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The evolution of adaptive response mechanisms (AdaptiveResponse)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In an era of rapid climate change there is a pressing need to understand whether and how organisms are able to adapt to novel environments. Such understanding is hampered by a major divide in the life sciences. Disciplines like systems biology or neurobiology make rapid progress in unravelling the mechanisms underlying the responses of organisms to their environment, but this knowledge is insufficiently integrated in eco-evolutionary theory. Current eco-evolutionary models focus on the response patterns themselves, largely neglecting the structures and mechanisms producing these patterns. Here I propose a new, mechanism-oriented framework that views the architecture of adaptation, rather than the resulting responses, as the primary target of natural selection. I am convinced that this change in perspective will yield fundamentally new insights, necessitating the re-evaluation of many seemingly well-established eco-evolutionary principles. My aim is to develop a comprehensive theory of the eco-evolutionary causes and consequences of the architecture underlying adaptive responses. In three parallel lines of investigation, I will study how architecture is shaped by selection, how evolved response strategies reflect the underlying architecture, and how these responses affect the eco-evolutionary dynamics and the capacity to adapt to novel conditions. All three lines have the potential of making ground-breaking contributions to eco-evolutionary theory, including: the specification of evolutionary tipping points; resolving the puzzle that real organisms evolve much faster than predicted by current theory; a new and general explanation for the evolutionary emergence of individual variation; and a framework for studying the evolution of learning and other general-purpose mechanisms. By making use of concepts from information theory and artificial intelligence, the project will also introduce various methodological innovations.

Keywords: architecture of adaptation,evolvability,individual variation,norm of reaction,phenotypic,plasticity,bet hedging,epigenetics,gene regulatory network,neural network,social evolution
Services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network (SWENNIS2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden
Call: Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 457345.0
EU funding (EUR): 457345.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Lack of innovation management is one of the most important barriers to create economic impact (competitiveness, growth and jobs) from innovation activities in SMEs. The objective of this project proposal is to address these problems by providing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs. Four partners in the Swedish Enterprise Europe Network (SweNet) took part in the 2014 pilot action IS/KAM where 25 Swedish SMEs were coached. The target for this project is to deliver 105 7-day service packages to two SME target groups: 1) SME beneficiaries of the SME Instrument in Horizon 2020 – to be supported by Key Account Managers (KAM), and 2) SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalisation – to be supported by innovation specialists (IS). The specific objectives related to the first target group of 42 SMEs are to identify weaknesses in their innovation capacities, to identify suitable business coaches for them, and to accompany them through Phase 2 of the SME instrument project. The specific objectives related for the second target group of 63 SMEs are to carry out diagnostic audits of selected SMEs, to set up action plans to address bottlenecks, and to implement the action plans. The partner IVF, Acreo, Centek and SP will cover all of Sweden (all three Nuts 1 regions). The coordinator, The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth will not be involved in any service activities. The tools to be used to assess the innovation management capacity will be IMP3rove and Innovation Health Check.

Keywords: innovation management,key account management,innovation specialist
Gas Ion Distillation and Sequential Ion Processing Technologies for Identification and Visualization of Chemicals in Airborne Vapors (GIDPROvis)

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,Spain,Germany,Greece,Finland,Greece
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3904960.0
EU funding (EUR): 3904960.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Two original breakthrough technologies of Gas Ion Distillation (GID) and Sequential Ion Processing (PRO) provide live visualization (vis) of volatile chemicals in ambient environments giving humans access to a molecular world heretofore unseen. Molecular auras in GIDPROvis are delivered by small, portable GIDPRO analyzers based on high speed separation of ions derived from individual chemicals and their identification using an emerging generation of ion analyzers. In GID, chemicals are separated as gas ions through reaction thermochemistry, replacing classic separations based on physical properties. This is seen as a revolution or a paradigm shift as “new chromatography” making columns and stationary phases obsolete. In PRO, ions are sequentially processed using emerging discoveries of fragmentation of gas ions in strong electric fields. Structurally significant information in fragment ions permits chemical identifications informing a central data hub and enabling live display of molecular auras. Certain chemical properties, such as toxicity and reactivity, are integrated to “fit the goals, tasks, and needs of individual users” for effective information flow with the human-machine system. While GIDPROvis is principally technology driven, aspects of emotional responses of humans to massive access to chemical information, impacts from these perceptions, and human psychology will be explored in simulated, controlled visual experiences of chemical auras. Our aim is to launch a fourth generation of methodology for chemical analysis aligned intrinsically to 5G and IoT communication with miniaturized, ultra-low detection level, live data analyzers to detect and identify chemicals in complex matrices.

Keywords: ion distillation technology,multi stage molecular identification,airborne vapors,augmented,reality,molecular visualization,molecular auras,human response,awareness and assessment of,risk
The first video content management platform integrated with machine learning to centralize, organize and collect data from marketing videos (VIDMIZER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Video marketing is one of the most popular strategies for marketers today. With the growing popularity of social media and increased streaming capacities of the network the time spent watching on-line videos is reaching record numbers and is not predicted to decrease. Video will account for 80% of internet traffic by 2021 with nearly 50% of internet users looking for videos related to a product or service before visiting a store. With these numbers, marketers possess an attractive, versatile, and extremely shareable medium to reach their audiences. However, this increasing demand for online videos has led to a need for more efficient video content management solutions that could enable companies and organizations to better organize, manage, host and distribute online their videos. VideoEngage provides the first all-in-one video content management platform allowing users to edit, collaborate, store, host and distribute online videos. Delivered with integrated Artificial Intelligence, VideoEngage comes with a set of analytical and tracking tools to give publishers insights into the success of their videos, providing end-users with real time information on the actual and potential impact of a video campaign for improved companies’ return on investment. VIDMIZER is expected to save 20 times marketing teams’ productivity by diminishing time spent on video management. For us, this is a strategic project. We expect from its commercialization to provide an accumulated profit of €20.7 million by 2024 (ROI of 5.48) and foresee to create 34.5 new jobs.

Keywords: video content management,video marketing,video analysis algorithms
The Post-crisis Legitimacy of the European Union European Training Network (PLATO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,Poland,Poland,Norway,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3873718.8
EU funding (EUR): 3873718.8
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Is there a crisis in the legitimacy of the European Union? That research question is timely and important. Investigating it is also an ideal way of training research leaders of tomorrow to rethink our assumptions about the study of legitimate political order. Whilst, however, the financial crisis has raised new questions about the legitimacy of the EU, existing theories of legitimacy crises are largely based on single-state political systems. New theory is, therefore, needed to understand what would count as legitimacy crises in the case of a non-state political system such as the EU. PLATO’s (The Post-Crisis Legitimacy of the EU) ESRs will work together as a team to build new theory from 15 investigations into different standards and actors with whom the EU may need to be legitimate. ESRs will go well beyond the state-of-the-art by building a theory of legitimacy crisis in the EU from a uniquely interdisciplinary understanding of how democracy, power, law, economies and societies all fit together with institutions within and beyond the state to affect the legitimacy of contemporary political order. By developing the analytical tools needed to understand a core predicament in which the EU may both need to develop legitimate forms of political power beyond the state and find those forms of power hard to achieve, PLATO will train ESRs with the conceptual clarity needed to define new research questions at the very frontiers of their disciplines and the methodological skills needed to research those questions. They will also be prepared for careers in the non-academic sector (policy-advice, consulting, civil society, European institutions and expert bodies). PLATO’s ambitious cross-university, cross-country and cross-sectoral programme of research training, supervision and secondments will pool resources from a unique network of 9 research-intensive universities and 11 non-academic partners who are themselves key users of state-of-the-art social science research.

Keywords: eu studies,legitimacy,democracy,european integration,euro crisis,representation,public sphere,trust,multilevel governance,accountability,political economy
Mitigating botnet DDoS attacks with an artificial intelligence powered solution (Ammune)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Luxembourg
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a serious threat to many businesses which rely on constant availability of their network services. Some of the most vicious DDoS attacks occur at the application-layer as these are very hard to defend against because of the many different ways in which hackers may strike. In attack prevention, it is crucial to automatically distinguish between legitimate and malicious traffic. Our Ammune solution outperforms all other state-of-the-art competitors by using highly adaptive artificial intelligence algorithms. It is able to detect previously unknown attack types in real time, with very low rates of errors, for low bandwidth to very high bandwidth attacks. The DDoS defence solution market is estimated at €1.4Bn currently growing at a CAGR of 23% and expected to grow faster in the wake of the increasing attacks. Ammune has already been successfully trialled at two sites (Israeli government ISP and InterUniversity Computation Center) where it detected advanced DDoS attacks which were not found by any of the existing defence systems deployed at the sites. Following these early successes, L7Defense is in discussion with a number of beta customers in Europe, USA and Australia for initial pilots (see section 4) and has been invited by the Luxembourg government to deploy Ammune technology in their data centers, as part of the effort of improving its cyberdefence infrastructure. This led the Luxembourg Innovation agency to select us in their Fit4Start programme to support the development, pilot sales and commercialization. L7Defense currently has and has raised 850k Euros from private investors. The phase 1 project will confirm the market interest in 3 specific customer segments by interviewing 25 companies and recruiting 5 early adopters for phase 2 trials.

Keywords: ddos,botnet,machine learning,cybersecurity
Enterprise Lazio and Sardegna for Europe Smes Innovation Management 2020-21 (ELSE SIM 2020-21)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Italy,Italy
Call: H2020 ENTREPRISE EUROPE NETWORK SGA4 2020-2021 (H2020-EEN-SGA4-2020-2021, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 309076.25
EU funding (EUR): 308310.81
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

2020- 2021 will be the period of the “perfect integration” between COSME and H2020 services, aiming at accompanying the Client in a process of co-creation of a structured process for a company’s tailored service design commensurable with their strategy and vision. The process will take in account that the SMEs’ market success is strictly related to their compliance with: innovation process, based on the following steps: conception (technology concept formulated, experimental proof of concept), protecting idea, designing the product, process or service, validating and demonstrating technology in laboratory and in relevant environment, demonstrating system prototype in operational environment, bringing the innovation to investment readiness and maturity for market take-up, launching it on large scale production. innovation management, based on assessment, improvement, planning, access2finance process and management, based on the SME’s capacity in successfully interfacing with investors (public and private) to attract grants and investment an correctly manage them, and on the Financial Readiness Level, assessed by specific tools and professionals. EEN consortia partners will improve their action providing on site support to SMEs, and becoming a part of the companies for assessing their capacity in the innovation management issues. The ELSE – SIM 2020-21 (Enterprise Lazio and Sardegna for Europe- SMEs Innovation Management) consortium as a whole is able to provide the expected services: Key Account Management • Assess SME gaps and needs, • Facilitate the identification and the initial coach-SME interaction to prepare coaching plan, • Support companies in the project management and administration Enhancing SME innovation management capacity , • Asses innovation management capacity based on performance, • Action plan implementation

Keywords: innovation management,assessing smes needs,access 2 finance,coach,eimc
Versatile Emerging infectious disease Observatory (VEO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Preventing disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Finland,Greece,Hungary,Sweden,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Mining big data for early detection of infectious disease threats driven by climate change and other factors (H2020-SC1-2019-Single-Stage-RTD, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18118385.7
EU funding (EUR): 18118385.7
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Our vision is to establish a Versatile forecasting, nowcasting, and tracking system (VEO) serving as an interactive observatory for the generation and distribution of high quality actionable information for evidence-based early warning, risk assessment and monitoring of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial resistance by public health actors and researchers in the One-Health domain.VEO will be built by an iterative process between data science and technology experts, disease experts from public health and academia, social scientists, and citizen scientists. The VEO data platform will support mining, sharing, integration, presentation and analysis of traditional and novel ‘Bio data’ with a range of “Contextual data”, integrating publicly available and confidential data. The VEO analytical platform will support data-intensive interdisciplinary collaboration of geographically distributed international teams, co-creation of novel advanced analytical solutions, and involving citizen scientists through crowdsourcing of specific challenges. In addition, we will develop workflows to integrate high density laboratory data (genomics, phenotyping, immunomics) into the VEO system and into risk assessments. The VEO system is (co)designed and tested through five complementary use case scenarios, reflecting main pathways of disease emergence, to attune developments to the needs of its intended users, and obtain proof-of-principle of utility, including ethical, legal and social implications.

Keywords: datamining,citizen science,mosquito borne diseases,antimicrobial resistance,zoonotic wildlife borne diseases,disease x
NEXTLEAP (NEXTLEAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Switzerland,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1968030.0
EU funding (EUR): 1968030.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the NEXTLEAP project is to build the fundamental interdisciplinary internet science necessary to create decentralized, secure, and rights-preserving protocols for the next generation of collective awareness platforms. The long-term goal of NEXTLEAP is to have Europe take the “next leap ahead” of the rest of the world by solving the fundamental challenge of determining how both to scientifically build and how to help citizens and institutions adopt open-source decentralized and privacy-preserving digital social platforms in contrast to proprietary centralized cloud-based services and pervasive surveillance that function at the expense of rights and technological sovereignty.

Keywords: decentralisation,philosophy,sociology,internet governance,anonymity
Restoring Trust in the cyber space: a Systems Security Proposal (PROTASIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,Finland,Greece,United States,Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 702000.0
EU funding (EUR): 702000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Fueled by a string of high profile attacks and recent revelations about unprecedented cyber surveillance, interest in systems security is rising-not just among industry and governments, but even among individual citizens across Europe. Corporate organizations worry about the viability of their businesses, nation states about cyber attacks by other nation states or terrorist groups, and citizens about the trustworthiness of the ICT infrastructures. The long list of recent security incidents is eroding people's trust in the digital economy and shows that more research is needed. Unfortunately, expertise is fragmented across many places, while the exchange of knowledge is lacking. If one group specializes in code-reuse attacks and another in embedded systems, ideally they should team up to detect code-reuse vulnerabilities in embedded devices. Today, however, the flow of ideas is limited to publications and ad-hoc collaborations. A more efficient exchange would occur if a researcher temporarily joins the other group to collaborate directly on-site. Over the past few years Europe has created several world-class research centers in systems security. They publish in the most prestigious venues and have a significant impact on both the scientific community and society at large. Nevertheless, in terms of numbers, most top groups are still in the US and the ability to collaborate with them would be a tremendous boost for security research in Europe. We plan to foster such collaborations by supporting researchers from European institutes to spend time with their American counterparts in top universities. We will gather the research results in a repository that links all the exchanges and provides a valuable input for collaborative projects in itself. We will focus our research efforts on both advanced attacks (e.g., exploits, malware, and exfiltration techniques), and defenses (e.g., developing secure software and protecting resource-constrained devices).

Keywords: cyber security,attacks,defenses,privacy