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Safeguarding shipping operations via a novel modular high frequency power converter to boost installation and performance of ballast water treatment systems (HF-BWT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Cross-cutting marine and maritime research
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Supporting SMEs efforts for the development - deployment and market replication of innovative solutions for blue growth (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The International Maritime Organisation will soon mandate use of ballast water treatment (BWT) systems in all ships over 300T, of which over 31,000 are predicted to be retrofit with electrochlorination systems. However, existing power supply technologies for electrochlorination are very bulky, requiring most ships to be cut and extending retrofit times far beyond the mandatory scheduled dry dock period that ships must take every 5 years. A fundamental barrier to converting all ships during the expected 5 – 8 yr regulatory window exists. Castlet Ltd have developed a novel high current power supply, based on modular power-sharing of 3 – 10 IGBT-controlled high frequency resonant converters. With a step change in performance, scalability and redundancy, the technology also has 9× smaller subsystem size and 3.6× reduction in total volume. This enables installation without structural work to all ships, reducing the days in dock by 60,000 (2022) across the EU shipping industry and cost savings of €2.65 billion. Innovation yields a potential €790 million retrofit opportunity, and a further ongoing €26.3 million/yr market for use in new ships. Within the scope of the overall project, steps required to prepare the enabling technology for market entry include: optimisation of the parallel power sharing architecture; compatibility with different electrochlorination loads; type approval; reliability testing and development of global service framework; extended field trials; value engineering; EU supply chain development; and productionisation. The proposed Phase 1 feasibility study seeks to address these requirements by delivery of an elaborated business plan; prioritised EU market entry strategy; supply chain initiation; production development roadmap; logistics planning and service models; robust OEM engagements to develop core compatibility; IP strategy and value model; as well as technical, regulatory and value engineering roadmaps for the final phase of developments.

Keywords: high current power supplies,high frequency resonant conversion,modular power supplies,parallel,power sharing,electrochlorination,ballast water treatment
DIGITal ENcyclopedia of European Sociability (DIGITENS)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Poland,France,France,France,United Kingdom,Canada,United Kingdom
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299000.0
EU funding (EUR): 299000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The Digital Encyclopaedia of European Sociability (DIGITENS) project will produce the first open-access digital encyclopaedia and anthology of sociability in Europe throughout the long-eighteenth century. The purpose of the DIGITENS project is to build an original framework for understanding the interactions, tensions, limits and paradoxes underlying European models of sociability and to reflect on the following question: Can the emergence and formation of European models of sociability be traced throughout the long eighteenth century (1650-1850)? Drawing upon the expertise of international members from different disciplines and national traditions, the project will create a toplevel interdisciplinary network and facilitate intersectoral communication between its academic and non-academic partners. The nine international universities will work together with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Musée Cognacq-Jay in France, and The National Archives in Great Britain, allowing members to explore how understandings of sociability might be enhanced through dialogue, international collaboration, and digital technology, developing a broader contextualisation of the research into European sociability. As the first digital encyclopaedia of its kind, the expected impact of the resource will not only benefit researchers, but anyone interested in the history of European models of sociability. The project is not, however, of purely historical or academic interest. Through the implementation of outreach events, workshops and the production of the accessible digital platforms, the DIGITENS team will promote a wide investigation of the value of eighteenth century principles in twenty-first-century private and public lives throughout Europe. The interdisciplinary and international aspects of the DIGITENS project, and coherent methodology, are innovative, and the scope broad and ambitious.

Keywords: sociability,long eighteenth century,europe,cultural transfers,social interactions,social practices,exclusion,cultural studies,digital humanities
MULTIFUNCTIONAL HEATED AUTOREGULATED PTC RADIANT PANEL (RADIANT PANEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,France,France
Call: Thermal conductive coating providing self-limitation of heating power at a selected temperature level (H2020-CS2-CFP07-2017-02, 2017)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 700585.0
EU funding (EUR): 599051.5
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The RADIANT Project has for ambition to create the smartest self-limiting heating system integrated on cabin panel to revolutionize the thermal comfort of Aircraft while contributing to the competitiveness of our industry. The consortium members are HUTCHINSON, a world leader for Cabin solutions, CANOE is a R&T centre with more than 5 years of expertise in the field of cost-effective carbon fibrous materials and smart composites especially for aeronautics market and CTAG a non-profit technology Center with years of expertise in the numerical simulation for thermal efficiency active in the automotive industry. The RADIANT PANEL project offers a disruptive innovation proposal based on three main pillars: A new positive temperature coefficient (PTC) textile coating made of ex-cellulose carbon fiber and a PVDF-based polymer, A heated multi-functional cabin panel A fully robotized manufacturing cell for the cabin panel assembly. During the project, 2 type of coating will be tested. The textile coating will be assembled with their connectors on the top layer of the cabin panel by a collaborative work between a Cobot and a 6 axis robot. It is also proposed to carry out the full cabin temperature and air flow simulation using a specific software (TAITherm) coupled with the Human Thermal Module for the comfort prediction. Functionnal test and certification test will be validated the soltuion. The RADIANT project has a 36 months duration and a budget of 702,516€. The consortium aims to take 10% market share of the cabin panel business, evaluated at 90 M€.

Keywords: carbon fiber,pvdf based polymer,ptc effect,multifunctional cabin panel,coating,robotized cell,thermal comfort passenger simulation
A Genetic View into Past Sea Ice Variability in the Arctic (AGENSI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Norway
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2615858.0
EU funding (EUR): 2615858.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Arctic sea ice decline is the exponent of the rapidly transforming Arctic climate. The ensuing local and global implications can be understood by studying past climate transitions, yet few methods are available to examine past Arctic sea ice cover, severely restricting our understanding of sea ice in the climate system. The decline in Arctic sea ice cover is a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for the state of our climate, and if greenhouse gas emissions remain unchecked, summer sea ice loss may pass a critical threshold that could drastically transform the Arctic. Because historical observations are limited, it is crucial to have reliable proxies for assessing natural sea ice variability, its stability and sensitivity to climate forcing on different time scales. Current proxies address aspects of sea ice variability, but are limited due to a selective fossil record, preservation effects, regional applicability, or being semi-quantitative. With such restraints on our knowledge about natural variations and drivers, major uncertainties about the future remain. I propose to develop and apply a novel sea ice proxy that exploits genetic information stored in marine sediments, sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA). This innovation uses the genetic signature of phytoplankton communities from surface waters and sea ice as it gets stored in sediments. This wealth of information has not been explored before for reconstructing sea ice conditions. Preliminary results from my cross-disciplinary team indicate that our unconventional approach can provide a detailed, qualitative account of past sea ice ecosystems and quantitative estimates of sea ice parameters. I will address fundamental questions about past Arctic sea ice variability on different timescales, information essential to provide a framework upon which to assess the ecological and socio-economic consequences of a changing Arctic. This new proxy is not limited to sea ice research and can transform the field of paleoceanography.

Keywords: palaeoceanography,molecular ecology,metabarcoding,organic geochemistry,palynology
BIOGASTIGER® system – turning global organic waste streams into smart and clean energy (BIOGASTIGER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3043375.0
EU funding (EUR): 2130362.5
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The world's population is growing continuously - and waste generation too. In all areas where people live, enormous amounts of biogenic organic waste are generated (household waste, by-products food production, agriculture). In case rotting/composting is not under control, the emission of climate-damaging gases, e.g. CO2, is 50% higher than under controlled anaerobic fermentation. The production of biogas is one of the most promising forms of energetic use of biomass. Biogas plants can make a significant contribution to a sustainable energy system, while at the same time significantly reducing the emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases in agriculture. However, the conversion of biomass to biogas currently represents a very high technical and financial expense. Today, the predominant plant technology is characterized by individual concepts which have a very negative impact on the quality and safety of the biogas plants. The solution to these problems is a completely new plant concept for the use of biomass. BIOGASTIGER® (TRL7) is a modular compact biogas plant in a transportable container construction. All components are standardized and industrially premanufactured in series, tested for quality before delivery and on site installed and commissioned with short assembly times. Our concept leads to the best cost to efficiency ratio, to the highest flexibility and stable energy supply on request. With BIOGASTIGER® we address target customers from agriculture, the food industry and energy supplier. It is a continuously growing high-volume market with more than € 300 million turnover per year. BIOGASTIGER® was conceived by F&W (experience in mechanical engineering, project management) in cooperation with FWE GmbH (highly experienced with energy concepts). With the global problem of not used organic waste streams and our innovative solution to produce safe, clean and carbon neutral energy, we want to make the world cleaner and safer. BIOGASTIGER®-the biogas machine.

Keywords: co2 reduction using biogenic residual materials for gaining renewable and flexibel energy,biogas machine,stable energy supply
An amplified signal imaging software for prognosis of cancer enabling the evaluation of clinical efficiency of personalised cancer treatments to an unprecedented level. (iaFRET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Chemotherapy remains the main treatment in locally advanced or metastatic lung cancer. The wide use of chemotherapies is often lengthy (4 months) and is not supported by any patient stratification tools, leading to life-threatening risk. current techniques used to identify biomarkers for target or immunotherapy (i.e. Immunohistochemistry and Protein Ligase Assays) lack of sensitivity (up to 30% of false negatives) resulting in qualitative, subjective measurements with poor prognostic value. iaFRET is an imaging system based on a proprietary time resolved Amplified Forester Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) technique. It determines both molecular and cell-cell interactions, enabling the evaluation of clinical efficiency of personalised cancer treatments. iaFRET enables oncologists to define the most effective treatment for cancer case and verify its efficacy anytime during the therapy. FASTBASE will need to finalise the engineering of the machine, optimize the image analysis algorithms and user interface, conduct a clinical trial to demonstrate and validate the safety, efficacy and cost savings of technology. Globally there are almost 300 research institutes and hospitals currently working on cancer research worldwide, 147 in EU. Emerging frontiers like immunotherapy highly require technology like iaFRET. iaFRET can contribute to European health system by improving the prognosis and treatment selection for cancer patients, hence increasing the life expectancy of patients affected by this pathology.

Keywords: imaging,cancer prognostic,fret,personalised medicine,chemotherapy,treatment
Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN)

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: Estonia
Call: ERA Chairs (H2020-WIDESPREAD-03-2017-ERAChairs, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The broad framework of the recent EU Digital Single Market strategy has prepared the ground for many of the guidelines and future directions in cultural heritage digitisation and in the area of open data policies. In line with this new strategy, the core document for Estonian cultural policy, The General Principles of Cultural Policy up to 2020, sets out that most Estonian cultural heritage will be digitised by 2020 and the interoperability of culture-related information systems will be ensured by harmonised descriptions and web services. In connection with that, the 2020 Digital Agenda for Estonia emphasises that the public sector’s capacity to apply data analytics solutions needs to be increased significantly over the coming years and that Estonian cultural heritage should be digitally accessible and spreading through re-use. In accordance with these strategies, the CUDAN project aims to harness the existing strengths of Tallinn University in order to build a new analytical approach, called “Cultural Data Analytics”, that integrates cultural semiotics, data analytics, digital culture studies and creative industries’ studies to work with digitised cultural heritage as well as with born-digital data scraped from contemporary platforms. This aim will be accomplished by establishing the ERA Chair position and the transdisciplinary and innovative cooperation platform (Open Lab) at Tallinn University. Open Lab will cooperate with multiple external partners, both public and private, in order to collect, analyse and use digital cultural data and to develop relevant new analytic methods – all in order to better understand contemporary cultural dynamics and incorporate this understanding into public cultural service designs, and cultural and creative industries’ policymaking processes. The benefits will be that these designs and processes will become more evidence-based, agile and responsive to contemporary challenges.

Keywords: creative industries,cultural analytics,cultural data,digital culture,digital humanities
Accommodating New Interests at Sea: Legal Tools for Sustainable Ocean Governance (SUSTAINABLEOCEAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 64.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1051500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1051500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research project will develop a theoretical framework and legal tools to aid scholars and stakeholders (law and policy-makers, private investors, environmental NGOs) in managing competing interests in the offshore economic sector. The offshore sector is expanding and activities at sea are increasing (e.g., deep seabed mining, oil and gas extraction, renewable energy technologies, etc.). This situation threatens the health of the marine environment and its biodiversity. It also impacts traditional uses of the sea, such as navigation and fishing. New activities pose major challenges for the sustainable management of the oceans, and they highlight competing interests that the law needs to accommodate, such as: - protecting the marine environment and conserving its biodiversity; - mitigating climate change effects; - guaranteeing the continuity of the relevant economic activities; - guaranteeing energy efficiency and security; and - protecting the rights of local communities and populations. This project will answer the following research question: how can the law contribute to the sustainable use of the oceans and strike a balance between competing interests at sea? The law pertaining to ocean governance is fragmented into regimes that are imbued by different interests. The project will begin by analysing three legal frameworks, which are the most relevant for the offshore industry: the law of the sea, climate change law and energy law. It will focus on the operation of the offshore industry and on the competing interests, which have influenced the respective fields of law. This will allow identifying patterns of regime interaction and assessing their impact on the different uses of the sea. The research will ultimately offer a theory of interest- and regime-interaction in ocean governance and thus create a comprehensive framework for the development of legal tools(briefs, recommendation, which will contribute to sustainable ocean governance.

Keywords: renewable energy,deep seabed mining,regime interaction
COVID-19-Outbreak Response combining E-health, Serolomics, Modelling, Artificial Intelligence and Implementation Research (CORESMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,China,Switzerland,Côte d'Ivoire,Netherlands,Nepal
Call: Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health response to the 2019-nCoV epidemic (H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2759195.0
EU funding (EUR): 2759195.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Among the biggest challenges in the COVID-19 outbreak are the lack of triangulation of clinical, epidemiologic and immunological information for evidence- based response strategies. Our overriding ambition is to overcome this deficit through field studies and implementation research in specific populations early enough to already serve in the response to the current outbreak. Four technical work packages (WP) address the four main objectives: To provide real-time clinical data to improve risk assessment and response, deploying an established mHealth Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) in Nepal, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria; countries likely to be affected more intensively than the EU.(WP I) To implement differential serolomics (multiplex serology) for population serum samples from Germany and Nepal for investigating pre-existing cross or partial immunity against COVID-19 and impact on susceptibility.(WP II) To apply comprehensive modeling, sampling and artificial intelligence on data from the first two work packages in order to assess predictors for severe outcome, transmission dynamics and intervention effectiveness.(WP III) To measure and improve quality of epidemic containment measures through implementation research in countries particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 epidemic, in order to tailor effective and efficient control measures to health systems realities in Nepal and Ivory Coast, and to reduce the intensity of importation into the EU. (WP IV) We combine a) an accelerated ad-hoc outbreak response to address the urgency and b) a sustainable strategy to serve beyond the current public health threat from COVID-19. Software maturity, established networks, pre-approval investments and interdisciplinary expertise among partners - including first hand from China - shall generate first findings within weeks, such as validated criteria for high-risk groups, effectiveness of contact tracing, set-up serolomics platform.

Keywords: ehealth,immuno diagnostic,seroprevalence,artificial intelligence,modeling,respondent driven sampling,implementation research,cohort study,response management,sormas,nepal,china