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Scientists from various fields work together for the sustainable development of our planet (SUSTAINIGHT)

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: Poland
Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-06
End date: 2026-05-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 342532.46
EU funding (EUR): 342532.46
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

SUSTAINIGHT aims at enhancing engagement with citizens on Research and Innovation by bringing researchers closer to public at large therefore leading to boosting recognition of science and research education. Researchers Night project covering two editions of Night 2024-2025 will continue the earlier themes, although focusing on topics related to sustainable development. The motto of the project is: "Scientists from different fields work together for the sustainable development of our planet". Researchers and public at large will tackle important issues related to the European Green Deal and the EU Missions. By bringing the world of scientists closer to people we will gain more interest, understanding and appreciation for their work. On the contrary, revealing research achievements will lead to arouse interest in science among young people and encourage them to take up scientific work. All these will be achieved by organisation of two editions of Researchers Night and Researchers at Schools initiative together with pre and post-events creating all –year long promotion of research careers. SUSTAINIGHT is a continuation of the projects of the last 17 years, but presents novelties. The diversity of projects partners ensures covering wide range of research issues yet complementing each other showing how different fields affect the sustainability of our planet. We will show Zero Waste Chemistry, Ecological vehicles, Quantum computer, Will global warming harm us?, Visit the Meteorological station, Eco-friendly consumers and others. All these presented in an entertaining way (edutainment), tailored to wide audience. This project aims to strengthen existing ones and shed light on new aspects of science, taking into account gender balance, inclusiveness in science with a focus on Responsible Research and Innovation. We want the Researchers' Night to be a great celebration of science as before!

Keywords: researchers night education with entertainment promotion of research careers,sustainable development,stem responsible research and innovation,recognition of science,inclusiveness in science
Greening European Mobility through cascading innovation INItiatives (GEMINI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Netherlands,Czechia,Finland,Italy,Spain,Norway,Belgium,Portugal,Austria,Slovenia,France,Sweden,Greece,Latvia
Call: Accelerating the deployment of new and shared mobility services for the next decade (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12072297.5
EU funding (EUR): 10173870.51
Participants: 44
Project status: SIGNED

GEMINI’s vision is to accelerate the progress towards climate neutrality by reinforcing a modal shift through the demonstration and uptake of new shared mobility services, active transport modes, and micromobility and their integration with public transport in new generation MaaS services. GEMINI will contribute to Inclusive, Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods in 4 areas: (i) Developing and testing sustainable business models for New Mobility Services (NMS), including shared connected automated vehicles and shared mobility public transport and public-private partnerships, to increase shared mobility (MaaS and MaaC) solutions for enterprises, families and tourists. (ii) Creating digital enablers to accommodate mobility services (collaboration platforms and multimodal MaaS solutions) (iii) Actively engaging stakeholders (co-creation) and integrating in NMS Social Innovation practices, towards incentivising behavioural shift and user acceptance. (iv) Creating policy recommendations to enable scale-up and replicability of the delivered results in the elaboration and implementation of SUMPs, urban mobility planning frameworks and contribute to the CIVITAS impact assessment framework. GEMINI will define, ideate, co-create, validate, amplify, and upscale five dimensions of innovation (Business, Social & Behavioural, Operational, Technology Enablers, and Governance & Policy Framework) for delivering safe, resilient, accessible, affordable, and sustainable shared mobility solutions and demonstrate them in 4 Mobility Living Labs (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Munich, Turin) and 4 Twinning Cities (Helsinki, Paris, Porto, Ljubljana). The MLLs will stimulate improved access to public transport whilst introducing sustainable mobility business models in urban and peri-urban contexts, in turn leading changes in mobility patterns and behaviours, aimed at less car-centred urban mobility systems.

Keywords: new and shared mobility services nms,mobility living labs mlls,mobility data space,nms business models blueprints,multimodal maas solutions,mobility as a commons maac
Pulsar timing array Inference of the Nanohertz Gravitational wave Universe (PINGU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2291444.0
EU funding (EUR): 2291444.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We are on the verge of the next big breakthrough in gravitational wave (GW) astronomy: namely the detection of a nano-Hz GW signal with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). Within the next few years nano-Hz GWs will be established as a completely new window on our Universe, unlocking an unprecedented opportunity to unveil its secrets. The signal is anticipated to come from a cosmic population of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), which are a fundamental, yet observationally missing, piece in the process of structure formation and galaxy evolution. However, alternative Early Universe origins, including backgrounds arising from inflation or phase transitions, cannot be dismissed a priori. To exploit the scientific breakthrough potential of this new window we need an innovative, robust framework to build our way forward in uncharted territory. A framework that allows us to establish the nature of the nano-Hz GW signal and understand its implications for astrophysics and cosmology. PINGU is this framework; it is a concerted multimessenger project for connecting the GW and electromagnetic (EM) Universe in a novel way. On the one hand, it will leverage on the 15-year long expertise of the PI in PTA observations, data analysis and signal characterization to pin down the properties of the nano-Hz GW signal and characterize its features. On the other hand, it will exploit the most powerful all sky survey and state of the art galaxy formation models to construct a live nano-Hz GW map of our Universe and match it with the upcoming results of PTA observations. This will allow us to exploit the full potential of the nano-Hz GW sky, including: i) establishing the origin of the GW signal and probe its astrophysical nature, ii) gain unprecedented insights into the formation and evolution of SMBHBs and their role in galaxy formation, iii) identify SMBHBs and map their distribution in the Universe, iv) enable, for the first time, multimessenger astronomy in the nano-Hz GW band.

Keywords: pulsar timing arrays,supermassive black hole binaries,all sky surveys,semianalytic galaxy evolution models
Toolkit for Accelerated Design of Multicomponent Alloys for Extreme Temperature Applications (DESIGN-XTREME)

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: Spain,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The demand for materials that can withstand extreme temperatures poses a significant challenge. New energy technologies, like efficient turbines and heat exchangers, require strong materials at high temperatures. Similarly, space exploration requires durable materials at extremely low temperatures. Due to embrittlement at cryogenic temperatures and thermal instability at elevated temperatures, understanding how materials behave in such conditions is crucial. Conventional metallic materials have limits in strengthening, calling for alternative materials. Multicomponent high entropy alloys (HEAs) offer opportunities due to their potential for better strength-ductility combination. HEAs can be used to trigger multiple deformation mechanisms, breaking the strength-ductility trade-off dilemma. The proposed project focuses on understanding and optimizing refractory and precipitation-strengthened HEAs for applications under extreme temperatures (15 to 1500 K). These materials are critical for industries such as aerospace, energy, and advanced manufacturing, where durability and performance at both high and low temperatures are essential. The project aims to understand the underlying deformation mechanisms of HEAs through advanced in-situ experiments using synchrotron and neutron diffraction, combined with computational modelling. By integrating experimental findings with crystal plasticity models, the project seeks to design HEAs with superior mechanical properties, contributing to more sustainable and efficient materials for extreme environments. This research not only advances materials science but also aligns with sustainability goals by reducing the environmental impact of high-performance materials.

Keywords: metallic materials mechanical behavior extreme temperatures
The Gibbs Framework for Near-Term Quantum Computing (GIFNEQ)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2030-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1491741.0
EU funding (EUR): 1491741.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The GIFNEQ project one of the major bottlenecks in quantum computing: noise, an umbrella term for various imperfections affecting the device. The initiative establishes a unified theoretical framework, focusing on two primary goals: developing scalable noise characterization techniques and crafting verifiable quantum algorithms resilient to substantial noise levels. A particular focus is placed on revolutionizing dissipative preparation schemes—a subset of quantum algorithms analogous to Metropolis sampling—aiming to make them a preferred state preparation method by creating noise-aware, verifiable algorithms requiring considerably less quantum error correction, a resource-intensive element in quantum computing. Simultaneously, GIFNEQ endeavors to radically simplify and augment the reliability of the traditionally complex noise characterization process. It leans on recent breakthroughs in robust learning theory to discern and detail structured noise sources efficiently. Introducing protocols resilient to anomalies ensures robust and reliable learning of quantum noise. These objectives are intertwined by the requisite mathematical framework, heavily contingent upon quantum Gibbs states, a quantum extension of Markov random fields, with the project also seeking to obtain various mathematical statements related to these states. GIFNEQ promises to be a watershed in quantum computing, targeting practical resolutions with profound theoretical insights and bridging domains like quantum information, computer science, and mathematical physics to pave the way for breakthroughs that reshape the effective utilization of quantum devices. As a seasoned expert in the field, with a wealth of knowledge on noise impact, characterization, and quantum dissipation in quantum computation, substantiated by publications in renowned journals such as Nature Physics or Nature Communications, I present a uniquely qualified leadership to steer this transformative project.

Keywords: quantum learning,concentration inequalities,dissipative preparation,near term quantum computing,quantum noise
Including intraspecific diversity of eDNA analyses to develop a new holistic approach for Environmental Status Assessments of the benthic deep-sea (HaploSEA)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Measuring anthropogenic impacts on marine systems is of significant interest to stakeholders across the globe. Yet, assessing the ecological status of deep-sea habitats, the earth's largest biome, is challenging. Implementing environmental DNA analysis into environmental policy is desired and timely but not yet ready. HaploSEA is evaluating the use of meta-genetic diversity for biological assessments of deep-sea benthic communities. These include four novel approaches: (I) Performing holistic metabarcoding analyses including bacteria and archaea, unicellular eukaryotes, and metazoans to analyze natural spatial and temporal variability of entire communities. (II) Including haplotype diversity as a new parameter to describe ecosystems. (III) Establish a generic protocol to define genetic indicator groups based on their intraspecific diversity. (IV) Including capture by hybridization, a novel method for full gene reconstruction, and designing specific capture probes for biotic indicator groups of cyanobacteria, foraminifera, and nematodes. For analyses, we will benefit from a unique metabarcoding database (eDNAbyss, Ifremer) with global coverage and 1500 samples from all ocean basins, which are standardized, analyzed, and processed for five-gene regions. Using state-of-the-art underwater technology, we will sample in the deep sea along a disturbance gradient to collect samples for analysis via the above novel approaches. Finally, I will evaluate the suggested approaches and outline their future use for meta-genetic environmental assessments. HaploSEA is an interactive and multidisciplinary project combining expertise and facilities at top European institutes in deep-sea marine science (Ifremer, GEOMAR, and MARUM). This setup combines specialists from different fields, technical backgrounds, and taxonomic groups to share different perspectives and novel approaches.

Keywords: bioassessment,biomonitoring,environmental dna,biotic index,metabarcoding,capture by hybridisation
Electric Field eFfects In Chemistry And CatalYsis (EFFICACY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2031-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Chemists constantly seek better catalysts that improve performance of desired chemical reactions and suppress the formation of adventitious products. On the other hand, Nature performs difficult reactions using tailored electric fields as catalysts, and so can we! The overarching goal of this project is to impose, measure and utilize microscopic electric fields to fundamentally understand their organization and elucidate their role in driving non-redox chemical reactivity and catalysis. EFFICACY uses the electric double layer at polarized solid-liquid interfaces to impose strong microscopic electric fields. Despite significant advances in measuring fields projected onto marker vibrational modes (vibrational Stark effect), gaining understanding of the topological complexity (directions, spatial variation) of the three-dimensional electric field vector with Angstrom resolution in its dynamic evolution remains a formidable experimental challenge. EFFICACY develops a suite of approaches to sense microscopic electric fields based on time-resolved vibrational multidimensional Stark probing and excited-state symmetry breaking in tailored molecular probes. EFFICACY implements ultrabroadband femtosecond infrared (IR) light source capable of simultaneous excitation and probing of many vibrational and electronic transitions across the mid- and near-infrared spectrum. EFFICACY explores electrostatic catalytic effect in a selection of novel photoreactions using multiscale time-resolved IR spectroscopy spanning many orders of magnitude in time. Ejection of small molecules from novel classes of organic compounds and alkyne-allene photoisomerization aim to understand the through-space field effect on bond-breaking/formation and intramolecular reorganization events. The idea of alternating field chemistry is introduced, where waveform control of chemical reactivity might be a game changer to direct complex multistep processes along the desired pathway without spending any electrons.

Keywords: time resolved spectroscopy,ultrafast spectroscopy,multidimensional spectroscopy,infrared spectroscopy,electrostatic catalysis,reaction mechanisms,excited state symmetry breaking,electric double layer,interfaces,method development,novel photoreactions
Controlling cellular differentiation of industrial enzyme production in Bacillus subtilis (BIOSTAB-DIFF)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To cope with an ever changing environment, bacteria often develop a bet-hedging strategy like bi-stable cellular differentiation, resulting in cell populations with different properties. For example, the industrially relevant model bacterium Bacillus subtilis can become motile, genetically competent, secrete degradative enzymes, or sporulate, and these cellular differentiations can occur simultaneously in a single genetically homogenous population. This cellular heterogeneity exhibited by bacterial cells from the same parent with similar genetic properties is a carefully regulated process that prepares the population for unpredictable environmental stress. Unfortunately, this cellular differentiation can pose serious challenges for the production of enzymes via industrial fermentation, since it means that not all cells in the fermentor are actively involved in enzyme production. This Marie Curie BIOSTAB-DIFF project aims at investigating how enzyme expression differs between individual cells of B. subtilis, and how this cellular heterogeneity can be possibly controlled by genetic interventions. B. subtilis has become a universal microbial cell factory for many industrial products such as enzymes and vitamins. Better enzyme yield would be achieved by reducing cellular heterogeneity in this organism, and that would serve as an asset to the biotech industry. The project will be carried out in the Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences (SILS) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), under the supervision of Prof. Leendert Hamoen, one of the leading experts in heterogenic protein expression in the model organism B. subtilis.

Keywords: bacillus subtilis,industrial enzyme production,heterogenic cellular differentiation
Speculative Fiction/Speculative Finance: Fighting for the Future (SF-SF)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

When speculation becomes the dominant modality of contemporary capitalism, what happens to speculative fiction? What kind of worldbuilding does speculative finance do, and, once we acknowledge its narrative features, how might we use the tools of speculative fiction to intervene in this process? Can speculative fiction help us recognise the ways in which speculative finance takes effect and, from that vantage point, reveal the contradictions of financial speculation and the possibilities that lie hidden within the present? Through close analyses of novels and films, SF-SF explores the degree to which speculative finance and speculative fiction operate according to similar narrative and imaginative strategies, and how they remain distinct. Its purpose is twofold: firstly, it explores how the logic of financialisation relies on fictions whose representations materialise the worlds it envisions. Secondly, it explores a better understanding of how speculative fiction can make legible finance’s fictions and reveal its underlying contradictions. By employing critical literary analysis and symptomatology as methods, SF-SF will thus result in a better understanding of how speculative finance seeks to narrow and constrain the possibilities for the future, and how speculative fiction challenges speculative finance’s ongoing attempt to configure all aspects of political and social life in economic terms.

Keywords: speculative fiction,speculative finance,political economy,critical literary analysis,cinema