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Foraging, Fishing and Hunting as Agency in Colonial Central Africa (c. 1885 - c. 1960) (FORAGENCY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497190.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497190.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

FORAGENCY offers a new take on indigenous agency in colonial Central Africa. It will study how local communities managed to counter, alleviate and/or minimize their encroachment by outside forces through the maintenance and adaptation of pre-existing uses of the environment. Inhabitants of Central Africa indeed mobilised foraging, fishing and hunting to avoid wage labour, cultural suppression and economic dependency in several ways. First, consuming, transforming and selling foraged or hunted products constituted sources of income outside of the networks of colonial capitalism. Second, these practices necessitated the maintenance and diffusion of knowledge fostered within vernacular social structures, which ran contrary to the colonial “civilizing mission”. Third, by trading and consuming such products, local communities circumvented the colonial market economy. The project addresses four questions: [1] Which techniques are mobilised for hunting, fishing and foraging? [2] Which strategies are used to trade and consume hunted and foraged products against colonial laws and values? [3] How are economic structures such as marketplaces and money mobilised outside of colonial capitalism? [4] Which knowledge is necessary to hunt, forage and transform natural products? They will be answered through four thematic sub-studies: on intoxicating substances; on hunted and foraged foodstuffs; on curative uses of nature; and on vernacular environmental agency. Each sub-study will consider the ecological interactions between four colonial cities and their hinterland: Léopoldville, Brazzaville, Stanleyville and Usumbura. FORAGENCY will combine archival data, material culture, oral testimonies and participatory observation. It will lead to the development of a new conceptual framework on indigenous ecologies, at the crossroads of decolonial and posthumanist studies, which will open new perspectives on the history of vernacular responses to colonialism and capitalism.

Keywords: central africa,historical ecology,posthumanism,decolonialism,material culture,ethnography
Fast testing of multicomponent adsorption and diffusion in porous materials (FAST-MAP)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-28
End date: 2027-02-27
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The European Green Deal aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 55% by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The industrial sector accounts for ca. 45% of carbon dioxide emissions, stemming from energy-intensive processes like power generation and chemical mixture purifications. Adsorptive separations by nanoporous materials have emerged as a promising platform for energy-efficient industrial purification and carbon sequestration. However, to evaluate the performance of an adsorbent and design a separation process, it is crucial to understand the adsorption thermodynamics and kinetics. Measuring multicomponent adsorption is complex and time-consuming, and adsorption kinetics are even more challenging to measure. As a result, multicomponent diffusion measurements are rare due to the constraints of current measurement methods. By bridging adsorption/diffusion studies and microfabrication, the FAST-MAP project will develop a new methodology to overcome the challenges of measuring multicomponent isotherms and diffusivities. Via a novel approach to realize out-of-equilibrium conditions combined with mass spectrometry, the behaviour of fast-diffusing molecules will be thoroughly evaluated, even in small adsorbent particles and in both single- and multicomponent scenarios. This approach will enable the rapid evaluation and selection of adsorbents for separation processes, thereby accelerating progress towards the zero-emissions target of the EU. The FAST-MAP project bridges the candidate's strong background in porous materials with the host group's extensive experience in microfabrication, making it a feasible undertaking.

Keywords: metal organic frameworks,gas adsorption,carbon capture,adsorptive separations,and diffusion
Light-responsive microalgal living materials (AlgaeLeaf)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Nature fabricates materials with remarkable properties, having the ability to grow, move and sense their environment. Such dynamic and interactive materials are in strong contrast with man-made synthetic materials. Recent scientific interest has emerged to incorporate living cells into materials to form living materials, using most often muscle cells or bacteria. While underexplored, microalgae-based living materials are highly promising due to the light-driven movement of microalgae. The aim of this ERC project is to develop the first microalgae-based photosynthetic living material with a dynamically light-controllable shape and with locally tuned (mechanical) properties. The fabrication of light-responsive microalgal living materials will be possible through novel fundamental knowledge that we will gain regarding the growth and motion of microalgae within a porous hydrogel. Although this constrained environment mimics one of the microalgae natural habitats (soil), we have limited understanding of the microalgae behaviour within such an environment. We will first investigate how cells move within a porous environment and how they respond to light, with the goal of using light for 3D patterning. We will then explore how the hydrogel-based living material can be locally mechanically reinforced with cell-secreted polymers, and finally how to harness the microalgae light response as a mean to create a soft actuator. My independent research team uniquely combines expertise in microalgae cell biophysics and in engineered living materials, and we are thus ideally positioned to take on the challenge of creating microalgae-based living materials dynamically controlled by light. This ERC project opens up a new class of materials with life-like functionalities such as shape change and light-sensing, which are likely to find wide applications, from soft robots to photosynthetic devices.

Keywords: cell materials interactions,light responsive materials,microalgae,hydrogel
NORTH ADRIATIC HYDROGEN VALLEY (NAHV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Slovenia,Italy,Croatia,Spain,Belgium
Call: Hydrogen Valleys (large-scale) (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 343783024.33
EU funding (EUR): 24996826.69
Participants: 41
Project status: SIGNED

The North Adriatic Hydrogen Valley – NAHV project builds on the LoI signed in March 2022 by representatives of the Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure, Croatian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development and Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) Autonomous Region in Italy, contributing to the European Green Deal and European Hydrogen Strategy goals. The project’s high-level objective is the creation of a hydrogen-based economic, social and industrial ecosystem based on the capacity of the quadruple helix actors. This will drive economic growth, generating new job opportunities in the framework of both the green and digital transitions and, by creating the conditions for wider EU replicability, it will contribute to the creation of a European Hydrogen Economy, To fulfil these objectives the NAHV project involves a well-rooted partnership of 36 organizations (of which 2 in Hydrogen Europe, 3 in Hydrogen Europe Research), covering the transnational Central European area of 3 territories - Slovenia, Croatia and FVG Region, demonstrating cross-border integration of hydrogen production, distribution and consumption, and exchange of over 20% of NAHV annual hydrogen production of over 5000 tons. The project will activate 17 testbed applications in their related ecosystems, clustered in 3 main pillars - hard to abate, energy and transport sectors. These will act as real-life cases for piloting global hydrogen markets, moving from TRL 6 at the beginning to TRL 8 at the end of the project. Four fuel cell applications in the energy and transport sectors will be demonstrated. Testbeds will then be scaled up at industrial level as a replicable model, contributing to the decarbonisation of the 3 territories by harnessing renewables to improve system resilience, security of supply and energy independence. Replicability will also be ensured for the whole NAHV model, with the uptake of at least 5 additional hydrogen valleys in Europe, particularly in Central and South Eastern Europe.

Keywords: hydrogen valley,hydrogen production,hydrogen consuption,hydrogen storage,cross border utilization
Power and the Past: European Empires and Archaeology in the Balkans, 1860s–1941 (Power and the Past)

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,Slovenia
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): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project compares the archaeological research that scholars from Austria(-Hungary), Italy, France, and Germany conducted in the Balkan countries of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, and Kosovo between the 1860s and 1941. During this period, the researchers' countries/empires were interested in the Balkans for various, and respectively specific, political, geostrategic, economic, financial, imperial, and colonial reasons. The project combines this transnational and global history with the history of archaeology in the Balkans as an often-neglected region and the so-called "European Orient". Principal research questions are (1) how archaeological interest in the Balkans emerged and developed in the four countries/empires, (2) how that archaeological interest was influenced by the respective government’s interests and policies in the region, and (3) how archaeologists viewed, and cooperated with, local researchers and inhabitants. The project will be hosted by the Institute of Culture Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and, through a secondment, the Department of Archaeology of the University of Ljubljana. Sources are archaeological publications as well as archival materials of individual researchers and scientific and governmental institutions. Their interpretation will be supported by visualisations of the analysed research in maps. Findings are disseminated through, among other things, an international conference and a student workshop as well as, to non-academic audiences, a public exhibition. As a result, the project will contribute, among other things, to developing the history of archaeology into an autonomous, interdisciplinary, reflexive field, and to heightening the public's awareness that archaeology does not operate in a vacuum, but is always conditioned by its historical context, and that archaeological finds cannot be made without the knowledge and support of local inhabitants and cooperation partners.

Keywords: balkans,austria hungary,italy,germany,france,scientific imperialism,scientific colonialism,orientalism,archaeological workforces,history from below
MSCA4Ukraine (MSCA4Ukraine)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Belgium,Germany,United States,France
Call: MSCA4Ukraine Fellowships (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-Ukraine-ART195-IBA, 2022)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 35000001.25
EU funding (EUR): 35000000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The MSCA4Ukraine scheme will provide support to displaced researchers from Ukraine through dedicated fellowships to enable them to continue their work in safety, and to facilitate their reintegration into Ukraine if conditions for safe return are met. In so doing, the scheme will contribute to sustaining the Ukrainian academic and research sector in the face of the Russian Federation’s invasion, help to combat permanent brain drain, and facilitate the continued functioning of the sector in collaboration and exchange with the international research community. In implementing the MSCA4Ukraine scheme the project partners will draw heavily on their organisations’ extensive expertise and experience in (1) implementing fellowship schemes for researchers at risk and/or schemes for all researchers, (2) advising and matchmaking between researchers at risk and host institutions, and (3) leveraging and mobilising vast Europe-wide and global networks to act in support of researchers at risk and to promote higher education values, including academic freedom. The MSCA4Ukraine scheme will consider excellence and good practice in fostering research and supporting researchers, as demonstrated in the MSCA, and in fellowship programmes offered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in full consideration of the exceptional conditions that researchers from Ukraine face. Awards and selection procedures will be fit-for-purpose and inclusive, enabling all qualified researchers from Ukraine to apply.

Keywords: ukraine,researchers at risk,training,career development,fellowships
UNravelling the socioeconomic and environmental Impacts of Circularity in Latin America (UNICA)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Netherlands,Costa Rica,Colombia,Peru
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-04
End date: 2027-09-03
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 317048.16
EU funding (EUR): 317048.16
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

In UNravelling the socioeconomic and environmental Impacts of Circularity in Latin America (UNICA), I will explore the socioeconomic and environmental implications of a Latin America (LATAM) circularity transition, and its impact on the EU economy. Using my expertise in assessing global circularity, I will contribute to understanding the potential trade-offs of a circularity transition from a multiregional perspective, which provides essential information to enhance the implementation of circular strategies in the upcoming decade. UNICA will allow me to foster my career in two main ways: 1) I will become an expert in the circularity transition in the Global South, and its connections with high-income countries, and 2) I will be able to develop a hybrid career, where I will be able to contribute to academic and non-academic institutions simultaneously.

Keywords: sustainability quantitative assessment,industrial ecology,trade offs analysis
Core dynamics on millennial timescales (PALEOCORE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999854.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999854.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

PALEOCORE will provide the first comprehensive observational constraints on the dynamics of Earth’s core on multi-centennial to millennial timescales. Such constraints are essential to understand the core processes responsible for the rapid decay of Earth’s dipole field strength over the past century and to forecast future field changes. Generated through convective motions in the liquid iron core, Earth’s magnetic field acts as a shield against harmful cosmic radiation and plays a crucial role for the habitability of our planet. The past two decades of satellite monitoring of the magnetic field, in combination with major advancements in numerical simulations of the geodynamo, have generated a wealth of knowledge on relatively rapid processes in the core. However, due to the lack of reference data with adequate resolution, the dynamics of the core on timescales longer than the convective overturn time (~130 years) are still poorly understood. Observational constraints of core dynamics on these timescales are crucial to evaluate proposed driving mechanisms of the geodynamo. Through recent technical innovations, models based on indirect paleomagnetic observations of Earth’s magnetic field are providing information on past field changes with unprecedented resolution. These models suggest that the recent dipole decay is part of a millennial-scale recurrent pattern associated with weak field anomalies, like the present-day South Atlantic Anomaly. The aim of PALEOCORE is to construct the first ever integrated core-field core-flow model over millennial timescales to study such ancient analogues and reveal the underlying core dynamics responsible for driving these changes. This will be achieved through a combination of (i) strategic paleomagnetic data acquisition and key modelling innovations (solving bottlenecks in the current approach), (ii) incorporation of independent radionuclide data and (iii) adaptation of data assimilation algorithms for paleomagnetic data.

Keywords: geomagnetism,paleomagnetism,geodynamo,cosmogenic radionuclides
Upscaling deep renovation of residential buildings using socio-technical approaches (U-ROBUST)

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: Netherlands,Germany
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): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The current approach to renovation is falling short to meet the decarbonisation goals set for the EU building stock by 2050. Building renovation is as a complex technical process wherein occupants are a source of uncertainty and not well integrated in the process from the beginning. This leads to performance gap in design, segregated production and construction processes, inadequate social benefits and lack of integration, and weak technological success in practice. Renovation is not approached by the construction industry with socio-technical considerations, which remain unexplored and thus important to investigate for increasing deep renovation performance giving a long-term purpose and value to its end-users. The proposed research investigates the relationships of social aspects such as user behaviour, end-use, living, and socio-spatial characteristics with deep renovation measures (technologies and building systems) and processes (design, planning and construction). The role of socio-technical approaches will be evaluated in deep renovation using existing theories, co-creation methods and quantification techniques. The overarching research objectives are to: • investigate the capabilities and limitations of socio-technical interactions in deep-renovation • formulate a socio-technical framework for enhancing occupant interaction • validate the developed framework using socially driven scenarios The project will involve mixed-method research towards holistic deep renovation and develop a socio-technical framework with KPIs to be used in decision-making by industry stakeholders. It will focus on the aspects of co-creation, greater outreach and dissemination in practice to push to deep renovation in the EU. This project will be completed in a leading multi-disciplinary research group and draw on applicant’s experiences and competencies in (i) energy efficiency and renovation, (ii) stakeholder engagement, and (iii) practice and education in architecture.

Keywords: renovation,energy efficiency,energy policy,socio technical,residential buildings,decision making,building technology,building envelope,building systems,