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Hierarchical porous PEEK via combined physical foaming and additive manufacturing: bringing circularity to advanced engineering materials (HipPEEK)

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: Spain
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): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A number of engineering applications require lightweight structural materials providing a good combination of stiffness, toughness and strength, including transportation, buildings and energy storage and conversion. Fibre reinforced polymers (FRP) in the form of monolithic and sandwich structures are nowadays mostly used in lightweight aerospace applications. However, FRP’s present an intrinsic sustainability hotspot, given the difficulty on their recycling. High performance thermoplastic cellular solids (HPTC) are excellent candidates for those applications requiring a compromise between mechanical and functional properties ensuring at the same time recyclability by using thermoplastic polymers. The main intrinsic advantage of cellular solids is the ability to tailor their properties by tuning the microstructure (cell size, wall-thickness, and distribution). However, conventional foaming techniques such batch foaming, extrusion foaming, or foam injection moulding do not allow for precise control of the obtained cellular morphology, production of cell size gradient or the manufacturing of hierarchical macro/microporous structures. HipPEEK aims at developing a processing strategy towards the manufacturing of porous materials of small, controlled, and graded cell size and shape through additive manufacturing (AM) focusing on Poly(ether-ether-ketone) (PEEK). PEEK is a high-performance engineering thermoplastic with high strength to weight ratio, reported as an excellent candidate for metal replacement in a variety of applications including space, aerospace automotive, medical and dental. Functionally graded porous PEEK will be accomplished by the combination of environmentally friendly physical foaming with inert gases with the production of three-dimensional scaffolds through resource efficient AM, which will allow the production of controlled multiscale hierarchical structures on the micro and meso scales, together with optimized topology at the macro scale.

Keywords: additive manufacturing,foaming,foam,composites,multifunctional structures peek
Why a new neutrino telescope? Because we can. (NEUTRINOSHOT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3169384.0
EU funding (EUR): 3169384.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

For over a century, ultra-high energy cosmic rays (CR) have been observed by scientists, but their energy and place of production remain a mystery. At very high energies, neutrinos generated by CR carry messages from, e.g., the verge of supermassive black holes, but here our understanding is limited. Tracking neutrinos offers a way to trace the origin of the highest energetic particles in the universe. The stumbling block is that neutrinos, the ghost particles, are notoriously tough to detect. A target of at least a Gigaton of natural transparent material, like water or ice, must be instrumented to collect neutrinos from the cosmos. Currently, only IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has the exposure to detect very high-energy neutrinos beyond Earth’s atmosphere. More and larger telescopes are needed to advance on this promising, rich path of fundamental discoveries in astro and particle physics. The objectives of NEUTRINOSHOT are to significantly advance the development of telescopes that detect far beyond the reach of IceCube, and make the exploration of cosmic accelerators more affordable. This can only be achieved with multi-cubic-kilometre (km) neutrino telescopes, currently limited by the scalability of technology to volumes beyond the cubic km. To this end, the lead researcher has identified the optimum testing location and established a scientific relationship with Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) to pioneer this global network as a testbed infrastructure for first case testing, deployment, and use of a new multi-line array neutrino telescope capable of functioning in extreme deep sea environmental conditions with improved sensitivities by orders of magnitude. This project will detect the first neutrinos in the Pacific Ocean and give neutrino astronomy a new “shot” to bring science a major step closer to revealing the hidden parts of our universe.

Keywords: active galactic nuclei,particle acceleration in cosmic sites,bioluminescence,oceanography
Cooperating with the future: Children's sustainable behaviour in resource dilemmas (SustainFuture)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The world faces an environmental and climate crisis and a global transformation towards sustainable resource use is urgently needed. Cooperation is crucial for addressing this crisis and overcoming short-term self-interests for long-term collective benefits. While sustainable behaviour has been widely examined in adults, studies on children’s sustainable behaviour are still scarce. Understanding how children’s sustainable and cooperative behaviour develops and what factors foster or impede it, is urgently needed. Today’s children will be uniquely affected by the escalating environmental crises and will also grow into the future citizens who will have to take responsible actions to mitigate them. The aim of this project is to investigate children’s cooperative and sustainable behaviours when their actions affect others in the future, using an experimental, game-based approach (resource dilemma games). And, as the current challenges are global in nature, it is essential that we study how children’s cooperation develops in different parts of the world. To this end, this project will include 5-to-8-year-old children from Pune (India) and Plymouth (United Kingdom). The project integrates insights from developmental and cognitive psychology, behavioural sciences, experimental economics, and environmental sciences. It will make an important contribution to diversifying the evidence base of the psychological and behavioural sciences, advance our understanding of sustainable behaviour and cooperation in childhood and open avenues for future research with diverse communities. Insights derived from my game-based, experimental approach will be uniquely suited for translation into applied settings and of interest to educators and policymakers, helping to prepare children to act responsibly in an uncertain future.

Keywords: resource dilemmas,cooperation,sustainable behaviour,environment,social development,early childhood,cross cultural perspective
HydroPHOBIC solvation at ELECTROchemical interfaces (ELECTROPHOBIC)

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: France
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): 1357500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1357500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The last two decades have seen an explosion of scientific interest in hydrophobic solvation due to its stunning importance for biology, catalysis and environmental science. However, it is only recently that we realized how important hydrophobicity is for electrochemical interfaces. There, hydrophobic molecules are involved in key electrochemical reactions, such as water splitting and CO2 reduction for renewable energy technologies. Identifying and predicting hydrophobic solvation contributions to thermodynamics is expected to advance our comprehension of these processes, unlocking new ways to improve their efficiency. This can only be achieved through a substantial advance in theoretical understanding. The Lum-Chandler-Weeks theory that revolutionized our comprehension of hydrophobic solvation does not hold true at electrochemical interfaces. A change of paradigms is needed: first, the present theory is based on density fluctuations in the liquid bulk, but these are modulated by surface and applied potential at the interface; second, it is not only the solute size, but a combination of size/shape/position that matters at the interface. Developing a theoretical model from these new paradigms is the challenge tackled by ELECTROPHOBIC. The breakthrough will be to predict hydrophobic contributions to many electrochemical processes with my model. To start, I will focus on how hydrophobic solvation contributes to two problems that currently plague water splitting and CO2 reduction at metal-aqueous interfaces: the undesired aggregation of H2 molecules into interfacial bubbles and the selectivity toward multi-carbon products, respectively. Tremendous advances in the theoretical understanding of these reaction mechanisms and on the role of the electrode catalyst have been made by density functional theory calculations. I will couple these calculations with my model in a hybrid scheme such that surface and solvation contributions are simultaneously but separately evaluated.

Keywords: hydrophobicity,solvation,reactivity
Analysing frozen Foraminifera by Cryostage LA-ICPMS: Neogene CO2, patterns, cycles, and climate sensitivity. (ForCry)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1451069.0
EU funding (EUR): 1451069.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Knowledge of past concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has transformed our understanding of earth’s climate: past, present, and future. Ice cores have yielded 800,000 years of high resolution and high precision data, revolutionising Earth system science. Marine sediment records provide the opportunity for highly resolved records of ocean and past ocean pH (and therefore ocean and atmosphere CO2 content) over millions of years by means of the δ11B-pH proxy, but present progress is currently hampered by large sample size requirements and intensive laboratory techniques limiting throughput and applicability. Innovation is therefore required to answer a number of key questions, including: ‘how do spatial variations in ocean carbon flux cause natural climate variability?’, and ‘does climate sensitivity vary with background state?’ By analysing small samples frozen into a blank-free ice puck, ForCry exploits the increased sensitivity of laser ablation δ11B analysis to enable the next generation of past climate data to be recovered. This novel approach allows analyses to be conducted on ≤20 individual plankton representing a ~10–fold reduction in sample size, but while maintaining precision. Additionally, this approach removes costly chemical purification steps and leads to higher throughput which makes high-resolution CO2 reconstructions using the δ11B-pH proxy a viable option to augment and extend the ice core CO2 records. ForCry has 4 objectives: i) to develop this novel technique and optimise the hardware for efficient data collection from carbonates and other archives: ii) to calibrate through culture and field sample collection the δ11B-pH proxy in multiple species of foraminifera: iii) to map ocean pH change in four dimensions using a data inversion model; and iv) to reconstruct CO2 change at high resolution over key past intervals (e.g. Mid-Miocene) that are highly relevant to a warm future, thus probing the state dependency of climate sensitivity.

Keywords: carbon cycle,boron isotopes,carbon dioxide,pleistocene,neogene
Innovative Humanitarian Logistics - Business Analytics for Increased Efficiency by hulo (InnovLog by hulo)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: European Prize for Humanitarian Innovation
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: France
Call: The EU Prize for Humanitarian Innovation (HORIZON-EIC-2023-HUMANITARIAN-PRIZES-05, 2023)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In a context of ever-increasing humanitarian needs, coupled with insufficient funding, hulo is in the unique position of offering new ways of working across humanitarian organisations, based on increased solidarity, the pooling of resources, and guided by business analytics and data science technology. Humanitarian logistics, and especially procurement, is the conduit through which most humanitarian funding must go: between 30% and 74% of humanitarian funds are spent through logistics, making it the ideal starting point to improve the efficiency of humanitarian aid and implement innovative, data-driven solutions. Hulo offers Joint Initiatives open to all humanitarian actors, focusing on procurement, transport, HR and the environment. Hulo’s Joint Procurement Initiatives, supported by in-depth data analysis, yield savings of about 20% and increase the quality of goods procured, all to the benefit of populations In a context of ever-increasing and pressing humanitarian needs, alongside insufficient funding, hulo is in the unique position to offer new ways of working across humanitarian organisations, based on business analytics and data science technology. Humanitarian logistics, and especially procurement, is the conduit through which most humanitarian funding must go: between 30% and 74% of humanitarian funds are spent through logistics, making it the ideal starting point to improve the efficiency of humanitarian aid and implement innovative, data-driven solutions. Hulo offers Joint Initiatives open to all humanitarian actors, based on increased solidarity and the pooling of resources. Guided by in-depth purchasing accounting data analysis, hulo is able to create savings of about 20% and increase the quality of goods procured, all to the benefit of populations in need. This unique setup offers an important solution to the ever-complex situation facing millions of people worldwide and the organisations dedicated to helping them. Together we are stronger, and better.

Keywords: humanitarian aid,logistics,data analysis,business analytics,procurement,efficiency,savings,quality
Label-free single-molecule detection of complex biomolecule interactions in free motion (LABIMO)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Czechia
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): 166278.72
EU funding (EUR): 166278.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Dysregulated interactions between biomolecules can lead to changes in cell signalling and gene expression, both common drivers of human disease. A detailed understanding of these interactions is vital for drug development, often targeting such interactions for therapeutic effects. In this project, I aim to develop an optical microscopy tool to observe interactions of highly diverse biomolecules in terms of e.g. weight or size, in real-time on a single-molecule level without the use of labels or immobilization, which limits many current established methods. This will allow the study of dynamic interactions between complex biomolecules of varying sizes and with a wide range of properties. The tool will be capable of researching various biological systems that are not easily accessible by established methods. This could contribute to breakthroughs in the research of severe diseases such as diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer's, or Parkinson's disease.

Keywords: nanofluidic scattering microscopy,nanofluidics,nanochannels,computer modelling,biomolecule interactions,ribosome chaperone interactions,protein free floating membrane interactions
Using Gradients of Connectivity to Predict Cognitive Impairment After Stroke (STROKEGRAD)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Many stroke survivors have chronic problems with language, attention, cognitive control and motor function. There is an urgent need to predict these sequelae so that rehabilitation can be better focussed, but it has proved challenging to anticipate the effects of stroke from brain lesions alone. We will use recent advances from our ERC-funded FLEXSEM project to predict the long-term consequences of stroke. Our work decomposes whole-brain connectivity patterns derived from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) into components, known as ‘gradients’ that capture substantial variance in function, and links these gradients to individual differences in cognitive ability. Pilot work suggests that (i) connectivity gradients can predict the chronic effects of stroke on language comprehension and (ii) that changes to these gradients can be anticipated from the lesion alone. This suggests our approach has high clinical utility, since stroke survivors are typically assessed with structural but not functional MRI. This PoC project will validate our approach across a range of domains, including speech fluency, comprehension, phonology and cognitive control. We will use resting-state fMRI and structural scans along with high-quality neuropsychology. We will parcellate the fMRI data from patients, compute the connectivity between pairs of parcels, perform dimension reduction on the connectivity matrix to generate gradients, and identify associations with cognitive problems. We will then examine the extent to which post-stroke cognitive changes can be predicted from structural scans by estimating lesioned gradients using data from aged-matched controls. Focus groups with speech therapists and stroke survivors, co-production of the validation work and dissemination activities for clinicians will ensure the tools we develop are suited to European healthcare systems to identify targets for rehabilitation.
HyQuality Europe (HQE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,France,Belgium,United Kingdom,Poland
Call: Sampling methodology and quality assessment of HRS (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-1, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3453685.0
EU funding (EUR): 3453685.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

HyQuality Europe aims to understand hydrogen fuel quality across Europe and enable HRS operators to provide assurance that their fuel is fulfilling the required quality standards. The project is designed to understand hydrogen fuel quality in Europe by carrying out a representative mass market investigation of European HRS hydrogen quality, collecting 300 spot samples of both light-duty (700 bar, <60 g/s flow rate) and heavy-duty samples (350 bar, >60 g/s flow rate) from at least 100 HRS in at least 13 European countries. These samples will be analysed by the leading hydrogen analysis laboratories in Europe, and the results will be published in an open-source database. The results will provide the data to clarify the Occurrence Class of different European HRS impurities, from which HRS operators will be able to form a cost-effective risk assessment quality assurance plan instead of taking an expensive prescriptive approach. By facilitating HRS operators to provide low cost quality assurance the project will lower the price of hydrogen at the nozzle and subsequently increase consumer confidence, increase the incentive for fleet operators to switch to hydrogen vehicles, and enable the widespread deployment of hydrogen vehicles and refuelling infrastructure. The project will also advance upon state-of-the-art hydrogen quality assurance by instrumenting 3 HRS with online analysers, and develop testing capacity by laboratory proficiency testing 10 European hydrogen analysis laboratories in line with ISO standards. Finally, the occurrence of a minimum of 4 new impurities will be investigated using wide scope analytical techniques. The project will proactively seek to influence the development of ISO standards and future research on this crucial topic through the involvement of leading researchers in the field.

Keywords: measuring the general hydrogen fuel quality in europe from hydrogen refuelling stations through sampling and analysis,and the development of a european hydrogen fuel quality database