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Embedded Life-Cycle Management for Smart Multimaterials Structures: Application to Engine Components (MORPHO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Germany,Greece,Belgium,Greece,France,Netherlands
Call: Next generation multifunctional and intelligent airframe and engine parts, with emphasis on manufacturing, maintenance and recycling (H2020-MG-2020-SingleStage-INEA, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998471.25
EU funding (EUR): 4998471.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

In the framework of the transition to an industry 4.0, connected objects deployment is reinventing manufacturing and maintenance processes enabling tighter integration of the value chain. Adding native connectivity to aircraft parts is the key technology to unlock this transformation. This goes through embedding sensor technology into engine components and providing them with cognitive capabilities to improve manufacturing processes and operational availability without compromising safety. MORPHO is the joint effort of European experts in smart manufacturing, sensor integration, structural health monitoring, recycling of aerospace structural parts, and SAFRAN (a major OEM) to face this tremendous challenge. Modern and future fan blades are designed and manufactured using a hybrid metal and advanced composite configuration. In the case of the LEAP engine, the core body of the fan blades is built up with 3D-woven composite, while the leading edge is made of titanium. These hybrid blades allow for mass gain and exhibit high strength and fracture toughness. Yet they remain vulnerable to an unexpected foreign object impact and to the initiation of damage mechanisms. Moreover, their environmentally friendly recycling is still a challenge. MORPHO proposes to embed printed and fiber-optical sensors in aircraft engine fan blades, thus providing them with cognitive capabilities already while they are manufactured. The parallel development of a digital/hybrid twin models will drastically improve the blades' Life Cycle Management (LCM). Particular focus lies on the efficient, profitable and environmental-friendly manufacturing, maintenance, and recycling of these next-generation smart engine fan blades. MORPHO’s ambition is also to set the cornerstones of future standards for a reliable, sustainable, agile and cost-effective industrialization of these new intelligent and multifunctional parts as well as of their associated manufacturing, maintenance, and recycling processes.

Keywords: smart structure,multifunctional structure,multi material structures,structural health monitoring,smart rtm manufacturing,hybrid twin,prognostic and health monitoring,remaining useful life predictive
Neolithic textiles and clothing industries in the Aegean (NETIA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200194.8
EU funding (EUR): 200194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The NETIA research project explores the textile arts and crafts of the early agricultural communities in the Aegean (6500-3300 BCE). The scope of this interdisciplinary project is to examine the origins and the first stages of textile crafts and other related technologies for coverage, protection and decoration of the human body. It focuses on raw materials, tools, technologies and textile design but aims towards an understanding of spatial organization of crafts and its impact on the economy, social structure of ancient societies and their natural environment. The main data collection will be carried out primarily within the borders of the modern Greek state, while comparisons will be made with Neolithic evidence from the Balkan countries and Anatolia. Since industrial activities in the Neolithic societies are closely related to the earliest systematic exploitation of natural resources and the domestication of wild species (plants and animals) first attested in the Near East, this synthesis, combined with other archaeological data, will contribute to an overall understanding of innovations, cultural exchange and population mobility in contemporary Neolithic Europe. The project is hosted by the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Textile Research (CTR), a highly specialized center for textile studies with rich activity and international collaborations providing optimal training for the project's purposes, and by the TOPOI Excellence cluster ‘’Textile Revolution in FU Berlin. The results will be presented in a series of academic and popular outreach activities and will supply material for educational and industrial applications.

Keywords: neolithic,textiles,aegean,skin,figurines,textile patterns,textile tools,ancient dna
Technology Innovation for the Local Scale, Optimum Integration of Battery Energy Storage (TILOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Germany,Greece,Sweden,Greece,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Local / small-scale storage (H2020-LCE-2014-3, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13752903.95
EU funding (EUR): 11008622.5
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

TILOS aims to demonstrate the optimal integration of local scale energy storage in a fully-operated, smart island microgrid that will also communicate with a main electricity grid. The main objective of the project will be the development and operation of a prototype battery storage system, based on NaNiCl2 batteries, provided with an optimum, real-environment smart grid control system and coping with the challenge of supporting multiple tasks, ranging from microgrid energy management, maximization of RES penetration and grid stability, to export of guaranteed energy amounts and provision of ancillary services to the main grid. The battery system will support both stand-alone and grid-connected operation, while proving its interoperability with the rest of microgrid components, including demand side management aspects and distributed, residential heat storage in the form of domestic hot water. At the same time, TILOS project addresses the high-priority area of the specific call concerning island regions. In doing so, apart from Tilos island, TILOS also engages the islands of Pellworm, La Graciosa and Corsica, aiming to create an island platform that will enable transfer of technological experience by making use of the smart grid system of Pellworm on the one hand, and by offering new case studies for the development of similar projects on the other. Elaboration of new case studies will be enabled by the development of an advanced microgrid simulating tool, i.e. the Extended Microgrid Simulator, offering the potential for the detailed examination of different battery technologies and microgrid configurations (stand-alone, grid connected and power market-dependent systems). Finally, by also addressing social issues, through public engagement, and by developing novel business models and policy instruments, TILOS puts emphasis on the market diffusion of the developed battery storage system and the integrated energy solution implemented on the island of Tilos.

Keywords: battery storage,distributed heat storage,smart microgrid,demand side management,island region
Connecting COnsumers and producers to REbalance farmers’ position through AmbassaDOrs trainings (COCOREADO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Belgium,Bulgaria,Finland,Belgium,Slovenia,Belgium,Latvia,Denmark,Portugal
Call: Connecting consumers and producers in innovative agri-food supply chains (H2020-RUR-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999250.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

COCOREADO is a project designed to rebalance the position of the farmer as an individual actor, as a key player in innovative food supply chains and as a supplier for public procurement. Based on the multi-actor approach and a deep understanding of agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS), the project applies a three-fold approach to maximize impact, relying on ambassadorship, good practices, and a focus on youth. COCOREADO will foster opportunities for young people in rural areas to co-create innovative solutions that overcome current hurdles for farmers and respond to consumer needs, while simultaneously improving the conditions for sustainable public procurement of local and seasonal food. The consortium connects key youth actors including young farmers, college youth, youth movements in an environment that offers support and encouragement to undertake action. A key tool for creating such environment is the COCOREADO Ambassador Training Program. Furthermore, the project involves both academic and close-to-farmers partners across Europe, recognising regional differences and barriers in terms of replicability of good practices and regional opportunities in terms of solutions. Active youth engagement in co-creating solutions remains at the core of the well balanced consortium including three EU-level youth organisations, and is embedded within COCOREADO’s methodologies, thus ensuring that innovative supply chains remain future-proof. COCOREADO starts with the collection of innovative initiatives that enhance the position of the farmers and improve their connection with consumers. Good practices will be assessed for their replicability and translated into educational materials. Furthermore, user-friendly decision support tools with high potential will be made accessible. Communication and dissemination of good practices and tools will focus on farmers, rural communities, policy makers, actors in the food chain such as chefs and local food processors.
Improvement of the plastic packaging waste chain from a circular economy approach (PlastiCircle)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Germany,Italy,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Romania,Romania,Slovenia,Norway,Belgium,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Systemic, eco-innovative approaches for the circular economy: large-scale demonstration projects (H2020-CIRC-2016TwoStage, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8674540.89
EU funding (EUR): 7774016.75
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

The European plastic market is not currently aligned with the circular economy. More than 25.8 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced per year in the EU28 being recycled only 29.7%. This represents a clear loose in the plastic market loop (losses of €10.56bn). Moreover, this goes against the EU legislation on waste (high environmental impact; 23.8 Mt of CO2). Low recycling rates of plastic are mainly due to the situation of packaging waste (i.e. main plastic waste fraction), since it is mainly domestic residue and consequently the quality of the material collected depends on the system of segregation available and the environmental awareness of citizens. PlastiCircle aims to develop and implement a holistic process to increase recycling rates of packaging waste in Europe. This will allow to reprocess again plastic waste in the same value chain (i.e. Circular economy; closure of plastic loop). This process is based on four axes: collection (to increase quantity of packaging collected), transport (to reduce costs of recovered plastic), sorting (to increase quality of recovered plastic), and valorization in value-added products (i.e. foam boards, automotive parts like engine covers/bumpers/dashboards, bituminous roofing membranes, garbage bags, asphalt sheets/roofing felts and urban furniture like fences/benches/protection walls). The target is to increase collection from 81.7% to 87% and valorization in a 9.8%. The implementation of PlastiCircle approach in Europe have the potential to increase collected plastic in 861,250t (reaching 14.14 Mt) and valorization in 1.59Mt. The valorization of this new material, represents a market value of €2.86bn-€7.95bn. Taking into account current figures of the plastic sector (turnover €350bn, 62,000 companies, 1.45M employees), this could imply creation of 500-1400 new companies and the generation of 11,900-33,000 new jobs in the medium to long term if PlastiCircle approach is extended in a EU level.

Keywords: plastic waste,circular economy,urban areas,collection,transport,sorting,valorization
The Constitutional Place of Expertise (CONPLEX)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project explores how constitutional principles can enhance the democratic legitimacy of expert-based decision-making in the European Union (EU). It does so by focusing on participation, transparency and administrative rationality, as interpreted by European Courts when reviewing expert-based decisions, and as incorporated into institutional practices involving both scientific and economic expertise. In particular, CONPLEX aims at detecting links and influences between Courts’ activity and decision-making processes, capable of leading to a deeper integration of expertise within the constitutional discourse. The proposal draws on a new legal realist approach to legal research, and combines doctrinal analysis of the Courts’ case-law and empirical investigation of institutional practices – through documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews to Commission’s officials and experts. The project is original from a conceptual, methodological and empirical perspective and makes a timely contribution to the on-going debate on technocracy and democracy in the EU, especially with regard to the role played by scientific and economic experts in politically controversial issues. The research will take place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and will be embedded in the research programme of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). It will be co-supervised by Prof. C. Eckes and Dr. M. Weimer, who are leading experts in the field of EU constitutional law and EU law and governance. Besides enhancing my scientific knowledge and research skills, my international research network and my profile as an independent researcher – thereby improving my career opportunities – the project will contribute to European research excellence and to raising institutional and public awareness about the need for enhanced democratic legitimacy of expert-based decision-making processes.

Keywords: european union,democratic legitimacy,judicial review,expert decision making,constitutional principles,transparency,participation,administrative rationality
Smart Core/shell nanorod arrays for artificial skin (SmartCore)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Austria
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499108.76
EU funding (EUR): 1112000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The replication of the circle of information coming from the environment, to the skin, to an action mediated by the brain, requires a lot of advances in smart technology and materials development. Embedding sensors in smart architectures that record the stimulus from the environment and transform it into action is the objective of artificial skins. At the moment, different sensors have to be implemented in the artificial skin matrix for each stimulus. The goal of this project is to develop a single multi-stimuli responsive material, which would allow a simplification of the artificial skin and enable unprecedented spatial resolution. The material will be comprised of a smart core, responsive to temperature and humidity, and a piezoelectric shell for pressure sensing. The swelling of the smart core upon stimuli will be sensed by the piezoelectric shell and produce a measurable potential. This architecture will be achieved thanks to the use of novel vapor-based technologies for material processing that allow fabrication at the nanoscale. The advantage of using a dry, vapor-based, polymerization for the smart core is that it will be possible to cumulate different functionalities and engineered composition gradients, which are difficult to obtain by conventional synthesis. Nano-structuration of such materials in core-shell site-specific arrays will allow to create a sensing network with spatial resolution down to 1mm and lower. The network will respond to the stimuli coming from the environment and recognize them in terms of location and type of stimuli. The successful execution of the SmartCore project will have a strong impact in the design and production of future structures, with consequences in sensoring, biotechnology and tissue engineering.

Keywords: chemical vapor deposition,piezoelectricity,stimuli responsive materials
Multi-modal Optical Diagnostics for Ocular and Neurodegenerative Disease (MOON)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Austria,France,Netherlands
Call: Photonics KET 2016 (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 64.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3694635.0
EU funding (EUR): 3694634.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The rising life expectancy of EU citizens is creating a dramatic increase in age-related degenerative diseases and associated healthcare costs. The MOON Project (Multi-modal Optical Diagnostics for Ocular and Neurodegenerative Disease) meets this societal challenge by applying photonics to diagnose age-related diseases of the eye and central nervous system. Consistent with the ICT-29-2016: Photonics KET 2016 Work Program, MOON will design and build a multi-band, multimodal and functional imaging platform combining label-free molecularly sensitive Raman spectroscopy with high speed and high-resolution Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), for in-depth diagnostics of ocular and neurodegenerative diseases. MOON will enhance OCT – already the gold standard of retinal imaging - through the development of a disruptive laser technology that enables wide-field structural and functional imaging. MOON will establish a reference database for molecular biomarkers of addressed diseases that enables, for the first time, in-depth molecular-specific diagnosis of retinal diseases and neurodegenerative pathologies based on Raman spectroscopy. The MOON system will be validated in vivo in a clinical setting through close collaboration between clinicians and commercial partners. The clinical validation will establish the diagnostic accuracy of the multi-modal platform, while also verifying the ease-of-use needed for widespread adoption. MOON is driven by unmet medical user needs in diagnostic imaging with a clear business case addressing the highly promising ophthalmic market of early and in-depth molecularly sensitive diagnostics of retinal and neurodegenerative diseases. The three industrial partners cover the complete value/supply chain. MOON aims to bridge the gap between research and product development, thereby expediting the commercialization of the MOON technologies, strengthening the participating companies, and creating a competitive advantage for the European photonics market.

Keywords: optical coherence tomography,raman spectroscopy,swept source laser,alzheimer,age related macula degeneration
Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of Persulfides: Implications of their Roles in Cardiovascular Disease (CVD_CysSSSCys)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one most fatal disease worldwide and despite many efforts, there is still no current treatment. Thus, the discovery of novel therapeutics to treat CVD is critical. Persulfides are biologically-relevant sulfur species that display much therapeutic potential in a variety of human disease, including CVD. Importantly, persulfides are potent scavengers of many disease-associated oxidants and electrophiles, making persulfides potentially relevant in the etiology of such diseases. Unfortunately, the reactive nature of persulfides makes their study difficult and reliant on the use of donor compounds. As a result, various persulfide donors have been developed, though these too often lack stability and are mostly biologically-irrelevant. Therefore, to address these issues, I discovered a novel persulfide donor, cysteine trisulfide (Cys-SSS-Cys). Cys-SSS-Cys is a stable biologically relevant molecule that upon reduction, releases cysteine persulfide (Cys-SSH), which is also a biologically relevant species. Thus, I hypothesize Cys-SSS-Cys is an ideal persulfide donor to study the therapeutic properties of persulfides, and that Cys-SSS-Cys will prove to be a novel therapeutic for the prevention and/or treatment of CVD. To assess this, I will examine effects of Cys-SSS-Cys on cellular, tissue and whole animal models displaying symptoms of CVD. First, I will identify mechanisms for cellular uptake and intracellular reduction of Cys-SSS-Cys to afford Cys-SSH. Next, I will measure the ability for Cys-SSS-Cys to prevent/treat markers associated with CVD in cells and tissue. Lastly, I will evaluate whether Cys-SSS-Cys serves as a therapeutic for CVD in whole animal models. Altogether, this research aims to identify Cys-SSS-Cys as a novel therapeutic to treat CVD; aiding in the advancement of global healthcare and the search for a cure to a devastating worldwide epidemic.

Keywords: cardiovascular disease,hypertension,diabetes,heart failure,ischemia,repercussion,trisulfide,hydrogen sulfide,polysulfide,per sulfide,nitric oxide