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Co-creating people-centric sustainable neighbourhoods through urban regeneration (WeGenerate)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: B4P (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Portugal,Romania,Finland,Spain,Greece,Czechia,Norway
Call: Solutions for the sustainable, resilient, inclusive and accessible regeneration of neighbourhoods enabling low carbon footprint lifestyles and businesses (Built4People) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D4-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7987411.89
EU funding (EUR): 7495872.5
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The Project ‘WeGenerate’ as signified by its name, seeks to infuse the elements of people and co-creation in the urban regeneration processes. It fully embraces the paradigm shift from building for the people to building with the people. We – cities, citizens, communities, businesses, researchers, and practitioners – take ownership of the urban regeneration processes and co-create together sustainable, people-centric, accessible, and beautiful neighbourhoods. This project is based on the stories of four neighbourhoods and their communities located in different parts of Europe. Although they are at different stages of development and are facing different urban challenges, but they share the same vision of positive change. WeGenerate will help them to reinvent themselves and in the process find new values and opportunities. WeGenerate sets out a journey to find the right ingredients and recipes for sustainable and inclusive urban regeneration that can create long-lasting positive impacts within the neighbourhoods and beyond. The process will be highly participatory with close collaboration with the city administrations as well as the citizens, local communities, and businesses. Advanced digital applications (such as Digital Twins, Metaverse and extended reality) will be implemented and experimented to support decision-making and stimulate citizen engagement. Expertise in Social Science and Humanities is called upon to foster social innovation and participatory actions across the project. In addition to technological and social interventions, the art and cultural dimensions will be drawn on in the co-creation processes. Four sustainable and people-centric neighbourhoods will be realised by the end of the project, the legacy will be upheld through replication by five Fellow Cities and others, who are inspired by the WeGeneration stories.

Keywords: sustainable and inclusive urban regeneration,just transition,climate neutral cities,people centric neighbourhoods,energy communities,walkable cities
Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) for the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission Platform Scaling Netzerocities (FPA-NZC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Climate neutral and smart cities
Destination: Climate neutral and smart cities
Action type: Framework Partnership Agreement
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,France,Austria,Ireland,Spain,Netherlands,Finland,Italy,Croatia,Estonia,Sweden,Poland,Switzerland
Call: Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) for the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission Platform (HORIZON-MISS-2021-CIT-02, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 38
Project status: SIGNED

This FPA provides comprehensive programming and support for the European Commission’s Mission of 100 Climate-neutral and Smart Cities by 2030. It builds on the NetZeroCities (NZC) project, coordinated by CKIC. Combined, these two initiatives set out actions as follows: (a) Create and operate a Cities Mission Platform as a ‘one-stop-shop’ to access the expertise, capabilities, services, and solutions necessary to achieve climate neutrality. This Platform will provide tailored and intensive support to cities participating in the Mission and will ensure open access to the knowledge and resources of the Platform. (b) Help all Mission Cities with the co-creation and use of Climate City Contracts (CCC) to enable an ambitious pursuit of the goal of climate neutrality by 2030. This FPA expressly seeks to ensure all Mission Cities are supported and builds directly on the initial scope of NZC. In addition, support will be offered to additional cities seeking to follow closely the Mission. (c) Assist Mission cities in the development of tailor-made investment plans, project preparation and finance for the cities participating in the Mission; (d) Deliver substantial resources to Mission cities for ongoing research and innovation activities critical to achieving climate neutrality by 2030. This support will be in the form of ‘pilot’ funding to test and demonstrate actions needed to deliver climate neutral outcomes. This pilot activity will work together with the Platform and CCC processes in the cities, operationalizing emerging knowledge and insights about how cities can achieve the Mission objectives; and (e) Ensure ongoing monitoring and evaluation of cities in their progress toward climate neutrality and deploy peer-based learning to ensure full appropriability of the result from the Mission. The FPA periods extends through 2027 and provides for two planned Specific Grant Agreement (SGA) phases, where a precise plan, targets and metrics will be established.

Keywords: netzerocities,nzc,climate mitigation,cities mission,climate city contracts,pilots,investment plan,climate action plan,portal development,platform development
AI for Vision Zero in Road Safety (IVORY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands,Greece,Belgium,Croatia,Italy,Slovenia,Canada,Portugal,United Kingdom,France,South Africa
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3959646.34
EU funding (EUR): 3328971.6
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

IVORY - ‘AI for Vision Zero in Road Safety’ is an industrial doctorates network aiming to develop a new framework for optimal integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in road safety research, and train a new generation of leading researchers in the field. It addresses the UN Sustainable Development Goals target 3.6 and the EC Vision Zero strategy, of halving traffic fatalities by 2030 and eliminating them by 2050. IVORY addresses the lack of common understanding of the challenges and opportunities of AI for road safety by means of 4 research goals: it aims to develop (i) responsible, fair and impactful AI for road safety, (ii) new ways of road user support and human-vehicle-environment interaction, (iii) new scalable and equitable AI technologies for proactive infrastructure safety management, (iv) a sustainable knowledge sharing network on AI for road safety. IVORY outputs will not only provide more robust user support through AI in vehicle automation, but will also allow to responsibly and proactively manage the persistent problems of existing conventional, low-automation transport systems, so that new opportunities for global road safety impact can emerge. Moreover, IVORY takes a design-for-values approach for AI in road safety, operationalising the ethical principles of justice and explainability, and providing efficient AI solutions also for disadvantaged groups (e.g. vulnerable road users, low-to-middle-income countries). IVORY consists of 4 academic and 6 non-academic beneficiaries, and 12 associated partners, joining from engineering, data science and ethics of technology disciplines, from 11 countries. 13 young researchers will receive high-level doctoral education, industrial exposure, local training, and 8.5 ECTS of network-wide training on key advanced, core and transferable skills. IVORY will create an on-line learning & networking platform for AI in road safety, to be available after the end of the project for future researchers in this field.

Keywords: road safety artificial intelligence big data responsible ai driver assistance infrastructure safety
How a non-cell autonomous compass orients cell division in plants (COMPASS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cell Biology, Development, Stem Cells and R egeneration
Panel description: For all organisms : Structure and function of the cell, cell -cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2376824.0
EU funding (EUR): 2376824.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In multicellular organisms, cell division not only drives the separation of the mother cell into daughter cells but also dictates the organization of the cells in a tissue, their identities, and functions. In walled organisms such as plants, the division plane's position irreversibly defines tissue topology and is tightly controlled. While the importance of division plane orientation for tissue topology is uncontested, research on division plane positioning primarily focuses on cell-autonomous cues. It has been hypothesized that tissue-scale mechanical stress may influence division plane orientation. Still, it needs to be clarified how such clues, let alone local tissue topology, are integrated into division plane positioning. Here, I will tackle this fundamental knowledge gap by integrating the cell division process in a multicellular context and considering cell division as a non-cell autonomous mechanism, relying on cues from the local environment. I propose a radical change of view where integrated mechanical (and possibly other) information at tricellular junctions provides a positional hallmark to guide division. This hypothesis stems from preliminary data in my team that further identified the actin cytoskeleton as a central actor in the perception/processing of mechanical cues, thereby locally integrating tissue topology to orient division. Using a combined approach of cell biology, genetics, and mechanical modeling at multiscale, we will investigate how plant cells orient their division by integrating biophysical and biochemical signals from surrounding tissues. In particular, we will address: How the dividing cell integrates the local neighborhood to orient the division plane? What are the molecular cues incorporating the mechanical and geometrical features to instruct cell division? What is the role of the cell division orientation at the organ scale? This work will allow me to build a mechanistic, multiscale vision of plant cell division positioning.
User behaviour informed learning and intelligent control for charging of vehicle battery packs (ULICBat)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The realisation of the EU industrial and political ambition of promoting transportation electrification to reduce carbon emissions depends heavily on the continued advancement of battery technologies. However, rapid battery pack degradation caused by improper charging behaviours is one of the most crucial factors restricting the wide usage of electric vehicles. This project aims to make step changes in research and innovation of battery management by developing 1) a user charging preference learning and demand prediction model methodology, 2) a user demand-informed optimisation methodology of charging trajectory, and 3) a distributed trajectory tracking-based battery pack charging control, and realise an advanced career development for the experienced researcher. As an MSCA-PF fellow, the experienced researcher, Dr. Quan Ouyang, will receive crucial career development at the Chalmers University of Technology and engage in detailed battery charging control works which span the areas of automatic control and artificial intelligence using a clearly defined training-through-research approach. The project results will include a generic smart charging system to prolong battery life and improve the vehicle’s resource efficiency and convenience. The incorporated battery pack charging strategies will benefit from revolutionarily considering the user preferences and demand, where the designed charging currents can be intelligently adjusted according to different user demands that can effectively restrict battery degradation. The hosting group at the Chalmers University of Technology has a tradition of projects in close cooperation with the vehicle industry (e.g., Volvo Cars, Scania, and CEVT), making it highly likely that the results of this project will be taken up by the industry. Ultimately, this project will contribute to the EU's carbon neutrality goal and the UN Sustainable Development Goals in "affordable and clean energy" and "sustainable cities".

Keywords: battery management systems,battery packs,fast charging,user behaviour,optimal control,machine learning
Meritocracy and Literature: Transcultural Approaches to Hegemonic Forms (MERLIT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1961451.0
EU funding (EUR): 1961451.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

MERLIT is the first systematic, diachronic and comparative investigation of meritocratic narratives in literature. Meritocratic thinking manifests itself in powerful narratives across the globe, from the constitutionally embedded “pursuit of happiness” to neoliberal narratives of self-enhancement. MERLIT investigates forms of these narratives, which are embraced for their seemingly empowering and universalist appeal, but also criticised for their enmeshment with structures of domination and privilege. MERLIT explores how meritocratic narratives are written, how they are written into cultures, but also how they are written back to in text forms that have shaped the zeitgeist of particular moments respectively. Although research into meritocratic thinking is a vibrant interdisciplinary field, it is characterised (1) by a lack of investigations into the formal principles underpinning – or challenging – meritocratic articulations, (2) by a narrow focus on (white) Western contexts and (3) by a concentration on recent developments. To counter these gaps, (1) MERLIT explores in six work packages how practices of writing have played, and continue to play, crucial roles in shaping meritocratic articulations but also critiques thereof; (2) MERLIT expands the contextual focus of existing scholarship by engaging with radical writing practices from the Global South and a range of transculturally entangled anglophone contexts; eventually, (3) MERLIT challenges perceptions of meritocratic thinking and its critiques as recent phenomena by engaging with changing forms of articulating value, merit and success from the 17th century to the present. Situated at the intersections of literary history, new formalist theory and cultural translation, MERLIT not only offers a literary history of meritocratic thought, but significantly advances our understanding of the workings of a set of hegemonic forms in and through writing, and of the formative, worldmaking role of literature.

Keywords: history of thought literary form cultural narrative meritocracy mentalities
The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945 (WAR-ON-CIVILIANS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: France
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): 2495750.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495750.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This may be one of the most ambitious efforts to apply the methods of global history to the study of war and society in several countries around the world. We explore the evolution of types of warfare that explicitly targeted the enemy’s civil population. WAR-ON-CIVILIANS focuses on (1) aerial bombardment, and civil defense against it, (2) food blockades, and home front campaigns to ration food, and (3) efforts to “demoralize” enemy civilians, while boosting “morale” at home. This is much more than a comparison of discrete case studies. Global or transnational history emphasizes the connections between nations. Here we investigate how the circulation of knowledge and practices culminated by World War II in systematic attacks on civilians and the creation of home fronts that mobilized civilians. The spatial sweep is global, going well beyond conventional Eurocentric accounts. We will connect Japan’s long World War II in China and Asia-Pacific with that in Britain, Germany, France, and USA—plus the seldom-integrated cases of Italy, Spanish Civil War, and Soviet Union. The PI is uniquely positioned to direct the project. A leading historian of Japan, he also writes transnational histories based on extensive archival research in Britain, Germany, and France. And in its temporal sweep, WAR-ON-CIVILIANS breaks new ground by researching transnational developments going back to 1905, when Japan demonstrated new forms of mobilizing civilians in defeating Russia, and the British Admiralty began planning a wartime blockade of the German food supply. We examine the “lessons” of World War I, smaller wars, and developments in the oft-neglected interwar decades that led to the assault on cities in World War II. The project analyzes the impact of political regimes. Bombing, blockade, and civilian morale became common features in a variety of warring states—from democracies to authoritarian regimes on Right and Left, despite important differences.

Keywords: war and society,civilians in war,total war,home fronts,aerial bombardment,blockades,food insecurity,civilian morale,global history,international law,psychological warfare,gender and war
Ecology of Wild-life, Livestock, huMan and Infectious Diseases in changing environments (WiLiMan-ID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Morocco,Norway,Italy,Belgium,Denmark,Sweden,Austria,Germany,Spain
Call: Ecology of infectious animal diseases (HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6086392.5
EU funding (EUR): 6086392.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

WiLiMan-ID addresses the complexity and the dynamics of the host-pathogen interactions for five animal infectious diseases (IDs) that are ranked as high priority by the EU (Avian influenza, African swine fever, West Nile fever, African horse sickness, and Chronic wasting disease). These IDs circulate in livestock and wildlife and, at the human-animal interfaces: two are causing severe economic losses to farming systems and three represent a threat to human health. The main objective of WiLiMan-ID is to identify key factors driving their emergence and dissemination in ever-changing environments by integrating data at different scales (pathogens>host>community of hosts>territory) and, to provide farmers, health services and policy makers with innovative strategies and methods for prevention, surveillance and control for the IDs considered in WiLiMan-ID and beyond. To meet this objective, WiLiMan-ID will in particular: - Improve methods for sensitive and accurate detection and identification of pathogens and their variants in complex environments. - Identify drivers promoting the increase in pathogen virulence, transmissibility and/or host-shift. - Assess the impact of host factors as a key parameter of pathogen evolution and dynamics, such as vaccination or pre-existing immunity to viral infection. - Identify transmission routes, the role of vectors, the impact of the environment (pathogen reservoirs in wildlife, global change impact on migration routes) and of the management practices (farming, trade, transport) on pathogen dissemination and transmission. - Develop next-generation analytical approaches for optimized surveillance and management strategies of IDs, within a context of global changes. - Disseminate and communicate the results to stakeholders and engage in further co-innovation. Convert the results into user guides, training materials and communication tool kits to optimise their exploitation.

Keywords: infectious disease,zoonoses,host pathogen interaction,livestock,wildlife,prevention,surveillance,control,global change,various scales,interfaces,interdisciplinarity,modelling,epidemiology