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Maritime Dependencies in Antiquity: how trade, geography and conflict are related. A maritime history and case study of Syracuse combining history, archaeology, oceanography, ships, economic theory. (MarDepend)

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: Germany,Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1948174.75
EU funding (EUR): 1948174.75
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

MarDepend seeks to understand the existential dependency of states and communities on maritime trade. It aims to analyse and quantify how trade, geography, and conflict were interrelated in antiquity, with a focus on the city-state of Syracuse in Sicily. The study will explore economic structures, trade balance, and the impact of maritime routes on trade during both peace and war. Syracuse, a key maritime power from the early 5th century BCE until being conquered by Rome in 212 BCE, serves as an ideal case study. Its position at the crossroads of ancient maritime trade, from which it engaged with a wide range of actors, and its largely consistent trade policies over centuries make it particularly relevant and provide a wealth of evidence, in quantity and quality, conducive to quantitative economic analysis. Building on the case of Syracuse, MarDepend establishes maritime dependencies as a framework for comprehending global trade and political dynamics across diverse historical periods. MarDepend, characterised by an innovative interdisciplinary approach and a broad methodological basis, combines historical research, archaeology, marine engineering, oceanography, and economic theory through modelling of wind, waves, and currents, measuring the performance of ancient ships with the help of Computational Fluid Dynamics, reconstructing trade routes through simulations, analysing material evidence (coins, inscriptions, amphorae), and developing a formal economic model for ancient trade. Advanced software and digital tools analyse the data and synthesise it in an open-access GIS. The unique approach provides a foundation for applying analogous methodologies to investigate the trade dependencies in a much broader historical and geographical context, such as a diachronic investigation of the relationship between trade and conflict. The research holds the potential to reshape our understanding of ancient economies and maritime history.
Measuring how past sociocultural and environmental pressures shaped animal biodiversity: the extinction of the endemic small mammals of the Tyrrhenian Islands (BioXtinct)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-15
End date: 2026-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Human-caused biodiversity loss, including the extinction of a broad range of species, has dramatically increased over the years, with enormous repercussions on ecosystems worldwide. However, present-day species extinctions are only the latest stage in a considerably longer-term sequence stretching far back into the Holocene, when several extirpation events occurred in the prehistorical and historical eras. A remarkable case is the extinction of the last endemic small mammals of Corsica and Sardinia: while the large vertebrate fauna extinction occurred soon after the first human arrival (ca. 12,000 years ago), the small endemic mammals vanished much later, between the late prehistoric and Roman periods (8th c. BC–5th c. AD), precisely at the moment when colonial agents as Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans expanded and intensified trade networks. Although the disappearance of these species has been linked to anthropogenic causes, it remains uncertain whether this event occurred in both islands simultaneously as the result of a single, rapid cause or as a result of several interrelated causes. This project attempts to redress this imbalance and establish a new empirical framework by integrating cutting-edge analyses (GMM, DMTA, and direct 14C dating) with the abundant but underutilized archaeozoological record of the Tyrrhenian islands. This project will focus on three of these islands’ most emblematic species—the pika Prolagus sardus and the rodents Microtus (Tyrrhenicola) henseli and Rhagamys orthodon—as proxies to investigate the mechanisms and effects of past human-induced environmental changes and how this is interconnected with the colonial and cultural exchange evidenced in the historical and archaeological records. Integrating archaeozoological data with other source materials is not only crucial to develop richer and more nuanced view of past cultural practices but also can help to elucidate innovative solutions of the ongoing extinctions.

Keywords: zooarchaeology,western mediterranean,corsica,sardinia,late iron age,roman period,radiocarbon,3d dental microwear,geometric morphometrics,island archaeology,extinction
Nuclear singlet state in diamond for overcoming the standard quantum limit in gravitational wave detectors (SingletSQL)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-15
End date: 2025-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The sensitivity of the next-generation gravitational-wave detectors (GWD) are critically limited by the quantum fluctuations of light. The major sources of such noises are shot noise and optomechanical back action noise (BAN). The improvement of sensitivity can be achieved by back-action evading (BAE) measurements, which allows overcoming the standard quantum limit. By trading off between shot and BAN, recently a promising scheme has been proposed which involves another auxiliary system, consisting of an atomic spin ensemble with negative effective mass that can suppress both the noises. The measurement is performed by two entangled beams of light probing the GWD and the spin ensemble. However, the approach exhibits three major implementational issues to focus on, which I have discovered by recent calculations. Firstly, I study how the sensitivity of the GWD is dependent and what the constraints introduced by the entanglement measures between subsystems. Secondly, I come with a novel approach for the BAE by using a nuclear singlet state of carbon in diamond which works at very low NMR frequencies and bandwidth aiming to avoid the discrepancies of the match between the frequencies and linewidths of the spin and the mechanical oscillators. In this aspect, I propose using a novel type readout of electron spin of NV centers, used as a non-perturbing ancilla of the nuclear spin-singlet. Finally, based on the parameters obtained from ongoing E-Test project, where a low thermal noise mechanical oscillator is being built up, I will theoretically investigate if the nuclear singlet state can match the frequency and bandwidth of rational parameters of the oscillator and whether it can be implemented for the BAE measurement. I will study the role played by the input squeezing parameters, and how to engineer the frequency range of noise suppression of the output. The proposal entitles advanced hands-on training on experimental setups and profounding my background in GWD.

Keywords: gravitational waves,optomechanical back action,standard quantum limits,theory of quantum entanglement,nmr,nv center in diamond
Data Ownership Platform: turning privacy laws from an obstacle to an opportunity (DOP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2021-SCALEUP-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ground-breaking innovation of the underlying systems upon which our society is built cannot be enacted by fitting new facts into old schemes. Disruptive solutions require a paradigm shift that could be paralleled to a Copernican Revolution of our time. The revolution I’d like to see unfold is the introduction of a new, decentralised, and distributed data economy. EcoSteer, an IoT and Blockchain start-up for data ownership and monetisation I co-founded, aims at doing precisely that. Data is rapidly becoming the sustenance fuelling economic growth and innovation, yet its economy is utterly asymmetrical and controlled by a handful of tech giants. Moving away from a centralised approach, where digital platforms that collect consumers’ data have exclusive control over third party access, EcoSteer Data Ownership Platform technically implements a decentralised vision, where each consumer can directly control visibility over her data by each individual third party. Based on a patented multicast end-to-end encryption scheme and Smart Contracts, the DOP adds a layer of data access control decentralization on top of any existing data brokering platform, transforming it into a neutral and blind ‘data intermediary’ . Consumers can unilaterally grant (& revoke) access to their IoT data streams to selected third parties and be compensated in tokens for data sharing, thus promoting ‘data altruism’. Decentralisation of the Data Economy, as well as availability of the means for everyone to become an active stakeholder - be it a business or an individual - ensures that the market is dynamic, inclusive and heterogenous. More participants to the data economy mean more opportunities for data monetisation, steeper and quicker economic growth, and sustainable data-driven decisions. EcoSteer DOP, thus, enables European Companies to become the leaders of a new data economy, based on the ethical principles established by the GDPR.

Keywords: data ownership,data economy,gdpr,data governance,data privacy,data altruism
Hyperbolic surfaces and large random maps (SuPerGRandMa)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1691875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1691875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The main purpose of this proposal is to explore random planar metrics. Two canonical models of random continuum surfaces have been introduced in the past decade, namely the Brownian sphere obtained as the scaling limit of uniform random planar triangulations, and the Liouville Quantum Gravity metric obtained formally from the exponential of the Gaussian free field on the sphere. Our objective is to broaden our understanding of random planar metrics to the case of metrics with “holes” or “hubs”, and to the causal (when a time dimension is singled out) paradigm. We also plan on studying random maps in high genus and to connect to models of 2-dimensional hyperbolic geometry such as the Brook–Makover model, random pants decompositions or Weil–Petersson random surfaces. We believe that the tools developed in the context of random planar maps, such as the systematic use of the spatial Markov property, the utilization of random trees to decompose and explore the surfaces, or the fine study of geodesic coalescence can be successfully applied to the aforementioned models. We expect spectacular results and we hope to reinforce the connections between those very active fields of mathematics. This proposal should give rise to exceptionally fruitful interactions between specialists of different domains such as probability theory, two-dimensional hyperbolic geometry, and theoretical physics, as well as mathematicians coming from other areas, in particular from combinatorics. To ensure the best chances of success for the proposed research, we will rely on the unique environment of University Paris-Saclay and neighboring institutions.

Keywords: random geometry,scaling limits,random trees,brownian and stable processes,hyperbolic surfaces
Reusing steel for Emission reduction through AI-driven Cutting-stock Tool (R.E.A.C.T.)

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: United States,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 430343.4
EU funding (EUR): 430343.4
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Reusing steel for Emission reduction through AI-driven Cutting-stock Tool (REACT) is a pioneering research endeavour that will introduce a novel, openly available, interactive plug-inned tool for the integrated and streamlined use of AI-driven optimisation processes at the design phase aiming to maximise the reusing ratio of reclaimed steelwork for new building construction. Specifically, a novel Multi-dimensional Pareto front decision-making optimisation tool is proposed to incentivise sustainable design approaches. The proposed framework will be able to provide several design scenarios based on different percentages of reusing steelwork according to the availability of the steel stock, economic resources, and the proper needs of clients by managing the architectural and structural performance of the new building. The sustainability of the design solutions will be evaluated case-by-case through the calculation of environmental qualities obtained with innovative integrated Life-cycle assessment methodologies accounting for the entire life cycle of the building products. The proposed optimised tool will be connected to commercial structural software as a design support plug-in, able to predict the best trade-off between the adoption of reclaimed and new steel encouraging reusing practices among designers and stakeholders of the supply chain. Despite the existing level of knowledge on reusing steel, REACT proposed unique and innovative technical support to overcome the barriers to steelwork reusing in the building construction sectors while preserving the built environment from climate change and resource consumption.

Keywords: reusing steel,waste minimisation,optimal design,lyfe cycle assessment lca
CONSTRUCTING LEARNING OUTCOMES IN EUROPE: A MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF (UNDER)ACHIEVEMENT IN THE LIFE COURSE (CLEAR) (CLEAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Finland,Portugal,Italy,Bulgaria,Greece,Austria
Call: Addressing poor learning outcomes in basic skills and early school leaving at national, regional and local level in Europe (HORIZON-CL2-2021-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3047221.0
EU funding (EUR): 3047221.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The project Constructing Learning Outcomes in Europe. A Multi-Level Analysis of (Under-)Achievement in the Life Course (CLEAR) is committed to better understanding the factors that affect the quality of learning outcomes (LOs) across European regions and intents to spark innovative policy approaches to tackle underachievement and increase social upward mobility for young people. It focuses the processes of constructing learning outcomes as the result of manifold intersecting institutional arrangements, spatial and socio-economic determinants, discursive and socio-cultural influences, as well as individual experiences, dispositions, cognitive and psycho-emotional abilities. The overall aim is to examine the combination of multiple factors shaping LOs and thus affecting their quality. Based on a better understanding of the processes of constructing LOs, CLEAR inquiries into the impact of policies to boost achievement and tackle underachievement, and designs participative activities at local level to spark innovative policy solutions. It conducts comparative, multi-level analyses in 8 EU countries – Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain – by means of quantitative and institutional analyses, expert surveys at national and regional levels, qualitative analyses and innovative participatory strategies at local level. Special attention is given to groups that are multi-disadvantaged and/or in vulnerable situations. Dynamic and relational concepts – Life Course, Intersectionality, Spatial Justice – help explore the several mutually intersecting dimensions of the issue – individual, institutional, structural, relational, and spatial. In line with Open Science, the project adopts an innovative transversal participatory approach, enabling young people and other stakeholders to proactively shape educational policymaking and contribute with their views, ideas, and experience-based knowledge, thus enhancing the impact of the project.

Keywords: learning outcomes,underachievement,life course,intersectionality,multi disadvantaged youth,participation
No Home Without Energy - empowering vulnerable consumers and agents across the fuel poverty ecosystem to tackle energy vulnerability (NHWE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: European Social Innovation Competition
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Spain
Call: The European Social Innovation Competition 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-EUSIC-PRIZES-04, 2023)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

NHWE is ECODES flagship programme to tackle energy poverty and improve the energy efficiency of low-income households. The program was launched in 2013 to empower vulnerable families, social workers and welfare organisations working with them by transferring knowledge and tools to save on their energy bills, improve the comfort of their homes and reduce CO2 emissions. How? The program offers information, diagnosis and personalized advice to understand and reduce energy bills, learn responsible consumption habits and access social tariffs. It also channels funding and implements energy efficiency measures in low-income households (energy saving kits, shallow renovations, RREE) and raise awareness on available subsidies and funding programs to finance low-performing building renovations. The transfer of knowledge to vulnerable consumers is carried out through different tools and channels: energy advice points, home visits, on-line energy management tools, workshops, brochures and posters and corporate and citizen volunteering programmes. Solutions provided: 1. On-line tools to assess and manage energy poverty and domestic energy consumption Web: information and resources (data, agenda, documents, news) Interactive map with subsidies and energy poverty action plans. On-line questionnaire for energy efficiency self-diagnostic: “I WANT TO SAVE” ENERSOC: software for social management and energy assessment of vulnerable consumers. 2. Action programs to alleviate energy poverty: - Workshops and training (for vulnerable families, social workers and volunteers) - Individualised energy audits and assessment through our Energy Advisory Desks and Site visits - Channel funding & implementation of energy saving measures and housing renovations. Citizen and corporate volunteering programs - Awareness-raising campaigns - Impact evaluation of energy poverty action plans 3. Networking and advocacy to drive ambitious policies and regulations to tackle energy poverty.

Keywords: energy poverty,vulnerable low income households,empowerment,shallow renovations,energy efficiency,thermal comfort
Beyond the Standard Model: Coherent Neutrino Scattering at the European Spallation Source (ESSCEvNS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2795294.0
EU funding (EUR): 2795294.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS), a recently discovered process of neutrino interaction, provides numerous opportunities to search for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). The CEvNS cross-section, much larger than for any other coupling, results in a dramatic miniaturization of neutrino detectors. However, the faint signals generated (few-keV nuclear recoils, NRs) require advanced detector technologies. The unprecedented neutrino flux from the upcoming European Spallation Source (ESS) provides the opportunity for a definitive exploration of all phenomenological applications of CEvNS. The centerpiece of this proposal is the development of a new CEvNS detector technology, cryogenic undoped CsI scintillators monitored by innovative sensors (the largest avalanche photodiodes produced to date), in combination with state-of-the-art waveshifters (nanostructured organosilicon luminophores). An array of seven CsI crystals at the ESS, operating at 80 K and adding up to just 32 kg, will provide an exceptionally-high signal rate of 12,000 CEvNS events per year, significantly surpassing the sensitivity of ton-scale detectors at present-day spallation sources. The signal output per energy deposited in this new hybrid device is the highest ever achieved with scintillators: this provides a sensitivity to the lowest NR energies expected from CEvNS, for which deviations from the SM are most evident. This combination of detector technology and neutrino source will achieve the best foreseeable sensitivity to new particle and nuclear physics via CEvNS. A first investigation of the response of high-pressure xenon detectors to low-energy NRs will also be performed. For reasons of nuclear structure, CsI and Xe are essentially identical in their response to CEvNS. However, the technologies and their expected systematics are entirely different. Their simultaneous use at the ESS will provide a unique, robust confirmation of any signatures of new physics encountered.

Keywords: pacs 2010 scheme 25 30 pt,13 15 g,14 60 st,29 40 n,29 40 mc