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Developing a single access point for the market uptake of geothermal energy use in multivalent heating and cooling networks across Europe (SAPHEA)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Poland,Italy,United Kingdom,Belgium,Denmark,Germany,France
Call: Market Uptake Measures of renewable energy systems (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1929882.5
EU funding (EUR): 1929882.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Heating and cooling in buildings and industry accounts for half of the EU’s energy consumption, making it the biggest energy end-use sector ahead of both, transport and electricity. Approximately 75% of heating and cooling is still generated from fossil fuels while only 22% is generated from renewable energy. District heating and cooling networks supplied by renewable energy sources can be a solution to all these issues, offering a clean, energy-efficient, and cost-effective alternative to individual fossil-fuel heating systems. Geothermal energy has the potential to play a vital role inside heating and cooling networks by offering zero emission stable base load supply and heat storage in the subsurface. Still, geothermal energy supplied heating and cooling networks (‘geoHC networks’) cover a small niche of around 1% inside the European heating and cooling sector, which is a result of primarily non-technological market barriers. SAPHEA addresses the uptake of multivalent heating and cooling networks supplied by geothermal energy by creating a durable digital market uptake hub. The hub contains toolboxes and guidelines to support stakeholders in early stage investment decisions and strategy planning activities and addresses market actors in districts or municipalities all across Europe. SAPHEA will therefore combine, adapt and expand existing tools (e.g., Hotmaps or EnerMaps) considering a set of market ready and emerging technological concepts linked to geoHC networks. The users of the hub, represented by local authorities, community services and energy suppliers will be empowered by targeted trainings to draft development scenarios and roadmaps taking into consideration the specific geological and socio-economic boundary conditions in their respective region. Dedicated communication activities will lead to the establishment to a lively network around the market uptake hub of public and private market actors as well as researchers beyond the lifetime of SAPHEA.

Keywords: geothermal energy,heating and cooling networks,market uptakes,single access point consultancy hub
Imaginative Narratives and Scenarios for Inspiring Restoration and Innovation for European Seas and Water Systems (INSPIRI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Slovenia,Sweden,Spain,Austria,France,Italy,Romania
Call: Our Blue Future – Co-designing a future vision of a restored ocean and water system in the EU by 2030 and 2050 (HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2995413.75
EU funding (EUR): 2964963.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Progress toward the European Green Deal, the Mission Restore Our Ocean and Waters, and related EU climate, biodiversity, and pollution targets is hindered by governance barriers such as mistrust among decision-makers, lack of public support, and modest policy action. Building on creative participatory methods, the INSPIRI project will contribute to overcoming these challenges. The inclusive INSPIRI consortium will innovate by engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to imagine aspirational futures for EU waters using the Nature Futures Framework. Through case studies across the four Mission Lighthouse regions, we will co-create visions of desirable futures for ocean and water systems with stakeholders. Aligned with key EU strategic objectives and targets, these will then become goals for back-casting and modelling regional scenarios. The outputs from both visioning and modelling exercises will serve as inputs into regional Transformation Labs that bring together decision and policy-makers, experts and other stakeholders from the Lighthouse regions to chart actions towards implementing sustainable futures for EU waters. We will develop innovative scientific and artistic visualizations in each case study as well as at the pan-European level for both 2030 and 2050 time-horizons. Finally, through a creative, multi-layered communication, dissemination, and exploitation strategy, leveraging the full potential of art-science collaboration for motivating change, we will inspire key target groups to take meaningful action. Our consortium, collaborating closely with the Mission Lighthouses and governance structures, brings together world-class expertise in stakeholder engagement, visioning, modelling, policy analysis, and art-science collaborations to ensure we can deliver on the ambitious work plan. All our data will contribute to the European Digital Twin of the Ocean. Overall, INSPIRI will support action to achieve an ambitious EU vision for its waters by 2050.

Keywords: visioning,participatory scenario design,mission oceans and waters,transformation,action research
Combining advanced numerical simulations and strong gravitational lensing observations to put new constraints on the nature of dark matter (SLIDE)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The nature of dark matter is one of the most fundamental and striking open questions in modern astrophysics. Despite the success of the favoured Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model in explaining observations of structures on scales larger than 1 Mpc, in reality a wide range of dark matter models are allowed, motivated to varying degrees by particle physics assumptions, and the tension between the CDM predictions and observations on galactic and sub-galactic scales. A combination of simulated predictions and observational data is essential to enhance our understanding of our Universe and set constraints on dark matter from astrophysical phenomena. The primary goal of this MSC project is to generate transformative predictions by filling the existing gap between advanced hydrodynamical simulations in the standard cold dark matter model and the alternative dark matter field, where predictions for observations have been so far often derived from dark-matter-only simulations or simulations of very small samples. This will be achieved through (1) the creation of an innovative set of hydrodynamical simulations spanning a wide range of dark matter models and including the physics of baryons and (2) the integration with an efficient pipeline to produce realistic mock observations. These will allow me to (3) compare the properties of simulated and observed objects and derive the new accurate predictions of the combined effect of dark matter and baryons on a number of observables, focusing on the gravitational lensing signal. I will address a number of open questions, such as: is dark matter cold, warm or self-interacting? Will future lensing observations be able to exclude models alternative to CDM? Do these models reproduce the observed scaling relations for galaxies? What will ALMA, ELT, LSST or Euclid tell us about the nature of dark matter? The University of Bologna is the optimum location for this project, thanks to an ideal combination of expertise and computing resources.

Keywords: gravitational lensing,hydrodynamical simulations
Emergence in quantum materials: from relativistic quantum criticality to non-Fermi liquids and unconventional superconductivity (QuantEmerge)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1387500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1387500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding and controlling novel states of matter is at the heart of condensed matter research. In modern quantum materials we find a rich resource of extraordinary states which emerge from the complex interplay of quantum effects and many-body physics. They pose the fundamental challenge of describing an interacting system with many constituents in the quantum realm and hold the key for future quantum technology. A major common trait behind the complex phase diagrams of many correlated quantum materials evades a description with conventional many-body approaches: a strange metal phase that exhibits non Fermi liquid behaviour nearby quantum phase transitions and superconductivity. QuantEmerge opens a new way to comprehend such non Fermi liquids and their intertwined phases by establishing a connection to relativistic quantum criticality and moiré materials. Relativistic quantum criticality arises at quantum phase transitions with emergent Lorentz symmetry and can be viewed as a minimal model for non Fermi liquid behaviour, while moiré materials constitute a new materials platform with unprecedented experimental control over such transitions. Their connection allows us to tune into the strongly correlated quantum regime from a controlled starting point in both experiment and theory. Exploiting different tuning parameters such as interaction, symmetry, temperature, and density, we develop a comprehensive picture of emergent phases in a quantum critical regime with cutting-edge renormalisation group methods. We characterise novel types of quantum phase transitions in this setup and determine the corresponding quantum (critical) behaviour. We calculate thermodynamic and transport properties and study the competition of non Fermi liquid and superconductivity. Our theoretical insights will provide an improved understanding of the remarkable quantum-dominated phase structure that emerges in correlated quantum materials and pave the way for future materials design.

Keywords: non fermi liquids,strange metal,unconventional superconductivity,quantum criticality,quantum phase transition,dirac materials,moire materials,renormalization group,universality classes
SAIL-GSC: Services, Artificial Intelligence, and Labor Markets: Navigating Firms and Workers through modern Global Supply Chains (SAIL-GSC)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 263393.28
EU funding (EUR): 263393.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Services trade has become an increasingly vital component of global supply chains, driven by advancements in information and communication technology (ICT). The ongoing technological revolution, particularly the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), holds the potential to further transform services trade. However, largely due to a lack of detailed data, significant gaps remain in our understanding of how services trade interacts with other forms of globalization, such as goods trade, and how it impacts firms and workers. This project, SAIL-GSC: Services, Artificial Intelligence, and Labor Markets: Navigating Firms and Workers through modern Global Supply Chains, aims to address these gaps through rigorous empirical analysis. The research is structured around three core objectives. First, it will integrate services trade into a broader analysis of firms’ international activities, including goods trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), to provide new insights into their interrelationships. Second, it will evaluate the causal impact of offshoring—both goods and services—on labour market outcomes such as wages, job stability, and income inequality, with a focus on the differential effects across various worker types and occupations. Third, it will investigate how technological advancements, particularly AI, influence firms’ decisions to engage in services trade and the subsequent consequences for workers. By leveraging newly available firm level data on services trade from Denmark, which can be linked to other micro level information on goods trade, foreign affiliates, and employer-employee relationships, the project aims at improving our understanding of the role of services trade in global supply chains. The findings of the project are expected to be relevant not only to academic research but also to policymakers, business leaders, and the general public as they navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization and technological change.

Keywords: services trade,global supply chains,firms,offshoring,labor market,technological progress,artificial intelligence,globalization
Developing and testing a framework for the design of harmonized, context-specific Monitoring, Reporting and Verification systems for soil Carbon and greenhouse gas balances by Agricultural activities (MARVIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Soil health and food
Destination: Soil health and food
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Finland,Netherlands,Italy,France,Estonia,Germany,Switzerland,Spain,Czechia,Denmark,Ireland
Call: Monitoring, reporting and verification of soil carbon and greenhouse gases balance (HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6993940.0
EU funding (EUR): 6993940.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The EC has set the ambition to become climate neutral by 2050. As not all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be avoided, such as GHGs from biological processes in agriculture, carbon removal will become increasingly important to meet the neutrality targets set. Besides carbon capture and storage by industry, carbon sequestration in the land use sector will need to compensate for the remaining emissions. In this respect, reliable yet cost-effective systems to monitor, report and verify efforts by land managers become increasingly important. This is particularly relevant for the international GHG inventory reporting, and for the development of payment systems to reward land managers for sequestering carbon and reducing GHG emissions by carbon farming (CF). The interest in CF schemes is substantial, as illustrated by the large number of (pilot) payment schemes that have been initiated in recent years. Most of the schemes are experimenting on relatively small geographical areas with a relatively small number of land managers involved. In the ‘Sustainable carbon cycles communication’ that was launched in December 2021, the EC has expressed the challenging ambition that ‘every land manager should have access to verified emission and removal data by 2028 to enable a wide uptake of CF’. MARVIC has been specifically designed to generate instruments and knowledge that enable fulfilling this ambition. The main goal of MARVIC is to develop and test a reliable Framework for the design of harmonized, context-specific MRV systems (‘MRV Framework’) for assessing carbon stock changes in soils and woody biomass and soil GHG emissions. The development of a generic MRV Framework, applicable to all agricultural land-use activities, is essential for boosting faith in public and private CF schemes in Europe.

Keywords: carbon removals,carbon farming,soil organic carbon,soil greenhouse gas emissions,mrv system,monitoring
Pentecostal exorcisms in London: creative and integrative rituals in a multicultural city (PENTEX)

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,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

A common practice throughout much of the history of Christianity, the expulsion of demonic entities, also known as exorcism, continues to occur on a regular basis in the capital cities of Europe. These religious rituals are customary in Pentecostalism, a form of Protestantism that grew exponentially in the last century, especially in Lain America and Africa. However, although most of the studies about Pentecostalism in the Global South observe the importance of exorcisms, the literature about this religious movement's diaspora to Europe focuses more on the integration of participants in a migratory context, which leaves a gap in the analysis of these researches. Thus, PENTEX aims to analyse Pentecostal exorcisms in two Pentecostal churches (one from Latin America and one from Africa) in London, United Kingdom, by acknowledging these rituals' creative (in which outside practices are re-signified) and integrative (in which they control and regulated the participants' practices and social roles) features. Furthermore, PENTEX aims to observe the conviviality of Pentecostals with other social groups in London and the role and adaptation of exorcisms in these interactions. PENTEX will also analyse cases of violence in the city that resemble Pentecostal exorcisms, by observing if the churches' spiritual warfare against evil and demonisation may materialize into violence, and how the participants, NGOs that promote human rights, and policymakers understand these cases.

Keywords: exorcisms pentecostalism migration
Joint Agency in Groups (JAIG)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

The sense of agency refers to the underlying feeling of control over our voluntary actions and the outcome(s) of those actions. Joint agency refers to the sense of agency when we perform voluntary actions with other people. This is the feeling we experience when we move a couch with a friend, build a Lego tower with our younger family members, play sports with friends, or even perform music with a band. Despite its essential role in social life, joint agency has received much less attention than work on individual sense of agency. Furthermore, extant work has primarily focused on dyads. Yet, actions are not done solely by individuals or pairs; indeed, the ability to work together in large groups and perform similar and complementary actions to achieve some goal (e.g., building a large house) undoubtedly played an essential role in the flourishing of human societies. As such, the aim of this research proposal is to fill this gap in the literature by investigating if and how joint agency changes in groups. To tackle this important issue, my work will involve a series of experiments, implemented in a Virtual Reality (VR) setting, featuring both behavioural and neural indices of the sense of agency.

Keywords: social neuroscience
The Prosopography of the Imperial Church of the Empire of the Romans in Antioch during the time of Nikon of the Black Mountain, circa AD 950-1100 (PICERAN)

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: Germany
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): 217965.12
EU funding (EUR): 217965.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project, "The Prosopography of the Imperial Church of the Empire of the Romans in Antioch during the time of Nikon of the Black Mountain, circa AD 950-1100" (hereafter PICERAN), aims to produce a new historical account of the structures and networks of a historical religious community. In the tenth to the eleventh centuries AD, the medieval city and region of Antioch (modern Hatay Province, Türkiye) was home to a dynamic frontier society and cross-cultural meeting place for heterogenous peoples, languages, cultural traditions, and religions, all under the political authority of the eastern Empire of the Romans. The PICERAN project endeavors to characterize the dynamic social structures and networks of this frontier society by leveraging “big data” and computational analysis. The project will gather and update prosopography data from scattered secondary studies and original analysis of primary source data including texts, inscriptions, seals, and manuscripts. The links within this data will be identified, interpreted, and visualized using the latest Digital Humanities tools. This analysis will result in a dynamic understanding of the history of the Roman Christian community in Antioch. PICERAN integrates an innovative approach to how this community is conceptualized and modelled, offering a framework to approach an institution which has largely and over-simplistically been treated as a subordinate topic to the state history of the Empire of the Romans. Furthermore, the results of this analysis will be creatively communicated to a larger audience through a biography of Nikon of the Black Mountain (circa AD 1025—after 1100). Nikon was one of the era’s most prolific writers, and most prominent and exemplary figures, who yet remains understudied. Through his life and writings, PICERAN will contextualize the social networks revealed by prosopography data, illuminating the social structures of turn-of-the-millennium Antioch.

Keywords: prosopography,eastern roman byzantine empire,nikon of the black mountain,ecclesiastic history,monastic history,first crusade,digital humanities,network analysis