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Hyperfluorescent guest@TADF-MOF Materials for the 5th Generation of OLEDs (HyperFMOF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1614000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1614000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are among the most efficient optoelectronic devices for multiple displays and illumination technologies. Their superior performance over conventional sources has boosted this discipline, reaching to what is considered as the 4th generation of OLEDs. These OLEDs are based on a novel concept known as hyperfluorescence (HF), in which a thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) material acts as sensitizer of a narrow-band fluorescent emitter via Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). However, HF-OLEDs still present intrinsic limitations mostly related to molecular aggregation of TADF compounds, and the FRET efficiency. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are excellent platforms for developing novel HF materials to be used in the fabrication of more efficient OLEDs. Their ordered structure, joint with the possibility of using TADF molecules as organic linkers, will minimize the issues associated with molecular aggregation, while enhancing the TADF mechanism by reducing molecular motions. Moreover, their porous structure allows for the encapsulation of narrow-band emitters (HF guest@TADF-MOFs), shortening the distances between the donor (TADF-MOF) and the acceptor (narrow-band emitter), and thus, increasing the FRET efficiency. HyperFMOF intends to fabricate and fully characterize novel HF guest@TADF-MOFs, which will be subsequently integrated as emissive layers of high-performance OLEDs. This project is multidisciplinary and highly ambitious, and the overall aim will be achieved by: the synthesis and characterization of unexplored TADF linkers, TADF-MOFs and HF guest@TADF-MOFs; the in-depth investigation of their spectroscopic and photodynamics properties; and the manufacturing, characterization and optimization of novel HF guest@TADF OLEDs. HyperFMOF will open new avenues in different research areas from synthesis to spectroscopy and OLED technology, and will overcome the limitations of preceding OLED generations.

Keywords: metal organic frameworks tadf hyperfluorescence ultrafast spectroscopy oleds
HORTI-PREDICT: A multi-omics framework for accelerating genetic gain in horticultural crops (Horti-Predict)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-15
End date: 2027-07-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Horticultural crops face the urgent need for climate adaptation and a shift towards a more sustainable production model. Genetic improvement through conventional breeding is one of the most viable and sustainable solutions yet is hampered by its slow pace. Predictive breeding, and the integration of new omics resources, is on the cutting-edge of breeding science and offers a potential solution to accelerate this process. While effective in major cereal crops, predictive breeding has been underutilised in horticulture. This project will harness this opportunity and develop novel predictive breeding methods by uniquely combining multi-omics data and advanced prediction models to speed up the breeding cycle to increase the rate of genetic improvement. To achieve this the applicant will (1) generate high-quality multi-omics data, (2) develop models incorporating multi-omics data and genotype-by-environment interaction terms in order to increase the predictive ability of the model, (3) validate the models and create haplotype catalogues in order to develop practical breeder-friendly tools. Grapevine and apple are two of the most important horticultural species in Europe and will be explored as use cases in the project, however the methodology and tools developed will also be highly relevant for other crops. Specifically, the project will result in three open-access outcomes (1) An end-to-end framework to produce high-quality omics data, (2) Advanced predictive breeding models, and (3) a deployable breeding tool in the form of a haplotype catalogue. All outcomes contribute to scientific advances in either breeding methodology or improved trait knowledge and collectively work towards increased genetic gain for enhanced adaptation of horticultural crops to future environments.

Keywords: predictive breeding,genotype by environment interactions,multi omics,horticulture,apple,grapevine
Sustainability Certification for Biobased Systems (SUSTCERT4BIOBASED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Clean Environment and zero pollution
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,Belgium,Germany
Call: International and EU sustainability certification schemes for bio-based systems (HORIZON-CL6-2021-ZEROPOLLUTION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999750.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

SUSTCERT4BIOBASED project is set on fostering the adoption of effective and robust sustainability certification schemes and business-to-business labels for industrial biobased systems to support tracing the sustainability of biobased products along the value chains and trades within the EU and globally for responsible production and consumption. To this end, a monitoring system will be developed with a life-cycle perspective along four themes (environment, social, economic and governance) considering the complexity and relationships of all dimensions of sustainability and the rules and procedures on how the schemes are managed. This system will be optimized with pilot audit in practice and testing on existing schemes/labels for biobased systems evaluating their performance in the different themes and their coverage of the list of minimum requirements. Costs and benefits from the adoption of certification schemes and labels will be assessed, considering actual economic as well as internalized environmental and social ones. Data will be generated on volumes of biological resources and biobased products in global trade flow and extent of their certification. We will leverage the results of the project to provide best practices and recommendations to 4 key target groups: policy makers, sustainability system community, industrial biobased value chain actors, and regional/rural bioeconomy stakeholders. Our vision is that this will result in harmonized system requirements, continuous improvement and enhanced adoption of sustainability certification schemes and labels, and provide a significant contribution towards establishing a circular and sustainable bio-based industry for Europe contributing to the Bioeconomy Strategy and Green Deal. The large multi-sectorial stakeholders involvement (through an international Network of Interest domain and a comprehensive Advisory Board) will enable SUSTCERT4BIOBASED to increase outreach and aligning with ongoing international efforts.

Keywords: biobased certification schemes,biobased business to business labels
Computational Cosmology and Gravitational Waves (CoCoS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2446893.0
EU funding (EUR): 2446893.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations opened a new window to the Universe. Space-based gravitational wave detectors, such as the LISA mission, enable an exciting opportunity: using gravitational waves from the very early Universe in the search for beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) particle physics. The LISA science case identifies first order phase transitions as the most promising source of cosmological gravitational waves. There are no phase transitions in the Standard Model, and observation of a phase transition would be revolutionary: a direct signal of BSM physics. It is absolutely necessary to have accurate and reliable theoretical control of the gravitational wave production in BSM phase transitions in order to fully realize the science potential of the observations. The overarching goal of CoCoS is to calculate, for a given BSM theory, the resulting gravitational wave power spectrum to 10--20\% accuracy. This is more than an order of magnitude better than the current state of the art, where accuracy is limited by uncertainties inherent in standard perturbative approaches. In CoCoS these problems are avoided by using several novel and state-of-the-art simulation techniques. A first order phase transition in the early Universe proceeds through supercooling, critical bubble nucleation, and growth and collision of the bubbles. Bubbles cause pressure waves, shocks and turbulence, which remains long after the transition has completed and create gravitational waves. In CoCoS the stages of the phase transitions are studied with innovative computational methods: effective field theory approach, which optimally combines perturbation theory and lattice simulations, and state-of-the-art viscous relativistic hydrodynamics. The high-luminosity LHC and LISA will be operational at the same time, searching for complementary aspects of new physics. The accuracy reached in CoCoS is necessary to fully utilize this synergy.

Keywords: large scale simulations,beyond the standard model particle physics
Multimodal abd Multifactorial Image-based Age Estimation (M2IbAE)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 277249.37
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Age estimation (AE) is an important topic that has witnessed an increased attention, given its role in various daily issues, from health assessment and social interaction to human identification. In turn, age-at-death estimation can contribute to the identification of a deceased by reducing the number of possible candidates while providing a further line of evidence to guide a possible identification. A related sensitive casuistry is the AE of unaccompanied minors, required in court so that migrants whose real age is unknown do not have their rights threatened. Other problems where legal age estimation could have an impact are child brides and prostitution. Last but not least, precise AE can contribute to solving disputes in competitive sports with strict age limits. In practice, all the methods currently used for AE continue to be carried out manually, based on observations of macroscopic (visual observation) and morphometric (linear measurements) type. The nature of all these problems fits perfectly within the scope of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The massive digitisation of skeletal remains would open the door to the application of AI, especially to models based on Deep Learning, that excel with complex data such as images and 3D models. The final goal and expected impact of M2IbAE is to allow practitioners to shift from current observational methods to automatic, objective and robust AE with unprecedented accuracy. Considering current limitations and challenges, together with the different forensic and societal needs and possibilities at a global scale, Panacea aim to achieve this goal by: (1) Developing the first set of age-at-death estimation methods from bone photographs together with a novel multifactorial and multimodal approach; (2) Developing a novel methodological approach to legal AE by exploiting synergies of different radiological images, x-ray and CT, of several anatomical regions, wrist, teeth, clavicle.

Keywords: legal medicine,forensic anthropology,artificial intelligence,machine learning,biological profile,forensic radiology,medical engineering and technology
Salmon Time: A More-than-Human History of the Decline of Atlantic Salmon in Modern Ireland, 1853-1970 (Salmon Time)

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: Ireland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 252728.64
EU funding (EUR): 252728.64
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This is the first history of the decline of wild Atlantic Salmon. Wild salmon world-wide are in jeopardy, their existence threatened by a host of factors, from dams blocking their migratory patterns, to ocean warming caused by climate change, to diseases spread by farmed salmon. Atlantic salmon in particular are in freefall, their population fell by more than half between the 1980s and the 2010s. The lives of salmon are intricately bound up with those of humans and other land and sea creatures. Their loss fundamentally impacts wider ecologies, societies, cultures and economies. There is a substantial body of scientific literature devoted to the decline of Atlantic salmon. However, the humanities, and history in particular have neglected this totemic species. The objective of this research is therefore to trace the ecological, social, and cultural impacts of the decline of wild Atlantic Salmon, through case studies of three rivers in Ireland; the Lee, the Erne and the Corrib. An historical approach offers a novel understanding of this crisis, providing a holistic notion of historical harm that encompasses often overlooked connections between social, cultural and ecological change. This project will start earlier than most scientific studies, in order to contextualise the longer human-salmon relationship. Crucially, I offer a new approach to historical time, that centres salmon rather than human temporalities. This will be achieved through the development of a new interdisciplinary methodology for studying ecological loss and decline, which combines traditional archival research with fieldwork and oral history. The project will result in three journal articles, a book proposal, three public history events and a website. The fellowship will provide an opportunity to enhance my research skills under the expert mentorship of Dr Kevin O’Sullivan, expand my international profile, develop my pedagogical practice, and secure an academic position at a European university.

Keywords: environmental history,animal history,eco feminism,oral history,environmental humanities,landscapes,time,temporalities,climate change,sustainability,geography,anthropology,archives,ireland
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Power Train Demonstration (HyPoTraDe)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Aviation
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEAN-AVIATION (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Slovenia,Germany,Czechia,Netherlands
Call: Near Term Disruptive Technologies for Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft (HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2022-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4497435.38
EU funding (EUR): 3999697.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

HyPoTraDe aims to design, assemble, and ground-test a set of 500-kW modular fuel cell-battery hybrid-electric DEP powertrain architectures, including cryo-enabled thermal management with ΘΕα > 0.12, emulating operation in a relevant environment (FL >150). The ground testing campaign will lead to characterization of the optimal system architecture, validation of failure mode mitigations for the groundbreaking powertrain, demonstration of complex operating requirements (e.g., operation at high coolant temperatures, start-up and shut-down characteristics, in-flight restart and battery charging, etc.), and assessment of the fail-safe capabilities of the modular powertrain. Further, the system will be complemented with a digital twin, validated using the results from the ground test campaign. HyPoTrade covers the disruptive maturation and adaptation of fuel cell systems for aeronautical powertrain applications via ground testing of different system architectures with cryo-enabled heat management and representative electric loads, following the demonstrator strategy outlined in the CAJU SRIA. The main impact of HyPoTraDe is the fast-track characterization of fuel cell powertrain architectures in relevant operating conditions, providing the members of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking with a comprehensive understanding on the operational characteristics of modular fuel cell-battery hybrid-electric DEP powertrain architectures. This will enable the focus of the efforts of the 2nd phase of the Clean Aviation Programme in the correct direction, helping to fulfil the ambitious goals of the Clean Aviation Programme for EIS of HER, SR and SMR hydrogen-powered aircraft in 2035.

Keywords: fuel cell,liquid hydrogen,cryo enabled thermal management,distributed electric propulsion,batteries,kv class electric distribution,non propulsive electric loads,ground testing,digital twin
Advanced Single-Atom Electrocatalyst design: Exploration, Evaluation and Evolution from fundamental insights (Adv-SAEC)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-03
End date: 2024-11-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183600.96
EU funding (EUR): 183600.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Single-atom catalysis has become one of the most active new frontier in heterogeneous catalysis, as well as electrocatalysis. Single-atom catalyst (SAC) represents the ultimate in atomic effiency to minimise the consumption of expensive metals (Pt, Pd, Rh, etc.). Single-atom electrocatalyst (SAEC) also draw public attention to develop cleaner energy technique such as fuel cell to replace traditional fossil fuel. Aided by recent advances in synthetic methodologies, characterization techniques and computational modelling, amounts of SACs have been developed which exhibit distinctive performances for amounts of reactions. SACs are known to have specific active centres which are strongly affected by surrounding coordination structure, such that unique opportunities exist for the rational design of new catalysts with high activities, selectivities and stabilities. However, due to inevitable heterogeneities in SACs such as the nature of active sites and their distribution, understand of structure-performance relationship at atomic level and rational designs from fundamental insights are still challenging. Herein, we propose the use of the metal/supports SAC model system to understand the fundamental mechanisms, where we can precisely determine and even selectively modify the active site, and unravel the role of structure in catalytic activity. In this project, I describe how we will determine the sites that robustly anchor metal atoms on typical nitrogen doped carbon support in UHV, test their performance in newly-developing electrochemical cells, and further reveal reaction mechanism by in situ spectroscopy (IRAS, Raman) and theoretical calculation. The outcome will be promising to bridge the complexiy gap and recreate the optimal active sites on real SACs and lead the way into a new era where heterogeneous catalysts are designed based on fundermental insights.

Keywords: single atom catalysis scanning probe microscopy electrochemistry