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Biodiversity, Local Knowledge and Zoonoses in Austronesia: Ethnography of Bats and Related Interspecific Communities (Interspecific)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495644.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495644.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed research lies at the juncture of the anthropology of nature, the cultures of Austronesia and the study of interspecific relationships. Considering that a fundamental link exists between biodiversity and the health of individuals, populations, species and ecosystems, and that microbes, bacteria and viruses are key to the evolution of civilisations and living beings, we will address two questions: 1) In a world going through a livestock revolution, to what extent can local and scientific knowledge jointly inspire efforts to preserve biodiversity and biosafety, and rebuild sustainable relationships with living beings? 2) To what extent and on what conditions can humans have contact with bats and coexist with them (and other animals incriminated in the spread of zoonoses, either as reservoirs or as intermediate hosts)? Conversely, at what point do these species endanger human communities? We wish to answer those questions through research within several indigenous groups who have lived for millennia in contact with such animals. Specifically, we will conduct ethnographic research at several sites across the large cultural and linguistic region of Austronesia (which coincides with the range of flying foxes, also known as fruit bats) to see how different interspecific communities interact and how narratives of vulnerability and immunity operate. The project aim is to document and understand how certain peoples maintain relationships with bats and see them and their worlds (in the sense used by the biologist von Uexküll), and the extent to which such knowledge helps them live safely with these animals. The general hypothesis is as follows. Knowing that fruit bats are one of the links in the transmission of zoonotic diseases to humans and also a part of the ecosystem used for food and trade, we hypothesise that local practices have led people to maximise use of this resource while developing measures to prevent epidemics.

Keywords: bats,interspecific relationships,human animal relationships,zoonoses,biosafety,wet markets,austronesia,indigenous groups,local knowledge,ontologies,health,illegal trade,ethnography,comparative perspective
Polymer Informatics Tools for Sustainable 3D printing (PITS3D)

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: Spain,Greece
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 137760.8
EU funding (EUR): 137760.8
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Polymer informatics supports sustainable development goals by implementing versatile computational tools which allow users to move the polymer design from the laboratory to the digital world. To connect the links between the structure, properties and performance of the polymer materials, many pieces of puzzle need to be collected over a wide range of time and length scales, starting from the quantum and progressing hierarchically towards continuous methods. Due to their relative novelty, systematic bottom-up approaches for biodegradable polymers are in short supply. Owing to their rich structure stemming from the natural origin, they need to be simulated with a great detail, what leads to an increased computational complexity and researchers’ frustration. Consequently, the computational studies struggle to keep pace with the emerging applications and technologies such as additive manufacturing. PITS3D project aims to speed up the progress in the field by proposing a systematic bottom-up study of two biodegradable polymers widely used in 3D printing techniques. The atomistic description of the local processes of the selected samples represents the first pillar of the approach. In the second stage, the computational study is extended to longer time and length scales, while going beyond the state-of-the-art by mimicking the characteristics of commercially-produced biodegradable polymers. By providing the simulation input files as open-source starting packs, PITS3D aims to encourage the further development of these computational tools. Another objective is to bridge a gap between the theoretically studied systems and those used for the 3D printing, by establishing an iterative passage of properties between the computational and experimental techniques. The combination of both approaches optimizes the use of resources, providing economic and ecological benefits and represents a unique training opportunity for the fellow as well as for the students of the host institute.

Keywords: biodegradable polymers,molecular dynamics simulations,rheology,additive manufacturing
WET SEMI, next-generation point-of-use nanopure water system for next-generation semiconductors (WET SEMI)

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

The semiconductor industry shapes the world around us. Its products are used in everything from smartphones to computers to medical equipment. With technological advances, the demand for semiconductors is only set to increase. However, their manufacturing requires vast amounts of water consumption, mainly to produce ultrapure water, needed for the semiconductor manufacturing process itself, when in fact the biggest semiconductor producers in the world are located in regions undergoing increasing water stress. In this scenario, finding a solution to generate the highest purity possible water while decreasing the amounts needed to cover the semiconductor production water requirements is becoming critical for semiconductor manufacturers to be able to cope with climate change and water shortage. At NSS Water we have developed and patented WET (Water Enhancement Tool), a machine and method to produce Nanopure® water, the purest water free of the smallest killer particles (no particles above 5nm). The foundation of our technology is membrane distillation where we have added our unique and patented process technology. Based on this technology, we are now developing WET SEMI, a point-of-use solution that provides semiconductor manufacturers with a system able to produce extreme high-purity water on-site and on demand. WET SEMI will allow them to become more efficient in terms of increased yield and water usage (90% less water needed). WET SEMI is at TRL 5 and we now seek EIC support to develop, test, and verify it for the semiconductor manufacturing industry, gain market share quickly, and keep a first mover advantage. We are ready with an expert team and key partnerships in place. Our project will contribute to the objectives of the European Chips Act by developing a key semiconductor technology in Europe. With the help of the EIC, NSS Water will accelerate the world’s transition to more sustainable semiconductor manufacturing for a greener future and better future.

Keywords: nano pure water,extreme purity water,nano contamination,point of use solution,semiconductor manufacturing,yield enhancement,semiconductor industry,water shortage
Sustainable Wellbeing through Investment in Social Services (SWINS)

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 Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Norway,Belgium,Italy,Serbia,Hungary,Germany,Spain
Call: Social services: economic and social returns and value added (HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2974705.0
EU funding (EUR): 2974705.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

SWINS will develop and test a policy-oriented toolbox for the ex-ante assessment of the economic and social returns of investments in social services over the life course. Focusing on the complementarity of services aimed at developing human capabilities throughout the lifespan, it will explore the impacts of alternative social policy scenarios entailing different social services configurations (from maternal care and ECEC, to education and ALMP, up to long-term care). SWINS will conceptualize the returns to social services in terms of income, employment, and growth, as well as bridge knowledge gaps about how these investments influence macroeconomic stability and foster the EU sustainability transition performances. By implementing a right-based social investment approach, SWINS aims to support the rethinking of social services as drivers of the EU’s shift towards sustainable wellbeing, going beyond their role as mere safeguards against the transition’s side effects. SWINS methodology will be based on three main steps: 1) the identification of macro-regularities, that is the relation between investment in social services and aggregate social-economic performances, 2) analysis of the micro-foundations, that is the analysis of the micro-level mechanisms that explains the macro-regularities, 3) macro and long term projection of the results. SWINS will rely on a variety of methodologies, i.e. microsimulation analysis using the EUROMOD platform and its expansions, synthetic panels, causal analysis of comparative microdata, machine learning techniques and macroeconomic agent-based models. Leveraging the expertise of a multi-disciplinary (law, economics, sociology, political science) consortium, SWINS will explicitly pursue impact by proposing concrete strategies to integrate research findings and tools into the institutional, legal and policy frameworks.

Keywords: sustainable wellbeing,social investment,eco social services,microsimulations,agent based model,sustainable human development
Stressonika: Advanced VR technology designed to prevent chronic stress and burnout, enhancing the mental health of employees in corporate environments. (Stressonika)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Workplace stress is a pervasive challenge impacting employee well-being and organizational performance globally. Companies have become places of high stress and burden for their employees often leading to a decline in productivity and an increase in mental disorders among the employees. Current detection methods often fail to provide timely and accurate assessments of stress and burnout, resulting in ineffective support systems within companies. There is an absence of objectivity in the analysis tools that cannot detect the diverse sources of stress. There are additional issues of privacy and resource constraints within organizations that make stress detection difficult. To bridge this gap, CleverPoint introduces Stressonika, an innovative stress management platform that integrates virtual reality (VR) with advanced physiological monitoring technologies. Stressonika solves the unaddressed need for precise and objective stress assessment by utilizing EEG and ECG data collected via proprietary wearables during immersive VR sessions. This approach captures comprehensive neurological and cardiovascular responses, offering real-time insights into employees' mental states. By eliminating subjective biases inherent in traditional methods, Stressonika enables proactive intervention strategies tailored to individual needs, thereby enhancing cognitive function and overall well-being. Our solution offers Complete objectivity in monitoring, resource efficiency, enhanced employee well-being, and intra-team adaption and onboarding. Under the EIC project, we plan to transition Stressonika into a scalable web-based platform to improve accessibility and data security. This initiative encompasses the development of AI algorithms to refine psychophysiological assessments and innovate stress evaluation methodologies. Additionally, we will also expand our business operations through a dedicated sales team in Europe and the rest of the globe.

Keywords: cognitive study,psychology,eeg,ecg,corporate stress,mental wellbeing,health
COMPACT AND PROPELLANT-LESS ELECTRODYNAMIC TETHER SYSTEM BASED ON IN-SPACE SOLAR ENERGY (E.T.COMPACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Austria
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: In-space solar energy harvesting for innovative space applications (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3972890.0
EU funding (EUR): 3972890.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

E.T.COMPACT is aimed at reaching technology readiness level four for three in-space technologies on the domain of solar energy harvesting and green propulsion. The first technology, a thin film 2-terminal tandem CIGS/Perovskite module with efficiency larger than 15% and a power-per-weight ratio larger than 50W/kg, is called to reduce the cost of in-space solar panels. The second technology is a miniaturized (target volume 3U) green-propulsion mobility module device based on an electrodynamic tether. Designed to have tether reel-in/reel-out capability and equipped with a field emission cathode, the mobility module can use the harvested in-space solar energy to produce propulsion (both thrust and drag) without using propellant nor expellant. For the mobility module, and the satellite platform to host it, research on ultralight structures based on 3D printed compliant polymeric techniques is conducted. Besides mass reduction, the goal is to integrate compliance mechanisms for both tether deployment and thin-film solar panel unfolding. The third technology, which combines the experience and knowledge of the consortium on photovoltaic and tether technologies, is a novel bare-photovoltaic tether that uses the metallic tape tether for both electron collection and as the back contact of tandem CIGS/Perovskite modules. It integrates in a single device solar energy harvesting and propellant-less propulsion. Project impact is enhanced by activities on market analysis, unit mass production, and early commercialization, solidly supported by simulation work to assess the use of these technologies in the field of post mission disposal, active debris removal, in-orbit servicing and space tugs.

Keywords: space debris,green propulsion,thin film solar cells,electrodynamic tethers,cigs cells,perovskite cells
Mechanism of Sugar Transporters involved in Human Health and Disease (MEMSUGAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

From molds to mammals, glucose is the most important fuel for life on earth. The rate-limiting step for the utilization of glucose is its uptake into cells. Mammals have fourteen different sugar transporters belonging to the SLC2A family, referred to as GLUTs. GLUT1-14 transporters have varied tissue expression and kinetics, and their activities must be synchronized and regulated for the appropriate whole-organism-wide distribution of glucose and other sugars. Even at the most basic level, we still do not know the physiological substrates for a number of GLUT isoforms and if, or how, some members use proton-gradients to energize transport. Although GLUT transport activity is thought to be regulated through the binding of accessory factors, e.g., thioredoxin-interacting protein, we still have no molecular details for such interactions of high medical importance. Moreover, a major determinant of insulin resistance leading to type-2-diabetes is the impairment of insulin-stimulated GLUT4 trafficking. Despite extensive investigation, we still do not know what GLUT4 storage vesicles (GSVs) look like at the molecular level and how their composition changes in insulin resistance. Here, we will combine state-of-the-art methods to establish the physiological substrates for all GLUTs and develop tool compounds specific to each GLUT isoform to aid structural studies and for better assessing their contribution to metabolic reprogramming in cancer. We will combine NMR with cryo EM structures and computational and biochemical approaches to establish how protein dynamics dictates substrate specificity and proton coupling. We will resolve native-like structures of GLUT transporters directly from membranes and image GSVs using in situ cryo EM to build transport models beyond the individual transporters. By uncovering novel insight into a fundamental mechanism for life we will aid the development of drugs targeting GLUTs and other SLC transporters in general.

Keywords: diabetes,cryo et,glut4
Microwave Squeezing with Superconducting (meta)materials (MiSS)

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: Italy,France,Finland,United States
Call: Next generation quantum sensing and metrology technologies (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2582102.5
EU funding (EUR): 2582102.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The MiSS project targets transformative progress in the emerging field of distributed quantum sensing exploiting multi-mode microwave squeezing. The final goal is to realise a robust and scalable technology for microwave squeezing and generation of non-classical microwave radiation based on superconducting (meta)materials. The three specific objectives of the MiSS project are: 1) Technological innovation, investigating new material and scalable microfabrication approaches to optimise the building blocks to produce Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifiers-based squeezers; 2) Metrology protocols, developing dedicated cryogenic measurement protocols to accurately evaluate the radiation quantumness, opening the way to standardisation; 3) Realisation of a prototype for real world applications, developing a system with scalability potential for distributed quantum sensing in the microwave regime. A use-case dedicated to multi-parameter sensing for material characterisation will be targeted. The outcomes of this project will pave the way towards real exploitation of quantum-enhanced sensing techniques in the microwave regime. The MiSS consortium brings together a unique set of expertise in design, materials, metrology, fabrication, cryogenic characterisation and commercialisation to be able to deliver on this ambitious goal.

Keywords: superconducting quantum technologies,microwave squeezing,travelling wave parametric amplifiers
Advancing electrocatalytic performance through tailored surface reconstruction (ECATSURF)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 232916.16
EU funding (EUR): 232916.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ECATSURF aims to develop efficient electrodes with superior performance towards oxygen electrocatalysis. Surface reconstruction, a key phenomenon to oxygen electrocatalysis, will be experimentally probed using the expertise from three participating institutes in Eindhoven, Berlin and Erlangen. This project will focus on design of transition metal silicates (TMS) using Co, Fe, Ni, and Mo which are low cost and promising materials for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The highly efficient TMS electrocatalysts will be prepared using a two-step method involving advanced deposition technique and wet chemical route. The novelty of the project is development of TMS on highly conducting metallic substrates. The oxide precursors for TMS will be deposited as thin films on variety of Ni substrates using pulsed laser deposition. Surface reconstruction of OER and ORR will be supported by the removal of non-redox silicate ions from the electrocatalyst under alkaline conditions. This will effectively boost the interaction of electrolytes to the redox active centers leading to enhanced catalysis. The real-time monitoring of the surface reconstruction is still a challenge to determine the mechanism via reaction intermediate monitoring. Multiple operando techniques like X-ray absorption, Raman, infrared and mass spectroscopy will illuminate the kinetics of dynamic surface reconstruction pathway for this project. These reaction dynamics are key to designing improved electrocatalysts for a renewable energy transition into sustainable economy. This project involves the synergy from interdisciplinary experts in material chemistry, thin-film technology, electrochemistry, and operando spectroscopy by Dr. Bieberle, Prof. Dau and Dr. Cherevko and MSCA-PF fellow. It will equip the researcher with scientific expertise, and international training to foster leadership and project management skills augmenting her way to an independent academic career in EU.

Keywords: surface reconstruction,transition metal electrocatalysts,operando spectroscopy,pulsed laser deposition,oxygen evolution reaction