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MyMoney: A Universal Payment System Built on Unforgeable Biometric Identity. (MyMoney Biopay)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MyMoney is a patented, device-free biometric payment system that transforms a person’s biometrics into a unique, unforgeable digital biometric identity. This identity belongs exclusively to the user and is securely linked to their preferred payment methods, enabling fast, frictionless, and secure transactions without the need for cards, smartphones, wearables, or PINs. Unlike existing solutions tied to personal devices or closed ecosystems, MyMoney is universal, acquirer-agnostic, and fully interoperable, working with all major biometric readers and existing payment infrastructures. Through PAD 2 and NIST-certified liveness detection, the system verifies the user’s real, physical presence at the point of sale, making identity theft and payment fraud technically impossible. This addresses one of the most critical threats of our time: the exponential rise of identity theft and resulting financial fraud, which is expected to heavily impact the payment industry in the coming years. By securing identity at its source, MyMoney protects both users and financial institutions, reinforcing trust and resilience in the payment ecosystem. By removing technological and financial barriers, MyMoney bridges the digital divide between countries and individuals, allowing anyone—regardless of income, geography, or digital literacy—to access secure and modern payment services. It turns identity itself into the payment, enabling equal access and a safer, more inclusive global payment environment. This innovation represents a fundamental technological shift: MyMoney is not just a new payment method but a new secure, universal, and human-centric payment layer designed to scale globally.

Keywords: biometrics,security,anti frauds,unforgeable,payments,innovation,digital identity
Heavy Ion FLASH (HI-FLASH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2031-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Charged particle therapy is generally acknowledged as the most advanced type of radiotherapy (RT). Particle therapy patients are treated either with high-energy protons or 12C-ions, but there is a general agreement that heavier ions would be highly beneficial in treating extremely resistant, hypoxic and lethal tumors, such as glioblastoma (GBM). Unfortunately, the use of very heavy ions is constrained by their excessive normal tissue toxicity. A way to enable very heavy ion therapy with acceptable toxicities is to make use of the recently discovered FLASH effect. This effect occurs when ultra-high dose-rate (UHDR) electrons or protons are used and results in significantly sparing the normal tissues whilst maintaining tumour control. Although the molecular mechanism is still unclear, the FLASH effect considerably broadens the therapeutic window and has proven to be a game-changer in radiotherapy. While my group at GSI has pioneered the first demonstration of the FLASH effect with high-energy carbon ions, UHDR use of even heavier ions can be safe and very effective for very resistant tumor. GSI is the only facility world-wide where the FLASH effect can be explored with ions heavier than carbon. In fact, the GSI synchrotron can accelerate all ions for H to U up to very high energy and intensity, and my group has developed a unique technology to perform 3D conformal UHDR irradiation using 3D-printed range modulators. We will perform UHDR irradiation experiments with 20Ne-ions using a GBM rat model and will compare survival, toxicity and tumour control with the same ion at conventional dose-rate and with UHDR protons as a reference. If successful, HI-FLASH will pave the way for the use of heavy ions in cancer treatment, improving outcomes for patients with highly resistant and lethal tumors like GBM.

Keywords: nuclear physics,particle therapy,medical physics,radioactive ion beams,radiobiology,flash
Sustainable extraction of BRAssica by-products for innovative VEgetable ingredients (BRAVE)

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: Ireland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-15
End date: 2027-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 252728.64
EU funding (EUR): 252728.64
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The food industry faces significant challenges regarding by-products from Brassica vegetables, whose health benefits are often diminished by traditional heat treatments. Key issues include developing innovative technologies to extract bioactive compounds and meeting consumer demands for sustainable, nutritious, and innovative food products within a circular economy framework. The BRAVE project aims to apply innovative and sustainable extraction technologies to obtain polysaccharide-rich ingredients from Brassica vegetables. These ingredients will enhance the technological and nutritional properties of cereal-based products, offering a sustainable alternative to traditional Brassica consumption. Ultrasound treatment holds potential for improving the extraction of bioactive molecules. However, it is currently restricted by high costs, scalability challenges, efficiency concerns, and impacts on food quality in industrial applications. To address these limitations, the project will optimize ultrasound-assisted extraction at the laboratory scale and scale up using hydrodynamic cavitation. Additionally, the BRAVE project will study how these polysaccharides interact within cereal food matrices, focusing on their impact on postprandial glucose response. Furthermore, the project will contribute to the development of healthier cereal-based food options, aligning with growing consumer demand. Finally, the BRAVE project is expected to advance cutting-edge extraction technologies with a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability, as demonstrated through a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

Keywords: sustainable,extraction,disruptive technology,environmental sustainability claims,life cycle assessment,by product,brassica,polysaccharide,ingredient,cereal,digestion,food product,nutrition
PROJECT SOLARAYS MODULES (SOLARAYS24)

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

SOLARAYS, founded in 2012 in Pedreguer, Alicante (Spain), is dedicated to advancing renewable energies through research and development, with a special focus on solar energy solutions. Its flagship product, the SOLARAYS module, integrates high-concentration photovoltaic technology with precise passive solar tracking to produce both electric and thermal energy, thereby improving efficiency and reducing operational costs. Innovative features of the module include autonomous solar tracking, advanced multi-junction photovoltaic cells, and the ability to generate triple the energy output. The trajectory of SOLARAYS includes significant milestones such as implementing pilot project in a region with high solar potential to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of its solutions, establishing collaborations with academic institutions and research centers to advance knowledge and development in renewable energies, and actively participating in conferences and industry events to share expertise and establish collaboration networks. With its commitment to environmental sustainability and cost-effective solutions, SOLARAYS aims to address the limitations of traditional solar systems by offering a unified, efficient, and versatile energy solution. Its approach not only simplifies installation and maintenance but also significantly reduces energy generation costs, positioning SOLARAYS as a disruptive player in the renewable energy market.

Keywords: solar technology integration,renewable energy advancement,global impact,sustainable solutions
Multifunctional nano-bio INterfaces wIth deep braiN reGions (MINING)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2992875.0
EU funding (EUR): 2992875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Capturing the dynamics of brain activity in its multifaceted components is a key challenge for neural interfaces. Deciphering the complex electrical and chemical signaling exchanged by the different constituents of the brain tissue will result in a better understanding of neural circuits and functions, informing and enabling novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Next generation of research tools should therefore aim at a multifunctional and fully integrated approach, probing and triggering multiple signals simultaneously with high spatio-temporal resolution and low invasiveness. MINING aspires at generating a novel class of multifunctional neural endoscopes, able to trigger and detect electrical and molecular signaling with cellular resolution in vivo. The result will be the unprecedented ability to correlate multiple types of signals in the same volume, with spatial and temporal resolution at depth. The limitation of current state of the art will be surmounted by exploiting light-matter interactions in hybrid metal-dielectric metasurfaces and their synergistic integration with organic electrochemical transistors. The main objectives of MINING are: 1) Devise hybrid metal-dielectric metasurface (HMS) neural endoscopes, enabling simultaneous (i) high-resolution functional imaging of neural signals, (ii) label-free optical monitoring of chemical compounds from both wide and localized brain volumes and (iii) optogenetic and thermoplasmonic modulation of neural functions with cellular resolution, 2) Integration of organic electrochemical transistors on HMSs endoscopes, generating a novel optoelectrical neural interface with cellular resolution based on active electronics, 3) Development of methods for spatial-resolved multifunctional studies, to demonstrate the power of MINING endoscopes to reveal so far hidden patterns of electrochemical functional dynamics in the living mouse brain.

Keywords: micro and nano fabrication,metasurfaces,optical neural interfaces
COntext-informed AUtomaTic cHemical prOcess geneRation (CoAUTHOR)

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,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217076.16
EU funding (EUR): 217076.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Improving the efficiency and resilience of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry is pivotal for the EU; in this frame, process flow diagram (PFD) design and retrofitting play a crucial role. Currently, it is executed by engineers leveraging their knowledge and engineering context, using a time-consuming iterative approach. On the other hand, AI-driven PFD design has proven outstanding capabilities in generating new process configurations. Despite being a promising technology, current approaches rely on training a new model when designing a process without leveraging process engineering information. Inserting such information would give the agent the optimisation context, improving the efficiency of the generated PFD and removing the need for retraining on each new design. However, such an integration requires investigating the best approach to inform the agent in the engineering context. This action wants to fill this gap by using a multidisciplinary approach combining reinforcement learning (RL) with chemical process optimisation and chemical properties predictions. The main project outcome is an AI agent able to design PFDs and retrofit existing ones without retraining while informed of the design aim and engineering context. The project will investigate the most suitable techniques for integrating chemical components and reaction properties into RL training for PFD design and retrofitting. The results of CoAUTHOR will advance our understanding of context-aware RL for chemical applications and generate an extensive toolkit for AI-driven PFD generation, paving the way toward a more sustainable and resilient chemical industry. In this action, I will combine my background in AI application in the chemical industrial domain with the expertise of the host research group in AI-driven PFD generation at TU Delft while acquiring skills in representing physicochemical properties via AI techniques during my secondment at ETH.

Keywords: chemical process generation,process flowsheet design,process intensification,physicochemical properties,chemical process retrofitting
COMpetence of neural progenitors In Time (COMIT)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

During brain development, neural progenitor cells generate an enormous diversity of neuronal subtypes in the correct numbers and proportions. Although the transition from progenitor cells to mature neurons is well studied, little is known about how plastic this process is among different progenitor populations and over time. COMIT aims to investigate the temporal dynamics of neural progenitor competence. Using the zebrafish embryonic brainstem –the hindbrain– as a model system and an innovative multicolour lineage tracing system – TEMPO2.0–, I will label and track different generations of specific neural progenitor populations as they progress through differentiation. Leveraging multiple transgenic zebrafish lines, I will monitor the contribution of these progenitors to glutamatergic and GABAergic neuron populations across different temporal windows. Further, I will challenge progenitor competence through heterochronical expression of temporal identity transcription factors, assessing their impact on neuronal subtype specification. Chromatin profiling will be employed to identify the genomic targets of re-specification factors, shedding light on the molecular mechanisms that regulate progenitor plasticity. This integrated approach, combining cutting-edge biocomputing, imaging, genetic, and molecular techniques, will provide key insights into the heterogeneity of neural progenitor competence and the mechanisms that control the generation of neuronal diversity. Ultimately, the findings from this research could pave the way for new cell therapy strategies targeting neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases.

Keywords: zebrafish,plasticity,neural progenitor,cell fate,temporal patterning
Unraveling the Impact of Vaccination on Rinderpest Virus Evolution (EvoVax)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200400.0
EU funding (EUR): 200400.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Rinderpest virus (RPV) was historically one of the most devastating pathogens affecting cattle, with a global impact unmatched by any other livestock disease. Although largely eradicated in Europe by the late 19th century, RPV continued causing catastrophic outbreaks in Africa and Asia, leading to severe economic and agricultural consequences. The introduction of a vaccine in the 1960s marked a turning point, ultimately leading to the official eradication of RPV in 2011, a landmark achievement in veterinary and human medicine. However, the effects of vaccination on the evolutionary dynamics of RPV remain unexplored. My MSCA proposal aims to investigate how vaccination efforts influenced the evolution of RPV. I hypothesize that widespread vaccine use exerted selective pressures on the virus, leading to genetic bottlenecks and reduced genomic diversity over time and across regions. I also suspect that the staggered rollout of vaccination programs worldwide resulted in the emergence of distinct regional RPV lineages. To test these hypotheses, I will analyze historical RPV samples, expanding the genetic dataset by sequencing additional genomes from a rare collection of 45 European pathological specimens collected before vaccination. This will be complemented by analyzing existing sequences from Asia and Africa. I will develop innovative phylodynamic models to account for time-dependent evolutionary rates and lineage dynamics, providing a comprehensive view of the virus’s evolutionary response to vaccination. By combining my solid track record in virus-host interactions and paleogenetics with the host's extensive expertise in virus phylodynamics, this fellowship will provide me with the key scientific and transferable skills necessary to achieve this research agenda and fulfill the outlined objectives. It will also enable me to establish myself as a research leader in the field and make substantial contributions to the study of viral evolution.

Keywords: viral evolution,phylodynamics,rinderpest virus,vaccination impact
Which Moral Influences on European penal and prison policies? (JUST PEN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2416984.0
EU funding (EUR): 2416984.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The JUST_PEN Project aims to analyse the strategies private interest groups use to try to influence European penal and prison policies through notably litigation and judicial complaints lodged with the European Court of Human Courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union. In relying notably on a current national research grant on “the European Human Rights Justice under Moral Influences?”, the JUST_PEN project will analyse whether or not the moral and religious values promoted by these private interest groups have influenced and have even been taken account of or even been adopted by the European penal and prison policies. In this respect, the project will investigate the ways in which these private interest groups try to influence these policies using doctrinal, judicial (notably through litigation and monitoring efforts) and political tactics. In terms of effects of these strategies, we will investigate how and to what extent these tactics are translated into penal and prison policies notably through a process of coercive human rights that refer to the coercive aspect (the enactement of criminal law and the use of criminal sanctions) of human rights protection. In doing so, we will propose a new theoretical model: the ‘moral entrepreneur of jurisprudence ’ that is all about powerful private actors who do not behave as philantropists but are driven by material interests taking creative initiatives which involve shaping or reshaping case law on penal and prison policies. In doing so, they can either reinforce or on the contrary moderate and even lenify the coercive dimension of human rights and contribute though this process to orient significantly penal and prison policies. The JUST_PEN project intends thus to achieve a significant paradigm shift within the existing literature on human rights, European law and penal and prison policies by combining all these domains that are ignored by the existing legal, socio-legal and criminological literature.

Keywords: penal and prison policies,ngos,conservative and liberal interest groups,european human rights justice