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Community-led initiatives and transition towards sustainable governance of natural resources in the Colombian Andes (CITCA)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain,Colombia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Over the past few decades, communities worldwide have initiated transitions toward sustainability in response to socio-environmental crises. While the role of community-led initiatives (CLIs) in governing sustainable transitions has primarily been studied in the energy sector, significant gaps remain in research on this topic within the natural resources sector (e.g., water, forests, and land). This gap is critical, as many Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., no poverty, climate action) are closely linked to natural resource management. To address this gap, CITCA proposes to combine socio-technical transition and community-based natural resource management approaches to explore and enhance the role of CLIs in governing sustainable natural resource transitions. The proposed research will be conducted in the rural Andes of Colombia, where several CLIs focused on water, land, and forest management have recently emerged to tackle sustainability challenges such as climate change and biodiversity degradation. Objectives and methods of the project include: 1) a qualitative comparative case study of three CLIs to identify their emergence and development processes toward a transition to sustainable governance of natural resources; 2) a quantitative study to identify the sociocultural, biophysical, and institutional factors critical to the success of these CLIs for sustainable transitions; 3) a scenario planning approach to co-create socio-ecological innovation pathways to meet the challenges of natural resource sustainability. CITCA will be carried out within two leading multidisciplinary research groups: Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals at the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona and the Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (Colombia, secondment). The proposed work will enable me to broaden my experience, enhance my research skills, and expand my professional networks, furthering my career as an independent researcher.

Keywords: community led initiatives,transition,natural resources,colombian andes,sustainability
Resource rEcovery FRom novel Assisted MEtabolism (REFRAME)

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: Italy,Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215937.6
EU funding (EUR): 215937.6
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The new policies issued by the European Commission support the concept of bioeconomy and circular economy to develop a new value chain in the market across the implementation of innovative technologies for the production of bio-based compounds from (bio)waste and wastewater. In this scenario, REFRAME project aims to upgrade wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) into Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRF) in which wastewater and sewage sludge are used as raw materials for the production of different bio-based compounds. A bio-based compound is defined as a product that is derived from materials of biological origin. The main objective of REFRAME is to develop a new hybrid biological system assisted by an oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) based control for the combined production and purification processes of targeted bio-based volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). REFRAME will be the platform for chemicals, precursors for bioplastics, and feed ingredients ready for the market. A WWTP becomes a WRRF that attempts to produce valuable and marketable bio-based products, such as cellulose by utilizing the organic matter from the wastewater as raw material. The recovery of cellulosic primary sludge (CPS) could be biologically converted to other bio-based compounds, such as VFAs and PHAs. The project will advance the state of the art of the field by the investigation of a new type of bioprocess and bacterial metabolisms to fill the current lack of the long-term stability, quality, and purity of isolated bio-based compounds (VFAs and PHAs) produced from CPS as raw materials. The applicant has a proven record of biological processes control, a fundamental skill required for REFRAME. He will thrive in the environment of the University of Verona, department of biotechnology. This project will enrich and broaden the applicant's expertise in this field and fortify his international research career.

Keywords: biorefinery,cellulosic primary sludge,volatile fatty acids,polyhydroxyalkanoates,bioproducts,animal feed,oxidation reduction potential
Sustainable European Advanced Subsea Tidal Array (SEASTAR)

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: United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany,Belgium,Austria,Netherlands
Call: Demonstration of sustainable tidal energy farms (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 63.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4562997.5
EU funding (EUR): 3360346.26
Participants: 13
Project status: SUSPENDED

In the SEASTAR project, coordinator Nova Innovation (Nova) leads a world-class team to deliver a 4MW array of 16 tidal stream turbines at the EMEC Fall of Warness tidal site in Orkney - the world’s first large tidal farm, which will contain more tidal turbines than are currently deployed worldwide. SEASTAR will utilise Nova's well-proven M100D turbine, developed in partnership with project partner SKF - the world’s leading supplier of rotating equipment. The project builds on the success of Nova's six-turbine Shetland Tidal Array - the world's first offshore tidal array - which was delivered under the H2020 EnFAIT project by a team including SEASTAR partners SKF and Wood. They are joined in SEASTAR by DLA Piper, the leading global law firm in renewable energy, and by specialists in sustainability, insurance, consenting, communication, engineering and offshore operations. SEASTAR will demonstrate for the first time the industrial systems, manufacturing and operational techniques required to efficiently deliver a large tidal farm. It will generate and share transferable knowledge on key consenting risks, de-risking future large arrays globally. And it will improve the bankability of tidal energy by cutting costs, proving performance, and enhancing the insurability of large tidal farms. SEASTAR represents a step change for tidal energy. Volume industrial manufacturing, operation and maintenance techniques will be applied for the first time to the full lifecycle of a tidal farm, from design, procurement, production, shipping, marshalling, deployment, commissioning, operation and decommissioning. The 16-turbine farm provides unique opportunities to address critical environmental evidence gaps and develop the cost-effective, reliable monitoring solutions at scale required to accelerate permitting and remove barriers for future large tidal farms.

Keywords: tidal power,tidal energy,ocean energy,net zero
Orchestration of Reliable Computing on Heterogeneous Infrastructures Deployed at the Edge (ORCHIDE)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Poland,Romania
Call: End-to-end Earth observation systems and associated services (HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3395722.59
EU funding (EUR): 2468190.81
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

On Earth Observation missions, payloads become more complex with more and more instruments collecting a huge amount of data that cannot be fully downloaded and needs to be processed on board. Most of the existing solutions allowing deployment and orchestration of applications at the edge relies on de-facto standard technologies coming from the cloud computing area but the community recognizes a need to adapt them for edge computing contexts such as space systems. Furthermore, ground-based data processing introduces latency between acquisition and production of the information to the end-user. Specific challenges also raise like the dynamic changes of the communication links in terms of network topology, or connectivity, like the energy saving concern, or like cybersecurity issues. To cope with this situation, Unikernel technology promises to be a game-changer as it allows to build lightweight and secure applications that can be deployed in any edge infrastucture. The ORCHIDE project aims to allow a safe and secure deployment and orchestration of image processing applications within Earth Observation satellites, whatever the HW processing resources, and whatever the hosting SW execution platform. The solution aims to be multi-mission / multi-users and to address a large range of services. Based on the end-user needs, a disruptive generic framework and Unikernel based solution will be developed to provide easier access to space with just a simple application that can be updated or even modified during all the satellite lifetime. It will be demonstrated that the ORCHIDE simulation solution can paves the way toward a Digital Twin of such Earth Observation Systems. The ORCHIDE’s impacts will be precious as it will enable scalable adaptable Missions for Meteo Environment Ocean & Observation/Reconnaissance mission and will integrate the green IT values as it enables the overall costs & power consumption optimization, thus allowing an overhead & energy footprint reduction.

Keywords: orchestration,unikernel,earth observation satellites,edge computing,on board image processing artificial intelligence at the edge,open source,hw agnostic solution,carbon footprint reduction
ENCODE - Unveiling emotional dimensions of politics to foster European democracy (ENCODE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Poland,Denmark,Austria,Belgium,Spain,Bulgaria,North Macedonia,Bosnia and Herzegovina
Call: The emotional politics of democracies (HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3035393.75
EU funding (EUR): 3035393.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Despite emotions being a driver of political choices, building democratically meaningful emotional narratives in politics remains an uncharted territory. Hence the main venture of ENCODE is to decode the meanings of emotions and encode them to policy-making strategies aiming for a positive emotional turn, breaking the cycle of depolarisation. To meet this ambitious goal, ENCODE builds its conceptual frameworks arising from a novel concept of affective pluralisation, as opposed to affective polarisation. This term serves to frame empirical research carried out in 6 geographically diverse European countries, representing both EU member states and candidates. This study will span desk research, sentiment analysis, biometric research, in-depth interviews, experiments and panel survey. Such triangulation of research techniques ensures the accuracy and validity of the findings. These are further encoded into main outputs: catalogue of best practice to tackle disinformation in social media, emotional gap maps, validated survey questions and democratic resilience heatmaps. These outputs are not expected only to enhance current scientific framework, but also are planned to underpin the future emotional narratives co-designed by diverse groups of citizens in innovations labs and further validated by Delphi expert panels and vignette experiments. This bottom-up approach anchored in citizen science ensures that policy-making strategy are in first place created by citizens and only in the next step discussed by expert teams who will elaborate policy-making strategies, the roadmap for their implementation, alongside future foresight scenarios which will be disseminated widely across EU and EU wide community of 1000+ members. This strategy creates emotional bonds between ordinary citizens, increases trust in governance and supports better informed political decision-making and communication.

Keywords: emotions in politics,populism,eu values,fostering democracy,positive policymaking narratives,policy recommendations,depolarisation,future scenarios,foresight,cocreation,tackle disinformation
Developing New 2D Materials and Heterostructures for Printed Digital Devices (2D-PRINTABLE)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,France,Germany,Italy,Czechia,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call: 2D materials of tomorrow (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4092496.25
EU funding (EUR): 3999996.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

2D-PRINTABLE aims at using sustainable liquid exfoliation methods to make >40 new 2D-materials (2DMs) and to develop printing and liquid-deposition methods to fabricate nanosheet (NS) networks and heterostructures with unique properties to enable the production of advanced printed digital devices, in perfect alignment with the expected outcomes of the work program. To identify new 2DMs, we will use modelling to survey thousands of possible 2DMs to identify those with superlative electronic properties (conductors, semiconductors, insulators). Layered crystals of these target materials will be synthesized and converted to NSs using various liquid exfoliation techniques. Chemical functionalization will be used to modify and tune NS properties, and to achieve in-situ chemical cross linking. We will develop a range of printing and deposition methods to produce NS networks, employing both physical and chemical routes for strong coupling between adjacent NSs, leading to extremely low junction resistance and hence exceptional network mobility. Going further, we will print/deposit networks of different NSs on top of each other leading to heterostructures with strongly-coupled interfaces for efficient charge injection and transfer. These will be the basis for a range of printed electronic devices (transistors, solar cells or LEDs) with very high performance because of the superlative nanosheet properties, the quality of interfaces and the facile nature of inter-nanosheet charge transfer. For example, we expect to produce printed transistors with gate capacitance >0.4 mF/cm2, transconductance >0.1 mS/sq, Ion/Ioff ratio >10e6, mobility ~100 cm2/Vs with the latter value x10-100 times greater than the state-of-the-art in printed electronics. The knowledge developed in 2D-PRINTABLE will be instrumental for future emerging technologies in energy storage, health and environmental monitoring as well as water purification, to ultimately address most of today’s global challenges.

Keywords: exfoliation,2dms,nanosheets,printing,networks,heterostructures,printed electronics,devices,transistors
Innovative Flavonoid-based Nanoparticles (Flav-NPs) to Fight Against Colorectal Cancer (FLAVCAN) (FLAVCAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands
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): 232916.16
EU funding (EUR): 232916.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Colorectal cancer is among the most lethal and prevalent malignancies in the world. Current treatment has limitations, such as adverse effects, drug resistance, metastasis, and recidivism. Flavonoids such as Apigenin, Epigallocatechin-3-gallate, and Quercetin have demonstrated anticancer effects and alternatives for new treatments. Flavonoids can suppress tumor growth, induce apoptosis, inhibit angiogenesis, and modulate cellular signaling pathways in development and progression. Multiple flavonoids administrated simultaneously potentially enhance their biological activities, improving the local effect and instigating a synergistic inhibitory effect on cancer cell viability, increasing apoptosis, decreasing proliferation, and causing the arrest of the chemoresistant cells. Flavonoids are challenging to use orally for therapeutic purposes due to their molecular instability and insufficient delivery to the distal portions of the intestine. This project uses a microfluidic platform to identify a potent flavonoid combinatory nanoformulation-based polysaccharide (cellulose derivates) for oral administration. Flav-NPs can enhance chemical stability, accurately control the release of flavonoids, and potentially overcome digestion factors. Flav-NPs can impact multidimensional mechanisms of anticancer action to more effective therapeutic, reduced cellular proliferation, and invasiveness at different cancer stages. Pre-clinical methodologies will be applied to characterize, and stability in vitro digestion will be evaluated. Spheroid and organoid models will determine cell viability and anticancer efficacy. A gut-on-a-chip model will also be developed to observe the effects of Flav-NPs in a simulated intestinal microenvironment tumor. The simplicity of manufacturing and the feasibility of large-scale production of the supplement and nutraceuticals indicate that the proposal can be applied clinically, promoting European scientific excellence and improving my research career.

Keywords: colorectal cancer drug delivery nanomedicine nanotechnology polyphenolic compounds
Climate change and migration narratives through culture and policy (CLIMINAR)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project examines two key aspects of the international discourse on climate change and migration: culture and policy. This discourse has become increasingly urgent during the 21st century as governments, institutions and the media fiercely debate climate change on the one hand and migration and borders on the other. Dominated by the Global North, the discourse has promoted alarmist assertions of climate change and migration as inextricably connected and destined to provoke conflict and scarcity, assertions often underpinned by a racialised military-security rhetoric. This discourse also routinely overlooks the real economic, political and social needs of those most affected by climate change and the discriminatory mobility regimes that govern them. To date research on the role played by narrative has been limited, nor have the intersections between culture and policy been studied. Recognising that climate change and migration are made known through different forms of narration and storytelling, through which certain interpretations or potential policy responses are favoured while others are discounted, CLIMINAR addresses the following question: What role do cultural and institutional narratives play in either challenging or upholding the dominant alarmist discourse on climate change and migration? The overarching research objectives are to: (1) analyse cultural narratives, in particular fiction and film; (2) examine institutional narratives, specifically policy material produced by NGOs and international governmental organisations, as forms of culture; and (3) comparatively assess all texts by developing and implementing a methodology that ascertains the ethical dimensions of narrative and its ability to incorporate both climate justice and mobility justice. This interdisciplinary approach innovatively combines the environmental humanities and social sciences research on climate change and migration, simultaneously advancing knowledge in both fields.

Keywords: postcolonial studies empire race narrative storytelling policy advocacy justice