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iCulture: A digital bio-platform and co-culture bioprocess to prospect and utilize macroalgae responsibly and sustainably. (iCULTURE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Belgium,Portugal,Germany,Italy,Greece,France,Netherlands,Croatia,Switzerland
Call: Life sciences and their convergence with digital technologies for prospecting, understanding and sustainably using biological resources (HORIZON-CL6-2022-CIRCBIO-02-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5999686.25
EU funding (EUR): 5999686.25
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Over 100 Megatons of seaweed constitute Europe's largest biomass, but less than 0.25% is utilized. Marine industry stakeholders are currently left with 50-70% of residual side-streams sold as low-cost fertilizers. Existing data on more than 10000 macroalgae species could help this industry to improve their processes but the data is too large and manual curation is not feasible. Despite the progression of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and digital instruments, these techniques have barely entered the biobased sector. iCulture is a cross-disciplinary consortium where European expertise on ICT, bioinformatic, biodiversity, biotechnology, synthetic biology and bioprocessing is combined to develop a set of digital toolboxes that can prospect for new species of seaweed, utilize these in microbial fermentation, and understand how to use it responsibly and sustainably. Over 80 TB of existing seaweed data and 700.000 genes will be mined by machine learning algorithms in an A.I. toolbox to identify macroalgae characteristics: growth, response to environmental conditions, chemical composition and more. These will be used by a predictive Model toolbox, with models for compositional changes, recovery, resilience and Dispersion, to deliver key features that are important for responsible resource management. A Bioprocess technology toolbox will use this information for a machine learning controlled microbial co-culture, that will convert complex sugar mixtures to catalysts producing high-value antimicrobials. The multiple benefits of this digital platform are 1) boost the prospecting efficiency of new species by using powerful A.I. algorithms 2) help to understand the potential and vulnerability of resources, so that a responsible management strategy can guide the operations of stakeholders, and 3) create a novel value-chain, valorizing European seaweed side-streams into valuable antimicrobials (>$150/kg) for feed, food and pharma, while reducing CO2 footprint more than 20%.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,microbial co culture,biotechnology,macroalgae,seaweed,sustainable resource management,digital twins,technology stack
Atomically thin pristine germanane with diverse chemical functionalities for energy storage: sodium/lithium ion batteries (NEW MONO 2D FUN GER)

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: Czechia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150438.72
EU funding (EUR): 150438.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The use of novel two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials for energy storage and conversion applications has nowadays become a hot research topic in material science. In particular, with the development of electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage stations, the traditional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have encountered a plethora of challenges due to the huge demands of key markets (e.g. higher energy and power densities). Accordingly, a suitable approach to address these issues is to achieve the development of new electrode materials and alternative batteries (sodium-ion batteries, SIBs). In this context, one of the particularly promising candidate materials is functionalized germanane, which is expected to provide a high-capacity framework for sodium storage, since it possesses several attractive characteristics: to name a few, chemically and electronically active 2D structures, high mechanical flexibility, as well as fast electron mobility and conductivity. With the help of characterization techniques like X-Ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, this project aims to explore the structural and morphological features of functionalized germanane. The gained knowledge will extend our in depth understanding of the electrochemical activity of functionalized germanane. Aiming to achieve the production of high-capacity electrodes for applications in SIBs, the functionalized germanane materials will be further modified by carbon coating and exfoliation steps. The electrochemical performance of selected electrode materials will be evaluated by cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and galvanostatic discharge/charge measurements.

Keywords: sodium ion batteries,anode material,2d materials,exfoliation,functionalized germananes,chemical modification
Innovation Technology Rating - system and digital hub (InnoTechRate)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call: AI-based technology rating tool for applications to the EIC (HORIZON-EIC-2022-AIBTRTOOL-IBA, 2022)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 699725.0
EU funding (EUR): 699725.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The InnoTechRate project aims at reducing information asymmetry and cognitive biases between innovators and private and public funders on the evaluation of innovations. This will strengthen the capacity of the European innovation ecosystem to support innovative deeptech start-ups, through a better identification of high potential projects in relation to risks, and allocation of resources to highly innovative projects. In this perspective, the InnoTechRate project will adapt technology rating tools already developed by The Innovation Loop and embed them on a digital platform. This digital platform will be designed as a hub, linking project holders, investors, intermediary organisations and experts. This platform will allow project holders and investors to perform a technology rating of innovation projects in a simple and fast way. The technology rating system will be 100% data driven and will be powered by artificial intelligence. This will allow the objectiveness in the collection, the checking and the analysis of all data related to innovation projects. A link to traditional financial rating will be explored. A free and on-line version of technology rating tools will be made available. The InnoTechRate project will also develop a reference framework for the technology rating of innovation projects based on a consensus of European stakeholders and integrating the European societal and environmental challenges. This common reference framework should be common for project holders and investors. It holds the ambition to become an accepted standard and norm within the European innovation ecosystem.

Keywords: technology rating,artificial intelligence,innovation,innovation hub
Start Talking About Research Today (START)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 351217.43
EU funding (EUR): 342646.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

European Researchers’ Night events have been held at Trinity College Dublin every year since 2013. Co-ordinated by the Office of the Dean of Research at Trinity and in collaboration with partners at the British Council, RCSI, ADAPT, and Qualia Analytics, START 2022 and 2023 will expand the scope of its activities to spark deeper, more impactful engagement with the public. Based on the idea Start Talking About Research Today, START will be a hybrid event that will activate various sites around Ireland to highlight the fact that research happens everywhere and takes many forms. START will provide an opportunity for the general public and researchers to engage with each other in new ways. Through a combination of in-person and virtual activities, demonstrations, tours, talks and more, START will promote the idea that research is a living, fundamental part of our society that impacts on and involves everyone. START will work to achieve a number of specific goals: 1. Create new dialogues between researchers and the general public that will lead to a deeper, more profound and sustained engagement with each other; 2. Raise awareness of research and research careers as positive forces in our society; 3. Highlight the role of the European Union in supporting research and discovery. Public engagement and communications workshops will be offered to all MSCA-funded researchers, as well as other participants in the events on the Night. A series of activities and showcases will be held across a variety of locations to raise awareness in the months preceding European Researchers’ Night. The START project group has a wealth of talent and experience in public engagement activities, including previous ERN events, and the project team will draw on this expertise to ensure that START 2022/23 is grounded in best practice.
Elucidating the Structural Origin of NIR-Emission from Ag-DNA (NIR-emitting Ag-DNAs)

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: Denmark
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): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The interest in atomically precise metal cluster systems has grown over the last decades due to the physicochemical properties that emerge at the nanoscale compared to the bulk regime. Despite promising features, stability often hinders their use in real-life applications. Since stabilization is critical, DNA has been proven to be a functional and versatile scaffold for luminescent silver clusters. DNA oligomers are intrinsically biocompatible and are able to tune the emission color and promote high photoluminescence efficiencies. Near-infrared emitting DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters (NIR-emitting Ag-DNAs) are promising candidates for several potential applications, such as bioimaging and sensing, due to improved cell and tissue penetration of NIR light. The development of NIR emissive Ag-DNAs currently needs to be improved by three main challenges: extremely limited structural information (only one is available), absence of a rationale for designing NIR-emitting Ag-DNAs with high luminescence yield, and poor understanding of This project aims to address these gaps by first synthesizing and screening a wealth of NIR-emitting Ag-DNAs and then employing state-of-the-art techniques, such as pair distribution function analysis and X-ray absorption spectroscopy, to characterize the best-performing candidates structurally. Establishing a structure-luminescence rationale for NIR-emitting Ag-DNAs will be the ultimate goal of the project. Such findings are paramount to performing electronic structure calculations, and it is the needed input for machine learning algorithms to predict NIR-emitting Ag-DNAs with tailored optical properties. The results of this proposal will thus pave the way for a myriad of different applications.

Keywords: dna metal clusters x ray absorption spectroscopy,pair distribution function analysis
De-Centering Eighteenth-Century Political Economy: Rethinking Growth, Wealth and Welfare in the Swedish Empire (DEPE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1964710.0
EU funding (EUR): 1964710.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project reassesses the early history of European political economy. Historians of political economy have traditionally concentrated on the genesis of modern economics, tracing the emergence of economic models, methods and ideas that are today recognized as 'economics' through 'classical political economy', neo-classicism and on to the present. This new departure treats political economy as a discourse oriented to the improvement of conditions for human life and, as such, one of the Enlightenment’s key contributions to Western thought. However, any direct association of Enlightenment discourse with political economy requires qualification. Therefore, this project explores a very extensive contemporary literature about growth, wealth and welfare that has not fitted easily into the conventional retrospective history. Instead of converting past arguments into modern arguments about methods and models, the project investigates eighteenth-century political economy in terms of practical concerns, as measures and policies for betterment and improvement. Only in this way we can reconstruct what political economy meant to its contemporaries in the early modern period. The Swedish empire – considered by contemporaries as the stronghold of 'oeconomia' – functions as the primary case study, but is constantly compared with other cases, broadening the applicability of the findings. The aim of the project is to study the ways in which the key concepts of improvement – wealth, growth and welfare – were articulated in the main sites of discursive production: the University, the Diet, local and colonial governments, and academic journals. The study of the five institutions is based on the hypothesis that in each of them activities were directed towards improving the organisation of state and society and the living conditions of the people. This project represents a well-founded reassessment of the rise to predominance of economic argument during the eighteenth century.

Keywords: european political economy,swedish diet,improvement,economy and development,history of thought,cameral sciences
Silicon Brillouin-assisted Optoelectronic Oscillator Based on Subwavelength Membranes (SUNRISE)

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: France,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Silicon-based technologies offer tantalizing prospects for low-cost mass production of high-performance optoelectronic circuits by leveraging the maturity of complementary-metal-oxide semiconductor facilities. However, the processing and generation of high-quality radiofrequency signals using optoelectronic oscillators is still hampered by the spectral response of Si filters, which are unable to provide a rejection band on the order of MHz. Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has been at the core of recent stunning demonstrations of key on-chip functionalities for microwave photonics, exhibiting several properties that are ideally suited to overcome the limitation of Si photonic filters. SBS interactions can be orders of magnitude stronger in suspended Si waveguides compared to conventional optical fibers, but approaches demonstrated so far are mainly limited by trade-off between phonon lifetime and photon-phonon overlap. This project will address a completely new route to overcome the trade-off between long phonon lifetimes and large photon-phonon overlap in conventional Si optomechanical waveguides. The original idea is to exploit the unique degrees of freedom released by subwavelength Si nanostructuration to achieve flexible control of the shape and dispersion of optical and mechanical modes in order to maximize optomechanical coupling and Brillouin gain. This approach will be used to demonstrate a Si optoelectronic oscillator that exploits the intrinsic narrow linewidth of the Brillouin effect to achieve three orders of magnitude phase-noise reduction compared to the state of the art. The SUNRISE technology will open a whole new research domain in integrated optomechanics with great opportunities for fundamental and applied research. The unique expertise combination of the experienced researcher, the host institution and the two teams hosting secondments offers all the ingredients to significantly contribute to the next generation of microwave photonic systems

Keywords: silicon photonics,subwavelength nanostructuration,microwave photonics
TRAIN RESPONSIBLE AI LEARNING SOCIETY (TRAILS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Serbia
Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 154321.43
EU funding (EUR): 148750.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The project proposal under the title TRAILS (acronym) aims to help prepare the society for large progress that has been made in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), emerging AI tools that are already transforming our day-to-day work, and the impact that this research will have on our society as a whole. Although AI and machine learning have been used in wide areas of science research for decades, the public has only recently become aware first-hand of their potential through open text-to-image models like DALL-E and Midjourney and large language models like Chat-GPT. Until last 2-3 years, the general public has mostly encountered the term AI in SciFi movies and literature, but the details of what it actually means were rarely covered in the general education. Thus, for the general public, AI research is one of the upcoming but great unknowns, often accompanied with a deep misunderstanding of how it really works, resulting sometimes in fears about “machines taking over our jobs”, but also in warranted concerns about how AI tools will impact education. As a part of 2-year TRAIL project (Year 1: Train, Year 2: Trail/Validate), we aim to take the general public on a deep learning trip around topics related to AI. The program of the Year 1 (TRAIN year) will be focused around “training” and familiarizing the general public with the background of machine learning and AI – historical perspective, the science behind it, what it entails with special attention given to big data side of it in terms of training models, while the Year 2 (TRAIL or Validate year) will focus more on emerging tools, applications and integration of AI in our every-day lives.

Keywords: artificial intelligence ai,machine learning,public awareness,education,misconceptions,deep learning,training,validation,emerging tools,integration,big data,younger generations gen z and
Development of stainless-clad bimetallic steel systems for resilient structures using 3D printing techniques (DSBSRS3DPT)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To achieve an ambitious goal of carbon-neutral Europe by 2050, a new generation of double-sided stainless-clad bimetallic steel (SC) manufactured from cutting-edge 3D printing techniques (WAAM) was developed and investigated in this project, which has promising potential for engineering applications in demanding environments. It typically consists of a substrate layer (mild steel) and two clad layers (stainless steel), which combines the excellent corrosion resistance of stainless steel with the high strength and low cost of conventional mild (CM) steel. The combination of bimetallic steel and 3D printing not only reduces material cost but also minimizes the environmental impact. However, no studies or design standards are available in the literature for such member. This issue is addressed herein. The aim of this project is to develop the innovative WAAM double-sided SC bimetallic steel systems through the testing, numerical analysis and theoretical methods. To achieve this, a series of full-scale laboratory tests will be conducted, including cyclic loading tests, stub column tests, shear tests, bonding tests, and residual stress tests. Following this, a novel numerical modelling technique will be developed to generate a wide range of database. Also, a novel framework will be developed for shape optimization of such members. Finally, a new design approach based on modified European standards (EN 1993-1-4+A1) (2015), along with open-source software, will be proposed, which provides a more accurate strength prediction. The expected outcomes will result in significant economic, social and environmental benefits to European Commission’ construction sector by developing the next-generation 3D printing-based bimetallic steel resilient structures, contributing toward net-zero carbon emissions. This fellowship can serve as a stepping-stone in the fellow’s career, advancing his goal of making a meaningful impact on both society and the global construction industry.

Keywords: stainless steel bimetallic steel 3d printing technique