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The first wall-integrated, ecologic sound absorbing panel (SoundCombplus)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SOUNDCOMB+ is the first wall-integrated sound absorbing panel, designed to reduce interior noise to the lowest levels possible in all frequency ranges. By integration into walls, an entirely new palette of potential applications opens up in addition to wall panels, such as wall insulation and office cubicles, while providing full designer flexibility. The panels can be integrated into any room or building and comprise 100% ecologically sustainable materials and offer users of these buildings comfortable acoustics, higher hygiene standards and custom-made designs. SOUNDCOMB+ was developed by Christian Fuchs, an Austrian designer/specialist in materials processing. Based on a client’s request he and his co-workers developed a box-shaped acoustic panel that has full flexibility in surface design, i.e. any colour or 2D/3D-print can be achieved, creating all kinds of novel effects while absorbing sound to over 95%. SOUNDCOMB+ offers our clients (mainly architects and interior designers) the first acoustic panel that functions as integrated building element rather than as individual mono-functional element. We have developed first prototypes of SOUNDCOMB+, prepared fixation, assessed the sound absorbance performance with all components assembled, and had the absorbing panel itself certified as a building material, bringing it to its current TRL6 stage. This EU project intends to further optimise these features and prepare for the production of the elements and commercialisation throughout the EU.

Keywords: sound absorbing panels,sound control,interior design,construction engineering
Single-step disentanglement and fractionation of microalgal high-value products through acoustophoresis (AlgCoustics)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-06
End date: 2022-01-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Next generation biomass resources such as marine seaweed and micro-algae have advantages in comparison to terrestrial lignocellulosic biomass as they can grow on non-arable land at higher areal productivities. Aquatic biomass can provide renewable energy (e.g. biodiesel, bioethanol and biogas) as well as high-value molecules such as carotenoids, fatty acids, carbohydrates, proteins and food fibres, which can be used in food, feed, cosmetics, biomaterials, nanostructures and pharmaceutical industries. However, in order to greatly increase the economic viability of aquatic biomass, all components found in the biomass need to be valorized. Unfortunately, valorization of multiple biomass components is not possible using current/conventional biorefinery technologies, where up to 90% of the biomass is being treated as a waste. The value of these broken-down compounds sees more than a ten-fold reduction, rendering the biorefinery economically unfeasible. Therefore, in furtherance of developing multiproduct biorefineries, selective and economically feasible extraction and separation technologies will need to be developed and implemented. Significant microalgal cell disruption and extraction advances have been recently made by employing external fields such as lasers, ultrasonic waves and microwaves, in combination with less aggressive solvents and ionic liquids. However, the issues regarding the use of chemicals and multiple separation stages remain. Thus, we are proposing a game-changing single-step disentanglement and separation of microalgal high-value components by using acoustic waves at different frequencies allowing thus a complete process fine-tuning and eliminating the need for chemicals. Moreover, by including our previously-developed ultrasound disruption technology, the whole cell breakdown, extraction and separation steps could be reduced to one single process governed and finely-tuned through the employed frequency ranges.

Keywords: algal biorefineries,ultrasonic disentanglement,fractionation,acoustophoresis
The eco-evolutionary costs and benefits of CRISPR-Cas systems, and their effect on genome diversity within populations (CRISPR-EVOL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495625.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

CRISPR-Cas systems are microbial defense systems that provide prokaryotes with acquired and heritable DNA-based immunity against selfish genetic elements, primarily viruses. However, the full scope of benefits that these systems can provide, as well as their costs remain unknown. Specifically, it is unclear whether the benefits against viral infection outweigh the continual costs incurred even in the absence of parasitic elements, and whether CRISPR-Cas systems affect microbial genome diversity in nature. Since CRISPR-Cas systems can impede lateral gene transfer, it is often assumed that they reduce genetic diversity. Conversely, our recent results suggest the exact opposite: that these systems generate a high level of genomic diversity within populations. We have recently combined genomics of environmental strains and experimental genetics to show that archaea frequently acquire CRISPR immune memory, known as spacers, from chromosomes of related species in the environment. The presence of these spacers reduces gene exchange between lineages, indicating that CRISPR-Cas contributes to diversification. We have also shown that such inter-species mating events induce the acquisition of spacers against a strain's own replicons, supporting a role for CRISPR-Cas systems in generating deletions in natural plasmids and unessential genomic loci, again increasing genome diversity within populations. Here we aim to test our hypothesis that CRISPR-Cas systems increase within-population diversity, and quantify their benefits to both cells and populations, using large-scale genomics and experimental evolution. We will explore how these systems alter the patterns of recombination within and between species, and explore the potential involvement of CRISPR-associated proteins in cellular DNA repair. This work will reveal the eco-evolutionary role of CRISPR-Cas systems in shaping microbial populations, and open new research avenues regarding additional roles beyond anti-viral defense

Keywords: lateral gene transfer,horizontal gene transfer,archaea,crispr cas,genome diversity
Nanotechnology for Advanced Battery Energy Storage Systems (Nano-Edison)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Iceland,Croatia
Call: H2020-EIC Accelerator pilot –SME Instrument - Green Deal (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-4, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2680312.5
EU funding (EUR): 1876218.75
Participants: 2
Project status: SUSPENDED

Energy storage is an increasingly challenge as power distribution evolves to a more decentralized model with progressively higher shares of renewable energies (RE). Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are emerging as potential solutions to increase system reliability, due to their unique capability to absorb, hold and reinject electricity, as well as offer ancillary grid services. However, mature BEES technologies (e.g.; lead-acid, sodium-based and lithium ion) are still expensive, have limited lifespans and carry inherent risks. By applying nanotechnology, Greenvolt has developed Nano-Edison, a disruptive BESS that meets all the performance and criteria to couple with RE mini-grids of commercial, industrial and residential customers. Nano-Edison solution replaces the iron and nickel solid plates of the traditional Edison battery by Fe and Ni nanomaterials, retaining all original advantages (robustness, durability and safety attributes), while solves the associated downsides (manufacturing costs, low efficiency, high size and excessive weight). Compared to other alternatives, Nano-Edison offers an improved durability (+20,000 cycles), environmentally safe performance (no flammable, no acid, non-toxic metals) and the lowest production costs in the market (87 €/kWh vs. 350 €/kWh for Li-ion). Our developed and patented method for producing quality nanomaterials ensure a solid commercial proposition, that Greenvolt will monetise by licensee fees (≈300 k€/year), royalty fees (0.5% on sales) and nanoparticles supplying (89 €/kg) to large battery manufacturer partners. We expect that Nano-Edison unique selling point will enable a profitable business model that will boost the growth of Greenvolt with 5-year accumulated profits surpassing 40 M€, ROI of 8 and the creation of +56 new positions. Likewise, by providing more efficient and cost-competitive BESS, Nano-Edison will help society to make a better use of variable and decentralised renewable energy sources.

Keywords: nanoparticules,battery,behind the meter btm,smart cities,bess,commercial and industrial business,residential mini grids
4I-TRACTION – Innovation, Investment, Infrastructure and sector Integration: TRAnsformative policies for a ClimaTe-neutral European UnION (4I-TRACTION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Fighting and adapting to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Belgium,Finland,Poland,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Scientific support to designing mitigation pathways and policies (H2020-LC-CLA-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3997068.75
EU funding (EUR): 3997068.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, EU policy will have to be reoriented. It needs work simultaneously towards climate neutrality across the economy rapidly enough to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals, while delivering on a broad range of issues, from competitiveness and productivity to employment and health. The concept of the European Green Deal captures this overarching narrative. However, to mobilise the creative, financial and political resources to achieve the required degree of technological, economic and behavioural change, the EU also needs a governance framework that facilitates cross-sectoral policy integration and allows citizens, public and private stakeholders to participate in the process and to own the results. 4I-TRACTION analyses what transformative climate policy could look like for the EU. Based on a stocktake of existing climate policies and their performance, it will spell out a number of policy avenues and an overarching governance framework, to describe how the current mix of EU climate and energy policies needs to evolve in the 2020s to set course for climate neutrality by 2050. The analysis will be structured around four cross-cutting core challenges, the “4 I’s”: 1) fostering breakthrough Innovation, 2) shifting Investment and finance, 3) rolling out the Infrastructure for a climate-neutral and resilient economy, and 4) Integrating solutions across sectors. This structure reflects that a systemic transformation will need to evolve beyond sectoral policy approaches. Incorporating scientific insights and policies from outside the EU as well as examining how the EU’s efforts interact with those of other key countries, the analysis will also include the global context. The analysis will be thoroughly grounded in science, but also aligned with the EU's dynamic political environment. To receive input, provide feedback and validate conclusions, the project will closely engage with a broad set of stakeholders throughout its lifespan.

Keywords: climate neutrality,transformation,deep decarbonisation,climate policy,governance,innovation,investment,finance,infrastructure,path dependency,carbon lock in,just transition
Predictive Analysis on the Worlwide Energy Sector (PAWES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5206706.75
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

New technological, economic, geopolitical and social fault lines are shaking the foundations of two of the global economy’s most important sectors: energy and ICT. The energy system is facing a critical and urgent transition toward a cleaner, more affordable and sustainable model with associated costs estimated in the 100s of trillions euros over the next decades. In this context, strategic operational and investment decisions should be based on reliable, accurate and actionable information, often unavailable. At the same time, the ICT sector must develop new technologies as machine learning and advance signals processing to treat an unprecedented volume of alternative data. The energy sector could then highly benefit from the ICT’s big data disruption to the success of its transition. Combining deep sector (energy) and technology (data science, machine learning) expertise to provide new and valuable information for greater transparency in energy markets and operations, Kayrros ambitions to become the European tech champion in business intelligence and analytics. Commingling commercially available data from sensors, satellites and the web, Kayrros has placed R&D at the heart of its development and growth strategy since its inception in 2016. Built by European talents with a global ambition, the company has consolidated a leadership position as the reference alternative data provider for the energy market and is now expanding into new sectors. Thanks to its proprietary technology, Kayrros aims to create and lead a new multi-billion-euro market, by being the first provider of automated real time observation of industrial assets worldwide. Hence, Kayrros has built a highly automated asset-centric database and visualisation platform, which has been rolled-out and commercialized as Kayrros’s Solutions in 2019. Kayrros’s vision is to participate in creating a European remote sensing and alternative data hub and foster the European Union’s leadership in these fields.

Keywords: business intelligence,predictive analysis,satellite imagery
Militant Science. European Physicists and the Emergence of Transnational Radical Science Movements (MISHA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 251002.56
EU funding (EUR): 251002.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

MISHA’s research objective is to understand the transnational emergence and flourishing of radical science movements with a particular focus on the physics communities in Italy, France, United Kingdom, and the United States. I aim at elucidating the dynamic of the two-way transfer of knowledge and people between the US and Europe. The project consists of the following research actions: archival research (e.g., Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, Cambridge University Library, Wellcome Library, Archives de Jussieu, Sorbonne, Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso, University of Rome La Sapienza, Archivio della Società Italiana di Fisica); systematic analysis of written sources, (European and American journals, monographs, and translations of essays and articles); reconstruction of scientific networks from the examination of conferences proceedings, summer schools programs and lectures, and seminars, as well as programmatic documents; reconstruction of institutional and informal networks (political militancy, correspondences, internal reports); definition of the epistemological and political features of the debate on non-neutrality in science at transnational European level. On the methodological side, I will employ the most advanced conceptual tools of transnational history and political epistemology to provide an integrated narrative able to combine political, philosophical, and historical analysis.

Keywords: history of physics,radical science movements,history of science during the cold war,political,epistemology,scientific networks,philosophy of science
Developing a robust decision making framework for climate change policy under uncertainty (ROBUST POLICY)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-20
End date: 2018-09-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168277.2
EU funding (EUR): 168277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Although the EU is on track to achieve the climate targets of “20-20-20”, there is an ongoing debate over whether a more aggressive emission reduction goal is needed to be set for 2030. The root cause of such debate is not only the lack of scientific understanding of climate change but also severe uncertainties about the pace of change and the extent to which it impacts human and natural systems. The policy implications of climate change uncertainty depend on the proper treatment of uncertainty in integrated assessment models (IAM) of climate change. There have been several attempts to incorporate uncertainty in standard IAM frameworks but the results vary widely across the models. This is in particular important for implementing effective mitigation and adaptation strategies within the EU which require a great deal of coordination among the member states with different levels of economic development and political incentives. The objective of this research is to develop a framework for robust climate policy making under uncertainty. During the first stage of this project I will conduct a through survey of current treatment of uncertainty in standard IAMs to obtain the best practices. In the second stage, I will develop a unifying framework for analyzing decision making under uncertainty in the context of climate change. I will adopt a robust optimization approach to assess climate targets and the optimal pathway to achieve those objectives. This theoretical framework then will be applied to the current and future EU climate targets and the results will be illustrated for climate policy making in Italy as a key Member State.

Keywords: climate policy,integrated assessment modeling,uncertainty,robust optimization
Fast, Unbiased & Accurate Human Identification: Artificial Intelligence at the service of Physical and Forensic Anthropology (SKELETONID)

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: 2019-08-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The increasing number of mass disasters, and the untraceable (and shameful) number of unidentified people worldwide, combined with new challenges due to mass migrations, pose human identification as a great challenge in the preservation and defense of human rights in today’s society. There is an urgent need to provide forensic practitioners with accurate, robust, unbiased and automate identification systems. The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to develop those tools, however there is an absence of industrial initiatives exploiting these emerging technologies that have so far curbed its application to practical identification scenarios. SKELETON-ID fills this technological gap by bringing a novel computer-aided automatic paradigm for human identification based on forensic anthropology methods, thanks to our innovative own-developed methodologies and AI-based automation algorithms. We apply methods of AI to automate identification techniques such as Craniofacial Superimposition and Comparative Radiography, through unbiased and accurate analysis and comparison of ante-mortem data (pictures, X-ray) with post-mortem 3D bone models; and Biological Profile estimation, both dead and alive, from X-ray to 2D and 3D images. Our platform provides a fast and low-cost forensic tool that offers complementary methods to other solutions and is applicable when other techniques are not (e.g. decomposed bodies, lack of trustable records). With SKELETON-ID, Panacea C. Research (a Spanish SME) aspires to be a global reference in the area of physical and forensic anthropology. In the long term, we envision becoming a human group highly qualified and specialized, capable of generating and hosting new ideas and products with a transforming effect.This project will greatly impact our company. We estimate that 3 years after project completion (by 2024), SKELETON-ID will bring us additional €7,41M revenues, allowing to grow our team to 43 people (+37 from current).

Keywords: artificial intelligence,human identification and profiling,forensic anthropology,physical anthropology,craniofacial superimposition,comparative radiography,biological profile estimation