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Visualizing clean energy to optimise identification of viable projects. (TOE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Olsights is a B Corp certified company with a purpose to contribute to accelerating the Energy Transition by enabling the right projects for development and grid connection. Our inspiration is knowing that in order for projects to be accelerated, the decision-making around practical Do-ability and Investability needs to be streamlined and digitalized. We have created a first-in-industry visualisation tool ‘The Olsights Eye’ to act as a single source of truth for Clean Energy Developers and Authorities such as Power Grid operators. The Eye uses the latest modern geospatial and analytic visualisations to simplify understanding the complexities of vast dynamic datasets, speed up analysis by integrated the technical, economical and regulatory analysis, and facilitate collaboration by all stakeholders involved in deciding the viability of large-scale Energy Transition developments. Over the last 4 years, we have worked on real world projects with UK Companies (The Crown Estate, SSEN-Transmission, etc) to create prototypes by visualising carbon emission sources, hydrogen developments and power transmission networks. Currently, the tool is at TRL 7 - we have demonstrated it in real business environment. We are requesting EIC funding (€1.6M, 70% grant = €1.1M) for a 22 month project to progress our tool development to TRL 8 (early commercialisation). The project will allow us to progress our product development with more advanced visualisations and prepare us for internalisation and to the EU(Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Norway). Over the next 2 to 5 years, the grant will enable business growth from 5 employees to 22, revenue growth from €625K to €12M. Our impacts range from the short term (saving money, and decreasing timelines by 85%) to the long term - enabling the execution of clean energy projects with the potential to abate up to 92MtCO2e per year, equivalent to removing up to 65,000 petrol cars off the road. This supports SDGs 7, 9, 13 & 17.

Keywords: clean energy power grids energy transition transmission grids renewable energy
Development of an AI-based algorithm for contrast agent dose reduction in magnetic resonance imaging (DAICAR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In cranial magnetic resonance tomography (cMRT), the administration of contrast agent facilitates diagnosis of various pathologies such as metastases due to contrast agent enhancement. Patients undergoing a medically indicated cMRT receive 100% of the authorized contrast agent dose, i.e., 0.1 mmol of gadolinium per kg body weight. The main component of MRT contrast agent is gadolinium, which is a highly toxic rare-earth element, which has potential health side effects (inter alia allergic reactions and accumulation in the body) as well as environmental side effects (accumulation in the tap water). Due to the aforementioned issues, the reduction of contrast agent dose in cMRT is highly desirable. To tackle this issue, Katerina Deike-Hofmann from the Clinic for Neuroradiology at the University Hospital Bonn together with colleagues and collaborators from the Institute of Mathematics and Life Sciences developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithm that allows for contrast agent reduction called SmartContrast. Until today, more than 1.000 prospective data sets were acquired at seven different clinics and SmartContrast showed excellent generalizibility. Thus, Katerina Deike-Hofmann founded the relios.vision GmbH as a spin-off of the University Bonn to commercialize SmartContrast. Her goal is to advance the clinical standard by combining knowledge from the areas of medicine, mathematical image processing, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,radiology,computing,software as a medical device,deep learning
Combinatorial and Geometric Methods for Mapping Class Groups of Surfaces (MapSurf)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Luxembourg,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Given a mathematical object, a common theme is to study the symmetries of that object. In this project, the objects are compact topological surfaces, and the group of symmetries is the mapping class group. In this project, we will investigate simplicial graphs associated to surfaces, which have proved to be key tools in the study of both the algebraic and the geometric structure of mapping class groups. Studying the geometry of groups has proved to be a profound way to study their algebraic properties. We will focus on a graph called the pants graph, whose vertices represent pants decompositions of the surface (collections of homotopy classes of simple closed curves that cut the surface into spheres with three holes). The pants graph is significant not only in the study of mapping class groups, but also in studying the hyperbolic geometry of surfaces and 3-manifolds. The first part of the project is to understand how distances between vertices in the pants graph are related to the number of intersections between the corresponding pants decompositions. For a related graph, the curve graph, it is known that the distance between two vertices is bounded above by a logarithmic function of the number of intersections, but the methods do not immediately generalise to the pants graph. We will also investigate questions of computational complexity around computing distances in the pants graph. This part of the project will include a secondment at a computer science department. The second part of the project is to investigate maps from the pants graph to itself which preserve distances up to bounded error (such maps are called quasi-isometries). In a general metric space, the group of quasi-isometries is much bigger than the isometry group, but for most pants graphs, Bowditch proved that the two groups coincide, a property called quasi-isometric rigidity. We aim to prove that the same is true for three of the remaining unsolved cases.

Keywords: mapping class groups,geometric group theory,curves in surfaces,low dimensional topology,complexes of curves,combinatorial geometry,computational geometry,hyperbolic geometry
Mobility and Life histories in the Alps - Understanding prehistoric social strategies in mountain environment (MOLA)

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,Belgium,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Several hundred sites dating from the 5th to the 2nd millennia BC have been identified in the eastern Italian Alps making them one of the best archaeologically-mapped regions among the European mountains. However, despite the large amount of residential and productive prehistoric sites, only few funerary contexts have been unearthed, and even fewer human remains have been studied using state of the art bioarchaeology (e.g. isotope analyses, DNA, etc.). Prehistoric burials found in the eastern Italian Alps represent a unique and exceptional source of information that can provide crucial knowledge on past human mobility and life histories in mountain environment. During this 4,000-year time span an increase of social complexity and an intensification of exchange networks are documented in this region, a buffer zone between the Mediterranean and the central Europe, crossed by major north-south routes (Adige-Eisack valleys), that implied an intensive movement of people, objects and ideas. The MOLA project aims to integrate Alpine Landscape Archaeology with state-of-the-art bioarchaeology and spatial modelling to understand how social strategies influenced human mobility and life histories from the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age in mountain environment with a particular focus on the eastern Italian Alps. To tackle this research goal an innovative methodology based on the combined analysis of strontium (87Sr/86Sr), oxygen (d18O) and sulphur (d34S) isotope ratios in prehistoric cremated (87Sr/86Sr only) and inhumed human remains from the area and period under study is used. These are coupled with data from Alpine Landscape Archaeology on human-environment interactions (stratigraphic excavations, surveys, geomorphology, etc.) to shed light on social strategies and possible gender differences behind individual and collective mobility and life histories in the eastern Italian Alps during the Neolithic, the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age.

Keywords: alps,neolithic,chalcholitic,bronze age,funerary archaeology,isotopes,mobility
Developing and implementing VIrtual Control groups To reducE animal use in toxicology Research (VICT3R)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Innovative Health Initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: IHI (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Denmark,Ireland,Romania,Belgium,United Kingdom,United States,Netherlands,France,Switzerland,Finland,Italy
Call: Accelerating the implementation of New Approach Methodologies and other innovative non-animal approaches for the development, testing and production of health technologies (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 26995885.75
EU funding (EUR): 13524750.0
Participants: 45
Project status: SIGNED

VICT3R, a public-private partnership running under the European Innovative Health Initiative, aims to significantly reduce the number of animals used in experimental studies performed during the nonclinical drug and chemical safety evaluation by replacing the animals of the concurrent controls groups (CCGs) with Virtual Control Groups (VCGs). These VCGs will be generated by means of state-of-the-art statistical or artificial intelligence (AI) approaches that optimally exploit the wealth of historical data from control animals accumulated over decades by pharmaceutical companies and other relevant industrial and academic sectors. The VCG concept was conceived and prototyped during the recently finished eTRANSAFE IMI2 project for its application in the nonclinical safety assessment of the pharmaceutical industry. A preliminary evaluation of the VCG concept carried out in the eTRANSAFE project demonstrated that it is generally feasible, yet scientifically and operationally challenging and must therefore be refined before its adoption for regulatory hazard and risk assessment. The main challenges consist of adequate data collection and curation, identification of key variables to achieve optimal matching between VCGs and CCGs, and validation of procedures including compliance with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). These challenges will be systematically tackled in VICT3R for achieving the full development and regulatory acceptance of the VCG concept. VICT3R will collect, curate and analyse large data sets of control animals from different species to produce a large high-quality database. The database will be made available to VICT3R partners, regulators, and policy makers with the purpose to allow maturation of the VCG concept and to prove its validity, reproducibility and robustness. While VICT3R will be primarily focused on repeated dose toxicity studies, the extension of the VCG concept to other types of studies involving animals will also be tackled. VICT3R will promote that its database and software platform is maintained and expanded long term.

Keywords: nams,3rs,artificial intelligence,computational toxicology,software
Twin Wind tunnels for Energy and the EnvironmenT - Innovations and Excellence (TWEET-IE)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Italy,Netherlands
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498250.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

TWEET-IE aims to upgrade the Wind Tunnel (WT) testing activities of the widening member National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). The NTUA WT will be rendered on par with other world class facilities for hosting a variety of research applications in the field of external aerodynamics, primarily focusing on clean-tech, energy and transport applications. TWEET-IE is conceptually based on three distinct pillars i) enhancing administration and management capacity, ii) upgrading technical competence and iii) improving visibility and profile of the facility. It includes knowledge transfer and networking activities with 4 leading European universities, which have all been successfully operating their own large WTs for decades and have remarkable scientific and research track records. Renewable energy sources, clean-tech and energy efficiency in the urban environment will be the cornerstones for accomplishing EU’s energy and climate ambition to render Europe the first energy neutral continent by 2050 and WT experiments are indispensible for analyzing issues related to wind energy and environmental flows. This is one reason that upgrading the in-house WT has been prioritized as a research goal of paramount importance for both the School of Mechanical Engineering, NTUA and the labs involved in the WT management and operations. TWEET-IE’s primary goals will be achieved through systematic work and seamless communication between project working groups, comprising key personnel from all partners, and a series of networking, training and research activities and events, in which all leading members of the consortium play an equally important role. TWEET-IE’s strategic research goal is to address the challenge of measurement conformity among different WT. Four identical state-of-the-art test campaigns will be repeated in different tunnels, serving the strategic goal, the improvement of NTUA’s technical capacity and also stimulating research innovation and excellence per se.n

Keywords: wind tunnel,aerodynamics,clean energy,wind engineering
Mapping Out Shark’s Alternative to bone; the Innovation of calcified Cartilage. (MOSAIC)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Shark’s and their relatives are distinctly unique compared to other vertebrates (including humans); they have an internal skeleton made entirely out of cartilage. It was presumed that cartilage was the ancestral condition among vertebrates based on the assumption that evolution would be driven toward the increased complexity of bone. However, recent fossil evidence disproves this assumption and reveals that the skeletal mineralisation shown in sharks (calcified cartilage) is an evolutionary innovation. Our understanding of calcified cartilage in sharks greatly lags behind that of the hard tissues in other vertebrates. Thus, the mechanisms behind cartilage calcification, how or whether this relates to bone, and our overall understanding of how hard tissues evolved in vertebrates is impacted. In this project, I will address this knowledge gap by examining the 3D histology of calcified cartilage in a wide range of both living and fossil sharks, using cutting-edge scanning methods. This holistic approach will cover 400 million years of cartilage evolution in sharks. The results of this project will be of importance across multiple scientific fields: advancing our understanding of the evolution of hard tissues in vertebrates, detailed 3D information on structural properties of calcified cartilage relevant to material engineering, and insight into calcification mechanisms relevant to medical research on cartilage disorders in humans. Naturalis is the perfect setting to conduct this research due to the vast collection of preserved sharks available for study, expertise in hard tissue histology, and active collaborations with medical researchers on cartilage disorders. It also offers a valuable platform for public outreach and skills training, such as in management and science communication. This project will provide a crucial stepping stone towards my aspiration to spearhead a research team focused on bridging research of both fossil and living animals.

Keywords: chondrichthyans,cartilage,skeleton,evolution,tesserae,3d models
Hydrogel Coatings for Improving the Efficiency of Implanted Electrode Arrays (COATARRAY)

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-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Implanted electrode arrays are a key component of neuroprosthetic systems designed to restore functions lost through injury or degeneration of the nervous system. Electrode arrays currently used in clinical practice are made from metals (e.g., Platinum, PtIr alloys) encapsulated in silicone. These materials strike a compromise between electrical properties on one side and good tissue integration on the other. For example, the limited charge injection capacity and high mechanical stiffens of metal electrodes is implicated in challenges with long-term stability, mechanical failure, formation of a glial scar and electrode miniaturization. In the COATARRAY project we will develop a specialized coating designed to radically improve the electrical and mechanical performance of electrode arrays. The coating is based on a bioinspired hydrogel material further endowed with electrical conductivity via incorporation of conductive polymers. The coating can be assembled on a variety of ready-made electrode arrays designed for different applications. In this project we will conduct a thorough electrical characterization of the coating as well as mechanical, insertion, sterilisation, cytocompatibility and accelerated ageing tests. In combination with analysis of the regulatory and commercial landscape, this project will establish an essential milestone towards clinical translation of the COATARRAY technology. If successful, our approach to improving the performance of implanted electrode arrays can lead to better clinical outcomes for established neuroprosthetic systems (cochlear implants, deep brain and spinal cord stimulation) but also to the development of promising new treatments.
EIT InnoEnergy 2025 Activities (EIT InnoEnergy 2025)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
Theme: other EIT
Destination: other EIT
Action type: Knowledge and Innovation Communities
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,Poland,Sweden
Call: 2025 Activities (HORIZON-EIT-2024-MOC-IBA, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6333333.0
EU funding (EUR): 6333333.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

InnoEnergy operates at the centre of the energy transition as the leading innovation engine in sustainable energy. Sustainability in energy means aligning with the Energy Union strategy, contributing to three objectives: (1) Decrease the cost of energy (€/kWh), (2) Increase the security of the energy system, and (3) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions. InnoEnergy draws on the success and lessons learnt from its previous annual business plans, the fulfilment of our 2021-2027 targets, and the recommendations of the Partnership Evaluation Report. All these elements have helped define the specific activities that require further support to realise their ambitions. These activities are also those which provide the highest added value for the fulfilment of common strategic priorities, as expressed across the EIT Impact Framework, EU commitments on the Paris Agreement, UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Green Deal, Fit for 55 Package, and the InnoEnergy Strategic Agenda. The activities will deliver in three areas: - WP Education: Support the uninterrupted delivery of the Human Capital necessary for climate tech development through our overall Education activities with particular emphasis on InnoEnergy’s Master + and Alumni network. - WP Transnational Coordination Activities: InnoEnergy aims to continue its profound impact in the RIS region in alignment with the EIT Hubs evolution decisions outlined in the EIT Country specific roadmap and operationalised in Czechia, Turkey, Estonia, and Hungary – and ambitions to bring our ecosystem value to Romania and Ukraine.

Keywords: education,entrepreneurial skills,innovation gap,ecosystem management,hei,master programme,human capital,eit ris,