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Ion diffusion in redox-active macrocyclic organic electrode materials (MacroRedox)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Society has witnessed a rapid development of energy storage materials as a result of the increasing demand caused by electrification of transport and commercialization of portable electronics. Conventional, widely used lithium-ion batteries rely on transition-metal oxides (Co, Ni) used to manufacture positive electrodes; unfortunately, depletion of the Li, Co and Ni sources is inevitable and there is an urgent need for alternatives based on abundant, green and cheap materials. Organic compounds are composed of earth-abundant elements (C, N, O, S, H), and, in principle, can be accessed from renewable resources using greener methods. Organic batteries by far outperform inorganics in post-lithium battery technologies, especially in case of multivalent batteries, where they currently offer the most realistic possibility of commercialization. However, organic battery materials have many drawbacks, one of them being the fact that they are amorphous and lack ion-diffusion pathways. The goal of the research project is to investigate the fundamental processes of ion diffusion in molecular organic electrode materials with intrinsic porosity. The compounds will be investigated as model systems for next-generation organic electrode materials. The proposed molecules possess large nanopores in the structures, can stabilize charges through conjugation, and can undergo several redox processes, which makes them perfect candidates as model systems to explore ion diffusion. This project will benefit from a wealth of experience in organic synthesis and the exploration of redox properties of macrocyclic molecules accumulated by the Fellow, Dr. Wojciech Stawski, and combined with the expertise of Prof. Birgit Esser in battery research, which will lead to a deep understanding of ion-diffusion processes in those materials and provide design principles for their preparation.

Keywords: porous macrocycles battery materials organic conjugated ion diffusion
practical AI for Time-vAryiNG network traffic fOrecasting in 6G (6G-AI-TANGO)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242593.2
EU funding (EUR): 242593.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

To fully exploit the 6G potential and ensure near-zero latency, infinite capacity, and 100% reliability and availability communications, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are expected to deploy Zero-touch Network and Service Management (ZSM) solutions that completely automate the resource orchestration and work at a very fast timescale, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is regarded as the primary enabler for proactive decision-making algorithms that will underpin ZSM. However, the robustness and trustworthiness of AI predictors are critical aspects and represent one of the major barriers presently withholding MNOs from trusting ZSM technologies. In fact, all existing studies on mobile traffic forecasting work under assumption of stationary network, but, in the case of mobile network Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) prediction, user demands and network configurations are time-varying (non-stationary) in operational mobile networks. For example, update of antenna configurations or shifts in popularity of mobile applications can happen over time. Thus, this project is termed "practical AI for Time-vAryiNG network traffic fOrecasting in 6G" (6G-AI-TANGO) and aims to: (i) assess and quantify the severity of temporal changes (due to non-stationarity) in 6G network KPI forecasting, (ii) design AI models tailored to mobile KPI forecasting that are resilient to the long-timescale temporal variations regularly encountered in real-world user demands and network configurations, and (iii) verify the robustness of proposed predictors on real-word data and in production-grade 6G mobile network during non-academic placement at Telefónica.

Keywords: mobile traffic,traffic forecasting,drift detection
a Study of Egyptian Animal Mummy Styles (SEAMS)

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,United States,Sweden,Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The SEAMS project aims to investigate the wrapping weaves of votive animal mummies, a religious phenomenon which was widely spread throughout Egypt between the Third Intermediate Period and the Roman Period (1069 BCE-380 CE ca.). SEAMS is set to fill the gap in current knowledge on the contextual data of votive animal mummies and shed light on their manufacture through an innovative multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methodology that integrates traditional research approaches with new technologies. This study has never been undertaken before since Egyptologists have long paid relatively little attention to these artefacts. The project will contribute to the advancement of this field by reconstructing the original integrity of the wrapping patterns of specimens held in international museums through photogrammetry, MSI techniques, and virtual restoration. The multi-scalar and cross analysis of the restored 3D replicas and their related data allows the recurring patterns to be identified and grouped into typologies. The stylistic assessment of recurring wrapping weaves combined with further information from archives, fieldwork, and CT-scans enables their occurrence within a specific period and/or site to be recorded and any potential meanings unravelled. Textile and experimental archaeology protocols are set to provide an understanding of how the bandages were held in tension, what the interweaving stages were, and which tools were used. Furthermore, a comprehensive account of the quality and quantity of the resources, technologies and efforts employed permits an evaluation of the economic weight of the wrapping procedures. The research outcomes are to be widely shared through open science practices, outreach activities, a free and open access visual repository, and a temporary exhibition on votive animal mummies that will contribute towards generating knowledge about these long-neglected artefacts.

Keywords: animal mummies,wrapping weaves,craft,religious beliefs,digital humanities,experimental archaeology
Quantum Andreev Spectroscopy for Fractional Quasiparticle Imaging and Manipulation (QUASAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Ireland,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 450293.76
EU funding (EUR): 450293.76
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum computing is poised to break many of the limitations of conventional computing, which could help find solutions for many of the world’s most difficult problems, including climate change. However, while semiconductor diodes in conventional computers have developed in leaps and bounds over the past 70 years, our understanding of the components of quantum computers still remains quite basic. A major issue to be solved is the loss of quantum coherence, that is, maintaining the state needed to perform quantum computing on encoded information. A promising candidate is non-Abelian anyons, which encode quantum information in a topologically protected manner at the Fermi level, making them resistant to noise from environmental factors and defects that would cause decoherence. However, although tantalizing, these anyons lack unambiguous visualization and characterization, meaning there is controversy around their use. Employing pioneering scanned Andreev tunnelling microscopy (SATM), the QUASAR project aims to resolve anyons and probe their stability in a magnetic field. The fellow will utilize superconducting niobium tips to selectively distinguish topologically protected anyons in both engineered 2D hybrid and 3D intrinsic topological superconductors, across a variety of conditions. QUASAR will identify the critical field at which non-Abelian anyons remain unsplit, allowing the most stable to be identified. This will permit their potential for practical quantum computing to be assessed. QUASAR project will be hosted by Harvard University (outgoing phase), under the guidance of Prof. Hoffman, and then University College Cork (returning phase), under the mentorship of Prof. Davis. This international collaboration, with access to world-class expertise and state-of-the-art infrastructure, will enable cutting edge research, cementing the fellow’s research and professional development.

Keywords: topological superconductors,non abelian anyons,low temperature physics,scanning tunneling microscopy,scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Molecular mechanisms and consequences of thermal stress rippling through changing aquatic environments (MolStressH2O)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999845.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999845.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Heat stress is a driver of current mass mortalities related to anthropogenic global warming. However, current approaches to study heat stress have not considered three major but little known aspects. These are (i) the ripple effect, which could amplify negative outcomes through propagating heat stress among organisms, (ii) heat stress as an evolutionary mutagen and (iii) genomic networks as filters for prezygotic selection, which together could speed up the process of evolutionary adaptation to rapidly changing environments. In this project, these properties of heat stress will be studied in vulnerable early life stages of three distinct aquatic ectotherms (a ragworm, a fish and a frog), to achieve an understanding of how universal these aspects of heat stress are among distinct, unrelated species. First this project will explore whether thermal stress can be propagated by means of chemical communication (stress metabolites) to naive receivers of different species. Outcomes on development will be compared with differential gene expression. We will then identify heat-induced stress metabolites and their molecular pathways of action, through RNAsequencing, Metabolomics and CRISPR-mediated gene editing. We will then test whether thermal stress and stress metabolites exposure induce higher mutation rates, through heat-induced transposon activity and reduced DNA repair capacity. gDNA sequencing will be combined with optical genome mapping to identify mutation rates and new structural variants. Lastly, we will identify the role of functional genomic network constraint in filtering such variants. We will sequence a reference genome, and explore through AI-led simulations whether networks with topological node constraints outperform those without constraint. Together, these objectives will transform our understanding of the mechanisms, and the extent to which organisms will respond to anthropogenic warming.

Keywords: ls2 1 genetics,ls2 2 gene editing,ls2 5 genomics,ls2 7 transcriptomics,ls2 9 metabolomics,ls2 11 bioinformatics and computational biology,ls2 13 systems biology
Women in the Nordic Enlightenment: Changing the narratives of early modern philosophy and uncovering women’s contribution to Scandinavian gender equality (WHENCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2446884.0
EU funding (EUR): 2446884.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Enlightenment attracts a lot of scholarly attention due to its relevance for the emergence of modern philosophical thought and the identity of present-day Europe. Yet, women’s contribution to the Enlightenment has been largely ignored. WHENCE will fill this research gap in an original and groundbreaking way by focusing on an hitherto overlooked geographical region, namely Europe’s North. By targeting the writings of Scandinavian women, WHENCE will provide results that describe the Nordic way of women’s Enlightenment. The guiding hypothesis is that this Nordic way significantly differs from developments prevalent in other regions of Europe, and that women played a decisive role in creating a sustainable identification of the Nordic countries with gender equality. The overall objective of WHENCE is to uncover and critically assess women’s intellectual contribution to the Nordic Enlightenment. This investigation includes two further objectives, namely, to change the standard narratives of the development of the Nordic Enlightenment, and to assess women’s role in the emergence of Scandinavian gender equality. • What was women’s intellectual contribution to the Nordic Enlightenment? • How does women’s thought change our understanding of the individual and of society during the early modern period? • What was the impact of women’s thought on the emergence of Scandinavian gender equality? To adequately investigate women’s writings, the project uses various methods in an original way. It combines classical philosophical analysis and archival research with new insights developed in gender studies and feminist history of philosophy. Moreover, WHENCE has a strong interdisciplinary outlook and uses the new tool Trajectories to relate historical findings to contemporary debates. Given the persistence of gender inequality in today’s society, the threats women are facing in the public sphere, and the upheaval caused by the MeToo movement, this project is essential and timely.

Keywords: nordic enlightenment,feminist history of philosophy,gender equality
Multi-Actor Research and Innovation Approaches for Functional Food (RIA4FOOD)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece,Cyprus,Romania,Italy,Serbia
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1857085.71
EU funding (EUR): 1600800.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Keeping up with the dramatic increase in world-food needs is a challenging task. Food supply is further affected by the latest consumers’ dietary trends, driving demand for food products of enhanced nutritional value, defined health benefits, increased safety and proven environmental sustainability. RIA4FOOD will tackle these challenges by proposing a new framework for functional food design. RIA4FOOD will utilise sea buckthorn berries as source of bioactive compounds, in conjunction with state-of-the-art methodologies from different disciplines, to showcase a scientifically-sound way of making food products functional and of proven added health value which can sustain nutritional needs of all consumer groups (healthy, diseased, obese, children, athletes, etc.). Utilising human-relevant in vitro dietary and disease models and a complete metabolomic, epiproteomic and proteomic analysis, the project will assess the physiological pathways affected from sea buckthorn consumption. These profiles will be then put under rigorous machine learning analysis, to produce algorithms that will calculate the correct amount of bioactive ingredients needed to confer the desired health benefits and will thus facilitate the design of new functional products. More importantly, RIA4FOOD will also explore new technologies to deliver fresh sea buckthorn health benefits to the market as snacks of increased shelf-life. For this the osmotic dehydration methodology will be put to the test: metabolomic, epiproteomic and proteomic profiles of osmotic sea buckthorn consumption will also be produced and compared to the respective profiles of the fresh fruit. Finally, additional predictive algorithms will be computed, to provide effective feedbacks to both the primary farming sector and the processing sector, thus fostering the optimisation of the new proposed food value chain.
Research Infrastructure Technology Infrastructure For Impact (RITIFI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Denmark,Finland,Belgium,Sweden,Germany,Portugal,Netherlands,Slovenia,Poland
Call: Cooperation, synergies and networking between research infrastructures and technology infrastructures (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499528.75
EU funding (EUR): 1499528.75
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Research Infrastructures (RIs) and Technology Infrastructures (TIs) are both essential and complementary elements for functional and efficient R&I ecosystems in Europe. They play a crucial role in strengthening European R&I capacities, from exploratory research to the development, validation and integration of innovative knowledge-based solutions into new products, processes and services. The RITIFI consortium, composed of RI and TI stakeholders from 19 European countries, aims to improve the integration and structure of the European R&I landscape. It will do so by developing a functional framework for the integration of RI and TI services tailored to the needs of end-users, by providing guidelines and methods to improve the visibility and access conditions of RI and TI to end-users, by developing an agile and TI-friendly governance model at European level; provide a comprehensive and multi-level analysis of the RI and TI policy landscape and propose an action plan to ensure alignment and synergies of access policies; develop a process for prioritisation and synergies of investment plans for RI and TI sustainability; raise awareness and stimulate the inclusive engagement of managers, users and policy makers in the development of an integrated RI and TI landscape The project will follow a 4-phase methodology: based on the validation of RI and TI concepts to ensure a common understanding, development of a strategic analysis of the TI landscape and a strategic analysis of the integrated RI and TI landscape in 5 selected areas. Based on the information gathered and extended beyond the selected areas, recommendations to policy makers and the RI-TI community will be drafted. In parallel, the project will engage with the community from the beginning, creating awareness, promoting knowledge sharing, validating results and encouraging adoption. Thus an R&I ecosystem with interconnected and sustainable RI and TI will accelerate the digital and green transition in Europe.

Keywords: research infrastructure,technology infrastructure,european infrastructure landscape,randi ecosystem,integration,synergy,networking,infrastructure end users,policy,access to infrastructure
Alternate Surveillance Technologies fOr iNnovatIve Solutions (ASTONISH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Ireland,Spain
Call: ATM application-oriented research for connected and automated ATM (HORIZON-SESAR-2023-DES-ER-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1971400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1971400.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

With aviation traffic reaching unprecedent levels, surveillance is a critical service for ensuring operations safety and for improving airspace and airport capacity to accommodate the increasing traffic forecast. ASTONISH objective is to develop new surveillance solutions to sustain the growth of the European aviation sector using innovative technologies, addressing the peculiar challenges of airborne and ground traffic management. ASTONISH consortium identified three critical solutions: ground-based systems for enroute and terminal areas surveillance, aircraft-based alternate surveillance (A-SUR) technology, and airport and aircraft-based surveillance sensing systems for ground operations. ASTONISH will investigate the use of an LDACS-based passive multistatic radar system and a network of distributed active radar systems to increase safety and capacity of sectors not covered by primary or secondary surveillance services, while providing a robust backup solution for non-cooperative surveillance. These solutions are expected to be cost-effective and environmental-friendly, built on services offered by LDACS to deliver a fully integrated CNS solution. A-SUR solution will leverage the Hyperconnected ATM concept to use existing and potential new datalink channels such SATCOM, LDACS, VDLM2, 5G and LTE as alternative means for downlinking aircraft surveillance data. The objective is to relieve the congestion on the 1030 MHz and 1090 MHz frequencies used by SSR, ADS-B, and TCAS, offering a secure and robust solution for cooperative surveillance with limited impact on surveillance infrastructures and avionics systems. ASTONISH solution for improving aircraft safety during ground operation will investigate new sensing systems such as lidars, radars, and vision-based sensor at aircraft and airport level, improving ground operation safety and airport resilience by increasing the situational awareness of the pilots and air traffic controllers under all-weather conditions.

Keywords: surveillance,cns rationalisation,non cooperative surveillance,ldacs,passive multistatic radar,radar,avionics architectures,aircraft protection on ground,cameras,lidar,sensor fusion,icns