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Integrated optical coupling for low loss electro-optic interconnects (CoupledEOT)

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: Austria
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The development of electrooptic transducers, that can effectively interface between microwave and optical frequencies, is critical to upcoming quantum technologies, such as distributed quantum computing over multiple superconducting qubit processors and the inclusion of any microwave-based quantum technologies in a future quantum internet. These transducers would furthermore also benefit classical applications where sensitive all-optical detection of microwave and THz frequency signals is beneficial, such as in radars and remote sensing. However, the development of such devices has been challenging owing to the more than 5 orders of magnitude energy gap between the microwave and optical frequencies. Only a handful of quantum-signal-enabled transducers exist in a few research labs around the world with no commercial availability. In this project, we develop a critical new functionality for one of the most successful platforms, i.e. ultra-low loss electrooptic transducers based on high purity bulk optical crystals. In CoupledEOT, we will develop a new optical coupling method for high index whispering gallery mode resonators that is high efficiency, easy to operate and robust against thermal contractions. This will make the highest performance quantum transducers compatible with common packaging solutions and commercial applications both in the quantum and classical domains.
Biological Upgrading of Brewer Spent Grain into high added value products (BiOBreW)

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: Spain,Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-03
End date: 2025-03-02
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Brewer’s spent grain (BSG) is an agro-industrial by-product produced from breweries (~20 kg BSG/hlbeer). Its annual global production is estimated to be 39 million tons, with 3.4 million tons produced in the European Union. Most BSG is currently used as a low-value animal feed (35€/ton). In this context, BSG represents a promising feedstock for the production of novel added-value biomolecules. Indeed, this lignocellulosic material is composed of polyphenolic macromolecules such as ferulic (FA) and p-coumaric acids (PA), which have very important physiological functions and a market price of ~ 4000 €/Kg. BiOBreW will design novel recombinant enzymes that will allow obtaining high yields of FA and PA extraction from BSG. In addition, the widespread application of FA and PA in pharmaceutical industry is nowadays limited by their low permeability and instability. BiOBreW will overcome this limitation via innovative nano-encapsulation into nanocarriers (biocompatible and biodegradable selective polymers). The pretreated biomass obtained after the enzymatic extraction of FA and PA represents an ideal substrate for biogas production. However, electricity production from biogas will soon became economically non-feasible due to the rapid decrease in the prices of solar or wind power. In this context, the biological conversion of the methane contained in biogas into high added value products represents a novel and cost-competitive platform for biogas valorization. Halotolerant bacteria such as Methylomicrobium alkaliphilum can efficiently synthesize ectoine, one of the most valuable microbial protective compounds (market price ~ € 1,300/kg) using CH4 as the sole carbon and energy source. BiOBreW aims at enriching new high-yield ectoine producing strains and developing a new generation of high mass transfer bioreactors. BiOBreW will upgrade BSG using innovative biotechnologies and help creating new value chains in the context of circular economy in the brewery sector.

Keywords: antioxidants biogas brewer s spent grain circular economy ectoine high mass transfer bioreactors methane nano encapsulation nanotechnology recombinant enzymes
Novel Fuel-Flexible ultra-Low Emissions Combustion systems for Sustainable aviation (FFLECS)

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
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,France,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Towards a silent and ultra-low local air pollution aircraft (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1905741.25
EU funding (EUR): 1905741.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Improving Local Air Quality at airports while at the same time decarbonising aviation can be achieved by switching to sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) and hydrogen (H2), as confirmed by recent engine development programs. However, both these fuels require significant developments in the gas-turbine combustor because present technologies not only to further reduce NOx and PM emissions as expected by long-term standards and objectives but also are not normally suitable for 100% direct combustion of hydrogen. In this project, revolutionary combustor architectures will be studied, extending the preliminary results of previous Clean Sky 2 "Innovative NOx Reduction Technologies" projects in terms of scientific scope and TRL. In particular, this project will advance (i) the Lean Azimuthal Flame (LEAFinnox), a novel combustion system based on Flameless Oxidation, (ii) the Compact Helically Arranged combustoR (CHAIRlift), a new system which uses interacting lean lifted flames, and (iii) plasma and electric manipulation of the spray and of the flame stabilisation mechanism. The fuel flexibility offered by these novel concepts is key to allow for SAF and H2 operations. This unique feature will be exploited to give novel dual-fuel LTO cycle strategies and ultra-low NOx, ultra-low soot single or dual-fuel use. Experiments on available dedicated rigs and numerical work will be performed to provide knowledge at the fundamental and practical level that will allow TRL3 and higher developments at the end of the project. The project will include new CFD, low-order, and AI models, and novel stabilisation techniques ripe for commercial exploitation.

Keywords: hydrogen,saf,pm,nox,fuel flexibilty
Renovation packagEs for HOlistic improvement of EU’s bUildingS Efficiency, maximizing RES generation and cost-effectiveness (REHOUSE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: B4P (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Italy,Poland,France,Hungary,Germany,Switzerland
Call: Cost-effective, sustainable multi-functional and/or prefabricated holistic renovation packages, integrating RES and including re-used and recycled materials (Built4People) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12561346.95
EU funding (EUR): 10016536.45
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of REHOUSE is to develop and demonstrate 8 renovation packages of promising technology innovations until TRL7. The renovation packages are fully designed for a wide range of building renovation actions, including deep renovations, that overcome the main barriers that slow down the current EU renovation ratios, following circularity principles, including multi-functionality through active/passive elements integration, prefabrication and off-site construction of components and respect of buildings aesthetics, architectural and historic value. REHOUSE also implements an inclusive people-centric social engagement strategy to endow the renovation wave with a resident and owner perspective towards affordability, satisfaction and attractiveness of sustainable renovation. The renovation packages will be deployed across 4 locations serving as demonstrators located in Greece, Italy, France and Hungary. These buildings renovations include detailed design, pilot set-up, demonstration and evaluation to validate in operational conditions (social) the prototypes of the 8 renovation packages. REHOUSE proposes solutions that cover together a set of 5 renovation principles offering technically and economically affordable renovation solutions with enough flexibility to tackle almost 100 % of the building renovation challenges at EU level. The aim is to boost market uptake, scalability and replicability of REHOUSE renovation packages, linking its value proposition with critical economic, technical, social, regulatory and data security/protection aspects and barriers and propose practical recommendations on how to overcome them.

Keywords: sustainable materials,prefabrication,off site construction,res integrated,efficient hvac,circularity,renovation packages,buildings,construction,bim
Unifying Graph Databases and Causal Models (GO-Y)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2315565.0
EU funding (EUR): 2315565.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Graphs are expressive data structures representing more effectively relationships in data and enabling complex data-intensive tasks. Graphs are also a widely adopted paradigm in causal inference focusing on causal directed acyclic graphs. Causal DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs) are manually curated by domain experts, but they are not validated, stored, integrated and versioned as data artifacts in a graph data system. In the GOY (pronounced GO Why) project, I focus on a radical shift towards causality-driven graph databases, addressing the development of solid theoretical foundations and a set of adequate tools underpinning causal graph operations. To date, these two paradigms, namely causality and graph data management, are developed by entirely separate communities with different motivations: one is interested in causal analysis and inference, realized by means of ad-hoc programs and scripts on empirically validated causal graphs, while the other is interested in collecting, validating, integrating and querying graph data by means of declarative languages. These two areas are investigated in isolation although combining them creates exciting possibilities. The present proposal aims at investigating these possibilities and focuses on laying the theoretical foundations of causality-driven graph data management, a completely novel approach to data management guided by the theory of causation. Causal graphs, either provided by domain experts or extracted from the underlying observational data, are further semantically enriched, disambiguated, reconciled and used in the downstream processes of the graph database for queries, updates and analysis. Following these goals, I investigate (1) a formal causal property graph model and the extension of graph query languages to support causal graph query operators and (2) the integration, consistency and (3) versioning of causal property graphs to assist domain experts in the execution of advanced causal processes.

Keywords: database systems graph databases graph queries data integration causal models
ACTiME-Approaching Cultural Trauma in Medieval Europe (ACTiME)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ACTiME investigates collective memory and cultural trauma in late medieval European literature. For my stay in Aarhus I will focus on two Scandinavian case studies, each representing different eras and sources. The first case study focuses on the 13th century inner-Icelandic conflict termed the Sturlungaöld (Age of the Sturlungs), which saw unprecedented battles and casualties and contributed to Iceland’s subjugation by the Norwegian crown in 1262/4. This unrest will be viewed through Sturla Þórðarson’s Íslendinga saga, a prose text written in the vernacular at the late 13th century and chronicling the century’s struggle between warring Icelandic factions. Sturla Þórðarson’s text will be read as a manifestation of autobiographical memory, since he himself plays a key role in the saga. The second case study investigates the trauma caused by the 1402-1404 plague epidemic in Iceland; while Iceland evaded the mid-14th century pandemic that plagued Europe and other parts of Asia and Africa, a major outbreak of the plague occurred in the early 15th century. Since there is very little prose evidence for this era in Icelandic history, it allows for an exciting challenge; approaching the trauma of the epidemic through the diplomatic material, which chronicles the period in a manner more concise than the sagas about the 13th century. ACTiME applies observations from collective memory and cultural trauma, two fields of study that often intersect. Disability studies’ perspective on the body and health will be applied in these studies, examining how the mental and physical injuries sustained in these turbulent times were represented. Written in the periphery of continental Europe, Old Norse texts reflect a vernacular tradition that is at once singular, while exhibiting clear influences from other genres of literature. They make for a case study that allows for detailed localized research that in turn sheds light on broader intellectual and cultural impulses within Europe
Traces of Work: Developing human-centered design principles for leveraging digital traces of activity in knowledge work (TRACE-WORK)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Ireland,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-08-26
End date: 2026-08-25
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The TRACE-WORK project will study how traces of computer-mediated activities help knowledge workers carry out computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Digital traces such as change logs and timestamps provide cues that people use to interpret the state of work and connect back to previous activities. But there is no well-defined concept of traces in the fields of CSCW and human-computer interaction (HCI), and the role of traces in work has not been systematically explored. Due to this knowledge gap, there are no principles to support design for interactions with traces. There is a need, especially, for human-centered principles that consider the social impact of traces. The recent surge in remote and hybrid work has led to public concern over the role of technology in mediating people’s relationships with their workplaces; a topic that is severely understudied in CSCW. To address these gaps and establish traces as a practically applicable concept for the design of workplace technology, TRACE-WORK will develop a typology of traces, to be applied in an empirical study of knowledge workers’ practices and experiences of using traces. Building on this, the Researcher and study participants will co-produce design principles for traces. The researcher is uniquely positioned to successfully implement TRACE-WORK through her extensive knowledge in CSCW, her research on social dynamics in collaborative work, and her industry experience in producing design resources from research. Through TRACE-WORK, the Researcher will develop relevant skills; obtain and apply interdisciplinary knowledge; extend her professional network; and significantly expand her field’s understanding of a critical but understudied subject; thus building up a strong research profile of high relevance to her field. TRACE-WORK will produce high-quality scientific outcomes and practical resources, giving opportunities for publication and presentation in top-tier venues as well as direct impact on industry.

Keywords: computer supported cooperative work cscw knowledge work
EIC Accelerator - Short Proposal - tracebloc - Enhancing Enterprise AI Procurement (tracebloc)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2450000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2450000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

tracebloc - enhancing enterprise AI procurement tracebloc is a pioneering startup at the intersection of AI and enterprise IT procurement, addressing a significant market gap. A study by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research shows that over 80% of companies rely on IT consulting providers (ITCPs) like Accenture and Deloitte for custom AI solutions, driven by a shortage of specialized AI expertise. Accenture's AI revenue surged by 500%, from $400 million in 2022 to $2 billion in 2023, highlighting the growing demand. However, selecting the right ITCP for AI projects is challenging due to the complexities of evaluating technical performance and proprietary AI models without risking intellectual property (IP) loss. tracebloc tackles these challenges with a platform enabling secure collaboration between enterprises and ITCPs, freelancers, students, and researchers. AI experts can develop custom AI models within secure environments on enterprises' on-premises servers, ensuring data security and compliance. A key feature is AI Code Competitions on proprietary data, where AI experts compete to develop high-performance, sustainable AI models. This allows enterprises to benchmark AI models and acquire custom AI solutions at competitive prices while offering AI experts new opportunities for innovative research. tracebloc has achieved significant traction through collaborations with industry leaders like Airbus and Cisco, demonstrating its global ambition and commitment to sustainable AI solutions. Notably, a partnership with Airbus involved over 80 AI expert teams developing high-performance AI models to assist pilots, helping tracebloc reach Technology Readiness Level 5 (TRL5). To further its platform, tracebloc seeks financial support from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to reach Technology Readiness Level 8 (TRL8), ensuring it becomes the leading enterprise AI procurement platform.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,enterprise,public sector,plattform,ai workload management,data sovereignty
Rational Design of ACAT Single Enzyme Nanogels for Hepatic Fibrosis Treatment-NanoACATre (NanoACATre)

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: Denmark
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): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hepatic fibrosis is a dynamic process characterized by the progressive replacement of functional liver tissue by an extracellular matrix rich in highly cross-linked collagen, with hepatic stellate cells being the main actors of this process. NanoACATre, intended for the treatment for hepatic fibrosis based on augmenting intracellular Acyl-CoA:Cholesterol Acyltransferase (ACAT) in hepatic stellate cells, brings together a talented researcher (Dr. Andoni Rodriguez-Abetxuko), with a background in nanomaterials and biocatalysis, and iNANO-Aarhus University, an innovative and multidisciplinary research institute at the forefront of nanohybrid-based biomedical solutions for liver disease. NanoACATre will focus on advancing the scientific career of Dr. Rodriguez-Abetxuko through the development of new Single Enzyme Nanogels (SENs) for the successful management of cholesterol homeostasis in activated hepatic stellate cells to prevent or reconvert their activation and prevent associated complications such as hepatocellular carcinoma. Under the supervision of Prof. Brigitte Städler, a globally recognized researcher on the field of bottom-up synthetic biology, NanoACATre will proceed in a stepwise fashion using cutting-edge methodologies to prepare and physiochemically characterize ACAT-SENs. The effect of the ACAT-SEN surface physicochemical properties will be evaluated on the ACAT delivery in a rat hepatic stellate cell line. The interdisciplinary work, integrating expertise in polymeric nanogels and protein delivery, will be necessary to achieve NanoACATre's main goal, and the Cell Mimicry Lab, led by Prof. Stadler, is the ideal place to turn this into reality. NanoACATre is designed to broaden the scientific knowledge and transferable skills of Dr. Rodriguez-Abetxuko. In addition, NanoACATre will expand his professional network on the way to eventually becoming an independent group leader in the field of nanomedicine.

Keywords: bottom up synthetic biology,single enzyme nanogels,acyl coa cholesterol acyltransferase,hepatic fibrosis treatment,hepatic stellate cells