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European Performing Science Program (EPSP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299955.97
EU funding (EUR): 299955.97
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Fundación Épica La Fura dels Baus proposes, in collaboration with a wide scientific ecosystem, the European Performing Science Program (EPSP) that include the two editions of European Performing Science Night (EPSN) for 2024 and 2025 as well as the Next Generation Performing Science (NGPS) activities for schools. The EPSP 24-25 will be consolidated as an implemented program that brings researchers closer to the public - and vice versa - and makes their work more tangible and accessible among civil society. The programme uses an innovative approach based on art and culture as a common language and new narratives and communication tools for researchers, that is, i) training to equip researchers with skills to deal with scientific communication; ii) bring researchers and their disciplines to schools through co-creation sessions, debate and conversations focused on the researchers works, projects and disciplines by using technology and new language tools; iii) the realisation of artistic co-creation based on the work of researchers to show the diversity of science and its impact on the daily lives of citizens; and iv) a round table -performaforum- after the performance experience to promote open science and help stimulate interest in research careers.

Keywords: performig science,performing arts,science,social impact,climate change,oceans and waters
Hormone-free solution for vaginal atrophy (AVeta)

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: Ireland
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3814567.5
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Vaginal Atrophy (VA) is a chronic and progressive condition. VA impacts on the quality of life, relationships, everyday activities and confidence of women sufferers. It is associated with thinning, drying and inflammation of the vaginal tissue. It is experienced by 80% of all women globally and is the most common symptom of the menopause. Over 70% of Breast Cancer Survivors will also suffer from VA due to side effects of chemotherapy and the cancer-blocker drugs they take further exacerbate symptoms of VA. Current treatment options for VA, primarily pharmaceuticals are either ineffective or poorly tolerated. In the EU and US, 3.6m patients of VA reject existing treatments. AVeta- a medical device delivering the only hormone free, affordable and safe targeted therapy for all women suffering from VA. Solution is based on pathophysiology of wound healing and will be prescribed by a Clinician in an outpatient setting and women will self-administer the therapy monthly at home.

Keywords: production of hyaluronic acid,controlled inflammatory reaction,reduced oestrogen production,breast cancer,women s health,chronic and progressive condition,vaginal atrophy
Plant-powered energy harvesting system for IoT solutions (Plant-e)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-02-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3570625.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499437.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Plant-e is the world's only company harvesting energy from living plants without harming them. A women-led startup, Plant-e launched in 2009 as a spin-off of Wageningen University. Based on the PhD research of Marjolein Helder, our CEO, Plant-e's team has 20+ years of commercial experience, multiple PhDs, and 10+ years of R&D experience in this field, pushing our growth to 2 granted patents and 3000+ prototypes tested so far. With a business model based on device sales and maintenance fees, we entered the smart lighting and sensoring market with custom projects. The Park of Tomorrow in Rotterdam (NL) is an interactive lighting system in a park and together with ESA data was collected and sent into space by P-MFC power. Plant-e technology doesn't emit any greenhouse gases such as CO2 or methane, on the contrary: it acts as a carbon sink, capturing up to 2 kg of CO2/kWh produced. As such, Plant-e contributes to the "zero pollution and carbon neutrality" ambitions set by the EU.

Keywords: energy harvesting,renewable energy sources,iot,water sensor monitoring
Production of advanced bioFUELS via pyrolysis and UPgrading of 100% biogenic residues for aviation and marine sector, including full valorisation of side streams (FUEL-UP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Netherlands,Türkiye,Czechia,Belgium,Germany,Luxembourg,Italy
Call: Demonstration of advanced biofuel technologies for aviation and/or shipping (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10449079.58
EU funding (EUR): 8417003.08
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

FUEL-UP project aims at producing simultaneously the key renewable SAF and marine fuels from 100% biogenic feedstocks (primarily forestry residues) through pyrolysis and downstream upgrading of pyrolysis oils to advanced biofuels, reducing GHG emissions of the important aviation and marine transport sectors. FUEL-UP will demonstrate at TRL6-7 the production of sufficient aviation and marine fuel in the project, transforming 1000 L HPO to 450-500 L SAF, 300-350 L marine diesel and 100-200 L marine fuel Naphtha/Bio-methanol co-blend for testing. The key challenges are to de-risk and optimize stabilisation, deoxygenation, hydrodeoxygenation, hydrotreatment and hydro-isomerisation steps; including optimisation of catalysts and scalability. FUEL-UP will ensure the fuel quality meets standards and engine specifications. The produced SAF will be tested according to aviation standards (Tier 1, 2 & 2.5) to qualify them with D4054 certification and provide a strategy for fuel certification through introduction to EU Clearinghouse. The produced marine biofuels streams fuel quality (marine diesel and Naphtha enhanced Bio-methanol co-blend) will be assessed with marine engine testing performed according to ISO 8217 and ISO 8178 standards. FUEL-UP will also maximise the valorisation of all carbon side streams (gaseous and aqueous), with aqueous phase treatment and extraction up to 80%, resulting in at least 200 L valuable compounds /t HPO, followed by subsequent conversion into high quality biogas. The heavy component of Naphtha fraction will be evaluated for aromatisation by continuous catalytic reforming to produce solvents. Environmental impact of the value chain will be assessed to show up to 80% GHG emission reduction compared to fossil fuels and provide scenarios for green hydrogen production. Process engineering will ensure scale-up of technologies to reach commercial scale by 2030 and replication in 10 sites by 2035 and 25 sites by 2040, allowing production of >2Mt fuels.

Keywords: advanced biofuels,biogenic residues,marine fuel,sustainable aviation fuel,side streams valorisation,green hydrogen,cost efficiency,environmental impact
NeuroAdapt - a patient-centered innovative training program for the future generation of brain research leaders (NeuroAdapt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: MSCA COFUND 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-COFUND-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1050720.0
EU funding (EUR): 1050720.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of NeuroAdapt, led by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, is to train and there by equip the next generation of researcher leaders with the scientific and transferable skills to catalyse their careers, both in academia or beyond, and develop much needed innovative, safer, and more effective therapeutic approaches to brain diseases, one of the most pressing challenges in European healthcare, tailored specifically towards individual patient needs. Fellows will work within FutureNeuro, a world-leading Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre, bringing together Ireland’s leading researchers in the field of neurodiagnostics, neurotherapeutics and digital health. In an internationally unique manner, FutureNeuro links innovative neurodiagnostics and neurotherapeutics development with a national digital health infrastructure and a nationwide clinical network. NeuroAdapt will build on the excellent research environment and expertise of the FutureNeuro centre, providing a fertile training ground for the Fellows. Researcher training will include a unique combination of “hands-on” research training, placements in industry and hospital settings and courses and workshops on scientific, industry-related and transferable skills facilitated by the academic and non-academic composition. Importantly, with its strong focus on industry-related diagnostics and drug discovery programs, NeuroAdapt will facilitate the implementation of novel discoveries into clinical use. Adhering to the COFUND principle of ‘individual-driven mobility’, NeuroAdapt applicants will freely choose, according to their individual needs, from a wide range of research fields, host organisations, supervisors and secondment organisations. NeuroAdapt Fellows will work in highly interdisciplinary projects, sharing expertise and adding value across the neuroscience research landscape. Proposals can be submitted around the three themes of diagnostics, therapeutics and digital health.

Keywords: neuroscience,brain diseases,diagnosis,treatment,digital health,patient focused
Hybrid data-driven approaches to support the design of extrusion forming tools (HybDDEF)

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: Portugal,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-31
End date: 2028-03-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191343.12
EU funding (EUR): 191343.12
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Extruded thermoplastic profiles are widely used in a large range of application fields, such as medical, electronic, etc. The crosssection geometry of these profiles is designed to fulfill the needs of a specific application, and the engineering process used to achieve this geometric conditions is known as extrusion, where a polymer melt is pushed through a die to convert it into the desired shape. Although this technique is widely used in the industry, the process of production of extruded profiles is far from being efficient, since the standard methods of manufacturing are based on experimental trial-and-error approaches, which are time consuming and waste materials. With the increase in computational power and the development of numerical methods, efforts have been made to improve these approaches. Although engineers have developed physics-based codes that assist in the design of extrusion dies and calibrators (where the polymer is cooled down to assure its mechanical resistance) during the last years, the existing codes present several limitations; i. e., the viscoelastic nature of the polymer and realistic heating systems are not considered, and the phenomena that occur in these tools are highly coupled, but the codes treat separately both the die and the calibrator. In this project, we will improve the existing codes by incorporating the novelties previously mentioned and will develop an integrated automatic open-source code that considers the simultaneous modelling of both the die and calibrator. Lastly, we will use a physics-augmented learning and hybrid modelling approach, where we will combine novel data driven and machine-learning techniques (based on experimental data) with our developed codes in order to derive a hybrid model, which will take into account the deviation between the measured physical reality and our physics-based simulations. This hybrid approach will assist in the optimal design of polymer extrusion tools (extrusion die and calibrator).

Keywords: profile extrusion,polymer processing,computational rheology,machine learning,automatic design,hybrid data driven,physics augmented learning
All-liquid phase JANUS BIdimensional materials for functional nano-architectures and assemblies (JANUS BI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Asymmetry is a key structural feature in natural systems and allows for self-organization and unidirectionality of chemical transformations. JANUS BI aims at developing an innovative protocol for the production of 2D materials bearing different functionalities on the two opposite sides. The challenge is to implement the full process in the liquid phase and thus not resorting to solid phase transfer techniques, which is the current state-of-the-art. With this new method, Janus 2D material colloidal inks can be directly produced and used as they are, or for further solution processing of thin-films and/or more complex architectures. The core of the project is the challenging protocol proposed, which rely on the versatility of liquid phase exfoliation (LPE) of 3D crystalline powders of intrinsically layered species to produce 2D material inks and on the large availability of chemical functionalization approaches for 2D materials, both aspects being soundly mastered by the PI of JANUS BI. A first exfoliation produces quasi-2D nanosheets, which are a-selectively functionalized with bulky groups so as to completely cover the exposed faces. The functionalized quasi-2D objects are then subjected to further LPE, providing single-faced functionalized 2D materials. A second functionalization step is forced to happen on the un-covered face, due to the steric hindrance of the pendant functionalities present on the other. The setting-up of a similar protocol requires a tight control over the nanochemistry and nanomorphology of the substrates employed, resulting in a substantial gain of knowledge in controlled functionalization processes for 2D colloids. Once the guidelines for its successful implementation are identified, the development of a whole library of Janus 2D inks is enabled and many further goals can be targeted, which are here exemplified by the construction of self-assembling superstructures/interfaces and of photoactive and photocatalytic nanosystems.

Keywords: janus 2d materials,2d materials functionalization,liquid phase exfoliation,nanohybrids,functional nanomaterials,2d material inks,solution processing,photoactive nanomaterials,light conversion,self assembling superstructures,asymmetry
Coevolutionary Consequences of Biodiversity Change (Co-EvoChange)

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: Finland
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Anthropogenic global change is reshaping planetary biodiversity patterns at an accelerating rate. The diverse and non-linear ways in which species respond to global change can lead to non-obvious alterations in the structure and intensity of species interactions. However, the extent to which coevolutionary dynamics are disrupted under biodiversity change remains largely unknown. Interspecific interactions are the key determinants of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and their modifications can play a critical role in modulating global change effects on ecosystems. In this proposal I focus on plant-microbe associations to uncover how temporal change in plant communities affects interactions with mutualistic and pathogenic microbes both above- and below-ground. By coupling analysis of plant biodiversity time-series data with contemporary sampling of microbial communities, experiments and molecular assays, this work will demonstrate how both ecological and coevolutionary dynamics of species interactions are responding to ongoing environmental change. Specifically, I will answer the following key questions: 1) How has forest understory vegetation changed in response to changing climate and habitat use over 35 years; 2) How does temporal plant community change affect plant-associated microbial communities; 3) How have the intensity and efficacy of mutualistic and pathogenic host-microbe interactions changed; 4) How is coevolutionary selection, measured as local adaptation, altered following biodiversity change; 5) How do ecological and coevolutionary change underpinning species interactions scale up to ecosystem functioning in plant-microbe communities. The obtained results will reveal how vulnerable both pathogenic and essential mutualistic associations are to global anthropogenic change. Jointly the proposed research provides synthesis of the relative importance of ecological, evolutionary and environmental dimensions of biodiversity change.

Keywords: plant microbe interactions,host pathogen interactions,host mutualist interactions,biodiversity change,coevolution,local adaptation,plant ecology,field ecology,experimental ecology
Harnessing Quantum Resources in Network Communication and Their Thermodynamic Underpinnings (QURES)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We are currently at the midst of Second Quantum Revolution, a transformative era harnessing various quantum resources for the efficient execution of communication and computational tasks previously unattainable through classical means. During the recent past the point-to-point communication scenarios have seen extensive exploration and practical realization of quantum resource benefits across diverse quantum architectures. Within the realm of network scenario, typical communication systems involve multiple distant parties seeking to exchange information. In the present project, our primary objective is to delve into the advantageous applications of several quantum resources, including quantum superposition, quantum entanglement, quantum steering, and quantum nonlocal correlations, in the context of network communications. Our focus is particularly directed at two broad channel categories in the network scenario: the Multiple Access Channel (MAC), featuring multiple senders and a single receiver, and the Broadcasting Channel (BC), comprising one sender and multiple receivers. A fundamental goal lies in examining how distinct non-classical correlations, achieved from multipartite quantum systems, can enhance the effectiveness of the limited communication channels available to both senders and receivers. In this endeavor, we intend to uncover a deeper connection between quantum information theory and quantum thermodynamics. While the intricate link between these domains has been highlighted by the work of Szilard, Landauer, and Bennett, our aim is to explore this connection within the quantum realm to its broadest extent, with a specific focus on network communication scenarios. In addition to introducing a novel avenue for quantifying and detecting quantum resources through experimentally measurable thermodynamic quantities, this undertaking also offers insights into why quantum theory holds a special status among mathematically allowed models.

Keywords: quantum thermodynamics,quantum information theory,quantum communication,quantum network,quantum foundation