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High-fidelity Collaborative Perception for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (SkEyes)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2346219.0
EU funding (EUR): 2346219.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Over the past two decades, we witnessed impressive advancements in Robotics. Amongst the most disruptive developments was the demonstration of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with onboard cameras conducting autonomous, vision-based flights without reliance on GPS, sparking booming interest in a plethora of use-cases, such as automation of drone delivery, and infrastructure inspection and maintenance. This led to the emergence of new algorithms, advanced sensors, as well as miniaturized, powerful chips, opening exciting opportunities for automating single- as well as multi-UAV navigation. Current solutions, however, lack greatly in robustness and generality, struggling to perform outside very controlled settings, with onboard perception constituting the biggest impediment. Working in this area for over a decade, it is troubling that despite dramatic progress, we still lack the technology to enable a UAV swarm to autonomously scan the seas for refugee dinghies or forest areas for wildfires, and to provide help in such dire situations. While, in principle, the core technology is the same across all use-cases, battling adverse conditions, such as wind, smoke, and degraded illumination, render the latter use-cases extremely challenging as they are time-critical and cannot be postponed until favorable conditions arise. Employing some of the currently most promising sensors, such as lidar, and advanced depth, thermal, event, and visual cameras, SkEyes proposes to address fundamental research questions to understand how to process and combine these heterogeneous sensing cues onboard a swarm of small UAVs. The goal is to achieve joint spatial understanding and scene awareness for effective autonomy in highly dynamic and realistic scenarios. Engaging such eyes in the sky, the focus is on robust, collaborative perception to enable intelligent UAV swarm navigation exhibiting adaptability in completing a mission in challenging conditions, at the push of a button.

Keywords: robotic perception,uav navigation,computer vision,semantic scene understanding,path planning
Distributed System of Scientific Collections Transition to ERIC Project (DiSSCo Transition)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Belgium,Germany,Sweden,Denmark,Italy,France,United Kingdom,Greece,Portugal,Bulgaria,Slovakia,Estonia
Call: Early phase implementation of ESFRI Projects which entered the ESFRI Roadmap in 2018 (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-DEV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1333081.91
EU funding (EUR): 1290201.28
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a pan-European Research Infrastructure (RI) initiative. DiSSCo aims to bring together natural science collections from 175 museums, botanical gardens, universities and research institutes across 23 countries in a distributed infrastructure that makes these collections physically and digitally open and accessible for all forms of research and innovation. DiSSCo RI entered the ESFRI roadmap in 2018 and successfully concluded its Preparatory Phase in early 2023. The RI is now transitioning towards the constitution of its legal entity (an ERIC) and the start of its scaled-up construction (implementation) programme. The primary goal of the DiSSCo Transition Project is to ensure the seamless transition of the DiSSCo RI from its Preparatory Phase to the Construction Phase (expected to start in 2025). In this transition period, the Project will address five objectives building on the outcomes of the Preparatory Phase project: 1) Advance the DiSSCo ERIC process and complete its policy framework, ensuring the smooth early-phase Implementation of DISSCo; 2) Engage & support DiSSCo National Nodes to strengthen national commitments; 3) Advance the development of core e-services to avoid the accumulation of technical debt before the start of the Implementation Phase; 4) Continue international collaboration on standards & best practices needed for the DiSSCo service provision; and 5) Continue supporting DiSSCo RI interim governance bodies and transition them to the DiSSCo ERIC formal governance. The Project’s impact will be measured against the increase in the RI's overall Implementation Readiness Level (IRL). More specifically, we will monitor its impact towards reaching the required level of maturity in four of the five dimensions of the IRL that can benefit from further developments. These include the organisational, financial, technological and data readiness levels.

Keywords: research infrastructures,esfri,biodiversity data,natural science collections
LEAF: heaL thE plAnet's Future (LEAF)

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: Italy
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-03-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 300250.0
EU funding (EUR): 300250.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Starting from the encouraging results of the LEAF (heaL thE plAnet's Future) project in 2021 NIGHT edition, we are now proposing a step forward to increase the awareness on the importance of research and innovation, to improve trust in the researcher's work by effectively involving the society in experimenting science through 600 events. All activities will cover EU Green Deal topics (Farm to Fork, Biodiversity, Circular economy, Zero-pollution, toxic-free environments, Health & Wellbeing, Energy and resource efficient buildings, secure energy, sustainable and smart mobility). The main goal is to make science accessible and fun to everyone, thus generating a practical understanding of how to cope with climate change issues. The LEAF project will be developed in 21 cities in Italy, involving 39 partners with a series of events happening during the last week of September 2022 and 2023 thus including the NIGHT. LEAF 22-23 project will include a series of specific activities dedicated to schools to permit researchers to engage with teachers and pupils on challenges related to climate change, sustainable development, health and other issues related to the European Commission priorities such as the European Green Deal. In particular, in this edition we will reinforce the experience at school through a dedicated work package on researchers@school involving institutes located in small towns with difficulties in reaching NIGHT events. First year will be devoted to fulfill the achievements reached in last editions while in 2023 our main goal will be the improvement of project KPIs thanks to the validation of the researchers@school activity. The overall result will be a relevant increase in the awareness of why and how the researcher's work is relevant for the benefit of our current and future planet, as well as effectively encouraging young people in embarking in scientific careers by generating a real impact on science.

Keywords: green deal,climate change,science communication,outreach,young people
Local Democratic Governance towards Equality: Implementation of Gender+ Equality Policies in times of Anti-Gender and Democratic Backsliding (LODGE)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

LODGE studies local responses to one of the crucial challenges of contemporary European societies: preserving mechanisms designed to protect gender equality and democratic inclusion in an increasingly polarized climate. The project examines localism, a form of governance that privileges local institutions as key sites of civic engagement and citizen control over public services. Specifically, LODGE tests the scholarly agreement that localism is a particularly fertile terrain for the design and implementation of gender+ equality and democratic inclusion policies, because of the capacity of local administrations to reorganize political priorities and redistribute power and resources more equitably. The project proposes an empirical study to measure the implementation of the legislative agenda of Barcelona and Madrid city councils during 2015-2019, two local governments in Spain that professed localism and designed pioneering feminist politics. The project will deliver: 1) an analysis of gender+ equality and democratic inclusion policies that are distinctive of localist agendas; and 2) an analysis of the obstacles and opportunities to implement such policies, with a specific focus on the discursive negotiation of policy meanings, and the impact of key actors and organizational structures in the success of policy implementation. LODGE will conduct content and frame analysis of policy documents, in-depth interviews with municipal technical personnel, participant observation in technical meetings, two workshops with policy experts, and will produce a technical report. The project will contribute to develop the increasingly relevant concept of localism from a gender+ equality perspective, advance the field of implementation studies of gender equality policies, empirically document experiences to ‘engender’ spaces of democratic participation, bridge the gap between non-academic stakeholders and academic scholars, and contribute to policy-making with policy recommendations.

Keywords: gender equality policies,policy implementation,local government,feminism,localism,qualitative analysis,critical discourse analysis,participatory research
OPEN FAN VALIDATION FOR CARBON-FREE AIRCRAFTS (PANDORA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France,United Kingdom
Call: Towards a silent and ultra-low local air pollution aircraft (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4255536.0
EU funding (EUR): 4255536.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The open fan concept has been around for decades. Its high propulsive efficiency combined with the elimination of the nacelle drag and weight has been always appealing to replace high by-pass ratio ducted fans and reduce CO2 and NOx emissions. The CS1 and CS2 programs have made relevant efforts to pursue the contra-rotating open rotor (CROR) concept as well. Though CROR has not made it to market, progress has been done reducing noise levels to that of ducted fans. Open fans exhibit several differences with respect to ducted fans which by today are highly sophisticated components accumulating decades of research. The chasm between the OP concept and its product is too big to be covered by a single demonstrator since a wrong materialization of the idea can give rise to misleading conclusions. Turbomachinery simulations have been perfected for decades and are essential to close the gap between the concept and the detailed implementation of the product. However, open rotors exacerbate existing problems (e.g., blade-to-blade variations even for small angles of attack, strong coupling between CO2 and noise emissions, etc.). Moreover, open fans lack publicly available data or test cases preventing researchers from validating their ideas. The first global assessment of CS2 reported an expected noise reduction of -9dB in the innovative TP 130 pax project with respect to the last generation of ducted fans though at a lower flight Mach number. This project aims to obtain relevant noise and performance experimental data of an unducted single fan (USF) for the short/medium-range aircraft with two objectives. Firstly, confirm that about 5-10 dB noise reduction is achievable at the expense of a slight penalty in fan efficiency, and secondly, validate and expand the scope of numerical tools. An experimental database with the key results of the projects will be built to unlock the application of the USF for SAF, Hydrogen, and Hybrid-electric engine and aircraft configurations.

Keywords: aeroengine,noise emissions,testing,simulation
STRATIFICATION PLATFORM ENABLING CORRECTIVE TREATMENTS FOR NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS (SPECTRA-ND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 12500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Neuropsychiatric drug development has one of the lowest success rates of any therapeutic area, primarily due to diagnostic heterogeneity that renders symptom-based treatments ineffective across patients. STALICLA is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that is pioneering a biologically-driven precision medicine approach for neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders using the proprietary DEPI (Databased Endophenotyping Patient Identification) platform. DEPI integrates large-scale multi-omics, clinical, molecular, and EEG data and effectively stratifies patients into clinically validated, mechanism-based subgroups using multi-modal data analysis and systems biology. This approach enables targeted, mechanism-based therapy selection and addresses the high failure rate of symptom-based treatments in biologically heterogeneous conditions. DEPI has been validated in proof-of-concept trials, establishing the first precision ASD subgroup (ASD-Phen1) and showing biomarker engagement with STALICLA’s lead asset, STP1. The pipeline includes two Phase 2–ready ASD assets and a Phase 3–ready in-licensed compound, with potential expansion to schizophrenia and ADHD assets. Supported by over $80M in funding, a world-class team, and strategic partnerships, STALICLA is set to transform neuropsychiatry by increasing trial success, accelerating personalized therapy development, and delivering socio-economic impact at scale. EIC Accelerator funding will catalyze dual TRL advancement, with STP1 Phase 2b clinical validation (TRL 6 to 7), platform qualification (TRL 6 to 8), and expansion across high-burden psychiatric indications through industry co-development partnerships, solidly anchoring Europe at the forefront of precision mental health innovation.

Keywords: precision medicine biomarker driven patient stratification patient enrichment depi platform stp1 autism adhd schizophrenia neuropsychiatric disorders dual trl advancement clinical validation
Beyond compliance: Rethinking the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Regimes (BeyondCompliance)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494898.0
EU funding (EUR): 1494898.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The European, African and inter-American human rights regimes seem not to be effective vis-à-vis non-democratic states. Besides undermining the international rule-based order, this situation has dire implications for human rights victims. Conventional theories, based on the experience of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), equate the effectiveness of regional courts with compliance. This perspective is inadequate to explain the status quo, where illiberal states may execute individual rulings while violating the underpinning norms. Scholarship on the Global South suggests that the experiences of the inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) and the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) offer an underexplored potential to increase our understanding, and a great potential to draw lessons for the European context, which is increasingly dealing with illiberal regimes. From a compliance perspective, the IACtHR and the ACtHPR have been hardly effective. Yet, if we take broader societal impact as an indicator, their experiences might indeed provide us with important insights. The project asks: What are the limitations and possibilities for human rights regimes to be effective in non-democratic contexts? It starts from the working assumption that regimes can only be effective if they make full use of their oversight powers (exhaustiveness) and empower domestic activists in their mobilization (responsiveness). It tests this view by analyzing how the three regimes have enforced their norms against states engaging in: 1) violence, 2) legal repression, and/or 3) rule of law violations. Based on case law analysis and interviews, it will develop an empirically based theory on effectiveness in three steps: 1) a historical analysis to identify the three regimes’ founding goals; 2) an empirical analysis of the extent to which they have adhered to these goals vis-à-vis illiberal states; 3) a normative framework on how they can enhance their effectiveness.

Keywords: regional human rights,international courts,legal mobilization,illiberal regimes,human rights courts,authoritarian regimes,compliance,human rights,democracy,illiberal democracy,democratisation,social movements
Avifauna in archaeoecological networks (AviArch)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999969.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999969.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

We love birds but probably do not worry enough about our relationship to them. Across the world, we are threatening their critical ecosystem functions, including birds’ positive impact on our wellbeing, and poultry has become our favourite meat, yet industrial-scale breeding has consequences for human and bird health. Arguably, this lack of concern is due to our ignorance of the deep historical roots of these relationships. Our interaction with birds, for their plumage, eggs, meat, song, or spirit, extends back to prehistory. At the same time, avifauna responded to climate shifts, and to our modifications of the landscape. This has created a tangled archaeological record, which makes understanding bird-human relationships all but impossible. Building upon and moving beyond my expertise in biomolecular archaeology, AviArch will explore, from a bird’s eye view, the transition to agriculture in Epipalaeolithic/Neolithic southwest Asia and the emergence of urban life and trade routes in Bronze Age Crete. AviArch will reveal the variety of birds in past human systems by using new techniques for the identification of avifauna, integrating zooarchaeology, palaeoproteomics and AI. My sites have been carefully chosen to target biodiversity hotspots with a rich archaeological record intersecting socio-ecological changes of human-bird relationships. We will combine ecological, morphological, and behavioural traits for each bird, to produce the most refined exploration of human-avian relationships yet attempted in archaeology. Using network analysis and underpinned by multispecies theory, AviArch’s archaeoecological models will discover how environmental shifts affected people, and anthropogenic- and climate-driven changes affected birds. By transforming the ways in which past bird-human interactions are studied, AviArch promises to improve human adaptivity, avian conservation strategies, and make us worry and marvel about these beautiful creatures a little more.

Keywords: zooarchaeology avifauna archaeological methods human environment interactions palaeoproteomics artificial intelligence networks
Exploring the process of urbanisation in the Roman provinces of Germania through the study of food plant commerce (PlantNetGem)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The arrival of the Romans in large parts of current Europe had a major impact on society, with the creation of a new transport network and the development of cities being two of the most significant and lasting changes. However, so far, little work has been done to quantify and understand their connection, how this developed and its lasting consequences. Through the study of imported/introduced food plants into the provinces of Germania in the Roman period, PlantNetGem aims to contribute to a better understanding of foodways and the role of transport and commerce in the development of the population nuclei in this area. It will apply a novel, interdisciplinary approach, combining archaeobotany, computational archaeology and data science through practical training by the supervisory team that pioneered part of the proposed methodology. The project will start by creating a geodatabase where archaeobotanical and archaeological information from the study area will be stored. These will provide the analytical basis to identify which food plants arrived and when, who had access to these and the reasons why. Network science will be applied to reconstruct settlement connectivity in relation to a) their access to the introduced food plants, and b) their position within and access to the Roman transport network. Agent-Based Modelling and statistical analyses will be applied to further allow testing hypotheses concerning settlement position and hierarchy in relation to commerce to ultimately evaluate the role of the ancient transport network in the distribution and importance of urban centres and analyse to which degree these patterns have endured in time up to the modern period. PlantNetGem builds upon the candidate’s solid expertise and involves training on big data management, network analysis, agent based modelling and associated geostatistical analysis to equip her with innovative skills that will add a new dimension to her analytical potential and boost her career.

Keywords: archaeobotany,food plants,trade,urbanisation,germania,roman period