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ZnAnosT za vsE (Research for all) (ZATE)

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: Slovenia,Slovenia,Slovenia
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020bis, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 205946.5
EU funding (EUR): 199520.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The key ZATE message is that everyone can become a researcher? and main project aims are to bring researchers to the general public, to inspire youngster to embark on science careers and increase awareness of: researchers' profession, the possibility of various careers in academic and non-academic institutions, understanding EU, the path to embark and develop research careers, researchers' important role in society and highly important impact of their work on our daily life. Inclusiveness is the key, not only when we speak about society, researchers (in all aspects) but also the young with less opportunity to get in touch with science (bus transport to ERN event). The intensive (off/online) awareness campaign (AC) will include national cooperation of selected ERN consortiums, various pre-events, national reward competition, Train the trainers and multipliers program. On traditional ERN main event renewed programs in a festive and fun atmosphere. Pre-events and events activities aim at offering the public at large an opportunity to get engaged in science through fascinating experiments, demonstrations, observations, to socialize and have fun with researchers in a relaxed atmosphere. They include various interactive activities of a wide range of science fields. ZATE activities will be implemented in Maribor, Krško, Koper, Izola and Nova Gorica. Trained researchers will interactively present research and innovation results. EU dimension will be visible, presented also by representatives of NCPs (MSCA, ERC), Europe Direct, SBRA Brussels. Traditional cooperation of the primary and secondary schools' winning teams of research and innovative projects in the frame of Youth for Maribor Progress (financed by Maribor municipality) is included again, as a way through which young easier inspire their fellows and connect with the real scientists. Last but not least, the improved impact assessment, which results are important contribution also to the evolution of the next ERN project activities.

Keywords: researcher,scientist,profession,science,young,career,public,citizens
Cross-scale concurrent material-structure design using functionally-graded 3D-printed matematerials. (XS-Meta)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Italy,Spain,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3720679.56
EU funding (EUR): 3720679.56
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of the XS-Meta Innovative European Training Network project is to train a new generation of researchers in concurrent material-structure design of high-technology structural systems, using functionally graded 3D-printed metamaterials. By taking advantage of the unique technological opportunity that the revolution of 3D-printing (3DP) is bringing to industry and engineering, XS-Meta helps the European industry and future academic system by training a highly-educated, goal-oriented generation of scientists and engineers capable of developing high-tech, value-added products to maintain and increase its technological leadership, critical for high living standards in a global market XS-Meta takes full advantage of new 3D printing (3DP) possibilities at the microscale, to design functionally graded (FG), optimally architected, mechanical metamaterials (MMs) best-suited for the demands at every location in a component. XS-Meta constitutes a multidisciplinary change of paradigm on how engineering structural design has been performed to date, integrating the metamaterial design concurrently with the structural design through double inverse analyses and surrogate continuum models obtained by data-driven techniques. XS-Meta is a highly multidisciplinary and intersectoral project, involving leading high-tech companies in their field, a National Industrial and Research Centre and complementary leading academic research groups. XS-Meta has the right combination of excellence in research, academic training and industry experience, and high international and intersectoral mobility for developing innovation-oriented, entrepreneurial and creative researchers. XS-Meta involves “hands-on” experience for the recruited Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), including developing all the steps in the design, structural analysis, manufacturing and testing of high-technology prototypes.

Keywords: mechanical metamaterials,functionally graded materials,topology optimization,material modelling,additive manufacturing,multiscale computational mechanics,structural optimization
Ultrasonic Inspection Solution for railway crossing points. (SAFT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SAFT Inspect is an ultrasonic inspection solution for railway crossing points. Our technology facilitates for the first time full volume inspection of railway crossings. Rail crossing, known as “frogs” are mechanical installations that enable a train to switch from one track to another. Frogs are subjected to repetitive impact from the rolling stock, causing fatigue cracking. For this reason, frogs are manufactured from manganese steel with work-hardening properties to be highly resistance to fatigue cracking. Unfortunately, this hardening property makes frogs extremely challenging to inspect. The huge problem is, once frogs are broken, causes train derailment. Current inspection techniques are limited to visual inspection, only inspecting frog surface, which is extremely risky. If a crack has not yet propagated trough the surface, will go undetected. However, when a crack has reached the surface, it needs to be immediately replaced. Unscheduled maintenance of frogs can lead to multiple train delays blocking the entire railway for more than 6 hours causing heavy losses of €288,000 in penalties per day. Full volumetric inspection is essential as can be used to detect a crack before it has reached the surface to plan maintenance in advance. Ultrasonic inspection raises a candidate solution for full volume inspection due to ultrasound penetration. This technique is well established for rail track inspection, however when applied to frogs becomes ineffective. Manganese grain structure is very course. This makes the material highly attenuative to ultrasound resulting in poor penetration depth and low signal to noise ratio (SNR). We have overcome these technical barriers by applying an ultrasonic Inspection technique called Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique (SAFT) combined with advanced processing algorithms to offer an ultrasonic inspection technique with enhanced SNR. This is the first time that this technique is applied for Non Destructing Testing applications.

Keywords: railway system,train crossings,railway inspection
Evolution of gut-associated microbial communities and its functional relevance in health and disease (EvoGutHealth)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999085.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999085.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The gut is a highly dynamic microbial ecosystem that controls human health through its collective metabolic activities. Microbial communities form metabolic networks that are essential for dietary breakdown, production of bioactive metabolites and resistance to infections. Bacterial lineages making up these networks evolve rapidly to adapt to the microbial, metabolic and immune environment of the gut. The lack of suitable model systems has limited our current understanding of the relevance of microbial community evolution in the gut and its impact on microbe-host mutualism. EvoGutHealth aims to fill this gap in knowledge by using an innovative, tuneable oligo-microbial model system that allows the study of how a native bacterial consortium evolves in its autochthonous host. Based on our preliminary data, we hypothesize that adaptive evolution shapes synergistic metabolic interactions between individual community members and this eventually affects global microbiome functions such as colonization resistance against pathogens. EvoGutHealth pursues three research goals: First, to identify environmental and host factors that shape the genetic potential of microbial communities in the gut. Second, to uncover how microbial community evolution influences disease-relevant microbiome features and metabolic pathways. Third, to model bacterial metabolic networks and elucidate how they are affected by the genetic alterations of their components. This combined work will fundamentally advance our understanding of the driving forces underlying metabolic network evolution in the mammalian gut. Moreover, it will illuminate how this evolution translates into functional changes. Finally, EvoGutHealth will provide necessary insight to develop strategies to steer microbial communities towards beneficial interactions promoting human health.

Keywords: gut microbiome,gnotobiotic mouse model,colonization resistance
DePICting the interior of active VOLCanoes to reduce volcanic hazards: application to the present unrest at Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) - PICVOLC (PICVOLC)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2021-10-18
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168277.2
EU funding (EUR): 168277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

More than 500 million people live within the range of volcanoes whose activity can have disastrous economic and environmental impact. Being able to infer changes in the magmatic system during volcanic unrest is important for improving hazard preparedness and forecast future eruptions. PICVOLC aims to overcome the limitations in the current approach in the modeling of volcanic unrest by developing a new, original methodology that integrates seismic, gravity, and deformation data with 3D numerical inversion to create a detailed representation of the source of volcanic unrest. The current volcanic unrest at Nevado del Ruiz volcano will be the case study used to implement, calibrate, and verify this original approach. In 1985, a lahar generated by a modest eruption of Ruiz completely destroyed the town of Armero, killing 25,000 people. PICVOLC involves the integration of fieldwork with Finite Element Methods modeling and joint numerical inversions of geodetic and geophysical data. PICVOLC´s multi-/interdisciplinary nature aims to better constrain the conceptual and numerical models of volcanic unrest and reduce the ambiguity in the identification of the location, depth, volume change, and nature of the source of unrest. The project involves national and international collaboration; it is academic but has also important implications for the monitoring and reduction of volcanic hazards at Ruiz. In particular, it will provide the following innovative products: (a) definition of the subsurface structures with a new map of Bouguer anomalies; (b) 3D FEM model of the volcano; (c) 3D Image of the source(s) of volcanic unrest from inversion of geodetic data; (d) training of graduate students and the staff of the local volcano observatory in numerical modeling. Finally, PICVOLC will be a key step in achieving my professional maturity by extending and reinforcing my knowledge and skills in the design of, involvement in, and management of an international research project.

Keywords: geodetic images,volcano monitoring,data inversion,bouguer anomalies,volcano hazards,fem modeling,magma transport,volcano geodesy,seismic tomography,volcano deformation
Wood composite set to eliminate CO2 emissions of the ceramics industry (WOODRY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3560000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2492000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ceramics industry is among the most polluting industries globally, responsible for more than 500 million metric tons of CO2 emissions. In addition, there are high particle dust emissions and ceramics manufacturing utilised high volumes of drinking water. Given the pursuit for a carbon neutral world, we need sustainable alternatives to ceramics. However, current measures target only incremental process improvements to reduce CO2 emissions in the industry. No real new material innovations have been introduced that are mass producible and carbon neutral, or even carbon storages, for ceramics. Woodio is the world’s first 100% waterproof solid wood composite material that is mass producible and has the potential to replace ceramic products on the global scale. The unique Woodio products – bathroom and kitchen sanitary wares, tiles, solid surfaces, etc. – have significantly lower carbon footprint than ceramics and serve as a carbon storage during product lifetime. At the same time, Woodio products have a high commercial potential as they are very attractive, highly customisable yet affordable. Woodio is enabled by patent-pending innovations in composite materials, as well as production methods. The functionality of the material, as well as its unique look and feel make Woodio the perfect sustainable alternative to ceramics, as proven by demo installations in multiple hotels and restaurants in Finland. The biggest innovation of the WOODRY project will be automation of Woodio production. As a result of the project, we will be able to scale up from small scale manual production to an automated industrial factory, which will significantly reduce manufacturing costs. This is the next logical step towards the global market that exceeds €300 billion annually. Woodio is developed in Finland by Woodio Oy, a biomaterial and design company.

Keywords: wood composite,replacement to ceramics,sanitary ware,tiles,solid surfaces,sustainable materials,design,production automation
New Quaternary Ammonium Salts for use in Drug Manufacture (QuatSalts)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Austria,Ireland,Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 774000.0
EU funding (EUR): 774000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to bring together subject matter experts from the academic and non-academic sectors to develop three new categories of quaternary ammonium salts to be used as catalysts for the cost-efficient and green manufacture of high value active pharmaceutical ingredients. In order to achieve this objective the proposal brings together 3 partners with complementary skills: University of Naples(UNIN): experts in the preparation and purification of cyclic peptides. Experts in solid phase synthesis and immobilisation of peptides on solid support. KelAda Pharmachem: Phase transfer catalysis/organo catalysis/scale-up of chemical processes University of Linz(JKU Linz): experts in design of new ammonium salts and optimisation of enantioselective phase transfer catalyses. We have broken this proposal into the following separate Work Packages: WP1. Preparation of new designer ammonium salts [WP leader: Kelada] WP2. Preparation of cyclic peptide based ammonium salts [WP leader: UNINA] WP3. Evaluation of new ammonium salt catalysts prepared through WP1 [WP JKULinz] WP4. Evaluation of new Ammonium salt catalysts prepared through WP2[WP leader: UNINA] WP5. Application of Ammonium salts to drug production [WP leader: Kelada] WP6. Scale up of key steps or the manufacture of drugs [WP leader: Kelada] WP 7. Management, Communication & Dissemination [WP leader: KelAda] The above WP’s will be undertaken via a series of interlinked secondment of researchers between consortium partners and will be complemented by a series of training and other initiatives to facilitate interdisciplinary and intersectoral knowledge sharing and exchange.

Keywords: phase transfer catalysis,cyclic peptides
HIGH-FIDELITY LES/DNS DATA FOR INNOVATIVE TURBULENCE MODELS (HIFI-TURB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Russian Federation,France,France,France,United States,United Kingdom
Call: Multidisciplinary and collaborative aircraft design tools and processes (H2020-MG-2018-TwoStages, 2018)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3853460.0
EU funding (EUR): 3853460.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The most significant challenge in applied fluid dynamics (covering aerospace, energy and propulsion, automotive, maritime industries, chemical process industries) is posed by a lack of understanding of turbulence-dependent features and laminar-to-turbulent transition. As a consequence, the design and analysis of industrial equipment cannot be relied upon to be accurate in challenging flow conditions. Improving the capabilities of models for complex fluid flows, offers the potential of reducing energy consumption of aircraft, cars, and ships, with consequent reduction in emissions and noise of combustion-based engines The inevitable result is a major impact on economical and environmental factors as well as on economy, industrial leadership in the highly competitive global position. Hence, the ability to understand, model and predict turbulence and transition phenomena is the key requirement in the design of efficient and environmentally acceptable fluids-based energy transfer systems. Against this background, the present proposal sets out a highly ambitious and innovative program of work designed to address some influential deficiencies in advanced statistical models of turbulence. The program rests on the following pillars of excellence: • The exploitation of high-fidelity LES/DNS data for a range of -reference flows that contain key flow features of major interest • The application of novel artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms to identify significant correlations between representative turbulent quantities • The guidance of the research towards improved models by four world-renown industrial and academic experts in turbulence. The consortium is formed by major industrial aeronautical companies and software editor, an SME acting as coordinator, well-known research centra and academic groups, including ERCOFTAC, acting as a source of turbulence expertise and as a repository for the generated data, to be made openly available.

Keywords: turbulence modelling,computational fluid dynamics,machine learning,big data,flow physics
Improving the Effectiveness of the Capabilities (IEC) in EU conflict prevention (IECEU)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Austria,Finland,Finland,Slovenia,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Conflict prevention and peace building topic 1: Enhancing the civilian conflict prevention and peace building capabilities of the EU (H2020-BES-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2081110.0
EU funding (EUR): 2081110.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The European Union (EU) is increasingly affected and challenged by geopolitical changes, increasing impact of conflict on civilians, globalized impact of local conflicts, technological developments and budgetary constraints challenges the Radicalization, the growing potential for individuals to create large security threats and transnational criminality further complicates the security landscape of EU missions. With global interconnectedness, the repercussions of outside conflict are also seen within the EU, and may lead to societal and security challenges within the EU. The key issue for the EU is how to improve its conflict response capabilities to create more lasting impact on the ground and to use limited resources more effectively. Comprehensive EU-security within the EU emphasizes the need for civil-military synergies, which correspond more closely to challenges on the ground and the incorporation of very different perspectives, priorities and operational cultures. The IECEU–project analyses and assesses best practices and lessons learned with a view to enhance the civilian conflict prevention and peace building capabilities of EU with a catalogue of practices, new solutions and approaches. It will seek to find out how to increase the interoperability of resources in the crisis management and peace building and what the potential for pooling and sharing of EU capabilities and technologies is. The main goals of the IECEU -project are: 1) Analysing and assessing the current situation of on-going and past missions and operations 2) Learning from lessons provided by these missions and assessing the different options 3) Providing new solutions, approaches and recommendations for EU to guarantee long-term stability

Keywords: crisis management,civilian crisis management,peacebuilding,conflict prevention,effectiveness of the eu capabilities,conflict management,international organisations,pooling and sharing