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Eco conversion of lower grade PET and mixed recalcitrant PET plastic waste into high performing biopolymers (EcoPlastiC)

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: Belgium,Portugal,Serbia,Sweden,Ireland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3045502.5
EU funding (EUR): 3045502.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

ECOPLASTIC is designed to provide a seamless route to resolving pervasive PET plastic pollution, converting it to Eco-plastic prototypes. Conversion of unrecyclable post use PET into new, high performance bioplastics embodies the regenerative zero waste approaches found in nature, where post use materials become the ingredients for new products and with unlimited cyclical use of materials. It proposes a technological paradigm shift in recycling from the current zero to single digit circuits of recycling loops to a regeneration process providing a significant scientific step forward towards true circularity. ECOPLASTIC converts lower grade PET and mixed recalcitrant PET plastic waste into high performing biopolymers, through the development of a suite of breakthrough modular and technologies adaptable to the waste input, to funnel waste PET plastics into Eco-products that enter a perpetually bio-cyclable loop. The new Eco-plastics and products will provide drop in alternatives for seamless adoption within industry and by consumers. We will demonstrate that the resulting processes are economically & environmentally sustainable for valorizing currently non-recyclable materials such as multilayer packages and flexible films. The project will combine several approaches to optimise the material circularity: I. Depolymerization process: Series of mechano-green, chemical and biocatalytic technologies to depolymerize them into their constituent monomers, using novel biological filtration for the preparation of highly fermentable monomer and oligomer feedstock streams II. Biopolymer production using microbiome processing to produce new biopolymers from monomer feedstocks which are then processed into bioproduct prototypes that are not harharmful to the environment III. Advanced processing will be used to advance the properties of recovered biopolymers and demonstration prototypes for applications including packaging will be produced.

Keywords: enzymes,plastics recycling,circular plastics,microbiome
Solid State Battery Smart & Structural Modular Integration into Vehicle through Flexible Module to Chassis Design (S4MILE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Denmark,Bulgaria,Belgium,Türkiye,France,Spain,Italy,Portugal
Call: Advanced battery system integration for next generation vehicles (2ZERO Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999976.25
EU funding (EUR): 4999976.25
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

S4MILE project aims to support the large-scale introduction of electric vehicles by simplifying the vehicle structure and integrating the next-generation solid-state cells into the vehicle structure based on a disruptive and innovative ‘virtual’ module-to-chassis concept (VM2C) based on large structural ALU casting and composite unibodies. The size of the permanently installed battery is reduced using a novel swappable module design to increase the gravimetric and volumetric energy density of the unit in a safe and robust design. The solid-state technology, coupled with advanced thermal and pressure management systems, enables fast charging and long-range based on a reconfigurable battery management system (BMS), which facilitates maintainability, reparability and second life and ensures modularity and scalability of the design applicable to a range of small to medium size vehicles through a safe and efficient communication and operation with the vehicle controller. Advanced battery models based on a battery passport coupled with a thermal management system in a digital twin of the battery will ensure optimal operation and life and range extension while ensuring safety in all operating conditions. S4MILE builds upon large experience and prior projects to meet outstanding results capable of boosting the EU landscape in EVs and related sectors.

Keywords: expandable battery,structural integration,solid state gen4,ptms,alu casting and composite unibodies,fast charging
GEOTHERMAL SYNERGY: ENHANCING INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY THROUGH STEAM HIGH-TEMPERATURE HEAT PUMPS AND HEAT-POWERED COOLING SYSTEMS WITH OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY AND PUBLIC TRUST (GEOSYN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark,Ukraine,Norway,France
Call: Innovative applications/integration of geothermal heating and cooling in industry (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The GEOSYN aim to validate a groundbreaking geothermal steam heat pump coupled with heat-powered refrigeration systems for industrial applications, specifically for the cascading use of heat from deep or shallow rock formations. The solution prioritises environmental sustainability, utilising water as the working fluid in all sub-systems, and anticipates improvements in cost-efficiency for geothermal application developments. The solution aims to facilitate the exploitation of geothermal energy sources in regions with or without significant hydrothermal reservoirs, seamlessly integrated with the industrial context and demonstrating versatility for widespread adoption. The expected outcome is a substantial increase in the deployment of geothermal resources for heat and cold generation, offering reduced environmental impact and enhanced economic attractiveness compared to the use of fossil fuels or electricity from the grid. The envisioned design is a flexible solution capable of delivering stable and cost-efficient energy tailored to the specific site and application. The solution is planned to be integrated with other renewable sources to enhance power supply reliability and grid stability. The GEOSYN will act to increase the awareness of the civil society on geothermal energy and will engage with policy makers to include the deployment of geothermal in local, regional and national policies. In addition, it will demonstrate the affordability of geothermal heating and cooling uses for productive processes, with existing examples and demonstration of the benefits of using the GEOSYN technology in industry increasing trust. The GEOSYN consortium consists of 10 organisations from 5 European countries (Italy, Denmark, France, Norway, Ukraine) representing different levels of geothermal maturity and with extensive experience in the sector, both from the technological and social sciences point of view.

Keywords: geothermal,storage,acceptability
SAFE AND COMPREHENSIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT FOR DISRUPTION-RESILIENT OPERATIONS (SCUDO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Greece,Italy,Portugal
Call: Effects of disruptive changes in transport: towards resilient, safe and energy efficient mobility (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3821313.38
EU funding (EUR): 3499456.24
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

SCUDO develops novel methodologies for the design, planning and operations of transport systems which are resilient, safe and energy efficient. SCUDO identifies and classifies scenarios of disruptive changes, analyzes their impact to different socio-economic groups, improves the monitoring of disruptions and the quantification of uncertainties, develops novel methods for the design & management of transport systems based on the Safe System Approach, and establishes a Pan European Platform which integrates digital solutions and data in order to allow for the comprehensive evaluation of the impact of different types of disruptions to different geographical areas and user groups. SCUDO treats safety as an integral part of resilient systems and innovates in the following directions: (i) develops AI models for system monitoring and testing, aiming for the quantification of uncertainties and the detection of disruptions, (ii) develop AI-based predictive models and traffic forecasting approaches, aiming to use existing and opportunistic data sources to identify disruptions, classify them, and forecast their potential impact to different socio-economic groups, (iii) develop strategic/tactical planning and real-time decision models following a Safe System Approach, aiming to design resilient transport infrastructure and transport systems which are safe and energy efficient, (iii) combines the developed models into a Pan European Platform and tests them in 4 diverse Use Cases related to resilient public transport management (Athens, GR), resilient traffic management (Bavaria, DE), resilient strategic planning of transport infrastructure networks considering future housing developments and climate change (Amsterdam, NL), and resilient network management (Venice, IT).

Keywords: disruptive changes,black swans,resilience,ai based predictive modelling,public transport management,resilient traffic management,resilient transport network management
How perceptual history shapes vision: neural mechanisms and predictive properties (PreVis)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

What we see at any given time is not solely determined by the information currently reaching our eyes. The visual system is indeed thought to leverage on perceptual history – i.e., the stimuli saw in the recent past – to contextualise and optimise perception. The incorporation of past stimulus information into perceptual processing has important consequences, shaping how we perceive external objects and events according to the context in which they are embedded in. Namely, perceptual history can bias perception in an attractive way, making a stimulus to appear more similar to its preceding one than it actually is. The nature and mechanisms of attractive perceptual history effects are however unclear, due in part to seemingly conflicting findings suggesting either that the bias is perceptual in nature, occurring in low-level sensory areas, or a cognitive effect based on decision-making. With PreVis, I will provide a new perspective on these effects, proposing and testing a novel hypothesis. Namely, instead of being uniquely based on past information as currently assumed, attractive perceptual history biases may entail an active predictive mechanism. In this scenario, the attractive bias would arise from a prediction based on past stimuli (rather than the past stimuli themselves) performed by high-level brain areas, and affect the processing of sensory information in lower-level areas. In PreVis, I will use psychophysical techniques coupled with electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to test this hypothesis and assess the neural signature and correlates of perceptual history and predictive processes. The innovative perspective of PreVis represents an important step forward from the current state of the art, and the project has the potential to clarify the nature of perceptual history effects and the mechanisms involved in this fundamental process shaping perception.

Keywords: perceptual history serial dependence perception vision predictive processing
Single-Source Collaborative Publishing (OnePub)

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: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Book publishing involves many stakeholders and a complex set of inflexible tools and formats. Current workflows are inefficient because authors and editors cannot make changes directly to the content once it has been laid out. They are costly because creating different output formats, such as PDF, ePub or HTML requires manual labor. Finally, new requirements such as the European directive on accessibility incur additional costs and delays. The goal of the OnePub POC project is to demonstrate the feasibility and value of a book production workflow based on a set of collaborative editing tools and a single document source representing the “ground truth” of the book content and layout. The editing tools will be tailored to the needs of each stakeholder, e.g. author, editor or typesetter, and will feature innovative interaction techniques from the PI’s ERC project ONE. The project will focus on textbooks and academic publications as its testbed because they feature some of the most stringent constraints in terms of content types and content layout. They also run on tight deadlines, emphasizing the need for an efficient process. OnePub will define a unified format for the document source, create several collaborative document editors, and develop an open and extensible architecture so that new editors and add-ons can be added to the workflow. Together, these developments will set the stage for a new ecosystem for the publishing industry, with a level-playing field where software companies can provide components while publishers and their service contractors can decide which components to use for their workflows.
Managing People - How Employees' Social Preferences Shape the Returns to Management Practices (MANAGING PEOPLE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1445535.0
EU funding (EUR): 1445535.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Many management practices incur important consequences for the distribution of resources as well as for workers' monetary and non-monetary benefits. It is therefore likely that employees' social preferences - like reciprocity, fairness concerns - matter for the effectiveness of management practices and play a major role in the productivity of firms. I analyze the causal effects of management practices and study to what extent employees' social preferences shape the returns of the considered management practices. In RCTs, I randomize management practices within firms to identify their effects on multiple outcomes, e.g. sales and turnover. I then collect survey data on employees' social preferences and managers' beliefs to study how social preferences shape the returns of the management practices. PROJECT A: In a bakery chain with a control-oriented culture, I reduce for a randomly selected half of the 150 stores documentation duties that workers perceive as a sign of distrust. I examine the causal impact of employee control on performance and study whether the effects interact with workers' reciprocity. PROJECT B: In a random sample of 234 grocery stores, bonuses are allocated equally among workers. In the remaining stores, managers have full discretion regarding the bonus allocation. I study whether managers' discretion causally affects performance and examine to what extent the effect is associated with employees' fairness perceptions and managers' beliefs about workers' distributional preferences. PROJECT C: In a kitchen manufacturer, 301 workers employed in various units whose task it is to identify kitchen planning errors do not interact and share knowledge. I introduce a new component into the organizational structure: regular meetings in which randomly selected workers from different units discuss planning errors. I study the causal impact of the meetings on performance and trust between workers, and examine whether the effects depend on workers' reciprocity.

Keywords: organizational economics,management practices,social preferences
Specific Conjugation of Antibodies to Lipid Photo-peroxidised cancer tissues for their immunogenic ELimination (SCALPEL)

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: Norway,Greece,France,Slovenia,Germany
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4554301.25
EU funding (EUR): 4554301.25
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Cancer ranks as a major cause of death, with 3.4 million new incidences in 2020 in Europe. The current cancer standards of care include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and, as of late, immunotherapy, none of which have met their expected therapeutic outcome yet. Photomedical treatments like photodynamic therapy of cancer (PDT) and Photochemical Internalisation (PCI) show great promise as effective anticancer treatments. Both are, however, limited by the cancer cells left behind, causing cancer recurrence and metastasis, after recovering from their sublethal membrane injuries. But what, if we could label these injured cancer cells with antibodies, thus activating the immune system to eradicate them? SCALPEL will utilize PDT or PCI to destroy the bulk of tumour cells while marking the remaining sub-lethally damaged cancer cells for destruction, by attaching antibodies to their membranes. Bespoke, modified SCALPEL components will be administered to all cells, normal and cancerous. Following local irradiation, only the photo-modified components will conjugate with our specially engineered antibodies, selectively flagging the cancer cells, for destruction. Moreover, the immune system will be trained through this process, against the specific cancers offering systemic immunity. The high risk/high gain nature of SCALPEL is counterbalanced by an avant-garde, multidisciplinary research team, covering photomedicine/photobiology, immunology, synthetic chemistry, porphyrin chemistry and protein engineering. SCALPEL is expected to revolutionize oncology by offering a pioneering photoimmunotherapy with curative potential. In this project, we strive to provide a proof-of-principle of the proposed technology in cell cultures, but also in laboratory animals, with the long term-vision of establishing SCALPEL as a clinical cancer modality.

Keywords: cancer,photodynamic therapy of cancer,photochemical internalization,immunotherapy,cell death,photobiology,click chemistry,organic chemistry,protein engineering,porphyrin chemistry
The World’s Smallest Power Converters (Lotus MicroPower)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3233868.75
EU funding (EUR): 2261783.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ultra small low power converters for mobile devices. Lotus patented Power Interposer Technology (PIT) optimize electronic devices’ performance and at the same time it makes the converters much smaller, it secures improved energy efficiency and thermal stability. It has CMOS-compatibility (i.e. being able to integrate all components such as FETs, inductors and capacitors into a single substrate) by using silicon-based material and manufacturing technology. The size of Lotus power converters if 1/3 to 1/10 of existing converteres, which can free limited space in the devices and enables adding new features or it allow for further device miniturazation. This added flexibility has high value for various smart electronics, where size and high efficiency are the key limiting design factors. Lotus converters will be prices similar to current converters, hence device manufactures can capture the full value of the created improved design flexibility.

Keywords: microchip production,microprocessors,microfabrications,iot,seosor technology,wearable technology