GENESIS, backed by Horizon Europe, aims to make semiconductor manufacturing sustainable, aligning with the European Green Deal, by minimizing environmental impact with eco-friendly innovations. [Objectives] GENESIS aims to replace harmful materials with safer options, improve waste management, and enhance the use and recyclability of scarce materials. [Innovations] GENESIS introduces innovations in three key areas: • Innovative materials: PFAS-free polymer and eco-friendly gas alternatives complying with EU regulations. • Waste & emissions monitoring: Cutting-edge sensors detect hazardous substances for efficient aqueous and gas waste elimination, reducing environmental and health risks. • Scarce material management: New integration technologies optimize material usage and initiate recycling of scarce materials like Gallium, Niobium, and silicon carbide. [Methodology] GENESIS employs four technical work packages to research sustainable material substitution, emission reduction, and resource management. This modular approach promotes scalability and integration with existing processes, fostering a circular economy in the semiconductor sector. Supervised by management work packages, it quantifies environmental efficiency and engages in dissemination to promote European technological achievements [Outcomes] The project targets a 50% cut in hazardous materials, 30% decrease in emissions and waste, and improved scarce material recyclability, boosting EU semiconductor sustainability and global competitiveness. [Impact] GENESIS supports EU's tech sovereignty and resilience through accurate monitoring and sustainable practices. It positions Europe as a leader in sustainable semiconductor tech, setting new standards for impact-oriented communication and dissemination.

The project will use a set of innovative techniques to study the two major events that precede classical, uniformitarian geology. We will search for crystallised remnants of the primordial terrestrial magma ocean and examine the consequences of our observations for mantle dynamics. Crystallisation of the dominant lower mantle phase, bridgmanite, imparts a Mg and Si isotopic fingerprint to cumulates and evolving liquid of the magma ocean. Identifying the relicts of these small but distinctive fractionations requires application of our bespoke, high precision analytical protocols. As an integral part of this work, we will undertake coupled first principles calculations and petrological experiments to provide a benchmark documentation of the isotopic fractionations experienced by these two most abundant cation-forming elements in the silicate Earth. We will also date the global onset of plate tectonics from complementary geochemical signatures in two little-studied detrital minerals; Pb enrichment in continental K-feldspars and Mo depletion in rutiles from exhumed fragments of subducted crust. This work uses ground-breaking methodologies made possible by our unique, tribrid (mass-filter:collision-cell:multicollector) mass-spectrometer, Proteus. We will further develop this technology in collaboration with Thermo Fisher to produce a yet more capable next generation instrument. Our tribrid mass-spectrometer allows us to date single, detrital K-feldspars by laser ablation, using Rb-Sr internal isochrons constructed with analyses of host feldspar and sodic perthite exsolutions. Coupled with in situ Pb isotope analysis, we can calculate the U/Pb of the feldspar’s crustal protolith, which diagnostically tracks contributions from subduction.

TRILOGY establishes the interface between the emerging field of Ultrafast Chirality and its Life and Technology applications by using attosecond electronic response to light, the fastest agent in mediating electric signals, highlighted by the 2023 Physics Nobel Prize. Chirality, a dissymmetry between a molecule and its mirror image, is a synonym of life: it enables metabolic reactions and stability of proteins. Abnormal chirality is an indicator for cancer cells, brain or kidney diseases, but its accurate detection requires a combination of high precision and speed, where attosecond response to light gives clear advantage to optical methods. Standard chiro-optical methods are fundamentally limited in accuracy by a ratio of molecular size to the light wavelength. Resolving ultrafast electron dynamics we remove this limitation and break into a new regime with chiral signals outperforming standard methods by several orders of magnitude. We will take advantage of this paradigm shift in chiral measurements and develop new efficient ultrafast spectroscopies for discriminating medium sized chiral biomolecules and elucidating charge and spin transport in chiral media at the most fundamental level: the level of electrons. We overlap the training and innovation landscapes in a unique way inspired by a common drive to bring cutting-edge scientific developments to applications, enabled by strong involvement of industry. We will (i) integrate our methods with existing analytics for quick market adaptation, working with the market leader for mass spectrometry (ThermoFisher), (ii) further them to unprecedentedly high throughput enabled by laser technology (Amplitude) and state-of-the-art imaging (PIimaging). We will make a difference, motivate and inspire young minds, training a new generation of researchers at the interface of fundamental science, technology and high-tech industry to bring cutting edge research through industrial applications to the benefit of the society.