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the interchange between democratic institutions and the globalisation of the economy

following world war ii globalisation and market liberalisation triggered a period of unprecedented growth recently these trends appear to reverse whereby globalisation and corporations started to pose challenges for liberal democracy social cohesion and environmental sustainability demotrans is an impactdriven research project that will provide theoretically and empirically robust recommendations on how to reinvigorate democratic governance by improving the accountability transparency effectthe notion that liberal representative democracy is in some form of crisis or even a terminal decline has been brought forward by numerous scholars for a recent review see bickerton accetti 2021 while the globalisation and liberalisation of markets triggered a period of unprecedented growth as well as improvements in standards of living and consolidation of liberal democracies in the decades following the second world war we have recently witnessed a substantial reversal in these trends today globalisation and global corporations rather appear to bring challenges to liberal democracy social cohesion as well as the environment the academic literature studying these developments often focuses on describing and interpreting what is going wrong however the key challenge is to outline and understand the new type of politics that is emerging in its place as well as to envisage and develop the contours of new promising approaches to reembed democracy and capitalism this key challenge lies at the heart of the demotrans project and we address it by bringing together a multidisciplinary consortium of six experienced and leading research groups from four european research universities and an ngo with a strong track record building on their wideranging expertise demotrans will develop novel theoretical and empirical academic research aimed at robust recommendations that encouraging stronger democratic accountability and inclusion in economic processes
transforming pruning for smallholder agriculture with enhanced productivity and working conditions using ar and robotics

agrimate focuses on transforming pruning tasks for smallscale farmers by using augmented reality ar and robotics technologies enriched with artificial intelligence ai tackling the significant challenges and labourintensive aspects of pruning in highvalue crops like olive groves and vineyards agrimate introduces an innovative and scalable solution this solution relies on an artificial intelligence module capable of learning from expert human knowledge to address tree pruning challenges this module extends its functionality to the solution through various tools from a learning tool that adapts to the users knowledge to an augmented reality solution providing realtime guidance during the pruning process with the human at the centre it seamlessly integrates with two different robotic solutions either assisting the user with exoskeletons or autonomously performing tasks with a highly advanced robot additionally agrimate incorporates a comprehensive assessment tool designed to evaluate the solutions impact not only on farmers but also on rural communities this holistic approach aims not only to enhance productivity and resource efficiency but also to improve social inclusiveness and working conditions within the agricultural sector by forging a consortium of leading research institutions smes and agricultural stakeholders from across europe agrimate is at the forefront of cultivating sustainable technologically advanced and socially responsible farming practices ultimately agrimate stands as a beacon of innovation in agricultural technology keenly aligned with the eus broader goals of digital transformation environmental sustainability and socioeconomic equity showcasing a path forward for future farming that prioritizes both yield and community wellbeing
rethinking global supply chains measurement impact and policy

the changing nature of global supply chains requires a rethinking of gscs in the design of appropriate policy responses and in taking into account their employment and social impacts the overall goal of rethinkgsc is to enhance our understanding of the impact of gscs using new measures that can quantify the role knowledge flows and more generally services inputs and thus acknowledge the increasing importance of intangibles in global production the project provides new and innovative methodologies for assessing the development of global supply chains which generates new knowledge on ongoing and expected changes in gscs due to shocks the research both theoretical and empirical will be conducted mainly at the level of the firm the unit that ultimately decides on the organisation of international production using the rethinkgsc innovative measures allows the projects researchers and future scholars i to investigate the interaction between tangible and intangible gscs to evaluate the changing nature of global supply chains ii to provide novel ways of analysing the impact of gscs on social economic and environmental outcomes in european countries and iii to evaluate the resilience of gscs to exogenous shocks furthermore the project elaborates policy scenarios for expected future gsc developments this new evidence contributes to enhancing policy developments related to ensuring level playing fields in trade relations and ensuring security of strategic supplies throughout the project stages researchers will collaborate closely with an advisory board consisting of a group of stakeholder experts from national governments business associations social partners and international organizations finally and important to the projects continuing impact the newly constructed measures of knowledge and service flows along gscs will be made available to the wider community for research and policy analysis after completion of rethinkgsc
democracy autocracy and international cooperation

one of the most consistent findings in the study of world politics is the positive relationship between democratic regimes and international cooperation yet events in recent years suggest a more complicated picture several democracies have withered in their support for international organizations while autocracies simultaneously have stepped up their commitments to cooperation this project will use recent developments as a backdrop for launching a new research agenda on the relationship between regime type and international cooperation guided by the overarching question of why how and under what conditions regime type affects international cooperation this project will conduct the most systematic and comprehensive analysis so far of this relationship theoretically it will break new ground by developing a novel framework for identifying how regime type may have varying and conditional effects on international cooperation empirically it will be more comprehensive than any previous research effort examining this relationship over a longer time period and across a broader range of international cooperation based on an extensive new data collection methodologically it will leverage an ambitious multimethod design combining largen statistical analysis experimental analysis and indepth case analysis in a complementary fashion and with a comparative orientation in addition the project will be policy relevant by generating insights on the resilience or not of international cooperation in an age of democratic decline
wideranging probabilistic physicsguided machine learning approach to break down the limits of current fatigue predictive tools for metals

it appears paradoxical how todays frontier highimpact research seeks for designing new materials to delay structural failures especially fatigue while the same effort is not seen concerning the way materials can be efficiently and safely used in real structural applications breakdown aims to transform engineering products design methods by identifying and including a set of submicroscale material inhomogeneities characteristics in a novel probabilistic framework the time has come to exploit modern experimental techniques to probe material properties at a small scale which are scarcely involved in current fatigue characterisation schemes to attain this very ambitious goal the project will rely on a breakdown of different classes of inhomogeneities to advance the fundamental mechanical understanding of their contribution to fatigue and then reunite them within an advanced bayesian physicsguided neural network bpgnn frame over the past three years i assiduously worked to prove the feasibility of breakdown and demonstrate its superior capabilities however i have merely scratched the surface of what is potentially achievable with this approach both in terms of knowledge advancement and real engineering applications an extensive multimodal experimental characterisation campaign will be conducted on different material inhomogeneity states to separate and identify their individual influence on fatigue in a systematic and detailed way cuttingedge numerical analytical models will be developed and exploited as the physics knowledge in the bpgnn scheme to effectively tackle the small datasets issue when dealing with fatigue and to ensure soundness of results the outstanding capabilities of the framework developed in breakdown will be confirmed through specific demonstrators breakdown will excellently contribute towards the development of a much more sustainable design procedure with unprecedented social economic and environmental benefits
fairness and intersectional nondiscrimination in human recommendation

findhr is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to prevent detect and mitigate discrimination in ai our research will be contextualized within the technical legal and ethical problems of algorithmic hiring and the domain of human resources but will also show how to manage discrimination risks in a broad class of applications involving human recommendationthrough a contextsensitive interdisciplinary approach we will develop new technologies to measure discrimination risks to create fairnessaware rankings and interventions and to provide multistakeholder actionable interpretability we will produce new technical guidance to perform impact assessment and algorithmic auditing a protocol for equality monitoring and a guide for fairnessaware ai software development we will also design and deliver specialized skills training for developers and auditors of ai systemswe ground our project in eu regulation and policy as tackling discrimination risks in ai requires processing sensitive data we will perform a targeted legal analysis of tensions between data protection regulation including the gdpr and antidiscrimination regulation in europe we will engage with underrepresented groups through multiple mechanisms including consultation with experts and participatory action researchin our research technology law and ethics are interwoven the consortium includes leaders in algorithmic fairness and explainability research upf uva unipi mpisp pioneers in the auditing of digital services aw eticas and two industry partners that are leaders in their respective markets ade rand complemented by experts in technology regulation ru and crosscultural digital ethics eur as well as worker representatives etuc and two ngos dedicated to fighting discrimination against women wide and vulnerable populations prak all outputs will be released as open access publications open source software open datasets and open courseware
history of care in the maghreb infectious diseases healthcare infrastructures and international aid 19561999

the hicama project explores the development of healthcare in the maghreb region by examining the historical interactions among national sanitary institutions civic experiences of health outreach and international institutions involved in global health preservation the covid19 pandemic has demonstrated the strategic importance of studying infectious diseases in a variety of contexts and from multiple angles focusing on containment and eradication programs against infectious diseases promoted over the second half of the twentieth century hicama examines the efforts made by maghreb independent countries against the spread of diseases with both a respiratory and a sexually transmitted nature the project conceptualizes the fight against infectious diseases as a first and yet enduring test for healthcare systems viability in the region hicama adopts a multilayered perspective to assess local national and international implications of the phenomenon it takes into account algerian moroccan and tunisian sanitary endeavors against infectious diseases the role of international donors who world bank usaid in directing maghrebi healthcare politics and considers the local and gendered practices of care implemented by associations active for decades to promote outreach programs drawing on archival sources official and press sources and interviews the project employs a novel methodology that combines archival research oral history institutional and gender analysis by recasting the healthcare as a prism through which nationbuilding international relations and local activism can be reassessed a methodology reproducible also in other contexts hicama aims to have a major impact on the history of the modern maghreb ultimately hicama includes research communication and dissemination activities in the maghreb europe and the united states that will enhance the fellows research skills and her global approach in studying the history of the mena region
heterogeneous asymmetric nanoclustercatalysis design

chirality plays a major role in several areas due to the different behavior of each enantiomeric form of a compound critical in the pharmaceutical industry obtaining pure enantiomers is one of the most difficult challenges in which homogeneous asymmetric catalysis has achieved significant steps now it is time to undertake the challenge by heterogeneous enantioselective catalysis implying great advantages in terms of sustainability and offers further opportunities for indepth understanding of mechanisms at the molecular level relevant in multidisciplinary fields however successful design of such processes requires understanding and control of all relevant steps which requires welldefined catalysts designed at atomic level a new class of atomically precise nanomaterials that offers ample opportunities to explore chirality at the fundamental level are the monolayer protected metal nanoclusters which exhibit unexpected catalytic and intrinsically chiral properties the hand project aims to tackle actual challenges in heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis and achieve enantioselectivity with chiral nanoclusters on surfaces designed at atomic level after creating chiral clusters active in homogeneous asymmetric reactions we will control their immobilization on the support surface and their chiral properties such atomically precise chiral surfaces will allow us to overcome sensitivity barriers of available chiral spectroscopic techniques improving studies of chirality at surfaces finally having a welldefined chiral surface asymmetricenantioselective model reactions will be explored aiming to obtain pure enantiomers each process step by itself represents a novel pioneering work in the field of nanoclusters and asymmetric catalysis so far mostly unexplored the fabrication and understanding of such a new class of chiral surfaces at the atomic level represent a breakthrough in knowledge relevant for materials science nanotechnology and medicine
an european and iberoamerican approach for the digital collection analysis and dissemination of folk music

music is an element that is present in our daily lives there are different styles of music including classical jazz pop rock etc there is a kind of music folk music which is of great interest due to its peculiar characteristics and the social context it represents or has represented this music is a form of social and cultural identification that allows us to twin and recognize ourselves as folks and also to promote cultural diversity through knowledge of other music this project proposes creating a platform that contains and presents information about folk music from european and iberoamerican culture the main goal is to create a whole paradigm in which folk music can be understandable from a ethnomusicological musical and educative point of view furthermore we aim to bring folk music closer to the public creating an interactive and attractive platform that incorporate multimedia information audio files scores visual information about patterns and similarities etc as the platform will be open to the common public all people that might be interested in folk music can get access enjoy the resources or even submit their own materials our goal is aligned with three main pillars i create a new paradigm to make the musical and ethnomusicological analysis easier for the community ii show knowledge discovery through the application of new technologies in the platform iii bring folk music to educative and public environments our project complies with the digitalization pillars proposed in the strategic plan of msca through the inclusion of computer sciences technologies to get a new vision in music analysis it also helps to create a more resilient inclusive and democratic european society and includes actions that are also mentioned in the cluster culture creative and inclusive society through the inclusion of folk repertoires that reflect cultural issues from different european and iberoamerican regions
bioelectrochemical transformation of co2 for the synthesis of valueadded products

the ongoing climate crisis and accelerating production of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide has sparked a sense of urgency in the scientific community to come up with solutions to sequestrate andor recycle co2 co2 is a rather stable molecule that needs a high energy input to be chemically activated and applications to utilize co2 effectively are still in their infancy with several research gaps that need to be filled in this proposal we will use a new biotechnology named microbial electrosynthesis mes that has the ability to use a number of aqueous and gaseous wastes including co2 and biotransform them into useful chemical commodities in order to use mes for practical and largescale applications utilization of co2 from exhaust gases should be the target we will fabricate and use gasdiffusion electrodes gdes enabling microbial catalysts to take up co2 gas directly and more efficiently solving the problem of low co2 solubility in aqueous media and mass transfer limitations this project will develop a novel dual biocatalyzed mes consisting of an efficient gas diffusion biocathode for co2 sequestration in combination with a bioanode for simultaneous product valorization from glycerol using different biocatalysts including enriched and engineered synthetic communities the use of microbial catalysts both at the anode and cathode will significantly increase efficiency and product specificity of the mes system which is low with chemical catalysts furthermore the application of a bioanode based on oxidation of a cheap industrial byproduct such as glycerol not only generates higher energy electrons for the gde biocathode saving energy but also leads to production of added value compounds making the process more energy and cost efficient
electrical tomography for phase change monitoring

heatingcooling demands represent more than half of energy consumption in households and drive most of energyrelated ghg emissions in the residential sector to achieve decarbonisation goals heatingcooling demands must be supplied with heat pumps driven by renewable electricity however the mismatch between energy availability and heatingcooling demand needs to be reconciled with lowcost efficient and flexible energy storage latent thermal energy storage ltes with phase change materials pcms is becoming a key enabling technology for lowcarbon heatingcooling however smart control of ltes systems require monitoring of the liquid fraction which determines the total stored energy the present research proposal et4pcm aims to develop a firstofakind smart noninvasive versatile impedance sensor to evaluate in realtime the liquid fraction evolution of pcms in ltes the et4pcm sensor will provide detailed information regarding phase distribution evolution during freezingmelting of pcms in macrocapsules spherical or cylindrical shells the project planning contemplates four key tasks which correspond to the subobjectives so1 characterization and enhancement of electrical properties of pcms so2 design of the electrical sensing system so3 experimental implementation and validation of the proposed sensing system and so4 validation of et4pcm technology in a real ltes the research approach involves experimental numerical and theoretical research activities i dr carolina mirahernndez will develop the et4pcm project under the supervision of pr simone mancin at university of padua unipd who is renowned expert in ltes in addition i will spend 3 months during a secondment at the startup cowa where i will deploy the et4pcm sensor in a realworld ltes and i will have a nonacademic placement at hexxcell a consulting company on predictive analytics where i will develop in silico smart control tools for ltes
lowering underwater noise radiation from waterborne transport

underwater radiated noise urn by ships is one of main anthropogenic sources of noise in the marine environment transport by ship has been hailed as a green mean of transportation at the same time trapped under the water surface the noise has been overlooked when considering the impact and the effects of human activities on marine species on 11 march 24 a notice from the ec has been issued on the threshold values for the marine strategy framework directive 200856ec for continuous urn the threshold for the habitat size of target species exceeding the level of onset of biologically adverse effects lobe has been set to 20 while this notice does not set a specific limit for ship noise levels it requires member states to evaluate the state of conservation of waters and take actions as needed many projects have brought to light that the marine environment is influenced by marine traffic to a level and in ways that were not obvious to predict eg aquo project has drawn attention to the effects on different marine species sonic looked into the noise generated by cavitating propeller both projects led to the development of a series of criteria to quantify the harmfulness of urn and measures to reduce it though without demonstrating the measures in full scale these projects were followed by piaquo and saturn that have moved the focus towards regulating the noise emission of ships and implementing solutions for its reduction the lownoiser project aims to bring the effort towards quieter ocean closer to reality than previous projects by showing the effectiveness of noise reduction solutions ie technologies measures and management strategies that have a high trl with fulllarge scale demonstrators also the project is developing better tools for predicting urn showing that noise reduction solutions are environmentally friendly in the sense of ghg emissions while being economically viable and safe