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Support to Reinforce the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures 3 (StR-ESFRI3)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Czechia,Italy,Slovenia,Spain
Call: Support to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499922.5
EU funding (EUR): 2499922.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The key objective of StR-ESFRI3 is to provide high-quality and flexible support to ESFRI, in achieving its goals based on the White Paper 2020 strategy, increasing its visibility, operational and analytical capacity, along with its impact on developing a consistent and dynamic European Research Area (ERA) policy for Research Infrastructures. The project builds on the experience of the previous ESFRI support projects, having successfully supported ESFRI in the realisation of a series of ESFRI Roadmaps (2016, 2018, 2021) and corresponding Landscape analyses, of the ESFRI White Paper 2020 "Making Science Happen", and of a series of related communication actions and events, including workshops for the Exchange of Experiences (EoE) among RIs and for the interconnection of RIs in EOSC. StR-ESFRI3 aims at reviewing and enhancing its current support activities in the areas of the ESFRI Roadmap process and the Landscape Analysis, the RI monitoring and the MoS platform, and in the area of EOSC, liaising with the EOSC Association with emphasis on researcher engagement and RI federation in EOSC. Furthermore, StR-ESFRI3 aims at expanding its activities to new areas, in particular to support ESFRI in its European Research Area (ERA)-related activities including the upcoming ERA Policy Agenda, where RIs is one of its key actions. This is also linked with the development of a sustainable support structure (ESFRI Office), for which an analysis of possible scenarios for related support structures (including the creation of a legal entity) will be performed, with the support of external contractors. The project will support ESFRI during a 4 year period (2022-2025). The consortium builds on the experience and expertise of the partners in previous StR-ESFRI projects (ATHENA, HIPC and UMIL), incorporating the support institutes of the elected Chairs for 2022-2023 (UL) and 2024-2025 (CSIC). For the latter dedicated budget was planned under the coordinator's budget transferred to CSIC as part of the amendment.

Keywords: european strategy forum on research infrastructures,esfri,research infrastructures,ris,support,str esfri,roadmap,exchange of experiences,eosc,analytical capacity
Light-weight, emissions aware, simulation and orchestration of Edge Computing and Edge Intelligence (LIGHTAIDGE)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The annual growth of the global energy consumption of digital technologies is 9%, hindering the EU Green Deal objective of reducing 55% greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction by 2030. With the ever-increasing deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Edge Computing (EC), and more specifically Edge Intelligence (EI) – which seeks to exploit these IoT (Edge) devices to process Artificial Intelligence algorithms – has risen as a technology with booming demand potential, but which can also negatively contribute to the global energy consumption and GHG emissions of digital technologies. Regarding EC and EI, emissions-aware (in CO2 equivalent) simulation and orchestration solutions are still under-explored. The LIGHTAIDGE project therefore focuses on light-weight, CO2 emissions-aware EI simulation and orchestration. It proposes significant advances by (i) creating a bridge between High-Performance Computing (HPC) and EC communities through the development of a novel, fast and scalable, CO2 emissions aware simulation framework for EC, and (ii) by producing light-weight, CO2 emissions aware Edge Intelligence orchestrators for low-CO2 EI model training. Foreseen impacts are, at scientific level: the project will establish a bridge between HPC and EC/EI scientific communities, and will pave the path to future, CO2 emissions aware EC and EI research. At technological, economical and societal levels: the project will reduce R&D costs by enabling an economically viable EC and EI prototyping through simulations, will help to drive EI companies in the climate transition by reducing the EI's CO2 emissions through better orchestration, and will contribute to reduce the CO2 emissions due to digital technologies, participating in the European Union Green Deal's objective. The project also proposes training, transfer of knowledge, and dissemination/communication activities for the researcher, constituting a solid path to develop his skills and experience.

Keywords: edge computing,edge computing simulation,edge intelligence,sustainable systems
The Power of Size: How cross-disciplinary scaling transforms assessment and management of environmental risks (PowerOfSize)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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 ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Setting Over the last decades, anthropogenic pressures on the environment have dramatically intensified and diversified. Nowadays, we have to deal with 100,000+ pollutants, species and sites. To set the right priorities among these environmental problems and to select the best alternatives among sustainable solutions, proper assessment tools are urgently needed. Relevance While several models are available, application to thousands of cases is severely limited by data gaps due to financial, ethical, disciplinary and other constraints. As an alternative, missing information can be obtained by linking parameters to size (e.g., catchment area, organism weight). While scaling has been proven valuable for a few parameters, relationships have been derived in a mono-disciplinary context only. Objectives Following the urgent scientific and societal needs, the overall aim of PowerOfSize is to obtain a cross-disciplinary suite of mechanistic and statistical relationships for environmentally relevant parameters (quantities) in assessment models as a function of size and other descriptors, underpinned by overarching scaling principles. Based on research gaps and policy priorities, we focus on pollutants, covering emission and fate in catchments and cities, accumulation in organisms and effects on communities. Methods, expected results and impact Based on information from reviews, databases and articles, we will derive empirical and theoretical relationships for rate, time, density and other quantities Y (parameters) as a function of city, catchment, organism and community size X, covering, e.g., water in catchments, materials in cities, blood in organisms and biomass in communities as well as the pollutants they generate, carry and degrade. Identifying overarching principles based on shared system characteristics (e.g., dimension), the integrated suite obtained 1) profoundly advances our understanding and 2) crucially reduces data-hungriness of assessment tools.

Keywords: allometric scaling scaling relationships power law cross disciplinary catchment area body size size spectra scaling in hydrology scaling in cities scaling in toxicokinetics scaling in biology scaling in ecology
POLarization Orientation CALibrator for Cosmology (POLOCALC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2418281.0
EU funding (EUR): 2418281.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

I will enable groundbreaking results for cosmology and fundamental physics, thanks to a novel method for measuring the angle of the polarization plane of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons with unprecedented accuracy. Existing and planned CMB polarimeters looking for primordial B-mode signals need an independent, experimental method for systematics control on the absolute polarization orientation. The lack of such a method limits the accuracy of the detection of inflationary gravitational waves, the efficiency in removing polarized foregrounds, the constraining power on the neutrino sector through measurements of gravitational lensing of the CMB, the possibility of detecting Cosmic Birefringence, and the ability to measure primordial magnetic fields. My 5-year project will dramatically improve instrumental accuracy by means of artificial calibration sources flying on aerial drones and tethered balloons, within sight of the most advanced ground CMB telescopes, operating at high-elevation angles and far-field distances. The calibrators will make use of linearly-polarized microwave emitters optimally coupled to the Simons Observatory (SO) polarization-sensitive detectors, the world-leading CMB project for the next decade. The orientation of the source polarization plane will be registered to absolute celestial coordinates by star cameras and ground photogrammetry with arcminute accuracy. POLOCALC will take advantage of my leading role in SO, and will operate from its site in the Atacama Desert in Chile. This project will become a pivot for the field: any existing or future instrument in Atacama will be able to observe my novel polarization calibrator, and future projects will intercalibrate their detectors with the resulting calibrated observations of sky sources. POLOCALC will produce the first experimentally-calibrated data of the polarization angle of the CMB and its contaminants, allowing existing and future CMB polarimeters to fully mine the cosmic sky.

Keywords: cosmic microwave background,polarization,balloons,unmanned aerial vehicles
Interaction between plant viruses and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System (VIRUPS)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is the primary eukaryotic pathway for selective protein degradation and plays a central role in various cellular processes, including plant immunity and antiviral defense. The UPS is a double-edged sword as it provides important services to viral infections but likewise is part of orchestrating a proper immune response, both driving virus evolution towards UPS manipulation and exploitation. Despite this exiting constellation, the interplay between UPS and plant viruses has remained poorly studied. Along increased globalization in agriculture and the ongoing climate change, new viral diseases affecting various crops have emerged globally with negative socioeconomic impacts. The VIRUPS project will be conducted at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) under Dr. Hafrén's supervision, aiming to address the knowledge gap in the UPS-virus interplay in plants. Our preliminary data shows that plant viruses enhance proteasome activity and induce different changes to UPS components and ubiquitination, together conveying a detailed response of the UPS to viruses. The project will characterize plant ubiquitinome dynamics upon infection with three different viruses in comparative virology to identify virus common and specific responses with details on differentially ubiquitinated proteins (DUPs) and targeted cellular pathways. A parallel approach will exploit one of our viruses (CaMV) capacity to activate the proteasome, because this phenotype shows wide variation among Arabidopsis natural accessions. This offers an exceptional opportunity to address correlations between proteasome activation and various disease intensity parameters, in addition to forming the basis for a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for identifying UPS regulators. UPS regulators, components, and targets obtained through this diverse set of approaches, will fuel the discovery of novel UPS-related mechanisms in disease and crop protection strategies.

Keywords: plant viruses,ubiquitin preteasome system,ups,arabidopsis natural variation,ubiquitination,proteasome,genome wide association study,gwas,plant resistance
NEXT-generation physics and data-based Battery Management Systems for optimised battery utilization (NEXTBMS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Austria,Netherlands,Slovenia,Belgium,Germany,Türkiye,France
Call: Physics and data-based battery management for optimised battery utilisation (Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D2-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998318.25
EU funding (EUR): 4998318.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The EU aims to become an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, achieving climate neutrality by 2050. Batteries will enable this clean energy transition by helping to decarbonise transport and enabling a higher uptake of renewable energy technologies. Therefore, the electrification of the European economy and society, both in transport and stationary storage sectors, has resulted in an expensive growth of the European battery industry (from battery cell manufacturers to recycling and second use companies). Achieving optimal utilisation of battery systems (by increasing the operational and lifetime usage window and reducing cost via a more efficient and appropriate use of materials) benefits not only the environment but also the end-users. The overall NEXTBMS aim is to develop an advanced battery management systems (BMS) built on fundamental knowledge and experience with the physicochemical processes of lithium-ion batteries, which will enable the significant enhance of current modelling approaches, including the readiness for upcoming lithium (Li) battery material developments. These modelling approaches will be further improved by optimising sensors and measurement techniques to meet modelling needs (and optimising models based on physical sensor data) and the physical cell configurations to form a framework that supports improving the battery state prediction and -control. By solving these challenges, NEXTBMS will ensure that the next generation of BMSs will enable higher performance, safety, and longer lifetime of the battery cells for an overall optimal utilisation of the battery system. As the NEXTBMS results aim to be implemented in a large variety of the transport and energy storage sectors, the project has a wide market potential to impact and revolutionize the entire battery market and to contribute in achieving the Green Deal objectives.

Keywords: advanced battery management system,battery lifetime,battery modelling and simulation
StAtistical PHYsics and glassy facets of micRobial communities (Saphyr)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2031-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1234032.0
EU funding (EUR): 1234032.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The study of ecological systems is at the forefront of modern scientific research, fueled by the vast availability of empirical data and advanced bioengineering techniques. Unraveling the dynamical and thermodynamical properties of these complex systems, especially in light of the current biodiversity crisis, represents a major challenge. SAPHYR aims to decode the complexity of large microbial communities and characterize their alternative dynamical states, with a particular focus on the gut microbiome, which plays a key role in various health disorders. Methodologically, SAPHYR is structured around three main axes. First, by applying cutting-edge statistical physics techniques, it aims to identify and correlate stable/unstable regimes with healthy/unhealthy physiological states in the gut (Axis 1), ultimately pinpointing universal features. Next, it will explore spatial correlations (Axis 2) and structured, time-dependent interaction networks (Axis 3). This approach will allow for an in-depth investigation of out-of-equilibrium dynamics and pattern formation within spatially extended communities. The study of sound mathematical models, combining methods from disordered-system physics with numerical simulations, will offer unprecedented insights into the stability of these systems under external disturbances. SAPHYR represents a paradigm shift in our understanding of systems governed by highly heterogeneous interaction networks, offering a timely compound of theoretical physics with applied research. On one front, SAPHYR will distinguish between single and multiple-fixed-point regimes, examine the interplay between local and global dynamics, and disentangle informative variation (signal) in microbial composition from noise. On the other, it will lay the groundwork for identifying correlations between microbiota-host interactions and bowel diseases, contributing tools for developing targeted health management strategies.

Keywords: disordered systems spin glass models replica and cavity methods dynamical mean field theory generalized lotka volterra model gastrointestinal diseases
REsistive heatinG in structured hydrophobic sorbents for a highly EfficieNt and fully Electrified DiRect Air CapTurE technology (eREGENERATE)

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: Norway,Spain,Iceland,Greece,Canada,Germany,United Kingdom,Austria,Italy,Belgium
Call: DACCS and BECCS for CO2 removal/negative emissions (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8021390.78
EU funding (EUR): 6997985.92
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of eREGENERATE is to develop a novel Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology based on cost effective and long-lasting sorbents, as well as a novel fully electrified process technology. More specifically, the project aims at adressing current DAC challenges using four key innovations. The first innovation involves synthesizing and scaling up hydrophobic zeolites, a sorbent with a long lifetime, capable of capturing CO2 at low concentrations and in the presence of water (i.e. humid air), to ensure high capturing performance coupled with low manufacturing cost. The second innovation introduces an electrically conductive substrate on which the zeolite will be coated, giving low pressure drop (hence low energy consumption in adsorption) and fast heating of the adsorbent bed to desorb the CO2. The third innovation is a new electrical swing process, fully powered by renewable energy. The fourth innovation is a first-of-a-kind algorithm able to optimise the complete chain of capture and conditioning of the CO2, as well as assessment of the energy source mix and weather impact on it, to overcome the strong energy intensity of the capture process and optimise both energy input and purity in between the capture process and the conditioning step. Further, to ensure the technology’s success and societal acceptance, a structured stakeholder engagement process will be elaborated all along the technological development to co-create strategies, including policy and incentives, to align DAC deployment with societal priorities, fostering trust and acceptance for the eREGENERATE technology. This unique and innovative technology will be demonstrated at TRL6, with plans for upscaling to TRL 8 by 2032. Three sites will be selected for feasibility study considering different climatic conditions, along with an integrated assessment of the CO2 value chain to support technical guidelines, policy/market decision making, infrastructure investment, and industry technology adoption.

Keywords: dac,structured sorbents,hydrophobic zeolites,electrically heatable sorbents,process intensification,trl6,ccs,renewable energy