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A new frontier in EU urban policy-making: commons-inspired co-production arrangements (COMMONCITY)

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,Italy
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): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

A new tendency is on the rise in EU urban policy-making: adopting Co-production Arrangements inspired by the paradigm of the Commons (CAC). Some pioneering cases stand out, such as the Urban Commons Regulation in Bologna (2014), the Commons Transition Plan in Ghent (2017) and the Citizen Assets Programme in Barcelona (2017). These cities have been joined by others that either have adopted similar arrangements or are currently considering adopting them. By and large, these arrangements aim to redistribute decision-making power to citizens over services and resources that are considered as essential for urban collective wellbeing (e.g. public buildings and spaces, energy and water utilities) by fostering community self-management. Preliminary and applied research on these arrangements has been carried out, mostly based on single case study analyses. However, scientific, in-depth and comparative knowledge on CAC is still scarce. By adopting an urban epistemology to the traditional state-centred political science field, COMMONCITY will produce key, useful and timely knowledge on CAC. It will comparatively analyse the i) policy models, ii) political, social and administrative challenges, iii) impact on urban democracy of recently adopted CAC in the three EU pioneering cities: Barcelona, Bologna and Ghent. By adopting a co-production-oriented approach to data collection and analysis that will foster citizen science, it will provide unique empirical data on the varieties, effective functioning and democratising effect of these arrangements. The results of COMMONCITY will contribute to the scientific debate in the broad urban study field and, specifically, in urban democracy, urban governance, urban policy-making and urban participation. It will also provide policy recommendations to various levels of government, in order to foster the adoption of CAC and improve the functioning and democratic impact of existing and under-adoption ones.

Keywords: new municipalism,coproduction,commons,urban democracy,urban governance,urban policy making,urban participation,ghent,bologna,barcelona
CARE - Circular consumption Activities to tRansform households toward material Efficiency (CARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Norway,Sweden,Germany,Estonia,Austria
Call: One hundred circular model households: making European households sustainable through inclusive circular practices (HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5517061.25
EU funding (EUR): 5517061.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

CARE aims to empower consumer-citizens in European households in the transition to a circular economy (CE). The objective of CARE is to transform a total of 100 households in five European countries (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Estonia) to circular model households. To achieve its aim, CARE will further develop, test and validate two pilots related to two critical material flows: food and clothing. They both have high potential for circularity at the household level. The CARE pilots will be implemented in five regions - both urban and rural - that are part of the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI): Tampere, Asker, Gothenburg, Berlin, and Lääne-Harju. The pilots are based on the practice-theoretical approach, which goes beyond state-of-the-art by focusing on holistic, social and material aspects of everyday life instead of individualistic and awareness-raising interventions. The pilots will contain both customized, inclusive, and cost-free circular advisory services as well as food and clothing related interventions that target changes in consumption practices. Impact assessment is a key part of the project that includes improvement in material efficiency, living conditions, and sustainable wellbeing. The effectiveness of the pilots for reducing environmental impacts will be calculated using life cycle assessment, especially the Product Environmental Footprint method. CARE will make a strong contribution towards accelerating fair, inclusive and sustainable consumer-based transition to CE. This is achieved by involving consumer-citizens, non-governmental and civil society organizations, municipalities, researchers, and CCRI regions in a transdisciplinary approach, based on co-design and co-learning. Furthermore, CARE will ensure the replicability and multiplication of its results through easy-to-use communication and dissemination tools, in collaboration with CCRI and other European circular economy initiatives.

Keywords: food waste,clothing,co creation
Mitochondrial gene eXpression (MiXpress)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: B iological  Mechanisms , Structures  and Functions
Panel description: For all organisms : Molecular biology , biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics , synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1913968.0
EU funding (EUR): 1913968.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mitochondrial gene expression is essential for cellular metabolism and energy supply since 13 core subunits of the OXPHOS system are encoded on the mitochondrial genome. Despite its importance for cellular function, mitochondrial gene expression (mitoGE) and its regulation are not understood at a mechanistic level. To this end, we demonstrated that mitochondrial translation is prone to regulation, responding to influx of nuclear-encoded proteins . However, the mechanisms that regulate gene expression in mitochondria remain unknown. A lack of suitable experimental approaches to modulate mitoGE hampers progress in our understanding. Here I propose a project that takes the next big step towards understanding the mechanisms of mitochondrial gene expression. Our recent work on an in organello system to target mitoGE in a transcript-specific manner provides the bases for the challenging project proposed here, which aims to solve long-standing questions: First, we will dissect mitochondrial transcript interactomes and their spatial orchestration to understand basic principles of RNA abundance, organization in granules, and cross communication. Second, we are now able to investigate translation in the context of the inner membrane with transcript-specific resolution and thereby identify liaising factors involved in ribosome recruitment and membrane insertion and regulation. Third, we will extend our strategy towards an in vivo transcript-specific silencing approach to define retrograde signaling pathways that integrate mitoGE into cellular contexts. The combination of functional analyses carried out in organello and in vivo will provide unprecedented insights into components and mechanism of mitoGE and reveal how two genetically independent systems cooperate to build a functional metabolic pathway able to respond to energetic requirements and challenges.

Keywords: mitochondria,gene expression,translation,oxidative phosphorylation,mitochondrial disorder
Comprehensive Offshore Management Platform for Assessing SuStainability (COMPASS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Belgium,Spain,Finland,Norway,Italy
Call: Minimisation of environmental, and optimisation of socio-economic impacts in the deployment, operation and decommissioning of offshore wind farms (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5826685.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999786.87
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Europe is at the forefront of offshore wind energy, with ambitious goals to expand its capacity from around 34 GW in 2023 to at least 88 GW by 2030 and 360 GW by 2050. Developing Offshore Wind Farms (OWFs) affects the environment and socio-economic systems both positively and negatively. To meet sustainability requirements, it is crucial to holistically evaluate these impacts across all scales and life phases of existing and future OWFs. Although many modeling tools exist to assess different types of impacts individually, the development of a holistic integrated tool is lacking. COMPASS (Comprehensive Offshore Management Platform for Assessing Sustainability) will provide an innovative and holistic understanding of both global and local cumulative impacts of OWF. By combining life-cycle based environmental, economic and social tools and an OWF digital twin, COMPASS will leverage their mutual advantages to assess OWF project sustainability. These tools will be integrated in a user-friendly, customizable, decision-support platform. The platform will be set up using diverse case studies across Europe, incorporating various OWF designs from bottom-fixed to floating technologies. This approach ensures its adaptability to different European sea basins and OWF projects. The platform aims to assist stakeholders in exploring different cost-effective options to improve sustainability trade-offs, acceptability and performance of OWF projects. By addressing both priced and non-priced sustainability criteria, it will provide recommendations to optimize OWF designs, from recycling strategies to nature-inclusive solutions, thereby refining OWF tender competitiveness. The COMPASS consortium brings together leading experts from academia, research institutes and industry, across eight EU countries, and involves an End-User Group, Policy-oriented Advisory Board and international experts, ensuring an innovative transdisciplinary, end-user driven approach to OWF impact assessment.

Keywords: sustainability,offshore wind farm design,cumulative impacts,life cycle methodologies,environment,social,economic,ecosystem,decision support,optimization,holistic,digital twin,value chain
AI powered characterization and modelling for green steel technology - Hop-On (AID4GREENEST-HOP-ON)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Poland
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 387306.25
EU funding (EUR): 387306.25
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The fourth industrial revolution and market demands for advanced steels are driving the research towards transformation of the manufacturing processes and to ever-more sustainable steel compositions. The conventional ‘trial and error’ approach traditionally used to develop metallurgical processes still prevails in the industrial steel plants. However, it is a time-consuming, labour-intensive process entailing high material waste and associated carbon emissions. Also, it can ultimately lead down to a repetitive path that consists of creating a process design, putting it into production, and detecting possible process design flaws too late, resulting in high component rejection rates. Ascertaining the inadvertent flaws in the manufacturing approach before its implementation on industrial lines could be the key to major costsavings. With the introduction of AI- and simulation-driven design, back-and-forth interaction between part and process designs can be significantly diminished. The main objective of AID4GREENEST is to develop six new AI - based rapid characterization methods and modelling tools. AID4GREENEST tools’ scope will cover the steel design (chemistry and microstructure), process design (processing parameters), product design (processing and heat treatments) and product performance (creep) stages. Proposed tools will be complemented with a roadmap designed to enable model-based innovation processes, from materials design to product development, while considering the industry needs: enhanced material quality, reduction of carbon emission and waste generation, and reduced supply risk of critical raw materials. This HOP-ON will elaborate on the tools and models developed in the AID4GREENEST project by incorporating surface (oxidation) considerations into the quenching model for meter-scale parts, examining creep-fatigue interactions during product service life, and including the effects of surface oxidation on the creep and creep-fatigue performance of steel.

Keywords: artificial intelligence computational screening tool characterization data interoperability open repository
Cyto/hemocompatible magnetic hybrid NPs made of iron oxide/silver sulfide quantum dots with luminescence in the near-infrared region for combinational therapy of peritoneal metastasis (SANTE)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: France,Italy,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Peritoneal metastasis (PM) is considered as the terminal stage of metastatic colon cancer, with still poor median survival rate even with the best recent chemotherapy (Chem) treatment suggesting the need for advanced methods to assist with the early diagnosis and treatment. However, the newest methods combine cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal Chem (HIPEC), which uses mild hyperthermia (Hyp) by circulation of a hot fluid to boost the diffusion and cytotoxic effect of drugs. A recent development in patients with unresectable PM is pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol Chem (PIPAC) that combines a diagnostic laparoscopy with locoregional administration of Chem as an aerosol. Non-selective biodistribution, low bioavailability, high drug concentrations, limited drug circulation time, and various side-effects limit the utilisation of HIPEC and PIPAC. Innovative drug delivery system with the controlled drug release at tumour site can enhance the therapeutic efficacy. Utilisation of nanoparticles (NPs) as carriers to deliver drugs with the possibility of tagging them with targeting agents will overcome the off-site toxicity. Cyto/hemocompatible magnetic hybrid NPs (Silver sulphide-Iron oxide) with luminescence in the near-infrared region for combinational therapy of peritoneal metastasis (SANTE) project aims to develop multimodal therapy approach for diagnosis and treatment of PM. It intends to enhance the efficacy of PM treatment using a combination of image guided remotely activated nanoHyp coupled with targeted Chem. Tumour targeted Ag2S will allow preoperative detection of microscopic or residual tumours to improve resection before Chem/Hyp. Iron oxide, targeting agent(cetuximab), and the chemotherapeutic drug(cisplatin) are all clinically used for the treatment of various type of cancers. The result of this fellowship will enable scientists in the PM field to translate the novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods into clinical practice and market.a

Keywords: hyperthermia,chemotherapy,peritoneal metastasis,iron oxide,silver sulfide
Recycling-oriented alloy design for next-generation of sustainable metallic materials (ROAD-SiM)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

European industry increasingly focusses on recycling, pushing towards circular economy as part of EU Green deal. This offers enormous energy savings and CO2 reductions. However, there are several problems hindering the metals recycling. Effective solution to counter these problems is the development of new alloys, recycling-friendly by design. One of the rising problems during recycling, is the progressive accumulation of impurities in alloys produced from scrap metal. Elements such as tin cannot be effectively removed during manufacturing alloys from scrap. Therefore, the next generation of alloys will have be able to tolerate more impurities (therefore inclusions) than current alloys. Such materials also have to be more resistant to fracture, due to the potential damage nucleation at inclusions. However, impurities cause significant changes of properties and induce considerable complexity even in simple alloy systems. Therefore, the development of the recycling-oriented alloys based on understanding of changes caused by various compositional deviations require a significant volume of research. Concentrated solid solution alloys, including some of the established compositions of austenitic steels have the attributes essential for recycling-oriented alloys. They show enhanced tolerance to compositional deviations due to the extended compositional space with desired microstructures. and intrinsically high ductility levels. In this project, we first aim to analyze the consequences of the compositional changes and impurities to the changes of mechanical properties and damage-tolerance of said materials. Ultimately, scrap-compatible alloys for sustainable metallurgy will be prepared. Special attention will be placed on the effects of the elemental partitioning and their interactions with defects. The project outcomes will contribute to the development of recycling-oriented alloys on the global level, for future green metallurgy with reduced environmental impact.

Keywords: metals alloys green metallurgy recycling green deal microstructure structure property mechanical testing fracture toughness in situ testing,toughness,ductility,damage tolerance
Hybrid Quantum Wave Circulation (Q-WAVE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland,Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 389156.16
EU funding (EUR): 389156.16
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The circulator, a cornerstone in communication and radar engineering, has gained importance in quantum technologies, becoming essential for reading out superconducting qubits. Q-Wave (Hybrid Quantum Wave Circulation) aims to transform current 3D cryogenic circulators into 2D devices, free of permanent magnets. This new generation of circulators can be integrated on-chip, close to the quantum processor, therefore contributing to the scalability of superconducting quantum computers. The realization of such devices would mean an important reduction of the volume of critical raw materials or less efficient alternative solutions, in agreement with the objectives of the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Development Goals. Q-Wave’s sub-goals are: O1) design tuneable superconducting (SC) resonators; O2) study magnon-photon interactions in magnetic vortices; O3) develop on-chip circulators compatible with magnetic field operation; O4) develop self-biased on-chip circulators without external magnetic field compatible with SC circuits. For that, the project combines complementary unique abilities in hybrid systems (Associated Partner, AP, EPFL, Switzerland); quantum magnonics (Host Institution, HI, CSIC, Spain); CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) and SC circuits (fellow) and classic magnonics (secondment, University of Vienna, Austria).

Keywords: superconducting circuits,superconducting resonators,magnonics,vortex,magnetic textures,magnon photon coupling,circulator,non reciprocal devices,scalable quantum computing