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Biomechanics, fluid dynamics and evolution of collective and cooperative motility of insect spermatozoa using microfluidic devices (MOTIONSPERM)

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: 2025-06-02
End date: 2027-06-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Spermatozoa show great morphological diversity and share the function of fertilisation. They are often found as single cells, but in some organisms, such as insects, they can form aggregates ranging from two to hundreds of cells. One of the most intriguing parts of this phenomenon is the coordinated motility and improved swimming performance and reproductive success. Research on sperm motility in insects is still largely unexplored, with most studies focusing on vertebrates. The MOTIONSPERM project seeks to address this research gap by analysing the biomechanics and fluid dynamics of different types of sperm aggregates and insect species and placing these findings in an evolutionary context. The collective motility of sperm aggregates is influenced by both their cellular characteristics and the microenvironmental conditions of the reproductive organs where they swim. These include the properties of the reproductive fluids and the geometry of the organs. I will use advanced microscopy techniques, 3-D reconstruction of reproductive tracts, and innovative measurement of fluid viscosity and viscoelasticity to perform microfluidic device assays that simulate realistic reproductive models, allowing us to observe sperm motility under conditions that closely mimic their natural environment. Reproductive traits, including sperm motility novelty, will be investigated in a temporal phylogenetic frame. This project will contribute to a deeper understanding of insect aggregate sperm motility and its impact on fertility, sperm competition, evolution and cooperative cellular functions. In addition, the project will produce relevant and high-impact research results, potentially applicable to sustainable agriculture, future biomedical applications and public health plans in the EU. The project will also enrich my research skills in advanced techniques, enhancing my professional competitiveness and increasing my abilities and potential for an independent and successful career.

Keywords: biophysics coevolution fluid viscosity sperm competition sperm cooperation
Investigating the impact of soil salinity on physicochemical attributes and molecular structure of rice starch and finding their connection with functional attributes of cooked rice (SALTRICE)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Sweden
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): 252180.0
EU funding (EUR): 252180.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Rice, the world's second most cultivable crop and staple food for about half of the human population, poses an increasing threat to yield and quality deterioration by abiotic stressors, particularly salinity stress in coastal, arid and semi-arid regions. Over the years, researchers' efforts have been restricted to improving rice yield by genetic modification and agricultural practices, with less focus on the qualitative properties of rice. Understanding the fact that quality attributes of rice starch and cooked rice depend on the structural architecture of starch, the proposed research aims to understand the correlation between the molecular structure of rice starch, physicochemical attributes of the rice starch (crystallinity, rheological properties, thermal properties), functional properties of cooked rice (cooking time and texture) and in vitro starch digestibility when different rice cultivars (salt-sensitive, salt-tolerant and salt tolerance landraces) cultivated at low, medium and high salinity-stressed soil in Sundarban region. SALTRICE will use advanced molecular structure characterisation techniques, the "Backbone building block model", to understand structural changes in the rice starch. SALTRICE outcomes will help plant biotechnologists and breeders to take new strategies to modify their breeding approach and develop salt-tolerant rice cultivars with improved yield and quality attributes. The results will also provide significant insights to food technologists to modify and optimize process parameters for processing of salt-tolerant rice and its products. This project includes the transfer of knowledge, training of the researcher on advanced analytical equipment and starch chemistry, network building and enhancing the capability of the researcher to do independent and collaborative research. The proposed project also aligns with the sustainable development goals of the United Nations to strengthen food security and nutrition.

Keywords: soil salinity starch molecular structure rheology cook ability digestibility sundarbans
Co-creation methodology for biotechnology trust-building measures for improved innovation uptake in the bio-based innovation system (B-TRUST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Denmark,Spain,Italy
Call: Co-creation and trust-building measures for biotechnology and bio-based innovation systems (HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1618652.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499225.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The effective application of biotechnology plays a crucial role in building a sustainable European industry, in line with the EU Bioeconomy Strategy and its Progress Report, and contributing to the transformation of Europe outlined in the Green Deal. But despite the enormous potential of biotechnology for contributing to sustainable development in areas such as healthcare, materials, chemicals and food production, the technology is not widely accepted and supported by the general public. This leads to reluctance among industry to adopt and invest in biotechnological solutions, uncertainty among investors, and creates little incentive to eliminate regulatory barriers that prevent implementation. Recognising their concerns is therefore essential for improving the adoption of these technologies. The main objective of the B-TRUST project is thus to develop a transparent and inclusive governance model enabling the application of biotechnology to the bio-based and agri-food sector. More specifically, to (1) inform and create transparency related to consumer and environmental safety, (2) leverage engagement from citizens and other stakeholders, and (3) develop and exchange best practices. This model will be built based on the Theory of Change, to ensure impact while keeping all actors committed, and use co-creation trajectories with civil society and stakeholders as trust catalysts, leading to a set of measures and principles for building trust. The model will be developed and finetuned via four biotech use cases chosen to cover different types of concerns and benefits. Mapping out the real and perceived risks and benefits of these technologies will lead to a comprehensive assessment of the technologies, laying the foundations for general trust-building. Lastly, a forum will be created to deploy trainings and keep stakeholders engaged and informed, allowing the model to be replicated and sustained for further research and development, policy making and funding schemes.

Keywords: innovative governance models,co creation,trust building,risk benefit assessment,social sciences and humanities,un sustainable development goals,agri food sector,bio based sector,4h actors
Smart Dust Batteries Integrated with Near-Zero-Power Surveillance (SMADBINS)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498624.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498624.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The lack of an on-chip power source providing uninterrupted energy impedes the progress of smart dust in moving from lab-level demonstrations to everyday applications. Tiny generators relying on external energy sources face spatial and temporal limitations. Batteries with adequate energy are not available in an area of less than 1 mm2, and the reasons for their absence are manifold. Mainstream battery architectures require either thick or tall electrodes created by etching into the wafer, but it is very fiddly to deposit materials onto these electrodes without defects. High-capacity materials such as lithium cobalt oxide, sulfur and lithium metal are often excluded because on-chip techniques to synthesize or stabilize such materials are missing. Moreover, a low-power monitor to provide precise information about the energy storage state and battery health is essential for real applications but unexplored so far. These difficulties demand a paradigm shift in microbattery development to pursue novel approaches that offer energy-dense microbatteries integrable into microsystems. Therefore, we propose a micro-origami technology for on-chip microbatteries using aqueous zinc battery chemistry, together with embedded surveillance based on a non-volatile redox transistor with near-zero power consumption. SMADBINS is expected to bring advances in battery chemistry and materials and on-chip energy production and management, boosting research for microbattery and smart dust applications, as was recently highlighted by the PI [Nature, 2021, 589, 195]. The PI has decisively contributed to the field of aqueous microbatteries and developed the smart dust battery concept together with his team in several publications. However, a smart dust battery has not been achieved yet. Therefore, the main objective of this project is to develop the first smart dust battery embedded with a low-power monitor, which attains a footprint capacity of more than 10 mAh/cm2 within 1 mm2.

Keywords: microbatteries aqueous batteries
Rethinking Failed Empathy in Narrative Fiction (REFEMP)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200400.0
EU funding (EUR): 200400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project challenges the assumption that narrative fiction is valuable because it creates understanding of other people’s experiences and lived realities through empathy. Instead, the project addresses the main hypothesis that failed empathy is a strategically created effect of narrative fiction that activates affective, emotional, and cognitive processes by foregrounding differences between fictional characters and recipients. To date, popular perception frames failures of empathy also as failures of narrative fiction to engage recipients affectively, emotionally, and cognitively. In contrast, this project reframes failed empathy as an invitation to reflect on personal, cultural, and political beliefs, attitudes, and values. The innovation of REFEMP is twofold. First, the project develops a novel methodological approach for studying its multimodal dataset. This dataset consists of 1) a transmedia sample of narrative fiction in literature, graphic novels, films, television shows, and videogames released after the turn of the twenty-first century, and 2) a selected corpus of written online reviews of the primary texts as a shorthand for recipients’ responses to and empathic engagement with characters in narrative fiction. Second, the project is theoretically innovative by making the concept of failed empathy productive as an analytical framework for narrative fiction. The project's objectives are 1) providing a more refined vocabulary for talking about medium-specific possibilities of representation and narration that can facilitate, hinder, or block recipients’ empathic engagement with narrative fiction, and 2) theorizing the cultural effects of failed empathic engagement with narrative fiction based on recipients’ reviews. To this end, REFEMP highlights the value of moments of difference, subversion, or rupture – of being unable to feel with someone else – in narrative fiction to reflect on culturally shared beliefs and worldviews.
Unpacking Paradigmatic Gaps (UNPAG)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2492200.0
EU funding (EUR): 2492200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Universal paradigmatic gaps are gaps in linguistic paradigms that appear across languages and across users of a given language. As of yet, only very few gaps of this kind have been discussed in the literature. The one gap that has received substantial discussion concerns the universal absence of a lexicalized negated form for the quantifiers all, every or always: There appears to be no language in the world that exhibits a single word (or lexical item) that means ‘not all’, ‘not every’ or ‘not always’, an observation dating back to Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). UNPAG will show that the landscape of universal paradigmatic gaps is in fact much richer and more varied than generally thought of. It is deeply enigmatic that such words do not exist across languages and cultures. Clearly, any theory seeking to explain such missing lexicalizations, i.e. any theory of universal paradigmatic gaps, should be able to make clear predictions about what may or may not be lexicalized, and why that is the case. Such a theory has thus far not been developed. It is also without question that such a theory should have a broad empirical foundation. To date, the pool of data has been heavily slanted toward well-studied, Western, Indo-European, adult spoken language, and negative quantifiers therein. No existing study has thus far come even close to targeting a richer empirical base, even though many more universal gaps can be observed! UNPAG will be the long-overdue filler of this gap. Understanding the nature, distribution and behaviour of universal paradigmatic gaps will have several profound implications for our understanding of human cognition, language and communication. UNPAG is the first panoramic study of universal paradigmatic gaps. Why is it that we cannot always say what is thinkable? UNPAG will provide an answer to this question and show when, how and why universal paradigmatic gaps may emerge in the languages that we speak or sign.

Keywords: paradigmatic gaps,negation,quantifiers,polarity sensitivity,modality
Development of the extended U-space Concept of Operations CORUS V5.0 (CORUS five)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,Finland,Ireland,United Kingdom,Austria,Norway,Spain
Call: ATM Excellent science and outreach for for U-space and urban air mobility (HORIZON-SESAR-2023-DES-ER-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2019726.97
EU funding (EUR): 887717.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Europe has developed the U-space Concept of Operations as a basis for regulations, system development and drone operations. Most operations to date have taken place in segregated airspace yet the need to integrate U-space into controlled airspace is increasingly recognized as an enabler to widespread use of unpiloted vehicles. The SESAR projects CORUS and CORUS XUAM have developed and demonstrated the European Concept of Operations for U-space, presently ConOps v4.0. Recognizing that full integration, not segregation, is the final objective we advocate a stepwise approach. Building on the success of CORUS and CORUS XUAM, “CORUS five” will extend and mature the European U-space ConOps to include airspace that is not presently covered, e.g above VLL and in the vicinity of controlled airports. This objective can only be met by involving all stakeholder groups and eliciting a sound set of requirements based on their needs. The CORUS five consortium therefore includes ANSPs, a USSP, a CISP, research, industry as well as a drone operator. To ensure alignment and uptake of ConOps v5.0 with the ATM community, the consortium includes the EUROCONTROL ATM Master Plan Unit. To base the ConOps on an even wider base, a strong Advisory Board will be built and consulted very actively through workshops and dialogue to capture requirements and ensure the ConOps is safe and technically feasible. It would be naïve to assume that all outstanding research questions can be solved in the lifetime of CORUS five and its sibling projects. An Integration Roadmap will provide recommendations how outstanding research topics can be addressed. In addition, Recommendations for Standardization and Regulation will be provided. Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation are of outmost importance for a project with such a potential for the future aviation system. Flanking the CDE strategy is a series of stakeholder workshops to disseminate the CORUS five ConOps as widely as possible.

Keywords: u space,conops,corus,atm u space integration,ussp,cisp,drone
Twinning for Excellence in Reliable Electronics (TWIN-RELECT)

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: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece,France,United Kingdom,Germany
Call: Twinning Bottom-Up (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1197976.25
EU funding (EUR): 1197976.25
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Reliable electronic systems are crucial in a wide range of applications, such as space missions, avionics, automotive, smart industry, medicine, banking, nuclear power plants, high energy physics research. With the introduction of advanced semiconductor technologies, the design of reliable electronic systems has become more challenging, requiring novel analysis and design methods and tools. The ultimate goal of TWIN-RELECT project is to boost the scientific and innovation capacity of UTH in the design of reliable electronic systems through strategic networking with three advanced partners: IHP - Institute for High Performance Microelectronics from Germany, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) from France, and University of Manchester from United Kingdom. The TWIN-RELECT collaboration will employ a set of actions grouped into five main components: (i) joint exploratory research aimed at the development of a novel tool for simulation of reliability effects and design of reliable integrated circuits, (ii) knowledge transfer through staff exchanges, joint training experiments, supervision of early stage researchers and organization of training schools, (iii) knowledge transfer in relation to research management and administration, (iv) enhancement of networking capacity through organization or workshops, business events, special sessions at conferences, webinars with related projects and international symposium, and (v) establishment of conditions for long term collaboration between UTH and advanced partners, as well as interested stakeholders.

Keywords: reliability,integrated circuits,fault effects,fault tolerance
Supporting European R&I Through stakeholder collaboration and institutional reform (INITIATE)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Croatia,Austria,Cyprus,Slovenia,Ukraine,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Portugal,Romania,Serbia,North Macedonia
Call: European Excellence Initiative (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-03, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5045400.9
EU funding (EUR): 4577108.94
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

INITIATE is a project that aims to empower higher education institutions to develop R&I through institution transformation. INITIATE, in its widening dimension, seeks to raise excellence in science and knowledge valorisation of Europe's universities through cooperation and knowledge circulation. Through stakeholder inclusion and co-design approach, INITIATE will design an approach for institution transformation that will reflect on the current needs and resources of the institution, external elements such as policy barriers, good practices from other initiatives and identification of possible collaboration areas with other institutions including local ecosystems. Through iterative process and R&I Labs supported by online tools such as Knowledge Hub, INITIATE will generate policy recommendations for helping stimulate R&I development and scientific excellence in Widening countries, in addition to research outputs and creation of joint applications for other funding sources (e.g. Horizon Europe). The approach will be demonstrated in Croatia, Portugal and north Macedonia. This will finally result in a roadmap for long term uptake of R&I in widening countries with identified replication cases and forming of the Alliance for green energy transition that will assure the long-term sustainability of INITIATE results. The action focuses on universities in Widening countries, in which the cases for the implementation of INITIATE approach will be conducted. Additionally, the project aims to achieve several outcomes, including the successful institutional reform and upgrade of higher education institutions in the R&I dimension, empowerment to be actors of change, and the mainstreaming of a culture of excellence in science and value creation amongst higher education institutions, particularly in less research-intensive institutions and countries. To achieve these outcomes, the project will engage universities as well as local ecosystems.

Keywords: initiate,universities,cooperation,excellence in science,era policy agenda,clean energy trasnition