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BIO-BASED FUELS AND SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS FROM ADVANCED RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES (BioSMART)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,Slovenia,Germany,United Kingdom,India
Call: Development of smart concepts of integrated energy driven bio-refineries for co-production of advanced biofuels, bio-chemicals and biomaterials (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3693982.5
EU funding (EUR): 3693982.45
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

BioSMART is a research initiative aimed at developing advanced biorefineries to reduce fossil fuel dependency in sectors like aviation and maritime transport. These biorefineries utilize lignocellulosic biomass, converting all biomass fractions and residual streams into advanced biofuels, chemicals, and materials, adhering to zero-waste principles. The BioSMART project prioritizes efficiency, feedstock adaptability, and the use of co-production models to enhance economic and environmental viability, unlocking feedstock potential in Europe and India as geographic scope . The BioSMART consortium unites leading industrial innovators (JM, Avantium, Perseo), renowned RTOs (CSIC, TNO, WUR, NIC, TERI), and top universities (TUE, KIT, IITJ). In a nutshell, BioSMART: • Develops cost-effective technologies to convert biogenic residues and aquatic biomass into advanced biofuels, monomers, and biomaterials, focusing on resource efficiency and product value. • Achieves zero waste and negative carbon emissions. • Combines fermentation, catalytic processes, and process intensification for cost-efficiency. • Validates technologies at TRL5. • Employs digitalisation and a holistic framework for strategic decision-making, considering technoeconomic, environmental, and social factors. • Collaborates with industrial biorefineries to enhance impact. • Supports Mission Innovation 2.0 for Integrated Biorefineries in the EU, UK, and India. BioSMART has the potential to: scale and demonstrate zero-waste biorefinery technologies for renewable fuels; reduce advanced biofuel costs to be competitive with fossil fuels by increasing efficiency and diversifying revenue streams; improve sustainability through substantial greenhouse gas reduction and resource savings; and promote rural economic growth. Additionally, it aims to strengthen Europe's leadership in the field by fostering collaborative research and informing policymakers to refine regulations.
Solving the challenge of multi-material garment recycling with thermal disassembly (Resortecs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’ (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4770450.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Recycling clothes is complicated. Making fabrics new again isn’t the only challenge – threads, zippers and buttons that hold them together also need dealing with. With Resortecs, Regeneration BV makes disassembly easy, so that more clothes can be recycled at higher quality and in less time. Typically, a garment sent for recycling needs to be manually taken apart, so that its recyclable fabric can be isolated. It is a technical and economic bottleneck that withholds the industry of becoming circular. Resortecs addresses this challenge with clever alternatives that automate disassembly: 1. Smart Stitch™, heat-dissolvable threads melting at high temperatures (150-200°C), separating the fabric from labels, zippers and buttons. 2. Smart Rivet™, heat-dismountable rivets allowing for jeans and other garments to be easily dismantled. 3. Smart Disassembly™, industrial-scale ovens in which large amounts of garments can be automatically heated, disassembled and sorted prior to recycling.

Keywords: material science engineering,environmental and green technologies
Theory-Driven Engineering of Photocatalysts for Microplastics Degradation (TREX-MPs)

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: France,Brazil
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Plastics has become one of the most urgent environmental issue due to their resistance to natural degradation. Over time, they break down into microplastics (MPs), which, at lengths less than 5 mm which bring a serious problem, especially due to air and water pollution, causing serious complications to the quality of human, animal, and plant life. Several emerging strategies are being explored to combat MPs pollution, with metal oxide semiconductors emerging as effective and sustainable photocatalysts for degrading MPs, offering promise in addressing this social and environmental challenge. Metal oxide semiconductors, when energized externally, act as photocatalysts by generating charge carriers, which, in the presence of water and oxygen, lead to the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Therefore, in-depth research on ROS generation and how to improve the photodegradation efficiency of these materials is an essential factor in translating viable new technologies from the laboratory to the market. Regarding MPs, there is a lack of molecular models for ab initio calculations and knowledge about how ROS function and their mechanisms in the photodegradation process, which presents significant challenges. Therefore, the TREX-MPs project aims to investigate the photodegradation of MPs using metal oxide semiconductors thought ROS interaction. This will be achieved applying theoretical and experimental approaches, with a focus on studying the degradation of polystyrene MPs using TiO2 and CeO2. The results will contribute to the literature in this direction, and will facilitate the remediation of MPs in wastewater, which can be used in water treatment systems more effectively, at a scalable level, and in an environmentally beneficial manner. Thus, there is an urgent need of knowledge on how to deal with MPs, from their generation to their elimination, following the criteria of green chemistry.

Keywords: metal oxide semiconductors
sElective eXtraction of plaTinum gRoup mEtals froM spent autocatalysts using deep Eutectic solvents (EXTREME)

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: Cyprus,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 234754.29
EU funding (EUR): 164328.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

EXTREME is a unique research and training project tailored to merge the knowledge and expertise of Stylianos Spathariotis (ER), YS Cypriot Catalysts (SME) and TECNALIA (RTO), to conduct research regarding the chemistry of platinum group metals (PGMs) during their selective extraction from spent autocatalysts (ACCs) of petrol/diesel and hybrid electric vehiles, by using Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs). Specifically, the project aims to utilize 4 novel concepts and techniques to conduct research regarding i) the chemical reactions and process mechanisms during PGMs leaching from spent ACCs; and ii) the complexation/interactions of the PGMs with other organic/inorganic compounds in the DESs and the corresponding reactivities of the species formed, as well as the chemical reactions and process mechanisms during electrowinning and cementation to achieve the selective recovery of PGMs streams. Once the knowledge involved has been well established, an eco-friendly and cost efficient integrated single-step process will be developed at TRL4 to demonstrate the selective extraction of PGMs from spent ACCs powder into three separate streams – Pt, Pd, Rh, and investigate the environmental and financial sustainability of the process through dedicated life cycle analysis. The project progresses well beyond the state of the art in the related scientific fields involved in the leaching, recovery and holistic PGMs extraction processes and will make a significant contribution to secure the PGMs supply chain in the EU. Besides, i) it will broadly enhance the ER career prospects to reach professional maturity, through the dedicated technical and soft skills trainings provided by the two hosts and also external training materials; ii) enhance the business activities of the host which aims to further develop the process beyond the project and establish it as a main activity; and iii) facilitate the networking of the secondment organisation to develop research synergies.

Keywords: metals recovery,electrochemistry,recycling
Data-driven simulation, uncertainty quantification and optimization for hyperbolic and kinetic models (DATAHYKING)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Germany,France,Netherlands,Austria
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3465345.6
EU funding (EUR): 3465345.6
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

Europe faces major challenges in science, society and industry, induced by the complexity of our dynamically evolving world. To tackle these challenges, mathematical models and computer simulations are indispensable, for instance to design and optimize systems using virtual prototypes. Moreover, while the big data revolution provides additional possibilities, it is currently unclear how to optimally combine simulation results with observation data into a digital. Many systems of interest consist of large numbers of particles with highly non-trivial interaction (e.g., fine dust in pollution, vehicles in mobility). However, to date, computer simulation of such systems is usually done with highly approximate (macroscopic) models to reduce computational complexity. Facing these challenges without sacrificing the complexity of the underlying particle interactions requires a fundamentally new type of scientist that uses an interdisciplinary approach and a solid mathematical underpinning. Hence, we aim at training a new generation of modeling and simulation experts to develop virtual experimentation tools and workflows that can reliably and efficiently exploit the potential of mathematical modeling and simulation of interacting particle systems. To this end, we create a data-driven simulation framework for kinetic models of interacting particle systems, and define a common methodology for these future modeling and simulation experts. The network focuses on (i) reliable and efficient simulation; (ii) robust consensus-based optimisation, also for machine learning; (iii) multifidelity methodes for uncertainty quantification and Bayesian inference; and (iv) applications in fluid flow, traffic flow, and finance, also in collaboration with industry. Moreover, the proposed EJD program will create a closely connected new generation of highly demanded European scientists, and initiate long-term partnerships to exploit synergy between academic and industrial partners.

Keywords: kinetic equations,hyperbolic conservation laws,interacting particle systems,data assimilation,simulation,optimization,control
Taking Crystal Sponges into the Nanoscale Using 3D Electron Diffraction (CrySpED)

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: United Kingdom
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): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the crystal sponge method (CSM), noncrystalline molecules are ordered bound in a porous crystal to allow collection of single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) data of both the host and the analyte. This protocol has huge promise but is hindered by a lack of suitable sponge materials that can be isolated as large single crystals, and difficulties in inducing the ordered, high occupancy guest loading required for data collection. Herein, we propose to apply the CSM to 3D electron diffraction (3DED), a technique that allows analysis of ~100 nanometres nanocrystals, which will remove the requirement for time-consuming growth of large crystals, open up many new potential sponges for analysis, minimise issues with sponge activation and analyte diffusion, lower analyte detection limits, mitigate for crystal stability issues, and allow much more rapid analysis. We shall downsize existing crystal sponges (CSs) and perform a crystallographic comparison of data collected on analytes by SCXRD vs 3DED, including key parameters of the diffusion time and required quantities of the analyte. Secondly, we shall exploit the applicant’s recent discovery of a new class of sponge, BTB-MOF-24, to develop a series of new CSs with related structures through isoreticular expansion. We will compare 3DED to SCXRD for the data acquisition by these sponges. By gaining fine control over pore size and geometry, we will elucidate design criteria to control hostguest interactions and ensure ordered analyte binding for excellent data quality. Finally, we will apply these sponges to the structural analysis of complex lipids, biologically relevant molecules, but difficult to analyse due to their flexibility and chirality, and use these analytes as exemplars of the power of 3DED compared to SCXRD. Ultimately, by signposting the efficacy of 3DED and developing design rules for preparing new CSs, we will reinvigorate Taking Crystal Sponges into the Nanoscale Using 3D Electron Diffraction

Keywords: metal organic frameworks,3d electron diffraction,crystal sponge method,single crystal x ray diffraction,complex lipids analysis
From the SEA to the SOLution. An integrative assessment of marine pollution in a changing Arctic (SEASOL)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Norway,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Marine chemical pollution poses known threats to human health and to biodiversity, ecosystem and societal services. The Arctic is a major sink of global mercury (Hg) pollution. Arctic sediments, sea and glacial ice constitute vast Hg reservoirs. Recent studies raise concerns about their increasing role as local Hg sources. In a rapidly warming Arctic, the consequences of potentially increased environmental Hg on marine biota remain unknown. The objective of SEASOL is to identify the pathway(s) of Hg bioaccumulation in marine food webs of the High Arctic Kongsfjorden (Svalbard). This changing glacial fjord is recognised as a ‘natural laboratory’ of climate change in the Arctic. The fellow’s earlier research has shown the sole measurement of Hg levels as insufficient to connect biotic Hg dynamics to environmental change, whereas the analysis of Hg stable isotopes proved to be a promising tool for source discrimination and biotic transfer. SEASOL will build on the novel application of stable isotope analysis to identify the sources of Hg within the fjord system and the pathways to Hg accumulation within sentinel marine species. On the short-term, the study will provide fundamental knowledge to help understand how emerging sources of Hg from rapid environmental change will impact Arctic marine predators. On the long-term, SEASOL will contribute to the development of early-warning, adaptive management strategies, including modelling, for mitigating the cumulative impact of pollutants and climate change on Arctic marine species. This multidisciplinary approach and the central position of the host institution (Norwegian Polar Institute) in the field of Polar Research will equip the Fellow with a broad set of new skills and lay the foundation for building her specific niche as a future leader in marine pollution science.

Keywords: arctic hg stable isotopes kongsfjorden climate change marine food web mitigation
Dual-Twist: Exploring correlated physics in cavity quantum materials in a dual approach (Dual-Twist)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Controlling quantum correlations in many-body systems in is one of the major challenges in solid-state physics, and of critical importance for enabling applications in integrated quantum technologies. A material class that is particularly suitable to study and control the physics of correlated Bosons and Fermions are van der Waals heterostructures. These structures can be realized bottom up, layer by layer, with precision on the atomic level. Uniquely, their most fundamental electronic and quantum-optical properties can controlled via the rotation angle (‘the twist’) between the layers. This twistronic material engineering is especially suited to tailor emergent quantum correlations in van der Waals heterostructures and to control the collective quantum behavior in this novel material class. It is the ambition of the “Dual-Twist” project to explore emergent quantum phases of Coulomb- correlated carriers and to control their interaction with precisely tailored light-fields in twistronically engineered quantum materials. The project synergizes the emergent technique of “twistronics” to functionalize van-der-Waals heterostructures on the quantum level with the approach to utilize optical cavities to engineer quantum materials via dressing them with electromagnetic fields. Our quantum-optical investigations will provide pathways to control collective phenomena of Bose-Fermi mixtures in microcavities, correlated magnetism, collective quantum phases and strongly interacting ‘liquid light’. Dual Twist utilizes a cavity-based quantum simulation approach to reach a deeper level of understanding in our material-based experiments. The project will develop a versatile technology to simulate the quantum behavior of interacting bosons in twist-tunable lattices of non-linear photons. Thus, it will expand our insight into the Moiré physics of correlated Bosons and will provide fundamental answers regarding their applicability in quantum information.
Revolutionizing Autoimmune Therapy: Antigen Specific Immunotherapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis with Virus Nanoparticles (DIAMANTE)

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: Italy
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571427.14
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

At Diamante Società Benefit srl we leverage our proprietary Plant Molecular Farming Platform to develop cutting-edge treatments for autoimmune diseases through virus nanoparticles (VNP). Our patented protected VNPs’ mode of action is based on Antigen Specific Immunotehrapy. This means that our VNPs are able to re-educate the immune system to immune tolerate the specific body’s own cell (autoantigen) causing the disease. Our Proof-of-concept studies in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA - our first indication) animal models have shown complete remission of arthritic symptoms. Currently, there is no cure or preventive measure for this chronic condition; first-line treatments revolve around immunosuppression, causing several side effects. Our drug will be the first treatment based on the restoration of self-tolerance, while maintaining the immune system’s ability to defend itself; hence reducing potential harmful side effects. We are now seeking funding to cover the next clinical development steps.

Keywords: plat molecular farming,virus nanoparticles,antigen specific immunotherapy,self tolerances,autoimmune diseases,rheumatoid arthritis,lip1