Organic luminescent radicals (OLRs) are quite rare emitters demonstrating doublet-doublet fluorescence and having a number of advantages towards practical applications in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), ratiometric fluorescence sensors and anti-counterfeiting labelling. The doublet-doublet fluorescence by OLRs is a spin-allowed process similarly to the common singlet-singlet fluorescence. But in contrast to closed-shell molecules for which “bright” excited singlet states are higher in energy than “dark” triplet states, the doublet excited states of OLRs are always lower in energy than the quartet states. That is why the theoretical limit for internal quantum efficiency of OLR-based OLEDs is expected to be 100% and why the quartet excited states in general have not been considered for OLRs. However, recent experimental studies indicate that quartet states of OLR emitters indeed can be populated in OLEDs so reducing their efficiency. Thus, in the current project I aim to develop general theory and principles of OLRs in order to involve quartet states into the emission process and to boost the efficiency of OLEDs beyond state-of-art results. Another challenge for this project is design of OLRs for sensor applications. Most of OLRs possess low-lying first excited doublet state that makes them perfect anti-Kasha emitters for which emission occurs from higher excited states, something that is rare for closed-shell systems but required for ratiometric fluorescence sensors. In this project I aim to extend the principles of anti-Kasha emission for OLRs to make a breakthrough in state-of-art ratiometric detection of radicals. Finally, the special kind of sensing called two-step anti-counterfeiting labelling will be developed in this project based on photoresponsive aromatic carbonyls. These compounds are environment friendly, they can easily generate stable OLRs upon UV irradiation that I will utilize for innovative anti-counterfeiting application.

"Linköping University (LiU) has been taking part in the Erasmus programme even before Sweden was part of the EU. LiU's goal is to have wide-spread participation in the programme and is active in the work of broadly promoting the mobility opportunities for more students, staff and teachers to take advantage of the benefits from Erasmus+.Mobilities for studies and placement (180 participants) as well as mobilities for staff and teachers (39 participants) were included in this project. During this project, we have continued to focus on simplification of the Erasmus+ administration, which is one of the main reasons why the number of participants is a bit lower than anticipated. During the previous project, we administered scholarships with two different grant levels per group of countries as well as up to three different exchange rates simultaneously. This caused unfairness to the students, wherefore we topped-up the ""old"" grant levels to match the ""new"" with funding from Organisational Support. It also proved to be difficult for students to understand, therefore there was a lack of transparency. To make the process simpler and fairer, we decided to not use up the funding in call 2018 simultaneously as we received funding for call 2019, thus, a fairly large number of the planned mobilities fell under either call 2017 or call 2019. The true number, however, has not decreased.LiU has also focused on using the experience of Erasmus+ and other exchange alumni to a great extent to learn more about the real experience of students and staff. We have hired Erasmus alumni with extra funding made available by the NA to inspire peers, look over the information channels, and help to develop new ways of reaching out to students.The Erasmus+ programme continuously contributes to enhanced language skills, critical thinking and new perspectives of learning and ideas. We also see that participants increase their ability to better know their strengths and weaknesses as well as being able to adapt and act in new situations; which are important qualities in an ever-changing time and an important feature that employers lvalue, making mobile students attractive on the labor market, national and abroad. Mobile students also to a great extent see the value of cultural differences, also important in a global labor market.Inbound exchange students and staff contribute to internationalisation at home for those who, for different reasons, chose not to participate in mobility, or as inspiration to those who are planning a mobility period in the future.Inbound and outbound mobility for staff has proven to be of excellent value to monitor and evaluate inter-institutional agreements. Personal meetings with colleagues at partner institutions create an even better understanding of each other's processes, which can benefit mobile students and help lessen the number of mid-course drop-outs. Staff mobility for teaching is important to learn, understand and develop different teaching methods and also help reinforce the cooperation between LiU and its partners.LiU continues to develop a close relationship with strategic partners such as universities within the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) network, with the aim to increase mobility for students, researchers, teachers and staff."

In order to address the challenge of undernourishment we need to understand better how plants grow, how they interact with their environment, and how to increase plants’ productivity. During the past decades important progress has been made in plant biology due to the development of genetic and genomic tools. Still many questions remain unanswered highlighting the need for the development of complementary technologies to genetic methods. Plants’ growth and productivity are determined by photosynthesis and the way its products, such as sucrose, are distributed and utilized during the growth and development of the plant. The goal of Trans-Plant is the development of a complementary technology based on organic bioelectronics that will allow in-vivo sucrose monitoring in the vascular tissue of the plant from source to sink and give new insight to the transport mechanism of sucrose. This project will focus on interfacing organic bioelectronics with plants and developing the devices in-vivo where the plant’s complex structure consists of an integral part of the device. It will open up new possibilities for monitoring and controlling physiology in plants and result in the development of a state of the art device concept and technique for organic bioelectronics and plant science. During the fellowship Eleni Stavrinidou will be trained to develop a unique set of expertise, she will gain new knowledge and skills in more than one discipline, she will acquire transferable skills and she will expand her scientific and industrial network through collaborations and meetings. Therefore this fellowship will accelerate her scientific and professional development.

The new global temperature goal calls for reliable quantification of present and future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including climate feedbacks. Non-CO2 GHGs, with methane (CH4) being the most important, represent a large but highly uncertain component in global GHG budget. Lakes are among the largest natural sources of CH4 but our understanding of lake CH4 fluxes is rudimentary. Lake emissions are not yet routinely monitored, and coherent, spatially representative, long-term datasets are rare which hamper accurate flux estimates and predictions. METLAKE aims to improve our ability to quantify and predict lake CH4 emissions. Major goals include: (1) the development of robust validated predictive models suitable for use at the lake rich northern latitudes where large climate changes are anticipated in the near future, (2) the testing of the idea that appropriate consideration of spatiotemporal scaling can greatly facilitate generation of accurate yet simple predictive models, (3) to reveal and quantify detailed flux regulation patterns including spatiotemporal interactions and response times to environmental change, and (4) to pioneer novel use of sensor networks and near ground remote sensing with a new hyperspectral CH4 camera suitable for large-scale high resolution CH4 measurements. Extensive field work based on optimized state-of-the-art approaches will generate multi-scale and multi-system data, supplemented by experiments, and evaluated by data analyses and modelling approaches targeting effects of scaling on model performance. Altogether, METLAKE will advance our understanding of one of the largest natural CH4 sources, and provide us with systematic tools to predict future lake emissions. Such quantification of feedbacks on natural GHG emissions is required to move beyond state-of-the-art regarding global GHG budgets and to estimate the mitigation efforts needed to reach global climate goals.