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RESILIENCE IN EUROPE THROUGH ACTIVATING CITY HUBS REACHING OUT TO USERS WITH TRIPLE-A CLIMATE ADAPTATION TOOLS (REACHOUT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Italy,Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Germany,Norway,Greece,Poland,Norway,Poland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Developing end-user products and services for all stakeholders and citizens supporting climate adaptation and mitigation (H2020-LC-GD-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998860.0
EU funding (EUR): 4998860.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

REACHOUT will advance Climate Services for urban environments in 7 City Hubs across Europe, developing adaptation strategies integrated in climate resilient urban development. Our climate services will be tailored, visualized and presented in attractive climate story maps. In a series of City Hub workshops, we build up the narratives through engagement with municipalities within the region, citizens and the private sector. Not reinventing the wheel we implement an approach based on proven success in many cities across the world. The underlying Triple-A approach has been successfully applied in the Dutch National Spatial Adaptation program reaching most municipalities in the Netherlands. We will enrich and improve the Triple-A approach unlocking the potential of EU datasets and tools established by earlier H2020, Copernicus, GEOSS & JRC activities. We will improve existing tools and services through an agile development process, enhancing relevance by including possibilities for crowd sourcing and engagement of citizens and private sector. City Hubs apply the toolkit and provide the platforms for co-creation. EU wide upscaling is achieved through a City Hub approach and through connection to national and EU service platforms. C40 and R-Cities networks strengthen outreach and upscaling towards hundreds of cities world-wide. Our private sector partner APG is one of the world?s largest pension investors, responsible for the management of 560 billion euros in pension funds for 4.7 million participants. APG manages assets in five of the seven City Hubs. REACHOUT brings together a highly experienced transdisciplinary team with comprehensive knowledge on climate change adaptation and climate services, experience in working in cities. Our consortium will bridge the last mile and engage citizens and the private sector through active participation, building capacity and fostering collective action towards ambitions, addressing climate-related vulnerability.

Keywords: climate service,adaptation toolbox,citizen engagement,co development,city hubs,private sector engagement
Integrated reducer-filter-injector unit for natural gas engines (InjectoReducer)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Converting conventionally fuelled vehicles to run on cheaper and more sustainable fuel alternatives like Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) has become increasingly important as society is moving towards creating cities with minimum emissions. This requires modifying the fuel injection system to use the alternative fuels via a conversion kit. As Rail, we envisaged a novel approach to conversion kits manufacture and have developed as well as patented an innovation that will transform the performance of conversion kits. Our solution, InjectoReducer, provides an enabling technology towards meeting the rule requirement for Euro 4-6 Regulation Compliance. It offers reduced (handling, installation and maintenance) costs, increased energy efficiency, reduced emissions, increased ease and speed of installation as well as servicing. As such, InjectoReducer has been developed in line with Europe's transport and mobility goals for the year 2050. Our solution will be an enabling innovation towards ridding cities of conventionally-fuelled cars in cities as well as reducing 60% of transport emissions by the middle of the century. InjectoReducer will be relevant to the Autogas equipment kit Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and the Aftermarket fitment market for 1-2 cylinder and 3-4 cylinder vehicles. The market is estimated to grow from 15million to 25milllon units with an attached forecast value from €6.27B to €10.75B by 2021. In our Phase 1, we will conduct a feasibility study that will position us to develop a comprehensive business plan for InjectoReducer. This plan will provide the layout and procedure we will employ so as to fully exploit the conversion kit market for both the OEMs and the Aftermarket fitment market segments. We will develop a market-ready product prototype in our Phase 2 in anticipation of the InjectoReducer commercial version release.

Keywords: vehicule,gas engines,injection system,sequential injection,injector,filter,reducer,efficiency,safety,maintenance,emission
Electrochemical Oxidation in the Recirculating Aquaculture Systems Industry (ELOXIRAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands
Call: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2030633.48
EU funding (EUR): 1421443.43
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) operate by filtering and removing water pollutants from the fish tanks so it can be reused. Since its introduction, RAS production has increased in volume and species with a CAGR of 14%/year, and has a worldwide market estimated in €6.4 billion. Marine RAS is expensive to purchase and operate, and requires high biomass culture density (kg/m3) that implies fast accumulation of toxic metabolized compounds in low water volume, implying significant volumes of fresh water. Thus, RAS end-users need cost-efficient technologies that can work in these conditions. Market available solutions are mainly bio-filtration and ozone treatments, and cannot work under these challenging conditions, showing efficacy fluctuations and start-up periods that increase the production stages and their costs. That scenario has encouraged APRIA SYSTEMS, a SME with more than 9 years of experience in water treatment process, to develop ELOXIRAS. Its first prototype is based on new advanced electrochemical oxidation technology, allowing to increase production (30%), reduce fresh water consumption (20%), and increase the efficacy on removing pollutants (>90%). It can be adjusted to different RAS facilities (modular & versatile), and is easy to operate without efficacy fluctuations and start-up periods, then can be also used on logistics operations to guarantee best fish transport conditions and efficiencies. ELOXIRAS will be upgraded by APRIA supported by key technology partners as MAGNETO SPECIAL ANODES (reactor specialist) and 2 RAS end-users: RODECAN and IRTA (industrial validation tests). This approach will allow APRIA to commit on achieving a RAS EU market share of 7% for 3 marine species (seabream, seabass, turbot) primary over key RAS EU countries (Spain, France, UK, Italy, Denmark, The Netherlands). That conservative market share will permit a total ELOXIRAS sales of 1385 modules in the first 5 years of commercialisation.

Keywords: recirculating aquaculture systems,fish,production,aquaculture
Distribution and Gauging Interconnected Fuel System for the Next Generation Civil Tilt Rotor (NGCTR DIGIFuel)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy
Call: Design, development, testing and qualification of a high-reliability integrated fuel gauging and distribution system providing active CG management in a civil tiltrotor (H2020-CS2-CFP02-2015-01, 2015)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 74.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1784750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1279362.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Secondo Mona, an established Italian aerospace SME with over 100 years of contributions to the aerospace industry, proposes to design, develop, test and qualify a high reliability integrated Fuel Gauging and Distribution System (DIGIFuel), providing active CG management, for the NGCTR. Politecnico di Milano will collaborate on new technology developments, especially about power and data transmission over optical fibers. The envisaged, uncommon, proposed system architecture is based on the presence of a “filtered” collector tank and modular transfer tanks: the digital acquisition and control, by NGCTR computers, of pioneering smart transfer pumps and innovative fiber-optics based level sensors, will offer unconstrained possibility to manage NGCTR balancing while ensuring filling of collector tanks through a novel filtering and sensing sub-system. The development will thus include a purposely designed 270 VDC pump package with microprocessor based electronics, groundbreaking discrete and continuous level sensors with only optical cables inside fuel tanks, as well as validation of water and dirt filters and sensors. Secondo Mona, applying the most advanced Program and Risk Management disciplines, already in use for any new development program, will guarantee adequate control on the activities from the initial trade off studies up to detail design and manufacturing of all equipment and relevant qualification, to ensure clearance for flight to the system. The newly developed products will enhance the Secondo Mona proven fuel systems design capabilities, ensuring uncompromised and interconnected solutions to the customers, for the advantage of reliability, safety and maintenance. The project will also consolidate the long lasting collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, helping to disseminate the results, and will further create value within the area of the Lombardy Aerospace Cluster.

Keywords: optical fibers,smart transfer pumps,level sensors
Boost BLUE economy trough market uptake an innovative seaweed bioextract for IODINE fortification II (Blue Iodine II)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Cross-cutting marine and maritime research
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Supporting SMEs efforts for the development - deployment and market replication of innovative solutions for blue growth (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1147826.25
EU funding (EUR): 803478.38
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Blue iodine II is a resubmission of a proposal submitted in November 2015 that was approved (with a mark of 13,42/15) however not funded. In the last 5 months we have advanced in our idea, contacting new distributors, studying better the commercialisation strategy of our competitors and advancing in the support for the clinical study. The main objective of the project is to produce in a cost effective way new high quality seaweed iodine products focusing in solving the iodine deficiency demonstrated in 3 main target groups (children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and elderly). These groups. have particular iodine need and nowadays there is no product in the market specialized for children nor elderly and there is not yet a clear leader in products for natural iodine support for pregnant and breast feeding women The expected profit in 5 years will be 4.5 million euro and we hope to have a ROI of 1.9 years (taking into account the cost of the innovation project for UBQ). We expect to increase our staff in 11 people, including technical and commercial personnel. Iodine deficiency is one of the three most common nutritional deficiencies and is spread all over the world, according with the World health Organization (WHO) . 40% of the world’s population remains at risk for iodine deficiency and only in Germany it has been estimated that Iodine insufficiency to cause a billion dollars in health care costs per year . The Market for iodine products is expected to increase stably until 2020 being Europe the main regional market. Of all foods, seaweed is the most famous and reliable source of natural iodine. Seaweed creation is dominated by larger players, mainly from Asia. Our strategy is not to compete with them, but follow the FAO advice and target for a niche market: we will differentiate our product in specialising in developing high quality seaweed products based on protein enrichment with natural iodine and rich in essential amino acids.

Keywords: seaweed,iodine
Tom PIT Studio - platform for designing information systems (Tom PIT Studio)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Pharmaceutical sector demands information systems (IS) to be custom designed and in compliance with Good manufacturing practice (GMP) regulative. In addition IS must be build according to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulative CFR Part 11 . This is currently a big problem for all IS providers which are cooperating with pharmaceutical sector because the effort made to achieve this is substantial, time consuming and expensive. The price of such validated system can be three times as high as with similar non-validated system. We can attribute this to programming methods which are not agile enough. With the proposed project we want to introduce, first to EU and then global markets, an innovative solution to address above mentioned challenges - Tom PIT Studio (TPS). TPS introduces unique modeling method of developing IS which reduces development time by 70% and lowers maintenance cost by 90%. Demand for such a product comes from all pharmaceutical companies with a potential in other industries as well. Product is therefore not limited to local (EU) market but has is a great global potential (Asia, USA) estimated at 7 billion €. Product is developed to TRL6 level and is already being used for demonstrational purposes as well as evaluation with SME and pharmaceutical companies in our geographical region. Plan is to develop product to TRL 9 and assure fast market up take. Feasibility study is critical for us to further elaborate commercialization strategy in order to access global market. TPS is a great business opportunity for us but also has bigger impact on EU economy as it provides leverage for SME IT companies to enter market currently controlled by big IT vendors with their own competitive solution thereby widening offer of information systems and consequently lowering implementation costs for pharmaceutical companies.

Keywords: information systems,software,pharmaceutical industry
Smart Device Communication: A paradigm for high PERformance FUture Mobile nEtworking (PERFUME)

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
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2014-ADG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2358768.94
EU funding (EUR): 2358768.94
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Advances in theory, integration techniques and standardization have led to huge progress in wireless technologies. Despite successes with past and current (5G) research, new paradigms leading to greater spectral efficiencies and intelligent network organizations will be in great demand to absorb the continuous growth in mobile data. Our ability to respond suitably to this challenge in the next decade will ensure sustained competitiveness in the digital economy. With few exceptions such as ad-hoc topologies, classical wireless design places the radio device under the tight control of the network. Promising technologies envisioned in 5G such as (i) Coordinated MultiPoint (CoMP) techniques, (ii) Massive MIMO, or (ii) Millimeter-wave (MMW) by-and-large abide by this model. Pure network-centric designs, such as optical cloud-supported ones raise cost and security concerns and do not fit all deployment scenarios. Also they make the network increasingly dependent on a large amount of signaling and device-created measurements. Our project envisions a radically new approach to designing the mobile internet, which taps into the device’s new capabilities. Our approach recasts devices as distributed computational nodes solving together multi-agent problems, allowing to maximize the network performance by exploiting local measurement and information exchange capabilities. The success of the project relies on the understanding of new information theory limits for systems with decentralized information, the development of novel device communication methods, and advanced team-based statistical signal processing algorithms. The potential gains associated with exploiting the devices’ collective, network friendly, intelligence are huge. The project will demonstrate long-term impact of the new paradigm, in pushing the frontiers of mobile internet performance, as well as short- to mid-term impact through its adaptation to currently known communications scenarios and techniques.

Keywords: wireless networks,stochastic optimization,team decision theory,cooperative networks,information theory,mimo,device to device,interference,robust algorithms,decentralized techniques
Inkjet Printed Sensor Arrays for high efficient, low cost, environmental monitoring (IPISA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call: European SME innovation Associate - pilot (H2020-INNOSUP-02-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 108750.0
EU funding (EUR): 108750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

IPISA aims at enabling CETRI to recruit a specialist to join our team developing a smart sensor array of chemoresistive sensing elements for measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds and other hazardous gas. The sensor is innovative because its multi-material design and advanced data processing algorithms make it suitable for a number of applications and gases. The development work foreseen is on the synthesis, patterning (using inkjet printing and microfabrication techniques) and characterization of sensing elements to make the gas sensor exploitable with the highest efficiency. The IPISA proposal aims at exploiting an ultra-versatile sensing scheme based on the development of high-performance, low-cost, printed sensor array technology in order to fulfill the ever growing need for environmental monitoring. Α plethora of fields is expected to be benefited from such a technology in the near future, such as the industrial environment monitoring for labour safety and urban environment monitoring for the life quality monitoring. Moreover, the high societal impact of such a sensing scheme technology is reflected on current needs for enhanced safety monitoring in populated area, such as airports for the convenient detection of explosives, and fields where the knowledge of the exact environmental conditions is of paramount importance such as agriculture, livestock, pisciculture, etc. The specialist will also be working on the commercialization of the device and will formulate an holistic innovation strategy for market penetration of the sensor produced. For that purpose, a training program in innovation management and business management will be offered as part of the project (organised by the European Commission), as well as an internal training program in order to smoothly integrate the expert in CETRI's research team.

Keywords: printed sensor array,electronic nose,gas sensor,nanotechnology enabled sensors,smart data processing,pattern recognition
High Density Batteries for e-Mobility and Industrial Automated Guided Vehicles. (HDBAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

HDBAT aims to develop and commercialize the next generation of high-energy (HE) and high-power (HP) Li-ion pouch cells for large e-Mobility and automated guided vehicle (AGV) HDBAT combines innovative cell design with novel materials and environmental-friendly water-based processes to develop high density cells with energy densities of 330 Wh/L (HE↑25% SOTA) and 200 Wh/L (HP↑70% SOTA) at energy costs of respectively 200 €/kWh (↓30% SOTA) and 450 €/kWh (↓45% SOTA), thereby meeting the needs of our customers for customized energy solutions and cost-efficiency. The result is a monocell architecture with double coated anodes and cathodes, 25% reduced collector thickness, NMC-622 and 811 nickel-rich cathodes and TiO2-nanorod coated anodes (Ultracharge technology). Moreover, battery production is realized with minimum environmental impact by innovative water-based production (no toxic NMP) and conform the latest EU safety and health regulations. To deliver advanced HDBAT cells to the market, our existing manufacturing line needs to be adapted and a feasibility study is required for assessing the scalability of the cells by water-based processes and analysing the requirements for adoption of the production line. From a commercial perspective, the market will be studied in-depth to assess the commercial and financial viability, and set-up a detailed business plan. To realize this innovation a total budget of 2.5M€ is foreseen for Phase 2. Upon commercialization of HDBAT in Europe, Asia and North-America (Q1 2020), sales are projected to increase from 350k cells in the first year to 950k by 2025, growing company revenues by CAGR of 28,4% to 49M€ with a positive ROI within 24 months and a total ROI of 6,1. 54 new jobs will be created as a result of the increased business activity growing our company by 93%. Moreover, HDBAT contributes in solving European challenges in EV, waterborne transport and logistics as outlined in the EU Smart, Green and Integrated Transport Challen

Keywords: battery,electrification,automated logistics,e transport,production technology