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Blockchain4Biodiversity: A Digital Farmers’ Market Incentivizing Sustainable Innovations with Indigenous Seeds (ReSeed)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 81.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1588500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1588500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Agrobiodiversity, particularly farmers’ indigenous seeds and associated know-how (ISK), hosts a wealth of plant genetic resources that contribute to global food security and sustainable agriculture. While indigenous seeds can be preserved in seed banks, problems of viability over prolonged storage and rapid climate change necessitate on-farm (in situ) conservation. However, farmers face dwindling economic incentives to cultivate and thereby conserve ISK in situ: ISK is ineligible for protection under intellectual property laws and there are currently no systems in place for tracking the end use to which ISK are put (e.g. end-user consumption or downstream research). The fundamental problem here is in tracing who the first farmer (group) was that put an ISK on the “market”, who accessed it, and what was done with it. Using features of blockchain technology that can help track the flow of ISK in a decentralized, transparent and immutable way, my goal is to develop and test a technical specification for a first-of-its-kind digital farmers’ market (ReSeed) that (i) facilitates equitable and traceable transfers of farmers’ ISK, and (ii) incentivizes honest reporting-back of downstream research and innovation therewith. Using a mixed methods research approach, I will conduct original empirical research with suppliers and buyers of ISK to co-compile technical features and incentives that will inform ReSeed’s design. I will also demonstrate how ReSeed can be integrated into international regulatory frameworks with minimal legal amendments, and create a governance model, including ethics guidelines for its adoption and implementation in small farmers’ communities. ReSeed will build on my 12-year research on means of incentivizing sustainable innovations with indigenous seeds. It will promote in situ conservation, research, and innovation with agrobiodiversity, acknowledge and add value to farmers’ ISK, and bring economic and environmental benefits to small farmers.

Keywords: agrobiodiversity,incentives,seed treaty,indigenous seeds,small farmers,access and benefit sharing,intellectual property,blockchain
Co-constructing secure small-scale fisheries: indicators and socio-bio-economic models in the North-West Mediterranean (CoFis)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Despite their crucial role, Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) in the Mediterranean face numerous challenges with lack of quality data, decline in their numbers and growing competition with other maritime activities among others. In an attempt to solve these problems and secure SSF, several international policy initiatives and research focus has been paid in the last decades. Currently, there are multiple methodologies to gain knowledge on them by assessing their status and simulating scenarios of change. However, the involvement of stakeholders in their construction and the integration of the social dimension remains highly poor. CoFis aims to enhance North-West Mediterranean SSF status by co-constructing fishery indicators and socio-bio-economic models together with fishery stakeholders. To carry out this research, the fellow relies on her background and the extraordinary resources provided by host expertise on fishery science, indicators and ecosystem models. This project will enable Dr. Cánovas-Molina to broaden her expertise on fishery science, to learn new methodologies for SSF improvement of status as well as to meet future challenges on stakeholder engagement in fishery science and management. This combination of expertise is unique, multidisciplinary and multisector, and thus will be a milestone in Dr. Cánovas-Molina career towards an independent scientist of high international visibility.

Keywords: small scale fisheries stakeholder engagement fishery indicators bio economic models mediterranean
Timing the Economic, Cultural and Environmental patterns of Agropastoralism development in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands (AGROCHRONO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1650188.0
EU funding (EUR): 1650188.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The emergenceThe emergence of an agropastoral way of life in South West Asia from the late 10th millennium BCE revolutionised the social organisation of prehistoric communities. The spread of this new economic and cultural model followed several trajectories. A key region comprised between the Zagros mountains of the Iranian Plateau to the Indus Valley in the plains of Pakistan, known as Indo-Iranian borderlands (IIBL), is yet poorly explored. Current knowledge of agropastoralism dynamics and dispersal in this area remains fragmentary due to the lack of a robust chronological frame drawing temporal links between the settlements. The AgroChrono project particularly explores the development of agropastoralism among agropastoral societies of the 7th to 4th millennium BCE in the IIBL around four research themes: (i) The chronology to resolve the time frame of early agropastoral occupations in this region; (ii) The economy to document human subsistence practices with the exploitation of domestic resources; (iii) The palaeoenvironment setting and variations that may have influenced the settlement patterns and availability of natural resources necessary for their subsistence; (iv) The cultural and economic links between the various settlements by gathering all the archaeological datasets available. All these aspects are investigated using a combination of classical archaeological, bioarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental methods, together with the latest developments in biomolecular, isotopic and chronometric techniques. It particularly includes the next stage of development for compound-specific radiocarbon analyses of archaeological and environmental matrices, a state-of-the-art method essential for resolving the local problematics regarding the chronology. All the generated data will be modelled to test various scenarios on the emergence of agropastoralism in the IIBL and to determine if this resulted from a single cultural diffusion or local independent trajectories.

Keywords: agropastoralism,domestication,neolithic,chalcolithic,indo iranian borderlands,chronology,radiocarbon,subsistance,dairy economy,ceramics,bioarchaeology,lipid residue analysis,stable carbon isotope,vegetation,palaeoenvironment
Training the next generation of technological scientists to achieve Societal, Energy, Environmental, industrial and Digital transitions (SEED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: France,Australia,Belgium
Call: MSCA COFUND 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-COFUND-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4032000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4032000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

SEED is a 60-month interdisciplinary, international and intersectoral Innovative Doctoral Training programme provided at IMT Atlantique, co-funded by MSCA programme, academic and industrial partners. It offers 40 Early-Stage-Researcher (ESR) positions spread over 2 calls (2023-24 and 2024-25). ESRs will be hosted, trained and supervised in one of the research groups of IMT Atlantique and will be seconded, trained and co-supervised by academic and/or industrial partners. By being “bottom-up”, the perimeter of disciplines is intentionally open. The current list of committed associated partners will be enriched by associated partners to join later the consortium and chosen by the ESRs for the relevance of a possible secondment, training and/or co-supervision. ESRs have the opportunity to benefit from a doctoral training built on a 4I dimension: (i) interdisciplinarity thanks to interdisciplinary thesis subjects, (ii) international with a mandatory secondment abroad, (iii) intersectoral with short visits to private partners and/or industrial co-supervision and/or an intersectoral secondment, (iv) innovation with topics anchored into real-world challenges; with a new entrepreneurship training and the support of an incubator. This 4I dimension is complemented with an innovative “7-pillar-based” training programme containing the scientific and transferable skills needed to train the future generation of enablers of change through the major socio-economic transformations. SEED programme funds interdisciplinary topics, crossing Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, and/or engineering and physical sciences, and/or human and social sciences. SEED programme fully aligns with the RIS3 of Brittany and Pays de la Loire Regions and contributes to train the next generation of scientists as "Responsible actors of change", equipped with the necessary skills to face future challenges posed by the Societal, Energy, Environmental, industrial and/or Digital transitions.

Keywords: digital energy environment industry societal challenges innovation international intersectoral entrepreneurship
METAL MATRIX NANO-COMPOSITE COATINGS UTILIZATION AS ALTERNATIVE TO HARD CHROMIUM (MOZART)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Greece,Belgium,Türkiye,Germany,United Kingdom,Austria
Call: Safe- and sustainable-by-design metallic coatings and engineered surfaces (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4660537.5
EU funding (EUR): 4660536.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The MOZART project proposes sustainable coating solutions for replacement of hard chromium in specific applications based on nano-composite electroplating processes. Nano-composite coatings are potential candidates as durable protective coatings in applications where high wear and corrosion resistance is needed. Their significant advantage compared to other alternative solutions to HC is that they can be produced from the existing infrastructure of plating shops by applying low-cost modification in the lines for the safe integration of nano-particles, keeping thus the investment level low. The MOZART project proposes a multidisciplinary approach for achieving high quality durable composite coatings as replacement to hard chromium. The proposed technologies have been already validated in the lab scale (TRL 3) on previous EC, national or institutional projects and will reach TRL 5 by the end of the project, validated in pilot scale and real demonstrators. The proper integration and combination of these technologies will bring the nano-composite coatings to the desired technology maturity. More specifically during the MOZART project a combination of technologies will be used under a Safe & Sustainable by Desing strategy: In-silico method (Artificial Intelligence and Simulations), on-line monitoring technologie, chemical functionalization of nanoparticles and advance electroplating techniques. The novel nano-composite coatings will be tested in demonstrators introduced from companies (SMEs or LEs) in the field of manufacturing, automotive and machinery.

Keywords: electrodeposition,ni matrix coatings,reach compliance,safe and sustainable by desing,manufacturing
Imination Reactions Mimicking Reversible Histone K-PTMs (ImMiRevKPTM)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Nature makes use of covalent additions of functional groups to proteins for regulating essential processes like cellular signalling and protein folding/degradation. Most of these post-translational modifications (PTMs) are enzymatically-reversible, with the coupled catalytic processes being fulfilled by antagonistic enzymes (e.g., methylase-demethylase pair). This dynamic behaviour allows for the correct metabolic equilibrium, as an unbalanced PTM-machinery is indicative of some severe diseases. Such a complex auto-regulated system is the result of millions of years of evolution that has allowed for highly efficient and site-selective functionalizations. Nevertheless, selective covalent bond formation in a substrate with multiple competitive sites is an intricate endeavour in the absence of auxiliary enzymes or other sacrificial agents. Dynamic Covalent Chemistry could be a major asset for overcoming this research bottleneck, as the reversible nature of the reactions involved can drive the functionalization to the most thermodynamically favoured site. Most proteins contain Lys (K) residues with terminal amino groups suitable for derivatization. In particular, histone K-PTMs are crucial for controlling gene expression, with the most common modifications being acetylation and methylation. The proposed work will explore the reversible modification of histones using aldehydes that contain within their structure the functional groups required for the recognition by biological “readers”. For instance, aldehydes with carboxylate and trimethylated ammonium groups will be examined to mimic naturally occurring K-succinylation and K-trimethylation. This approach is still unexploited due to the lability of imine bonds in physiological water. However, several important biological processes are governed by the formation of imino/iminium reversible bonds with pyridoxal-5′-phosphate (PLP) derivatives, inferring that this sort of chemistry is possible in protein microenvironments.

Keywords: dynamic covalent chemistry constitutional dynamic chemistry host guest molecular recognition imines self sorting combinatorial chemistry macrocycles bioorganic chemistry bioconjugations histones
Simon b. Semah Duran’s Polemic with Islam (QuM)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Proposed here is a thoroughgoing analysis of the second section of R. Simon b. Semah Duran’s polemical work Qeshet u-Magen. The academic literature has much to say about the first section of Qeshet u-Magen, which deals with Christianity; its treatment of the second section, however, which concerns Islam, is much reduced. To correct this lacuna, the proposed study will demonstrate that Duran knew Arabic and consulted Islamic sources, assess his command of these sources, investigate his use of Jewish and, possibly, Christian sources and Hebrew translations of Islamic sources in order to investigate the extent of his originality, and discuss the strategies and tactics that Duran brought to his polemic with Islam. This comprehensive research project will enhance our knowledge and understanding of Qeshet u-Magen, its author, and the Jewish–Muslim polemic tradition in the medieval era, and will elevate the polemic with Islam in Qeshet u-Magen to the place that it deserves in the academic literature.

Keywords: jewish muslim polemic,qeshet u magen,duran
Understanding Dynamic Processes at Nanoscale Working Interfaces for Solar Energy Conversion (DynNano)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1988500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1988500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To slow down global warming and to overcome the reliance on fossil fuels, a transition to a carbon neutral society fueled by renewable energy sources will be crucial. Therefore, the conversion of solar energy to storable, energy-dense fuels will be an important step to satisfy the need for clean and reliable power. Economically viable systems for solar-to-chemical conversion often base on thin film photoelectrodes with highly complex internal architectures. The combination of different length scales of fundamental physical processes and inherent film heterogeneities results in a complex micro- and nanoscale behavior, which often controls critical processes of the macroscale device. The typical macroscale characterization of material properties conceals important insights into structural, compositional, and optoelectronic heterogeneity at the nanoscale as well as into local photoelectrochemical reaction processes and material stability. To provide a comprehensive portrait of the elementary steps associated with light-to-chemical energy conversion at their natural length scales and under working conditions, DynNano will launch a multimodal research program by leveraging a complementary suite of emerging nanoscale techniques for in-situ and operando characterization of energy materials. The approach will be applied to novel transition metal oxynitride semiconductors, which are poised to overcome efficiency and stability limitations of pure oxides and pure nitrides. By thoroughly correlating their nanoscale and macroscale properties, DynNano will establish the link between nanoscale processes and macroscopic performance of photoelectrochemical systems. With the gained understanding, DynNano aims at closing the photoelectrochemical cycle at the nanoscale using precisely microstructured photoelectrodes for standalone water splitting. Overall, DynNano will provide the knowledge basis for rational development of efficient, stable, and scalable solar fuel devices.

Keywords: photoelectrochemistry,solar water splitting
Scalable quantum computing with continuous variable cluster states (ClusterQ)

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: Denmark
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2792416.0
EU funding (EUR): 2792416.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Measurement-based quantum computation is a highly promising approach to quantum computing as it simply performs quantum processing directly through the measurements of a multi-partite entangled cluster state and thereby circumvents the complex unitary dynamics of conventional gate-based quantum computers. However, despite significant progress over the last decade in devising new strategies for measurement-based quantum computing, significant conceptual and technical challenges still remain for realizing up-scaled versions that reach the quantum advantage regime where it outperforms classical computation. In ClusterQ we aim to overcome these challenges using continuous variable three-dimensional entangled cluster states. Based on our recent work on generating and exploiting extremely large two-dimensional clusters states we aim to make conceptual breakthroughs along three different directions. First, we deterministically generate highly scalable three-dimensional cluster states of different topological structures, and explore their many-body behaviour and usefulness for quantum computing. Next, we use the three-dimensional cluster states combined with hybrid detection technologies to demonstrate new quantum boson sampling algorithms – a near-term quantum computing algorithm allowing for a demonstration of quantum computational supremacy – and finally, we explore, theoretically and experimentally, a novel strategy for fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation using surface-codes in 3D cluster states. ClusterQ aims to position the continuous variable measurement-based approach to quantum information processing in the field of front-running candidates for NISQ (noisy, intermediate-scale quantum) computing and, in the longer term, fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Keywords: continuous variable optical quantum information cluster states and multi partite entangled states measurement based quantum computing