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Neural encoding of novel and familiar proto-musical patterns in humans and monkeys (PHYLOMUSIC)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The capacity to perceive and produce music – musicality – has ancient but mysterious roots. While musicality is nearly ubiquitous across human ages and cultures, it seems to be scarcely developed in non-human primates such as rhesus monkeys. This is surprising given that rhesus monkeys are not only one of our closest relatives, but also a fundamental model for human auditory function and communication. PHYLOMUSIC proposes an innovative approach to the study of musicality in non-human primates (macaca mulatta). Rather than focusing on isolated musical features such as tone-order or rhythm, it combines them to form proto-musical patterns. PHYLOMUSIC takes (i) the detection of proto-musical patterns, and (ii) their memorization as two pillars of musicality. With this, PHYLOMUSIC proposes a series of non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) studies aimed to test whether and how proto-musical patterns are detected and memorized (in both short- and long-term) in rhesus monkeys and (as a comparison) in humans. Combining notions from comparative research, music, auditory computational neuroscience, and state-of-the-art brain signal analysis, PHYLOMUSIC is a multi-disciplinary project that has the potential to impact upon three distinct research areas. First, it will shed light upon the mysterious evolutionary origins of musicality, unveiling whether music processing is phylogenetically conserved, and how mnemonic systems may have evolved to support musicality in humans. Second, it will introduce novel analytical approaches to the fast-rising field of non-human primate neuroimaging. Last but not least, it might provide an empirical ground for realistically testing – at the neuronal and circuitry level – the widespread use of music in clinical settings, having noteworthy implications for human health.

Keywords: music,electroencephalography,pattern,auditory perception,auditory memory,phylogeny
NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE IN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND AI SOLUTIONS FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL AND POWER SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS (DiTArtIS)

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: Romania,Netherlands,Finland,Spain,Serbia
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1462364.0
EU funding (EUR): 1462364.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Digitalization is the key to fighting climate change and achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal, while contributing to the green energy transition, energy efficient buildings, sustainable transportation and industrial digital transformation. Digital technologies and AI solutions can deliver operational efficiencies and reduced costs in many industries, enable the development and implementation of smart energy/transport/building systems, increase the connectivity of people and systems. Digital transition and its successful implementation requires strengthening digital skills, at different levels, “from researchers taking a more analytical and empirical approach (looking at digital skills requirements and digital skills gaps), to policymakers and providers of training programmes and skills development initiatives taking a practical approach (launching new programmes)” . In this context, the mission of DiTArtIS project is to strengthen the research and innovation excellence of the beneficiaries, especially of UTC, as well as enhance the digital skills of their staff. This will be done through building teams of excellence to derive new ideas and tackle challenges, to ensure that UTC and twinning partners will sustainably increase scientific excellence and innovation capacity in the field of electromechanical and power systems applications, by integrating digital technologies and AI solutions and techniques.

Keywords: digital technologies,artificial intelligence,electromechanical systems,power systems,digitalization,digital skills
Green Resource Advanced Seafood Packaging (GRASP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Iceland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1962538.0
EU funding (EUR): 1962538.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Insulated boxes are critical to maintain the cold chain to avoid spoilage and guarantee quality and freshness during fresh food transport. Expanded polystyrene (EPS) boxes are the most used and contribute to the vast amount of plastic waste generated, being a major threat to the environment. Increasingly stringent regulations on plastic waste and a growing demand from consumers for sustainable practices are driving fresh fish producers to look for eco-friendly alternatives. However, currently available options on the market still fail either on technical performance or cost. It is necessary to offer fish producers a compostable alternative to EPS at a cost-efficient price. Coolity box is a totally new product intended/designed to revolutionise logistics and food safety for the fresh fish industry. It is an eco-friendly box made from bio-refinery material that contributes to decrease the environmental impact through a circular economy approach. Coolity boxes are made from grassfibers and fully compostable, designed to offer similar thermal protection and strength as EPS and will be price comparable due to lower recycling fee and lower taxes. We will target the challenging whitefish trades in EEA Northern countries, and subsequently expand to other species in southern European countries and worldwide. We are already collaborating with major Icelandic white fish exporters, which will be the early adopters of the Coolity box in Iceland, and plan to expand from a Box suppliers’ model towards a licensing model. Our domestic model assumes accumulated total revenues of € 88.5 million during the production period 2026-2036 and a total EBITDA of € 29.5 million (average EBITDA margin ~ 33%). Taking into account estimated equity investment in production facilities and machinery in 1H-2026, our estimated IRR is around 26% for the respective period. This corresponds to 14 million Coolity boxes sold in the first 7 years (excluding boxes produced through licenses agreements).

Keywords: food packaging,bio refinery,circular economy
Sagitta Technology for Targeted Radiotheranostics (STRAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cancer remains a leading cause of death, with current treatments often causing significant damage to healthy tissues, resulting in severe side effects and compromised effectiveness. While early detection and precise treatment are crucial, current diagnostic tools, such as FDG-based PET scans, lack the necessary sensitivity and specificity for precise tumor detection and treatment monitoring. Furthermore, invasive biopsies and repeated radiation exposure negatively impact patients' quality of life, adding to the challenges of cancer management. Our proposal aims to address these challenges by developing and bringing to the clinic RS-0826, a new theranostic agent leveraging the Sagitta platform. By targeting a specific receptor overexpressed on tumor cells, Sagitta enables both diagnostic imaging and therapeutic intervention through the same nano-carrier using a different radioisotope for each purpose. RS-0826 marks a major breakthrough in personalized cancer therapy, enabling rapid detection and quick treatment initiation, improving patient outcomes for over 50% of solid tumor cases. The Sagitta platform's optimization and co-development reduce costs, making advanced therapies more accessible while lowering healthcare expenditures by focusing on effective treatments. By leveraging partnerships and Sagitta's capabilities, RS Research revitalizes drug candidates and strengthens its role in the drug development ecosystem. RS Research's licensing-out and co-development business model allows for efficient advancement of drug candidates to the clinical stage, while maintaining control and securing valuable financial and expert partnerships. By harnessing established pharmaceutical expertise and generating revenue from licensing, royalties and milestone payments, this model ensures agility, risk management, and significant growth potential.

Keywords: cancer,nanomedicine,targeted therapy,diagnosis,radiotheranostics
Neurofunctional Screening and Training to move pain-free without fear of falling - Empower people to master movement situations in everyday life without restrictions and without pain (NeuroScreeningforAll)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are one of the most common causes of pain worldwide, affecting over 100 million people in Europe. MSD related pain leads to restricted movement, depression and anxiety disorders, sleep disorders and restrictions on social activities. Back pain is the leading single diagnosis that is associated with several billion euros annually costs in sick days and productivity loss. Those affected want preventative solutions that focus on their individual context for avoiding or reducing pain. NeuroScreeningforAll does digitally analyze and individually train the nervous system as the central control unit of the body strengthening movement related self-efficacy and avoiding MSD related pain. The neurofunctional deep tech strengthens communication between the brain, spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system, is suitable for everyday use, easily accessible, easy to use, trustworthy, precise enough and gamified so that it can be adapted for different target groups of different ages and environments. We embrace concepts of nerve stimulation, biofeedback, behavior change, 1:1 coaching and gamification, integrating them into a personalized digital solution that does not only relieve pain, but also restores quality of life and independence. We bring personalized risk evaluation in form of neurofunctional screening and training as pinpoint precision prevention to the European checkup market for digital pain prevention and reduction. An unprecedented gamified format is motivating people for neural adaptation, optimizing the brain's main information systems - visual, vestibular and proprioceptive. This empowers people to avoid or self-influence the neurophysiological root cause of pain and master movement situations in everyday life easily and without restrictions. This will make European economy more competitive, help to further increase adoption of digital health solutions, decrease the prevalence of chronic pain, sick leave and non-productivity.

Keywords: digital health precision prevention musculoskeletal disorders pain relief fear of falling neurocentric training salutogenesis movement and behavioral science cognitive neuroscience health literacy
Fish sPAwner – Recruit relationship. Evaluating ENvironmental divers and beHaviOural traits Over life stages with Diverging spatial ecology (Fish-PARENTHOOD)

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: Spain,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-16
End date: 2028-01-15
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 261380.64
EU funding (EUR): 261380.64
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Traditional fisheries management assumes population growth is driven by adult abundance and/or fecundity, similar to terrestrial vertebrates. However, marine fish have complex spawner-recruit systems made up of many traits which differ from terrestrial animals and drive species-specific productivity. This includes extreme fecundity, early life dispersal, spawning site selection, and reproductive behavior such as aggregate spawning. The “reproductive resilience paradigm” (RRP) recognizes these differences and evaluates a suite of fixed, behavioral, and varying traits (based on ecological context) to assess a stock’s vulnerability and productivity. The goal of this project is to apply the principles of the RRP to a species that has been monitored over the long term and has well-documented reproductive behaviors and diverging spatial ecology throughout its life cycle. This data will be used to model movements associated with spawning site selection and reproductive timing, which data will then be integrated into an early life dispersal model. Results will be ground-truthed through juvenile abundance indices and genetic parentage analyses. This ecosystem-based approach, based on the RRP, is on the cutting edge of understanding spawner-recruit relationships, and ultimately being able to predict future fishery productivity, crucial components for sustainable fisheries management in the Anthropocene.

Keywords: reproductive resilience,spawning behaviour,larval transport,parentage analysis,red drum
A Powers Ontology for Causal Models (POCAM)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-04
End date: 2025-09-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Multiple causal modelling techniques are employed in the applied sciences. For instance, Structural Equations Models (SEMs) are employed in genetics, econometrics and psychology; Fault Tree Analyses (FTAs) are employed in aerospace and nuclear engineering; Petri Nets are used in traffic control and integrated computational systems. Each technique has a unique way of representing causal phenomena, drawing on different data and background information. But what is it about the world that allows each of these techniques to work? And what makes each technique a representation of causal phenomena specifically? POCAM will break new ground answering these questions by determining a single, underlying causal ontology within the powers metaphysics framework. In doing so, POCAM will provide an explanation of why such varied causal modelling practices are so successful, thereby helping practitioners better conceptualise the connections among different modelling formalisms and with our pre-scientific understanding of causation in everyday life. While there have been attempts to determine an underlying ontology for SEMs there has yet to be any philosophical engagement with FTAs or Petri Nets, despite their pervasiveness in science. Moreover, current ontologies for causal models in metaphysics fail to be adequately reductive, preventing them from being truly explanatory. POCAM will therefore be pioneering in its attempt to provide a single reductive ontology of all three modelling techniques. To do so, POCAM will draw on the scientific credentials of the powers metaphysics framework. The nature of powers and their role in causation is increasingly well understood but has yet to be brought into sustained theoretical engagement with the casual modelling literature. Dr Friend’s unique expertise, as a philosopher of science and trained engineer, will enable him, aided by expert scientific advice and supervision, to carry out this inter-disciplinary research.

Keywords: causation,causal modelling,powers,metaphysics of science
Rituals in combatant-to-civilian transformation (Com2Civ)

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: Norway
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): 1499981.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499981.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In 2023, the number of conflicts reached its highest level since 1946, making it one of the most violent years on record. Many of these conflicts were recurring, suggesting that efforts to reintegrate ex-combatants from non-state groups have largely been unsuccessful. While most research on reintegration has focused on its economic and political aspects, it has overlooked the role and impact of one of the most universal activities in human social life: rituals. The overall objective of Com2Civ is to explain how rituals influence the social reintegration of ex-combatants, both positively and negatively. To achieve this, Com2Civ has two sub-objectives: to (1) develop a theory on how rituals influence individuals’ socialization into combatant identities and, after demobilization, into civilian identities; and (2) generate new evidence on the impact of rituals on social reintegration trajectories through a novel combination of research methods. Rituals are notoriously difficult to study and collect systematic data on. To overcome these challenges, Com2Civ adopts two strategies. First, it takes a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from political science, social psychology, anthropology, and gender studies. Second, it employs an innovative combination of life history interviews, surveys, and the social cartography method. These will be implemented in a participatory research design involving ex-combatants from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the Philippines and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) in Colombia. Importantly, Com2Civ will reveal the social-psychological mechanisms involved in combatant-to-civilian transformation processes, contributing to scientific efforts aimed at understanding the mechanisms of conflict prevention. Com2Civ results will appear in major multidisciplinary journals, advancing the field in at least four disciplines.

Keywords: disarmament,demobilization,reintegration ddr,rituals
Centre for Digitalisation of Biology Towards the Next-Generation of Biosustainable Products (DIGIBIO)

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: Estonia,Denmark
Call: Teaming for Excellence (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS-01-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14942500.0
EU funding (EUR): 14942500.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Biosustainablility is an important goal for humanity as it addresses many global challenges we face. We need convergence of different technologies and domains to tackle challenges of biosustainability and combination of digitalisation and biotechnology provides a powerful opportunity for this. While engineering of biology has delivered sustainable products, high-throughput generation of biological data has outpaced our capacity to learn from it. Digitalisation of biology, however, through exhaustive analysis of big data using integrated informatics approaches promises to deliver next-generation bioengineering solutions towards a green economy. These range from healthcare to biomaterials, new foods, and sustainable energy. To foster digitalisation of biology, we propose a Teaming partnership between the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the Estonian Centre for Biosustainability (ECB), that links leading universities of Estonia: University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology. The DigiBio project will significantly upgrade the ECB and will create a research and technology platform for data-driven disruptive bioengineering solutions to accelerate translation of science to manufacturing of next-generation bioproducts. The platform relies on complementary actions of partners for the generation and analysis of big data through integration of automated genome engineering, phenotype screening, high-throughput analytics, and informatics. It combines knowledge- and tech-transfer of a unique concept for digitalisation of biology and personnel training developed by DTU to ECB, a bioengineering hub of Estonia, and the success story of IT commercialisation and competence of Estonia. The project is aligned with the Focus and Smart Specialisation areas of Estonia and aims to enhance regional development by extending the biosustainable research and industrial practices of Denmark into the Baltic region.

Keywords: bioengineering digitalisation metabolic engineering big data analysis synthetic biology systems biology biotechnology non medical bioinformatics biosustainability bioeconomy bioproducts