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Thinking Ahead: human planning from a predictive processing perspective (ThinkAhead)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1898757.75
EU funding (EUR): 1898757.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Humans have an impressive ability to form action plans in several domains of cognition; for example, planning routes to goals in spatial navigation, or the necessary steps to assemble complex objects, alone or together with other persons. However, the computations that underlie human individual and social planning remain largely unknown. This proposal aims to explain the ways humans face three key forms of uncertainty arising in planning domains; namely, uncertainty about task structure, action sequences, and the contributions of self and others to cooperative plans. To this aim, it advances a radically new theory about human planning, within a Bayesian approach that has been successfully adopted to explain uncertainties arising in perception and control. The theory under scrutiny is that humans plan using probabilistic inference based on hierarchical predictive codes (HPCs): compressed information or task abstractions that afford a powerful form of uncertainty-minimization, by highlighting salient junction points of the problem at hand, analogous to saliency maps for visual search. The methodology will combine empirical and computational modeling methods, to systematically validate the hypotheses of HPC theory about human planning in the face of uncertainties. A cornerstone of the methodology consists in conducting model-based analyses of human participants' behavior while they solve navigation-and-building tasks, alone or in dyads. This approach will permit us to compare the predictions stemming from HPC with those of alternative planning theories and ultimately, to understand the computations that underlie human planning. This ambitious proposal will produce groundbreaking advancements in our understanding of a high-level executive function - planning - while also contextualizing it within the influential theory of predictive processing. Our results will have important implications for psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, AI and robotics.

Keywords: goal directed decision making,human planning,predictive processing,prospection,computational modeling
Airofit - Better Breathing, Better Life (A3BL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There are about 1 billion persons with chronic respiratory conditions, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, of which about 4 million die prematurely each year. These respiratory diseases represent a heavy socio-economic burden to the healthcare system. Just in Europe, the healthcare and lost production costs amount to €82 billion/year. Nevertheless, the existing approaches for exercise-based pulmonary rehabilitation of these patients are expensive, inefficient or slow, and often lack a connected system for a continuous monitoring, leading to poor compliance of patients that often quit treatment. Airofit A/S is bringing to market Airofit – a connected device for the respiratory training of lung muscles, conceived to promote the strengthening of breathing musculature of patients suffering with respiratory problems. Airofit offers several disruptive features, including 1) connection to a smartphone app and Expert module (game changer features) for a real-time, remote but tight monitoring of patients’ progress by its doctors, 2) controllable inhaling and exhaling resistances in a 3) portable and user-friendly technology, and a 4) cost-efficient solution with the lowest market price comparatively to similar solutions for the same market segment. To bridge the remaining steps towards full scale commercialization of Airofit, the company must clinically validate Airofit and make it compliant with medical devices regulatory standards, while consolidating our strategic partnering throughout the medical devices value chain to ensure public acceptance and enough muscle for Airofit production ramp-up. The to-market maturation of Airofit within the present innovation project represents a strategic opportunity yielding a very large business opportunity, opening a potential revenue stream summing up to €209M over the 5-years post market introduction, from which our SME stands to capture over €109M as gross profits, while creating 48 new full-time positions.

Keywords: lung training,connected devices,mhealth,copd,asthma
Quantum Thermodynamics of Many-Body Driven Systems (QuoMoDys)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-03-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims as developing novel thermodynamic concepts to understand quantum many-body systems when they are driven out of thermal equilibrium via the coupling to external reservoirs. In particular, we will clarify the specific resources, for thermodynamic protocols, contained in many-body quantum superpositions, which could be stabilized in these systems via the interplay of intrinsic dynamics, external driving and dissipation. Our special focus will be on exciton-polaritons systems, which realize "quantum fluids of light" due to the strong coupling of light to electronic excitations confined in semi-conducting micro-cavity. Considering lattices of coupled such microcavities -- realizing the analog of electronic band structures, with hybrid light-matter quasi-particles playing the role of electrons in ordinary metals and insulators -- we shall develop a novel theoretical approach to capture quantum-correlation effects in these quantum fluids. As a specific situation of fundamental interest, which can be realized in the aforementioned exciton-polariton lattices, we will investigate a quantum phase transition where dissipation plays a key role, stabilizing novel states of quantum matter with analogs neither in classical systems out of equilibrium, nor in quantum systems at thermal equilibrium. On the conceptual side, we will extend existing notions of quantum thermodynamics to a many-body realm. On the technical side, we shall develop a new semi-classical theory to describe quantum entanglement in these driven-dissipative quantum systems. This fundamental research, done in collaboration with theoreticians at the forefront of research in quantum thermodynamics, and world-class experimental groups for polaritonics, will open new perspectives for the application of driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems in quantum technologies.

Keywords: quantum thermodynamics,driven dissipative systems,quantum entanglement,semi classical methods
Laser Ignition - A Twinning Collaboration for Frontier Research in Eco-Friendly Fuel-Saving Combustion (LASIG-TWIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Romania,France,United Kingdom
Call: Twinning (H2020-TWINN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1066112.5
EU funding (EUR): 1066112.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of LASIG-Twin is to create a networking collaboration between the Romanian National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR) and its Laboratory of Solid-State Quantum Electronics (ECS) and four other high renowned institutes from Germany, the UK and France, providing a unique opportunity for INFLPR and its partners to significantly increase their science excellence and visibility, technology innovation capacity and industrial exploitation capability in the fields of laser spark plug for fossil fuel efficient combustion fundamentals and applications. The project will focus on the key target actions of composing Teams of Excellence, an ambitious Training and Lecturing Program and the Roadmap for a future collaboration, organizing short term Staff Exchanges (Training) and Expert Visits (Lectures) that will help raise INFLPR’s research profile as well the one of the partnering institutes, organize two public Summers School type activities, internal and external expert driven Technology Workshops and Business-to-Business (B2B) meetings in conjunction with industry and academia clusters, and finally bringing the world-renowned Laser Ignition Conference (LIC) in 2017 to the INFLPR in Romania to increase INFLPR’s, the Romanian and the European visibility in the fields of Laser Ignition. The technological topic addresses the major challenge of mankind to lower the carbon footprint by efficient energy usage, thus LASIG-Twin will also have a significant societal impact. Dissemination will take care of this aspect by bringing the networking ideas to a broad public, from experts, the science community and industry stakeholder organization, to the interested, non-professional crowd, making society more aware of the importance of fuel efficiency and of the effects of EU funded Research and Development, in particular in a low developed country like Romania.

Keywords: energy efficiency laser ignition combustion networking innovation science capacity
EUth - Tools and Tips for Digital and Mobile Youth Participation in and across Europe (EUth)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Slovenia,Sweden,France,Luxembourg,Denmark
Call: Societal and political engagement of young people and their perspectives on Europe (H2020-YOUNG-SOCIETY-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2932353.57
EU funding (EUR): 2579500.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

With the experiences of 3 pilot projects and the expertise of 11 partners from 8 European countries, a digital European youth participation online platform will be built, which is tested and open to be used by administrations and youth organizations of any size and level to set up participative processes. The platform consists of • comprehensive eParticipation package (EUth-applications), bringing together web online participation and mobile participation on a modular, adaptive basis. Foundation are the softwares Adhocracy and FlashPoll (developed in EIT/ICT Labs). • A modularized method-handbook (EUth-methods) made available in a digital decision-support-tool, giving practical support how to make optimum use of the applications’ features. • Country-specific guidelines (EUth-services) to take away fears and give advice on how to solve problems such as community management and online moderation, security etc. The platform will be easy-to-use and perfectly user-adapted through participative product design in a living lab. Special focus is the evaluation of pilot projects using the platform: • The European youth organization AEGEE will improve its communication and discussion process with its members • In France, two institutions, the City of Paris and the French federation of community centers will foster youth empowerment and inclusion • In Italy and Slovenia a cross-border pilot will aim at guiding young community managers that will interact with their respective city administration A sustainable impact is created through an innovation strategy which among other measures includes the deployment of the platform. Within an Open Call 10 European municipalities and local organizations are each given 10.000€ to implement independent participation strategies on the online platform. EUth will increase the trust of European youth in Europe and political institutions by making European youth participation more attractive for all involved actors and thus make it happen more frequently.

Keywords: digital,mobile
Biowaste derived volatile fatty acid platform for biopolymers, bioactive compounds and chemical building blocks (VOLATILE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Greece,Belgium,Greece,Romania,Belgium,Romania,Netherlands,Portugal,Portugal,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Bioconversion of non-agricultural waste into biomolecules for industrial applications (H2020-NMBP-BIO-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6565926.25
EU funding (EUR): 6565926.25
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

VOLATILE aims in the development of an innovative Volatile Fatty Acids Platform for the bioconversion of municipal solid bio-waste fraction and sludgy biowaste from other industries. The platform will be integrated in anaerobic digestion. The volatile fatty acids will be recovered continuously using sophisticated membrane technology and will be provided as feedstock / carbon source for value added fermentation approaches such as biopolymer PHA to be tested in material applications, single cell oil as precursor for oleochemical industry as well as long chain unsaturated health-promoting Omega-3 fatty acids to be used as food ingredient or nutraceutical. PHA will be obtained by bacterial fermentations, single cell oil from yeast cultivation and Omega-3 fatty acids via heterotrophic microalgae. The process development will be accompanied with sophisticated LCA study in order to ensure environmental friendly process design. The project will also work on solutions to typical barriers beside others such as quality requirements, continuous and sufficient feedstock supply or interaction between members of value chain using agent-based modelling. Also the effect of legal stimuli and restrictions and subsidies and taxes will be studied and a link between product requirements and markets will be established. VOLATILE will prepare a Roadmap indicating future research needs but also giving suggestion for legislative improvements. A CEN workshop will be initiated to discuss with external stakeholders rules for the VFAP & to set up standard requirements in the form of a CEN workshop Agreement.

Keywords: biowaste,volatile fatty acids,biopolymer,single cell oil,bioactive compounds
A Drug Discovery and Target Identification Screening Platform for Age-Associated Neurodegenerative Disorders (NeuronAgeScreen)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Battling human neurodegenerative pathologies, and their pervasive societal impact, is a global multi-billion Euro enterprise. Ageing is universally associated with marked decrease of neuronal function and higher susceptibility to neurodegeneration. In human populations, this is manifested as an ever-increasing prevalence of devastating neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, stroke, several ataxias, and other types of dementia. Development of therapeutic interventions against such maladies is becoming a pressing priority. Drug discovery and drug target identification are two intimately linked facets of intervention strategies aimed at effectively combating human disorders. Genes linked to human diseases often function in evolutionary conserved pathways, readily dissected in simple model organisms. Such organisms provide attractive platforms for devising and streamlining efficient drug discovery and target identification methodologies. During the course of the ERC project NeuronAge, we developed a convenient and versatile platform for high-throughput chemical compound screening based on the nematode C. elegans (Nature 521: 525; Nature 490: 213). This innovative platform uniquely combines state-of-the-art microfluidics technologies for imaging and manipulation of neurons in vivo, with the experimental prowess of C. elegans, a highly malleable genetic model, which offers a precisely defined nervous system, two features that are not available in any other organism. We propose to: (1) bring this high-throughput compound screening system to pre-demonstration stage; (2) evaluate its dependability for drug target identification and drug discovery; (3) file US and European patent applications for IPR protection; and (4) identify potential commercialization opportunities. The overarching aim is to facilitate the exploitation of the innovation generated in the context of NeuronAge towards the betterment of human health and quality of life.

Keywords: ageing,caenorhabditis elegans,drug screening,microfluidics,neurodegeneration,pathophysiology,pharmaceutical compound,therapeutic intervention strategies
Tackling early school leaving and low school performance through working with students’ representational spaces. The case of 15 years old students in France, Italy and Greece. (RE-mapping)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180277.2
EU funding (EUR): 180277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project explores the question of early school leaving and low performance two of the five EU headlines for education in the Horizon 2020 agenda, addressing the wider societal challenge of employment and social inclusion of young people. The project argues that the theorization of “context” in current state of the art cannot capture the new emerging dynamics caused by globalization and multiple migrations and seeks to establish that students’ “representational spaces” operationalized through their imagined geographies operate as an unidentified and powerful hidden curriculum affecting their educational trajectories and career choices. Towards this purpose, a three step field research will be conducted in three EU countries (France, Italy, Greece). First, the representational spaces of 150 15 years old students, of both urban and rural areas, will be explored through questionnaires and visual methodologies. Second, a discourse analysis of the national education policy documents will be conducted to investigate the responsiveness of national policies to the change of scale (EU, global). Third, focus groups and interviews will be conducted in order to investigate if changing students’ representational spaces, involves changes in their attitudes towards school and learning. Correlations will be explored and cross-group comparisons will be made to transcend the existing categorization of the state of the art. These objectives will contribute to the better understanding of students’ educational and life paths under the lens of the current sociopolitical and economic dynamics. The project is anchored on a well structured training scheme and on a strategic communication, dissemination and public engagement plan permitting the maximization of project’s impact.The project deepens the problem of marginalization of young people, sheds light on unidentified ontologies lying in the shadows of the existing conceptual categories and proposes a new language for school pedagogy.

Keywords: early school leaving,low performance,educational inequalities,space,imagined geographies,visual methodologies
Church Building as Industry in Early Medieval Western Europe (CHISEL)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project interrogates the early medieval ‘construction industry’ with a specific focus on the ecclesiastical workshops responsible for producing masonry buildings in the Early Middle Ages (8th-11th centuries). Using state-of-the-art analyses of selected religious buildings that survive as standing structures in Spain, Portugal and England, the overarching aims of the proposal are threefold. Firstly, to study the industry of construction of masonry churches through analysis of the building processes, technologies and the material and skills-based investment at selected churches. Secondly, to develop an understanding of the architecture as a product in its social and economic context, and to measure its contribution to the early medieval economy. Thirdly to establish a suitable methodology for the analysis of the construction industry at this time across Western Europe. The combination of traditional and novel methodologies, including architectural archaeology, history, geology, cost calculations, structural analysis and reverse engineering will facilitate a new assessment of Early Medieval church-building programmes, offering a unique opportunity to redefine the economy and history of the Middle Ages by taking into account this industry in the context of other industrial sectors, charting the period from a new perspective and transcending the boundaries of traditional research. As part of the research programme, the candidate will acquire complementary knowledge in the field (mainly relating to Anglo-Saxon architecture), will be trained in new techniques (OSL, laser scanning, GIS/informatics and LiDAR) and will interact with researchers in the host organisation who have mutually complementary research expertise. Results will be disseminated by via a monograph and papers published in high-impact journals, and communicated to public by means of different activities.

Keywords: early middle ages,masonry churches,building industry,building technology,archaeology of architecture,geology,cost calculations,structural analysis,reverse engineering,england,spain,portugal