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Assembling Ultracold Mesoscopic Dipolar Quantum Systems (UltraMeDiQs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2311522.5
EU funding (EUR): 2311522.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The overarching goal of the project is to develop, test, and explore a novel platform based on a new class of ultracold molecules with unprecedentedly large polar interactions, one to two orders of magnitude larger than for existing ultracold molecular species. This platform will enable a unique series of experiments to study controlled collisions and novel phenomena at the transition from few- and many-body physics. Molecules with electric dipole moments experience anisotropic long-range interactions and at ultracold temperatures, the quantum nature of these interactions enables applications in quantum chemistry, quantum simulation and quantum computation. The selection of molecules was so far limited to molecules that can be directly laser-cooled or that are composed from ultracold alkali atoms. By contrast, UltraMeDiQs will use optical tweezer arrays as a versatile approach to associate individual ultracold silver (Ag) and cesium (Cs) atoms to molecules. CsAg features an almost ionic bond and therefore a remarkably large electric dipole moment — large enough to create for the first time ultracold molecular ensembles deep in the strongly interacting regime. The high dipole moment of CsAg makes it also an ideal candidate to investigate so-called field-linked molecules with lifetimes exceeding 10 s. This in turn will enable the deterministic study of (in)elastic collisions involving these states, the formation of weakly bound metal cluster states, and the potential expansion of these clusters to many-body states. UltraMeDiQs will investigate few- and many-body mesoscopic quantum systems with large dipolar interactions using CsAg as constituents in optical tweezer arrays and optical lattices. The flexibility of the platform and tunability of the dipole interaction will, for instance, enable the simulation of topological optical phonons in a wide range of lattice configurations and the formation of dipolar quantum Wigner crystals.

Keywords: ultracold molecules,quantum simulation
Multi-Pillar Framework for children Anti-Obesity Behavior building on an EU biobank, Micro Moments and Mobile Recommendation Systems (BIO-STREAMS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Staying Healthy in a rapidly changing society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Luxembourg,Cyprus,Sweden,Belgium,Portugal,Spain,Netherlands,Denmark,Slovenia,Ireland,Switzerland,Latvia,Italy,Bulgaria
Call: Prevention of obesity throughout the life course (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-01-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9998709.98
EU funding (EUR): 9998709.98
Participants: 33
Project status: SIGNED

During the last decades, overweight & obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions across EU. Prevalence in childhood is particularly alarming, resulting in psychological impacts & increased risks for NCDs. However, although obesity-related research has provided interesting results, several issues arise due to the lack of meta-reviews & the nature of data collected. To address this, Bio-Streams aims on supporting the optimal use (and re-use) of health data (e.g. biological, demographic, epigenetic, etc.) to generate metadata/knowledge and provide new evidences, methodologies & tools for: a) creating and deploying the Bio-Streams Biobank that will act as a scientific platform for research in obesity and better diagnostic and therapeutic approaches;b) understanding the transition from metabolically healthy to unhealthy, preventing under age obesity; c) designing better strategies to educate & empower young citizens for weight self-management; d) coordinating authorities & policy makers to develop cross-sectoral solutions for health promotion & under age obesity prevention. Specifically, Bio-Streams delivers a dedicated under age obesity biobank providing real-world health data (including biospecimens, anthropometrics, behavioural and cost data) from retrospective and prospective sources, while taking into account efficient data harmonisation and standardisation principles, transforming data valorisation towards under age obesity prevention and future research. Moreover, the Bio-Streams framework for data handling, provides robust and transparent methodologies for operational procedures (data infrastructures), analysis and reporting (via meta-reviews and AI-based Apps/components, evaluated via 12 multi-site pilots (7 clinical and 5 schools)), citizen awareness and lifestyle alteration, delivering obesity prevention guidelines, knowledge generation while fostering considerable opportunities for regional and national health authorities/policymakers.

Keywords: biobank childhood obesity inter disciplinary platform real data synthetic data clinical pilots school pilots
INVESTIGATION OF THE ENANTIOMERIC IMBALANCE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM THROUGH ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPOLARIMETRY (ENIMUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2463698.0
EU funding (EUR): 2463698.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Amino acids and the reference nucleobases for RNA and DNA can be formed in space ice under high energy, vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) irradiation. This statement is based on twenty years of laboratory research and has profound implications in the understanding of the emergence of life in the Cosmos, the universality of the processes involved and the compatibility of life forms across the Universe. However, this laboratory work still needs to be confronted with actual, on-field measurements. Promising data have been obtained through in-situ techniques: the analysis of carbonaceous chondrites such as the Murchinson meteorite or the detection of Glycine in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Unfortunately, neither of these techniques suits well a systematic investigation. Meteorites reaching the Earth surface represent a reduced and biased subset and contamination by Earth-based amino acids needs to be carefully controlled. Space probes such as Rosetta are very costly and limited in scope given the constraints in space navigation. Thus, it is crucial to develop remote detection techniques to carry out a comprehensive study of the distribution of amino acids within the Solar System, their relative abundances and their enantiomeric imbalance. According to recent estimates, this is possible at VUV wavelengths for optically active amino acids such as the very abundant alanine. The interaction between VUV radiation and optically active amino acids in space bodies is yet poorly studied. The formation of crystallites and complex structures, the interaction between the various molecules, the dependence on the VUV photon energy, polarization and flux needs to be quantified, prior to any attempt of remote detection in the Solar System. This project aims to carry such in-depth study and develop a laboratory prototype of the instrument to make, at the least, alanine remote detection feasible by a small probe navigating the asteroids belt.
Quantitative projection problems in geometric measure theory (QPROJECT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Poland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1033125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1033125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project is in the field of geometric measure theory (GMT), an area of analysis seeking to solve geometric problems using the tools of measure theory. A classical line of research in GMT concerns estimating the size of orthogonal projections of planar sets, and the most important results in this topic are the projection theorems of Besicovitch and Marstrand. In the last few decades, it became increasingly clear that obtaining stronger, more quantitative projection results is connected to open questions at the intersection of GMT, complex analysis, harmonic analysis, and additive combinatorics. The main goal of this project is proving quantitative projection results, with special focus on three concrete questions. The first is Vitushkin's conjecture from 1967. One of the key objectives of QPROJECT is completing the solution to this conjecture by showing that removable sets for bounded analytic functions have Lebesgue-null orthogonal projections in almost every direction. This will be achieved by proving a quantitative Besicovitch projection theorem. The second question this project aims to answer is an old conjecture of Besicovitch about the radial projections of purely unrectifiable sets. The plan is to solve these two problems using the tools of quantitative rectifiability, and it is the right time to tackle them due to the PI's recent solution to a closely related conjecture of David and Semmes. The new techniques introduced in that work, such as the directional stopping time arguments, are likely to lead to breakthroughs on the two old questions. The third problem is the visibility conjecture from fractal geometry, which is closely related to quantifying Marstrand’s classical slicing theorem. Building on the PI’s earlier work on this conjecture, the key to the full solution will be proving lower bounds on incidences in multiscale incidence geometry.

Keywords: quantitative rectifiability,uniform rectifiability,favard length,besicovitch projection theorem,analytic capacity,vitushkin s conjecture,painleve problem,besicovitch s radial projections conjecture,fractals,visibility conjecture,marstrand s slicing theorem
Soft optoelectronics and ion-based circuits for diagnostics and closed-loop neuromodulation of the auditory pathway (aTONE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499213.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499213.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding and modulating neural networks requires high-resolution acquisition of neural activity over time, real-time analysis, and minimally invasive stimulation methods with high specificity. Such procedures are particularly needed for treatment of sensory disfunction (e.g. hearing loss), and certain neurological diseases (e.g. epilepsy). The lack of soft, biocompatible, hybrid and smart neural interfaces hinders our capacity to study complex neural dynamics and efficiently apply responsive neuro-modulation therapy. Here, the overall objective is to exploit novel ion gated transistors (IGTs) and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) to establish the first fully implantable, biocompatible, and soft responsive electro-optical neurostimulation system in an animal model. I hypothesize that organic electronics can create all the required building blocks, from an IGT-based application-specific integrated circuit that will improve the efficiency of neural signal acquisition and permit local processing, to OLED-based optogenetics, through a conformable self-contained package. Such a system will increase signal-to-noise ratio (>25dB), resolution (>1500 interfaces/cm2), and spatial specificity (con-formable OLEDs for optogenetics) compared to existing state-of-the-art neurostimulation devices such as cochlear implants. To achieve that, we will have to design smart fabrication routes that allow the development of both devices into a single front-end probe, overcome stability issues, and create efficient and fast IGTs for both front-end interfaces and circuits. We will do that by tuning materials composition, engineering improved designs and better understand the mechanisms of interaction with the physiological environment. This research will enable a new generation of neural interfaces and a deeper understanding of auditory neural networks, and the electro-optical stimulation effects upon them.

Keywords: neuroelectronics,auditory,neurostimulation,optogenetics,electrical,hybrid,neural interrogation,closed loop
Powering access to investment for next generation circular economy initiatives in cities and regions (CircularInvest)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Portugal,Italy
Call: Circular Cities and Regions Initiative’s project development assistance (CCRI-PDA) (HORIZON-CL6-2022-CIRCBIO-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999800.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

CircularInvest is a CCRI-PDA initiative proposed by 4 organisations (META, INOVA+, Circle Economy and ICLEI EURO) that aims provide project development assistance (PDA) to selected circular economy (CE) project promoters from across Europe so as to access the resources needed to develop significant CE investment projects at local and regional scale and to close the investments during the action. In the proposal phase, CircularInvest collected signed support letters from European cities that wish to benefit from the CircularInvest PDA services with an overall investment volume exceeding €20M. CircularInvest will be deployed in 4 stages: 1) Ignition: promotion and launch of 2 calls for expressions of interest to engage CE project promoters in CircularInvest´s PDA services; 2) Selection: implementing an independent and inclusive selection of CE investment project promoters (beneficiaries) to receive PDA support; 3) Technical assistance: delivering PDA services based on a three-pillar-approach: a) one-to-one tailored specialised services: support from experts to beneficiaries, b) many-to-one peer-to-peer workshops: support from beneficiaries to beneficiaries; b) many-to-many, knowledge transfer and networking actions: knowledge transfer and networking opportunities created for beneficiaries with investors, CE project promoters, and other stakeholders; 4) Replication: distilling lessons learnt and preparing the pathway for future replication through the exploitation key exploitable results: Step-by-Step Guide (K1) for de-risking of future CE investment projects; Policy recommendations (K2) for suitable policies for CE investments across Europe; Circular Investor guide (K3) for increasing investor trust; Community of Practice (K4), a knowledge exchange platform for CE investments promoters; Business cases (K5) to allow the replication of CE solutions and the process of accessing finance; Pipeline of CE investment opportunities (K6) for PDA support after the project.

Keywords: project development assistance,investment readiness,access to finance
Multi-sensor synergies for improved weather-climate-environmental products and applications, to advance European services supporting green transition (PANORAMA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Greece,Romania,Switzerland
Call: Develop innovative applications to support the European Green Deal, building on meteorological satellite data (HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4000000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

PANORAMA will significantly enhance the quality and accuracy of EO products for supporting data-driven decision making in 3 priority areas of GEO (climate action, disaster risk reduction, sustainable development), and 7 policy areas of the European Green Deal (climate, energy, environment and oceans, agriculture, transport, research and innovation, the new European Bauhaus). The next generation of Copernicus Sentinels and EUMETSAT MTG and EPS-SG satellite constellation provides a wide range of observations for advanced monitoring of the atmosphere. PANORAMA aims to multiply the value of this information by realising multi-sensor synergies to achieve advanced products, along with improved applications on atmospheric composition and NWP (e.g., motion-estimation of aerosols & clouds, fast radiative transfer calculations, top-down emission estimations through ML/AI, data assimilation, and new physical parameterisations). The products and applications will be tested and fine-tuned in 6 pilot demonstrators to assess the impact of the new EO data on the representation and prediction of extreme weather, floods, energy, and air pollution. In its final phase, PANORAMA will materialise 3 pre-operational integrated applications over the Copernicus DIAS, to demonstrate the use of the project’s results in seamless climate-weather and environmental European services, but also to make available the tools to other users and stakeholders (e.g., integrated applications on fire-smoke and volcanic ash dispersion for CAMS and EMS, and solar energy nowcasting for the NextSense EuroGEO service). Contributions to the C3S/CMEMS Copernicus services and the Destination Earth are also foreseen. The dissemination, communication, and exploitation plan will accelerate the adoption of the project’s results by the wider community and the commercial sector to ensure impact maximisation.

Keywords: eo data synergies,ml ai,data assimilation,atmospheric composition,nwp,risk prediction,energy,ocean productivity
Diving into the mineralogy and structure of exotic rocky exoplanets (ExoDivers)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-06-03
End date: 2028-06-02
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 297164.16
EU funding (EUR): 297164.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Determining the diversity of exoplanets' compositions and structure is fundamental for investigating the Earth's uniqueness. The improvement of ground-based instruments and the launch of new space missions (e.g. JWST) is providing unprecedented information as to exoplanets' masses, radii and atmospheric speciation. However, none of these properties can uniquely constrain the nature of planetary interiors, which dictate their geological evolution. In order to interpret these new observations and identify future exoplanet targets, the implementation of accurate interior models is required. At present, much of our knowledge on exoplanets' interior comes from analogue experiments on Earth-like compositions performed over pressure-temperature-composition spaces relevant for the Solar System. Stellar data, however, has indicated a greater compositional diversity than in our own Solar System, thereby preventing an accurate description of the mineralogy and structure of orbiting planets. ExoDivers aims to bridge the gap between astronomical observations and the interior properties of exoplanets, by investigating the evolution of stable mineralogical assemblages for exotic compositions expected in exoplanetary cores and mantles with pressure and temperature. The experimental bulk compositions will derive from spectroscopic data of observed host stars, providing access to a compositional space that remains yet unstudied. Experiments will be performed to determine the stability of different minerals and refine their thermodynamic properties. These new data will supplement existing databases and will be used to calculate the mantle and core mineralogy of exoplanets. This novel approach obviates the Earth-centric view of exoplanets mineralogy that has characterized the field up to this point and will be implemented to determine, a priori, how variations in the interior affect geological processes, including the possibility of starting convection or activating a dynamo.

Keywords: mineralogy,exoplanets,experiments,thermodynamics,mass radius,compositional diversity