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sustainability and resilience for infrastructure and logistics networks

due to globalized supply chains and the prevalence of justintime production all economies of the industrialized world are reliant on the flawless operation of the logistical network during the cov19 pandemic it became apparent that this network can be massively shattered and that a better understanding of its robustness risks and vulnerabilities is of vital importance additionally it is obvious that the accelerating climate change demands a much greener fright transportsaril aims to complement the classic definition of resilience which focuses on threat prevention robustness and system recovery by green aspects key performance indicators will be defined which quantify both the system resistance against disruptions as well as the environmental burden of freight transport adopting three different scenarios on different geographical scales regional national and internationaleu models will be developed which are able to capture the unperturbed system operation as well as the behavior in case of a disruptions while the regional italy and national spainportugal scenarios focus on natural hazards which become more threatening due to climate change the international scenario northerncentral europe considers the disruptions due to pandemics like cov19 or wars like the russian war against ukraine although the three scenarios will be modelled with varying levels of detail saril aims at a universal understanding of green resilience by using a common frameworkthe results for the three scenarios will be used to assess similarities and differences between the three geographical scales by exploiting the findings recommendations to improve the classic resilience like eg synchromodal approaches will be derived additionally saril aims for recommendations to reach the results will be widely disseminated to the scientific community and relevant stakeholders
a feminist and decolonial approach to studying environmental movements in the democratic republic of the congo

in the face of an escalating climate crisis social scientists are confronted with an urgent challenge how can our research contribute to facilitating the kind of radical economic and political reorganizations necessary for reduced resource use on a global scale european scholars and activists and are at the vanguard of this research and many approaches have coalesced around theories of degrowth and postgrowth which envisage the transformations necessary to create a socially just and ecologically sustainable society however this is not solely a european challenge it is a global challenge people of the global south have been and continue to be the most impacted by the environmental devastation being wrought by the climate crisis one of the most pressing challenges is therefore to coconstruct these theories and movements with activists and thinkers from the global south while some research connecting postgrowth theories with existing environmental justice movements has begun in latin america and south asia almost no research has been conducted in subsaharan africa this project therefore proposes to work on environmental justice movements in africa using novel participatory methods that engage african activists and scholars the overall aim is to develop this research into a novel paradigm postgrowth anthropology which prioritizes decolonial methods to contribute to this novel paradigm ethnographic research will be conducted on environmental movements which have challenged growthism and green development in urban and rural democratic republic of the congo drc
conveniant advanced secure and touchless fingerprint scanning for identification purposes

our solution is the first contactless multifingerprint scanner for identification purposes which scans the ridge and valley structure of the humand finger in full 3d this enables unambigously the differentiation between the fingerprints ridges and valleys and ensures the interoperability with contactbased scanners where only the ridges are scanned in 2d this interoperability enables access to the governmental biometrics market where compatibility with existing databases ist a must havefurthermore the 3d scanner is hard to fake as the 3d structure of the finger with its fine 3ddetails is really hard to get this gives a huge boost in terms of security of the system compared to contactbased systems where you leave your fingerprints on the device as latent imprints the aisupported data evaluation and the specialized design lead to a unmatched user experience in terms of conveniance and security
nextair multidisciplinary digital enablers for nextgeneration aircraft design and operations

radical changes in aircraft configurations and operations are required to meet the target of climateneutral aviation to foster this transformation innovative digital methodologies are of utmost importance to enable the optimisation of aircraft performancesnextair will develop and demonstrate innovative design methodologies datafusion techniques and smart healthassessment tools enabling the digital transformation of aircraft design manufacturing and maintenance nextair proposes digital enablers covering the whole aircraft lifecycle devoted to ease breakthrough technology maturation their flawless entry into service and smart health assessment they will be demonstrated in 8 industrial test cases representative of multiphysics industrial design maintenance problems and environmental challenges and interest for aircraft and engines manufacturersnextair will increase highfidelity modelling and simulation capabilities to accelerate and derisk new disruptive configurations and breakthrough technologies design nextair will also improve the efficiency of uncertainty quantification and robust optimisation techniques to effectively account for manufacturing uncertainty and operational variability in the industrial multidisciplinary design of aircraft and engine components finally nextair will extend the usability of machine learningdriven methodologies to contribute to aircraft and engine components digital twinning for smart prototyping and maintenance nextair brings together 16 partners from 6 countries specialised in various disciplines digital tools advanced modelling and simulation artificial intelligence machine learning aerospace design and innovative manufacturing the consortium includes 9 research organisations 4 leading aeronautical industries providing digitalphysical scaled demonstrator aircraft and engines and 2 hightech sme providing expertise in industrial scientific computing and data intelligence
appraising the critical role of prognostic biomarkers in the assessment and triage of sick african newborns advancing a pointofcare device based on strem1 towards ce marking and implementation

the main concern of clinicians when addressing sick patients is to promptly identify ie not miss those at higher risk of severe disease so as to prioritize their care and better target therapeutic interventions unfortunately riskstratification practices for infections remain suboptimal and prone to misclassification leading to adverse outcomes and misallocation of resources particularly in children and even more so among newborns from subsaharan africa ssa we recently developed btriage a pointofcare rapid triaging test designed for the quantitative assessment of strem1 a biomarker of sepsis and a highly performing prognostic marker irrespective of underlying disease levels of strem1 stand out as a quantitative and independent predictor of severity and death in allcause infections being superior to other markers and clinical scores showing promise also for riskstratification of noncommunicable diseases we propose to specifically validate btriage for riskstratification of all cause sickness in the newborn the age group concentrating 50 of all child mortality acrobatnewborns aims to continue and accelerate the valorisation of our device with clinical studies in mozambique ethiopia uganda and gabon the industrialization of its prototype and a goto market strategy for ssa the project includes strong components of health economics and impact assessment as well as sociobehavioural sciences usability acceptability and feasibility studies with the overarching aim of generating the necessary evidence to support btriages introduction to the african market the proactive use of our device for riskstratification of the sick newborn at first clinical presentation will determine objectively and with high precision those at risk of severe outcome and death resulting in improved outcomes and survival and an optimized use of healthcare resources including antibiotics and high value therapeutics
real spacetime imaging and control of electron dynamics

the sted project aims at giving an important push to the scientific career of the applicant in a timely and interdisciplinary topic imaging the early stages of quantum motion of electrons at their natural spacetime scales ie with picometer and attosecondfemtosecond resolutions the project will take place at imdea nanoscience a leading multidisciplinary research center dedicated to nanoscience and the development of nanotechnology applications in connection with innovative industrieselectron motion in molecular systems is responsible for natural processes such as photosynthesis photooxidation or electronic transport it is also at the heart of novel technologies based on photovoltaic devices artificial photosynthesis molecular wires etc understanding the underlying electron dynamics demands investigating these processes at their natural spatial and temporal scales in the sted project i will build a setup where a cw laser and fewfemtosecond long laser pulses will be combined with a lowtemperature stm this setup will allow me to image and eventually control electron dynamics occurring in different molecular systems deposited on solid substrates at electronic time scales from hundreds of attoseconds to a few femtoseconds with simultaneous submolecular spatial resolution i will focus on investigating rabi oscillations of individual phthalocyanine molecules and chargetransfer processes between a donor and an acceptor phthalocyanine the goals are to spectroscopically characterize the induced electron dynamics in real space with the cw laser and subsequently provide the film of the distribution of the electronic density in real time and real space with the pulsed laser source this will allow me eg to understand the origin of early sources of decoherences that reduce the efficiency of electronic transport with possible implications in photovoltaics and quantum information technologies
center for glacial biome doctoral network

glaciers and ice sheets were long believed to be sterile environments but just like other large ecosystems eg tropical forests tundra they are now widely recognized as one of the earths biomes teeming with life active algae fungi bacteria and viruses dominate the glacial environment and they have the ability to change the physical and chemical characteristics of the ice and snow with global effects for instance increasing ice melt rates are observed due to growth of pigmented algae on glacier surfaces and substantial amounts of methane from subglacial habitats are added to the global greenhouse gas budget despite their global influence many of the microbiological processes within the cryosphere remain poorly quantified a deeper understanding of such processes are relevant to researchers interested in the possibility of life on icy extraterrestrial bodies the survival and proliferation of life forms on our early earth eg during the part of the proterozoic era known as snowball earth and the positive and negative feedbacks that the cryosphere may have on global warming the microbial communities living in association with icy environments may also harbor unique metabolic pathways providing novel opportunities in biotechnology icebio is a doctoral network that will train the next generation of glacier microbiology and biogeochemistry experts the training and research programme is made up of seven interlinked work packages wp wp1 to wp4 are research work packages at the cutting edge of glacial microbiology and biogeochemistry and these will be supported by three overarching wps wp57 associated with the management training and dissemination of results icebio will deliver a detailed framework and database of the functional diversity and potential of the glacier biome not only serving to dramatically advance our understanding of a threatened biome but also laying out potential for use in economic and environmental services
agoprene biofoams for the future furniture

agoprene develops furniture foam from biomass to help the furniture industry reduce the need for petrochemicals by combining biomass from plants such as seaweed and wood waste we have developed a furniture foam with zero petroleum the idea came to life in november 2019 after a long research within the field of biomaterials we learned that petroleum is a byproduct of degraded biomass over time this might be common knowledge to others and that this enables us to produce the same materials from plantmass as petroleum the endproduct is somewhat different when composed from crude oil because it has been converted over geological time but in principle we can make the same products that is exactly what agoprene is doing
virtual brain twin for personalised treatment of psychiatric disorders

in the eu about 165 million people are affected each year by mental disorders and estimates indicate that mental disorders will become the number 1 economic cost factor in medicine in 2030 schizophrenia alone affects approximately 1 of the worlds population the clinical effectiveness of the antipsychotics on the market remains limited with 30 to 50 of schizophrenic patients showing an insufficient response to treatment several factors from genetic to psychological and social may lie behind poor treatment outcomes or side effects and varies from patient to patienttherefore the central aim of the virtual brain twin project is to create an ecosystem for generating virtual brain twins for psychiatric patients by leveraging the consortiums detailed knowledge and expertise in neuronal microcircuit simulation mathematical analysis innovative ai tools and psychiatric care and clinical studies this ecosystem will guide clinicians to optimise medication type and dosage and to evaluate alternative treatments such as brain stimulation and lifestyle changes multiscale causeeffect simulations and virtual brain simulations based on fmri or smri data from the individual patient will bridge the gap between molecules and the patients brainat the centre of this ecosystem will be the virtual brain twin platform which will make use of big data multiscale modelling and highperformance computing hpc that will be secured by appropriate data safety and protection the platform will be embedded in the european digital neuroscience research infrastructure ebrains and will be initially accessible to neuroscientists clinical researchers and mathematical modellers and in the future to clinicians and patients as well this groundbreaking project will pave the way for personalised treatment of psychiatric disorders with the potential to significantly improve the quality of life of patients suffering from these conditions
molecular exchange at the plantfungal interface in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis

nutrient acquisition is the basis of life arbuscular mycorrhiza am symbiosis of plants with nutrientdelivering fungi is detected in the oldest land plant fossils and considered a prerequisite for plant life on land it is widespread in the plant kingdom and its secondary loss is the exception am improves plant nutrition stress resistance and general plant performance breeding amoptimized crops has significant potential for improving food security and sustainable agriculture understanding the molecular underpinnings of am function is thus imperative the hallmark of the symbiosis are the arbuscules highly branched hyphal structures which develop in root cortex cells they build a large membrane interface with the plant derived periarbuscular membrane pam that surrounds them most mineral nutrients are delivered from the arbuscules and taken up via the pam into plant cells through transporter proteins in return the fungi receive up to 20 of the photosyntheticallyfixed carbon the balance in mineralnutrientgainforcarbonloss influences the effect of the symbiosis in plant growth and yield however the full range of transported nutrients any mechanisms regulating transport and the balance in molecular exchange are unknown symbioticexchange strategically integrates transcriptomics phosphoproteomics metabolomics and proteinprotein interaction analysis with reverse genetics cell biology and transport physiology to identify novel plant and fungal transporters involved in symbiotic nutrient and metabolite exchange and to understand the molecular mechanisms of their regulation symbioticexchange will thus deliver major advances on the range of transporters at the plantfungal interface the exchanged goods and the regulation of exchange this important knowledgebase will provide crucial clues on how nutrient exchange can be tuned for profitable agricultural application of one of the most important symbioses on earth
progressive lighthouse districts serving as green district gate towards leadership in sustainability

european districts play a pivotal role in the achievement of a future low carbon economy the envisaged actions of the prolightproject are representative for innovative refurbishment with large potential of immediate replication of other residential buildingsfrom the municipalities the social housing involved prolight assembles closely integrates all needed actors measures theenvisaged solutions will lead to better quality of life for all targeted endusers this includes to find suitable social responses forawareness creation uptake of knowledge establishment of behavioral changes towards the energy efficient use the integration ofrenewables within an appropriate local political frame analysed districts include 1 building and renovating in an energy andresource efficient way in at fi gr 2 energy communities in es it pt combined in socalled innovation clusters a multiactorapproach uses a methodological concept that explicitly takes into account the energy transition as a societal lever for innovation in the involved demo districts applied research will be connected with theoretical analysis that involves identifying and compiling good practices successful initiatives and exemplar realworld demo sites these practices will be assessed and lead to a complete europeancompetence framework encapsulating the skills required to reach this change via recorded successful methods observed throughprolight the project combines individual gender collective aspects of active and responsible citizenship in an integrated workingconcept to conceptualize climateaware citizens and communities prolight exploits the potential of this growing wave of civicengagement and citizen science in order to facilitate the transition to green sustainable societies economies prolight achievesthis by understanding defining measuring assessing of 6 demo districts in different regions of europe disseminate effectively project results
beyond restitution heritage dispossession and the politics of knowledge

on the backdrop of ongoing debates to decolonialize museums beyondrest asks if the return of looted art can be regarded as a closure of historical wounds the project probes the focus on restitution that inadvertently casts dispossessed art in terms of contested property instead beyondrest explores what kind of loss dispossessed art engenders and how this loss has shaped the knowledge production on heritage it focuses on the interlocution between western europe the near and middle east and north africa mapping relationships between people and things that have largely been left out of current debates the project starts in the mid19th century which witnessed the rise of the museum in its modern form as well as violence unleashed by imperial and colonial projects and dispossession innumerable objects made their way into international collections categorized mostly as islamic art or as the universal heritage of humankind that nonetheless symbolically and proprietarily belongs to the west beyondrest tackles dispossession not as a loss to be mended but a means to transform knowledge through inquiries into absence the interdisciplinary research group will employ a wide methodologically matrix including ethnographic interviews visual analysis of exhibitions archival research and textual analysis of the laws governing cultural assets to capture the proprietary stakes in the interplay of epistemic remembering and forgetting beyondrest takes risks by centering on what is absent rather than present on what is lost rather than found it argues that the dispossession of art is not merely a problematic of colonialism or empire that is of the past but an ongoing process that is constitutive for the governance of heritage in its national and transnational formations beyondrests working hypothesis is that the dispossession of art and cultural heritage is not an aberration but a precondition for the ways in which art and cultural assets circulate
enhancing nitrogenfixing symbiosis in crops using rhizobia bacterial effectors

nitrogen n is vital for plants however its poor availability in soils has led to the widespread use of n fertilizers resulting in environmental problems like greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution legumes offer a sustainable alternative to n fertilizers by forming symbiotic relationships with nfixing bacteria known as rhizobia many rhizobia possess a type iii secretion system t3ss to deliver effector proteins into host plants to facilitate colonization and nfixing symbiosis some t3ss effectors activate host plant symbiotic signaling while others suppress plant defense responses furthermore plant genotypes with specific resistance r proteins can detect rhizobial effectors triggering immunity and limiting colonization although t3ss effectordependent nodulation holds potential for enhancing nfixing interactions in agricultural settings research remains limited nodulation outer protein i nopi from rhizobia sinorhizobium fredii hh103 enhances symbiosis in commercial soybean however there are gaps in our knowledge regarding nopi function interactions with plant targets and recognition by r proteins in this msca fellowship i will address these gaps using interdisciplinary approaches genomewide association studies interactomics and nopi structural determination in addition i will explore the custom engineering of rhizobial t3ss effectors for modifying symbiosis an innovative and timely strategy for improving hostrhizobia compatibility the host lab will provide a unique opportunity for me to expand my knowledge into the bacterial side of the legumerhizobia interaction while sharing my expertise in the plant side i will have valuable networking opportunities and cuttingedge training in protein biochemistry and structural analysis providing me with an interdisciplinary skills base to lead my own future research group focused on plantsymbiotic interactions and their practical applications in crop improvement