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Nanoengineering of multicomponent reversible graphene superlattices: Probing the fundamentals from the molecular level to the device scale. (MRGS-Nano-Spec.)

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: Belgium
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): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The nanoarchitecture of 2D materials is of great interest in the scientific community and is recently exploited widely to tailor its electrical, chemical, optical, and mechanical properties. Chemical and photochemical reactions are the two promising methods to anchor the functional groups on 2D materials, in which the former reaction induces large-scale modification while the latter introduces spatially localized defects (sub-micron precision). Indeed, the precise control over the covalent functionalization of 2D materials at the molecular level still remains a challenging task due to the lack of molecular identity, spatial distribution, and density at the molecular level. In this proposal, a novel multicomponent reversible graphene superlattice consisting of both covalent and non-covalent bound moieties will be constructed with the aid of nano spectroscopy techniques such as TERS and nanoIR. The customized modulation of electrical and optical properties of the superlattice by exploiting the molecular switching events through external stimuli will enable the fabrication of multifunctional graphene substrates. The nano-spectroscopy techniques together with state-of-the-art surface analyzing techniques (AFM, STM, KPFM) permit real-time nanoscale chemical mapping and molecular visualization on the graphene layer. Furthermore, the synergy between STM/AFM imaging and time-resolved optical spectroscopy will be employed in this project in order to resolve the real-time ensembled dynamics of photoisomerization and the associated self-assembly of the photochromic molecules on the graphene layer. The sub-nanoscale molecular information will facilitate precise Fermi-level engineering. Finally, the feasibility of devising new flexible and transparent field-effect transistors (FET) devices using the newly architect graphene superlattices will be scrutinized.

Keywords: graphene superlattices,covalent functionalization,van der waal interaction,selfassembly,nanospectroscopy,time resolved spectroscopy,photochromic molecules
The Ethics of Empty Beliefs: Chinese Buddhist Philosophy in the ‘Period of Disunity’ (CHINBUDDHPHIL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499558.75
EU funding (EUR): 1499558.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Is it ethical to believe? CHINBUDDHPHIL will explore this basic yet troubling question by reconstructing what is a hitherto largely unstudied yet highly original philosophical conception of how belief relates to ethical action. Substantively, this project will constitute a major contribution to the historical and systematic study of Chinese Buddhist philosophy. It will accomplish this end through specialist research on the unduly neglected Sanlun school: A foundationally important movement active during a seminal period in the epochally transformative history of Buddhism in China. This will be the first comprehensive elaboration of Sanlun philosophy in any Western language. By placing Sanlun into debate with its Indian antecedents, later elaborations within Chinese Buddhism, and analogues in Western philosophy, this project will also forge multiple disciplinary innovations. Thus, within philosophy it will transform our understanding of philosophically valuable traditions by demonstrating that Chinese Buddhist philosophers merit consideration not only as historical artifacts but as genuinely interesting and insightful contributors to live philosophical problems. It will likewise redress the preponderant exclusion of Chinese perspectives from philosophically-oriented scholarship in Buddhist studies, and do so in a manner that bridges it with philologically-oriented Buddhology. And by investigating both the transmission of Indian Buddhist thought into China and its transformation once established there, it will revise the standard chronology of Chinese Buddhist philosophy, theorize India-China as a globalized sphere of dynamic intellectual interaction within trans-cultural Asian studies, and inform scholarship on cultural appropriation and assimilation, enculturation, and acculturation – all from a distinctly non-Eurocentric perspective. Methodologically, CHINBUDDHPHIL will use synchronic hermeneutic-philosophical as well as diachronic text-historical methods.

Keywords: buddhism buddhist studies buddhology chinese buddhist philosophy philosophy history of philosophy global philosophy philosophy of religion religion religious studies history of religion trans cultural asian studies sanlun madhyamaka ethics belief
Nanocarriers Optimization for Periocular Drug Delivery to the Retina (NanoRet)

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: Italy,Spain,Israel
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The incidence of chronic vision-impairing retinal diseases is increasing due to population ageing. Monthly intraocular injections are the standard of care, despite the important risks (e.g., infection and haemorrhage) associated with this practice. A promising alternative is the periocular injection of nanocarriers, which are able to enhance the permeability across the ocular membranes. However, as periocular administration relies on the drug transport mechanisms in the tissues to reach the target, animal tests are generally needed for a prediction of drug distribution after the injection. The researcher aims at the development of an ex vivo model of a whole porcine eye which will constitute an evaluation tool for periocular nanoformulations targeting the retina and will allow for a deep understanding of the ocular penetration paths. The project will (i) provide a safer alternative to intraocular injections, (ii) reduce the need for animal testing in the pre-clinical phase of product development and (iii) overcome the current limitations of mathematical models, which are generally unable to predict the complexity of nanoformulations transport. This MSCA will be implemented throughout 24 months at the University of Parma, and it will include two 3-months secondments: the researcher will be trained on pharmacokinetics mathematical models at the University of Navarra and on Organs-on-a-Chip models at Tel Aviv University. The selected methodology allows for a cutting-edge approach to nanoparticles design, promoting the synergistic use of chemistry tools (spectroscopy) with medicine and biology (ex vivo models, 3D imaging, cellular assays) and engineering tools (mathematical models, Organs-on-a-Chip). The competencies acquired during the project will complement the researcher’s background towards the ultimate goal of becoming an expert in the development of innovative and effective ophthalmic therapeutics, with a focus on alternative methods to animal testing.

Keywords: ocular drug delivery posterior segment diseases ex vivo models ophthalmic formulations polymeric micelles global sensitivity analysis organs on a chip colloidal systems transscleral delivery
European Doctoral Network for Neural Prostheses and Brain Research (DONUT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,Spain,Denmark,Lithuania,Slovakia,Czechia
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2611879.2
EU funding (EUR): 2611879.2
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

DONUT, European Doctoral Network for Neural Prostheses and Brain Research has the mission to provide a multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral network for young talented researchers. The ambition of the project is to serve as a springboard for the expansion of EU partners into the fast-developing Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology and connected scientific disciplines. The DN will leverage the complementary expertise of 7 academic beneficiaries and 8 associated partners from 8 EU countries, to guide its 10 doctoral candidates (DCs) to address and solve deep problems in brain research, development of different BCI applications and systems with the latest technological advancements. The proposed DN will integrate existing research in BCI systems to make it more user-friendly, suitable for different types of potential end-users and for modern medical diagnostics. The DN would also provide excellent opportunities for career development of young researchers under the umbrella of German doctorate graduate school PK NRW (Graduate School for Applied Research in North Rhine-Westphalia, with over 180 participating professors), regularly offering specialised trainings and courses including Scientific Research Writing, Academic Presentation Skills, etc. Early scientific independence is one of key goals of training programmes. It is the ambition of DONUT to build a strong and lasting network not only between the DCs but also between the participating beneficiaries and associated partners. DONUT researchers will benefit of a dense network of contacts with scientists acquired during network-wide training events, to improve their career prospects in the European and worldwide innovation sector, having the opportunity to become scientists employable in both the industrial and academic sectors. The participation of 7 industrial participants in research and training programmes will guarantee extensive inter-sectoral experience for the trainees and maximise the impact.

Keywords: brain computer interfaces bci visual evoked potentials vep steady state visual evoked potentials ssvep frequency modulated veps fveps code modulated veps cveps
High Speed Society, Slow Motion Democracy, and the Dilemma for Democratic Problem Solving (SLOMODEMO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499222.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499222.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Social acceleration – the progressively faster rate of technological, social, and life-pace change – has created a challenge for democratic problem solving. The demand for rapid and effective policy solutions is ever-increasing, while democratic politics often fails to keep up with urgent calls for intervention. We live in a high-speed society that is governed by a slow-motion democracy. This poses a fundamental dilemma for democratic problem solving: speed up decision making by circumventing democratic procedures, or hold on to slow procedures at the cost of effective problem solving. Either option could further erode public trust in liberal democracy, whose legitimacy relies on its ability to solve problems democratically and effectively. To address this challenge, SLOMODEMO advances a new theoretical and empirical research agenda to understand how and under what conditions social acceleration is negatively affecting liberal democracy’s capacity to legitimately solve problems. The project reconceptualizes liberal democracy as a problem-solving system, advances the theory and empirics of social acceleration, and offers cross-national and over-time studies of eight liberal democracies. This innovative approach enables key contributions on: - the measurement of the extent of social acceleration - social acceleration’s disruptive effects on liberal-democratic institutions and lawmaking - when and why citizens and politicians prioritize fast problem solving over democratic processes and the trade-offs they make - the strategies governments employ to cope with the dilemma for democratic problem solving and to what effect SLOMODEMO provides new theoretical and empirical knowledge and offers valuable insights for policymakers, institutions, and citizens alike, offering a path forward in solving a critical challenge for our time: how to obtain a legitimate balance between democratic procedures and effective problem solving amidst rapid change.

Keywords: social acceleration,liberal democracy,problem solving,democratic dissatisfaction
Small Animals, Private Property, and the Agricultural Revolution (AGREVOLUTION)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-08-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution marked the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture around 10,000 years ago. As humans began to cultivate crops, they could develop social organizations larger than kinship, with long-lasting consequences. Researchers from distinct disciplines have explored the causes of the Agricultural Revolution, focusing on ecological and institutional factors. This project proposes and tests an unexplored cause of this remarkable shift in mode of subsistence: the abundance of small relative to large animals, an ecological feature that may have encouraged uncooperative hunting and private property, an institutional development posited to have favored the shift to agriculture.

Keywords: inequality property rights cooperation conflict long run persistence
Global reanalysis for a forest carbon sink in flux (Tree2Globe)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Sweden,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499226.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499226.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Three trillion trees lie behind a carbon sink that has taken up about 30% of humanity’s carbon emissions over recent decades. Yet whether we can continue to rely on this huge natural subsidy is highly uncertain. The sink emerges from systematic perturbations in the dynamics of growth, death and establishment of individual trees. Taken together across the forest, these lead to the net uptake or release of carbon. Both theory and recent observations point towards profound changes in these dynamics of the world’s forests being underway, potentially causing the sink to saturate and decline. But our ability to accurately assess and quantify such on-going changes worldwide is severely limited. The reasons for this are twofold: a lack of standardised measurements of the sink and the dynamics that cause it across the world, and the difficulty of modelling the dynamics of trillions of trees. Tree2Globe solves both of these limitations, using a novel model-data assimilation approach to consistently integrate the dynamics of millions of observations of individual trees collected under disparate protocols worldwide and link together this information in space and time based on physically-consistent principles. The resulting global forest reanalysis system will (a) provide a step-change in capability to make accurate and timely assessment of the rates of tree growth, death and establishment globally and (b) quantify how these combine with the legacies of past land-use and disturbance to explain the size, location and trajectory of the global carbon sink in trees over the period 1990-2027. This will enable us to make a definitive assessment of whether hypothesised changes in forest dynamics and the resulting carbon sink are coming to pass. This unique insight into how the world’s forests and their contribution to climate change mitigation are changing will provide key information to help guide the world to meet its net zero emissions policy commitments.

Keywords: forest carbon sink forest dynamics reanalysis vegetation modelling
Scientific insights into H2 combustion under elevated pressure conditions (InsigH2T)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Switzerland,Italy,France,Belgium
Call: Improved characterisation, prediction and optimisation of flame stabilisation in high-pressure premixed hydrogen combustion at gas-turbine conditions (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4350792.39
EU funding (EUR): 3999657.39
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

InsigH2t aims to advance the current scientific understanding regarding the effect of pressure on the turbulent burning rate, thermoacoustic response, and emissions performance of premixed hydrogen flames under relevant gas-turbines operating conditions. Hydrogen, with its high diffusivity and reactivity, poses significant challenges to its clean and efficient utilisation as a fuel in gas-turbines, due to the lack of understanding of its pressure-dependent turbulent burning rate, crucial for combustion stability in gas-turbines operation. InsigH2t leverages high-pressure experimental measurements, featuring advanced optical diagnostics, coupled to cutting-edge direct numerical simulations, focusing on a selection of simple canonical flames that are paradigms of more complex industrial burner geometries and configurations. The fundamental insights gained will facilitate the development of advanced models and enhanced design tools, empowering industrial OEMs to reduce the significant development time and costs of hydrogen combustion technologies. By leveraging science-based predictive capabilities, InsigH2t aims to accelerate the deployment of clean, reliable, and efficient hydrogen-fired gas turbines. The project's impact extends beyond scientific understanding, addressing directly relevant industry challenges. Crucially, the involvement of two gas turbine OEMs ensures full alignment with the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, facilitating the swift transfer of improved combustion methodologies and understanding towards application in operational power plants. Ultimately, InsigH2t's contributions align fully with the objectives of the EU Green Deal, reducing dependency on fossil fuels and offering a tangible pathway towards a more sustainable energy future.

Keywords: combustion,high pressure,flame stability,gas turbine,thermoacoustics,decarbonisation,low emission
Hybrid protonic reactor for flexible energy conversion, storage and transmission by reversible organic electrolysis (HYPPER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,Czechia,Switzerland
Call: Emerging energy technologies for a climate neutral Europe (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498143.75
EU funding (EUR): 2498143.75
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing availability and affordability of renewable electricity are enabling the decarbonisation of many industrial sectors. A key tool is electricity storage, especially providing high-capacity, long-term storage and transportability. However, currently-proposed energy-storage technologies are either based on energy-inefficient multistage processing or require electrified units at temperatures not compatible with catalytic steps. hyPPER vision is to combine process intensification and innovative molecular catalysis to bring out ground-breaking efficient, load-flexible and scalable reactor technology that intimately integrates LOHC-based storage and proton-ceramic steam-electrolysis/fuel-cell. hyPPER will develop a compact reactor cell integrating a hybrid layered membrane and selective electrodes. Through the first-principles engineering of a proton-conducting electrolyte heterojunction, both ionic transport and electrocatalysis at LOHC-cycle operation conditions (250-400°C) will be enhanced. As a result, this compact technology will boost atomic and round-trip efficiency in energy storage potentially reaching >75% , thus cutting associated GHG emissions. Integration of the hyPPER concept in existing and emerging RE-plants and use cases will contribute to expanding the business portfolio and strengthen the sustainability and economic base of the energy sector. Up-scale viability will be analysed by considering techno- economic, regulatory, societal and sustainability criteria. Upon fabrication of the cell applying advanced thin-film methods and catalyst integration, hyPPER will validate this technology (TRL-4) in the reversible electrochemically-driven LOHC charge/discharge. The consortium counts on academic partners with the highest worldwide excellence in electroceramics, catalysis and nanofabrication of energy devices, together with leading industrial partners with exceptional expertise in sustainability and medium-temperature electrochemical cells.

Keywords: protonic conductor electrochemical reactor power to x thin film reversible organic electrolysis lohc hybrid electrolyte