Dr Jaka Tušek, Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Non-linear Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, and his research group have been awarded funding for two projects under the Horizon Europe – The European Innovation Council (EIC) 2023 call for proposals[1]: SMACool, which aims to develop a functional air conditioners based on elastocaloric technology, and the FROSTBIT project, which has the main objective of developing the first operational refrigerator based on a completely new barocaloric technology in a regenerative chiller.