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Macaronesia’s Researchers' Night (MacaroNight)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Portugal,Portugal
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 311635.0
EU funding (EUR): 235000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Macaronesia is a biogeographical region of five archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean of which four are inhabited: Azores (Portugal), Canarias (Spain), Madeira (Portugal) and Cape Verde (Cape Verde). These islands share common geographical traits and cultural heritage, and have undergone a similar history since the beginning of the 15th century when they were discovered by Portuguese and Spanish sailors. Once major strategic outposts now they are considered as outermost (ultra-peripherical) regions of the EU (except Cape Verde, which declared its independence from Portugal in 1975). The population of Macaronesia is around 3 million inhabitants, corresponding to the size of a smaller EU country. The overall objective of this project is to organise a shared Researchers’ Night for the Macaronesia Region connecting the population of these islands under the umbrella of the universal language of science. By focusing on the scientific and technology areas identified in the Smart Specialization Strategies for the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores we will aim at raising public awareness for research areas that could be the greatest benefit for the Region. The project will support the public recognition of researchers, creating an understanding of the impact of researchers' work on citizen's daily life. Public recognition will then result in public support that is much needed for the implementation of the smart specialisation strategies themselves.

Keywords: researchers night,outermost regions,smart specialization strategies
System architecture and Conceptual Data Model for railway, common data dictionary and global system modelling specifications (LINX4RAIL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: European rail initiative
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Shift2Rail (Art-187)
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Sweden,Sweden,France,France,France,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call: S2R System Architecture and Conceptual Data Model (H2020-S2RJU-CFM-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2858423.69
EU funding (EUR): 2155092.16
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The railway sector is currently acting in a fragmented way and in silos, corresponding most often to physical or functional subsystems or use cases, and the different owners/managers of the overall infrastructure at regional/national level, without global extensive view or full control of the global system involved by rail operations. With the progress of digitization, analogue devices based on relays were progressively substituted by digital ones, and it is more and more evident that enabling the communication between already existing digital tools for various subsystems can be beneficial. What is missing is an efficient, automated and standardized way for these integrated and interplaying systems to act as one ecosystem: sharing, integrating, identifying, correlating and exploiting the right data at the right time. In order to meet these challenges, the objective of LinX4Rail is to develop and promote within Shift2Rail framework and beyond, a sectorial common Functional Railway System Architecture. It will be supported by a widely adopted Shift2Rail Conceptual Data Model (CDM) that will, with the commitment of the Shift2Rail members, through Shift2Rail Programme Board Change Management Process, establish the standard for interactions between legacy and new systems and thus ensure sustainable interoperability between systems. The ambition of LinX4Rail is to achieve a comprehensive approach for the CDM, global system modelling specification and a strategy for implementation of technological breakthroughs, including RCA, with the inputs from a communication system perspective and give a vision of future evolution of Functional Railway System Architecture.

Keywords: system of systems,system architecture,interoperable architecture,conceptual data model,data dictionary,modelling specification,digital twin,governance,semantic,ontologies,standardisation
Linking Functional impact and Microstructural properties of fiber tract demyelination and remyelination in a rodent model of multiple sclerosis (LinkFM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 219312.0
EU funding (EUR): 219312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a diffuse inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system. Neuroinflammation destroys the myelin sheaths wrapped around the axons and may lead to axon degeneration. Repair processes trigger re-myelinisation. Myelin loss delays or blocks signal propagation along axons in white matter tracts, impairing neuronal integration within the affected brain network. The exact relationship between the amount of axonal de- and re-myelination and the resulting network dysfunction is still poorly understood. Using a rat MS model, I will bridge the scales from the cellular to the network level, to disentangle how myelin loss and axonal degeneration leads to network dysfunction. My approach integrates three lines of research: (i) I will prospectively perform diffusion MRI and quantitative MRI to assess the temporal dynamics of microstructural changes in axon diameter and myelin content in the lesioned white matter tract. Leveraging state-of-art expertise at DRCMR, I will optimize MR sequences and biophysical models to create an optimized axon diameter and myelin mapping framework. (ii) In parallel, I will perform resting-state and task-based functional MRI to trace the resulting changes in functional connectivity at the network level. (iii) Building on my expertise, I will combine functional MRI with optogenetics and simultaneous intracellular calcium (and trans-membrane voltage) recording to characterize in detail the functional impact of axonal damage in the lesioned white matter tract on well-defined cell circuits in the inter-connected cortical areas. This unique multimodal approach will yield novel MRI-based biomarkers that are sensitive and specific to primary demyelination and axonal degeneration on the one hand and reparatory processes such as remyelination on the other hand. These biomarkers will have great potential for monitoring disease activity, informing personalized treatment in patients with MS.

Keywords: multimodal magnetic resonance imaging mri,calcium recording,cell type specific optical readout,demyelination,remyelinisation,multiple sclerosis
Photons for Quantum Simulation (PhoQuS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: FET Flagship on Quantum Technologies (H2020-FETFLAG-2018-03, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999757.5
EU funding (EUR): 2999757.5
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Quantum simulation is an emerging and exciting field for which several systems, such as ultracold-atoms, trapped ions or superconducting circuits are being actively investigated. In this project we aim to develop a novel platform for quantum simulation, based on photonic quantum fluids. Quantum fluids of light can be realised in different photonic systems with suitable nonlinearities, allowing to engineer an effective photon-photon interaction. The photon-photon interaction necessary to form a superfluid is provided by the optical nonlinearity of the medium. We will first fully characterize the superfluid and quantum turbulent regimes for quantum fluids of light, investigating the propagation in optically controlled landscapes with the demonstration of important milestones such as many-body localization and the superfluid to Mott–insulator transition. Based on these achievements and on the unprecedented flexibility offered by the all- optical control in quantum fluids of light, we will implement quantum simulations and simulate systems of very different nature, ranging from astrophysics to condensed matter. Fundamental open questions such as superconductivity, black hole physics, and quantum gravity will be addressed within the photon fluid platform.

Keywords: quantum fluids of light,quantum simulation,photon bec
Inflation in String Theory - Connecting Quantum Gravity with Observations (STRINGFLATION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1854750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1854750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at predicting the energy scale of cosmological inflation and the strength of the inflationary gravitational wave signal from string theory. Observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations have drastically changed cosmology into quantitative science. The results provide strong evidence for two phases of accelerated expansion in our Universe. The late-time phase of acceleration, termed ’dark energy’, is consistent with an extremely small positive cosmological constant, while the evidence for a very early phase of acceleration increasingly supports cosmological inflation. Very recently, the BICEP2 experiment reported the detection of B-mode polarization in the CMB. Pending future corroboration, this may correspond to a detection of primordial gravitational waves with a fractional power of about 10% of the CMB temperature fluctuations. In the context of inflation this implies an inflationary energy scale close to the scale of Grand Unification, and a large field excursion of the inflationary scalar field. Hence, the inflationary scalar potential needs symmetries to protect it from dangerous quantum corrections. These features strongly motivate the study of high-scale inflation in string theory as a candidate theory of quantum gravity. We will determine the range of predictions for large-field high-scale inflation in string theory driven by the mechanism of axion monodromy, which was co-discovered by the PI. For this purpose, we will establish a catalog of primary sources for large field ranges from axion monodromy in combination with assistance effects from multiple axion fields. We will analyze the generic effects of the interplay between large-field models of inflation in string theory with its necessary prerequisite, moduli stabilization. Finally, we will study the distribution of inflation mechanisms among the many vacua of string theory. In combination, this gives us a first chance to make string theory testable.

Keywords: pacs2010 98 80 cq particle theory and field theory models of the early universe including cosmic pancakes,cosmic strings,chaotic phenomena,inflationary universe,etc,11 25 w strings and branes
Development of VOCs and ozone Micro-analysers based on microfluidic devices for Aircraft Cabin Air mOnitoring (MACAO) (MACAO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: France,France,France,France
Call: Embedded sensors technology for air quality measurement (H2020-CS2-CFP01-2014-01, 2014)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 59.0
Total project cost (EUR): 436250.0
EU funding (EUR): 368150.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The origins of pollutants inside the aircraft cabin are various. Ozone comes from outside, particularly when the aircraft is flying at high altitudes near the stratospheric ozone layer. In addition to the materials emissions, carbonyl species can be also produced in the cabin by reaction of ozone with unsaturated VOCs. Ozone and VOCs can cause acute respiratory problems, aggravate asthma and increase cardiopulmonary illnesses, with breathing discomfort, irritations and headaches after even short-term exposure. None real-time instruments have been currently developed and specifically designed to meet the constraints in a aircraft, i.e. compactness, security, automatic pressure correction, the autonomy towards a large pure gas cylinder necessary for both its operating and its analytical procedure (blank). The MACAO project aims at developing two analytical instruments to measure VOCs and ozone concentrations and based on microfluidic devices in order to address all the contraints mentioned above. This project will be built on the experience gained in analytical development based on real-time monitoring (CNRS Strasbourg, IN’AIR SOLUTIONS), microfluidics (INSA Toulouse, CNRS Strasbourg) or in electronics and software development (TRONICO) by the partners. For instance, the micro-analyser of BTEX recently developed in Strasbourg will be updated to measure other VOCs such as ethanol or acetone. The MACAO Project will be organised in 5 work Packages as follows : WP1 : Project Management WP2 : Specifications/state of the art/technological choices WP3 : Development and validation of laboratory prototypes WP4 : Development and validation of integrated demonstrators WP5 : Communication & Dissemination In addition, the start-up IN'AIR SOLUTIONS (Partner 4) being responsible for marketing the developed instruments may take advantage of technological advances in this project, for all indoor environments (aircrafts, housing, workplaces, industrial sites, public buildings, …).

Keywords: indoor air,volatil organic compounds vocs,ozone,microfluidic,real time monitoring
Robotic Automation Modules for Production (RAMPup)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Robotics SPARC (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Robotics (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4746967.5
EU funding (EUR): 3995511.25
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

RAMPup aims to improve European SME production competitiveness by effectively decreasing the integration effort needed for automating small production lines. A framework and infrastructure for modular industrial automation systems will be developed and applied to eight use-cases from four European end users, carefully selected to require a broad range of processes. Technologies for automating these processes exist, but are too inflexible and expensive for the business case for automation to be viable, certainly in SME contexts. Four demonstrators will be realized and brought to TRL7 proving their performance in real operational environments at end user sites. The methodology involves creating manufacturer-independent process modules which are self-contained: hardware, software and process functionality; wrapped to be “plug-n-play” with all other modules in the set and with the framework platform. We anticipate that many modules will be based on existing technologies, completed and wrapped to become RAMPup modules. A repository of process modules at this level, accepted as usable by SIs, will greatly reduce the customization needed for new automation installations, thus reducing the cost to end-users. Modularisation also allows physical reconfiguration of the workcell and re-use of component modules across very different product variants. Beyond the technical realization of the modular automation framework, RAMPup aims to open a new market allowing developers of automation solutions to deploy, distribute and commercialize their products. RAMPup will demonstrate the business perspectives within the project and thus convince module developers and system integrators to enter the new market. The ambition in RAMPup is thus not only to create eight functioning robot workcells at end-user sites but also to provide a fast-track for SME robot developers to get their technologies to market.

Keywords: flexible automation,robotic automation,robotic automation modules,modular automation,skill based execution,human robot co operative workstations,advanced sensor integration,eased instruction
Fundamental fields and compact objects: theory and astrophysical phenomenology (FunFiCO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Brazil,Mexico,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 73.0
Total project cost (EUR): 220500.0
EU funding (EUR): 220500.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Epoch-making observational, theoretical and computational developments make this an exceptional time for the understanding of gravity in the strong field regime. The recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs), together with other ongoing experiments; the discovery of unexpected compact objects in General Relativity (GR); and the breakthroughs in the field of Numerical Relativity (NR), make strong gravity a central player in the scientific scene. Exploring different scenarios in this context is timely and synergies are mandatory, for such an endeavor. This project focuses on the construction, theory, phenomenology and dynamics of new families of black holes (BHs) and compact objects that are being discovered in GR in the presence of fundamental fields and alternative theories of gravity. Particular focus will be given to astrophysical phenomenology, including GW signals. The research proposed is split into three main items, which, however, are mutually connected: (a) Construction and physical properties of "hairy" BHs and other compact objects, both in GR and other theories of gravity. Using numerical methods for solving elliptic coupled PDEs, in different models, we shall construct solutions, and organize them into publicly available libraries, of new types of compact objects, also addressing their physical and mathematical properties. (b) Astrophysical phenomenology I. We shall perform test-fields studies to address phenomenological properties of these solutions, including shadows and lensing of light, accretion disks and X-ray spectrum, trajectories of stars, Quasi periodic oscillations, scattering of different fields. Using linear perturbation theory, linear stability of these objects and response to perturbations (such as ringdowns) will be studied. (c) Astrophysical phenomenology II. Fully non-linear numerical evolutions will be performed, to study non-linear stability of these new objects and the GW signals of binaries, to be compared with observations.

Keywords: black holes,gravitational waves,numerical solutions,numerical relativity
LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION METHOD OF GRAPHENE TO REACH THE MARKET IN AN EFFECTIVE WAY (GRAPHENETECH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2151104.0
EU funding (EUR): 1505772.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The market for graphene is expected to experiment a great growth in the coming years being applied in a wide variety of sectors (automotive and aerospace industries, advanced composites, among others).Graphene industry will be about 133.77 million € by2020, and up to 440 million Euros by 2024. However, to reach this estimations there is a need to face the challenges existing today to commercialise graphene: to produce high quality material, on a large scale at low cost, and in a reproducible manner. Most of producers’ retail prices are between 150-230 €/Kg with only one competitor (from US) in the market offering prices below 100 €/Kg. In terms of capacity, he largest production plant in Europe is limited to 1 Tn. In this context, Eficiencia Energética Aplicada a technological Company supported from 2010 by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation is working to industrialise an innovative and environmental-friendly technology, dry micro-mechanical exfoliation (PCT/ES2016/070058) solution which enables the high quality (95.5%) and large-scale production of graphene nanoplatelets. Our present objective is to go from a small-scale prototype (20kg graphene nanoplatelets/day) to 280 kg/day in 2018, a required step to ensure industrialisation and standardisation of the large scale production (the largest in Europe with 300 Tn/year in 2022). The work plan proposed by EEA will accelerate the innovation process by up-scaling a single reactor for 20 kg to 70 kg/day and adapting an optimized automation of the process (one rector and 4 reactors working continuously with 280 kg/day). This technological upgrades are crucial to meet expected retail prices and to ensure to European manufactures a large stock of graphene in Europe. Besides, EEA will work in the market implementation, and will perform tests for the demonstration of the produced graphene nanoplatelets in products of the coatings, polymers, ink and lubricant industries. By 2022, expects an accumulated turnov

Keywords: graphene production methods