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Multifuel SOFC system with Maritime Energy vectors (FuelSOME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Cyprus,Finland,Poland,Switzerland
Call: Emerging technologies for a climate neutral Europe (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2687485.5
EU funding (EUR): 2499985.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Shipping is responsible for the emission of about 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and about 2.5% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. The drastic reduction of GHG emissions from ships has been set as one of the urgent targets to achieve the EU Green deal objectives. As a result, the maritime industry, which is a hard-to-decarbonize sector, is actively seeking for alternate solutions/technology which can make it more climate friendly but at the same time does not compromise on the current performance levels. Leveraging novel concepts as well as assets from former projects and initiatives, the project FuelSOME focuses on establishing the technological feasibility of a flexible, scalable, and multi-fuel capable energy generation system based on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) technology specially catered for long-distance maritime shipping. This system will be able to operate on Ammonia, Methanol and Hydrogen and their mixtures for which short and long-term sustainable supply pathways will be explored. Finally, on a broader level, an in-depth and detailed investigation on the environmental, social, and economic benefits of developing such a system for the European industry, the maritime sector and the citizens will be carried out. The future roadmap of the project is that the outcomes generated will not only benefit the maritime industry but can also serve as a blueprint/launchpad for implementing the same technology in other hard to abate emission sectors and/or, thereby enabling multi-fuel energy generators to become the norm in the future. The consortium comprises 8 partners: 7 partners from 6 European Member States and 1 partner from a non-associated third country (Switzerland). The FuelSOME consortium unites the necessary multidisciplinary knowledge, expertise, skills, and resources to constitute a representative value chain of actors, which together can achieve the project’s ambitious objectives.

Keywords: ammonia fuel cells maritime transport methanol multifuel systems solid oxide fuel cells sof stacks transport
Digital Innovative cross-sector services for Greater citizen Integration in a just energy TransItion, and Societal Empowerment (DIGITISE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Cyprus,Spain,Ireland,Portugal,Croatia,Estonia,France
Call: Digital tools for enhancing the uptake of digital services in the energy market (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5094375.0
EU funding (EUR): 3988687.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

DIGITISE aspires to enable the digital literacy and empowerment of consumers/ prosumers as well as the active engagement in digital energy activities and markets and the obtainment of an active role in the energy transition. It brings together proven know-how and tangible expertise around energy systems and flexibility services, energy markets and transactions, social/ human engagement in digital ecosystems. It integrates advanced technologies for Innovative Cross-Sector Services, Digital Twins, DLT-enabled Marketplaces, AI Analytics and Big Data Management, Interoperability and Security, into a holistic end-to-end consumer empowerment framework that will be extensively validated in 1 well and long established Living Lab and 4 large-scale demonstration sites in Greece, Spain, Croatia and Ireland involving the required actors (consumers, prosumers and the business actors: Retailers/Aggregators/LECs), diverse, cross domain data sources, heterogeneous energy and non-energy systems/assets, and multi-variate climatic and socio-economic characteristics.

Keywords: cross sector integrated services,data space implementation,data marketplace,flexibility marketplace,citizen engagement
Photonic Laser Integration for Metrology and Quantum Systems (LASIQ)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 64.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1490625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1490625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In LASIQ I will develop, for the first time, an on-chip titanium-sapphire mode-locked laser capable of generating low-noise optical frequency combs in the 650-1100 nm wavelength range. Optical frequency comb generators are light sources capable of generating a spectrum of millions of equally spaced laser lines. Such light sources allow to down-convert optical frequencies (THz) to the microwave domain (GHz), enabling precision laser spectroscopy and the construction of optical atomic clocks. Theodor Hänsch and John Hall were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics of 2005 for developing the optical frequency comb in recognition of its impact on quantum metrology, timekeeping and fundamental physics. Since their initial development, they have revolutionized several other fields such as LIDAR (light detection and ranging), molecular spectroscopy, astronomic spectroscopy for exoplanet identification and ultra-low-noise microwave generation. However, high-performance optical frequency combs are mostly based on expensive (>100 kEUR) and bulky (> 900 cm3) free-space or fiber-based mode-locked laser systems, which strongly limits their use in real-world applications. This has spurred an enormous research effort towards developing on-chip optical frequency comb generators. Currently, a large variety of integrated optical comb generators have been demonstrated, ranging from soliton microcombs to semiconductor mode-locked lasers. However, so far integrated optical comb generators cannot rival the performance of their table-top counterparts, severely limiting their application. In LASIQ, I will address this need by demonstrating titanium-sapphire mode-locked lasers on a millimeter-sized chip with a performance similar to that of the incumbent free-space solution. The realization of an on-chip titanium-sapphire mode-locked laser will enable chip-scale supercontinuum sources, integrated optical coherence tomography systems, on-chip optical atomic clocks and dual-comb metrology.

Keywords: photonics,optical frequency combs,mode locked lasers
Data Privacy in Digital Markets (PRIVDIMA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1860125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1860125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Focusing on verifiability, PRIVDIMA studies the regulation of data privacy to protect consumers from excessive price discrimination in digital markets. PRIVDIMA breaks with previous literature by acknowledging that data has a verifiability effect. It proposes a study of data privacy regulation by explicitly modelling this verifiability effect. Its motivation is as follows: 1) data collection in digital markets renders private information verifiable; 2) due to unravelling, this verifiability effect of data impacts regulation at a fundamental level; 3) extant work on privacy regulation abstracts from the effect; 4) data privacy rules that ignore verifiability effects lead to misguided regulation. PRIVDIMA is to rectify this. PRIVDIMA has 3 objectives. Objective 1 is to incorporate verifiability in the state-of-the-art theories of mechanism and information design, readying them for the analysis of a new range of problems where verifiability matters. Objective 2 is to derive concrete policy implications for data privacy based on regulating the use of data to limit price discrimination. It yields new insights on regulating both long and short run contracts in models of behaviour-based price discrimination. Objective 3 is to derive concrete policy implications for data privacy based on regulating the collection of data. It yields insights on how to prevent an unravelling of private information by which the verifiability effect of data hurts consumers. Objective 1 implies a major advancement for the field of economic theory. Objectives 2 and 3 ensure that consumers obtain a fair share of the benefits from digitalization, promoting not only equity and fairness, but also public support for future digitalization, allowing societies to reap its benefits while avoiding social conflict. As PRIVDIMA’s PI, I have a proven track record in developing and applying the required methods, and expertise in working with both verifiable and non-verifiable information.

Keywords: price discrimination,digital markets,data privacy,private information,verifiability
SYNergize: Understanding spore-forming gut bacteria biology to target pathogens (SYNergize)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499503.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499503.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Our intestinal microbiota consists of a dense community of microorganisms, highly adapted to the human gastrointestinal tract. Shared species between individuals indicates the presence of evolved and efficient transmission routes that ensure colonisation of beneficial bacterial species. Research has traditionally focussed on blocking enteric pathogen transmission routes as a means to prevent disease. However, a greater focus on understanding the transmission routes of commensal gut bacteria is required to promote health. Spores are resilient structures that maintain bacterial integrity in a dormant state for extended periods. My previous work has shown that spore-formation is a prevalent phenotype in the intestinal microbiota that promotes transmission of anaerobic gut bacteria, by maintaining viability in adverse aerobic environmental conditions until ingested by a new host. However, despite its importance, sporulation processes in commensal gut bacteria remain poorly understood. SYNergize will characterise the metabolic capabilities of gut spore-formers, spore composition and the environmental cues involved in spore formation and germination. By identifying combinations of bacteria and nutrients that inhibit enteric pathogens, SYNergize also seeks to provide new approaches to target the problem of increasing antimicrobial resistance in European healthcare systems. These probiotic isolate and prebiotic nutrient combinations can be used to create ‘synbiotics’, rationally designed and ingested to decolonise gut pathogens. A deeper understanding of sporulation processes could also allow spores to be used to effectively deliver anaerobic probiotic bacteria to the gut. By exploring transmission and colonisation processes of intestinal spore-forming bacteria, SYNergize seeks to understand fundamental adaptations of our intestinal microbiota, which could provide new tools to target antibiotic resistant pathogens.

Keywords: intestinal microbiome,gut bacteria,spore forming bacteria,microbiome therapeutics,probiotics,microbial biotechnology
Geometry, Dynamics and Singularities in Fluid Flows (GDSFLOWS)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The GDSFLOWS project aims to re-shape the mathematics we use to understand fluid flows. More precisely, the goal is to develop completely new tools, at the crossroads of differential topology, harmonic analysis, and dynamical systems, to address two of the most pressing problems on the PDEs of incompressible fluids: (1) if, and how, do solutions “blow-up” (that is: after a smooth start, do the physical magnitudes of the problem become irregular in finite time)? and (2) when solutions do not blow-up, what are the qualitative dynamics (attractors, equilibrium solutions) of the trajectories in the phase space (that is, in the space of velocity or vorticity fields? The project proposes 3 horizons: 1) Extending the recently obtained universality results for the Euler equation on certain Riemannian manifolds to the case of PDEs modelling the evolution of fluid interfaces, where the existence of solutions blowing-up in finite time is rigurously known. 2) Proving that the Euler equations on high-dimensional Euclidean spaces are universal, and using this to study whether solutions in very high dimensions that blow-up in finite time exist. 3) Proving the existence of chaotic invariant sets in the infinite dimensional phase space of the 2D Euler equation. The GDSFLOWS project will be carried out by the researcher, an expert in the study of geometric properties of PDEs coming from mathematical physics and hydrodynamics. He recently developed a method for embedding any finite-dimensional dynamical system into the Euler equation on certain high-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, building on T. Tao's recent program to prove blow-up of solutions to the high-dimensional Euler equation. The researcher will collaborate with the Supervisor, a prominent expert in the formation of singularities in the PDEs of fluid dynamics, and one of the authors of the first rigurous proof of blow-up in well-posed PDEs modelling incompressible fluids.

Keywords: euler equation,hydrodynamics,dynamical systems,chaotic dynamics,finite time singularities,interface problems
European Twinning for research in Solar energy to (2) water (H2O) production and treatment technologies (Sol2H2O)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Spain,Italy
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1491531.25
EU funding (EUR): 1491531.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

While the largest resource to avail is saline water, desalination faces two main challenges to its sustainability: the energy consumption required for the process and the waste residual brine, that can have a serious environmental impacts. Whereas the combination of Solar PV with Reverse Osmosis or Solar Thermal heat with Distillation processes has been developed along the recent decades into commercially available solar desalination solutions, the innovative integration of brine valorization and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) concepts aims at developing strategies to close the material loop, minimizing the liquid waste. The integration of these technologies results in a ZLD solar-powered desalination system - a circular economy scheme with the production of fresh water and recovery of valuable resources from the waste of the process. Gathering the experience of three non-Widening (TOP) partners presenting some of the most outstanding background and Research Infrastructure (RI), at European level, in the development of Solar-driven water production and wastewater treatment technologies (WP&WT), Sol2H2O aims at supporting the Coordinator (WIDENING) partner in the development of establishment of high-level research in this field. Based on the outstanding WIDENING RI and background in Solar Energy technologies and on its preliminary experiences in the Water-Energy nexus field, Sol2H2O seeks the development and implementation of a common scientific strategy, with a strong focus on an enhanced capacity building of researchers, going beyond purely scientific capacities and strengthening their research management and administration skills. By means of a common research strategy aiming at further developing Solar-driven Water-Energy Nexus solutions, Sol2H20 aims at creating a reference European facility for the development and testing of Circular Solar-driven Water Production & Treatment technologies, enabling the development of renewable gas or agriculture activities.

Keywords: solar energy,water treatment,desalination
Metamaterials for Thermoelectric Applications - multiscale Structure, Chemistry, Thermal Property relations to uncover the local behavior of grain boundaries (MetaSCT)

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: Germany,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184803.36
EU funding (EUR): 184803.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

A major barrier to a wider adoption of renewable energy technologies is developing more performing materials. Grain boundaries (GBs) emerge having a strong and multifaceted impact on thermal and electrical transport, critically controlling the materials performance in applications spanning from photovoltaics, solid oxide fuel-cells, thermal barriers, and thermoelectrics. Despite the considerable technological relevance, our understanding of how the structure and chemistry of GBs govern heat transport at the local scale, where GBs operate, remains limited. MetaSCT is a career development program designed for Dr. Eleonora Isotta, aimed at developing structure – chemistry - thermal property (SCT) relations to advance our understanding of GBs. To successfully deliver the project goals, Dr Isotta will receive advanced research training from an intercontinental collaboration of world-leading institutes and will benefit of their cutting-edge expertise and equipment. This opportunity will support Dr. Isotta’s growth as independent researcher and expert materials scientist, with lasting impact on her long-term career trajectory. If successful, the project will uncover new knowledge on heat transport at GBs, consolidate a promising material for thermoelectrics, establish novel techniques for SCT relations with 20x higher spatial resolution than current possibilities, and develop predictive models. High resolution techniques can have significant impact on broad areas of applied materials science and energy generation. New understanding on GBs will enable the design of metamaterials with engineered GBs for several applications, including thermoelectric energy harvesting and heat management.

Keywords: microstructure engineering,grain boundaries,thermoelectrics,thermal conductivity,electron microscopy,heat transport,structure property relations
AI-centric Server on Chip for increasing complexity and scale of AI inference applications, enabling the scale of real-life AI applications. (NR1)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7252975.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

AI holds immense promise across a wide range of applications, however, putting AI to work at scale remains a challenge. The main problem with implementing scalable AI deployment is that the current AI inference architecture is unsuitable for performing hyperscale computations due to complexity of deployment and total cost of ownership. New AI computing architecture is needed to enable the deployment of AI applications to realize its complete potential. NeuReality has developed NR1, an innovative Server-on-a-Chip solution in an AI Centric architecture and NR1 SDK, to facilitate the deployment of AI at scale. The unique architecture allows AI-optimized, simplified and democratized infrastructure with cost, power and performance optimization of access to AI computing resources, thereby enabling the deployment of AI inference. During the EIC project, NeuReality will finalise the development of NR1 and validate the optimized chip in operational settings for further commercialisation.