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Heritage Ecologies: culture, resilience and development in Island States (ECO-HERITAGES)

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: Malta,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-13
End date: 2025-02-12
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 161411.52
EU funding (EUR): 161411.52
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal investigates the role of cultural heritages in promoting local economic development and social and environmental resiliences, in the context of Small Island States (SIS), Small Island and Developing States (SIDS) and Sub- National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) located in Europe, the African continent and in the Indian Ocean. Small islands are extremely vulnerable to climate change due to their small size and exposure to sea level rise, affecting their social and economic development. Crossing anthropology, heritage, environment, development and island studies, this research aims at integrating institutional heritagization processes and indigenous knowledge systems in actions for sustainable futures. This project will be hosted by the Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI) of the University of Malta, one of the few European entities in island studies and insular development, and supervised by Dr Stefano Moncada, specialist in development economics, climate change and sustainable development, and by Professors Lino Briguglio and Godfrey Baldacchino, world leading scholars in small states and islands studies. Addressing the challenges, at European and global level, of informing effective responses to mitigate social, economic and ecological consequences of climate change, this project will focus on the SIS of Malta, the SIDS of Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles and the SNIJs of the French island territories of Reunion and Mayotte. Through an innovative interdisciplinary methodology, this research contributes with ethnography and cultural studies to sustainable development theories and brings socio-economic resilience analyses to heritage studies. This research will contribute, overall, to the role of Malta and of SIS in the UN actions for Sustainable Development, the EU Development and Cooperation actions and the Missions of the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 Framework.

Keywords: small island states,small island and developing states,sub national island jurisdictions,africa,europe,heritage,ethnography,indian ocean,mediterranean,ecology,sustainability,resilience
TURBOEEG: A fast open-source brain imaging package for electroencephalography (TurboEEG)

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: Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Electroencephalography (EEG) from scalp potentials is a crucial non-invasive technique for imaging the electric brain activity. EEG is of primary importance in several scenarios of substantial societal impact ranging from electric characterization of epileptic seizures to the development of brain computer interfaces. One of the key technologies in advanced EEG imaging is the source imaging/localization procedure where the volume electric current responsible for the scalp potential is obtained solving an inverse source problem, in turn requiring several solutions of the EEG forward problem. The imaging of the brain currents is what makes the standard EEG readings into high resolution EEG brain imaging. Lamentably, the standard EEG forward problem has cubical computational complexity resulting in an eight times increase in computer memory and computational time every time the problem doubles in size. This substantially limits the impact of EEG imaging, especially in low power computational systems and in social settings that cannot afford expensive computing machines. The object of the “TurboEEG” project is to radically change this paradigm, we will translate the outcomes of the ERC Consolidator Grant project “321” into the field of EEG neuroimaging obtaining and distributing the first existing EEG open source package that will solve the EEG imaging problem in linear complexity, speeding up standard EEG imaging of orders of magnitude and making high resolution EEGs widely available and cheap. Since EEG source imaging is what translate a standard EEG device into an high resolution one, the new open source tool will have a substantial impact on society by making available high resolution EEG technology in environments where top computational power is not available, such as small hospitals, ambulatories, schools and universities. The new open-source tool will in fact also have a substantial impact on education, professional training, and brain research.
Sustainable manufacture systems towards novel bio-based materials (GREEN-LOOP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,Poland,Germany,Austria,Portugal,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Italy
Call: Manufacturing technologies for bio-based materials (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5138388.75
EU funding (EUR): 5138388.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

GREEN-LOOP addresses novel bio-based materials solutions, tackling the problem from a circular-business thinking perspective, which will enable overcoming the barrier for new manufacture tools, energy efficiency improvements and sustainable value chains. The main goal of GREEN-LOOP is to design and optimise 3 innovative bio-based materials and components for industrial sectors: construction, packaging, food, beverage, appliances and tooling. 1) multifunctional panels rubber panels with fire resistance and vibrational applications, 2) bioplastic bottle closures for oil and fruit juice, 3) wood composites bearings for plastic injection machines. The value chain of each product is optimised from raw material source to End Of Life of products, ensuring the circular economy. All manufacturing lines are retrofitted to adapt to the new enhanced bio compoundings using Artificial Intelligence. Ultrasound improvement is included in the lignin production and rubber manufacture, and Microwaves improve preheating of bioplastic on injection moulding and curing of wood composites. The whole process is monitored and presented in a virtual platform that includes KPI evaluation, business optimization in real-time, training (webinars), and social engagement

Keywords: bioplastics,bio rubber,wood composites,environment,circular value chain,innovative manufacture,extrusion,injection moulding,hot press,microwave,ultrasound,lca,lcc,slca,end of life
Genetics across the lifespan: Unraveling age-specific determinants of severe mental illness (GenLife)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mental disorders affect 1 in every 8 people in the world right now. Genetic predisposition plays a crucial role in the development of severe mental disorders. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revolutionized the field of psychiatric genomics by identifying the individual effects of millions of common genetic variants on behavioral, cognitive, and clinical traits. However, current GWAS provide a static snapshot of genetic influences and thus misses the rich tapestry of genetic effects that unfold across an individual's lifespan. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program, the GenLife project aims to uncover novel genetic variants with age-dependent effects that have remained hidden until now. Revealing age-specific determinants of severe mental illness across the lifespan will promote the development of more effective, biology-based prediction tools tailored to individuals' disease trajectories. By providing timely support and intervention, mental health professionals will be able to identify and address emerging mental health issues before they escalate into more severe conditions. The GenLife project is based on the synergy between the applicant's highly interdisciplinary profile, cutting-edge research at the host institution, and unique Nordic resources. It will be completed at world-leading research institutions, the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), under the supervision of Prof. Ole A. Andreassen. Expanding the applicant's line of research, academic maturity, and professional networks will enhance the development of his career as an independent researcher.

Keywords: genetics,lifespan,gwas,age,mental disorder,temperament,trajectory
Innovation in Supercritical CO2 Power generation systems (ISOP)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Czechia,Germany,Portugal,Italy,Belgium,Switzerland,Denmark,United Kingdom,France
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4373460.26
EU funding (EUR): 3818187.0
Participants: 31
Project status: SIGNED

The primary objective of this four-year work programme is to undertake cutting edge multidisciplinary research and development to make a step change in understanding of Supercritical CO2 based power generation systems’ technology and its potential to enable a step change in thermal energy power cycles to be a major contributor to achieving the 2050 zero emissions targets while providing specialised training for 15 doctoral researchers to help establish the backbone of an important industry. The technical objectives of this research are: 1- Develop advanced models and design tools that enable the optimal integration of sCO2 power systems components for various thermal energy sources and end use applications 2- Develop accurate prediction tools for the simulation of transient operation of sCO2 power cycles and investigate innovative concepts of control and optimisation of operation 3- Develop innovative methods to enhance aerodynamic and mechanical performance, reliability, and operability of key system components 4- Develop advanced modelling and experimental methods that enable selection and development of materials, coatings and manufacturing techniques To achieve the objectives of this training programme effectively, ISOP proposes four research WPs and requests funding from the EU for 15 Doctoral Candidates for a total of 540 person months who will work on an ambitious plan to advance the sCO2 power cycles technology beyond the state-of-the-art. The project aims to contribute to the EU agenda on European Research Area by training “a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers”, who can face future challenges and to “convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit”. In addition, support to and compliance with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals will be at the heart of the training of the doctoral candidates and the scientific and economic outcomes of this research.

Keywords: supercritical co2,brayton cycle,turbomachinery,cycle and operation optimisation,renewable energy,nuclear power systems,commercialisation,heat exchangers materials,concentrated solar power
Beyond hyperelasticity: a virgin land of extreme materials (Beyond)

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: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2476084.0
EU funding (EUR): 2476084.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Beyond bifurcation, beyond instability, beyond even hyper-elasticity (!) there is an unexplored world of superior materials, capable of introducing a high-tech revolution and even influencing our daily lives. Surpassing bifurcation and instability yields unprecedented deformational capabilities and going beyond the concept of the elastic potential leads to materials capable of absorbing energy from the environment in a closed cycle of deformation and releasing it upon request. The road to this new paradigm is the fusion of the concepts of structural mechanics with the principles of solid mechanics, both brought to the highly nonlinear realm of extreme deformation. This opens virgin territory, left unexplored since the 100-years-old definition of the elastic potential, which has been treated until now as inviolable dogma. But structural engineers know structures capable of harvesting energy from the wind or becoming dynamically unstable when subject to follower loads, so that the implantation of these structural concepts in microscale form into a macroscopic solid leads to the creation of materials surpassing the concept of elastic potential and opening new horizons in the design of new materials. Our recent work exhibited that a purely elastic and conservative system can experience flutter instability. This strongly implies that an elastic solid can be devised that will exhibit this instability and violates hyper-elasticity. Implementing these concepts at the microscale (with elements generating microscopic interactions to suck/deliver energy from/to external sources) leads to architected materials which may harvest energy, or release it to move a mechanism, or propagate a signal with amplification, or suffer a Hopf bifurcation and self-oscillate at designed frequency. This is an unexplored field where we expect applications in metamaterials, locomotion devices, wearable technologies, sensors, or interacting devices for use in everyday life and medical applications.

Keywords: solid mechanics structural mechanics elasticity theory architected materials
Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emissions and Data sovereignty (ASCEND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Space
Destination: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructures, Services, Applications and Data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Poland,Germany,Belgium,Czechia,Italy
Call: Future space ecosystems: on-orbit operations, new system concepts (HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 16.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2047882.5
EU funding (EUR): 2047882.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal introduces a pioneering new on-orbit services system concept which would rapidly industrialize the European space ecosystem, making Europe a world leader in robotized and sustainable modular infrastructures as well as reusable launchers, with additional competitive benefits for a sustainable European digital industry and sovereign cloud autonomy. European space technology has now reached a level of maturity that makes possible a revolutionary – yet feasible – endeavour: the installation of internet data centres in orbit, in order to reduce the exponential impact of digital technology on energy consumption and on climate warming. The installation of large modular space infrastructures with robotic assembly, megawatt level space-based solar power, high throughput optical communications, low cost and reusable launchers, is now within the European space industry’s capability. The goal of the proposed study is to demonstrate that placing future data centre capacity in orbit, using solar energy outside the earth’s atmosphere, will substantially lower the carbon footprint of digitalization. Space data centres could therefore become an active contributor to the EC Green Deal objective of carbon neutrality by 2050, which would justify the investment required to develop and install such a large space infrastructure system. It would also strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty and autonomy, for a sustainable and prosperous digital future. Given the ambition and huge potential impact of this project, which would become a major European flagship program, a broad system-level feasibility and business study is necessary. For that purpose, the ASCEND consortium has brought together major players in the fields of environment analysis (Carbone 4, Vito), data centres architecture, hardware and software (Orange, CloudFerro, HPE), space systems development (Thales Alenia Space, Airbus, DLR), and access to space (ArianeGroup).

Keywords: net zero emission,carbon footprint,data centre,large space infrastructure,on orbit operations,on orbit assembly,robotics,optical communications,reusable launcher,green launcher
Occult Bohemia: Magic and Nationalism in Central Europe (OCCULT-NATION)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project's objective is to understand and analyse ties between occultism and ethnicity and nationalism. Scholars discussed ethnicity and nationalism mostly with regard to German and Nazi occultism, however, Slavic countries also drawn interest recently and remain unexplored since there is a substantial scholarship on the occultism in western Europe and its world globalization, while eastern and central Europe has been neglected until recently. The project fills these knowledge gaps by investigating the Czech occult milieu and its relation to nation and ethnicity between 1890–1945 as a representative case of Slavic occultism. Project's hypothesis is that despite external and outer differences, both Slavic and German occultism is based upon the same shared set of assumptions and concerns. The project challenges the current hypothesis which presupposes an intrinsic difference between the German and Slavic occultism. The research methodology involves a combination of a discursive-historical approach focused on the analysis of topoi. This is supplemented by the comparative method. Although discursive approaches have been used in several studies in the study of esotericism, this project aims to develop such approaches further by focusing on topoi analysis. The project contributes to a better understanding of Central European nationalisms by interlinking research on nationalism and alternative forms of religion and bringing into mutual conversation thus far separated debates in the study of esotericism and nationalism. The project will also introduce new material, unknown to an international scholarly audience, filling a gap in religious and political history in 19th- and 20th-century central Europe. In sum, the project proposes originality and innovation on the level of theory (hypothesis), methodology advancement, presents new material, and interlinks several research fields and approaches.

Keywords: esotericism,ocultism,nationalism,ethnicity,central europe,bohemia,czechoslovak republic
Towards Competitive, Reliable, Safe and Sustainable Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plants (TOPCSP)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,France,Cyprus,Germany,Hungary,Belgium
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2687211.2
EU funding (EUR): 2563591.4
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

This training project (TOPCSP) will offer 10 promising doctoral candidates a unique international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research and innovation framework that will boost their excellence in the development of innovative technologies capable of solving the challenges currently faced by the solar thermal power industry in the EU and worldwide. Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) with Thermal Energy Storage (TES) is a key technology to support the transition to a competitive and sustainable energy system. However, an effort is needed to make this technology competitive by increasing its efficiency, reducing its costs and improving its reliability and environmental profile. TOPCSP project will include research activities aimed at reducing the cost of current CSP plant, increasing the temperature of the heat transfer media of the next generation of CSP plants, developing more efficient power blocks and optimizing the plant design. CSP research requires high-level human resources covering a wide range of competences. TOPCSP will be able to train researchers with the technical knowledge and transferable skills needed to contribute to this aim from either the academic or the industrial sector. The consortium of this proposal will provide balanced scientific and applied skills together with the global vision of the CSP industry that will maximize the employability of the trained researchers. The consortium comprises 8 academic beneficiaries with a long record of research on CSP and two industrial beneficiaries, which are leading companies in the sector. The associated partners of the network include the largest R&D & test centre focused on CSP in Europe, high-tech companies specialized in the different subsystems of the CSP plant, an agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable development, and a training company specialized in R&I project development and management.

Keywords: concentrated solar power solar tower solar thermal power plants high temperature solar thermal high temperature energy storage solar receiver