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Providing RObust high TECHnology Tags based on linear carbon nanostructures (PROTECHT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept 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: Italy
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In a global world, identity frauds are an important issue to ensure security throughout the EU and its member states. Improved protection systems have made more difficult counterfeiting ID documents, but all currently adopted solutions are potentially subject to fraud. This is the reason why radically novel security strategies are required to ensure security for the next decades. The PROTECHT project (Providing RObust high TECHnology Tags based on linear carbon structures) aims at developing advanced knowledge-based anticounterfeiting tags based on polymer nanocomposites containing novel carbon nanostructures. The unique optical response of such systems allows to design security tags, layers and fibers embedding barcodes to be implemented in ID documents as well as banknotes. These barcodes can be produced through low cost manufacturing techniques and thus bear strong commercial potential even for the implementation in low income countries. This proof of concept is devoted to the exploration of the development path to be pursued to take the unique PROTECHT technology to the market.

Keywords: security tags,id protection novel nanocomposites,carbon nanostructures
Functionalization of ethereal C-O Bonds Enabled by Metallaphotoredox Catalysis (ET-PHOTOX)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The direct utilization of native functional groups without the need for prefunctionalized holds considerable promise to revolutionize organic synthesis. While significant advances have been realized within the area of C-H activation, the functionalization of inert C-O bonds in aryl ethers is still at its infancy. Prompted by the natural abundance of aryl ethers in Lignin, the second most abundant biopolymer (30% of non-fossil organic carbon on earth), chemists have been challenged to devise, conceptuality and practicality aside, mild, general and widely applicable catalytic technologies for ethereal C-O funcionalization. At present, however, these technologies remain confined to the use of rather activated extended p-systems, stoichiometric metal reagents and, in many instances, harsh conditions. ET-PHOTOX will offer an innovative and challenging approach for functionalizing aryl C-O bonds by merging nickel catalysis and photoredox catalysis via electron donor-acceptor complexation events. Such synergistic catalysis will unlock unconceivable scenarios within the C-O bond-cleavage arena, including the use of non-extended p-systems, non-organometallic based nucleophiles or even carbon dioxide as coupling partner. Therefore, this project holds potential to change concepts in catalysis, allowing new tactics to be implemented in organic synthesis from ubiquitous C-O bonds, thus enhancing the ever-growing quality of the European research. The prospective impact of ET-PHOTOX, together with the new scientific, technical training, competences and transferable skills received will position the candidate with a unique opportunity to start an independent career at a European academic institution after the execution of the project.

Keywords: catalysis,photoredox,nickel,cross coupling,c o bonds
Planetary accretion and migration in discs over all ages (PAMDORA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 71.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1491909.0
EU funding (EUR): 1491909.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of this ERC proposal is to make significant progress in our understanding how planetary systems form in protoplanetary discs. In this ambitious research programme I will answer these three key questions: How does the dust size distribution affect the evolution of ice lines and initial formation location of planetesimals? How do growing planets migrate in protoplanetary discs? How does the disc evolution affect the formation and composition of planetary systems? I will tackle these questions using a combination of novel ideas and computer simulations in which I will model the three before mentioned connected key stages of planet formation. The disc evolution model will incorporate grain growth and drift with self-consistent temperature structure calculations. The planet migration simulations will map the migration rates from small planets all the way to giant gap opening planets in these discs. Finally, I will combine these topics and compute the assembly of whole planetary systems from multiple small bodies in gas discs to full grown solar systems. Additionally, I will track the chemical composition and evolution of the growing bodies. These self-consistent models of the formation process from planetary embryos all the way to full planetary systems will be the first of their kind and will shed light on the origin of the variety of planetary systems featuring terrestrial planets, super-Earths, ice and/or gas giants. By incorporating the chemical composition of planets during their formation into my model, I can not only compare the orbital elements to observations, but also their compositions, where observations of the atmospheres of hot Jupiters already exist and future observations of super-Earths will reveal their atmospheric and bulk composition (e.g. through the PLATO space mission), further constraining planet formation theories.
Enabling Science and Technology through European Electron Microscopy (ESTEEM3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Spain,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Germany,Norway,Belgium,Poland,Sweden,Slovenia,Switzerland,Belgium,France,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Integrating Activities for Advanced Communities (H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10000004.25
EU funding (EUR): 9999999.0
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

ESTEEM3 is an integrating activity for electron microscopy providing access to the leading European state-of-the-art electron microscopy research infrastructures, facilitating and extending transnational access services of the most powerful atomic scale characterization techniques in advanced electron microscopy research to a wide range of academic and industrial research communities for the analysis and engineering of novel materials in physical, chemical and biological sciences. ESTEEM3 objective is to deliver more access to more users coming from a wider range of disciplines. Transnational Access to ESTEEM3 centres is obtained through a transparent, simple peer review process based on merit and scientific priorities. Optimum service to users is supported by networking and joint research activities, which address key issues such as specimen preparation, data interpretation, treatment and automation through theory and simulation, and standardization of protocols and methodologies. Innovative activities dedicated to the dissemination of expertise, education and training in cutting-edge quantitative transmission electron microscopy techniques, such as schools, advanced workshops and webinars, are offered to the European electron microscopy users from academia, research institutes and industry. Directed research programmes involving the academic and industrial partners of the consortium focus on the further methodology development in imaging and diffraction, spectroscopy, in-situ techniques and metrology, and on advancing applied research of materials related to ICT, energy, health, and transport for the benefit of European scientists and industry. Moreover, the definition of strategic roadmaps and open access data policies aims to ensure the long-term sustainability of the consortium. In all, ESTEEM3 establishes a strategic leadership in electron microscopy to guide future developments and promote electron microscopy to the widest research community at large.

Keywords: transmission electron microscopy,imaging,diffraction,metrology,spectroscopy,in situ,materials for ict,energy,health and transport,data treatment,widening of transnational access,innovation
The Origen of Gender Inequality: Nurture vs. Nature and Quantifying Gender Preference (ORIGENDER)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: United States,Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2021-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 198288.96
EU funding (EUR): 198288.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Women continue to earn significantly less than men. This is true even in Scandinavia, a region long considered a forerunner in offering better opportunities for women to balance career and family. However, in recent decades progress towards gender equality has been slow. This has intrigued researchers and motivated public policies, such as gender quotas on corporate boards and parental leave earmarked to men, as in the recent EU proposal on work-life balance for parents and carers. In the past, a significant part of the gender pay gap could be explained by differences in human capital and discriminatory wage policies, but the reduction of gender differences in education and the implementation of anti-discrimination policies have not removed the pay gap. This calls for further knowledge in order to aid attempts to close the gap. A recent literature highlights the influence of gender identity and norms in shaping the gender pay gap. In ORIGENDER, I aim to advance our knowledge of the role of gender norms in shaping the gender pay gap by answering two key questions: 1) Why are gender roles on the labour market still so traditional, particularly in families with children? 2) Can we quantify how much individuals value traditional gender roles? The answers are both academically interesting and key to the design of public policy. A MSCA GF will give me the possibility to answer these questions by combining the skills and knowledge of two vibrant research environments: Prof. Henrik Kleven’s research group at Princeton University, and the Center of Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) at the University of Copenhagen. Both institutions employ world-leading economists in the areas of public policy and causal identification using (big) data and, via CEBI, I will have a secure link to the unique Danish data infrastructure and population wide administrative data, enabling me to make significant leaps in our understanding compared to existing literature.

Keywords: gender inequality,intergenerational correlations,nurture vs nature,administrative data,survey data
Electronic Order, Magnetism, and Unconventional Superconductivity probed in Real-Space (MARS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2747025.0
EU funding (EUR): 2747025.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The interplay of electronic order with antiferromagnetism and superconductivity has recently emerged as a vital question for rationalizing the physics of all classes of unconventional superconductors. The electronic order is rarely sufficiently long-range correlated to render it susceptible for diffraction techniques. Instead, a local probe is usually required to detect it experimentally. It is clear, however, that such a probe must provide sensitivity at the same time to electronic order, superconductivity, and static magnetism for clarifying the interplay between these ordering phenomena. The only experimental technique which is capable of fulfilling these requirements simultaneously is spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM). This technique utilizes spin-polarized tunneling currents in order to measure signatures of electronic order, superconducting gaps, and the magnetic structure at the atomic scale. To the best of our knowledge, SP-STM has never been applied to unconventional superconductors, despite the mandatory necessity. Exactly this is the goal of the MARS project: We want to combine SP-STM, which we recently established in our microscopes, with our experience in scanning tunneling microscopy on unconventional superconductors. We will apply highest-resolution SP-STM systematically to prototype representatives of the most important classes of unconventional superconductors, viz. cuprate, iron-arsenide, and heavy-fermion superconductors. For this purpose, a unique milli-Kelvin scanning tunneling microscope will be built, in order to achieve unprecedented resolution in spin-polarization, energy, and real-space.

Keywords: spin polarized scanning tunneling microscopy
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: a Perfect Storm of Functional Anatomy, Biomechanics and Mechanobiology during Growth? (ScoliStorm)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2743750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1824687.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a 3D deformity of the spine affecting previously healthy children, substantially reducing their quality of life and creating a life-long burden of disease. Although it has been indentified since the time of Hippocrates (400 BC), we have not been able to rationally develop effective treatments and provide a cure for these children suffering from AIS because its cause and mechanism of disease are still unknown. ScoliStorm will create a paradigm shift in AIS research by uncovering its complex perfect storm of anatomical, biomechanical and mechanobiological causes in the intervertebral disc and exploring this disease mechanism whereby predictive triggers are identified that can be used for prevention and early treatment. We will study human subjects non-invasively through disease initiation and progression, creating for the first time a comprehensive dataset of healthy and scoliotic human spines that can be used for early detection and treatment of juvenile spine conditions. We will create safe non-radiographic accurate imaging of the osseous spine, available in most hospitals, which can become the standard for diagnosis and monitoring of osseous injury and disease in juveniles. We will develop high-throughput creation and use of subject specific in silico models, allowing simulation of organ and tissue function such that morphological imaging data can provide functional analysis of the patient for diagnosis and treatment. Mechanisms affecting tissue adaptation will be mapped and show that normal processes by their coincidence can create an aberrant response and disease, providing an explanation applicable for other multifactorial diseases. Thus, a unique dedicated and complete multidisciplinary process, combining 1) bioengineering analysis, exploiting imaging, in silico modeling, in vitro and ex vivo approaches in humans, and 2) clinical medicine, also applicable for exploring other multifactorial diseases, will be created.

Keywords: scoliosis,aetiology,intervertebral disc,growth,biomechanics,mechanobiology,synthetic ct
Sustainable network for Independent Technical EXpertise of radioactive waste disposal - Interactions and Implementation (SITEX-II)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Radioactive waste management
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Sweden,Slovakia,Hungary,Switzerland,Bulgaria,Hungary,Lithuania,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Canada
Call: Supporting the licensing of geological repositories (NFRP-2014-2015, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1484330.0
EU funding (EUR): 1177182.5
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The coordination action SITEX-II aims at implementing in practice the activities along with the interaction modes issued by the FP7 program SITEX project (2012-2013), in view of developing an Expertise function network. This network is expected to ensure a sustainable capability of developing and coordinating joint and harmonized activities related to the independent technical expertise in the field of safety of deep geological disposal of radioactive waste. SITEX-II tasks include: – the definition of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) based on the common R&D orientations defined by SITEX (2012-2013), the definition of the ToR for the implementation of specific topics from the SRA, and the interaction with IGD-TP and other external entities mandated to implement research on radioactive waste disposal regarding the potential setting up of an European Joint Programming on radioactive waste disposal; – the production of a guidance on the technical review of the safety case at its different phases of development, fostering a common understanding on the interpretation and proper implementation of safety requirements for developing, operating and closing a geological repository and on the verification of compliance with these requirements; – the development of a training module for generalist experts involved in the safety case review process, including the implementation a pilot training session; – the commitment of CS in the definition of the SRA mentioned above, considering the expectations and technical questions to be considered when developing R&D for the purpose of Expertise function. Close interactions between experts conducting the review work will allow enhancing the safety culture of CS and more globally, proposing governance patterns with CS in the framework of geological disposal; – the preparation of the “administrative” framework for a sustainable network, by addressing the legal, organisational and management aspects.

Keywords: geological disposal,expertise function network,interactions,strategic research agenda,independent scientific competence,safety case review,guidance,civil society involvement
Engineering Pores for Sustainable Catalytic Olefins Upgrading (Pores4Olefins)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 245732.16
EU funding (EUR): 245732.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This fellowship aims at establishing the researcher as an expert in the field of heterogeneous catalysis—becoming an independent leader researcher in the EU—through interdisciplinary scientific (e.g., chemical engineering, organic and inorganic chemistry, materials and surface science) and transferable skills training (e.g., project management). The researcher, Dr. Jorge Quesada, will join the LSAC research group at UC Berkeley (USA) under the supervision of Prof. Enrique Iglesia, and will be reintegrated (EU) into the CRC research group at the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Salvador Ordóñez. Recent findings in LSAC have demonstrated that both the catalytic stability and selectivity in the alkene dimerization on Ni-based sites are enhanced when the transition states of the elementary steps are solvated by non-polar liquids. The liquid phase is formed at the reaction temperature by capillary condensation of the solvent molecules within the pores of the material used as the active sites support. This project proposes to augment the understanding of the solvation effects on the alkene dimerization on Co-based sites—by building knowledge on their kinetic and mechanistic consequences through a mixed-methods approach—and translational research that leverages these results to other similar C-C bond forming reactions of alkenes—metathesis and hydroarylation on Mo- and Ni-based sites, respectively. This technology strategy would allow the combination of ethene dimerization and metathesis resulting in an industrial one-pot ethene-to-propene process of significant potential impact—the project engages an industrial collaborator by an intersectoral secondment. This research is likely to provide a novel versatile technology for the production of value-added olefins and related chemicals, with promising applications in the current oil industry and, especially, in future biorefineries; therefore, having a positive impact on the EU society and competitiveness.

Keywords: alkene metathesis,alkene dimerization,alkene hydroarylation,effects of solvation,capillary condensation,catalytic stability,catalytic selectivity,green chemistry,catalyst design