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ADVANCING AREA-BASED MANAGEMENT TOOLS TO ACCELERATE THE PROTECTION AND RESTORATION OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ACROSS THE EUROPEAN SEA BASINS (BioProtect)

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: Iceland,Denmark,Faroe Islands,Germany,Greece,Ireland,Norway,Portugal
Call: Atlantic and Arctic sea basin lighthouse – Addressing climate change and human activities threats to marine biodiversity (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8474085.0
EU funding (EUR): 8021357.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

BioProtect will provide innovative, replicable and scalable ecosystem-based solutions that will accelerate the protection and restoration of biodiversity in European seas, in line with the EU´s 2030 targets and the European Green Deal. Pressures from multiple human activities and climate change are driving ecosystems degradation and biodiversity loss, threatening goods and services that are essential for human life and society. BioProtect aims to reduce these pressures by implementing an innovative area-based management decision support framework (ABM-DSF). The framework will include methods and capacity building to engage local stakeholders, to monitor and forecast changes in marine biodiversity, to map human pressures, to prioritise areas for protection and restoration, and to measure ecological and socio-economic impacts of conservation actions. These will be demonstrated in five sites from the Arctic to the Azores in the Atlantic. In the past, non-systemic approaches, focused on siloed sector-based management and single-spatial scales have failed to halt the loss of biodiversity. BioProtect’s novel and flexible framework will integrate different spatial scales and data sources. It will incorporate perspectives and knowledge from a wide range of stakeholders, to support the implementation and exploitation of its solutions by relevant end-users. BioProtect will consider “what-if” scenarios, including climate change, protection and exploitation strategies, and evaluate their ecological and socio-economic impacts. The BioProtect’s consortium holds cross-cutting knowledge and expertise, with the capacity to build on existing research and innovation within the Atlantic and Arctic basins. BioProtect will deliver impact-driven solutions to address biodiversity loss and climate change, with the aim to reach relevant EU Biodiversity Strategy targets for 2030, including a substantial contribution to reaching the EU nature restoration targets.

Keywords: co creating,decision support framework,area based management tools,pressures,human activities,atlantic ocean,arctic ocean,
Plasticizers, fLame-retardants and surfactANts: new alternatives validating the safE and susTainable by deSign approach (PLANETS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Germany,Austria,Italy,Poland,Spain
Call: Development of safe and sustainable by design alternatives (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16892631.25
EU funding (EUR): 14458039.77
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The Green Deal sets up ambitious roadmaps for increasing EU sovereignty while promoting safer and more sustainable approaches. The SSbD framework published by JRC and adopted by the Commission proposes an approach to evaluate the safety, environmental, and socio/economic dimensions of molecules, materials and processes. The applicability of this framework is currently being tested under different typologies of products and maturity levels. PLANETS will demonstrate the applicability of the framework while technically developing alternatives for 3 of the most important classes of molecules in chemical industries (plasticizers, flame retardants and surfactants) at TRL 6 and their incorporation into broadly available consumer goods at TRL7. The new molecules and products will be significantly safer to workers and consumers and will have considerably lower environmental impact, while ensuring economic viability and social awareness throughout the 3 value chains (VC). PLANETS consortium brings together 18 complementary partners from 7 countries, including 8 large companies and 2 SMEs, covering the 3 complete VC, 5 RTO and the 3 non-profit organizations. These actors will bring the expertise required for all the project development: - Development of safer and more sustainable alternatives through SSbD assessments in a tiered approach. - Demonstration of the integration of the new molecules for the manufacturing of new products for various applications (coating, insulation foams and childcare articles). - Social and humanities sciences. - Business plans and market uptake approaches. - Digital Product Passport. - Identification of new skills and training. - Interactions with appropriate stakeholders and citizens and feedback to JRC and the EC. PLANETS ambitions are to strongly contribute to pave the road for the adoption of SSbD framework while proposing a roadmap towards industrialisation and market uptake of the alternative solutions.

Keywords: safe and sustainable by design,surfactant,flame retardant,plasticizer,hazard,exposure,safety,environment,social,economic,ssbd framework
RESilient DEMocracies: Rethinking Democratic Resilience through Citizens' Public Connection in Societies Under Pressure (RESDEM)

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: Norway
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): 251578.56
EU funding (EUR): 251578.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Democratic societies face a critical challenge: Addressing combined global pressures like climate change, economic instability, and disinformation while preserving democratic norms. As governments work to tackle these issues, the burden of change often disrupts citizens’ lives, leading to democratic erosion reflected in declining institutional trust, rising news avoidance, and growing intolerance. RESDEM addresses a key, yet poorly understood aspect of democracies’ ability to cope with global stressors: citizens’ democratic resilience. The project aims to develop a theoretical framework for understanding this resilience through the lens of public connection, offering a novel approach to resolving the tension between macro-level challenges and micro-level coping processes. Adopting a citizen-centric, practice approach, RESDEM examines democratic resilience as patterned adjustments in individuals’ engagement with public life when faced with disruptions. These manifest in shifting dynamics of attention to public affairs, information-seeking, political discussion, institutional trust, and political participation. RESDEM will conduct a comparative ethnographic study of onshore wind turbine projects in Norway and Germany, representing global issues materializing locally, often sparking grassroots mobilization that can challenge democratic norms. Norway and Germany, with strong institutions and high civic engagement, serve as “most likely” cases for democratic resilience. RESDEM aims to: 1) Identify key components of citizens’ democratic resilience, 2) Determine the interaction between individual resilience and local communication infrastructure, and 3) Identify factors fostering resilience through comparative analysis. The University of Bergen provides an ideal environment for this research, offering expertise in media studies, sustainable transformation and democratic theory.

Keywords: democratic resilience public connection communication infrastructure political participation illiberal tendencies
Moving Russia(ns): Intergenerational Transmission of Memories Abroad and at Home (MoveMeRU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Children of migrants are exposed to two national histories: those told in their country of residence and those relating to their family?s homeland. However, it remains unclear how the intergenerational transmission of historical views shapes the relationship migrants cultivate with ?here? and ?there?. Applying theories of intergenerational transmission and second-generation transnationalism, MoveMeRU addresses this urgent gap and compares the historical memories of migrants and non-migrants across two generations. It studies the Russian migrant population in a favourable, hostile and neutral reception context, looking at Germany, Estonia and Canada. Like many other autocracies, Russia uses historical memories to appeal to the emotions of citizens at home and abroad and strengthen their sense of belonging to Russia. The project will make major academic contributions in three areas: 1) understanding the historical identification of young adults in migrant and non-migrant families with their parents? country of origin; 2) identifying when the memories of migrant and non-migrant families converge or diverge across generations; 3) determining what historical memories contribute to solidarity and pluralistic political attitudes. MoveMeRU entails a groundbreaking triangulation of methods: 1) parent-child opinion surveys on views on history among migrant communities and nationals in the three countries of destination and Russia; 2) cross-generational focus groups in the same countries; 3) analysis of historical narratives in media targeting Russian speakers abroad. The project will refine our understanding of differences and similarities in the intergenerational transmission of memories in migrant and non-migrant families, offering important insights into the drivers of and obstacles to integration. The results have major implications for political decision-making in countries of destination and for public awareness about intergenerational shifts within migrant communities.
ELEctrically ConTRolled magnetic Anisotropy (ELECTRA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Italy
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): 1498784.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498784.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ELECTRA aims at understanding and controlling the interaction between magnetic molecules and electric fields, called Spin-Electric (SE) effect. Molecules have several characteristics that make them appealing for information technology (small size, monodispersity, chemical tunability, quantum behaviour). Nowadays, electric fields are the most environmentally friendly and precise way to target a single molecule. Therefore, understanding how to tailor and control the SE effects will trigger the design of less energy-demanding, more efficient, and smaller devices. However, the SE effects on molecules are still poorly explored and rationalized, largely due to the absence of a generally applicable experimental technique. Therefore, this project proposes the realisation of a novel experimental technique to detect SE effects on any magnetically anisotropic material, with no a priori restrictions. The versatility of the technique will allow the study of both single crystals and thin films, which is vital in the perspective of using these systems in nanostructures. A rational synthetic plan will exploit the versatility of chemistry to unravel the role and importance of three chemically tunable properties (spin-orbit coupling, nature of the donor atoms, and structural rigidity) on the onset of the SE effects in coordination complexes. Moreover, the effect of temperature and magnetic field on the SE effects will be assessed using super-sensitive molecular probes. The rationalization of the effect will be obtained by combining ab initio calculations and phenomenological models. The positive completion of ELECTRA will deliver an unprecedented understanding of the SE effects in molecules and chemical guidelines for synthesizing highly performant molecular architectures with SE effects on-demand to be used in the field of information technology.

Keywords: spin electric effect,magnetic anisotropy,electric field,magnetism,magnetometry,lanthanides,transition metals
Hybrid Lithium Metal-based Scalable Solid State Battery Manufacturing (HyList)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Austria,France,Spain,Finland,Italy,Sweden,Belgium,Ireland,Germany
Call: Advanced materials and cells development enabling large-scale production of Gen4 solid-state batteries for mobility applications (Batt4EU Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-02, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8733694.0
EU funding (EUR): 7830052.75
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The HyLiST project aims at developing Generation 4b all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries (SSBs) for road and aeronautic applications. These will be based on a high voltage (HV) spinel structured LNMO cathode, and hybrid single-ion polymer electrolyte (HSICP) and laser pulse deposited lithium foil on current collector as anode. Overall, processing is aimed at being scalable and easy to transfer to currently available manufacturing infrastructure in Europe. Wet coating for composite cathode preparation and dry processing for the hybrid solid electrolyte increase production efficiency and shorten developing periods. Solvents’ environmental impact is minimized, e.g. by elimination of fluorinated binders. A cobalt-free, high voltage (ca. 4.7V) LNMO cathode de-risks on the dependence of cobalt, and a single-ion polymer electrolyte helps to develop high Li ionic conductivity (≥0.5 mS/cm at room temperature) with a high transfer number (~1.0). Roll-to-roll PLD manufacture of thin and ultra-thin Li anodes will strengthen the European supply chain for semi-finished anode components. A granulation process prepares uniform hybrid solid electrolyte feedstocks to guarantee microscopic uniformity and thereby the resulting electrochemical performance. Environmental impact will be monitored and materials and processes multicriteria optimization performed. Digital twinning is built simultaneously for the simulation of cell production, with further iteration aiming at improved energy density and reduced cost. HyList identifies the essential steps for making all-solid-state batteries at a large scale. It provides valuable insights into efficient manufacturing methods and helps various industry players, like machine engineers, cell producers, and equipment manufacturers, to move toward safer batteries with enhanced storage capacities and high energy densities of 450 Wh/kg, suitable for both electric vehicles and aviation applications.

Keywords: solid state batteries lithium metal lca single ion conducting polymer blend manufacturing
A 21st century approach to study chytrid fungal infections in an amphibian hybrid zone (Bombina21)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

World-wide declines in amphibian populations have led to many local and global extinctions, and are connected to the global spread chytrid fungus (Bd). Because few animals survive infection, Bd poses a strong selection pressure in infected populations. Hybrid zones, where two species meet and reproduce, are an ideal setting for research on adaptation, as different combinations of gene variants are tested. However, two contrasting hypotheses exist on the role of hybridisation in infection resistance. Genetic incompatibilities between diverging populations limit gene flow between closely related species, and cause lower fitness in hybrids. Thus, the first hypothesis postulates that the negative impact of pathogens is higher in hybrid zone populations than in populations comprising a single species. The second hypothesis proposes that the resistance of a hybrid population towards pathogens is strengthened by the coexistence of multiple immune gene variants, in comparison to populations comprising a single species. The two species of yellow-bellied and red-bellied toads (Bombina) are an ideal system to investigate these hypotheses, as 1) their hybrid zone has been well-studied before using various - but few - genetic markers, and 2) toads of these species have previously been found to be infected with Bd. On a side note, the skin microbiome of amphibians is different between healty individuals and individuals infected with Bd. To date, little is known about the interaction between Bd infection and the skin microbiome, and even less is known about this effect in Bombina. With this action, I aim to investigate the role of hybridisation in pathogen resistance in amphibian populations. I will also explore changes in composition of the amphibian skin microbiome in response to Bd infection. I will use the genus Bombina as a model system - employing 21st century sequencing technology.

Keywords: amphibia,bombina,chytrid fungus,host pathogen interaction,hybridisation
Therapeutic Bacteria Biohybrids For Oncology Treatment (THERABOT)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France,Spain,Sweden,Japan,Argentina,Thailand,Chile,Brazil
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1565971.43
EU funding (EUR): 1536400.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

THERABOT pioneers a groundbreaking approach in the fight against cancer through the development of engineered biohybrid agents, iBots. These iBots represent a significant leap in bacterial cancer therapy (BCT), combining synthetic biology and nanotechnology to encapsulate therapeutic bacteria with protective polymeric coatings. This encapsulation aims to enhance the delivery and efficacy of bacteria to colonize tumor tissue, drastically reducing the adverse immune responses and systemic toxicity associated with traditional BCT. THERABOT's innovative strategy focuses on colorectal cancer, employing a multifaceted approach that includes the design of advanced intelligent biohybrids by programming iBots for targeted therapeutic action, and validating their effectiveness in vivo. Central to THERABOT's mission is its interdisciplinary and international consortium, comprising 12 members from 10 leading academic institutions and 2 SMEs across Europe (France, Spain and Sweden) and from non-EU countries (Japan, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Thailand). This collaboration fosters a unique integration of diverse scientific disciplines, including bioengineering, immunology, material science and oncology, promoting the exchange of knowledge, techniques, and cultural perspectives, which is pivotal for addressing the complex challenges of developing a new cancer therapy. THERABOT not only emphasizes the scientific innovation but also prioritizes the training and career development of seconded staff, enhancing their research competencies and preparing them for future challenges in diverse fields. THERABOT's focus on developing accessible and patient-friendly cancer treatments, underscores its alignment with EU priorities in health and innovation. By redefining cancer treatment paradigms towards more precise, effective, and personalized approaches, our project aspires to have a lasting impact on society, improving patient outcomes, and contributing to the global fight against cancer.

Keywords: synthetic biology bacterial cancer therapy polymer chemistry immunology and inflammation