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EnerTwin: A different approach to micro CHP (EnerTwin)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Fast Track to Innovation Pilot (H2020-FTIPilot-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2636656.25
EU funding (EUR): 1845659.38
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Micro Combined Heat and Power (mCHP) systems are a perfect addition to stabilize the electricity grid in the increased presence of volatile renewable sources. Due to their efficient generation and local use of heat and electricity, their fuel saving- and CO2 reduction potential is tremendous. In spite of great interest of the market and policy-makers, currently available mCHP systems suffer from limited life, high investment and very high maintenance cost, making them too expensive for serious market uptake. MTT solves this problem with the EnerTwin, a mCHP system based on a micro gas turbine. The EnerTwin uses commercial off-the-shelf components resulting in low investment cost. Gas turbines are known for low-maintenance, high power density (small size) and long life. MTT uses automotive turbochargers as key components of the turbine: these are produced in millions and contribute to the low cost and high reliability of the EnerTwin. Gas turbines are inherently insensitive to varying fuel compositions facilitating use of various grades of natural gas. Currently, the EnerTwin is at TLR 7: 19 systems have been deployed in 1st-stage field tests at client locations since mid 2013. Besides the field-trial units, MTT has already sold 500 commercial EnerTwins, which promises an excellent commercial market perspective, while concrete contracts are under negotiation for high volumes for Canadian- and Chinese markets. The main objective of this project is the readiness for commercialisation of the EnerTwin. MTT and its industrial project partners will improve the mCHP to meet future CE and ECO Design requirements. Together with these partners, MTT will work on component and system optimisation for reliability and large-volume manufacturing. Additional field-test units will be deployed to test use cases and validate improvements. By the end of the project MTT expects to close at least 5.000 pre-orders for EnerTwins, resulting in creating over 600 qualified job positions.

Keywords: micro chp,micro gas turbine,field testing
Scientific High-throughput and Unified Toolkit for Trace analysis by forensic Laboratories in Europe (SHUTTLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Fight crime, illegal trafficking and terrorism, including understanding and tackling terrorist ideas and beliefs
Action type: Pre-Commercial Procurement
Countries involved: Israel,Lithuania,Greece,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Toolkits integrating tools and techniques for forensic laboratories (H2020-SEC-2016-2017-2, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10567837.5
EU funding (EUR): 9511053.77
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Transfer traces analysis currently suffers from several limitations: highly subjective and selective, this process is also very time-consuming, hence inefficient, whereas results are difficult, if not impossible, to compare and share among forensic laboratories. As a consequence, the use of forensic data in cross-border investigations, and in foreign courts is limited. Creating a unified transfer traces automated analysis toolkit would allow for a higher productivity of forensic workers, better crime resolution and enable further collaboration across end-users. In addition to the lack of maturity of its potential components, the economical question is the barrier that hinders the development of such a toolkit as a sole forensic service can’t afford funding the corresponding R&D activities. the SHUTTLE project then intends to run a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) action between forensic institutes across Europe to mitigate these technical and financial barriers and jointly carry out the procurement of the necessary Research and Development (R&D) activities to develop a machine+toolkit that will integrate different tape analysis tools to automate the routine part of the work of trace evidence examiners and, eventually, strengthen further judicial and police cooperation. The SHUTTLE toolkit will be scientific, as the results obtained will be objective and validated, which will strengthen their usefulness and usability. It will be high-throughput, as the instrumentation will be built to process large amounts of samples and data. The acquired data will be stored in a database together with the results of other methods. These databases can be shared and maintained together, and be used to provide a scientifically justified, numerical evidential value. Finally, SHUTTLE, which will be validated in conformity with ISO17025, will unify the methodology used in several European countries and will foster collaboration across countries and institutions in Europe.

Keywords: traces analysis,forensic,toolkit,de facto standards,qualification of traces,improved crime resolution,forensic institutes collaboration
Topics in Behavioral-Economics Theory (Topics in Behavioral)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Hungary
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1656145.0
EU funding (EUR): 592555.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal outlines projects that span a diverse set of specific topics in both the foundational and the more applied parts of behavioral-economics theory. In the foundational projects, I will develop broadly applicable models of individual decisionmaking that incorporate psychologically realistic assumptions about individuals, and that can be used by myself and others to study the implications of psychological phenomena for economic outcomes. I will (i) provide an attention-based theory of several central and hitherto unmodeled aspects of mental accounting; (ii) analyze the implications of overconfidence about one’s ability or prospects for learning about other economically important variables; and (iii) incorporate into economic settings, and explore some consequences of, the idea that self-esteem— our feelings about ourselves—may be exceedingly fragile. In the more applied projects, I will use psychologically realistic models to shed light on important economic issues regarding markets and organizations. I will (i) identify market outcomes and especially welfareincreasing regulations when consumers with limited attention make tradeoffs between “browsing” more products superficially and “studying” fewer products in detail; (ii) use a contract-theoretic approach to help understand and possibly undermine organizations that pursue goals its members oppose; (iii) analyze the nature and consequences of procrastination when a person’s alternative choices are supplied by the market; (iv) explore the potential for a policy framework centered around informed consent to address privacy concerns in a market where some consumers are naive about product offers; and (v) investigate the implications of financial choice and financial information in a market for retail securities when investors do not understand that issuers are utilizing superior information in designing offers.

Keywords: mental accounting,rational inattention,overconfidence,misguided learning,self esteem,malicious organizations,regulation,procrastination,switching,consent,privacy,cursed equilibrium
Synthetic microbial consortia-based platform for flavonoids production using synthetic biology (SynBio4Flav)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Germany,Spain,Germany,Austria,Italy,Spain,Poland,Sweden,France
Call: Synthetic biology to expand diversity of nature's chemical production (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-BIO-2018-two-stage, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7371051.25
EU funding (EUR): 7371051.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

This Project pursues the implementation a standardized pipeline for surrogate production of plant flavonoids in synthetic microbial consortia (SMCs) by means of standardization and systems-guided assembly of highly complex biological devices. Flavonoids are the more abundant and consumed group of phytonutrients, used in numerous applications including functional food & beverages, dietary supplements, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Despite its growing demand, flavonoids production remains elusive to chemical synthesis and biotech-based approaches, thus current flavonoid market is constrained to the scarce plant-based sources. These compounds are synthetized in nature through complex pathways involving an intense chemicals trafficking through plant compartments. By facilitating component troubleshooting and re-usability—instead of optimizing a single whole-cell biocatalyst— SynBio4Flav will recreate such non-homogeneous scenario by breaking-down specific portions of the complexes and highly regulated biochemical routes between different microbial species, each of them genetically programmed to deliver an optimal output of the corresponding biosynthetic step(s) i.e. through a distributed catalysis engineered in a defined SMC. Enabling such novel approach, SynBio4Flav will push the existing boundaries of the synthetic biology by acting along the whole Synthetic Biology hierarchy abstraction, and remarkably, in those with high complexity level e.g. cell systems and microbial communities. By creating libraries of optimized cell systems programmed to deliver an optimal output, and novel synthetic biology tools for cell systems assembling into 3D SMCs, SysBio4Flav will reach a TRL5 in production of natural and new-to-nature glycosylated flavonoids. The durable output of SynBio4Flav will be a standardized platform containing hundreds of optimal cell systems for exploring the full combinatorial space of flavonoids biosynthesis, including thousands of new-to-nature analogues.

Keywords: synthetic biology,systems biology,systems biotechnology,synthetic microbial consortia,distributed catalysis,functionalized flavonoids,p putida,e coli,s albus,s cerevisiae
Alginor's Ocean Refining Total utilisation Application (AORTA 2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2770375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1939262.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Alginor, a Norwegian based SME, aims to develop and commercialise high-quality products from the seaweed Laminaria hyperborea (Lh) through a revolutionary technology – AORTA. There is a scarcity of high-quality seaweed products on today’s market, making it a customer pain point to be able to acquire enough products. State-of-the-art seaweed-industry only utilises about 15% of the harvested raw material and causes massive pollution in the process. Alginor’s increased resource efficiency, from 15% up towards 100%, will greatly increase the number of products for sale and eradicate emissions. Alginor’s 100% utilisation strategy creates a product portfolio of 12 products, well above state-of-the-art’s average of 1-2 products. Our products will be of equal or higher quality than existing products, and letters of intent have already been signed with several big customers. In Norway there is an increasing concern for the environmental impact caused by emissions from the seaweed-industry which has led to some limitations on emissions. Alginor’s new technology will have none of these emissions and therefore no limitations on production. Europe has the largest standing biomass of Lh of approximately 100 million tonnes. State-of-the-art only harvests around 150,000 tonnes of Lh due to the emission regulations, while there is a standing biomass of minimum 1.5 million tonnes open for harvesting each year; i.e. Alginor will be able to massively increase production. The expected impact for the targeted users will be a monumental increase in the availability of pure and high-quality seaweed-products without toxic chemicals. Alginor will create a greener and more profitable value chain that will disrupt Europe’s seaweed industry and potentially cause stricter regulations. Within 3 years after project launch Alginor estimates an annual turnover of €16,5 million and more than 165 employments with a ROCE of 37,6%. Project duration: 18 months.

Keywords: productions of ingredients from seaweeds for applications in api,pharma,health and nutrition,bioactives and more
Characterising the proximal pyroclastic deposits in Central Anatolia to improve the recent explosive volcanic history, synchronise sedimentary records, and better assess volcanic hazards in Turkey (PUSKURUM)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183473.28
EU funding (EUR): 183473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of this project is to differentiate and characterize the pyroclastic products from explosive eruptions produced by Açigöl caldera, Hasandağ, and Erciyes stratovolcanoes, which are the most active and largest volcanic structures of the central Anatolian peninsula. This study is necessary to complete the gap in the tephrostratigraphic framework of the easternmost part of Europe and to reconstruct the explosive volcanic history of the region during the upper Pleistocene – Holocene, and therefore, better assess the currently volcanic hazards posed by these volcanoes on the region. The main proximal pyroclastic units of the Central Anatolian Volcanic Province (CAVP) will be identified, mapped, logged, and sampled around major volcanoes. Afterward, their chemical composition and eruption ages will be determined in the laboratory to correlate them to tephra layers deposited in distal records (including sedimentary or paleoclimatic registers). Despite an increasing number of recent studies identified many fine volcanic ash layers that are thought to be from large eruptions of Central Anatolian active volcanoes (e.g. in cores from the Black Sea, Eastern Mediterranean Sea, caves in Egypt, or several small Romanian lakes), little is known about the spatial and temporal scale of explosive volcanism in Turkey. Correlation of these tephra layers by chemical fingerprint is essential to 1) synchronize records and identify their position in high-resolution palaeoenvironmental or archaeological registers, 2) estimate the volume and magnitude of the related eruptions, and 3) determinate how past explosive eruptions could affect the region and its occupants. Such tephrochronologic studies are important to improve our understanding of Anatolian volcanism and to more accurately constrain the hazards that the active volcanoes of CAVP pose to the often-large populations surrounding them (e.g. the 1.3 million people of Kayseri city).

Keywords: geological mapping,tephrostratigraphy,central anatolian volcanic province,glass chemical fingerprint,rediogenic datings c14,th and ar,volcanic hazard assessment,paleoenvironmental record
'Science as Applied to Building' : Science, Construction, and Architectural Acoustics (1914-1954) (SAAB)

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: Ireland,United States
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2018-09-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 266063.4
EU funding (EUR): 266063.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this Fellowship is for the researcher, Dr Fiona Smyth, to develop the professional prowess, advanced training, interdisciplinary skills, high-impact dissemination, and practical experience commensurate with a leading independent researcher in the EU. The remit of the Fellowship research falls under the categories of history of science, history of construction and architectural acoustics. The researcher will be based for two years in the Dept. of the History of Science in Harvard University, working under the supervision of Professor Peter Galison. The third year of the Fellowship will be completed in the Acoustics Research Group in the School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) working under the supervision of Professor Henry Rice. Research training will be implemented through an interdisciplinary project investigating the 20th century emergence of architectural acoustics as a branch of modern building science in Britain and Ireland. On the outgoing phase of the Fellowship the researcher will access expertise, advanced training and mentoring in the History of Science. No Irish university has yet established a dedicated History of Science department. In the return phase the researcher will consolidate the knowledge and experience gained in the US through advanced laboratory training in acoustics. In TCD she will be given the opportunity to embed her new knowledge in the design of interdisciplinary curricula for graduate students. Under the guidance of international experts, she will acquire an invaluable skill-set bridging humanities, science and technology with implications for contemporary societal and economic application. The resources of the host departments will facilitate development of an interdisciplinary and international academic network as well as career mentoring. The Fellowship will establish the researcher firmly at the centre of interdisciplinary research in the histories of building science and architectural acoustics.

Keywords: history of construction,architectural acoustics,architecture
European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: the role of European Networks (ENLIGHTEN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Hungary,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Political challenges for Europe (H2020-EURO-SOCIETY-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2484111.25
EU funding (EUR): 2484111.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

ENLIGHTEN responds to the first part of the EURO-4 call on “The future of European integration - 'More Europe – less Europe?'” by bringing together an interdisciplinary ‘next generation’ research team that integrates insights from Comparative Political Economy, European Studies, International Political Economy, and Sociology. ENLIGHTEN answers the call by focusing on how European modes of governance respond to ‘fast-burning’ and ‘slow-burning’ crises. These types of crises differ in how they affect the legitimacy of European input, output, and throughput processes in established and emergent modes of governance. In fast-burning crises interests are quickly formed and ideational and resource battles ensue over how to coordinate policy ideas, what institutions should be engaged, and communicating these changes to the public. Networks in fast crises are composed of defined groups seeking to protect or carve out their interests. In slow-burning crises interests are less obvious and the key task is often how to define the issues involved and who should address the problem. Here networks are commonly composed of experts who battle over how issues should be defined, as well as the boundaries on how coordinative and communicative discourses are articulated. Both fast- and slow-burning crises must be addressed by European modes of governance, with serious implications for the legitimacy and efficiency of the European project. Both raise political, social, and economic sensitivities that are transforming democratic politics in Europe. ENLIGHTEN addresses these themes through a series of linked cases that speak directly to the legitimacy and efficiency of European modes of governance.

Keywords: legitimacy,discourse,ideas,modes of governance,institutions,networks,experts,crises,financial crisis,fiscal policy,social housing,health care,youth unemployment,demographic change
Dissecting gamma-TuRC composition and activity by Single Molecule Pull-down (GTR)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this project I will use Single Molecule Pull-down (SiMPull) for studying activity and regulation of human gamma-tubulin ring complexes (gamma-TuRCs). Gamma-TuRCs are the main nucleators of microtubule (MT) polymerization. Additionally, gamma-TuRCs may play a role in modulating MT dynamics. Regulation of gamma-TuRC activity is key to organizing the dynamic MT arrays needed for essential processes in various cell types. Progress in understanding gamma-TuRC regulation at the molecular level is currently hampered by a lack of information about subunit stoichiometries and interactions, and by technical difficulties that have prevented reconstitution of gamma-TuRCs in vitro. I will tackle these challenges by using SiMPull to immunoprecipitate and immobilize gamma-TuRCs to a glass surface directly from cell extracts collected at different cell cycle stages, and analyze individual gamma-TuRCs using high resolution microscopy. I will express tagged gamma-TuRC subunits in cells to isolate wildtype and mutant gamma-TuRCs. Using fluorescent protein tags and antibodies I will visualize and quantify components in individual gamma-TuRCs and, by incubation in pure tubulin and GTP, determine how gamma-TuRC composition is related to its ability to nucleate MTs and modulate MT dynamics. Together, the proposed research will expand the field’s toolbox, thereby allowing new, molecular level insight into gamma-TuRC activity and its regulation.

Keywords: simpull,gamma turc,tirf microscopy,microtubules,tubulin