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Simulating Intramolecular Charge Migration on Attosecond timescales (SICMA)

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
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ability to control the movement of charge is at the heart of chemistry. With the birth of intense, ultrashort attosecond laser pulses, electronic wave packets can be created in molecules which induce nuclear motion. As a result, the observation and control of electron motion at the atomic level is becoming feasible, leading to the field of attochemistry. In this project, we will develop and use theoretical tools to investigate the potential of these modern light sources to probe and direct this charge migration induced molecular dynamics in chemically important polyatomic molecules. These elementary aspects of laser-matter interactions are governed by quantum mechanics and therefore we will solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation using state-of-the-art quantum dynamics simulations to address the phenomenon. This will lead to a complete understanding of the underlying mechanism behind the coupled electron-nuclear motion and through a detailed comparison with other available semi-classical studies, a clear indication of their success or failure to theoretically describe such processes will be obtained. Following this, laser control schemes will be designed to enhance desired product yields from these chemical reactions. The key issues that we will address are: (i) Laser induced ultrafast charge migration in benzene and substituents, (ii) Charge migration in the photoinduced ring opening of cyclohexadiene to hexatriene, (iii) Coherent control of coupled electron-nuclear dynamics with attosecond laser pulses. Benzene is the building block of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and the cyclohexadiene to hexatriene reaction plays an important role in the biosynthesis of vitamin D3 from its provitamin dehydrocholesterol. Thereby, each of these objectives has potential societal value and will increase the understanding of the molecular basis of these chemical/biological processes.

Keywords: ultrafast phenomena,charge migration,non adiabatic dynamics,coupled electron nuclear motion,laser,control
Induction of Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsers (BroadSem)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1457185.0
EU funding (EUR): 1289942.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In the last one or two decades, language technology has achieved a number of important successes, for example, producing functional machine translation systems and beating humans in quiz games. The key bottleneck which prevents further progress in these and many other natural language processing (NLP) applications (e.g., text summarization, information retrieval, opinion mining, dialog and tutoring systems) is the lack of accurate methods for producing meaning representations of texts. Accurately predicting such meaning representations on an open domain with an automatic parser is a challenging and unsolved problem, primarily because of language variability and ambiguity. The reason for the unsatisfactory performance is reliance on supervised learning (learning from annotated resources), with the amounts of annotation required for accurate open-domain parsing exceeding what is practically feasible. Moreover, representations defined in these resources typically do not provide abstractions suitable for reasoning. In this project, we will induce semantic representations from large amounts of unannotated data (i.e. text which has not been labeled by humans) while guided by information contained in human-annotated data and other forms of linguistic knowledge. This will allow us to scale our approach to many domains and across languages. We will specialize meaning representations for reasoning by modeling relations (e.g., facts) appearing across sentences in texts (document-level modeling), across different texts, and across texts and knowledge bases. Learning to predict this linked data is closely related to learning to reason, including learning the notions of semantic equivalence and entailment. We will jointly induce semantic parsers (e.g., log-linear feature-rich models) and reasoning models (latent factor models) relying on this data, thus, ensuring that the semantic representations are informative for applications requiring reasoning.

Keywords: natural language processing
Moving Marketing Technology (MMT) – Autonomous infotainment display that creatively combines digital media with robotics to produce innovative public engagement (MMT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

As a world first, IBG have already presented our sensational development: Moving Technology, a unique combination of robotic technology and customisable marketing system, alongside our exciting gesture control robotics at various fairs by Panasonic, VW and Hannover Messe, etc. with great success. Building on this, MMT is a customisable mobile information and advertising robotic display that is designed to autonomously move through public spaces, allowing promoters and advertisers to engage with audiences in new and innovative methods. As a highly innovative technology, we fully expect for MMT to advance the digital signage industry as well as create new markets. We envision for the sensational MMT technology to be used at destination locations such as airports, shopping venues and sporting/event arenas, used for: - providing bespoke information/assistance to visitors - directing crowds foot-flow - meet-and-greet visitors to sites such as hospitals or universities - product marketing, reaching customers in a new highly engaging and eye-catching way As the first of its kind and with our IP position protected, we intend for MMT to become the industry standard and launch us into becoming a digital signage market leader, therefore, it is key for us to plan this market entry strategy carefully to ensure success is maximised. This feasibility study will allow us to: refine our market knowledge; scope the legislative pathway; finalise Phase 2 project partners; plan the work to be completed during Phase 2 and produce a fully elaborated business plan. Building on our legacy as an innovative company, at IBG, we possess the know-how necessary to develop, manufacture and market such world novelties and innovations. Having already proven TRL6, at Phase 2 we shall: finalise chassis development; prepare the data and vision technology for serial production; prove to the market the value of robotic digital media deployment and demonstrate reliable autonomous operation.

Keywords: autonomous,digital marketing,infotainment,robotics,industry 4 0,media,sensors
MOlecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure (MOSBRI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Sweden,Sweden,Slovenia,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Integrating Activities for Starting Communities (H2020-INFRAIA-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4996058.14
EU funding (EUR): 4996058.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of the MOlecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure (MOSBRI) is to enable ambitious integrative multi-technological studies of biological systems at the crucial intermediate level between atomic-resolution structural descriptions and cellular-scale observations. Its consortium of 2 companies and 13 academic centres of excellence from 11 countries gathers a wide complementary panel of cutting-edge instrumentation and expertise, leveraging barriers that currently hinder the optimal exploitation of molecular-scale biophysical approaches in the fields of biomedicine, biotechnology, biomaterials and beyond. MOSBRI provides European academic and industrial researchers with a one-stop shop Trans-National Access to the latest technological developments in advanced spectroscopies, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, real-time kinetics and single molecule approaches. It will play a major role in standardization and policy-making in the field by: i) carrying out Joint Research Activities to develop innovative methodologies; ii) designing robust quality control guidelines and FAIR-compatible archiving formats and databases; iii) engaging with instrumentation, pharma, biotech and CRO SMEs. Networking activities will multiply the impact of MOSBRI, by efficiently sharing and disseminating theoretical and practical knowledge through training events in Europe, contributing to: i) the emergence of a highly qualified new generation of scientists; ii) outreach to scientific communities currently unaware of the full potential of the integrated use of molecular-scale biophysics tools. MOSBRI is complementary to related infrastructures including INSTRUCT-ERIC and iNEXT-Discovery, and will help creating a strong cross-fertilizing ecosystem with leveraging effects for European science. It represents a unique opportunity for Europe to remain at the forefront in this competitive field, thereby contributing significantly to the acceleration of discoveries beneficial for OneHealth.

Keywords: molecular biophysics,advanced spectroscopies,hydrodynamics,thermodynamics,real time kinetics,single molecule approaches,drug discovery,biologics
Emergent spacetime and maximally spinning black holes (Emergent-BH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Sweden,France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495476.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495476.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

One of the greatest challenges of theoretical physics is to understand the fundamental nature of gravity and how it is reconciled with quantum mechanics. Black holes indicate that gravity is holographic, i.e. it is emergent, together with some of the spacetime dimensions, from a lower-dimensional field theory. The emergence mechanism has just started to be understood in certain special contexts, such as AdS/CFT. However, very little is known about it for the spacetime backgrounds relevant to the real world, due mainly to our lack of knowledge of the underlying field theories. My goal is to uncover the fundamental nature of spacetime and gravity in our universe by: i) formulating and working out the properties of the relevant lower-dimensional field theories and ii) studying the mechanism by which spacetime and gravity emerge from them. I will adress the first problem by concentrating on the near-horizon regions of maximally spinning black holes, for which the dual field theories greatly simplify and can be studied using a combination of conformal field theory and string theory methods. To study the emergence mechanism, I plan to adapt the tools that were succesfully used to understand emergent gravity in anti de-Sitter (AdS) spacetimes - such as holographic quantum entanglement and conformal bootstrap - to non-AdS, more realistic spacetimes.

Keywords: black holes,holography
Dynamics of femtosecond laser ablation of trapped dielectric and metallic nanoparticles (ADMEP)

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: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

During the last decades the use of pulsed lasers has been increasingly exploited for many applications in research, industry and healthcare via cutting, removing or depositing material. What many of these processes have in common is that so much energy is deposited in the target that its optical properties change during an individual laser pulse. Moreover, in applications like EUV generation and pulsed laser deposition, the optical properties of the ejected particles become spatially inhomogeneous. Thus, to predict/optimize the energy deposition, one needs to understand the complex interplay between the laser and the dynamically and spatially changing material properties. The ADMEP project aims to theoretically and experimentally study the dynamics of the material properties in nano- to micro-scale particles upon irradiation with fs-laser pulses. In order to theoretically model the absorption of light, the spatial inhomogeneity must be taken into account by performing finite-difference time-domain simulations in which the optical properties are dynamically updated each time step. To isolate the effects of the dynamics of the carrier density and temperature from the ones of their spatial inhomogeneity, experiments on trapped small spherical nanoparticles will be carried out. For small enough spheres, the transient material properties can be assumed to be homogeneous over their size. Afterwards, the laser interaction with larger and non-spherical particles will be studied. Finally, the aftermath (expansion of e- plasma, melting and ablation) will be investigated via fs-resolved microscopy both at the host and secondment facilities. These findings will find their way through a network consisting of researchers at the secondment (ARCNL, ASML) and at the University of Twente. The theoretical and experimental experience, combined with working with a private/public partnership will prepare the candidate for a career as a group leader in basic and applied research.

Keywords: femtosecond laser ablation
Fertility, Public Policies, and Women in Turkey in Comparative Perspective (FertilityPolicies)

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: Türkiye
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-15
End date: 2018-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 145845.6
EU funding (EUR): 145845.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to analyse the development and nature of the fertility policy in Turkey in the last decade under the rule by the AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi – Justice and Development Party). Some of the policy measures were first introduced as a part of legislative harmonization for the country’s EU accession process, while the decline in fertility rates has not been a pressing issue for Turkey as it is for EU countries. However, the policy programme, now famous with the slogan of “minimum three children,” was gradually developed by the AKP government against the background of its broader political agenda of cultural conservatism and economic liberalism. Accordingly, the fertility policy, the project claims, rests on two major goals: to counteract the changing position of women in society and to increase the country’s competitiveness as an emerging market economy. The project will examine the origins of the policy, the nature of policy measures and institutional change, and their gender implications. Drawing on the perspective of historical institutionalism, the project is designed as a qualitative case study, employing the methods of process tracing and comparative and interpretive analysis, and a variety of data collection strategies such as archival research, semi-structured interviews, and secondary sources. It will make significant contributions to the fields of comparative fertility policy studies, EU policy transfer, and historical institutionalism, with a unique case study of a context of late industrialization and political Islam. It will also contribute to public debates and women-friendly policy advocacy initiatives in Turkey.

Keywords: fertility,public policy,political islam,emerging market economies,eu accession,turkey,women s movements
Building Information Modelling based tools & technologies for fast and efficient RENovation of residential buildings (BIM4REN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies enabling energy-efficient systems and energy-efficient buildings with a low environmental impact
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Lithuania,Romania,France,France,France,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Building information modelling adapted to efficient renovation (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-EEB-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6997515.0
EU funding (EUR): 6997515.0
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

If BIM is key to address the construction sector growing technical complexity, to overcome construction processes fragmentation and communication problems between stakeholders, to reduce on-site time and improve quality and affordability, its uptake for the renovation of the EU existing building stock is yet to come and already late. To face this BIM4REN starts from 3 workflows adapted to the construction sector segmentation (90% of companies are SMEs) presenting particular technical and organisational requirements and has adapted the project and consortium to provide adequate and innovative processes, methodologies, software and hardware tools & BIM developments for each one of them, backboned by state of the art BIM technologies like worldwide used BIM Server (open-source) and BIM Bots by TNO among many others. BIM4REN gathers together top European RTOs active in the Built Environment domain (Nobatek, CSTB, Tecnalia, TNO, Fraunhofer ISE) alongside key industrial actors (EDF, CMB Carpi & ATI Project (leading BIM implementers in the EU market) with 2 Universities (RWTH & Vilnius Gedimas) and up to 11 SMEs: R&D performing (R2M, Ekodenge), SME contractors (Kursaal) and technology providers (IES, EnerBIM, WiseBIM, VRM, AEC3, etc.) with the European Builders Confederation, the Green Building Council Italy and a large French Social Housing Organisation (Logirep) representing the whole residential renovation value chain. B4R digital ecosystem will be accessible via a web based One Stop Access Platform, where depending on each user profile and needs, orientation, best practice examples from a dedicated database and links to the different tools and services (from Top-grade to Entry-level) will be provided on differentiated access schemes underpinned by different business models. Inspired by the Open Innovation 2.0 paradigm the project will setup a demonstration campaign with “pilots as Living Labs” integrating all stakeholders in 3 cities (Paris, San Sebastian and Venice).

Keywords: renovation,small contractors,digital tools for all,energy efficiency,fast collaborative process,open innovation 2 0,living labs,idds
Bringing the benefits of interactive digital health to the care of elderly persons with diabetes (Glucostratus)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Diabetes is a growing problem globally, with a total number of diabetes affected people of 60 million (2015) in Europe, expected to grow up to 71 million in 2040. This problem particularly affects elderly people, as the prevalence of diabetes increases to up to 20% at age 70+. Addressing these challenges is of utmost importance considering that diabetes will be the seventh leading cause of death in 2030 and the proportion of elderly people is rising steadily. Most importantly, elderly diabetes patients have special needs, as for example diabetes-related tasks (e.g. blood glucose tests and injecting insulin) have to be handled by visiting home care nurses who also have the task of entering the results to medical records. The current smartphone solutions are not suited for elderly patients since they require fluency with smartphones and Bluetooth device connections. Glucostratus has developed a remote blood glucose monitoring system (Smart + Balance) to measure glucose levels of elderly patients, while allowing their remote follow up, guidance and better patient↔healthcare professional communication. The Smart glucometer has a built-in 3G mobile data connection which automatically sends the readings to the cloud platform (Balance) through an encrypted connection. Balance is thus a secure data storage, with embedded functionalities for data sharing (patient↔healthcare professional) and for data analysis &amp; decision support. The concept aims to improve: i) support that diabetes patients are getting through remote monitoring and automated guidance based on their real-time blood glucose data and individual settings; ii) availability of comprehensive blood glucose history as well as analysis for decision support to healthcare professionals; iii) ability of healthcare professionals to intervene early when a patient is not meeting treatment targets; iv) workflows and cost-effectiveness of diabetes-related nurse activities in home care; and (v) easy-to- use system.

Keywords: healthcare system,health related biotechnology,medical devices,patient care,wellbeing,cloud computing,web and information systems,database systems