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Development and characterisation of ultrafine hierarchically structured eutectic Ti-Fe-based alloys using additive manufacturing and advanced tomographic techniques (UTIFE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

UTIFE aims at further developing ultrafine eutectic Ti-Fe-based alloys to increase their maturity using selective laser melting (SLM) additive manufacturing. The project will characterize the alloys by using advanced tomographic techniques to determine their composition-processing-microstructure-property relationships, increasing the understanding of the eutectic Ti-Fe alloy system and the effects of processing parameters during SLM on eutectic alloys as a whole. The objectives of the project are to i) explore material SLM processing parameters to obtain crack-free samples with a high material density, ii) study and understand the mechanisms of crack formation, porosity generation and/or healing during the printing process, and iii) provide a multiscale (nano to micro) 3D characterization of the material microstructure. These objectives will be met using the state-of-the-art laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) to process the eutectic alloys and determine the effects of processing parameters on the as-printed material. The material will also be printed using a state-of-the-art in-situ synchrotron Xray computed tomography (S-XCT) SLM replicator to characterize the effects of printing parameters on defect generation and microstructural evolution during printing. A full characterization using traditional and advanced characterization techniques in 2D (SEM-EBSD, TEM, XRD) and 3D (3D FIB-SEM-EBSD, TEM, XCT, S-XCT) will provide critical information about the composition-processing-microstructure relationships in the eutectic Ti-Fe alloys. This project will introduce new hierarchically-structured eutectic Ti-Fe-based alloys of high interest for industry and contribute to significant scientific insights between additive manufacturing processing parameters, eutectic microstructures, and material properties in the Ti-Fe alloy system. The insight from this project can help explore other eutectic alloy systems for the development of novel additive manufacturing materials.

Keywords: additive manufacturing and advanced 3d 4d multiscale characterisation in situ synchrotron x ray computed tomography of high strength multiscale eutectic microstructure titanium iron alloys
Topology Optimization of Porous Electrodes using Scalable Modeling Approaches (TOPESMASH)

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: Netherlands,Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are a class of rechargeable electrochemical systems that are particularly promising for grid-level electricity storage. Integrating the advantages of RFBs with metal-air batteries results in hybrid metal-air RFBs, having great potential to unlock ultra-low-cost energy storage if certain efficiency issues are resolved. In these systems, porous electrodes are performance-defining components affecting the thermodynamics, kinetics, and transport phenomena. This project proposes to develop a computational framework of metal-air RFBs to optimize the architecture (topology, morphology, and microstructure) of the porous electrodes. This proposal is the first to implement a multi-scale computational model of metal-air RFBs for accelerating the optimization of the power and electrochemical efficiency of these systems by considering the up-scaling and manufacturability of the optimized designs. This will be achieved by developing high-performance physics-based computational models of metal-air RFB processes in different length scales and employing them in inverse design methodologies for topology optimization of 3D porous electrodes. The up-scaling and prototyping strategies will be based on triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) metamaterial design principles that can for the first time produce high-resolution multi-scale and anisotropic designs of the porous electrodes. Prototypes will be produced using stereolithography 3D printing followed by carbonization to assess the performance of the inversely designed electrodes across different operating conditions. Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) approaches will be used to examine the validity of the multi-scale models. Moreover, the project considers moving towards the exascale computing paradigm by leveraging proper high-performance computing (HPC) techniques, enabling the models to simulate large-scale RFB systems more accurately in high resolution.

Keywords: redox flow batteries sustainable energy storage multi scale computational modeling topology optimization porous electrodes micro macro structure high performance computing additive manufacturing
An Integrated Life-Course Approach for Person-Centred Solutions and Care for Ageing with Multi-morbidity in the European Regions - STAGE; Stay Healthy Through Ageing (STAGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Staying Healthy in a rapidly changing society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Belgium,Türkiye,Denmark,Spain,Israel,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: The Silver Deal - Person-centred health and care in European regions (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-STAYHLTH-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 17760515.0
EU funding (EUR): 17760512.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

STAGE aims to demonstrate the importance and feasibility of a life-course approach to prevent accelerated ageing, as defined by the accumulation of multi-morbidity, and to integrate knowledge into transferable person-centred solutions for early diagnosis and screening, treatment and long-term management of multi-morbidity. To achieve this, STAGE is proposing a life-course approach to better understand ageing with multi-morbidity, providing evidence-based solutions to support the transformation of healthcare to address the profound health and demographic challenges ahead. The approach capitalises on European collaborations of longitudinal cohorts and biobanks spanning the entire life-course, actioning exposome and disease networks trajectory analysis, as well as, the biology of ageing, to explore how a person develops ageing with multi-morbidity. The project objectives integrate an ethical, social, historical, and infrastructural framework; environmental, epidemiological and biological life-course approaches; artificial intelligence powered integrated person-centred solutions and applications; cohort-based clinical studies; and a FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) life-course health and geospatial data portal with robust management, dissemination, engagement and exploitation activities. STAGE's evidence-based methods will translate into a person-centred prevention and care intervention in longitudinal cohorts in Finland and Germany, co-designed with citizens, patients, healthcare providers, SMEs, and policymakers. It will also embed social sciences and humanities and engage stakeholders to develop a neighbourhood healthy ageing index, person-centred predictions of multi-morbidity, and healthcare and policy recommendations. Ultimately, STAGE will create solutions for agile, high-quality, person-centred health and care services that are life-course and gender sensitive, needs-based, and designed to enhance resilience and participation.

Keywords: life course,exposome,biological hallmarks
Unraveling the mechanisms behind Mitochondrial Transfer from Bone Marrow Stromal cells to T cells and its role in Host Immunity (MitoTransferImmunity)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mitochondria are organelles (‘little organs’) of the cell that generate the majority of its energy and have been shown to play a key role in host immunity. Recent evidence has demonstrated that mitochondria within a cell are not fixed, but are capable of transferring from one cell to another through a process known as ‘mitochondrial transfer’. My project focus on the transfer of mitochondria from bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) to immune T cells. The objectives of the project are to explore the effect of BMSC mitochondrial transfer cells on (i) immune T cell functionality (in particular ROS production) and (ii) its role in adaptive immune cell responses. The MSCA fellowship and tailored training program will help me towards my career goal of establishing my own junior research group by increasing my academic track record, helping me gain critical supervisory/teaching experience, and expand my technical/transferrable skill sets.

Keywords: mitochondria,t cells
MultiScale phenomena in Radiation Damage (MS-RADAM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Czechia,France,United Kingdom,Sweden,Denmark,Georgia
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4638870.93
EU funding (EUR): 4390066.08
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The MS-RADAM DN will deliver a state-of-the-art research programme that will pioneer a new approach to reveal key nano- and larger-scale radiation biodamage phenomena based on multiscale modelling (MM) and its thorough validation using advanced experimental techniques and technological applications. In particular, the MS-RADAM research programme will focus on obtaining an advanced understanding of Radiation Damage (RADAM) phenomena induced by ion irradiation in biomolecular and biological systems relevant to the application of this knowledge in particle therapy and many other relevant areas of research and technology. The unique feature of the MS-RADAM research programme is the MM description and measurement of key processes and phenomena occurring on different temporal and spatial scales during ion-beam irradiation incorporating: (i) propagation of charged particles in biological media, (ii) radiation-induced fast quantum processes within biomolecular environments, (iii) characterisation of the time and spatial evolution of track structures and localised energy deposition, (iv) slower nanoscale post-irradiation relaxation, chemical and thermalisation processes occurring in the irradiated biological media, (v) evaluation of biodamage accounting for specific radiobiological effects. To initiate such a programme and to provide industry, radiotherapy research community and many other related communities with a cohort of skilled researchers, MS-RADAM DN will train 14 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) in the methodology and skills needed for this emerging area of research and technology. MS-RADAM DN contains leading academic and industrial partners with the necessary experience to provide the international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral training needed for the MS-RADAM research programme, whist also providing the DCs a unique opportunity to gain comprehensive training in the complementary and entrepreneurial skills for their further career development.

Keywords: radiation physics,multiscale modelling,irradiation driven molecular dynamics,monte carlo methods,reactive force fields,collision processes,biodamage,nanochemistry
DAC migration roadmap towards deployment and related activities (DACcord)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Europe's Rail
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EU-RAIL (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,France,Sweden,Belgium
Call: DAC Migration Roadmap towards Deployment (HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1958822.71
EU funding (EUR): 1499829.16
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The project DACcord provides with management competencies employed already in the precursor project DACcelerate to support to the EU-Rail JU for the continuation of the professional management of the activities of the European DAC Delivery Programme (EDDP), enabled by the EU-Rail JU and established in the EU-Rail JU work programme, in which European Rail Freight Sector and manufacturers are united to strive for the Europe-wide introduction of a Digital Automatic Coupler. DACcord describes in detail the required migration planning activities, leading to an industrial migration roadmap, as the EDDP focuses on the preparation of DAC migration & deployment from 2023 onwards. For doing this, the project will work closely with EDDP members and stakeholders to set up the overall task list in the actions defined by the EDDP. As alignment on the DAC/EDDP objectives throughout Europe is key to achieve consensus on objectives and specially to unlock the necessary funding for such a sector-wide transformation. DACcord establishes a mechanism for collecting and reporting the positions in the European stakeholder landscape to support the EU-Rail JU in providing recommended measures to the EDDP stakeholder management team..Professional communication material/tools and targeted dissemination activities will back the efforts. (Any of the described activities involving stakeholder management and dissemination actions will be coordinated and submitted for validation to the EU-Rail JU). To make DAC implementation economically possible, the project will further provide a draft concept on requirements for the DAC deployment funding mechanisms and potential options to fulfil them, to prepare the way for DAC deployment management entities in Europe. To align the different activities shaping the architectural and procedural DAC-related European Railway System (project TRANS4RM-R in the EU-Rail JU Flagship Area 5, the EU-Rail JU System Pillar (task 4) and EDDP), DACcord will support the EU-Rail JU in the cross-coordination and interfacing of the three entities and in the management and administration of its different decision-making bodies.

Keywords: dac,migration,coupler,rail freight,stakeholder,digitization
Flanders' Riverine Exploitation and ecoSystems throughout History (FRESH)

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: Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200400.0
EU funding (EUR): 200400.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Historical records indicate that the onset of severe anthropogenic impacts on rivers, such as pollution and biodiversity loss, in western Europe started during the medieval and postmedieval periods due to an increase in cities and industries. This has not been extensively confirmed on a wide scale by archaeological research. In order to provide necessary pre-modern baselines to support modern day conservation in one of Europe’s most extensive and dynamic habitat types, an in-depth bioarchaeological approach is needed. The aim of this interdisciplinary project, Flanders' Riverine Exploitation and ecoSystems throughout History (FRESH), is to determine how freshwater fish exploitation and ecosystem health changed during the medieval and postmedieval periods in relation to socio-economic and human-induced environmental changes in Flanders, an industry rich region at these times. To obtain these insights, I will refine and apply palaeoproteomic, elemental (Hg and Pb) and isotope (C, N, S, O, and Sr) analyses of archaeological freshwater fish bones from various sites in Flanders to make species-specific interpretations on the geographical origin of the fish, their ecology, and pollution of their environments. The obtained pre-modern baselines of historical species diversity, habitat degradation and the long-term effects of pollution on river environments are used to evaluate and support modern-day conservation. My current knowledge of historical aquatic exploitation and skills in bioarchaeology make me ideally suited for this project. In order to successfully implement FRESH, I will conduct the interdisciplinary research and receive hands-on training in the relevant analysis techniques at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and during the secondment at the University of York under the guidance of Prof. Christophe Snoeck and Dr. Jessica Hendy respectively, who are both experts and leaders in their field.

Keywords: archaeology,zooarchaeology,palaeoproteomics,biogeochemistry,isotope analysis,conservation,freshwater,fish,biodiversity,pollution,history
APPMONITOR: A toolkit for monitoring third-party tracking across iOS and Android apps (APPMONITOR)

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: Denmark
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

APPMONITOR addresses the critical need for means and measures to monitor digital tracking and datafication by third-parties in mobile apps in Europe, building on the ERC StG DATAFIED LIVING. With EU implementing powerful regulations to curb unwanted and illegitimate collection, mining, and compilation of user data across digital technologies, member states now have a strong political mandate to regulate the booming data economy. Yet, the successful enforcement of these schemes relies on the introduction of systematic monitoring, and a coherence between the stated ambitions and the means implemented to reach said goals. The objectives of this POC are 1) to deliver the first empirical toolkit for comparing mobile tracking across the iOS and Android ecologies and across different regional contexts within the EU thereby addressing a significant knowledge gap concerning tracking in iOS apps, 2) to use the toolkit to test the efficacy of new legal instruments for app data transparency, and 3) to develop and test a prototype for scrutinizing and labelling Android and iOS apps according to their embedding of third-party tracking that can assist regulators in enforcing legislation against illegitimate tracking and create transparency for citizens to make informed choices about app download, factoring in the app’s embedded third-party tracking. APPMONITOR’s innovation will be developed as open-source tools to make it possible for regulatory actors, as well as privacy, digital rights and data ethics NGOs to use and further develop them in response to market and technology changes. APPMONITOR thus presents a unique opportunity for a breakthrough in regulation of the mobile data market to benefit European citizens, a much-needed set of tools for regulatory actors to enforce EU legislation, and critical knowledge for policy-makers to qualify future regulation.
Open Fan for Environmental Low Impact of Aviation (OFELIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Aviation
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEAN-AVIATION (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Austria,Italy,Belgium,Czechia,Türkiye,Poland,Netherlands,Spain,Germany,Sweden
Call: Ultra Efficient Propulsion Systems for Short and Short-Medium Range Aircraft (HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2022-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 139178896.48
EU funding (EUR): 100000000.0
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

Reducing SMR aircraft environmental impact is a priority of the Clean Aviation SRIA, which objective is to have technologies ready for the future generation of SMR aircraft. The engine is key in this effort and the Open Fan engine architecture is the most promising solution in terms of fuel efficiency to both achieve environmental goals (20% emissions reduction versus 2020) and target a rapid Entry into Service, as early as 2035. In synergy with national programs, OFELIA will gather a large European consortium to contribute to the RISE technology demonstration announced in June 2021. OFELIA aims to demonstrate at TRL5 the RISE Open Fan architecture, for the SMR to achieve or surpass the Air Transport Action Group’s goals on the way towards Carbon neutrality by 2050. To this end, OFELIA will focus on this high TRL full scale demonstration of the engine architecture and on the development of key enablers for the Open Fan. OFELIA will allow installation of an increased fan diameter on a conventional aircraft configuration, thanks to innovative turbomachinery technical solutions. Following the architecture definition, OFELIA will perform a large-scale Open Fan engine ground test campaign, deliver flightworthy propulsive system definition and prepare an in-flight demonstration for the phase 2 of Clean Aviation. The project will also optimize the engine installation with the airframer and address certification, in close collaboration with airworthiness authorities, taking advantage of the permit-to-fly activity. OFELIA will then deliver a TRL5 Open Fan engine architecture for SMR, demonstrate a credible path to 20% CO2 reduction versus 2020 and prepare the path to flight tests to consolidate the roadmap for EIS2035. As part of the technology maturation plan, the compatibility of Open Fan to hydrogen will be investigated in coordination with H2 pillar.

Keywords: open fan demonstrator frugality performance propulsion system high savings credible path eis 2035