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TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC LANDSCAPE OBSERVATION THROUGH GEOINFORMATICS AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION (TOPIO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Greece,Cyprus,Belgium,Spain,Italy,Portugal
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1037628.57
EU funding (EUR): 915400.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Landscape is a key element of individual and social well-being. Although its protection, management and planning is acknowledged by the European Landscape Convention of the Council of Europe since 2000, not much has been done for this treaty's comprehensive implementation. TOPIO aims to give people an active role in decision-making on landscape by means of Citizen Science, Geoinformatics (Earth Observation and GIS), Artificial Intelligence and Public Participation to promote the area's sustainable development. - TOPIO will position the landscape as a key concept in addressing broader challenges such as the Faro Convention Plan, Aarhus Convention, UN sustainable development goals, the EU Green deal etc. - it will provide innovative, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training for the researchers of TOPIO partners, based on training activities and mobility actions, in a range of different disciplines - achieve advanced innovation and capacity building through developing a research and training network that will focus its activities on developing, effectively integrating, and increasing utilization of existing and emerging Landscape monitoring techniques. - reinforce the socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of the landscape and its role in defining operative and integrative frameworks supporting sustainable development at local and regional levels. Through the application of Landscape Character Assessment methodologies in seven European countries - exchange information on landscape policies and peoples experience concerning protection, management and planning, public participation and implementation at different scales and levels TOPIO will integrate and synthesize project findings suitable for awareness raising, readily communicable to a wide audience, and relevant for policy negotiations. Furthermore, the project will maintain a dialogue with relevant stakeholders and will provide recommendations for policy makers.

Keywords: landscape,citizen science,geoinformatics,artificial intelligence
Cellular Memory: The Impact of Footprints on Cell Behavior (MEMOCELL)

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: Germany,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

MEMOCELL: Mechanobiological Exploration of Memory Origin in CELLular Dynamics Cell migration is a fundamental process in development, tissue repair, and disease progression. Despite advances in understanding cellular dynamics, the role of cellular "footprints"—residual cues left by migrating cells—remains poorly understood. The goal of this proposal is to fill this knowledge gap by investigating how cellular footprints contribute to the memory effects in cell dynamics and their impact on cell behavior within the extracellular matrix (ECM). Addressing this gap is crucial, as it could redefine our understanding of cell migration and lead to innovative therapeutic strategies for diseases where cell migration is key, such as cancer. This aligns with the EU’s Beating Cancer Plan, making this research of significant societal relevance. Recent advancements in mechanobiology and cell biology now make it possible to precisely study these recently reported cellular memory phenomena. I believe in my ability to lead this project, given my multidisciplinary background in materials science, chemistry, and cell biology, and my established collaborations with leading experts in the field. This fellowship will also be a fundamental step in my career, providing me with the expertise in advanced cell biology needed to establish myself as an independent researcher and leader in the emerging field of mechanobiology. Through this project, I aim to contribute to scientific excellence and societal well-being, while achieving my long-term goal of leading innovative, interdisciplinary research at the intersection of biology, physics and materials science.

Keywords: footprint,cellular memory,extracellular matrix,cell dynamics,biomaterials
Noradrenergic Modulation of Hippocampal Post-Natal Development (HIPPNADEV)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Many brain disorders with cognitive impairment originate during development, when synaptic and neuromodulatory circuits progressively emerge, mature and give rise to function. In the hippocampus, stereotyped sequences of brain activity patterns in early life are thought to set the stage for coherent cognitive and memory processes in adulthood, for which noradrenaline neuromodulation is also critical. However, surprisingly little is known about the developmental origins of hippocampal neuromodulation in general, and of noradrenaline transmission in particular, neither in health nor disease. In project HIPPNADEV, I will investigate the contribution of noradrenergic transmission to the post-natal development of the hippocampus: In other words, “if”, “when” and “how” noradrenergic signals acquire their cellular and circuit-level properties in the developing hippocampus. I will use a highly innovative, translationally relevant, multi-disciplinary and multi-scale approach, combining in mice anatomical and functional interrogation using cutting-edge technology including spatial transcriptomics and in vivo all-optical dual imaging of noradrenaline release and single-neuron calcium activity. Further, this project will compare the developmental trajectories and functional significance of hippocampal noradrenergic signals at baseline and in rodent models of schizophrenia. Altogether, it will significantly advance our understanding of hippocampal neurodevelopment on one hand – implicating neuromodulatory noradrenergic transmission therein – and vice versa elucidate still-unknown developmental aspects of noradrenaline transmission. Such breakthroughs will offer promising bases for future fundamental study of the neuromodulatory correlates of neurodevelopment, as well as a solid preclinical framework to better combat schizophrenia syndromes and associated psychoses.

Keywords: hippocampus,noradrenaline,post natal development,neuromodulation,schizophrenia,circuit neuroscience,systems neuroscience
Quality, Utility and Maturity Measured; Developing a Data Quality and Utility Label for HealthData@EU (QUANTUM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,France,Netherlands,Croatia,Finland,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Norway,Greece,Portugal,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Austria
Call: Developing a Data Quality and Utility Label for the European Health Data Space (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3905701.26
EU funding (EUR): 3903826.25
Participants: 38
Project status: SIGNED

Context: Data users (i.e., researchers, innovators, regulation agencies and policy-makers) need high-quality data. In HealthData@EU, data holders are expected to make their datasets available for secondary use, providing a notion of their quality and utility and the maturity of their data quality procedures. In article 56 in the HealthData@EU proposed regulation, this notion would take the form of a label. Goal: Overall, QUANTUM aims at developing and implementing a label mechanism that could be ideally adopted in the future HealthData@EU. Methods: QUANTUM builds on 5 technical work packages (WP). WP1 conceptualises and provides technical specifications for a data quality, utility, and maturity label. WP2 designs and tests, at small-scale, the label. WP3 implements the labelling mechanism in a number of data holders. WP4 engages the data quality users’ community; and, WP5 outreaches other interested parties, including other initiatives building HealthData@EU. Expected results: a) A common concept of datasets Quality and Utility and Data holders’ Maturity; b) Technical specifications for the label (Deliverable D1.1. and D1.2); c) A conformance checking tool that yields the label (D2.1); d) An implementation report of the label mechanism (D3.1); e) Recommendations for a large-scale implementation of the QUANTUM label mechanism (D3.2); and, f) The QUANTUM Exchange Platform and Academy (D4.2 and D4.3) as instruments for capacity building. Consortium: For this purpose, 27 beneficiaries, 5 affiliated entities and 3 associated partners. The composition of the Consortium seeks to reflect the different roles and institutions in the governance of the HealthData@EU; virtually consider all types of data and science of interest; and gather the expertise of previous outstanding projects in the domain

Keywords: healthdata eu,data quality,data utility,data quality framework,data provenance,data holders maturity,data quality management,secondary use,findability,accessibility,interoperability,reusability
Measuring and Modelling Tectonic CO2 Emissions Through Time (EMERGE)

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-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999991.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999991.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Geological processes governed paleo-atmospheric CO2 variations and exerted major control on past climate change beyond the million-year time scale. Vast deep carbon reservoirs are known to be activated at continental rifts, where the faulted lithosphere provides CO2 pathways and where recent surveys detected massive CO2 emissions. However, progress in quantifying natural CO2 degassing and its impact on past climate is impeded for 3 reasons: (1) current CO2 flux measurement techniques require labourintensive field surveys that can cover only small areas; (2) a consistent framework uniting geodynamic processes and CO2 transport to the surface is missing; (3) past CO2 flux from rifts is difficult to quantify because compilations do not account for geodynamic characteristics. EMERGE will enter uncharted territory by linking 3 innovative approaches. The project will: (1) advance airborne CO2 flux measurements via drones. Focusing on rifts in Kenya, Ethiopia, Czech Republic and Iceland, we will measure for the first time tectonic CO2 flux distributions of entire regions allowing unprecedented insight into subsurface CO2 pathways; (2) characterise geodynamic controls on lithospheric CO2 transport via novel numerical modelling techniques; and (3) integrate data of all known rifts since 540 million years ago to understand the role of tectonic degassing in shaping Earth’s climate through time. Zooming in on the geosphere-atmosphere interface, this project integrates interdisciplinary ideas and methods from geodynamics, micrometeorology, petrology, and paleoclimatology. EMERGE may generate broad impact on scientific and societal level: dronebased CO2 flux measurements will be a game changer in understanding tectonic CO2 release at rifts and other plate boundaries worldwide. The methodological and scientific advances may be essential for establishing a solid baseline of tectonic CO2 emissions to accurately quantify controls on past and future climate change.

Keywords: continental rifting,geodynamic modelling,co2 degassing,plate tectonics,carbon cycle
Revisioning Public Interest Media (RePIM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Belgium,Denmark,Austria,Czechia,Norway,Poland,Estonia,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3291593.4
EU funding (EUR): 3291593.4
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The Doctoral Network "Revisioning Public Interest Media" ("RePIM") aims to support the reinvention of public interest media and the development and reconfiguration of relevance and societal impact in a data-driven and platformized media ecosystem, by training next generation management-level staff. Radical market and societal changes challenge existing business models of public interest media, the content they create, the technical infrastructures they employ for distribution, and the governing structures which regulate and support them. A fundamental rethinking of public service media as well as all providers of public interest content (newspapers, online journalism initiatives–together coined ‘Public Interest Media’) is needed. To respond to these challenges, the project proposes an interdisciplinary, Europe-wide and cross-sectoral research and training programme by connecting world-leading academic teams, associated partners from industry and 12 DCs to study the future development and required transformations of public interest media. The research and trained DCs set out to revision the relevance of public interest media, the conditions required to sustain relevance and the ways in which they are produced, packaged, distributed and the (infra)structures that support them. RePIM does this through a highly ambitious and advanced focus on key strategic transformations across departments, media players and different European contexts, and the managerial skills required to reconfigure public interest media in a radically changed media ecosystem.
General principles of representing space and time during automatic formation of visual and auditory chunks and objects (GEPREST)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The process by which humans formulate increasingly complex internal representations from sensory stimuli based on their available knowledge has been investigated traditionally by a somewhat disconnected set of approaches under various labels such as “feature detection”, “grouping”, “figure-ground segregation”, “chunking”, “categorization” and “learning”. We explore the idea that there might exist some general unconscious mechanisms of this pattern formation process that work similarly and repeatedly across different levels of complexity from basic segmentation to complex chunking-based learning and across different modalities. such as vision (typically viewed with spatial processing) and audition (associated with temporal processing). We will follow 4 principles in our work to test this. First, we will focus a) on the auditory and visual modalities, b) with space and time as the two dependent dimensions of comparison, and c) we will test the two endpoints of the complexity scale: at one end, pure tones in audition and single squares in vision easily treated by instantaneous perceptual biases and at the other end, complex time- and space-varying patterns requiring learning. Second, we will perform the equivalent version of each experiment in both modalities to check the generality of the mechanisms that establish the representations of the input. Third, we will use the same testing method across experiments, measuring behavioral sensitivity induced by the resulting representation to quantify the representation’s structure and its EEG correlates. Fourth, we will interpret our results by building a new hypothesis about humans’ internal representation into a Hierarchical Bayesian Model so that we can derive further individual- and population-specific predictions to inspire subsequent empirical work. Our integrated approach will contribute to a deeper understanding of the general principles of representation forming and its malfunctioning in special populations.

Keywords: sensory perception,visual processing,auditory processing,behavioral neuroscience,probabilistic modeling,computational modeling
Untying the knot of creep and fatigue behaviour of UHPC for sustainable design of infrastructures enabling the carbon neutrality transition (InCreeGuIng)

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,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Concrete, as the most widely used construction material, is responsible for about 7% of global energy-related CO2 emissions. Addressing this environmental challenge within the construction sector necessitates urgent development and adoption of multi-beneficial materials characterized by low carbon emissions, superior durability, and excellent mechanical properties. Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) emerges as such a material, offering a 26% reduction in carbon emissions and a 24% cost advantage according to comparative LCA and LCC analysis on benchmark structures. UHPC is the ideal candidate material for broad application, particularly in construction of new and retrofitting existing aging infrastructure subjected to cyclic and sustained actions, including bridges, tunnel linings, wind turbine towers, roads, and aircraft runways. However, the lack of knowledge regarding UHPC's long-term performance, including creep and fatigue behaviour, hinders its widespread use in infrastructure projects. The objective of this project is to unlock this critical knowledge gap and develop structural design guidelines aimed at driving the construction sector's transition towards carbon neutrality through the use of high-performance materials that enable us to build better, for longer and employing lower material volumes, which all imply reduced consumption of raw resources and reduced environmental impacts in the short and long term. Employing multiscale experimental tests, multi-physics and mesoscale numerical methods, the project aims to comprehensively characterize and predict UHPC's response to creep and fatigue, and the creep-fatigue coupled effect (cyclic creep). InCreeGuIng's breakthrough will fill the current knowledge gaps in understanding UHPC's long-term performance. This initiative will enhance Europe's competitiveness in constructing eco-friendly, resilient, and durable infrastructure by providing practical design tools to expedite their widespread adoption.

Keywords: uhpc,creep and fatigue behaviour,cyclic creep,mesoscale numerical modelling,sustainability
Demonstration of Dune-Dike hybrid blue-grey Nature-based Solutions (DuneFront)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Portugal,France,Netherlands,Germany,Sweden,United States
Call: Demonstration of marine and coastal infrastructures as hybrid blue-grey Nature-based Solutions (HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5137325.75
EU funding (EUR): 4997722.25
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

DuneFront will demonstrate blue-grey coastal and marine infrastructure as a new generation of sustainable, inclusive, and aesthetic solution to ensure coastal safety under climate change. The project has the ambition to co-create hybrid Dune-Dike Nature Based Solutions (DD-hybrid NbS) that can efficiently integrate static hard infrastructure with adaptive, dynamic aeolian and vegetated sediments. Mainstreaming biodiversity into marine and coastal DD-hybrid NbS is essential to jointly safeguard human assets, blue economy activities and biodiversity gain and restoration. DuneFront will achieve this challenge by identifying key biological, physical, and socio-economic boundary conditions, and by translating evidence on biodiversity, morphodynamics and safety from 12 Demonstrators along vulnerable European coasts into new roadmaps for DD-hybrid NbS design and installation. The integration of this multidisciplinary knowledge into physical and digital twins will pilot the development of a Decision-Support-System, coastal and marine infrastructure Blueprints, and the installation of new prototypes along one of the most recreated coasts. DuneFront will provide a wide range of stakeholders with design, installation and market-ripe business plans for DD-hybrid NbS. Translation of new research and innovations into the DuneFront targeted actions will occur within a full co-creation-procedure.

Keywords: coastal dune