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ELASTOMERIC COMPOUND WITH PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS INTEGRATED TO STATE OF ART THERMAL INSULATION PANEL (AEROPAN) TO IMPROVE ENERGY SAVING AND CO2 EMISSION REDUCTION IN CIVIL AND INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS (AEROPCM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

AEROPCM project aims at developing, testing and marketing a breakthrough PCM-aerogel hybrid insulation panel. This innovative solution will provide unprecedented performance of thermal insulation and thermal inertia in a unitized, integrated and extremely thin (<1,5 cm) package, convenient and quick to install and with limited premium price compared to existing state of the art (60 €/m2). Central to this endeavour is the proprietary, innovative solution to develop an elastomeric panel integrating non-encapsulated phase change materials (PCMs), which will allow improved thermal performance at a reduced price compared to micro and macro-encapsulated PCM solutions on the market. The new elastomeric PCM panel will be coupled with the aerogel based insulating panel Aeropan, one of the best performing building products on the market, achieving the ultimate product for the deep energy renovation of existing buildings. In fact, AEROPCM will be the first to solve the main issue when buildings are insulated from the inside, namely the loss of interiors space and the exclusion of thermal mass, which cannot support air conditioning systems anymore. By combining extra thin aerogel and PCM layers, AEROPCM provides excellent thermal insulation and recovers thermal inertia lost, with performance equivalent to a 30 cm thick double insulated wall. Main goals of this first feasibility phase are: to improve the panel technology level and its technical characteristics; to perform a complete market survey, in particular competitor solutions and market segmentation; to assess an accurate business plan. The main market segment is the building energy renovation, a primary concern in the aging EU building stock, expected to reach € 60 billion worth. Performance and reasonable price of AEROPCM shall offer clear business opportunities with a terrific potential impact, and other civil or industrial applications are feasible as well as different industrial markets (automotive and cold chain).

Keywords: nanotechnology,aerogel,thermal insulation,energy efficiency of buildings,energy renovation of buildings,advanced materials
Developing geothermal and renewable energy projects by mitigating their risks. (GEORISK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Türkiye,Türkiye,Greece,Hungary,Greece,Poland,Belgium,France,France
Call: Market Uptake support (H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-SingleStage, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2184118.38
EU funding (EUR): 2184118.38
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Geothermal project development has several risky components, the most important one being the resource risk. This concerns mainly deep geothermal projects, but some shallow geothermal open systems could also be included in this category of projects. Beyond exploration, the bankability of a geothermal project is threatened by this geological risk. The geological risk includes: - The short-term risk of not finding an economically sustainable geothermal resource after drilling; - The long-term risk of the geothermal resource naturally depleting rendering its exploitation economically unprofitable. Until the first borehole has been drilled into the geothermal reservoir, developers cannot be sure about the exact parameters (temperature and flow rate) of the planned geothermal electricity or h&c project. Once drilling has taken place, in situ pump tests, temperature and hydrological measurements then reduce the resource risk and make it possible to attract external capital. Risk insurance Funds for the geological risk already exist in some European countries (France, Germany, Iceland, The Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland). The geological risk is a common issue all over Europe. With the notable exception of these six countries, project developers have very little capability to manage this financial risk. GEORISK project will work to establish such risk insurance all over Europe and in some key target third countries to cover the exploration phase and the first drilling (test). It means activities to be funded before financial institutions and IPP funding the confirmation drilling and surface systems. It appears clear that a risk mitigation scheme must be designed according to the market maturity of the sector.

Keywords: geothermal,renewable energy,risk,financing,insurance,risk mitigation,resource risk,technical risk,drilling,europe,worldwide,public funding,public private partnership,innovative financing
COVID-19 pandemic: An innovative, safe and effective bio-decontamination technology for non-toxic removal of biological agents, including coronavirus (ABwipe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2772812.5
EU funding (EUR): 1940968.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, plague, Ebola, SARS and flu, caused by biological agents, are among the most serious and least predicted threats facing the global community. As we currently experience with the COVID-19 pandemic, bioagents can cause enormous societal and economic damage. Unlike, in the case of chemical, radiological or nuclear incidents, like e.g. in Chernobyl where people could not do much to stop the spread across Europe, in the case of the COVID-19 outbreak, public has a real power to reduce the impact by social distancing, respiratory etiquette, hand hygiene and decontamination in an attempt to flatten the curve. Current decontamination solutions are suitable for hard surfaces but based on chemicals that cannot be used repeatedly on skin because they are harmful to humans, lead to health complications (hormonal imbalance, allergic reaction and dryness etc.) and damage the environment. There has been a lack of innovation in human-decontamination technologies over the decades and there is a clear need for technologies that can deliver safe, effective and immediate decontamination of human skin. The technological innovation of ABwipe offers a paradigm shift in decontamination. ABwipe is a unique product, inspired by nature and exploiting the mechanism of pathogen binding. It is made up of a matrix material (cellulose fibres) with attached carbohydrate-protein binders, carefully selected with strong affinities for biothreat agents, including pandemic agents such as influenza and coronavirus. ABwipe not only decontaminates but also captures and contains biological agents. This is a significant capability that reduces the impact, impedes the spread of the infection and allows forensics and diagnostics to identify harmful agents. It is an effective, safer, better and fit for purpose solution for potentially devastating bioagent threat to the society, saving lives, restoring the health of victims and returning contaminated areas to a safe state

Keywords: covid 19,cbrn,biothreat,decontamination,glycobiology,wipe
Divergent modes of ritual, social cohesion, prosociality, and conflict. (RitualModes)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499980.0
EU funding (EUR): 2459603.65
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to establish an authoritative scientific framework for understanding the relationship between group ritual, social cohesion, and pro-group behaviour. Rituals have shaped human societies for millennia, but the exact social consequences of rituals are poorly understood. The proposed research will identify the fundamental components of rituals worldwide and chart their effects on patterns of group alignment and action. Doing so will have a lasting impact on basic understandings of the nature, causes, and consequences of ritual dynamics as well as open up exciting new avenues of inquiry that bridge the humanities and social sciences. It is proposed that within numerous cultures and group types, collective rituals come in two main forms with distinct consequences: 1) affectively-intense, rarely-enacted rituals bond group members tightly and motivate extreme self-sacrifice; 2) frequently repeated rituals create allegiance to broad collectives and motivate ingroup bias. Using this model as a starting point, the proposed research programme will seek to achieve three tightly linked objectives. Objective 1 will examine psychological mechanisms underlying rituals’ effects on group cohesion and behaviour in ten nations. Objective 2 will focus on the ritual dynamics of special populations exposed to group-related violence (e.g., war veterans, ex-convicts, war-torn communities). Objective 3 will examine the functions of ritual and cohesion in cultural group selection. Using new techniques, we will quantitatively code and analyse qualitative data on ritual and cohesion in large historical databases from hundreds of groups over the past 12,000 years. Overall, these research objectives aim to provide insights into key questions (e.g., what are the fundamental building blocks of group rituals?), understudied groups (e.g., revolutionary combatants), and unresolved debates in many fields (e.g., what motivates self-sacrifice?).

Keywords: anthropology,cognitive science of religion,social psychology,evolutionary theory,ritual and identity,prosociality,intergroup conflict
Study of the therapeutic potential of an Akkermansia muciniphila-based products in subjects with an increased cardio-metabolic risk. (Microbes4U)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2015-PoC, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149375.0
EU funding (EUR): 149375.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Overweight and obesity have reached worldwide epidemic level. Both overweight and obesity are characterized by comorbidities such as cardio-metabolic risk factors (i.e., insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, low-grade inflammation) representing a major public health problem. Therefore, it is urgent to find a therapeutic solution to target all these metabolic disorders. Among the environmental factors able to influence the individual susceptibility to gain weight and to develop metabolic disorders associated with obesity, we have contributed to the demonstration that gut bacteria (i.e, gut microbiota) influence host metabolism. We recently discovered a putative interesting microbial candidate, namely Akkermansia muciniphila. More exactly, we found that the administration of Akkermansia muciniphila reduced body weight gain, fat mass gain, glycemia, cholesterolemia and inflammatory markers in diet-induced obese mice. Moreover, in overweight/obese patients subjected to a calorie restriction diet, the higher abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila was associated with a better cardio-metabolic status. These observations suggested that the administration of Akkermansia muciniphila in overweight or obese people could be a very interesting therapeutic solution. Currently, no human study have investigated the beneficial effects of Akkermansia muciniphila administration on obesity and metabolic disorders. Thus, the main objective of this ERC POC project “Microbes4U” is to get the proof of concept in humans of the safety and efficacy of Akkermansia muciniphila administration in the treatment of overweight, obesity and metabolic disorders associated such as insulin resistance, type-2 diabetes and dyslipidemia.

Keywords: obesity,diabetes,gut microbiota,akkermansia muciniphila,cardio metabolic risk factors,clinical trial,insulin resistance
Chemistry and Interface Control of Novel 2D-Pnictogen Nanomaterials (2D-PnictoChem)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499419.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499419.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

2D-PnictoChem aims at exploring the Chemistry of a novel class of graphene-like 2D layered elemental materials of group 15, the pnictogens: P, As, Sb, and Bi. In the last few years, these materials have taken the field of Materials Science by storm since they can outperform and/or complement graphene properties. Their strongly layer-dependent unique properties range from semiconducting to metallic, including high carrier mobilities, tunable bandgaps, strong spin-orbit coupling or transparency. However, the Chemistry of pnictogens is still in its infancy, remaining largely unexplored. This is the niche that 2D-PnictoChem aims to fill. By mastering the interface chemistry, we will develop the assembly of 2Dpnictogens in complex hybrid heterostructures for the first time. Success will rely on a cross-disciplinary approach combining both Inorganic- and Organic Chemistry with Solid-state Physics, including: 1) Synthetizing and exfoliating high quality ultra-thin layer pnictogens, providing reliable access down to the monolayer limit. 2) Achieving their chemical functionalization via both non-covalent and covalent approaches in order to tailor at will their properties, decipher reactivity patterns and enable controlled doping avenues. 3) Developing hybrid architectures through a precise chemical control of the interface, in order to promote unprecedented access to novel heterostructures. 4) Exploring novel applications concepts achieving outstanding performances. These are all priorities in the European Union agenda aimed at securing an affordable, clean energy future by developing more efficient hybrid systems for batteries, electronic devices or applications in catalysis. The opportunity is unique to reduce Europe’s dependence on external technology and the PI’s background is ideally suited to tackle these objectives, counting as well on a multidisciplinary team of international collaborators.
Putting Water at the Centre of Nuclear Energy History (NUCLEARWATERS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1991008.0
EU funding (EUR): 1991008.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

NUCLEARWATERS develops a groundbreaking new approach to studying the history of nuclear energy. Rather than interpreting nuclear energy history as a history of nuclear physics and radiochemistry, it analyses it as a history of water. The project develops the argument that nuclear energy is in essence a hydraulic form of technology, and that it as such builds on centuries and even millennia of earlier hydraulic engineering efforts worldwide – and, culturally speaking, on earlier “hydraulic civilizations”, from ancient Egypt to the modern Netherlands. I investigate how historical water-manipulating technologies and wet and dry risk conceptions from a deeper past were carried on into the nuclear age. These risk conceptions brought with them a complex set of social and professional practices that displayed considerable inertia and were difficult to change – sometimes paving the way for disaster. Against this background I hypothesize that a water-centred nuclear energy history enables us to resolve a number of the key riddles in nuclear energy history and to grasp the deeper historical logic behind various nuclear disasters and accidents worldwide. The project is structured along six work packages that problematize the centrality – and dilemma – of water in nuclear energy history from different thematic and geographical angles. These include in-depth studies of the transnational nuclear-hydraulic engineering community, of the Soviet Union’s nuclear waters, of the Rhine Valley as a transnational and heavily nuclearized river basin, of Japan’s atomic coastscapes and of the ecologically and politically fragile Baltic Sea region. The ultimate ambition is to significantly revise nuclear energy history as we know it – with implications not only for the history of technology as an academic field (and its relationship with environmental history), but also for the public debate about nuclear energy’s future in Europe and beyond.

Keywords: nuclear energy,nuclear disasters,hydraulic engineering,water history,transnational history
SuperScienceMe: ResEArCH in your REACH - European Researchers' Night (SuperScienceMe)

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: Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-15
End date: 2020-01-14
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 561250.0
EU funding (EUR): 160000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

SuperScienceMe is a dive into the ocean of knowledge in search of scientific and cultural Calabrian wonders. Visitors will be involved in experiments, games, and artistic performances offered by partners and cooperation bodies. The aim is to create opportunities for matching researchers and citizens, with a special focus on young people. The researcher plays the role of a superhero - SuperScienceMe–that tells the science in a simply way to participants, demonstrating them that it is not separated from real life. Moreover, in line with “European Year of Cultural Heritage” the project aims to promote Calabrian cultural heritage and the superhero will lead visitors in museums and archaeological sites where will be carry out the pre-events. The activities are based on the successful format of the Unical Researchers' Nights previous editions that will be extended to the regional territory, involving Calabrian research/innovation system: • "Experiencing research": demonstrative and fun activities to discover the scientific and cultural work, through a program of more than 100 bookable guided tours in the laboratories, research centres, museums and service facilities, especially dedicated to students; • "Research exhibition": research booths, with spin-off companies and research startups, other innovative companies and social actors. Also present will be the EU, national and regional structural funds, and EEN corners. Other inclusive and social activities will be: • "Experiencing in the hospital", the initiative that brings "Experiencing research" to the Paediatric department of some Calabrian hospitals; • "Research without barriers", a program for integrating the disabled as users and also as authors of scientific demonstrations, cultural initiatives and shows; • "Imagine the research", a video-photography contest; • "Sporting events" involving researchers. The project includes a thematic film review on innovation and performances by artists linked to Calabrian tradition.

Keywords: science journey,enjoing research,calabrian cultural heritage,innovation promotion,dissemination of scientific culture
SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund 2 (Solar Cofund 2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: ERA-NET Cofund
Partnership: Solar Cofund 2 (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Italy,Israel,Germany,Cyprus,Switzerland,Belgium,Belgium,Greece,Sweden,Türkiye,Switzerland,France,France,Netherlands
Call: Joint Actions to foster innovative energy solutions in renewable energy technologies (H2020-LCE-ERANET, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20152168.0
EU funding (EUR): 6333425.01
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund 2 will bring together 18 national and regional organisations owning and / or managing major solar power research and innovation programmes throughout Europe. They will launch a co-funded and an additional joint call mobilising some 30 MEUR of public funding to support highly innovative transnational RDI projects. SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund 2 will contribute to substantial cost reductions of solar power technologies, to support the economic development of the European solar power sector and to reinforce Europe’s strong position in solar power technologies. Reducing technology cost, lowering the environmental impact of power production and advancing manufacturing technologies, applications and energy system integration are essential to increasing the deployment of solar power technologies as crucial element of the Low Carbon Energy strategy set out in the Energy Package. This way, SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund 2 will strongy contribute to achieve the ambitious climate change targets, to sustainable, secure, cost-efficient energy supply and to provide growth and jobs in the solar and related industry sectors providing also a solid technological and industrial base. SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund 2 will focus on solar power technologies covering both photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) / solar thermal electricity (STE) according to the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan and the documents with Declaration on Strategic Targets in the context of an Initiative for Global Leadership in Photovoltaics resp. Concentrated Solar Power and their subsequent Implementation Plans being elaborated by the respective technology groups, i.e. European Technology & Innovation Platforms related Temporary Working Groups. SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund 2 follows on from the SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund (started in 2016) and SOLAR-ERA.NET project and network running from 2012 to 2016 and previous PV-ERA-NET network, taking advantage of more than thirteen years of ERA-NET experience.

Keywords: photovoltaics,solar thermal electricity