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Extreme-Ultraviolet Meta-Optics for Attosecond Microscopy (EUVORAM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1792309.0
EU funding (EUR): 1792309.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light sources have matured, both in brightness, as well as in producing ever shorter attosecond light pulses. Contrary, transmissive EUV optics remain sparse due to material absorption. Thus, EUV microscopy today focuses mainly on lensless techniques or secondary observables such as photoelectrons. EUVORAM (Extreme-Ultraviolet Meta-Optics for Attosecond Microscopy) will experimentally demonstrate that meta-optical devices are realizable in the EUV using a novel design approach and that they can solve the current lack of transmissive EUV optics. By emulating the spatial phase profiles of aspheric lenses, we will fabricate focusing meta-optics yielding near-diffraction limited microfoci in the EUV. In combination with contemporary attosecond pulse sources based on laser-driven high-harmonic generation, these meta-lenses will enable high-numerical-aperture EUV focusing that maintains attosecond pulse durations. EUVORAM will exploit this capacity to build a light microscope that unifies attosecond time and nanometer spatial resolution. After its demonstration, we will apply this microscope to isolate the ultrafast hot electron dynamics and sub-nanometer charge transfers in individual plasmonic core@shell nanoparticles using spatially resolved attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. EUVORAM will be one of the first projects connecting attosecond science and dielectric meta-surfaces. The planned EUV meta-optics and their novel design will undercut the current short-wavelength limit of meta-surface optics by a factor of four and thus directly redefine the state-of-the-art. The project will push lens-based microscopy to unprecedented time resolutions and at the same time allow hyperspectral attosecond imaging. The latter will free attosecond experiments from observing ensemble averages and provide spatially resolved insight in the light-matter-interaction of photonic nanodevices.
Correcting for self: The impact of head motion on visual processing and behaviour. (SensoMotion)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499639.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499639.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

An organism’s survival depends on accurately perceiving and interpreting the environment. A significant part of our visual stimulations is however generated by our own actions, rather than external events. For example, the retina can experience similar visual stimulus driven by head-movement, or by a moving object. Therefore, self-motion related information is fundamental to contextualize visual stimuli. In other words, what the eye sees may not be what our brain perceives depending on our actions. In mammals, the vestibular system reports both the motion and orientation of the head. Very little is known about the pathways connecting the vestibular system to visual cortical areas, and how this signal is integrated with external visual stimuli to ultimately impact behaviour. The goal of this project is to unravel the neuronal circuits underlying visual processing during self-motion in mice, thereby providing new insights in sensory processing. To this aim, I will address the following questions: 1) What is the long-range and local connectivity of neurons modulated by head rotation in V1; 2) What are the circuit mechanisms and neuronal computations involved in the integration of self-motion related signals with visual inputs in V1; 3) How do head motion inputs to V1 influence visually-guided actions during behaviour. Achieving these goals relies on a multidisciplinary experimental strategy based on cutting-edge approaches to monitor and control circuit activity with high spatio-temporal resolution in a cell-type specific manner, neuroanatomical tracing, and computational modelling. This experimental strategy combined with my research background in visual and vestibular systems provides a unique opportunity to understand unexplored aspects of sensory processing, at both the cellular and systems levels. Altogether, this project will reveal a novel framework to understand how sensory processing operates during self-motion to guide behaviour.

Keywords: sensory system,visual cortex,vestibular system,multisensory integration,mouse behaviour,circuit dissection
Organizing The Week of Innovative Regions conference under the Hungarian EU Council Presidency (HUPRES-WIRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Destination: Other Widening
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: Hungarian Presidency conferences with a European regional dimension - WIRE 2024 (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-WIRE-IBA, 2024)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 10.0
Total project cost (EUR): 249062.5
EU funding (EUR): 249062.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The National Research Development and Innovation Office organizes The Week of Innovative Regions in Europe under the Hungarian EU Council Presidency on 13-15 November, 2024. The choice of the theme of this year's conference reflects on one of the priorities of the Hungarian presidency and a key factor of competitiveness for the European Union in the upcoming years. The discussions will contribute to the analysis of the state-of-the-art and identify challenges and best practices. The program will cover these topics through examining several initiatives, concepts and tools launched, elaborated and offered by the European Union, such as the Smart Specialization concept, Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Instrument, the Partnerships for Regional Innovation pilot, Regional Innovation Valleys. In order to get a sufficiently detailed and complex picture speakers will address the effectiveness of these tools, present good practices, and highlight synergies of European and regional funding schemes.

Keywords: innovation regional innovation conference presidency
Universal processing route for high-performance nanostructured yarns (UNIYARNS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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 CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999338.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999338.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Yarns are a natural architecture to assemble small building blocks into macroscopic objects and are thus woven in our history, from fabrics of natural fibres in ancient times to fibres of synthetic polymers developed in the 20th century for lightweight applications. Humankind’s new building blocks are nanomaterials, with superlative properties in all areas (optoelectronic, catalytic, transport, structural) relevant for global challenges related to energy use, storage and conversion. UNIYARNS proposes a new universal route for gas-phase assembly of one-dimensional nanomaterials into kilometric yarns, applicable to materials central to energy applications (metal oxides, semiconductors and semi-metals), and reaching high volume fractions without use of processing solvents or polymers. The strategy is to grow ultra-long nanomaterials by atmospheric-pressure floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition (FCCVD) at sufficiently high concentration for them to entangle and form aerogels suspended in the gas phase that can then be directly drawn as continuous, macroscopic yarns. The first objective of the project is to demonstrate the generality of the FCCVD synthesis process, with a particular focus on metal oxide nanowires. A further objective is to study the kinetics and reaction paths in 1D nanomaterials synthesis with floating catalyst in order to understand the exceptionally fast growth rate inherent to this synthesis mode and to explore its boundaries of selectivity and conversion. The next objective is to describe aerogel formation by determining factors at the aerogel network level and at the molecular-scale level that govern gas-phase assembly. The final objective is to establish clear structure-property relations for nanostructured yarn systems to overcome the current envelope of materials properties through the low charge transport resistance and high toughness of their network structure.

Keywords: yarn,network material,chemical vapour deposition,nanowire
Satellite and Terrestrial Access for Distributed, Ubiquitous, and Smart Telecommunications (5G-STARDUST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,France,Switzerland,Spain,Ireland,Italy
Call: Ubiquitous Radio Access (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6249750.09
EU funding (EUR): 5942337.12
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

5G evolution is expected to deliver services to a diverse gamma of verticals and to the overall society according to a anywhere, anytime, anydevice paradigm, hence calling for a polymorphic and flexible architecture. Such an ambitious deployment plan calls for the convergence of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, especially for providing connectivity to un(der)served areas, which is the motivation of 5G-STARDUST. 5G-STARDUST’s ambition is to is to deliver a fully integrated 5G-NTN autonomous system with novel self-adapting end-to-end connectivity model for enabling ubiquitous radio access, importantly leveraging on 1) new highly flexible multi-constellation (multi-orbit) architectures integrated with 5G terrestrial segments, 2) fully 5G-compliant regenerative SatCom capabilities, 3) unified radio interfaces 4) data driven AI-based techniques for multi-connectivity and radio resource management tasks 5) 3GPP and O-RAN architecture and concepts. To this aim 5G-STARDUST will design, develop, and demonstrate, up to TRL 5, a flexible satellite system integrated with the terrestrial infrastructure by means of self-organised network architecture. This allows for autonomous and intelligent multi-connectivity framework able to adapt to diverse vertical requirements. This innovative framework will also support the operation of multi-orbit constellations, with transparent and regenerative space nodes, to deliver 5G/6G NTN services. 5G-STARDUST positions itself in the worldwide 5G/6G ecosystem timeline development, both from the standardization and market perspective. From the global standardization perspective, 5G-STARDUST results are planned to support Non-Terrestrial Network inclusion in the 3GPP Release 19 on the basis of the results of Release 18 and to influence initiation of activities in 3GPP Release 20 and 21. From the deployment and market perspective, 5G-STARDUST lines up with the market introduction, i.e., deployment by MNOs, of the 3GPP release 16, 17 and 18.

Keywords: integrated satellite 5g,regenerative satellite payload,ai based networking,ai based resource allocation,oran,self organised networking,3gpp standardusation,non terrestrial networks
Support to Retirement Savings Vehicle for European Research Institutions and research performing individuals (RESAVER) (RESAVER_2023)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Other ERA
Destination: Other ERA
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Support to Retirement Savings Vehicle for European Research Institutions and research performing individuals (RESAVER) (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-RESAVER-IBA, 2023)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499638.25
EU funding (EUR): 2499638.25
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The overall aim of the RESAVER Pension Fund as a significant development relevant for the social security of mobile researchers is to ensure free circulation of researchers by removing pension as an obstacle to mobility which corresponds to the strategic objectives of the Union policy as stipulated in Article 179 TFEU on the establishment of a European Research Area. This particular proposal aims to i) internalize several management functions resulting in a more (cost)efficient, self-sufficient and leaner organisation, ii) directly contract the technical expert service provider currently contracted through the European Commission, and iii) accelerate RESAVER’s growth through promotional, outreach and dissemination activities. Since RESAVER became operational it showed that it can operate in an efficient and successful way in a large number of countries providing pensions at a low cost. Building on this success, the most significant goal of RESAVER is now to strengthen own capacities and grow in size: we will highlight a number growth objectives (promotion, implementation, partnerships, marketing & sales support and awareness ranging among interested parties). We will also build upon and connected to a previous grant (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101056649 Support to RESAVER Pension Fund - Horizon Europe (Horizon Europe WIDERA Work Programme 2021-2022) The more research institutions that join the RESAVER, the more effective it will be in removing pensions as a barrier to the mobility of researchers in Europe and the more it will fulfil its purpose of supporting the creation of a European Research Area, allowing for a free circulation of researchers, scientific knowledge and technology in execution of article 179 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

Keywords: social security,brain circulation,removing barrier,occupational pension solution,multi employer,multi country
Design of unprecedented electrophilic SF5 reagents: applications in the synthesis of heteroatom-SF5/carbon-SF5 bonds and late-stage functionalization (Give-Me-Five)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999984.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999984.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Give-Me-Five project will provide the next generation of fluorinated molecules that found plethora of applications in life science. Currently up to 50% of agrochemicals as well as 20% of pharmaceuticals contain a fluorinated motif. As an example, the trifluoromethyl (CF3) group is one of the most used fluorinated motifs in research and development. Although several research programs have been dedicated to the synthesis of CF3-molecules with numerous CF3-reagents being developed, recent reports pointed out a major stability drawback of the CF3 moiety impacting its usefulness. Thus, developing more stable fluorinated motifs that could replace the CF3 group is urgent. In this context, pentafluorosulfanyl (SF5) motif is considered as a “super trifluoromethyl motif” since it is more stable than the CF3 motif. However, two major drawbacks should be overcome to unlock the potential of SF5 molecules: (i) current direct methodologies to introduce the SF5 motif rely on scarcely commercially available and highly toxic SF5Cl – a SF5 radical precursor, and (ii) this precursor features a very limited reactivity. Although the availability and toxicity concerns have been recently addressed in my lab by developing an in situ protocol to generate and use SF5Cl, the problem of poor reactivity remains. Here, I propose to tackle this challenge by designing new, more sustainable and stable electrophilic SF5 sources To provide the first general direct synthesis of SF5-molecules we will: 1. Synthesize the first shelf-stable family of reagents prone to be SF5 electrophile donor 2. Apply the new shelf-stable reagents to forge heteroatom-SF5 bonds 3. Develop a copper catalyzed approach to forge C-SF5 bonds using our shelf-stable reagents This endeavour could provide the first direct general synthesis of SF5-molecules, paving the way to the next generation of fluorinated molecules. Hence, it will foster developments of agrochemical, pharmaceutical as well as material containing SF5 motif

Keywords: organofluorine,catalysis
Influence of Fluctuating Temperatures on Aedes invasive Mosquitoes Ecophysiology and Distribution (IFTAMED)

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: Italy
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): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The East Asian mosquitoes species Aedes albopictus and Ae. koreicus are invading several European countries, posing an increasing threat to human and animal public health. The life cycle of mosquitoes is strongly driven by temperature, making feasible the implementation of mathematical models predicting their distribution, population dynamics, and arbovirus transmission risk to support mosquito and Mosquito-Borne Viral Diseases management and control actions. However, the model's forecast reliability and biological realism are limited by the quantity and quality of the life-history traits observations used to inform the population dynamic model. This information is collected throughout laboratory experiments trying to assess the influence of temperature on different life-history traits (e.g., temperature-dependent adult mortality rate). Nevertheless, the results have been so far highly variable, due to i) different experimental settings and ii) multiple geographic origin of the biological specimens. IFTAMED aims to review the current knowledge on the influence of temperature on the life-history traits of Ae. albopictus and Ae. koreicus, two invasive Aedes species of medical interest with established populations in North-East Italy, and implement it by designing targeted laboratory experiments under fluctuating temperature regimes, a laboratory setting that more accurately reflect variable environmental conditions in the field but not frequently applied in mosquito thermal biology experiments. The information collected from the review and the laboratory experiments will be disseminated in open-access databases and used to inform a population-dynamic mechanistic model, whose spatial and temporal forecasts will be integrated into an online early-warning system displaying information of practical interest (e.g, the estimated abundance of each life stage) for proactive mosquito control and management actions.

Keywords: aedes albopictus,aedes koreicus,bionomics,life history traits,onehealth,physiology,population dynamic,risk modelling,temperature,thermal biology
Boosting trust in online media by instantly informing users about conflicts of interest (WiseReader)

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: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Trust in mainstream media has been declining steadily across the world. The trend is fuelled by the perception that news companies are not truly independent but serve the interests of owners, advertisers or creditors. Many media outlets insulate editorial decisions from external pressures, but ordinary citizens have no means to know. Hence, distrust in a few “bad apples” risks extending to the entire industry. The WiseReader project aims to tackle this problem. Based on research carried out under the Starting Grant project MIRAGE, it proposes to create a web browser extension that allows online users to learn about the potential conflicts of interest faced by the news outlets. The extension will identify companies and individuals featured in a news article as well as relevant connections between them and the news outlet. It would then display the results using an intuitive system of coloured flags and offer comprehensive information about these connections on a dedicated website. The project aims to empower ordinary citizens allowing them to discern what news sources and stories ought to be trusted. It may also allow quality news outlets to distinguish themselves from others and improve their reputation and traffic.