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Robotic Safe Adaptation In unprecedented Situations (RoboSAPIENS)

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: Denmark,Belgium,Greece,Norway,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom
Call: Novel paradigms and approaches, towards AI-driven autonomous robots (AI, data and robotics partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6883242.5
EU funding (EUR): 6883233.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The robots of tomorrow will be endowed with the ability to adapt to drastic and unpredicted changes in their environment including humans. Such adaptations can however not be boundless: the robot must stay trustworthy, i.e. the adaptations should not be just a recovery into a degraded functionality. Instead, it must be a true adaptation, meaning that the robot will change its behavior while maintaining or even increasing its expected performance, and stays at least as safe and robust as before. RoboSAPIENS will focus on autonomous robotic software adaptations and will lay the foundations for ensuring that such software adaptations are carried out in an intrinsically safe, trustworthy and efficient manner, thereby reconciling open-ended self-adaptation with safety by design. RoboSAPIENS will also transform these foundations into 'first time right'-design tools and robotic platforms, and will validate and demonstrate them up to TRL4. To achieve this over-all goal, RoboSAPIENS will extend the state of the art in four main objectives. 1. It will enable robotic open-ended self-adaptation in response to unprecedented system structural and environmental changes. 2. It will advance safety engineering techniques to assure robotic safety not only before, during and after adaptation. 3. It will advance deep learning techniques to actively reduce uncertainty in robotic self-adaptation. 4. It will assure trustworthiness of systems that use both deep-learning and computational architectures for robotic self-adaptation. To realise these objectives, RoboSAPIENS will extend techniques such as MAPE-K (Monitor, Analyze, Plan, Execute, Knowledge) and Deep Learning to set up generic adaptation procedures and also use an SSH dimension. RoboSAPIENS will demonstrate this trustworthy robotic self-adaptation on four industry-scale use cases centered around an industrial disassembly robot, a warehouse robotic swarm, a prolonged hull of an autonomous vessel, and human-robotic interaction.

Keywords: open ended,uncertainty,control,safety,trustworthiness
An intelligent perovskite solution printing line (INT-PVK-PRINT)

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: Italy,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Hybrid perovskite photovoltaics (PV) are considered one of the most promising emerging PV technologies that have the potential to becoming a vital part of future’s renewable energy production needed for combating climate change. However, the community still struggles with the scaling and reproducibility when printing perovskite thin-film absorber layers from solution due to the complex perovskite formation process that is susceptible to a variety of environment and process parameters. This project proposes a novel interface between perovskite solution printing and algorithmic optimization and control theory by equipping a roll-to-roll perovskite printing line with in situ characterization, computational data processing and automatically adjustable process parameters. The characterization is given by point-probe reflection/absorption as well as luminescence imaging measurements. Feedback for control is calculated in real-time using simple control algorithms, at first, and progressing in complexity toward the employment of deep reinforcement learning (DRL), later on. The images are analyzed offline using convolutional neural networks for optimizing absorption/reflection set points for the above-described feedback control. The proposal has two main goals: 1) Boosting the optimization of perovskite solution printing by effectively balancing exploration and exploitation of the large parameter space 2) demonstrating enhanced process control of certain system states to achieve higher process reproducibility and resilience in perovskite printing. These goals are complementary in a sense that control is exceeded on rapidly accessible parameters while optimization is performed with slowly accessible parameters. In conclusion, this proposal presents a fundamental and concise new methodology of addressing reproducibility and scalability in perovskite solution printing that could be used for printing of functional thin-film, as well, highlighting its generality.

Keywords: scalable roll to roll coating,hybrid perovskite photovoltaics,in situ characterization,luminescence imaging,deep machine learning,deep reinforcement learning,convolutional neural networks
Advanced Manufacturing of Bio-Based Products for Urban outdoor applications through Innovative characterization, digital technologies and circular approach (AMBIANCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland,Italy,Greece,Sweden,Austria
Call: Manufacturing technologies for bio-based materials (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4571767.5
EU funding (EUR): 4571767.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

By applying a circularity-by-design approach, the AMBIANCE project aims to develop new and advanced bio-based products, characterized by a high or total bio-based material content and taking into account the different alternatives for recirculation such as the different types of reuses, remanufacturing, recycling, biodegradation or energy recovery to enhance sustainable models. Such approach will be coupled to the optimization of the mechanical properties for particular applications, e.g. durability for outdoors urban furniture or sports and leisure products, taking into consideration the whole lifecycle. Special attention will be paid to the optimization of product manufacturing of bio-based materials, which will require tuning of material composition and processes (extrusion, large-scale additive manufacturing, compression moulding) for different bio-based materials. Besides, the use of Digital Twin technologies will enhance the development of materials and products and the remanufacturing of such bio-based goods, and it will optimize manufacturing processes and enhance production quality of such novel applications by leveraging IoT and Artificial Intelligence technologies. AMBIANCE's impact will be two-fold: firstly we will showcase disruptively innovative bio-based products in different sectors and manufacturing processes, while we will demonstrate applicability in daily-life products, starring green urban areas that will lead the transition to sustainability. The setting proposed by AMBIANCE will directly result in the creation of new jobs, based on new technical competences that will require specific training and upskilling, while the technical developments and findings will be used to contributing to the standardization of bio-based products and materials, which will guarantee an effective and wide adoption for making such products the new baseline of our lives.

Keywords: bio based,bio materials,recycling,circularity,sustainability,smart manufacturing
sustainable HYdrogen powered Shipping (sHYpS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,Czechia,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Netherlands
Call: Enabling the safe and efficient on-board storage and integration within ships of large quantities of ammonia and hydrogen fuels (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14296314.03
EU funding (EUR): 8621612.45
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The general objective of sHYpS is to support the decarbonisation of the shipping industry, by leveraging on previous and on-going work and investment made by Viking and some consortium members. It will develop a hydrogen-based solution, which can be adapted to multiple types of vessels and in some cases can already achieve IMO’s target for 2030 and 2050. The project will develop a (i) novel hydrogen storage intermodal 45’ ISO c-type container, (ii) the complete detailed design of modular containerised powertrain based on optimised PEM Fuel Cells and (iii) their dedicated logistics. On one hand the project will define a logistic based on swapping pre-filled containers, on the other hand it will define a perspective scale-up of the storage capacity and the supply applied to the Port of Bergen use-case. This will allow to kick start a supply-chain without waiting for the full infrastructure to be in place. We show how this approach can already support a remarkable part of the vessels in the EU waters. The project will use the window of opportunity of 1 Viking’s newbuilds Ocean Cruise vessel to install the storage system onboard with the complete gas handling and energy management system and test it during the shakedown cruise by 2026, with a limited power Fuel Cell. When the 6MW will be in place (pendent investment decision by Viking) this will allow to cut 50% of emissions in a 14 days fjord cruise. The midterm outcomes are remarkable, since Viking has a building program of 6 Ocean Cruise ships by 2030 and several river ships. With the right logistics in place the ISO container technology can develop in hundreds of units per year. In the meantime, the upscaled design of the container from this project will approach more segments in sea and IWW application and look to hundreds of vessels in the order book of commercial fleets. The value-chain include LH2 suppliers, giving the opportunity to speed up a supply of thousands tons of LH2 per year in the next 20 years.

Keywords: hydrogen propulsion,hydrogen supply,shipping,imo 2030,decarbonisation,ship propulsion,ghg reduction
Distributed and federated cross-modality actuation through advanced nanomaterials and neuromorphic learning (CROSSBRAIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Tools to measure and stimulate activity in Brain Tissue (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4034152.5
EU funding (EUR): 4034074.3
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

A vast number of pathological brain conditions directly involve aberrant electrical activity of the brain. CROSSBRAIN centres its technological revolution on the convergence of novel nanoactuation modalities, bleeding-edge nano-electronics, and miniaturized wireless energy harvesting and communication. Combining extreme edge computing with advanced nanomaterials featuring tailored physical properties, biocompatible coatings, and material modifications to prevent glial scarring, CROSSBRAIN will enable individualized, adaptive and highly spatiotemporally localized actuation of brain tissue. It will leverage sensing electric local field potentials, multiunit neuronal activity, and cross-modal nanomaterial-based modulation (electrical, mechanical, thermal, ionic concentration, optogenetics) of neuronal excitability with on-board intelligence. The CROSSBRAIN platform comprises a swarm of wireless, implantable, MRI-compatible microbots for in vivo electrophysiology and cross-modal neuromodulation at the cell- and microcircuit levels, in freely moving rodents. CROSSBRAIN delivers a multiplicity of stimulation modalities, involving electro-mechano-magneto-thermo-optical principles for modulation of nerve cell excitability. The microbots will feature both sensing and actuation electrodes, engineered with nanomaterials and viral vectors coatings. They will be implanted endovascularly, deliver genetic material upon command, and operate in federation under the networked control and wireless power supply by a tiny central unit, which can be worn like an internet of things device. CROSSBRAIN will deliver autonomous or manual, closed-loop sensing, prediction, and actuation through combining multiple neuromodulation mechanisms, which will act in a synergistic and dynamic manner to optimally shape stimulation according to individual neuronal firing patterns or clinician’s needs. As case studies, we will explore CROSSBRAIN action in animal models of Parkinson’s Disease and Epilepsy.

Keywords: neuromorphic computing,nanophysics,neuroinformatics,nano processes,bioelectricity,memristive technologies,neurostimulation,technological innovation
Archaeology of Dress along the Middle Nile (Fashioning Sudan)

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: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499876.25
EU funding (EUR): 1499876.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

100 years of archaeological research along the Middle Nile has yielded partial knowledge of the history of Sudan and Nubia. To date, the focus has been on the public life of the sedentary elite. Other identities remain invisible and cultural frameworks tend to be restricted to binary oppositions (e.g. sedentary vs. nomads, Pharaonic vs. African influences). Going beyond the monumental remains, the Fashioning Sudan project will focus on a long-neglected and much more intimate aspect of the Sudanese material world: dress practices. This pioneering approach will merge different academic fields such as archaeology, textile and animal skin research, palaeoproteomics, and socio-cultural theory. Thanks to its arid climate, Sudan is one of the rare places on Earth where archaeological textiles and skins are well preserved and in remarkably high numbers; but despite its potential, this treasure trove of information is seldom exploited by historians or archaeologists. Fashioning Sudan will use garments as a privileged medium to reveal past identities, bringing new and more representative knowledge about the populations of ancient Sudan and highlighting the entanglement of dress practices in the fabric of society. The project will encompass the high-resolution analysis of textile and animal skin garments from the Bronze Age to the Late Medieval period, in close connection with their archaeological context. The results will reveal which animal and plant species were exploited, as well as skills and craft dynamics. It will then question how to use clothing and socio-cultural theories to reveal previously unknown aspects of past Sudanese lives. Fashioning Sudan will renew our academic approach to past identities along the Nile thanks to interdisciplinary research uniting under-exploited material sources (dress & craft) to innovative methods at the forefront of natural sciences and cultural studies.

Keywords: sudan and nubia,textiles,leather,dress practices,materiality and identities
Novel therapeutic platform for aggressive lymphoma: NanoLymphoma (NanoLymphoma)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Immunotherapy using antibodies targeting the cell surface has led to important clinical advances in patients with cancer, exemplified by CD20-antibodies that are first-line treatment in patients with B-cell lymphoma. However, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most common and aggressive form of B-cell lymphoma worldwide, is still incurable in 40% of patients. These patients have poor prognosis due to treatment failure or relapse upon therapy with CD20-antibodies (260,000 mortalities worldwide in 2020). Thus, there is urgent need for novel therapies to overcome resistance and enhance anti-tumor activities in patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma. We developed nanofilaments that can efficiently cluster multiple lymphoma membrane targets (CD20, and new targets: CD22, CD37) to induce potent tumor cytotoxicity. This new therapeutic platform (''NanoLymphoma'') represents a powerful strategy since this approach is independent from genetic cancer subtypes and is broadly applicable in molecular heterogeneous B-cell lymphoma subtypes. NanoLymphoma will evaluate and validate the technical and commercial feasibility of its new therapeutic platform to target human lymphoma cells and prepare for clinical translation to patients with DLBCL. NanoLymphoma will: 1) Show that clustering of therapeutic targets on the surface tumor cells potently induces tumor cell death, and 2) Perform market and business case analyses to ensure commercial feasibility and entry to market through Simmunext Biotherapeutics. NanoLymphoma is expected to outperform conventional anti-CD20 antibody treatment in patients with aggressive lymphoma.
RestPoll: Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches (RestPoll)

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: Germany,France,Ukraine,Sweden,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Norway,Latvia,Spain,Netherlands,Italy,United States,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Maintaining and restoring pollinators and pollination services in European agricultural landscapes (HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7231242.75
EU funding (EUR): 7118102.93
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

RestPoll is a highly transdisciplinary project aiming to provide society with tools to reverse wild pollinator declines and to position Europe as a global leader in pollinator restoration. RestPoll will, together with stakeholders ranging from individual land managers to governments, co-design, evaluate, and refine measures and cross-sectoral approaches to restore pollinators and their services. The RestPoll consortium combines the expertise of natural and social scientists, NGOs, businesses, and ministries. Stakeholders along the food value chain will be engaged through newly developed participatory approaches at diverse social, ecological, and political scales. Central to RestPoll is the establishment of a Europe-wide network of pollinator restoration case-study areas and Living Labs (LL), which are unique hubs for experimentation, demonstration, and mutual learning. RestPoll aims to position Europe as a global leader and set the future agenda for pollinator restoration worldwide. The transdisciplinary RestPoll consortium will develop, test, evaluate and refine cross-sectoral pollinator restoration approaches to conserve biodiversity and to benefit nature and society. To restore wild pollinator diversity and their vital pollination services, RestPoll will co-design measures with different stakeholders (ranging from individual land managers to governments) at various spatial scales (field, farm, landscape, European scales), in agricultural landscapes that are dominated by intensively managed crops or grasslands. Our holistic approach, informed by cutting-edge transdisciplinary research, will integrate stakeholders and actors at multiple levels as well as natural and social science disciplines to engage in participatory planning and development of new business models. Learning outcomes will be disseminated by regional to European multi-actor partners and collaborators, which will ensure impact beyond the end of the project.

Keywords: pollinators,restoration,agricultural landscape transformation,conservation,co designing,biodiversity,living lab network,co benefits,pollinator friendly policies,best practice