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A novel Smart Glass integrating multi-zone switchable glass and touch panel control functions into a durable and sustainable insulated glazing to provide energy-efficiency and privacy in buildings (E-SHUTTER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MTSYSTEM is a Spanish SME specialized in building automatisms and electronic system engineering services. We have been working in the development of a disruptive way to reduce costs for heating, air-conditioning and lighting, and avoid the cost of installing and maintaining motorized light screens, blinds or curtains in buildings. Windows are one of the most determining aspects in the conception and design of energy-efficient buildings. Studies have shown that 1.) poorly insulated windows can account for 10%–30% of a building’s heat loss in winter, while 2.) summer light penetration increases the amount of energy required to maintain comfortable living or work environments in summer. A new generation of windows, also known as “Smart Windows” incorporate new glazing technologies, also known as “Smart Glass”. Smart (or switchable) Glass refers to glass or glazing which changes its light transmission properties when e.g. a voltage is applied and makes it possible, to control the amount of light, glare and heat, transmitted through the glass, providing a high level of insulation at the same time. Smart Windows can save up to 50% in annual energy and reduce up to 30% in peak demand (by impacting heating, cooling and lighting consumption) compared to static windows. However, currently available Smart Glass/ Windows solutions have some technical limitations and do not fully serve nowadays end-user needs. There is no solution on the market which combines both energy reduction and privacy at the same time. All solutions lack user-friendliness due to limited multi-zone functions and the need of additional hardware to perform control functions. E-SHUTTER aims to prototype, test and commercialise a novel active, on-demand Smart Glass which integrates multi-zone switchable glass and touch panel control functions into a durable and sustainable insulated glazing unit (IGU) to reduce the energy consumption of buildings and to provide privacy at the same time.

Keywords: smart glass,smart windows,energy efficiency,privacy,multi zone switchable glass,touch panel,function
THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM FOR PREDICTIVE IDENTIFICATION OF ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED AND UNREGULATED FISHING (TrackIUU)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Iceland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a major issue affecting the sustainability of the ocean’s resources: over 19% of the global catches can be attributed to IUU fishing. Though international fishing conventions require that fishing vessels operating in the high seas are registered and have monitoring systems, even the latest solutions for the implementation of these measures, e.g. vessel monitoring systems (VMS), are quite limited: VMSs use GPS positioning to capture data from equipment installed on fishing vessels, but it is the operator who needs to monitor the movement of thousands of vessels on a map and spot irregular behaviors. Moreover, this needs to be confirmed by closer surveillance via boat or plane, making these systems extremely resource and effort intensive. With over 22,000 registered vessels which need to be monitored in the EU, a better solution for identifying and responding to IUU fishing is demanded. Our company, Trackwell (Island), provides our clients with tools to manage their resources, including maritime surveillance, an area in which we have been working for the past 20 years. Our latest development, TrackIUU, is a unique stand-alone application with advanced functionalities: it integrates and assesses new data streams in real-time to calculate an IUU risk indicator for each vessel being monitored and alert operators to high-risk situations. This will greatly increase the efficiency of operators to identify illegal activities of fishing vessels and target them in surveillance and sighting reports. Greater detail in real-time data combined with historical data will help provide the necessary evidence for authorities to prosecute vessels in non-compliance with fishing regulations. By helping reduce IUU fishing activities, TrackIUU will contribute to the conservation of our ocean’s fish stocks, the protection of a fair fisheries industry in Europe and its long-term economic viability.

Keywords: illegal,unreported,unregulated fishing iuu,vessel monitoring,iuu risk factor assessment
Secure information processing in quantum networks (seQureNet)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-15
End date: 2017-04-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The promise of future quantum computers to substantially speed up computations has been advertised widely since the early days of the field. But there is a novel and fundamental aspect of devices based on quantum-mechanical principles that has just started to be explored: Quantum computers can preserve the privacy of computations. This aspect is a distinct new advantage of quantum computers over their classical counterparts. An entire class of unprecedented computations becomes feasible, in which the user data and the whole computation remain perfectly private – a feature impossible to achieve with classical computers. The main focus of this project is to exploit this feature and to implement secure photonic quantum information processing in distributed quantum networks. These networks consist of clients and small-scale quantum computers connected by communication channels. Photons are chosen as they are the ideal carriers for sending information over long distances. The clients can securely delegate computations to the quantum computers, such that neither the data nor the computation is revealed to the computers or any potential eavesdropper. The project will, first, elucidate how quantum resources boost the security of classical computations; second, demonstrate secure quantum computations over long distances and study their verification; and third, examine practical security aspects of implementations. The research will leverage the experimental state-of-the-art by adapting new photonic quantum technologies such as integrated photon sources and waveguide quantum circuits. Moreover, highly-efficient superconducting detectors will be applied to achieve excellent quantum control of the photons. This research is highly innovative and will be pivotal in the researcher’s career development and for becoming an independent research group leader, as it enables acquiring both key scientific knowledge and developing complementary skills.

Keywords: quantum computation,secure quantum information processing,delegated computations,photonics
Seeing Citrulline: A Molecular Toolbox for Peptidyl Arginine Deiminases (inCITe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Roughly 1% of the world’s population is affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA); a devastating autoimmune disease causing cartilage destruction and bone erosion. Recent evidences suggest that dysregulation of Peptidyl Arginine Deiminase (PAD) levels are associated with the onset of the disease, leading to the production of antibodies targeting the citrullinated neoepitopes. The exact role of each of the PAD isotypes in these pathological processes is unknown and fundamental questions on the intracellular activation mechanism and substrate specificity remain unanswered. Moreover, isoform specific and high affinity enzyme inhibitors are lacking thereby not only hampering fundamental research towards each PAD isotype, but also excluding PAD as a potential therapeutic target for these diseases. This proposal is aimed at developing innovative chemical biology- and molecular tools to study PAD functioning and protein citrullination in health and disease. The work reflects my interdisciplinary experiences as well as my interest I have obtained over the last years in chemical immunology as well as my ambition to improve patients wellbeing. More detailed, I aim to 1) find unknown PAD modulators, 2) find PAD substrates, 3) find selective and high affinity PAD inhibitors using enzyme-templated inhibitor evolution as novel lead discovery strategy, 4) explore multifunctional targeted PAD ‘nanosponges’ as advanced avidity-based nanomedicine approach and 5) explore unprecedented citrulline ‘eraser’ enzymes by innovative chemical biology strategies. The workpackages described in this ambitious and highly interdisciplinary proposal deliver high-end molecules and methods that can be used to answer fundamental (conflicting) questions on citrullination and PAD biology. Moreover, possible molecular leads and advanced therapeutic insights are provided thereby centring PAD as therapeutic target for citrulline-mediated autoimmune diseases such as RA.

Keywords: chemical biology,chemical immunology,peptidyl arginine deiminase,citrullination,activity based probes,chemical proteomics
Leading Towards Sustainable Gender Equality Plans in research performing organisations (LeTSGEPs)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Promote gender equality in particular by supporting structural change in the organisation of research institutions and in the content and design of research activities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Albania,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Serbia,France
Call: Supporting research organisations to implement gender equality plans (H2020-SwafS-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2429053.75
EU funding (EUR): 2429053.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Leading TowaLeading Towards Sustainable Gender Equality Plans in research institutions – LeTSGEPs – aims at connecting different Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) in the design and implementation of GEPs. The project seeks to design actions and implement measures that will lead to systemic institutional change and address gender bias in RPOs at a very initial stage of gender equality measures implementation. At the same time more experienced partners in GEPs implementation will be included to guide the other partners through the various steps of the project, following the Gender Equality in Academia and Research GEAR tool developed by European Institute for Gender Equality (2016) and with the scientific support of a highly qualified Scientific Advisory Board. As a powerful instrument of detecting factors that make gender inequality persistent within institutions, besides the Gender Equality Plan, LeTSGEPs will foster the use of Gender Budgeting (GB), since budgets reflect real policy commitments. Gender equality plans and programs will succeed if accompanied with related specific fund allocation for the policy targets, and if the programs enacted are evaluated in terms of their gender equality impact by means of gender budgets leading to what we can define as more sustainable and powerful GEPs. A robust methodological approach, by taking stock from the implementation of Gender Budgeting in RPOs in order to produce relevant knowledge on the application of gender budgeting in RPOs and its role in making GEPs sustainable will be produced and shared with all partners. For raising institutional awareness on the importance of GEPs and gender budgeting the administrative staff will be actively involved in the training to equip also them with the necessary knowledge for its application. A distinctive characteristic of LeTSGEPs is a continuous support during the implementation of GEPs and by the high motivation expressed by partners in GEPs and GB implementation.

Keywords: gender equality,gender equality plans,gender budgeting,research performing organisations
Peer to peer learning in regional and local authorities to timely and accurately define, monitor and verify their sustainable actions (ENERGee Watch)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Cyprus,Belgium,Romania,Greece,Slovenia,Bulgaria,France,France,Netherlands
Call: Supporting public authorities to implement the Energy Union (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499988.75
EU funding (EUR): 1499988.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The overall aim of ENERGee Watch is to enable peer to peer learning for regional and local authorities in order to precisely define, monitor and verify their sustainable energy and climate actions. Its main target are associations and networks of cities and regions and the learning process will be focused on how different sustainable energy and climate mitigation projects have been monitored and evaluated. Primarily, we will build on existing platforms and needs assessment surveys to perform a needs assessment and gaps identification with public bodies for learning and match these needs with available best practices. Then, public authorities and their associations and agencies will be selected and matched with one of the seven mentors who are all partners of ENERGee Watch. The learning program will be divided into four modules that include: i) data collection, ii) monitoring and verification, iii) indicators for adaption to climate change, iv) data display, dissemination and validation by final users (local authorities). ENERGee Watch will launch 4 modules per year (one per each topic, twelve in total) with a total of 72 participating mentees, which are all associations or networks which can distribute the knowledge further to their members. The added value of ENERGee Watch is that the learning program is not limited to a capacity building process but instead enables networking and examples from practice shown on the field. In the first step of each cycle - the masterclass - each participant can choose the learning objectives they want to accomplish in order that their progress can be tracked, and thus transparent standards will be set. The learning program will ideally result in improved policies and MRV standards, as well as partnerships for innovative sustainable energy policies and MRV practices.

Keywords: peer learning,local authorities,monitoring and verification of saving
GNSS driven EO and Verifiable Image and Sensor Integration for mission-critical Operational Networks (GEO VISION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Italy,Austria,Switzerland,Norway
Call: Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) based EGNSS applications (H2020-Galileo-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1323315.0
EU funding (EUR): 999653.25
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

GEO-VISION is an user-driven project developing interactive mission-critical visual communications software solution. The focus is operationally relevant visual content from photos and video, based on GNSS, for reducing financial and humanitarian impacts of disasters. GNSS will provide trust in the data and in the communications. Networks may have low and unknown capacity. A common operational picture is achieved via a web portal, live mapping and fusion with other data. It has broad applicability, for field users, operations centers and headquarters of different organizations, and is far beyond state of the art. Relevant data can be shared between collaborating organizations. Customers can purchase the software or subscribe as a service. Technical innovations are related to how GNSS is used for providing trust and confidentiality into data and communications. The concept of interactive mission-critical visual communications is fundamentally different from traditional approaches. GEO-VISION allows users to focus on relevant and trusted operational content. Bandwidth savings compared to sending full resolution is in the order of 100-1000 times, yet still keeping access to full resolution. Trust includes location, Galileo signal authentication, spoofing and jamming countermeasures. Integration with satcom, earth observation space elements and UAVs highlight the innovation. United Nations, EU Civil Protection, World Bank and insurance business provide user requirements and testing. GEO-VISION will develop pilot-level software. Analysis shows a ROI at 10X over net 7 years. GEO-VISION targets fundamental challenges, markets are global and SW deliveries scalable.

Keywords: gnss eo earth observation lbs mission critical operations image photo video sensor galileo egnos ensc software gis esri insurance eu united nations
Global integrative framework for Computational Bio-Imaging (GlobalBioIm)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499515.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499515.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A powerful strategy for increasing the quality and resolution of medical and biological images is to acquire larger quantities of data (Fourier samples for MRI, projections for X-ray imaging) and to jointly reconstruct the complete signal by correctly reallocating the measurements in 3D space/time and integrating all the information available. The underlying image sequence is reconstructed globally as the result of a very large-scale optimization that exploits the redundancy of the signal (spatio-temporal correlation, sparsity) to improve the solution. Due to recent advances in the field, we are arguing that such a “bigger data” integration is now within reach and that our team is ideally qualified to lead the way. A successful outcome will profoundly impact the design of future bioimaging systems. We are proposing a unifying framework for the development of such next-generation reconstruction algorithms with a clear separation between the physical (forward model) and signal-related (regularization, incorporation of prior constraints) aspects of the problem. The pillars of our formulation are: an operator algebra with a corresponding set of fast linear solvers; an advanced statistical framework for the principled derivation of reconstruction methods; and learning schemes for parameter optimization and self-tuning. These core technologies will be incorporated into a modular software library featuring the key components for the implementation and testing of iterative reconstruction algorithms. We shall apply our framework to improve upon the state of the art in the following modalities: 1) phase-contrast X-ray tomography in full 3D; 2) structured illumination microscopy; 3) single-particle analysis in cryo-electron tomography; 4) a novel multipose fluorescence microscopy; 5) real-time MRI, and 6) a new multimodal digital microscope. In all instances, we shall work in close collaboration with the imaging scientists who are in charge of the instrumentation.

Keywords: statistical modeling,optical imaging,tomography,bio medical imaging
PoC in-office device for identifying individuals at high risk of Osteoporosis and osteoporotic fracture (PoCOsteo)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Iran, Islamic Republic of,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: Cross-cutting KETs for diagnostics at the point-of-care (H2020-NMBP-X-KET-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4004192.5
EU funding (EUR): 4004192.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

As a consequence of the ageing of the society, osteoporosis (literally “porous bone”) and its complications is becoming more and more prevalent, making the bone disease a health priority in many parts of the world. Currently osteoporosis is commonly known as a “silent killer” disease. Usually osteoporosis manifests itself in a drastic manner, i.e. through fracture of the osteoporotic bone in the affected individual. Until now little or no measures for prevention or early detection of this disease are taken, because no simple, yet sufficiently precise or sensitive tools for early detection of individuals at risk of osteoporosis are available. The overall objective of the currently proposed PoCOsteo project therefore is the development, clinical validation and preparation for commercialisation of a Point-of-Care tool for bone disease (a.o. osteoporisis) prevention, detection and treatment. To realize this objective a balanced consortium of 5 research partners and 3 SME’s has been brought together, and a well considered workplan devised. Two TRL3 technologies for individual proteomic and genomic electrochemical sensors, available from 2 consortium partners will form the base of the developments. The sensors will be further optimised, combined in a single microfluidic cartridge and integrated in a complete and independent point-of-care bone health assessment tool. The tool will consequently be clinically validated in 2 hospitals (Graz and Tehran), and a business plan for a commercial start-up company wil be prepared for the intended valorisation of the technical and medical activities. The aim is to reach a TRL6 / TRL7 for the complete tool and for the combined microfluidci cartridges. The project will be supported and advised by the IOF, the International Osteoporosis Foundation, which is the main global alliance of patient societies, research organizations, healthcare professionals and international companies working to promote bone, muscle and joint health.

Keywords: osteoporosis,point of care,biosensor,genomic,proteomic,bone disease,biomarkers