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Epistemic Transitions in Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: From the 12th to the 19th Century (ETI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1526429.0
EU funding (EUR): 1526429.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Not very long ago, it was still common to hold that little of interest took place in Islamic philosophy, theology and science after the death of the Peripatetic commentator Averroes in 1198. Recent research has produced increasing evidence against this view, and experts now commonly agree that texts from the so-called post-classical period merit serious analysis. That evidence, however, is still fragmentary, and we lack a clear understanding of the large scale and long run development in the various fields of Islamic intellectual culture after the twelfth century. This project will investigate debates concerning the nature and methods of knowledge in four of the most ambitious strands of Islamic theoretical thought, that is, philosophy, theology, natural science, and philosophically inclined Sufism. Its temporal scope extends from the end of the twelfth century to the beginning of the colonial era, and it focuses on foundational epistemological questions (how knowledge is defined, what criteria are used to distinguish it from less secure epistemic attitudes, what methods are identified as valid in the acquisition of knowledge) as well as questions concerning knowledge as the goal of our existence (in particular, whether perceptual experience is inherently valuable). Our study of the four strands is based on the hypothesis that the post-classical period is witness to a sophisticated discussion of knowledge, in which epistemic realism, intuitionism, phenomenalism, and subjectivism are pitted against each other in a nuanced manner. Hence, the project will result in a well-founded reassessment of the common view according to which post-classical Islamic intellectual culture is authoritarian and stuck to an epistemic paradigm that stifles insight and creativity. Thereby it will provide new ingredients for projects of endogenous reform and reorientation in Islam, and corroborate the view that our future histories of philosophy should incorporate the Islamic tradition.

Keywords: epistemology,theory of knowledge,theory of science,islamic philosophy,islamic theology,sufism,history of astronomy,history of medicine
Highly-efficient biomass CHP plants by handling ash-related problems (Biofficiency)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Finland,Greece,Finland,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling (H2020-LCE-2016-RES-CCS-RIA, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4603760.0
EU funding (EUR): 4603760.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Medium- to large-scale bioenergy utilisation for electricity and combined industrial or district heating is predicted to increase by 160% in 2020 compared to 2010, while carbon emission quotas are becoming stricter. Finding new ways to efficiently utilise cheap and currently unused feedstocks are necessary in order to meet these challenges. Within the project Biofficiency we will investigate how to handle ash-related problems in order to increase steam temperatures up to 600°C in biomass-based CHP plants, including pulverised fuel and fluidised bed systems. The major aspects are fly ash formation, the use of additives, and pre-treatment technologies for difficult fuels. This leads to highly reduced emissions, in particular CO2 and fine particulates, as well as a secure and sustainable energy production. Biofficiency gathers a unique consortium of excellent academic facilities and industrial partners, providing an exceptional platform for the development of new, highly-efficient CHP plants in order to significantly expand their potential in the fast-growing field of renewable energies. By sharing our collective experience, we will strengthen European bio-energy technologies and help solving global climate and energy challenges. The project approach addresses current bottlenecks in solid biomass combustion, namely enhanced deposit formation, corrosion and ash utilisation by a variety of new, promising technologies. Our goal is to deepen the understanding of fly ash formation, to improve current biomass pre-treatment technologies, as well as to contribute to the field of biomass ash utilisation. Through our strong collaboration with industry and academic partners, we want to pave the way for highly-efficient, low-emitting biomass CHP plants, capable of firing low-grade fuels. This benefits industry, communal partners and public authorities by providing sustainable heat and electricity at significantly decreased emissions.

Keywords: biomass,pre treatment,corrosion,ash formation,ash deposition,ash utilisation,heat integration,next generation chp plant,next generation biogenic fuel
JAM: vehicle predictive maintenance through Artificial Intelligence (JAM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1572025.0
EU funding (EUR): 1100417.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

JAM is an IoT solution (hardware & software), capable of reducing operational costs of businesses managing vehicle fleets by targeting the following key needs: - Fuel efficiency: fuel represented, in 2011, 32% of the total cost of fleet operation; - Maintenance costs: lack of maintenance shortens the vehicle lifetime and leads to excessive maintenance costs, fuel consumption, higher vehicle off-road time and losses in productivity; - Compliance with environmental regulations and reduction of CO2 emissions. JAM is connected to the mandatory vehicle interface for on-board diagnostics (OBD) and collects data from all vehicle sensors, using state of the art artificial intelligence to detect risks before malfunctions and breakdowns occur, allowing immediate interventions. Continuous monitoring of vehicle health allows the mechanical optimization of the fleet, reducing fuel costs and CO2 emissions. Although there are solutions in the market making use of the OBD interface to assess vehicles’ conditions, JAM introduces two breakthroughs. JAM is integrated in the 18 Billion Euros worth commercial telematics market as an aftermarket solution. The market is expected to grow to 42,8 Billion Euros by 2020. JAM’s feasibility was assessed during a SME Instrument Phase 1 project, and with this Phase 2 project we will be able to have a market ready version of JAM. Project break-even is expected to be met by the end of Phase 2 and in the short-term this project will create 12 additional highly qualified jobs.

Keywords: fleet efficiency and productivity,predictive maintenance,vehicle health monitoring,retrofitting,artificial intelligence,co2 emissions reduction
NUMERICAL MODELLING OF HEMODYNAMICS AND PHARMACOKINETICS FOR CLINICAL TRANSLATION (MoDeLLiver)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1991817.5
EU funding (EUR): 1991817.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Surgical interventions often require vascular procedures consisting in cutting vessels, removing organ parts or suturing new connections. Intervention planning is based on patient data and surgeons experience. Even the best plans are often revised in real-time during surgery. Can we understand and predict blood flow changes due to a surgery? Complex interactions must be foreseen between three scales: the local point of intervention, whole organ perfusion and function, and the entire circulation. Such complexity calls for modelling and simulation, which should become part of the surgical decision process. Yet, the modelling community does not sufficiently respond to these challenges. Despite great advances in blood flow simulation, clinical translation remains largely unfulfilled, as existing tools are too heavy, pathological interactions complex and multidisciplinary collaboration uneasy. Organ interactions and remodelling due to surgery or diseases are missing from comprehensive models. Besides, simulations must be based on patient data, ideally non-invasive ones. Despite great advances in dynamic imaging, the link between signal and underlying tissue perfusion and function remains to be elucidated, beyond current pharmacokinetics models. Their better understanding will bring new data for personalised simulation. Our ambition is to gear hemodynamics modelling towards diseased organs to guide associated surgical acts, focusing on lung and liver. We will investigate a novel approach of an injected substance model transported through the cardiovascular system; i.e. enhancing pharmacokinetics modelling by transport phenomena based on hemodynamics. Numerical simulations of such models will unravel the interplay between architecture, perfusion and function in diseased organs, and provide peri- & peroperative guiding information. This project will impact bioengineering, pathophysiology, dynamic imaging, and surgery through the final aim of software clinical translation.

Keywords: mathematical modelling,numerical simulations,hemodynamics,pharmacokinetics,lung and liver,diseases,patient data integration,dynamic imaging,surgical decision
Incubating High-IMPACT New Generation EdTech Disruptors for Inclusive & Personalised Learning (IMPACT EdTech)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Poland,Belgium
Call: An empowering, inclusive Next Generation Internet (H2020-ICT-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7196778.13
EU funding (EUR): 6997730.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

IMPACT EdTech will set up a hybrid incubator-accelerator to support 43 promising EdTech prototypes from digital learning disruptors in validating and testing Minimum Viable Products, in collaboration with education players, and prepare them to reach the market by providing early business and go-to-market support. 3 Open Calls will be launched to select Disruptors developing promising and innovative personalised digital learning solutions aiming to shape the education of the future. IMPACT EdTech will focus on: (A) K12 EdTech solutions; (B) B2C content-based solutions open to any age group and/or level of education. Personalisation implies a specific focus on adaptive & interactive solutions. Inclusion implies support of targeted/niche learning solutions for specific vulnerable or underserved groups, including children with special needs, but also of mainstream learning solutions, if they are accessible and inclusive-by-design. Selected EdTech Trials will iterate MVP design engaging with targeted end-users and education experts, following a ‘pedagogy-first’ approach. The IMPACT EdTech innovation cycle will incorporate, for the most promising projects selected from two main open calls, pre-acceleration activities to test market interest and facilitate early deals, as well as short-cycle pilots to obtain preliminary impact assessment data that investors and clients require. An emergency 'Remote Schooling' open call will help identify solutions fit to address common challenges faced by schools during the COVID-19 crisis. These solutions will participate in a fast-track 5-months acceleration programme, during which they will be supported in piloting their solutions in schools and bringing them to market. The backbone of the project is a small-sized consortium of 3 experienced partners: high Open Call Management expertise by FBA; proven Business Acceleration methodology by ISDI; Future Classroom Lab validation system and wide network of education stakeholders by EUN. Engagement of other relevant players will be secured via: Digital Learning Stakeholder Group consisting of key education players (knowledge, resources and data); a multidisciplinary pool of experts, mentors and practitioners working hand in hand with the selected EdTech Trials; agreements with schools across Europe participating in classroom pilots.

Keywords: business mentoring,education mentoring,services validation,k12 piloting,b2c beta testing
The Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation: a sensitive and objective approach to identify early cognitive markers of AD (ElectroMAD)

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: Belgium
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160800.0
EU funding (EUR): 160800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Demographic analyses predict that one third of the 10 millions Belgian population in 2050 will be above 60 years of age. Since aging is the major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), this increase in the proportion of seniors is closely linked to the increased prevalence of AD. With the advent of promising symptomatic treatment, it is critical to diagnose AD at its earliest stages, that is, before behavioral consequences of cognitive deficits. A systematic assessment of the cognitive state of older adults might be a promising strategy to uncover, as early as possible, individuals at higher risk of pathological aging. However, this approach raises an important issue: attentional, comprehension, decisional or motivational processes are likely to affect behavioral performance in conventional neuropsychological tests used for the diagnostic, both in AD or typical elderly individuals. The aim of this project is to develop implicit measures of memory encoding for the early diagnosis of AD that are not contaminated by non-mnesic factors. We will use an entirely novel paradigm in electroencephalography: the Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation (FPVS), which relies on the exact synchronization of the human brain to a visual stimulus repeated at a periodic rate. We will apply the FPVS approach to identify early deficits in visual memory encoding/storage in aged individuals. This will be achieved by comparing electrophysiological measures of healthy elderly with and without neuropsychological deficits, and MCI/AD patients. We will perform longitudinal assessments of implicit measures of visual discrimination and memory encoding, to evaluate the test-retest reliability of implicit measures and to examine the sensibility of implicit measures to predict the risk of evolution from MCI to AD. Implicit measures of memory encoding will be correlated with neuroimaging data and biomarkers of AD.

Keywords: alzheimer s disease,electrophysiology,marker,memory,cognition
Social Republicanism in XIXth c. Spain (SOCRES)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The SOCRES project will investigate the ‘Cantonalist’ revolution, a Spanish socio-republican insurrection which burst out in 1873 in Cartagena, a military harbour in the South East of Spain. Though quite similar to the well-known Paris commune (1871), the Cantonalist insurrection was later totally forgotten, in contrast with its French counterpart. By documenting this experience of a social republicanism built ‘from below’, the SOCRES project hopes to shed new light on the history of political thought. It will also challenge the clichés about the political backwardness of Southern Europe and about the political ‘apathy’ of Spanish society till 1931. In the SOCRES project, a strong attention will be dedicated to the role of exiles, deportees, migrants and seamen in the global diffusion of socio-republican ideas at that time. It will lead to a connected history of 19th-c. Spain, showing that political and cultural movements in the metropolis had both roots and echoes in the colonies (mostly Philippines and Cuba), and in the rest of the world.

Keywords: republicanism socialism municipalism revolution,peasants workers seamen exiles deportees women,cuba spain philippines france us,transfers nation empire global
Rapid evolution and geographic ranges: predicting marine species persistence and distribution in a changing ocean (EVOLMARIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France,Canada
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 250160.4
EU funding (EUR): 250160.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In marine ectotherms, the breadth of physiological tolerance largely determines species’ geographical distribution and extinction risk. Understanding the mechanisms underlying environmental tolerance windows and their relation to life history and demography is thus required for predicting taxa sensitivity to global changes more accurately. Specifically, it is imperative to acquire a firm understanding of both plastic and adaptive responses as rescue mechanisms to prevent species extinction, comparing the effects and costs of these mechanisms among closely related species with different biogeography. I propose to compare the capacity for trans-generational plasticity and rapid adaptation to ocean warming and acidification, in geographically widespread and restricted species as a test for biodiversity evolution under global change. My aims are to (1) define if rapid adaptation to multiple stressors can occur, searching for correlations between plastic/evolutionary responses and the width of species geographic range, (2) reveal potential costs associated with plastic/adaptive responses, and (3) draw projections on species demography, persistence, and biogeography under different global change scenarios. To do this, I have identified an ideal study system for which this information can be gathered in phylogenetically closely-related species with similar ecology, but different biogeography, i.e. eight polychaete species of the genus Ophryotrocha (Dorvilleidae). This ambitious project, which draws from the fields of comparative physiology, ecology, and evolution, relies on an innovative, integrative approach that combines experimental evolution, quantitative genetics, macrophysiology and evolutionary theory. More important, it represents an unprecedented opportunity to produce reliable generalisations on the fate of future biodiversity patterns in a changing ocean, which is essential in designing pro-active strategies to reduce global change impacts on biodiversity.

Keywords: biodiversity,comparative methods,adaptation,transgenerational plasticity,fitness,trade offs,biogeography,heritability,physiology,life history,demography,ocean warming and acidification
Early medieval Pyrotechnologies. Mechanisms and factors of innovations in northwestern Europe (EMPyr)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2025-05-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The present innovation is boosted by the sharing of knowledge and tools. As in the past, these novelties are causing economic and social changes. During the early Middle Ages, between the end of the 7th and the 9th century, northwestern Europe experienced political and social mobility, modifications in the settlement strategy and technical innovations in crafts. By focusing on the glass, ceramic and iron, this project aims to reach the changes in their processes that are still poorly understood as well as the roles of the craftsmen and those of elites. In secondary productions, the “chaînes opératoires” of these pyrotechnologies will be studied. Archaeological and archaeometrical analyses will identify their materials and techniques in order to evaluate where modifications occured. Then, they will be compared in order to grasp the cross-craft interactions and see if these were a trigger for innovation. Aiming to appraise the role of their actors, the four sites chosen concern different social strata (aristocratic villa, pre-urban agglomeration, rural settlement and monastery). All the results of these material studies will be integrated in their socio-economic environment. At ARSCAN and during a secondment at CEB-IRAMAT, the needed competences will be gathered. A training in iron studies will fulfill a domain of expertise currently lacking in the Benelux and it will be an asset to apply to permanent academic positions. The project also includes experimental archaeology on a site allowing the development of future research projects. A scientific meeting will gather teams working on craft productions in other regions in order to picture the transfers of material and knowledge. All these results will be communicated to mainstream audience, in particular to current craftsmen. In this way, the project intends to bring light to the mechanisms and factors of innovation at the roots of a novel society and it will encourage current creators to do the same.

Keywords: early middle ages,northwestern europe,innovation,cross craft interactions,ceramic,glass,iron