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Sustainable, Technological, Accessible and Resilient human-centric manufacturing supporting the New European Bauhaus through synergies between customized production and consumption models (STARHAUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Romania,Italy,Portugal,Spain,Bulgaria,France
Call: Localised and Urban Manufacturing, supporting creativity and the New European Bauhaus (RIA using FSTP) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499125.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499125.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

STARHAUS has Moving from the DIY4U project (H2020), STARHAUS will design, test and validate 8 new hardware module prototypes for the existing DIY4U Manufacturing Demonstration Facilities (MDFs), to manufacture newly designed products for personalized fast-moving consumer goods. The project will focus on 4 new use-cases: pet food, fertilizers, beverage, breakfast cereals. STARHAUS will adapt technologies and design new services and processes in an interdisciplinary approach that involves: human centered design, social science impact and indicators, full technology cycle (hardware + software), creativity and arts, circularity and sustainability. The focus will be on sustainability and circularity, enabling the growth of efficient, effective, sustainable and stakeholder-aligned manufacturing methods through re-use, adapt, re-design and repurpose existing technologies as a value for the larger community. The project will be inspired by the New European Bauhaus, paying particular attention to regenerative design and regenerative and value-added manufacturing and adopting a Human-centric and participatory approach, with contributions from Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), the project will promote collaborative models between domain experts, artists, and technology providers. Improved access to flexible production capabilities in decentralised environments, especially for SMEs will be ensured by FSTP and accurate promotion of collaborative models with domain experts, artists and technology providers. The STARHAUS approach will leverage creativity in interdisciplinary and artistic disciplines and offer a process model towards viable solutions. STARHAUS is focusing on delivering an impact inside modern consumer communities to propagate behavioral and technological changes that can reshape our lives. The consumption habits of modern consumers must change to adopt healthy and sustainable solutions that can be achieved at affordable prices without compromising quality.

Keywords: new european bauhaus,localised manufacturing,human centric approaches,communities,s t arts,manufacturing demonstration facilities,small scale factories
Assessing the role of hydrothermal alteration on volcano morphology, instability, and unpredictable volcanic hazards (ROTTnROCK)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,France,Ireland
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2023-SyG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9989653.0
EU funding (EUR): 9989653.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

More than 10% of the world’s population are at risk to the direct impacts of volcanic eruptions. Volcano monitoring aims to detect and correctly interpret volcanic hazards and to provide early and accurate warnings of impending eruptions. Yet, despite technical and scientific advances, volcanoes still produce unexpected explosive eruptions or sudden flank collapses. Each year, such unpredictable events result in volcanic disasters that devastate unprepared communities and destroy unprotected infrastructures. Previous work by the PIs indicates that volcanic hazards are caused by hydrothermal alteration, which progressively and imperceptibly changes the chemical and physical state of rocks inside a volcano, creating a soft and unstable (or “rotten”) interior. However, the link between “soft” volcanoes and unpredictable volcanic events remains enigmatic. The ROTTnROCK project aims to achieve a ground-breaking advance in our understanding of hydrothermal alteration processes that act inside active volcanic systems. Specifically, we will identify where and at which scales alteration occurs (WP1), explore the chemical fingerprint of alteration and effects on rock properties and strength using laboratory methods (WP2), and develop 4D volcano stability simulations and, therefore, an innovative and optimised hazard assessment workflow (WP3). The ROTTnROCK project combines innovative approaches from traditionally distinct geoscience disciplines (remote sensing, mineralogy and chemistry, rock mechanics, and modelling). This project will revolutionise our understanding of hydrothermal alteration and its effects on volcano hazards, and pave the way for strategies to forecast and mitigate unexpected volcanic events caused by hydrothermal alteration and circumvent disasters at volcanoes worldwide.

Keywords: hydrothermal alteration,rock weakening,risk awareness
Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project (WRAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Portugal
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): 1999870.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999870.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding the evolutionary journey of our species demands an exploration into the diverse environments that our earliest ancestors inhabited. This involves investigating the impact that these landscapes had on the cultural and biological adaptations of early Homo. The Western Rift Archaeological and Paleoenvironment (WRAP) Project directly addresses this important topic by answering the question: How and when did Homo ergaster adapt to the diverse ecotone environments of the Western Rift compared to the more open mosaic environments of the East African Rift? While historically, the unique adaptability of early Homo has been linked to open savanna grasslands, recent studies challenge this notion, proposing that a broader range of environments influenced their adaptive flexibility. However, these hypotheses heavily rely on geographically limited research areas biased toward mosaic open grassland landscapes in Eastern and Southern Africa. Beyond these historically well-studied regions, lies the Albertine Rift in Uganda, a unique biodiversity hotspot and ecological ecotone between Central African tropical forests and East African savannah grasslands. During the Pleistocene, although increasingly arid, this region possessed a similar diverse range of tropical humid environments as today. Recognizing the need to search beyond the intensively studied ecologically similar regions of Eastern and Southern Africa, to areas with evidence of Pleistocene hominin occupation in new, diverse environments, this innovative project will conduct extensive fieldwork to identify new archaeological sites within the Western Rift of Uganda. Through systematic surveys and targeted excavations, combined with cutting-edge remote sensing, biomolecular, and geochronological analyses the WRAP Project will, for the first time, provide a holistic understanding of Pleistocene hominins occupations and behaviour across the Western Rift’s diverse biomes.
iNNOvative SEDiment management in the Danube River Basin (iNNO SED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Austria,Slovakia,Ireland,Croatia,Slovenia,Italy,Serbia,Romania,Ukraine,Bulgaria,Germany,Czechia,Moldova, Republic of,United Kingdom
Call: Danube river basin lighthouse – Demonstration of effective and sustainable management of sediments in the Danube river-Black sea system (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8765402.5
EU funding (EUR): 8103720.88
Participants: 46
Project status: SIGNED

The Danube River Basin (DRB) faces significant challenges associated with river sediments. In the 2021 update of the Danube River Basin Management Plan, sediment balance alteration emerged as a new sub-topic within the existing Significant Water Management Issue titled "Hydromorphological alterations." Additionally, sectors like industry, urban sewage, and agriculture call for sediment quality evaluations throughout the DRB. However, the absence of standard sediment monitoring limits our understanding of risks. Addressing the sediment mismanagement in the DRB, the iNNO SED project aims to establish the Danube Sediment ‘Lighthouse’ Knowledge Centre. This centre will: • Introduce a set of innovative methods for monitoring and modelling sediment quantity and quality, thereby deepening our knowledge of sediment processes. • Provide innovative sediment management practices to improve sediment continuity and quality in DRB sections facing with sediment-related issues. • Showcase co-created innovative measures through demonstration activities, while also evaluating their socio-economic and environmental aspects. • Empower the public with innovative knowledge transfer methodologies. • Collaborate with five Associated Regions, transferring the iNNO SED solutions to other river basins. To accomplish these goals, iNNO SED will leverage the achievements and key contributors of the DanubeSediment and SIMONA initiatives. Moreover, it will engage relevant stakeholders of sediment management, such as ICPDR, policy makers, river managers, hydropower plant managers, waterway authorities, national parks, environmental agencies, SMEs, and more. iNNO SED will represent a pioneering approach to sediment management in large international river basins. This approach sets an example for other major global river systems like the Amazon, Mekong, or Niger. In doing so, it aligns with the Mission's objective of intensifying the European Union's competitiveness.

Keywords: danube river basin,sediment management,sediment continuity,sediment quality,innovative measures,citizen science,ecosystem services,demonstration actions,sediment action plan
ACTION PLAN TO SHAPE CORRIDORS AMONG DIHS TO FOSTER INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS AND ACCELERATE THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE P4 MEDICINE PARADIGM (DIHsP4_Medicine)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Destination: Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Slovenia,Romania,France
Call: Preparatory action for setting up joint programmes among innovation ecosystems actors (HORIZON-EIE-2021-CONNECT-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 499336.0
EU funding (EUR): 499336.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

DIHs are one-stop-shops that help companies to become more competitive with regard to their business and production processes, products or services using digital technologies. DIHs have the mission of helping companies to betteDIHs are one-stop-shops that help companies to become more competitive with regard to their business and production processes, products or services using digital technologies. DIHs have the mission of helping companies (mainly start-ups, SMEs and mid-caps) to better understand and experiment on how digital technologies can improve their efficiency, effectiveness and product quality – in other words, their competitiveness. DIHs should have strong linkages with service providers outside of their own region in order to support companies in those services and technologies where regional DIHs do not have the requested in-house resources to provide services based on specific technologies sought by users. In recent decades, health-related activities have evolved from a reactive approach (curing diseases) to an approach based on the P4 medicine paradigm: Predictive, Preventive, Personalised and Participatory. In this new paradigm, the use of digital technologies is key. Thanks to digital technologies such as AI or HPC and the massive generation of medical and other health-related data, traditional methods for early detection, diagnosis, treatment, patient management, precision medicine, drug development, genomics, or medical image analysis are being transformed. DIHsP4_MEDICINE project aims to unleash the potential that exists around the collaboration among DIHs focused in health-related activities. The lessons to be learned from the activities carried out within the framework of the project will make possible to take advantage this experience for the implementation of joint long-term and stable programmes to fostering collaboration among DIHs, as well as exploring the opportunity to articulate stable Hub corridors to shape these collaborations.

Keywords: digital innovation hubs digitalisation health p4 medicine
Competition in the Digital Era: Technology and Geopolitics in the XXI Century (CODE)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1437497.5
EU funding (EUR): 1437497.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Competition in the Digital Era (CODE) project investigates the competition between China, Europe and the United States (US) for access and control of three critical technological sectors: semiconductors, cloud computing and space. These sectors are, respectively, the backbone, the brain and the legs of the current wave of technological innovation and they have a fundamental impact on economic, military and geopolitical hierarchies. CODE proposes a multidisciplinary theoretical framework and an original mixed-method approach to study technology competition in these sectors. The main hypothesis of the project is that the very technological characteristics of the industrial sectors are key to explain when and why China, Europe and the US succeed in some sectors and struggle in others. Specifically, different combinations of cycle of technological change (the speed at which technologies evolve in each industrial sector) and the degree of modularity (the possibility to divide complex technical systems into components and outsource them to external suppliers) generate different hypotheses on the ability of China and Europe to compete with the US in semiconductors, cloud and space. CODE is a high-risk project because investigates technologically complex and highly politicized sectors. Yet, it is also a high-gain project as simultaneously advances the debate on international relations (US-China geopolitical transition, Europe’s role in the world), political economy (role of the state in technology innovation, role of global value chains) and management and innovation (how technology competition unfolds in highly politicized sectors).

Keywords: geopolitics technology china europe political economy semiconductors cloud computing space competition
An Energy-Efficient AI Powered Portable Radar System for Human Activity Recognition (AIRHAR)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Radar systems have been used in ambient sensing to track various subjects using electromagnetic waves. Thanks to the increasing capability of artificial intelligence algorithms in solving classification tasks, human activity detection (HAR) using radar systems have become possible. However, most previous solutions use bulky fixed radar systems with tens to hundreds of watts of power consumption, requiring rigid wall plug connection, making them environmentally unfriendly and difficult to use in applications like indoor security, healthcare, and mobile robots. In this project, we aim to develop a portable radar system for HAR by following a hardware-software co-design approach to significantly reduce the signal processing energy consumption compared to conventional radar-based HAR systems. On the software side, we will explore novel time-domain feature extraction methods to reduce the energy consumption of radar data analysis by at least 2 times. We will also apply brain-inspired neuromorphic principles to reduce 50 times the energy cost of state-of-the-art deep neural network architectures to solve radar-based HAR tasks. On the hardware side, we will develop artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator hardware based on field-programmable gated arrays (FPGAs) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to decrease the hardware energy consumption in radar data processing by at least 10 times. Overall, we expect the project results to revolutionize the paradigm of radar data processing to achieve over 20 times the whole system energy reduction, which will significantly contribute to the target of greenhouse gas emission reduction defined in the European Green Deal. The developed energy-efficient AI-powered portable radar system for HAR is promising to initiate a commercialized product for indoor security, healthcare, and mobile robot applications, and it will be competitive in the rapidly growing Internet-of-Things market worth USD 2400 billion by 2029.

Keywords: radar systems,deep neural networks,edge computing,internet of things,neuromorphic computing,human activity recognition,pattern recognition
Tackling limitations of future relevant thermo-chemical reactions by exploiting the dynamic surface behaviour of complex mixed metal oxides (DynaMMO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1813618.01
EU funding (EUR): 1813618.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

For a sustainable future highly active, selective andFor a sustainable future highly active, selective and stable catalyst are of utmost importance for the chemical industry. The conventional steady-state operation of catalytic reactors reaches its limit. This project opens up new perspectives on the opportunities of tailored oxide surfaces. We aim to develop a dynamic responsive catalysts (DRC) that change their surface structure dependent on the oxidizing or reductive character of the reactant mixture. Combined with oscillation between reducing and oxidizing atmosphere in forced periodic operation (FPO) our concept opens unprecedented opportunities for surface engineering: At low reduction degree, the DRC-FPO concept allows activation and net stabilization of active/selective metastable sites that are thermodynamically not accessible under conventional steady-state operation. Furthermore, at high reduction degrees, the DRC-FPO concept enables reversible formation of highly dispersed active nanoparticles out of the mixed metal oxide host structure. Upon oxidative treatment, the atoms of nanoparticles can reintegrate into the host structure at ultimate dispersion. This is a unique way to overcome irreversible catalyst deactivation by nanoparticle sintering. With our expertize on mixed metal oxides based like spinels and perovskites we will enable the DRC functionality by compositional tailoring and resolve general trends. To leverage the full potential of this approach, we aim to explore all relevant effects in four future relevant demonstrator reactions at low and high temperatures as well as oxidizing and reductive environment by a combination of synthetic, analytic, reaction engineering and operando characterization methodologies. The acquired basic knowledge and proven feasibility of the DRC-FPO concept opens a paradigm-shift in the operation of catalysts. It generates ground-breaking ways to create defined active surface sites and avoid catalyst deactivation.

Keywords: sustainability energy efficiency circular economy overcmoming deactivation mixed metal oxides novel concepts for catalysis