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Eco-friendly compostable fiber-based replacement for plastics (DURANOVA)

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 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Fiberdom Oy is a Finnish deep-tech company developing a sustainable material Duranova™ with its patented infusion technology that converts conventional pulp and paperboard into high-performance alternative to conventional plastics. The company’s innovation addresses the urgent need to eliminate plastics by offering recyclable, home-compostable, and food-safe material that meets the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation standards. Unlike many fiber-based alternatives that rely on synthetic barriers or coatings and industrial composting, Fiberdom’s functionalized fiber board is designed for real-world circularity and industrial scalability. At the core of the innovation is proprietary cross-linking chemistry using bio-based acids and polyols, enabling the production of durable, water-resistant, and formable materials without synthetic polymers. The technology has reached TRL 8, with a proof-of- concept product, single use cutlery, already launched in Finnish retail and B2B markets. Fiberdom’s solution is engineered for multi- sector use, from packaging to furniture. With four patents, TÜV Austria OK Home Compost certification, FSC material certification and ISO 22000 compliance, Fiberdom is preparing to scale production and expand into packaging materials as well as commercialisation in new EU markets. The company seeks €2.5M in grant and €10M in equity from the EIC Accelerator to establish sufficient production capacity through contract manufacturing, expand its product portfolio, and accelerate commercialization. Fiberdom’s innovation directly supports the EU Green Deal and circular economy goals, offering a scalable, high-impact solution to the global plastic crisis.

Keywords: plastic free packaging,circular economy,bio based materials,natural fiber
Revolutionizing pharmaceutical documentation through advanced artificial intelligence, delivering unprecedented efficiency gains across the entire drug development lifecycle (AI-Powered Documents)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The global pharmaceutical industry is grappling with a profound inefficiency crisis in clinical documentation. With companies spending approximately €240 million per product on manual documentation processes, the industry faces staggering costs and delays. This inefficiency not only erodes competitiveness but also postpones patient access to life-saving treatments, leading to economic losses estimated between €26 billion and €45 billion annually. Manual processes create bottlenecks, requiring extensive resources and time, with Clinical Study Reports taking an average of 12–15 weeks. Each month of delay can cost €16 million to €26 million in lost revenue. Current automation solutions lack adaptability to evolving regulatory frameworks, resulting in persistent quality issues and compliance risks. The absence of a truly adaptable, compliance-aware AI framework perpetuates inefficiencies, undermining the sector's ability to contribute to broader economic and public health objectives. Metamorphic AI's innovative framework directly addresses these challenges through intelligent orchestration. By automating the entire documentation lifecycle, our technology compresses timelines significantly and reduces resource allocation by 90%. This not only accelerates the speed to market for new drugs but also aligns costs with documented efficiency gains, enhancing overall client value. The EIC Accelerator grant funding is crucial for scaling our technology, allowing us to enhance our platform's capabilities and expand our market reach. This support positions us to transform pharmaceutical documentation practices in Europe and beyond, driving both economic and health benefits across the industry.
TWINNING FOR EXCELLENCE IN MORPHING AND AERO-MECHATRONIC WING CONTROL: A LEAP TOWARDS ECO-SMART AVIATION (MechaTwing)

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,Germany,Italy,Austria
Call: Twinning Bottom-Up (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1489280.47
EU funding (EUR): 1489280.47
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Sustainable aviation is an important part of the European Green Deal program. A significant way to achieve this is by reducing wing aerodynamic drag and loading. An attractive approach to this is through wing shape morphing, aeroelastic control, and lightweight structures. However, morphing requires low wing stiffness, aeroelastic control requires high wing stiffness, and lightweight structures require different composite materials. The MechaTwing project aims to resolve these contradictions by introducing a new, innovative design of a MechaTronic Wing, using the scientific and innovative competencies of project partners in disciplines such as Aeronautics, Mechatronics, Structural Design, Material Mechanics, Additive Technologies, and Robotics. Around this research topic as the backbone, the twinning activities between the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) and three top aerospace research institutions (the German Aerospace Center, Politecnico di Torino, and Technische Universität Wien) are organized. The main MechaTwing objective is to bolster CTU's excellence capacity and resources, thereby closing the still apparent research and innovation gap within the EU. CTU aims to achieve this through a targeted knowledge exchange with project partners, institutions renowned for their substantial industry alignment and collaboration. This will involve the secondments of 11 CTU researchers and students and 4 administrative workers to these institutions, exposing them to state-of-the-art practices. Expert mentoring will further support CTU's early-stage researchers and research support staff. The project partners will send specialists to CTU, enhancing its academic environment. CTU will also conduct workshops and seminars to integrate new knowledge and techniques. By incorporating CzechInvest as an associated partner, the consortium will enhance CTU's efforts to strengthen its relationships with both local and international business and investment communities.

Keywords: aeronautics,mechatronics,material mechanics,wing structure design,morphing,carbon composites,robot,additive manufacturing,research project development,admin and management,networking
BlueMissionBANOS – supporting the Mission Ocean Lighthouse in the Baltic and North Sea basins (BlueMissionBANOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Denmark,Estonia,France,Finland,Norway,Latvia,Poland,Sweden,Netherlands
Call: Baltic and North Sea basin lighthouse – coordination activities (HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-04, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999993.75
EU funding (EUR): 2999993.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The EU-Mission ‘Restore our Ocean, Seas and Waters by 2030’ is a new EU wide broad mobilization initiative, expected to bring concrete solutions to protect its ecosystems and biodiversity, prevent and eliminate pollution and turning the blue economy both carbon-neutral and circular. Substantial resources are made available to establish lighthouse projects, BlueParks and improved digital knowledge systems. These need to be matched with corresponding efforts by all stakeholders at national and regional scale. BlueMissionBANOS, BMB, has the ambition to act as an efficient facilitator and knowledge broker as to inspire, engage, and support stakeholders from politics, industry, science and the public across the BANOS area to channel resources effectively towards the Mission Ocean objectives. The BMB consortium gathers some of the most active research institutes, networks/clusters and funding agencies from the Baltic and North Sea sea-basin. Capitalizing on their past and ongoing activities, BMB partners will work with existing governance structures from regional up to transnational level within the BANOS area to design an effective, transparent, mutually-reinforcing interplay between them (WP2); support citizen engagement initiatives to align with the Mission’s objectives (WP3); accelerate the deployment of solutions through five innovation and demonstration cycles (WP4); develop a consistent monitoring framework to assess Mission performance including definition of baselines; key performance indicators and sources/methods to capture and analyse the relevant data (WP5); supported by a digital, interactive portal showcasing projects and services relevant to Mission deployment (WP6). To maximize effectiveness of available public and private funding opportunities and achieve critical mass for action, activities will be coordinated and communicated within BMB; including Lighthouse demonstrators, as well as with EU structures and EU wide projects (WP1).
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (EMP) (EMP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Environmental Management Platform (EMP) is a comprehensive system designed to manage and monitor environmental data effectively, which will allow the user to take an appropriate actions addressing environmental factors – especially noise pollution being serious invisible danger. It will be the first tool that not only collects data and generates statistics, but provides noise analysis and recommendations based on specific data obtained from the client's installation. It will be supplemented by air, water and vibration pollution components. Technically, our solution is a complete tool - network of distributed sensors which are communicated with the server with AI algorithms responsible for automatic analysis of the environment. Measuring modules will be installed on the elements of customer infrastructure. Data for all sensor will be stored on the server and results will be shown in dedicated web application. The true advantage is to use multiple sensors and analyse automatically all data together to provide automatic identification of noises, including localization. It will be done thanks to unique KFB hardware and algorithms. We uses a library of recordings from the our last 15 years of operation, to create noise patterns. EMP substitute or support the following processes in industry: - reduction of negative impact of noise & vibration pollutions - avoiding penalties for exceeding the pollution limits with predictive algorithms - support for maintenance of the equipment and machines - industrial processes control and optimization We intend to use EIC grant to complete commercial validation, testing and finally bring the innovation to the market. Its implementation will bring positive impact on both the environment and society. It will have a huge impact as it contributes to noise reduction at the early stages of its extensive generation and will provide effective answers how to solve current or future problem.

Keywords: engineering and technology,acoustics,environment,automation and control systems
A New Talent Generation for the Future of Hydrogen Research and Innovation in Catalonia and Baden-Württemberg (TALENT H2_CAT-BW)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Austria,Australia,Brazil,Slovenia,Belgium,France,Italy,Canada
Call: MSCA COFUND 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-COFUND-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4752000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4752000.0
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

TALENT H2 CAT-BW is an innovative doctoral program aiming at training the next generation of leading researchers in the field of hydrogen, positioning Europe at the forefront of hydrogen innovation. This program is led by the Ministry of Research and Universities of Catalonia (Spain) and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg (Germany), marking the first collaborative initiative of its kind between two prominent European regions recognized for their excellence in research and innovation. TALENT H2 CAT-BW will support 40 doctoral researchers through 36-month fellowships, promoting a unique interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and international approach to hydrogen research and innovation. The program is committed to adhering strictly to the principles of Open Science while upholding the highest standards of research quality. A distinctive aspect of the program is that the PhD projects will be set out interregionally, with each fellow supervised by a principal supervisor at their host institution and a co-supervisor from the other region. This arrangement enables fellows to complete placements in both regions, providing them with access to cutting-edge infrastructure and expertise, as well as a rich and enriching experience that significantly contributes to their personal and professional development. In addition to these placements, the fellows will also participate in internships and research visits to organizations and enterprises across Europe and internationally. The program is embedded within the respective regional hydrogen ecosystems, commonly referred to as Hydrogen Valleys, which include over 500 entities and features participation from 21 different implementing partner organizations from both regions. TALENT H2 CAT-BW adheres to the European Competence Framework for Researchers (ResearchComp) and is fully aligned with the Smart Specialisation Strategies of Catalonia and Baden-Württemberg, the European Hydrogen Strategy (2020), RePowerEU (2022), and the European Green Deal, all of which set ambitious sustainability goals and position hydrogen as a crucial element in achieving these targets.

Keywords: hydrogen,descarbonisation,green deal,sustainability,talent,training,research,innovation,interdisciplinary,intersectoral,international,hydrogen valleys,interregional cooperation,catalonia,baden w rttemberg
Characterising game-based Virtual Interactions facilitating prosocial BEhaviour (VIBE)

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: Germany,Australia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 337154.64
EU funding (EUR): 337154.64
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Social interaction is the glue of society and positive interactions can increase well-being; however, negative interactions can also lead to harm. Establishing prerequisites for increasing positive experiences and mitigating negative consequences in different situations is of utmost importance. Since more and more of our social lives are happening in virtual interactions, this knowledge is especially critical for immersive virtual 3D worlds called virtual reality (VR). VR offers exciting opportunities to reduce inequality, a Sustainable Development Goal, e.g. by creating safe spaces for minorities regardless of country borders or physical distance. Therefore, the overall objective of VIBE is to explore the influence of three key aspects of virtual social interactions on prosocial behaviour in VR: (1) anonymity: whether one knows who they are interacting with and whether they are known to their interaction partner, (2) self-identification with the avatar: to which degree a person identifies with the avatar representing them, and (3) agent-belief: whether a person believes they are interacting with another human or with an AI-controlled agent. Building on my extensive experience researching physically-embodied social interactions, I will test the influence of these three factors on prosocial behaviour in social interactions in two experiments using a trust game in VR. VIBE will scrutinise the factors that facilitate prosocial behaviour in virtual interactions. Incorporating these factors into VR design and implementation will help to realise VRs full potential to achieve social good, by increasing online collaboration and mitigating harmful experiences. The MSCA postdoctoral fellowship will allow me to build strategic international collaborations, add conducting interactive experiments in VR to my portfolio of skills and use these skills to establish myself as an upcoming leading expert in science of social interactions, both in virtual and physically-embodied spaces.

Keywords: virtual interactions social interactions
The role of microbiome-mitochondria interactions in phenotypic flexibility to cold exposure in Great tits (Parus major) (MIMIFLEX)

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: Finland
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): 226276.8
EU funding (EUR): 226276.8
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The importance of the gut microbiome has become evident in shaping the ecology and evolution of organisms. Microbiome has been connected to maintaining body temperature in exposure, which can mediate changes at molecular levels and modulate metabolic pathways related to energy regulation. Mitochondria, the powerhouse of cells, is responsible for energy production but also produces heat. Although crosstalk between the gut microbiome and mitochondria has been documented in biomedical research, to my knowledge, no studies have addressed whether this interaction is also observable in wild animals and what kind of effect it has in energy-demanding situations. Also, existing studies on wild systems rely almost completely on correlative data. I will study the crosstalk between microbiome and mitochondria and its effects on the phenotypic flexibility of cold resistance in Great tits. To my knowledge, this is the first time microbiome-mitochondria interactions are studied in wild birds. By experimentally manipulating the microbiome and mitochondrial function in wild Great tits I’ll be able to study the causal effects of the experiments on the cold resistance phenotypes of the birds. Thus, MIMIFLEX will integrate cellular-level mechanisms with the physiology and phenotype of the animal. Dr. Ruuskanen’s research group has profound experience in both, studying microbiome and mitochondria which complements my expertise in physiological ecology, allowing me to develop new research skills and opening a two-way knowledge transfer. Throughout the project, I will gain experience in conducting excellent research, but also in transferable skills such as project management, leadership, acquiring funding and communicating the results. Therefore, this fellowship would help me to solidify my skillset to establish independence as a researcher, open up potential future collaboration and establish a new branch of research on microbiome-mitochondria crosstalk in ecology.

Keywords: avian microbiome,mitochondria,ecological adaptation,metabolism,fat absorption,environmental variation,gut microbiome,cellular respiration,summit meatbolism,cold exposure,cold acclimation
Intelligent and Sustainable IoT networks for Accurate and Real-Time Large-Scale Landslide Monitoring and Prediction (INSTANT)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Finland,Portugal,Romania,Spain,China
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1408525.71
EU funding (EUR): 1187370.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Landslides are the most widespread geological disaster, causing approximately 4.7 billion Euros annually in Europe and on average more than 4,000 deaths per year worldwide. Climate change and growing populations exacerbate land instability and jeopardise infrastructure in many areas that have traditionally been regarded as stable and safe. The INSTANT project brings together an international, multidisciplinary, and cross-sector consortium consisting of six world-leading academic institutions and three specialised industrial partners from six countries to develop an ambitious yet feasible intelligent and sustainable IoT network system for real-time monitoring and accurate prediction of large-scale landslides. Specifically, INSTANT aims to realise four innovations: 1) a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface structure optimised for simultaneous wireless power and information transfer; 2) an intelligent and ultra-low latency networking architecture to enable real-time communication of mission-critical sensing data; 3) knowledge-guided explainable AI/ML approaches for trustworthy landslide prediction; and 4) an intelligent and integrated system for real-time landslide monitoring and prediction. INSTANT will create a cross-disciplinary and cross-sector knowledge-sharing platform with competent and complementary expertise in computer science, environmental sciences, and communication engineering. The researchers in INSTANT will be trained to uplift their skills and career perspectives, through advanced research and innovation actions, and purposely designed training and networking activities. INSTANT will enhance Europe's competitiveness and leadership in digital technologies, environmental monitoring, and climate adaptation, and address the key challenges defined by European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), including EIT Climate and EIT Digital, and relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including SDG9, SDG11, and SDG13.

Keywords: wireless power transfer,knowledge guided ai,landslide,edge computing