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Bridging Models at Different Scales To Design New Generation Fuel Cells for Electrified Mobility (BLESSED)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Belgium,Greece,Germany,Austria,Spain,Serbia,France,Italy,Slovenia,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4285861.2
EU funding (EUR): 3501489.6
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

To achieve the goals of the European Green Deal on climate neutrality, a 90% reduction in transport emissions is needed by 2050. The automotive industry urgently needs to accelerate the introduction of alternative powertrains for electrified vehicles. Hydrogen-powered Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) are carbon-free power devices that meet these goals in both mobile and stationary applications. BLESSED aims at revolutionising the design process of next generation PEMFCs, to improve efficiency, durability and affordability for widespread use, with direct implications in clean energy and sustainable industry/mobility. BLESSED will train 15 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) to solve Multi-Scale (MS) engineering challenges, from the electrons up to the device level, through a unique combination of multi-disciplinary computational methods with Machine Learning (ML) to bridge each length scale’s highly accurate model to adjacent scales. Then, a top-down length scale approach will be followed to optimise PEMFC and its components. To this end, the 15 DCs will synergistically develop a unique MS computational framework for the all-scale PEMFC analysis/design, assisted by ML tools. This will allow the simultaneous consideration of complex physico-chemical phenomena occurring at all length scales, such as catalytically-assisted chemical reactions, contact of rough surfaces, mechanical/chemical degradation of membranes, fluid flows in porous media etc., at affordable computational cost. The proposed ID-network brings together world-class academic expertise on numerical modelling and simulation in electrochemistry, reacting flows, fluid mechanics, materials, optimisation methods and ML, with industrial developers. With a strong focus on industrial applications, BLESSED will develop methodologies and tools to exceed state-of-the-art in PEMFCs by minimising the Platinum group metal content and corrosion while maximising mass transport and electrical conductivity.

Keywords: mobility,energy efficiency,degradation,solid liquid gas interface,multi scale and scale bridging,quantum mechanics,particle mechanics,continuum mechanics,optimisation,hpc
AI-driven IP Intelligence Engine for Drug Discovery (AIIPDD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Latvia
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 10.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Today, new drug development on average costs $2.6 billion and takes 10-14 years. But, for example, the global health emergency over the spread of the deadly new coronavirus, is proving to be a crucial real-life test case for industry to aim dramatically reduce the time it takes to create new vaccines and drugs to combat emerging pandemics. While AI technologies help to identify thousands of new molecules that could be turned into potential medicines, it`s crucial to quickly establish the novelty of the most promising candidates. Therefore, more than 135 million patents, 70 million journal articles, and 4 billion web pages are published creating a vast corpus, Big Data of information that potentially needs to be searched to establish, for example, the novelty of a product, the state of the art in the field of interest or the variety of components within complex compositions. Besides, 88% of the Big Data is unstructured (in form of texts) and its volume increases by a staggering 62% annually, according to IDC. It leads to the main challenge: there is simply way too much data for any human to read, analyze and understand. Semantic Intelligence develops an AI-driven IP intelligence Engine enabling users to search, analyze and extract complex knowledge on chemical-biological interactions in patents. Our proprietary State-of-the-art technology combines Natural Language Processing + Machine Learning + Full linguistic data analysis + Chemical structure processing and Image Recognition, delivering novel ways by integrating two languages: chemical structure and words, into a single semantic meaning. The target audience for this solution is small and medium-sized life science companies, which currently have limitations in accessing expensive biochemistry databases. We are aiming to disrupt the life science industry by delivering a low-cost solution to enable small & medium market players to create value by protecting their IP.

Keywords: ai,drug discovery,machine learning,intelectual property,pharma
Plant based 4D biohybrid systems (4D-PhytoHybrid)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499477.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499477.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Modern technology relies on fully artificial systems. While in many cases these systems are high performing there have been approaches to add further complexity or intelligence inspired by natural processes. Biomimetic systems however are purely synthetic and cannot fully mimic the high complexity of living systems. The overall goal of the 4D-PhytoHybrid is to develop photosynthetic biohybrid systems that maintain fundamental properties of the living components and set the foundation for the development of a generic hybrid technology. The biohybrid system will consist of four dimensions with increasing level of complexity and sophistication. The first dimension consists of the plant cells with their natural ability to photosynthesize and produce sugars, oxygen, sequester CO2 but also produce materials as cell wall components. The second dimension is represented by the non-native functionality of the living cells that is acquired with electronic, biocatalytic and structural materials that integrate into the plant cell wall. The third dimension is the 3D spatial organization of cells and physicochemical gradients with additive manufacturing. The fourth dimension is time that will enable responsive and evolvable functionality of the biohybrid system driven by the cell processes. I have a background in organic electronic materials, bioelectronics and plant based biohybrid systems. I was the first to demonstrate plants with augmented electronic functionality, but also to discover conjugate oligomers that can polymerized in vivo by the plant and assemble into functional components in the plant cell wall. My unique skillset and expertise will therefore ensure the successful implementation of the proposed high risk / high gain project. With the ERC funding, I will establish a team for developing next generation technology based on photosynthetic biohybrid systems in order to open the pathway for new technological concepts and launch a European hub for living technology.

Keywords: photosynthetic biohybrids,3d bioprinting,organic electronics,plant biology,conjugated polymers
Randomised Controlled Trial of Preventive Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus (PROTID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Tanzania, United Republic of,Uganda,United Kingdom,New Zealand
Call: Funding to successfully finalise EDCTP2-funded clinical trials that were negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2023-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2337586.25
EU funding (EUR): 2337586.25
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) contributes to an estimated 11.3% of adult deaths worldwide. Approximately 1 in 10 adults globally are estimated to have DM and the prevalence will rise significantly over the coming decades, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. People with DM have a three-fold increased risk of developing TB, and two-fold higher risk of dying from TB or experiencing treatment failure or recurrent disease, further threatening global TB control. As such, the growing burden of DM alongside the continuing TB epidemic have huge health and socio- economic impact. PROTID performs the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) globally to evaluate efficacy, safety, cost-utility and population impact of preventive treatment of TB preventive therapy for people with DM. It also examines gaps in diagnosis and management of DM and DM-TB in Uganda and Tanzania. Our results will guide global policy on TB prevention and management in people with DM, and this can have large socio-economic impact. In Africa, this is highly relevant given the double burden of DM and TB. In Europe, our results will be highly relevant for migrants and people living in eastern Europe, as both groups have a high burden of DM, latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and TB disease. PROTID’s results so far, and other advancements in the field, have already set clear research priorities beyond PROTID. PROTID is very well-positioned to take these forward, with strengthened leadership and research capacity in PROTID’s African partners embedded in a global research network, and its accumulated data on the largest and most-well characterized longitudinal cohort on DM and TB globally.

Keywords: tuberculosis drugs diabetes
Advancing CoopeRation ON asYlum and Migration (ACRONYM)

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: Slovakia,Belgium,France
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1035000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1035000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal seeks to increase and reinforce the cooperation that has been initiated between the Institute for Central Europe (Bratislava, Slovakia), the University of Liège and the University of Paris in the field of migration and asylum governance. This field of international relations is gaining increasing importance, as the „refugee crisis“ in 2014-16 became one of the key matters in European politics, digging a deep divide between member states. This divide being mirrored in social sciences, the proposal seeks to foster a stronger mutual cooperation and understanding on these topics, by formalizing cooperation between a young think-tank that intends to take a leadership role across V4 countries on these issues, and two research centers that have developed a strong expertise on migration and asylum. The three partner institutions have all developed a specific field of expertise in relation to the topic of the proposal: the Institute for Central Europe (ICE) focuses on policy issues that tend to play a decisive role in shaping the future of Europe; the University of Liege (ULIEGE) has developed a wide expertise on migration and asylum governance in Europe; the University of Paris (UP) has conducted a number of studies on the health of migrants and the representation of migration in public opinion. The key objective of this proposal is to bring these areas of expertise together to create a comprehensive and consistent cluster of research activities. This cluster will allow for a better understanding of the mutual perceptions and policies on migration and asylum. In particular, the partnership will seek to achieve the following objectives: 1. Develop joint research activities, events and projects pertaining to migration and asylum; 2. Foster cooperation and exchanges of researchers and staff between the three partners, as well as with other international, non-EU partners; 3. Reinforce the research and capacities of the partners; 4. Inform public debates.

Keywords: migration,asylum,governance,cooperation,perceptions,attitudes
Sustainable resilient data-enabled offshore wind farm and control co-design (SUDOCO)

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: Netherlands,Spain,Denmark,Germany,Italy,Greece
Call: Integrated wind farm control (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-03, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6261873.75
EU funding (EUR): 6261873.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Wind energy is crucial for realizing climate neutrality, energy independence, and energy security. With the increased penetration of renewables in the electricity grid, there is a strong need for control technology to determine the number of electrons to produce and their destination (e.g., grid, storage, hydrogen) for maximum value to the energy system. Whereas the technology available on the market exclusively maximizes the energy yield, the future lies with optimization for cost of valued energy (COVE), which considers energy security, storage, fluctuating electricity prices, turbine component wear, and turbine lifetime. Therefore, SUDOCO will develop open-source technology for resilient, and data-enabled offshore wind farm control and co-design. We will use key aspects and insights in wind farm operation to develop the Control Room of the Future that will allow operators to control wind farm output and loads by minimizing the COVE. SUDOCO will combine novel dynamic control algorithms, hybrid physics-based and data-driven models for the design of physical farms considering their governing control laws, which are safeguarded against adversarial threats and third-party fraud. Our data driven integrated control tool chain will be trained, validated and optimized using several high-fidelity datasets. These include data from full-scale dedicated wake steering control experiments performed at the 69 11-MW turbines in the Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm. We will also perform unprecedented wind farm control experiments with scaled wind turbine models in the largest boundary layer wind tunnel in Europe. SUDOCO will target a COVE reduction of 10%, and includes means to minimize environmental impact as well as address the variability of the wind resource. SUDOCO will deliver the first intelligent integrated wind farm control and design solution for reliable, safe, and cost- effective operation of large bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind farms.

Keywords: wind farm flow control wake steering cost of valued energy reliability experiments
Living Populism: Polarization and Quotidian Experience (LPPQE)

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: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188174.0
EU funding (EUR): 188174.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to offer a novel understanding of populism and its supporters. Through ethnographic research with left-wing populists in Spain, I will break with dominant academic approaches to populism, based largely in analysis of the discourse of party-elites. While Spain was once regarded as having resisted the rise of populist groups emerging in other Western European countries, since the 2008 financial crisis both left- and right-wing populist movements now command considerable support. In order to understand this boom in populist power, in this project I will explore the process and experience of populist subjectivation. Instead of treating ‘the people’ as a semiotic construct I will explore its purchase and functioning as a lived identity as I investigate the experience of being a populist subject. This will entail working closely with populist supporters in order to investigate the gendered subjectivities and domestic dynamics that exist in a co-constitutive relationship with illiberal political commitments. Among other results regarding populism’s domestic and gendered elements, this will add nuance to common-sense depictions of populism as inherently linked to an aggressive white masculinity. My focus on the everyday, lived elements of populist subjectivity will also involve a spatial analysis of populist politics. Drawing upon anthropological theories of place, I will analyse the spaces in which populist politics are made and are manifested. This will result in new information regarding how public spaces figure in populist mobilization and populist subjectivation. This project promises insights regarding the processes by which populist commitments are adopted by supporters, as well as critical information about populists’ subjectivities. These findings will be valuable in the nascent sub-field of the anthropology or populism, and will be of interest to the public and policy makers as they attempt to understand the global growth of populist politics.

Keywords: populism political anthropology eu studies
Investing in the mental wellbeing and resilience of long-term care workers and informal carers through the identification, evaluation and promotion of good practices across Europe (WELL CARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health-care
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,Slovenia,United States,Belgium,Luxembourg
Call: Resilience and mental wellbeing of the health and care workforce (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-CARE-04, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5999895.0
EU funding (EUR): 5999895.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The WELL CARE project aims to strengthen supports available to long-term care (LTC) workers and informal carers for improving their resilience and mental well-being through care partnerships. The WELL CARE project has four specific objectives for these target groups: 1) To review, organise and make available evidence and data (with a focus on gender, inclusion, occupation and non-occupation specific factors) on how to best support resilience and mental well-being: we will identify and analyse 40 good practices and perform 10 in-depth case studies; 2) To identify, evaluate and promote the adoption of innovative solutions and prototypes: we will develop 5-8 general solution prototypes, which will be implemented and tested with interested stakeholders (e.g., LTC providers and employers) in five European Union countries (Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden). We will provide resources, guidance and a helpdesk to sustain implementation and the creation of favourable local, regional and national ecosystems; 3) To develop and foster evidence-based and action-oriented recommendations for policy makers and stakeholders: we will analyse the policy, legislative, service and financing frameworks, also elaborating recommendations on the basis of data and evidence generated by the project; 4) To develop, implement and sustain a continuous process of research and co-design activities with end-users and stakeholders at national level: we will set up and implement Blended Learning Networks, establishing a participatory research design and addressing real needs and perspectives from the target groups. The WELL CARE project will positively impact LTC workers’ and informal carers’ mental health and productivity (micro-level), as well as providing LTC providers with new solutions and tools for effective, efficient and sustainable support and retainment of the care workforce (meso-level) and new data and recommendations for policy makers and stakeholders (macro-level).

Keywords: long term care informal care resilience mental well being participatory research policy recommendations
Advanced tools for integration and synergistic inTeRconnectIon of microBIOMEs in resilient food systems (TRIBIOME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Finland,South Africa,Belgium,Romania,Croatia
Call: Microbiomes in food production systems (HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4914723.5
EU funding (EUR): 4914723.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

TRIBIOME's vision is to develop and implement a systemic solution to transform current food production systems. To this end, TRIBIOME aims to advance alignment with the Green Deal and Farm2fork strategies, by deepening the knowledge of soil/plant/animal and human microbiomes, as well as their interrelationships and interconnections, so that they can play a leading role in the resilience of food production systems in the near future. TRIBIOME will face the main challenges such as the need to minimize resources, reduce the environmental impact and promote healthy and plant-based food chain while feeding a constantly growing world population under the paradigm of climate change. This project aims to drive this concept from its base, establishing its central nucleus in current agricultural production systems based on the relevancy of the soil and plant microbiome, in order to produce more with less, through knowledge of microbial biodiversity and its interaction with the plant, developing novel technologies to influence its modulation (i.e., those enhancing plant growth, nutrient use efficiency, abiotic stress tolerance and better nutritional and health quality of food products) in such a way as to generate an upgrade quality food and have a positive influence on the microbiomes of both animals and humans. To this end, we will work cooperatively in a multiactor approach framework with all actors in the food production systems chain, from farmers to consumers, industry, investors and policy makers, in order to develop systemic solutions that guarantee their implementation and solve the real problems and needs of society.

Keywords: microbiome,modulators,biofertilizers,biostimulants