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Advancing the understanding of challenges, policy options and measures to achieve a JUST EU energy transition (AdJUST)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Norway,Romania,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,Poland,Greece
Call: Fostering a just transition in Europe (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3355311.25
EU funding (EUR): 3331617.5
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

AdJUST is a transdisciplinary European consortium whose objective is to achieve a step change in societal understanding of the distributive repercussions of the transition to climate neutrality, and to identify effective and actively-supported policy interventions to accompany climate action so that no-one is left behind. AdJUST combines research approaches from complementary disciplines with a continuous social dialogue, ensuring that the project practices open science, models procedural justice, and builds understanding, trust and capacity among citizens and other stakeholders concerning the transition to climate neutrality. AdJUST engages European public bodies, industry, civil society and researchers—i.e. the quadruple helix—to design and promote a shared vision, inspiring them towards the common goal of achieving climate neutrality. It relies on state-of-the-art economic assessment tools, statistical analysis, and research approaches from other Social Sciences & Humanities disciplines—including political science, business management, public administration, political theory, philosophy and ethics—to generate methodologically-sound research results on the full range of challenges of the just transition. These comprise technical, economic, and social/equity dimensions for firms, workers, households and public bodies, and the potential distributional impacts of the EU Green Deal, NextGenerationEU and Fit for 55. AdJUST produces a set of actionable and context-specific policy recommendations—complementing the Just Transition Fund and the Social Climate Fund—to effectively manage competitiveness and distributional trade-offs associated with the transition across Europe, and in specific countries and sectors. Moving well beyond standard public opinion analysis of preferences for climate action, AdJUST probes the conditions under which households, firms, and unions will actively support these initiatives to transition Europe to carbon neutrality.

Keywords: economic geography,philosophy,energy,economic
Modeling the perturbational gradients of the human brain (GradStim)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Studying the brain mechanisms behind consciousness is a major challenge for neuroscience and medicine. Accumulating evidence shows that the structural, histological, functional, genetic, and neurochemical inhomogeneities of the mammalian cortex do not follow a modular distribution; instead, these properties change following gradients, understood as axes of variance along which cortical features are ordered continuously. The gradient describing the axis of largest variance (principal gradient) obtained for an ample range of cortical features follows a unimodal-transmodal organization, ranging from externally-oriented sensory and motor regions to multimodal association regions, culminating in regions linked with internally oriented higher-order cognitive functions. In this project we propose a novel approach, constructing, validating and exploring whole-brain computational models combining empirical information including anatomical connectivity, spatial maps of local neuroanatomical features, to reproduce the configuration of human functional gradients, as determined using manifold learning techniques applied to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. This will allow us to investigate the process by which functional gradients emerge from the spatial distribution of cortical anatomical inhomogeneities. The models will also provide the possibility to investigate how different global brain states behave under perturbations. In order to achieve our goals, we propose a highly interdisciplinary project that combines state-of-the-art principal gradient expertise with whole-brain computational modelling proposing a synergy between two groups with large expertise in each area to address a common question: do realistic functional gradients emerge from the dynamical equations when coupled by realistic long-range structural connections, and modulated locally by empirical maps encoding relevant neurochemical data?

Keywords: functional gradient,perturbational gradient,consciousness,anatomical connectivity,neuroanatomical features computational modelling,fmri,dti,cortical anatomical inhomogeneities
Biomarkers for Animal Vulnerability Assessments (BAVA)

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: Denmark,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The Arctic is experiencing the effects of global heating at an accelerated rate, with unprecedented consequences to this unique ecosystem. As a Pleistocene survivor, the muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is an iconic representative of this shrinking biome. Given their key role in tundra ecosystems and their circumpolar distribution, it may act as a sentinel species indicative of biotic change in Arctic ecosystems. Due to experiencing multiple bottlenecks historically, genetic variability in the muskox is low and populations may thus be poorly equipped to adapt to rapid environmental change. Increasing temperatures not only facilitate changing environmental conditions via a northward shift of infectious diseases, pathogens and vegetation but may also push the limits of the upper thermoneutral zone of muskoxen, causing metabolic stress. BAVA will investigate the vulnerability of muskox populations facing different degrees of environmental stress across its circumpolar range. Integrating metabolomics in a space-for-time experimental design allows for the examination of the ecophysiological response of four wild muskox populations to environmental conditions across a vast gradient of environments representing past, present and future Arctic climates, and thus contrasting levels of environmental stress, for a species that is highly adapted to cold and dry Arctic climate. By using a state-of-the-art biomolecular approach, BAVA will identify biomarkers linked to metabolic pathways, describe their spatiotemporal patterns of variability and utilise this information to inform population-level modelling of population resilience to climate change. In doing so, BAVA elucidates individual- and population-level metabolic responses to contemporary and future environmental change. Eventually, BAVA will not only push my career as a leading scientist but also foster international collaboration and subject excellency by providing a better understanding of Arctic ecosystem vulnerability.

Keywords: arctic,climate change,ecophysiology,environmental stress,dynamic energy budget modelling,global heating,muskox,space for time substitution
A Planetary History of Porcelain: Energy, Ecology, and Material Literacy in Early Modern China (PlanetArt)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project proposes to rewrite the history of porcelain production from a planetary perspective. Titled PlanetArt, the project focuses on the energy regime of Jingdezhen porcelain manufacture in southeast China, where billions of porcelains were produced for global consumers from ca. 1300 to 1900. Porcelain, a human-made material of chemistry, technology, and art, demands energy to produce, releases pollutants and generates waste in production, and remains roughly intact in soil or under water for millennia. As massive production consumed enormous amounts of energy and generated multiple environmental disturbances (e.g. deforestation, air pollution), how did the manufacture continue to thrive over six centuries without causing severe ecological collapse in the region? How did regional inhabitants, transregional (e.g. merchants, porters) and transcultural actants (e.g. non-Han Chinese travellers, Jesuit missionaries) perceive and tackle ecological problems? This project hypothesises that the impact of energy consumption in porcelain production did not diminish but actually enhanced ecological resilience in the Jingdezhen region. The resilience is theorised in the correlation between energy, ecology, and material literacy (i.e. environmental knowledge, technical expertise, and skilled practice in processing materials). Toward the end of the long duration, Jingdezhen porcelain indeed lost its dominant position in global competition, viewed conventionally as a decline of Jingdezhen factories vis-a-vis Euro-American industrial enterprises. PlanetArt proposes a fresh look at the commercial decline as ecological resilience, a form of survival and renewal in favour of ecosystems over anthropogenic infrastructure. Departing from human-centred perspectives, the project aims to tell a story of art informed by geophysical science, to realise the potential of energy as historical method, and to empower museum professionals to effectively communicate ecocritical awareness.

Keywords: energy history,material culture,environmental history
European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence (EVERSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EOSC (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Switzerland,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,Czechia
Call: Development of community-based approaches for ensuring and improving the quality of scientific software and code (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6789468.75
EU funding (EUR): 6789468.75
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The EVERSE project aims to create a framework for research software and code excellence, collaboratively designed and championed by the research communities across five EOSC Science Clusters and national Research Software Expertise Centres, in pursuit of building a European network of Research Software Quality and setting the foundations of a future Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence. This framework for research software excellence will incorporate aspects involving community curation, quality assessment, and best practices for research software. This collective knowledge will be captured in the Research Software Quality toolkit (RSQkit), a knowledge base to gather and curate expertise that will contribute to high-quality software and code across different disciplines. By embedding the RSQkit and services into the EOSC Science Clusters, EVERSE will demonstrate improvements in the quality of research software and maximise its reuse, leading to standardised software development practices and sustainable research software. Furthermore, we will drive recognition of software and support career progress for developers, from researchers who code to RSEs, raising their capacity to guarantee software quality. The European network for Research Software Quality aims to cross-fertilise different research domains, act as a lobbying organisation, and raise awareness of software as a key enabler in research, with the overall ambition to accelerate research and innovation through improving the quality of research software and code. EVERSE ultimate ambition is to contribute towards a cultural change where research software is recognized as a first-class citizen of the scientific process and the people that contribute to it are credited for their efforts.

Keywords: research software quality,software best practices,community building,eosc science clusters,software recognition,sustainable research software,innovation
Bottom-up assembly of synthetic neural networks from biological matter (SYNNEURON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1767048.0
EU funding (EUR): 1767048.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The long-term objective of my lab is the construction of “synthetic” neural networks from biological matter. In this way, we not only will understand how to build sustainable computing architectures but also provide a novel bottom-up approach towards understanding biological neural networks. To make progress in this direction, I ask: What is the minimal assembly of biological components that allows for bio-realistic electrical information processing? Clearly, voltage-sensitive ion channels form the molecular basis for electrical spiking activity in neuronal networks. However, spatial propagation of spikes is not a property inherent to individual ion channels but rather emerges from the arrangement of ion channels along a tubular lipid membrane, the axon. While the reconstitution of functional ion channels outside of living cells has been well established, the propagation of an action potential along a lipid bilayer nanotube has not yet been shown. Similarly, the physical realization of larger, non-living spiking networks using biological matter remains elusive. Here, I propose to move forward from the state-of-the-art by a) Studying action potentials propagating along lipid nanotubes and demonstrating their electrical cable and spiking characteristics b) Understanding the coupling between membrane elasticity and electrical characteristics and how electromechanical coupling remodels and reshapes membranes and nanotube networks. c) Exploiting these remodeling, reshaping, and self-healing abilities for biomimetic molecular mechanisms of information processing. This research is a challenge of enormous complexity. In this proposal, I argue that this challenge can be overcome using recent methodological advances. My preliminary data and my research experience combing electrical engineering, biophysics and synthetic biology will enable this leap in our understanding and design of biological neural networks.

Keywords: bottom up synthetic biology lipid nanotubes guv neuromorphic computing
ClimateSmartAdvisors: Connecting and mobilizing the EU agricultural advisory community to support the transition to Climate Smart Farming (ClimateSmartAdvisors)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Land, ocean and water for climate action
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Greece,Germany,Denmark,Spain,Finland,France,Croatia,Hungary,Ireland,Italy,Lithuania,Latvia,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Serbia,Sweden,Slovenia,Austria,Slovakia,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Czechia,Estonia
Call: Demonstration network on climate-smart farming – boosting the role of advisory services (HORIZON-CL6-2022-CLIMATE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18296145.0
EU funding (EUR): 18283641.25
Participants: 76
Project status: SIGNED

ClimateSmartAdvisors is a pan-European multi-actor network covering 27 countries. Its aim is to boost the EU agricultural advisory community, leading to an acceleration of the adoption of climate smart (CS) farming practices by the wider farming community within and across EU AKISs. To reach this objective, ClimateSmartAdvisors focuses on the crucial role of advisors in the development and dissemination of CS innovations and practices. The project will organize activities focusing on strengthening the advisors’ capacity in providing CS advice and boosting the advisors’ role in the transition towards CS farming through their involvement in innovation projects, CS-AKIS, and EU projects and initiatives. A number of complementary activities are developed to strengthen the CS advisory capacity of the EU advisory community: 1) an EU-wide network of 260 advisory Communities of Practice (CoP) to support the development of 1500 advisors will form the core of CS knowledge exchange; 2) 140 advisors will receive expert training on selected topics, relevant for their context and for facilitating a CoP; 3) CoPs will internationally exchange knowledge on 12 thematic areas; 4) a knowledge repository will provide advisors with CS tools, practices and approaches developed in the ClimateFarmDemo project and further expanded in ClimateSmartAdvisors, 5) monitoring, evaluation and learning activities will capitalize lessons learned in and outside the project. Activities to boost the advisors role in the CS transition include: 1) connecting to local and EU (multi-actor innovation) projects, initiatives, AKIS actors, and policy makers to clarify and address joint needs, challenges and lessons learned, 2) the set-up of Co-Design Innovation Experiments to learn on how to strengthen the advisors’ role in innovation processes. Finally, to accelerate the wide spread of results, an ambitious dissemination, exploitation and communication strategy will be deployed at EU and national levels.

Keywords: climate smart farming,climate smart advisors,advisors,advisory service providers,multi actor,akis,capacity building,communities of practice,training,peer to peer
Precision measurement of parity violation with quantum-controlled and trapped chiral molecular ions (Q-ChiMP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1874500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1874500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Molecular chirality plays a central role in many fields, ranging from reaction dynamics to drug development. Fundamental questions surround chiral molecules, in particular: Why does a specific handedness prevail in natural living systems? The vast majority of Chemistry textbooks define the two enantiomers of chiral molecules as perfect mirror images, which entails tunnelling conversion between enantiomers. However, a closer look reveals that the non-conservation of spatial inversion exhibited by the weak force should violate the parity symmetry in chiral molecules. In Q-ChiMP, we aim to answer the fundamental question, Is the weak force important in chemistry? To this end, we will realize the first trapped chiral molecular ion experiment with pristine quantum control to measure parity violation (PV) in molecules for the first time by detecting tiny structural differences between enantiomers. We will use several advantages molecular ions have over neutrals in metrology. First, we will leverage the long coherence times enabled by trapped ion experiments to enhance measurement precision. Second, molecular ions provide a promising path to generate internally cold chiral molecules populating only a few quantum states, which serves as an essential ingredient of precision metrology along with high quantum efficiency in detection. Our main approach to measure PV will use our newly developed vibrational spectroscopy scheme that can extract PV from a racemic sample directly, enhancing measurement precision and overcoming synthesis challenges. Each of the aims developed in Q-ChiMP toward a measurement of PV serves as an important novel milestone for taming cold polyatomic molecules and can be applied to quantum-controlled chemistry experiments and quantum information technology. The unique experience of the PI in precision spectroscopy with molecular ion ensembles and experimental cold quantum-controlled chemistry will be instrumental in achieving these ambitious goals.

Keywords: chiral molecules,weak force,parity violation,trapped ions,quantum controlled molecules