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Innovations capacity building in Ukrainian SMEs and enhancing cooperation with European SMEs (EEN-Ukraine)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Ukraine
Call: H2020 ENTREPRISE EUROPE NETWORK SGA4 2020-2021 (H2020-EEN-SGA4-2020-2021, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 243125.0
EU funding (EUR): 243125.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The overall/general objective of this proposal is to increase innovation potential and innovation management skills within SMEs in the all regions of Ukraine and to assist SMEs with potential for international growth via product, process, service or business model support. The project will follow a defined methodology to help regional businesses to increase their innovation capacity, to innovate profitably and also to successfully implement their innovative ideas on the competitive market. The EEN-Ukraine Consortium intends to enhance innovation capacity of SMEs by encouragement their participation in Horizon 2020 projects and provision of KAM and EIMC services for SME beneficiaries of the H2020 European Innovation Council pilot. The secondary target group will be R&D organisations that will benefit from EEN services as well. The specific objectives for reaching the overall / general objective are as follows: - promote and support SMEs from Ukraine in participation on the H2020 SME Instrument and COSME programmes; - identify weaknesses in the innovation capacities of the beneficiary that hinder the realization of growth opportunities and of the full commercial potential of SME Instrument participants; - identify suitable coaches to address the identified weaknesses and moderating the coach-client relationship; - increase the innovation potential of SMEs lacking professional support in the field of innovation management; - help SMEs to select the most appropriate coach; - explain and sell the benefits of the SME Instrument's coaching service to potential beneficiaries; - facilitate the SME- coach relationship and ensure the effective teamwork and co-operation between the SME; - secure close cooperation links between the Consortium and the H2020 National Contact Point, regional stakeholders and other business and research support institutions; - accompany the beneficiary through the SME instrument project; - make the innovation system of Ukrainian SME more effective.

Keywords: industry,smes,academia,technology transfer,innovations,kam and eimc services
Knowledge, Skills and Attitudinal Competences for Quality Early childhood Education and Care (ECECWorkforce)

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: Hungary
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 109679.4
EU funding (EUR): 109679.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The education and training of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce is of prime importance as it equips practitioners with the knowledge, skills and attitudinal competences needed to work with children. Training supports them in creating quality environments for children to enhance the quality of provision and subsequent child outcomes. The research is timely with the increased interest in the benefits of quality ECEC for supporting the holistic development of children, but with a need to understand more about the role of the workforce in this. Whilst qualifications have been established as important for the quality of ECEC, little is known about the nature of the qualifications and the role that they play in developing the knowledge, skills and attitudinal competences needed to best enhance the quality of ECEC provision. The research will focus on ECEC qualification requirements, structure, content and characteristics across Europe. The project will analyse (via secondary data) the qualification requirements across Europe, the composition of the qualifications and their relationship to child outcomes. This macro level analysis will be supported by a detailed investigation (via empirical research) into the delivery of qualifications and the role they play in developing the knowledge, skills and attitudinal competences appropriate to the context. The detailed investigation of qualifications will consider the formulation, delivery, experiences and application of ECEC higher education training in the host’s institution, selected for its expertise in training kindergarten pedagogues in Hungary. ECEC in Hungary is under explored, whilst also offering an interesting case to study due to how its history, market composition and quantity of provision contrast with those experienced by the Fellow in the UK. Pertinent for this research is emerging evidence on the divergent views of the knowledge, skills and attitudinal competences needed to work in ECEC.

Keywords: early childhood education and care,higher education,professionalism,competences
Cooperative Robots for Extreme Environments (CoRob-X)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling advances in space technology
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Norway,Belgium,France,France
Call: SRC - Space robotics technologies (H2020-SPACE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3006912.5
EU funding (EUR): 3006912.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

CoRob-X develops and demonstrates enabling technologies for multi-agent robotic teams. The primary target application is the exploration of planetary surfaces, with a focus on hard-to-reach areas. CoRob-X builds on robotic hardware provided by the project consortium and software building blocks developed within the framework of the SRC Space Robotics Technologies. These building blocks are reused and extended to support a multi-agent exploration team of robots. A first iteration of the Conceptual Study led us to select a set of specific scenarios for the exploration of Lunar surface and lava tubes with a team of three Robotic Explorer Units (REUs). The rovers are at different scale (dimensions, mass) and exhibit different locomotion principles/capabilities. The final demonstration will be performed in a Moon/Mars (outdoor) analogue simulation environment and include the use of an instrument that will be used on a real space mission (same ground penetrating radar GPR as used in Exomars), and will be aimed to demonstrate how to improve the performances of a space mission (in terms of scientific return, timeliness, availability, responsiveness, and operation costs) and maturity level of the existing building blocks. Additionally, a terrestrial mining scenario will be demonstrated that reuses the SW packages developed for the space mission but on different robotic platforms. The final demonstration for the terrestrial scenario will be in the mining facilities of Santa Barbara Foundation. CoRob-X is firmly embedded in the SRC Space Robotics Research ecosystem. Corob-X´s team is formed by key partners that have been involved in each and every previous OG,s from the 1st and 2nd PERASPERA SRC call (from OG1 to OG11). Therefore, we can maximize the capability for re-use and identification of the extensions to the existing building blocks required and minimize the risks associated to the integration activities.

Keywords: cooperative robot team,exploration of planetary surfaces,lava tube
Revolutionary secure payment management system to integrate the different elements of the payment industry with the use of SEPA (TMS Cloud ePos)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Until now, the payment market has been strongly segmented with many incompatible payment solutions. Market investments are introducing many new payment methods but the underlying architecture remains the same and is only getting more complicated. Since 2010, PayPlaza has been developing a revolutionary secure payment management system to integrate the different elements of the payment industry. Payplaza is seeking to develop this platform to handle any payment transaction from any platform (e-commerce / terminal / POS) in any country and with any currency. By providing an interface which separates the different layers of data, PayPlaza enables the integration of different payment elements in a matter of days. Thanks to the integration layer, users have freedom of choosing Point-of-Sale software, payment terminals and acquirers across the globe, whilst applying the highest security principles. This is the much needed solution for international organisations with operations in several countries, dealing with different payment service providers, payment terminals, ECR (software) integrations, various acquirers and bank contracts. Their cost savings include a reduction in maintenance and administration costs thanks to dealing with only the PayPlaza platform. As well as lower transaction costs thanks to being able to operate with any of the payment solution providers. Additionally, Payplaza is building dashboard functionality which will allow the users to make sense of all their data, hereby supporting their future growth. Further more users gain more functionalities such as processing biometrics, alternative payments, loyalty or any other transaction. PayPlaza has built the minimal viable product to solve these problems and now seeks to seize the market opportunity, which will be done by performing a feasibility study in phase 1, followed by a phase 2 project where PayPlaza will build out their prototype to a fully certified, scalable and redundant platform.

Keywords: acquirers,payment processor,sepa,bank transfer
Design of double network polycarbonate-based hydrogels by simultaneous reactions: scaffolds for load-bearing soft tissue regeneration (DN-CARTILOGEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-12
End date: 2018-09-11
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.81
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Polymer materials have outstanding properties with which to be applied for a wide range of applications. In particular, hydrogel materials are widely studied for applications in tissue engineering on account of their high water contents. Despite the advances in these materials, some biomedical targets remain challenging. Articular cartilage (AC) is the white flexible load-bearing soft tissue able to withstand the highest loads in physically demanding areas of the body. Once it is damaged, its poor ability for self-repair may induce a progressive loss of function that, ultimately, results in a severe musculoskeletal degenerative condition. While most commonly used hydrogel fabrication techniques still have practical limitations or do not lead to materials that are sufficiently strong for AC regeneration, the DN-Cartilogel project proposes the preparation of innovative tough, double network hydrogel materials that are based on advanced hydrophilic poly(carbonate)s. The tailored design of polymers with specific side-chain and end group functionalities will lead to hydrogel materials with improved mechanical strength, toughness and high water content. To this end, the project will apply the one-step synthetic methodology based on orthogonal click chemistry that was reported recently by the host group to generate novel and highly tunable materials. The ultimate goal is to develop a straightforward path to design robust DN hydrogels able to induce the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into specialized cartilage-producing cells, which directly addresses priorities established by the H2020 Work Programme.

Keywords: injectable hydrogels,cell encapsulation,regenerative medicine
Cardiotoxicity High-throughput screening (HTS) with zebrafish embryo (ZECARDIO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1867186.25
EU funding (EUR): 1867186.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The complex nature of pharmaceutical new molecules generation, both in terms of R&D process and regulatory requirements, indicates a huge need for innovative tools/services for optimal delivery to patients of novel medicines in the fastest and cheapest manner. The pharmaceutical industry strives continuously to produce new, safer and more efficacious drugs for unmet needs, evolving different synthesis techniques, expanding numbers of leads for potential drug candidates. However, this abundance has also created a new set of challenges in efficient processing of drug libraries for target validation and toxicity assessment. High-throughput screening (HTS) is thought to be key in handling this flow of new potential therapeutics in a systematic and time-efficient manner. But, there is a strong evidence that in vitro cell-based assays and subsequent preclinical in vivo studies do not yet provide sufficient pharmacological and toxicity data or reliable predictive capacity for understanding drug candidate performance in vivo. The model developed by ZeClinics with specific focus on cell and molecular interactions and physiological parameters improves this situation and helps to determine the corresponding responses to bioactive agents. The aim of ZeCardio project is to use zebrafish model to develop HTS of large libraries in live organism for cardiotoxicity assessment. Our complete system analyses the impact of drugs and diseases in heart performance (Heart rate, Arrytmia, AV Blockage and Ejection fraction) and the performance of the vascular system (Blood flow and vasodilatation/constriction).

Keywords: cardiotoxicity,high throughput screening hts,in vivo models,preclinical screening,zebrafish,drug withdraws
New Techniques for Secure Computation (NTSC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1903833.0
EU funding (EUR): 1546758.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Secure computation is a general-purpose tool for processing sensitive data without compromising its confidentiality or integrity. In recent years, significant research efforts have been invested in optimizing and implementing secure computation protocols and related cryptographic primitives such as fully homomorphic encryption and program obfuscation. The proposed project will explore new techniques for secure computation and related primitives. The new techniques are expected to enhance the asymptotic and concrete efficiency of current solutions and extend the known relations between secure computation and other problems in cryptography and computational complexity theory. The research will span the following directions: • Succinct secure computation via homomorphic secret sharing, exploring new research directions that were opened by recent works of the PI; • Protecting protocols against malicious parties, with relevance to efficient general-purpose program obfuscation; • Protecting protocols against general information leakage

Keywords: secure multiparty computation,computational complexity theory
Creating the new generation of 2D light emitters (Ne2DeM)

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: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1493479.0
EU funding (EUR): 1493479.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have size tuneable optical features. Among them, nanoplatelets (NPLs) are 2D NCs with especially well controlled optical features. As a result, these are the semiconductor nanoparticles with the narrowest luminescence signal, which make them very appealing for light emission application and in particular large gamut displays. In the Ne2DeM project, the NPLs will be used as a platform for the design of a new generation of light emitters which applications span from display lightning, to infrared sensing or 3D imaging displays. The development of a new tool box based on NPLs will be the main ambition of the Ne2DeM project. More specifically I intend to develop three new functionalities to NPLs dedicated to light emission. First, I aim to synthesize particles with dual green and red narrow emissions. This goal relies on the design of a new highly complex 2D heterostructure that will be used as light down converter for white light production with an easier integration than the current technology or materials. The second objective will relate to expanding the wavelength range in the infrared where light can be emitted from NPLs while preserving narrow and fast luminescence. Such short-wave infrared source will be suited in applications such as biolabeling and active imaging. Finally, I intend to develop NPL with circularly polarized emission. To do so, I will develop enantioselective synthesis of 2D NPLs and control the folding of these lasts. This provides high potential for 3D imaging display. The targeted materials are highly promising to bring back Europe into the market of NC for light emission, while it remains currently uninvolved at the industrial scale. Beyond the development of a new generation of NCs, Ne2DeM also aims to develop new original method for in-situ investigation of the NC growth and to investigate the development of materials electronic structure to fasten their integration into devices.

Keywords: nanocrystals,light emitters,colloidal synthesis
Development of novel and cost-effective drilling technology for Geothermal Systems (Geo-Drill)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Iceland,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Norway,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Developing solutions to reduce the cost and increase performance of renewable technologies (H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-TwoStages, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4996400.0
EU funding (EUR): 4996400.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Geothermal is the most under-utilized of renewable sources due to high investment costs and long development cycle. A big part (53%) of the cost is in drilling and it is time-dependent. Geo-Drill aims to reduce drilling cost with increased ROP and reduced tripping with improved tools lives. Geo-Drill is proposing drilling technology incorporating bi-stable fluidic amplifier driven mud hammer, low cost 3D printed sensors & cables, drill monitoring system, Graphene based materials and coatings. Geo-Drill fluidic amplifier driven hammer is less sensitive to issues with mud and tolerances, less impact of erosion on hammer efficiency and it continues to operate with varying mud quality in efficient manner. It is also less affected by the environmental influences such as shocks, vibrations, accelerations, temperature and high pressures. Low cost and robust 3D-printed sensors & cables along the surface of the whole length of the drill string provides real-time high bandwidth data during drilling; e.g. estimation of rock formation hardness, mud flow speed, density, temp, etc. Flow assurance simulations combined with sensor readings and knowledge-based system will assist in optimizing drilling parameters and cuttings transport performance and safety conditions. Graphene's ability to tune the particular form lends itself uniquely as a component in a wide variety of matrices for coating developments with enhanced adhesion and dispersion properties and improved resistance to abrasion, erosion, corrosion and impact. Placing few mm hard-strength materials on drill bit, drill stabilizer through diffusion bonding improves their wear resistance and improve the lifetime. Geo-Drill's hammers improved efficiency and lifetime, drill parameter optimisation and CTP via sensors, reduced time in replacing tools with improved lifetime work together to improve ROP & lifetime resulting in reduced drilling time. Thereby, Geo-Drill will reduce drilling cost by 29-60%.

Keywords: dth hammer,graphene based coating,3d printed sensors,drill pipe with 3d printed cable,diffusion bonding and brazing