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A first-of-its-kind inline high-capacity grain quality sorting system disrupting the grain value chain (HighCap InlineSorter)

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

The grain processing value chain is characterised by inefficient and manual processes and a low degree of innovation. Grain quality, and its determining pricing factor, is defined by its protein level. Yet, no industrial-scale technology can sort grain kernels based on this critical parameter. The current modus operandi of determining the quality of a load of grains is based on a few representative samples. This is a time-consuming, expensive, and inaccurate process. Commercial large-scale grain sorting technology only segregates contaminated grain kernels but are unable to separate high-quality and low-quality grain kernels. Without real-time insight into the protein content of every kernel in a batch, multiple stakeholders in the grain value chain are unable to extract the full value of the raw grain. The consequence is sub-optimal grain utilisation, unnecessary transportation costs, lower margins and ultimately food insecurity and negative environmental externalities. BoMill introduces a complete sorting system based on real-time analysis of each kernel's protein level that integrates into existing grain processing lines. The main goal of this solution is to develop a high-capacity, protein-based sorting system that integrates into existing grain processes such as milling, melting, and logistical terminals to enable significant optimisation of the entire grain value chain. The system responds to the industry demand with its capability of sorting 250,000 individual grain kernels per second, equivalent to 30 tons per hour.

Keywords: grain quality sorting by protein level industrial scale grain quality sorting nir t spectroscopy
Revolutionary technology for oxygen level monitoring during heart surgery to prevent heart failure (SPC)

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

During open-heart surgery, the heart is intentionally stopped, interrupting its usual oxygen supply and leading to oxygen deprivation (hypoxia), which causes tissue damage in the heart. Despite the best available measures to mitigate this hypoxia, 20% of these patients, or 400,000 individuals each year, develop heart weakness — a condition known as postoperative Low Cardiac Output Syndrome (LCOS). LCOS can lead to heart failure and increases the risk of in-hospital mortality by up to 12 times. Additionally, LCOS results in approximately 880,000 extra days spent in Intensive Care annually, which imposes an additional cost of €6.4 billion on hospitals and incurs even greater expenses for society overall. Most of the cases of LCOS could potentially be prevented. However, a challenge is that surgeons lack real-time awareness of the onset and progression of hypoxia during surgery. This lack of information prevents them from customizing or applying immediate protective measures for the heart. We have invented a minimally invasive technique to monitor the oxygen consumption and supply of the heart muscle deep in the subcellular level in real-time, for the first time in the history of cardiac surgery. We measure oxygen levels in-the-tissue, while others can do it only through-the-tissue. With our SpectroCor Monitoring System, the surgeon can take protective measures to avoid LCOS by supplying oxygen, changing operative strategy or giving protective medications. The first clinical data in heart operations has demonstrated that 33-50% of LCOS cases could be prevented by using the SpectroCor Monitoring System. This has two major impacts: (1) patients live longer and have better quality of life and (2) hospitals save intensive care resources and reduce readmissions and expenses after open-heart surgery.

Keywords: low cardiac output syndrome,lcos,heart surgery,oxygen deprivation
Power And Critical Energy Management giving protection aPower And Critical Energy Management giving protection and profit for Industry and Power Producers, using innovative sustainable energy storage. (PACEMAN)

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

The energy transition has led to a significant increase in the share of variable renewable energy generation (VREG) within the grid, creating substantial challenges for both producers and consumers of electrical energy. VREG's decentralised nature and its impact on the grid's architecture have resulted in a reduction of dispatchable power, increased bidirectional current flow, and diminished grid inertia. These challenges manifest in various pain points, including high costs for stable infeed, expensive grid upgrades, lack of grid inertia, reduced bankability of renewable energy assets, and the absence of alternative technologies optimised for short-term storage. Teraloop’s PowerLoop technology delivers significant value by offering a fast-response energy storage system with up to 95% round-trip efficiency and a 25-year service life, greatly reducing the total cost of ownership compared to traditional batteries. Its scalable design and sustainability metrics make it an attractive option for industries seeking to reduce their environmental impact and operational costs. The patented technology can manage high power demands with a high duty cycle. If used alongside a battery, it absorbs microcycles, extending the battery’s service life; this allows for high-power application management without grid disturbances and can defer or eliminate the need for local grid upgrades. Already in use with customers, PowerLoop will serve the rapidly growing markets of industrial power quality, distributed energy resource management and new services such as EV ultra-fast charging. In the planned EIC project, Teraloop aims to to use grant funding to extend the capability of the machine from its pilot level of 250kW, up to 1000kW (‘P1000’) and commercialise the solution starting from Europe.

Keywords: engineering and technology,electrical energy storage,sustainability,power control,energy transition
Sculpting circuits and behavior by developmental neuronal remodeling (NeuRemodelBehavior)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neuronal remodeling is a conserved strategy to refine neural circuits during development. Defects in remodeling have been associated with neuropsychiatric disorders, but direct mechanistic causality is lacking. Despite its fundamental significance, how remodeling of neuronal processes affects circuit architecture and function, and how this ultimately shapes behavior, is not only unknown, but also extremely challenging to study in complex organisms. Our lab is a world-leader in the molecular mechanisms of neuronal remodeling. We use the stereotypic remodeling of the Drosophila Mushroom Body (MB), a complex circuit within the fly brain, as powerful genetic model to study this question. Recently, we uncovered that MB remodeling is coordinated at the circuit level. Furthermore, we generated a detailed expression atlas of MB neurons during development, which highlighted genes and pathways mediating cell-cell interactions as prime remodeling regulators. Thus, our discoveries suggest that the time is ripe to take on the challenge of integrating the molecular, cellular, circuit and behavioral aspects of remodeling. The MB is a perfect system for this due to its well-characterized structure and function. To accomplish this goal, we will build upon our developmental expression atlas to identify molecules that mediate cell-cell interactions during remodeling (Obj 1). We will then investigate how specific genetic/cellular perturbations of remodeling impact overall circuit architecture and connectivity (Obj 2). Finally, taking a new direction for the lab, we will use behavioral readouts of MB function to understand how specific genetic perturbations of remodeling and connectivity affect circuit function and behavior (Obj 3). While each objective is independent and expected to yield high-impact discoveries by itself, it is their combined implementation that is expected to provide the first holistic picture of neuronal remodeling from molecules to cells, circuits and function.
Network of National Contact Points for the five EU Missions (NCP4Missions)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Other missions
Destination: Other missions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,Cyprus,Austria,France,Armenia,Estonia,Slovakia,Lithuania,Iceland,Italy,Poland,Hungary,Portugal,Latvia,Netherlands,Türkiye,Georgia,Romania
Call: Creating a transnational network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for EU Missions (HORIZON-MISS-2022-NCP-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1814337.51
EU funding (EUR): 1814337.5
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

NCP4Missions is a networking project of National Contact Points (NCPs) for the five EU Missions, representing 19 Member States or Associated Countries (MS/AC). The project provides continuous capacity building measures for NCPs (e.g. E-learnings, Deep Dives, Meet&Share, Mission Updates) to support less experienced NCPs and to provide more consistent Mission NCP services to applicants. Adding to this, brokerages, workshops and digital tools are offered to potential Mission applicants. The project will establish important collaborations with all relevant Mission stakeholders (e.g. Mission Hubs, Mission Implementation Platforms, NCP networks) to detect synergies and to foster potential joint activities. The projects’ activities pursue the following objectives: • Improving and professionalizing NCP support services for the EU Mission Calls • Lowering entry barriers for applicants and raising the quality of proposals • Enhancing the visibility of the Mission NCPs and the cooperation with other relevant stakeholders and networks Long-term impacts can be expected in the fields of policy, science and society. As NCP4Missions will function as interface between the European Commission (EC), MS/AC and the NCPs, a better exchange of information on the EU Missions will be triggered. This will affect political decisions on EC and national level in support of the implementation of the Missions. The consistency of NCP support services in Europe and beyond will lead to more equal opportunities of applicants of different countries. Through an enhanced knowledge base on Missions in R&I organisations, higher participation rates and a better quality of Mission-tailored proposals can be expected, resulting in innovative projects. Awareness raising and civil engagement activities will impact the environmental awareness, health and well-being of citizens. The projects’ actions will generate an increased participation of civil actors and social innovations in the Mission proposals.

Keywords: eu,horizon europe,national contact points,ncps,network,european missions,climate,cancer,cities,soil,ocean,waters
Solving Conformal Field Theories with the Functional Bootstrap (FUNBOOTS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1950625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1950625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have a wide range of experimental and theoretical applications: describing classical and quantum critical phenomena, where they determine critical exponents; as low (or high) energy limits of ordinary quantum field theories; and as theories of quantum gravity in disguise via the AdS/CFT correspondence. Unfortunately, most interesting CFTs are strongly interacting and difficult to analyse. On the one hand, perturbative and renormalization group methods usually involve approximations that are hard to control and which require difficult resummations. On the other hand, numerical simulations of the underlying systems are difficult near the critical point and can access only a limited set of observables. The conformal bootstrap program is a new approach. It exploits basic consistency conditions which are encoded into a formidable set of bootstrap equations, to map out and determine the space of CFTs. A longstanding conjecture states that these equations actually provide a fully non-perturbative definition of CFTs. In this project we will develop a groundbreaking set of tools ? analytic extremal functionals ? to extract information from the bootstrap equations. This Functional Bootstrap has the potential to greatly deepen our understanding of CFTs as well as to determine incredibly precise bounds on the space of theories. Our main goals are A) to fully develop the functional bootstrap for the simpler and mostly unexplored one- dimensional setting, relevant for critical systems such as spin models with long-range interactions and line defects in conformal gauge theories, leading to analytic insights and effective numerical solutions of these systems; and B) to establish functionals as the default technique for higher dimensional applications by developing the formalism, obtaining general analytic bounds and integrating into existing numerical workflows to obtain highly accurate determinations of critical exponents

Keywords: conformal field theory,conformal bootstrap
Hyper powered vessel battery charging system (HYPOBATT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,France,Greece,Germany,Poland,Italy,Belgium,Türkiye,Netherlands
Call: Hyper powered vessel battery charging system (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9350775.0
EU funding (EUR): 6657528.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

As a significant source of greenhouse gasses (GHGs), it is essential that the maritime transport sector focuses on ways to become climate neutral. Partial electrification of power systems has already been adopted as a GHG reduction measure. However, further advances are necessary on such aspects as the provision of high charging powers to minimise costs and improve standardisation. In this context, HYPOBATT will be focused on the development of an interoperable charging solution with a cost-competitive performance. HYPOBATT will deliver a modular, fast, and easy multi-MW recharging system demonstrated in two European ports with fast turnaround times. The project will assess the end-to-end services between both ports, and compatibility with other ports. A modular approach on electrical and mechanical integration will minimize the required connection time, the charging time, land from port side and the number of components and costs. The charging system will be designed to achieve interoperability and compatibility with different electric ships, grid constraints, components, modularity, logistic and handling, monitoring and safety systems, power flow, maintenance, digitalization/automation, cybersecurity, and human element aspects. The standardization of the charging modules, the interfaces, and the communication protocol, will scale up the charger based on and on/offshore sides; flexibility of power levels will be addressed and the impacts on the electrical grid infrastructure and on the battery degradation during fast charging will be minimized. HYPOBATT unites key actors from the European maritime sector to develop and demonstrate the charging system. A key element is to develop business mechanisms to exploit the flexibility of the charging system amongst shipbuilders, integrators, ports and stakeholders. This will enable the wide adoption of the solution, thus increasing Europe’s lead in fast charging systems.

Keywords: electrification,electrified ships,climate neutral,multi mw recharging systems,fast charging
ERA Chair in Algorithmic Game Theory in Socioeconomics (Agate)

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: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494668.06
EU funding (EUR): 2494668.06
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The AGATE project aims at intensifying relevant cutting-edge research and innovation in computer science and its intersectoral applications in Czechia and ERA by establishing, under the leadership of the world-class ERA Chair holder Michel Grabisch, a pocket of excellence in algorithmic game and decision theory in socioeconomics (AGATE). AGATE plays a prominent role in the current scientific revolution, so the first objective of the project is to create an excellent research group in AGATE domain (the AGATE Centre) through the scientific and managerial competence and expertise of the ERA Chair holder. The AGATE Centre will fill gaps in computer science research that the School of Computer Science of Charles University is currently experiencing even if being Czech leader in the field. Prof. Grabisch is the fundamental pivot feeding the Centre of scientific excellence and worldwide scientific network, attracting outstanding scientists and students, and fostering brain gain and brain circulation. Current scientific revolution in socioeconomics is driven by business applications as well as algorithmic decision making and fair control and logistics in public administration. For this reason, the second objective of the project is to build capacities in intersectoral exploitation of AGATE methods, and in synthesis of currently relevant research, innovation and applications. The AGATE Centre will make new linkages between academia and businesses, strengthen Czech human capital base in R&I with more entrepreneurial and better trained researchers and innovators, and significantly increase currently low intersectoral mobility of researchers of Charles University. The AGATE Centre will also focus on filling a nation-wide gap on all levels in using modern computational tools for public administration and decision making. The Centre will capitalize on excellence from across the continent by strengthening the position of Czechia in the research and innovation sphere.

Keywords: algorithmic game theory
EIisa –a connected, affordable light solution for treating sleep apnea. (SUNRISE Tx)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2771250.78
EU funding (EUR): 1939875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sunrise is a leading researcher and developer of solutions for diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea. Our goal is to develop and commercialise Sunrise Tx, the first truly non-invasive, affordable and readily accessible solution to treat sleep apnea. This is to address the 80% treatment gap of sleep apnea sufferers who fail to access treatment due to high costs and long waiting times for diagnosis. Also, even within those diagnosed, at least 35% fail to comply with wearing a mask all night strapped tightly to the face, blowing air to clear airways for breathing due to the associated discomfort. In contrast Sunrise Tx is a wearable device involving no nasal obstruction. Sunrise Tx is set to improve treatment access, compliance, cost and accuracy.

Keywords: sleep apnea,mandibular movement,obstructive sleep apnea