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Geneaologies of Progressive Islam in South Africa: an Intellectual History of the Claremont Main Road Mosque (GenPrISA)

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,South Africa
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-02
End date: 2029-02-01
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 244030.44
EU funding (EUR): 244030.44
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This research aims to retrace the intellectual genealogy of progressive Islam in the context of South Africa, observed from a transnational perspective; the Claremont Main Road Mosque in Cape Town (CMRM) is chosen as the case study. CMRM is a historical Capetonian mosque that, in the early 80s, became a nodal point in the transnational circulation of Muslim progressive intellectual discourses and practices. The mosque made world history on August 14th, 1994, when Amina Wadud was invited to deliver a sermon to the Friday congregation: it was the first time in modern history for a woman to do so. The term “gender jihad”, which the mosque's imam Rashied Omar coined in the aftermath of the event and that Wadud has since adopted and popularized, is now used worldwide as an alternative to “Islamic feminism" and yet the intellectual and historical landscape that shaped the action and the coinage of the term has received very little scholarly attention. Taking the "Amina Wadud moment" as a watershed date, this project this project intends to pursue two main objectives: 1. Retrace the intellectual development and historical circumstances that paved the way for this event 2. Explore the effects that the democratic transition and the subsequent years had on CMRM’s discourse By exploring the Claremont Main Road Mosque's post-Apartheid discourse in its five key dimensions (the empowerment of youth, the gender jihad, jihad against poverty, interfaith dialogue, and environmental justice), and by retracing its historical background and intellectual genealogy, this project aims to give a significant contribution to the field of modern Muslim intellectual and exegetical history. The value of this project is not only theoretical: it seeks to offer insights and recommendations that can guide policymakers and civil society organizations in fostering social justice and diversity and in contrasting religious illiteracy and radicalization.

Keywords: islamic sermon khutba progressive islam gendered muslim discourses politicization of the mosque
antiProtonic Atom X-ray spectroscopy (PAX)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499613.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499613.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Numerous experimental observations have shown that the Standard Model is not complete. Precision measurements in quantum systems are one of the privileged frontiers for searching for new physics, as new particles may couple to atoms, provoking tiny changes in atomic structure that can be measured with state-of-the-art methods. Such searches are founded on an accurate understanding of quantum electrodynamics (QED), the field theory that describes the interaction between light and charged particles. While QED is well understood for light systems like the hydrogen atom where agreement between theory and experiment have been achieved up to third-order interactions with the quantum vacuum, for high-Z atoms in the strong Coulomb field regime, the theory remains untested beyond first-order interactions. This is due to both experimental complications, and theoretical uncertainties linked to unknown nuclear properties. I propose a new approach for testing strong-field QED via the x-ray spectroscopy of antiprotonic atoms. In these systems, orders of magnitude higher Coulomb fields can be obtained, acting like a magnifying glass for QED effects that become easier to measure. Using transitions between Rydberg states, uncertainties from nuclear properties can be avoided and two orders of magnitude sensitivity can be gained with respect to the best current experiments, making testing strong-field QED finally possible for a broad range of atomic species. The realization of this project relies on the novel combination of two new technologies: slow antiproton beams at CERN, and quantum sensing x-ray detectors. The compatibility of these two requires new developments that will lead to a dedicated precision x-ray spectroscopy platform for antiprotonic atoms, with transverse applications beyond QED in nuclear and new physics searches.

Keywords: strong field quantum electrodynamics,antimatter
Online Safety and Security for Protection of Public-Facing Professionals and Democratic Resilience (OSPREY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Fighting Crime and Terrorism
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,Portugal,Malta,Canada,Spain,Belgium,Switzerland,Netherlands,France,Finland
Call: Open Topic (HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999640.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999640.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Online Safety and Security for Protection of Public-Facing Professionals and Democratic Resilience Politician, Reporters, Teachers, Emergency services staff and Police officers are public-facing professionals (PFPs). This means they operate in the public eye with at times dramatic repercussions for their private lives (e.g., ‘trial by social media’, unwanted identification, online harassment and threats to themselves or their families). Online attacks are often framed as a way to ‘redress injustices’ or holding public professionals to account. They, however, can have dramatic negative consequences. Therefore, it is important to better understand the challenges faced by PFPs for their participation in online spaces and provide mechanisms to them and their organisations to effectively safeguard, manage and mitigate against these risks. OSPREY will build a knowledge base for PFP-specific risks, harms, protection needs and harm impacts, focusing on mapping shared and profession-specific risk profiles and safeguarding requirements; create a comprehensive knowledge-base on attack vectors and motivations of perpetrators across to understand disparate types/motivations (e.g., personal grievances, ideological driven campaigns, foreign political campaigns) to guide improved protection approaches; co-create advanced AI tools, mechanisms and solutions shaped for PFP-specific challenges empowering secure participation in online spaces; toolkits and trainings to improve knowledge of PFPs, their employing organisations, LEAs and law/policy makers how to prevent, manage and mitigate online harms as well as legislate for better safety of PFPs; improve public awareness on online harm impacts, including practical approaches to allyship and bystander activation.

Keywords: online harms public facing professionals
Offshore Low-trophic Aquaculture in Multi-Use Scenario Realisation (OLAMUR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Denmark,Estonia,Italy,Lithuania,Belgium,Sweden
Call: Lighthouse in the Baltic and the North Sea basins - Low impact marine aquaculture and multi-purpose use of marine space (HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-04, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9101866.25
EU funding (EUR): 8214732.88
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

Expansion of low trophic aquaculture (LTA) for increasing seafood production are faced with opportunities in unexploited regions and environments and maximizing benefits of marine space by considering low impact multi-use (MU) of space such as combining wind farm areas and integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA). The main objective of OLAMUR (Offshore Low-trophic Aquaculture in Multi-Use scenario Realisation) is to bring together multi-use low-trophic aquaculture (MU-LTA) related key sectors, to demonstrate sustainable commercial solutions for both the North and the Baltic Sea. OLAMUR will establish three pilot demonstration sites where seaweed and blue mussels will be grown within windfarms or in the vicinity of a trout farm. The wind farm pilot sites are located in the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the North Sea north of Helgoland, in the Danish EEZ of the Baltic Sea at Kriegers Flak and the third pilot demonstration site will be next to a trout farm in the Estonian Sea near the Port of Veere. All data, information, products and standards for establishing, operating and evaluating will be monitored, simulated, stored and customized as an “OLAMUR digital MU-LTA farm service”. This will provide a solid basis for MU-LTA upscaling. Through a transdisciplinary holistic approach, OLAMUR will ensure severe contributions towards demonstrating and documenting the possibilities for low impact co-use of the marine space. A data-based service system will be developed for policymakers for knowledge-based decisions, and innovative governance/policy arrangements will be developed towards achieving a holistic, effective and sustainable solution for multiple uses. OLAMUR will focus on 3 pilots that will serve as testing and demonstration sites. An important pathway towards impact in OLAMUR is the science-policy-industry-community interface. With that OLAMUR ensures advancement in developing optimal and carbon-neutral use and enabling a quantum leap towards long term sustainable, healthy and rich European marine spaces.
Strengthening Gender Equality in the European Research Area (StrenGE-ERA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: EU prize
Destination: EU Award for Gender Equality Champions
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Sustainable Gender Equality Champions (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-GENDER-Prize, 2024)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

“Strengthening Gender Equality in the European Research Area": Gender equality represents a priority for the CSIC, which has been demonstrating this commitment for more than 20 years through different actions aimed at promoting and reinforcing the participation of women within the organization and achieving thus a science of excellence, more equitable and of higher quality. CSIC was the first research organization in Spain to create a Commission for Women and Science in 2002, CMyC, a Presidency advisory group. Other equality structures were created later: The Delegate Commission for Equality (CDI) in 2011, that has elaborated the successive CSIC Equality Plans (the 1st CSIC Gender Equality Plan was drawn up in December 2013), and been in charge of their annual evaluation and improvement, and The Network of Equality Committees (NEC) launched in 2019 to support the institution's equality policy and help implement the CSIC Equality Plan in all its 124 institutes and centres situated all around Spain where the 15.000 staff members of CSIC work. The I and II Equality plans of the CSIC have already gone through all the stages of the process: from the initial diagnosis and assessment of needs, to the planning and subsequent implementation of the plan, putting into motion the proposed measures. These actions and their effectiveness and impact on the organization were later evaluated to inform the definition of the III Equality Plan in the CSIC (IIIGEP) approved in 2022 and which is currently in the implementation phase. The CSIC Equality Plan is a source of inspiration and model for the Women and Science Unit (UMYC) of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU). Furthermore, the CSIC ´s work in gender and equality has a relevant impact on the European Research Area, as the different recognitions and invitations to participate in related initiatives by the European Commission and other European stakeholders show.

Keywords: women and science,gender equality,gender equality plans,inclusion,diversity
Particle emissions, Air Quality and Climate Impact related to Fuel Composition and Engine Cycle (PACIFIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany,Finland
Call: Accelerating climate neutral aviation, minimising non-CO2 emissions (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998555.5
EU funding (EUR): 4998555.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Among aviation’s non-CO2 impacts, the largest radiative forcing value is attributed to contrail cirrus. Recent tests have revealed an opportunity for lowering soot particles emissions and ice crystals -which play a pivotal role in contrail properties- through the use of SAF. However, substantial disparities remain among those test campaigns, involving a large variety of fuels, engine types and combustors. It is therefore not straightforward to compare and reconcile results. In this context, PACIFIC aims to bridge the gap: the project will test an unprecedented set of fuels from lab up to engine/aircraft level with a similarity of hardware and combustion parameters. It will translate the results into modelling efforts, to better correlate: (i) soot formation, based on an improved Yield Soot Index database and prediction model; (ii) particle emissions, depending on fuel composition for the whole engine thrust range via an upgraded ground-to-flight correlation methodology; (iii) the ice forming potential of engine emissions, using advanced measurement methods on ground; (iv) the non-CO2 emission mitigation potential, through the impact assessment of fuel composition and engine cycle on contrail properties and radiative forcing, and longer-term climate impacts (including CO2 emissions fuel production). This will allow to consolidate the cost-benefit assessment of various fuel options and provide valuable inputs to potential future fuel-related measures. By doing so, PACIFIC will pave the way for future fuel specifications minimizing the climate and local air quality impacts, and will provide important inputs to future modelling and testing work. PACIFIC leverages on 11 partners from 4 countries, bringing together a unique combination of engine/aircraft manufacturers, fuel producers, research and academic expertise at the forefront of sustainable aviation, collectively driving advancements to help strengthening the European aeronautics' leadership position.

Keywords: saf,jet fuel composition,contrails,ground to flight,non volatile particulate matter,non co2 emissions,soot,combustion,predictive modelling,ice nucleating particles,standardization,ysi
An AI powered turn-key solution for MRI based interventional cardiology (TRACKR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Open (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3546727.5
EU funding (EUR): 2482709.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Nano4Imaging (N4I) is a med-tech company specialized in MR based interventional radiology. We have previously successfully commercialized EmeryGlide, a MR compatible guidewire in paediatric cardiology. In this project, we will deliver TRACKR – a ‘turn-key’ platform that provides the currently missing enabling technologies for MRI guided interventional radiology. The TRACKR technology consists of: a) A NANO-COATING PLATFORM based on proprietary MagnaFy technology. The nano-coatings can be applied on any commercial intervention device (catheter, guide-wire, balloon) and increase MR visibility drastically. b) A REAL-TIME TRACKING SOFTWARE based on novel deep learning algorithms that allows real-time tracking of the MagnaFy coated devices during an interventional procedure. The platform will be commercialized as a B2B service to interventional device makers. Four large players (Terumo, B.Braun, COOK, Numed) are ongoing collaborators and will be the early adopters.

Keywords: interventional magnetic resonance imaging,stenting,angioplasty,nanotechnology,nano materials,nano engineering,passive tracking markers,artificial intelligence,cardiovascular diseases,cardiac mri,radioembolization
DEscribing and Characterizing grain boundaries In Zr-Nb Alloys (DECIZA)

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 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-08-25
End date: 2027-08-24
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Stress corrosion and macroscopic growth of cladding materials used in nuclear reactors are topics of technological interest, as the reduction in CO2 and use of green energy is one of the core objectives of the European Union. Under irradiation, material deterioration is influenced by point defects produced in large quantity and grain boundaries (GBs). In this context, investigating their interactions is of fundamental importance, which implies identifying the nature of the GBs. Therefore, in this project, the main objective will be to generate, classify and characterize GBs in zirconium alloys used as cladding tubes by resorting to relevant modelling tools at the atomic scale (molecular statics and dynamics), since this type of information is lacking for zirconium alloys and is difficult to obtain experimentally. A second goal of the project will be the specific study of the Nb alloying effect due to the technological interest of this element, through (i) the determination of its segregation energy and tendency in the vicinity of the GBs, and (ii) the influence of its GB segregation on the deformation mechanisms of zirconium alloys. Due to the expected large amount of numerical data generated mainly due to the multiplicity of the GBs investigated, a statistical analysis will be performed to assess the relevance of the descriptors used to characterize the GBs and to establish correlations with the GB properties.

Keywords: modelling,atomic scale simulations,zirconium alloys,irradiation,grain boundaries
Can Multinational Linkages Be Leveraged for Development? (LINK4DEV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498010.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498010.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Less developed countries compete to attract multinational corporations (MNCs), often seen as growth engines. Meanwhile, domestic firms, workers, and consumers express concerns that MNCs may offer weak trickle-down benefits while increasing their vulnerability to global shocks. This tension is not new: the debate on the trade-offs associated with MNC-led development strategies is long-standing yet unresolved. LINK4DEV will break new ground in three ways. First, the program will examine the impact of MNCs and their linkages on development through a wide (inside-the-firm) micro to (cross-country) macro lens. Second, it will combine “big data” and causal-inference methods with novel theory. Third, it will partner with governments from four continents, maximizing cross-country learning and impact. LINK4DEV consists of four interconnected projects. Project 1 will examine whether MNCs foster linkages with local firms or operate in silos, increasing inequality. It will provide a first-time anatomy of MNC linkages in the production networks of four economies at different development stages: Uganda, Costa Rica, Turkey, and Belgium. Project 2 will examine whether technology transfers from MNCs to local suppliers are socially optimal in the same four economies. It will then estimate the associated aggregate economic gains and identify policies to increase them. Project 3 will study why MNCs source a large share of inputs globally, focusing on the role of centralized decision-making in MNCs. Attracting MNCs with global sourcing undermines efforts to promote local linkages. This project will merge detailed transaction records from Costa Rica with global supplier and survey data for MNCs. Project 4 will assess how far-reaching the effects of an international trade shock are and how central MNCs are to these effects. It will leverage a cyberattack on Costa Rica’s customs system and a new economy-wide mapping of all firm-to-firm, firm-to-worker, and firm-to-consumer interactions.

Keywords: multinational corporations,economic development,inclusive development,production networks,technology transfers,organizational structure