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A New Approach to the Evolution of Texts Based on the Manuscripts of the Targums (TEXTEVOLVE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Belgium,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1966259.0
EU funding (EUR): 1401797.87
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

TEXTEVOLVE will study the Targums. Targums are Jewish Aramaic paraphrases of the Hebrew Bible. They are important because they provide a unique insight into what Jews believed God was saying to them through their sacred texts at transformative moments in Jewish history, particularly the aftermath of the First Jewish-Roman War (66–74 CE). The state of the art in the study of the Targums is defined by 1) methodology, and 2) the primary sources that are available. TEXTEVOLVE will go beyond the state of the art in both areas. Methodology — We do not possess the author’s original copy of any Targum. Rather, in most cases we have multiple copies preserved in much later manuscripts, all of which differ one from another. Existing methodology aims to reconstruct the earliest possible form of the text. But changes made by later copyists also yield important insights into evolving Jewish culture, theology, and praxis. Therefore TEXTEVOLVE reframes the dominant research question in the field so that neither the importance of the original wording nor the significance of subsequent changes is neglected. It asks: How did the text of the Targums evolve over time and why? TEXTEVOLVE will develop a new methodology, called Evolutionary Philology, that is capable of addressing this core question. It will use techniques from evolutionary biology that have not previously been applied to texts to achieve this. This will have implications across disciplines that work with historical texts. Primary Sources — To ensure the most robust possible dataset, TEXTEVOLVE will expand the pool of primary sources available for analysis. TEXTEVOLVE will find Targum manuscripts that have been ‘lost’ in un-catalogued or poorly catalogued collections, and will analyse for the first time recently discovered manuscripts from the ‘European Genizah’. Since the available primary sources define the boundaries of any discipline, this is the second major way in which TEXTEVOLVE goes beyond the state of the art.

Keywords: jewish studies,manuscript studies,targum,aramaic
Atomistic spin dynamics and spectroscopic investigation of spin-induced magnetoelectric multiferroic materials (EMAGICS)

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: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-06
End date: 2021-05-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184590.72
EU funding (EUR): 184590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Magnetoelectric (ME) multiferroics (MFs), materials that can combine ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, are strong candidates for a wide range of novel hybrid technological applications, such as sensing, energy harvesting, data storage, magnonics, and spintronics, to name a few. Most importantly, the ability to manipulate the magnetization by electric fields leads to simple, cost-effective and energetically sustainable technological strategies. Despite the great efforts of the MF scientific community, the origin of the ME coupling in a series of MF materials still remains ambiguous. Experimental findings may frequently be inconclusive and misinterpreted; therefore a solid theoretical approach is essential for developing further insights in the fundamental physics hidden behind magnetoelectricity. Ni3TeO6 champions both the static and dynamical ME effects among the single-phase MFs. In pursuit of new spin-induced MFs, resembling the celebrated Ni3TeO6, we propose the investigation of a series of compounds of the form M3TeO6 (M=Ni, Mn, Co), with a combination of mixed-valence transition metal anions on the M-site, by employing a combination of first principles calculations of spin dynamics together with experimental spectroscopic investigation. The researcher has experience in spectroscopic techniques for ME MFs, background in first principles calculations, and aims at training in the field of first principles calculations for spin dynamics. The supervisor Prof. Sanvito is an expert in ab initio predictions with atomistic spin dynamics. EMAGICS’ target is to unveil the underlying mechanisms that lead to the enhancement of the ME MF properties, as well as possibly increase the critical temperatures in favour of the applications. Thereafter, EMAGICS will be able to propose the synthesis of new compounds of the family M3TeO6, with a combination of mixed-valence transition metal anions on the M-site, and experimentally explore possible MF performance.

Keywords: magnons,electromagnons,phonons,density functional theory,atomistic spin dynamics,infrared,raman,terahertz spectroscopy,ferroelectric,antiferromagnetic,dynamical magnetoelectric coupling
EarWay: a simple, safe and efficient medical device for earwax removal (EarWay)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Approximately 1.1bn (15%) of the people worldwide suffer from recurrent cerumen impaction, being the 1st reason worldwide of treatable hearing loss. Impacted earwax can cause uncountable symptoms ranging from ear pain, itching, ringing (tinnitus) and discharge/odour to more severe diseases like hearing loss and eventually depression, paranoia, impaired cognition and speech disorders, and consequently social isolation. Current professional tools are complex and slow: many of these methods (e.g., irrigation) cause patient discomfort and are associated to treatments that are long (15-40 minutes) and often complex (e.g, micro suction) therefore not viable for General Practitioners and only allowed for the scarce Ear Nose and Throat specialists (ENT´s) associated with long waiting times for patients. To solve this, healthcare organizations are promoting the empowerment of patients via the shift to homecare solutions. Based on an innovative “release with a twist” principle, the products EarWay®Pro and EarWay®HomeCare are designed to enable simple cerumen extraction and management of earwax impaction. Their background technology provides safe, effective (87% success) and fast (90% reduced treatment time) devices that have been clinically validated in 200 successful earwax removal cases by both primary carers ) and specialists. Moreover they return the power to the primary-care professionals (EarWay®Pro) and the patient (EarWay®HomeCare) ultimately reducing the burden for the healthcare system. EarWay® products are targeting a large market of €7.3 billion in Europe and USA alone, including a €5.8 billion HomeCare market represented by over 122 million cerumen-impacted people and the €1.5-billion Pro market with over 900,000 target physicians. EARWAYS MEDICAL LTD. is a leading innovator of ear-care solutions. Founded to enhance the well-being of millions of children and adults worldwide, providing easy-to-use ear-care products for both clinicians and home use.

Keywords: earwax removal,cerumen impaction,hearing loss,ents,audiologists,medical device
RENEWABLE ENERGIES FOR AFRICA: EFFECTIVE VALORIZATION OF AGRI-FOOD WASTES (REFFECT AFRICA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Italy,Algeria,Egypt,Uganda,South Africa,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Tunisia,Tanzania, United Republic of,Norway,Ghana,Mozambique,Nigeria,Morocco,Senegal,Portugal
Call: Accelerating the green transition and energy access Partnership with Africa (H2020-LC-GD-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8100151.25
EU funding (EUR): 6962820.78
Participants: 30
Project status: SIGNED

Population without access to electricity is set to increase again in 2020 after 6 years of decline in Africa. The number of people gaining access to electricity in Africa has increased greatly: the number of people without access to electricity dropped from almost 860 million in 2018 to 770 million in 2019, a record low in recent years . Nonetheless, past progress is being reversed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to tackle this, the present proposal will demonstrate innovative, reliable and adapted sustainable energy solutions based on the valorization of biomass wastes from agriculture and the food industry through biomass gasification. REFFECT AFRICA will adapt and optimize these technologies to a wide variety of biomass wastes: olive mill residues, almond hulls and husks, millet, rice, sorghum or peanut wastes and sugarcane bagasse, among others locally available. Three full- scale demonstrators will be built in Morocco, Ghana and South Africa to consider both urbanized and rural contexts in Africa, on- and off-grid solutions, as well as different socio-economic backgrounds. The project will carry out comprehensive LCA and LCC of each supply chain and will consider the climate adaptation and mitigation potential of this technology compared to other technologies and solutions in the African social, economic and environmental contexts. REFFECT AFRICA will tackle the development of renewable energy sources, providing solutions for on-grid and off-grid communities, and their integration into the existing energy system. It will consider the generation of renewable energy, the transmission, and the use of storage systems.With the aim to closing all water- energy-food links, the project will work on obtaining biochar from the gasifier, and will be improved to provide a valuable fertilizer to local farmers. The demonstrators will include a robust but reliable water laboratory to provide their location with basic but often lacking testing services.

Keywords: agricultural wastes valorization,olive mill wastes,sugarcane wastes,gasification,biochar,off grid,on grid,power generation,heat and power generation,distillation,circular economy
Saharan Visions of Jesus. Poetics of Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions (SAVIJU)

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: Belgium,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-15
End date: 2023-08-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 248425.92
EU funding (EUR): 248425.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

xMy project aims to study the connections between Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions, the Saharan pastoral minorities (Tuareg, Berabish, Chaanba, Kunta) in Mali and in Niger and the post-conflict situation in Sahel through the unusual prism of oral poetry. The various Christian churches use television, radio, the mobile phone and the internet to spread their messages and thus increase their congregations. As a result, an impressive number of studies focuses on religious transformations and media, on the appropriation of technologies by religious groups or on popular arts and religions in Africa.3 But at present, qualitative research on the intersection of African Christianity and Saharan oral poetry, considered as the most relevant and prestigious nomadic art, is extremely limited. SAVIJU focuses on a cross-cutting object, Saharan Christian poetics, which presents the characteristic of not being traumatic, unlike the questions by which issues concerning Sahel are generally investigated (migration, humanitarian crises, jihadism etc.). SAVIJU aims at offering an alternative view of the recent conflict in Mali (2012-2015) by recounting events from the point of view of the Christian Tuareg persecuted populations, living as forced refugees in the capital cities of Niger and Mali. The challenge of this project is to write the “hidden histories” of Saharan Christians and to revise the common narrative of the Sahara as uniquely Islamic. The hypothesis that the project has set out to verify is that these conversions constitute a reaction to the jihadism to which the local populations have been subjected, not only because of the occupation of their lands and the forced application of Sharia law but also because of the effects it has had on every-day family-life.

Keywords: oral poetry,muslim to christian conversions,tuareg,berabish,chaanba,sahel,west africa,mali,niger,minority
Revolutionising Downstream Processing of Monoclonal Antibodies by Continuous Template-Assisted Membrane Crystallization (AMECRYS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy,Belgium,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open research projects (H2020-FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3533813.75
EU funding (EUR): 3533813.75
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Separation and purification of biopharmaceuticals is today one of the most time and cost intense Downstream Processing (DSP) operations in the manufacture of commercial products. Separation and purification of proteins is usually achieved chromatographically, with all of its disadvantages including high buffer requirements, large footprint, reuse and storage of resin studies as well as costs. Traditional DSP based on batch chromatography contribute ca. 66% of the total production cost of anti-cancer monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). Largely contributing to this is the cost of chromatography media; for instance, the cost of 1 L of protein A resin with binding capacity of 20-70 g mAb is about 25000 Eur. By a visionary and ambitious combination of the emerging Continuous Manufacturing Paradigm with innovative Membrane Crystallization Technology and the selective nanotemplate-recognitions directly from the fermentation broth, the AMECRYS Network aims to develop a new Continuous Template-Assisted Membrane Crystallizer in order to revolutionize the DSP platform for mAbs production, thus achieving unprecedented purification and manufacturing efficiencies. Major research challenges will include: i) the synthesis of 3D-nanotemplates with specific molecular recognition ability towards mAbs from complex solutions; ii) the development of tailored macroporous fluoropolymer membranes for advanced control of selective heterogeneous nucleation; iii) the design of multilevel microfluidic devices for high-throughput mAb crystallization screening in a wide range of conditions under continuous flow (“pharma-on-a-chip” concept); iv) technology scale-up to a L-scale continuous prototype designed with recognition of QS/GMP compliance for biopharmaceuticals. The replacement of chromatography with a single membrane-crystallization unit will lead to >60% CapEx and O&M costs decrease, 30-fold footprint reduction and high-purity solid formulation of mAbs with preserved biological activity.

Keywords: polymeric membranes,template assisted crystallization,membrane assisted crystallization,recombinant monoclonal antibodies,bioprocesses
Sustainable urban mobiliTY: ELectric double decker bUS (STYLUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The STYLUS project aims to introduce into the global market the first open-roof 100% electric Double Decker Bus (eDDB). Furthermore, through implementing advanced new technologies, CARROCERIAS AYATS (from now on AYATS) will come up with a DDB with larger capacity (76 seats + 1PRM seat) and high autonomy (140km) offering a more efficient solution that will obviously be able to target not only the tourist sector but all urban road transport. The difficulty of electrifying a Double Decker Bus is high compared to a small vehicle and even to a Single Decker Bus. The development of the STYLUS first prototype has supposed a challenge for CARROCERIAS AYATS, due to difficulties that has found the company on introducing the huge batteries in the most reduced space, in order to acheive a maximum capacity for passengers.

Keywords: stylus,electric bus,double decker bus,green vehicles,energy management,system,battery management system,active
Sea-More-Yield: A Blue Biotechnology Solution for the Reduction of Pod Shatter in Bio-Oil Producing Crops (SEA-More-Yield)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: Supporting SMEs efforts for the development - deployment and market replication of innovative solutions for blue growth (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1286382.5
EU funding (EUR): 900467.75
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Sea-More-Yield is a revolutionary non-transgenic platform for trait introduction via single 1.5L/Ha foliar spray, enabling immediate expression of desirable anti-shatter traits in OSR. This pioneering technology enables growers for the first time to modulate OSR pod physiology to minimise seed loss and yield risk with an early season spray (in the absence of pods). With a global population set to reach 9 billion by 2050, OSR is a key crop for human and animal consumption and is central to mitigating a future food and/or energy security crisis. OSR due to its relatively recent domestication suffers from a number of defects which limits its success as a modern day crop. Fully mature pods of oilseed rape are extremely prone to opening, resulting in seed loss (pod shatter). Typical losses vary between 15% and 25% of the potential yield, but reductions of up to 50% were estimated in seasons when weather conditions were poor prior to and during harvest. A reduction in the tendency of pods to opening is the number one trait sought by farmers and would serve to increase the proportion of the yield recovered by the combine harvester and thereby improve production efficiency and sustainability of OSR as alternative food and energy source. To address this industry-limiting problem, SMY offers a unique blue technology that modulates OSR pod physiology to control unsynchronized pod shatter leading to recovery of an additional 20% of the yield potential.

Keywords: sustainable agriculture,crop yield enhancement,macroalgae,ascophyllum nodosum,oilseed rape,pod shatter,bio oil
Increase of awareness, activity and confidence of local residents in area of municipal administration and the reduction of barriers to access information in the age of mobility and e-government (Mobile E-Admini)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Poland
Call: Innovative mobile e-government applications by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to reduce the boundaries of normal and disabled residents with State and Local Offices, to raise awareness of the election, the real impact on the activities undertaken in the area of residence, universal access to information and the possibility of remote communication with the office and the submission of applications using mobile applications. Today's technology makes it possible to revolutionize the current system of Administration. The possibility of placing via this system additional information on products for the local market (the same residents) will enable the development of SMEs market Our current product supports the action in 7 areas: 1. Discipline records system permits to sell alcohol 2. Real Estate Registration System 3. The historical monumental records 4. The system permits the location of the records in road lane and to occupy roadway 5. A system to support the work of the Municipal Council / District (CAP) s 6. A system for handling public procurement (ZP) 7. Municipal Waste Management System (CPG) Our goal is to expand the functionality of the system, to enable the implementation of the above-mentioned design goals. In this way, our project is: - Universal - Technology ready - Mobile - Friendly for locals residents - Reduces barriers in the community for normal and disabled people - Easy access for development of the local market for SMEs - Easy language change

Keywords: mobility,twenty first century,people with disabilities,reduce barriers,usability,innovation,development,e government,local residents,increased confidence,technology,free market