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Mass-waste modelling across scales (MAWAMOSCA)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178156.8
EU funding (EUR): 178156.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mass-waste events not only cause geomorphological changes on our planet but they are often natural hazards, causing significant economic impact or seriously endangering human lives. Sufficiently understanding and predicting them is an important task both for the scientific community as well as to the decision-making bodies and community leaders all around the world. The importance of the topic is also emphasized in the EU Horizon 2020 third pillar "Societal Challenges". The aim of the current project is to design and develop a discrete element method (DiEM) based software package (called MWDiEM), that is able to model a number of dry (or with negligible fluid content) mass-waste events on the particle level. The code will handle cohesionless polyhedral and spherical particles and will be equipped with a number of features (e.g. GIS implementation, basal entrainment, GPU acceleration) that will allow for it to be used for real-life event simulations as well. By connecting MWDiEM to the already existing large scale two-phase continuum landslide model, r.avaflow, comparing the DiEM results to experiments and field observations and by using the DiEM code to understand the effect of shape and time-dependent size segregation on mass-flow, we hope to get a deeper understanding on mass-waste events, yielding better predictions in the future and bringing geoscientists and granular scientists together on the way.

Keywords: mass wasting,geomorphic processes,granular matter,discrete element method,two phase continuum flow model,landslides,rockfall,segregation,runout distance,modelling across scales
Renaissance Migropolis: Mobility, Migration and the Politics of Reception in Venice (ca. 1450-1650) (MIGROPOLIS)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2019-02-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172477.2
EU funding (EUR): 172477.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to provide an invaluable new perspective on the motives, practices and consequences of migration in European history, by examining one of the most dynamic and cosmopolitan of past urban societies: Renaissance Venice (ca. 1450-1650). It will do this by investigating quotidian practices of mobility and in particular the early, liminal phases of migrant journeys through the city, producing a closely-focused study of spaces of first arrival for mobile people in Venice, such as inns, lodging houses, ferry stations and quays. Employing an innovative, interdisciplinary methodology, the project will map these key entry-points where new arrivals first sought shelter, food, work, information and human connection, revealing them as crucial sites of interaction and negotiation between newcomers and the local community and as hubs of the authorities’ developing systems of migrant surveillance and identification. Dissemination of the research via a monograph, journal articles and conference papers, as well as planned Public Engagement activities including a digital map of sites of arrival, a radio documentary pitch and an interdisciplinary workshop, will provide a vital historical perspective to contemporary debates on European migration. More broadly, the research will foster knowledge and expertise on vital themes of European history such as the development of policies of reception and hospitality, integration and assimilation, border control and identification, and their impact on states and urban centres as well as on local communities and migrants themselves. The Fellowship will also offer the candidate exceptional knowledge transfer, training and career development opportunities; in particular, her research will be enriched by participation, at the host institution, in an unrivaled concentration of expertise on comparative, transnational and interdisciplinary dimensions of European migration.

Keywords: venice,renaissance,urban culture,early modern,migration,mobility,mediterranean,italy,inns,taverns,communication,transport,identification,borders
Nanoscale magnetic and thermal imaging of strongly correlated electronic materials (STRONG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997926.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997926.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Strongly correlated electronic materials have phase diagrams that are intrinsically complex. Multiple, distinct, broken symmetry phases can occur simultaneously and the presence of these intertwined orders gives rise to spontaneously inhomogeneous electronic structures. Observing and characterizing these patterns is crucial to understanding the mechanisms that govern these electronic states. I propose to study these phases using a novel scanning SQUID microscope with single electron spin sensitivity and thermal sensitivity better than one millionth of a degree. The SQUID is mounted on a nanometric tip and has ~50 nm resolution. I will expand the experimental capabilities of this technique by improving the resolution to a few nm, and by enabling near field microwave microscopy. Local magnetic probes are ideal for spatially resolving magnetic order and can also be used to probe local superconducting phase fluctuation since they generate local currents and thus local magnetic fields. However, the required resolution is of the order of a few nm, which is far beyond the capabilities of most local magnetic probes. While thermal microscopy provides information about dissipation mechanisms, which is relevant in high Tc superconductors (HTSC) above Tc where superconducting correlations are locally present, there is no technique that can perform thermal microscopy at low temperatures. The SQUID-on-tip will allow us to look at all the above-mentioned aspects. We propose to look at three types of systems (1) Observe local signatures of pair-density waves and other manifestations of broken time reversal symmetry in HTSC (2) Characterize the unconventional superconducting phase at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface (3) Study the inhomogeneous magnetic phases at the LaMnO3/SrTiO3 interface. These measurements will provide significant contributions to the understanding of phenomena in strongly correlated materials such as superconductivity and its relation to other electronic order.

Keywords: scanning squid microscopy,strongly correlated electrons,unconventional superconductivity,complex oxides,complex oxide heterostructures,cuprates
AutoMatic and Personalized Mental HealthCare Solution (MindCare)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The need: There are over 1,100 million people who have a mental disorder worldwide1, of which 268 million suffer1 from depression and 800,000 people yearly die from suicide2. According to WHO, mental illnesses are the leading causes of disability-adjusted life years worldwide3, and depression accounts for one third of this disability4. In 2010, the global cost of mental illness was estimated at nearly $2.5 trillion (two-thirds in indirect costs) with a projected increase to over $6 trillion by 2030.5 In spite of these figures, treatments for mental disorder work and suicide attempts are partly preventable if doctors and caregivers monitor the treated patient mental health progression adequately.6 However, the healthcare and treatment of psychiatric patients are still inefficient because there is a lack of systems providing real-time information of the patient. Our solution: In response, we have developed MindCare, a mHealth solution that addresses the current lack of a real-time heath status monitoring for mental disorder patients. MindCare is a smartphone Apps (Fig. 1) that: 1) passively gathers data through a wearable device about the patient; 2) transforms the data into interpretable information using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for doctors, patients and caregivers; and, 3) integrates and displays the patient information, providing personalized information so that doctors and caregivers can quickly change the patient treatment or intervene at the right time. As a result, MindCare facilitates diagnostics, improves the quality of care, accelerates recovery, saving costs of treatments (€340,000 to €6.3 million/year), lowers the days of hospitalizations (~20%), and empowers psychiatric patients for a better self-management.

Keywords: mhealth,personalized patient management,big data in healthcare,passive patient monitoring,treatment assessment,digital biomarkers,digital mental healthcare
Cementochronology Unravels Seasonality in Prehistory (CUSP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269002.56
EU funding (EUR): 269002.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Archaeological sites are by and large palimpsests of coarse-grained chronological resolution, with many episodes of (re-)occupation where often undifferentiated blocks of time are used as units for temporal reckoning. The methodological advances provided by cementochronological approaches can provide powerful means of temporalising and refining our understanding of annual scheduling of site occupation. Cementochronology examines alternating incremental translucent and opaque bands that are laid down throughout life in tooth cementum as physiological responses to seasonal rhythms. Counting pairs of bands on thin sections under polarized transmitted light provides accurate age estimates. The outermost band represents the season-at-death, which is used to infer seasonality of site occupation. This method is particularly relevant for prehistoric periods when seasonal scheduling of lifeways was of paramount importance. The CUSP project uses the most recent methodological breakthroughs in the study of Tooth Cementum Annulation (TCA) to establish (1) a robust protocol for the study of TCA in red deer, which is often found at prehistoric sites as hunted game; and (2) infer seasonality of occupation of archaeological sites in the chosen case study by determining season-at-death in both red deer and humans. Age-at-death estimates will be made for the analyzed samples too, enabling the applicant to build mortality profiles important for estimates of past human population demography and red deer hunting strategies. The case study are Mesolithic sites in the Danube Gorges region of the Balkans where CUSP will test the hypothesis about possible sedentary occupation of this region in the Mesolithic. The applicant has worked extensively on the archaeological sequences in this region and is best placed to examine this question by receiving training-through-research during the outgoing phase at New York U. He will transfer the acquired knowledge to Sapienza U. of Rome.

Keywords: seasonality,cementochronology,red deer,humans,danube gorges,mesolithic,neolithic,dental anthropology,zooarchaeology
Capacity-building and transnational cooperation for National Contact Points (NCPs) for the EIC and Access to Risk Finance – Access2EIC (Access2EIC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Ireland,Israel,Germany,Italy,Bulgaria,Norway,Hungary,Slovakia,Greece,Poland,France,Czechia,Portugal
Call: Capacity-building and transnational cooperation for National Contact Points (NCPs) for the EIC and Access to Risk Finance (H2020-IBA-EIC-NCP-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1003425.0
EU funding (EUR): 1003425.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

ACCESS2EIC is a 16-months coordination and support action aimed to empower and facilitate transnational cooperation within the network of National Contact Points - NCPs focused on the Horizon 2020 European Innovation Council - EIC Pilot and the specific objective Access to Risk Finance - ARF. It involves a consortium made of formally appointed NCPs under ‘Future and Emerging Technologies – FET’, ‘Innovation in SMEs – SME’ and ‘Access to Risk Finance - ARF’ areas of Horizon 2020. Overall, the network will aim at: - developing an improved, more consistent and professionalized NCP service across Europe, thereby helping simplify access to EIC Pilot calls, and lowering the entry barriers for newcomers; - identifying and sharing good practices and raising the general standard of support to EIC and ARF programme applicants in close collaboration with other NCPs and EU networks, taking into account the novelties of those instruments and the diversity of actors that make up their constituency.

Keywords: european innovation council,pathfinder,accelerator,transition to innovation activities,scaling up,access to risk finance,capacity building,national contact point,key success factors
A novel biotreatment technology for sustainable metal extraction from low-grade ores, tailings and WEEE (BiotaMet)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: H2020-EIC Accelerator pilot –SME Instrument - Green Deal (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-4, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3290668.75
EU funding (EUR): 2303468.13
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Traditional metal extraction activities have resulted in serious impacts on the environment, including large energy and carbon footprint, toxic emissions, and acidic wastes. Due to large-scale globalization and intensive exploitation of accessible metal resources, the mining industry had to depend on low grade ores and metal waste as raw materials. These ores and wastes contain large deposits of complex organic compounds, which makes the metal extraction that much more difficult, inefficient, expensive and environmentally demanding. BiotaTec developed BiotaMet, a novel 2-step bio-leaching solution for mining/metallurgy and recycling industries, to achieve maximum valorisation of low-grade ores, tailings, wastes and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). It uses a unique combination of heterotrophic microorganisms and methanogens, that have been adapted to biodegrade and extract metal compounds ores. The process is highly efficient, works at neutral pH, generates clean waste and simultaneously produces methane gas for energy generation. The 2-steps of the process feed each other for material and heat energy, making the process self-sufficient. It reduces the dependence on high-grade metal ores, and is able to achieve metal yield rates of 86-97% (compared to 70-80% for traditional methods) with low-grade ores and wastes. BiotaMet is expected to reduce the energy requirement of metal extraction by 40% and provide additional annual revenue estimation of > €7.3 million for mining companies and > €5 million for WEEE recycling companies. With the EIC accelerator phase 00 project, BiotaTec would focus on optimizing the technology for four specific raw materials, and on the construction of large bioreactors at their bio-mining center. Lab-scale and industry-scale pilots would ensure validation and demonstration of BiotaMet. Based on the market introduction strategy, BiotaTec would focus on commercializing BiotaMet technology across Europe, Canada and Jordan.

Keywords: bioleaching,metal extraction,low grade ores,tailing,wastes,waste electrical and electronic equipment weee,biomining,e wastes,metal mining,anaerobic and aerobic bioleaching,methane gas
Deploying Augmented intelligence solutions in EU buildings using Data analytics, an interoperable hardware/software Architecture and a Novel self-energy assessment methodology. (Auto-DAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Spain,Ireland,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Spain,Türkiye
Call: Self-assessment and self-optimisation of buildings and appliances for a better energy performance (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5675186.25
EU funding (EUR): 4415245.89
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The Auto-DAN project aims to enable homes and small businesses across the EU to optimize their energy consumption and provide an assessment of the live energy performance of a building which takes into account the quality of appliances/systems installed, user operational habits and the smart readiness of a building.The solution is rooted in augmented intelligence which will focus on the assistive role automation will have in buildings, emphasizing the fact that cognitive technology is designed to enhance human intelligence rather than replace it and that the occupant is a proactive component of the building. Augmented Intelligence enhances a self-optimisation solution as it is a mix of automated controls with user interaction which will maximise the savings of a building in operation. To enable this step-change, the Auto-DAN project will deliver a trebled-structured project framework that evaluates the actual energy performance of EU buildings and provide building users with the awareness to proactively optimize their energy use. The following, lists the subdivisions of the solution: • Smart Hardware Infrastructure - Adaptable hardware strategy that can be applied to all building types and features to ensure maximum replicabilbilty of the Auto-DAN solution across the EU building stock. • Inter-operable Software Architecture - The data analysis platform iSCAN will be used as a foundation for self-optimizing and self-assessing EU buildings stock complemented by 2 analytical features that provides optimisation actions. Those features are a 1. Digital Occupancy Model and a 2. Digital Twin. • Self-Energy Assessment Framework - Generates an automated, dynamic and continuous energy performance assessmentd erived from the monitoring of the energy consumption at building level, dis-aggregated monitoring at an appliance/system level and incorporates existing EU energy regulations (e.g. EPBD, ECO Design, SRI, and Energy Labeling).

Keywords: automation,optimization,assessment
Genetically modified organoids for genetic variant interpretation in colorectal cancer (Organ-VIP)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Implementation of next generation sequencing to genetic diagnosis and precision medicine has revolutionized the fields of hereditary cancer and oncology, increasing exponencially the identification of genetic variants of uncertain significance. Their classification is one of the most relevant and urgent challenges we face, since decision-making in the clinics depends on it. Evidence obtained from empirical functional studies is essential to reach a definitive classification; however, clinical relevance of such studies is currently low due to lack of standardized tests, use of inadequate models, and tediousness and cost- and time-inefficiency of available assays. Organ-VIP aims at surpassing the barriers we face when using and implementing functional assays for the interpretation of genetic variants in colorectal cancer (CRC) genes. State-of-the-art methodological and conceptual developments will facilitate the development of a screening platform to interpret the pathogenicity of variants in any CRC gene. To do so, we aim to: i) Use a model that faithfully represents the target tissue and genetic context (CRISPR/Cas9-edited human normal colon organoids); ii) Optimize end-point assay(s) to maximize performance, implementation, robustness and agreement with clinical evidence; iii) Assess genetic variants in hereditary CRC and polyposis genes; and iv) Calibrate the results for implementation in variant classifiers. Organ-VIP integrates clinical aspects, molecular and cell biology, next generation sequencing, and advanced bioinformatics analysis. The platform will not only be useful for variant interpretation in germline and somatic testing, but also for functional evaluation of new candidate CRC genes. In the longer term, Organ-VIP will become high-throughput by the implementation of saturation genome editing, high-throughput organoid culture, automation of sampling, and implementation of artificial intelligence.

Keywords: hereditary cancer,colorectal cancer,intestinal organoids,genome editing,variant interpretation
WATTsUP Electric flight to future (WATTsUP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2682291.25
EU funding (EUR): 1877603.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of “WATTsUP – Electric flight to future” project (hereafter: WATTsUP Project) is to industrialize and commercialize our newest prototype plane – WATTsUP PROTOTYPE, which was first presented to public at Salon de Blois airshow, France, on 30-31 August 2014: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEeR7osnRSk • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yo3puYqaNs&list=PLShcsPdd5Fc9Jz73qEhp9O3MKkcFQrmd8 Final product of WATTsUP Project is market and production-ready electrical powered airplane of LSA class: WATTsUP. Main project activities will: - Evolve existent WATTsUP PROTOTYPE to industrial readiness, resulting in fully functional and cost-effective LSA, accompanied with documentation and training information system (interactive training system + flight school management system). - Prepare WAATsUP for commercialization. - Develop production processes, enabling Pipistrel to enter into mass production of WATTsUP. - Certificate WATTsUP in our initial target-markets. - Decide on the fesibility and type of IPR protection. - Disseminate project results.

Keywords: electric,airplane,training