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SOEC HYDROGEN INTEGRATION AND CIRCULAR USE IN STEELMAKING PROCESS (SYRIUS)

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: Italy,Finland,Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Estonia
Call: Hydrogen production and integration in energy-intensive or specialty chemical industries in a circular approach to maximise total process efficiency and substance utilisation (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13588841.52
EU funding (EUR): 9999165.49
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Facing the urgent challenges of climate change and the necessity for a transition towards more sustainable and efficient energy systems, the industrial sector, with the steel industry at the forefront, is compelled to significantly cut energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The steel sector, accounting for 9% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and consuming an average of ~5.2 MWh of primary energy per ton of steel produced, is at the heart of this challenge. The SYRIUS project, spanning 54 months, aims to revolutionize this landscape by integrating a 4.2 MWel Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC) for producing 100 kg/h of green hydrogen into a real Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) plant. Hydrogen will feed a 280tsteel/h – 84 MWth slab reheating furnace, demonstrating the potential to reduce steel reheating process CO2 emissions by 5,600 t/year during the project and up to 100% with full hydrogen feeding. By generating steam through furnace off-gas heat recovery, implementing by-product oxygen recovery in the furnace (allowing additional savings of 430 tCO2/year in SYRIUS and of 2% fuel input in future expansion) and analysing options for water recycle, SYRIUS seeks to minimize external energy consumption and sets industrial circularity at the project core. With a viable business case centred on process integration, SYRIUS aims to strongly enhance market opportunities in the short to medium term by driving industrial green hydrogen costs below 2.2 €/kg, surpassing the SRIA targets for 2030. By preserving end-product quality at competitive costs, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, lowering hydrogen costs, and creating new direct and indirect jobs, SYRIUS will play a pivotal role in enhancing the circularity of the EU steel sector. A first-of-its-kind TRL7 plant, ready to be scaled up, extended to other industries, and replicated globally thanks to the unique geographic coverage of the technology providers in the SYRIUS consortium, will showcase innovation in action.

Keywords: steel plant,process integration,solid oxide cell,scale up
Evolution in Security and Privacy for 6G networks (ENSURE-6G)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Ireland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Israel,Spain,Sri Lanka,France,Belgium,Luxembourg,Türkiye,Finland,Greece,Ecuador
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1471342.86
EU funding (EUR): 1357000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

ENSURE-6G project will develop robust solutions to provide resilient 6G telecommunication infrastructure in the presence of both cyber and physical attacks in 6G networks. The rationale for the ENSURE-6G project is well justified due to the need for advanced and intelligent security and privacy-enhancing mechanisms deployed in practice within current mobile networks and the necessity of novel efficient mechanisms for future networks. ENSURE-6G will have a strong impact on the careers of all participating staff involved. It will equip them with cutting-edge technical and practical knowledge in the security and privacy of 6G technologies. It will create an opportunity to build a strong professional network and bond with industry partners beyond the project’s completion date. The ENSURE-6G will aim to ensure that the EU is at the forefront of security and privacy requirements of 6G networks and that new security measures are designed to mitigate the risks associated with new 6G end user devices and users.

Keywords: 6g,security,privacy,federated learning,ethics,future networks,mobile networks
Towards standardized 6G connectivity for ambiently-powered energy neutral IoT devices (AMBIENT-6G)

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: Belgium,Finland,France,Greece,Austria,Spain
Call: Communication Infrastructure Technologies and Devices – Standardisation and Follow-up/PoCs (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8419622.75
EU funding (EUR): 7994612.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Internet of Things (IoT) technology is widely recognised as having the potential to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. However, to truly benefit society and enable a sustainable future, IoT innovations will need to address the technology gap that exists in powering the rising number of IoT devices. Specifically, the AMBIENT-6G consortium argues that it will be impossible to power hundreds of billions of future IoT devices with batteries that need to be replaced or recharged manually. The maintenance costs, environmental impact, and safety hazards will just be too high. Instead, AMBIENT-6G proposes a new class of energy-neutral devices (ENDs) that will be connected to the IoT through novel ultra-low-power 6G technologies. ENDs exploit ambient energy harvesting or wireless power transfer to recharge their storage and power their operations, allowing them to achieve decades-long energy autonomy. The overall objective of AMBIENT-6G is to design, prototype, validate, and standardize hard- and software technology solutions for intelligent ENDs, and the 6G network infrastructure that connects them to the Internet. To achieve this objective, the project will provide technological innovations in terms of (i) END hardware and software components to enable energy harvesting and management, as well as backscatter and active wireless communications, (ii) a new 6G low-power wide area network technology with significantly lower energy consumption than current technologies, and (iii) machine learning both on-device and orchestrated along the Cloud-Edge-Device continuum to support intelligent management of the device and network resources, as well as local application data processing. AMBIENT-6G will maximize the impact of the above innovations by actively participating in 3GPP Ambient-IoT and other related standardization activities, and adopting an open science approach that facilitates further integration of the AMBIENT-6G technology in follow-up research.

Keywords: zero energy devices,energy neutral devices,ambient internet of things iot
MicroWave Photonic Technologies for Communications and Sensing Applications in Space (MWP4SPACE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Ireland,Italy,Belgium,France,Germany
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4729905.14
EU funding (EUR): 4067548.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

A revolution is taking place in the field of satellite systems, as more satellites have been launched into orbit in the last 5 years then in the last 6 decades combined. The main reason for this is because satellites are now affordable to manufacture and the new generation of satellites orbit at much lower altitudes – sparking new opportunities in communications and Earth Observations (EO). The MWP4SPACE IDN will train the next generation of specialists in Integrated Microwave Photonic (IMWP) devices and systems in the framework of satellite and space applications. They will gain skills to integrate compact photonic and radio frequency (RF) circuits, and cutting-edge knowledge of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design, fabrication, packaging, validation and qualification both at the device and system level – competences for which there is a fast-growing demand in the global satellite industry, but that are rarely taught in an integrated training program. Importantly, those skills are deemed essential to achieve the scientific goals of the program, which are to develop, introduce and promote IMWP technologies for secure and reconfigurable networks of LEO- and MEO satellites for telecommunications (SATCOM) and EO. MWP4SPACE will offer a unique education program for 15 young researchers structured in research projects and network-wide training activities and delivered by 6 European Universities, 1 non-profit academic research institutions and 9 companies which are world-class references in both photonics and space technologies. By positioning MWP4SPACE DCs as key actors in the transfer of knowledge developed for terrestrial applications to space applications, our training network will significantly contribute to their employability by placing them as future leaders in the next generation of SATCOM and EO technologies.
Overcoming resistance to immunotherapy: Immunostimulatory tumor-derived extracellular vesicles as multifunctional anticancer agents (IMMUNO-TEX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1650778.0
EU funding (EUR): 1650778.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Tumor immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) has unprecedented therapeutic potential, but its success is limited to a minority of patients with preexisting antitumor T-cell immunity. For patients with poorly-immunogenic tumors, combinatorial immunotherapies are urgently needed. With a vast and bioactive cargo (proteins, lipids, nucleic acids), extracellular vesicles (EVs) have intrinsic property to regulate complex pathways in distant target cells. Even though they can transfer tumor antigens which potentially activate T cells, tumor-derived EVs (TEX) have mainly been associated with immunosuppressive function. I have recently identified innate immune pathways within tumor cells that regulate TEX biogenesis and immunogenicity. This allows for the first time to “force” tumor cells to release a defined immunostimulatory (is)TEX product. The unconventional objective of IMMUNO-TEX is to generate a platform for the pioneering therapeutic use of tumor-derived isTEX as multifunctional cell-free anticancer agents. isTEX combine a cargo of a plethora of patient-specific tumor (neo-) antigens and immunostimulatory constituents within a single, non-toxic delivery vehicle, that allows for efficient priming of tumor antigen-specific T cells. The ability to harness the vast potential of isTEX is directly interwoven with a more detailed mechanistic understanding how tumor-specific cargo packaging in EVs occurs and how they alter immune cell function. Therefore, IMMUNO-TEX will identify and exploit the intracellular machinery in tumor cells for optimal isTEX generation, investigate how isTEX enable an immune-supportive tumor microenvironment, and validate isTEX to overcome ICI resistance in relevant murine and human model systems. Hereby, IMMUNO-TEX will eliminate current limitations of ICI immunotherapy by rationally designed combination with isTEX to allow responsiveness in patients with poorly immunogenic tumors.

Keywords: extracellular vesicles
Consent in Songs in European Narrative Traditions (CONSENT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1486875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1486875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

CONSENT examines the theme of sexual consent in European narrative traditions as represented in late medieval songtexts (c.1300-1550). It investigates the new and empowering narratives that were performed to engage in conversations about consent. Since songs were part of oral culture, circulating among various social classes and voicing contemporary views on societal affairs, they offer an indispensable gateway to medieval understandings of this timeless topic. The project will bring forth methodological innovation by making sexual consent (not: coercion or forced sex) its main lens for analysis. By introducing a consent-based approach to historical literature, CONSENT will showcase consent as a rich medieval literary theme and investigate how songtexts helped medieval people to explore positive scenarios for behaviour in sexual relationships. These aims are crucial to balance previous scholarship, that has focused on medieval narratives about rape. CONSENT, however, posits that current societal debates prompt a different, more positive perspective, unravelling a consent-oriented part of late medieval culture. First, CONSENT will trace WHERE consent-themed songtexts circulated. While rape-themed song seems to have flourished throughout Southern Europe, France and England, CONSENT will shift focus to Germanic traditions, hypothesizing that these lend a stronger voice to consent. Second, CONSENT will analyse HOW these songtexts represented ideas about sexual consent and mutuality, by applying a novel close-reading method that studies intersections of gender, social status and narrative space. The project hypothesizes that medieval songtexts adopted recognizable narrative patterns to express sexual consent and to contradict and destabilize rape narratives. Third, CONSENT will investigate WHY these songs were collected and sung, hypothesizing that consent narratives in songs promoted female agency in the domain of sexuality by fostering mutuality and equality.

Keywords: medieval studies middle dutch literature middle low german literature old czech literature medieval songtexts material philology gender agency
ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EVMS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Make My Day (MMD) is an innovative startup that envisions a future where the roads hum with the quiet, clean energy of electric vehicles (EVs). We are on a mission to accelerate the global transition of fleets to electric mobility by providing an Electric Vehicle Management System (EVMS) that enables fleets to operate effectively, save time and costs, and reduce CO2. In addition, the use of the EVMS reduces stress and anxiety for drivers and helps them to perform their tasks safely. The EVMS consists of two main components: (1) an EV Fleet Management Tool and (2) battery prediction and charging optimisation algorithms. The EVMS can be used as a standalone system or as an API that can be connected to any fleet management system (FMS). The innovation lies in the accurate prediction of the vehicle, its charging status and the amount of energy required to fulfil the tasks. MMD’s AI and ML algorithms deliver an average deviation of 1-1.5% from the actual charging status, which is far more accurate than traditional solutions. These results have been proven in a POC preformed in real-life settings. The EVMS is perfectly aligned with the EU target and UN SDGs to reduce emissions, paving the way for commercial fleets to meet the relevant requirements. Other market sectors that will benefit include Energy providers, CPOs, OEMs, FMS developers and telematics companies. A comprehensive market analysis as well as POCs conducted with customers show the benefits of EVMS for the market, which is estimated to reach 1,067,985 vehicles by 2030, a growth of over 30%. The EIC will help us achieve this goal and scale up the business. We have developed a meticulous work plan to complete the development and commercialise the EVMS. Our team consists of experienced technologists and business savvies who will realize this ambitious plan and bring it to market by the end of the project.

Keywords: electric vehicles fleet management artificial intelligence ai zero emission
Resilient European Cultural Heritage As Resource for Growth and Engagement (RECHARGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Poland,Spain,Italy,Estonia,Ireland
Call: New ways of participatory management and sustainable financing of museums and other cultural institutions (HORIZON-CL2-2021-HERITAGE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2997062.5
EU funding (EUR): 2997062.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

RECHARGE is about participation and the value of cultural heritage and its institutions. RECHARGE is about participation and the value of cultural heritage and its institutions. Emerging from the pandemic, the role played by many CHIs in keeping citizens engaged and mentally healthy through a variety of creative initiatives is widely acknowledged; however, this was also a time of financial loss. Turning that creativity into money that keeps the institution afloat is the challenge RECHARGE is set to answer. Participation is core to the value proposition of cultural heritage institutions and can be the means through which communities - whether corporates, citizens or other CHIs - become CHIs’ stakeholders. RECHARGE will set up an iterative and intrinsically participatory environment -the Living Labs- as means to co-create and prototype participatory business models. The consortium will actively document and analyse this process, which will result in economic measures of effectiveness, indicators of sustainability and participation, museologic reprofiling of social and cultural spaces, cultural and social valuation, and managerial development of participatory business models. Combining both rigorous academic research and hands-on analysis through the Living Lab, RECHARGE will deliver a Playbook containing the ingredients and recipes that can be adapted to local environments to create participatory business models for their communities. The online Knowledge Base, populated with research results, will support the uptake in the sector and among interested communities, while the Academy will engage the CHI networks and build capacity to make a real difference in the landscape of CHIs. RECHARGE boasts a multidisciplinary team bringing together different university departments, independent research organizations and CHI representatives from six EU countries. Together, we will make the CH sector more resilient and better equipped to deal with future challenges and transitions

Keywords: participation,cultural economics,cultural management,cultural policy,cultural heritage
MIM pores: composition, structure and function (MITOPORE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2493750.0
EU funding (EUR): 2493750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mitochondria are double-membrane organelles involved in key biological processes such as metabolism, calcium homeostasis and cell death. A major role of mitochondria in inflammation, a mechanism of innate immunity against tissue damage, has been recently recognized. Due to their proteobacterial origin, certain mitochondrial matrix contents can act as potent immune agonists when exposed to the cytosol. Hence, knowing the dynamics and molecular architecture of the mitochondrial pores mediating the release of these mitochondrial contents is crucial for understanding the role of mitochondria in inflammation. While in apoptosis BAX and BAK proteins form pores at the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM), the components and mechanisms that regulate the permeabilization of the mitochondrial inner membrane (MIM) remain unknown. MITOPORE aims to unravel the identity, dynamic architecture and regulation of the pores that permeabilize the MIM and to understand how they control mitochondria-driven inflammation. We will reach this goal by building on our expertise in membrane biology and advanced imaging to: 1) Identify the mediators and regulators as well as the physical forces controlling MIM pores with complexome profiling and image-based biophysical analysis. 2) Define their contribution to anti-mitochondria immunogenicity through activation of intracellular immune receptors and communication with the tissue microenvironment in cellular and in vivo models. 3) Determine the assembly dynamics and molecular structure of MIM pores and their regulators by combining single particle and super-resolution imaging and advanced electron microscopies. MITOPORE is expected to provide textbook knowledge about the mitochondrial contribution to inflammation. The established workflows will open new avenues for membrane and organelle biology research. Ultimately, understanding the structure/function of MIM pores holds promise to guide the development of modulators against inflammatory diseases.