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EEN-Innovation PT (EEN-Innovation PT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269402.23
EU funding (EUR): 269402.23
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to contribute to smart growth in the European Union by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in RD&I and by contributing to a better and more efficient connection of actors along the innovation chain. In order to achieve the above objective, 2 main target groups and 2 specific objectives are defined: a) beneficiaries of the SME Instrument at this level, the specific objectives consist in identifying bottlenecks to the creation of economic impact in companies benefitting from grants by Horizon 2020 SME Instrument and address these bottlenecks with the help of capable coaches. This service to beneficiaries of the SME Instrument is called 'Key account management'(KAM) and 22 of these services are foreseen. b) selected small and medium-sized enterprises with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalisation, which could potentially become beneficiaries of European support in terms of research and innovation but without effective access to consulting services for innovation management. At this level, the specific objective is: to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in those companies. This service, provided independently from a specific innovation project and focused on a company's innovation management system, is called 'Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SME” (EIMC) and 137 of these services are foreseen. In summary, the partners participating in this project (IAPMEI, ADI, CCIPD, CEC and INESC) expect to deliver a total of 159 services covering all the country. The project respects the excellence, 'no wrong door', proximity, subsidiarity and additionally principles as well as the mechanisms of signposting and follow-up of target audience inside the Network. This project is linked to related relevant services proposed in the SGA COSME 2015-2016 thus ensuring synergies between the different European funding programmes for the benefit of SMEs.

Keywords: portugal,smes,innovation management,capacities,internationalisation
Next Generation Energy Efficient, Inexpensive Hydropneumatic Hybrid Actuation System (HYPAS)

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 energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The importance of automation in the process industry has increased dramatically in recent years: the global industrial actuators market generated 3,023 million € revenue in 2013, and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 5.9% between 2013 and 2018, with Europe being the leading target market. Within this particular market, the demand for inexpensive hydraulic/ pneumatic actuators integrated with electronics to adopt new end-user applications will increase, and it is expected to have crucial impact on the market. HYPAS brings together the advantages of both a hydraulic and a pneumatic operated system while eliminating disadvantages of both systems: allows high energy savings (up to 50%), high precision (up to ±0,1 mm), has a very compact design due to the small number of components from which it can be constructed and is inexpensive compared with actual conventional products: target retail price is €700, which is estimated to be approx. 30% cheaper than comparable products offering similar features. The overall system advantages and the actual growing demand by those industries where accurate control of motion and position is contradicted by a low cost requirement, presents a great business opportunity to introduce our novel actuator in the market. HYPAS is the direct response to customer needs and a key vehicle for Air Bonaita SRL to leverage our 34 years of commercial experience and develop a competitive product to differentiate ourselves from competitors to enable, firstly, further consolidation in the Italian market and, more importantly, our growth outside Italy. Projected turnover for Year 2016 to Year 2020 is 140K€, 1190K€, 2086K€, 2590K€, and 3532K€, respectively. To continue in a steady pattern of growth, we plan to attract a larger customer base and be in a more attractive negotiating position with new customers.

Keywords: energy efficiency,actuator,automation,low cost,hydraulic,pneumatic,compact
Integrated manufacturing of REciclable hybrid metalthermoplastic COmposites for the TRANSport sector. (RECOTRANS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies for Factories of the Future
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Spain,Spain,Türkiye,Greece,Slovenia,France,United Kingdom
Call: Integration of unconventional technologies for multi-material processing into manufacturing systems (H2020-FOF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4525683.75
EU funding (EUR): 4525683.75
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

RECOTRANS project will create new manufacturing system for obtaining multi-material metal composites products suitable for the transport industry; automotive, truck and railway sector. The aim of this project is to integrate unconventional manufacturing technologies such as (microwave) MW radiation and laser joining in current RTM and pultrusion production lines. This integration will contribute to obtain high quality lightweight multi-materials at high production rates; reducing production cost, energy consumption and time to market contributing to reduce CO2 emissions coming from vehicles; truck, automotive and railway

Keywords: integration,multi material composites,laser,microwave,transport,processing
Smart-Taylored L-category Electric Vehicle demonstration in hEtherogeneous urbanuse-cases (STEVE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: EGVI (cPPP)
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Austria,Germany,Italy,Spain,Austria,Spain,Italy,Finland,Slovenia,United Kingdom
Call: Demonstration (pilots) for integration of electrified L-category vehicles in the urban transport system (H2020-GV-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9484981.06
EU funding (EUR): 7429674.76
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

Movement is at the heart of any city. Urban mobility faces significant challenges from two global megatrends: growing urbanisation and ageing population. Light electric vehicles (EL-Vs) could represent a viable solution to traffic congestion and pollution in cities. However, their successful integration into the urban transport system requires a clear understanding of the individual consumer needs. By involving human science and transportation specialists, the STEVE partners have developed a framework to interpret these forces. Focus will be on mature cities of medium size (Torino: 800.000 inhabitants, Villach 60.000, Calvià 60.000, Venaria 35.000), where STEVE will generate data to support the design of next generation EL Vs, and provoke the mind-shift necessary for swift market penetration of them. The primary idea of STEVE is to implement and test a human-centric approach to electro-Mobility-as-a-Service (eMaaS), according to the “Move2Me” vision of the consortium. This will provide low-cost and financially sustainable EL V solutions and “gamified” services, to enhance users’ awareness, engagement and vehicle energy efficiency. A core item of STEVE is a low-cost electric quadricycle developed by a worldwide OEM in Turin, with start-of-production expected in 2018 at a market price of €8000. The quadricycle will integrate high-technology contents with respect to the current competitors, and will be pilot-tested, together with many other EL-Vs, during extensive demonstration phases in the four STEVE cities STEVE will guarantee a strong impact in terms of business development and jobs, and enhance the European competitiveness in the eMaaS sector while also leveraging Manufacturing. The consortium will also give a primary role to SMEs: while large enterprises will provide the underlying technologies, the services will be mainly designed and operated by SMEs, deeply involved in the local supply chains and adaptable to the specific customers’ needs.

Keywords: light electric vehicles,human centric approach,zero emissions,zero fatalities,co modality
The relationship between social inequalities, child mental health and exposure to urban environmental stressors: an epidemiological analysis (URBINEX)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-11-01
End date: 2024-02-12
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 219312.0
EU funding (EUR): 219312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mental health disorders are one of the primary sources of ill health for young people, affecting up to 20% of children and adolescents worldwide. Moreover, stark social inequalities in children’s mental health exist, with those from more disadvantaged backgrounds being up to three times more likely to experience mental health problems than those more privileged. Our understanding of the mechanisms through which childhood socio-economic circumstances (SEC) affect children’s mental health is incomplete. With three quarters of EU citizens now living in cities, attention is turning to the effects of environmental stressors such as ambient air pollution, traffic noise, and natural space on children’s development. In many cities, children from lower socio-economic backgrounds are disproportionately exposed to more harmful aspects of the urban environment. However, we do not know to what extent greater exposure or vulnerability to these stressors contributes to social inequalities in child mental health. URBINEX will undertake epidemiological analysis of data from over 200,000 children across 16 EU cities using the recently established EU Child Cohort Network. Cutting-edge methods in causal inference and life course epidemiology will be applied to decompose the relationship between SEC, exposure to environmental stressors and children’s mental health. The key objectives are to (i) use multi-level models to describe inequalities in mental health trajectories across childhood, (ii) use counterfactual mediation to test whether variation in exposure to urban environmental stressors mediates the relationship between SEC and mental health, and (iii) explore whether SEC and environmental stressors interact to confer additional vulnerability to mental health problems. URBINEX has the potential to inform EU policies to bring structural changes to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals in reducing health inequalities, improving mental health and building sustainable cities.

Keywords: mental health,epidemiology,urban environmental stressors,exposome,pollution,noise,green spaces,social inequalities,socio economic conditions,socio economic status
Living Rivers and the New Water Justice Movements: From Dominating Waterscapes to the Rights of Nature (RIVERHOOD)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998717.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998717.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

RIVERHOOD will study, conceptualize and support evolving water justice movements that struggle for enlivening rivers. Notwithstanding rivers’ fundamental importance for social and natural well-being, around the world, mega-damming, pollution, and multiple forms of domesticating are putting riverine systems under great stress. Expert ontologies and epistemologies have become cornerstones of powerful hydraulic-bureaucratic administrations (‘hydrocracies’). Recently, worldwide, a large variety of ‘new water justice movements’ (NWJMs) have proliferated. These are rooted, transdisciplinary, multi-actor and multi-scalar coalitions. They deploy alternative river-society ontologies and practices, challenging hydrocracies’ paradigms to foster environmental justice. They translate global notions into local ones and vice versa. New, exciting strategies range from organizing river-health clinics, dam removal, socio-ecological flow projects, to mobilizing New Water Culture and Rights of Nature notions. European NWJMs co-learn with peers in Ecuador and Colombia were rivers are legal and political subjects. NWJMs hold immense potential for contributing to a radically new, equitable and nature-rooted water governance, but are undertheorized, largely unnoticed by natural and social sciences, and excluded from policy-making. Science and policies lack approaches to engage with rivers as arenas of co-production among humans and nature. RIVERHOOD will develop a new analytical framework to study NWJMs and ‘riverhoods’. Socio-natural river complexes will be approached from 3 interrelated ontologies: ‘river-as-territory’; ‘river-as-subject’; and ‘river-as-movement’. Through 4 cross-cultural PhD studies, 8 cases in Ecuador, Colombia, Spain and the Netherlands are investigated. At each site ‘Environmental Justice Labs’ will be organized: a novel approach to comprehend pluriversal water worlds and foster knowledge co-creation and democratization: bottom-up, dialoguing and transdisciplinary.”

Keywords: environmental justice,water governance,transdisciplinarity,hydrosocial territories,rights of nature,water politics,governmentality
Technologies of the Future for Low-Cost Enzymes for Environment-Friendly Products (FuturEnzyme)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries and supporting the development of a European bio-economy
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Austria,Spain,Switzerland,Switzerland,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Enzymes for more environment-friendly consumer products (H2020-FNR-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5995035.13
EU funding (EUR): 5995035.13
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

In FuturEnzyme, a multi-disciplinary and multi-actor consortium of 16 leading academic and industrial partners will develop technologies of the FUTURe for low-cost ENZYMEs for environment-friendly products. The consortium will develop the most advanced innovative solutions in a fast-track to market platform to discover, design, optimise and formulate enzymes. The high-tech enzyme development platform will use big biodata mining of both public and internal databases and bio-resources, and disruptive machine learning, activity-based bioprospecting, protein engineering, nano-biotechnology, upscale fermentation, and downstream processing systems. The enzymes developed will be used to develop economically viable products on 3 market segments, textiles, detergents, and cosmetics, which combine a higher level of functionality with greater sustainability during their production, use or end-of-life: they respond to consumer and industry requests for greener products. We will also bring to fruition the enormous potential of the developed enzymes for use as catalysts to faster yield greener, more valuable, and sustainable products in other market sectors. The strong collaboration of the academic and industry partners will be supported by clusters, thus making sure we take a holistic approach. Analysing technology, market, consumer, and socio-economic demands, and assessing safety, risk, and life-cycle analysis during the technology and product development in an iterative process, will ensure the results will be effective and relevant. They also contribute to the goals of ensuring innovation capacity and economic success, while reducing the environmental impacts of consumer products. The consortium will interact with a broad stakeholder network to ensure uptake of its developments and feedback insights towards policy-makers.

Keywords: big biodata mining,machine learning,enzyme discovery,enzyme engineering,enzyme manufacturing,circular economy,greener detergents,bio processed textiles,bio processed cosmetic ingredients
Targeting the crosstalk of lipid and glucose metabolism to stop cancer-associated wasting (StopWaste)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology of ageing, pathophysiology, interorgan and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition, metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1411051.0
EU funding (EUR): 1411051.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cachexia is the deadly outcome of many late stage cancers. It is characterized by severe wasting of adipose tissue and muscle mass, cardiac dysfunction and systemic inflammation. To date, no prognostic biomarker or efficient treatment against wasting is available, and ultimately 30% of all patients with cancer will die of cachexia. Hence, we have the critical unmet and urgent medical need of developing novel biomarkers and treatment options. Until now, research has focused on targeting either tumor-derived secreted proteins or specific aspects of organ dysfunction such as muscle atrophy. StopWaste builds on recent advances of my group in targeting adipose tissue malfunction in cachexia. My current data support the new concept that tumors activate futile substrate cycling in adipocytes, which leads to an energy crisis that drives systemic metabolic dysfunction. Interestingly, similar to obesity, perturbed adipose tissue in cachexia causes the increased release of bioreactive signaling lipids such as C16:0 ceramides which appear before any wasting occurs. My recently established state-of-the-art multi-omics workflow to trace substrate cycling paired with the functional and clinical readouts of cachexia present in my lab now enable me to identify the molecular origin of these cycles and their impact on systemic metabolism. Using my established cell culture systems and multiple cachexia mouse models as well as patient samples, I will investigate (1) the origin of the altered circulating lipids and their potential as early cachexia biomarkers, (2) if they derive from perturbed adipocytes by futile cycling, and (3) if they drive insulin resistance which, in combination with the as-yet unknown tumor-islet axis I have identified, aggravates catabolism by lack of insulin anabolic signaling. In summary, StopWaste addresses the interplay of glucose and lipid metabolic pathways that lead to cachexia, providing for the first time a holistic signature of wasting metabolism.

Keywords: metabolism,cancer cachexia,adipose tissue,lipids,beta cells
ENZYMATIC RECYCLING OF WASTE COOKING OILS FOR THE PLASTIC INDUSTRY (REWIND)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171473.28
EU funding (EUR): 171473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The development of synthetic plastics has changed our world and currently several types of plastics are found in different applications. Most of the plastics comes from fossil resources and they are non-biodegradable materials causing a serious threat for the environment. Bioplastics are mostly produced from food resources which are not sustainable. For these reasons, the solution can be the use of waste. REWIND aims at the valorization of waste products through their enzymatic transformation following a circular economy approach. The production of monomers and polymers will be capitalized through the test of different recombinantly produced enzymes. The enzymatic transformations will be tested using single enzymes or a cocktail of biocatalysts (either free or immobilized) to identify the potential of the biocatalytic cascade. The use of enzymes, and their further engineering, will reduce the utilization of harsh reaction conditions and chemicals, such as organic solvents and metal catalysts. The produced bioplastics will be tested in terms of thermal and mechanical properties. In order to test their sustainability and impact on the environment, degradation tests in the presence of different environmental conditions (pH, Temperature and pressure) and with biological factors (enzymes and microorganisms) will be assayed. Sustainability assessment of the process and the products’ life will identify the steps that could be improved to reduce the impact. The researcher, who already possesses sound knowledge and skills in biocatalysis, will gain more knowledge in polymer chemistry and material characterization through the attendance of hand-on courses and collaborations with polymer chemists. Entrepreneurship and patent writing courses will increase the innovative mindset of the researcher for a better society. The results of the project will be disseminated both in the academic and non-academic sectors. The researcher will engage public communication.

Keywords: the project aims at the use of enzymes in cascade reactions to valorize waste products to produce bioplastics sustainable and degradation assays are devised to evaluate the products life impact