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Utilizing spectroscopy to quantify Thermal transport In fLame sprEad (UTILE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499924.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499924.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Uncontrolled fire in the built and wild environment remains a major societal issue; climate change and an increasing elderly population suggest a worsening of fire damage within the following years. The flame spread rate (Vf) is the principal quantity to assess the danger of a fire. Accurately predicting thermal transport to the unburnt material is critical to predicting the Vf. Improved quantification of the modes by which flames spread can aid in the prevention and control of nonstationary fires. Combined simultaneous multi-dimensional temperature distributions of the gas with the condensed-phase are required to calculate heat flux to the surface. UTILE is tailored to understand flame spread (FS) by measuring heat flux with multi-dimensional ultrafast laser diagnostics. A canonical FS configuration (flat plate) with well-known boundary conditions and optical access will be built. Fs/ps Hybrid Rotational Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (HRCARS) will be employed for the gas-phase measurements. Phosphor thermometry will be used to measure the surface temperature. No fire studies have used simultaneous multi-dimensional temperature measurements of the gas and condensed-phase to calculate heat flux. PIV will measure the airflow boundary layer, and CH or OH chemiluminescence will locate the reacting flame front. UTILE is not limited to quantifying heat flux but is a platform to advance the state-of-the-art in ultrafast laser diagnostics. Pushing limitations in 2D HRCARS and ultra-broadband HCARS will decrease experimental time and increase species sensitivity to the opposed and concurrent FS studies. Using multi-photon excitation for phosphor thermometry has the potential to improve multi-dimensional surface thermometry. Combining a modern experimental setup with tailored laser diagnostics will provide novel data quantifying heat flux leading to FS. Improving Vf models will benefit fire safety and refine the predictability of CFDs.

Keywords: flame spread,laser diagnostics
Understanding, Predicting and Enhancing the Stability of Organic Photovoltaics (OPVStability)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Israel,Sweden,Italy,Germany,Denmark
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2700619.2
EU funding (EUR): 2700619.2
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Photovoltaics is a major pillar in tackling climate change, one of the biggest current threats to humankind. Organic photovoltaics (OPV) could significantly contribute to this, as organic solar cells can be manufactured in efficient and low-cost roll-to-roll processes and are already reaching power conversion efficiencies above 19%. However, in order to have a large impact, the long-term stability OPV has to be improved to obtain lifetimes of many years. Therefore, OPVStability aims to develop (i) an in-depth understanding of the degradation mechanisms and stability-promoting factors of organic photovoltaic materials and solar cells, (ii) tools to predict the lifetime of organic solar cells and to identify stable structural motifs as well as device architectures and (iii) innovative strategies to significantly enhance the stability of efficient OPV of the next generation. OPVStability combines partners from academia and industry with a strong background in OPV and/or specialized scientific methods including theoretical calculations and simulations, experimental degradation studies on single materials, materials combinations and interfaces, accelerated aging and outdoor stability measurements, advanced synchrotron-based analytics, high-throughput experiments and machine learning approaches. Within OPVStability, ten PhD-students work on this timely and interdisciplinary research project accompanied with an excellent training program comprising scientific skills as well as a comprehensive set of soft and transferable skills.

Keywords: organic solar cells,degradation,materials science
Combining DISsimilar materials into functional large-scale and light-weight COmponents and structures Hop-on (DISCO2030 Hop-on)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Poland
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 555875.0
EU funding (EUR): 555875.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies offer unique advantages over conventional production processes, such as an efficient material usage through near net shape manufacturing and the high degree of freedom of design. Moreover, dissimilar materials can be joined into single components, which is the focus of the Horizon Europe project DISCO2030. By building components layer by layer, another ground-breaking potential of AM comes into play: the integration of sensor systems, e.g. optical fibre sensors, at virtually any location within a part, thereby allowing for structural health monitoring and continuous data acquisition within critical components, such as the DISCO2030 use-cases. However, there are still technological barriers towards the integration of optical fibre sensors into AM parts, especially in metals featuring a high-melting point as the high temperatures during AM can damage the sensors. Therefore, this hop-on project follows a holistic path towards a successful integration of optical fibre sensors in a wide range of materials. First, the hop-on partner InPhoTech, specialized in optical fibre technology, will develop coatings that protect the sensors from damage due to the AM processes. Second, adaptations for different AM processes are developed in order to ensure a seamless integration of the sensors into the parts. Third, the sensing capabilities and the impact of the sensors on component performance are evaluated. Through the incorporation of optical fibre sensors, the high functionality of AM parts is even more increased, opening up new opportunities. For instance, the increased information depth collected from critical parts during testing or operation allows for improved designs. By showcasing the potential of optical fibre sensor integration, this project paves the way to a more widespread use of this technology, thereby leading to technological and economic advantages for European companies.

Keywords: materials engineering,additive manufacturing,directed energy deposition,powder bed fusion,multi material,dissimilar metals,metal polymer,lightweight design,optical fibre,sensor
Unmasking the molecular mechanisms mediating the antiatherogenic effects of GLP-1RAs (AtheroGLP1)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 252724.32
EU funding (EUR): 252724.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are highly prevalent in Europe, causing more than 3.9 million deaths yearly. Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease of the arterial wall, is the main underlying cause of CVD. Available strategies to treat and prevent atherosclerosis remain suboptimal, therefore, better understanding of its regulatory mechanisms is required to design new approaches to treat this inflammatory disease. Recent cardiovascular outcome trials demonstrated that GLP-1R agonists (GLP-1RA) reduce the rates of major cardiovascular events. This GLP-1RA effects are hypothesized to reflect modifications on atherosclerosis, through anti-inflammatory actions. However, the mechanisms linking GLP-1R activation to control of atherosclerosis and vascular inflammation, as well as the cells/tissues mediating these effects, are far from understood. The main aim of my proposal is to identify the mechanism by which GLP-1RA regulate atherosclerosis regression, offering a unique and innovative opportunity to study the role of yet unexplored GLP-1R+ cell types (vascular smooth muscle cells, and neurons of the enteric and central nervous system) mediating its effects. The multidisciplinary perspective adopted, combining my background in academic research with preclinical models, the experience in biomedical research of the host supervisor, and the clinic/translational perspective of the partner supervisor, gives this AtheroGLP1 project with the strong potential to identify novel mechanisms that are expected to have immediate translational importance for targeted use of GLP-1RAs in the clinic to treat atherosclerosis and CVD. Importantly, this proposal will allow me to gain transferable competences and get trained in the latest in vivo and molecular techniques to assess vascular and systemic inflammation, letting me to reach scientific maturity to stablish a similar facility at the host institution, promoting my transition to become an independent researcher in the ERA.

Keywords: glp 1,glp 1ras,atherosclerosis,vascular inflammation
Plasmonic microchip for absolute and calibration-free luminescence quantum yield measurements (QYieldChip)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum yield of luminescence is a critical parameter in both scientific research and industrial applications, providing essential insight into the efficiency of various photophysical and photochemical processes. It represents the ratio of photons emitted to photons absorbed by a substance, typically in the context of fluorescence, phosphorescence, or photochemical reactions. Accurate quantum yield measurements are essential for assessing the performance of molecules, materials, and devices across a wide range of fields. However, conventional quantum yield measurements are often bulky, complex, and prone to errors, particularly when the sample contains non-emissive but absorbing species—an issue commonly encountered in systems such as semiconductor quantum dots, graphene nanoparticles, and organic dyes. The presence of non-luminescent particles can lead to significant underestimation of the quantum yield of the luminescent species. We have developed an absolute and calibration-free method for quantum yield measurement that requires only minimal sample quantities and is based on the modulation of an emitter’s excited-state lifetime by a plasmonic nanocavity. This method is insensitive to non-luminescent species and allows for the precise and reliable measurement of absolute quantum yields in any luminescent system. While this technique offers a highly convenient and accurate tool for calibration-free absolute quantum yield measurements, an easy-to-use version of the method is not yet widely available. The core aim of our project is to develop a compact, affordable, and user-friendly plasmonic microchip for rapid, accurate quantum yield measurements using minimal sample amounts. This solution will have broad applications in biomedicine, materials science, agriculture, and environmental sensing.
Debunking Eurocentric Literary History: Poetry Across Borders in Medieval Sicily (SIQILLIYA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1931221.0
EU funding (EUR): 1931221.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Medieval Sicily occupies a crucial position in literary history: incorporating the three monotheistic traditions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, it has a repertoire of texts in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Romance. In the 13th century, Sicily was the protagonist in a pivotal event in world literature: the rise of the Italian lyric. This early Italian poetry was to influence Dante and Petrarch, as well as humanists and scholars throughout Europe until at least the 18th century. No study to date has been capable of addressing the poetry of medieval Sicily as a whole. Literary studies on Sicily have been compartmentalised according to disciplinary boundaries: a compartmentalisation which has hampered our understanding of the foundational role that Sicily's multicultural past played in literary history. The proposed project aims to address the complexities of medieval Sicilian literature by studying the totality of the court poetry produced in Sicily in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian between the 10th and the 13th cc. The project thus promises to shed light on what amounts to a black hole in literary history: it will document over four centuries of cultural interactions, and allow us to fully assess the role of Sicily's many cultures in the rise of the Italian lyric. Our team will collect all of the available evidence in an electronic corpus, to be published online under a Creative Commons licence, and then study it using the latest IT tools. Working across linguistic boundaries, our team will approach this poetic corpus as a whole, in order to reveal how the multiple linguistic traditions of medieval Sicily interacted with each other, shaping a unique "semiotic community" whose expressions were to contribute to the formation of Western culture.

Keywords: medieval sicily,arabic literature,hebrew literature,medieval latin literature,byzantine literature,medieval italian literature,transcultural medieval studies
European Mining in the Green and Digital Era (MASTERMINE)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Germany,Poland,Finland,South Africa,Cyprus,Italy
Call: Sustainable and innovative mine of the future (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13840564.91
EU funding (EUR): 11963524.5
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The industry is facing surmounting challenges today, such as deeper mining, social license to operate, access to land, higher production rates, but at a lower cost and more challenging environments, both underground and on the surface. Innovative mining technologies, research and education are required through bridging of business, research, and education, to enable a sustainable, efficient, and successful mining industry now and in the future. MASTERMINE proposes a structural multilevel change for the mining operations, focusing on the top-down axis of Culture, Strategy and Tactics. Culture refers to the intrinsic change for the EU mines, to understand the value of digitalization and environmental sustainability We address the Strategy pillar for the mine, by designing high-level modules that address real industrial challenges. We lead the digital transformation of mines through CYBERMINE, we foster autonomous and electric operations along with smart monitoring and maintenance through AUTOMINE, we ensure safety and stability in critical structures using GEOMINE, in GREENMINE we enhance the environmental sustainability of the mines by improving energy consumption, air quality and GHG emissions, water savings and waste valorisation. In METAMINE, we build a virtual world for the EU mines, introducing the concept of the mining metaverse hosting all the technologies, along with Digital Twins and Business Intelligence to provide simulation and decision support. Finally, we make the EU mine OURMINE, by bringing the communities together, build trust around the sustainability compliance of the raw material and fostering social innovation. We are going to demonstrate our approach in 5 EU demo cases and one replication demo in South Africa. Our mining partners offer access to a total of 11 mines around Europe, producing 10 different raw materials, including 5 CRMs (Cobalt, Tungsten, Coking Coal, Phophate Rock and Platinum).

Keywords: digitalisation,sustainability
A Compact Continuous Superradiant Clock on the mHz strontium line (CCSuperClock)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Optical atomic clocks can measure time with an uncertainty on the order of just a few seconds over the age of the universe. Measurement with this level of precision has far-reaching applications, from the measurement of minute changes in the fundamental physics constants revealing physics beyond the Standard Model, to technological advances in navigation and network synchronization. To unlock the full potential of atomic clocks, we must minimize the dependence on the precision of an external optical resonator and miniaturize the experimental apparatus required, allowing for field-deployability. In this project, I will realize the first ever continuous superradiant laser based on 88-Sr atoms, theoretically proposed to reach a linewidth even smaller than the ultra-narrow natural linewidth of the clock transition in strontium. I will then use the continuous superradiant laser as the basis for the first ever continuous superradiant optical clock, minimizing uncertainties due to the Dick effect. Further, during the fellowship I will use my previous experience with compact cold atom systems to miniaturize the experimental apparatus as a step towards a compact continuous superradiant clock.

Keywords: continuous superradiance,continuous ultracold atom machine,compact optical atomic clocks,field deployable atomic clocks
Sustainable Smart Specialisation for the Re-opening of Industrial Sites in the Danube Region (RIS4Danu)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Slovenia
Call: Re-opening industrial sites preparatory action – Promoting a sustainable strategy for Europe’s industrial future (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999817.5
EU funding (EUR): 999816.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The CSA RIS4Danu proposes a series of concerted actions over 24 months to elaborate strategic business development plans for the re-opening of 21 disused industrial sites in the Danube Macro-Region, an area that stretches from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. The project directly connects to the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), a macro-regional strategy to address common economic and societal challenges and create synergies and coordination between existing policies and initiatives. Danube neighbouring states share a proud and centuries-old history of manufacturing and industrial production, yet political upheavals, globalisation and technological advancements have confronted many Danube regions with the challenges of structural transformation and have triggered the closing down of numerous industrial plants and sites. In many regions, plant closures and the associated displacement of workers caused severe socio-economic effects on workers, local communities and regions. At the heart of the RIS4Danu project is the goal of applying an evidence-based Smart Specialisation (S3) approach to support place-based innovation for green/digital and inclusive transitions in regions along the Danube River. This project ties in with current debates and requests to combine smart specialisation with considerations of socio-ecological challenges such as climate change, environmental issues and growing social and territorial inequality: Smart Specialisation Strategies for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth (S4+). We argue that the re-opening of old industrial sites shows the potential to build transformative resilience in less-favoured Danube regions. These sites could serve as innovation anchors, unleashing opportunities for the entire region to strengthen their capacity to develop innovative solutions to place-specific ecological, social and economic challenges. Project activities include cross-regional peer exchange and a transfer of knowledge along the Danube River.

Keywords: regional transformation,smart specialisation,sustainability,resilience,innovation ecosystems,industrial sites,business plans