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FAIRification of multiOmics data to link databases and create knowledge graphs for fermented foods (FAIROmics)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Belgium,United Kingdom,Hungary,Denmark,Italy,Greece
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3994229.83
EU funding (EUR): 3747304.8
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

A transition towards sustainable food systems is urgently needed to face challenges such as climate change or scarcity of resources. Food impact accounts for 26% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Animal-based food products in the European diet is the most important factor determining the footprint of food consumption. Plant-based dairy and meat alternatives have grown in popularity in recent years for various reasons, including sustainability and health benefits as well as lifestyle trends and dietary restrictions. However, plant-based food products can be nutritionally unbalanced, and their flavour profiles may limit their acceptance by consumers. Microorganisms have been used in making food products for millennia. Besides their primary role in food preservation, by virtue of their fermentative metabolism, they contribute to improving food safety and organoleptic properties and can provide additional health-promoting effects. However, the diversity of microbial communities driving plant-based fermentations, as well as their key genetic and phenotypic traits and potential synergies among community members, remain poorly characterized. Many data exist but they are spread into different literatures (scientific and grey) or in best case in different databases, but not always reusable because difficult to find, access and because databases are not systematically interoperable. The FAIROmics innovative interdisciplinary research programme will gather universities and private companies to enable the FAIRification of omics data and databases interoperability, and develop knowledge graphs for data-driven decision making to rationally design microbial communities for imparting desirable characteristics to plant-based fermented foods in the context of open science and its regulations. The FAIROmics training programme aims at developing Doctoral candidates’ skills at the interface between artificial intelligence, life sciences, humanities and social sciences.

Keywords: food science,plant based fermented foods,microbial communities,species interactions,omics,natural language processing,data mining,artificial intelligence
MULTIFUNCTIONAL BIOPHENOLS FOR SAFE AND RECYCLABLE MATERIALS (BioPhenom)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Clean Environment and zero pollution
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Luxembourg,Norway,Spain,Italy,Switzerland,United Kingdom,France,Cyprus,Germany
Call: Safe-and-sustainable-by-design bio-based platform chemicals, additives, materials or products as alternatives (HORIZON-CL6-2023-ZEROPOLLUTION-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3677680.25
EU funding (EUR): 3677680.25
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The BioPhenom project will scope and select industrial biomass sidestreams for isolation of biophenols by proven technologies, functionalize the isolated biophenols into intumescent flame retardants (bio-IFRs), and exploit the bio-IFRs as multifunctional components for replacement of harmful chemicals commonly used in formulation and functionality improvement of wood, thermosets, and thermoplastic materials. Impregnation of wood with bio-IFRs will enhance fire resistance and durability for outdoor applications, while a bio-based topcoat will prevent leaching of impregnants and extend service life. The bio-IFRs will be used to produce bio-carbon fibres and bio-epoxy resins formulated with a novel dynamic hardener that allows resin disintegration, thus producing fire resistant and recyclable thermoset biocomposites. The bio-IFRs will also be added to thermoplastic polylactic acid (PLA)-biochar composites to enhance fire resistance. The most promising applications of the materials developed will be scoped within relevant industrial sectors (e.g., building, transportation, automotive), and their functionality and circularity validated against existing benchmarks. Circularity will be demonstrated by recycling the treated wood into particleboards, recovering the thermoset components for reuse, and reformulating the PLA-based thermoplastics into new biocomposites. Process and material developments in BioPhenom will be guided by Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) principles that will be updated with recommendations on identification of data gaps and priorities for data collection. The project data, methodologies, and results will be made FAIR. Ultimately, the outcomes of BioPhenom will enable replacement of harmful substances in material formulations and circularity of end-products, and will increase the portfolio of safe, recyclable, and sustainable bio-based solutions with potential for market uptake, benefiting industry, consumers, and society in Europe.

Keywords: biophenols,flame retardants,industrial sidestreams,svhc,thermoplastics,thermoset composites,wood products,carbon fibre,ssbd,recycling,fast pyrolysis,liquid extraction
Mixed (ar)rivals: Perceptions of threat, inequality, and the risk of violence between different (forced) migrant groups in North Africa (MixedRivals)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499888.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499888.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Host communities often perceive certain refugee or migrant groups as more ‘threatening’ (e.g. security or employment) than others. This can be seen from the recent arrivals of Ukrainian refugees in Europe, but also in many other regions of the world. In Morocco, for example, Sub-Saharan migrants are less favored than others. Unequal treatment by nationality, ethnicity, or time of arrival regarding status, access to employment or residence is often the consequence. Yet, little is known about what impact this has for inter-migrant group relations. How do (forced) migrant groups perceive other migrant group arrivals? Do they consider each other as potential rivals, as to say as competitors or threats? What factors increase or decrease inter-migrant group rivalries and when might they turn violent or rather solidary? MixedRivals applies a novel interdisciplinary approach by analyzing structural (ex. exclusionary policies) as well as socio-psychological factors (ex. perceptions of threat, positive contact, and group identification), bringing together theories on inter-group relations from migration, violent conflict, rivalry, and psychology. MixedRivals moves beyond the common host-migrant focus, and pushes the conceptual boundaries of rivalry, refugee/migrant, violence/non-violence, liberal/restrictive policies further, introducing the concept of “mixed rivalries” underlining the complex and multi-dimensional nature of possible contestations between migrant groups. Using a mixed method approach, furnishing new cross-sectional survey and qualitative data on inter-migrant group perceptions of threat and inequality in four urban hubs in North Africa, as well as de facto (forced) migration policy data, the project aims at advancing the understanding of inter-migrant group relations at a time where North Africa is becoming a major destination for mixed ar(rivals) at the intersection between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Keywords: refugees,migrants,violence,policies,inequality,perception,threat,africa
Modelling the Earliest Human Settlement in the Kattegat-Skagerrak Circumference (MESK)

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: 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): 247553.28
EU funding (EUR): 247553.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Modelling the Earliest Human Settlement in the Kattegat-Skagerrak Circumference (MESK) is an interdisciplinary project that will investigate the earliest human settlement along the coastline of Kattegat and Skagerrak in present-day Denmark, Sweden and Norway. This will be done by addressing three fundamental challenges that currently hamper our understanding of the earliest peopling of Scandinavia: (1) Chronological control pertaining to the deposition of the archaeological material, (2) variability in coastal engagement and settlement patterns in regions of varying topography, characterised by dramatic changes due to deglaciation and sea-level change, and (3) the degree to which lithic artefacts associated with the settlements are indicative of cultural differences within the region. Due both to research-historical circumstance and modern organisation of the research sectors, our understanding of the Late Glacial and Early Holocene human dispersal and settlement of Scandinavia continue to be influenced by present-day national and administrative borders. To overcome this issue, MESK will involve the application of reproducible computational methods to pan-regional datasets with the research objectives of (1) analysing coastal settlement patterns relative to the contemporaneous shoreline to assess the coverage and reliability of the archaeological dating method shoreline dating, and (2) employ quantitative methods to taxonomically classify lithic armatures that have traditionally been described qualitatively to define archaeological cultures that are discretely bound in time and space. The project is uniquely positioned to provide a nuanced understanding of how people of the deep past settled in previously uninhabited regions, how they adapted to an at times dramatic sea-level change and will provide researchers concerned with similar questions with tools for implementing shoreline dating, thereby improving our chronological grasp on these key processes of our past.

Keywords: chronology relative sea level change settlement patterns geometric morphometrics cultural evolution stone age scandinavia
JWST + ALMA Dust Enshrouded Star-formation in the Spiderweb protocluster at the cosmic noon (JADES)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The distribution of matter within the Universe is defined by a complex multi-scale inter-connected network of filaments known as the cosmic web, with galaxy clusters (i.e., exceedingly dense regions) residing at its nodes. In the early universe (z>2), young forming clusters are observed as strong overdensities of gas-rich dusty starburst galaxies, becoming for a short time the dominant contribution to the star formation rate density before rapidly transitioning towards the massive quiescent population that dominates mature clusters only a few Gyrs later. However, the accompanying large amounts of dust (a byproduct of star formation) heavily obscure such transformative processes, challenging optical observations even with the HST and preventing us from obtaining an unambiguous view of stellar mass growth in early dense environments. The JADES project will overcome such obstacles for the first time by disentangling the star-forming and dust components using deep and high-resolution observations in the rest-frame NIR and (sub-)millimeter regime traced by approved JWST and already available ALMA programs in the legacy Spiderweb protocluster field at z=2.16. In particular, JADES will be the first to establish a full census of star-formation activities (obscured and unobscured) by using the dust-free Paβ star formation indicator (JWST) across the large-scale structure of this protocluster. JADES will also trace the distribution of dust-obscured star-forming regions within previously identified Subaru Hα emitters by making use of their Paβ/Hα ratio (Balmer decrement), and it will map and weight the dust and molecular gas content within individual objects (ALMA) establishing a direct comparison between the star-forming and dusty regions. Altogether, JADES will transform this field into the benchmark of environmental studies, becoming the cornerstone of present and future numerical simulations investigating the formation of structure and mass build-up at this cosmic epoch.

Keywords: high redshift universe,observational astronomy ir
EIT Food Business Plan 2023-2025 (EITFood BP23-25)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
Theme: EIT Food
Destination: EIT Food
Action type: Knowledge and Innovation Communities
Partnership: EIT Food (EIT KICs)
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Poland,Spain
Call: EIT Food Business Plan 2023-2025 (HORIZON-EIT-2023-2025-KIC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196110454.78
EU funding (EUR): 196110454.78
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Our business plan drives deep, systemic transformational impact through innovation to tackle key challenges facing the agrifood sector today, through four priorities: Missions-driven approach: Aligning with our three missions, our plan directly addresses the complex and critical challenges of sustainability and climate change, non-communicable diseases and poor nutrition, and consumer trust, scarcity and transparency. Designing for impact: Our calls seek out innovations with the most potential for systemic change. Through our new partnership and community, we will bring together unique consortia who can accelerate innovation, speeding-up and scaling-up solutions to market. Transforming our partnership around purpose: Our transformed partnership will have a depth of strategic expertise, a core of delivery capability which will consistently bring innovation to market, and a broad community providing insight, energy and ideas. Market-ready innovation: We will create an ecosystem to accelerate market-ready innovation, leveraging the pillars of knowledge triangle integration (Innovation, Education and Business creation, catalysed by Public Engagement) to create the foundations for the plan. Over the next three years we will deliver: a wealth of innovations to market, trained students, new start-ups, and deep engagement with the people who are part of the whole food value chain from farm to fork. We will make a material difference to HALYS by enabling more consumers to make better choices through access to healthier products and actionable information. We will be closer to a net zero food system, reducing CO2 equivalent emissions by tackling CO2 hotspots, reducing the footprint of proteins through diversification, and creating new markets for food waste. And we will see the benefits of more resilient, trusted food supply chains with people experiencing greater food security and safety through widespread digitally enabled food supply chains.

Keywords: alternative protein,sustainable agriculture,digital traceability,sustainable aquaculture,targeted nutrition,circular food systems
Predicting the Natural Future of Earth’s Climate (NatClim)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499168.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499168.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The future of Earth’s climate is of international concern. Yet the models we depend on for predicting the future remain uncalibrated against a natural baseline because that baseline has yet to be defined. In this ambitious project, we will generate the first empirically based predictions of a future climate that will constrain and define the natural baseline. Combined with state-of-the-art climate model experiments, this will allow us to deliver the first quantitative assessment of the absolute impacts of human activity over the coming millennia. NatClim has 2 primary objectives: Objective A: develop empirically based predictions about the future natural evolution of climate beginning today and going forward until the projected next glacial transition (10-20kyr from now). Specifically, we will generate new proxy reconstructions of key climate parameters across selected intervals in the past. These will be augmented by improved age model development and used to generate calibrations for predicting future variations in (for example) deep ocean temperature, sea level and atmospheric CO2. Objective B: produce an ensemble of future climate projections using state-of-the-art global climate models, ranging from entirely natural (based on results from Objective A) to essentially manmade (based on IPCC emission scenarios). The difference between these extremes will provide the first 4-dimensional quantification of the absolute effects of human activity on future climate. These objectives will be achieved by a team of experts led by the Principal Investigator with support from a group of Early Career Researchers and PhD students, who will gain invaluable and multi-disciplinary experience across climate system research. Our results will provide a groundbreaking benchmark and foundation upon which the full socio-economic costs of manmade climate change can be calculated, and a basis for future global climate policy decision-making.

Keywords: climate reconstruction climate prediction climate modelling
Data to Enable Transformation and Optimisation for Concrete Sustainability (DETOCS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: France,Colombia,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United States,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Ireland,Denmark
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3890448.49
EU funding (EUR): 3194698.3
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

Cement production is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions, mainly from limestone processing to produce clinker. Clinker can be replaced by other raw materials, such as clay, ashes, slags or recycled concrete fines. These materials can be processed into Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCM), which have a lower CO2 footprint than Portland Cement. DETOCS proposes a new approach to rapidly increase the use of SCMs on existing production facilities: by exploiting the latest innovations in digital tools to predict and control the quality of cement and concrete blends with high amounts of SCMs compared to today’s standards. Our network aims to lay the scientific foundations to create knowledge and new models to study the production of high quality SCMs and their impact on low-carbon cement and concrete mixes. The goal is to reduce clinker factor from ca. 70% today to 40% by 2030 and 25% by 2035, targeting a CO2 emissions of 0.2 t.CO2/t.cement (compared to today’s global average of 0.65 t.CO2/t.cement). At DETOCS, the partners combine top-notch scientific expertise, interdisciplinary know-how, engineering solutions and real-world process data into an industry-driven network. The structured approach combines complementary research for each individual project in the academic and industry sectors. The top-level research work is accompanied by a balanced mix of the newest scientific courses and transferable skills training delivered by each partner locally and in dedicated training schools, seminars, and workshops at the network level. This way, each doctoral candidate builds up deep scientific expertise and interdisciplinary knowledge to deliver game-changing cleantech innovations during and after the project. DETOCS is impact-driven and strives for a portfolio of high-class joint publications, patents, and innovations along the value chain. The project will lay the foundations for first-of-its-kind engineering solutions to decarbonize cement and concrete products.

Keywords: cement,concrete,carbon dioxide,supplementary cementitious materials,digital solutions,innovation