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Electrification of high temperature and flexible technologies for transforming cement, lime and pulp industry (ELECTRA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden,Belgium,Germany,Norway,Greece,Italy,Cyprus,Switzerland
Call: Electrification of high temperature heating systems (Processes4Planet Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20064577.5
EU funding (EUR): 14999841.75
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

ELECTRA demonstrates that electric heating can substitute fossil fuels in the cement, lime, and pulp industries. ELECTRA develops and validates in real life emission-free, electrically heated cement and lime production process in MW scale capable of reaching temperature up to 2000°C. By using low-emission electricity instead of combustion for decomposing calcium carbonate, and by capturing the carbon dioxide produced in the production process, it is possible to run a cement plant with close to zero carbon dioxide emissions providing even negative-emission cement and lime products for the society. Successful implementation of ELECTRA will eliminate fuel-related CO2-emissions from the industries targeted by 30-50% of total process emissions, depending on the industry and mode of operation. Scalability and replicability is showcased by the platform-based solutions offering modularity, and the possibility is there to run in various hybrid modes in a transition period, lowering initial CAPEX. They allow for both new electric installations and revamping of old ones. Platform-based modular automation practices can potentially accelerate electrification by up to 5 years. Different applications also require different properties for lime and therefore variations of electrically heated processes are developed to support and complement MW scale demonstration. Replacing combustion processes with electricity-based solutions and significantly increasing emission-free electricity production is an effective means of mitigating climate change. As one of the ingredients for concrete, cement is the world's most used building material and globally the largest CO2 emitter of all industrial sectors. The results of ELECTRA contribute directly to the ambitious goal of eliminating direct CO2 emissions from the lime, paper and cement industries. The developed fully electrified solutions for calcination and clinkering will offer the cheapest option for decarbonation for these industries.

Keywords: kiln fluidized bed plasma resistive heating calcination clinkering
BioZincPower: Pioneering sustainable energy storage with biopolymer-based zinc-ion systems (BioZincPower)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 216240.0
EU funding (EUR): 216240.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We stand on the brink of a significant energy transition, marked by the phasing out of coal, the rise of electromobility, and the increasing reliance on renewable energy sources. Li-ion batteries (LIBs) and electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) are pivotal in driving this technological shift, dominating the commercial power supply market and powering a wide range of applications. However, these conventional energy storage solutions are not without their drawbacks, including concerns over operational safety, rising production costs, potential scarcity of natural resources, and challenges related to universal waste disposal. Zn-ion rechargeable power sources, encompassing both batteries and supercapacitors, present a compelling alternative to traditional LIBs and EDLCs. This emerging technology boasts several advantages, including high gravimetric and volumetric theoretical capacities, affordability, enhanced safety, and environmental sustainability. Despite these benefits, zinc-ion systems face significant hurdles that impede their widespread adoption for commercial applications. These challenges include the need for optimized electrode designs, the risk of liquid electrolyte leakage, rigid construction, and the reliance on synthetic polymer-based components. The BioZincPower project seeks to address these challenges by pioneering the development of biopolymer-based Zn-ion systems. This research will focus on transforming biopolymers into specialized components such as active materials, binders, and gel electrolytes, and integrating them into zinc-ion energy storage devices. This innovative approach promises to deliver a technology that is efficient, safe, cost-effective, non-combustive, flexible, and environmentally sustainable. The project will emphasize overcoming the performance and environmental limitations associated with LIBs while also exploring the potential for wearable energy storage solutions through cutting-edge biobased technological advancements.

Keywords: biopolymers polysaccharides aqueous rechargeable batteries hybrid supercapacitors and batteries wearable energy storage devices
MOdelling THe Evolution of the mother-infant RelationshipS (MOTHERS)

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: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499923.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499923.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The intimate relationship between mother and infant, since the first moments after conception, contributed to shaping the evolution of our species and its behaviour. The mother-infant nexus changed through time adapting to environmental changes, new subsistence economies and social constraints. Yet, how the biocultural transitions across human evolution influenced the mode and time of pregnancy and nursing of human infants is under-investigated. MOTHERS will use recently developed cutting edge methodologies of trace elemental and isotopic analyses in dental enamel and dentine to identify the change from an exclusive breast milk diet to one that includes non-milk foods and to assess the mother’s diet and well being. Indeed, dietary behaviour, including that of the mother during pregnancy, deeply affects human growth and development from the earliest phases of ontogenesis and is chemically recorded in developing dental enamel. The goal of MOTHERS is to build consistent interpretative models, based on contemporary infants with controlled dietary and anamnestic history, to reconstruct health, diet, and growth trajectories in early life on an extensive collection of human dental specimens from the Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic, until urbanization, in Italy and Croatia. Also, the profound chemical differences in dental enamel between breastfed and herbivore milk/formula-fed children will allow the identification of the early use of non-human milk and shed light on the herbivore domestication and on alloparental care in past human populations. This project adds value and competitiveness to the bioarchaeological research landscape in Europe. Not only will my project be of interest to a broad range of academics within the social sciences, but it can inform present-day public health policy measuring the effect of dietary shifts in children’s growth and development.

Keywords: dental histology,spatially resolved chemical analyses,nursing strategies,life histories
AUTOMATED PROTOTYPE OF CANCER DETECTION FROM CTDNA (FG_WIT)

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: France
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Floating Genes is a French deeptech startup incorporated in October 2021, developing early cancer detection tools from liquid biopsies. The company focuses on digestive cancers, and especially colorectal and pancreatic cancer, which is mostly detected in stage 4 and show 4.3 month of median survival. Floating Genes has developed and patented molecular biology tools to detect very rare circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in the blood. This will eventually allow earlier cancer diagnosis, precise monitoring and personalized treatment of patients with cancer. 200,000 lives could be saved every year in Europe with such an earlier diagnosis tool.

Keywords: cancer detection,liquid biopsy,ngs
Predictive Understanding of the effects of Global Change on Ecological Communities and Ecosystem Functions (BEFPREDICT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999923.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999923.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The observed degradation in essential ecosystem services has catalysed a demand for biodiversity promoting policies. To implement them we need quantitative information on how ecosystem functions are changing due to the direct effects of global change vs. effects mediated by changes in biodiversity. With BEFPREDICT, I will tackle this challenge by providing a novel framework for linking global change, through its effects on biodiversity, to ecosystem functions. My approach builds on three recent developments, each transformative in itself but so far essentially unlinked to each other. First, community ecology has significantly progressed our ability to predict how abiotic drivers shape biodiversity. Second, trait-based ecology offers a tool for learning mechanisms behind ecosystem functions. Third, methods developed by climate scientists and statisticians provide tools for predictive model comparison and assessment in ecology, which have so far largely been lacking. Building on these advances, I will: (Objective 1) develop novel predictive models of the joint distribution of species and ecosystem functions that build on community and trait-based ecology (JEF models); (Objective 2) develop a novel toolbox of model comparison and assessment methods for comparing and testing for the predictive limits of ecological models; (Objective 3) apply the JEF models to unique long-term observational datasets. Through this joint approach, I will tease apart the relative roles of direct effect of the abiotic environment on ecosystem functions and the effects mediated by changes in biodiversity. This proposal balances high risk and high gain by aiming at the truly ambitious goal of establish the scope and limits for quantitative predictions of ecosystem functioning. These conceptual and methodological breakthroughs will open new horizons for global change research and provide tools urgently needed for a transformative change to ecologically sustainable societies.

Keywords: ecological statistics,bayesian statistics
Reviving the Ascetic Ideal in the Eastern Mediterranean: Entangled Memories of Early Egyptian Monasticism in Medieval Syriac, Arabic, and Armenian Christianity (969-1375 CE) (RevIdEM)

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: Austria
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): 1496657.5
EU funding (EUR): 1496657.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

RevIdEM combines new insights from Cultural Memory Studies, Mediterranean Intellectual History, and Manuscript Studies, in order to provide the first comprehensive analysis of the monastic revival in the Eastern Mediterranean between 969 and 1375 CE. Challenging traditional avenues of research, RevIdEM will focus on the metanarratives ('myths') about the origins of Christian monasticism in Egypt (4th century CE), and their later reception in the culturally complex environment of the Medieval Mediterranean. The project reappraises this ample medieval engagement with late antique asceticism as an original intellectual endeavour spanning linguistic and political boundaries. To the same end, RevIdEM will tap the enormous potential of the large number of Syriac, Arabic, and Armenian ascetic manuscripts produced in this time frame as new sources for the religious, cultural and social history of the region. Essential information on the scribes, readers, users and circulation of these documents will be collected in an online database. By interpreting this hitherto neglected corpus of sources as focal points of ‘cultural memory making’, RevIdEM will explain the lasting success and wide-ranging impact of the Egyptian ascetic ideal in the Medieval Mediterranean. The project will thus pinpoint the role of cultural memory as the main catalyst of the monastic revival. In order to achieve these objectives, the team will focus on carefully selected case studies from Northern Syria, Egypt, and Armenian Cilicia, exploring the ways in which the monastic authors, scribes and compilers of these regions constructed and disseminated their narratives of early desert asceticism. By revaluing the cultural, social and political significance of monastic life in the medieval Levant and highlighting the role of metanarratives and cultural memory as engines of historical change, the results of RevIdEM will represent a major paradigm shift in the study of Mediterranean History.

Keywords: asceticism,monasticism,cultural memory,manuscripts,cultural entanglements,syriac,copto arabic literature,armenian cilicia
NITROGEN FIXATION FACILITATED BY HOPANOID PRODUCTION IN MARINE CYANOBACTERIAL DIAZOTROPHS (NITROHOP)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The bioavailability of nitrogen (N) is critical for phytoplankton growth, affecting global primary production and CO2 sequestration. Biological dinitrogen (N2) fixation, catalysed by the enzyme nitrogenase, converts N2 into bioavailable forms like ammonia. This process is strictly anaerobic, as nitrogenase is inactivated by oxygen (O2). Cyanobacteria, the primary oceanic N2 fixers, face the challenge of conducting both oxygenic photosynthesis and N2 fixation in an oxic environment. To overcome this, marine cyanobacterial diazotrophs employ various strategies, such as forming specialised cells or segregating nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis temporally and spatially. However, these methods do not address how non-heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria prevent O2 diffusion through cell membranes. Recent studies suggest that hopanoids, lipids that may act as O2 barriers, are present in non-heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria, potentially aiding N2 fixation in oxygen-rich waters. Hopanoids help maintain membrane stability and reduce permeability to O2. Despite the documentation of hopanoid production in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, its role in facilitating N2 fixation remains unclear. To shed light on this, the NITROHOP project aims to investigate whether hopanoid production supports N2 fixation in marine cyanobacterial diazotrophs. By using quantitative PCR and atomic force microscopy NITROHOP will explore the temporal relationship between hopanoid synthesis and nitrogen fixation, examining gene expression and lipid membrane characteristics. This will be tested in three different cyanobacteria diazotrophs: UCYN-A, Crocosphaera, and Trichodesmium, differentiating their ecological strategies to perform both processes over day-night cycles. This research will will answer a long-standing question about the mechanisms enabling the process of oxygen diffusion and their role on marine nitrogen fixation in oxygenated environments.

Keywords: nitrogen fixation,diazotrophs,ocean,nitrogenase,nifh,lipids,hopanoids,oxygen diffusion,
Bio-based Solutions for Improved Acoustic Applications (Bio-Acouis)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Türkiye,Italy,Austria,Latvia
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1016600.0
EU funding (EUR): 864800.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The project focuses on a highly actual problem of the society and economy, noise is one of the major issue for people who spent most of her time in offices or in the workplace. The demand for acoustic solutions which are cost-effective, renewable, eco-friendly in nature and have a positive impact on human health and well-being. One of the key strategies and challenges we have is how to develop cost effective natural reproducible materials by combining of the bio-based materials, nanofibers that will contribute to environmental protection and sustainable acoustic solutions that are economic advantages in real world applications than the traditional alternatives. The WP research structure has been designed so to follow a “problem solving” approach: the research and innovation staff exchange and trained ESRs, ensure a high degree of collaboration increase intersectoral transfer of knowledge will be able to propose the most suitable acoustic solutions in workplace and open spaces. Innovation is increasingly dependent on the complementary nature of research, the resultant sharing of knowledge and skills between different organisations. Therefore, Bio-Acouis project will deliver an improved innovative acoustic solutions based on biobased materials, nanofibers and fully biobased which are biodegradable, lightweight, cost-efficient and eco-friendly in nature while preventing and reducing noises in open plan spaces. The scientific progress will be performed within Research and Training activities and the results will be disseminated to audience worldwide

Keywords: acoustic,furniture,eco friendly,panel production,multi layered configuration,green product
Smart systems for environmental pollution detection and biogas production based on cloud-connected silicon photonic and microelectronic hyperspectral sensors (SYMPHONY)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: France,Sweden,Greece,Spain,Cyprus,Germany,Ireland
Call: Pervasive photonics - multi-technology integration for digital infrastructure, sensors and internet of things (Photonics partnership)(RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4982272.0
EU funding (EUR): 4982272.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Air pollution poses a great environmental risk to health, accounting for nearly half a million premature deaths each year in Europe. Biogas production is an enabling technology to achieve net-zero emissions, while accelerating the energy diversification in Europe. Both, air quality control and biogas production demand critical improvements in sensor technology. SYMPHONY will develop a new technology enabling the implementation of dense networks of cloud-connected, low-cost, portable and easy-to-use sensors, capable of multi-target detection for applications in air quality control, pollution monitoring, industrial process control and safety. SYMPHONY will address this challenge by making key developments in silicon photonics, neuromorphic circuits, artificial intelligence, integration, and packaging, while exploiting state-of-the-art silicon microelectronics for ultra-low power edge computing with artificial intelligence, and the connected sensor network for spatially-resolved analysis and prediction. The main focus of SYMPHONY smart sensors are gases related to the biogas production and gases that have been identified by the European Environmental Agency (EEA) as highly pollutant and contributing to the greenhouse effect, such as CO2, CH4 and NO2. SYMPHONY smart sensors will be validated in three different relevant scenarios: city pollution monitoring in Cyprus, process control and leakage detection in biogas micro-plants in multiple locations in Europe. With this ambition in mind, SYMPHONY has gathered a transversal consortium, comprising three academic institutions, two research institutes, four companies and two end-users, coming from seven different countries in Europe. The consortium covers the full value chain, including silicon photonics, neuromorphic circuits, silicon microelectronics, integration, packaging, artificial intelligence, gas sensing, the internet of things, biogas production and air pollution monitoring.

Keywords: silicon photonics,neuromorphic circuits,deep learning,cloud computing,internet of things,gas sensing,air pollution monitoring,industrial process control