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UTILIZATION OF PRIVATE LAND FOR MAINSTREAMING NATURE-BASED SOLUTION IN THE SYSTEMIC TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS A CLIMATE-RESILIENT EUROPE (LAND4CLIMATE)

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: Germany,Belgium,Slovakia,Czechia,Italy,Austria,Romania
Call: Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions on climate resilience, mainstreaming nature based solutions in the systemic transformation (HORIZON-MISS-2022-CLIMA-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12904833.5
EU funding (EUR): 12904833.5
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

LAND4CLIMATE aims to increase the resilience of landscapes and urban settlements in the continental biogeographical area and beyond by nudging the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS), which are at large-scale still in its infancy. However, there are three reasons for the tardy uptake of NBS in practice: (1) NBS need more land than grey infrastructure; (2) approaches to NBS hitherto often focus on public land; (3) private land, however, bears huge potential for climate resilience, both as a supplier (in terms of ecosystem service provision) and a recipient of benefits of NBS (in terms of climate risk reduction). LAND4CLIMATE addresses these implementation gaps. Climate resilience needs land! LAND4CLIMATE aims to get access to private land for the implementation of NBS, not by buying land, but through the development of innovative governance schemes and business models, such as land readjustments schemes, strategic land leases and easements. The main objective of LAND4CLIMATE is to co-design and validate NBS on private land through implementation and upscaling with innovative strategies of land policy for a transformative climate-resilient future in areas with multiple risks, especially coupled extreme hydro-meteorological events such as floods, droughts and urban heat. LAND4CLIMATE will operationalize this objective in six frontrunner cases in Austria, Czechia, Germany, Italy, Romania and Slovakia by: • Identifying cause and effect relations of climate risks and NBS to allocate NBS effectively and efficiently • Developing governance and business models to implement legitimate and just strategies of land policy for NBS on private land • Enabling successful replication and upscaling By involving seven replicant regions in the aforementioned countries, LAND4CLIMATE becomes able to replicate, foster and inspire new synergies between NBS beneficiaries and landowners on a wider scale and contribute to the EU’s mission for adaptation to climate change.

Keywords: climate resilience,nature based solutions,private land,land policy,continental biogeographical area
Ecology and biology of HPAIV H5 (Kappa-Flu) (Kappa-Flu)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call: Ecology of infectious animal diseases (HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4215000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4215000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The global emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses and the subsequent adaptation to wild birds has resulted in record mortality of wild birds and poultry and is developing into an enzootic threat for wildlife, poultry and human health in Europe. The ongoing evolution of HPAI viruses is expanding their geographical distribution and host range. To deal with this global problem, KAPPA-FLU brings together top experts from Europe, North America and Asia. The overall objective of KAPPA-FLU is the characterization of key viral, host-related and environmental factors that determine the maintenance and the long-distance spread of HPAI viruses in wild birds, with the goal of improving capacities for risk-based surveillance, prevention and control of HPAI in poultry and wildlife, and its potential impact on human health. KAPPA-FLU will follow three research themes. Theme A (Disease ecology) provides a deep understanding of the population dynamics of HPAI viruses in migratory waterbirds and spill-over hosts, both resident wildlife and poultry, through risk-based surveillance strategies, and accounting for the impact of climate change. Theme B (Virology) studies the evolution of HPAI viruses in wild birds and poultry and the resulting increasing risk to humans and other mammals. Based on the above results, theme C (Agro-ecosystem risk) identifies and models prevention and control strategies (including vaccination) using machine learning algorithms. Actors from different sectors of society will, through the Multi-Actor Panel, play key roles in translating results into policy and practice. In this way, KAPPA-FLU will make stepwise advances in knowledge of the population dynamics and evolution of HPAI, and thus contribute to a sustainable poultry production system and improved public health.

Keywords: highly pathogenic avian influenza,surveillance,virology,wild birds,poultry welfare,mammalian health,spill over,environment,food safety,agro ecosystem,risk assessment,control strategies
Modular AXIal flux Motor for Automotive (MAXIMA)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO (co-programmed)
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Germany,Romania,Spain,Sweden
Call: Nextgen EV components: High efficiency and low cost electric motors for circularity and low use of rare resources (2ZERO) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5684903.71
EU funding (EUR): 5484542.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The massive electrification of automotive vehicles will necessarily involve the development of low cost, highly compact and low environmental impact electrical machines (EM). The objective of the MAXIMA project is to develop and validate a complete methodology to design an EM as well as the associated production system for the automotive core market. This methodology will have to deal with often incompatible constraints such as efficiency, costs reduction, high performances in terms of power/torque density, and high recyclability, especially for critical raw materials. To achieve this objective, MAXIMA will focus on a dedicated topology: Axial Flux Synchronous Machine (AFSM). ASFM currently on the market are very efficient but cover only a niche market due to their high manufacturing costs. They also offer strong exploited or unexplored options, in terms of topologies and materials. Unlike radial flux EMs, the margin for improvements of AFSM is really significant by acting on both EM design and manufacturing process flow, thus allowing higher performances and lower cost while keeping a low environmental impact. The consortium brings together research teams and companies from the entire value chain, from raw material suppliers to car manufacturers along with a recycling company. Together they can face the main technological and scientific challenges in the electromagnetic, mechanical and thermal fields, reaching a solution close to market. At the end, beside high TRL5 prototypes, the project will provide a validated methodology to accelerate the design, thereby reducing the time to market, and new technologies, such as EM digital twins, to operate EMs to their full potential.

Keywords: electrical machine,mass production,manufacturing processes,magnetic materials,crm recycling,digital twin,optimal control,life cycle assessment,demonstrators,circular economy,automotive
SMart Agriculture & Food INnovation Ecosystem (SMAFINE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Denmark,Sweden
Call: Expanding Investments Ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1328653.57
EU funding (EUR): 999987.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

One of the main challenges of the Innovation Ecosystem in 'modest' or 'moderate' innovator regions is the lack of persistent and trustworthy cooperation between local stakeholders and external investors. This gap results in an insuperable obstacle for emerging startups that have no tools and occasions to scale up and develop their businesses. Lacking this, Europe is missing the chance to brighten up the overall enterprise system as thousands of brilliant ideas don’t generate positive spillovers. To tackle this issue, SMAFINE goal is to create a strong ecosystem based on three main pillars:1. Support local stakeholders - SMAFINE will implement activities of capacity building for local stakeholder, supporting the connection between innovation stakeholders and foreign investors; 2. Support foreign stakeholders - Foster the bond between foreign and local stakeholders through well-defined activities; 3. Co-creation with policy makers at local level and at 'modest' or 'moderate' innovator regions level. SMAFINE consortium is composed by 6 partners (EY Advisory SPA; Deep Ecosystems 500 UG; RootCamp GmbH; Foreningen til drift af TechBBQ; Comune di Matera (CTE Matera); Sweden Foodtech AB) coming from 4 European countries and it will implement a 2 years project that aims to build a solid ecosystem in 'modest' or 'moderate' innovator region such the South of Italy, developing a testbed involving a wide participation of national and international actors as incubators, accelerators, company-builders, innovation agencies, business clubs and networks, public and private VCs and their networks, national and regional authorities.
Synergistic integration and efficient operation of thermochemical energy storage-assisted magnesium hydrides-based hydrogen storage systems (TCES-MgH2 project)

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: United Kingdom
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: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Currently, global energy consumption is growing rapidly, but over-reliance on fossil energy poses significant risks to the global ecosystem. It is urgent to establish a clean, safe and sustainable energy supply system. The large-scale development of green hydrogen energy is a key solution to address the challenges of greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change. However, its large-scale utilization requires the development of safe, reliable and convenient methods for hydrogen storage and transportation. Among the many hydrogen storage technologies, solid-state hydrogen storage technology based on magnesium hydrides (MgH2) stands out with its significant advantages, such as high hydrogen storage density (7.6wt%) and high operational safety. However, their high energy consumption in the dehydrogenation processes makes them less economical in practical scenarios. Therefore, this project will focus on synergistic integration and efficient operation of thermochemical energy storage-assisted MgH2-based solid hydrogen storage (TCES-MgH2) system to enhance energy efficiency in the hydrogen supply chain and reduce hydrogen storage costs. This project will combine mechanism analysis, numerical simulation and experimental research to select the most suitable TCES material to assist magnesium hydrides in absorbing and releasing hydrogen. It will use long short-term memory neural networks, heuristic algorithms, and model predictive control to optimize heat transfer structures and control strategies of the hydrogen storage system, achieving rapid heat transfer and efficient hydrogen desorption/absorption. Additionally, it will assessment the large-scall deployment potential of the TCES-MgH2 system by machine learning. The outcomes of this research will provide pivotal technologies for fostering a renewable energy society, driving energy structure transformation, and facilitating widespread adoption of hydrogen energy.

Keywords: magnesium hydrides based solid state hydrogen storage,thermochemical energy storage,synergistic integration,model predictive control,machine learning
Waste Heat to Energy (WH2E)

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
Call: EIC Transition Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 47.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2636625.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To cope with the growing global energy consumption and sustainable development scenarios, Waste Heat Recovery is an efficient, green and economic solution to help highly demanding industries save valuable energy. However, while low grade waste heat (<100°) constitutes the largest source of heat with an annual 3700Mtoe, corresponding to 63% of the total recoverable heat, it has not been widely exploited yet due to technical and economical difficulties. Only valorisation of high and medium grade in the form of electricity is largely deployed at industrial scale. In the WH2E project, Sweetch Energy is proposing an innovative way to convert low grade waste heat into electric power. To do so, two major steps will be necessary: the conversion of temperature gradient into salinity gradient using thermo-sensible ionic liquids, coupled with an osmotic engine (INOD) to generate electric power as final output. The INOD (Ionic Nano Osmotic Diffusion) technology, developped by Sweetch Energy, is based on the most advanced nanotechnologies and specific membrane design. At the end of the project, a testing phase in partnership with an international industrial corporation will allow to reach a TRL6 and secure the market readiness. Sweetch Energy is targeting first the industrial sector and ambitions to become a global leader in the decarbonized electricity sector. The project is supported by Veolia and Solvay.

Keywords: osmotic energy low grade waste heat salinity gradients renewable energy
Cyclic nucleotides as second messengers in plants (CYNIPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499706.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499706.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Multicellularity in plants and animals arose independently, as reflected in dramatically different signalling mechanism make-ups. Intracellular signalling’s central paradigm in animals is the concept of ‘second messengers’- most prominently cAMP and cGMP. Contrastingly, in plants, cAMP/cGMP are not part of mainstream ideas on signalling. Our recent, unexpected identification of cAMP and cGMP acting in the canonical signalling for the phytohormone auxin inspired a paradigm-shifting hypothesis that cAMP and cGMP act as largely unappreciated versatile second messengers in multiple plant signalling pathways. This would dramatically expand the modes of plant intracellular signalling, opening possibilities for additional regulations and crosstalks. It would also provide a new means of targeted engineering of signalling outputs, highly relevant for plant biotechnology. To systematically explore this radical hypothesis, I propose to generate (opto)genetic tools to (i) monitor and (ii) specifically manipulate cellular cAMP/GMP levels. Our vRootchip microfluidics set-up allows us to (iii) survey the plant signalling landscape and identify pathways involving cAMP/GMP further supported by (iv) identification of thus-far elusive cAMP/cGMP targets. As a blueprint for the use of the generated tools and knowledge, we plan (v) to elucidate the role of cGMP in phytohormone jasmonate signalling. Together, these approaches will establish cAMP/cGMP as bona fide second messengers in plants. We provide a rich resource to investigate their involvement in any chosen signalling mechanism or cellular response, while offering tools to manipulate their signalling output for both fundamental discoveries and targeted applications. This strategy poses considerable intellectual and methodological challenges, but our robust initial results, including functionality of cAMP/cGMP sensors, show a conceptual breakthrough is feasible, dramatically expanding our current view on plant signalling and beyond.

Keywords: phytohormones,plant signalling,second messengers,camp,cgmp,fluorescent sensors,ja signalling
The first end-to-end weather foundation model for 10x better weather forecasting and climate modelling (Secondlaw AI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 818300.0
EU funding (EUR): 818300.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Secondlaw AI is developing an end-to-end, foundation model for weather forecasting and climate modelling that significantly surpasses the skill-level of existing models. By training a multimodal AI model on over 50 years of earth observation data, we overcome the limitations of traditional physics-based methods. Our approach enhances forecast accuracy by at least 50%, provides updates every 5–10 minutes instead of every 6 hours, extends the forecasting range to 30 days from 15 days, and operates efficiently on consumer-grade GPUs, lowering the cost 10Kx. Initial pilots demonstrated up to 37% improvement in accuracy and a 15% increase in range. This technology enables greater integration of renewable energy sources into the EU/UK energy grid, reducing reliance on fossil fuels for grid balancing, decreasing carbon emissions, and advancing the EU Green Deal's Net-Zero targets by 2030. Our vision is to become the foundational weather and climate AI model provider in the EU/UK, with applications extending beyond energy to agriculture, insurance, aviation, and defense––unlocking multi-billion dollar efficiency gains. By enhancing renewable energy integration to the grid, our project directly addresses the EIC Challenge to scale-up EU RES. EIC Accelerator grant funding is crucial for commercializing our groundbreaking technology; we require patient capital to develop our proof of concept into a market-ready product, ultimately accelerating the EU's transition towards a sustainable and sovereign energy future.

Keywords: ai,weather forecasting,res integration,foundation models,climate modelling
Accelerating PROteins innoVAtors beyond reguLatory Sandboxes (APROVALS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Belgium,Ireland,Netherlands,Sweden,Finland
Call: Stimulating Experimentation Practices (HORIZON-EIE-2023-CONNECT-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1008950.48
EU funding (EUR): 1008950.48
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

In the coming decades, society faces the formidable challenge of providing sustenance for a global population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050. Fortunately, the burgeoning field of biotechnology holds significant promise in addressing this challenge by revolutionizing food production. The central aim of this proposal is to pave the way for the widespread adoption of an innovative technology known as cellular agriculture, which is poised to play a pivotal role in facilitating the global protein transition. Cellular agriculture, in essence, represents a breakthrough methodology for producing a spectrum of sustainable food products. Lead by 8 organisations from 7 countries, representing the innovation ecosystem, APROVALS aims to facilitate the seamless integration of emerging cellular agriculture technologies into the global food landscape, through two main activities: - Sandbox for Innovation: APROVALS offers a dedicated sandbox environment where innovators can test and refine their solutions. This sandbox acts as a fertile ground for experimentation, enabling startups and SMEs to develop their technologies and bring them to market. - Interconnected Stakeholders: The project places a strong emphasis on fostering collaboration among key stakeholders involved in cellular agriculture: 1) Start-ups and Growing SMEs: These enterprises are provided with essential support to advance their technologies and successfully navigate the journey from innovation to market. 2) Innovation Support: Tailored support initiatives are crafted to mitigate risks associated with the innovation process, fostering a conducive ecosystem for cellular agriculture innovation. 3) Regulators and Policymakers: APROVALS actively engages with regulators and policymakers to establish robust protocols and a legal framework. This framework serves to safeguard the market and consumers while simultaneously preventing unwarranted regulatory hurdles that could impede progress in cellular agriculture.

Keywords: protein transition,cellular agriculture,sandbox,food environment improvement,scaling innovation,business support,disruptive innovation