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Collaborative draping of carbon fiber parts (DrapeBot)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy,Germany,Italy,Germany,Italy,Austria,Denmark
Call: Robotics in Application Areas and Coordination & Support (H2020-ICT-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7073880.0
EU funding (EUR): 6012142.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Draping is a process that is used for about 30% of all carbon fibre composite parts to place layers of carbon fiber fabric in a mould. During this process the flat fabric distorts to fit to the shape of the mould. Ensuring the accuracy of the draping in terms of position and fiber orientation and avoiding wrinkles is a challenging task. The DrapeBot project aims at human-robot collaborative draping, where the robot assists during the transport of the large material patches and drapes the areas of low curvature, while the human deals with high-curvature regions. To enable an efficient collaboration DrapeBot will develop a gripper system with integrated instrumentation, AI-driven human perception and task planning models and a low-level control structure. All of these developments aim at a smooth and efficient interaction between the human and the robot. Specific emphasis is put on trust and usability, due to the complexity of the task and the size of the robots that are involved. Two different robotic work-cells will be adapted for the use cases in project and will remain available after the end of the project for dissemination to stakeholders. The use cases in the project include the aerospace, automotive and shipbuilding industry. There are about 4000 companies in Europe that use draping processes and a potential of about 20.000 installations of collaborative robotic draping exists. Beyond this market, DrapeBot will have a wider impact on human-robot collaboration, especially in areas where efficiency of the collaboration is relevant.

Keywords: draping of carbon fibre parts,multi robot collaboration
Building competences for empowerment of small and micro companies’ for innovative entrepreneurship (POWER2INNO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Slovenia
Call: peer learning of innovation agencies (H2020-INNOSUP-2014-5, 2014)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Problem to solve: Considerable number of innovation support programmes were developed in the EU that tackled SME (for example SME Instrument, COSME…), however very few programmes and methodologies were developed for specific challenges that face small and micro companies (SMC). This fact is especially relevant for all three project partners’ regions, which have all well over national averages of micro and small companies: 93,7 % in Primorsko-notranjska region (Slovenia), more that 95% in Puglia region (Italy) and 96,4% in Malaga region (Spain). Micro and small companies (much more than middle and large sized companies) are critically bound to the traditional ways of doing business and lack competences needed for modern successful innovative entrepreneurship. One of the reasons for that is also lack of competences and available methodologies of innovation support agencies to tackle this specific problem. General objective of the project: The general objective of the project is to engage in peer learning activities between three project partners to raise our competences for empowerment of small and micro companies’ for innovative entrepreneurship - for transition from production-oriented mentality to scouting for opportunities on global market and creating value for customers. In addition to that, we will disseminate project results across EU. Specific objectives for the project: - Transfer from traditional “I offer what I do” to advanced scouting of “opportunity on the market” - Bottom-up work with entrepreneurs, methodologies for ideas creation, innovation management Inclusion of partners for realisation of ideas, value added chain, micro clustering - Lean approach, market feed-back and use of IT tools - Advanced financial instruments - Internationalisation of business - Implementation of three pilot projects - Preparation of best practice materials and spill-over effects

Keywords: peer learning,innovative entrepreneurship,small and micro companies,advanced management approaches
Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam (PIETY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499625.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499625.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project seeks to explain the emergence, flourishing and lasting appeal of non-conformist movements in Islamic intellectual history, investigating how Islamic antinomian movements both consolidated Islam in a vast region from the Balkans to Bengal, while offering methods of self-reflection that allowed for critical thinking within Islamic streams of thought. By examining how generations of Islamic mystics and intellectuals in the Persianate world challenged, redefined or rejected Islamic canonical law in their poetic, artistic, philosophical and political writings and teachings, this project generates significant new insights on transgression in Islam. Non-conformist mystics combined the ascetic principles of early Islam with shocking deviance, transgressing the holiest Islamic laws such as prayer, fasting, and the pilgrimage to Mecca, and praising other religions such as Christianity. By rejecting the outward piety of the clerics, celebrating wine, gambling and homo-erotic love, they provoked the orthodox, craving rejection and criticism, which they used as a shield to protect their piety. Using transgression as a theoretical frame, this project demonstrates how non-conformist mystics relativized the status of the Islamic jurists at the centre in Islamic life, while validating what – for the jurists – was peripheral. Examining non-conformism as part of Islam since the tenth century breaks new grounds in the field of Islamic Studies, and in the wider fields of Religious Studies, Literary Studies and History. This is the first study dealing in a broad way with questions about the relationships between centre and periphery, normal and deviant, profane and divine, and low culture versus high religion in Islamic culture. As such it also offers significant contributions to transgression studies from Islamic Studies perspectives, demonstrating why antinomian themes, motifs and metaphors have taken a central position in Islam, especially in art and through poetry.

Keywords: sufism,persian poetry,islam,transgression
The impact of superfluidity and superconductivity on the magneto-thermal evolution and X-ray observations of neutron stars. (SF-magnetic-stars)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170121.6
EU funding (EUR): 170121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the last decades, X-ray astronomy provided a wealth of information on the neutron star thermal history, surface temperature distribution, surface magnetic field strength, outburst and flaring activity. It has been recently shown, that many of these different observational properties are deeply influenced by the evolution of the magnetic field and temperature in the neutron star interior. Our understanding of the magnetic field evolution is however still incomplete, as these 2D numerical simulations completely neglect the field evolution in the core. This project will study the magneto-thermal evolution of neutron stars with magnetic fields treading both the core and the crust, incorporating in a consistent way the effects of ambipolar diffusion and superfluidity/superconductivity. This research will explore also models where superconductivity is limited in shells, which are confined in the outer core. They are expected when the core's magnetic field is so strong, above 10^{16} Gauss, to destroy superconductivity. The magneto-thermal evolution will be studied by using 2D numerical simulations, which solve simultaneously the induction equation and the heat transfer equation. The complex magnetic field which results from the magneto-thermal evolution may describe the configuration expected in a flaring magnetar, where quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) have been observed. This project will study the QPOs of these complex magnetic field configurations, by using perturbation methods. We will develop a computational framework to determine the properties of seismic vibrations on magnetar's models with any magnetic field topology. The results of this research project and the combined information available from thermal history and magnetar QPOs will be used to determine, by using independent astrophysical observations and dynamical processes, the physical properties of highly magnetized neutron stars as well as to shed light into the equation of state of dense matter.

Keywords: neutron stars,x ray observations,neutron star cooling,magnetic field and thermal evolutions,magnetar qpos,numerical methods,superconductivity
Investigation of plant biostimulating properties of feather protein hydrolyzate and the effects on symbiotic microorganisms (BIOSTISYM)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 142720.8
EU funding (EUR): 142720.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the greatest challenges in the EU and worldwide is the reduction of negative environmental impact of modern agriculture. One often overlooked aspect here is the negative impact of intensive chemical inputs on the key ecophysiological features of terrestrial plants, symbioses with mycorrhizal fungi and endophytic microorganisms. The use of environmentally friendly products such as plant biostimulants generated from waste products may hold the key to new sustainable crop production systems. Aim of this project is the development of a new biostimulant based on feather protein hydrolyzate, a waste product that would otherwise be disposed with the negative impact on the environment, which can enhance plant growth and/or stress resistance, and act in synergy with symbiotic microbes and/or promote their growth/functioning. Synergistic effects of tested biostimulant and the symbiotic microbes on the growth promotion of wheat will be studied at the level of plant biometric parameters, biomass yield, nutrients and photosynthetic apparatus. The indirect plant mediated effects of biostimulant foliar treatments on root colonization by symbiotic microbes, their functional enzymatic activities and community structure will be determined. This project will enable the Researcher to acquire professional maturity in the sector of plant-microbe interactions related to biostimulants’ research. The involvement of the private sector by a secondment will facilitate the commercial exploitation of the results. The new biostimulant product, which contributes to synergistic or growth promoting action of certain mycorrhizal fungi, would be the complete novelty on the market with biostimulants. The project will increase the awareness of the society on the necessity of development of eco-friendly agricultural products for sustainable crop management, and on the need of biostimulants’ regulation by EU laws.

Keywords: plant biostimulant,feather protein hydrolyzate,symbiosis,mycorrhiza,endophytes,synergism,plant growth promotion
Sustainable mineral resources by utilizing new Exploration technologies (Smart Exploration)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Finland,Finland,Greece,Greece,Sweden,Sweden,Poland,Sweden,Poland,Poland,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,Portugal,Portugal
Call: New solutions for sustainable production of raw materials (H2020-SC5-2017-OneStageB, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5217843.75
EU funding (EUR): 5217843.75
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

Smart Exploration consists of a research and application team supported by a group of technologically advanced SMEs and the mining industry. The consortium will firstly focus on developing cost-effective, environmentally-friendly tools and methods for geophysical exploration in highly challenging brownfield areas where exploration expenditure is greater and the return time (from exploration to production) shorter. A second focus point will be long-term greenfield exploration with the aim of reducing exploration costs, implying significant improvement in development rates and a sustainable supply of raw materials at the same rate as the whole world wishes to grow. Therefore, new innovative ideas will also be tested for greenfield exploration to increase the potential of finding new major deposits of relevance to the EU. The overall objectives of the tasks are to develop (1) cost-effective and innovative exploration instruments comprising airborne, surface, downhole and in-mine modular-based geophysical systems, (2) new exploration targets through multidisciplinary and integrated approaches, (3) novel reprocessing and handling of legacy exploration data that will generate additional information and targets for detailed exploration, and (4) validating all these developments, to maximize their impacts, at relevant exploration sites covering greenfield, near-mine and in-mine areas using known targets. We anticipate that these developments will not only generate new technological and methodological markets for the EU, but will also result in improved exploration strategies in the EU and beyond. The nature of the consortium, the partners involved, and the commodities that are considered will result in highly useful exploitation of the developments envisaged in the project and a guarantee of their successful use beyond the project life.

Keywords: exploration,mineral deposits,new instruments,modeling,target generations,geophysics,borehole,in mine,airborne,greenfield
Fluctuations in Atomtronic Circuits (FLAC)

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: Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-12-15
End date: 2022-12-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ultracold quantum gases provide a unique highly-controllable platform to test fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics and to engineer novel quantum technologies and sensing devices. Recently, an emerging subfield called “atomtronics” is attracting increasing interest. Atomtronics aims to study neutral atomic circuits in optical and magnetic traps, in a manner analogous, but complementary, to electronic circuits. This proposal focusses on two key aspects in such systems, namely on modelling the dynamics in ring-trap geometries – which benefit from the topological protection of (neutral) atomic currents – and characterizing the dynamical emergence and transfer of coherence in analogue neutral-atomic transistors. The novel feature of this project is the inclusion of experimentally-relevant fluctuations via appropriate state-of-the-art modelling schemes (namely the stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii and the Zaremba-Nikuni-Griffin model) which fully include coupling of coherent and incoherent modes and associated fluctuations, made possible through high-performance computing simulations. The specific end-goal is to provide an in-depth characterisation of the dynamics of coherence in such circuits, thus both addressing open questions in the literature and identifying from the theoretical perspective the optimal specifications and parameter regimes which experimentalists could use to create an advanced atomic sensing device (atomic analogue of the superconducting quantum-interference device) and an atomic ring-based transistor. The proposed research has strong connections with existing experimental implementations, including the existing/planned setups at FORTH (Crete) [von Klitzing's group] and LKB (Paris) [Beugnon/Dalibard group], where the applicant will perform targeted secondments with the aim of becoming more familiar with experimental issues and devising potential strategies, thus contributing to potential future implementations of such devices.

Keywords: atomtronics,bose einstein condensation,multicomponent systems,finite temperature effects,non equilibrium modelling,stochastic models
Plant-Bacillus Interaction: Gain of Function Project (PBIGP)

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: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-03-17
End date: 2018-03-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

New and sustainable methods must be developed to meet society’s ever-increasing demand for food, energy, and chemicals. Feeding tomorrow’s population requires increasing food production sustainably and developing novel approaches to invert the excessive consumption growth of fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation-water by modern agriculture. Fortunately, symbiotic or non-symbiotic interactions between plant-hosts and specific microbes were shown to promote host-vigor, and improved product quality and yield and plant-growth-promoting bacilli have been commercialized as biofertilizers in recent years. However those benefits associated to the PGPRs are divided across a large diversity of bacteria; and host-plants demands, nutrient availability, and pathogen attacks vary constantly during the entire plant lifespan. The proposed research project for the H2020-MSCA-IF-2014 will focus on identifying, validating, and stacking bacterial gene clusters responsible of those properties. The approach consists of establishing libraries of hybrid-bacillus and screening them for novel plant growth promoting properties. Because of the current importance of reducing inputs in agriculture while increasing crop yield; the screen will focus on identifying properties that allows decreasing use of chemical fertilizers such nitrogen and phosphorus and improve drought and salt tolerance. The proposed research intertwines fundamental and applied fields and is designed to seed larger projects toward a sustainable agriculture and feed tomorrow’s population. It is designed to increase our knowledge in plant-microbe interactions, result in discoveries, and generate innovative technologies.

Keywords: bacillus subtilis,bacillus amyloliquefaciens,hybrid bacteria,plant growth promoting bacteria,pgpr,gain of function screen,plant microbe interaction,nitrogen,phosphorus
Proteolytic processing in plant stress signal transduction and responses to abiotic stress and pathogen attack (ProPlantStress)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: Biological Mechanisms, Structures and Functions
Panel description: Molecular biology, biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics, synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1804663.0
EU funding (EUR): 1804663.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Site-specific proteolytic processing is an irreversible post-translational protein modification that generates distinct protein species with new functions, interactions and subcellular locations. In plants, proteolytic processing regulates hormonal and stress signaling leading to adaptation of metabolic pathways and is implicated in plant-pathogen interactions. Despite their importance, proteolytic processes have largely been identified serendipitously, specific cleavage sites have rarely been identified and only a few of the hundreds of proteases encoded in plant genomes (>800 in Arabidopsis) have been linked to any substrates. Positional proteomics enables system-wide identification of proteolytic processing and protease substrate repertoires through quantitative determination of protein N- or C-termini. ProPlantStress will employ these approaches, which I co-developed during my postdoctoral research, to two linked abiotic and biotic stress conditions: i) Time-resolved mapping of chloroplast protein processing induced by high intensity light will reveal novel mechanisms of retrograde signal transduction, stress response and acclimation; ii) Profiling of protein processing triggered by pathogen recognition, combined with substrate identification for selected host and bacterial pathogen effector proteases will identify proteins with novel functions in plant immune responses and systemic signaling. Importantly, ProPlantStress will not merely catalogue termini and substrates: Mapping of cleavage sites to the protein domains and correlation with other modifications, such as phosphorylation, generates testable hypotheses on the function of processed protein species that will be examined in detail. ProPlantStress will thereby provide fundamental insights into proteolytic mechanisms underlying plant stress responses that are unattainable by other means. In the long term such knowledge is needed to develop new strategies for crop protection and mitigation of harvest loss.

Keywords: degradomics,proteolysis,proteolytic processing,plant stress responses,plant pathogen interactions,systemic acquired resistance,signaling crosstalk