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Entering the deep QuAntum Regimes of NOnequilibrium Thermodynamics (QARNOT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1458676.0
EU funding (EUR): 1458676.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Can we extend nonequilibrium thermodynamics to probe complex quantum phenomena? In the 90s, the scope of thermodynamics broadened to include small systems and far-fromequilibrium transformations. Building on these advances, the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics has recently lead to breakthroughs formulating nonequilibrium thermodynamics in the quantum regime. Motivations range from the search of quantum advantages in heat engines or quantum batteries, to the expression of global constraints on many-body quantum dynamics stemming from the Second Law. However, deep quantum regimes where largest deviations from classical thermodynamics are expected remain elusive, limiting applications: At weak system-reservoir coupling, a finer description of the coherent-dissipative regime is lacking to evaluate the resource costs of quantum control, optimize quantum heat engines or understand the energy transfers during a quantum measurement. This in turn hinders experimental developments of quantum thermodynamics in more platforms. To express fundamental nonequilibrium bounds on the energy exchanges with quantum materials and use thermodynamics to probe many-body dynamics, new coarse-grained description are crucially needed. Project QARNOT will address those timely issues owing to a novel strategy combining cutting-edge methods from quantum open system theory beyond the most common approximations with newly-derived universal thermodynamic descriptions of quantum systems, to bridge the gap between quantum thermodynamic laws and experimentally or theoretically accessible physical variables. By unlocking the deep quantum regimes of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, QARNOT will provide a new versatile analytical toolbox to probe quantum many-body and dissipative dynamics. Notably, QARNOT’s advances will be employed to solve the important bottleneck of the thermodynamic description of realistic quantum measurement, and enable a broad experimental use of thermodynamic concepts.

Keywords: quantum thermodynamics,quantum measurement,stochastic thermodynamics,quantum open systems,quantum technologies,quantum dynamics,superconducting circuits
ortho-Disubstituted Arenes as Orthogonal Organophotocatalysts for Reduction and Cross-Coupling Reactions (orthocat)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Organocatalytic analogues of transition metal catalysts can future-proof organic synthesis against the depletion of metals, improve the sustainability of chemical production, circumvent catalyst deactivation by Lewis-basic motifs, and avoid toxic metal impurities in drugs. Organocatalytic strategies for the reduction of unactivated C=C bonds and the C–C cross-coupling of unactivated halides, which are among the most common transformations in medicinal chemistry, remain difficult to develop with broad scope as oxidative substrate activation requires highly reactive species. Photocatalysis is a potential solution since it can selectively activate even unreactive motifs under mild conditions. Yet, the generated open-shell species are often difficult to control without a metal co-catalyst. EDA complexes, which have emerged as a photocatalyst-free means for light-mediated reactions, in principle, enable selective transformations without a metal co-catalyst by proximity-control within contact ion pairs. In practice, however, such reactions often depend on a fragmentation step that generates free radicals, which are subject to the same limitations as those generated by classical photocatalysis. Project ORTHOCAT aims to achieve selective organophotocatalytic C=C bond reduction and C–C cross-coupling reactions via rearrangement reactions of contact ion pairs derived from EDA complexes with ortho-disubstituted arenes. The key design principle is the bond polarization upon single electron transfer, which enables a nucleophilic substitution step that mimics migratory insertion or reductive elimination steps of transition metal mediated reactions. The successful development of this proposal will establish an orthogonal catalysis strategy, address the pervasive and vexing deactivation of Lewis-acidic metal catalysts in medicinal chemistry, and enable new transformations to sought-after motifs.

Keywords: photochemistry,organocatalysis
Revolutionizing diabetes management by combining in silico models and AI control for vagus neuroprostheses (DiabetManager)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999201.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999201.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Diabetes is a major world health problem, approaching epidemic proportions and causing long term health damages due to inappropriate blood glucose regulation. Pharmacological therapies are limited by numerous side effects (as renal insufficiency or heart failure) and dose management issues. Their efficacy is also hindered by often problematic, patients’ compliance. This results in an unmet need for automatized, closed-loop glucose metabolism regulation, adaptable to variable patients’ conditions. Vagus nerve (VN) is a major component of the autonomous nervous system innervating internal organs, and its electrical stimulation showed preliminary results in modulating glucose metabolism. However, underlying mechanisms remain unknown, posing a high-risk to its feasibility, and could lead to indiscriminate stimulation causing multiple side effects (compromising breathing or heart rate). Fine glucose regulation cannot be achieved without better understanding of nerve-implant interaction and circuits stimulated by VNS. I aim to fill present scientific gaps by developing the first VNS neuroprosthesis for personalized closed-loop-regulation of glucose levels in diabetics. This results in a significant challenge: defining stimulation policies able to selectively block or activate specific neural pathways, while counteracting metabolic shifts and implant-nerve alterations. To that aim I will exploit models-driven interface design and AI-based stimulation policies. Animal experiments will investigate the physiological responses to optimal policies, maximising glucose regulation while minimizing adverse events, inspecting both cervical and abdominal VNS. Optimal VNS will be validated in human trials achieving device assessment in patients. DiabetManager will shed light on the underlying mechanisms of VNS-mediated glucose metabolism control, while providing versatile VN in-silico model, unprecedent AI-architecture for its adaptive stimulation, and disruptive health treatment.

Keywords: neurostimulation,computational models,vagus nerve,ai
Temporary Protection Regimes in the European Union, the Unites States of America, Mexico and South Africa: The Lived Realities of Liminal Legality, Chronic Exile and Sustainable Alternatives (T-PROTECT)

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,South Africa,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 341898.72
EU funding (EUR): 341898.72
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Temporary Protection Regimes in the European Union, the Unites States of America, Mexico and South Africa: The Lived Realities of Liminal Legality, Chronic Exile and Sustainable Alternatives (T-PROTECT) is an interdisciplinary study of the turn towards temporality and eventual return of refugees in the global migration and asylum regime. Temporary protection (TP) has been increasingly adopted across multiple countries either to displace the refugee status determination process defined under the 1951 Convention and 1976 Protocol for the large-scale arrivals or as an alternative for who may not qualify for asylum but are nonetheless fleeing potentially dangerous situations. Taking on the challenge of analysing the underlying motivations behind states’ turn towards temporary protection measures to govern migration and asylum, T-PROTECT examines how living under temporary protection regimes is shaping the life of third country nationals in USA, Mexico and SA, focusing on their access to rights and services, and the broader impact of these processes on their well-being. Furthermore T-PROTECT aims to reveal the sustainable alternatives to temporary protection that include and go beyond effective pathways for asylum applications, regularisation and socio-economic inclusion, analysing their potential for transferability to the European context. Despite widespread use over the past years, a comprehensive understanding of TP regimes remains under-researched. This project will challenge the dual narrative that TP either undermines asylum rights or provides practical solutions through an innovative theoretical framework. Under the guidance of esteemed scholars like Prof. Olga Jubany (UB), Prof. Megan Bradley (McGill), and Prof. Fatima Khan (UCT), the fellowship will support my career goal of securing a tenure-track position in social anthropology at the University of Barcelona, or another leading university in Europe.

Keywords: temporary protection asylum and migration policies liminality legal precarity differential participation lived realities european union united states south africa
Processing system for Gen 4 solid state battery manufacturing (SOLBATPRO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2200000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2200000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Our intention is design and build pilot scale production line for next Gen 4a, 4b and 4c solid state batteries and battery components. Pilot plant is engineered based on already existing processing and equipments technology developed internally, in bilateral projects with customer and in EU funded collaborative projects. Pilot plan shall demonstrate full scale manufacturing technology for all-solid state, hybrid solid state and semisolid state as well as anodeless cell components for e-mobility and other feasible applications. Pilot plant is based on roll-to-roll and sheet-to-sheet capabilities utilizing novel processing technology for metallic Li and Li-alloys anodes (thermal evaporation and pulsed laer deposition), inorganic solid electrolytes (pulsed laser depositions), barrier layers (pulsed laser deposition and atomic layer deposition) and lithiophilic layers (pulsed laser deposition and thermal evaporation). Furthermore, novel postprocessing technologies including thermal, mechanical and thermomechanical tehcnologies are utilized for optimizing performance of cell materials & components. Process environment is controlled in order to allow reliable and safe handling of air and moistire sensitive cell material like sulphitic solid electrolytes and lithium metal and its alloys. Process environment is controlled at pilot plat level (dryrooms), locally at the cell material deposition chamber (vacuum or controlled gas atmosphere) and cell materials and assembly chambers. Customers are integrated into pilot plant product validation phase for all major battery concepts. Battery level testing and validation is extended to 100 Ah cells including energy and power density, cycle life and safety.

Keywords: solid state batteries,solid state electrolytes,next generation batteries,battery manufacturing
On Stage and Backstage. Gender, Empire and Nation in the Theatres of a Cosmopolitan City (Trieste 1814-1914). (GenTeR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Slovenia,Italy
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 248196.9
EU funding (EUR): 248196.9
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This historical research, that innovatively brings together a transnational and gender approach, investigates the ways in which theatre activities in Trieste shape collective identities and imagined communities linked to nation and empire, and asks how these identities, which have so profoundly marked European history, are interlaced with gender roles. The research spans from the establishment of the Austrian Littoral (1814) to the outbreak of World War I (1914), that leads to the formation of nation states. Trieste is an interesting case study because along a century characterized by the development of national movements in Europe, this town is a cosmopolitan emporium city and the main port of the Habsburg multi-national empire. The research sheds light on the theatre because during the century theatre in Europe plays a central role in the construction of the collective imaginary and in the sentimental education of both men and women. The project, that matches a cultural-historical with a social-historical analysis in an original way, looks not only to the visual and artistic aspect of the performance, but also to the networks of theatre workers (onstage, back stage and offstage), invisible to the audience but essential to the performance and to the dissemination of repertoires, images and symbols. Most of the research will be spent in Trieste, whose archives will disclose ties between the city theatres and other European theatres. To shed light on the theatrical circuits in the Adriatic Littoral, in which Trieste was included, shorter fieldwork periods are planned in Venice and Zara, whose state archives preserve important theatre collections. The project will be developed with the historian prof. Marta Verginella, an expert in plurilingual contexts in border areas between Italian, German and Slavic worlds, and hosted by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana (UL). A placement will take place at the Civico Museo Teatrale “Carlo Schmidl” in Trieste

Keywords: social history gender history cultural history 19th century trieste european identity theatre repertoires onstage workers backstage workers cosmopolitan nationalism
Revolutionising Organ Preservation: Innovative Anti-Necrotic Technology for Enhanced Viability and Equity in Transplantation (LinkGevity)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 924945.0
EU funding (EUR): 924945.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

LinkGevity, a pioneer in necrosis intervention, has developed a groundbreaking Anti-Necrotic. The Anti-Necrotic can, for the first time, inhibit unprogrammed cell, tissue and organ death (i.e. necrosis). Based on innovative research, the Anti-Necrotic targets the molecular pathway central to necrosis, demonstrating up to a 90% reduction in necrosis across various cell types. The Anti-Necrotic has applications in organ storage and preservation and LinkGevity’s unique approach directly addresses the significant issue of organ wastage during preservation, aiming to save lives and improve quality of life. The technology also holds significant future potential in fields beyond organ preservation e.g. bioengineering and in treating conditions such as acute kidney injury.

Keywords: organ preservation necrosis
The new standard for sustainable electrification of actuation contributing to a decarbonised Industry 5.0 (naXture)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2480000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2480000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Current electric actuators are unable to support high force/ high speed, low power applications. These are important when it comes to tasks a human naturally does such as gripping or clamping. They represent 20% of industrial applications, and their relevance is quickly growing due to their importance in, for example, assembly or robotics. If these 20% cannot be electrified, industries don´t electrify the other 80%. They just keep relying on energy consuming (above 10% of energy consumption in Europe), very inefficient and polluting pneumatic or hydraulic actuators, due to the costs of maintaining two parallel infrastructures. The human muscle is the perfect actuator – it is sensitive, yet shock resistant; strong, yet compact. By uniquely imitating the working principles of the human muscle, we bring the missing piece for fully electrifying the industry. Our patented naXture platform uniquely combines solid-state actuators with integrated micro hydraulic circuits, to consume up to 75% less energy than existing solutions, achieving very high efficiency with ultra-dynamic and precise movement. Our small and light solution can be flexibly integrated in the smallest spaces. Our disruptive technology is protected by more than 100 patents, of which the majority is granted. Moreover, we have proven with leading industry players our ability to electrify processes that previously relied on pneumatics. However, our current cost is prohibitive for most industries, and our production process is manual, thus limiting us to niche markets. The EIC Accelerator program will allow as to become cost-competitive and to position the technology as a mass-market product, providing access to a huge market (€40b by 2029) eager to adopt new solutions to solve the challenges of the 21st century. Our long-term aim is to reduce industrial CO2 emissions by 100M tons p.a. by enabling full electrification of the automation industry.

Keywords: electrification,high performance electric actuators,industry 4 0,industry 5 0,solid state actuators,industrial automation,process automation,energy saving,efficiency,co2 emission reduction
Sorbonne University for a New Deal on Artificial Intelligence (SOUND.AI)

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: France,Belgium,Canada,United States,United Kingdom,Germany
Call: MSCA COFUND 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-COFUND-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3024000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3024000.0
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

The European approach to artificial intelligence (AI) will build a resilient Europe for the Digital Decade by fostering both excellence in AI and trustworthy AI. This perspective invites us to ask the following critical questions: How can we ensure the development of research that is centered on humans, is in line with the social, cultural, medical, climatic and sustainability issues that are becoming urgent? How to sustain the competitivity of Europe? What are the skills needed for tomorrow’s leading researchers in AI? SOUND.AI will answer to these questions through an ambitious research and training program. The program, driven by Sorbonne University and its 30 educational, research, industrial and network partners, will foster excellence in mobility, training and career development of 30 international PhD fellows. Together they will develop both fundamental and applied projects and crystallize the community’s efforts around 3 interdisciplinary and intersectoral programs: 1) Changing societies, languages & cultures; 2) A global approach to health; 3) Resources for a sustainable planet. An innovative scientific training, supervision and secondment program will be developed. It will be complemented by career development activities and training in transferable skills, business and entrepreneurship, open science, gender, ethics,.. by using rich pedagogic methodologies, tailored to each fellow’s needs. SOUND.AI has an objective to guide a paradigm shift in the recruitment and training of doctoral fellows with long-ranging and significant repercussions by developing a thoroughly integrated PhD program that more accurately reflects the current and future landscape of AI, crucially enriching the human resources capital base in Europe.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,ai,machine learning,deep learning,doctoral fellowships,training,international,interdisciplinarity,intersectoral,humanities,health,environment