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Contemporary Sufi spirituality of the middle classes - global forms and regional peculiarities (SUFISM)

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: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sufism has shaped the lives of people from a wide variety of geographical regions, cultural contexts and social milieus almost from the beginning of Islam. While old and new forms of Sufism continue to exist, one can identify an interesting phenomenon in various geographical contexts since the middle of the 20th century: In various metropolises around the world, new Sufi authorities detach Sufism from its traditional organisation in “brotherhoods” (ṭuruq) and start spreading it through new media such as Sufi foundations, teaching institutes, lectures and workshops as well as through countless Sufi books and guides. An educated middle-class audience worldwide appropriates Sufism through these new forms and adopts it as a way of life that is perfectly compatible with modern urban contexts, whether secular and pluralistic or strongly dominated by a particular (state) religion. Whereas European, Arab and South Asian specificities shape the emergence of these new spiritual offerings, there seem to be formal and content-related elements that characterise a new offer of Sufi spirituality on a global level and in a cross-current manner. This study will contribute new knowledge of regional peculiarities, but also of global and cross-group aspects in this new modern Sufi spirituality and thus provide us with valuable insights into the structures, themes and institutionalisation forms of modern, global and highly successful spiritual offerings, which in a second step will allow us to understand the gaps that such offerings fill in our societies. In a detailed analysis shaped by a discourse theoretical perspective, I will compare the content, form, dissemination strategies and institutionalisation of the work of six important Sufi authors of the late 20th and early 21st century, which are embedded in different regional contexts and Sufi currents.

Keywords: sufism,spirituality,modern religious identity,urban middle class,transnationalism,entangled histories,new age,islamic reformism,indonesia,morocco,europe
Low-regularity and high oscillations: numerical analysis and computation of dispersive evolution equations (LAHACODE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Germany,France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499905.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499905.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Partial differential equations (PDEs) play a central role in mathematics, allowing us to describe physical phenomena ranging from ultra-cold atoms (Bose–Einstein condensation) up to ultra-hot matter (nuclear fusion), from learning algorithms to fluids in the human brain. To understand nature we have to understand their qualitative behavior: existence and long time behavior of solutions, their geometric and dynamical properties – as well as to compute reliably their numerical solution. While linear problems and smooth solutions are nowadays well understood, a reliable description of ‘non-smooth’ phenomena remains one of the most challenging open problems in computational mathematics since the underlying PDEs have very complicated solutions exhibiting high oscillations and loss of regularity. This leads to huge errors, massive computational costs and ultimately provokes the failure of classical schemes. Nevertheless, ‘non-smooth phenomena’ play a fundamental role in modern physical modeling (e.g., blow-up phenomena, turbulences, high frequencies, low dispersion limits, etc.) which makes it an essential task to develop suitable numerical schemes. The overall ambition of LAHACODE is to make a crucial step towards closing this gap – addressing the fundamental question: How and to what extent can we reproduce the qualitative behavior of differential equations in a finite (discretized) world? LAHACODE is situated at the challenging frontiers of analysis and numerics. The main objective is to develop a novel class of numerical schemes for nonlinear PDEs with strong geometric structure at low regularity and high oscillations. The key idea in the construction of the new schemes is to tackle and deeply embed the underlying structure of resonances in the numerical discretizations. As in the continuous case, these terms are central to structure preservation, and provide the new schemes with remarkable properties – allowing reliable approximations where classical schemes fail.

Keywords: msc2010 65mxx partial differential equations,initial value and time dependent initial boundary value problems
SPECTO Bowling® 2.0: Advanced Measurement and Analysis of Bowling Performance (SPECTO Bowling)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Sports industry is struggling with how to provide faster and more interesting data to users to keep them engaged. It must adapt to cater for a generation of internet consumers who expect instant gratification and quick fixes. This data-driven society of today draws people’s attention in many directions and Sports are currently not very experience friendly. In the case of bowling games, the information displayed has looked the same for decades, with data shown consisting only of partial and total scoring. Indeed, not very engaging! Current measurement systems that could provide interesting data for wide use is either reactive (i.e. data is available much time past the event) or prohibitively expensive and therefore are only used in laboratories and not in “real life”. Most current systems also require markers or other changes to either the athlete or the equipment, which can suppose a regulatory or practical issue. To solve this problem, Angular Velocity - a Finnish start-up company founded in 2016 - brings SPECTO Bowling® 2.0’s real-time data analytics through a unique combination of hardware and software that gives the ability to measure “everything that goes on” during a bowling event (75 different indicators) and make it instantly usable for display over TV-broadcasts, mobile devices, web services, etc. This ability creates a more immersive scenario and elevates the bowling sport in several aspects: viewers get more engaged in the game, coaches and athletes have a detailed review of the bowling performance, bowling centres can upgrade their systems to a more advanced solution, and bowling organisations can leverage its potential for official measurements, sport promotion and regulatory and standard issues. Our business opportunity is very promising, targeting a market valued at €5 billion globally. We estimate that we will generate €13.7 million of turnover after 3 years of commercialisation (boosting by 50% our current incomes), besides 23 new job positions.

Keywords: advanced,performance,measurement,analysis,sports,bowling,immersion,3d motion,data
Digital IncubatOr fOR muSeums (DOORS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Reflective societies - cultural heritage and European identity
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Belgium
Call: European Museum Collaboration and Innovation Space (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2021, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The situation most museums are currently facing remains compromised by the global health crisis, which has hit the sector particularly hard and accelerates the importance of digitalisation in the museum sector. But technology is not a solution in itself; particularly when not constituent to a larger strategy and equipped with comprehensive goals. DOORS (Digital incubatOr fOR muSeums) focuses on digital maturity of institutions and empowerment of their teams. The central question is how the museum sector can develop digital strategies and values to adapt and reinvent themselves to strengthen their performance, reach their audiences & develop new ones, and ensure financial recovery and sustainability. The overarching aim of DOORS is to become a truly European incubator for small and medium sized museums that will support them in their digital transformation journeys. The incubator will seed and nurture digital thinking in forty institutions resulting in a continuing network of DOORS digitally maturing actors. Through a two-stage pilot scheme, DOORS involves 40 museums in 20 innovative pilots developing digital transformation experiments in 4 concrete innovation areas. The resulting active network of European museum and innovation stakeholders will form a synergetic collaboration platform, share lessons & partner experience and publicly highlight Europe’s digital excellence for museums. Building on the support and diverse networks of the three experienced consortium partners, Ars Electronica, Ecsite and Museum Booster, DOORS invites museums practitioners, digital experts, cultural innovators and all those being interested in our collective endeavour to take part, contribute and benefit.

Keywords: digital transformation,digital incubation
A Modular Approach to Multifunctional Red Blood Cell Mimics (M-BLOOD)

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: Denmark
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1988725.0
EU funding (EUR): 1988725.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Each year, worldwide 5.6 million people die as a result of trauma. This fact makes uncontrolled bleeding the major cause of preventable death. Additionally, since almost 50% of the traumatic injures affect young people, uncontrolled bleeding has a tremendous social impact and results in an important financial burden to the healthcare system. Donor red blood cells (RBCs) have the ability to restore O2 transport capacity and, as such, blood transfusions are a life-saving procedure for patients who have lost significant blood volume. However, time-consuming hurdles such as pathogen testing or donor-recipient cross-matching, need to be carried out prior to transfusion, causing fatal delays in emergency situations. Additionally, since donor RBCs can only be stored for a short period of time, stockpiles to be used in acute disasters do not exist. Thus, blood substitutes prevail as highly sought after technologies to resolve the limitations associated with donor blood. However, despite the intense efforts in the last decades, no product is currently approved for human use. This can be attributed to the rapid development of blood substitutes in the 1980s, due to fear of HIV contaminated blood, which resulted in a number of failures. Importantly, while research efforts have focused mostly on the development of simple O2-carriers, it is noted that, apart from O2-delivery, biological RBCs are also responsible for CO2 transport, nitric oxide regulation, and antioxidant functions; all of them crucial and life-saving tasks. To this end, the ambitious goal of this proposal is to create a RBC MIMIC replicating the fundamental and potentially life-saving biochemical and biophysical aspects of RBCs. Furthermore, to address patients co-morbidities resulting from acute blood loss, RBC MIMIC will be implemented with additional/extra tasks that are not present in biological RBCs. I envision that RBC MIMIC will result on a superior blood surrogate for early stage resuscitation.

Keywords: cell mimicry,blood substitutes,hemoglobin based oxygen carriers
Pregnancy and Reproduction Organ-on-a-chip Models (PROM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

PreTerm Birth (PTB) occurs before 37 weeks of gestation. Of 60,000 babies born prematurely every year in UK, ~1,400 die. Premature babies show increased risks of long term neurodevelopmental deficits and chronic diseases. Preterm Rupture of the foetal Membranes (PROM) is a syndrome attributable to multiple factor. Evidences linked environmental toxicant exposure and infection with a decreased fertility and an increase PTB rate. Studies of these topics suffered for limits of in vitro cell culture (e.g. absence of extracellular environment, dilution) and anatomical, physiological, endocrine differences between human and animal models. Long term goal of this project is to create Organ-on-a-Chip (OoC) models of the human endometrium and the human foetal membranes to assess the effects of environmental insults, such as infection or inflammation, to exacerbate preterm birth. An overarching goal is to utilize these OoC models to identify personalized therapy to improve and preserve fertility. This project aims to 1.Implement an OoC model to replicate the physiology of the human endometrium and the development of the foetal membranes during pregnancy. This will be achieved by adding human amniotic epithelial, chorionic trophoblasts and maternal macrophages in the existing OoC. 2.Define the individual contributions of each cell type in the endometrium to paracrine signalling events that lead to PTB. A sub-micrometric polymeric, porous membrane will be integrated in the chip, will allow chemical communication between the cellular compartments of the OoC, will support formation of cell layers and will favour close proximity between the different cell types. 3.Monitor metabolic activity and identify PTB biomarkers. Changes in metabolic activity of each cell types, biomarkers of infection and inflammation in response to unknown stressors (e.g. bacteria/ toxins/chemotherapy) will be identified by downstream collection of effluents and direct single cell sensing.

Keywords: organs on a chip,microfluidic,endometrium,pregnancy,reproductive toxicology,preterm birth
Context- and Task-Oriented Communication (CTO Com)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495287.52
EU funding (EUR): 1495287.52
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Emergence of a large number of distributed decision and control systems (e.g., in health care, transportation, and energy management), combined with increasing demands of traditional communications (e.g., due to multiview videos), create an imminent need for highly improved communication systems. We advocate that—combined with improvements in battery, antenna, and chip technologies—context- and/or task-oriented communication techniques will bring the desired breakthrough. Specifically, context- oriented techniques will greatly improve performance, because future networks have complex infrastructures (with cache-memories, cloud-RANs, etc.) allowing the terminals to collect side-informations about other terminals’ data or signals, and because many distributed decision systems rely on numerous devices with correlated measurements. Task-oriented techniques promise even larger gains, especially in distributed decision systems where decisions take value on a small range, and thus the traditional approach of communicating sequences of observed signals results in a huge overhead. Information theory, and in particular distributed joint source-channel coding, provides a general framework for designing context-oriented communication techniques. Such a general framework is missing for task-oriented communication. Previous results indicate that creative usages of information theory on its frontier to statistics and decision theory are well-suited for designing task-oriented communication techniques for applications as diverse as coordination of smart devices, distributed hypothesis testing, and clustering of data. Our goal is to design context- and/or task-oriented communication techniques for these three applications and for cache-aided communication. Besides the high gains that our new techniques bring directly to these applications, the complementarity of our applications and obtained results will facilitate a future general framework for context- and task-oriented communication.
Development of new methodologies for industrial CO2-free steel production by electrowinning (SIDERWIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Sustainable, resource-efficient and low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive process industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Norway,Greece,Belgium,Greece,Switzerland,Belgium,France,France,France,France,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: New electrochemical solutions for industrial processing, which contribute to a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions (H2020-SPIRE-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6815114.08
EU funding (EUR): 6815114.08
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

For the time being, there are no economically feasible steelmaking technologies available having the potential to meet the EU’s climate and energy targets for 2030. At best, a 15% decrease in the overall CO2 intensity of the sector could be achieved throughout the widespread dissemination of technologies that could reasonably become cost-effective in the future. Therefore, breakthrough technologies are urgent and indispensable. ΣIDERWIN project proposes to develop a breakthrough innovation compared to the actual steel production process bringing together steel making with electrochemical process. The electrolysis process using renewable energies will transform any iron oxide, including those inside the by-products from other metallurgies, into steel plate with a significant reduction of energy use. This process decomposes under mild conditions but at intense reaction rate naturally occurring iron oxides such as hematite into iron metal and oxygen gas. By offering a CO2-free steel production process, the project will contribute to the reduction of the total greenhouse gas emissions. Compared to traditional steelmaking plants, this innovative technology has several positive impacts such as: a reduction by 87% of the direct CO2 emissions; a reduction by 31% of the direct energy use; the ability to produce steel from by-products rich in iron oxides from non-ferrous metallurgy residues; an increased integration with renewable energies with a more flexible process. The project is led by ArcelorMittal the world’s leading steel and mining company. The company has been working for 12 years on the development of the technology to bring it from the TRL 0 to TRL 4 through the manufacturing of 5 different pilots, proving the potential of the technology. With this solid background, ArcelorMittal surrounded by 11 additional innovative European partners, aims at developing a 3 metre-long new experimental pilot to validate the technology at TRL 6.

Keywords: electrowinning,steelmaking,electrolysis,renewable energies,by products valorisation
Innovative training network: Immunoprofile-directed stratification of patients with the autoimmune disorder thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (PROFILE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Industrial Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain,Estonia,Estonia,Belgium,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-EID) (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1464397.92
EU funding (EUR): 1464397.92
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The PROFILE Innovative European Industrial Doctoral programme will develop improved tools for stratification of patients with the autoimmune disorder acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Patient stratification is needed in order to further develop personalized medicine approaches for human disorders. Therefore, a detailed understanding of the disease at the molecular level is needed. Furthermore, implementation of a robust set of novel biomarkers is essential for stratification of patients. Also, highly flexible platforms to rapidly develop novel therapeutics are crucial to further boost the field of personalized medicine. The research program is embedded in a unique translational training program, which emphasizes clinical needs as a driving force for development of novel, innovative diagnostics and therapeutics (for personalized medicine). There is intersectoral knowledge transfer between academia and companies at the European level as 6 different EU Member states are involved in the network either as beneficiary or partner organization. The PROFILE network will allow 6 early stage researchers to follow this unique translational training. They will be trained in the clinic to identify clinical needs, in academia where they will contribute to a scientifically ambitious project and in the non-academic sector where they will be trained in a novel technologies and commercializing bioassays endowing them with an unique PROFILE for further advancing personalized medicine in Europe.

Keywords: immunoprofiling,thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura,autoimmune disease,diagnostic assay