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Global China in Urban Europe: Understanding the role of Chinese actors, media, cultures, and capital in European urban development (CHINA.EU)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2030-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The concept of global China understands China’s influence as manifested in outward flows of capital, infrastructure, migrants, media, cultural programmes and international and civil society engagement, yet for an area of study that purports to be ‘global’ scholarship in the field of global China has focused almost exclusively on the role of Chinese citizens, Chinese institutions, and carriers of Chinese capital (hereafter, Chinese actors) and Chinese capital in developing countries and the Global South. To combat this narrow view of global China, China.EU takes an innovative approach to the study of global China that pivots scholarship on global China to the Global North. The project moves beyond a methodologically nationalist and state-led understanding of global China, to instead focus on how global China, as understood through Chinese actors and capital, is (i) urban, (ii) cultural, and (iii) digital – often simultaneously all three. In doing this, the project will answer four research questions: (1) What concepts are used to understand urbanism and urban development in China? (2) How do Chinese actors see and understand European urban space? What notions do they carry with them from China? (3) How are Chinese actors as (un)willing representatives of global China influencing urban development in Europe? (4) What insights about global China emerge when we analyse global urban China and the role of Chinese actors in European urban spaces? To answer these questions, Europe.CN uses innovative hybrid fieldwork methods to analyse the heterogenous role of Chinese actors and capital in three European contexts: Dusseldorf & the Ruhr Area, Paris, and Athens. Furthermore, the project hypothesizes that Chinese actors in urban Europe will see, understand, imagine, and conceptualize European urban space through Chinese concepts and the recent history of rapid urban development in China. To understand this, the team will produce a handbook of ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ ur

Keywords: china studies digital geography cultural geography
Archaeology of the Light: multiproxy, interdisciplinary and experimental approach to the knowledge of palaeolithic subterranean activities (A-LIGHT)

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: France,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 229401.12
EU funding (EUR): 229401.12
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The control of fire is a milestone in human evolution. Artificial lighting is a crucial resource for the expansion of social and economic behaviour in Palaeolithic groups beyond the day hours. Besides, this allowed the potential development of the first symbolic comportment located in deep caves probably at least 176ky ago. This would increase during the Upper Palaeolithic when archaeological remains proliferate in darkness linked to the rock art. The A-LIGHT project, Archaeology of the Light, aims to improve our knowledge of palaeolithic activities in caves through a pioneering and interdisciplinary methodology applied to rarely-studied remains: the residues of Palaeolithic light. Its multi-analytical approach will provide multifaceted information, including the widely debated chronology of the first cave art. Additionally, it will supply useful data for other researchers who delve into topics related to cave art and the symbolic world of the Palaeolithic (visibility, accessibility, space perception...). The experimental reproduction will permit evaluating the efficiency of the light systems deduced from the previous multi-analytical study and reach a Virtual Scientific Reproduction (prototype in non-academic placement), with its economic potential in heritage dissemination and tourism activities. It also includes an ethnographic section which will help shedding some light on alternative interpretations to the utilitarian aspect of the firelight. The host institution (UBx), under the supervision of Dr. Ferrier, will conduct and train Dr. Medina, a specialist in Subterranean Archaeology from Spain, to advance her training in Archaeo-pyrotechnology in caves (multiproxy, multi-analytical and experimental approach, with special incidence about on-site analysis). Dr. Medina will contribute to the charcoal analysis from the inner of the caves and provide an opportunity for the host to expand the study area to new geographical contexts and recently discovered caverns.

Keywords: european archaeology,middle and upper palaeolithic,archaeology of fire,cave,inner archaeological context,rock art
PAN-EUROPEAN INTEROPERABLE AC-DC HYBRID ELECTRICITY NETWORKS (HYNET)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Spain,Portugal,Cyprus,Greece,Hungary,Norway,Montenegro
Call: DC and AC/DC hybrid transmission and distribution systems (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5997687.5
EU funding (EUR): 5997687.5
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Nowadays, the interest in direct current (DC) power transmission and distribution (T&D) systems among academia and industry has been rekindled mainly due to the proliferation of power electronic based (or interfaced through power electronics) loads and the increasing deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs), which operate intrinsically in DC or have a DC stage. Reacting to the recent events in Ukraine, the European Commission (EC) unveiled the REPowerEU Plan. This plan aims to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian energy imports by increasing the total renewable energy generation capacities to 1236 GW by 2030 (compared to 1067 GW originally envisaged under the “Fit for 55” package). To achieve this goal, the energy sector, including DC technologies, is expected to play a prominent role. While considerable progress has been made in increasing electricity generation from variable RES in various member states, additional efforts are needed to reach a carbon-neutral power system. Within this context, the widespread adoption of offshore wind generation is anticipated to play a significant role in the years to come, as it is favored for its higher availability rates and greater public acceptance. The HYNET projects aims to: (i) develop innovative technologies for transnational design and planning of AC/DC hybrid power systems, (ii) establish standardized methodologies and interoperability for multi-terminal, multi-vendor MVDC and LVDC systems, (iii) define and validate functional requirements for AC and DC grid forming capabilities, (iv) design, implement and demonstrate a complete workbench of innovative solutions that promotes the adoption and deployment of DC power systems across all voltage levels while evaluating the technoeconomic benefits of DC vs AC systems, (v) demonstrate HYNET innovations in 4 countries across Europe in existing and planned AC/DC hybrid grids.

Keywords: ybrid ac dc grids,grid forming,resilience,reliability,multi energy planning,hvdc,interoperability,converters,mvdc
RIXISAC: Reflective intelligent surface-assisted, Intelligent, and eXplainable Integrated Sensing and Communication systems (RIXISAC)

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: Netherlands,Germany,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Sixth Generation (6G) communication networks are envisioned to deliver omnipresent network intelligence, enabling a variety of applications, such as vehicular networks, smart health, and smart farms. These services require sensing information and then transmitting it to be processed or stored for future analysis, to take actions that are related to the objects of the application, and ultimately increase the quality of the provided service. Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) aims to combine sensing and communication within networking systems, thus enabling in practice the applications mentioned above. ISAC systems face two main barriers: (i) They are not supported by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), and (ii) are highly dynamic and complex. This project is termed “Reflective intelligent surface-assisted, Intelligent, and eXplainable Integrated Sensing and Communication systems” (RIXISAC). RIXISAC will combine mathematical rigorousness and experimental evidence through the deployment of prototypes, aiming at unlocking the potential of ISAC and bringing it one step closer to its practical realization in 6G networks. Within RIXISAC, I will (i) explore RIS-assisted ISAC systems by performing cross-layer optimization for (a) static and (b) dynamic scenarios, and (ii) design real-time and explainable algorithms for RIS-assisted ISAC.

Keywords: reconfigurable intelligent surfaces,integrated sensing and communications,online learning,optimization,applied math,artificial intelligence,explainable artificial intelligence,machine learning
Synergizing Artificial Intelligence with XL-MIMO for Terahertz Communication and Sensing (Saix-MIMOComSen)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Terahertz (THz) communication is an up-and-coming candidate technology for 6G, aiming to meet the stringent performance requirements of next-generation communications, such as hyper rates on the order of terabits-per-second. However, a notable challenge in THz communications is the increased path losses. Fortunately, extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) technology can effectively compensate for this issue. The combined implementation of THz and XL-MIMO, offering extensive spatial degrees of freedom and ultra-wideband capabilities, has emerged as a crucial technology for high-precision target sensing and high-throughput communications, effectively meeting the needs of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, the large antenna aperture of XL-MIMO will make near-field communications dominant. On the other hand, the ultra-wideband nature of THz signals will introduce the beam-split effect. There is an urgent need to consider these unique characteristics to synergize artificial intelligence (AI) with XL-MIMO for developing THz communication and sensing. This proposal aims to design AI-native XL-MIMO THz communication by developing novel techniques: 1) Intelligent THz XL-MIMO Communication Design. Developing low-complexity, learning-aided channel estimation methods for XL-MIMO communication systems while studying intelligent precoding to manage hybrid field interference for mixed near-field and far-field communication users. 2) Hybrid-Field THz XL-MIMO ISAC Design. Developing ISAC precoder for target sensing and electromagnetic property sensing, while developing a network-level ISAC performance analysis framework. 3) Practical implementation of Intelligent THz XL-MIMO ISAC. Developing resilient AI-native XL-MIMO ISAC using generative diffusion model and intelligent XL-MIMO ISAC testbed. The main research approaches include electromagnetic wave theory, nonlinear optimization, and reinforcement learning, etc.

Keywords: extremely large scale mimo,terahertz communication,hybrid field communication and sensing,spatially non stationarity,ai native xl mimo isac
Automated online monitoring & control to improve processes and decision making in cell and gene therapy manufacturing (PAT4CGT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Portugal,Austria,Belgium,Ireland,Switzerland
Call: Emerging Technologies in Cell and Gene therapy (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3617783.75
EU funding (EUR): 3617783.75
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Problem: Cell and gene therapies (CGT) represent a breakthrough in the treatment of a wide range of conditions. However, limited global manufacturing capacity owing to a lack of scalability prevents CGT from becoming widely available to patients: therapies are prepared individually at central facilities in a series of complex open manual steps. Variability is high, and a uniform manufacturing process is lacking. Automated, standardized, quality-controlled, and decentralized processes are urgently needed to scale out CGT manufacturing, bring down costs and enable treatment for millions of patients. True automation requires an understanding of what are known as critical process parameters (CPPs). Currently, manufacturing of cell therapies is carried out over several days, with limited access to knowledge of CPPs, often obtained through intrusive sampling methods. Innovation: We aim to enable in-line continuous monitoring of key cell culture parameters during therapy manufacturing. To do this, we will create a self-contained instrument that connects miniaturized biosensor technologies to a novel bioreactor to allow automation of the entire cell therapy manufacturing process in a closed system. The device will accommodate a disposable, single-use sampling unit that will ultimately be adaptable to any bioreactor. Our platform will carry out continuous, automated, and closed monitoring of a set of well-defined CPPs, as indicators of the overall state of the cell culture. We will select and refine our parameters and establish optimal ranges, as predictors of process outcomes and product quality, based on prediction algorithms and digital twin analysis. This will allow continuous process monitoring, while greatly lowering costs and risks associated with manual sampling. Our first application will be in CAR T cell therapy production, but the advantages of automation with continuous monitoring will be further applied to other CGT product that involves culturing of cells.

Keywords: process analytical technology car t therapy manufacturing adoptive cell therapies critical process parameters at line analysis advanced therapy medical products
Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Ireland,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Austria
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2429308.8
EU funding (EUR): 2429308.8
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The digital revolution is opening our eyes to the important historical truth that the enduring cultural and economic value of the book has always depended on its adaptability to different media, today from printed book to e-book (and back again), and in the past from manuscript book to printed book (and vice versa). The MSCA Doctoral Network "Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures" focuses on the ways in which 15th- and 16th-century book producers (scribes, printers, entrepreneurs) negotiated the dynamic relations between the manuscript book and the printed book and adapted to the evolving challenges of the market; and it demonstrates the continuing relevance of these cultural and economic negotiations to the modern world. To this end, it unites the interests of present-day organisations that re-mediate the early book – publishers, bookdealers, museums, creative and heritage industries – with those of academic scholarship, with the double aim of (1) engaging a new generation of medievalists and early modernists in an innovative and collaborative research programme that asks fundamental and interdisciplinary questions about the history of the book and the written word and its future in a digital environment; and (2) equipping the researchers recruited to this Doctoral Network with high-level transferable skills and competences to be acquired and applied not just in academic settings but also through secondments and training workshops provided by a suite of nine European non-academic partners that have a direct interest in, and relevance to, our research agenda.

Keywords: history of the book,early printing,codicology,medieval literatures
Material Culture, Gender and Maintenance Activities in Making and Resisting Early Modern Colonial Globalization. A Long-term Perspective from the Mariana Islands (MaGMa)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2649448.0
EU funding (EUR): 2649448.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed project will be the first to investigate the intimate connection between material culture, quotidian life, and gender in the making of and resistance to early modern colonial globalization. The 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries witnessed the rise of historical processes vital to moulding the world to its present shape. While scholars have extensively studied the worldwide translocations of people, goods and ideas, the fact that this globalization also took shape through the cross-continental circulation of engendered ideologies, policies, knowledge, material culture, technologies and skills has not been sufficiently explored; equally under-investigated has been how this same constellation worked in resisting globalization. Through a synergistic transdisciplinary approach, MaGMa will fully address these weaknesses by examining the material worlds constructed at the crossroads of Modern Colonialism, Gender Systems, and Maintenance Activities. The latter is a concept born in Spanish archaeology to highlight the foregrounding nature of a set of structural everyday practices (e.g. care-giving, food-processing, weaving, hygiene and health, the socialization and rearing of children, and the arrangement of living spaces) essential to social continuity and community wellbeing. Bringing into focused dialogue prehistoric and historical archaeology; history; anthropology, geography; and postcolonial, anticolonial, decolonial, and gender studies, and binding archaeological science, archaeological fieldwork, and archival research, MaGMa will analyse cultural changes and continuities in the Mariana Islands revealing otherwise undetected cultural features. The ground-breaking combination of this array of disciplines and methods will facilitate the ultimate goal of the project: a sound and holistic understanding of how maintenance activities and gender transformations became structural in configuring early modern colonial “new normalities” across the globe.

Keywords: archaeology of colonialism archaeology of gender archaeology of everyday life global archaeology social archaeology community oriented archaeology indigenous communities decolonial archaeology pacific archaeology,historical archaeology mariana islands
Exchange bias in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (ExBiaVdW)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Exchange bias has been vital in magnetic storage devices to pin the magnetisation of the ferromagnetic reference layer in a fixed direction. It was extensively studied in thin-film heterostructures, however the origin of exchange bias is not well understood due to the subtle nature of the interfaces. Recent discovery of two-dimensional van der Waals magnetic materials opens up new avenues to scout for origin of exchange bias. Unlike thin-films, atomically sharp interface registry of two-dimensional materials is crucial for this purpose. The primary objective of this project is to do investigations on exchange bias in two-dimensional heterostructures to address the most fundamental at the same time enigmatic question - 'what is the underlying physics that controls exchange bias?!'. For this, the interface domain structure of the ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic bilayer heterostructure will be investigated employing advanced synchrotron based x-ray photoemission electron microscopy facilities with polarisation control, which is one of the major expertise of the host. Embedded into two work packages, I intend to tackle this problem in two different interface spin configurations by judicious choice of antiferromagnetic layer; (i) parallel coupling of spins with the spins in the antiferromagnetic layer pointing out of the plane and, (ii) perpendicular coupling with the atomic spins of the antiferromagnetic layer lie in the two-dimensional plane. Electric field control of magnetism has been central to the sustainable advancement of spintronic devices. Two-dimensional materials are extremely sensitive to external electrical stimuli and demonstration of a field effect device based on two-dimensional magnetic materials could be remarkable. Taking advantage of the semiconducting/insulator nature of the antiferromagnetic two-dimensional materials, in a separate work package, I will also demonstrate the electric field control of exchange bias by applying a gate voltage.

Keywords: exchange bias,two dimensional materials,van der waal heterostructures,proximity effects