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Piezoelectricity in 2D-materials: materials, modeling, and applications (Piezo2D)

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: Portugal,Spain,Ukraine,Denmark,Poland,Latvia
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 518485.71
EU funding (EUR): 483000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Piezoelectricity in two-dimensional (2D) materials is increasingly important because of its potential in realizing thin yet efficient and flexible piezoelectric devices. In contrast to traditional three-dimensional (3D) piezo- and ferroelectrics that are prone to size effects, piezoelectricity in 2D materials may be controlled by flexoelectricity and interfaces thus providing significant piezoelectric effect in ultrathin films and crystals. Equally important, the majority of 2D layered piezoelectrics found so far possess in-plane piezoelectricity and require bending of flexible substrates to activate piezoelectric effect. This severely limits their integration with modern Si technology. This project aims at strengthening the piezoelectric activity in 2D materials via interface and stress engineering and bond control in order to reach the maximum efficiency and other relevant figures of merit. The materials list includes hafnium-zirconium oxide (HZO), transition metal thio/selenophosphates (TPS), graphene on oxide substrates, and polymer PDVF. A comprehensive investigation of piezoelectricity in these 2D materials and their relevant device performance is still at an initial stage and needs European support. Concerning piezoelectric energy harvesting, Piezo2D will build a technology to provide local energy generation (microgenerators) from the nm- to the micro-scale to power nano- and microdevices. Piezo2D will do so by enhancing and deploying the combined powers of equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics and atomistic models with device physics and engineering. Research results will underpin future developments of nanoscale energy devices for decades to come. We will also develop new characterization techniques and metrology-inspired protocols aiming at future standards and their use in the industry. The multidisciplinary approach of Piezo2D brings together leading teams in theoretical physics, materials science, chemistry and instrumentation working in synergy

Keywords: piezoelectricity,energy harvesting,thin films,graphene,2d materials,phase transitions
Next generation of AI-powered robotics for agile production (AGIMUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: France,Czechia,Spain,Greece
Call: Pushing the limit of robotics cognition (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5278250.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999187.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

AGIMUS aims to deliver an open-source breakthrough innovation in AI-powered agile production, introducing solutions that push the limits of perception, planning, and control in robotics, enabling general-purpose robots to be quick to set-up, autonomous and to easily adapt to changes in the manufacturing process. To achieve such agile production, AGIMUS leverages on cutting-edge technologies and goes beyond the state-of-the-art to equip current mobile manipulators with a combination of (i) an advanced task and motion planner that can learn from online available video demonstrations; (ii) optimal control policies obtained from advances in reinforcement learning based on efficient differentiable physics simulations of the manufacturing process; as well as (iii) advanced perception algorithms able to handle objects and situations unseen during initial training. Along the way, optimization of energy efficiency and the use of 5G technology will support further pushing the limits of autonomy. The AGIMUS solutions and their impact will be demonstrated and thoroughly stress-tested in 3 testing zones, as well as 3 industrial pilots in Europe, under numerous diverse real-world case studies and scenarios (different tools, environments, processes, etc.). In every step, and from the very beginning, AGIMUS will go beyond current norms and involve a wide range of stakeholders, starting from the production line itself, to identify the essential ethical-by-design principles and guidelines that can maximise acceptance and impact.

Keywords: agile production,versatile robotics,perception and learning,task and motion planning,object manipulation,reinforcement learning,computer vision
Feeding Resilience of Odontocetes in the aNThropocene (FRONT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Denmark,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 286191.36
EU funding (EUR): 286191.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Deep-diving toothed whales are mega-predators that supposedly shape and maintain healthy marine ecosystems. Human activity is on the rise in these ecosystems due to deep-sea fishing and mining, which can alter the prey landscape of toothed whales and therefore negatively affect their fitness with potential trophic cascades on entire deep-water ecosystems. To address such concerns, models for Population Consequences of Disturbance (PCoD) have been developed linking disturbance to fitness of individual whales and entire populations. While the robustness of these models relies on data of energy budgets from undisturbed individuals, a shortage of related, quantitative measures precludes the effective use of these models and hence the efficient conservation of these predators. Through FRONT, I propose to fill this important knowledge gap by applying an innovative combination of state-of-the-art tagging technology and motion analysis to, for the first time in deep-diving toothed whales, (i) quantify fine-scale feeding behaviour and foraging effort, and (ii) estimate overall energy requirements and hunting costs. As a result, FRONT will generate novel data on baseline energy budgets that are crucial bioenergetic parameters for PCoD models. By informing these models, FRONT will be of direct relevance to the European Union’s (EU) Marine Strategy Framework Directive for maintaining healthy populations of these apex predators through the management of underwater anthropogenic disturbance.

Keywords: marine mammals,cetaceans,biologging,foraging behaviour,disturbance,energy budgets,hunting success,statistical modelling,acoustics
Supporting the EOSC Partnership in further consolidating the coordination and sustainability of the EOSC ecosystem (EOSC Gravity)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EOSC (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,France,Netherlands,Poland,Greece,Italy,Switzerland,Hungary
Call: Supporting the EOSC Partnership in further consolidating the coordination and sustainability of the EOSC ecosystem (HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4871372.36
EU funding (EUR): 4661104.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

EOSC Gravity will support the transition of the European co-programmed Partnership for EOSC into its new governance and funding framework. EOSC Gravity will leverage EOSC Focus engagement channels and facilities and establish new ones. Through open calls, EOSC Gravity will provide funding to support the EOSC Federation by encouraging the creation of EOSC Nodes, inter-project collaboration, and will support the revision of SRIA 2.0. The further evolution of the EOSC Federation will be charted through measures to monitor and report on EOSC Partnership KPIs and to establish a methodology to assess the impact of EOSC. What: EOSC Gravity will support the Partnership in its role of charting a continuous flow of up-to-date and accurate information on the status of EOSC and developing strategic recommendations through the SRIA to ensure that the Partnership transitions into a new governance and funding model post-2027. HOW: EOSC Gravity will mobilise and grow the broader EOSC community with outreach and engagement activities empowering stakeholders to further evolve the EOSC Federation; and will directly fund actions to support the creation of several EOSC Nodes. The EOSC Academy will be anchored to ensure an informed community has the expertise to foster EOSC-related activities at country and institution levels. Projects will collaborate and will feed their results into EOSC-A Task Forces. WHY: EOSC Gravity will pull the EOSC communities of stakeholders together to contribute to a smooth and effective transition from the Partnership to a new governance and funding framework for EOSC post-2027. Multi-stakeholder collaboration and dialogue which builds on EU and national investments in this area is needed for the future of EOSC as a federated infrastructure. WHO: The EOSC Gravity consortium is formulated as a lean grouping of skilled partners coordinated by EOSC-A, the EC’s partner in the EOSC Partnership and current coordinator of the EOSC Focus project.
Deep-Inelastic-scattering and Vector-boson-fusion Advances (DiVA)

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: Italy,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 297164.16
EU funding (EUR): 297164.16
Participants: 2
Project status: TERMINATED

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) probes interactions among particles with unprecedented precision. The determination of the Higgs boson properties is a central pillar of the LHC physics program and of the current LHC run. This demands for accurate theoretical predictions, which usually hinge on Monte Carlo event generators. State-of-the-art predictions are given by next-to-leading-order (NLO) calculations in QCD matched to leading-logarithmic (LL) parton shower (PS). Next-to-NLO (NNLO) matching, necessary to advance the accuracy of theoretical predictions, is limited to specific processes, like the hadro-production of heavy systems in the final state. Vector Boson Fusion (VBF) is the preferred channel for the determination of the Higgs to muon couplings and for Higgs to invisible searches. This project's aim is to pioneer NNLO matching techniques for processes characterised by the t-channel exchange of a colourless boson, such as VBF and Vector Boson Scattering (VBS), and to develop the first NNLO+PS generator for Higgs boson production in VBF. Given the close relationship between higher-order corrections in VBF, VBS, and Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS), the initial focus will be the formulation of a NNLO+PS matching scheme for DIS. This matching will preserve the logarithmic accuracy of both the new next-to LL (NLL) showers, and the standard LL ones. Additionally, to achieve this task, novel resummed predictions for DIS will be produced. Reaching NNLO+NLL accuracy within a comprehensive PS simulation is a groundbreaking endeavour. These outcomes will be vital for precise studies of the Higgs sector in the current and future LHC runs, and for high-precision investigations at future DIS-type facilities like the Electron-Ion Collider. Furthermore, this project will lay the foundations for a more widely applicable NNLO+PS matching approach with superior logarithmic accuracy, which can be extended to a broader range of collider processes involving QCD jets.

Keywords: perturbative qcd,higher order computations,parton showers,nnlo,collider phenomenology,lhc,eic
Impact of MPXV infection on pregnancy outcome and newborn health (PREGMPOX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,Congo, The Democratic Republic of the,Uganda,Germany
Call: Mobilisation of Emergency funding for Mpox outbreak research response (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2024-Mpox, 2024)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1250000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1250000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Pregnant women have an increased risk of severe mpox disease, however, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. To better understand altered transmission pattern of MPXV and its impact on this vulnerable population, PREGMPOX aims to assess the extent of MPXV spreading among pregnant women in South Kivu and neighboring regions through both passive and active surveillance. Passive surveillance will utilize existing health data from local facilities, capturing reported cases, while active surveillance will involve direct community engagement to identify and document unreported cases. In sentinel study sites in hot spot areas, the prevalence of MPXV infection among pregnant women will be investigated and potential transmission routes determined. Moreover, our project aims to document and analyze adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with MPXV infection, such as spontaneous losses, stillbirths, preterm deliveries, and neonatal infection. MPXV+ pregnant women will be asked to participate in a cohort study where they will be followed until delivery to document pregnancy outcomes, maternal immune response, and virus abundance and pathological changes in the placenta. This will help to determine specific risk factors and modes and frequencies of vertical transmission to the unborn, and generate a list of clinical and immunological predictors for adverse outcomes for pregnant women and neonates. As a prerequisite to evaluate the safety of the MVA-BN vaccine and tecovirimat treatment in pregnant women, we will create a comprehensive register of adverse pregnancy outcomes, using a pharmacovigilance model to monitor and analyze adverse events following immunization and treatment. The results of our multidisciplinary studies will be crucial for developing guidelines and recommendations to manage mpox more effectively during pregnancy, and for potentially influencing global health policies.

Keywords: monkey pox,prevalence,cohort study,vaccination,treatment
Science and Dogma: Tracing Natural Knowledge within Scholastic Theology (1545–1789) (SCIGMA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1492832.5
EU funding (EUR): 1492832.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The early modern period is usually viewed as a time of profound change, including the so-called ‘Scientific Revolution’ and the Protestant/Catholic Reformation. Historians have linked these two seemingly disparate transformations in many different ways, but one important dimension is yet to be uncovered. SCIGMA’s main hypothesis is that natural knowledge significantly influenced dogmatics as a central branch of theology in the early modern university. University textbooks eagerly addressed many questions related to natural knowledge, such as: Can the bodily resurrection be understood from a physiological perspective? Which physics apply for the Eucharist? While much has been written on the impact of theology on the natural sciences, SCIGMA will turn the tables to uncover their truly entangled relationship. The project will systematically investigate how naturalism and empiricism informed scholastic and dogmatic theology, from the Council of Trent to the French Revolution across all Western Christian denominations. Its research agenda will consider theology as a ‘scientia’ in the premodern university and therefore include it within the history of science and knowledge. SCIGMA’s first goal is to discover the multiple and changing ways in which natural knowledge informed premodern scholastic theology, which sought a rational reconstruction of faith. Second, it will uncover what effective epistemological frameworks accommodated this interplay of empiricism and revelation. Third, it will trace how these epistemological frameworks were determined by their embedding within religious and secular institutions of learning. This complex historical analysis will reveal the significant role of the ‘physico-dogmatic domain’ in institutional learning. Thereby, it sheds novel light on how premodern Western societies fundamentally reshaped scientific inquiry while being deeply religious – and ultimately paved the way to secularization and scientism in these societies.

Keywords: science and religion,reformation,secularisation,dogmatic theology,medicine,natural philosophy
GuardIAS - Guarding European Waters from IAS (GuardIAS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Italy,Finland,New Zealand,Lithuania,Denmark,Belgium,Norway,Spain,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Ireland,Australia
Call: Invasive alien species (HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7150222.5
EU funding (EUR): 6475880.5
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The GuardIAS project is an ambitious initiative aimed at transforming aquatic environment governance and management in Europe. Its primary goal is to align with the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the IAS Regulation, focusing on mitigating the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health. GuardIAS plans to utilize advanced science, technology, and artificial intelligence to develop innovative tools and methodologies. These tools will be instrumental in preventing, detecting, eradicating, and managing IAS. The project is set to advance through interdisciplinary collaboration, integrating data from various sources to create comprehensive IAS impact profiles and management strategies. A significant aspect of GuardIAS is stakeholder engagement and societal involvement. This will be achieved through Citizen Science initiatives and innovative engagement strategies (such as serious games and BioArtBlitz events), aiming to involve the wider community in addressing IAS challenges. GuardIAS will also establish robust solutions for IAS management at multiple governance levels, from local to international. The project will include the development of beyond-the-state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies, such as nano-coatings for marine vessels to prevent IAS spread and eDNA approaches for efficient detection. Additionally, GuardIAS will conduct macroecological and biogeographic analyses to assess IAS risks under various future scenarios, including climate change. The project's comprehensive approach, encompassing science, technology, and community engagement, positions it as a key player in the EU's efforts to preserve biodiversity and protect ecosystems from the growing threat of invasive species. GuardIAS is not only a response to current environmental challenges but also a proactive step towards sustainable management and conservation of aquatic environments in Europe.

Keywords: aquatic invasive alien species,early warning,prevention,monitoring,eradication,control,prioritisation,engagement,citizen science,robotics,innovative tools,biosecurity risk modelling,easin
Biosocial Security: Social Science Transformations of Biosecurity (BIOSSCI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: United Kingdom,South Africa,Malaysia
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2031-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499723.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499723.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Biosecurity, the management of biological threats to humans, animals, and environments, is critical for health, economy, pandemic preparedness, and food security. In agricultural settings, it involves protecting livestock and workers from infectious diseases. The tendency is to take an engineering approach, aiming to minimise system breaches or failures. But this Biosecurity I approach is failing. Infection pressures are growing with climate and other environmental changes. Resulting livestock systems can make animals and landscapes less resilient and expose farms and workers to greater risks. Implementation costs are high, non-compliant farms can be excluded from markets, resulting in rural poverty and increased disease threat. Biosecurity I is ill-fitted to low income and sub-tropical settings and can generate socially unjust and neo-colonial outcomes. Radical new thinking is needed. The alternative is to learn from those who successfully manage biological threats under varying conditions. In this approach, safety involves more than minimising breaches. It requires that many matters or ‘goods’ are managed effectively. Biosecurity II, biosocial security, is the careful arrangement of people, animals, materials, and markets in ways that make life safe. Lessons need to be learned concerning how this is achieved and how things can be improved. This ground-breaking project reverses the usual top-down flow of biosecurity knowledge. It will work with farmers and policymakers in Bangladesh, South Africa, and the UK to understand how biosecurity works in practice. The project team will generate empirically and conceptually informed social science knowledge on those practices. The field knowledge will be used to exnovate future approaches to biosecurity, exploring alternative institutional and policy practices. Developing innovative methods and theory, the PI-led team will generate a step change in social science approaches to a key twenty-first century issue.

Keywords: biosecurity food human nonhuman relations science policy epidemiology disease health