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SysTem for SAFE Biological chEmical Radiological and Nuclear Assessment, Rescue and Decontamination (STBERNARD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Hungary,Finland,Greece,Ireland,Austria,Poland,Czechia
Call: Enhanced capacities of first responders more efficient rescue operations, including decontamination of infrastructures in the case of a CBRN-E event (HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6718795.54
EU funding (EUR): 5997970.75
Participants: 18
Project status: SUSPENDED

Emerging technologies on fast aerosol&vapour sensors and fast and massive decontamination -previously developed up to TRL5 by participants of this proposal- have demonstrated to be ideal candidates to provide universal fast and portable protection against CBRN. This project will mature these safe technologies and develop operational procedures for detection, protection, decontamination and assessment itself, and will measure their effectiveness in experimental tests and practical demonstrations in operational environment (TRL7): EX Intrinsically Safe CBRN-E aerial drone with sensors, semiautonomous navigation even in denied GNSS and automatic detection of victims. Technology and operating procedures for sheltering responders (including vehicles) against CBRN-E toxic clouds and aerosols Mass decontamination of infrastructures and vehicles tech & procedures based on aerosol dynamic aggregation. Sensors and procedures for reliable assessment of cleanliness. Mass decontamination of people (i.e. crowded arena…) Decontaminator of Respiratory System of a victim or “Lung cleaner”. Operating procedures for safe CBRN-E debris removal and excavation. Additionally, after analysis of CBRN-E associated risks in rescue and recovery operations it will develop and validate an AI modular tool for generating operating procedures for first responders operating under a CBRN-E event. These reliable useful tools and procedures at TRL7 will substantially increase safety for all first-responders (either CBRN specialized, non-specialized and even rescue-dogs) minimizing the need to enter in a contaminated area and exposure of first responder and providing smart advice and fused information. They haste a safe response and recovery reducing the number of victims and their severity as well as the environmental impact. Particularly, crowded events will be safer against CBRN episodes. Intrinsic Safety in Explosive atmospheres is key to prevent catastrophic explosions with a terrific impact.
Jewish women in pre-modern Italy: Magic, medicine and the inquisition (JeWit)

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: France
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): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The comprehensive objective of JeWit is to provide the first historical reconstruction of Jewish women’s everyday life and material culture in medieval and early modern Italy based on medico-magical traditions related to procreation, childbirth and other matters associated with the female body. Despite recent advances in the study of Jewish magic, gender, and Jewish-Christian relations, integrated in-depth research on Jewish women through the lens of medico-magical texts and from a perspective which considers local, oral-aural, and cross-cultural dynamics of knowledge transmission has been mostly neglected. Using a sophisticated methodology which integrates for the first time in-depth analysis of different types of sources (i.e. Jewish and non-Jewish manuscripts, archival documents, material and artistic evidence), JeWit seeks to: a) make accessible for the first time in a commented edition a selection of the most relevant manuscript excerpts on Jewish childbirth techniques circulated in pre-modern Italy; b) detect patterns of continuity, rupture and change in the dissemination of Jewish medico-magical lore related to childbirth during the shift from late antiquity to the medieval era and in the transfer from the East to the West; c) assess the boundaries between Jewish magic and science in medieval and early modern Italy; d) unravel traces of the sense of childbirth as experienced by pre-modern Italian Jewish woman that occasionally survive encapsulated in the texts, thus contributing to a more inclusive intellectual and cultural history of Italian Jewry and fostering large-scale debates on women’s well-being, diversity and inclusion, religious and cultural identity. After prestigious postdoctoral positions in Israel, the U.S., and Europe, a MSCA-PF at EPHE in Paris under the guide of Nicolas Weill-Parot will allow me to establish my scholarly independence, remarkably expanding my career prospects toward a consolidated academic position.

Keywords: jewish magic and medicine,italian jewry,jewish women,history of science,material culture,hebrew manuscripts,italian archival sources,jewish christian relations,medieval and roman inquisition
The Biodiversity Nexus: transformative change for sustainability (BIONEXT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Netherlands,Czechia,Greece,United Kingdom,Germany,Romania,Belgium
Call: Biodiversity, water, food, energy, transport, climate and health nexus in the context of transformative change (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4109910.0
EU funding (EUR): 4109910.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

BIONEXT will develop knowledge, tools, and guidance for mainstreaming biodiversity into policy making and provide concrete options on how to initiate, accelerate and upscale biodiversity relevant transformative change in society. It will deliver an innovative Nexus Modelling Framework that will integrate scenarios and pathways in a co-production process with stakeholders, while modelling interlinkages between biodiversity, water, food, energy, transport, climate, and health, and enabling simulation of the impacts of indirect and direct drivers on biodiversity. Through its database of transformative change cases, BIONEXT will involve policy- and decision-makers and allows them to explore the concept of just transformative change. Plausible futures and desirable, nature-positive visions for Europe and multiple just transition pathways will be co-created in workshops and focus groups taking place in various cities around Europe. With the involvement of diverse stakeholders, the BIONEXT Pathways App will be delivered as a novel decision support tool that allows users to explore transformational building blocks, for formulating policies and implementation pathways for the biodiversity nexus. The results will contribute to science brokerage, capacity building and networking to IPBES, EU policymakers, and civil society.

Keywords: transformative change,nexus,scenarios
Innovative HV Solid-State TrAnsformer for maximizing Renewable energy penetration in energy distribution and transmission systems (SSTAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Italy,Portugal
Call: Emerging technologies for a climate neutral Europe (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499437.5
EU funding (EUR): 2499437.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The on-going energy transition towards a decarbonized economy is changing profoundly the infrastructure of the power grids worldwide. Conventional high-power transformers are not fully prepared to overcome these challenges, as they do not have intrinsic capabilities regarding active system support. Instead, Solid-state Transformers (SSTs) have emerged in the last years as a disruptive technology able to extend the typical functionalities of a regular transformer, optimizing the power flows and introducing a high degree of digitalization and intelligence in the network. However, SSTs are not still a mature technology and only prototypes of up to 15 kV and 15 modules have been developed in the range of high frequency (40 kHz) so far. Therefore, their use is currently restricted to low-voltage applications. In this context, SSTAR aims to increase the operation voltage level of SSTs to enlarge their applications within the energy power sector while improving its performance in a reliable, cost-optimized and sustainable way. To do so, three main R&I Lines will be developed: 1) Sustainable biobased dielectric fluid able to increase the SST modules insulation voltage while achieving up to 50% of CO2 saving comparing to traditional oils 2) New SST module based on SiC with a bidirectional Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) system able to increase the individual voltage and switching frequency of SST modules up to 1.5 kV and 50kHz respectively with a total efficiency of 98.5% and 3) Decentralized control cascade H-bridge (CHB) converter to scale-up the number of modules in a single SST device to achieve the voltage levels of transmission grids. The combined effect of these innovations will be validated at TRL 4 in two certified test-beds in Spain and Portugal. Hence, SSTAR seeks to pave the way for the development of new disruptive HV SST devices more attractive for commercial purposes than the prototypes made so far, and able to be used in distribution and transmissions grids.

Keywords: energy distribution,solid state transformer,distribution and tranmission grids,renwable energy,bio based dielectric fluid
Genetic Engineering of Regulatory Evolution (GenRevo)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2490354.01
EU funding (EUR): 2490354.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The regulation of genes is generally accepted to play a key role in shaping phenotypes. However, how regulatory sequence encodes complex morphological structures remains unsolved. This is due to our lack of understanding of how enhancers, promoters, and other regulatory components work together to control and fine-tune gene expression. As such, one of the major challenges of the post-genomic era is to uncover the sequence code that controls gene expression and, ultimately, the phenotype. In GenRevo, I propose to study the genomics of an extreme example of evolutionary adaption, the wings of bats, as a model system to identify and functionally dissect how sequence determines phenotype. Our approach involves the genetic re-engineering of bat regulatory sequence in mice and their functional dissection to identify the essential components that govern gene expression and phenotype. Based on an already generated comprehensive data set from mouse and bat limb buds, we will detect, re-engineer and dissect intra- and interspecies differences in regulatory landscapes linked to batwing development. In particular, we will 1) determine what non-coding features are essential for maintenance and/or change in gene expression, 2) reconstitute bat-specific regulatory landscapes in mice by genome engineering synthetically produced large DNA sequences, 3) dissect how genomic changes translate into altered gene expression and phenotypes on cellular and regulatory level, and 4) create de novo designer regulatory landscapes that can be used as a testbed for experimental perturbations. Collectively, GenRevo will produce ground-breaking knowledge in our understanding of how gene regulatory units work in vivo and how variants influence phenotypes. The possibility to re-engineer sequences in another species will spark a technological revolution in the functional analysis of mammalian genomes, particularly regarding the function of non-coding DNA in human diseases, traits, and evolution.

Keywords: gene regulation,genome editing,limb development,regulatory landscapes
Wave Energy Demonstration at Utility Scale to Enable Arrays (WEDUSEA)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany
Call: Demonstration of wave energy devices to increase experience in real sea condition (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 58.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13086433.75
EU funding (EUR): 9636874.38
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

WEDUSEA led by Irish Wave Energy Developer, Ocean Energy, will demonstrate a grid connected 1MW OE35 floating wave energy converter (known as the OE Buoy) at the European Marine Energy Test Site (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland. This rigorous technical and environmental demonstration will happen over a 2 year period in Atlantic wave conditions with outcomes directly impacting policy, technical standards, public perception and investor confidence. The project will demonstrate that the technology is on a cost reduction trajectory in line with the EU SET Plan targets and will be a stepping stone to larger commercial array scale up and further industrialisation. The action will integrate sub components such as moorings and PTOs - improving efficiency, reliability, scalability, sustainability and circularity of the technology. The combined actions of the work programme are expected to reduce the LCOE for the technology from €361/MWh to €245/MWh, a 32% reduction. For a 20MW array the LCOE would reduce from €185/MWh to €127/MWh. The project has 3 clear phases, phase 1 the initial design phase leading into a Go/No Go, phase 2 Demonstration in which it is expected that the baseline device will generate in excess of 1,650 MWh over the deployment and Phase 3 Commercialisation and Dissemination which sees the capitalisation and exploitation of the results. Ocean Energy and other consortium companies will actively exploit the results through new innovations, products and services. The results will be disseminated to feed both environmental databases and IEC electrotechnical standards. This action will take wave energy beyond the state of the art, building on the partners experience in prior EU projects enabling arrays of reliable devices to achieve the 1GW target set out in the 2030 DG-ENER Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy. Planned engagement will create more public perception, empower and inform policy makers and de-risk larger scale investments to meet the 2050 targets.

Keywords: wave energy,renewable,utility,marine energy,ocean energy,decarbonisation,offshore renewable energy,offshore technologies
Crossing the Atlantic. Diocesan Agents of the Viceroyalty of Peru in Rome (XVI-XVII century) (Procuradores)

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: Italy,Chile,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 225109.44
EU funding (EUR): 225109.44
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal aims at conducting a historical investigation of human mobility in local and global contexts through the case study of religious agents (the procuradores) that moved across the Atlantic from the ecclesiastic province of Lima to the Holy See to represent their communities’ political and religious interests. Atop of a growing body of secondary sources and thanks to a multinational and multi-archival investigation (Chile, Peru, Spain, Vatican, Rome), the research brings together several disciplines – history, geography, social sciences, and law studies, in dialogue with Atlantic studies and the network analysis, in order to develop three original aims. First, it will offer a new understanding of the relationship among the Spanish Crown, the Holy See and the Viceroyalty of Peru. The research will investigate who the procuradores of the cathedrals were. The proposal aims at identifying both the secular and religious procuradores who crossed the Atlantic, traveling from the dioceses to Rome. It will identify their social, institutional, political and, eventually, religious belonging and affiliation. I will study the type of information the procuradores transmitted to the Holy See and how it was used to build the networks of political and religious relations with the Spanish Monarchy. Once the procuradores have been identified, it will be possible to analyse the information that reached Rome from the Viceroy of Peru (and those that did not), its processing in the Curia, its use in the government of the Church, and its use in political and diplomatic relations with the Spanish Monarchy. I will study how the procuradores interacted with the city of Rome. The project will be implemented in 3 different institutions: Pontificia Universidad Cattolica de Chile (outgoing phase), Universidad de Barcelona (5-month secondment) and Ca'Foscari Venice (incoming phase).

Keywords: early modern latin america spanish crown global papacy circulation of information mobility city of rome
Working collaboratively on advances in projectors-free flight simulators: Benefits for professional training of pilots by deployment of XR Technologies (WrightBros neXt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Poland,Slovakia,Austria,Croatia,Ukraine
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1386571.43
EU funding (EUR): 1370800.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The interdisciplinary WrightBros neXt project is designed as an extension, both in terms of the scope and the Consortium composition, of the “collaborative factory of the flight simulators branch of RISE” which was funded under H2020 programme and successfully completed as a WrightBroS project. Based on its results, the new concept of research on projectors-free flight simulators is proposed as an answer to challenges which occur when novel eXtended Reality (XR) technologies are applied to professional training of pilots. The goal of the new project is to: - develop innovative, projectors-free, flight simulators by using various XR technologies, and - compare the influence on human perception of various XR technologies used in these projectors-free flight simulators vs. classical setup with projector-generated scenery. The wide range of visualization setups developed in a collaboration between the Coordinator: Silesian University of Technology (SUT), Poland, flight simulators manufacturer: Virtual Reality Media (VRM), Slovakia, and software developer: LG Nexera (NXR), Austria, will be then tested by pilots during experimental sessions in Virtual Flight Laboratory at SUT. In such sessions the pilots will wear mobile EEG device capturing data about the influence of a given display system used in the flight simulator on a cognitive load and other brain activities. The assessment of the cognitive load, as a measure of the mental effort required to complete a task, will be made by SUT scientists in an interdisciplinary collaboration with the researchers from Psychology Department of University of Zadar (UOZ), Croatia. The EEG signals will be also analyzed by secondees from Dnipro University of Technology (DUT), Ukraine, hosted by SUT specialists experienced in signal processing and machine learning. The results will be used to predict real-time performance, fatigue, and stress levels of pilots testing particular XR visualization system used in the flight simulator.

Keywords: flight simulators,human machine interaction,machine learning,scene recognition and understanding