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VENTRA – Philanthropy-as-a-Service: AI-driven digital infrastructure for managing and monetising social impact (VENTRA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 750000.0
EU funding (EUR): 750000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ventra is the next-gen European Philanthropy-as-a-Service platform that digitalises, automates, and valorises corporate philanthropy through three integrated technological pillars: – an administrative and legal layer that ensures full regulatory compliance and transparent governance of philanthropic entities (endowment funds, foundations, CSR vehicles); – an analytical accounting layer that links expenditures to social outcomes and enables data-driven financial and impact performance management; – and a social impact measurement (SROI) layer that converts engagement data into ESG and CSRD-aligned indicators powered by artificial intelligence. In the absence of a harmonised European framework for the Social Return on Investment (SROI), Ventra builds the first digital infrastructure capable of unifying impact standards, making measurement accessible to all companies, and turning philanthropy into a strategic and auditable business function—as essential as accounting. By combining regulatory automation, semantic AI, and accounting interoperability, Ventra creates a common European language for social value, enabling companies to monitor, benchmark, and report their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With the support of the EIC Accelerator, Ventra aims to scale its technology from TRL6 to TRL9, industrialise its “SROI-to-ESG” and “analytical accounting” modules across Europe, and contribute to the EU’s strategic agenda on sustainable finance, transparency, and data sovereignty. Founded and led by a female tech entrepreneur, Ventra embodies the new generation of European impact technologies—at the crossroads of compliance, innovation, and societal transformation.

Keywords: impact measurement social return on investment sroi esg reporting csrd compliance sustainable finance corporate philanthropy social accounting extra financial reporting
Vetting Implicit Normativity in Climate Economics (VINCE)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project addresses the inherent presence of value judgments in current integrated assessment models (IAMs) of climate change impacts. Though widely used to inform public policy, many aspects of IAM design and use require making assumptions of an implicitly normative nature: assumptions that are ultimately about the values that individuals and communities ought to pursue. This raises a host of philosophical and methodological questions for which an interdisciplinary approach is needed: which actors and in which contexts – scientists at the model design stage, policy makers at the decision stage, etc.– should be in charge of making the normative choices that IAMs require? What practices and protocols are best suited to facilitate the recognition of normative assumptions in IAMs, the oversight by experts and stakeholders, and (if possible) the resolution of the uncertainty that surrounds them? To answer these questions, the project will first propose a taxonomy of implicitly normative assumptions in IAMs. Then, for each type identified, it will aim to determine which of several approaches is best suited to deal with that type of normativity. The resulting account will be a new model of IAM research that indicates how one ought to proceed in concrete contexts of IAM design, assessment and use. To achieve these objectives, Dr. Nappo will receive crucial training at Politecnico di Milano. Under the co-supervision of a philosopher of science and of a climate economist, he will integrate his demonstrated competences in the epistemology of scientific modelling and climate change ethics with new skills, which include first-hand experience with IAM modelling practices and grasp of their mathematical underpinnings. This training will allow Dr. Nappo to not only advance the literature on IAM normativity significantly beyond its current limits, but to also contribute to making IAM research more reliable and objective through an effective dissemination and exploitation plan.
Holographic Quantum Information: Building Bridges Between Measures In Quantum Information Theory and Gravity (QUBITTO)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain,Japan,Argentina
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 408890.88
EU funding (EUR): 408890.88
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum information (QI) plays a fundamental role in modern physics, offering profound insights into the nature of reality and driving transformative technological advancements. The research project "QUBITTO: Holographic Quantum Information: Building Bridges Between Measures in Quantum Information Theory and Gravity" aims to employ QI measures and explore their connections with holographic duals. By doing so, it seeks to describe and characterize quantum systems, such as quantum field theory (QFT) and conformal field theory (CFT), and to uncover universal relations within these theories. The objectives of QUBITTO are: i) Ascertain connections between energy functionals in mathematics and holographic entanglement entropy. ii) Breaking down QFTs with defects using QI measures. iii) Constrain the space of QFTs using QI. This multidisciplinary project integrates theoretical approaches from various fields to advance our knowledge of quantum entanglement, black hole thermodynamics, condensed matter physics, and the fundamental nature of the universe. Our proposal QUBITTO represents an innovative approach made possible by the synergistic knowledge and expertise of three world-leading institutions in (holographic) QI measures and their application to QFTs and CFTs: the Institut de Ciències del Cosmos at the Universitat de Barcelona (coordinator institution), the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University (associated institution), and the Instituto Balseiro at Centro Atómico Bariloche (secondment institution). The successful completion of QUBITTO will enable me to acquire transformational knowledge in a wide range of holographic QI measures with applications in defect quantum systems, and it will constitute a major first step toward initiating my independent academic career. Concurrently, it will offer the scientific community valuable insights into current well-defined fundamental challenges and open the door to potential technological advancements.

Keywords: quantum information,entanglement entropy,ads cft,conformal field theory,quantum gravity
Advanced materials for CO2 capture and mineralisation in concrete (C4C)

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): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Concrete4Change (C4C) was founded in June 2021 by CEO Sid Pourfalah (a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer with 22 years’ experience in sustainable design and a PhD in construction), CTO Michael Wise (a Chemical Engineer with 14 years’ experience in CCUS and process scale-up) and CCO Dalraj Nijjar (a commercialisation expert, with 7 years’ experience in early-stage venture building). C4C's objective is to commercialise practical, cost-effective methods to sequester CO2 by permanently mineralising it in new concrete. We achieve this via the use of sorbent materials to capture CO2 from industrial processes such as cement production. Once loaded with CO2, these materials are stable, making them easy to store and transport, and they are added to concrete mixes, where they release CO2 in a controlled manner, mineralising it into concrete; making concrete cheaper, greener and stronger all at the same time.
From evolutionary biology to crop mushrooms: constructing sporeless mushroom strains (SPORELESS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In our previous ERC project we identified a broad panel of fungal genes that are associated with spore formation, one of the largest problems in industry-scale crop mushroom production. The mushroom market intensely seeks sporeless strains, however, existing ones are used by a small fraction of growers, because, in addition to sporelessness, they show unwanted morphological defects, which reduce crop quality. In preliminary experiments, we demonstrated that CRISPR-based targeting of novel genes we identified can generate sporeless strains in two model mushroom species, without unwanted side effects. In this project, we set out to demonstrate the utility of this gene panel in converting industrial oyster mushroom (Pleurotus spp) strains into sporeless varieties, without the genomic incorporation of exogenous DNA. This will give us a simple and low cost lab-to-farm pipeline for developing novel industrial mushroom strains using a technology that is widely accepted as non-GMO in several regions worldwide. We plan to commercialize such strains through our existing and novel industrial partners in the US, Australia, Japan and potentially several more countries. Overall, this project might provide a lasting solution to a major problem in a well-defined field of biotechnology, that can be used in the ever growing number of countries where marker-free genetic engineering is accepted.
Microbially Induced Mineralisation of Wood for Improved Fire Resistance (MICRO-INSERT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171399.36
EU funding (EUR): 171399.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Wood is the only renewable construction material and holds great promise for sustainable built environments of the future. However, its combustibility is a major limitation. The drawback of using traditional fire and flame retardants is the toxicity and volatility of some of their components and the loss of chemicals by leaching, leading to poorer performance. Mineralisation of wood offers a green alternative, but current strategies often require a costly technical setup for supercritical gases or the use of harmful chemicals to achieve the deposition of minerals deep inside the wood structure. Biologically induced mineralisation is a widespread phenomenon occurring in all kingdoms of life. In recent years, microbially induced calcium carbonate (CaCO3) precipitation has been proposed as a potential solution to address many environmental and engineering issues related to the enhancement of inorganic materials (protection of concrete, soil consolidation). However, the potential for using fungi has received relatively little attention compared to bacteria. The MICRO-INSERT project will investigate the feasibility of using fungi as CaCO3 carriers to develop a novel bioinspired mineralisation process for biobased building materials. Wood as a highly porous, three-dimensional organic scaffold will be mineralised to create hierarchically structured organic-inorganic hybrid materials with novel properties, including improved fire resistance. The proposed bioinspired treatment incorporates ideas for sustainable materials design, circularity, reduction of toxicity, and lowering the negative impact on the environment. The MICRO-INSERT project will stimulate innovation and knowledge transfer between the host and ER by building a solid research network, organising events, mentoring young researchers, and managing projects. The ER will gain research and scientific skills and acquire a new set of competencies to reach professional maturity and independence after the fellowship.
POwer StoragE In D OceaN (POSEIDON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,France,Italy,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call: Innovative energy storage systems on-board vessels (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4993106.98
EU funding (EUR): 4993106.96
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

POSEIDON main objective is to demonstrate the applicability of 3 innovative fast-response ESS in waterborne transport (Supercapacitors, Flywheels and SMES) addressing their on-board integration, cost-competitiveness, efficiency, and safety, in relevant environments. To achieve it, the following specific objectives have been defined: SO 1. To build and marinize 3 innovative ESS (SMES, Supercapacitors, and Flywheel) SO 2. To demonstrate their operation in a maritime environment of a containerized system including the 3 developed ESS systems. SO 3. To establish a refined metrics Levelized Cost of Storage (LCOS) tool for cost assessment and comparison of ESS for different waterborne segments. SO 4. To elaborate a complete lifecycle analysis of the 3 developed ESS. SO 5. To analyse potential integration with other disruptive technologies, such as hydrogen, rigid sails, and reversible hydrokinetic generators. SO 6. To determine safety issues, potential long-term risks and to propose regulatory solutions for the 3 ESS. To achieve SO1 and 2, POSEIDON will contribute with 3 Innovative Outputs (IO) that will demonstrate the potential applicability of Fast Response Energy Storage Systems (FRESS) in the maritime industry. IO1. Marinized SMES based on CERN high-field superconducting magnets IO2. Slow Flywheel for waterborne transport IO3. Supercapacitor based ESS for marine applications SO3, 4, 5 and 6 are focused on the main barriers that must be overcome to achieve the penetration of alternative ESS in the maritime industry. To this purpose, POSEIDON will develop 3 innovative tools: Tool1. a refined metrics Levelized Cost of Storage (LCOS) tool for ESS cost assessment and comparison. Applicability report of FRESS to different waterborne segments. Tool2. LCC and LCA analysis of FRESS technologies applied to the waterborne segment. Tool3. Disruptive technologies assessment: complementarity with hydrogen and solid sails
Wireless deep BRAIN STimulation thrOugh engineeRed Multifunctinal nanomaterials (BRAINSTORM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,Finland,Croatia
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3083850.0
EU funding (EUR): 3083850.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

BRAINSTORM will introduce an innovative, scalable, wireless, multimodal nanoinvasive neuromodulation technology suitable for independent and switchable excitation and inhibition of deep brain neurons. BRAINSTORM breakthrough relies on novel smart anisotropic magnetic nanomaterials (SMNs) acting both as nanoscale ‘heaters’ and as ‘torquers’ by leveraging either hysteretic losses under kHz frequencies or transitions from vortex to in-plane magnetization under Hz frequencies. Intrinsic bimodal functionality that permits direct control of thermosensitive or mechanosenitive neurons, will be boosted by advanced polymer functionalization to transfer torques to electrical signals trough piezoelectric coating, and to enable transport and delivery of viral vectors to targeted neurons for genetic targeting with sensory channels. SMNs will also be steered to endogenous sensory channels relying on antibody targeting. Selected actuation of ion channels that respond to thermal or mechanical stimulus will permit selective activation or inhibition of targeted neuronal populations identifiable by magnetic resonance imaging. Advanced driving electronics will include to metamaterial solenoid coils for rapid frequency switch for control of ‘mechanical’ or ‘thermal’ functionality while focused ultrasound will facilitate non invasive delivery of SMNs in the targeted brain area. The ability of the BRAINSTORM platform to shape behaviour and demonstrate therapeutic potential by modulating the excitation/inhibition balance through thermal/mechanical/electrical modalities will be demonstrated in mouse models of Fragile X syndrome.

Keywords: advanced functional nanomaterials,biomaterials engineering,smart and responsive polymer coatings,targeted neuromodulation,wireless stimulation
The Quantum Gravity Imprint: New Guiding Principles at Low Energies (QGuide)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1382625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1382625.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

What are the constraints that a low energy Effective Field Theory must satisfy to be consistent with a Quantum Gravity description at higher energies? Can we determine these constraints in a precise way and use them as new guiding principles to progress in High Energy Physics? Recently, novel quantum gravity criteria have been proposed that imply non-trivial constraints on models of Particle Physics and Cosmology and can provide the missing piece to solve the long-standing naturalness issues observed in our universe. However, none of these so-called Swampland constraints have been completely proven yet; and often, they even lack a precise formulation. The goal of my proposal is to determine the constraints that Quantum Gravity imposes at low energies by uncovering the fundamental principles underlying the Swampland conjectures and looking for new universal constraints in the context of string theory. To achieve this goal, I propose a novel approach based on cutting-edge mathematical techniques of algebraic geometry and the topological cobordism groups that extend the notion of symmetry. Each conjecture will be subject to scrutiny such that it gets either disproven or promoted to a sharp statement in the realm of well-established string compactifications. Specific goals include an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms by which string theory avoids new classes of generalised global symmetries, a complete classification of the field spectra emerging at the large field limits of flat space string compactifications, developing new methods to study the scalar potential at the large field limits and determining whether supersymmetry is a necessary condition to ensure vacuum stability. These new quantum gravity constraints will trigger a revolution in our understanding of the Quantum Gravity imprint at low energies, addressing questions about axions, neutrino masses, inflation, hierarchy problems, weakly coupled charged matter and the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Keywords: string theory,quantum gravity,string compactifications,swampland,weak gravity conjecture
Rereading European Cultural Heritage in Latin American Women Writers’ Travel Literature of the early 20th century: contrasting testimonies to build inclusive historical discourses (REWIND)

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: Portugal
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156778.56
EU funding (EUR): 156778.56
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cultural heritage is a sociocultural discursive construction, embedded in power relationships, which tends towards the selective preservation of historical memory and the support of a particular reading of History. However, History is multivocal and to achieve egalitarian societies where identity diversity is respected, it is necessary to deconstruct the hegemonic historical discourse including different narratives from the perspective of otherness. REWIND proposes to study how historical discourses around European Cultural Heritage (ECH) have been constructed using travel literature written by Latin American women authors from the early 20th century. As such, non-European women, committed to feminist movements and who claimed miscegenation, become historical agents and cultural mediators that counteract a Eurocentric and patriarchal historical discourse. Thus, it is not about adding women’s testimony, but about rereading historical narratives about heritage in order to protect and transfer a cultural legacy that reflects the memories and subjectivities of a diverse society. REWIND is based on Foucault’s theories of “discursive formations”, since it analyses the elements of the ECH that authors highlight in their travels and descriptions from both the physical and the emotional point of view. Firstly, using Digital Humanities approaches based on Geographic Information Systems, the project will identify and locate ECH items. Secondly, REWIND will apply sentiment analysis techniques to recognise the impressions that ECH provokes in women travellers. And, finally, the information offered by travel guides and official documentation of cultural institutions will be contrasted with the data of travel literature applying semantic technologies and the decolonial gender theory. So, through this innovative methodology, REWIND will give voice to a silenced testimony, recovering part of the collective memory and offering new ways of interacting with the past in the present.

Keywords: digital humanities,european cultural heritage,historical discourse,american latin women writers,decolonial theory