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science building the future

science plays a major role in the development of a society despite this the general population of romania has little knowledge about the impact of research on all aspects of life in this context events that advertise science among the general public are very welcome another strong argument in favor of organizing the science popularization event is that this kind of events usually take place in major cities while in small and medium towns they are very rare so their population is missing the opportunity to discoverscience from a different perspective in turn this lack of information facilitates the occurrence of stereotypes about scientists and their work and about the usefulness of scientific research which ultimately discourages young people to pursue a career in rd the main concept proposed for 20222023 is to reduce the passive presentation of what means to be a researcher by involving the people directly in different interactive activities workshops games competition debates etc the project is constructed around threebasic ideas future through past health and wealth through a clean environment economic development through technology and innovation an important objective is also the future utilization of information gathered during the event in order to enablecooperation between relevant actors that are committed to support scientific collaboration that may generate new opportunities for research and industry and new knowledge and know how that can be shared by confronting new ideas and viewpoints regardingthe audience the dissemination strategy will be directed towards various user groups such as the general public especially young people the scientific community public institutions ngos policymakers various associations businesses etc the partners havethe complementary skills to assure the achievement of the project objectives and the future exploitation of the results
artificial intelligence in manufacturing for sustainable applications at smes

the airise project will support european smes in the uptake of artificial intelligence applied to manufacturing with a specific focus on the use of aienabled applications at the edge the key objective for applications is a reduction of waste and carbon footprint while ensuring the resilient operation of manufacturing the consortium will create an ecosystem where the projects ai experts will support experimenting smes and connect them to digital innovation hubs and commercial companies to achieve realworld applications open calls will allow smes to easily access ai expert competence through firststage assessments that identify the status and potential and through further proposals that support them in running pilot applications and validation experiments the ambition of airise is to support more than 500 cases from smes and midcaps on key ai applications at the edge support from the consortium will be complemented on security and connectivity by involving external resources in cybersecurity and iot and on smart working environments by offerings on operator interfaces and collaborative robots
aging and balance control during stair and step negotiation

agerelated loss of physical ability and balance control are important predictors for falls in older people activities of daily life such as stair negotiation are challenging as they require older people to operate close to their functional limits this makes stair negotiation performance a good candidate to detect earlyonset deterioration before a fall occurs as well as a good taskspecific exercise modality to investigate these assumptions i will first assess the sensitivity of linear and nonlinear analyses of data from bodyworn inertial measurement units imus to detect agerelated and traininginduced changes in balance control of older people 65 years these findings will then be applied to assess improvements of balance control and the underlying changes in neuromuscular organisation following a 1year homebased stair climbing exercise program in older people finally i aim to elucidate the role of cortical involvement in neuromuscular organisation during stair negotiation in older people using electroencephalograms and analyses of muscle synergies obtain from electromyographic signals of the lower limb muscles this will allow me to assess the level of corticosynergy coherence and the plastic changes associated with traininginduced adaptations in kinematic profiles during stair negotiation the findings from this project will contribute to a better understanding of agerelated and traininginduced adaptations in balance control neuromuscular organisation and the role of cortical involvement in taskspecific adaptations in addition the assessments of sensitivity of current and novel analyses of inertial data will help to improve detection of earlyonset deterioration of balance performance to better target training interventions at individuals with increased fall risk
particle distribution dynamics in nonlinear bifurcating networks

bifurcating networks are ubiquitous in nature such as vasculaturepulmonary networks kidney urinary tract and branching in plants in addition to their role of transporting the carrying fluid these networks distribute discrete particles suspended in the fluid leading to intricate spatiotemporal particle flow dynamics the heterogenous distribution of red blood cells rbc in microcirculation is an example of this behaviour consequences of which are not wellunderstood our objective is to explain the fundamental principles and implications of nonuniform particle distributions in bifurcating networks using rbc flow in vasculature as a model system currently there is no systematic approach to study such complex particle distribution dynamics we propose using droplet microfluidic as an analogue of the biological network microfluidics provide superb control of the dropletsparticles carrying fluid and network properties in highly engineered microfabricated devices we aim to understand rbc distribution patterns in capillary network and the consequences during vascularization and organogenesis our approach is i to observe the in vivo rbc fractionation in chick embryo vasculature ii to develop its in vitro analogue using droplet microfluidics iii to develop in silico model and determine the governing parameters this project will discover the foundations of particle transport phenomena in nonlinear bifurcating networks and address the longlasting question of rbc nonuniformity in microcirculation and its implications as a groundbreaking contribution another key outcome will be correlating rbc heterogeneity to corresponding organ growth by visualising two bifurcating networks simultaneously vasculature and urinary tree using kidney organoid xenotransplantation the project will advance i the fundamental understanding of particle distribution in nonlinear bifurcating networks and ii the research in vascularization and artificial kidney development
stone sarcophagi of etruria renewing research in the digital era

stone sarcophagi are one of the most important witnesses of etruscan funerary art and craftmanship although a few examples areattested between the 8th and the 5th centuries bc orientalist archaic and classical periods most of the production dates from the4th2nd centuries bc hellenistic period and is mainly distributed in the necropolises of the southern etruria northern lazio andmore specifically in the territory of the city of tarquinia the reference publication on these objects dates from the mid20th centuryand concerns only hellenistic decorated pieces studied through the prism of art history iconography stylistics it was expanded in1974 and 2004 to form a corpus of ca 420 decorated sarcophagi well preserved the undecorated specimens have never been takeninto consideration even though they represent between half and two third of the etruscan stone sarcophagi of this period theearliest examples have never been the subject of a synthetic study any morethe setru20 project aims to fill the gaps in research on all etruscan stone sarcophagi and to establish a new reference publicationthat goes beyond artistic and stylistic considerations through a complete inventory these objects and a methodological guideapplicable to future discoveries and other type of handmade products its originality lies in the fact that it considers the entireproduction from the 8th to the 2nd century bc sarcophagi whole or fragmentary decorated or not painted or not inscribed or notof fine or coarse workmanship on a global and interdisciplinary approach archaeology art history epigraphy geologyanthropology etc and on the implementation of a specific methodology from the study of tool marks to the use of 25 and 3dsurveying rti photogrammetry lasergrammetry and analysis tools and techniques gis 3d modelling this project is definitivelyinnovative for this class of object and more widely in etruscology
sustainable european advanced subsea tidal array

in the seastar project coordinator nova innovation nova leads a worldclass team to deliver a 4mw array of 16 tidal stream turbines at the emec fall of warness tidal site in orkney the worlds first large tidal farm which will contain more tidal turbines than are currently deployed worldwide seastar will utilise novas wellproven m100d turbine developed in partnership with project partner skf the worlds leading supplier of rotating equipment the project builds on the success of novas sixturbine shetland tidal array the worlds first offshore tidal array which was delivered under the h2020 enfait project by a team including seastar partners skf and wood they are joined in seastar by dla piper the leading global law firm in renewable energy and by specialists in sustainability insurance consenting communication engineering and offshore operations seastar will demonstrate for the first time the industrial systems manufacturing and operational techniques required to efficiently deliver a large tidal farm it will generate and share transferable knowledge on key consenting risks derisking future large arrays globally and it will improve the bankability of tidal energy by cutting costs proving performance and enhancing the insurability of large tidal farms seastar represents a step change for tidal energy volume industrial manufacturing operation and maintenance techniques will be applied for the first time to the full lifecycle of a tidal farm from design procurement production shipping marshalling deployment commissioning operation and decommissioning the 16turbine farm provides unique opportunities to address critical environmental evidence gaps and develop the costeffective reliable monitoring solutions at scale required to accelerate permitting and remove barriers for future large tidal farms
tech and business validation towards market readiness of highperformance pfsafree intermetallic ptalloy membrane electrode assemblies for pemfcs enabling nextgen hydrogenbased transport

enablers final objectives are to assemble demonstrate and test a proton exchange membrane fuel cell pemfc short stack functional energy generation device with reduced platinum content 03 mgptcm2 and free of perfluorinated sulfonic acid pfsa compounds matching the performance of the current stateoftheart pfsacontaining pemfcs and in parallel to ensure market readiness for the technologiesthe project will lay the foundation for more widespread exploitation of hydrogen power by enabling more efficient use of pt as a critical raw material providing improved performance and durability with advanced intermetallic ptalloy catalysts materials achieving higher operating temperatures of pemfcs 105 c by replacing conventional pfsa ionomers and membranes with novel hydrocarbon hc materials and consequently removing the toxic perfluorinated compounds out of pemfc manufacturing resulting in positive effect on the economy and society thus enablers longterm objective is to improve the commercial viability of pemfc and ramp up its mass use to decarbonize transport and energy sectors enabler will reach the tech objectives by designing a set of interrelated activities i catalyst finetuning to ensure compatibility with the hc materials ii ccm production processes finetuning and ccm fabrication with advanced catalyst hc membranes and ionomers integrated iii fabrication and validation of single cells and short stack business objectives will be achieved through market validation activities performance of technoeconomic and investment analysis as well as business plan creation and ipr management activitiesthe enabler consortium is designed to create a nonexisting pfsafree european valuechain requiring a minimum of critical resources with recatalyst being responsible for catalyst ionysis ccm fabrication and ekpo pemfc technology all partners will work on market readiness to ensure the value chain sustainability in the future
enhancing the potential of enzymatic catalysis with light

one pressing challenge of chemical research is to develop new processes that responsibly use natural resources to produce addedvalue chiral molecules photozyme seeks to provide solutions by combining photocatalysis biocatalysis and organocatalysis these three modern strategies offer powerful tools for the sustainable preparation of chiral molecules to date however they have remained largely unconnected this proposal aims to bridge these fields in order to address major problems in asymmetric synthesis for which there is no general solution with established methods specifically we will focus on native organocatalytic intermediates formed in the enzymes active sites exploring their potential ability to reach an excited state upon visible light absorption and thus enable newtonature radical reactions here light will be used to program entirely new mechanisms of catalysis within enzymes with an established groundstate reactivity thus allowing them to catalyse completely different processes than those for which they evolved the resulting photoenzymes will be powered by absorption of photons at each catalytic cycle and will serve to infer high enantioselectivity in important radical chemistriesour artificial photoenzymes will be applied in four challenge areas each representing crucial yet unsolved synthetic problems we will develop methods to convert simple feedstock chemicals eg fatty acids into chiral building blocks additionally our goal is to control the formation of multiple stereocentres in intermolecular radical processes and at remote positions of linear substrates objectives that are exceptionally difficult to achieve with existing smallmolecule systems we also envision the design of biocatalytic radical cascades for the rapid synthesis of biorelevant chiral scaffolds directly from abundant substrates overall we aim to provide new photobiocatalytic tools that drive the sustainable production of chiral molecules
flow controlled prosthetic heart valves

prosthetic heart valves hv both biological bhv and mechanical mhv have improved the survival rate and the quality of life of valvular heartdisease patients over the last six decades while bhvs taken from animal tissue show improved hemodynamics their durability is limited whereas mhvs can last a patients entire lifetime but require lifetime anticoagulation medication to reduce thrombotic complications future polymeric hvs phv hold the potential for enhanced durability compared to bhvs while potentially avoiding the necessity for anticoagulation therapy that mhvs demand however the problem of flowrelated thrombosis in phvs remains a critical challenge generally flowrelated thrombosis complications can be avoided by altering the flow field around the phv such as reducing vortices and circulatory hemodynamic structures as well as decreasing shear stresses which can lead to platelet activation inspired by passive flow control in nature and in the aerodynamics industry where manipulation of fluid flow via a small configuration change provides large engineering benefits in swimming or flying we aim to use a flow control strategy to optimize blood flow through phvs more specifically in streamlinevalve we present a new patented phv that is designed to alter the flow field around the valve in a manner that reduces the primary factors contributing to coagulation on phvs we have already successfully demonstrated this concept in vitro in a modified mhv in this poc we propose to extend this to the future of prosthetic valves via a flow controlled phv that can be implanted via a simple transcatheter procedure avoiding undesired surgical procedures altogether streamlinevalve represents a paradigm shift in the realm of prosthetic hvs offering the potential to enhance valve longevity quality of life and patient safety
smart enforcement of transport operations

seto will deliver an innovative digital solution that will allow authorities to access all information required for the smart enforcement of transport and safety legislation in realtime using the oneclick principle this will address the significant challenge of handling unstructured transport data from different streams paper and digital sources and languages reducing the administrative burdentime while achieving increased control efficiency and consistency seto will utilise stateoftheart information exchange technologies and expand the system to multimodal transport eg port to the inland waterway to the road the project will validate its comprehensive ecosystem technically and economically in a pilot living lab designed for future paneuropean scaling in particular seto will develop innovative technologies for direct enforcement of overloaded road vehicles using weighinmotion wim and onboard weighing solutions the project will also introduce technologies based on enhanced global navigation satellite systems gnss to enforce lane positioning and cabotage regulations our deployment of the connected cooperative and automated mobility ccam technologies will allow seto to estimate the carbon footprint of the transported goods leading to effective policies concerning their import and export moreover the project will explore different business models and build a business case for both the operators and the authorities to utilise setos unified system of information exchange seto will address the inclusion of different stakeholders and their underrepresented groups eg selfemployed or foreign drivers small smes women in transportation in its activities to characterise the social practices emerging from enforcing such digital tracking systems seto seeks to foster the collective intelligence of all stakeholders to build a viable system based on incentives rather than forcing its adoption
governing ai technologies in weapon systems from the bottom up practices to sustain and strengthen human control

autonomous and ai technologies have become integrated into the targeting functions of weapons algorithmic rather than human decisionmaking may therefore prevail in warfare raising humanitarian legal ethical and security concerns currently there are no specific legal rules to govern autonomy and ai in the military in their absence erc autonorms has found that use of autonomous and ai technologies in weapon systems makes norms practices of design of training personnel for and of using such weapons shape a norm of what counts as the requisite form of human control over the use of force autonorms has revealed that this emerging norm accepts a diminished reduced form of human control when designing and using military autonomousai technologies as normal this emerging norm is a societal challenge and a public policy problem because it undercuts the meaningful exercise of human agency over life and death decisions in war the insight that practices make norms holds the potential for social innovation as a process of recontextualising norms through enacting different practices stakeholders could therefore shape a positive norm of human control through changing their practices from the bottom up the erc poc project autopractices initiates and accompanies this social innovation process in three ways via multistakeholder collaboration first autopractices raises awareness among stakeholders about the differential effect of their practices on the emerging human control norm in the military domain via empirical mapping second autopractices cocreates a set of best practices with stakeholders to sustain human control in weapon systems integrating autonomous and ai technologies at three workshops third autopractices diffuses the cocreated set of best practices via an operational toolkit and dissemination through multipliers in this way autopractices becomes a source of diffusing a positive norm of human control in weapon systems from the bottomup
digital latin dialectology diladi tracing linguistic variation in the light of ancient and early medieval sources

diladi is an interdisciplinary project that aims to perform a novel comprehensive study on the variation of the latin language over the 1st millennium ad considering the geographical and chronological perspectives as well as the transition from latin to romance by processing and analysing textual errors deviations from the norm of ancient and early medieval primary documents with the help of the computerized historical linguistic database of latin inscriptions of the imperial age lldb that employs a revolutionary method of data analysisdiladi aims to give a breakthrough impetus to relevant research by involving a group of sources that have so far not been adequately considered in research original parchment charters of private law from mostly the 7th8th centuries that are available in large numbers and are very rich in data reflecting linguistic changes the involvement of which could open up further perspectives for the research of history and dialectology of late latin based on working with a database which has so far relied mainly on inscriptions the project plan will be implemented by a 10person research group with the help of a large data collection team in international collaboration within the project framework at least 50000 new data forms will be added to the unique lldb database while results will be disseminated through the organisation of 5 international workshops the delivery of at least 50 lectures and the publication of 50 studies and 1 monograph at the same time potential future collaborators will be educated in at least 5 university courses while the scientific advancement of the participating researchers will be ensured by the submission of 3 phd theses and 1 habilitation thesis as a result this research will allow for a better understanding of the processes that led to the development of romance languages and determined the linguistic ethnic and even cultural features of medieval and modern europe
coherent control of chiral molecules

the ambitious goal of this project is to create an enantiomerpure beam of chiral molecules starting from a racemic sample using an experimental coherent state preparation schemethe basic elements of the proposed experiments are the followinga cold gasphase beam of chiral molecules is created via supersonic jet expansion two levels of a triad of rotational states that are connected via electric dipole allowed transitions are emptied using resonant uv depletion in combination with simultaneous microwave repumpingdriving a closed triad of rotational transitions using microwaves prepares a chosen internal quantum state of the chiral molecules enantiomerspecifically this is called enantiomerspecific state transfer a new method that i codeveloped after coherence preparation using collimation stateselective matterwave diffraction is accomplished using a resonant absorptive optical gratingthe diffracted enantiomerpure beam is detected stateselectively using 2d planar laserinduced fluorescence detectioneventually this beam can be used for further spectroscopic or scattering studies or for depositing the enantiopure sample on a surfacethe scheme that is to be demonstrated in cococimo will be applicable to any chiral molecule