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Understanding and leveraging ‘moments of change’ for pro-environmental behaviour shifts (MOCHA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1721338.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Responding to climate change requires profound changes to individual behaviour. However, much of our behaviour is habitual, which is resistant to change. Habits are cued by stable contexts (i.e., same time, place and/or social group), so when these change, habits are disrupted, providing an opportunity to intervene to foster pro-environmental behaviour. ‘Moments of change’ are when individual life circumstances shift within a short time frame, and include biographical and exogenous changes (e.g., becoming a parent, travel disruption). The relationship between moments of change and environmental impact is complex, with heterogeneity between individuals, cultures and behaviours. The aim of this proposal is to examine how ambitious lifestyle change might be achieved through understanding and harnessing ‘moments of change’ in life circumstances. This project integrates insights from several fields (developmental and environmental psychology, sociology, science & technology studies) to bring a much-needed focus on the temporal and socio-technical dimensions of pro-environmental behaviour (change). There are two objectives for the research: (a) To explore and track moments of pro-environmental behaviour change across cultures and life-course; and (b) To examine the efficacy of behavioural interventions targeted to moments of change. Three work packages address these objectives through an ambitious programme of cross-cultural research using secondary and big data analyses, longitudinal qualitative interviews and panel surveys to explore moments of change, and experimental studies to test behaviour change interventions targeted at moments of change (e.g., starting university, retiring, relocating). This project promises a step-change in understanding the dynamics of pro-environmental change across the life course and cultures, and the development of robust habit-disrupting interventions to foster lifestyle change.

Keywords: behaviour change
Short-chain fatty acids in brain neuroinflammation: modulators of immunity and neural stemness (BRAINeSs)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183473.28
EU funding (EUR): 183473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The human gut hosts trillions of microbes collectively called the microbiota, which secretes metabolites that have been strictly linked to the regulation of physiological functions. Among them, short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) play a key role. Many pathologies are associated with microbiota alterations, including multiple sclerosis (MS), a brain autoimmune disease representing a major public health challenge in Western society. Although preliminary studies in mouse models showed that SCFAs have multiple actions, including immunomodulatory function and influencing the differentiation of stem cells, we still miss a comprehensive study that correlates mechanistically how changes in the microbiota, and, as a direct consequence, in SCFAs, favor autoimmunity in the central nervous system (CNS). Thus, in BRAINeSs, we propose to analyze the effect of SCFAs on different components of the CNS, to unravel the complexity of their action. Particularly, we will look at the impact of SCFAs on the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, immune cells, neural stem/precursor cells, mature neurons, and glial cells. BRAINeSs will allow us to broaden the analysis on the impact of SCFAs in MS through a multidisciplinary approach that spans from metabolomics to immunology, neuroscience, and bioinformatics, and takes advantage of cutting-edge methodologies, as single-cell RNA sequencing and human brain organoid culture. Our plan of research could be applied as a model for the study of other neuroinflammatory or neurodegenerative diseases and could lead to a new therapeutic perspective. I will gain new technical and soft skills through advanced training, necessary to reach full independence. BRAINeSs addresses the third UN development goal, “good health and wellbeing”, and strengthen the interest of the EU for microbiota and multiple sclerosis studies. BRAINeSs is compliant with the Work Program of H2020, which lean toward open-access science, and dissemination/public engagement activities.

Keywords: multiple sclerosis,neural stem,progenitor cells,short chain fatty acids,host,microbiota crosstalk,neuroimmunology,autoimmunity,human brain organoid,neural and glial cells,scrnaseq,metabolomic
Valorise Extensive quantities of HemIcellulosic and Cellulosic sugars from Lignocellulosic biomass into high-value End products (VEHICLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Estonia,Italy,Finland,Finland,Sweden,Netherlands
Call: Valorise sugars from the cellulosic and/or hemicellulosic fractions of lignocellulosic biomass (H2020-BBI-JTI-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9641856.64
EU funding (EUR): 5872354.13
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

VEHICLE will demonstrate novel biotechnological and non-biotechnological technologies for providing and valorising low value sugar streams, thereby enabling significant progress in holistic & sustainable utilisation of lignocellulosic biomass. The main goals for this project are to demonstrate valorisation of dilute hemicellulose-containing prehydrolysate streams from pulp mills, which are currently waste streams with little value. The demonstration will take place by Ecohelix at the Domsjö Fabriker dissolving pulp mill in Sweden. In addition to widen the business and market opportunities of existing biorefinery investments by demonstrating the applicability of their sugar streams in several downstream options. Sugar streams will be provided by Avantium and Graanul from their demonstration and flagship facilities that are currently under construction. Subsequently the use of hemicellulose polymers from prehydrolysis streams in different pulp and paper product applications will be demonstrated by Kemira as well as the conversion of hemicellulose and cellulose based sugars into intermediate and building block chemicals – glycols (MEG and MPG), butanediol and long chain diacids – as well as into specialty sugars (glucosone, fructose) by Metgen, Avantium and Novamont. VEHICLE project will give special attention to secure the market demand and marketability of the produced intermediate molecules by demonstrating their use in a minimum of 5 end applications. In all 3 business cases VEHICLE maximises the weighted % of valorised feedstock, by covering more than one component and more than one product. UVIC will utilize well established LCA methodologies to assess the environmental and economic impacts of the developed products and processes. VEHICLE is based on sound business cases and business plans of three very promising value chains demonstrated by Ecohelix/Kemira, Avantium and Novamont. Combined with the 3 feedstock sources, up to 9 new value chains can be created.

Keywords: hemicellulose,oligosaccharides,mono ethyleneglycol,mono propyleneglycol,4 butanediols,long chain di acids
Establishing Services Enhancing the Innovation Management Capacity of SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network (EENINNOAUSTRIA2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Austria,Austria,Austria,Austria,Austria
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 304461.88
EU funding (EUR): 304461.88
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

A lack of innovation management capacity represents an important barrier to creating economic impact from innovation activities in SMEs. The H2020 Work Programme “Innovation in SMEs” foresees support services via the Enterprise Europe Network dealing with this issue. The Austrian consortium will support SMEs in addressing factors hindering successful innovation cycles. Activities will aim at (1) providing substantial consulting and support services in the form of Key Account Management (KAM) to beneficiaries of the H2020 SME instrument and at (2) enhancing the innovation management capacity (EIMC) of SMEs. Services will be provided in close cooperation and coordination with the National Contact Points and regional and national stakeholders. KAM and EIMC services will be carried out by experienced innovation experts that are all also involved in the provision of EEN services. This guarantees a seamless support via the services provided under H2020 and COSME, using synergies but avoiding the duplication of services. (1) Within the frame of the SME instrument partners will conduct company assessments, identify weaknesses in the SMEs’ innovation strategies and subsequently help SMEs to assign professional coaches. Coaches and SMEs will then develop a coaching plan and address these weaknesses. The process will be facilitated and accompanied by the EEN expert. Further support (e.g. the link to additional financial resources) will be provided and so the SME receives a vital service throughout the SME instrument project. (2) EEN experts will also directly support a selected number of high-potential SMEs in improving their innovation management. This will be achieved through targeted innovation management consulting. SMEs in need of this specific type of consulting will be reached, which may not benefit from the H2020 SME instrument while showing a high potential for successful market introduction of innovations and international growth.

Keywords: key account management,sme instrument,innovation management
Bifunctional Zeolite based Catalysts and Innovative process for Sustainable Hydrocarbon Transformation (BIZEOLCAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Egypt,Italy,Spain,Norway,Türkiye,Sweden,Norway,Belgium,Slovenia,France,France,Netherlands
Call: Catalytic transformation of hydrocarbons (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-ST-IND-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6571837.5
EU funding (EUR): 6571837.5
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

In the past there have been a number of semi-industrial trials and even commercial processes to obtain on-purpose petrochemical feedstocks from methane and/or propane (more generally, C1-C4 hydrocarbons). However, their commercial success has been limited due to several reasons: from technical drawbacks (low conversions and selectivity) to economics (high capital investment and high operation costs are often obtained). Furthermore there is a need for lowering the carbon footprint of gas and oil industry, i.e. refining industry, contributing to an evolving scenario of sustainable economy in such field. BIZEOLCAT is addressing the use of light alkanes as raw material for specialty chemical industry and not as feedstock for fuels in the current oil refining process, becoming part of this transition. BIZEOLCAT will aim developing 4 new processes of light alkanes (methane, propane and butane) conversion to olefins (propylene, butadiene) and to aromatics demonstrating higher performance, cost efficiency and environmental sustainability, using innovative methodologies for catalysts preparation and membrane reactor design. A refining company, TUPRAS, will run the pilot unit experiments. One large companies, CEPSA will validate propylene and benzene as part of TR5 validation. sLCA have demonstrated that the expected reduction in the greenhouse emissions related to the manufacturing of propane dehydrogenation developed within the project and also the Aromatization process in comparison to current Oleflex® and benzene production from a reformate plant is far over the target value of 20%. A joint venture creation is part of BIZEOLCAT exploitation plan. The BIZEOLCAT consortium comprises 12 partners: 2 technology centres, 2 research institutes, 2 universities, 1 Standardization body, 1 international association and finally 3 large industries and 1 SME from 8 countries (6 EU members, 2 associated countries to H2020)

Keywords: propane dehydrogenation,butane dehydrogenation,alkanes aromatization,catalyst,petrochemical industry,alkanes,olefins,zeolite,nanoparticles,nanoclusters,membrane reactor
Technologies for geothermal to enhance competitiveness in smart and flexible operation (GeoSmart)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Iceland,Germany,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Türkiye,Türkiye,Belgium,Belgium,Norway,France,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Demonstrate highly performant renewable technologies for combined heat and power (CHP) generation and their integration in the EU's energy system (H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-SingleStage, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 64.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18306025.25
EU funding (EUR): 14985759.28
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

Future energy systems will face serious operational challenges with system reliability due to fluctuations caused by progressive integration of solar and wind power. Reliable and sustainable energy sources that can be utilized in large parts of Europe and that are able to balance these fluctuations are needed. Geothermal energy has the potential to become an excellent source for both base and flexible energy demands, providing much lower environmental footprint than both fossil and biomass fuels, as well as much less risks and societal resistance than nuclear power. There are however some techno-economic challenges which needs to be addressed to facilitate highly flexible operation of geothermal power plants. In GeoSmart, we propose to combine thermal energy storages with flexible ORC solutions to provide a highly flexible operational capability of a geothermal installation. During periods with low demand, energy will be stored in the storage to be released at a later stage when the demand is higher. As this approach does not influence the flow condition at the wellhead, critical infrastructures will be unaffected under variable energy generation. To improve efficiency, we also propose a hybrid cooling system for the ORC plant to prevent efficiency degradation due to seasonal variations. Efficiency will be further improved by larger power plant heat extraction enabled due to a scaling reduction system consisting of specially design retention tank, heat exchanger, and recombining with extracted gases. The scaling reduction system has the potential to almost double power production of many medium enthalpy geothermal plants. Overall, GeoSmart technologies will drastically reduce geothermal energy costs, making it cost competitive with its fossil fuel-based counterparts. To bring GeoSmart technology to TRL7/8, we will demonstrate it in a medium/high (Turkey) and low (Belgium) temperature fields to show its potential benefits and applicability in different settings.

Keywords: cooling system,thermal storage,scaling
CONTINUOUS MONITORING SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME DETECTION OF WATER HAMMER AND REDUCTION OF WATER LEAKAGES (THOR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

TecLab Srl is a renowned, Italian-based, designer and manufacturer of electronic systems for automation and remote monitoring of water and gas technological networks. With an experience spanning over 20 years in remote control systems, we have more than 25,000 points remotely controlled by our products in Italy and Europe. We have notable experts in the fields of engineering, electronics and software development and have received certifications from 10 international bodies. Our vision is to become the world’s most innovative supplier of remote control systems and to grow our revenues by +€6 million annually by the year 2023. The primary aim of the THOR project is to deliver an integrated and continuous water distribution monitoring system capable of detecting in real-time the Water Hammer shock waves, a major problem which causes severe damage or system failure in water networks, resulting in annual loss of over 32 billion cubic metres of water worth at least €46.25 billion. Our project embodies the most advanced sensor technology and GPS synchronisation functions and develops improved engineered solutions to the Water Hammer, thereby reducing the number of water distribution related failures. Practically, for the water utilities companies, using THOR system will translate into reduction in water distribution system downtime and maintenance costs, up to 48% savings in losses associated with non-revenue water and 3% increase in direct sales. Commercialised by our company, THOR will realise a new commercially attractive and marketable technology to the European and global markets, while generating for our company a cumulative turnover of €12 million by 2023.

Keywords: monitoring system,water distribution,water network,water hammer,gps synchronisation,detection,localisation,preventive maintenance,collaborative software application
IoTCrawler (IoTCrawler)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: R&I on IoT integration and platforms (H2020-IOT-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4997137.5
EU funding (EUR): 4997137.5
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The Internet of Things offers an incredible innovation potential for developing smarter applications and services, transforming business models and impacting our society both positively. To be able to unlock IoT’s full potential many fundamental technological challenges still need to be solved. Today we see solutions in the development of vertical applications and services reflecting what used to be the early days of the web, leading to fragmentation and intra-nets of Things. To achieve an open IoT ecosystem of systems and platforms, several key enablers are needed: adaptive and scalable crawling, indexing, semantic data/service search and integration, privacy and security, combined with real world and large-scale enablers and products driven by innovative use-case scenarios and new business models. IoTCrawler will focus on integration and interoperability across different platforms, dynamic and reconfigurable solutions for discovery and integration of data and services from legacy and new systems, adaptive, privacy-aware and secure algorithms and mechanisms for crawling, indexing, search in distributed IoT systems. IoTCrawler will provide extensive development and demonstrations with a focus on Industry 4.0, Social IoT, Smart City and Smart Energy. IoTCrawler will seek to provide high impact through research excellence, innovation and technology advancement. It will address open challenges and issues in crawling, discovery, indexing, semantic integration and security/privacy/trust for an IoT ecosystem. IoTCrawler will achieve this through end-user engagement via its industry and city partners, trials and collaborative scenario developments, validations and show casing. IoTCrawler will also offer new business models and will extend the product line of industry and SME partners, and will create a wider awareness and third-party exploitation via dissemination and standardisation activities and by providing open and generic enablers and APIs.

Keywords: crawling,discovery,indexing and ranking
pH-driven ionic barrier-based techniques to recover precious metals from urban mines (IONIC BARRIER)

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: Finland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202680.96
EU funding (EUR): 202680.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Precious metals (PMs) including Au, Pd, Pt are naturally occurring elements of high economic values. However, they face future supply-chain risks due to their limited abundance in the earth’s crust. Meanwhile, frequent replacements of electrical and electronic devices are leading to accumulated amounts of e-wastes, with PM contents gradually superseding natural ore deposits. Urban mining is the act of recovering PMs from e-wastes. This technique is important from economic and environmental remediation viewpoints, owing to the prospects of generating income through recycling and protecting the environment from pollution dangers. This proposal aims to utilize the properties and advantages of adsorption and hydroxide precipitation to design internal pH-driven ionic barrier-based protocols to recover PMs from urban mines (e-wastes). The proposed techniques will involve the fabrication of polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) capsules using poly(diallyldimethylammonium), PDADMA and poly(styrenesulfonate), PSS. Here, a new concept of “ionic barrier” will be combined with metal-hydroxide formation to help retain high internal pH within the PEC capsules. The capsules will create ionic barriers that will promote selective passage of PMs and reject heavy metals such as Cd, Pb, Hg etc., whilst the high internal pH will induce hydrolysis and metal hydroxide formation between OH ions and the penetrated PMs within the capsules. For further improvement of the recovery efficiency, the functional polymer, polyethyleneimine (PEI) will be immobilized. Strategic recovery techniques will be designed via sequential desorption and adsorption-coupled incineration to obtain elemental PMs. Consequently, these protocols are expected to enhance separation and recovery of PMs, and eliminate the hydroxide sludge and sulfide gases that usually accompany the precipitation process. Moreover, it will help to salvage the supply-chain risk associated with PMs, and keep their continuous supply to industries.

Keywords: ionic barrier,precious metal,selective recovery,polyelectrolyte complex capsule,e waste,urban mining