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Chiplet cOOling solutions for Low-consumption emBedded pRocessing AI at Nanoscale (COOLBRAIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Nanoelectronics for energy-efficient smart edge devices (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4629353.7
EU funding (EUR): 3971146.2
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The COOLBRAIN project embarks on a pioneering journey to unleash the potential of chiplet architecture for embedded systems and smart devices, in particular to use artificial intelligence. Indeed, embedded systems face with a number of challenges when it comes to using processors with high computing, machine lThe COOLBRAIN project embarks on a pioneering journey to unleash the potential of chiplet architecture for embedded systems, in particular to use artificial intelligence. Indeed, embedded systems face with a number of challenges when it comes to using processors with high computing, such as the size and weight of cooling solutions and the total energy efficiency of the system, including its thermal management system. At its core, COOLBRAIN is focused on the development of two highly advanced and innovative solutions for the reduction of hotspots through high-performance cooling and high-efficiency energy harvesting. NEAR-FIELD SUPER-PLANCKIAN ENERGY HARVESTING: COOLBRAIN will explore all the potential of near-field super-Planckian effect to convert a maximum of the thermal energy on electricity. For it, three complementary technologies will be developed at nanoscale for the energy emission and energy reception and high-precision assembly. CHIPLET EMBEDDING PROCESS IN DIAMOND HEATSPREADER: COOLBRAIN’s expertise on diamond-based technologies will be applied to develop nanoscale diamond capping technology at low temperatures ensuring physical integrity of advanced silicon nodes technologies. In complement, advanced diamond heatspreader with conformal cavities will be developed through high-precision drilling processes. At the circuit-level, the combination of both solutions will allow to decrease the operation temperature of high-performance computing – decreasing the leakage current of very advanced silicon nodes, improving reliability and performance – and to improve the total efficiency of the system by recovering up to 30% of the thermal energy dissipated.

Keywords: super planckian,near field,energy harvesting,chiplet,thermal solutions,diamond heatspreader,diamond,cnt
On the Substantiality of Aristotelian Substances (SUBSTANTIALITY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Portugal,United States
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-02, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156778.56
EU funding (EUR): 156778.56
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Substances are the fundamental entities in Aristotle's ontology. Sensible substances, paradigmatically individual biological organism, are constituted by a form or organisational structure, and some matter. There are in particular two features characteristic of sensible substances: being separate, i.e. being independent in some sense, and being a this-something (τόδε τι), i.e. being an individual or something definite in some sense. What these two features exactly amount to is clearly crucial for an understanding of Aristotle's conception of substance, however, it is unfortunately also notoriously obscure and highly controversial in the literature. The purpose of this project is to clarify these two features, and thereby to advance the literature on the notion of substance and to provide new insights for important debates in contemporary metaphysics. Central in my project is a novel methodology based on Myles Burnyeat's influential work. This 'two-level methodology' reflects Aristotle's own methodology to distinguish two levels of discourse, one where a subject-matter is discussed from a more abstract perspective and one where it is discussed from a more comprehensive, causal perspective. This methodology provides the means to interpret the different passages in Aristotle's works in a context-sensitive way that allows to relativise the scope of certain assertions made there. Employing this methodology allows me to resolve a central dilemma about the notion of separation consisting in the fact that there is prima facie good reason to assume three jointly incompatible assumptions: 1) forms are substances, 2) being a substance implies being separate, and 3) forms are not separate. This method also provides the means to deal with prima facie problematic consequences of a straight forward, but largely rejected interpretation of separation, and to illuminate a largely neglected, but important aspect of being a this-something, related to final causality.
Why two and not one? Evolutionary consequences of maintaining individual genome copies in two separate nuclei (R-evolution)

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: Denmark,Australia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 284484.48
EU funding (EUR): 284484.48
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The effect of ploidy and genome organization on evolution and adaptation is a central question in biology. Most organisms contain a single nucleus per cell, irrespective of their genome size and ploidy level. The kingdom Fungi represents a notable, yet significantly understudied, exception. Most fungal species partition individual haplotype genome copies into discrete nuclei. What evolutionary advantages arise from partitioning different haplotypes into multiple nuclei is a fundamental and unsolved puzzle in eukaryote genomics. This project addresses several questions that will improve our fundamental understanding of multinuclear genome biology by identifying genetic and epigenetic inter-nuclear differences in the stripe rust fungus (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, Pst). In contrast to diploids, it partitions its two haplotypes into two distinct nuclei (dikaryon). It is one of the most harmful wheat pathogens with significant impacts on global wheat production and food security. Pst epidemics in wheat growing regions including Europe and Australia have been dominated by lineages that reproduced exclusively asexually for decades. The haplotypes of the asexually evolving lineages diverge over time through independent accumulation of genetic variation. In this proposal I will dissect how the presence of multiple nuclei in the same cytoplasm in rust fungi contributes to rapid adaptation to variable and changing agricultural environments. Understanding the underlying mechanisms that drive rapid evolution of new genotypes in absence of sexual recombination is important to make predictions about durability of host resistance and management strategies.

Keywords: fungal plant pathogen,genome evolution,chromatin,rust fungi,long read sequencing,rapid adaptation,dikaryon
Radical Habits of the Heart: Emotions, Embodiment and Strong, Individual Commitment in Ancient Radical Religion (RADHEART)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1995676.0
EU funding (EUR): 1995676.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

More than two decades of intense radical religion research since 9/11 has brought attention to radicalisation, violence, and radical beliefs, and a strong emphasis on Islam in the contemporary era. Yet, radical religion is as burning an issue for societies today as ever, and individuals persist in staying committed. Strong, individual commitment shapes any form of radical religion, but it is rarely studied empirically, let alone historically. RADHEART ambitiously proposes to analyse how strong individual commitment is expressed and cultivated in ancient forms of Judaism and Christianity. Strong, religious commitment is approached as radical habits of the heart, i.e. emic models of the self’s felt experience of strong commitment. With an innovative theoretical framework that combines the aesthetics of religion and experience-oriented anthropology, RADHEART focuses on how an emotionally intense, strong religious commitment is expressed in and cultivated by ancient media. RADHEART offers high-gain insights by 1) comparing radical habits of the heart across the two ancient religions that were most seminal for later formations, 2) reframing the study of radical ancient religion by tackling the pervasive vocabulary of interior organs and the body in ancient poetry and narratives about strong commitment, and 3) instead of focusing on beliefs, terms, and conceptual reflections, RADHEART scrutinises the roles of the embodied self and emotionality in radical religion. Research has focused on the collective character of ancient religions, disregarding the crucial role of individual strong commitment and it has seen ancient emotions as lacking in affectivity. RADHEART breaks with these trends and enquires into strong, individual religious commitment in two media forms: poetry and narrative. RADHEART asks how they express and model strong commitment and how they affect their audiences across the axes of textuality, mediality, and practice.

Keywords: ancient jewish and christian religious poetry and narrative,radical religion,individual commitment,emotions,embodiment,the self
ORGanic UPconversion device for SWIR imaging (ORGUP)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Short-wave infrared (SWIR) imaging is a powerful tool to access and visualize the composition of (bio-)materials contact-free and in real time. It can be used for example for in-vivo deep-tissue bio-imaging as well as for the inspection and quality assurance of manufacturing processes, including agriculture, pharmaceutics, chemicals, photovoltaics, wafers, metals and glasses. The global SWIR market is estimated to 213 million USD for 2022 and predicted to increase by 72% until 2028. However, the complex and costly manufacturing of commercial SWIR imaging prohibits consumers and low-end applications from benefiting from its vast application potential. Within ORGUP, we propose organic upconversion devices as an attractive low-cost alternative. They convert the invisible, infrared image into a visible image, being then captured by a low-cost commercial camera or sensor. However, so far, such devices have failed to provide the relevant SWIR sensitivity above 1100nm, i.e. the silicon cut-off. The goal of ORGUP is to develop and showcase for the first time high-quality, organic SWIR imaging with a sensitivity up to 1500nm and an upconversion yield of 30% - at a low cost, while avoiding the use of toxic elements. Two industrially relevant demonstrators will prove reliable and durable mono- and multispectral vision at high resolution and contrast. We will combine in-house, recently developed ultra-low gap organic semiconductors with unique know-how in organic near-infrared opto-electronics and stacked, state-of-the-art organic light emitting diodes. Selectivity for specific SWIR wavelengths will be achieved by embedding the organic stack into optically amplifying and spectrally selective microcavity structures. As research and development of the proposed type of organic upconversion devices is relatively new, yet with confirmed interest of market leaders for optical solutions, we expect to create strategic IP and develop a path to marketing and commercialisation.
Assessment and implementation of Agriculture and Life Science Universities’ first Gender Equality Plans in widening countries (AGRIGEP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Czechia,Slovenia,Spain,Belgium
Call: Support to the implementation of inclusive gender equality plans (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 998237.5
EU funding (EUR): 998237.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Gender inequality is a major barrier in the R&I area that limit the capabilities and capacities of research and education institutions. Although major efforts to reach gender equality (GE) in R&I have been made in many areas of the world, there are still prominent inequalities in the widening countries. Across the EU, the development of Gender Equality Plans (GEP) intends to address the problems at RPOs; however, the variability in capability, capacity, and expertise hinder the efficient implementation of the institutional GEPs. Additionally, there are specific GE issues within certain fields of study at research and education institutions. In this context, GE issues in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields are well known and specific action plans have been developed. Within STEM, agriculture and life-science focused RPOs face very similar problems, but they lack sector-specific measures and mitigation plans. Furthermore, in agriculture, a large GE sector-specific imbalance exists in developing countries where a relevant proportion of RPOs’ international students come from. The AGRIGEP project, with the joint efforts of six consortium partners, aims to i) perform a responsible assessment of widening RPOs' current status on GEP implementation, ii) improve capabilities through intensive capacity building, and iii) develop and implement an agriculture and life-science targeted GEP with sectorial specific measures and strategies. These results could lead to long-term institutional reforms. Additionally, this project will work to establish the inclusion of GE issues within the RPOs’ educational system and professional training of students. The realisation of these objectives and the implementation of inclusive GEPs will enhance the inclusiveness, reputation, attractiveness, and research excellence of widening country RPOs. Moreover, it will promote the transformation of institutions and advance GE within the ERA as well.

Keywords: inclusiveness,research excellence,development of inclusive geps,reinforcing network,institutional change strategy,intersectionality,diversity,agriculture and life science
Artificial Catalysts for Endergonic Reduction by Electron Bifurcation (BifurCAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Endergonic catalysis converts low-energy substrates into high-energy products. Such reactions are highly desirable in academia and industry as they allow the transformation of abundant starting materials into complex products. However, endergonic reactions are impossible by classical catalysis, since the reverse reaction to the starting materials always dominates. Nature found an amazing way to drive endergonic reduction reactions catalytically by coupling an energetically uphill reduction to a separate, energetically downhill reduction. This strategy is called electron bifurcation and has been discovered with quinone- and flavin-dependent enzymes. No artificial catalysts capable of electron bifurcation have been realised to date. In BifurCAT, I propose the design, realisation, and application of molecular electron bifurcation catalysts. The key to achieving this goal is the precise localisation of two designed, organic redox sites in close proximity. This mimics the enzymatic strategy of splitting two electrons of a medium-potential reductant into a strongly reducing electron at the expense of a second, weakly reducing electron at separate redox sites. Electron bifurcation allows using environmentally benign, abundant, organic reductants such as formic acid or ascorbic acid to drive energetically uphill one-electron reductions at the strongly reducing redox site. Currently, these reactions require super-stoichiometric, rare-earth metal reductants or constant irradiation. I propose to demonstrate the utility of this new approach by applications in reductive incorporation of carbon dioxide into organic substrates and challenging dearomatisation reactions, which both lead to highly sought-after compounds for the preparation of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and precursors to organic materials. BifurCAT has the aim to change our view on energetically “impossible” reactions and to provide a resource- and energy-conserving, alternative strategy inspired by nature.

Keywords: biomimetic catalysis sustainable chemistry
Development and validation of simulation-based stress test for resilience assessment in manufacturing companies (RESISTTE)

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: Malta
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-05
End date: 2028-03-04
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 256642.8
EU funding (EUR): 256642.8
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of RESISTTE is to develop and validate a scalable banking-inspired simulation-based stress test tool for shop floor resilience assessment under realistic disruption scenarios, considering 6 disruption effects. It will be realized by: - Creating a generally applicable model for shop floor resilience assessment inspired by the stress test approach for European banks. This includes European Banking Authority stress test methodology analysis and its relevant elements integration with simulation components for basic shop floor and logistics processes, disruption effects dynamics, and recovery actions. - Training an existing Large Language Model, for predicting the regions- and manufacturing fields-based probability of various types of external disruptions. LLM will be contextualized and feed with a news database. Retrieved next period disruption predictions will be converted into shop floor disruption effects providing input for realistic simulation scenarios. - Implementing and validating the simulation-based stress test tool prototype that integrates stress scenario prediction application to the shop floor resilience assessment model. This includes the computational simulation of manufacturing processes, disruption effects and recovery actions according to the developed model. The tool will be first tested in laboratory environment and thereafter in industrial settings. Such simulation-based resilience assessment tool will be efficient tool for manufacturing managers and CEOs for mapping the shortcomings and planning new investments and changes for increasing the shop floor resilience level. In addition, it will enable banks to improve the strength of their loan portfolio by applying the test to the manufacturing sector applicants before their financing decisions, simultaneously widening the range of creditworthiness manufacturing companies.

Keywords: shop floor resilience,resilience assessment,manufacturing process simulation,llm training,eba stress test
Circular solutions for fishing gears (SEARCULAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Portugal
Call: Marine litter and pollution – Smart and low environmental impact fishing gears (HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2327522.5
EU funding (EUR): 2231710.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

SEARCULAR aims at reducing the amount of marine litter and microplastic from the most relevant European fishery contributors (demersal trawlers, demersal seiners, tropical tuna purse seiners) and to introduce circular economy practices within the fishing sector value chain including ports, by fostering behavioural change. SEARCULAR will do this by developing/testing/validating 4 close-to-market sustainable and circular solutions (TRL7-9). Three of the solutions are related to the use of more sustainable materials as alternatives to the traditional non-circular plastic used in fishing gears: Solution#1 proposes a dolly rope made of recycled polyamide (rPA) from discarded fishing nets (thus it is focused on circularity and more durable materials), Solution#2 is based on certified marine-biodegradable materials for demersal seine ropes (the focus is on less impact gears), Solution#3 represents an eco-designed biodegradable drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (dFADs) used by tropical tuna purse seine fishery. And Solution#4 proposes an End-of-Life (EOL) fishing gears solution for ports by promoting a replicable management system that enables the pyrolysis of EOL fishing gears for a plastic2plastic application. The 4 solutions will be tested under real conditions: onboard commercial vessels (Solutions 1-3) and for the Basque country region (Solution 4), and they will be validated by stakeholders. Therefore, SEARCULAR solutions eliminate waste generated from fishing gears, circulate materials and regenerate nature.

Keywords: pirolisis,logistics,fish aggregating devices fad,dolly ropes,danish seines