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Rhizosphere priming: Quantifying plant impacts on carbon dioxide emissions from a warming Arctic (PRIMETIME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499230.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499230.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Rapid warming is accelerating Arctic carbon cycling, including CO2 release by degradation of thawing soil organic matter and CO2 uptake by better-growing plants. Projections of future Arctic greenhouse gas fluxes retain large uncertainties and do not consider plant-soil interactions that can substantially affect CO2 release - the RHIZOSPHERE PRIMING EFFECT. Theoretical considerations, comparison of ecosystem carbon stocks and model extrapolation of temperate studies suggest a high potential for globally-relevant, priming-induced CO2 emissions from a warming Arctic following shifts in vegetation and rooting patterns. PRIMETIME aims to provide the first observation-based estimate of total plant effects on circum-Arctic soil and ecosystem carbon stocks in a changing climate. Central questions include: (1) How do different vegetation types affect soil and ecosystem carbon stocks and CO2 balance? (2) How do changes in rooting depth interact with depth gradients of soil properties to affect carbon stocks and CO2 fluxes? (3) What is the net effect of expected changes in plant productivity, vegetation distribution and rooting on ecosystem carbon storage across the circum-Arctic? The EXPERIMENTAL MODULE will quantify plant-soil carbon fluxes and plant impacts on soil CO2 release for different vegetation types and soil depths, combining a novel living-plant macrocosm experiment with field observations, cutting-edge 14C-dating (high risk) and 13C-labelling. The MODELLING MODULE will take our recent model to the next level and integrate experimental data to calculate the combined plant effect on ecosystem CO2 sink/source strength in a changing Arctic. The model will be validated against Eddy Covariance-observed CO2 fluxes (high risk). The integrated PRIMETIME approach will break new ground by shedding light on plant impacts on belowground carbon cycling, and provide a tool box to quantify and integrate these fine-scale processes in large-scale emission estimates.
Quantum Atom Light Interfaces in High Density Samples (QuALIHDS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Light mediated dipole-dipole (DD) interactions in high density samples constitutes an interesting source of complex physical phenomena. Ultracold atomic systems provide a unique platform to study such fundamental phenomena. This project targets the systematic study of the light mediated DD interactions in Yb atoms, a two-electron atom. This remains a highly unexplored regime where even simulations for small atom numbers remain difficult. A profound knowledge of the DD coupling mechanism can have severe implications in our understanding of atom-light quantum interactions in high density samples, and can open the way to new and exciting possibilities in quantum simulation or quantum metrology. We will study DD interactions in high spatial and optical density samples of Yb. Our main goal is to understand line shifts for near-resonance probing light in the usual weak drive regime, but also in the strong and pulsed operation regimes. The expected line shifts will inevitably affect the atomic population dynamics, which has implications in advanced metrological protocols (Rabi/Ramsey spectroscopy) currently used in state-of-the-art optical atomic clocks. Understanding and harnessing DD interactions in such context can be a crucial step towards more precise and stable atomic sensors.

Keywords: quantum metrology,quantum simulation
From wild to crop: unravelling the impact of root domestication on drought tolerance (WILD-ROOTS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2029-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999141.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999141.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Crop domestication revolutionised human life. This process induced changes in plant traits that produced plants that grew faster and generated higher yields. However, remarkably little is known about how plant roots have changed throughout the domestication process. Climate change is causing increasing droughts in many parts of the world. Given that roots are the way that water enters the plant, they are key for understanding drought tolerance. Root traits from crop ancestors could offer a route to increasing drought tolerance of modern crops. To do this, we need to focus our efforts on the impact of domestication on roots and the rhizosphere (the zone around the root including microbes), rather than only aboveground traits as traditionally done. WILD-ROOTS will therefore test the overall hypothesis that crop domestication led to changes in root and rhizosphere traits which decreased the drought tolerance of crops compared to their wild relatives. WILD-ROOTS will make a holistic study of the roots and rhizospheres of a wide range of crops from diverse origins. There will be a focus on root exudation and volatile organic compound (VOC) emission, which are vital root processes that are crucial for many types of interactions with plants, animals, microbes and the soil itself. Changes in root exudates and VOCs have been observed during drought conditions, but their roles in the drought tolerance of plants remains unclear. WILD-ROOTS will (1) evaluate domestication effects on the roots and rhizosphere, then (2) elucidate the mechanisms relating belowground traits to drought tolerance, and finally (3) use this knowledge to modernise crop models and identify belowground traits to be exploited for drought-proofing current crops. The results will reshape our fundamental knowledge of both the crop domestication process and how root exudation influences drought tolerance, as well as offering new approaches to boost the food security of current and future agricultural systems.

Keywords: root exudates,rhizosphere,crop wild relatives,drought,microbes,vocs,roots
Celerway GO mini, your office network in your pocket (Celerway GO mini)

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: Norway
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-03-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3485000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2439500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Remote work has become common in today´s Covid-19 world. It is expected that 60% of employees will continue to work remotely, even after the Covid-19 pandemic. But this poses 2 problems: how to ensure proper network connectivity for employees who do not always have access to reliable networks? And how to ensure proper security when working on unsecured networks at home or in public? To resolve these quality and security issues, we have developed the Celerway GO mini, a holistic IT solution that will allow remote workers to have a secure and reliable network connection at home, in public and when roaming with limited available networks. Our solution will coma in the form of a small light device that connects to a computer´s USB port and will ensure a reliable, low latency and fast 4G/LTE/5G connectivity (even when using our VPN) with SD-WAN capabilities. It will enable remote workers to continue working securely in a variety of settings, and despite limited network availability.
Nano meta components for electronic smart wireless systems (SMARTWAY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Germany,Romania
Call: EIC Transition Challenge: Green digital devices for the future (HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2458365.0
EU funding (EUR): 2457765.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

New communications and radar systems require small and tunable high-frequency devices, since their backbone is the Internet-of- Things (IoT). The need for ultrafast, low-energy-consumption information processing of an exponentially increasing data volume will lead to a global mobile traffic reaching 4394 EB by 2030, thus starting the 6G era (data rate up to 1 Tb/s) of an “ubiquitous virtual existence”. In today’s wireless applications, radar sensors play one of the major roles. Due to the increased need for higher sensitivity and non-destructive inspection systems, the frequency of the radar sensors has reached up to 300GHz on silicon-based technologies. On the other side, 60GHz radar sensing is considered one of the main products for smart home, non-destructive material classification, monitoring vital signals, and all the IoT application that need micro-motion detection. The market penetration for these sensors is now hampered by (i) the limited antenna performance (mainly for the 300GHz case) and (ii) the frequency selectivity and tunability (mainly for the 60GHz case). SMARTWAY proposes novel architectures based on new paradigms that exhibit a significant decrease in energy consumption while improving on speed/performance and miniaturization. The disruptive nature of the targeted approach relies on a progress towards the wafer-scale integration of two-dimensional (2D) materials, metamaterials (MMs), and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into radar sensor suitable for IoT sensing applications at both millimetre-waves (i.e., 24–60GHz) and THz frequencies (i.e., 240–300GHz). The final outcomes of the project will be two demonstrators, apt to provide industry compatible solutions for radar sensor technologies. For the first time, the nanotechnological paradigms “2D materials” and “CNTs” will be harmonized with the MM concept, thus producing brand-new designs of large-scale complete systems with emphasis on compatibility and integration of different materials/technologies.

Keywords: ultra low power digital nano component,green digital nems,nano digital switch,nano antenna,digital nano t r module,nano digil filtre,nanocharacterization,cnt,2d nanomaterials,nano integratio
TOKMAT: Truth, Objectivity, and Knowledge: rethinking the social construction of MAThematics (TOKMAT)

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: Israel,United States
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): 197551.2
EU funding (EUR): 197551.2
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Like all human undertakings, mathematics is pursued, promoted, and developed by socially and culturally situated practitioners immersed in the complex collectivities of their communal, practical, and institutional affiliations. However, while few would oppose viewing any other major, artistic, social, political, or religious undertaking as socially constructed, social constructivism in mathematics, specifically regarding the notions of truth and objectivity, remains highly contested among historians and philosophers of science and mathematics. The TOKMAT project uses intuitionism in order to develop a new technique for understanding the concept of truth in mathematics. This technique will be based on a conceptual analysis of the ideas of truth, realism, objectivity, and knowledge in mathematics through the prism of social constructivism. Intuitionism presented an alternate mathematical framework to classical mathematics, that viewed mathematical entities as creations of the mind. As intuitionism acknowledges the social constructivists’ claim that truth is a wholly human construction, it is a springboard towards a wide-reaching rethinking of the main constructivist account of mathematics. As a non-mainstream mathematical school whose ideas are still being discussed, intuitionism is a springboard towards exploring the social organization of scientific knowledge and its impact on our understanding of concepts like truth and objectivity. The project, therefore, brings together the history, sociology and philosophy of mathematics in order to provide new ways of understanding the notions of truth and objectivity in mathematics as shaped by both external and contextual elements. In doing so, this project aspires to contribute to the heady debates on epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, and the social constitution of warranted knowledge.

Keywords: philosophy of mathematics social construction sociology of science mathematical truth mathematical objectivity intuitionism epistemology of knowledge scientific disagreements
Towards a Theory of Rational Desire (RaDe)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2029-07-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 998633.0
EU funding (EUR): 998633.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The standard framework for rational decision making is expected utility theory. In this framework, decision makers are modelled as having a probability function, which represents their degrees of belief about what is likely to happen, as well as a utility function that represents how desirable they find each possible outcome. Expected utility theory has been influential in many disciplines, including philosophy, but it has important limitations and flaws. In particular, desires are typically treated as subjective and hence not a suitable target of criticism, aside from the requirement that they obey very generic coherence constraints. Agents’ degrees of belief, on the other hand, are held to much more stringent standards. For example, most decision theorists maintain that degrees of belief should be mathematical probabilities and that agents should use a rule called “Bayesian updating” to adjust their degrees of belief in response to evidence. This project will argue that the asymmetric way in which belief and desire are treated in the standard theory is unjustified. Desires can be misaligned with the world, just like beliefs can be false. For example, suppose you live in Alaska and you detest snow and desire tropical weather. Then your desires are clearly misaligned with the world—it would be better for you if you either (somehow) grew to like snow or if you moved to the tropics. In the same way that it is rational to aim to believe the truth, it seems rational to aim to have desires that are aligned with the world. The main goal of the project is to develop a novel theory of rational desire management that takes seriously the idea that our desires can align to a greater or lesser extent with our circumstances and values. In so doing, the project will inaugurate a completely new subfield of philosophy devoted to the formal study of what makes desires rational.

Keywords: decision theory,epistemology,ethics
thE impaCt Of coSmic raYS on the inTerstEllar Medium (ECOSYSTEM)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the impact of cosmic rays (CRs) on the evolution of galaxies. The fact that the local CR energy density is comparable to the turbulent and magnetic energy densities implies that CRs can potentially influence the dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM), regulating the level of star formation and driving large-scale outflows. Moreover, CRs have long been known to be a key source of heating and ionization in the dense ISM shielded from photoionizing radiation. Despite the considerable progress made in the field, there are still uncertainties in modeling the galactic-scale transport of CRs. As a result, the extent to which CRs impact ISM structure and evolution is yet unclear. ECOSYSTEM will provide a significant step forward in the field, thanks to state-of-the-art MHD simulations modeling the transport of spectrally resolved CRs and their interplay with the ambient gas, with unprecedented physical detail. These simulations will employ a new algorithm in which the propagation of CRs depends on the properties of the multiphase ISM and CRs themselves. To cover multiple ISM scales and conditions, the project will combine simulations of kpc-sized portions of galactic disks representative of galactic environments typical of Milky Way-like galaxies with zoom-in simulations of individual molecular clouds, and will explore different galactic properties in terms of star formation rate, gas surface density, and gravitational potential. This project will deliver a comprehensive theoretical investigation of how the distribution of CRs, in space and energy, vary with the dynamical, thermal, and magnetic properties of the gas. Three questions will be addressed thanks to ECOSYSTEM: 1) What is the impact of CRs within the ISM disk and for galactic wind driving? 2) How do the large-scale spatial and spectral distribution of CRs depend on galactic environment? 3) What sets the CR ionization rate in the dense ISM?

Keywords: magneto hydrodynamical simulations
ANTIMICROBIAL NANOSTRUCTURED BIOMATERIALS FOR COMPLEX WOUND HEALING (NABIHEAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Israel,Austria,Slovenia,Germany,Croatia,Denmark
Call: Smart and multifunctional biomaterials for health innovations (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999047.15
EU funding (EUR): 4999046.75
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Complex wounds are a global health problem with significant impact on the health care economy. In developed countries alone, they impact the quality of life of more than 2% of total population. Complex wounds, including chronic wounds or major burns, are highly susceptible to microbial infection and biofilm formation, and difficult to treat. Moreover, silver is a widely used metal in antimicrobial products to treat wound infections. However, silver-based products are expensive, and show several drawbacks due to costs, as well as environmental and safety concerns. The NABIHEAL project will develop multifunctional biomaterials, from proof-of-concept (TRL 3) to the preclinical regulatory stage (TRL 5), to improve wound management. The resulting biomaterials will enable affordable treatment of wound infections or prevention of complications during all phases of the wound healing process. In the short and medium term, NABIHEAL will develop at least two innovative multifunctional wound-healing biomaterials, using affordable EU-based manufacturing technologies. In the long term, NABIHEAL could become a game-changing alternative to silver in wound-healing dressings. A consortium comprising 5 SMEs and 9 academic institutions, with expertise in wound healing product development, evaluation and commercialization, nanotechnology, safety, and regulatory affairs, will join forces to address these ambitious objectives.

Keywords: complex wounds,burns,chronic wounds,wound healing,3d molecular materials,antimicrobial agents,nanovesicles,bioactive molecules,green manufacturing,scale up,molecular self assembling,