metabolic selectivity, which limit its full-scale implementation. Syn2Value approach is based, first, on the bioprospection and assessment of thermophilic (45-55 °C) and acidophilic (pH: 4.5-5.5) microbes capable of a high-performance conversion of syngas into MCC. Second, the development of a groundbreaking single-stage syngas-to-MCC platform based on an innovative high mass transfer gas-lift bioreactor with in-situ product extraction. Third, ad-hoc mathematical models, techno-economic analysis and business planning will set the ground for a mid-term full deployment of a new generation of cost-effective and sustainable biotechnologies that will contribute to comply the Green Deal objective of making Europe the first climate-neutral region by 2050 while keeping the economic competitiveness of its world-leading chemical industry. The fellow, Dr. Rodolfo Palomo, will conduct this action at the Institute of Sustainable Processes of the University of Valladolid under the supervision of Dr. Raúl Muñoz, with secondments at Wageningen University & Research and the SME Greene.

Keywords: anaerobic metabolism caproate caprylate carboxylates chain elongation circular economy environmental biotechnology high mass transfer bioreactor syngas syngas fermentation
The Diplomacy of Small States in Early Modern South-eastern Europe (SMALLST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1979250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1979250.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims at producing a synoptic analysis of the foreign policy of small states in early modern South-eastern Europe. For centuries, the rulers of the Crimea, Moldavia and Wallachia, Ragusa, Transylvania, and Cossack Ukraine had to cope with their difficult geo-political situation of being at the borderlands between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. The project will be the first attempt for writing a comparative history on the following questions. 1, What kind of strategies these small states followed in order to overcome their vulnerability and survive on the frontier not only of empires but also of civilisations? 2, What was the impact of being placed at cultural borderlands upon their diplomatic practices? 3, How did they try to overcome the problem of having to communicate and present themselves in two radically different political languages (i.e. of their powerful Muslim and Christian neighbours)? 4, How did the agents of diplomacy function in this peculiar geo-political and cultural context, how did it shape their status, practices and the kind of social gains available to them?

Keywords: diplomacy,small states,cultural borderlands
Understanding the origin of structural colors in Margaritaria nobilis fruit: A molecular dynamics simulation study (NatColor-MD)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Structural coloration in plants, achieved through the arrangement of cellulose microfibrils into helicoidal architectures within the cell wall, is a widespread strategy observed in various plant species, including ferns, monocots, and eudicots. Despite its prevalence, the underlying mechanisms responsible for these hierarchical structures in plant cell walls remain poorly understood. To address this knowledge gap, this proposal focuses on unraveling the intricate interactions between cellulose and hemicellulStructural coloration in plants, achieved through the arrangement of cellulose microfibrils into helicoidal architectures within the cell wall, is a widespread strategy observed in various plant species, including ferns, monocots, and eudicots. Despite its prevalence, the underlying mechanisms responsible for these hierarchical structures in plant cell walls remain poorly understood. To address this knowledge gap, this proposal focuses on unraveling the intricate interactions between cellulose and hemicelluloses, the key constituents of plant cell walls, using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The primary objective of this research is to investigate how the chemical composition of hemicelluloses influences the formation of helicoidal structures in cellulose nanofibrils within plant cell walls and, subsequently, the resulting structural coloration. Combining MD simulation results with experimental data will provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of hemicelluloses on the helicoidal architecture of cellulose nanofibrils. Beyond its immediate scope, this study offers insights into the biosynthesis of cellulose and hemicelluloses in plant cell walls, shedding light on fundamental processes in plant biology. By elucidating the molecular dynamics underlying these interactions, this research contributes to our broader understanding of structural coloration strategies in the plant kingdom and offers potential applications in bio-inspired materials science.

Keywords: interfacial interactions,cellulose,hemicelluloses,md simulation,structural colors,self assembly,margaritaria nobilis
Unveiling the origins of white-dwarf explosions (CosmicLeap)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1993995.0
EU funding (EUR): 1993995.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The explosive deaths of white dwarfs are essential in heavy element nucleosynthesis, galaxy feedback, and for understanding the evolution of binary systems. Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are famous for their key role as cosmological-distance indicators and in the discovery of the accelerating Universe. Recent high-cadence surveys, and theoretical advances, have hinted that SNe Ia may not be the dominant way in which white dwarfs explode, with the potential existence of large populations of faint and rapidly evolving white-dwarf explosions. These unexplored classes of exotic transients may come from white dwarfs being torn apart by intermediate-mass black holes, mergers with neutron stars, or collisions in triple systems, but the mapping between explosions and observed transients is undetermined. This project aims at providing the first complete census of the multiple ways that white dwarfs explode by mapping their observations to their explosion physics and constraining their diversity. This sample will be crucial for defining optimal samples of SNe Ia for cosmology, as well as determining the rates and contributions of white-dwarf explosions to the origin of the elements. We will achieve this by i) obtaining the largest ever, rapidly discovered and spectroscopically confirmed sample, of white-dwarf transients with detailed follow-up observations, ii) the application of machine-learning techniques (e.g., neural-network emulators) for rapid comparison to sophisticated explosion models, and iii) the determination of the rates and diversity of their explosions in different galaxy environments. The confirmation and exploration of the multiple explosion channels for producing normal SNe Ia and exotic white-dwarf transients will have major implications for their nucleosynthetic yields, their use in cosmology, as well as predicting rates of double white dwarfs that will be detected in huge numbers in the Milky Way by the gravitational-wave detector, LISA.

Keywords: transient,white dwarf,survey,supernova,nucleosynthesis,cosmology
TrAnsformative climate ResilienCe by nAture-baseD solutions in the contInentAl bio-geographical region (ARCADIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Adaptation to climate change
Destination: Adaptation to climate change
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Austria,Croatia,Sweden,Denmark,Bulgaria,Romania,Slovenia
Call: Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions on climate resilience, mainstreaming nature based solutions in the systemic transformation (HORIZON-MISS-2022-CLIMA-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18586620.0
EU funding (EUR): 17562795.0
Participants: 44
Project status: SIGNED

It is demonstrated that Nature Based Solutions (NBS) efficiently and effectively contribute to climate adaptation. However NBS need to be adapted locally and to be coherently chosen in order to assure sustainability and “no side effects”. To achieve this, ARCADIA will mobilise 8 European regions and communities – from Italy, Croatia, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia - to accelerate NBS adoption and assist them in accessing up-to-date, evidence-based actionable knowledge, guidance, knowledge-intense tools and services, mutual learning and networking opportunities. The project will foster enabling conditions to accelerate regeneration using NBS, by analysing individual and socially determined perceptions of risks and solutions, and experimentally designing incentives and behavioural nudges fostering social acceptance and community actions. In ARCADIA, the definition of regional ambitions and of methodologies and approaches co-developed at consortium level, will be followed by the implementation of 15 co-innovation labs with the engagement of the interested communities and societal partners; the learning across policy areas will be exploited to up-scale and deploy at large scale the solutions in the regions, developing robust policy and economic tools (regulations, funding schemes, business models, investment tools). Strategic objectives of the proposal are: 1. Co-design regional strategies to accelerate transformative adaptation, building upon and mainstreaming innovative, actionable NBS with demonstrated feasibility, effectiveness and social value 2. Assist and empower communities, public administrations and businesses 3. Stimulate collaborative knowledge building and transfer, developing capacities and capabilities 4. Promote coherence and exploit synergies, value and production chains, and public and private spheres of business innovation 5. Advance EU research & innovation agenda on NBS and EU Mission Adaptation.

Keywords: continental biogeographic region blue green infrastructure networks green finance societal transformation eu mission adaptation to climate change
A first-in-class therapy for intestinal malabsorption in premature newborns (ELGN-GI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3370000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2359000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Around 10% babies are born preterm, and premature birth is the 1st cause of new-born deaths. Preterm infants are born with an underdeveloped gastrointestinal (GI) tract, causing intestinal malabsorption. At the first weeks of life, adequate nutrition is critical for brain and vital organ development, so infants are placed on central line nutrition until their GI is capable of absorbing sufficient nutrition. However, central line nutrition is inadequate for critical growth and poses life-threatening risks. Thus, a fast transition to oral independence is the goal for improving outcomes. ELGN-GI is the first drug for stimulating gut maturation for rapid transition to oral nutrition. It is safe and demonstrated to reduce 4 days dependent on Parenteral Nutrition, ~7 days in high-level NICU, ~7 days in hospitalization period, and to contribute to 40% reduction of life-threatening infections and Necrotizing Enterocolitis.

Keywords: neonatology,preterm infants,drug,paediatric,gastrointestinal,patient tailored therapy,hospitalization,healthcare system,nanotechnology,insulin,orphan disease,nicu,intestinal malabsorption,nutrition
PALimpsests: Artificial Intelligence applied to advanced imaging of recycled manuscripts from Northern Italy in the Early Middle Ages, to study their production and use within a sustainable ecology (PALAI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2244662.5
EU funding (EUR): 2244662.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

PALAI will study palimpsests using advanced imaging and artificial intelligence. Palimpsests, or recycled manuscripts, especially those from Northern Italy in the early Middle Ages, are known as a treasure trove of lost texts. The reuse of ancient manuscripts shaped the scene upon which the Carolingian renaissance emerged, and is thus a missing link between classical Antiquity and the first period of major cultural renewal in the Middle Ages throughout the West. PALAI proposes to investigate where the recycled manuscripts came from, how they were selected and prepared for reuse, and what their reuse tells us about scribal communities’ worldviews. Doing so requires multispectral and XRF imaging, to recover the erased features of the original manuscripts. A major issue with such imaging is the post-capture data processing, which is both excessively time-consuming and often fails to extract the relevant data for scholars to examine: crucially, PALAI proposes the first large-scale exploration of machine learning models in order to solve this image processing bottleneck issue, which will have numerous applications to erased or damaged documents from other areas and periods. Using these technologies, PALAI will track the production of palimpsests in Northern Italy from the late 6th to the early 9th century, by investigating, on the level of individual manuscripts, the cultural entities that fostered it; it will analyze scribes’ and readers’ intellectual practices, their relation to past cultures, to their present environment, and to innovation and creation for the future; and it will put forward in narrative form a multicausal theory of manuscript reuse bringing to light an ecology of writing in which long-term sustainability of texts was paramount. PALAI’s methodology is designed to combine approaches that are traditionally compartmentalized, such as manuscript studies, close reading and history, in order to foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

Keywords: sh5 11 digital humanities sh6 07 analysis of digital data sh6 13 cultural history,intellectual history