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Advancing the Combustion of Hydrogen-AmmonIa blEnds for improVed Emissions and stability (ACHIEVE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland,France,Spain,Saudi Arabia
Call: Research on fundamental combustion physics, flame velocity and structure, pathways of emissions formation for hydrogen and variable blends of hydrogen, including ammonia (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2023-1, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3063215.0
EU funding (EUR): 2994200.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

To mitigate the impact of greenhouse gas on the environment and climate, the gas turbine power generation industry must rapidly reduce its emissions. This requires abandoning the traditional combustion of carbon-based natural gas in favour of carbon-free fuels. ACHIEVE aims at developing the fundamental knowledge to enable a transition to unconventional carbon-free fuel blends based around H2 and NH3 to achieve zero carbon emissions, ultra-low NOx emissions, and stable gas turbine operation. ACHIEVE proposes a three-pronged strategy consisting of (a) experimental and (b) numerical activities, that will advance the technology readiness level (TRL) up to 4 for practical low emissions combustors for realistic and representative blends of fuels, as well as (c) system level engagement with OEMS, end users, and stakeholders. Experimental campaigns will explore combustor stability limits, emissions, and fundamental aspects of the combustion of hydrogen blends, with the complexity of the experimental burners and operating conditions increasing over time and culminating in tests performed at intermediate pressures and powers relevant for gas turbine conditions. Numerical activities will address combustion modelling challenges, including chemical kinetics, fundamental physics governing flame dynamics, ushering in new modelling techniques such as artificially thickened flames coupled with virtual chemistry, sub-grid LES models for thermo-diffusive instabilities and stability analysis aimed to understand and predict NOx formation mechanism, lean blow off, flashback limits and thermoacoustic instabilities. Real-time monitoring and predictive capabilities for practical combustion systems will also be developed. Finally, in the third prong, engagement with industry, OEMs, and other target groups will leverage the results of ACHIEVE with the necessary stakeholders to progress the transition to a carbon-free fuels for power generation.

Keywords: gas turbines,unconventional h2 blends
Novel Natures? Nature conservation and emerging high impact (bio-)technology (NONA)

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: Czechia,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207758.16
EU funding (EUR): 207758.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Nature conservation is facing major challenges. Biodiversity loss and climate change will alter ecosystems in ways that are difficult to predict. At the same time, advances in computing, genomics and synthetic biology offer new knowledge and tools for conservation biology. Together, these developments challenge traditional nature conservation strategies. This project focuses on engineered gene drives as an example of an emerging biotechnology which could be employed for nature conservation purposes. Engineered gene drives could greatly expand the spatial and temporal reach of genetic modification techniques, and thus provide new possibilities for intentional human influence over wild animals and ecosystems. Academic debate about nature conservation biotechnologies is a nexus where scientific and normative notions about human interactions with their natural environments and other living beings are negotiated. NONA explores how connections between ontological, epistemological and normative ideas are drawn in these debates. The aim is to achieve greater conceptual and argumentative clarity within this highly complex and contentious discussion. NONA will address two objectives: 1) to analyze ideas of nature in areas of molecular biology and ecology, which are relevant for the development and evaluation of gene drives; and 2) to analyze current debates in the environmental humanities about the objects, strategies and aims of nature conservation and to develop a conceptual framework for the normative evaluation of gene drives for conservation purposes. This requires that I gain further competences in the areas of environmental and technology philosophy and the history and philosophy of the life sciences. A further aim of the project is to foster close collaborations with researchers in the natural sciences, conservation practitioners and policy makers. The project has practical implications for international nature conservation and biotechnology governance.

Keywords: environmental ethics technology ethics nature conservation biotechnology philosophy of the life sciences continental philosophy critical theory
WOOD RESIDUES DERIVED MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE FOR SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS (WOODCELL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Estonia,Finland,Luxembourg,France,Switzerland,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call: Optimised and integrated wood-based value chains (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 34389620.0
EU funding (EUR): 16639435.85
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

WOODCELL aims to further build on Fibenol’s unique SWEETWOODS production facility to enable production of micro-scale specialty Micro-crystalline Cellulose (MCC) from woody biomass sources, that is significantly more affordable than cellulose materials with comparable properties. WOODCELL is highly efficient (95% Vs 40-50% for alternative commercial processes) with energy usage ~3 times lower. In addition, WOODCELL MCC is produced at high solids content (18-20% before drying) and is colloidally stable, overcoming the usual negative effects of dewatering during processing. WOODCELL will achieve competitive price (even against other abundant chemicals). This, combined with the unique properties will enable WOODCELL to unlock new markets globally. WOODCELL will design and build a sustainable, cost-effective, first-of-a-kind, flagship MCC biorefinery producing 4 kt/y by 2029. The modular design, combined with existing IP and freedom to operate will be key factors to enabling the rapid commercial exploitation and replication. Following the successful build and operation of the WOODCELL MCC plant, WOODCELL will move into a replication phase and build a new MCC production facility capable of producing 20 kt/y by 2030. Based on these unique MCCs, WOODCELL will develop the whole value chain from the feedstock supply to processing and production steps in order to create the basis for at least 5 new bio-based value chains and create at least 5 new consumer products produced from bio-based materials, based on existing commercially viable products from out industrial partners: DS Smith a multinational packaging business, Coatex a multinational manufacturer of specialty materials and Skeleton Technologies is a hi-tech company that develop energy storage solutions.

Keywords: micro crysatlline cellulose,mcc,woody biomass,cascading,paper,board,packaging,wet molding,rheology modifiers,battery binders
Restoring Emotional Stability through Neurofeedback and AI for Transformative Empowerment (RESoNATE)

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,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 244893.6
EU funding (EUR): 244893.6
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Emotion regulation (ER) is the key to mental well-being. Disruptions in the brain ER circuitry is a transdiagnostic mechanism underpinning a wide spectrum of affective disorders that contribute to the mental health economic burden of 600 billion euros annually in Europe. This project focuses on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), predicted to become the leading cause of global disability by 2030. Conventional treatment is ineffective for approximately 40-60% of patients, underscoring the crucial need for innovative therapeutic approaches. In this context, neurofeedback (NF) on ER with functional magnetic resonance imaging has emerged as a promising tool for the treatment of MDD in research settings. NF is a training that enables people to regulate their brain activity by providing real-time feedback on specific brain patterns, in this case on brain areas involved in ER. To bridge the gap between clinical practice and academic research, RESoNATE will validate the clinical effectiveness of an electroencephalography (EEG) NF protocol targeting ER circuitry. Going beyond the current state of the art, we will conduct a placebo-controlled study involving 72 MDD patients, stratified into NF, sham-NF(placebo), and control groups. A collaboration with the National Kaohsiung Medical University (Taiwan) will add a second NF dataset of 60 subjects. The second goal entails advancing the validation of novel deep learning algorithms for EEG time-series data analysis and testing generalization to different cultural datasets, deploying them to predict the success of NF—a key challenge within the field. By incorporating a startup into the project, we will explore the industrial potential of this research. As such, through RESoNATE and its objectives psychiatrists, psychologists, AI experts, and industrial innovators will come together to advance mental health interventions and explore the boundaries of state-of-the-art AI methods, unlocking new research avenues and market opportunities.

Keywords: emotion regulation,neurofeedback,non invasive neuromodulation,electrophysiology,self regulation technique,machine learning,deep learning
SUstainable and REconfigurable ROBots for green manufacturing (SureROB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,France,Tunisia,Poland,Sweden,Brazil,Italy
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2660089.68
EU funding (EUR): 2660089.68
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Development of efficient, safe, green, and reconfigurable manufacturing systems requires seamless integration between software and hardware solutions, requiring cooperation between experts from different fields. The project aims to make advancements in green manufacturing systems through collaborative robots (CoBots), making them viable for SMEs. The field of robotics faces the challenge of a disconnect between experts from computer science that provide generic solutions and the end-users that work and interact with the hardware. By bridging this gap to enable the development of lightweight, efficient, and sustainable CoBots, SureROB will holistically train skilled researchers to contribute to European manufacturing. Through a well-balanced consortium of renowned academic bodies and industrial partners from seven countries, SureROB will develop and benchmark industrially feasible solutions. The focus would be not only to make the manufacturing process sustainable, but also address the sustainability of manufacturing CoBots themselves. Green tools and techniques will be developed. An important target would be achieving up to 20% reduction in the weight of the robot's components (drives and arms), resulting in lower energy consumption without compromising on the system reliability and robustness. Structural and geometric optimisation of the drives and arms will be investigated to improve the dynamic behaviour and efficiency with software-based design solutions. These will be supported with vibration control strategies working in sync with optimised path planning and condition monitoring strategies. Numerical and experimental evaluation of the developed solutions will be conducted for benchmarking them against the reference system. SureROB will address the cost and impact of existing technologies to make them economically feasible and eco-friendly, and will actively disseminate the results, engage with the public, and promote open science.

Keywords: path planning,system integration,software based design,health monitoring,vibration control
Field Quantum Gravity Sensors (FIQUgS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Spain,Poland
Call: Quantum sensing technologies for market uptake (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6810870.0
EU funding (EUR): 5130010.38
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Gravimetry aims at unveiling the density structure of the undergrounds by measuring subtle changes of the local gravity acceleration. The first-generation of quantum gravity sensors (QGs) has received a strong interest from many customers, and the market is still growing. But the commercial potential and the positive-impact of the technology are not yet fully exploited because of several limitations such as transportability, robustness, user-friendless or high operation costs. To overcome the barriers that limit the operational utilization of field gravimetry and develop the solutions that will allow us to fully address the exploitable market, we propose to conduct in FIQUgS the development of several innovations, either at the technological level with improved QGs built upon a reliable and efficient supply chain, or in terms of operational methodology. The development of a next generation QGs product line, and the services associated for the conduction of field surveys, data acquisition and data inversion will allow to considerably develop our capability to address the market of advanced geophysics. The unique industrial and technological capabilities that will result from FIQUgS will positively contribute to several important societal objectives, especially the European Green Deal: - the new field QGs will allow for a reduction of the environmental impact associated to mining activities thanks to a reduction of drilling operations, and civil engineering where it will contribute to more efficient and resilient constructions. - they will contribute to an improved utilization of geothermal energies through the development of non-invasive monitoring capabilities of the energy reservoir. - they will be involved in CO2 storage operations and will contribute to the fight against global warming thanks to these advanced monitoring capabilities. FIQUgS will also have an impact in quantum technologies markets, such as high-performance navigation or advanced photonics.

Keywords: quantum gravity sensors,gravimetry,technology demonstrators,field operation,inversion software
Next Generation 3D Tissue Models: Bio-Hybrid Hierarchical Organoid-Synthetic Tissues (Bio-HhOST) Comprised of Live and Artificial Cells. (Bio-HhOST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Portugal
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1734807.58
EU funding (EUR): 1733557.58
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Bio-HhOST will build bio-hybrid materials that comprise living & artificial cells, in dynamic communication, such that artificial cells may influence the proliferation, differentiation and function of living cells. This will be accomplished by producing precision engineered, microscale, liquid and lipid bilayer-based, chemically compartmentalised artificial cells, co-localised with live cells. This will be done by an interdisciplinary team of biologists, engineers, mathematicians and entrepreneurs. The artificial cells will contain functional metabolisms, and the ability to respond to chemical stimuli in the environment to release signaling molecules, on demand, to regulate the neighboring living cells, as found in complex biological tissues. These new chemically programmable organoid-synthetic tissues will enable a paradigm shift, in both ability to elucidate and control the complexity of physio-chemical interactions within 3D tissues, and reduce animal use in pharmaceutical R&D. To achieve these ambitions we have designed an integrated multistage workplan driving towards the following overarching aims:- Aim 1. Create 3D tissues where spatial regulation of living cell differentiation is determined by co-located (chemically programmable) artificial cells. Aim 2. Regulate and maintain such 3D tissues by dynamic communication between live and artificial cells. Aim 3. Develop multi-level, multi-approach models of organoid-synthetic tissues behavior. These will be applied to target applications; Aim4. Evaluating drug delivery vectors for next generation biological therapeutics. And Aim5. generation of complex tissues formed of distinct different regions, not achievable with current organoid protocols. These exemplify our wider ambitions for the Bio-HhOST approach including to, i) understand cell behavior in increasingly realistic 3D tissue models, ii) elucidate targets for the treatment of disease, and iii) enable the reduction of animal use in pharmacuetical research.

Keywords: synthetic biology,artificial cells,3d bioprinting,microfludics,3d cell culture
Stable Polariton LiDAR (SPLiDAR)

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-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the realm of advanced optical systems, particularly within the emerging field of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology, which are pivotal for 3D sensing applications across various sectors, a significant commercial challenge emerges from the inherent limitations posed by optical interference in thin-film filters. The core of this challenge lies in the phenomenon known as 'angular dispersion,' a fundamental constraint of interference-based structures in thin-film filter design. Angular dispersion refers to the shift in transmission wavelength of optical filters as the angle of incidence changes, typically resulting in a pronounced blue-shift. This effect, while intrinsic to the operation of optical interference, undermines the performance of LiDAR systems by requiring the filters to have sufficiently broad pass bands to accommodate the angular shift. The SPLiDAR initiative is set to revolutionize the landscape of photonic applications by introducing a groundbreaking approach that transcends the traditional constraints of angular dispersion. This approach harnesses the quantum optical phenomenon of merging light and matter states to create angle-independent transmissive filters, referred to as polariton filters here. This project is poised to redefine of optical filtering and sensing by introducing a novel class of spectrally sharp and angle-independent transmission filters, thereby overcoming the fundamental limitations of angular dispersion in conventional optical devices. The SPLiDAR project will leverage the team's profound expertise in thin-film optics, including transfer matrix and FDTD calculations and structure design optimization, along with a deep understanding of organic absorber properties and a wealth of experience in optoelectronics.
Hop-On Application For The EquSpace Project (HopEquSpace)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Hungary
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 376525.0
EU funding (EUR): 376525.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The integration of the widening partner Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) will significantly strengthen the EquSpace project by contributing advanced theoretical expertise in modeling and simulation of quantum devices. While the original consortium covers a broad spectrum of experimental and fabrication capabilities in silicon quantum dots, CMOS electronics, ion implantation, optomechanics, phonon waveguiding, and donor spin qubits, it lacks a dedicated theoretical partner to support model validation, experimental interpretation, and device optimization. BME’s research group specializes in condensed-matter theory and quantum information theory, with a strong focus on modelling and simulation of semiconductor spin qubits, nanomechanics, point defects, as well as electronic and optical readout. Their involvement will directly support all core objectives of the EquSpace project. BME will lead a new work package 6 (WP6), dedicated to theoretical modeling and simulation. This work will include analytical and numerical studies to interpret intermediate experimental results of the EquSpace project, and to extract unknown parameters of the EquSpace devices. Furthermore, the models devised, parametrized and analysed by BME will guide the design of optimized device geometries and control schemes for EquSpace. WP6 will provide essential support to WP1, WP2, and WP3, enabling a fast and iterative feedback loop between theory and experiment across the consortium. Due to BME’s involvement via this Hop-on facility, performance indicators of EquSpace devices, such as control and readout fidelities, will improve faster during the project than without this extension of the original consortium.

Keywords: hop on,equspace,silicon,quantum