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Virtual Environments for Rehabilitation of Gender Violence Offenders (VRespect.Me)

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: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Domestic violence (DV) is a silent, prevalent, serious and preventable human rights abuse. Globally, 38% of all murders of women are committed by a male intimate partner. 30% of women have experienced intimate partner violence in their lifetime, with 8% of women over the age of 15 reporting that they have suffered DV in the previous year. Our Solution VRespect.Me is an immersive Virtual Reality experience that puts the DV offender in the place of the victim. The work is based on the very latest scientific research in cognitive neuroscience that has found that immersive Virtual Reality experiences can modify the socioperceptual processes that underlie the aggressive behaviours exhibited by perpetrators of DV. Research shows that abusive men typically have an inability to recognize fear in a woman’s face. But in our study, using the VRespect.Me, male domestic-violence offenders who embodied the verbally abused woman got significantly better at recognizing a woman’s fear. Essentially, they become more empathic. And a lack of empathy is one of the primary causes of domestic violence. VRespect.Me is currently being used to rehabilitate domestic violence offenders in Catalonia. In phase 1 we will: - Demonstrate the prototype to stakeholders across Europe and beyond. - Build a road map to bring the VRespect.Me to the market - Map the stakeholder environment Understand the different purchasing mechanisms in the field of rehabilitation of domestic violence offenders in different European markets - Identify the key target markets, develop a commercial strategy and update the business plan The Market: European governments spend an estimated 72 billion euros on the impact of domestic violence, with the overall cost to society an estimated 256 billion euros. VR is a booming industry, with the VR healthcare market estimated to reach 4billion euros by 2025. With VRespect.Me as our first product, we aim to position Virtual Bodyworks at the forefront of this fast-growing sector.
International Network on Advanced high energy Permanent Magnets (INAPEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Colombia,Greece,United States
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 580500.0
EU funding (EUR): 580500.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of this Marie Curie RISE action is to improve and exchange interdisciplinary knowledge of materials design by modelling, materials synthesis, characterization, and materials processing for permanent magnet development to be able to provide a critical raw free permanent magnet to the industry. Permanent magnets are indispensable for many commercial and military applications. Major commercial applications include the electric, electronic and automobile industries, communications, information technologies and automatic control engineering. Development and improvement of new technologies based on permanent magnets requires the joint effort of a multidisciplinary researcher collective, involving the expertise of participants on different disciplines including physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering. A consortium with such expertise is put together to undertake an integrative and concerted effort (via knowledge transfer) to provide the fundamental innovations and breakthroughs that are needed to fabricate/implement industrially new phases and microstructures required for the development and application of advanced permanent magnets without the use of critical materials. Results will be widely disseminated through publications, workshops, post-graduate courses to train new researchers, a dedicated webpage, and visits to companies working in the area. In that way, we will perform an important role in technology transfer between the most advanced hard and soft magnetic materials design and characterisation methods for the development of permanent magnets.

Keywords: hard magnetic materials,soft magnetic materials,permanent magnets,combinatorial analysis,microwave sintering,mossbauer,nuclear difraction
Development of Hydrophobic Windscreen Coating for Next Generation Civil Tilt Rotor (HaSU)

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: Italy
Call: Hydrophobic Windscreen Protection for Next Generation Civil Tilt Rotor (H2020-CS2-CFP04-2016-02, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 982604.16
EU funding (EUR): 746322.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The HaSU project directly addresses the challenges inherent to design, fabricate, and experimentally demonstrate a new type of hydrophobic coating for the Next Generation Civil Tilt Rotor (NGCTR) windscreen. In HaSU, a durable surface coating on the windshield to shed water will be developed and qualified to maintain pilot's visibility without using wipers. More in details, the HaSU project aims at providing: 1. Design and development of a specimen of the NGCTR windscreen substrate having the requested hydrophobic functionalities and performance throughout the whole flight envelope (to be reached in the WP1). 2. Manufacturing of hydrophobic windscreen specimens (to be reached in the WP2). 3. Testing and qualification of proposed hydrophobic specimens according to RTCA DO-160 (Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment of proposed hydrophobic specimens (to be reached in the WP3). The proposed technological solutions start at a TRL4 level and will make it possible to reach TRL6 at the end of the project.

Keywords: hydrophobic coatings,ngctr,windscreen,windshield
Unlimited Growth? A Comparative Analysis of Causes and Consequences of Policy Accumulation (ACCUPOL)

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: Germany
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2359000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2359000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ACCUPOL systematically analyzes an intuitively well-known, but curiously under-researched phenomenon: policy accumulation. Societal modernization and progress bring about a continuously growing pile of policies in most political systems. At the same time, however, the administrative capacities for implementation are largely stagnant. While being societally desirable in principle, ever-more policies hence may potentially imply less in terms of policy achievements. Whether or not policy accumulation remains at a ‘sustainable’ rate thus crucially affects the long-term output legitimacy of modern democracies. Given this development, the central focus of ACCUPOL lies on three questions: Do accumulation rates vary across countries and policy sectors? Which factors mitigate policy accumulation? And to what extent is policy accumulation really associated with an increasing prevalence of implementation deficits? In answering these questions, ACCUPOL radically departs from established research traditions in public policy. First, the project develops new analytical concepts: Rather than relying on individual policy change as the unit of analysis, we consider policy accumulation to assess the growth of policy portfolios over time. In terms of implementation, ACCUPOL takes into account the overall prevalence of implementation deficits in a given sector instead of analyzing the effectiveness of individual implementation processes. Second, this analytical innovation also implies a paradigmatic theoretical shift. Because existing theories focus on the analysis of individual policies, they are of limited help to understand causes and consequences of policy accumulation. ACCUPOL develops a novel theoretical approach to fill this theoretical gap. Third, the project provides new empirical evidence on the prevalence of policy accumulation and implementation deficits focusing on 25 OECD countries and two key policy areas (social and environmental policy).

Keywords: public policy,public administration,policy change,implementation
Advanced monitoring solution to prevent losses and assure full transparency along the cold chain (COOL-SENS)

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: 2019-03-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many fresh food products (fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, frozen products) and pharmaceuticals require continuous refrigeration during transport in order to guarantee their safety and quality and to preserve self-life. Thus, they are shipped in transportation means in which it is of utmost importance to maintain the products within a specific temperature range. Indeed, 9% of the total food production is yearly lost due to a bad management of the cold chain during transportation, which causes annual losses of 6,300 M€. For the pharma sector, broken cold chain issues result in 20% losses of temperature-sensitive products at global scale, resulting in yearly losses of 35,000 M€. The commercial solutions available for the monitoring of the cold chain range from simple indicators that indicate through changes in colour if the product has been exposed to too much heat and should be discarded, to a wide spectrum of temperature data loggers with or without network connectivity. These solutions are focused towards ensure compliance at the end of the cold chain, but they do not provide data on real time during transport, nor provide digested data to help stakeholders to avoid future breaks. To solve these limitations and protect shipments of temperature sensitive-products on real-time, we have developed Cool-Sens. By offering a personalised full service based on a pay-per-use model, and by leveraging the power of IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technology, Cool-Sense provides a personalized end-to-end trace and tracking service and guarantees full transparency along the cold chain. Cool-Sens is an ambitious project that will boost the growth of our SME, helping us to gain a leading position in the fast-growing cold chain monitoring market.

Keywords: cold chain,tracking,monitoring,real time,optimization,temperature sensitive products,perishable,internet of things,blockchain,artificial intelligence,transparency,logistics
A mango-based food ingredient, for food supplements and functional foods, that helps maintaining a healthy metabolism and an optimal body composition while preventing glucose intolerance (Care300)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sedentary habits, unhealthy food choices and lack of exercise are posing a tremendous health risk for the European population. Our bodies are overwhelmed by the nutrients that we do not burn by exercising. This impairs our energy balance and damages our metabolism. On the long run, an unhealthy metabolism increases the chances to develop obesity and diabetes. Diabetes affects 10% of the European population and obesity 10-30%. Besides the social implications, this problem has financial repercussions. As the symptoms only manifest at late stages of metabolic dysfunctions, when counter measures are not effective anymore, it crucial is to maintain a healthy metabolism. Vital Solutions Swiss AG is specialized in developing plant-based food ingredients, for functional food and food supplements, aimed at improving human health. We propose Care300, a mango-based ingredient, that keeps our metabolism healthy. By acting on specific regulatory enzymes, Care300 helps to reduce body weight, improves glucose tolerance and helps to develop an optimal body mass and fat distribution. Care300 is an effective and easy-to-use solution that protects from metabolic impairments. We thoroughly studied Care300’s mode of action in our laboratory and we characterized its benefits, in animal and human studies. This and its specific action on body composition are the features that make Care300 unique. The market of food supplement and functional food ingredients is expected to generate revenue for up to €5.6 billions by 2020. People are increasingly aware the importance of taking care of their bodies. With the commercialization of Care300, we expect to reach a revenue of €8.4 millions, a profit of €6 millions and to create a total of 15 new jobs by the 6th year of commercialization.
Translational aspects of the discovery of skull marrow – meninges connections (CALVARIA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996900.0
EU funding (EUR): 1996900.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are labeled as the epidemic of the 21st century. The inflammation of the brain is a common pathology observed in many NDs. Here I aim to exploit our discovery of skull – meninges connections (SMCs) mediating immune cell trafficking into the brain to ease this healthcare burden. Using tissue clearing methods, we found that the skull (calvaria) bone marrow is directly connected to the brain meninges, a discovery that was also shown by an independent group around the same time. This finding suggests that the calvaria is involved in diverse brain pathologies. Easier accessibility of the calvaria compared to brain parenchyma also makes it an attractive region to target, which would alleviate hurdles of drug delivery into the brain, e.g., to control neuroinflammation. Furthermore, potential biomarkers in the calvaria reflecting pathologies of the brain could be easier and faster to detect. However, the detailed structural and cellular characteristics of the SMCs and the calvaria, and how they correlate and interact with neuropathology remain unknown. Here, we will utilize high-throughput technologies such as tissue clearing, single cell RNAseq, proteomics and unbiased analysis of data using deep learning to close this knowledge gap. We will use ischemic stroke and dementia models that are associated with acute and chronic neuroinflammation, respectively, and study both mouse and human tissues in parallel to validate potential clinical implications. This project will investigate followings: Aim 1 | Calvaria in physiological state Aim 2 | Therapeutic aspect: manipulation of calvaria to control stroke and dementia Aim 3 | Diagnostic aspect: calvaria imaging to monitor stroke and dementia Thus, the first in-depth investigation of the calvaria bone in health and disease could deliver novel diagnostic and therapeutic targets to mitigate the increasing burden of neurological diseases.

Keywords: novel therapeutics and diagnostics,neuroinflammation,single cell rna seq,proteomics,deep learning,tissue clearing
An eco-friendly, Integrated Facility and Energy Management Platform for continuous reduction of infrastructure operating cost, driven by AI. (Yodiwo FEMP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Greece
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Commercial buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in the EU alone. With the use of better and energy efficient Facility Management Systems there is a potential of reducing the EU’s total energy consumption up to 6% and lowering greenhouse emissions by about 5% . Currently there is a lack of an intelligent and context-aware BMS which can monitor as well as manage the buildings efficiently in real time. However the use of current Building Management System can increase the maintenance cost up to €100,000 per building, lacks the integration of advanced data analytics as well as AI to identify risk conditions for people and building equipment, have limited real-time response capabilities and are vulnerable to privacy and data breach attacks. Yodiwo FEMP is an IoT based platform which aims to optimize facility management operations and improve energy efficiency of building equipment. Yodiwo FEMP uses AI/ML algorithms and advanced data analytics to provide predictive maintenance, safety and device optimization, automation to increase energy efficiency and increase the comfort level of occupants. During the phase 1 project, a go-to-market strategy and a supply chain will be established, as well as further development plan will be drafted. The innovation project will allow for the finalization of the Yodiwo FEMP platform and the scale-up the platform capability with end-users and performing in-field demonstration with initial customers.

Keywords: predictive maintenance,real time monitoring,energy efficiency,facility management
Interoperability of Heterogeneous IoT Platforms (INTER-IoT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Poland,Slovenia,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7329850.0
EU funding (EUR): 7329850.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

INTER-IoT project is aiming at the design, implementation and experimentation of an open cross-layer framework and associated methodology to provide voluntary interoperability among heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) platforms. The proposal will allow developing effectively and efficiently smart IoT applications, atop different heterogeneous IoT platforms, spanning single and/or multiple application domains. The overall goal of the INTER-IoT project is to provide a interoperable framework architecture for seamless integration of different IoT architectures present in different application domains. Interoperability will be provided at different levels: device, network, middleware, services and data. The two application domains and use cases addressed in the project and in which the IoT framework will be applied are m-health and port transportation and logistics. The project outcome may optimize different operations (e.g. increasing efficiency in transportation time; reducing CO2 emission in a port environment; improving access control and safety; improving remote patient attendance and increase the number of subject that surgery units can assist using the mobile devices with the same resources; reducing time spent in hospitals premises or reduce the time dedicated to the assistance activities carried out directly at the surgery with advantage for subjects in charge and also benefits those waiting, i.e. reduction of the waiting list) in the two addresses domains, but it may be extended to other application domains in which there is a need to interconnect different IoT architectures already deployed. The project may deal with interoperability at different layers.

Keywords: system interoperability,methodology,interoperability framework,smart devices,transportation and logistics,m health
Indirect Magnetic Interactions: Tuning by Electric Field (IMAGINE)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156980.64
EU funding (EUR): 156980.64
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

With silicon-based electronics nearing its limits, spintronics and quantum computing have emerged as technologies promising unprecedented amounts of computational power. One of the biggest challenges in these fields is engineering of systems allowing full control over large arrays of identical spin-centres. In this project I aim to tackle this issue by fabricating a spintronic device in which one of the crucial parameters - the magnetic coupling between individual spin centres - can be efficiently modulated. This will be achieved by synthesizing a magnetic metal-organic network on top of a graphene field-effect transistor. Here, the metal-organic network allows precise positioning of magnetic atoms into long-range-ordered lattices, and the gated graphene substrate enables precise tuning of the charge transfer from the deposited molecules via the applied gate voltage. Thus, this project simultaneously addresses practical issues in device fabrication, as well as the fundamental mechanisms of magnetic coupling. Such a broad goal requires a concerted effort from researchers of different backgrounds. The shared expertise of the Host Group at the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) and me is optimally suited for this project: I am experienced in atomically-resolved imaging, spectroscopy, and reactivity studies of both conductive and insulating systems. The Host Group has extensive experience with molecular self-assembly and graphene devices, and the Host Institution recently developed a novel state-of-the-art apparatus for Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy, a technique exquisitely sensitive for probing weak magnetic interactions. Overall, this project will provide fundamental insight into the characteristics of weak magnetic interactions, for which current literature provides many conflicting predictions. The resulting device will additionally serve as an ideal platform for further spintronic applications and quantum computing studies.

Keywords: graphene,metal organic networks,self assembly,surfaces