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STRENGTHENING MAZOVIAN MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITE ECOSYSTEM THROUGH A HOLISTIC APPROACH AND A STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH EUROPEAN LEADERS (COMP-ECO)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,Netherlands,Germany
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1493789.0
EU funding (EUR): 1493789.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The COMP-ECO key objective is to improve the research excellence in the field of fiber-reinforced polymer multifunctional composites and smart structures of the Polish Mazovia region-based ecosystem formed by TPF, AFIT, and WUT, and to create a sustainable network for scientific and technological cooperation with leading EU technical universities of DELFT and DRESDEN. The COMP-ECO approach provides for the following comprehensive measures: 1) A holistic series of technical workshops covering the entire product life cycle chain: design, manufacturing, testing, and re-use / re-cycle; 2) Skills acquisition and networking through temporary positions of Polish senior researchers and externships of young researchers at DELFT and DRESDEN; 3) An ambitious joint exploratory research followed by strong dissemination and exploitation measures; 4) Training on project management and administration for both researchers and supporting staff; 5) Strong involvement of an external Scientific and Industrial Advisory Board to learn about industrial needs and to appropriately design the R&I offer; 6) Adoption of Partners’ Long-Term Strategy for Joint Research, based on SIAB’s advice, and creating an institutional framework for sustainable cooperation. This will allow to raise the research profile of the participating institutions and to enhance their scientific and technological capacity in order to establish a regional competence hub allowing for successful participation in EU competitive research and for significantly contributing to the dynamically growing regional, national and European composites market. This will be done in line with Polish national and Mazovia regional Smart Specialisations, the Made in Europe Partnership objectives, and the Green Deal sustainable development principles.

Keywords: multifunctional composites smart materials fibre reinforced polymers structural health monitoring sensor integration lightweight structures design research excellence sandt cooperation knowledge
Controlling Oxygen Selectivity at the Atomic Scale (COSAS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2345000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2345000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Developing new materials with optimized catalytic properties is a crucial challenge towards sustainable energy production. In order to achieve this long-standing goal, fundamental understanding of the processes taking place at the electrode-electrolyte interface is vital. Progress here requires a comprehensive atomic-scale picture of the fundamental chemical and catalytic properties of surfaces, in connection to their macroscopic catalytic performance. This knowledge remains hindered due to the complexity of real catalytic systems and the lack of experimental techniques that can provide information of the catalytic process from single-molecule interaction to operando conditions. The project COSAS focuses on the electrochemical water oxidation to hydrogen peroxide and seawater electrolysis. It proposes an atomistic study of the electrode-electrolyte surface to unveil the key parameters for selective activation of alternative reaction paths for water oxidation. The experimental approach of the project represents a novel quasi-in situ electrochemical characterization (near ambient pressure x-ray photoemission spectroscopy), combined with atomic-scale access to the electronic structure (scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy) on the very same sample. The project will study thin films of transition metal oxides as model systems for exploring structure-function relationships, while presenting catalytic relevance for oxygen related reactions. The unique methodology of the project promises novel atomistic insight in the mechanism behind complex reactions with multiple intermediates, unveiling key parameters that can guide the design of active and selective electrocatalysts for cost-effective water electrolysis.

Keywords: scanning probe microscopy,near ambient pressure photoemission spectroscopy,atomic scale,quasi in situ,surface science,surface electrochemistry,model catalysts,selectivity,structure function relationships
Accelerating the Deployment of Offshore wind using Dc technology (ADOreD)

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: Spain,Denmark,Germany,Belgium,China,United Kingdom,Portugal,France,Iceland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4687050.34
EU funding (EUR): 3768541.2
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Renewable power is one of the main drives to achieve carbon reduction and net-zero, and to meet the ambitious climate goals. In particular, offshore wind power in Europe has been developing at a rapid pace in recent years. Multi-Giga watts offshore wind farms with larger wind turbine power ratings, floating wind turbines installed in deeper water areas, and higher ratio of renewables integrated to existing power grids, are fundamentally changing power system operations and bringing new challenges and technical demands. This industry-doctorate consortium, ADOreD, will recruit and train 15 Researchers by collaborating with 19 academic and industrial organisations. It aims to tackle the academic and technical challenges in the areas of transmission of offshore wind power to the AC grid by using power electronics-based AC/DC technologies. In doing so, it will equip the Researchers, through their PhD studies, with essential knowledge and skills to face fast energy transition in their future careers. The project covers 3 key research aspects: offshore wind (including wind turbines, wind power collection, and wind farm design and control); DC technologies (including AC/DC converters, HVDC control and DC network operation and protection); and AC grid (including stability and control of AC grids dominated with converters under various control modes. The ADOreD consortium has excellent coverage of academic universities and industry organisations including manufacturers, energy utilities, system operators, consultancy and technology innovation centres. All the research questions in the project reflect industry needs; academic novelty and innovation will be reflected in the methodologies and solutions; and the research results will be disseminated directly to the industry partners’ products, grid operation and services. The outcomes of the project are both technologies and a talent pool to accelerate the deployment and grid integration of large-scale offshore wind power.

Keywords: offshore wind power,wind turbine,wind power collection,grid integration,hvdc transmission,ac dc grids,converter control,grid operation,power system stability,innovation,industry application
Doctoral network for microprocess engineering for electrosynthesis - new synthesis concepts for pharmaceutical/ fine chemical industry (MiEL)

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: Germany,Netherlands,Denmark,Austria,Czechia,France,Hungary,Belgium,Switzerland,Spain
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2843331.46
EU funding (EUR): 2511762.2
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

In MiEL 10 (+2) doctoral candidates will develop synthesis technology for the chemical industries of the 21st century by combining the advantages of electrochemistry, micro process engineering and flow-chemistry. In theory, electrochemical technologies offer the highest energy efficiency in production as well as microfluidics offer the highest safety and best process control in chemical processes. A combination of these two technologies seems to be the logical step towards a more reliable, flexible, safe and sustainable chemical industry. Especially for the synthesis of fine chemicals or pharmaceuticals with relatively low output but specific chemistry like fluorination, this route offers some advantages in production. Three synthesis routes - 1) two-phase electrosynthesis, 2) aqueous and 3) non-aqueous electrolytes - will be investigated. These three reaction paths can be regarded as relevant model processes for pharmaceutical/fine chemical industry. The ambitious research objective is to upscale these technologies using integrated cell concepts such as printed circuit board technology (PCB technology) with integrated process control, with in-situ optimized yield control. The cells can be assembled in synthesis arrays for the safe, flexible and sustainable synthesis of chemical products, which can also be used for catalytic screening. This approach will allow to find new synthetic routes for the sustainable chemical industry of the future. MiEls network is embedded into a highly specialized modelling community, which develops models on different length scales helping to simulate electrode structures with multi-phase flow of fluids, multi-electron step reactions, and electrochemical flow cells. A tecno-economical investigation provides guidance of all disciplines and ensures that the outcome of the project is to define the economic and ecologic “sweet spot” in applied electrosynthesis.

Keywords: electrochemistry,electrosynthesis,synthesis,pharmaceuticals,fine chemicals,printed circuit boards,electrochemical cells,electrolytes,trifluoromethylation,sulfonation,electrooxidation,amines
In Pursuit of 'Legality' and 'Justice': Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (JUSTIMINO)

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: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996988.0
EU funding (EUR): 1996988.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union are rarely associated with the ‘rule of law’. And yet, the notions of ‘legality’ and ‘justice’ greatly mattered in both: political and cultural elites invoked them as much as the wider citizenries. While existing literature has addressed ‘legality’ and ‘justice’ in studies of state policy and intellectual opposition to the two orders, there is little recognition of how instrumental they both were to ethnic and religious minorities. Whereas religion was one of the key determinants of rights, privileges, and obligations in the empire, ‘nationality’, understood in ethnic terms, replaced religious affiliation in this capacity under socialism. Being part of a minority could mean open or subtle forms of discrimination. Yet, such discrimination was neither automatic nor did it go unchallenged. This project therefore explores the ways in which minorities, from the Russian Empire’s ‘Great Reforms’ of the 1860s to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, routinely invoked and employed ‘legality’ and ‘justice’ to enforce their rights. It argues that the systems allowed, even encouraged, them to do so. What is more, minorities were also represented among the political and cultural elites, from imperial lawyers to Soviet party officials. What did minority actors expect when they called on ‘justice’ and ‘legality’? More importantly, how and to which degree did this strategy help them defend their rights in two highly authoritarian states? While there are obvious differences between the imperial and Soviet periods in this regard, there are also substantial similarities. To track these, the project proposes an ambitious multi-sited enquiry, combining an analysis of published sources with extensive work in regional and central archives, and oral history. This ground-breaking research will also create an online database on minority legal action that will be debated with NGOs and wider society in a variety of innovative knowledge transfer formats.

Keywords: law and society research,imperial history,russia,soviet union,minorities,nationality
HydrOdynamics & biomechanics of canceR cell mIgration in heterOgeNeous media (ORION)

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,Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

So far medicine has not solved the workings of a formidable and scientifically challenging aspect of cancer: metastasis, the migration of circulating tumor cells (CTC) through the body. In this highly interdisciplinary project, expertise and techniques from fluid dynamics are employed to study how CTC move through the vascular network and what prompts them to do so. The complex interplay among hydrodynamics, biophysics of intracellular interactions, and biochemical signaling within vascular networks is unknown. Our understanding of these underlying processes is hindered by the complex heterogeneity in the vascular network, comprising of capillaries, veins and arteries with a wide range of size and structural diversity. To unravel these processes I bring my expertise in fluid dynamics and porous media together with the state-of-the-art facilities on experimental cancer mechanobiology and multiscale modeling at the host and secondment institutes. I will conduct microfluidic experiments and simulations by simplifying the vascular network as strategically designed pore-network models. First, I will study the two-way interactions between the heterogeneous flow field and the deformable CTCs that control their overall transport, deformation and trapping. A heterogeneous flow field also induces a spatially nonuniform scalar concentration across the medium. CTCs are highly sensitive to certain biochemicals that can alter motility and invasiveness of CTCs. I will investigate how the local gradients of such biochemicals in a heterogeneous microsystem influence CTC migration. Finally, I will study the collective migration of CTC clusters through the system and quantify the dynamic intracellular interaction by measuring membrane tension and intracellular adhesion forces. These investigations will provide novel understandings on cancer metastasis that I will strategically communicate to research communities, stakeholders and general public.

Keywords: porous media,microfluidics,ctc
Limits and Efficiency of Coding Against Synchronization Errors (LESYNCH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497145.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497145.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding the limits of reliable information transmission over noisy communication channels and designing efficient codes for such channels are major cornerstones of information and coding theory. Most techniques developed in this area in the last 75 years have been targeted at discrete memoryless channels, which have the property that the i-th received symbol is an independent noisy function of the i-th transmitted symbol only. As a result, sender and receiver are synchronized, greatly simplifying their analysis. The study of such channels has given rise to a rich theory with many important applications beyond their original motivation. The project's goal is to tackle fundamental problems in the theory of information and efficient coding for channels which cause a loss of synchronization between sender and receiver. Besides theoretical interest, these channels capture important properties of modern data storage systems, such as DNA-based data storage. Almost all techniques designed for discrete memoryless channels break down when applied to channels with loss of synchronization. Therefore, studying even the simplest such channels (like the Binary Deletion Channel, which independently deletes each input bit with some probability) requires developing conceptually new techniques. I expect these techniques to have groundbreaking influence in other areas, like the techniques developed for discrete memoryless channels did. In this project, I aim to characterize the capacity of channels with synchronization errors and to design reliable codes with nearly-optimal rate and efficient encoding and error-correction procedures for these channels. This includes multi-trace channels with synchronization errors (that produce multiple corrupted outputs on a given input) and channels with correlated synchronization errors, both motivated by applications to DNA-based data storage.

Keywords: information theory,efficient codes,loss of synchronization,correlated errors,dna based data storage
Nanobiotechnologies for Innovative Therapeutic Approaches for Cancer (NANOBIO4CAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Türkiye,United States,Germany,Switzerland,Greece,Slovakia,Poland,Netherlands,Italy
Call: MSCA COFUND 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-COFUND-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2292480.0
EU funding (EUR): 2292480.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

NANOBIO4CAN is a new collaborative research & training programme of excellence for the recruitment of 24 postdoctoral fellows in the field of “Nanobiotechnologies for Innovative Therapeutic Approaches for Cancer” led by Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) in collaboration with 3 leading Turkish research centers in life sciences: TUBITAK Marmara Research Center (TUBITAK-MAM), Koç University Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM) and Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG). NANOBIO4CAN focuses on cancer research while providing a tailor-made accelerator programme to educate tomorrow’s researchers in a broad set of scientific, transferable, and business skills to develop the mindset of an entrepreneur in parallel to the academic career. The programme is designed around international networking, intersectoral mobility & interdisciplinary research topics to enhance the career opportunities of experienced researchers in the global market and to reach the benefits of employing creative researchers with high professional expectations in the programme’s research priorities: Drug Development; Targeting System Development; Delivery Systems and Testing & Validation Systems. Through the programme it is aimed to create roadmaps for the commercialization of the research outputs by licensing technologies of fellows in parallel while implementing their projects. NANOBIO4CAN will deliver impact by putting research and innovation into a new role, combined with new forms of joint efforts and collaboration, as well as by engaging citizens. This postdoctoral programme will contribute to broader the impact within Europe’s economy and society, also contributing to the essential Horizon Europe Societal Challenge “Health & wellbeing”. The programme is also aligned with Horizon Europe’s Cancer Mission Area and its Health Global Challenge.

Keywords: cancer treatment,therapeutics,drug development,nanobiotechnologies,delivery systems,targeting system development,drug testingandvalidation systems,genomics and bioinformatics,entrepreneurship