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Evaluation results - ERC Synergy Grant 2024 call

The results of the 2024 European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant call (call deadline 15 November 2023) were published. Synergy grant projects consist of minimum two to maximum four Principal Investigators (PIs) and their teams that jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone. In total 548 proposals were submitted for this call of which 57 projects with 201 PIs received a Synergy grant including one researcher based at a Flemish host institution: Sara Bals (Universiteit Antwerpen) is involved in the project ‘CHIRAL-PRO - Handshake Complexes of Chiral Nanoparticles and Proteins’. In the ERCEA news article the list of selected projects and several other examples of projects are highlighted.

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Independent expert report on R&I Challenges for System Transition in Energy & Mobility

The event will see the launch of the independent expert report ‘Addressing European Research and Innovation Challenges for System Transitions in Energy and Mobility’. This reflection paper provides a vision, recommendations and actions for how EU R&I policy in the areas of clean energy and mobility should go about adapting to the challenges the EU now faces. The event will explore the paper’s suggestions and consider how to best to translate them from lofty ambitions to real actions. DG Research and Innovation (DG R&I) Deputy Director-General Joanna Drake will open the event. The report will then be presented by one of the co-authors of the report, Pierpaolo Cazzola (Co-Director, ITS-Davis European Transport and Energy Research Centre, University of California, Davis). This will be followed by a panel discussion, moderated by DG R&I ‘Clean Planet’ Director Rosalinde van der Vlies. Four high-level speakers will provide their views and thoughts on the paper, and present their thoughts on the challenges and possible future priorities for R&I in clean energy and mobility. The panellists are: Floor Alkemade (Full Professor and Chair of Economics and Governance of Technological Innovation at Eindhoven University of Technology; member of the Commission expert group on the Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation [ESIR]) Frank W. Geels (Eddie Davies Professor of Sustainability Transitions, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester) (co-author of the reflection paper) Marc Lemaître (Director-General, DG R&I) Henriette Spyra (Director General Innovation & Technology, Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Mobility, Innovation & Technology) Please click on the event page for more information: Online event: Clean energy and mobility R&I: Shaping the future In order to attend the event, you will need to register for the research and innovation community platform. On the day of the event, you will be able to access a livestream on the event. The report will also be made available there once published.  

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ROOT - Rolling Out OSNMA for the secure synchronization of Telecom networks

The ROOT project obtained funding under Horizon 2020 topic ‘EGNSS applications fostering societal resilience and protecting the environment’. The project, which ran from November 2020 to July 2022,  aimed to demonstrate the benefit of Galileo OSNMA signal to increase the robustness of critical telecom infrastructures.

The Flanders-based company Septentrio contributed substantially to completing this objective together with the other ROOT partners. The results of the project partially close a gap in the security of telecommunication networks dependent on satellite-derived time, with indirect benefits in curbing illegal attempts to disrupt network services.