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Financing for Green Transition (FINANCE4GREEN)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Türkiye,Belgium,Austria,United Kingdom,Germany
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 423200.0
EU funding (EUR): 423200.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

As the signals of an ecological and climate crisis are intensifying. The surface temperature of our planet is already around 1.2°C above pre industrial levels and is warming at an alarming rate. Against this, researchers at the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), share with us their assessments that meeting the 1.5°C target is possible, and yet it will require "deep emissions reductions” and "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society." The International Energy Agency calls to double the pace of energy efficiency progress towards green transition and notes that “large scale financing mechanisms ought to be enacted”. Often alluded as a “Tragedy of Horizon”, climate change related risks had been regarded as the problems of long durée, to be tackled by future generations, leaving little motivation for the current cohorts. But this is no longer the case. As the urgency of the anthropogenic climate crisis becomes more explicit, greening of the global financial system steps ahead in our agenda, central banks being no exception. In fact, pathways to a net zero emissions global economy are relatively well-studied and understood. Yet, many of these studies focused mostly on green transition of the power sector and decarbonization of the industry, while financing of this transition and, particularly the potential role of the central banks, is a relatively neglected area in the design of the green policy infrastructure. Thus, there is clearly an unavoidable need to deepen our knowledge on the design of a “green central bank”, that is, in the words of Dikau & Volz, 2018, a central bank that takes environmental risks including climate change into consideration in its actions. It is the purpose of this research consortium to study the potential of greening of the monetary policy instruments, and set the stage for a new policy environment conducive to the struggle against climate change.

Keywords: new industrial policy,organic agriculture,climate change,net zero emissions,green central banking,green transition
Cognitive variability emerging from gut microbiota diversity in an insect society (Micro-Cog)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499849.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499849.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The animal gut microbiota is diverse, hosting multiple bacterial species whose presence and abundance differ between individuals. Over the past decade, evidence that the gut microbiota influences its host cognitive functions has accumulated but mostly relied on correlative studies in humans and laboratory research involving microbiota-free rodents. It is therefore unclear whether inter-individual variation in gut microbiota composition supports cognitive variability in natural populations of non-human animals. This project will leverage the honey bee model to bring ecological perspectives on the study of the microbiota-gut-brain axis while elucidating the neurobiological mechanisms by which gut microbiota diversity drives cognitive variability. Honey bees offer a unique opportunity to finely manipulate gut microbiota composition using reconstituted gut bacterial communities. Their social life fosters cognitive variability among individuals and provides an ideal system for assessing the ecological relevance of the microbiota-gut-brain axis in a real-world context. The keystone of our naturalistic approach will be the implementation of mini hives allowing honey bees with reconstituted gut bacterial communities to forage in their natural environment. We will search for bacterial species and their metabolic products affecting the neural processes supporting cognitive functions and foraging efficiency. We will investigate the impact of gut microbiota composition and its associated cognitive variability on bees’ foraging behaviour and the fitness of the hive. This multidisciplinary project will provide groundbreaking insights into the fields of cognitive ecology, neuroscience, gut microbiology, host-microbe symbiosis, and honey bee health. Through this holistic approach, I aim to provide fresh perspectives on the interplay between gut bacteria, cognitive abilities, and ecological adaptation.
New Copernicus capability for trophic ocean networks (NECCTON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Germany,Denmark,Greece,Spain,Netherlands,Portugal,United Kingdom,Norway,Belgium
Call: Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service evolution (HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8527590.0
EU funding (EUR): 8527588.75
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The ocean’s biodiversity supports the livelihoods of over three billion people, providing vital services, including food and nutrient cycling. However marine policy and resource management do not yet consider the latest scientific advances, even when the state-of-the-art operational models of the European Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) are used. Our objective is to enable CMEMS to deliver novel products that inform marine biodiversity conservation and food resources management, by fusing new data into innovative ecosystem models that integrate biological and abiotic components, habitats, and stressors of marine ecosystems. NECCTON will inter-link new models in the CMEMS systems, thus building novel capacities to simulate higher-trophic-levels, benthic habitats, pollutants, and deliver projections of climate change impacts. We will develop and exploit new data-processing chains, supporting CMEMS' use of novel ecosystem observations, including new hyperspectral data from satellites, as well as available acoustic, pollution and omics data. We will fuse these new data and models by using innovative machine-learning algorithms to improve models and data assimilation methods. These developments will be applied in thirteen case studies, co-designed with fisheries and conservation managers as part of our pathway-to-impact, resulting in the demonstration of Technological Readiness Level 6 of NECCTON products. The project objectives will be achieved by a team of twenty-three world-class organizations with track records for all the key project components. It includes the CMEMS Entrusted Entity and core developers, who will promote the final uptake of NECCTON by CMEMS. On project completion, NECCTON will provide CMEMS with the scientific and technical capabilities to sustain twenty-five new products in their operational portfolio, ultimately enabling users to make informed decisions on the exploitation of marine services, enhancing sustainability and conservation.

Keywords: marine biology,biogeochemistry,ecosystem models,fisheries management,biodiversity conservation,prisma hyperspectral satellite data,visualisation,climate change,marine pollution,cmems
SUPPORT TO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CONCENTRATED SOLAR THERMAL TECHNOLOGY AREA OF THE SET PLAN (CST4ALL)

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: Spain,Italy,Türkiye,Germany,Belgium
Call: Support to the activities of the ETIPs and technology areas of the SET Plan (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 599528.75
EU funding (EUR): 599528.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The main hurdle the Concentrated Solar Thermal Technologies (CST) sector has been facing over the last decade in Europe is the assumed level of the costs of CSP power plants with a too narrow perception of its use as flexibility provider to the sole electricity systems. To mitigate this, the CST4ALL project identifies an array of hybridisation and cooperation initiatives at the interface between CST and other technologies for applications relevant to the 3 sectors (electricity, heat and fuels) incorporating the work products of various ETIPs. Well-aligned on current EU initiatives (Smart Sector Integration, Fit for 55, CETP) and specific energy strategies across the reviewed Member States to provide answers to the most urgent challenges of decarbonisation, the core deliverable of CST4ALL consists of an intertwined set of workshops with respective industry and R&I focus. These shall bring together, better coordinate and incentivise the interaction of main stakeholders at key technology interfaces with the CSP sector building on combined technological and non-technological improvements. Both the research and the industry perspectives are first analysed aiming primarily at supporting and enlarging the network of active stakeholders in the CSP Implementation Working Group in the SET Plan and to raise the general awareness about the role CST can play in a future sustainable energy mix. These workshops finally result in specific proposals at EU-level from a cross-sector perspective to foster public/private funding for R&I and create the necessary political/regulatory framework conditions for the execution of the new CSP Implementation Plan.

Keywords: initiative to promote collaboration with specific technology interfaces and better highlight the role cst should play in the future sustainable energy mix
Impact and capacity Assessment Framework for U-space Societal Acceptance (ImAFUSA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Portugal,Cyprus,Sweden,Netherlands,Greece,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call: Fundamental Science and Outreach for U-space and Urban Air Mobility (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 877207.5
EU funding (EUR): 877207.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

ImAFUSA focuses on quantifying a variety of understudied factors influencing societal acceptance of UAM in urban, peri-urban and inter-urban areas, especially when these are deployed using U3 and U4 services. We aim to deliver an “Impact and capacity Assessment Framework for U-space Societal Acceptance” (ImAFUSA) to assist Local Authorities and other U-space stakeholders and users with the delivery of socially acceptable and beneficial UAM deployment in cities. The framework and its tools will provide insights in 3 major areas influencing societal acceptance: environmental impact (including noise, visual pollution and air quality), safety and socioeconomic impact (including affordability, accessibility, economic development, public space use and connectivity). In each area, innovative performance indicators will be described while mathematical formulas and algorithms will be developed to quantify them. Data on citizen noise perceptions, perceptions on visual pollution, safety perceptions and overall UAM acceptance will be collected during 3 immersive citizen experiences of UAM applications in the city of Athens, Greece. The usability of the developed indicators will be tested in a simulation environment simulating real future use cases with a varying volume and configuration of movements in U-space. Through the collaboration of the Partners and the Advisory Board, ImAFUSA facilitates the flow and co-creation of knowledge and 10 innovative tools between higher education (HEI), innovative SMEs, Local Authorities and National Aviation Authorities. ImAFUSA´s developments benefit a variety of stakeholders including Local Authorities, policy-makers, U-space service providers, ATM/UTM planners and operators, drone manufacturers, environmental agencies and citizens above all.

Keywords: societal acceptance,uam environmental impacts,u space deployment,uam applications,assessment framework,uam social impacts,uam safety impacts,vertiport location,u space capacity
Secretariat of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling in 2022-2025 (SecRHC-ETIP2022-2025)

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: Belgium,Germany
Call: Support to the activities of the ETIPs and technology areas of the SET Plan (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1049387.5
EU funding (EUR): 1049387.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal aims at supporting the work which has been carried out by the secretariat of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling since 2009. The role of the secretariat is to assist the stakeholders of the RHC-ETIP in coordinating activities related to the implementation of a research and innovation strategy to increase the use of renewable energy sources for heating and cooling in line and supporting the targets set by the European Green Deal, as well as to foster the growth and the market uptake of the RHC technologies. The secretariat provides support to the structure of the RHC-ETIP, by organising meetings, events, and relevant consultations, and by assisting with the preparation of relevant documents (both of technical and of political nature) to raise the profile and importance of the renewable heating and cooling sector, and its related technologies. It also provides consensus-based strategic advice to the SET-Plan and will play an active role in the planned update of the SET-Plan in 2022. This proposal keeps the emphasis on the need to enlarge the membership of the RHC-ETIP by involving more closely policy makers and RHC stakeholders on the national level, as well as other relevant stakeholders (i.e. new markets for the H&C demand side, and socioeconomic experts) in its work. This proposal adds stronger emphasis on the RHC industry through establishment of RHC Accelerator and the development of the RHC industrial strategy. By supporting interactions between the many stakeholders representing industry, research and academia, from different renewable heating and cooling technologies, and by further inclusion of complementary sectors and expertise, the SecRHC-ETIP will assist the RHC sector in strengthening its growth and competitiveness both vis-à-vis traditional heating and cooling technologies, as well as with respect to other RES energies and competitors coming from non-EU countries.

Keywords: renewable heating and cooling geothermal solar thermal biomass heat pumps district heating thermal energy storage
Early Intensive Pastoralism and Transhumance in the Apennines (E-TransAp)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Classical sources and archaeological data coincide in identifying the existence of transhumant movements in the Apennines during the Roman period. However, there is little evidence on how and when it started, what was its socioeconomic context and environmental consequences. This is hardly surprising since, up to now, a multidisciplinary approach integrating landscape and archaeological data has never been employed to tackle ancient transhumant practices. Early Intensive Pastoralism and Transhumance in the Apennines (E-TransAp) seeks to investigate the origin of transhumant pastoralist practices using an innovative combination of remote sensing (including lidar and multispectral satellite imagery), microtopographic survey, machine learning, movement modelling, archaeological excavations and spatial statistical approaches. E-TransAp will investigate a central area of the Apennines, within the territory of the Sabines, where Roman authors identify seasonal flock movements between the mountains and the lower areas, in order to identify and date landscape elements related to large-scale flock movement. By bridging archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and historical data, E-TransAp aims to provide a holistic understanding of ancient socio-economic systems and landscape mobility. The research is grounded in the premise that understanding the inception and impact of transhumance is key to analyse the origin of Mediterranean mountain cultural landscapes. This pioneering approach promises to offer new perspectives on the early practices of transhumance and its role in shaping ancient Mediterranean societies.

Keywords: pastoralism,remote sensing,computational archaeology
A Material to Unlock Plastic-free Paper Packaging for Food (ECOLACTIPACK)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3419875.0
EU funding (EUR): 2393912.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Lactips is a raw material producer specialised in a thermoplastic material based on casein (milk protein resulting from an excess of production). This material is the only one to be biodegradable in days (even in marine environment), and soluble in water. The addition of a layer of this material to paper unlocks the use of a food packaging completely recyclable, home compostable and biodegradable in days in marine environment if thrown away (common for take-away food, notably on beaches, cities…), therefore cutting a major plastic stream into the environment and seas. This comes from the following unique properties: full biodegradability in nature (Lactips’ polymer is natural, bio-based), water-solubility at cold temperatures (Lactips material dissolves in current recycling centres, thus free the other layers of packaging that can be recycled), together with ink, gas, O2, fat barriers. For the first time, reycled paper can be used in food packaging (through protection from inks).
RoboTwin - bringing the smart robot teaching tool to the European market (RoboTwin)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We are RoboTwin and our vision is to make automation of specialized jobs finally efficient with smart robot teaching. It all started with finding out that even today, in the age of hi-tech industries, a huge number of jobs in manufacturing are done manually. The reason for that is that these jobs are so complex and specialized, that conventional automation is impossible or extremely inefficient for them. Spray painting is an example of such a complex job that is rarely automated. In Czech republic 80% of all paint shops are purely manual, which means they need skilled painters to work in unhealthy and demanding conditions to fulfill the production demand. “Robotization is clearly a trend! Unfortunately, it is not easy at all. The robot programming is not doable for most paint shops. What they would need is a painter transformed into a robot programmer.” Jan Drápela, Sales Director in GALATEK a. s. This need is exactly what our RoboTwin solution addresses. RoboTwin is automation based on motion tracking and imitation. It is a set of hardware and software that tracks worker’s motion, extracts his know-how and generates an optimal robot program. Worker demonstrates painting process of the first product and RoboTwin automatically translates these movements into a program to teach the robot. All the other products in the series are painted by the robot and the result is as good as when the painter does it themselves. The worker becomes the robot teacher, SMEs don’t need robot programmers anymore. RoboTwin transforms routine manual jobs into collaborative automation and thus allows workers to spend less time in unhealthy working environments. Our solution brings higher robot utilization, because one can teach many robots at the same time, even the most complex tasks can be automated, and we save time and resources since we are fast and accurate. Woman Tech EU grant will help us to get ATEX certification, commercialize our product and secure investment in 2024.

Keywords: automation,robotization,digitalization,robot programming,motion tracking,motion imitation,spray painting