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Exploring topological phenomenon in RF circuits (Topo-circuit)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-04
End date: 2021-10-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this project, we aim to design and experimentally demonstrate topological phenomena in RF circuits. In particular, we will realize both two dimensional (2D) linear topological circuits showing nontrivial edge states immune from circuit defects and disorders, and nonlinear topological circuits whose topological properties can be controlled by the intensity of the input signal. To utilize the robustness nature of topological circuit, we will also fabricate flexible topological circuit on top of polyimide (PI) or polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films, where the topological features of circuit are preserved when the circuit is bent or stretched. 3D topological circuit will also be theoretically and numerically investigated to achieve exotic topological phases such as nodal lines and Weyl states at RF frequency. This project will provide not only possibilities for designing novel RF circuits that could function properly under different types of circuit defects and tolerance, but also a new platform for exploring and experimentally demonstrating topological phenomena with ease and low cost.

Keywords: topological insulator,topologically protected edge state,wyel points,nodal lines
Atomic Force Microscopy for Molecular Structure Elucidation (AMSEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Molecular structure elucidation is of great importance in synthetic chemistry, pharmacy, life sciences, energy and environmental sciences, and technology applications. To date structure elucidation by atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been demonstrated for a few, small and mainly planar molecules. In this project high-risk, high-impact scientific questions will be solved using structure elucidation with the AFM employing a novel tool and novel methodologies. A combined low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope/atomic force microscope (LT-STM/AFM) with high throughput and in situ electrospray deposition method will be developed. Chemical resolution will be achieved by novel measurement techniques, in particular the usage of different and novel tip functionalizations and combination with Kelvin probe force microscopy. Elements will be identified using substructure recognition provided by a database that will be erected and by refined theory and simulations. The developed tools and techniques will be applied to molecules of increasing fragility, complexity, size, and three-dimensionality. In particular samples that are challenging to characterize with conventional methods will be studied. Complex molecular mixtures will be investigated molecule-by-molecule taking advantage of the single-molecule sensitivity. The absolute stereochemistry of molecules will be determined, resolving molecules with multiple stereocenters. The operation of single molecular machines as nanocars and molecular gears will be investigated. Reactive intermediates generated with atomic manipulation will be characterized and their on-surface reactivity will be studied by AFM.
GLOBAL_AT_VENICE - Research and Training for Global Challenges Cofund Fellowship Programme (GLOBAL_AT_VENICE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2206800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1103400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Global at Venice - Research and Training for Global Challenges is a new 60-month Cofund Fellowship Programme implemented by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (UNIVE) that aims at exploiting the full potential of UNIVE’s and its strategic partners to offer to 15 Fellows a truly international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training. The G@V programme will strengthen the Fellows’ curricula, providing Europe and the world with a pool of researchers capable of bridging the gaps between academic and applied research, and between research to market. In 2014 UNIVE launched an ambitious Strategic Plan aimed to boost its position to become a leading research-intensive university. Huge investments together with a radical mind-shift led to the following initiatives: ·2014: BRAIN GRAIN programme ·2015: CAREERS+ programme ·2016: HRS4R - Human Resources Strategy for Researchers label ·2016: LAB programme RESULTS 2014-2019: UNIVE is now a top Host Institution with more than 60 Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship awarded, 10 ERC grantees, 97 H2020 projects worth over €27M so far. In 2019 UNIVE set up 6 Research for Global Challenges Institutes to promote an interdisciplinary, challenge based and mission oriented approach to research: 1 Research Institute for Complexity 2 Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage 3 Research Institute for Social Innovation 4 Research Institute for Cross Cultural Relations 5 Research Institute for Green and Blue Growth 6 Research Institute for Innovation Management The key features of the G@V - Research and Training for Global Challenges Cofund Fellowship Programme – are: - 15 Fellowships lasting 24 months; - interdisciplinary research within the Research for Global Challenges Institutes; - excellent research training paths with top supervisors; - connection to UNIVE innovation ecosystem; - outstanding career opportunities ; - attractive working conditions; - a 2.362.000€ budget, more than 50% on own resources

Keywords: international,interdisciplinary,cross sectoral,training,innovation,networking,postdoc career development,attractive and flexible employement conditions,human resources strategy for researchers
Addressing Too Big to Fail: Resolution, Organizational Structure, and Funding of Global Banks (TBTF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1489518.0
EU funding (EUR): 1489518.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the main unresolved challenges of the recent financial crisis is how society should deal with global banks that are “too big to fail.” The collapse of Lehman Brothers vividly demonstrated the costs of the failure of such an institution, with sweeping repercussions for the financial system and the broader economy. Yet, implicit public guarantees that would prevent such failures are equally costly, creating moral hazard in the form of increased risk taking and incentives for financial institutions to become larger and more complex. The research in this proposal will address this dilemma. From a methodological perspective, my research will advance the state of the art in financial intermediation theory by explicitly modeling the failure and resolution of global banks, emphasizing crucial elements that are absent from leading theories: the design of mechanisms that allow for an orderly resolution of struggling global financial institutions, the incentives of national authorities in the regulation and resolution of global banks, the role of the corporate and organizational structure of global banks, as well as their optimal size and scope. The proposed approach is interdisciplinary; it will generate novel insights by drawing on different subfields within economics (corporate finance theory, organizational economics) and aspects of bankruptcy law. Moreover, the research will take a holistic view that explicitly recognizes the two-way feedback between the rules that govern bank resolution and decisions on funding, investment, and size taken by banks prior to a potential resolution. Overall, the findings from this research will be directly relevant for regulators and policymakers. For example, they will inform currently debated legislation regarding the regulation and resolution of global banks, such as the Single Resolution Mechanism in the EU.
Artistic Animation Rendering with Stylization (AniStyle)

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: 2018-02-02
End date: 2020-02-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Computer animation is a key technology for the creative industries and has strong links to many key sectors of digital economy, including gaming and post-production. Its annual global market value is €200 billion and it is growing 7% annually. Although the European Commission has established policies and initiatives for creative industries, 60% of the global animation market is shared between the US (supported by strong finance and advanced technology) and the Asia-Pacific countries (bolstered by low labour costs). To gain market share in computer animation, the EU needs novel technologies that can produce rich content and special effects at a competitive price. This fellowship project describes how novel Animation Stylization Techniques (ASTs) can be developed to enrich content without high labour costs, by bringing to the UK a high calibre researcher with 9 patents and 28 publications. Novel ASTs are needed because most of animations stylized through suffer from various artefacts such as flickering which can only be removed via laborious manual correction. This problem encompasses the two current main trends of ASTs: mark-based and texture-based approaches, either of which allows 2D and 3D computer graphics to be converted into a wide variety of expressive styles including line drawing, pen-and-ink, cartoon, watercolour and oil painting. The central, innovative aim of this project is to develop novel computer graphics and animation approaches which not only address the issue of artefacts, but also enable creation of new styles for animation. To underpin the development, we will investigate visual factors that underlie perceived quality of stylization by developing a mathematical model to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of techniques. To date, few researchers have assessed stylization effectiveness, and their techniques of aesthetic evaluation are crude and subjective, which we believe has hindered the advance of ASTs.

Keywords: computer animation,computer graphics,texture mapping,non photorealistic rendering,3d modeling and animation
SCale Up an integrated care package for diaBetes and hYpertension for vulnerable people in Cambodia, Slovenia and Belgium (SCUBY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Slovenia,Netherlands,Cambodia
Call: Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) - Scaling-up of evidence-based health interventions at population level for the prevention and management of hypertension and/or diabetes (H2020-SC1-2018-Single-Stage-RTD, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3965262.5
EU funding (EUR): 3965262.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Background. Diabetes and hypertension are increasingly dominant in the global burden of disease. Effective interventions for prevention, detection, treatment and control of both conditions are available, but do not reach all people in need. Countries are struggling how to scale-up interventions sustainably and effectively. There is an urgent need to develop and document strategies on how to do so. Method. This project examines the scale-up of existing evidence-based packages for control of diabetes and/or hypertension with five components: (a) identification of people with HT and/or T2D and (b) treatment in primary care services, (c) health education and (d) self-management support to patients and caregivers, and (e) collaboration among caregivers. The project develops, implements and evaluates roadmaps for the national scale-up of this package, in three different types of countries: a low-middle income country with a developing health system (Cambodia), a former socialist country with a centralised health system (Slovenia), and a Western European country with a decentralised system (Belgium). The research objectives are: 1) to analyse the organisational capacity to scale-up the integrated care package and to assess contextual barriers and facilitators; 2) to develop and implement roadmaps for a national scale-up strategy in each country; 3) to evaluate the impact of scale-up on health outcomes and costs; and 4) to generate lessons for other countries. Outcomes. The project will result in comprehensive scale-up strategies and increased diabetes and hypertension control in each country. The involvement of policy-makers, professionals and patients will ensure the local relevance and impact. The project is innovative in applying the conceptual insights from scale-up science to the field of noncommunicable diseases. The lessons on scale-up will benefit policy-makers in other countries with similar contexts.

Keywords: integrated care package,scale up strategies
Many-photon quantum entanglement (QLUSTER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Israel,Switzerland,Greece,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2827521.25
EU funding (EUR): 2827521.25
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Light sources capable of producing very large numbers of entangled photons are key devices for the future development of quantum networks and optical quantum computers. They are the backbone of high rate quantum networks and the key ingredient for the development of a large scale universal quantum computer. Such sources do not presently exist since most existing approaches to entangle photons are probabilistic and suffer from poor efficiency, with the result that they cannot be scaled to large photon numbers. However, there is a solution connected to three recent breakthroughs in the quantum optics community: the possibility to control single quantum dot spins with high fidelity (i), the possibility to generate single photons from semiconductor quantum dots with unprecedented performance metrics using optical micro-cavities (ii), and new theoretical proposals to entangle many photons with a single quantum dot spin (iii). In QLUSTER, top-level experts in these three – currently largely independent - research areas join for the first time to tackle the long-standing challenge of producing many-photon entanglement in a deterministic and scalable way. This is a highly ambitious project, and to keep the risk under control, we explore the most promising spin and cavity platforms as well as progressively implement protocols of increased complexity. The methods that will be applied will facilitate the generation of entangled-photon sources that are exponentially more performant than existing ones, and will provide a resource that has real potential to revolutionize photonic quantum technologies, and therefore the emerging quantum network and computing markets.

Keywords: quantum dots,cavity qed,multi particle quantum entanglement
Prediction and Visual Intelligence for Security Information (PREVISION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Fight crime, illegal trafficking and terrorism, including understanding and tackling terrorist ideas and beliefs
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Cyprus,Romania,Moldova, Republic of,Greece,Lithuania,Greece,Belgium,Greece,Poland,France,France,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Information and data stream management to fight against (cyber)crime and terrorism (H2020-SU-SEC-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9040230.0
EU funding (EUR): 8001180.0
Participants: 33
Project status: CLOSED

The mission of PREVISION is to empower the analysts and investigators of LEAs with tools and solutions not commercially available today, to handle and capitalize on the massive heterogeneous data streams that must be processed during complex crime investigations and threat risk assessments. With criminals being ever more determined to use new and advanced technology for their cause, the aim is to establish PREVISION as an open and future-proof platform for providing cutting-edge practical support to LEAs in their fight against terrorism, organised crime and cybercrime, which represent three major cross-border security challenges that are often interlinked. PREVISION provides advanced near-real-time analytical support for multiple big data streams (coming from online social networks, the open web, the Darknet, CCTV and video surveillance systems, traffic and financial data sources, and many more), subsequently allowing their semantic integration into dynamic and self-learning knowledge graphs that capture the structure, interrelations and trends of terrorist groups and individuals, cybercriminal organisations and organised crime groups, giving rise to enhanced situational awareness in these fields. PREVISION has a pan-European engagement and support agenda for LEAs: ten (10) different LEAs and practitioners take part in its consortium, while additional ones (including Europol) have joined its external advisory board. A strong inter-disciplinary dimension, combining technological expertise with sociological, psychological, linguistic and data science models, will lead to a common strategic approach for predicting abnormal and deviant behaviour, radicalisation potential, threat risks for soft targets, and cybercrime trends at different timescales. PREVISION will conduct demonstrations on five representative and complementary use cases, under real-life operational conditions, in full compliance with fundamental rights and applicable legislation.

Keywords: data stream management,organized crime,terrorism,cybercrime,semantics,fusion,big data,video analysis,linguistic analysis,machine learning,augmented reality,visualization tools
Noise and Emissions Monitoring and radical mitigation (NEMO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Sweden,Norway,France,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Upgrading transport infrastructure in order to monitor noise and emissions (H2020-MG-2019-TwoStages, 2019)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6564892.5
EU funding (EUR): 6564892.5
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

NEMO aims to create a turn-key solution through which new systems are integrated into existing infrastructure to empirically measure emissions and noise emitted by individual vehicles. The new measurement systems, together with the implementation of new mitigation solutions, form a global and scalable solution to improve air quality and reduce noise impact in EU cities. By the envisaged standardization, the systems will represent an instrument for enforcement against high-emitters in Low-Emission Zones and other sensitive areas. The first dimension comprises a new and enhanced autonomous remote sensing system that identifies noisy and polluting vehicles in existing traffic and make this information available to tolling or access systems. The system can be fully integrated into the road/rail infrastructure and will have the tools available to communicate with the existing data structure of both vehicle/train operators and road/rail authorities. The second dimension develops a holistic solution to mitigate noise and emissions of passing vehicles. This integral approach involves road texture optimization, green barriers, photocatalytic materials and microplastics collection in the asphalt layer pore network. The combined effect of dimensions 1 and 2 will achieve the targeted 30% improvement in air quality for road traffic and will exceed the targeted 20% improvement in noise. For rail traffic, NEMO will enable the acoustic determination and identification of individual wagons in passing trains. This improves the effectivity of tolling or banning policies for noisy cast iron block braked wagons. The NEMO consortium covers all the relevant technologies at already quite high readiness level and incorporates extensive experiences in the application and interpretation of vehicles’ noise and emission monitoring. The performance of the developed systems will be demonstrated, analysed and disseminated in four pilots (two for road, one for rail and one for shipping).

Keywords: noise,exhaust emission,low emission zones,monitoring,real driving emissions,pollution mitigation