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Strongly Polarized Carbon: Taming Fundamental Intermediates and Their Applications (CC-CHARGED)

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-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499960.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499960.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In CC-CHARGED, I propose a new concept to induce C–C bond polarization as well as predict fundamentally new stable carbon-based compound classes. The manipulation of functional groups builds the basis for the rational design of complex molecules in organic synthesis. While most compound classes have been studied for decades, few remain virtually unexplored, only suggested as reactive intermediates. I propose to tame these elusive intermediates into hitherto unknown room-temperature stable compound classes. Central motif to gain stability relies in the polarization of the C–C bond, which can either result in zwitterions (charged +/-) or diradicals. The dichotomic behavior will be analyzed and a general approach to C–C bond polarization will be developed based on a new concept of mesoionic frustration. Such mesoions are predicted to be exceptionally strong polarized carbon compounds, exceeding the polarization of traditional ylides, triggering applications from transition metal, main group chemistry to organic synthesis. The reactivity of such strong carbon donors will be analyzed, correlated and a scale generated. Applications of C–C bond polarization in the stabilization of unsaturated diazo and monosubstituted carbon compounds are presented. Their synthesis, electronic structure and reactivity will be evaluated and applications such as C-atom transfer reagents for molecular editing studied. While singlet vinylidenes are central intermediates in organic reactions, the generation and reactivity of triplet vinylidenes is virtually unknown. I propose them as new compounds in organic chemistry, as metal-vinylidene precursors and as new platforms for magnetic applications. Recent high-impact publications by the group build the basis for this project that goes far beyond the state-of-the-art. Considering that carbon is the pivotal element of life and the central element of organic chemistry, CC-CHARGED is a fundamental, ground-breaking contribution to organic chemistry.

Keywords: main group chemistry,low valent carbon chemistry,reactive intermediates
Modern high order numerical Methods based on No-compromise moving Voronoi Tessellations: a Unified solver for continuum Mechanics (MoMeNTUM)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany
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): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

MoMeNTUM aims at developing a next-generation computational code for Hyperbolic balance laws in fluid flow and solid mechanics, based on versatile unstructured Voronoi grids (polygons and polyhedra), and achieving efficiency that can be compared even with that of structured Cartesian codes. The space-time-based methods will be of high-order Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element type, with Finite Volume auxiliary subcell stabilisation. Such a mixed formulation requires new grid generation techniques in order to be extended to moving Voronoi meshes, due to the presence of degenerate and almost-degenerate elements with short or zero-length edges. Using genuine Voronoi tessellations (i.e. nearest neighbour) is important in order to preserve the smooth dynamic connectivity rearrangement naturally emerging from the motion of Voronoi seeds in space, which is a key element for the construction of robust schemes on moving polyhedral grids. Efficiency will be achieved through new hybrid nodal/modal moving basis functions, defined on cell-aligned bounding boxes, that can heavily exploit tensor-type data storage and access patterns, usually available only in structured codes. Additionally, the schemes will be equipped with an embedded mesh generator that can synergistically interact with the computational core so that the behaviour of the on-the-fly subgrid generator for the Finite Volume subcells will be optimised, like the Voronoi grid motion, according to the local flow or stress patterns. The project is a heavily multidisciplinary effort that requires the development and implementation of new numerical solvers and new mesh generation algorithms within a single coherent software architecture, which will be packaged in an open source, massively parallel, high performance Fortran code, in the hope that it will constitute a step forward towards the wide adoption of advanced high-order methods for solving real-world continuum mechanics problems.

Keywords: discontinuous galerkin schemes,finite volume schemes,moving voronoi meshes,arbitrary lagrangian eulerian methods,unstructured grid generation,high order methods,numerical hyperbolic pdes
Plurilingual bottom-up approaches: how to promote the linguistic integration of migrant children in educational settings (PLURIBO)

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: Italy,Switzerland,United States
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): 412700.52
EU funding (EUR): 412700.52
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The PLURIBO research project aims to address the pressing issue of the linguistic integration of migrant children in Italian schools. Although national and European policies promote integration and plurilingualism, their practical application often lacks clear guidelines and resources, especially in linguistically diverse classrooms. In response, two main scenarios emerge. Firstly, interpreting services in schools can facilitate communication between children, teachers and parents who speak different languages. Second, in the absence of formal support, plurilingual bottom-up practices such as child language brokering and the use of lingua francas naturally emerge to fill policy gaps. Yet, scant research has been devoted to understanding interpreting services in educational settings and plurilingual bottom-up practices, which remain invisible at the policy level despite their covert diffusion. PLURIBO aims to fill these gaps through four main objectives: 1) reviewing current policies on plurilingualism and the integration of migrant pupils and identifying European policies that have not yet been implemented in Italy; 2) investigating the use of interpreting services in schools, which are crucial but under-researched resources for migrant students; 3) exploring plurilingual bottom-up practices, such as peer translation, child language brokering and code-switching, which help to bridge communication gaps but lack formal recognition and support; and 4) co-developing practical recommendations with educators. The project uses a mixed-methods approach, including sociolinguistics, multimodal ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and participatory action research. PLURIBO aims to deepen understanding of interpreting services and plurilingual bottom-up practices in educational contexts, influence policy, and improve educational outcomes for migrant children by promoting inclusivity and valuing linguistic diversity.

Keywords: linguistic ethnography,participatory action research,co creation,language policy and planning,plurilingual bottom up practices,translation and interpreting studies
A double-edged sword: extra-galactic Fast X-ray Transients (Starstruck)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We will use extra-galactic Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) to study binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. Merging neutron stars are important for the formation of r-process elements and provide standardizable signals allowing the Hubble constant (H0) to be measured maximizing the science output of these multi-messenger events. Comparing BNS mergers with and without an FXT signal provides a way to constrain the elusive equation of state of matter at supra-nuclear densities. Unlike the highly beamed short gamma-ray burst signal associated with BNS mergers, the FXT signal is ~isotropic providing us with the means to quickly localise the merger, even for events out to the BNS merger detection horizon of the 3rd generation of GW detectors such as Einstein Telescope or Cosmic Explorer. A high-risk aspect is that the link between FXTs and BNSs is not yet 100% certain. FXTs manifest as singular short flashes of X-ray photons with durations ranging from minutes to hours. The imminent launch of the all-sky X-ray survey satellite Einstein Probe together with the recent deployment of premiere ground-based instrumentation will revolutionize this field by enabling the discovery and immediate follow-up of a statistically significant sample of more than a hundred bright FXTs over the >3-yr Einstein Probe mission duration. Complemented with a comprehensive study of the FXT host galaxies, this will lead to a breakthrough in our understanding of FXTs and enabling us to measure the yield of r-process elements, H0, and the maximum mass of a neutron star using BNS mergers. In addition to our main goals, we expect serendipitous discoveries in this new research field.

Keywords: black holes,transients,supernovae,neutron stars
Leap in Advancing of crItical Quantum key distribution-spAce components (LaiQa)

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: Greece,Netherlands,Austria,Germany,Italy
Call: Quantum Communication Technologies for space systems (HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2923515.08
EU funding (EUR): 2499718.56
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

LaiQa comes as a technology intensive research and innovation action aiming to develop and advance critical components and technologies necessary to build a global spaced-based quantum network. LaiQa envisions to realize unconditionally secure quantum communications over long distances bringing functional QKD components together with advanced system integration techniques towards deployable space-QKD systems. The project's objectives will include the development of space-deployable, high-brightness 1550 nm entangled photon pair source (EPPS), a space-suitable Decoy State - BB84 Prepare and Measure (P&M) source, a photonic integrated EPPS for next-generation on-board sender stations, a quantum memory for long-distance entanglement distribution, an advanced fiber-coupling/adaptive optics system for converged space/terrestrial QKD segments, and software components towards the optimization of LaiQa architecture. The project will demonstrate P&M- and entanglement based QKD systems both in lab/terrestrial FSO testbeds and in field demonstrations in Helmos optical ground station (OGS). LaiQa will also mobilize its consortium to prioritize standardization activities that focus on space components for P&M- and entanglement-QKD, consider interfaces and parameters for them to propose specification standards and potentially trigger new standardization activities within EU.

Keywords: prepare and measure qkd,entanglement based qkd,quantum memory,pic,fiber coupling,optical ground station,space qualified quantum sources,secure key rate
Digital archaeology of shell companies. Infrastructures of global connections and local networks (DIGSHELL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Luxembourg
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2031-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3366380.0
EU funding (EUR): 3366380.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Shell companies have played a crucial role in the infrastructure of global capitalism as vehicles for tax engineering and maintaining secrecy. The challenge of finding suitable sources for a subject tied to secrecy, and a tendency to focus on national case studies for a phenomenon that transcends geographical boundaries, have hindered efforts to unravel these complex infrastructures. Building on a research initiative that focused exclusively on Luxembourg this newly proposed project adopts a global perspective. It seeks to illuminate the role of legal service providers, by adding three national case studies (Panama, the British Virgin Islands, and Singapore) and focusing on international arenas of legal coding of capital thanks to the company registers, a resource publicly accessible. While this corpus will be enriched with various other sources, the vast amount of unstructured data from the company registers presents a challenge of access and analysis.To make this corpus amenable for distant reading, the raw data must be structured and made accessible through processing and expansion/enrichment. Once the structured data is available, we can use data analysis methods and visualization. The emerging use of large language models based on generative AI shows strong potential to significantly change the way historians will work with large-scale source collections in the future. DIGSHELL aims to be groundbreaking on two fronts. It will provide a comprehensive history of global tax networks, unveiling the development of multi-jurisdictional spaces where national states, global companies, local financial intermediaries, and international organizations collaborate to build, sustain, and govern global financial infrastructures. It addresses the new challenges and opportunities arising in the field of Digital Humanities through the systematic integration of AI, which not only necessitates rethinking data processing but also questions the hermeneutics of digital history.

Keywords: digital history,tax havens,fiscal history
Enhancing the interoperability of cyber-physical systems within their digital supply chains (SCIENTIA)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242260.56
EU funding (EUR): 242260.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) combine physical and cyber components, enabling dynamic interactions essential for process operation. CPS enhances adaptability of the supply chains capturing, analyzing, and feeding data back into the system. Supply chain adaptability aligns with the efforts defined as a strategic plan according to the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan (2021- 2024) by the European Commission, underscoring the importance of leveraging CPS to meet evolving challenges and opportunities within supply chain management. Interoperability of CPS in their digital supply chain is critical for optimizing operations and ensuring seamless data exchange, enabling efficient coordination and resource utilization throughout the supply chain network. Due to CPS characteristics where heterogeneous components are integrated, achieving seamless interoperability poses significant challenges, including data silos, incompatible protocols, and disparate communication standards. Enriching the modeling of CPS along with the benefits of emerging systems such as AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things) offers a promising avenue to address these challenges. By leveraging advanced modeling techniques and integrating cutting-edge technologies, we aim to develop robust solutions that enhance interoperability of CPS and streamline digital supply chain operations. Simulating interoperability scenarios that include CPS interaction within digital supply chains will provide valuable insights into the effectiveness and scalability of proposed solutions. Through rigorous validation exercises, we will assess the performance, reliability, and scalability of our approach, ensuring its practicality and suitability for real-world deployment.

Keywords: digital supply chain,interoperability,cyber physical systems,emerging network technologies,artificial intelligence,internet of things
Hybridization derived novel patterns of gene expression (HybridExpress)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Hybridization has been documented to the extent where its importance for generating evolutionary novelty can no longer be questioned. In spite of this, we lack an understanding of the evolution of regulation of gene expression in hybrids, and its role in hybridization derived novelty. Gene expression evolves in a stabilizing manner where cis(local)- and trans(distal) regulatory elements co-evolve. As hybridization breaks up co-inheritance of regulatory elements transgressive hybrid expression patterns, transcending the ranges of both parent species, may arise in spite of intermediate genome composition. I propose to leverage my finding of transgressive gene expression in a wild hybrid species and address how hybridization produces transgressive gene expression. This research will give insights into how hybridization can contribute to the arrival of the fittest, by producing novel variation that selection can act on. Objectives: 1. To determine how regulation of gene expression in hybrids can produce evolutionary novelty 2. To unravel the roles of hybridization induced transposable element-releases, alterations of methylation and larger structural variants in hybrid specific gene expression 3. To uncover the role of gene expression in avian hybrid sterility. I will use four independent hybrid lineages of the Italian sparrow and experimental F1 hybrids to achieve these ambitious goals. HybridExpress will i) Uncover how hybrid gene expression can transcend parental ranges, producing evolutionary novelty, ii) Contribute insights into how the variation selection acts on arises, iii) Increase our understanding of hybrid genotype-phenotype maps, and iv) Reveal the role of hybrid misexpression in reproductive isolation. Interdisciplinary character: This proposal will make extensive use of genomic methods and hence overlaps to some degree with the LS2 panel, but as the question addressed is evolutionary I deem the proposal best suited for evaluation by the LS8 panel.

Keywords: hybridization,transgressive variation,evolution of gene expression,novel variation,transposable elements,chromosomal inversions,cpg methylation,hybrid sterility,reproductive isolation
Collective Adaptation (CollAdapt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3096966.0
EU funding (EUR): 3096966.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Human collectives adapt their cognitive strategies and social networks flexibly in response to multiple changing problems. For example, we as scientists continuously revise our teams and the way we integrate information, depending on the topics we study. As citizens, we participate in diverse collectives that use different strategies to address challenges ranging from economic development to climate change. This ability for collective adaptation contributed to our species’ spectacular success, but sometimes our collectives seem stuck and unable to adapt to the problems they face. We currently do not have a solid scientific paradigm for studying collective adaptation, and its cognitive and social aspects have been studied largely independently in different disciplines. I will develop such a paradigm by building computational models to integrate research on cognition and sociality, and by collecting diverse empirical data on the interaction of cognitive and social processes, including group experiments, natural language processing of large textual corpora, and longitudinal surveys. This will allow me to investigate (i) the interplay of social learning strategies, networks, and problems that collectives face, (ii) the formation and persistence of people’s beliefs about what the important problems are, and (iii) the effect on collective adaptation of individual differences in these beliefs. I am well positioned for this task because of my experience in building computational models grounded in theories and data on human cognition and sociality, and the support from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna that has been designed for this kind of research. This project will enable us to understand why collectives can be stuck in deadlocks about important problems and why they sometimes appear incapable of finding seemingly obvious solutions, ultimately helping us to avoid undesirable societal trajectories such as those leading to extremism and violence.

Keywords: social learning,belief dynamics,social networks,computational models