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Disrupting the cooling and heating industry: a revolutionary green, energy efficient and cost competitive magnetocaloric technology platform (Magnetocaloric heating and cooling)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3591367.5
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Magnetocaloric (MC) heat pumps can unlock sustainable heating and cooling by limiting GHG exhaust! So far, nobody has been able to create a commercially sustainable product due to high costs of rare-earth materials needed. Magneto’s technology has, based on our patented composition of MC material, for the first time ever, developed a heat pump using affordable and available non rare earth materials. Our heat pump will enable scalability to the most price sensitive markets: northern European countries with high energy costs, incoming regulation on GHG emissions, and an increased need of commercial cooling equipment due to urbanisation. With EIC support we will expand our current temperature span and run first pilots in commercial cooling sector by 2025. It will prove our product and business model, increase market attraction and improve our further fundraising position. We plan to reach breakeven by 2027 and a revenue of €85 million with a gross margin of 78% by 2029.

Keywords: commercial cooling,sustainability,gas free industrial heating,gas free buildings,cop,heat pumps,replacement of refrigerant gas,cooling and heating,magnetocaloric materials
TUNGSTEN BIOCATALYSIS – HEAVY METAL ENZYMES FOR SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL BIOCATALYSIS (W-BioCat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Israel,Italy,United Kingdom,Spain,Poland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2922332.25
EU funding (EUR): 2922332.25
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Europe needs a sustainable chemical industry which will only be realized by new breakthrough technologies. Industrial biotechnology is established in chemical manufacturing, offering more efficient, more specific, safer and less energy demanding production, but is held back by the limited number of enzyme classes in industrial use. This project opens up an important new enzyme class of tungsten-containing enzymes (W-enzymes) which catalyse amazing chemical reactions involving challenging low redox potential reduction reactions, but are currently impossible to obtain economically and on scale to match industrial needs. We need to produce W-enzymes using an industrial workhorse micro-organism such as E. coli. Yet, we discovered that W-cofactor biosynthesis is the bottleneck preventing successful production of W-enzymes in E. coli. We can solve this challenge by using cutting-edge computational enzyme design approaches we recently developed, to create a completely new W-cofactor biosynthesis pathway for E. coli. The W-BioCat strains developed in this project will enable expression of new W-enzymes from genetic databases, and facilitate production of new engineered W-enzymes. The catalytic potential of these new W-enzymes will be established and implemented in new processes. Exciting new reaction scope in biocatalytic CO2 reduction to valuable chemicals and Birch reduction of aromatic compounds will be explored, alongside the already-established and broadly applicable carboxylic acid reductions. W-BioCat will be the breakthrough to make W-enzymes accessible for industry. As a proof of concept, a hydrogen-driven process to convert plant-derived oleic acid to the emollient ester oleyl oleate will be created. Oleyl oleate is used in many cosmetic products used daily by millions of people. This process will be demonstrated in multi-gram yield in scalable, industrially-relevant hydrogenation reactors, together with market research to address a pathway to commercialisation.

Keywords: tungsten enzymes,cofactor biosynthesis,computational protein design,carboxylic acid reduction,fatty acids,renewable hydrogen,hydrogenase,bioinformatics
Upward Social Mobility under Socialism in Eastern Europe 1945-1989 (CLASS-UP)

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: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-06-01
End date: 2031-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498897.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498897.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

CLASS-UP proposes a qualitative comparative study of upward mobility (UM) under socialism, comparing Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. UM was a crucial social battleground in postwar Europe. Yet, we don’t understand how UM worked in socialist states, which differed from the West because of the historical post-feudal and post-imperial trajectory, the upheaval of WWII, and the geopolitical changes after 1945. The latter resulted in a dramatic redistribution of welfare and socialist visions of UM which promised the collective advancement of the working classes and a new egalitarian society. First, (RQ1) how was UM defined, and what were its indicators? How was it presented in official discourses and the press, and how did these shape people’s horizons of expectations? CLASS-UP traces diverse layers of social reality to propose a socialist understanding of UM. It also critically revises sociological research from the period, which diagnosed and defined UM. After building context and a localized understanding of UM, CLASS-UP examines (RQ2) how UM shaped biographies and family histories. An innovative method of intergenerational class biographies follows advancing citizens and traces transfers of social, cultural, economic, and political privileges, along with the costs of mobility over generations. While new divisions based on welfare stratification, politics, and education shaped postwar socialist societies, persistent prewar distinctions remained: advancement and reproduction collided. Sensitive to gender, rural-urban divide, and ethnic diversity, CLASS-UP also includes provincial socialism, moving beyond the industrial hubs and cities. It reexamines postwar history focusing on those who experienced UM thanks to authoritarian regimes. With most of today’s population coming from the working classes, the story of UM is the story of most of us.

Keywords: upward mobility,socialism,eastern europe
Food Responsive Sensor for Colorimetric Observation (FRESCO)

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: Austria
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Enhancing food safety and reducing waste are global challenges, especially with the rise in food consumption and distribution. Food spoilage is a key component of these challenges. One of the critical indicators of food spoilage is the presence of toxic compounds formed by microbial activity in protein-rich foods such as fish, meat, and cheese. The FRESCO project develops an innovative colorimetric sensor for detecting toxic by-products. This sensor utilizes advanced porous materials that change color when exposed to harmful levels of toxic by-products, enabling real-time monitoring in food packaging. The sensor material, combined with a polymeric-based matrix, will be integrated into flexible packaging materials, allowing continuous observation of food freshness. By tracking color changes, it will be possible to monitor food quality. FRESCO aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) by promoting food safety and reducing waste, SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) by minimizing the risk of foodborne illnesses, and SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) by enabling more sustainable food management practices. This project utilizes advanced porous composites and builds upon the findings of previous ERC-funded work to deliver a practical, scalable, and cost-effective solution. With its potential to improve food quality control in real-time and reduce food spoilage, FRESCO is set to advance the food packaging industry and contribute to healthier and more sustainable consumption.

Keywords: food safety,sensing,porous materials
Enhancing collaborative synergies between Cultural HERItage and TOURism (HERITOUR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Netherlands,Sweden,Norway,Aruba,Türkiye,Spain,Germany
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3001754.16
EU funding (EUR): 3001754.16
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Enhancing collaborative synergies between Cultural HERItage and TOURism - HERITOUR HERITOUR addresses some of the most pressing challenges in the heritage and tourism sectors today: hybridisation, resilience, sustainability, and democratisation. Challenges that, until now, have mostly been understood and addressed from a perspective of economic growth. Instead, HERITOUR advocates for a radical paradigm shift by tackling these challenges through a regenerative framework, where social, cultural, political, ecological, and economic processes are interrelated. Investigating these challenges under this framework, we will significantly advance our understanding of heritage tourism and generate novel insights and contribute empirical evidence. To achieve this, 10 DCs will conduct cutting-edge research at six universities across Europe, Aruba, and Turkey. A central aim of the research is to incorporate overlooked and marginalised perspectives, including those of underrepresented communities, whose voices are nevertheless essential in the understanding and development of regenerative heritage tourism. DCs will conduct their research across governance levels - local, national, and European. Therefore, the training programme, delivered in partnership with 10 international partners across seven countries, will focus on equipping DCs with the skills to integrate overlooked perspectives, involve local communities, develop sustainable practices, and become future leaders and specialists on European heritage tourism. HERITOUR is deeply committed to cultivating a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers and professionals able to address these challenges, and transform them into workable actions. By creating synergies across these sectors, disciplines, regions, and governance levels, HERITOUR will be a transformative network, setting the way for a hybrid, resilient, sustainable, and democratic future for regenerative heritage tourism.

Keywords: heritage tourism regeneration hybridisation resilience sustainability
European youth in education and in transition to the labour market (EDU-LAB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Portugal,Germany,Italy,Kosovo,United Kingdom,Poland,Austria,Finland
Call: Effective education and labour market transitions of young people (HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The EDU-LAB is a comparative European study that systematically examines factors and determinants influencing choices, pathways, and transitions in education and training (E&T) and from E&T to the labour market of young people aged 15-30 years. The focus is on equity and inclusion, and on young people’s participation, progression, and completion of upper secondary and tertiary general education (GE) and professional/vocational education (PVET, at ISCED levels 3-8), as well as on their transitions to and from the labour market. First, EDU-LAB will develop comprehensive models of pathways and transitions per country in the European Education Area (EEA) including their intersectional and largely generic determinants. Second, an efficiency assessment of policies and investments in GE and PVET will be carried out. Third, novel quantitative and qualitative evidence will be provided on how determinants, including policies and investments, contribute to young people’s pathways and transitions, specifically to inclusion and equity, and their participation and completion of GE and PVET. EDU-LAB relies on a mixed-methods approach, with emphasis being placed on secondary quantitative analyses of openly available empirical data and newly collected qualitative empirical data. Specifically, EDU-LAB considers all stakeholders and conducts a systematic literature review, qualitative conceptual analysis, quantitative trend and regression analysis, difference-in-differences analysis, expert interviews and surveys, and qualitative case studies focusing on young people’s voices and based on Research-Practice Partnerships. The following EEA targets are scrutinized: (a) increasing the rate of youth with tertiary education attainment; (b) reducing the share of early leavers from E&T; (c) increasing work-based learning in vocational E&T; (d) increasing the number of students belonging to groups underrepresented in educational fields (e.g., based on gender, ethnic minority, migration, etc.)

Keywords: eea ehea young people educational trajectories transitions in education and into the labor market comparative quantitative and qualitative case studies participatory research expert survey
Unravelling the mechanisms for recruitment and activation of septal peptidoglycan hydrolases in Staphylococcus aureus (Septal_PG_Hydrolases)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172618.56
EU funding (EUR): 172618.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Peptidoglycan (PG) hydrolases are instrumental in mediating bacterial daughter cell separation via septum splitting, an essential process for the ability of bacteria to multiply. In a gram-positive pathogen such as Staphylococcus aureus, the division septum is completed before PG hydrolases initiate septum splitting. S. aureus is an important pathogen, as it is one of the most common causes of death by antibiotic resistant infections. Premature splitting of the division septum could expose an immature bacterial cell surface, devoid of virulence factors, leading to pathogen elimination by the innate immune system of an infected host. Hence, the activity of PG hydrolases must be tightly regulated to avoid deleterious effects on bacteria, including lysis-inducing breaches in the cell surface that would lead to bacterial death. S. aureus encodes 19 PG hydrolases, most of which have ill-characterized functions and regulation mechanisms. In this project I will identify the complete set of PG hydrolases that have a role in septum splitting, uncover their mechanisms of localization to the division septum and identify how they are regulated during the cell cycle and particularly what triggers their activation to initiate septum splitting at the right timing. For this I will join the laboratory of Prof. Mariana Pinho ITQB – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, due to their unmatchable expertise in the field of staphylococcal cell wall biology and their commitment to promote my career development during the MSCA-PF project. This fellowship is a unique opportunity to develop my research and complementary skills, acting as a critical stepping-stone towards a tenure-track faculty position.

Keywords: staphylococcus aureus,cell division,cell wall,septum maturation,septum splitting,peptidoglycan hydrolases,lipo and wall teichoic acids,spatiotemporal regulation
The evolution of suprasegmental morphology in West Nilotic (nilomorph)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,United States,Germany
Call: ERC SYNERGY GRANTS (ERC-2024-SyG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2031-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9876341.0
EU funding (EUR): 9876341.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

NILOMORPH sets out to explain how linguistic evolution took a highly unexpected turn in one family of languages spoken in East Africa. They have evolved a morphological system where multiple grammatical categories are expressed simultaneously within a single syllable, through subtle modulations of its phonological properties. For example, in the Dinka language the word tèm, meaning ‘to cut’, can be made to mean ‘she cuts it for someone’ by lengthening the vowel, changing the low tone to high, and pronouncing it with breathy voice quality: té̤ːm, and more than dozen other contrasts can be generated by similar means. A sin-gle monosyllabic word in language like Dinka attains a degree of information density unparalleled else-where in the languages of the world. Surprisingly, comparative evidence suggests that the West Nilotic lan-guages were once much more conventional, using suffixes to mark grammatical categories. As has hap-pened in many other languages, such as English, these suffixes were lost over time. But rather than simply disappearing, they were transformed into suprasegmental phonological properties pronounced concurrently with the word stem. The aim of NILOMORPH is to reconstruct this evolution. But because of the extreme rarity of this morphological type, we need to explain not just how it happened here, we also have to explain why it did not happen in other language families. It is therefore not enough just to retrace the history of linguistic forms. NILOMORPH proposes a transformative step in historical linguistics: the reconstruction not just of external features, but of the cognitive motivation behind them. This will be achieved through the synergy of three teams, DESCRIPTION, MORPHOLOGY and RECONSTRUCTION, employing a combination of field linguistics, acoustic analysis, experimental linguistics, computational simulation, typology, and the historical-comparative method.

Keywords: linguistic morphology,inflection,phonology,nilo saharan languages,africa,language documentation,agent based modelling,artificial language experiments,linguistic reconstruction,digital humanities
The world's first low-cost in-ovo sexing solution to finally end chick culling (Omegga)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3474500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2432150.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Omegga - World’s first low-cost in-ovo sexing solution to finally end chick culling In the egg-laying hen industry, over 7 billion day-old roosters are killed each year, because male layer chickens neither lay eggs nor produce enough meat to be profitable. Omegga developed a cost-effective, non-invasive, spectral imaging solution for automating sex detection of chicken embryos in the eggs to avoid the unethical practice of chick culling by enabling hatcheries to remove early male eggs from incubators and only hatch female-layer chicks. The Omegga technology is based on absorption spectroscopy and tracks sex specific biological indicators (proprietary method), enabling cost-effective, non-invasive, automated determination of an egg's sex. The solution aligns with ethical practices, supports sustainable farming, and meets emerging regulatory requirements against male chick culling. Our team of 9 entrepreneurs, SW/HW/Bio engineers, data scientists and veterinarian developed the technology, and built & tested a first, small scale industrial prototype. Now we must create large scale prototypes for full automation and optimise classification algorithms to minimise costs, for which we need EIC support. Once implemented, it will boost resource efficiency and animal welfare in the poultry industry.

Keywords: in ovo sexing,animal welfare,circular economy,bioeconomy,poultry