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Innovating the Future of Wind Power Plants: A Comprehensive Investigation into Fault Ride-Through Solutions By Grid-Forming Control (InnoWindFaultRiForm)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In March 2023, the European Parliament and the Council reached a provisional agreement to increase the binding renewable energy target to at least 42.5% by 2030. This necessitates a swift transition from synchronous generator power plants to renewable energy sources, creating a challenge of lower short circuit capacity (SCC) and low synchronous inertia. This reduction leads to a less stable power system and increased vulnerability to disturbances. To address this issue, wind power plants (WPP) are required to have Fault Ride Through (FRT) capability, which would enable them to ride through faults and contribute to the stability of the grid. FRT for WPPs becomes vital to ensure grid stability during faults. Our project aims to develop robust nonlinear FRT control solutions for grid-forming (GFM) WPPs. We will investigate their performance during grid faults, considering voltage dips, frequency changes, and phase jumps. Our work is highly relevant to the program as it addresses the increasing demand for stable renewable energy integration. Our objectives are: -Analysis and Modeling: Analyze and model GFM-WPPs' behavior during faults, understanding grid requirements and assessing GFM capabilities. -Dynamics in Low Inertia Grids: Explore FRT achievement in low SCC, low inertia grids, identifying factors and tuning control loops. -Nonlinear Solutions: Develop nonlinear FRT control strategies, focusing on stability and synchronization during faults. -Laboratory Verification: Validate the proposed FRT approach using emulated WPPs to enhance understanding. These objectives align with the program's goal of advancing renewable energy integration and grid stability, pushing the boundaries of current research. Through interdisciplinary approaches, we integrate power systems, power electronics, nonlinear control theory, and renewables, addressing the complex challenges of WPPs during grid faults.

Keywords: wind power plants,grid forming control,fault ride through,grid code compliance
The German Sources of Ecology (Oecologie)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Originally, ‘ecology’ was more than just the name of a biological subdiscipline. When its inventor, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel, first coined the term (German: ‘Oecologie’) in his 1866 work General Morphology, he was in fact shaping the contours of a larger philosophical project rooted in German anthropology and aesthetics. The aim of this ERC research project is to uncover this forgotten enterprise and to assess its implications. To do so, it proposes a radical change of perspective, broadening the view from the scientific dimension emphasized by Haeckel’s successors to its philosophical sources. By analyzing Haeckel’s original interpretation of the metaphor of oikos (‘habitat’, ‘dwelling’) and oikeiosis (‘adaptation’, ‘appropriation’), the project traces the shift in emphasis from the viewpoint of an external and distant God to the living organism’s own capacities for adaptation and domestic ‘householding’; it examines the place of the human organism in this ecology, as a natural being, as a human housekeeper, as part of a larger household, and as an aesthetic spectator, representing and visualizing the world from within and from the terrestrial habitat. Using a transversal methodology situated at the intersection of conceptual history, history of philosophy, history of science, aesthetics and philology, Oecologie explores the context of the emergence of this first strand of ecological thought in nineteenth-century European evolutionism (1), its philosophical sources and its debt to earlier thinkers in the German tradition, such as Kant, Alexander von Humboldt and Goethe (2), its ambiguous history of reception both in Germany and abroad (3). Last but not least, it examines the actuality and relevance of such an ecology for environmental studies and the contemporary sciences, which are struggling to regain their lost unity, to refocus on the human being, and to bridge the gap between the scientific and political strands of ecology (4).

Keywords: ecology,philosophy of ecology,history of ecology,haeckel,german aesthetics,arts and science,philosophical anthropology,early modern cosmology,geographical thought,evolutionary theory,darwinism,oikos,habitat,economy of nature,adaptation,balance of nature,biodiversity,non epistemic values in science,aesthetic feeling,kant,alexander von humboldt,goethe,lamarck,german history of ideas,environmental studies,eco criticism
An anaerobic native approach to shine Light on C1-cycling biochemistry using Environmental microbial biomass. (EnLightEn)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Microorganisms have shaped the Earth's biogeochemistry for almost 4 billion years. Among them, anaerobic archaea dominate the carbon one-unit cycle, nourish ecosystems, and orchestrate the final step of organic matter degradation. They remain mainly uncharacterised and uncultured while harbouring a universe of concealed enzymatic chemistry, which cannot be approached via classic omics. EnLightEn will study these non-isolated archaea as part of the "microbial dark matter" by exploiting native biomass rather than artificial systems. The overall carbon-processing catabolic landscape will be pictured through an anaerobic pipeline, simultaneously investigating multiple enzymes bound to physiological partners and equipped with native (metallo)cofactors. This approach proved its success by deciphering the first and last steps of the ethane-oxidation process from an anaerobic microbial enrichment breaking the accepted metabolic model of archaeal alkanotrophy. EnLightEn will develop into three branches. (i) We will pioneer the biochemical investigations of enzymes from methanotrophic archaea enrichments. (ii) The native catabolic machinery from acetate-degrading methanogens, the prime methane producers in the world, will be isolated from mesocosms. (iii) As the most challenging project, we will study marine environmental enzymes from sediments and microbial mats conducting anaerobic methanotrophy and methanogenesis. Catabolic enzymes are naturally in high abundance in these multiple subspecies communities. Single protein populations will be sorted out by chromatography and ultimately by crystallisation and studied by a suite of biophysical, biochemical and structural technics, as we recently did for a methane-generating enzyme isolated from a wastewater treatment plant. EnLightEn will open a field to characterise the functional dark matter, which can be further applied to other metabolisms and offer an unprecedented view of the molecular tricks used by the microbial world.

Keywords: anaerobic biochemistry,c1 metabolism,native structural biology,methanogenic archaea,anaerobic methanotrophic archaea,metalloenzymes,environmental biochemistry
Tayloring Decoherence in Large Molecules (TADIM)

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 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Large molecules, i.e. molecules with more than 10 or even 20 atoms, have a huge potential to provide new data for the elaboration of new physics, from probing dark matter models, variations of fundamental constants or testing the Standard Model beyond what can be achieved by high-energy experiments conducted at large and very costly facilities. However, these large molecules can suffer from very complex couplings, making high-precision measurements almost impossible once a certain number of atoms, and thus of molecular complexity, is reached. When probing vibrations of the molecule (spectroscopically, in the IR frequency domain), couplings between different vibrational modes of the same molecule can induce large linewidths, and decoherence of the vibrational states. These vibrational couplings are called intramolecular vibrational redistribution (IVR) in the physical chemistry litterature, and are known since more than 40 years, but a detailed understanding of these processes is still lacking. Progress in that field is thus of paramount importance for the development of new experiments involving large molecules for the advancement of physics, and for the understanding of how vibrational energy is stored and can flow in a molecule. The project will explore experimentally IVR in large molecules with cutting-edge spectroscopic tools, to progress in removing this major blockade in the use of large molecules to look for new physics. Probing IVR in a very detailed way is enabled by recent advances in the production of cold molecules and ultra-high-resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy. These new techniques will allow me to develop and demonstrate a new methodology to study IVR at an unprecendented precision. The main output will be a recipe to tailor IVR in molecules, from the molecular structure point-of-view, as well as the demonstration of unparalleled spectroscopic resolution on molecules with more than 20 atoms.

Keywords: intramolecular vibrational redistribution buffer gas cooling mid infrared high resolution vibrational spectroscopy quantum cascade lasers frequency metrology precision tests fundamental physics
A New Approach to Sustainable Development of Airport and Seaport Territory through Citizen Science: HubCities (HubCities)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171399.36
EU funding (EUR): 171399.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Airport and seaport territories are special types of areas. They are hubs, centers of transport or transshipment activities, and centers of territories and networks that consume resources (land, water, and air). In Europe, there are 347 airports and 3,024 seaports. The challenges they face are at the heart of the EU’s policy frame of reference—confirmed, for example, by the Driving Urban Transitions partnership, which guides much-needed urban change toward a sustainable future. These challenges are addressed by a novel approach. The main aim of the project is to train a new profile of urban planner that is able to use citizen science in such difficult urban planning situations. Engaging residents in co-design, citizen participation, and citizen science is a bottom-up approach that is still underused. In applying a bottom-up approach, any further spatial development of these territories would include the perspectives of their inhabitants. Thus, an important step would be taken toward a long-term spatial future strategy. To be better understood, these territories need to be named as HubCities and decoded as an urban resource. Three supporting instruments will make it possible to develop a methodology: HubCities platform (as a communication instrument), HubCities labs (as an event engaging citizens), and HubCities toolkit (as a planning tool for citizens). The paradigm shift caused by such an approach would be applicable in practice, research, and education. Three selected HubCity regions will serve as a testbed: the airport and logistics center of Graz (Austria), networked passenger airport at the Koper seaport (Slovenia), regional passenger airport of Trieste port city (Italy). As a result of the project, my career prospects as a researcher will grow decisively: I will become the leading figure in adapting urban planning procedures with citizen science, approached by colleagues and actors for transfer of the skills acquired and high-quality planning solutions.

Keywords: citizen science,airport and seaport territory,hubcities,urban resources,urban development,spatial sustainability
Transforming European Industrial Ecosystems through eXtended Reality enhanced with human-centric AI and secure, 5G-enabled IoT (INDUX-R)

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: Greece,Netherlands,Spain,Cyprus,Italy,France,Germany,Switzerland,Portugal
Call: eXtended Reality for Industry 5.0 (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7367337.5
EU funding (EUR): 6387631.25
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

It is a bit ironic that when Joseph von Fraunhofer did his seminal work on optics laying the foundations of XR over two centuries ago, his work was kept as a state secret, yet nowadays all major industrial XR players are non-European. Despite the solid scientific base of European organizations and companies in XR and related fields, the European XR industry has seen limited success mainly due to heavy market fragmentation, lack of investment and a difficulty in commercializing applied research. Acknowledging this, INDUX-R envisions a human-centric XR ecosystem that will transform European industrial sectors by empowering humans and creating innovate XR products and services of significant added value. It targets for concrete scientific breakthroughs integrated in technological enablers that will be applied in use cases driven from real-life needs while having the potential to be replicated in several other applications. These breakthroughs are focused on core XR technologies, namely, digitisation and creation of XR assets, realistic animation, light-field HMDs, XR media streaming and egocentric perception. To address challenges that multi-user XR applications pose, INDUX-R will implement a highly scalable, zero-touch 5G architecture and a secure, interoperable IoT network that can accommodate fluctuating demands and minimize waste of resources. The foreseen use cases cover a wide spectrum of industrial ecosystems in event planning, Industry 4.0, virtual medical training, cultural tourism, and broadcasting of sports events where end-users will participate in every step of INDUX-R, from the elaboration of user requirements up to final qualification of the ecosystem, thus implementing a human-centric approach of XR technology development. In this regard, INDUX-R reflects upon the societal and ethical challenges that XR poses, building a legal and ethics framework that will ensure that technological development is aligned with European values.

Keywords: neural radiance fields,realistic animation,elastic xr objects,secure iot,zero touch 5g,egocentric vision
Optimal Solar Systems for Industrial Heat and Power (INDHEAP)

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: France,Norway,Sweden,Italy,Austria,Cyprus,Portugal,Spain,Czechia
Call: Solar Systems for Industrial Process Heat and Power (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8528816.25
EU funding (EUR): 6998983.13
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

INDHEAP project will demonstrate at TRL7 that it is worth considering solar thermal (ST) and photovoltaic (PV) energies in combination to address the heat and power needs of mid temperature industrial processes, up to 250°C. As for it, INDHEAP will highlight the synergy between the different technologies with the development and integration of a core flexible Thermal Energy Storage, boosted by electric heaters (named e-TES) that is the key for a rational use of thermal and electrical solar renewable energy. The project will rely on the development of specific methodology and tools, tested on different case studies from industrial project’s partners, as to : 1) reduce heat and power peak demands with an optimization of the current energy efficiency for the industrial process, (best use of waste heat and analyse of demand’s elasticity) 2) define the best share between ST and PV based on technical-eco-environmental criteria 3) define the ST-PV hybrid system’s architecture, the presizing of components, and the global control maximizing the use of solar heat and power. 4) develop the specific components for the best integration and use of ST and PV plants in synergy, e.g. the flexible e-TES, but also PV panels integration enablers, low cost / mid temperature solar collectors and a smart hybrid controller for heat and power joined management. A prototype (ST up to 300 kWth, PV up to 20 kWp, e-TES up to 1 MWh) will be installed on an industrial process of lubricants blending, owned by Total Energies in Spain, to validate the concept at TRL7 with a one year test campaign. The replicability of the demo is hundreds of equivalent sites. Finally, from results gained, a global upscaling and replication potential across the South Europe and MENA areas will be achieved to assess the societal and economic benefits of the concept to meet the Net Zero by 2050 ambitions. INDHEAP will support the EU in reducing dependency to natural gas, while reaching climate targets

Keywords: industrial solar heat and power,pv plant,st plant,thermal buffer,hybrid st and pv power plant
Heritage of Disease: The Art and Architectures of Early Modern Hospitals in European Cities (ARCHIATER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Germany,Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499450.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499450.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

After the Black Death of 1348, hospitals were newly designed to face social disease, further plague’s waves, and new illnesses, e.g. syphilis. Social distancing (like recently with an unknown virus) was the main method to avoid all kinds of contagion. New spatial and safety concepts were developed to care and confine the sick and the poor in structures enhancing the visibility of political or religious agendas. While wars and early globalization contributed to spreading pandemics, charitable bodies exploited their roles to gather capital, which they reinvested in art. Despite an extensive scholarship on hospitals as social institutions, the question of why art and architecture were so vital for hospitals remains open. ARCHIATER tackles this gap, focusing on three objectives: 1) To map hospital visual cultures, agencies and imaginations in European cities before 1750 along terrestrial and maritime routes and according to hospital typology and networks. 2) To analyse the spaces, forms, themes and designs of hospital art and architecture as liminal mediators to manage disease and contagion as well as life passages, healing, death, and salvation. 3) To reconstruct transitions and changing values of hospital materiality and develop ways of ‘curating’ the impressive heritage of premodern hospitals. Bringing together art, architecture, history, and curatorial studies, the project looks at these relations in comparative and interconnected ways. It combines geographical and micro-historical investigations, object-based analysis, and a new conceptual questioning on the ‘liminality’ of hospital art and architecture as mediators between spaces, actors, and intentions in the ‘monumentalization’ of disease, which characterizes historical cityscapes. Addressing these issues will reveal, not only why so many artworks in our museums come from hospital contexts, but also how visible artefacts can contribute to the well-being of a society faced with invisible threats.

Keywords: visual culture early modern history comparative and transnational histories history of medicine liminality archives confraternities and social institutions