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EcoVerse: Carbon-Negative Modular Concrete Blocks for Enhanced Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort - A Comprehensive Experimental and Modeling Approach (EcoVerse)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-15
End date: 2028-03-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217965.12
EU funding (EUR): 217965.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Conventional thermal insulation materials like mineral wools, polyurethane, and polystyrene foams are widely used in Europe, but their production significantly contributes to CO2 emissions, generating up to 6.9 times CO2. Additionally, these materials impede air circulation in buildings, leading to poor indoor air quality and discomfort. This project seeks to address the need for carbon-neutral or carbon-negative building materials that not only provide thermal insulation but also enhance indoor air quality through effective air filtration. The focus of this research is on developing lightweight indoor concrete blocks utilizing biochar, a carbon-rich material produced through pyrolysis. Biochar can sequester up to 2.6 times its own weight of CO2 while offering exceptional properties such as air filtration, acoustics, and thermal insulation. The project aims to maximize biochar content in concrete blocks to 50 to 75 vol% to achieve superior air filtration and thermal comfort while maintaining adequate mechanical performance. The methodology involves developing granulated biochar aggregates and combining them with low-carbon binders and biochar fines to develop lightweight, carbon-negative concrete blocks. Various mix designs, curing conditions, and additives will be explored to optimize the blocks' physical, mechanical, and durability properties. Advanced analytical techniques, including microstructural studies and multiscale modelling, will be employed to understand and validate the blocks' performance. This project has the potential to significantly advance sustainable building practices by developing a novel material that aligns with EU sustainability goals, the Paris Agreement, and the European Green Deal. By integrating biochar into building materials, this research offers an innovative approach to improving indoor air quality and energy efficiency, contributing to healthier and more sustainable living environments.

Keywords: carbon neutrality biochar absorbent lightweight concrete indoor air quality air purification durability multiscale modelling
The IAEA and the two Koreas: History of the ROK and the DRPK in their challenges and contribution to the international nuclear safeguards and verification regime (IAEA2KOREAS)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 249301.2
EU funding (EUR): 249301.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

International verification through the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards forms the cornerstone of global nuclear nonproliferation efforts to prevent the misuse of nuclear material and technology for military purposes. This research examines several critical junctures in the historical development of the relationship between the IAEA and the two Koreas – South Korea (ROK) and North Korea (DPRK) – to address how this international organization has evolved in its handling of nuclear proliferators. Historical paths of the IAEA with the two Koreas – the North which succeeded in developing its own bombs vs. the South which abandoned its weapons program – have been more complicated and less one-sided than what is commonly believed. South Korea became an IAEA member state in 1957 and ratified the NPT in 1975, but it maintained a clandestine nuclear weapons program throughout the 1970s. Furthermore, although South Korea’s military nuclear pursuits were halted when its president was assassinated in 1979, suspicions about its nuclear ambitions were revived when the ROK government disclosed its past nuclear activities as it signed the Additional Protocol with the IAEA in 2004. It revealed that ROK scientists separated a small amount of plutonium from irradiated uranium in 1982 and conducted some “laboratory-scale experiments” in 2000 to enrich uranium up to a higher level than what was allowed by the IAEA. The case of the DPRK with the IAEA was more dramatic, as widely known, with its withdrawal from IAEA membership in 1994 and its expulsion of IAEA inspectors. Thus, based on extensive research in the ROK, US, and IAEA archives, analysis of open-source data, and interviews with key stakeholders, this project intends to shed new light on the understudied history of the two Koreas’ challenges and contribution to the IAEA and further examine any lessons that the IAEA learned through its turbulent relationship with one successful and one failed proliferator.

Keywords: international nuclear history,diplomatic history,korea,nuclear weapons
REVOLUTIONISING HUMAN LABOUR WORKPLACE SAFETY (Project Guardian)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The first part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution was a remarkable period of rapid advances in computing and hardware, which enabled the creation of artificial intelligence and advances in cyber-physical systems. These advances have brought about incredible socio-economic changes with disruptive effects on the labour market. With a significant number of large companies adopting AI and robotics across various sectors, there are no signs of slowing down. In 2024, technology is everywhere! Despite that, Slips, Trips, and Falls (STF) injuries still occur in jobs involving movement and strain. This places an unnecessary burden on an already struggling labour market, on understaffed health systems reeling from the COVID aftershocks, increases business operating costs and seriously affects the quality of life (loss of income, debilitating and life-altering injuries, the burden on insurers, etc.). In Europe alone, more than 0.5m fall accidents occurred in 2021, with consequences in terms of healthcare costs, litigation and loss of productivity due to absence from work. In Italy, indirect compensation for falls from the ground in 2019 was an impressive €370m, with an average of 38 working days lost. In the latest UK statistics (2022-2023), 40% of work accidents were due to falls, with 9.5% in the construction sector and 36 deaths in the manufacturing sector. Our mission is to ensure that technological innovations will help us avoid these accidents, making time at work safer. Eliminating and mitigating the impact of STFs is an urgent priority, and we're excited to see what we can achieve!

Keywords: ai,robotics,health,safety,smart wearable,deep tech,ppe,iot
Unlocking Microalgae potential to generate the Next Generation of alternative food ingredients (AlgTernativeNextGen)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

With the increase in world population and sustainability concerns, the food industry must reduce resource-intensive animal exploitation and accelerate its shift towards sustainable plant-based foods. Algama is a French FoodTech company, created in 2013, to harvest the potential of algae to create food ingredients that are good for both people and the planet. Microalgae offer exceptional protein content, all essential amino acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. However, they are still largely untapped by the food industry. For a decade, Algama, supported by top-tier international investors, has developed a unique know-how combining algae and food sciences, breakthrough proprietary algae eco-extraction processes, formulation technologies and a biorefinery concept (38 patents across 31 countries) that unlock the incorporation of algae in food ingredients. Algama selects the most promising algae, then processes and compounds them into high-quality, fully plant-based, healthy and sustainable ingredients ready-to-use by food industrials able to replace eggs, seafood, milk and meat in food matrices. Algama is the first company to have marketed Tamalga egg-replacers made of microalgae for baking and dressing. Thanks to algae technologies, Algama developed a game-changing second generation of Tamalga functional ingredients that provides cost efficient and sustainable solutions to fully replace eggs in every food application, with less ingredients. Tamalga relieves a current critical pain point of the food industry that seeks relevant plant-based egg alternatives to face the transition towards cage-free eggs (price increase, shortage). With a 30-person team, lab and pilot infrastructures in Paris Region and an industrial site in Belgium ready to host the world first algae biorefinery for food applications, Algama aims to accelerate the scale-up of its sustainable and innovative ingredients and become a leading sustainable food ingredient company by 2030.

Keywords: food ingredients algae microalgae sustainable food ingredients functional ingredients biorefinery extraction processes egg replacer texturing proteins algae extracts formulation
CARBON-EFFICIENT BIOPRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS FROM METHANOL (CarboNcare)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,France,Denmark,Italy,Switzerland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN, 2025)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3135362.35
EU funding (EUR): 3135362.35
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

A major challenge in carbon-based bioproduction is achieving high-yield conversion of carbon feedstocks—such as methanol—into target compounds, while avoiding carbon losses to biomass or CO2 emissions. Current microbial metabolism prioritizes energy and biomass generation, often oxidizing a substantial fraction of carbon as CO2 via respiration, limiting the sustainability of bio-based production systems. CarboNcare proposes a breakthrough solution: a synthetic fermentative metabolism engineered into E. coli and P. putida, which forces methanol assimilation into value-added products without releasing CO2. These strains grow only if they convert methanol into target chemicals, lactate, succinate, and 2,3-butanediol with high stoichiometric yields, ensuring a tight growth-product coupling and preventing evolutionary drift toward biomass overproduction. By bypassing oxidative respiration and instead generating energy through substrate-level phosphorylation and controlled electron transfer to quinones, CarboNcare eliminates the need for CO2-emitting pathways. Electrons are redirected to internal metabolites (e.g. pyruvate, acetyl-CoA), maximizing carbon retention in final products. The system operates under aerobic but non-respiratory conditions, simplifying scale-up, reducing methanol loss, and enhancing process robustness. CarboNcare follows a Design-Build-Test-Learn (DBTL) approach, combining cutting-edge strain design with metabolic rewiring. The project brings together leading European partners: CHA (strain engineering and synthetic metabolism), DTU (systems biology and P. putida engineering), MPI (computational modelling), ULEI (enzyme engineering), CEA (adaptive laboratory evolution), IN and DEC (communication, stakeholder engagement, business modelling), and HES-SO (bioprocess development and scale-up). Together, they will deliver a robust and climate-resilient platform for sustainable methanol-based bioproduction.

Keywords: metabolic engineering,respiro fermentation,growth coupled production,carbon efficient bioproduction,microbiology,synthetic metabolism
Revolutionizing customer-centricity with AI (Razberry)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Bulgaria
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Razberry is an AI-powered brand co-pilot designed to revolutionize how businesses engage with their customers and optimize their strategies. Acting as a synthetic research and marketing expert, Razberry delivers tailored insights, autonomously collects custom data to close knowledge gaps, and continuously evolves through adaptive learning. By democratizing access to high-tech solutions, Razberry empowers businesses of all sizes—whether SMEs or large enterprises—to make data-driven decisions with speed, precision, and impact. Razberry’s disruptive technology sets new standards through proprietary innovations like Context Injection and Driver Segmentation. Context Injection deciphers complex, unstructured feedback with precision, transforming ambiguity into actionable insights while retaining emotional nuance. Driver Segmentation shifts the focus from static demographics to understanding decision-making drivers, helping businesses prioritize what truly matters to their customers. This end-to-end platform seamlessly integrates data processing, strategic planning, and campaign management into a single, adaptive solution tailored to diverse industries and organizational needs. With a Total Addressable Market (TAM) of $159.5 billion and early validation in gaming and hospitality, Razberry is positioned for rapid scalability across multiple sectors. Aligned with the EU Digital Agenda and AI Act, Razberry promotes innovation and regulatory compliance while fostering fair competition and sustainability. Seeking €2.5 million in grant funding and €2 million in equity investment, Razberry will advance its technology, expand globally, and solidify its position as a transformative force in AI-driven business solutions. Led by a team with over 25 years of combined expertise in AI, market strategy, and product innovation, Razberry benefits from a unique blend of technical excellence and business acumen to drive its success.

Keywords: consumer and market intelligence content generation marketing campaigns decisions grounded in data customer centric growth consumer segmentation generative ai llm machine learning co pilot
Nonlinear Magnons for Reservoir Computing in Reciprocal Space (NIMFEIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Advanced spintronics: Unleashing spin in the next generation ICs (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3421000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3421000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

NIMFEIA aims to provide a hardware solution for brain-inspired computing using magnetic materials on the nanoscale combined with advanced spintronics technologies. It is based on the disruptive idea of computation in reciprocal space where nonlinear spin-wave interactions mediated by nontrivial spin textures, such as magnetic vortices, can be efficiently harnessed for reservoir computing tasks like pattern recognition and time series prediction with minimal pre-processing of input data. We will demonstrate the ground-breaking nature of our proposal by meeting four core objectives: (1) Demonstrating the core principles of reservoir computing using GHz-regime spin waves by quantifying and designing nonlinear scattering processes in reciprocal space (TRL 3); (2) Developing an experimental and scalable proof-of-concept device using industrially compatible processes (TRL 4); (3) Demonstrating the utility of the magnon reservoir on a selected pervasive real-world use case, namely gesture and feature recognition from radar data in autonomous driving scenarios (TRL 4-5); (3) Scaling the magnon reservoir to the THz regime by moving towards the edge of the Brillouin zone and through the use of antiferromagnetic materials. While Objectives 1-3 will focus on the validation of the novel technology in laboratory and industrially relevant environment, Objective 4 will provide the groundwork for pushing this technology towards THz frequency operation and 6G compatibility. NIMFEIA will lay the foundations for a new paradigm in nanomagnetic and spintronic technologies that go beyond traditional applications in binary storage and Boolean logic, radiofrequency signal processing, as well as field sensing. It will address major current technological challenges by proposing an energy-efficient computing scheme for edge computing using artificial intelligence.

Keywords: spintronics,spin waves,nonlinear physics
In Situ Expandable Ultra-Soft and Stretchable Neural Probe Clusters (ExpandNeuro)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2684473.0
EU funding (EUR): 2684473.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The central (CNS) and peripheral (PNS) nervous systems perform the fast information processing and transmission throughout the body. Injuries, diseases, and disorders in the CNS and PNS represent a major issue for personal health and society, as they are associated with several common medical conditions such as neuropathic and chronic pain, paralysis, major depressions, Parkinson’s disease, and epilepsy, to name a few. Many of these conditions cannot be treated with medication but must be resolved by directly intervening in the electrical signaling of the nervous system. To access the relevant neural structures within the brain or nerves, penetrating probes are necessary. One major challenge, which is hampering the use of neural interfaces for precision medical treatments, is the huge mechanical mismatch between neural probes and nerve tissue, which in combination with natural bodily motions causes scar tissue formation around the probes. This issue is especially severe for PNS interfaces due to excessive tissue motions around the probes. There is a lack of technologies that allows for chronic high-density interfacing (i) within peripheral nerves and (ii) of deep regions within the brain. The objective of the EXPANDNEURO research program is to address the current limitations by developing: (i) New inert ultra-soft (≤ 50 kPa) stretchable conductor that can be laser processed to ≤3 µm features. (ii) A novel ultra-soft high-resolution multi-electrode probe technology. (iii) Chronically stable penetrating cortical probes and peripheral nerve interfaces based on the probe technology. (iv) In situ expandable ultra-soft neural probe clusters that enable chronic high-resolution interfacing of deep brain volumes. The project will have major impact within the materials and microfabrication communities, and far-reaching future implications for treatments of neurological injuries, diseases, and disorders.

Keywords: neural interfaces,soft electronics,stretchable electronics,nanocomposites,biomedical engineering,implants
Harmonic Analysis with Lean Formalization (HALF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC SYNERGY GRANTS (ERC-2025-SyG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2032-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6443439.0
EU funding (EUR): 6443439.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Recent advances in formalization have brought the longstanding vision of machine-verifiable mathematics within reach. Formed by world leading experts in harmonic analysis and formalization, HALF is the first research initiative to concurrently achieve breakthrough results in a foundational mathematical area while formalizing them in the proof assistant Lean. HALF tackles pivotal and long-standing open problems in harmonic analysis, with an emphasis on multilinear and nonlinear operators. These fundamental questions are motivated intrinsically and also have applications in other mathematical and interdisciplinary fields such as ergodic theory and quantum computing. HALF also extends Lean's capabilities, establishing comprehensive libraries and tools tailored for the efficient formalization of harmonic analysis and related mathematical domains. Being the first of its kind, HALF is a milestone towards making computer verification routine in research mathematics. It produces highly needed training material for anticipated artificial intelligence applications that will in the future aid the verification process and provide automated tools for rigorous discovery in mathematics.

Keywords: formalized mathematics,lean,harmonic analysis,multilinear singular integrals,convergence of ergodic means,nonlinear fourier analysis,quantum signal processing
Revolutionised Enhanced Supply Chain Automation with Limited Threats Exposure (RESCALE)

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,Netherlands,Serbia,Ireland,Denmark,Luxembourg,Cyprus,Germany,Italy,Finland,Switzerland
Call: Trustworthy methodologies, tools and data security “by design” for dynamic testing of potentially vulnerable, insecure hardware and software components (HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998250.0
EU funding (EUR): 4998250.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

RESCALE aims at designing, building, and demonstrating secure-by-design supply chains. To this end, RESCALE will (i) automate the evaluation processes of both software and hardware components, (ii) ensure that third-party segments are free from vulnerabilities, (iii) offer effective audit procedures for cybersecurity testing, and (iv) enable the construction of secure systems with the strongest possible guarantees. Overall, RESCALE will systematically analyse and extend, as necessary, every hardware and software layer in a computing system and apply novel tools and methodologies at every step of the entire supply chain.