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Red feminists: communist women activists and reproductive rights struggles in post-1968 Italy and Slovenia (RedFem)

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: Slovenia,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 182717.52
EU funding (EUR): 182717.52
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In 1974, Socialist Yugoslavia became the first country to constitutionalize abortion rights as part of a host of economic, health and social infrastructure measures to foster women’s reproductive autonomy. Across the border in Italy, communist activists were a central cog in the grassroots campaign to decriminalize abortion in 1978 but stressed that society and the state had to assure the material conditions for women’s right to choose. Based on archival sources and oral history interviews, “Red feminists: communist women activists and reproductive rights struggles in post-1968 Italy and Slovenia” challenges stereotypes of the party woman to reveal a forgotten framework of engagement for reproductive rights that can illuminate present debates. It employs a historical, political and gender lens to reconstruct 1) communist women’s comprehensive understanding of reproductive autonomy and 2) ability to weave together different political subjects and spaces towards that goal on both sides of the Cold War divide. Hosted by Ljubljana’s Institute of Contemporary History with a secondment at the University of Bologna, RedFem examines communist women’s role in the constitutionalization of reproductive rights in Socialist Slovenia (1973-4) – a key component of the Yugoslav case – and in the campaign for legal abortion in Italy, with a focus on the ‘red heartland’ of Emilia-Romagna (1974-8). The grant builds on my prior work on the interweaving of communism and feminism in Italy and beyond after 1968, expanding my scope into Slovenia and ex-Yugoslavia. Training in oral history and insight into the regional (Emilia-Romagna) and local (Ljubljana; Bologna) scales add new layers to my analysis. Ultimately, the project aims to provide a counterbalance to a rights and choice-centered debate on abortion which often fails to consider the broader social and political conditions indispensable for the exercise of reproductive freedoms, constituting a resource for contemporary feminisms.

Keywords: communist women italian communism socialist slovenia yugoslavia reproductive rights reproductive justice 1970s feminism conceptual history oral history gender and politics history workshop
EVOLVE - Where did life originate from and how does it evolve? (EVOLVE)

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: Netherlands,United States,Switzerland,Canada,Germany,Czechia,United Kingdom,Sweden,Belgium,Argentina,France
Call: MSCA COFUND 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-COFUND-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2284800.0
EU funding (EUR): 2284800.0
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

How did life get started on Earth? Does life exist on other planets? How life-threatening are human-induced phenomena such as climate change and virus pandemics? These existential questions fascinate the general public and concern politicians. Recent advances in several fields of science have led to partial answers, but only an interdisciplinary approach can fully address these questions. Our previous Cofund programme oLife has made important advances in understanding the origin and evolution of life, and in the course of this exciting 3 year programme we realized that many more steps should be taken. We therefore propose a new programme EVOLVE, which will appoint 17 doctoral students in (bio)chemistry, (astro)physics and (evolutionary) ecology at the world-leading universities of Groningen and Leiden. The students will carry out top-level research on topics ranging from simulating cell-like behaviour in the laboratory to the future evolution of life on Earth and the suitability of extrasolar planets to host life. Besides their research, the students will follow a training programme to learn how to interact with scientists from other fields, and how to connect science to business and policy. They will also learn to follow modern Open Science practices for maximum impact, and to apply diversity & inclusion standards to ensure a socially safe research environment. Secondments at commercial companies, non-profit (governmental) organisations and academic institutes will prepare them for careers inside and outside academia. The EVOLVE programme is committed to the EU Green Charter for a sustainable future of our planet. We will communicate the results of the program to the scientific community, industry, policy makers, schools, and the general public through a variety of targeted media channels.

Keywords: astrobiology astrochemistry exo planetary science biophysics cell biology evolutionary biology ecology numerical analysis systems biology systems chemistry computational biology complexity science
BiObased theRmal-resistaNt food packaging (BORN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Sweden,Spain,Poland,Switzerland
Call: Nature inspired alternatives for food packaging and films for agriculture (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3433436.17
EU funding (EUR): 3291846.88
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

BORN is a bio-based low-cost polymer formulation that can be used to fabricate biodegradable thermal-resistant food packaging, as well as a variety of products that require resistance to high temperature. This is a groundbreaking innovation for biodegradable and biobased polymers that can generally withstand temperatures not higher than 50-55 °C. BORN material is produced via safe and sustainable by design, using nature inspired polymers and additives. The latter mainly consist of novel and patentable crystal nucleating agent, whose inclusion in formulations allows crystallization upon industrial processing of polymers that are otherwise amorphous. This leads to improved resistance to high temperatures (100 °C) and allows to foresee a portfolio of applications for BORN, which, for food packaging, may include compostable microwavable containers for ready-to-eat meals, as well as low-cost cups for hot beverages. BORN may be used also in agriculture (eg. filler for mulching films), for reusable consumer goods, as well as for all applications where resistance to high temperatures is mandatory. The novel BORN material will be circular, biobased, biodegradable, compostable, suitable for food contact, recyclable, as well as of low cost. Currently, there is no material and no relative technology that simultaneously fulfills all these features. This will be a breakthrough in the production and transformation of biodegradable and biobased plastics, able to disrupt the market of biobased food packaging. The proposal spans the whole BORN lifecycle, from conception and birth of sustainable additives, to design and formulation of novel sustainable materials, followed by production of lab scale prototypes and testing of their suitability for food packaging, up to their end of life. Biodegradation will be validated in open, controlled and extreme environments, also including azard assessment of materials at their end-of-life.

Keywords: nature inspired polymers,poly lactic acid,food packaging,polymer crystallization,functional properties,thermal resistance,safe and sustainable by design,biodegradability,lifecycle assessment
PeRsonalised medicine Empowerment Connecting Innovation ecoSystems across EUrope (PRECISEU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: COFUND actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Romania,Bulgaria,Italy,Belgium,Lithuania,Sweden,Netherlands,Greece,Ukraine
Call: Implementing co-funded action plans for connected regional innovation valleys (HORIZON-EIE-2023-CONNECT-03, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 22730100.0
EU funding (EUR): 11340050.0
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

The general purpose of PRECISEU is connecting innovation ecosystems across Europe to efficiently advance towards a truly personalised healthcare, transferring practices and solutions from region to region and scaling up deep-tech healthcare innovations based on advanced therapies medicinal products and health data across Europe. The PRECISEU consortium is composed of Regional Authorities and innovation players from 9 NUTS 1 and 2 regions, supported by clusters, universities, research centres and infrastructures, NGOs and networks, and engaging regional and European innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs across the EU health innovation space. Also involved as partner in the consortium, one Ukrainian Region, Rivne, represented by the Rivne Medical Cluster, has a relevant role as Ukraine is open for cooperation, innovation and joint projects for reconstruction. The European continent faces a set of challenges in terms of the swift and effective implementation of medical care, which were brought sharply into focus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare remains a concurrent gap between innovation leaders and emerging and moderate innovators (classification according to the Regional Innovation Scoreboard, RIS), which impacts all spheres (economics, social and living standards), and which requires significant expertise and knowledge as well as expansive collaboration between innovation networks and all stakeholders and communities across Europe. PRECISEU is aware that taking next steps in the development and organisation of PM is a key issue for Europe, and that more coordination efforts between key European stakeholders is necessary to foster its implementation. By focusing on health data and advanced therapies as key drivers of personalized medicine models, PRECISEU will not only provide regional ecosystems with European connectivity but will most importantly address the significant and urgent needs of the regions.

Keywords: innovation ecosystems,smart specialisation strategies,smes and start up support,inclusive innovation policies,personalised medicine,health data,atmps,patient access,healthcare transformation
SYstemic Mobilisation for Joint Biodiversity and Infrastructure (SYMBIOSIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Europe's Rail
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EU-RAIL (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Spain,Portugal,Ireland,Germany,Slovakia,United Kingdom,Greece,Poland,Italy,Sweden
Call: BIODIVERSITY (HORIZON-JU-ER-2023-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2246394.65
EU funding (EUR): 2065080.01
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

SYMBIOSIS is a pioneering interdisciplinary initiative in biodiversity, aligning with the UN's vision for responsible land use and the European Green Deal. It will build a community of practice between transport infrastructure, energy distribution and production, and biodiversity, while addressing the role of strategic planning in climate change and building resilient infrastructure. The collaborative approach will accelerate action, seamlessly integrating diverse stakeholders within the CSA framework and the EU-Rail Master Plan. SYMBIOSIS offers a holistic approach integrating biodiversity consideration through the entire lifecycle of infrastructure projects. Introducing an impact assessment tool for linear infrastructure, it promotes digitalisation, contributing to a unified European biodiversity baseline through standardised data collection, monitoring and mapping in transport and energy projects. Committed to nature-based solutions for climate-resilient infrastructure, SYMBIOSIS establishes a methodology contributing to the "theory of change", guiding decisions and facilitating information exchange for "no net loss" and "net gain" biodiversity objectives. Building on the momentum created in projects such as the EU-funded BISON project, SYMBIOSIS envisions the coexistence of sustainable infrastructure with thriving biodiversity, advocating for social, economic and environmental well-being. It provides guidance for regulatory changes in biodiversity standardisation globally, acts as a cornerstone for science-based decision-making, similar to the SOURCE platform, and will contribute to a unified European biodiversity baseline, including processes such as CSRD and supply chain management. SYMBIOSIS provides recommendations for biodiversity-related research and innovation, guiding decision-makers and investors on pathways leading to a sustainable, biodiverse future. It showcases transformative change through cross-disciplinary efforts for harmonious coexistence.

Keywords: biodiversity,sustainable infrastructure,transport,energy,climate resilience,multidisciplinary,cross sector,stakeholder engagement,digitalisation,impact assessment,nature based solutions
Forensic Intelligence and Remote Sensing Technologies for nature conservation (NATURE-FIRST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,South Africa,Ukraine,Romania,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Austria
Call: Data and technologies for the inventory, fast identification and monitoring of endangered wildlife and other species groups (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4538348.75
EU funding (EUR): 4538348.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Biodiversity is under severe pressure due to a myriad of problems, including but not limited to habitat fragmentation, overexploitation, climate change, pollution, invasive species and hunting. Changes in land and sea use can lead to conflict situations with production animals and/or human communities (human-wildlife conflict). The exploitation of natural resources brings with it illegal activities: poaching of species of flora and fauna that have a high value on the (black) market, trading of rare and exotic animals and plants and setting fire to forestry and nature areas to force land-use designation changes to agriculture or commercial uses. To ensure that ecosystems are healthy, resilient to climate change and rich in biodiversity to keep delivering the essential range of services, we need better understanding of why and where biodiversity is declining and what the key triggers are. We propose a model-driven and continuous form of ecosystem monitoring. By assessing not only numbers of species and state, but also the modelled ecological and anthropogenic processes within an ecosystem, we are able to find cause-effect relations and improve our monitoring models based on retrofits and simulations to understand changes even better. The models (Digital Twins), are thus a means for learning and the creation of context to translate environmental observations into facts and actionable information (intelligence) for site managers and policy makers. As almost all pressures on biodiversity are man-induced, we combine the domains of ecology and forensic science. This novel approach gives us access to robust scientific methods to detect and recognise (traces of) human (illegal) activities that negatively affect the environment. We will make use of remote sensing & data science (e.g AI, semantics). To ensure that theory, models and practice reinforce each other, we use an iterative approach, including many demonstrations and field-tests to gain feedback and maximize impact.

Keywords: forensics,intelligence,remote sensing,ontology,digital twin,nature conservation,natura 2000
Advanced conversion of sulphate salts in circular hydrometallurgy (ADONIS)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The EU aims to achieve climate neutrality with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, necessitating the electrification of key sectors like mobility and energy. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are crucial for this transition. To enhance strategic autonomy amid global competition and an increasingly hostile geopolitical context, the EU targets more strategic autonomy along the entire mine-to battery supply chain. This implies minimum targets for domestic extraction (10%), processing (40%) and recycling (25%) of battery raw materials. Given the strict environmental limits EU companies need to respect, a significant challenge in this mine-to-battery(-recycling) supply chain is the generation of large sulphate waste streams. Sodium sulphate is produced during lithium extraction from spodumene ores, cobalt and nickel sulphate refining, precursor cathode active material (pCAM) production for nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) batteries, and LIB recycling. Similarly, lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery production generates ammonium sulphate waste. Addressing these waste streams economically is a major challenge for EU metallurgical and battery (recycling) companies. Prof. Koen Binnemans (KU Leuven, Belgium) proposed a solution, filing a European priority patent on July 18, 2024. The patent describes a “salt splitting process” that converts sodium sulphate into sodium hydroxide and sulphuric acid, and ammonium sulphate into ammonia and sulphuric acid, using simple inorganic reactions at moderate temperatures. The invention is a prime example of a “circular hydrometallurgical process”. The ADONIS project aims to provide the proof-of-concept for this process, while demonstrating its environmental and techno-economic superiority. If successful, ADONIS could solve the sodium and ammonium sulphate waste problem for many EU companies, enhancing their ESG credentials and easing permit acquisition. Commercialising this technology would boost the EU’s envisaged strategic autonomy.
Ultrahigh-throughput exploration of metagenomic sequence space to discover and engineer novel biocatalysts and bioactive compounds (MetaExplore)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Hungary,Germany,Spain,Norway,Belgium
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4888062.51
EU funding (EUR): 4614943.32
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of MetaExplore is to provide research training for young researchers in novel experimental as well as computational methods to fully exploit the immense biotechnological potential of metagenomic sequence space, with innovative approaches on both fronts. On the experimental side, successful screening of large metagenomic libraries requires ultrahigh-throughput technologies, because low hit rates can frustrate conventional experimental formats. Here microfluidic droplet screening (allowing >10e8 picolitre assays per day, at kHz rates) is used in various formats to derive fundamental insight and achieve valorisation, along with label-free mass-spectrometric screens and liquid handling robots. On the in silico side, unprecedented availability of sequence data (e.g. more than 3 billion ORFs in the database MGnify) and machine learning will provide systematic insights based in sequence interpretation. The combination of sequence-based and functional metagenomics is extraordinarily powerful and our training programme bridges the classical divide between them. These skill sets, together with environmental DNA resources (from polar regions, hot environments, soil, marine & fresh-water and gut libraries) support campaigns to identify useful protein reagents, for green technology applications (e. g. for microplastics degradation, glycobiology or fine chemical synthesis), and healthcare (e.g. as bacteriocidal reagents or therapeutic enzymes). 11 leading academic groups and 2 industrial partners will work together in MetaExplore (and 9 companies and universities as associated partners and advisors). The unified efforts of leading stakeholders in the field of metagenomics from Europe will provide a uniquely powerful multidisciplinary training environment with critical mass to facilitate the uptake of new technologies into applied research, exposing young researchers to typical intersectorial challenges in the exploration and sustainable exploitation of biodiversity.

Keywords: functional metagenomics,biocatalysis,novel enzymes,sustainable catalytic solutions for biotechnology,antimicrobials,therapeutic proteins,proteases,hydrolases,bioinformatics