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RHEOLOGY OF EARTH MATERIALS: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN TIMESCALES IN THE LABORATORY AND IN THE MANTLE (TimeMan)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Belgium,Belgium,France
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1784400.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Most large-scale geological process such as plate tectonics or mantle convection involve plastic deformation of rocks. With most recent developments, constraining their rheological properties at natural strain-rates is something we can really achieve in the decade to come. Presently, these theological properties are described with empirical equations which are fitted on macroscopic, average properties, obtained in laboratory experiments performed at human timescales. Their extrapolation to Earth’s conditions over several orders of magnitude is highly questionable as demonstrated by recent comparison with surface geophysical observables. Strain rates couple space and time. We cannot expand time, but we can now reduce length scales. By using the new generation of nanomechanical testing machines in transmission electron microscopes, we can have access to elementary deformation mechanisms and, more importantly, we can measure the key physical parameters which control their dynamics. At this scale, we can have access to very slow mechanisms which were previously out of reach. This approach can be complemented by numerical modelling. By using the recent developments in modelling the so-called “rare events”, we will be able to model mechanisms in the same timescales as nanomechanical testing. By combining, nanomechanical testing and advanced numerical modelling of elementary processes I propose to elaborate a new generation of rheological laws, based on the physics of deformation, which will explicitly involve time (i.e. strain rate) and will require no extrapolation to be applied to natural processes. Applied to olivine, the main constituent of the upper mantle, this will provide the first robust, physics-based rheological laws for the lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle to be compared with surface observables and incorporated in geophysical convection models.

Keywords: rheology,olivine,mantle convection
Disruptive innovation through new tool steels with unique thermo-mechanical performance for material forming applications (FASTEEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2664706.25
EU funding (EUR): 1865294.38
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Since the mid 80’s, vehicle weights have increased despite the importance of vehicle weight on driving dynamics, agility, and fuel consumption. Consumers have been more interested in larger, cheaper cars rather than weight reduction. The trend of ever-increasing weight for cars has been curtailed in recent years, predominantly motivated by CO2 emissions targets and correlated penalties, through the increased use of plastics and advanced steel alloys. It has been demonstrated that use of these lighter materials could reduce car weights by 35% and life cycle emissions by 70%, however their application has been limited due to limitations of the tools that are used to form them. The current tools are not fit for these new purposes as they do not have the thermal conductivity (TC) and material properties (MP i.e. strength) to effectively use these new materials and forming processes. The formation of large, lightweight pieces using advanced light alloys (eg. Aluminium and Magnesium), ultra-high-strength steels (strength >2000 MPa,) and advanced plastics (thermosetting and composite polymers) require tools made from tool steels that have both high TC and high MP. In an early phase, ROVALMA have successfully developed and verified a prototype tool steel, FASTEEL, that offers high TC and MP, while allowing tools to be manufactured using conventional tool manufacturing processes. These improvements now mean that FASTEEL tools can be applied across many applications, allowing the production of large, lightweight pieces made from advanced materials. In this SME phase 2 project FASTEEL will be demonstrated and evaluated by several market leading clients in the automobile components sector, in 8 key market applications, to assess FASTEEL’s performance at producing high strength, large, lightweight components. It is estimated that the successful completion of FASTEEL will provide over 30 new jobs by 2023, with a ROI of 643%.

Keywords: automobile industry,tool,moulds,casting,special steel,material forming processes,or hot,stamping,plastic injection moulding and aluminium die casting,thermal conductivity,productivity
Functional Exploration of Biosynthetic Dark Matter in the Human Gut Microbiome (RiPPs from the Gut)

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: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The human gut is the habitat for trillions of microbial cells living in synergy with each other and with the host. While metagenomic studies of the gut microbiome have provided a wealth of DNA sequence data, functional studies of gut bacteria remain challenging. To study the gut microbiome from a functional perspective, understanding host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions is key. These contacts are often established by specialized molecules termed secondary metabolites or natural products (NPs). The machinery required to synthesize these metabolites is encoded in bacterial genomes by biosynthetic gene clusters (BCGs). Remarkably, even though 14,000 BGCs were identified in the human microbiota, very little is known about the identities and functions of their products. To address that, we will focus on NPs of the ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPP) family, the second most abundant NP class in the human gut. The Piel group recently discovered unprecedented RiPPs with altered peptide backbones, challenging the paradigm that ribosomal synthesis is limited to the L-alpha-amino acid topology. These modifications include the excision of a tyramine moiety from a tyrosine-glycine motif, which introduces an alpha-keto-beta-amino acid in the peptide precursor backbone; and the epimerization of amino acids from L- to D-configuration. Enzymes homologous to these backbone-modifying catalysts and associated with RiPP gene clusters have been found bioinformatically in a wide variety of bacterial genomes, including gut microbiome representatives. The pervasiveness of these BGCs in microbiome bacteria suggests a function for these metabolites and possible therapeutic applications. This proposal aims to identify the products of these gene clusters in representatives of the most abundant phyla in the gut microbiome. In addition, we will examine the functions of the discovered metabolites utilizing bioactivity assays and chemical proteomics.

Keywords: microbiology,natural product biosynthesis,ribosomal peptides,chemical proteomics,genome mining,biological function
Simultaneous imaging using planar optode and diffusive equilibrium in thin-film (DET) (SIPODET)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 219312.0
EU funding (EUR): 219312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Coastal seagrass ecosystems provide important services to nature and mankind in form of coastal protection, nursery grounds and carbon sequestration. However, seagrass meadows are affected by global climate change and anthropogenic stressors such as eutrophication and coastal development. Yet, the mechanistic interactions between these ecosystems and environmental change remain unclear due to the complexity of studying the seagrass habitat, which exhibit a multitude of chemical gradients and dynamics. The requirement for high-resolution measurement techniques for resolving the biogeochemical dynamics and microenvironments surrounding seagrasses in their natural habitat has led to the development of a variety of chemical techniques typically quantifying a single analyte at a time, which gives limited insight to the true dynamics of the seagrass-sediment interaction which is central for seagrass fitness and survival under environmental change. The SIPODET project will develop new multi-parameter chemical imaging techniques by combining luminescence-based optical sensor foils (planar optodes) with diffusional equilibrium in thin-film (DET) enabling simultaneous sensing of pO2, iron, phosphate, nitrite/nitrate, ammonium, manganese, pCO2 and pH. This project will encompass expert training of Dr. Cesbron in the use of planar optodes complementing his expertise in 2D DET mapping of chemical species, which will enable the development of a novel combined chemical imaging technology mentored by a world leader in microenvironmental analysis. The novel technology will investigate the dynamic chemical microenvironment in the seagrass rhizosphere and how this is modulated by environmental change and plant stress (e.g. effects of temperature, pH or eutrophication) in Zostera marina and Zostera noltei.

Keywords: 2d det imaging,planar optodes,nanparticles,seagrass rhizome,oxygen,phosphorus,dissolved iron,nitrite and nitrate,ammonia,siderophorees,microenvironmental,global change
HArnessing Degradation mechanisms to prescribe Accelerated Stress Tests for the Realization of SOC lifetime prediction Algorithms (AD ASTRA)

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: Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Bulgaria,France,Denmark
Call: Accelerated Stress Testing (AST) protocols for Solid Oxide Cells (SOC) (H2020-JTI-FCH-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3008426.25
EU funding (EUR): 3008426.25
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

AD ASTRA aims to define Accelerated Stress Testing (AST) protocols deduced from a systematic understanding of degradation mechanisms of aged components in solid oxide cell (SOC) stacks, operating in both fuel cell and electrolysis modes. In particular, fuel and oxygen electrode issues and interconnect contact loss will be tackled. The project will build upon relevant information harvested in FCH JU projects, as well as make use of many samples taken from stacks operated in the field for thousands of hours, supplied by leading European SOC manufacturers across the two application areas CHP and P2X (combined heat&power generators and power-to-commodity energy storage). The approach to harnessing the intricate phenomena causing critical performance degradation will be based upon a methodical analysis of in-service performance data correlated with post-operation states, augmented by a dual-focus campaign targeting macroscopic stack testing procedures as well as specific component ageing tests. The probabilistic nature of degradation will be captured by slimming down deterministic simulation models through conception and integration of stochastic correlations between (nominal/accelerated) operating conditions and degradation effects, based on statistically significant data obtained from field-tests and purposely generated experiments. Stochastic interpretation will thus serve the physical description of dominant SOFC degradation mechanisms in CHP and P2X operation, but allowing rapid estimation of remaining useful stack life. The combined results will be translated to validated test protocols that allow quantifying and predicting degradation in SOCs as a function of test aggravation, defining appropriate transfer functions between stress-accelerating and real-world conditions. The overall project approach will be formalized for adoption by the relevant standards-developing organisations.

Keywords: degradation,soc lifetime prediction
Euro-5G (EURO 5G)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Future Internet: Software, hardware, Infrastructures, technologies and services
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Norway,Switzerland,France,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Advanced 5G Network Infrastructure for the Future Internet (H2020-ICT-2014-2, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2047083.75
EU funding (EUR): 1826143.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The primary objective of the Euro-5g project is to facilitate effective and efficient co-operation and integration between all projects of the 5G-PPP, the European Commission, The 5G-Infrastructure Association, Networld2020 ETP, related projects from EUREKA, and related national initiatives to maximize the European momentum towards, and benefits from, the future 5G integrated, ubiquitous and ultra-high capacity networks. The metrics for evaluating the success of 5G PPP will be based on the KPIs included in the 5G-PPP Contractual Arrangement signed by the 5G Infrastructure Association on behalf of the European ICT Sector and the European Commission in December 2013. This project is closely linked with the 5G-Infrastructure Association and will strive to ensure there is a seamless integration of the European industrial policies, as generated by the association, with the work plans of the projects under this program so the results will be the as useful and relevant as is possible. In its work, the Euro-5g project will actively support the 5G-PPP goal to maintain and enhance the competitiveness of the European ICT industry and to ensure that European society can enjoy the economic and societal benefits these future networks will bring in collaboration with the European commission, the 5G Infrastructure Association, the Networld2020 European Technology Platform and the projects of the 5G-PPP

Keywords: future networks,european leadership
Climate relevant interactions and feedbacks: the key role of sea ice and snow in the polar and global climate system (CRiceS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Fighting and adapting to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,South Africa,Germany,Spain,Italy,India,Switzerland,Norway,Finland,Sweden,Norway,Norway,Russian Federation,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Canada,United Kingdom
Call: Polar climate: understanding the polar processes in a global context in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions (H2020-LC-CLA-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8507794.35
EU funding (EUR): 7999266.25
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

Sea ice is an integral, changing part of the global Earth system. The polar climate system affects lives and livelihoods across the world by regulating climate and weather; providing ecosystem services; and regulating the ability of humans to operate (hunting, shipping, and resource extraction). CRiceS improves understanding of how rapid sea ice decline is interlinked with physical and chemical changes in the polar oceans and atmosphere. In order to plan for and adapt to polar and global climate change, CRiceS aims to fully understand the causes and consequences of this polar transition. Climate and Earth System Models (ESMs) are the key tools for projecting climate change in order to mitigate the impacts and to adapt. However, these models have major shortcomings in their descriptions of interconnected polar ocean-ice/snow-atmosphere interactions that limit their ability to project teleconnections, feedbacks, and impacts. CRiceS will quantify the controlling chemical, biogeochemical, and physical processes/interactions within the coupled ocean-ice/snow-atmosphere system through comprehensive analysis of new and emerging in-situ and satellite observations. CRiceS improves process, regional, and climate models/ESMs by advancing descriptions of (1) sea ice dynamics/energy exchange, (2) aerosols, clouds and radiation, (3) biogeochemical cycles/greenhouse gas exchanges and (4) fully coupled system behavior. This improved understanding allows for assessment of the role of ocean-ice/snow-atmosphere interactions in polar and global climate and delivers improved quantification of feedback mechanisms and teleconnections within the Earth system. Improved future projections and multi-sectoral impact assessments will increase our capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate and environmental changes in polar regions and beyond. CRiceS brings together 22 leading institutes in Europe and across the globe, including world leading observing and modeling expertise.

Keywords: sea ice and snow,ocean ice snow atmosphere coupling,climate feedbacks,biogeochemical cycles,polar to global teleconnections,fully coupled earth system models,remote sensing,in situ observations
HVDC Electrical Power cOnversion and DIstribution System (HEPODIS)

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,Spain
Call: HVDC Electrical Power Conversion and Distribution System Development (H2020-CS2-CFP02-2015-01, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1428195.0
EU funding (EUR): 999736.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The HEPODIS project aims to develop a new electrical power conversion and distribution system more efficient and reliable for High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) for the electrical power supply of essential loads to be implemented and integrated in the Regional FTB2 Demonstrator. The main objectives of HEPODIS are to: -Design, manufacturing and qualification of new regulated Transformer Rectifier Unit (TRU) equipment to supply an HVDC distribution system in order to supply essential loads in the regional aircraft FT2B. This advance TRU system must be bench tested and later on integrat-ed on the aircraft itself. -Improve the characteristics of TRU in relation to the existing equipment: functionality, elec-trical efficiency, power density, safety, advance control and monitoring and use of advance semiconductor technologies. -Generate a realistic model of the TRU in order to be integrated with the rest of the models of the HVDC systems. The model must reproduce precisely the working conditions of the real system to avoid integration problems and support the permit to flight phase. -Specify, design, develop, manufacture, qualify and validate a HVDC Distribution Equipment for essential loads from Flight Control System for IADP Regional Aircraft FT2B. -Integrate power generation system and the electrical power distribution system. -Improve effectiveness (providing 270Vdc power to essential loads with high level of criticality into an electrical system based on 115Vac and 28Vdc), reliability (development and integration of System Bite, Protections, Redundancy for improving safety) and efficiency (new intelligent energy management concepts and processes to minimize global energy demand, including reconfigurations according load safety requirements) compared with current architectures. -Model and simulate electrical performance, compared with real system performance for supporting design, testing and certification strategies.

Keywords: tru converter,sic mos technologies,hvdc distribution system,saber
Digiteal: Next generation e-invoicing and e-payment platform, one-click and automatic invoice payment anywhere in the SEPA zone (Digiteal)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1366560.0
EU funding (EUR): 956592.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The European financial sector has been opened up, creating significant opportunities for innovative consumer and business-oriented financial services that span the European Single Market. The EU is standardising the banking and payment landscape, in part through its Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payment-integration initiative for the simplification of bank transfers denominated in euro and in part with the upcoming PSD2 with payment initiation and account information services. DigitealTM is the next generation web and mobile electronic invoicing and payment system that enables payment in and between all countries in the SEPA zone. DigitealTM is unique, offering a SEPA-wide domiciliation management platform for end-users. Our clients are B2C European companies that issue high volume of invoices in paper. We offer an intuitive platform to transmit and manage their invoices sent to consumers, and a low-cost payment enabled by SDD. This reduces their operating costs significantly, allowing issuers to gain significant financial savings with minimal implementation costs. Our end users (their customers) will be able to conveniently manage and pay their mandates and invoices for free. The DigitealTM payment platform provides more consumer control, increasing business competitiveness and financial control - all whilst significantly lowering cost, environmental impact and carbon footprint. Our payment platform enables companies within the European Union to cut their interoperability transaction costs within and across the EU, and gives EU citizens complete control of their SEPA mandates Our solution delivers on several key European initiatives, helping make the Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy a reality and delivering the EU eGovernment Action Plan. DigitealTM delivers a step-change in business (and European) competitiveness and aims to reduce the huge dependencies on US online payment services.

Keywords: einvoicing,e invoicing,sdd sct,sepa,payment,digital,single,market,mandates,ebilling,e billing,invoice,bill,qr code,bank,fintech