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REVOLUTIONIZING TELECOM SECURITY AND RELIABILITY THROUGH DE-IDENTIFIED AND ROBUST COMMUNICATION (DeRoCo)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece,Germany
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-02, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181423.68
EU funding (EUR): 181423.68
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Privacy infringment is one of the most prevalent forms of cybercrime, accounting for about 72% of all cybercrimes alone. Such is also the case with speaker biometrics, which, if compromised over a call, can be manipulated to generate fake speech to impersonate a person. Such identity theft over voice calls can cause financial losses, cyber-bullying and fake hate speech generation. On the other hand, in parts of the world where the communication infrastructure is not robust, a person is more agitated over not being able to get his message across over a call due to channel breakage. In such cases, privacy concerns take a back seat; but that does not imply the absence of the threat. To that end, I propose a joint solution to these issues, that can be integrated with the existing communication infrastructure. The solution consists of two segments: far-end and near-end. The far-end segment shall handle the speaker de-identification task. Existing methods of speaker anonymization are limited in terms of achievable anonymity. Improvements can be made through cycle-consistent GAN to generate better synthetic speaker representation vectors. I plan on surpassing the existing benchmark in terms of lower automatic speaker verification (ASV) scores and good automatic speech recogntion (ASR) scores. Additionally, the entire segment would be brought online for integration with real-time communication systems. The near-end segment shall be handling the speech inpainting task. While existing techniques are able to fill the blanks in acoustic signals pertaining to music and background sounds quite well, they are ill-equipped for speech. The existing speech inpainting techniques chiefly rely on spectrogram-based approaches which result in unnatural reconstructions. I plan to study novel approaches of speech inpainting, including attention based formant imputation techniques and surpass the current benchmarks for successfully filling speech gaps in the range of 1600ms.

Keywords: speaker de identification,speech inpainting
Development of advanced bioglass-polymer scaffolds for OSTEOCHONdral interface tissue regeneration (OSTEOCHON)

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: Czechia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150438.72
EU funding (EUR): 150438.72
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Damage to the osteochondral interface (OCI) is a serious health problem associated with the development of osteoarthritis affecting the lives of millions of people. However, current treatment tools have imitations leading to unsatisfactory clinical outcomes. This project aims to solve the problem by a complex approach combining and advancing recent findings in the field of tissue engineering (TE). It is accepted that patient cells can be seeded onto artificial scaffolds containing biologically active substances (BASs) to stimulate these cells to new tissue formation. We take the view that the scaffold should consist of a soft part and a sufficiently stiff part to avoid the formation of unwanted fibrocartilage. We will use cryogelation and 3D-printed bioactive glass to prepare multiphasic scaffolds that can carry regulatory signals for adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs). Our research objectives are to develop 1) a stiff scaffold with a graded structure matching the morphology of the subchondral bone and able to be loaded by BASs to facilitate osteogenesis, 2) a soft scaffold based on a cryogel enriched by BASs to facilitate chondrogenesis, and 3) a combined scaffold matching the zonal structure of OCI to enhance its regeneration. 4) We will use ADSCs and modern ex vivo testing protocols to evaluate the potential of the scaffold to meet the needs of OCI TE, and to direct future research to in vivo testing and commercialization. The research will be conducted within the academic structures of the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT) in Prague, Czech Republic, in collaboration with the Biotechnology and Biomedicine Center in Vestec (BIOCEV) near Prague, under the supervision of Prof. Jan Merna and Prof. Bacakova.

Keywords: bioglass,hydrogels
inteGrated Users-driven risks Assessment platfoRm for DecIsion mAkers in Nuclear crisis (GUARDIANS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Norway,Greece,Ukraine,Hungary,Ireland,Netherlands,Czechia,Poland,Estonia
Call: Cost-effective sustainable technologies and crisis management strategies for RN large-scale protection of population and infrastructures after a nuclear blast or nuclear facility incident (HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5997173.77
EU funding (EUR): 5997173.74
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

Increasing concerns about new threats related to a possible major accident on a nuclear power plant or a tactical nuclear explosion, linked with the war in Ukraine, impose to EU Countries to improve their current capabilities to prepare for and respond to these possible large-scale accidents. The need for advanced technologies, interoperable risk assessment tools, and comprehensive emergency coordination strategies has never been more critical. GUARDIANS will deliver advanced, cost-effective technologies, and strategies to improve disaster emergency management in Europe. The project will enable the development of advanced radiological technologies (radioactive gas sensor, active dosimeter network), innovative and scalable strategies for triage (video analyses, digital triage), decontamination, and medical countermeasures (hydrogel, new strategy for stable iodine distribution). Autonomous means such as drones and robots equipped for radiological measurements and enhanced observation capabilities will increase overall responsiveness. A central web-platform GUARDNET, built upon existing operational tools, will facilitate real-time information processing, synthesis, mission management, and simulation services, to support decision-making. The active participation of first responders/receivers and decision-makers, along with the execution of two field tests and the assessment of the alignment between population needs and authorities' response strategies will ensure that GUARDIANS produces a new and enhanced operational capability to respond effectively to a radiological or nuclear emergency. GUARDIANS will significantly enhance European Member States' ability by providing stakeholders with state-of-the-art capabilities, innovative technologies, and effective coordination strategies. This will accelerate the decision-making process, reduce intervention times, and mitigate human and environmental impacts through improved protection of populations and infrastructures.

Keywords: gap analyses,risk assessment and decision support system,medical countermeasurements,
Integrated Structural and Probabilistic Approaches for Biological and Epidemiological Systems (INSPIRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Systems in nature are extremely robust, despite huge uncertainties and variability. Studying their nonlinear dynamic behaviour is challenging, due to their complexity and the many parameters at play, but crucial to understand important phenomena, such as cellular dynamics, onset of diseases, epidemic spreading. Parameter-dependent simulations can predict the behaviour of natural systems case by case. Yet, the exact models and parameter values are poorly known, while qualitative behaviours are often preserved even with huge parameter variations, because they rely on the system interconnection structure. Parameter-free structural approaches can check whether a property is preserved for a whole family of uncertain systems exclusively due to its structure. However, when an expected property fails to hold structurally, novel approaches are needed to understand why, which system features prevent it, which key parameters must be finely tuned to enforce it. INSPIRE will develop a unifying framework to analyse and control families of uncertain dynamical systems in biology and epidemiology, which integrates for the first time structural, robust and probabilistic methods, tailored to the peculiarities of natural systems. The project will provide: i) methodologies to assess (practically) structural properties and unveil the mechanisms that enable/prevent a property, identifying the key parameters or motifs; ii) control paradigms that leverage such an insight to guarantee a desired global property through targeted local interventions; iii) scaling and aggregation approaches that exploit the properties of subsystems to mitigate computational complexity. The project outcomes, a mathematical theory as well as algorithms to analyse and control complex uncertain systems in nature, will strongly support the analysis and design of biomolecular feedback systems with a desired behaviour, the identification of therapeutic targets, the prediction and control of epidemic phenomena.

Keywords: interconnections of nonlinear dynamical systems structural analysis of dynamical networks structural input output influences robustness analysis of biological systems randomized algorithms for the analysis of uncertain systems monotone systems and positive impulse response systems control theoretic methods for systems biology
Advancing Digital Democratic Innovation (ADDI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Finland
Call: ERC SYNERGY GRANTS (ERC-2024-SyG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2031-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9867403.75
EU funding (EUR): 9867403.75
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The Advancing Digital Democratic Innovation (ADDI) project will pioneer the study of digitally augmented forms of civic participation for preference formation and elicitation. While digital technology has, for some time now, been widely seen as being in direct conflict with the needs of a well-functioning democracy, ADDI will realise the true potential of digital technologies in the democratic space. The project will be led by four well-known researchers with expertise in participatory platform design, deliberative democracy, and computational social choice. It will be organised around three methodological pillars - technology, empirics, and theory - and it will serve three core objectives: designing technologies and procedures for citizen deliberation and participation; experimentally testing the impact of digital platforms in deliberative and participatory forums; and understanding the structure of the preferences collected through digitally augmented instances of civic participation and deliberation. The technology track will lead the creation of interventions in the form of open-source platforms designed to digitally augment deliberation and participation. The empirical track will test these interventions using randomised trials in deliberative and participatory forums and will explore the statistical patterns of the preferences elicited in them. The theoretical track, finally, will contribute conceptual and algorithmic tools to elicit, present, and combine preferences in real-world environments, including situations where participants provide incomplete preferences and that involve under-represented minorities. At the end of the project, we will have charted the potential of digital technologies in supporting and improving democratic practices, while also providing a robust suite of scientifically validated open-source tools designed to distribute these capabilities at a global scale.

Keywords: computational social choice,collective intelligence,collective will formation
Key transitions in the evolution of endosymbioses (TRANSITIONS)

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: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2031-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1714200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1714200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Endosymbiosis merges organisms and leads to evolutionary innovation. Hence endosymbiotic interactions play key roles in ecosystems and have shaped eukaryotic evolution, e.g., the formation of mitochondria and chloroplast organelles. The evolution of endosymbioses entails two key transitions: the transition from free-living to endosymbiont and from endosymbiont to organelle. These critical phases are difficult to study because extant relationships are often highly derived, and thus substantial knowledge gaps exist. Recent advances in technology make it now possible to employ valuable, but previously underutilised, protist systems in endosymbiosis research. This proposal will exploit the transitional nature of two protists: Paulinella chromatophora and the Paramecium bursaria–Chlorella association. First, I will combine partner-preference tests and single-cell approaches to study the mechanistic processes within an individual as it becomes endosymbiotic. Second, I will characterise metabolic integration during early-stage organelle formation using cutting-edge chemical imaging alongside a long-term evolution experiment. Finally, a year-long field survey will discover how changing environmental conditions influence the success of these partnerships in situ. My unique skillset of evolution experiments, single-cell genomics, metabolomics, and culturing these protists makes this ambitious proposal feasible. This project leverages transitional protists and pairs them with a powerful array of techniques to tackle fundamental questions underlying the key transitions within endosymbiosis. This original combination is at the forefront of endosymbiosis and plastid research. When completed, this proposal will provide unprecedented detail of the molecular mechanisms underpinning these transitions. As such it will fundamentally shift our perspective towards viewing these transitions as a gradient of processes rather than binary states, and will open up avenues for future research.

Keywords: endosymbiosis,plastid evolution,protists
Innovative multifunctional and smart coatings to prevent medical device related infections (SPARTHACUS)

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 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3413750.59
EU funding (EUR): 2389625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Infections represent one of the major risks of surgery implants and the main cause of implant rejection, affecting over 5% of patients who undergo an implant surgery (around 2M patients in the EU). At SPARTHA Medical, created in 2019 as a spin-off of INSERM Biomaterials Unit (Strasbourg), we developed a multifunctional coating with antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties to prevent infections in implants and surgical care. In addition to this medical coating to be used directly in hospitals, we developed a second product – a biocompatible, eco-friendly spray with antibacterial & antiviral properties for general and daily use. We also offer a customized coating development service for medical device manufacturers which leads to recurring licensing. Our coating platform is so versatile the applications are endless. We are also integrating the development service to electronics and cosmetics companies. We have signed 7 contract agreements so far, and 2 more in advanced negotiations.

Keywords: interface nanotechnology,self assembling biopolymers,personalized coatings,implant infections,medical devices
OPENing the electricity ecosystem to multiple actors in order to have a real decarbonization opporTUNITY (OPENTUNITY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Slovenia,Austria,Norway,Cyprus,Switzerland
Call: Replicable solutions for a cross sector compliant energy ecosystem (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10802543.75
EU funding (EUR): 8497465.63
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

OPENTUNITY’s mission is to create a flexibility ecosystem reducing interoperability barriers and favouring the use of standards in order to decarbonize EU grids and put the end-user in the spotlight. Grid operators, prosumers, market actors etc. will be supported by OPENTUNITY via innovative methodologies backed by advanced, interoperable software modules, in order to provide them with new features and services related to: 1) Technologies to boost flexibility in prosumer’s environment; 2) Technologies for grid operators to better manage grid operations). OPENTUNITY will also evolve, adapt and integrate a Federated Data Space infrastructure in which actors from different fields will share services and find synergies among them in order to create a reliable energy system in which different verticals (electromobility, gas, OEM etc.) will be able to seamlessly collaborate with each other. OPENTUNITY will be demonstrated in 4 different countries (Greece, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland), benefitting 26.852 citizens and reducing 91,22 MtCO2eq GHG emissions and energy poverty by 30% by 2032.

Keywords: decarbonization,blockchain,dataspace,synergies,interoperability,flexibility,ecosystem,standards
Transformation towards long-term sustainability beyond Sustainable Development Goals (BeyondSDG)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Netherlands
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): 1499997.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499997.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Countries are not on track to meet the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030. Although SDGs aim to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path, countries are not yet able to make transformative changes for long-term sustainability that requires building social prosperity and foundations within planetary boundaries. Failing to achieve SDGs will negatively affect billions of people and worsen environmental conditions and socio-economic problems. Therefore, BeyondSDG aims to understand the necessary conditions for long-term sustainability, including achieving SDGs, based on the following specific objectives: i) identify critical targets for prioritising SDGs; ii) investigate the effects of (under)achieving SDGs on long-term sustainability beyond 2030; and iii) identify sustainability targets for the post-2030 development agenda. For this, BeyondSDG will apply a threefold scientific approach that combines statistical analysis of empirical and modelled data, qualitative analysis of literature, and knowledge co-creation with stakeholders, including sectoral experts and policymakers, based on systems thinking. This combination of three approaches is complementary and essential to deal with the complex topic of long-term sustainability. Consequently, BeyondSDG will lead to a breakthrough in interdisciplinary research by combining approaches from sustainability science, earth system modelling, and environment and resource management. Mainly, it will bring the following ground-breaking findings: critical targets where adequate actions can lead to progress across most SDGs, negative impacts of underachieving SDGs on people, the planet, and prosperity, required extra efforts for long-term sustainability besides achieving SDGs, and sustainability targets for the post-2030 Agenda based on lessons learned from SDGs, state-of-the-art science, and stakeholder partnerships.

Keywords: sustainable development goals,sdg interactions,planetary boundaries,social foundations,social prosperity
Excellency in Entrepreneurship: Expanding European entrepreneurship by boosting youth (self) employability and promoting a sharing resources culture (ExcellEnt)

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: Greece,Ireland,Türkiye,Bulgaria,Ukraine,France
Call: Expanding Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-15
End date: 2025-07-14
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1121596.86
EU funding (EUR): 999838.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

With our project, we aspire to explore novel ways to capture, preserve, curate, organise and communicate sets of unstructured entrepreneurial experiences, stories, narratives with an emphasis to those of younger audience that is addressing the challenge of (self)employability, so that they can constitute a shared resource that people can augment, and that individuals as well as institutions can delve into, to find inspiration for new ways of conceptualising and promoting entrepreneurship, and how these new ways can be reflected into every-day practices and policies, and foundations for visions of our common European future.