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EXtreme-scale Algebraic MultiGrid for next-generation nuclear simulations (EXAMG)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,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): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Nuclear fusion has long been promised to deliver safe, cost-efficient, and sustainable energy production, but significant technical challenges remain in tokamak design, such as sustaining the extremely high required temperatures and effectively confining the hot plasma with magnetic fields. Conversely, nuclear fission provides large quantities of carbon-free energy and has critical medical applications but poses serious safety challenges, including reactors' limited life and nuclear waste management. In this context, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) are key to accelerating nuclear innovation. However, tokamak and nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics simulations remain elusive due to the vast range of relevant scales involved, which demand an exceptional mesh resolution. As a result, advancing these applications requires very accurate CFD and MHD simulations, whose main bottleneck is the solution of extreme-scale sparse linear systems. The EXAMG project addresses such challenges through a novel Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) preconditioner whose design involves a multidisciplinary team with experts in numerical linear algebra, high-performance computing and computational physics. The resulting linear solver combines multigrid's optimality with AMG's flexibility and GPU's capabilities to deliver a lightweight yet very effective method enabling unprecedented extreme-scale CFD and MHD simulations of nuclear applications. In this sense, EXAMG targets several key research areas of the EU's energy research and innovation strategy, directly supports the European Green Deal and closely aligns with Euratom research domains by fostering the extreme-scale simulations required to develop safer fission reactors and advance the European fusion roadmap. Furthermore, deploying advanced software for exascale supercomputers contributes to the EuroHPC JU major initiative of establishing a world-class European HPC ecosystem.

Keywords: algebraic multigrid,gpu computing,linear solvers,computational fluid dynamics,magnetohydrodynamics
Recycling the German Ghosts. Resettlement Cultures in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia after 1945 (SpectralRecycling)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Poland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499465.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499465.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ghosts are often presented as the spirits of the dead haunting the living. But what if we understood them as material remains, bringing to light overlooked past and enabling us to grasp the experience of the otherness? I propose such an approach in research on displacement, on territories previously inhabited by one culture but after a forced migration resettled by another one. The displacement comprises expulsion and resettlement. While the former is well-researched, much of the latter remains understudied: especially the settlers experiences with things previous inhabitants had left behind. Things act as ghosts of previous culture and force settlers to interact with the spectral presence of the expellees. Hence, I will operationalize the category of post-displacement as a form of afterlife, based on archival records and fieldwork, in 3 regions in Slavic Central Europe where the traces of previous German cultures remained visible, regardless of the efforts to remove them. With hauntology as the proposed research framework and introduction of the category of recycling, I will establish a novel approach in research on the post-displacement regions. Hauntology, a spectral theory of being, shows how the present is pervaded by the past and enables us to engage with unresolved questions, becoming a tool to investigate unexplained phenomena. Recycling is a mechanism of reintroducing the things that were left by expellees into the life of the settlers. My approach will bring fresh insights into everyday life in the post-displacement regions by providing a more nuanced and coherent understanding of forced migration processes and their continuous reinterpretations in different political and ideological regimes. In understanding what post-displacement things are and the attitude of people towards them, the project presents a showcase study of what we can learn about the emergence of new cultures from the experiences of Central Europe.

Keywords: forced migration displacement social life of things spectrality slavic central europe
Mooring Line-Seabed Interaction considering Trench Development and its Application in Integrated Analysis of Floating Wind Turbines (MLSITDAIAFWT)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Offshore floating wind turbine (FWT) provides an efficient solution to address climate challenge. Integrated analysis of FWT is vital to reduce the uncertainties in design and save costs. In the field, seabed trenches dramatically increase the failure risks of mooring system and raise operation and maintenance costs. However, the mooring line-seabed interaction related to soil erosion and trench development is not considered in design code (DNVGL-ST-0119, 2018). Thus, two objectives of this project are: 1. reveal the trigger factor for seabed trenching due to the mooring line-soil interaction; simulate the trench development with time. 2. establish the macro element model considering seabed trenching process; integrate the model into the integrated analysis tool of FWTs, e.g., SESAM. A total of 3 packages are designed comprehensively. In the seabed trenching package, conduct 1g erosion test to reveal the trigger factor for seabed trenching (WP1.1). Then propose the soil erosion model based on analytical analysis based on 1g erosion test (WP1.2). Finally, the trench development will be simulated by the trench profile model (WP1.3). In the mooring line-seabed package, get the chain resistance by 1g result (WP2.1); establish the macro element model (WP2.2); considering seabed trenching process, which can consider the soil degradation, erosion, removal (WP2.3). In integrated analysis package, integrate the model into the integrated analysis tool of FWTs, e.g., SESAM (WP3). The new development of the soil erosion model, seabed trench model and macro element of mooring line soil interaction are the new computation tool for scientific analysis. Integrated analysis tool for FWT will be an important and powerful tool for FWT analysis considering mooring line-soil interaction, which will contribute to standards’ setting. This will be a groundbreaking progress and will fill the gaps in the norms and standards (DNVGL-ST-0119).

Keywords: mooring line seabed interaction,mooring chain,seabed,soil erosion,mooring system,floating wind turbine,integrated analysis
TWINSHIP – INTEGRATED DIGITAL TWIN FRAMEWORK TO ENABLE GREEN SHIP OPERATIONS TOWARDS ZERO EMISSION VESSELS (TwinShip)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Norway,Finland,Germany,Serbia,Greece,Italy,Sweden,Denmark,Spain,Romania,Cyprus
Call: Advanced digitalisation and modelling utilizing operational and other data to support zero emission waterborne transport (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9137385.0
EU funding (EUR): 7700000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The TwinShip consortium is spearheading an initiative to transform the maritime sector by creating an alliance of premier maritime technology, solution & service providers, ship design and shipping firms, classification societies, ports, software developers, and research and academic bodies. This collaboration is centered around a unique, open-source digital platform enriched with data and powered by domain knowledge-based advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. By introducing a Digital Twin (DT) enabled Decision Support System (DSS) in the same digital platform, TwinShip is setting a course for the maritime industry's rapid digital and environmental transformation. The project sets ambitious benchmarks for reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions in international shipping, aiming for a 30-40% reduction by 2030, 80-90% by 2040, and achieving net-zero emissions by 2045, all relative to 2008 levels by utilizing its Pilot Vessels and Futuristic Unmanned Vessel Concept. This initiative focuses on leveraging both existing and emergent clean fuels and technologies, prioritizing renewable energy sources, and the implementation of unmanned vessels. The TwinShip DT-enabled DSS is crafted to navigate the industry toward achieving these significant environmental targets, demonstrating the consortium's dedication to fostering sustainability and pushing the boundaries of innovation.

Keywords: maritime,shipping,energy efficiency,emission reduction,digital twin
Frequency-agile lasers for photonic sensing (FORTE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Germany,Switzerland
Call: EIC Transition Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1966218.75
EU funding (EUR): 1966218.75
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Lasers are a ubiquitous technology in optical communication, sensors, LiDAR or emerging quantum science and technology. Yet, the principles by which lasers are manufactured have remarkably not changed since the invention of the laser: they are assembled by hand, using bulk components or optical fibers. While integrated lasers based on silicon photonics exist, they do not challenge such high performance legacy lasers systems. FORTE will change this notion. Building on a recent breakthrough in the field of low loss integrated photonics it is today possible to create lasers that are low cost, wafer scale manufacturable that have better performance that the fiber laser – the workhorse of fiber sensing and gold standard in coherence. The overarching ambition of this EIC transition project is to develop a prototype and mature photonic integrated circuit-based frequency-agile ultra-low noise laser technology, and apply it to the domain of fiber sensing and FMCW LiDAR, and to develop a scalable manufacturing. The unique selling points (USP) of the platform are that it is based on photonic integrated circuit technology that is scalable, flexible, reconfigurable, and extremely high performance in terms of optical coherence and frequency-agility. The technology is based on a patented approach that combines ultra-low loss photonic integrated circuits based on silicon nitride, with MEMS technology, as used in wireless technology. The approach addresses the need for low-noise laser sources in multiple domains of photonic sensing including distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) and coherent laser ranging (FMCW LiDAR). The consortium includes companies in fiber sensing, LiDAR as well as in the development of industrial manufacturing tools. The results will be commercialized by the involvement of SME in fiber sensing, and a dedicated startup to bring hybrid integrated frequency agile low noise lasers to the market.

Keywords: frequency agile,silicon photonics,monolithic piezoelectric actuator,laser platform
Study of Ion Migration in Perovskite Solar Cells via X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy Imaging and Photoluminescence Microscopy (IONMIGRATIONPSC)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185441.36
EU funding (EUR): 185441.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) attract enormous attention in the field of emerging photovoltaics due to their unique optoelectronic properties and unprecedented advances in performance. In just over a decade, the power conversion efficiency of PSCs has increased from 3.9% to 25.5%, suggesting this technology might be ready for large-scale exploitation in industrial applications. However, stability and scalability are some of the major concerns that impede the commercialisation of PSCs. Among these, exploring strategies to enhance the long-term stability of PSCs is a main research topic in the perovskite community. While it is generally considered that ionic defect states in the perovskite layer such as vacancies, interstitial sites, anti-site substitutions as well as surface and grain boundary defects inevitably lead to the degradation of PSCs, much remains unknown about the fundamental nature of ionic defects and in particular their migration in perovskite materials. This project will focus on the study of ion migration by a unique combination of electrical and spectroscopic methods which will allow tracking changes in both the compositional and optoelectronic properties of perovskites with the same spatial resolution and thus directly linking the migration of ionic species to their effect on material properties. By applying this novel methodology, I will explore the effects of perovskite composition, film microstructure and mitigation strategies on the ion migration and investigate how ion migration impacts the stability of perovskite materials. This project will significantly expand our current understanding of ion migration in PSCs and provide valuable insights for enhancing device stability.

Keywords: perovskite,stability,ion migration,photoemission spectroscopy,photoluminescence spectroscopy and photocurrent microscopy
ADDITIVE TO PREDICTIVE MANUFACTURING FOR MULTISTOREY CONSTRUCTION USING LEARNING BY PRINTING AND NETWORKED ROBOTICS (AM2PM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,Denmark,Netherlands,Italy,Czechia
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: AEC digitalisation for a new triad of design, fabrication, and materials (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3605988.75
EU funding (EUR): 3605988.75
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The negative environmental impact of construction, effects of global climate change, global housing shortage, and rising labor costs due to a shortage of skilled workers are driving the construction industry to question traditional construction methods and push the limits of innovation. In this quest, additive manufacturing (AM) technology (in particular 3D concrete printing (3DCP)) is gaining ground in the construction industry to respond to the urgent demand for acceleration and digitization. The method of automating construction by reading digital models of buildings is undoubtedly key for the construction industry to achieve environmental sustainability, cost reduction, and realize complex shaped designs. 3DCP is thus well suited to adopting digital technologies and automating construction. The vision of AM2PM is to transform the traditional construction site for multistorey buildings into a digital and sustainable site of the future with a 50% reduction in material use and embodied carbon. This is in line with the EU green deal, New European Bauhaus and EU Digital Strategy to mitigate climate change and reduce carbon emissions. AM2PM will introduce a paradigm shift in the application of AM in construction through a comprehensive system-of-systems approach that intertwines a) multi-agent human-robotic systems that work collaboratively on site in a well-coordinated and safe manner, b) computational design of components considering buildability and environmental efficiency, c) design of the requisite sustainable cementitious materials using granular recycled and locally available material, d) AI models to predict and control the manufacturing process and e) the digital twin construction information backbone that enables cohesive operation of the design and production system as a whole. The result would be transformational, achieving a 50% reduction in material use, would reduce embodied CO2 by up to 29 million tons and potentially save >€11 billion annually

Keywords: sustainable 3d printing of cementitious material optimization of printed structures digital twin construction artificial intelligence multiscale cyber physical systems data driven life cycle assessmen
VAScularised Tumour Organoids on a chip with human placenta vessels as a preclinical model for anticancer therapies. (VASTO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

VASTO Proof of Concept aims to develop and test an innovative microfluidic-based platform, which allows to evaluate the efficacy of different cell immunotherapy strategies against solid tumours. For this aim, we propose to microfabricate 3D solid tumour organoids with an aberrant microvascular network provided from the explant of human vessels. Although there are other different vessel-on-a-chip and/or microvascular network formation approaches that use in vitro cell monolayers, we are not aware of any solution covering human ex vivo blood vessel platform as it is proposed here. Therefore, we aim to recreate the existent mechano-chemical barriers characteristics of the tumour microenvironment in solid tumours with this novel ex vivo platform. With this technology, we can define a method to evaluate the efficacy of different immunotherapy-based strategies. Specifically, we focus on studying the effectivity of different Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T cell therapies in solid tumours. Hence, the development of VASTO harbours the interest of CAR-T manufacturers to test these cell therapies against solid tumours. We will be able to asses CAR-T cell vascular extravasation, penetration into solid tumours and the CAR-T efficiency for tumour elimination. In addition to its applicability to liver cancer, the acquired knowledge in VASTO also could be extrapolated to any other kind tumours, but also in the development of an ex vivo platform for research in regenerative processes, by incorporating organoids from healthy donors, instead of malignant cells, and promoting functional vasculature, instead of aberrant one. Therefore, this human ex vivo platform will launch a new product to the market very attractive for clinical labs and companies, reducing animal experiments and providing a more reliable alternative for testing different therapies against tumours and approaching a more personalized patient-like model.
International cooperation for sustainable aviation biofuels (ICARUS)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Portugal,Netherlands,Norway,Germany,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Switzerland,Canada,India,Brazil
Call: Best international practice for scaling up sustainable biofuels (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-03, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3161948.75
EU funding (EUR): 3161948.25
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The Icarus consortium has identified critical technology steps that at present limit the wider deployment of three Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production routes, namely: biocrude from hydrothermal liquefaction to SAF, isobutanol from lignocellulosic biomass to SAF and synthetic Fischer-Tropsh from biomass gasification to SAF. These three value chains have been strategically selected by Icarus since they are close to market deployment and are needed to meet European and international SAF deployment targets. Icarus aims to improve them with innovative solutions while at the same time addressing the whole value chain. Novel biomass production concepts such as sequential cropping and mix cropping are also addressed aiming to ensure increased sustainable biomass availability for SAF production. Along the complete value chain techno-economic, environmental, and social assessments will be carried out. Icarus has a very strong international consortium of 20 reputed partners including 5 from 3 Mission Innovation Countries (MIC) Canada, India and Brazil, who will carry out innovative research with common targets and objectives with the European ones ensuring international collaboration in this critical area. Two more partners from a 4th MIC, USA are joining research activities as members of the External Executive Advisory Board (EEAB). The Icarus results will significantly improve the cost effectiveness of SAF and therefore have global significance and reach and will facilitate scaling-up of these technologies and value chains enabling market deployment of SAF on a global scale. Guidelines, assessments, best practices and improved concepts will be used throughout the project to disseminate the results on global scale via targeted and effective dissemination and communication outreach activities to all stakeholders.

Keywords: biomass diversification,biocrude oils,syngas,isobutanol,lca,techno economic social assessment