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Sharply o-minimal Structures: towards a theory of arithmetically tame geometry (SharpOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1787660.0
EU funding (EUR): 1787660.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SUSPENDED

O-minimality is a model-theoretic formalism of tame geometry. Sets that are definable in o-minimal structures enjoy strong finiteness properties, such as the existence of finite stratifications and triangulations. While drawing inspiration from the classical areas of semialgebraic and subanalytic geometry, o-minimality encompasses a strictly larger range of structures - most notably structures defined using the logarithmic and exponential functions. In the past 15 years o-minimality has enjoyed a golden age, as deep connections relating these larger structures to arithmetic geometry and Hodge theory have been unfolding. However, over this period it has become clear that some finer aspects of tameness, especially as it relates to arithmetic, are not accessible in the full generality of o-minimal theory. Some prominent conjectures have been formulated only for specific structures, with a folklore expectation that they should hold in all structures naturally arising in algebraic and arithmetic geometry. In this project we propose to refine the foundation of o-minimal geometry by introducing a notion of "sharply o-minimal structures'', with the goal of capturing the finer arithmetic properties of the definable sets arising in algebraic and arithmetic geometry. We argue that this should be achieved by postulating sharper estimates for the asymptotic interaction between definable and algebraic sets. The construction of such "sharp" structures has until recently seemed technically unattainable, but three recent technical developments, including the first example of a sharply o-minimal structure beyond the semialgebraic case, renders the project timely and potentially feasible. We show how many recent advances in the area point to sharp o-minimality as a possible grand unifying framework, and illustrate how a realization of this program would greatly simplify, strengthen and generalize many of the state of the art applications of o-minimality.

Keywords: o minimal geometry,diophantine geometry,andre oort conjecture,pila wilkie theorem
Investigating the Manipulation of Alignment/Activity via Geometrical INteraction Effects in Liquid Crystals (IMAGINE_LC)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Controlling the orientation of rod-like objects is crucial for liquid crystal technologies and the natural world. For biological systems, recent studies have shown that living materials form liquid crystalline structures that dictate biological function. These systems are out-of-equilibrium, converting energy into motion, and are modelled as active liquid crystals. However, alignment techniques commonly used in liquid crystal technologies are yet to be leveraged for active counterparts. The prevailing chemical alignment methods do not scale to these larger system sizes. Geometrical orientation of rods, however, applies across length scales. Though the influence of geometrical features on alignment is not well understood, even for passive systems. IMAGINE_LC will Investigate the Manipulation of Anchoring and Activity via Geometrical Interaction Effects on an experimental, colloidal, liquid crystal system. The colloidal scale minimizes chemical interactions and enhances geometrical effects. I will develop a passive and active model system that is confined by walls with diverse topographical features. The project will be conducted at Utrecht University, where the host has expertise in confined liquid crystals and colloidal synthesis. The host and I will have a two-way transfer of knowledge by employing host expertise in liquid crystal analysis, colloidal synthesis, and high-resolution imaging for this project. These tools are essential for developing a colloidal liquid crystal. My knowledge of molecular liquid crystals is complimentary to the host group’s research focus on liquid crystal assembly. My experience with complex liquid crystal device fabrication will complement the host’s body of knowledge. By combining our expertise, IMAGINE_LC will advance the fundamental understanding of geometry on liquid crystal alignment and dynamics, establishing principles that are generalizable to synthetic and biological systems, ranging from nanometric to millimetric sizes.

Keywords: colloids,liquid crystals,active nematics,anchoring,anisotropy,geometrical confinement,photolithography,topological defects,alignment
CIRCULAR ECONOMY INNOVATIONS FOR RESILIENT, COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE BATTERY TECHNOLOGIES (CIRCUBATT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Slovenia,Norway,France,Austria,Spain,Switzerland
Call: Development of technical and business solutions to optimise the circularity, resilience, and sustainability of the European battery value chain (Batt4EU Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4344176.25
EU funding (EUR): 4344176.25
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The CIRCUBATT project aims to redefine the European battery sector by setting new benchmarks through the integration of artificial intelligence, data analytics, and sustainable practices. By tackling critical bottlenecks and employing cutting-edge technologies, CIRCUBATT seeks to boost the competitiveness of the European industry while aligning with the EU’s environmental and economic objectives. Its holistic approach promises a more efficient, reliable, and sustainable battery value chain, prepared to address Europe's future energy demands and the global challenge of climate change. The project combines advanced material sciences, innovative business models, and leading digital technologies to deploy a range of solutions tested across various real-world scenarios. These solutions will span the entire battery lifecycle—from design and manufacturing to end-of-life recycling—showcasing adaptability, efficiency, and sustainability in practical applications. This initiative aims to reduce Europe’s reliance on critical raw materials, diminish environmental impacts, and strengthen the continent’s position in the global battery market. CIRCUBATT will explore innovative business models, such as Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) and develop cross-industry tools like battery sustainability analysis and artificial intelligence-driven data analytics. Additionally, it will advance the design of battery cells and packs that support effective aging analysis and facilitate dismantling for second-life use or recycling. Pilot studies within the project will validate the feasibility of these innovations. Ultimately, the project will deliver new products, business models, and tools poised to make significant contributions to the circularity, resilience, and sustainability of the European battery value chain.

Keywords: battery as a service,data as a service,sustainable by design,second use batteries
Novel Probes for Scanning Probe Microscopy (G-PROBE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

For more than 30 years, the platforms based on scanning probe microscopy (SPM) have contributed enormously in the progress of nanoscience and nanotechnology, becoming a fundamental tool for specialists spanning a wide range of research fields, such as materials science, nanoelectronics or biophysics. The versatility of these multipurpose microscopes is bestowed by the extended variety of probes available in the market, used to interact with the nanoscale. For this proof of concept grant, we will further develop our probes and collect extended data-sets of tip performance, propose scalable manufacturing processes and demonstrate further capabilities of this new generation of SPM probes.
effectIve advaNCements towaRds uptakE of PV integrAted in buildingS & infrastructurE (Increase)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,France,Germany,Italy,Montenegro,Switzerland,Estonia
Call: PV integration in buildings and in infrastructure (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9626998.28
EU funding (EUR): 8008853.37
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

INCREASE aims to contribute to a wider uptake of IPV by delivering innovations at module and system level, as well as for the design & operation phase. New encapsulants and coatings will be developed contributing to improved aesthetics, reduced glare, lower environmental footprint, improved behavior during fire, and improved antifoiling and antisoiling behavior. At system level, innovations focus on integrated facade and roof concepts, as well as noise barriers. Practical guidelines will further be delivered for bespoke infrastructure integrated projects, validated with a variety of complementary infrastructure integrated PV projects. Elaborate testing is foreseen at module and system level in line with relevant construction related and electrical standards. Optimal case-specific selection of IPV size and characteristics will be supported by a multi-objective optimisation software that takes into account the shape and use of the building or infrastructure, its surroundings, and its energy flexibility potential and steer the asset operation as well as suggest specific user behaviour to maximise the self-consumption. To increase market acceptance, a strong layer of user feedback and co-creation underpins the overall R&D activities, and contributes to delivering 10 complementary building and infrastructure demonstrations on 9 locations in 6 European countries. Cross-sector interactions, policy exchanges, investor dialogues, and country-specific business case assessments will further direct the exploitation towards large scale market uptake.

Keywords: cross sector collaboration,renewables
Pushing from within: Control of cell shape, integrity and motility by cytoskeletal pushing forces (PushingCell)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Austria,Netherlands,France
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2022-SYG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9813625.0
EU funding (EUR): 9813625.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The ability of cells to sense environmental cues and respond to them by adjusting their shape and motion is fundamental for biological processes ranging from animal development to disease. Much is known about how cells sense and respond to the geometry and mechanics of their environment by adhering to and pulling on the substrate. However, recent studies demonstrated that cells also strongly depend on non-adhesive interactions with the environment and that they probe, sense and deform their surroundings by pushing into them. The goal of this project is to address the mechanisms controlling cell shape and cell-substrate interactions via pushing forces. We will focus on three levels of cell organization: 1. Nanoscale pushing: We will investigate how cells locally sense and respond to obstacles without adhering to them and quantify the associated forces. Using micro-engineered substrates and tissue mimics, we will molecularly and biophysically dissect, biochemically reconstitute and theoretically model the interface between an obstacle, the plasma membrane and the actin cortex. 2. Mesoscale cell mechanics: We will investigate how actin, microtubules and intermediate filaments collaborate to generate and extend mesoscopic cell protrusions that push by adhesion-independent mechanisms. We will combine cell biological experiments and optogenetics with modeling and bottom-up reconstitutions. 3. Global force balance: We will examine adhesion-independent mechanisms that allow a cell to coordinate competing protrusions, maintain its integrity and translocate in complex environments. Using biophysical measurements and local molecular perturbations, we will test models of long-range communication within cells. Our work will provide new fundamental insights into biological and physical principles underlying the control of cell shape, integrity and motility, which are key to most physiological processes from development and homeostasis to cancer, immune responses and regeneration.

Keywords: cell shape cell motility cytoskeleton actin microtubules membrane shaping proteins active gel
Charting the sea of brain waves: Investigation of cortical traveling waves during speech processing (WAVESCOPE)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Since the beginning of the 20th century, oscillatory patterns have been identified in recordings of human brain activity. Neural oscillation research is a highly active area of investigation, with several competing hypotheses about the role oscillations might play in human cognition. Here we focus on the spatial dimension and look at the emergent topic of oscillations in the form of ‘traveling waves’. These have been detected in different cortical areas, but there is no clear computational role. In the proposed project, I will first develop the waveSCOPE toolbox for the spatiotemporal characterization of propagating events. This open source toolbox (WP1) uses a novel-to-the-research-field algorithm. The algorithm leverages the fact that we can record cortical activity with many sensors (e.g. using MEG or EEG) and arrive at multivariate estimation of phases across recording channels. This allows tracking traveling waves across many frequencies, without the selection of a prior frequency-of-interest. The procedure will be validated in resting state data and compared systematically to other state-of-the-art wave detection algorithms. I then will apply the novel methodology to speech processing data acquired via magnetoencephalography (WP2). During the processing of speech, one typically observes a complex coordinated hierarchy of rhythmic activity. We will investigate whether wave propagation direction is congruent to directions expected by functional anatomic organization and known auditory processing stages. The knowledge and skills gained from this interdisciplinary project, using a new recording modality as well as a new domain of study, will allow me to further develop a competitive scientific career as an independent researcher. In terms of scientific impact, the characterization of propagating activity will be helpful in the hunt for well-motivated abstractions in the amount of ever-increasing brain data and therefore of fundamental importance for neuroscience.

Keywords: speech perception,magnetoencephalography
SKILLAB: Monitoring The Demand And Supply Of Skills In The European Labour Market (SKILLAB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Romania,Luxembourg,Germany,Spain,Cyprus
Call: Tackling European skills and labour shortages (HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999587.5
EU funding (EUR): 2999587.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed project aims at (a) identifying skills shortages and gaps in the labor market for different regions, sectors,time periods (b) supporting all kinds of enterprises in developing their human resource strategy, including both training of current employees, and skill shaping of future employees, (c) supporting recruiting enterprises looking for specific skills, (d) supporting EU citizens in developing their skills in an informed way and eventually finding a suitable job and e) aiming to find good candidates for emerging roles, but also to equip existing employees with the necessary skills to retain their jobs, thus improving job retainability and reducing employee churn.The project will meet its goals by designing and implementing an intelligent platform for managing labor market skills and skill gaps. The system will monitor and mine internet resources and EU initiatives to acquire and process meaningful raw data about existing and sought skills, and entities offering and seeking jobs. State-of-the-art IT technologies will be used to empower the platform and achieve its goals, including advanced statistical and network and data analysis, machine learning and competency mining. On the basis of such analyses, recommendation tools for HRM, educational profile upskilling and digital policies will be made available to users. The system will offer its findings in an easy, human-centric with SSH principles, ready to use, and ethically correct form to both enterprises and individuals. Such objectives are highly relevant to the objectives of the call. In particular, it is expected that the project will contribute to the multi-faceted assessment of the labor market status through its data acquiring and analysis tools. Continuous monitoring will allow for detecting current and future trends and gaps in requested and processed skills. The platform will offer a knowledge base for recommendation tools to develop skill strategies both for enterprises and individuals.

Keywords: labor market analytics,digital skills,skill shortages,competency management,machine learning,data mining analytics,forecasting,human resource management,digital policies,recommendation systems
Certified E-GNSS Remote TrackIng of Drone and Aircraft FLIGHTs (CERTIFLIGHT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Czechia,Spain,Belgium,Romania,Netherlands
Call: EGNSS applications for the Digital Age (HORIZON-EUSPA-2021-SPACE, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3077325.0
EU funding (EUR): 2291602.5
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The rising number of UASs (drones) led to the introduction of additional specific rules and procedures for their use (i.e., EU regulatory package 2021/664 U-space) where UASs are expected to operate alongside sport/ultralight and General aviation (GA) aircrafts. For this class of aircrafts and UASs there is no certified component capable of ensuring a positioning information trustable enough as evidential value from a legal perspective. In response to this need, CERTIFLIGHT project proposes a new U-space service for the legal certification of tracks generated by UASs and aircrafts flights, through the introduction of a new disruptive EGNSS-IoT digital system. CERTIFLIGHT features a software platform that offers to its customers (UAS Operators, GA Pilots) a digital service for the generation of certified reports of flight tracks and the flight logs of UASs and GA aircrafts, especially for safety related and commercially valuable applications, paving the way for a new class of U-space business services that include the activation of Smart Contracts (i.e. contracts activated when specific conditions are met as flying specific routes for drone parcel delivery). In addition, the recorded tracks may be useful for enforcement (i.e., sanctions for airspace infringement) as well as for possible accident or incident investigations. The core of the system is a digital EGNSS/IoT device installed on UASs and GA manned aircraft, equipped with an OSNMA Galileo/EGNOS enabled receiver, capable to guarantee the authenticity of their position information at the origin, without the possibility to be counterfeited or spoofed. Tracking information is cyphered for transmission to CERTIFLIGHT platform in real time and permanently stored to a private Blockchain node, unalterable once stored. Galileo OSNMA service acts as unique global enabler for this service, ensuring the authenticity of positioning data at the origin.

Keywords: egnss iot osnma blockchain u space utm machine learning anti spoofing drone box certified flight report smart contract safety for ga legal recording service flight data traceability