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Changing for the Better: Escaping Negative Equilibria in State-Citizen Relations (EQUILIBRIUM)

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: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-08-01
End date: 2031-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499495.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499495.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The character of state-citizen interactions shapes social stability and economic growth, making it critical to social scientists. Sometimes these interactions appear in the form of vicious cycles, in which poor state performance reinforces negative population attitudes and vice versa. Specifically, citizens who have unfavourable views of the state due to low public service quality are more likely to elect parties that limit the state’s resources, which fortifies its poor performance. We may think of this situation as a “negative equilibrium”. Yet other regions have positive equilibria, in which effective states correspond to favourable citizen attitudes. This raises a critical question: Which factors allow regions to escape negative equilibria by shifting toward more positive population attitudes and more effective state institutions? EQUILIBRIUM makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of state-citizen equilibria by investigating the potential for change at the individual and regional levels. My goal is not only to examine equilibrium robustness, but also to assess if separate equilibria exist for different population groups. The project will further provide significant methodological innovation by developing new measures for equilibrium coherence and fragmentation—which I hypothesize shape the potential for change—and introducing a first-of-its-kind sequential multicomponent design that integrates observational data, public opinion surveys, and inquiries to bureaucracies. Empirically, the project will break new ground through the collection of data across five European countries and the United States, allowing for cross- and within-case comparison. Furthermore, I intend to pool survey experiments with natural experiments. This project will not only markedly improve our understanding of social equilibria, but its findings will be of direct relevance to policymakers. By rigorously assessing equilibrium durability, it will reveal paths for reform.

Keywords: state citizen interactions public administration views of the state public services social equilibria
Vision optics with Integrated VCSELs and Autofocal Lenses (VIVA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Chips for Europe Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CHIPS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Spain,Netherlands,Denmark,Belgium,Switzerland
Call: Global call according to SRIA 2023 (RIA) (HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-2-RIA, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19963927.75
EU funding (EUR): 5738325.83
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Intelligent devices like smartphones, PCs, smart watches, cars and machines require active visual attention and manual interaction of the user for operation and control, such as by touch screens. This is not convenient for many applications and also causes user distraction, which may be not acceptable for safety critical situations that require full visual attention, e.g. driving, health applications or control of machines. Eye-tracking (ET) systems integrated into smart glasses can use parameters like gaze direction or motion of the eye and the eyelid to control the device. ET can therefore pave the way for completely new hands-free human machine interfaces (HMIs) suitable not only for critical applications but also in general for a more comfortable user interaction, e.g. for consumer devices, industrials applications or education. However, conventional camera-based ET systems suffer from high costs, complexity, high weights and dimensions as well as sensitiveness regarding ambient conditions. Therefore, ET is currently applied for some specific use cases but has yet not reached broad market acceptance. The VIVA project will develop the technologies to enable a new class of eye-tracking systems, which will be light-weight, small, power efficient, fast, reliable and highly accurate under nearly all ambient conditions. The project will integrate and further develop novel sensors based on Laser Feedback Interferometry, small and light meta-optics as well as AI methods and hardware for signal processing and feature detection. The overall eye-tracking system will be verified and demonstrated by typical use cases. Along with these developments, the new ET technology will be analyzed regarding privacy, data security, safety and CE conformity. All in all, the outcome of VIVA will leverage the market breakthrough for smart glasses with eye-tracking and will enable the EU economy to gain the technological lead for the next big thing regarding HMIs for smart devices.

Keywords: eye tracking,smart glasses,sensors,laser,human machineinterface,meta optics,ai methods,asic,signal processing,autofocal lenses
Memristive Neurons and Synapses for Neuromorphic Edge Computing (MEMRINESS)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499488.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499488.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence has shifted towards collaborative learning paradigms, where multiple systems acquire and elaborate data in real-time and share their experience to improve their performance. MEMRINESS will generate new fundamental computing primitives that will overcome the current challenges for the deployment of intelligent systems on the edge. The requirements of a system operating on the edge are very tight: power efficiency, low area occupation, fast response times, and online learning. Brain-inspired architectures such as Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) use artificial neurons and synapses that perform low-latency computation and internal-state storage simultaneously with very low power consumption, but at present they mainly rely on standard technologies, which make SNNs unfit to meet the above-mentioned constraints. Indeed, the dream of compact and efficient neurons and synapses, able to work at different time scales to match real-time constants and to retain memory of their state even in the absence of a power supply, cannot be realised without flanking standard technologies with emerging ones. In this respect, memristive technology has shown promising results, due to its ability to support non-volatile storage of the SNN parameters. Yet so far, research has prioritised the non-volatile properties of the devices rather than focusing additionally on the reproduction of multi-temporal synaptic and neural dynamics. To solve this problem, I will develop neurons and synapses that exploit the intrinsic physical characteristics and dynamics of volatile and non-volatile memristive devices to enable the design of compact, power efficient SNNs with multi timescale dynamics. I will use a holistic approach and co-develop every aspect, from the devices to the circuits, to the learning algorithms. I will use the results to design a SNN and demonstrate its collaborative and online learning capabilities in three scenarios of increasing complexity.

Keywords: memristive devices,neuromorphic computing
INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR CONTAINERSHIP FIRES PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT (OVERHEAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Poland,Germany,France,Spain
Call: Safer navigation and tackling containership fires (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7063471.75
EU funding (EUR): 5845264.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Maritime transport represents the centre of global trade with about 90% of the goods’ volumes and values worldwide. Nowadays, containerships are built with the same basic design principles as the older smaller container ships, without accounting for possible consequences that could impact safety. Cargo fires represents one of the most important threats of this kind of ships (also for ferries with container on the truck). On one hand, fire causes large losses of humans and/or cargoes, on the other hand fire is impacting coastal zone and marine protected areas. Currently, there are no requirements for the installation of fixed fire detection systems above the weather deck of a container ship. Innovative strategies for containership fires prevention and management (OVERHEAT) main goal is to prevent and manage, in case of occurrence fire accidents on board of containerships. OVERHEAT brings novel fire management solutions for Prevention, Early Detection and Response which are key aspects to assure safety of people and the protection of the environment. The development of a Digital Solution (DS) will provide the overall situational picture on board and surrounding the vessel. Furthermore, integration of IoT sensors (fixed and mobile) and UAS will provide the ad-hoc system for the prevention, early detection and rapid response of fire. Best practice and assessment of safety culture will be conducted to prevent fire and understand how people perceive safety. Hence, OVERHEAT prepares a truly new generation of digital fire management solutions: complete, seamless, real time and in line with IMO regulations (integrated in the vessel IT infrastructure). The impact of the proposed solution will be initially evaluated by performing validation activities in simulated environment and then executing demonstration activities in a real environment, with use cases that will be identified, described and detailed during the research activities, to prove the feasibility and benefits.

Keywords: fire management iot sensors uas containership fire prevention best practices fire detection and response
REconfiguring EU DEMOcracy Support ? Towards a sustained demos in the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood (REDEMOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Armenia,Germany,Estonia,Moldova, Republic of,Georgia,Greece,Ukraine
Call: Democratic politics in the EU’s neighbourhood (HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2313017.5
EU funding (EUR): 2313017.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

REDEMOS represents a unique, parallel investigation of the legacy and potential of democratization processes in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood. Analyzing both EU actions and eastern neighbours' responses, balancing the impact of funding, reforms and civil society support against a decade of static and regressive outcomes, REDEMOS is grounded upon an appraisal of domestic and geopolitical challenges facing neighbourhood democratization, and progressive practices needed for both sides to re-engage. With its highly original, 4-phase demos cycle, REDEMOS breaks new ground in demonstrating how revived approaches to understanding norms and values, and reinforced implementation of procedures and practices can fully transform both attitudes and outcomes from passive democracy promotion to active democracy collaboration. Hence, REDEMOS bridges numerous divides emerging between 2010-2022 and focuses on the overarching need to reconstitute a workable ‘demos’ within Eastern partners in light of sizeable political changes including outright opposition to democratization practices from within and beyond the neighbourhood. REDEMOS’ vision shifts attitudes beyond an exclusionary focus on values, norms and procedures, to inclusive democratic practices through citizen empowerment. Featuring a work package female-led structure, REDEMOS presents a series of pioneering milestones and deliverables, based on an equitable balance of 11 high-quality East and West European partners. Its geographical composition is representative of the eastern neighbourhood, with each partner focused on providing advanced tools by which the EU and its eastern neighbours can reset democracy in state and non-state environments. Balancing state reform, civil society, marginalized and local perspectives, and its impactful dissemination modes, REDEMOS effectively co-creates new links within and between academic, policy and civil society domains to boost democratization in Europe’s eastern neighbourhood.

Keywords: democracy support eu s eastern neighbourhood democracy gender equality human rights rule of law citizen engagement demos democratic resilience political participation policy toolkit
Non-traditional stable isotopes to track the impact of methane in Earth history (NTSITIMEH)

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,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 232000.56
EU funding (EUR): 232000.56
Participants: 2
Project status: TERMINATED

Over geological times, the evolution of carbon isotope compositions of carbonates (δ13Ccarb) in sedimentary record highlights many positive isotopic excursions (CIEs), reflecting significant perturbations of the carbon cycle in Earth surface environments. Although generally interpreted as a consequence of an increase of organic carbon burial in sediments, the lack of high organic carbon content, as well as the strong spatial and temporal variability, observed in many sedimentary successions recording CIEs challenge this postulate. Among other alternative hypothesis involving regional or local control, the potential influence of methanogenesis, i.e. the biological process of anaerobic organic matter degradation producing methane (CH4), has been raised; its ability to generate similar isotopic signatures has been demonstrated in modern analogue. Although the processes behind CIEs are questioned, providing more information about methanogenesis impact is challenging based on traditional isotopic tool like δ13Ccarb, as its isotopic effect on is similar to that of organic carbon burial increase. Recently, stable isotope compositions of metals used as enzymatic cofactors of CH4-related processes were investigated to explore their potential as biomarkers of methanogenesis. During the last decade, significant advances have been made on using Ni isotopes as tracers of methanogenesis but important challenges remain to better constrains both their potential and limit. In order to improve our understanding of CH4 cycle and its impact on Earth’s surface environments through geological times, we will investigate further the potential of Ni isotopes and its potential couplings with traditional stable isotope in various modern settings and past environments to enhance our ability to track and discriminate the influence of CH4-related processes through Earth’s history.
Building a community for the co-creation of games with high impact on innovation, sustainability, social cohesion and growth (i-Game)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Belgium,Spain,Netherlands,Italy,Luxembourg,Estonia
Call: A world leading European video game innovation system (HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999122.5
EU funding (EUR): 3999122.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

In European society, video games are important both as a cultural and commercial industry and as an important aspect of people's daily lives. When compared to other economic sectors, the EU's video game market exhibits a rapid growth rate and makes up one-third of the total market value. The overall aim of the i-Game project is to create an accessible open-source game development platform that will facilitate the co-creation of games by diverse actors within different ecosystems of cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI), to enhance innovation and to bring positive impact on social cohesion and sustainability. More specifically, i-Game aspires: 1) To engage video game stakeholders of different abilities, expertise, and disciplines, to contribute, learn, share and tap into new innovative and economic opportunities; 2) To provide a collaborative platform with the tools to co-create mobile and virtual reality games by engaging different users, from different backgrounds and sectors; 3) To develop an ethical-design culture in the video game industry; 4) To monitor, assess and manage the impact that the video games have on different sectors, especially targeting culture/museums, creative industries and fashion/textile; 5) To help understand why and how are online games positively impacting people, culture and society and help extract the ingredients necessary for developing a new generation of games targeted to improve people’s well-being. The i-Game partnership, composed by organisations with diversified backgrounds and expertise, reassures the interdisciplinary approach required to address the complex topic of the games’ impact on innovation, sustainability, social cohesion and economic growth. This multi-sectorial and inclusive cooperation shall stimulate an innovative and productive work and inspire cross-fertilisation across perspectives, disciplines and countries, under common European values.

Keywords: games co creation interdisciplinarity innovation social impact
Sexuality in Crisis: The Black Death and Social Control in Fourteenth-Century England (SiC)

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: Ireland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project explores the impact of the plague on attitudes towards sexuality in late medieval England. The fourteenth-century plague, commonly known as the 'Black Death', killed up to half of the population of England in this period and had far-reaching social, cultural, economic and political consequences for English society. However, to date its impact on the exercise of institutional power and control over sexual behaviour has not been addressed. This is a significant omission given the substantial body of historical and sociological research on the role of sexual moralisation in societal responses to pandemics in the modern era, as well as historical scholarship assessing the broader societal impacts of the fourteenth-century plague. This project addresses this knowledge gap through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the records of the Church courts, which exercised jurisdiction over sexual offences in this period. This involves creating a database of cases heard in the courts of four English dioceses with extant fourteenth-century judicial records (York, Canterbury, Rochester and Salisbury), subjecting the dataset to statistical analysis and close reading techniques, and contextualising these records with relevant narrative sources (chronicles, letters, sermon collections). It seeks to test the hypothesis that litigation of sexual offences will intensify in the immediate aftermath of major plague outbreaks. This is important and timely research given the well-documented links between social unrest and worsening economic conditions caused by the COVID19 pandemic and the growth of political and popular attacks on LGBTQ rights in the 2020s. The project will provide an impactful case study concerning changing patterns in cultural attitudes towards sexuality, which can aid policymakers and advocacy groups to make protections for sexual and gender minorities today more resilient in the face of future pandemic threats.