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REPTiS: Responsible Extraction and Processing of Titanium and other Primary Raw Materials for Sourcing EU Industrial Value Chains and Strategic Sectors (REPTiS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Ukraine,Germany,Poland,Sweden,Spain,Austria
Call: Technologies for extraction and processing of critical raw materials (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8739572.55
EU funding (EUR): 7304086.94
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

REPTiS offers a sustainable and energy efficient solution for responsible extraction and processing of Titanium and other Primary Raw Materials from strategic partner countries to EU supply chains with a net zero-waste approach. The project will demonstrate the capability of Titanium extraction and processing as a Critical Raw Material in collaboration with strategic partnership country Ukraine in all stages of the value chain ranging from open pit ilmenite ore mining and carbon-free Ti powder production to full-scale deployment in the EU, thanks to the commitments of the industrial partners after the end of the project. Demonstrating an approach towards zero waste manufacturing by means of energy and resource efficiency, and by a validation using real parts from the industry, the project will go beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of maturity (from TRL 5 to 7) and hence contribute to the European Green Deal.

Keywords: critical raw materials,primary raw materials,titanium,additive manufacturing,metal injection molding,product environmental footprint
Programmable interfaces: towards reliable and recyclable composite materials via debonding on demand (InterBond)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499972.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499972.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The combination of different materials is often key to the functionality of engineering components. For instance, metal films on polymers are omnipresent composite materials, from food packaging to satellite insulation and flexible electronic displays. Thereby, interfaces are often the weakest link, associated with dissimilar physical properties of adjacent layers or joining parts. A common strategy to prevent interface failure is enhancing adhesion. However, strong (inseparable) interfaces limit recyclability, an aspect largely neglected yet. Novel interface design could change this situation. This proposal outlines a research program to establish new scientific principles for the nanoscale design of innovative “programmable interfaces” with reliable adhesion in use and thereafter “debonding upon request”, aiming at a new generation of reliable and recyclable sustainable thin film composite devices. Recent work of the PI on naturally well-adhering Al on Polyimide (adhesion energy Γ=40 Jm-2) suggests how unique benefits can be mimicked artificially for weak systems (2 Jm-2) via molecular layers (Al-O-C Alucones) deposited at the interface. The PI hypothesizes that inseparability of metallization and substrate can be solved by incorporated “triggers” for controlled degradation and delamination in conditions beyond those of standard use, e.g. via local heating at the interface by optical excitation of metallic nanoparticles. ”InterBond” shall combine a) fabrication of inorganic-organic model interfaces with triggerable degradation mechanisms, b) in-situ testing of interface strength in service/trigger conditions and c) physical modelling of structural integrity as a function of material combination and architectural design. This research program will focus on interfaces in metal films on polymer, yet the outcomes should apply to lightweight polymer matrix composites with metallic or ceramic fillers, leading the path to sustainable materials for technical applications.

Keywords: thin films,nanoparticles,polymer substrates,adhesion,fragmentation
European Flexible hEat Shields: advanced TPS design and tests for future in-Orbit demonstration - 2 (EFESTO-2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Italy,France,Portugal
Call: New space transportation solutions and services (HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1990171.5
EU funding (EUR): 1990171.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

EFESTO-2 is the natural follow-on of the project EFESTO (H2020 grant 821801) and it aims at increasing the European know-how and technology capabilities in the field of Inflatable Heat Shields (IHS). It will lean on the great achievements obtained in the frame of the father project EFESTO by implementing the needed forward advance to improve the current TRL for future re-entry missions. The project pillars will be: -to consolidate the use-case applicability through a deep business case analysis for a meaningful space application -to extend the investigation spectrum of the father project “EFESTO” to other critical aspects of the IHS field -to increase the confidence-level and robustness of tools/models and know-how developed in the frame of the father project “EFESTO” -to ensure continuity in presiding the IHS field in Europe among the scientific and industrial community The inflatable heat shields can be considered as a fundamental mean to both decelerate and protect the space system during re-entry, thus providing key contribution to the functions of re-entry and descent, therefore EFESTO-2 will satisfactorily fulfil the objectives of the HE call “HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-23” contributing to the part of the scope strictly related with entry/descent systems and solutions. In particular EFESTO-2 will contribute to: -expansion of commercial space transportation offer and services because maturation of Inflatable Heat Shields will allow their applicability to recovery and reuse of launcher’s stages -execution of design and performance studies as well as business cases analysis with ad-hoc work packages -maturation of relevant technologies up to TRL 5-6 through a ground test campaign -matching the EU Green Deal objective because maturation of Inflatable Heat Shields technology can replace propulsion devices in end-of-life disposal/de-orbiting of space systems, hence reducing environmental impact of space debris as well as of chemical propulsion.

Keywords: re entry technology for launchers reusability,inflatable heat shields,aerodynamic decelerators,flexible tps,inflatable structure,entry descent and landing solutions
Sustainable Materials for Innovative, Low Emissions applications in the CIrcular ciTY (SMILE CITY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Belgium,Cyprus,Serbia,Spain,Greece,Poland,Türkiye,Bulgaria,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Lithuania
Call: Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI)’s circular systemic solutions (HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-02, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10506796.87
EU funding (EUR): 9356238.75
Participants: 36
Project status: SIGNED

SMILE CITY provides realistic circular systemic solutions to support the evolution towards a carbon-neutral, environmentally sustainable, toxic-free, circular economy by 2050. The contribution to C02 reduction works on two levels: - an intensive use of recycled materials in replacement of virgin ones, without decreasing the performance of final products; - the use of such products and applications to increase sustainable mobility. The project aims to integrate innovative systemic solutions in up to 100 km of cycling paths and implement 20 e-bike charging stations, developed using different types of recycled urban waste: construction materials, EoL tyres and EoL batteries from Electric Vehicles. The foreseen innovations include the creation of e-bike charging stations made of recycled concrete precast elements and PV panels equally produced with recycled materials, the installation of recycled rubber moulded products for urban furniture such as rubber bollard, lane dividers, and rubberized asphalt, which contributes both to increase sustainability and safety. SMILE CITY will thus assemble the technological state of the art of the different value chains involved to implement circular systemic solutions in 7 different EU and non-EU countries, backing the transition towards a regenerative, inclusive and circular economy at local and regional scale across Europe and therefore boosting interregional and cross-border cooperation. In addition, the project will also increase resource efficiency, reinforcing Europe’s strategic autonomy and reduce the negative environmental footprint related to current recycling techniques of the considered urban waste value chains. By supporting awareness raising and information spreading, SMILE CITY will engage both citizens and industrial leaders in the green transition towards climate-neutral solutions for Circular Cities, bolstering the market uptake of circular solutions through regional and local actions. Two partners are CCRI members.

Keywords: circular urban planning,sustainable mobility,urban waste circularity,co2 emission reduction,recycling and reuse
Strengthening the Europe-Africa Digital Ecosystem Through Increased R&I Cooperation (SEADE)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,South Africa,France,Belgium,Ghana
Call: R&I cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2292812.5
EU funding (EUR): 2292812.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The SEADE project provides fundamental and tangible support services to the Research and Innovation (R&I) ecosystems of Europe (EU) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), undertaking human-centred research, programme development/delivery, and pilot actions in four SSA target regions to support increased cooperation. These actions will focus on two key areas identified as challenges for this ecosystem: digital transformation and international collaboration. Alongside the programme development, integration of legacy elements from current or newly closed initiatives working in the EU-SSA R&I, such as the ICT-58 projects funded under Horizon 2020, will provide the R&I in Digital (R&IID) actors across both continents with a comprehensive resource toolkit, made available within the legacy platform of the ENRICH in Africa (EiA) project. With this approach SEADE aims to provide a seamless ‘Route-to-Market’ pathway for the R&I actors in transferring research knowledge into market success, thus supporting the development of economic growth, and facilitate job market boosting. By founding the actions of SEADE in a human-centred approach, the activities can be developed through user-, as well as market-driven research, ensuring the services developed are relevant and required by the target users, and therefore more likely to be successful. The delivery of these new services within 4 pilot regions (Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa), will enable the SEADE consortium to set measurable criteria for the assessment of such actions within different cultural, political, and financial ecosystems. This data will enable SEADE to produce key policy positioning papers and reports, which can support the development of further R&IID targeted actions in other African regions. The EU and SSA actors of SEADE will be engaged via the wealth of networks available within the consortium partnership, enabling a strong dissemination and communication strategy for the project to be undertaken from the start.

Keywords: research and innovation,digital field,digital innovation hubs,au eu cooperation,sub saharan africa,route to market,digital transformation,human centred,partnership,pilot actions
Tunnel ionization in three-dimensional tailored light fields (3DTunneling)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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 STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1836780.0
EU funding (EUR): 1836780.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Tunneling is a non-resonant, quantum mechanical process without any classical analog. The electric field of a strong laser pulse can bend atomic and molecular potentials such that an electron can be liberated via tunneling. This allows for probing properties of atomic and molecular orbitals with subnanometer and attosecond resolution (like a tunneling microscope’s tip probes properties of the investigated surface). So far, the electric field vector is restricted to a one-dimensional line (1D, e.g. linearly polarized light) or a two-dimensional plane (2D, e.g. circularly polarized light). Since tunneling acts like a filter to the same 1D or 2D subspace in position space, this limits the sensitivity to the 3D structure of the probed orbital. I propose to build an experimental setup that can synthesize 3-dimensional (3D) light fields with peak intensities of up to 1015 W/cm2. 3D light fields will significantly increase the sensitivity of strong field tunneling to the 3D properties of the bound electronic wave function. Further, non-adiabatic dynamics during tunneling and subsequent acceleration, recollision, or recapture of the electronic wave packet will be driven by the time-dependent 3D field as well. This will e.g. allow for the creation of chiral electron distributions in atoms (i.e. chiral atoms), selectively tunnel ionize one enantiomer of a racemic mixture of chiral molecules and enable a new type of pump-probe experiments. The capability to generate 3D light fields will be matched with a 3D detection system, which measures 3D electron momenta in coincidence with ionic fragments. My team and I will use this novel 3D-light-3D-detection-platform to investigate tunnel ionization from atoms, diatomic molecules, and chiral molecules. I anticipate that the proposed experiments will give rise to a new class of experiments on light-matter interaction and provide ground-breaking insight regarding the quantum mechanical process of tunneling itself.

Keywords: light matter interaction,strong field tunnel ionization,time dependent three dimensional laser electric fields,femtosecond laser pulses,momentum spectroscopy,coltrims reactions microscopes,chirality
Collaborative Knowledge Valorisation for Sustainable Nature-Based Solutions (GreenEsteem)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,Austria,Bulgaria
Call: Experimentation and exchange of good practices for value creation (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 993125.0
EU funding (EUR): 993125.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Urgently needed innovation in twin transitions will bring about transformations that significantly impact people's everyday lives. These transitions must be science-based and sensitive to actual societal needs to ensure they realize their full socio-environmental benefits. Implementing an approach that is focused on collaborative knowledge valorisation (CKV) and supports collaboration across the quadruple helix (QH) has a powerful potential of moving such innovations beyond the current state of affairs and achieving much more sustainable and better rooted impact. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have emerged as a promising field where participatory planning and co-design have been experimented with recently, resulting in innovative best practices. These approaches have provided essential experience in uniting local residents, businesses, academia, and decision-makers to enhance green and blue infrastructures in a participatory and inclusive manner. A lack of knowledge, resources, and skills often hinders the maintenance of NBS, affecting ecosystem integrity and the provision of ecosystem services essential for climate change adaptation and mitigation. GreenEsteem builds on and advances best practices in the field of NBS through piloting the co-evaluation and co-design of sustainable NBS in two living labs (Konin & Sofia). Based on pilot outcomes and with strong support of expert groups and national expert roundtables, a comprehensive training program for CKV are established to tackle barriers and skill gaps among QH stakeholders. Strategic roadmaps and events launch and intensify cross-fertilization networks engaged in the green transition. Supported by an online platform featuring best practice toolkits, online training modules, a digital handbook, and policy recommendations, GreenEsteem is designed to reach practitioners, citizens and researchers alike, ensuring the replication of best practices of collaborative knowledge valorisation across Europe.

Keywords: knowledge valorisation,quadruple helix collaboration,nature based solutions,ecosystem services,participatory planning,open science
Computational, Chemical and Biotechnology Solutions to Improved DNA Data Storage: from In-Product Information and Cryptography to Long-Term Archiving (DiDAX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland,Lithuania
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DNA-based digital data storage (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4543583.75
EU funding (EUR): 4543583.75
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Modern information-based society largely relies on trusted information storage in a large variety of setups, ranging from long-term digital archiving to embedding information into products. DNA is a promising future storage medium for such diverse applications as it offers sustainable and robust long-term information storage at extraordinary information density. DNA will also never become obsolete. However, long-term DNA archival storage is still very expensive. In DiDAX, we will develop new approaches to DNA storage based on novel encoding and decoding algorithms, new reduced cost synthesis approaches and new embedding technologies. Specifically, we will provide (i) synthesis, encoding and decoding methods for efficient reduced cost archiving using standard and composite DNA, (ii) in-product information storage technologies, including encapsulation and embedding, as well as tailored coding and reconstruction approaches, (iii) methods for efficient labeling and cryptographic authentication, and (iv) efficient and new approaches to photolithography-based synthesis and composite synthesis of DNA, to enable reduced-cost DNA storage. We will demonstrate end-to-end PoC systems for reduced-cost archival storage, in-product information storage as well as DNA-based authentication protocols. The DiDAX project will expand the long-term applicability of archival DNA-based data storage through significant improvements in cost. Furthermore, DiDAX will broaden the range of DNA-based information technologies and lead to applications realizable in the short term by developing in-product information storage solutions and DNA-based authentication protocols. DiDAX methodology is highly interdisciplinary building on expertise in computer science, engineering, chemistry, material science, and in building complete DNA based storage systems. DiDAX impact spans applications and technology domains and will be disseminated and exploited to benefit European society and industry.

Keywords: authentication,archiving,dna of things,crispr,coding and information theory,3d printing
Integer-valued Matrix AutoRegressive Score models (IMARS)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Policymakers and governmental institutions rely every day on data to make important decisions that impact citizens’ quality of life. For instance, the availability of large amounts of time series data observed in many dimensions and levels of granularity requires the development of new techniques to model and draw conclusions from such complex systems. Multivariate time series data structures typically deal with time series and cross-sectional dimensions. Nowadays, much more complex data structures have appeared, requiring mathematical objects defined in higher dimensions and beyond continuous-valued measurements; e.g. time series of counts related to several types of crimes occurring in different cities. The final object is a three-dimensional data set of counts called a discrete tensor. This research proposal introduces new empirical, econometric models to describe and study such discrete tensor data. Although in social sciences many tensor data possess a discrete structure, the statistical theory for discrete tensors is still under development. These specific data cannot be accommodated by existing tensor models which are specifically tailored for continuous variables and are typically described by simple linear patterns. The goal of the project is to fill the existing gap in the literature by developing new models for discrete-valued tensor data that possess flexible cross-sectional and serial dependence structures. To this aim, we combine a multivariate copula framework for count data and non-linear score-driven models with the existing tensor literature; As a result, we obtain a new model class, called Integer-valued Matrix Autoregressive Score model (IMARS). We then successfully apply these new models to relevant empirical problems in key areas of interest to policymakers, like crime data, allowing to understand the distribution of different types of crimes across geographical areas, forecast their incidence and study spillover effects over a space-time grid.

Keywords: integer valued time series