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The epistemology of costly communication – offline and online (COST-X)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1389776.0
EU funding (EUR): 1389776.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In our digital era, characterised by easy access to both information and misinformation, understanding the mechanisms that encourage truthful communication is more crucial than ever. Despite the social and ethical importance of these issues, however, we lack a unified framework to systematically investigate the social incentives that motivate speakers to communicate truthfully. COST-X will inaugurate a novel, interdisciplinary, empirically-minded approach to studying communicative norms. The project’s overarching goal is to develop a new methodology, grounded in Costly Signalling Theory, to study how norms and reputation underlie truthful communication, offline and online. Adopting this new lens, COST-X will radically change our understanding of a diversity of phenomena relating to truthfulness: (i) the nature and epistemic function of communicative norms; (ii) deniability and indirectness in speech; (iii) testimonial transmission of knowledge; and (iv) online communication. It will inaugurate a new field of study, digital infrastructure epistemology, which investigates how misinformation spreads by attending to how online platforms alter the reputational infrastructure that motivates speakers to be truthful. Methodologically, COST-X will bring rigorous analytic thought into dialogue with empirical research. Theoretical assumptions will be tested empirically, and theory-building will profit from interdisciplinary cross-pollination from linguistics, biology, game theory, epistemology, and psychology. It will be of high scientific value to all disciplines investigating, or building on, human communication and its norms. Its findings on online communications will have practical uses, establishing philosophical foundations to better understand and tackle the spread of fake news – thus bolstering support for democratic institutions, which rely on a healthy information environment to function properly.

Keywords: epistemic norms,costly signalling theory,speech act theory,epistemology of testimony,epistemology of digital media,experimental philosophy,philosophy of language,experimental pragmatics,misinformation,truthfulness,deniability,fake news,reputation,trust and credibility,experimental psychology,media studies,digital governance,online communication,social epistemology,philosophy of language,pragmatics,linguistics
Pervasive gas sensing using optical fibers, as part of the communication network of the future (GASPOF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Cyprus,Austria,France,Germany,Spain,Greece,Switzerland
Call: Smart photonics for joint communication & sensing and access everywhere (Photonics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2024)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3912593.75
EU funding (EUR): 3912593.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Using fibre sensor networks, distributed information can be gathered even from places that are difficult or even impossible to be reached by other means. However, so far, such distributed fibre sensing networks are not capable of providing access to distributed chemical information along the fibre. In particular, highly selective and sensitive information on the concentration of various gases along the fibre cannot be obtained on a routine basis despite being desirable and needed in many different application scenarios. It is therefore tempting to explore the potential of integrating innovative optical gas sensing nodes along optical fibres, towards their massive deployment in existing telecom infrastructures. New developments in optical gas spectroscopy have opened up new prospects for remote gas sensing applications, addressing the limitations of current analytical methods in terms of sensitivity, ease-of-use and miniaturization. Nevertheless, there are important challenges to overcome before such a joint use of the fibers network for both communication and gas sensing becomes possible. GASPOF addresses these challenges, contributing to the development of the optical infrastructure of the future, where the communications network also acts as a large-scale distributed multi-parameter sensor. Focus will be put on two different optical techniques for gas sensing using the fiber-optics network: laser-based PTS and LHR. Both techniques will be advanced and integrated with the existing optical fibers network infrastructure. In parallel, we will investigate the possibility of using coherent OTDR for distributed gas sensing, while a reduced-cost approach for acoustic sensing will also be designed for measuring physical parameters of interest (e.g. vibrations) in addition to gas sensing. The GASPOF system configurations will demonstrate their performance and capabilities in important 4 application use cases.

Keywords: gas spectroscopy,photothermal spectroscopy,otdr,laser heterodyne radiometry,gas sensing,greenhouse gases,volcanology
Standardisation and sustainability of material documentation in archaeology: virtual modelling and time consumption. The pilot study of some Late Roman classes from Egyptian excavations. (StAr-Doc)

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,Egypt,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222549.12
EU funding (EUR): 222549.12
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

To this date, documentation of materials from archaeological sites varies greatly from project to project. There are several reasons for this: 1) lack of experts and/or funds, 2) difficulties in accessing data, 3) and the long time necessary to collect and document information. In addition, the recent application of Artificial Intelligence to archaeological documentation has highlighted the need for further standardisation in data collection and, consequently, in the results obtained. The StAr-Doc project, therefore, intends to address and solve these problems by applying technologies available on the market today in a systematic and standardised manner. In particular, the project aims to build a pipeline that provides experts in the study of archaeological materials with a functional method to scientifically document artefacts from archaeological contexts. The specific goals of the project are to construct 3D models using photographs obtained with low and medium-budget devices. These models will enable the extrapolation of the physical characteristics of each object, including sections, dimensions, and, in the case of pots, diameter and correct orientation. The second specific objective will be the documentation of the pottery fabrics. In particular, the focus will be on pottery fabrics, which will be recorded with 2D images at varying degrees of magnification. Specifically, several classes of materials will be selected, such as Late Roman Amphora 1, Aswan Red Slip Ware, and African Red Slip Ware; their fabrics will be documented and processed with mathematical quantification programmes, a technique that enables to identify groups with similar physical and technical characteristics. The characteristics of these groups will then be compared with those of materials from production sites. The last specific objective will be to publish the collected material (2D images), the virtual models, and the fabric database on an open access virtual repository.

Keywords: roman period,sustainability,virtual models,open sources,computational photography,3d models,data repository,pottery,fabrics,objects,egypt
TWINNING FOR EXCELLENCE TO STRATEGICALLY ADVANCE RESEARCH IN CARCINOGENESIS AND CANCER (CutCancer)

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: Slovenia,Sweden,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1197550.0
EU funding (EUR): 1197550.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The CutCancer project aims to strengthen and increase the research and innovation capacity and excellence of the National institute of Biology (NIB) in Slovenia. This will be achieved through targeted twinning activities with three internationally renowned institutions; Swansea University from the UK, Stockholm University from Sweden and VU Medical Center Amsterdam from the Netherlands, all of which poses specific, unique and complementary knowledge and expertise that is highly desired and needed at NIB. Together with ongoing substantial infrastructural improvements and significant research equipment upgrades, CutCancer will enable implementation of cutting-edge approaches and methodologies (including advanced in vitro 3D cell models, spatial and single-cell analyses), facilitating frontier research in the field of preclinical 3D cancer research. CutCancer will encompass the development of synergies between research institutions, fostering networking and participation in future Research and Innovation processes. CutCancer aims to go beyond the purely scientific aspects and raise the management and administrative capacity of NIB to reach top level. Twinning activities will include specific hands-on training, expert visits, webinars, workshops and summer schools, job shadowing and exchange of best practices, targeting strategically selected research and administrative areas. Results will be disseminated at international and regional conferences and targeted events for relevant stakeholders ranging from the scientific community to the health sector, professional networks, students and general public. The CutCancer´s strategic action plan will ensure that the project leads to long-term collaborations within the consortium and beyond. This will include future research projects coordinated by NIB, as well as the sharing of infrastructure and innovations brought by the newly implemented methods, approaches and strategies, targeted during the CutCancer project.

Keywords: in vitro 3d cell models,preclinical cancer research,genomic instability,tumour microenvironment
Aquiverse: a collaborative study of initiatives of groundwater care to re-think, improve and support its governance. (Aquiverse)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2031-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2489655.52
EU funding (EUR): 2489655.52
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Groundwater resources are under threat from overexploitation, with nearly a third of the world’s largest aquifers being depleted faster than they can be replenished. Initiatives to curb depletion so far have been ineffective. This is because they narrowly attribute it to individual pumping behaviors without questioning the government-promoted intensification of agriculture that pushes farmers to use ever more groundwater in the first place. This project, Aquiverse, reframes groundwater governance by conceiving it as part of a politics of transformation that is anchored in what irrigators themselves do to care for and share the aquifers that they depend on for their livelihoods. Premised on acknowledging how the over-exploitation of aquifers is linked to neo-liberal processes of agricultural intensification, I propose conducting collaborative studies of six initiatives of caring for aquifers – of recharge, protection, conservation, recovery - in three countries (India, Peru and Morocco) where pressures on groundwater are particularly acute. How do these initiatives re-shape people’s connections with aquifers and with each other, and how, in the process, do possibilities of living and relating become reconfigured? The studies provide the empirical material for an exciting re-theorization of society-groundwater dynamics in relational terms, informed by a deep appreciation – both methodologically and epistemologically – of the co-constitution of hydrogeological and societal dynamics. This advances the science of groundwater governance by firmly inserting it in the broader transformations needed to continue to live healthily and well together on this planet, and by expanding government-led ‘command-and-control’ approaches with appreciation for the care, tinkering and community efforts that governing groundwater also entails. Aquiverse’s overall aim is to amplify possibilities for more harmonious – sustainable and just - ways of living with and making use of groundwater.

Keywords: aquifers,sustainability,care,transformation
AI-assisted peRsonalized heart-on-chIp as advanced diagnostic Tool for clinical significance assessMent of Inherited cArdiomyopathies (AI-RITMIA)

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: Italy,Germany,France
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN, 2025)
Start date: 2026-08-01
End date: 2029-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999935.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999935.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Inherited cardiomyopathies (iCMPs) are a major causeInherited cardiomyopathies (iCMPs) are a major cause of heart disease and account for a significant percentage of deaths in young patients. While recent advances in next-generation sequencing have enabled testing of a large number of genes related to iCMPs, the rate of identification of pathogenic variants is still below 50%. On the other hand, this unprecedented sequencing power has led to an exponential increase in detecting novel unclassified genetic variants (VUS), for which pathogenicity has not been confirmed. VUS uncertainty of diagnosis poses important problems in clinical evaluations, therapeutic decisions and risk-assessment both for patient and family members. The AI-RITMIA Consortium proposes a breakthrough innovation to establish a conclusive link between specific VUSs and CMP clinical phenotypes, yielding to the development of an unprecedented technological platform: a radically new AI-guided patient-specific heart-on-chip diagnostic tool (AI-RITMIA) will be able to interface for the first time three currently diverging sectors: patient specific in vitro modelling, in silico and artificial intelligence (AI) based data handling and clinical evaluation. AI-RITMIA will be the first clinical grade personalized in vitro-in silico platform enabling faster and unbiased correlations of clinical outcomes with functional in vitro profiling for VUS-carrying patients, returning a pathogenicity score directly to the clinicians to unlock informed diagnosis and therapeutic decisions. The achievement of such innovation will leverage on enabling technologies and resources uniquely available in the Consortium, which brings together excellences from the three interfacing worlds: 1) in vitro models based on OoC and microsensors @POLIMI, @BIOMIMX, @NMI and patient-specific iPSCs @ICH; 2) the largest EU cohort of well characterized CMP patients @COCHIN, and 3) clinical grade AI-based data handling interfaces @TUM, @ADVICE.

Keywords: organ on chip artificial intelligence cardiomyopathy induced pluripotent stem cells variants of uncertain significance microtechnologies
On a Quest for Data-Driven Innovations to fuel Sustainable Food Systems (FoodDataQuest)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Luxembourg,Greece,Netherlands,Hungary,Slovenia,Finland,Denmark
Call: Data-driven solutions to foster industry’s contribution to inclusive and sustainable food systems (HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999500.0
EU funding (EUR): 3999500.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The agri-food industry faces numerous challenges dealing with societal, public health, individual nutrition and environmental, food waste and overall food system sustainability challenges. Imbalances and disconnected food markets are generating undesirable trade-offs between the food supply, the consumption patterns, quality of nutrition and the environment. Interoperability and data sharing across agri-food supply networks is limited. Data can revolutionise the food industry and foster its contribution to inclusive and sustainable food systems. Data can be used to assist these stakeholders in making informed decisions on how to operate in a more sustainable and inclusive manner. In this way, they increase the efficiency of the food industry through the optimisation of relevant operations and the reduction of waste, promoting transparency and demonstrate their commitment to ethical and sustainable production. FoodDataQuest will develop ground-breaking data-driven solutions based on an integrated methodological framework that explores new types of private and public data sources, data from “unconventional players” and non-competitive data and leverages data sharing mechanisms in order to provide the EU food chain stakeholders with increased insights and enhance the transition towards sustainable healthy diets. The proposed framework will include guidelines and data collection strategies, to drive the food system transformation towards inclusive, sustainable, healthy diets within the boundaries of legal and policy frameworks. FoodDataQuest will co-create and test advanced data-driven solutions based on AI and ML algorithms, following a multi-actor approach that will serve as a lighthouse that positively impacts a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system. Last, FoodDataQuest will engage citizens into industry's data-driven innovations balancing between data openness and protection of private and sensitive data of multiple stakeholders.

Keywords: data driven,artificial intelligence,machine learning,data spaces,interoperability,agriculture,food systems,sustainability,consumers,food chain actors,processing,agricultural suppliers
Learning to Appreciate Aesthetic Values (LEAP)

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: Spain,Italy
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): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The overarching goal of the project is to define "aesthetic learning" as a complex, multi-layered mental process from an empirically informed philosophical perspective. The research project will rely on (a) the philosophical literature concerning aesthetic values and (b) psychological evidence in cognitive sciences about the acquisition and development of perceptual and affective discriminatory capacities. The outcome of the project will be a model of aesthetic learning capable of exploiting the most recent advancements in the cognitive sciences within a rigorous philosophical framework. By focusing on such basic and uncontroversial components of aesthetic appreciation as perception and emotions, the project will establish viable criteria for the definition of aesthetic values that can be perceptually learnt and for the definition of aesthetic appreciation. Such a model will be submitted to experts in art teaching, made available for experimental testing and introduced to broader audiences. Thanks to the fellowship, the ER will fulfill the career goal of becoming an established researcher in the field of philosophical aesthetics, either with a permanent position or as a PI of a research project in a European university.

Keywords: aesthetics,appreciation,arts,beauty,perception,emotions,expressiveness