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Demonstration of a Decision Support System for a Novel Integrated Solution aimed at Water Reuse in the Oil & Gas Industry (INTEGROIL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,Spain,Spain,Türkiye,France,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Demonstration/pilot activities (H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5794442.5
EU funding (EUR): 4273536.26
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The Oil&Gas (O&G) industry is one of the 8 most water-intensive industries; indeed, it could be conceived as a water industry which delivers oil as a by-product. Specifically, by 2020 it is expected that over 500 million barrels/day of produced water (PW) and about 15 million m³/day of refinery wastewater (RW) are generated. Despite the necessity and potential beneficial impacts of reusing the water involved in extraction and refining activities, several significant barriers are hampering this opportunity. Firstly, the existent commercial water treatment technologies cannot be used directly in the O&G sector without an extensive adaptation, and they are not flexible and reliable enough to bear the complexity and variability of PW/RW composition. Moreover, there is no expertise or experience in the O&G sector in the design and operation of water treatment systems. The INTEGROIL project aims to develop and demonstrate a robust but flexible integrated solution for treating O&G water flows with variable compositions to different water qualities depending on the final reuse objective. This new solution will be readily designed with different modules each comprising innovative water treatment technologies that will be operated and optimized in an integrated manner through a novel Decision Support System, in line with 3 priorities of the EIP Water. The INTEGROIL approach ensures minimal design and operational efforts involved from the O&G end-user side and that the energy and chemical costs are kept to an absolute minimum for a certain target water quality. Its feasibility and long-term application will be assessed through demo activities in 2 real operational conditions, that will provide critical information for the commercialisation actions to be undertaken. The INTEGROIL consortium brings together 10 entities (6 SMEs) covering the full value chain, including technology developers, O&G end-users, a Sustainability Assessment firm and a professional association.

Keywords: oilandgas industry,wastewater,produced water,decision support system,real time control,ceramic ultrafiltration,reverse osmosis,advanced oxidation process,disolved air flotation,chemical packages
Towards a green and sustainable ecosystem for the EU Port of the Future (PortForward)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Germany,Germany,Norway,Belgium,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: The Port of the future (H2020-MG-2017-Two-Stages, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4994311.25
EU funding (EUR): 4994311.25
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The Port of the Future will be able to enhance sustainable development and to manage the resources to be invested and their employment for a competitive advantage. Therefore, the port of the future must be oriented to port community and have an operative strategic capability to work, in line with European purposes, on the following: - Smart, through ICT solutions, because it is important to improvement exchange of information flows between port and port community; - Interconnected with the use of a combination of different modes of transport and the integration of different technologies, because it is important to achieve better monitoring and controlling of the freight flows; - Green through the adoption of green technologies because it is important to reduce the environmental impact of port operations saving the resources. All in all, sustainable development is the present and future for ports that want to lead the industry supported by three cornerstones: Operational Excellence, Insightful Collaboration with partners through the supply chain, and top notch Safety, Health and Environmental practices. PortForward proposes a holistic approach that will lead to a smarter, greener and more sustainable port ecosystem and which will include the following features: - The introduction of an Internet of Things (IoT) concept for port assets (infrastructure, vehicles, cargo, people): - The socio-economic analysis of the port interface with its surrounding area and the port-city, as well as the rest of the logistics value chain.

Keywords: smart port,internet of things,green scheduling,logistics optimisation,environmental footprint,intelligent maintenance,virtual port,decision support
Reducing carbon footprint by thermal energy storage (TEStore)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the innovation project is to demonstrate our low-cost and efficient thermal energy storage technology, and introduce the technology to the market. Similar to how electric energy is stored in a battery, inside an EnergyNest storage, thermal energy is stored in a state-of-the-art concrete-like storage medium which is named HEATCRETE® at temperatures of 425 °C or more. In the project, the goal is to demonstrate storing energy from waste heat/power from industrial applications, surplus or curtailed wind energy, and to return the energy as either heat (process steam), electricity or a combination of both (combined heat and power – CHP). The feasibility study (phase 1) is aiming to get an agreement established with at least one commercial partner to build a first demonstrator. Our technology is unique as it is purely based on commodity materials, has a lifetime of over 50 years and can be built anywhere. Most of the components can be sourced locally which reduces the CO2 emissions due to transport. The used materials are non-hazardous and recyclable (steel, concrete and insulation material). Our solution helps to make renewable power generation economically more attractive by better utilizing wind assets through avoiding to waste or curtail energy. This will help to promote growth of renewable energy and to reduce base-load capacity provided by conventional power plants. Our approach is to store and reuse waste heat to produce electricity, process steam or district heating when the demand is not matching the supply.

Keywords: low cost and efficient thermal energy storage technology,co2 footprint reduction,energy efficiency
Moving Stories: Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East (Moving Stories)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999482.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999482.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The emergence of sectarianism forms a key element of the impact of modernization and globalization on Middle Eastern history. Yet we still lack a full picture of how new forms of sectarianism developed within the region, and in exile, and how these sectarianisms became such a powerful force in the volatile history of a decolonizing Middle East. The Moving Stories project concentrates on two areas of research. First, the project will explore the global circulation of Middle Eastern sectarianism and the variety of sectarianisms that developed in specific localities across the Middle East, the Americas, and Europe. Second, the project will focus on what it calls the ‘moving stories’, or emotive forms of storytelling, used by individuals to describe, explain, and represent sectarianism as much to themselves as to multiple publics in local, national, and international contexts. At the heart of the project lies an activist strategy of outreach aimed at identifying sources that remain even now hidden away in private, family, and communal archives. Using these sources, the project will reconstitute an ‘Archive of Sectarianism’ spanning four continents, more than half a dozen Middle Eastern and Western languages, and a wide variety of records, documents, and literary sources from the 18th to the 20th twentieth century. The project’s main objective is to write a global history of sectarianism that pays as much attention to the microhistories of individuals and communities as it does to macro narratives of political, social, and religious change. Looking beyond the Middle East, however, the project will also provide a model for understanding how other modern forms of sectarianism have developed through complex shifts in identity in which émigré and diaspora communities have often played a formative role. In this way, the project will open avenues for future research into the comparative study of sectarianism among historians, social scientists, and literary scholars.

Keywords: sectarianism,christianity,islam,middle east,diaspora
Sequential and selective patterning of enzymes in modular electrochemical based biorreactor for continuos production of pharmaceutical materials (PATTENZYME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-03-17
End date: 2024-03-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184590.72
EU funding (EUR): 184590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The pharmaceutical industry is a major industrial sector in the EU (annual sales of €130 billion). In contrast to other manufacturing sectors, the sector faces a significant challenge in its reliance on batch processes, with synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) occurring via individual reaction steps. Such an approach is not well suited to modern manufacturing methods, and reflects a gap in the state of the art in the manufacture of APIs, where flexible plug and play modular systems to manufacture the drug product from raw materials when they are needed reactors are required. PATTENZYME will address this gap by using electrochemical approaches for the targeted and selective immobilization of bio/catalysts in modular 3D printed bio/reactors. The project will utilise a multi-disciplinary approach that combine electrode preparation and characterisation, modelling of fluid flow and rates of reaction, enzyme immobilisation and characterisation with the preparation and characterisation of 3D printed flow reactors. Specifically, PATTENZYME will immobilize laccase on high surface area supports in 3D-printed reactors for the production and controlled delivery of H2O2 to spatially patterned bio/catalysts for enantio/regio selective oxidation reactions with the goal of developing a bio/reactor for the enantioselective oxidation of omeprazol sulphide to esomeprazole. The bio/catalysts will be immobilised on nanoporous gold electrodes at specific locations in the channels of the bio/reactor. Detailed modelling and characterisation studies will be performed to ascertain the optimal location of the catalysts, the architecture of the channels and the flow rate. 3D printed prototype reactors will be produced and characterised to prepare the optimal system for the oxidation of omeprazol sulphide. PATTENZYME will provide advanced training in a multidisciplinary training programme that is informed by leading expertise in the pharmaceutical sector.

Keywords: electrochemical bio,reactor,enzyme immobilisation,laccase,unspecific peroxidases,nanoporous gold npg,kinetic modelling,3d printing,flow reactors
Innovative Parabiotics for oral health (INPAROL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Malta
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-03-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-10
End date: 2023-05-09
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 148049.28
EU funding (EUR): 148049.28
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Oral diseases constitute an increased major public health burden. Alternative dental prevention and therapeutic approaches such as probiotics are gaining popularity, but partly due to these products being live bacteria their use has not gained significant popularity in dentistry. Parabiotics in appropriate doses have been shown to induce health benefits in other medical fields but have only as yet been tested sparingly for dental use. INPAROL aims at producing innovative parabiotics through ultrasound technology from mixed strains of probiotics used in commercial products. INPARAOL probiotics’ effects will be assessed by antimicrobial testing against oral pathogens (single and mixed culture) and also following exposure to varied environmental conditions. Best performing parabiotics will be subjected to biofilm assays replicating oral conditions and toxicity assays, in vitro cell monolayers and in vivo zebrafish embryo models, will be performed. Finally, the molecular changes of changes to inflammatory mediators will be monitored with complex in vitro infection models. Overall, this is the first time parabiotics for oral health application will be produced with the proposed methods which makes this research so niche. My strong clinical and microbiology research background makes INPAROL an ideal fit. I will be joined by a strong supervisory team at the University of Malta consisting of a renowned microbiologist and co-supervised by a world-leader on innovative antimicrobial approaches from the Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam. INPAROL affords an unprecedented opportunity to build on my expertise to kick-start an independent research path in oral health research.

Keywords: dentistry,probiotics,parabiotics,applied microbiology,antimicrobial testing,zebrafish embryo models,infection models,oral health,periodontal disease,caries
Empowering the Edge With the World’s Fastest Database and Sychronization Service for Mobile and IoT (ObjectBox IoT-1)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Data volumes are exploding due to IoT devices, which push cloud-based solutions and Internet bandwidth to their limits. Currently, 90% of enterprise data is sent to the cloud to be stored and processed. This number will drop to just 25% due to the limitations of cloud computing. In the future, 75% of that data will be stored and used on the device it was created on. This is called edge computing. But edge computing is still lacking the base technologies to make this shift happen. Our solution ObjectBox enables edge computing with a data storage and sychronization solution. It is designed uniquely for compatibility across devices, from sensor to server. With ObjectBox, store and sync data on the edge: super fast, independent from the cloud, in real time, and with improved data security. The need for edge computing and the trend towards it is evident. In the last years, all major IoT platform providers added an edge component to their IoT platforms, but those are not full solutions. By ObjectBox being the first to offer a lean, high-performance NoSQL solution, we are positioned to enable true edge computing and take an important share of the €26 billion edge computing market. We first target Industry 4.0, smart city and smart mobility applications, where developers use ObjectBox for edge computing on IoT devices. Our ObjectBox database is accessible for free but we plan to follow a dual licensing and SaaS model to monetize the ObjectBox synchronization features. ObjectBox Synchronization Use Case: To manage the traffic flow in a smart city effectively, all traffic lights need to know about the state of traffic and traffic lights around them to jointly effectively respond to congestion. Any change in green/red cycle length is much more effective when coordinated with other traffic lights. Therefore, the data that may lead to changes must be exchanged (synchronized) and used to make a decision that than can be distributed again.

Keywords: edge database,edge computing,cloud computing,iiot,mobile database,object oriented,database,real time computing,nosql,fast data processing,open source,lightweight footprint,small device
Sexual Minorities and Inequality of Opportunity (MINEQ)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1046000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1046000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A voluminous body of research has documented how sexual minorities experience discrimination and stigma in society. At the same time, we know surprisingly little about the extent to which these processes lead to different socioeconomic and family outcomes for sexual minorities. This project will be the first to systematically document cross-national and cross-temporal differences in the socioeconomic and family outcomes of sexual minorities and investigate the conditions under which opportunities vary. To achieve this goal, the project will innovate by exploiting information on sexual orientation that has recently been incorporated in several large-scale representative surveys. This breakthrough allows the project to answer foundational questions regarding inequality of opportunity experienced by sexual minorities, on many occasions for the first time. For instance, the project will document social mobility patterns and the partnering dynamics of sexual minority individuals. The project will also study the outcomes of minority groups that have often been overlooked, such as bisexual individuals and individuals identifying as sexual minorities from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. The second part of the project consists of studying the mechanisms that pose obstacles for sexual minorities to attain outcomes in life. Can gender egalitarianism reduce inequality of opportunity experienced by sexual minorities? How large is the impact of hate crimes and legislation on the family life of sexual minorities? Contextual information on regional differences in attitudes, hate crimes and laws will be compiled and connected to surveys to document their relationship to socioeconomic achievements and the family life of sexual minorities. The principal investigator will form a multi-disciplinary team consisting of a postdoctoral researcher (five years), a data technician (two years) and a doctoral student (four years).

Keywords: sexual orientation,inequality of opportunity,social mobility,family dynamics,partnering
Transfer-print operations for heterogeneous integration (TOP HIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: A new generation of components and systems: Engineering of advanced embedded and energy and resource efficient components and systems
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Ireland,Belgium,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Smart System Integration (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-02
End date: 2018-08-01
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5252637.75
EU funding (EUR): 5252637.75
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Smart systems technologies are evolving towards ever increasing functionality and miniaturisation through the heterogeneous integration of separate components. The ideal integration requires precision placement of multiple types of devices on a substrate to allow their inter-connection. We propose to solve this integration challenge through an exciting new technique called micro-Transfer-Printing (TP) where the essential materials or devices, with thicknesses of a few microns, are separated from their native substrates and are transferred in parallel to the new platform according to the desired positioning while achieving micron-scale placement accuracy. Sequential application of the process enables different components of different functionality to be manipulated in a highly flexible and programmable way making best use of the materials. The TOP HIT project will aggressively develop and validate the TP technology by integrating electronics and photonics components for the magnetic and communication industries. These serve as examples for the broad capability of the technology which is compatible with low-cost manufacturing. We will develop ‘On Head Microelectronics’ for data storage smart systems through the embedded integration of custom electronic circuits directly into the magnetic read-head. We will demonstrate TP as a scalable method for the integration of compound semiconductor based elements (lasers, detectors) with silicon photonics platforms demonstrating both a compact receiver circuit and a transceiver. The partners in the TOP HIT consortium include international companies with extensive manufacturing capabilities, an SME, and two research institutes. The output of this project will help establish TP as a mainstream technology for heterogeneous integration, enabling manufacturing to be carried out in Europe through sales of equipment and through foundry services. New more efficient smart products will emerge from the research carried out here.

Keywords: heterogeneous integration,magnetics,communications,silicon photonics,electronics