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Cogeneration of Hydrogen and Power using solid oxide based system fed by methane rich gas (CH2P)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Switzerland,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Co-generation of hydrogen and electricity with high-temperature fuel cells (H2020-JTI-FCH-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 63.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6711722.58
EU funding (EUR): 3999896.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

To achieve European ambitions to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases by 80% before 2050, emissions of the transport and the energy sectors will need to decrease drastically. The Hydrogen Economy offers ready solutions to decarbonize the transport sector. Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) close to be deployed in the market in increasing numbers. For FCEVs to be introduced to the market in volumes, a network of hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) first has to exist. Green hydrogen is figured, in the medium – long term, as the target technology to decarbonize the transport sector. Indeed, this will not be commercially attractive in the first years. Similarly, new-built hydrogen supply capacity will not be viable in the first years with low demand. CH2P aims at building a transition technology for early infrastructure deployment. It uses widely available carbon-lean natural gas (NG) or bio-methane to produce hydrogen and power with Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology. Similar to a combined heat and power system, the high quality heat from the fuel cell is used to generate hydrogen. CH2P therefore generates hydrogen and electricity with high efficiencies (up to 90%) and a reduced environmental impact compared to conventional technologies. The system will have high dynamic (more than 50% of energy will be in form of hydrogen), purity level of hydrogen at 99.999%, a CO-level lower than 200 ppb. The target cost for the hydrogen generated will be below 4,5 €/kg. The overall technology concept will be based on modularity to enable a staged deployment of such infrastructure. CH2P will realize two systems, one with hydrogen generation capacity of 20 kg/day, for components validation, and another at 40 kg/day for infield testing. A dissemination campaign will use the project results to demonstrate the technical readiness of CH2P technology, while industrial partners are committed to enter the market after the project end.

Keywords: solid oxide,cogeneration of hydrogen and power,hydrogen production
Helping cancer survivors restoring their natural breast with resorbable implants inducing self‐tissue regeneration (REGENERA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2698813.75
EU funding (EUR): 1889169.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Tensive was founded in 2012 to address the challenge of developing better biomaterials for regenerative medicine. We developed a bio absorbable scaffold based on highly biocompatible polyurethaneester. Our patented scaffolds provide a synthetic micro-vascular network that enables adipocytes colonization in vivo. This unique design leads to vascularization, fat integration and volume maintaining after implantation. Based on these unique properties, we will bring to the market REGENERA, an innovative mammary prosthesis that is degraded over time and replaced by the patient´s fat. Silicone implants, the most currently used breast tissue modifications, have important risks and need replacement every 10-15 years. Fat grafting, the best alternative nowadays, has been linked to carcinogenic risks and does not promote vascularization (leading to necrosis) with multiple interventions needed for large reconstructions. REGENERA, which only requires one surgical intervention, will meet the need to develop biomaterials able to promote new blood vessels formation that perpetuate the reconstructed tissue. REGENERA will have a significant impact on various levels: (i) Healthcare system: it will save the cost of additional surgeries (more than €241M yearly in the EU), helping to the sustainability of the Healthcare system. (ii) breast cancer patients: it will offer a solution to lumpectomy patients, for whom there are no good solutions yet; a better alternative for mastectomy and breast augmentation patients; a permanent solution by a single surgery for all patients, improving their quality of life. (iii) company: it will increase Tensive’s revenues (cumulative profit of €257M with a ROI of 19.37 by 2025) (iv) society: it will highly benefit 230,000 women needing reconstructive surgery after breast cancer, together with the 1.35M women undergoing breast augmentation for personal reasons

Keywords: regenerative medicine,reconstructive surgery,breast reconstruction,breast augmentation,biomaterials
Networking Activities for Nanotechnology-Facilitated Cancer Theranostics (NANOFACTS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Ireland,Serbia
Call: Twinning (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 899823.75
EU funding (EUR): 899823.75
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The main goal of NANOFACTS is to efficiently overcome the networking gaps and deficiencies in research capabilities and collaboration regarding research in cancer theranostics nanomaterials and biosensing diagnostics of cancer, between BIOS and the partner institutions, internationally-leading counterparts at EU level, leading to the enhanced scientific and technological (S&T) capacity of all the participating institutions with a principal focus on BIOS. In order to widen the research agenda at BIOS with cancer-related research and health-related biosensing technologies, NANOFACTS will harness and improve pre-existing links with two leading European research institutions in the field of nanotechnology and development of biosensors: • Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland, The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, an expert in application of nanotechnology for cancer treatment and imaging; and its validation, including biocompatibility of nanoparticles/nanodevices. • Vienna University of Technology (TUW), Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry and Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, an expert in devising health-related biosensors. The main strategies to be explored during the project activities will include: a) BIOS researchers gaining knowledge on devising theranostic nanoparticles for real-time in vivo detection of cancer biomarkers, along with simultaneous targeted cancer therapy and imaging and b) enhancing the capacity of biosensing technologies at BIOS with cancer-related biosensing, including construction of an array of user-friendly personalized point of-care microfluidic and electronic diagnostic devices for electronic and optical sensing of cancer biomarkers, which could be introduced to home disease-monitoring. Complementarity of the consortium is based on the diversity of the expertise, knowledge and access to the stakeholder communities required for the success of the project.

Keywords: theranostic nanomaterials,cancer diagnostics,biosensors,in vitro and in vivo experiments
Big Data applications for Black hole Evolution STudies (BiD4BEST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Spain,Spain,Greece,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3503442.6
EU funding (EUR): 3503442.6
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The BiD4BEST ITN will offer doctoral training in one of the most visible areas of astrophysical research, the formation of supermassive black holes in galaxies. A coordinated research training effort in this field is needed now to mobilise the community in Europe and prepare a core group of young scientists in anticipation of new observational data in the early/mid 2020s from future space missions with strong European involvement. These data will have the quality and volume to yield transformational science on the formation of black-holes in galaxies, as long as the necessary expertise and synergies among observation, theory and data analytics exist within the European astronomy community. We propose to achieve this goal by setting up a research training network that brings together leading scientists in observational and theoretical studies of black holes and galaxies, industrial experts in cutting-edge big-data technologies, and professionals in science dissemination. Together, we will setup doctoral research projects each of which combines state-of-the-art observations, numerical simulations and innovative analytic tools to compare theory with observation and shed light on the physics of black hole formation in the context of galaxy evolution. The training on expertise from different research areas (observational astronomy, theoretical astrophysics) and sectors (academic, industrial) will be achieved by carefully designed secondments, mixed doctoral supervisory committees (academia, industry), well coordinated events for team communication and interaction, as well as network-wide courses on astrophysics and transferable skills. The proposed research training programme aspires to generate individuals that in addition to academic competences, master big-data analytics and have the capacity to apply these technologies to solve problems in different sectors (research, industry, non-academic) by developing innovative products and services.

Keywords: black hole physics,supermassive black holes
THE POLYPLOIDY PARADIGM AND ITS ROLE IN PLANT BREEDING (POLYPLOID)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Ireland,Italy,Italy,Argentina,Spain,Italy,New Zealand,United States,Netherlands
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 920000.0
EU funding (EUR): 883200.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Polyploidization is a major force in the evolution of both wild and cultivated plants. The remarkable superiority of polyploids has been noticed plant breeders, who have used this trait in different approaches in order to obtain increasingly improved plant cultivars. Moreover, polyploidization is likely to be one of the most important mechanisms of sympatric speciation. All seed plants have experienced at least one round of whole genome duplication in their evolutionary history. The formation of polyploid plants within diploid populations tends to be isolated events. And even when a polyploid individual is formed, to reproduce it will cross with diploids, and this match is unsuccessful for the existence of the “triploid block”, a critical biological barrier in the production of viable seeds. Many species are sensitive to triploid seed production, but not all. Little is known about how polyploid plants were formed in nature and the way that triploid block has emerged in plants. Therefore, understanding of the genetic network controlling the triploid block will be fundamental since this is a preliminary step in the generation of polyploids. Here we propose: i) to study natural and recently synthesized polyploid series of several species that have been extensively characterized in the past few decades from the physiological, reproductive and ecological aspects; ii) to fill the gaps in the information on non-model species regarding: chromosomal changes, gene loss, gene expression, methylation and physiological changes and ecological features and iii) to understand the genetic network controlling the triploid block viability. The overall goal of the proposal is to allow for a synergy of inter-related European and international expertise to better understand the mechanisms of polyploidization and to facilitate the application of this increased knowledge in plant breeding.

Keywords: polyploidy,genome evolution,genome structure,crop improvement,gigas effect,abiotic stress,biotic stress,whole genome duplication,reproductive mode,triploid block
Verification and Validation of Automated Systems' Safety and Security (VALU3S)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Components and Systems
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: ECSEL (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Austria,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Türkiye,Sweden,Türkiye,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Türkiye,France,Czechia,Portugal,Portugal
Call: ECSEL-2019-2-RIA (H2020-ECSEL-2019-2-RIA, 2019)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 25620958.68
EU funding (EUR): 7602601.44
Participants: 42
Project status: SIGNED

Manufacturers of automated systems and the manufacturers of the components used in these systems have been allocating an enormous amount of time and effort in the past years developing and conducting research on automated systems. The effort spent has resulted in the availability of prototypes demonstrating new capabilities as well as the introduction of such systems to the market within different domains. Manufacturers of these systems need to make sure that the systems function in the intended way and according to specifications which is not a trivial task as system complexity rises dramatically the more integrated and interconnected these systems become with the addition of automated functionality and features to them. With rising complexity, unknown emerging properties of the system may come to the surface making it necessary to conduct thorough verification and validation (V&V) of these systems. VALU3S aims to design, implement and evaluate state-of-the-art V&V methods and tools in order to reduce the time and cost needed to verify and validate automated systems with respect to safety, cybersecurity and privacy (SCP) requirements. This will ensure that European manufacturers of automated systems remain competitive and that they remain world leaders. To this end, a multi-domain framework is designed and evaluated with the aim to create a clear structure around the components and elements needed to conduct V&V process through identification and classification of evaluation methods, tools, environments and concepts that are needed to verify and validate automated systems with respect to SCP requirements. The implemented V&V methods as well as improved process workflows and tools will also be evaluated in the project using a comprehensive set of demonstrators built from 13 use cases with specific SCP requirements from 6 domains of automotive, industrial robotics, agriculture, Aerospace, railway and health.

Keywords: safety,verification and validation,testing,automated systems
Justice and the Family: An Analysis of the Normative Significance of Procreation and Parenthood in a Just Society (Family Justice)

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: Spain
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 811750.0
EU funding (EUR): 811750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project examines the normative significance of procreation and parenthood for theories of justice. Important questions of justice about the family arise once we acknowledge and keep in view that procreation and parenthood are both integral to the existence of any society (and therefore, a just society), and that they involve substantial benefits and burdens for parents, children, and society at large. Yet existing theories of justice generally neglect these questions by assuming that the principles they formulate are to regulate the main institutions of societies constituted by fully formed adult individuals whose creation and care are taken as given. The project identifies and analyses three main sets of questions about family justice: 1) Does justice require that parents and non-parents share, and share equally, the costs and benefits of having children, and how do different answers to this question bear on our theory of distributive justice? 2) What are the claims of justice that we have as children, how do they relate to those we have as adults, and who bears the correlative duties? 3) Do all contemporaries, regardless of whether they are parents or non-parents, have the same obligations of justice towards future generations, and how, if at all, are the justification and the content of those obligations affected by considerations about what parents owe their children and parents and non-parents owe to each other? Addressing these questions contributes to developing normative-theoretical framework needed to address pressing public policy concerns, and also turns out to be more central to the formulation of a complete and defensible theory of justice than political philosophers have realised to date.

Keywords: family,social justice,future generations,parents and childhood
Quantum Metamaterials: A Theoretical and Computational Approach Towards Seamlessly Integrated Hybrid Classical/Quantum Nano-structures (QUANTUMMETALINK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1779240.0
EU funding (EUR): 1779240.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overarching aim of this proposal is to initiate and advance an integrated theoretical and computational research programme in an emerging area of metamaterials research, namely Quantum Metamaterials. Thus, it is commonly believed that one of the most noteworthy developments witnessed in the last decade in physical sciences and engineering is the emergence of metamaterials. Unlike ordinary materials, which are assembled at the atomic level, metamaterials are composite materials built up from artificially engineered meta-atoms and meta-molecules. The fundamental idea in this area of research is that remarkable physical properties beyond those available in naturally occurring materials can be achieved by designing the meta-constituents of the metamaterial and structuring it at a scale comparable or smaller than the optical wavelength. In this context, a new paradigm in metamaterials research emerges when the building blocks of metamaterials are quantum resonators, e.g., quantum dots (QDs), QD molecules, graphene disks coupled to interacting QDs, and quantum nanowires, case in which the macroscopic properties of quantum metamaterials are determined by the quantum properties of their basic constituents. We have organised this research programme along three broad, synergistically integrated themes. The first will focus on the development of a general theory of the effective, macroscopic properties of quantum metamaterials. The key challenge is to build a theoretical framework in which the macroscopic properties of quantum metamaterials are derived directly from those of their quantum building blocks. The second theme will be geared towards developing a set of numerical methods and software tools for ab initio simulations of fundamental physical properties quantum metamaterials. The foundational work pertaining to the first two themes will enable us to pursue the main objective of the third theme, which is the exploration of new science and novel applications.

Keywords: computational electromagnetics,nano photonics,nonlinear optics,mathematical modelling,metamaterials
Structured electric-dipole-based chirality (STREDCH)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Molecular chirality has profound as well as practical implications in chemistry, biology, and nanotechnology. While light is well established for distinguishing between opposite molecular enantiomers and there have been incredible advances in light sources, established methods for enantioselective synthesis and separation still rely on molecule-molecule interactions because the chirality of light couples only weakly to the chirality of molecules. This smallness stems from the dependence of this coupling on magnetic-dipole interactions. We recently found a new type of chirality in light – local chirality – which relies only on the electric field and is relevant for nonlinear light-matter interaction. Light’s local chirality (LLC) couples very strongly to molecular chirality – exclusively through electric-dipole interactions – as we already demonstrated distinguishing opposite enantiomers with perfect contrast [Nat.Phot.13,866(2019)]. Its immense potential in the fields of enantioselective synthesis and separation remains to be uncovered. The overall objective of this proposal is to set the cornerstones for realizing this potential. The specific objectives of this proposal are (I) To use LLC to demonstrate efficient enantioselective population transfer between electronic states. (II) To use LLC to demonstrate ponderomotive-force-like enantioselective deflection of molecular beams. (III) To explore the generation and the structuring of LLC using structured media. (IV) To explore the generation of topologically non-trivial structures in LLC with the help of beams carrying orbital angular momentum and structured media. Achieving these objectives will deliver the missing link needed to finally take advantage of our amazing control over light to synthesize and separate chiral molecules in an enantioselective fashion. It will bring efficiencies orders of magnitude better than previous magnetic-dipole-based methods and will have a direct impact on the chemical industry.

Keywords: structured light