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CrItical RAw materials extraction in enviroNmentally protected areas (CIRAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Ireland,Finland,Austria,Norway,Italy,United Kingdom,Sweden,France,Spain,Portugal
Call: Streamlining cross-sectoral policy framework throughout the extractive life-cycle in environmentally protected areas (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2291975.0
EU funding (EUR): 2291975.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

CIRAN will develop, test and validate processes to arrive at systemic policy-making, balancing environmental protection and societal needs for accessing critical raw materials (CRMs). This will be achieved through: 1) streamlined permitting procedures in environmentally protected areas; 2) modern policies and social contract frameworks that reconcile the protection of environmentally sensitive areas and domestic sourcing of CRMs in the EU; and 3) the development of a community of practice to support the uptake of the CIRAN recommendation and that will remain active after the project funding period. CIRAN proposes a logical framework that justifies extraction on the basis of a system-oriented assessment and the co-creation of knowledge (i.e. tested and validated by communities located in or nearby environmentally protected areas). It will create novel social contract models identifying rights, obligations and responsibilities of governments (national/regional), communities and mine operators, capable of dealing with transformations and challenges due to climate change. As a distinctive feature, CIRAN brings together 25 external experts on the environmental, political, social, economic, and technological factors that will shape the energy transition responses and the demand for CRMs. These experts, organised in four Expert Groups (EGs), will work with the Consortium, conveying insights on policy-making and -implementation, economic drivers, technologies, mining, local governance, social capital, nature conservation and biodiversity. The EGs will actively engage in CIRAN through synergetic processes combining analysis and deliberation, and participation in project workshops and structured consultations (e.g., focus groups, foresight analysis). The Consortium is geared to develop inclusive policy-making instruments that support the EU Green Deal and UN-led reforms to reach the climate commitments and sustainable development goals.

Keywords: supply of crms,protection of ecosystems and biodiversity,governance,natural resources,community of practice,policy design,policy implementation,empowered citizens,resilient societies
In situ imaging of low-carbon CEMent hydration with SYNchrotron X-rays (syn4cem)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497880.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497880.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Concrete, made from Portland cement (PC), water, aggregates, mineral additions and chemical admixtures, is the most manufactured world commodity, 5 t/person/yr. PCs are environmentally contentious, accounting for 8% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Hence, developing more durable concretes with lower embodied carbon contents is central to maintaining our well-being. The main drawback of the most ambitious proposals for sustainable low-carbon cements is their slow hydration kinetics in the first three days. Following our breakthrough in synchrotron ptychographic nanotomography for building materials, syn4cem will tailor coherence-based submicron 4D (3D+time) techniques for in situ hydration studies. These techniques should simultaneously provide: - spatial resolution better than 100 nm, - time resolution better than 100 minutes, and – very good electron density contrast. If attained, it will allow a better understanding of cement hydration at early ages. Chiefly, the transition from the accelerated to the decelerated stage will be understood which should allow a rational enhancement of the early age reactivity through admixtures like C-S-H seeding and alkanolamines. Based on the 4D understanding of cement hydration, syn4cem will develop binders with lower CO2 footprints. The focus will be on limestone calcined clay cements, where the highest possible amount of clinker will be replaced by these abundant supplementary cementitious materials. The hydration reactions of these systems must be accelerated to have competitive mechanical strengths at one day which is key for on-site applications. The proposed approach will allow ground-breaking interdisciplinary advances like a) quantification of etch-pit growth rates as a function of the particle sizes, b) mass transport in confined spaces, and c) water/air porosity evolution. The X-ray tools will zoom in during early hydration to optimise the admixture performances for attaining more sustainable buildings and infrastructures

Keywords: co2 footprint reduction,sustainability,durability,amorphous phases,cement hydration,multiscale characterization techniques,coherence based synchrotron 4d imaging techniques
Integrated Development Platform for Customer and Aggregator Energy Management Systems (INDEPENDENT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Slovenia,Germany,Denmark,Sweden
Call: Energy Management Systems for flexibility services (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6452243.3
EU funding (EUR): 4995450.05
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

INDEPENDENT aims to overcome the main obstacles for large-scale adoption of flexibility services in buildings and industry by providing an Integrated Development and Operations Platform (IDOP) for standard-compliant Customer Energy Management Systems (CEMS) and Aggregator Energy Management Systems (AEMS). IDOP will be interoperable with over 40 energy management systems and 60 smart appliance vendors and cover 90% of the flexibility in buildings and industrial sites. IDOP will help to reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions by providing open interfaces, innovative AI, and optimisation solutions for flexible resource modelling, optimal control, multi-market operation, and the automated integration of legacy systems. Simultaneously, IDOP will significantly reduce the development, deployment, and operational expenses, thereby establishing DSFM as a sustainable business on a large scale. IDOP commits to full compliance with the DSFM standards, including the EN 50491-12 and IEC 62746 standard families, and the SAREF ontology. Additionally, IDOP introduces Gaia-X-compatible data spaces to govern data in buildings and industrial sites. The project brings together 14 partners, including four aggregators, seven EMS service companies, and two major home appliance manufacturers that will adopt IDOP-based solutions into their offerings. The IDOP-based CEMS and AEMS will be demonstrated and qualified in large-scale pilots in four countries. A total of 1,4 MWh flexibility capacity will be harnessed from buildings and industrial sites and connected to eight operational energy wholesale, TSO, and DSO flexibility markets to demonstrate the CEMS and AEMS at TRL 8. The IDOP solutions will enable the energy transition by reducing GHG emissions by 1.9 million tons a year for all customers in 6–10 years. The solutions provide also significant monetary benefits: 15% RoI and 3,6 billion EUR cost reductions a year compared to the situation without any DSFM solution.

Keywords: demand side flexibility management customer energy management systems
nanoPlastic Ageing, Tracing, Tracking and aquatic Environmental Removal (PATTER)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 345234.9
EU funding (EUR): 345234.9
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

PATTER: nanoPlastic Ageing, Tracing, Tracking and aquatic Environmental Removal addresses the critical environmental challenge posed by micro- and nanoplastics, which are pervasive and persist in the environment, with their impact remaining largely unknown. This fellowship aims to employ an interdisciplinary, and advanced methodological combination of analytical and characterisation techniques to investigate what effect ageing has on nanoplastic behaviour, and then use this knowledge to develop remediation approaches that tackle both pristine and aged nanoplastics. The work will develop methods to generate environmentally relevant, easily detectable nanoplastics, allowing for their tracking in environmental samples. This is crucial, as current methods struggle to distinguish nanoplastics from organic backgrounds in environmental matrices. Furthermore, multi-method characterisation of nanoplastics at various stages of ageing, using advanced techniques will be conducted. These studies will provide quantifiable data on physicochemical changes, enhancing our understanding of nanoplastics' long-term behaviour in different aquatic environments. This addresses the knowledge gap in nanoplastic ageing, which influences their environmental fate and the effectiveness of remediation strategies. Finally, sorbent materials will be investigated for removing nanoplastics from water. The aim is to develop materials capable of capturing particles smaller than 1000 nm, significantly improving the efficiency of current remediation technologies. This research is highly relevant to the European Green Deal and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those focused on water quality, waste reduction, and pollution control. By addressing these aspects, PATTER will contribute to more robust environmental protection measures and advance scientific knowledge in the field of plastic pollution.

Keywords: nanoplastics ageing characterisation remediation
Right-hemispheric homotopic circuits for language at single-neuron resolution (RHETORICAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2030-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2103467.0
EU funding (EUR): 2103467.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Language is the bedrock of human civilization. It shapes how we connect, communicate and collaborate, and how we think, feel and experience. Language is typically viewed as a left-brain function. In contrast, the role of the right brain in language processing is unclear and heavily contested. Compelling evidence suggests that the right hemisphere harbors a language system that is mirror-symmetric to the left and contributes to the reorganization of language functions after brain injury. However, because conventional neuroimaging and non-invasive electrophysiology do not have the necessary spatiotemporal resolution, the cellular and circuit mechanisms are unknown. My key objective is to provide the first investigation of right-hemispheric language processing at single-neuron resolution with coverage of multiple interconnected cortical hubs that serve linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive functions. I will address two central questions. First, how do individual neurons, neuronal populations and their circuits in right brain regions homotopic to the left language regions contribute to our ability to comprehend and produce language? My team and I will perform large-scale recordings from right-hemispheric microelectrode arrays implanted chronically in individuals with left-sided stroke that has compromised some, but not all linguistic skills. This will allow us to describe in unprecedented detail the right-hemispheric engagement in normal and impaired language functions. Second, can we target this right-sided network to drive language recovery after brain injury? My team and I will engineer the investigated circuits using closed-loop neurofeedback and intracortical microstimulation to explore their potential for treating acquired disorders of language. RHETORICAL will bring together my unique expertise in neurology, neuroscience and neurotechnology to propel forward our mechanistic understanding of this singularly and quintessentially human cognitive function.

Keywords: language,aphasia,microelectrode array,brain computer interface,extracellular single unit recordings,local field potentials,neurofeedback,intracortical microstimulation
Urine Recycling into Beneficial Agricultural Nanofertilizers (URBAN): Turning waste into GOLD (URBAN-GOLD)

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: United Kingdom,Cyprus
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Human urine has the potential to be a promising alternative to chemical fertilizers due to its nutrient richness, easy availability, and environmental friendliness. Significant challenges limit the widespread adoption of urine-based fertilizers, such as not being able to recover all the nutrients, the risk of pharmaceutical contamination, and low nutrient efficiency. URBAN-GOLD project will tackle these obstacles by establishing an innovative system that combines urine recycling and in situ nano-fertilizer production, bridging the gap between urine recycling and nano-agrochemistry. The project will leverage my urine recycling technology to transform human urine into a safe and viable raw fertilizer and host’s advanced nano-fertilizer synthesis technology to develop it into controlled-release nano-fertilizer (Urine-NF), effectively turning the waste into a valuable resource. Secondments to Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and NovaMechanics Ltd (NovaM) will equip me with essential skills in nitrogen isotope tracing and machine learning for nutrient efficiency evaluation (QMUL) and quality control of Urine-NF (NovaM). This project not only enhances the safety and efficiency of urine-based fertilizers through first-ever integration of urine recovery technology with nano-agrochemistry but also equips me to become an independent scientist specializing in nutrient recycling for sustainable agriculture. The project aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2 and 6) and the European Green Deal, fostering nutrient cycling while contributing to global food security and environmental sustainability.

Keywords: nanotechnology,nutrient recovery from waste,agriculture,food security,urine
CArdiovascularREsolution of INflammation to promote HEALTH (CARE-IN-HEALTH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Staying Healthy in a rapidly changing society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Sweden,Italy,Denmark,Portugal,Finland
Call: Personalised blueprint of chronic inflammation in health-to-disease transition (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6993397.35
EU funding (EUR): 6993396.4
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

With 1.9 million deaths and an economic burden estimated to €200 billion each year in Europe, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) represent a significant public health problem with clear unmet needs in terms of prevention. Chronic inflammation is a critical residual risk for the health to CVD transition with limited possibilities to stop it without causing immunosuppression. To tackle this issue, CARE-IN-HEALTH propose to identify the resolution of inflammation to develop new prevention strategies to lower inflammation with a retained immune defence against infections to sustainably stay healthy. As chronic inflammation and CVD are driven and regulated by lipids, an interdisciplinary consortium of highly experienced centres has been assembled to collect, integrate, and exploit epidemiological, multi-omics and immune data to be translated into the CARE-IN-HEALTH ATLAS, which will be provided openly accessible for the scientific community and health care professionals. Such knowledge base will not only allow to systematically identify and validate an individual’s critical immune pathways through AI-empowered models and clinical translation but most importantly will provide tools for drawing a personalized blueprint on how to build a unique model for each citizen’s resolution of inflammation. To apply these findings, a digital CARE-IN-HEALTH MCDSS (multi-criteria decision support system), will be developed to guide health care professional to design personalized CVD prevention strategies. To further extend project’s findings and empower citizens, a CARE-IN-HEALTH BIOSENSOR point-of-care will be constructed to monitor resolution of inflammation. By evaluating these tools in real life settings through two proof-of-concept clinical trials, CARE-IN-HEALTH aims to propose a true paradigm shift for the public health needs on how to stay staying healthy in a rapidly changing society by promoting resolution of inflammation.

Keywords: cardiovascular disease,inflammation resolution,lipid,multi omics epidemiology,personlized medicine,point of care biosensor,resolution pharmacology,resolution health,prevention
The role of Diversity on tropical forest bioMass dynamics: effects of disturbance and biogeography (DivMass)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The importance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystem functioning, especially biomass productivity, has motivated numerous research questions. However, controversial results have been found so far while testing a direct link between diversity metrics and biomass, an approach that discards the fact that biomass is a composition of three other variables: number of stems, wood density and mean aboveground volume. It is only possible to access the role of diversity on biomass by separating the components of AGB, since diversity operates through different (and non-exclusive) ecological mechanisms that act separately on different AGB components: the selection effect (SE) and the complementarity effect (CE). The SE (or “sampling effect”) emerge as a result of a hyper-diverse community having a greater chance of containing particularly productive species, while the CE states that plant communities consisting of multiple species that coevolved to occupy different environmental niches can partition limited resources more efficiently, thus providing greater biomass compared to that expected from monocultures. This proposal aims at developing a new conceptual framework that will help test 1) how diversity drives variation in biomass and productivity through different ecological mechanisms acting on specific components of biomass; 2) whether historical disturbances influence the current effect of diversity on biomass and biomass productivity and; 3) whether the effect of diversity on biomass and biomass productivity differ among the Neotropics, Afrotropics and Asian tropical forests. These objectives will be achieved via i) disaggregating AGB in wood density, stem density and mean aboveground volume components and ii) separating the effect of SE and CE to assess the effects of diversity metrics on AGB components through specific indirect pathways, including effects related to variation in forest characteristics across continents and canopy packing.

Keywords: diversity,biomass,disturbance,biogeography,canopy packing,forest recovery