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The Roots of Mathematical Structuralism (STRUCTURALISM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1364097.0
EU funding (EUR): 1364097.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mathematical structuralism is a central position in contemporary philosophy of mathematics. It is the view that mathematical theories describe only abstract structures or structural properties of their subject fields. This project will investigate the mathematical and philosophical roots of structuralism in a ground-breaking way. The focus will be set on two historical developments in nineteenth century mathematics and early twentieth century philosophy of science: the first one concerns several conceptual changes in geometry between 1860 and 1910 that eventually led to a “structural turn” in the field. This includes the gradual implementation of model-theoretic techniques in geometrical reasoning, the study of geometrical theories by group-theoretic methods as well as the successive consolidation of formal axiomatics. The second development analyzed here concerns the beginnings of the philosophical reflection on structural mathematics between 1900 and 1940. This includes different attempts by thinkers such as Rudolf Carnap, Edmund Husserl, and Ernst Cassirer to spell out the philosophical implications of the new structuralist methodologies at work in modern geometry. The principal objective of the project is to provide the first comparative investigation of these early contributions to structuralism and their immediate mathematical background. The integrative study of the history and the philosophy of modern mathematics will not only change our conception of the evolution of the philosophy of mathematics in the twentieth century. It will also transform the ways in which we presently think about mathematics. Specifically, the project will provide new systematic insights relevant to contemporary structuralism, in particular a new understanding of notions such as mathematical structure, structure abstraction, and structural property, as well as of their significance for the philosophy of mathematical practice.

Keywords: history and philosophy of mathematics,mathematical structuralism
tHErmaL vIsion AUgmented awarenesS (HELIAUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Components and Systems
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: ECSEL (Art-187)
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Germany,Italy,France,France,France
Call: H2020-ECSEL-2018-2-RIA (H2020-ECSEL-2018-2-RIA-two-stage-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 28194740.0
EU funding (EUR): 8192593.4399999995
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The new ways of driving and use a vehicle as expected in the scope of Smart Mobility asks for reliable and affordable versatile perception systems. Perception systems need to be accurate and reliable both for what happen in the cabin and out of the cabin. The driver and passenger monitoring needs to be improved as well as the environment surrounding monitoring, in all light and weather conditions. For both of these topics, the extension of current perception systems (mainly based on visible imaging, LIDAR and RADAR detection) to the thermal sensing is a must. Thermal sensing, especially in the LWIR (= 6 to 14 µm) bandwidth, provides valuable additional information and has to be considered as a must for the next generation of L4 (‘’Eyes off’’) and L5 (‘’Mind off’’) autonomous driving. In this context, the HELIAUS project aims to deliver breakthrough perception systems for in-cabin passengers monitoring, as well as for the car surrounding by developing smart thermal perception systems that extend the current systems to the LWIR bandwidth. From general point of view, the main objectives of the HELIAUS project and work to be carried out are as follows: 1/ to develop cutting-edge and cost effective technologies leading to low cost, high performance LWIR module, 2/ to specify, develop, test and validate the thermal perception systems first prototypes for in-cabin and out-of cabin application, 3/ to quantify the valuable addition of the thermal sensing into the current systems and future systems, 4/ to promote the benefit of such systems in the future autonomous vehicles, in particular, and for smart mobility in general. The HELIAUS project is a first and essential step to the creation of a future industrialized affordable thermal perception systems offer. Being a part of the IPCEI Microelectronics, in which ULIS leads a project in the framework of the ‘’Smart Sensors’’, the HELIAUS project will positively contribute to the global competitiveness of the European industry.

Keywords: smart thermal vision systems,autonomous driving applications,machine learning,embedded systems
Dynamic MOdelling of REsilience (DynaMORE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Methods and data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Israel,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,Poland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Personalised computer models and in-silico systems for well-being (H2020-SC1-2017-CNECT-2, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6091586.61
EU funding (EUR): 6069015.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The project DynaMORE (Dynamic MOdelling of REsilience) exploits advanced mathematical modelling for the promotion of mental health and well-being. DynaMORE will generate the first personalised in-silico model of mental health in the face of adversity, that is, stress resilience. The model will be based on and validated against unique multi-scale longitudinal real-world empirical data sets. The development and testing of the model will substantially deepen our scientific understanding of the mechanisms of resilience. These insights will allow us to create mechanistically targeted interventions for the primary prevention of stress-related disorders. On this basis, DynaMORE will develop an entirely new mHealth product that will include model-based prognostic tools for monitoring of at-risk subjects and for automatised decision-making about timed, personalised interventions. The DynaMORE model will be openly available, whereas the interventions and surrounding application solutions (data analysis tools, information and communication technology (ICT)) will have a strong potential for commercial exploitation, which will be actively prepared within DynaMORE. These objectives will be achieved through the interdisciplinary collaboration of world-leading experts in the fields of (1) computer-modelling and simulation and multi-scale data integration (project area MODELLING), (2) bio-psycho-social research on mental health and resilience (area HUMAN LIVES), and (3) mHealth technology, including ambulatory monitoring and intervention, and ICT (area TECHNOLOGY). These will be supported, and results will be exploited, by an experienced management and impact maximisation team (area IMPACT). The overall aim of DynaMORE is to improve human lives by preventing stress-related mental health problems. DynaMORE’s health-focussed strategy will promote individual well-being and reduce healthcare demands and indirect economic costs, by contributing to a healthy and productive workforce.

Keywords: stress,stress related disorders,mental health,resilience,prevention,ambulatory monitoring,ecological momentary assessment,psychology,psychiatry,neuroscience,emotion regulation
Novel electric stair climber to break barriers in transport of disabled people and goods through a safe, quick and comfortable movement (SIRENA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1230346.25
EU funding (EUR): 861242.38
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

TGR is an Italian company with more than 35 years of experience in the field of stair climbers. Over 50,000 people with reduced mobility have benefitted from our products improving their welfare. With SIRENA we want to become a technological reference among stair climbers with a unique and universal solution able to climb any type of stairs in a quick, safe and comfortable way, improving the living conditions of millions of citizens in Europe and around the world. Competitors’ devices cannot guarantee a stable movement or climb any type of stair, whereas the stability offered by SIRENA on the stairs -even when inclined- is succeeded through the exclusive innovation introduced by TGR. The main objective of this phase 2 is to ensure that TGR meets the technical, commercial, regulatory and financial requirements for a successful industrialization and commercialization of SIRENA from 2020. While completing the testing of the final prototype, finalizing the design, determining IPR and obtaining all necessary certifications, we will prepare the commercialization of SIRENA. We will reach our end users (persons who, because of a trauma, disease or age, are not autonomous in their movements) through our consolidated commercial network and new commercial channels (associations of disabled, nursing homes, pharmacies). In addition, we identified a complementary market opportunity in the transport of freight, with regard to construction sites, carriers, transporters, food and drinks sector and gradually, funeral homes. We plan to adapt SIRENA to heavy and large objects to enter this market, which is already demanding safer and more durable devices. SIRENA will contribute to a smarter global mobility, promote social tourism and break barriers in the transport of disabled people and goods. The success of the project will strengthen EU leadership in the personal mobility and freight industry, contributing to innovation, growth (€16M revenues) and jobs (15 new employees by 2024)

Keywords: mobility,stair climber,comfort,wheelchair,architectonic barriers,physical disability,disabled,freight transport,step
Secure authentication with high-entropy silicon physical unclonable functions (authentIC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: FET Innovation Launchpad (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-4, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 142857.14
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The innovation idea of the AuthentIC project is an authentication solution for anticounterfeiting of goods based on proprietary silicon integrated circuits implementing high-entropy physical unclonable functions (PUFs). The demonstration of such solution is the main objective of the project. PUFs are silicon integrated circuits that leverage random variations due to fabrication tolerances to implement a unique function that is unknown to the observer and the manufacturer, and extremely difficult to measure experimentally. From a behavioural viewpoint, PUFs are circuits that respond to digital input strings (challenges) with digital output strings (responses), where the challenge-response mapping (the unclonable function) is fully repeatable with aging and with varying environmental conditions. To make PUFs resilient to AI-based attacks and to brute force attacks, it is imperative to design and fabricate high-entropy PUFs, as we plan to do in AuthentIC. The PUF chips are then packaged in NFC transponders (AuthentIC labels), either mounted on flexible RFID labels with a printed antenna (e.g. for luxury goods) or embedded in a credit-card sized transponder (e.g. for a wearable access badge). In the actual use of the AuthentIC solution, the authenticity of an object to which an AuthentIC label is attached can be verified by using a standard smartphone, through the NFC interface. An app on the smartphone will receive a challenge from a TA and forward it to the PUF. It will then receive the response and forward it to the TA for validation. Through the AuthentIC project, we pursue a product innovation consisting in the offering of a complete authentication solution based on high-entropy silicon PUFs.

Keywords: cybersecurity,anti counterfeiting,physical unclonable function
Water-mass transformation and Pathways In The Weddell Sea: uncovering the dynamics of a global climate chokepoint from In-situ measurements (WAPITI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: France,France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1731247.5
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Deep water formed around the Antarctic continent drives the world ocean circulation. 50-70% of this deep water is formed within only about 10% of the Antarctic circumpolar band: the Weddell Sea. Subtle changes in the circulation of the Weddell Sea can lead to major changes in floating ice-shelves, with critical implications for global sea-level, the production of deep water and the global ocean overturning circulation. Despite these critical climate implications, the Antarctic shelf circulation remains poorly understood. I propose an ambitious project at the crossroads of experimental and numerical oceanography. By drawing on the strengths of each discipline I will explore the regional water-mass pathways in the Weddell Sea: an unchartered cornerstone for understanding the polar ocean circulation and its links to global climate. A key issue facing climate scientists will be addressed: “What sets the tridimensional water-mass structure and pathways in the Weddell Sea and modulates the flow of deep waters between the Antarctica ice-shelves and the global ocean circulation?” To address this question I propose to investigate several key aspects of the Weddell Sea system: the dynamical forcing of the Weddell gyre and its response to atmospheric variability; the forcing and the circulation on the continental shelf and its interaction with the gyre; and the time-scale and mixing associated with bottom water sinking along the continental shelf. WAPITI approaches these objectives through a series of innovations, including (i) an ambitious field experiment to investigate the shelf circulation and processes, (ii) a powerful conceptual framework applied for the first time to a realistic eddy-resolving model of the Weddell gyre, and (iii) a novel instrument that will be developed to directly observe the sinking of deep water into the abyssal ocean for the first time. Collectively, the project will contribute a new insight into global climate feedbacks.

Keywords: southern ocean,overturning circulation,polar oceanography
Energy Performance Contracting Plus (EPC_PLUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Market uptake of energy innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Austria,Austria,Spain,Italy,Bulgaria,Slovenia,Belgium,Greece,Greece,Czechia,Portugal
Call: Development and market roll-out of innovative energy services and financial schemes for sustainable energy (H2020-EE-2014-3-MarketUptake, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1486015.0
EU funding (EUR): 1486014.75
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) is generally looked upon favourably, but its implementation can be complicated and lengthy. The reason lies mainly in the procurement law provisions and the long-term and complex contracts, which impede a real breakthrough in the spread of the EPC methodology. The other main barriers for the implementation of EPC in SMEs are: • The transaction costs for procuring energy services are too high • Investments and project sizes are too small • It is difficult to obtain financing for such small projects • High costs for guarantees, measurement and verification procedures The ultimate goal of the EPC+ project is to reduce transaction costs of energy service packages drastically so that smaller investments and projects in SMEs become possible for companies offering energy services. This can only happen if both the technical solutions as well as the contractual issues of energy services are highly standardized. The energy services offered can be either partly or wholly financed with innovative financing solutions, or may be more service-oriented solutions with guaranteed energy performances. The major outputs of the project include: (1) the development of commercial, standardized energy service packages for SMEs in each participant country. Each participant country will develop energy service packages that suit the specific and particular requirements of their country. These will include a standardized technical solution for a specific market sector, a model contract and, where possible, a financing solution. (2) the implementation of pilot projects for the EPC+ packages in each participant country (3) the set-up and management of clusters of companies (SPINS) in each participant countries. These clusters will offer energy services to the SME market, (4) the training of these clusters of companies in each participant country and (4) the development of an international e-market for energy service providers.

Keywords: energy performance contracting,energy service provider networking
Synaptic Switching with Halide Perovskites (SHAPE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Metal halide perovskites are attracting much attention because they are excellent semiconductors for use in optoelectronic devices such as solar cells, LEDs, and detectors. Next to electrons, these materials also conduct ions efficiently, and both types of conduction are modulated by light. Ion migration is mostly known to have undesirable effects in optoelectronic devices, such as hysteresis, degradation, and phase segregation. However, the interaction of light, electronic conduction and ionic motion also offers a rich parameter space to envision entirely new devices, which is almost completely unexplored until now. I want to pioneer this new field, uncovering insights to help mitigate the undesirable effects of ion migration, and at the same time creating artificial synapses and neurons as new applications based on halide perovskites. I will first develop a novel set of techniques to study ion migration, including a technique similar to impedance spectroscopy to map the energy, density, and timescale of ions and defect states. This will allow me to distinguish ions from charge traps which usually complicate measurements. Next, I will use the new tools to pursue a complete understanding and control of the material parameters that determine ion migration. This control over the ionic motion allows me to rationally design properties of the perovskite-based artificial synapses and neurons with the potential to develop massively parallel neural networks for ultra-low power neuromorphic computation. I am in a unique position to successfully complete the proposed program because of my pioneering role in the understanding of ion migration in perovskite materials and track record of inventing new optoelectronic devices. The proposed program will both benefit the commercialization of perovskite-based electronic devices and open new avenues for ion-based innovations.

Keywords: perovskite semiconductors,ion migration,artificial synapse
Understanding seaweed submergence tolerance mechanisms and translating them into land plants (SUBTOL)

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: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-05
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Global food security is threatened by climate change, particularly increased incidences of flooding and drought. Flooding has catastrophic impact on agricultural productivity, as most agricultural crops are sensitive to waterlogging and submergence. Flooding is a complex, multi-factorial stress involving lack of oxygen, followed by oxidative stress as the flood subsides and sometimes accompanied by changes in salinity. The molecular strategies land plants use to respond to submergence vary widely between species and are not fully understood due to lack of model organisms naturally adapted to such multiple stresses. SUBTOL takes a completely new approach to improving plant submergence tolerance: harnessing genetic mechanisms from green seaweeds, a group of organisms naturally adapted to both submergence and desiccation, for which there is no equivalent terrestrial counterpart. SUBTOL will use the emerging model green seaweed Ulva to understand the changes in gene regulation that occur during seaweed submergence and exposure. Ulva shares a common ancestor with land plants and is uniquely adapted to natural periodic submergence/exposure cycles arising from tides. SUBTOL sets a new research paradigm and will define for the first time the molecular mechanisms regulating both submergence and post-submergence stress in a seaweed. This data will then be used to manipulate relevant genes in land plants, to modify their submergence tolerance via a synthetic biology approach. SUBTOL will thus generate knowledge benefiting both academia and industry. SUBTOL (i) initiates a step-change in the societal value of seaweeds by using them as models to understand adaptive processes largely absent from land plants, (ii) greatly improves understanding of both seaweed physiology and plant stress tolerance, (iii) will lead to novel routes for manipulating flood tolerance in land plant crops for agricultural benefit and (iv) enables new understanding of plant evolution.

Keywords: algae,plants,flooding