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three research infrastructures together carbon uptake southern ocean

the ocean is key in the global c cycle taking up ca 25 of the co2 we emit slowing climate change and giving us more time to mitigate and adapt to climate change the ocean c value chain vc of observations data qc analysis delivers key information around this to decision makers such as the conference of the parties the ris play a pivotal role in the vc via their ability to operate at scale pool resources to ensure common data standards and operational practices the urgency of the climate crisis drives us to put this vc on a much more robust footing with the world meteorological organisation leading the planning of a global greenhouse gas watch g3w covering all components of the earth system unfortunately the vc currently delivers estimates of ocean c uptake much larger than those from models leading to a damaged ability to manage climate change however further work suggests that observations at a much higher density in the southern ocean so would substantially resolve this issue our ability to deliver these via ships is limited by the small number that enter the so and we therefore need many more observations from research vessels citizen science platforms autonomous robotic floats surface platforms this step change requires substantial technological innovation and complex data synthesis tricuso will address these needs by a improving the sensing technologies on floats and small uncrewed surface vessels b supporting citizen science on yachts and potentially cruise and expedition vessels c integrating biological observations into the work flow d improving data flows to scientists e evaluating the density of observations needed f proposing fit for purpose governance structures that allow the ris to operate within the g3w these actions will enable us to have a much firmer grip of how and why ocean carbon uptake varies and thus a much firmer evidence base on which to make decisions around managing climate change impacts
bridging current knowledge gaps to enable the uptake of carbon dioxide removal methods

uptake aims to facilitate the sustainable upscaling of carbon dioxide removal cdr methods by developing a set of robust strategies through technical theoretical and practical analysis accompanied by interactive dialogue within a cdr stakeholder forum as a result uptake will develop a harmonised comprehensive inclusive integrated and transparent cdr knowledge inventory to evaluate a wide range of cdr technologies and methods quantifying their national european and global costs effectiveness and removal potential as well as risks constraints and sideeffects at different scales and their prospects of technological progress the uptake approach will allow the assessment of geographical sectoral socioeconomic demographic and temporal tradeoffs cobenefits and opportunities emerging from portfolios of different cdr methods the enhanced sociotechnical understanding of cdr methods will feed into an ensemble of stateoftheart integrated assessment models iams which will help improve the integration of cdr methods given the eu policy objectives set for 2030 2050 and beyond climate neutrality uptake will assess cdr governance and policy frameworks considering social acceptance accountability monitoring and regulations for sustainable cdr rollout at scale as a result uptake will generate an open and interactive cdr roadmap explorer to investigate strategies that are resilient to risks of failure and disruption and minimise adverse impacts on society economy and the environment aiming for a just inclusive and sustainable transition
imminent disease prediction and prevention at the environment host interface

immediate aims to investigate and explore the dietmicrobiomeimmunometabolismaxis as a sensor for healthtodisease transition and evaluate strategies to maintain an individuals wellbeing chronic inflammation is the major root of most diseases understanding of this process preceding organ dysfunction or damage and identification of biomarkers in the presymptomatic stage and risk but also resilience factors of healthtodisease transition will enable targeted and personalized interventions to prevent irreversible organ damage metabolites of gut microbiota are key messengers between diet microbiota and host maintaining the balance of pro and antiinflammation our study takes advantage of cuttingedge omics technologies available within the immediate consortium in conjunction with available clinical data and biospecimens from ongoing observational studies enrolling healthy subjects and individuals in the predisease stage but with largely distinct environmental and dietary modulators including a cohort of kidney transplant recipients in whom renal function has been reset to baseline the identification of clinical and omicsderived biomarkers will by employing ai algorithms yield a personalized risk resilience score of chronic inflammation and thus a better prediction of an individuals risk of transition towards disease a proofofconcept intervention study with the antiinflammatory microbe akkermansia muciniphila will be conducted to test whether deflections of the microbiomemetaboliteimmune axis can be reverted on the biomarker level but also with respect to clinical outcomes and overall wellbeing mobile apps developed by the immediate consortium in collaboration with patient organizations tracking numerous lifestylerelated measures and providing guidance and feedback on these aspects will empower individuals to adopt and integrate these knowledgebased health interventions into their own lives hereby selfmanaging their own health
evaluating identifying and reducing determinants of mhcs in youth early

early project aims to reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases such as mental health conditions mhc especially depression anxiety stress disorders substance use disorders and identify and reduce risky modifiable exposures for these conditions in youth early will pursue this goal through developing a comprehensive exposure matrix which can be adapted to emerging new risks to understand youth parents and stakeholders perceptions we will conduct qualitative interviews by providing representative multinational data on youth mhc and through developing implementing and evaluating a multicomponent intervention this will serve as an innovative model for promoting mental health and preventing mhc early is a mixed methods study which combines qualitative and quantitative methods to provide a overview on youth mental health measures we will review measures to provide data on exposure factors and whether exposure estimates vary by country age and gender we will review studies and identify and merge available data on youth mental health to provide insights on perceptions we will conduct focus groups with endusers to provide representative data on youth mhc we will conduct a crosssectional survey which are the baseline data for the multicomponent pilot intervention in five selected countries to provide data on effectiveness and sustainability of interventions to reduce mhc we will conduct a multicomponent intervention the results will be a a model of youth mental health b a matrix of exposures c insights and understandings on endusers perceptions of youth mental health d knowledge on services for use in the european region and identification of needs e representative data on youth mental health which can be easily accessed by researchers and policymakers f data on effectiveness and sustainability of interventions to reduce both exposures and mhc in youth and finally g noncommunicable diseases risk reduction in adolescence and youth
low carbon cloud

qarnot is an innovative sme gathering sixty high skilled people located in france and acting at the european level thanks to the eicaccelerator qarnot aims at being the champion of the green cloud providers in europe a booming market with a double digit growth in demand for sustainable technologiesto support its ambition qarnot relies on proprietary innovative technological bricks both software and hardware qarnot it infrastructures are natively designed to reuse waste heat easily and efficiently offering high performance computing and low environmental impact at the same timebased on its successes and prestigious customers qarnot intends to promote a paradigm shift in the cloud services industry by bridging performance and impact security and european sovereignty by considering it as an energetic topicwith qarnot the more projects you install the more impact you have eic will help us scaling take an industrial turn and reach our high business ambitions
empowering rural communities to act for change

ruractive aims to foster a just and sustainable transition of rural areas by developing smart communityled tailormade placebased and inclusive solutions within local multiactor rural innovation ecosystems ries in 12 pilot area dynamos ds in 7 eu 2 associated countries and switzerland ruractive will unlock the innovation potential of rural communities by addressing six integrated rural development drivers rdds namely multimodal mobility energy transition agrifood and agroecology culture and cultural innovation health and wellbeing naturebased and cultural tourism and transversally integrating climate change mitigation and adaption biodiversity and social justice and inclusionruractive will empower rural communities to act for societal change by making available existing knowledge around smart solutions that integrate various forms of innovation digital and technological technical organizational and social business models and financial and enhancing rural communities capacities and skills by providing training capacity building and knowledge transfer implementing a methodology for ries establishment in 12 ds ruractive will work towards inclusive decisionmaking processes for all including vulnerable groups and people at risk of exclusion providing ries with instruments and capacities to collaboratively codevelop coimplement and comonitor smart and communityled solutions also by offering an open set of datadriven tools decision support tool adaptive monitoring tool a digital infrastructure ruractive digital hub and defining a programme for external innovators ruractive will provide a fertile ground for change in rural areas results will be outscaled through knowledge exchanges and networking at eu level open contest for additional ds and ruractive forum the deployment of training and capacity building activities for further rural communities and the creation of open elearning courses and mooc
acceleration programme empowering womenled deep tech startups in widening area countries

entrepreneurship plays a vital role in our economies and societies new businesses help bring innovations to the market create the bulk of new net jobs and are an engine of productivity growth unfortunately women remain substantially underrepresented as entrepreneurs and are a rarity in europe while they represent more than half the population women account for less than a third of entrepreneurs such underrepresentation of women is not only a matter of inequalityin the deep tech area which represents more than a quarter of europes startup ecosystem and is now valued at 700b women obtain only 10 of patent applications in the eu and less than 15 of startups are founded or cofounded by womendespite the efforts by the ec widening area startups are still underrepresented in initiatives like women techeuempowomen techeu was born to overcome the obstacles of digital and deep tech innovations led by women and improve equality in the entrepreneurship deep tech domain empowomen techeu will offer a unique programme for scaling up womenled companies from the widening area the main objective of the project will be to create an exclusive support programme for female founders and entrepreneurs leading deep tech startups from wideningarea countries to grow into tomorrows female tech leaders and put women at the forefront of deep tech in europewe will run a programme in two open calls that will provide a unique acceleration programme freeequity funding prizes and vouchers for services for 25 selected womenled companies operating in the deep tech sector sploro tech ukraine business angels europe and startup wise guys all together with 8 startup associations from the widening area will run this innovative programme which will be the first to support deep tech womenled companies including an acceleration service by swg events attendance investment readiness with direct training from business angels and connections with actual vcs
understanding the topdown and bottomup development of emotional styles in a modern colonial context the case of the jewish community in mandatory palestine

how do emotional styles develop in colonial settings what are their roles in the construction of settler identities such processes happen both from belowin the daily and often casual behavior of ordinary men women and children and from abovein discourses about the ideal and actual characteristics of a settler as the early zionists looking to execute their national project in the colonial world fully realized a colony regardless of its function always provides an opportunity to produce new people in the case of the yishuvthe jewish community that coalesced in mandatory palestinethe topdown direction of this process can be identified in the extensive zionist literature about the desired new jew as well as in the attempts to embed his or her traits using printed matter such as parents manuals and childrens literature drawing on this feature of the yishuv the research analyzes both the zionist project of topdown emotional transformation and the actual expression and experiences of emotions in the burgeoning settler society by integrating these two levels the research goes beyond the existing scholarship which usually focuses on one or the other and breaks new ground in understanding how emotions were mobilized and how new emotional styles emerged in a colonial context the outgoing phase which will last two years at harvard university under the supervision of prof derek penslar has two aims i to understand how the colonial context within which early zionism operated impacted ideas about new emotional styles and ii to survey the attempts to bring these ideas into the homes of the mostly european settlers at the time the incoming phase running one year at barilan university under the supervision of prof hizky shoham will assess the impactor lack thereofof the emotional transformation studied in the outgoing phase on the everyday emotional practices of families in the mainstream urban sector of the yishuv
food trade dependency under climatic sociopolitical shocks managing risk ftrademark

policies in developing countries that seek to fight hunger achieve food security improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture a united nations sustainable development goal face considerable obstacles when confronted with disruptions of their staple food production and trade disruptions such as climate change along with interstate conflicts eg the ongoing russian invasion of ukraine have weakened developing countries staple food yields supply and trade flows for trade in particular challenges include physical trade disruptions of agricultural outputs as well as inputs particularly in more vulnerable regions these disruptions are often followed by government trade interventions a critical dimension of food risk and security is staple food trade dependencies between countries such dependencies occur both directly in terms of regional food security and indirectly increase migration as well as gender vulnerabilities indirect dependencies emerge from the complex web of trade relationships in which a countrys access to staple foods relies not only on direct imports from producing nations but also on reexports facilitated by intermediary countries in the case of disruption shocks such a trade system may expose importing countries to vulnerabilities at various intermediary points for example the russianukraine war has exposed the vulnerability of countries directly importing staple foods and fertilizers from the two countries but also heavily affected countries that rely on the reexport of staple foods the project ftrademark aims to measure the vulnerability of nations food systems resilience based on global trade data from 1986 2020 using networkbased assessment tools moreover the future of staple food and fertilizer trade dependence will be predicted under different shortterm and longterm shocks up to the year 2100
studying the earths surface with seismic methods

envseis will train 12 early stage researchers esrs in the emerging field of environmental seismology in which seismic methods are used to study processes at or near the earths surface such as landsliding river sediment transport debris flows and glacial processes seismic techniques allow addressing challenges in the earth surface sciences that are intractable by traditional observation methods the capacity of environmental seismology has been proven and first applications have been published yet most current research in this field is conducted either by seismologists with an interest in earth surface processes or by earth surface scientists who learned basic seismic methods the dn envseis will fully leverage the potential of environmental seismology by fusing these complementary perspectives bringing together 10 leading research groups from 7 countries envseis will train 12 esrs in both seismology and earth surface sciences to lay the ground for a next strong generation of environmental seismologists in their projects the esrs will address outstanding challenges in natural hazards hydrology geomorphology and ocean sciences applying seismic techniques to study a broad range of landscapes and their processes including hillslopes channels glaciers coasts and oceans they will combine observation theory and numerical modelling to conduct groundbreaking science to develop new methods and software and deliver benchmark data sets as such they will set standards for using seismic methods in the earth surface sciences in europe and beyond establishing europe as the leader in this newly emerging field complementary training includes the involvement of stakeholder and media partnerships experience in organizing conferences and workshops as well as courses on transferable skills this will allow the esrs to acquire a broad range of skills and experience to make them competitive for careers in research industry or public administration
lightweight costeffective composite and green bipropellant system for space transportation applications

engineering novel materials and their design optimization using simulationbased tools enable the development of lightweight and sturdy thrusters in europe the development of hightemperatureresistant structural materials for space transportation has gained momentum over the years this has led to the increased usage of ceramic matrix composite over conventional metal alloys in aerospace applications most of the reported works focus on manufacturing costeffective and lightweight composites whereas the thermally stable nature of composites has not been fully explored the green charter and european green deal promote lowemission forms of transport and emphasize developing sustainable and renewable forms of energy the adoption of green fuels offers advantages in terms of total life cycle cost reduction contributing to cheaper space transportation and environmental impact reduction contemporary research innovations have expanded the development of green propellants for spacecraft in diverse space applications on a global level primarily for ecoinnovation and safety considerations studies with ammonium dinitramide hydrazinium nitroformate with methanol and ethanolwater are still in the nascent phase whereas h2o2 is delivering stateoftheart performance to replace conventional hydrazine this project aims to explore the possibility of developing a 1100n class thruster made of thermally stable composite carbonceramic and green bipropellant h2o2kerosene system for the upper stage to reduce the overall weight life cycle cost and environmental impacts without compromising on the performance parameters this will be researched through a comprehensive blend of multiphysicsbased numerical modeling and analysis to generate a highly reliable design and a scalespecific experimental characterization and test rig to yield propellant formulation data corresponding to the stateoftheart the proposal will produce high societal scientific and economic impacts
incrementally learning new classes with generative classification

learning continually from nonstationary streams of data is a key feature of natural intelligence but an unsolved problem in deep learning particularly challenging for deep neural networks is the problem of classincremental learning whereby a network must learn to distinguish classes that are not observed together in deep learning the default approach to classification is learning discriminative classifiers this works great in the iid setting when all classes are available simultaneously but when new classes must be learned incrementally successful training of discriminative classifiers depends on workarounds such as storing data or generative replay in a radical shift of gears here i propose to instead address classincremental learning with generative classification key advantage is that generative classifiers unlike discriminative classifiers do not compare classes during training but only during inference ie when making a classification decision as a proofofconcept in preliminary work i showed that a nave implementation of a generative classifier with a separate variational autoencoder model per class and likelihood estimation through importance sampling outperforms comparable generative replay methods to improve the efficiency scalability and performance of this generative classifier i propose four further modifications 1 move the generative modelling objective from the raw inputs to an intermediate network layer
deciphering de novo gene birth in populations

genes are fundamental units of life and their origin has fascinated researchers since the beginning of the molecular era many of the studies on the formation of new genes in genomes have focused on gene duplication and subsequent divergence of the two gene copies but in recent years we have learnt that genes can also arise de novo from previously nongenic sequences the discovery of de novo genes has become possible by the sequencing of complete genomes and the comparison of gene sets between closely related species here we wish to test a novel hypothesis we propose that de novo gene formation dynamics in populations results in substantial differences in gene content between individuals if they exist these differences would be not be visible by the current methods to study gene variation which are based on the comparison of the sequences of each individual to a common set of reference genes to test our hypothesis we will need to develop novel computational approaches to first obtain an accurate representation of all transcripts and translated open reading frames in each individual and then integrate the information at the population level we propose to apply these methods to two very distinct biological systems a large collection of saccharomyces cerevisiae world isolates and a human lymphoblastoid cell line lcl panel for this we will collect and generate rna rnaseq and ribosome profiling riboseq sequencing data in order to identify de novo originated events occurred within populations as opposed to phylogenetically conserved genes that have been lost in some individuals we will also generate similar data from a set of closely related species in each of the two systems combined with genomics data we will identify the spectrum of mutations associated with de novo gene birth with an unprecedented level of detail and uncover footprints of adaptation linked to the birth of new genes