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Cultivating Inclusivity in Urban Community Gardens (INCLUDE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-12
End date: 2029-01-11
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 375035.4
EU funding (EUR): 375035.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project addresses a critical and timely gap in urban sustainability by focusing on inclusivity in Urban Community Gardens (UCGs), which are increasingly vital communal spaces for social cohesion, mental and physical health, and sustainability. Despite their growing role, the inclusivity of UCGs remains under-examined, with many failing to reflect the diversity of their communities. The urgency of this research is underscored by global efforts to meet the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 11, which calls for inclusive, safe, and resilient cities. Using a mixed-methods approach that integrates qualitative and quantitative data, alongside a co-creation framework with community stakeholders, this project will develop an innovative Inclusivity Conceptual Framework, Inclusivity Evaluation Index (IEI) and an Inclusive UCG Toolkit. These tools will offer practical, evidence-based solutions for local authorities, urban planners, and policymakers to create more inclusive green spaces, address inequalities in community garden access, and align with global sustainability goals, positioning UCGs as key drivers of inclusive, equitable urban development. The project’s real-world impact will be demonstrated through an Oxford Impact Case Study, where the findings will directly inform urban planning practices and policies. The project will enhance my career development through advanced training in interdisciplinary research and international collaboration, equipping me to lead future projects and secure multinational grants as an independent academic.

Keywords: urban community gardens,inclusivity,urban planning,inclusivity evaluation index
Using mineral carriers for pheromones to apply the ecologically friendly mating disruption method for protecting crops against pests on a large scale (Micro Dispensers for sustainable plant protection)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call: EIC Accelerator Open (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2023937.5
EU funding (EUR): 1366312.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Over many years, Lithos developed and patented its Micro Dispenser Technology: A method, where specific pheromones (brand name “pherolit®”) are applied on a natural mineral as carrier. Lithos extracts and processes the high-quality mineral clinoptilolite-zeolite from its own source to optimize the unique properties in binding and releasing pheromones. For the application on the field, the pheromone of a particular pest is applied on fine-milled, treated zeolite and dispersed in water. The sprayable formulation can be used with any conventional spraying device. Using fully natural ingredients, the innovative technology provides efficient and safe plant protection. This results in a unique set of advantages for customers: - sprayable, easy to use & affordable - safe for users - slow release -> long term effect - target specific, does not affect other organisms - derived from nature, no harmful residues - pests cannot develop resistancies - suitable for conventional & organic farming
Purine sensors as novel point-of-care devices for seizures and epilepsy (ATPsensor)

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: Ireland,Germany,Korea, Republic of
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-09
End date: 2026-12-08
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Epilepsy is the most common chronic brain disease, affecting ~70 million people worldwide. Accurately diagnosing epilepsy remains a major clinical challenge due to the lack of non-invasive molecular diagnostic tools. Purinergic signalling via extracellularly released adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and its downstream purine derivatives is increasingly recognised to contribute to increased hyperexcitability states in the brain, and thus seizures. Hence, these can be potentially identified as novel promising therapeutic targets for the treatment of epilepsy but also as a source of disease-specific biomarkers. However, the diagnostic potential of purinergic signalling for epilepsy remains unclear, and current methods of detection are either unsuitable for point-of-care application or lack disease specificity. Employing a multidisciplinary approach including sensor development, testing in preclinical models of epilepsy, and testing in patients, we will develop a new, user-friendly point-of-care sensor which allows the measurement of specific purines and evaluate the diagnostic potential of blood purine expression changes. Combining my research experience in the development of biosensors with the expertise of my primary (Dr Tobias Engel, RCSI) and secondment (Prof Nicholas Dale, University of Warwick; Prof Norman Delanty, Beaumont Hospital; Prof Felix Rosenow, Frankfurt University) supervisors on purinergic signalling and the development diagnostic devices, ATPsensor will increase our understanding of purinergic signalling and provide new tools to support the diagnosis of epilepsy. The skills acquired during the research project, the excellent training record of the supervisors and host institutions, and the outstanding resources for learning and development available at RCSI and collaborator institutions will give me the tools necessary to become a highly employable neuroscientist.

Keywords: biosensors epilepsy biomaterials nanochemistry
Resolving the Paradoxes of Cross-lingual Transfer in Multilingual Language Models (RESPECT-LM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2031-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499597.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499597.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The technical advances, and resulting societal opportunities, of Large Language Models (LLMs) have principally benefited communities whose primary languages are well-represented in the written data used for training LLMs (e.g., English). While these few high-resource languages are used by many around the world, they do not cover large segments of the global population of 8.2 billion, who collectively speak over 7000 languages. For intelligent natural language systems to be adopted and useful, they must enable interaction in the preferred languages of their users and be knowledgeable of the environments of those users. This expansion of LLM functionality requires re-thinking the cross-lingual transfer paradigm for enabling systems in low-resource languages. In an era where LLMs are knowledge bases, naive reasoners, and interactive agents, our intuitions that held for cross-lingual transfer to linguistic tasks will not extend to transferring regional and cultural knowledge understanding, which may differ even among similar languages. In this proposal, we reformulate cross-lingual transfer using inference-time algorithms that dynamically localize, augment, and adapt implicit language and knowledge representations of multilingual LLMs for queries presented in any language. These new algorithms will leverage shared linguistic knowledge for cross-lingual transfer to new languages while disentangling regional and cultural knowledge that is tied to language but unique to individual language environments. Second, we will develop novel modular architectures to catalyze our adaptation algorithms by disentangling language and knowledge representations within multilingual LLMs during pretraining. Finally, we will develop new benchmarks, settings, and standards for reliable evaluation of regional knowledge in multilingual contexts.

Keywords: multilinguality,large language model,foundation model,evaluation,multiculturality,deep learning
German Arithmetical Treatises in Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages (1400-1522). A Study on Philology, History and Culture based on a Digital Edition of the Treatises. (ARITHMETIC)

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-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1489506.0
EU funding (EUR): 1489506.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

How was the practice of arithmetic developed and spread during the transition between the Middle Ages and the Modern Period? We know a lot about the evolution of mathematical theory and its diffusion in Latin, but little about the way in which arithmetic knowledge spread in the vernaculars in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Translation and adaptation of arithmetic treatises and manuals provided access to mathematical knowledge for new groups of people, shaped the practices of reckoning, and opened new ways of teaching arithmetic skills to persons without higher education. These efforts also endowed European vernaculars with new linguistic forms of abstraction and thus enhanced their potential to serve as a tool in the modern scientific revolution. ARITHMETIC will study handwritten German arithmetic treatises from their first appearance around 1400 until the time when printed reckoning-books became easily available at the beginning of the 16th century. These texts have not been studied before, although they are important witnesses of the vernacularization of mathematical knowledge, of the interdependence of vernacular and Latin pragmatic literacy and of the links between mathematics, sciences, and commerce. The treatises will be transcribed, digitally edited, and analyzed from a historic, literary, and linguistic perspective. An ?Assertive Edition? relying on Semantic Enrichment will be one product of ARITHMETIC. A detailed linguistic analysis focusing on semantics, syntax, the vocabulary, and the transmission context will lead to the reconstruction of an arithmetic discourse, give information on the orality underlying didactic texts and allow tracing writers/compilers and users and their educational and social background. This research aims at a new understanding of how arithmetical knowledge and practices of calculation were transformed in Late Medieval Europe, and how an abstract and scientific language emerged in the German vernacular.

Keywords: history of knowledge history of mathematical knowledge and establishment establishment of late medieval vernacular knowledge pragmatic medieval texts development of specialized languages vocabulary research discourse analysis research on textual environments digital editing semantic enrichment
GoGreenNext Promoting Future Health in Ciites (GO GREEN NEXT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Living and working in a health promoting environment
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Spain,Finland,Germany,United States,Malta,France,Netherlands,Austria,Canada,Switzerland,Norway
Call: Planetary health: understanding the links between environmental degradation and health impacts (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6000296.25
EU funding (EUR): 6000216.25
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

GoGreenNEXT will deliver a comprehensive evidence-based policy oriented approach model to convey how ecosystem health and human health are connected. We propose to follow the pathway outlined foA complex array of interrelated problems arising from climate change and biodiversity loss pose significant health risks, both today and in the future . Future risks from climate change are currently predicted to escalate (beyond planetary boundaries) and pass critical tipping points with irreversible changes to our climate with commensurate negative impacts on health, our ecosystems and our landscapes . Global, European and national policy frameworks have emerged in recent years to address this challenge, with a range of initiatives to promote mitigation, adaptation and resilience. Nature-based solutions (NBS), or actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously benefiting people and nature, are among the strategies that have emerged to reverse the degradation of nature, notably in urban areas where changes are amplified. In cities, vulnerability to climate change and environmental degradation is high due to dense populations, critical infrastructure, and at-risk communities (e.g. vast differences across social-economic gradient). Cities offer an opportunity to accelerate the implementation of current solutions aligned with emerging strategies and policy initiatives (e.g. New European Bauhaus, 100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities) combining to form what is termed a just green transition. This refers to a process of far-reaching sociotechnical change leading to a green and climate-neutral economy that preserves biodiversity and ensures social justice. GoGreenNext will address the biodiversity-climate-planetary health nexus, delivering positive policy and city/region pilot outcomes in 4 biogeographic regions across Europe and with input from best practice globally.

Keywords: nature based solutions planetary health,climate neutral cities health policy
Exploring Plausible Circular futures (ExPliCit)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 353542.86
EU funding (EUR): 349600.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Circular Economy (CE) represents a new paradigm that is capable of pushing the frontiers of sustainable development by transforming the relationships between ecological systems and economic activities. Such a new paradigm is expected to repair economy-society-nature interactions, replacing the current linear economic model with a new one that is restorative and regenerative by intention and design. However, while there is common agreement that the transition towards a CE could foster more sustainable futures, there is a lack of discussion about how a truly circular economic system should be organised. Most of the current literature on CE fails to recognise this, presenting the transition towards a CE as a straightforward, neutral, and apolitical process, implicitly characterised by a techno-optimistic and eco-modernist stance. Within this context, this project calls for opening up a debate to deconstruct the increasingly hegemonic discourse of CE based on a technocratic approach and reconstruct it by embedding normative and political dimensions, looking at a plurality of plausible CE futures, and discussing their implications in terms of the organisation of production and distribution networks, also involving a wide set of stakeholders. As such, the project will involve a plurality of disciplinary perspectives, in order to devise future supply chain configurations that could be implemented in specific industrial sectors under specific CE scenarios. A wide array of non-academic beneficiaries ensures that the project will be capable of realising relevant knowledge transfer through secondment mechanisms.

Keywords: sustainable supply chain management
European Marginals in Mediterranean Africa: Race, Space and Environment in Tunisia and Libya (1881-1950s) (EMMA)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This research project proposes a trans-imperial historical analysis of the agency, ecology and representations of European subalterns in Tunisia and Libya during the colonial period. The presence of marginalised Europeans, mainly from Southern Europe, in Tunisian and Libyan societies challenged the dichotomy dividing the colonisers from the colonised. This colonial liminality is the fulcrum of the project “European Marginals in Mediterranean Africa: Race, Space and Environment in Tunisia and Libya (1881-1950s)” (EMMA). The chronological analysis framework spans the French occupation of Tunis in 1881 to the end of colonial rule in Libya (1951) and Tunisia (1956). The aim is to analyse the intermediate and ambiguous position of these subalterns to show not only the slippery boundaries of a ‘White’/‘non-White and ‘European’/‘North African’ identity in a Mediterranean colonial context but also how entangled these identities are with social, political and ecological frontiers and perceptions. This goal will be achieved by an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses cognate field of social sciences as history and anthropology. For this reason the project is under the joint supervision of professor Francesca Biancani, MENA area scholar from UNIBO, specialist on gender and colonial North African history; and professor Naor Ben Yehoyada, social and cultural anthropologist at CU, specialist on Mediterranean mobility. This interdisciplinary project is based on multi-archival research encompassing sources from colonial, national and private archives and journals, press and publications in Tunisia, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Malta; it consists in 7 work packages dedicated to training, management, research, dissemination and communication activities.

Keywords: mediterranean,colonialism,subalterns
DEsigning, Manufacturing and Operating Quantification of Uncertainties to increase Aviation Safety (DEMOQUAS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France,Italy
Call: Aviation safety - Uncertainty quantification for safety and risk management (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D6-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2655807.5
EU funding (EUR): 2655807.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The main goal of DEMOQUAS is to develop an efficient framework of uncertainty quantification (UQ) and provide holistic aircraft/engine design tools (i.e. multi-fidelity, multi-disciplinary, digital threads/twins and Model Based System Engineering {MBSE} or Model Based Definition {MBD} modalities) with the capability to become ‘UQ-enabled’. In this way, it will contribute to achieving the highest level of aviation safety, regarding novel propulsion technologies. The project includes representation, characterization and propagation of uncertainties through the life cycle phases of design, manufacturing and operations, applied in six industrially relevant test cases. In this way, it will contribute to advancing the current state of the art in UQ methods, by effectively improving their efficiency (i.e. regarding ‘curse of dimensionality’ for simulation time and accuracy). The project’s ambition is to provide comprehensive UQ guidelines and enhance decision and policy making of unknown technologies’ development, support virtual certification and ensure a high level of safety and improved risk management. To achieve its main goal, the project will build on the following main objectives: • Perform detailed characterization of life cycle uncertainties for components and systems of components developed for a turboprop aircraft, based on a hybridized, liquid-H2/SAF configuration; • Employ and further develop UQ methods in a multi-layered manner: [Lifecycle] design, manufacturing/measuring, operations, [Scales/fidelities] sub-systems, systems, systems-of-systems; • Deliver an ‘as open as possible’ framework that will allow integrated propulsion system design tools/platforms to become ‘UQ-enabled’ and increase safety and risk management; • Verify and validate the UQ methodologies via testing campaigns (up to TRL5) including operational cases; • Promote the project's benefits via targeted synergies in European, national and international level.

Keywords: uncertainty propagation across scales,safety intelligence and risk management,data fusion,reliability formulations,liquid hydrogen storage tank,compact heat exchangers,thermal management,