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MULTI-faceted CLIMate adaptation ACTions to improve resilience, preparedness and responsiveness of the built environment against multiple hazards at multiple scales (MULTICLIMACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: B4P (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Netherlands,Spain,Sweden,Finland,Latvia,Greece,Portugal
Call: Designs, materials and solutions to improve resilience, preparedness & responsiveness of the built environment for climate adaptation (Built4People) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D4-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8840183.79
EU funding (EUR): 7499166.31
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

As climatic conditions are constantly changing and the frequency of extreme events increases, there is an urgency of planning, designing and retrofitting the built environment in order adapt it to present and future risks. Too frequently the built environment is a driver of vulnerability, rather than being a shelter for citizens. For this reason, mitigation and adaptation need to be pursued actively, putting built environment and human resilience at the center of a climate and future-proofing action. The MULTICLIMACT project aims to develop a mainstreamed framework and a tool for supporting public stakeholders and citizens to assess the resilience of the built environment and its people at multiple scales (buildings, urban areas, territories) against locally relevant natural and climatic hazards and supply-chains, as well as to support them to enhance their preparedness and responsiveness across their life cycle. The mainstreamed approach will include a method specifically targeted for including several types of built environment assets, including human well-being, health, and quality of life as an essential scale of analysis and action. MULTICLIMACT will support resilience-enabling ACTions by implementing a toolkit of 18 reliable, easy-to-implement and cost-effective Design methods, Materials, and Digital Solutions, enabling users to easily estimate the impact of their implementation on the resilience of the targeted asset, integrating a multidisciplinary approach integrating socio-economic, life, engineering, and climate disciplines. The MULTICLIMACT approach is integrated with relevant international and European initiatives, building upon existing knowledge and instruments, and demonstrating the proposed approach in four case studies that represent various geographical location, natural and climatic hazards, social and economic systems and scales of analysis, ranging from single buildings (including cultural heritage) to the urban and territorial scales.

Keywords: built environment resilience human centered approach resilience enabling materials life cycle approach protective digital solutions
Satellite-enabled Interoperable system ensuring GOVSATCOM services’ reliability, optimal traffic Management, security and long-term Availability for EU and national public authorities (SIGMA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Luxembourg,Germany
Call: GOVSATCOM Service developments and demonstrations (HORIZON-EUSPA-2022-SPACE, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498684.03
EU funding (EUR): 1498683.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

In the recent years, Satellite Communication gained significant momentum in ensuring global connectivity and reliable communication for defence, security, humanitarian and emergency response. The EU GOVSATCOM initiative paves the way towards a new SatCom solution for a broad range of EU and national entities. To improve the GOVSATCOM capabilities and provide end to end security and interoperability between SatCom services and with the terrestrial communications networks, the SIGMA project proposes the development and demonstration of a technical solution incorporating pooled and shared capacities from different satellite systems. The proposed SIGMA technical solution aims to integrate SatCom-On-The-Move operating in X-band, military Ka-band and civil Ka-band with 5G user equipment to the terrestrial networks. The integration and routing of the traffic will be managed by a Traffic Management software and a Software-Defined Wide Area Network Router. End-to-end security is provided by an encryption module that incorporates Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm. Demonstrations of the new solution in a real user environment will be conducted in 3 use cases specified by national agencies (end users) in 3 different EU countries. Specifically: - In Luxembourg with Corps Grand-Ducal d'Incendie: simulating emergency response to flooding situation. - In Germany: with University of Bundeswehr Munich and the German Armed Forces: responding to Search & Rescue operations in isolated areas. - In France: with Service Départamental d’Incendie et de Secours: responding to a terrestrial network outage during a cultural/sporting event. The consortium, which includes 5 companies and a research centre from 4 different countries, will also allocate considerable effort into the dissemination, exploitation and communication activities to pave the way for taking the results of SIGMA to the market in the shorter possible term.

Keywords: govsatcom,interoperability,search and rescue,flooding,network blackout,traffic management,connectivity with 5g networks
Resilience quantification and enhancement of energy system operations with hydrogen integration (HyRes)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hydrogen has emerged as the primary energy source for European countries to pursue net zero. However, due to the lower heat value compared with natural gas, the integration of hydrogen can substantially reduce the flexibility of the energy system, rendering it more vulnerable to extreme operating conditions. With various prospective hydrogen integration pathways adopted by different countries, this project aims to answer two key questions: Will hydrogen integration make the energy system less resilient? And if so, how to mitigate these side effects? Hence, the project will be conducted in five essential steps: physical-informed extreme scenario identification, flexibility quantification, resilience mapping, resilience enhancement, and real-time validation. Multidisciplinary knowledge, including electrical, mechanical, environmental, and civil engineering, will work collaboratively to ensure comprehensive research outcomes. Various open science practices, dissemination activities, and training initiatives will be implemented to increase the impact and refine the scientific and transferable skills of the researcher. The expected results of this project will firstly address the resilience issues of hydrogen-integrated energy systems, contribute to a reliable energy transition in Europe, and solidify Europe’s leading position in the global hydrogen industry.

Keywords: power system,integrated energy systems,resilience,hydrogen
Enabling Positive Energy Districts through a Planning and Management Digital Twin (EXPEDITE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Climate neutral and smart cities
Destination: Climate neutral and smart cities
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Latvia,Greece,Italy,Portugal,Czechia,Finland,Spain,Cyprus,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: Positive clean energy district (PED) digital twins – from modelling to creating climate neutral Cities (HORIZON-MISS-2023-CIT-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6671375.0
EU funding (EUR): 6121812.5
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

ExPEDite aims to create and deploy a novel Digital Twin (DT) for real-time monitoring, visualization, and management of district-level energy flows. The project will deliver a suite of replicable modeling tools, allowing stakeholders to analyze planning actions towards positive energy and climate neutrality in a cost-effective manner. The tools will be able to model the district’s energy production and demand, building stock performance, optimize for flexibility and simulate mobility and transport. The DT’s design-platform will analyze various what-if planning actions, aiding energy and urban planners’ evidence-based decision-making processes, while its run-time engine will optimize the districts energy utilization efficiency. The DT will follow a modular open architecture to support multi-sectoral and multi-organizational stakeholder requirements. By employing gamification and co-creation approaches, the project will enhance public awareness and engagement in energy efficiency. The ExPEDite DT will be applied to a district in Riga, Latvia, and will provide practical guidelines, reusable models, algorithms, and training materials to aid other cities in replicating the DT for their districts, fostering widespread adoption of sustainable energy practices.

Keywords: positive energy districts
Global environmental changes And recovery of primary producers over Mesozoic mass extinctions EventS: a molecular fossil approach (GAMES)

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 Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

I will use this fellowship to study the Global environmental changes And recovery of primary producers over Mesozoic mass extinctions EventS: a molecular fossil approach (GAMES). The Mesozoic Era (~250 to 66 million years ago), englobe the two recent mass extinctions events in Earth history. The End-Triassic mass Extinction (ETE, dated ~203 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction (K-Pg, dated ~66 million years ago). These are unique events in the history of live in our planet, with different preconditions, drivers, and outcomes, and the ecological responses to each one has been unique as well. In fact, determining the nature of associated environmental changes and biotic recovery, is critical to understand the cause and effect of these both events. But in addition, studying and comparing different ‘key’ ancient events, will be relevant to understand on future biological disruptions and recoveries result of the current climatic change. The cause of mass extinctions has been a long-standing problem in geology. At present, is broadly accepted that the primary driver on the ETE mass extinction event, was a large magmatic activity (CAMP: Central Atlantic Magmatic Province) associated with the breakup of Pangea. While in the case of the K-Pg mass extinction event, it was a consequence of a meteorite impact in the Gulf of Mexico (Chicxulub structure). These both catastrophic events caused short and long-term paleoenvironmental changes worldwide, including the input of CO2 into the atmosphere-ocean system analogous to current anthropogenic CO2 input. After decades of research, one of the most critical lines of inquiry is to understand the short- to long-term effects of these extinctions events on the global environmental system, including the re-establishment of pre- environmental conditions and marine biological productivity

Keywords: mass extinction events cretaceous paleogene k pg boundary end triasic event ete biomarkers organic matter sources paleoenvironmental changes
THREE RELATED TOOLS TO MAKE TENDERS IN THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION MORE CIRCULAR (CABRIO-TRIPTYCH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: European Innovation Procurement Awards
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Facing societal challenges category: - “Net Zero Industry Procurement” (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PRIZE-EIPA, 2024)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The CABRIO-triptych consists of three related tools, each of them focusing on a circular "improvement" of the tendering process: 1. CABRIO: a guideline of circular selection criteria and award criteria, for the appointment of a designer, a contractor or a design&build team; This guideline focuses on criteria other than the usual criteria (typically: pricing); e.g. the amount of "embodied carbon" of construction works, ahead of what the EU taxonomy will soon require. This guide is copy-paste-ready, so that it can easily be inserted into the "template" specifications of specifiers. 2. AMBITIEKAART: an "ambition map", to detect very specific actions on which a local authority can focus (these actions are more or less catalogued according to the R-strategies,..); This ambition map is supported by examples and applications; after all, circular construction remains a hazy story in the eyes of the target audience for the time being. 3. CIRCUBESTEK: a bundling of technical specifications of specific circular materials/systems/products in the building industry; this bundling was drawn up in the system of specifiers. The three tools are related: Where CIRCUBESTEK focuses on the technical specifications (the "must-haves"), CABRIO focuses on the administrative specifications (the "nice-to-haves). The AMBITIEKAART ("ambition map") is a preliminary step in the tendering process (and is used in the CABRIO tool to detect the selection and award criteria)
Social Kinships and Cooperative Care: approaching relatedness in Later Prehistory through the analysis of women and children buried together (SKIN)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SKIN: Social Kinships and Cooperative Care explores relatedness beyond biological links in European Copper and Bronze Age societies. SKIN will analyse the nature of different relationships between co-buried individuals in Iberia and Central Europe, c. 3000-1000 BC. It will adopt ethnographic, archaeological and bioarchaeological approaches, including aDNA and Sr-isotope analysis, to investigate to what extent kinship relations were based on genetic links, or instead, included constructs complementing and extending the nuclear family. Special attention will be paid to allomothering and cooperative care, two practices extensively documented cross-culturally, but rarely investigated in prehistory. SKIN will (a) contribute to developing an effective theoretical and rigorous methodological framework to investigate social kinship by reviewing bioarchaeological approaches currently in use, (b) promote an alternative focus in archaeology, moving from supra-regional and long-term genetic issues to studying individuals, especially women and children traditionally left behind (c) give new insights of kinship in prehistory based on both social and biological ties. The applicant’s new skills in human osteology, Sr- isotope and aDNA analyses acquired through high-quality training at the host institution ÖAI and during her MSCA-PF secondment will contribute to achieving these goals. Collaboration on the ECR-funded project The Value of Mothers to Society will create synergies exploring the gender dimension in Europe’s Later Prehistory. SKIN contributes to understanding kinship relations and the crucial role of cooperative care in the past, which are current themes of worldwide order.

Keywords: funerary archaeology,bioarchaeology,kinship,archaeology of childhood,gender archaeology,copper age,bronze age,iberia
Fast-response Electrically heated catalytic reactor technology for CO2 reDUCTion (e-CODUCT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Slovenia,Netherlands,France,Germany
Call: Development of more energy efficient electrically heated catalytic reactors (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7681307.5
EU funding (EUR): 7022265.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The e-CODUCT project aims at electrifying the simultaneous chemical conversion acid gas components (CO2 and H2S) into the platform molecule CO and marketable sulphur using an electrothermal fluidised bed reactor (ETFB) technology. The corresponding process will comprise two steps: a first one for CO2 and H2S reduction into COS and a second step for COS decomposition into the platform molecule CO and Claus grade sulphur. To demonstrate its valorisation potential, CO will be converted into green methanol as final product using a third reaction. The e-CODUCT consortium is composed of nine entities including industrial and academic partners spanning a complete value chain from material suppliers and engineers to modelling experts and technology providers. e-CODUCT will optimise and scale-up the reactor materials and catalysts to TRL6 to 16t/y of CO production while reducing reactor size by 50%, among others via the removal of heating units. Techno-economic and environmental assessment of the reactor performances will demonstrate -40% CAPEX and OPEX as well as -50% of GHG emissions. Optimisation of operating conditions and reaction yield will be supported by fundamental (micro)kinetic modelling as well as industrial process planning accounting for variability of feedstock composition and renewable energy resources. Integrated conceptual design will fasten future scale-up and commercialisation of the reactor demonstrator at TRL9 with a final capacity of 34kt of CO2 converted per year. e-CODUCT will provide a first-of-a-kind fast-response electrically heated catalytic reactor able to replace the conventional Claus unit for sulphur recovery and simultaneous electroreduction of CO2, allowing -50% energy demand for acid gas treatment in over 130 refineries in Europe by 2035. The process could then be diversified to other applications such as FCC, steam cracking and dehydrogenation and multiple sites as biogas digesters and gas plants representing 18,000 sites in Europe.

Keywords: electrothermal fluidised bed reactor,co2 reduction,fast response,ghg emissions,electrification,acid gas components,h2s,co2 valorisation,life cycle analysis,techno economic analysis,fundament
From face-to-face to face-to-screen: Social animals interacting in a digital world (SODI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499377.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499377.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Over millions of years, human survival has crucially depended on rapport building, seeking others’ social support, and sharing resources in groups. This social context has created constant evolutionary pressure to develop specific biological systems geared to interacting face-to-face with physically present others. For just a few years, we have been living in a rapidly developing digital world where interactions across society (education, friendship, health care) shift to face-to-screen interaction – strongly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. How does this core change affect our social interactions? In SODI, I will contrast face-to-face with face-to-screen “live” interactions of many individuals, taking a multi-method, biopsychological approach. According to my theoretical working model, face-to-screen interactions fail to entirely engage specific, socially relevant hormonal systems (oxytocin, μ-opioids, testosterone), which evolved to process context-dependent stimuli from face-to-face contact (mutual eye gaze, physical contact, social odour). Consequently, hormone-mediated beneficial social effects should be attenuated, while adding social stimuli should ameliorate this difference. To test my model’s assumptions, I will tackle three objectives. How do face-to-screen interactions differ from face-to-face ones? Can we “socially enrich” face-to-screen interactions by adding previously lacking social stimuli? Does experimentally modulating hormone levels in the brain affect differences between face-to-face and face-to-screen interactions? In a radically innovative approach, my research combines experimental-psychological interaction paradigms, neurophysiological and subjective measures, and hormone administration to understand the merits and flaws of interacting in a digital reality. Moreover, my project aims to strike new paths for “socially enriching” face-to-screen interactions, thereby unfolding the full potential of the digital (r)evolution.