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SOCIETY riPENSAci (SOCIETY riPENSAci)

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: Italy
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 365298.14
EU funding (EUR): 305941.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Think again! Change your perspective and be ready to revisit your knowledge of reality. This is what riPENSAci means, and is our invitation to our fellow citizens. The European Researchers’ Night is the perfect escape route from customary mental paths and an occasion to explore uncharted thoughts. By spending one night with the researchers, visitors will change the lenses through which they see things and get a glimpse of the multitude of possible points of view. Re-think about what we know from a different perspective is a useful, necessary practice for the inhabitants of a world that is facing epochal changes and threats. RiPENSAci also means think us again, think about our place and actions within our society, our economies, our environment. The European Researchers’ Nights proposed by the SOCIETY consortium revolve once again around the responsibility of humankind on this complex planet, where everything is so inextricably connected. Research provides excellent tools to decipher these connections and foresee the long term implications of our choices. A deeper understanding of our impact is necessary to disrupt consolidated habits and allow the construction of a new reality. Taking advantage of a wide network of stakeholders, SOCIETY riPENSAci will propose a variety of topics planned to engage different publics, with a particular focus on kids and youngsters. Both editions will be held in Bologna, Cesena, Cesenatico, Forlì, Predappio, Ravenna, Rimini and Ferrara. Activities will address the themes of development & sustainability, environment & people, knowledge & digitalisation.

Keywords: public engagement event dissemination schools diversity sustainability young generation gender balance
Career Management Services for European Talents (CROSS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Czechia,Belgium,Finland,Spain,Cyprus,Estonia,Germany
Call: Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers – pilot (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1659407.5
EU funding (EUR): 1659405.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The CROSS project aims to strengthen the European Research Area by developing innovative tools to mainstream the new Charters´ principles, fostering organisational change and career interoperability. Key outputs include a Self-Assessment Competence Tool, a comprehensive Roadmap for transversal skills training, a Mentoring Handbook, a Roadmap for career counseling, an Intersectoral Collaboration Handbook, and an HRS4R Repository. These form a comprehensive set of career management services, which will be piloted and implemented across four intersectoral networks. The development of these resources will follow a co-creative process, engaging stakeholders across Europe, facilitated through the creation of our ResearchComp Community of Practice. This approach ensures their adaptability to diverse European ecosystems. A key component of CROSS is the creation of a platform designed to support institutions in obtaining the HRS4R award. This platform can also serve as a shared resource for all projects funded under this call, ensuring their continued use and expansion beyond the project’s lifecycle. By promoting organisational change, CROSS will benefit research-performing organisations and researchers at all career stages, significantly improving career prospects and delivering broader societal impact.

Keywords: researchers careers,interoperability of careers,intersectoral cooperation,transversal skills,researchcomp,hrs4r,career couselling,organisational change
Autonomous, scalablE, tRustworthy, intelligent European meta Operating System for the IoT edge-cloud continuum (aerOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Austria,Germany,Cyprus,Romania,Ireland,Poland,Finland,Italy,Switzerland
Call: Future European platforms for the Edge: Meta Operating Systems (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DATA-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11828857.51
EU funding (EUR): 11828857.5
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

The project aerOS aims at transparently utilising the resources on the edge-to-cloud computing continuum for enabling applications in an effective manner, incorporating multiple services deployed on such a path. Therefore, aerOS will establish the missing piece: a common meta operating system that follows a collaborative IoT-edge–cloud architecture supporting flexible deployments (e.g., federated or hierarchical), bringing tremendous benefits as it enables the distribution of intelligence and computation – including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and big data analytics – to achieve an optimal solution while satisfying the given constraints. The overarching goal of aerOS is to design and build a virtualized, platform-agnostic meta operating system for the IoT edge-cloud continuum. As a solution, to be executed on any Infrastructure Element within the IoT edge-cloud continuum – hence, independent from underlying hardware and operating system(s) – aerOS will: (i) deliver common virtualized services to enable orchestration, virtual communication (network-related programmable functions), and efficient support for frugal, explainable AI and creation of distributed data-driven applications; (ii) expose an API to be available anywhere and anytime (location-time independent), flexible, resilient and platform-agnostic; and (iii) include a set of infrastructural services and features addressing cybersecurity, trustworthiness and manageability. aerOS will: (a) use context-awareness to distribute software task (application) execution requests; (b) support intelligence as close to the events as possible; (c) support execution of services using “abstract resources” (e.g., virtual machines, containers) connected through a smart network infrastructure; (d) allocate and orchestrate abstract resources, responsible for executing service chain(s) and (e) support for scalable data autonomy.

Keywords: orchestration,smart networking,iot edge cloud continuum,frugal ai,devprivsecops,trust,privacy,data sovereignty,meta operating system,data autonomy
Sputtering Halide Perovskites for Integration in Monolithic Tandem Solar Cells (SPRINT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells are one of the most promising new technologies in solar energy research, due to their high efficiencies and use of low-cost materials. One attractive way to make these tandems is to grow the wide band gap perovskite on textured silicon solar cells, forming a monolithic tandem. Record efficiencies of 31.25% have been reported for these monolithic tandems, but still on relatively small area devices (1 cm2). To bring this technology closer to the market, it is imperative to start focussing on scalability. Specifically, the perovskite top cell needs to be reliably produced with industrially-validated, scalable deposition methods. This deposition method should also allow high deposition rates and direct integration of the perovskite top cell into textured silicon cells. SPRINT will develop sputtering deposition of these perovskites. Sputtering is a highly industrialized physical vapor deposition (PVD) method that tackles all challenges: high deposition rate, conformal deposition and is scalable. But to date it hasn’t been explored for halide perovskites. SPRINT's goal is to use the knowledge generated in my ERC StG CREATE for halide target fabrication (patent filed) and single target PVD deposition, and apply this to develop a sputtering coating process for inorganic wide band gap perovskites for monolithic integration in tandem devices. SPRINT will bring an innovative solution to key stakeholders in the PV market. Specifically, PV module manufacturers (such as Oxford PV and Meyer Burger) could implement the process into existing sputtering systems in their R&D labs and later into production lines. Vacuum equipment manufacturers (such as Von Ardenne and Demcon TSST) will benefit from the demand for deposition equipment. This will allow fast-tracking a new generation of PV to the market with > 30% efficiency at a lower price point, strengthening the European PV market.
Critical Race and Intersectional Theory In (Comparative) Criminal Law (CRITICL)

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: Luxembourg
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 216240.0
EU funding (EUR): 216240.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The CRITICL (Critical Race and Intersectional Theory In (Comparative) Criminal Law) Project proposes to undertake an interdisciplinary European study of hidden biases and veiled discrimination in criminal justice, through the lens of critical race theory and intersectionality. Criminal law, like all legal disciplines, has long assumed a “universality” of function: that the law itself is neutral, capable of equal and indiscriminate application. Lady Justice, blindfolded and impartial, is figurative example, while the work of the European Union assumes neutrality as a key factor to promote integration. Yet, as Critical Race and Intersectional Theories (“CRIT”) show, the law itself may entrench and reinforce structures of subordination, inferiority and discrimination against particular (especially, minority and vulnerable) groups. Likewise, while modern legal systems may recognise different grounds for discrimination, such as race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disability and neurodiversity, these are based on the social and historical processes that have shaped the constitutional traditions of each country. To date, however, neither CRIT nor discrimination within the criminal law have received much attention in either European or comparative legal scholarship. Through an analysis of procedural rights, CRITICL intends to fill this lacuna, both in the context of criminal law, and by adapting CRIT to the European (EU) (procedural right) context, through proffering European and national policy recommendations and guidelines by which the law’s current procedural rights inequalities can be eliminated.

Keywords: defence rights,right to a fair trial,criminal justice,critical race theory,intersectionality,procedural rights,legal inequality,hidden biases,comparative criminal law
Screening And Future Enhanced MRI (SAFE-MRI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2984796.0
EU funding (EUR): 2984796.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

SAFE-MRI aims to prevent needless mortality from breast cancer by optimizing the use and performance of dedicated breast MRI. First SAFE-MRI aims at detecting breast cancer early in women that are currently deemed too young for population screening (age 45-50). Early diagnosis of breast cancer in these women will lead to a large gain in DALY’s averted. I will initiate a prospective screening study inviting women to a one-time only abbreviated breast MRI at the age of 45. The primary outcome will be the cancer detection rate per 1000 women actually screened. This will validate abbreviated breast MRI as standalone screening technique. Psycho-social and risk information will be collected from all participants. Cost-effectiveness modelling will be included. 5-year follow-up will be performed in all women up to, and including, the first screening round at the age of 50. Second SAFE-MRI aims at improving breast MRI by reducing the need for contrast administration. This is a major downside of breast MRI - for women (iv-canulation and a small risk of allergic reactions) and the environment (pollution of surface water). First, I aim to enhance signal changes using a strongly reduced dose of contrast with advanced deep learning (DL). Further studies are tailored at assessment of unenhanced MRI. Particularly, I will validate novel diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) sequences capable of generating high resolution diagnostic images within short scan times using DL-based reconstruction. Furthermore, I will investigate arterial spin labelling (ASL) based breast imaging strategies that show perfusion without the need for contrast administration. Finally, we will combine unenhanced MRI techniques in a general adversarial network to construct synthetic breast MRI images. Repeated reader studies will be conducted to assess image quality and diagnostic value. SAFE-MRI will thus consolidate my leading role in breast imaging and enable me to design the breast screening of the future.

Keywords: breast cancer,screening,abbreviated breast mri,mri reconstruction,unenhanced mri
Data Usage Control for empowering digital sovereignty for All citizens (DUCA)

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: Italy,Spain,Germany,Finland,Greece,Ireland,France,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1853142.86
EU funding (EUR): 1656000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Driven by the growing concern on the usage of personal and sensitive data in the Internet, DUCA aims at providing a framework to empower European users and organizations to take control of their data, thus easing confidentiality and personal data protection (including both personal data of citizens and confidential data produced by data-enabled organizations). This unified framework of security and privacy-enhancing solutions incorporates a set of building blocks to support the development of a modular architecture and reference implementation that will also include techniques for measuring privacy risk exposure. To be general and flexible, the main components will be designed as platform independent to ensure the compatibility of the DUCA framework with the many architectures and deployment models of the IoE. In order to achieve this, DUCA has the following concrete objectives: Objective 1: To build a flexible and easy to use distributed framework for managing data sharing agreements, which will empower users to control the usage of their data. Objective 2: To develop and integrate several security and privacy enhancing technologies and to tailor these to the specific needs of the DUCA platform and use cases. Objective 3: To deploy and validate the overall distributed data usage control framework in several use cases. Within the DUCA consortium, we have identified the following three use cases as relevant samples to showcase our framework: Smart energy, Usage control for Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, and Collaborative mobility. Several stakeholders will benefit from the awarding of DUCA, including the seconded staff members, who will increase his/her knowledge and career opportunities, beneficiaries will improve their research and innovation activities, and overall society will gain both socially and economically from advanced data protection mechanisms being developed.

Keywords: data usage control,data sovereignty,trust
An algebraic approach to the derivation of effective macroscopic evolution equations (MACROQC)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 232916.16
EU funding (EUR): 232916.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Physical systems can be approached at microscopic and macroscopic levels. The former are described in terms of elementary constituents and fundamental interactions, e.g., Newton's theory of classical mechanics, Schrödinger's equation in quantum mechanics and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Although a microscopic description is often very accurate, it is usually not well suited for calculations because of the large number of degrees of freedom. On the other hand, a macroscopic description of the system takes into account only effective interactions, which arise from the collective behaviour of the system and are of interest to the `observer'. Such a description is less accurate, but much more accessible for calculations. Because of the great importance of effective macroscopic theories for making qualitative and quantitative predictions about the behaviour of physical systems, a major goal of statistical mechanics is to understand their emergence from microscopic theories. In this project, we propose a novel approach that generalizes the derivation of macroscopic evolution equations. The overarching main scientific objective of this project is: to develop a mathematical framework based on resolvent algebras in which effective macroscopic evolution equations can be rigorously derived. Despite the fact that many theoretical studies have been devoted to this derivation, most results are based on ad-hoc methods. This project generalizes these by introducing an algebraic setting based on resolvent algebras. These algebras have both a classical and quantum counterpart and form an excellent setting to study many-body interacting systems. Although resolvent algebras have already proved successful in other studies, the new challenge is to exploit their structure to derive effective macroscopic evolution equations.

Keywords: resolvent algebras,macroscopic limit,effective evolution equations,quantization theory
Expanding the Properties of Artificial Spider Silk (EPASS)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Spider silk is a material with remarkable biological and mechanical properties. Unfortunately, the cannibalistic nature of spiders makes it impossible to harvest natural silk at large quantities, whereas artificial silk production has historically suffered from poor quality, low yields, and environmentally harmful protocols. Overcoming these limitations, Prof. Anna Rising (host) has recently developed a biomimetic spinning setup for generating high quality artificial silk fibres that uses water as the sole solvent and scales volume for economically feasible mass-production. Although remarkable, the fibres generated still require improved mechanical and electromagnetic properties to achieve their full potential in the envisioned biomedical and soft electronics applications. By combining the host’s expertise in protein biochemistry and biotechnology with my (Dr. Greco, fellow) skills in mechanical and materials engineering, EPASS aims to improve the mechanical and electromagnetic properties of artificial silk fibres by spinning fibres from protein solutions containing carbon nanotubes and magnetic nanoparticles. After establishing an optimized spinning protocol for the introduction of nanomaterials, a new generation of modified silk fibres will be spun and analysed morphologically, mechanically and electromagnetically, delivering a novel strategy for generating silk fibres with custom-made properties that are highly needed in the area of soft electronics. With additional expertise gained from a secondment and short-term visit, EPASS will create a strong foundation for state-of-the-art research and extensive knowledge sharing between researchers and organisations. In summary, EPASS will integrate novel methodologies to create a new generation of scalable green materials with breakthrough potential in soft electronics, while simultaneously shaping a new research line - functionalized spider silk - which I will pioneer, thus boosting my future career as research leader.

Keywords: spider silk mechanical properties nanomaterials biomimetic soft electronics green electronics