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Novel closed-cage system for high-value marine aquaculture (NEPTUN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Cross-cutting marine and maritime research
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: Supporting SMEs efforts for the development - deployment and market replication of innovative solutions for blue growth (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The global demand for seafood is in a period of exceptional growth, making up 16% of all consumed animal protein, or 119m tonnes annually, expected to increase to 152m tonnes by 2030. Wild stocks, are near or beyond their sustainable limit, resulting in an annual production shortfall of ca. 30m tonnes by 2030. Farmed seafood provides a clear, viable alternative and consumer demand can thus drive a striking growth in aquaculture, if current technological and regulatory barriers can be overcome. Currently marine aquaculture uses net-based open aquaculture systems (OAS) concentrating high numbers of fish in a confined area, leading to disease outbreaks (and transmission to wild stocks), pollution by fish sludge and chemicals used against diseases and algae growths, and from fish escapes, all threatening wild stocks and the local environment. The regulatory response varies but tends towards strict limits on production capacity, expected to tighten further in coming years, which, combined with the shortage of appropriate, sheltered in-shore seasites, act as a major barrier to further expansion and growth for European and global marine aquaculture. To unlock aquaculture’s potential for Blue Growth and jobs creation, alternative technologies must be brought to market; technologies that limit or eliminate the environmental impact of OAS in a cost-efficient way to preserve the environment while boosting the competitiveness and profitability of European marine aquaculture by allowing expansion. With NEPTUN, we will bring to market a cost-effective, closed-cage aquaculture system that combines an impermeable and durable fibreglass enclosure with an innovative hatch technology, optimising day-to-day management and operational control. The durable construction eliminates fish escapes while enablning a far higher degree of control of pathogens thus significantly lowering the need for pharmaceuticals and pesticides as well as reducing the economic risks from disease outbreaks.

Keywords: marine aquaculture,mariculture,closed cage aquaculture system,semi closed aquaculture system
Green and sustainable chalcopyrite and kesterite nanocrystals for inorganic solar cells (GreenChalcoCell)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-11
End date: 2018-07-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171460.8
EU funding (EUR): 171460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Development of new efficient solar cells (SCs) is one of the hottest topics of the modern material science and technology. Among the challenges evoked by the progress in SC technologies is the quest for new efficient visible-light-absorbers that can be produced from Earth-abundant materials by eco-friendly methods. The aim of the project is to develop strategies for mild and "green" synthesis of ternary chalcopyrite ((Cu,Ag)InS(Se)2) and quaternary kesterite ((Cu,Ag)2ZnSn(S,Se)4) nanocrystals (NCs) as visible-light-sensitive active com¬ponents of the semiconductor NC-based solar cells. The principal idea is in realization of low-temperature (below 100 ºC) syntheses directly in polar solvents (water, dimethyl-sulfoxide, etc.) using non-volatile and low-toxic sulfur and selenium sources. Such syntheses will be realized in ambient conditions (no vacuum and inert atmosphere required) and on the gram-scale by using chalcogenide complexes of metals (Sn, In, Sb, etc.) as stabilizers imparting the NCs with the resistance to aggregation and ability to form self-assembled layers after the solvent evaporation. The synthetic protocols will be selected allowing for a precise control of the NC composition and size. The binary and ternary metal chalcogenide NCs will be tested as visible-light-sensitive components of prototype liquid-junction and solid-state SCs where the NCs will serve as spectral sensitizers of the wide-band-gap oxide AIIBVI-type photoanodes to enable photocurrent generation. For the NCs with the best photovoltaic properties synthetic protocols will be developed to produce concentrated colloidal "inks" ready for use in scalable technologies of the SCs fabrication.

Keywords: colloidal synthesis,eco friendly synthesis,optical properties,metal anion complexes,photoelectrochemistry,semiconductor nanocrystals,quantum dots,surface modification
PNR for safety of hydrogen driven vehicles and transport through tunnels and similar confined spaces (HyTunnel-CS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Spain,Germany,Norway,Belgium,Greece,Switzerland,France,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: PNR for safety of hydrogen driven vehicles and transport through tunnels and similar confined spaces (H2020-JTI-FCH-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the HyTunnel-CS project is to perform pre-normative research for safety of hydrogen driven vehicles and transport through tunnels and similar confined spaces (FCH-04-1-2018). The main ambition is to facilitate hydrogen vehicles entering underground traffic systems at risk below or the same as for fossil fuel transport. The specific objectives are: critical analysis of effectiveness of conventional safety measures for hydrogen incidents; generation of unique experimental data using the best European hydrogen safety research facilities and three real tunnels; understanding of relevant physics to underpin the advancement of hydrogen safety engineering; innovative explosion and fire prevention and mitigation strategies; new validated CFD and FE models for consequences analysis; new engineering correlations for novel quantitative risk assessment methodology tailored for tunnels and underground parking; harmonised recommendations for intervention strategies and tactics for first responders; recommendations for inherently safer use of hydrogen vehicles in underground transportation systems; recommendations for RCS. The objectives will be achieved by conducting inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral research by a carefully built consortium of academia, emergency services, research and standard development organisations, who have extensive experience from work on hydrogen safety and safety in tunnels and other confined spaces. The complementarities and synergies of theoretical, numerical and experimental research will be used to close knowledge gaps and resolve technological bottlenecks in safe use of hydrogen in confined spaces. The project outcomes will be reflected in appropriate recommendations, models and correlations could be directly implemented in relevant RCS (UN GTR#13, ISO/TC 197, CEN/CLC/TC 6, etc.). HyTunnel-CS will reduce over-conservatism, increase efficiency of installed safety equipment and systems to save costs of underground traffic systems.

Keywords: hydrogen safety,dispersion,fire,explosion,blast wave,fireball,structural integrity,hazard,risk,tests,models,prevention,mitigation,first responder,intervention,recommendations,standards
Drosophila sechellia: a novel model to investigate nervous system and behavioral evolution (NEUROFLIES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2327547.0
EU funding (EUR): 2327547.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How animals’ extraordinarily diverse behaviors have evolved is unknown. Relating interspecific behavioral differences to anatomical or physiological distinctions in neural circuits, and causal genetic variation, offers a powerful approach to inform how nervous systems develop, function and change. Understanding behavioral and nervous system evolution requires deep investment in select species. We propose to establish a new model neurogenetic system: Drosophila sechellia, an island endemic that is closely related to D. melanogaster and D. simulans. While D. sechellia retains global genomic and superficial morphological similarity to its cosmopolitan generalist cousins, this species has adapted to a unique ecological niche, using Morinda fruit as a sole host for feeding and breeding. The project has three aims: Aim 1. Establishment of a D. sechellia (neuro)genetic toolkit: we will build essential genetic reagents for generation and maintenance of animals of desired genotypes, for neurogenetic manipulations, and for recombination mapping-based approaches. Aim 2. Behavioral, neuroanatomical and molecular phenomics: systematic comparison of D. sechellia, D. simulans and D. melanogaster for their behaviors, their neuroanatomy and their neuro-molecular expression properties will reveal how D. sechellia has adapted to its niche, and will provide multiple entry-points to relate molecular, neuronal and behavioral differences between these species. Aim 3. Defining the genetic basis and functional significance of a neuronal adaptation in D. sechellia: through high-resolution mapping and allele swap approaches, we will identify the causal genetic changes underlying a neural adaption in D. sechellia, and its physiological and behavioral significance. This project will establish a powerful new model system for evolutionary neuroscience (and many other fields) and provide fundamental insights into the origins and mechanisms of nervous system and behavioral diversification.
EXPAND II - Widening participation of countries and stakeholders in JPI Urban Europe through capacity building in urban policy, funding and research (EXPAND II)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Ukraine,Italy,Germany,Cyprus,Norway,Sweden,Bulgaria,Türkiye,Romania,Latvia,France,Netherlands,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Support to JPI Urban Europe (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-02, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499437.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499437.5
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

EXPAND II intends to support the implementation of the JPI Urban Europe Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2.0 (SRIA 2.0) and advance the R&I programme by (1) supporting JPI Urban Europe’s widening activities towards new countries, stakeholders and partners, (2) facilitating the transition from SRIA 2015 to SRIA 2.0 in terms of enhancing formats, instruments, strategic partnerships, and programme management, and by (3) improving availability and accessibility of research results for cities, funders, policy and decision makers. Since transformations to sustainable and liveable urban futures depend on a broad commitment and co-creation among a diverse set of actors, the identified challenge to be tackled by EXPAND II is widening the community and building capacities in research, policy and society at large. In this sense, the project targets Widening Countries in particular with the aim to establish national dialogues and processes, mobilise national R&I communities dealing with sustainable urban development, intensify strategic relationships of urban stakeholders on transnational level and assess national programmes and instruments for transnational R&I cooperation. The transition arena concept is used as the basic concept for widening participation and capacity building. As the center piece of the transition arena the concept of the JPI Urban Europe Stakeholder Involvement Platform (AGORA) will be applied and advanced. Furthermore, the challenge is tackled by professionalising programme management in JPI Urban Europe in order to make research results more easily accessible for policy and decision makers, provide data and cases to easily follow the progress achieved in JPI Urban Europe and its projects and strengthen the programme as a hub for international cooperation. All these activities are tuned to further expand the programme towards Widening Countries and other interested parties, offer information and platforms to engage for researchers, urban pu

Keywords: jpi urban europe,widening countries,stakeholder participation,transdisciplinary co creation
The first integral repairing method for electric and hybrid vehicle batteries which considers their full life-cycle (BATT3RY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
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

TARANIS is a Spanish company with objective of providing disruptive technology in the field of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles (EV/HEV), making them more efficient and positively impacting on environment and society. Over the last 2 years we have developed BATT3RY, the first integral repairing method for EV/HEV batteries which considers their full life-cycle and directly responds to the end-users´ demands (reduce amortisation period of the investment to acquire EV/HEV and cut down on maintenance costs while increasing their lifespan). Current solutions in the market either replace the whole battery when only a few cells are not operating or repair the battery with limited energy storage capacity cells. BATT3RY ground-breaking proposition consists of extending the life of the batteries of EV/HEV by repairing them with our own designed method and cells support modules; reusing those cells that are not suitable for automotive use any longer by giving them a second life as part of batteries for domestic use; recycling the elements and materials of those which are unusable with our fully efficient separation method. BATT3RY will disrupt in the market allowing EV/HEV owners to save up to 18,000€ in maintenance of their vehicles life while extending their operative life. BATT3RY will directly contribute to the development of a greater sustainable mobility by making the positively impacting on the adoption of EV/HEV by the end-users. BATT3RY is fully aligned with the Circular Economy EU Legislation as it considers batteries full life-cycle with a much more efficient and sustainable approach than any other competing solution in the market.

Keywords: hybrid,battery,circular economy
Frontiers in Mechanism Design: Methodology and Applications (Frontiers in Design)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1644774.0
EU funding (EUR): 1644774.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mechanism design is the engineering side of economics. Research findings in this field have helped governments and practitioners worldwide design better institutions: auctions that are more profitable or efficient; labour markets that improve the match between employees and employers; and better ways to assign students to public schools. The cornerstone of mechanism design is the revelation principle, which provides a canonical class of mechanisms and turns the mechanism-selection problem (which a priori may appear unmanageable) to a constrained optimization problem. The standard mechanism design paradigm relies on three fundamental assumptions: 1. The designer of the institution—the principal—does not have any privileged information. 2. The principal chooses the mechanism and commits to it once and for all. 3. There is no interrelationship of the mechanism with outside markets. In addition, almost the entire mechanism design literature assumes that private information is unverifiable (soft). These assumptions often fail in today’s “big data” world: Firms (online retailers, insurance companies, banks) do have privileged—and often certifiable—information that may affect contractual terms they propose. Also, they interact repeatedly with the same agents and, as they learn about them, they attempt to change the terms by making personalized offers. Finally, often a mechanism—e.g. a government insurance program—interacts with private insurance markets. The proposed research aims at providing methods and foundations to design optimal mechanisms at precisely those highly relevant situations: 1. mechanism-design by an informed principal, 2. design of mechanisms and their transparency when the principal lacks commitment, 3. mechanism-design when an intervention interacts with markets. The latter part of the project aims to employ these cutting-edge tools to revisit the design of insurance markets.

Keywords: mechanism design,limited commitment,informed principal,certifiable information
Area-selective Deposition-enabled ultiMAte extensIon of lithogRaphy (ADMAIR)

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: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166320.0
EU funding (EUR): 166320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nanopatterning is the core of today’s and future semiconductor technology as it drives the downscaling of the devices below the 7 nm node, enabling higher speed, density of transistors and computing performance. In addition, nanofabricated three-dimensional patterned structures are used in devices for photonics, biotechnology and other forms of nanotechnology.[1]Beyond the 10nm node, extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) with a light source of 13.5 nm, will be applied.[2],[3] Associated with nano-patterning at these dimensions, there is a long list of challenges: i) EUVL photoresists (PR) and mask infrastructure and control of the created nanoscale patterns; ii) throughput and process cost; iii) environmental footprint as it is based on litho-etch subtractive processes; iv) high complexity thus decreasing fabrication reliability; v) overlay errors and defectivity. Therefore, innovative solutions are required. Area selective deposition (ASD) offers the potential to relax downstream processing steps by enabling self-aligned processes and bottom-up lithography. The main goal of this MSCA proposal Area-selective Deposition-enabled ultiMAte extensIon of lithogRaphy (ADMAIR) is to overcome the potentially show-stopping challenges associated with EUV materials and processes at the sub-10nm scale by an additive bottom-up concept. This will be enabled by interdisciplinary joint development projects involving material suppliers and lithography stakeholders, which is a unique advantage of IMEC and will complement the expertise of the candidate in material science and characterization. Ultimately, valuable professional development opportunities for the MSCA candidate and know-how for the host will be achieved.

Keywords: nanopatterning,extreme ultraviolet lithography euvl,area selective deposition asd,hard mask hm,scaling,surface treatments,defectivity metrology,defect removal strategies
Flexible Energy Production, Demand and Storage-based Virtual Power Plants for Electricity Markets and Resilient DSO Operation (FEVER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: A single, smart European electricity grid
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Ireland,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Cyprus,Belgium,Greece,Greece,Greece,Slovenia,Greece,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Flexibility and retail market options for the distribution grid (H2020-LC-SC3-2019-ES-SCC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9818589.82
EU funding (EUR): 7794376.63
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

FEVER will implement and demonstrate solutions and services that leverage flexibility towards offering electricity grid services that address problems of the distribution grid, thus enabling it to function in a secure and resilient manner. The project encompasses technologies and techniques for extraction of energy flexibilities from virtual and explicit energy storage (batteries, V2G) and demand response. FEVER will leverage the potential for flexibility due to the electrification of sectors such as heating (heat pumps, district heating) and cooling (e.g. industrial refrigeration). In FEVER we will implement a comprehensive flexibility aggregation, management and trading solution that incorporates intelligence around the optimal flexibility orchestration and is capable to offer flexibility services in different markets (local, wholesale). In addition, a peer-to-peer flexibility trading toolbox will be implemented with a distributed ledger technology enabling autonomous peer-to-peer trading. FEVER will implement a set of goal-oriented applications and tools that empower DSOs with optimal grid observability and controllability. The DSO toolbox will include advanced monitoring and automated control functions (critical event prevention, self-healing, island-mode power management, etc.). FEVER will carry out extensive demonstration and testing activities in multiple settings. For scalability assessment the project includes large scale simulations of novel market mechanisms for day-ahead and continuous trading of flexibility services, and simulations of wholesale-retail market coupling.These simulations will contribute to the quantification of the impact of flexibility services at the distribution grid level and beyond (transmission level). FEVER’s holistic approach to flexibility will facilitate establishing and operating appropriate business models for all players in the market, thereby providing the EU with a secure, efficient and resilient electric grid.

Keywords: flexibility aggregation,energy storage,demand resposne,distribution grid monitoring and control,flexibility markets,energy communities,blockchain,dlts,peer to peer,critial event prevention