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EULAC FOR ENERGY TRANSITION: RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES COOPERATION FOR ENERGY TRANSITION BETWEEN EUROPE AND LATINAMERICAN AND THE CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES (EULAC ENERGYTRAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,Chile,Mexico,Argentina,Costa Rica
Call: Strengthen the bilateral cooperation on research infrastructures with Latin America (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-DEV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494634.4
EU funding (EUR): 1494634.4
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

EULAC ENERGYTRAN intends to strengthen the cooperation between the European Union and Latin American and the Caribbean research infrastructures to tackle a common challenge: how to get a clean, sustainable and just energy transition. This project pursues its goal through the exchange, generation and transfer of knowledge among entities from a multidisciplinary approach (technological, environmental, social) and through the support to the development of public policies and regulatory frameworks towards climate neutrality. This general goal will be achieved by four specific goals that respond the multidisciplinary approach, in tune with the complexity of the energy transition. Therefore, the project supports technological R&I to overcome the existing limitations of renewable energies but acknowledging these developments may have an environmental and social impact which must be addressed. This proposal wants to come up with ideas about how to achieve an energy transition compatible with environment protection and social justice. Energy transition is at the top of the political agendas of both regions, EU and LAC, so this project may contribute to consolidating it as a priority area of interregional scientific cooperation. This project will be carried out by a heterogenous and interdisciplinary consortium composed of eleven partners with wide presence in the EU and LAC. They include ERICS and an international organization, among other entities, from different areas of knowledge. This way the complexity of the energy transition is better tackled. Under this scheme, EULAC ENERGYTRAN will create a network of an interconnected and sustainable EU and LAC research infrastructures that contributes to energy transition by technological, social and sustainably strengthening the performance of entities through shared knowledge and close interactions among researchers. This common effort will mean a step forward, in both regions, to reach a society that needs to be resilient.

Keywords: eu lac research infrastructures energy transition multidisciplinary technology sustaintability social science scientific cooperation
Forging the blades of the future with composite materials with circular, safe and sustainable design (BLADE2CIRC)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,France,Belgium,Sweden
Call: Critical technologies to improve the lifetime, efficient decommissioning and increase the circularity of offshore and onshore wind energy systems (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3969228.75
EU funding (EUR): 3969228.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

BLADESCIRC will be one of the pioneering projects of exploring bio-based approaches to improve the sustainability of the wind energy sector. To this end, the project will research on biobased materials to develop new composite. These new composites will combine high strength biobased carbon fibres and biobased structural resins with a dynamic performance. The dynamic performance provided to the structural resins at molecular and supramolecular level will be the bases to design and develop a set of technologies for improving the lifetime, efficient decommissioning and increase the circularity of the offshore and onshore wind energy systems: i) Coatings with self-healing and ompniphobic properties for lifetime spanning, ii) Debondable adhesives formulation for enhanced recycling and maintenance, and iii) Green solvents and evolved enzymes for chemical and enzymatic degradation processes to recover high-quality fibres. The proposed innovations are grounded on the results of previous or on-going projects (ECOXY, BIZENTE, VIBES, LIBRE or BIO-UPTAKE) that have shown the high potential of the biobased solutions, which, in addition to the modelling, testing, validation and multi-criteria assessment stages, will ensure that the new composite will have a competitive performance compared to the existing and commercial solutions. BLADESCIRC will collaborate with the ETIP Wind to engage stakeholders and promote collaborations and disseminate the results in the most relevant scientific forums.

Keywords: wind turbine blades,wind energy,composites,biobased,biocomposites,circularity,recyclability,lignin carbon fibres,thermoset materials,ezymatic degradation,debonding,self healing
Project name: IN NICOSIA: Inclusive, Innovative, Integrated (IN-NIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call: The European Capital of Innovation Awards (Rising) (HORIZON-EIC-2025-PRIZE-2, 2025)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the heart of a divided continent, Nicosia is proving that innovation can reunite, regenerate, and reimagine a city. Europe’s last divided capital is leveraging its complexity as a testbed for inclusive, sustainable transformation. Through strategic vision, civic leadership, and broad-based engagement, Nicosia has embedded innovation in the fabric of everyday urban life—revitalizing space, rethinking governance, and reactivating community ties. Under the leadership of the Municipality, innovation is not a silo—it is a citywide culture. Vacant landmarks like the former Municipal Market have been transformed into innovation hubs, including AGORA, home to CYENS Centre of Excellence. New co-living and co-creation spaces support students, researchers, and entrepreneurs alike, while participatory tools like the iNicosia digital twin and the Nicosia Together platform open public decision-making to all. The city’s progress is grounded in a robust ecosystem: five universities, 30,000 students, five Centres of Excellence, a European Digital Innovation Hub for Cyprus, and Cyprus’s first public VC fund (33East). This momentum is guided by an integrated strategy portfolio: the Integrated Spatial Development Strategy (2024–2030), the Smart Nicosia Strategy and Action Plan, the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, the Strategic Plan for the Revitalization of the Walled City, the Integrated Urban Development Plan, and the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP). With multi-million-euro investments mobilized through EU and other resources, and thousands of citizens engaged in co-designed initiatives, Nicosia is building a model of innovation that is place-based, people-powered, and policy-driven. A city once shaped by barriers is now building bridges—through innovation, for everyone.
Acoustic and Thermal Retrofit of Office Building Stock in EU (ActaReBuild)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Belgium,Slovakia,Italy,Czechia,Spain,Austria,Netherlands,Germany,France,Poland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2689431.28
EU funding (EUR): 2525875.86
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of ActaReBuild is to provide high-level training of Doctoral Candidates in retrofit of office building stock in Europe by means a new generation of sustainable materials and building components. In particular, they will learn how to improve and guarantee acoustic and thermal performance of buildings that undergo renovation processes, while minimizing the embodied carbon production. The training offered to 10 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) interconnected through the network will enforce their research and transferable skills necessary for thriving careers in this burgeoning area. This goal will be achieved by a unique, interdisciplinary combination of specialized “hands-on” research training supported by high quality joint PhD degree supervision; by performing of secondments at industrial partners; participation at courses and workshops on scientific and complementary “soft” skills facilitated by the academic and non-academic partners of the consortium. Thanks to network-wide interactions, DCs will get acquainted with a variety of novel building materials and solutions (bio-, nano-, meta-, recycled, 3D printed materials and multilayer structural skins), measurement techniques and assessment methods (such as life cycle analysis and sustainability assessment, psychoacoustic methods, specialized thermal behaviour experiments and a variety of simulation techniques in acoustics, energy, hygrothermal behaviour). Their interaction with industrial partners within the consortium and, via outreach activities, to stakeholders in industry and society in general will promote the uptake of the resulting innovations beyond the network and accelerate their implementation for sustainable retrofits, thus maximizing the impact of the project.

Keywords: building retrofit,thermal and acoustic insulation,biomaterials,metamaterials,recycling,sustainable sollutions,architecture,modelling,measuring
COdesign urban REalm & dynamic Spaces management for cognitive & socially connected cities (CORESPACES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Climate neutral and smart cities
Destination: Climate neutral and smart cities
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Cyprus,Belgium,Finland,Switzerland,Slovakia,Denmark,Spain,Estonia,Netherlands,Italy,Romania,Moldova, Republic of,Ireland
Call: Rethinking urban spaces towards climate neutrality (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16443048.75
EU funding (EUR): 14999816.25
Participants: 45
Project status: SIGNED

Cities are under increasing pressure from rapid urbanization, rising mobility and energy demands, and the need for climate-neutral solutions to efficiently design and manage urban space. COREspaces will transform urban spaces by addressing critical challenges related to space scarcity, mobility and energy efficiency and sustainability. It integrates advanced digital tools (e.g. AI-assisted planning, Digital Twins) to enable cities to manage urban space, optimize mobility infrastructure, increase energy efficiency and enhance urban resilience. The project’s emphasis on citizens’ engagement and inclusive decision-making, leading to equitable and liveable urban environments while contributing to climate-neutral urban spaces, aligning with EU sustainability goals. Based on vast pre-existing mobility and energy innovations specialized in citizens driven co-creation and urban space design, the project introduces COREInnovations, a set of adaptable digital and physical tools that integrate AI, DTs, and participatory planning to optimize urban space use and support climate neutrality. Real-world demonstrations hosted in Living Lab from 9 European cities will pave the way towards data-driven and human-centric urban transformation. The project fosters cross-sectorial collaboration between cities, public authorities, citizens, academy and industry partners to ensure evidence-based decision-making for sustainable urban transitions, aligned with the EU Green Deal and Climate Neutrality goals of cities while supporting the objectives of the Work Programme. The project addresses challenges by developing practical methodologies and robust solutions and governance frameworks to speed up decision making; innovative strategies for urban space reallocation and dynamic curbside management; and financial mechanisms, guidelines & blueprints to secure replicability and to enable “future ready”, CO2 neutral and climate resilient symbiotic urban spaces for the cognitive cities of Europe.

Keywords: cognitive cities,urban space design,curb side management
Microfoundations of Collective Defence (MICROCODE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Does the success of military alliances ultimately hang on the whims of public opinion? The historical record shows that allied states often do not honour their collective defence commitments, but existing scholarship has not yet explained the role of public views in these high-stakes decisions. The MICROCODE project aims to initiate a new research agenda on the microfoundations of collective defence that puts public opinion in allied countries at the centre of inquiry. Building on cutting-edge approaches in experimental political science, international relations, and political psychology, I aim to conduct an extensive, cross-national investigation in the key NATO member states, with the views of individuals as the principal unit of analysis. I introduce a complex theoretical model to explain (1) how individuals form attitudes towards allied assistance in different collective defence scenarios; (2) how these individual attitudes aggregate to form public opinion shaped by societal cues; and (3) how, in turn, public opinion shapes the views of decision-makers in allied states. My main set of hypotheses concerns the critical impact of the strategic context on the formation of public opinion and its relevance for policy-making: I propose that whereas conventional scenarios of direct armed aggression leave a limited role for public opinion, the more ambiguous “grey zone” conflicts potentially open a wide “contestation space” where public views become more polarised, elastic, and simultaneously more relevant for decision-makers. As a methodological innovation, I will use novel immersive mixed-media experiments to create an interactive, engaging, and realistic experience for the participants and examine how their attitudes towards defending allies change under different conditions. At a time of dramatic deterioration of the international security environment, the MICROCODE project’s findings could redefine how we view the stability and credibility of military alliances.

Keywords: military alliances collective defence public opinion war nato experimental methods
A new life for people with severe disabling cluster headache: Neuromodulation therapy using safe, minimally-invasive simultaneous stimulation at the front and back of the head. (ReLife)

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: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3727218.75
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Chronic cluster headache and chronic migraine pose a significant challenge for patients and neurologists worldwide. Approx. 48-64% of the patients experience only limited relief from drug-based treatments, they are drug-refractory. Salvia BioElectronics B.V. developed PRIMUS, an innovative peripheral nerve modulator to treat exactly these refractory chronic neurovascular headache patients. The ground-breaking dual-site stimulation targets both the front and back of the head. In ongoing first-in-human studies, PRIMUS has demonstrated a 98.5% effectiveness in reducing the frequency of the debilitating headache attacks (100% patient response rate). PRIMUS’ advanced design, with a lead of only 0.1 mm and no large implanted battery, significantly mitigates the risks of systemic side effects (0% device-related events reported). This in contrast to existing and competitive neuromodulation devices that are incompatible with the intricate anatomy of the head, placing a heavy and stigmatising burden on patients with severe device-related adverse events such as skin erosion and lead displacement. Using EIC support, Salvia will fund the clinical pivotal trial, regulatory approval and go-to-market for refractory chronic cluster headache. This strategic approach aims to prioritise the severe, yet comparatively rare, cluster headache indication while simultaneously maintaining a strong commitment to the much larger chronic migraine market worth €109B and heavily supported by our investors. By leveraging the positive outcomes for refractory chronic cluster headache, Salvia aims to convince the key partners, neurologists, to facilitate an expedited market access and penetration, in particular for the large refractory chronic migraine market segment. As such, reaching the full commercial potential of our product driven by its disruptive technology, we aim for market launch in Europe and the USA in 2026 and accelerated yet sustainable company growth followed by a an IPO in 2027.

Keywords: cluster headache migraine neurovascular headache rare disease neuromodulation neurostimulation bioelectronics
Bio-inspired, Sustainable Plant-based Effects and Colours To Replace All Harmful Colourants (BIOSPECTRA)

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: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2784049.6
EU funding (EUR): 1948834.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The €38bn colourant industry comes with extraordinary environmental and social costs. Produced using a wide range of metals, metal oxides, microplastics and petrochemical products, modern colourants are associated with huge greenhouse gas emissions (up to 27 kg CO2e / kg of synthetic dye), destructive and unethical mining, and long-term damage to the environment, biodiversity and human health. Many colourants are impossible to recycle, may take up to 500 years to biodegrade and cannot be sourced renewably. Consumer and regulatory pressure is driving industry to seek safer, more ethical, and more sustainable solutions without sacrificing the performance consumers are used to. It has proven impossible, however, to move away from traditional colourants due to a lack of suitable replacements. While existing ‘state-of-the-art’ colourants lie at the root of the problem, emerging solutions have failed to fully address the industry’s need for safe, sustainable and high-performance alternatives. Inspired by nature and backed by world-leading research, Sparxell has developed the world’s first plant-based colourants to rival the performance of today’s state of the art products. Our patent-protected technology is already proving revolutionary in the cosmetics and fashion industries (amongst many others), and we have partnered with some of the world’s largest brands to evaluate and trial our award-winning products. The BIOSPECTRA project will complete our development programme and facilitate the scale-up and market entry of our vivid, non-toxic, biodegradable and low carbon colourants.

Keywords: colourants and pigments cellulose photonic materials microplastics sustainability bio inspired materials structural colour cosmetics textiles circular economy manufacturing
Fundamental Understanding of Solar Driven Interfacial Evaporation using 3D hierarchical hybrid structures (SolWator)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Facing water scarcity that affects two-thirds of the global population, our planet's demand for sustainable solutions has never been more critical. Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) is a promising method to produce fresh water using solar energy. Despite many advancements in material development, the fundamentals of interfacial transport have been left untouched. With localized heating proximate to the interface, SDIE departs from conventional evaporation mechanisms by creating pronounced temperature and pressure gradients proximate to the interface, substantially affecting liquid-vapor interactions. This distinction prompts reevaluating traditional models and concepts, highlighting the pressing need for an updated framework. With its primary objective as crafting a transport scheme for accurate interfacial flux predictions, I will examine SDIE using concurrent advanced microscopic thermography, fluorescent, and optical imaging techniques along with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and theoretical approaches to reveal uncharted dimensions of desalination. SolWator proposes innovative 3D patterned hybrid structures that provide optimum hydrothermal conditions for maximum evaporation from liquid meniscus. This will be accompanied by the formulation of updated CFD and theoretical models to understand the effects of localized intense heating on the coupling of interfacial heat/momentum transport and vapor diffusion in SDIE. With SolWator identifying bottlenecks, it provides optimization guidelines and sustainability studies. The outputs address one of the most pressing challenges of our time, making SDIE highly feasible for clean water shortage challenges and enhancing the socio-economic facets of our global community. The predictive tools and the knowledge gained will also have far-reaching benefits for other phase change and localized heating areas, including microreactors, oil recovery, and propulsion technologies.

Keywords: solar driven interfacial evaporation,liquid vapor phase change,carbon based 3d structures,interfacial heat and mass transfer,evaporation rate,energy efficiency,computational fluid dynamics,optimization