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Biodiversity loss mitigation and adaptation measures: Policies Governance and tools to foster transformative change (GoDigiBioS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Spain,Czechia,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Bulgaria,Denmark,Brazil
Call: Transformative action of policy mixes, governance and digitalisation addressing biodiversity loss (HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996637.5
EU funding (EUR): 1996637.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The world is losing its wild species and ecosystems at an alarming rate, and Europe is no exception. Yet, biodiversity is the basis for functioning ecosystems, which provide essential goods and services for humans and all other life forms on Earth. We must therefore reverse the trend of BD loss in the foreseeable future, especially by addressing underlying, indirect drivers of biodiversity loss such as consumption patterns, norms and values to achieve double decoupling (of consumption from excessive natural resource use, of satisfaction from consumption). Such transformative change requires social innovation and improved, systemic governance approaches. Additionally, digitalisation and emerging technologies offer potential to support the conservation of biodiversity, increase society well-being and economic prosperity which should be harnessed while reducing their equally existing negative impacts. GoDigiBios aims to support biodiversity-relevant transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society that will use new digital and other emerging technologies in ways that assist in reversing BD loss. Specifically, GoDigiBioS will deliver i) comprehensive understanding complemented by new insights and operational knowledge of the interactions between biodiversity, social and economic well-being, and technological development, ii) tools to support biodiversity-relevant decision-making, iii) improved, systemic policy mixes and governance approaches. To co-produce these knowledge, tools, and governance approaches, GoDigiBioS will bring together and leverage the knowledge and experience of both researchers and stakeholders from four peri-urban transformation lab regions across Europe and use specific approaches to ensure scalability and replicability of its solutions.
Minimally invasive endoscopes for neuronal activity monImaging-assisted single-cell specific activity monitoring and optogenetic stimulation of deep brain structures in motile and awaken animal models (WOKEGATE)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Severe neuronal disorders such as dementia affect more than 1 billion people globally and account for economic burden far exceeding that of cancer. Our only chance of treating dementia is improving our understanding of how brains function at diverse levels of complexity. This will only be possible through better technologies, which already reflects in synchronised actions worldwide, such as the US Brain Initiative and EU Human Brain project. The origin ERC project LIFEGATE has developed minimally invasive (hair-thin) endoscopes for advanced applications in neuroscience, and brought about a solid route to their commercial outreach. The instruments rely on state-of-the-art digital holographic methods combined with high-performance computing. They offer uniquely detailed observations in unprecedented depths of living, yet anaesthetized, animal models, making them particularly suitable to studies of connectivity of neuronal cells inside their natural environment. This proposal, entitled WOKEGATE, represents a powerful extension of this concept, enabling imaging-informed, single-cell specific activity monitoring and control of deep neuronal circuits in fully awake and behaving animals. The prospect is centred around a novel M3CF fibre probes which emerged within the origin ERC project LIFEGATE, outside its proposed research agenda. The project aims for (i) necessary technological amendments to incorporate this opportunity into the holographic endoscope geometries, (ii) a direct verification of this prospect in in-vivo studies through the network of existing research partners and (iii) paving the way for commercial translation of such empowered scientific instrumentation. Successful acquisition and execution of the WOKEGATE will enable future perspectives of this promising technology through new opportunities such as the EIC Accelerator grant.
Scaling extreme analYtics with Cross-architecture acceLeration based on OPen Standards​ (SYCLOPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: World-leading Data and Computing Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Portugal,Germany,Switzerland,Netherlands,Czechia
Call: Extreme data mining, aggregation and analytics technologies and solutions (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-DATA-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4090673.75
EU funding (EUR): 4090673.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The wide-spread adoption of AI and analytics has resulted in a rapidly expanding market for novel hardware accelerators that can provide energy-efficient scaling of training and inference tasks at both the cloud and edge. Unfortunately, all popular solutions AI acceleration solutions today use proprietary, closed hardware—software stacks, leading to a monopolization of the AI acceleration market by a few large industry players. The vision of SYCLOPS project is to enable better solutions for AI/data mining for extremely large and diverse data by democratizing AI acceleration using open standards, and enabling a healthy, competitive, innovation-driven ecosystem for Europe and beyond. This vision relies on the convergence of two important trends in the industry: (i) the standardization and adoption of RISC-V, a free, open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), for AI and analytics acceleration, and (ii) the emergence and growth of SYCL as a cross-vendor, cross-architecture, data parallel programming model for all types of accelerators, including RISC-V. The goal of project SYCLOPS is to bring together these standards for the first time in order to (i) demonstrate ground-breaking advances in performance and scalability of extreme data analytics using a standards-based, fully-open, AI acceleration approach and (ii) enable the development of inter-operable (open and vendor neutral interfaces/APIs), trustworthy (verifiable and standards-based hardware/software), and green (via application-specific processor customization) AI systems. In doing so, we will use the experience gained in SYCLOPS to contribute back to SYCL and RISC-V standards and foster links to respective academic, industrial and innovator communities (RISC-V foundation, EPI, Khronos, ISO C++). Bringing together the two standards enables codesign in both standards, which in turn, will enable a broader AI accelerator design space, and a richer ecosystem of solutions.

Keywords: ai acceleration
Flow-induced morphology modifications in porous multiscale systems (MORPHOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499791.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499791.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fluid flows through porous media with morphology modifications are ubiquitous across nature and industry, from the melting and refreezing of snow to the migration of carbon dioxide in underground aquifers, from phase-change materials in energy storage systems to the formation of sea ice. A key property of media experiencing morphology variations is that the modifications of the pore structure relate to the local flow conditions, which in turn are affected by the geometry of the porous matrix. Despite their importance and pervasiveness, measuring and modelling flow transport and medium evolution in these systems remains challenging, due to the multiway coupling, multiscale nature and feedback mechanisms. The objective of this project is to shed new light on the evolution of porous multiscale systems characterised by flow-induced morphology modifications. Three classes of media with increasing levels of complexity (porous media with phase-change, reactive media and reactive media with phase-change) will be investigated in well-defined and controlled flow configurations. To tackle these problems, we will employ in a complementary manner a combination of numerical simulations, laboratory experiments and theoretical modelling. We will use these findings in a multiscale modelling framework where the large-scale and long-term flow behaviour is predicted by simple models that are fed with the results of high-resolution numerical and laboratory experiments. This project aims at a true scientific breakthrough: we want to gain a quantitative understanding of flow transport and medium evolution in porous media with morphology modifications, unraveling a number of physical mechanisms that will allow the prediction and control of these complex systems.
Optimisation and Control strategy of Hydrogen Recirculation in PEMFC systems considering phase changes (OCHRE) (OCHRE)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship will bring the excellent young researcher, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University, to promote the synergy between water vapour condensation and hydrogen recirculation to improve proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) performance. The outcome of the project will contribute to the improvement of hydrogen recirculation efficiency, thus achieving higher fuel cell power in PEMFC systems. The researcher will integrate numerical simulation and experimental visualisation approaches to study the interaction between water vapour condensation and hydrogen recirculation and develop a multi-objective collaborative optimisation strategy for hydrogen utilisation in PEMFC systems. The project has been carefully designed to match the researcher's expertise in transonic mixing flow and performance improvement of ejectors, the expertise of the host institute, University of Reading in numerical modelling and thermodynamics, and the expertise of the secondment institute, University of Kent in experimental studies in fuel cells. In addition to the scientific goals, the researcher will contribute her expertise in transonic mixing flow and will provide important training to EU researchers, industrial contacts and undergraduates by hosting a series of seminars, lecturing in industrial and public dissemination events, giving fluid mechanics courses, and participating in outreach activities. By involving research topics from different fields and collaborations with academic partners, this is a truly interdisciplinary project. The research activities and training in the project will develop the researcher’s expertise in numerical modelling and collaborative optimisation, significantly strengthening her career perspectives to find a tenure-track position in the EU. The proposed project will provide new knowledge and technology for hydrogen recirculation in PEMFC and contribute to the sustainable development of European society.

Keywords: hydrogen,fuel cell,pemfc,hydrogen recirculation,ejector,heat transfer,condensation
Fostering Optimal Regulatory Compliance for Cryptocurrencies: An Interdisciplinary Approach (FORCE)

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: United Kingdom,Greece,Italy,Türkiye,Luxembourg,Ireland,Poland,Ukraine,Cyprus,Germany
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1563120.0
EU funding (EUR): 1382760.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The project "FORCE" - Fostering Optimal Regulatory Compliance for Cryptocurrencies: An Interdisciplinary Approach - addresses the urgent need for innovative Anti-Money Laundering (AML) systems tailored to the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency ecosystem. Cryptocurrencies, including decentralised finance (DeFi) platforms, have significantly changed the global financial landscape, enhancing financial inclusivity and operational efficiency. However, these technologies' pseudonymous and decentralised nature also creates vulnerabilities that traditional AML systems cannot adequately address. This project aims to bridge this gap through an interdisciplinary research program combining blockchain analytics (business), artificial intelligence (AI), quantum-safe cryptography (cybersecurity), regulatory compliance frameworks (legal), decentralised finance (finance), digital EURO (business and management), education and training. By uniting expertise from academic institutions and dynamic SMEs across Europe, the project will facilitate the development of real-time, efficient, and secure solutions to combat money laundering and financial crime in cryptocurrency markets. Additionally, the project will promote cross-border collaboration, a key priority of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Staff Exchange Program, ensuring that these AML systems are globally applicable and aligned with international regulatory frameworks. The overarching objective of FORCE is to create novel, scalable, and future-proof AML solutions for cryptocurrency ecosystems. Specifically, the research will focus on the following objectives: blockchain analytics & AI for AML, quantum-safe cryptography, global regulatory compliance, and cross-border AML enforcement.

Keywords: cryptocurrency aml,blockchain analytics,decentralised finance defi regulation,financial crime prevention,interdisciplinary aml solutions,cybersecurity in blockchain
Compact plug-and-play quantum network terminals based on deterministic semiconductor sources (ComPQT)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Communications networks have brought incredible convenience to our lives, making it possible for billions of people to connect and communicate at the touch of a button. However, despite their ease of use, these networks remain vulnerable to security threats, with frequent cyber-attacks and the growing danger of quantum computing underscoring the need for stronger protections. Quantum communication offers a potential solution against these security threats. Research institutions worldwide are making significant investments in this field, with many companies commercializing relevant products. However, most of these devices predominantly use lasers as light sources, which are probabilistic by nature and can cause security vulnerability. This proposal aims to address this limitation. Compact plug-and-play quantum terminals will be built by using genuinely deterministic quantum light sources. They will serve as nodes in a clocked quantum network. Two mobile 19-inch rack-based terminals (‘transmitter’ and ‘receiver’) will be tested on a 79-kilometre quantum communication testbed that connects Hannover and Braunschweig. For demonstration purposes, one-way quantum key distribution will be realized by using these two terminals that are strictly time and frequency synchronized. This proposal builds on the successful scientific outcome from the PI’s ERC Starting Grant 'QD-NOMS', i.e., semiconductor single and entangled photon pair sources. Combined with the ultra-stable time and frequency synchronization technologies that are being developed in the current ERC Consolidator Grant 'MiNet', the full-fledged plug-and-play terminals proposed here will be instrumental in demonstrating multipartite quantum communication in a large-scale photonic network. With the Proof-of-Concept grant, we aim to narrow the gap between the lab-based quantum photonic devices and real-world applications, and finally bring ComPQT to the pre-commercial stage via market analysis and IPR activities.
Time is (not) on my side: Remembering victims of slow violence in a post-conflict and post-disaster setting (RESLOVI) (RESLOVI)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Slovenia,Serbia
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 155559.36
EU funding (EUR): 155559.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

What is happening when nothing is happening? And how can we study events that are ‘uneventful’? As a research field, memory studies has mostly focused on violent events (wars, conflicts and particularly the Holocaust) and their (public) remembrance. However, the proposed project (RESLOVI) attempts to move away from studying public remembrance of conflicts and proposes an innovative approach to viewing the aftermath of violent events. RESLOVI focuses on memories and experiences of displacement, caused by a war and a natural disaster. The project’s main research objective is to rethink memory of suffering and violence in a post-conflict and post-disaster setting by raising awareness of violence that is ‘unspectacular’, happening out of sight, and is not publicly remembered or even acknowledged as violence at all. RESLOVI counters the mainstream theories of memory studies by employing an innovative theory of ‘slow violence’. The project examines how people from a region in a post-conflict and post-disaster country grapple with and remember the experience of displacement, which is considered as a form of ‘slow violence’. The project entails 3 key objectives: (1) To contribute to innovative research on ‘slow violence’ by studying its characteristics in a region of post-war Croatia at the example of slow-moving transformations of the built environment that produced new vulnerabilities (displacements); (2) To introduce the ‘slow memory’ theoretical approach into studying how memories of Croatian population’s displacement are triggered and reframed in the context of new displacements happening due to new crisis situations; (3) To analyse the community response (‘mnemonic solidarity’) to suffering and to contribute to research on political significance of citizens’ mobilization and agency in a post-disaster setting and in a post-conflict context.

Keywords: memory studies displacement refugees natural disaster
Developing a reusable pregnancy test (Reusable preg test)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In order to gain information about the most important happening in a persons life, women have been turning to the at-home pregnancy test for decades. The problem is that available tests are either expensive per use or poor in quality, aside from being single-use only. This ultimately leads to many needs being unmet. We at Pharmista Technologies intend to combat these needs by developing the world’s first reusable pregnancy test placing high focus on accuracy, hygiene and user-friendliness. This in turn will increase convenience-levels, reduce our customer's spendings on their reproductive health, minimise the risk of miss-interpreting the results, and lastly, reduce the consumption of hazardous, single-use plastic products. If our MVP works according to plan, we seek to employ the methodology onto other diagnostic areas where reusability would be advantageous. Therefore, our innovation has a great potential to disrupt not only the pregnancy testing market, but the immunoassay market in whole.

Keywords: diagnostics,over the counter testing,medtech,women s health,femtech