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SUSTAINABLE AND NATURE INCLUSIVE OFFSHORE ENERGY WITH THE PARALLEL BIODIVERSITY FLOURISHING, PROTECTION AND MONITORING (Sun-Bio)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Cyprus,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: Cross-basin topic - Innovative nature-inclusive concepts to reconcile offshore renewables with ocean protection (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1869000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1869000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

SUNBIO brings together a significant variety of disciplines, aiming at exploiting them to form a set of ‘technology enablers’ that will facilitate the delivery of the envisioned services through a holistic framework, comprising Underwater Engineering, Mathematics and Analytics, Computer Science, Archaeology, Chemistry, further decomposed in: (i) Naval engineering and design; (ii) trustworthy data analytics and relevant intelligence (ML/AI frameworks); (iii) Chemical measurement and spectroscopic methods for sensing, (iv) Navigation principles and compliance, (v) Communication and remote operation. These disciplines will be exploited to set up a number of complementary Technology Enablers (also described in detail in Sect.1.2.1-1.2.2); these enablers will be the basis for the SUNBIO envisioned services, that will lead to efficiently applied fully autonomous and in situ sensing, monitoring services. SUNBIO aims at ensuring that the pathway towards robust monitoring principles and practices, is designed always having ‘human in the loop’ in terms of usability and acceptance of deployed technologies, given the fact that trustworthiness is a key factor towards the exploitation of the envisioned set of services.

Keywords: wave energy,solar energy,thermal energy,marine artificial habitats,marine cultivation
Safe, sustainable and Modular HYbrid systems for Long-duration Energy storage and grid Services (SMHYLES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,Portugal,Czechia,Tunisia,Switzerland
Call: Hybrid electric energy storage solutions for grid support and charging infrastructure (Batt4EU Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7575088.75
EU funding (EUR): 5996081.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The dramatic effects of the climate crisis are calling for a change in the electrical grid paradigm. The market of Energy Storage Systems is now undertaking continuous growth, boosted by the relentless penetration of renewables. In this context, state of the art ESSs still have several limitations mainly due to technological constraints. Technology-dependent reaction times and rigid coupling between energy and power capacity, makes the choice of a specific ESS for different use cases very cumbersome and seldom optimal from both the technical and economic point of view. SMHYLES project proposes novel sustainable Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESSs) based on the combination of two low-CRM storage technologies, one with long duration capacity and one with very high-power density, providing ultra-fast ancillary services, managed in a combined control by smart EMSs. The projects comprehend the design, construction, deployment and demonstration of an Aqueous-based HESS (AHESS) and a Salt-based HESS (SHESS) as well as a storage duration expansion. Three demo sites in Portugal and Germany cover islanded grid, industrial microgrid, provision of grid services and EV charging use cases. Novel solutions for electrolyte recycling are also scaled up to industrially relevant size. The project will finalize techno-economic analyses to evaluate market segments for HESSs commercialization and deal with life cycle assessment along the whole design process. Digital twins are developed to support the optimal design of HESSs components and systems, define the strategies for HESSs real time management, investigate the business potential of SMHYLES solutions for specific use cases and countries, and support and test the energy management systems of the developed hybrid storage technologies. With high technological and economical advancements, SMHYLES will unlock novel flexible and multi-purpose energy storage solutions and ensure a remarkable impact on the European energy market.

Keywords: battery storage,hybrid energy storage,hybrid systems
Iktos Robotics: Integrating AI and Robotics for efficient Drug Design and Discovery (AIR-3D)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Human Centric Generative AI made in Europe (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3570880.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499616.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Drug discovery is a lengthy and costly process, often exceeding a decade and involving investments upwards of €1.3bn. Despite these efforts, a staggering 90% of drug candidates fail in clinical trials, never reaching patients. This inefficiency underscores the urgent need for innovation in drug discovery methodologies. Iktos proposes a transformative approach with its closed-loop AI-guided autonomous drug discovery platform, leveraging generative AI and built-in synthetic accessibility. This paradigm shift addresses key challenges in traditional drug discovery, including the generation of truly novel molecules, the speed of synthesis, and the management of high-dimensional data. Central to Iktos' solution are advanced SaaS platforms such as Makya and Spaya, powered by AI for rapid exploration of vast chemical spaces and efficient synthesis route planning. In this EIC Accelerator project, we want to combine AI and robotics to form a closed-loop, data-informed discovery platform, integrating AI-driven automated synthesis and testing into our workflow. Combined together these technologies enable the in silico design of optimal molecules and their corresponding synthesis in the lab to generate real-life data, accelerating the drug discovery timeline from an average of 5 years to just 2 years. Iktos' innovative approach leverages AI and robotics' potential to revolutionize pharmaceutical R&D, offering promising solutions to enhance the efficiency and success rate of bringing new medicines to patients globally.

Keywords: drug discovery,closed loop discovery,experimental automation,generative ai for drug design,synthetic planning,robotics,ai
Engineering bioreactor mass production of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for European farming (AMFactory)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN, 2025)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2993767.0
EU funding (EUR): 2993767.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Microbial inoculants containing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are powerful tools in increasing the sustainability of our food production systems. These soil fungi form a symbiotic association with almost all major agricultural crops, acquiring nutrients beyond the nutrient-depleted zone of the rhizosphere to meet plant nutrient requirements, resulting in increased biomass and yield. AMF-colonized plants also show greater tolerance to a/biotic stresses. The production of these inoculants has thus huge economic value. However, current AMF production relies largely on substrate-based cultivation systems with suitable host plants, which is space-demanding, hard to scale-up and prone to carrying unwanted contaminants. An alternative exists with the production of AMF in vitro in root organ cultures (ROC). This method also has some drawbacks. It is labor-intensive, costly, and produces comparatively fewer spores than in the greenhouse. Mass production of AMF at industrial scale is, however, done in ROC, but in countries where labor costs are well below EU salaries. This model is not viable in the EU which is characterized by high salaries and stringent regulations. The ambition of AMFactory is therefore to bridge the gap between the contaminant-free production of AMFs in ROC and their mass-production in bioreactors at low costs, making EU worldwide competitive on the market of AMF bioinoculants. This will be achieved by engineering host roots for enhanced lipid metabolism to fuel the spores (WP1), identify and optimize plant-AMF signaling compounds for optimal colonization (WP2) and enable their low-cost, large-scale biosynthesis via microbial cell factories (WP3). The combination of engineered roots and signaling molecules will be tested and validated using ROC and advanced microfluidics (WP4) and the most promising confirmed in a bioreactor (WP5) with the final objective to produce 108 spores per L in a period of 4 to 6 months, applicable for European farming.

Keywords: lipid biosynthesis,signaling compounds,microbial cell factory,root organ culture,microfluidics,fortified spores
Television beyond Cold War Blocks: the role of TV Koper-Capodistria in overcoming Upper Adriatic Border divisions (TransborderTV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 155559.36
EU funding (EUR): 155559.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

TransborderTV aims to deconstruct the history of the Cold War in Europe through an in-depth qualitative analysis of the activities of TV Koper-Capodistria (TVCK). This Italian-language Yugoslav TV station was created in 1971 to address the needs of the Italian ethnic minority in Yugoslavia, but it soon became a fundamental tool of transborder communication. This channel brought the first colour broadcast to Italian viewers, its programme schedule being regularly published in the Italian national press. However, TVCK was not only a platform for bilateral links. In a time of harsh ideological, political and military contrapositions between East and West, the case of TVCK represents a key example on a global level. While scholars have mainly analysed the impact of Western media on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the role of Eastern media remains largely neglected or marginalised as propaganda. Researching the successful transborder operations of TVCK will help to dismantle a rigid and unilateral perception of Cold War hierarchies and enable us to reshape the image of recent European history. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, which will consider the research at macro (political decisions and organisational aspects), as well as at the micro level (the experiences of viewers and key professionals), I will examine the consequences of the positioning of Yugoslavia as the only socialist country that adopted PAL, the Western broadcasting standard, as well as the roles of local society on both sides of the Italo-Yugoslav border given the fact that TVCK actively involved the Italian minority in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav (Slovenian) minority in Italy. Moreover, I will explore the political and societal background which allowed TVCK to be tolerated by the Italian government and to be accepted by the Italian audience. Finally, given the groundbreaking nature of TVCK, TransborderTV will enrich the ongoing academic debate to de-westernize concepts of modernity.

Keywords: cold war history socialist television upper adriatic region borderlands history yugoslavia italy
SEEDS OF BRAVERY: supporting Ukraine’s tech start-up scene and bringing it closer to the EU (UASEEDs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,Denmark,Ukraine,France,Lithuania,Netherlands,Sweden,Finland,United Kingdom,Germany,Ireland,Luxembourg,Spain
Call: Pan-European network of startup associations to support the integration of Ukrainian tech innovators into European ecosystems and to enhance their operations in Ukraine (HORIZON-EIC-2022-UKRAINIANTECH-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20580580.68
EU funding (EUR): 20000000.0
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

Based on a detailed analysis of the situation of UA Innovation Ecosystem after Russian invasion, partners (7 Ukrainian partners and 11 partners from 11 other EU member States with an extensive outreach capacity spanning across key EU and global markets) have put together a proposal aimed at providing support to counteract the harm done to Ukrainian startups and deep tech SMEs in the short term, building a framework that supports the Ukrainian Government’s goal of becoming a ‘start-up nation’, and increasing the role of innovators and the deep tech industry in driving growth. This will be achieved through a comprehensive portfolio of support services that combine cascade funding (10k-25k-50k grants), access to finance actions (connecting to public funds and private investors, training on EIC, EIT and other cascading opportunities etc.), deep-tech-focused incubation and acceleration programmes, and market access initiatives (targeting 10+ countries, soft landing in 10 key sectors/verticals, and working spaces in 50+ locations across Europe). Pan-European integration – which brings UA innovation closer to investors, accelerators, potential buyers, innovation agencies and peers - will also be a key component of this project. The Consortium is led by FBA (PL-based and leader of FSTP management) with key support from USF, Ukraine’s public agency to support SMEs, which will invest its own resources and guarantee synergies with UA. Other partners key to guarantee services delivery and wide impact are: EITH (KICs), PNP (investors), LXI (EU innovation stakeholders), CORKBIC (BIC network), IHS (Impact Hub Network), IOP (EEN in UA). Circa 1,000 innovators, start-ups and deep tech SMEs located in UA or created by Ukrainian citizens in other EU countries after 24.02.2022 will benefit from aid support, with at least 340 expected to gain a mix of financial and non-financial support, and many others expected to access non-financial support while seeking other sources of funding.

Keywords: rebuild ukraine,deep tech,stratups,cascade funding,business incubation and acceleration,entrepreneurship,investment readiness,market access,eu ua innovation ecosystems integration,
First AI-Enabled Procurement Platform For Securing Reliable Supply Of High-Quality Recycled Plastics (Cirplus)

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): 1800000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1800000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cirplus is transforming the global recycled plastics market with its AI-powered procurement platform, designed to address inefficiencies and fragmentation in the supply chain. The platform provides a seamless, end-to-end solution for sourcing, vetting, matching, and managing high-quality recycled plastics, enabling converters, recyclers, and stakeholders to meet regulatory requirements and achieve sustainability goals. By integrating advanced AI technology, Cirplus optimizes material matching, quality assurance, logistics, and contracting, significantly reducing transaction costs and streamlining procurement timelines. A leader in standardization, Cirplus has spearheaded the development of DIN SPEC 91446 and 91481, setting new benchmarks for the quality and traceability of recyclates. The platform incorporates these standards to ensure compliance and reliability, addressing key market challenges such as inconsistent quality and lack of transparency. With the anticipated adoption of EN 18065, Cirplus is positioned to further reinforce its leadership in creating a trusted and scalable ecosystem for recycled plastics. The platform has demonstrated strong market traction, operating across 100+ countries, managing a database of 2,000+ materials, and facilitating over 230,000 tons of monthly demand. Since pivoting to a trading-based model in early 2024, Cirplus has generated €400,000 in revenue over the past four months. Cirplus aims to address the projected 12M-ton recyclate gap in the EU by 2030 by advancing its AI capabilities to automate workflows, enhance transparency, and unlock new use cases. By fostering a circular economy, reducing reliance on petro-states, and enabling global compliance with recycled content mandates, Cirplus is accelerating the transition to sustainable plastics while creating economic and environmental impact on a global scale.

Keywords: recycled plastics,ai powered procurement,sustainability,standardization,supply chain optimization
Digital avatars, Religion and embodiment: exploring presence, Identity and materiality of religious practices in immersive Virtual Environments (DRIVEN)

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: Spain,Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-12
End date: 2028-01-11
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

DRIVEN analyzes the process of avatar embodiment and its role in the expression and practice of religion in immersive virtual environments. Considering religion as an embodied experience, this project aims to provide a fresh understanding of digital embodiment, its potentialities for the construction of religious identity, and how avatar-driven rituals enable religion's material dimension to be ethically manifested online. This will be done by combining phenomenological and posthuman philosophies, media and religious studies, cultural anthropology, and gender perspectives with a) thematic interviews and b) participant observation with unstructured interviews. Recent studies have proposed avatars as extended virtual representations allowing creative manifestations of identity or as devices of digital embodiment capable of affecting the user’s physical offline condition; however, none of them have contemplated religion as a research context. Also, scholars on digital religion have provided valuable insights on the material potentialities of digital media for the development of ‘lived’ religion (mainly after COVID-19), but none of these studies have included virtual avatars in immersive environments. DRIVEN will explore and analyze users’ avatars in selected digital games and social VR platforms where avatar presence and agency are most marked. The project will focus on Christianity and Neopaganism, two religious identities that make it possible to observe how users respond to the digital space in different ways according to their religious backgrounds. By exploring the avatar, the avatar-user relationships, and religious performances driven by avatars, DRIVEN will shed new light on the nature of digital religious practices and how the study of virtual avatars can bring alternative developments on aspects like experiential authenticity, religious freedom, disability, and gender representation, as well as the creation of ethical VR spaces for religious pursuits.

Keywords: digital religion game studies digital embodiment media studies phenomenology posthumanism cultural anthropology human computer interaction
Music, Religion and Civic Identity in Renaissance Avignon (c.1500–1630) (AVIGNONMUSIC)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-03
End date: 2024-10-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This interdisciplinary project will reveal how musical life in Renaissance Avignon (c.1500–1630) was directly interlinked with events happening on a broader religious, social and political level. Alongside being the first in-depth study of Avignon’s musical life during this period, it represents a significant and much-needed departure from the Parisian/royal court focus that has typified almost all previous scholarship on French Renaissance music. Two fundamental issues will provide the basis for this investigation: a) the question as to whether Avignon’s musical life can be said to reflect localised and/or nationalised trends; and b) the effect that Avignon’s unique status as a Papal enclave had on its institutions and musical practices (for example, in the presence of Italian personnel or musical developments). These broader issues will serve as a backdrop for exploring the full spectrum of musicians’ professional activities, as well as the various contexts within which they made the city resound – i.e. from its ecclesiastical establishments (such as Notre-Dame des Doms Cathedral and the Collégiale Saint-Agricol), to the instrumentalists attached to the city’s guilds, to the various civic spectacles within which musicians participated (like ceremonial entries). The results of this innovative survey will thus constitute a major contribution to the fields of early modern soundscapes and cultural studies; by extension, they will also shed new light on Avignon’s urban identity at this time, thereby leading to a better understanding of music making in France during the long sixteenth century.

Keywords: music,festivals,civic communities,early modern soundscapes,religious practice,conflict,national identity