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Professional social media platforms and women’s career advancement: factors impacting women’s career equality without backlash. A management research perspective (WEQUALITY)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

WEQUALITY will reveal new knowledge on the effects professional social media platforms have on women’s career advancement in the workplace. It will analyze to what extent professional social media contributes to increasing women’s self-promotion and networking opportunities and/or mitigates the discrimination women face when they self-promote or network. WEQUALITY will also assess interventions that women and other stakeholders (mentors, leaders, coworkers) can implement to promote the use of professional social media to advance gender equality. Integrating robust open science methodologies for studying gender in the workplace that includes both field and experimental designs with ≈3,525 participants, WEQUALITY will provide new, scalable, evidence-based findings for use by academia, policymakers, and business. Its interdisciplinary nature ensures that the project will impact research in management, applied psychology, communications, and technology literatures and have implications both inside and outside academia. Coming at a time when research at the intersection of virtuality in the workplace and gender inequality is in its infancy, WEQUALITY helps situate Europe at the vanguard of scientific work exploring (1) the dynamics of the “push out” and “opt-out” sides of the problem, and (2) the complexities involved in the career-influencing usage of virtual platforms by women. My career development training, supervised by Dr. Marta Elvira (who has successfully mentored past MSCAs recipients) at the world-renowned IESE Business School, will catapult me to the forefront of research on management and the career-based use of virtual platforms by women. It will also enable me to capitalize on a wide range of emerging academic and non-academic opportunities, particularly in consultancy and policy advice.

Keywords: virtual work,gender equality,future of work,professional social media platforms,women s career equality
Two-Photon Excited Near-Infrared Emissive Multifunctional Gold Nanoclusters for Imaging and Photothermal Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease (PERSONA)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Neurodegenerative diseases are a global epidemic with significant health, social and economic implications and despite intensive research, there is still no cure for them. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurological disorder having symptoms of the progressive memory loss, neuronal cell death, loss of immune response and cognitive function, eventually leading to patient death. Amyloid-β (Aβ) protein is the main neuropathic agent in AD and aggregation of Aβ plaques are found in the brain tissue of patients suffering from this disease. The application of nanomaterials has emerged as a new frontier in nanomedicine for the treatment of AD. Among various nanomaterials, ultrasmall gold nanoclusters (Au NCs) may serve as a promising choice for the diagnosis and treatment of AD from the very early stage which can be well justified by the advantages of Au NCs in terms of their diverse physicochemical properties, biocompatibility and biodistribution, high surface to volume ratio, ease for functionalisation and drug loading, blood–brain barrier (BBB) translocation and the possibility of two-photon excitation. The main objective of our research is to advance in the development of new, biocompatible multifunctional nanomaterials for the detection of amyloids with high spatial resolution and the subsequent degradation of amyloid aggregates using a non-invasive approach. In this regard, the blinking and non-linear optical properties of the Au NCs enable its potential for nanoscopic imaging of amyloid and two-photon photothermal ablation of amyloid aggregates. Another advantage of the proposed multifunctional nanomaterials is that they can also be used as drug delivery vehicles to penetrate the cell membrane and BBB to deliver anti-amyloid drugs that exhibit effective imaging-guided photothermal efficacy. This research will use state-of-the-art technology to develop a multifunctional phototheranostic nanomedicine for the detection and treatment of amyloid diseases.

Keywords: gold nanoclusters,two photon excitation,super resolution imaging,amyloid,photothermal treatment
AI Adviser for Agronomy and Food Safety (ROBI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Croatia
Call: Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1681875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1156312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

According to the FAO, up to 40% of food crops worldwide are lost annually due to pests and plant diseases, resulting in 1.3 bn tons/year of food wasted. At the same time, EU and country-specific regulations limit the amount of chemicals that farmers can use to fight crop diseases. Farmers lack the time and knowledge to make sure to comply with all rules and chose the best course of action. Thanks to EICA Agrivi will develop a brand new software, an AI-driven digital advisory tool that will be built on our proprietary algorithms, agricultural and CPP knowledge base and will guide farmers through the whole process: when to spray based on AI pest risk detection, which products to use, which rules must be respected, when is safe to harvest. A multidimensional impact is expected: improved productivity and food safety, less post harvest food waste, decreased usage of pesticides, improved soil health and biodiversity.
Internal and international climate-induced migration, gendered inequalities and governance: understanding migration decisions, exploring migration experiences (GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495733.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495733.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The World Bank estimates that climate change will force 216 million people to leave their homes by 2050. Using UN data, the Australian think tank IEP calculates that 1.2 billion people risk being displaced by 2050 because of ecological threats. Beyond alarmist projections of which we need to be wary, and as a matter of fact, we know little about the articulation of internal and international climate-induced migration because once those on the move cross borders they become labour migrants, asylum seekers or undocumented migrants, with climate-related causes rendered invisible. In the absence of any internationally recognized status for climate migrants, it remains unclear what proportion of international migration flows are also caused, at least partially, by changes in people’s natural environments that relate to climate change. Importantly, we know even less about the gendered inequalities that permeate these forms of mobility. To fill this crucial gap, GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG explores climate-induced internal and international migration, and their articulation, from a gendered perspective and through an interdisciplinary, comparative and participatory methodology. This project will produce highly informative ethnographic case-studies in 3 middle-income countries and regional migration hubs (Mexico, Morocco and Malaysia) along with a multi-sited and gender-sensitive enquiry into the current state of climate migration governance at international (e.g. Platform on Disaster Displacement) and national levels, exploring original national policy initiatives (e.g. in Norway, Peru and Kenya). The qualitative and participatory methodology of this research promises to lend unique insights into the decision-making processes, trajectories and lives of climate migrants through a gendered lens. GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG will advance our understanding of the under-researched climate-migration-gender nexus while carving out more space for migrants’ voices.

Keywords: migration,gender,climate change
Topological quantum matter with Rydberg atom arrays (TOPORYD)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 198384.96
EU funding (EUR): 198384.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The rapid advancement in quantum technologies for the experimental control of isolated many-body quantum systems calls for the design of new proposals to probe synthetic states of matter in quantum simulators. Topological quantum matter represents the "holy grail" for quantum scientists as it stands out for its exotic properties and numerous applications in quantum computation. This research proposal aims to develop a theoretical framework for the systematic construction of topological quantum spin liquids suited for realization in Rydberg atom arrays. Combining the Applicant's expertise in topological phases of many-body systems and the Host's mastery of quantum optics, the goal of this project is to envision novel topologically ordered states of matter and devise their implementation in Rydberg atom-based quantum simulators.

Keywords: topological order,rydberg atom arrays,quantum spin liquids,tensor network,lattice gauge theories
Ignite the Immersive Media Sector by Enabling New Narrative Visions (TransMIXR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Netherlands,Austria,Greece,Belgium,France,Germany,Portugal,Slovenia,Lithuania,Denmark,Switzerland
Call: Innovation for Media, including eXtended Reality (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10087267.49
EU funding (EUR): 8997632.25
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The future of media experiences is still to be written, and the maturity of eXtended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies provides a unique window of opportunity for the European Creative and Cultural Sector (CCS) to reimagine digital co-creation, interaction and engagement possibilities. TransMIXR, a consortium of eight representatives from the CCS and twelve leading industrial and academic partners, combines the necessary interdisciplinary skillsets and domain expertise to create a range of human-centric tools for remote content production and consumption via social virtual reality. The project’s TransMIXR platform will provide (i) a distributed XR Creation Environment that supports remote collaboration practices, and (ii) XR Media Experience Environment for the delivery and consumption of highly evocative and highly-social immersive media experiences. The ground-breaking AI techniques for the understanding and processing of complex media content will enable the reuse of heterogeneous assets across immersive content delivery platforms. Using the Living Labs methodology, TransMIXR will develop and evaluate four pilots that bring the vision of future media experiences to life in four CCS domains: (i) news media & broadcasting, (ii) performing arts, and (iii) cultural heritage. Additionally, the project will harness the creativity of the CCS and will forge interdisciplinary collaborations to demonstrate how immersive social experiences could be transferred to new application areas beyond the CCS. The results of the project will contribute to the Media and Audiovisual Action Plan from the European Commission, in particular boosting the adoption of XR technologies, opening new business models opportunities in new application areas and markets, and gaining worldwide leadership in XR technologies while being deeply grounded in European values such as veracity, diversity, connectedness and universality.

Keywords: extended reality xr,create and cultural sector,artificial intelligence,authoring tools,social extended reality,extended collaborative telepresence,human computer interaction,living labs
Fluid texts and scholars’ digests: (re)production of law in medieval Ireland (FLEXI)

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: Ireland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

FLEXI investigates how the fluid, multifarious law texts were (re)produced and accepted as sources of law in medieval Europe, using four sets of late medieval Irish law texts called the ‘digests’ as its main object of study. The digests contain texts quoted from diverse sources, and organise them into a systematic review of the legal tradition. They represent the law in operation in the form of highly variegated and complex intertextual networks, and therefore are an ideal sample for studying the dynamics between fluidity and unity in medieval law texts. FLEXI focuses on how law texts were (re)produced, studied, and transmitted in medieval Ireland. It is not only the first in-depth study of the Irish digests, but also a ground-breaking attempt to synthesise philology, comparative legal history, network theories, and digital techniques to revolutionise the research of medieval law texts. FLEXI traces and measures the sources used in these digests quantitatively, using linked data model and network analysis to reveal their compilatory principles and text reuse patterns. This is an innovative approach to probe the intellectual universe of the jurists. It evaluates the variation within the digests and examines the interpretative techniques by which the jurists justified and harmonised the variation. FLEXI also looks for possible influences from other legal traditions such as the Canon Law and the Civil Law on the compilatory principles of the digests, and makes comparison with medieval Welsh law on how inherited materials were treated and updated in Ireland and Wales. Finally, FLEXI tests and develops software for automated detection of parallel texts (text reuse) for early Irish texts. The toolkit and software developed by FLEXI will offer a long-needed digital solution to the processing of early Irish texts, because it can quickly identify similar texts from the vast corpus of Irish materials, thus revealing intertextual relationships hidden from the human eye.

Keywords: early irish law late medieval digests comparative legal history text reuse intellectual network
Unification of the best piezoelectric and photovoltaic properties in a single photoferroelectric material (UNIFY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496023.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496023.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The piezoelectric (PE) effect is the core electromechanical coupling function widely used in sensors, actuators and transducers for various industrial sectors. The photovoltaic (PV) effect produces green electricity from the solar energy. To date, materials showing strong PE and efficient PV properties are separate families of oxide perovskites and narrow band gap semiconductors, respectively. This project aims to unify these PE and PV performances by making new photoferroelectric materials. Photoferroelectrics can be both ferroelectric and photovoltaic. However, several challenges hinder them from being practically used as single, integrated PE-PV materials: (i) Not all good ferroelectrics show strong PE responses; (ii) The strong piezoelectrics have wide band gaps, unable to absorb visible lights; (iii) The photovoltaic energy conversion efficiencies (PCE) of photoferroelectrics are far below those of semiconductor solar cells. To address the challenges, this project will (1) start with the oxide perovskite compositions showing the record PE properties. These compositions will be engineered by doping to reduce the band gaps and thus to absorb the entire visible lights whilst maintaining the original PE properties. (2) The engineered compositions will be grown to single crystals to further boost the PE properties and to form stacked domain walls. (3) The stacked domain walls will generate photovoltages that can add up domain by domain, producing an ultra high net photovoltage in the material. (4) The efficient photocurrent generation in the domain walls will be boosted by the complete light absorption resulted from the single crystal thickness equal to the light penetration depth, pushing the PCE to the level of semiconductor solar cells. The results are expected to trigger revolutions in mechano-solar-electric multi-energy converters for emerging applications such as Internet of Things that require long lifespan and miniaturization.

Keywords: ferroelectric energy harvesting
6G-BRICKS: Building Reusable testbed Infrastructures for validating Cloud-to-device breaKthrough technologieS (6G-BRICKS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Belgium,France,Germany,Poland,Ireland,Cyprus
Call: SNS experimental Infrastructure (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8848313.05
EU funding (EUR): 8404533.38
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

6G networks, currently only existing as concepts, are envisioned as portals to a fully digitized society, where the physical and virtual world are blended via boundless Extended Reality (XR), and also as an enabler for the Digital and Green transformation of the European Industries. To support this vision, the network capacity must be increased at least by an order of magnitude, while infrastructures must be transformed into a very dense continuum. Thus, academia and industry have shifted their attention to the investigation of a new generation of Smart Networks and infrastructures. It is clear that to win this race towards shaping the next-generation communication ecosystem, a new generation of testbed infrastructures and breakthrough research and technology development is needed needed, as well as a new generation of testbeds to support future research initiative. To this end, 6G-BRICKS aims to deliver a new 6G facility, building on the baseline of mature ICT-52 platforms, that bring breakthrough cell-free and RIS technologies that have shown promise for beyond 5G networks. Moreover, novel unified control paradigms based on Explainable AI and Machine Reasoning are explored. All enablers will be delivered in the form of reusable components with open APIs, termed “bricks“. Finally, initial integrations with O-RAN are performed, aiming for the future-proofing and interoperability of 6G-BRICKS outcomes.

Keywords: cell free,ris,mmwave,explainable ai,compute continuum,o ran
Targeting OGG1 in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (TOPFIBRO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: EIC Transition Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499998.75
EU funding (EUR): 2499998.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive lung disease with no curative therapies. Approved therapies for IPF have a high rate of discontinuation among patients due to adverse side-effects and present a high unmet need for effective therapies. Oxcia’s OXC-201 is a ground-breaking novel approach for treatment of IPF, based on completely new biology. OXC-201 targets profibrotic and proinflammatory cascades at an early stage on a transcriptional level, and is expected to efficiently prevent lung damage, creating a window for restorative processes to repair scar tissue. OXC-201 has demonstrated significant efficacy in halting disease progression and improved safety and tolerability in preclinical IPF models. In the TOPFIBRO project we will 1) obtain further proof of concept of OXC-201’s efficacy in improving lung function in vivo and confirm antifibrotic efficacy in patient-derived ex vivo models compared to current standard of care, 2) take OXC-201 through preclinical safety assessment studies, 3) fulfill regulatory demands, preparation of IMPD, CTA and ethical applications in order to initiate first-in-human studies, 4) perform first-in-human clinical studies to determine safety profile in healthy volunteers, 5) develop a strong business plan with regulatory, financial and clinical roadmaps to improve investor-readiness. These steps will allow us to further develop OXC-201 with the end goal of bringing it to market via a licensing deal with a large pharmaceutical company. OXC-201 has the potential to fill a large unmet need of the IPF patient community and present the first potentially curative therapy.

Keywords: lung disease,ogg1 inhibitor,drug development,anti fibrotic,prevent lung damage