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Security Research NCP Network 3 (SEREN 3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Iceland,Spain,Israel,South Africa,Italy,Cyprus,Belgium,Croatia,Slovakia,Türkiye,Greece,Poland,Romania,Latvia,Czechia
Call: Crisis management topic 8: Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points (NCPs) for Security (H2020-DRS-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1995451.02
EU funding (EUR): 1995451.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

SEREN3 is a 36-month Coordination and Support Action with the overall aim of facilitating trans-national co-operation among NCPs for Secure Societies, identifying and sharing good practices, and raising the general standard of the support to programme applicants across the EU, Associated and Third countries. To reach the objective above, the project will develop three main activity axes, corresponding to the projects’ specific objectives: 1) capacity building of NCPs; 2) strengthening the participation of relevant stakeholders to Horizon 2020 funding opportunities; 3) and supporting networking opportunities within the Secure Societies constituency. Cross-cutting activities of dissemination and communication will addup to this main set of activities, helping to enhance their impact. SEREN3 is the continuation and evolution of the precedent network, SEREN2, whose results and lessons learnt have been taken into consideration with the logic of improving the future network and in order to valorize the network’s strengths. SEREN3 will also take into account the paradigmatic change brought by Horizon 2020. This will be reflected in particular in a stronger attention of the network in terms of multidisciplinary competences, consideration of related societal challenges, and linkage with other EU relevant initiatives, funding programmes and policies. Finally, the network will seek further opening to a wider target of stakeholders and businesses in the Secure Societies field. SEREN3 consortium comprises 17 beneficiaries, with a good mix of well-experienced and less experienced NCPs, and representing Member States, Associated Countries and Third Countries. Besides beneficiaries, the project services will be offered to all officially appointed H2020 Secure Societies NCPs, who will be involved as “associated partners”.

Keywords: national contact point,capacity building,networking,best practices,communication
INVESTIGATING EVIDENCE OF HIGH-MASS VARIATIONS OF THE STELLAR INITIAL MASS FUNCTION (EHMVSIMF)

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: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-01-23
End date: 2019-01-22
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the most important questions in the study of galaxy evolution is the assumption that stars formed within star clusters with a preferred mass distribution (IMF) independent of time and environment. Major advances in understanding mainly the low-mass IMF variations have been made in the past decade, however, relatively a little attention has been paid to the high-mass IMF. As such some critical questions remain: Does the high-mass IMF vary as a function of time and environment? Is it appropriate to describe the high-mass IMF with a single power-law as we do now? The multi-wavelength datasets that are becoming available now can address these questions. My proposal will tackle this fundamental and long-standing issue to the limit of our current observing and theoretical capabilities. Spatial multi-wavelength data from the latest generation of surveys combined with up-to-date modeling tools and state-of-the-art hydrodynamical experiments will be used to shed light into potential variations of the IMF and their effects on galaxy evolution. The goals of the proposal are: 1. Investigate the spatial distribution and connection between star formation events within galaxies; 2. Identify reliable multi-wavelength high-mass IMF diagnostics; 3. Investigate the effects of IMF variations in moderating galaxy evolution using simulations. The proposed project is both high-impact and timely. The high quality data products need for this project are now available thanks to the latest sky surveys (e.g. GAMA) and multi-wavelength experiments (e.g. ESA's flagship mission Herschel). The timely implementation of the project will constitute to one of the most complete studies of the high-mass IMF variations over an unparalleled wavelength span using statistically significant samples. My expertise in data analysis and modeling combined with the world-leading expertise of my host, Leiden Observatory, in the same field provides exactly the right background to carry out this project.

Keywords: stellar initial mass function,star formation rate,spectroscopy,photometry,stellar population synthesis,high resolution simulations,star formation history,star forming galaxies,ultraviolet
Layered semiconductors and hybrid systems for quantum optics and opto-valleytronics (LASSO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996291.0
EU funding (EUR): 1996291.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A new resource for quantum information processing has emerged recently in the form of the valley pseudospin in layered transition metal dichalcogenides. By virtue of strong spin-orbit and Berry curvature effects, these non-centrosymmetric crystals provide a quantum optical interface between spin- and valley-polarized electrons and circularly polarized photons. Such valley-contrasting optical selection rules in turn establish means to address the multivalley quantum resource all-optically. At this interface, where light meets valley quantum states of matter, the proposed research will aim at tailoring and mastering electron-hole-pair excitations and their coupling to photons in layered transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, heterostructures and hybrid systems. The project will combine semiconductor monolayers with ferroelectric and ferromagnetic supports to achieve synthetic opto-valleytronic functionality of substrate-modified excitons for the development of novel linear, non-linear and chiral quantum optical elements. Reciprocally, interfacial effect of the substrate on the valley dynamics of monolayer excitons will be utilized for the development of quantum-enhanced imaging of ferroic domain textures to facilitate fundamental studies of phase transitions in condensed matter systems. In parallel, we will develop on chip-circuitry to control long-lived dipolar excitons in hetero-bilayer semiconductors. Finally, light-matter quasiparticles in the form of exciton-polaritons with weak and strong mutual interactions in monolayer- and heterobilayer-cavity systems will be created, engineered and condensed at ultra-low temperatures into a macroscopic ground state. The realization of interacting polariton gases and condensates, paired with the opto-valleytronic phenomena inherent to layered transition metal dichalcogenides, will contribute topologically protected polaritons to the realm of systems with an integral role in all-optical quantum science and technology.
Who is In, and Who is Not? Determining the Gaia Survey Selection Function (GaiaUnlimited)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Australia,Germany,Italy,United States,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Scientific data exploitation (H2020-SPACE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1784586.25
EU funding (EUR): 1599721.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission is the most successful European space mission as measured by the rate of publications appearing that use Gaia's data. The astrometric, photometric, and radial velocity catalogues provided through the second Gaia data release in April 2018 are the standard in fundamental astronomical data, with much more and much richer data appearing in future Gaia data releases. However the full transformative potential of the Gaia mission is currently not being realized because we lack a detailed description of the survey selection function: the probability that an astronomical object of certain properties enters the Gaia catalogue (or not). We illustrate that without the selection function it is impossible to obtain insights in fundamental physics and astrophysics from modeling the objects' population properties, based on a set of catalogue entries. It is the objective of this proposal to research, develop, and implement the Gaia survey selection function, as well selection functions for Gaia combined with other surveys. We will make available publicly the data products and open source computer applications needed by scientists to apply the selection functions to their analyses of the Gaia data. A well-characterized selection function is indispensable to tap the full transformational information content of this flagship European space mission, opening up qualitatively new ways of science analysis, offering more publications, and better reproducibility of the results. The Gaia survey data will set the standard in fundamental astronomical data for decades to come and the efforts proposed here will contribute to a much increased legacy value of this space mission.

Keywords: gaia mission,astronomical surveys
Studying the combined effect of microplastics, pesticides and global warming on the sea urchin: a multidisciplinary approach to protect marine ecosystems (App-Marie)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-07-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Urgent actions are needed to recover marine ecosystems from damage caused by human activities. The global aim of App-Marie is to study the joint effects of microplastics (MPs) and the chemical chlorpyrifos (CPF), two of the main stressors in our oceans, in different scenarios of climate change, using embryos of the sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus). This will be achieved by combining molecular and biochemical techniques together with bioassays that will allow to assess their impact at a molecular, individual and population levels. We also aim to develop a standard protocol for performing bioassays to simultaneously test several toxics/stressors and apps able to analyse multifactorial data obtained and to predict their impact at the different levels of organization. The project will be carried out by Dr Bertucci in a highly recognized institution, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), under the supervision of Dr Bellas. Additionally, two international companies with great experience in the fields of energy and petrochemistry (Shell) and plastics (AIMPLAS) will act as collaborators providing their guidance to ensure the deliverables of the project meet the requirements to be used by industries. Dr Bellas is an international leader in marine contamination and MP pollution, ensuring an outstanding training environment for the ER. On the other hand, the deep background in comparative endocrinology and molecular biology of the ER will ensure the two-way transfer of knowledge. While completing the project, the ER will acquire diverse state-of-the-art skills and interact with international industries, expanding his scientific and personal horizons to become an independent researcher. All resources arising from App-Marie (protocols, apps) will be used to create a research framework of special interest for researchers/companies/governments to analyse and share their own data, ultimately helping decision making towards the best Approach to Protect the Marine Ecosystems.

Keywords: predictive ecotoxicology,microplastics,ocean warming,ocean acidification,pesticides,multi stressor environment
Population Dynamics in the Southeast European Neolithic: Prehistoric Archaeology and Palaeogenomics (ODYSSEA)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159460.8
EU funding (EUR): 159460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

“Population dynamics in the Southeast European Neolithic” is an interdisciplinary project, focusing on the Neolithic transition, a major turning point in human history, when people domesticated plants and animals, and built the first permanent villages. The work of the Palaeogenetics Group in Mainz shows that the first European farmers probably migrated from Anatolia, one of the first regions to adopt agriculture after food plants and animals were domesticated in Southwest Asia. The question that this project addresses is how, in a practical sense, early farmers interacted with foragers, as well as with other farmers, during the initial phases of agricultural spread in Southeast Europe. For instance, is there any evidence that early farmers and foragers lived side by side? If so, did they admix to any significant extent? What was the population structure of early farming communities? And how did the structure of Neolithic settlements affect farmer-forager and farmer-farmer interactions? Specifically, the project will test archaeologically-informed population models and provide context in terms of where ancient DNA results produced by the Palaeogenetics Group sit archaeologically. This will help to lead the field of palaeogenetics from its continental and large-scale oriented perspective towards finer-scale population genetic inference at regional, site-specific or even household levels. For archaeology, this is an opportunity to reclaim the field of prehistoric migrations and engage with the latest results of aDNA research. In the course of the project, I hope to establish myself as an archaeologist who is able to critically evaluate approaches and techniques used in statistical genomics, in order to help bridge the gap and bring prehistoric archaeology and palaeogenomics closer together.

Keywords: prehistoric archaeology,palaeogenomics,neolithic,southeast europe,farmer forager interactions
Self-Sustaining Cleaning Technology for Safe Water Supply and Management in Rural African Areas (SafeWaterAfrica)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,South Africa,Germany,Germany,Mozambique
Call: Development of water supply and sanitation technology, systems and tools, and/or methodologies (H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2989998.13
EU funding (EUR): 2989998.13
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

This project focuses on a major challenge in African countries: In the 15 sub-Saharan African countries 108 million people have limited or even no access to clean water. The SafeWaterAfrica project will research and develop an autonomous and decentralized water treatment system for rural and peri-urban areas which is highly efficient in the degradation of harmful pollutants and at the same time very effective in killing microbiological contaminants. The system will be designed to provide 300 people in rural areas. With a market penetration of 3000 systems the project has the potential to supply 900,000 people within app. four years after the end of the project. The project includes capacity building and business development so that system ownership and responsibility are in the hands of the local rural communities. The joint European-African development will result in a low-cost solution easy to handle and operate. It will take into account the specific cultural aspects of the region and will be designed for operation with local staff and in the responsibility of local communities or local water service providers, respectively. These “Made in Africa” systems will therefore have a high level of acceptance in the rural areas which promotes the implementation of the technology. Ten transdisciplinary partners from Europe and Africa, assisted by eight enterprises and organisations in the Advisory Board, will work jointly over a project duration of 42 months to adapt a specific European water treatment technology into an African water treatment system solution. Besides, SafeWaterAfrica will generate the technological basis for innovative business models related to the development of water treatment products, which are produced, installed, operated and maintained in Africa. The resulting creation of new jobs will contribute to the social well-being and will promote economic growth in the rural and peri-urban areas of the southern African countries.

Keywords: water purification,autonomous supply systems,electrochemical oxidation
ONCOWORM: Using functional genomics in highly regenerative flatworms to find novel cancer genes (Oncoworm)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-04-05
End date: 2018-04-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will take direct action in exploiting the powerful planarian model system to achieve novel insights into the molecular processes underpinning oncogenesis and cancer. Based on the principle that biochemical and physiological functions of many genes are conserved across phyla we will identify planarian genes that control the migration, proliferation and differentiation of the highly proliferative pluripotent adult stem cells (pASCs). We will combine a bespoke specially designed partial irradiation assay, bioinformatic and expression based candidate gene identification and the capacity to perform RNAi based screens of gene function to identify novel genes controlling pASCs that are conserved in humans. Those novel genes of greatest promise will then be studied in mammalian cancer cell lines using the insight gleaned from planarians. This project brings together, for the first time, a world-class planarian laboratory with an eminent cancer cell biologist, Dr Kosaka, who will acquire all the expertise required to exploit the planarian system and at the same time transfer his extensive knowledge of cancer biology to the Aboobaker laboratory.

Keywords: evolution,multicellular organisms,origin of cancer,cancer initiation,high throughput screening,over proliferation
Total Energy System: innovative in-farm cogeneration plant for manure valorisation viable even for small farms (TES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Manure treatment deriving from poultry farms is a continuously increasing problem. Poultry farms are characterized by a lack of proportion between bred animals and farmed area. This imbalance is intensified in farms where there is no agricultural land as in such cases large amounts of manure are generated respect to farmland intended to receive it resulting in intolerable soil and aquifer pollution levels. Manure collection is costly for farmers and it does not solve the problem definitively. On the other side, farms are energy-intensive and main expenses relate to the consumption of electricity and heat. Using poultry manure to reduce or eliminate such cost, could represent an interesting solution that would become vital in order to maintain farms competitive. Today existing manure valorisation systems based on biomass combustion are not a viable solution for farms with low number of animals - for economical reasons. La Coro through the last years developed an innovative solution for this problem. The main objective of the project is the realisation of a pilot plant and market introduction of a highly efficient and flexible biomass cogeneration system that is able to transform poultry manure (but also other manure and biomass types) in thermal and electric energy (“total energy system”), with the particularity of being usable also in small farms. The innovative solution will recover and valorise manure through gasification and electricity production, avoid disposal and soil contamination problems, substitute today used fossil fuels thus achieving important benefits for farmers not only in terms of economic savings but also in environmental terms of CO2 reduction. The economic saving on the long run will increase their competitiveness. In short: waste reuse plus cost reduction equals more efficiency and higher competitiveness. Market introduction will start from poultry farms, then it will be extended gradually to other livestock farms.

Keywords: poultry manure valorization,biomass cogeneration system,high efficiency and flexibility,increased competitiveness even for small farms,co2 reduction,avoided soil contamination