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Cost-effective and replicable RES-integrated electrified heating and cooling systems for improved energy efficiency and demand response (SEEDS)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Belgium,Greece,France,Hungary,Italy,Slovenia,Ukraine
Call: Innovative solutions for cost-effective decarbonisation of buildings through energy efficiency and electrification (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D4-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14289581.25
EU funding (EUR): 12084731.25
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

SEEDS unites a multidisciplinary and complementary team of SMEs, LEs, RTOs, and stakeholders that constitute the whole (local) value chain of energy efficiency in buildings and thermal demand electrification, from planning, design, and construction to operation and commissioning. SEEDS is built upon the consortium's vast experience in developing, testing, and valorizing decarbonization solutions, supervising real-life demonstrations of building renovation and smartification, and deploying energy flexibility. SEEDS demonstrate replicable heat pump solutions integrated with renewable energy to decarbonize buildings' thermal demand. Addressing that every building is unique and requires tailored solutions to be cost-efficient and energy efficient, we develop scalable and generic design and operational optimization methodologies, deploy multiple proven heat pump technologies at scale, and optimally integrate them into the building and broader energy system. SEEDS demonstrates these (up to TRL6-8) in 6 pilot sites (incl. 1 replication site), providing real-world settings spread across the different climate zones and European construction markets. SEEDS is centered around three key themes: cost efficiency through optimization, system integration through holistic design and control, and replicability through configuration modularity and scalable building types. These are addressed in 7 focus areas: 1) Iterative design of the component and integrated system, 2) Secure and interoperable data platforms and IoT, 3) Integrated system optimization for energy efficiency and flexibility, 4) Deploying energy flexibility to enhance grid stability, 5) Replication strategies, exploitation, and business models, 6) Decision making support framework for replication, and 7) Dissemination, communication, and stakeholder outreach. Thanks to the 27 partners' wide-reached field of impact and networks, SEEDS is set out to boost the electrification of thermal demand in buildings.

Keywords: smart heat pump,res integration,energy efficiency renovation,deploying energy flexibility
Research Advisors in action, NCP cooperation for excellence (RADIANCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy,Iceland,Spain,Malta,Croatia,Bulgaria,Greece,Slovakia,Germany,Egypt,Estonia,Latvia,Hungary,France,Cyprus,Türkiye,Romania,Uruguay,Philippines,Nigeria,Poland,Netherlands,Kazakhstan
Call: Trans-national cooperation among Marie Skłodowska-Curie National Contact Points (NCP) 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-NCP-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998132.5
EU funding (EUR): 1998132.5
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the EU’s flagship funding programme for researcher training, are complex and highly competitive within Horizon Europe. MSCA National Contact Points (NCPs) face numerous calls and applicants, which is particularly challenging for newcomers, widening, and third-country NCPs. RADIANCE aims to enhance transnational cooperation among MSCA NCPs and professionalize their services across Europe, with a focus on widening and third countries. The project will improve MSCA support services through targeted tools, training, and resources, ensuring consistency across Europe and beyond. RADIANCE aligns with the call's scope by boosting researcher coaching quality, equipping over 160 MSCA NCPs with tailored tools to better advise the scientific community. The project combines innovative tools like AI with traditional methods, offering activities such as benchmarking, workshops, brokerage events, training, twinning, mentoring, and self-guided learning, supported by a personal skills development plan, documents, videos, and e-learning material. It strengthens research capacity by supporting MSCA NCPs, facilitators, the scientific community (especially in widening and third countries), and stakeholders like the European Commission (EC), the Research Executive Agency (REA) and the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) through mutual knowledge transfer and collaboration. We also foster synergies with various initiatives, such as Euraxess or the Horizon Academy with a focus on long-term sustainability of the project’s impact. RADIANCE will achieve its goals through five Work Packages (WPs): WP1 (Coordination and Communication), WP2 (Capacity Building), WP3 (Project Life Cycle), WP4 (Digital Tools), and WP5 (Synergies and Support to widening and third countries). Governed by a Steering Committee, the project has a budget of €1'998'132.50 and will last 36 months. It unites a consortium of 20 beneficiaries and 6 associated partners.

Keywords: marie sklodowska curie actions,national contact point,cooperation,collaboration,training,network,exchange,capacity building,services,tools
Next generation turbomachinery with two-phase flow (Training42Phase)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Denmark,United Kingdom,Italy,France
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2818988.14
EU funding (EUR): 2707800.6
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The green transition of energy systems requires the implementation of a number of novel emerging energy conversion technologies based on turbomachinery with two-phase flow. However, the current level of knowledge and understanding of two-phase flow in turbomachinery is at a very low level, urgently calling for the need of education of scientists that can support the development of such technologies. The aim of Training42Phase is to educate the future leading scientists within turbomachinery with two-phase flow, thereby providing the scientific and technological basis required for the development of the next generation of turbomachinery. The project consortium includes all the key partners needed to address these challenging tasks and provide our group of 10 doctoral candidates with the best foundation for solving these challenges – leading European universities, and industrial partners from large international companies and SMEs, representing technology suppliers and providers of digitalized solutions. Training42phase will provide a first of its kind excellent training for 10 doctoral candidates within the following fields: 1) Innovative technological solutions that enable the design of cost-effective and reliable turbomachinery with two-phase flow. 2) Cutting-edge multi-disciplinary training in all fields related to the modelling, design, optimization and performance prediction of turbomachinery with two-phase flow, including aero-thermal modelling and design, stress and fatigue analysis, structural dynamics, hybrid/data-driven failure mechanism models, advanced optimization methods and data-driven analytic techniques based on machine learning. 3) Application of turbomachinery with two-phase flow to emerging novel technologies. 4) Top-level training in transferable skills, such as research and data management, scientific integrity and ethics, intellectual property rights and entrepreneurship, business planning, career planning and grant proposal writing.

Keywords: turbomachinery,compressor,turbine,two phase flow,aero thermodynamics,thermodynamics,fluid mechanics,stress and fatigue analysis,structural dynamics,machine learning,optimization
Achieving Net-Zero through Innovation in Small and Medium sized Cities (SMCNetZero)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Croatia,Spain,Ireland,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Towards more inclusive networks and initiatives in European innovation ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-CONNECT-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 484080.59
EU funding (EUR): 413285.96
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

SMCNetZero brings together six successful urban innovation initiatives in Europe with seven (7) regional and Pan-European networks and their partners to create a Satellite Network of innovation actors to support public sector representatives from Small and Medium-sized cities (SMCs), SMEs, academia, NGOs and investors across Europe to facilitate decarbonisation in SMCs. SMCNetZero will leverage its diverse Satellite Network to gain an in-depth understanding of SMC needs and barriers; raise awareness and simplify access to existing successful initiatives supporting decarbonisation; support matchmaking between supply and demand sides by linking SMEs, researchers, and investors with SMCs; and help identify and open access to funding for enabling innovation deployment in SMCs currently underrepresented in the European innovation ecosystem. SMCNetZero is unique in that its diverse consortium partners and broad commitment from target stakeholders in the Satellite Network ensure focus in regions with less innovation capacity, with written confirmed commitment from nearly 100 innovation actors at the proposal stage, to participate in the activities - including an emphasis on largely underrepresented regions and stakeholders. SMCNetZero’s vision is to create and strengthen local innovation ecosystems’ interrelations in SMCNetZero regions through brokerage and knowledge-building activities as well as digital resources to increase capacity for planning, deploying and scaling-up of decarbonisation solutions, overall focusing on increasing the inclusivity of these innovation ecosystems and minimizing existing innovation divides.

Keywords: climate neutrality,net zero,small and medium sized cities,investors,smes
Fleet and traffic management systems for conducting future cooperative mobility (CONDUCTOR)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: CCAM (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Luxembourg,Germany,Greece,Spain,Italy,Netherlands,Slovenia
Call: Integrate CCAM services in fleet and traffic management systems (CCAM Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6065150.0
EU funding (EUR): 4598550.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The CONDUCTOR project’s main goal is to design, integrate and demonstrate advanced, high‐level traffic and fleet management that will allow efficient and globally optimal transport of passengers and goods, while ensuring seamless multi‐modality and interoperability. Using innovative dynamic balancing and priority‐based management of vehicles (automated and conventional) CONDUCTOR will build upon state-of-the-art fleet and traffic management solutions in the CCAM ecosystem and develop next generation simulation models and tools enabled by machine learning and data fusion, enhancing the capabilities of transport authorities and operators, allowing them to become “conductors” of future mobility networks. We will upgrade existing technologies to place autonomous vehicles at the centre of future cities, allowing heightened safety and flexible, responsive, centralized control able to conduct traffic and fleets at a high level. These innovations will lead to less urban traffic and congestion, lowered pollution, and a higher quality of life. Project innovations will be integrated into a common, open platform, and validated in three use cases, testing the interoperability of traffic management systems and integration of different transportation means for both people and goods. Use case UC1 integrates traffic management with inter-modality, UC2 tests demand-response transport, and UC3 urban logistics. In each use case and its demonstrations, simulations will be validated through real life data.

Keywords: traffic management,fleet management,network load balancing,autonomous vehicles,simulations,governance
Multicomponent Supramolecular Structures as Artificial Enzyme Mimics (MuST ArtEM)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-03
End date: 2026-06-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Supramolecular polymers (SPs) are at the forefront of current research to functional bio-mimetic materials and systems. Among the plethora of SPs appeared in the literature in the last decades, those based on 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxyamide (BTA), which have shown to form double helical fibres both in organic and aqueous solution, have been employed as a robust platform for the design of bio-inspired materials with tailored and tuneable properties. Indeed, non-covalent synthesis allows to easily obtain a wide range of functional SPs by simply mixing chemically distinct monomers in solution, which will spontaneously self-assemble into dynamic structures. Such approach has been exploited to develop BTA-based SPs able to bind nucleic acids in a superselective fashion through multivalent interactions between positively charged co-assembled BTA monomers and the phosphate present in the oligonucleotide backbone. Building on these previous findings, MuST ArtEM aims to develop functional SPs to be exploited as artificial nucleases, able to recognize and cleave RNA. The recognition and the hydrolytic activity are provided by cationic components bearing the 1,4,7-triazacyclononane-zinc complexes (TACN-Zn2+), which is well known to catalyse the hydrolysis of phosphodiester bonds. The positively charged components undergo clustered upon binding with the oligonucleotide, thus enhancing the hydrolytic ability of the zinc complex through cooperative catalysis. Once degraded, the RNA is no more able to induce clustering of the functional monomers, which will come back to the initial random distribution, switching off the catalytic ability of the fibres. Such functional SPs will be then tested in more complex systems, to trigger downstream self-assembly of DNA structures. Finally, liquid-liquid phase separation of the functional SPs will be achieved, developing bio-inspired compartmentalized hydrolytic microreactors.

Keywords: supramolecular polymers,systems chemistry,supramolecular catalysis,out of equilibrium,dna nanotechnology
Enabling smart-grid ready building through integrated solutions and digital technologies (ENTRANCE)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Denmark,Belgium,Italy,Poland,Sweden,Estonia
Call: Smart grid-ready buildings (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5517035.0
EU funding (EUR): 4973686.63
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The energy and building sector are vital to Europe’s environment and energy policies. In the current energy transition, the building sector is recognized as a cornerstone due to the possibility to easily adopt advanced control strategies and smart management systems. Thereby cost-effectively increasing buildings’ energy efficiency and flexibility, while improving building users’ comfort, productivity, and health. This cost-effective energy use reduction will render faster implementation of on-site and nearby renewable energy sources, facilitate demand electrification, hence reducing Europe’s energy dependencies. Achieving the building sector energy transition demands an improvement of the interoperability of European buildings with energy carriers and non-energy services. Buildings must play an active role in ensuring the reliability, resilience, and sustainability of the energy system, particularly in the face of evolving challenges such as climate change, resource constraints, and other threats (e.g., cybersecurity, geopolitical, etc.). Therefore, the aim of ENTRANCE is to enable smart-grid-ready and decarbonized buildings through the integration of energy efficiency, flexibility, on-site renewables, mobility, empowerment of end-users, and interoperability between buildings and district heating and electricity grids. The ambition of ENTRANCE is to develop and demonstrate solutions that promote building integration and active participation in the energy system and market through guaranteeing end-users’ comfort and empowerment while creating value for the economic actors of the energy landscape. Through four core principles based on integrated technology, digitalization, user engagement, and performance-driven economics, ENTRANCE solutions will be demonstrated in relevant environments. To generalize the solutions for different geographical regions, ENTRANCE includes demonstration sites from six different countries around Europe.

Keywords: smart grid ready building,digitalization for energy efficiency,renewable energy sources,energy storages,integrated solutions
High-performing Natural Phytoactive Skincare for Sensitive Skin (Haloderma)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Haloderma is a spin-out company from Aalborg university. Our team is expert in halophytes phytochemicals extraction and analysis for skincare purpose. Prof. Mette Thomsen, the founder of Haloderma, has dedicated decades of her research to understand halophytes and their applications. Thanks to our state-of-the-art characterization methods, we are able to optimise our extraction process to formulate a natural herbal extract with strong potency for the skin. Our extract is designed for a rich composition of antioxidants, flavonoids and polyphenols targeted towards anti-inflammation and regeneration of the skin. Those abilities make our extract suitable for chronic skin issues such as psoriasis, eczema, urticaria. Some of the phytochemicals extracted have not been categorised in literature before, which makes our research innovative and unique. Today, Haloderma is solely focused on producing natural skincare for sensitive/damaged skin. Our prototype cream was described in a study analysing its effect against itch and pain caused by dermatitis. Current users of our cream suffered from issues of extreme dryness, psoriasis and chronic eczema. They unanimously reported relief from the first cream application and visual improvements of the skin were observed as early as 14 days after. We are ambitious in our mission to become the leading Danish phytoactive skincare business for problematic skin. Currently, more clinical studies need to be executed to fully understand the power and applications of our extract. Given the success of our cream, we plan to expand our product portfolio to a skincare line. We hereby apply to this Horizon grant to fulfil our product development steps towards high-performing natural phytoactive skincare products for sensitive skin.

Keywords: cosmeceuticals,halophytes,sea herbs,phytochemicals,polyphenols,eczema,psoriasis
Anosognosia and delusions in the diseased brain (UnaWireD)

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: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1213888.0
EU funding (EUR): 1213888.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Why is the diseased human brain able to produce false beliefs that persist despite evidence to the contrary? Unawareness of neurological disturbances (anosognosia) and Delusions are examples of such false beliefs. Both have productive, narrative features. Both have been independently linked to processes involved in self-reflection, metamemory, and error-monitoring. Despite their phenomenological similarities, the research investigating their mechanisms has progressed independently. UnaWireD will provide the first in-depth investigation of anosognosia and delusions in combination to test the hypothesis that they share common brain mechanisms. Although these symptoms impact significantly on a range of brain disorders, the proposal focuses on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), in which the difference between patients who show the most severe form of these symptoms and patients who never present them is striking yet largely unexplained. In particular, it is not known whether these symptoms represent a response of the spared brain to the damage (depending on pre-existing vulnerability or resilience) or are a consequence of the damage itself (depending on type, localisation and severity of pathology). By combining advanced imaging with experimental paradigms and extended clinical and biomarker characterisation, UnaWireD will: 1. Establish whether anosognosia and delusions define a specific clinical subtype in AD; 2. Determine if they are associated with premorbid personality and cognitive abilities; 3. Identify the brain networks specifically altered in the anosognosia/delusion AD subtype; 4.Test if anosognosia is associated with an imbalance in the brain neurotransmitter dopamine. UnaWireD will deliver a new framework to study the interplay between the spared and damaged brain in the origin of productive symptoms across neurological diseases. By doing so, it will open a window towards a better understanding of the uniquely human abilities of self-reflection and consciousness

Keywords: anosognosia,delusions,functional mri,self reflection,cognitive reserve,premorbid personality,alzheimer s disease