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The Oater develops a compact machine for hyper-local fresh oat milk production to reduce waste and emissions. (The Oater)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Oater is a female-founded food tech start-up from Germany that develops a compact machine for hyper-local fresh oat milk production to reduce waste and emissions. The founding team coThe Oater is a female-founded food tech start-up from Germany that develops a compact machine for hyper-local fresh oat milk production to reduce waste and emissions. The founding team consists of four members, led by CEO and Head of Hardware Sarah Nesti. With Lisa Nesti (CMO) and Henrik Burger (CFO) in the business team and Benjamin Auer (CTO) as the process engineer this diverse team is perfectly equipped to create a successful business. The founders gained prior start-up experience in a B2B e-commerce business launched in 2020 with over 30 customers and 30K Euro revenue. The entire team consists of 9 members, including two marketing experts, two business assistants and a product designer. The Oaters goal is to inspires sustainable consumption to protect and enrich life for all generations to come. We want to achieve this by downsizing the industrial production into a compact machine for local production of fresh oat milk. This doesn’t only improve taste, but also lowers costs and reduces the environmental impact. By producing the oat milk at the point of sale packaging is eliminated and transport emissions are significantly reduced due to the fact that oat milk is 90% water. The Oater’s business model is “Oat milk as a service” meaning that B2B customers borrow the machine for free and only pay by liter for the Oater packages, which consist of the ingredients needed to produce the oat milk in the machine. This model ensures constant delivery profits and scale-up as hardware profits are negligible compared to delivery service. The Oater provides a holistic ecosystem solution, consisting of the IoT machine, frequent replenishments, and a smart online platform. The main objectives are to introduce customers into our ecosystem, simplify entry and make oat milk exciting at the POS.

Keywords: oat milk
Machine learning-based prediction and evaluation of supercapacitor performance of transition metal carbide developed by using waste surgical masks during COVID-19 (MESTUM)

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: Czechia,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166278.72
EU funding (EUR): 166278.72
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Fossil-free and renewable energy sources are a must for a sustainable society. Pushing the limitation of supercapacitors (SC) beyond their limits by producing metal carbides using as carbon source spent surgical masks, an immense side-product burden of COVID-19 pandemic, MESTUM project aims to tackle the worldwide increasing energy demand with highly efficient, stable, environmentally friendly and low-cost electrode materials (EM). The development of EM by transition metal carbides has attracted significant research attention thanks to its high-temperature stability, conductivity, easy operation in aqueous/organic electrolytes and insignificant electrolyte leaching. Easily accessible and abundant, manganese metal carbides, with multiple electron transfer ability, represent an excellent source possessing the key performance markers for SC: Ground-breaking pseudocapacitance and cyclic stability. By exploring the challenge of also generating a porous structure, MESTUM aims to expand an electrochemically active specific surface area and porosity of transition metal carbide and thus deliver a significant growth of specific capacity performance. During synthesis, the ground-breaking approach of turning the porous carbon from the surgical mask into the transition metal structure will orchestrate a brilliant coupling of increasing the surface area and reducing surgical mask waste. For machine learning prediction of specific capacity and cyclic stability, the two most critical performance-related features of SC, the materials properties (morphology, composition, surface area, etc.) and operational conditions (electrolytes, current density, potential window, etc.), are crucial. To tackle this issue, the project will set the optimized parameters to easily evaluate the prospects of developed materials in SC application. By a pioneering effort toward the significant advancement of SC technologies, the MESTUM project will address a fundamental need for clean energy sources.

Keywords: transition metal carbide,machine learning,surgical mask,supercapacitor
REWiring the ComposItional Security VeRification and AssurancE of Systems of Systems Lifecycle (REWIRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Increased Cybersecurity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Ireland,United Kingdom,Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Cyprus,Italy
Call: Improved security in open-source and open-specification hardware for connected devices (HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4158961.25
EU funding (EUR): 4158961.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

REWIRE envisions a holistic framework for continuous security assessment of open-source and open-specification hardware and software for IoT devices and the development of cybersecurity certification in accordance with the requirements and guidelines of recent EU regulation Cyber security Act3. The proposed scalable and multifunctional cybersecurity platform will ensure the security throughout the life of the IoT devices with continuous security auditing, trust computing and theorem proofs for defining an hw-based microarchitecture for enhanced protection targeting to open-hardware/software vulnerabilities. A certification procedure of the audited software and hardware components will propose new software security metrics and establish a layer of trust between stakeholders, utilizing Blockchain and smart contracts. REWIRE will expand traditional cyber insurance models to account for both open-source hardware and software assets, by ingesting security auditing results for estimating premium costs. REWIRE will exploit a Knowledge Plane of metadata generated from application behavioral patterns and operations to determine appropriate security policies and properties to enforce on open-source hw/sw to block potentially harmful instructions. REWIRE has invested in three carefully selected pilots (Automotive, Smart Cities, Smart Satellites), which can address the ambitious objectives of the project. - customizable TEE based on RISC-V - micro benchmarking for quick and automated assessment of h/w vulnerability Based on the above description, REWIRE aims to safeguard the entire workflow of secure processing; from the Deployment and Operation of SW-based SoSes to their patch management when new exploits have been identified during run-time, by providing new trust management mechanisms towards the auditability and certification of SW/HW open-source specifications.

Keywords: security auditing,trust computing,zero trust,security by design,formal verification
BEAT B-cell Lymphoma: Biomarkers of Effective CART19 Assessed in the Tissue Microenvironment (BEAT B-cell Lymphoma)

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: Netherlands,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 296296.32
EU funding (EUR): 296296.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Project Title: BEAT B-cell Lymphoma: Biomarkers of Effective CART19 Assessed in Tissue microenvironment B-cell lymphomas, encompassing Follicular Lymphoma (FL) and Large B-cell Lymphoma (LBCL), pose significant health concerns. While the use of T-cells modified with a chimeric antigen receptor targeting CD19 (CART19) offers a potential breakthrough in treating these malignancies, it is imperative to unravel the intricate dynamics between the CART19 and the tumor B-cells within their unique tissue microenvironment (TME). The "BEAT B-cell Lymphoma" initiative is poised to transform lymphoma therapeutic strategies. More than just advancing the status quo, this project is geared towards unveiling novel biomarkers that facilitate immediate feedback on therapeutic outcomes. These newfound markers will empower clinicians and patients with predictive tools for CART19 interventions and serve as cornerstones for redefining inclusion criteria in subsequent clinical trials. But the ambition of this endeavor goes beyond mere biomarker discovery. It promises in-depth revelations on how CART19 impacts actual patient-derived tissues, deepening our knowledge and inspiring fresh treatment avenues. The short term concrete vision? Fine-tuning CART19's performance and honing the initial patient selection process. As a medical doctor with a specialization in hematopathology, I've offered numerous diagnoses of B-cell lymphomas, grounded in histological and molecular markers predominantly sourced from tumor B-cells. My foundational training as an immunologist has sharpened my curiosity, drawing my attention to the often underemphasized tissue microenvironment. My affinity for bioinformatics further equips me to navigate and interpret vast datasets efficiently. To ensure the success of this project and to further my journey towards becoming an independent researcher, I partnered with the renowned Alizadeh Lab at Stanford, USA and will later join the de Miranda lab in the Netherlands.

Keywords: hematology,pathology,tumor microenvironment,large b cell lymphoma lbcl,follicular lymphoma fl,car tcells,spacial transcriptomics
Invasiveness and the microbiome: gut microbial community dynamics in an invasive-native vertebrate system (InvasOME)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biological invasions are one of the major threats to biodiversity worldwide, due to the many impacts and rapid spread of invasive alien species (IAS). However, the exact mechanisms underlying invasiveness remain poorly understood. I hypothesise that metagenomic plasticity may be involved in invasions, i.e. IAS may be able to quickly acclimate and adapt to their new environment and oust native species thanks to the higher dynamism of their microbial community structure and/or gene expression patterns. I will study microbiome dynamics in two phylogenetically-close mammals: a successful invader (grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis) and a native species ousted by the former (red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris), investigating the diverse interplay among their gut microbiome, parasite infection, dietary flexibility and behaviour (individual personality). I will employ an observational approach in a natural experimental setting, comparing variation in the microbiome-phenome dynamics of the two species at both the individual-level (across seasons) and population-level (along a natural-urban gradient). InvasOME will help disclose the mechanisms behind invasiveness and rapid adaptation of IAS, offering useful insights that may prove relevant for the prevention and management of biological invasions. This project is highly multidisciplinary and perfectly integrates several disciplines part of my skill set (invasion ecology, parasitology and behavioural ecology) with state-of-the-art metagenomics in which I will receive advanced training by the proposed host, who has a relevant experience and an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to these fields. I designed this project also to enhance my transferable skills, making the most of the host institution initiatives. I am thus confident that InvasOME will both open an under-explored line of research and at the same time greatly enhance my potential, helping my transition to an independent researcher position.

Keywords: invasive alien species microbiome animal behaviour parasites squirrels
High-power efficient perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes (HePeQul)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 252180.0
EU funding (EUR): 252180.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Laser diodes are pivotal for the Internet of Things (IoT), and forthcoming 6G communication by enabling efficient data transmission, low power consumption, and integration into photonic circuits. Perovskite nanocrystals-based LEDs (PeLEDs) offer a promising platform for solution-processable laser diodes with their tunable emission properties and high gain coefficients. The most critical step toward achieving Perovskite laser diodes is the development of high-power efficient PeLEDs capable of operating at the high current densities (j) required for lasing threshold. Despite recent advancements in PeLED efficiency, the key challenge remains: engineering high-power PeLEDs that must overcome the severe Auger recombination and excessive heat generation. In this HePeQul project, I aim to develop high-power efficient PeLEDs by focusing on three main objectives: (1) developing high-quality PeQDs with suppressed Auger recombination and enhanced photoluminescence (PLQY>90%) by controlling nanocrystal nucleation growth processes and implementing surface modification strategies, (2) optimizing device architectures and transport layers to achieve efficient and balanced charge injection (EQE > 20%), and (3) Integrating advanced thermal management techniques, incorporating current-focusing patterns with pulse-mode driving, to enable PeLEDs to sustain high current densities (j>100 A cm⁻²). HePeQul will not only push the boundaries of current PeLED technology but also provide a foundation for next-generation high-performance optoelectronic devices, with potential applications in displays, lighting, and laser technologies. The project will also equip the fellow with interdisciplinary knowledge and skills. Successful implementation of HePeQul will promote the host organization's international competitiveness in PeLED and laser filed. Additionally, the commercialization of newly developed QD materials and PeLED products will contribute to economic growth and job creation in Europe.

Keywords: quantume dots,light emitting diodes
On the road to sustainability: paving the way for OPERAS as an efficient open Social Sciences and Humanities scholarly communication Research Infrastructure (OPERAS-PLUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Italy,Slovenia,France,Belgium,Croatia,Poland,Portugal,Netherlands,Greece
Call: Preparatory phase of new ESFRI research infrastructure projects (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3301831.25
EU funding (EUR): 2747864.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The OPERAS-PLUS project will support the further development of OPERAS in its preparatory phase of new ESFRI Research Infrastructure projects. OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure dedicated to enhance open scholarly communication for the Social Sciences and the Humanities in the European Research Area (ERA). Designed as a distributed infrastructure, it was incorporated as an AISBL in 2019. OPERAS entered the ESFRI roadmap in 2021 and is now on its path to become operational as an ERIC in 2028. The OPERAS-PLUS project will serve the OPERAS community with its wide variety of small-sized stakeholders, which are committed to make open scholarly communication the default practice in Social Sciences and Humanities in the ERA. In that sense, OPERAS-PLUS will provide an operational and efficient framework to meet the needs and objectives of the OPERAS community with solutions of utmost quality, thus fulfilling the European Commission‘s expectations of scientific excellence. The project’s main objectives are 1) to develop and strengthen OPERAS governance structure, especially financial, legal, and human resource management aspects of the infrastructure central hub in a sustainable way, compliant with Research Infrastructure management best practises; 2) to support the establishment and development of OPERAS national nodes, set up and manage the workflow of bidirectional exchange with the central hub; 3) to develop OPERAS portfolio of services by providing both required technology and a monitoring system for services development via an Innovation Lab dedicated to this task; and 4) to maximise OPERAS’ impact in the ERA and at an international level by extending it beyond its current scope and onboarding new members and countries in the infrastructure.

Keywords: open access,open science,social sciences and humanities,scholarly communication,multilingualism,esfri,research infrastructure,fair principles,eosc,era,sustainability,innovation lab
Highly deformable ceramic composites for ceramic forging and high temperature applications (StoneForge)

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-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Despite their incredible durability, ceramics used are hampered by two limitations: they are difficult to manufacture compared with continuous manufacturing of metals and polymers, and they are brittle, even at relatively high temperature. Both these limitations are coming from their low fracture toughness and the absence of plastic deformation mechanisms. One the goal of my ERC SSTEEL was to find a way to toughen ceramic composites by introducing strain hardening mechanisms at the nanometric scale. We succeeded and produced a ceramic composite that show plastic deformation of at least 14% and toughness two orders of magnitude higher, in terms of energy release rate, than conventional structural ceramics at temperature around 1000°C. These temperatures are close to the ones used to hot forge steel and thus open two new applications avenues for these deformable ceramics. One is enabling ceramics forging, using preform to produce complex shapes in a quick and simple way. The other is using this high toughness to produce structural ceramics for high temperature applications, in burners or even engines. The goal of this Proof-of-Concept project is three-fold: 1. to work on the ceramic composition to lower the temperature needed for deformation or improve their high temperature mechanical resistance, 2. to develop the forging of ceramic beyond the initial results to showcase the capabilities to future clients, 3. to start testing the continuous processing of these composites. Succeeding in these goals holds promises for cheaper and faster manufacturing of complex-shaped ceramic parts, opening a wealth of potential applications previously limited to metals or polymers, as well as developing more ductile high temperature stru
Store-And-Forward Energy Grid (SAFEr Grid)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark
Call: ERC SYNERGY GRANTS (ERC-2024-SyG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2031-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11169627.0
EU funding (EUR): 11169627.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Electrical power systems are experiencing significant challenges because of the substitution of fossil-based power plants with inverter-based renewable energy sources. This transition pushes power systems to the limits; first severe blackouts have already emerged in developed countries. Although applied for more than 100 years, the rigid coupling of the entire power system infrastructure to a global synchronous 50Hz-frequency is now turning into a liability, making a fundamental paradigm shift inevitable. The ambitious goal of our project is the exploration, conceptualization, and evaluation of a radically new theory, architecture, and operational principle for power systems. The groundbreaking idea is to go beyond the synchronous balance of power and to replace it with an asynchronous balance of energy leveraging the established role-models from the Internet and telecommunications domain. The elimination of the global synchronicity requirement in power systems represents a quantum leap and is realized through the decoupling and asynchronous operation of independent subgrids. Our fully intrinsic, scalable, and gradually deployable approach is based on the store-and-forward balancing of energy. Networked control, the evolution of power electronics, and the availability of energy storage are the enabling technologies for this revolutionary approach. SAFEr Grid will enable a fundamental breakthrough in the stable, resilient, efficient, scalable, and fully automated delivery of energy and will stimulate widespread innovation in the energy sector--comparable to the rise of the Internet economy. The project is clearly a high-risk/high-gain endeavour that requires the expertise of multiple research disciplines. The four PIs constitute a perfect team and the synergy of their expertise will successfully address Europe's most pressing grand challenge in terms of sustainability goals: energy supply, energy infrastructure, and energy independence.

Keywords: power system dynamics,modeling and simulation of energy systems,power system control,power converters,power electronics,smart transformers,power hardware in the loop,environmental change,societal impact,communication systems,cyber physical networking,infrastructural internet of things,energy transition,open innovation,ecosystem emergence,ecosystem governance,transformation