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Voices from the Deep South: the rise of Pattu song cultures of South Asia (VOICES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Poland,France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497600.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

VOICES offers a new, large-scale perspective on the history of song-performing cultures of South India in premodern and colonial contexts. More than a song, pattu stands for a multitude of interrelated constellations of song traditions - a galaxy of regional song cultures. One region alone (Kerala) boasts nearly eighty song genres, many of epic proportions: from songs of heroes and place through verses to awake a deity or activate a curse, to songs of ecstatic praise. Most are embedded in recurring ritual events, linked to matrilineal order and performers of subaltern roots. Some connect to minorities: Christians, Muslims, Jews. Pattu invokes practices of deploying skills stored in songs to cure diseases, restore prosperity, empower listeners, or otherwise affect reality. From the 13th c. CE on, the song genres influenced literary forms as trans-medial textuality and cultural technology to store knowledge and generate trust. This rich universe remains understudied. Building a digital archive, VOICES will explore ways in which the sonic ecumene of singing the local in shared imaginary of the South proved resilient over centuries and embraced two languages of prestige: Tamil and Sanskrit. We shall study ontologies of singing the body, the suffering and deliverance, the humane and divine, movement and restraint in this unique subaltern record. We aim at a new understanding of the processes of forging identities at the crossroad of the literary and folk by mapping genre distribution, narrative patterns, transmission modes and cultural economies while identifying key moments of historical change. Fusing ethnomusicology, media and literary studies, VOICES wants to show why tracking this evolution has the potential to reveal intriguing trajectories of the formation of premodern expressive ecologies. Enriched by optics of genre economy, it promises new analytical tools for studying infrastructures of communication and meaning-making practices across South Asia and beyond.

Keywords: songs,song studies,literary cultures,performative genres,south asia,india,oral history,history of south india,malayalam,premodern studies,colonial studies,ethnomusicology,media archeology
Real-World Commercial Coherent Quantum Annealing Technology (RoCCQeT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Transition Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionise our world. Its applications range from improving efficiency and productivity, through decreasing development time, to solving complex problems in material and chemical design, optimisation and machine learning. But to deliver on this promise, quantum computing must overcome several technical problems, e.g., error correction, low connectivity, & low coherence. We offer a way to speed up quantum computing’s market readiness with our full-stack solution. Our coherent quantum annealers allow us to bypass roadblocks that limit quantum hardware: the coherent quantum annealing approach doesn’t require complex error correction, and our architecture promotes connectivity, high quantum coherence, and innovative couplings to address non-simulatable quantum compute problems. We combine this with a Quantum as a Service software suite: hardware orchestration toolkit, cloud access, and co-design capabilities that will ease the adoption into industry workflows. Taken together, our solution delivers a mature quantum computing technology ready to deliver value as soon as this project ends.

Keywords: quantum computing,quantum software,co design,quantum annealing,qaas
The rise and fall of Maltese terraced landscapes (TerraForm)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Malta,United Kingdom,Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999711.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999711.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Human-modified landscapes modulate the effects of climate change on human societies. For example, concrete surfaces increase flood risks and dense cities exacerbate the effects of warming. However, urbanisation is not the only major form of landscape modification. Agricultural terraces represent one of the largest-scale human modifications of the planet, and have many positive effects for cultivation, soil retention, carbon and water storage, and biodiversity. Despite their profound importance for soil modification and a sustainable future, the causes, chronology, and consequences of terracing are all poorly understood, as is the impact of their growing abandonment. This limits our ability to understand how climate change will impact human societies, and the extent to which terraces can help build resilience and sustainability. Pilot research suggests that terracing may have had a uniquely early development on the Maltese Islands, which ultimately became one of the most heavily terraced landscapes on Earth. TerraForm will therefore use Malta as a model system for understanding the evolution and consequences of terracing, from inception to abandonment, alongside societal feedbacks over time. Through its small size, remote location, and limited soil development, Malta offers controlled conditions for such a study. As Malta sits at the front line of climate change, understanding terracing here also has urgent implications for soil erosion, food security, and flooding - both regionally and in areas facing analogous futures. Finally, many of Malta’s terraces have recently been abandoned and are rapidly collapsing, resulting in the loss of an important archive for climate mitigation. Using Malta as a model system is therefore timely, and as the most intensive single-locus study of terracing ever conducted, TerraForm will generate multidisciplinary data and transferable methodologies to ultimately inform sustainable land use policies and improve planetary health.

Keywords: anthropocene archaeology archaeology of climate change mediterranean history mediterranean prehistory archaeology of terracing geoarchaeology island archaeology
Transforming Interface Studies for Sustainable Desalination: The Development of Interface-Specific Heterodyne-Detected χ(4) Spectroscopy for the study of Molybdenum Disulfide Nanochannels (Spec4DeSal)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The world faces an escalating water crisis, with over two billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, which is further exacerbated by increased droughts due to global warming. Traditional desalination methods are notorious for their inefficiency and excessive energy consumption, which creates an urgent demand for sustainable alternatives. Interfacial solar vapor generation (SVG) serves as a promising solution to this problem. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanochannels are able to efficiently harness solar energy and have been identified as a transformative material for desalination in the SVG process. Despite this, the molecular-level mechanisms enhancing their SVG, particularly their interaction with water, remain unclear, necessitating the need for precise spectroscopic techniques to investigate their interfacial mechanisms. Second-order non-linear susceptibility (χ(2)) sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy emerges as an exceptional tool for unraveling the intricate details of molecular interactions at interfaces. While χ(2) SFG has proven invaluable in deciphering interfacial molecular interactions, it has limitations when probing interfaces hidden beneath thick infrared absorbers like water. To overcome this obstacle, we turn to interface-specific, heterodyne detected (HD) fourth-order non-linear susceptibility (χ(4)) spectroscopy, which employs near-infrared (NIR) light instead of IR. This makes it suitable for interfaces buried within thick IR absorbers that are transparent in the NIR region. Herein, I present a cutting-edge proposal for the development of a new and innovative HD-χ(4) spectroscopic technique to study MoS2 nanochannels used for SVG. HD-χ(4) spectroscopy can not only aid in desalination optimization, but also expand into challenging areas like the battery and electrochemical industries. This ambitious project aims to enhance our interfacial understanding, facilitating sustainable solutions amid water scarcity.

Keywords: molecular spectroscopy,non linear optics,material science,interface science,nanochannels,solar vapour generation,technique development,instrument development,desalination
EGNSS-based Visual Localisation to enable AAA-PNT in small devices & applications (EGeNiouSS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Switzerland
Call: EGNSS applications for the Digital Age (HORIZON-EUSPA-2021-SPACE, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3402131.5
EU funding (EUR): 2999946.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Satellite-based PNT is a fundamental infrastructure of the EU. Its protection and improvement are strategic, as other infrastructures – e.g., communications, energy, transport, defence or banking – depend on it. However, signals of current GNSSs are easily jammed, prone to spoofing, subject to atmospheric disturbances, affected by multipath and blockage in natural and urban canyons. This poses global risks and hinders GNSS adoption in mission- and safety-critical tasks, e.g., drone delivery, urban air mobility or autonomous vehicles. Aware of that, civilian and military authorities are promoting/deploying complementary or redundant systems, a.k.a. "augmentations”, local – e.g. aiding inertial sensors – or global – e.g., Galileo’s NMA. However, effective augmentations, local or global, that are robust, accurate and driftless are expensive. To this end, the project EGeNiouSS will develop a cloud service based on novel multi-sensor navigation with a tightly integrated visual localisation component to overcome known GNSS issues and augment existing EGNSS services. EGeNiouSS will bring an affordable, accurate and assured positioning, navigation and timing (AAA-PNT) solution to the market in order to democratise the access to high accuracy and reliability and thus serving the professional and consumer mass markets. The service will be accessible through a platform-independent API. During the project, the API will be integrated for smartphones and drones. With three complementary use cases, Mapping & Surveying, Bike Navigation and Drone Delivery, the entire range of the service with respect to accuracy, latency and reliability requirements will be demonstrated and validated. The development will be accompanied and driven by user and stakeholder requirements and innovative DEC measures to ensure a rapid market update. As a scalable and highly adaptive service it is easily transferable to other applications and markets, e.g. LBS, autonomous vehicles or search & rescue.

Keywords: pnt,pnt rtk,resilient pnt,gnss augmentation,visual localisation,computer vision,ai based navigation,smartphone,mobile computing,cloud computing,uav,multi sensor navigation
Integrated assessment and Advanced Characterisation of Neuro-Nanotoxicity (iCare)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Switzerland,Australia,Spain,Poland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Advanced characterisation methodologies to assess and predict the health and environmental risks of nanomaterials (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2744655.0
EU funding (EUR): 2744654.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The incidental, accidental, or intentional release of manufactured nanomaterials into the environment and its exposure to humans is inevitable due to the exponential growth in invention, production, and use of them. It can have a huge impact in our health specially in the most sensible and exposed human body organs such us lungs, stomach, and brain. iCare aim to to develop a resilient and adaptive set of advanced imaging technologies to quantify physical-chemistry properties for ANMC in complex matrices. The main objective will focus on a integrated model system to characterize and predict the impact of nanomaterials on brain health to prevent the toxicity nanomaterials. The project makes accessible for industry a set of techniques and methodologies to evaluate changes in morphology, chemical composition and reactivity of nanomaterials when exposed to complex homogenous matrices mimicking environmental and biological exposure, with a particular emphasis on high-resolution imaging methodologies. To achieve this goal the project the project brings together in the consortium 11 partners from different backgrounds such as RTOs, SMEs, industries and universities from different EU and non-eu countries and coming from different fields like nanotech, toxicology, advanced materials, advanced imaging, … During the 48 months long of the project, the consortium will work on the development of different activities to achieve the following results: 1)new imaging methods achieving new high resolution methodologies and new super resolution imaging techniques 2)development of toxicology testing protocols and addressing current gaps in nanotoxicology, 3)development of tools and methods bringing the gap in vitro and in vivo testing, 4)efficiency of materials and product development 5)Delivery of reliable data and improved data reporting and finally development of harmonised standardised test methods that can be used in regulatory frameworks.

Keywords: neuroscience,nanotech,toxicity,neurosafe,health tech
Understanding the autophagy-linked disorder BPAN: an integrated approach for studying developmental basis of neurodegenerative diseases (NeuroDiDro)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209884.88
EU funding (EUR): 209884.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding the fundamental basis of brain disorders is a one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Large-scale genetic studies have identified numerous genes with associated roles in both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, suggesting that common mechanisms are involved in the different phases of the same disease. Autophagy is such mechanism, which dysfunction during development or in adult can lead to neurodegenerative diseases, including beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN). BPAN is a disease caused by loss-of-function mutations of the autophagy-related gene Wdr45 resulting in neurodevelopmental defects and neurodegenerative phenotypes. Although BPAN is a rare disease, it represents a genetically simple model to understand the contribution of developmental defects during neurodegenerative disease. To answer these questions, we will use Drosophila that provides unequaled experimental power for generating models of human neurological diseases and establishing their molecular genetic basis. Here, using CRISPR/cas9-made Wdr45 null mutant flies generated by Mollereau and col., I examined human Wdr45-linked phenotypes in Drosophila. I found adult-onset neurodegenerative phenotypes including age-related locomotion decline as well as an abnormal hyperkinetic movements in the embryos of Wdr45 mutants. Therefore, targeting Wdr45 in Drosophila, we aim not only to allow identifying the developmental and neural basis of autophagy-associated neurodegeneration, but also to uncovering the disease molecular responses that are prior to the appearance of neurodegenerative syndromes. Ultimately, findings of our proposal can help find early disease biomarkers and design therapies for broad range of neurological disorders.

Keywords: neurodegeneration,neuro development,autophagy,wdr45,bpan,embryo,adult,behaviour,cell specific,functional imaging,neuronal circuits,genes,drosophila melanogaster
Re-orienting the foundations of 'new science': John Philoponus and the modern theories of space and void (1520-1604) (JOPHIL)

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,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 280202.88
EU funding (EUR): 280202.88
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

JOPHIL will provide the first systematic study into the origins of our modern conceptions of space and void. As people living in the 21st century, we give for granted that objects are tridimensional and that void space exists in nature (or it can be produced artificially). Yet, this was not always the case. Aristotle, the great ancient thinker whose worldview remained dominant in Europe well into the 17th century, thought otherwise. He understood objects as having two dimensions only, and he resolutely rejected the idea that void space could possibly exist. The first thinker to take exception to Aristotle’s views was John Philoponus, a 6th-century Egyptian scholar writing in Greek. Unknown in the Middle Ages, Philoponus’ works were rediscovered and translated only in 15th-century Italy. Once available, they had a seismic impact on Renaissance natural philosophy and science: they provided Renaissance scholars with the tools to rethink crucial aspects of the physics of the time, and they laid the foundations of the ‘new science’ which would emerge in the 17th century. Challenging the dominant Eurocentric narratives about the origins of the Scientific Revolution, JOPHIL will map for the first time the rediscovery and progressive assimilation of Philoponus’ innovative ideas of space and void into 16th-century Europe. It will do so by examining the material recovery of Philoponus’ texts in Renaissance Italy and by exploring their impact on five European thinkers who, between 1520 and 1604, read and discussed Philoponus’ works. JOPHIL contributes to re-orient the origins of modern science in two different ways. First, it re-evaluates the role played by non-European thinkers in the shaping of European science, thus fostering a new idea of Europe as the historical product of a variety of different cultures and traditions. Second, it broadens the canon of the protagonists of modern science, thus contributing to more inclusive research and educational practices in the future.

Keywords: late antique philosophy,early modern philosophy,classical reception,john philoponus
The gut microbiome as a mechanism underlying predator foraging behaviour and predator-prey interactions (PREMI)

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: Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Aposematism is a widespread antipredator defence where prey advertise their chemical defence with warning signals. Previous work has demonstrated high within-species variation in how quickly predators learn to avoid aposematic prey, and this heterogeneity among predators is suggested to play an important role in the evolution of prey defences. This project aims to investigate what maintains the observed variation in predator behaviour by focusing on an unexplored mechanism: a predator’s gut microbiome. Evidence from humans and laboratory animals shows that gut microbiome can influence learning, memory and foraging choices (the microbiome-gut-brain axis), and theoretical models predict feedback loops between gut microbiome, diet and host behaviour. Here, I will translate this to the ecologically relevant context by 1) quantifying how the consumption of prey toxins alters the predator gut microbiome, physiology and foraging behaviour, 2) testing the effect of the early-life gut microbiome on foraging behaviour, and 3) determining the causal effect of the gut microbiome on foraging behaviour. I will use wild great tits (Parus major) as predators and combine several methods that include manipulating birds’ gut microbiome with prey toxins and faecal microbiota transplantation, quantifying gut microbial compositions from faecal samples using 16s rRNA sequencing, and conducting behavioural experiments to test avoidance learning, memory and dietary wariness. The results will address the current knowledge gaps in the predator-prey field by providing insights into the mechanisms that underly variation in predator behaviour. Furthermore, the project will advance our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of microbiomes for species dynamics. This will complement and broaden the current research of the host and enhance future career prospects of the applicant by providing an opportunity to gain new research skills and expand the fields of expertise.

Keywords: aposematism,chemical defence,gut microbiome,predator learning,predator prey interactions,warning signals