PRIVIDEMA represents an industry-driven initiative to advance privacy-preserving technologies in the application areas of cyber threat intelligence, data protection, and identity management. This multifaceted project operates across various research and innovation maturity levels, with the overarching goal of introducing more robust, user-friendly and scalable privacy and security technologies for the European ecosystem. Key components of PRIVIDEMA include: 1. Development of open-source tools, hosting networking events, and initiation of capacity-building efforts to democratize technology access and empower cybersecurity professionals. 2. Advancement of homomorphic encryption capabilities, implementation of hardware acceleration methods, and improvement of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) usability. 3. Creation and demonstration of a prototype European identity wallet featuring issuer and relaying party functionalities. 4. Development and demonstration of a prototype European privacy-preserving cyber threat data processing system, with real-world testing and validation of innovative technologies. Aligned with the objectives of Horizon Europe, PRIVIDEMA actively contributes to increased cybersecurity, data and network protection, and the establishment of robust digital infrastructures. The project distinguishes itself through its commitment to supporting SMEs as well as promoting open-source development, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and privacy-by-design principles. The solution-oriented approach positions PRIVIDEMA as a pivotal force in advancing cyber-resilient digitalization and the data economy in Europe. PRIVIDEMA's connection to various European strategic initiatives underscores its relevance, with a clear emphasis on real-world applications, innovation beyond the state-of-the-art, and a strategic trajectory toward market-ready solutions.

Basic biology as well as applied fields such as agrobiology, biomedicine or biotechnology are undergoing a revolution driven by the realisation that microorganisms impact virtually all biological processes. Microorganisms associated with complex organisms are no longer considered passive passengers but active crews that continuously interact with their host to shape a wide range of biological functions that play a key role in major basic and applied processes. The application of the newest high throughput molecular technologies to address such interplay has given rise to the novel field of hologenomics, which entails the joint analysis of host genomes and microbial metagenomes with the aim of understanding the impact of host-microbiota interactions in basic and applied biological processes. The DN HoloGen has been conceived to lead the development and practical implementation of hologenomics in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of host-microbiota interactions, and their impact in both basic and applied areas with direct relevance to many of the global societal challenges. We propose to form an unprecedented multidisciplinary and scientifically sound training network by bringing together top researchers with theoretical knowledge on symbiosis biology, microbial ecology, animal evolution, animal production and biomedicine, as well as practical expertise in large- scale (meta)genomics, DNA sequence analysis, metabolomics, computational biology and biological systems modelling. We anticipate that the research results will be (i) of academic relevance through development of new analytical frameworks and understandings of host-microbiome interactions, (ii) of direct relevance to the portfolios of the industrial partners, and (iii) through these portfolios stand to benefit the European Research and Innovation community.

This project concerns multiplicative number theory and its interplay with the emerging topic of additive combinatorics. Multiplicative number theory is an area of number theory concerned with the study of prime numbers and multiplicative functions. One of the most important unsolved questions in this area and in all of number theory is the twin prime conjecture, asserting that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers differing by two. In 1965, Chowla formulated an influential conjecture that can be viewed as an approximation to the twin prime conjecture. Chowla’s conjecture predicts that the prime factorisations of consecutive integers behave independently of each other. This conjecture captures the key difficulty in the twin prime conjecture, but yet there has been a lot of recent progress on Chowla’s conjecture by the applicant and others. The aim of this project is to make substantial progress on Chowla’s conjecture, as well as on other key questions in multiplicative number theory, using a mixture of methods from analytic number theory and additive combinatorics, as well as higher order Fourier analysis, a theory recently developed by Green and Tao. Connections between Chowla’s conjecture and questions in additive combinatorics and higher order Fourier analysis have recently been discovered in works of the applicant and others, and the proposed research aims at exploiting these connections to make substantial progress on Chowla’s conjecture. The project also involves several other problems of interest in number theory, such as the Hardy—Littlewood conjecture on average and the Hasse principle for almost all surfaces of a certain type.

INSIDE-HEART brings together universities, companies and hospitals from countries (Italy, Finland, France, Israel, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden) with the main scope of establishing a multi-disciplinary network to tackle the design and the early-phase validation of digital biomarkers, specifically targeting the diagnosis of supraventricular arrhythmias (SVAs) and their associated potential for adverse risk assessment, via the joint combination of signal processing, artificial intelligence and non-clinical devices. This will be achieved by performing excellent research through a unique doctoral training “without walls” among field-expert academic, industrial and clinical entities. The composite nature of the INSIDE-HEART network ensures a highly qualified training and research infrastructure for the specific goal, which aims to generate a new profile of researcher with multi-sectoral expertise able to fill the existing gap, i.e., the absence of digital biomarkers for SVAs reliably estimated with non-clinical devices, taking into account basic research, clinical needs and business interests. Research and training are designed to consider relevant aspects such as public concern of private data management, gender and ethics related to SVAs, all according to Responsible Research & Innovation principles and Open Science practices. All activities in INSIDE-HEART are designed to pursue innovation in three domains: i) Educational domain – by implementing a new multi-sectoral paradigm of PhD training to shape modern professional researchers with cross-competencies in the field, and able to accelerate the translation from basic science to market and clinics; ii) Basic science domain - by producing new knowledge about digital biomarkers by means of a multi-sectoral approach to explore the complex aspects related to SVAs; and iii) Technological domain – by developing new data-driven and model-based methodologies to compute digital biomarkers and support the clinical decision.

RESIST will strengthen the resilience and accelerate the transformation and increase adaptive capacity of 12 climate-vulnerable EU regions, implementing 4 large-scale demonstrators of resilient innovations for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) with quintuple-helix partnerships (including 1 in a less developed region) and promote transfer of know-how and innovative solutions to 8 twin regions (of which 4 less developed regions) through both physical mutual-learning activities and innovative immersive digital twins. The consortium will engage EU associations, CCA research groups, scientific experts, social engagement and communication institutions, innovation agencies and 1 Venture Capital Fund to co-create and validate innovative solutions, raise awareness, leverage citizens participation and promote sustainable exploitation of results towards the markets. RESIST will contribute to the EU agenda on CCA, through intervention in 3 main areas: Promote and demonstrate an innovative, more participative approach to resilience and CC adaptation in 4 demonstrator and 8 twinning regions (including 5 less developed regions in total) demonstrating >12 new solution lines, accelerating regional resilience and helping reach the adaptation-mission objectives of ‘building resilience and upscaling solutions through 100 demonstrators and accelerating the transition in 200 pilot regions and communities by 2030’ reaching already 4% and 6% of these aims by 2027, with 4 demonstrators and involvement of 12 regions Co-design and contribute to the development of new regional measures, policy instruments and social and technological solutions in 12 regions involving 22m citizens, increasing awareness/resilience by 10% and levels of green investments by 20%, reducing economic losses due to natural hazards such as floods by 14% and climate protection gap by 50%; Reduce time-to-market/risk for >100 new CCA Solutions from providers across Europe, offering them scale-up for their products.