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COnstruction-phase diGItal Twin mOdel (COGITO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies enabling energy-efficient systems and energy-efficient buildings with a low environmental impact
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Austria,Switzerland,Greece,Greece,Slovakia,Poland,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Digital Building Twins (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-ST-IND-2020-singlestage, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5907481.25
EU funding (EUR): 5907481.25
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

COGITO aims to speed up the digitalisation for lean construction as a steppingstone to achieve the industrialisation of the construction sector (“construction 4.0”). The COGITO solution comprises: i) an interoperable Digital Twin platform for semantic/ pragmatic alignment with services; ii) Reality capture tools will collect real-time data about the actual state and progress/evolution of the construction site; iii) Multi-source Data Stream Pre-Processing services will manage and semantically annotate big data streams to analyse complex data (e.g. drones, satellite images) to retrieve the necessary information about the actual status of the construction site and resources/ workers involved; iv) adaptive Workflow Management for visual progress monitoring of the construction site and optimal flow of information to relevant stakeholders; v) the Health & Safety service will analyse the nD BIM to pinpoint hazards and perform real-time alerting to prevent accidents based on live data from the site; vi) the Geometric and Visual Quality Control service will perform automated quality control checks through comparisons of as-is to as-designed BIM elements for verification of structure conditions and detection of geometric and visual defects; vii) the Digital Twin GUI will render the site 3D model – including static (as-designed BIM), quasi-static (as-built BIM) and dynamic information (e.g. asset, machinery, people locations); and viii) Workers On-site Guidance Applications will issue alerts to crews on site with information contextually relevant to their allocated tasks. The COGITO tool-box will be demonstrated in one lab facility in Austria and two real construction sites in Spain and Germany to showcase its value and collect feedback for improvement from the field. Beyond technical activities, standardization activities will be carried out by two COGITO partners with strong links to the most important international standardisation bodies in this domain.

Keywords: digital twin,lean construction,quality control,standardisation,harmonization,interoperability,health and safety,digital twin visualisation,construction workflow automation,smart contracts
The Greek philosophical schools according to Europe’s earliest ‘history of philosophy’: Towards a new pioneering critical edition of Philodemus’ Arrangement of the Philosophers (GreekSchools)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Italy,Italy
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498356.0
EU funding (EUR): 1356250.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Our knowledge about Greek philosophical schools is mostly second-hand and based on Diogenes Laërtius’ 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' (3rd century AD) and Philodemus of Gadara’s 'Arrangement of the Philosophers' (75-50 BC) – hereinafter 'Syntaxis' –, an extensive treatise in several books which represents the earliest ‘history of philosophy’ to have reached us directly from antiquity. From this work exclusively preserved by the Herculaneum papyri we may derive a virtually systematic account of the history of Greek philosophical schools, which is in many respects unique and much closer to the facts than Diogenes’ is. Unfortunately, the original manuscripts which transmit it are in a poor state and the currently available editions of them have largely been made obsolete by the latest technological progress. By relying on the most advanced technologies available today, the project aims to provide a new innovative critical edition of the whole treatise and its different sections, with extensive introductions and commentaries. In particular, we shall apply Shortwave-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging, TeraHertz Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography, X-Ray Fluorescence Mapping, 3D Microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry to both opisthograph and multi-layered papyri belonging to Philodemus’ 'Syntaxis', as well as to other papyri, in order to (a) read the text hidden on the verso, (b) detect, classify and replace overlapping layers, and (c) read the text concealed inside the latter. We shall combine these state-of-the-art methods with new, sounder philological approaches in order to produce a more reliable and substantially improved critical text of Philodemus’ treatise and its various sections through an innovative editorial system. Finally, we shall produce an open-access electronic edition of it through a pioneering open-source scholarly Web platform, engaging the scientific community in an on-going and on-line collaborative review of our critical edition.

Keywords: greek papyrology,ancient philosophy,textual criticism,shortwave infrared hyperspectral imaging,terahertz imaging,optical coherence tomography,x ray fluorescence mapping,3d microscopy,nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry,computational philology,digital scholarly editing,machine learning for text
Quantum Photonic Engineering (QPE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1978060.0
EU funding (EUR): 1978060.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

By harnessing the unique properties of quantum mechanics (superposition and entanglement) to encode, transmit and process information, quantum information science offers significant opportunities to revolutionise information and communication technologies. The far-reaching goal of this project is to build quantum technology demonstrators that can outperform conventional technologies in communications and computation. For quantum information technologies (QITs) to have as big an impact on society as anticipated, a practical and scalable approach is needed. One promising approach to QITs is the photonics implementation, where single particles of light (photons) are used to encode, transmit and process quantum information – in the form of photonic quantum-bits (qubits). Currently, state-of-the-art experiments are limited to the “few-photon” regime, occupying many metres of space on an optical table, constructed from bulk optical elements, with no routes to scalability and far from outperforming conventional technologies. Integrated quantum photonics has recently emerged as a new approach to address these challenges. This research programme will take an engineering approach to QITs and draw upon rapidly growing field of silicon photonics. We will develop a silicon-based quantum technology platform where single-photon sources, circuits and detectors will be integrated into miniature microchip circuits containing thousands of discrete components, enabling breakthroughs in quantum communications and computation, and developing a scalable approach to quantum technologies. There are no new physics breakthroughs required to achieve the goals of this project, however, there are hard engineering challenges that need to be addressed.
Building complex life through self-organization: from organ to organism (ORCHESTRATE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2655000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2655000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A major challenge in regenerative medicine is to create phenotypic functioning tissues by controlling cell behaviour. We particularly lack the ability to form complex tissues composed of multiple cell types and with three-dimensional architecture, which are defining features of most tissues. We know that cells are conferred with the ability to choreograph their own development through self-organization. I hypothesize that if we actively promote this intrinsic capacity with new cell culture platforms, we can orchestrate self-organization to make complex tissues, organs, and even organisms with a high degree of reproducibility and in large numbers. This proposal begins with the design and development of new cell culture platforms which will be used to test my hypothesis. Building upon our proprietary microfabrication and -fluidic technology, we will create advanced platforms that will control how cells aggregate and enable the application of biomolecules with spatial and temporal resolution to orchestrate self-organization. This technology will be transferred into three projects of increasing complexity and ambition: making in vitro models of pancreatic islets, the pituitary gland, and a mouse blastocyst. For each, we need to find the right conditions to enrich for desired phenotypes and functions, which means that we need quantitative read-outs. We will use state-of-the-art biological methods, including RNA-sequencing, to give us a holistic view of transcript expression and pathway activation, and in situ sequencing to allow us to pinpoint the expression of important phenotypic markers at a single cell level. The anticipated outcomes of this proposal are three-fold: first, we will develop a new generation of cell culture platforms with integrated microfluidics; second, we will uncover new knowledge about how to orchestrate self-organization; and third, we will make in vitro models of pancreatic islets, pituitary glands, and mouse blastocysts.

Keywords: 3d cell culture,bioengineering,high throughput,microfluidics,stem cells
Optimal control methods for biological solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (OPTIMAL NMR)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171460.8
EU funding (EUR): 171460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at changing the impact of optimal control methodology on solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). This way, routine structure determination of biological solids like amyloid fibrils and membrane proteins will be facilitated. Multi-dimensional experiments of these samples often suffer from low resolution and sensitivity. Optimal control theory provides efficient means for automated design of pulse experiments with improved efficiency, lower deposited radiofrequency power, and robustness with respect to experimental imperfections. The methodology has already been successfully applied to liquid state as well as solid state NMR. However, and especially for solids, the optimized pulse sequences are not used within the NMR community, probably due to barriers imposed by individual RF hardware characteristics of the employed probes and consoles. In order to change this we propose, in cooperation with the market leading manufacturer of NMR spectrometers, to study the interplay of the hardware with numerically predicted “optimal” experiments, including relaxation and reformulation of the optimization problem in a new theoretical framework. Such comprehensive optimizations should provide us with easy-to-use building blocks of multidimensional solid state NMR experiments with superior performance, boosting thus the sensitivity and the accessibility of structural information from the acquired spectra. To promote dissemination of the developed protocols a workshop on implementation of optimal control methods in magnetic resonance will be organized. The potential impact of the project is enormous, revolutionizing hardware development with new quality measures that combine its properties with fundamental laws of spin dynamics.

Keywords: solid state nuclear magnetic resonance,pulse sequence design,optimal control,structural biology
Validation of European high capacity rad-hard FPGA and software tools (VEGAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Spain,France,France,France,France
Call: Technologies for European non-dependence and competitiveness (H2020-COMPET-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3976861.25
EU funding (EUR): 3975311.25
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

VEGAS proposes to address the key challenge of European non-dependence and competitivness regarding rad-hard FPGA for space applications. VEGAS will evaluate (following ESCC rules) and validate the first rad-hard FPGA in 65nm to directly compete with the US offering and reach TRL 7. The VEGAS project sets clear and measurable main objectives to reach a TRL 7 from TRL 5 (end of BRAVE project) as follows: 1. Validation by end users of rad-hard FPGA developped under the BRAVE project – TRL 6 achieved 2. Space evaluation of the first rad-hard FPGA developped under the BRAVE project – TRL 7 achieved 3. Software CAD tools improvement by including timing and SEE mitigation tools VEGAS will complement the ongoing ESA funded BRAVE project. BRAVE covers all hardware and software development to reach a first prototype of NG-FPGA-MEDIUM (30k LUTs) and NG-FPGA-LARGE (130k LUTs) . VEGAS will cover all required steps to ESCC evaluate / validate the BRAVE NG-FPGA-MEDIUM and NG-FPGA-LARGE prototype and add additional software tools to reach a competitive software offering.

Keywords: fpga,rad hard,65nm,escc evaluation,qualification
Bio-based local sustainable circular wear (HEREWEAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries and supporting the development of a European bio-economy
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Romania,Greece,Sweden,Belgium,Belgium,France,France,United States,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative textiles – reinventing fashion (H2020-FNR-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7044208.6
EU funding (EUR): 6158830.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

HEREWEAR innovates with a holistic, systemic approach towards the creation of an EU market for locally-produced circular textiles and clothing made from bio-based waste. New material solutions will build on the latest bio-based polyesters and cellulose developments. Three novel waste streams (seaweed, manure, straw) will be developed for cellulosic textile fibres. Emerging sustainable technologies for wet and melt spinning, for yarn and fabric making, will be developed and piloted at semi-industrial scale. For finishing innovation, coating and colouring biobased agents will be evolved. Microfibre release will be significantly reduced via measures all along the textile manufacturing process. Garment prototypes for streetwear and corporate clothing will be produced by connecting up microfactories, organised into regional value creation circles; or by platform-supported, networked production resources. Use phase and end-of-life processing management - repair, re-use, recycle - will be implemented through novel structures. Full transparency will be provided through blockchain-enabled labelling and the configuration of a digital twin, informed with LCA information. A database and guidelines will be produced to support the design of fashion goods; with a focus on the best performance for bio-based materials and for reuse/recycling. Further guidelines will help the industry to take-up these results. The consortium includes 6 research organisations, 1 LE and 8 SMEs coming from EU and 1 from US. To maximise impact, we will build on the TCBL community (>240 sustainable textile businesses) and use the SOURCEBOOK platform (>25000 organisations). Via these networks, blueprints for the transition to bio-based circular textiles will be shared and implemented. That way HEREWEAR aims to establish a bio-based circular textile clothing market segment of ca. €300 million, thus trying to maintain ca. 1200 textile manufacturing jobs in EU.

Keywords: bio based,microfibre release,circular textiles,design for circularity,biorefinery
Self-Calibrated Interferometry for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCIFY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2430202.0
EU funding (EUR): 2270202.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The spectral characterisation and understanding of terrestrial exoplanets is currently one of the most ambitious and challenging long-term goals of astrophysics. All observing techniques with the potential to tackle this challenge face the same limitations: the overwhelmingly dominant flux of the host star and/or the lack of angular resolution. A very promising technical solution around these issues is nulling interferometry, which combines the advantages of stellar interferometry (high angular resolution) and coronagraphy (starlight rejection). For several years, we have been developing both data acquisition and data processing techniques based on self-calibration of the interferometric observable and demonstrated record-breaking starlight rejection on two American ground-based facilities. With the SCIFY project, I propose to prototype the first nulling interferometric instrument for the European Very Large Telescope Interferometer. By leveraging its state-of-the-art infrastructure, long baselines, and strategic position in the Southern hemisphere, the new VLTI instrument will be able to carry out several high-impact exoplanet programmes to characterise the chemical composition of Jupiter-like exoplanets at the most relevant angular separations (i.e., close to the snow line) and better understand how planets form and evolve. To achieve these goals, we will demonstrate a new observing technique called spectral self-calibration, combining nulling interferometry with high-dispersion spectroscopy, and adapt our advanced post-processing techniques to the VLTI. This will provide a new and more robust open-source general-purpose interferometric data reduction tool to the VLTI community. In the long term, the SCIFY project will be a cornerstone in the roadmap leading to the characterisation of terrestrial exoplanets and the search for life beyond Earth.

Keywords: exoplanets,exozodiacal disks,interferometry,nulling interferometry,opd control,integrated optics,vlti
New Chemical Synthetic Methods for Reacting Phenols Selectively with Different Molecules and With Itself: Use of Electricity as a Sustainable, Economic and Traceless Reagent. (PhenAnOx)

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: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Inventing new green and inexpensive synthetic methods for relevant chemical compounds is one of the ways how organic chemist can contribute to the well-being of humans and Earth. One of the most promising chemical method for this is synthetic organic electrochemistry. It can replace chemical reducing agents and oxidizers with sole cheap electrons or electron-holes and, at the same time, reduce both the amount of waste and the expense of chemical synthesis. Syntheses are easily controllable as they can be ‘switched-off’ and they are implementable on a large industrial scale with ease. Interestingly, organic electrosynthesis can be used to stabilize electrical grids as fluctuating electric currents are tolerated in certain reactions. The aim of this project is to develop new sustainable, selective and economic electro-organic synthetic methods for the functionalization of phenols. Particularly, we will concentrate on our efforts for finding new ways to form C-heteroatom bonds between phenols and different substrates. At first, we will study the conversion of phenols to diarylethers and dibenzofurans that are important building blocks and core structures of natural products and biologically active substances. Later, we will try to extend the reactivity for phenol-analogues as wll. On the next step, we will study the cross-coupling between phenols and benzoxazoles and its analogues. In this way, we also obtain important synthetic intermediates for organic chemistry in a sustainable and ecologic manner. The proposed action is divided in two research and three additional work packages. The project will be implemented at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz in the research group of Professor Siegfried Waldvogel. He has been one of the driving forces of electro-organic synthesis already for 18 years and made seminal contributions during that time. It is therefore the top laboratory worldwide for performing the proposed action.

Keywords: electro organic synthesis,synthetic organic electrochemistry