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Hostile Environments: The Political Ecology of Migration and Border Violence (HEMIG)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499855.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499855.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Across the world, state borders are being increasingly militarised and migrants funnelled into more and more hazardous terrains such as oceans, mountain ranges and deserts. In the last few years alone, several thousands have died while crossing these hostile environments, whose material geographies are harnessed as crucial tools of border control. At the same time, across and beyond urban geographies in the Global North, a generalised atmosphere of hostility has led to shrinking forms of social protection for those classified as outsiders, with legislation passed to deny migrants access to work, housing, services and education. This project sets out to reframe the notion of “hostile environment”, first introduced in the migration debate in the UK in 2012 to refer to such anti-migrant laws, as a conceptual and analytical lens to capture these distant but interconnected processes, whereby “natural” and civic spaces alike have been weaponised by extractive processes, surveillance technologies, border control practices and bureaucratic protocols. Going beyond the catastrophist and security-oriented perspectives that dominate these debates, HEMIG will develop arts-based strategies of spatial and visual analysis to capture the entangled nature of border and environmental violence and its harmful effects. A multidisciplinary team will focus on three border environments located along a typical migrant trajectory linking Sub-Saharan Africa to northern Europe. Using a unique combination of methods (big/small data, high/low tech tools and remote/field research), as well as involving affected communities and partner organisations in each location, the project will introduce new cutting-edge visualisation and mapping techniques to analyse these phenomena. In this way, it will also produce new conceptual grounds for rethinking the relation between environment and migration, intervening in public debates on the human and environmental cost of border control.

Keywords: critical spatial practices border studies mobilities environmental humanities
Innovative Chemistry and Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future (INNOCHEMBIO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Estonia,United Kingdom,Germany,Poland,France,Finland,Netherlands,Switzerland,Slovenia,Denmark,Belgium
Call: MSCA COFUND 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-COFUND-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2030-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2376000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2376000.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

To sustain life and its quality on Earth, the EU has established several initiatives for the implementation of the Green Deal: Zero Pollution Action Plan, Farm to Fork and Green Deal Industrial Plan, among many others. All of these require significant innovation, based on new knowledge and skills – research, training and education – coupled with industry adaptation, civil society engagement and smart regulation, which is a challenge globally. More importantly, we need significantly more people who can carry out this innovation. The main objective of “Innovative Chemistry and Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future” (INNOCHEMBIO) is to train future experts of sustainable chemistry and biotechnology, helping Europe to take the next steps in the green transition. The solutions and trained experts can reduce the environmental impact of the chemical and agricultural industries, offer eco-friendly analytical techniques, and assess the safety of new materials. This will be achieved through interdisciplinary research projects in an international research environment, collaboration with the industry, the public sector and the civil society, via a comprehensive quadruple-helix based training programme. As a result, our graduates will not only become experts in their respective fields, but leaders and spokespersons. Eventually, through dedicated career planning, we provide skilled workforce to all 4 sectors of the helix. INNOCHEMBIO is an international consortium led by TalTech, with over 100 years of experience in chemistry and biotechnology research and training. INNOCHEMBIO will achieve its objectives by recruiting 15 PhD candidates in up to two calls offering fellowships for 48 months. During this period, the candidates will receive discipline specific training both in Estonia and abroad by working on their research project; broader training through courses offered at TalTech and by our partners; and experience working in the private sector.

Keywords: doctoral training,chemistry,biotechnology,sustainability
FLEX-based inferring of terrestrial photosynthesis dynamics for quantifying European vegetation productivity (FLEXINEL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems E ngineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms , biotechnology for environment  and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences , bioengineering and synthetic biology , biomass and biofuels , biohazards
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999943.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999943.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Photosynthesis, the biochemical process by which vegetation harvests sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and O2, fuels all life on Earth and drives the global carbon cycle. Although the majority of absorbed light is used for carbon assimilation, a remaining part is lost as heat and dissipated as emissions of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF). SIF, the radiant flux emitted between 650 and 800 nm, is therefore the most direct measurable reporter of photosynthetic machinery in plants. Dedicated to retrieve the full SIF signal emitted across the globe, ESA has selected the FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) mission concept as Earth Explorer 8. To be launched in 2024, FLEX will fly in tandem with Copernicus’ Sentinel-3 (S3) and will operate at ideal spectral, spatial and temporal resolutions. We are only at the dawn of uncovering the full SIF potential from space, as so far only a few single SIF bands have been exploited. The key challenge in the upcoming FLEX era will be to explore this unique new source of information and link it to photosynthetic activity. This proposal - named FLEXINEL - is determined to take leadership in exploiting and interpreting the forthcoming FLEX data stream targeting European vegetation productivity and carbon fluxes monitoring, given state of the art in plant physiology, leaf-canopy-atmosphere radiative transfer mechanisms, machine learning and image processing. FLEXINEL seeks to advance the science in consolidating relationships between SIF products and complementary S3 vegetation traits, thereby uncovering the role of dynamic vegetative and atmospheric variables given a changing Earth. Together with physically-based modelling, latest image processing concepts will be applied, such as emulation and cloud computing. FLEX and S3 products will be fed into assimilation systems for quantifying photosynthesis dynamics, and into an operational biosphere model for improving Europe-to-global carbon flux estimation.
Researchers in Action for Inclusion in Science and Education (RAISE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299607.5
EU funding (EUR): 299607.5
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Researchers in Action for Inclusion in Science and Education (RAISE) aims to reach members of society that continue to be left out or feel detached from science. It is built around an original concept of co-creation that will harmoniously blend the European Researchers Nights (ERNs) activities with the Researchers at School (RAS) activities, making the ERN feel like a continuum of the RAS programmes. Towards this end, RAISE is structured around two science outreach and education RAS programmes (named “Cientista Regressa à Escola” and “Ciência di Noz Manera”) that will target close to 2,500 underserved and/or underprivileged school students, and two editions of the ERN that will be held at the outstanding Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU) and live-streamed, reaching an additional 3,000 people in Portugal and through Portuguese as well as other relevant languages. Working at the national level, our original approach will result in ERNs programmes that are immersive experiences co-created by the researchers and the public rather than designed and delivered by the researchers for the public. Thanks to the evidence-based methodologies that will be applied and our culturally responsive co-production approach, sustained collaborations and partnerships between European or Europe-based researchers and school students, teachers, artists and members of the public at large will be created, contributing to a more inclusive and diverse landscape in science and education, and a more scientifically literate society in Portugal. Importantly, RAISE’s activities will be developed around the motto “RAISE for Wellbeing. RAISE for Social Impact.'' and they will be connected to all the five EU Missions through the RAS programmes and specifically to the Mission on Cancer at the ERNs.

Keywords: co creation,underserved,school,researcher,inclusive,diversity,literacy,wellbeing,cancer,engagement
Integrated Design of the Components of the Energy System to Plan the Uptake of Renewable Energy Sources: An Open Source Toolbox (iDesignRES)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Greece,Austria,France,Spain,Denmark,Bulgaria,Italy,Ukraine,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call: Energy system modelling, optimisation and planning tools (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6015690.0
EU funding (EUR): 6015690.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

Gathering 22 partners from the EU, Norway, Switzerland and Ukraine, iDesignRES aims to provide public authorities and network operators with open-source toolboxes allowing to plan and to optimise the uptake of low and zero emission energy sources at regional, national and European scales. With these open-source tools, iDesignRES provides latest multi-physics component energy models, comprehensive energy system modelling (in particular assembling of component models), long-term multi-carrier grid planning and optimisation of investment and operation. iDesignRES embraces a new degree of openness, transparency and accessibility to use energy system models and their components. It delivers a harmonized data structure compatible with all modelling approaches (i.e., standardized in a common modelling language). iDesignRES relies on an already built database compliant with these standardized data formats. Based on this modelling and data infrastructure, iDesignRES will develop a unique and innovative cloud-hub platform to run any energy system model online. This will facilitate research collaboration (easier software testing and version control), and increase computational performance (open licenses, cloud services and supercomputing) for average users. To demonstrate and validate the tools, iDesignRES has five real-life cases: two macro region cases (North Sea area and South East Europe), two industrial clusters (Basque and Lombardy regions), and one expansion case in Ukraine. The models and scenario results are combined in the final iDesignRES visualisation tools aimed to inform policy makers and grid operators. The outcome is that the public and relevant authorities can design a renewable energy system entirely online with easily accessible suite of tools, capable to: model at high spatial-temporal resolutions (sub-hourly NUTS level2 regions), to represent detail energy system physics, and to assemble models with a high degree of modularity.

Keywords: energy system modelling,energy system optimization,energy system planning,renewable energy,energy system integration,open source models,network operators,public authorities,energy transition
RealEase constraints of desalination (RealEase)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Access to drinking water is one of the major issues of this century. Saltwater resources could constitute an almost infinite source of drinking water, but their desalination remains expensive and technically challenging, thus limiting its deployment. RealEase aims to develop easily deployable, cost-effective, and more sustainable desalination solutions to preserve water resources. This project relies on innovative technology developed at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris) and proposes to offer a novel and promising desalination solution. Unlike traditional desalination methods, which require the application of extremely high pressures (which can exceed 60 bars, equivalent to the pressure under a 600m dam), our approach exploits unconventional nanofluidic transport phenomena to purify water through commercial desalination filters, using only low electric fields. This allows desalination with less demanding, less expensive, and safer equipment for operators.
An Effective Field Theory for Non-Global Observables at Hadron Colliders (EFT4jets)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2475000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2475000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In light of intriguing hints for the existence of heavy new particles from low-energy measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and rare leptonic decays of B mesons, which strategy should one take to fully exploit the discovery potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful high-energy particle collider on Earth? Signals of new physics might be hiding in the LHC data, but we are limited in our ability to discover them due to present theoretical uncertainties. Jet processes at the LHC are the most interesting observables probing the underlying short-distance dynamics. New and powerful methods are required to obtain full control over the subtle quantum corrections affecting these processes, both in the Standard Model and in extensions featuring new particles. In the EFT4jets proposal, I focus on two of the most daunting challenges faced in theoretical collider physics: a rigorous field-theoretic understanding of the parametrically leading contributions to jet rates from so-called super-leading and non-global logarithms, and a quantitative understanding of the phenomenon of factorization violation, which threatens to jeopardize theoretical calculations of jet processes. EFT4jets aims at the development of a complete theory of non-global observables at hadron colliders, which are insensitive to radiation in certain regions of phase space. This will for the first time provide a rigorous theoretical control over all logarithmically enhanced corrections to jet cross sections, give a generalized notion of factorization and enable more accurate calculations than ever before, thus boosting the LHC discovery potential for new phenomena. Detailed predictions will be obtained for important benchmark processes, including the production of Higgs, W or Z bosons in association with jets, the di-jet production process pp→2 jets, and the mono-jet production process pp→ jet + missing E_T, which is a key signature in the search for dark matter.

Keywords: effective field theories,hadron collider physics,jet processes
Cloud-based Platform-agnostic Adversarial aI Defence framework– CPAID (cPAID)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Increased Cybersecurity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Luxembourg,Romania,Poland,Cyprus,Spain,Estonia,Greece,Germany,Belgium,Ireland,Norway,Italy,Bulgaria
Call: Security of robust AI systems (HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5514912.5
EU funding (EUR): 5514912.5
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

cPAID envisions researching, designing, and developing a cloud-based platform-agnostic defense framework for the holistic protection of AI applications and the overall AI operations of organizations against malicious actions and adversarial attacks. cPAID aims at tackling both poisoning and evasion adversarial attacks by combining AI-based defense methods (e.g., life-long semi-supervised reinforcement learning, transfer learning, feature reduction, adversarial training), security- and privacy-by-design, privacy-preserving, explainable AI (XAI), Generative AI, context-awareness as well as risk and vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence of AI systems. cPAID will identify guidelines to a) guarantee security- and privacy-by-design in the design and development of AI applications, b) thoroughly assess the robustness and resiliency of ML and DL algorithms against adversarial attacks, c) ensure that EU principles for AI ethics have been considered, and d) validate the performance of AI systems in real-life use case scenarios. The identified guidelines aspire to promote research toward developing certification schemes that will certify the robustness, security, privacy, and ethical excellence of AI applications and systems.
Carbon Farming Monitoring and Registry (CAFAMORE)

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: Netherlands,Belgium,Germany,Finland,France,Romania,United Kingdom,Greece,Switzerland,Spain
Call: Development of high spatial-resolution monitoring approaches and geographically-explicit registry for carbon farming (HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11499931.25
EU funding (EUR): 11499931.25
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The European Commission is developing the first EU-wide voluntary framework for certifying carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products across Europe. By establishing EU quality criteria and laying down monitoring and reporting processes, the CRCF Regulation will facilitate the adoption of carbon farming solutions, while addressing greenwashing, and provides a "result-based" (quantified) remuneration system for farmers and foresters' climate performance. Key to the CRCF regulation are robust cost-effective Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems and a geographically explicit registry. Therefore, the main goal of CAFAMORE is to develop an EU-wide parcel level monitoring approach for Carbon Farming, with harmonisation and automation of data collection, robust and cost-effective quantification of activities and baselines, a spatially explicit registry and a robust market place. This will be accompanied by an in-depth assessment of the carbon markets and business strategies for carbon farming. CAFAMORE will facilitate certification schemes by providing tools for the quantification and monitoring of Carbon Farming activities through providing operational processing chains that connect earth observation data, soil and management data and models, including changes in SOC stocks, woody biomass and soil N2O emissions. This parcel-level data collection infrastructure can also serve companies for their CSRD reporting and member states for their National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. The MRV approaches and tools will be tested with farmers and certification actors in seven pilot countries, covering the main climatic zones and the diversity in European agriculture. The digital infrastructure and MRV tools will reduce the administrative burden for land managers, provide transparency over collected data and certificates and trust to the Carbon Farming market, which should increase the attractiveness of carbon farming.

Keywords: carbon farming certification registry carbon markets business model