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Feedback between population dynamics and evolution of interactions in a tri-trophic system (DYNAMICTRIO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2083871.0
EU funding (EUR): 2083871.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Predicting ecosystems response to ongoing environmental shifts is a major challenge in ecology and evolution, which is tightly linked with the eco-evolutionary feedback loop. However, we lack studies that thoroughly examine the whole loop of ecology to evolution and back. Moreover, there is a dire need for comprehensive studies on the mechanisms involved in this feedback that integrate different biological levels. With DYNAMICTRIO, we will perform an in-depth and multilevel analysis of the eco-evolutionary process, by combining experimental evolution and theoretical modelling of a tri-trophic system composed of plants (Arabidopsis thaliana), herbivores (Tetranychus urticae), and predators (Amblyseius swirskii). First, we will quantify the impact of ecosystem productivity and environmental stress on ecological dynamics (aim 1). Second, we will address how the interplay between ecosystem stability and population dynamics determine (trait and genomic) evolution (aim 2). Third, we will examine how the evolution of direct and indirect interactions affect species evolution and ecosystem resilience (aim 3). Finally, using the huge body of experimental data produced, we will examine how population dynamics, system stability, and interspecific interactions shape the genotype to phenotype to fitness map of each population. This will allow us to incorporate the ecology-evolution feedback loop into fitness landscape models (aim 4). By building on the combination of powerful empirical and theoretical approaches, which I have been developing throughout my career, DYNAMICTRIO provides an extensive, multidisciplinary understanding of the mechanisms underlying eco-evolutionary dynamics. The long-term goal of DYNAMICTRIO is the development of statistical and theoretical tools that properly integrate the different components of the eco-evolutionary loop and generate the much-needed predictions on how a broad range of ecosystems persist in a fast-changing world.

Keywords: experimental evolution,fitness landscapes
TRAFFIC SAFETY CULTURE - A SYSTEMATIC TRANSITION TOWARDS SHARED RESPONSIBILITY FOR SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY IN THE EU (TRUST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Norway,Belgium,Sweden,Greece,Italy,Bulgaria,Serbia,Finland
Call: A new framework to improve traffic safety culture in the EU (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3709374.74
EU funding (EUR): 3489853.76
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

TRUST brings together the leading researchers and practitioners on traffic safety culture (TSC) for the first time. They will join forces to leverage the potential of TSC as a concept to support the 2030 50% reduction goals for road safety and further sustainability goals. TRUST will: • Move from different interpretations of TSC to a common definition and academic consensus, as well as a conceptual framework, covering transformation at community and organisational level. • Demonstrate how TSC supports both Safe System and sustainable mobility approaches. • Create the TRUST platform to provide guidance to authorities, companies and decision-makers on all levels, including o low-threshold access to validated (self-) assessment tools for benchmarking and applying appropriate intervention strategies, using established and AI-based approaches. o a European TSC index for national and subnational levels. • Through 7 pilots, demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of TSC measuring tools and transformation interventions. Already 20 local authorities and companies in 12 countries agreed to participate in TRUST pilots, not counting access to hundreds of driving and secondary schools. The TRUST consortium covers all relevant areas of expertise (road safety, safety culture, education & training, policy & guidance) and has an explicit Social Sciences and Humanities orientation, with more than 50% SSH researchers as well as 50+ published papers and 100 projects on TSC. The group was put together balancing partners from countries with high, mid and low road safety performances. Together with its Associated Partners and Advisory Board, TRUST convenes the leading experts not only from the EU, but also from the USA, CAN, AUS and JP. It features safety culture experts from aviation, rail and maritime and provides links with low- and middle-income countries. The TRUST pilots consider all road user groups and road safety hot topics, including new technologies and mobility forms

Keywords: traffic safey culture integrated road safety and sustainability goals safe system interventions stakeholder training,stakeholder guidance
Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas (IN SITU)

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 the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Ireland,Belgium,Netherlands,France,Spain,Croatia,Finland,Latvia,Iceland,Bulgaria,Germany
Call: Cultural and creative industries as a driver of innovation and competitiveness (HORIZON-CL2-2021-HERITAGE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999840.0
EU funding (EUR): 3999840.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The IN SITU project combines research and experimental actions to advance the innovation-related practices, capacities, and potential of CCIs based in non-urban areas of the EU, a constituency of the CCI sector that has grown in visibility and significance over the last decade in Europe and internationally but which is still vulnerable due to the lagging attention of research and policy to its needs, characteristics, and potentials. The project aims to advance understanding of the forms, processes, and governance of innovation involving cultural and creative industries (CCIs) located in non-urban areas of Europe and to advance the ability of non-urban CCIs to act as drivers of innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability for the locales in which they are located. IN SITU brings together leading approaches to investigating economic evolution and diversification, a challenge-oriented approach to processes of innovation, non-urban place-based planning and development, and creative industries entrepreneurship to investigate the situation of CCIs in non-urban areas. The project couples this with a pragmatic capacity-building programme to enable CCIs to address some of the key issues of their communities/region and of our time. The core defining aspect of IN SITU is the interlinking of research and practice through place-based IN SITU Labs, hubs for projects in 6 non-urban regions across Europe, located in Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Latvia, and Croatia. Involving both Europe-wide research and place-based experimentation, IN SITU will provide an in-depth knowledge of the direct and indirect effects, cross-sectoral connections and spillovers, innovative strategies and systems, and needs of CCI practitioners in non-urban areas. Complementary to this, the project will assess and advance the multi-level innovation and culture policy and planning frameworks that contextualize and can enable this work.
SUPPORTING EUROPEAN COASTAL REGIONS IN THEIR TRANSITION TO A SUSTAINABLE BLUE BIOECONOMY (BBC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Estonia,Lithuania,Belgium,Iceland,Portugal,Sweden,Norway,United Kingdom
Call: Revitalisation of European local communities with innovative bio-based business models and social innovation (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2329487.5
EU funding (EUR): 2329487.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The Blue Bioeconomy defined as ‘the production and conversion of renewable marine biological resources into value added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy’ entails a large set of opportunities for European coastal communities. Innovative business models based on circularity; short-chains, digital solutions and ecosystem contributions offer the chance to stabilize and create new enterprises and jobs also for the lower-educated; while transforming remote, rural areas also into interesting, revitalized, climate-friendly places to live. However, blue bioeconomy actors struggle with challenges related to technology, lack of knowledge & skills or regulatory barriers. BlueBioClusters brings together 12 support organizations from across Europe, all of them highly engaged in their 9 regions in assisting start-ups, companies and policy makers to make best use of innovations. They have joined forces to improve, develop and implement new support tools and methods based on systematic collection, benchmarking and joint knowledge creation on *blue biobased value chains, practice cases and incentives, WP2; *ecosystem service valorization, WP3; *technology needs, identification and transfer of solutions, WP4; *start-ups/SMEs; experts and support mechanisms (coaching; co-creation), WP5; as well as *‘Communities of Practices’, to foster long-term stakeholder cooperation within and across the regions; WP6. While we expect to create long-lasting impact already within the project lifetime by engaging with hundreds of actors within our regions to stimulate collaboration and actions for change; activities are designed to be continued post-project, being also open for other Blue Regions, clusters and individual companies to join. To that end, the inter-active BlueBioCluster platform will not only serve as a repository of the projects’ outputs in terms of stakeholders and services, but is set up in such way, that it will be continuously updated and maintained by and with its users also post-project.
HYbrid COOLing & management for IT infrastructures (HYCOOL-IT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Serbia
Call: Thermal management and energy optimisation of high energy demand IT systems equipment in tertiary buildings (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D4-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3595946.26
EU funding (EUR): 2999566.13
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The purpose of HYCOOL-IT is to develop a set of processes supported by both digital and technical equipment innovative solutions for an efficient and reliable development of IT Server Rooms for advanced tertiary buildings, with a special focus on its replicability through standardisation. In parallel, a highly innovative Rack-integrated adsorption chiller for waste-heat powered server cooling is developed and optimized to carry out efficient liquid cooling of IT servers and, simultaneously, provide cooling to the server room itself in a compact, self-contained, and cost-effective way. The Building Digital Twin Environment (BDTE) will be developed as a PaaS with their specific Web API communication microservices to connect specific tools to support planning and design assessment, commissioning and performance evaluation processes including advanced technical equipment solutions digitalized through as BDT SimBOTs (interactive simulators) in the ICT Ecosystem to enable a more effective integration and operation of these advanced server rooms within the whole buildings. Moreover, SimBOTS pave the way for the future prescription of the innovative technical equipment proposed in the project. In addition, existing rooms can be mirrored and enhanced with the usage of BDT Environments to generate improved baselines and forecasting to support designers in the design phase, choosing the best design option and for maintenance engineers to enable performance contracting to realise the KPI’s. All Methodology and Software solutions will be tested and validated in one of the POLIMI Campus Building undergoing renovation of campus server room as a representative TRL 5 Living Lab, whereas the innovative Rack-integrated adsorption chiller for waste-heat powered server cooling will be tested in a dedicated calorimetric laboratory as TRL 4 testing environment.

Keywords: digital twin environment dte,ict,simbots,model predictive control,software in the loop sil,adsorption,
Enhancing the Sustainability of PhotopolymERs ANd phoToinduced prOcesses (ESPERANTO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy,France,Austria,Türkiye,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Slovenia
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2605392.0
EU funding (EUR): 2605392.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Esperanto (Enhancing the Sustainability of PhotopolymERs ANd phoToinduced prOcesses) aims at i) improving the sustainability of photopolymers ii) boosting the use of photopolymerisation processes in the industrial sector to replace less sustainable processes iii) training a new generation of researchers with advanced scientific skills and sustainability consciousness. Gathering 8 universities and 8 non-academic partners, ESPERANTO will reach its objectives through individual PhD projects addressing sustainable innovation, within an international and intersectoral research network of academic institutions and enterprises in the field of photopolymers and high-tech. Photopolymerization is a key enabling technology for coatings, adhesives, printing inks, packaging, wood finishing, and electronics. Photoinduced reactions are greener than most chemical processes, as they do not use solvents, are not energy intensive, are fast and efficient. However, they still present sustainability issues, namely use of fossil-based raw materials, migration of components during the service life of the product (limiting their use in medical and food applications), need of harmful UV lights, and limited applicability to thick/opaque samples or non-illuminated areas. Furthermore, photopolymers are mostly crosslinked, thus non-recyclable. ESPERANTO will tackle the technical and environmental issues of photopolymerisation, developing greener and safer materials for present processes and investigating innovative photopolymerisation processes. Implementing new sustainable materials and prototypes based on new photoprocesses, it will set innovative and sustainable light-based technologies, able to enter new markets (e.g. the medical sector) and innovate existing ones, making an impact on EU’s economy. Moreover, ESPERANTO will prepare highly-skilled and employable researchers, with strong environmental consciousness, strengthening Europe’s human capital base in sustainable R&I.

Keywords: sustainable materials,photopolymers,photoinduced polymerization
Wide bandgap semiconductor TiO2 isotope battery (BetaBatt)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-15
End date: 2027-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 267418.56
EU funding (EUR): 267418.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Long-life and maintenance-free energy sources for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) in extreme environments is a research challenge in the field of micro-energy worldwide. One of the most promising solutions to this challenge is the development of micro-energy batteries that utilize isotope decay energy. Although isotope batteries have significant advantages over other energy sources in terms of operating environment, usage time, and energy density, the main engineering application bottlenecks of isotope batteries currently are their low energy conversion efficiency and low power density. Current research is constrained by two major limitations: poor matching between the sources and energy conversion materials, and the lack of energy conversion materials that can efficiently promote the separation of charge carriers. Therefore, research on tritium water electrochemical isotope batteries based on "new structures" and "new materials" is an inevitable choice. This project BetaBatt intends to use software simulation to guide experimental research methods, develop long-life and high-efficiency micro-power sources. The objective is to achieve an ECE of no less than 20%, an output power density of no less than 5 μW/cm3, and continuous power supply for no less than 10 years, thereby, eliminating obstacles for the practical engineering application of MEMS across multiple environmental conditions. This research aims to develop an efficient and clean battery for the micro-energy field in Europe. The ER will achieve abundant research experience and scientific skills from the project and the capability to launch her own research group in future.

Keywords: micro energy,titanium dioxide,mems,hydrogen isotope
Advanced manufacturing of drug substances by co-processing with excipients through heteronucleation in a milifluidic device (ManCoProc)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 119097.32
EU funding (EUR): 119097.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Pharmaceutical industry is starting to adopt the approach of continuous manufacturing, with as few unit operations as possible, to deliver drug products in a faster, robust, cheaper and sustainable way. Poor mechanical properties of many drug substances are a hindrance to this, making them unsuitable for direct compression into tablets without additional operations. This challenge can be solved by co-processing: joining the particles of such drugs to the particles of inactive substances known as excipients (e.g. lactose), normally used for tablets production. The aim of this project is to develop a universal drug-excipient co-processing (CP) platform based on surface crystallization or co-precipitation. A CP method in a milifluidic device will be optimised with a range of drugs with differing physicochemical properties. The relationships between them, as well as excipient properties, parameters of the method and structural and functional characteristics of the obtained composites will be thoroughly investigated. To this end, cutting edge techniques will be employed to analyse particle size, morphology, dissolution and mechanical behaviour. To demonstrate improved manufacturability, the prototype CP material will be used for direct compression, and the tablets quality will be evaluated according to European Pharmacopeia requirements. The project will enable the researcher to achieve professional maturity in the field of particle engineering, allowing to employ her skills both in academia and in pharmaceutical industry. The results of the research will have commercialisation value, being of interest to companies as a potential new platform in (pre)formulation portfolio. The project will contribute to the body of evidence informing the decisions of regulators on pharmaceutical co-processing. In the long term, such impact should advance the transformation towards continuous manufacturing of affordable, available and sustainable drug products.

Keywords: pharmaceutical technology particle engineering crystallisation
The first non-clogging continuous flow reactor technology (QFLUIDICS)

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: France
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3570490.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499343.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Flow chemistry represents a promising tool for the fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries to manufacture chemicals and drugs in a cheaper, greener and safer way. However current continuous flow systems present technical limitations, especially regarding handling solids and liquid viscous, which have hindered their adoption by the industry. Today, only 33% of the chemical processes can be conducted in continuous flow systems due to solid particles that clog the process. At Qfluidics, we have developed a breakthrough technology that overcomes the limitations of conventional flow systems. Our proprietary technology- the liquid tube, allows to handle solids without clogging, paving the way toward a wide range of chemical processes and enables process intensification, making this technology ideal for industrial scale. With the support of the EIC we will industrialize our liquid tube flow reactors, bringing to the market modular solutions for research and industrial scale applications.

Keywords: active pharmaceutical ingredient api,continuous flow chemistry,ferrofluids,solid handling,liquid tube,drugs