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Institutional Discrimination in (Explicit) Action: How Policies Shape Inequalities (IDEA)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This research project explores the consequences of institutional discrimination, i.e., discriminatory treatment of individuals (based on their membership to a certain group) perpetuated by organizations. In particular, the project explores two policies that created institutional discrimination, and aims at causally estimating the impacts on the socio-economic outcomes of affected individuals. In order to causally estimate the effects of institutional discrimination, I will make use of rich administrative data from the Netherlands and exploit quasi-random variation in exposure to institutional discrimination, induced by the Dutch institutional context. In the first work package, I will use a combination of rich administrative data, machine learning methods, and a difference-in-differences research design, to study the effects of the “Dutch childcare benefit scandal”. This scandal arose when the Dutch tax authorities started to target fraud investigations (and heavily punish even small administrative mistakes) using an algorithm that was biased against individuals with a non-Dutch nationality. In the second work package, I will use rich Dutch administrative records matched with unique data from the social housing corporation in Rotterdam, and a difference-in-differences research design, to study the effects of the “Rotterdam Act”. This Dutch policy created institutional discrimination by prohibiting access to social housing to some groups of individuals in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Both studies will investigate the effect of institution discrimination on a wide array of socio-economic outcomes, including labour market participation, welfare receipt, wealth, health, and criminal involvement. The results of this project will be of interest to a wide audience as they will contribute to our understanding of how institutional discrimination might affect vulnerable groups in the population.

Keywords: institutional discrimination public policy natural experiments
Logic and Automata over Sequences with Data (LASD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998956.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998956.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Formal language theory is indisputably one of the most successful theories in theoretical computer science with many applications in such fields as formal verification, programming languages, and databases, to name a few. Despite this, the standard restriction to finite alphabets has been a limiting factor in the applicability of the theory in various important application domains, wherein sequences with data (i.e. ranging over an infinite domain like the set of integers and the set of strings) naturally arise. This has motivated an extensive study of automata over infinite alphabets in the last three decades, which aims to develop algorithms for analyzing data languages. It was, however, quickly realized that permitting anything but the simplest data reasoning results in undecidability for the most fundamental models in the theory. Given the growing practical needs for tools for reasoning about sequences with data, it is crucial that we break through this undecidability barrier. The aim of the project is to overcome the current undecidability barrier in extending automata theory over infinite alphabets with complex data reasoning. The first concrete objective is, thus, to identify new decidable logic/automata models for data languages that permit complex data reasoning over various data domains (e.g. integer linear arithmetic, real-closed fields, string constraints, etc.), and to develop efficient algorithms for analyzing them. In addition to making fundamental theoretical contributions in automata theory over infinite alphabets, I also aim to address the current practical needs for tools for reasoning about sequences. Thus, the second objective of the project is to transfer new algorithmic insights to the following important application domains: (1) querying graph databases, (2) verification of list-manipulating programs, and (3) interpretable machine learning for sequences.

Keywords: logic,automata,data words,decidable theory,verification
SAFE, SUSTAINABLE, AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT PRODUCTION OF RELIABLE LITHIUM METAL ANODES FOR GEN 4B/4C/5 BATTERIES (STELLAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Germany,Portugal,Switzerland,Italy,United Kingdom
Call: Sustainable high-throughput production processes for stable lithium metal anodes for next generation batteries (Batt4EU Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11051852.5
EU funding (EUR): 7901677.5
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Towards a dominant sustainable energy generation scenario in the EU, it is key to advance battery manufacturing industry to meet the large-scale demand in Europe, specifically SSBs Gen 4b/4c, and LSBs Gen 5. The deployment of high-throughput, sustainable production processes of LiM anodes must be developed and industrialised in the EU. STELLAR will commit to deploy a new sustainable, industrially competitive roll-to-roll physical vapour deposition production method of LiM anodes to deliver high-purity, dense, and stable LiM anodes with low thickness while targeting a high production capacity at a competitive cost, reaching TRL7 by demonstration of a real-word 1st of kind EU-based LiM anode production pilot line, together with validation of this new generation of anodes in functioning cells (Gen4b/4c/5). This will be achieved starting from a R2R vacuum coater already available at ABEE's (pre-STELLAR), by: 1) Optimising the R2R, thermal evaporation of LiM and in situ sputtering of a chemically-engineered thin protective coating in the same vacuum chamber for stable LiM anodes; 2) Upgrade of the production equipment; 3) Apply advanced, non-destructive, intelligent inline thickness and roughness monitoring; 4) High-precision laser based cutting of anodes; 5) Fully automated QC based on data science and ML; 6) Implementation of circular economy strategy for maximise scrap recovery and recycling rates at batteries EoL. Additionally, to ensure future seamless integration in the European market, a data-driven DT with quick response times for integral process optimisation will be developed, as well as the design at module/pack level of the LiM-based batteries. For that purpose, STELLAR is bringing together a wide experienced consortium led by ABEE, involving leading industrial technology developers and suppliers of batteries, materials and equipment, digital experts, academic institutions, and sustainability and management experts at European level.

Keywords: lim anode,gen 4b 4c 5,physical vapour deposition,roll to roll,sputtering,double side coating,a sei layer,inline monitoring,laser cutting,li recovery,cells manufacturing,industrialisation,
Characterising the molecular and cellular basis of enteric nervous system alterations in the inflamed gut (NeurogENSity)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) encompasses two gastrointestinal conditions - Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis - which currently lack satisfactory treatment. IBD is associated with alterations to the enteric nervous system (ENS) of the gut, including the formation of new neurons (‘neurogenesis’) and changes in the properties of existing neurons (‘neuroplasticity’). Growing evidence suggests an interplay between acute inflammation and ENS pathology. Despite this, detailed characterisation of ENS alterations, their underlying molecular mechanisms, and how inflammation may induce them during IBD, is not well understood. The Marklund laboratory has recently uncovered a stepwise diversification model of enteric neurogenesis, suggesting that during embryonic development, subtype identities are specified through identity conversions in post-mitotic neurons. This work leads to the intriguing possibility that the identity of terminally-differentiated enteric neurons may, in fact, be flexible. However, whether stepwise diversification is present during adult inflammation-induced neurogenesis, and whether neuronal identity can be altered by extrinsic stimuli such as inflammation, remains to be assessed. Using a colitis model of IBD, single cell RNA sequencing of ENS and immune cells and spatial transcriptomics, NeurogENSity will characterise the composition of the inflamed ENS, revealing the cellular changes occurring as a result of acute inflammation. Pseudotime trajectory analysis, in combination with lineage tracing experiments, will address the nature of adult enteric neuronal identity specification. ENS-immune interactions which may underlie neurogenic and neuroplastic alterations will be identified, and their relevance assessed using cell depletion assays. Together, NeurogENSity will identify mechanisms underlying inflammation-induced alterations to the ENS, paving the way for targeted treatments of ENS dysfunction during IBD.

Keywords: ens neurogenesis neuroplasticity
Sustainable pulping innovation achieving zero pollution through efficient wood residue feedstock utilisation (SAUNA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Clean Environment and zero pollution
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Belgium,Türkiye,Italy,Sweden,Norway,Spain
Call: Innovative technologies for zero pollution, zero-waste biorefineries (HORIZON-CL6-2024-ZEROPOLLUTION-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3998486.25
EU funding (EUR): 3998486.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The kraft process accounts for 82% of global virgin pulp production, 180 Mt in 2020. The kraft process converts half of the wood feedstock into fibrous pulp, the rest is dissolved and mainly burnt in the energy and chemical recovery. Kraft process generates significant exhaust flows, containing air emissions and pollutants such as CO2, SO2, NOx, total reduced sulphur (TRS) and particulates, as well as waste waters, solid wastes and noise emissions. The SAUNA project addresses enhanced environmental performance of pulp production in comparison to the kraft process by developing a novel pulping concept, where feedstock, chemistry, unit operations and energy sources are reconsidered by 11 partners: 5 companies, 4 RTO’s and 2 universities. Higher product yield (90%) is achieved by targeted fractionation of wood applying hot water extraction followed by alkaline oxidation producing hemicellulose and water-soluble lignin in addition to fibrous pulp. Biogenic CO2 emissions will be reduced by 80% in comparison to kraft process. The products will be assessed for applications such as packaging, adhesives and polyurethane. Selected sulphur-free chemistry enables significantly simpler chemical recovery applying wet air oxidation, thus avoiding incineration in kraft recovery boiler and lime kiln, where fossil fuels are used for process control. This eliminates CO2, SO2, NOx, and TRS emissions, influencing climate change, acid rains, biodiversity in forests, soils and water systems, health risks for humans and odours. Biorefinery will be designed to utilise external energy from emerging renewable energy sources or power from small nuclear reactors. If in the future, all pulp biorefineries used the SAUNA technology rather than kraft pulping, and produced the current kraft pulp volume in Europe, there would be 300 SAUNA biorefineries, EU would save annually 49 Mt of CO2 (mainly biogenic CO2), 13.5 ktons of gaseous sulphur compounds (as S), and 36.5 ktons of NOx emissions (as NO2).

Keywords: wood wood residues pulp lignin hemicellulose alkaline oxidation membrane filtration wet combustion process design monitoring modelling zero pollution environmental performance bioproducts
Hierarchic structure in pictorial communication (PICTREE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2030-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Creating pictures is a unique human capacity, yet pictorial communication has received less focus in the study of cognition than other domains like language. Indeed, graphics are often viewed as reflecting perception alone with no complex representational properties like the hierarchic combinatoriality permeating throughout linguistic structures. Yet, various theories have argued that graphics also use hierarchic combinatoriality, both in individual pictures and visual narrative sequences, raising an overarching question of: Is there evidence of hierarchic combinatoriality in graphic expression, and what is its relationship with combinatoriality in language? The PICTREE project therefore targets this fundamental property of combinatoriality within substructures of pictorial communication, and aims to further probe its relationship to language. First, it will seek evidence for hierarchic structure within individual images (Theme 1), investigating the combinations of regions revealed within the drawing orders of pictorial objects (Theme 1.1), and the combinatoriality of visual affixes, like gears above the head to convey thinking (Theme 1.2). Second, it will examine the cognitive correlates of established syntactic phenomena from language that also occur in sequential images of visual narratives, including center- embedded clauses, serial conjunctions resulting in alternations, and ambiguous anaphoric relationships (Theme 2). Finally, since combinatorial structures have been argued across language, visual narratives, and music—and studies have observed similar neural responses to “grammars” in all of these domains—I will then ask (Theme 3): do these domains share a common processor for combinatoriality in the brain? Altogether, this project will challenge prevailing assumptions about the complexities of pictorial communication, while probing the relations between graphics and language, sponsoring greater focus on pictures within the linguistic and cognitive sciences.

Keywords: visual narrative comics psycholinguistics cross modal cognition music cognition
Green Cops and ENGOs: Comparing the Regulation of Environmental Crime in Europe (GREENEUROPE)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-06-28
End date: 2026-06-27
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 2
Project status: TERMINATED

This project explores the collaboration between police officers and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the fight against environmental crime in Europe. It uses qualitative methods and comparison of four case studies (Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany) to account for convergence/divergence in three questions: who are the NGOS supporting green policing in Europe and what do they do?; How do NGOs and police officers work together in green policing?; How does the policing role of non-state actors change our understanding of contemporary European states? Answering these questions is critical as the project tackles a key concern of European citizens and enriches the empirical and theoretical understanding of contemporary European policing and states.

Keywords: police environmental crime ngos regulation comparison europe
Structuring free-electron wave functions through interaction with structured light and engineered metamaterials (STRELIM)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Controlling free-electron wave functions with light has recently emerged as a powerful approach to gaining unprecedented space-time resolution in imaging and manipulating the nanoworld. However, control over the electron wave function has so far been limited to specific low-dimensional spaces, such as the transverse plane, the temporal profile, or the energy distribution. In contrast, accessing multiple dimensions simultaneously remains a complex challenge, which I intend to tackle through this project. The first goal of my project is to search for exotic structures of quantum free-electron waves in high dimensions, exhibiting topological textures and defects beyond a simple vortex. To this end, I will draw inspiration from optical waves to create structured quantum waves that are free-electron solutions of the Dirac equation. In a second goal, I aim to explore the control of free-electron wave functions based on the interaction with structured light to unveil new capabilities enabled by recent advances in spatial or spatiotemporal light shaping, which can, in turn, produce previously inaccessible electron waves. In a third goal, I will explore the use of photonic metamaterials to control free-electron wave functions, capitalizing on an enlarged set of degrees of freedom in the design of metamaterial and the subsequent control of optical fields, which is expected to translate into an enhanced ability to manipulate electron wave functions in spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal domains. This study should expand the current boundaries of free-electron science and technology through a multidisciplinary approach, pushing beyond current capabilities to unprecedented limits of spatiotemporal resolution, impacting the design of more compact and versatile electron sources (e.g., a deterministic single-electron emitter), and shedding light on multidimensional information comprising space, time, momentum, and spin degrees of freedom.

Keywords: free electrons,structured light,nanophotonics,quantum waves
Sustainable fisheries for the Baltic/North Sea basin (ECO-CATCH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Norway,Belgium,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Luxembourg,Finland
Call: Atlantic and Arctic sea basin lighthouse, Mediterranean Sea basin lighthouse, Baltic and North Sea basin lighthouse - Reducing the environmental impacts of fisheries on marine species and habitats (HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8839130.25
EU funding (EUR): 8499087.13
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The mitigation options in-use in the Baltic and North Sea fisheries are insufficient to reach EU Biodiversity 2030 bycatch and habitat objectives. Promising technologies and gears are not deployed to scale due to low TRL maturity. ECO-CATCH will deliver a Catalogue of 10 technologies incl. Digital Tools, Bycatch Reduction Devices (BRD) & Alternative Gears to TRL7-8 maturity. Real-time AI-detectors in-trawl & on-vessel will feed decision-grade data into Wheelhouse Visualisers for fishers to optimise catch efficiency & avoid vulnerable habitats. Alternative Gears will offer economically viable options, where BRDs are ineffective. Following a 3yr R&D Phase, Demonstration & Exploitation in yr. 4-5 will showcase the 10 technologies/gears in commercial conditions, integrate the best pilots in existing production lines, and support 4 Pilot fleets with adopting new Business Models. SMEs and Industry Organisations within the consortium will capture the market value of best technologies. Conditions for scalability & replicability of business models to other regions will be supported by streamlining the certification audit process with 4 operational market access schemes. The consortium spans the entire fisheries value chain, from gear manufacturing to R&D tech companies, fish producers & suppliers, and certification schemes. The consortium track record on Government Advice is the first pathway to long-term policy impact. Project outputs will directly empower fishing industry to deliver to EU Green Deal target on “protect 30% of EU marine areas to reverse biodiversity loss”, and support UN SDG Target 14.4 on “regulate destructive fishing practices”. ECO-CATCH will Cluster all 3 Sister Projects under the Call, to optimise co-delivery & co-demonstration, and add flexibility to resolve uptake & commercialization bottle necks in project Phase “Demonstration & Exploitation” (years 4-5 of the project).

Keywords: bycatch reduction