Dragon09/odtu_chatbot huggingface dataset:
novel technologies and materials for terahertz radiation control

the project focuses on developing novel technologies and materials characterization that are to be used synergistically to create advanced possibilities for terahertz radiation control international team expertized in materials synthesis and terahertz science will direct its efforts towards the development of innovative quasioptical technologies which will help finding the solution for efficient use of dielectric and semiconductor crystalline materials including nanocomposites and coplanar structures and their application as functional elements in terahertz radiation control devices ultimately targeting marketready innovative products a range of such materials will be considered for thorough investigations of potential application in electroacoustoquasioptical devices to control thz radiation optimization of transmission absorption refraction indexes loss tangent the dielectric constant will be made based on experimental measurements and computer simulations the projects scope will include semiconductor materials in which lightinduced photogeneration of charge carriers is possible the effect of photogeneration on the parameters of these materials will be used to develop efficient quasioptical cells which are key elements of control devices the project brings together an international multidisciplinary network of organizations from academia and industry that will work coherently on the innovative research program on quasioptical technologies and related material engineering participants will exchange skills and share knowledge strengthening links between countries and promoting interaction between involved economics sectors reaching the goals related to the implementation of advanced quasioptical technologies will open new market possibilities for engaged nonacademic project participants ultimately becoming beneficial for european society globally
matching innovators with buyers

overcoming the challenge of finding initial customers is a significant obstacle for the commercialization of innovative solutions developed by smes particularly eic awardees eics this challenge is especially pronounced when the target market involves public administration or large private corporations buyers to mitigate these challenges and broaden the scope of innovation procurement in europe innomatch will facilitate the cocreation and proofofconcept demonstration of eic innovations focusing on addressing the unmet needs of selected buyers innomatch will achieve this by fostering collaboration between eics and buyers with a specific focus on ensuring successful solutions are adopted by the buyer following the pilot phase which may not always be the case the offered support includes not just the identification of needs and the facilitation of connections between eics and buyers for pilot deployment but also strategies to enhance the likelihood of adoption by buyers and accelerate the commercial advancement of eicsto fulfil this vision innomatch will invest 228m in grants to eics 76 of project budget supporting 38 pilots which will be distributed through two types of open calls oc1 call for eicbuyer eics apply together with preidentified buyer
digital discovery platform for organic electronics materials

we propose to develop and commercialize a digital platform to accelerate the discovery and deployment of molecular materials in the broad sector of organic and printed electronics this sector with enormous market potential is limited by the slow and inefficient development of new materials using this platform functional materials for a specific purpose are discovered through virtual screening with predictions benchmarked against a continuously growing number of experimental data the technology samples the space of all molecules that are commercially available and their synthetically feasible analogues the platform provides a onestopshop solution from digital discovery to experimental verification by linking the candidates identified via virtual screening with the chemical supply chain and the procurement of such candidates the size of the chemical space explored the validation of screening methods against experiments and the link with the supply chain are all unprecedented in organic electronics this project is brought together by the university of liverpool who developed the database and the underlying validation methodology nanomatch provider of modelling solutions to the organic electronics sector and mcule aggregating one of the largest purchasable chemical spaces for organic compounds
innovative precast panels for integrated seismic and energy upgrading of existing buildings envelopes

there is an urgent socioeconomic and environmental need in europe for sustainable and effective solutions for integrated seismic and energy upgrading of existing buildings as recently adopted by the green dealrenovation policy although the field of integrated seismic and energy upgrading has received great attention in the academic community in the last five years further research is required towards faster and ecofriendly integrated retrofitting solutions this project iseepanel goes several steps beyond the stateoftheart which still lacks of the real applications of integrated retrofitting solutions via the development of innovative externally bonded precast panels in accordance with life cycle thinking lct principles for integrated seismic and energy upgrading of existing buildings envelopes the proposed precast panels combine the promising seismic strengthening solution trm composite material consisting of fibretextiles reinforcement embedded into an inorganic matrix with insulation materials providing several advantages compared to castinplace solutions by guarantying the effectiveness of the solution qualitycontrolled with high aesthetic and geometry adaptability potentials and by reducing the time of the intervention the inconveniences for the inhabitants and the labor effort due to simplifier installation procedure the research activities of this project include the experimental work for the production and characterization of the matrix material and of the precast panel pilot laboratory applications on fullscale masonryinfilled rc frames and the developing design guidelines for proposed applications the outcomes obtained from this project will encourage the renovation of existing buildings and will aid the authorities in funding upgrading interventions while at the same time the use of the proposed solution will be beneficial to enhance the resilience and the sustainability of existing building stock
consumers understanding of eating sustainably

fostering a significant triple change concerning culture food value chain and policy in the food system is crucial for ensuring that sustainable food is desirable and trustworthy for consumers to address the urgent need for a more sustainable food system that benefits the environment society and the economy cues consumers understanding of eating sustainably sets to foster the triple change through codesigning scientific methods and approaches to transmit and present sustainability related information to guide consumer knowledge and behaviour and to determine the persuasive cues to promote sustainable consumer behaviour most effectively cues will develop nine interventions and a series of policy dialogues through a multiactor participatory approach this innovative approach goes beyond the stateoftheart by addressing the complex interplay of factors in the food system and actively involving consumers food value chain actors and policymakers the learning community communication and behaviour change toolkits developed by cues aim to remove the bottlenecks in current practice with respect to informing motivating and engaging consumers and to reach at least three million consumers increasing their consumption of sustainable food
spatial transcriptomics chips with sequencingbased microscopy

we propose a technology platform for low cost high resolution spatial transcriptomics surfaces spatial transcriptomics is a high cost research methodology for resolving the spatial variation of genes in a tissue by capturing mrna transcripts on a surface containing molecular address markers to produce these surfaces current methods rely on either printing technology with explicit assignment of unique address ids to spatial locations or else random scattering of molecular ids that are then sequenced in situ using microscopy both of these fabrication methods are prohibitively expensive and time consuming such that spatial transcriptomic technology is still limited to a narrow selection of low throughput research applications our proposed technology the mesh chip represents a radically different approach to producing these surfaces rather than print surfaces or build sequenceaddress maps with in situ microscopy our technology works by selfassembly and deduction from sequencing data alone this means that no prior information about the identity or location of address markers on the surface is needed prior to mrna capture and sequencing instead this information is reconstructed computationally using graph theory in a post hoc fashion by moving this information roadblock in the fabrication process to the increasingly cheap sequencing and computing stage we greatly improve the cost performance of this technology mesh chip technology would represent a qualitatively lower cost product with greater performance than the state of the art unlocking new use cases like diagnostics and high throughput tissue processing
a pilot network of organic farming actors contributing to the uptake of climate farming and its cobenefits for a carbon neutral and climate resilient europe

with the aim to increase organic farming to 25 by 2030 the eu recognizes the potential of organic farming to contribute to a climate neutral europe by 2050 and other environmental eutargets however to achieve these targets it is important to stepup the capability and the capacity of organic farms to reduce ghgemissions and remove carbon through sequestration the overall aim of organicclimatenet is to establish a pilot network of 250 organic farms to adapt test improve and implement climate and carbon farming practices key to this are the peertopeer learning and knowledge exchanges between farmers organised in 24 hubs in 12 eu countries and facilitated by trained advisors concrete outputs are individual carbon farming strategies of the pilot farms as role models for the entire organic sector 120 climate and carbon knowledge materials improved translated and adapted to organic farming feeding into a decision support toolbox and freely accessible via the highly frequented organic farm knowledge platform the evaluation of carbon farming business models including mrv and rewarding schemes upscaling to eu level in a quantitative assessment of the emission reduction and sequestration potential of the eu organic sector based on the data set from the 250 pilot farms engagement with other euprojects and organic akis actors outside the network and a network sustainability plan to sustain the network and knowledge exchange activities on the long term project results feed steadily in policy briefs and policy dialogue workshops to support effective climate policy design the 4year project gathers 17 partners extension farming associations research from 14 countries allowing exchange between countries with a mature organic sector and countries where organic farming is less developed
challenging catalytic routes of hydrogen production from waste plastics

europe and the world are facing to the climate change emergency to preserve the environment the ambitious european green deal has in the agenda actions related to reducing air water and soil pollution in this regard plastics represent a huge challenge because of they are pollutants that present a recalcitrant nature and consequently widespread and accumulation tackling this challenge requires the application of remediation processes beyond than recycle or thermal treatment aqueous phase reforming a mild catalytic process is here presented as an alternative to eliminate plastics at moderated temperatures and pressures and adding the additional benefit of the production of energetic vectors such as hydrogen or alkanes to implement this process with high performance low cost and energy efficiency photooxidation reaction can be employed in a previous treatment in both stage the performance of the catalyst is a key aspect in this context the general objective of this project is to obtain heterostructured materials for application on complex catalytic process to achieve a clean conversion of plastics to hydrogen with this aim this project proposes the synthetic procedures and the physicochemical characterization of heterostructures composed by layered double hydroxides assembled with carbon materials to get a library of materials with the catalytic properties demanded in photooxidation and aqueous phase reforming the materials will be tested and optimized in the coupled processes over plastics in micronized size from different nature and composition the identification of the intermediates is a requirement to understand the mechanism and the catalytic route followed for the pollutants the especial relevant to demonstrate the potential of this technology to remove and valorize plastics at large scale
humancentred collaborative multiagent framework for accelerating software development and maintenance

hivemind is an ambitious project aiming to advance responsible and humancentric software engineering methods tools and best practices leveraging ai and data technologies to accelerate the whole software development lifecycle to this end the project introduces an adaptive llmbased multiagent framework that enables collaboration between human actors and multiple ai agents tailored to mirror and provide specialised support for the various roles within a traditional software development team each of the agents will be clearly defined and specialised through multiple modalities of model customisation encompassing i finetuning with organisational data ii promptengineering iii retrieval augmented generation and iv humanintheloop machine learning these agents will be crucial for the development of mechanisms that support smart system specification allowing to automatically derive complex requirements and facilitating agile modelling while considering inconsistencies and ambiguities reducing the number of modifications needed in later stages of the software development lifecycle furthermore hivemind is positioned to support designbycontract programming at all levels of integration by increasing the context awareness of ai agents that assist code development analysis verification and testing allowing them to access relevant documentation during the development process moreover hivemind extends beyond the development phase providing comprehensive support for the entire software lifecycle covering software maintenance including for multiarchitecture systems it represents a synergistic effort merging the expertise of leading eu software engineering academics ai researchers and industry representatives into a unified opensource framework targeted to reach trl5 to this end the project addresses a range of societal and industrial sectors aiming at validating the hivemind technologies in 5 relevant environments
diversity of bacteriophages in the ancient human microbiome

while recent work has begun to shed light on the microbiota which includes the trillions of bacteria and phages that inhabit our body our understanding of its evolution over the course of human history is limited to answer research questions regarding the development of the human microbiota over time researchers have begun to sequence ancient dna from wellpreserved fecal and dental samples to understand their bacterial community composition however an important group of the microbiota bacterial viruses or bacteriophages which play a large role in influencing bacterial community structure and can affect human health and disease are often understudied in these ancient samples here we propose archaic bacteriophage in the ancient human microbiome a project which aims to answer key questions regarding these important viral populations in these ancient samples using an integrative and collaborative approach we will use sequencing data of ancient paleofeces and dental calculus to study the oral and gut microbiome from a variety of time periods this novel work will allow us to develop a pipeline to identify viruses in ancient samples and answer the question do ancient bacteriophage populations resemble modern ones in addition by identifying phages in these ancient samples we will be able to probe the sequencing data for insights on phage evolution the development of bacterial defense systems against phages as well as reconstruct ancient phage genomes to identify novel phagehost pairs archaic will move the field of phage biology forward by identifying phages in these relatively understudied ancient samples and will have results that will be applicable to the fields of bacterial evolution anthropology and bioinformatics
tracing the epipalaeolithic origins of plant management in southwest asia

the transition from foraging to farming represents one of the most transcendental shifts in the history of humanity decades of research in southwest asia have shown that this process culminated with the development of neolithic agricultural systems c 10 ka cal bp yet how it started that is how huntergatherers became for the first time engaged with the management of plants continues to be largely undetermined palaeorigins aims to fill this major gap of knowledge benefiting from the exceptional epipalaeolithic archaeobotanical materials that are now available c 2311 ka cal bp it will ask to what extent were epipalaeolithic huntergatherers managing the land and the plant resources around them did climatic factors trigger plant resource intensification or were cultural dynamics like the need for specific foodstuffs that first motivated plantfood production to achieve such an ambitious aim palaeorigins will pioneer a holistic and highresolution approach to study the plantbased subsistence it will use a unique combination of traditional and most novel archaeobotanical materials stateoftheart stable isotope analyses computational science and theoretical models to 1 reconstruct the distribution and availability of plant resources during the environmental shifts of the late pleistocene and the early holocene 2 determine how plant procurement strategies land uses and management activities articulated during the epipalaeolithic period and 3 define huntergatherers food culture assessing their plantfood selection processing and consumption practices taken together palaeorigins will move beyond traditional neolithiccentred paradigms to explain the origins of plantfood production it will open up new research horizons merging science and theory to elucidate the nature of the humanenvironment interactions that paved the way to agriculture and ultimately changed the course of our history
acoustic and thermal retrofit of office building stock in eu

the objective of actarebuild is to provide highlevel training of doctoral candidates in retrofit of office building stock in europe by means a new generation of sustainable materials and building components in particular they will learn how to improve and guarantee acoustic and thermal performance of buildings that undergo renovation processes while minimizing the embodied carbon production the training offered to 10 doctoral candidates dcs interconnected through the network will enforce their research and transferable skills necessary for thriving careers in this burgeoning area this goal will be achieved by a unique interdisciplinary combination of specialized handson research training supported by high quality joint phd degree supervision by performing of secondments at industrial partners participation at courses and workshops on scientific and complementary soft skills facilitated by the academic and nonacademic partners of the consortiumthanks to networkwide interactions dcs will get acquainted with a variety of novel building materials and solutions bio nano meta recycled 3d printed materials and multilayer structural skins measurement techniques and assessment methods such as life cycle analysis and sustainability assessment psychoacoustic methods specialized thermal behaviour experiments and a variety of simulation techniques in acoustics energy hygrothermal behaviour their interaction with industrial partners within the consortium and via outreach activities to stakeholders in industry and society in general will promote the uptake of the resulting innovations beyond the network and accelerate their implementation for sustainable retrofits thus maximizing the impact of the project
plastic recycling and sorting with timegated optical recognition

the separation of multimaterial streams into highly pure monomaterial is the major issue that hinders the development of an efficient and affordable circular economy for plastics nowadays automatic sorting facilities are able to sort and recover a small portion of collected plastic 15 and often with low purity most importantly there is no general method to sort foodgrade and high purity 99 polymers therefore recycled polymers of which plastic items are made of can only be used for the production of objects with a much lower value our solution is an invisible marker made of luminescent silicon nanoparticlesour business model provides advantages for all stakeholders within the plastic valuechain by giving value to postconsumer plastic that is now wasted polymer producers will embed our ink into virgin polymers to make plastic easily recyclable and reusable recycling companies will benefit of a reduced treatment cost and a higher value of the sorted material brand owner retailer and logistics will then be able to finally close the loop for their packaging together with our industrial partners we successfully demonstrated the working principle of presto and tested the technology on commercially available sorting machinery plastic specimens have been prepared compatibility with the polymer and its most common additives have been assessed as well as compliance to safety regulation for foodgrade plastics to reach our goal we need to engage as many stakeholders as possible into the project the plastic industry needs high purity recycled plastics as a raw material and it needs it now the women tech prize will generate the necessary momentum to make sinbiosys the first successful manufacturer of luminescent silicon nanomaterials in europe