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DIVerse Exoplanet Redox State Estimations (DIVERSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1993270.0
EU funding (EUR): 1993270.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

New observational capabilities with the JWST and ARIEL space telescopes will strongly advance our ability to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres. While the community focusses mainly on biosignatures, in DIVERSE I will search for signatures of geophysical factors that influence habitability, specifically the diversity of planetary redox states. The redox state is of major importance for habitability, since reducing conditions favour prebiotic chemistry for life as we know it. Atmospheres of rocky planets are typically divided into two distinct classes – H2/He-dominated (reduced) atmospheres of primordial origin – here denoted as Class I planets – or secondary (more oxidized) atmospheres of volcanic origin – here named Class II planets. In the Solar System, observations are limited to old, evolved atmospheres that became oxidized over time and do not allow to directly constrain the planets’ interior redox states. Furthermore, detection of reduced species such as CO or CH4 does not unambiguously link back to the interior redox state. In contrast, if we were able to detect H2-dominated atmospheres lacking He – here called Class X planets – the most likely explanation would be strongly reduced degassing from the magma ocean or subsequent volcanism. Distinguishing Class I and X planets would truly allow to constrain the planetary redox state and indicate how it depends on observables such as stellar composition or planetary mass. Estimates on the distribution and observability of Class X planets are yet missing but became recently possible. DIVERSE will build strong predictive, theoretical models, linking the interior evolution including core formation with atmospheric abundance and erosion models including the observability potential, to determine the diverse evolution pathways of reducing atmospheres of primary, secondary or hybrid origin. I will thus address whether (and for which planet classes) the atmosphere could indeed serve as a window into the interior.

Keywords: exoplanet formation core differentiation redox state magma ocean volcanic outgassing atmosphere
Zero-waste Lignocellulose-Derived biorefinery products for smArt plant protection (ZELDA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Austria,Spain,Portugal,Germany,Netherlands,Romania
Call: Sustainable, bio-based alternatives for crop protection (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5012496.9
EU funding (EUR): 5012496.9
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

As the EU is confronted with profound agriculture and environmental challenges, the development and adoption of more effective, safer and greener alternatives for crop protection is becoming increasingly critical, thus reducing the impact of current pesticides on human, animals and the environment as well as fighting pesticide resistance, a phenomenon that has been exacerbated by the extensive and non-targeted use of these products and climate change. Answering current challenges for the development of new sustainable bio-based alternatives for crop protection, ZELDA aims to validate a zero-waste biorefinery approach at TRL5 for developing a portfolio of broad-spectrum immune elicitors derived from lignocellulosic biomasses. Such products combining for the first time cello-oligos, hemi-oligos and lignin-based products will reverse the pesticide paradigm, supporting plants in raising their own defences against a wide range of pathogens while supporting plant growth and flowering. Lignin nanoparticles will also bring a microbicides effect for curative use, further enhancing product efficacy. By combining principles of Safe and Sustainable by Design that will establish a feedback loop for product implementation, the project will ensure that products are not only more effective, but also safer and more sustainable. Economic viability will be ensured by minimising the amount of product to be used: ZELDA’ success will rely on the use of AI-based smart delivery systems targeting specific areas of the crop that require to be treated. The products developed will be tested on key crops central to the EU diet (cereals, tomatoes and grapes) in different EU geographical and pedo-climatic areas, developing tailored crop protection strategies for improving food security and contributing to preserving biodiversity and the ecosystem.

Keywords: immune elicitors,lignocellulosic biomass,enzyme catalysis,biocatalysis
High Q factOr MiniaturizEd low Mass (Accoustic) filters for highly DEmanding space applications (HOMEMADE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Spain
Call: Space technologies for European non-dependence and competitiveness (HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2113170.0
EU funding (EUR): 2113168.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The HOMEMADE project falls directly into the scope of the HORIZON EUROPE policy: “To reduce the dependence on critical technologies and capabilities from outside Europe for future space applications”. We target a fast growing market which integrates communication satellites in 5G networks that will reduce digital divide by meeting latent demand for digital broadband. The project aims at developing a truly new Surface Acoustic Wave(SAW) filter technology not yet available to space industry. This innovation based on Piezo-On-Insulator (POI) wafers already produced for Smart phone industry is not accessible to space industry due to market size and its own high reliability specificities. Compared to existing technologies, POI-based SAW filters enable high integration, temperature stability, thermal management, low insertion loss and high rejection with various bandwidths in L- and S-band frequencies, replacing leaky waves on usual piezoelectric substrates by real guided waves on Silicon-based wafers. This project will deliver, as first pillar, POI-based SAW filters for space industry up to a TRL7 addressing all volume demands, in line with Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting satellites to Low Earth Orbiting satellite constellations. The supply chain for key items such as POI wafer supply, to front-end and back-end process is based in Europe. The high demand of innovation yielding reduced mass in satellites especially for new growing markets within a limited access time, has pushed to develop in HOMEMADE a second pillar that will deliver disruptive POI based SAW filters able to compete with bulky mechanical filters. The value chain includes European supplier of specific acoustic passive SOI-FREC as part of the SOITEC group with space integrator and technology supplier TAS, UCL and SME INC both world leaders in the field POI based material and device optimization, and finally ALT European centre of excellence for space reliability of high complexity active and passive components.

Keywords: rf passive,rf filter,saw filter,non hermetic packaging
Identification of microbial and cellular biomarkers for Short Bowel Syndrome in a combined in vitro-in vivo study (SBS-microbe)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is a severe intestinal disorder that occurs in patients upon small bowel resection. While rare in prevalence, SBS severely affects the patient’s quality of life. SBS-microbe is a multidisciplinary translational project aimed at expanding our knowledge on SBS pathogenesis and the mechanisms for resection-induced physiological adaptations, through the identification of microbial, metabolic and cellular hallmarks. It integrates a combination of SHIME, as dynamic gastrointestinal (GI) model, with epithelial cellular models and in vivo patients’ data, to gain a better mechanistic insight in disease progression, severity and the interplay with the microbiota. It may additionally propose attractive therapeutic strategies and provide valuable tools to address physiological aspects for both healthy and pathological conditions, without the recourse to animal models. Hosted in the Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology at Ghent University, this proposal includes a secondment with SBS medical and metagenomics experts at KULeuven. The applicant’s microbiology and cell biology expertise will be expanded with reactor engineering skills, facilitating the development of novel in vitro models to address host-microbiota interactions in a simulated SBS environment. The secondment at KULeuven offers the opportunity to gain a better insight in cohort composition and identify determinants that potentially underlie the patient’s clinical condition, which is crucial for the mechanistic in vitro work. Through the development of a GI and epithelial cellular models, SBS-microbe aims at identifying key microbial and cellular signatures occurring after intestinal resection. Additionally, this will enable the proof-of-concept that targeting specific microbial and metabolic markers may significantly empower the intestinal homeostasis in SBS and ameliorate the quality of life of these patients.

Keywords: short bowel syndrome,shime,host microbiota interaction
Wind farm control and integration in sector-coupled power systems (WindConnect)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Denmark,Germany,Sweden,Netherlands,Spain
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4992924.39
EU funding (EUR): 4862087.64
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The WindConnect (wind farm control and integration in sector-coupled power systems) consortium unites leading experts from academia and industry across Europe, leveraging expertise in wind energy, power systems, power electronics, control engineering, artificial intelligence, and energy economics. This multidisciplinary collaboration addresses the pressing challenges of integrating wind energy into sector-coupled power systems including green hydrogen production, while ensuring grid stability, flexibility, and sustainability. Spanning 8 beneficiaries across 6 countries (Denmark, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the UK) and 12 prestigious associated partners across supply chain including Vestas, Ørsted, 50Hertz, GE, NESO, Fraunhofer, and SSE, WindConnect combines technical expertise and state-of-the-art experimental resources. WindConnect's research program addresses the design, modelling, control, and techno-economic optimization of wind turbines, wind farms, and hybrid power plants (HPPs). It will develop groundbreaking grid-forming technologies, AI-driven optimization for wind and green hydrogen integration, and create scalable solutions for HPP design and operation. Through this program, 15 Researchers will receive cutting-edge technical, entrepreneurial and soft-skill training, benefiting from industrial secondments, co-supervision, and access to a robust network of industrial partners and advanced experimental facilities. These efforts empower the next generation of highly skilled researchers and engineers, to drive technological innovation, enhancing energy security. With a strong track record of collaboration—including the successful MSCA ITN WinGrid project—the WindConnect is poised to make significant contributions to wind and hydrogen energy integration, reinforcing Europe’s leadership in green energy technologies, supporting its transition to a sustainable, decarbonized energy future and meeting its climate targets.

Keywords: wind energy,wind turbine,grid forming,power electronics converters,hydrogen energy,hybrid power plants,power system operation
REgulatory sandBOx fOr a Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (REBOOT.AI)

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: Italy,Norway,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

AI applications are on the rise. This is the case in terms of both number and value, and is coupled with a prominent EU investments in the field and in related research. AI-driven innovations promise great benefits, but also come with clear and concerning risks for data protection that are hard to predict and only-partially covered by GDPR. There is an urgent need to understand if and how regulators should intervene in this clash between AI innovations and data protection. Regulatory sandboxes are the perfect tool for doing so. A regulatory sandbox can be defined as an environment for the testing of innovative products, services or processes by selected private actors under the supervision of a regulatory authority. Their findings can be used to improve future regulation and/or support compliance with current regulation. REBOOT.AI aims at designing a legal theoretical framework to support Member States and their data protection authorities in setting up regulatory sandboxes dedicated to the development of trustworthy AI applications. This framework will be easily accessible in the form of recommendation guidelines, which will be based on both theoretical and empirical research. For that purpose, the project studies the only two regulatory sandboxes in the European Economic Area that explicitly address the interaction between AI and data protection: those that have been activated by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and the French Data Protection Authority. By setting a standard framework for regulatory sandboxes on AI and data protection, REBOOT.AI will bring about an increased adoption of AI trustworthy applications across Europe, thus significantly contributing to the Horizon Europe Action (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-02).

Keywords: regulatory sandbox,regulation,data protection
Just Climate Resilience through Enhanced Adaptation and Capacity Harnessing (JustREACH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Adaptation to climate change
Destination: Adaptation to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Hungary,Belgium,Austria,Greece,United Kingdom,Germany,Croatia,France,Switzerland
Call: Improve design for transformative approaches and build local capacity for implementation of available solutions focused on climate adaptation (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-15
End date: 2029-09-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3998732.5
EU funding (EUR): 3998732.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Just Climate Resilience through Enhanced Adaptation and Capacity Harnessing (JustREACH) will advance just climate resilience by enhancing the capability of local and regional authorities, industries, and citizens to implement climate adaptation and smart specialization plans. By building on and connecting existing knowledge sharing platforms for local and regional authorities, the project aims to highlight overlapping opportunities in implementing local adaptation measures and meeting regional socio-economic policy objectives between climate adaptation and regional development. The project also empowers authorities to assess the impacts of adaptation and regional transformation measures with a focus on citizen well-being and awareness of maladaptation risks. JustREACH not only provides new tools but also equips authorities with the means to use them effectively within existing decision-making processes by working with pilot partners who themselves are decision-makers in their own regions. The training that will be developed as a result of JustREACH outputs and experiences will aim to strengthen the capacities of all local and regional authorities to identify and overcome barriers, and to co-design with and mobilize community leaders, businesses, and citizens to adopt and scale up context-specific initiatives. Most importantly, JustREACH helps authorities and citizens alike to overcome implementation goals while also linking these actions to their consequences for equity, ecosystem health, the just transition and social justice.

Keywords: climate change adaptation,regional development,just resilience,smart specialization,impact assessment of adaptation measures,llm enhanced support,citizen engagement
Streamlining Environmental Impact Assessment complex networks to integrate new EU environmental policies (NetDEAL)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In response to climate change, the landmark Paris Agreement established a set of goals to achieve climate neutrality and limit global warming. To help investors and companies contribute to these goals, the EU adopted a taxonomy for sustainable activities, and in line with it, investments must not cause significant harm, as indicated by the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation. Since its inception, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure has aimed to minimize the impacts of projects that could significantly damage the environment. Certainly, there are recognized weaknesses in the EIA, but its fitness to address complex environmental challenges such as climate change is unmatched. Considering the EIA importance in ensuring the scaling up of sustainable energy-related investments, NetDEAL focuses on providing innovative and easy-to-use methods to improve EIA worldwide and combines policy analysis and EIA assessment data into complex networks. First, I will analyze models of impact assessment (IA) legislation that can make recommendations about how IA can change to fit the global effort to tackle the energy and resource crises. Second, I will expose best practice models and investigate, through network-related statistical analyses, the collaboration links established in each EIA stage, which are behind successful projects from the perspective of productivity, circular economy, adaptation to climate change and reaching the goal of zero net emissions. Third, using Exponential Random Graph Models, I will explore the dynamic interaction between EIA stakeholders to diagnose the organizational structures and factors that strongly influence these projects. Lastly, I will create an integrated multilayer framework to improve the EIA's effectiveness. The findings will be translated into the economic sector and provide new instruments to facilitate a streamlined EIA procedure that facilitates the adoption of urgent measures to mitigate the current energy crisis.

Keywords: environmental impact assessment,green deal,eu taxonomy,climate change,adaptation,mitigation,network analysis,complex networks
Melt Electrowriting of Multi-layered Scaffolds for osteochondral defect repair (MEMS) (MEMS)

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: Ireland
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

An osteochondral (OC) defect is a focal area of joint damage that involves both the articular cartilage and the underlying subchondral bone. Such joint damage is strongly associated with the development of premature osteoarthritis, motivating the development of novel strategies to regenerate OC defects. 3D printing is enabling the manufacturing of geometrically complex biomaterial implants with user defined compositions and architectures, which can potentially be used as single stage, off-the-shelf scaffolds for treating complex injuries. Despite significant progress in this field, 3D printed scaffolds capable of regenerating OC defects remain elusive. This can potentially be linked to the spatial resolution possible using traditional additive manufacturing techniques. The melt electrowriting (MEW) technique has recently emerged as a novel additive manufacturing platform capable of producing polymeric scaffolds with fiber diameters in the submicron range in a highly controllable manner. We have recently developed MEW scaffolds that support superior bone regeneration compared to scaffolds produced using traditional additive manufacturing techniques. Furthermore, we have generated preliminary data demonstrating that multi-layered scaffolds generated by MEW are capable of enhancing the repair of critically sized OC defects in a pre-clinical large animal model. The MEMS project aims to further enhance the regenerative capacity of these MEW OC scaffolds by (i) optimising their architecture, and (ii) functionalizing their surface with extracellular matrix (ECM) components supportive of tissue-specific regeneration. The output of MEMS will be an off-the-shelf implant capable of directing endogenous OC defect regeneration without the need for delivering exogenous cells to the defect site.