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Distributed Artificial Intelligence-driven open and programmable architecture for 6G networks (ADROIT6G)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Greece,Cyprus,Italy,France,Finland,Israel,Germany,Romania,Estonia,Spain
Call: System Architecture (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6385437.5
EU funding (EUR): 5999998.75
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

As the world moves from the 5G towards the 6G era, the mobile communications fabric needs to be architected differently to accommodate the emerging stringent requirements of innovative extreme future-looking applications that cannot be served by existing 5G mobile networks. Heading towards the next decade, when 6G is expected to be widely deployed, 5G application types will be redefined by morphing the classical service classes of URLLC, eMBB, and mMTC and introducing new services. ADROIT6G is an SNS JU project supporting the EC’s 6G policy by implementing the first phase of the 6G SNS roadmap towards the evolution of a 6G architecture. ADROIT6G proposes disruptive innovations in the architecture of emerging 6G mobile networks that will make fundamental changes to the way networks are designed, implemented, operated, and maintained. Such innovations include: (i) AI/ML-powered optimizations across the entire network, for high performance and automation; (ii) Transforming to a fully cloud-native network software, which can be implemented across a variety of edge-cloud platforms, including Non-Terrestrial Networks, with security built integrally into the network user plane; (iii) Software driven, zero-touch operations and ultimately automation of every aspect of the network and the services it delivers. ADROIT6G innovations, functionalities and performance will be validated through 3 representative extreme 6G use cases (i.e., holographic telepresence, Industrial IoT, collaborative robots/drones) in corresponding PoCs over five well-established 5G testbeds, which will be upgraded to support ADROIT6G innovations and architectural elements. Our 13-partner consortium is driven by industry heavyweights from EU telecom and ICT industries and renowned research organisations, with a vast expertise and experience in 5G and beyond technologies. Most of ADROIT6G’s consortium partners have participated in 44 previously funded 5G-PPP projects and in several 5G-PPP Working Groups.

Keywords: open programmable ai driven distributed architecture for 6g networks,6g kpis,6g kvis,cloud native network software,ai ml powered optimizations,dai framework,crowsourcing ai
Women in the Domain of Ritual: a comparative analysis of early Medieval Irish, Lombard, and Frankish law texts (WISDOM)

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: Belgium,Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

WISDOM analyses the socio-legal roles attributed to women in three regions of early medieval Europe: Ireland, Francia, and Lombardy from c. 500 to 800 CE. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the legal texts written in Latin and Old Irish, by combining critical historical analysis, comparative legal history, anthropology and gender studies. This allows me to mediate between law and social norm in a time where those boundaries are more fluent than nowadays. Its primary objective is to unravel the underlying social values and role attributions governing women's legal agency. This will be done first on an individual basis due to the varying social, linguistic and historical background of each region, and subsequently with a comparative approach drawing out cross-cultural tenets that bind together women's lives and legal thinking in the early middle ages. WISDOM addresses a vital area of research from an innovative vantage-point of sources and methodological approaches. As a result, it will provide a novel comparative framework to specialists in legal history, gender history and early medieval studies. This is timely and relevant, because it links to the evolution of legal thinking and generates new knowledge and interdisciplinary insights into women's experiences, unearthing forgotten narratives from the middle ages that offer lessons for the present.

Keywords: early irish law,lombard law,frankish law,early medieval legal history,comparative legal history,ritual and symbolism
Improving policy and legislative mechanisms for international investment to renewable energy transition (iENERGY)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Despite a global growth of investment in the renewable energy sector, there is clear evidence that lawmakers have been unable to present a comprehensive legislative mechanism to develop the sector, while policy makers have been unable to meaningfully provide institutional support. By 2022, according to Investment Dispute Navigator, investors have launched 145 cases against governments inside and beyond the EU with a total claim of about € 1018 billions to obtain compensation for the damages they had suffered because of weak legislative and institutional mechanisms. Such a situation has led to the postponement of 458 new renewable energy projects, increase of energy poverty by 1.4% and growth of carbon emissions by 2.7% around the globe. The iENERGY project aims to improve institutional and legislative mechanisms thereby assisting investors in identifying reliable investment destinations and supporting States in ensuring investment trends and avoiding risks of investment disputes in the renewable energy sector. The project will build an iENERGY Conceptual Framework on the basis of an interdisciplinary approach and will develop and analyse a Case Studies Container which will include data and information of cases concerning institutional and legislative mechanisms in the renewable energy sector. Finally, the project will create and implement an iENERGY Toolset by applying empirical mathematical programming methods to test various hypotheses of institutional and legislative contents taken from the Case Studies Container to identify legislative and institutional dispute resolution alternatives which meet the aims above.

Keywords: green economy energy governance regulatory change investment protection
Immune mechanisms in Environment-induced brain plasticity: Role of T cell-ILC Crosstalk (NeuroTIC)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200400.0
EU funding (EUR): 200400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neuroplasticity is the essential ability of the brain to respond and adapt to extrinsic and intrinsic stimuli, and it is strongly influenced by the environment we live in. Exposure to e nvironmental enrichment (EE) leads to neurological changes paralleled by changes in the immune system. EE promotes neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, and ameliorates neuroinflammation in both rodents and humans. Microglia and brain T cells also adapt their phenotype and T cell number increases, suggesting a connection between neural activity and immune response. How brain T cells or other lymphoid cells and microglia are able to respond to EE and eventually modify the brain is unknown. I hypothesize that EE instigates a neuroimmune crosstalk between lymphoid cells and microglia to support the neuronal changes. To test this, I will use high-dimensional spectral flow cytometry and CITE-seq to map the changes in the intercellular communication networks induced by exposure of mice to EE and identify key cellular and molecular mediators. Next, I will combine depletion tools and genetic models to assess the specific role of different subsets of lymphocites in EE-induced brain plasticity. The final ambition of this project is to identify key molecular targets mediating EE-induced lymphocites-microglia crosstalk. I will then use a gene therapy approach to deliver candidate biologics to the brain. Using a mouse model of Autism, I will provide impactful proof-of-concepts for the ability of immune molecular mediators to stimulate pathways of brain plasticity and mimic the benefits of environmental enrichment in neuropathology.

Keywords: environmental enrichment,neuroplasticity,neuroimmune crosstalk,t cells,innate lymphoid cells ilcs,fragile x syndrome model
PolyPro3: Ecology and evolution of the tripartite symbioses between polychaetes and their protistan parasites (PolyPro3)

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: Norway,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Marine polychaete worms (Annelida) are key organisms in marine benthic ecosystems. They have important roles from decomposers to consumers and due to their burrowing lifestyle, they actively participate in oxygenation of sediments maintaining benthic ecosystem health. Polychaetes are known to host protistan symbionts (gregarines), which themselves are infected my microsporidian parasites, forming a tripartite symbiosis. Symbiotic interactions have been of fundamental importance in ecological and evolutionary processes through the history of life, and have ultimately shaped the biodiversity we witness today. However, the polychaete-gregarine-microsporidian tripartite interaction has not been studied before and it is unclear how these interactions affect the polychaetes. Consequently, it is unclear how the the tripartite symbiosis might affect the functioning of benthic ecosystems. One reason behind this knowledge gap is the difficulty of applying experimental approaches with marine hosts and symbionts that are unculturable. With PolyPro3 specifically aiming to resolve the nature of the tripartite symbiosis and the diversity of the interaction by using state-of-the-art molecular methods combined with traditional ecological fieldwork, I will bring a significant step forward in addressing this key gap of knowledge. I will use differential transcriptomics and quantitative methods to disentangle the interaction, and a large spatial scale field sampling across the opening of the Baltic Sea combined with metabarcoding approach to describe the diversity and specificity of polychaete-gregarine-microsporidian tripartite symbiosis. PolyPro3 will also provide novel insights into the impacts of the tripartite symbiosis on the functioning and stability of important benthic habitats and provide effective means for investigation of other marine symbioses. Lastly, PolyPro3 significantly adds to the knowledge on neglected biodiversity of polychaete associated marine protists.

Keywords: protistology,symbiosis
Toxicology-testing platform integrating immunocompetent in vitro/ex vivo modules with real-time sensing and machine learning based in silico models for life cycle assessment and SSbD (TOXBOX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Ukraine,Slovenia,Spain,Czechia,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Serbia,Ireland
Call: Innovative methods for safety and sustainability assessments of chemicals and materials (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7150334.25
EU funding (EUR): 7150334.25
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Safe and Sustainable by Design approach requires an entire life cycle monitoring of toxicity of chemicals. However, current testing systems cannot mimic the exposure conditions related to each step and are not compatible with downstream in silico analyses. New sets of instrumentation that enables modular testing capacities with integrated data bridging and progressive in silico model development systems are needed. TOXBOX will provide a device based on a prototype developed in a H2020 project, PANBioRA, with a flexible microfluidic and instrument architecture to provide a plug and play testing platform to ease accessibility and interlaboratory validation. The system will incorporate the following tests, with modifications for each step of life cycle: automated cytotoxicity and genotoxicity tests, connected barrier/metabolic tissue couples with cytokine and real-time electro-chemical read-outs, flow cycle modules with environment mimicking conditions, a testing module based on zebrafish embryo with mechanical stimuli. The system will be validated using metallic 2D structures and nanoparticles, biocides, and known endocrine disruptors. Custom made functional polypeptides (novel biocides) will be used to cover the design phase. Progressive in silico models for long term effects will be iteratively developed and used to predict each new group to be tested until good predictability is achieved with new chemical formulations (comprehensive risk assessment). A data management platform that enables interfacing with the available databases will be developed. After interlaboratory validation of the device by 4 partners, a standardization folder will be prepared, to make the device available for testing with accessibility at all stages of material life cycle assessment to different stakeholders. TOXBOX aspires to bring forth an instrument that will provide reliable toxicity data in relevant conditions for each chemical and enable reliable in silico model development.

Keywords: in vitro,in silico,models,toxicology,ecotoxicology,health assessment,risk assessment,ssbd
Radiative COOLing conCRETE (COOLCRETE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium
Call: EIC Booster grant for EIC Pathfinder and EIC Transition (HORIZON-EIC-2023-BOOSTER-IBA-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 49713.44
EU funding (EUR): 49713.44
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Thanks to MIRACLE project (GA 964450), radiative cooling concretes have become a reality. Different works under the umbrella of MIRACLE have constructed an in-depth knowledge on the chemical composition, microstructural texture and micro-additions required for transforming regular concretes into high-tech radiative cooling concretes. In fact, the MIRACLE partnership has developed and patented a new set of concrete formulations that are capable of operating at sub-ambient temperatures under sun exposure. These Daytime Radiative Cooling Cementitious Composites (DRCCC) can revolutionize both modern buildings and our urban landscape. Within this context, the present COOLCRETE proposal aims to explore the commercial possibilities of the developed technology and, in particular, targets to the following objectives: O1. To assess the possibility of DRCCCs for being integrated in current cooling and heating technologies, and in particular identity the potential synergy with compression heat pumps and thermal energy storage devices. O2. To identify geoclimatic scenarios and annual sessions where our DRCCC can be especially relevant, and O3. To identify the most attractive markets and end users for the DRCCC products. These actions, together with other complementary activities to be undertaken under the umbrella of other funding agencies, are expected to boost the TRL and BRL of our DRCC to a level that can allow us to explore the creation of a spin-off at the beginning of 2025.

Keywords: radiative cooling concrete,
Animal Communicators: Intuitive communication as a key to dialogic multispecies methods (ANICOM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Belgium
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): 2270511.0
EU funding (EUR): 2270511.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As the ‘social’ in social sciences is rethought beyond the human, multispecies research across disciplines increasingly asks how to speak with and for non-human others. I pose that intuitive interspecies communication (IIC), a strategy practiced by successful animal communicators to engage in explicit, detailed, two-way communication with non-human animals, holds uncharted resources for doing research with rather than on animals. Research on IIC has been curtailed to specific domains and mythologized, while the worldwide boom in professional animal communicators has been ignored. ANICOM’s unique engagement with animal communicators’ practical strategies for relating across nature/culture and mind/body dichotomies is ground-breaking in the often largely theoretical discussions of the ontological and species turns. It simultaneously unsettles continued divides between humans and animals as well as dominant and subjugated ways of knowing. The project triangulates participant observation, Q method, interviews and audio-visual methods (including video-diaries and video-elicitations) with natural science approaches, to collaboratively work with six expert animal communicators and a variety of animals in Europe and Africa. It addresses unexplored possibilities for cross-fertilization between new materialism and posthumanism on the one hand, and Indigenous studies and knowledge systems on the other, while relying on the latest insights in biosemiotics and animal cognition. It thus develops transdisciplinary innovations that include non-human animals as full research participants, while achieving a deeper reflexivity on the limitations of humans thinking animals outside the human-animal relationship. It’s ultimate objective is to establish the resources and foundation for dialogic multispecies methods (DMM), a dynamic set of conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches and tools to engage with the views, experiences and knowledges of non-human animals in academia.

Keywords: multispecies ethnography animal turn interspecies methods human animal communication ontological turn posthumanism
Reconnecting Science with the Blue Society - Blue-connect 2.0 (Blue-connect 2.0)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Croatia
Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 349423.2
EU funding (EUR): 349423.2
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Built upon the legacy of the original Blue-connect project, Blue-connect 2.0 is an ambitious initiative designed to deepen the relationship between the Mediterranean community and its coastal environment. The primary goal is to seamlessly integrate scientific research, public awareness, and environmental sustainability. Emphasising enhanced public engagement in science, the project aims to refine researchers' communication skills, illuminate the societal relevance of their endeavours, and champion inclusivity. It keenly acknowledges the distinct environmental challenges faced by the Mediterranean region and tackles them with tailored strategies that amalgamate public initiatives, media outlets, and educational campaigns. The methodology, inspired by the flywheel model, is a comprehensive cycle of awareness, engagement, and sustained interest. Key activities include hosting European Researchers' Night events across Croatian cities and organizing dedicated events in rural and remote areas, ensuring science reaches all corners of the community. Offering hands-on experiences for students and promoting the "I explore" brand are pivotal in fostering a consistent message. An integral part of sustaining interest is the hosting of follow-up activities that showcase the science and art works of youth and pupils, celebrating their contributions and fostering continued enthusiasm. Collaborations with prominent entities and the introduction of school ambassadors further amplify the project's reach and impact. Underpinning these activities is the commitment to evaluate the project's resonance with the public, ensuring iterative improvements and alignment with the overarching mission. Ultimately, Blue-connect 2.0 envisions a future where science is democratized, captivating, and deeply interwoven with the fabric of Mediterranean communities.

Keywords: mediterranean science society,science popularization,healthy oceans,environment protection,researchers at schools,climate action,citizen science
Miniatuzed Laser for Planetary Exploration Instruments (MiLi-Laser)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Lithuania
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 439257.5
EU funding (EUR): 439257.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Studying the climate on Mars has been a topic for scientific curiosity since long time already. As on Earth, the composition of the Martian atmosphere is a key factor for understanding the climate, which is of vital importance to enable future human exploration of the red planet. MiLi-Laser shall enhance the outcome of the MiLi project, which is on its course to developing the first compact and low-power LIDAR that will provide the most precise characterisation of the suspended dust and clouds in the Martian atmosphere to date. To do so, MiLi-Laser aims to develop a new concept of miniaturized, athermalized, and efficient laser with a clear path to be on-boardable on future planetary explorations missions.

Keywords: laser,lidar,space,atmospheric research,mars