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Investigating Gender-Based Discrimination: Unveiling the Underlying Mechanisms (UnveilGBD)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Lithuania
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 142757.76
EU funding (EUR): 142757.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

According to Feminist theories that have approached GBV, social changes related to globalization intersect with etiologies of Violence Against Women (VAW); the causes of VAW no longer stop at national borders. For more than 15 years, the integrated social-ecological theory has evolved as a theoretical model for exploring the factors associated with VAW. The primary research will investigate the relationship between basic cognitive functions (decision-making and emotion regulation), Need for Cognitive Closure, sexist beliefs, and acceptance of gender stereotypes, taking into consideration the “Culture in Mind” theoretical framework, on adherence to and perpetuation of Gender-Based Discrimination (GBD) through its implicit stereotypical manifestations. VAW is one of the major public health problems worldwide: World Health Organization data reported that approximately one in three women worldwide has been a victim of violence. The research project will be structured around four overarching objectives: 1)explore adherence to gender stereotypes in the reference sample; 2)identify the relationship between cognitive variables that lead to stereotypical thinking, to understand which relationships are strongest; 3)investigate which models explain the relationships between cognitive variables and stereotypical thinking; 4)make a comparison between Italy and Lithuania to investigate possible cultural differences. Although the patterns of GBV differ across cultures, the fact that it is a worldwide phenomenon leads to the hypothesis that there are factors that outweigh the cultural aspects that allow discriminatory stereotypes to persist. Therefore, the project aims to integrate into a single theoretical and innovative model the factors that most seem to be related to adherence to gender stereotypes. A policy recommendation will be prepared based on research findings. The innovative aspect of the project lies in an inclusive approach to gender equality seeking prevention of GBD.

Keywords: gender based discrimination social ecological theory gender based violence social psychology
Scaled FerroelectrIc X-bars for AI-driven sensors and actuaTors (FIXIT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Greece,Bulgaria,Switzerland
Call: Low TRL research in micro-electronics and integration technologies for industrial solutions (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT, 2023)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3855687.5
EU funding (EUR): 3855687.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

In a multi-disciplinary approach, FIXIT aims at the development of a disruptive, ferroelectric ultra-low power memory and computing technology, fostering the hardware implementation of novel AI-driven electronic systems. Ferroelectricity is the most energy-efficient non-volatile storage technology. FIXIT leverages two recent European discoveries of CMOS compatible ferroelectric materials: ferroelectric HfO2 as first reported in 2011 by NaMLab – the coordinator of FIXIT, and ferroelectric wurtzite AlScN discovered by the Project partner CAU in 2019. Our major goal is the scaling of ferroelectric synaptic devices to the <20nm regime while maintaining their analogue and multi-level switching properties. Moreover, we aim at the integration of these scaled devices into ultra-dense crossbar arrays featuring non-volatile multi-bit digital functionality and highly parallel multiply and accumulate operations, representing the synaptic interconnects calculation at the heart of AI-algorithms. In our consortium we build on the vast, interdisciplinary, and complementary expertise of the 11 project partners (3 industries, 1 SME, 4 universities, 3 RTOs) covering know-how on material, process and device development, CMOS integration, equipment and manufacturing, physical and electrical characterization, TCAD modelling, packaging, circuit design and system integration. Pushing European research in this topic will sustain the first-mover advantage and contribute to the European industry capability to provide advanced circuits for its needs. This is in-line with the European Chips Act, where the Commission has identified technological leadership in semiconductor technologies as indispensable for European digital sovereignty, and decided to support the field with large investments. FIXIT will also support Europe’s competitiveness in semiconductors with a systematic outreach to students, the training of young researchers and the building of international cooperation.

Keywords: ferroelectric,synaptic devices,analogue switching,passive crossbar,scaling,ultra low power
ExploriNg Lightning Initiation and Gamma-ray High-energy emission in Thunderstorm ENvironments (ENLIGHTEN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Lightning strikes earth 45 times each second, but we still don’t understand exactly what initiates it. The large electric fields in thunderclouds are also responsible for charged particle acceleration, ultimately leading to gamma-ray production. Energetic radiation is an essential component of thundercloud dynamics. Energetic radiation and lightning discharge appear tightly linked, but the nature of this link is yet to be understood. ENLIGHTEN posits a causal relationship between energetic radiation and lightning initiation. Combining novel time-resolved gamma-ray imaging of thunderclouds with simultaneous lightning discharge imaging in the radio band, we aim to establish the causal mechanisms which initiate lightning and, in doing so, address one of the longest standing unsolved questions in atmospheric electricity. Overarching hypothesis: lightning initiation is triggered by electron avalanches conducive to gamma-ray production. To test this hypothesis, we identify three research objectives: 1. Mapping the spatio-temporal evolution of intense large-scale electric fields in tropical thunderclouds. 2. Imaging in gamma-rays of the newly discovered sub-second gamma-ray transients - flickering gamma-flashes and glow bursts. 3. Quantify the runaway electron avalanche discharge co-located with lightning initiation. ENLIGHTEN will achieve its objectives with a methodology which combines: a) time-resolved gamma-ray imaging of thunderclouds, b) time-resolved lightning imaging in the radio band, c) use of a high-altitude research aircraft, d) data analysis and modelling. Thunderclouds are the birthplace of a large variety of particle and gamma-ray phenomena, not to be considered just exotic and rare, but intrinsic and fundamental for thunderclouds. With 3 million lightning per day affecting life on planet Earth, unravelling the secrets of how gamma-ray emissions is linked to this common phenomenon is of great importance for the mankind.

Keywords: lightning initiation,gamma ray imaging,thunderclouds
Beyond self-similarity in turbulence (ONSET)

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): 1498820.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498820.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A century of exhaustive turbulence research has allowed the development of a wide range of turbulence closure models, analytical parametrisations and scaling laws, which enter virtually all design and modelling protocols that involve high Reynolds number flows. Closer inspection, however, reveals that only two extreme and polar-opposite turbulence regimes have been well-understood and modelled. When turbulence is highly-strained and evolves rapidly, or when it is lowly-strained and evolves slowly. The in-between regime of intermediate strain, perhaps the most relevant for engineering and environmental applications, remains obscure. This proposal is about developing and validating a theory for the intermediate-strain turbulence regime, based on the conjecture that it is governed by a universal flow-behaviour, termed ‘rapid self-similarity’, which combines elements from both the high- and low-strain regimes. The proposed investigation is based on three developments. First, the accumulation of evidence in the literature that intermediate-strain turbulence dynamics may accept an analytical description known as the ‘new dissipation law’. Second, the development of machine learning techniques which allow the extraction of physical insights directly from data. Third, the attainment of mature experimental and numerical simulation methods in fluid mechanics, capable of resolving the spatio-temporal properties of turbulent flows. The impact of ONSET is potentially very high, as it will improve the understanding and modelling of a wide range of applications of engineering and environmental science connected to intermediate-strain turbulence. ONSET will demonstrate that by focusing on two example applications: improvement of wind energy harvesting via enhanced wind farm flow modelling, and increase of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flight efficiency and duration, by making use of UAV group aerodynamics.

Keywords: turbulence theory,experimental fluid mechanics
Democracies of the Alps. Issues, practices and ideals of politics in mountain communities, 1300-1500 (DEMALPS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495320.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

DEMALPS studies late medieval mountain areas as the cradle of radically new political experiences, inspired by original values and practices of self-governance. The focus of the project is on the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Western Alps, a broad territory (including modern French, Italian and Swiss regions) which saw unprecedented political unrest and experimentation with forms and institutions. This area was marked by numerous efforts at, and more than a few successes in, establishing autonomous collective governments. As a research opportunity, this branch of the Alps is characterised by an unparalleled abundance of exceptional rural sources for investigating this phenomenon: the registers of council proceedings, which reported the local assemblies’ composition, debates, and decisions over time. This rich corpus of sources, mostly scattered across local municipal archives, offers an extraordinary insight into the Alpine inhabitants’ political ideals and connections, with forms of government and practices of political participation vividly emerging from the registers. To explore such a large and diverse region, DEMALPS will adopt an interdisciplinary approach combining medieval history, digital humanities, diplomatics and archival science. The project will not only address questions about the values and practices of Alpine politics, but also provide innovative diplomatic and archival analysis of Alpine sources in comparative perspective. To this end, DEMALPS proposes to be the first native digital project specifically designed for collaborative work and sharing data in medieval history on this scale; research hypothesis, data, and their analysis will be made publicly available online during and after the project. The final goal of DEMALPS is to offer the scholarly community not only a new view of politics in late medieval Europe as they transformed into the modern institutions we know today, but also a research instrument to carry out further studies.

Keywords: digital humanities,archives,medieval sources
Optimizing stratification for trial design in Alzheimer’s disease (STRATA-ALZ)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) heterogeneity is associated with distinct risk factors, clinical manifestations, rates of cognitive decline, and comorbidities. However, this population variance is not properly incorporated in clinical trial design, directly hampering successful development of treatments. As the field is shifting towards (early) secondary or event primary intervention, the overall objective of the current project is to optimize clinical trial design of an early AD population, by providing data-driven guidelines for sample stratification and outcome measures. To this end, I will assess neurobiological heterogeneity in ~2000 cognitively unimpaired (CU) and ~900 mildly impaired (MCI) subjects enrolled in the BioFINDER study from Lund University (host institution). Using their unique data-set, I aim to identify subtypes of amyloid-β (Aβ)-vascular interplay, the two most common co-occurring and interacting pathologies in the aging brain. Next, the role of neuronal function, microglial activation, and novel targets through proteomics analyses based on CSF/plasma biomarkers on disease progression within these subgroups will be determined. Finally, resulting tau-PET accumulation patterns and cognitive decline across domains across will be assessed. A main innovative aspect and strength of this project is the utilization of regional information available from the imaging modalities, an aspect of analyses which I have specialized in. In turn, the expertise of the host institution regarding fluid biomarkers and tau-PET imaging is paramount to support this multi-modal project. Finally, our respective experience with longitudinal study design will support a critical aspect of the project, which is lacking even in the most comprehensive studies to date. Unravelling heterogeneity in disease trajectories is paramount to optimize trial population selection and stratification, directly increasing the changes of positive trial outcomes.

Keywords: alzheimer s disease biomarkers clinical trials neuroimaging vascular disease stratification disease heterogeneity
EIT RawMatrials Business Plan 2023-2025 (EIT RM BP23-25)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
Theme: EIT Raw Materials
Destination: EIT Raw Materials
Action type: Knowledge and Innovation Communities
Partnership: EIT Raw Materials (EIT KICs)
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Italy,Belgium,France,Sweden,Finland
Call: EIT Raw Materials Business Plan 2023-2025 (HORIZON-EIT-2023-2025-KIC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 155517769.0
EU funding (EUR): 155517769.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Metals and minerals are key enablers for the European Green Deal and will substitute fossil fuels in the long run. At the same time, Europe is highly dependent on importing raw materials for its manufacturing industries and to accomplish the transition to a resource efficient, sustainable society. This is why the European Green Deal defines access to resources as a strategic security question for Europe’s ambition to develop into a green economy. To meet this challenge, the vision of EIT RawMaterials is to develop raw materials into a major strength for Europe. EIT RawMaterials’ mission is to advance Europe‘s transition to sustainability by driving innovation along the entire raw materials value chain. To fulfil the mission, three strategic objectives are addressed: securing raw materials supply; designing materials solutions; and closing materials loops. EIT RawMaterials is the world’s largest and leading partnership in raw materials and closely connected with the policy agenda of the European Commission. The Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) is open to new partners from Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) countries and small business and is driven by a strategy that creates industrial symbiosis through innovation across value chains. The European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA) managed by EIT RawMaterials on behalf of the Commission is an important mechanism for translating projects into investments and infrastructures that contribute to creating added value and jobs for Europe within key strategic industrial ecosystems. These initiatives are complemented by EIT RawMaterials’ leading role in education and innovation activities, such as the EIT’s initiative in capacity building for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and the European Commission’s European Innovation Area (EIA). Through these high-impact activities and the KIC’s talent, people and partner network, EIT RawMaterials has set the foundation to create impact and to achieve its strategic objectives.

Keywords: raw materials,circular economy,innovation,education,entrepreneurship
Exchange of Light alkenes and Alkyl halides from Arctic Tundra Ecosystem (ELATE)

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: Denmark,Germany
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): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) play a critical role in the physical and chemical properties of the atmosphere and regulating Earth’s climate. Among them, light alkenes and alkyl halides (e.g., CH3X) are also critically important for tropospheric ozone formation and stratospheric ozone depletion, respectively. However, global budgets of light alkenes and CH3X are not in balance because many sources/sinks have not been quantified realistically due to paucity of measurements; especially, fluxes in Arctic ecosystems have not yet been well established. Furthermore, drivers of the fluxes and their response to the fast climate change are yet to be unraveled. This proposed project aims to fill in the gaps of the state-of-the-art by (1) determining the sources/sinks of these VOCs in an Arctic tundra ecosystem; (2) quantifying how Arctic warming and increased atmospheric CO2 may impact the VOCs fluxes in the Arctic tundra ecosystems; (3) constructing the relationships between the VOC fluxes and environmental and biological factors to determine the drivers of variability and synchronicity of fluxes; and (4) constructing flux algorithms to be incorporated into the MEGAN model to enhance scientific understanding of VOC biogeochemistry and related environmental implications. The project takes an interdisciplinary approach involving atmospheric biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry, Arctic ecology and ecosystem modeling, which combines my research skills and expertise of the host. The expected high-quality publications, training and interdisciplinary collaborations will be valuable assets to support my career development. The effective dissemination of the research outputs will increase the public’s consciousness on earth system as a whole and the action of climate change mitigation, and will bring important social benefits by promoting the public’s agreements on EU’s goal of climate-neutral by 2050 and the implementation of European Green Deal.

Keywords: ecosystem atmosphere exchange,volatile organic compounds vocs,light alkenes,alkyl halides,arctic,climate change
Spins Interfaced with Light for Quantum Silicon technologies (SILEQS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
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): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Leveraging the success of the microelectronics and integrated photonics industries, silicon is one of the most promising platforms for developing large-scale quantum technologies. Quantum chips already available in silicon rely on either long-lived electrical qubits based on individual quantum dots or single donors, or on photonic qubits probabilistically generated by non-linear optical processes. Another type of quantum system could combine the advantages of both former qubits by featuring at the same time a stationary qubit with long coherence times and an optical interface adapted to long-distance exchange of quantum information. However, such a qubit that would be associated to optically-active spin defects is still to be demonstrated in silicon. This is the challenging objective of the current project. The starting point of the SILEQS project is the recent discovery that silicon hosts many fluorescent point defects that can be optically isolated at single scale, and furthermore emit at the near-infrared range and telecom bands associated with minimal losses in optical fibers. This project aims to demonstrate for the first time in silicon (1) the indistinguishable single-photon emission from individual defects and (2) the control over their spin degrees of freedom to create multi-spin quantum registers coupled to single photons. Such achievements would open the door to developing silicon-integrated deterministic sources of photonic qubits and spin qubits interfaced with light for long-distance quantum communications in a platform adapted to large-scale nanofabrication and integration. Considering the advanced nanotechnology based on silicon, the SILEQS project could have significant impact in quantum technologies, including quantum integrated photonics, large-scale quantum networks and solid-state hybrid quantum systems.

Keywords: optically active point defects,spin qubits,silicon,quantum technologies,spin photon interface,long distance quantum communications