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PhotonHub Factory for Next-Generation Photonics Innovation Support: Boosting European Industrial Competitiveness and securing Technological Sovereignty. (PHACTORY)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Bulgaria,France,Germany,Greece,Ireland,Italy,Netherlands,Poland,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Czechia,Finland
Call: Photonics Innovation Factory for Europe (Photonics Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16318353.75
EU funding (EUR): 14999766.1
Participants: 38
Project status: SIGNED

PHACTORY is a unique pan-European consortium operating as a one-stop-shop virtual factory for photonics innovation support of European industry. PHACTORY brings together over 30 partners representing Europe’s top competence centers in photonics. Together the PHACTORY partners offer open streamlined access to the full spectrum of photonics technologies, expertise and supply chain activities from TRL2-7 including pilot lines and PIC foundries, combined with specialist partners in business, investment, intellectual property, and EU manufacturing support services to maximize the commercial impact from the project. PHACTORY’s ambitious work plan builds on the proven track record of over 20 years of successful collaboration between the consortium partners in previous similar EU projects and aims to go well beyond the current state-of-the-art in terms of its impact. PHACTORY will reach out broadly to European industry, especially SMEs, start-ups, and scaling companies, predominantly as first users and early adopters, to generate a critical mass of 125 carefully selected support cases with the highest potential for commercial impact. PHACTORY will work closely with the selected support cases, providing deep technology support interventions for TRL acceleration through intensive cross-border collaborative innovation projects, combined with tailored business supports to accelerate the investment readiness levels (IRL) of the supported companies. As a result, PHACTORY expects to achieve a quantified impact of at least 1250 new EU jobs, 937M€ in new company revenues, and 190M€ in new venture capital on aggregate within the supported companies directly related to the delivered PHACTORY innovation supports. The PHACTORY project will simultaneously strengthen the European photonics innovation ecosystem with more complete and mature value chains linked to EU manufacturing which are integrated into the PhotonHub Association for sustainability of the innovation support services.

Keywords: innovation support,investment support,demoandexperience center,,feasibility,prototyping,upscaling,transfer eu manufacturing,innovation photonics ecosystem
Dynamic Lighting Optimization for Enhanced Occupant Health and wellbeing: A Digital Twin Approach Integrating Behavioral Insights (DyLiOpt)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The impact of energy-efficient lighting systems on occupant health and well-being is often not thoroughly studied. Further, the human behavioural response is barely acknowledged while using the predefined control curves in building management systems, resulting in inefficiency, discomfort, and health problems, along with increased economic costs due to energy wastage and reduced productivity. This study will develop a digital twin paradigm extension for dynamic light optimisation based on behavioural insights and occupant needs (DyLiOpt) by mapping user responses and continuously optimising lighting during the operational phase using a Building Management System tailored to occupant needs. To analyse individuals' interaction with varying lighting conditions, three distinct settings within university spaces will be analysed by integrating mental models and the Theory of Planned Behavior to understand how attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived control shape occupant preferences for lighting. A key innovation of this study is the integration of Bayesian inference, enhancing the stochastic models with a probabilistic framework that accounts for uncertainties and variabilities. This approach will refine the models, enabling continuous updates based on new data. The Bayesian optimisation will be implemented within a digital twin platform, utilising patented autonomous optimisation technology to facilitate autonomous and semantic optimisation and dynamically adjust lighting parameters in real time, aligning with predicted occupant behaviour and lighting requirements. This research aims to set new standards in occupant-centric lighting optimisation, contributing to the health and well-being of occupants and energy efficiency in built environments while we race towards a climate-neutral continent by 2050.

Keywords: human behaviour modelling,indoor lighting optimisation,occupant centric lighting,adaptive digital twin lighting
Marketable Open Data Solutions for Optimized Building-Related Energy Services (MODERATE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Spain,Austria,Germany
Call: Advanced data-driven monitoring of building stock energy performance (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5433541.07
EU funding (EUR): 4998612.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The ever-increasing use of building monitoring and control systems has created an opportunity for data-driven approaches in the entire construction sector. At the same time, interaction and interoperability among data platforms remain a challenging issue. MODERATE will formalize a set of procedures and techniques that enable building owners, policymakers, facility managers, utility companies, etc., to openly share their data, gain insights, and make decisions while complying with regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Moreover, MODERATE will enable uniform access to heterogeneous data sources on buildings' performance, usually dispersed in several non-interoperable data silos. Although several projects have recently emerged to address the problem of defining a modular data architecture, they lack: - A protocol for data sharing and anonymization, complying with the rules defined by the GDPR while avoiding losing the statistical properties that make them valuable. - A solution enabling data owners to openly share their datasets while profiting both economically and in terms of knowledge on their data. - A fully open platform. Commonly, most of the results (data, algorithms, software, etc.) of a project are owned by partners within the consortium, making it very difficult to use them later without their permission. MODERATE will develop an open platform, embracing leading-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), blockchain/distributed ledger technologies, the internet of things (IoT), and many more. This platform will enable its users to analyze real-time building data from various building systems and provide insight into the many dimensions of a building's performance. The use of synthetic data generation techniques, not yet widely applied in the construction industry, is one of the elements that allow open data sharing, enabling more reliable services and generating business opportunities.

Keywords: open data platform,data anonymization and synthetization,building stock management,facility management,optimization,building services
Strengthening rural livelihoods and resilience to climate change in Africa: innovative agroforestry integrating people, trees, crops and livestock (GALILEO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Greece,Netherlands,Denmark,Senegal,Kenya,United Kingdom,Ghana,Nigeria,Cameroon,Switzerland,Italy
Call: EU-African Union cooperation on agroforestry management for climate change adaptation and mitigation (HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6112013.92
EU funding (EUR): 5999920.92
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of GALILEO is to rely on genuine Multi-Actor Approaches (MAA) to co-develop context-specific, people-centered agroforestry innovations in representative agro-pastoral, agroforestry, and agro-silvo-pastoral systems from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The aim is to promote agroforestry as leverage to significantly improve agricultural, household, and climate change adaptation and mitigation performances and to enhance biodiversity in SSA. We build upon 8 agroforestry Living Labs (LLs: local scale and actors), 4 national and 1 regional Innovation Platforms (IPs), set up across 4 AU SSA countries. Our LLs are set in semi-arid zones of Senegal and Kenya and normally humid but drought-prone zones of Ghana and Cameroon thus comparing and covering a large range of SSA conditions. Through MMA, we co-construct potentially adoptable scenarios ex-ante with Innovator, Target, and Control actors in our LLs, then implement, assess, and compare performances in their pilot plots during the whole project. We use field observations also to calibrate process models, able to simulate under future CC scenarios. After full multi-criteria and trade-off analysis, we finally co-select the most effective scenarios ex-post. We thus rely on transdisciplinary research, providing qualitative and quantitative data on the biophysical, socio-economic, and environmental performances. Such adoptable agroforestry innovations will also enable farmers/pastoralists and stakeholders to diversify their incomes from new agroforestry value chains, of which 2 are GALILEO-original. They will also benefit from carbon farming and payment for ecosystem services opportunities. Through our IPs, we also engage in solid MAA collaborations and policy dialogues to first identify bottlenecks and second elaborate guidelines, and policy recommendations, helping towards strengthening their local innovation ecosystems, under a favorable institutional and policy framework.

Keywords: agroforestry living labs innovation platforms climate change adaptation and mitigation sub saharan africa livelihood resilience sustainable agriculture enhanced biodiversity transdisciplinarity
Targeted Microarrays for 5-hydroxymethylcytosine-based Diagnosis of Hematological Malignancies (BASE6)

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: Israel
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is an oxidized form of 5-methylcytosine (5mC). It is the first step of reversing DNA methylation and an important indicator of dynamic epigenetic changes in genomic DNA. One characteristic of cancerous transformations is dramatic modulation of the epigenomic landscape. Consequently, changes in the distribution of 5hmC have been shown to correlate with a broad range of cancers and is potentially a powerful disease biomarker. Nevertheless, existing methods for mapping 5hmC are complex and expensive thus hindering the translation of 5hmC research into clinical use. This project aims at developing a custom DNA chip for 5hmC that will allow cost-effective and targeted analysis of disease biomarkers. We will use our patented procedure for direct fluorescent labeling of 5hmC in combination with commercially available genome-wide microarrays to create maps of 5hmC distribution in health and disease. These large-scale arrays will be used in the discovery phase to identify cancer biomarkers. In the second phase, only the subset of genomic loci that contain medically significant modulation in 5hmC will be used to design and print a custom microarray containing only the relevant probes. This concept predicts a cost reduction of 10-100 fold which will remove the barriers for large scale research and high volume testing. Disease specific diagnostic chips are attractive products with direct impact on society and economy via promoting more accessible testing and patient management. Our preliminary results indicate that we will be able to offer a universal platform for even the most challenging samples including cell-free DNA analysis from liquid biopsies. We envision it as an enabling technology for 5hmC research, biomarker discovery and companion diagnostics for guiding and monitoring therapy.
Disrupting the Migraine continuum of care for resource constrained settings (TARA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Ireland,Slovenia,Belgium,Ukraine,Switzerland
Call: Smart medical devices and their surgical implantation for use in resource-constrained settings (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-TOOL-06, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5744005.0
EU funding (EUR): 4260220.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Chronic migraine is defined as a headache persistent for more than 3 months or a severe headache persistent for more than 15 days within a month. It affects approximately 2% of the world population. The World Health Organization classifies severe migraine attacks as among the most disabling illnesses, comparable to dementia and quadriplegia. Treatments start with pharmaceutical drugs, which have contra-indications and severe side effects and often remain ineffective in chronic migraine patients. Injectable treatments like Botox and nerve blocks can be effective but require multiple sessions per year and also have undesirable effects. Treatments using neurostimulation products that deliver electrical pulses to the occipital nerve have been up to 80% effective but they are designed for the back not the neck which results in high rates of surgical revisions. This leaves the chronic migraine population severely underserved and in need of an innovative solution. Our vision is fundamentally based on disrupting the continuum of care and referral pathway by creating a more effective non-surgical solution that reduces cost and risk and therefore increases accessibility to more physicians and patients. The consortium will develop a novel platform for the treatment of chronic migraine that will be particularly applicable to resource restricted environments and targeting underserved patients. We are working on 4 elements working together seamlessly. 1) LUNA-AIR: An implantable electronics device with neural write stimulation 2) LUNA-CONTROL: A wearable device that will communicate with and power the implantable device. 3) LUNA-APP; a mobile app to control the implant. 4) LUNA-INJECT; an ergonomic, minimally invasive, injection device that minimises tissue trauma and training required for physicians.

Keywords: migraine
Global Distribution Assessment of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Aquatic Environment (AQUAGloCon)

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: Czechia,Australia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 308291.16
EU funding (EUR): 308291.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Chemical pollution is a global threat, with the production and release of man-made chemicals surpassing the world's capacity for safety assessment. Over 350,000 chemicals are in use, and many persist in the environment, affecting human health, ecosystems and biodiversity. Long-range transport of chemicals like persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is well-documented, but global monitoring of waterborne contaminants has been limited. Recently, the Aquatic Global Passive Sampling (AQUA-GAPS/MONET) network addressed this gap by investigating hydrophobic organic contaminants in surface waters worldwide. However, the global distribution of potentially hazardous contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the aquatic environment has not been studied yet. The AQUAGloCon project builds on this network to assess the global distribution of unknown hydrophobic CECs in the aquatic environment. CECs will be identified in a unique set of water samples from five continents collected by passive samplers. Its main goal is to provide baseline data on prioritized CECs, combining advanced analytical techniques with risk assessment. The project will develop workflows for CEC identification and quantification, prioritize contaminants based on hazard, and assess their global distribution. The obtained data will be digitally stored for retrospective analysis. AQUAGloCon's interdisciplinary approach integrates environmental chemistry, data mining and risk assessment, delivering first-ever global data on high-priority CECs. The findings will offer insights into CEC levels, persistence and potential for long-range transport, supporting policy decisions and future research on chemical pollution's impact on ecosystems and human health. The project's open science practices ensure data accessibility for future studies. The researcher will develop scientific expertise, strengthen transferable skills and expand the international network enhancing career prospects to become an independent researcher.

Keywords: passive sampling,gas chromatography,high resolution mass spectrometry,environmental risk assessment,persistent organic pollutants,micropollutants
Nanoencapsulation of bioactive compounds from plant by products to produce sensitive skin cosmetics (NanoCosmos)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Ireland,Spain
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1163142.86
EU funding (EUR): 993600.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The main aim of the NanoCosmos project is to create a European multidisciplinary and intersectorial network to harness the recovery of valuable bioactive compounds from plant by-product matrices for nano-applications in the cosmetics industry. The project will ensure (i) exchange of knowledge on bioactive compound properties, (ii) optimization of green extraction processes of such compounds from plant by-product materials, (iii) creation of innovative nanoencapsulated biocomponents for cosmetics formulations, mainly targeted on human sensitive skins. NanoCosmos project will aim at enhancing cross fertilization in the area of bioactive compounds from different plant by-product materials which will result in a more cost-effective use of skills and resources in circular bioeconomy. It will also involve hands-on practice in different analytical methods in connection with industrial scale-up, performed by both young researchers/PhD students (ESR), experienced researchers (ER) and experienced academics. Science and business cooperation will allow the development of a joint research network to address current needs in the area of the cosmetic industry. The project will promote university business dialogue and partnership especially in the context of greater involvement of practitioners in the preparation of ESR career development.

Keywords: plant by products nanoencapsulation green extraction techniques bioactive compounds sensitive skin cosmetics
HerInt: Cultural heritage participation patterns among immigrants and their influence on integration. The case of Ukrainians in Poland and Poles in Norway. (HerInt)

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: Poland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 155793.6
EU funding (EUR): 155793.6
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

How do immigrants engage with ancestral and new homeland heritage and what factors stand behind their heritage participation patterns? Can cultural heritage participation facilitate the process of immigrants´ integration, and if so, how? These are the central research questions addressed in this project, which has an ambition to contribute to Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Societies cluster of the Horizon Europe´s second pillar. Public institutions in European countries promote the heritage of immigrant minorities in various ways, as well as encourage the participation of immigrants in heritages of new homelands with a goal to enhance integration. While there has been quite extended scholarly attention to the institutional forms of minority heritage inclusion into the mainstream, the knowledge on the individual attitudes of immigrants regarding the participation in cultural heritage and its possible influence on immigrants´ integration to the new homeland is still limited. This presents a gap between theory and practice and herein lies the potential of HerInt action. The planned research aims at identifying the patterns of participation in cultural heritage by immigrants from Poland in Norway and from Ukraine in Poland and evaluating its influence on immigrants´ inclusion in the new homelands. HerInt therefore aims at bridging the gap between migration and heritage studies by addressing the relevance of cultural heritage participation patterns to the issues of integration of immigrants and initiates an interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial dialog between migration and heritage scholars and cultural heritage stakeholders. This aim is supported by supervisors with an expertise in both migration and heritage studies and the stay at their institutions: Professor Agata Górny, Centre for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw and Professor Jacek Purchla International Cultural Centre.

Keywords: migration studies,heritage studies,integration of migrants,visual sociology,cee migration