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Transition of 2D-chemistry based supercapacitor electrode material from proof of concept to applications (TRANS2DCHEM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Czechia,Israel,Italy
Call: Energy Harvesting and Storage Technologies (HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITION-CHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2485717.0
EU funding (EUR): 2485717.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The world population is significantly increasing and its reliance on energy-based devices is higher than ever before. This leads to a continuous rise in global energy consumption. In addition, the ever-increasing demand for energy storage devices with improved performances and stability in securing safe operation of big data centers and networks for the "internet of things", transportation, grid storage, electronics in space applications and implanted medical devices is motivating the scientific community to develop new chemistries, compositions and morphologies of electrode materials in order to meet these challenges. Currently, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, the most widely used electrochemical energy storage system of today, are still limited in terms of power densities and fire safety issues in many applications. Within the ERC-CoG 2D-CHEM and the subsequent ERC-PoC UP2DCHEM, the team of prof. Otyepka developed a nitrogen super-doped graphene electrode material (SC-GN3), with an unprecedented density. Supercapacitors (SC) made by SC-GN3 material can achieve up to 75 Wh/kg (200 Wh/L) energy density and show high-power density capability with potential up to 19 kW/kg (50 kW/L), twice higher than reference state of the art. Increasing the energy density of SC beyond 25Wh/kg will offer a paradigm shift in SC technologies allowing their wide application in electric vehicles and as support for batteries in power levelling and quick response devices for high power applications. The TRANS2DCHEM project intends to take this important field beyond its state-of-the-art, via the exploitation of the previously unexplored properties of the material, imparting top-rated performance in the respective energy storage devices. The proposal will bring the technology readiness of the described energy storage devices to a level of 6, by validating their operation in industrially-relevant environment in coin, pouch and wound (cylindrical) cells.

Keywords: energy storage supercapacitor n doped graphene fluorographene power density energy density
Enhancing Soil health through Values-based business models (SoilValues)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Soil health and food
Destination: Soil health and food
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Portugal,Denmark,Poland,Germany,Serbia,Spain,Lithuania
Call: Incentives and business models for soil health (HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999922.5
EU funding (EUR): 4999922.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Land managers combine man-made resources with natural resources to produce marketable products like food, feed, fiber and wood, but at the same time produce ecosystem services that are generally not marketed or compensated. However, land managers generally have little incentive to invest in healthy soils, as they cannot sufficiently capture the value generated by these ecosystem services. SoilValues aims to contribute to the conditions for developing successful soil health business models. These are models in which land managers make production decisions that result in higher levels of soil-based ecosystem services (SES) and in which they are paid for the non-marketed services they generate. In order for such business models to function, three important conditions need to be fulfilled: (1) the outcomes of SES need to be measured, thus requiring knowledge, indicators and models, (2) the data and information generated by these indicators and models need to be exchanged to facilitate monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV), and (3) all these activities should be governed by an appropriate institutional framework consisting of the necessary legislation, standards and incentive schemes. To enhance the conditions for developing successful soil health business models, SoilValues will: (1) provide a comprehensive assessment framework addressing all factors influencing the development of business models for investing in soil health, (2) establish 6 testing grounds across Europe to test and improve emerging and designing new soil health business models, (3) establish 12 communities of practice of land managers, value chain actors, investors and public authorities for soil health business models, (4) design a comprehensive toolbox of incentives and policy recommendations to facilitate soil health business models and (5) raise awareness and exchange knowledge for soil health business models.
An On-board Dynamic Vision Sensor Suite for Enhanced Satellite Self and Situational Awareness (AstrAware)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium
Call: Strengthening the sustainability and resilience of EU space infrastructure (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3310048.58
EU funding (EUR): 2957757.13
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The current overpopulation of satellites in orbit requires decisive actions to ensure safe operations in the near-Earth environment. These actions are particularly challenging, as only a fraction of objects in orbit are cooperative satellites, while the majority are space debris, which includes inactive satellites, rocket bodies, and fragments of all sizes. Space debris significantly raises the risk of collisions, and its continued increase could render space activities unsustainable in the future. In this context, developing the capability to detect, identify, and track orbiting objects is essential for predicting their trajectories and assessing potential conjunctions with other satellites. Additionally, advancing technologies for proximity operations is vital for enabling large-scale active space debris removal and servicing missions. The AstrAware project aims to contribute to both tasks through a sensor suite that provides long-range and close-range characterization of a detected target. To achieve these two functions, the project will employ a sensor suite that incorporates innovative dynamic vision sensors with novel data processing pipelines. Central to this system is the integration of a neuromorphic camera, optimized for detecting debris through its heightened sensitivity to illumination changes, alongside an adapted star tracker that functions as a dynamic vision sensor. By working together, these sensors not only share data but also enhance each other's performance, providing continuous optical information for both far- and close-range navigation. This synergy allows for precise proximity operations, seamlessly incorporating debris detection and attitude control within a single, efficient sensor suite, delivering significant operational advantages.

Keywords: debris,detection,neuromorphic,startracker,ssa,navigation,onboard proximity
Sequence-structure-function: uncovering how genetic variation at human centromere drives cellular phenotypes (CentroFun)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The last decades have seen an extraordinary leap in our knowledge of the human genome and its role in health and disease. Yet, approximately 5% of our DNA still lacks sequence annotation and has been largely excluded from functional and disease-association studies. These genomic gaps include DNA repeats such as centromeres, which are large tandem arrays of alpha-satellite DNA. Centromere’s chromatin is functionally essential for chromosome segregation serving as the basal template for the mitotic kinetochore. A recent breakthrough has been the complete genome assembly, including centromeres, of a haploid cell line derived from fetoplacental growth of a molar pregnancy. However, centromeres sequence and size vary across tissues, between individuals and in disease states. The main challenges are to understand how is centromere variation generated and especially, the consequences at a functional level. The specific objectives of my project are: (1) Identify the mutagenic processes and DNA repair responses operating at centromeres; (2) Determine the impact of centromeres’ sequence variation on chromatin structure, kinetochore function and chromosome behavior; and (3) Understand how these changes contribute to genome instability, cellular phenotypes and disease predisposition. The originality of this project is to follow a multidisciplinary approach that combines experimental studies – spanning structural biochemistry to cell biology – and bioinformatic analyses, that will benefit from the information on centromere reference already available and soon to be generated. The proposed research therefore represents a very appropriate and timely contribution to provide an integrated view of human centromere variation and its role in determining phenotypic traits. Furthermore, it will provide important insight on the functional role of the “missing genome” in human diseases and promises to yield key information and tools for expanding this novel field.
Mechanisms and purpose of top-down neural activity generation across conscious states (DREAMNET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2603510.0
EU funding (EUR): 2603510.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sleep is universal in mammals, yet the origin, structure and purpose of the neural activity patterns which permeate this state remains highly contentious. This is largely because such activity is internally generated and thus not amenable to most traditional methods of analysis. Here I propose top-down circuits in cortical layer 1 as a key site of production and structuring of neural activity during sleep, and detail novel experimental and analysis approaches to probe layer 1 circuits across sleep states at synaptic resolution. Layer 1 of the sensory cortex receives long distance signals from higher cortical regions which during wakefulness powerfully modulate sensory processing, and underpin neurocognitive processes such as attention, prediction, and sensorimotor integration. Such top-down circuits are well placed to autonomously generate activity during sleep which is meaningfully structured in the absence of sensory input. I propose that such top-down activations, unconstrained by the sensory environment, but structured by a lifetime of synaptically encoded experience stored in cortical connectivity patterns, could promote the formation of meaningful associations and insights inaccessible and cognitively disruptive if produced in waking states. I propose to test this mechanism and purpose of sleep activations using in vivo multiphoton imaging in mice: high resolution synaptic imaging will allow measurement of the origin and regulation (Aim 1), content, structure (Aim 2), and development (Aim 3) of top-down signals to layer 1 during different conscious states and will answer fundamental questions regarding the interplay between sleeping and waking activity patterns and their brain-wide propagation. We anticipate the work will lead to a fundamental advance in our understanding of micro and macro architecture of neural activations during sleep and in doing so resolve long running questions as to the mnemonic, creative, and maintenance functions of such activity.

Keywords: sleep dreaming rem nrem memory in vivo vision v1 anterior cingulate cortex retrosplenial cortex
Quantum Ergodicity: Stability and Transitions (QUEST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1944625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1944625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We shall develop methods and models for analyzing quantum ergodicity in many-body systems, proving its stability against small perturbations, and studying ergodicity-breaking transitions due to integrability, disorder, or localized impurities. Ergodicity is a cornerstone of statistical mechanics and a key manifestation of many-body quantum chaos, while manipulating ergodicity and engineering ergodicity-breaking transitions will have immense applications (cf.scarred states in Rydberg arrays, heating transitions in Floquet systems, time crystalline phases of matter). PI proposed groundbreaking methods for establishing quantum ergodicity by rigorous analysis of spectral statistics, correlation functions, dynamical complexity indicators and entanglement on the basis of space-time duality. Most of current understanding of many-body physics or quantum fields is based on perturbative expansions around free, integrable or localized models. Here we propose a twist of paradigm: We shall study weak perturbations of statistically exactly solvable ergodic models, such as dual-unitary chaotic quantum circuits proposed by PI. An intuitive expectation of structural stability of ergodic dynamics (in analogy to rigorous results in classical ergodic theory) implies that such expansions typically have, unlike expansions around free/integrable models, finite radii of convergence. Various order parameters of the ergodic phase shall be developed and compared in their utility to signal and characterize ergodicity-breaking transitions. A related goal is a construction of exactly solvable models in which the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis can be proven. Being of fundamental importance in mathematical and statistical physics, the results are expected to have widespread applications across fields: from studying localization transitions in disordered systems, benchmarking quantum simulators and certifying quantum supremacy, to rigorous proofs of chaos in holographic models of black holes.

Keywords: ergodicity,many body dynamics,non equilibrium dynamics,quantum chaos,exactly solved models,integrability,structural stability,open quantum systems
Ions based Commercializing Pioneering Architecture for Scaled-Up Systems in Quantum Computing (iCOMPASS-QC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum Art submits a proposal for the EIC Blended Funding Track (both the EIC grant and to the EIC equity financing). In the grant stage we will commercialize our existing quantum computing systems, to enable cloud access for users and provide beyond state of the art capabilities, based on sophisticated coherent control methods and engineering maturity, robustness, and compact design. In the equity financing stage we will develop and demonstrate our next generation systems for Quantum Advantage and commercial applications at scale, based on Quantum Art's proprietary and unique scale-up architecture. This architecture builds upon our coherent control methods, including large scale fast multi-qubit gate, to realize multi-core and reconfigurable quantum computers. The highly parallelized operation is achieved at three levels - at the gate level, the core level, and the multi-core level. This architecture enables high computational power, with fewer required quantum resources, less time, and fewer errors. This project will position Quantum Art as a leader in the quantum computing industry and drive new applications, commerciality and sales.

Keywords: quantum computing,trapped ions,scale up,quantum advantage,applications,commercialization
Advancing organic SemicondUctor / 2D hybrid organic-inorganic PERovskite heterojunction-based floating-GATE transistors for neuromorphic computing applications (SUPER-GATE)

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: Belgium,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200400.0
EU funding (EUR): 200400.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The ascent of artificial intelligence and the increasing demand for clean energy technologies in Europe has given rise to a pertinent need for modern computing systems with reduced energy consumption. Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the working of the human brain, constitutes a potential paradigm shift in low-energy computing. Floating gate synaptic transistors (FGTs), critical components in neuromorphic computing hardware, offer promising pathways to perform massively parallel computational tasks with ultralow energy consumption of 1-10 fJ/spike. Despite the promises of FGTs, several challenges related to limited control over the charge-trapping properties, morphology, and stability of the floating gate layer need to be addressed. The SUPER-GATE project introduces an innovative concept of combining advanced 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite (HOIP) molecular design with a facile and effective heterojunction design. In SUPER-GATE, an interdisciplinary strategy of materials and device engineering will be implemented by fine-tuning the energy level alignment of the organic cation in the 2D HOIP with an organic semiconductor channel in the form of a heterojunction. This will lead to synaptic performance with ultra-low power consumption (<1 fJ/spike) and more stable HOIP-based FGT devices than achieved to date (>152 days). Combining advanced optoelectronic and morphological characterization, structure-property-performance relationships will be formulated to guide further material and device development. The expertise of the researcher in the fabrication and optimization of organic electronic devices by solution-processed techniques will be combined with the host's experience in HOIP synthesis and the advanced optoelectronic characterization of transistors. The in-depth training gained during SUPER-GATE will contribute to the researcher’s professional career to become a cutting-edge scientist and present an important milestone toward academic independence.

Keywords: 2d hybrid organic inorganic perovskite,organic semiconductor,floating gate transistor,artificial synapses,energy efficiency,device engineering
Transdisciplinary methods for societal impact assessment and impact creation for security research technologies (TRANSCEND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Strengthened Security Research and Innovation
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Belgium,France,Austria,Norway,Poland,United Kingdom,Ireland
Call: Security research technologies driven by active civil society engagement: transdisciplinary methods for societal impact assessment and impact creation (HORIZON-CL3-2021-SSRI-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1751315.0
EU funding (EUR): 1751315.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Current European research and innovation (R&I) and security policies aim to address challenges that threaten European societies by deploying security technologies. Security technologies are typically intended to promote public safety, security and increase societal resilience. At the same time, security technologies spur controversies and can have enormous societal, legal, ethical, economic and political impact. Such technologies often infringe human rights, reproduce and reinforce power imbalances and social injustice. Civil society is rarely or restrictively involved during research and development of security technologies, and thus societal concerns might not be well addressed in this process. Security technologies and R&I should not create societal mistrust or missed opportunities to jointly build societal resilience. TRANSCEND aims to improve practices of citizen and societal engagement in security R&I: to enable individuals, and organisations that speak on their behalf, to participate actively and creatively in iterative processes of design and deployment. TRANSCEND will develop a Toolbox of methods to enhance the involvement of civil society in security R&I. The Toolbox will be tested and evaluated in four pilots, in close collaboration with diverse ‘on the ground’ organisations by bringing together transdisciplinary actors from academia, government, industry and society (Quadruple Helix). The TRANSCEND Framework will present guidelines on how to design and structure meaningful civil society and public engagement for societal impact assessment for security research technologies and present domain-specific instructions for the use of the TRANSCEND toolbox. TRANSCEND will contribute to the uptake of effective methods for citizen and societal engagement throughout the EU, so that civil society are given a louder voice, a place at the right tables and security practitioners are motivated and equipped to enhance such participation.

Keywords: security technologies security research and innovation public engagement responsible research and innovation pilots