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Aqua Research Infrastructure Services for the health and protection of our unique, oceans, seas and freshwater ecosystems (AQUARIUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Services and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Finland,Spain,Greece,Norway,Greenland,Belgium,Germany,Romania,Netherlands,Italy,Czechia,France,Portugal,Sweden,Faroe Islands,Iceland,Türkiye
Call: Research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing main challenges and EU priorities (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14499999.25
EU funding (EUR): 14499999.25
Participants: 46
Project status: SIGNED

AQUARIUS will provide a highly comprehensive suite of integrated research infrastructures appropriate to addressing significant challenges for the long-term sustainability of our unique oceans, seas and freshwater ecosystems. For the first time, diverse research infrastructures will be combined to facilitate the work of researchers and key stakeholders focused on challenges and opportunities for both marine and freshwater systems. An impressive range of 59 research infrastructure services will be made available to include research vessels, mobile marine observation platforms, aircraft, drones, satellite, sensors, fixed freshwater and marine observatories and test sites, experimental facilities, and sophisticated data infrastructures. AQUARIUS will support the development phase of the EU Mission to Restore our Ocean and waters by 2030, the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, the European Green Deal, and international climate initiatives. It will also be an essential component in achieving the European Digital Twin of the Ocean and the UN Decade for Ocean Sciences. The needs of researchers will be met through a robust and transparent system of transnational access funding Calls, facilitated by centralised user-friendly access portal. The Call programme will be informed through stakeholder engagement and brokerage events. Projects to be selected for Access must convincingly integrate multiple infrastructures and contribute to the core policy objectives of Mission Ocean, that is, to protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity; to prevent and eliminate pollution of our oceans, seas and waters; and to ensure a sustainable, carbon-neutral and circular blue economy. A thematic and geographic focus will be the hallmark of the proposed transnational Calls, aligning with the Lighthouse Regions, that is, the Baltic and the North Sea Basins, Black Sea, Atlantic/Arctic, and Mediterranean Sea along with their associated rivers.

Keywords: research infrastructure services,transnational access,marine freshwater ecosystems biodiversity,pollution,sustainable carbon neutral circular blue economy,data,open science,mission ocean
Democratizing digital farming through smart solutions for small farms (Farmtopia)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Lithuania,Italy,Ireland,Hungary,Romania,Belgium,Slovenia,France,Germany,Serbia
Call: Smart solutions for the use of digital technologies for small- and medium-sized, farms and farm structures (HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5674663.75
EU funding (EUR): 4999820.13
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The last decade has seen an explosion of interest and investment in the use of Agricultural Digital Technologies (ADSs). The use of ADSs is seen by many as an opportunity to increase the economic and environmental performance of the agricultural sector. In spite of considerable public and private investment, uptake and use of ADSs by EU farmers has been limited, especially among small and medium farms. These farms require cost-effective DATs that help them increase their environmental and economic performance and cross the digital divide. The overall objective of the Farmtopia project is to democratize digital farming by creating a paradigm shift in the way ADSs for small farms are created, deployed and paid for. This will be achieved by a) fostering co-creation of ADSs to ensure they will solve real problems and fit the needs of small farms; and b) lowering the cost for both farmers and ADSs providers, by creating a set of reusable software modules, a number of business and governance models, and identifying public provision of infrastructure that can enable scale-out of ADSs. Using a multi-actor approach, Farmtopia will engage farmers, ADSs providers, farm advisors, scientists, policy makers, AKIS actors and other relevant stakeholders in 18 Sustainable Innovation Pilots (SIPs) in at least 15 countries across Europe, and guide them in co-creating, deploying and piloting innovative ADSs while designing, adapting and validating appropriate business and governance models to support them (such as the French CUMA model, which is embraced by >225.000 farmers). The focus will be mainly on specific crops and livestock for which current ADS provision is inadequate as well as on crops that are of regional importance, strengthening resilience, sustainability and food security across Europe. 9 SIPs have been pre-selected and 9 more will be awarded through an Open Call, enabling a dynamic response to a changing policy and technology landscape.

Keywords: digital agriculture technologies,sustainable collaborative business models,digital innovation hubs
A tool to detect cognitive abnormalities in the first year of life based on electroencephalography (EEG) (EEGInfantCogDgTool)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Due to motor immaturity and a lack of language, it is difficult to assess cognitive functions in the first year of life, making it difficult to properly and carefully follow up on at-risk children such as premature infants (8-10% of births), thus delaying diagnosis and adequate support. Through the babylearn project, I developed a panel of innovant EEG procedures and experimental paradigms to explore the infant developing brain circuits and learning skills. I therefore propose to extend this expertise to a clinical setting and provide a tool based on EEG for a comprehensive assessment of infant cognitive development. After building an effective prototype to test key cognitive functions (syllable and face perception, temporal anticipation) and a critical learning mechanism (statistical learning) in infants while recording EEG, we will assess in the lab the stability and robustness of our measures (TRL level 4), then extend the test in a clinical setting with a normal (full-term neonates) and at-risk population (premature neonates) (TRL level 5-6). We will validate the diagnostic utility of the device through follow-up of infants in neonatology departments. Our proposed tool aims to significantly improve the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) in infants by allowing earlier identification in the clinically silent period of the first year. With accurate and objective measures of infant cognitive development, this tool will enable health care professionals to provide targeted and effective care, giving children the best chance of success.
Providing Risk-benefit Insights of Shifting to Meat Alternatives (PRISMA)

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: Italy,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The ongoing shift towards plant-based diets and the higher intake of plant-based food might have caused a substantial change in the exposure of consumers to contaminants. Taking into consideration the climate change scenario, this could be particularly relevant for natural contaminants such as mycotoxins. The increased intake of plant-based meat alternatives (PBMA) might have altered the current dietary exposure used in risk assessments which stay at the basis of current regulatory frameworks. This project is designed as a proof of concept to assess the real PBMA contribution to the overall mycotoxin exposure in alternative diets, with the ultimate ambition to provide support to regulators and policymakers in improving the regulatory framework of meat substitutes. This MSCA will consist of spending 24 months at Parma University, under the supervision of Prof. Dall'Asta who is among the most renowned scientists in the field of natural toxins and has a well-known expertise in advanced mass spectrometry. During the fellowship, the candidate will undergo training for 4 months in human biomonitoring at ONIRIS-LABERCA. Consumer surveys, the development of new analytical methods for mycotoxins detection in PBMA, consumers' exposure to mycotoxins, and risk-benefit assessments will be carried out. Additional workshops, lectures, and a short visit will provide excellent training for the researcher in the field of food chemistry and risk assessment. To maximise the impact of the research outcomes, the candidate is planning to organize public engagement activities and publish papers in highly-ranked peer-reviewed journals which will benefit the lay public, the scientific community, and policymakers. This proposal will be a tremendous opportunity for Dr. Mihalache's career and will contribute to his long-term career perspective of following a tenure-track position in academia or an EU public institution.

Keywords: prisma,risk benefit assessment,plant based meat alternatives,mycotoxins,metabolomics,regulatory framework
Computational design of industrial enzymes for green chemistry (GREENZYME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Catalysts are able to reduce activation barriers of reactions making them possible at lower pressure an temperatures. Enzymes are the most efficient, specific, and selective catalysts known. Green chemistry has emerged as a new area focusing on use of environmentally friendly, non-hazardous and efficient solvents and catalysts in the synthesis of new products. Enzymes are non-toxic, and capable of operating under mild biological conditions, which makes them green catalysts offering an attractive alternative to traditional catalysis. However, their application in industry is rather limited as most industrial processes lack a natural enzyme. The solution is the routine design of enzymes, but this task has not yet been achieved due to several limitations, such as the high complexity of enzyme catalysis, the lack of accurate computational approaches for designing and estimating the catalytic potential of the new variants, and the inability to identify potential mutation sites far away from the active site of the enzyme. GREENZYME provides a new protocol able to capture this high complexity and design new enzymes capable of predicting active site and distal mutations, thus achieving high levels of activity (as it would occur in nature). This is achieved by integrating current Shortest Path Map-Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction (SPM-ASR)-based computational protocol developed in previous projects such as the ERC-StG NetMoDEzyme with deep learning techniques. Thanks to a well-thought-out exploitation and communication strategy, will make possible the premise of routine enzyme design. This will have a large-scale socio-economic impact, as it will reduce the production costs of many drugs and will allow industries to use environmentally friendly alternatives in line with new European policies.
Infrastructural Imperialism: Global 'Big Brothers' and Geopolitical Futures (INFRAEMPIRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499510.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499510.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In early European imperialism, trade and resource exploitation financed lavish building projects in metropolitan centers and fueled further colonial expansion. Today, rising economic powers such as Turkey, China, and Brazil rely on building the infrastructure of other states to drive reconstruction in their own capitals and create “soft power” empires. INFRAEMPIRE will turn an ethnographic lens on the infrastructural imperialism of the Turkish state, a growing power whose construction sector is reshaping the Global South and for almost two decades drove a domestic economic boom. INFRAEMPIRE proposes, firstly, that infrastructural megaprojects create infra-imaginaries, new visions of global futures and new conceptions of the global distribution of power. INFRAEMPIRE secondly posits that in contrast to the hierarchical relations of European colonialism, infrastructural imperialism relies upon a global “big brother” phenomenon, or infra-power, in which exploitation appears to be replaced by largesse, and relations of domination are cast as “equal” and “fraternal.” INFRAEMPIRE thirdly proposes that spectacular megaprojects create infra-subjectivities, new forms of political subjectivity that require a language beyond that of neoliberal globalization, with its teleological assumptions of increasing political and economic liberalization. INFRAEMPIRE is methodologically innovative in developing an ethnographic approach to everyday geopolitics, or the ways that geopolitical imaginaries and tropes function in daily life, and how everyday practices construct the geopolitical. INFRAEMPIRE is also ambitious in scope, comparing six case studies at a crucial geopolitical juncture: the seam of Eurasia, where former and aspiring empires intersect, compete, and build new worlds through infrastructure. The aim of INFRAEMPIRE is to theorize the relationship between infrastructure and empire and to offer a fundamentally new understanding of power relations in a globalized world.

Keywords: cultural anthropology social anthropology infrastructure materiality critical geopolitics everyday geopolitics
From Dust to Planets: A Novel Approach to Constrain Dust Growth and the Planet Forming Zone in Disks (Dust2Planets)

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: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2487721.0
EU funding (EUR): 2487721.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Exoplanets are frequent around Solar-like stars, as shown by Large Surveys. They are formed by the growth of dust and accumulation of gas contained in protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars. To form planets, the classic Core-Accretion scenario is the main framework today, but it appears to be too slow given the short lifetimes of disks. Theoretical additions to Core-Accretion exist to speed it up. They all hypothesize that disks contain a massive, dense, and flat layer of pebbles in the midplane. The validation of these scenarios will be impossible as long as the disk properties remain uncertain. The first objective of this project is to provide the first direct observational constraints (mass, vertical extent, radius) for this midplane pebble layer. Specifically, an original imaging programme for Edge-On disks will be combined with dedicated hydrodynamical models of vertical dust settling, taking into account dust evolution and dust-gas dynamics. This is very demanding. The second objective is to identify the shape of dust in young disks and pin down their growth mechanisms. This major advance is also crucial because the structure of dust governs the dust-gas dynamics (via collision and drag cross-sections) as well as the scattering properties needed to compare data and models. To meet this goal, we will extract the scattering properties (phase function, polarisation) from high resolution images and use a unique micro-wave analogy experiment. Complex analog particles will be fabricated, measured, and compared with data to ultimately reveal the structure of dust in disks. All these results, combined in the final objective, will lead to a major leap towards a deep understanding of dust growth and early planet assembly in protoplanetary disks. Dust2Planets has the potential to overcome two long-standing obstacles in early planetesimal assembly: how dust overcomes the radial-drift and fragmentation barriers to form planetesimals.

Keywords: formation of stars and planets observations and models of protoplanetary disks radiative transfer dust properties micro wave analogy experiment
NEGOTIATING SOVEREIGNTY: CHALLENGES OF SECULARISM AND NATION BUILDING IN CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE SINCE 1780 (SOVEREIGNTY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Hungary
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): 1990500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1990500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Why does the modern state, with its claim to sovereignty, care so much about secularization and (re)sacralization? In order to address this question, the project examines the (pre)history of the conflict-ridden relationship between transnational institutions and the modern state and also the players who stood at the point of intersection of the two by analysing the shifts in relations between the state and one of the oldest transnational institutions in the world, the Catholic Church. The project examines the conflicts between church and state and the various processes involved in attempts to address these conflicts first and foremost by studying the history of the oaths of loyalty that the (chief) pastors of the Catholic Church were obliged to take and the tensions which arose because of these conflicts in the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states between 1780 and 1990. Oaths of loyalty to the state bear the marks of the changing relationships between the nation state and the transnational Catholic Church and were generated directly through the negotiations of sovereignty among these actors. The project will offer a comprehensive interpretation of oaths of loyalty in the context of Josephinism, nation building, and communism and their transformations in the context of the shifting relationships of the national, state, and transnational loyalties. Thus, it will provide much needed tools for a longue durée and comparative analysis of state-church relations in Central Eastern Europe. It will also discuss patterns of continuity and discontinuity between the church policy of different regimes, the common and different features of the role of Catholicism in nation building, and the related change of function of the Catholic hierarchy among the peoples of the Habsburg Monarchy. On the plane of global history, it will offer new insights into the roots and the prehistory of the conflicted relationship between transnational institutions and state sovereignty.

Keywords: secularism,politics and religion,nationalism,church and state
Collaborative Machine Intelligence (CollectiveMinds)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2030-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Machine learning models are growing larger and more complex, making training increasingly resource-demanding. Concurrently, our world, and hence the training data is perpetually evolving. This requires continual model updating or retraining to address changing training data. Presently, the most reliable course to handle such distribution shifts is to retrain models from scratch on new training data. This results in substantial resource usage, increased CO2 footprint, elevated energy consumption, and limits the decisive ML progress to large-scale industry players. Imagine a world in which models help each other learn. When the data distribution changes, a complete retraining of models could be avoided if the new model could learn from the outdated one by using reliable and provably effective methods. Furthermore, the convention of relying on large, versatile monolithic models could then give way to a consortium of smaller specialized models, with each contributing its specific domain knowledge when needed. By encouraging this form of decentralization, we could reduce resource consumption as the individual components can be updated independently of each other. Drawing on groundbreaking research in distributed ML model training, CollectiveMinds aspires to design adaptable ML models. These models can effectively manage updates in training data and task modifications, while also enabling efficient knowledge exchange across various models, thereby fostering widescale collaborative learning and constructing a sustainable framework for collaborative machine intelligence. This initiative could revolutionize sectors like healthcare, where there is limited training data, and trustworthy AI that demands guarantees on data ownership and control. Furthermore, it could foster improved collaborative research within the realm of science. CollectiveMinds embodies a significant paradigm shift towards democratizing ML, focusing on cooperative intellectual efforts.

Keywords: decentralized machine learning,federated learning,algorithms for ml,optimization for ml