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PHYSICS INFORMED MACHINE LEARNING-BASED PREDICTION AND REVERSION OF IMPAIRED FASTING GLUCOSE MANAGEMENT (PRAESIIDIUM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Staying Healthy in a rapidly changing society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Latvia,Switzerland,Belgium,Sweden,Austria
Call: Personalised blueprint of chronic inflammation in health-to-disease transition (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5808741.25
EU funding (EUR): 5808740.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The incidence of undiagnosed diabetes accounts for 36% European adults, while 541M adults worldwide have Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT), an important risk factor for further T2D development. Both IGT and/or Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG) are intermediate glucose mishandling (i.e. intermediate conditions in the healthy-T2D transition) and are manifestations of the so-called prediabetes condition. Prediabetes itself is not an extensively studied condition compared to the overt T2D, but it is also a condition that can be reversed without the prescription usage to not proceed into T2D. The aim of our project is to develop a prototype tool for the real-time prediction of the prediabetic risk based on a series of patient-specific mathematical models (firstly developed during the FP7 MISSION-T2D project) that simulate metabolism, pancreas hormone production, microbiome metabolites, inflammatory process and immune system response. The prediction algorithm will be based on a “physics-informed machine learning” approach. A rich dataset of real-life data will be combined with a mathematical model to overcome the limits of a “black-box” ML approach, while reducing the computational time for simulating the solutions of a heavy mathematical models and improving its prediction performances.We will collect the necessary training data (e.g., diet questionnaire, physical activity, blood metabolites and microbiome) from already existing clinical studies (used as retrospective trials) which are representative of the real-life scenarios of a prediabetes/diabetes risk insurgence in adulthood (20-80y): family history, Metabolic Syndrome, Liver disease and obesity. A newly dedicated multicentric pilot prospective observational study will be also performed, during which we will also equip the participants with wearable sensors (e.g. glucose monitoring, bioimpedance, heart rate, accelerometer).

Keywords: piml,mathematical models,physics informed machine learning,prediabetes,sensors
Learning, sharing and co-design in innovation procurement between innovation suppliers and buyers (InnoBuyer)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Estonia,Spain
Call: Co-Creation with Public and Private Buyers of Innovations (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PUBLICBUY-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

InnoBuyer aims to become a testing ground and benchmark towards the implementation of a demand-driven methodology that brings together procurers and innovation suppliers (notably EIC SMEs) to jointly co-create solutions to a common challenge proposed by the procurer, while also facilitating the procurer adoption and the innovation supplier commercialization of the solution. The project will: * Foster the development of an ecosystem to promote collaborative innovation between the best European public and private procurers and innovation suppliers (in particular, EIC projects/companies). * Launch and validate a support programme to co-create innovation between buyers and suppliers. The programme will be demand-driven and geared to adoption by design. * Demonstrate the increase of efficiency of EU public (but also private) services via piloting 15 innovative solutions, notably the ones from the EIC-funded projects/companies. It will do so by executing four sequential actions: Action 1: Recruitment and aggregation of procurers. Partners will launch a dissemination campaign to recruit unmet needs from procurers and then select the 15 best candidates. Other interested public and private procurers will be aggregated to the selected challenge so they can also acquire knowledge along the project. Action 2: Buyer-SME matching. Partners will support buyers to launch an Open Market Consultation to receive feedback on their challenges. Then, they will recruit and award suppliers to answer to the proposed challenges. Action 3: Pilot co-creation. Procurers and suppliers will jointly co-create solutions to the challenges. The solutions will be tested and evaluated. Suppliers will receive support towards future commercialization of their solutions. Action 4: Terms of Reference delivery. Support the creation of ToRs in collaboration with external experts, as the base for a future tender for the solution by the procurers.

Keywords: innovation suppliers tech startups european innovation council co creation pilots terms of reference
Exploring CO2 activation in heterogeneous catalytic CO2 hydrogenation (HetCat4CO2activation)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere because of burning fossil fuels and industrial production processes has increased in concentration and enhanced the "greenhouse effect", causing “climate change” and extreme weather. Converting CO2 into energy-rich fuels is one of the sustainable solutions to mitigate carbon emission challenges, while also remedying the over-reliance on fossil fuels as well as contributing to achieving the “European Green Deal”. A reliable and affordable CO2 conversion process remains a grand challenge because thermodynamic and kinetic constraints limit the CO2 conversion reactions; hence, novel approaches are needed to increase the reaction rate by altering the kinetics to reduce the activation energy. This project will focus on CO2 activation and its hydrogenation to valuable products. It proposes to develop and explore unconventional approaches to activate and convert CO2 molecules; including designing catalysts with energetic surface/interface sites and employing novel plasma or electromagnetic activation with light or microwaves that can act as semiconductors in a similar way to photocatalysis but also provide “hot spots” at low temperature to activate CO2. Supported metal catalysts with rich oxygen vacancy surface and interface sites will be designed and studied for efficient and highly selective CO2 hydrogenation in combination with energetic radiations. This project will deepen understanding of CO2 transformation (hydrogenation) catalysis and contribute to an efficient, innovative CO2-to-chemical/fuel processes under relatively mild conditions, as well as integrated CO2 emission and valorisation technology in Europe. Additionally, it will provide a practical framework for improving the CO2 industrial value chain and help push progress toward achieving the ambitious goal recommended by the EC in February 2024 to reduce CO2 emissions by 90% by 2040 and achieve “climate neutrality” by 2050.

Keywords: heterogeneous catalysis,high energy catalytic sites,hot electrons,electromagnetic radiation,co2 activation,co2 hydrogenation
Energy Carrier Transport in Nanocrystal Optoelectronics Under Relevant In Situ Conditions (InSituDynamics)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2031-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494232.0
EU funding (EUR): 2494232.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of this project is to spectroscopically study nanoscale electronic transport, thermal transport, and relaxation dynamics in nanocrystal-based optoelectronics. The major advance will be to do so under real device operating conditions in situ and with high spatiotemporal resolution—the first studies of their kind. Energy-carrier dynamics are fundamental to basic energy science, yet important questions about microscopic charge and thermal transport under operando device conditions remain underexplored. Key advances in the historically separate fields of transient microscopy, thermoreflectance, and nanocrystal optoelectronic device fabrication present an opportune moment to directly probe such dynamics in unprecedented ways. In the next generation of optoelectronics research, these fields must be merged to image local charge-carrier dynamics and thermal transport in the context of realistic conditions. I will use transient optical microscopy to spatiotemporally resolve carrier transport in nanomaterials in contact with electrodes, under applied bias and illumination, and account for morphological features. I will seek a deeper mechanistic understanding through modeling, provide feedback on efficiency-limiting steps, and develop new approaches to control energy flow via physicochemical parameters. Looking beyond pristine materials, I will focus on colloidal nanocrystal-based optoelectronics such as photoconductors, solar cells and LEDs, serving as model next-generation systems. These studies will reveal microscopic structure–property relationships that connect nanoscale carrier dynamics to macro-scale device functionality. The operando method established here will be broadly applicable to a wide range of advanced materials and device configurations. I am uniquely positioned to achieve this scientific advance, synergizing expertise in time-resolved microscopy, nanocrystal device fabrication, probe station characterization, and nanoscale thermal transport.

Keywords: time resolved spectroscopy,colloidal nanocrystals,charge transport,thermal transport,ultrafast spectroscopy,operando,optoelectronics,semiconductor nanocrystals,excited state dynamics,nanoscale heat transport,plasmonic nanocrystals,self assembly,superlattice,nanocrystal device,charge transfer
(Post)Colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa, 1890s-1970s (CATTLEFRONTIERS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project explores the transformations in cattle production in Southern and Central Africa during the colonial and early postcolonial period. During this period, (post)colonial governments, scientists, entrepreneurs and settlers promoted a broad range of interventions to overcome the allegedly uneconomic attitudes of African pastoralists and turn cattle into profitable commodities. Contested, adapted or eluded by African cattle herders and owners, these interventions transformed pre-existing cattle economies, pastoralist societies, rural ecologies and animal populations in many and often unexpected ways. This history, however, is still under-studied, only partially understood and marginalised in both African and global history. This project breaks new ground by offering the first history of these transformation processes from hoof to table, for multiple empires and over a long time frame, and by integrating them into global history through the concept of ‘commodity frontiers’. It pursues these objectives through a series of interlocking case studies on French, Portuguese and Belgian (post)colonies in Southern and Central Africa. These draw on multi-sited and multilingual archival work and combine methodological approaches from African, social, economic, environmental, colonial and global history, as well as the history of science. The project not only rewrites and rethinks the history of Africa’s (post)colonial cattle economies. In so doing, it will also write livestock back into the agricultural and socio-economic history of Africa thus far focused on cash crops and minerals, integrate African cattle in global economic and commodity history and greatly enhance our knowledge of veterinary science and knowledge. By analysing how the interplay of global capitalism, science and empire transformed cattle regimes in Africa and beyond, it will also enhance our understanding of current debates on the social and ecological costs of livestock production.

Keywords: history of africa,agriculture,environment
Hybrid Electric Regional Wing Integration Novel Green Technologies - HERWINGT (HERWINGT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Aviation
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEAN-AVIATION (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France,Italy,Greece,Netherlands,Israel,Belgium,United Kingdom,Austria
Call: Innovative Wing Design for Hybrid-Electric Regional Aircraft (HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2022-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 28278745.23
EU funding (EUR): 21791729.98
Participants: 33
Project status: SIGNED

Development of key technologies to address a new wing design for a HER aircraft maturing up to TRL5: manufacturing, assembly, structural concepts and processes, concept studies, configuration and architecture trade offs for a full wing component are part of the activity. As a physical demonstration concept, the detail design and manufacturing of the relevant components of a centre wing section of a HER Aircraft will be addressed. Conceptual wing studies: configuration and architecture (structural arrangement, Systems allocation and disposition, flight control system) trade offs for a full wing. Full wing structural arrangement mock up for innovative wing concepts, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization studies for definition of the optimal structural configuration of wing. Demonstration platform: wingbox, high lift devices, control surfaces, load alleviation devices focusing on the centre section as a demonstration platform: - Integrated Centre section wing box structure with the inner Propulsion stage: Full span (pylon to pylon) torsion box concept representative of more ambitious tip 2 tip concept. Multispar concept, Access manholes and panels, Sustainable aviation fuel and Integrated Fuel vent systems. - Inner section Leading Edges, Integrated Inductive ice protection system integration, Multifunctionality: erosion, impact, Lightning, ice protection, Morphing concepts, Functional tests, Bird strike tests (virtual or real) - Inner section Flap and high lift solutions: Integrated flap solutions. Multifunctionality application to flap. Key processing technologies: Low cost-high integrated out of autoclave technologies. Dry fiber placement and liquid resin infusion for integrated multispar torsion box. Thermoplastic composites processing: In situ consolidation for integrated flap skin and Leading edge applications. Thermoplastic welding and co-consolidation for Integration. Bonding technologies exploration towards certifiable solutions.
A modular upstream biorefinery enabling seaweed processing and stabilization (SEAFERMENT UP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Seaweed offers a sustainable approach in the current global context due to its fast growth via marine photosynthesis without needing arable land or freshwater. It also absorbs carbon dioxide, aiding ocean health and biodiversity. Despite its numerous benefits for food, feed, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and beyond, challenges like seasonality, rapid degradation, and variable quality hinder its widespread industrial adoption. Seaweed Concept, a young marine biotech company based in Brittany, France, is addressing these challenges with its revolutionary mobile, modular biorefinery technology. Through its affiliate, ALGROUPE, Seaweed Concept has developed a patented lactofermentation technology that stabilizes and preserves seaweed, enhancing its nutritional value. This autonomous, low energy biorefinery, housed in containers, enables on-site processing and stabilization, reducing logistics costs and environmental impact. Seaweed Concept aims to restructure multiple sectors by enhancing the upstream part of the seaweed processing value chain, offering high-quality ingredients derived from lacto-fermented seaweed. These ingredients cater to diverse industries, promoting sustainability and reducing environmental footprints. The company’s mission is to establish biorefineries in multiple locations, enabling continuous seaweed storage and supply. This initiative offers a renewable resource to tackle critical challenges like climate change, resource scarcity, and food security. To achieve these goals, Seaweed Concept seeks EIC Accelerator support, requesting €5M in blended finance (€2,5M Grant + €2,5M equity). This funding will enable technology development, international market deployment, and the attraction of additional investors, ultimately driving significant environmental, economic, and societal impacts. With EIC’s backing, Seaweed Concept is poised to make a meaningful contribution to the sustainable development of the seaweed industry.

Keywords: lactofermentation,fermented seaweed,fermentation juice,fermented seaweed juice,seaweed based ingredients,biorefinery,human nutrition,plant and soil care,animals,feed,biostimulants,
Disruptive photobiological process to stimulate natural plant response for increased protection, shelf-life and nutritional content of fruits and vegetables (AGROWLITE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2490000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2490000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Half of the fresh fruits and vegetables produced in the world are lost before they make it to retail. It corresponds to millions of tons of edible plants lost or spoilt all along the chain (i.e., €10 billion lost each year) because of their fragility and vulnerability to pests, pathogens, and climate hazards. Moreover, over the years of cultivation, fruits and vegetables have lost nutrient density, before and post harvest. In this context, Asclepios Tech has developed Boxilumix, a unique proprietary opto-electronical technology that relies on a sustainable soft modulated high-performing LED signalling system emitting precise customizable modulated non-thermal light signals at different wavelengths towards the edible plants/seeds. It stimulates their photoreceptors that subsequently activate natural immune defences and enhance resistance to bio-aggressor. The feasibility of this new prophylactic light signalling solution to manage both the preservation and protection against contamination while enhancing the nutritional qualities of the plants was validated in 100+ trials. With up to 99.99% decontamination efficiency rate, farmers and industrials will prevent pests and diseases contamination from seed to post-harvest with less oxidative solutions (phytosanitary, chlorinated water, ozone, …). Doing so they can reduce food waste up to 50% and halve the use of agrochemical products while enhancing nutritional and market values of fresh fruits and vegetables with an increase between 200% and 1000% of vitamins, minerals, secondary metabolites. A fairer economic return in the food chain (less spoilage, more sales, more perceived value) and a shift in the way to produce enhanced edible plant products are expected. This project will scale-up and industrialize Boxilumix within a first line of innovative equipment. Their commercialisation will create a new segment for Photobiologic Agricultural Lightning Treatment, where Asclepios Tech will be positioned as the leader.

Keywords: photobiology,photomorphogenesis,crop protection,plant immune defence stimulation,hormetic dose,photoreceptors,modulated led,shelf life,nutritional density,canbus,systems interoperability
ENABLING MASS ADOPTION OF INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION WITH AI (PERCEPTION ENGINE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

R-Go Robotics' vision is to enable machines to robustly see, understand, and navigate real-world environments to help people work more effectively and safely alongside machines. Our goal is to enable mass adoption of intelligent automation with AI, by powering mobile machines with affordable and reliable human-level perception software that allows them to see, understand and adapt to dynamic real-world environments. The key innovation is R-Go's "Perception Engine" - a novel software solution that provides human-like 3D spatial awareness to autonomous mobile robots and machines. This is achieved by harnessing advanced computer vision, AI, sensor fusion and proprietary algorithms to deliver accurate spatial information, while using only low-cost hardware. The Perception Engine uniquely enables autonomous operation in dynamic environments by providing robust localization, real-time mapping, obstacle detection and rich scene understanding capabilities - unlocking new possibilities for intelligent automation across logistics, manufacturing, agriculture and more. Commercializing this will optimize resources, reduce costs/emissions, enhance safety, upskill workforces, and drive innovation in AI/robotics/computer vision - aligning with EIC goals. Additionally, it can provide vital spatial data inputs for generative AI to enable perception-based robot behavior in dynamic environments. Thus, the Perception Engine as a key enabler for the next intelligent automation wave across Europe and globally. The EIC funding will help us to complete productization of the Perception Engine technology. This includes improving ease of integration, scalability and performance across diverse robotic platforms, adapting for integration with human-driven machines, developing an API for integration with generative AI models, and implementing robust security/privacy protocols.

Keywords: spatial computing and location mapping,computer vision,industry 5 0,robotics,visual slam