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energy system modelling for green development of africa

the emerge project seeks to provide african policy makers academics investors and citizens with the tools and knowledge required to increase the production of clean energy and the sustainable use of resources while bridging cultural and socioeconomic divides in order to simulate scenarios that optimize the use of current resources while taking into account social climatic economic and technical constraints emerge will codesign and test a toolbox by integrating and building upon existing tools methodologies and approaches additionally a knowledge base with a collection of initiatives materials and knowledgeexchange activities will be created the north western africa morocco niger river region malinigeria and mozambique are three african ecosystems where emerge will develop knowledge communities through a participatory approach
ondemand bioresorbable optoelectronic system for invivo and insitu monitoring of chemotherapeutic drugs

we envision a radically new technology for invivo bioresorbable chemical sensing where optical devices power and light sources synthetic receptors made out of materials that completely dissolve with biologically benign byproducts in biofluids will be developed and integrated together the sensing system the size of 1 eurocent will be coated by a longlived biocompatible polymer designed with ondemand degradation then implanted in the body to monitor invivo insitu and in realtime a chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin commonly used to treat cancer the system is then fully and safely resorbed once no more needed using an external temperaturetrigger that initiates the dissolution of the protecting coating and in turn of the system avoiding deviceretrieval surgery that may cause tissue lesioninfection the general objective is to demonstrate fabrication operation 2 months invivo and in realtime then dissolution of such a bioresorbable chemical sensing system for the detection of doxorubicin in an animal model this will break a new ground in insitu monitoring of chemotherapeutic drug enabling for the first time a fine tuning of the drug dose at the tumor site increasing patient survival rate being aware of the project risks we have broken down the general into different specific objectives identified a set of key performance indicators alternative material synthesisdevice fabrication techniques mitigation measures to tackle major risks the resorb technology truly represents the foundation of a future technology for personalized medicine enabling to address a number of medical issues for which continuous and localized monitoring of specific analytes ie biomarkers and drugs invivo for a prescribed time is of chief importance eg acute trauma treatment postsurgery sepsis drug therapeutic profiling and other all examples for which exsitu analysis of biofluids has proved to be not fully adequate for clinical needs
advanced lightweight materials for energyefficient structures

the transport sector has always been the focus of decarbonization in europe forest project proposes to combine the reduce recovery and reshape drivers to face the decarbonization issues in the transport sector reduce on the one hand the greenhouse gas emissions of fuel vehicles and the energy consumption of electric vehicles reduction is one of the major dares of the global mobility sector forest will reduce the structural weight of the vehicles by providing light components made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic in this way less fuel and energy consumption will be necessary to cover the same distance on the other hand fossil sources are being run out more and more besides their use at the endoflife eol has a negative impact on the carbon footprint forest will develop new chemistries based on highbiobased content for polymers bioacrylic biobenxozaxine biopolyamide and additives bio fireretardant in this regard the fossil sources dependency will be reduced recovery the cfrp market is expected to increase more and more in the transport sector aerospace automotive and heavyduty however an important issue which has not totally overcome is the recovery of the large volume the carbon fibre waste to provide added value materials forest will implement efficient methods to recover 100 of cf waste to develop highquality semifinished materials nonwoven organosheetsmc lft for valuable transport applications reshape the use of biobased and recycled materials is a real opportunity for mobility decarbonization but a detriment on the stability and safety properties of the performance could occur forest will research the influence of the multifunctional properties on the biocomposite mechanical fireretardant and emishielding therefore forest will combine the biobased recycled and multifunctionality material nature to obtain sustainable solutions for the bus aeronautic and automotive sectors
things that matter mobility and agency of everyday objects in late medieval italy

thima challenges the assumption that action is a human prerogative by examining how everyday objects served as agents of transformation in late medieval societies investigating the boundary between material and human agency is particularly critical for the present where new artificial intelligences call into question the very essence of being human thima reflects on these matters from another watershed moment in the redefinition of european material culture between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries everyday goods diversified and there was a significant increase of objects in circulation this period can thus serve as a crucial laboratory to explore the impact of ordinary things on peoples social behavior and emotional life for the first time thima examines objects as agents that interacted with individuals mediating social relationships and moving emotions ways of thinking and perceptions through their peculiar material language to investigate these questions this project employs a bold new comparative framework in the richly documented but diverse environments of tuscany and sicily this critical move away from siloed approaches to material culture allows us to better understand how socioeconomic institutional and legal contexts influenced the complex relationship between human and things the project interrogates a broad range of textual and material sources using quantitative and qualitative methods cuttingedge digital tools and drawing on a groundbreaking theoretical framework on material agency thanks to this novel approach thima will profoundly advance our understanding of how humans perceive and interact with their material environment from the medieval past to the present day
eo4foodsecurity using earth observation enabled land cover classification for characterizing global food security on regional scales

characterizing the state of global food security is essential in devising and evaluating policies and programs for effective decision making the concept of food security is multidimensional and dynamic and is often compounded by the challenge of obtaining relevant data moreover finding appropriate indicators that specifically encompass the four dimensions of food security including physical availability of food economic and physical access to food food utilization and sustainability as specified by un fao remains a challenging task there exist variety of different measures for assessing the food security situation but they merely focus on nutrition and physical aspects and thus provide incomplete assessments related to the problemin this poc project i aim to extend the unique ai algorithms and the big eo data management features developed in the erc stg so2sat to characterize the state of global food security on regional scales using multimodal data derived from satellite imagery and auxiliary open data and offer our software as a commercial integrated service within the poc a comprehensive business case that will assist us in designing an exploitation strategy will be developed achieving these objectives will augment the capability of our existing ai solution for land coverland use mapping to infer the crucial aspects of food security and sustainabilityour value proposition in eo4foodsecurity is a set of professional solutions to extract relevant indicators for characterizing food security by retrieving them from big eo data and other open sources using ai eg generating land use map and using it along with other information extraction modules of so2sat such as population density road and building footprints and other open data eg meteorological nutrition to generate food security map at unprecedented finer spatial and temporal scales we aim to support these solutions in an easytouse interactive big eo data analysis platform
neuromorphic energyefficient secure accelerators based on phase change materials augmented silicon photonics

the growing need to transfer massive amounts of data among multitudes of interconnected devices for eg selfdriving vehicles iot or industry 40 has led to a quest towards lowpower and secure approaches to locally processing data neuromorphic computing a braininspired approach addresses this need by radically changing the processing of information although neuromorphic electrical computing systems offer advantages in terms of cmos implementations and scalability they inherit limitations of conventional electronics such as low energyefficiency high latency and low bandwidth density besides such systems often require robust security layers for eg safetycritical applications security layers based on memorystored secret keys are prone to several types of memoryaccessing attacks therefore silicon hardware approaches for security primitives such as physical unclonable functions pufs are currently investigated because of their absence of longterm digital memory storage although electronic pufs have received major attention thanks to their native cmos implementation for secure authentication they are prone to machine learning and sidechannel attacks due to their cmos technologythe neuropuls project aims to build nextgeneration lowpower and secure edgecomputing systems by developing novel photonic computing architectures and security layers based on photonic pufs in augmented silicon photonics cmoscompatible platforms the integration of emerging nonvolatile phase change materials for synapsesneurons and iiiv materials for onchip spiking sources for the first time will allow to build novel neuromorphic accelerators featuring riscv compliant interfaces for smooth adoption and programmability optimal performance will be achieved thanks to a novel fullsystem simulation platform for design space exploration three relevant usecases will be considered for benchmarking to demonstrate 2 orders of magnitude energy efficiency improvement
controlled irrigation technology scaleup in high potential farming segments

agurotech bv is an amsterdam based deeptech startup that focuses on smart farming solutions for the global agriculture industrythe company was founded in november 2020 as a spinoff from the dutch institute of subatomic physics and is founded operated and owned by 2 females with majority share 85 of the company agurotech bv develops iotbased hardware sensors and aipowered software solutions to perform measurements in farmers fields and uses advanced algorithms to translate these measurements into meaningful insights and actionable recommendations these solutions help farmers to increase their yield while using their resources more effectively it has been shown that over 20 of yield can be increased and resources can be reduced anywhere between 3080 this is important because the farming industry has a significant role in todays societal sustainability challenges such as carbon emissions water scarcity and soil health it is recognized that precision farming technology will play a key role in addressing these challengesgiven that agurotech is a deeptech startup until now significant focus has been on rd and product development the company has just started commercialization and is increasing the customer base and preparing for scale up agurotech identified target segments who benefit most from agurotechs products and services these include flower bulbs potatoes onions carrots and sugar beets agurotechs strategy is to offer products and services in selected niche segments before expanding to other segments the goal of the project that is presented in this proposal is to start penetrating the flower bulbs and onions segment in order to 1 validate the potential of these segments 2 realize a better productmarket fit and 3 start realizing sales in these segments if granted this project will be used to realize a controlled and factdriven scale up of sales of agurotechs products and services in selected segments
silicon optoelectromechanics for bridging the gap between photonics and microwaves

conversion between electrical and optical signals enabled the use of nearinfrared nearir photons for high data rate transmission through optical fibre networks likewise coherent conversion between microwave and optical photons stands as a promising solution to transfer quantum states between remote quantum processors thus enabling the development of largescale quantum networks however the vast frequency difference between microwave ghz and nearir 200 thz optical photons hampers direct coherent conversion this limitation could be circumvented by phononmediated transduction which is a coherent twostep process comprising electromechanical and optomechanical conversions onchip microwaveoptical conversion mediated by ghz phonons has the potential to be extremely efficient due to the large optomechanical response of common materials and the similar wavelength of ghz phonons and nearir photons yet it is an open challenge to achieve efficient electromechanical and optomechanical conversion simultaneously in a single integrated circuit stateoftheart demonstrations show that surface acoustic waves saws allow efficient electromechanical conversion while cavity optomechanics utilize tightly confined optical and mechanical modes to yield strong optomechanical coupling however combining these two approaches is still considered challenging if not impossible the spring project will overcome these limitations by developing a fundamentally new optomechanical coupling approach to bridge saw electromechanics and cavity optomechanics the original idea is to use subwavelength nanostructuration of silicon cavities to couple tightly confined optical modes and saws the spring strategy will be used to demonstrate coherent microwaveoptical conversion of single photons and quantum state transfer between superconducting qubits monolithically integrated in a silicon chip opening a new path for applications in communications sensing and computing
3ptec threeparent breeding technology for plants of the future

background there is an urgent need for an agricultural revolution to generate climateresilient cultivars which combine proven traits with novel qualities adapting crop plants to climate extremes including heat and drought novel breeding technologies can make the difference to enable farmers to achieve high yields with climaterobust crops to secure food supplies for the worlds population breakthrough technology in the framework of the erc consolidator grant biblock we discovered that plant egg cells can fuse with two sperm producing offspring with three parents instead of two one mother and two fathers bypassing a hybridization barrier that is a major limitation for conventional plant breeding approaches the threeparent breeding technology 3ptec literally opens the way for exploiting beneficial traits of previously incompatible climateadapted wild species in the framework of the erc proof of concept grant trivolve we teamed up with one of the worlds leading plant breeding companies kws saat se co kgaa and successfully transferred the strategy to sugar beet as an experimental crop prototype objectives the development of the 3ptec technology for further crop plants including potato the establishment of technologies that enhance the efficiency of obtaining three parent plants and the commercial exploitation of 3ptec are aims of this project the project capitalizes on the breeding knowhow worldwide networks and commercialization expertise of the breeders aardevo and kwsimpact 3ptec will revolutionize the ability of breeders to develop improved crops in providing a tool to mine beneficial gene variants of currently incompatible species and to substantially shorten time to market of climateadapted seed varieties it provides a novel breeding strategy with economic benefits expected to positively affect the social welfare of farmers as well as upstream and downstream industries related to the agricultural value chain
integrating spectral and geometric data on moduli space

each physical object possesses specific frequencies of vibrations called its eigenfrequencies at which it enters in resonance under an external stimulus in mathematical terms these frequencies are the eigenvalues of a linear operator they form the spectrum of the object spectral geometry is concerned with understanding how the spectrum of an object as well as the modes of vibration eigenfunctions associated to each eigenfrequency are related to its geometric shape this is a wide area of research with applied and interdisciplinary aspects electromagnetic waves vibrating solids seismic waves wave functions in quantum mechanics but also involving very theoretical mathematics with many natural questions still open what can we learn about the topology or geometry of an object by observing its spectrum can we predict if the vibrations will be localized in a small part of the object or on the contrary if they will take place everywhere can we construct an object and be sure that certain frequencies are in the spectrum or on the opposite be sure to avoid certain sets of frequencies can there be objects of arbitrarily large size with no small eigenfrequencies project inspegmos deals with a specific mathematical model hyperbolic surfaces the moduli space is a space of parameters of these surfaces that we can tune and observe how the geometry and the spectrum vary in the semiclassical regime when the wavelength is small compared to the size of the object it is expected that certain spectral features are universal we will adopt a probabilistic point of view try to exhibit spectral and geometric phenomena that happen in 99 of cases the project is focussed on developing new integration techniques on moduli space we shall look for new coordinates generalize mirzakhanis study of volume functions and seek inspiration in random graph theory to develop new probabilistic methods in the spectral theory of random surfaces
dynamic magnetosphere ionosphere thermosphere coupling

dynamit addresses a fundamental misunderstanding of how earth is coupled to space in the polar ionosphere here the neutral atmosphere collides with charged particles influenced by electromagnetic fields profoundly impacting the dynamics of the atmosphere and its surroundings despite being the best instrumented region of space our understanding of earths ionosphere is severely limited the current paradigm contains two crippling assumptions that the ionosphere is 1 only 2d and 2 in a steady state this conceptualisation obscures the complex interplay of forces that change the fluids and electromagnetic fields in both regions this prevents us from accurately understanding phenomena such as the aurora polaris that have been observed and studied from ground for centuries to advance beyond the state of the art we must transition to a dynamic view of spaceatmosphere coupling this project will apply first principles to model how the neutral atmosphere plasma and electromagnetic fields interact to do this we will build and combine the dynamit model with novel measurements using an innovative data assimilation technique developed inhouse this groundbreaking combination of multiinstrument data with full 3d numerical simulations will create a radical new platform from which we will interrogate fundamental outstanding issues in space physics 1 how ionospheric dynamics disturbs earths magnetic field 2 how energy flows between regions and how it dissipates in the atmosphere and 3 how spaceatmosphere coupling shapes nearearth space these questions are critical for understanding how earth interacts with space and the influence on technology climate and circulation in the lower atmosphere if successful dynamit will be a paradigm change that transforms our conceptual understanding of how the atmosphere is coupled with space provides language to explain ionospheric observations and paves the way for improvements in space weather predictions
collective adaptation

human collectives adapt their cognitive strategies and social networks flexibly in response to multiple changing problems for example we as scientists continuously revise our teams and the way we integrate information depending on the topics we study as citizens we participate in diverse collectives that use different strategies to address challenges ranging from economic development to climate change this ability for collective adaptation contributed to our species spectacular success but sometimes our collectives seem stuck and unable to adapt to the problems they face we currently do not have a solid scientific paradigm for studying collective adaptation and its cognitive and social aspects have been studied largely independently in different disciplines i will develop such a paradigm by building computational models to integrate research on cognition and sociality and by collecting diverse empirical data on the interaction of cognitive and social processes including group experiments natural language processing of large textual corpora and longitudinal surveys this will allow me to investigate i the interplay of social learning strategies networks and problems that collectives face ii the formation and persistence of peoples beliefs about what the important problems are and iii the effect on collective adaptation of individual differences in these beliefs i am well positioned for this task because of my experience in building computational models grounded in theories and data on human cognition and sociality and the support from the complexity science hub vienna that has been designed for this kind of research this project will enable us to understand why collectives can be stuck in deadlocks about important problems and why they sometimes appear incapable of finding seemingly obvious solutions ultimately helping us to avoid undesirable societal trajectories such as those leading to extremism and violence