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Threads, Beads, and Ribbons: Clothing Trade and its Cultural Consequences in Rural East Central Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century (TBR)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 384484.02
EU funding (EUR): 384484.02
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This research explores the dynamic flow of textiles and their cultural impacts in Transylvania from the late 18th century to World War I, challenging the prevailing perception of rural isolation. By examining the consumption and circulation of foreign textiles, the study reveals how these goods facilitated continuous cultural exchanges and influenced local identities in East Central Europe. Utilising digital humanities techniques, the project employs data capture technologies and machine learning frameworks to analyse textile patterns and trade routes. Ethnographic collections from Romanian and international museums provide the primary sources for this investigation. The research underscores the significance of textiles as carriers of cultural and technological information in largely illiterate societies, highlighting their role in the age of nationalism. Through digital mapping and pattern recognition, the study traces the evolution of cultural identity in multicultural spaces, illustrating the rural world's integration into global markets and its interaction with urban areas. By focusing on the socio-economic and cultural consequences of the textile trade, this project offers fresh insights into the dynamics of multiculturalism, nationalism and the shifting cultural identities in East Central Europe, expanding our understanding of the European rural space's role in the broader historical and economic developments during the modern period.

Keywords: transnational history,digital history,material cultural,modern period,east central europe
ROOM TEMPERATURE SUPERRADIANT PEROVSKITE LASERS (SUPERLASER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Greece,Belgium,Spain,Sweden,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Responsible Electronics (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3600937.25
EU funding (EUR): 3600937.25
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Coherent light sources are limited to state-of-the art lasers such as free-electron gas or solid-state semiconductor gain media stabilized to high-quality optical cavities. However, the mirrors in these cavities vibrate as a result of thermal noise, causing time-integrated phase drifts that limit the laser linewidth. To achieving high power and extremely narrow linewidth resembling that of single optical transitions, while also finding pathways for e-waste reduction, requires ingenious solutions in both gain material and device design but still remain elusive. SUPERLASER aims to change the field of lasing by developing green low-cost, solution-processable efficient and ultra-narrow linewidth superradiant halide perovskite lasers. This goal will be accomplished by predicting and developing targets to transforming coherent light generation through scientific designs and strategic developments at the material and device level towards synergistic outcomes across scientific, technological and ecological boundaries. The project prioritizes research innovation and sustainability, focusing on the prediction of halide perovskites with strong inherent spu and the successful development of continuous superlatticesbased on the predicted materials. These superradiant emitters are expected to act as topological lasers without any additional cavity requirements due to photonic crystal properties endowed by their non-trivial topology. They will be applied as gain media combined with energatically-matched charge transport materials to fabricate the first electrically pumbed perovskite lasers working at room temperature. Finally, we will apply recycle and reuse protocols to ensure zero e-waste for the developed technology.

Keywords: halide perovskite,laser diode,superlattice,superradiance,tolerance factor prediction
DigitAl and physical incrEmental renovation packaGes/systems enhancing envIronmental and energetic behaviour and use of Resources (AEGIR)

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
Partnership: B4P (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,France,Germany,Netherlands,Denmark,Romania,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call: Cost-effective, sustainable multi-functional and/or prefabricated holistic renovation packages, integrating RES and including re-used and recycled materials (Built4People) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13790078.55
EU funding (EUR): 10558608.73
Participants: 31
Project status: SIGNED

AEGIR’s main objective is to demonstrate a scalable, industrialised, smart, non-intrusive, quick, and affordable four-packaged renovation solution to boost the take up of deep retrofitting achieving nearly zerAEGIR main objective is to demonstrate a physical and digital sustainable framework that boosts the take up of deep retrofitting achieving nearly zero energy buildings. This approach is supported by (i) innovative, industrialized, high performance and non-intrusive multifunctional plug-and-play envelope solutions to increase the use of locally deployed renewable technologies. These solutions can also be modulated depending on the requirements of the target buildings. (ii) A digital ecosystem of services to improve the whole construction workflow (from design, manufacturing, construction, and operation) reducing costs with a sustainable approach. And (iii) a socio-economic model providing financial schemes and business models at building scale. To demonstrate these objectives the project will deploy all these solutions in four demos (Spain, France, Denmark, and Romania) mixing the retrofitting actions which will use the solutions in four different climates. The demos combine different building typologies (multi-family buildings, educational buildings, offices, and single-family buildings) to proof the concept in buildings and tenants with different requirements. One of the demos (Denmark) is social housing so the intention of the project is to demonstrate that these solutions are feasible for the more demanding public. A second demo is a public school to demonstrate the improved air quality and comfort provided by the solution to solve many of the air quality/ventilation problems in this type of buildings. The project involves all the actors from the construction and energy management value chain with local and international SMEs, large companies, public authorities. Local and international clusters are also included to verify the developments at European level.

Keywords: industrialization,digitalisation,sustainability,circularity,retrofitting,envelopes,res
Biomimetic eXtremely-Birefringent Organic Optical Materials and devices (BoX-BOOM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2473806.0
EU funding (EUR): 2473806.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Man-made organic optics relies almost exclusively on amorphous polymers. These cheap, readily processable and highly versatile materials, however, offer a relatively low refractive index, dramatically limiting their ability to generate the high-index contrast necessary for producing scattering layers, photonic crystals and efficient dielectric reflectors. We here propose to establish a new class of novel organic crystalline optical materials and devices by drawing inspiration from the highly birefringent high-index organic molecular crystals nature has to offer, such as those found in dielectric reflectors, photonic crystals and photonic glasses that take part in structural coloration and vision. The crystal structure of these materials, is based on a planar arrangement of hydrogen bonded molecules, which are weakly bound by van-der Waals bonds and weaker hydrogen bonding. The BoX-BOOM project aims to identify new cheap, functional and environmentally benign organic crystalline optical materials inspired by this structural motif, exhibited in biological systems, and to develop ways to grow them in a controllable manner as thin films using surface guided growth. The grown material will in turn be used in new types of optical elements and devices for a broad range of applications such as flat polarization optics, transparent dielectric metamaterials and birefringent volume holograms, all exploiting the high index and extreme birefringence of these materials. Work performed within the BoX-BOOM project will also shed light on the relationship between crystal structure and optical properties of this family of materials, setting the stage for identification of new high-index organic crystalline compounds and a range of applications taking advantage of this new thin-film optical technology.

Keywords: organic crystals birefringence biomimetic optics polarization optics
Machine Learning Combined with Spectral Imaging for Inferring the Toxicity of Micro- and Nanoplastics (PlasTox)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2030-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499949.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499949.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to advance our understanding of potential risks posed by micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) to human gastrointestinal health through a combination of quantitative, experimental, and computational approaches, leveraging powerful machine learning (ML) algorithms and versatile spectral imaging techniques. Towards this goal, the project will first deliver a framework to extensively characterise MNPs using multiple spectral imaging techniques covering from micro- to nanoscale coupled with complementary instruments. The fused characterisation data will be combined with experimental in vitro bioassays to develop ML models, enabling the prediction of toxicity patterns and unveiling key drivers of MNP toxicity. Harnessing the broad literature data, a knowledge-based deep learning approach will be employed to unlock mechanistic insights into toxicological pathways. The most ambitious part of the proposal is to integrate previously acquired knowledge to develop innovative predictive models for predicting human health impacts of MNPs based on their physicochemical properties. This will be achieved through two independent pathways: one built on insights from in vitro experiments and another rooted in extensive literature data. The ground-breaking approaches hold the potential to revolutionise the characterisation and risk assessment of MNPs, significantly reducing reliance on expensive in vitro and in vivo experiments. This project offers a unique integration of approaches, competencies and resources in environmental science, life science, analytical chemistry, machine learning, and computer vision and technological developments of spectral imaging instruments. The outcomes could yield potential breakthroughs in numerous key applications of tremendous human, technological, and environmental importance, such as toxicological screening of drugs, safety assurance and environmental hazard monitoring and open a whole new field of research in toxicology.

Keywords: microplastics nanoplastics machine learning spectral imaging human health toxicity
Is there mechano in Mechanochemistry? (Mecha-NO-Chem)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999605.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999605.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

At present, mechanochemistry is transferring an ever-growing number of chemical reactions from conventional wet-chemical procedures into the solid-state environment of ball mills. As an electrified and largely solvent-free synthesis concept, it addresses the call for greater sustainability in chemistry, while simultaneously unrevealing a widely unexplored academic frontier with often markedly different product selectivities. Applied in organic and inorganic chemistry, in the synthesis of polymers and biomolecules, the idea almost always revolves around the concept that colliding milling balls transfer mechanical energy to reactants, thereby initiating their reactivity. This concept is reflected in the definition of mechanochemistry by IUPAC as 'chemical reactivity initiated by the absorption of mechanical energy'. This project challenges the core of this definition, hypothesizing that the majority of what is denoted as mechanochemical is not initiated by the absorption of mechanical energy at all. This project is groundbreaking as it aims to change the self-conception of a discipline. It develops a new classification for seemingly mechanochemical reactions - the triangle of mechanochemistry, which categorizes reactions based on mixing, thermal- and mechanical energy. I hypothesize that most reactions designated as mechanochemical are not driven by mechanical energy, but by intensive mixing, still operating under thermal control near room temperature. I will develop methods to isolate and quantify these three parameters in mechanochemical reactions and locate latter in the triangle of mechanochemistry. This project will explore the reasons behind mechanochemical reactivity challenging the fundament a whole discipline is built on – its current definition. Precisely this knowledge on the underlying principles of mechanochemistry is pivotal to sophisticate and foster reliability within this expanding discipline and to remove it from the realm of black-box chemistry.

Keywords: mechanochemistry
Changing Inequality at Educational Transitions (EDUCHANGE)

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,Iceland,Denmark,Hungary
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999764.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999764.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

EDUCHANGE aims to become one of the first ever projects to conduct simultaneous field experiments in four strategically selected countries (Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Iceland) with the goal to reduce inequality at the educational transition from compulsory to secondary education and at the transition to higher education. While experimental intervention studies have become more common in sociology and economics in recent years, EDUCHANGE will address five critical limitations in this literature: 1) No information or career guidance experiment with the goal to reduce inequality at educational transitions has ever been implemented in different countries with a harmonized design. This is puzzling given the importance of institutional context for the generation of inequalities in education 2) The majority of experiments focus on the transition to higher education while neglecting earlier transitions which are particularly relevant in tracked European education systems 3) Previous experiments have hardly considered the role and knowledge of professional counsellors 4) Previous interventions have mainly focused on updating students’ biased perceptions of costs and returns while neglecting other psychological and social barriers 5) Advances in multimedia technologies have only to a limited extent been integrated in previous experiments. Key outcomes of EDUCHANGE will include: (a) A more nuanced conceptual understanding of how career guidance and information provision can help to reduce inequalities (b) A comparative study of students’ subjective evaluation of costs, returns and probabilities of success and psychological barriers they attach to different educational alternatives in a comparative perspective (c) Knowledge about to what degree institutional context has an impact on whether information provision and career guidance can reduce inequality at two key educational transitions – and potentially affect persistence at the next level.

Keywords: social inequality in education,field experiments,educational transitions,comparative research
Multi-layer governance performance of marine policies (PERMAGOV)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Denmark,France,Finland,United Kingdom,Norway,Spain,Belgium,Italy,Germany
Call: Multi-layer governance performance of marine policies (HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4919743.75
EU funding (EUR): 4919743.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

PERMAGOV aims to contribute to the realization of the EU Green Deal objectives by improving implementation and performance of EU marine policies. PERMAGOV’s project objectives are: 1) co-developing and applying a Marine Governance Performance Assessment Framework to assess how institutional barriers, formal and informal collaborations and e-governance tools enable and constrain the capability of actors to implement EU marine policies within the areas of Marine Energy, Maritime Transport, Marine Life and Marine Litter; and 2) co-producing Multi-Layered Collaborative Marine e-Governance Strategies which enhance the capability of end-users to contribute to the implementation of EU marine policies related to the four marine issue areas to achieve the EU Green Deal goals. PERMAGOV will contribute to the improved performance of marine polices and a successful implementation of the EU Green Deal objectives, by an assessment of 9 cases (De-carbonizing shipping, Motorways of the Sea (Maritime Shipping), Seabed integrity, Sustainable fisheries in MPAs (Marine Life), Floating Wind, Energy island, Offshore Wind (Marine Energy), Marine litter (Baltic and Mediterranean Seas)(Marine Plastics)), focusing on the enabling and constraining conditions of institutional barriers and the possibilities for multi-layered collaborative and e-governance. Characteristics for PERMAGOV is co-production and co-creation from the start to the end of the project and beyond. Together with end-users and stakeholders from maritime industries, NGOs, researchers and policymakers the Performance Assessment Framework will be developed and applied, in co-production the cases will be assessed, innovative Governance Strategies will be developed and digital tools will be improved in order to overcome the barriers hampering the performance of marine policies and the successful implementation of the objectives of the European Green Deal.

Keywords: marine governance performance assessment,institutional barriers,eu green deal,e governance,governance strategies,marine energy,maritime transport,marine life and marine litter,co production
a Framework for goal-Oriented Characterization of real-time reqUirementS in 6G networks: Driving convergence of the physical and digital worlds (FOCUS-6G) (FOCUS-6G)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 247553.28
EU funding (EUR): 247553.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

FOCUS-6G’s objective is to power real-time applications in 6G by effectively driving the convergence of the physical and the digital world and thus enabling seamless real-time interactions. To this end, this project aims to develop a framework for goal-oriented characterization of real-time requirements and leverage it for designing optimal real-time transmission strategies, thereby making the network perceptive in nature. Pertinently, the project will effectuate a paradigm shift in how we approach and overcome the challenges of two critical aspects of the envisioned perceptive network: responsiveness of the network and the reliability of communication between its constituent elements. With repsect to responsiveness, moving beyond the current state-of-the-art, firstly, instead of assuming resource intensive ultra-stringent latency targets as the timing requirement; which will be ineffective for 6G applications; this project will parameterize real-time requirements based on the specific goals of the application. Secondly, the project will incorporate timing elements associated with processing and computation operations, providing a comprehensive view of timing needs. Finally, the project will develop a framework to determine the temporal ordering (simultaneity and causality) of events reported by multiple devices, which will be crucial for ensuring network’s perceptivity and responsiveness. On the reliability front, firstly, the project will employ grant-free access protocols, allowing devices to transmit instantaneously. To manage the interference inherent in grant-free methods, rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) mechanism will be innovatively leveraged to deal with the interference between multiple devices, and imperatively, between digital and sensing data. Subsequently, joint optimization of the timing requirement and resource allocation will be pursued to devise real-time transmission strategies to effectuate real-time interactions for 6G applications.

Keywords: goal oriented communications,perceptive mobile networks,sensing and localisation,6g,optimisation