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A proprietary AI-based radar perception solution for the automotive market. (Perciv AI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
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

Autonomous driving technologies, despite their evolution, face significant challenges in reliability and adaptability, particularly under diverse driving conditions. The industry grapples with regulatory and safety concerns, leading to widespread recalls and compromised safety. LiDAR-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), while offering high resolution, struggle with limitations such as weather sensitivity, limited range, complex data processing, and high costs. They are impacted by adverse weather conditions like rain and fog, which reduce accuracy and range, and their high costs add to the challenge of widespread adoption. There is a pressing need for a more effective machine perception solution that surpasses the limitations of current solutions. Perciv AI addresses this technological and market gap with its innovative AI-based radar processing Software Development Kit (SDK). This solution offers a viable alternative to LiDAR by leveraging existing radar hardware, which performs reliably in adverse weather conditions. The foundational AI-driven design of the SDK enhances radar data utility, providing superior object recognition, classification, odometry, and sensor fusion capabilities, even in challenging environments. Our solution delivers significant value by offering superior performance, reduced costs, and enhanced safety towards autonomous mobility. Compared to LiDAR-based systems, which can exceed €2,000, Perciv AI’s solution enables a cost-effective perception system at approximately €200. Its hardware-agnostic design ensures compatibility with different radar manufacturers, various configurations, simplifying integration and production costs for OEMs. The SDK’s future-proof approach allows continuous adaptation to evolving automotive technologies and safety standards. With the help of the EIC accelerator program, we will adapt the SDK to meet automotive industry needs, securing regulatory approvals and expand the team.

Keywords: radar,lidar,communications,adas,self driving cars,road safety,security,automation,automotive
Effects of ALAN on lunar biology at sea: Characterization of sensory-neurosecretory cell type plasticity in adult Platynereis dumerilii from protected and light polluted areas (BrightPlaty)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-02
End date: 2027-05-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214344.72
EU funding (EUR): 214344.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In recent years, researchers have increasingly focused on the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) polluIn recent years, researchers have increasingly focused on the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) pollution on behavior and physiology of many terrestrial and marine organisms. ALAN particularly interferes with the circadian and circalunar rhythms, which are used to coordinate reproduction in many ecologically important marine organisms, such as brown algae, corals, and annelids. The bristle worm Platynereis dumerilii has been established as a leading model organism to characterize the process controlling circadian and circalunar rhythms. Recent studies by the Raible and Tessmar-Raible laboratories (Vienna, Austria) revealed the temporal plasticity of a specific cell cluster in the adult worm brain, which is thought to orchestrate lunar rhythms. However, this intriguing discovery was made under laboratory conditions, prompting further investigation into how this translates in wild animals and whether it is affected by ALAN. This project will be hosted in the Tessmar-Raible (TR) lab at the Max Perutz Labs (MPL) - University of Vienna (Univie), Austria, and it has three objectives: (1) to obtain a complete atlas of the cell types showing lunar plasticity in P. dumerilii’s brain by performing the single-cell transcriptomic experiment over the course of two lunar cycles; (2) to characterize the cell type plasticity in wild P. dumerilii; (3) to identify the effects of ALAN on such response. These objectives represent significant advancements in the field, as the plasticity of cell types in response to lunar and circadian cycles is poorly understood and has been rarely explored using single-cell sequencing. Additionally, integrating data from wild specimens will allow for an unprecedented assessment of these processes in natural conditions. Exploring the influence of ALAN on single-cell plasticity also introduces a novel dimension to single-cell analysis.

Keywords: chronobiology,artificial light at night alan,platynereis dumerilii,biological rhythms
Effects of Spin-orbit Coupling on Superconducting Pairing Interactions (SuperSOC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499893.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499893.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Superconductors with spin-orbit coupling exhibit many fascinating properties, including abnormally high upper critical fields and possible topological excitations. These effects are recognized as originating from the impact of spin-orbit coupling on the Cooper pair wave function. In contrast, how spin-orbit coupling affects the superconducting pairing interactions – the glue that binds electrons together in Cooper pairs – remains an open question. This is particularly relevant in unconventional superconductors as the interplay between spin-orbit coupling and electronically mediated superconducting pairing interactions may give rise to novel feedback effects that boost the efficacy of the pairing interactions. In this project, I will adopt a dual-pronged approach to study the interplay between spin-orbit coupling and interactions: (1) Develop a generalized Eliashberg theory to account for feedback effects in spin-orbit coupled systems and (2) implement fermionic renormalization group methods and determinant Quantum Monte Carlo simulations to map out the interplay between electronic correlations and spin-orbit coupling. The main results of SuperSOC will be: - Establishing how spin-orbit coupling may fundamentally reshape the pairing interactions and modify the associated superconducting instabilities of unconventional superconductors. - Developing a framework for studying these feedback effects in material-specific models and employing this to understand the phase diagrams of unconventional spin-orbit coupled superconductors. - Demonstrating how the interplay between electronic correlations and spin-orbit coupling leads to anisotropic interactions that alter the shape of the electronic phase diagram and may enhance pairing. These achievements pave the way for identifying the nature and origin of unconventional superconductivity in spin-orbit coupled systems and enable a determination of the electronic phase diagrams in such systems.
New Germaniun-based materials for Green electronics (NeGeMat)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 261380.64
EU funding (EUR): 261380.64
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The current electronics present in everyone’s daily lives are made up of several different materials, some of which are scarce, toxic or even both. Developing new toxic-free widely available materials that could take part in the same processes would help the environment, with less toxic elements being disposed of. Furthermore, using widely available elements could also lead to a lower price, making electronics more available throughout the world. This project focuses on the synthesis of thin films of two materials, which would be a world first, formed of widely available, non-toxic elements, Sr3GeO and Sr2MnGe2O7. The first is a narrow band gap semiconductor, and could replace highly toxic ones in use as mercury cadmium telluride. The second has recently been proposed as a Weyl semimetal. The fabrication of these materials as epitaxial thin films will enable the development of devices based on them, bringing us forward to greener electronics and creating scientific knowledge on new materials and their properties that could lead to many more applications.

Keywords: epitaxial growth,topological materials,semimetals,thermal transport
Sharp Regularity Bounds of Maximal Functions (SRMF)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In 1997 Juha Kinnunen proved that maximal operators satisfy a Sobolev bound if the Sobolev exponent p is strictly larger than 1. His article initiated the study of regularity of maximal functions, a field which has attracted several dozens of authors to this day. Geometric techniques have recently lead to a series of breakthrough endpoint regularity bounds for maximal operators in higher dimensions. This project pursues the novel strategy of combining these new geometric tools with already established extremization techniques in order to solve a wide range of open questions in the field. The goals of the project are organized around two themes: gradient bounds and sharp constants. The main goal from the first theme is to prove that the variation of the non-centered Hardy-Littlewood maximal function can be controlled by the variation of the function in all dimensions. This is the endpoint p=1 of Juha Kinnunen's original bound and is one of the main long standing open questions in the field. This project also aims to prove this variation bound for further maximal operators, along with the operator continuity of their gradient and bounds for higher derivatives. The main goal from the second theme is to prove that the centered Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator in one dimension does not increase the variation of a function. This bound would be sharp because examples show that in general, maximal operators do not strictly decrease the variation of a function. This project further aims to prove this sharp bound for convolution type maximal operators and to find the sharp constant in the variation bound for the dyadic maximal operator in all dimensions.

Keywords: maximal function,sobolev space,variation,endpoint,extremization,sharp constant
A novel suite of technologies and an inexpensive platform based on Artificial Intelligence for remote access to live performing arts with an immensely improved feeling of presence (ACCESS)

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: Greece,Poland,Spain,Cyprus
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1076400.0
EU funding (EUR): 883200.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The vision of ACCESS is to create an integrated framework for remote attendance of (live streamed) performing arts that offers a stronger feeling of presence compared to existing live video streaming products. To this end, we will radically extend the latest advances in Deep Learning (DL)/Artificial Intelligence (AI), we will build upon leading industrial DL capacities, and we will integrate these into mature virtual reality (VR) technologies in a unique and innovative way. Specifically, ACCESS will develop a virtual environment, wherein users: 1) Will be able to watch live-streamed video of performing arts, processed in real-time so that the video appears more focused on areas of the video that the viewer looks at. For instance, a TV director usually points the camera to the person speaking; however, a viewer may want to look at the reactions of another actor. 2) Will be embodied into virtual avatars and be able to interact with a virtual companion. The companion will support short discussions with the viewer, both chit-chat and provision of information related to the presented arts show. This may be able to happen during the live streaming, while waiting for it to start, or at the end of it. 3) Will be able to interact with the virtual personas of other attendants inside a virtual foyer. These three components offer a stronger feeling of presence when attending a live show online. To achieve this vision, ACCESS pursues an intersectoral secondment program that fosters knowledge exchange between academic experts and industrial partners in the cutting-edge technological fields of AI and VR. Additionally, the participation of an arts organization dedicated to supporting contemporary culture and digital art is crucial for the success of this project, both technically as well as for implementing our communication and dissemination ambition and plans.
Researchers for Humanity 2022-2023 (R4H2223)

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: Romania
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 327857.14
EU funding (EUR): 229500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of “Researchers for Humanity 2022-2023” will be to bring researchers closer to the general public and to increase awareness of research and innovation activities, with a view to supporting the public recognition of researchers, creating an understanding of the impact of researchers' work on citizens´ daily life and encouraging young people to embark on research careers. We will also focus on promoting the European dimension of the event and on increasing the public’s awareness, making European Researchers’ Night 2022 and 2023 editions the most interesting and awaited events in terms of science, research and education. The two editions will be linked with continuous activities related to Researchers at schools and pre-events and the results of these activities will be presented to the public at the actual events. During the events, the public will have the opportunity to better understand science projects and researchers’ ideas and motivation by taking part in interactive hands-on sessions, learning by doing, education through play, as well as being encouraged to have interesting talks with the researchers themselves. Our widely spread national network of cities involved in organizing European Researchers’ Night will continue to be an important factor when it comes to increase awareness among the general public, promoting the goals of the event and creating a large community of researchers involved. Based on the long-lasting relationships, the partnerships will be carried on with the main actors from mass-media and most of the important players in private research, universities and non-formal education institutions and, through Researchers at schools activities, the number and quality of these partnerships will significantly improve.
Upscaling of blue elementary emitter for OLED manufacturing (beeUP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
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

In OLED, blue has been the critical weak point ever since the commercialization of OLED displays. Because of the inefficient blue emitters still used today, OLED TVs receive poor energy star ratings and smartphones run out of battery quickly. Additionally, their poor stability results in “burn in”, which, for example, requires smart watches to be dimmed down most of the time. Market penetration of OLED in TV is therefore stuck at 3-5%. Given the importance of blue emitters for the OLED market (and the resulting commercial attractiveness), numerous attempts have been made in the last 20 years to solve this problem. However, neither startups nor large corporates have been able to present a solution viable for high-volume manufacturing. Especially scaling up a promising material from laboratory scale to mass production is still a major hurdle for most solutions. beeOLED is solving the last big problem of the OLED industry - a highly efficient, long lasting, deep-blue emitter. Building on 20 years of OLED industry experience, the founding team of beeOLED has rediscovered an almost forgotten star amongst the display materials: divalent Europium (Eu2+). Leveraging the latest advances in Europium chemistry, beeOLED managed, for the first time ever, to stabilize Eu2+ such that it becomes usable in OLEDs. The fundamental concept is protected by several base patents, solely owned by beeOLED. beeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and chemical stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure. The overall OLED materials market is valued today at US$1.7bn/y, with a CAGR of 15%. Initially, beeOLED will focus on the OLED emitter dopant materials, which is a highly promising market with strong profit margins. After successfully scaling up the production, the goal of beeOLED is to achieve a dominant position in this market with the vision to become the No .1 OLED emitter material provider in 2030.

Keywords: oled blue emitter long lifetime europium lanthanide electronics tv display
Ecological Solutions for Recovery of Secondary Raw Materials from Post-consumer Fibreboards (EcoReFibre)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,France,Norway,Germany,Belgium,Italy,Greece,Portugal
Call: Developing climate-neutral and circular raw materials (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14819221.25
EU funding (EUR): 11852695.51
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of EcoReFibre is to develop and demonstrate innovative demos for environmentally sound and commercially viable recycling of end-of-life fibreboards, which currently have no commercially viable recycling methods. The quantities of fibreboard waste are growing exponentially in line with the growth in production capacity, and it is highly likely that more than 60 million tons of fibreboard waste have been created in Europe the last 5 years. This has caught the European recycling sector off-guard. EcoReFibre is crucial to Europe's wood-based panel and wood recycling sectors because of various inter-linked market challenges of the current situation for creating secondary materials from wood waste. EcoReFibre builds a strong pan-European consortium bringing together leading research institutes, companies and European associations who will develop and demonstrate a range of recycling technologies for waste fibreboard. Validation and demonstration of the technologies will take place in an operational environment as system prototypes (TRL7) or in the relevant industrial environment (TRL6). These include a sorting line that is able to efficiently sort post-consumer wood waste, extraction technologies for secondary materials (calibrated wood fines and wood fibres) from the sorted waste fractions, and conversion to valuable products, i.e. various fibreboard and insulation products, particleboard and novel biocomposites. As a major impact, the secondary fibres will substitute up to 25% of the virgin fibres currently used in the manufacture of new fibreboard. The economic viability of the technologies is achieved through a synergistic circular economy approach that exploits multiple valorisation pathways of secondary raw materials. The novel fibreboard recycling technologies are transferrable and exploitable for many other biobased industries. Environmental and social impacts and benefits are integrated into a life cycle perspective.

Keywords: fibreboard mdf waste wood sorting mechanical processing refining fibre valorisation nano fibrillar cellulose building products