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Reviving Monastic Water Management to Safeguard Environmental and Cultural Heritage in Alferrara, Portugal (AQUA-REVIVE)

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: Portugal
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 258978.9
EU funding (EUR): 258978.9
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

As climate change exacerbates water scarcity across the world, the study of historic water management systems has been offering promising solutions that actively preserve environmental and cultural livelihoods. I will contribute to this growing body of research by studying the ruins of two interlinked monastic hydraulic systems in Alferrara, Portugal. These monastic communities relied on sophisticated water management strategies to maintain self-sufficient lifestyles between the 14th to 19th centuries. The systems supported dispersed cooling huts, fountains, and irrigation tanks through mines and channels that provided water for drinking and washing while also nourishing terraced gardens, which were a key source of medicinal knowledge in the region. The research objectives are to: 1) investigate the functioning of these two hydraulic systems from their monastic origins to the present, 2) digitally survey and virtually reconstruct the remaining ruins using precise, non-invasive methods and 3) utilize this reconstruction as an interdisciplinary knowledge platform to simulate water flow scenarios and to contribute to ongoing revitalization efforts. This research will expand the understanding of Portugal's monastic hydraulic heritage, a field still in its early stages, by fostering collaboration among conservation architects, archaeologists, hydrologists, geographic engineers, and historians. A final non-academic placement within the regional government will culminate in a revitalization plan for these systems helping to develop the presently untapped water source into new cultural programs such as educational spaces, medicinal gardens, agricultural initiatives, and public reservoirs that echo the monastic community's former role in serving the local population.

Keywords: heritage,water heritage,historic water management systems,hydraulic systems,monastic architecture,architectural conservation,virtual reconstruction,climate change,sustainable design
Bioinspired and advanced fibres and materials for sustainable outdoor textiles with biomimetic functionalities (PENGUIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Italy,Spain,Portugal,Sweden
Call: Bioinspired and biomimetic materials for sustainable textiles (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7639860.75
EU funding (EUR): 6475389.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

PENGUIN aims to develop sustainable materials for outdoor garments. Its highlight lies on cellulose-based fibres for producing sustainable insulation material that mimic the way penguins protect themselves against cold and moisture on land. The goal of PENGUIN is to ensure Europe's role as a world-leading technology provider and research leader in the textile sector through collaboration between Europe's leading experts in advanced material value chain and reduce the environmental impact of the outdoor garment industry and address sustainability and ethical concerns of consumers. Specifically, PENGUIN aims to develop sustainable and recyclable textile fibres based on wood cellulose with enhanced hydrophobicity, adhesion, and tailored morphology to create ethically responsible and sustainable insulation materials for textiles. PENGUIN will develop fabrics that incorporate advanced biomimetic functionalities and digital tools for optimal performance. The reuse and recycling plan together with developed recycling technologies will ensure that the end-product is disposed of responsibly, further contributing to the circular economy. Furthermore, PENGUIN aims to ensure that the developed textile materials are safe and sustainable; low-cost and low-resource; and gain market adoption and stakeholder acceptance for the new products. PENGUIN will achieve these objectives through innovation activities and partnerships, optimizing, developing and validating new materials and production methods. Overall, PENGUIN has the potential to transform the textile industry by creating sustainable, efficient, and high-performance textile materials. PENGUIN will contribute to industrial leadership, increased autonomy in strategic value chains, and security of supply in raw materials for resilient industry.

Keywords: cellulose,textile fibre,hydrophobicity,insulation material,non woven,fabric,outdoor textile,sensors,heating fabrics,recycling,circularity,ssbd,biomimetic,bioinspired
New Frontiers in Information-Theoretic Secure Computation (NFITSC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2113125.0
EU funding (EUR): 2113125.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Information-theoretic secure computation is a general-purpose technique for processing sensitive data without compromising its confidentiality or integrity even in the presence of a computationally-unbounded all-powerful adversary. This notion plays an important role in cryptography, both as a stand-alone object and as a tool for computational constructs. Despite its increasing importance, we have a very limited understanding of the *intrinsic complexity* of information-theoretic security, and some of the most central feasibility questions in this area have remained open for more than three decades. In this proposal, we aim to decipher the power and limitations of this notion. We will focus on three main objectives. First, we aim to improve the complexity of general *secret sharing schemes* and exploit such improvements towards realizing highly-efficient general-purpose zero-knowledge proofs. The second objective is to explore the complexity of Secure Non-Interactive Reductions and Multiparty Randomized Encoding -- a powerful generalization of information-theoretic garbled circuits that was recently presented by the PI. The third objective is to expand our theoretical understanding of constant-round information-theoretic protocols, optimize their round complexity, and study their concrete and asymptotic computational complexity. Being part of several recent exciting developments in these areas, we believe that it is now possible to make progress in some of these basic open problems. The suggested research will bridge across different regions of computer science such as coding theory, cryptography, and computational complexity. It is expected to impact central problems in cryptography, while enriching the general landscape of theoretical computer science.

Keywords: secure multiparty computation,secret sharing,information theoretic cryptography
BLUE ENERGY OFFSHORE INSTALLATION ACCELERATOR (BLUE-X)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Portugal,Italy,France
Call: Copernicus downstream applications and the European Data Economy (HORIZON-EUSPA-2022-SPACE, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3476162.5
EU funding (EUR): 2998881.25
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Key principles of the Green Deal are to prioritise energy efficiency, develop a power sector based largely on renewable resources, to secure an affordable EU energy supply and to have a fully integrated, interconnected digitalised EU energy market. However, renewable energy scale up in Europe faces increasing resistance due to limitations in applicable land area and the willingness of local communities to have wind or solar parks close by. One possibility to resolve this issue is the usage of offshore space. Blue renewable energy sources such as offshore (floating) wind, floating solar (FPV), waves, tides and currents have a high and still unused potential to be explored. This is of particular importance in view of the current energy crisis and changing energy policy. For all offshore technologies, lengthy and expensive MetOcean, geophysical and environmental campaigns are needed, which slow down the upscaling of offshore renewables. The proposed Blue Energy Offshore Installation Accelerator (BLUE-X) will contribute to the Green Deal objectives and its related policies, in particular with regard to increasing the EU’s climate ambition for 2030 and 2050, supplying clean, affordable and secure energy, mitigating natural hazards and preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity. BLUE-X is an innovative Copernicus based solution for optimising and accelerating decision making for blue renewable energy projects in all phases, from planning to construction, operation and decommissioning. The heart of this solution is a cloud-based IT network of relevant Earth observation and MetOcean data streams that are combined in decision support tools for each phase. As a result, the planning and construction phase can be significantly optimised, thereby reducing costs, and required time to full operation. BLUE-X will be available and showcased for all key offshore energy domains for some of the most important European offshore projects to date but can be applied anywhere.

Keywords: marine environment,renewable energy,satellite data,metocean,global,energy crisis,energy policy,energy efficiency,accelerator
Advancing scientific collaboration in phage therapy for treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus (ASCLEPIUS)

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
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Georgia,France,Portugal,Luxembourg
Call: Twinning Bottom-Up (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1555670.0
EU funding (EUR): 1493420.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

ASCLEPIUS’s overall aim is to boost the scientific excellence and innovation capacity of Giorgi Eliava Institute of Bacteriophagy, Microbiology and Virology (Eliava) and its high-quality Twinning partners - l’Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, Universidade do Minho and Intelligentsia Consultants Sarl – to expand their insights in phage therapy for treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. To achieve this aim, ASCLEPIUS will implement a research and innovation strategy over three years based upon five objectives: Objective 1: Conduct exploratory research on phage therapy for treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Objective 2: Transfer knowledge between experienced researchers of Eliava and the Twinning partners. Objective 3: Enhance career prospects of early-stage researchers of Eliava and the Twinning partners. Objective 4: Improve Eliava’s management and administrative capacity for European R&D programmes. Objective 5: Raise the research profile of Eliava and the Twinning partners.

Keywords: phage therapy,pseudomonas aeruginosa,staphylococcus aureus,molecular techniques
Climate Tipping Points: Uncertainty-aware quantification of Earth system tipping potential from observations and models and assessment of associated climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic impacts (ClimTip)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Spain,Denmark,Netherlands,Italy,Switzerland,China,United States,United Kingdom,Norway,Sweden
Call: Climate-related tipping points (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5868639.19
EU funding (EUR): 5868639.19
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The likelihood of large-scale Earth system tipping events under ongoing anthropogenic forcing remains uncertain. In view of the possible irreversibility associated with such events and the potentially catastrophic global consequences on climate, ecosystems, and society, the precautionary principle demands thorough investigation of the underlying mechanisms, compound or cascading impacts, and associated risks. ClimTip will substantially advance the process understanding of possible Earth system Tipping Elements (TEs). It will provide the methodological framework for characterising and constraining potential TEs from paleoclimate, observational and model data, for identifying unknown tipping potential from observations and models, and for quantifying resilience and changes thereof in climate and ecosystems, including early-warning of forthcoming transitions. Earth system models (ESMs) are the primary tool for projecting the risk of large-scale tipping events and ClimTip will substantially improve their representation of suggested TEs. This will enable the identification of safe operating spaces for a stable Earth system by characterising key Earth system TEs in terms of their critical thresholds and rates, hysteresis and overshoot potential via empirical data and ESMs, taking into account the associated uncertainties. As a unique climate service, ClimTip will provide global high-resolution bias-corrected climate fields for large-scale tipping events based on storylines of tipping in comprehensive ESMs. The associated impacts on climate, ecosystems, biodiversity, agriculture, society and economy will be assessed globally and put in relation with the Paris Agreement and the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030. ClimTip will deliver a comprehensive and precise knowledge basis for tipping-aware risk assessment and adaptation and mitigation strategies. Results will be disseminated to the scientific community, general public, and targeted audiences including IPBES and IPCC.

Keywords: earth system tipping points impacts mitigation adaptation
Symbolic logic framework for situational awareness in mixed autonomy (SymAware)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Sweden,Germany
Call: Awareness Inside (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3980291.25
EU funding (EUR): 3980291.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

SymAware addresses the fundamental need for a new conceptual framework for awareness in multi-agent systems (MASs) that is compatible with the internal models and specifications of robotic agents and that enables safe simultaneous operation of collaborating autonomous agents and humans. The goal of SymAware is to provide a comprehensive framework for situational awareness to support sustainable autonomy via agents that actively perceive risks and collaborate with other robots and humans to improve their awareness and understanding, while fulfilling complex and dynamically changing tasks. The SymAware framework will use compositional logic, symbolic computations, formal reasoning, and uncertainty quantification to characterise and support situational awareness of MAS in its various dimensions, sustaining awareness by learning in social contexts, quantifying risks based on limited knowledge, and formulating risk-aware negotiation of task distributions. These objectives will be achieved in SymAware through (a) logical characterisation of awareness using symbolic methods, (b) quantifying the symbolic reasoning for awareness with spatial and temporal ingredients for decision making, (c) risk awareness via quantified knowledge, (d) quantifying and communicating knowledge awareness, (e) demonstrating awareness engineering in aviation and automotive use cases, and (f) identifying requirements for ethical and trustworthy awareness in human-agent interaction. The objectives of SymAware address the "Awareness Inside" Challenge of EIC by extending and formalising human-based models of situational awareness and by providing a novel conceptual situational awareness framework for MASs that encompasses logical characterisation and integrative formal reasoning of interdependent awareness dimensions including knowledge, spatiotemporal, risk and social dimensions. This will support transitioning to safe mixed operation of autonomous agents and humans.

Keywords: multi agent systems,autonomous systems,situational awareness,symbolic computations,compositional logic,formal verification,control synthesis,risk awareness,human robot interaction
Species and Sex by Proteome Investigation (SSPIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Currently there is no broadly available strategy to perform large-scale sex and species identification on morphologically non-informative bone and tooth specimens from paleontological, palaeoanthropological and archaeological contexts. SSPIN aims to the creation of a service platform to democratise species and sex identification from these materials by developing and deploying a new high-resolution mass spectrometry-based approach. SSPIN will dramatically increase throughput at all levels of the workflow, i.e. sample preparation, data acquisition and data analysis, whilst simultaneously lowering the operator’s involvement. Automation will empower a service platform offering to the end-user access to the technology currently out of reach to all but a few specialised laboratories world-wide. Research projects that are simply unsustainable with the current solutions will move within reach on a global scale.
COMmon Platform and Advanced INstrumentation ReadIness for ultra efficient propulsion demonstratiON (COMPANION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Aviation
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEAN-AVIATION (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Spain,Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: High-TRL Flight Demonstration Means for Ultra Efficient Propulsion Systems for Short and Short-Medium Range Aircraft (HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2023-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 25737332.58
EU funding (EUR): 19947000.91
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The purpose of the COMPANION project is to define, design and prepare a common flight test demonstrator platform to enable the validation of ultra-efficient propulsion systems developed in Clean Aviation Call#01 projects at full scale and in a wide envelope of realistic operational conditions. Given the clear requirement in the roadmap planning of the CA projects OFELIA and SWITCH for flight test demonstrations in Clean Aviation Phase 2 to achieve TRL 6 before the end of the program in 2030, a corresponding platform must be prepared to be available in due time. The project targets to prepare the flight test platform up to CDR Opening (dMG5) maturity. The flight clearance process will be opened in COMPANION, but will need to continue with the installation of the demonstrator engines in follow-up projects in Clean Aviation Phase 2. The project plan proposes to progress on the preparation of a common flight test demonstrator platform on the basis of an Airbus A380 aircraft with one of the inboard engine pylons modified to accommodate versatile ultra-efficient proposal systems which are currently under development for a Clean Aviation Short Range and Short and Medium Range concept aircraft, namely an Open Rotor test engine and a hybrid electric Ultra High ByPass Turbofan. The flight test aircraft will ultimately be fully equipped to host a diversity of standard and special flight test instrumentation that will be defined in close cooperation with the projects OFELIA and SWITCH to provide all data required to quantify the performance of the demonstrator engines under operational conditions. The test aircraft will allow the demonstrator engines to operate on conventional kerosene and SAF fuel at blending rates.

Keywords: airbus a380 flight test demonstrator,validation of ultra efficient propulsion systems for sr and smr aircraft,flight test instrumentation,open rotor,hybrid electric gtf,smr concept aircraft