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Barrier breakthrough: Molecular determinants of exodermal divergence for root resilience (CicerBarrierBreak)

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: Netherlands
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): 217076.16
EU funding (EUR): 217076.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As climate change intensifies, drought has emerged as one of the most severe abiotic stresses, significantly reducing crop yield. Reducing yield loss of crops is crucial by rethinking agriculture to ensure food security. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum), a major legume with high nutritional and several health benefits, is integral to the diets of millions and contributes to sustainable agriculture. However, chickpea faces significant annual yield losses (~50%) due to drought. The root exodermis, a specialized cell layer, plays a crucial role in water retention and protects against pathogens through cell wall barrier deposition. Despite its significance, the mechanisms governing exodermal barrier formation remain poorly understood, due to its absence in the model plant Arabidopsis. Recent findings from the host lab revealed that desi and kabuli chickpea varieties exhibit dynamic inducible and constitutive exodermal barriers differentiation, respectively. My objective is to investigate the underlying mechanism governing these exodermal responses and differentiation. First, I aim to elucidate the gene regulatory networks controlling this exodermal barrier formation through advanced transcriptomic approaches, involving single cell transcriptomic and time-course RNA-seq. These will reveal the developmental and stress-responsive pathways that orchestrate barrier formation. Second, I will test the role of key transcription factors (TFs)/genes through genetic modifications via hairy root transformation, molecular interaction and promoter activity assays. This will provide insights into how these regulators regulate this barrier differentiation, and stress response that impact barrier traits. The novel insights gained from this proposal will not only advance our understanding of cell-type-specific stress responses, but facilitate its translation for targeted breeding strategies aim at enhancing stress resilience and improving crop yield.

Keywords: exodermis,root,barrier,gene regulatory networks,abiotic stress,drought tolerance,legumes,chickpea,suberin biosynthesis,differentiation,dynamic,scrna seq,rna seq,gene editing
Human-Environment interactions in and around Venice Lagoon: micro-ecologies and geoarchaeological narratives from Roman Period to Middle Ages (WaterScapes)

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: Italy,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

WaterScapes is an interdisciplinary project that examines the relationship between environmental changes, natural constraints and potentialities and past societies settled in and around Venice Lagoon from the Roman to Medieval periods. WaterScapes has 3 core objectives. First, it will explore the high-resolution potential of paleo-archives, which have been undervalued by traditional archaeological research and text-based narratives. This will be achieved through geophysical surveys and coring missions in various sites (Venice, Torcello, Altinum, Lio Piccolo, Aquileia, Grado), laboratory research (geochemistry, bio-sedimentology, etc.) and contextual analysis of the settlements through literature reviews. Second, it will examine waterscapes as a human-made environment in Venice Lagoon in order to determine the historical roots and mechanisms responsible for the Holocene-Anthropocene transition. The research will be centred on multi-period waterscape archaeology to see how former cultures shaped themselves to the surrounding environments and developed different waterscapes through water management practices. WaterScapes will qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the degree and consequences of human interventions vs natural dynamics using multivariate statistical analysis based on bio-geoarchaeological proxies from the investigated sites. Third, WaterScapes will emphasise the social aspect of the materiality of the past, simultaneously measuring its legacy in the present. Establishing the relation between variations in past climatic conditions and coastal changes enables to contribute to the understanding and modelling of the ongoing processes, thereby providing tools for the policies of territory management. WaterScapes integrates perfectly in the principles of European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage, and in two areas of continued actions: a resilient Europe-safeguarding endangered heritage and an innovative Europe-mobilising knowledge and research.

Keywords: geoarchaeology,palaeo environment,interdisciplinary,roman archaeology,medieval archaeology,ancient harbours,multi proxy,landscape archaeology,cultural heritage,venice,anthropocene
Detection and Enhanced Food Safety and Security though Efficient Networks for Supply chain Enhancement (DEFENSEFOOD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Netherlands,Greece,Belgium,Canada,Germany,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom
Call: Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of chemical, biological and radiological threats to agricultural production, feed and food processing, distribution and consumption (HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4108030.0
EU funding (EUR): 4108030.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The DEFENSEFOOD project aims to enhance the resilience of the EU food supply chain against chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) threats, ensuring robust preparedness, rapid response, and effective recovery. This comprehensive approach addresses critical areas of threat management, fostering cross-border collaboration, technological innovation, and capacity building to protect public health, bolster economic stability, and secure food systems. The project’s structured strategy, encompassing seven interconnected work packages (WPs), ensures a full spectrum response from anticipation to post-crisis learning and communication. WP1 focuses on proactive anticipation and prevention by leveraging horizon scanning, predictive tools, AI, and real-time data to monitor potential disruptions and strengthen preparedness. WP2 enhances rapid detection using advanced laboratory techniques and both targeted and untargeted analyses to swiftly identify contaminants, reducing response times. WP3 implements impact mitigation and recovery measures by establishing effective containment protocols and outlining strategies for rapid operational restoration, minimising public health and supply chain disruptions. WP4 promotes continuous learning and adaptation, integrating lessons from past incidents to bolster future resilience. WP5 advances knowledge management and communication through user-friendly decision-support tools that disseminate best practices and strategic recommendations across the supply chain. WP6 focuses on training and capacity building, equipping public and private stakeholders with essential skills via workshops, training sessions, and simulation exercises, fostering coordination and preparedness. WP7 ensures cohesive project management, aligning WPs, optimising resources, and achieving milestones. It oversees governance and scientific coordination through consistent monitoring, ethics considerations, and advisory board facilitation.

Keywords: supply chain resilience
Building Economic, Needs-Based and Environmental evaluation Frameworks for Inclusive Transformation of Social services in Europe (BENEFITS)

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: Greece,Austria,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Sweden
Call: Social services: economic and social returns and value added (HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2950962.34
EU funding (EUR): 2950962.34
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

BENEFITS will develop a Holistic Appraisal Framework (HAF) to measure the social, economic and environmental value-added of social services. HAF consists of a set of innovative research, technology and experimental solutions based on active citizen engagement to provide well-founded evidence on the social and economic returns of social services. HAF will leverage existing innovative, “beyond GDP”, valuation methods, leveraging insights from economics, social, behavioral, and political sciences as well as citizens and policymakers. Upon this preparatory work, BENEFITS will set up a research and engagement plan to identity, measure and visualise the social, economic and environmental value-added of social services as well as the enabling, inhibiting and mitigating factors that will allow to scale-up the positive effects of social services while ensuring a prosperous, inclusive and just transition. BENEFITS will consolidate these findings through setting up a) a Social Services Policy Observatory (SSPO), which will document, assess, evaluate and co-design policies across multilevel governance in the EU, and b) citizen’s assemblies, integrating participants from all backgrounds, to deliberate on proposed policies. These two activities will also be facilitated through BENEFITS’ Visualisations Platform (VP), an innovative technological solution, which will collect, document and visualise data from various sources (i.e., social media, news outlets, web) on issues related to provision of social services, welfare and prosperity, providing citizens, stakeholders and policymakers the necessary information to promote change. Through data and insights collected from the research, experiments, SSPO and VP, BENEFITS will build a Policy Evaluation Toolkit (EVAL-KIT) which will inform policy making, though co-designed recommendations, with the aim to promote the uptake and value scaling up of social services.
ESTABLISHING THE INVESTMENT NETWORK FOR STARTUPS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOCUSED ON GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES (IN4SFS)

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: Türkiye,Greece,Romania,France,Netherlands,Denmark,Belgium,Italy
Call: Expanding Investments Ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1185596.75
EU funding (EUR): 999503.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

IN4SFS project aims to increase the cross-border investment in Turkish, Greek and Romanian innovation ecosystems, while improving access to capital skills of startups working on green and sustainable technologies and established in those ecosystems. Through the network of investors that project partners have, IN4SFS project will provide the cross-border investment opportunities to startups working on green and sustainable technologies and located in Turkey, Greece and Romania. Access to finance helps startups to use their limited financial resources on innovation at a higher level, without generating a significant income, especially while working on innovation activities. The innovative activities lead to better results in terms of sales numbers, and the overall growth rate of the startups. IN4SFS project will support competitiveness, and global potential of green and sustainable technology-focused startups in Turkish, Greek and Romanian innovation ecosystems through foreign investments and improve the investment readiness of startups. To assist foreign investors located in the Netherlands, France and Denmark to access local deal flows, IN4SFS project will use the local project partners and establish information centers in Turkey, Greece and Romania. Through the knowledge of partners in local ecosystems, these information centers will help foreign investors to access local deal flows. In terms of informing foreign investors from the Netherlands, France and Denmark on local regulatory frameworks and supporting them to establish joint cross-border ventures in Turkey, Greece and Romania, four brokerage events will be organized. These events will be focused on investors and a joint cross-border venture opportunity will be looked for.

Keywords: capacity building,greentech,green start ups
Enzymatic CO2 Capture in a Rotating Packed Bed and Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Useful Products (REUSE)

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: Greece,Portugal,United Kingdom,Denmark,Austria,Italy
Call: Development of carbon fixation technologies for biogenic flue gases (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3756130.0
EU funding (EUR): 3756130.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

REUSE proposes the development of an advanced CO2 capture and utilization concept where a Rotating Packed Bed (RPB) is used that employs immobilized Carbonic Anhydrase (CA) in combination with advanced solvents, while the captured CO2 is transformed into carbon monoxide (CO) or formic acid (FA) in a CO2 reduction (CO2R) cell. To deliver high-quality flue gas to the RPB-CO2R system, the team will consider several in-situ strategies of particles abatement and process optimization (Design of Experiments coupled with Propagation of Error) combined with the synergetic effect of using biomass blends. Then, the process employs a RPB where the used enzyme is immobilized in cellulosic fibers on the packing material of the RPB, while a solvent is used to capture and transfer the CO2 into a CO2R cell. The immobilized CA allows the enhancement of absorption kinetics while avoiding the need for an unregulated, free-flowing suspension of CA and solvent. The CO2R cell employs novel electrocatalysts (electrodeposition and plasma methods) to produce FA and CO, which are chosen here as they necessitate a 2e- transfer and are the only CO2R products that can compete with conventional production processes. REUSE will prove its enhanced performance under relevant operating conditions by testing: a) an 80 kWth pilot-scale fluidized bed unit enabling co-gasification/combustion runs (as needed) at multiple operating conditions; b) an RPB absorber with fiber-immobilized CA; and c) a CO2R cell with advanced catalysts. After validation of the single units, a pilot-scale fluidized bed, combustion unit will be integrated with the RPB absorber and CO2R cell for integrated system validation in a TRL 5 pilot plant that will enable continuous operation. REUSE strategy includes life cycle and techno-economic assessments as well as socio-economic aspects including SDGs and impacts when applying such solutions in regions in transition from fossil fuels.

Keywords: biomass combustion system co2 capture and utilization carbonic anhydrase co2r cell formic acid electrocatalysts rotating packed bed regions in transition from fossil fuels
6G Vertical trials for Sustainability (6G-VERSUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Finland,Spain,Bulgaria,Portugal,Greece,Luxembourg,Cyprus,United Kingdom,France,Italy
Call: SNS Large Scale Trials and Pilots (LST&Ps) with Verticals (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14451446.53
EU funding (EUR): 12089420.75
Participants: 35
Project status: SIGNED

The journey towards tangible sustainability outcomes necessitates a fusion of technological advancements with strategic experimentation. In this pursuit, 6G-VERSUS emerges as a pioneering initiative, leveraging cutting-edge 6G research facilities across Europe to explore the frontiers of sustainable technology. Through meticulously designed trials and pilots, 6G-VERSUS addresses pressing challenges in 5 environmentally conscious vertical industries. In this regard, 6G-VERSUS introduces a novel methodology, transforming existing use cases into 6G applications, comprising Vertical App (V-App), Network App (N-App), and AI-assisted App (AI-App). This triadic structure optimizes the data and control planes of 6G systems, facilitating seamless information flow and decision-making processes. With the support of six (Stream C) 6G platforms spanning across Europe, 6G-VERSUS aims to demonstrate the profound sustainable, economic and societal impact of 6G technology, propelling towards a more sustainable and prosperous society.

Keywords: 6g,trials,sustainability,pilots,environmentally conscious verticals,ai,6g enabled applications
Frequency-agile integrated photonic light sources across the visible and near-infrared spectrum (AgiLight)

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: France,Germany,Italy,Poland,Switzerland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2786477.5
EU funding (EUR): 2786477.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Lasers are ubiquitous in science and technology, with applications ranging from optical communications and quantum technologies to metrology and sensing and to life sciences and medical diagnostics. However, most commercially used lasers are still based on legacy optical schemes. These devices are either bulky and expensive limiting product development, or lack the ability to quickly sweep or precisely control the laser wavelength, which is key to many applications. At the same time, the advent of advanced photonic integration platforms such as silicon photonics has opened new perspectives, realized only for exascale data centers in telecommunication wavelengths around 1310 and 1550 nm. AgiLight aims at establishing a new class of integrated lasers that can address the entire wavelength range from the blue (400 nm) to the infrared (2.7 µm). These devices rely on a hybrid integration platform that combines ultra-low-loss silicon nitride photonic circuits with advanced tuning actuators and with III-V gain elements, exploiting highly scalable assembly concepts based on 3D printing. The devices will offer high output powers (> 100 mW), down to Hz-level laser linewidths, and unprecedented frequency agility with nanosecond response times and wideband tunability. Comprising leading European research groups and high-tech start-ups as well as a major industrial player, AgiLight will translate ground-breaking research to rapid technology uptake and tailor laser systems for atomic and molecular physics and optics, distance ranging and sensing using the expertise of end-users. The project covers the theoretical and nanofabrication foundations of the envisaged light sources as well as their implementation and functional demonstration in highly relevant research applications throughout the visible and near-infrared spectrum. AgiLight will lay the foundation for an all-European value chain of a novel class of light sources, covering the III-V and low-loss PICs.

Keywords: frequency agile,silicon photonics,monolithic piezoelectric actuator,laser platform
Unlocking the value of a blue economy with a revolutionary Underwater Satellite to promote the sustainable use of our ocean’s resources (BLUESURVEY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3561500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2493050.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Planblue has created the very first Underwater Satellite to bring our oceans into the Data Age. BLUESURVEY is a cutting-edge hardware-software system that allows for the automated, accurate, objective and detailed mapping of our seafloors. Our technology will revolutionize the way that thousands of surveys and environmental impact assessments are performed every year to provide decision-makers, like governmental entities, fisheries, and coastal managers, with completely new data on how to best manage the ocean’s resources to avoid reaching a tipping point. We have already developed a strategy to make BLUESURVEY widely available to the seafloor monitoring industry via a lease-license strategy and have confirmed a massive interest from the market to have access to our technology to enhance and protect €2.5T in ocean assets. We are requesting €2.5M from the EIC for the innovation activities needed to realize our ambitious vision to make BLUESURVEY the new standard in seafloor monitoring.

Keywords: hyperspectral imagining,geo referencing,seafloor mapping