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Revolutionizing Battery Diagnostics with a novel impedance signal processing system (PerBatt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Global demand for batteries is increasing, driven largely by the imperative to reduce climate change through the electrification of mobility and the broader energy transition. This demand could grow by over 30% annually from 2024 to 2030, reaching a market size of 4.7 TWh and a value exceeding €368 billion. Current battery diagnostic methods are slow, inaccurate, and result in significant waste. An average gigafactory in Europe producing up to 30% of battery scrap translates into an estimated €720 million in lost revenue annually. Traditional methods, including visual inspections and basic electrical tests, fail to provide comprehensive data on internal battery health. Advanced techniques like CT scans, while accurate, are prohibitively expensive and too slow for mass production environments. There is an urgent need for reliable battery diagnostics methods. CeLLife has developed an innovative AI-based Electrical Fingerprint Platform (EFP) technology. Our patented solution is a game-changer, providing unparalleled accuracy and speed in battery diagnostics, making it ideal for high-volume industrial applications. By integrating our solution, battery manufacturers achieve significant cost savings, enhance production efficiency, ensure superior product quality and reduce up to 30% of scrap. Our prototypes have been successfully tested with a world leading battery manufacturer, demonstrating their effectiveness and reliability in real-world industrial settings (TRL 6). The prototypes feature cloud connectivity, a user interface, cell traceability, cloud services, and data storage capabilities, showcasing their readiness for widespread deployment. We target a lucrative market opportunity. Our TAM is estimated to reach €26b by 2030, considering the projected increase in lithium-ion battery manufacturing capacity. CeLLife’s technology will have a huge impact on the battery manufacturing industry by reducing waste, optimizing resources, and ensuring high-quality production

Keywords: battery technology,battery diagnostic methods,industrial automation
From Buried Ocean to Surface Ice: Spectral Signatures of Leaking Oceans on Icy Moons. (LeakingOceans)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2461240.0
EU funding (EUR): 2461240.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In our solar system, most of the oceans are covered by kilometers of ices. These buried oceans, considered amongst the most promising places to host extraterrestrial life, are now a priority in both ESA and NASA’s programs for in situ observations with landing missions. To prepare for these programs, and the scientific return of current/future missions, we need to understand how buried oceans interact with the surface, the paths to reach them, and whether we can know more about their composition and physical conditions before visiting them. In fact, while these oceans are buried under a crust of kilometers thick ice, they manage to leak to the surface and can be indirectly observed in several ways. Ocean water escape through geysers (plume) on the Saturnian moon Enceladus, subsurface fluids spill over onto the surface of the Gallilean moon Europa, or subsurface materials (ocean) lose some molecules that diffuse through the ice until reaching the surface where they are observed as ice. In parallel, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of the moons Ganymede and Europa have reported spectra showing subtle variations within the moon surface that are difficult to interpret but likely linked to the formation and evolution of surface ices. The aim of LeakingOceans is to determine the spectral signatures of ices produced by leaking oceans (plume, spilling or diffusion) allowing to identify these leaks in the observations. For this purpose, the processes by which buried oceans become surface ice will be studied experimentally and theoretically to obtain ices’ characteristics and spectral signatures. These tools will be instrumental for searching plumes on Europa or other moons. By determining signature and efficiency of the oceans’ leaks on icy moons, we will (1) understand the dynamics between oceans and surfaces of icy moons (2) deduce the composition and conditions present in these ocean worlds and (3) provide ways to reach these oceans for future exploration.

Keywords: icy moons laboratory experiments ocean surface interaction plume jwst observations
Central European Platform for Plasma-Enabled Surface Engineering (COLOSSE)

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: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Czechia,Slovakia,Sweden,Austria,Germany
Call: Pathways to Synergies (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-04, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1199893.75
EU funding (EUR): 1199893.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

COLOSSE connects Czech and Slovak research facilities in the area of plasma-enabled surface engineering at Masaryk University, Comenius University, and University of West Bohemia. The three research centres of COLOSSE have been supported by ERDF investment in several periods since 2010. They have been shaping and supporting their regional ecosystems over a decade, creating networks of interactions that facilitate knowledge transfer and exploitation of surface engineering technologies. They have also developed international connections – which, however, have led only to isolated cases of involvement in international R&I projects. The goal of COLOSSE is to increase the participation of Czech and Slovak plasma-enabled surface engineering R&I centres in Horizon Europe and future EU Framework Programmes for R&I. Thus, we will achieve upstream synergy of ERDF funding with the Horizon Europe. The goal will be achieved through 4 specific objectives: 1. Strengthen the connections of COLOSSE centres to world-leading R&I centres. 2. Build conditions that will enable internationalization of human resources. 3. Develop skill-set that enables interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration and facilitates creativity. 4. Enable sustainability of the COLOSSE partnership through synergic use ERDF and HE/FP resources. The COLOSSE project will significantly boost the impact of ERDF investments into plasma technologies in the academic sector of Czechia and Slovakia. With joint forces, we will be able to capitalize on our scientific and technological synergies and increase the complexity and added value of our research outputs. With COLOSSE, we will reach out beyond our established collaborative networks in the local, regional, and national R&I ecosystems. We believe that the talent, creativity, skills, and technologies that we harbour in the COLOSSE centres can be a significant aid to increasing competitiveness of European industry and academia.

Keywords: plasma enabled surface engineering plasma assisted thin film deposition plasma assisted surface modification plasma diagnostics plasma modelling
Development of an Advanced Software Package to Determine Relative Earthquake Moment Tensors (relMT)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The seismic moment tensor is the single most important quantity characterizing the source of any subsurface shaking event, typically an earthquake. We here propose to implement, validate and advance a versatile, open-source, research-grade software package to simultaneously determine relative moment tensors of clustered seismic events with minimal data requirements. The algorithm lowers the magnitude threshold for moment tensor determination, possibly by 2 to 3 magnitudes. In this way the development of the proposed software package can increase the number of moment tensors that can be resolved by a factor of 100 to 1000. With this additional knowledge, subsurface deformation can be better understood. Applications include the important de-risking of zero-carbon energy technologies such as the stimulation of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), or underground CO2 storage (CCS), where the proposed technology has the potential to contribute to detecting premature fault activation and cap-rock failure, thereby mitigating potential risk, increasing public acceptance and evading loss of investment. Other applications include the seismic source and stress analysis in a vast array of scientific research targets, for example when analyzing periods of tectonic or volcanic unrest, seismicity in underground mining, laboratory-scale acoustic emissions, or sources of chemical or nuclear explosions.

Keywords: earthquake source,carbon capture and storage,enhanced geothermal systems,induced seismicity,microseismic monitoring,scientific programming
TopologiCal ApproacH to Artificial NeurAL NetworKS (CHALKS)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Spain,Japan,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 262599.84
EU funding (EUR): 262599.84
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The project TopologiCal ApproacH to Artificial NeurAL NetworKS (CHALKS) will focus on the study of Artificial Neural Networks architecture based on computational topology approaches and sheaf theory. More specifically, towards Explainability, we plan to study the data representations through the different hidden layers of ANNs and track the topological complexity evolution. Then, we want to characterize the needed architecture based on the topological complexity.

Keywords: computational topology
Metals against Leishmaniasis (MetaLeish)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Metal nanoparticles have shown high efficacy against various pathogenic microorganisms, including antibiotic-resistant strains, being a very promising solution for the development of novel therapies. Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease, caused by obligatory intracellular parasites of the Leishmania genus. In their human host, they thrive inside the acidic environment of parasitophorous vacuole of mononuclear phagocytic cells, such as macrophages. Leishmaniasis can manifest itself either through disfiguring skin lesions (cutaneous leishmaniasis), or by reaching the spleen, the liver or the bone marrow (visceral leishmaniasis). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it threatens more than 350 million people worldwide. There is no vaccine, and current treatments are long and difficult, based on toxic, expensive drugs that are becoming ineffective due to the development of resistance. The MetaLeish project aims to develop a new treatment against leishmaniasis based on biodegradable metal nanoparticles (BMPs). Metals such as Zn and Mg are widely considered biocompatible, being biodegradable in the human body. Moreover, they possess antimicrobial properties and an immunomodulatory action. Due to their small size, these particles can reach the parasitophorous vacuole of an infected phagocytic cell, and kill the parasite. For this purpose, Zn and Mg BMPs will be produced through the spark discharge technique. Then, BMPs aggregation in PBS or cell culture medium will be optimized, if necessary through functionalization or encapsulation steps, in order to achieve a stable colloidal suspension to be applied in in vitro assays. Lastly, BMPs efficacy against Leishmania parasites internalized in phagocytic cells will be accessed, and the mechanisms through which they are internalized by infected-macrophage cells and exert their anti-Leishmania action will be thoroughly described.

Keywords: biodegradable metals,leishmaniasis,spark discharge technique
Intelligent Radiation Sensor Readout System​ (i-RASE)

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: Denmark,Germany,Norway,Italy,United Kingdom
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3342833.75
EU funding (EUR): 3342833.75
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The vision of i-RASE is to pioneer a new class of radiation sensor system-in-package (SIP) chips at the intersection of computer science- and neuroscience-oriented approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) development. The i-RASE project aims to design, build, test, and implement the first on-the-fly photon-by-photon radiation detector with transformational potential for various radiation applications, such as medical imaging, industrial inspection, scientific space instrumentation, environmental monitoring, and more. The i-RASE project will develop physics-inspired artificial neural networks (ANNs) for comprehensive sensor signal processing (SP) and real-time (RT) measurement of radiation interactions. It will compact this technology into an ultimate vision for SP embedded in hardware (HW) as an "all-in-one" SIP, enabling cost- and energy-efficient detection and intelligent radiation data output with unparalleled accuracy and speed. This approach enhances measurement precision and speed by utilizing complex SP, event characterization, and on-the-fly processing of incident radiation-induced signals in near real-time. As a result, it facilitates the retrieval of comprehensive information on incident radiation, ultimately improving measurement accuracy and speed while reducing digital data output.

Keywords: ann based signal processing ai powered radiation sensor readout electronics high resolution x and gamma imaging detectors intelligent nuclear medical imaging devices real time radiation measurements
Power and Paranoia: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Revolutions, 1789-1848 (POPCOT)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project investigates the creation and circulation of conspiracy theories in revolutionary-era Western Europe (1789-1848), adopting a transnational angle that focuses specifically on France, Britain, and Italy. It aims to understand why historical actors created conspiracy theories; why these narratives resonated with wide audiences; and what social and political impact they had. The project will trace the emergence across Europe of a shared conspiracy culture, which interpreted major historical developments and global history at large as being driven by the schemes of a small, international cabal of plotters seeking world domination. It will examine why some sociocultural and national contexts proved particularly conducive to the spread of conspiracy theories while others exhibited greater resistance, and it will explore why conspiracist beliefs thrived in times of revolution. The analysis will address the impact of conspiracy theories on the development of democratic systems, their role in processes of mass mobilisation, and their contribution to violence against political, religious, and racial minorities. Drawing on recent scholarship in intellectual, social, and cultural history and the history of emotions, this project distinguishes itself through its unique transnational lens and its broad chronological scope, and for incorporating insights from other disciplines, including literary and communication studies and anthropology. As conspiracist tropes spread widely across the globe and influence electoral processes, this project provides a timely contribution to historical scholarship and to ongoing discussions on the fight against misinformation that are taking place in academia, journalism, and policymaking, thus addressing one of the priorities of the European Commission’s Digital Services Act. It will also enhance the fellow’s research profile, positioning him ideally to secure a tenure-track position.

Keywords: age of revolutions conspiracy theories europe french revolution history of emotions eighteenth century nineteenth century france italy britain
Memristive dEvices based on conductive Metal Organic Frameworks (MEMOF)

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 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Electrolyte-gated redox transistors are an emerging type of device that has been gaining traction in neuromorphic computing research. Mostly based on organic polymeric mixed conductors, thin-film redox transistors exploit the soft nature of polymers to swell and accommodate gating electrolyte (ions) that modulates electrical current in the transistor channel. Although key to redox transistor operation, ion uptake is associated with extensive swelling, causing structural changes in the polymeric thin film that are detrimental to thin-film electrical properties limiting device lifetime and reproducibility. Conductive metal-organic frameworks (CMOFs) have been gaining more and more interest as smart functional materials. CMOFs are highly crystalline porous materials, comprising metal-organic ligand pairs that determine their structural, electrical, as well as other functional properties. These find application in electrocatalysis, battery and supercapacitor technologies. CMOFs intrinsic porosity offers well-defined ionic pathways that should allow ion uptake without structurally affecting the hole/electron-conducting properties of the thin film. Moreover, CMOFs have larger charge storage capacity than their polymer counterparts, promising a higher number of memory states per device which will result in an exponential increase of computational power. MEMOF aims at building Memristive dEvices based on conductive Metal Organic Frameworks that can surclass state-of-the-art polymer-based redox transistors in terms of device stability and performance. The major challenge of the project lies in synthesizing low-defect CMOF thin films through directed epitaxial growth on functionalized surfaces. Thanks to my expertise in the characterization of mixed conductors and transistor fabrication, and the training in MOF chemistry and crystal engineering, provided by Prof. Martí-Rujas, I aim to obtain robust redox transistors for neuromorphic computing.

Keywords: conductive metal organic frameworks redox transistors memristive device
SOlar Energy to power CO2 REduction towards C2 chemicals for energy storage (SOREC2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Poland,Denmark,United States
Call: Next generation of renewable energy technologies (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3084266.25
EU funding (EUR): 3084266.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SUSPENDED

SOREC2 aims at developing a breakthrough technology for a direct transformation of sunlight and CO2 into chemicals, such as ethanol or ethylene, for a safe energy storage. SOREC2 brings expertise in photonic structure design (for optimal sunlight harvesting) together with expertise in catalysis (to reduce CO2 into products that can store chemical energy or with a high economical interest). On the light harvesting side, ICFO will develop a system composed of three complementary light-absorbing elements in order to obtain the largest possible broadband sunlight harvesting. This system will rely on newly developed light trapping nano-configurations and will enable fine tuning of the potential energy needed for the reduction reactions via an innovative arrangement of the low, middle and high bandgap materials. CALTECH will develop a hybrid catalyst system, exploiting a novel combination of CO2 reduction catalysts with a redox/proton mediator to lower overpotentials and enhance selectivity towards C2 products such as ethanol or ethylene. For the photoanode, where the chemistry and the optics in a photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) are interwoven, UAB and ICFO will design a multilayer configuration to achieve an optimal electro-chemistry, while not undermining the optical performance of such PEC. To ensure a transformation of the scientific research into a technology breakthrough with substantial economical and societal impacts, SOREC2 incorporates UNIFE to define the PEC upscaling roadmap and the companies GEM, SAULE, and VITSOLC for the creation of new markets. Finally, to identify non-technical barriers (such as political, economic, and societal) that SOREC2 may encounter, and to engage relevant stakeholders and citizens on the route towards market uptake, SOREC2 incorporates DBT, a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure that technology development is shaped and informed by cooperation between citizens, experts, stakeholders, and decision-makers.

Keywords: c2 products,ethanol,sunlight harvesting,photoelectrochemical cells,co2 reduction catalyst,water oxidation molecular catalyst,artificial photosyntesis,storable chemical energy,photocatalysis