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Electrochemical fixation of carbon dioxide into adipic acid in a membraneless electrolyser with non-sacrifical anodes (ELECTROCARB)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 218895.04
EU funding (EUR): 218895.04
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies are extensively studied as potential solutions to reduce rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Among all CCU technologies, the electrochemical reduction of CO2 using renewable energy has emerged as a promising technology for converting CO2 into useful chemicals and fuels. Especially, the utilisation of CO2 via electrochemical carboxylation is a green and promising route for the synthesis of important carboxylic acids. However, the current electrocarboxylation processes have two serious challenges: first, the use of sacrificial anodes requires regular replacement of these anodes thereby limiting operational time and increasing maintenance costs, and second, the current systems need specialized and expensive membranes. ELECTROCARB aims to overcome these challenges with an innovative membraneless electrolyser concept using non-sacrificial anodes for the synthesis of adipic acid via electrocarboxylation of 1,3-butadiene with CO2. The project is multi-disciplinary as it lies at the interface between electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering, including computational fluid dynamics modelling, electrode development, cell construction, scaling up, and techno-economic analysis. ELECTROCARB will have a significant scientific and societal impact as findings from this project will play a pivotal role in the development of other green electrocarboxylation processes. Moreover, the proposed work is in line with the EU strategy for the sustainable development goals of “climate action” and thus contributes to the enhancement of EU scientific excellence. The project will advance my future career by providing multidisciplinary skills along with management, leadership, and entrepreneurship related skills through my non-academic placement.

Keywords: electrocarboxylation,carbon dioxide,electrochemistry,electrochemical engineering,process modelling,green chemistry
Scale-up and Demonstrator of Luminescent Waveguide Encoded Films for Indoor Photovoltaics (LWEF-4-IPV)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Internet of Things (IoT) underpins our future smart world where various electronic devices could be integrated with, and controlled by, wireless communication. Many of these devices will be standalone or portable, creating an urgent demand for off-grid power sources. Solar photovoltaic (PV) cells are viable alternatives to batteries as perpetual power sources for IoT devices. However, crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV cells (which account for 95% of the global PV market) are not designed to work with diffuse, artificial indoor light-emitting diode (LED) lighting and perform poorly under these conditions. Within the remit of the ERC CoG project SPECTRACON, we have developed a new photonic platform technology – luminescent waveguide encoded films (LWEFs), which overcomes these limitations by (i) increasing the field of view for light capture and (ii) converting LED photons into energies that can be used more effectively by PV cells. In this PoC project, we will advance this technology towards commercialisation through the fabrication of the prototype LWEF integrated on the top surface of a c-Si PV, coupled with testing under standardised indoor lighting conditions.
Decomposing the variability in teenagers’ decision-making (VariabiliTeen)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Why do teenagers often seem to engage in seemingly reckless or unpredictable behavior? Why do they make more variable or inconsistent decisions than other age groups? Remarkably, we currently still lack the understanding of where this choice variability originates from. My project will investigate two complementary hypotheses: 1) ongoing neural development leads to imprecise learning about option values, resulting in suboptimal decision-making, and 2) the adolescent-specific volatile and unpredictable social environment might render it adaptive to explore more information about alternative options, thereby sometimes foregoing to opt the current best option. To disentangle these hypotheses, I will computationally decompose participants’ choice variability into the cognitive processes of imprecise learning versus directed exploration, while they make choices in a social versus a non-social context. I will test a large group of adolescents and compare their decisions to those of children and adults. My working hypothesis is that a volatile social environment, as assessed by self-reports, makes adolescents more biased toward exploring more information about alternatives, an effect that will be more pronounced in a social versus a non-social context. My experience in developmental cognitive neuroscience, combined with the host group’s expertise in computational modeling of uncertainty and cognitive processing and their position within the Paris Brain Institute (ICM), the largest research institute for neuroscience in France, are expected to generate empirical foundations to advance our models of developmental decision-making. This proposal anticipates to bring together researchers and theories of cognitive development and computational neuroscience, as well as educational policy makers. It will allow me to strengthen my skills in computational modeling and theories of decision-making, and launch my career as an independent researcher.

Keywords: development,decision making,computational modeling
Inerter-based vibrating barrier for seismic protection of a cluster of building structures (VIBRATIONCLEAR)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Earthquakes are one of the deadliest and costliest natural hazards. In Europe, earthquakes have been responsible for more than 200,000 deaths and damage worth at least 250 billion euros during the 20th century. In Italy alone, more than 400 destructive earthquakes have been documented. In more recent history, the Central Italy earthquake in 2016 killed 297 people and caused damage worth at least 4 billion euros. VIBRATIONCLEAR proposes the use of inerter-based vibrating barrier (I-ViBA) for earthquake protection of a cluster of building structures. The I-ViBA is unique because unlike any other currently available earthquake protection technologies, the I-ViBA is buried in the ground and tuned to protect surrounding structures without being directly in contact to them through a structure-soil-structure interaction (SSSI) mechanism. The I-ViBA can be a solution for a low-cost seismic protection technology for existing buildings as one I-ViBA can be designed to protect many surrounded structures, something that has never been explored before. Aiming to address the apparent gap, this VIBRATIONCLEAR project sets two key objectives: (a) propose a novel I-ViBA and its optimisation method; and (b) perform 2D and 3D numerical finite element simulations considering a more realistic environment (multiple I-ViBA with a cluster of building structures). Using both analytical and numerical methods, the I-ViBA will be accurately designed, modelled and simulated using finite element software with various types of earthquake ground motions. With the support of my supervisor (Prof Marco Domaneschi) at the Politecnico di Torino, the Fellowship will train me in earthquake engineering and structural dynamics and act as a pilot for my own ERC Starting Grant on seismic protection technology. Ultimately, the project seeks to provide low-cost seismic protection technology for buildings to protect people from earthquakes.

Keywords: inerter,damper,earthquake engineering,structural dynamics,seismic protection technology
The first AI-guided toxicity atlas for safer and more effective abdominal radiation therapy (AIDose)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999972.75
EU funding (EUR): 1999972.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Radiotherapy (RT) is a critical component of cancer treatment, potentially benefiting approximately 50% of patients. However, less than 80% of patients who could benefit from RT actually receive it in Europe. The risk of toxicities, i.e., the radiation-induced damage of healthy tissues, is one of the main reasons why oncologists may exclude a potentially beneficial RT from the treatment regimen. For example, a recent analysis of the RTOG 0617 trial highlighted that the tumor control benefits of high-dose lung RT are accompanied by higher mortality rates due to extensive heart irradiation. The AIDose project will leverage my work on hepatobiliary toxicity prediction, artificial intelligence (AI) advancements, and medical image analysis to develop the first toxicity risk atlas for thoracic and abdominal organs-at-risk (OARs), i.e., organs located in close proximity to tumors. The atlas is envisioned as a three-dimensional map of OARs with pinpointed anatomical subregions associated with high toxicity risks. The AIDose project has four aims: a) developing AI-driven solutions for morphological and radiomic profiling of OARs; b) extracting and analyzing non-dosimetric clinical features associated with toxicities; c) utilizing AI to identify consistent patterns in radiation doses delivered to OAR subregions, and correlating them with toxicity risks; d) validating the resulting toxicity atlas against multi-hospital RT data. The feasibility of AIDose is supported by my previous research on liver and head-and-neck RT planning, which resulted in publications in key journals in the field and an award from the American Association of Medical Physicists. The use of AI for radiotherapy planning and outcome prediction is believed to be the main area of impact by the American and European Societies for Radiation Oncology. This proposal represents a unique opportunity to advance this highly innovative and clinically important research direction.

Keywords: medical imaging,artificial intelligence,radiotherapy,cancer,toxicity,image segmentation,image registration
fuTure hydRogen Assisted gas turbiNeS for effective carbon capTure IntegratiON (TRANSITION)

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: Italy,France,Norway,Germany,Türkiye
Call: Emerging technologies for a climate neutral Europe (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2922218.5
EU funding (EUR): 2922217.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The achievement of the EU targets established for 2030 for a more sustainable, cost-effective and environmentally-neutral energy production will not only require increasing the penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) into the actual mix, but necessarily point to reduce the carbon footprint of the conventional technologies based on the use of natural gas which is required to complement and compensate intermittent availability of RES. TRANSITION objective is to pave the way for carbon-neutral energy generation from natural gas-fired power plants using gas turbines (GT), by enabling a highly efficient Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) process in the post-combustion phase. This will be achieved by the development of advanced hydrogen assisted combustion technologies capable to permit stable engine operations with high Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) rates leading to high CO2 content in the exhaust gas sent to the CCS unit. Two distinct scenarios will be considered, by i) validating up to TRL4 retrofit hydrogen-based burners targeting 50% EGR rate and ii) proving up to TRL 3 more aggressive technologies adopting hydrogen/oxygen flame piloting to reach 60% EGR. Experimental tests (from atmospheric up to full-engine pressure) will support the technology assessment and the validation of high-fidelity numerical CFD models. Overall CCS-GT system integration will be also carried out with technical and economic analysis. The global sustainability of the proposed technologies will also be investigated to assess environmental/social/economic impacts. TRANSITION outcomes will enable the decarbonisation of GT-based power plants, which are among the most efficient energy thermal generators adopted in several energy-intensive applications. The multi-fuel capabilities and the retrofit opportunity of the developed systems will allow targeting hard-to-decarbonize sectors enabling an efficient transition to a net greenhouse gas neutral EU economy.

Keywords: gas turbine,hydrogen,natural gas,co2,egr,ccs,thermal energy generator
Intersectional Spaces of Participation: Inclusive, Resilient, Embedded (INSPIRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Bulgaria,Italy,Spain,Czechia,Belgium,Poland,Ireland,Portugal,Hungary
Call: Intersectionality and equality in deliberative and participatory democratic spaces (HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2457588.25
EU funding (EUR): 2457588.25
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Participatory and deliberative democracy (PDD) processes have on the one hand been celebrated for their potential in addressing political distrust and polarisation by deepening public engagement. On the other hand, they are often accused of being cosmetic solutions to deep-seated problems that continue to exclude already disempowered groups (along socioeconomic, gender, racial, physical and mental ability lines). INSPIRE aims to tackle these accusations and failures by fostering intersectional equality, through participatory spaces that are: inclusive and start from the needs and assets of marginalised groups; resilient to changes in government and developing upon existing grassroots work to support community resilience; and embedded within the wider public sphere and in productive relationships with policymaking institutions (Bussu et al 2022a; Escobar 2022). We employ three key ideas: the political economy of participation, co-design, and assemblage theory. We place emphasis on socioeconomic factors that affect people’s capabilities to participate, or the political economy of participation. We use a range of arts-based, digital and creative methods to co-design with participants inclusive participatory spaces that move beyond just talk-centric deliberation, which can exacerbate existing inequalities. To analyse and foster intersectional equality within PDD we need to overcome the linearity and oversimplification that sometimes characterise methodological approaches in the field, which tend to overlook the dynamism, complexity, and messiness of participation. The concept of assemblage helps us look at how different participatory practices coexist, interact and change across local, national and transnational levels. Using these theoretical and analytical tools we can trace more clearly processes and power dynamics that exacerbate inequalities, and we can strengthen democratic and inclusive participation through its many forms and practices.

Keywords: participatory democracy,deliberative democracy,digital participation,coproduction of knowledge,arts based participation,assemblage theory
Socially-acceptable Extended Reality Models and Systems (SERMAS)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Italy,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: eXtended Reality Modelling (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4444228.75
EU funding (EUR): 4444228.75
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The revolutionary opportunities opened by eXtended Reality (XR) technologies will only materialize if concepts, techniques, and tools are provisioned to ensure the social acceptance of XR systems. For that, we need XR systems that are not just innovative and functionally complex, but also provide an experience that: satisfies the goals and needs of the user, is in compliance with the social context in which the system is being used, and is transparent, safe, secure, explainable and is trusted by the user. However, current generations of XR systems fail to provide the XR experience they were envisioned for since state-of-the-art models and technologies of XR systems fail to ensure full-fledged social acceptance. A truly XR experience requires a major paradigm shift in the way XR systems are designed, implemented, deployed and consumed. The SERMAS project will develop innovative, formal and systematic methodologies and technologies to model, develop, analyze, test and user-study socially-acceptable XR systems. This will be achieved by pursuing the following four main objectives: 1. Follow an inter-disciplinary, multi-sectorial, case-study-driven, scientific and technological methodology to implement the SERMAS Toolkit, a set of methods and tools that will greatly simplify the design, development, deployment, and management of socially-acceptable XR systems. 2. Apply the Toolkit to industrial case studies drawn from real-world application scenarios, thus paving the way to transferring project results to industrial practice. This will be possible through the active participation in the consortium of the developers of mass-use industrial XR applications. 3. Enable innovators to leverage the Toolkit to improve the social acceptance and cut down the time-to-market of their XR systems, thereby enhancing the competitiveness of the vendors. 4. Produce the wider SERMAS Methodology to position the use of the Toolkit and enlarge its outreach.

Keywords: implicit communication,explicit communication,cybersecurity,trust,trustworthiness,privacy,validation,verification
High-power ultrasound for multiparameter single-cell mechano-phenotyping (HUMPH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2030-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2595237.0
EU funding (EUR): 2595237.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project will push the limits of microscale ultrasound-based technology to detect and gain access to diagnostically interesting, rare cells in the blood based on a panel of acousto-mechanical properties. Microscale systems are powerful tools to examine and manipulate single cells. In addition, the high precision and potential for multi-stage serial processing offered by such microfluidic methods open up for isolation of rare cell populations, such as circulating tumor cells, and controlled size fractionation of sub-micron biological particles, such as platelets, bacteria, or extracellular vesicles. To achieve highly specific single-cell isolation of target cells, we will expose blood to acoustic radiation forces in a flow-through format enabling multiparameter characterization of thousands of cells. Based on this, new separation schemes will be developed that can isolate extremely rare circulating tumor cells from the blood of patients with prostate cancer. The project will render new fundamental knowledge regarding the mechanical properties of single cells and a framework to understand the response of cells to any aqueous medium, bounding geometry and sound field, and new tools to better understand the role of circulating tumor cells in metastasizing cancer as well as analyzing them for diagnosis and treatment guidance.

Keywords: pacs2010 43 25 nm acoustic streaming 43 25 qp radiation pressure 43 40 rj radiation from vibrating structures into fluid media 47 35 rs sound in fluids 43 35 ud thermoacoustics,high temperature acoustics,photoacoustic effect