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Revolutionizing Olefin Production with the electric High Mach Steam Cracking Reactor (e-CRACKER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Power to heat (P2H) is expected to be the first type of electrification that will drastically transform the chemical industry. This holds in particular for producing its major building blocks: the 300 Mt/yr light olefins via steam cracking at more than 800°C. e-CRACKER will implement P2H by so-called shockwave heating, enabling an increase in temperature to >1000°C in 10 ms, an order of magnitude faster than the current furnace-based technology in a revolutionary High-Mach reactor. When combined with insight in the pressure-dependence of the cracking chemistry this will allow to avoid undesired side reactions and to increase olefin yields of ethane and plastic waste derived naphtha cracking by 10 wt.% compared to yield gains of 0.1 wt.%, at best, when applying alternative P2H such as resistive heating. e-CRACKER will: 1. generate new fundamental understanding of shock wave heating and kinetics under sub- and supersonic conditions; 2. demonstrate the practical applicability of an open-source, high fidelity Multiscale Modeling platform in combination with finite rate chemistry for turbulent reacting and rotating flows; 3. develop a compact, energy-efficient, electrified High-Mach reactor generating shockwaves and minimizing side products by avoiding back-mixing; 4. pave the way to avoid more than 200 Mt CO2/yr emissions with a scalable, flexible, step-by-step implementable technology driven by renewable electricity. Starting from fundamental local and global (non-)reactive data collection (WP1), and a high-fidelity open source Multiscale Modeling framework (WP2) novel 3D reactors will be designed in silico using advanced optimization (WP3). The power of the approach will be demonstrated in a 3D-printed High-Mach reactor, which, by operating under unconventional cracking conditions (lower pressures and faster heating) achieves yield increases of more than 10 wt% (WP4), contributing in a decisive way to the transition of the chemical industry.

Keywords: steam cracking,pyrolysis,olefin production,plastic waste,electrification,co2 reduction
Organising, Classifying, Evangelising. Production and Circulation of Knowledge in Rural and Independent Catholic Action (Belgium-France, 1931-1986) (ORa.CL.E)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-03
End date: 2027-11-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ORa.CL.E project aims to shed light on overlooked producers of knowledge about society – specialised Catholic Action (CA) – and explore the hypothesis of the circulation of religious militant-based knowledge to academic sociology. Social classifications were the essence of the project of the so-called “specialised” CA movements, which proposed selective pastoral approaches according to ‘life milieus’. This segmentation was not simply a strategy imposed by the episcopates ‘from above’, but was a continuous process of differentiation and identification by class and by gender at all levels. Assuming that CA specific forms of organisation produced social categories and knowledge that might have circulated to the field of academic sociology, ORa.CL.E offers an innovative reinterpretation of the history of specialised Catholic Action, from a sociology of science perspective. The project transcends the traditional monographic historical studies of CA, by developing an original comparative methodology based on the analysis of five understudied CA movements for adults from rural and independent backgrounds in France and Belgium from 1931 to 1986. ORa.CL.E provides new insight on the role of religion in social distinction and offers new perspective on the relationship between science, religion and civil society. Such a renewal is essential in the current European context, where experts and the media often present religious experience as an individual phenomenon, autonomous from social structures. In consultation with actors from present-day CA education movements, the project will provide tools to better understand the circulations between religious “ground” knowledge and “academic” knowledge, which will help in the future to make better use of the former and improve the social relevance of the latter.

Keywords: catholicism social movements laity social classes sociology of science history of sociology rurality xxth century
Sports Mega-Events and Popular Politics: A Comparative Study of Mediation and Public Memory of the UEFA 2020 and Russia 2018 Football Championships (PopPolMPME)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The growing interest in interplay between politics and popular culture lacks consideration of mediated sports mega-events (SMEs) like football championships. This hinders our understanding of how popular sporting events reflect and impact political life, and how populations engage with and interpret political meanings through media events. This project bridges this gap by investigating the lasting political significance of SMEs through an assessment of their mediation and public memory—both comparatively and retrospectively—in democratic and authoritarian contexts. The project’s research objectives are to 1) compare the mediation of SMEs across political environments, during and after the events, and vis-à-vis prominent political narratives surrounding them; 2) understand how members of the public remember the events, their mediation, and related political developments; and 3) explore the implications of the public and mediated memory of SMEs for their lasting political legacy, and how popular events reflect and influence people’s engagement with politics. Specifically, the project will comparatively assess the mediation and public memory of two recent football championships—the pan-European UEFA 2020 and the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup—in the context of two crises affecting politics and public life in Europe: the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Brexit. The two research strands, conducted in the comparative English and Russian national settings, include a) an analysis of media coverage of the tournaments and their legacies by national broadcasters; and b) focus groups with audiences of the SMEs. This project will develop a novel concept of ‘Mega-event Political Memory Ecology,’ which will have scientific, economic, and societal implications. Marrying approaches from digital memory studies and popular geopolitics, this concept will account for the interrelationship between shifting public and mediated memories of SMEs and public understandings of the political world.

Keywords: sporting mega events media events sport sociology memory studies popular geopolitics popular culture and world politics russia 2018 football world cup uefa 2020 euro illiberal regimes
Decoding novel reaction chemistries in biocatalysis – Training Europe’s next visionaries for a sustainable future (BiodeCCodiNNg)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Croatia,Spain,Austria,Sweden,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2629994.4
EU funding (EUR): 2629994.4
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Enzyme catalysis is an essential technology at the heart of industrial biotechnology, expected to foster the EU economic growth and industry leadership, while effectively addressing social, environmental, and economic needs. It improves the sustainability of chemical processes and gives rise to new reactivities for multi-functionalized product building. Traditional chemical methods for their synthesis are typically realized by costly and environmentally unfriendly processes. Expanding the toolbox of available biocatalysts enabling novel reactions not yet accessible with the existing enzymes is a formidable challenge, but will open exciting new avenues for applications in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The BIODECCODINNG consortium will address this challenge by decoding novel reaction chemistries from the largely underexploited family of N-N bond forming enzymes, while addressing challenging reactions performed by C-C bond forming enzymes that are currently not accessible. The main goal of the BIODECCODINNG DN is to train and educate Europe’s next 10 visionaries for a sustainable future on cutting-edge enzyme technology centered around N-N and C-C bond formations, and to tackle technology gaps, practical challenges, as well as to exploit synthetic opportunities with a huge innovation potential. The network is established by world-leading experts from European academic institutions and industrial partners that will together implement the training agenda. This setting provides strong interdisciplinary co-supervision and intersectoral exposure in secondments to the doctoral candidates, and bridges intersectoral and multidisciplinary boundaries across training in leading-edge drug discovery, enzyme catalysis and process development. BIODECCODINNG will therewith prepare the next generation of researchers for the implementation of sustainable enzymatic processes comprising C-C- and N-N bond forming enzymes in the European Biotech sector.

Keywords: biocatalysis,biotechnology,n n bond forming enzymes,c c bond forming enzymes,protein engineering,enzyme promiscuity
Borders shaping perceptions of European societies (B-SHAPES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Hungary,Sweden,Czechia,France,Finland,Poland,Bulgaria
Call: The role of perceptions, formed by traditions, values and beliefs, in shaping European societies and politics in the 21st century (HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2645732.5
EU funding (EUR): 2645732.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The purpose of B-SHAPES is to refocus on the role of borders in shaping perceptions of European societies in the 21st century, confronted with the challenge of re-borderings in Europe. Borders play a key role in shaping our perceptions of societies, culture, heritage and be-longing. B-SHAPES results will open for a reconfiguration of heritage policies, replacing national approaches with cross-border, European approaches to heritage, empowering citizens and economic sectors to contribute to the creation of a more inclusive vision of cultures and values. Scrutinizing the idea of a socially and culturally coherent Europe addressed in the call B-SHAPES will use a people’s perspective to focus on re-bordering as a European crisis with a negative impact on the quality of life in border regions. Border regions are living labs of European integration. The border closures of March 2020, induced by the pandemic, have severely disrupted previous attempts to develop more cross-border, inclusive, European perceptions of heritage and culture. Borders have continued to be a decisive factor shaping perceptions of ‘us’ and ‘them’, of culture, identity and belonging. Therefore, it is necessary to refocus on the central role of borders for the European integration project, for how they influence people’s perceptions of Europe’s historical and cultural past, of heritage, culture, identity and belonging. B-SHAPES will apply different participatory and ethnographic methods of Citizen Science, focusing especially on youth and minorities, to collect data in different European border regions to scrutinize this challenge with the aim to develop strategies and innovative policies using more inclusive approaches to cultivate joint natural, cultural, and historic heritage.

Keywords: borders,borderlands,minorities,euroscepticism,landscapes
Green Horizon on Organic Semiconductor Technologies (GHOST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Poland,Japan,Taiwan, Province of China,Australia,Canada,Brazil,Korea, Republic of,Denmark,Germany,France,United Kingdom,New Zealand,Mauritius
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1163800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1163800.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The Green Deal has made it necessary to develop low power electronics, using sustainable materials and green processing. The successful implementation of AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diodes) displays in mobile phones, organic-based electronics illustrates that the Green Deal is possible. However, current organic electronics technologies have yet to be efficiency and not all are produced via low embedded energy processing methods. By using bio inspired organic materials deposited by green process technologies achieving these goals could be realised. During project GHOST, we will focus on inter molecular interactions to help address these issues. Irrespective of application; AMOLED, Organic PhotoVoltaics (OPV), Organic Field-Effect Transistors (OFET) or Organic Thermoelectric Generators (OTG), the active materials are used in a solid matrix that stabilises them but also changes their properties relative to those in solution. There are many examples where guest-host interactions, e.g. donor-acceptor materials in OPV devices, completely change the properties of the system. Using light-emitting guests blended in a host or donor-acceptor exciplex systems leads to increasing OLED emission efficiency. But how to control these interactions is not well understood and is still largely emipirical. Interactions can change both the molecule conformation and electro-optic properties of the materials, but theoretical approaches to understanding these mechanisms are still in their infancy. Moreover, the varried effects of such intermolecular interactions in working devices is very poorly understood. Currently our limited understanding of these phenomena limit our ability to develop bio inspired materials and active components. All life on earth is organic and can perform complex of functions. Taking inspiration from living organisims, we aim to develop a new low energy organic electronics technologies.

Keywords: charge transfer,energy transfer,tadf,rtp,photophysics,electrochemistry,synthesis,oled,otg,thermoelectrics,transistors,ofet
SCIENCE AND INNOVATION TO EMPOWER EU INDUSTRIAL RESILIENCE AND ECONOMIC SECURITY (INDTECH2024BE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Cluster 4 other
Destination: Other Digital, Industry and Space destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Presidency event (conference) in Belgium: Industrial Technologies 2024 (HORIZON-CL4-2023-PRESIDENCY-EVENT-2024-IBA, 2023)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 489528.75
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The European Union (EU) is actively pursuing a rapid shift towards environmentally sustainable lifestyles and economies. This green transition is designed to promote sustainability, address climate change, and combat environmental degradation. European industry plays a pivotal role in this twin digital and green transition. The main objective of this proposal is to contribute to R&I policies that will strengthen European industrial leadership and economic security. Our proposal aims to make Indtech24 a forum bringing together all stakeholders to exchange around specific R&I and policy challenges and stimulate networking. An overarching question we would like to address is how R&D policies could be better integrated to recent ambitious European initiatives to make sure the future of our industry is made in Europe. Innovative materials are key to achieve the ambitious policy objectives of the European Green Deal. Taking place following the release of the coordinated action plan with member on Advanced materials, Indtech24 will fall within a context of intense reflection on the R&I priorities and specific objectives. We will address R&I challenges and opportunities in innovative materials. Showcasing best practices will be done by involving stakeholders from various kind to gather good examples and shed light on success stories. Following the objectives of the STEP initiative, we aim to engage discussion on the ways we could build more bridges between different instruments (Horizon Europe cluster calls and partnerships, ERDF, IPCEIs) to avoid the duplication of investments and contribute to reducing the fragmentation of the R&I landscape in the EU. We will also discuss policies that could unlock the innovation potential of European SMEs, notably from lessons learned from the implementation of OITB for material science. The final outcome of these sessions will feed into a R&I and policy recommendations for EU member states and the European Commission.

Keywords: conference,belgium,presidency,industrial technologies,green deal industrial plan
European Core-Chip for Space Applications (Cochisa)

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: Germany,Italy,France,Slovenia,Netherlands
Call: Space technologies for European non-dependence and competitiveness (HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3377402.2
EU funding (EUR): 3377402.2
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

COCHISA aims to foster the European non-dependence in terms of critical RF components for space applications. For this, scalable multi-channel radiation-hard beamforming core-chips operating in X-band (10 GHz) as well as Ka-band (28 GHz) will be developed. The scalable approach will allow to increase the number of beamforming channels as well as to scale the system to higher operational frequencies. COCHISA does not only focus on the IC itself, but also a cost-effective plastic non-hermetic MMIC packaging process supporting space applications by robust encapsulation. Furthermore, a fully European supply chain for the core-chips will be established, based on the European foundry and packaging partners. This includes the availability of a proven radiation-hard SiGe BiCMOS technology with qualified radiation-hard libraries. Due to the establishment of the European supply chain, the mid-term impact will be the wider use of the European radiation-hard technology, increasing the number of ITAR-free European space-grade components. A main objective of COCHISA is to reach at least TRL 7 for the developed and packaged core-chips (X-band and Ka-band). This TRL level will be proven by the scheduled radiation and reliability tests. During the COCHISA project, a dedicated work package will prepare the commercial exploitation and market introduction of the project results, especially to make the developed core-chips available to the European and global space industry.

Keywords: space core chip radiation hard ic beamformer x band ka band
Optimizing molecular tools for VirHo-Seq with smTIRF and Ribo-Seq (VirHoX Hop On)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Poland
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 560000.0
EU funding (EUR): 560000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The VirHoX project aims to develop VirHo-seq, a universal technology for matching orphan viruses to their hosts by covalently linking viral mRNA to host rRNA during translation. This addresses a major bottleneck in virology, as most newly discovered viruses remain unassigned to hosts. While VirHo-seq offers a powerful framework, it requires rigorous validation to ensure specificity, efficiency, and scalability across systems. The VirHoX Hop-on project integrates the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (IIMCB, Poland) as a widening partner, adding two complementary work packages. WP9 (RiboTools functional testing) will apply single-molecule TIRF microscopy to measure the efficiency and specificity of key enzymes (Cas13, ColE3, RNase H), moving beyond bulk assays to capture kinetic parameters at the single-ribosome level. WP10 (Ribo-seq development) will implement Ribo-seq in bacterial (Acinetobacter baumannii–Acibel004), archaeal (Haloferax volcanii–HFPV-1), and eukaryotic (Solanum lycopersicum-TMV) systems to reveal how viruses reprogram host translation and to guide optimization of VirHo-seq protocols. Together, WP9 and WP10 bridge molecular tool development (WP3–4) with application in complex host–virus systems (WP5). They reinforce VirHo-seq by ensuring that its molecular toolkit functions in challenging contexts while extending its applicability to clinically relevant and environmentally important models. The integration of IIMCB mobilizes excellence in a widening country and raises the visibility of one of Poland’s leading institutes in microbiology and biophysics. It contributes expertise in ribosome biochemistry, single-molecule imaging, and translational profiling, supported by core facilities, a technology transfer office, and an international PhD school. By embedding these capacities into VirHoX, the Hop-on project strengthens excellence, knowledge circulation, and long-term capacity for translational virology research in Europe

Keywords: smtirf,single molecule,ribosome purification,ribo seq,phage,virus,polysome