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Material Authority: Managing Mineral Abundance in Early Modern Japan (MMA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499465.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499465.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Material Authority (MMA) puts mines and mining at the center of the political, commercial, and social transformations within Japan from 1520–1720. The project hypothesizes that the boom in precious metals proved decisive in shaping early modern Japan’s domestic governance and foreign relations and proposes the first comprehensive study of Japan’s “mineral politics” at this time. Examining mines well-known (Iwami, Sado) and less-appreciated (Ikuno, Naganoburi) from across the archipelago, MMA departs from quantitative analyses prioritizing mineral production and investigates how authority materialized through mines, and how mines and mineral extraction authored power in Japan. Rich new silver deposits were first tapped in the 1520s; at the turn of the seventeenth century Japan’s silver production was second only to the mines of Spanish America, and at the turn of the eighteenth century it was the world’s largest producer of copper. Material Authority integrates and interrogates many of the landmark transitions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: protracted conflict yielding to political unification, a rapid expansion and curtailment of foreign relations. Mines and mining occupy a niche in the accounts of these transformations but have never been offered as an organizing principle by which to examine each and their effects on one another. To this end, the project team will pursue three lines of research: exploring how mines shaped authority, catalyzed management, and facilitated exchange. A paleography seminar will facilitate collaboration and develop skills honed by research in Japan conducted at archives and through on-site visits. A parallel research seminar will spotlight scholarship on mineral politics and resource management across geographical specialty and model a final goal of Material Authority: to inform inquiry into the entangled transformations in material extraction and human power across the early modern world.

Keywords: early modern japan,mining history,technology history,geographies of power,cross cultural exchange,precious metals
Pathology-based Structural Health Monitoring (Path-B SHM)

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: Spain,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Structural health monitoring (SHM) methods provide a comprehensive approach to the condition-based maintenance of Cultural Heritage (CH) constructions, aiming to extend their lifespan through optimized rehabilitation interventions. While physics-based damage identification is the most effective approach for comprehensive damage assessment, it has well-documented limitations. Specifically, classical methods often rely on a single model of the CH asset, which introduces significant uncertainties in decision-making. To address this challenge, this Action introduces a pioneering SHM paradigm referred to as pathology-based SHM (Path-B SHM) using multi-class digital twins (DTs)—a population of competing, efficient meta-models. The methodology begins with a systematic diagnosis, including site visits supplemented by non-destructive testing (NDT), to identify the most probable structural pathologies the asset may experience throughout its lifespan. High-fidelity scenario-based numerical models are then developed for each identified pathology. To enable real-time damage identification and simultaneous inverse calibration of all scenario-based models, these numerical models are replaced by computationally efficient meta-models constructed using artificial intelligence (AI) tools which form a multi-class DT. The resulting DT is capable of inferring, in quasi real-time, the probability of occurrence of the identified potential damage pathologies and their severity when supplied with continuous monitoring data. If an anomaly is detected, a Bayesian model selection approach identifies the damage mechanism, selecting the meta-model that explains the experimental data with the highest likelihood. This approach, therefore, enables rapid, robust, and comprehensive damage identification. Path-B SHM has the potential to revolutionize and advance the frontiers of SHM, offering unprecedented opportunities for data-informed decision-making in the preservation of CH constructions.

Keywords: cultural heritage constructions,damage identification,digital twins,monitoring,structural health monitoring,structural maintenance
Integrated biogas purification system for simultaneous removal of H2S and siloxanes in a single stage (SULKAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Faced with increasing organic waste, the need to reduce GHG emissions and energy challenges, biogas is globally recognized as an important renewable source. Consequently, many countries have ambitious biogas and biomethane production targets. The EU plans to ramp up biomethane production to 35 bcm by 2030. Although biogas production is a mature technology, commercial utilization is still limited as the gas needs to be purified (removal of H2S and Siloxanes) before use. In many central EU countries, less than 10% of landfills and 42% of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) utilize biogas they produce; the major reason being costly purification. Purification costs are high because existing technologies such as Activated Carbon and Bio Scrubber-based systems can only remove one impurity at a time (i.e., 2-3 stage process required for H2S and Siloxanes), are sensitive to fluctuations in pollutants concentrations, biogas flowrate, and humidity levels often necessitating use of more than one technology, add other constituents to the biogas requiring further purification steps, and generate waste that is costly to safely dispose. Clairion has developed SULKAN™, a breakthrough integrated biogas cleaning technology based on a proprietary catalytic liquid utilized in a specially designed wet scrubber, that enables – for the first-time – simultaneous removal of H2S and Siloxanes in a single step and reduces costs by 50 – 70%. The patented technology is insensitive to fluctuations in pollutant concentrations, biogas flowrate, and humidity levels, does not add other constituents to the biogas and maintains a consistently high removal efficiency of >99%. It has been demonstrated at small-scale in WWTPs and landfills in Israel. This project seeks amongst other things to optimise and scale-up the process, build and validate a full-scale prototype and industrialise the technology. Commercialisation will see Clairion generate 56 M€ in annual revenue by 2030.

Keywords: biogas purification,biomethane,catalytic liquid,h2s,siloxanes,biogas from wwtp and landfills
Bioinspired composite architectures for responsive 4 dimensional photonics (BIO4D)

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: Ireland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498579.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498579.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

BIO4D aims to achieve a fundamental understanding and develop a true biomimetic model of natural responsive photonic systems. From air (Paradise bird) to land (Panther chameleon), and soil (Hoplia Argentea beetle) to water (Neon Tetra fish), nature has enabled organisms to morph their colour, visibility, and reflectivity, to camouflage, signal, mimic, distract, and regulate biological processes. Due to the complexities of these systems, true synthetic analogues have not been achievable to date. BIO4D will develop novel responsive 3D photonic structures by combining self-ordering photonic nanomaterials with state-of-the-art 3D fabrication at the nano and micro-scale. This will enable dynamic photonic behaviour including controllable refractive index, adaptable reflectivity and transmission, angle independency, and stimuli response. This highly ambitious goal will be achieved by: -Developing self-ordered photonic nanomaterials in stimuli responsive hydrogel networks. -Understanding the effect of combining photonic substructures and superstructures (fabricated via 2-photon polymerisation) using Finite-difference time-domain analysis. -Fabricating biomimetic 3D photonic structures from composite hydrogels, using 2-photon polymerisation. -Demonstrating 4D photonic structures that show on-demand dynamic optical response. This will enable truly biomimetic models through self-ordering nanomaterials (modelling keratin and chitin), stimuli-responsive materials (modelling motor proteins and actin filaments) and 3D direct laser writing (yielding ordered and disordered superstructures). These stimuli-responsive photonic structures will offer a direct pathway to applications in active display technologies, biometric recognition, polarisation encryption, and extremely low-cost sensing in liquid and gas. The fundamental breakthroughs that will be achieved will be far reaching in materials development, chemistry, and physics.

Keywords: direct laser writing,2 photon polymerisation,stimuli responsive,hydrogels
Differential effects of dietary potassium intake on blood pressure (HyperK)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As the primary risk factor for the onset of cardiovascular disease, hypertension is a major contributor to premature death and disability. High dietary sodium (Na+) consumption is often considered a primary culprit for hypertension, but evidence exists that increasing dietary potassium (K+) consumption may lower blood pressure (BP). However, a number of studies in humans indicate that higher K+ intake is not always beneficial for blood pressure – effects that the host lab recently confirmed in rodents. Reducing and maintaining a lower BP based on dietary intervention requires understanding of the long term and/or accumulated effects of the intervention and the underlying molecular basis. This project will increase our understanding of the differential effects of dietary K+ on BP, the role of the kidney and potentially the vasculature. The project objectives are to: 1) determine the optimum dietary K+ intake that reduces and sustains lower BP; 2) identify factors in the kidney that drive K+ sensitivity of BP; 3) assess if sustained high dietary K+ intake changes vascular function; 4) investigate the molecular basis of any vascular remodelling that promotes, or is consequential, to increased BP during prolonged high dietary K+ intake. To address these questions I will apply a broad range of interdisciplinary skills and methods: telemetric monitoring of BP, in vivo assessment of kidney and vascular function in animal models and gene modified mice, RNA sequencing (including single-cell) and bioinformatics, optical clearing and innovative 3D multiplex imaging of tissues. Successful completion of the research in this proposal provides an excellent opportunity to uncover new targets and strategies for the management of hypertension. From a personal perspective it represents a major step towards establishing myself as an independent researcher in the area of renal-vascular crosstalk.

Keywords: hypertension,potassium,dietary intervention,kidney,vascular,3d imaging
STEPS: Biomechanical simulations of hominin locomotion across complex terrains (STEPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499522.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499522.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Human bipedalism is a rare and distinct form of locomotion, unlike that of any other animal. Despite its uniqueness, its evolutionary origins and ecological significance remain elusive. By walking on two legs, early hominins not only freed their hands to hold, manufacture, and use stone tools, but also gained the ability to interact with the environment in new ways, driving innovations in social structure, diet, and survival strategies. This ultimately led to the success of Homo, our genus, which expanded into diverse habitats, including those beyond Africa, while other hominins were more limited in their geographic distribution. Understanding how and why bipedalism became Homo’s primary adaptive strategy is key to explaining our species' evolutionary success in occupying diverse habitats. STEPS focuses on movement across complex, realistic landscapes similar to those likely traversed by hominins, which exerted selective pressures on their skeletons, driving anatomical and functional changes for efficient locomotion. It will investigate how hominins navigated such terrains bipedally despite their anatomical differences that likely affected their efficiency in doing so. Musculoskeletal models of seven hominin species spanning the last four million years will be constructed and their movement across complex terrains simulated. The predictive simulations will be guided by an empirical framework of human movements across experimentally-constructed substrates. STEPS will determine whether the Homo body plan offered greater efficiency compared to other hominins. Only by tackling such a project can scientists understand why the Homo genus was so successful at occupying diverse habitats, whilst other groups (australopiths) were not. STEPS will thus enhance our understanding of how anatomical features influenced locomotor strategy and dispersals, focusing on the role of the foot-ground interface as a driving force that shaped human evolution.

Keywords: human evolution,palaeoanthropology,evolutionary biomechanics,hominin
PLASTIC RECYCLING AND SORTING WITH TIME-GATED OPTICAL RECOGNITION (PRESTO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The separation of multi-material streams into highly pure mono-material is the major issue that hinders the development of an efficient and affordable circular economy for plastics. Nowadays, automatic sorting facilities are able to sort and recover a small portion of collected plastic (≤15%) and often with low purity. Most importantly, there is no general method to sort food-grade and high purity (>99%) polymers. Therefore, recycled polymers (of which plastic items are made of) can only be used for the production of objects with a much lower value. Our solution is an invisible marker made of luminescent silicon nanoparticles. Our business model provides advantages for all stakeholders within the plastic value-chain by giving value to post-consumer plastic that is now wasted. Polymer producers will embed our ink into virgin polymers to make plastic easily recyclable and reusable. Recycling companies will benefit of a reduced treatment cost and a higher value of the sorted material. Brand owner, retailer and logistics will then be able to finally close the loop for their packaging. Together, with our industrial partners, we successfully demonstrated the working principle of PRESTO, and tested the technology on commercially available sorting machinery. Plastic specimens have been prepared: compatibility with the polymer and its most common additives have been assessed, as well as compliance to safety regulation for food-grade plastics. To reach our goal, we need to engage as many stakeholders as possible into the project. The plastic industry needs high purity recycled plastics as a raw material and it needs it now. The Women Tech prize will generate the necessary momentum to make SINBIOSYS the first successful manufacturer of luminescent silicon nanomaterials in Europe.

Keywords: recyclability polymer emission nanomaterial marker quantum dot
Microbiome Abundance Profiling: Precision microbiome profiling for insights into human health & research (Perseus MAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Strategic Digital and Health Technologies (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3575740.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The thousands of microbial species that compose the human gut microbiome are linked to diseases from cancer to diabetes, sparking tremendous interest among pharmaceutical/ medical researchers in microbiome analytics. Current analytics methods are far too slow, expensive, and inaccurate to fulfil this need. Much faster techniques are essential for microbiome tracking over the course of disease states and therapies to discover correlations with disease and enable personalized medicine. Perseus MAP is the only microbiome analytics platform that will be able to handle this onslaught of demand, through a revolutionarily fast, high-throughput, and accurate technology based on DNA imaging techniques invented in the lab of our co-founders. We will massively accelerate microbiomics, starting with a central service lab, deploying satellite labs, and finally producing portable units for the microbiomics mass market, at a capacity of 300k profiles/yr analyzed in-house to seize a €2.5B market.

Keywords: biomarkers,pattern matching,barcoding,microbiome,super resolution microscopy
Proactive community adaptation to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change (PRO-CLIMATE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Ireland,United Kingdom,Norway,Germany,Spain,Poland
Call: Behavioural change and governance for systemic transformations towards climate resilience (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3666685.0
EU funding (EUR): 3666685.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The strategic objective of PRO-CLIMATE is to support communities to proactively adapt to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change. To achieve this, PRO-CLIMATE will identify social tipping points and policy actions that enable systemic transformation to be achieved across social systems. PRO-CLIMATE will adopt an approach guided by the concept of systems thinking, which views communities as complex systems that are interconnected and influenced by multiple factors, socio-economic and environmental. By understanding and leveraging their dynamics, it will then develop strategies and interventions that promote social transformation and behavioural change. This will result in a robust framework for designing effective methodologies and tools to foster proactively adaptive behaviours and facilitate transformative changes. A set of diverse (in terms of climate change problems and socio-economic contexts) case studies across Europe will be an instrumental tool for the co-creation, validation, and upscaling of this framework by running living labs and bringing stakeholders together to understand community governance and institutional structures, and to also pilot and validate the project's behaviour change activities. The outputs of PRO-CLIMATE will include: a) the identification of key components of climate adaptation systems, their interactions, systemic interdependencies and trade-offs, b) the design, implementation, and evaluation of a living lab framework, c) the identification of social tipping points and leverage actions for policy makers, d) the development of a multi agent computer model for European socio-ecological systems to allow a realistic analysis of existing and future policy scenarios likely to produce systemic transformations, and e) policy recommendations to accelerate systemic change.

Keywords: social transformation,behavioural change,climate resilience,communities