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Next Generation PEM Electrolyser under New Extremes (NEPTUNE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,France,France,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Game changer Water Electrolysers (H2020-JTI-FCH-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1927335.43
EU funding (EUR): 1926221.25
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Water electrolysis supplied by renewable energy is the foremost technology for producing “green” hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles. The ability to follow rapidly an intermittent load makes this an ideal solution for grid balancing. To achieve large-scale application of PEM electrolysers, a significant reduction of capital costs is required together with a large increase of production rate and output pressure of hydrogen, while assuring high efficiency and safe operation. To address these challenges, a step-change in PEM electrolysis technology is necessary. The NEPTUNE project develops a set of breakthrough solutions at materials, stack and system levels to increase hydrogen pressure to 100 bar and current density to 4 A cm-2 for the base load, while keeping the nominal energy consumption <50 kWh/kg H2. The rise in stack temperature at high current density will be managed by using Aquivion® polymers for both membrane and ion exchange resin. Aquivion® is characterised by enhanced conductivity, high glass transition temperature and increased crystallinity. Dramatic improvements in the stack efficiency will be realised using novel thin reinforced membranes, able to withstand high differential pressures. An efficient recombination catalyst will solve any gas crossover safety issues. Newly developed electro-catalysts with increased surface area will promote high reaction rates. The novel solutions will be validated by demonstrating a robust and rapid-response electrolyser of 48 kW nominal capacity with a production rate of 23 kg H2/day. The aim is to bring the new technology to TRL5 and prove the potential to surpass the 2023 KPIs of the MAWP 2017. The proposed solutions contribute significantly to reducing the electrolyser CAPEX and OPEX costs. The project will deliver a techno-economic analysis and an exploitation plan to bring the innovations to market. The consortium comprises an electrolyser manufacturer, suppliers of membranes, catalysts and MEAs and an end-user.

Keywords: electrolysis system,electrolysis stack,proton exchange membranes,polymer electrolytes,electrocatalysts,membrane electrode assemblies,hydrogen refuelling stations,power to gas
Diagnostics device for rapid testing of prostate cancer at Point-of-care (Nevada)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common types of cancers. As an age-related disease, it is very infrequent below the age of 40 but very common above 65. Currently in Europe, 1 in 7 men will develop PCa before reaching age of 85. With population growth and ageing, the numbers of PCa diagnoses and PCa deaths are likely to substantially increase. It is estimated that by 2030, with an increase in the proportion of people over 65, the number of PCa cases will quadruple. Most PCa’s are first found through a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. Under the current standard of care, men with an elevated PSA levels and/or abnormal digital rectal exam (DRE) are considered at high risk for cancer and will be referred to a urologist for a biopsy. But most men selected for biopsy could have avoided this painful procedure, with its associated complications and costs. More accurate non-invasive tests could help PCa-free men safely avoid unnecessary biopsies, while helping to identify men who may be harbouring aggressive PCa, who will benefit from earlier detection. In response to this challenge, we have developed Nevada, a non-invasive urine-based test assay that identify those men at increased risk of PCa who may benefit most from earlier detection. We plan to convert our test into a Point of Care assay, resulting in significant savings for the healthcare systems across Europe, by only referring those patients to the hospitals that are at risk for a clinically significant cancer. Upon completion of the project, Nevada will boost the growth of our company generating additional 85 FTEs, revenues of €309M and a ROI of 7.9 by the fifth year after Phase 2 execution. With the help of the SME instrument, MDxHealth aims to complete clinical validations and assay optimization so that it can be commercialized across European markets first, and global markets later on, improving the quality of care of healthcare systems worldwide as well as the PCa patient´s quality of life.

Keywords: prostate cancer,biomarkers,point of care testing
Preclinical and Pilot Co-Clinical Evaluation of Simultaneous Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Mechanical Imaging (SIMULTANEOUS DBTMI)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-08-15
End date: 2021-08-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203852.16
EU funding (EUR): 203852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This MSCA is designed to support Dr. Predrag Bakic in his professional development and reintegration into European research community, after he obtained Ph.D. and spent 12 years as a faculty in USA. The host institution, Lund University (LU), is one of the largest in Sweden and among the most prestigious in Europe. Dr. Bakic and his LU supervisors, Dr. Sophia Zackrisson and Dr. Anders Tingberg, share the research focus in breast imaging, with unique complementary expertise: Dr. Bakic in Virtual Clinical Trials (VCTs) based upon the simulation of breast anatomy and imaging systems, and LU team in Mechanical Imaging (MI) and conducting clinical trials of breast imaging. Our action is motivated by a persistent challenge of underdiagnosis and false positives in breast cancer healthcare. The four most exciting innovations in breast cancer imaging that have recently emerged include: Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT), MI, VCTs, and artificial intelligence (AI). In this application we will utilize extensive experience of LU and Dr. Bakic to interconnect these innovations efficiently and flexibly, enabling significant benefits. Within the two-year timeline, we will design and build a simultaneous DBT and MI (termed DBTMI) prototype system, and develop image processing and DBT reconstruction to maximize image quality. We will evaluate the prototype, first preclinically by VCTs and physical phantoms, followed by a pilot co-clinical trial (which combines clinical and simulated data). We will also explore introducing modern AI methods, in the form of Deep Learning Networks (DLN) to improve DBTMI performance. DLN has demonstrated ability to discover complex correlations in clinical images, leading to superior detection and classification of clinical findings. Combined complementary experience, carefully designed knowledge-exchange activities, and LU excellent institutional resources, guarantee the success of this application, and Dr. Bakic's successful reintegration.

Keywords: breast cancer screening,mammography,digital breast tomosynthesis,mechanical imaging,computer,simulation,virtual trials,underdiagnosis,false positives
Quantum Fast Spin dynamics addressed by High-Tc superconducting circuits (QFAST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1803671.0
EU funding (EUR): 1803671.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Nanoscopic spin excitations in confined geometries open a wide range of opportunities both for fundamental investigations and for applications. However, quantum magnetization dynamics in nanomagnets are still largely unexplored, especially when it comes to non-homogeneous spin configurations. QFaST is aimed at filling this gap by investigating quantum properties of magnetic vortices stabilized in low-damping ferromagnetic microdiscs at millikelvin temperatures. The project will be built upon quantum nanocircuits based on the high critical temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) in the form of nano Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (nanoSQUIDs) and coplanar waveguide resonators. On the one hand, quantum spin dynamics from quaistatic up to nanosecond timescales will be addressed with few Bohr magnetons-sensitivity and 100 nm spatial-resolution by implementing a broadband on-chip YBCO-nanoSQUID microscope. This will be combined with the possibility of locally probing and controlling the temperature of the sample and sending radiofrequency pulses. Among other issues, such facility will allow studying zero-point vacuum fluctuations of vortex gyration. On the other hand, the physics of vortex gyration will be addressed by quantum cavity electrodynamics. The first step towards this goal will be the experimental realization of vortex-photon hybrid states using YBCO resonators. Such achievement entails the exchange of vortex and photon populations in the form of Rabi oscillations. Based on this, strong coupling of high order vortex modes and cavity photons will be explored putting emphasis in the possibility of transducing single photons into coherent spin-waves. These studies will open new opportunities for future research, e.g., to transduce between microwave and optical photons or to manipulate and detect single quanta of vortex gyration, which are relevant for quantum information applications and detection of dark matter.

Keywords: nanosquid,high tc superconductivity,broadband,time resolution,ultrasensitive magnetic,sensing,magnonics,magnetic vortex,spin dynamics,superconducting resonators,spin photon,interaction,quantum dynamics,quantum technologies
Solar-driven Electrocatalytic Biomass Upgrading to Value-added Chemicals (SOLBIOCHEM)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 137423.16
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The urgency of addressing climate change and the plummeting costs of renewable solar and wind-generated electricity put these technologies at the forefront of the energy transition to move away from fossil fuels.Moreover, as our reliance on fossil resources is decreasing, it is important to think not only about replacing them as an energy source, but also about using renewable technologies to take over the carbon-based chemicals produced by the petrochemical industry. To achieve this, the most abundant and potentially sustainable source of carbon is the biomass, which stores contemporary carbon, and can be readily harvested, transported and stored. Indeed, derivatives of cellulose or the glycerol generated by the growing biofuel industry are prime candidates for the production of value-added compounds in a “bio-refinery”. So far, upgrading of these biomass-derived compounds has traditionally been studied using thermocatalytic processes on noble metals, which presents challenges such as catalyst cost, the need for high temperature and pressurized gases and the generation of coke that can poison and deactivate catalysts. Alternatively, with the access to increasingly cheaper renewable electricity, electrocatalytic processes have a strong appeal, as they are conducted at room temperature, typically rely on abundant H2O as a proton and/or oxygen source, and can provide fine control over the rate and product selectivity through monitoring of the applied potential. This research proposal aims at developing and studying new electrocatalytic materials made of Earth-abundant transition metal oxides and sulfides, for the valorisation of biomass-derived molecules. The associated performance and mechanisms will be investigated by means of electrochemistry and operando techniques, and integration of the best electrocatalysts with solar energy conversion systems will be explored to demonstrate direct use of sunlight to power biomass conversion in a sustainable fashion.

Keywords: biomass valorization,solar energy conversion,electrocatalysis,metal oxides,metal sulfides
Innovation Enhacement and Key Account Activities iwithin EEEN Niedersachsen 2015-2016 (N-Supp_INNO-15)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
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): 205290.4
EU funding (EUR): 205290.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The general objective of this proposal is to offer services for SMEs that help increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation and by contributing to a better and more efficient connection to providers to more special support in this field of action. Partners will deliver these services in the NUTS-1 region Niedersachsen DE9 (Germany) in the years 2015 and 2016.To achieve the above mentioned objectives partners in this proposed consortium will:1. Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in small and medium sized enterprises with significant innovation activities that could potentially become beneficiaries of European support programmes for research and innovation.This service, provided independently from a specific innovation project and focusing on a company's innovation management system, is called Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs. All partners will provide this service.• Partners will deliver 52 Enhancing actions as described in Work package 1 as 7-day-packagesThe number of Enhancing action is justified by experience of partner NBank, which carries out 20 to 25 Innovation audits a year. Clients have to be found and also to be selected as suitable for the service.2. Identify bottlenecks in the creation of economic impact in companies benefitting from grants under Horizon2020's SME instrument and address these bottlenecks with the help of capable coaches. • Partner NBank will deliver 8 Key Account Management actions as described in Work package 2 as 7-day-packages related to successful proposals for the SME Instrument from the region.The number is justified by the knowledge about how many successful proposals are expected on the SME-Instrument-Tool. Broken down to the region, NBank expects 8 cases for Lower Saxony. If the number of cases is higher, NBank will provide KAM service accordingly and lower the number of enhancing actions.

Keywords: innovation enhacement key account management sme instrument
What Epistemology for Sustainability Science? Experiments and Theories for Social Transformation (EPISUS)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159460.8
EU funding (EUR): 159460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sustainability science is an innovative research field dealing with complex socio-ecological problems of our time, from climate change and rapid urbanization to pandemics and loss of biodiversity. A major goal for sustainability science is to support societal transformations towards sustainability by generating, testing, and integrating (1) system knowledge about sustainability problems, (2) target knowledge about desirable futures, and (3) transformational knowledge about effective interventions that can lead from the problems detected to the desirable futures. Thus far, epistemological work has focused primarily on the foundations of system and target knowledge and has neglected transformational knowledge. Therefore, a major task for an epistemology of sustainability science is now to understand how transformational knowledge is generated and tested. Because of the central role they play in transformational sustainability science, in EPISUS, I take transformational experiments as entrance point to develop an epistemology of transformational sustainability science. I ask: What kind of sustainability science do we need to generate and test transformational knowledge and what role can transformational experiments play in this science? In EPISUS, I address this question by focusing on: 1. the main characteristics of transformational experiments, 2. the criteria used to evaluate experimental results and 3. the kind of theories that support, or could support, the production of transformational knowledge. I use a research design that combines the investigation of concrete examples of transformational experiments and conceptual reflections using analytical tools from the philosophy of science. EPISUS will provide a new conceptualization of transformational experiments as well as categories for the further development of transformational approaches in sustainability science that are theoretically sound and evidence-based.

Keywords: epistemology,sustainability science,sustainable development,transformational experiments,theories of change
The Internet of Musical Things - An ecosystem of interoperable devices connecting performers and audiences (IoMUT)

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-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at designing, developing, and validating new interfaces for technologically-mediated interaction between performers and audiences in order to achieve novel forms of musical expression and foster audience engagement in live performing arts. Current systems for networked music performances that allow performers to collaboratively create music over a network), and for participatory live music performance that enable audiences to actively engage in the music creation process, are limited both from the technological and artistic perspectives. To progress the state-of-the-art, we propose to extend the concepts of the Internet of Things to the musical domain leading to a subfield that we coin as the Internet of Musical Things (IoMUT). IoMUT refers to the network of physical objects (Musical Things) dedicated to the production and fruition of multimodal musical content. This project will implement the IoMUT by creating Musical Things in the form of new musical instruments and new wearable devices, and by delivering a technological infrastructure that allows for their bidirectional wireless communication, both locally and remotely. Such an infrastructure will enable an ecosystem of interoperable devices connecting performers as well as performers and audiences to support new performer-performer and audience-performers interactions, not possible beforehand. The project will define and implement some use cases demonstrating the proposed IoMUT and evaluate them. This approach aspires to effect a step-change in the design of interfaces for musical expression, resulting in a potentially high economic impact on the whole music industry. The project also contributes to the fundamental understanding of the mechanisms underlying music perception and music performance in interactive and multimodal contexts.

Keywords: music,sound,musical instruments,participatory live music performance,collaborative music creation,haptic technology,internet of things,multimodal perception,affective computing
Pan-european assessment, monitoring, and mitigation Of Stressors on the Health of BEEs (PoshBee)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Estonia,Estonia,Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Ireland,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,Sweden,Switzerland,Belgium,Sweden,Belgium,Sweden,Hungary,Poland,Switzerland,Bulgaria,France,France,France,France,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Bee health and sustainable pollination (H2020-SFS-2017-2, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10133683.75
EU funding (EUR): 8999998.75
Participants: 43
Project status: SIGNED

Bees – honey bees, bumble bees, and solitary bees – pollinate our crops and wildflowers, and thus are essential for human well-being. However, in Europe, and around the globe, bees face many threats and are often in decline as a result. One potential driver of reduced bee health is agrochemicals. While laboratory and semi-field studies suggest that such chemicals negatively impact bee health, their importance and relevance in the real world remains unclear. PoshBee is a consortium of academics, governmental organisations, industry, and NGOs that will address the issue of agrochemicals to ensure the sustainable health of bees and their pollination services in Europe. Integrating the knowledge and experience of local beekeeping and farming organisations and academic researchers (including the EU RefLab for bee health), we will provide the first comprehensive pan-European assessment of the exposure hazard of chemicals, their mixtures, and co-occurrence with pathogens and nutritional stress for solitary, bumble, and honey bees across two major cropping systems. Integrated studies across the lab-to-field axis will determine the effect of chemicals, their mixtures, and interactions with pathogens and nutrition on bee health. We will combine the skills of commercial bumble bee and solitary bee producers, ecotoxicological industry, and academics to develop new model species and innovative protocols for testing chemicals in bees. With MUST-B, we will integrate this information to develop dynamic landscape environmental risk assessment models for bees. Using proteomics, we will produce new molecular markers for assessing bee health and enabling long-term monitoring schemes. Finally, combining across our partners and stakeholder board, we will deliver practice- and policy-relevant research outputs to local, national, European, and global stakeholders. Together, our work will support healthy bee populations, sustainable beekeeping, and sustainable pollination across Europe.