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Novel business on DURable and COMPostable products based on REcycled plastic (ReDurComp)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

More than 25 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced every year in the EU28 (50 kg per EU citizen). Although the rates of plastic waste recovery have increased (26% mechanical recycling; 35.6% energy recovery), 38.4% of this waste is still landfilled (9.6 million tonnes). This goes against the EU Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC as it has a high environmental impact (0.105kg CO2/kg plastic waste landfilled; production of one million tonnes of CO2) and wastage of resources (€590/tonne of recycled plastic ; losses of €5,664 M). INTERVAL, S.A. is a family-owned business created in 1982 specialised the recycling and transformation of plastics. We employ 22 people and have an annual turnover of €3,240,066. We produce more than 7,000 tonnes of plastic products per year using the most advanced technology in our production processes.Through ReDurComp, we aim to launch innovative, low-cost products onto the EU market based on premium recycled PE. We will start by introducing two products for which a clear market need has been identified (i.e. plastic sacks for household waste collection and plastic covers for pallets). As a whole, sales of about €48.3 million are forecast within a five-year period, generating profits of over €4.8 million. During phase 1, a feasibility study including a business plan will be developed in line with the overall internationalisaton and growth plan of our company. This study will include: (1) a market assessment to confirm INTERVAL’s products acceptance in the two segments considered; (2) a technical assessment to validate our recycled PE material according to relevant EU standards and procedures, as well as final testing; (3) a stakeholder assessment to identify the key players and activities for the second and third phases of the project; (4) a complete Business Plan including a cost analysis of raw materials and production activities, marketing and sales strategies, target market, investment requirements, and sales partners.

Keywords: plastics,recycled,cover,sacks,compostability,durability
Dynamic mechanisms and functional roles of synaptic plasticity in memory (Dyn-Syn-Mem)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 67.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499505.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499505.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Activity-dependent plasticity of synaptic transmission together with refinement of neural circuits connectivity are amongst the core mechanisms underlying learning and memory. While there is already extensive knowledge on some of the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, fundamental questions remain on the dynamics of the underlying molecular events and the functional roles of various forms of synaptic plasticity in information processing, learning and behavior. We previously uncovered basic features of glutamate receptor movements and their role in excitatory synaptic transmission. Our new ground-breaking objectives are: 1) to uncover, in a physiological context, the dynamic mechanisms through which synapses modulate their strength in response to neuronal activity by integrating on different space and time scales the properties of receptor traffic pathways and associated stabilization mechanisms, 2) to use our knowledge and innovative tools to interfere with these trafficking mechanisms in order to decipher the specific roles of different forms of synaptic plasticity in given brain functions and behavioral tasks. For this aim, I lead a team of neurobiologists, physicists and chemists with a collaborative record of accomplishment. We will combine imaging, cellular neurobiology, physiology and behavior to probe the mechanisms and roles of different forms of synaptic plasticity. New in tissue high-resolution imaging combined with innovative molecular reporters and electrophysiology will allow analysis of receptor traffic during short and long-term synaptic plasticity in physiological conditions. We will probe the interplay between activity-dependent changes in synaptic strength and circuit function with new photo-activable modifiers of receptor traffic with an unprecedented time and space resolution. Use of these tools in vivo will allow identifying the roles of synaptic plasticity in sensory information processing and the various phases of spatial memory formation.

Keywords: synaptic plasticity,glutamate receptor trafficking,high resolution imaging,neurophysiology,bio sensors,molecular mechanisms of memory
NExt generation of Tuneable LASers for optical coherence tomography (NETLAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Finland,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 58.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4199843.52
EU funding (EUR): 4199843.52
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of this Innovative Training Network (ITN) is to educate 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESR) towards PhD through a joint interdisciplinary research programme. This programme (NETLAS) will educate the ESRs in the rapidly expanding hot topic of tuneable lasers for optical coherence tomography (OCT). Research will be jointly developed across the network to cover 12 technologies, that span interdisciplinary and intersectoral fields, such as: 3 technologies of novel laser devices, 4 technologies of novel optics configurations for tuneable lasers, 3 original signal processing technologies to optimise the utilisation of the novel lasers in practice and 2 over-arching application technologies in OCT for medical imaging and non-destructive testing. The network aims to educate tomorrow’s European industry leaders and innovators by bringing the ESRs together with today’s end users in order to incorporate their research into useful instruments that are fit to respond to societal needs, such as underpinning the health system and non-destructive testing. Beneficiaries in this network are 5 higher-education institutions (HEI)s and 3 companies plus 6 partners, including a HEI research institute with an affiliated eye hospital, a second training hospital and a non profit research institute, For each ESR the training takes place in at least two different institutions, one of them being a HEI and the other giving industrial experience, jointly delivering a coherent combination of specialised and general skills training. This is completed by organising three Summer Schools and an International conference. Each ESR will start by agreeing with the supervisors a career development plan, whose progress will be continuously monitored by supervisors and reported at regular meetings of the supervisory board.

Keywords: tuneable lasers,swept lasers,fibre lasers,semiconductor,lasers,time stretch,optical coherence tomography,high resolution medical imaging,non invasive imaging,non destructive testing
Political Ontologies of Music: Rethinking the Relationship between Music and Politics in the Twenty-first Century (ONTOMUSIC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Switzerland,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265606.08
EU funding (EUR): 265606.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Political Ontologies of Music: Rethinking the Relationship between Music and Politics in the Twenty-first Century (ONTOMUSIC) explores with an innovative theoretical framework the relationship between composers’ ontological assumptions, political thought and ethical concerns. Ontological assumptions are defined as personal or collective assertions about the nature and means of music, which reveal our beliefs on what music is as well as what music can do or accomplish. ONTOMUSIC argues that integrating composers’ ontological assumptions into the exploration of their political or ethical commitments makes possible the study of a broader range of living composers and their views about issues such as social justice, human rights and the environment. The three main research objectives are: 1) to understand how composers’ ontological assumptions shape the political possibilities of their music within a specific symbolic and social order; 2) to examine how composers have embedded their ethical concerns in specific compositional processes, performance settings and musical works; 3) to produce new first-hand sources and testimonies by composers, in particular women composers, where they develop their ontological assumptions connected to their ethical and political concerns. This timely and interdisciplinary research seeks to connect empirical investigation and theoretical analysis: empirical methods include data collection through open-ended interviews and selective archival research; theoretical methods involve a variety of music analyses related to compositional processes, musical practices and works, as well as conceptual analysis on ontological assumptions mobilised by the composers themselves. ONTOMUSIC will allow new research avenues on the relationship between music and political orders, advancing our understanding of how composers engage critically with the major ethical and political challenges facing our societies.

Keywords: music,musicology,anthropology of music,music ontologies,music and politics,twenty first century,sound art,ethics,sound studies,sound activism,music ecology
Revolutionizing Industrial Materials Processing with Optical Phased Array Coherent Beam Combined High Power, Digitally controlled Lasers. (CBCLASER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2020-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2813750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1969625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CIVAN Advanced Technologies is developing a High Power, Coherent Beam Combined (CBC) laser product to disrupt the Industrial Materials Processing market. The CBCLASER is based on proprietary Optical Phased Array (OPA) CBC technology that is proven to support quality and robustness required by industry. Civan’s CBCLASER product represents the first time that this technology is deployed in an industrial laser product. The product will have extremely unique inherent capabilities such as digital, dynamic controls including: varying beam spot size, shape and beam parameter product, at MHz speeds; modulating laser power at MHz speeds, and fast beam steering at MHz speeds. These features are not available in any state of the art laser and will enable major breakthroughs in both the competitiveness of existing industrial processes (metal cutting, welding, 3D printing), as well as in new applications (eg high speed surface functionalization). The objective of the CBCLASER program is to scale-up the existing, lower Power OPA CBC that was already successfully demonstrated with potential end users into an OEM ready 5kW OPA CBC Laser for High Speed Materials Processing. In the last months Civan had received inputs that a 5kW output with all the mentioned features will be more than enough to achieve disruptive performance for many industrial applications. At that power level Civan shall be able to offer a very attractive price, to achieve wide market entry. The laser’s advantages are to be tested and optimized in pilot programs with three large EU based leaders from the OEM automotive, electronics automotive and aerospace industries. Within the CBCLASER program, CIVAN is to scale-up its manufacturing ability to meet industrial production standards, and drive forward its marketing efforts. CBCLASER will significantly impact Industrial Materials processing through laser beam digitization and other disruptive features that are key to realizing industry 4.0.

Keywords: coherent beam combining laser spatial and temporal modulation digital controlled lasers,improved efficiencies lightweight automotive aerospace remote cutting optical phased array,this proposal
Structured attosecond pulses for ultrafast nanoscience (ATTOSTRUCTURA)

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: Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1425000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1425000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Light is one of today’s most powerful tools for exploriLight is one of today’s most powerful tools for exploring nature at the frontier of the human knowledge. The rapid development of laser technology allow us today to generate ultrashort pulses of coherent structured light: light fields with custom spatial and temporal properties, such as intensity, phase and angular momentum. The later one represents one of the most interesting light properties nowadays, as topological light beams carrying angular momentum interact with matter differently, introducing mechanical motion to micro and nano-structures, and affecting fundamental excitation rules. High-order harmonic generation (HHG) stands as a unique mechanism to provide coherent flashes of light with outstanding properties: its radiation spectrum expands from the vacuum ultraviolet to the soft x-rays; it can be synthesized in pulses as short as several attoseconds (10^-18 seconds): and it can be structured in its angular momentum properties. This proposal represents a timely opportunity to explore the ground-breaking opportunities offered by attosecond structured x-ray sources. It conveys computing light-matter interaction in extreme conditions, which requires an extraordinary effort in the elaboration of new theoretical tools to design, propose and guide future experiments at the frontier of ultrafast science. We shall pioneer the new scenario of angular momenta in structured ultrashort x-rays –the most complex coherent pulses to date–. It is not difficult to envision a new era in ultrafast nanotechnology that makes use of these x-ray sources. In particular we shall pioneer their application to nanoscience and ultrafast magnetism. We aim to establish the grounding principles of attomagnetism, taking advantage of the unique opportunity offered by structured light pulses to induce pure attosecond magnetic fields, which could set the precedents of high-rate magnetic recording through ultrafast magnetization reversal.

Keywords: attosecond science,ultrafast magnetism,light angular momentum,high harmonic generation,spin orbit angular momentum,topological light properties
Co-designing Citizen Social Science for Collective Action (CoAct)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Integrate society in science and innovation issues, policies and activities in order to integrate citizens' interests and values and to increase the quality, relevance, social acceptability and sustainability of research and innovation outcomes in various fields of activity from social innovation to areas such as biotechnology and nanotechnology
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Austria,Germany,Argentina,United Kingdom
Call: Exploring and supporting citizen science (H2020-SwafS-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2047226.25
EU funding (EUR): 2047226.25
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

CoAct proposes a radically new approach to face four “wicked” social global issues by engaging vulnerable citizens acting as in-the field competent co-researchers. The approach represents a new understanding of the underexplored field of Citizen Social Science and will result in the implementation of new or improved science-related policies. CoAct’s ambitious Research and Innovation activities will respond to issues related to Mental Health Care, Youth Employment, Environmental Justice and Gender Equality in Barcelona, Vienna, Berlin, Buenos Aires and in European Eastern countries. CoAct will define and develop a general framework for Citizen Social Science as a participatory research co-designed and directly driven by citizen groups sharing a social concern. The methodological framework will be first incubated in a consortium with Research Organizations, NGOs and global networks of Open Science and Open Data activism. Expertises from Computational Social Science, Participatory Action Research, Citizen Science evaluation or Citizen-generated Data will be incorporated to conceive a transdisciplinary Citizen Social Science that place vulnerable citizens at the center of Research and Innovation cycles, as co-designers and co-researchers. Secondly, three mission-oriented Actions and at least three Research Pilots will be led by vulnerable citizen groups with the support of Knowledge Coalitions formed by public bodies, CSOs and social innovators. The common effort will harness novel, simultaneously global and local, socially robust knowledge and scientifically reasoned measures to promote social change. An Open Citizen Science toolkit, Open Source digital platforms, and Capacity Building activities to improve data and science literacy, including a PhD Summer School, will be delivered. To demonstrate the scientific relevance and the social impact of CoAct!, a dynamic co-evaluation process with new tools will be done and shared with the broad Citizen Science community.

Keywords: citizen science,collective action,citizen social science,social sciences,social change,co researchers,knowledge coalition,co design,science related policies,digital tools
Addressing the impact of surface ectoderm and somitic mesoderm development on neural tube morphogenesis. (Neural Tube)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-03-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157941.12
EU funding (EUR): 157941.12
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Neural tube closure (NTC) is a fundamental process during vertebrate embryogenesis, which leads to the formation of the central nervous system. Defective NTC leads to neural tube defects (NTDs), which are one of the most common human birth defects. During NTC Convergent Extension (CE) leads to the narrowing and elongation of the neural plate (NP) and Apical Constriction (AC) drives the bending of the tissue. While the role of the aforementioned morphogenetic events for NTC has been studied extensively how the development of tissues mechanically coupled with the NP affects NTC remains poorly understood. Here, we aim to elucidate the influence of surface ectoderm (SE) and somitic mesoderm (SM) morphogenesis on NTC. To achieve our goals, we will employ an interdisciplinary research plan using Xenopus laevis and mouse embryos as model systems. First, to understand the contribution of SE and SM morphogenesis on NTC (AC and CE) we will specifically inhibit these processes using morpholino mediated protein knock-down in Xenopus embryos and tissue-specific knock-out and knock-in models in mice embryos. Subsequently, we will directly assess the impact of SE and SM tissue tension on NTC by modulating tissue tension in Xenopus embryos through optogenetic tools and mutant constructs in conjunction with live imaging. We will go on to examine how SE and SM influence the mechanical landscape of the NP using force inference techniques in Xenopus and mouse embryos in conjunction with loss of function approaches described above. Finally, we will examine how mechanical coupling between the NP with both the SE and SM affects the mechanosensitive elements responsible for CE and AC. Overall the data produced by the proposed work will uncover the role of SE and SM morphogenesis on NTC expanding our understanding of human NTDs, while at the same time providing precious insights with respect to the coordination and coupling of mechanical force generators during embryonic development.

Keywords: neural tube closure,apical constriction,convergent extension,xenopus,mouse,embryogenesis