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SMR aircraft architecture and technology integration project (SMR ACAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Aviation
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEAN-AVIATION (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,France,Spain,Greece,Denmark,Sweden,Italy,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call: Aircraft architectures & technology integration for aircraft concepts ranging from regional to short-medium range applications (HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2022-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 60421740.34
EU funding (EUR): 45049000.0
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

The SMR Aircraft Architecture and Technology Project (SMR ACAP) shall be the central place to assess and integrate all technologies at aircraft level, from across the projects in the SMR pillar. Establishing the link to projects with relevant technologies in the other Clean Aviation "Pillars" and transverse projects associated with novel certification methods is part of the work plan of the project. The setup of the ACAP project is tailored to steer and manage the definition of the targeted SMR aircraft configurations with all key performance features required for the SMR architecture. In order to accelerate the maturation of the SMR aircraft technologies, ACAP will provide a digital collaborative framework with tools, means and skills enabling to continuously link all R&T activities within the SMR pillar (strongly linked to other Clean Aviation pillars) to deliver solutions meeting the Clean Aviation high level goals: reduce the greenhouse gases by -30% compared to a 2020 state of the art technology; support the launch of new product by 2035, to replace 75% of the fleet by 2050, and exploit the synergies with other national and European related programmes. Coordinated by Airbus, the project consortium is composed of a well balanced mix of innovative actors from the aeronautical industry covering almost all technical disciplines of aircraft R&T complemented by a strong foundation of Academia and Research and Technology Organisations, which will be further widened with the planned linking to other CA projects. The ACAP project is aiming to identify "best athlete" SMR aircraft concepts before the end of CA phase 1 and, based on sound analysis of the expected impact with respect to the CA objectives, to propose which technologies shall be further developed and demonstrated in a Clean Aviation phase 2.

Keywords: ultra efficient smr aircraft,hydrogen enabled smr,high aspect ratio wing,disruptive propulsion architecture,propulsion and systems hybridisation,sustainable industrialisation,digital aircraft
COLDSPARK DRIVEN ENERGY AND COST-EFFICIENT METHANE CRACKING FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION (ColdSpark)

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
Countries involved: Norway,Spain,Bulgaria,Germany,United Kingdom
Call: Methane cracking to usable hydrogen and carbon (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2520247.25
EU funding (EUR): 2496004.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The ColdSpark project will validate a novel non-thermal plasma technology to produce hydrogen at an industrial scale from methane, with a process energy efficiency of 79%, achieving a conversion rate of 85% with zero CO2 emissions. This will be achieved by designing an industrial relevant reactor that leverages the best features of the non-thermal plasma technologies, gliding arc and corona discharge, to ensure high efficiency and scalability. The innovation addresses for the first time the critical step of matching the reactor with a pulsed power supply. It enables a perfect fine-tuning of the cracking process parameters, to find the right electron density and energy distribution in the plasma reactor, to maximise energy efficiency. The up- and downstream gas management will be optimised to further contribute to the system’s compatibility to existing infrastructure. The project will develop and test a novel plasma reactor at lab scale and validate it in conjunction with the power supply at large-scale, pursuing the industry’s most power efficient generation of hydrogen alongside high-value carbon. The technology will assess its application for both, natural gas and biomethane producers. A low energy cost (< 15 kWh/kg H2 produced) without the need for catalysts and water, makes the proposed solution the most cost-competitive, environment-friendly, and less complex to implement. The reactor design and modularity bring lower CAPEX and OPEX and make it easily scalable and flexible. The project gathers the expertise of a mix of academic, research, and industrial partners from five countries, which bring both outstanding research and topic competence, as well as knowledge and access to the solution for end-user industries.

Keywords: non thermal plasma,fundamental electron driven process,large scale industry application,pulse modulated plasma,catalyst free,carbon nanotube,energy efficient,sustainable hydrogen,modular
Materialities of Operatic Performance in Risorgimento Italy (MOPRITALY)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 261854.1
EU funding (EUR): 261854.1
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

MOPRITALY examines the wide range of new theatrical practices shaping Italian opera in the period 1815-1861: from stage technologies and stage manuals, to transformed architectural spaces, to newly powerful voices and orchestras. Italian opera at this time has long been studied in relation to the political upheavals surrounding Italian unification. MOPRITALY instead offers a new history of modern operatic performance, highlighting Italian opera's role in shaping wider experiences of modernity within Italy and abroad. In so doing, the project develops a more sophisticated framework for exploring the relationships between opera, aesthetics and politics, and defines a new role for Italian opera in narratives of modern European and Western history, by interrogating opera's relationship with broader social, cultural and technological developments. MOPRITALY achieves these objectives by concentrating on Rome, Naples, Venice, Florence and Milan - key centres of theatrical innovation - and drawing upon a wide range of archival sources: from operatic scores and libretti, staging manuals, acting guides, singing treatises, press reviews and letters, to institutional records, political tracts, scientific and medical treatises, and memoirs of the spoken theatre. The project will be carried out at La Sapienza (Rome), an outstanding international centre for musicology and ideally placed for archival work throughout Italy. MOPRITALY will be supervised by Professor Emanuele Senici, a renowned expert on nineteenth-century Italian opera, and it includes a six-month placement at the Archivio Storico Ricordi (housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense) that will support implementation of earlier research findings. MOPRITALY will overall transform my research skills and professional network, putting me in a strong position to secure permanent academic employment and creating deeply connected links between a range of international institutions, both academic and non-academic.

Keywords: opera studies modern italian studies performance material culture theatricality romanticism modernity voice
On Rosalyn Tureck’s Legacy for Bach Performance in the 21st century (TureckBachXXI)

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: Germany,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 289407.84
EU funding (EUR): 289407.84
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

J.S. Bach’s musical legacy is astonishingly rich. We have been responding to his music for more than 300 years. The American keyboardist Rosalyn Tureck (1913-2003) devoted more than six decades to performing, researching, teaching, and writing about Bach’s works, as well as music and arts in general. She has left an abundant heritage on performance practice and scholarship for those who seek to understand, perform, and communicate Bach’s music. This heritage remains mostly unrevealed. Bringing together efforts from music performance, musicology, aesthetic, social studies, new music technologies, and composition, the TureckBachXXI project aims at gathering, exploring, and questioning Tureck’s ideas for Bach performance in the aesthetic, cultural, social, and technological mindset of the 21st century. The main outcome of this project will be a commented edition of Rosalyn Tureck’s ideas and findings on concepts, performance practices and techniques, and stylistic prospects involved in the realization of Bach’s music, and its connections with the music of today. This will be useful not only to artist performers, but also to musicologists, composers, and all enthusiasts interested in Bach’s legacy, as well as for the evolution of music and the arts. In addition, this project investigates musicological/performance questions opened by Rosalyn Tureck that will bring new perspectives to performers as well as to researchers and Bach enthusiasts. Finally, the project questions the vitality and the longevity of a music of a past era in the technological, cultural, aesthetic, and social environment of a new music era. This will result in particular in a series of interviews with composers of today nourished with questions raised by Rosalyn Tureck. Testimonies about Rosalyn Tureck from the remaining people who worked with her will also be collected. This interdisciplinary project opens new perspectives in the fields of Bach studies and music performance.

Keywords: music,johann sebastian bach,rosalyn tureck,musicology,piano,arts,performing arts,music performance,life long learning,contemporary music,aesthetics,21st century
Justice in the XXI Century: A Perspective from Latin America (JUSTLA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,Netherlands,Austria,Brazil,Chile,Peru,Uruguay,Argentina,Colombia,Portugal
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1651400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1651400.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

JUSTLA is a consortium of 7 EU universities and 11 Latin American academic institutions. A carefully built network of scholars from these organizations concentrates on new lines of research in political theory that promise to challenge the dominant liberal paradigm of justice. In particular, the project starts from recent studies on the relation between democracy and economic inequality, cultural identities (gender, race, and decolonization), the role of science in politics in the post-truth era, and climate justice. It engages Latin American institutions because there we find the most advanced developments of these lines of research and because the Latin American social, economic, and political realities are a privileged point of observation from which further developments in these lines of research can be achieved. Coping with a shared belief that justice cannot be defined by philosophy in isolation, the consortium is composed of leading European and Latin American scholars belonging to political philosophy and various other disciplines in the social sciences. A substantial number of early stage researchers are also engaged in a group that jointly promises to enlarge the competence of European and Latin American researchers. The consortium aims to consolidate and expand pre-existing cooperation and knowledge sharing among European and Latin American academic institutions and to build institutional ties meant to outlive the project.

Keywords: political philosophy,political science,law,sociology,anthropology,justice,democracy,economic inequality,gender and racial discrimination,climate justice,decolonial theories
Hybrid Lifestyles of Ex-Urbanites and Their Cultural Impact on Non-Urban Areas (HL-EXURB)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The so-called fourth industrial revolution, with its transformation of economic production and social life, has coincided with the further urbanization of the world population. At the same time, however, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, an intriguing migration from urban to non-urban areas seems to be emerging. Millennials in particular—a group of the population now between their late 20s and 30s and known as "digital natives"—are leaving the city. With their new lifestyles forming at the nexus of urban, rural, and digital spatialities, these ex-urbanites are altering non-urban places due to their cultural, creative, and digital capital. Combining digital research with an ethnographic study of the ex-urban community settled in Turkey, this research will explore new hybrid lifestyles created by ex-urbanites and examine their cultural impact on non-urban areas. Additionally, by implementing the cultural impact analysis in three different European non-urban areas, this research will offer an innovative design of cultural impact analysis for non-urban areas. A significant impact beyond academia will be created through the proposed workshop and the toolkit. WP1 identifies the lifestyle practices, values, and amenities of exurbanites. WP2 explores how ex-urbanites' lifestyles connect urban, rural, and digital spaces. WP3 determines cultural impact indicators for non-urban areas, and WP4 implements the cultural impact analysis in three different non-urban areas of Europe. WP5–7 constitute project management tasks, training, and dissemination activities.

Keywords: hybrid lifestyles,non urban areas,ex urban communities,cultural impact analysis
TaphArt: exploring the potential existence of rock art paintings in the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa and its destruction due to the action of taphonomic processes (TaphArt)

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: France,Spain
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): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The advent of symbolic material culture and the storage of information outside the human brain through the production of artefacts and images imbued with meaning was a landmark in human evolution. Although it has been generally considered as the consequence of an European Upper Palaeolithic "revolution" that took place around 40 ka, new evidence from the Middle Stone Age (MSA, ~300–40 ka) suggests the presence of symbolic material culture in Africa at ~150 ka. In this context, a major research challenge for archaeology is to explain the apparent absence of rock art paintings in the MSA archaeological record of southern Africa. Ochre pigments are ubiquitous in the sites from this period, and toolkits used to produce ochre-rich liquid paint date from at least ~100 ka. Furthermore, images engraved on pieces of ochre and a crayon drawing demonstrate that the MSA populations had all the material, technical and cognitive resources necessary to create graphic representations. Thus, through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that brings together archaeology, paleoenvironmental science, atmospheric science, material science, and analytical chemistry, the TaphArt project aims to develop an experimental research to determine whether the absence of rock art paintings in the MSA sites of southern Africa is due to a cultural choice of the human populations or the result of taphonomic processes that eliminated the painted images from the archaeological record. Taking as reference the archaeological and paleoenvironmental context of Blombos Cave (South Africa), the project tests the hypothesis that marine aerosol and wind erosion may have contributed to the destruction of rock art paintings potentially produced on the site, providing groundbreaking unprecedented data to the discussion on the origins of rock art and the behavioural evolution of the Homo sapiens.

Keywords: middle stone age,human symbolic behaviour,rock art,taphonomy
BIOinspired photocatalytic POLymersomes for compartmentalized solar Energy conversion (BIOPOLE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499998.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499998.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The transition to sustainable fuel and chemical production using renewable energy sources is paramount to curb CO2 emissions and decrease reliance on fossil fuels. In this context, artificial photosynthesis (AP) offers a promising approach to mimic natural photosynthesis (NP) to store solar energy into chemical bonds, driving the conversion of water and CO2 into renewable products. However, current photocatalytic AP systems are constrained by low efficiency, limited product selectivity, specially going beyond the 2 electron CO2 reduction, and poor control of cross-reactivity in solution. BIOPOLE introduces an innovative compartmentalized approach to AP by mimicking the spatial layout of thylakoid membranes -which separate oxidation and reduction reactions to minimize cross-reactivity- arranging catalysts, photosensitizers and mediators across artificial membranes. Using polymeric vesicles (polymersomes) as bioinspired photocatalytic microreactors BIOPOLE will compartmentalize redox chemistry to ultimately drive the electrons from the oxidation of water to reduce CO2, offering an efficient and stable platform for solar fuel and chemical production. This project aspires to address key challenges in AP, developing novel advanced photocatalytic polymersomes with controlled membrane properties and functionalization, achieving precise separation of reaction centres, enhanced charge separation, and efficient solar-to-fuel conversion. Using photocatalytic polymersomes as simplified models of natural thylakoids to produce solar fuels and chemicals harnessing light as driving force, BIOPOLE will contribute to the understanding of reactivity at the aqueous interface of polymeric membranes and electron/proton transfer between compartments. Ultimately, BIOPOLE’s unique bioinspired polymersome-based approach promises to advance the design and conceptual development of artificial photosynthetic systems and provide a transformative platform for sustainable fuel production.

Keywords: photocatalysis,artificial photosynthesis,photocatalytic vesicles,confined catalysis,polymersomes
Decoding the Structural and Functional Dynamics of HER2-HER3 in Cancer through Advanced Cryo-Electron Tomography (HERSTRUCT)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The HERSTRUCT project seeks to uncover the structural and functional mechanisms of HER2 and HER3, two proteins that are pivotal in driving cancer progression, particularly in aggressive breast and lung cancers. HER2 is often overexpressed in these types of cancers, leading to unchecked cell proliferation, while HER3 collaborates with HER2 to intensify the signaling pathways that sustain tumor growth and survival. Despite extensive research, the precise nature of the HER2-HER3 interaction in cancer cells, especially within their native membrane environment, remains elusive and closely linked to cancer resistance to therapies. Leveraging cutting-edge cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), the HERSTRUCT project aims to produce the first 3D structural view of the full-length HER2-HER3 complex in its natural membrane environment. This approach will provide unprecedented insights into how these two proteins function together at the molecular level. Functional assays will investigate how HER2 and HER3 trigger cancer-promoting signals, while mass spectrometry will identify additional molecules interacting with the complex, offering a complete view of their role in cancer progression and therapy resistance. In collaboration with leading research institutes, HERSTRUCT will explore how these structural insights can be applied to develop cancer therapies specifically targeting HER2-HER3 interactions. This effort not only fills a key gap in cancer research but also has the potential to lead to more personalized and effective treatments, particularly for HER2-positive cancers, where drug resistance is a challenge. The fellowship will provide me with cutting-edge expertise in cryo-ET and advanced data analysis, strengthening my skills and preparing me for a leadership role in cancer research. This project addresses a critical challenge in cancer biology and offers the potential to improve treatment outcomes for patients with HER2-driven cancers.

Keywords: membrane proteins,protein complexes,cryo electron tomography,drug resistance,mass spectrometry