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INDUSTRIAL WATER CIRCULARITY: REUSE, RESOURCE RECOVERY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY FOR GREENER DIGITISED EU PROCESSES (RESURGENCE)

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: Spain,Portugal,Italy,Denmark,Belgium,France,Ireland,Türkiye,Poland,Sweden,Pakistan,Croatia
Call: Sustainable and efficient industrial water consumption: through energy and solute recovery (Processes4Planet partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9222570.5
EU funding (EUR): 9222570.5
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

RESURGENCE addresses industrial circular water systems in a wide perspective which embraces efficient technologies for water circularity, energy and feedstock recovery, with the aim of contribute to EU climate neutrality, circularity, and competitiveness. RESURGENCE will work in 4 case studies that include 3 industrial sectors – Pulp&Paper, Chemical and Steel – as well as a 4th case to explore the synergies between urban water treatment and industries. Innovative solutions will be tested for water treatment – membranes, electrochemical technologies, adsorbents, advanced oxidation processes and hybrid biological systems – exploring also the recovery of energy (heat, electricity, biogas, H2) and feedstocks ( bioactive fenols, biopolymers, cellulose, lignin, latex, acrylic polymers, phosphate & nitrogen, biochar, MOFs and metals, including Critical Raw Materials). Digital tools will be also developed and applied, including models for energy, water and risk management, physical and software sensors for data acquisition, digital twins, and decision-support tools enabling optimal water treatment technology set-up and day-to-day operation with seized flexibility opportunities on smart grids. The project will be guided by a comprehensive sustainability and economic assessment to support by evidence the gains of these technologies, togheter with H&S analysis. Local effects multiplication of case studies is pursued by promoting seeds of future hubs for circularity. A comprehensive consortium of 20 partners from 11 countries covering the whole geographical scope of the EU, and with international cooperation with Turkey and Pakistan will work together to achieve significant outcomes and produce long-term impact.

Keywords: water efficiency,circular,hubs for circularity,solute recovery,membrane,electrochemistry,digitalisation,ai,pulp and paper,steel,chemical,industrial symbiosis,climate,urban industrial,
Powder Metallurgy Combined with Cryogenic Laser Shock Peening: a Novel Surface Plastic Deformation Process to Achieve Advanced Nanotwinned Aluminum/graphene-CNT Composites (PLaSNAT)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The trade-off between stacking fault energy and capability of twining has been a roadblock in aluminum (Al) composites, due to low dislocation storage and weak strain hardening ability. The recent extra strengthening and work hardening in gradient twinned architectures had provided an alternative approach to increase balance between nucleated twins, high density of dislocation and stacking faults. However, there is still a huge challenge to achieve large scale strengthening bulk Al which generally nucleate sporadically and under extreme conditions. We aim to develop a practical but innovative technique with combining stress concentration and high strain rate deformation at low temperature via powder metallurgy (PM) combined with cryogenic laser shock peening process (CLSP) to fabricate advanced, large scale, high strength twinned Al/graphene-CNT composites with uniform and controlled alignment including nucleated twins and stacking faults. The results are interpreted by both molecular dynamics simulation and experiments. During the cryogenic process, the pinning effect of CNTs hinders the escape of dislocations from pile-ups resulting in high stresses in front of graphene-CNT and controlling plasticity via both high strain rate and high pressure. As local stresses in front of both graphene and CNT exceed the critical stress for twin nucleation, high-density deformation twins can be formed. PM combined with CLSP enables us to tailor specific deformation nanotwins architecture in bulk Al composite otherwise cannot be achieved by present methods. Parameters of shock pressure, strain rate and loading temperature for optimal thermomechanical properties and even shock loading direction effect on alignment of graphene and CNTs for better strengthening effect and twinning nucleation in Al are discussed in details. We expect to demonstrate the feasibility of tailoring nanotwinned architecture in advanced Al composites via CLSP process, which could be put into mass production

Keywords: aluminum graphene cnt composite,nanotwins,powder metallurgy,cryogenic laser shock peening,tailored architecture
Mesoscale two-photon imaging of astrocytic calcium dynamics and neuromodulation during multisensory perception (AstroScope)

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: Italy,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185994.08
EU funding (EUR): 185994.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

To build a coherent representation of the world, the brain combines inputs from different sensory modalities in a process named multisensory integration. Multisensory processing involves computations distributed across brain areas and cell types and it is profoundly shaped by neuromodulation. Correct perception of our multisensory environment is highly beneficial for survival as it enables accurate responses to external stimuli. Sensory neocortical areas continuously encode, integrate and elaborate multisensory information even at the primary sensory level. In these areas, multisensory neurons respond to multimodal stimuli aligned in time and space. Astrocytes integrate signals coming from neuronal populations. In turn, astrocytes can modulate neuronal activity. These cells are thus ideally placed to integrate and mediate multisensory information. Yet, if astrocytes regulate sensory perception is unclear. Additionally, due to technical limitations, most studies of multisensory processing focused on single areas separately. With this project, I will reveal the role of astrocytes in encoding multisensory stimuli across sensory areas. This will be achieved by performing, for the first time, two-photon mesoscopic imaging on both neurons and astrocytes. With advanced computational methods, I aim to decipher if information about multisensory perceptual behaviour encoded by astrocytes is complementary to that in neurons. Additionally, stimulus detection relies on external input, but is also influenced by internal states, such as attention. Acetylcholine (ACh) is correlated with attention and affects neuronal circuit responses. Hence, I will test if astrocytes are behavioural state regulators by investigating if ACh release correlates with astrocytic responses during task engagement. In conclusion, I will combine state-of-the-art molecular and optical approaches with analytical methods to understand the role of astrocytes multisensory perception influences at the mesoscale.

Keywords: astrocytes,association cortices,somatosensory cortex,visual cortex,information theory,two photon mesoscope,acetylcholine,attention,neuromodulation,calcium imaging,genetically encoded sensor
Photonics from research to market: Empowering Europe’s strategic autonomy, supporting the green deal and securing resilience – Photonics21 (Phorwards21)

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: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Ireland,Netherlands,Spain,Belgium,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Finland,Sweden,Greece,Lithuania,Austria,France,Poland
Call: Photonic Strategies and Skills Development (CSA) (Photonics Partnership) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2930280.0
EU funding (EUR): 2930280.0
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

Phorwards21 will create and implement a comprehensive industrial strategy for photonics in Europe. The action will be implemented by Photonics21 (the EU Commission's partner in the Horizon Europe Photonics Partnership) with its more than 3000 members from companies and research institutions as well as national photonics technology platforms and regional clusters. In addition to already initiated collaborations with end-user and other deep-tech partnerships, contacts with national ministries (Photonics21 Mirror Group) and financial actors such as the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Investment Council (EIC) and (corporate) venture capital companies will be strengthened to implement the European photonics strategy and thus establish European strategic autonomy in this critical technology. Specific end-user community-based roadmaps will be developed, focusing not only on research priorities but also on industrial implementation, including pilot lines and the creation of appropriate framework conditions.

Keywords: strategic autonomy,key technology,strategic research and innovation agenda,supply chains
Nature-3B: Including Nature in decision making of central Banks, investment Benchmarks & Bond issuers (Nature-3B)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom,France,Austria,Italy,Netherlands,Germany,Romania,Poland,Switzerland
Call: Biodiversity, economics and finance: Understanding macro-financial risks associated with biodiversity loss (HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4995175.25
EU funding (EUR): 4995175.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

NATURE-3B aims to make a significant contribution by developing (i) Nature-Protecting Benchmarks for investors such as pension funds or insurance akin to EU Paris-Aligned Benchmarks (EU PABs), (ii) a Nature-Protecting Bond framework particularly targeted at municipalities and corporates, and (i) six tools for central banks, ESAs & NCAs (see Outcomes 1-6 in the Consortium Overview below), As a consortium including three current members of the EU’s Platform on Sustainable Finance including the Head of its Data Science Hub and lead author of EU PABs, NATURE-3B is uniquely positioned to achieve real world impact. Following the success of EU PABs, which grew beyond €100 billion in assets within less than 3 years (European Commission, 2023), the consortium expects that Nature-Protecting Benchmarks can exceed €10bn within three years after the launch. Given the fortunate timing of the EU Green Bond Standard applying from December 21st 2024, and the 60+ corporate and municipality supporters already interested in the concept of Nature-Protecting Bonds, the consortium expects an issuance volume of €30bn within 3 years of launch. These could, for instance, fund marine ecosystem protection of Gozo (Malta), support the Pape Nature Reserve of Liepaja (Latvia) or encourage forest restoration near Sanok in southeast Poland. With considerable work experience with central banks, ESAs and NCAs, NATURE-3B is confident that 15 of them will use a relevant tool following the project. The tools include: (1) Nature Dependency Dashboard, (2) Asset level risk database, (3) Nature-related scenarios portal, (4) Nature-related stress test models, (5) Portfolio & financial system nature alignment tool, (6) Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for SFRD biodiversity impact analysis and TNFD scoring.

Keywords: biodiversity,economics and finance
Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism (VORTEX)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Finland,Italy,Belgium,Norway,Romania,United States,Philippines,Indonesia,Denmark,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2695600.8
EU funding (EUR): 2695600.8
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

VORTEX (Coping with Varieties of Radicalisation into Terrorism and Extremism) represents an innovative and integrative doctoral network of practitioners and academics for training of doctoral candidates in radicalization studies. The understanding of radicalization is currently trapped between securitisational approaches and socio-cultural contextual explanations, influencing political agencies, practitioners, and scholars alike. One approach focuses on immediate and short-term security needs of European societies. Another approach stresses long-term structural factors, such as socio-economic marginalization, as a breeding ground for extremism, radicalization, and extremist world views and cognitive mindsets. This DN aims not only to identify a theoretical a methodological gap between the two approaches, but also to develop new evidence-based innovative strategies to countering and preventing ideological and behavioural radicalization. VORTEX will provide an integrated and thus meaningful research programme not only but primarily for doctoral candidates to pursue their research in a fruitful and meaningful dialogue among relevant disciplines and in a dense web of supervision, training and interaction to jump start both successful and relevant careers. Bringing together a network of academic and non-academic participating organizations from 14 countries on three continents, dealing with both religious and secular radicalisation, this DN will explore and compare different varieties of radicalization in several empirical settings. Practice-based research with associated partners, connecting doctoral candidates to future job markets and audiences, will offer the opportunity to investigate radicalisations on several levels, ranging from local to global and from cognitive to behavioural. We propose an advanced learning program, combining theoretical and instrumental knowledge at transnational and interdisciplinary levels.

Keywords: radicalization,terrorism,extremism
sCalablE iNnovaTive pRocessEs for the ProductIon of fuEl CElls (CENTREPIECE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Austria,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain
Call: Scalable innovative processes for the production of PEMFC MEAs (HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5623849.06
EU funding (EUR): 4969339.06
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

PEMFCs are expected to increase their share of the transport market over the next years, but to do so MEA manufacturing processes and technologies must become more reliable, efficient and faster to allow lower cost. Therefore, it is key to implement advanced manufacturing techniques for catalyst coated components, which will enable lower raw materials consumption, lesser cost and reduced waste by applying innovative printing and coating techniques. Although low-volume batch processes have transitioned to roll-to-roll production lines, there is still a need for higher line speeds and yields, since the main materials are all relatively expensive (membrane, ionomer, PGM-based catalysts). In addition, conventional CCMs usually do not allow an easy recyclability, therefore generating the need of new industrial processes. CENTREPIECE will, 1) upscale and validate with up-to-date CCM materials using innovative coating techniques developed in previous projects, with the objective of making them suitable for large-scale production [TRL6] 2) Develop and validate In-line Quality Control techniques against ex-situ and off-line data [TRL6] 3) integrate project developments into a prototype pilot line capable of 2400 m2/year at a line speed >10m/min [MRL5] 4) Revolutionary digital coating and laser drying technology will also be assessed. MEAs will be manufactured full size (280 cm2 active area) and benchmarked against conventionally manufactured, showcasing the ability of the line to meet industrial needs, whilst decreasing the scrap-rate below 5% and increasing the yield to >90%. CENTREPIECE will build on the developments from previous projects (MAMA-MEA, CAMELOT, VOLUMETRIQ, INSPIRE, IMMORTAL, HIGHLANDER, etc.). Innovative techniques, together with in-line QC processes will allow high speed manufacturing and will therefore provide the necessary capacity to meet forecasted demand.

Keywords: fuel cells,membrane electrode assembly,additive layer manufacturing,quality control
Development of novel single cell multi-omics methods to uncover regulators of cell type specific epigenetic states. (scEpiTarget)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1810745.0
EU funding (EUR): 1810745.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Although all cells of an organism share the same genetic information, they selectively access this information in a cell type- and context-dependent manner. Epigenetic mechanisms, such as post-translational histone modifications (PTHMs) have been identified as central regulators of Transcription Factor-DNA interactions. During cell differentiation, the distribution of PTHMs is modulated to enable the new cell state. Most of the protein complexes that position (writer) and remove (eraser) PTHMs have been identified, but we still do not understand how these proteins are recruited to the genome and thereby dictate the specific genomic distribution of PTHMs. Previous studies were unable to identify these targeting factors as they only interact with a fraction of writer complexes at a time and likely form transient interactions. Thus, new experimental approaches are needed to identify these proteins that are directing localised epigenetic changes. In scEpiTarget I will develop novel single-cell methods to identify the key factors that determine cell-type specific PTHM deposition. I will use the identified regulators to re-target PTHMs and evaluate their impact on cell fate decisions in state-of-the-art cell differentiation systems. Recently, I made a technological breakthrough by developing a method that allows the simultaneous measurement of histone modifications and total RNA in single cells. Together with my background in genetic screening and chromatin biology, this will enable me to reach scEpiTarget’s objectives. The proposed techniques are transferable to study any protein:DNA interaction, making them highly valuable for the research community. Epigenetic pathways are essential for multi-cellular life from the beginning of embryonic development, until their mis-regulation during ageing. The identification of factors regulating PTHM distribution will lead to a better understanding of their function and how they can be therapeutically influenced during pathogenes

Keywords: functional single cell multi omics
Multi-lane, high-power Photonic Integrated Circuit-based Erbium-Doped Amplifier (MAGNIFY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Italy,Switzerland
Call: EIC Transition Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1584066.25
EU funding (EUR): 1584066.25
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The invention of the Erbium doped fiber amplifier is arguably one of the most important inventions that has shaped our information society and laid the foundation for optical communications. Rare earth ions provide an ideal gain medium: limiting crosstalk and allowing simultaneous amplification of multiple information carrying channels, while allowing amplification of signals close to the quantum limit. Despite the many advantages of rare-earth ions, their adoption in integrated photonics has been a long-standing challenge. While major effort has been carried out in the 90’ Erbium Waveguide Amplifiers (EDWA), e.g. at Bell Laboratories, these were ultimately abandoned due to the high background loss, large device footprints, and lack of photonic integration manufacturing techniques. Recent advances have heralded the first EDWA based on ion implanted silicon nitride ultra low loss waveguides (Science, 2022). These devices provide performance already on par with commercial EDFA, with a vastly reduced footprint, wafer-scale manufacturing and ability to create multichannel amplifiers on chip. Such multi-channel EDWA have applications ranging from data-centers to deep sea fiber amplifiers and general-purpose test and measurement. Within this transition call, we will move the technology from the laboratory level to TRL6, and commercialize it with partners via a dedicated startup. In addition, the SME as part of this proposal we will develop the require ultra-low loss, implantation ready wafers – the supply chain - and make the available via foundry service via X-Fab in France. The project therefore addresses technological milestones towards a demonstrator, achieving foundry compatibility, and will engage academic customers for testing in two key areas: optical communications and microwave photonics. By the end of this project EDWA should become a compelling technology proposition of EDWATEC and secure strategic investments to build a sustainable business and high tech company.

Keywords: erbium doped amplifier,radio frequency over fiber,photonic integration