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Linksight ExplainAble Privacy enhancing technologies (LEAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2021-SCALEUP-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Linksight is on a mission to make secure data analytics easy and scalable. We enable our customers to create data driven insights out of distributed datasets, without sharing any sensitive data. How? Through the magic of advanced cryptography such as MPC and blockchain. We focus on healthcare. The EU healthcare system cannot maintain its affordability and accessibility unless new technologies and new ways of working are adopted, such as telemedicine and eHealth. We need a structured approach to validate which intervention works, and which does not. To get that answer, this requires data sharing between hospitals and insurers. How to bring all that data together while complying with the GDPR? Our platform solves this issue. We enable hospitals and health insurers to do analytics by themselves and keep control over their own data at all times. No need for third parties, no need for expensive academic data research. Our female CEO and co-founder Martine started the first exploration of our solution 4 years ago. We co-created a first product together with healthcare organisations, and were the first in NL to perform MPC on real patient data. Martines contribution lies in setting and expressing the long term vision and goals, and to providing structure: she makes sure things get done. In addition she uses her empathic skills, she has a keen eye for everyone’s needs and makes sure everybody is on board. This is especially important, as we enable groups of organizations to collaborate on data. With this grant we hope to take the next LEAP and achieve 3 things: 1. Make content so we can explain the possibilities of secure data analytics to a variety of stakeholders: from doctors to lawyers to IT-people 2. Improve the onboarding on our platform, so our clients can easily connect to each other and set up a secure data collaborations in just 3 clicks 3. Improve Martine’s own leadership capabilities by learning from other female founders and be coaching and training.

Keywords: privacy,healthcare,data sharing,data analytics,cyber security,blockchain,multi party computation,privacy enhancing technologies
Digitalized Ports, Racialized Labor: Shifting Infrastructures for Work in Container Shipping (DIGIPORTS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 67.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499998.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499998.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Container shipping has implications for everyone who has ever shopped in a store or online. Shipping is the backbone of the global economy. 90% of the world's goods travel by ship. The industry has a global reach and a highly diverse workforce. It is also structured by workers' nationalities, resulting in inequalities. Inequalities occur within ships, where some European workers systematically receive higher wages, and between regions, where labor conditions vary. Shipping is currently undergoing rapid change as it digitalizes its workflows. It is unknown if digitalization will help or hinder worker equality, or for which groups. Technology can increase workers' skills and make travel safer and more efficient. Yet the benefits may only extend to some, while others face difficulties becoming skilled or lose their jobs altogether. Because pay and working conditions are structured by nationality, the digitalization of shipping will likely also affect labor's racialization, or how practices and ideas about race are constructed and employed, and related inequalities. The aim of DIGIPORTS is to understand how and to what extent digitalization is reconfiguring the racialization of shipping labor. This project innovatively combines critical logistics and algorithm studies. It provides a groundbreaking study of how the on-the-ground implementation of digital infrastructures is reconfiguring four processes of racialization: the displacement, classification, potential for criminalization, and related precarity of work. DIGIPORTS is the first ethnographic study of the digitalization of shipping. It will provide an integrated analysis of how digitalization is reshaping labor and racial inequalities, develop a four-part framework for studying racialization as sets of institutionalized practices that extend across space and time, and lay the groundwork for a new interdisciplinary field: digital logistics studies.

Keywords: container shipping,labor,digitalization,racialization,digital infrastructures,ports,global capitalism,critical logistics,algorithm studies,science and technology studies sts,data practices
Social Learning for Urban Climate Justice in Latin America (LEARN-UCJ)

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,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Latin America (LA) stands out as the world's most urbanized, unequal, and one of the most disaster-prone regions. Its vulnerability to climate change is rapidly increasing, disproportionately affecting impoverished communities in an intersectional manner. These communities contribute the least to Greenhouse Gas Emissions, do not benefit of economic growth, and are excluded from policy making. Climate justice movements advocate for collective action against such injustices. LEARN-UCJ seeks to unpack the potential of social learning for urban climate justice (UCJ) policy making and urban planning. LEARN-UCJ adopts a transdisciplinary approach, fostering knowledge co-production among stakeholders. The methodology is participatory, ensuring diversity and network-building. It employs an ethnographic methodology, collecting data through interviews and on-site observations. The project will focus on Bogotá (Colombia) and Mexico City (Mexico). LEARN-UCJ incorporates training and knowledge transfer objectives. Under the guidance of Dr. Rodríguez-Labajos at UPF, I will receive training in environmental justice and intersectionality. This training will enhance my skills in QDA, leadership, written and oral communication. I will transfer my expertise in participatory strategies, LA policies, and governance. LEARN-UCJ plays a significant role in realizing my vision of becoming a professor, researcher, and a policy advisor for climate justice. To maximize outcomes and impacts, LEARN-UCJ will undertake dissemination and exploitation activities. To ensure broad access to outcomes, two open-access papers will be published. All communication activities aim to raise awareness about UCJ among target groups. A major achievement of LEARN-UCJ will be the establishment of the Alliance for Climate Just Cities (ACJC), a collaborative network for social learning and climate justice. This network will contribute innovative ideas to inform the development of more equitable policies.

Keywords: climate injustice,climate policy,urban planning,disaster risk management,intersectionality,participation,transdiciplinary knowledge co production,degrowth,decolonial,social movements
Integrated Cross-Sectoral Solutions to Micro- and Nanoplastic Pollution in Soil and Groundwater Ecosystems (PlasticUnderground)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Germany,Cyprus,France,United Kingdom,China,United States,Canada,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,Belgium,Serbia
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2691221.14
EU funding (EUR): 2489724.0
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

Recent evidence of increasing accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics (MnP) in soils and groundwater raise severe concerns by agricultural and water industries, food manufacturers, regulators, environmental interest groups and citizens. Private and public sectors require detailed understanding of environmental and public health risks posed by MnP in soils and groundwater. The PlasticUnderground Doctoral Network creates supra-disciplinary intersectoral capacity for analysing the fate, transport and impacts of MnP in soils and groundwater to develop solutions for reducing their environmental and public health risks, supporting the EC’s circular plastic economy strategy. The central aim of the PlasticUnderground Doctoral Network is to deliver international scientific excellence through a holistic supra-disciplinary and inter-sectoral research and training network on solutions to the emerging crisis of MnP pollution in subsurface ecosystems in soils and groundwater, integrating knowledge across traditional discipline boundaries to benefit the public and private sectors. The supra-disciplinary research programme includes unique training opportunities for a cohort of 10 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) (plus one individually funded through ETHZ [CH] and three funded through UoB, RU and Polymateria [UKRI] as Associated Partners) in environmental and social science, ecotoxicology, soil science and aquatic ecology, analytical chemistry, agronomy, data science and numerical modelling as well as responsible innovation, method standardization for use in regulatory decision making and risk assessment. The integrated training programme will prepare DCs with skill sets that are urgently required in agricultural, water, chemical, and manufacturing industries, environmental and regulatory agencies, academia, and the public sector and includes training provision by key stakeholders that will directly benefit from the training in this network.

Keywords: microplastic,nanoplastic,soil,groundwater,
How Neutron Star Mergers make Heavy Elements (HEAVYMETAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2022-SYG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11260286.0
EU funding (EUR): 11260286.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The incredible density, gravity, and electromagnetic field strengths of neutron stars (NS) make them laboratories for physics under extreme conditions. But probing these exotic objects is difficult. With the 2017 gravitational wave detection of a NS-NS merger, the landscape changed, and we can now get high-quality spectra of the decompressed neutron-rich matter emerging from the collision. This is a new transient astrophysical phenomenon called a 'kilonova'. Kilonovae are a potential treasure trove of information on some of the biggest open questions in physics: understanding the nuclear and astrophysical pathways that created half of all the heavy elements (Z > 30) in the universe, and the physics of very hot and extremely dense matter. For this reason, they are considered a scientific priority and kilonova science is the target of several large new and upgraded facilities. But kilonovae are challenging: the phenomenon is short-lived, requiring rapid follow-up with large telescopes, the outflow is heavy element-dominated making it extremely demanding to model, and the merger itself covers a huge dynamic range and involves complex nuclear physics. To interpret the spectra we require new atomic data, which does not yet exist for most of the heavy elements. To tackle these challenges, HEAVYMETAL assembles experts in astrophysical observations, hydrodynamical merger simulation, numerical radiative transfer, and laboratory heavy element spectroscopy and atomic structure calculation. With this team we will be able to determine the structures and overall geometries of the merger outflow, the elemental abundances, and their stratification within the ejecta. By the full exploitation of kilonovae we will trace the nucleosynthesis pathways in NS mergers, and provide important insights on heavy nuclei, neutrino interactions, and the nature of high-density matter, and we will chart the role of compact object mergers as the cosmic forge of the heaviest elements.

Keywords: neutron stars kilonova radiative transfer laser produced plasma spectroscopy heavy ion spectroscopy gravitational waves r process origin of the elements
NEXT GENERATION CIRCULAR BIOBASED FLAGSHIP PACKAGING: A CATALYST FOR THE GREEN TRANSITION (TERRIFIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Portugal,Belgium,Czechia,Switzerland,Luxembourg,Sweden,Germany
Call: Bio-based packaging materials with improved properties: barrier, food contact, forming, printability, safety, recyclability /circularity-by-design (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 26512551.25
EU funding (EUR): 16834622.75
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The TERRIFIC project will demonstrate at TRL 8 bio-based, circular flagship solutions for improved properties packaging applications, fulfilling the superior requirements in terms of performance along their entire supply value chain while improving circularity and resource efficiency. To do so, 6 ambitious specific objectives have been selected: - Implement a first-of-its kind multipurpose biorefinery for the obtaining of biobased building blocks including 1,4-bioBDO, and C18-DCA at TRL 8 and demonstrate its replicability - Successfully Produce of biopolyesters and biomaterials with RRM > 95% and improved properties (barrier and durability) at TRL 8 including 1,4-bioBDO, C18-DCA from the multipurpose biorefinery - Develop biobased, recyclable, compostable and high-performing flagship packaging products by means of traditional industrial technologies - Demonstrate the sustainability, circularity and safety of the biobased materials developed for the flagship packaging products with respect to existing fossil or bio-based benchmarks - Improve circularity and resource efficiency through the validation of multiple end-of-life scenarios for the developed Flagship products - Evaluate and demonstrate the replicability of the TERRIFIC concept through a multi-actor approach to create an interactive innovation model for engagement of all the actors in the value chain in the exploitation of new business opportunities TERRIFIC is a multidisciplinary project engaging 19 partners from 9 countries covering the whole value chain (including 6 SMEs). An implementation plan is presented in the form of 7 work packages, 5 of which are technical in nature. Synergy in communication and dissemination by the several partners and stakeholders (including a multiactor interest group) will maximize the project progress and impact. Solutions to overcome the barriers as well as appropriate deliverables, tasks, milestones, and risks to complete the project objectives in due time are presented.

Keywords: improved barrier and durability improved food safety longer shelf life end of life
Retirement across countries: A tripartite analysis of the welfare state, family care networks, and the retirement industry (RETIREWEL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In a rapidly ageing world, today’s retirees are moving across borders at unprecedented rates. Existing studies have analysed this group through single-focused approaches to welfare, family care networks, or the retirement industry at one point in time. RETIREWEL will be the first study to take an integrated approach to individual experiences of spending and planning for their retirement in more than one country and their complex relationships with the welfare state, family care networks, and the retirement industry. RETIREWEL asks: (1) What patterns of transnational retirement are observable and what new trends are emerging? (2) How do older adults experience spending and planning for retirement in more than one country in relation to the nation-based welfare state, family care networks, and retirement industry? (3) How do public and private stakeholders deal with individuals who spend or plan to spend their retirement transnationally? (4) How do places shape and are shaped by transnational retirement? This multi-sited, multi-method study focuses on three migration corridors that link European and non-European contexts (Portugal-Brazil; Netherlands-Turkey; UK-India) that exhibit these intricate relationships between the welfare state, family care networks, and retirement industry. It will focus on two groups—retirees and soon-to-be retirees—providing novel insight into how retirement is spent and planned transnationally. RETIREWEL breaks new ground on two counts: first, by approaching retirement and retirement planning through a multi-directional transnational lens and, second, by theoretically and empirically integrating welfare (state), family care networks, and retirement industry (market) in a comparative study. It develops a novel theoretical framework to understand how public and private stakeholders interlock in new and uneven ways across borders and provides new insights into what retirement futures are in the making.

Keywords: retirement transnationalism migration ageing care
Implementing wastewater and environmental surveillance for Mpox in Sub-Saharan Africa (ODIN-MPox)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Sweden,Finland,Norway,Belgium,United Kingdom,Tanzania, United Republic of,Congo, The Democratic Republic of the,Burkina Faso
Call: Mobilisation of Emergency funding for Mpox outbreak research response (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2024-Mpox, 2024)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1378272.5
EU funding (EUR): 1378272.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Mpox, a re-emerging viral zoonotic disease, has recently posed significant public health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The disease has led to thousands of suspected cases and hundreds of deaths, prompting the DRC Ministry of Health to declare a Public Health Emergency in April 2024. Given the rapid spread and high fatality rate of the outbreak, a coordinated research response is urgently needed to understand and mitigate this public health threat. Mpox's emergence as a significant public health threat in sub-Saharan Africa aligns with Project ODIN's core objective of addressing critical infectious pathogens through genomic surveillance and wastewater-based epidemiology. Building upon the successful foundation of Project ODIN, this proposal aims to implement a comprehensive water genomic surveillance system specifically targeting the Mpox outbreak in the DRC and neighboring countries. By leveraging advanced genomic surveillance and wastewater-based epidemiology, this initiative will provide novel, critical, and timely insights into the presence and spread of the Mpox virus in the environment. This information will guide targeted public health interventions, such as targeted vaccination campaigns and resource allocation to high-risk areas. Additionally, the approach will enable the early detection of the Mpox virus in water sources, allowing for rapid public health interventions to prevent further transmission. The project will identify Mpox virus sublineages with the highest impact on case numbers and fit them into a global context, providing evidence of international sublineages that likely emerged or spread early in the DRC and neighboring countries. This data will be crucial not only in addressing the immediate outbreak but also in contributing to building global public health strategies and preparedness for future outbreaks by gaining a deeper understanding of the Mpox virus itself.

Keywords: wastewater,surveillance,mpox,sub saharan africa,mobile lab,metagenomics