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Remote Work and Social Change: An Anthropological Approach (ReWorkChange)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999999.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Remote work has become normalised as an important aspect of people’s lives across different professions, social classes and geographic regions. In the knowledge economy, work is now less tied to specific physical locations and is re-spatialised in new hybrid ways. But what are the consequences of remote work and always-on-connectivity on people's everyday lives? How do these affect social institutions such as the home, family, household and friendship, and broader processes of social change? ReWorkChange aims to answer these questions by delivering a comparative ethnographic study of the societal consequences of remote work, defined as work tasks performed outside the traditional office setting. Most research on remote work has been carried out in the fields of management and organisational studies and is limited to case studies in the global north. In contrast, ReWorkChange’s scope is far radically more comprehensive and wide-ranging. The project will build on practice theories to conduct a comparative study of the consequences of remote work on people’s everyday lives in six countries with an advanced knowledge economy: China, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands and Turkey. It will provide rich and compelling ethnographic evidence of everyday practices to generate theories of social institutions and a broader theory of remote work and social change. The PI has extensively explored family life, kinship, love, romances, gendered relations, home and homeland as mediated practices, in Lebanon, Turkey, Italy and the Netherlands. Additionally, she has previously worked towards the conceptualisation of digital media and social change. She is, hence, the ideal candidate to achieve the ambitious goal of exploring and theorising the impact and implications global processes of digitalisation and transformations of work have on cultures and societies worldwide.

Keywords: digital anthropology media and social change media and practices digital cultures digital societies future of work anthropology of work
Towards a digital twin for forecasting of power production to wind energy demand (WindTwin)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Portugal,Ireland,Norway,France,Belgium
Call: Digital twin for forecasting of power production to wind energy demand (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6955967.53
EU funding (EUR): 5998706.37
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The expected growth of both on- and offshore wind energy is enormous and many new wind parks are planned for the coming years. Experience from the existing wind farms shows the importance of a proper micrositing of the wind turbines as well their efficient interconnection within the farm. In addition, bringing wind farms together into clusters toward a wind power plant concept might induce long distance negative interaction between the farms, reducing their expected efficiency. This might happen both on- and offshore. The high amount of connected wind power and the expected increase during the coming years, requires that this technology has to be prepared to take a more important role as of its contribution to the reliability and security of the electricity system. The present proposal, WinDTwin, targets to develop and validate an offshore wind farm digital twin (DT) for highly accurate prediction of power production and energy demand of the end user. The DT will give users tailored access to high-quality information, services, models, scenarios, forecasts, and visualisations, as a central hub for offshore wind decision-makers. And will also serve as platform, offering users access to a comprehensive array of high-quality resources, services, models, scenarios, forecasts, and visualisations. WinDTwin seeks to revolutionise the way industry professionals make informed choices. To reach WinDTwin expected impact, the ambitious innovation-led research proposed necessitates bringing together a range of skills and expertise which cannot be found within a single member country or institution. We have put together a unique team that has a broad range of expertise through the whole wind energy development process; ranging from the management of wind energy production and development of industrial codes, numerical methods, algorithms, ensuring the uptake of improved methodologies.. The WinDTwin consortium consists of 13 organizations from 7 different Member States.

Keywords: digital twin,high resolution wind farm modelling,detailed wind turbine physical modelling,data driven models,power production forecasting,operational wind farm optimization
Colloidal Quantum Dot Molecules for Display Applications (CQDplay)

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: Israel
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Displays are all around us. They are in smartphones, laptops, TVs, and cars and have become entwined in our everyday life with new features being added, such as the Augmented Reality technology. The market strives for constant improvement in display technology performance, with better colors, thinner formats, and new functionalities. The market share of Quantum Dot (QD) displays is constantly growing because of the pure colors emitted from colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals which enable a more vibrant and colorful viewing experience. Yet, the current QD displays are inefficient, not bright enough, consume relatively high energy, and have limited pixel resolution. In the ERC grant we have developed a generic method of binding and fusing two QDs into a new class of CQDM (Coupled QD Molecules). This opened the path for the synthesis of novel CQDMs with varying semiconductor nanocrystal monomers (e.g. size, shape, and composition). Herein, we propose to develop this concept towards the commercialization of CQDMs as unique and novel materials for innovative high quality displays. Such CQDMs, with two different cores each tuned to a different color, have the ability of dual-color emission, red and green, which can be controlled electrically. A pixeled layer of these novel materials can be inserted as the emissive layer in any of the present- and future-day display technologies, providing brighter and more stable and efficient displays alongside a much simpler production process compared to patterned separate red-green QD pixels. Preliminary discussions with leading companies and investors have highlighted this potential signifying that the development of this technology can be of significant industrial value. We plan to pursue this within the ERC-PoC grant by two main work packages focusing on the development of both the technological and business aspects aiming towards spinning-off a company or research and license agreement with a suitable chosen strategic partner.
INspiring and ANchoring TrUst in Science (IANUS)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Estonia,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Greece,Lithuania,Belgium
Call: Societal trust in science, research and innovation (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1816065.0
EU funding (EUR): 1816064.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The IANUS project strengthens warranted trust in science by fostering participation in research as a co-creative and inclusive process, sensitive to societal values, concerns and needs. Trust must be inspired by transparency and trustworthiness of knowledge production, and anchored by actively involving and serving society, as part of the modus operandi of science. Our core objectives: (a) Enable citizens and stakeholders to distinguish valid from unfounded trust; (b) Enable them to deal with the uncertainties and epistemic pluralism inherent in scientific knowledge; (c) Enable researchers to foster trust through radical methodological change, making research inclusive, transparent and responsive to societal needs and concerns, lowering barriers between research and society; (d) Enable researchers to conduct relevant, engaged and value-driven research while foregoing partiality, ideological biases and conflicts of interests. The acronym IANUS refers to the deity Janus of gateways (ianus in Latin), looking both at the inside and at the outside of the knowledge production process. Trust in science is never a given. Robust trust is well-placed, reciprocal and informed. Building on insights and results from other projects funded under Framework Programmes, IANUS will (a) map the landscape of projects and discourses relevant for trust in science; (b) develop its conceptual framework; (c) conduct participatory research into conditions of trust in science; (d) initiate concrete actions for strengthening trust through co-creation and engagement; (e) provide policy recommendation to key stakeholders in science and society (e.g. funding bodies, universities, research teams, educators, media); (f) create platforms for interaction and engagement between scientists and societal stakeholders to foster trust. The complexity and urgency of societal challenges has rapidly intensified, and trust in science determined our ability to address these challenges effectively.

Keywords: trust in science,participatory research,epistemic inclusion,engaged science,open science,erosion of trust,co creation of trust,interactive science communication,co constructive sti governance
Women Historians of Change: Female Writers and National Narratives in Europe (1789-1849) (HER-ITAGE)

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,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 420751.08
EU funding (EUR): 420751.08
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

HER-ITAGE is a ground-breaking study exploring the interrelation between female history writers and national narratives in Europe. By focusing on historical writing and nation-building, the research aims to challenge traditional perspectives on patriotism and national belonging. It highlights the significant contributions of female intellectuals in shaping these narratives, demonstrating that their voices were not merely complementary, but offered unique and original perspectives. The project investigates the sense of national belonging and its definitions as expressed in the writings of women engaged in nowadays Italy, Germany and France. It examines how some women conformed to the prevailing patriotic model, mirroring the efforts of male intellectuals, while others developed alternative ideals that challenged 19th-century nationalisms. HER-ITAGE offers original contributions to various national historiographical contexts and addresses a previously unexplored topic: the role of women in shaping national narratives through their history writing activities. By investigating elements of belonging and patriotism, the research seeks to subvert the idea of a concrete, fixed national consciousness, rethinking national paradigms in a more fluid, individual-oriented way. It emphasizes the multifaceted national affiliations of individuals, often pre-national, a-national, multinational, or strongly regional. The project will also contribute to women's history studies in relation to history and nationalism, providing new insights into how the bond between history and national discourse took shape. HER-ITAGE significantly enhances our understanding of a hitherto neglected topic at the intersection of crucial European processes, impacting European excellence.

Keywords: women historians,national narratives,national belonging,gender history,women s history,nationalism,historiography
SONIETHIO. SONIC ETHNOGRAPHIES, ITALIAN COLONIALISM, AND DIGNITY RESTITUTIONS (SONIETHIO)

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: Austria,Ethiopia,Italy
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): 269412.96
EU funding (EUR): 269412.96
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to investigate the role of music and songs in shaping and chronicle cultural encounters within the context of the second Italo-Ethiopian war, here intended as a period of five years including both the invasion of Ethiopia and its military occupation (1936-1941). Therefore, collections of sound archives and ethnographies from that period will be used as prompt to implement a participative research on the role of these cultural productions in the development of performances, personal and collective expressions, social changes. As part of the fascist project of occupation, the Italian military and political leaders as well as scholars and civilians based in Ethiopia showed interest in Ethiopian culture, and specifically in local music. Like many aspects of Italian colonialism, such interest was twofold. On the one hand, Italians understood that music was a form of expression that escaped their control, therefore they persecuted and killed many azmari musicians and other musicians, in particular in 1937, within the infamous reprisal. On the other hand, both musical instruments and sounds were collected. In particular, sound records in the form of 78rpm vinyls were produced, intended for both institutional archive in Italy and commercial distribution. As a result, a significant archive of records as well as an official monography on Ethiopian music in Italian were released within a short period of time. The project aims to deeply analyse the sound collections and the published book in order to: 1) reconstruct both the historical and cultural background in which the collections emerged; 2) compare the material with later features of cultural production; 3) develop a project of restitution of the collections, based on the concept of dignity restitutions, that can make it relevant for local communities.

Keywords: ethnomusicology cultural studies postcolonial studies,anthropology ethiopian studies italian studies
The Body Positioning System: A GPS for somatosensory space (SOMATOGPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Reaching to an object touching the body is so commonplace that we hardly give it a second thought. However, this “simple” behavior is actually an incredibly complicated problem the brain must solve on a daily basis. Somatosensory information is initially represented in neural maps whose relationship with the physical body is ambiguous. Despite this, the brain can accurately pinpoint where the object is in three-dimensional space and move the reaching hand towards it. How remains a mystery, though its solution is necessary for making concrete progress on societal issues, such as designing prosthetics that can be embodied. SOMATOGPS introduces the first neurocomputational framework aimed at solving this mystery. My novel approach leverages an analogy with computations used by manmade positioning technology in order to gain insight into potential solutions. Global Positioning Systems (GPS) ingeniously turn localization into a problem of geometry, pinpointing an object on Earth by calculating its distance from multiple satellites. I propose that the brain uses a somatosensory version of GPS that I call the Body Positioning System (BPS). I hypothesize that like the GPS, the brain reduces localization to its geometry. By keeping track of the distances between each body part and their distances from a tactile object, the brain could compute a reach to the object. The main aim of SOMATOGPS is to characterize how the BPS is implemented by neural computations, from neural map to body movement. I will develop novel behavioral and neuroimaging paradigms to measure localization in two and three dimensions, model the underlying geometric computations and their neural implementation, and manipulate the geometry of the body in order to perturb these neural computations. This innovative proposal provides the first neurocomputational model of tactile localization, representing a new state-of-the-art in our understanding of somatosensory space.

Keywords: tactile perception,body representation,somatosensory cortex,neuroscience,computational models,machine learning,space,coordinate systems,reference frames,sensorimotor neuroscience
MECHANICAL IMPEDANCE and MULTIPHYSICS CONCEALED AND HIDDEN OBJECTS INTERROGATION (MELCHIOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Border Management
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Germany,Greece,Finland,Romania,Switzerland,Netherlands,Ireland
Call: Improved detection of concealed objects on, and within the body of, persons (HORIZON-CL3-2021-BM-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5480122.5
EU funding (EUR): 4999237.88
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims to improve substantially a novel technology for fast detection of drugs, explosives, weapons and illicit goods concealed on individuals and in critical cavities of the human body based on infrasound mechanical impedance interrogation, optionally complemented with other harmless and non-contact technologies. Mechanical Impedance interrogation was validated in lab -TRL4- in the multiply awarded H2020 MESMERISE Project, detecting items concealed on trunk under clothes -including critical cases like warm molded materials that remain undetected to other techologies-. The present Project aims to develop up to TRL7-8 blast-proof prototypes with detection capability extended to limbs and body cavities and improved sensitivity. Infrasound computer aided modelling, improved Artificial Intelligence, altogether with improved new infrasound generators and sensors will enable an improvement in realiability and sensitivity. Combination with other non-contact technologies like low-cost mm waves and THz point echo sensors with no image formation will be explored. Addtionally, compatibility and complementary combination of specific bioaerosols and chemical vapour detection novel tecnologies will be explored in the prototypes as well. Slight variations of the prototypes will be demonstrated in operational environments (TRL7) of customs and border authorities in EU external air, land and sea borders crossing points in Spain, Greece, Romania and Finland. Demonstrations in other operational environments like an arena or prisons will increase and broaden the impact on security of society. Additionally CE mark according to EU safety directives will be applied. Safety of the border staff will be drastically increased - not needing to touch inspected individuals-. Simultaneously, the traveller experience is totally improved. Respect to privacy and intimacy is absolute, as no contact is needed and no image is formed at any step and individuals do not have to undress at all
Ageing Care and the Climate Crisis in Villages on the Spain-Portugal Border (CLIMAGECARE)

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: Portugal,Australia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 279166.56
EU funding (EUR): 279166.56
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

CLIMAGECARE explores ageing social care and older people's care experiences in the context of the climate crisis in villages on the Spain-Portugal border. The border and rural areas of Spain and Portugal share environmental and social conditions that impact the care of older people because depopulation processes and the lack of care policies in social and health programmes are causing a care crisis, and the current climate crisis is increasing the number of forest fires and the temperatures in these border areas, which mainly affect the ageing population. This project adopts a critical and reflexive approach to understand how ageing care is delivered in these rural border areas in a context of climate crisis. It analyses: (1) ageing social care in relation of the primary health system, community and families in the context of climate crisis events such as forest fires and increased temperatures, and (2) the daily care experiences of older people in the context of climate crisis events and their cultural construction of care and self-care based on their relationship with local care actors and the non-human environment. The design of CLIMAGECARE is grounded in empirical and interdisciplinary research, crosscutting the fields of care studies, environmental studies and medical anthropology to understand the dynamics of the relationships between ageing care and the climate crisis. The project will use qualitative research methods and a co-creation approach in two villages on the central Spain-Portugal border to answer the research questions.

Keywords: climate crisis,environmental anthropology,ageing,social care,rural spaces,co creation research