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Imagination in the Experience of Installation Art (IEIA)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 288859.2
EU funding (EUR): 288859.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Several works by Ernesto Neto present huge, warm-colored, pleasantly smelling Lycra tunnels. They are cases of installation art (IA): the public is supposed to enter the tunnels and interact with the physical environment, experiencing the works from within. Works of IA resemble buildings because they envelop the public, but they differ in that, as with paintings and sculptures, they do not have a sheltering function. This raises a philosophical question: what states of mind are distinctive of our engagement with IA? The goal of this project is to develop the first full-fledged philosophical account of our engagement with IA, arguing that, typically, the imagination plays a crucial role in it, by pursuing 5 research and innovation objectives: (1) showing that IA prompts imaginings of a specific kind; (2) arguing that IA can be defined in terms of its imagining-arousing function; (3) arguing against the prevalent view that IA doesn't have a representational or fictional dimension; (4) investigating the link between the imaginings aroused by IA, on the one hand, and abstract painting, on the other hand; (5) integrating the proposal within a broader account of fiction. The project’s goal is relevant to aestheticians and art theorists, because IA dominates contemporary art, and to art practitioners and public, because it can help improve the design, exhibition, and communication of IA. I, Elisa Caldarola (Philosophy PhD), will carry out the proposed research through investigations in the philosophy of fiction and of art, in art theory, in depiction theory, and the philosophy of mind, working at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Philosophy Program) under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Gilmore, and at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin, under the supervision of Prof. Alberto Voltolini. I shall publish 5 papers in top-level journals, present my work at 8 conferences and at outreach events.

Keywords: philosophy of fiction,philosophy of art,analytic philosophy of art,aesthetics,art theory
AILOS-Robotics: a gearbox for human-centric robotics (AILOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 7000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

AILOS manufactures Agile, Lightweight, and Efficient Gearboxes to elevate Human-Centric Robotics. AILOS-Robotics is a spin-off project from BruBotics, the Brussels-based Human-centric Robotics Research Center at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). As one of Europe's few truly interdisciplinary robotics research hubs, BruBotics boasts over 30 years of expertise in applying robotics to enhance quality of life. The center has contributed to numerous national and EU-funded projects, including CORBYS, BioMOT, H2R, SPEAR, SMARCOS, SPEXOR, CYBERLEGS, SOPHIA, Exo4Work, SmartHandler, and AMPFoot. Today, BruBotics is recognized internationally for its leadership in actuation, exoskeletons, prosthetics, and human-robot collaboration. AILOS-Robotics is on a mission to revolutionize robotics by making robots lighter, more energy-efficient, faster, safer, and more affordable. Our innovation starts at the core of a robot: the actuator gearboxes, the key components that drive movement and significantly impact robotic performance. With a clear vision for global leadership in modern robotics, AILOS-Robotics is focused on advancing robotic actuators that enable agile, compliant, and dexterous movements, fostering true human-robot collaboration. Backed by BruBotics’ extensive network, we are on a strategic growth path, which includes the formal incorporation of the company and the recruitment of ten new team members over the next 24 months. This expansion will support the final stages of product development (TRL) and establish a solid sales and operational framework to rapidly scale AILOS-Robotics.

Keywords: robotics,actuators,gearboxes,lightweight,efficient,dexterous
Solving the Bz problem in heliospheric weather forecasting (HELIO4CAST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999417.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999417.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

A major unsolved problem in space weather involves predicting the solar wind at the Sun-Earth L1 point, specifically its speed and the north-south (Bz) magnetic field component. Knowledge of the future solar wind time evolution would allow us to drive any models for magnetospheric processes, such as the aurora, the radiation belts, the ionosphere or the currents induced in power lines with much higher reliability and forecast lead time than currently possible. Our modern society increasingly depends on space borne technology and predicting extreme space weather conditions at Earth is therefore of pivotal importance. Our hypothesis is that we can predict the strongest Bz fields in magnetic flux ropes in solar coronal mass ejection (CMEs) with a novel combination of hyper-fast semi-empirical models in our new HELIO4CAST simulation, capable of running millions of ensemble members within minutes. Due to the coherence of flux ropes, it will be possible to forecast geomagnetic storms with lead times of 12 hours or more. Additionally, for clarifying unsolved problems on the CME global shape and magnetic structure, a window of opportunity has opened at the start of solar cycle 25 with the successful launches and operations of Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, and BepiColombo, forming an unprecedented fleet of spacecraft to study CMEs. Groundbreaking numbers of multipoint lineup events, Solar Orbiter imaging for the first time from higher latitudes, and novel in situ data from Parker Solar Probe close to the Sun will lead to new discoveries. These unique observations in the solar wind will also deepen our knowledge of stellar CMEs. The team is lead by an accomplished PI with the necessary broad scientific expertise. This ERC project provides an unconventional, direct feedback loop between answering open scientific questions and the application of forecasts in real time that will bring decisive progress in making a reliable space weather prediction part of our daily lives.

Keywords: heliophysics,space weather,solar wind,solar storms,solar coronal mass ejections,interplanetary magnetic fields,solar physics,solar wind prediction
CHernobyl's Radioactive pattern in Oceanography: Nuclear fingerprints Unraveled through accelerator mass Spectrometry (CHRONUS)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The CHRONUS project aims at providing new insights into the distribution of a complete set of anthropogenic actinides (233U, 236U, 237Np, 239Pu, 240Pu, 241Pu, 242Pu, 244Pu) in the Baltic Sea using the ultra-sensitive Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) technique, representing a needful step forward in the field of Applied Nuclear Physics to address environmental problems. The Baltic Sea is one of the most contaminated marine environments in the world regarding radioactive materials, being exposed by multiple contamination sources in such a way that understanding the different inputs and distribution patterns of the radioactive contaminants has become a major challenge. Specifically, there are still many open questions regarding the distribution of the actinide fallout from the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Understanding the distribution of radionuclides in this marine environment may be crucial for many environmental applications as well as future radioactivity emergencies. This action would include the analysis of the extremely low abundance 233U and 244Pu, providing novel tools to identify local contamination inputs from the baseline radioactivity levels imposed by the atmospheric nuclear weapon tests (1945-1980). Sediment cores collected from stations covering the whole Baltic Sea will be used to this end. Novel sample preparation and AMS measurement techniques will be developed to perform all those analyses using the compact 1MV AMS system at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA), an international centre for accelerator science and technology of the host institution (University of Seville, USE, Spain). This action will involve the integration of the researcher, Dr. Mercedes López-Lora, at the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics (FAMN) and within the very active and multidisciplinary group of Applied Nuclear Physics (GFNA) at the USE, under the supervision of Dr. Elena Chamizo, a high-recognised expert in AMS techniques and applications.

Keywords: accelerator mass spectrometry ams actinides baltic sea sediments uranium 236 uranium 233 plutonium neptunium 237 environmental radiotracers chernobyl accident radioactive contamination
BIOENGINEERED MODELS FOR SCREENING IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES (NANOBICAR HOP-ON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 591425.0
EU funding (EUR): 591425.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Bacterial infections contribute to 20% of global mortality. Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, with multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains posing an increasing threat. A fourth of the global population is latently infected, often with MDR variants. Current therapies suffer from lack of specificity, limited access to intracellular bacteria, and rising resistance. The EIC-funded NanoBiCAR project pioneers innovative immunotherapies leveraging mRNA-loaded lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), with the goal of eliminating intra- and extracellular Mtb as proof of concept. By enabling cost-effective, safe, and scalable solutions, NanoBiCAR aims to provide novel treatments for latent, acute, and chronic infections in high-burden, low-resource settings. CEBIOM deep-tech widening partner inclusion will allow to explore New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to strengthen NanoBiCAR’s technologies and immunotherapies screening. NanoBiCAR currently relies on conventional 2D cultures, which lack the complexity of human TB granulomas and fail to capture critical biological features. CEBIOM will introduce advanced 3D human cell-based granuloma models that replicate the hallmark architecture and microfluidic chips to model dynamic flow conditions encountered by LNPs in vivo. These NAMs will enable the assessment of LNPs targeting capacity, CAR-T cells, and BiTEs production in physiologically relevant settings, supporting early identification of top-performing candidates, Mimicking granuloma structure, and flow will be key to reducing animal models use in the project framework, being in full alignment with 3Rs and EU policies. Integrating these new in vitro models into NanoBiCAR will provide a more predictive preclinical platform, upgrade the screening pipeline, and contribute to accelerate the development pipeline of TB immunotherapies.

Keywords: tuberculosis,mycobacterium tuberculosis,mdr,immunotherapy,lipid nanoparticles,mrna,car t,bites,3d granuloma models,microfluidics,nams,drug resistance,infectious diseases
The pandemic within: tackling brain vulnerability in COVID19 at high resolution: NEUROCOV (NEUROCOV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Finland,Israel,Sweden,Belgium
Call: Personalised medicine and infectious diseases: understanding the individual host response to viruses (e.g. SARS-CoV-2) (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-DISEASE-04, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8384037.5
EU funding (EUR): 8384036.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The COVID19 pandemic has shown our health care fragility vis a vis novel pathogens, with a global disruption on societal welfare. Despite the towering success of vaccine development, lack of preparedness on integrative clinical and molecular phenotyping has emerged with clarity and highlights the need to scale translational efforts for personalized prevention and therapy. Of particular concern are the long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection with high and rising prevalence of chronic manifestations referred to as Post-COVID. Among these the neurological and psychiatric complications stand out for frequency, lack of treatment and devastating impact of their effects at pandemic scale. Here, we tackle the cognitive and neurodegenerative complications of COVID-19, referred to as NeuroCOVID, as a ticking pandemic within the pandemic that requires an innovation leap across disciplines. We pursue a multi scalar approach that reaches from epidemiology and mechanistic interrogation of host/virus interplay at single cell resolution through predictive modelling all the way to validation of biomarkers and repurposed drugs. The aim is to anticipate and effectively manage personalized trajectories of NeuroCOVID vulnerability and their impact at population level. For this we leverage two leading national health registries and three clinical cohorts to characterize the phenotypic spectrum of NeuroCOVID, its risk factors and its socioeconomic burden at high definition. We pioneer innovative robotics to scale brain organoid modelling and combine it with single cell multiOMICs and AI analytics to dissect the principles of the individual host response and render experimentally actionable the authentic genetic backgrounds of differential SARS-CoV-2 sensitivity. Through a substantive engagement of patients’ collectives and health care stakeholders, upstream integration of innovative pipelines streamlines translation and operationalizes precision medicine for emerging medical needs.

Keywords: immune system,nervous system,sars cov2,post covid 19,organoids,single cell omics,personalized medicine,risk factors,prediction,epidemiology,genetics,clinical cohorts,health registries,ai
The photo-reactivity of artistic pigments: from the preservation of historical paintings to new opportunities as singlet oxygen generators (PHOTOELECTROART)

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: Italy,Belgium,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Singlet oxygen (SO) is one of the reactive oxygen species known for being a strong oxidant. There are materials, called SO generators, that produce SO under light exposure and in presence of oxygen. SO generators can be found even among the pigments used in historical paintings. SO has a huge impact in the preservation of these historical paintings since it reacts with the binding media and other artistic pigments causing degradation processes that compromises their integrity. The main goal of the PHOTOELECTROART project is to understand I) the photo-reactivity of artistic pigments that generate SO, II) the impact of the environment and microenvironment in the amount of SO emitted by these substances and III) how this can be applied to improve the preservation of historical paintings containing SO generator pigments. To achieve this, PHOTOELECTROART will exploit a highly interdisciplinary methodological process based on photo-electrochemistry and infrared spectroscopy, including IR nanospectroscopy. Results will have a major impact in the understanding of the role of the SO emitted by the pigments in the alterations of the historical paintings where these are found, providing a detailed knowledge of the degradation reactions throughout the painting’s history and helping to find suitable mitigation actions to preserve the cultural heritage. Additionally, the results will provide new information on the conditions that boost the generation of SO from those pigments: this new knowledge will contribute to the development of innovative applications in fields where a high production of SO is needed, such as treatment of wastewaters and medical therapies.

Keywords: singlet oxygen,ftir spectroscopy,photo electrochemistry,synchrotron radiation,organic pigment
Quantifying AI-infused Science (scAIence)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999591.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999591.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The recent The recent public release of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can master natural language has sparked a debate about the capabilities of AI and whether it can produce scientific content. Despite the ongoing debate, AI-generated written content has already entered the world of science: Papers co-written by AI are published, companies release models to assist scientists with producing scientific content, and a large fraction of scientists use AI-based tools to augment their writing. We will thus inevitably have AI-infused science in our future. The goal of scAIence is to quantify whether, how, and with which implications generative AI is changing how scientists write, communicate, perceive, and diffuse science, and to rigorously explore the opportunities, dangers, and implications of scientists augmenting their science with AI. The key hypothesis of scAIence is that current AI lacks the ability to combine knowledge entities (e.g. references) in the same manner as humans and is unable to replicate the social information (e.g. homophily or recency) present in human scientific output. Testing the implications of this hypothesis is crucial since the scientific enterprise relies heavily on social information present in scientific output data for a wide range of purposes, e.g. metrics definition, information retrieval, and predictions. The scAIence project will deploy a novel computational social science approach, based on a wide array of quantitative disciplines, leveraging large- scale databases of human-generated information and controlled experiments. scAIence will break new ground by (i) introducing the quantitative methods required to understand AI-infused science, (ii) redefining metrics and models to account for AI-generated content in science, and (iii) delivering quantitative scientific insights into how AI is changing the diffusion of science. Taken together, scAIence will lay the scientific foundation for the quantitative study of AI-infused science.

Keywords: science of science,computational social science,social data science,network science,complex networks,complex systems,scientometrics,metascience,research of research,social influence
Manganese Nitride based sub-THz Ultra High Frequency Spin Hall Nano Oscillators (MANGA)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Spin Hall nano-oscillators(SHNOs) have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their high frequencies, nanoscale size, ultra-fast/wide frequency tunability, and potential to replace CMOS-based oscillators. Here, an input current with spin hall effect is used to generate oscillations in a magnetic material ranging from a few hundreds of MHz to tens of GHz. As many existing and future radio protocols and applications will use frequencies well above 50 GHz, pushing the SHNO operating frequencies much higher would be of tremendous value. One way to increase the operating frequencies of SHNOs is by replacing the magnetic materials from ferromagnets to ferrimagnets. The magnetic properties of ferrimagnets make it a perfect candidate to be used for high frequency SHNOs. MANGA aims to use the Manganese Nitride (Mn4N) family of ferrimagnetic materials made up of light, abundant, cheap and greener elements to realise different types of SHNOs. It will demonstrate sub-THz ultra high frequency SHNOs followed by high frequency exchange spring oscillators by coupling the Mn4N system with other ferromagnetic materials such as Ni/NiFe/CoFeB. The Mn4N system will be studied as the spin source layer to generate oscillations in other magnetic layers. The first objective in MANGA of sub-THz ultra high frequency oscillators will be done by nanofabrication of nanoscale SHNO devices in Mn4N system which will be studied with the help of advanced optical techniques such as Brillouin Light Scattering(BLS) microscopy. For the next objective SHNO devices will be fabricated after the deposition of other magnetic layers on Mn4N layer and studied with various magnetic characterization techniques and BLS microscopy. For the last objective a Copper layer will be inserted between the Mn4N layer another magnetic layer. The spin source properties will be studied with the help of rectangular bar devices and oscillations will be studied with the SHNO devices.

Keywords: spintronics,ferrimagnets,spin hall nano oscillators,rare earth free,green,manganese nitride,signal processing,spin hall effect,orbital hall effect