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the second life of modern period architecture resilient and adaptive renovation towards netzero carbon heritage buildings

today 19th and 20th c modern period buildings are the trademark of numerous european cities forming a great part of eu built heritage reflecting and shaping the identity of our local national and multinational societies considering that historic buildings are ineffective in terms of energy consumption for heating and cooling among the biggest restoration and renovation challenges is to enhance the energy performance of historic buildings sincere aims to elucidate the values of built heritage and provide the tools for optimizing the carbon footprint and energy performance of historic buildings towards the requirements of netzerocarbonbuildings by utilizing innovative sustainable and costeffective restoration materials and practices energy harvesting technologies ict tools and socially innovative approaches sincere adapts a multiscale concept from material to building to neighbourhood to cityscale applied on the three main parts of buildings structure external envelope opaque and transparent parts implemented at different timeframes in order to provide decision making tools to the stakeholders involved in the process considering the fullservice life of the buildings including restoration operation monitoring and maintenance phases energy performance in terms of retrofitting materials and solutions will be optimized according to the buildings unique structural architectural functional and materials characteristics their environmental setup as well as local future climate change scenarios sincere will provide a palette portfolio of sustainable restoration options that will be evaluated by hbimhdt tools in order to enable the selection of optimum solutions and the planning of necessary adaptation actions sincere will also focus on raising awareness and empowering europeans to promote the concept of preservation ch buildings by disseminating the obtained results through national and international scale activities
the neural language of song brain mechanisms for sensorimotor syntax control

our motor sequences obey syntax rules from tying shoes to giving a speech choosing the next action requires our brain to remember past actions bridge across many seconds and apply rules that create hierarchical syntax whereas past studies revealed how primary motor cortex drives actions we poorly understand the transition mechanisms by which the brain strings actions into hierarchical variable sequences the key obstacle is identifying deep hierarchical syntax rules in behavior and in neural sequences this obstacle is met by studying birdsong that naturally segments to sequences of syllables in the zebra finch juveniles learn once from a tutor and fix a single sequence driven by a robust songlocked activity here to study hierarchical syntax rules i will use canaries virtuosos that learn and adapt such rules along and across seasons canaries produce a huge repertoire of songs that enable separate analysis of neural states and syllable acoustics when studying their rich and dynamic syntax rules my previous work in canaries identified hidden neural states that keep a memory of sung syllables over several seconds and predict upcoming transitions here i leverage this model to dissect transition mechanisms and elucidate 1 neural activity in the premotor nucleus hvc that underlies flexible transitions between syllables 2 integration of auditory and thalamic inputs for applying hierarchical syntax rules to select the next syllable 3 neural state dynamics when adapting syntax rules for new songs and 4 seasonal remodeling of hvc via neurogenesis we use imaging electrophysiology and neural network simulations that integrate data across behavior neural activity and circuit levels of analysis our work will map the process by which basal ganglia and thalamocortical circuits generate and adapt hierarchical syntax rules over time sensory and social contexts and might offer insights to dysfunction of motor sequence control in maladaptive conditions
a physicsbased study of ice stream dynamics

ice streams are riverlike corridors of fast flowing ice that account for the vast majority of ice discharge to the ocean in continental ice sheets their most outstanding feature is that they can appear spontaneously within a slowly moving ice sheet selforganize in evenly spaced patterns and switch on and off over time yet a full explanation of ice stream formation and evolution is one of the longest standing open problems in glaciology this knowledge gap has precluded fundamental investigations on the role of ice streams in driving ice sheet change and also casts doubt on the ability of stateoftheart ice sheet simulation codes to project future sea levels recent work by the pi identified an entirely novel class of feedbacks related to the onset of basal sliding which could be the missing ingredient needed to fully explain observed ice stream dynamic behaviors drawing on a unique combination of novel glaciological observations firstprinciple theoretical work and icesheetwide numerical simulations phast builds on this insight to 1 develop a complete and coherent theory of ice stream spatial and temporal dynamics that clarifies under what environmental conditions these dynamics are to be expected2 test the hypothesis that sliding onset physics play a central role in ice stream dynamics through a targeted field experiment3 build a new ice sheet simulation code that resolves sliding onset and ice stream margin physics at low computational cost thanks to emerging domain partitioning methods4 assess for the first time the sensitivity of antarctic and greenland mass loss to ice stream dynamics by developing new modeling tools and generating processlevel understanding across scales ranging from few tens of meters to thousands of kilometers phast will lead the way towards unraveling the complex interplay between internal ice sheet dynamics and climate over timescales ranging from decades to millennia
filling the behavioral gap in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

do only foolish people drown and only compulsive gamblers suffer flood losses conventional wisdom is based on flawed underlying assumptions and the eu vision of a disaster and climateresilient society cannot be achieved by relying on behaviourblind assessments and policy whilst the behaviour of individuals businesses and public services before during and after a crisis has a significant impact on damages recovery and resilience current assessments fail to include such critical factors because they are hardly understood floods and weather hazards are affecting 2bn people and exposure is expected to grow due to climate change despite trillions of public funds invested current flood reduction and planning policies are failing to reduce risks and losses of lives this is due to a mismatch between the rising application of risk vulnerability and resilience assessments and the understanding of their empirical validity the overreaching goal of this proposal is to move from behaviourblind to behaviouraware assessments indicators and policies to save lives and public money lifting the current barriers to predicting and simulating risk perception and behaviour will create forefront knowledge and open new horizons social and technological changes have widened the gaps in our knowledge making new empirical research essential to refine or replace existing theories this project will provide four demonstrators representative of the european and mediterranean context graded in size wealth and exposure to reach general considerations paris barcelona bucharest and algiers it is aiming at crossvalidation on floods and transferability to other emergencies technological disasters epidemics terrorism etc it will launch a new line of research by providing behaviouraware participatory assessments and indicators spatiallyexplicit interactive short and longterm simulation tools enabling decisionmakers to refine their strategies and policies
transition to sustainable future through training and education

transit aims to provide sustainable training and reskilling programmes for current and future generations on a multidisciplinary approach in renewable energy and fuel technologies identifying global and local challenges to realise the large deployment ambitions covering european level and all different stakeholders levels specifically through support measures and activities transit will dedicate its resources and educational materials to target groups of policymakers regulators innovators industry trade associations universities and local communities covering the various sectorial strategies under the european green deal therefore the transit framework establishes i success stories and practices that are catalogued retained and promoted in terms of circularity and sustainable aspects ii develop a handson training approach to revamp industryacademic curricula and iii establish a webenabled platform for the innovative and interactive multidisciplinary programme from educational campaigns to handson courses validation of transit resources tools and materials including challenges competitions and awards will pass through rigorous quality assurance that ensures that each material also takes into consideration gender balance societal impact and employment competencies transit developed framework will ensure postproject life is addressed through scalability and replicability including the deployment of the programme in partners countries through appropriate stakeholders and open access practices
socialist symbolic geography and global belonging yugoslav travel writings in the third world

european socialist travel writers in the previous century turned their course to africa and asia reflecting the fact that the second and third worlds formed a close political economic and cultural alliance which was built on a popular and widely accepted vision of mutual interconnectedness and global belonging the socialist travelogue had an important role in promoting such symbolic geography and in negotiating proclaimed and practiced solidarities with various tensions interests and power inequalities today these travelogues and the partnership between the two worlds have been forgotten profoundly influencing how we understand the european and global past and future socglobe sets to examine the yugoslav socialist travelogue 19451990 as a rich place to explore socialist symbolic geography and consequently promote values narratives and memories of solidarity and global belonging in order to reinspire public debates on the european future in line with that socglobe has two strategic goals 1 to compose the first comprehensive corpus of yugoslav travel writing thus integrating the uncatalogued material in danger of historical disappearance and 2 to build a novel conceptual framework to explore socialist symbolic geography beyond the currently dominant postcolonial model created for analysing relations between western europe and its colonial others socglobe challenges the postcolonial approach by incorporating imagology and bourdieus concept of positiontaking into the research and proposes the notion of socialist symbolic geography as a site of multidimensional and multidirectional exchange and negotiation socglobe advances literary cultural and travel writing studies beyond their westernoriented focus and contributes to socialist studies historical research on second and third world relations and broader research on semiperipheries by proposing an alternative conceptual model for framing intercultural relations
optimizing multifunctional forestbased value chains with single tree information and application of digital technologies

european forests pivotal in the bioeconomy and provision of ecosystem services face growing challenges from climate threats impacting their multifunctional roles from carbon sequestration to biodiversity and recreation singletree seeks to transform forest management aligning with the eus bioeconomy strategy rural vision biodiversity strategy and the european green deal singletree leverages cuttingedge data capture and ai technologies to monitor individual tree attributes health and biodiversity ensuring a holistic approach to multifunctional forest management by developing solutions for forest health monitoring and wood quality control the project aims to enhance sustainable forest management considering the diverse european and regional forest varieties data acquisition across the value chain from forest operations to wood processing will be optimized aiding decisionmaking processes from harvesting timings to treatment options using a cocreation approach with living lab value chains the project quickly develops solutions addressing realworld challenges it focuses on boosting forest resilience preventing biodiversity loss due to climate change and maximizing the use of different wood grades singletree prioritizes the full utilization of forest biomass highlighting the carbon retention of premium wood furthermore singletree will assess the environmental and social impacts of its innovations focusing on biodiversity enhancement resource efficiency and the implications for stakeholders the project encourages regional and local entities particularly smes to adopt innovative business models emphasizing sustainability circularity and tiered biomass use this strategy enhances material utilization and highlights the balance of tradeoffs synergies and community involvement ensuring beneficial outcomes for the environment society and economy in regional and rural areas
the role of areabased conservation measures in reducing impact from agriculture conserving biodiversity and supporting local communities livelihood

pressures on natural landscapes due to soybean and cattle ranching have been increasing in brazil over the last decades this is largely driven by exports including to the european union making these commodities some of the most important threats to biodiversity and nontimber forest products some of these products can be used for medicinal and food security purposes by local communities and often are managed either by women or men differently areabased conservation measures are an important global conservation strategy and include the newly defined other effective areabased conservation measures oecms oecms can play a larger role in nature conservation in areas managed by local communities yet it remains unclear to what extent they are contributing to conservation this project will evaluate the impact of soybean and cattle expansion in brazil on biological and cultural diversity and gender and the contribution of oecms on their conservation specifically i will i identify species used by local communities and assess their conservation status as well as potential genderdifferences in their uses ii analyze the impact of soybean and cattle ranching expansion on biocultural diversity and the potential genderbiased consequences and iii evaluate the contribution of different oecmtypes to the conservation of cultural and biological diversity to do that this action will combine methods and techniques across disciplines literature review on the relationship between species and gender and geoprocessing and statistical analysis landuse change and matching analysis expected results include three scientific publications and outreach activities to amplify societal awareness about the impact of agriculture on culture and nature and provide evidence of how oecms can support both biodiversity and the livelihood of women and men being considered as a promising conservation tool in the next decade
a quantum system on chip for equal access to secure communications a pilotready photonic integrated circuit with embedded quantum key distribution functions for highperformance transceivers

quantum computing forecasted to happen within 10 years will bring unprecedented computing power rendering obsolete current data security protocols based on public keys affecting our open society our business and basic individual rights quantum key distribution qkd technology can solve this strategic data security problem by providing informationtheoretic security making systems unbreakable even with unlimited computing power however until now technology development for qkd has been focused on government and defence applications with solutions made of discrete components in big boxes only a few can afford with equal access to secure communications at stake what is missing is a solution fit for massmarket industrialization to embed qkd technology in the fixed and mobile networks we rely on every day photonip offers such a solution a quantum ready highperformance dual polarization 100g miniaturized engine on a single chip quantum system on chip qsoc compatible with the smallest form factors for pluggable transceivers deployed in access networks and using the same wavelength channel for classic and quantum operations the project aims to develop a technology demonstrator of a qsoc that is ready for pilot production and offers breakthrough performance at low cost and full compatibility with current and future optical communications infrastructure this proposal builds on the uniqorn fet project on quantum technologies ga820474 where photonips founders developed a differential phase shift transmitter on a photonic integrated circuit fit for secure quantum key distribution and leverage photonip proprietary and patented hip technology a highperformance integration platform that allows a unique hybridization of the photonics integrated circuit pic which integrates bestinclass best in class inp based materials for all active functionality with bestinclass silicon on insulator for the optical passive functionality onchip
engineering biological timers and their applications

living cells are endowed with encoded programs that allow them to execute vital tasks and respond to relevant stimuli the use of analogous synthetic programs has an enormous potential yet we are highly limited in our ability to program cellular actions over time we rely on preciselytimed human intervention or on molecular oscillators that control repetitive processes but we are still unable to program cells to autonomously execute custom actions at desired timesi now intend to make a big leap toward this goal by producing control systems molecular timers and associated readytouse applications for the precise and selfsufficient control of cellular actions over time specifically i will engineer timer gene circuits into e coli that compute time and perform desired actions at specified moments timers will be highly programmable reusable and scalable and i will exploit their potential by using them for different applications including bioproduction and biosensingin sum i will develop the highlyneeded groundbreaking ability to measure and program time in cells my results will unleash a myriad of new possibilities both fundamental and applied
selfinterpretability of human cognition how reportable knowledge emerges in learning

current artificial intelligence ai surpasses humanlevel performance in a vast range of tasks however its decisional processes are opaque referred to as the ai interpretability problem humans on the other hand can verbally describe their decisional processes and strategies the accuracy of these reports varies especially in complex environments yet people often come up with reasonably accurate explanations for their decisions thereby allowing knowledge transfer in society however the mechanisms of accurate verbal report generation remain unclear therefore the main research objective of the reportit project is to study how humans generate adequate reportable knowledge during learning through experience inspired by the recent findings from research on metacognition ie insight into ones own cognition and cognitionemotion interaction i will test the novel hypothesis that metacognition and learningrelated affect support the emergence of reportable knowledge in two experiments modeling complex learning environments implicit category learning and probabilistic reward learning tasks i will track the development of metacognition affect and reportable knowledge over time this will allow me to evaluate the temporal relationships between these components and predict the emergence of reportable knowledge in the final step of the project i will study the behavior of deep neural networks dnns in the exact same tasks and test whether dnns can generate temporal patterns of metacognition and affect as observed in humans thereby the reportit project combines my expertise in implicit learning and affective science with expertise in neuroscience of consciousness and dnns at the host institute university of amsterdam this way reportit will contribute to understanding how people generate reportable knowledge and at the same time provide new approaches for explainable ai
towards a systemsbased holistic environmental risk assessment of chemicals syberac

towards a system based holistic environmental risk assessment of chemicals syberacbiodiversity is key to modern society sustaining natural resources and providing essential ecosystem services according to the un sustainable development goals the european green deal the eu biodiversity strategy and other european and national level directives and strategic regulations pollution is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss the risks resulting from the use release and effects of chemical on the environment is addressed in a plethora of eulevel directives and regulatory strategies each with specific chemical targets and protection aims there is however concern that such a fragmented approach does alleviate the threats of chemicals to biodiversity and ecosystem services to protect genetic and functional biodiversity from pollution impacts a paradigm shift is needed this transformation should move beyond the current fragmented environmental risk assessment era performed in specific regulatory silos eg plant protection products pppsregulation for pesticides reach for industrial chemicals and biocides framework for biocidal chemicals towards a harmonised and systemsbased era applicable to all chemicals species and land use functions to make this advance syberac will provide ways forward to rationalise the current silobased protection goals into highlevel systembased protection goals and to operationalise their use within systemsbased era robust and broadly applicable era structures six case studies overarching different silos of current era will provide proofofconcepts of the developed approaches based on targeted stakeholder engagement in close cooperation with other relevant projects on the topic results and outcomes will be disseminated towards a wide audience including national and eu level regulatory institutions industrial partners but also land managers farmers and conservation bodies