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Feasibility study for lancing an innovative software tool based on mathematical methods in the B2B market (InSoMa)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

NAVASTO is a technology company focusing on engineering services for Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics, including workflow, method and software development. This project shall enable us to lay the foundation of NAVPACK, our innovative software product for the B2B market. Technical, legal and economic challenges will be analysed and evaluated. NAVPACK is based on state-of-the-art mathematical methods and addresses a problem common to high-tech companies worldwide: Large amounts of data from simulations and experiments is produced during the design process - most of it ends up on data graveyards. NAVPACK, as practically the first tool of its kind, uses machine learning, reduced order modelling and interpolation methods to enable the exploitation of the entirety of this data. With those methods, novel optimization strategies, such as Surrogate Based Optimization, can be used to significantly speed-up the design process and validation strategies can be improved by applying data fusion for numerical and experimental data to enhance the validity of the result. NAVPACK’s process and data management capabilities will allow to effortlessly apply those methods to existing and runtime-generated sets of data, accessed via a state-of-the-art cross-platform interface. With NAVPACK, we target the Computer Aided Engineering market, a vastly growing one with a compound annual growth rate of about 10%. Some of our clients, specifically from the automotive, aeronautics and maritime industry sector, already assured a keen interest in the possibilities a fully developed NAVPACK will provide. Our main advantage at this point is our pioneer status with respect to the exploitation of the underlying mathematical methods and our in-depth understanding of industry workflows. Successfully establishing NAVPACK will lead to a substantial increase of NAVASTO’s business through revenue from licenses and an increased core business due to after sales services.

Keywords: data fusion,data analysis,workflow and data management,data exploitation,big data,software development
MANufacture et Innovation avec FIbres de CArbone recyclées (Manufacturing and Innovation with Recycled Carbon Fibers) (MANIFICA Recycling)

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: Revalorisation of Recycled Carbon Fibers and CFRP preparation through Eco design [ECO] (H2020-CS2-CFP10-2019-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2043779.0
EU funding (EUR): 1743119.23
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The global ambition of MANIFICA is to set up the recycling chain of carbon fibre composites “from aeronautic waste to innovative composite parts”. The vision of MANIFICA is that high-quality recycled carbon fibre will drive the recycling industry towards economic value. The CF recycling sector is considered in a systemic approach by considering all aspects, from logistics, recycling, production of ready to use semi-products to new rCF based industrial demonstrators. To do so, the MANIFICA consortium is made up of University of Bordeaux (I2M), 2 industrial leaders of carbon fibres and waste treatment: CFE, and PAPREC Group and one innovative composite materials SME: VESO Concept. Altogether they bring all the scientific, technical and industrial skills needed to achieve the ambitious MANIFICA objectives. The objectives of MANIFICA completely fit the expectations of the call: * Efficient and simple sorting scenario will be proposed, the need to sort (or not) during collection fibre types of by resin will be determined * The sorting method will be applied and the waste will be collected in optimized logistics at an industrial level directly to the aeronautical industry in order to realize it under realistic and economically viable conditions. * Reusing or recycling of outdated prepregs will be considered as scenarios for shelflife extension * To convert recycled carbon fibres into innovative and easy to use semi-products, the reshaping process of University of Bordeaux will be upscaled * The quality of the realigned rCF semi-products will be proved through industrial demonstrators (e.g. semi-structural part of aircraft interior and other sectors like railway or automofinaltive). In these parts, rCF composites will replace classic materials with performance gains. *finally, LCI will be conducted directly at an industrial level for each step of the recycling process proposed.

Keywords: carbon fibre,recycling,semi products,structural parts
Understanding the mechanical control of cell extrusion in collective assemblies (DeadorAlive)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Epithelia are assemblies of multiple cells whose complex dynamic behavior relies on physical properties including jamming-unjamming mechanisms, active turbulence and active nematic principles. The homeostasis of epithelia is crucial to maintain barrier function and integrity while epithelial cells are constantly challenged by the environment. To face these challenges, epithelia are dynamics and have to deal constantly with cell renewal and apoptotic extrusion, whose balance is key for epithelia homeostasis. On top of this role in tissue homeostasis, cell extrusion is a major cause of tissue shape changes and tumor progression. Extrusion mechanisms can thus lead to different cell fates namely dead or live cells but the factors selecting different cell fates are unknown. Extruding cells and their neighbors experience various mechanical stresses that lead to cell shape changes and could determine the way cells are extruded and their fate. However, these mechanical stresses and their impact on tissue organization remain to be determined. From our recent study on emergent active nematic properties of epithelia, we hypothesize that mechanical constraints coming from the active forces generated by neighboring cells and the passive physical properties of the environment can determine the modes of cell extrusion and the fate of extruded cells. Here we propose to tackle the molecular mechanisms and physical principles that determine the manner by which cells are extruded and the collective response of surrounding cells, and to evaluate their contribution in tissue homeostasis, morphogenesis and tumor progression. By combining tools from soft matter physics, cell biology and engineering, our project will reveal how active and passive physical signals are overarching components of the behaviors of tissues at different temporal and spatial scales, and may further establish novel paths to understand the mechanobiology of epithelial tissues in normal and pathological conditions.

Keywords: mechanobiology,soft matter physics,active systems,cell mechanics,collective cell behaviors
New industrial value chain for Safe, sECure and Resilient cIties and Territories (SecurIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Lithuania,Poland,France,France,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains (H2020-INNOSUP-2020-01-two-stage, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4958031.25
EU funding (EUR): 4907181.25
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The security sector is considerably evolving, by adapting the offer to the risk and threats and by permanently aggregating emerging innovations. The digital is disrupting this industry, by adding new capacities and new threats. The security sector is very fragmented. SecurIT aims to create a new global competitive security industrial (product & service) value chain by supporting a better integration of innovative security systems, with a cross-sectoral and European approach, to support the time to market optimization, the integration of privacy and security by design at all steps of maturity, with a cross-border collaboration between SMEs and other RDI actors. This vision is supported by a 4 step-approach: #1: : Analysis of the demand-side, mobilizing 40 integrators/end-users to identify their needs and 42 potential demonstrators including major actors as large industry, cities, critical infrastructures operators that will join SecurIT as user group, experiment hosting or supportive partners (26 support letters in annex - AIRBUS, THALES, ATOS, COESS, ECSO, cities, EEN etc.). #2&3: Involving supply sides (SMEs), aiming to get 300 EoI to participate in SecurIT and attracting +1000 SMEs to get part through outreach actions (15 letters of SMEs in annex). #4: Select and Support 63 innovation projects involving 126 SMEs with over 3,5M€ of FSTP through 2 Instruments of support from TRL5 to TRL9 (Prototyping and Demonstration/Pilot), and +700K€ in services provided by partners. Highquality experts will be involved in the SMEs selection process. The consortium is as a whole, with 7 Security and complementary Clusters from France, Belgium, Lithuania, The Netherlands and Denmark, coming from most relevant security / cybersecurity Regional Innovation Hubs in Europe, and the SecurIT partners have experience in open call management at national and european level.

Keywords: safety,security,cybersecurity,resilience,smart and secure urban systems,digitalization,security systems integration,new digital infrastructures
Energy leading-edge technology for high performance gear shaping machines (E-Optimum)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

E-Optimum (‘Energy Optimum’) is a leading-edge technology for gear shaping machines, leveraging the latest engineering progress in terms of design and motorization, which guarantees an optimum quality of end product while offering wide margins of improvement in terms of energy savings and operational & maintenance (O&M) cost reductions. The pioneer of the mentioned innovation is Comur S.r.l., a fast-growing and historical family business founded in 1983, specialized in the manufacture of gear-hobbing and shaping machines, providing special tooling and fixtures for any kind of application. After more than 50-year experience, Comur is one of the most important key players within the Italian industrial gear market. Our revolutionary technology is set to change the entire industry, as it addresses the current limitations of gear shaping machines that are extremely energy consuming, non-flexible and pollutant since they lack an ecological post-process compatible with current technologies. The use of E-Optimum will allow our clients, first of all in the automotive sector, to reduce energy consumption of the main motor by 11kW (40%), and decrease operation & maintenance costs by 25% and 15% respectively. Fully aligned with our technical and commercial strategies, E-Optimum will contribute to boost the growth of Comur. With our cutting-edge solution, we estimate to achieve an accumulated revenue of €11,160,000 deriving in an accumulated profit close to €3.27M by 2025 and a Return of investment (ROI) of 4.87.

Keywords: gear shaping machines,gear,engineering,energy,efficiency,flexibility,manufacturing,motor,cost savings
Elucidating the water photo-oxidation mechanism by infrared spectroscopy (IRS-PEC)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hydrogen is a highly versatile fuel that is believed to become one of the key pillars to support our future energy infrastructure. A clean and renewable method to produce hydrogen is to use sunlight to convert water into hydrogen in a photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell. The exact mechanism of this photocatalytic water splitting remains a largely unexplored area. In this project, I will provide insight into the more challenging oxidative half-reaction occurring at metal-oxide surfaces. To gain insight into the oxidative half-reaction, surface groups residing at the solid/liquid interface will be measured by infrared spectroscopy during actual device operation. Hereto, a PEC cell will be constructed with a multiple internal reflection element as key component; it will ensure a high sensitivity while simultanously act as substrate for the working electrode. The novel approach to apply a bias voltage allows for photoelectrochemical analysis, but also allows ‘freezing’ of the surface species thereby relaxing the constraints of a fast measurement speed. From in operando measurements the density and nature of surface groups present at a well-defined metal-oxide surface will be obtained as a function of electrolyte pH. With this knowledge conclusions can be drawn on which surface sites initiate the oxidation reaction, which groups present sites where (intermediate) reactions with high activation energies take place, and where undesired hole-trapping and electron-hole recombination are most likely to occur. Thereby providing fundamental insight into the water oxidation mechanism, which is required to engineer a photoelectrode material with high photocurrents and low onset potentials. Additionally, the quantified information on surface species densities is much-needed input in models and simulations. Furthermore, a tool will be delivered with which the critical steps in the oxidation reaction can be disclosed as a function of pH.

Keywords: infrared spectroscopy,photoelectrochemistry
Deaf mobilities across international borders: Visualising intersectionality and translanguaging (MobileDeaf)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499985.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499985.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Deaf signers’ international mobilities are rapidly increasing. These mobilities are unique in a number of respects: while being biologically deaf leads to certain limitations and to discrimination and inequalities, being skilled in visual language also creates possibilities and opportunities for communication across national and linguistic borders. There are two main research questions in the project. First, within contexts of international deaf spaces, how does the status of being deaf intersect with other statuses, particularly ethnicity, nationality, education, religion and gender, and which meaningful connections or accumulated inequalities occur? Second, how do deaf signers in these contexts practice and experience translanguaging, by making strategical use of multiple languages and language modalities, and International Sign? Four subprojects will focus on structurally different kinds of international deaf mobilities: (1) forced migration, (2) labour migration, (3) professional mobility, and (4) tourist mobility. The research team will be all-deaf as to maximise access to various sign languages, access to distinct deaf networks, and insights into deaf ways of living. This is a unique endeavour as most deaf-related research is hearing-led. The methodology will be ethnographic but neither logocentric nor audiocentric as visual methods (photography, video, mapping, and the production of four ethnographic documentaries) will be heavily employed, doing justice to the visual nature of sign language communication. By scrutinizing and bridging the concepts of intersectionality and translanguaging, this study will contribute to the study of growing complexity in diversity and mobility; the production/delimitation of social spaces particularly through language practices, strategies and ideologies; while engaging with issues of researchers’ embodiment, positionality and engagement, concerns which are central to the so-called third wave in deaf studies.

Keywords: spatial patterns of social behaviour,multilingual and multimodal linguistic strategies
COmbining Probable TRAjectories (COPTRA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Türkiye,Belgium,Belgium
Call: Trajectory Based Operations (TBO) (H2020-SESAR-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1280818.75
EU funding (EUR): 999391.25
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

SESAR implementation will result in an environment using extensive and intensive planning to address complexity imbalances and reduce potential conflicts. Accurate planning requires quantifying forecast accuracy at all planning horizons with the main challenge of combining trajectories with different levels of accuracy.A quality indicator giving the forecast accuracy could enhance the situation: It has to combine uncertainties associated to traffic predictions and to trajectory predictions composing traffic. COPTRA aims to propose, in a TBO, an efficient method to build probabilistic traffic forecasts on the basis of flight trajectory predictions. Its main objective is: Using the improvements brought to Trajectory Prediction by the future TBO environment; bring measurable improvements to Traffic Prediction in ATC Planning, specifically to the prediction of occupancy counts. COPTRA objective is refined in 3 sub-objectives corresponding to its research work packages: 1. Define the concept of probabilistic trajectory and its prediction (WP2). 2. Using the definition of probabilistic trajectory, define the concept of probabilistic traffic situation and study how probabilistic traffic situations can be built by combining probabilistic trajectories (WP3). 3. Apply probabilistic traffic situations to ATC planning (WP4). The management work packages encompass project management (WP1), results dissemination (WP5) and project conclusion (WP6). To achieve its objectives, COPTRA brings together inter-disciplinary competencies where the partners are leading their respective area: • BR&T-E and ITU are experts in trajectory prediction, including the important aspect of prediction uncertainty, • UCLouvain ICTEAM has a proven track in using advanced methods and techniques to address optimal control problems on modern dynamical systems. • In addition to CRIDA’s proven track in managing research projects, CRIDA and EUROCONTROL bring their expertise in ATC

Keywords: trajectory based operations
Actively Frozen - contextual modulation of freezing and its neuronal basis (A-FRO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Portugal
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1969750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1969750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

When faced with a threat, an animal must decide whether to freeze, reducing its chances of being noticed, or to flee to the safety of a refuge. Animals from fish to primates choose between these two alternatives when confronted by an attacking predator, a choice that largely depends on the context in which the threat occurs. Recent work has made strides identifying the pre-motor circuits, and their inputs, which control freezing behavior in rodents, but how contextual information is integrated to guide this choice is still far from understood. We recently found that fruit flies in response to visual looming stimuli, simulating a large object on collision course, make rapid freeze/flee choices that depend on the social and spatial environment, and the fly’s internal state. Further, identification of looming detector neurons was recently reported and we identified the descending command neurons, DNp09, responsible for freezing in the fly. Knowing the sensory input and descending output for looming-evoked freezing, two environmental factors that modulate its expression, and using a genetically tractable system affording the use of large sample sizes, places us in an unique position to understand how a information about a threat is integrated with cues from the environment to guide the choice of whether to freeze (our goal). To assess how social information impinges on the circuit for freezing, we will examine the sensory inputs and neuromodulators that mediate this process, mapping their connections to DNp09 neurons (Aim 1). We ask whether learning is required for the spatial modulation of freezing, which cues flies are using to discriminate different places and which brain circuits mediate this process (Aim 2). Finally, we will study how activity of DNp09 neurons drives freezing (Aim 3). This project will provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism of freezing and its modulation by the environment, from single neurons to behaviour.

Keywords: drosophila melanogaster,defensive behaviours,circuit mapping,looming stimuli,social behaviour,learning