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Generic semiclassical transport simulator for new generation thermoelectric materials (GENESIS)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-02
End date: 2020-07-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Approximately 90% of the world's power is generated by fossil fuel combustion engines. These typically operate at 25-40% efficiency, such that globally ~15 TW is wasted as heat. Thermoelectric (TE) generators, which convert heat flow into useful electrical power, can potentially convert part of the waste heat to electricity and provide economic savings and environmental sustainability. TE modules can also be used as self-powered sensors in mobile applications, wearable electronics, etc. especially when connection to mains is limited, which makes them ideal for the ‘Internet of Things’ concept as well. One of the main challenges of the TE research area and industry is the identification and design of optimal materials out of the myriad possibilities of alloys and new generation material combinations. The GENESIS project addresses this challenge through advanced theory and simulations by constructing a well-validated, open-access generic computational machinery that can be used to simulate the thermoelectric (TE) properties of arbitrary targeted materials by using as input their electronic and phononic bandstructures. This will support the TE community in forecasting whether a particular material can be really suitable, as well as by providing better understanding of measurements, enabling time and cost reductions, which will accelerate the experimental efforts. Such a timely needed computational machinery is currently missing. Thus, the projects bridges the current gap between theory and experiment in the design of TE materials, and will allow the Experienced Researcher to establish himself as a computational materials scientist specialized in electro-thermal transport.

Keywords: thermoelectric materials,charge and thermal transport,materials by design
rev.ng: a tool for security assessments of emerging and legacy platforms (rev.ng)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cyberattacks are one of the most challenging threats modern societies have to face. In fact, along with the growth of IT infrastructure, threats against them have been raising too. While a lot is being done, certain environments, in particular in the IoT area, are receiving little attention by cybersecurity experts. One of the key reasons for this is the almost total lack of tools to perform security assessments on them. Specifically, these areas lack reverse engineering tools, which allow analysts to analyze software for which the source code is not available. The absence of reverse engineering tools makes it extremely hard, if not impossible, to perform security assessments on such platforms. The reason for this is the dominance of the market leader (turnover 14000000+ EUR in 2017, EBITDA of 13000000+), which has little incentive to innovate in market niches which would justify the investment. In this proposal, we aim to bring to commercial maturity rev.ng, a tool developed by our company. rev.ng is the result of a multi-year research effort, with the aim of being able to handle a diverse set of platforms in a unified way. This approach is radically revolutionary in the reverse engineering field and allows us to target market niches which would not be profitable to our competitors. Our product has already been validated both by SMEs performing security assessments and large corporations performing large scale analysis of software such as Google. The goal of this proposal is getting the resources to refine some critical aspects of the feasibility study we already performed, that will lead us to devise the best path to transform our small company, currently mainly focused on consulting, into a scalable company developing a state-of-the-art reverse engineering product.

Keywords: cybersecurity,reverse engineering,legacy migration,code analysis
Empowering the society with a cost-effective solution for remote rehabilitation (RemoRehab)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ageing is one of the major societal challenges, which has already become a significant economic factor. One of three Europeans will be over 65 by 2060. In Finland the number of over 75 years olds will more than double until 2040 from current 420.000 to 950.000. Total government spending on pensions, healthcare and long-term care will increase by almost 20% between 2010 and 2060. Being under heavy cost pressure, municipalities in many European countries started to explore possibilities of implementing assisted living technologies to provide the elderly care and rehabilitation at home. Similar trend occurs in US. The global home rehabilitation products and services market is expected to reach US$ 176 billion by the end of 2023. To stay independent and active, seniors need both sufficient balance and physical strength to manage in their daily lives. In order to maintain these abilities, regular and versatile physical activity is required. Physilect will help extending the stay-at-home period for seniors by activating them to regular exercises. Our solution enables seniors to maintain their ability to live at home as active members of the society. The proposal introduces a novel business model innovation built on following opportunities: individual empowerment, the pervasive use of new technologies, and new ways of caring. We are targeting at commercialization of our product for global markets by exploring the emerging market opportunity created by the aging of population and a growing need for novel rehabilitation solutions. Our main objective for the near future is to make sure our business model is scalable and valid outside the domestic market. Actions described in this proposal provide grounds for a two-years development project, which will be mainly devoted to the international scale up. The main goal of the proposed feasibility study is to define the proper application focus and modify the business model in respect to specific needs of the selected market segment

Keywords: remote rehabilitation,social care,home care,physiotherapy,falls prevention,assisting living,post stroke rehab,silver economy,ageing well
Ca2+ feedback control of TRP/TRPL channels in Drosophila photoreceptors (FLYghtCaRe)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A major challenge for any visual system is the dramatic difference in ambient light between a starlit night and midday sun. In contrast to the ciliary rods of vertebrates, the rhabdomeric photoreceptors of the common fruitfly not only reliably detect single photons when dark-adapted (generating responses called ‘quantum bumps’), but continue responding in full daylight. At the core of this performance lie positive and negative feedback loops, many involving Ca2+ entry through the light activated transient receptor potential channels TRP and TRPL. Although Ca2+ modulates virtually every step of the phototransductive cascade, key targets are the channels themselves, leading to: (i) amplification by positive feedback during the rising phase of quantum bumps, (ii) gain reduction by negative feedback during quantum bump termination and during light adaptation. Our objectives are to combine single cell electrophysiology and optogenetics to explore Ca2+ signalling in fly photoreceptors, dissecting both its molecular interaction with TRP and TRPL channels and its dynamics within the cell. Our first aim will be to characterise the role of Calmodulin binding sites and other unknown regulatory sites on TRP and TRPL, in the feedback loops described above. Flies expressing mutated and chimeric TRP/TRPL channels will be used. Our second aim will be to obtain measurements of Ca2+ dynamics with subcellular spatial resolution under physiological illumination. Genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators will be targeted to specific cellular compartments and imaged in intact flies by exploiting the optics of the compound eye. Measurements will be made in fly mutants displaying defective light responses and retinal degeneration, leading to precise hypotheses on the mechanisms responsible for their phenotypes. This project will bring our understanding of rhabdomeric phototransduction to a new level of sophistication, while enriching my professional skills in a world-class laboratory.

Keywords: phototransduction,drosophila,photoreceptors,calcium signaling,calmodulin,trp channels
Ultrasonic Phased Array Non-Destructive Testing and In-Service Inspection System for high integrity Polyethylene Pipe Welds with automated analysis software. (PolyTest)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Israel,Spain,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Fast Track to Innovation Pilot (H2020-FTIPilot-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2332733.75
EU funding (EUR): 1915548.13
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

• The need arises from the greater use of PE pipes with a lower capital, installation, operation & maintenance cost and corrosion free during service but is limited through not having a suitable NDT technique to check the integrity of the welded joints between pipes • The objective is to take recently developed FP7 inspection/NDT technology for polyethylene (PE) pipe welds, from TRL6 to a TRL9 commercial product that will be exploited globally by the consortium partner providers to the consortium end user, Tier1/2 suppliers and other customers in the EU and globally by product sales and services. • Funds are requested from consortium members TWI, M2M, Plasflow, Tecnitest • €1.9m of funds is requested • The money will be used for the enhancement, meeting of specific application site testing requirements and the commercialisation of Ultrasonic Testing technology, software, technique validation, standards and technician training/certification. • Funds will enable the application specific product enhancements to be made and to support product/service/support commercialisation • Ultrasonic equipment, transducers, software suppliers and service inspection/NDT companies as well as end-user nuclear plant, gas/water utilities, mines will all benefit • Target market covers nuclear NPP, gas & water utilities, mining & process plant with a total size of 11.5billion welds. A market penetration of €30M sales pa plus €60M pa in EU direct industry savings/benefits are sought. • Customers/ buyers. End Users, Tier 1/Tier 2 suppliers, NDT Inspection Companies in the Power Generation (Nuclear Power Plant – NPP), Gas & Water Utilities, Mining industry and Process Plant industries. • A unique TRL9 product that has been made suitable for industry use i.e. radiation hardened, ingress protected, site ruggedized, automated data analysis software, validated with appropriate standards, will meet target industry specific inspection applications. • Consortium ROI= 10:1 Total EU ROI= 33:1

Keywords: phased array ultrasonic testing,polyethylene pe,pipe welding,inspection,automated defect recognition,data analysis,validated,testing standards,technician training and certification
Scanning probe energy loss spectroscopy of Nanoscale Alloy Particles for heterogeneous CATalysis (SNAPCAT)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Most heterogeneous catalysts take the form of catalytically active nanoparticles dispersed over a support medium. To improve catalytic function and reduce waste, researchers are increasingly seeking to improve the homogeneity of these nanoparticles, whether it be their size, shape or composition. One of the difficulties facing researchers is that the techniques used to obtain quantitative information are typically averaged over ensembles of billions of nanoparticles. Measurements of individual clusters require access to expensive instrumentation such as a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). The proposed research will apply scanning probe energy loss spectroscopy (SPELS) to study the composition, size and shape of individual size-selected Pt-based binary alloy nanoparticles for fuel cell applications, deposited using an inert gas-aggregation source. In SPELS, a STM tip is used as a highly localised source of field-emitted electrons to stimulate surface excitations such as plasmons. The energy of inelastically backscattered electrons from the surface is analysed with a spectrometer, so that spectroscopic mapping of the surface can be obtained as the tip is rastered across the surface. This comparatively low-cost method is capable of producing a spatial resolution of 1-10 nm, so that the composition of individual nanoparticles can be sampled. SPELS will be used, in conjunction with STM, to study the composition and surface structure of bimetallic clusters before and after reaction. This data will be correlated with data on the reactivity of the clusters, probed by CO temperature programmed desorption measurements. These measurements will be used to tailor nanoparticle composition and improve homogeneity, resulting in more efficient catalysts.

Keywords: scanning probe energy loss spectroscopy,plasmons,nanoparticles,alloys,catalytic activity,heterogeneous catalysis,fuel cells
How dopamine affects social and motor ability - from the human brain to the honey bee (Brain2Bee)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1783147.0
EU funding (EUR): 1783147.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Parkinson’s Disease is usually characterised by motor impairment, and Autism by social difficulties. However, the co-occurrence of social and motor symptoms is critically underappreciated; Parkinson’s Disease patients exhibit social symptoms, and motor difficulties are common in Autism. At present, the biological basis of co-occurring social and motor impairment is unclear. Notably, both Autism and Parkinson’s Disease have been associated with dopamine (DA) system dysfunction and, in non-clinical populations, DA has been linked with social and motor ability. These disparate strands of research have never been combined. Brain2Bee will use psychopharmacology in typical individuals to develop a model of the relationship between DA, Motor, and Social behaviour – the DAMS model. Brain2Bee will use sophisticated genetic analysis to refine DAMS, elucidating the contributions of DA-related biological processes (e.g. synthesis, receptor expression, reuptake). Brain2Bee will then test DAMS’ predictions in patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Autism. Finally, Brain2Bee will investigate whether DAMS generalises to an animal model, the honey bee, enabling future research to unpack the cascade of biological events linking DA-related genes with social and motor behaviour. Brain2Bee will unite disparate research fields and establish the DAMS model. The causal structure of DAMS will identify the impact of dopaminergic variation on social and motor function in clinical and non-clinical populations, elucidating, for example, whether social difficulties in Parkinson’s Disease are a product of the motor difficulties caused by DA dysfunction. DAMS’ biological specificity will provide unique insight into the DA-related processes linking social and motor difficulties in Autism. Thus, Brain2Bee will determine the type of dopaminergic drugs (e.g. receptor blockers, reuptake inhibitors) most likely to improve both social and motor function.

Keywords: social cognition,kinematics,emotion recognition,mentalising
Religious Toleration and Peace (RETOPEA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Reflective societies - cultural heritage and European identity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Estonia,North Macedonia,Belgium,Finland,Poland,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: Religious diversity in Europe - past, present and future (H2020-SC6-CULT-COOP-2017-two-stage, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2414294.25
EU funding (EUR): 2414294.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

To address the issue of religious diversity, RETOPEA will develop active learning from history: This is a new approach that provides teenagers with tools allowing them to think about religious cohabitation in a more nuanced, empathic way. The project encompasses research and innovation activities. It will carry out challenging research on historical peace treaties and conflict settlements, as well as on contemporary representations of religious cohabitation in culture and media. Studying historical peace-making initiatives will deepen our understanding of how religious conflicts and tensions have been accommodated and solved in different traditions (Christian, Muslim, Jewish) over time. Research into contemporary representations will subsequently reveal how such initiatives are used, misinterpreted or ignored in different types of culture and media today. These studies will provide insights into (a) effective policies and practices for approaching religious coexistence, and (b) alternative representations of religious cohabitation that engage constructively with contemporary concerns and past traditions. Based on this research, RETOPEA will develop innovative educational tools and evidence-based policy recommendations. Through active participation in the production of docutubes (online movies), teenagers will be encouraged to actively engage with different ways of understanding religious cohabitation. RETOPEA will build an educational package to support students in creating their docutubes. A training course will provide professional educators with information and training about religious diversity and peace-making in an accessible and attractive way. It will use the “Badged Open Course” format – a free online format that provides a certificate on completion. The experiences with students and the research results will offer the basis of policy recommendations to schools, educational authorities, religious leaders and (regional, national and European) policymakers.

Keywords: religious peace treaties,religious peace making memory,religious co existence,religious education
Leaf-inspired nanocellulose frameworks for next generation photosynthetic cell factories (FuturoLEAF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Finland,Finland,France,France
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2949432.5
EU funding (EUR): 2949432.5
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

FuturoLEAF envisions to exploit know-how in nanocellulose materials and cell biology to revolutionize the field of industrial algal biotechnology by conceptually renewing tailored solid-state cell factories. FuturoLEAF introduces algal-based biocatalysts with functional architecture formulated from nanocellulose building blocks and designed on the principles of plant leaf anatomy and function. Knowledge of bio-based materials science and photosynthesis will be integrated with achievements of synthetic biology and biomolecular engineering to conceive the new technology efficient in capturing CO2 and producing solar-driven biofuels and chemicals. The FuturoLEAF biocatalysts will gain high production efficiency by tailoring nanocellulose matrix performance with utilisation of its highly specific water interactions, resulting in tunable porosity and transport properties. Directed self-assembly as a tool to locate and attach photosynthetic cells in the matrix by their native interaction potential will further improve the performance. The system will maximise light utilization and CO2 capturing by providing controllable influx/efflux of moisture, gases, nutrients, products and substrates, leading to next generation photosynthetic cell factories with high catalytic turn-over time. In addition, the solid-state nature of the system will enable effortless logistical transportation of cell factories without having to move large amounts of water in contrast to current suspension cultures. The FuturoLEAF architecture will be tested under changing environment in a fixedbed high-cell density photobioreactor, which is designed for simulating behaviour of the plant with gas-to-liquid interphase production environment. The proof of the concept will involve evaluation of the approach at TRL3 level in a photobioreactor functioning in continuous mode. FuturoLEAF proposes a significant step away from dependency of fossil sources, towards sustainable energy and chemicals production.

Keywords: nanocellulose,algal cell factories,interactive matrix,photosynthesis,light utilisation efficiency,chemicals production