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Flexible Li ion Batteries via Nanocrystal-Nanocarbon Scaffolded Structures (FlexBatteries)

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: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2019-08-07
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is to develop next generation flexible high-energy density Li ion batteries. This project seeks to advance this field by developing generalized methodologies to effectively interface flexible nano carbon scaffolds with inorganic nanocrystals, and to obtain tailor made hierarchical assemblies as building blocks. Fabrication of these hierarchical materials whose chemical and mechanical properties can be optimized at the nano, micro and millimeter scale are key to ensure both high energy and power density, and structurally flexible components. Our strategy will significantly increase the loading of electro-active particles (nanocrystals) and maximize their contact/exposure to electrolytes in optimized conditions, which will improve the electrochemical properties of nanostructures. Parallel, by applying in situ electrochemical-Li-NMR-Neutron depth profile and XRD, the proposed multi-scale approach will deepen the understanding of fundamental issues such as Li+ diffusion path ways in nanocrystal-carbon scaffolded structures (Li ion kinetics), volume expansion of nanocrystals (stress/strain issues), thermal management (heat dissipation), gas evolution (via electrolyte decomposition) and various modes of particle degradation during battery charge/discharge cycling.

Keywords: li ion batteries,nanocrystals,nanocarbon,flexibility,energy,power density
Supporting PUBLic Authorities for Implementing Energy Efficiency Policies (PUBLENEF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Market uptake of energy innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Ireland,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Romania,Poland,Croatia,Bulgaria,Greece,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Enhancing the capacity of public authorities to plan and implement sustainable energy policies and measures (H2020-EE-2015-3-MarketUptake, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1983012.5
EU funding (EUR): 1960992.5
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

PUBLENEF’s overarching goal is to assist Member States in implementing effective and efficient sustainable energy policies (with the focus on energy efficiency ) and empower them to make use of the best practices and policy processes implemented in other MS at the national, regional and/or local level. The specific objectives of the project are to a) Assess and learn from existing Energy Efficiency policy implementation practices in EU member states, regions and cities, b) Strengthen networking opportunities for public agencies on the national, regional and local level, and c) Develop and adjust tools for public agencies to help them implement Energy Efficiency policies. The target audience of PUBLENEF consists of the following groups: National, regional and local authorities, Policy implementation bodies, networks of local and regional authorities, and Market actors and bodies participating in EE policies. The overall approach of the project in order to fulfill these objectives is to: a) Identify the needs from national, regional and local authorities for the implementation of EE policies, b) Collect the best practices and tools for overcoming these needs and replicate them to various MS, regions and municipal authorities, c) develop roadmaps and enhance the process of successful implementation of policies, and d) build and strengthen existing networks of policy makers enabling the knowledge exchange from national to regional to local level in EE policy. As PUBLENEF is a highly policy participatory project, it has ensured the involvement of key players in all energy efficiency policy making field throughout the EU. PUBLENEF has ensured a fine mix of energy agencies (and associations of cities and regions) involved in the formulation of energy efficiency policies on the national, regional and local level and building capacity.

Keywords: energy efficiency policy,policy implementation steps,article 7
Near Memory Computing (NeMeCo)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Industrial Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Switzerland,Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-EID) (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 766122.84
EU funding (EUR): 766122.84
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Near Memory Computing: Major bottlenecks for future computation is the slow communication over slow interconnects between big data memories and big data processing and also the slow overhead of data memory accesses. The NeMeCo EID network aims at solving this problem by proposing fundamentally different architectures, integrating computation and memory, and using reconfigurable accelerators. Research topics of this project are: new, non-Von-Neumann architectures, automated design of reconfigurable accelerators, advanced memory hierarchy based on both volatile and non-volatile memory components, and corresponding compiler, algorithmic optimization and mapping techniques.

Keywords: big data computing,non von neumann architectures,reconfigurable accelerators,advanced memory hierarchy,run time managers,algorithmic optimization,automated software mapping
Hydrogen Energy Applications for Valley Environments in Northern Netherlands (HEAVENN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Ireland,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: H2 Valley (H2020-JTI-FCH-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 99720599.49
EU funding (EUR): 20000000.0
Participants: 40
Project status: SIGNED

HEAVENN is a large-scale demo project addressing the requirements of the call, by bringing together core elements: production, distribution, storage and local end-use of H2 into a fully-integrated and functioning “H2 valley” (H2V), that can serve as a blueprint for replication across Europe and beyond. The proposed concept is based on the deployment & integration of existing & planned project clusters across 6 locations in the Northern Netherlands, namely Eemshaven, Delfzijl, Zuidwending, Emmen, Hoogeveen and Groningen, with a total initial investment of 88 M EUR. The main goal is to make use of green hydrogen across the entire value chain, while developing replicable business models for wide-scale commercial deployment of H2 across the entire regional energy system. HEAVENN aims to maximize the integration of abundant RES resource available in the region, both onshore (wind and solar) and offshore wind, using H2 as: (i) a storage medium to manage intermittent and constrained renewable inputs in the electricity grid; and (ii) an energy vector for further integration of renewable inputs and decarbonisation across other energy sectors beyond electricity, namely industry, heat and transportation. The project facilitates the deployment of 11 HFC end-user applications across the project clusters, while ensuring the interconnection between them. This will be delivered by facilitating the deployment of key transport & distribution gas infrastructure to deliver green H2 from supply to the end-user sites. In this way HEAVENN will demonstrate the coupling the existing electricity and gas infrastructures at scale, to decarbonize industry, power, transport and heat across the entire region. The scale of the deployment delivered by HEAVENN is sufficient to achieve by itself significant economies of scale & improved business models across the entire value chain.

Keywords: northern netherlands hydrogen valley,innovation cluster,sector coupling,sectorial integration,renewable energy,certifhy,industry,transport,heating and cooling
Enhancing innovation management capacity of the SMEs in Central Poland - 4 (KAM2CentralPoland-4)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Poland,Poland,Poland,Poland
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): 163061.25
EU funding (EUR): 163061.25
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

KAM2CentralPoland-4 project will be implemented by EEN-CP consortium in central regions of Poland. The overall objective of the project is to increase efficiency and effectiveness of research and innovation investments that will contribute to smart growth in EU countries. There are two main objectives the Consortium aim to achieve by delivering services under the present H2020 call: (1) the first objective is to ensure that key SME beneficiaries of the H2020 European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot are helped efficiently so that their full innovation potential can be exploited. They shall receive dedicated Key Account Management (KAM) services by the Network, which should be complemented by coaching services (not delivered by the Network). (2) The second objective is to ensure that the innovation management capacity of the SME clients is increased via a consulting services enhancing innovation management. Both services (Key account management and Enhancing innovation management capacity) are compatible with the general offers of the Consortium partners, which allow the latter to deliver services targeted at different stages of company development. Also, the services will be addressed to the most dynamic and innovative entities which have the potential to target international markets. That, in turn will help to build the brand of consortium members as providers of valuable services to the demand of modern companies.

Keywords: eic pilot,h2020,horizon2020,key account manager,enterprise europe network,innovation management
Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage Systems (MOST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Emerging themes and communities
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Sweden,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: FET Proactive: emerging paradigms and communities (H2020-EIC-FETPROACT-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4335838.75
EU funding (EUR): 4335838.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The MOST project aims to develop and demonstrate a zero-emission solar energy storage system based on benign, all-renewable materials. The MOST system is based on a molecular system that can capture solar energy at room temperature and store the energy for very long periods of time without remarkable energy losses. This corresponds to a closed cycle of energy capture, storage and release. The MOST project will develop the molecular systems as well as associated catalysts and devices to beyond state-of-the-art performance and scale. Further, the MOST systems will be combined with thermal energy storage (TES) in a hybrid concept to enable efficient and on-demand utilization of solar energy. The hybrid structure of the device, combining TES and MOST, enables the operation of the system in two different modes, targeting different applications. In mode A, the objective is to reach a stable thermal output. In this operation mode, the MOST system is used to mitigate the daily variation in solar flux which consequently leads to a variable output of the TES. In operation mode B, the system is targeting larger temperature gradients under shorter durations of time. Mode A is simulating applications where a stable temperature output is needed, such as e.g. heat to power generation. Mode B is simulating operation where the system operates as a part of a larger energy system where the task is to mitigate variations in energy demand and energy production. The materials production features scalable, green chemistry production routes. Further, the project will build an innovation ecosystem around the project and engage with future users of the technology in order to ensure future development and EU capacity for future market implementation.
Understanding the thermodynamic and mechanistic basis of a model biological temperature sensor (BioTempSense)

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: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Despite the existence of engineered thermometers since the time of Galileo, we still do not understand how biological temperature sensors work. Engineered thermometers take advantage of simple laws in which volume or electrical resistance vary linearly with temperature. Do similarly simple laws determine the temperature sensitivity of biological temperature sensors? The major objective of this project is to understand the physical mechanisms of temperature sensing of bacterial sodium channels, a model biological temperature sensor. To understand this mechanism three approaches will be taken: a bioinformatics approach to reveal any information evolution could tell us about the directed evolution of these sensors, a molecular dynamics approach to elucidate the molecular mechanism determining this temperature sensitivity, and finally the development of a coarse-grained computational model to allow transfer of the obtained results to other temperature sensors. A better understanding of biological temperature sensors has broad implications in the understanding of the potential effect of an increase in global temperature on plants and animals as well as in the design of pain therapeutics that target temperature-sensitive protein complexes in the human body. This highly interdisciplinary work is therefore expected to set the stage for improving the general understanding of biological temperature sensing, which, due to its relevance and wide-applicability, will subsequently enable to pursue my career as independent researcher.

Keywords: temperature,biophysics,ion channels,bacteria,coiled coil
Towards a multi-ton xenon observatory for astroparticle physics (Xenoscope)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3344108.0
EU funding (EUR): 3344108.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in the Cosmos, as its intrinsic nature is largely unknown. The identification and characterization of dark matter particles is a major endeavor in physics. XENOSCOPE will be a unique project focussed on essential, cutting-edge research towards a multi-ton dark matter detector using liquid xenon (LXe) as target material. With its low energy threshold, ultra-low backgrounds and excellent energy resolution, a LXe observatory will be highly sensitive to other rare interactions, such as from solar and supernova neutrinos, double beta decays of 136Xe, as well as from axions and axion-like particles. To design and construct a 50 t (40 t in the time projection chamber, TPC) detector, a number of critical technological challenges must first be addressed. Fundamental aspects are related to the design of the TPC, including the identification of new photosensors, the optimization of the light and charge collection (hence the energy threshold and resolution), and the minimization of radioactive backgrounds. XENOSCOPE will address all these aspects through a number of small, medium-size and a full-scale (in the z-coordinate of the TPC) prototypes. The goal is to specify the required input for the technical design of the 50 t detector, to be realized by the DARWIN consortium which the PI leads. Arrays of VUV-sensitive SiPMs will be studied as novel light sensors, and a 4-π photosensor coverage TPC will be constructed for the first time. Signal detection will be optimized for both low and high-energy readout, thus drastically increasing the dynamic range of a LXe-TPC. Low-background materials will be identified and characterized not only for the photosensors and their read-out, but for all the components of the detector. Finally, a full scale TPC in the z-dimension, 2.6 m in height, will be designed, built and operated and electron drift and extraction into the vapor phase over such large distances for the first time demonstrated.

Keywords: direct dark matter detection,neutrinoless double beta decay,solar neutrinos,noble liquid techniques,liquid xenon time projection chamber
A Drosophila model for understanding the basis of Meniere’s disease (FLYMEN)

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-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-07
End date: 2021-01-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Too little is known about the complex hearing impairments and vestibular syndromes that develop in adults during their life course; new insights and novel scientific models are required. My project focuses on Meniere’s Disease (MD), a multifactorial impairment of the inner ear characterized by varying grades of (i) adult onset sensorineural hearing loss, (ii) episodic vertigo and (iii) tinnitus. During my PhD, I devised new approaches to decipher the genetic factors contributing to MD by combining whole exome sequencing and bioinformatic analysis. I identified candidate genes for MD and validated the expression of the associated proteins in two functional domains of the human and rodent inner ear: the sensory epithelial sheets of the vestibular system and the auditory Organ of Corti. To understand the functional importance of MD candidate genes, and their interplay with environmental factors, requires an experimentally tractable in vivo model. I here propose to use the hearing and balance system of Drosophila melanogaster as an in vivo model of MD. This will involve devising and employing novel experimental tools, such as novel tests of hearing and vestibular function, genome-wide transcription studies (RNA-Seq) and bioinformatics analysis. The project will provide a better understanding of the heterogeneous landscape of adult-onset inner ear pathologies, which will inform new therapeutic and diagnostic strategies.

Keywords: inner ear hair cells,transcriptional programming,gene regulatory networks,enviromental effect,transcription factors,meniere disease
Towards Realistic Modelling of Nucleosome Organization Inside Functional Chromatin Domains (InsideChromatin)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1490380.0
EU funding (EUR): 1490380.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Reading the genome is one thing – finding out how it functions, is something else altogether. The next big challenge to understand gene behaviour is deciphering (a) how the genome is organized in space and (b) how this organization influences its function. Inside Eukaryotic cells, genomic DNA is packed together with proteins into a remarkable structure known as chromatin. Nucleosomes, the building blocks of chromatin, interact with each other to enable high-density packaging. Our understanding of chromatin structure is limited by the lack of ‘close up views’ and molecular-level mechanistic information of how nucleosome interactions are regulated in vivo by many highly coupled factors. InsideChromatin aims to develop a groundbreaking multiscale approach that will push the current limits of realistic computational modelling of in vivo chromatin structure. The vision is to achieve the first multiscale simulation study that describes nucleosome organization inside functionally different kilobase-scale domains, while explicitly accounting for the combination of epigenetic marks, the binding of architectural proteins, and nucleosome remodelling activity that distinguishes each domain. InsideChromatin will integrate atomistic simulations with two levels of coarse-graining and experimental data for validation to understand how nucleosome organization at kilobase scales leads to physical properties at megabase scales. The output from InsideChromatin will bring us closer to the ‘holy grail’ of deciphering the connection between genome characteristics, structure, and function.

Keywords: multiscale modelling and simulation,chromatin structure,coarse grained modelling,genome structure,biomolecular modelling and simulation,molecular dynamics,monte carlo simulations,dna packaging