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Epicuticular electrification: spontaneous charging of materials at the world's largest bio-air interface (EpiC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The materials on the outer plant surface create the world's largest bio-air interface. Invisibly, this surface spontaneously charges when hit by raindrops and solid materials. This is due to contact electrification, a phenomenon used in technologies like printing and energy harvesting. Yet, extraordinarily little is known about its role in nature and how biosurfaces charge. EpiC will target two exciting and unresolved questions: a) can one exploit the generated charges to power high-tech devices at the leaf-air interface? and b) how is the organism affected by the electric fields generated on the outer leaf surface? The core of EpiC is thus a detailed surface analysis to gain the highest resolved insights in solid and liquid contact electrification of biosurfaces. To achieve this, I will combine studies of materials surface charging, chemical, and topographical analyses with observations of cellular responses, plant growth, and adaptation. This data set will then indicate how to engineer material systems named 'artificial leaves' that can be installed on the plant leaf or sprayed on it to harvest the contact charges for technical purposes. EpiC will eventually enable energy harvesting, environmental and plant health sensing, communication with robots, and electrocatalytic reactions - autonomously driven by electricity and reactants from the leaf environment. Moreover, I will develop additional features in the materials of the artificial leaf to specifically protect the plant and to boost its growth during energy harvesting. The result of EpiC will be new insights into contact charging of materials in nature, its effect on plant life, and a ground-breaking, energy-autonomous, and sustainable technology platform for the world's most significant bio-air interface with cross-disciplinary impact in materials science, environmental sensing and robotics, smarter agriculture, and plant-based bioelectrochemical systems.

Keywords: contact electrification,plant surfaces,energy harvesting,soft robotics,biohybrid systems
URBAN PROSUMERS – towards a knowledge transfer hub for empowering citizens as producers and consumers of sustainable solutions to climate-neutrality (URBAN PROSUMERS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Other missions
Destination: Other missions
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: Experimental local action for EU missions: knowledge institutions as focal points of transdisciplinary research and innovation activities with European outreach (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CROSS-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999847.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999847.25
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The URBAN PROSUMERS project supports the implementation of EU’s Climate Neutral and Smart Cities Mission at the local level in Tampere Region, Finland. This initiative strengthens and enhances the role of local Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) as focal actors of transdisciplinary research and action in sustainability issues. By leveraging citizen science and participatory research methods, the project actively involves Tampere residents and local stakeholders in developing solutions focused on sustainable mobility, food systems and energy. Through co-creation, the project builds a knowledge transfer hub around the topic of sustainable urban prosumerism. The title “URBAN PROSUMERS” highlights the project’s goal to engage residents as both producers and consumers of sustainable solutions, services and knowledge. Through novel participatory infrastructures and a co-creation process guided by HEIs, the project brings together the city, residents, and various actors to identify local needs related to the Mission themes. It funds community experiments that seek social or technological innovations within the three key thematic areas of the project (mobility, food and energy), addressing the needs identified by residents and local entities such as NGOs, associations and city administration. Tampere HEIs play a crucial role by developing and managing a new knowledge transfer hub for sustainable urban prosumerism, integrating this process also into their strategic work. The project aims to create a novel theoretical understanding of the urban prosumerism model through co-creation and experimental community projects. This model can serve as an example for participatory climate action in cities, with potential for scaling and replication in other Mission cities across Finland and Europe.

Keywords: climate neutral and smart cities,citizen engagement,participatory infrastructures,citizen science,co creation,knowledge transfer,producer consumer,prosumerism,higher education institutions
Critical, Bottom-up and Material Geopolitics of the European Union in the Black Sea (EUSEAGE)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Russia-Ukraine War has elevated the geopolitical significance of the Black Sea. The sea has become a site of military battles, blockaded trade routes, and environmental degradation. The entanglement of this body of water with many contentious developments underscores the need for a deeper and multifaceted understanding of its role in contemporary geopolitics. Yet, the military-strategic analysis, which dominates the academic scholarship on the Black Sea, ignores other important geopolitical dimensions, such as interests and knowledge of the local coastal communities and the materiality of the sea water in shaping geopolitical relations. The project, therefore, aims for a critical, bottom-up and material geopolitical reframing of the Black Sea in which the body of water and its coasts remain both a central object of analysis and a key site of study of geopolitics. Empirically, the research focuses on the Black Sea’s role in the European Union’s (EU) geopoliticization of its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) since 2014. It investigates the Black Sea’s role in the European Union’s geopolitical agenda and practice. Methodologically, the research brings different geographical scales and vantage points on the Black Sea geopolitics together, such as the EU institutions in Brussels, coastal communities on the Black Sea, and the sea itself, in order to capture various elements and phases of EU’s practice of geopolitics from inception to implementation and finally, effect and impact.

Keywords: black sea eu european neighbourhood policy critical geopolitics maritime geopolitics borders territory assemblage
Spin Polarization Effects in Catalysts studied with x-ray specTRoscopies at Ambient conditions (SPECTRA)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-02
End date: 2027-04-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 252180.0
EU funding (EUR): 252180.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

It is nowadays well known the urgent need of cheap, green and efficient catalysts able to convert greenhouse gases into more valuable and recyclable hydrocarbons. In this context, magnetocatalysis is an extremely promising field: in the last few years, a growing number of researchers discovered enhanced performances for electrocatalytic reactions in ferromagnetic materials. The majority of these studies report empirical results, and a satisfactory explanation of the mechanism ruling the spin effects is not well understood, mainly due to the lack of suitable experimental techniques. Regarding thermocatalytic reactions (such as CO oxidation or CO2 hydrogenation), studies on the effects of applied external magnetic field and intrinsic magnetic order on the activity and selectivity of magnetic catalysts are almost completely missing. This project aims to systematically unveil the mechanisms ruling the spin effects in catalytic solid/gas reactions; for the first time, we will simultaneously characterize the magnetic and electronic properties of the single chemical species constituting spinel ferrites catalysts during different solid/gas reactions in operando conditions, with and without the presence of an applied magnetic field. This will be possible through the development and application of a reaction cell that will allow to perform Soft X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism experiments in operando conditions: this will be done modifying the pre-existing operando Soft X-Ray NEXAFS reaction cells developed at the APE-HE beamline of Elettra Synchrotron. The cell will be installed at the SPECIES beamline of MAX IV Synchrotron and the measurements will be conducted exploiting the available circular polarized Synchrotron Radiation. Together with complementary techniques and offline catalytic tests, we will investigate the fundamental aspects of solid/gas magnetocatalysis, building the basis for the development of an innovative green and cheap new type of heterogeneous catalysis

Keywords: synchrotron radiation,soft x rays,operando spectroscopy,magnetocatalysis,spin catalysis,x ray magnetic circular dichroism,co2 hydrogenation,co oxidation,spinel ferrites
Co-creation and implementation of an intervention to improve the understanding of TesticulaR cANcer late effects and unmet Supportive CarENeeDs of AYA survivors using eXtended Reality. (TRANSCEND-XR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Cancer
Destination: Cancer
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Netherlands,Italy,France,United Kingdom,Portugal,Slovakia,Croatia,Denmark,Spain,Belgium
Call: Improving the understanding and management of late-effects in adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6003929.75
EU funding (EUR): 6003929.75
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

CHALLENGE: Adolescence and early adulthood are critical stages for development. A diagnosis of a life-threating disease like cancer in adolescents and young adults (AYAs), coupled with immediate and late effects of treatment, force AYAs to face mortality early in life. Testicular Cancer (TC) is the most diagnosed cancer in AYAs assigned male at birth aged 15-39 years. The incidence of TC has doubled over the last four decades, with highest incidence rates in individuals of European ancestry. Interventions to educate and support AYA TC survivors, and reduce symptom burden and late effects of TC treatment should be prioritised. SOLUTION: Project TRANSCEND-XR will ethically co-create, test, and scale up in real-life settings an innovative digital intervention to increase AYA TC survivors’ knowledge of the late effects of TesticulaR cANcer treatment and address their unmet Supportive CarE NeeDs using eXtended Reality. PLAN: TRANSCEND-XR will ensure that (i) the needs of AYA TC survivors, their care partners, and healthcare professionals are explored and disparities addressed; (ii) the TRANSCEND-XR intervention is robustly and ethically co-created, refined, and validated; (iii) there is understanding of intervention effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, process of delivery, and what AYA TC survivors ethically value about it in real-life settings. Evidence-based plans to translate knowledge into practice and policy, exploit outputs, and sustain TRANSCEND-XR in long-term, robust governance and effective patient and public involvement are established. IMPACT: TRANSCEND-XR will revolutionise the understanding and management of late effects from TC treatment among AYA survivors, improving their quality of life, throughout Europe. It will serve as a proof of concept for ethically developing, evaluating, and implementing immersive educational digital health solutions to support AYA cancer survivors. This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on “Quality of life (AYA)".

Keywords: survivorship quality of life digital health equity citizen science testicular cancer adolescents and young adults immersive technology supportive care
A New Framework for Landscape Research in Archaeology (NeFLaRA)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

NeFLaRA (A New Framework for Landscape Research in Archaeology) is an interdisciplinary project that will help address landscape archaeology’s most fundamental challenge: the inherent uncertainty in archaeological reconstructions of past landscapes as a result of the fragmentary nature of archaeological data. Landscape archaeology studies the relationship between past societies and their environments. Computational and other methods in archaeological landscape research, and the humanities more broadly, focus almost exclusively on spatial elements, although there is a clear notion that time and histories are fundamentally connected to the landscape. Yet, this dominance of space in landscape research suffers from the major challenge of the fragmentary nature of archaeological data, particularly when this data comes from a ‘non-systematic’ regional survey as opposed to ‘systematic total area’ survey. While landscape archaeology has benefited from computational developments, a protocol to overcome the embedded uncertainty on spatial data is absent. By defining best practices, identifying optimal methods and outlining clear protocols for different datasets and spatial analyses, this project will create a new robust quantitative framework for more accurate computational models of past landscapes, improving their reliability and enhancing their interpretative potential. To achieve this, NeFLaRA will focus on three methodological gaps: (1) the lack of validated methods for quantifying the uncertainty of non-systematic regional archaeological data and models, (2) the poorly explored field of research combining spatial analysis (statistics and geographical information systems [GIS]) and network analysis to study non-systematic regional databases, and (3) the lack of a best practice guidelines and method pipelines for geo-visual representations that take into account uncertainty in multiscalar spatial data.

Keywords: landscape archaeology gis and spatial analysis uncertainty quantification spatial networks geo visualization
Bioorthogonal Cascade-Targeting: Directing Drugs into Cells with Molecular Precision (bioTARGET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1479321.0
EU funding (EUR): 1479321.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Bioorthogonal chemistries cross the boundaries between static chemical connectivity and the dynamic physiologic regulation of molecular state, enabling powerful tools for molecular control in complex biological environments. In combination with ligand-directed drug delivery, safe and selective chemical reactions that perform efficiently in vivo can fuel the design of new therapeutic strategies. Despite significant progress in the field of drug targeting, it remains challenging to shuttle therapeutic agents to the desired tissue, reaching the necessary cellular and even sub-cellular level, all while avoiding collateral damage. To engage this challenge, I aim to develop the concept of bioorthogonal cascade-targeting to direct the recognition, activation, and intracellular delivery of therapeutic constructs with molecular precision. We will develop next-level chemical tools for bioorthogonal bond-cleavage with exceptional reaction performance and the unique capability of tunable sequential release events (‘tandem release’). These innovations will enable us to design bioorthogonally activatable ligands for multiple therapeutic approaches that open new ground, most notably in escalating the complexity of (bio)chemical choreography. In particular, I propose cascade-processes, triggered by a single biocompatible click event, that can achieve: (i) the ‘bridging’ of non-internalizing cell-surface receptors to forward therapeutics into cells; (ii) the ‘hopping’ of drug conjugates from one target to another, or from one cell to another; and (iii) kinetically preprogrammed ‘escape’ of drugs from the endosomal compartment of cells entered via cascade-targeting. This will allow us to spatially and temporally control the movement and release of therapeutics in a (sub)cellular environment, and ultimately to establish bioorthogonal cascades as unique strategies that shift the paradigm of biologically controlled drug delivery.

Keywords: bioorthogonal chemistry click chemistry bioorthogonal bond cleavage reactions drug targeting cellular uptake
MAGNONIC ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND GATE ARRAYS (MANNGA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Poland
Call: Advanced spintronics: Unleashing spin in the next generation ICs (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2471780.0
EU funding (EUR): 2471780.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

We seek to explore and challenge the limits of spin-based devices and their energy efficiency. This will be achieved by combining two inherently energy-efficient technology paradigms: (i) magnonics (using spin waves – low energy magnetic excitations – to process signals and data) and (ii) neuromorphic computing (using large-scale integrated systems and analog circuits to solve data-driven problems in a brain-like manner). We will use nanoscale chiral magnonic resonators as building blocks of artificial neural networks. The power of the networks will be demonstrated by creating magnonics versions of field programmable gate arrays, reservoir computers, and recurrent neural networks. The ultimate efficiency of the devices will be achieved by (a) maximising their magnetic nonlinearity; (b) using epitaxial yttrium iron garnet, which has the lowest known magnetic damping, for thin film magnonic media and resonators; and (c) using wireless delivery of power. Sensitive to the resonators’ micromagnetic states, such artificial neural networks will be conveniently programmable and trainable within existing paradigms of magnetic data storage. The latter includes magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), which is already compatible with CMOS, while compatibility with other technology paradigms of spintronics will also be sought, explored, and exploited. Thereby, the key ambition of our proposed very forward-looking research programme is to develop and establish a novel, revolutionary class of energy-efficient spin-based components and devices for use in green high-tech data communication, processing, and storage technologies, thereby helping unlock the full potential of spintronics. We will seek dissemination of our developed and appropriately protected designs, processes, and technologies to interested European and international companies, thereby improving the competitiveness of the European high-tech industry.

Keywords: magnonics,spin waves,spintronics,machine learning,artificial neural networks