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Strange nuclear matter from first-principles hadron scattering amplitudes (StrangeScatt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1996125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

StrangeScatt will assess the role of strange quarks in nuclear physics by performing first-principles computations of scattering amplitudes to study interactions between hadrons with strange quarks. The presence of strange quarks alters the properties of atomic nuclei and nuclear matter. For instance, the relationship between the mass and radius of neutron stars depends on the dynamics of strange quarks produced in their core. However, quantitative predictions of neutron star masses and radii are complicated by our ignorance of the fundamental interactions of baryons with strange quarks (hyperons). Such predictions are timely given the advent of dedicated neutron star observatories, multi-messenger astronomy, and earth-based experiments involving baryon resonances and nuclear matter. Nuclear interactions are rooted in QCD, the fundamental force which binds quarks inside hadrons and hadrons inside nuclei. The bridge between few-body and many-body dynamics is made systematically with effective theories of the strong nuclear force, which require as input few-hadron scattering amplitudes as well as their quark-mass dependence. This project will compute two- and three-hadron scattering amplitudes between nucleons and hyperons directly from QCD using high-performance computer simulations on a space-time lattice. Lattice QCD computations of scattering amplitudes have improved markedly thanks to algorithms developed by the PI, so that accurate and precise first-principles computations of are finally within reach. The unique ability of lattice computations to vary the up, down, and strange quark masses near their physical values is necessary for fully predictive effective theories. The PI's experience in lattice QCD computations of scattering amplitudes makes him ideally suited for StrangeScatt, which supports ground-based experiments and astrophysical observations by probing the role of strangeness in hadron interactions, nuclei, and nuclear matter.

Keywords: lattice qcd,hadron scattering amplitudes,hypernuclear physics,neutron stars,effective field theory
The Game: Counter-mapping informal refugee mobilities along the Balkan Route (TheGAME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2473760.0
EU funding (EUR): 2473760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Balkan Route is the most important overland informal migration corridor in Europe, taken by thousands of refugees every year. Linking Greece to Western Europe across Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Croatia, the Route is a complex geography of formal and informal, visible and ‘invisible’ sites; an assemblage of diverse actors, camps, borders, violence, solidarity, and a multiplicity of micro-routes, constantly adapting and shifting. Across and between these interconnected spatialities, refugees forge their trajectories towards Europe through ‘The Game,’ the term they use to refer to clandestine journeys. Along the Route, an archipelago of makeshift camps has emerged, hosting thousands of refugees as they repeatedly attempt to enter Europe. Key in producing and sustaining The Game, these sites serve as temporary shelters, nodes of services and information, where refugees meet smugglers, wait, and plan the next move. To understand how informal migration corridors work TheGAME aims to: (1) theorize makeshift camps as distinct spatialities with a unique social and political life; (2) investigate the Route’s archipelago of makeshift camp as an inter-connected, corridor-forming counter-geography; (3) produce an archive-in-progress documenting refugee experiences of a corridor endlessly re-invented across space and time; (4) employ counter-mapping as a methodology capable of critically understanding how the Balkan Route functions and propose a novel and replicable approach to studying informal migration corridors globally. TheGAME is the first transnational, multi-sited, multi-temporal, extensive ethnographic research on an entire informal migration corridor, a ground-breaking project with the potential to disrupt how we understand refugee informal mobilities and camps, generate cutting-edge academic work and shape new directions for Camp Studies and Political Geography.

Keywords: camp geographies informal refugee mobility migration corridors makeshift spatialities counter mapping
Dealing with a Resurgent China (DWARC)

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 Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Poland,Belgium,France,Italy,Germany,Denmark
Call: Upgrading Independent Knowledge on Contemporary China in Europe (HORIZON-CL2-2021-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3998228.18
EU funding (EUR): 3998228.18
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

This consortium recognises the resurgence of China as a top tier great power is changing the world, and the EU needs to develop a long-term approach based on knowledge to engage strategically with the resurgent and increasingly assertive China as well as the global changes unleashed thereby, including the process of selective ‘de-coupling’ and persistent US-China tension. To assist this, this consortium will bring together some of the best researchers across seven countries to work in a synergetic way to build up a world class independent knowledge base on China in Europe. We will do so by engaging in critical scientific research, nurturing a generation of younger scholars and building up a collaborative network that endures. The key subjects we will address will cover all the key areas identified in the Horizon call, namely, society and culture, politics, economy and foreign policy. Furthermore, this consortium will prioritise impact and dissemination for the EU, the corporate world, the media and the wider public across Europe. The building up of independent knowledge on a resurgent China will enable the EU to better deal with it.

Keywords: china knowledge autonomy strategic autonomy politics economics foreignandsecurity societyandculture data driven conceptual analysis networks talent development focus on gender policy relevance
Building perovskite superlattices by shape-tuning perovskite nanocrystals for enhanced superfluorescent emission (SPUREPER)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals exhibit high emission coefficients with controllable shapes, sizes and compositions. Moreover, the self-assembly of perovskite nanocrystals into consistent superlattices can generate a focused and intense burst of collective coupling emission called superfluorescence. These prominent features made them attractive in light-emitting and laser applications. In SPUREPER, shape-tuning perovskite nanocrystals will be synthesised via a new route and pure perovskite superlattices through different shapes of nanocrystals with controllable aggregated structures and enhanced collective emission will be explored. In WP1, a concept of post-injection of halide source and alkylamine ligands into the lead-oleate and caesium-oleate complexes is proposed to achieve monodisperse perovskite nanospheres and nanocubes. Introducing other metal cations partially replacing lead at the beginning of synthesis controls the growth of crystals, and post-injecting alkylamine modifies the nanocrystals into a spherical shape. In WP2, pure perovskite superlattices in various three-dimensional structures will be built by co-assembling perovskite nanospheres and nanocubes. The size and relative ratios of nanospheres and nanocubes will be tuned to modify nanocrystal packing structure, packing density, and aggregated orientations in superlattices. Moreover, the self-assembling behaviour of solely perovskite nanospheres will be exploited. In addition, the influence of the solvent, whose polarity and volatility are essential in forming a well-organised three-dimensional structure, on the arrangement behaviour of superlattices will be studied. In WP3, superfluorescence will be measured in these various perovskite superlattices. Peak shift and intensity adjustment of the coupling emission will be correlated to the packing manners involving structure, density, and coupling number in the superlattices.

Keywords: perovskite nanocrystals,spherical shape,self assembly,superlattices,three dimensional structure,superfluorescence
MICROBIOME-DRIVERS OF LIVER FIBROSIS (MICFIB)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Israel
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184698.24
EU funding (EUR): 184698.24
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Liver fibrosis is increasing in prevalence in many Western populations (mainly due to alcoholic liver disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) and has a major burden on care provision as to date there is no specific intervention to reverse fibrosis. One of the factors that could regulate liver fibrosis is the intestinal microbiome, as various microbial derived compounds reach the liver through the portal vein and act on the liver cells including stellate and Kupffer cells, the main drivers of liver fibrosis. My hypothesis is that the hepatic stellate cells phenotype could be driven by the microbiome and microbial derived metabolites. The key objective is to gain comprehensive understanding on how the microbiome modifies liver homoeostasis and contribute to liver fibrosis development using analysis of the network perturbation in disease, coupled with microbiome experimental techniques. To achieve this, I plan to answer three main questions: 1) which microbiome states and microbiome derived metabolite modulate fibrosis; 2) how does these microbiome states and metabolites changes the hepatic stellate cells phenotype at a cellular and spatial level; 3) which are the mechanisms by which the microbiome modulates liver fibrosis. This will allow characterizing in depth and dissecting the molecular mechanisms of fibrosis and the contribution of microbiome and microbial associated products. Furthermore, identification of potential factors affecting the course of the disease may lead to potential assisting therapies involving the microbiome and at term leading to an improvement in the prognostic and management of patients with liver fibrosis. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship is an important point in my career because it will allow me to ask relevant and innovative questions about host–microbe interactions, learn new approaches and transition from being a physician to an early career physician-scientist and a research group leader.

Keywords: fibrosis,microbiome,liver
MONITOR RESPIRATORY HEALTH USING VOICE (VoiceMed-WomenTechEU)

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: Luxembourg
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Voice can tell a lot of information about our health. We believe that voice is the new blood for medical diagnosis. Asthma is a long-term disease that affects the lungs and airways. It is one of the most common chronic diseases with 5.8% of the EU population suffering from asthma - ~30 mill people. Doctors have always relied on the patient’s voice as one of the first parameters to assess health. When they talk to a patient, they carefully listen to their breathing, cough, and speech looking for specific signs. However, doctors usually evaluate patients without using any digital solution, leading to a 50% rate in non-well-controlled patients. Deep-tech innovation: VoiceMed uses vocal biomarkers combined with sound analysis and artificial intelligence. Our technology detects subtle signals in the sounds produced by the vocal apparatus. When the association between a signal either a normal biological or pathogenic state is fully validated, these signals become vocal biomarkers. This process allows going beyond the sounds routinely used in medical practice, such as wheezes or crackles, and unlocking a new dimension of biomarkers that can be assessed remotely, instantaneously and with no extra equipment. Women Founders: Arianna Arienzo (CEO) - +6 years experience in business in 5 countries (including Silicon Valley). Entrepreneur in digital health and digital technologies. Listed in Forbes Under 30 in 2022. Contract professor at Cattolica university in healthcare innovation. Msc business administration. Dr. Ayana de Brito (CSO) - +9 years’ experience as a research scientist in computational biology, currently leading our research team. She has skills in scientific practices, scientific writing, pm, strategic planning, data analysis, statistics, data visualization and programming. She is an expert also in regulatory affairs, with knowledge also in privacy. PhD in computational biologist.

Keywords: vocal biomarkers,ai,asthma,deep tech,venture capital,women,startups
Towards an Ecosystem of User-centric devices and services for multisport Training and Remote healthcare enabled by an Artificial Intelligence-based Network of Sensors (EU-TRAINS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Italy,France,Netherlands,Finland,Poland,Ukraine,Spain
Call: Smart sensors for the Electronic Appliances market (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9385085.74
EU funding (EUR): 7897415.86
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

EU-TRAINS aims to reinforce the supply chain on sensors for biomechanics and cardiovascular system real-time monitoring targeting applications in the fields of fitness and healthcare. It leverages from the strength of EU digital microsystem and design to support a 100% made-in-Europe supply chain of solutions which encompass smart-textile integration as well as advanced AI-based edge-cloud data processing. In details the following outcomes are foreseen: - Textile integrated electronic systems for real-time monitoring of heart, respiratory and movement parameters on-the-air and in-water through an interdisciplinary approach; - Semiconductor technologies which allow the re-use of micro-nano systems both in the sports and in the healthcare sectors; - Miniaturized devices allowing the capturing of bio-chemical parameters able to withstand harsh ambient conditions such as salt fogs, chlorine, detergents, high and low temperatures, etc. The following key activities are targeted: - Development, prototyping and demonstration of versatile sensors with edge AI features for improved precision and reliability, that can also be integrated in textiles as well as in smart wearable wrist-watches and in sport equipment and gears targeting also underwater applications; - Cloud-edge Artificial Intelligence combined approaches for reliable diagnosis of body parameters. This will comprise sensor’s self-learning, remote update, multi-sensing approaches based on sensor arrays; - Novel materials that support electronics printing in textiles with stretchability and self-healing capabilities. Societal benefits are foreseen in the transition to a healthier lifestyle by promoting regular physical activity through affordable tools and services for a large audience, including people with disabilities. Moreover, this will impact the smart/remote-healthcare sector which will benefit of the availability of low-cost microfabricated solutions for intelligent, versatile, connected body sensors.

Keywords: resilient supply chains made in europe sensor body parameter textile integrated electronics flexible and stretchable electronics wearable devices artificial intelligence machine learning
SALAMI : Sapphire and diAmond LAb-on-a-chip MIcrofluidics: microreactors for extreme conditions experimentation (SALAMI)

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: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Extreme conditions, i.e. high pressures, high temperature (HP/HT) or harsh chemical environments are extremely difficult to study and to observe undisturbed in the field and to replicate in the laboratory. This critically slows down the rate of discoveries both for several industrial processes or in environmental sciences. New types of transparent reactors are needed to implement fast-screening to speed up experimentations in harsh conditions. While microfluidics could address these limitations, current solutions do not propose simultaneously high pressure / high temperature capability, chemical inertness and transparency. A new microfabrication technology developed in the ERC CoG BIG MAC project, allowed the development of an innovative microfluidics platform made out of sapphire for pioneered applications in HP microbiology and bioprocesses (in-situ characterisation of geo- and HP- bioprocesses over a broad range of pressures (< 300 bar) and temperatures (<200°C). In the ERC PoC SALAMI project, I aim to extend this concept to a new family of microfluidic devices based on sapphire and diamond to meet the actual needs of potential end-users (kbar, > 700°C). These microfluidic reactors will be highly disruptive because they are both uniquely transparent and resistant to harsh pressure, temperature and chemical conditions. The ERC PoC SALAMI project will extend the frontiers of microfluidics with market-ready extreme conditions plug-and-play and user-friendly lab-on-a-chip for lab-scale and field-based non-specialist applications. It will enable measurements in extreme environments in multiple areas that do not currently benefit from microfluidics, thus opening new lines of questioning for research and simplified and cost effective diagnostic tools for industry, while HP/HT technologies miniaturisation and fast screening capability can greatly reduce costs for process optimisation.
Monetary valuation of soil ecosystem services and creation of initiatives to invest in soil health: setting a framework for the inclusion of soil health in business and in the policy making process (InBestSoil)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Soil health and food
Destination: Soil health and food
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Netherlands,Latvia,Romania,France,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Croatia,Lithuania
Call: Incentives and business models for soil health (HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4587468.75
EU funding (EUR): 4587468.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

More than half of Europe's soils are degraded by pollution, erosion, and compaction, among other problems, and, in a climate change scenario, this degradation is likely to worsen. Currently, the loss of soil quality is costing an estimated €50 billion per year. However, soil health is still considered an abstract concept that cannot be introduced into financial activities and on which it is very difficult to legislate. The objective of InBestSoil is to co-create a framework for investment in conservation and recovery of soil health, by developing an economic valuation system of the ecosystem services delivered by a healthy soil and the impacts of soil interventions, and its incorporation into business models and incentives. This will allow public and private organizations to give economic value to their actions over soil health, codesign strategies with local stakeholders, and work collectively to deliver national and EU policy ambitions. InBestSoil will provide data, evidence, tools and models to assess how investment in soil health can contribute to the transition to a long-term resilient and sustainable use of soil, using 7 lighthouses and 2 living labs, which provides a total of 9 study areas across 4 biogeographic regions from Europe (Boreal, Continental, Atlantic, Mediterranean), and different land uses (agriculture, forest, urban, mining), as models for co-creation and co-design (multi-actor approach, responsible research and innovation and open science). This 48-month project will involve twenty partners from ten countries, with very different profiles (universities, small and medium-sized enterprises, consultancies, farmers, and NOGs, among others). This design will facilitate the scaling up of results and their internationalisation, facilitating investments in soil health for companies, public administrations and investment groups around the globe.

Keywords: soil health