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Multiphysics-informed machine learning for assessing battery safety risk evolution with degradation (MIRACLE)

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,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-20
End date: 2027-11-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The growing use of electric vehicles (EVs) and shift to higher-energy-density battery chemistry have made battery safety a top research priority. The statistics show that >80% of EV fire accidents occurred without explicit abuse, where battery degradation can play a role. Nevertheless, most existing battery safety models focus on thermal runaway triggered by various forms of abuse, largely overlooking the evolution of battery safety with degradation during “normal” cycling conditions. MIRACLE therefore aims to address this gap by developing an efficient and precise approach for simulating and predicting the progression of lithium-ion batteries into unsafe states under non-abuse conditions with a focus on degradation effects. Specifically, MIRACLE will (1) develop a physics-based model that fundamentally bridges the gap between degradation and failure mechanisms, capturing when and how batteries will transition into unsafe states as a consequence of multiple coupled degradation mechanisms over significant periods of time, (2) embed the multiphysics into machine learning to enable fast, precise and physically interpretable predictions of battery cycling to failure, and (3) conduct model-based analyses to formulate the first state variable for estimating battery safety status evolution during cycling, addressing a key missing piece in current battery management systems and thereby enhancing the reliability and safety of battery operation. The multidisciplinary research leverages the collective expertise of the host group and the fellow, promoting effective two-way knowledge transfer. The fellowship programme sets the stage for significant personal and professional growth, paving the way for the fellow to become an independent academic in Europe.

Keywords: lithium ion battery degradation safety multiphysics modelling physics informed machine learning
Novel Fiber Cotton Coloration for a Revolutionary Sustainability Breakthrough in Textile Applications (HYDROCOLTON)

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: Portugal
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Cotton is the world's most important non-food crop, accounting for 35% of global fiber production, but it is environmentally demanding and resource-intensive. Its production, especially the dyeing process, pollutes and depletes water and soil resources. The current strategies for cotton dyeing still rely on old manufacturing processes that yield large quantities of chemical and water waste. Thus, it is urgent to seek sustainable alternatives to meet acceptable environmental and social standards. This Proof of Concept (PoC) project aims to prepare the commercialization of novel molecules able to modify cotton fibers in planta for textile applications, providing them with color. This innovative approach minimizes chemical waste associated with dyeing, plus achieving up to a 90% reduction in water usage through hydroponic cotton growth. By growing cotton fibers with built-in colors in hydroponic settings, we seek to pioneer a zero-chemical-waste dyeing process while significantly reducing water consumption. Our innovation addresses the fashion industry's need for distinctive, eco-friendly textile products, presenting exciting opportunities to meet the growing consumer demand for more sustainable products. For this endeavor, our objective is to craft a diverse set of molecules strategically designed to navigate and surpass inherent biochemical barriers. Moving forward, we will seek to demonstrate the efficacy of these novel molecules on cotton plants. Simultaneously, we aim to evaluate the commercial viability and potential market of HYDROCOLTON's groundbreaking innovation within the cotton value chain. We will validate our business model and commercialization plans with the constant engagement of relevant market stakeholders.
Strategic Care in Activism: Mental Health Across Scales of Social Change (Care2Act)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499998.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499998.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The current overlapping crises—political polarization, the climate, and security fears—present challenges for mental health and well-being. Engaging in collective action is one way to cope, but research shows it can also be exhausting and increase sensitivity to these problems and injustices. But activism can also foster empowerment and solidarity. Decades of research have provided insights into factors affecting mental health outcomes for activists. However, the traditional linear approach—focused on relationships between factors and outcomes—often fails to capture the mechanisms and dynamic processes that shape outcomes during engagement. Integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, Care2Act will apply a novel interactionist approach to activism and mental health, employing the concept of strategic care to highlight the dual task of regulating personal well-being while caring for the world. Care2Act asks: Which combinations of situations and processes during civic engagement at different problem scales contribute to varying mental health and well-being outcomes, and what strategies do individuals and communities employ to regulate their mental health and well-being? Using a multi-level comparative approach and innovative methods such as participatory Ripple Effects Mapping, Care2Act will analyze: 1) Situations, mechanisms, and actors affecting mental health; 2) Individual and community strategies for regulating well-being while engaging in this often tedious work; 3) The transformation of strategic care across different phases of engagement; and 4) The role of the magnitude of the social problem in shaping mental health outcomes. Care2Act will offer tools for interdisciplinary research that inform studies on public health interventions, political participation more broadly, and the social integration of marginalized groups. It could also have societal impact by providing activists with tools to integrate mental health awareness into their strategies.

Keywords: collective action,mental health,well being,care,social movement strategy
FlexIble, predictive and Renewable Electricity powered electrochemical toolbox For a sustainable transition of the catalyst-based European chemicaL industrY (FIREFLY)

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: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Spain,Norway,United Kingdom,Iceland,Greece
Call: New electrochemical conversion routes for the production of chemicals and materials in process industries (Processes4Planet Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11078742.5
EU funding (EUR): 11078742.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The FIREFLY project rises to the sustainable evolution of the catalyst-based chemical industry, towards its electrification and reduced third-party dependence on metals and fossil energy. The controversial sustainability challenges and opportunities in catalysts recycling/production and catalyzed chemical processes motivated the synergy of 16 partners proposing the FIREFLY concept, relying on the development of: i) Electro-driven technologies for metal recycling from spent, waste, and off-specification catalysts available in Europe—including a modelling, optimization, and engineering approach; ii) Efficient integration of renewable electricity; iii) A digital tool for predictive decision-making; iv) Production of (electro)catalysts for innovative (electro)chemical processes that overcome traditional production associated with high operating conditions, greenhouse gas emissions, and lack of circularity. The 48-month project foresees 3 stages: i) The technologies involved in the concept will be developed to TRL4, accompanied by an integrated sustainability assessment that will support the selection of the most promising technology routes based on their environmental and techno-economic performance. ii) The selected flowsheets will form the FIREFLY process, in a small-scale pilot. They will be demonstrated at TRL6 in the predictive, RES powered, and flexible production of new metal-based (electro)catalysts from secondary resources as well as in the application of these outputs in innovative (electro)chemical processes of selected chemicals: ammonia and hydrogen peroxide (with current environmental and operational concerns), depolymerization of lignin and biomass processing for bio-based chemicals (in support of defossilization of the chemical industry). iii) The activities and results will be effectively communicated, disseminated, and exploited to a wide set of stakeholders.

Keywords: electrochemical engineering,catalysts,electrocatalysts,electrochemistry,renewable energy,renewable electricity,metal recycling,electrification,digitalization of electrochemical processes
Harnessing Ostwald Ripening for Dynamic Emulsions (HORDE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1891138.0
EU funding (EUR): 1891138.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Controlling the exchange of material between organs, cells and organelles is essential for all of the processes essential to life, such as signalling, metabolism and reproduction. Chemicals pass between compartments by diffusion, which is often assisted or rectified by biological machinery. A central goal of Systems Chemistry is to produce networks of discrete synthetic compartments that interact with the same complexity seen in life. Key to achieving this is the ability to control and regulate diffusion. The HORDE programme will harness Ostwald ripening as a tool that will enable controlled diffusion within emulsions. Ostwald ripening is the net directional diffusion of molecules from less to more stable states. In emulsions, this results in a spontaneous increase of average droplet size. This is thermodynamically favourable as it reduces the disfavoured liquid-liquid interface area. Ostwald ripening is generally seen as an unwanted process as it can lead to emulsion deterioration. However, when controlled, it will prove a powerful method for directing diffusion between compartments. HORDE will address this gap of knowledge by developing the novel methodology and insight that enables Ostwald ripening to be toggled and reversed. We will apply dynamic chemistries, switchable costabilisers and reversible polymerisation to control nanoemulsions. I will apply my unique expertise that spans supramolecular chemistry and polymer nanotechnology to develop nanoemulsions with droplets that shrink or grow on demand. We will then apply this technology to generate nonequilibrium states and direct the transfer of polymer sequence information between droplets. The HORDE programme will thus demonstrate the exceptional promise of controlled Ostwald ripening as a mechanism for developing complex networks of interacting compartments. This ERC Starting Grant will establish the Fielden group as world leaders in developing responsive nanoscale systems.

Keywords: nanoemulsions,systems chemistry
Innovative and Inclusive Democratic Spaces for Deliberation and Participation (iDEM)

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 Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Malta
Call: Intersectionality and equality in deliberative and participatory democratic spaces (HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2766946.83
EU funding (EUR): 2766946.83
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Deliberative and participatory processes currently lack full legitimacy due to the exclusion and marginalisation of several vulnerable communities from democratic spaces. iDEM will address this issue in the context of marginalisation and exclusion of people who need support to fully be able to read, write and comprehend language (around six million individuals in the EU and over 90 million people globally). iDEM will lay the theoretical foundations for the analysis of current marginalisation from deliberative processes of diverse under-represented groups due to language skills and propose, implement, and evaluate inclusive deliberative and participatory spaces. It will adopt a user-centred approach for making participatory processes more accessible and inclusive, developing advanced natural language processing technologies and artificial intelligence to empower under-represented groups with tools to facilitate communication and dialog in democratic spaces. iDEM will co-create the next-generation multilingual models aimed at (1) detecting possible sources of problems in understanding messages and biases for several European languages and audiences, (2) automatically adapting texts in those languages to be accessible and unbiased for these audiences, (3) providing AI tools for enhancing the controllable generation of messages and discourses. iDEM will innovate democratic spaces with customised, user-centric technology enhancing the participation and representation of marginalised groups by providing unbiased and inclusive technology. To do so, iDEM will also build on the results of relevant past projects, and seek collaboration with related projects and relevant centres for democracy in Europe.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,natural language processing language generation text simplification easy to read accessibility mini publics,ai for good
Mediterranean afforestation and the loss of mountain cultural landscapes: the case of Zagori (UnderTheForest)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Despite summer wildfires and the expansion of urban and agricultural areas, Mediterranean mountains have experienced extensive afforestation during the last 70 years. This has largely been a consequence of the abandonment of these areas and the loss of their traditional management strategies. Afforestation processes not just imply an important heritage loss as cultural landscapes disappear under the forest without having been studied but they also boost wildfires, as traditional ways of managing the forests were not replaced by proactive forest monitoring. UnderTheForest will study the cultural landscape under threat of afforestation and already afforested in the area of Zagori (Greece), identifying and dating its human and natural elements and linking them to specific historical and socioeconomical processes. Despite being considered an area of exceptional natural heritage, Zagori’s cultural management has focused on its villages and their architectural elements, overlooking the landscape that sustained them. UnderTheForest will provide important data for Zagori’s ongoing bid for the UNESCO World Heritage Site as a Cultural Landscape. In order to do so, UnderTheForest will develop an innovative remote sensing workflow joining photogrammetric reconstruction for historical aerial imagery (1945 onwards), machine-learning probabilistic classification of multitemporal, multisource satellite imagery, and drone-based lidar survey (which will be able to locate structures under forest cover). Together with more traditional archival research, pedestrian survey, trench excavation and radiocarbon dating, the project will identify and contextualise the cultural assets that made this landscape unique and provide new tools that can be applied to other areas currently under afforestation processes.

Keywords: mountain environments,landscape archaeology,cultural landscapes,gis,computational archaeology
Blue Culture Technology Excellence Hubs in EU Widening Member States (BCThubs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Malta,Bulgaria,Italy,Montenegro,Portugal
Call: Excellence Hubs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4997562.5
EU funding (EUR): 4997562.5
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

BCThubs project aspires to build R&I capacities in the Blue Economy sector of the participating Widening countries, focusing on Blue Culture Technologies (BCT) supporting the Underwater (UW) Cultural Heritage (CH) scientific research and tourism valorization. Although the European seas are reach in UWCH sites and assets, only a few of them are exploited sustainably towards social welfare, cohesion and growth. BCThubs aims to build BCT Excellence Hubs supporting with new innovative solutions and products, the sustainable protection, restoration, valorisation, management, accessibility and promotion of UWCH. Each Excellence Hub brings together actors related to Blue Culture and UWCH, including research/academia, businesses, public sector, and societal actors (i.e. quadruple helix approach); mutually reinforcing their capacities and effectiveness towards raising the innovation excellence in sustainable Blue Economy/Culture in the respective regions; aligned with regional or national smart specialization strategies. Although the new Hubs will be scoped regionally, they will be interconnected pursuing cross-border collaborations on common strategic goals and new value chains aligned with RIS3 and other EU policies (i.e. Green Deal). The wider ambition of the project is the establishment of an EU-wide BCT Cluster that will create a formal connection among hubs, after the project. Main outputs of BCThubs would be: 1) Establishment of BCT Excellence Hubs in Greece, Malta and Bulgaria and preparatory actions for the establishment of an EU-wide BCT Cluster, 2) Development of a cross-border joint R&I Strategy for the Hubs’ operation, 3) Preparation of an Investment Strategy & Plan for the implementation of the joint R&I Strategy, 4) Implementation of specific innovative R&I prototype solutions, critical for UWCH in Hubs’ regions, 5) Design and planning of new pilots and demonstrations in the Hubs’ regions, 6) Cohesion and outreaching activities.

Keywords: blue culture,underwater technologies,ai,vr ar
Mechanical meta-material and tribology (MetaTrib) project: Structure- dominated/controlled frictional behaviour. (METATRIB)

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: Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal presents a novel concept to integrate mechanical meta-materials and tribology fields, to develop the next generation of adaptable tactile grippers. The project seeks to combine unique structural properties of mechanical meta-materials and contact mechanics properties of soft polymers to develop a new generation of grippers with controllable and switchable frictional properties. MetaTrib project will developed passive mechanical meta-material. Mechanical metamaterials are artificial structures with mechanical properties defined by their structure rather than their composition. Passive mechanical meta-material does not need additional external energy to answer to a stimulus, by opposition to active mechanical meta-material. The adaptability of the material is pre-programmed in the internal structure during conception and manufacturing step. This kind of smart material have the advantage to do not need additional actuator, electronic and all the control informatics system associate to realised given tasks. This is a great plus in many industries for a fast and efficient integration in the production line, to reduce product weight and price. This new class of materials may be made soft. So mechanical meta-materials provide compliance that is critical for adaptability. The MetaTrib project proposes to combine two areas of research: the tribology which studies the interaction between contacting surfaces in relative motion, and the meta-material mechanics which aims to develop new structural materials with unique properties. By experimenting and theoretically modelling, I envision to link contact mechanics behaviour of mechanical meta-materials to their internal microstructure. The simultaneous measurement of mechanical deformation and contact mechanics properties is the novelty of the MetaTrib project.

Keywords: mechanical metamaterial,friction,tribology,modelling,soft material