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ECO-INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION, SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF AGROECOLOGICAL FOOD PRODUCTS IN AFRICA (INNOECOFOOD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Türkiye,Kenya,Uganda,Germany,United Kingdom,Tanzania, United Republic of,Namibia,Ghana,Egypt,Belgium
Call: Support to the markets and trade of agroecological food products under the Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) partnership (HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7002420.0
EU funding (EUR): 6750129.38
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

INNOECOFOOD aims to establish innovative production/ business ECOHUBS and improve local aquaculture farms using AI and IoT in six African countries. To support EU-AU markets and trade, INNOECOFOOD will train rural farmers, youth and women to innovatively produce and process nutritious aquaculture catfish and tilapia, blue-green cyanobacteria spirulina, and insect value chains that will be processed into certified marketable human food products and feed. This farm to fork approach, reaching TRL7, will be achieved by using climate smart sustainable local resources, innovative chilling and drying processes using renewable energy, reduced water consumption and circular systems within the ECOHUB by an experienced multi-actor consortium comprising 20 partners in Europe and Africa and rural communities. The specific objectives are to: - Conduct scoping of aquaculture practices (living labs) and establish four sustainable and innovative agribusiness rural ECOHUBS using renewable solar/wind energy for the production, processing and marketing of aquaculture value chains (fish and Spirulina) and insects in diverse African countries (WP2), to address AU and EU green deal and trade. - Optimize the production of eco-farmed fish, spirulina and insects, sustainable feeds and post-harvest processing technologies using sensors, AI and IoT technology in aquaculture ECOHUBS and living labs sites (WPs3-5). - Scope suitable plant products; up cycle fish waste nutrients and make novel products from fish and co-products, spirulina and insects by solar powered drying and extrusion processing, using AI sensors and IoT (WP6). - Validate nutritional and sensory quality, microbiological and chemical safety, consumer acceptance, life cycle analysis impact, and implement certification schemes for fish, spirulina and insect processing and products, for consumption, marketing and trade (WP7). - Create a database and train locally 120 youth and 120 women in the ECOHUBSand 5000 rural workers (WP8).

Keywords: food security,eco farms,catfish,tilapia,spirulina,insects,circular economy,socio economic,agro sub products,artificial intelligence,digital quality environmental certification,living labs
Realization and Manipulation of a Planar hybrid superconducting Andreev spin qubit in GErmanium (RAMPAGE)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183600.96
EU funding (EUR): 183600.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the boiling field of quantum technology, the development of a stable, inherently shielded from perturbations quantum register is essential, yet remains elusive. Hybrid semiconductor-superconductor devices have been intensively studied, hunting for Majorana bound states towards topological quantum computing. While this goal has not yet been achieved, it has spurred material developments in III-V semiconductors, creating a new playground for spin qubits, resulting from the hybridization of the semiconductor and the superconductor in 1D Josephson junctions. Pioneering experiments recently demonstrated the manipulation of such a hybrid qubit, the Andreev spin qubit (ASQ), highlighting the potential of this approach. However, it is now reaching its limits due to the intrinsic properties of the host III-V semiconductor and the nanowire geometry, calling for a more suitable platform not demonstrated to date. In this proposal, I will tackle this challenge by fabricating a hybrid electrostatically tunable 1D Josephson junctions from a 2D germanium heterostructure. The first realization of a 1D Josephson weak ling on a planar Ge heterostructure will experimentally prove the possible integration of hybrid junctions, with resolved Andreev bound states. This device will enable the study of the spin-orbit interaction Hamiltonian for holes in 1D, a topic that remains largely unexplored leveraging microwave spectroscopy of Andreev bound states. Then, harnessing the unique properties of Ge, I will realize the first ASQ on a group IV semiconductor heterostructure. The proposed hybrid superconducting ASQ sets a significant milestone in the field, paving the way towards larger ensembles and enabling straightforward microwave connectivity using standard circuit quantum electrodynamic techniques. This harmoniously blends the benefits of semiconductor spin qubits with superconducting circuits, offering a promising path toward topologically protected qubits.

Keywords: hybrid semiconductor superconductor device,ge sige heterostructure,1d josephson weak link,quantum dot,circuit quantum electrodynamics cqed,quantum computing
Regenerative living labs to improve soil ecosystem functions by adapting agricultural land use with livestock integration (GroundWork)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Soil health and food
Destination: Soil health and food
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,Portugal,Belgium,Serbia,Netherlands,Spain,Poland,Finland,Denmark,Switzerland,Germany,Sweden,Greece
Call: Co-creating solutions for soil health in Living Labs (HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11999555.5
EU funding (EUR): 11999555.04
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

Soils form the basis of human health and prosperity, with 95% of food production reliant on this vital belowground ecosystem. However,60-70% of soils in the EU are degraded, primarily due to unsustainable agricultural practices and climate change, costing the EU an estimated €50 billion annually. One of the key contributors to soil degradation is intensive livestock farming. While livestock production contributes €170 billion to the EU economy and supports livelihoods, it also drives environmental challenges, including GHG emissions and water pollution. Intensive livestock farming accounts for >80% of agricultural emissions, with additional risks like ammonia emissions and nutrient runoff contributing to eutrophication and soil degradation. A shift towards sustainable, regenerative livestock farming is necessary to address these challenges. The general objective of GroundWork is to catalyse the transformation of the European livestock & agricultural sector towards improved soil health, enhanced ecosystem resilience, and regenerative food production by harnessing the potential of adaptive livestock management across diverse EU regions, within a participatory R&I approach. To achieve this objective, GroundWork will engage a wide range of livestock grazing stakeholders to co-design and implement Regenerative Livestock Grazing Practices (RLGPs) based on regional farming realities and contexts. The co-creation processes will be done through the establishment of five LLs located in 5 countries (PT, DE, BE, SE, RS). The RLGPs will be tested & demonstrated across a range of farming systems (both conventional & organic) and different pedoclimatic zones. A Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) mechanism will be put in place to increase the number of farmers involved in the GroundWork LLs.

Keywords: living labs,regenerative livestock farming,regenerative agriculture
Scattering approach to thermodynamics of quantum systems (SAT-Q)

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: Ireland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding thermodynamics in the quantum regime involves the understanding of how energy and information are exchanged between a quantum system and its surroundings. Although the laws of thermodynamics are well understood for macroscopic classical environments, advancements in quantum technology press the need for a microscopic approach which treats the surroundings as a quantum system in its own right. This project, which I call scattering approach to thermodynamics of quantum systems (SAT-Q), aims at providing such an approach. It relies on a quantum treatment of the surroundings as particles which travel in space and scatter with a quantum system. The starting point of SAT-Q are state-of-the-art results showing how the scattering approach with massive particles goes beyond existing collision-based approaches to thermodynamics of quantum systems by explaining the notions of heat and work in a fully-quantum fashion. The plan of the SAT-Q is then to extend the scattering approach to situations of greater theoretical and experimental relevance, where particle statistics are important and when incoming particles are photons. This is essential in quantum transport and optics setups, where the scattering approach can be applied. In parallel, the plan of SAT-Q is to establish a connection between the scattering approach and more abstract approaches to thermodynamics based on resource theories, bringing the latter closer to reality. Since scattering is ubiquitous in nature and physics experiments, I expect SAT-Q to produce new, foundational results in the field of quantum thermodynamics which can be directly tested in modern experiments.

Keywords: quantum,thermodynamics,scattering
SUSTAINABLE TRANSITIONS. ACTION RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN URBAN PERSPECTIVE (STARTUP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Slovakia,Germany,Spain,Poland,France,Belgium
Call: New European Bauhaus – Innovative solutions for greener and fairer ways of life through arts and culture, architecture and design for all (HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5013701.78
EU funding (EUR): 4915442.06
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

STARTUP will engage in a double-sided process of taking action and doing research that promotes transformative change. The project highlights the critical role of cultural heritage (CH) and the cultural creative industries (CCIs) in socio-economic, post-crisis recovery and their potential to drive the transition towards a beautiful, inclusive, sustainable environment. These principles align with the New European Bauhaus’s (NEB) core values, which seek to engage citizens, institutions, and creative individuals as thinkers and change-makers in shaping a better future. The project adopts the placemaking paradigm, which promotes a bottom-up, small-scale and place-based approach. In eight small-scale trials, placemaking based on culture and creativity will be tested and refined. Cultural mapping and comparative case study research will further promote the knowledge-base for such interventions. The trials, mappings and case studies will form the empirical underpinnings of analyses of sustainable architectural design, multi-level policy and governance, and social, economic and environmental impacts (positive and negative) of culture-driven placemaking. These analyses, in turn, will form the evidence-base for STARTUP’s final results and main outcome: a “European Creative Placemaking Framework”, which is the policy-option STARTUP will innovate. The approach of the framework builds upon local actors in culture and creativity, and aims at strengthening these actors as well as local authorities, in building their future on the tangible and intangible cultural resources represented in the place. The framework, which aims to be a world-leading management tool, hereby supports local economic development, sustainability, social cohesion and identity across Europe, but based on local cultural and creative professionals engaged in their art.

Keywords: innovation,cultural heritage,cultural creative industries,ecosystem,placemaking
Soft Organic Electrochemical Neurons for Biochemical Sensing and Delivery (S-OECN)

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: Sweden,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-13
End date: 2026-12-12
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Recent advancements in prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces, and neural therapy require electronics that communicate with biological systems. However, electronic circuits manipulate 1/0 binary digits, whereas biological neurons function with ion flux-induced neural spikes. To emulate biological neuron functions in hardware implementations, artificial neurons have been developed using inorganic memristors or transistors, but they have failed to integrate with biotic neurons due to their high operating voltage and inherent inertness towards ion/neurotransmitter-based modulation. In this regard, organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) distinguish themselves by using ionic species to mediate electron/hole conductance in organic semiconductors, making them the ideal candidate for fabricating organic electrochemical neurons (OECNs) with high biocompatibility and biochemical-mediated functionalities. So far, OECNs have been demonstrated by the project host (Prof. Simone Fabiano at Linköping University) with the capability to emulate biorealistic spiking patterns, response to exogenous ions or neurotransmitters for spiking modality alternation, and perform event-based neuron stimulation in animal models. However, existing OECNs still face two major limitations that impede their integration with biological nerves, including their rigidity and incapable of performing endogenous biochemical sensing and modulation with biotic neurons. To exploit the advantages of OECNs for bio-integration and bidirectional communication, I will use my expertise in soft materials, devices, and systems to devise OECNs with tissue-like softness, monolithic assembly, and seamless integration with biological nerves. Specifically, stretchable organic semiconductors and other soft constituent materials will be synthesized and prepared; soft OECTs and OECNs that operate stably under mechanical deformation will be devised; soft biochemical sensing and delivery functions will be incorporated.

Keywords: organic semiconductors,organic electrochemical transistors,organic electrochemical neurons,soft electronics,stretchable electronics,bio integation,biochemical sensing,biochemical delivery
Terahertz Integral Field Unit with Universal Nanotechnology (TIFUUN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2993579.0
EU funding (EUR): 2993579.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The next challenge in millimeter-submillimeter (mm-submm) astronomy is to generate 3D maps of statistically large cosmic volumes with complete spectral information, to uncover the history of cold matter back to the first billion years of the Universe, the evolution of hot matter in galaxy clusters, and the emergence of cosmic large-scale structure from those baryonic materials. Vital for this endeavor is the integral field unit (IFU), which is a 2D array of spectrometers that instantaneously measures the spectrum of all points in the image. The IFU has reshaped astronomy at shorter visible wavelengths, but it is totally absent for mm-submm waves, because it falls out of reach of any existing technology. Here I propose to revolutionize astronomy by developing a Terahertz Integral Field Unit with Universal Nanotechnology (TIFUUN). TIFUUN hosts mm-submm IFUs that each have up to 217 spectrometer pixels (spaxels), a wide instantaneous bandwidth up to 1:2, and a sufficiently high spectral resolving power up to R = 1,000, operating at photon-noise limited sensitivity. The breakthrough is the integrated superconducting spectrometer (ISS) technology, which allows to miniaturize the entire IFU onto a commercial 150-mm diameter silicon wafer. I will take TIFUUN to the ASTE 10-m telescope with a set of science-tailored IFUs, and perform ground-breaking observations in 1) ultra-wideband spectroscopy of dusty star-forming galaxies, 2) unbiased mapping of high-redshift line-emitting galaxies, 3) line-intensity mapping of the cosmic large-scale structure, and 4) diagnosis of galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. I will make the tools for designing the IFU open source, encouraging the astronomical community to propose science in combination with optimized IFU designs. This cost-effective "open-hardware" concept marks a new paradigm that opens the specialized field of superconducting instrumentation to the world, bridging cutting-edge nanotechnology and cosmology.

Keywords: integral field unit,spectrometers,superconducting detectors
Evolution of Galaxies in large-scale structures (ELATE)

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 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

I propose the project ELATE (Evolution of galaxies in LArge-scale strucTurEs) to be carried out at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen (RUG; Groningen, the Netherlands), under the mentorship of Prof. Reynier F. Peletier. ELATE aims to significantly enhance our understanding of the role of the environment in shaping galaxies by exploring all regions in the large-scale structure. The main scientific goals are to (i) robustly define the true location of galaxies in the Fornax-Eridanus complex; (ii) identify the processes responsible for their morphological transformation in the LSS; (iii) provide a comprehensive view of the growth of this supercluster, which will serve as a precursor for future studies concerning the evolution of galaxies in the cosmic web. The workflow of this project is a combination of computer science, observational astrophysics, and cosmological simulations, thereby bridging the gap between these fields to maximise scientific output. The objectives will be addressed by: (i) employing novel tools to define filaments of the Fornax-Eridanus complex from the 2MASS redshift survey and study their structure and overall galactic properties in 3D; (ii) detect low-surface brightness features in the outskirts of galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey multi-band deep images, using recently developed tools and thereafter map the assembly history of galaxies in the Fornax Supercluster. My supervisor, Prof. Peletier at the Kapteyn Institute, is an expert in studying galaxy evolution and interdisciplinary techniques and will guarantee the success of this project, with his strong network in Groningen and Europe. Given my expertise in deep photometry and technical skills to execute this project and along with the prospective training that this MSCA-EF will bring, I will be competent to lead future research groups of my own, paving the way for ground-breaking scientific results with upcoming surveys (e.g. Euclid, Rubin LSST)

Keywords: galaxies photometry galaxies formation galaxies evolution galaxies clusters galaxies groups