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GPBOX Energy Platform (GPBOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Energy storage systems (ESS) are gaining popularity among low voltage users as well as industrial application basically as a result of the falling price of these technologies. However many issues are still open such as the challenges coming from the integration of multiple distributed resources to the electric grid or the customers attitude regarding these new element in their installation. Regarding this potential market and user needs, GPBox energy platform is presented as a revolutionary concept in the energy sector which pretend to involve all the actors in the electric market –from electric utilities to small users– through the integration of distributed energy resources based on an on-cloud system known as eBroker. eBroker concept goes beyond current development of buy cheap/sell expensive with a full value chain from customers habit evaluation to electric grid enhancement, providing Behind the Meter services (i.e. Black Start, Voltage and Frequency support, Resource adequacy, etc.) to electric network operators, while it saves up to 25% to the user’s electric bill. Market projection shows that Energy Storage Systems (battery based) market will be worth about $ 34 billion of annual revenue in 2023. While the European market size will be $ 10-12 billion of annual revenue in 2023 (30%-40% of the total market). Renewable integration and grid ancillary services account for the vast majority of this ESS market. GPBox will provide Behind the Meter services based on embedded artificial intelligent tools which will allow cost saving to the electric network operators valued at more than 20% of current OPEX. With this first phase, GPTech objective is to obtain a feasibility study and a detailed business plan which will consolidate current expectation regarding technological, operational and economic viability of GPBox business line of products; it will include a solid exploitation strategy and a reliable business model focused on 2018.

Keywords: energy storage,cloud computing,management systems,energy platform,behind the meter services,renewable integration,grid ancillary services
MOBile NETwork for people's location in natural and man-made disasters (MOBNET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Poland,Netherlands
Call: Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) based EGNSS applications (H2020-Galileo-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1242533.75
EU funding (EUR): 986272.25
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Unmanned vehicles (UVs) now play an increasing role in Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) missions such as border surveillance, cropping monitoring or local law enforcement. However, fast location of isolated people in the case of natural or man-made disasters still continues to be a crucial and arduous task. MOBNET will design a Search and Rescue (SAR) system for the location of isolated victims in the case of natural or man-made disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes or large snow storms. It will also help first responder services to find fugitives or smugglers hidden within buildings. To that end, the use of European Global Navigation Satellite (EGNSS) systems (both Galileo early services and EGNOS) and Digital Cellular Technologies (DCT) will play the key role in these situations in which it is difficult, dangerous or even impossible to access the affected areas. The EGNSS and DCT technologies will be tightly synchronised to provide accurate positioning. However, this demanding synchronisation exceeds the current capabilities of most GNSS and cellular equipment. In order to achieve the required performance, novel EGNSS and DCT methods will be applied. Furthermore, an effective and reliable communication link between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and the ground station will be designed. This datalink will ensure uninterrupted command and control communication among devices and the integrity of communication signals. Thus, the UAVs will always operate as intended. Research will be driven by the end-user and industrial partners to ensure that it addresses the needs of the PPDR services. The potential for a fast and reliable SAR system will be illustrated by a prototype that will work at long distances. The developed SAR system will take advantage of the Galileo and EGNOS capabilities and will strengthen the position of European Industry in the field of security services. It will greatly facilitate their missions and the rescue of isolated victims

Keywords: uavs,ppdr,localization,cellular technologies,egnss,natural disaster,wireless network
Material solution for sustainable and affordable housing (OXA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Construction is reliant on cement-based concrete which is the most used synthetic material and the most environmentally unfriendly material. Globally concrete uses 40bn tons of sand and 40% of global energy annually. Population growth has resulted in increased demand for housing, currently around 1bn people live in slums and are in need of decent and affordable housing. Statistics on the affordability of housing showed that 11.4 % share of the EU population live in households that spent 40% or more of their “equivalised disposable income” on housing, which cannot be ignored in the EU's fight against poverty. In 2008, the EU identified Construction and demolition waste as a priority waste stream as it constituted 49% of Europe’s solid waste producing 887 million tons of waste of which less than 50% is being recycled with the rest frequently not used and landfilled because its use is time consuming, labour intensive, cost intensive and requiring important machinery. Oxa is a solution for construction and housing markets that targets to deliver safe and affordable housing worldwide while reducing CO2 from construction industry and introducing circular economy. Oxa uses materials such as Construction and demolition waste or excavation materials blended with novel Oxa, non-toxic and safe mineral-based additives to produce cement free concrete, bricks and flooring solutions. In 2017, global market for residential building construction was €3.75 trillion and is estimated to reach €6.12trillion by 2022. Our Phase 1 project seeks to validate the technical, commercial and financial viability of Oxa, while our Phase 2 project we will optimise our manufacturing process, get our product certified and licenced in target markets and conduct exploitation and dissemination activities. With this project we forecast a payback period of 4 years, to make revenues of €28M by our 5th year of commercialization and ROI in 436% in 5 years and also create about 100 new jobs in the EU.

Keywords: cement free,cement based,clean concrete cleancrete,clean bricks cleanbrick,cleanflow,mineral based additives,solid waste,construction and demolition waste,excavation waste
The strong interaction at the frontier of knowledge: fundamental research and applications (STRONG-2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Finland,Croatia,Poland,Poland,Sweden,Switzerland,Poland,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Montenegro,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Integrating Activities for Advanced Communities (H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 62.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 10000000.0
Participants: 46
Project status: SIGNED

The strong interaction is one of the cornerstones of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, and its experimental and theoretical study attracts an active community of about 2500 researchers in Europe. The list of fundamental open questions at the frontier of our current knowledge in the strong interaction is very rich and varied including a full understanding of (i) the partonic structure of hadrons, (ii) exotic hadronic states, properties of (iii) dense quark matter and of (iv) hot and dense quark-gluon plasma, as well as (v) precision tests of the SM. Such research topics are studied experimentally and theoretically mostly via particle collisions at low (a few tens of GeV) and high (up to 14 TeV) energies. Associated developments in state-of-the-art detectors/data-acquisition/beams/targets are required, as well as in theoretical (lattice, effective field, perturbative) calculations. The STRONG-2020 project brings together many of the leading research groups and infrastructures involved today in the study of the strong interaction in Europe, and also exploits the innovation potential in applied research through the development of detector systems with applications beyond fundamental physics, e.g. for medical imaging and information technology. The Consortium includes 44 participant groups, embracing 14 EU Member States, one International EU Interest Organization (CERN), and one EU candidate country. Together with host institutions of 21 other countries, without EU funds benefits, the project involves research in 36 countries. The project is structured in 32 Work Packages (WP): 7 Transnational Access Activities, 2 Virtual Access Activities, 7 Networking Activities and 14 Joint Research Activities. Furthermore, 2 WPs take care, respectively, of the “Management and Coordination” of the project and of “Communication and Outreach".

Keywords: strong interaction,quantum chromodynamics,hadron structure,novel particle detectors,3d and,polarized parton densities,quark gluon plasma,dense quark matter,precision sm tests,new targetsandbeams
The most accurate Fintech tool for valuation of start-ups, based on artificial intelligence (FAIR VALUE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

WHO WE ARE? Fellow Funders is a company born with the mission of democratizing the alternative investment. was born as an Equity Crowdfunding platform and now we are seeking to scale up our business by the market launch of FAIR VALUE. WHAT IS FAIR VALUE? FAIR VALUE is a 100% online Fintech tool to help entrepreneurs and investors in the impartial and accurate business valuation, as well as in determining risks and estimate the readiness of their new business project to access financing. FAIR uses proprietary algorithms for risk analysis and business valuation, supported by machine learning techniques for the automatic adjustment to different sectors, market conditions and risk evolution. FAIR VALUE will help entrepreneurs to get the funds they need to run their business, and investors to minimize risks in their investments. WHY FAIR VALUE? It is estimated that 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months and the difficulties to access funding is among the most common causes. Indeed, it is calculated that 82% of startups that fail do so because of cash flow problems, while more than 27% were not able to receive the funding they needed. A correct company valuation is critical for succeeding in the process of fund raising, but young companies like startups are difficult to value. Unlike valuing companies with revenues, assets and longer track records there are no agreed upon standards for startups and traditional valuation methods fail. HOW BIG IS OUR MARKET OPPORTUNITY? Our business opportunity is reinforced by the sustained and strong growth of our sector of operation; the Fintech sector, with investment increased from $930M in 2008 to more than $36.9 billion in 2016. This market scenario qualifies our business opportunity, which we conservatively quantify as a cumulative After-tax ROI of 315% for the 1.5M investment we estimate necessary to enter the market in less than 2 years from now.

Keywords: startups,business valuation,alternative finance,investment
National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe (NI4OS-Europe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Albania,Armenia,Cyprus,Bosnia and Herzegovina,North Macedonia,Serbia,Bulgaria,Hungary,Hungary,Slovenia,Slovenia,Greece,Greece,Croatia,Romania,Moldova, Republic of,Georgia,Montenegro
Call: Support to the EOSC Governance (H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-3, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5599475.0
EU funding (EUR): 5599475.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

Mission and vision of the project are to be a core contributor to European Open Science Cloud service portfolio, commit to EOSC governance and ensure inclusiveness on the European level. The objective of the project is to support the development and inclusion of the national Open Science Cloud initiatives in 15 Member States and Associated Countries in the overall scheme of EOSC governance; spread the EOSC and FAIR principles in the community and train it; and provide technical and policy support in on-boarding of the existing and future service providers into EOSC, including generic services (compute, data storage, data management), thematic services, repositories and data sets - thus covering the whole spectrum of services related to Open Science, data and publications. The overall approach is that national Open Science landscape in all countries will be mapped, analysed and systematized so as to facilitate both the creation of national OSC initiatives to support the overall EOSC governance, and to engage all stakeholders. A set of providers (generic e-Infrastructure providers, thematic providers, repositories) will be on-boarded into EOSC - following the best practices, policies, guidelines and tools formulated by the project, in alignment with the existing EOSC initiatives and standards. The project solutions provided will be interoperable with EOSC services and will be tested and fine-tuned by real users, and the widest community will be supported in the uptake of research data sharing and practices, in alignment with FAIR principles. Following the work programme requirements, the project will support the operational framework for governance by focusing on coordination between relevant national initiatives, as well as data infrastructures, e-Infrastructures and thematic services, and their federation into the EOSC. The effort is mandated by national governments of 15 countries through explicit Letters of Support.

Keywords: european open science cloud,governance,national initiatives,service provider support,inclusiveness,open science
An AI-based IoT medical device revolutionizing motor recovery following neurological disorders, inspiring hope and helping patients and their families regain their independence. (BQ System)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3212467.14
EU funding (EUR): 2248727.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Neurological disorders affect over a billion people worldwide, of which 200 million suffer from motor disabilities which substantially impact on their lives. One example of a common neurodisorder is spinal cord injury, where less than 1% of patients experience complete neurologic recovery. when SCI occurs in young age it leaves people to live a whole life of paralysis. Many of these patients will be left dependent on others, unable to perform activities of daily living, and likely be unemployed. To date, there is no real available solution for full recovery. The current standard of treatment, physical therapy, is typically tedious and offers limited recovery potential. In addition to providing minimal results, the present treatment regimens are costly, time-consuming, cumbersome, and require the regular movement of patients between multiple care providers, prompting the need for emerging neurorecovery technologies. With growing numbers, neurological disorders create tremendous pressure on healthcare institutions which are already strained for resources. BrainQ has developed the BQ System, an innovative IoT medical device to promote neurorecovery. The company's first indication is facilitating motor recovery following paralysis as a result of SCI or stroke. The BQ System implements AI capabilities to tailor a low-intensity electromagnetic field (EMF) treatment for each patient, maximizing their recovery potential for motor function improvement. Treatment with the BQ Device is non-invasive, and is comfortable for patients. It is also cloud-connected with a user-friendly interface. This project will allow BQ System advance to a home-care protocol, allowing integration with other treatments as well as future vertical scaling to reach patients suffering from motor impairment due to a wide range of neurological disorders. BrainQ will perform engineering optimisation, industrialization, and clinical validation of the BQ System.

Keywords: spinal cord injury,paralysis,neurological recovery,neurorecovery,stroke care,traumatic,brain injury,iot medical device,motor recovery
Development of Identity and Relationships during Transitions in Adolescence (INTRANSITION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999960.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999960.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A key developmental task in adolescence is the development of identity, which coincides with development of autonomy in close relationships. The INTRANSITION project aims to examine how development of identity and autonomy affect each other during adolescence. The project will advance the field by examining intra-individual (or within-person, as opposed to inter-individual or between-person) processes of change in identity and autonomy. This is crucial as inter-individual processes are not related or translatable to intra-individual processes. Often theories are examined by comparing adolescents to other adolescents, whereas the theoretical question focuses on understanding developmental changes within adolescents. To this end I will apply innovative intra-individual techniques to analyze development of identity and autonomy at different time scales: real-time moment-to-moment behavior, interactions across hours and days, and long-term development. In five interrelated work packages, I will examine development of adolescent identity and autonomy by putting the individual back in development. Work package 1 focuses on short-term intra-individual developmental processes of identity and autonomy. Work package 2 examines how developmental transitions affect intra-individual development of identity and autonomy. Work package 3 will focus on how person-environment interactions moderate intra-individual development of identity and autonomy. Work package 4 will examine emotional and behavioral variability in intra-individual development of identity and autonomy. Work package 5 addresses gene-environment interactions and epigenetic processes in intra-individual development of identity and autonomy. Together, these work packages will offer a better understanding of the short-term and long-term intra-individual developmental processes of identity and autonomy during transitional periods, thereby allowing to better understand how these changes take place within individuals.

Keywords: adolescence,identity,autonomy,transitions,within person
Light and sound waves in silicon and nonlinear glass waveguides (L-SID)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496944.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496944.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The interplay of light and sound waves in matter has attracted the attention of researchers for decades and has found many technological applications. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) provide an exciting playground for such investigations, due to wavelength-scale guiding structures, periodicity in one or two dimensions, and high-quality resonance structures. The objectives of this proposal are to introduce, investigate and employ interactions between guided optical modes and hyper-sonic acoustic waves, within PICs in silicon and in chalcogenide glass media. Both these platforms are extremely important: silicon for its potential for integration of photonics and digital micro-electronics and mature fabrication technology, and chalcogenides for their unique nonlinear-optical and photo-sensitive properties. However, the introduction of hyper-sonic acoustic waves to both materials is highly challenging, due to the absence of piezoelectricity. To address these challenges, this project is based on developing and validating two alternative methods for the generation of high-frequency acoustic waves. First, photo-acoustic absorption of intense, ultrafast laser pulses by periodic, metallic patterns will be employed. The technique is being used in bulk silicon substrates, and will be carried over and adapted for use in silicon and chalcogenide glass PICs. Second, carefully controlled stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) processes will be used to excite acoustic waves along chalcogenide PICs in a highly localized fashion. Prospective outcomes include new fundamental insights into the opto-mechanical properties of materials, films and periodic structures; novel functionalities of silicon and chalcogenide PICs, such as acousto-optic modulation, dynamic gratings and elasto-optic super-lattices; new types of sensors, such as chip-level distributed measurements of strain, temperature and modal profile; and a first look at non-local behaviour of SBS.

Keywords: silicon photonics,photonic integrated circuits,surface acoustic waves,integrated devices