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Atmospheric Flow, Loads and pOwer for Wind energy (FLOW)

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: Denmark,Germany,Sweden,Belgium,France,Spain,Portugal
Call: Physics and aerodynamics of atmospheric flow of wind for power production (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5995208.75
EU funding (EUR): 5995208.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of the FLOW project is to develop new and innovative prediction methods for production statistics and load performance of modern GW-scale and 400-metre tall offshore and onshore wind energy systems. Our project will develop more accurate methods as regards the present state of the art (SOTA) and with high confidence, thereby reducing uncertainties, increasing productivity and grid stability, lowering Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE), while establishing an open-source knowledge hub that will benefit the entire renewable energy sector and enable joint optimization between developers and OEMs. To reach these ambitions, FLOW will improve the knowledge of atmospheric flow physics and the interplay between wind farm (microscale) and large-scale (mesoscale) processes such as: wind farm global blockage, farm-farm interaction, and topographic and wake-added turbulence in complex terrain. Based on these principles, FLOW will develop and validate simulation tools that can be readily adopted by industry to lower economic uncertainties and enhance system reliability and power production, with wide economic and societal impacts. The proposed modelling framework will make extensive use of public experimental datasets to validate and train models within a FAIR data hub. The New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) database is the foundation to grow this innovative open-source ecosystem that links experimental data, flow models, and validation datasets for benchmarking and training. Industry adoption will be facilitated through a computationally efficient modular framework that allows scalability in a production environment. FLOW’s industrial partners, comprised of VESTAS, SGRE, GE, and EDF, will verify compliance with operational processes and test the framework using private datasets to extend the validation range and demonstrate the added value of our results at a wide European scale.

Keywords: atmospheric models wind farms wind turbines weather models wind resource estimation turbulence dynamics loads uncertainty quantification machine learning fluid mechanics
MACARONESIA'S EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS' NIGHT (MACARONIGHT V)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal
Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 326857.14
EU funding (EUR): 299000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Macaronesia is a biogeographical region of five archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean of which four are inhabited: Azores (Portugal), Canarias (Spain), Madeira (Portugal), and Cape Verde (Cabo Verde). These islands share common geographical traits, cultural heritage, and a similar history. Except for Cape Verde, these archipelagos are among the Outermost (ultra-peripherical) Regions of the European Union, with a population of around 3 million inhabitants, corresponding to the size of a small EU country. Recognising this shared identity, the overall objective of the MACARONIGHT V project is to organise a shared European Researchers’ Night (ERN) for the Macaronesia region, which, for the seventh and eighth editions, will connect the diverse population of these remote islands under the umbrella of the universal language of science. Taking on the success of the previous six editions, MACARONIGHT V aims at further widening public awareness towards science, research, and innovation, as well as fostering the connections between well-established themes and areas of knowledge, particularly within the framework of the Horizon Europe Missions, and the social sciences and humanities. By increasing the visibility of the work of researchers and scientific developments from and for the region, MACARONIGHT V, now a benchmark of the ERN of Macaronesia, will continue to have long-lasting positive impacts that extend beyond the immediate aims and results of the project.

Keywords: science,research,outreach,horizon missions,macaronesia,outermost regions
AUTOMATED COLLECTION AND SORTING SOLUTION FOR CONSUMER TEXTILES (TexMat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Spain,Estonia,Italy,Netherlands,Sweden,Latvia
Call: Circular solutions for textile value chains based on extended producer responsibility (HORIZON-CL6-2024-CIRCBIO-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7659349.5
EU funding (EUR): 6761663.25
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

TexMat will develop a decentralized textile collection concept where automated collection units separate reusable textile items from textile waste delivered by the consumer to combat the European textile waste problem and its associated environmental impacts. This innovation builds on the unique opportunity provided by the mandatory collection of textile waste, extended producer responsibility (EPR), and the digital product passport (DPP), which are vital components of the EU textile strategy.TexMat will develop a decentralized textile collection concept where automated collection units separate reusable textile items from textile waste delivered by the consumer to combat the European textile waste problem and its associated environmental impacts. This innovation builds on the unique opportunity provided by the mandatory collection of textile waste, extended producer responsibility (EPR), and the digital product passport, which are key components of the EU textile strategy. TexMat will engage partners from the entire textile value chain to develop new business models, hardware and software technologies, and policy tools to engage and commit consumers to participate in the separate collection of textile waste for boosting textile reuse. These solutions will provide consumers with an economic incentive through the adoption of novel payback schemes connected to second-hand markets and enable profitable business opportunities to extend the lifecycle of textile products and to support the adoption of targeted EPR schemes in the textile sector. In the longer term, TexMat will accelerate a consumer-based transition towards a more sustainable and circular economy of textiles, which will contribute to reaching the EU greenhouse gas reduction targets in 2030 and 2050 aligned with the European Green Deal. These outcomes are directly aligned with improving consumer and citizen benefits and enhancing European industrial sustainability, competitiveness, and resource independence.

Keywords: textile reuse,circular business model,extended producer responsibility,digital product passport,digital platform
Tackling seismicity at Etna using Repeating sources, Relocations and Ambient noise monitoring (TERRA)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Our understanding of processes governing effusive and explosive eruptions has improved over the past decades, but understanding the nature of eruptive activity using seismicity is poorly constrained. Volcanoes produce a wide range of unique seismic signals, providing information on source depth, fluid migration and subsurface processes and structures. Hence, volcanic seismicity is a useful tool used by observatories to understand activity throughout eruptive and rest periods. Many volcanoes show a mixture of explosive and effusive activity, proving difficult for hazard assessment and risk mitigation due to the differing impacts of eruptive style. Mt. Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and produces a range of eruptive styles, with eruptions varying in length from days to months. Records of eruptions at Mt. Etna date back to 1500 BCE, with a noted increase in volcanic activity over the past 30 years. This high eruptive rate, longevity and variations in eruptive style provides an ideal location to understand links between eruptive processes and seismicity. A substantial seismic network operated by INGV has been in place since 2000, providing a vast catalogue of seismicity. The proposed project 'TERRA', will work alongside INGV to Tackle seismicity at Etna using Repeating sources, Relocations and Ambient noise monitoring. Repeating earthquakes are spatially localised groups of events that are commonly recorded at volcanoes with each type of signal. Ambient noise monitoring will allow a continuous record of velocity changes through several eruptions; this will complement results from relocated and categorised seismicity to further develop understanding of processes before eruptive episodes. The objective of this proposal is to provide novel quantitative constrains on the relationships between seismicity and volcanic processes that govern eruptive styles at Mt. Etna by looking at the temporal evolution of seismicity since 2000.

Keywords: seismology,volcanology,volcanic processes,seismic signals,velocity changes,repeating sources,earthquake relocation
Contesting Colonial Borders: Spatial Ordering and Political Subjectivity in South Lebanese Borderlands (Border Contestations)

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: Italy,Switzerland,Lebanon
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 399868.9
EU funding (EUR): 399868.9
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Existing literature on borders and border contestations in post-conflict societies is overwhelmingly written through the lens of the nation-state, state-failure, underdevelopment and security. This research analyses borders as complex social processes that are not only enacted through state policies and border policing, but also through perceptions, practices, identities and visions of border communities. It offers a historical ethnography about the multiple reorganisations of everyday life and forced migrations under the shifting borders and systems of rule in south Lebanese frontier villages. This research will provide a political context for the circumstances that created popular struggle against Western interventions around borders. Contesting Colonial Borders will be carried out with an outgoing phase in Geneva, with a secondment of fieldwork in Lebanon and a return phase in Italy. Primary and secondary material and resources in each of these countries will enable writing a social history from the perspective of people who resided in this volatile and constantly changing border area. The research will comprise archival research in Geneva and Beirut, as well as oral history interviews with former residents of the south Lebanese border zone. Working with leading experts on topics such as war, displacement, migration, and borders in each of these countries, this project will form a transnational and interdisciplinary network on these issues. The main output of the project will be a monograph tentatively titled Spatial Contestation in Post-Conflict Situations: A Historical Ethnography of Border Communities in South Lebanon, which will be submitted to Cambridge Middle East Studies Series. Furthermore, two journal papers will be submitted on interlinked dynamics of spatial contestations, colonial history, the state, and society to the Journal of Middle East Studies, the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, or Social Anthropology.

Keywords: borders oral history displacement war occupation political movements
Budgeting for the Future: Understanding the Allocation of Climate Finance in the Global South (ClimateFiGS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499899.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499899.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The impact of climate change on people’s lives and livelihoods is increasingly hard to ignore, and is moreover characterized by trenchant inequities: wealthy countries generate the vast majority of global CO2 emissions, but poor nations overwhelmingly suffer the consequences. In response, wealthy nations have pledged to mobilize US$100 billion annually in “climate finance” to help their more vulnerable counterparts. The past decade has seen climate finance nearly double, but we know very little about what happens when these resources reach their intended beneficiaries in the Global South. As such, we lack information about where and how climate finance can have the greatest impact, and what constitutes the greatest areas of unmet need. ClimateFiGS develops a new theory to understand the allocation and spending of climate finance within Global South countries. The project considers how leaders’ characteristics, including their gender and age, condition their responses, as well as the relative emphasis they place on mitigation (i.e., risk protection) vs. adaptation (i.e., risk management). This approach recognizes the agency of Global South leaders, and expands the knowledge frontier on substantive representation, distributive politics, and environmental policymaking. ClimateFiGS breaks empirical ground by creating new global data on the mobilization of climate finance, as well as by studying detailed patterns of budget allocation and expenditure in three purposefully selected African countries. The project further adapts methods from social activism to map the power dynamics that drive climate finance decision making within countries, and traces the processes that lead certain sectors and districts to be prioritized. ClimateFiGS is thus poised to generate knowledge to address one of the world’s most “wicked” problems: How can we avert the most devastating impacts of climate change for the world’s most vulnerable?

Keywords: climate finance budget transparency substantive representation
Cities@Heart: City-based Strategies for improving Cardiovascular Health in Europe (CitiesAtHeart)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Innovative Health Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: IHI (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Ireland,Greece,Poland,Switzerland,France,Germany,Italy,Finland,Denmark
Call: A city-based approach to reducing cardiovascular mortality in Europe (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2024-08-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 23250936.5
EU funding (EUR): 15160936.5
Participants: 37
Project status: SIGNED

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and management strategies are effective but poorly implemented, especially in urban and underserved communities that would benefit the most. Cities@Heart aims to develop, pilot, and evaluate strategies that will reduce both the burden of CVD and health inequalities. Building on the existing European Healthy Cities Network by partner World Health Organization (WHO), and work by the World Heart Federation, European Society of Cardiology, European Public Health Association and HL7 Europe, we will provide a solid infrastructure that embeds innovative health technology to ensure scalability and sustainability. Cities@Heart will focus on obesity, hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes as key drivers of CVD that can leverage engagement and citizen empowerment. We will develop and deploy derivation and implementation pilots for CVD awareness, effective prevention, early detection, and optimal management at the urban level. The municipalities of Izmir (Turkey), Belfast (Northern Ireland), Łódź (Poland), Cork (Republic of Ireland), Udine (Italy), Birmingham (England) and Utrecht (Netherlands) have diverse communities with differing health inequalities, with a commitment and past experience to deploy multi-disciplinary health strategies. Together with citizen and industry co-creation, these cities will apply a structured, multi-sector methodology that includes: (1) city-level approaches to reduce the burden of CVD; (2) a digital ecosystem that will power the development of European health technology and economic growth, (3) integration of health policy and health economics to deliver cost-effective city-level solutions; and (4) sustainability at its core using an implementation framework that can apply across European cities. Cities@Heart will build connections and capacity across our broad array of stakeholders through a strong public-private partnership. Together, we will support the next generation of health technology to address critical barriers for optimal CVD care in Europe.

Keywords: urban health,hypertension,lipids,obesity,diabetes,health inequalities
MXene-Driven Sodium Sulfur Batteries for Next-Generation Electric Vehicles (MXNASB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Ireland,Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 335710.8
EU funding (EUR): 335710.8
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a cornerstone of the European Commission's climate strategy, aiming to reduce emissions and transition to a low-carbon economy across Europe. This project focuses on developing high-performance sodium-sulfur batteries (NaSBs) for EVs using advanced MXene-modified electrodes. The key innovation is the eradication of hydrofluoric acid etching by HF-free direct synthesis of Ti₃C2Tₓ MXene-modified cathode material, allowing precise control over morphology and sulfur (-S) incorporation at the termination. This approach mitigates the polysulfide shuttle effect, enhances energy storage capacity, and targets a capacity exceeding 400 mAh/g with a cycle life of over 500 cycles. On the anode side, the project strategically addresses the critical issue of dendrite formation in Na metal anodes modified by utilizing Ti2CTₓ MXene, which improves safety and longevity. The project will employ half-cell and full-cell testing to optimize the electrochemical performance, while in-situ electrochemical analysis will monitor real-time behavior of the anode and cathode during cycling. This will provide crucial insights into how MXene modifications enhance energy density, cycling stability, and overall battery life. The project will be carried out in collaboration with leading research groups in Ireland and Sweden, providing access to cutting-edge facilities and expertise. This fellowship offers the opportunity to work with prominent experts in battery technology, fostering international collaboration and personal development as an independent researcher. The ultimate goal is to deliver a scalable, high-performance NaSB solution that can significantly impact the future of EV battery technology.

Keywords: sodium sulfur batteries mxenes synthesis
Entry-Level Hiring in Tightening Labor Markets: Frictions, Firm Heterogeneity and Public Policy (ENTRYHIRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1490620.0
EU funding (EUR): 1490620.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Firms’ hiring of labor market entrants is crucial for individual access to opportunity and the economy’s skill level. However, it involves a complex search and screening process that is prone to frictions. While macroeconomic research has shown that the efficiency of labor market matching depends on recruitment intensity, micro-level evidence on firms’ underlying behavior remains limited, mainly due to a lack of suitable data. Yet, such evidence is essential for understanding and improving labor market matching, particularly given ongoing demographic change and increasing market tightness in many economies. The objective of ENTRYHIRE is to provide a systematic understanding of (i) firms’ hiring behavior and outcomes in tightening entry-level labor markets, (ii) the nature of underlying frictions and firm heterogeneity, and (iii) the effects of policies aimed at removing hiring frictions. As a ‘laboratory’ for studying the microeconomics of entry-level hiring, I draw on the German apprenticeship market, which features well-defined vacancy and applicant pools, a structured timeline, as well as exogenous tightness and policy variation. ENTRYHIRE will collect and combine novel data from different sources, including employer-employee records, a matching platform, and the records of a large-scale hiring assistance program. Moreover, it will develop and implement a survey framework to elicit firms’ hiring tradeoffs. Combined with innovative empirical research designs, the collected data will enable a comprehensive view on firms' typically unobserved search and screening processes and their links to realized hiring outcomes. The project will create systematic knowledge on the interaction between labor market tightness, firms’ hiring behavior, and public policy on entry-level markets. It will provide new empirical ground for economic models of labor market matching and inform policies aimed at promoting an efficient matching of young workers to jobs.

Keywords: hiring,entry level labour markets,labour market policy