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deeptech startup support programme to facilitate ventures thriving in the european widening area

european startups face barriers when scaling due to the cultural legal and economic fragmentation of the market while the eu demonstrates high performance in the lab this does not translate proportionally into thriving commercial ventures for deeptech startups the key challenge is the lengthy time needed to reach a maturity level adequate for adoption making investing risky in the case of widening countries commercialization of deeptech is even more challengingthe ec has made a substantial effort to support deeptech with initiatives aiming to invest in and connect entrepreneurs at a paneuropean scale eic accelerator and the startup europe initiative ventures thrive inherits the spirit of these initiatives concretely building on three waves of startup europe with a novel approach targeted at deeptech startups in widening area countries this unique open innovation startup programme will provide up to 100k cash and vouchers each to a total of 32 startups along with equityfree funding the core programme offers valueadd services aimed at fostering access to markets via corporate challenges improved investment readiness and greater visibility investment and networking opportunities the project consortium and external associates comprise venture builders event organisers vc angel investors corporates and expert mentors overall the startups are expected to unlock 18m via investment grants and corporate procurementthe secret ingredient is the consortium and their extensive networks acceler8 malta is a venture builder commercialising toplevel scientific innovations anthology ventures bulgaria is a venture studio incubating earlystage teams and business angels wolves summit poland the major event for startups in the cee region offers the perfect connection with investors corporates and the tech community notably they have already facilitated over 37000 meetings between startups and investors from 60 countries
longitudinal investigation of visual and numerical perception in preterm and fullterm infants

the number of preterm births is on the rise now more than 1 in 10 babies and being born preterm is associated with having difficulties in two very important and related cognitive skills that we rely on daily numerical and visual perception however a knowledge gap exists on neural and behavioural associations of numerical and visual perception in fullterm and preterm infants preper aims to uncover the underlying neural signatures of the cognitive dysfunctions that preterm infants might display in the first year of their lives and the role of parentbaby interaction to predict preterm infants that are at risk of developing these cognitive difficulties in the second year of their lives the purpose is to establish criteria to identify infants especially preterm atrisk of having cognitive difficulties in numerical and visual perception shedding light on normal and impaired cognitive functions in infancy is an essential stepping stone that will pave the way for early diagnostic tools and interventions that would correct the cognitive dysfunctions more efficiently while the brain is still developing the activities in preper will lead to original and innovative outcomes that are beneficial for four parties 1 scientific communities will be interested in the results as the ambitious research objectives address questions that have not been asked before 2 parents of preterm infants healthcare providers and policy makers will be interested in the results as the overall aim is to establish criteria to identify infants atrisk of having cognitivedevelopmental difficulties in the first year of their lives 3 the researcher will be accelerating her career progression as the training objectives meet her specific needs 4 the supervisor will be enlarging her research interest and network as the research objectives include a topic within the researchers expertise
gate2brain medicines beyond barriers

in 2019 30 million people worldwide were diagnosed with some form of cns disorder and most of them lack effective treatment this is largely explained by the fact that most of developed therapeutic molecules do not contain the appropriate properties to cross the bbb consequently cns disorders are the first cause of disability and the second of mortality worldwide gate2brain is a technologic platform based on a set of small peptideshuttles that have the capacity to cross the bbb and carry to the cns therapeutic cargoes that cannot reach the brain unaided g2b002 our flagship product is a new therapeutic approach to fight against untreatable pediatric brain tumors with intact bbb g2b novel delivery technology provides a noninvasive nonantigenic stable soluble and receptorspecific way to transport drugs across the bbb to reach the cns our technology has the potential to be applied in a wide number of therapeutic areas and in transport through various biological barriers
twinning for optimized decision intelligence in dataintensive environments

dynamic decisionmaking in largescale uncertain systems poses significant challenges in modern datarich operational environments traditional decision support systems struggle to manage vast and complex datasets in real time while handling multiple conflicting objectives of highdimensional problems and ensuring fairness and transparency in decisionmaking a fundamentally new perspective is necessary to address these challenges by adopting a holistic crossdisciplinary approach that bridges the realms of artificial intelligence ai and operations research or this approach will pave the way for the nextgeneration decision intelligence systems driving sustainable development and economic growthtwinodis is a transformative project aimed to revolutionize datadriven largescale decision optimization through the integration of ai technologies and or analytical methods a group of excellence will be established in the emerging field of largescale decision intelligence by twinning the institute of computer science at the foundation for research technologyhellas forth greece with two internationallyleading research institutions namely the laboratory of informatics paris descartes universit paris cit upc france and the erasmus school of economics erasmus university rotterdam eur netherlands the project leverages comprehensive knowledge transfer training and networking programmes to elevate forths scientific profile and research capacity foster an innovation culture to attract industrial investments engage in competitive eu projects and enrich the skills of senior scientists in administrative and management aspects positioning forth as a prominent aidriven decision science hub in greece and southeastern europe
reducing environmental footprint through transformative multiscale aviation planning

the mission of refmap is to develop a digital service aimed at quantifying the environmental footprints of air mobility for airliners and unmanned aircraft systems uas at a multiscale level where singletrajectories micro and the flow traffic of multiple vehicles macro are optimised to minimise their environmental impact in a wide range of communities refmap investigates how the aviation business models will be affected by the availability of environmental data for each type and route of air vehicle as this will enable stricter evidencebased green policy making in the sector this will be achieved via the development of the refmap analytics platform processing environmental and weather data such as wind noise co2 and nonco2 emissions for both uspace and atm this platform will rely on a number of technical solutions including numerical simulation predictive models and deeplearning methods the latter will be used to construct accurate nonintrusive prediction frameworks and to optimize the trajectories of the various vehicles given the predicted flow conditions via deep reinforcement learning drl these will enable the development of a new aviation business models aligned with eus green agenda
kits for advanced polymerlipid nanocarriers for targeted delivery of rnas to cardiac and skeletal muscle cells

currently rna therapies are available on the clinics to treat liver diseases and as covid19 vaccines hence their therapeutic potential still remains largely unexploited for the treatment of other disorders such as agerelated rare genetic and infectious diseases one key problem for effective preclinical research on new rna therapies is the lack of safe efficient and cellspecific delivery vehicles goldstandard cationic lipid transfection reagents suffer from dosedependent cytotoxicity inability for celltargeted delivery and poor stability clinically approved lipid nanoparticles efficiently target liver cells while attempts to target other cell types have achieved limited success in polirna i will develop and validate a new safe efficient and versatile platform for rna release to target multiple cell types based on ligandfunctionalized polymerlipid nanocarriers by exploiting a new patented method from my ercfunded project biorecar 772168 polirna consists of kits for research use allowing userfriendly preparation of nanocarriers able to effectively deliver noncoding rnas such as sirnas and micrornas to target cardiomyocytes and skeletal muscle cells for preclinical research studies on cardiac regenerative medicine and musclerelated diseases eg neuromuscular diseases technology development and validation will benefit from collaboration with major experts in the fields and companies supporting the innovation route from labtomarket my previous experience as coordinator of research and innovation projects and as cofounding member of an academic spinoff company and the current involvement of my team in business plan competitions will drive the process of technology validation with the aim to strengthen technology value proposition versus current goldstandard solutions found a startup company and attract investments
development of mass spectrometry based analytical methods for highthroughput nanoplastic screening in environmental and biological systems

nanoplastics npls defined as organic polymeric particles ranging in size from 11000 nm represent emerging contaminants that are of significant relevance to environmental and food science especially since initial toxicological studies have shown them to cross the gut barrier with unpredictable longterm effects such earlystage research signifies the need to study npl behavior in greater detail both in terms of their physicochemical behavior in the environment as well as their toxicity the latter may also be affected by their potential to adsorb and transport other chemicals especially toxic metals and organic pollutants into living systems compared to microplastics pls ranging in size from 15 mm npls possess significantly larger surfacetovolume ratios thus making this effect more pronounced as a result such a trojan horselike transport of toxic chemicals into cells urgently needs further study and improved understanding therefore the main research and innovation objective of this project is the development validation and application of novel analytical methods that aim to overcome current shortcomings in the detection and quantitation of npls in environmental food and biological systems the analytical methods proposed in this project hydrodynamic chromatography online with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry along with appropriate sample preparation procedures aim to provide capabilities that can be used to determine npl particle size and the polymer or carbon amount per size fraction these two parameters can be used to indirectly estimate npl particle number concentrations providing the plastics density is known the proposed methods will also be used to monitor the presence of metals or metalloids either as additives or adsorbed onto npl surfaces
amplifying ocean commons pathways for scaling transformative governance

the ocean economy has exponentially expanded since the early 2000s revealing how businessasusual governance in the form of privatization and fragmented state strategies are insufficient for ensuring social justice and sustainability common property rights models or commons offer promising and transformative solutions for radically reforming ocean governance around shared rights responsibilities and benefits to align stewardship and use however what remains unknown is the viability desirability and feasibility of commons as a scalable strategy answering these questions is urgent at all levels globally the united nations high seas treaty adopted march 2023 mandates governing the high seas as a global commons but with no clear governance pathways regionally over 191 fragmented governance arrangements address transboundary issues but lack coordination and integration nationally blue economy agendas are boosting growth without clear frameworks to deal with tradeoffs justice or sustainability locally capacities are lacking for collective action risk sharing and adaptation to climate and market changessharedseas examines the viability desirability and feasibility of using common property rights as a sustainable and scalable ocean governance model it builds the conceptual and theoretical foundations of how a commonsbased blue economy can realistically function and scale wp1 empirical socialecological analysis will extract lessons challenges and best practices across multilevel cases wp2 transdisciplinary participatory methods with diverse stakeholders will be developed to cocreate future scenarios and pathways to address tradeoffs wp3 to scale impact sharedseas has the ambitious goal to theoretically develop and empirically test eight pathways from amplification theory stabilizing speeding up growing spreading transferring replicating scaling up scaling deep as avenues to mainstream commons in the blue economy wp4
6g vertical trials for sustainability

the journey towards tangible sustainability outcomes necessitates a fusion of technological advancements with strategic experimentation in this pursuit 6gversus emerges as a pioneering initiative leveraging cuttingedge 6g research facilities across europe to explore the frontiers of sustainable technology through meticulously designed trials and pilots 6gversus addresses pressing challenges in 5 environmentally conscious vertical industries in this regard 6gversus introduces a novel methodology transforming existing use cases into 6g applications comprising vertical app vapp network app napp and aiassisted app aiapp this triadic structure optimizes the data and control planes of 6g systems facilitating seamless information flow and decisionmaking processes with the support of six stream c 6g platforms spanning across europe 6gversus aims to demonstrate the profound sustainable economic and societal impact of 6g technology propelling towards a more sustainable and prosperous society
adaptive functions of visual systems

the processing of visual information allows humans animals and computervision based machines to navigate the world all visual systems face common challenges when the world rapidly changes such changes are often generated by an animals own movement selfmotion for example causes fast changes in illumination and generates global motion patterns on the eye due to the movement of the world relative to the observer diverse visual systems face these common challenges but must also deal with important differences first animals experience different environments second animals show different types of behavior such as walking or flying and behavior will alter the visual cues that the animal encounters the goal of adaptivevision is to first understand common principles of visual system function and to then work out how diverse visual systems adapt to specific environmental and behavioral constraints to achieve this adaptivevision will study two essential visual computations the robust estimation of contrast in dynamically changing environments and the encoding of global motion cues generated by selfmotion for both topics adaptivevision will follow a common approach we will first study the mechanisms of visual computation in dmelanogaster this model organism allows to identify molecular biophysical and circuit mechanisms of visual system function and link these back to behavior ensuring a comprehensive understanding of visual computation second a comparative approach will answer how diverse visual systems adapt to the individual constraints brought about by the environments and by the animals own behavior developing different drosophila species as genetic models or applying transcriptomic techniques in different diptera will allow us to obtain molecular signatures of homologous cell types and lead toward an understanding of the molecular basis of the evolution of visual computation
the game countermapping informal refugee mobilities along the balkan route

the balkan route is the most important overland informal migration corridor in europe taken by thousands of refugees every year linking greece to western europe across bulgaria romania albania north macedonia kosovo montenegro serbia bosniaherzegovina slovenia and croatia the route is a complex geography of formal and informal visible and invisible sites an assemblage of diverse actors camps borders violence solidarity and a multiplicity of microroutes constantly adapting and shifting across and between these interconnected spatialities refugees forge their trajectories towards europe through the game the term they use to refer to clandestine journeys along the route an archipelago of makeshift camps has emerged hosting thousands of refugees as they repeatedly attempt to enter europe key in producing and sustaining the game these sites serve as temporary shelters nodes of services and information where refugees meet smugglers wait and plan the next move to understand how informal migration corridors work thegame aims to 1 theorize makeshift camps as distinct spatialities with a unique social and political life 2 investigate the routes archipelago of makeshift camp as an interconnected corridorforming countergeography 3 produce an archiveinprogress documenting refugee experiences of a corridor endlessly reinvented across space and time 4 employ countermapping as a methodology capable of critically understanding how the balkan route functions and propose a novel and replicable approach to studying informal migration corridors globally thegame is the first transnational multisited multitemporal extensive ethnographic research on an entire informal migration corridor a groundbreaking project with the potential to disrupt how we understand refugee informal mobilities and camps generate cuttingedge academic work and shape new directions for camp studies and political geography
understanding the influence of sediment dynamics on postglacial landscape evolution

repeated glacialinterglacial cycles during the quaternary have significantly impacted the topography of many mountain ranges around the world yet the response of landscape evolution to repeated climate oscillations has not been well quantified in recently deglaciated landscapes the transition from glacial to fluvialhillslope processes have induced progressive topographic adjustments and the large amounts of sediments inherited from glacial periods and generated through landsliding of oversteepened glaciated topography may act as a fundamental control on the incision of postglacial rivers these sediments can enhance fluvial incision rate by providing more tools for erosion or inhibit incision by armoring the river bed characterizing when and where sediment enhances or inhibits fluvial incision in postglacial landscapes is critical for understanding the changes in postglacial landscape evolution rates over time and quantifying the response times of mountain ranges to deglaciation in this project i propose to develop a landscape evolution model to account for the complex impact of sediment dynamics on fluvial incision in postglacial landscapes i will utilize this model to investigate the response of fluvial incision to changes in sediment supply and assess the effects of sediment on postglacial landscape evolution i will apply the model to quantify response times of the deglaciated european alp leveraging the rich observational datasets in this region the proposed work will provide a quantitative understanding of postglacial fluvial incision histories which is critical for ecosystem management and natural hazard assessment in recently deglaciated midlatitude mountain ranges and perhaps in highlatitude mountain ranges where continued climate change may eventually lead to deglaciation
hydrogen pem fuel cell stack for marine applications

the overarching objective of the h2marine project is to design build test and validate two 2 pem stacks generating 250 300 kw electric power designed for marine applications the h2marine project takes a topdown approach building on a proof of concept of two pem stacks that are developed in the eu and switzerland the h2marine project will identify the requirements for the tests and conditions as well as load curves that the fc stacks will have to be tested against with the integrated knowledge of a major ship building industry thyssenkrupp marine systems and ship owners cleos representing gaslog drylog ltd and olympic shipping totaling more than 100 large ships both powercell and ehgroup stack manufactures will benefit from a great consortium surrounding their development testing and upscaling with unique testing facilities beyond gravity zsw greenerity university of freiburg industrial partners like dana upscaling capacities of stacks by certh epfl and novel diagnostics development by vtt this will allow them to enhance the state of the art soa of pemfc stacks advance and scale up the system to reach ambitious targets set in the call which will be disseminated by clube member of numerous fch projects test the proposed solutions in relevant environmentecosystem which are designed to fully represent the actual implementation conditions design the stack modules in an optimum manner for upscaling up to 10mw power train systems test several diagnostics for the stack and overall system integrity as well as for the health status prognosis of critical components assess the technology and economic feasibility of the solution in order to know its valuable enduse which will allow the partners to research the potential markets and identification of the best opportunities