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Powering wearable devices by human heat with highly efficient, flexible, bio-inspired generators (POWERbyU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499516.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499266.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Self-powered wearable electronic devices will be key technologies for future portable electronic systems in the Internet of Everything (IoE). However, their potential is limited because of their need for batteries, which are bulky, heavy, lack the flexibility to be adapted to the human body, and require frequent recharging or replacement. In that context, flexible thermoelectric generators (TEGs) that capture the body’s heat and convert it into electrical energy are a potentially promising and sustainable alternative. Nevertheless, commercial TEGs are produced on rigid substrates, so they cannot adapt to the human body. The current solution proposed is to produce them on flexible polymeric substrates, which unfortunately have low thermal conductivity, the active power-generating layer must be very thick, and it is not efficient enough. Additional problems are no good electrical and thermal contacts and the non-availability of commercial low input power DC-DC converters. POWERbyU seeks to merge four scientifically disruptive concepts to achieve the technological breakthrough of getting flexible and efficient enough flexible TEGs: 1) generate not yet existing bio-inspired, nano-engineered, flexible polymeric substrates with very high thermal conductivities in the out-of-plane direction. 2) Generate a bio-inspired patterning of the polymer surface to drive the thermal flow from perpendicular to parallel to the energy generation layer. This is important because then, the important length to avoid thermalization is not thickness but lateral size. 3) Produce world-record efficient quasi-2D thermoelectric layers generated by a unique deposition tool and 4) new solutions to the commercial DC-DC converter. By assembling, all the previous concepts I expect a novel high efficiency, flexible TEG able to generate tens mW/cm2, enough to self-powering wearable devices. Additional fields of application could be thermal management in buildings, textiles, packaging…

Keywords: energy harvesting,iot,wearables,nanoengineered materials,bio inspired
Linking vector, virus and immunity to the evolving fitness of dengue virus (DENGEN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Singapore,United States
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): 2169106.0
EU funding (EUR): 2169106.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Across pathogens, it remains unclear why some lineages persist while others die out. Population immunity pressure coupled with relative abilities to infect and disseminate in hosts are likely to play a critical role. There are key data and methodological gaps that prevent us from identifying and quantifying drivers of pathogen fitness. We need robust measures of fitness and be able to apply these measures to sequences from the same ecological disease system over many years. We also need to understand how an individual's immunity responds, if at all, to ongoing exposures by continuously changing pathogens. Finally, we need appropriate methods that can integrate candidate drivers of fitness within the same analytical framework. Using dengue virus as a model system, I will use annual sequence data from Thailand collected from 1973 to today alongside long term measurements of immune responses in the same individuals over 25 years apart to answer the following questions: - How does individual immunity change over decadal time frames? I will re-recruit individuals who were infected with dengue virus during participation in cohort studies in the 1990s. I will measure their antibody response today to viruses that have circulated over the past 58 years, including the specific virus that infected them in the 1990s. I will compare their responses today to those in stored samples from the original cohort study. - What are the drivers of fitness? I will quantify the changing fitness of circulating dengue viruses from 1973 to today. I will then explore how changes in viral dissemination in mosquitoes, changes in kinetics in human cells and the build up of strain-specific population immunity interact to determine viral fitness. By studying the dynamic interplay between pathogen fitness, host immunity and vector, this project will explore a fundamental concept of disease ecology, as well as providing insights into a major threat to global public health.

Keywords: dengue virus,antibody dynamics,viral diversity
Syllabification in Greek: Αn experimental investigation of how orthography messes with abstract representations (SIGMA)

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: Norway,Greece
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): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

When speakers syllabify a word, they are expected to rely on their implicit knowledge of how their phonological grammar treats certain sound sequences; yet, they often produce or accept as well-formed alternatives that may come into conflict with grammar rules. Interestingly, such “divergent” variants seem to be influenced by prescriptive hyphenation rules. SIGMA examines the influence of hyphenation on the perception and production of syllable boundaries taking Standard Modern Greek as a case study. The speakers’ varying preferences will be revealed via large-scale experimental tasks addressing participants of diverse literacy backgrounds and employing novel methodologies (language games, judgments using a Likert scale) for the first time in research on Greek syllabification. Intra- and cross-speaker variation will be modeled within Gradient Harmonic Grammar, which assumes that abstract representations ‒here, innovatively, structural components of the syllable‒ have a gradient activity level that affects their probability of realization. Thus, instead of selecting the “correct” form and discarding all others, this model generates variants with different chances to emerge. The findings will be incorporated into a concise guide offering an up-to-date description of syllabification rules, introducing variation as a possibility. SIGMA’s experimental methodology and theoretical assumptions can be extended to the study of a wide range of linguistic phenomena and populations, including individuals with speech pathologies or speakers of L2/heritage Greek. Beyond its significant scientific impact, its applications, especially to education, will have major societal and economic impact, as the project paves the way for revising educational resources, including tailored materials for atypical/non-native populations. These enhanced materials will be exploitable by official educational bodies in Greece and abroad, in curricula for Greeks of diaspora or language learning apps.

Keywords: phonology orthography interface,syllabification,hyphenation rules,greek syllable structure,production experiments,perception experiments,phonological variation,gradient harmonic grammar
the Onset of Prebiotic chEmistry iN Space (OPENS)

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: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999614.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999614.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The question of the origin of life has intrigued human beings for centuries. Life appeared on Earth about 3.8 billion years ago, but we ignore the process that made it possible. Recent theories propose that primitive Earth was a huge chemical reactor where a high diversity of precursor components progressively turned into primordial metabolic, self-replicating, and membrane-bounded systems. The origin of these components is debated. They could be formed endogenously or exogenously. It is remarkable that life appeared on Earth soon after the arrival of tones of extraterrestrial organic material on its surface by the impact of meteorites and comets and thus, exogenous delivery is considered a decisive step in the origin of life. This idea is supported by the detection of amino acids, nucleobases and sugars in meteorites and comets. It has been proposed that the chemical composition of comets could be inherited from the parental, interstellar molecular cloud core. But what molecules of prebiotic interest can be formed in interstellar space? And which ones could be inherited from the initial conditions of star and planet formation? OPENS is an interdisciplinary project that will discover what prebiotic molecules are present in the interstellar medium (ISM) and are inherited by Solar-system precursors. Our novel approach integrates astronomical observations, laboratory experiments of ices, quantum chemical computations and theoretical modeling. This project is very timely since it will exploit ultra-sensitive, broadband spectral surveys recently obtained with IRAM 30m and Yebes 40m, and data from ALMA and JVLA large programs and from a JWST ERS project. The detection in the ISM of the prebiotic compounds essential for the emergence of life, will pave the way for future laboratory studies in prebiotic chemistry, and will have important implications for our understanding of how life could originate on our planet and how likely it is to emerge elsewhere in the Universe.

Keywords: astrochemistry,prebiotic chemistry,complex networks theory,astrobiology,star formation,jwst
FaradaIC: Miniaturising Gas Sensors to enable new sensing possibilities in IoT devices (FaradaIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Serbia
Call: EIC Accelerator Open (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3507500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2455250.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

FaradaIC is bringing to the market the first miniaturised electrochemical O2 gas sensor to enable new sensing opportunities across different industries where a small, chip-based sensor is demanded (breathing devices, fitness, medical, hydrogen economy, etc). Gas sensors today are too large and expensive for the IoT devices that device manufacturers want to build. This problem is particularly painful when O2 gas sensing is needed since no miniaturised, cost-effective, chip-based O2 gas sensor is available commercially. We are combining the world of cutting-edge synthetic chemistry and advanced materials with the world of semiconductor manufacturing and microfabrication to achieve smaller, cost-effective and power-efficient gas sensor technology. We are the first company worldwide that has successfully miniaturised the electrochemical variety and our goal is to lead the next sensor revolution with our gas sensing platform, untapping all the potential of gas sensing in multiple markets

Keywords: ionic liquids,polymer materials,electrochemistry,microfabrication,gas sensors,sensors,breath analysis
High Efficiency Low Emission Nautical Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (HELENUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,France,Norway,United Kingdom,Malta
Call: Enabling the full integration of very high power fuel cells in ship design using co-generation and combined cycle solutions for increased efficiency with multiple fuels (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15670245.0
EU funding (EUR): 14866244.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The HELENUS project will build, integrate and demonstrate a 500kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) module operating in cogeneration (combined heat and power) mode, in an MSC World class series ocean cruise vessel. The SOFC will be fully integrated- spatially, electrically, and thermally- into the ship design. SOFCs are the most efficient chemical energy converters available today, and are also highly fuel-flexible- thereby remaining highly relevant for the future of waterborne transport. The HELENUS demonstrator will achieve a TRL of 7 at the end of the project, with extended field testing already planned to reach TRL8 by 2028-2029. Success of this project will enable upscaling of mature SOFC technology in ocean cruise liners to as high as 20MW, by as early as 2029. This can unlock over 23% total fuel savings (assuming a hybrid 20MW SOFC+60MW ICE energy system) over a state-of-the-art energy system with only ICEs. The HELENUS consortium involves diverse and accomplished stakeholders representing the entire value chain from technology development to field implementation- creating a rapid pathway towards exploitation and commercialisation. HELENUS will also undertake extensive simulation, experimental (using an 80kW scaled-down SOFC module), and analytical efforts to demonstrate the applicability of the developed SOFC solution (i) upon significant scale-up (10 MW and beyond), (ii) over duty cycles of alternate applications such as dredging- and offshore- vessels, and (iii) using carbon-neutral fuels with potential for future maritime uptake. Experimental results will be complemented by application case- and lifecycle performance- analyses to assess the broader impact of the technology on waterborne transport. Therefore, HELENUS creates a technological and regulatory roadmap towards a maritime future with scaled-up clean energy systems operating on renewable fuels – thereby fostering innovation and significantly boosting the competitiveness of the EU maritime industry

Keywords: solid oxide fuel cells cogeneration combined heat and electricity cruise ship maritime demonstrator fuel flexibility
Complex lipid membranes for science and technology (CLIMB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,France,Sweden,Austria,Norway,Israel,United States,Spain
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3486528.0
EU funding (EUR): 3258540.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

“CLIMB-Complex lipid membranes for science and technology” is a doctoral network of leading European lipid-research laboratories with highly complementary research expertise and training capabilities, which will allow participating PhD students to develop a wide range of research and transferable skills attractive to employers in both academic and industrial sectors. The research themes focus on the hypothesis that comprehensive understanding of the role of compositional complexity on “yet to be explored” structural properties and membrane-driven interactions is key to developing complex lipid-based nanomaterials that mimic the cellular environment and function as high-performance sustainable materials. A central aspect of the CLIMB programme is the development and physicochemical characterization of structure and stability of aggregates formed by novel lipid mixtures including natural extracts and novel protective polymer/peptoid-based coatings. Scientific results will be made available to non-academic partners to assess its possible translation into applications in the fields of mRNA delivery, bio-sensor development, and “green” formulations, areas in line with some of the grand challenges identified by EU. These objectives will be achieved by combining advanced and complementary experimental approaches from chemistry, physics, biology, and computational sciences. Through close collaboration with a network of both small and large industrial partners, the trainees will receive direct hands-on experience, and will gain insights into how lipid-based materials are used in innovative applications. In summary, CLIMB aims to advance the current knowledge on the interplay between structure, functions, interaction, and compositional complexity in lipid membrane. The generated results will contribute to important knowledge transfer between academia and the companies involved, promoting and increasing the success rate for innovations of grand societal challenges.

Keywords: lipids membranes,membrane protein interactions,rna delivery,antimicrobial peptides
The housing-wealth nexus: the new inequality paradigm and policies for positive change (Housing-Wealth-Nexus)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Poland,Portugal,Argentina,United States,Italy,Canada,Greece
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1803600.0
EU funding (EUR): 1803600.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The primary goal of the project is to establish a cross-sectoral network of organisations across Europe, South America and North America to generate and shape conceptual and empirical evidence on sustainable and bottom-up approaches to address both the current housing crisis and the resulting inequalities caused by housing markets. House prices have risen dramatically, leading to a housing emergency that has been identified by the European Commission as one of the most pressing societal challenges. Evidence shows that both the share of households with no property ownership and the share of households with multiple properties have increased. This suggests that some actors are using housing as an asset to store and generate wealth, while at the same time exacerbating inequalities between those who own property and those who do not, the former particularly affecting younger generations. These cohorts face a lack of home ownership, stagnating wages and escalating house prices, with important implications for their life trajectories. Against this background, it seems crucial to develop and implement policies aimed at reducing housing inequalities, which is the overall objective of this project. To achieve this, the empirical and conceptual work will focus on three complementary pillars, namely (i) understanding market actors and their strategies to accumulate wealth through housing; (ii) exploring the consequences for wealth inequality using an intersectionality approach; and (iii) developing bottom-up alternatives and policy solutions for positive change. To this end, we approach housing from a variety of disciplines and methodologies, including geography, sociology, economics, public policy and urban planning. The network will draw on the experience of grassroots collectives, particularly housing organisations. They bring invaluable expertise in community and political engagement, making their involvement a vital asset to the project.

Keywords: housing financialisation,short term rentals,public policies
Astrocent Plus -- Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre (Astrocent Plus)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Poland,France,Italy,Germany,Canada
Call: Teaming for Excellence (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The prime objective of the project is to uplift the existing Centre of Excellence AstroCeNT by transforming it into a fully independent, interdisciplinary, new legal entity: “Astrocent Plus — Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre”. Astrocent Plus will engage in cutting-edge research and development in astroparticle physics and in related aspects of innovative technology, addressing global challenges, such as healthcare, climate change and sustainable sources of energy. As a fully autonomous entity with a modern professional management and administrative structure, it will be the first scientific institution in astroparticle physics supported by Teaming for Excellence and the first one in the field in Poland. Acting in close cooperation with world-leading consortium partners, Astrocent Plus will be embedded in a network of international collaborations involved in frontier research, probing the invisible Universe through neutrino, cosmic-ray, gravitational-wave and dark matter detection. AstroCeNT and the field have a proven record of medical and commercial applications and after the uplift will bring further high-impact benefits to society and economy. The buildup of internationally-rooted research capacity, gained through strategic partnerships, will position the Centre to achieve a significant, measurable, improvement in research and innovation culture and long-term financial sustainability, in part through commercialisation. The Centre will improve mobility and gender balance, train new cadres of highly-qualified researchers in science and hi-tech industry, promote innovation and cooperation between scientists and industry and help Poland and the EU attain a competitive position in the global value chains. With modern management practices, Astrocent Plus will become the main hub for the rapidly-developing field of particle astrophysics and a role model for Poland and the region for excellence in basic sciences and fruitful cooperation with industry.

Keywords: astroparticle physics,gravitational waves,dark matter,wimps,neutrinos,cosmic rays,seismic sensors,liquid argon detectors,silicon photomultipliers,quantum computing