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extreme confinement of topologically protected slow light

lightmatter interaction in nanophotonic waveguides is enhanced by tightly confining and slowing down light however both these strategies have had their own limitations firstly the spatial confinement has traditionally been thought to be bound at the diffraction limit and more recently limited by nanofabrication resolution secondly backscattering due to unavoidable structural disorder has limited progress in the field of slow light topex will overcome these limitations by merging two recent developments in photonics topological protection against disorder and extreme subwavelength confinement of light based on theoretical predictions of the applicant and cuttingedge nanotechnology only at experimental reach at the host institution topex will design build measure and explore topological slowlight nanophotonic waveguides exhibiting extreme dielectric photon confinement the project is motivated in part by the urgent need for enhancing lightmatter interaction in order to reduce the energy consumption of information technologies and in part by the fundamental quest towards understanding how slow and small a photon can be it represents an extraordinary training opportunity on complementary scientific and soft skills for the applicant and has transformational impact potential on photonic integrated devices optical data processing quantum technologies and beyond
democracies of the alps issues practices and ideals of politics in mountain communities 13001500

demalps studies late medieval mountain areas as the cradle of radically new political experiences inspired by original values and practices of selfgovernance the focus of the project is on the fourteenth and fifteenthcentury western alps a broad territory including modern french italian and swiss regions which saw unprecedented political unrest and experimentation with forms and institutions this area was marked by numerous efforts at and more than a few successes in establishing autonomous collective governments as a research opportunity this branch of the alps is characterised by an unparalleled abundance of exceptional rural sources for investigating this phenomenon the registers of council proceedings which reported the local assemblies composition debates and decisions over time this rich corpus of sources mostly scattered across local municipal archives offers an extraordinary insight into the alpine inhabitants political ideals and connections with forms of government and practices of political participation vividly emerging from the registers to explore such a large and diverse region demalps will adopt an interdisciplinary approach combining medieval history digital humanities diplomatics and archival science the project will not only address questions about the values and practices of alpine politics but also provide innovative diplomatic and archival analysis of alpine sources in comparative perspective to this end demalps proposes to be the first native digital project specifically designed for collaborative work and sharing data in medieval history on this scale research hypothesis data and their analysis will be made publicly available online during and after the project the final goal of demalps is to offer the scholarly community not only a new view of politics in late medieval europe as they transformed into the modern institutions we know today but also a research instrument to carry out further studies
circular biobased business models to create highvalue biobased products in integrated value chains

primary production in agriculture and forestry represents an essential part of the european circular bioeconomy however the involvement of primary producers in circular biobased economy is still limited and the benefits are in most cases not fairly distributed along the value chain to the disadvantage of primary producers fair and sustainable business models that create opportunities for rural entrepreneurship and develop new forms of successful rural business are therefore neededthe purpose of c4b is to accelerate the development of rural communities and their economic viability by developing new fair and sustainable business models for different agricultural and forestry value chains c4b business models will be designed to balance the share of power and profits across novel biobased value chains and to enhance the cooperation among farmers foresters and industry this project will advance the understanding of biobased value chains by carrying out a holistic analysis of different case studies in eu that considers technology business environment primary producers behaviour contractual agreements and ownership and sustainabilityby providing financial support to third parties via open call c4b will demonstrate the applicability scalability and replicability of the new business models in different business settings and geographical areas eventually stimulating the uptake of the new business modelsjoining forces with complementary and transdisciplinary stakeholders from agriculture forestry and industrial sector the c4b consortium will define key ri priorities to be implemented by means of the coming eu funding programmes to support the eu bioeconomy strategy as well policy recommendations to advise member states for implementing realistic and effective national cap strategic plans that entail bioeconomy interventions
valuation of environmental stressors

valesor aims to make major contributions to the scientific and policy efforts to accommodate economic values of environmental stressors more homogenously in policy making planning the environmental stressors of concern for valesor are chemical stressors such as chemicals and air pollutants transmitted via air water and soil vectors valesor will develop an innovative website tool for stakeholders to assess health and economic consequences of planned variations in chemical stressors this website tool will be able to evolve by given the fact that at a given date exposure and impact assessment of some chemical stressors would be still incomplete thus providing partial and provisional assessment based on credible hypothesis valesor will also engage in substantial outreach activities to promote the consideration of environmental stressors in economic decision making and to facilitate an establishment of a transdisciplinary consistency in values used when valuing environmental stressorsvalesor will previously develop a stateoftheart environmental economic model which will be as complete as theoretically possible in its representation of economic values of pollution in particular valesor will increase the number of human health endpoints considered in economic welfare assessments of chemical and air pollution in connection with recent results and current projects based on earlier research and engagement with other programs valesor will clarify which input knowledge is important prior to calculating economic values associated with pollution in particular valesor will benefit from the experience and knowhow of several of its partners who have already worked models and or tools targeting air pollution valesor will make concrete guidance with respect to how key economic wellbeing values should be used by policy makers
finitestate abstractions of infinitestate systems

the algorithmic analysis of infinitestate systems is a central topicof theoretical computer science that is part of a popular approach tosoftware verification while analyzing infinitestate systems isindispensable when verifying software finitestate sytems are farbetter understood and permit much more efficient analysis in thisproject i will pursue fundamental questions that arise when we wantto abstract infinitestate systems by finitestate systems the goalis to understand two types of problems1 separability problems given two infinitestate systems can we find a finitestate overapproximation of the first system whose behaviors are disjoint from those of the second system separability is a basic task for synthesizing certificates for disjointness and therefore safety properties in concurrent systems2 closure computation there are several nonconstructive results that guarantee the existence of finitestate overapproximations of infinitestate systems that preserve some particular information we are interested in how to compute these overapproximations effectively and efficiently examples include downward closures and upward closures with respect to the scattered subword ordering efficient procedures for closure computation would have immediate implications for infinitestate verification tasks that combine recursion with concurrencyin addition to directly attacking wellknown deep open problemsregarding these fundamental questions the project will also developmethods that will likely be crucial for resolving further major openproblems in infinitestate systems moreover the obtained resultswould have immediate implications for software verification insettings that combine recursion with concurrency which is anotoriously difficult task
nanotechnologyenabled detection of clinically relevant antibodies for early cancer diagnosis and immunotherapy monitoring

nanoimmunoera is a research and innovation staff exchange network aiming at the development of innovative biosensors and diagnostic tools for the detection of clinically relevant antibodies nanoimmunoera will form the next generation of clinicallyoriented analytical scientists capable of delivering innovative solutions that will improve the lives of patients reduce the cost of healthcare and position europe as a leader in biomedical devices since standard laboratorybased methodologies and disposable tests present several analytical limitations we have selected antibodies as molecular targets of this project because their rapid sensitive and specific detection in bodily fluids still represent a significant diagnostic challenge to deliver these goals we have assembled a highly inter and multidisciplinary and multicultural team of european as well as strategic noneu countries usa switzerland and south africa through the collaboration among 7 academic institutions and 2 nonacademic partners to enable ultimate impact to the healthcare the expertise of different and multidisciplinary research teams comprised of phd and postdoctoral as well as experienced researchers from universities and companies will endow nanoimmunoera with a strong intersectoral dimension which is of high importance for a broad and effective impact of the project in addition this program involves key participation of junior researchers with exceptional scientific backgrounds and accomplishments and will provide strong support for the development of their careers the transfer of knowledge and related training activities aim to provide scientists achieving specific competences in the field of materials sciences nanotechnology molecular biology and biosensors
connected labs for empowering versatile engagement in radical food system transformation

cleverfood will facilitate a societywide mobilisation of european citizens including children and youth farmers entrepreneurs investors researchers educators knowledge brokers and policy makers to transform the european food system in alignment with the eu food 2030 policy framework farm to fork strategy and fit for 55 packageby providing targeted support for ongoing and emerging projects partnerships and networks implementing a paneuropean food 2030 multiactor and public engagement mechanism and operationalizing an interlinked multilevel structure of connected policy labs and living labs cleverfood will pave the way for a more regenerative resilient and plantbased food system models for transformative multilevel food system governance and strategies for advancing food policies and legislation will be developed in the policy labs by launching a peerlearning program organising inclusive multistakeholder dialogues and bringing together policymakers from all governance levelssocial and technological innovations to support sustainable food system transition will be accelerated in the living labs by cocreating strategies for removing lockins and building sustainable food value chains mobilizing impact investors promoting uptake of new technologies and measuring food system transition progressfood system science competences of children and youth will be boosted by supporting food system science education activities in the policy labs and living labs and establishing a network to collaborate on transforming higher education teachingpublic engagement citizen empowerment and mass mobilization will be maximised by supporting multiactor public engagement and citizen science activities in the policy labs and living labs unlocking the power of influencers deploying an interactive food systems exhibition and designating and supporting permanent competence centres across europe to ensure societywide commitment to transform the food system
financial institutions and regulation for development

this proposal consists of three empirical projects to advance our understanding on the specific conditions and frictions faced by financial institutions operating in low and middleincome countries understanding these aspects is crucial to elaborate policies of financial regulation and government intervention that promote structural transformation and development1 ethnic banking and central bank independence this project plans to study the political economy frictions behind financial regulation in africa combining bank balance sheets and information on bank chief executive officers ceos we will measure the ethnic connotation of banks and the coethnicity between ceos and regulators we will investigate the existence of ethnic favoritism in banking the political use of financial regulation and the role of central bank independence in alleviating this friction2 branch organization multiculturalism and conflict organizations decide their internal hierarchy considering the tradeoff between the use of knowledge and the internal frictions in communication and coordination these frictions may be particularly high in the presence of a multicultural workforce and if conflict exacerbates withinorganization differences building new data on hierarchy and management practices among ethiopian bank branches and an experimental survey of lending discrimination we plan to study the effect of conflict on the internal organization of banks their hierarchy and effects on lending markets3 market incompleteness and nonperforming loans npls structural transformation implies a move from low to highproductivity sectors however incomplete markets prevent banks from selling loans from lowproductivity sectors and instead oblige banks to hold npls depressing the financing of structural transformation this project plans to study the introduction of the first asset management companies focusing on npl in china with heterogeneous presence across firms and cities
interconnected and inclusive innovation ecosystems focused on ict and mobility

the project unites three clusters estonian ict cluster as coordinator legal entity estonian association of information technology and telecommunications representing a strong innovator region and bridging the project with three large european networks the european digital sme alliance digitaleurope and its nationals mobinov automotive cluster from portugal representing a moderate innovator region and leveraging outreach of the project to other eu mobility and automotive clusters via the european automotive cluster network and georgian ict cluster representing a modest innovator region and linking the project with the georgian digital transformation consortium and other national innovation actors the consortium also includes baltic innovation agency estonia an experienced innovation management company and representative of enterprise europe network in the project together the partners will act as a driving force to build strategic collaboration between their ecosystems and encourage the involvement of more diverse innovation stakeholders with a specific focus on stronger involvement of woman entrepreneurs as well as building contacts with innovation ecosystems from other countries the main aim of infimo is to foster the development of interconnected and inclusive innovation ecosystems via a strategic collaboration between clusters and a variety of innovation actors focused on using ict for digital and twin transition in various economic sectors aligned with the industry 50 and emerging industry 60 framework related to this infimo develops and validates two collaboration models 1 a generic model supporting digitalisation and sustainability in a variety of economic sectors 2 an advanced model facilitating the twin transition and higher competitiveness in the mobility sector based on joint rdi pilots as well as an open innovation competition both models can be used to in a wide range of european innovation ecosystems in the future
investigation and control of hydrogen flames across the scales

icharus is a doctoral network aimed to train earlystage researchers able to face current and future challenges in the field of innovative edgecutting technologies based on electromagnetic assist to achieve full control of the hydrogen flames icharus has been built to provide doctoral training in a collaborative partnership between academic and industry partners who are major european gas turbine manufacturers the aim of this partnership is thus to understand the physical processes that govern the interaction between hydrogen combustion and electromagnetic fields at all flow scales to achieve such control and identify the key parameters that would allow for the design of an innovative ultralow nox and flashbackproof combustion device the behavior of hydrogen flames under plasma discharge and electromagnetic conditioning offer the opportunity to strongly accelerate the path towards zerocarbon energy and transport sectors three specific research objectives will be pursued 1 investigation and modelling of electromagnetic field effects on the species transport and chemical kinetics to unveil the effect of external electromagnetic fields on the reaction chemistry of hydrogen in both pure oxygen and air and also determine any effects on the formation of pollutants the effect of differential diffusion on the flame structure as opposed to electromagnetic drift will be also investigated 2 develop turbulence combustion models for low and highenergy electromagnetic assisted combustion the competing effects between electromagnetic drift and turbulence transport will be investigated and subgrid scale closures for largeeddy simulations that consider the effect of electromagnetic fields and plasma will be developed 3 experimental and numerical investigation of innovative electromagneticassisted control technologies for the stabilisation of flames of practical interest both single swirl flames and annular configurations will be investigated
hydrated electrons from irradiated metalfree semiconductors for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances degradation in water

per and polyfluoroalkyl substances pfas are a group of manmade chemicals produced for several applications ubiquitous in water bodies close to industrialised regions and with recognized associated issues to human health eg carcinogenicity being among the most recalcitrant class of emerging contaminants an efficient water treatment able to degrade pfas will represent an outstanding technology not only for the recovery of already contaminated sites impressively spread in europe but also for drinking and wastewater treatment plants the project proposal hydrated electrons from irradiated metalfree semiconductors for pfas degradation in water hero4pfas focuses on the development and investigation of wide band gap semiconductors able to photoproduce hydrated electrons under ultraviolet uv light to eliminate pfas from water the main goal will be to evolve from the stateoftheart homogeneous advanced reduction processes arps towards heterogeneous systems to be employed in real cases since very expensive materials are required to photoproduce hydrated electrons eg diamondcarbon in this project lowcost photocatalysts based on hexagonal boron nitride will be prepared and their ability in the degradation of pfas studied under different conditions type of irradiation ph dissolved oxygen systems based on heterogeneous uvarp will be implemented for the removal of pfas from retentate streams of advanced membrane filtration systems and coupled with advanced oxidation processes in a holistic treatment train able to reach the complete pfas mineralization hero4pfas will fill the gap between pfas degradation and the development of a costefficient heterogeneous photoarpwith the support of my supervisor prof minella at university of turin i will diversify my individual competences to materials science and uvarp chemistry boosting my career as future expert on photocatalysis and water treatment technology
launch of a universal sublimation technology for molecular transfer on substrates

smolsub is a key tool in the progress of organic electronic devices oes smolsub promotes the creationdiscovery of new oes basic skeletons in organic fieldeffect transistors biosensors organic lightemitting diodes oleds organic solar cells oscs softrobotics among others smolsub presents a new greener and lowcost vision in terms of materials waste and energy required in the testing of organic electronic materials on substrates of interest using a simple methodology applicable at different scales basic laboratories and industry inclusive with other existing ones and of fast execution projecting a profound change in how to create analyse and apply new oes from the combination of materials to their applications smolsub is based on strategically designed sublimation devices which under mild and ecofriendly conditions allow the direct deposition of useful organic molecules on substrates of all kinds the project foresees its usefulness in the creation of wearable electronics imperceptible electronics and smart packaging among other applications and will enhance the creation of new devices with flexibility and stretchability properties born from the moleculesubstrate synergy smolsub seeks the validation of this methodology and the launch and real projection of commercialisation of the products presented here through spinoffs or agreements with companies