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Weeding robot for precision farming reducing herbicide usage by 95% (Asterix)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2415412.5
EU funding (EUR): 1690788.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overall vision of the Project is to prototype, pilot, and commercialise our cost-effective and environmentally friendly weeding robot, Asterix, for the global precision farming sector. Our light-weight, autonomous robot is the only solution on the market that successfully addresses weeding challenges while reducing herbicide usage by 95%. Asterix incorporates a patented, vision-based, ultra-high precision nozzle system. This is built on top of a state-or-the-art machine learning platform that is trained to differentiate the appearance of intertwined crops and their weeds. Asterix applies herbicide only to weeds, not crop or soil, enabling the use of novel, environmentally safe weeding agents in both conventional and organic agriculture. Asterix will avoid 186 million liters of herbicide usage in the global farming sector in the first 5 years after the Project. It will reduce the health and environmental impact of agricultural weeding operations and slash their cost by at least 550€ per hectare per year. We propose prototyping, validation, and market readiness activities. Our specific objectives include 1) Technology maturation (WP1) to optimise the function of Asterix’s subsystems and integrate them into a final prototype to pilot in real-life settings; 2) Piloting and validation (WP2) to show Asterix’s technical and economic performance, functionality, and user benefits via large-scale piloting in real-life operating settings; 3) Preparation to commercialise (WP3-6), enabling us to successfully bring Asterix to market and reach sales traction after Phase 2. Through the Asterix Project, we will significantly boost the growth of our company. By year 5 after project closure, we estimate to reach accumulated revenues of €88.2m, generate at least 40 full-time internal positions and 130 more in our value chain, and accumulate profits of €44.1m. This will be roughly equal to 31-times the total pre-market investment.

Keywords: precision agriculture,robot,artificial intelligence,farming,herbicide,autonomous weeding,precision farming,herbicide resistant weeds,eco friendly weeding agents,organic farming
An innovative topical drug delivery system for improving chronic wound healing (StrataGRT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Skin is the largest organ in the human body, forming a protective physical barrier against the outside world. Damages to skin due to physical, chemical and biological factors lead to wounds. While minor wounds heal on their own, chronic wounds (wounds that do not heal within 8 weeks), such as diabetic foot ulcers, subject the patient to significant discomfort and distress while draining the medical system of an enormous amount of resources. Wound healing is a complex, highly regulated process, and complications affect the quality of life of >4 million a year in EU (more than cancer & diabetes) that struggle to live with hard-to-heal injuries, as it can lead to infection, tissue and bone necrosis, pain and in some severe cases even amputation. Stratpharma has developed a range of primary dressings formulated as a silicone-based gel, which can be used on any wounded, damaged, compromised or diseased skin surface. This proprietary film-forming gel is also shown to be an excellent drug delivery system, using which active compounds can be delivered to the wound, thereby enhancing clinical outcomes. Using this property, Stratpharma aims to develop a breakthrough formulation, containing gel and bioglass technology, for improved chronic wound healing. During the phase 1 project, a go-to-market strategy and a supply chain will be established, as well as further development plan will be drafted. Within the overall innovation project, Stratpharma will further test and validate the new formulation, begin clinical trials, implement IP strategy and perform scaling-up activities.

Keywords: chronic wounds,silicone gel,bioglass,diabetic foot ulcers
Validation and verification of SIMMER code model for Lead-lithium water and non-condensable gases chemical interaction (VALIDATIO)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183473.28
EU funding (EUR): 183473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The main objectives of VALIDATIO are to first characterize the chemical reactions of Lead-Lithium, water, and non-condensable gases, under conditions similar to those expected for the European water cooled lead lithium (WCLL) breeding blanket (BB) under accident conditions and the creation of an experimental database for SIMMER code validation by performing series of experiments at the existing experimental facility LIFUS5/Mod3 (Brasimone, Italy) (this part of the work is very challenging since reaction characteristics of Lead-Lithium, water and non-condensable is highly sensitive to thermo-dynamic conditions of the environment (pressure, temperature, velocity etc.)) and based on obtained experimental data perform the verification and validation of SIMMER code, modification in code for irregularities found in the validation process and perform the safety analysis of WCLL-BB.The problem is very challenging since the available experimental data for code validation is extremely limited. Only very little useful information is available in the literature; therefore, a dedicated experimental campaign is always highly advantageous for code validation and verification under the accident scenario. This issue is also complicated since the interaction of fluids results in multi-component, multi-phase flow, which is very hard to model. I intend to perform a series of experiments on Lead-Lithium, water, and non-condensable chemical interaction (which I will design to accommodate for all the possible sample conditions that may encounter under WCLL-BB under different accident conditions) at the experimental facility, LIFUS5/Mod3 to obtain the database and to experimentally characterize the process. The obtained database will be utilized for the validation, verification, and modification of the SIMMER code to improve the numerical modeling capability of the code to simulate such accident scenarios.

Keywords: fusion reactor technology,code validation,lead lithium,water,and non condensable gas chemical interaction numerical modeling,experimental database creation,safety analysis of european wcll bb
Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision (RETINA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Belgium
Call: High Performing Airport Operations (H2020-SESAR-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1072910.0
EU funding (EUR): 949160.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The increasing interest in Synthetic Vision (SV) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies has led various analysts to positively esteem the adoption of new tools enabling pilots and controllers to seamlessly operate under Visual Meteorological Conditions and Instrument Meteorological Conditions. The RETINA project will investigate the potential and applicability of SV tools and Virtual/Augmented Reality (V/AR) display techniques for the Air Traffic Control (ATC) service provision by the airport control tower. Within the project, several concepts and basic principles that have been observed in different areas (e.g. Remote Tower, Synthetic Vision Systems, AR, Information Technologies, etc.) will be brought to the level of maturity required for the Applied Research that will be conducted in SESAR V1-V3 (Applied Research, Industrial Research & Validation). To this end, a 3D airport model will be developed, along with V/AR based human-computer interfaces. The digital model will provide controllers with precise positioning for both aerial and terrestrial objects, drawing information from multiple, simulated, data sources, such as the System Wide Information Management (SWIM) network, Remote Towers sensing technologies and other well-established surveillance systems – e.g. Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR) and the Surface Movement Radar (SMR). The interface design will be based on the Ecological Interface Design approach. Finally, the project will investigate the impact of the newly conceived tools on the control tower air traffic management procedures. On the whole, those tasks that are negatively affected by poor visibility conditions, such as bad weather, fog, smoke, dust or any other kind of environmental occlusion, will become weather-independent. The RETINA project primarily relates to SESAR ER-06-2015 - High Performing Airport Operations - Improved Visualisation and Awareness, but also has a secondary relationship to SESAR ER-03-2015 - Information Management in ATM.

Keywords: virtual reality,augmented reality,synthetic vision,air traffic control,service,provision,control tower,remote tower,sensors,weather,swimm
Advanced Laboratory Phantoms for Soft Tissues in Engineering and Medicine: ALPHA-STEM (ALPHA-STEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 244269.0
EU funding (EUR): 244269.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Research has shown that the success rate in many types of surgeries is strictly related to the experience of the surgeon. However, early in their career, trainees are not given the opportunity to operate on a sufficient number of patients nor to perform an exhaustive mix of procedures. The scenario has been further worsened by the reduction of assisted training hours in Europe (since 2009) and US (since 2011). Training and technical tasks are usually practised on cadavers, animals or using virtual simulators. However, all these alternatives present difficulties: limited availability, expensive handling and preservation processes (cadaveric training), nonhuman anatomical structures (animal training), costly set-up, and doubtful skills transfer to the real operating theatre (virtual simulators). A potential solution is to promote the use of artificial synthetic models, also known as phantoms. Phantoms are reproduction of human parts and organs that allow the trainee to practice positioning of the anatomical structures as well as hand coordination. Unfortunately, they lack of reliable tactile feedback (e.g. palpation) and real tissue deformation patterns which critically reduce the fidelity of the surgical training. The main objective of this project is to overcome the present limitations by developing phantoms capable of providing detailed anatomical structures along with an accurate tactile response when performing surgical tasks such as cutting, indention and suturing. The proposed investigation is aimed at designing, making and testing synthetic advanced materials tailored to reproduce the mechanical response of different human organs and tissues (lung, brain, liver, skin, cartilage, etc.). Direct comparisons with experimental data on organic tissues and feedback from a number of experienced surgeons will be used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed solutions during this research journey towards safer surgeries.

Keywords: mechano mimicking,phantoms,tissues,new materials,polymers
CrowdLaw: Towards a More Inclusive Lawmaking Through Technology (CrowdLawLab)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With rates of trust in government at all-time lows, the legitimacy of traditional representative models of lawmaking, typically dominated by political party agendas and conducted by professional staff and politicians working behind closed doors, is called into question. But technology offers the promise of opening how parliaments and local legislatures work, creating new challenges and dangers for individual rights and democracy, but also generating unprecedented opportunities for improving the legitimacy and, more generally, the quality of law and decision-making in our political systems. CrowdLaw refers to the use of technology to engage the public in all stages of the lawmaking process, from problem identification to solution identification, proposal drafting, ratification, implementation and assessment. This research project deals with CrowdLaw in order to understand (theoretically and empirically) its impact on legislative institutions, the public and political culture. By exploiting technology to engage a broader and more diverse constituency in the lawmaking process, CrowdLaw has the potential to enhance the quality of lawmaking practices and to transform fundamentally the source of authority undergirding the legislative process. In this sense, three broad hypotheses will guide my work to measure the impact of digital democracy on individual participation, information quality and legislative outcomes. To do so, I am planning to: 1) Develop a taxonomy to organize and analyse CrowdLaw practices; 2) Conduct mixed-methods research to evaluate different CrowdLaw modalities and their legal frameworks and 3) Transform two local legislatures (Barcelona and Madrid) into CrowdLaw living labs to be able to conduct experiments that allow me to test how CrowdLaw initiatives impact the legitimacy and quality of lawmaking. The final goal of this research is to support legislatures, especially city councils, in designing more participatory lawmaking practices.

Keywords: citizen empowerment,citizen engagement,citizen participation,crowdlaw,crowdsourcing,deliberative democracy,direct democracy,technology,lawmaking,decision making
Micro-scale δ34S variation of sulfide species (MicroS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Estonia,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 254362.56
EU funding (EUR): 254362.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Sedimentary sulfur (S) isotope systematics (δ34S) has been widely used in paleoredox reconstruction of early Earth’s environments. Large-scale variations in the δ34S record are typically interpreted to reflect fluctuations in the global S cycle. However, the expression of S isotope fractionation is sensitive to open- vs. closed-system conditions and heterogeneous micro-scale δ34S patterns can form in S-bearing phases that precipitate over time in evolving pore-water conditions. Such intra-sample δ34S variability is undetectable in traditional bulk analyses, which has been the conventional approach in time-series δ34S compilations. Moreover, early- and late-stage interactions between organic matter and inorganic sulfide (thermochemical sulfate reduction) can impact δ34S signatures at different stages of sulfide formation leading to sulfide species with distinct δ34S compositions. Therefore, the existing stratigraphic bulk-rock pyrite δ34S compilations possibly integrate a whole spectrum of δ34S variability that may not reflect the depositional isotope composition. MicroS project will take advantage of high-resolution in situ analytical methods (SIMS, synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy) to investigate the micro-scale variability in organic-rich sedimentary rocks and its applicability to key intervals of Earth’s history. The project focuses on three organic-rich sedimentary basins: ~2.0 Ga Onega, ~2.1 Ga Francevillian and the modern Guaymas Basins, that share several characteristics, such as a semi-restricted rift environment, syndepositional magmatism and hydrocarbon seepage. By examining the δ34S composition of the co-existing sulfide species (e.g., pyrite, pyrrhotite, organic sulfur) and placing them into the geologic context of the individual basins, the project aims to decipher the current gap in understanding processes that govern S isotope fractionations, the transfer of δ34S to the rock record and its preservation over geologic time.

Keywords: sulfur,earth history,microbial processes
Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SME's in the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN OUEST H2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: France,France
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Topic = Establishing services “Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs” in the Enterprise Europe Network : Two distinct types of activities are envisaged, which shall be provided as comprehensive seven day service packages following very specific processes. These high added value services will be delivered by suitably qualified senior innovation experts. - WP1 : « Key Account Management » for the beneficiaries of the SME instrument » = the role of the EEN Key Account Manager will be to facilitate the implementation of the SME Instrument in Bretagne and Pays de la Loire, in Phase I and II. - WP2 : « Enhancing SME Innovation management capacity” for SMEs independly from a specific project" = the aim of this WP is to improve the innovation management capacity of SMEs with high development potential.

Keywords: eimc,sme instrument,innovation management
Magnetically Assisted Tissue Engineering Technologies for Tendon Regeneration (MagTendon)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999854.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999854.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The poor healing ability of tendons, which play a critical role in the musculoskeletal system, as well as the limitations of currently used therapies have motivated tissue engineering (TE) strategies to develop living tendon substitutes. However, the limited knowledge on tendon development and healing processes has hindered the design of TE procedures that more closely recapitulate tendon morphogenesis. Extending beyond the state-of-the-art, MagTendon will explore conventional and innovative tools such as multimaterial 3 dimensional (3D) bioprinting to design magnetic responsive systems mimicking specific aspects of tendon tissue architecture, composition and biomechanical properties, which, combined with adequate stem cells, will render appropriate behavioural instructions to stimulate the regeneration of tendon tissue. Stem cell bioengineering approaches based on superparamagnetic nanoparticles (SPMNs), namely cell sorting, mechanoreceptors targeting and cell programming, will be used to unveil the cellular signalling pathways that trigger the tenogenic differentiation of the widely and easily obtained human adipose derived stem cells. Simultaneously, the 3D cell-laden magnetic system shall enable sophisticated 3D tissue models to unravel mechanisms behind tendon homeostasis and repair that will support the base knowledge to establish rational design criteria for the biofabrication of living tendon substitutes with the adequate signaling and structural cues to recapitulate tendon tissue developmental patterns. Therefore, the ground-breaking nature of the research proposed relies on the development of disruptive technological concepts for obtaining unique cell-laden 3D magnetically responsive systems that recapitulate key features of the native tissue and that can be further remotely modulated both in vitro and in vivo by the application of external magnetic stimuli, offering the prospect of tendon regeneration as opposed to simple tissue repair.

Keywords: tissue engineering,tendon injury and pathology,magnetic nanoparticles,magnetic responsive materials,stem cells,tenogenic differentiation,3d bioprinting technologies,3d tissue models