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Unravelling the Role of Interfacial Effects on Corrosion Thermodynamics in CCS (InterCorr)

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: Norway,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 251578.56
EU funding (EUR): 251578.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Corrosion has enormous economic, safety, and environmental impacts. In CO2 capture and storage (CCS), CO2 and acidic impurities can significantly accelerate corrosion when water is present. When the water composition is below the solubility limit in the CO2-rich phase, water can still form thin films with a thickness of only a few nanometers at metal surfaces. In thin films, dissolved gases and metal cations form a complex aqueous system that involves thermodynamics, chemical reactions, and interface science. Corrosion below thin films is called dry corrosion and is a phenomenon largely influenced by interfacial effects. By combining fundamental thermodynamics with interfacial models, InterCorr aims to reliably predict when dry corrosion can occur across wide ranges in temperature, pressure, and compositions, extending beyond the range of existing experiments and empirical correlations. InterCorr will develop a consistent thermodynamics framework in bulk systems and below thin films, providing a modeling tool as well as new insights into how interfacial effects influence the solubility, pH, chemical potential, density, and other key thermodynamic parameters that have direct impact on corrosion. Developments in this project can help develop new, more affordable corrosion-resistant alloys and better ways to prevent corrosion.

Keywords: thermodynamics,electrolyte solutions,statistical associating fluid theory saft,classical density functional theory dft,dry corrosion,co2 capture and storage ccs
TORINO IMPACT CITY (TO-IMPACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: European Capital of Innovation Awards
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Italy
Call: The European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital) (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02, 2024)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Torino Impact City is the vision of the City of Torino to keep promoting a generative and vibrant local innovation ecosystem with a strong focus on creating long lasting value for all and with a growing attention on social and environmental sustainability. After almost 10 years from the first application as Innovation Capital, Torino is a leading example of responsible urban innovation policy framework, combining its industrial base with a curious and experimental approach to emerging technologies, social innovation experiences now also applied to impact financing as well a convincing strategy for the transition towards Climate Neutrality by 2030, already supported by a 900 million investment plan.

Keywords: open innovation,social impact,twin transition
Total Optical Coherence Characterization for Automated Tumor Analysis (TOCCATA)

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: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1494125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Drug resistance, whether intrinsic or acquired during the course of treatment, is the primary cause of cancer treatment failure. Resistance is a complex and highly personalized problem, depending on tumor-specific, genetic, and other factors, but certain cancers are particularly difficult to treat. In particular, the most common and deadliest type of cancer originating in the brain, glioblastoma (GBM), is aggressive and highly resistant to treatment. Due to the complex nature of GBM, advanced methods for screening personalized treatment strategies are critically needed to improve patient outcomes. Cell spheroids are 3D tissue cultures that have proven to be a more accurate model of tumor tissue for therapeutic testing, however they are sensitive to their growth and preparation conditions. Variability in spheroid properties may affect the results of therapeutic testing, so a method of identifying spheroids with properties that match the original tissue is needed. In order to combat GBM and other drug resistant cancers, we propose the development of two novel optical imaging systems. These systems will perform non-destructive characterization of tumor tissue and live monitoring of in vitro drug testing on tumor spheroids. Both imaging systems use a unique design to scan the tissue samples at different angles to quantify a wide range of optical properties within the tissue with 3D micron scale resolution. This approach integrates several different optical coherence tomography-based methods and addresses their weaknesses to create a unique platform for comprehensive measurements of optical properties. This platform will be used to scan the original tumor tissue and the resulting tumor spheroids to identify which spheroids will most reliably mimic the original tumor tissue for testing different therapeutic interventions. This approach has the potential to advance the field of personalized medicine and enable more rapid and reliable development of cancer therapies.

Keywords: optical properties optical imaging optical coherence tomography tumor spheroids personalized medicine glioblastoma
The influence of spatial fluxes on meta-ecosystem dynamics: theorical perspectives and practical applications along the river-sea continuum (RIVERSEA)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Global environmental changes often transcend traditional boundaries between terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, with many species and nutrients moving across these borders. Despite this, biodiversity and ecosystem functions are typically studied in isolation, and policy goals such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) often address these ecosystems separately. To address this issue, the RIVERSEA project proposes a novel approach by integrating meta-ecosystem science, which accounts for the interconnectedness of ecosystems and aims to enhance our understanding of how spatial fluxes of nutrients and organisms impact meta-ecosystem structure and dynamics. RIVERSEA seeks to elucidate the effects of nutrient and species fluxes along the river-sea continuum, focusing on how these fluxes influence food-web structure, ecosystem functioning, and stability. Nutrient enrichment from sources like agricultural runoff and sewage disrupts these meta-ecosystems over large spatial distances, leading to simplified food webs, nutrient accumulation, and detrimental outcomes such as harmful algal blooms. This project aims to bridge the gap between community and ecosystem ecology by developing a spatially extended food web model to explore these dynamics. It will also use innovative methods to validate theoretical predictions with empirical data, assessing the impacts of human activities on aquatic ecosystems. Finally, RIVERSEA will formulate restoration strategies to mitigate these impacts and stabilize meta-ecosystems. The project’s outcomes will provide crucial insights and tools for effective mitigation, adaptation, and restoration efforts, contributing to the EU’s goals of restoring significant land and sea areas by 2030 and 2050. By combining theoretical and empirical approaches across freshwater and marine environments, RIVERSEA will advance our understanding of meta-ecosystem dynamics and support the development of comprehensive restoration strategies.

Keywords: meta ecosystems food web structure river sea continuum biodiversity ecosystem functioning and stability eutrophication damming bioenergetic food web model food web inference
PERIOD – PER and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) exposure: Impact Of Dermal contact with menstrual products (PERIOD)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Menstruation is a physiological process experienced by approximately half of the global population and menstrual products are crucial for maintaining hygiene and supporting gender equality. However, recent research has shown that these products can contain chemicals of concern for human health, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of industrial chemicals including thousands of diverse substances. Exposure to PFAS through menstrual product use is still poorly studied. The presence of few PFAS has been studied and for substances detected in these products, we do not know which ones can be released to our skin and enter our body. These knowledge gaps hamper a proper evaluation of the human health risks that could derive from PFAS presence in these products. PERIOD is an innovative interdisciplinary project that aims to assess the contribution of dermal contact with menstrual products to PFAS exposure and evaluate the potential risks to human health. The goal of PERIOD aligns with the priorities of the EU Chemical Strategy for Sustainability of banning most harmful chemicals in consumer products and phasing out PFAS use. To achieve PERIOD goal: (1) legacy and novel PFAS will be measured in a wide variety of menstrual products using state-of-the-art analytical methods; (2) dermal migration tests will be used to determine the fraction of PFAS that can be released from menstrual products and reach the skin; (3) risk assessment probabilistic calculations will be used to provide a realistic description of the contribution of menstrual products use to PFAS exposure and of the health risks associated with the use of these products. This new knowledge will provide guidance to evaluate the safety of menstrual products and to improve chemical regulation policies for consumer products. PERIOD will provide new expertise and training for a postdoctoral researcher in analytical chemistry, exposure science, risk assessment, and professional development.

Keywords: human exposure,pfas,dermal uptake,exposure science,risk assessment,emerging organic chemicals,consumer products
circulaR bioecOnomy Business mOdels owned by agroCOOPeratives (ROBOCOOP-EU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Italy,Greece,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Poland
Call: Cooperative business models for the sustainable mobilisation and valorisation of agricultural residues, by-products, and waste in rural areas (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5930147.75
EU funding (EUR): 4751936.41
Participants: 21
Project status: SUSPENDED

The bioeconomy roll-out on a large scale needs the establishment of new models and interactions between the primary sector and other stakeholders toward co-participated bioindustries. In this sense, ROBOCOOP-EU proposes a breakthrough cultural change in the agrosector, by deploying effective regional and circular bio-based Business Models for the valorisation of waste streams from 3 agricultural sectors: grape, olive and stone fruit. This will expand real scenarios of commercial opportunities to diversify the economy of small and medium scale farmers and cooperatives, enabling a more versatile biorefinery with a portfolio of biobased products. This model will allow the integration of secondary streams in a holistic closed loop, thus improving the ecological footprint and revenues with social impact. ROBOCOOP-EU will: involve 8 actors of the primary sector in the establishment of biobased value chains; avoid 25-30% of GHG emissions by means of supply chain and logistic optimisation; design 1 zero-waste multi-feedstock biorefinery at industrial scale (based on existing processes for biocompounds extraction and 2nd streams valorisation); validate 17 new products (3 food formulations, 3 feed additives, 5 cosmetics and nutraceutics, 1 plasticiser and 5 biofertilisers). In order to achieve a successful implementation of the business models in its 3 regional hubs (Extremadura, Apulia and Western Macedonia), ROBOCOOP-EU will integrate multidisciplinary knowledge by developing co-creative spaces called “Living Labs”, where partners and stakeholders will discuss and validate the most consensual pathway towards sustainable and profitable co-participated biorefinery and seek for public and private fund scheme workable scenario. ROBOCOOP-EU consortium is composed by 22 multisectorial partners, specifically designed to cover the entire bio-based value chain in non-competitive and complementary position, which in turn will ensure an effective dissemination and exploitation of results.

Keywords: bioeconomy,circular economy,business models,agricultural cooperatives,rural areas,primary sector,living labs,biorefineries
Heterologous expression of natural products from microbes living in a self-sustaining environment (FungalHetEx)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 254330.4
EU funding (EUR): 254330.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The increases in antimicrobial resistance and infections caused by microbes, such as mucormycosis (black fungus disease) on Covid-19 patients, highlight the urgent need for new antimicrobial drugs. Most drugs approved for clinical use are based or inspired by natural products. The recurrent re-discovery of compounds when studying isolated microbes, declined the research on natural products in the last decades. However, isolated microbes represent a small percentage of the true microbial diversity living in the environment. Lichens are a microbial community formed by different partners (fungi, green algae, cyanobacteria, bacteria) and their metabolites present diverse biological activities including antimicrobial. Furthermore, many of these molecules have vibrant colours and can be used as natural colorants. Due their slow growth and difficulties in the laboratory cultivation, little is known about natural products biosynthetic genes of the multiple partners living in symbiosis. The improvement in high-throughput technology and the current affordable prices for multi-omics analysis (meta-genomics, -transcriptomics and -bolomics), are allowing a deeper study on natural environmental samples. This project aims to use the knowledge obtained in a recent multi-omics study and apply synthetic biotechnology, bioinformatics, chemistry and microbiology techniques to study novel metabolites from lichen. Polyketide synthase biosynthetic gene clusters have been selected and they will be cloned, transformed and heterologously expressed using Aspergillus oryzae. The optimisation of the polyketides biosynthesis by the heterologous host will be performed and different fermentation conditions will be tested. Novel molecules will be chemically and biologically characterized. During FungalHetExt, I will study novel molecules produced under symbiosis using a multidisciplinary approach with the focus to discovery new molecules and improve my science communication and leadership skills.

Keywords: natural products,antimicrobial,polyketides,heterologous expression,lichen,fungi,drug discovery
Theory of Noisy Quantum Simulation of many-body Physics (ToNQS)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1364126.0
EU funding (EUR): 1364126.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Analog quantum simulation protocols, which aim to use quantum hardware without performing error correction to solve large quantum many-body problems, have emerged as a near-term as well as experimentally accessible alternative to a building a fault tolerant quantum computer for these problems. However, from a theoretical standpoint, whether analog simulators can be trusted to provide accurate results for large quantum many-body problems and if they provide an advantage over classical computers remains a largely unsolved problem. In ToNQS, I aim to rigorously understand the accuracy of analog quantum simulation of many-body problems in both low-energy and high-energy physics. I will do so by developing mathematically rigorous upper bounds on the deviation of the output of a noisy quantum simulator from the target observables which will then serve as an accuracy certificate for the quantum simulator. With this accuracy certificate, I will identify problems that can be reliably solved on quantum simulators – these will problems where the error in the noisy simulator output not grow with the problem size, and thus can be solved for large system sizes in the presence of noise. However, it is possible that problems that are stable are also classically easy and analog quantum simulators are incapable of providing speedups over classical computers while being accurate. In ToNQS, I will then aim to investigate if there is complexity-theoretic evidence for stable problems to also be hard for classical computers. This project will bring together ideas from different sub-areas of my expertise – quantum optics, many-body physics, quantum information and quantum complexity theory. If successful, this project would provide an end-to-end theoretical framework to identify problems for which a noisy quantum simulator can be trusted and reason about its quantum advantage for these problems, thus resolving a major theoretical objection to analog simulators as computational devices.

Keywords: quantum simulation,many body physics
Advanced Strategies for Development of Sustainable Semiconductors for Scalable Solar Cell Applications (SOLARUP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Sweden,Switzerland,Germany,Greece
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2930127.5
EU funding (EUR): 2930127.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

SOLARUP directly addresses the ever louder call for sustainable energy production. The proposed solar energy conversion technology will reduce dependence on critical raw materials and overcome efficiency thresholds to unlock the future of flexible photovoltaic (PV) solar cells for mass deployment in smart buildings, soft robotics, wearable electronics, and other consumer products. Our main innovations lie in nanoengineering zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) for use as an earth-abundant direct bandgap semiconductor absorber, and combined with a novel device architecture we target cell efficiency enhancements of up to 15%. Advanced manufacturing techniques such as nanoimprinting and metal-organic vapour-phase epitaxy will be explored to open industrially scalable routes to synthesise high quality Zn3P2 films. Moreover, our approach will allow reuse of the growth substrate, making sustainability another core element of SOLARUP’s radical vision. Optimisation of both the absorber structure and device architecture will be achieved through a holistic interplay of first-principles calculations and atomic scale structural and electronic characterisation. The main outcome of SOLARUP will be the demonstration of an ultrathin-film PV technology that is scalable, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable, complete with a comprehensive life cycle analysis. In this sense our aim is to feed and inspire the development of Zn3P2-based solar cells towards a market ready technology. The project consortium unites six European teams with complementary expertise at the forefront of Zn3P2 research, device architecture, and life cycle analysis, who will approach the ambitious challenges from a flexible and interdisciplinary perspective. SOLARUP has clear potential to make science-based contributions to energy security and high-quality job creation, while also connecting to industry and boosting the trajectories of early-career team members.

Keywords: solar cell,photovoltaics,sustainable,renewable,semiconductors,energy