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Pioneering Sustainable Substrate for Accelerated Quality Cultivation (Hollandplug)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

High fertility of land and proper water disposal in the soil are recognised as essential requirements to grow healthy plants. The agro & horticulture markets demand a cultivation base with an optimal air/water balance which can be controlled to ensure a regular growth of the roots across the soil or block. At the moment, there are numerous substrates such as coco coir, peat coir, stone wool and foam, used in the industry, in an effort to cover these needs. However, all these solutions present important issues, as substrates remain completely wet, are not safely recycled/reused and the water and air content is not equally spread into the entire growing medium. In addition, new practices like hydroponics which emerged for the purpose of controlling the water/air uptake by plants, are mostly expensive systems, not suited for all agriculture uses and require installations with high return on investment. HollandPlug International BV, is a SME founded with the sole purpose of developing, exploiting and commercialising HollandPlug. HollandPlug consists of a 100% compostable plug made of a mix of patented pioneering water storage bio-flakes sprayed with a proprietary Super Absorbent Polymer and jute to optimise the moisture/air balance for plants/flowers/seeds to grow inside. With this new substrate the customers can choose the water level of the plug depending on plants’ needs, which results in 15% higher yield production, better nutritional quality and energy reduction. Our technology reduces the fertilizers needed (35%), the water consumption (60%) compared to conventional soil based farming solutions, the dropout rate to 2% and increase life expectancy of the crop by 15%. The successful commercialization of our project will help us reach annual revenues of €34.28 million and profit of €8.57 million in 2025. With a Phase2 investment of €2.87 million, this would imply a ROI of 7.56We will also create a total 43 new job positions after five years of commercialization.

Keywords: greenhouses,crops,flowers,plants,hydroponics,jute plug,stronger production,reduced fertilizers,lower water consumption
Sustainable CellulAr networks harVEstiNG ambient Energy (SCAVENGE)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Italy,Finland,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3653723.88
EU funding (EUR): 3653723.88
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Energy sustainability is key to future mobile networks due to their foreseen capacity upsurge. The objective of the ETN SCAVENGE (Sustainable CellulAr networks harVEstiNG ambient Energy) is to create a training network for early-stage researchers (ESRs) who will contribute to the design and implementation of eco-friendly and sustainable next-generation (5G) networks and become leaders in the related scientific, technological, and industrial initiatives. Sustainable networks are based on the premise that environmental energy can be scavenged through dedicated harvesting hardware so as to power 5G base stations (BSs) and the end devices (mobile terminals, sensors and machines). To realise this vision, the project will take a complete approach, encompassing the characterisation of intermittent and/or erratic energy sources, the development of theoretical models, and the design, optimisation and proof-of-concept implementation of core network, BS and mobile elements as well as their integration with the smart electrical grid. The consortium is composed of world-class research centres and companies that are in the forefront of mobile communication and renewable energy research and technology development. The attitude of the industrial partners towards the strong investment in R&D and their strategic vision are fully aligned with the mission of this project, making them perfectly fit for this consortium. This grants a well-balanced project with genuine and strong technical interactions. The ESRs will have a unique opportunity towards professional growth in light of dedicated cross-partner training activities and through the interaction with the Partner Organisations, which also include relevant stakeholders in the envisioned market. All of this will ensure that the trained researchers will be successfully employed at the end of the research program.

Keywords: cellular networks,energy harvesting,network optimization
Recirculated tissue macrophages (TiMa) in blood: Novel approach to early diagnosis and treatment monitoring in oncology (TiMaScan)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2232500.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

In the ageing European population, cancer has become the most common cause of death. Consequently, screening programs aim at early detection of cancer, while scanning/imaging technologies, serum assays and regular biopsies aim at monitoring of treatment effectiveness to improve cure rates and increase quality-of-life, thereby also attempting to reduce health care costs. However, in many cases the screening and monitoring methods do not provide sufficient sensitivity and specificity. Consequently novel diagnostic techniques are required. Completely Novel Concept: Sensitive intra-tissue total body scanning is continuously performed by our immune cells, particularly by monocytes and macrophages. Tissue macrophages (TiMas) continuously phagocytize and digest apoptotic cells and tissue debris. In cancer, many more TiMas are present to keep the involved tissue debris-free. When TiMas have fulfilled their local tissue-cleaning task, they can migrate via lymph vessels to lymph nodes and potentially recirculate to the blood stream, where they can be detected by flow cytometry and evaluated for the contents of their phagolysosomes. With State-of-the-Art technologies, this high-risk project aims to unravel phagocytosis of cancer cells, their digestion into tissue-specific and/or cancer-specific protein fragments, the migration/recirculation of TiMas to blood, and the detection of intra-phagosomal protein fragments in blood TiMas by antibodies. Building on this information, flowcytometric scanning of blood TiMas (TiMaScan) will be developed into a novel tool for early diagnosis and treatment monitoring in oncology, focusing on colon, lung, breast and prostate cancer. TiMaScan diagnostics will be minimally-invasive (~1ml of blood), rapid, accurate, broadly available and cost-effective, only requiring a flowcytometer. The TiMaScan Concept might also be applicable for early diagnosis and disease monitoring in other medical fields, such as neurodegenerative and infectious diseases.

Keywords: oncology,cancer screening,treatment monitoring,flow cytometry
A Probe for Environment Properties in Open Quantum Systems: Accessing Spectral Densities with Multi-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy (BATH)

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: Sweden
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173857.2
EU funding (EUR): 173857.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The structures nature has built to harvest and use the light from the sun are full of ingenuity. Indeed, they are the product of millions of years of trial and error. A lot can be learnt from the structure and function of photosynthetic organisms to help guide humanity's effort to develop solar energy technologies. One of the frontiers in understanding the early stages of photosynthesis is the interaction of the excited chromophores with the environment, and in particular how energy is dissipated as the light-induced excitation migrates to the reaction center where it will produce a charge separated state. It has become evident that the details of the dissipation are crucial for an efficient transfer. Dissipation is characterized by the spectral density of the bath, but this information is difficult to extract experimentally. Current approaches (e.g. three pulse photon echo spectroscopy, fluorescence line narrowing) have several limitations such as the inability to predict the motion for short times where the non-Markovianity of the bath is most evident. In this work, we will develop descriptions of multidimensional spectroscopy which will map the spectral density as an experimental observable. For this we will work in the Non-equilibrium Green functions formalism, and apply partition ansatz for the bath such as the surrogate Hamitlonian to facilitate obtaining analytical expressions. Our formalism will be benchmarked against exact numerical methods by the use of entanglement and non-Markovianity witnesses. The application of our theory to natural systems will yield a picture of the most salient bath features in natural systems. These will be then compared to selected artificial systems.

Keywords: spectral densities,photosynthesis,multidimensional coherent nonlinear spectroscoy,non equilibrium green functions,2d electronic spectroscopy,open quantum systems,non markovian
Forefront Research in 3D Disease Cancer Models as in vitro Screening Technologies (FoReCaST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: ERA chairs
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERA Chairs (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2014-2, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2777505.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499755.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

PT11 is a convergence Portuguese region with innovative effort and performance bellow EU-average. Strengthening of the regional innovation system is crucial to create the pre-conditions for a knowledge based economy globally competitive. The socio-economical profile of the Northern region (PT11) presents a large contribution from the low educational records of the population and the predominance of traditional companies in the industrial sector (e.g., textile, shoes, etc). FoReCaST will attract to the Northern Portuguese region and UMINHO experienced human resources (ERA Chairs team) to settle in the region and to contribute to 5 strategic Research Lines (RLs) in cancer research field. The hiring of dedicated research staff will allow the nucleation of new strategic RLs, while simultaneously promoting the consolidation of pre-existing know-how by reinforcing some of lines of research already successfully exploited. Besides that, hiring experienced researchers will avoid the “brain drain”, train them in this high-tech field and finally increasing scientific international networking by exchanging of know-how. Moreover, PT11 will benefit from this project through the creation of profitable technologies and products (and consequently, business opportunities), increasing regional growth and income, and contributing to the reduction of the unemployment or even appearing of new SMEs. In this sense, FoReCaST will be fundamental to strengthen the regional innovation system in order to achieve scientific excellence and a higher level of integration in international knowledge networks. FoReCaST can be an important tool to boost even more the UMINHO scientific and innovation capabilities, its international visibility and cooperation, entirely aligned with Norte’s RIS3.

Keywords: 3d in vitro cancer models,new regional development model,sustainable economy,smart specialization strategies,regenerative medicine,tumors,screening,diagnostic tools
New Physics for the Large Hadron Collider: new minimal models of composite Higgs (NP4theLHC14)

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: Switzerland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187419.6
EU funding (EUR): 187419.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN marks the beginning of a new era in particle physics. After an impressive forty-year search that has ended making Europe the undisputed leader in particle physics, the finding of the long-sought particle offers us the unique possibility of start testing the origin of the electroweak symmetry breaking. In particular, this means that we could be closer than ever to understand some extremely important unsolved puzzles in particle physics, like the large hierarchy between the electroweak and the Planck scales or the origin of fermion masses. Models of composite Higgs are certainly among the best motivated and attractive scenarios trying to address these issues. They also occupy a prominent place in the forefront of theoretical physics, being the object of study of a large community of particle physicists. In this proposal I present an innovative and compelling scenario within this framework where composite leptons, motivated by minimal implementations of leptons featuring a seesaw mechanism of type-III, can partially or fully replace the usual role of the top quark as a trigger of electroweak symmetry breaking without including any anomalously light partner. The presence of custodial symmetry, customary in realistic incarnations of composite Higgs models, ensures that the required sizable degree of compositeness of the right-handed charged leptons is in complete agreement with electroweak precision measurements. These new scenarios offer a beautiful bridge between flavor, neutrino physics and Higgs physics. Throughout this proposal I develop the main objectives and goals of the research proposed, namely, the precise study of lepton flavor constraints in realistic holographic realizations of these models, the study of their implications on Higgs physics, the possible constraints coming from loop corrections to precision observables, their experimental probes at the LHC as well as the possible relation with Dark Matter.

Keywords: composite higgs models,models with warped extra dimensions,beyond the standard model phenomenology,higgs physics,neutrino physics,flavor
Biological neural networks: from structure to function (NeuArc2Fun)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The present project lies at the connection between theoretical and experimental neuroscience. It investigates how information is processed in neural networks with feedback, via the firing activity. On the one hand, the past decades have seen a growing interest for the analysis of the functional connectivity, namely how the spiking activity of neural populations is organized spatially and temporally. These activity patterns are hypothesized to form the basis of neural information, i.e., how neurons collectively encode information. On the other hand, experiments have revealed the complex design of the neural circuitry with many levels of organization, from the local connectivity of neurons to broad-scale pathways between cortical areas. NeuArc2Fun aims to develop a recurrent neural network model that bridges these structural and functional levels. The advantage of this model-based approach is the ability to make predictions about the role of each component of the model - in particular, its connectivity - in shaping neural activity. A key issue is to keep a balance between the mathematical tractability and biological realism in the model. To address this trade-off problem, NeuArc2Fun focuses on the mesoscopic level, namely scales at which many interacting neural populations can be simultaneously recorded by current state-of-the-art experimental techniques, such as electrode arrays. In practice, experimental data from the visual cortex will be used to tune and test the network models. In turn, gaining precise knowledge about neural cognitive processing will be applied to design experiments and test new ideas for information coding in networks. To a broader extent, this project will also benefit to applications that involve information decoding and interaction with the brain, e.g., neural prostheses and brain-machine interfaces.

Keywords: biological neural network model,neural dynamical system,neural information coding,visual cortex
Smart European Space Access thru Modern Exploitation of Data Science (SESAME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Romania,France,France,France,France
Call: Access to space (H2020-SPACE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3376360.0
EU funding (EUR): 3369760.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims at improving European launchers’ manufacturing and operations through digital technologies, processes and methods. Its objectives are Develop a complete data management framework to proactively manage risks in new automated production and operations. Develop new Predictive Maintenance and Quality components to implement new automated launcher production and operations Implement new logistic processes that allow an optimal management of resources. Evaluate the benefit of these new capabilities in realistic operational scenarios Accompany the consequent transformation of human competencies, create new job profiles. Evaluate other possible sectors for which the proposed predictive framework could be applied Create an ecosystem involving the overall European Launcher Industry and possibly other sectors SESAME will provide the European Launcher Industry with a framework allowing producing the data, a digital, open, intelligent, secure and standards based platform, and human in the loop processes enabling engineers and operators in launcher development, production, testing and operations to implement proactive risk management. The framework aims at achiving cost reduction through improved production and operation effectiveness, reduction of Cost of Non-Quality, improved working environment and operator’s safety

Keywords: manufacturing datascience
Monolithic Diamond Raman Laser (MonoDial) (MonoDiaL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149962.0
EU funding (EUR): 149962.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proof of concept proposal will build on an innovative monolithic diamond Raman laser, with near quantum limited efficiency demonstrated during the ERC starting grant DiaL. A range of important applications will be scoped and the technology tailored to meet the most promising market demands. The result will be a platform approach to compact laser design taking existing Nd:YAG-based lasers to wavelengths with a strong applications pull that cannot be met with current technology. This will extend the product lines and market penetration of EU laser companies. This programme has two complementary tracks: working with specialists, we will identify the market pull and the required laser specifications; in parallel, we will engineer the science developed within DiaL to address these needs in a compact, robust and cost-effective way.

Keywords: diamond raman laser,laser engineering,diamond for laser applications