School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

This 3-year project funded under the European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking aims to secure Europe's industrial leadership in 5G and 6G by developing a comprehensive and modular facility for the European experimentation ecosystem. 6G-Sandbox will support technology and research validation for the coming decade. It will also introduce trial networks, which are fully configurable, manageable, and controlled end-to-end networks that integrate both digital and physical nodes. Contact: Dmitry Zelenchuk

School of Biological Sciences

BIOFIN-EU aims to establish a comprehensive framework and technology that fosters the necessary conditions for nature-positive investments. The goal is to minimise transaction and reporting costs associated with finance that supports the protection and restoration of biodiversity. Queen’s leads the work on use-cases, focus groups and Learning site experiments. Contact: Professor Paul Brereton.

School of Biological Sciences

BioToxDoc doctoral training programme develops novel control, mitigation and risk assessment methods for biotoxins. Queen’s contribute to the development of advanced technology for early detection and monitoring of biotoxins. We supervise one PhD to develop rapid, easy to use and cost-effective tests for biotoxins (tropane-alkaloids). Contact: Dr Cuong Cao.

School of Biological Sciences

BullNet is a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network focused on understanding and improving bull fertility. Queen’s supervises one PhD working on the semen microbiome and its relationship to its fertility. We also lead the study of the impact of processing conditions on the sperm fertility. Contact: Professor Sharon Huws.

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

The 3-year CONVERGE project will develop an innovative toolset consisting of vision-aided antennas and base stations, a vision-radio simulator and 3D environment modeller, as well as machine learning algorithms for multimodal data, including communications signals and video streams. This toolset will be deployed into 7 RIs mostly aligned with the ESFRI SLICES-RI and improve their competitiveness. Contact: Okan Yurduseven

School of Natural and Built Environment

EmpowerUs is a three-year project that is working to empower coastal communities to transition towards more resilient, inclusive and sustainable coastal development.  Queen’s is one of 16 partners from 9 countries.  Professor Wesley Flannery is leading on establishing 6 Transition Coastal Labs (TCLs) in various coastal communities across Europe. The TCLs will act as important sites for developing new knowledge through creative processes that actively involve communities.

School of Biological Sciences

ENVIRANT advances, consolidates and disseminates research and knowledge on the environmental occurrence and ecological impact of anthelmintic drugs administered to livestock. The project will propose more sustainable practices and methods to minimize their use in the control of helminth infections. Contact: Professor Eric Morgan.

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

ERDERA is a 7 year Cluster 1 project that aims to transform the landscape of rare disease research across Europe and to deliver significant health benefits to the estimated over 30 million people in Europe affected by rare diseases through improved prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. It is the largest co-funded partnership in the field of rare disease research and innovation. Contact: Professor Amy Jayne McKnight.

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

EUthyroid2 is a 4 year Cluster 1 project that aims to find best practice models for accessing young people to improve awareness of their iodine status. It involves implementation studies to increase iodine-related awareness in the secondary school setting (targeting 13-17 year old pupils); and community-based randomised controlled trials in the higher education setting (targeting 18-24 year old females). For more details, see the Euthyroid2 press release. Contact: Professor Jayne Woodside

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

EVEREST is a 4 year MSCA Staff Exchanges project that aims to enhance EU capability and knowledge-sharing in Extracellular Vesicle (EV) research & commercialisation. EVs are released by cells and carry proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids, making them key vehicles for cell-to-cell communication. EVEREST will focus on standardising methods for isolating and characterising these vesicles, facilitating their use in non-invasive diagnostics and personalised therapies to improve the precision and effectiveness of treatments for complex diseases. Contact: Dr Anna Krasnodemskaya.

School of Biological Sciences

FoodSafeR aims to transform food safety in Europe and internationally by hosting a community of professionals who can identify and manage emerging risks.  The project provides a secure digital platform that centralises access to trustworthy information, available data, and innovative tools, methods, and training resources. Queen’s main role is to look at the emergence of chemical risks in 4 case studies. Contact: Dr Paul Williams.

School of Mathematics & Physics

Neutron stars, the dense remnants of supernovae, are natural laboratories for studying extreme physics, with their mergers producing kilonovae—brief, luminous events that reveal insights into dense matter and heavy element formation. HEAVYMETAL, and ERC Synergy Grant brings together experts across multiple disciplines to study kilonovae, focusing on merger outflows, element abundances, and ejecta structures. This work aims to trace nucleosynthesis pathways, unravel the physics of dense matter, and understand the role of neutron star mergers in creating the universe's heaviest elements. Contact: Stuart Sim

HIVEMIND is a 3-year project focused on enhancing responsible and human-centric software engineering by integrating AI and data technologies to accelerate the entire software development lifecycle. It will introduce an adaptive multi-agent framework powered by large language models (LLMs), enabling collaboration between human developers and AI agents specialized through fine-tuning, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and human-in-the-loop learning. Contact: Mehrdad Dianati

School of Biological Sciences

HOLiFOOD aims to improve the integrated food safety risk analysis (RA) framework in Europe to support the early detection of food risks in the food chain for a safe and sustainable food system. We develop targeted methods for on-site testing of chemical hazards. Contact: Dr Cuong Cao.

School of Nursing & Midwifery

iCARE4CVD is a 4-year Innovative Health Initative project that aims to develop innovative tools and pathways that will aid the early diagnosis, accurate risk stratification, and treatment response across the spectrum of cardiovascular disease. Biomarkers and data will inform AI generated decision support tools for personalized selfcare. The project will examine cost-effectiveness, implementation into clinical practice and cross-country legislation. Contact: Dr Loreena Hill.

School of Nursing & Midwifery

In-Touch is a 5 year Cluster 1 project which seeks to improve the care and quality of life for those with advanced dementia living in care homes. The project will recruit 56 care homes across seven European countries and the results aim to create major change in the way that care for people with advanced dementia, in the palliative phase of their illness, is provided across Europe.  Contact: Professor Kevin Brazil

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

I-SCREEN is a 4 year EIC Pathfinder project that will pioneer an AI-based programme to identify and monitor age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at its earliest stages. Utilising the precision of AI, the project aims to revolutionise AMD care by introducing a unique AI-powered platform compatible with optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanners found in high-street optometry practices. This approach will empower Primary Care Optometrists to diagnosis AMD earlier and facilitate more timely treatment by efficient referral to secondary care. Contact: Professor Ruth Hogg.

School of Natural and Built Environment

MarinePlan is a three-year project which aims to co-develop a Decision Support System (DSS) for ecosystem-based maritime spatial planning (EB-MSP).  The project will apply the DSS together with best practice guidance, to enhance the design and effectiveness of spatial conservation and restoration measures for marine biodiversity in European Seas.  Queen’s is one of 18 partners from 12 countries and Professor Wesley Flannery is leading on policy advice and stakeholder participation.

School of Natural and Built Environment

The ONDEP project is a 5 ½ Yr project whose aim is to deploy a pilot 2 MW wave energy farm in the surfing hub of Peniche, Portugal featuring four WaveRoller® units.  The pilot wave farm will be installed and connected to the grid and will continue generating electricity for an additional eight years after the project’s official end. ONDEP is led by Queen’s and the project includes 14 partners from 9 countries across Europe.  Dr Pal Schmitt, the project coordinator oversees wave energy related activities and Professors Su Taylor and Mohammed Sonebi manage the civil engineering aspects related to sustainable concrete foundations for the WaveRoller®

School of Natural and Built Environment

PERMAGOV is a 4 year project which sets out to improve EU marine governance so that it can better meet the goals and objectives established in the European Green Deal. Queen's is one of 15 partners from 10 countries and Professor Wesley Flannery is leading on the analysis of institutional barriers to improved marine policy performance and will also undertake a case study of floating wind energy in the Celtic Sea. 

School of Biological Sciences

Re-Livestock aims to understand and mobilize adoption of innovative practices to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of livestock farming. These measures are applied cross-scale (animal, herd/farm, sector and region). Queen’s contributes to the development of solutions to make livestock feeding carbon-neutral and co-create a transition roadmap. Contact: Dr Katerina Theodoridou.

School of Biological Sciences

SPARC aims to develop a European, multi-actor Community of Practice of sustainable worm control strategies in ruminants to curb anthelmintic resistance and aid in the green transition of European agriculture. Queen’s leads the identification of needs, good practices, stimulating measures. Contact: Professor Eric Morgan.

School of Biological Sciences

STEP-UP delivers a platform of measures to support European policy makers with science-based evidence on the impacts of European Livestock Production Systems (ELPS) on the food and wider ecosystem. Queen's University (IGFS) leads the development of new indicators measuring the social, economic, and environmental impact and externalities of different ELPS. Contact: Professor Nigel Scollan.

School of Biological Sciences

TRIDENT identifies the generic disturbances that may arise for mining each of the three different major seafloor mineral deposit types: polymetallic nodules, ferromanganese crusts, and polymetallic sulphides. It devises the technologies, methodologies, and systems to monitor, and test them in situ in a deep-sea environment. Queen’s contributes at the development of reliable environmental baselines to assess and mitigate the impacts of deep-sea mining. We validates the protocol and provide environmental recommendations. Contact: Dr Patrick Collins.

School of Biological Sciences

TITAN is a 4-year project that provides a platform for the development of a wide range of innovations to make food systems transparent, fair, healthy, and  environmentally friendly. Queen’s leads a WP "Pilots for health" on the theme of improved food choices. Contact: Professor Paul Brereton.

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

UniMaaS aims to address critical challenges in adopting Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) by developing a platform that leverages advanced digital technologies like cloud computing, digital twins, and AI to provide flexible, decentralized manufacturing resources for European SMEs and industries. This platform, demonstrated through four industrial pilots, will integrate data modelling, resource modelling, and decision-making suites to enhance customization, circularity, sustainability, predictive maintenance, and cost efficiency across the manufacturing life cycle. Contact: Nikolaos Athanasopoulos