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Multi-modal platforms to drive vapour deposition of modular hybrid perovskite devices (VAPOURISE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2965779.0
EU funding (EUR): 2965779.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Disruptive new technologies for generation, storage and use will be essential to drive the green energy transition and progress society. Such technologies must be developed with sustainable, high-throughput manufacturing, and maintain high-performance over long-term use. VAPOURISE will provide solutions by developing ground-breaking technologies for electricity generation (high-performance photovoltaics), storage (photoelectrochemical production of high-value chemicals) and use (quantum computing) based on scalable and modular perovskite semiconductors. These applications will be enabled by development of scalable vapour-based deposition methods to deposit epitaxial layers of 3D, 2D and 3D/2D halide perovskites, and low-temperature chalcogenide perovskites. Halide perovskite configurations will include multi-quantum-well stacks and functional spacer molecules imparting passivation of defects, optical activity and/or chirality. The development of these materials will be uniquely driven by fundamental understanding of properties through cutting-edge multi-modal operando toolkits and automated machine-learning driven analyses. These approaches will unveil unprecedented connections between the photophysical, chemical, structural and device performance/stability properties on different length (nanometre to centimetre) and time (femtosecond to months) scales, in turn guiding fabrication. This unique combination of controlled processing and fundamental understanding will allow VAPOURISE to generate highly stable, scalable, and efficient triple-junction photovoltaics (efficiency >35%), triple-junction photo-electrodes driving CO2 reduction to ethylene (>10%), and reliable electrically pumped single-photon emitter arrays. The ambitious, interdisciplinary programme will revolutionise semiconductor development in which science-led understanding rapidly drives device engineering, leading to disruptive breakthroughs in energy, photo-electrochemistry and quantum technologies.

Keywords: halide perovskites,photovoltaics,optical spectroscopy,photo electrochemical cells,single photon emission,vacuum deposition,quantum computing
Skypuzzler – Solving the puzzle in the sky (Skypuzzler)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3548093.76
EU funding (EUR): 2483665.63
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Skypuzzler is a novel Digital Air Traffic Control (ATC) software empowering the global commercial drone market. The drone industry faces significant obstacles related to the lack of efficient ATC solutions. Our autonomous tactical deconfliction service is the missing piece to solve the problem of drone safety. By using a sophisticated mathematical algorithm, Skypuzzler integrates seamlessly into Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) systems as a white-label product enabling drones to avoid collisions. It also promotes environmental sustainability, indirectly reducing carbon footprint by 90%. Projected revenue with EIC support demonstrates significant growth, from €184,380 in 2024 and reaching €67,243,000 in 2028. By then, we will have reached 8% market share worldwide. Our Digital ATC is crucial to the growth of the drone market to increase the number of drones in circulation by 97%. Let’s solve the puzzle in the sky!

Keywords: commercial drone market,air traffic control,digital atc,u space roadmap,unmanned traffic management,safe and autonomous flights,collision prevention,environmental sustainability
Electrically Pumped Perovskite Lasers (LEAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1834375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1834375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Electrically pumped lasers are considered as a holy grail in the field of optoelectronics. Despite the success of lasers based on expensive epitaxially grown semiconductors, low-cost solution-processed semiconductors provide new opportunities to significantly expand the applications of lasers. On one hand, low-cost and scalable deposition can meet increasing demand of using lasers in consumer electronics. On the other hand, solution-processed semiconductors can be easily proceeded into thin films, providing great promise to develop thin-film lasers which are required for highly integrated photonics chips in advanced applications. A superstar in the family of solution-processed semiconductors is metal halide perovskites, which have shown great success in a range of optoelectronic applications. Especially, recent breakthroughs on optically pumped perovskite lasers and high-performance perovskite light-emitting diodes indicate great potential of developing perovskites into a new generation of materials for electrically pumped lasers. This project has the ambitious goal to realise solution-processed electrically pumped perovskite lasers. I will take a holistic approach, where novel concepts are proposed to address critical challenges on the development of perovskite lasers. Both type-I and type-II perovskite quantum well heterostructures, which utilise fundamentally different mechanisms to reach low thresholds, will be developed as the gain media. Edge-emitting devices based on these new perovskite gain media will then be coupled into rationally designed cavities for lasing actions. At the core of the research is the synthesis of new perovskite materials, combined with advanced spectroscopic characterizations and device/cavity development. This project makes use of recent advances in perovskite optoelectronics to create a new paradigm for electrically pumped perovskite lasers, and will open up new possibilities to revolutionize the current laser technology.

Keywords: metal halide perovskites perovskite quantum wells laser diodes device engineering optoelectronics
Evolution of institutional diversity in a changing world: Finding solutions in resilient agricultural systems (RESILIENT RULES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2627380.0
EU funding (EUR): 2627380.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Institutional diversity is considered as important as biological diversity for our long-term survival. Broadly defined as the variety of rules, norms, and strategies that societies use to govern shared resources (e.g., grazing land, forests, irrigation waters), it could enhance our ability to sustainably manage them and to cope with new and unexpected disturbances such as climate change. Surprisingly, a global quantification of institutional diversity and a full understanding of the process by which institutions adapt to new conditions are lacking, partly due to the absence of tools for the quantification of institutional diversity. This knowledge gap prevents us from responding to key questions for global sustainability such as: How much institutional diversity is there? How is it globally distributed, how is it evolving? And, more importantly, is institutional diversity and the evolution of institutions increasing our capacity to sustainably manage natural resources in our rapidly changing world? With a focus on small-scale agricultural systems across the world, RESILIENT RULES will apply a novel approach by adapting tools used in life sciences for the study of biological diversity to quantify institutional diversity and respond to the following aims: (1) To study global patterns of institutional diversity and the large-scale association between diversity of agricultural institutions and key environmental and social drivers; (2) To analyse the evolution of agricultural institutions; (3) To assess the contribution of institutional diversity to long-term resilience to global changes. This innovative interdisciplinary study of the spatial and temporal patterns of global institutional diversity is of major societal importance, since it will help understand the role of diversity for resilient governance of resources, create new data on agricultural institutions around the world, and open up new research opportunities in quantitative institutional diversity.

Keywords: common pool resources,diversity,institutional analysis,institutional grammar,resilience,rules,social ecological systems
Dynamical control of Spintronic devices through solid-state gating (SpinDy)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing dependence of everyday life on digital technologies raises challenges for materials science. Data is becoming one of the most precious assets of modern society, and its storage and processing require more and more electrical power. In order to keep this energy consumption under control, new technologies are emerging that shift the paradigms of computation. Among these, the field of spintronics holds potential to meeting the current requirements of dense, nonvolatile data storage and logic technology in which information can be written, manipulated and read as efficiently and as fast as possible. The main goal of the SpinDy project is to develop innovative and sustainable spintronic devices. The basic concept behind my proposed approach is to use solid-state gating to act on the device structure during operation and thus tune its functionality dynamically. This will allow to perform low-power reading and writing operations without compromising the stability of the device for long-term information retention. I will implement this working in two parallel directions. The first is by achieving voltage control of orbital currents in light transition metals, which in turn allows to tune the torque efficiency at the interface between the metal and a magnetic material. The second is by manipulating the magnetic properties of a rare-earth-free ferrimagnetic layer through electrical gating. Finally, I will combine aspects of both approaches to develop proof-of-principle dynamical spintronic devices that can act as memory or for logic operations with enhanced performances in terms of energy efficiency and stability thanks to their tunable nature. The main outcomes of the SpinDy project display aspects of great interest from both applied and fundamental points of view and thus will be highly relevant for the research community, including disciplines beyond spintronics, as well as have economical and societal impacts.

Keywords: spintronics,spin orbit torques,magneto ionics,solid state gating
Gene-edited T cells combating IgA Nephropathy. A blueprint approach for safe & efficient genome editing of T cells to sustainably combat several immune diseases and cancers related to B-cell pathology (geneTIGA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Norway,Denmark,Austria,Italy,Croatia
Call: Next generation advanced therapies to treat highly prevalent and high burden diseases with unmet medical needs (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-TOOL-06, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6393736.0
EU funding (EUR): 6393734.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

There is an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases caused by undesired immune reactions (>10%) with high burden for the both patients (chronicity, organ failure, early death, decreased QoL) and society (EU:>100 bn €/a direct health costs) as current therapies are limited in efficacy and do not reshape sustainably the disturbed immune balance. Our ultimative goal is to develop a safe and efficient cell therapy based on genome-edited T cells with redirected specificity to sustainably combat IgA nephropathy (IgAN) - the most common glomerulonephritis and one of the most common causes of end-stage renal disease with unmet medical need. Our specific cell therapy approach is also suitable for other diseases with selective B-cell pathogenesis, such as IgA myeloma, IgA related celiac disease and rheumatoid arthritis, but as a blueprint also for diseases of other Ig classes (e.g. IgG4). Our novel concept offers a specific form of immunosuppression via Ig-(sub)class targeting & glycosylation targeting with redirected T cells in autoimmune diseases. Methodically, we benchmark three promising genome editing technologies, develop new standards for safety assessment and preclinical performance evaluation. At the end we will have a lead candidate of a new "living drug" product envisioned as a one-time treatment for IgAN and other IgA-associated that will be ready to enter clinical FIH trials (entry into TRL6). In addition, geneTIGA delivers enabling technology toolboxes with exploitation options beyond of the core project. They might de-risk and accelerate the development of next-generation gene and cell products in general. The project has thus, besides its scientific value, a high impact not only on the affected patients with IgAN and related immune diseases, but also for the European society by reducing the health economic burden caused by progressive chronic kidney disease, as well as by triggering innovation and business options in Europe's biotech and pharma field.

Keywords: benchmarking genome editing platform,off target identification pipeline,redirected t cells,product specification,biomarkers,multiorgan on chip,iga nephropathy,b cell and plasma cell pathology
Next advanced bIofuels from AlGae biomAss and oRganic biogenic wAstes for electricity generation through fuel cells application (NIAGARA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland
Call: Development of next generation advanced biofuel technologies (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3965334.75
EU funding (EUR): 3965334.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

NIAGARA’s project intends to make a significant contribution to the development of a sustainable process chain, involving the shaping and procurement of openly available EU biogenic wastes (wastewaters, digestate, sewage sludge etc.), a production of carbohydrate-rich microalgae , an innovative continuous and flexible HTC process to convert the mix of biogenic wastes and microalgae into a solid fraction (hydrochar) and an aqueous phase that will in turn be converted into an advanced biofuel (a biogenic syngas rich in hydrogen) via gasification and aqueous phase reforming. Subsequent syngas cleaning processes are envisaged to ensure a full compatibility of the syngas to the solid oxide fuel cells. NIAGARA’s value chain will feature a very low carbon balance with a strong potential to become carbon negative overtime. NIAGARA will dramatically improve advanced biofuel production by combining complementary scientific and industrial know-how while fostering various promising market applications (e.g., fuel cells). the NIAGARA methodology, which derives from the ambitious idea of producing advanced biofuels from EU-widely available biomasses and wastes on a fully circular basis, making this value chain ultimately sustainable. The main market application that is sought in the NIAGARA project is the generation of electricity using highly efficient SOFC. This implies (i) individually developing key innovative and carbon-efficient processes, (ii) assessing their performances (carbon footprints, energy balance and production yields), and (iii) demonstrating their integration and global compatibility to reach the objective of negative carbon emission on the biofuel production chain up to the generation of electricity. NIAGARA will contribute towards lowering the technological, economic, and social barriers faced by the development of the contemplated processes at TRL5. The outcome of this work will contribute directly and significantly to EU’s overall renewal energy targets.

Keywords: micro algae culture,aqueous phase reforming,gasification,hydrothermal carbonization,absorbent cased carbon separation and capture,solid oxide fuel cells development and operation,syngas cleaning
Explaining and Predicting the Ocean Conveyor: Hop-On (EPOC-Hopon)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Faroe Islands
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 488772.5
EU funding (EUR): 488772.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The EPOC project aims to understand the role of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) in the Earth system and its impacts on weather and climate. A specific focus of the EPOC project is to re-evaluate the conceptual idea of the AMOC as a 'great ocean conveyor', and to that end, assesses AMOC coherence and variability as a function of timescale and latitude. Within EPOC, we have targeted one known location where AMOC coherence is expected to breakdown (a "transition area"), at 47°N in the Atlantic in a region of strong convex topography. In EPOC-Hopon, we will target a second transition area across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge (GSR). The GSR is an area of shallow topography which separates the North Atlantic from the Nordic Seas and Arctic, where the GSR presents a barrier to connectivity between dense waters formed in the Nordic Seas or Arctic and the dense waters which make up the southward flowing limb of the AMOC in the wider North Atlantic. Here, we propose to extend observational records of the transports across the ridge, including the dense overflows and the northward flow of warm salty Atlantic water towards the Arctic, by re-analysing historical observations and making new ones across a long-standing gap in observations across the ridge (specifically, the Iceland-Faroe Ridge). These records will be used to help connect and validate transport estimates generated within EPOC using multi-observational approaches, while the new observations will be used to test and improve new methods to observe the AMOC across this key transition area and in a region where climate models struggle to represent observed oceanic processes. The EPOC-Hopon project addresses a key region in AMOC science, strengthens the connection between EPOC work and the Arctic, and improves knowledge circulation between the EPOC partners in Europe, the UK, USA, and Canada with the new partner in the Faroe Islands.

Keywords: amoc,conveyor belt,ocean physics,overflows
Development of photonic multi-sensing systems based on molecular-gates biorecognition and plasmonic sensors (PHOTONGATE)

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
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,Germany,Belgium,Denmark
Call: Advanced multi-sensing systems (Photonics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4549249.75
EU funding (EUR): 4549248.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

In the current world, there is a clear need of advanced multi-sensing systems capable of providing fast and quantitative detection of a huge range of hazards which could affect human health in our daily life. Sectors such as healthcare, food safety or environment control, among others, will require these tools to take fast and effective actions and prevent potential crisis impact. In this context, PHOTONGATE aims to develop an adaptable diagnostics solution, comprising Photonic cartridges and read-out platform, which allow to quantify multiple analytes of the same or different nature (biomolecules, chemicals, metals, bacteria, etc.) in a single test with levels of sensitivity and selectivity at/or over those offered by current commercial solutions. PHOTONGATE technology relies on a new sensing concept which combines two core technologies: a bio-chemical technology (molecular gates) which will confer the specificity and increased sensitivity to the system, and, on the other hand, a photonic technology (light interaction with Local Surface Plasmonic Resonance (LSPR) structures) working as transducers and allowing the quantification. PHOTONGATE consortium has been specifically designed for maximizing the project success since all the actors of the value chain are enrolled. In addition, the development and integration of the different PHOTONGATE components have been designed searching for the European autonomy by using European research, knowledge and fabrication networks as well as favoring European providers. PHOTONGATE goals will involve a significant progress beyond the State-of-the-Art in multi-sensing systems achieving faster and high sensitivity detection of multiples targets. A final validation of PHOTONGATE technology in relevant scenarios for health and food safety (TRL5) will be performed to demonstrate the system capabilities.

Keywords: photonic sensors,molecular gates,plasmonics,microfluidics,colorimetric sensors