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Algebraic Representations in Computer-Aided Design for complEx Shapes (ARCADES)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Spain,Austria,Austria,Norway,Norway,Greece,Greece,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3408202.08
EU funding (EUR): 3408202.08
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

ARCADES aims at disrupting the traditional paradigm in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) by exploiting cutting-edge research in mathematics and algorithm design. Geometry is now a critical tool in a large number of key applications; somewhat surprisingly, however, several approaches of the CAD industry are outdated, and 3D geometry processing is becoming increasingly the weak link. This is alarming in sectors where CAD faces new challenges arising from fast point acquisition, big data, and mobile computing, but also in robotics, simulation, animation, fabrication and manufacturing where CAD strives to address crucial societal and market needs. The challenge taken up by ARCADES is to invert the trend of CAD industry lagging behind mathematical breakthroughs and to build the next generation of CAD software based on strong foundations from algebraic geometry, differential geometry, scientific computing, and algorithm design. Our game-changing methods lead to real-time modelers for architectural geometry and visualisation, to isogeometric and design-through-analysis software for shape optimisation, and marine design & hydrodynamics, and to tools for motion design, robot kinematics, path planning, and control of machining tools. One of the Network SMEs estimates that the innovative impact of ARCADES may enable them to get ahead of competition for up to 2 years, thus benefiting about 40% of their customers. The participants span a multidisciplinary and multisectoral spectrum for realising our vision, all being international leaders at various stages of the pipeline. They form an outstanding ecosystem for training the next generation of applied mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers for achieving our scientific breakthroughs, and who are equipped with a double career advantage: excellent research training, and exposure to industrial research environments through a nexus of secondments among Universities, Research and Innovation Centers, and industrial teams.

Keywords: computer algebra,algebraic algorithms,geometric modelling,software development,interactive rates,shape optimisation,visualisation,architectural geometry,marine design,robotics
Synthesis of CONJUGAted Two-DimensIonal Supramolecular POlymers for ElectroNics (CONJUGATION)

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: 2016-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171460.8
EU funding (EUR): 171460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Graphene has exceptional electron mobility, quantum Hall effect and ballistic charge carrier transport behavior. However, graphene lacks a band gap, the feature of any electronic structure that signifies its ability to control the flow of electrons. To overcome its limitation, semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), and Xeres, which include silicene, germanene and phosphorene have been recently developed. However, if not provided by nature, their synthesis involves high-energy procedures, such as chemical vapor deposition, epitaxial growth, and high pressure. The harsh experimental conditions preclude molecular design on demand. Moreover, it is highly challenging to gain TMDC with large lateral size and Xeres are not even stable in air, which complex their practical applications. Here we propose to develop a class of 2D conjugated supramolecular polymers using the concept of organic chemistry under ambient conditions, and the fabrication of 2D polymer and graphene heterostructures. The project comprises monomer synthesis, interfacial polymerization, processing, characterization and property investigation of produced 2D polymers, and their integration in prototype devices and performance evaluation. The multidisciplinary project aims at providing a very promising young fellow the highest level of training and experience needed to become an independent and leading scientist. The training-through-research offered within the project will broaden and diversify the experience of the fellow into complementary fields of graphene, materials processing and flexible electronics. Along with science, training in lecturing, student supervision, funding application, project management and workshop/conference organization will significantly improve the independence of the fellow, thus giving him the necessary tools to develop a successful and independent career.

Keywords: conjugated polymer,graphene,heterostructure,photodetector,transistor
MIND: A Unique and Ground-breaking System for Home Intelligence that Builds Functional, Assistive, Dynamic and Comforting Infrastructure for a Better and more Efficient Living. (MIND)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Today we are facing many societal and environmental challenges (e.g. globalization, ageing population, intricate working schedules, transportation, climate change, etc.). Much of the impact from these events could be addressed and alleviated by modernizing our habits and living environments to make them more functional and efficient. Today, the technological solutions available to control, monitor and automate essential home functions are contained in the fields of home-automation and smart-homes. However, both sectors still offer plenty room for improvement since they often give raise to compatibility issues and demand direct management from the user. Thus, available technologies are far from complying with the user’s needs and also fail to achieve their main goal: simplifying our living routine, making it more efficient and assist us when needed. In response, we have created MIND, an ICT-based integrated solution able to intelligently modulate, respond, assist and learn to control most of the activities that take place in our homes. Its main objective is to ensure that home intelligence becomes easy to use, attentive and assistive. MIND has been designed following the principles of “calm technologies” (non-intrusive approach), remaining invisible to users both from an aesthetic point of view and from the user experience side. On the other hand, a suite of advanced algorithms implements a self-learning mechanism that learns & adapts to the users’ habits. The objective of the Feasibility Study is to identify & prepare ourselves to address all the technical, commercial and financial aspects influencing the project. Altogether, MIND will help to enhance everyone’s quality of life while optimizing the use of energetic resources. Our goal is to offer users efficiency & sustainability without impairing the level of comfort desired. In turn, MIND will help us grow, leading to €18.4 million in cumulative profits, ROI of 14.36 per euro invested and 15 new people in 5 years.

Keywords: attentive homes,assistive environments,inclusive technology,home intelligence,tailored home ecosystems,smart home architecture,sustainable living,calm technology
An autonomous, self-driven robot system to improve the mobility and integration of people, creating a more equal and accessible society (WiiGO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Smart and inclusive mobility is important in many societal contexts. People with reduced mobility are proven to be one of the most neglected groups in society. They experience accessibility problems and difficulties in performing routine tasks on a daily basis. For example, what may be a simple activity to many, such as shopping, can become very complex and time consuming. The WiiGO is an autonomous and self-driven device that follows a specific user or can be programmed to move independently. The robotic system uses the latest technology in image recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence so that it can track users while identifying and avoiding any obstacle in its way. By functioning as an autonomous shopping cart, the developed solution supports users with reduced mobility, reducing their reliance on other people to help them with day-to-day activities. Given its autonomy and its capacity to guide and record information, the WiiGO is a flexible system that can lend itself to many applications. Within the overall project, Follow Inspiration intend to optimise the functional design, conduct pilot tests, demonstrating the WiiGO in different retail environments, and fully establish the commercialisation strategy.

Keywords: self driving robots
A Unique and Innovative flushing test bench for cleanliness assessment of hydraulic components that allows to increase test efficiency and reduce costs (CLEAN CABINET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Contaminants in hydraulic components cause premature deterioration, resulting in poor performance and failure, not only of the raw components but also of the end-products once assembled. Over 75% of failure events in hydraulic systems are due to contamination. Contaminants increase fuel consumption, energy loss and pollution in combustion engines, while decreasing battery life in electric engines. Thus, all hydraulic manufacturers & assemblers are forced to assess the cleanliness of their products before commercialization. Although some of them invest on heavy equipment for on-site analysis, most of them externalize it to expert labs. Either way, these options fail to meet their needs. Besides being costly & time-consuming, they only assess for contaminants in the final product. This approach prevents users from having a clear view on the sources of contamination affecting their manufacturing chain. In response, we at OilSafe offer CLEAN CABINET, a unique automated system for cost-effective analysis AND removal of contaminants. Our system implements a holistic approach, not only analysing contaminants from products but also characterizing and identifying their origin at the production chain. Besides being simpler and more cost-efficient, CLEAN CABINET allows users to meet the quality required for product certification (ISO16232) and to comply with environmental laws. After validating the functionality of the prototype, we now want to move forward with the project, seeking to finalise its technical development, industrialise manufacturing and prepare for market launch. In Phase 1 we aim to run a Feasibility Study that allows us to gather input and secure the project from all technical, financial and commercial outlooks. Upon completion, we expect CLEAN CABINET to bring significant benefits for the industry, society and environment, as well as for our company. Indeed, we foresee to reach a ROI of 5.5 per euro invested, gain €9.8 million profits and hire 15 new people.

Keywords: industrial cleanliness,flushing bench test,contaminant assessment,hydraulic efficiency,efficient manufacturing,contamination prevention,contaminant removal,eco friendly manufacturing
MigrAtion Governance and asYlum Crises (MAGYC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Inclusive societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Norway,Switzerland,Türkiye,Greece,Slovakia,Sweden,Belgium,France,United Kingdom,Lebanon
Call: Towards forward-looking migration governance: addressing the challenges, assessing capacities and designing future strategies (H2020-SC6-MIGRATION-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3175263.75
EU funding (EUR): 3175263.7
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal seeks to assess how migration governance has been influenced by the recent ‘refugee crisis’, and how crises at large shape policy responses on migration. Since the beginning of the ‘refugee crisis’ in 2014, different policy responses have been put forward by governments and international organisations alike. Albeit very different from one another, these different responses had two common traits: - They were generally presented as the sole realistic solution in the face of a situation that was often characterized as ‘unsustainable’. - They were often geared towards a more efficient control and surveillance of the borders. As the humanitarian crisis and the dire situation in countries such as Italy, Greece or Hungary should have prompted more cooperation in the EU, policy responses usually hinted at less cooperation, with the notable exception of the control and surveillance of the EU external border. This meant that the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean soon transformed into a political crisis with the EU, culminating in the Brexit referendum, where the issue of border control played a decisive role in the decision of the British electorate to leave the EU. As an attempt to revive the idea of a global governance of migration, the United Nations issued on 19 September 2016 the New York Declaration, which led to the launch of the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees - both are them are still being negotiated at the time of submitting this proposal. Therefore, MAGYC seeks to appraise these policy responses in the light of the crisis and assess their efficiency for the long-term governance of migration.

Keywords: governance,crisis,diplomacy,refugees,asylum
Children Online: Research and Evidence - A knowledge base on children and youth in the digital world (CO:RE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Inclusive societies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Iceland,Estonia,Ireland,Italy,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Norway,Finland,United Kingdom
Call: The impact of technological transformations on children and youth (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1722756.75
EU funding (EUR): 1722756.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of this Coordination and Support Action (CSA) “Children Online: Research and Evidence (CORE)” is to conceptualise, implement and disseminate a comprehensive knowledge base on the impact of technological transformations on children and youth. The CORE knowledge base will provide evidence on a broad range of topics related to the impact of technological transformations on children and youth including their health, lifestyles, participation and digital citizenship, wellbeing, safety, and security as affected by ICT. It will refer to research from all EU Member States and a number of other European countries and thus consider relevant cultural, political, and media-related contexts. This knowledge base will help researchers to identify important research gaps and to make use of existing research and data. At the same time, it will help to contextualise empirical evidence by offering theoretical, methodological, and ethical reflections and guidelines. The CORE knowledge base will also be an important focal point for policy-makers and educational actors by identifying key issues that deserve special attention, providing access to a solid data base and thus providing an important basis for policy recommendations and (policy) decision-making processes. Various stakeholder groups are actively involved in the development process in order to tailor the platform to their specific needs. All activities of the project aim to develop an innovative, dynamic and sustainable infrastructure with the CORE platform that will last beyond the duration of the CSA.

Keywords: children and digital technologies,online risks,online opportunities,impact of technology
Omni-directional interferometric inertial sensor (OmniSens)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2536331.0
EU funding (EUR): 1606331.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

OmniSens is a novel inertial isolation system that will approach the fundamental limits imposed by materials and terrestrial gravity. Revolutionary improvements in sensitivity will come from coupling compact interferometric sensors that are beyond the state-of-the-art with a reference mass that is Omni-directionally Sensed (OmniSens). The key concept is the use of a single, geometrically-large reference mass that is sensed and softly-suspended in all six degrees of freedom, and housed within a platform that is actively controlled to be a constant distance from it. The inertial stability of the reference mass is thus transferred to the platform in a fashion mimicking the drag-free control of a satellite around a free-floating proof mass. Compared with the state-of-the-art, OmniSens will reduce residual accelerations in horizontal directions by at least 2 orders of magnitude at 0.1Hz. When this system is used as the first stage of isolation in a gravitational-wave detector, it will enable current detectors to finally reach their design sensitivities and push the ‘seismic wall’ to lower frequencies in future observatories. Pushing the low frequency boundary will have two critical effects: it will increase the signal-to-noise of individual sources, thus expanding the astrophysical reach of observatories, and it will vastly augment the amount of time each source is in-band, possibly allowing sky localisation before the merger of neutron stars, with spectacular consequences for electromagnetic follow up campaigns. To achieve these ambitious goals we will need to: Develop the test and measurement infrastructure capable of housing and measuring the reference mass; Test a prototype isolation system, showing that it can reach fundamental limits imposed by simple, metal-wire suspensions; and Build a robust OmniSens system suspended with fused-silica fibres that will become a foundational element of future gravitational-wave observatories.

Keywords: interferometry,precision measurement,vibration isolation,inertial sensing
Tracking and predicting neurodegeneration spreading across the brain connectome (NeuroTRACK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Italy
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496994.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496994.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Current knowledge of neurodegenerative diseases is limited by poor understanding of how they progress through the central nervous system (CNS). It has recently been hypothesized that clinical progression in these conditions involves the systematic spreading of protein misfolding along neuronal pathways. Protein aggregates would trigger misfolding of adjacent homologue proteins in newly-affected regions, and this would propagate in a “prion-like” fashion across anatomical connections. This proposal seeks to decipher the mechanisms of network-based neurodegeneration by understanding how the complex architecture of brain networks (the connectome) shapes the evolving pathology of neurodegenerative diseases, and to develop tools for monitoring disease progression from presymptomatic to later stages of the disease. NeuroTRACK will apply emerging network science tools to longitudinal, structural and functional brain connectivity 3T magnetic resonance imaging data from patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) – a devastating, relentlessly progressive, young onset, neurodegenerative disorder. The study will involve both sporadic and familial cases, including presymptomatic gene mutation carriers. The proposal addresses the following fundamental questions: i) How and where does pathological protein propagation occur in the FTLD phenotypes? ii) Can pathological spreading be predicted from brain connectome fingerprinting? iii) How do different protein abnormalities translate into large-scale network degeneration? iv) How early are brain network changes detectable in the (even presymptomatic) course of the disease? The ground-breaking nature of the experiments planned in this proposal will pave the way to the development of novel tools for understanding the biological underpinnings of other CNS proteinopathies such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, and to identifying individualized, early interventions to modify disease progression.

Keywords: brain connectome,brain connectivity,monitoring disease progression,predicting prognosis,presymptomatic,mutation carriers,frontotemporal dementia,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis