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Space-time structure of climate change (SPACE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499082.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499082.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

I will determine and use the space-time structure of climate change from years to millennia to test climate models, fundamentally improve the understanding of climate variability and provide a stronger basis for the quantitative use of paleoclimate records. The instrumental record is only a snapshot of our climate record. Two recent advances allow a deeper use of the paleo-record: 1.increased availability and number of paleoclimate records, 2.major advances in the understanding of climate proxies. In a recent PNAS paper, we showed that consistent estimates of regional temperature variability across instruments and proxies can now be obtained by inverting the process by which nature is sampled by proxies. Empirical evidence and physics suggest an intrinsic link between time scale and the associated spatial scale of climate variations: While fast variations such as weather are regional, glacial-interglacial cycles appear to be globally coherent. I will quantify this presumed tendency of the climate system to reduce its degrees of freedom on longer time scales and use it to constrain the sparse, noisy and at times contradictory evidence of past climate changes. By systematically analyzing instrumental and paleo-records, I will 1. determine the space-time structure of climate changes on annual to millennial time scales. This provides the prerequisite for mapping past climate changes and will allow me to confront climate models with robust estimates of climate variability across spatial scales; 2. provide a clearer separation of internal and external forced climate variability, by leveraging their distinct space-time structures; 3. examine the past relationship between mean-state and climate variability to predict how variability will change in a warmer future. This will provide a key step forward to transform paleoclimate science from describing data to using the data as a quantitative test for models and system understanding in order to see more clearly into the future

Keywords: climatology and climate change
Solar Energy for a Circular Economy (SUNRISE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Switzerland,Norway,Belgium,Finland,Poland,Sweden,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Preparatory Actions for new FET Flagships (H2020-FETFLAG-2018-01, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 14.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1084671.25
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of SUNRISE is to make sustainable fuels and commodity chemicals at affordable costs of materials and Earth surface, using sunlight as the only energy source. This includes nitrogen fixation and the conversion of atmospheric CO2 into products, which will be a game changer in the fight against climate change. The CSA SUNRISE gathers the scientific and industrial communities that will develop radically new technologies to harvest solar energy and enable the foundation of a global circular economy. SUNRISE targets three synergistic S&T approaches: (i) electrochemical conversion with renewable power, direct conversion via (ii) photoelectrochemical and (iii) biological and biohybrid systems. These will be implemented with the crucial support of novel material design via high performance computing, advanced biomimicry, and synthetic biology. Ultimately, the novel solar-to-chemical technologies will be integrated into the global industrial system. In 10 years, SUNRISE will bring renewable fuel production to TRL 9 at a cost of 0.4 €/L and atmospheric CO2 photoconversion at TRL 7. The ambition is to convert up to 2500 tons of CO2 and produce > 100 tons of commodity chemicals (per ha per year), realizing a 300% energy gain over present best practices and deploying devices on the 1000 ha scale. This requires new solutions for absorbing >90% of light and storing >80% of the photogenerated electrons in fuels/chemicals produced in large-scale solar energy converters, in close interaction with social and environmental sciences to optimize their deployment. SUNRISE will make Europe the leading hub of disruptive technologies, closing the carbon cycle and providing a solar dimension to the chemical industry, with enormous economical, societal and environmental benefits. SUNRISE is an intrinsically flagship enterprise that has obtained explicit commitment from top organisations, both from industry and academia across Europe, to set the stage for the next steps of the action.

Keywords: solarconversionsystems solarfuel sustainablechemistry circulareconomy artificialphotosynthesis co electrolysis photoelectrochemical directsolarconversion syntheticbiology biohybrid ccu
A Photovoltaic Plant with thermal co-generation (SPIRE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main idea behind SPIRE project is simple: the typical mirrors of CSP-Tower plants are substituted by PV panels with an integrated optical filter that spectrally splits the solar radiation. The filter lets the radiation used efficiently by PV panel go through (mainly visible light) while reflects 40% of the energy (mainly blue light and infrared). SPIRE has no loses compared to a 1 axis PV Plant, and converts into thermal energy (using a Tower-CSP-TES system) the heat that today overheats PV cells. The thermal energy generated can then be used for several applications. Main and most immediate is the use of thermal energy storage (TES) as reliable and cost effective alternative to batteries for PV Plants. But many other uses of this smart combination of electricity and heat can be addressed: desalination, industrial process heat, agriculture, city heating/cooling, etc. SPIRE is completely zero CO2 emissions, suitable for off-grid solutions, no need of fuel supply, scalable and adaptable to some other technologies. SPIRE customized filter designs can be adapted to every location, particular light spectrum and dedicated applications and operation modes. Moving to performance and economical parameters, SPIRE beats all: better utilization of solar spectrum which leads to higher plan efficiencies, better operational performance of the solar field (no dumped energy due to overloading of TES+turbine capacity, utilization of diffuse radiation increasing the solar resource), less land footprint per installed power, more competitive prices than PV + batteries, bankable solution for 25-30 years of expected lifetime of the power plant , no degradation as silver mirrors (filters are made of inorganic oxides), less attenuation than current CSP towers, scalable with no need of billionaire investments to get good solar dispatchable energy prices, economic-quick start turbine that allows quick response to power shortage due to clouds, etc.
Technology maturation of global first-movers in automated indoor map generation (SmartMap)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2959375.0
EU funding (EUR): 2071562.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The SmartMap project will achieve what has not been possible previously – to provide a fully AI automated, data-ownership enabled, indoor-map generation and wayfinding software. MazeMap AS are global first-movers and we have developed a unique AI/Machine Learning solution for 1) automating map generation at low-cost and 2) allowing customisation, integration and ownership of the data for customers. MazeMap has a proven business case as through a Phase 1 Feasibility Study (Project ID: 745040) with NTNU and St. Olav’s University Hospital. At NTNU, MazeMap helped 44,000 students and employees find their way more than 65,000 times/week during 2018 and the university estimated a yearly savings of €540,000 using SmartMap services. At St. Olav’s University Hospital SmartMap helped reduce the missed appointments by over 30 % through and integration with the hospitals appointment system. The reduction of missed appointments contributed to €1.5 million in yearly savings as well as shorter patient queues . Since the feasibility study MazeMap have reached over 1 million signed-up beta testers from across 26 countries globally. The SmartMap Phase 2 project aims to mature and commercialise a fully AI-automated SmartMap system. The funding will allow us to improve our automation rates enabling zero-cost productions going forward and develop more FMS integrations while piloting the finalized platform. Our solution belongs on the indoor mapping market segment focusing on universities, hospitals and large office buildings with an estimated value of €2.6 billion and growing at 40% yearly. The potential for growth is excellent as only 0.001% of buildings have been mapped globally. Based on our proven business case and current growth we expect to accumulate €70 million in revenues and €30 million in profits in the first five years of commercialisation and creating over 90 new FTE jobs.

Keywords: maps,indoor maps,wayfinding,machine learning,software development,data protection,automated map making
Identification of molecular targets of psychoactive kavalactones using iBodies (KavaTarget)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-12-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156980.64
EU funding (EUR): 156980.64
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Plant natural products have traditionally provided a great source of chemical scaffolds for the development of new medicines. Following a downturn in the late 20th century, natural product research is now experiencing a renaissance owing to rapid developments in genomics and metabolomics technologies. However, the identification of protein targets of newly discovered bioactive natural products remains very low-throughput. Under this proposal, I will carry out research to develop a new methodology for the elucidation of molecular targets of small bioactive molecules that bind to human proteins such as membrane receptors, using stochastically-generated polymeric probes called iBodies combined with horseradish peroxidase-mediated biotin labeling. In particular, I will focus on psychoactive metabolites from kava (Piper methysticum) called kavalactones, which have well-documented anti-anxiety properties, but their mechanism of action is unclear. In the first stage, I will develop the molecular target identification workflow using a previously characterized ligand, resiniferatoxin, which binds with high affinity to the human pain receptor TRPV1. Once the workflow is developed, I will proceed to identify the brain receptors that are the primary targets of natural kavalactones, as well as non-natural kavalactone derivatives that I recently developed. In addition, I propose that a similar approach can be applied to identify liver cytochrome P450 enzymes that are inhibited by natural products such as kavalactones. In the last stage of the project, I will develop a protocol for the extraction of liver proteins and identification of liver enzymes that interact with kavalactones. This research will deliver a new biochemical method for molecular target identification in the short term. In the long term, it will contribute to the development of novel non-opioid psychiatric therapeutics based on the kavalactone scaffold, thus addressing an urgent need in today’s European society.

Keywords: membrane proteins,target identification,natural products,kavalactones
INNOVATIVE ENZYMES TO PROTECT CITIZENS AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES (INNOPROCITI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Critical infrastructure protection topic 7: SME instrument topic: Protection of Urban soft targets and critical infrastructures (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the INNOPROCITI proposal is the set up of a business plan for the development and selling of: a) Products: Enzyme formulations for biosensing and decontamination/detoxification of nerve agents on surfaces, air, water and skin and their validation against already available and used technologies (if any).The innovative aspect rely upon the use of thermostable enzymes customized by in vitro molecular evolution to the actual needs. b) Solutions: An integrated platform of decontamination and biosensing systems with procedures of fast assistance in , by taking into account the study of the “human factor” (control of panic reactions, appropriateness of information tools, clear and tested procedures of mass evacuation) in response to detection alarms and start up of decontamination actions. The appropriate diffusion of information to the stakeholders (authorities, companies, organizations working in the civilian security field) will be another activity foreseen for the short project. The field of the commercial development is one of the most increasing in the next years in the big market of the homeland security. The recent events in Syria and France as well as the concerns about ISIS successes in the Middle East and the weaknesses in guaranteeing the security of borders (particularly the Mediterranean sea) ask for the availability for security measures that are at same time safe for human and the environment. Our enzymes can be the basis for advanced biosensors that can also identify the substance as well as the basis for mask filters and filters for air detoxification in sensitive buildings. Furthermore formulations of efficient enzymes can be used for detoxification of contaminated area or for destroying stocks of nerve gases or obsolete pesticides that by itself can be used as CWA.

Keywords: chemical warfare agents,nerve gases,organophosphates
INternational Smart Collaborative Open-access hybrid Printed Electronics pilot line (InSCOPE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Finland,Belgium,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Thin, Organic and Large Area Electronics (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9076566.25
EU funding (EUR): 7998652.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The InSCOPE project will set-up an open access pilot line service for Hybrid TOLAE (H-TOLAE) technologies capable of sampling products at TRL6-7. It positions itself in between R&D and industry and deploys a service for validating potential H-TOLAE products. Manufacturing progresses beyond R&D level (TRL5 towards 6) by improving processes, functionality and reliability allowing sampling at high quality and in relevant numbers needed for industrial qualification (TRL 6-7). The applications addressed cover automotive, healthcare, smart packaging and buildings. After InSCOPE, the Pilot line service will remain accessible to interested parties. The pilot line is serviced by top European RTD’s with leading technological positions and state of the art equipment in the domain of H-TOLAE. InSCOPE will set up an open access pilot line infrastructure for H-TOLAE technology, which is modular ensuring a comprehensive toolbox of printing, assembly, production integration and process validation distributed over the partners. InSCOPE will ensure interoperability between the differing modules at the partners enabling end-users to combine different processes step from different partners in their process flow. It will accelerate the uptake of H-TOLAE technology by delivering a public handbook describing functionalities, production guidelines and design rules of H-TOLAE, including new opportunities for “traditional” electronics. Validation of the pilot line service by 4 Showcases and 15 development cases are included within the project. The Showcases consist of H-TOLAE product prototypes at TRL 5 to be matured on functionality and on manufacturability. The showcases will steer the pilot line improvement. They are selected based on their economic impact as well as the technological status of the product and production in Europe. The development cases are devoted to new functionalities enabled by H-TOLAE. They are aimed at SME’s interested in exploring the broad advantages H-TOLAE.

Keywords: open access,pilot line,hybrid,tolae,automotive,building,packaging,market
DWT- Impregnation for Fireproof Excellent Durability Wood (DWT-I4FEDW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

DWT-I4FEDW aims to develop an innovative technological process that produce a new structural engineered material (FEDW), having higher yields compared with the best alternatives in terms of technical results, economic and environmental footprint performances. That would make FEDW advantageous competitor and feasible alternative as structural fireproof material in constructions area, representing the best performing wooden material for supporting structure. The innovation refers both to: a) FEDW an extremely innovative treated wood having outstanding properties of fire resistance and durability; it is obtained by impregnation, till the core of timber, by using electro magnetic waves technology. The outcome is represented by a semi-finished ecological new wooden material having the highest fireproof and durability characteristics, sensibly improved hardness. b) DWT-I process is the innovative and ecologically-friendly system for impregnating wood of different species with different preservative liquids. Its most important characteristics are: a) the first system for full impregnation of timber, instead of only superficial; b) impregnation process can be made both by using different fire-proof & durability chemical liquids; c) very economic: the technology can easy installed on existing impregnation factories retrofitting the existing plants; d) can treat several wood species and use different liquid to fit customised purposes. e) improve the efficiency of existing impregnation processes DWT-Process process ameliorates properties and service life performance of cladding, panelling, decking, fire safety doors, outdoor furniture, garden infrastructure, Marina, and structural elements. Upon successful completion of this project, likely benefits to society will include: • Availability of FEDW constructional fireproof components and with long durability • Local grown timber species opposite imported; • 100% non-toxic wood playgrounds • 100% non-toxic wood with ground

Keywords: wood,fireproof,structural material
Advanced Space Weather Detector (ASWD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME Instrument (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

The objective of the project is to develop an Advanced low-cost High Resolution Cosmic Ray Detector: State-of-the-art particle-accelerator-derived TRL6-proven technology innovatively applied to Space Weather. The short-term business concept is the use of such detectors for advanced early detection of Geomagnetic Storms with unprecedented accuracy and local data, which has an immense European/Global commercial interest due to the growing problems generated by Space Weather events, the fragility of our infrastructures and the broad range of industries which are severely affected by them. This global-impact project bases its commercial opportunity in the well-known vast cost saving potential of accurate early warnings for key industrial sectors such as Energy, Telecommunications, GNSS, Transportation or Insurance. The detector will have unparalleled resolution and low cost. This will make it possible to monitor critical infrastructures on-site. It will also allow to create a low-cost, dense, high resolution European/Global network of such detectors. Both applications are absolute novelties. The detector will be affordable, standalone, modular and scalable, which will make it perfect also as lab equipment. Its broad range of scientific applications and low cost will mean that many small research departments will benefit from it, maximizing the international impact of the project. This can also boost the research in areas such as Space Weather, restricted until now to big experiments. Universities, international experiments, Astrophysics, Space Weather, Climate and other research institutes will comprise the end-users together with the main customers: the private sector. In this phase 1, a comprehensive study of all the resources needed for phase 2 will be carried out, this will include business plan, marketing plan including all potential stakeholders and financial/economic study, taking into account H2020 funding as well as the company’s own resources.

Keywords: cosmic ray detector,geomagnetic storms,muon detector,space weather