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Seamless Guest Experiences through Biometrics in Things (YooniK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2020-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In an extremely competitive hospitality industry worth $570b in 2017, hotels spend vast amounts of time and money trying to know their customer, provide them with great experience, protect their security and safeguard their privacy. Still, after providing very sensitive personal information, returning guests are treated as an unknown customer, be kindly asked to wait in long lines to check-in or have breakfast and offered upselling or ancillary of no interest to her. Moreover, untrained staff checking documents and identities poses security threats and gives a false sense of security to society. YooniK is set to deliver the next big global tech disruption: Biometrics in Things™(BiT). Starting in the hospitality industry, we believe to to be on a glazing path to become the de facto standard of a trusted Hospitality Identity, providing immersive and seamless guest experiences which are truly unique.Whether you want to seamlessly check into a hotel room and access the buffet breakfast lounge, pay for goods with a loyalty card, pick up your medicines at the pharmacy or enter your rental car: just face the camera and go! Powered by a strong belief in data privacy, we have additionally put very hard work into a novel proprietary Privacy with Benefits™ technology which goes well-beyond GDPR to ensure privacy by design while keeping all the tailored and contextualized benefits. Backed up by an innovation partnership with Intel Europe and recognized by major international hospitality players representing 1% of the hotel rooms available in the world, our company is setting the ground for integrating the YooniK technology over the summer of 2019 in field trials with a trusted core of world-renowned innovation hospitality partners and disrupting the market with a world-premiere roll-out to operational scenarios in thousands of rooms by the end of 2019. Don’t you want to check into a YooniK hotel already?

Keywords: internet of things,smart city,hospitality and travel,biometrics,artificial intelligence,biometrics in things,privacy,gdpr
Services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network 2019 (Swennis 2019)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden
Call: EEN H2020 SGA3 (H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 412151.25
EU funding (EUR): 412151.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Successful growth companies tend to be significantly better at innovation management than average. However, most SMEs and SME support organisations consider the inability to manage innovation processes efficiently and effectively as one of the most important barriers to create European economic impact (competitiveness, growth and jobs) from innovation activities in SMEs. The objective of this project proposal is to address these problems by providing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs wishing to develop innovation projects with a strong European or international potential. There are two SME target groups that will receive 74 7-day work packages. 1. 37 SME beneficiaries of the funding schemes SME Instrument, Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) and Future and Emerging Technologies Open ( FET-Open) under H2020 will be supported by Key Account Managers (KAM); and 2. 37 SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalisation will be supported by EIMC experts to ensure that the innovation management capacity of the SME is increased The specific objectives related to the first target group are to ensure that SME beneficiaries of H2020 can exploit their full innovation potential. A KAM will identify weaknesses in the innovation capacities of the SME, identify suitable coaches who will address the identified weaknesses and facilitate the SME- coach interaction. The specific objectives related to the second target group are to ensure that the innovation management capacities of the SMEs increase. An EIMC export will carry out innovation management capacity assessments, set up an action plans to address identified bottlenecks and implement the action plans. Five partners: IVF, Acreo, RISE, LTU Business AB and Invest in Skane will carry out these services and all of Sweden will be covered (i.e. all three Nuts 1 regions). The coordinator, Tillväxtverket, will have the overall responsibility.

Keywords: innovation management,key account management,innovation specialist
Advanced materials solutions for next generation high efficiency concentrated solar power (CSP) tower systems (NEXTOWER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Sweden,Türkiye,Belgium,Sweden,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Advanced materials solutions and architectures for high efficiency solar energy harvesting (H2020-NMBP-2016-two-stage, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6221105.19
EU funding (EUR): 4981304.32
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

NEXTOWER shall introduce a set of innovative materials to boost the performance of atmospheric air-based concentrated solar power (CSP) systems to make them commercially viable. In particular, tower systems are appealing for the great environmental compatibility and offer tremendous potential for efficient (electrical and thermal) power generation. Yet, their industrial exploitation has been so far hindered by limitations in the materials used both for the central receiver - the core component - and for thermal storage. Such limitations dictate maximum working temperature and in-service overall durability (mainly driven by failure from thermal cycling and thermal shocks). Improving the efficiency of a tower system entails necessarily improving the central receiver upstream and possibly re-engineering the whole systems downstream to work longer and at much higher temperature, especially in the thermal storage compartment. NEXTOWER will address this need by taking a comprehensive conceptual and manufacturing approach that will optimize bulk and joining materials for durability at the component level to achieve 25 years of maintenance-free continued service of the receiver and maximum thermodynamic efficiency at the system level. This is made possible through a unique combination of excellence in materials design and manufacturing, CSP full-scale testing facilities brought together in the Consortium, supporting the making of a full-size demo modules SOLEAD (tested in Spain and Italy) within the project. The successful achievement of a new generation of materials allowing for virtually maintenance free operations (limited to ceraminc parts) and increased working temperature shall result in the next-generation of air-coolant CSP highly competitive over other CSP alternatives and sustainable power supply options.

Keywords: energy collection,conversion and storage,renewable energy,combined heat and power
Roma Civic Emancipation Between The Two World Wars (RomaInterbellum)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2433985.0
EU funding (EUR): 2433985.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Over the past two decades the Roma issue has become one of the most current topics in European public space and also became especially relevant in academia. Despite of this there are still not researched topics, such as history of the Roma in the period between WWI and WWII, and the appearance and development of social and political projects proposed by Roma. The present proposal has the ambitious goal to fill in this gap. The departing point of the research is the circumstances that Roma are not a hermetically isolated social and cultural system. They exist in two dimensions, both as separate ethnic communities and as a part of the macro-society in which they live within the respective nation-states. Together with members of the macro-society they experienced breakdowns of old Empires and the establishment of national states. On the vast territories of that what would became the Soviet Union they were included in the building of a new political system. In this time span Roma started to be politically institutionalized and subjected to a variety of controversial policy practices. The project looks at Roma not only as passive recipients of policy measures but also as active architects of their lives, so the aim is together with studying evidences reflecting state policies in regard to Roma to collect written heritage of Roma visionaries whose published and unpublished texts reflect the main stages in the development of the Roma movement and represent its different aspirations. The project is looking at Roma as an inseparable part of the mainstream history and Roma socio-political visions as part of the history of modern political thought in Europe. It will create a publicly accessible database of sources and manuscripts representing social and political endeavors of Roma. This will be a major contribution to the study of the history of Roma movements and state measures towards them in the Interwar period.

Keywords: gypsies,roma,interwar period,visionaries,written heritage,minorities,national states,identities
Adaptive Multifunctional Test Rigs for Aeronautical Structures (AMTRAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Adaptive multifunctional innovative Test Rigs for both structural test of multidimensional and multishape panels and structural tests on Tail unit (H2020-CS2-CFP03-2016-01, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 349375.0
EU funding (EUR): 349375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CleanSky2 has addressed the development of new aircraft concepts and architectures including new materials and manufacturing. In this respect, Adaptive Multifunctional Test Rigs for Aeronautical Structures (AMTRAS project) will contribute to the CleanSky2 objectives with the development of innovative multifunctional Test Rigs, with high performance instrumentation and multishape capability ready to test structural behaviour of new materials (panels) and full-scale demonstrators (Tail unit) To achieve flexibility with multiaxiality and asynchronous loading conditions, AMTRAS will be built by: • A flexible parallel system based on hydraulic actuators. • Machine Vision based Non-contact deformation monitoring and measurement system • Non-Destructive Testing based on IR Thermography for the detection of structural defects The flexibility and accuracy provided by AMTRAS Test Rigs will contribute to time-to-market minimization, reducing the time span from concept to validated design. This is line with the topic JTI-CS2-2016-CPF03-AIR-02-22 since preparation and assembly of different multifunctional testing benches will no longer be necessary. In addition, AMTRAS contributes to one of the targeted achievements for defined in Challenge 2 “Maintaining and extending industrial leadership” FlightPath 2050 Goals in the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) of ACARE (Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe). According to the SRIA, innovation in aviation is complex, capital intensive and takes time, typically, 15 years can elapse between the generation of a concept and technology being fully developed for a specific application on the next generation of air vehicles. However, market demands shorter cycles of new technology integration, therefore greater efficiency in processes (design, test, validation, certification, manufacture) is demanded to facilitate faster and more frequent introduction of innovations addressing market needs.

Keywords: panel,tail unit,test rig,stresses,6 dof actuator,shape adaptive flexible tooling system,machine vision,ir thermography,adaptive control,monitoring,fem simulation,3d catia models
Algorithmic Societies: Ethical Life in the Machine Learning Age (ALGOSOC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2150686.0
EU funding (EUR): 2150686.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ALGOSOC develops a new approach to understanding and responding to the consequences of machine learning algorithms for contemporary societies. Rapid advancements in machine learning technologies are transforming social and political life in ways that uniquely challenge how we live in relation to others. The life chances of a person are now intimately connected to the attributes that an algorithm has learned from the data patterns of unknown others. From judgements in the criminal justice system to decisions on treatment pathways in health, the outputs of algorithms have become pivotal to the decisions and adjudications on the probable futures of individuals. While there is substantial academic and public emphasis on defining ethical codes of conduct for algorithmic decisions, there is a lack of attention to how machine learning algorithms remake the ethical relations that define a society. In short, existing research is focused on limiting the harms of the actions of algorithms, whereas ALGOSOC focuses on how algorithms are redefining the thresholds of what harmful, good, bad, or risky behaviour means in a society. The ALGOSOC project will examine how 21st century machine learning algorithms are learning to recognize, to attribute, and to infer the characteristics of entities (people, groups, and objects). In order to do this, the project will conduct a series of path-defining studies of societal domains of machine learning that, though they share algorithms in common, have not previously been researched in combination: behavioural biometrics and biomedical object recognition; consumer recommendation and criminal justice scoring; oncology treatment pathways and anomaly detection for security. The ALGOSOC project will provide new social science knowledge of what is taking place as machine learning algorithms travel across different domains and sites, and how precisely they learn by their exposure to different worlds of data.

Keywords: algorithms,technology,data,politics,society,ethics,governance
Advanced Sylil Modified Polymers for Commercial Transportation and Automotive Elastic Adhesive Markets (Advanced-SiMP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1717882.5
EU funding (EUR): 1202517.75
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Automotive/transport industry is reducing vehicles weight, thus spurring the use of lightweight materials. Each car today contains 13-18 kg of adhesives, and this amount will increase in the future. Moreover, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Aftermarket sectors need faster and more cost-efficient production processes to remain competitive. Polyurethanes (PU) are the most widespread adhesive type in the sector. However, they present toxicity (high VOC emissions) and harmful effects to the environment as well as the need of additional steps for surface preparation and primers. Silyl-modified-polymer (SiMP) adhesives are attracting special attention in the last years due to their greener nature (low VOC emissions and isocyanate/solvent free) and easy application (no need for primer). Nowadays, none of the available SiMP solutions reach the necessary mechanical properties to fulfil the safety standards. NPT's Advanced-SiMP is an innovative solution with technical, environmental and economic benefits over current solutions. Advanced-SiMP is the first high-performance SiMP adhesive that keeps the same advantages as standard SiMP, but with improved mechanical properties in terms of tensile strength and elongation. This unique combination of properties will offer the alternative to manufacturers to minimize the use of PU and produce in a more sustainable manner, complying with the stringent Regulations while also allowing for faster application. This implies an important save of time and production costs (average annual savings of €900k in manufacturing lines). The product can be customized according to the production standards of the end-user. At NPT (New Polyurethane Technologies), founded in 1993 in Bologna, we are experts in the development and production of high performance adhesives/sealants. We design and produce our own base polymers, contributing to a differentiation over competitors which allows us to have current sales in more than 70 countries.

Keywords: adhesive,sealant,automotive,tier 1,aftermarket,direct glazing,polymers,silicone
Development of high quality food protein through sustainable production and processing (PROTEIN2FOOD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Uganda,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Germany,Romania,Sweden,Poland,Belgium,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Peru,Denmark
Call: Proteins of the future (H2020-SFS-2014-2, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8817637.5
EU funding (EUR): 8817637.5
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

PROTEIN2FOOD’s aim is to develop innovative, cost-effective and resource-efficient plant proteins –rich food sources with positive impact on human health, the environment and biodiversity. The quality and quantity of protein from selected highly nutritious seed crops (quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat), and legumes with high protein quantity (lupin, faba beans, pea, chickpea, lentil) will be significantly enhanced by using a multi-disciplinary approach that will include genetic, agronomic, food process engineering, sensory, socio-economic, and environmental assessment. Research is expected to improve the quality of plant proteins, produced in Europe, and of the sustainability of their production and processing. Through a better understanding of the: i) genetic mechanisms driving the protein formation and accumulation in the seed, ii) plant performance towards biotic and abiotic stresses, and iii) protein interactions with other components in the food matrix and its sensory repercussions in the final food products, this research should lead to the development of adapted plant protein sources with positive impact on environment and biodiversity as well as human health. Expected results in the project are: i) enhance the protein production by 25% through new effective breeding techniques and optimised crop management with an increase by 10% of the EU’s arable land destined to protein-crop production, using also marginal soils, ii) accelerate protein transition from animal-based protein to plant based protein in Europe with clear impact on reduction of carbon footprint, iii) increase EU agro-biodiversity by introducing promising high quality crops and legumes. Further, activities will support the prototypes of new protein-rich-protein food with exceptional market potential. Finally, we will improve the EU’s visibility in the area of food processing and technology through high impact factors scientific publications.

Keywords: underutilised species,quinoa,legumes
HandBiblio – Semantic Search Engine for Handwritten Documents - Enabling an effective and automatic access to contents of handwritten documents, stored as digital images. (HandBiblio)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of the project is to make available the knowledge contained into digital images of handwritten documents in the same way it is currently possible to do for native digital documents, and independently of the language, the alphabet and the writer of the documents. It is addressed to any public or private organization dealing with handwritten documents, whatever is the area of application (e.g. historical, cultural, economic, financial, administrative, legal, medical and so on). The expected impact of the project is creating an absolutely new segment in the ICT Solutions market, with an economic volume of at least hundreds of million euros. The impact for the Applicant is estimated at least in 40M€ turnover after three years, with a proportional growth of annual profits. The number of employees after 3 years is expected to be over 200 persons. The Phase 1 of the project will last about five months, starting on June 2017. The objective of Phase 1 is to draw up a feasibility study and a business plan, aimed at verifying and quantitatively specify in details all the relevant aspects of the project, through the following activities: - A technological assessment, aimed at evaluating the feasibility of the concept, the development of innovation strategy and IP management; - A marketing assessment, aimed at confirming the target market segments at international level and defining the short/ medium term marketing plan; - An Operating Assessment, aimed at evaluating risks, economic financial and other organisational aspects. The Applicant is an early stage high risk innovative SME in the ICT sector owning a new patented technology, based on innovative ICT concepts and able to disrupt existing market.

Keywords: handwritten documents,intelligent information retrieval,documentary heritage exploitation,web based services,knowledge management,dematerialisation