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Testing the paradigm of a single plastid origin in eukaryotes (PlastidOrigin)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997978.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997978.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Photosynthesis was acquired by eukaryotes through endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria, which resulted in new cellular organelles: the plastids. From the origin of plastids evolved the first eukaryotic algae, giving rise to land plants but also triggering the evolution of most photosynthetic eukaryotes by subsequent endosymbioses between these first algae and other eukaryotes. Thus, the origin of plastids profoundly changed the course of eukaryotic life by being the launching point that shaped the biological diversity of most primary producers. Despite this importance, our understanding of how plastids originated remains largely uncertain. The current paradigm describes this transformative event as a single primary endosymbiosis, but I argue here that critical data is lacking, notably from the vast hidden environmental diversity of microbes, to adequately test this hypothesis. In this project, I propose to gain insight into the origin of plastids by addressing the main questions: 1) What is the currently hidden diversity of high-ranked taxa related to primary photosynthetic lineages? 2) What are the feeding behaviors of these taxa and are they aplastidic? 3) Are some lineages genetically predisposed to establish plastids from the acquisition of foreign genes? 4) What was the composition, size, and origin of the ancestral primary plastid proteomes? To answer these questions, I will link third generation environmental sequencing, transcriptomics, and genomics to cell structure and behavior of novel key lineages related to primary algae, and produce crucially missing plastid proteomes to allow comprehensive comparative proteomic analysis. My project will not only have immediate implications on our understanding of the origin of plastids and more generally the fundamental process of endosymbiosis, but the approaches developed will be a test bed for future global studies aimed at understanding the evolution and ecology of the microbial majority of complex life.

Keywords: plastid origin,endosymbiosis,microbial eukaryotes,single cell organisms,unicellular,archaeplastida,red algae,single cell transcriptomics,metabarcoding,culture free,culture,hyperlopit,plastid proteomes,protein mass spectrometry,phylogenomics
A European Supply Chain of Large High-Perfection Synthetic Diamonds for Science and Quantum Technologies (EUROQUADIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1850000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1850000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

High-perfection synthetic diamond is a functional material for the emerging industry of quantum computing & sensing, and for large-scale scientific laboratories. Diamond-based quantum devices function at room temperature and can be integrated into everyday electronics. Diamond optic components allow synchrotrons and X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs) to operate at full power. Currently, there is no European supplier of this critical material, which exposes the continent's quantum computing & sensing industries, and large-scale scientific facilities to significant vulnerabilities. In the face of Europe's pressing need for technological sovereignty and the critical role of high-perfection synthetic diamonds in emerging industries, our project aims to establish a resilient, innovative supply chain for this essential material. In addition, our initiative seeks to push the boundaries of current capabilities in diamond synthesis, offering sizes and crystalline orientations not yet available on the market, but that perfectly fit the requirements of the emerging quantum technology industry. Almax easyLab, with its expertise in diamond technologies and a history of supplying to demanding scientific communities, leads this project. Almax easyLab’s customers requested this development and they will test the products during the development process. These include leading European institutions such as the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and European XFEL, and quantum technology industries such as Diatope GmbH and Qnami AG. This endeavor not only aims to fortify Europe's strategic autonomy in critical materials but also envisions substantial impacts on the quantum technology landscape, X-ray optics, and beyond, promising enhanced reliability, reduced costs, and a leap in technological capabilities.

Keywords: european,supply chain,high perfection,synthetic diamond,science,quantum technologies,quantum computing,quantum sensing,optics,photonics,x ray,synchrotron,x ray free electron laser
INTRODUCING THE FIRST 100% EU FARMER-MADE CHITIN-BASED BIOSTIMULATING BIOFERTILIZER: BUSINESS AND PRODUCTS FOR FARMERS AND AGRI-FOOD STAKHEOLDERS (Biostim4farmers)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Austria
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

Farmers and agri-food stakeholders struggle immensely with maintaining profitability amidst escalating fertilizer prices, adverse impacts of climate change, and mounting pressures from consumers and regulators to green their value chain. Reploid has developed a groundbreaking pre-prototype to produce the first 100% EU-made chitin-based biostimulating biofertilizer. The production process integrated into Reploid's full-service business model disrupts fertilizer markets by making them, for the first time, biostimulating biofertilizer producers, which is a unique and profitable business opportunity they are eager for in times of changing agricultural markets. The superabsorbent and vaccine-like biostimulating biofertilizer is highly attractive to farmers because it ensures efficient crop yields under climate change-related stress (poor soil health, drought, phytopathogens) and makes them less dependent on imported fossil-fuel-based fertilizers whose prices escalate during conflicts. As it emits 75% less CO2 during production and application, retailers, food companies, and fertilizer companies are eager for the product as it is indispensable for them to achieve their ambitions in greening the environmental footprint of their value chain. This innovation fully aligned with current EU priorities would mean a breakthrough for EU farmers, agri-food stakeholders, society and the environment, working towards a greener, more sustainable and import independent food and feed production in Europe while using 100% organic residues and biowastes already produced in the EU.

Keywords: farmers retailers green tech agriculture circular economy fertilizers soil climate change food security recycling
Mechanistic Insights into electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction on Copper-based alloys and intermetallics (MI-CORE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Notwithstanding the ongoing race to develop new efficient energy storage and conversion technologies and reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the global emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) due to anthropogenic activities is reaching critic levels, posing a serious threat to a sustainable development. The major objective of this project is to open new avenues toward the capture and conversion of CO2 through the development of novel transition metal-based intermetallic compounds as catalysts for the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (eCO2RR). Identifying the active sites of a catalyst and the species involved in the CO2RR electrochemical process is a precondition for the rational design of top-performing catalysts exhibiting both high activity and high selectivity toward valuable products. For this reason, this project aim to understand the dynamic evolution of the catalysts by detecting the intermediate states of the reaction process in real time using state-of-the-art synchrotron scattering techniques, such as operando X-ray powder diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy, to ultimately disclose the mechanisms of reaction. Reaching this goal is the key toward the successful design of technologically relevant catalytic systems able to effectively subtract CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it to useful and economically relevant chemicals.

Keywords: catalysis,electrochemistry,green energy conversion,synchrotron radiation,operando investigation
Resilient Investment for Sustainable Environments (RISE-IN)

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: Italy,France,United Kingdom,Lithuania,New Zealand,Türkiye,Ukraine,Belgium,Finland,Germany,Austria,Spain,Portugal,Switzerland
Call: Demonstration of approaches to improve bankability of solutions by design, addressing the co-benefits (mitigation and adaptation) to improve revenues streams (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9502652.0
EU funding (EUR): 8944439.75
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are considered essential to solving the climate crisis. They have the potential to simultaneously address climate change, biodiversity loss and human wellbeing and development, by providing different ecosystem services. However, the typically small size of NBS projects, the difficulties to measure and monetize their co-benefits as well as the long time frame for investment returns and the risk profile, undermine their attractiveness for funding. In comparison to NBS alone, the combination of NBS and ecosystem-based approaches, physical measures and technological measures is able to provide measurable outcomes quicker, reducing the risk profile and facilitating faster implementation and long-time maintenance, broadening opportunities for ecosystem innovation and increasing investment attractiveness. Aiming for bankability-by-design, RISE-IN will assess a set of climate resilient solutions (CRS), including NBS and ecosystem- based approaches and physical measures, by mapping and quantifying their co-benefits and identifying innovative financing and investment opportunities accordingly. Co-creation and participatory processes with local stakeholders, including investors and businesses, will enable the screening of the most adequate solutions for each site, in terms of functionality and funding and within a framework of just resilience. The assessment will be complemented by 3 climate risk assessment models that will reduce uncertainty regarding risks associated with extreme events, water run-off and capital loss. RISE-IN will demonstrate this concept for flood management (most costly type of disaster in Europe) in Cesena (IT), Christchurch (NZ) and Póvoa de Varzim (PT). RISE-IN demonstrations will be further tailored for replication in Ghent (BE), Zhytomyr (UA), Kadikoy (TR) and in 3 additional sites of Demonstrator Cities (Demo Cities) to prove the impact of the concept to facilitate bankability and upscale implementation across EU and Internationally.

Keywords: bankability by design bankability readiness level climate resilient solutions nature based solutions flood mitigation and management
Magnetic ENERGY conversion for waste HEAT (HEAT4ENERGY)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Slovenia,France,Austria
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2659370.4
EU funding (EUR): 2659370.4
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The production and use of energy account for more than 75% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Decarbonising the EU’s energy system is therefore critical to reach our 2030 climate objectives and the EU’s long-term strategy of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Obviously solar and wind power will play an important role in any future energy scenario, but such intermittent sources present significant challenges in energy transport and storage. At the same time, a vast amount of low-grade heat is generated, e.g. in datacentres, food, pulp and paper industries, and is available 24/7. Even converting only a small percentage of this heat into electricity is significant due to the sheer amount of heat wasted just above ambient temperature. However, efficient technologies to convert this low-grade heat in an economically sound way are lacking Within this project, we will develop thermomagnetic harvesting from current TRL 3/4 proofs of principle to an efficient and cost competitive TRL 6/7 technology. Our interdisciplinary consortium of 9 academic institutes and 4 industrial partners address all major challenges for this emerging technology, which requires innovative designs of more efficient thermomagnetic generators, that are intimately connected with tailored thermomagnetic materials. Our team consists of engineers, who invented thermomagnetic systems at various sizes and power ranges, materials scientists with ample experience in advanced magnetic materials, bulk or film preparation and characterization, and physicists, who cover modelling from the ab initio scale, via micromagnetism at the mesoscale, up to the macroscopic device scale. This rich multidisciplinary environment will allow training of 10 young professionals by cross-fertilization with fresh ideas. They will obtain the interdisciplinary competence required to bring this green technology to a mature level, and career perspectives in both the academic and non-academic sectors delivering the Green Deal.

Keywords: thermomagnetic energy harvesting,thin film microdevices,novel magnetic materials,phase transition,heat transfer
Situation-aware OrchestratioN of AdapTive Architecture (SONATA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Living and working in a health promoting environment
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Slovenia,Germany,Israel,Czechia,Netherlands,Ireland,Switzerland,Denmark
Call: Evidence-based interventions for promotion of mental and physical health in changing working environments (post-pandemic workplaces) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5680125.94
EU funding (EUR): 5680125.94
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The majority of workers express dissatisfaction with their shared workplace design, which harms their health, wellbeing, productivity and social relations. So-called ‘adaptive’ workplace technologies try to manage these health risks by automating a wide range of architectural building services. However, there is severe lack of concrete evidence on how the short- and longer-term impact of such adaptive architectural technologies on health and wellbeing can be objectively measured, and then become benchmarked and optimized for a variety of hybrid workplace contexts. SONATA therefore aims to generate evidence-based recommendations on the use of architectural adaptation as technological intervention that can benefit human health and well-being in the workplace. Firstly, SONATA aims to measure, quantify and increase the range of health and well-being benefits of the separate and combined effects of state-of-the-art architectural adaptations on four different building shearing layers. Secondly, SONATA will generate empirical knowledge on how these multiple co-located adaptations can be intertwined together so that their health and wellbeing impact is greater than the sum of the separate layers. Lastly, SONATA investigates how these positive effects can become equitably negotiated between the varying - and often conflicting - work situations that must co-exist in a shared workplace. To ensure the resulting recommendations are feasible, easily adoptable and cost-effective to implement, SONATA will involve the pro-active participation and critical analysis from a well-considered selection of key target group representatives, such as workers, OSH-responsibilities, OEM and OHP experts, architects, workplace organisation innovators, adaptive technology manufacturers, and building certification consultants.

Keywords: architectural design,workplace design,building management,building automation,adaptive technology,interactive architecture,health and wellbeing
Inquiry into Scarcity: How Modernity Acted for Equality Limitations (ISHMAEL)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ISHMAEL intends to explore the impact of scarcity as a pivotal concept for government choices in the genesis of political economy, and to define its current use in contemporary political-philosophical arguments on economic choices. The general hypothesis is that the concept of scarcity and its semantics (notions such as rarity, lack, poverty) have been fundamental in shaping the social practices used by political economy as a discipline born as a science of government in the 18th century. This frame led to the establishment of a contemporary economic-political model that made inequality a systematic form of social living, as it does not focus on the regulation of resource competition or the just distribution of wealth, but on the constant vigilance in maintaining the ratio of scarcity within society, i.e. unequal access to resources (food, economic, cultural). The aim is to shed new light on the epistemic frame underlying the political governance choices of modern democracies, thereby raising awareness about social policies based on the logic of increasing precariousness and competition for scarce resources. The framework of the concept of scarcity and its epistemic implications have not yet been thoroughly explored through a philosophical-political perspective that considers the history and logic of the development of political economy. Moreover, there is still no rigorous philosophical-political and historical conceptual study focusing on the use of scarcity as a pivotal notion in political governance and political economy as they are understood today. ISHMAEL’s methodology will be an original interweaving of German Begriffsgeschichte, Foucauldian analysis, Critique of legal devices and Social philosophy. In so doing, it will be possible to analyse the historical semantics of the concepts at stake, highlighting their contingency and nature as social constructs, while defining the epistemic structure in which they were produced and ideologically exploited.

Keywords: equality distributive justice scarcity governance political philosophy history of law social philosophy conceptual history begriffsgeschichte society political economy social sciences
New European Bauhaus Unlocked through Built4People-endorsed Local Actions (NEBULA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: B4P (co-programmed)
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Italy,Finland,Hungary,Greece,Poland,Croatia,Ireland,Spain,Serbia
Call: Strengthening European coordination and exchange for innovation uptake towards sustainability, quality, circularity and social inclusion in the built environment as a contribution to the new European Bauhaus (Built4People) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1019908.75
EU funding (EUR): 1019908.75
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Within Horizon Europe, the Built4People partnership (B4P) aims, among other objectives, to connect to a set of national or regional Innovation Clusters in viWithin Horizon Europe, the Built4People partnership (B4P) aims, among other objectives, to connect to a set of national or regional Innovation Clusters in view of maximizing innovation impacts. The NEBULA projects will build upon this B4P and the New European Bauhaus initiative to activate and nurture a network of B4P Innovation Clusters, by implementing: - Improved visibility, adoption and uptake of innovative solutions that are in line with the New European Bauhaus thanks to increased awareness on benefits from innovation and better access to co-financing - Intensified, cross-sectorial and interdisciplinary peer-learning from front runners as well as cross-border cooperation and networking, - preparation for the long-lasting activities of the network of B4P Innovation Clusters and the integration of the next clusters. This project will therefore accompany a first batch of existing and emerging clusters to increase their maturity along five dimensions: full value-chain coverage; cross-sectoral integration; combined local and national/EU networking; cross border connections; and access to testbeds and demo spaces such as pilot buildings and living labs. NEBULA will support these clusters through ‘maturity push’ activities including peer learning on New European Bauhaus concepts, support to open innovation, business & finance help desk, match-making and promotional events. A minimum of 5-7 clusters will be supported by NEBULA, some already identified being part of the consortium. At least 1 of them will reach full maturity on the 5 dimensions listed above, thus becoming a B4P Front runner, model for replication. NEBULA consortium, that involves two contractual partners of the B4P partnership, will elaborate a Strategic Replication Plan to reach the contractual target of 10-15 B4P Innovation Clusters by 2028.

Keywords: innovation clusters new european bauhaus