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NDTonAIR: Training Network in Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring of Aircraft structures (NDTonAIR)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Lithuania,Belgium,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3808670.04
EU funding (EUR): 3808670.04
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The “NDTonAIR” consortium involves Universities, Research Organisations and major European companies working on new Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) techniques for aerospace, of which both are key technologies. The goal is to train a new generation of scientists and engineers with a wide background of theoretical and experimental skills, capable of developing their research and entrepreneurial activities both in academy and industry and playing an active role in promoting the importance of quality inspection and structural monitoring in aerospace components. The objective of the training programme is to provide the recruited researchers with an extensive and varied training on: (1) Fundamentals skills for NDT and SHM through participation in short-courses and seminars organized by the Consortium; (2) NDT and SHM Techniques for Aerospace through research training at host institutions and participation in Workshops and Conferences organized by the Consortium and major international research associations; (3) Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship through participation in short-courses and seminars organized by the Consortium. The objective of the research programme is to consolidate and innovate current NDT and SHM techniques for Aircraft inspection by (1) investigating new physical phenomena and sensors; (2) developing analytical and numerical models to correlate the results of inspection with material properties; (3) quantifying NDT techniques through their probability of detecting reference defects; (4) developing procedures for the automatic detection and classification of defects; (5) transferring these results to industry. The members of the Consortium will work together for realizing this training programme and scientific collaboration will be stimulated by secondment of the recruited researchers and it will be aimed at improving the integration and comparison of different NDT techniques.

Keywords: non destructive testing and evaluation,structural health monitoring,composite materials
Robust light manipulation in plasmonic nanostructures assisted by topological protection (Topological-Plasmonics)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2018-09-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Materials that present plasmonic resonances feature the unique capability of confining light in nanometer-scale volumes. Resonant metal nanostructures, such as gold or silver nanoparticles, support localized surface plasmon resonances upon light illumination. These are free electron oscillations coupled to the electromagnetic field that enable light concentration even beyond the diffraction limit. For this reason plasmonics is a key tool for guiding and focusing light in order to extend the use of optical techniques into the nanoscale, with current and potential applications ranging from ultrasensitive chemical and biological sensor devices to imaging, non-linear optics or enhanced light absorption in photovoltaic cells. On the other hand, the study of topological phases and protected states in solid state systems as well as in photonic crystals has been very successful in recent years, since electronic or photonic states protected by the global symmetries of the system can propagate without suffering from scattering at defects or disorder. This has raised interest both from a fundamental point of view, with new physics being developed and understood –such as topological insulators–, as well as with views to applied technologies, which would greatly benefit from dissipation-free transport of electrons or photons. While the field of plasmonics has reached a mature state, the performance of some plasmonic devices is affected by ohmic losses in the metal and fabrication defects. Novel and improved functionalities are needed in order to design efficient plasmonic devices. This research aims at adding novel capabilities to the field of plasmonics by designing topologically protected light modes sustained by plasmonic nanostructures. I will study periodic two-dimensional arrangements of metal nanoantennas (metasurfaces) as promising nanostructures to support topologically protected modes with applications in light manipulation in the nanoscale.

Keywords: plasmonics,metamaterials,topological photonics
Services for enhancing the innovation management capacity of Croatian SME's through the Enterprise Europe Network (SSBI-CRO-KAM-2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Croatia,Croatia,Croatia,Croatia,Croatia
Call: Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 97377.0
EU funding (EUR): 97377.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This action will establish and provide the innovation support services addressing in general Croatian SMEs with significant innovation activities and in particular the beneficiaries of the SME instrument. This action will provide continuation of the SSBI-CRO-KAM proposal which is currently implemented under the remit of H2020 for the period of 2014. In particular defining innovation support packages (84 of them and shared between partners based on the needs analysis) for: • Key Account Management (KAM) of successful SME Instrument applicants to identify bottlenecks to creation of economic impact in companies benefiting from grants by Horizon 2020, • Enhancing client SME’s capacity to manage innovation processes increasing their efficiency and effectiveness. Project partners UniSt, TPV, Tera and HAMAG-BICRO will each individually provide number of service packages according to the analysis of regional needs (regional coverage, number and readiness of clients). Envisaged outcome of this action is to provide services to about 84 SMEs in 2015-2016, including all beneficiaries of support under the Horizon 2020 SME instrument.

Keywords: key account management,innovation coaching,sme instrument,enterprise europe network
Gliotransmission and shuttling of metabolic signals to feeding neuronal circuits by tanycytes (TANYFEEDNEURONS)

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: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Tanycytes are specialized hypothalamic glial cells located at the interface between blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and brain areas that control food intake. Little is known about their physiological roles. Recent studies indicate that tanycytes sense the extracellular glucose, release the intercellular messenger adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and the energy metabolite lactate, both of which can potentially modulate neuronal activity. Tanycytes also transport the blood-borne anorexigenic peptide leptin from the blood to the CSF and brain parenchyma. Understanding how this glia may be able to interact with neurons from the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARH) that control food intake is critical to identify new cellular targets for the development of therapeutic strategies for treating metabolic disorders. Therefore, the series of experiments presented in the proposal are designed to determine how tanycytes may influence electrical activity of ARH neurons. More specifically, the project is based on answering the following questions: i) Does purinergic signaling in tanycytes modulate activity of ARH neurons? ii) Do tanycytes interact with ARH neurons through a metabolic network? iii) How do tanycytes redistribute captured leptin towards ARH neurons? Towards this end, I will use electrophysiological techniques in acute mouse brain slices and newly-developed genetic tools that allow selective manipulations of tanycyte signaling. Additionally, I propose to investigate how changes in metabolic status (e.g. obesity) may influence tanycyte-ARH neuron communication, providing new insights into functional mechanisms contributing to metabolic disorders. The TANYFEEDNEURONS project will provide direct evidence for tanycyte-neuron communication in the context of energy homeostasis and will identify tanycytes as potential therapy for metabolic disorders, which are age-related diseases and lead cause of death in Europe.

Keywords: energy homeostasis,arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus,tanycytes,gliotransmission,connexin 43 hemichannel,gap junctions,metabolic coupling,glucose,lactate,leptin,obesity
Dynamic Energy System Services to Achieve Renewable Targets (DESSART)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is a niche opportunity in the electricity market across Europe for the provision of additional system/balancing services, decoupled from electricity generation, resulting from the rise in renewable generation. The innovative and unique approach is the development of hybrid-powered flywheels, synergising two proven technologies, flywheels and batteries and application to the electricity system for the first time, to provide security and stability. Hybrid-powered flywheels are resounding success in Formula1 motor racing for rapid acceleration. Schwungrad Energie plans to exploit the concept to enhance system security and stability. The advanced energy storage technology market is forecast to expand at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 12.3% to €27 billion between 2012 and 2020. European countries are aiming to achieve low carbon energy systems by transitioning to renewable sources, to realise their European targets. This requires a higher penetration of intermittent, unpredictable generators (wind/solar). In Ireland, with high winds and relatively weak interconnection, the System Operator has proposed a new payment structure for additional system/balancing services, expanding the market. This makes Ireland an ideal location for the first hybrid-powered flywheel facility before market replication throughout Europe and worldwide as renewable penetration increases in other countries. Schwungrad Energie, an Irish company, was set up to successfully develop, operate and roll out facilities to provide system/balancing services in the electricity sector. The key personnel have expertise and experience in the technical, commercial, managerial and financial areas needed for project success and commercialisation within EU and beyond. Some have previous involvement with successful FP7 projects such as MACCSol. Discussion with a small number of potential key international equity investors are on-going and considerable positive interest has been expressed to fund the project

Keywords: hybrid powered flywheels,system services,grid stability,renewable energy,decarbonisation,system security,flywheels and batteries,integration of renewables,balancing of services
Emergency Decision Support System of Offshore Platform Fires (STOPFIRE)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-17
End date: 2022-01-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this project, fire accidents on offshore oil and gas platform will be analysed to identify the typical fire scenarios, followed by numerical simulation on the temporal and spatial evolution of the fires. Secondly, the coupling mechanism between human behavior and fire development will be investigated to quantitatively characterize the impact of fire on people and other assets. Thereafter, based on fire numerical simulation and multi-agent theory, an evacuation simulation model of offshore platform fires will be proposed. Thirdly, the dynamic risk of offshore platform fire evacuation will be evaluated by considering both failure consequences and their probabilities. A risk warning model of offshore platform fire evacuation will be built based on the Wavelet Genetic Neural Network. Finally, a dynamic decision-making support system for fire emergency evacuation will be designed by integrating Computation Fluid Dynamic (CFD), multi-agent theory and the Virtual Reality (VR) technology. This project covers a wide range of disciplines including CFD, multi-agent-based evacuation simulations, probabilistic inference (Bayesian inference and system dynamic model) and the VR technology. This Individual Fellowship will significantly accelerate the development of interdisciplinary knowledge, innovative research skills and new career of the nominated Fellow.

Keywords: offshore safety,fire analysis,offshore platforms,decision making
The future of Arctic coastal ecosystems - Identifying transitions in fjord systems and adjacent coastal areas (FACE-IT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Fighting and adapting to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Norway,China,Norway,Norway,Norway,France,United States,Denmark,Denmark,Greenland,Canada
Call: The changing cryosphere: uncertainties, risks and opportunities (H2020-LC-CLA-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6753205.0
EU funding (EUR): 6399272.99
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The overarching objective of FACE-IT is to enable adaptive co-management of social-ecological fjord systems in the Arctic in the face of rapid cryosphere and biodiversity changes. The project will identify ways to manage the impacts of climate change on the cryosphere and marine biodiversity, and the interaction with other drivers of change. FACE-IT will contribute to IPCC assessments as well as key Sustainable Development Goals. The concept of FACE-IT rests on a comparison of selected Arctic fjord systems at different stage of cryosphere loss in Greenland, Svalbard and Finnmark, Northern Norway. The underlying two-pronged hypothesis is that the biodiversity of Arctic coastal zones is changing in accordance with the rates of cryosphere changes, and that these changes affect local communities, food production, livelihoods and other ecosystem services. FACE-IT approaches European Arctic fjords as local social-ecological systems. It gathers a strong interdisciplinary team of internationally recognised experts from both natural and social sciences. FACE-IT is organized in eight interdisciplinary work packages focusing on the drivers of change (WP1), their effects on biodiversity (WP2), ecosystem functioning (WP3), food provision and indigenous livelihoods (WP4), nature-based tourism (WP5), the co-production of knowledge to identify governance strategies for adaptive co-management (WP6), and public outreach and policy input (WP7), and project management (WP8). It includes the participation of Arctic stakeholders to ensure that Indigenous and local knowledges, perceptions and concerns about ongoing changes are taken into account in defining innovative and adaptive co-management approaches towards a more sustainable future. In this way FACE-IT will deliver significant contributions towards the implementation of the new integrated EU policy for the Arctic.

Keywords: livelihoods,food webs,human impact,fjord systems,sea ice,glaciers,adaptive co management,indigenous peoples,local communities
BANKED HEPATOCYTE MONOLAYERS FOR ACCELERATING DRUG TOXICITY SCREENING (FAST_TOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proof of concept grant will transform how liver cells are cryopreserved for the toxicological testing market, translating scientific findings emerging from an ERC starter grant from lab to real application. During the drug discovery process, the leading cause of new candidate drug rejection is the discovery of an unfavourable toxicological profile. It is essential to discover these as early as possible in the process to minimize costs and ensure favourable candidates are taken forward and to reduce the need for animal experimentation. The current standard screening method is using isolated hepatocyte (liver cells) to screen for toxicity. There is a disconnect however, in that these cells must be stored frozen in suspension, but all testing is undertaken on the cells grown attached to scaffolds as monolayers. It is not currently possible to cryopreserve cells as monolayers, and hence there is significant (time and financial) effort involved in processing, plating and growing the cells, acting as a bottleneck. This project will use unique cryoprotective polymers, developed in an ERC starter grant, to enable the cryopreservation of hepatocytes directly on the tissue culture plastic, enabling for the first time banking of the cells in an ‘assay-ready format’. We have established strong preliminary data demonstrating this concept in other cell lines, and have filed patents and shown the synthesis can be scaled up. In this project we will obtained essential data sets to demonstrate industrially-relevant cryopreservation of hepatocytes, but also emerging 3-D hepatocyte models (spheroids) to de-risk industrial translation and trigger licensing or investment. This will include not just scientific data but a cost-benefit analysis showing the economic gains due to reduced personnel effort required. There will be significant economic, but also societal benefit in optimising toxicological screening to improve the drug discovery process.

Keywords: cryopreservation,polymers,biomaterials
SYmbiosis for eNERGY harversting concepts for smart platforms on foils (SYNERGY)

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: Ireland,Italy,Germany,Finland,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Twinning (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 897000.0
EU funding (EUR): 897000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

SYNERGY addresses the call TWINN-2018 (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020), aiming to strengthen the scientific and technical competences at the Portuguese institutions in the field of energy harvesting and micropower management as a key component towards self-sustainable smart platforms on flexible substrates. Therefore, proper training and expertise transfer in the field of energy harvesting and management is mandatory to complement and consolidate past activities at the widening institutions on low temperature, flexible and paper electronics. Driven by the quest for excellence, the Portuguese University and Research Institutions are so proposing to be linked with outstanding European institutions in the field of printed electronics, solar cells and batteries on foils (VTT); battery and supercapacitors developers (POLITO); energy integration and power management (Tyndall); and materials, devices and systems analysis, validation and modelling (FhG-IKTS). These institutions, with such valuable profiles will allow to complete the value chain for the scientific strategy of the Portuguese widening institutions. This will stimulate scientific excellence and innovation capacity that will boost the development of new smart self-powered smart platforms fully aligned with Portuguese national and regional research and innovation strategies, as it is the case of the recently established collaborative laboratory AlmaScience related to “Paper Electronics”. Moreover, the project’s impact towards society and stakeholders, will be conducted by SPI, which has a strong experience in this area, supported by the European Academy of Science, an excellent vehicle to bring academics together around the relevance of energy as crosscutting element for the strategy of the future of our society.

Keywords: energy harversting,flexible batteries,flexible supecapacitors,flexible solar cells,autonomous flexible,electronics on foils