Požadovaný rozpočet: 23.900.164,44 EUR

The goal of Web3.0 ECCCH is to establish the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH). This will be an ecosystem where data will stay ‘at-source’, separate from platforms, tools, and services. Data will be stored in W3C standard-compliant Pods (Personal online datastores), controlled by individual and organisational owners, forming the decentralised ECCCH Data Space. Platforms will evolve into post-platforms that don't hold data. The ecosystem will address the urgent need in the cultural heritage sector for a sustainable alternative to Web2.0 aggregation platforms inevitably becoming data silos. The vision is to combine the data sovereignty of Web1.0 with the aggregating capabilities of Web2.0, offering a blockchain-free path to Web3.0. Governed by principles of lean self-governance, the ecosystem will incorporate existing technologies from leading European providers and initiatives. The core technological innovation lies in combining the International Data Spaces protocol with the Solid architecture. Development will be guided by an ongoing dialogue with users through comprehensive Collaboration Scenarios, user trials, and extensive community feedback. A variety of tools will be created on top of the ECCCH Data Space benefiting from universal data access, data sovereignty, persistent IDs, collaborative work, and inclusivity. The ECCCH Platform will serve as the main promotion vehicle of the ecosystem. Deployment to about 100 early adopter heritage institutions will be managed through leading European software vendors adopting this new architecture and switching to Pods. The ecosystem will serve as the foundation of the ECCCH initiative, offering guidance to the European Commission on further ECCCH investments in new tools and a robust environment for funded projects.

Žadatel: Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft Österreichische

Požadovaný rozpočet: 2.842.833,63 EUR

SCARBOn (Space CARbon Observatory Next step) is the continuation of the Horizon 2020 SCARBO project. This multidisciplinary project is carried out by a gender-diverse team, through a consortium including the space industry, SMEs and scientific institutes. It is led from Toulouse, France by Airbus Defence and Space. The SCARBOn system is based on a constellation of small greenhouse gases (GHG) monitoring satellites, flying an innovative miniaturised CO2/CH4 instrument (NanoCarb) together with a coregistered compact aerosol sensor (SPEXone). Together, they will deliver twice-daily accurate global measurements to monitor the diurnal variations of fossil CO2 emission. The objective of the SCARBOn project is to mature the technical and industrial definition of the NanoCarb instrument and of the SCARBOn constellation, targeting an operational system availability before the end of the decade. The design of the NanoCarb instrument will be upgraded and refined following the outcomes of the previous SCARBO study, and its performances will be carefully modelled. An instrument breadboard will provide valuable data during an airborne campaign, which will be used together with modelled data to verify the instrument design. This will allow raising the instrument TRL to at least 5, targeting 6 by the end of the project. Data processing at levels L1 to L4 will validate the concept capability to monitor GHG plumes from space. The constellation concept will also be refined in view of a possible short-term industrial implementation. SCARBOn’s daily CO2 and CH4 anthropogenic emissions monitoring data, based on novel European breakthrough technologies, will be a valuable contributor to the European Commission’s endeavour to fight climate change. As an upside, the monitoring data will foster the development of added-value services and will represent a state-of-the-art European alternative to the burgeoning nonEuropean commercial initiatives.

Žadatel: Airbus Defence And Space Sas

Požadovaný rozpočet: 2.789.625 EUR

This project is initiated to working-out the new generation of the HPs, which operate based on the Pressure Gradient Elastic Waves (PGEW) phenomenon. PGEWs arise in a volume when three conditions are simultaneously satisfied: a compressible fluid (gas or gas - liquid mixture) fills the volume; that volume contains a pressure gradient; and density fluctuations (sound or turbulent) are generated within the volume. PGEWs consist of sequence of compression waves propagating in the direction of increasing pressure and a sequence of rarefaction waves propagating in the opposite direction. In a limited volume, PGEWs will heat up the wall, bounding the zone of maximum pressure and cooling the wall (or region) with a minimum pressure. In such a volume, PGEWs will transfer energy from a low-pressure zone to a high-pressure one. This heat transfer is not dependent on the temperature gradient. A new type of heat pump could be created based on the PGEW phenomenon. The physics of the process allow us to reasonably predict that these new heat pumps would be more efficient than existing ones. The proposed HP has the highest degree of novelty (Patent US 9670938 B2; EUR 13803934.2) In 2015 and 2020 - 2022 the research was funded from the Ministry of Energy of Israel These HPs have important contrast to existing devices. - The devises operating based on PGEW can use any gas (air, nitrogen, water steam, inert gases) and are friendly to the environment. - The PGEW based devices can operate in any ranges of temperature. - The energy consumptions of PGEW based HPs will be decreased significantly compared to currently available devices. The coefficient of performance COP will achieve 5 ~ 6. - In contrast to the most modern HPs, in which the thermodynamic cycle of the working fluid (Freon) is carried out, inside the PGEW based HPs, the heat transfer process Takes place. - Uncomplicated design and reliable operation are the important advantages.

Žadatel: PG Wave Ltd

Požadovaný rozpočet: 9.050.000 EUR

The goal of eDI is to make sustainable urban mobility accessible to a wider social group. City transportation raises concerns about safety, pollution, and health. To address these issues, the transport sector is transitioning from conventional fuel-powered vehicles to all-electric ones. Though light electric vehicles offer a promising solution for sustainable transportation, decreasing the size of 4-wheeled cars involves many safety and cost-effectiveness issues. eDI project introduced a new vehicle architecture to reconcile these expectations by closing the gap between cars and diwheels in terms of safety and performance, while maintaining affordability and increasing maneuverability. This architecture reduces the weight and number of parts of the vehicle which allows it to be cheaper to manufacture than conventional 4-wheeled cars used for daily commuting. eDI project represents a significant advance beyond the state-of-the-art in city transport and parking. Engineering profession and road legal regulations focus on the optimization of components of traditional 4-wheeled cars. In contrast, the ground-breaking concept of eDI offers several advantages over them: It will be one of the cheapest, lightest and least energy-consuming enclosed EV with higher maneuverability, performance and braking features than cars and motorcycles.

Žadatel: Libertárius Magyarországért Alapítvány

Požadovaný rozpočet: 5.586.558,75 EUR

In the recent years many crises, such as the Covid 19 pandemic, blockage of transport routes or the war in Ukraine have shaken supply networks with impacts on a global scale. Markets and supply networks collapsed, Bottlenecks occurred, and the lack of transparency of information and communication flows led to production stoppages. In particular the aviation industry was affected by this development. This industry is facing on one side increasing pressure to adopt sustainable practices and reduce its environmental impact and on the other side challenged by the tense market environment. To be more sustainable and resilient and react to shortterm changes and unforeseen crises, more transparency is needed along the entire supply network. One way to achieve this goal is to adopt the aspects of platform economy and manufacturing as a service for a resilient industry value network that can better respond to disruptions and challenges and bring together stakeholders from across the industries and borders, including manufacturers, suppliers, and customers, to work together towards a common goal of sustainability. By improving communication, sharing resources, and adopting innovative technologies, these networks will help creating a more sustainable future for the aerospace and connected industries. This application introduces the idea of a data-driven platform for a resilient industry network focused on the aspects of sustainability in aerospace and highlights the potential of this network to address key challenges and promote positive change in the industry. By means of two different use cases research and development are driven. The first one is focused on the manufacturing process of a product by additive manufacturing for the aerospace industry in detail. The second is the production of aerospace components as fibre composites and the life-cycle of these products. These use cases are closely related to the challenges of climate neutrality and circular economy.

Žadatel: Technische Universitaet Chemnitz

Požadovaný rozpočet: 4.030.597 EUR

In Alkaline Water Electrolysis (AWE), improvements have been made in cell components such as membranes and electrodes in recent years. While developing these components further and qualifying them in lab-scale stacks, the project HEIDI goal is to bring these innovations from a single component or cell to an industrial stack of 1.7 m² cell area. This 250 kW industrial stack will be demonstrated to exceed the 2030 SRIA targets by operating at current density of 1.2 A/cm² at an efficiency of > 73 % LHV DC and exhibiting dynamic operation in a range of 10 % to 120 % of the nominal power. Moreover, the industrial stack will be run for 2500 hours with the aim of proving a degradation rate < 3 µV.h-1. To achieve these ambitious goals, renowned academic institutions (DLR, DTU, EPFL, KIST and LEITAT) are working with innovation-driven SMEs (Adele, GG, MS, and MMMI) and a leading AWE manufacturer (SF) to validate the technology. They are specialised in polymer chemistry and membranes, electrocatalysis and electrodes, stack design, system design, fluid dynamics and transient modelling. Together in the project they will establish a AWE technology and value chain with market competitive CAPEX (less than 150 €/kWstack) and OPEX (1.4 €/kgH2) without the need to use any critical raw materials and has the potential to reduce levelized costs of hydrogen (LCOH) to 2.1 €/kg.

Žadatel: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Požadovaný rozpočet: 3.999.997,50 EUR

TinTin4AI is poised to revolutionize the e-commerce industry, offering an end-to-end AI platform that provides high-quality, representative, and unbiased training data. By making this data widely available for research and commercial purposes, we aim to support the growth of the AI community and drive innovation in the field. What sets us apart is our win-win market mechanism, rewarding participants with success fees from industry participants for their winning AI algorithms. By Year 3, we plan to have 45,000 AI teams from around the world collaborating with 760 eCommerce businesses across the US and EU, projecting annual revenues of €82 million and distribution of €61 million in fees to AI innovators. But our impact goes beyond financial success. TinTin4AI is an open innovation platform focused on tackling major challenges in AI, encouraging and promoting diversity among AI researchers. By the end of Year 3, we will have created 160 full-time jobs and indirectly financed 90,000 academicians, start-ups and solo practitioners through AI contests. With the support of Horizon Europe, we can drive scientific progress and make a significant impact on the e-commerce industry and beyond.

Žadatel: Glov Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Servisleri Yazilim Danismanlik Ti

Požadovaný rozpočet: 4.644.952,50 EUR

Currently there are no portable test or biosensors validated for air, soil or water quality control for pathogens, Chemicals of Emerging Concern (CECs) and Persistent Mobile Chemicals (PMCs), so such devices are much awaited by all stakeholders to ensure successful control and prevention of contamination and infections. Mobiles consortium will develop an interdisciplinary framework of expertise, and tools for monitoring, detection, and consequently mitigation of pollution from pathogens, CECs, PMCs, thus benefiting human and environmental health. Mobiles consortium will work to achieve the following objectives: Develop electronic biosensors for monitoring organic chemicals (pesticides, hormones) and antimicrobial resistance bacteria and pathogens in water, soil and air; Develop organism-based biosensor for detection of organic and inorganic pollution in water and soil; Study environmental performance of developed organisms and devices; Metagenomics analysis of organisms leaving in polluted areas in order to enable searches for diverse functionalities across multiple gene clusters Perform safety tests (e.g., EFSA) to assess the impact of developed organisms on the natural environment. Organism-based biosensor will consist on genetically modified chemiluminescent bacteria able to detect antibiotics, heavy metals, and pesticides in water; genetically modified plants that will change colour when in the soil is present arsenic; and marine diatoms that will be used to detect bioplastic degradation in marine and aquatic environments. Developed devices and organisms will be implemented by using flexible technologies, which can guarantee an easy adaptation to other biotic and abiotic pollutants. Devices and organisms, after proper validation and approval, could be used by consumers, inspection services and industry operators, as well as environmental emergency responders to monitor and detect PMCs, CECs and pathogens in water, air and soil.

Žadatel: Ethnicon Metsovion Polytechnion

Požadovaný rozpočet: 671.454 EUR

Aiming to produce feasible satellite product ideas, conceived by a child and targeting children needs, Space4Children plans to revolutionize the conception of space mission products. Space4Children is unique and it is aligned with UN-Children’s Rights: We will explore the earth and space through the eyes of children. Representing a user group as large as 30% of earth’s population, children will be part of the project from the very beginning: From setting up questionnaires to find satellite products through producing their own ideas. Children will be our experts. We will listen. Listen to their struggles as active citizens. Through Space4Children, the EU will be introduced to new space market ideas from children that urge to be realized to serve children’s needs. Informing them in a child-friendly manner, children are capable of finding solutions for their own needs. They grow up with technology and they are already served by imaging and GNSS services, but their challenges and needs still might differ from what adults think is best, thus calling to come into the spotlight. While children far too often are not taken seriously and left out in the decision-making, Horizon 2022 has the chance to foster a child-powered space program. It will result from participative methods that allow children - also in disadvantaged situations - to express their views, while supporting them through feasibility analyses and preliminary requirements to produce their ideas. Among FH-Potsdam (Germany), University of Warsaw (Poland), Babes Bolyai University (Romania), SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit (Germany), and Grant Garant (Czech Republic), we bring a group of institutions with academic and practical children´s rights perspectives combined with communication, technology and satellite expertise. It is the right time to bring Children to the center of EU Space program and spread awareness of their views. Let us make space a child friendly place, with adaptive and new satellite market ideas.

Žadatel: Varšavská Univerzita

Požadovaný rozpočet: 2.499.998 EUR

The HYTOP project will develop and demonstrate a novel technology for hydrogen high-pressure cylinders production which is based on two main innovations: 1) Advanced Materials: carbon fiber based TowPreg which will enable improved mechanical characteristics of the composite while decrease weight and production scrub. 2) Advanced Manufacturing: hydroforming for ultra-thin (1 mm thickness) metal liner production in combination with TowPreg filament winding to enable 20% increase in water volume of the cylinder with the same external dimensions as SoA The two innovations will implement important improvements in cylinders characteristics: novel HYTOP cylinders will be lighter and stronger with bigger inner volume thus transport more hydrogen mass in one delivery trip with lower tare weight. Within the advanced materials innovation, the new formulation of epoxy resin will be developed and optimised to achieve easier and faster production with decreased scrub. Resulting composite will have higher carbon fiber content means better mechanical strength at lower weight. Within the advanced manufacturing innovation the liner design will be based on novel corrugated shape which will be obtained by hydroforming technology using special metal alloy. In addition, bulk gas transport units – MEGCs (Multiple-element gas container) will be developed and demonstrated in order to significantly reduce delivery costs of H2 to end-user. The HYTOP project will build a MEGC at TRL5, with the possibility of carrying a payload of more than 1.49 tonnes of Hydrogen at 500 bar and at a capex less than 400 €/H2kg of compressed hydrogen, which demonstrates an economical and commercially attractive hydrogen delivery system. Computer modelling and simulation will enable the optimisation of the whole system as well as analysing costs & benefits and total cost of ownership. Besides technological development, lifecycle assessment will be performed against existing and upcoming competing technologies.

Žadatel: Gas Vessel Production d.o.o.

Požadovaný rozpočet: 2.504.965 EUR

Among the different electrolysis technologies, AEL is very competitive, because of its low investment costs and good scalability. The levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH) produced by AEL can be reduced by enhancing the efficiency, maximal current densities and by enabling better integration with downstream processes. A well-tuned design of high-pressure stack and system improve the performance and overall efficiency, by eliminating the need for further compression for downstream processes. As compressors for hydrogen represent a significant share of CAPEX and OPEX of electrolysis systems, those can be reduced or eliminated. In this project, the consortium will design and develop an AEL system demonstrator >50 kW, capable of operating at a pressure up to 90 bar, achieved by a novel concept in which the pressurization is done at two stages: by applying up to 60 bar hydraulic pressure using a pressure vessel in which a stack operates at additional 30 bar, resulting in up to 90 bar gas pressure. Integrating advanced components, innovative design, and optimizing operation strategies, through modelling and experimental testing, a system with an efficiency of 70 % (LHV) at a current density of 1 A/cm2 will be demonstrated. With this technology an AEL system will be provided that may lead to major cost reduction of green hydrogen production. The main scientific aims of the project are further supported by sustainability and circularity aspects as well as dedicated outreach activities, and jointly addressed by 2 medium-sized enterprise (SMEs), 4 R&D centres with established expertise in alkaline stack, system and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and one of the largest hydrogen production and utilization companies in the world. Lastly, use cases and the concept of the integrated plant will be proposed. Together, the new developments will target a technology breakthrough with a clear commercial perspective, placing Europe at the lead of highly pressurized AEL technology in 3 years.

Žadatel: Německé středisko pro letectví a kosmonautiku

Požadovaný rozpočet: 3.644.480 EUR

The cultural and creative industries are diverse with potential for economic growth in a rapidly changing, globalized world. The ICONICC project will deliver conceptual clarity in the relationship between the CCI sector and innovation processes, drawing conclusions on the EU and national levels to support informed policy decisions. Its findings aim to strengthen CCI sector’s innovative potential and help to realize its potential as a driver for innovation and regional competitiveness. Proposed here is an analytical approach to newly collected and existing data, contextualizing these data, analysing the Innovation potential of CCI in different national environments and understanding the effects of CCI sector on the European economy. To analyse how the sector currently operates and its internal innovation capacity, ICONICC will employ participatory methods, bringing in CCI actors themselves. Through the structured co-creation efforts, it will be determined which CCI dedicated policies are working and how the most efficient ones can be transferred across regions or countries. Moreover, the suggested participatory approach towards the key actors will uncover how CCIs are currently responding to changes in working conditions, economic opportunities, questions regarding balancing cultural diversity and social inclusivity in the changing Europe. All quadruple helix actors are involved in knowledge exchange activities, such as CCI tailored capacity building, development of an EU-wide exchange platform to strengthen links between science and art, enrichment of learning and raising awareness at all levels of education, roundtables focused on new technologies, and innovative business and dissemination models emerging across the CCI sector.

Žadatel: Univerzita Karlova

Požadovaný rozpočet: 4.694.300 EUR

Based on local conditions and needs, the project STIMU-LATTE aims to: a) provide knowledge and skills to address locally demanded services and products; b) to stimulate and lead social, health, cultural, economic and political activities; c) impact on climate change, environment, governance, resource use, employment and quality of life; d) apply design and implementation principles to respect the local conditions, values, aspirations and methods and enhance the acceptance and performance of the team; e) utilise vital networks of allies and proven models of cooperation. Drawing on results, products and lessons from other EC programs, this Project will: i) test and benchmark selected models for gathering accessible expertise in diverse contexts; ii) organise, incentivise, train, skill, equip, enable, empower and mentor young people (Female=70%) and well-governed organisations; iii) spread the learning and risks across pilot sites in Spain (ES), Latvia (LV), and Croatia (HR); iv) accelerate innovations and strengthen the capacities and resilience in more vital and sustainable communities.

Žadatel: Seefar Foundation

Požadovaný rozpočet: 8.991.338 EUR

Image processing algorithms have in the past relied on complex hand crafted algorithms for extracting key features and on methods to match those key features against known data sets. More recently it has been found that equivalent performance can be achieved by using Convolution Neural Networks to learn the features to be extracted. The basic principles of implementation and training of these Neural Networks are straightforward. However, they require a large amount of calculation to be performed with a large number of coefficients which have been created from training data. We can substantially improve the overall performance of such image processing systems (image segmentation, extraction and recognition) by building System-on-Chip (SoC) systems with the processing elements adapted to the properties of such image processing algorithms (e.g. using short 6-8 bit logarithmic representations of data and coefficients), by implementing the common specialized operations – such as RELU, (as well as the usual general purpose set of operations) and by embedding these processing elements with memories which can be accessed in a latency tolerant way by the nearest neighbours in a 2-D or 3-D on chip (and inter chip) network. We expect to be able to integrate 8K to 64K such elements on an affordable SoC and to attain from 1.5 to 2GHz clock speeds depending on the CMOS implementation technology which is chosen. We plan on designing the demonstrator chiplet such that it can be cascaded to implement even larger neural networks. This proposal aims to develop a European sovereign ultra-low-power and secure RISC-V processor for AI edge computing. We will improve by an order of magnitude the overall performance, and cost and improve by two orders of magnitude the power consumption of image processing silicon by building optimized computing in memory system-on-chips specifically aimed at modern image processing algorithms for autonomous vehicles and droids.

Žadatel: Cortus

Požadovaný rozpočet: 3.224.954 EUR

Autonomous cars will require the most sophisticated Smart Vision and on-board intelligence of all vehicles. Such smart vehicles require sensors, two layers of software (identification and classification), as well as algorithms and actuators. While there are today tens of developers of Nano Devices and Modules, sensors, software, algorithms, and actuators for such vehicles, OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) as well 1st Tier Suppliers are confronted to a fuzzy puzzle of products specifications and suppliers. As a result, significant investments and lead-time are wasted. In addition, technologies are still progressing and photonics are expected to play a growing role, thanks to the increased miniaturization, the better performances and the lower power consumption they allow but very little has been done so far in this direction. To address these concerns, NanoPhot Consortium was created. The international partners of the NanoPhot project share complementary experiences and are used to work together. They have already developed key technologies that shall be integrated in the present project, the objective of which is to offer a nano-photonics based global, diversified, and higher performance solution to this issue. As an important preliminary remark, it must be noted that NanoPhot does not discriminate between levels of vehicle autonomies L3, L4 or L5 as Nano Devices and Modules are essentially quite similar. Of course, this is not true for the sensors themselves as they are highly dependent on the autonomous level. Nanophotonics devices and modules proposed by NanoPhot can serve as a game changer in this worldwide race for Smart Autonomous Vehicles (SAV), while presenting several modules, working in both visible and Infra-Red (IR), both day light and night vision, and which have been developed and, with adequate research and funding, can be integrated in Smart Vision new modules, enabling better four steps: 1) Forecast, 2) Understand, 3) Deduct and 4) Decide.

Žadatel: Jerusalem College of Technology

Požadovaný rozpočet: 4.979.375 EUR

CO2 emission is traditional EPC and O&M feature of a wide verity of industrial projects related to metallurgical, hydrocarbon, petrochemical, chemical, petrochemical, biochemical, etc sectors worldwide. TWREEC Proposal offers dual GHG control; industrially aimed at source GHG mitigation by climate -smart reforming facilities onshore/offshore; and NB.CCMA in lieu of industrial DAC. Traditional facilities engineering whether outdated or ultramodern is inconsiderate to carbon footprint of capital investments. Proposal attempts climate-smart re-engineering of international industrial sector which is heavily marine shifting for sourcing raw materials. Source carbon capture and storage - CCS is altogether different from DAC and so far not attempted anywhere in the world. Since CCS becomes a permanent industrial facility feature in all phases of project engineering, construction, and EFL operation it can comfortably compete industrial direct air capture - DAC in CAPEX/OPEX economics. Techno-economic evaluation of industrial interactions to marine environment is largely pending internationally whereas climate-smart industrial future is linked to deep seabed mining with immense potential of CO2 reduction with altogether different CCM approach. CAPEX/OPEX differential is too huge while latest scale-up of pilot experimentation has indicated DAC capacity of de-carbonization is just in seconds of re-carbonization mainly because of wild GHG emissions by SED.SET sectors. Trillions of dollar worth GHG-emission intensive industrial facilities are internationally existent onshore and offshore as operating or abandoned post/premature EFL and similar costs planned for climatesmart transition. Additionally, CCUS applies differently to terrestrial and oceanic SED.SET sources and either requires flexibility through uniquely TWREEC established relationship with NB.CCMA. Compensatory ecosystems as key components of NB.CCMA ranging from coastal to upland got to be ENV.21st SET evaluated.

Žadatel: Third World Resources, Energy & Environment Centre (pvt) – TWREEC

Požadovaný rozpočet: 8.000.000 EUR

Mental disorders are the second cause of years lived with disability (and rising). They affect patients, families, carers, and health professionals. Causes reside on social exclusion, raising aging and, now, Covid-19. Stress in the workplace was relevant in the past but Covid-19 worsened it; our increasingly hyper-connected world causes “tech stress”. Mental health includes illness, disorders, wellness, and emotional resilience. We defined four main objectives for our project: i) development of a knowledge base identifying the effects of a transforming Europe in the mental health of its citizens (including those caused by Covid-19), in particular through minimum datasets, focusing on the elderly, healthcare workers and service providers; ii) prevention of mental ill health, through screening strategies and through the creation and testing of preventive measures; iii) improvement of the lives of mental health patients through the creation and testing of intervention strategies; iv) promotion of mental health at different levels of European societies, influencing policy-making and regulators. We have experience on standardization tools, in system integration, innovative software development, data science, and machine learning. Some of the solutions we wish to implement consist of our own medical devices. We plan to develop and implement interventions for the prevention of mental ill health and we want to help ensuring better and more inclusive public mental health, preventing stigma and marginalization feelings. We have access to healthcare professionals and to the elderly population in residential care and nursing homes (as well as families and carers) through our partners and some of our 25 stakeholders (SHs). In addition, our SHs have expertize on the connection between mental health and digital technologies, on best practices, implementation strategies and policy recommendations. Two are regional health authorities, relevant to ensure pilots in those regions.

Žadatel: University of Porto

Požadovaný rozpočet: 14.965.625 EUR

Sustainable freshwater for pot ability is the largest challenge of 17SDG2030 UN Agenda Goals of PA2015 primarily for human, and secondarily for earth activity survival under climate change. International stress on quality water availability has been heavy even without coming into force of International Climate Accord and many countries failing to ensure reliable supply. Env.20th SET has been devotedly focusing attention on the global challenge but largely failed in resolving it resulting in 25 % of global populations without quality water provisions. Env.21st SET is about to face magnified global challenge under more stringency of renewable energy dependence for supply, treatment, desalination, and distribution systems. SDG-6 has a dedicated sphere for water & wastewater, while entire range of 17SDG2030 is directly or indirectly freshwater dependent or water-phallic. Freshwater sector prior to uncovering secrete clash between universal life carbon cycle – ULCC, and universal cycle hydrological cycle – ULHC has undergone multiple setbacks and improvements with passage of time. Public health engineering up grading to water and wastewater – W&WW engineering under the umbrella of Env.20th SET did brought about multiple improvements compatible to strength of national budgets but could not contribute averting clash between ULCC and ULHC and rather unintentionally promoted it. Key outcome criterion pertains to advancing understanding on diffuse and point sources of water pollution.  Majority freshwater sector environmental problems stem from wrongly taught, learned, and field practiced by W&WW engineering under the umbrella of Env.20th SET worldwide. Diffusion of water pollution has been legally permitted through dispersion and dilution in sizeable terrestrial and marine receiving bodies. ‘Renewable hydrological resource’ quantitative withdrawal from surface and groundwater resources seldom limit imposed. This proposal attempts zero-pollution on Env.20th &Env.21st SET scales.

Žadatel: Third World Resources, Energy & Environment Centre (pvt) – TWREEC

Požadovaný rozpočet: 17.922.000 EUR

Circular bioeconomy particulaly for coastal nations is heavily dependent on marine resources. Marine environment, ecosystems, biology, biotechnology, and industrial bioengineering are proposed to be integrated for sustainable blue economy as mandatory perk of circular bio-economy essential in replacement to brown economy for achieving 17SDG2030 UN Agenda Goals. Coastal ranges, continental shelf, continental slope, deep seabed, submarine trenches and ridges are all vital parts of marine ecology and each has a lot of importance to marine micro-biome for healthy oceans and sustainable blue economy. Green and blue economy transitions as being attempted are just CCM CCA propellers to brown economy for extending earth life, not a permanent remedy to the endangered biosphere which needs circular bio-economy. Circular transformation of marine micro biome related bio-economy is more complex than its exclusively land scoped freshwater counterpart while both are at R&D/R&I stage. Coastal handling, preconditioning, processing, and reprocessing of marine sourced feedstock is expected to undergo tremendous changes under sea level rise. On the hand availability of traditional infrastructure, physical facilities, PEM methods, human resources, and EPC are susceptible to climate change. Marine micro-biome is huger than many terrestrial macro biomes with largely undefined or relatively easier to violate biotic containments and a-biotic cordons. Despite abundance of SED.SET and ENV.SET knowledge and knowhow advanced and developing segments have miserably failed in protecting terrestrial ecosystems and similar response of humanity is not beyond expectation in maritime environment. Unfortunately, marine resources are more secluded than terrestrial natural possessions in many countries, nearly one quarter of world nations are landlocked, and many have no fertile soil at all. How far SED.SET and ENV.SET  can be ensured commensurate with sustainable future is the main aim of this proposal.

Žadatel: Third World Resources, Energy & Environment Centre (pvt) – TWREEC

Požadovaný rozpočet: 3.781.250 EUR

This project aims to measure and report the Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) of medium and big sized firms and increase their awareness on Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) applications in Energy, Mining, Tourism, Transportation sectors. Through developing a basic integrated NCA model, this project will contribute to the efforts of measuring the environmental footprint of accounting process and organizations on the environment. On the other hand, all of these researchers have been studied with the deductive method and present results from the macro level in this field. Otherwise, the model that we will present in this project, it has been studied with the induction logic. In other words, the evaluations and reports to be made at for companies in the specified sectors will determine the NCA on a business basis. By integrating the financial capital accounting with natural dimensions, this project aims for providing a general framework which could be applicable to the manufacturing/service sectors in the EU level. Since there is no standardized NCA application in EU level, outcome of this project would contribute to draw general strategies for the stakeholders who want to engage with NCA applications in the future. Primary aim of the project is to increase the awareness of potential stakeholders on the NCA subject and provide an exemplary general model which could be a base for developing further sector-specific models. Secondarily, business decision makers would learn how to manage natural capital in financial terms and manage their investments in a sustainable way. Target group of the project is dependent and independent accountants who have knowledge on accounting systems but not aware of the NCA processes and models. By training accountants on how to register natural capitals, this project wants to create an impact on practical level as well as the increased awareness of stakeholders.

Žadatel: Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University

Požadovaný rozpočet: 2.746.000 EUR

FEMINOVATIONS will research and analyse the role of Women in innovations and in farming and community roles; relate that role to the laws, regulations and support systems most relevant to Women, with specific analysis of the performance of programs towards Gender Equality; then, search and select local partners among disadvantaged Women and their dependents, to boost existing initiatives and to stimulate new ones, with the long term objective of breaking out of intergenerational disadvantage and poverty; thus design and implement with these partners over 3-4 years, eight location-specific women-led innovative enterprises in farming and community change; in which we monitor and analyse findings and process that information into lessons; then through wide consultations, and learning from the research and from the praxis, we formulate recommendations on more suitable institutional frameworks and ecosystems for Feminovation and farming, and ways of measuring the full costs and benefits and impacts of future interventions, as they contribute to changes, results, objectives and goals in diverse rural communities across EU.

Žadatel: Seefar Foundation

Požadovaný rozpočet: 14.887.750 EUR

Proposal attempts reinforcing collapsing pillars of SED.SET and ENV.SET and bridging widening gaps of climate – smart knowledge and knowhow between marine pollution control, ecological balance, and restoration of universal life carbon cycle. TWREEC shall comprehend these tasks by addressing historical role of oceans, science, engineering, and technology – SET interactions as socioeconomic development – SED.SET, and as safeguarding environment under ENV.SET from mid-20th century onward. Environmental exploitation and abuse of all three spheres of the earth planet namely atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere are for the land-based purposes because human settlement is concentrated at earth crust surface. Ruthless manmade progress has caused tragedy of environmental commons – TOEC which in ENV.SET context is referred to the atmosphere and oceans. TOEC of oceans is known to the world much earlier than TOEC of atmosphere which has just been disclosed 6 years back at Paris Agreement – PA2015. UN Agenda Goals 17SDG2030 acknowledge anthropogenic acts have damaged universal life cycles notably carbon – ULCC, and hydrological – ULHC. Resultantly, ULCC has been overloaded with GHG emissions to the extent that is crippling ULHC by withdrawing renewable fraction of the ULHC. Marine TOEC is not exclusively caused by coastal/inland inhabitations but imported/ exported by worldwide navigation, offshore E&P, marine bed mining, ports, pipelines, seawater intake/outfalls, intentional dumping etc. Similar to preindustrial atmospheric GHG concentration increase, seawater p H has also declined by 0.2 value. Anthropogenic solution to the problem created by the same sort of activities is planned by massive extracting metals and materials by deep oceanic bed mining. The proposal also addresses oceanic acidification for restoration of preindustrial conditions of the earth planet. Natural – ecological environment – NEE has mobilized ULCC for security of the biosphere, but ULHC is resisting.

Žadatel: Third World Resources, Energy & Environment Centre (pvt) – TWREEC

Požadovaný rozpočet: 42.380.700 EUR

This TWREEC proposal aims at equipping the interested parties/signatory to PA2015 with unique mandatory knowledge, knowhow, and basic practices for climate-smart urban solid waste management - SWM. Traditionally practiced science, engineering, and technology – SET core focused at socioeconomic development – SED least bothered about wastes and pollution. Accordingly till late of the 20th century SED.SET took the matter as ordinary as resolvable by combustion or stray decomposition. During 20th century environmental realization commenced creeping in as ENV.SET sharing common basics of SET for assisting SED.SET for clean and aesthetic performance. Consequently established, let us say Env.20th SET, did attempt improving SED.SET relationship with atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere a little bit but very expensively only affordable by wealthy countries. Amongst gaseous, aqueous, and solid pollution least priority used to be assigned to SWM. From 1970s onward ENV.SET considered as postgraduate/ doctoral/postdoctoral degree academic subject of industrialized countries of North America and Western Europe commenced springing throughout the world and descending towards undergraduate qualifications. SWM has as many disciplinary wings as SED.SET but has throughout been oversimplified in techno-economic response even that of Env.20th SET which introduced sanitary landfills. Post 17SDG2030 UN Agenda Goals urban SWM has come up a decisive factor of national/international tie between survival of humanity or the biosphere under climate change. Upgraded version of Env.20th SET hereinafter abbreviated as Env.21st SET not only attempts stopping urban human settlement from becoming GHG emission factories, but avails municipal wastes for valuable resource recovery contributing to circular economy ambitions. For the stated purposes, TWREEC deploys its compound comprehension of chemical process, material, instrumentation, IT engineering skills, and vast exposure to human behabivors.

Žadatel: Third World Resources, Energy & Environment Centre (pvt) - TWREEC

Požadovaný rozpočet: 3.503.481 EUR

Although the availability of water, in quantity and quality, is still a given for many countries, due to its universal and regular supply, phenomena such as droughts will affect communities with increasing frequency. In addition, decision-making processes are still traditional and centralized and have been limited in terms of both the inclusion of society's needs and the promotion of the full value of water. The overall objective of WEST is to contribute to the mitigation of the problem of scarcity, through the design and development of transition paths to water governance models capable of promoting the involvement of the public and stakeholders in decision-making processes and stimulating a change of values, and behaviors in relation to the protection and valorization of water. It assumes that public and stakeholder participation in water-related decisions can contribute to reducing conflicts, building trust, and  acilitating learning among stakeholders. Therefore, WEST will create a participatory framework including new financial instruments and innovative technological solutions that enable the sustainability and resilience of the water system through sound decision-making. We propose five case studies, with different contexts, and involving various actors in the implementation of good practices to boost the sustainability of the activities of the water user sectors. In cooperation with stakeholders (farmers associations, local authorities, water companies, consumer organizations, industry, environmental agencies, etc.) at EU and local level, WEST will investigate ways to implement sound governance strategies based on policy narrative analysis, cost-benefit analysis for society and will be supported by GIS analysis and predictive models that consider temporal and spatial scale issues. The results will comprise eight water-related process innovations, two product innovations and three organizational innovations.

Žadatel: Instituto Politecnico De Leiria

Požadovaný rozpočet: 4.906.468 EUR

Inflammation is the physiological response to face any aggressive event and to induce a prompt recovery. When it is coming up an unbalance between the involved forces, inflammation can have a chronic evolution and give a permanent disability. Osteoarticular system is often suffering from inflammation following acute trauma, recurrent trauma from overuse, and/or overload; clinical evidence is reported on the chronic evolution of osteoarticular inflammation and the osteoarticular disability is the most cause of welfare and social increasing costs. Finding the trigger item for the transition from health to disease, identifying the first step of chronic inflammation in a pre-clinical stage are proposals of a preventive strategy. Stressors in lifestyle, in personal heathy history, in the environment/work have to be analysed and crossed to lead to a personalized diagnosis. Of consequence, preventive strategy, including even different treatment can be, approached. Updated studies on inflammation mechanism show the relevant role of extracellular matrix where different biochemical factors (Cytokines et al) interact to maintain the homeostasis balance. Plasma biochemical factors measurement is relevant for detection of inflammation and its grading; however, it is not addressed to a pre-clinical diagnosis and even less it is predictive of clinical evolution.

Žadatel: Med & Sport 2000 S.r.l.

Požadovaný rozpočet: 3.999.458,75 EUR

International and multimodal transportation plays an important role in the success of companies and the economy. Today, a multitude of shocks caused by pandemics, greenhouse gas reduction, and wars have put the fragility of global supply chains on top of mind. Hence it is necessary to increase the resilience, security, and sustainability of the transport network without sacrificing competitiveness. Therefore, multimodal transportation in the future needs a smart and proactive approach to protect against disruptive events. Providing effective solutions in an adaptive multimodal freight transport and logistics network faces many challenges. The complexity of the problem increases when other effects have to be taken into account in addition to the economical aspect. Moreover, challenges of using the objectives from different aspects have to be considered simultaneously with the conflicts of interest related to stakeholders at different levels, e.g., from the supply chain, transport services, and infrastructure networks. In M4STER, we will develop a real-time, smart, and intelligent platform to move towards the multimodal transportation of the future for the European economy by focusing on four pillars: resilience, sustainability, safety, and smartness. M4STER is an integrated platform comprising a smart decision support system based on these four pillars. It allows prescribing multimodal transportation solutions and management of conflicts of interest in a multi-user environment. The impacts of M4STER on multimodal transportation in the European economy are: reduced transport costs by 10 %, reduced environmental impact by 15 %, improved social sustainability by 25 %, reduced lateness and delays in cargo transportation by 15 %, 25 % of the aggregated effects from the use of M4STER outcomes on cluster 5 destination 6 to contribute to policy making for the future of transportation in European states. The M4STER concept will be validated through four use cases.

Žadatel: INSA Lyon

Požadovaný rozpočet: 217.993,75 EUR

The project aims to develop a network for the dissemination of a new idea of democracy in which political participation is no longer conceived as a mere delegation but is shaped through a constant balance between delegation and the need for accountability. Democracy today means, in fact, looking beyond votes and elections to build a new kind of participation based on the ability to question, publicly discuss, monitor and correct. This kind of democracy is extremely important to include in the democratic arena long-term policies that embody the shared needs of different generations. Whereas policies of a temporary nature can also benefit from changing and short-term oriented actions, policies of a structural nature and with intergenerational repercussions require decision-makers who are able to go beyond consensus to define and consolidate transformative policies capable of improving the quality of life and of society in the medium to long term. The research proposes to create a network of political and administrative experiences in Europe about the development of democratic participation in the implementation of urban and environmental regeneration policies with the aim of highlighting best practices but also the political-institutional, legal-administrative and social obstacles that have been encountered.

Žadatel: Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

Požadovaný rozpočet: 4.960.400 EUR

The overall approach to alternative protein production in PROVISION is based on utilisation of selected agri-food by-products by different natural protein converters, i.e. microorganisms and insects. The obtained proteins will undergo modification and functionalization, a sensory evaluation and testing in food human trials and in aquaculture as feed ingredients. Proteins will be used also in non-food field as nutraceuticals and cosmetics. Novel methods for maximise protein production will be developed at laboratory and pilot scale, with industrial production simulated online using realistic scenarios. The nutritional, health, safety and quality aspects together with the environmental and socio-economic impacts of the obtained protein-rich ingredients will be addressed, and a comparison with conventional protein sources conducted. The PROVISION high-protein ingredients will contribute to fill knowledge gaps on alternative protein production from a technical, scientific, social, economic and environmental point of view. The overall PROVISION process will abate the costs of alternative protein production, also reducing the environmental impact due to the lower GHGs emissions in comparison to conventional proteins. PROVISION will address knowledge required by industry players which focus on renewal of the food market and production sector, clarifying which are the dynamics and the drivers that guide the process towards sustainability. Digital simulations on protein production will help to reach the EU Farm to Fork objectives and decision-analysis modelling to maximize impact and reduce risk in intervention planning. PROVISION will devote attention to shifting consumer needs, expectations and trust, by taking into account the cultural aspects and national dietary advice in the EU. Consumers will be the protagonists of an intense public engagement programme that will help us to understand how to best influence diet change and protein consumption.

Žadatel: ENEA (Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile)

Požadovaný rozpočet: 2.779.750 EUR

Water heated by sun to 50-70°C is an inexhaustible source of energy. Calculations have shown that when the value of COP of the Heat Pump (HP) should be greater than 4, we can create the electric power plant using the low-potential heat (sun warmed water, geothermal, industry) for electricity generation. The electric power plant including new HP instead of steam condenser will reduce the amount fuel burned by 70% for same electricity producing, simultaneously reducing by 70% the CO2 emission and eliminate the environment thermal pollution. This project is initiated to working-out the new generation of the HPs, which operate on the base of Pressure Gradient Elastic Waves (PGEW) phenomenon. PGEWs arise in gases subjected to a pressure gradient (rotation) with the presence of the starting density fluctuations (sound). The arising of PGEWs in a volume is accompanied with heat transfer, which manifests itself in the heating of the wall bounding the high-pressure zone and in the cooling of low-pressure zone. The proposed HP has the highest degree of novelty (Patent US 9670938 B2; EUR 13803934.2). In 2015 and 2020-2022, the research was funded from the Ministry of Energy of Israel.

Žadatel: PG Wave Ltd

Požadovaný rozpočet: 998.418,33 EUR

The main goal of INVECO is to connect less connected moderate and emerging innovation ecosystems such as Portugal, Turkey, Serbia, Romania, Czechia, and Bulgaria with innovation leader ecosystems such as Switzerland, Austria, and Ireland, thus enhancing the development of high-tech, high-added-value-generating technology companies. We will work to improve our with analysis and mapping of the environment, as well as all ecosystem enablers and relevant stakeholders, for innovation, startups, and impact investing, in order to develop recommendations for policy framework improvement in countries with less connected innovation ecosystems. Developing a dependable and scalable technology infrastructure that will enable the efficient delivery of services and provide a web-based digital communication/connection platform. Our project has strategic target stakeholders as Policy makers/ Governments, Investors, Corporates, Growth Stage Start-ups. Supporting the commercialization and investment readiness of both the supply and demand sides, namely technology providers (start-ups) and technology funders / buyers (VCs, impact investors, governments, and corporations), as well as building the capacity of the ecosystem's stakeholders through training, networking, legal support, awareness raising, and the development of a partnership framework.

Žadatel: ECO Danismanlik Egitim Ticaret Ltd Sti