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New market niches for the Pulp and Paper Industry waste based on circular economy approaches (PAPERCHAIN)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Sweden,Slovenia,Slovenia,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Slovenia,France,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Systemic, eco-innovative approaches for the circular economy: large-scale demonstration projects (H2020-CIRC-2016TwoStage, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9217196.2
EU funding (EUR): 7826080.89
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

Europe is the second world producer of pulp and paper, manufacturing 130 million tonnes in 2014 and representing 23% of world production. The EU pulp and paper manufacturing and converting industries generate an annual turnover of €180 billion, representing 1,26% of the European GDP. In particular, the Pulp and Paper industry (PPI) has a turnover of €75 billion, comprises 920 plants and provides 180,000 jobs in Europe directly, and 1.5 million in the value chain. This sector is resource intensive and produces 11 million tonnes of waste yearly . It has been found that 25-40% of municipal solid waste generated each year worldwide is paper-related. Furthermore, Europe is nowadays facing the challenge of resource scarcity and more efficient use. If managed in a sustainable manner, PPI waste can become a valuable raw material for other resource intensive industries such as the construction (i.e 5,4 billion tonnes of raw material consumption) or the chemical industry (1 billion tonnes). Mining industry waste generation is estimated at up to 20.000 million tons of solid waste yearly, and relevant part of this waste needs to be kept in environmental safety conditions, which in turn implies additional use of resources (e.g borrow materials). New widespread markets are needed to extend the valorisation operations, reduce the landfilling rates and increase the competitiveness of the PPIs creating new added value markets for their inorganic waste. The overall objective of PAPERCHAIN is to deploy five novel circular economy models centred in the valorisation of the waste streams generated by the PPI as secondary raw material for a number of resource intensive sectors: construction sector, mining sector and chemical industry. PAPERCHAIN aims to unlock the potential of a resource efficient model based on industrial symbiosis which will demonstrate the potential of the major non-hazardous waste streams generated by the PPI as valuable secondary raw material.

Keywords: industrial symbiosis,pulp and paper industry,construction sector,mining industry,chemical industry,secondary raw materials
Promoting One Health in Europe through joint actions on foodborne zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance and emerging microbiological hazards. (One Health EJP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: COFUND actions
Partnership: One Health EJP (EJP-COFUND)
Countries involved: Spain,Estonia,Ireland,Ireland,Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Lithuania,Romania,Sweden,Norway,Norway,Belgium,Bulgaria,Finland,Finland,Hungary,Poland,Sweden,Latvia,France,France,Czechia,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Co-fund on One Health (zoonoses – emerging threats) (H2020-SFS-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 89999999.75
EU funding (EUR): 44998999.99
Participants: 51
Project status: SIGNED

The One Health concept recognizes that the human health is tightly connected to the health of animals and the environment, i.e. that animal feed, human food, animal and human health, and environmental contamination are closely linked. These are the main focus of our European joint programme (EJP). One reference laboratory from the public health / medicine domain and one reference laboratory from the food / veterinary domain are associated within a network of 41 European laboratories and research centers, distributed in 19 participating member states, with the aim to reach significant advances in the fields of foodborne zoonoses (FBZ), antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and emerging threats (ET) within a global One Health approach. Most of these laboratories have reference responsibilities, representing a sustainable framework for an integrated research community. Consistent with the “Prevent-Detect-Respond” concept, the One Health EJP aims at reinforcing collaboration between institutes by enhancing transdisciplinary cooperation and integration of activities by means of dedicated Joint Research Projects, Joint Integrative Project and through education and training in the fields of FBZ, AMR and ET. While alignment and harmonization with on-going EC-funded research project will also be considered, deliverables from the EJP activities should feed the approach of evidence based risk assessment and therefore the management of risks by the competent national authorities. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to efficiently and regularly updated the dissemination of knowledge between the research community and major International and European stakeholders, national authorities and further afield. The One Health EJP will also develop sustainable programs and projects beyond the lifetime of the EJP, through the production of a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (2021-2030) and a European P2P One Health Cooperative Joint Initiative.

Keywords: one health,emerging threats,foodborne,prevention programmes,surveillance,health policy and services,diseases control,parasitology,microbiology,epidemiology
Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium (OPTNETSPACE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 887500.0
EU funding (EUR): 887500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Every year, the world economy invests a large amount of resources to improve or develop transport infrastructure. How should these investments be allocated to maximize social welfare? In this proposal, I propose to develop and apply new methods to study optimal transport networks in general-equilibrium models of international trade, urban economics and economic geography. The methodology will build on recent work (Fajgelbaum and Schaal, 2017), in which my coauthor and I studied the network design problem in a general neoclassical trade framework. In the first project, I develop a new framework to analyze optimal infrastructure investment in an urban setting. The model features people commuting between residential areas and business districts as well as a choice over the mode of transportation. We plan to evaluate the framework to historical data about specific cities. In the second project, I propose and implement an new algorithm to compute optimal transport networks in the presence of increasing returns to transport, a likely prominent feature of real-world networks. The algorithm applies a branch-and-bound method in a series of geometric programming relaxations of the problem. In the third project, I study the dynamic evolution of actual transport networks using satellite data from the US, India and Mexico. In the spirit of Hsieh and Klenow (2007), I use the model to measure distortions in the placement of roads between rich and poor countries. In the fourth project, I study the inefficiencies and welfare losses associated with political economy frictions among governments and planning agencies. I use the model to identify inefficiencies and relate them to measures of institutions and political outcomes. In the final project, I propose a new explanation behind the Zipf’s law distribution of city sizes. I show that Zipf’s law may result from particular topological properties of optimal transport networks that allocate resources efficiently in space.

Keywords: network,transport,design,optimal,international trade,economic geography,urban
RAYLAP, innovative springy cranks for bikes to foster sustainable urban mobility (Raylap)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Transport is the second industry with a bigger impact in the global warming worldwide. It is necessary to promote alternative mobility systems to create more sustainable societies. Instilling new social habits such as ciclying, in order to leave polluting vehicles aside. This would allow to create more sustainable cities for the benefit of everybody. In fact, recently, the European Parliament has recognised the role of cycling as a crucial mode of transport for urban areas The spanish company BIKE INNOVATIONS S.L. aims to foster the cycling sector by facilitating the use of bicicles to all type of users. RAYLAP is a patented innovation based on a concept called "Springy Cranks" for bicycles. Once installed, it requires much less effort for the user to move the bike compared to the traditional pedal system. All the bicycles are propelled by a Crankset (component of the bicycle that converts the motion of the rider’s leg into rotational motion to drive the chain or belt, which in turn drives the rear wheel); but RAYLAP is a springy crank that allows to improve the pedaling, increasing the force produced by 30-35% compared to traditional cranks. Moreover, if installed in e-bikes, the additional force provided when pedaling, can be used to charge the battery. One of the main keys to promote ciclying among the population is to reduce the effort of this activity. RAYLAP solution aims precisely to face this challenge, facilitating the use of bike for all kind of people. The main objective of the project will be to demonstrate the RAYLAP’s commercial and technical feasibility and to develop the business plan for the european and international market launch of the innovative springy cranks. BIKE INNOVATIONS need to complete the industrial design for its validation and CE marking and later begin production in series, as well as develop its application to electric bicycles.

Keywords: bicycles,e bikes,sustainable transport
MEETmeTONIGHT (MEET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 967300.0
EU funding (EUR): 615645.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

MEETmeTONIGHT (MEET) – “Face to face with the research” is the proposal for the European Researchers’ Night in 2020, happening in the major Italian cities of Milan, Naples, Caserta and Padua, complemented by Brescia, Castellanza, Cremona, Edolo, Lecco, Lodi, Mantova, Monza, Sondrio (Lombardy region), Avellino, Portici, Procida (Campania region), Cassino, Frosinone, Gaeta, Ventotene (Lazio region) and Asiago (Veneto region). The goal is to realize a special occasion of meeting and interaction between the public at large and the world of research, where researchers – at the forefront of all the proposed activities – can show themselves and what they do, in a simple, spontaneous, informal and entertaining way, actively involving the public. People, by doing, find themselves learning, getting amused, and becoming aware of how much research is for everyone and all around us. All MEET activities aim at promoting research and its outcomes, researchers and their profession, with a special attention to the youngest generations on one side, and to the recognition of the role of Europe on the other. With one common macro-theme, detailed in five thematic areas and five slogans, MEET proposes interactive stands, hands-on experiments and live demos that reconstruct the research environment; conferences, video projections, interactive games; guided visits to scientific museums; meeting occasions with researchers; European Corners; live broadcast moments. A special attention is given to schools’ pupils, for which a number of dedicated activities are foreseen, at the goal of encouraging them to consider research career as a concrete option for their life, and to sustainability, one of the most important topics to be considered to achieve a better future.

Keywords: responsible research and innovation,public engagement,outreach,participatory science,interaction,entertainment,citizen science,sustainability,future
High-dimensional data processing: from theory to imaging applications (HiDDaProTImA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The unstoppable increase in the volume of data stored, transmitted and interpreted by fixed and mobile devices strongly calls for the study of efficient solutions in processing the information contained in high-dimensional signals. Such need has been reflected in the recent flourishing of research efforts from the statistics, machine learning, computer science and signal processing communities. Within this multidisciplinary research ground, the proposed project will address the central question that can be formulated as -- what is the maximum level of information contained in large datasets that we can process from a small number of features, and how is it possible to achieve such limit in practice? Recent advances in information processing have demonstrated that a promising mathematical tool to tackle this question is represented by the Bayesian approach, in which statistical models inferred from training samples accurately describe the data. In fact, the Bayesian framework offers fundamental advantages in modeling high-dimensional signals in terms of mathematical tractability of performance limits as well as enhanced capabilities in information processing. Beyond the study of performance limits, the proposed project will involve case studies and applications in image processing. The researcher will be able to establish active collaborations with various research groups, in different department of Cambridge University, that test their research results on actual imaging devices. This project will also form the proposer to his future independent research activity and it will provide him with new mathematical skills and practical implementation expertise with actual imaging systems. On the other hand, Cambridge University will benefit from the cross pollination of ideas brought by the researcher and his collaborators in top institutions in Europe and the US.

Keywords: big data,feature extraction,bayesian framework,signal processing,compressive sensing,microscopy,spectroscopy
Strong Microwave Erbium Coupling (SMERC)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Electronic and nuclear spins in solids have remarkable coherence properties which makes them ideal qubit candidates for future quantum computers. However, microwave detection and coupling of individual spins remains an outstanding challenge, and this is the main obstacle to their use for quantum computing. The rare earth element erbium (Er) is a very promising candidate for single-spin detection due to its exceedingly large electronic ground-state moment (J=15/2). Furthermore, Er has recently demonstrated 1.3 second hyperfine spin coherence (https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.0431), thus joining a very short list of solid state defects with coherence times of over a second. The Strong Microwave Erbium Coupling (SMERC) proposal aims to use superconducting circuits consisting of resonators and Josephson qubits to detect and couple individual Er spins in crystalline matrices. The superconducting circuits will be designed so as to enhance their magnetic coupling to the individual Er spins. In particular, nanoscale constrictions will be used to concentrate the microwave magnetic field at the Er ion location. This will result in Er-microwave photon coupling constants sufficient to detect a single Er spin within less than a millisecond integration time with microwave signals.
Synergising International Research Studies into the Environmental Fate and Behaviour of Toxic Organic Chemicals in the Waste Stream (INTERWASTE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Australia,South Africa,Spain,India,Argentina,Belgium,Sweden,China,Colombia,Norway,Czechia,Czechia,Netherlands,United States,United Kingdom,Canada,Nigeria,Japan,United Kingdom
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1008000.0
EU funding (EUR): 832500.0
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

The overall vision of INTERWASTE is to develop scientific understanding of issues related to environmental contamination with toxic organic chemicals (specifically flame retardants (FRs) and pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs)) arising from their presence in the waste stream. Specific research objectives include: (a) exchange of knowledge of and best practice in methods for rapid and cost-effective identification of waste items containing restricted FRs; (b) developing scientific understanding of environmental contamination due to processing of waste items containing FRs; and (c) furthering understanding of the sources of PPCPs and FRs in the sewerage system. To facilitate such research on the global level required, INTERWASTE will exchange best practice in the analytical chemistry techniques required to study FRs and PPCPs, and evaluate the measurement capability of INTERWASTE participants via an interlaboratory comparison. INTERWASTE's vision will be achieved via a co-ordinated programme of collaboration and research secondments between world-leading research groups both within and outside the EU; coupled with annual workshops to discuss the latest findings. The research programme will exploit the complementary expertise of the consortium members, and in so doing foster synergies. Cross-sectoral interaction and knowledge sharing will be achieved via the participation of beneficiaries and partner organisations from both academic and non-academic sectors. All secondments and workshops will be conducted within a framework designed to maximise the training and career development benefits to participating staff by providing them with opportunities for knowledge and skills acquisition, with a particular (but not exclusive) focus on early career researchers. INTERWASTE's research and training programme is complemented by communication activities that will both disseminate project findings to scientific stakeholders, and engage the general public.

Keywords: brominated flame retardants,ppcps,phosphate flame retardants,e waste,environmental analytical chemistry,wastewater based epidemiology
Integrated access to balloon-borne platforms for innovative research and technology (HEMERA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Sweden,Norway,France,France,France,France,United Kingdom,Canada
Call: Integrating Activities for Starting Communities (H2020-INFRAIA-2017-1-two-stage, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 58.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5108398.75
EU funding (EUR): 4991211.25
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

HEMERA will integrate a large Starting Community in the field of tropospheric and stratospheric balloon-borne research, in order to make existing balloon facilities available to all scientific teams in the EU. The project involves major space agencies dealing with balloon infrastructures, companies operating the balloons, companies providing the necessary technology and scientific experts. Balloon borne instruments are suitable for a wide range of science fields, such as atmospheric measurements, climate and environment related investigations, astronomy and astrophysics, space instruments validation and testing of new technologies. The objectives of HEMERA are to: - Provide better and coordinated balloon access to the troposphere and stratosphere for scientific and technological research - Attract new users to enlarge the community accessing the balloon infrastructure - Enlarge the fields of the science and technology research conducted with balloons - Improve the balloon service offered to scientific and technical users - Favour standardisation, synergy, complementarities and industrialisation through joint The infrastructure deals with a wide range of mission characteristics including altitude, flight duration, instrument mass and volume. Flights can be performed during all seasons at various latitudes, satisfying various scientific needs. Currently, the HEMERA programme will use the Zero Pressure Balloons for stratospheric flights (relevant for measuring Essential Climate Variables and for astrophysics), additional types of balloons can be considered. HEMERA will give access to launch bases and is thus capable of conducting scientific balloon campaigns, in Europe and abroad, necessary in particular for scientific issues in the context of climate change. HEMERA includes 3 major components : - Operational activities to organize and conduct the flights - Development of innovative technologies and infrastructure to optimize the balloon offer - Networking

Keywords: balloons,stratosphere,troposphere,astronomy,earth sciences,technology