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Just transition to a green and digital future for all - READJUST - Hop-ON (READJUST - Hop-ON)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Poland
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 216105.0
EU funding (EUR): 211303.12
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The widening partner's involvement enhances the project's capacity for more future-oriented and more resilient policy analysis and co-creation. In a nutshell, the 4CF will provide a process for testing READJUST solutions (such as the PAET roadmap or policy measures targeting Mobility and Agrifood) in diverse possible futures of post-Twin Transition (scenarios set in 2050). Future-proofing activities will involve READJUST stakeholders allowing them to get fresh perspectives and insights on Twin Transition trajectories in the period of 2025-2050, as well as on potential inequalities, gains, enablers and blockers thereof. READJUST Observatory will benefit from future-proofing methodologies (e.g. scenario analysis, Futures Wheel, Wind Tunneling) and READJUST stakeholders will get access to inspirational and reliable tools for future-oriented policy analysis, assessment, and co-creation. In addition, the visibility and representation of WideThe widening partner's involvement enhances the project's capacity for more future-oriented and thus more resilient policy analysis and co-creation. In a nutshell, the new partner will provide a process for testing READJUST solutions (such as the PAET roadmap or policy measures targeting Mobility and Agrifood) in diverse possible futures (scenarios) of post-Twin Transition. Future-proofing activities will involve READJUST stakeholders allowing them to get fresh perspectives and insights on Twin Transition trajectories, as well as on potential inequalities, gains, enablers and blockers thereof. READJUST Observatory will benefit from future-proofing methodologies (e.g. scenario analysis, Futures Wheel, Wind Tunneling) and READJUST stakeholders will get access to inspirational and reliable tools for future-oriented policy analysis, assessment, and co-creation. The hoped for outputs are: more resilient policy recommendations and replicable practices that can be readily adopted by stakeholders from policy-making and corporate environments.

Keywords: foresight knowledge future proofing twin transition impact assessment resilient policies participatory engagement scenario building anticipation uncertainty
The Invisible Trace. Writings by Women Artists of the Avant-Garde in 20th-Century Latin America (The Invisible Trace)

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: Germany,Brazil,Mexico,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 287230.32
EU funding (EUR): 287230.32
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The Invisible Trace: Writings by Women Artists of the Avant-Garde in 20th-Century Latin America analyzes the long-standing neglect and undervaluation of women artists within the dominant art historical canon through a counter-archival approach informed by a Latin American perspective. By focusing on the overlooked writings of Maria Martins (Brazil/United States), Suzanne Roussi Césaire (Martinique/France), and Leonora Carrington (United Kingdom/Mexico), this project aims to challenge entrenched hierarchies of visibility and advance reparative memory politics in the arts. It endeavors to recover, reassess and study these artists’ dispersed written traces, which transcend conventional textual and disciplinary boundaries, bridging the gap between visual arts archives and literary and textual ones. Committed to knowledge transfer and societal engagement, the project not only enhances our understanding of the contributions of migrant, Latin American, and Black women to 20th-century avant-garde movements and networks but also develops an innovative archival methodology that is applicable across disciplines and beneficial to diverse marginalized subjects and collectives.

Keywords: latin american studies archival theories and methods counter archives avant garde women artists genetic criticism
The role of animals in the Arab aGricultural Revolution in Al-Siqilliyya. The introduction of new sheep husbandry practices and breeds, and the spread of Arab culture into medieval Sicily. (AGRAS)

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 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Animal husbandry has been a core productive area of the European economy since the introduction of domestic animals during the Neolithic. In today's geopolitical scenario, past husbandry regimes can provide essential insights into improving the resilience of animal production, adapting to local resource availability while maximising yields. The research context of this project is medieval Sicily. Located in the centre of the Mediterranean, Sicily has always been a melting pot of different cultures; the clear affirmation of Byzantine, Arab, and Norman/Swabian rules during the Middle Ages entailed the development of distinct socio-cultural and economic models, each influenced by and adapted from previous practices. This makes Sicily a primary case-study for the understanding of the integration of different cultures and the impact of different politico-economic systems. Between the 7th and the 13th c. AD, the Mediterranean Basin witnessed an important transformation in landscape use and its management defined in the 1970s as ‘the Arab agricultural Revolution’. This concept has been revised and nuanced since, and it was probably a more gradual process than initially thought. In contrast to other materials, animal bones and teeth have been overlooked, despite they provide direct evidence of dietary habits, landscape management strategies, and economic dynamics of the past. Preliminary research suggests that the Arabs managed to produce bigger animals (and thus higher meat yields) across the Mediterranean, but how? For the first time, AGRAS will develop a multidisciplinary research combining traditional archaeozoology, collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS), isotopes (oxygen, strontium, carbon and nitrogen), dental meso and microwear to understand the reasons enabling Arabs to produce higher meat yields in a context of demographic increase and competition for resources on a European scale.

Keywords: zooarchaeology,sheep husbandry,zooms,isotopes,dental mesowear,3d dental microwear,middle ages,arab period,sicily,mediterranean
Eco-evolutionary feedback as an engine for maintaining biological diversity in heterogeneous landscapes: toward landscape-level theory of eco-evolutionary dynamics (EcoEvo-DynaMosaic)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the last two decades, studies have revealed that evolutionary changes can occur rapidly on ecological timescales. This indicates that ecological and evolutionary processes can interact and influence one another; this phenomenon is called eco-evolutionary dynamics. For eco-evolutionary dynamics to occur, populations need to harbour sufficient standing genetic variation. Many factors influence genetic variation, one of which is spatial population structure. Many populations living in heterogeneous landscapes occur as spatially subdivided populations connected by dispersal, known as metapopulations. Habitat network structure (spatial configuration of habitat patches) influences not only the demography of metapopulations but also the distribution of genetic materials by mediating population size and gene flow. This implies that eco-evolutionarily dynamic responses may be spatially unevenly distributed in heterogeneous landscapes. The mosaic of eco-evolutionary coupling could be partly predictable from habitat network structure and the movement of organisms. The goal of this project is to investigate how habitat network structure can shape the spatial structure of standing genetic variation in metapopulations and, consequently, how it can influence spatial eco-evolutionary dynamics. This project will build a theoretical understanding of the effects of major dimensions of habitat network structure on genetic variation and local adaptation in metapopulations. The model will be applied to ecologically and genetically well-characterised empirical metapopulations studied by the supervisor. This project will combine eco-evolutionary metapopulation modelling and genomic and field population data to mechanistically understand the role of space in eco-evolutionary dynamics. I will conduct research in France for the first time, gain new skills in genomics and population genetics, and sharpen and transfer my existing modelling and remote sensing skills at the host organisation.

Keywords: eco evolutionary dynamics,mathematical and computational modelling,spatially structured populations,metapopulations,metacommunities,population genetics,genomics
measuriNg nEURal dynamics with label-free OpticaL multI-DomAin Recordings (NEUROLIDAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1634825.0
EU funding (EUR): 1634825.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The growing societal burden of brain diseases is one of the most significant health challenges globally. To help diagnose or treat these pathologies, there is widespread agreement that a deeper understanding is needed on the origin of neural disorders linked to electrical neural activity, neuromodulators dynamics and molecular alterations. To this aim, the combination of optical methods with genetically expressed molecular probes has enabled great advances in understanding brain mechanisms. However, the existing tools fail in capturing a comprehensive picture of multifaceted neural dynamics. In addition, the translational applications of these technique are hindered by the need for exogenous reporters. As a result, there is a major scientific and technological gap that obstructs the full exploitation of cutting edge neuro technologies to relieve the impact of brain diseases in the human population. To bridge this gap, this project proposes an innovative approach to monitor neural dynamics in the mammalian brain using label free light matter interactions without exogenous reporters. To do this, I will develop a radically novel strategy harnessing the temporal and spectral dynamics of light stimuli interacting with the brain through photonic neural interfaces enhanced by integrated optical nano modulators. This approach will surpass the limitations of existing techniques in monitoring the physical complexity of neural signals. I will aim at three main objectives: O1) developing label free molecular sensing in arbitrary deep brain regions O2) developing label free, multifunctional, ultrathin, all-optical probes for dissecting the local micro-circuitry O3) developing label free, large-scale all-optical systems for multifunctional recordings at the global brain scale.

Keywords: neurophotonics,optical neural implants
Digital twin politics: Unlocking the full potential of digital twins for sustainable ocean futures (TwinPolitics)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999734.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999734.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the light of time pressure, persisting data gaps, and challenges to the implementation of global sustainability goals for ocean protection, the European Commission is currently building a prototype digital twin of the ocean (DTO). The EU DTO is part of a larger set of substantial global and national efforts to develop highly accurate digital models of the ocean for ‘better decision-making’ and an emerging high-tech knowledge infrastructure that turns various types of ocean data into prediction tools for public and private actors with a stake in the transition towards sustainable ocean futures. However, DTOs, although needed to advance ocean science and governance, are a political issue in themselves. Firstly, DTOs run the risk of perpetuating global inequalities because the capacities to develop, access, and use ocean data, information, and science are unequally distributed. Secondly, DTOs may create an array of legal and political uncertainties regarding data access, ownership, security, and sharing. Thirdly, DTOs should be embedded into a set of norms, rules, and values to prevent abuse and misuse in practice — a neglected aspect in the current ‘twin rush’. TwinPolitics will overcome shortcomings in the study of DTOs by examining both the socio-technical making of DTOs for national scientific and political purposes and the politics of developing and using DTOs in an international setting. TwinPolitics will re-conceptualise digital twins as socio-technical relations operating under a specific set of institutional, political, and economic conditions and within a hybrid research, data, and observation environment. TwinPolitics will break new ground by developing a methodological approach that combines, on the one hand, qualitative and quantitative research on the practices, policies, and politics presiding over digital twins in national/regional contexts (EU, USA, China) with, on the other hand, the study of DTO use during multilateral negotiations.

Keywords: digital twin,ocean governance,marine environmental protection,multilateral negotiations,science policy interfaces,the north south divide,data driven policy making
Maglev-Derived Systems for Rail (MaDe4Rail)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Europe's Rail
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EU-RAIL (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,France,Spain,Switzerland,Germany,Poland,Netherlands,Sweden
Call: Technological development of Maglev-derived Systems (HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1989880.86
EU funding (EUR): 1499328.12
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The MaDe4Rail project aims to explore non-traditional and emerging maglev-derived systems (MDS) and to evaluate the technical feasibility and effectiveness to introduce MDS in Europe under safety aspects and technical-economic performance. Identification and benchmarking of the different maglev-derived technologies for transportation systems and their state of development, definition of a common architecture and specification of the subsystems and technologies needed for its commercialization are expected in the MaDe4Rail Project. Moreover, a risk analysis and identification of needs for standardization on safety and security in operations of MDS will be performed. Also, the assessment of the technical and economic feasibility to introduce these systems into the common European mobility network will be implemented as well as the development of a European roadmap for the possible future implementation of MDS. Lastly, the design of the concept for an MDS vehicle subsystem and a prototype of a sample vehicle for a European use case are foreseen in this project. The MaDe4Rail project is expected to have significant impacts such as contributing to the development of MDS, promoting more sustainable passenger and freight transport and initiating a path towards the reinforcement of railway as the backbone of a multimodal, sustainable and efficient mobility network by possibly, upgrading the existing railway lines/facilities through the adoption of a maglev-derived technology. Moreover, the project fosters information exchange and growth and diffusion of knowledge. MaDe4Rail brings together a multidisciplinary group of experts from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of competences and expertise that would contribute to the success of the project such as Infrastructure Managers, Transport Authorities, Engineering and Consultancy Companies, Technological Developers and Research Centers and Universities.

Keywords: fast track bound transportation innovative transportation ultra high speed transportation future of mobility common european mobility network common architecture for maglev derived systems
World's first EXplosives atmospheres certified DRONE for robotic asset inspection (exDRONE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ALERION, a Spanish deep-tech startup, is pioneering the development of the world's first certified EX drone (ATEX, IECEx), designed specifically for inspections in explosive zones in sectors such as Oil and Gas, Hydrogen, Biofuels, Power Plants, Chemical, Mining, Manufacturing or Agriculture. This innovative technology will be marketed under a drone-as-a-service model, promising substantial cost savings and operational efficiencies for its clients. By 2030, ALERION aims to deploy a fleet of 1,000 operational exDRONES globally, establishing a significant presence in the ATEX drone inspection market savings around €2.5 billion for clients, while ALERION expects to generate around €100 million in revenue from its services. ALERION operates an R&D center with dedicated servers for ongoing development, testing, and simulation. Additionally, ALERION has established a drone production and assembly center in Urnieta with a test field that replicates relevant environments for technology demonstrations. The company obtained an SME Instrument Phase 2 that it executed between 2017 and 2019 for the development of WEGOOI, an Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy Generator Inspector. Its patents and projects include EP17382598 and ES2018/070563, and ROMAIN (H2020) and Float&M.

Keywords: inspection drone,uav,fully automated drone,infraesttructure,atex,confined spaces
Human ECM-based platform for anti-cancer drug testing - CARES (CAncer dRug tESting) (CARES)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Austria,Germany,Argentina,Finland,France,Greece
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 293742.86
EU funding (EUR): 276000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

With 2 million cancer-related deaths and an annual cost of €100 billion, cancer constitutes a major European challenge. Cancer treatments have considerably improved over the last decades, however, the success rate of new anti-cancer drugs in clinical trials remains frustratingly low, limiting the opportunities for fast and accurate development of innovative targeted cancer therapies. Our vision is to provide a bold and innovative technology that recapitulates the active part played by the human tumour microenvironment, which has crucial roles in regulating tumour initiation, propagation, and progression, through the dynamic crosstalk between the tumour cells and the extracellular matrix. CARES combines leading academic and non-academic experts in the fields of matrix biology, biomaterials, microfluidics and cancer research to establish an accurate tool to assess cancer cell responses to a variety of anti-cancer drugs. As a proof-of-concept, we will use breast cancer cells as a model system, with the perspective of extending the system to other cancers. Our final goal is to deliver a novel and user-friendly platform that, by resembling the human tumour microenvironment in early and advanced cancer stages, can predict, with unprecedented accuracy, the response of tumour cells to anti-cancer therapies in vivo. This will facilitate development and testing of new drugs and narrow the gap between translational cancer research and targeted cancer treatment, with a significant impact on society and the economy. The ambitious scientific goal will provide the background for intense trans-sectoral and interdisciplinary training of young scientists, who will be provided with an excellent translational research portfolio, allowing them to succeed both in academia and industry.

Keywords: extracellular matrix,micofluidics proteoglycans,breast cancer,tumor microenvironment