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Eliminating VOC from Battery manufacturing through dry or wet processing (NoVOC)

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
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Norway,Türkiye,Italy,Spain,Latvia,Belgium,Austria,France
Call: Environmentally sustainable processing techniques applied to large scale electrode and cell component manufacturing for Li ion batteries (Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5415727.75
EU funding (EUR): 5415727.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The project NoVOC addresses the Topic Environmentally sustainable processing techniques applied to large scale electrode and cell component manufacturing for Li ion batteries. The activities of NoVOC are tailored to the challenges addressed by the call topic: 1. Lower carbon footprint cell manufacturing in Europe. 2. New sustainable electrode and cell manufacturing techniques with low energy consumption, and no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emissions. 3. Electrode coating production techniques eliminate organic solvents reduce the capital costs associated to the solvent recovery system. 4. Dry manufacturing techniques with next generation materials. 5. Industrializing closed loops and process design to return low-value chemicals from manufacturing processes to high-value products In NoVOC we aim to design and demonstrate two competitive cell manufacturing technologies aqueous and dry cell manufacturing technologies for automotive batteries intended for production in Europe. The innovations proposed in NoVOC centre on improvements of cell manufacturing process by integrating two novel electrode manufacturing processes into the currently available cell assembly process and demonstrate manufacturability of automotive cells in two formats (pouch and cylindrical) with no toxic organic solvent at the fraction of the cell manufacturing cost that is currently available today. Next generation cell manufacturing processes developed in Europe for electric vehicles batteries

Keywords: elimination of voc,dry cell at manufacturing scale
Precision Particle Physics from extreme ASTROphysical transients (P3fromASTRO)

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: Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 292118.88
EU funding (EUR): 292118.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Supernovae (SNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs) host matter in extreme conditions, exhibiting processes, within the Standard Model (SM) and beyond it (BSM), not testable on Earth. The hot, dense cores of these objects are factories of BSM particles, such as axions, sterile neutrinos, and millicharged particles (MCPs). BSM particles emission may alter the duration of the neutrino burst observed from the historical SN 1987A, but the seminal studies are based on outdated SN simulations. BSM particle emission would also have produced a characteristic gamma-ray burst concurrent with the NSM GW 170817, potentially constraining multiple BSM models, including sterile neutrinos and MCPs, for which no investigation exists. Further, self-interactions in the BSM sector, predicted for many dark matter (DM) candidates but neglected in historical studies, can alter the nature of the BSM outflow. This action will provide a unified answer to these shortcomings, reassessing SN bounds on BSM particle emission using updated SN simulations, including the impact of potential self-interactions, and extending the use of NSMs as a probe of BSM particles. Further, the dense neutrino outflows are sizably affected by neutrino self-interactions. Even SM weak interactions trigger collective flavor conversions, whose outcome is only recently being cleared up. Secret neutrino self-interactions, stronger than the weak ones, can alter both the neutrino light curve and flavor conversions. We will consider this impact to potentially draw constraints on secret neutrino interactions.

Keywords: light particles beyond the standard model,supernovae,neutron star mergers,axions,dark matter
Unravelling the Politics of Basic Income: How Responsive Are Policymakers to Public Opinion? (BI-RESPONS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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 STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495160.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495160.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In light of growing debates on the idea of basic income (BI), the BI-RESPONS project investigates under which conditions policymakers respond to public opinion about BI. I argue that BI is a scientifically challenging case because it poses a theoretical puzzle that has hitherto not been addressed empirically. On the one hand, BI is a likely case for responsiveness to occur because its introduction would directly impact the lives of many citizens. On the other hand, BI is an unlikely case compared to most other social policies because it is characterized by a lower salience and higher radicalness. The project will solve this puzzle by uncovering (a) which types of policymakers are (un)responsive and to whose opinions they are (un)responsive; (b) in which spatial and temporal contexts they are (un)responsive; (c) through which mechanisms they are (un)responsive, and (d) how their (un)responsiveness to public opinion varies across different BI proposals and compares to that of the well-established social policy of child benefits. These analyses are informed by the newly developed Multi-Level Framework of Contingent Policy Responsiveness, which argues that two of the main contingency factors identified in prior research –salience and radicalness– do not only vary between policy cases but also (a) within these cases, (b) across context and (c) between policymakers. This new theoretical framework is scrutinized empirically within an innovative mixed-methods design that links qualitative in-depth interviews with different types of policymakers to a quantitative public opinion survey in eight European countries that differ with regard to the salience and radicalness of BI. In doing so, the BI-RESPONS project forces a major breakthrough in the research on the politics of BI, and more broadly, expands our knowledge of (social) policy responsiveness and welfare state politics.

Keywords: basic income,child benefits,public opinion,policy responsiveness,welfare state politics
Surfing on Free Surfaces by Undulating Propulsion (SurFSUP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2031-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Wave-driven propulsion (WDP) is a little-known type of locomotion in which a floating body generates surface waves to push itself forwards. Some animals have evolved to use WDP when moving on the water surface, such as water striders and water snakes. Meanwhile, WDP technologies have the potential to revolutionise engineering applications, such as the cleanup oil spills, the automation of hydroponic agriculture, and the reduction of fuel consumption of ships. Despite the great potential of WDP, it remains in a state of scientific and technological infancy. The only examples in the literature are ad hoc, untested and un-optimised. The challenge is that WDP is not fully understood i.e. the dominant controls on the propulsion force and the efficiency have not yet been determined. Without addressing this challenge, the powerful technologies mentioned above cannot be developed. In this proposal we seek to rectify the knowledge gap with a suite of work packages that will ultimately open up a new paradigm in the field where surface waves are thought of as a means of propulsion in their own right rather than just a consequence of motion. Our research design is centred on 3 aspects of WDP: Acceleration (how the WDP mechanism changes with velocity), Vorticity (the ratio of vortex- & wave-driven propulsion), and Optimisation (maximising the efficiency of WDP towards useful application). We will explore three canonical “surfer” geometries via experiments in a purpose-built hydrodynamics tank fitted with high-speed cameras to measure the 3D velocities and free surface. A modelling campaign will run in tandem, using a combination of hi-fidelity simulations, simple models to gain physical insight, and numerical optimisation to maximise WDP efficiency. By doing so, we will uncover breakthrough knowledge on the propulsive power of waves, critical resonances, and wave-vortex interactions - knowledge that will unlock applications across Transport, Sustainability and the Environment.

Keywords: water waves,wave structure interactions,bioinspired propulsion
FIGHTING CHILDHOOD OBESITY TO STAY HEALTHY ALL OVER THE LIFE - HOP ON (Obelisk-Hop On)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Poland
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 485250.0
EU funding (EUR): 485250.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the Obelisk-Hop On initiative is to complement the existing scientific expertise of Obelisk’s consortium by strengthening work packages that aim at understanding molecular as well as genetic bases of childhood obesity and identifying novel drug targets. This project will thus significantly contribute to the overall goal of Obelisk which is to propose new solutions for the pandemic of obesity among European youth by notably uncovering new biological mechanisms responsible for childhood obesity. We will complement the consortium’s expertise in genomic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, and GPCR signaling with the experience of our new partner in intracellular signaling cascades and lipid absorption. We will focus on intestinal lipid absorption and its impact on weight gain and obesity development which is not being investigated in Obelisk so far. Specifically, we will focus on defining the impact of early life exposure to excess lipids on intestinal absorption capacity during adulthood and its impact on susceptibility to obesity in preclinical models. We will also test the impact of key signaling modules defining lipid absorption and intracellular distribution in the intestine of adult subjects in young individuals. Finally, the inclusion of this new scientific institution which is located in Poland, the largest Eastern European country will help to disseminate policies and standards defined by Obelisk in this part of the European Union, increase the visibility of European innovation and action grants in this institution, contribute to the attractiveness of our new partner’s laboratory and allow the acquisition of new management skills in European projects.

Keywords: intestine,lipid absorption,childhood obesity,obesity physiopathology,intracellular signaling cascades,gpcr,genomics,genetics
Polarization sensitive photodetection by straining moiré van der Waals superlattices (PHOTOMOIRE)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185808.53
EU funding (EUR): 185808.53
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The stacking of two dimensional materials with control of the relative twist angle led to the formation of long-range ordering structural modulation of the atomic lattices with the generation of moiré potentials. Twistronics is a blooming and promising new avenue to achieve optoelectronic devices with extra functionalities offering plenty of opportunities that can be combined with the well-established field of straintronics. In this project, a number of layered materials combinations and straining methodologies will be investigated by in situ Atomic Force Microscopy-based methods such as Piezoresponse Force Microscopy, Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to visualize the moiré domains under strain. Finally, the project endeavors to engineer photodetectors with strain-tunable polarization using marginally twisted strained van der Waals heterostructures.

Keywords: atomic force microscopy,raman spectroscopy,straintronics,van der waals interactions
Hunting three-body forces (HUNTING-3BFs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Czechia,Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1485000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1485000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

HUNTING-3BFs aims to solve the many-body problem in nuclear physics. This would allow describing the properties of nuclear matter starting from the interaction among the constituents and to extrapolate its behaviour in dense environments in the Universe, like in the innermost region of neutron stars. The main difficulties in the current state-of-the-art many-body calculations arise from complex effects induced by long-range Coulomb interactions, which are challenging to predict, and from the emergence of short-range three-body nuclear forces (3BFs) in the dynamics of hadrons, which have been never anchored to direct experimental measurements. The primary goal of this project is to quantify for the first time these effects using new three-body scattering measurements. The latter will be performed using the femtoscopy method at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The final state interaction of p-p-p and p-p-Λ triplets as well as p-d and Λ-d pairs emitted in pp collisions at the LHC will be measured with the ALICE detector using correlation functions. The sensitivity to the contribution of 3BFs will be reached with the full statistics of the LHC Run 3 data taking (2022-2026). The PI will deliver phenomenological potentials for the NNN and NNΛ 3BFs, by constraining the models to experimental correlation functions. To reach this goal the PI will develop a framework capable of solving numerically the three-body problem. One of the main novelties of HUNTING-3BFs is the study of the interactions as a function of the energy and distance, giving a unique chance to probe different interaction ranges. This project will provide a new groundbreaking method to solve the many-body problem in nuclear physics with strong impact on research areas ranging from the domain of nuclear physics to astrophysics.

Keywords: strong nuclear force,femtoscopy,three body strong interaction
Sustainable pigments and glitter from renewable cellulose (CelloSparx)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Inspired by nature, we developed effect pigments prepared from a single organic and renewable component extracted from plants: cellulose nanocrystals. Obtained via self-assembly, these pigments offer one of the most sustainable alternatives to all existing products, including microplastic, partially biodegradable glitter, and unsustainably sourced mica- and titania-based pigments. Securing this ERC-2022-PoC2 proposal will allow us to bring this much-needed technology from TRL6 to TRL7 by addressing 4 challenges: 1/ Finding a supplier of cellulose with ton-scale production capacity; 2/ Finding the best-suited manufacturing equipment with innovative options that we did not explore in our previous work; 3/ Delivering kilograms of our materials to end-users who are in need of this technology, for them to validate the technology; 4/ Quantifying the benefits of our products against existing alternatives, using Life Cycle Analysis, biodegradability and ecotoxicity studies.
The active travel backlash paradox: opposition and acceptability determinants of built environment-based sustainable travel interventions (ATRAPA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499873.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499873.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Transport policy is a contentious issue. In recent years, ambitious proposals aiming at reducing car use and creating a more sustainable, equitable, and healthy transportation system have been met with strong opposition movements. However, little is known about the factors and nature of these opposition movements. At the same time, mayors, and elected leaders worldwide, who have pushed for ambitious built environment-based travel demand policies, have later been vindicated by major re-election wins. This would suggest the existence of an “active travel backlash paradox”, one where loud opposition movements might be concealing substantial silent support towards measures that aim to transform the built environment, in order to make it more walkable and cyclable. Validating the existence of this paradox, and expanding our understanding of opposition and acceptability factors towards built environment-based sustainable travel interventions, has major implications both locally and globally. To this end, the ATRAPA project sets out to (1) test the existence of the paradox and (2) to further our understanding of opposition and acceptability towards built environment travel demand interventions. To do so I will use a multi-scale, multi-method design to be applied in eight leading European cities. Thanks to highly disaggregated spatial election data and geolocated information on land-use transformations, I will be able to assess the associations between voting behaviour and built environment-based sustainable travel interventions. In parallel, I will use an international public opinion survey and interviews with experts to understand, the socioeconomic, individual, and contextual factors behind acceptability/opposition levels. This will assist in understanding their causes, and their spatial and social distribution, and permit exploration of much-needed future least-opposition pathways towards efficient and widely-accepted sustainable transport policies.

Keywords: active transport policy acceptability built environment minute city superblocks walkability
European Partnership on Innovative SMEs (InnovativeSMEs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Partnership on Innovative SMEs
Destination: European Partnership on Innovative SMEs
Action type: COFUND actions
Partnership: Innovative SMEs (co-funded)
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Portugal,Spain,Germany,Sweden,Italy,Latvia,Poland,Finland,Hungary,Croatia,Türkiye,Denmark,Norway,Slovenia,Estonia,Netherlands,Malta,France,Ireland,Cyprus,Israel,Luxembourg,Bulgaria,Czechia,Iceland,Lithuania,Romania,Greece,South Africa,Slovakia,Switzerland,Korea, Republic of,Singapore,Canada,United Kingdom
Call: European Partnership on Innovative SMEs (HORIZON-EIE-2023-INNOVSMES-01, 2023)
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299717536.75
EU funding (EUR): 89915251.03
Participants: 43
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal is the continuation of the Description of the Action of the Grant Agreement 101055476 signed under the European Innovation Ecosystems Work Programme 2021-2022. The proposal involves 41 National/regional Funding Bodies and/ Agencies under the umbrella of Eureka, and is coordinated by the Eureka Secretariat in Brussels. The partnership will be comprised of two main instruments(Eurostars-3 and Innowwide) as well as accompanying measures to further supports SMEs and to connect existing EU programmes, initiatives and other European partnerships. On this proposal, the consortium describes the additional activities that will take place under the EIE WP 2023-2024. The activities implemented under this Work Programme mirror to a great extent those described in the DoA.