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Developing, piloting and standardising on-tax financing for residential energy efficiency retrofits in European cities (EuroPACE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Finland,Poland,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative financing schemes (H2020-EE-2017-CSA-PPI, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2375490.0
EU funding (EUR): 2375490.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

EuroPACE will develop a scalable on-tax financing mechanism to unlock the huge potential for deployment of energy saving and generation technologies to European households. The scheme is inspired by the successful US PACE scheme, that was invented in California in 2008. The project will address several fundamental challenges to Energy Efficiency investment by (1) A Market-Based Approach: EuroPACE will deploy private capital as up-front financing to homeowners, i.e. reduce reliance on grants and subsidies, (2) De-Risking EE Investment: the long-term repayments obligation is tied to a property and not its owner. In turn, municipalities will be the conduit for the repayment via a special levy collected with the property tax bill, (3) Technical Assistance: decision-making processes for homeowners will be optimised by training energy service contractors. They will be held to account by a comprehensive consumer protection code, (4) Aggregation and Standardization: EuroPACE will design standard underwriting requirements and project performance guidelines to enable project aggregation and Green Bonds issuance. By 2025, the EuroPACE industry will generate measurable impact in the three key areas: (1) Economy: over 45.000 jobs and €5bn of capital in local economies across the EU27, (2) Society: over 300.000 homes retrofitted and improved, and (3) Environment: energy saving of 3.5MWh/year, equating to CO2 savings totalling 1.8m tons. EuroPACE will account for just 4.6% of the European renovation industry by 2015 giving way to huge growth potential. This will be achieved by a well-resourced and highly skilled consortium that will focus its efforts on three pillars of activity: (1) Conduct a market review to assess on-tax financing suitability in EU27, (2) Develop and execute a first EuroPACE pilot in the city of Olot (Spain) and (3) Develop generalised Guidelines and a Toolkit that will make EuroPACE fully scalable. Over 75 signed Letters of Support confirm a broad support platform for the project.

Keywords: pace,energy efficiency financing,residential retrofit,job creation,home comfort,consumer finance,esco,green bonds
COntesting GOvernance by NUmbers: The Mobilizations of Food Delivery Couriers across Europe in Time of the Pandemic (COGONU)

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: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-17
End date: 2024-01-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184590.72
EU funding (EUR): 184590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

In response to the rise of a new labour governance regime in the platform economy, militant forms of worker mobilization have recently emerged across Europe, exhibiting novel forms of organisation and action repertoires. The research action “COntesting GOvernance by NUmbers: The Mobilizations of Food Delivery Couriers across Europe in Time of the Pandemic (COGONU)” investigates the causes, trajectories, and outcomes of mobilizations of these workers since 2016 in different European cities before and during the Covid crisis. The action has three main research objectives: 1. it maps all episodes of couriers’ mobilizations across Europe since 2016 accounting for similarities and differences in terms of strategies, action repertoire, and mobilization capacity. 2. it conducts an in-depth analysis of three cases of mobilization that have exhibited variation in terms of action repertoire, forms of organizing, alliance building and target, to understand the dynamics of contention, their political strategies, and policy outcomes. 3. it aims to explore the processes of transnational coordination and organization among couriers, union representatives, and activists and their feedback effects on both corporate and EU governance. The action includes a comprehensive training plan, which enhances my career opportunities across sectors as well as academic departments. The UCD School of Business, the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy and its ERC Research Group “Labour Politics and the EU’s New Economic Governance Regime” (host institution), along with the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) (secondment institution), will provide me with excellent interdisciplinary research skills and development opportunities. The action also incorporates an ambitious dissemination and communication plan that promotes knowledge exchange between the researcher and partner organizations as well as the production of valuable knowledge for policy makers and citizens at local, national and EU level.

Keywords: social movements,industrial relations,contentious politics,labour process theory,governance by numbers,platform economy,worker mobilizations
Spectral Theory of Graph Limits (SpTheoryGraphLim)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 134239.2
EU funding (EUR): 134239.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The need to understand the behavior of real-life networks made it necessary to work out non-standard graph theoretic tools capable of dealing with a large number of interacting nodes. New mathematical areas emerged, such as graph convergence or parallel algorithms. The proposal suggests the study of the spectral aspects of these areas. The proposed research is built around two core problems that grew out of and are natural continuations of Harangi's previous work in spectral graph theory at the University of Toronto. One is a spectral version of the so-called soficity problem, a major open question in the area of Benjamini-Schramm convergence. The other is an ambitious conjecture of Harangi and Virag concerning eigenvectors of random regular graphs, stating that these eigenvectors converge to Gaussian wave functions. In the past few years the Renyi Institute has become the European center for studying graph convergence with several experts of the field working there as well as many talented and motivated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Being a member of this research group will allow Harangi to collaborate with researchers from various different mathematical disciplines. The proposed research topic is at the meeting point of these areas. The host's expertise in groups and graph limits will complement Harangi's analytic skills. The proposed fellowship would give Harangi an excellent oppurtinity to work with some of the top researchers in his field, to acquire the necessary tools to crack the exciting research problems proposed and to make the optimal next step in his career.

Keywords: large networks,graph theory,graph convergence,spectrum,spectral measure,local algorithms,factor of iid processes,random graphs,unimodular random networks,soficity
Dissecting dsRNA uptake in RNAi-based antiviral immunity (DDRR)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Important viral infectious diseases, such as dengue and chikungunya, are transmitted to humans by insect vectors. One of the key factors that modulates whether an insect is competent or not to transmit a given pathogen is its innate immune response. The major antiviral defense in insects is the RNA interference (RNAi) mechanism that is activated by the detection of viral double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). During antiviral RNAi a silencing immune signal is transported from one cell to another to set an antiviral state (systemic RNAi). To be primed, non-infected cells must sense this silencing signal and internalize it. Although dsRNA as a mediator of local antiviral immunity is well established in insects, the effectors of a systemic immune response are not identified. For instance, the identification of the dsRNA receptor in insects remains elusive. This proposal intends to dissect the mechanism of dsRNA uptake in insects with special focus on discovering its receptor. I propose to combine functional (genome wide RNAi screen, in vivo dsRNA oral uptake) with binding (electrophoretic mobility shift assay, surface plasmon resonance) and structural assays (expression, production and studies of complexes receptor/dsRNA) using Drosophila melanogaster as insect model and an array of viruses in order to identify and characterize the dsRNA receptor.To be found, the manipulation of this receptor could help control the insect vectors of emerging viral diseases. Understanding how the infection is controlled within the insect before crossover to the human host could generate new strategies to disrupt pathogen transmission.

Keywords: viral immunity,rna interference,insects,dsrna receptor,emerging viral pathogens
European Network for integrated TRAINing on Innovative Therapies for VISion RestoratiON (ENTRAIN VISION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,Finland,Romania,France,France,Czechia
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3883755.34
EU funding (EUR): 3883755.34
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Blindness is the most feared handicap leading to the greatest exclusion from society by reducing patient autonomy and mobility. There are still an estimated 39 million blind people worldwide. Clinical trials have demonstrated the possibility to regain some useful vision with retinal prostheses in patients having lost photoreceptors. New approaches are entering into clinical trials such as photovoltaic implants, optogenetic therapy and even cortical prostheses for patients having lost eye to brain connection. In the present ENTRAIN-Vision project, the Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) will work on these innovative technologies for restoring vision in blind patients. Their training in academic institutes or industry will be completed by several secondments, including one at an industry partner. In addition, several winter/summer schools will address scientific subjects on vision restoration and transferable skills in technology transfer, clinical trials, start-up creation, communication to media. Lectures will be followed by practice e.g. innovative technologies for assessing brain function. The project will thus create a unique European network of researchers, clinicians and industrials on visual restoration. This network will provide a comprehensive training across multiple disciplines including neuroscience, vision, psychophysics, genetic, electronic, bio-engineering and computational modelling. It will therefore prepare a new generation of leaders able to carry the new therapeutic strategies from bench to patients. ESRs will encounter founders of start-up and industrial partners enlarging thereby job opportunities to 1) remain in the career path of research & innovation, 2) contribute to clinical trials and/or develop the rehabilitation programs or 3) get involved in product manufacture, distribution and marketing throughout Europe. This project will generate great social and economic benefits in Europe by improving patient autonomy and daily life.

Keywords: vision,retina,visual cortex,blindness,vision restoration,disease,photoreceptor
Peripheral Nervous System Tissue Engineering for Medical and Cosmetic Testing Applications (PLATFORMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Emerging themes and communities
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: EIC Transition to Innovation Activities (H2020-EIC-FETPROACT-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999993.75
EU funding (EUR): 1999993.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

PLATFORMA is a commercially driven collaboration to produce novel high-content phenotypic platforms for screening cosmetics, pollutants and new therapeutics. We propose to create purpose-built, 3D modular human tissues supported by laser-printed bio-compatible scaffolds from which electro-physiological status of the cells can be monitored. Each tissue module will consist of multiple different cell types. Two main modules will be developed namely a Skin-Sensory Module and a Muscle-Motor Module. Skin-Sensory Module will be a world first; a commercially available innervated human skin tissue model. It will allow studies and testing of Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) responses to external stimuli in a physiologically-relevant context. This module itself can be used to investigate activities of both dermal and nerve cells at the same time. When a stimulus is introduced on the skin layer, responses of skin cells and activities of sensory neurons (e.g. pain & itch) can be recorded simultaneously. Muscle-Motor Module is an innovative motor neuron-skeletal muscle tissue model. It allows non-invasive recordings of neuromuscular transmission in real time. It will support studies of muscular atrophies & motor neuron diseases with genetically engineered or patient derived cells and long-term monitoring and analysis of drug effects (toxicity and efficacy) with live 3D imaging and electro-physiological recordings. Partners StratiCELL and Axol Bioscience will respectively champion the exploitation of the Skin-Sensory and Muscle-Motor modules, working with early adopter customers in cosmetic and dermatologic testing drug development. The technology is derived from FET Open project MESO-BRAIN featuring 2PP fabrication of 3D scaffolds with built-in electrodes and fast maturation protocols for cultivating sensory and motor neurons from IPSc derived neural progenitors. PLATFORMA bulds upon MESO0BRAIN in the direction of market demand for physiologically-relevant test platforms.

Keywords: human dervived ipsc cells biocompatible 3d scaffolds cosmetic and dermatologic testing,als disease
Quantifying the spread of P. falciparum malaria (QUANTUM)

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: Netherlands,United States
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1851250.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Background: A major challenge for malaria elimination is its phenomenally efficient spread through sexual stage parasites (gametocytes). Many individuals in endemic settings harbour low but transmissible gametocyte densities. It is currently unclear how gametocyte density translates into the likelihood that an infected mosquito gives rise to secondary infections, who drive malaria transmission at population level and how anti-gametocyte immunity affects gametocyte production and infectivity. I hypothesize that secondary infections can arise from low-density infections but that higher gametocyte densities result in comparatively more infectious mosquitoes and an increased number of secondary infections. I further hypothesize that malaria transmission efficiency and changes therein can only be accurately predicted if anti-gametocyte immunity is thoroughly understood and that the rapid loss of gametocyte immunity during effective control results in increased transmission efficiency. Aims and approach: I will perform the first-ever direct assessment of numbers of malaria parasites ejected by mosquitoes in relation to natural gametocyte densities. Using novel genotyping approaches, longitudinal sampling of infections at unsurpassed resolution and state-of-the art analytical approaches, I will perform the most comprehensive molecular evaluation of malaria transmission in a real community ever performed. Lastly, I will quantify the impact of immune responses that reduce gametocyte density and infectivity by novel immune-profiling approaches and mathematical transmission models. Importance and innovation: this project will profoundly improve understanding of the production and infectivity of gametocytes and the epidemiological impact of human immune responses that influence these processes. The work in different African settings will provide a major leap forward in understanding the human infectious reservoir for malaria and has direct implications for elimination

Keywords: malaria,gametocyte,epidemiology,transmission,immuno epidemiology
New non perturbative methods for out-of-equilibrium quantum field theory (NpQFT-NEq)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A full understanding of the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of many-body quantum systems is one of the ultimate goals of statistical physics. It is often extremely difficult to compute how physical quantities evolve with time in these settings, and to know when and how these systems eventually can reach some form of equilibrium. This difficulty is specially marked in systems described by quantum field theory, where non equilibrium dynamics are still less well understood than in discrete lattice models and quantum spin chains. Recent years have seen many developments of powerful non perturbative methods for understanding equilibrium quantum field theory, from different areas of physics. There seems, however, to be a disconnection between the plethora of new techniques developed in areas like high energy physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology, and the few applications these have seen in some of the younger active disciplines in non equilibrium quantum field theory, such as understanding the time evolution of observables and equilibration dynamics in low dimensional and strongly correlated systems. The main aim of this proposal is to implement an interdisciplinary approach to understand out-of-equilibrium physics, and quantum field theory in particular, borrowing and developing techniques from areas of high energy physics, such as non Abelian gauge theories, supersymmetric field theories and resurgent transseries, and from condensed matter physics, such as Bethe ansatz solutions and new quasilocal conserved quantities for integrable lattice models. This will provide several new analytical methods to approach non equilibrium field theory that go beyond perturbation theory and methods based on integrability. The success of this action will be ensured by the interdisciplinary backgrounds and expertise of both, the applicant and the host, as well as the diversity and opportunity for collaborations found at the host institution.

Keywords: quantum quenches,integrable systems,exact solutions,thermalization,statistical field theory,transport,non abelian gauge theories
Attention to Marketing (ATOM): Application of eye-tracking to the online market for advertising (ATOM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the 19th century John Wanamaker quipped that “half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half”. For advertisers in the 21st century the situation has become much worse; up to 98% of click-throughs may actually be from “bots” rather than real people, and only 44% of page impressions even appear on people’s screens. As a result, the €500m global advertising market is highly inefficient; advertisers are buying blindfold and publishers of genuinely engaging content are undervalued as the bad drives out the good. The ATOM project will address these problems by using eye tracking to accurately measure whether ads actually get seen, by whom, and for how long, enabling market participants to trade the asset they are really interested in – people’s attention. The project will assess the technical feasibility and potential value of various routes to market that arise from scaling Lumen’s existing in-home eye-tracking platform, LUCIAR. LUCIAR collects and analyses eye-tracking data from small panels for testing and optimising the design of advertising. Scaling LUCIAR will provide robust, real-time data on attention to advertising down the long-tail of inventory, with applications in (i) monitoring the attention advertisers are achieving among specific audiences, (ii) valuing publisher’s inventory and the contribution of content providers, and (iii) “programmatic” algorithmic media buying. Europe is well placed to lead this disruption of the advertising industry. The world’s leading eye-tracking hardware companies are based in Europe (Tobii in Sweden; SMI in Germany; EyeTribe in Denmark) and London is a major global locus and leading market in new innovations for the advertising industry. Through the application of eye-tracking technology there is massive potential for European companies to transform the global advertising market.

Keywords: advertising,marketing,eye tracking,attention