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Facilitating and stimulating the unleashing of innovation potential through the first Pan EU-Africa sustainable network of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) focussing on smart logistic. (DIGILOGIC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Finland,Zambia,Ghana,Nigeria
Call: International partnership building between European and African innovation hubs (H2020-ICT-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2283720.35
EU funding (EUR): 1939315.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The vision of DIGILOGIC is to boost the cooperation and strategic partnership between European and African Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) paving the way for startups, SMEs and innovators to jointly develop smart logistic solutions, in close cooperation with industries and ventures, securing sustainability and success. The motivation that drives the EU-Africa DIGILOGIC project is to facilitate and stimulate the unleashing of the innovation potential within Africa’s young engineers and entrepreneurs. It achieves this through the creation of the first Pan EU-Africa sustainable network of DIHs, focussing on the topic of smart logistics. DIGILOGIC sees the horizontally connecting logistics industry at the converging point of interest for digital innovation for social and business development, a crucial node for Europe’s and Africa’s sustainable prosperity. DIGILOGIC is centered on five DIHs: three DIHs in Europe (DE, FI, IT) and two DIHs in Africa, reaching nine countries (GH, NG, ZM, ZA, KE, MW, ZW, NA, MZ). Furthermore, DIGILOGIC is unique in that it includes both an online eLearning and collaboration platform for smart logistics and the first practical demonstration of the success of this new federation of smart logistic EU-Africa DIHs, by incorporating four, so-called, “Challenges” that will involve both European and African innovators (startups, ICT professionals, Micro SMEs) in real projects in the logistic sector, to solve existing issues that require new technological solutions. These Challenges (both in EU and AU) will not only demonstrate the benefits of using trained and skilled persons from low- /middle- income African countries (thereby contributing to youth employment), but will set the stage for tighter collaboration between EU-AU Digital Innovation Hubs and contribute to reinforce the international dimension strategic partnership and outreach of the Horizon 2020 ICT Programme 2018-2020 and contributing to the upcoming Horizon Europe.

Keywords: pan european african dih,knowledge transfer,digital technologies,technology transfer,capacity building,go to market focused learning,youth employment,micro sme,startups,smart logistics
Global biological productivity during abrupt climate change (OXYPRO)

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: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 219312.0
EU funding (EUR): 219312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Atmospheric oxygen (O2) is an essential component for life. The global biological O2 productivity has changed with Earth's climate change and, at the same time, has affected to global biosphere. Therefore, understanding how global biological O2 productivity responds to abrupt climate change is important to project future climate and environment change. However, former studies have been focused on global O2 productivity change over the glacial-interglacial transitions, mainly due to insufficient temporal resolution of existing data. This project aims to reconstruct the global primary productivity change over the Heinrich Stadial (HS). HS events are naturally occuring abrupt climate changes in the last glacial triggered by abrupt input of glacial meltwater into the North Atlantic Ocean. In this project, a new high-resolution record of triple oxygen isotopes of air O2 and COS concentrations will be produced throughout the HS events 1 to 5 using polar ice cores. Then the major controls and mechanisms will be explored by a series of sensitivity experiments using climate models with different complexities. This project will be carried out at the section of Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth at Niels Bohr Institute (PICE, University of Copenhagen). PICE equips the state of art analytical instruments and has developed the novel methods to study trace gas and isotopes in ice cores. The supervisor is a world expert of the triple oxygen isotopes of air O2 in ice cores. This project plans a secondment to Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment (LSCE, University of Paris Saclay) for sensitivity experiments using climate models. LSCE is a leading institution of paleoclimate modelling, which allows a better understanding of major control mechanisms of the past productivity change.

Keywords: triple oxygen isotopes,ice core,primary productivity,abrupt climate change,heinrich events,dansgaard oeschger events,climate modelling
Manipulation of a Single Spin in a Superconductor (MASSS)

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: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

I propose to perform the coherent manipulation of the spin of a single superconducting quasiparticle. To achieve this challenging goal I will fabricate a Josephson weak-link coupling two superconducting electrodes through the two-dimensional electron gas of an AlSb/InAs/AlSb quantum well. The weak-link configuration allows to single out one superconducting quasiparticle, by trapping it in a low-energy discrete state (an Andreev bound state) completely disconnected from the continuum of excitations above the gap. The energy of this state depends on the superconducting phase difference across the link. It can be tuned by placing the weak-link in a superconducting loop threaded by a magnetic flux. The combination of a finite superconducting phase difference and the strong spin-orbit coupling energy in InAs lifts the degeneracy of the two spin states of the quasiparticle, which can therefore be addressed. In order to manipulate and probe the quantum state of the spin of the trapped quasiparticle I will couple this hybrid structure to the electromagnetic field of a microwave resonator in a circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) architecture. This project opens a new research path in the field of superconducting spintronics and leads to the exploration of new topological phases in multi-terminal devices.

Keywords: mesoscopic superconductivity,quantum transport,proximity effect,andreev reflection,sns junctions
Twinning for a Sustainable, Proactive Research partnership in distributed Energy systems planning, Modelling and managEment (SuPREME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Poland,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Twinning (H2020-TWINN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1047551.25
EU funding (EUR): 1047551.25
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The transition from fossil fuels to renewable and sustainable energy sources has become the European Union’s top developmental priority, with low-performing countries in Central Europe facing the most urgent need. As the region’s largest country, Poland’s continuing economic progress has not come without significant costs; due to its history in electricity production, in 2009 it had the highest rate of production by coal of any EU member state. This makes Poland Europe’s third largest polluter in terms of damage to society, home to six of Europe’s 30 most damaging power-plants, and to be among Europe’s worst for public exposure to harmful pollution. At the same time it is experiencing rises in domestic electricity demand twice the EU average. This makes Poland the most urgent nation in the EU with regards to the need for immediate conversion to renewable energy systems and resources. However, unlike traditional power facilities, energy produced by RES often produces unpredictable and variable outputs related to weather, season, and geographical location. While Polish research now has expertise in many of the technologies needed for energy transition, it lacks critical knowledge in modelling, planning, integrating, and managing large-scale renewable energy systems in a flexible and effective manner. The SUPREME project twins one of Poland’s best energy research centres, the Instytut Maszyn Przeplywowych Im Roberta Szewalskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk with needed expertise in Denmark (Aalborg University), the Netherlands (University Twente), and Austria (the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance). Focusing on needed knowledge transfer in integrating energy technologies, the project’s well-formulated mix of extended staff exchanges, joint work, Summer Schools, and other events will create a long-lasting and effective partnership that will have a very significant impact on Poland’s energy systems infrastructure.

Keywords: twinning,renewable energy,sustainable energy,energy management,smart grids,micro smart grids,energy system integration
Dickens, Adaptation, and the Nineteenth-Century European Theatre (Adapting Dickens)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-07-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

“Adapting Dickens” approaches the work of Charles Dickens from a fresh, dynamic, globally engaged perspective. The project considers adaptations—particularly dramatizations—of Dickens's novels as key sites for international cultural interaction in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Adaptation to the stage transformed Dickens--Britain's emblematic national writer--into an international cultural commodity: the stage, a global network for cultural transactions, interpreted and circulated his work across Europe and the nineteenth-century colonial world. The research at the heart of the “Adapting Dickens” project views adaptations as expressions of critical interpretation of literary texts as they comment upon and translate them into new media, other languages, and for consumption by a wide array of audiences. The project draws upon the latest developments in adaptation theory and pedagogy, and it seeks to find fresh venues for researching Europe’s Dickens; new tools for locating, interpreting, and disseminating work on Dickens and the nineteenth-century theatre; and ways of communicating emerging ideas about Dickens, nineteenth-century Europe, literary adaptation, and cultural currency to audiences beyond the academy. The project will (1) ensure knowledge transfer to Europe and enhance and enrich both European literary and theatre studies;, (2) enhance pedagogical innovation via public performances, classroom outreach activities, web development, and a volume on teaching through adaptation; and (3) contribute to the Fellow’s professional development through web training, advanced language study, archival research in Europe, and the production of articles and a scholarly monograph.

Keywords: dickens,adaptation,drama,nineteenth century,theatre,novel,pedagogy,performance
EeB Cluster Activities Coordination Action (EeB-CA2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies enabling energy-efficient systems and energy-efficient buildings with a low environmental impact
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EeB (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Belgium,France
Call: Support for the enhancement of the impact of EeB PPP projects (H2020-EeB-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 499185.0
EU funding (EUR): 499185.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

EeB-CA2 initiative is to provide the right set of instruments supporting technology-clustering and geo-clustering upon the whole set of EeB PPP EC-funded projects related to energy efficiency in the built environment, with the following primary ambition: to enhance and rationalise coordinated and broader dissemination, technology transfer and future exploitation activities of clustered projects, so as to help them better promoting and marketing their achievements and deliverables.

Keywords: clustering technology geographical energy efficient buildings transfer dissemination
Towards Quantum States of Matter via Chemistry under Extreme Conditions (QMatCh)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2024-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162040.32
EU funding (EUR): 162040.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum materials hold the promise to spark the next technological revolution; the realization of quantum computers, high-speed electronic devices, or cheap energy delivered over superconducting wires could transform our society. However, the experimental realisation of such devices is slow to develop due to a lack of understanding of crucial underlying quantum phenomena. Magnetic systems with low dimensionality could provide one of the most important avenues for the realisation of exotic quantum states of matter. Yet the exploration of the properties and applications of quantum materials relies on advances in synthesis techniques. With the aim of expanding the frontiers of quantum materials, this project aims to explore low dimensional quantum systems under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure. Motivated by finding quantum states of matter, the synthesis of new magnetic phases with a one-dimensional and two-dimensional arrangement of spins is targeted. Firstly, the realization of 1D quantum magnetism in quasi-one-dimensional La3MoO7 by chemical and physical means will be explored. Secondly, the realization of spin ½ decorated anisotropic Shastry-Sutherland lattice in the quasi-two-dimensional SrCu2(BO3)2 system by chemical doping (on both A- and B-site) will be investigated. A plethora of synthetic techniques including high-pressure synthesis in the GPa range will be employed to obtain the targeted phases. The physical properties of the synthesised materials will be investigated through a variety of cutting-edge characterisation techniques such as X-ray and neutron scattering, electron paramagnetic resonance, nuclear magnetic and muon spin resonance which will reveal important information on the nature of the magnetic interactions and dimensionality. The results of this project may provide new systems that exhibit quantum phenomena and thus help to expand the frontiers of quantum materials.

Keywords: magnetism,quantum materials,synthesis,structural characterisation,physical properties
Synergies in Nanotechnologies, Materials and Production in the European Research Area (SYNAMERA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Germany,Austria,Belgium,Slovenia,Romania,France,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Facilitating knowledge management, networking and coordination in NMP (H2020-NMP-CSA-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 496221.25
EU funding (EUR): 496221.25
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal for a Coordination Action aims at improving visibility for essential stakeholders, most notably national/regional programming and funding authorities, on programming synergetic actions between the European Union and member states in the NMP Program. This shall be done by organising a forum and collecting road maps focused in particular on the use of the new ERANET instrument in the NMP area. In doing so, the CSA shall acknowledge that the NMP program has an important role in translating result from flagships towards industrial application and in facilitating key enabling technologies towards the Grand Societal Challenges. It shall also take into account the methodology of technology readiness levels is leading the programmation of the NMP work program. Programming should also acknowledge that industrial leadership, for SMEs in particular is an important objective. This objective should result in a road-map with the aim to increase visibility on themes to program. In exploiting synergies, the new ERANET Instrument is an important tool. In order to operationalize it in Horizon2020 visibility should be improved on best practices in using the ERANET under FP7 as well collecting a database on projects funded through it. This shall give input to a forum to discuss future opportunities and identify critical mass of funding agencies willing to support it. Synergies shall often require alignment of European, National and Regional funding. In fact operational programs under ERDF demand these synergies. In NMP many topics demand an alignment of proposals with regional Smart Specialisation Strategies. How these synergies can be organised is an explicit objective, with the aim, to enlarge the number of funding agencies (national or regional) able to use it. Therefore particular attention in this project shall be given to reach out to as many regions as possible.

Keywords: nanotechnologies,materials,production,coordination and synergies of european,national and regional programming and funding activities
Remotely Adjustable Structural Plasmonic Colour (Smart Colour)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212194.8
EU funding (EUR): 212194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the Smart Colour project, I aim to develop the first remotely adjustable plasmonic structural colour surface, where the colour appearance can be changed reversibly by photo-thermal actuation. I will achieve this by applying a combination of plasmonic nanostructures and phase changeable materials. Smart plasmonic colouration can be used in rewritable optical data recording systems, display devices and consumer goods in general where the consumer will be able to change the colour of a given product according to his/her will. For centuries, pigments have been the main colorant agents. However, pigments are environmentally hazardous, rarely recyclable and instable due to photobleaching. Plasmonic structural colours are instead robust and sustainable. Despite enormous efforts in this evolving field, development of tunable structural colouring, similar to camouflaging in animals, remains a challenge. I will address this challenge by exploiting the heat generated in plasmonic materials under resonant absorption of light – external stimuli - to actuate phase changeable materials, such as tungsten doped Vanadium dioxide (VO2-W). The heat can transform VO2-W from a semiconductor to a metallic state and shift the plasmon resonance of the nanostructures. The resulting resonance-shift changes the appearance (colour) of the surface. The realization of this ambitious project will increase the European competence in nano-optics and pave the way for new applications of plasmonic materials. The multidisciplinary nature of the project, involving physics, materials science and engineering gives me a great opportunity to learn new skills such as optical simulation, nano-photonics and hands-on-experience in electron beam lithography and nano-structuring. Moreover, it will be a great chance for me to practice management of a research project. Therefore, it will leverage my capabilities and skills to establish my own leading independent research group following this fellowship.

Keywords: plasmonics,structural colours,nanofabrication,matrerials science
Black Holes in String Theory and Holography (BH-STRING-HOLO)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

Black holes are among the most fascinating and enigmatic objects in our universe. The internal structure of black holes is of significant interest for quantum gravity, for astrophysical phenomena, and for the study of quantum entanglement in systems with many degrees of freedom. The Black Hole Information Paradox, which sharply demonstrates the incompatibility of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, is a primary motivation for this proposal. The proposed research will also yield insight into fundamental aspects of quantum gravity such as singularity resolution and the emergence of spacetime. The research described in this proposal studies black hole microstates in String Theory, supergravity and holography. The ultimate goal of this line of research is a complete characterization of the internal structure of black holes. The objectives of this proposal are: 1) To establish the microscopic description of several classes of black hole microstate supergravity solutions, through holographic studies; 2) To construct and study supergravity solutions describing microstates of non-extremal black holes, in particular solving for solutions that display new topological structures; 3) To investigate the observability of black hole horizon-scale structure at experiments such as LIGO, through interdisciplinary work to build models of string-theoretic black hole internal structure and predictions for experiment that can be tested in the near future and beyond. These objectives will be achieved by combining the applicant’s knowledge and recent results on black hole microstate solutions with the expertise of different members of the host research group in the areas of holography, supergravity solutions and gravitational wave experiments. Through this research, the applicant will develop new technical, interdisciplinary, research leadership and management skills, significantly enhancing his career potential.

Keywords: string theory,black holes,holography,conformal field theory,supergravity