PATH is intended to promote a collaborative researches focused in the development of high density plasma sources implemented with the Exchange of staff personnel between the partners of the network. The research will also address transfer of knowledge and training of the researchers in the specific field of plasma sources and its applications in the telecommunication sector. High density plasma sources find large number of industrial applications from material treatment to Telecommunication. Overcoming the density limit of current source will open new frontier in several technological field. PATH aims at cross linking different competences to study and develop prototype of plasma sources and plasma antenna based on hybrid technologies based on Radiofrequency and Hollow cathode technologies. A Gaseous Plasma Antenna (GPA) is a plasma discharge confined in a dielectric tube that uses partially or fully ionized gas to generate and receive electromagnetic waves; GPAs are virtually “transparent” above the plas

In 2020 Europe went through a very significant economic and social crisis, namely the response to the disease of Coronavirus. Over 200 million European citizens were obliged to observe restrictive measures, in some cases lock down measures, in order for governments and local authorities of the Member States of the European Union to address and limit the problem of the spread of the virus. Through this situation a number of problems emerged, one of which relates to the management of building utilities under such conditions. Specifically, in a very few days most of the activity of the European Economy shifted from the office environment to homes, leading to several problems in relation to with the completeness and integrity of utilities such as power outages, water shortage and insufficient internet connection. The initiative entitled Development of Utilities Management Platform for the case of Quarantine and Lockdown - eUMaP aims to implement all those activities that will lead to the development of an open platform through which local authorities will be able to plan and manage the demand and supply of building utilities in case of quarantine or lock down. The platform will be developed through a Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) program. eUMaP platform will be based on the rational of earth observation, and the recording of the required network information in open BIM platforms of five European capital cities (Rome, Berlin, Athens, Vilnius, Nicosia). The platform will be piloted in study areas with the aim of optimizing it and delivering it as an open platform upon completion of the program.

PULSE pursues the ambitious goal of defining a new technological horizon for implementing reconfigurable electromagnetic devices by unifying the research domains of metasurfaces with the plasma physics. The advantages retuned by plasma when combined with metasurfaces are multiple: first, plasma allows overcoming the main limitations of conventional reconfigurability strategies and achieving unprecedented tunability rate at high frequencies. Additionally, plasma enables conceptually new scenarios in which the individual properties of the meta-atoms, and even their shape/size, can be time-modulated. The project, thus, is aimed to fully merging two different research fields for establishing a radically new technology (plasma metadevices) offering unprecedented possibilities. To address this vision, several science-to-technology breakthroughs are proposed, including tunable lenses for antennas, non-reciprocal devices in waveguide technology and four-dimensional (4D) devices, in which the variation of the shape over the time becomes an additional degree of freedom to achieve new effects at the fundamental level. PULSE's technological goals are beyond the state-of-the-art and outside any scientific and technological roadmap of the involved scientific communities. In addition, it is expected that PULSE will also have a dramatic economic and society impact. The unprecedented functionalities of the plasma-based metadevices, in fact, can address the increasingly stringent requirements of the next-generation telecommunication systems. To achieve PULSE's ambitious scopes, the Consortium has been built for success in terms of industry and academic excellence. We have brought together a Consortium with a true European dimension, with eigth beneficiaries from Italy, Spain, Finland, Greece and Belgium. Our expertise is interdisciplinary, complementary and characterized by appropriateness of equipment in all the involved scientific and technological domains.

As the ongoing robotic exploration to Mars has made some tantalising discoveries, the next major step should be retrieving samples from the Martian surface, so they can be investigated in detail in terrestrial laboratories. However, considering the huge costs associated to suh missions, an in-situ dating of rock samples is a more cost-effective approach. Accurate estimation of absolute ages is required in order to understand Mars surface and atmosphere evolutionary processes. Furthermore knowledge on occurrence and time frequency of such processes allow a hazard evaluation for locations/areas, essential for future deployments, missions and eventually humans on Mars. However, a chronology for recent events on Mars is problematic, as uncertainties associated with current methodology (crater counting) are comparable to the younger ages obtained (~ 1 Million years). IN-TIME project addresses the technological and economic viability of a leading-edge instrument for dating of Mars’ surface: a miniaturized Luminescence dating instrument for in-situ examination. Thanks to the development of its innovative technology, and in addition to planetary exploration application, it will also address Earth's field applications as a light and portable dating instrument in geology and archaeology as well as a risk assessment tool for accident and emergency dosimetry and nuclear mass-casualty events.