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Enabling multi-messenger science with black hole binaries (Bright BHBs)

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: Austria
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2031-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2649807.0
EU funding (EUR): 2649807.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Combining electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational-wave (GW) observations of the same object opens windows to new science, from astronomy and astrophysics to fundamental physics and cosmology. The era of such multi-messenger astrophysics began with the recent GW+EM discovery of two binary neutron-star mergers. This proposal will enable novel multi-messenger science with black hole binaries (BHBs) across all masses. Supermassive and stellar-mass BHBs in galactic nuclei are both expected to be surrounded by circumbinary gas disks. The binary's orbit and the hydrodynamics of its disk are coupled and their evolution must be followed jointly. Our goal is to understand this coupled long-term evolution of BHB+disk systems, along with their corresponding EM and GW signatures. This is an exceptionally well-posed physics problem. We will solve it through hydrodynamical and MHD simulations of unprecedented size, spatial resolution and duration, incorporating radiation transport, realistic thermodynamics, gravitational radiation and disk self-gravity for the first time. We will predict the EM and GW signatures of BHBs with circumbinary disks throughout their evolution, and apply these to observations in three work packages (WPs). WP1 will perform 2D hydro and 3D radiation-MHD simulations to understand the orbital evolution and the EM and GW signatures of BHBs with circumbinary disks. WP2 will apply these results to robustly identify the first SMBH binaries among AGNs in LSST and other time-domain surveys, and to interpret pulsar-timing array observations of the GW background. WP3 will develop the first self-consistent time-dependent models of AGN disks coupled with the embedded populations of stellar-mass objects, and derive the EM and GW signatures of stellar-mass BH mergers in these disks. The tools we build will also allow ESA's LISA mission to realize its full science potential, by enabling the astrophysical interpretation of any deviations from vacuum GR waveforms.

Keywords: time domain astronomy,binaries,active galactic nuclei agn,agn variability
Francesco Ingoli (1578-1649) as Political Thinker and Global Theorist (GlobalIngoli)

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,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-15
End date: 2028-12-14
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 407584.02
EU funding (EUR): 407584.02
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The GlobalIngoli project investigates the significant yet unexplored role of Francesco Ingoli (1578-1649) in early-modern political thought. As General Secretary of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide for 27 years, Ingoli was essential in the Catholic Church's global evangelization. While previous studies have focused on his scientific controversies and bureaucratic role, this study emphasizes Ingoli's political philosophy and its effect on the Church's global vision. The research examines unpublished works such as the 'Istruzioni', and the 'Relazione delle Quattro Parti del Mondo' (ca.1633) to highlight their overlooked theoretical significance. It aims to expose Ingoli's innovative political thought, encompassing evangelization strategies, the intersection of religion and politics, and the gathering of geographical and cultural information. The study will enrich our comprehension of global interactions that influenced 17th-century political philosophy and trace the genealogy of the term 'propaganda.' It will provide insight into key debates in 17th-c Roman milieux, including the Church's unlimited potestas indirecta and novel governing techniques like ‘statistics’ and anthropogeography. By employing an interdisciplinary approach encompassing philosophy, political theory, law, and cultural studies, the research intends to shed fresh light on political thinking during the Counter-Reformation period. This 3-year project, involving the Universities of Venice, NYU and Brussel, will allow Dr Fabris to expand his expertise in early modern political philosophy and intellectual history. With his international experience in Europe and the US, he will deepen his understanding from a global political perspective, acquire new skills, work with top experts, and share his findings with both specialists and a wider audience. MSCA-GF will thus enhance his career prospects and enable him to affirm his expertise in early modern political philosophy and intellectual history.

Keywords: political philosophy,history of political thought,16th 17th century political thought,early modern intellectual history,cultural mestizo,italian studies,16th 17th century political thought
Exploring the Applications of Picodroplet Mass Spectrometry (PICODROP-MS)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mass spectrometry (MS) is a widely applied analytical tool underpinning important commercial sectors like biotechnology, pharmaceutics, and environmental analysis. A significant drawback is that the analysis is destructive, resulting in irretrievable sample loss and making MS nonideal when sample is expensive or scarce. We pioneered a technology capable of reducing the amount of sample consumed during MS by >4000 times compared to the existing state-of-the-art by using picolitre (10^-12 L) droplets. Because these sample volumes are so small, our technology will significantly accelerate otherwise time-consuming preparative chemistry, benefitting end users in the above-mentioned sectors. Anticipated commercial benefits include improved cost-effectiveness and increased productivity gains arising from >99.9% cost savings on samples and substantial cost savings on staff time. The commercial adoption of our technology will lead to new services and increased sales by enabling analysis of samples too scarce for current technologies. The considerable reduction in sample consumption will provide environmental benefits, and the capability to accelerate e.g. the drug discovery process may yield health benefits. Consequently, our picodroplet MS technology has the potential to become the method of choice for a diverse range of MS end users. To achieve these envisioned impacts, we will develop relationships with key industrial stakeholders in the analytical instrumentation sector and, building on our recent patent application, advance our IPR strategy by evaluating market and licensee requirements. We will engage directly with leading MS end users to quantify the benefits of our technology in the important application areas of reaction discovery, biomolecular analysis, and environmental sampling. This PoC will facilitate comprehensive evaluation of our technology’s strengths relative to competitors and maximise its commercial potential.
Excitonic 2D Metasurfaces for Active Multifunctional Flat Optics (ExMAM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499985.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499985.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Can light fields be manipulated by a single atomic layer? Can quantum mechanical effects in monolayer materials be harnessed to realize dynamic optical elements? Recent work has demonstrated that light-weight and ultra-thin nanostructured optical coatings (metasurfaces) can perform the same optical functions as conventional bulky optical components. Despite these advances, metasurface optical elements have remained static. At the same time, newly emerging and future applications require optical elements with dynamic control of their functionality. Here, I propose to lay the foundations of a completely new class of tunable and multifunctional optical elements by combining recent developments in 2D material science, quantum physics, and nanophotonics, resulting in highly novel excitonic 2D metasurfaces. Building on my strong expertise in the fields of optical metasurfaces and 2D material physics, I will employ monolayer 2D quantum materials to actively tune the optical response of novel nonlocal metasurfaces. These atomically-thin materials exhibit a strong quantum-mechanical exciton resonance in the visible spectral range, even at room temperature. Using electrical control over this exciton resonance, I will study the interplay of localized excitons and delocalized optical modes. Next, I will realize ultracompact optical elements with electrically-tunable functionality. Finally, I will develop novel methods to combine stacked metasurfaces in compound meta-optics that offer multifunctional dynamic optical components. The excitonic 2D metasurfaces open new routes to study the unconventional properties of quantum materials in quantum optics, nanophotonics, and solid-state physics. At the same time, the results of this project open an entirely new approach for the design of actively-tunable multifunctional flat optical components with applications in optical communication, augmented reality, and computational imaging.

Keywords: 2d materials,exciton,active metasurfaces
MArine Citizen science data Horizon (CS-MACH1)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Netherlands,Armenia,Germany,Belgium,Malta,France,Spain,United Kingdom
Call: Science for Community – Building the marine Citizen Science data network of the future to valorise data coming from the ocean and increase engagement (HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1875617.5
EU funding (EUR): 1875617.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

CS-MACH1 aims to overcome existing barriers to citizen science empowerment, such as accessibility, recognition, trust, and sharing of marine citizen science data, by establishing and managing a Marine Citizen Science Data Network (MCSDN) of and for citizen science initiatives, community representatives, cost-efficient technology developers, data management experts, and scientists. To support the production of FAIR data and the integration of citizen science data into EU platforms like EMODnet, CS-MACH1 will produce standards, best practices for deployment and data management, observation protocols for using cost-effective devices, and training materials to guide citizen science coordinators in managing their data flow. The value chain of the MCSDN will be demonstrated by addressing local challenges in real-world use-cases, co-designed with end-users and used for beta testing innovations and the proposed data flow. The scientific and societal impacts of the MCSDN will be demonstrated through the validation of Digital Twin Ocean models, policy workshops, and extended dissemination of results to attract and empower a larger number of marine citizen science actors and citizen scientists. A roadmap outlining strategies for a continuous workflow will ensure the sustainability of the project's outcomes and the legacy of the network.

Keywords: marine citizen science data management marine citizen science initiatives fairness of data marine citizen science data network low cost sensors cost effective technologies
Anisotropic Probabilistic Imaging for the Seismic Characterisation of Earth's Subsurface (A-PISCES)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The exploration and responsible exploitation of geothermal resources requires accurately mapping and monitoring crustal fracture networks and fluids. Fractures provide the permeable pathways required for efficient energy production and knowledge of their subsurface distribution is necessary for optimal well placement. Locating supercritical fluids offer opportunities for enhanced energy production and identifying volcanic brines yield opportunities for the extraction of critical energy metals. Considering that drilling operations are the primary cost for geothermal projects, identifying such economically viable targets in advance of drilling activities is key to minimising financial risk. Fractures also play a significant role in induced seismic hazards as they decrease rock strength and provide hydraulic connections between fluid injection/extraction sites and faults that can be triggered by pore pressure perturbations. Clearly, characterising subsurface conditions is fundamental to geothermal exploration. To this end, seismic imaging is a well-established tool for constructing models of the subsurface. However, current methods face two important challenges/opportunities. (1) They neglect directionally-dependent material properties (i.e. anisotropy) created by the alignment of crustal fractures in response to the local stress field. This information is not only relevant for mapping fracture densities and fluid flow pathways but, if unaccounted for, can misguide interpretation of crustal properties. (2) Commonly applied imaging methods lack robust uncertainty quantification which hinders accurate model interpretation. My project, A-PISCES, addresses these issues by implementing a novel probabilistic approach to building seismic models of crustal reservoirs. This method will be developed and tested using data collected across the Hengill geothermal field (Iceland) providing a new view into geothermal fracture networks and their role in induced seismic hazards.

Keywords: seismic imaging
Learning from long-Term Care practices for the European Care Strategy (LeTs-Care)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark,Netherlands,Spain,Lithuania,Portugal,Austria,Belgium
Call: Integrated care solutions leading to better quality, person-centred long-term care and overcoming territorial inequalities in their provision (HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2891972.19
EU funding (EUR): 2891971.25
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

European societies find themselves in a window of opportunity for the advancement of LTC policies and practices. The pandemic has made clear that there is a need for accessible, affordable and quality services, more equality, protection and inclusion for people in need of care, informal caregivers and care workers, and sustainability. To meet these goals, policy makers, stakeholders and researchers need to comprehend the challenges ahead, the patterns and drivers of inequalities in LTC, the potential contribution of emerging practices and the development of contextualised sustainable practices. LeTs-Care originally combines an ethnographic approach with the analysis of territorial indicators and fuzzy-set/Qualitative analysis to provide a new, in-depth, reflexive understanding of LTC challenges and their diversity across 7 European countries. It will disentangle the meanings of taken-for-granted LTC concepts and illuminate how , e.g., “care” or “integrated care” have different meanings in different contexts. It will produce new evidence and a novel approach to territorial inequalities in LTC, their drivers and interdependencies. The project will conduct 18 ethnographic studies or care practices aimed at improving the wellbeing of care receivers, of care workers and of informal caregivers: ethnographic case studies will comprehend the tensions, trade-offs and choices that underpin these practices and will develop context-sensitive policy recommendations. Finally, LeT’s-Care will move beyond “best practices” by developing a new, reflexive approach to policy learning and a concrete toolkit. LeTs-Care is based on a strong and diffuse partnership between academic institutions and key LTC stakeholders and policymakers that allow the coproduction of knowledge, enhances the relevance of research and makes a difference. The project’s commitment to Open science will maximise its impact and inform care policies in the agenda in the years to come.

Keywords: care regime informal care care work migrant care work fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis social investment social innovation
Initial Conditions for Quark and Gluon Matter Formation at the LHC (InitialConditions)

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: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496368.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496368.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The central goal of heavy-ion physics at the energy frontier is to create, and study in the laboratory, Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a state of matter predicted by the fundamental theory of strong interactions. Current state-of-the-art interpretation of experimental data from the LHC experiments relies on Bayesian global fits of anisotropic flow vn and mean transverse momentum [pT], and provided the first quantitative measures of the fundamental transport parameters (shear and bulk viscosity) of the QGP. This represents the best understanding of the QGP so far. However, recent studies of the correlations between anisotropic flow and mean transverse momentum reveal that no existing Bayesian analysis can describe the new data in a consistent way because of the lack of constraints on the initial conditions, which set the stage for the subsequent dynamic evolution. Hence, it is scientifically urgent to significantly improve understanding about the initial conditions in the various collision types that can be probed at the world’s leading facility, the Large Hadron Collider, to be able to extract precise properties of the QGP and its dynamic evolution as a function of temperature (time). In this ERC project, I will develop methodology for studying genuine correlations between vn and [pT], using a new approach, a multi-particle cumulants technique. This will give unique insights into the initial geometric conditions, shape, size and their correlations and fluctuations. To achieve this, I will measure on various collision systems (129Xe, 16O and proton) during the coming LHC Run 3. These pioneering measurements, and the resulting new analyses, will decisively advance our understanding of those crucial initial conditions, that are the platform upon which the analysis of the entire collision rests. The results of this ERC will make it possible to determine the ultra-precise QGP properties and discover the new physics that could revise our concepts of the initial conditions.

Keywords: heavy ion physics,initial conditions,anisotropic flow,new physics
Twinning excellence on organic soil amendments effect on nutrient and contaminant dynamics in the subsurface (TwinSubDyn)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Serbia,Austria,Germany,Spain
Call: Twinning Western Balkans Special (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499592.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499592.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

TwinSubDyn aims to establish a research knowledge hub at UNSPMF, Serbia, on the impacts of organic soil amendments (OSA) on the fate of contaminant-, and nutrient dynamics in the soil subsurface and implications for groundwater quality. The project will significantly boost research and innovation capacities of UNSPMF, through a twinning action with internationally-leading research institutions in this research field from Europe, i.e. UNIVIE, FZJ, MLU and IRNAS-CSIC. The strategy for stepping up and stimulating scientific excellence and innovation capacity for our TwinSubDyn defined research topic is based on: (1) Networking for Excellence - through transfer of knowledge, best practice and expertise during secondments, between UNSPMF and the aforementioned research institutions; (2) Establishment of long-lasting strategic partnerships with leading European research organisations; (3) Raising the EU and global research profile of UNSPMF and its staff - through delivering lectures by experts, short-term on-site training, organization of workshop/summer school and strengthening the research management and administration unit at UNSPMF; (4) Development of Science and Innovation Strategy and key action planning in the TwinSubDyn field for UNSPMF; (5) Spreading scientific knowledge through the available multiple dissemination channels, and finally (6) Increasing overall competence via the strategic collaborative consortium TwinSubDyn research project and its intrinsic knowledge exchange and gains.

Keywords: environment,soil,groundwater,organic amendments