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NATO and EU towards a common strategy against Russia hybrid warfare. The case for energy-resources-climate security nexus and the possible use of EDTs (NATOEUINNOCLIMAX)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-15
End date: 2027-03-14
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

This research project seeks to explore possible common NATO and EU strategies to fight Russian hybrid warfare, in the crucial areas of the energy-resources-climate security nexus, taking into account the role of Emerging Disruptive Technologies (EDTs). It adopts an inter-disciplinary and policy-focused approach, integrating 2022 events with economic, political, and strategic studies. The project will focus on the development of strategic thinking in NATO and EU political-military institutions, to evaluate the gap between the strategic competition needs and the energy-resources-climate security policy results. The specific question this project aims to contribute to is: How can NATO collaborate with the EU by leveraging the dual use of EDTs to contain Russian strategic competition, especially in the areas of energy-resources-climate security nexus? Addressing this question will provide a range of empirical, policy, and theoretical contributions. The research has 3 specific objectives: SO1) Study what are the NATO new strategies to deal with the energy-resources-climate security nexus, to provide insights into Alliance support to Europe in the Russian weaponization of these areas. SO2) Analyze how NATO is developing its EDTs strategy to see how the dual use of new technologies can help in the energy-resource-climate security, and so the strategic competition with rivals. SO3) Investigate what could be the strategic possibilities of NATO-EU collaboration and offer innovative strategic possibilities to cooperate with different policy options. This project aims to examine whether and how NATO and the EU may help their member countries to decouple from Russia, at the energetic-resource level, deal with technological disruption in a way that becomes a strategic advantage, and deal with climate change in a way that changes it from a threat multiplier to an opportunity. This research will benefit my career allowing me to go back to work from NATO to academia in Italy.

Keywords: nato,eu,russia,hybrid warfare,energy,resources,climate,emerging disruptive technologies
Scalable, ferroelectric based accelerators for energy efficient edge AI (Ferro4EdgeAI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Switzerland
Call: Low TRL research in micro-electronics and integration technologies for industrial solutions (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3959917.25
EU funding (EUR): 3750364.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The Ferro4EdgeAI project will provide an ultra-low power, scalable edge accelerator for artificial intelligence incorporating a memory augmented neural network, based on low cost, high density, multi-level, Back End of Line (BEoL) integrated ferroelectric (FE) technology. We expect to achieve a 2500x gain in energy-efficiency to break the POPS/W barrier with respect to the state-of-the-art CMOS accelerators and predictions for other emerging technology AI hardware. To do so, five ambitious specific objectives have been selected: - multi-level functionality in hafnia-based thin films by investigating the optimum trade-off in memory window, film thickness & stability of the ferroelectric state - low operating voltage for the non-volatile memory and robust multilevel operation of the FeFET-2 for high density logic operations and data storage. A low operating voltage is mandatory for power rating reduction, while robust multilevel operation is essential for analogue in-memory computing at the edge. - integration and characterization of multi-level, low voltage, FeFET-2 arrays - definition, design and demonstration of a low power FE AI accelerator suitable for scalable systems integration - Systems simulation of ultra-low power FE accelerator enhanced edge processing for targeted edge applications of voice and image recognition Ferro4EdgeAI is a multidisciplinary project engaging 12 partners from 6 countries covering the academic and industrial worlds (including 2 SMEs). An implementation plan is presented in the form of 6 work packages, 5 of which are technical in nature. Synergy in communication and dissemination by the several partners and stakeholders (including an external advisory board and collaboration with South Korea) will maximize the project progress and impact. Solutions to overcome the fundamental technological barriers as well as appropriate deliverables, tasks, milestones, and risks to complete the project objectives in due time are presented.

Keywords: ultra low power scalable accelerator edge computation in memory computing artificial intelligence ferroelectronics beol fefet
HEI Initiative - Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education (HEI Initiative)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
Theme: other EIT
Destination: other EIT
Action type: Knowledge and Innovation Communities
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Italy,Belgium,France,Spain,Netherlands,Finland
Call: Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025 (HORIZON-EIT-2023-2025-KIC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 79853967.07
EU funding (EUR): 79853967.07
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Within Horizon Europe and included as one of the three specific objectives in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's (EIT) Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) 2021-2027, the European Commission (EC) expects the EIT and the EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) to raise the bar in higher education and create systemic impact by (i) strengthening the innovation and entrepreneurial capacity of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) at institutional level, (ii) integrating HEIs in innovation ecosystems and (iii) enlarging the EIT KIC reach to engage EIT KIC partner and non-partner HEIs by launching the EIT HEI Initiative. The EIT HEI 2023-2025 proposal will operationalize the favourable decision by the EIT Governing Board to continue the HEI Initiative. It offers an overview of how the HEI Initiative will leverage progress to date in advancing its goal of enhancing innovation and entrepreneurship capacity building in European higher education and fostering institutional transformation. The proposal introduces additional activities for the 2024-2025 period, marking the expansion of the Initiative beyond its pilot phase. To realize the objectives outlined in the proposal, the document delineates the vision, structure, and implementation strategy for initiative-level coordination of the program, outlining the parameters for the participation of all EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities in terms of their involvement in Work Packages. It seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the timeline, focus areas, budget, and anticipated impact of HEI Initiative Cohorts 2, 3 and 4 offering detailed insights into the lifecycle of individual HEI Initiative projects and their significance. Overall, the proposal underscores the substantial potential of the HEI Initiative as a significant catalyst for transforming European Higher Education Institutions into hubs of innovation.

Keywords: higher education institutions,capacity building,innovation action plan,entrepreneurship,deep tech
Why are the Big Two of Agency and Communion so Fundamental to Human Psychology? An Agency-Communion Theory (ACT) of Social Learning and Cultural Activity and Its Novel Account of Social Influence (ACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999818.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999818.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The Big Two of agency (influence, resourcefulness, authority) and communion (benevolence, prosociality, honesty) are fundamental to human social cognition, the self-concept, and personality. The Big Two must have a tremendously important function for humans, otherwise they were not that fundamental to human psychology. Yet, what is this function? State-of-the-art answers explain the function of the Big Two either in social cognition or in the self-concept or in personality and those answers contradict each other in critical ways. Here, I propose the first all-encompassing answer to the functional question of the Big Two in social cognition and the self-concept and personality. My answer comes in the form of a novel theory: Agency-Communion Theory (ACT) of Social Learning and Cultural Activity. According to ACT, the Big Two are the chief enablers of high-fidelity social learning. Never before have the Big Two been considered relevant for high-fidelity social learning, but the latter is widely seen as the reason for humans’ capacity to build culture and thrive by cultural activity—humans’ most powerful evolutionary strategy. Thus, ACT considers the Big Two the essential building blocks of human cultural activity and, ultimately, of humans’ extraordinary evolutionary success. ACT’s novel portrayal of the Big Two entails a wide variety of previously unforeseen behavioural consequences, including a novel account of social influence. The state-of-the-art account presupposes the existence of an innate tendency to conform to majority norms. ACT questions the existence of such an innate tendency and offers an alternative with far-reaching implications for many theories across social sciences and urgent societal challenges in the sphere of social influence. My interdisciplinary team will empirically test ACT and its novel account of social influence. We will use new, tailor-made methodology in laboratory experiments, formal evolutionary models, Big Data, and panel studies.

Keywords: big two of agency and communion,fundamental content dimensions in psychology,evolutionary personality psychology,social learning strategies
Smart source leveraging advanced multimode fiber and machine learning towards metrology applications (TOGETHER)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-08-18
End date: 2027-08-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Complex nonlinear optical processes have been increasingly used for the smart photonic system to meet demands of advanced light source development for numerous applications. Current flagship techniques are still restricted, lacking flexibility of the light excitation in terms of controlled spatio-temporal properties. For instance, available laser sources have only a few degrees of freedom for versatile pulse shaping and tunable wavelength emission due to narrow bandwidth of a laser gain medium. Conversely, a wide range of applications benefits from broadband light sources with on-demand characteristics in the spectral, temporal, and spatial domains. However, available broadband sources are restricted by low output power density and limited reconfigurability. Therefore, versatile, efficient, and practical light sources are necessary to motivate development of paramount applications including microscopy and metrology techniques. In this context, the TOGETHER project aims to develop an on-demand structured broadband high-power light source relying on the advantages of complex nonlinear dynamics in multimode fibers along with machine learning approaches to efficiently harness such multidimensional complexity. In particular, rich landscapes of nonlinear dynamics in multimode fibers will be leveraged for "on-the-fly" control of nonlinear propagation. In parallel, machine learning based on artificial neural networks will be employed to speed-up typically time-consuming simulations and optimize the process of supercontinuum generation in multimode fibers. Specifically, we aim to optimize broadband sources in terms of power spectral intensity and spatial shapes. The developed sources will be used to enhance the selectivity and signal of multiphoton microscopy via near-infrared excitation, while the extension of supercontinuum generation into the mid-infrared range will also be investigated via non-silica multimode fibers towards applications in molecular spectroscopy.

Keywords: optical fiber,multimode fiber,supercontinuum generation,machine learning,artificial neural network,multiphoton microscopy,nonlinear optics
Advanced Photonic PRocesses for novel sOlar energy hArvesting teCHnologies (APPROACH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Czechia,Belgium,Finland,Ukraine,Switzerland
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Talents (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-03, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2981050.0
EU funding (EUR): 2981050.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

APPROACH is a multi-stakeholder project, aiming at democratizing the opportunity for post-academic training and professional development of young researchers and innovators. APPROACH is a partnership that will enable the enhancement of talents’ inventive thinking and creative knowledge in the development of nanofabricated materials and methods for solar energy harvesting applications. It will contribute to the growth of diversity of backgrounds, talents and motives of job expectations while will allow scientific knowledge advances through interaction and exchange of views. APPROACH’s basis of sustainable development has four dimensions merit attention: a) Placing knowledge, including high-level scientific knowledge, at the service of development, b) Converting knowledge, in all its forms, into value via applications and impact assessment and c) Sharing good practice, to ensure widespread benefits and d) importantly, apply a holistic talent development approach. Moreover, APPROACH aims to push forward the application and potential exploitation/valorization of the FORTH, UPOL PDOT, NoviNano and TSNUK know-how, through strong collaboration and well-designed research activities among the partners. Top-class experts in the field of applied research and talent development, like IMEC, Solaronix and VAMK will provide training courses, as well as hands-on experience and on-demand training to young researchers originating from these widening countries. Exchange of both young researchers and top-class experts is crucial for the successful realization of the proposal’s objectives. As an end product, this collaboration will set the widening partners as players of excellence in the development of advanced photonic processes for novel solar energy harvesting technologies.

Keywords: talent development,training,mobility,innovation management,solar energy harvesting
Revolutionizing Sustainable Architecture with High-Efficiency Geopolymer Thermoelectric Modules for Energy Harvesting (RESHAPE)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Thermoelectric (TE) technology, which can convert thermal energy into electrical power, represents a crucial clean energy innovation. When integrated into the field of architecture, it holds the potential to transform buildings from passive energy consumers into active energy generators. Furthermore, it can serve as an effective strategy to mitigate the rising urban heat island effect and soaring summer temperatures, which are increasingly prevalent in the European Union (EU). In recent years, TE cement composites have garnered significant attention due to their robustness and cost-effectiveness compared to commercial TE modules. However, the thermoelectric performance of TE cement composites typically falls significantly below the requirements for practical applications. This project aims to lead the development of high-efficiency geopolymer TE modules for energy harvesting, thereby advancing the EU's progress towards achieving nearly zero-energy buildings. The proposed high-efficiency geopolymer TE module represents an innovative building material that can fulfill both structural (mechanical) and TE (energy harvesting) roles. The mechanical and thermoelectric properties of these geopolymer modules will be enhanced through the addition of various additives. Subsequently, the project will analyze the reversibility/cyclability aging and mechanical durability of geopolymer TE modules to further enhance their functionality and applicability. Additionally, a comprehensive thermo-electro-chemo numerical model will be employed and validated using data obtained from microstructural assessments of aging geopolymer TE modules.

Keywords: geopolymer thermoelectricenergy harvesting resilience
The role of miRNAs in the regulation of the generation and maintenance of skin resident memory T cells (mirSKIN)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) is an inflammatory skin condition that is characterized by dry, scaly, and itchy skin. An important part of the immune response to contact allergens is local memory, which is mediated through specialized cells called resident memory T (TRM) cells. However, the mechanisms involved in the generation and maintenance of the allergen-induced TRM cells in the skin still need to be determined. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short RNA molecules that regulate the expression of a large number of genes on a post-transcriptional level. This project aims to clarify what miRNAs are important for the generation and maintenance of epidermal TRM cells in a mouse model of ACD and patients with ACD. In this current project, we plan to use state-of-the-art methods that have been unavailable to me previously, including NanoString and single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze the miRNA and mRNA data together with functional assays to validate the findings from both mice and human data. The current project will expand the knowledge of miRNA expression in ACD and thereby lead to a better understanding of molecular mechanisms and pathways that contribute to the development of ACD leading to possible new treatment strategies. During this project, I will grow as an independent researcher as in my previous projects I focused on keratinocytes in the context of skin inflammation, and to establish a comprehensive understanding of skin diseases it would be essential to learn in deeper detail about the role of T cells in the context of skin. Therefore this project would complement my current education and help me develop my career. Under the guidance of prof Bonefeld, I would develop as an independent researcher and she would be a good female role model to an emerging young scientist.

Keywords: allergic contact dermatitis,epidermal resident memory t cells,microrna,skin inflammation
ESG Smart: Affordable, Scalable CO2 Flux Monitoring for ESG Compliance and Carbon Markets (GreenSense)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 7500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ESG Smart Srl is an Italian deep-tech SME developing a patented system for high-granularity monitoring of CO2 fluxes between soil and air. Current solutions, such as eddy covariance towers, are extremely costly, complex, and limited to scientific research, while satellite or sensor-based alternatives lack precision and cannot provide verifiable data at the hectare level. This gap prevents farmers, forest managers, corporates, and municipalities from accessing reliable carbon data, limiting participation in carbon markets and weakening ESG reporting credibility. Our innovation combines low-cost distributed probes (measuring CO2, temperature, humidity in air and soil), a master hub connected via Wi-SUN mesh networking, and a cloud-based AI platform that transforms raw data into actionable ESG metrics and carbon flux indicators. The system reduces monitoring costs by more than 70%, enabling deployment across agriculture, forestry, and urban ecosystems. The technology is currently at TRL 5/6, validated in pilot sites, with a clear roadmap to TRL 9 through industrial prototyping, certification (ISO 14064, MRV standards), and market launch. Supported by the EIC Accelerator, ESG Smart will scale across Europe, contributing to the EU Green Deal, CSRD compliance, and carbon market integrity, while creating new jobs in IoT, AI, and environmental services.

Keywords: co2 monitoring soil air flux iot sensors wi sun mesh network ai analytics esg reporting carbon credits climate tech precision agriculture forestry management green deal csrd compliance