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Increasing the productivity of knowledge workers through better indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in office buildings (720IEQ)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1945000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1361500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Increasing the productivity of knowledge workers has been called the biggest management challenge of the 21st century. The biggest opportunity for addressing this challenge is improving the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in office buildings. It is estimated that €70-190 billion is lost due to non-optimized office environments in Europe and the US. 720° is a unique sensor-based solution that improves the productivity and well-being of office workers by analysing IEQ in real time and automatically taking measures to ensure optimised working conditions. 720 Degrees helps its customers to turn office buildings into an employee productivity management tool. It increases employee productivity by at least 10%, improves health, cuts absenteeism, reduces the number of complaints and saves time and money for facility managers. The key enabler for the solution is company’s proprietary IEQ database (the most comprehensive in the world) that has been used to train 720 Degrees’ proprietary machine learning algorithms to provide unprecedented insights on the IEQ. The IEQ monitoring solution was launched in 2014 and is currently used by more than 100 customers. They have successfully applied the 720° monitoring solution in their first buildings, but are now waiting for the automated IEQ improvement functionality to become commercially available before applying the 720° solution across their whole building portfolios. The finalisation of this functionality, strengthening of company’s commercialisation capabilities and preparation for fast expansion are the main objectives of the 720IEQ project. The execution of the commercialisation action plan is expected to increase the revenues to €44 million in 2022, and to €100 million (2% market penetration) in 2024 through further expansion to the US.
Quantum-enhanced on-chip interference microscopy (Q-MIC)

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,Germany,Austria,Germany,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open research and innovation actions (H2020-FETOPEN-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2840127.5
EU funding (EUR): 2840127.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims at developing a new on-chip differential interference contrast microscope based on an unconventional birefringence lens-free configuration, the latest quantum sources and single-photon image sensors. The Q-MIC platform will reach unprecedented sensitivities (a few atomic layers, of the order of 1 Å) over large field-of-view (tens of mm2) in the low light (single-photon) regime. This unique combination of features will allow, on the one hand, the first demonstration of a practical quantum device for imaging, while providing, on the other hand, a platform for fundamentally new lines of re-search in quantum metrology, including the interaction of quantum states and bio-species. It is also an important goal of the project to facilitate that the quantum enhanced on-chip interference microscope be built with consumer components, especially thanks to the project’s effort in photonic and electronic inte-gration of entangled photon sources and single photon avalanche diode image sensor arrays. This would extend the impact well beyond the scientific interests and lead to portable, high throughput, non-invasive, and label free sensing of transparent objects, such as cells, micro-organisms, viruses and proteins. For ex-ample, microarrays of biomarkers with millions of spots could be read in a single shot, with no need of fluorescence marking. Other applications include the detection of small particles in the microelectronics industry and in-line quality control of transparent substrates for roll-to-roll production of flexible optoe-lectronic devices. The Q-MIC consortium includes four academic and two industrial partners with a high degree of complementarity that are at the forefront of their fields, including photonic devices (ICFO), optical engineering (Fraunhofer) quantum science and technology (OEAW, UoG), single-photon detectors (POLIMI and MPD), microscopy, and equipment for life science and semiconductor processing (CZ).

Keywords: differential interference contrast microscopy,quantum imaging,cell and bio marker detection
Global Gravity-based Groundwater Product (G3P)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Spain,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,Finland,France,France,Netherlands
Call: Copernicus evolution – Research activities in support of cross-cutting applications between Copernicus services (H2020-SPACE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2923502.5
EU funding (EUR): 2923502.5
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Groundwater is one of the most important freshwater resources for mankind and for ecosystems. Assessing groundwater resources and developing sustainable water management plans based on this resource is a major field of activity for science, water authorities and consultancies worldwide. Due to its fundamental role in the Earth’s water and energy cycles, groundwater has been declared as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) by GCOS, the Global Climate Observing System. The Copernicus Services, however, do not yet deliver data on this fundamental resource, nor is there any other data source worldwide that operationally provides information on changing groundwater resources in a consistent way, observation-based, and with global coverage. This gap will be closed by G3P, the Global Gravity-based Groundwater Product. The G3P consortium combines key expertise from science and industry across Europe that optimally allows to (1) capitalize from the unique capability of GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite gravimetry as the only remote sensing technology to monitor subsurface mass variations and thus groundwater storage change for large areas, (2) incorporate and advance a wealth of products on storage compartments of the water cycle that are part of the Copernicus portfolio, and (3) disseminate unprecedented information on changing groundwater storage to the global and European user communities, including a European use case as a demonstrator for industry potential in the water sector. In combination, the G3P development is a novel and cross-cutting extension of the Copernicus portfolio towards essential information on the changing state of water resources at European and global scales. G3P is timely given the recent launch of GRACE-FO that opens up the chance for gravity-based time series with sufficient length to monitor climate-induced and human-induced processes over more than 20 years, and to boost European space technology on board these satellites.

Keywords: groundwater,water storage,gravity field,satellite gravimetry,water cycle,earth observation
Studying the bricks of microbial cities: characterization and structural properties of exopolysaccharides and their interaction with proteins and cations in anammox granular sludge (POLIS)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168277.2
EU funding (EUR): 168277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is an innovative technology for the removal of nitrogen from wastewater (ww) saving 60% of aeration and 100% of organic carbon. Its potential application to municipal ww allow a complete redesign of the present energy-consuming into an energy-yielding ww treatment plant. Due to the slow growth rate of anammox bacteria, their retention in the system, and therefore granule stability, is the main concern of this process. Granular stability is closely related to the properties of their exopolysaccharides (PS) and their interactions with proteins and mono-divalent cations. In the proposed research integrated analytical methods (UV-visible, FT-IR, MALDI-TOF MS, NMR, (pyrolysis)GC-MS, HPLC) will be used to investigate functional PS and their fine structures, unrevealing the mechanisms involved in anammox granular sludge formation and stability. Modern rheological (AOS, LLCT and Microrheology combined with CLSM), light scattering (DLS, SLS) and microscopy techniques (AFM, FT-IR, CLSM) will be used to investigate their interactions with proteins and cations. PS will be isolated from lab- and full-scale reactors. The definition of standardized extraction (loosely/tightly bound-EPS, LB/TB-EPS) and analytical methods will bridge the existing gap for efficient and meaningful comparison of the results from this and future research. The methods set up here, will largely contribute to increase the scientific significance of PS studies in anammox granular sludge area as well as facilitate the entire biofilm research field. Studies on biofouling and biocorrosion will also benefit from the high-quality of the information and basic knowledge acquired. This research will strengthen the EU leadership in anammox granular sludge technology also improving EU scientific excellence in PS research area and provides the researcher an advanced level of multidisciplinary training, opening concrete perspectives for his career development.

Keywords: anammox,granular sludge,biofilm,exopolymeric substances,exopolysaccharides,rheology,exopolymeric proteins,mono divalent cations
Neuronal Coding of Choice and Action-Selection during Decision-Making in Behaving Mice (NEUROGOAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499933.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499933.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our daily life is a complex chain of decisions and actions that shapes our behaviors. Individuals tend to choose the best action possible among different alternatives through “goal-directed” decision-making. Given that action-selection is supposed to occur on the basis of the individual subjective evaluation of the relative costs and benefits of each action, two types of information need to be integrated within choice-specific neuronal representations: the causal consequences of an action (outcome) and the value of the outcome. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) appears to be well suited to organize such action-selection. However, despite the growing interest in decision-making over the past few years, the neuronal and synaptic mechanisms underlying goal-directed action-selection in normal and pathological conditions remain elusive. By using two-photon imaging over long-time frames in behaving mice, our project will first determine how alternative choices are encoded by specific neuronal representations in the PFC, and how they are compared during decision-making to select to best action possible. To achieve flexible behaviors in a dynamic environment, individuals must rapidly update these representations according to the difference between the predicted and the obtained outcome. Many cortical and subcortical structures act in coordination to encode and process changes in the outcome value, but the synaptic underpinnings remain unknown. Our proposal will take full advantage of in vivo methods combining electrophysiology, optogenetic and genetically-encoded calcium indicators to address the causal relationship between subcortical population dynamics and prefrontal neuronal processing during decision-making and behavioral flexibility. Finally, given that motivational alterations are observed in many human neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, we will tackle synaptic, cellular and behavioral decision-making deficits in a mouse model of autism.

Keywords: decision making,synaptic plasticity,prefrontal cortex,amygdala,dopamine,in vivo,cranial window,head restrained mice,in vivo two photon imaging,optogenetics,calcium imaging,patch clamp
Empowering building design professionals through Artificial Intelligence on the cloud (ARCHITECHTURES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the next 35 years urban population will double producing a huge growing demand for housing. As population grows, concerns related to efficient management of natural resources is also increasing. The pressure is on for developers and design teams to find ways of designing eco-efficient buildings at a faster pace at lower costs, whilst maintaining or even increasing the building quality levels. As an outcome of >3 years of R&D investment in AI-based architectural design, Smartscapes is developing ARCHITEChTURES: the first cloud-based platform for sustainable architecture design, powered by Artificial Intelligence. Our goal is to make environmentally responsible housing widely affordable whilst drastically increasing architects’ productivity: creating faster, better and greener building designs. Through ARCHITEChTURES, architects no longer need to work from a blank design and depend on a great deal of specialised knowledge/time to bet on the practise of green housing design. Our data-driven platform creates the best starting point: highly developed 3D editable BIM files in a matter of hours, rather than months as in traditional software. ARCHITEChTURES’ designs are automatically optimized and eco-efficient, also blending with the building environment. Our pricing is adapted to users’ needs and size and viability studies/reports are automatically generated at an early stage to better guide the overall project development. The company behind ARCHITEChTURES is built on the back of 20 years of architecture and software development expertise. Smartscapes already launched a limited applicability operative platform, which generated great interest in the professional sector. The present feasibility study aims to define the best commercialisation route, targeted markets and feature implementation roadmap. ARCHITECTURES is the cornerstone of our strategic plan to catapult our enterprise and to position our enterprise as a leading innovator in the digital architecture era.

Keywords: architectural design,sustainable building,eco building,computer aided architectural design,urban development,software as a service,bim software,spatial allocation,data driven design
Fundamental understanding of reactive nitrogen in the global upper troposphere (UpTrop)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1490036.25
EU funding (EUR): 1352036.25
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The upper troposphere (UT), a severely under-researched part of the atmosphere, has profound impacts on global climate, air quality, major atmospheric oxidants, and the protective ozone layer. Key to its influence on the Earth system are reactive nitrogen compounds (collectively NOy). Models, since their inception, have grossly misrepresented observations of UT NOy, hindering application of these models to accurately estimate the impact of humans on climate, the ozone layer, and air quality. The reasons proposed for discrepancies between models and observations are unsatisfactory, as past studies have been hampered by observations that are limited in space and time. Only now are there unprecedented global, high-resolution measurements of the UT from instruments on aircraft and satellites that can be combined with detailed and advanced modelling tools to at last tackle this issue on a global scale. The ground-breaking UpTrop work programme will innovatively combine observations from the recently launched ESA Sentinel-5P mission and a long record of aircraft campaigns (most crucially the 2016-2018 NASA ATom campaign) to create the first truly global dataset of UT NOy abundance, interpreted with the state-of-the-art GEOS-Chem model. This pioneering multiplatform approach, the bedrock of my previous highly cited work, will deliver game-changing objectives: (i) novel insights into the processes controlling UT NOy, (ii) an unequivocal account of the role of the upper troposphere in altering climate and the chemical composition of the atmosphere, and (iii) interpretation of the disruptive impact of improved understanding of UT NOy on widespread application of satellite observations to constrain global air quality. UpTrop is ambitious, with bold objectives that will conceptually change fundamental understanding of UT NOy and address a challenge that has plagued atmospheric chemists for decades. A cascade of new avenues of cross-disciplinary research is inevitable.

Keywords: tropomi,nasa dc8,atmospheric chemistry transport model,geos chem,ukca
Mentoring for School Improvement (MenSI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Croatia,Hungary,Czechia,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Mentoring scheme for schools: mainstreaming innovation by spreading the advanced ICT-based teaching practices to a wide circle of schools (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999943.75
EU funding (EUR): 999943.75
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The Mentoring for School Improvement (MenSI) project aims to mobilise 120 schools in six countries [Belgium/Flanders, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Portugal] to advance whole-school digital innovation to address both the general challenge of mainstreaming ICT at an institutional level as well as a set of more specific common challenges faced by national ministries of education, for example related to small/rural schools, social disadvantaged students, or challenges associated with personalising learning. Over 28 months project partners will: • Investigate and assess mentoring theories and practices (WP2); • Build and animate communities of practice based on 4 digitally advanced schools in each country, each mentoring four developing schools using a range of support models (WP3); • Support and train advanced schools in whole-school mentoring (WP4); • Document and analyse mentoring practices, scalability and effectiveness (WP5); • and Disseminate and sustain the networks through the Mentoring Policy Exchange awareness-raising platform and a Whole School Mentoring Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) (WP6). The foundations of the project will build mostly upon qualitative investigations of models of mentoring theory and practice and an analysis of policy related to whole school mentoring approaches mainstreaming ICT practices. Subsequently, partners will leverage their extended networks of schools for a “bottom-up diffusion of innovation through school-to-school peer learning” in regional hubs activated by the MenSI project. This knowledge on policy and practice will lead to recommendations and guidelines for mainstreaming mentoring practices which will be exploited by the Mentoring Policy Exchange and a MOOC for teachers. By the end of the project an inclusive European network of school leaders and teachers will engage in different stages of a whole school approach to embedding innovative pedagogical practice involving ICT.

Keywords: mentoring,peer learning,pedagogical use of ict,innovative teaching and learning,whole school approach