Networks for communication, transportation, finance and energy form the backbone of modern society. Reliable and efficient network infrastructures are of enormous economic and social value, and their importance will only increase in the coming years. A generation of highly skilled networks researchers is therefore urgently needed. These researchers should have a deep understanding of methods to optimize network performance, to control processes running on networks, and to predict how these processes will evolve over time. Our doctoral program will train 14 such researchers, who will gain the necessary scientific knowledge and professional skills for a successful career inside and outside academia, and who will contribute to the challenges posed by complex networks, by performing top-level research in an international environment. The duration of our program is 66 months, at the beginning of which two calls will be opened to appoint the 14 ESRs. They will obtain their PhD degree after 4 years’ training, the nominal duration in the Netherlands. Main objectives. The main objectives of the NETWORKS doctoral program are: - To bring together expertise from two different disciplines, namely mathematics and computer science, and train our ESRs by performing world-class research in, and at the interface between, these disciplines. - To attract talented young researchers and offer them the best possible training and career perspectives. The extensive training program developed by NETWORKS includes scientific training, a broad range of key professional skills, and personal development. - To stimulate transnational and intersectoral mobility and knowledge transfer. NETWORKS will attract young researchers from outside the Netherlands. Our international network will provide them with excellent additional opportunities for transnational mobility. Intersectoral mobility and knowledge transfer are ensured through secondments at industrial and other non-academic partners.

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Climate crisis and unsustainable development increasingly threaten Europe’s tangible cultural heritage (CH), yet environmentally hazardous chemicals persist in CH conservation practice. The Sustainable Development Goals of the EU’s Green Deal vision call for change in CH conservation, but cannot be implemented without effective and affordable green alternatives. Soiling and deposition of carbon-based contaminants (CBC) such as fine particulate pollution, smoke and vandalism all increasingly present formidable challenges to conservators, and are an emerging threat to CH because of the inherent vulnerability of CH surfaces created with unconventional materials and studio practices. Existing CH cleaning methods require toxic solvents, physical contact and water, which can damage many sensitive CH materials, and conservators, equipped with only conventional means, now encounter fragile and untreatable CH where soiling cannot be removed at all. MOXY aims to redefine the paradigm in cleaning methodology towards an eco-conscious approach by creating a transformative green, non-contact technology based on atomic oxygen (AO) to selectively remove CBCs from surfaces that are otherwise untreatable. AO cleaning methodology is a selective, non-mechanical and liquid-free cleaning action, without health or environmental risks, residues or waste. By leveraging a sophisticated yet simple technology, MOXY will enable practitioners to achieve unprecedented results that are green, safer and more effective. To achieve its goals, MOXY will bring together expertise from plasma physics, conservation science, sustainability science, and conservators to conduct a novel investigation of the physical and chemical aspects of AO generation and flux to develop a proof-of-concept AO system, test the viability of AO technology for diverse CH materials, and roadmap AO innovation, to propel AO technology to the bench practice in CH conservation and beyond, with its full potential yet to be realized.