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Atomically precise graphene-based nano architectures for gas sensing (ATOSENSE)

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: Spain,Czechia
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): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The dramatic effect of air contaminants on global health and Earth’s climate change require a reliable, real-time monitoring of pollutants for their effective reduction. The limitation of existing sensing technologies for this need in terms of production cost, fabrication processes, miniaturization, sensitivity and selectivity push the search for new materials and sensing concepts to address the challenge of ultra-sensitive gas sensors. In this framework, graphene appears as the most promising candidates due to its large surface-to-volume ratio, low electronic noise, miniaturization capability and cost-effectiveness. However, its semimetallic nature limits its application in the most sensitive, field-effect transistor (FET) architecture, and its inertness severely limits its selectivity. This project aims at overcoming these limitations by developing FET sensors using a new class of graphene-based nanomaterials where sensing units with atomically precise, analyte-specific functional groups are covalently linked to the transductor channels constituted by a semiconducting graphene backbone. The multidisciplinary strategy proposed in this project covers the whole value chain from the synthesis of the nanomaterial to the characterization of the sensing devices, by merging synthetic chemistry, advanced nanomaterials characterization and device fabrication. The proof-of-concept of such devices will pave the way towards ultimate "4S" sensor performances (selectivity, sensitivity, speed and stability), thus having a profound impact on the NEXT Generation EU challenges of “Environmental protection” and “Pollution prevention and control”.

Keywords: graphene nanoarchitectures,nonporous graphene,doping,scanning tunneling microscopy,gas sensing,in operando regime,graphene based fets,next generation sensing devices
Combining Shape-change and Biofeedback to Improve Mental Health Delivery (ANKOR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mental health conditions are set to become the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide by 2030 (at a projected cost of €14.8 trillion), surpassing other major health concerns. The most effective path to lasting recovery involves Mental Health Professionals (MHPs), but despite significant efforts, they currently can only help around one in three patients recover during treatment. MHPs lack adequate tools and remain ill-equipped to support the 970 million people in need of mental health care. Typical treatment cycles involve only one hour per week to rewire maladaptive responses, while digital alternatives suffer from a low two-week retention rate of 3.9%. Ankor is a unique and scalable solution designed to help MHPs deliver faster, more effective treatments, aiming to double recovery rates and extend support to over 100 million additional patients; for whom existing solutions have failed. By integrating biosensing, AI, and real-time shape-changing mechanisms, Ankor enables both patients and MHPs to interact with and modify physiological and psychological responses, making mental health care more tangible, accessible, and easy. The primary objective of this project is to explore and validate the innovation potential of our technology, with a focus on building customer traction and identifying viable market pathways. Specifically, we aim to: (1) construct functional demonstrators to advance the capabilities and reach of our technology; (2) engage with potential customers and establish relationships with key stakeholders, gain insights into market needs, and assess the commercial viability of Ankor; (3) create a market validation report that quantifies the demand for our technology and outlines a market entry strategy with measurable milestones. Through this project, we will set the groundwork for launching a spin-out company to commercialise the Ankor concept and product with the long-term goal of radically improving the delivery of mental health support.
Development of delignified nanocellulose based gas transfer scaffold membrane for artificial lung applications. (CellMembrane)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3068992.5
EU funding (EUR): 3068991.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Lung disease is the third biggest cause of deaths globally. For the irreversible and terminal lung disease patients, lung transplantation is the only long-term therapy. Due to the unavailability the suitable donors, there is not only a minimum of 18 months of wait on the organ donation. Patients who eventually secure a lung transplant have less than 20% chance of recovery due to ‘poor organ function’. Therefore, there is not only a great need for an artificial lung as a permanent replacement organ but also as a bridge to transplantation. Existing artificial lung devices fail to mimic the flow gas exchange properties of a human lung and suffer from low biocompatibility, leading to undesired blood coagulation and hemolysis which limits their applicability to up to 30 days. The complexity and risk associated with current artificial lung technologies mean that they are not offered as long-term lung replacements or as a suitable bridge to transplantation. Through this 36 months EIC pathfinder project, the consortium led by Smart Reactors Ireland, aims to develop the world’s first biobased nanomaterial ‘nanocellulose’ to manufacture an artificial lung device used as a bridge to lung transplantation. The consortium will develop an initial proof of concept nanocellulose device to demonstrate gas transfer and initial hemocompatibility in blood. The proposed approach is expected to have two benefits, the first is that blood flow can occur in laminar flow conditions reducing haemolysis and damage to the blood. Secondly, nanocellulose, has the potential to be endothelialized which would allow for long term gas exchange without the need for systemic anticoagulants.

Keywords: artifiical lung,lung disease,oxygenator,lung transplant,wearable portable lung
The Credit Safety Net and the Costs of Credit Supply Shocks (CSCS)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 151593.84
EU funding (EUR): 151593.84
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project “The Credit Safety Net and the Costs of Credit Supply Shocks” (CSCS) examines the effects of lender-imposed credit supply dynamics on households’ ability to weather idiosyncratic income shocks that are unrelated to the business cycle. It relies on longitudinal household surveys and leverages unexpected and exogenous health shocks to identify individual-specific, random variations in exposure to credit supply shocks. Beyond the foregone satisfaction of current consumption, CSCS emphasizes welfare costs by examining not only changes in household consumption and savings but also other financial coping strategies. These include asset divestments, such as exiting homeownership, and behavioral changes related to income-generating activities, like working overtime or taking sick leave. These outcome variables are crucial for welfare considerations given their implications for health and life quality conditions, yet they are often overlooked when evaluating the costs of imperfect credit markets. The policy implications are immediate and relate to a potential need for social insurance mechanisms to provide effective insurance for households.

Keywords: financial intermediation,credit safety net,credit supply shocks
Research Infrastructures Consortium of NCPs in Horizon Europe (RICH Europe)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Armenia,Bulgaria,Czechia,Germany,Greece,Poland,Spain,Romania,Malta,Lithuania,Latvia
Call: Support to National Contact Points (NCPs) for Research Infrastructures (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-DEV-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999364.75
EU funding (EUR): 1999362.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

RICH Europe is a 84 month Coordination and Support Action built on the past experience and achievements of the Research Infrastructures Networks funded under H2020 (RICH and RICH-2). The overall aim of the project is to improve and support the professionalisation and harmonisation of Research Infrastructures National Contact Points (NCPs) services across Europe and to contribute to the consolidation of the European research infrastructure ecosystem. RICH Europe activities have been designed to (1) raise the general standard of support to programme applicants by enhancing NCPs knowledge and capacities and building a more professionalised and collaborative NCPs community, (2) enhance the quality of knowledge of RIs stakeholders about EU RIs calls & programme and raise their awareness about the trans-national and virtual access opportunities to research infrastructures, (3) lower the entry barriers for newcomers, with a focus on widening countries, (4) mainstream RIs in HE with a special focus on Clusters and the EIC programmes, (5) foster the cooperation among RIs at European and international level, and between RIs and the local/regional socio-economic ecosystem. RICH Europe will be implemented by a consortium of 11 officially nominated NCP organizations from 10 EU Member States and 1 candidate Associated Country. The Consortium has an excellent representation of Widening countries (more than half of the partners are from Widening countries) as well as experienced and less experienced NCPs. The project, in its 7 years duration, will address four major target groups: (i) NCPs for Research Infrastructures, (ii) applicants in Horizon Europe RIs calls, (iii) Research Infrastructures and Academia, (iv) Industries and SMEs.

Keywords: national contact points,capacity building,transnational cooperation,international cooperation
Early phases of planetary birth sites -- environmental context and interstellar inheritance (EPOCH-OF-TAURUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2437493.75
EU funding (EUR): 2437493.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of this ambitious research project is to produce the most realistic computer simulations of the assembly of gaseous protoplanetary accretion discs, and to understand which of their traits are inherited from and/or affected by their direct interstellar context. Owing to ground-breaking instruments such as VLT/Sphere or the ALMA telescope array, we now have a first extensive census of disk populations. Moving beyond the core characterisation of relatively isolated disks in the calm Class II stage, the time has come to shift the focus towards the wider context of these systems, that is, the actively star-forming stellar associations, such as the archetypal Taurus, Orion or Lupus regions. Stellar ages of disks with substructure of (likely) planetary origin point to the fact that planet formation is not merely an ubiquitous process, but figuratively speaking happens within the blink of an eye. This mandates to abandon the assumption of the disk as a quiescent entity detached from its surroundings, and instead place it in the context of a collapsing cloud core. Key aspects here are i) the external UV radiation field that can drive powerful photochemical reactions on the surface, ii) perturbations from stellar flybys, iii) gas self-gravity, and iv) magnetic field lines that are self-consistently anchored in the local interstellar medium (ISM); the latter aspect requiring adaptive-mesh technology, provided by the NIRVANA III code, co-developed by the applicant. At the same time, the early appearance of planets poses questions about the solid constituents potentially being inherited from the ISM and “primed” during the protostellar precursor phase. Finally, with the pivotal exchange of angular momentum during the collapse regulated by non-ideal MHD effects, the evolution of microphysical coefficients (i.e., through an ionisation chemistry with recombination on small grains) needs to be followed through the collapse phase, accounting for dust growth by coagulation.

Keywords: protoplanetary disks,numerical simulations,radiation magnetohydrodynamics,self gravity,ionisation chemistry,thermochemistry
Public pArticipatory Co-creation Tools for Nature-based Solutions (PACT-NBS)

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: Serbia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175234.8
EU funding (EUR): 175234.8
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Nature-based solutions (NBS) have gained traction over the past decades as a urban design philosophy that reduces pressures of climate change by creating sustainable and resilient urban spaces. With an investment of over €240 million, EU proves that NBS is “essential component” in its sustainable development strategy. However, the use of blue-green infrastructure, a core component of NBS is often too technical, excluding a primary user and beneficiary, general public, from giving input into NBS planning. This further leads to the lack of public acceptance of NBS projects and poor socially-responsible design. Hence, there is a need for better tools and processes to facilitate co-creation of NBS projects between public and planning professionals. The aim of Public pArticipatory Co-creation Tools for NBS (PACT-NBS) project is to create a framework for facilitation of urban NBS co-design by using public value frameworks integrated within serious games to aid decision making. This will be achieved by: (1) using systematic approach to establish public values metrics relevant to diverse European communities; (2) developing and testing serious gaming tool integrated with environmental and social objectives for urban design; and (3) providing holistic co-creation framework for serious game application in NBS planning, based on the results of public and professionals testing across Europe. PACT-NBS goes beyond the state-of-the-art by addressing critical gaps in NBS public planning, but also captures EU's policy objectives and sustainability agendas through European Green Deal and SDGs 6 and 11. Utilising researchers extensive background on NBS development and social engineering, together with cross-European collaboration and professional networks through hosting institution and non-academic placement, the project will not only deliver the highest benefits to research, industry and general public, but form international network to advance EU's climate and social resilience.

Keywords: nature based solutions green blue serious gaming co creation participation green deal urban modeling
Writers and the Teaching Profession: a Digital Archive of Teachers' Voices from the History of Italian Literature (WRICHERS)

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: Belgium,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239700.0
EU funding (EUR): 239700.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Many writers across different literary traditions have been working as teachers, and thus school has often been not only a space of canon transmission, but also a source of literary inspiration. Yet, the relationship between writers and the teaching profession has not received the critical attention it deserves. WRICHERS aims at addressing this lacuna and developing an innovative theoretical framework to study the possible interactions between writers' and teachers’ careers from a literary perspective. In order to achieve such a goal, the project wants to build a digital archive that will allow to 1) explore, categorise, analyse and critically assess the specific functions of teaching experiences in the literary careers of 20th-century Italian writers; 2) prove the literary value of a number of texts produced by writers in school contexts and often downplayed as mere bureaucratic documents; 3) examine the ways in which Italian writers dealt with their involvement in school teaching while managing their public image as writers. WRICHERS will address a gap in the field of Italian studies, but the theoretical framework resulting from the research will be designed in a way that will make it applicable to other literary contexts. Specifically, the project will collect a large set of relevant data and hitherto invisible archival documents (the core of the archive will consist of teachers’ journals penned by writers that currently risk to stay inside dusty boxes, spread in different school archives all across Italy), and will make them freely available not only to scholars from different disciplines, but also to the wider public. Beyond academia, WRICHERS has the ambition to raise awareness of why school archives are sites of cultural heritage and how this heritage can be enhanced by local school communities. Finally, the project may also contribute to improving the attractiveness of the teaching profession by highlighting the role of teachers as important cultural actors.

Keywords: writers teachers school work sociology literature italian discourse analysis history education school archives digital humanities digital archive cultural heritage public humanities
Physical modelling of stellar activity effects to discover and measure exoearths (SPOTLESS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2477355.94
EU funding (EUR): 2477355.94
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Exoplanet research has experienced enormous growth and is now pushing instrumental limits to find temperate terrestrial planets and precisely characterise their atmospheres. Extreme-precision radial velocity (RV) instruments (e.g. ESPRESSO), offering 10 cm/s stability, and space telescopes (e.g. JWST, Ariel), attaining relative flux uncertainties of 10 ppm are becoming a reality. But there is a shadow of concern hovering over such fantastic performances. The intrinsic variability of the stellar hosts can overwhelm the instrument error to become the dominant uncertainty. Recent results with ESPRESSO and JWST data provide vivid illustrations of the daunting effects of such limiting factor. An ambitious, ground-breaking, and comprehensive effort to model and correct out stellar activity effects shall therefore be undertaken. Our pioneering results show that the unique combination of a physical model and contemporaneous multi-technique monitoring can disentangle the effects of stellar activity from RV time-series and transit spectroscopy. The SPOTLESS project will implement this methodology by building a realistic stellar activity simulator and develop correction strategies using, e.g., machine learning algorithms and direct inversion. This is more reliable than purely data-driven methods, which often suffer from overfitting due to the lack of a physical context. Four main objectives will be pursued: 1) A physical model of the active solar surface to explain Sun-as-a-star observables, 2) Generalise to other spectral types & parameters, 3) Physically-motivated RV activity corrections at 10 cm/s, and 4) Physically-motivated transit activity corrections at 10 ppm. From available and future observations, SPOTLESS will deliver new challenging exoplanet RV discoveries and unbiased transmission spectra, taking exoplanet research to the next level by enabling the detection and characterisation of exoearths, and the eventual search for signs of biological activity.