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Boosting pan-european Exchange between acceleration ecosYstems for improving quality and Outreach of business acceleration services in Developing innovation ecosystems (BEYOND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Poland,Spain,Latvia,Bulgaria
Call: Expanding Acceleration Ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2021-SCALEUP-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1320450.18
EU funding (EUR): 999878.75
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

BEYOND aims to achieve a more interconnected European business acceleration industry in between ‘modest’ or ‘moderate’ and ‘strong’ or ‘leading’ acceleration ecosystems in Europe, and therefore directly contribute to foster the rise of investment flows from net contributor regions (leaders) towards ‘modest’ and ‘moderate’ regions as net beneficiaries, which might provide one effective solution against the above referred undesired geographical gap. BEYOND project will focus on: 1.- Testing a Self-Sovereign Digital Identity scheme (funding passport) that start-ups get no matter what accelerator they join. Through the funding passport start-ups can document their journey and get access to additional funding; 2.- Building a joint platform for the core acceleration enabling online acceleration and a joint framework for how start-ups are most efficiently developed; 3.- Sharing specific offers from the different project participants and resources to increase the value for start-ups; 4.- Developing an incentive structure where all partners benefit from providing high quality start-ups and develop their services; 5.- Creating a cross-region marketplace for raising funding to start-ups so start-ups are not as dependent on the local investor landscape. These 5 elements constitute the backbone of BEYOND’s Virtual Accelerator Marketplace (VAM) a trust framework to support joint business acceleration activities that will contribute in a sustainable manner to enhance a balanced interconnectedness of private investment flows and thus, contribute to dramatically improve quality and outreach of business acceleration services in developing innovation ecosystems. The VAM will be tested through 2 editions of a joint acceleration program co-designed by 5 business accelerators backed on their own VC Funds, representing moderate (BG, LT, PL) and leading regions (DK, ES), that will select and support 2 cohorts of 20 Startups that will receive access to mentoring and VC investors.

Keywords: acceleration ecosystems business mentoring blended acceleration co design emerging regions trust frameworks matchmaking private investment vc engagement virtual acceleration marketplace
The non-invasive, drug-free Samphire Thyme neuromodulation system is a medical device to alleviate hot flushes, low mood, and insomnia for over 24M menopausal women in the EU/EEA. (THYME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 984570.0
EU funding (EUR): 984570.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Samphire Neuroscience, established in 2021, is a pioneering neurotechnology company dedicated exclusively to women's health. Our latest innovation, the Samphire Thyme, is a non-invasive, drug-free neuromodulation system designed to alleviate hot flushes, anxiety, and insomnia for over 24 million menopausal women in the EU/EEA. Developed through extensive patient involvement, including user needs surveys, semi-structured interviews, and iterative testing with focus groups, Thyme addresses a critical gap in the market for effective, non-hormonal treatments for menopause-related symptoms. The device combines advanced neurostimulation technologies, including tDCS, tACS, and VNS, to target both vasomotor and cognitive symptoms, providing a comprehensive solution that improves quality of life and workplace productivity. With a projected year-5 revenue of €22.7 million, Samphire aims to leverage EIC Accelerator funding to accelerate the development, clinical validation and commercialisation of Thyme, ensuring widespread adoption across Europe and positioning Samphire and Europe as a leader in women's health neurotechnology. Our commitment to innovation, patient-centered design, and rigorous clinical validation underpins our strategy to transform menopause management and contribute to a more inclusive and effective healthcare landscape for women.

Keywords: menopause neurotechnology medical device
MULTIMODAL AI COPILOT TO BRIDGE ESSENTIAL HUMANS IN HYBRID PRODUCTION CELLS INTO INDUSTRIAL VIRTUAL WORLDS (AW-COPILOT)

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): 1580145.0
EU funding (EUR): 1580145.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ANCORA WORKER COPILOT A multimodal AI copilot to bridge essential humans in hybrid production cells into industrial virtual worlds. Ancora seeks to revolutionize the manufacturing industry with its innovative Ancora Worker Copilot, a multimodal AI-powered copilot designed to integrate production workers into the supporting virtual world. This transformative technology aims to alleviate cognitive stress, bridge skill gaps, and facilitate the seamless integration of new workers and technologies in industrial settings. Ancora's vision is to lead in human-centred technology for Industry 5.0, fostering a systemic flexible manufacturing setup where workers, machines, and knowledge tools collaborate harmoniously. Our copilot includes developed technologies like multimodal HMI, natural language, computer vision and process intelligence. Technology to help the factory workers to reach higher performance levels with less-trained skills, while reducing cognitive load. It also connects the worker with the virtual world. Addressing the acute shortage of skilled labour and the need for a complete transformation of talent management, the AWC stands as a beacon of innovation, scaling up to be the category builder for AI-powered multimodal copilots. The broad impacts of the AWC extend to addressing the manufacturing talent crisis, enhancing worker well-being, and contributing to a resilient and sustainable industry in Europe. The proposal aligns with the company's long-term strategy and commitment to advancing the manufacturing sector through cutting-edge, human-centric technology.

Keywords: multimodal ai copilot flexible manufacturing cells industrial virtual worlds essential workers
FOUR-LEGGED AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS FOR INDUSTRIAL INSPECTIONS (Autonomous Dog Robot)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Keybotic builds autonomous dog robots for industrial inspections, monitoring, and surveillance with the technology that won 1st prize in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Keyper, our cutting-edge labrador-size robot, autonomously monitors the facilities, detects gas leaks, hotspots, steam leaks, reads instruments, detects intruders, and sends real-time alarms to the control center.

Keywords: robotics,industrial inspection,artificial intelligence
Framework Partnership Agreement for pilot production capabilities for quantum technologies (Qu-Pilot)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Framework Partnership Agreement
Countries involved: Finland,Netherlands,Belgium,France,Germany,Austria,Italy,Spain,Czechia
Call: Framework Partnership Agreements for open testing and experimentation and for pilot production capabilities for quantum technologies (FPA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

The Qu-Pilot FPA proposal consists of 21 partners from 9 different countries, aiming to develop and provide access to the first, federated European fabrication (production) capabilities for quantum technologies, building on and linking together existing infrastructures in Europe. Qu-Pilot will establish a capability innovation roadmap for providing experimental (pilot) production capabilities and a roadmap for transferring such capabilities to an industrial production environment. It will further provide experimental production capabilities for quantum technologies on the superconducting, photonics, semiconducting and diamond platforms, which will find application in computing, communication and sensing. The services will be available to users, including industry, in particular SMEs. Qu-Pilot will work closely with standardization efforts within quantum flagship to ensure development of European standards in the above fields. Qu-Pilot will provide services for the development of a European supply chain of quantum technologies, and give European industry, especially start-ups and SMEs, with the necessary innovation capacity, and make sure that critical IP remains within the EU. The competence development, industrial use-cases and ecosystem building – all the activities of Qu-Pilot FPA will be carried out within the specific grant agreements (SGAs) that will be granted from within the FPA, following the successful awarding of the FPA.

Keywords: quantum,superconductor,photonics,semiconductor,diamond,cryogenics,pilot manufacturing,pilot fabrication,pilot facility,superconducting devices,superconducting qubit,sfq,josephson junction
Open Researchers 2022-23 (OPENRESEARCHERS2223)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-03-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 300345.62
EU funding (EUR): 300345.62
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Open Researchers 2022-23 is the 11th Andalusian experience in the European Researchers' Night. The project is designed to increase the awareness and perception of research as a solution to the numerous challenges faced by citizens all around the world, as well as showing Science as the way to achieve the goals of the Horizon Europe Missions. ‘Excellence Science for boost a greener, smarter and healthier future in Europe with and for citizenship’ is the main idea of the project. It has been conceived at a time when the UE has just launched Horizon Europe in order to join efforts to face the greatest societal challenges that Europe is facing. Understanding that science is present in our daily lives, it should be accompanied by a scientific culture that will prepare citizens to a reality full of challenges. It is essential to promote youth interest in Science by opening it to the general public through researchers in an accessible way. Fundacion Descubre will coordinate this project, based on its experience through the last decade working with relevant projects and in its consortium experience in the previous NIGHT projects. The consortium is composed of 9 Andalusian universities, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Andalusian Foundation Progress and Health, and the Royal Botanical Garden of Cordoba. The project's major strength is the numerous activities taking place on streets, theatres, and historical buildings of the 8 Andalusian cities, with a high mobilization of researchers and collaborating institutions. To reinforce this, partners will consolidate a strong programme of activities at schools. The European dimension will be underlined by the active involvement of researchers funded by EU and MSCA fellows in the event. Gender balance will be guaranteed in researchers as well as the RRI for designing inclusive and sustainable R&I. The project includes a European collaboration to design a set of shared activities linked to Horizon Europe Missions.

Keywords: societal challenges,researchers,horizon europe missions,eu green deal,sdg,scientific vocations,equal opportunities,inclusion,responsible research and innovation rri,scientific culture
A CIRCULAR ECONOMY APROACH FOR THE VALORIZATION OF ORANGE PEEL WASTE TO ESTABLISH FOOD SAFETY (WASTEtoSAFETY)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Food safety and food waste management remain two major challenges in Europe, with enormous effects on the economy, the environment and public health. Each year 23 million cases of foodborne illness and 5000 deaths are reported in Europe. At the same time, one third of food produced for human consumption is wasted because it is considered unfit for consumption, which amounts to approximately 1.3 billion tons each year. Therefore, the development of innovative measures to reduce food waste presents a viable alternative in a situation where new solutions are desperately required. In this sense, the development of circular economies that revalorize byproducts and residues of food industries as products that can be reused is a promising research avenue. WASTEtoSAFETY will confront this challenge by developing the scientific basis to implement a circular economy that uses waste from the citrus industry to extend the shelf life of fresh produce from the Mediterranean area. Namely, it will optimize two “green” methods (microwave & ultrasound) for the extraction of essential oils (EO) from orange peel. The EO will be used as the basis for two food preservation technologies: a washing solution and an active packaging. The project will also evaluate their potential impact on the food chain, through a quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA), a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) combined with a Material Flow Analysis. WASTEtoSAFETY will thus provide tangible advances to the field of Food Science, developing a noticeable solution for the revalorization and utilization of citrus waste. It will also open new research avenues related to the upscaling of these technologies to an industrial level.

Keywords: natural antimicrobials essential oils active packaging bacterial decontamination food safety food waste
Nanoscale Advance of CO2 Electroreduction (NASCENT)

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: Spain
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): 1944060.0
EU funding (EUR): 1944060.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The transformation of CO2 into fuels and chemicals is one promising route to revert global warming, enabling sustainable circular economies. CO2 electroreduction (CO2E) offers a pathway to generate globally used chemicals using renewable electricity. The performance of CO2E towards key chemicals such as ethylene, ethanol (C2) and higher energy-density molecules increasing number of carbon atoms (e.g. C3 and beyond) is today far from its technoeconomic viability. Product selectivity, energy efficiency, stability, and carbon utilization are, when combined at scale, insufficient. Further advances in CO2R performance are precluded by the yet limited understanding of reaction pathways, mass-transport and reactant competition; the scarce knowledge of the catalyst and its environment during reaction; and the lack of ability to control these, accurately, at the catalyst metal/liquid interface. NASCENT tackles these challenges exploring an innovative catalyst design materials platform to address the catalyst interface through the atomic-, nano-, and micro-scales. NASCENT exploits a family of metal and polymer precursors and engineers their assembly into metal/polymer interfaces with specific configurations tailored for CO2E. This is informed by a suite of complementary operando spectroscopies, designed and orchestrated to resolve the unanswered questions of CO2E interfaces at relevant operating conditions: Involving high current density, abrupt potentials, and a highly dynamic water/ion environment. This will enable the rational design of metal/polymer CO2E interfaces that achieve, and exploit, control over composition, reactants, ion, charges, and electric fields, across the needed spatial and temporal scales. NASCENT will help answer key fundamental questions in CO2E leading to transformative advances: Its ultimate goal is the viable, clean electrosynthesis of most important C2 chemicals and a path to generate so far elusive C3+ molecules efficiently.

Keywords: co2 electroreduction,solution processed materials
Cartan geometry, Lie and representation theory, Integrable Systems, quantum Groups and quantum computing towards the understanding of the geometry of deep Learning and its Applications (CaLIGOLA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Mathematics
Countries involved: Italy,Czechia,Spain,France,United States,Switzerland,India,Germany,New Zealand,Pakistan,Canada,Sweden,Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of,China,Argentina
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 875971.43
EU funding (EUR): 874000.0
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

CaLIGOLA aims at advancing the research in Cartan Geometry, Lie Theory, Integrable Systems and Quantum Groups to provide insight into a variety of multidisciplinary fields oriented towards the applications with a special interest in machine learning and quantum computing. Sound mathematical models for quantum computing, vision and more generally machine learning are a priority for Horizon Europe and strategic to include Europe among the leading actors in such fields. Through the theory of symmetric spaces from the Cartan Geometric and Lie theoretic point of view, we shall implement the Erlangen philosophy for mathematical and physical questions (integrable systems and SUSY gauge field theory), but also for more applied themes including Quantum Computing and (geometric) Deep Learning. Quantum symmetric spaces and quantum representations will be the key to approach the questions of fault tolerant quantum algorithms in topological quantum computing and quantum information geometry on homogeneous spaces. With the language of Cartan geometry and Quantum Groups, we shall reformulate group invariant neural network models. Persistent homology and topological data analysis will take a step forward towards a metric theory on the space of observers. With the help of Lie group thermodynamic, we shall push the understanding of symmetries at a deeper level. Overall, the new algorithms of Deep Learning and Geometric Deep Learning will find a better modeling and understanding towards a comprehensive theory of dimensionality reduction of parameter space via group equivariance.

Keywords: lie theory,cartan geometry,integrable systems,quantum groups,supersymmetry,quantum computing,geometric deep learning,information geometry
Plant functioning hidden belowground: an interdisciplinary approach to studying nutrient acquisition and transport across growth forms (HiddenFun)

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: Germany,Czechia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217965.12
EU funding (EUR): 217965.12
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Plant root systems have two key functions: they acquire water and nutrients and transport them to aboveground plant parts. As a single root segment cannot be fully efficient at both functions, plants face a trade-off in optimising whole-root-system functioning which is largely unexplored in herbs. Clonal growth, being common in herbs and widespread over the angiosperm phylogeny, offers an alternative transport pathway via horizontal stems, while adventitious roots formed on these stems shorten the transport distance from roots to leaves. I thus hypothesise that clonal growth allows for a higher acquisition efficiency of root systems. To test this hypothesis, I will apply a novel comparative experimental approach using pairs of phylogenetically related species differing in the extent of clonal growth. The main comparative test will be preceded by method optimisation and complemented by experimental manipulation of two model clonal species to estimate phenotypic plasticity of root functions. To investigate the acquisition-transport trade-off in root systems, I will combine an ecophysiological approach of stable isotope labelling to estimate acquisition efficiency with root morphology and anatomy to provide mechanistic insights. I will integrate my experience in plant clonality and stable isotope labelling with the host's deep knowledge of root functional traits. The project aims to establish methods to study root acquisition vs. transport in herbs of different growth forms and to determine the cross-organ belowground functional diversity and root phenotypic plasticity that underpins the ability of species to adjust to different environmental conditions. The results will significantly contribute to our understanding of basic principles of plant functions hidden belowground. Those functions, related mechanisms and consequences are fundamental to ecology, plant physiology and agriculture, and relevant to increasing drought and nutrient enrichment under global change.

Keywords: clonality,fine roots,plant functional traits,nitrogen,stable isotopes,nutrient transport,nutrient uptake,stolons,rhizomes,experimental plant ecology,herbs