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Superatom Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics (SuperWave)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2022-SYG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8138040.0
EU funding (EUR): 8138040.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The past decade has seen remarkable advances in the field of quantum non-linear optics, where individual photons are made to strongly interact which each other. Such strong photon-photon interactions are of both fundamental and technological interest: They are the prerequisite for implementing deterministic quantum logic gate operations for processing optical quantum information. Moreover, photons that strongly interact via a quantum nonlinear medium exhibit complex out-of-equilibrium quantum dynamics that enable one to tailor and control the photon statistics of light. Quantum non-linear effects have been successfully demonstrated with few photons in a number of experimental platforms, which exploit resonant enhancement of emitter-photon coupling via high-finesse optical cavities, collective response of ensembles of strongly interacting Rydberg atoms, so-called superatoms, or efficient coupling of single quantum emitters to guided light in the realm of waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED). However, it remains a formidable challenge to reach the true many-body regime of quantum non-linear optics, where strong interactions and entanglement between many photons and many quantum emitters give rise to exotic quantum phases of light, such as photonic molecules or fermionic subradiant states. The objective of SuperWave is to realize this regime by synergizing superatoms and waveguide QED. By uniting the expertise and experimental methods of three teams that have previously driven these fields independently, we will develop near-ideal fiber-coupled nonlinear quantum devices. Their implementation will mark a major breakthrough in quantum optics and constitute a key resource in quantum sensing, quantum metrology, quantum communication, as well as quantum simulations. We will illustrate this great potential through a number of hallmark experiments such as the coherent fragmentation of a classical light pulse into its highly nonclassical photon number components.

Keywords: waveguide quantum electrodynamics,quantum non linear optics,rydberg atoms,dipole blockade,quantum nanophotonics,collective radiative effects
Heterogeneous biocatalysts for oxygen-independent oxidations using inorganic salts (NIBIOX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The vast majority of industrial chemical oxidations catalyzed by heterogeneous catalysts (chemical and enzymatic) in aqueous solvents suffer from several technical hindrances related to diffusion restrictions of oxygen This limitation derives from the low transport rate of molecular oxygen from the gas phase to the solvation sheath on the surface of the solid catalyst where catalysis occurs. The restriction of molecular oxygen availability at the reaction point creates a bottleneck in the productivity of industrial processes. To overcome a such major limitation in industrial productivity of oxidative biocatalysis, we propose the use of a new generation of heterogeneous biocatalysts based on oxidoreductases immobilized on polymeric matrices for the oxidation of alcohols, replacing the molecular oxygen with water soluble inorganic salts as ultimate electron acceptor. The results of NIBIOX will be exploited in the fine chemicals industry. Oxidative reactions are one of the pillars of the organic synthesis toolbox. For example, the global market for aldehydes is expected to reach more than $2 billion by 2025. This means a total global market of $232 billion in industrial fine chemistry by 2027. Therefore, the successful outcome of NIBIOX and its implementation in industrial processes will result in a profitable business with a positive impact on the economy of the stakeholders involved in the exploitation of our solution.
Equine Polyclonal antibodies Immunotherapy against COVID-19/SARS-CoV2–VOC (EPIC-CROWN-2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Other health destinations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Greece,Germany
Call: Vaccines & therapeutic clinical trials to boost COVID-19 prevention and treatment (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-CORONA-01, 2021)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9182634.25
EU funding (EUR): 9070134.25
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus has generated an unprecedented pandemic with global dramatic public health and socio-economic consequences need an urgent mitigation. Despite the progression of the global use of efficient vaccines, an increased transmissibility of variants of concern (VOC) is predominantly observed. The reduced sensitivity of VOCs to neutralizing response could become a serious obstacle for efficient vaccination. In the absence of approved specific antiviral therapies for vaccinated-non-responders and the scarce anti-inflammatory therapies, passive immunotherapies with polyclonal immunoglobulins could be considered a part of the solution. The main objective of EPIC-CROWN is to rapidly assess, in multicentric clinical trials (phase IIa, 16 patients and IIb, 400 patients), an EMA-authorized antiviral immunotherapy based on potent and broad equine neutralizing anti-SARS-CoV-2 polyclonal F(ab’)2 antibodies in COVID-19 patients, including VOC carriers. In order to save lives and reduce the use and costs of critical care, this therapeutic solution expect to reduce at least by 50% ICUs admissions and a highly significant mortality rate of treated patients. To optimize the indications for the treatment, potency and breath of F(ab’)2 against variants will be assessed in in vitro and in an animal model as well as prospective studies will respectively be done on immune assessment in treated patients and on mitigation of exacerbated immune responses in vivo. Fab’entech will coordinate EPIC-CROWN-2 formed by outstanding experts in different project domains that include clinical trials (HISS, Greece), virology (IMAS12, Spain), and immunopathology models and mitigation (BNITM, Germany - IRD, France). Most of them having already been working together in European projects. Importantly, EPIC-CROWN-2 will be integrated as part of both the large European trial network EU-RESPONSE and the multinational European Adaptive Platform Trial “Solid Act".

Keywords: polyclonal antibodies immunotherapy,variants of concern,safe antiviral therapeutic approach,good manufacturing practice,fab2
SCALING-UP OF A HIGHLY MODULAR ROTATING PACKED BED PLANT WITH AN EFFICIENT SOLVENT FOR CAPTURE COST REDUCTION (HiRECORD)

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: Greece,United Kingdom,Austria,Netherlands,Germany,France
Call: Cost reduction of CO2 capture (new or improved technologies) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6330101.25
EU funding (EUR): 6330101.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

In a world’s first, HiRECORD will demonstrate at TRL 6, a modular CO2 capture plant that will comprise a Rotating Packed Bed (RPB) absorber and an advanced RPB desorber with integrated spinning reboiler (RPB-ISR). The plant will be of 10 t/d CO2 capture capacity and will operate with the advanced, APBS-CDRMax solvent. It will be operated on the premises of a natural-gas power plant (ELPEDISON), of an industrial gas boiler (HELLENiQ PETROLEUM S.A.) and of a quicklime plant (CAO Hellas), highlighting the high modularity and flexibility of RPB processes with flue gases of different specifications. The advanced capture plant will allow up to 50% capture cost reduction, compared to conventional MEA-based, packed-bed technologies. This reduction will result from at least 10 times lower space footprint due to the use of the RPBs, with direct beneficial impacts on capital expenditures, as well as a regeneration energy of 2.0-2.1 GJ/tCO2 due to the use of the APBS-CDRMax solvent and the RPB-ISR. These features will also enable 20% and 50% lower environmental and safety impacts, as the solvent and operating conditions will minimize emissions, corrosion and make-up requirements. Techno-economic studies will also include an industrial cluster in Northern Greece, where options of CO2 utilization as well transportation and sequestration in nearby geological sites will also be investigated. Extensive societal, public acceptance and policy studies will also be performed, including surveys to the over 750 members of the industrial association partner SEVE.

Keywords: rotating packed bed,solvent
Runic Kitsch: Medieval Modernity, Modern Medievalism, and the History of Philology (RUNEKITSCH)

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: Sweden
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): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This research project will examine a history of views of pre-Christian Scandinavia that begins in the High Middle Ages and continues in the present day, focusing on a persistent association between runic inscription, eddic poetry, and magic. Rather than continuities or survivals of pre-Christian practices into the Christian period, this research will reveal them as fundamentally High to Late Medieval practices (such as magical runic inscriptions using eddic meters, and eddic poetry referring to runes and magic) showing a form of alienated attraction toward the pagan past. The survival of this attitude will be traced through the Early Modern period, in which learned writers not only take these Medieval Christian textual objects at face value, but also reproduce their stance of alienated attraction, continuing to view the pre-Christian past as a source of esoteric knowledge. Finally, we see this view continually reproduced through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries even as modern philology continues to develop. In this period, we also see both “serious” scholarship on this subject and para-academic occultist interest in it become increasingly entangled with the politics of the far right. Ultimately this research will reveal the continuing stance of alienated attraction as a form of runic “kitsch.” The project will be carried out in four phases to cover the necessary methodological concerns and sources from three periods (Medieval, Early Modern, Modern). The results will be disseminated as a monograph manuscript, as well as in media articles and through papers given at international conferences.
New generation of HVDC insulation materials, cables and systems (NEWGEN)

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: Finland,Italy,Netherlands,Germany,France
Call: Electricity system reliability and resilience by design: High-Voltage, Direct Current (HVDC)-based systems and solutions (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7602980.5
EU funding (EUR): 7602980.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of NEWGEN is to develop and demonstrate new insulation materials, cable manufacturing solutions, online condition monitoring technologies, and comprehensive life and reliability modelling tools for the next-generation of extruded HVDC cables and cable systems, thereby fostering the reliability and resilience of the inter-connected European HVAC/-DC transmission grids. NEWGEN delivers new space charge mitigating additives for extruded HVDC insulation materials, as well as new industrial cable extrusion solutions for defect-free and cost-effective manufacturing of next generation thermoplastic HVDC cables. Moreover, NEWGEN will provide online global condition monitoring and novel pre-fault detection methods and instruments for assessing the health status of extruded HVDC cable systems, as well as comprehensive tools and models for the evaluation of life and reliability of extruded HVDC cable systems (cable, joints and terminations) under realistic operation conditions within HVAC/-DC grids (model demonstration via grid-simulations). The new sustainable insulation materials and extrusion solutions will contribute to improved dielectric performance and reliability of extruded insulations needed for reaching TRL maturity for higher rated voltages up to ±600 kV. The uniqueness of the NEWGEN concept is that it is not limited to any specific insulation compound or HV cable manufacturer, but rather the results will impact the whole European HV cable industry for reaching the next generation of reliable-by-design extruded HVDC cables. Moreover, the NEWGEN innovations for online condition monitoring and reliability modelling of HVDC cable systems will allow European transmission system operators (TSOs) to perform comprehensive monitoring and proactive maintenance for their HVDC cable system assets, and to ensure satisfactory firewall properties against disturbances in the hybrid AC/DC network.

Keywords: thermoplastic polymer,polypropylene,xlpe,hvdc cable,cable extrusion,polymer additive,compounding,hvdc cable pre fault monitoring,dc link,electricity grid,reliability model
BirdWatch - a Copernicus-based service for the improvement of habitat suitability of farmland birds via satellite-enabled monitoring, evaluation and optimisation of CAP greening measures (BirdWatch)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Italy,Lithuania,Slovenia
Call: EGNSS and Copernicus applications fostering the European Green deal (HORIZON-EUSPA-2021-SPACE, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2581641.25
EU funding (EUR): 2248116.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

BirdWatch will support the restoration of spatial heterogeneity on farmland, a necessary component in the lasting recovery of our ecosystems. Farmland is a major source of our food and farmland biodiversity is vital for our subsistence, at least when it is in a healthy condition. BirdWatch will make this monitoring of farmland habitat suitability, a product of both rigorous species distribution modelling and EO data-based geospatial features of the individual farmland parcels, freely accessible to various stakeholders and the interested public. The bird species’ requirements regarding their habitat are the guiding factor of the habitat suitability assessment. With the knowledge on farmland bird habitat requirements and the capability to monitor farmland in terms of habitat suitability opens up the possibility to optimise the structural makeup of farmland and associated greening measures. Combined with the requirements of local stakeholders, including their budgetary and operational constraints, BirdWatch becomes a tool for the optimisation of greening measures both ins terms of farmland bird species requirements and stakeholder constraints. With more effective greening measures at optimised cost, farmers will be supported to increasingly reach ecological and economical sustainability. This will alleviate the burden of costs and economic pressure, thus incentivising landowners to take action towards the improvement of their lands. Additionally, economic instruments such as the CAP or the EAFRD which distribute financial aid to sustainable and organic farming activities will be provided with evidence-based support in monitoring compliance with national and EU biodiversity regulations and the definition of new, increasingly effective policies. With an evidence-based view on biodiversity and the effectiveness of greening measures, BirdWatch encourages the improvement in the communication and mutual understanding between scientists, farmers and administrative bodies.

Keywords: biodiversity,copernicus satellites,endangered farmbirds,habitat suitability and restoration,greening measures,cap,spatio temporal monitoring,machine learning,optimisation,web based service
New energy harvesting technology for prolonging batteries life of implantable electronic devices. (NEW-TECH)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The European Union (EU) is a world leader in implantable electronic devices (IEDs), such as cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators. Every year, more than 6 million new cases and more than 1.8 million deaths related to cardiovascular diseases in the EU, generating to the EU economy a cost of more than €210 billion a year. NEW-TECH is devoted to creating a new energy harvest (EH) device based on porous piezoelectric polymeric Polyvinylidene fluoride film P(VDF-TrFE) filled with a layer of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to use as a battery for IEDs. The current project will overcome the stagnation in the technology of batteries for IEDs and create a new EH device with high longevity, sustainability, and cheaper. The main research objectives of NEW-TECH are firstly developing an efficient finite element model capable of predicting the output power of the new multilayer EH device. Afterward, a new EH device composed of a multilayer structure of porous piezoelectric polymeric film P(VDF-TrFE) filled with a layer of PDMS organized in a mixed connection (in parallel or in series) will be fabricated. The validation of the numerical results will be done through an experimental setup consisting of a hexapod robot capable of mimicking the physiological human heart motions and providing mechanical deformation to the developed EH device. Finally, fatigue and chemical stability verification of the EH device will be done through different mechanical and chemical tests. NEW-TECH will bring together a Fellow who is an expert in computational mechanics and polymer physics and a host institution carrying leading academic know-how in energy harvesting technology to develop the next generation of EH devices for prolonging the battery life of IEDs. The placement at SSSA and BCM will give the fellow real-world expertise in robotics and manufacturing of EH devices, respectively. NEW-TECH will enable cheaper and more longevity EH devices for consumers and render Europe a pole of IEDs.

Keywords: p vdf trfe copolymer energy harvesting piezoelectric polymer implantable electronic devices finite element hexapod robot mimicking the heartbeat movement fatigue resistance testing
Discovering light-induced phases by first-principles material design (DELIGHT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2117141.0
EU funding (EUR): 2117141.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ultrafast lasers sources open new perspectives in exploring broken symmetry phases as it becomes possible to promote a substantial number of electrons in excited states generating a thermalized electron-hole plasma and leading to reversible or irreversible phase transitions. Light-induced charge density waves, order-disorder transitions, melting, stabilization of topological phases and laser-tunable ferroelectricity have been demonstrated. Experiments are far ahead of theory as few (if any) of the demonstrated light-induced phenomena have been predicted by theory. DELIGHT aims to develop a theoretical strategy to predict and discover photoinduced phases in materials. To accomplish this goal, we will develop quantum-chemical and molecular dynamics schemes including the effect of the thermalized electron-hole plasma on the crystal potential and accounting for light-induced non-perturbative quantum anharmonicity. DELIGHT will answer these questions: which systems undergo light induced phase transitions ? Can we use light pulses to enhance or tune charge density wave, ferroelectric and magnetic critical temperatures, to generate new topological phases or to optimize the properties of thermoelectric materials ? Can we develop an inverse design strategy, namely given a target property, determine which material will have to be photoexcited and at which fluence to obtain it ? The proposal will impact chemistry, physics, energy and material engineering. It could lead, for example, to the development of devices with dynamical light switching on/off of magnetism or ferroelectricity, relevant for ultrafast memories, or to the stabilization of new thermoelectric compounds with photo-tunable thermal conductivity and figure of merit. DELIGHT will foster these and similar developments by implementing a fundamentally new and unique database of out-of-equilibrium accessible states of matter that will be a reference for future experiments.

Keywords: density functional theory,light matter interaction,ultrafast spectroscopy