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Novel Boron-Based Two Dimensional Materials as Heterogeneous Catalysts. (2DBoroCat)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The proposal 2DBoroCat addresses synthesis, characterization and catalytic applications of “borophene” new wonder material that has attracted extensive attention from the scientific community due to its intriguing properties. Despite the attractive properties of borophene, lack of facile, low-cost and efficient production method restricted its industrial applications. Therefore, major focus have been given in developing a synthetic route to borophene, that outclasses the limitations of existing methods and modifies the present “state-of-the-art” synthesis. Further, it's use as catalyst in various industrially relevant transformations is suggested for the first time. Especially the proposal addresses one of the defining environmental, energy and societal challenges of 21st century: the conversion of CO2 to value added chemicals, especially LPG. Both thermal- as well as plasma- reactors will be used to accomplish the target of CO2 reduction. Plasma catalysis has the distinct advantage that the conversion can be achieved at a lower temperature and pressure compared to pure thermal catalysis. The proposal is highly novel and timely in the present context of global warming due to increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions and diminishing fossil fuel reserves. In addition to this, other important reactions such as oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) and ammonia-borane hydrolysis etc. will also be investigated. 2DBoroCat is expected to create huge scientific, economical and societal impact in terms of CO2 mitigation strategies.

Keywords: borophene,co2 conversion,heterogeneous catalysis,2d materials,oxidative dehydrogenation,single atom catalysis,ammonia borane,borophane,borophene oxide,hybrid materials
Integrated, Modular, Multisensing, Mid- and Near- IR sensing platform (M3NIR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Greece,Spain,Germany,Austria,Lithuania,Cyprus,Switzerland,Czechia
Call: Advanced multi-sensing systems (Photonics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999301.25
EU funding (EUR): 4999301.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Photonics-based sensing in the mid-IR been proven to be the key technology for highly efficient sensing in a plethora of applications ranging from environmental monitoring to industrial process control, medical diagnostics, water quality, safety applications, medical and more. Related to other sensing approaches, mid-IR spectroscopy-based sensing enables the fast, reliable, and consumables/maintenance-free operation for the detection of trace amounts (even in the sub-ppb range) to high concentration of the targeted analytes. The interest in the technology has been significantly increased due to the maturing of the Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs). QCLs offer an up to 2-orders of magnitude enhancement in the signal-to-noise ratio while enabling the direct access to the characteristic molecular fingerprint region of the targeted analytes. M3NIR develops very innovative (currently at TRL2) mid-IR sensing approaches to significantly boost the technology in terms of performance (low limit of detection, multiple-species detection), footprint (co-integrating of lasers and components) reduction of energy consumption and cost. For the latest two, M3NIR implements detector-free sensing by means of the self-mixing detection scheme. Moreover, the combination of mid-IR and near-IR components in photothermal sensing is yet another approach for the implementation of miniaturised, energy efficient and low-cost advanced sensory system. To accomplish its goals, M3NIR co-integrates advanced electronics and data processing units in the systems as well. M3NIR demonstrates its novel approaches at TRL5 for the monitoring of GHG and ships emission (a drone-mounted sensor to be demonstrated), detection of phosphates and nitrates in water and the breath analysis for health and well-being related applications.

Keywords: mid ir mid infrared quantum cascade lasers qcls flip chip germanium waveguide sensors photothermal self mixing detection environmental sensors medical sensors
Waveguide Raman Spectroscopy for Polar Iron Sensing (WRAPS)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The polar oceans are hotspots for carbon cycling and burial. The coastal phytoplankton populations bloom provided by the iron, the main nutrient in polar waters, surging from the subglacial water systems. Retreating glaciers cause uncertainty to the future of the iron flux flowing into the oceans and, therefore, it is unclear how the warming climate impacts the carbon cycle in polar areas. However, methods for on-site in-situ monitoring that could gain sufficient temporally and spatially resolved information on the iron behaviour in glacial hydrological systems are either unsatisfactory or cumbersome. The ambitious aim is to develop an optical measurement technique to monitor and quantify dissolved iron in glacial meltwaters. The objectives are to (i) introduce Shifted Excitation Raman Spectroscopy into on-chip waveguide Raman sensing to develop a portable but sensitive measurement device, and (ii) create an identification and calibration model that can quantify dissolved iron in glacial waters. The expected result is to establish an optical method that enable fast reagent free online monitoring of dissolved iron in glacial meltwaters that can be, in future work, made into a compact on-chip format. Realization of the in-situ capable Raman sensors will enable collection of extensive data sets of meltwaters in the thawing polar regions. The data will help to quantify their impact on the polar carbon cycle and constrain climate models. The developed Raman sensor can be further applied on various environmental sensing needs, such a monitoring of agronutrient runoff to water systems. From my personal perspective, the obtained research experience and skills will help me to establish a career path on the field of environmental sensing that I am passionate about. The fellowship will give an opportunity to expand my environmental research network to span over the Nordic region and drive border-crossing experimental research of the carbon cycle and the climate change.

Keywords: waveguide,raman,spectroscopy
Hydrogenases for Large Scale Deployment of H2 as a Circular Energy Carrier in Industrial Biotechnology Based on Enzymatic Catalysts (CirculH2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Spain,Croatia,Austria,Slovakia,Sweden
Call: Broadening the spectrum of robust enzymes and microbial hosts in industrial biotechnology (HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5676950.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999895.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Rapid transition toward the use of renewable, energy-efficient and recyclable resource is needed in industrial biotechnology to achieve sustainable production of chemicals. However, enzyme based biocatalytic processes still mostly rely on fossil-sourced or carbon rich reactants. Efficient, scalable, selective and robust catalysts are needed to deploy H2 as a clean, circular and renewable reactant in industrial biotechnology. Our recent breakthrough in making robust and scalable hydrogenases, Nature's highly active catalyst for H2 oxidation and H2 production, opens the possibility to meet the industrial requirements in terms of i) compatibility with biocatalysis, ii) circular chemistry, and iii) economic and technical competitiveness over fossil-sourced reactants. The overarching aim of CirculH2 is to demonstrate the successful development of one or more highly robust and scalable hydrogenases for use of H2 that selectively drives biotransformations of bio-based materials to specialty and commodity chemicals in an industrial environment (TRL6). Modelling of the reaction processes and lifecycle assessment will deliver a full quantitative evaluation of the performances and applicability of the hydrogenase-biotransformation systems. This will provide convincing evidence for the adoption in industry. CirculH2 will deliver a scalable and robust H2-driven biotechnology compatible with the existing infrastructure that will advance European competitiveness in the sustainable and circular production of chemicals. It will minimize energy usage by having negligible resource losses and minimal downstream processing due to its highly selective hydrogenase catalysts. The CirculH2 technology aims at replacing the heavily used legacy methods of chemical production and enable decarbonization of industrial biotechnology.
Optimized Real-time maritime Border Surveillance with Intelligent satellite-drone Systems (ORBIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Strengthened Security Research and Innovation
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,Greece,Spain
Call: Accelerating uptake through open proposals for advanced SME innovation (HORIZON-CL3-2024-SSRI-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2068108.67
EU funding (EUR): 1499966.07
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

ORBIS aims to deliver a market-fit AI-powered mature and cost-effective solution that integrates constellations of satellites with autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve advanced secure real-time surveillance and fast search and rescue over vast maritime areas where illegal migrant activity could take place. To achieve that, ORBIS’ SMEs will collaborate closely to go beyond the current boundaries of knowledge and technology by: (i) integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, optical Very High Resolution (VHR) satellites, and thermal infrared sources to achieve a continuous, high-accuracy monitoring system; (ii) leveraging advanced autonomous cost-effective UAVs and push their limits in terms of autonomy and sensing to support maritime border management applications, able to deal with extreme and diverse weather and sea conditions; (iii) exploiting cutting-edge Machine Learning (ML) models to anticipate potential threats in high-risk zones and optimise the surveillance UAV flight plans, making the most out of available flight time and sea area coverage; and (iv) fusing effectively the massive multi-modal data gathered during operation and train distributed ML models for real-time decision making that will ensure faster search and rescue of migration incidents. ORBIS will address early on key market, regulatory, ethical and security requirements towards accelerating access to the civil security market, while engaging with other EU SMEs and key market actors, following a clear innovation management strategy. Finally, ORBIS will document best practices and lessons learnt in clear replicable steps, acting as a successful case study that paves the way for others small innovators to in their go-to-market strategy. Regulatory and policy recommendations will also be elaborated as signposts for facilitating access to the civil security market, aligned with EU security policy priorities.

Keywords: border management,maritime security,uavs,earth observation,border surveillance,search and rescue,ai
CLUG Demonstration of Readiness for Rail (CLUG 2.0)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Germany,Switzerland,Italy,Spain
Call: EGNSS and Copernicus applications fostering the European Green deal (HORIZON-EUSPA-2021-SPACE, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4171931.41
EU funding (EUR): 2869432.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

GNSS is amongst the “game-changing” technologies for future digital and automated rail operations, acknowledged in a 2015 report from the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) on the longer-term perspective for the evolution of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) and the EU Parliament in its adopted report on railway safety and signalling from July 2021 also calls for a joint effort towards the introduction of GNSS in ERTMS. Three major railway operators in Europe – DBN, SBB and SNCF – endorse and support the efforts of the EU Parliament and propose a follow-up-project to the "Certifiable Localization Unit with GNSS in the railway environment” (CLUG) project to demonstrate the technological readiness of the CLUG Localisation On-Board (LOC-OB) System. In CLUG 2.0 (CLUG Demonstration of Readiness for Rail), the system architecture aims to complement the existing European Train Control System (ETCS) odometry system by using GNSS to enable absolute safe train positioning whilst also transforming the way of train localisation is done today by demonstrating a GNSS-based multi-sensor fusion architecture. To ensure that an enhanced on-board localization in ERTMS/ETCS using GNSS is interoperable, the technological readiness of the LOC-OB System shall be demonstrated in CLUG 2.0. To achieve its objectives, the consortium continues the work started in the first CLUG project, by improving the design of the safe functional architecture and validating it against the requirements defined by the operators. Ultimately, all thanks to an improved LOC-OB System for ERTMS, benefits such as increasing the line capacity, reducing headways between trains, reducing expenditure for rail infrastructure rollout can help reduce emissions, and accelerate the adoption of sustainable and smart mobility solutions that revolve around rail. LOC-OB can make rail transport more attractive, enhance the competitiveness of rail for citizens and businesses.

Keywords: egnss,egnos,absolute safe satellite positioning,ertms etcs,tsi,sensor fusion,digital map,start of mission,track selectivity,along the track,imu,balice
Remote whole-brain functional microscopy of the vascular system: a paradigm shift for the monitoring and treatment of small vessel diseases (MICROVASC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Switzerland,Italy
Call: Tools to measure and stimulate activity in Brain Tissue (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3946172.5
EU funding (EUR): 3946172.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Obtaining functional information on living organs non-invasively across different size scales is a tremendous challenge in medical imaging research, as diseases start locally at the cellular level deep into organs before expressing large-scale and observable symptoms. The unique complexity of the human brain adds another level of difficulty for neuroimaging. The cerebrovascular system consists of a multiscale network of blood vessels. Interaction between neurons and this vascular system, the so-called neurovascular coupling, is a major foundation of brain function leading to constant adaptation of the local cerebral blood flow to local metabolic demand. Its alteration is intimately linked to cerebral dysfunction. Current brain imaging modalities are essential for evaluating cerebrovascular diseases in patients but are restricted to millimetric resolution and fail to capture most of blood flow dynamics. Here, we propose to revolutionize the field of neuroimaging by introducing a groundbreaking technology called functional Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (fULM) capable of monitoring transcranially the whole human brain vasculature and function down to microscopic resolution. Beyond opening a complete paradigm shift in brain angiography (at least two orders of magnitude increase in spatial resolution), fULM will also be able to map the functional brain response during task-evoked and spontaneous activity at microscopic levels. We will address major technical challenges of ultrasound imaging, develop advanced neurocomputational analysis methods, validate our methods in preclinical models of cerebrovascular diseases and perform a First-In-Human study. Fundamental understanding of brain hemodynamics and neurovascular coupling as well as early clinical diagnosis of neurovascular abnormalities and evaluation of drug efficacy would tremendously benefit from such capabilities revealing both the brain vasculature and neurofunctional activity down to microscopic resolutions.

Keywords: functional ultrasound,ultrasound localization microscopy,small cerebral vessel diseases,brain microangiography,neurovascular coupling
Development of Rietveld tomography to measure Local Anisotropic Strain and its Application to Bone Nanostructures (RIETOM)

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: Denmark,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 247553.28
EU funding (EUR): 247553.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Bone and other hierarchically structured materials have unique mechanical properties, which are governed by the spatial arrangement of their nano-constituents. Their structure-mechanics relations can currently be determined down to ~10 µm using X-ray computed tomography. Below this, there is currently no method that can determine local anisotropy of its mechanical properties. This impedes state-of-the-art models from accurately predicting key macroscopic properties such as fracture behaviour. We propose in this project the development of a new method - Rietveld tomography - to determine local anisotropic macro- and micro-strain, based on a new way of analysing X-ray diffraction data that combines the properties of so-called X-ray tensor tomography and Rietveld refinement. The project will consist of the development of the mathematical formulation of Rietveld tomography in the environment of experts in this field at Aarhus Universitet, in particular supervisor Henrik Birkedal; combined with a stay at the secondment institution ESRF, where we will develop the experimental implementation of Rietveld tomography and validate the method. In the third part we will apply the method to osteonal bone and characterize its local response under mechanical load in situ. All that will be implemented and developed in the 24 months of the project, which compiles method development, data analysis strategy development and implementation, and experiments at large-scale synchrotron facilities. We expect that this study will (1) provide a new method to the research community to study not only biominerals but polycrystalline materials in general, linking for the first time hierarchical structure and texture in nanostructured composites. (2) It will lead to a quantum leap in our understanding of bone micromechanics with ensuing impact on bone micromechanical modelling with expected improvements in fracture prediction and ultimately clinical practice in e.g. osteoporosis management.

Keywords: x ray imaging,computed tomography,rietveld refinement,tensor tomography,synchrotron radiation,biomechanics,bone
Strengthening Environmental Surveillance to Advance Public Health Action (ODIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Sweden,Norway,Finland,Tanzania, United Republic of,Congo, The Democratic Republic of the,Burkina Faso,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: Genomic epidemiology for surveillance and control of poverty-related and emerging/re-emerging infections in sub-Saharan Africa (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2022-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5210037.5
EU funding (EUR): 5185037.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The ODIN project aims at strengthening capacity for genomics and bioinformatics database management skills for generating, maintaining, and querying large genomic epidemiology data sets in sub-Saharan countries. To reach this goal, ODIN will develop a genomic surveillance system relying on environmental monitoring of major communicable disease agents and antimicrobial resistance in community wastewater and other environmental samples containing human and animal excreta. In a socially and ethically acceptable anonymous manner, environmental surveillance systems follow the trends in prevalence and may detect the outbreaks of communicable diseases in human communities and to convey this information to key stakeholders for the efficient implementation of data-driven public health policies. A strong and innovative aspect of this project is the combination of various semi-automatic bioinformatics tools for the processing and analysis of genomic epidemiology data, disseminated through a visual dashboard, providing means for timely public health interventions. The ODIN project implements the three pillars of the One Health framework: human health, animal health and the environment, which is crucial for communicable disease epidemiology in resource- and infrastructure-poor regions. Together with extensive training activities, ODIN implementation will result in a substantial strengthening in the capacity and infrastructure in sub-Saharan countries for genomic epidemiology. Networking and capacity building are an integrated part of the project activities and will comprise communication activities with stakeholders and training of MSc and PhD students. By its multi-disciplinary team, ODIN will contribute to setting up a sustainable model for how environmental surveillance systems can support the control of poverty-related and emerging/re-emerging infections in sub-Saharan Africa and promote the public health interventions targeting safe water supply and sanitation.

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance,bioinformatics training,environmental monitoring,genomic surveillance,infectious diseases,risk management,sequencing,vibrio cholerae,wastewater