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Reaching Excellence in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing (EXPERT)

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: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Romania,Italy,Germany
Call: Twinning Bottom-Up (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1444691.24
EU funding (EUR): 1444691.24
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The Reaching Excellence in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing (EXPERT) twinning proposal aims at improving the excellence capacity and resources of Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) in hyperspectral (HS) remote sensing through knowledge and best practices transfer by Italian Space Agency (ASI) and German Aerospace Center (DLR), i.e. the internationally leading space agencies on satellite, airborne and ground-based HS technologies, including the recent PRISMA, EnMAP, and DESIS missions. The project represents an excellent opportunity to broaden ROSA’s activities, which in turn will increase the involvement of both national and European stakeholders in its research and innovation tasks. The concept of EXPERT is underpinned by three fundamental pillars (research, coordination and support measures, and research management and administration skills), in accordance with the objectives of the proposal. Specifically, the project is focused on capacity building in HS data analysis and ground measurement campaigns, achieved through specific courses, seminars, short staff exchanges, and field campaigns organized under the guidance of ASI and DLR. Considering the clear interdisciplinarity of EXPERT, focus will be given on ROSA’s main areas of expertise and applications, including agriculture, cultural heritage application, and mineralogy. These will also be the topics of joint research in the second part of the project, where ROSA will organize autonomously ground measurement field campaigns and use the data jointly with simultaneous acquisitions of EnMAP, PRISMA, and DESIS data provided by ASI and DLR. Furthermore, special attention will be given to strengthening the research management capacities and administrative skills of ROSA. Together with knowledge advancement, research infrastructure development, joint networking, and outreach activities by the consortium members, these will lead to improving the impact and visibility of ROSA within the EU.

Keywords: hyperspectral remote sensing,environment,sustainable development,cultural heritage,agriculture,mining,capacity building
KneeReviver for Knee Joint Distraction: A breakthrough innovation for younger patients with knee osteoarthritis (KneeReviver)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common degenerative joint disease, frequently affecting the knee (KOA). KOA increasingly affects younger individuals, with 40%-50% of those affected aged 45-64 years. Patients with severe KOA symptoms often undergo knee replacement surgeries, a good approach for patients >65 years. However, these artificial joints have a median time to failure of 4.4 years for those <60 years, resulting in complex and expensive revision surgery. This creates the pressing need for alternative treatments to delay knee replacements in younger patients and enhance their quality of life. Knee joint distraction (KJD) is a joint-preserving technique for younger KOA patients invented by Dr. van Roermund, ArthroSave’s CMO. This technique leverages the joint's repair potential to facilitate cartilage repair and improve subchondral bone abnormalities, leading to pain alleviation and improvement of mobility. To decrease unnecessary complexity and optimize the procedure, ArthroSave developed the KneeReviver, a CE-certified external fixator optimized for usability and effective KJD. It offers a cost-effective, easily implementable and temporary approach that maintains surgical options open, significantly improving younger patients' quality of life and reducing long-term healthcare costs. ArthroSave has treated 250 patients with the KneeReviver over 10 years, with 81% patients not requiring a prosthesis after 5 years and 48% after 9. We have gathered a robust patent portfolio and built a team encompassing all necessary expertise for successful market entry and penetration. The EIC Accelerator is critical to demonstrate the KneeReviver's operational logistics, patient support and national reimbursement supported with national registry data in three markets: Switzerland, Spain and Italy. By securing national reimbursement coding, ArthroSave aims to make KJD treatment widely available, facilitating commercialization and broader adoption in Europe, followed by the US.

Keywords: knee osteoarthritis,knee joint distraction,orthopedic fixators,osteoarthritis
Development of a virtual power plant for real-time aggregation of battery assets traded on electricity markets (Capalo Zeus VPP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 7500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

One turn-key service to trade, optimize, and operate battery energy storage systems (BESS). We operate from prequalification to BESS lifetime value maximization. With Capalo Zeus VPP™, we offer route-to-market (prequalifications), AI-optimized automated trading across all markets, Balance Responsible Party (BRP) for the battery assets, access to ancillary and wholesale markets, and more. All part of the same package. Our innovation is in our ability to control large pools of battery assets of several customers in real time, while also splitting the profits of customers fairly. Our optimization methods take into account the whole fleet of battery assets, meaning that the automatic trading considers also the effect of other batteries in the fleet when optimizing the trades of any single battery.

Keywords: bess,vpp,ess,battery,energy,storage,system,trading,artificial intelligence,optimization,algorithm
QUantum Enabled Sensing Technology (QUEST) for non-invasive, accurate and continuous glucose sensing. (QUEST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2429459.2
EU funding (EUR): 2429459.2
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

NIQS Tech is a world-class quantum technology SME dedicated to revolutionising healthcare diagnostics through quantum-inspired innovations, starting with diabetes. With over 500 million people worldwide, including 61 million in Europe, suffering from diabetes, the physical, mental and economic toll is immense. In Europe alone, diabetes costs exceed €170 billion annually, with 75% of these costs due to avoidable complications. Effective diabetes management requires frequent blood glucose monitoring to maintain optimal glycemic control, but existing methods such as finger prick tests and continuous glucose monitors are plagued by painful measurements, accuracy issues, intrusiveness, lack of reusability, user fatigue and high costs. To address these critical challenges, NIQS has developed a ground-breaking innovation, GlucoGlass, a revolutionary solution featuring a patented photonic sensing chip that uses a non-spectroscopic ultralong-range quantum optical coupling method for accurate, non-invasive, glucose measurements. Designed as a watch-like wearable, GlucoGlass delivers pain-free, easy-to-use, continuous, and accurate glucose sensing, empowering patients to manage their condition more effectively. This innovation will improve patient health outcomes, reduce the risk of complications, and alleviate the financial impacts on individuals and healthcare providers. GlucoGlass is set to improve the quality of life of millions of diabetics worldwide, with projected healthcare savings of €4.6bn due to a reduction in severe hypoglycemic events, alongside increased productivity, reduced plastic waste, and an annual reduction of 55.2m kg of CO2e. EIC Accelerator support is vital for advancing our TRL5 prototype. This funding will enable us to refine, scale up and clinically validate our solution, ensuring a rapid entry into the multi-billion glucose monitoring market.

Keywords: glucose sensor,continuous glucose monitor,photonic sensing,quantum sensing,non invasive sensing
Green Last-mile Optimization with eco-conscious Behavioral Evaluation (GLOBE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191343.12
EU funding (EUR): 191343.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The exponential growth of e-commerce has intensified the environmental and operational challenges of last-mile delivery (LMD), contributing significantly to urban congestion, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions. In response, GLOBE introduces an innovative two-echelon location-routing model designed to optimize LMD through the integration of eco-conscious customer behavior and sustainable transportation modes. This novel approach addresses a critical gap in existing models by incorporating the diverse and dynamic behaviors of customers, such as their transport choices for retrieving parcels from intermediate hubs. GLOBE explores the interplay between customer environmental awareness, availability of green transportation options, and real-world constraints like distance and scheduling, thus providing a more granular understanding of LMD’s true environmental impact. I will develop a mathematical model that will optimize both the flow of parcels from warehouses to urban hubs using traditional and eco-friendly vehicles, followed by final delivery to customers through zero-emission transport options and the flow of customers’ collecting parcels from the intermediate hubs. To overcome the computational complexities of large-scale urban logistics, my approach will employ advanced heuristic and math/metaheuristic algorithms. Additionally, dynamic and scenario-based methods are deployed to manage the inherent uncertainties in demand, travel times, and customer availability. Furthermore, in collaboration with two leading delivery companies, the models will be validated in real-world settings, demonstrating the feasibility of sustainable LMD strategies. My outcomes will provide actionable insights into reducing emissions, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing urban sustainability. In conclusion, GLOBE offers a transformative approach to last-mile logistics, paving the way for greener cities and more responsible consumer behavior.

Keywords: last mile delivery,location routing problem,environmental impact,heuristic algorithms,uncertainty
Monitoring crustal stress state frOm 4D sEismic iMaging (MODEM)

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: Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Tectonically active crustal settings such as volcanic fields and seismogenic fault systems are characterized by evolving stress critical conditions that can be detected by continuously measuring isotropic and, more importantly, anisotropic elastic properties. This is because these observables are strongly sensitive to the opening of fractures and to the infiltration and migration of magma and crustal fluids, which are more prominent before major volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. With this respect, the team members of the ERC StG 758199 NEWTON are currently finalizing a novel 4D seismic imaging technique that allows the automatic detection of relevant changes in the crustal isotropic and anisotropic structural patterns and, by inference, of the crustal stress state. The new seismic inversion strategy has been tested with synthetic and real seismic datasets from the Etna volcanic field, with results indicating that it can detect robust changes in seismic anisotropy related to variations in the crustal stress state preceding volcanic eruptions and local earthquakes. Given the current limited capacity to determine the evolving plumbing system dynamics (which, in turn, hampers the forecasting of major paroxysmal events), the activities of MODEM will focus on the development and distribution to volcano observatories of an open-source software which will include the novel methodology for monitoring the crustal structure and stress state evolution in volcanic fields. The software will be firstly validated and integrated with the monitoring apparatus of the Etna volcano, and subsequently disseminated over other European and international volcano observatories. As the monitoring system can be applied to any crustal setting, our future goal is to commercialize the software providing a service to oil and geothermal companies interested in characterizing time-dependent fracturing patterns and fluid/brine/oil distribution in economically sensitive fields.

Keywords: 4d seismic imaging,seismic anisotropy,volcanic hazard
Boosting the Exploitation of Standardisation Inputs from European Projects (STAND4EU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call: Fostering standardisation to boost European industry's competitiveness (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 849775.0
EU funding (EUR): 849775.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Contributions from industry, research and end-users, involving experts that represent diverse stakeholders are crucial for the standardisation development. However, the standards-making process and rules are sometimes at odds with the culture and practice of research. STAND4EU aims to strengthen the links between research, innovation and standardisation ensuring that standardisation is an integral part of the European research and innovation landscape. STAND4EU will map and identify key stakeholders and actors involved in standardisation activities at national, regional (EU) and international level to allow a proper identification of the obstacles hampering the standardisation efforts within the scope of 4 main technological domains: Additive Manufacturing, Welding, Smart manufacturing/Industry 4.0/Digitalization/ Artificial Intelligence & Circular Economy. The key bottlenecks in the standards development lifecycle will be identified and to overcome the obstacles on the standards setting process a plan will be develop with recommendations and solutions to make the standards development process more efficient between the stakeholders from research, innovation and standardisation. A STAND4EU interface will be created to facilitate the collection and the sharing of information about the obstacles and associated remedies and best practices towards the industrial and research & innovation community, the standards developing organisations, the public authorities and other relevant stakeholders. This will include pointers to available supporting services, networking services, herewith acting as a one-stop-shop for all related standardisation research and innovation matters All the proposed solutions will be validated with the relevant actors and stakeholders to transfer the methodology to a broader scale of application in other respective areas to reach sustainable development of developed methodological approach and exploit the STAND4EU Interface globally.

Keywords: standardisation,research,obstacles,remedies,reccomendations
A complete biomethane set, from agricultural byproducts to energy, a new concept for the exploitation of agricultural residues. (Alvus)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’ (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4063983.94
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays, the construction of digesters for biogas plants is made of steel or concrete, which is highly expensive and not eco-friendly. Recent changes on EU directives on lowering incentives for biogas production have excluded sophisticated solutions, promoting the choice of simple, innovative and cost-efficient solutions. Alvus proposes a new construction philosophy for the digesters based on the eco-friendly solution of mechanically stabilized earth (MSE). Our solution provides the following advantages: (i) Realization of larger volumes, at a drastically reduced cost (55% CAPEX savings compared to traditional concrete digesters); (ii) Lower CO2 emissions (up to 85%), reduced environmental impact and better incorporation of the plant in the agricultural landscape; and (iii) Easy and quick construction. Thanks to this EIC project, Alvus will be able to develop, validate and commercialize a disruptive innovation, revolutionizing the entire biomethane market.

Keywords: circular economy,anaerobic digestion,agricultural by products
Understanding local adaptations to marine heatwaves (MHWadapt)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged extreme oceanic warm water events, which can have devastating impacts on coastal ecosystems. The observed and projected future increase in MHW’s intensity and frequency is a growing threat for island societies that strongly depend on oceanic conditions and resources. MHWs cannot be prevented, but their socio-economic impacts could be limited with sustainable adaptation strategies. Such adaptation will only be efficient if guided by inclusive, place-based but scalable knowledge on the vulnerability of different groups of coastal resource users. I will use the theory of Gender Equity and Social Inclusion to develop a comprehensive understanding of values for nature, nature’s contributions to people (NCP) and anthropogenic capitals to support sustainable climate change adaptation. MHWadapt has three objectives: to (1) understand the relationship between decisions regarding adaptations and values for nature and NCP; (2) identify and characterise the anthropogenic capitals that underpin coastal resource users decisions; and (3) to gain in-depth knowledge of the feedback loops between values for nature, anthropogenic capitals and NCP co-production with climate change adaptation. MHWadapt differs from existing approaches that concentrate on top-down or natural science based approaches to climate change adaptation which overlook that social and ecological outcomes are interdependent and cannot be understood separately. Using novel methods (e.g., photo-voice, participatory GIS) in study areas in New Caledonia and Fiji, I will develop place-based, yet scalable scientific and transformative knowledge. The implementation of MHWadapt will draw on my skills in social science and the host’s research excellence on MHWs, including their ongoing fieldwork in my study regions. This setup ensures a theoretical and empirical foundation for my research and a forum for communicating my results to non-academic actors in the South Pacific and Europe.

Keywords: sustainability science,social ecological systems,nature s contribution to people,values for nature