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Vortex Aerated Membrane Bioreactor - Accelerating the deployment of Affordable, Efficient and Climate Resilient Wastewater Treatment & Reuse Infrastructure (VA-MBR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1944673.0
EU funding (EUR): 1944673.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Currently about 42% of domestic wastewater is not treated. Furthermore, only 11% of global wastewater is being reused despite the potential for wastewater recycling being more than 10 times current desalination capacity. Wastewater greenhouse gas emissions are another major sectoral challenge, and electricity use is up to 4% of global electricity consumption. As a society we need to rapidly deploy wastewater treatment capacity, enable wastewater recycling while reducing the resource intensity of the sector. Current technology will not solve these challenges. Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) are a promising solution to address these issues but have had limited market penetration due to issues with cost, fouling and maintenance. Our team at Vortech Water Solutions made a breakthrough when we discovered that the pressurised nature of vortex-based processes enable a world’s first ability to provide membrane filtration and aeration simultaneously to overcome barriers which have limited the deployment of wastewater reuse infrastructure for decades. This technology, called the Vortex Aerated Membrane BioReactor (VA-MBR), has been validated to TRL5 with ¼ scale models, full scale simulations and membrane data. Furthermore, there is a strong demand for the technology with existing clients. Our patents will ascertain a freedom to operate in multiple key territories with the potential to generate €30 m revenue in 3 years following commercialisation. We have secured a roadmap to private investment, to accelerate market role out once we can de-risk the VA-MBR by moving it to TRL 8. EIC funding is the key to us de-risking this technology. Vortech aims to build a globally recognised brand known for the supply of truly sustainable water technology that will be core to wastewater infrastructure in every town, city and major industrial facility on the planet over the next 100 years. The VA-MBR technology will be central to Vortech, an EU-based company, achieving this global ambition.

Keywords: wastewater treatment,vortex flows,innovative technology,water reuse,energy efficiency,membrane bioreactor,advanced treatment
Use of open-source P2P energy sharing platforms for energy democratization (U2Demo)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,France,Germany,Belgium,Italy,Netherlands,Switzerland,Slovakia
Call: Creation of a standardised and open-source peer-to-peer energy sharing platform architecture for the energy sector (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5819380.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999883.13
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The U2Demo project aims to create innovative, consumer-centered management strategies that facilitate widespread participation in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) trading and Energy Sharing. This initiative will promote equitable and democratic access to sustainable energy resources. The collaboration brings together twenty partners, including associated partners, from eight countries, pooling their expertise to develop strategies that will be seamlessly integrated into open-source, non-proprietary tools and platform. These solutions align with principles of openness, technology neutrality, interoperability, scalability, replicability, reliability, security, and trustworthiness. These strategies will undergo testing within at least four diverse Energy Communities, each characterized by unique attributes and governance models. The overarching objective is to assess advanced P2P trading and Energy Sharing tools, determine optimal implementation conditions, and consolidate the most promising solutions and associated business models. The P2P trading and Energy Sharing tools will account for existing flexibility services managed by transmission and distribution system operators (TSOs, DSOs), including both implicit and explicit demand response (DR) programs, as well as dynamic capacity and price signals/contracts. The initiative strives to enhance coordination leveraging information exchange through existing dataspaces and middleware. Decision support algorithms will empower consumers and prosumers to actively engage in energy and flexibility services, promoting negotiation and collaboration among peers and stakeholders maximizing their benefits. All interactions, offers, contracts, and coordination within P2P trading and Energy Sharing tools will adhere to existing and forthcoming standards, and will be executed using blockchain. This approach ensures the credibility and traceability of all activities conducted in P2P trading, ultimately fostering greater consumer engagement.

Keywords: p2p trading,energy sharing,energy communities,open source platform,flexibility,distribution system operators,transmission system operators,blockchain,distributed energy resourses,consumer engagement
Sink-related cleaning practices to prevent transmission of pathogens in healthcare settings (SELECTION)

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: United Kingdom,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Each year, millions of infections are acquired in healthcare facilities. The hospital water environment (including sinks, showers and toilets) are now recognised as important environmental drivers of these infections- many of which can be prevented by hygiene and infection control measures, including effective cleaning. However, the most effective methods of cleaning the hospital water enviroment are still not known, so current practices may not prevent infections. Concerningly, recent evidence has emerged suggesting that current practices may inadvertently alter the bacterial population in these environmental reservoirs- potentially causing harm to patients. Furthermore, current practices rely on the widespread use of chemical disinfectants, which have ecological and environmental consequences. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions programme, SELECTION will develop a novel and environmentally considerate method for hospital sink cleaning. SELECTION will first optimise this method under controlled experimental conditions. A study will then be undertaken in a hospital setting to compare this novel approach with current cleaning practices. To understand the effectiveness of these interventions, we will measure the amount of bacteria present in sinks when cleaned with these different methods, and also use metagenomics and bioinformatics approaches to charecterise how different cleaning interventions change the microbial population within these reservoirs. We will interview healthcare workers involved in the implementation of cleaning interventions in the hospital (including cleaning staff, healthcare engineers and infection prevention and control specialists) to understand their perceptions of the novel intervention and outline the roadmap and barriers to implementation in healthcare settings beyond this research study. SELECTION will inform hospital cleaning strategies and infection prevention and control practices.

Keywords: infection prevention and control,hosptial acquired infection,cleaning and decontamination,antimicrobial resistance
Piezoceutical biomaterial scaffolds for immunomodulatory-based myocardial repair (PiezoMac)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Ireland
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): 2579608.0
EU funding (EUR): 2579608.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cardiac injury in the form of a myocardial infarction leads to cardiac muscle death and replacement scar tissue that cannot compensate lost heart tissue. This disease does not improve with traditional drugs and places significant burden on healthcare budgets worldwide; with a reduced quality of life for patients, often leading to heart failure. Current engineered cardiac patches do not reduce inflammation and do not integrate in a sufficient manner to compensate the pumping power lost with the heart tissue. The PiezoMac patch differs fundamentally from patches reported up to now. It will contain an optimised piezoelectric capability that will yield electric fields generated by the stretching of the heart. This electric field stimulation will be optimised to drive immunomodulate and regeneration of the cardiac muscle. The shape of the patch is predesigned using finite element modelling to conform the directional dependent stretching of the heart wall; with information of patient anatomy and extent of heart attack damage derived from X-ray CT and MRI scans. These smart patches will be 3D printed (using melt electrowriting) into accurate microfibrous ordered patches whose density, micro-orientation and fibre laydown will be informed using in silico modelling of piezoelectric generation and mechanical anisotropy. We will shortlist candidate mesh designs to match the anisotropy of the heart using finite element analysis, and refine the design process using a Bayesian Optimisation approach to strike a balance between mechanical anisotropy and piezoelectric output, and ultimately halt cardiac deterioration. This pragmatic and rational approach gathers and advances cutting-edge technologies in this interdisciplinary project to address a significant unmet need in healthcare today.

Keywords: immunomodulation,piezoelectric materials,biomaterials,auxetic materials,mechanical anisotropy,additive manufacturing,finite element analysis,electric field modelling,macrophages,bayesian optimisation,innate immunology,regeneration,machine learning,in vitro model,
SParse AND paRsimonious Event-based fLow Sensing (SPANDRELS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The closed-loop control of unsteady turbulent flows requires efficient strategies to sense the flow state. Despite the challenge posed by the non-linearities and the large range of scales of turbulent flows, their ubiquitous nature motivates unabated research efforts. Over the last years, we have developed linear and non-linear flow estimation tools, with relevant laboratory applications. Nevertheless, the state of the art requires an intractable number of sensors, making the data acquisition and analysis unfeasible in a practical scenario. Moreover, the current paradigm of flow control requires continuous sensing and action in time, leading to very large data rates. Strangely, this seems at odds with what nature does. Insects estimate the flow surrounding them with a few event-based sensors embedded in their wings. Algorithms for event-based signal processing avoid aliasing without the need for high-frequency periodic sampling, reducing the amount of data needed to estimate complex temporal series. This could enable flow estimation with easy-to-handle and cheap-to-compute data. Furthermore, our recent findings show that many complex flows can be represented on low-dimensional manifolds. The availability of a reduced set of coordinates for state representation is a key enabler for the choice of a sparse set of sensors in space. This project will develop a novel framework for the estimation of turbulent and unsteady flows coupling manifold learning and event-based sensors. Tackling selected relevant laboratory problems, with and without control, we will reduce problem dimensionality and represent turbulent unsteady flows on low-dimensional manifolds, identify parsimonious methods for sensor choice and location in complex flows, and define a theoretical framework for turbulent-flow measurements from event sensors. Such a framework will be a key enabler for flow control and will open a novel research path in fluid mechanics.

Keywords: flow control,flow estimation,manifold learning,scientific machine learning,event based sensors
Reconstructing Aristotle's philosophy of 'qua' (QUA)

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,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Despite the centrality of the term 'qua' in Aristotle’s philosophy – from the definition of ontology to his philosophy of mathematics – a comprehensive analysis of its role throughout the Aristotelian corpus remains absent in both European and global scholarship. The QUA Project addresses this critical gap by proposing a framework for a consistent understanding of the role of 'qua' in Aristotle’s philosophy. Unlike previous studies that have focused on the scientific uses of 'qua', where it contributes to defining specific sciences, QUA shifts the perspective to Aristotle’s Organon. Using a methodology that integrates philology, ancient Greek philosophy, and debates in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mathematics, QUA begins by reconstructing Aristotle’s theory of qualifications in the "Sophistical Refutations". It then demonstrates how the "Analytics" identifies 'qua' as a qualification of respect that specifies the category of predication. Finally, the project tests this framework by extending it beyond the Organon to address unresolved questions about the scientific uses of 'qua'. Supervised by leading Aristotelian scholars, Pierre-Marie Morel at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Rachel Barney at the University of Toronto during a secondment, the project benefits from their expertise and the support of their research units, GRAMATA and CSAMP. This international collaboration will significantly enhance the researcher’s academic profile, increase visibility, prepare future research projects, and improve competitiveness in the global job market. Furthermore, the outreach plan of the project addresses the construction of stereotypes and the potential of social critique inherent in 'qua predications' to foster a broader societal impact, extending the research’s relevance beyond academic philosophy.

Keywords: aristotle aristotle s organon qua ancient logic
European Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries Policy Platform (EKIP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Denmark,Netherlands,Finland,Italy,Slovakia,France,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Estonia,Greece,Belgium
Call: A culture and creativity driven European innovation ecosystem – a collaborative platform (HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6927059.57
EU funding (EUR): 5987856.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Operating with open innovation principles, ekip will establish a partner and network-driven policy recommendation engine to continuously drive the formulation and adoption of policy development recommendations for Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). This will result in support and guidance that strengthens the capacity for CCI-actors to engage in and contribute to complex innovation processes. The interplay between the projects activities will allow us to deliver two objectives – building the meta-network amongst ecosystems and developing the knowledge-based and participatory policy engine – which will come together in making the third objective – supporting the development for CCI-centered ecosystems – possible. The engine is designed to in three main phases (i.e. five steps) achieve this: -Assess needs for future R&I actions - List of defined policy areas together with a meta-network of networks covering all member states and the CCI diversity. -Mapping of needs CCIs; tech, invest, skill, regulation - Investigate prioritised policy areas looking broadly and across sectors, also focusing on recommendations that will (i) increase the CCIs’ readiness for green and digital transitions as well as for the rest of the economy and society. -Identify and propose key actions - Formulate policy recommendations, also giving practical guidelines of how to implement and track development in ecosystems. ekip brings together highly networked and diverse organisations with strong track-record in research, innovation, and policymaking for and with the CCIs. Beneficiaries from 12 countries with different social, cultural, and economic contexts. Leading universities with expertise on research and innovation in culture and creativity. Organisations with online data collection and analysis competences and visualisation skills. Specialised policy consulting companies and advisories will be linking practice, research, and innovation with policy development for the CCI.

Keywords: creative policy platforms,open innovation,policy development,cultural and creative industries,innovation ecosystems,cross innovation
Spectroscopy@IKU - Manipulating and Characterizing Molecular Architectures: From Isolated Molecules to Molecular Crystals (Spectroscopy-at-IKU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499973.61
EU funding (EUR): 2499973.61
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Spectroscopy@IKU aims to strengthen Molecular Physics, Chemistry and Materials Sciences at Istanbul Kultur University (IKU), by establishing a strong, internationally competitive research team dedicated to molecular spectroscopy at the IKU Faculty of Sciences and Letters. The team will be led by Prof. Rui Fausto (ERA Chair holder), a world-leading scientist in the field. A new research infrastructure dedicated to spectroscopy will be created, supporting the ERA Chair team and serving as a spectroscopy platform for other IKU research groups. Additionally, it will provide spectroscopy services to external users, from both academy and industry. The ERA-chair research team will engage in training young researchers and post-graduate students, contribute to the academic activities of IKU on spectroscopy, and participate actively in outreaching actions. All activities will follow the principle of free circulation of knowledge and expertise, aligning with ERA priorities. Research will focus on two main areas sharing the need for precise molecular structure manipulation and characterization: (i) structure and reactivity of atmospheric and astrophysically relevant molecules, and (ii) polymorphism in molecular crystals and cocrystals. The first subject centers on the laboratory study of isolated molecules and small aggregates, addressing fundamental chemistry and physics in Earth's atmosphere and space, through exploration of new avenues of chemical reactivity and their underneath physical processes, such as reactions resulting from vibrational excitation of molecules or taking place via quantum mechanical tunneling, two subjects the ERA-Chair holder has been pioneering. The second main subject is a hot topic in materials sciences and one of the most crucial subjects for pharmaceutical industry at the moment. New approaches for polymorphs screening will be implemented, based on the development of novel versatile techniques for molecular crystals/cocrystals generation.

Keywords: spectroscopy hub molecular physics,materials science single molecule structure manipulation,vibrationally and tunneling driven reactions,photochemistry molecular crystals polymorphs,cocrystals