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Modelling, Control and Applications of Hydrodynamic Cavitation Phenomena (CaviPRO)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Italy,Slovenia,Switzerland,Netherlands,Austria,Belgium,France
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2408787.77
EU funding (EUR): 2164852.8
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) is known for causing damages on machines, pipelines and equipment due to the formation and implosion of tiny gas bubbles and local temperature hotspots. Controlling and utilizing these harsh micro-conditions has the potential to revolutionise process unit operations such as mixing, reactions, emulsions and particle formation for the benefit of the European process industries and global industrial community. Systematic understanding of the physicochemical phenomena occurring in HC and design of HC reactors and scale-up are missing. Now it is time to guide the research further towards game-changing implementations that utilises HC and orchestrate them in large systems that are ready for industrial deployment. Therefore, we propose the DN project CaviPRO, which aims (a) to push the current scientific boundaries and explore entirely new directions of fundamental research on controlled cavitation that is linked to state-of-the-art additive manufacturing, advanced process control and machine learning; and (b) to educate and mentor 10 curious and capable doctoral candidates to form a critical mass of fully skilled young professionals acting as multipliers to develop technologies across Europe. The network is built on synergies and complementarities between leading scientists, world-class institutions, different disciplines, and the incorporation of several industries as drivers – ranging from start-ups to SMEs to global players – from all over Europe. In the medium- to long-term, we have the joint vision to create new and sustainable education structures with strong involvement from key stakeholders. The approach blends research, manufacturing and customer driven process design in an innovative way with short times to market, high efficiency and low costs. This will build a continuous stream of leading European scientists who will create new knowledge and innovations in the future, resulting in rapid economic growth and leadership in this field.

Keywords: hydrodynamic cavitation,process intensification,computational fluid dynamics,high speed visualisation and tomography,multi scale modelling,devices,optimisation and scale up
EBRAINS 2.0: A Research Infrastructure to Advance Neuroscience and Brain Health (EBRAINS 2.0)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Services and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,France,Italy,Netherlands,Spain,Denmark,Romania,Lithuania,Austria,Sweden,Norway,Greece,Finland,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Implementing digital services to empower neuroscience research for health and brain inspired technology via EBRAINS (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-SERV-B-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 37995202.5
EU funding (EUR): 37995202.5
Participants: 61
Project status: SIGNED

EBRAINS is a collaborative European Research Infrastructure designed to advance and accelerate progress in neuroscience and brain health. This innovative infrastructure, a legacy of the Human Brain Project (HBP), is an ecosystem where researchers, clinicians and experts from various disciplines converge to explore and analyze brain complexity – from molecular and cellular levels to the functioning of the entire organ. Therefore, the project aims to create a new standard for brain atlases from the micro- to the macro-scale, link foundational multi-level data and connectomes in the healthy and pathological brain with atlases and models, create digital twins through modelling and simulation as well as unique, excellent, and preferred services for FAIR neuroscience data. The overarching goal of EBRAINS 2.0 is to foster a deeper understanding of brain structure and function with dedicated and mature software tools, to facilitate the development of more effective treatments, new drugs, diagnostics and preventive measures for neuro-psychiatric disorders. We expect that EBRAINS 2.0 catalyzes progress in the field of large-scale models running on HPC towards Exascale and leads to innovative solutions for neuro-inspired computing, and cognitive technologies such as neurorobotics and AI. Sophisticated digital modeling and data analytics capabilities will benefit communities beyond neuroscience, such as biomedicine. We will advance EBRAINS technology, platform services and the base infrastructure roadmap, educate and train a new community of users and developers from academia, industry and SMEs, and ensure knowledge transfer. EBRAINS 2.0 will become the neuroscience hub in the European infrastructure landscape, through building strong links with the European data spaces, EOSC and EuroHPC JU, centers of excellences and other initiatives. Globally, EBRAINS 2.0 will make a strong contribution to the new era of digital neuroscience and foster European leadership in this field.

Keywords: digital research infrastructure,atlases,clinical data integration,fair data,medelling,simulation
Local for Local, Creating Economic Ecosystems Through NGI Deployment (Local for local)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Lithuania,France,Netherlands
Call: Pilots for the Next Generation Internet (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2518575.25
EU funding (EUR): 1827268.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Reason why Local regions throughout Europe face shrinking economies, which threaten their ability to sustain small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Strong technological intervention aimed at strengthening local ties can revitalize these regions. At the same time, the European Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative proposes a new internet of humans. It brings European values and norms to all citizens. We hold that NGI is the technological intervention needed to revitalize our regions. Project approach This project integrates open-source NGI building blocks into the Local for Local open-source software stack. We nurture a software ecosystem through open calls for NGI innovators, which we finance, supervise, mentor, and support in standardization. The selected top teams collaboratively create the envisioned software stack consisting of blockchain-based infrastructure, a modular platform, and one application called Locasus-B. The application is then tested in three pilots across five regions throughout Europe. We measure both the economic impact and the technical performance of the software stack. Results An open-source software ecosystem that collaboratively builds a software stack from NGI components. The attracted community of NGI innovators delivers the software stack as software common, which, being fully open source, can be extended by anyone who recognizes its potential. We deploy the software stack in five regions and use it to create self-sustaining socio-economic ecosystems. Outcomes The direct outcomes of this project are economic validation and technical performance measurement of the software stack. These outcomes contribute to the adoption of the Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade. We distribute building blocks that can create sustainable circular economies that give better control for users on their digital life. This has rapid scaling potential throughout Europe and the consortium will act to realize this adoption.

Keywords: software ecosystem,open source,decentralized ledger,payment infrastructure,full stack,platform,platform development,local economy,partner management
Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care (Support4Resilience)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health-care
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Netherlands,Romania,Ireland,Finland,Spain,Cyprus,Italy,Australia
Call: Resilience and mental wellbeing of the health and care workforce (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-CARE-04, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5999561.25
EU funding (EUR): 5999561.25
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

European elderly care experiences labor shortages, lack of qualified workers and a mismatch between capacity and demands, causing stress, burnout, and reduced mental wellbeing among healthcare workers and informal caregivers. Leaders are crucial in promoting supportive working conditions but lack research-based measures to act upon these challenges. Support4Resilience (S4R) will develop, implement, and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental wellbeing factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers; explore their perspectives and needs; develop new theory on the relationship between individual and organizational resilience, and mental wellbeing; and develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions. The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open access S4R Resource Bank. The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: 1) Mapping and identification, 2) Reflection and education, and 3) Reorganization. Measures are initiated at the organizational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience transpire at the frontline of elderly care. The Toolbox covers different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels. Elderly care settings in six European countries will implement and evaluate the Toolbox through a process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation. S4R provides policymakers, decisions-makers and leaders with solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing. Thus, pertinent to the work programme, S4R will support the development of resilient health systems in European elderly care through improved leadership capabilities, governance structures, and adaptive capacities.

Keywords: resilience,organizational resilience,leadership,elderly care,digital tool,quality improvement,patient safety,informal caregivers,healthcare leaders,healthcare workers
Photosynthetic Activity in Low Micro-Algal Density Suspensions (PALMADS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Photosynthesis is at the intersection of many vexing problems facing humanity, including feeding an ever-increasing population, securing the agricultural economy, replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy, and responding to climate changes. Studying this fundamental process and exploring its functional biodiversity is a crucial necessity. Indeed, photosynthesis is a perfect tool for environmental monitoring in a context of climate changes; it probes in a non-invasive way the physiological state of a photosynthetic organism, its response to the environment. Moreover, the discovery across diversity of new response mechanisms to environmental cues, new metabolic pathways or regulatory mechanisms also constitutes a reservoir for biotechnological mining or crop improvement. In-depth measurements of plant photosynthesis are now possible in the field with the development of dedicated portable instruments, combining chlorophyll fluorescence and absorption difference spectrometry. However, such approaches do not exist in the aquatic world, where most of the diversity of photosynthetic organisms is yet located, because the sensitivity of absorption difference spectrometers is not sufficient for natural samples characterized by very low concentrations of microalgae. Furthermore, a very small proportion of microalgal species are currently cultivated and of these, very few are “lab rats” reaching high cell concentrations. For all these reasons, a huge part of photosynthetic biodiversity escapes us. In this project, we propose to develop a high sensitivity absorption difference spectrometer which will allow measuring photosynthesis in diluted samples of one or more microalgal species. We believe that the development of such an instrument will constitute a real breakthrough in the study of photosynthesis, allowing to explore the diversity of architectures, pathways and regulations of aquatic photosynthesis.

Keywords: transient absorption spectrometry,photosynthesis,phytoplankton,biophysics,scientific instrumentation
eBRAIN-Health - Actionable Multilevel Health Data (eBRAIN-Health)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Spain,Norway,Austria,Greece,Netherlands,Italy,Luxembourg,France,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Interdisciplinary digital twins for modelling and simulating complex phenomena at the service of research infrastructure communities (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-TECH-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12436807.5
EU funding (EUR): 12436805.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The Project eBrain-Health will deliver a distributed research platform for modeling and simulating complex neurobiological phenomena of human brain function and dysfunction in a data protection compliant environment. It will provide thousands of multilevel virtual brains from patients and healthy human controls for research and innovation. Brain data from multiple sources will be pre-processed. Solving the societal grand challenge of dementia is a big task. Yet it appears feasible in a collective approach. Therefore, we will build an interdisciplinary digital twin for dementia for modeling and simulating complex phenomena at the service of research infrastructure communities. EBRAINS-Health-Cloud will offer end-to-end services for personalized complex brain modeling and simulations in distributed e-infrastructures with data protection by design and by default and simulation-ready human multiscale brain data that range from molecular (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics) and cellular to electrophysiology and imaging to behavioural, clinical, life-style and environmental data as well as data from wearables. Brain data are pre-processed and annotated such that they all relate to a common reference 3D brain space. EBRAINS-Health-Cloud constitutes a blend of three large-scale research programs: the FET Flagship Human Brain Project with its EBRAINS Research Infrastructure, the EOSC project Virtual Brain Cloud with its Virtual Research Environment for sensitive data and the H2020 project AI-MIND with intelligent tools for dementia risk estimation. The project will have synergies to topics of the Digital Europe Program, such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and supercomputing and the Health Data Space. EBRAINS-Health-Cloud offers a next generation clinical research infrastructure and creates an open yet protected space for groundbreaking digital health innovation by the research infrastructure communities comprising academia and the private sector.

Keywords: modelling,simulation,brain,health,high performance computing,dementia
NGI0 Core HopOn (NGI0 Core HopOn)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Czechia
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 499375.0
EU funding (EUR): 499375.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal aims at increasing the visibility of the NGI Zero Core granting programme, to promote its output and its grant mechanisms. We will increase the interaction with scientific and technical output throughout the region of Central and East Europe and beyond - which due to the nature of the funding scheme (small, early stage grants for deep tech) requires continuous attention to reach the right talent. The value of the addition of BUT as widening partner lies in two partially overlapping aspects which are currently not present within the programme: a significant investment in promoting and growing mindshare for the individual technological building blocks produced by NGI Zero, and through that also much more active and directly targeted engagement with the talent pool present in the geography covered by HopOn/WIDERA. This means we communicate on two layers: direct outreach to target audiences promoting ethical open technologies as well as evangelising the recursive opportunity to researchers and developers to contribute to the underlying portfolio of technology commons. We put reusable technological building blocks on display, but in a co-creation way: anyone can jump in and improve and add more functionality or tweak to new use cases. Outreach activity was limited by design so far (due to priorities set early within the project on technical excellence and long term societal impact. The new effort will build a network of technical universities and other interested parties across Europe interested in contributing to the open internet and the technology commons. This part will seek to engage educational and research institutions with cutting edge work on open standards and open source from developers and researchers executed within NGI Zero Core, and empower them to join this effort and benefit from the results.

Keywords: user centric privacy preservation,digital identity,internet services and applications,trustworthy ict,data portability,trustworthiness,oshw,open source,free software,foss
Recreating a Hero of Modern Science: The Making, Reception and Legacy of The Works of Francis Bacon (HERO)

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 Kingdom
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): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The monumental Victorian edition of The Works of Francis Bacon ('Works') appeared some 150 years ago, in the midst of the 'Second Scientific Revolution'. With the Oxford Francis Bacon project yet to be completed, it is still the standard edition of Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) collected works. The edition itself, however, has never been studied in any detail. This is remarkable since, by presenting the most up-to-date Baconian canon, it played a key role in the creation of 'Baconianism', an outlook crucially formative of 19th-century British science and philosophy. A major intellectual event, the Works climaxed the emergence of serious Bacon scholarship and propelled the search for a single scientific method, shared across disciplines, in the work of Baconians like John Herschel, William Whewell and John Stuart Mill. At the same time, it marked the start of a decades-long process of revisionism which made that Bacon eventually lost of his status as legislator of modern science and induction seized to be seen as the motor of scientific progress. This project provides the first-ever history of the making, reception and extraordinary legacy of the Works, revealing its centrality to 19th-century philosophical debates on science as well as its significance for 20th- and 21st-century Bacon scholarship. It will combine fresh archival research, historical contextualization and philosophical analysis, carried out at the world-leading Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (host) and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge (secondment). The project's original results will be disseminated through a monograph and peer-reviewed articles, and communicated through various targeted outreach activities. It will enable the researcher to acquire significant new skills and expertise that will further strengthen his position as a leading scholar of the history of science and philosophy in the 19th century.

Keywords: nineteenth century history of philosophy nineteenth century history of science history of philosophy of science victorian studies bacon studies