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Intelligent Memories that Perform Inference with the Physics of Nanodevices (NANOINFER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499609.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499609.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cognitive tasks are increasingly necessary in modern electronics. The energy efficiency of associated algorithms, which rely on abundant stored parameters, is severely limited by the separation of computation and memory elements in conventional computers. In NANOINFER, I will directly address this challenge by developing intelligent memory chips that natively perform both memory and computing functions, using CMOS and emerging nanodevices. These chips will perform modern Bayesian inference algorithms, which allow cognitive-type reasoning. The project includes theoretical investigations as well as intelligent memory chip designs, which will be supported by proof-of-concept experimental demonstrations. The proposed architectures, based on spintronic and memristive memories, will maximize energy efficiency by leveraging the complex physics of these emerging devices for inference operations and the storage of model parameters, and by minimizing exchanges between computation units and memory. Inference will be performed using sampling algorithms that allow tackling difficult problems and are robust to nanodevice imperfections. The inference circuits will be composed of digital CMOS logic as well as spiking neurons circuits. Two standard Bayesian approaches will be employed to enable learning, permitting highly adaptive systems. Preliminary results on a system that performs naïve Bayesian inference have validated this concept and its use with novel memory technologies. NANOINFER will resolve critical interdisciplinary challenges to permit intelligent memories to perform non-naïve tasks, ensuring a correspondence between device physics and Bayesian concepts while maintaining a fusion between computation and memory. This project will deepen our understanding of novel memory technologies and develop a toolbox for creating intelligent memory chips. These will allow smart devices to perform cognitive/sensory-motor tasks at low energy without requiring large computing machines.

Keywords: emerging memories,memristors,nanoelectronics,intelligent memory,bayesian inference
SMART SPEED BUMP (SSBUMP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Badennova (www.badennova.es), company created to develop and implement innovative products to help improve the safety and quality of drivers, preventing accidents, and contributing to the health of its passengers, has developed a smart speed bump (SSBUMP). The SSBUMP is a pioneer product in the road safety whose main objective is to serve as a speed limiter for vehicles on any road. It is a smart and selective device since it is an obstacle only for those vehicles exceeding the speed determined on a specific road and not affect to the vehicles that circulate respecting the speed limits. - The need to create a device with these characteristics is due to the serious deficiencies of the current speed bumps: Traffic accidents; Back injuries; Damages to the vehicle; Environmental and Noise pollution; Damages in nearby properties; Negative effects on adjacent streets... The Smart Speed BUMP (SSBUMP) resolves all these deficiencies detailed before, because it is highly innovative, thanks to technology patented worldwide by Badennova. The SSBUMP properties are achieved due to the non-Newtonian material that is contained in the SSBUMP, which liquid state is its usual mode, but at the time it receives an impact at high speed it passes to a solid state until the end of the impact. In this sense, SSBUMP doesn´t offer any resistance to the drivers who respect the speed indicated, on the contrary it is an obstacle for the drives that don´t respect the speed limit. This material is biodegradable and nontoxic and non-polluting. The fabrication of the Smart Speed Bumps with our own technology, for subsequent B2B sale (via exclusive distributors) in the international market. To do this, Badennova asks for the SME Instrument to finish the product to the 100%, and once completed the SME Instrument set up a production plant with sufficient capacity to provide national and international demand.

Keywords: smart speed bump,traffic accidents,back injuries,damages to the vehicle,environmental and,noise pollution,non newtonian material,smart movility
Integration of new nano-engineered safe energetic layers with Sensors and Electronics to manufacture Safety-Critical Microsystems (PyroSafe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: France,France
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499853.0
EU funding (EUR): 2435353.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

PyroSafe aims at (1) creating a new generation of safe and versatile energetic materials with tailored architectures at nanoscales to replace old unsafe energetic substances currently used in pyrodevices; (2) enabling a new technology based on the co-integration of electronic components with these new types of energetic layers; (3) manufacturing high energetic microsystems able to produce multiple functionalities (gas, heat, or generation of chemical species) to implement relevant emergency safety responses. This involves both evolutionary and revolutionary advances in metal/oxide materials science and engineering that constitute the focus of the proposed work. Specifically, I will develop: i. multi-scale (nm to mm) processing methodologies combining vapor-deposition techniques with additive manufacturing methods, to tailor the structural features of the energetic layers to the application needs; ii. an understanding of the physical and chemical processes at the most fundamental level to predict composition/structure/performance relationships and aging mechanisms; iii. a heterogeneous assembly process to co-integrate the energetic layers with electronic circuits. As key achievements of the project, three safety-critical microsystems, capable of detecting catastrophes and trigger quick safety responses, will be demonstrated with prototypes, ensuring that the basic research performed in initial thrusts will directly contribute to the development of novel microsystems. Overall, the PyroSafe technology will constitute a technological breakthrough in the current “pyrotechnical systems industry” by introducing a new way of thinking and manufacturing energetic materials as safe programmable and protectable components in a field led, for decades, by organic chemistry. Furthermore, the output of this research will have a deep and broad impact on the European society by introducing a real-time response to accidents in contrast to the current approach based on prevention.

Keywords: nanothermites,safe and smart pyrodevices,mems,multi scale engineering
3D-printing of PARTiculate FORMulations utilizing polymer microparticle-based voxels (3DPartForm)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1474125.0
EU funding (EUR): 311786.94
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

New polymer materials are necessary to match the demand for highly integrated, multifunctional, responsive systems for sensing, information processing, soft robotics or multi-parametric implants. Both established material design concepts based on lithography, and emerging engineering efforts based on additive manufacturing (AM) are currently not able to fully address the need for topologically complex, multifunctional and stimuli-responsive polymer materials. This proposal aims at establishing a radically new approach for polymer material design, rethinking AM on both material and process level. Here, functionality will be already embedded at the building block level to emerge into larger scales. The exact methodology relies on polymer microparticles as a novel material basis with arbitrary geometry, function, mechanics and responsiveness. These microparticulate formulations will serve as predefined, voxel-like building blocks in AM yielding hierarchical assemblies with spatially defined voxel position and programmable, adaptive properties, which clearly go beyond existing functional material classes. With that, 3DPartForm will address the current lack of additive manufacturing providing multifunctional, stimuli-responsive materials, in which not only strongly different, but most importantly functional building blocks with intrinsic time axis will be processed into true 4D-polymer multimaterials. Products emerging from this approach will reach a previously unknown level of system integration, where optical transparency, electric and thermal conductivity as well as diffusivity and mechanical rigidity will become spatiotemporally tunable at single-voxel level. Coupled sensing and actuation operations will be realized by processing, transforming and manipulating single or combined input stimuli within these materials in the focus of 3DPartform, and platforms for biomimetics and cell-free biotechnology will be implemented as a long-term goal.

Keywords: microfluidics,polymer gels,4d materials,additive manufacturing,hierarchical assembly,stimuli responsiveness
Rapid European SARS-CoV-2 Emergency research Response (RECoVER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Norway,Belgium,China,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health response to the 2019-nCoV epidemic (H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-02-14
End date: 2023-08-13
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20590195.0
EU funding (EUR): 19995195.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

RECoVER (Rapid European SARS-CoV-2 Emergency Research response) is a comprehensive research response to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak addressing the most urgent questions for patient and public health level interventions. RECoVER originates from partners of the EU Framework 7 (FP7) funded PREPARE project (Platform for European Preparedness Against (Re-) emerging Epidemics. In RECoVER, we will address these urgent questions in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary and interacting set of research response activities, combing (i) clinical studies in primary and hospital care, (ii) epidemiological studies and modelling, and (iii) clinical biological studies. The proposed studies complement ongoing research in China, addressing key knowledge gaps and patient-cohort questions relevant to the European population. The research proposed includes essential needs for preparedness and response, even if circulation of the virus in Europe will be limited. RECoVER will inform future research response efforts to further strengthen Europe’s and global clinical research preparedness to future emerging infectious diseases.

Keywords: sars cov 2,clinical research,infectious disease research preparedness and response,epidemiology and modeling,clinical biology
Boosting the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in additive manufacturing of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (AMaTUC)

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,Romania,United Kingdom,Luxembourg
Call: Twinning (H2020-TWINN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999443.75
EU funding (EUR): 999443.75
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of the AMaTUC project is to boost the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in additive manufacturing of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN) and its high-quality Twinning partners for the benefit of the automotive industry and personalised products markets. To achieve this aim, the 3 year project will build upon the existing strong research and innovation base of TUCN and its twinning partners Loughborough University (LbU), FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (ACUAS) and Intelligentsia Consultants (Intelligentsia). The AMaTUC project aims to boost TUCN and twinning partners' scientific excellence and innovation capacity in additive manufacturing, as well as implementing a research and innovation strategy focused on three sub-topics: 1. Improve existing AM technologies, 2. Integrate the AM technologies with suitable Rapid Tooling methods, and 3. Design for competitive manufacturing of personalised products and computer planning (CAE-FEM) analysis and simulation The research and innovation strategy takes into account the recent SWOT analysis of TUCN as well as the national Romanian research priorities and Smart Specialisation Strategy. The specific objectives of the AMaTUC project are presented below: • Objective 1: Strengthen TUCN’s research excellence in AM • Objective 2: Enhance the research and innovation capacity of TUCN and Twinning partners • Objective 3: Raise the research profile of TUCN and the Twinning Partners • Objective 4: Contribute to the research and innovation priorities of Romania • Objective 5: Support research and innovation on a European level

Keywords: additive manufacturing,rapid prototyping,twinning,automotive,customised products
Dissection of a cortical microcircuit for the processing of pain affect (CorPain)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1928125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1928125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is a fundamental but still elusive question how nociceptive processing is performed in neuronal networks in the cortex for the conscious experience of pain. The objective of this project is to identify and characterize the cortical microcircuits in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) that are involved in pain processing with cellular resolution. The ACC is essential for evaluating the emotional/affective component of pain. Our research will investigate the elusive question if a dedicated pain circuit exists in the ACC. We will dissect the detailed structure and connectivity of this pain circuit and investigate how it generates affective behavioural responses related to pain. At the core of this project, we will characterize the neuronal networks in the ACC that are engaged in the processing of noxious stimuli. It will be highly interesting to determine the neuronal dynamics in the ACC during nociception and in chronic pain conditions on the cellular and network level. Furthermore, we will elucidate the downstream targets that are influenced by the pain circuits in the ACC to generate the appropriate behavioural responses. These aims will be achieved by a combination of electrophysiology, 2-photon Ca2+ imaging and pharmaco- and opto-genetic approaches both in vivo and in vitro and behavioural testing of pain affect in mice. This project will give a comprehensive picture of how a cortical microcircuit processes afferent noxious stimuli to generate an affective behavioural response. This study will give important insight into the fundamental question of cortical information processing and it is highly relevant to understand pain processing and the changes in the network dynamics that manifest the transition to chronic pain. Eventually this might contribute to the development of novel treatment strategies for this pathological condition.

Keywords: neuronal network,neuromodulation,chronic pain,dendrite,neuronal plasticity,inhibition,disinhibition
Developing Geroprotectors to Prevent Polymorbidity (GeroProtect)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative Biology: from Genes and Genomes to Systems
Panel description: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics and other ‘omics studies, bioinformatics, systems biology, genetic diseases, gene editing, innovative methods and modelling, ‘omics for personalised medicine
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2218750.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Advancing age is the major risk factor for disability and illness, including cardiovascular, metabolic and neu-rodegenerative disease and cancer. The increasing incidence of older people in European countries is posing major medical, social and economic challenges, and there is an urgent need to find ways of compressing late-life morbidity. Ageing has proved malleable to genetic and pharmacological interventions in laboratory animals, and at least some of the mechanisms are conserved over large evolutionary distances. Reduced activity of the nutrient-sensing insulin/insulin-like growth factor/TOR signalling network can increase health and combat ageing-related disease in laboratory animals, with increasing evidence of its importance in human ageing. There is thus a prospect for pharmacological intervention to prevent more than one ageing-related condition, rather than tackling diseases one by one and as they arise. The aim of this research programme is to evaluate the potential for pharmacological prevention of ageing-related decline in humans with a polypill targeting the nutrient-sensing network. We find that three licensed drugs, lithium, rapamycin and trametinib, act independently, at different nodes in the network, to increase lifespan in the fruitfly Drosophila, implying that the network controls more than one underlying mechanism of ageing, and that a polypill of these drugs could be particularly effective. We shall test this idea in mice, and assess the underlying mechanisms in Drosophila and mice. We have found that suppression of the Ras signalling branch of the network, which has a well known role in human cancer, can extend lifespan in both the fruitfly Drosophila and mice, and we shall assess its role in humans. Interventions that ameliorate ageing often have sex-specific effects, and we shall investigate the mechanisms leading to these for the nutrient-sensing network. The outputs of the work will inform future clinical trails in humans.

Keywords: multimorbidity
High Performance Computing Governance Intelligence Gathering (HPC-GIG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: European Data Infrastructure
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Finland,Switzerland,Belgium,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Support to the governance of High Performance Computing Infrastructures (H2020-INFRAEDI-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 943766.25
EU funding (EUR): 900000.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The European Cloud Initiative implementation encompasses different elements and will require a solid governance setup. A cornerstone of this governance is a Joint Undertaking, planned to start activities in 2019. HPC-GIG proposes intelligence gathering services from the European HPC stakeholders to this future ‘HPC Governance’ - HPCG. It aims to facilitate a timely start of its operations, transparently and non-intrusively leveraging the HPC community know-how, organised with enough flexibility to align project activities with the programme schedule and needs during its ramp-up phase, and deliver timely and useful input to the HPCG. For this purpose the project will: - establish an effective and responsive communication channel with the HPC Governance; - engage all relevant stakeholders in the HPC and data ecosystem via dynamically managed ad hoc task forces; - develop knowledge registries and consolidate networks of expertise which may already exist; - link national and pan-European activities in the field, involving users, implementers and funders participating in the European HPC and Big Data activities; - organise workshops for stakeholder groups and/or participating in already-existing strategic HPC events; - create visibility and position the project within the European HPC and data ecosystem. The project partners are Europe’s reference players in the main areas of concern: (a) PRACE (Project Coordinator): provider of world-class HPC for scientific and industrial research; (b) ETP4HPC: industry-led think tank of European HPC technology stakeholders; (c) GEANT: the leading European collaboration providing advanced network, infrastructure and services for research and education. The project partners are very active stakeholders interested in reaching the ECI objectives. Moreover, their in-depth knowledge of the field and the scope of their contacts will facilitate the involvement of users, implementers and funders from the European HPC ecosysstem.

Keywords: eurohpc,user forum,strategic task force,hpc governance,prace,etp4hpc,geant