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PRODUCT DATA TRACEABILITY FROM CRADLE TO CRADLE BY BLOCKCHAINS INTEROPERABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY SERVICE MARKETPLACE (TRICK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Germany,Israel,Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Belgium,Romania,Türkiye,Romania,Norway,Greece,Czechia,Netherlands,Peru
Call: Develop, implement and assess a circular economy oriented product information management system for complex products from cradle to cradle (H2020-LCCI-2020-EASME-twostage, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9600448.5
EU funding (EUR): 7997853.75
Participants: 33
Project status: SIGNED

In EU a garment is worn an average of 3 times in its life, with €400 Bln lost a year discarding clothes which can still be worn and 92 Mln tons of waste, 87% of clothes ending up in landfills. But due to growing awareness on ethical and environmental impacts, 66% of consumers are ready to pay more for sustainable products . TRICK will provide a complete, SME affordable and standardised platform to support the adoption of sustainable and circular approaches: it will enable enterprises to collect product data and to access to the necessary services on a dedicated marketplace, open to third party solutions. TRICK demo will be run in 2 highly complex and polluting domains: textile-clothing as main pilot and perishable food for replication. EC estimates that up to 10% of the 88 million tons of food waste generated annually in the EU are linked to date marking, with associated costs estimated at €143 billion. Secured traceability will rely on the data needed for the preferential certification of origin (PCO), used for duty calculation. It will be certified by Customs as member of the consortium, representing anti fraud public forces. The data extracted by the fiscal documents for the PCO will be integrated with the bill of materials, saved in the Blockchains (BC) per each lot of production to grant traceability continuity, and with the additional ones to enable the six services provided by TRICK: traceability, circular assessment, PEF, health and social assessment, A.I. for anti counterfeting. BC will secure information through the whole process, ending to consumers for informed purchasing. Data confidentiality and privacy will be granted by the exploitation of Blockchains smart contracts while the adoption of different technologies will be solved by the development of Blockchain interoperability connectors between the two BC providers. End users will cover the whole TC value chain, from raw materials to recycling.

Keywords: blockchain,secured data,preferential certificated of origin,marketplace,lifecycle,traceability
Neural circuits underlying complex brain function across animals - from conserved core concepts to specializations defining a species’ identity (BrainInBrain)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The core function of all brains is to compute the current state of the world, compare it to the desired state of the world and select motor programs that drive behavior minimizing any mismatch. The circuits underlying these functions are the key to understand brains in general, but so far they are completely unknown. Three problems have hindered progress: 1) The animal’s desired state of the world is rarely known. 2) Most studies in simple models have focused on sensory driven, reflex-like processes, and not considered self-initiated behavior. 3) The circuits underlying complex behaviors in vertebrates are widely distributed, containing millions of neurons. With this proposal I aim at overcoming these problems using insects, whose tiny brains solve the same basic problems as our brains but with 100,000 times fewer cells. Moreover, the central complex, a single conserved brain region consisting of only a few thousand neurons, is crucial for sensory integration, motor control and state-dependent modulation, essentially being a ‘brain in the brain’. To simplify the problem further I will focus on navigation behavior. Here, the desired and actual states of the world are equal to the desired and current headings of the animal, with mismatches resulting in compensatory steering. I have previously shown how the central complex encodes the animal’s current heading. Now I will use behavioral training to generate animals with highly defined desired headings, and correlate neural activity with the animal’s ‘intentions’ and actions - at the level of identified neurons. To establish the involved conserved core circuitry valid across insects I will compare species with distinct lifestyles. Secondly, I will reveal how these circuits have evolved to account for each species’ unique ecology. The proposed work will provide a coherent framework to study key concepts of fundamental brain functions in unprecedented detail - using a single, conserved, but flexible neural circuit.

Keywords: central complex,internal compass,navigation,sensory motor transformation,behavior,circuits
Releasing the full potential of Instruct to expand and consolidate infrastructure services for integrated structural life science research (INSTRUCT-ULTRA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Israel,Germany,Spain,Finland,Sweden,Belgium,Greece,Slovakia,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Individual support to ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures (H2020-INFRADEV-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3950000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3950000.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

Instruct-Ultra aims to advance the scope and efficiency of implementation of Instruct and consolidate the foundations for long-term sustainability. This will be achieved through specific objectives: expand Instruct membership to new Member States and increase global links; engage new user communities; improve efficiencies in service delivery; improve data capture and management; adjust the scale and reliability of the infrastructure. Instruct-Ultra will deliver these alongside the transition to ERIC legal status and rapid developments in, and increased demand for, integrated structural biology infrastructure. These advances in the scale and speed of delivery will earn further trust within the life science community. One focus will to expand membership to Eastern European states and EFTA countries, integrating their structural biology communities into Instruct and providing new opportunities to support research excellence and raise standards. Opportunities for engaging with industrialised and developing countries outside the ERA will build on existing cooperative work between Instruct and Asian, African and South American countries to establish strong bilateral programmes of benefit to both parties, giving Instruct better engagement in emerging global challenges and positioning Instruct as a trusted global resource for high quality structural biology services. Starting from baseline operations four years ago Instruct has now identified key areas of service which should be expanded, new potential user groups, and opportunities for more reliable, efficient and sometimes remotely used workflows. Instruct-Ultra will therefore test new modes of access and pilot new service methods in high demand areas to accelerate access for more users. Instruct-Ultra will reinforce Instruct operations by updating and expanding the business plan and structural biology roadmap, whilst improving the interface with academia and industry as a strategy to sustainability.

Keywords: structural biology,access provision,integrated technology methods,expanding ri membership,expanding internationally,expanding services,expanding user base,streamlining procedures
Technology for Onsite 3D Printing Production of Lengthy Large Diameter Polyethylene Pipes with Cellular Walls (TOPpipes)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Ukraine
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Leaks in large diameter pipes is one of the most important problems in the water supply chain, since they account for more than 50% of total water loss that amounts to 6.58 billion EUR annually. The OECD estimates the investments into water infrastructure to be around 2.5 trillion EUR for 2010-2030 or 124 billion EUR per year; the replacement of water supply and sanitation systems in the USA alone is estimated to account to 2.05 – 3.23 trillion EUR in the next two decades. It suggests a large market for TOPpipes as a novel solution for water supply and water sewerage infrastructure. TOPpipes (TRL 7), developed by Dominion, is a technology for onsite 3D printing production of polyethylene pipes and constructions – a solution enabling to produce lengthy large diameter pipes with cellular walls at the place of laying. The technology is a combination of patented cellular wall pipes design and unique equipment for onsite 3D printing production. It delivers outstanding opportunities for future market applications through synergy of innovative pipe design and unique manufacturing method, creates incomparable combination of technical and economic benefits, such as lean production that allows deep customisation and ability to produce pipes of larger diameter, onsite recycling of material, resistance to adverse conditions and pressure, significant reduction of joints’ amount, associated installation costs, and reduction of transportation cost. TOPpipes solution for onsite 3D printing production of pipes will disrupt the traditional pipes production market by providing special more equipment, which is mobile, flexible, cheaper, and environmental friendly. To ensure successful commercialization, in Phase 1 of SME Instrument, Dominion intends to develop an elaborate feasibility study for TOPpipes commercialization that would include thorough business plan with an extensive financial and business models, pricing and IPR strategies.

Keywords: advanced manufacturing,large diameter polyethylene pipes,large diameter pipes,infrastructure pipes,polyethylene pipes,onsite 3d printing pipes production,non revenue water nrw
Opening a new route in solid mechanics: Printed protective structures (PURPOSE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497506.87
EU funding (EUR): 1497506.87
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Dynamic fragmentation of metals is typically addressed within a statistical framework in which material and geometric flaws limit the energy absorption capacity of protective structures. This project is devised to challenge this idea and establish a new framework which incorporates a deterministic component within the fragmentation mechanisms. In order to check the correctness of this new theory, I will develop a comprehensive experimental, analytical and numerical methodology to address 4 canonical fragmentation problems which respond to distinct geometric and loading conditions which make easily identifiable from a mechanical standpoint. For each canonical problem, I will investigate traditionally-machined and 3D-printed specimens manufactured with 4 different engineering metals widely used in aerospace and civilian-security applications. The goal is to elucidate whether at sufficiently high strain rates there may be a transition in the fragmentation mechanisms from defects–controlled to inertia–controlled. If the new statistical-deterministic framework is proven to be valid, defects may not play the major role in the fragmentation at high strain rates. This would bring down the entry barriers that the 3D-printing technology has found in energy absorption applications, thus reducing production transportation and repairing, energetic and economic costs of protective structures without impairing their energy absorption capacity. It is anticipated that leading this cutting-edge research project will enable me to establish my own research team and help me to achieve career independence in the field of dynamic behaviour of ductile solids.

Keywords: continuum mechanics,dynamic fragmentation,constitutive modelling,3d printing
Climate change impact mitigation for European viticulture: knowledge transfer for an integrated approach (Clim4Vitis)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Luxembourg,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Twinning (H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2017-Twinning, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999988.75
EU funding (EUR): 999988.75
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Although among the top 10 Portuguese universities with higher number of top quality scientific papers published, and despite the growing attractiveness that it has been gaining in terms of research and teaching, UTAD is still far from the European high performing R&D institutions. Thus, the Clim4Vitis project aims at enhancing UTAD’s S&T capacity, as well as raising its staff’s research profile, specially focusing one of the fields of research in which the University has become a national reference: viticulture. Within this broad area, particular attention should be given to two main lines of research: 1) grapevine modelling and 2) tools for assessing climate change impacts on European viticulture, in general, and on grapevine productivity, quality attributes and risk of diseases and pests in particular. In order to boost competences in these topics, the project gathers 5 international partners (1 university from a Widening country, 3 internationally-leading research institutions, and an international consultancy & training company). The 3 internationally-leading research institutions are from the same field of study, but with complementary skills. The implementation of several twinning activities (thematic workshops, staff exchange, short courses, thematic seminars, webinars, conferences, among others) will enable the access to systematized knowledge and cutting edge-technology, as well as the knowledge and technology transfer between the high performing partners and the UTAD. Clim4Vitis is based on an integrated approach, which envisages the effective internationalization of the University, through extensive networking, dissemination and the establishment of long-term transnational cooperation relationships with world-leading R&D institutions. Furthermore, the project actively contributes to the sustainability of UTAD, once it also foresees the increase of contracts with business partners and stakeholders.

Keywords: twinning,knowledge transfer,technology transfer,innovation,sandt capacity and research profile reinforcement,international and national competitiveness and attractiveness
A Collaborative Paradigm for Human Workers and Multi-Robot Teams in Precision Agriculture Systems (CANOPIES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Spain,Sweden,Norway,Denmark
Call: Robotics in Application Areas and Coordination & Support (H2020-ICT-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6904940.0
EU funding (EUR): 6904940.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

In CANOPIES, our goal is to develop a novel collaborative human-robot paradigm addressing the challenges of Human Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Collaboration in the unstructured highly dynamic outdoor environment of permanent crop farming (Agri-Food Area). Our approach will be demonstrated through an integrated system composed by farming robots and logistics robots with a real-world validation of two economically relevant agronomic operations within a table-grape vineyard: harvesting and pruning. CANOPIES represents the first attempt to introduce a collaborative paradigm in the field of precision agriculture for permanent crops where farmworkers can efficiently work together with teams of robots to perform agronomic interventions, like harvesting or pruning in table-grape vineyards. Both operations require complex processes of perception, communication, shared planning in agreement, prediction of human intentions, interaction and action. But also, both agronomic operations should be done in real life conditions, that is, in changing illumination and cast shadows, changing agronomic situations, where the vine branches or grapes can make it difficult to harvest or prune in a safe manner, due to the robot physical proximity to the human, while operating in real time. CANOPIES ambition will be achieved by introducing: i) novel human-robot interaction methodologies for enhanced safety and coexistence, ii) novel human-robot collaboration methodologies for increased system adaptability and intuitive usability; iii) novel multi-robot coordination methodologies for improved scalability. CANOPIES impact will contribute to filling the current gap in the development of fully autonomous robotic solutions for permanent crops by introducing a novel concept of farming robots, where we leverage an effective interaction with the human workers to mitigate the greater complexity of permanent crops as compared with field crops.

Keywords: multi robot systems,precision agriculture,permanent crops
Agricultural Genomics Transversal Postdoctoral Program (AGenT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2942400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1471200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The AGenT (Agricultural Genomics Transversal) postdoctoral program is an ambitious research and training initiative at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG; Barcelona) designed to conduct multidisciplinary and intersectorial research projects at CRAG in conjunction with associated partner organizations (private companies, research centres and academic institutions), both national and international. The program will offer twenty (20) two-year postdoctoral fellowships, and provide ample opportunities for: secondments and research collaborations; training both in specific research areas and in transferable or transversal skills; and networking activities in both the academic and the industrial sectors; all in order to enrich the training of the fellows and enhance their professional development while conducting projects of research of excellence. The AGenT proposal is a major initiative for CRAG that aims to leverage the capacities of CRAG and those of the partner institutions to develop a high-impact training program for Experienced Researchers in the area of plant and agricultural sciences.

Keywords: agricultural,genomics,postdoctoral,training,excellence,interdisciplinar,international
Manufacturing and Development for Rapid Access Ebola Vaccine (EBOMAN) – Sofia ref.: 115850 (EBOMAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Innovative Medicines Initiative 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: IMI2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Manufacturing capability (H2020-JTI-IMI2-2014-02-single-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2014-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 40188229.0
EU funding (EUR): 1023325.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This topic response (Topic 2: Manufacturing Capability) forms part of an integrated proposal to address the urgent unmet needs of accelerating the development of an Ebola vaccine. To help facilitate this main goal additional activities will be performed; the generation of sufficient vaccine and the capacity increase for generating more vaccine by means of process scale up and improvements. The main objectives of this proposal are to manufacture sufficient supplies (and overages) for the clinical studies described in topic 1 and to prepare for a rapid access to large quantities of Ad26.ZEBOV (prime) and MVA-BN®-Filo (boost) vaccine in case of further escalation of the Ebola outbreak (The clinical development may change requiring an alternative vaccine combination; vaccination strategy. Any changes will be subsequently reflected in the manufacturing of clinical supplies). In conjunction with topic 3 (Transport and Rapid Access Ebola Vaccine) we should be able to respond quickly to future emergency needs of the vaccine. The program therefore covers immediate manufacturing of clinical material and creation of additional capacity (by scale up, process improvements) and product understanding (BSL classification downgrading, process and product characterisation) to cope with increased need for the vaccine. The program includes: Manufacturing, release and supply of Ad26.ZEBOV and MVA-BN®-Filo vaccine candidate for clinical studies (outcome: released clinical material) Process Development activities required to ensure scale up of Ad26.ZEBOV manufacturing to 50L and fully define the 300L scale MVA BN®-Filo production. Execute process development activities to ensure scale up of Ad26.ZEBOV and MVA-BN®-Filo to support potential manufacturing of up to 4M doses Process Development and further scale up to support potential manufacturing of 10-20M doses Generate material for further stability investigations towards late phase

Keywords: ebola vaccine manufacturing development capability ad26 zebov mva bn filo eboman