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CEMCON (Cement from concrete) – A circular solution for recycled concrete fines into supplementary cementitious material (CEMCON)

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: Finland,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 302646.0
EU funding (EUR): 302646.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

EU has set an ambitious goal of achieving a circular economy following the “2050 climate neutrality goal” of the European Green Deal. The construction industry faces significant challenges to meet this in managing concrete waste, which often ends up in landfills. This proposal aims to address this issue by developing a circular solution for recycled concrete fines (RCFs) to be used as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), thereby converting these fine concrete wastes into cement (CEMCON). The main objectives are to characterize and categorize RCFs from various recycling plants, develop a treatment method to activate different types of RCFs, and understand the performance and environmental impacts of these activated RCFs when used as SCMs. To achieve these objectives during this fellowship, I will systematically categorize RCFs based on their composition and reactivity, identifying a generic activation method to enhance their reactivity. Together with my supervisors, I will generate new knowledge by evaluating the performance of activated RCFs and analyzing their energy consumption, carbon footprint, and potential for circular economy integration through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The expected outcome is a revolutionary method for utilizing concrete waste in construction, significantly enhancing the reactivity of waste materials and paving the way for broader applications, including the treatment of other industrial wastes such as mining by-products. To implement the research findings into the world outside laboratory, this research will be scaled up to industrial production of RCFs as SCMs by operating a flagship plant in the Netherlands in collaboration with our associated partner C2CA. CEMCON project provides insights for construction sector on how to use concrete waste fines as cementitious materials. This helps contractors reduce material and project costs. Thus, CEMCON aligns with the EU's aim to promote the circular economy in the building sector.

Keywords: circular raw materials,recycling and reuse,supplementary cementitious materials,recycled concrete fines,waste management
The interplay of symbiont nutrient release and host phagosome maturation in photosymbiosis regulation (PhagoPhoRe)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1489028.0
EU funding (EUR): 1489028.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Photosymbioses between heterotrophic hosts and phototrophic algal endosymbionts have repeatedly and independently evolved across the tree of life. The immense productivity of photosymbioses affects global nutrient cycles, yet global warming is disrupting these nutrient-exchange symbioses, destabilizing the ecosystems they support. Heat stress erodes the metabolic controls underlying the establishment and maintenance of mutualistic carbon recycling in these symbioses. A link between endosymbiont nutrient release and their intracellular maintenance could thus explain the evolutionary establishment as well as the ecological collapse of photosymbioses in the Anthropocene. Harnessing recent advances in cell isolation and culture techniques, PhagoPhoRe seeks to understand the processes underlying the establishment, maintenance, and breakdown of the cnidarian-algal symbiosis. Specifically, I will investigate the idea that the release of photosynthates enables algal endosymbionts to evade phagosomal digestion and autophagic immune responses of the host by mimicking ongoing digestion processes. In three complementary work packages that combine state-of-the-art single-cell transcriptomics, proteomics, and isotopic imaging techniques, I will: 1) Characterize the role of host phagosome maturation processes in the intracellular establishment and maintenance of algal endosymbionts. 2) Investigate the postulated link between algal nutrient release and host phagosome arrest and immune suppression. 3) Examine the drivers of co-evolution towards obligate metabolic interactions in photosymbioses. Deciphering the interplay between symbiotic nutrient cycling and host phagosome maturation will be key to understanding the establishment and subsequent breakdown of photosymbioses. These processes are unlikely restricted to photosymbioses and could reveal fundamental mechanisms enabling the establishment of endosymbioses and, as such, eukaryotic life itself.

Keywords: coral bleaching,endosymbiosis,host microbe interactions,nutrient cycling,tor signaling
Time Matters: Uncovering dynamic mechanisms and optimising the intervention timing across the addictions (Time Matters)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499508.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499508.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Addictive behaviours cause unprecedented disease burden and human suffering. Supporting people to quit is an urgent priority yet absolute quit rates are low due to momentary lapses which beget further lapses and relapse. Studies using high-resolution measurements in people’s daily lives have found that fluctuations in biopsychosocial factors (e.g., cravings, self-efficacy) are associated with lapse risk at the within-person level. This has led to my conceptualising addictive behaviours as dynamical systems which change continuously and non-linearly over time. Potent relapse prevention interventions will need the ability to provide the right type of support to individuals, when and where they most need it. However, this cannot be achieved through relying on dominant addiction theories which do not encode temporal information about dynamical systems and state-of-the-art experimental methods which are not suited for studying intervention effects over time, within individuals. Time Matters will integrate previously unconnected theoretical and methodological advancements from addiction science and control engineering, including my unique skills in formal, dynamical systems modelling and novel within-person experimental designs, to uncover dynamic mechanisms of lapse and relapse across the addictions and optimise the intervention timing in systems which change over time. To achieve these ambitious goals, I will conduct five empirical studies and use advanced analytical techniques to integrate dynamic insights from temporally dense empirical data using low burden ‘microinteraction’ smartphone surveys, a new behavioural task suitable for smartphone delivery, smartwatches and smartphone meta-data. If successful, Time Matters has the potential to transform relapse prevention theories and interventions, ultimately helping to solve the perennial challenge of when, where and how to intervene for each person and reducing the global disease burden caused by addictive behaviours

Keywords: addictive behaviors relapse prevention ecological momentary assessment just in time adaptive intervention
Geologically Enhanced NaturE-based Solutions for climate change resiliency of critical water InfraStructure (GENESIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Adaptation to climate change
Destination: Adaptation to climate change
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Greece,France,Portugal,Cabo Verde
Call: Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions to protect critical infrastructure from climate change, mainstreaming nature based solutions. (HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10512440.0
EU funding (EUR): 9528926.75
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Groundwater represents the largest (and often the only practical) freshwater resource on oceanic islands. Due to the small area of many islands the amount of freshwater is limited, and it is particularly influenced by dynamic processes, including climate change. In the islands of Macaronesia any changes in climate conditions can have more severe negative effects on the available freshwater volume than in a continental environment, therefore, the protection of critical water infrastructure is of the highest priorities. The primary objective of GENESIS is to demonstrate that innovative, nature-based intelligent solutions for enhancing the climate resilience of critical water infrastructure can lead to more reliable and consistent/predictable water management practice by effectively protecting groundwater, by drastically improve the efficiency of water use and reuse, thus sustain social and economic activities while mitigating the potentially severe effects of climate change on local communities. The general concept of GENESIS is testing and showcasing local and regional NbS and delivering a deep demonstrator in the Macaronesian biogeographical area with the long term objective to provide climate-proof critical water infrastructure replicable for other islands and vulnerable zones of the EU mainland. The methodology is designed to provide the full workflow for implementing and demonstrating in operational environments how to capture, storage and protect water in an effective-strategic way (from diverse sources including storm runoff, treated wastewater and irrigation return flows) to mitigate the impacts of extreme events (droughts, floods, wildfires) and how to create climate resilient areas/islands. The development and implementation of systemic nature-based solutions for improved water management in Macaronesia will drastically improve these islands' resilience to climate change impacts by minimising stormwater runoff and soil erosion while enhancing infiltration and underground water storage.

Keywords: groundwater freshwater resource oceanic islands critical water infrastructure adaptation climate change nature based solutions water management reclaimed water local communities recycled water deep demonstrator
Teaching with Money: Financial Literacy in Tuscan Abacus Manuals and Merchants' Notebooks, 1202-1478 (EduMoney)

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 States,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Financial literacy is necessary to spend our money wisely and understand how financial instruments work. In an increasingly complex financial landscape, today only half of the EU adult population has an adequate understanding of basic financial concepts. EduMoney tackles this issue from a historical perspective to offer the first systematic, comprehensive, and digital analysis of the skills and knowledge underpinning financial literacy during another period of increasing financial complexity: the medieval ‘Commercial Revolution’. The focus is on money ‘itself’, and how this was deployed and represented in Tuscan abacus manuals and merchants’ notebooks, the pedagogical tools of the time. The project analyses the period between 1202, when Fibonacci completed his Liber Abaci, and 1478, when the first printed abacus manual known as Aritmetica di Treviso was published. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from economic history, medieval literature, and the history of economic thought, with the support of the latest digital platforms for text analysis, I will digitise, transcribe, and translate a selected corpus of abacus manuals and merchants’ notebooks. This will allow a comparative and digital study of these sources to identify (cross-)references to money that will be grouped into ‘typological families’. The resulting categorisation will form the basis for an in-depth analysis leading to an innovative treatment of money as a heuristic and pedagogical instrument, and to a more holistic understanding of how people lived, learnt, and conceptualised their lives as economic actors. The enhancement of financial literacy among different age groups through a series of didactic and outreach activities will empower people by endowing them with the right tools to make informed decisions to improve their economic wellbeing, thus tackling social and gender inequalities for the development of a more inclusive Europe.

Keywords: money,financial literacy,abacus manuals,merchants notebooks,tuscany,digital humanities,monetary history,financial history,history of the economic thought,history of education
Transformative Accountability for net-zero Transitions (TRANSACT)

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: Denmark,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 329241.6
EU funding (EUR): 329241.6
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Cities and urban agglomerations have set ambitious CO2 targets that necessitate a sustainable transition over the coming decade. Recently, the Commission announced a mission to make 100 cities Climate neutral by 2030, creating climate contracts to achieve these ambitious targets. To be held accountable to their climate contracts, local policymakers need new accountability processes that not only statically measure their progress, but are designed to dynamically provide learning, legitimacy and direction. The research objective of TRANSACT is to open the black box of accountability systems in order to re-conceptualize accountability to ensure transparency, coordination, learning and effectiveness. Traditional accountability systems are static and based on pre-defined indicators and scientific investigations are limited to the study of assessment and sanctioning mechanisms or avoiding the practice of accountability altogether, ignoring horizontal accountability and learning needed to organize a sustainable transition. Combining interdisciplinary knowledge from Urban Climate Governance, Public Management with practitioner experience the first aim of TRANSACT is to re-conceptualize the dimensions of dynamic accountability processes. Leveraging these dimensions to conduct a large-scale survey aimed at mapping various accountability systems across cities empirically, TRANSACT uncovers how accountability systems are positioned to tackle the climate crisis. Finally, in collaboration with Climate-KIC during my placement/secondment, this project will develop actionable policy papers, and a set of protocols and an open source sustainability dashboard, to identify the accountability capacities needed to realize system innovation. The mixed methods approach will ensure that different cities, with their inherent diversity in socio- demographic features, level of resources, and governance systems, can learn from each other in the pursuit of their common CO2 targets.

Keywords: accountability,sustainable transitions,mission oriented policies,public management,organizational studies,transformative innovation policy
Dynamic Infrastructures and Resilient Communities: a Systemic Approach to Wildfire Risk Mitigation and Adaptation (RESILFIRE)

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: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 396991.08
EU funding (EUR): 396991.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In response to the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires, RESILFIRE addresses the urgent need to enhance the resilience of interdependent power and communication infrastructures in wildfire-prone regions. With global warming projected to intensify, especially in areas like California and Mediterranean Europe, wildfire risks have escalated, causing significant socio-economic disruptions. This project aims to fill critical research gaps using a systemic approach to develop a Fire Sociotechnical Model that integrates P&C infrastructures with social inequalities, providing a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of wildfire on vulnerable communities. By combining wildfire spread models, real infrastructure data, and spatial analysis of social inequalities, the project will propose a new dynamic infrastructure design procedure. This aims at implementing interventions to improve robustness, redundancy, and flexibility of the networks to extend their functionality during heatwaves and wildfires emergencies. Ensuring continuity of service is crucial to reduce impact on mental and physical health and to timely mobilize evacuees. The project will validate these models and procedures simulating several wildfire scenarios on relevant case studies, fostering cross-regional applicability. RESILFIRE will deliver actionable outcomes, including a wildfire adaptive resilience assessment method that accounts for the variability of resources in the recovery phase. The results will be presented through user-friendly web tools documenting the case studies, and a virtual reality environment. By addressing the interactions between infrastructure performance and social inequality, RESILFIRE aims to set new benchmarks for wildfire risk mitigation and climate adaptation across vulnerable communities.

Keywords: wildfire resilience socio economical diversity dynamic infrastructure design wildfire risk mitigation climate change adaptation wildfire adaptive resilience assessment
Novel in situ imaging technology to explore the “ladder of vertical migrations” to the deep-sea (SEA-THROUGH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The pelagic deep ocean is the largest but least-understood habitat on Earth, harboring enormous fish stocks, a rich (and largely undiscovered) biodiversity, as well as a large carbon sink in the climate system. As almost all life at depth is ultimately nourished by primary production in the surface ocean, pathways of “vertical connectivity” are critical in linking ecological and biogeochemical processes across several thousands of meters. One of the most enigmatic phenomena is the so far virtually unexplored “ladder of vertical migrations”: this mechanism is hypothesized to link food-webs across the entire oceanic water column through a complex interplay of feeding-interactions and synchronized migrations of a multitude of species, thereby supporting pelagic life at depths of up to several kilometers. So far, very little is known about this phenomenon, mainly due to the methodological challenges of studying organisms and their behavior at ecologically relevant spatial and temporal scales, particularly under the extreme pressure in the deep sea. SEA-THROUGH aims for a breakthrough by providing “a new set of glasses” to study the so far unexplored “ladder of migrations”. To achieve this, we will: (a) Develop novel in situ imaging technology for unparalleled and highly detailed observations of organisms in the deep sea (to 6000m depth): “who is where at which time and what are they doing” (b) Use this new deep-sea imaging system on ship expeditions for targeted studies of the enigmatic “ladder of migrations” Pushing the limits of in situ observation technology will reveal a holistic picture of biodiversity and food-web structure, providing novel insights into the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their ecological and biogeochemical connectivity across the water column – knowledge that is urgently needed for evaluating the ecosystem services of the deep ocean (e.g. fisheries, CO2 sequestration), as well as the sustainable management of this vast habitat.

Keywords: deep sea,in situ imaging,diel vertical migration,zooplankton,micronekton