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The Patterns of Conflict Emergence: Developing an Automated Pattern Recognition System for Conflict (PaCE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1952848.0
EU funding (EUR): 1952848.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Are there recurring patterns in the escalation and emergence of wars? The idea that history may repeat itself is old. But recent advances overcoming methodological and data barriers present an opportunity to identify these recurrences empirically and to examine whether these patterns can be classified to improve forecasts and inform theories of conflict. I propose to combine new methods—using the shape of the sequence of events rather than its raw values—and novel data on conflict from finance, diplomatic cables, and newspapers, to extract typical pre-war motifs. Just as DNA sequencing has been critical to medical diagnoses, PaCE aims to diagnose international politics by uncovering the relevant patterns in the area of conflict. Our goals are to: (i) Identify patterns in the pre-conflict actions using data on conflict events—from the onset of WWI to Hamas’s rocket launches—and in their perceptions using data from financial markets (the “crowd’s” perception), news articles (the “experts”), and diplomatic documents (the policy-makers). This will allow us to evaluate the patterns of escalation over different timescales—from the decade to the minute. The similarity between temporal sequences will be measured using algorithms which allow for flexible matching, such as Dynamic Time Warping. (ii) Evaluate the utility of these patterns to improve forecasts of conflict with both historical and live out-of-sample predictions. Our results, using shape-based classification methods, will be made public and evaluated in real time. Moreover, using new measures of complexity to distinguish regular, chaotic, and random behavior, I will measure possible fundamental limits to the predictability of conflict events. (iii) Summarize the core features of dangerous patterns into motifs—recurring patterns—that can help build new theories of conflict emergence and escalation. PaCE will build a repository of shapes—a grammar of patterns—to be used as the building blocks of new theories.

Keywords: forecasting,civil conflict,interstate wars,international politics,armed violence,conflict onset,machine,learning
Individual Change of HAbits Needed for Green European transition (I-CHANGE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Italy,Israel,Italy,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,Slovakia,Netherlands,Ghana,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Enabling citizens to act on climate change, for sustainable development and environmental protection through education, citizen science, observation initiatives, and civic engagement (H2020-LC-GD-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2021-11-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5234117.5
EU funding (EUR): 4949998.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Climate change phenomena represent the most serious threats to human well-being and sustainable development. This affects several dimensions of human life from individual health issues to economic growth, passing through civil protection, with strong impacts on European territories and in several other world regions. The I-CHANGE (Individual Change of HAbits Needed for Green European transition) project faces the challenge of engaging and promoting the active participation of citizens for addressing climate change, sustainable development and environmental protection in the framework of the European Green Deal , the European Climate Pact and the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. The overall driving concept is that citizens and civil society have a central role in the definition of environmental protection and climate action and their direct involvement is essential to drive a true shift and promotion of changes of behaviors towards more sustainable patterns. I-CHANGE represents a change of paradigm achievable through a multi-disciplinary and participatory approach: improvement of data usability - citizen awareness raises through the observation of the environmental impacts of human activities; active participation of citizens - the active involvement of citizens through a set of Living Labs (LLs) located in different socio-economic contexts; climate change awareness - the development of clear understanding for citizens of the scientific processes underlying climate change and environmental protections.

Keywords: carbon and environmental footprint,data processing,natural based solutions,practical tools for fostering behavioural change,citizen engagement,early warning services
Cloud Brokerage Across Borders for Mobile Users and Applications (BASMATI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Greece,France
Call: Federated Cloud resource brokerage for mobile cloud services (H2020-EUK-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Clouds and mobile applications have been two key drivers for innovation in the last decade, strengthening industry competitiveness and economic growth. The current technological and social landscape calls for a shift towards the introduction of a hybrid computing paradigm, following the rise and limitations of mobile applications. BASMATI aims at providing a complete ecosystem that integrates cloud federation with mobile devices, while addressing challenges related to resource heterogeneity, ultra-scalable provisioning, offloading, context- and situation identification, quality of service and security guarantees, targeting (crowds of) users accessing their data and applications across borders. BASMATI will provide an integrated brokerage platform targeting federated clouds with heterogeneous resources and supporting the efficient, cost-effective execution of mobile cloud applications in a transparent and ubiquitous manner. Runtime-adaptable federation patterns also considering business aspects, dynamic and runtime-optimized brokerage and offloading decisions will enable fully automated resource exploitation: cloud to cloud, device to federation and device to device. Modelling and prediction of applications and users in terms of mobility patterns, behavior and interactions will provide insight to the aforementioned decisions, while runtime reconfiguration of mobile services will foster the achievement of ultra-scalability. The envisioned hybrid infrastructure management will allow abstracting heterogeneous resources and enabling dynamic service networks based on evolving situations. BASMATI will be evaluated against three real-world use cases: Large Events management (including audio-streaming in dynamic and crowded scenarios), TripBuilding in dynamic environments and Virtual Mobile Desktop for highly nomadic users, which will be provided by BASMATI platform and validated during a 2018 international large event (Das Fest) counting 250.000 participants across a week.

Keywords: cloud federation,brokerage,offloading,data management
High performance MOF and IPOSS enhanced membrane systems as next generation CO2 capture technologies (GENESIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Israel,Switzerland,Switzerland,Switzerland,Belgium,Norway,Norway,Latvia,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: High-performance materials for optimizing carbon dioxide capture (H2020-NMBP-2017-two-stage, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9548135.19
EU funding (EUR): 7970773.51
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Atmospheric warming due to greenhouse gases has become a serious global concern. The shifting from fossil fuel to renewable energy has been slow mostly due to technological barriers. Meanwhile, the demand for energy is growing rapidly which makes fossil fuel consumptions inevitable, in spite of their high emission of GHC. Therefore, there is need for an immediate-medium term solutions to address CO2 emission of fossil fuel plants fast and in a cost effective way. CO2 capture technologies recognized one of the direct answers to this problem. Currently, CO2 capture technologies have been adopted in different parts of the world but still there is a long way to reach their full potential. Some of the most important barriers are large energy requirements and high cost. Advanced material solutions can play a significant role in price reduction and increase of efficiency and enable industries to use fossil fuel while reduce emission of GHC drastically. GENESIS project aims to develop and upscale some of the most promising material for CO2 capture and demonstrate their performance, durability and reliability in industrial environments. GENESIS is build upon two previous ambitious EU projects that developed IPOSS and MOF membrane systems with a great performance for CC. GENESIS will take these technologies a step further by scaling up the most promising ones by demonstrating in relevant 0.45 MWe capture process for pre-combustion and 2 post-combustion applications and achieve at least 90% of CO2 recovery at a cost of 15€/MWh in two carbon intensive industries (Cemex & Arcelormittal). GENESIS is building upon a multidisciplinary team of European technology centers, large enterprises, SMEs in a cross-border project. This will guarantee that the successful implementation of GENESIS and ensure the ambitious objectives will be achieved and impact will be realized in terms of a rapid market penetration of the developed materials and systems by overcoming technological barriers.

Keywords: co2 capture,mof metal organic frameworks,iposs,membrane,pre combustion post combustion
SIGROW AQUA: feasibility study of a disruptive Nutrient Management System for hydroponic farming (SIGROW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CONTEXT: Water shortages and water pollution constitute major environmental threats in the EU. European agriculture occupies 40% of the land and can reach up to an 80% of total water abstraction and it’s the main responsible of nutrient soil pollution. Under this context, a significant change is occurring; Hydroponics is the fastest growing sector of agriculture. Its water consumption is reduced by up to 90% compared to traditional agriculture’s water usage, it may be stacked (if outfitted with led lighting) to limit space use (vertical farming) and being a soilless production it doesn’t need herbicides or chemical pesticides. PROBLEM: Hydroponic major problems are that it requires high nutrient effluents, which is the most important cause of water wastage and soil pollution. NEED: intelligent and efficient nutrient management is anticipated to be a key issue to achieve a 100% success of hydroponic industry. Innovative solution: SIGROW addresses the important area of optimization nutrients and water management in hydroponics agriculture. SIGROW AQUA integrates software and sensors to automatically control the nutrient and water balance in the solution, decreasing nutrients leaching and improving sustainable crop production. Introducing SIGROW AQUA systems will provide a universal and friendly user technology that will have a huge impact on fertilizers and energy savings as well as avoiding water pollution for all hydroponics crops. Technical feasibility study Algorithm optimization to provide accurate predictions in any field conditions independently of water salinization and type of crop. To carry out financial expectation such as best pricing and cost optimization, expected selling quantification from 2019 to 2022, risk assessment as well as the forecast investment, profit and impact. IPR strategy: to protect our product at international level, we will perform a FTO analysis. REQUIRED FUNDING: € 0,7 M to bring the present Technology Readiness from level 7 to 9.

Keywords: hydroponic,nutrient,smart management,irrigation,vertical farming
Designing Singlet Fission Materials Using Excited State Aromaticity (EXAM)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Singlet exciton fission is a carrier multiplication process in organic semiconductors that generates two electron-hole pairs for one photon absorbed, affording quantum efficiencies up to 200%. Photovoltaic devices based on singlet fission have received large attention recently for their potential in efficiency enhancement and to break the Shockley-Queisser limit on the efficiency of single-junction photovoltaics. Recent advancements in singlet fission have been materials-limited due to the rarity of molecules which meet the essential energetic requirement for the process, that the energy of the lowest triplet excited state be approximately half the energy of the lowest singlet excited state. Also important is to ensure the chemical stability of the candidate compounds that would broaden their application prospect. In this proposal, we exploit the excited-state aromaticity view to manipulate the excited state energy levels and build novel singlet fission candidates. Based on theoretical and experimental study, selective models will be evaluated, synthesized and analysed, aiming at a novel strategy for manipulating the excited state energy and stability of organic semiconductors with the aromaticity view. The main aimis to demonstrate highly stable, tuneable organic materials which undergo singlet fission through exploitation of the aromaticity of both the ground state and excited states and feasible design rules for these materials. The materials are expected to be promising candidates as singlet fission functional layer for solar cells and other multiple exciton generation applications. The result concept represents better understanding and tailoring excited state properties of organic semiconductors, which can be expended to wide range of materials with particular excited state nature for even wider application prospect.

Keywords: singlet fission,excited state aromaticity
Key Account Management process for beneficiaries of the EU funded programmes SME-instrument, FTI and FET-Open and services to enhance the INnOvation management capacities of SMEs (KAMINO-2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: EEN H2020 SGA3 (H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 42000.0
EU funding (EUR): 42000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at boosting the participation of European SMEs in the largest research and innovation funding programme of the EU, HORIZON 2020, especially in the SME instrument, in FTI or FET open and as a second to enhance the innovation management capacities of high innovative SMEs.Implementation activities are organized in two work packages (WP): Within the WP1 Key Account Management (KAM), the project will accompany beneficiaries of the SME instrument, FTI or FET in the implementation of their project ideas and initiate a coaching for them. In WP 2 Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity process (EIMC), the project activities should result in significant higher innovation management capacities of SMEs (). Therefore, the innovation capacities and processes, innovation strategies and internal organizations of SMEs as well as their relations with innovation partners will have to be assessed. For this, the partners will apply proven assessment tools. Identified gaps and bottlenecks in the innovation management capacities will be discussed and measures and action plans to overcome them will be defined by the EEN consultants jointly with the SME. KAMINO contains an assistance package for successful applicants in the SME instrument of H2020 and delivers assessments, advice and consultations to support SME to strengthen their innovation management capacities. Three EEN partners –ATI Kueste GmbH, Steinbeis-Forschungszentrum Technologiemanagement-Nordost and Technologiepark Warnemünde GmbH – work on the mentioned activities. The IHK zu Rostock– will formally act as coordinator for this action but will not implement any tasks. Best suited enterprises will be acquired by various sources, provided by the project partners. For the KAM-process the potential candidates will be nominated by the European Commission through a special evaluation process. The consortium EEN M-V plans to perform 7 assessment service packages, both KAM and EIMC, in 2019.

Keywords: innovation strategy,innovation management,key account management,consulting,technology,life cycle assessment
GRaphene-Interfaced heterostructures for Spin Orbit TOrques (GRISOTO)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2022-06-22
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Materials that exhibit two-dimensional transport are in the spotlight in the search for scalable systems and novel functionalities. By combining graphene, which possesses very large electronic mobility, with materials with large spin-orbit coupling, one expects to benefit from both of these properties for future practical applications in spintronics. In fact, the use of large spin-orbit coupling for conversion from charge to spin current, as well as the manipulation of the magnetization of ferromagnetic layers using spin-orbit torques (SOT), are the most promising mechanisms for the next generation of magnetic memories. Proximity spin-orbit coupling in graphene has been recently demonstrated by the host group. However, it is still poorly understood, it requires optimization and its envisioned applications are still to be explored. In the present project, we propose to investigate the proximity effect between graphene and materials exhibiting 2D transport and large spin-orbit coupling (2D-SOM) such as topological insulators (TIs) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), with a particular focus on the generation of large SOT. Our research program involves fabrication of 2D-SOM/graphene/ferromagnet heterostructures, including the growth of TIs using state-of-the art molecular beam epitaxy, device design, nanofabrication and characterization. The magnetization dynamics and the charge-to-spin conversion efficiency will be studied in these heterostructures using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance. We will seek heterostructures that display large SOT. Their optimization will allow us to demonstrate full electrical magnetization reversal of a magnetic element via SOT. If successful, the outcomes of this work will advance the understanding of the proximity effect of graphene with 2D-SOM, as well as its influence on SOT, and will contribute to the unlocking of next-generation devices such as memories based on the exploitation of spin-orbit coupling.

Keywords: spintronics,graphene,proximity effect,topological insulator,transition metal dichalcogenide,spin orbit torque,ferromagnetic resonance,heterostructures
Per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances impact on reproductive health of firefighters (INFERNO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-02-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156980.64
EU funding (EUR): 156980.64
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are highly fluorinated compounds, with a variety of industrial and consumer uses, including stain resistant coatings, plastics, fire‐resistant coatings, and fire‐fighting fluids. PFAS are the active ingredient in aqueous film‐forming foam (AFFF) use to extinguish fuel-based fires. Potential links between the occupational use of AFFF by firefighters and certain negative health outcomes have not been sufficiently studied. As the overall objective of this study is to investigate the influence of PFAS newly identified in AFFF on reproductive health of firefighters, we will fully delineate PFASs composition found in AFFF and use by firefighters during their duties. We intend to characterize the composition of individual PFASs and their precursors in AFFF using unique analytical set up consisting of liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma tandem mass spectrom¬etry (LC-ICPMSMS) followed by high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-OrbiTrap -MS). We will perform sampling and analysis of blood and semen in newly recruited group of firefighters after their first exposure to AFFF to monitor the change in concentration levels of the compounds identified in the AFFF and evaluate the relations with fertility parameters (sperm count, morphology, motility), as firefighters are at higher risk to be diagnosed with male infertility. To directly compare in vivo observations and verify our findings we will set up in vitro experiments to elucidate the effects of these compounds on steroidogenesis and spermatogenesis pathways. The proposed interdisciplinary study is a major step in elucidating the role of PFAS originating from AFFF in male reproductive health. Moreover, these findings will also support efforts designed to introduce a more rigorous regulatory framework tackling PFAS collectively rather than on a compound-specific basis.

Keywords: occupational exposure,endocrine disruptors,perfluorinated compounds,male infertility