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Retrofitting of fishing fleets with low payback time and easy to deploy solutions for footprint and GHG emissions reduction (REFEST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Lithuania,Spain,Sweden,Poland,France,Germany,Italy,Türkiye,Denmark,Norway
Call: Lighthouse in the Baltic and the North Sea basins - Lighthouse in the Baltic and the North Sea basins - Green and energy-efficient small-scale fishing fleets (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5064937.5
EU funding (EUR): 3999185.26
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

REFEST is focused on the most promising scalable technologies with low CAPEX, easy to deploy and suitable to be installed in a broad range of traditional fishing ships to provide hydrodynamics, electrical power management, alternative propellers, solar electricity generation and propulsion (batteries), sensoring and digitalization, hull appendages and air lubrication. REFEST aims to achieve TRL6 – procedures and technologies to secure the reduction of fuel consumption and GHG emissions up to 40% reduction compared to the original design. The solutions proposed will be designed to ready to deploy in a broad range of small fishing vessels and they are characterized by a low CAPEX and OPEX requirements to significantly reduce the payback time). Ensuring upscaling of the proposed solutions after project implementation till 2029. The main innovations are summarized as follow: i) Innovative design by the use bulbs and spray rails that allow to improve hull hydrodynamics, to minimize the water friction and reduce external and underwater noise, ii)Recyclable thermoplastic composites for maritime applications, iii) Air lubrication systems, iv) Integration of multi-functional optical fibre sensors for hull fishing ships monitoring, v) Propulsion systems based on RIM drive solutions and its hybridization with current diesel engines, vi) Battery pack optimized to be used under cold weathers and with high percentage of reusable/recyclable components, vii) BMS, EMS, and PMS to maximize the energy consumption in the vessel, viii) Cloud-based Eco-driving software and ix) Low-weight and flexible silicon PV panels. viii) Three retrofit demo traditional fishing ships in North Sea (Denmark & Norway) and Baltic Sea (Lithuania).

Keywords: battery management system,power management system,air lubrication system,green house gases,hull appendages,computational fluid dynamics,marine biodiversity
Next generation data-driven reference European models and methods towards silent and green aircraft operations around airports (NEEDED)

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
Countries involved: Austria,Belgium,Italy,Sweden,Netherlands,France,Spain,Switzerland,Cyprus
Call: Towards a silent and ultra-low local air pollution aircraft (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4416344.75
EU funding (EUR): 3936271.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

NEEDED responds to the second and third bullets of the “expected outcome” of the HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01-12 topic, delivering the next generation data-driven reference European models and methods to estimate present and future aircraft emissions (pollutants and noise), achieving TRL 4 at the end of the project. To do so, NEEDED will advance the state of the art by: • improving the accuracy of the reconstruction of aircraft operations by using real-world ADS-B data, • advancing emission inventories for current and future aircraft technologies, while delivering more accurate pollution dispersion models, • extending the applicability of the ECAC Doc 29 noise model towards future aircraft technologies, • performing more accurate estimation of the number of people affected by local air transport operations by using dynamic population maps. These activities are complemented by (i) local air quality (LAQ) and experimental noise measurements performed at Rotterdam Airport, (ii) validation of the NEEDED toolchain in a 30-week pilot study involving three airports, and (iii) delivery of a methodology to optimise the flight patterns for minimum detrimental impact on the population in present and future scenarios. The project aims to function as a technology enabler, laying the methodological groundwork for facilitating the entry into service of transformative aircraft technologies while capitalising on the potential of ADS-B data. NEEDED ensures its impact on the next generation of Air Traffic Management (ATM) regulation and policies through the direct involvement of EUROCONTROL.

Keywords: local air quality,aircraft noise modelling,ecac doc 29,ads b data,airport emission inventories,air traffic management,dynamic population maps,aircraft emissions,future air operations
INTELLIGENT SUITE FOR LOCAL AND NETWORK DEMAND AND CAPACITY BALANCING (ISLAND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Sweden,Portugal,Denmark,France,Italy,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Austria,Croatia,Ireland
Call: Industrial Research & Validation for Capacity-on-Demand and Dynamic Airspace (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 21449959.62
EU funding (EUR): 7842112.48
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The Project encompasses the industrial research aimed to timely and efficiently create and use airspace capacity, in combination with targeted, effective demand and/or capacity measures. As such, it will focus on advanced levels of dynamic airspace configuration, Leveraging different virtualization models, digital INAP applications as well as Network-wide monitoring, all with high levels of automation. The project addresses the R&I need for on-demand air traffic services reflective of traffic demand, and the continuity of ATM service despite disruption. The project exploits the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, to supply a variety of supporting toolsets to ATM stakeholders that enable rapid exploration of options for the deployment of capacity-on-demand solutions, whenever and wherever required. The benefits include increased en-route capacity and improved cost-efficiency of ATS provision, without compromising the current safety levels.

Keywords: capacity,airspace management,virtualization
International Platform on Obstetric Violence (IPOV): an innovative tool for a respectful maternity and childbirth care (IPOV-RESPECTFUL CARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,France,Argentina,Costa Rica,Uruguay,United Kingdom,Norway,Portugal
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 584200.0
EU funding (EUR): 570400.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Over-medicalisation and disrespect in maternity and childbirth care have been identified by international research as an urgent global public health topic (WHO 2014, Simonovic 2019, Council of Europe 2019). The IPOV-RESPECTFUL CARE project intends to bring attention to obstetric violence and respectful maternity and childbirth care by implementing a concrete tool—the International Platform on Obstetric Violence—to bridge academic research and public policy, training for health professionals, women’s perspectives and public engagement on the matter. The Platform will be an innovative, international, interdisciplinary, intersectoral and cross-cultural digital and interactive tool for producing, sharing and transferring knowledge, systematising and exchanging good practices, acquiring skills and planning gender -based innovative training packages on respectful maternity and childbirth care among health professionals, health training managers, decision makers, researchers, women and all of society. To achieve these goals, a network of 39 breakthrough experts, from 19 participating organisations and 9 countries (universities, research centres, civil organisations and health maternity care institutions) will be established.

Keywords: obstetric violence,gender violence,reproductive rights,human rights in childbirth
Exploring trichome development on tomato surface for natural insect resistance : Molecular characterization of a Lipid Transfer protein (TriDeTo)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Insects like whitefly are virus-vectors causing substantial crop losses worldwide. They gain resistance to current commercially available pesticides, which are harmful to the environment. Therefore, there is a clear need to integrate sustainable alternatives in crop protection. Wild tomato species have the capacity to defend themselves by producing a wide variety of natural defense compounds that have a toxic or repellent effect inside trichomes. Glandular trichomes are hair-like structures on the surface of green tissues of tomato for the synthesis and storage of specialized metabolites that exhibit insecticidal properties. From the site of synthesis in the plastid and cytosol these natural insecticidal metabolites need to pass barriers including the cell wall and cuticle, to be accumulated in a dedicated storage compartment. Contrary to the current understanding of insecticidal metabolite biosynthesis, little is known about the development and composition of these glandular trichomes though it appears to differ between cultivated and wild tomato. Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are known to transfer hydrophobic molecules (lipids) between membranes in plants. I hypothesize that a specific tomato LTP gene affects the formation of trichomes through binding of fatty acids and transport of lipids in the cuticle. I aim to study and discover the molecular mechanisms associated with the role of LTPs in trichome development and gland constitution characterizing LTP mutants (knockout and gland specific overexpression lines). I will study these mutants in detail at the metabolome, proteome and lipidome level, as well as compare them to a number of wild accessions. In the future this research would have implications in development of insect resistant cultivated tomato cultivars. This proposal will help me become an independent researcher, combining my background in plant biochemistry with knowledge on molecular biology.

Keywords: tomato,trichome,natural insecticide,ltp2 protein,cuticle
The role of silica in the dawn of life on our planet (PROTOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Spain,Netherlands
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2023-SyG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2030-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9996000.0
EU funding (EUR): 9996000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

All information humankind has of the ancient past of our planet comes from analyzing the geological record encoded in rocks. There is, however, no rock record of the first 600 million years of Earth’s history. Unlocking the secrets of this earliest period –the Hadean– is a fundamental task for science, as it is key to understanding how the planet became habitable, when the first forms of metabolism and self-replication developed, and life appeared. The lack of a geological record has led scientists to use computational modeling to make inferences about the conditions in Early Earth’s environments. Less common are laboratory experiments specifically targeted to simulating Hadean conditions. Based on ubiquitous carbonaceous chert deposits in the oldest rock record, it is widely accepted that many early Archean aquatic settings were reducing and rich in silica and some basic carbon-based molecules. We reason that such aquatic conditions were already established during the early Hadean, and inevitably led to the existence of a large-scale factory of simple and complex organic compounds, many of them relevant to prebiotic chemistry and to the route to biomimetic hybrid microstructures able to self-organize and catalyze prebiotic reactions relevant to the origin of life. Our project is aimed at understanding the crucial role of silica in directing the geochemical and protobiological processes, creating habitats for early life, and preserving early biomass on Earth’s surface during the first billion years of its history. PROTOS will use an array of laboratory experiments (the Hadean Simulator) to systematically study ab-initio reactions of water and gases with the earliest rock types in order to determine compositions of aquatic habitats and subsequent silica precipitation mechanisms, organic synthesis processes on silica/iron surfaces, and the preservation of the first remnants of life. PROTOS will change our view of the infancy of the planet.

Keywords: hadean,early earth,mineral self organization,serpentinization,silica,self organization,prebiotic,chemistry,life detection,origin of life
Digging Deep: An Underground Plant Trait Perspective on Diversity-Disease Relationships (DIGDEEP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2029-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Plant species diversity is often associated with reduced disease risk. Yet, the scientific literature on diversity-disease relationships is unclear, showing conflicting relationships. This conflict highlights a major knowledge gap in our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning the diversity-disease relationships. Overcoming this gap is essential for transforming agricultural systems from monocultures that are sensitive to disease outbreaks to diverse cropping systems that are intrinsically resilient to pathogens. I aim to significantly advance our understanding of diversity-disease relationships in plants. I will transform our knowledge on belowground plant-pathogen interactions by integrating three advances from animal epidemiology. 1 Host quality Diversity in epidemiological traits has proven key to understanding disease dynamics in animals. I will systematically quantify such variation in plants and their consequences for disease risk. 2 Pathogen protection Microbes can protect animals from pathogen infection. I will investigate the role of symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in belowground pathogen protection in diverse plant communities. 3 Contact networks Pathogen transmission ultimately depends on contacts within the community. Plants are obviously sessile, but their root systems are not. By navigating the soil, they may interact with different neighbouring plants. I will examine how the nature of these root contact networks affects disease risk. I propose that plant traits are a bridging link between these epidemiological advances. I will use experimental and modelling approaches with a range of grassland species and three soil-borne fungal pathogens. I aim to transform our understanding of belowground plant-pathogen interactions in biodiverse systems with multiple pathogens, stimulate crossovers with phytopathology and animal epidemiology, and provide a knowledge base to design agricultural systems that are intrinsically resilient to pathogens.

Keywords: biodiversity,roots,fungal pathogens,mycorrhizal fungi,belowground interactions,disease dynamics,epidemiology
Presidency Conference on the Future of Life Sciences (SWElifesci)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Other health destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Presidency event - Sweden. Life sciences: The era of precision medicine (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-PSWE-09-IBA, 2023)
Start date: 2023-02-15
End date: 2023-10-14
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 300000.0
EU funding (EUR): 300000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

On the first of January 2023, Sweden took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. One prioritised area for Sweden and the EU that will be addressed is the future of life sciences, and more specifically the implementation of precision health. To this end, a presidency conference will be held in Stockholm on this topic on 26-27 June 2023. The conference is hosted by the Swedish Government and the objective is to provide a forum for knowledge exchange on how to utilize the opportunities that precision health brings in modernizing our healthcare. The purpose of the conference is to inspire change and to identify needs for continued development of precision health through research and innovation. The conference is also a means of creating conditions for fruitful collaborations within the European union. Four Government agencies with expertise in regulatory affairs, eHealth, ethical approval and innovation, respectively are engaged in preparing and hosting specific parts of the conference programme. The main theme of the conference is precision health – opportunities and challenges ahead. Specific areas that will be addressed are data-driven implementation, ethics, precision prevention and regulatory procedures. Patient participation as well as sustainability will be transversal perspectives throughout the programme. The conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Karolinska Institutet, one of EUs top ranked medical universities. Karolinska Institutet is situated in the heart of the new life sciences district which also includes one of EUs top ranked hospitals, an increasing number of headquarters and R&D facilities of big and small life science industries, major national research infrastructures and more.
Collective Dynamics of Sleep (CO-SLEEP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2912102.0
EU funding (EUR): 2912102.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sleep is a biological imperative for all animals: insufficient sleep can have detrimental effects on individuals’ health, cognition, social functioning and overall fitness. Even among gregarious species, sleep has largely been studied in lone individuals in laboratory settings, divorced from relevant socio-ecological context, limiting our ability to understand how social environments shape, and are shaped by, the sleep patterns of their members. My goal is to bring the study of sleep into the collective context, understand how social processes structure the sleep patterns of individuals, groups and populations, and test how gregarious animals navigate the opportunities and constraints imposed by sleeping as part of a group. To do this, I will integrate cutting-edge technologies with traditional field-observation methods to measure and model the collective dynamics of sleep among wild baboons. To continuously monitor movement, position, and sleep of baboons at the individual, group, and population levels, I will use GPS and accelerometry tracking of members of 30 troops of wild baboons. This will be combined with 3-D laser scanning of the physical sleep environment, overnight thermal videography, sleep-disruption field experiments, focal sampling of social behaviors, and advanced computational modeling to shed light on how differentiated and multi-faceted social relationships shape individual and collective sleep decisions, and how these decisions, in turn, shape the overall social dynamics of groups. This ground-breaking project will be the first to measure the collective sleep behavior of animal groups in a socially and ecologically relevant context. As such, it has the potential to shed wholly new light on social and ecological trade-offs that gregarious species – like our own – must balance to satisfy the biological imperative of sleep.

Keywords: sleep,collective behavior,sociality,behavioral ecology,primates