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Supporting Research Ethics Committees for efficient functionality and national accreditation to REview clinical Trials in Uganda and Ethiopia (SECRET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,Uganda,South Africa,Ethiopia
Call: Strengthening ethics and regulatory capacity (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2023-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1148180.0
EU funding (EUR): 1148180.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

BACKGROUND There are few research ethics committees (RECs) with capacity to review and provide oversight for clinical trials in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and hardly any national accreditation systems used to evaluate the quality of review by these RECs. Although digital protocol submission systems improve RECs efficiency, up to 48% RECs in SSA still use paper-based systems. Additionally, many (single country) clinical trials in SSA are not registered with any internationally recognized clinical trials registry. The SECRET project seeks to address these challenges in Uganda and Ethiopia, by establishing national RECs accreditation systems, building capacity of RECs to review clinical trials (including during outbreaks and emergencies), establishing national clinical trials registries linked to the Pan African Clinical trial registry (PACTR), and developing digital protocol submission systems. METHODOLOGY The SECRET project includes partners that have worked together in other EDCTP-funded projects, to address the identified gaps through four objectives and six work packages. We will leverage the experience of the Uganda National accreditation system to establish a national accreditation system for Ethiopia and accredit at least two RECs in Ethiopia and two in Uganda. We will also leverage the expertise of the PACTR to set up the Uganda National Clinical Trial Registry. Nuvoteq that have experience in digital solutions for health care services will support Ethiopia to set-up the digital protocol submission systems. We shall also leverage the expertise of Makerere University bioethics training unit and the National Drug Authority of Uganda to build capacity for clinical trial review and oversight for the RECs to be accredited. The Uganda National Health Research Organisation and Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, which are the coordination institutes, have worked together on ALERRT, an epidemics preparedness consortium funded by EDCTP.
The Catholic Church and the environment. (CATCH)

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: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494173.0
EU funding (EUR): 2494173.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fifty-six years ago, historian Lynn White Jr. published his “J’accuse” against the Judeo-Christian tradition, blaming it for fostering a culture that exploited nature. Half a century later, Pope Francis published an environmental manifesto, positioning himself as a champion against climate change. Has the Catholic Church (CC) embraced environmentalism? What have been its key environmental interventions, turning points, and internal and external frictions? CATCH will provide the first comprehensive environmental history of the CC from the 1960s—when Vatican II intertwined with the hopes of the 1960s—to the 2000s, with the election of Bergoglio. Scholars have explored the intersection of religion and the environment from theological and philosophical perspectives, leaving historical relationships unexamined. This oversight is significant given the CC's global influence, including its participation in major environmental conferences and its potential impact on 1.5 billion people. In what ways has the CC shaped environmental visions, politics, and realities? CATCH aims to address this gap by researching the Church’s environmental engagement across multiple scales. Globally, it will examine its role in environmental governance at international conferences and UN debates. Regionally, it will analyze the CC’s diverse experiences of engagement with environmental issues through case studies in South and North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The PI, with a strong background in environmental history and political ecology, will lead this groundbreaking research. The team will include 5 PhD students, 1 postdoc, and 1 research assistant, supported by 4 senior researchers—each an expert in one of the case studies—and an ethical advisory board with two leading theologians. The project will produce 5 PhD dissertations, a monograph, an edited volume, a special issue, 13 peer-reviewed articles, an open-access oral history repository, and a documentary.

Keywords: catholic church environment environmental global governance liberation theology catholic grassroots organizations antiwar antinuclear movement environmentalism
Industry 4.0 Enhanced Digital Product Passports and Circular Economy Dataspaces for Sustainable Bio-Based Industries (bi0SpaCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Other Bio-environnement destinations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Serbia,Italy,Sweden,Denmark,Switzerland
Call: Digital information systems for bio-based products (HORIZON-CL6-2024-CIRCBIO-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999595.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999595.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The digital and circular economy (CE) transition of bio-based industries is a critical objective for Europe’s climate ambitions and its economic competitiveness. Given the urgency of these demands, Europe’s bio-based industries need to leapfrog over past digital technologies and implementations, pioneering innovative solutions for creating bio-based products and services that are circular, as well as environmentally and socially sustainable. To realise these ambitions, the bi0SpaCE project will deliver a suite of technologies, services, guidance frameworks, and standards, combined into the open-access bi0S platform, for rapid deployment and scaling of (CE) solutions and services across bio-based industries and their value chains. bi0SpaCE will advance the creation and implementation of Industry 4.0 enhanced Digital Product Passports (DPPs), linked to an International Dataspace (IDS) compliant CE dataspace, enabling the creation of dynamic and decentralised DPPs for secure and trustworthy sharing of CE and sustainability performance data of bio-based products across the value chain, as well as providing transparency of green and CE claims to consumers. bi0SpaCE brings together a consortium consisting of 1 HEI, 4 RTOs, 1 SMEs, 1 industrial assoc., 2 large industries, and 1 startup, across 5 EU and 2 associated countries, over a 36-month project period. The knowledge and technologies created in bi0SpaCE will be demonstrated and validated across 4 complementary bio-based sectors: (i) paperboard production, (ii) eco-industrial parks with bio-based energy and products producers and consumers, (iii) plant-based products and cosmetics, and (iv) bio-derived industrial chemicals.

Keywords: digital product passports,digital twins,data spaces
Social and Technological Innovation Factory for Low-Carbon and Circular Industrial Value Chains (SoTecIn Factory)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Ireland,Germany,Austria,Netherlands,Italy,Hungary,Türkiye,Romania
Call: European Technological and Social Innovation Factory (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4949512.0
EU funding (EUR): 4949512.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The SoTecIn Factory - Social and Technological Innovation Factory for Low-Carbon and Circular Industrial Value Chains - goal is to connect industry with society in a community of mission-oriented social innovators, to support social entrepreneurs in their drive to increase the circularity of key product value chains, and to promote a culture of social innovation in European manufacturing businesses. The SoTecIn Factory serves the EU priority ?A European green deal? and its European industrial strategy by giving financial and capacity-building support to social innovations that improve the circularity of the seven key product value chains, as defined by the EU Circular Economy Action Plan. It supports systemic transformation towards restructuring value chains to be low-carbon and circular, by implementing higher value circular economy strategies, i.e. reuse, repair, refurbish and remanufacture. Specifically, the SoTecIn Factory will support 40 mission-oriented social entrepreneurs with services regarding governance (through the creation of stewardship councils for each innovation), business model, capacity-building, fund-raising and exploitation, and 30 mission-oriented pre-market demonstration projects.

Keywords: social innovation,social entrepreneurship,circular economy,key product value chains
Electrified conversion of plastic waste into olefins & downstream integration (ELECTRO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Austria,Luxembourg,Belgium,Finland,France,Italy,Greece
Call: Plastic waste as a circular carbon feedstock for industry (Processes4Planet Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 21473780.75
EU funding (EUR): 14173778.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of ELECTRO is to demonstrate a revolutionary technology concept that links the waste and petrochemical industry and provides them with a sustainable, low GHG footprint and scalable circular solution for olefin and polyolefin production. The priority for ELECTRO is the plastic waste streams that are currently not recycled but rather either incinerated or dumped to landfill: examples are multilayer plastics, mixed PE/PP/PS, and waste PS. An innovative modular extruder for optimal pre-treatment of plastic waste will be combined with an electrically heated reactor for the catalytic pyrolysis of plastic waste at TRL 7. The main product, plastic waste pyrolysis oil, will be used as a feed for steam crackers. Steam cracking will be electrified in the roto-dynamic reactor (RDR), a second novel reactor technology to be demonstrated at TRL 7 in ELECTRO. In the RDR heat transfer is accelerated by an order of magnitude compared to heat transfer rates achieved in the fired heaters used in conventional crackers. And so the RDR has a substantially higher selectivity towards light olefins and improved process efficiency. The light olefins will be further processed into PE and PP, demonstrating the technical feasibility of chemical recycling and the use of plastic waste as a circular carbon feed. This scalable concept will enable strong industrial symbiosis, with the initial LCA showing an 90% GHG reduction compared to today's best available technology (BAT). Given the amount of plastic waste that can be converted, and the market demand for the compounds produced, the impact of ELECTRO will be profound. To further extend the impact of ELECTRO, the global replicability and economic viability of the proposed concept will be demonstrated using waste streams from the Republic of Korea and Indonesia, and a thorough programme will be implemented to train the next generation of waste management engineers and workers.

Keywords: mixed plastic waste,chemical recycling,pyrolysis,landfill,circularity,electrification,co2 neutral chemical industry
Galactic magnetic field deflection of high energy astroparticles (GADGET)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project is aimed at understanding the origin of the most energetic particles in the Universe, the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). They reach energies of more than 10^20 eV, much above the ones that can be obtained at human-made accelerators. They are the messengers of the most violent phenomena in the Universe. After more than 50 years since their discoveries, their acceleration sites are still unknown. Some of the difficulties in this quest are posed by the uncertainties in the galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields that deflect these charged particles, by their low flux, and by the resolution in the measurement of their charge. With this research project, we propose to revisit the existing modeling of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) by estimating the model parameters through maximum-likelihood analysis of the most recent data on synchrotron and Faraday rotation measures, and propagate this acquired knowledge to UHECR studies. We will focus, in the context of the Pierre Auger collaboration, on the inclusion of the effects of magnetic fields in the interpretation of the mass composition, energy spectrum and arrival direction. Specifically in the interpretation of the dipole pattern and of the studies of the correlation between the starburst galaxies and UHECRs. These studies will be further developed to predict the performance of next generation detectors such as the Global Cosmic Ray Observatory (GCOS) and POEMMA.

Keywords: magnetic field of the galaxy,ultra high energy cosmic rays
Wellbeing, inclusion, sustainability and the economy (WISE Horizons)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,France,China,Norway,Botswana,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Public policies and indicators for well-being and sustainable development (HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2780143.75
EU funding (EUR): 2780143.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

WISE Horizons will inform and accelerate the transition to a new economic paradigm with wellbeing, inclusion and sustainability at its core. The project will create a state-of-the-art theoretical framework which synthesises the current post-growth initiatives through a novel and open access WISE accounting framework. The framework will define core terms and link to Beyond-GDP metrics, satellite accounts, policy strategies and the current generation of economic and integrated models. It will link to European policy strategies such as the Net-zero targets, the Circular Economy transition and Sustainable Competitiveness. With partners in Africa, the US and China it will also globally assess the current and new economic paradigms from the perspective of Sustainable Developments Goals. Any transition will result in trade-offs and synergies between different elements of a new economy such as wellbeing, inclusion and sustainability. These will be empirically analysed and used to inform policy and society about the choices that will shape the future up to 2050. The historical empirical analyses will use the WISE database and thematic/integrated models that address the core questions and policies of the post-growth society will be created by leading experts/institutes in the field of Beyond-GDP, inequality, sustainability and post-growth economics. To maximise the impact of the project, the WISE stakeholder Platform, which is a “network of networks” will be created and the groups involved in the WISE Platform will be engaged in communication, dissemination and exploitation. The empirical research involved in this project will be done in a novel co-creative approach involving stakeholders in 5 co-creation labs/workshops. Special attention is given to individuals that are negatively affected by the transformation. An ambitious communication strategy will facilitate a new public debate away from the standard economic paradigm and towards a new paradigm fit for the future.

Keywords: beyond gdp,national accounts and satellite accounts,sustainability,inclusion,inequality,wellbeing
Reaction Mechanism of Methanol Conversion in Zeolite by Integrated Diffusion/Reaction Kinetics Model (INTDKIN)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

C1 Chemistry plays a crucial role in providing energy and chemical supplies while meeting environmental requirements, such as carbon neutrality to mitigate global warming and the gradual shift in the supply chain from crude oil to biomass, and other alternative carbon sources. Zeolites, as one kind of important heterogeneous catalysts, create a perfect environment to selectively and effectively convert C1 molecules to chemicals with high economic value, as for instance the transformation of methanol to olefins (MTO) or the methanol carbonylation process. However, the understanding of the reaction mechanisms of these methanol conversions in zeolites is lacking. Up till now the diffusion process of reactants, intermediates, and products in the confined spaces of zeolites has not been considered in the free energy landscape of the catalytic cycle, which leads to a discrepancy between experiments and calculations. Therefore, the proposed integrated diffusion/reaction kinetics model is an essential keystone to understand the high selectivity of zeolites in C1 chemistry. In this project, ab initio molecular dynamic (AIMD) simulations accelerated with different enhanced sampling methods will be employed to study the complete kinetics of methanol conversion in zeolites, including the processes of reactants adsorption/diffusion, reaction, and product diffusion/desorption. This should result in a complete free energy landscape, by which the parameters of zeolites that influence the selectivity of C1 chemistry will be uncovered. The final affinity of this model is to guide the modification, design, and screening of highly effective zeolite catalysts for C1 chemistry in an efficient and adequate manner.

Keywords: zeolite,diffusion,free energy profile,methanol conversion,c1 chemistry
Neolithic coastal settlements and responses to environmental dynamics: A pioneering world lost beneath the Mediterranean Sea (BEFOREtheFLOOD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Israel
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): 1498938.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498938.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Coastal societies hold a vital place in Mediterranean history; many of their earliest trajectories, however, are archaeologically obscure due to a rise in sea levels since the last Ice Age. BEFOREtheFLOOD is based on an observation that before it was inundated, the Mediterranean littoral was extremely dynamic (e.g., formation/retreat of marshes, increased soil salinity, rapidly rising sea levels), necessitating constant reactions by its inhabitants. This project aims to study how Neolithic coastal societies in the Eastern Mediterranean pioneered cultural responses to environmental changes, and how these enabled the development of Mediterranean complex societies. The earliest known Mediterranean coastal settlements and their paleo-landscapes, now situated offshore along the Carmel Coast, Israel, will be studied by drilling sediment cores and through underwater excavations, followed by microscopic and chemical analysis in the laboratory that will integrate geoarchaeology, bioarchaeology and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. The project?s novelty lies in its approach, which will generate a high-resolution diachronic model of how hyper-localised environmental dynamics are directly related to archaeological evidence of adaptive solutions. The project will test how Neolithic coastal communities constantly readapted to dynamic environmental processes over time by modifying their environment, and developing new technologies and social interactions (i.e., negotiations with inland farmers) that fostered the establishment of a unique Mediterranean coastal society. BEFOREtheFLOOD will elucidate an important and as-yet unread chapter of a world now lost beneath the sea; one that will help to rewrite the early story of the Eastern Mediterranean coast as the springboard for innovation, adaptation, and connectivity that set the scene for the development of later Mediterranean complex societies.

Keywords: geoarchaeology neolithic southern levant human environment relations