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Trajectories of taste: An analytical framework of culinary change after migration (TASTE)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999401.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999401.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How and why do cuisines change after migration? The TASTE Project offers a novel approach to study the global spread of cooking techniques, products, dishes, recipes, food practices, and taste hierarchies. By focusing on three relatively old Indonesian diasporas (of Suriname, Sri Lanka, and South Africa), its researchers address the following hypotheses: 1. What people choose to eat is primarily driven by embodied notions of taste; 2. Food preferences are inherited and exchanged; 3. Culinary change significantly resembles linguistic change. Culinary change is yet to be analyzed comprehensively. While we know from earlier studies that flavor affects food preferences and that migration affects eating patterns, we lack an analytical language and integrated methodology to examine these phenomena systematically. Drawing from the conceptual apparatus of historical linguistics and state-of-the-art fieldwork practices, this project develops a new methodological toolkit to identify with greater precision than before how cuisines evolve after migration, how different culinary traditions influence each other, and which different mechanisms propel these processes. The team will collect and analyze recipes and food descriptions from three countries housing Indonesian diasporas, complemented by following-the-things approaches, narrative research, “gastrolinguistic” analysis, and sensory elicitation. The project’s three work packages focus on the role of contact-induced borrowing of culinary features (PhD-1), inherited notions of taste (PhD-2), and economic dimensions of food preferences (PhD-3). These subprojects use the same theoretical and methodological framework, but focus on different categories: sweet desserts, food served during feasts, and “poverty food” respectively. The resulting insights on culinary change hold a largely unacknowledged key to promoting more sustainable consumption patterns and mitigating the fast-increasing number of food-related problems worldwtbd

Keywords: cuisine food migration
Solid Through Rigid Electrolyte: Advanced Measurements (STREAM)

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: Italy,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Na-based all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) are promising alternatives to solve the intrinsic safety and raw materials availability issues related to current Li-ion technology. Moreover, they theoretically overcome the state-of-the-art performance of available cells, by enabling the use of metallic negative electrode. However, the metal penetration over cycling plagues the performance of ASSBs, leading to dangerous short circuits, which can be mitigated by opportune synthesis conditions of the solid electrolytes, as well as by opportune cell stack pressure. To get insights into Na-based systems, at present under explored, this project, STREAM (Sodium Through Rigid Electrolyte: Advanced Measurements), aims to study the relations between mechanical properties and electrochemical behaviour of a selected class of Na-based solid electrolytes, SEs (hydroborates and derivatives), prepared by cost-effective, solvent-free and upscalable mechanochemical syntheses. The metal propagation through the electrolyte will be studied by operando optical measurements on symmetrical Na|SE|Na cells, with an in-plane geometry, a cutting-edge investigation technique never applied to such class of materials, flanked by post mortem SEM and AFM characterizations. The opportune conditions of preparation and cell manufacturing (stack pressure, electrolyte thickness) preventing or limiting the dendrite formation will be therefore transferred to a complete cell prototype, equipped with high-voltage-operating positive electrodes. By correlating electrochemical signature with mechanism of cell failure driven by metal propagation inside the battery, this study will provide a reliable series of data that can open the gate for implementing AI-driven quality control and safety tests on commercial/prototypes ASSBs.
How plants deal with heat and cold: Molecular mechanisms of auxin transport and signaling in response to temperature stress (HOT-AND-COLD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cell Biology, Development, Stem Cells and R egeneration
Panel description: For all organisms : Structure and function of the cell, cell -cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1382689.0
EU funding (EUR): 1382689.0
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

Ambient temperature above or below a threshold can adversely affect plant growth and development, and even lead to death. The tightly regulated distribution of the hormone auxin throughout the plant body controls an impressive variety of developmental processes that tailor plant growth and morphology to environmental conditions. Although non-optimal ambient temperature can alter auxin transport, the precise nature of this alteration and the underlying molecular mechanisms remain enigmatic. Hence, the aim of HOT-AND-COLD is to dissect the molecular mechanisms involved in auxin transport and its downstream signaling upon temperature stress, down to the tissue and cell-type-specific level, focusing on the root of the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana. To achieve this aim, I will combine high-resolution imaging techniques integrated with a temperature-controlled stage system, mass-spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics, TRAP-seq and chemical screens in a multifaceted approach that has never been used for such a study in plant root systems. Using this approach, I expect to reveal: (i) the temperature-responsive phosphoproteome of membrane proteins; (ii) the link between changes in membrane fluidity and the dynamics of auxin transport components within the plasma membrane; (iii) cell-type-specific translatomes that orchestrate auxin transport upon temperature shock as well as in the gradual temperature stress response; and (iv) sensors and components of the signaling pathways controlling plant acclimation to temperature stress. Taken together, the fundamental knowledge obtained through this research will contribute to the mechanistic understanding of plant responses to the temperature variability that will accompany climate change. Such understanding is key for anticipating the impacts of climate variability on agricultural and natural ecosystems.

Keywords: plasma membrane fluidity,microdomains,temperature stress,auxin transport,root
Perovskite Spiking Neurons for Intelligent Networks (PeroSpiker)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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 ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498004.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498004.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

A brain is a complex structure where computing and memory are tightly intertwined at very low power cost of operation, by analog signals across vast quantities of synapse-connected spiking neurons. Animal brains react intelligently to environmental events and perceptions. By developing similar Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) we can realize neuromorphic computation systems excellent for dealing with large amounts of noisy data and stimuli and very well suited for perception, cognition and motor tasks. But the current CMOS technologies perform very poorly for emulating the biological brains and their power consumption is large. Currently we cannot replicate biological neurons behaviours with existing design and manufacturing technology. This project aims to develop compact miniature material elements that will emulate closely the complex dynamic behaviour of neurons and synapses, to form SNNs with substantial reduction in footprint, complexity and energy cost for perception, learning and computation. We investigate the properties of metal halide perovskite that have produced excellent photovoltaic devices in the last decade. These perovskites have ionic/electronic conduction, hysteresis, memory effect and switchable and nonlinear behaviour, that make them ideally suited for the realization of devices in close fidelity to biological electrochemically gated membranes in neurons, and information-tracking synapses. We will use the methodology of impedance spectroscopy and equivalent circuit analysis to fabricate devices with dynamic responses emulating the natural neuronal coupling and synchronization. This method will produce the hardware that we need for a preferred spiking computational model, incorporating time, analog physical elements and dynamical complexity as computational tools. As illustration we will show visual object recognition from spiking data provided by a spiking retina by advanced neuristors and dynamic synapses.

Keywords: neurons,perovskites,impedance,neuromorphic computation
Climate-smart reforestation through the lens of remote sensing and microclimate sensors (EcoClimate Navigator)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Portugal,Switzerland,Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

To address the escalating threat of climate change, there is an urgent need to develop smart strategies that bolster climate resilience. Within the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation policies, reforestation plans stand out as one of the most crucial natural-based solutions. However, the multifaceted role of forests as both warming and cooling agents presents a complicated challenge that remains a topic of ongoing debate. By employing cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, advanced remote sensing technologies, and comprehensive ground-based empirical assessments this proposal, titled "EcoClimate Navigator", aims to uncover how smart reforestation plans can contribute to mitigating local climate change. This project aims not only to enrich existing policy discussions around the topic of reforestation but also to add detailed and novel knowledge beyond what is already known on the role of forests in climate regulations at a global scale. In addition to the expected outstanding outputs of this project, the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action program will set the Experienced Researcher (EI), Sara Alibakhshi, on the right track to build her academic career and eventually become one of the future leaders in the field. This program provides the EI with an excellent opportunity to conduct novel research along with new collaborations within the hosting organization and its partners, which is in line with the objectives of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

Keywords: machine learning algorithms,geospatial analysis,big data analysis,climate change,forests
Residue Management in the Olive Oil industry: Valorisation and Environmental protection (ReMOOVE)

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: Spain,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168788.96
EU funding (EUR): 168788.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of ReMOOVE is to study existing and novel opportunities for an integral valorisation of alperujo, a residue from the extraction of olive oil that creates significant environmental impacts. The aim of the valorisation is to obtain compounds and materials of high interest and minimise the environmental impacts associated with alperujo management. The following valorisation routes will be investigated: use of clay and fresh alperujo to manufacture ?green roofs?, recovery of compounds of interest from the liquid fraction of degreased alperujo by thermal hydrolysis, production of low-cost adsorbent materials from the solid fraction resulting from the hydrolysis process of degreased alperujo for the removal of contaminants from wastewater, and production of fuel gas by gasification of the solid fraction obtained from thermal hydrolysis of the degreased alperujo. Once the valorisation processes are defined and have been tested in a laboratory scale, a thorough environmental impact study will be carried out to ensure that the sustainability performance of the proposed alternative is superior than that of the current waste management strategy. For this, the Life-Cycle Assessment methodology will be used to evaluate environmental impacts for all relevant impact categories, from the moment alperujo is obtained until alperujo and all its by-products are managed. A socio-economic assessment and resilience & risk analysis will also be performed in the last stages of the project to ensure the solutions proposed are viable at an industrial scale. It is expected to integrate the alperujo valorisation processes into the olive oil industry, upgrading existing manufacturing plants to olive oil biorefineries and therefore supporting the circularity in this key sector in the economy of Southern Europe.

Keywords: waste valorisation environmental impact sustainability closed loop manufacturing olive oil alperujo olive mill waste olive pomace biorefinery
FIDELIS: Establishing A European Network of Trustworthy Digital Repositories (FIDELIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EOSC (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Finland,Netherlands,Norway,Serbia,Spain,France,Poland,Germany,Czechia,Italy,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Enabling a network of EOSC federated and trustworthy repositories and enhancing the framework of generic and discipline specific services for data and other research digital objects (HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5445649.75
EU funding (EUR): 4993279.21
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) aims to develop a web of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data and services for science in Europe. In order to achieve a sustainable EOSC, Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs) providing long-term preservation services are required. The FIDELIS project aims to establish a healthy, vibrant and self-sustaining network of TDRs that will foster a supportive open science environment and guarantee FAIR data sharing also in the future. Within its three-year lifetime, FIDELIS will set up, develop, and operate a European network of trustworthy repositories that will support the development and growth of TDRs within the EOSC ecosystem; foster harmonisation and interoperability across repositories to enable an EOSC federation of TDRs; and strengthen the upskilling of repositories and expansion of the network through an active training and support programme. The word Fidelis comes from the latin Fides and means trustworthy, faithful, loyal, dependable, true. In Ancient Rome, Fides is everything that is required for honour and credibility, from fidelity in marriage, to contractual arrangements, and the obligation soldiers owed to Rome. It is also the name of the goddess of trust, faithfulness and good faith (bona fides).

Keywords: trusted digital repositories,data,data management,data preservation,european open science cloud,fair,federation
Goal-Oriented Networking for Space (GO SPACE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2433063.0
EU funding (EUR): 2433063.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The accelerated pace of space exploration, interplanetary and non-terrestrial connectivity calls for scalable and efficient communication network architectures that can achieve end-to-end effectiveness for increasing numbers of bursty flows, occurring in applications such as remote inference, monitoring and automation. This is made challenging by the variable delays and disruptions that sometimes preclude real-time communication and end-to-end acknowledgements. We propose to tackle this fundamental challenge by leveraging insight and methods from the recent progress in the area of goal or task-oriented communication, by setting three fundamental goals: (1) principles and decision metrics for goal-oriented sampling and multi-user scheduling, that can handle highly variable delay processes that contain memory, (2) random access policies for massive machine-type communications that replace exogeneous arrivals with goal-oriented traffic shaping, and (3) flow control mechanisms that exploit the cross-layer operability at application and link layers of Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocols. Through achieving these objectives we will enable effective data flow on space networks using a fraction of the resources with respect to the state-of-the-art, which will provide the required scalability for the growth of interplanetary and non-terrestrial networks (NTN). To ensure the timely transfer of results to the space community, as well as the beneficial impact to the upcoming 6G standard, GO SPACE includes collaborations with specialists in Aerospace and Satellite Networks, and experimentation on real-world satellites and DTN protocols.

Keywords: age of information,task oriented communications,multiuser scheduling,random access,energy harvesting,query age of information,qaoi,delay disruption tolerant networking,modern random access,non terrestrial networks,flow control,bundle protocol,store and forward,satellite iot,inter planetary links,inter planetary relays,lora,lorawan,generate at will,service policies,delay process,age of incorrect information,aoii,age penalty,voi,effective communication,6g,spacenets,cubesats,inference,remote monitoring,real time communication,mtc,rtt,udp,acp,prioritization,goal oriented metrics,scheduling policies,slotted aloha,age threshold
THz Wave Accelerating Cavity for ultrafast science (TWAC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Hungary,Switzerland,Spain
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3198152.5
EU funding (EUR): 3198152.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Particle accelerators are devices of primary importance in a large range of applications such as fundamental particle physics, nuclear physics, light sources, imaging, neutron sources, transmutation of nuclear waste. They are also used every day for cargo inspection, medical diagnostics and radiotherapy worldwide. Electron is the easiest particle to produce and manipulate, resulting in an unequaled energy over cost ratio. However, there is an urgent and growing need to reduce the footprint of accelerators in order to lower their cost and environmental impact, from the future high-energy colliders to the portable relativistic electron source for industrial and societal applications. The radical new vision we propose will revolutionize the use of accelerators in terms of footprint, beam time delivery and electron beam properties (stability, reproducibility, monochromaticity, femtosecond-scale bunch duration), which is today only a dream for a wide range of users. We propose developing a new structure sustaining the accelerating wave pushing up the particle energy, which will enable democratizing the access to femtosecond-scale electron bunch for ultrafast phenomena studies. This light and compact accelerator, for which we propose breaking through the current technological barriers, will open the way towards compact industrial accelerators with an energy gain gradient of more than 100 MeV/m and enlarge time access in the medical environment (preclinical and clinical phase studies). This new accelerating structure will be combined with a conventional femtosecond-scale electron source, to provide a compact layout based on a multi-skill competence (non linear optics, High power optical source, accelerators, dosimetry) secured by industry partners. Its size and weight will for example enable it to be mounted on a robotic arm, to move around a patient for medical applications or material inspection for industrial applications.

Keywords: particle accelerator high power terahertz source radiobiology non linear optics ultra fast detection