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Proglacial and subglacial aquifers: their evolution under climate change and the potential impacts in terms of resources and natural hazards, through the case of eastern Iceland (IceAq)

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: Iceland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184239.36
EU funding (EUR): 184239.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The research addressing glacier evolution under climate change is well developed, looking not only at changes in mass balance, but also at the associated effects on basal and downstream hydrology. However, aftermath changes to the groundwater component are rarely considered, even though evolving groundwater recharge, discharge and storage will be required to forecast the evolution of water resources and of water-related hazards under climate change. This knowledge gap is the object of IceAq. IceAq will focus on 4 outlet glaciers of the Vatnajökull, the main icelandic icecap, which retreat under climate change is already documented. In addition to gathering of existing data (from geology to climatology), new data will be acquired on the field, mainly to characterise groundwater. Based on those data-sets, local comprehensive numerical models will be build, and then be integrated into a regional one, which will allow more realistic hydrogeological simulations, and the input of future climate scenarios. The scientific perspective is threefold: achievement of an operational understanding and quantification of unknown or poorly known aquifer systems in glacial context, prediction of their hydrodynamic response to climate change, and exploration of the potential role of glacier-aquifer interactions in the mechanism of deep recharge and formation of offshore fresh groundwater stocks in littoral zones. Outputs of the project will provide first answers to those interrogations, and be disseminated in the scientific community but also to the general audience through a participatory approach. The developed methodology will be applied in the future to other glaciated systems in different contexts. Dr Vincent and the glaciology group of IES, UoI, have very complementary expertise, essential for this project. The planned research and training is expected to allow Dr Vincent to reach her career objectives and will offer her host new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations

Keywords: aquifer,groundwater,glacier,hydrogeological numerical simulation
Remaking Health in a Microbial Planet by Crossing Space, Time, Species and Epistemic Cultures (HealthXCross)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1367062.0
EU funding (EUR): 1367062.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Microbiome science is popularizing a symbiotic understanding of health and ecology. What microbiome science now knows is that microbes entangle the health of people and environments; what we don’t know is how, in this process, new cultural concepts and practices of health may emerge. This project asks: how does health come to be reconfigured in a world entangled through microbial data? HealthXCross is a multi-sited, comparative ethnographic study of how scientists produce and coordinate knowledge within interdisciplinary platforms that collect, compare and integrate microbial data across time, space and species in order to produce simulations for intervening in both environmental and human health. HealthXCross is an ethnographic inquiry into the implications of the environment as a body - and vice versa - through analysis of the tensions between the emancipatory and the dystopian effects of dissolving boundaries between human bodies and environments. With this aim, my project will examine how these research platforms 1) remake notions of biological diversity through technology by crossing conventional categorizations (space, time, species) and epistemic cultures, 2) create and emerge from the diverse spacetimes of innovations across the global North and the global South and 3) shape new trends in healthcare and health governance. HealthXCross will create a participatory design with scientists, who are among stakeholders in the public discourse about what it means to be human and how to live in an entangled planet. My project will offer timely insights into the interplay between knowledge making and changing health practices in times of profound ecological, socio-technical and economic transition. HealthXCross will dramatically advance anthropological understandings of the contradictory but constitutive aspects of living together and being in relation.

Keywords: medical anthropology,socio cultural anthropology,science and technology studies
New Phases of Matter for Quantum Computation (NPhOMaQuCo)

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: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is now a huge international effort to realise a quantum computer that can be scaled to solve problems that are intractable with modern technology. Realising a quantum computer is challenging because its individual components, known as qubits, will invariably experience errors that will cause the system to fail before a computation is completed. To deal with the issue we encode qubits in quantum error-correcting codes. These are robust many-body systems that will preserve their encoded logical information, even if their individual components suffer errors. They are designed such that we can run diagnostics to identify and repair errors provided the rate at which the system experiences errors is suitably low. We can protect the encoded information arbitrarily well by increasing the size of the quantum error-correcting code if our noisy qubits experience errors below some threshold rate. It is presently very challenging to construct and control our best available designs of quantum error-correcting codes using modern laboratory technology. To alleviate this problem we must search more robust codes that are more resource efficient than our current proposals. This will make the machines we seek to build more experimentally amenable. Our leading code designs for fault-tolerant quantum computation are based on phases of condensed quantum matter. Specifically, we synthesise physical systems with the fundamental properties of exotic phases to find robust designs for scalable quantum computation. There have been a number of recent developments, including the discovery of new phases of matter, that may help us overcome the issues that keep us from realising a quantum computer. I will examine new developments in condensed-matter physics to design robust new quantum error-correcting codes that can be realised experimentally to show that we can scale a quantum computer to solve problems that are presently intractable.

Keywords: quantum information,quantum error correction,topological quantum computation,fault tolerant quantum computation
EEN-Innovate PT (EEN-Innovate PT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal
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): 203252.5
EU funding (EUR): 203252.5
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of this project is to contribute to greater economic impact from innovation activities in SMEs, by reinforcing their innovation management capacity and contributing to establish more effective and efficient links between actors through all the innovation chain. In order to achieve the above objective, 2 main target groups and 2 specific objectives are defined: i) SMEs beneficiaries of Horizon 2020 SME Instrument (Phase 1 and Phase 2) the specific objectives of this service (KAM) consist in identifying bottlenecks to the creation of economic impact in companies benefitting from grants and address these bottlenecks with the help of capable coaches. ii) SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalisation, which could potentially become beneficiaries of European research and innovation programmes but without effective access to consulting services for innovation management. The objective of this service (EIMC) is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in those companies. For the WP 2017-2018, we propose to deliver a 3rd service to a new target group iii) SMEs awarded with a Seal of Excellence from H2020 SME Instrument, the objective is to take advantage of the work made by the EU and try to create synergies between investment in the framework of Horizonte 2020 and other sources of national and international funding; we intend to develop a signaling service forwarding them to services of advice and support in the scope of activity 1 of EEN – PORTUGAL Consortium. This objective will be developed in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders. In summary, the partners participating in this project (IAPMEI, ADI, CEC and INESC) expect to deliver a total of 119 services covering all the country. The project respects the excellence, 'no wrong door', proximity, subsidiarity and additionally principles as well as the mechanisms of signposting and follow-up of target audience inside the Network.

Keywords: innovation,innovate,innovative,management,smes,portugal
Creative Practices for Transformational Futures (CreaTures)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Australia,Spain,Spain,Slovenia,Finland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Societal challenges and the arts (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2994315.0
EU funding (EUR): 2994315.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Creative practices are underused in the urgent task of changing cultures towards sustainability. CreaTures promotes action for social and ecological sustainability by identifying those aspects of creative practice that contribute most effectively to socio-cultural transformation and producing an open-access framework to support practitioners and policy-makers in driving positive change. The project draws on pilot research that shows how collaboration, reflection and direct engagement are key to changing the public’s orientation to environment issues. Thus, its process of identifying and evaluating the design of significant aspects (and the impact of different contexts) involves three interrelated components: an Observatory, identifying and mapping existing, fragmented and often hidden transformational creative practices; a Laboratory, supporting new experimentation and direct engagement with diverse stakeholders, including the members of the public, by mounting several different scales and types of arts production, and; an Evaluation phase, testing new and existing creative practices in a systematic and concerted way for their impact. The project will combine insights from these undertakings into a transdisciplinary, evidence-based, and practical framework that highlights the strengths of and opportunities for the arts to contribute to addressing climate change and associated effects. The resulting framework will demonstrate effective paths to achieving sustainability, social cohesion and peaceful co-existence at a time of rapid change, offering a strategic research agenda for key stakeholders, a set of innovations addressing the cultures and conditions for delivering greater sustainability, and policy recommendations to focus and optimise work in mobilizing the arts for transformational futures.

Keywords: socio ecological sustainability,creative practice,co creation,transdisciplinary research,futures,socially engaged arts,critical design,media art
CybSPEED - Help for Full Inclusion (CybSPEED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Bulgaria
Call: MSCA Special Needs Allowance (H2020-IBA-MSCA-SNLS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 24612.0
EU funding (EUR): 24612.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions pay particular attention to physical accessibility and inclusion and foresee financial support for the additional costs entailed by recruited or seconded researchers/staff members with disabilities. This grant, will cover the additional costs that the staff member with disabilities faces due to the increased mobility costs.

Keywords: 20 years of experience in innovative methods in special education,now restricted by multiple sclerosis numbness of legs and hands,lack of muscular coordination,blurred vision,severe fatigue,etc
High-reliability Low-latency Communications with Network Coding (RACOON)

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: Sweden,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 190559.04
EU funding (EUR): 190559.04
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

With various emerging latency-sensitive applications, e.g., V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) automation, smart power systems (i.e., smart grids), Internet of things (IoT) and smart factory (industry 4.0), low-latency communication is becoming more and more important. To meet increasing demands, there have been substantial research activities on low-latency communications recently. Meanwhile, many applications also have high requirements on reliability. These schemes with high requirements on reliability and latency are often termed high-reliability low-latency (HRLL) communications. A common approach to achieve low-latency is finite length coding/transmission blocks. However, due to finite code length, it is rather challenging to achieve high reliability and low latency simultaneously. Moreover, in many scenarios, high data rates are also needed. Thus, it is rather valuable to study communication and coding schemes capable of simultaneously improving reliability, latency and rates. Network coding, originally proposed for increasing network throughput, has shown benefits in latency, throughput and reliability, respectively. However, the study of network coding for HRLL communications is still very limited. Thus, the main objective of the project is to systematically investigate network coding for HRLL communications. We will find the fundamental limits of HRLL networks with network coding. We will optimize network coding schemes and propose efficient communication strategies to improve latency and reliability performance under practical constraints. The outgoing mobility will be hosted Electrical Engineering department, Princeton University, USA, with excellent academy environments and the applicant will be trained in advanced knowledge, management and pedagogy skills, in addition to research topics and methods.

Keywords: network coding,high reliability,low latency,communications,wireless,information theory,networking
Incorporation of Thermoelectric Generator into Advanced Glazing Systems and Vacuum Glazing Systems (TEG AGS)

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: United States,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2024-01-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 289732.8
EU funding (EUR): 289732.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Glass and glazing tends to be regarded as a passive material that has little use other than lighting and appearance, however, it has been established that properly formulated glazing components can have a dramatic impact on the overall energy use in buildings. The development of sound theoretical models and the demonstration of the Thermoelectric Generator (TEG) suggest that the next energy breakthrough in glazing and windows will be to convert sunlight falling on the glazing (which results in a temperature gradient within/across the glazing) into significant amounts of electricity for use in that building or for re-circulation to the grid. Therefore, complex and interlocking issues that need to be solved include: • A continued improvement in glazing that will maximize thermal gradient across the integrated TEG but maintain the primary function as light providers. • The need for new TEG materials that can maximise the conversion of full spectrum incident sunlight into usable current. • The 'extraction' and use of the power generated and the technical issues associated with returning it to the grid. • The public policy and new business models required to turn a successful technical prototype into a commercial reality. My research programme based on training at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland and Coventry University, UK will directly address each of these problems in an integrated and holistic fashion.

Keywords: thermoelectric generator,advanced glazing,vacuum glazing,electrochromic vacuum glazing,triple vacuum glazing,communication control module
MEthane goes MObile - MEasurements and MOdelling (MEMO2)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Poland,Sweden,Switzerland,Sweden,Poland,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3361290.84
EU funding (EUR): 3361290.84
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

Mitigation of climate change is a key scientific and societal challenge and also a headline target of the EU2020 strategy. Strong reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are necessary to reach the global warming target agreed on at the 2015 United Nations Convention of Parties in Paris. Such emission reductions can only be achieved if sources are properly quantified and mitigation efforts are verified, but there are large discrepancies between official emission inventories and estimates derived from direct measurement of the air. MEMO2 will contribute to the EU2020 targets with a focus on methane (CH4), the second most important greenhouse gas after CO2 and one of Europe’s most important energy sources. CH4 emissions are a major contributor to Europe's global warming impact, but they are also a good target for climate change mitigation because of a rather short lifetime of 10 years (policy-maker compatible) and several sources offering possibilities of “no-regret” emission reduction (landfills, gas leaks, manure). However CH4 emissions are not well quantified yet. MEMO2 will bridge the gap between large-scale scientific estimates from in situ monitoring programs and the 'bottom-up' estimates of emissions from local sources that are used in the national reporting. MEMO2 will identify and evaluate CH4 emissions and support mitigation measures by I) developing new and advanced mobile methane measurements tools and networks, isotopic source identification, and modelling at different scales, and II) educating a new generation of “cross–thinking” scientists, which are able to effectively implement novel measurement and modelling tools in an interdisciplinary and intersectoral context. The 9 beneficiaries and 13 non-academic partners of MEMO2 offer a well–structured intersectoral training programme to equip young researchers with strong scientific and personal competencies, which will enhance their employability as well as European innovation capacity in the future.

Keywords: methane,emission verification,mobile measurements,isotope measurements,atmospheric modeling