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A FINancial supervision and TECHnology compliance training programme (FIN-TECH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Germany,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Bulgaria,Finland,Greece,Croatia,Lithuania,Poland,Romania,Slovakia,Belgium,Slovenia,France,Czechia,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,Portugal
Call: Fintech: Support to experimentation frameworks and regulatory compliance (H2020-ICT-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

Financial Technology (Fin Tech) means "Technology enabled financial innovations". There is a strong need to improve the competitiveness of the European Fin Tech sector, creating a common regulatory field across all countries which, while encouraging innovations in Big Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain technologies, can correctly measure their risks. Europe is a broad mosaic of regulatory landscapes. Policy makers and regulators must move quickly to establish a new regulatory framework for emerging fintechs, without stifling their economic potential. The FIN-TECH project, under the EU's Horizon2020 funding scheme, aims to create a European training programme, aimed at providing shared risk management solutions that automatize compliance of Fintech companies (RegTech) and, at the same time, increases the efficiency of supervisory activities (SupTech). In other words, we aim at connecting FINancial supervision with TECHnological compliance, from which the acronym of the project: FIN-TECH. The project programme will be built jointly by 24 university and fntech partners that are established experts in fintech risk management, that will share knowledge with with regulators, supervisors and fintech associations and hubs from all 28 European Union countries, plus Switzerland. The goals of the project will be achieved through research activity in risk management models for Big data analytics, AI and Blockchain applications to finance, discussed in three different research workshops; two levels of knowledge exchange sessions: a training level, run at the location of the involved supervisor in each of the 29 countries, to achieve uniformity across Europe; a coding level, centralised at the location of six different fintech hubs. The project will be simultaneously disseminated and validated through a dedicated web site, social network activity, users feedback and validation by established bank, insurance and investment funds.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,big data analytics,blockchain,machine learning,data science,network science,peer to peer lending,robot advisory,crypto assets,cybersecurity,regtech,suptech
Deep vision learning for swimmer safety and analytics (LYNXIGHT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Lynxight's mission is to eradicate the problem of drowning, using advanced computer vision and deep learning technologies. Drowning is the second-leading cause of injury death for children under 14, responsible for 6,000 annual fatalities and 650 severe non-fatal injuries daily – all in the EU. With the LYNXIGHT project, Lynxight is developing a swimmer safety management and analytics platform, to be deployed initially in pools and subsequently in additional aquatic venues. Our system detects early signs of water distress, unusual swimmer behavior and a variety of pool analytics to enable proactive life-guarding and optimize operational resources. We fuse multiple pool video sources to create a live 360 degree visual coverage, applying computer vision with deep learning algorithms to uncover safety incidents and swimmer patterns that would otherwise go unnoticed. Lynxight provides facility management with unprecedented visibility and real-time insights that increase swimmer safety, save time and costs and boost the experience for both swimmers and management. Lynxight's system is designed to be very low cost and easy to install and operate, so it can become a widespread and common system in any type of facility. In the same way that technology has advanced other classically “non-technological” industries such as construction and agriculture, we want to improve personal safety in aquatic venues. With a pilot study already underway in Israel and first paying customers, there are strong signs that adoption of this technology, by public pools at start, will be rapid. By 2021 our projections show over 1000 installed systems with over €5M in revenues. Following public pools, we intend to improve the technology so it can cope with additional aquatic venues with more challenging conditions (e.g. beaches and rivers, where the water more volatile and less transparent).

Keywords: computer vision,deep learning,machine learning,artificial intelligence,drowning detection
Extremely Coherent Mechanical Oscillators and circuit Cavity Electro-Optics (ExCOM-cCEO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The quest for mechanical oscillators with ultralow dissipation is motivated by classical and quantum sensing and technology, and precision measurements. For decades, the most coherent mechanical oscillators were acoustic vibrations in kg-scale crystalline bars. Recently a paradigm shift has occurred. The combination of elastic strain engineering – a technique used in microelectronics – with phononic mode engineering has resulted in 1D nano-strings with a mechanical quality factor Q of 0.8 billion – the highest ever achieved at room temperature. Remarkably, these new techniques have major untapped potential, as they have only been applied to non-crystalline materials in 1D. We propose a new generation of strain-engineered crystalline and superconducting mechanical oscillators whose Q-factors are predicted to exceed 100 billion in up to 2 dimensions. We will seek to reach this theoretical limit, probe new dissipation mechanisms, and utilize these oscillators for quantum optomechanics in new regimes and achieve room temperature ground state cooling and ponderomotive squeezing. Likewise, we will apply these techniques to create highly coherent superconducting electromechanical devices at milli-Kelvin temperatures, enabling quantum-enhanced force sensing and 1 second decoherence times. Secondly, we will explore a fundamentally new method for measurement and manipulation of microwave fields with optical fields – the nascent field of circuit Cavity-Electro-Optics (cCEO). First recognized over a decade ago, it is possible with optical fields to cool, amplify or interferometrically read out microwaves. Yet to date this regime has remained in accessible due to insufficient coupling strength between the microwave and optical fields. We will overcome this challenge based on a new circuit architecture, allowing laser cooling and laser amplification of microwaves and electro-optical masing using optical backaction, and thereby opening an entirely new way to manipulate microwaves.

Keywords: optomechanics
Mineral resources in sustainable land-use planning (Minland)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Ukraine,Ireland,Italy,Spain,Austria,Cyprus,Belgium,Greece,Greece,Sweden,Hungary,Norway,Finland,Croatia,Poland,Slovenia,Sweden,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Raw materials policy support actions (H2020-SC5-2017-OneStageB, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498691.25
EU funding (EUR): 1498691.25
Participants: 31
Project status: CLOSED

Access to mineral resources in Europe is one of the pillars of the RMI. Yet, competing societal interests, such as expanding cities, infrastructure development, agriculture and nature conservation, have had negative effect on the available area for exploration and mining of mineral resources. Consequently, the supply of mineral raw materials within the EU is at risk. Therefore, the integration of mineral resources policies into land-use planning at different scales and levels is a key factor for achieving the goals of the RMI. The MINLAND project is designed for addressing this challenge: to facilitate minerals and land-use policy making and to strengthen a transparent land use practice. MINLAND is composed around the acknowledgement that the call requires a broad and competent consortium with strong links to related projects and activities, a comprehensive and structured data repository, an efficient work flow and strong and broad stakeholder involvement. MINLAND will address the challenge by: collecting and structuring information from member states and EU activities (stocktaking), performing in-depth analyses and case studies on relevant issues and aspects, and compiling comprehensive and practically applicable guidance documents. Along the work flow, stakeholders will be involved through workshops and participation in case studies and through other dissemination activities.

Keywords: mineral land use planning,safeguarding mineral deposits,classification of mineral deposits
SUSTAINABLE AND COST-EFFICIENT CATALYST FOR HYDROGEN AND ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS BASED ON LIQUID ORGANIC HYDROGEN CARRIERS : ECONOMIC VIABILITY FOR MARKET UPTAKE (SHERLOHCK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,South Africa,Germany,France,Netherlands
Call: Catalyst development for improved economic viability of LOHC technology (H2020-JTI-FCH-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2563322.5
EU funding (EUR): 2563322.5
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC), consisting on a reversible transformation catalytically activated of a pair of stable liquid organic molecules integrated on hydrogenation/dehydrogenation cycles, are attractive due to their ability to store safely large amounts of hydrogen (up to 7 %wt or 2.300 KWh/ton) during long time and release pure hydrogen on demand. Proof of concept and some commercial solutions exist but still suffer from high cost and energy needed to facilitate catalytic reactions. In order to reduce the system cost for LOHC technology to 3 €/Kg for large scale applications SherLOHCk project targets joint developments consisting on :i) highly active and selective catalyst with partial/total substitution of PGM and thermo-conductive catalyst support to reduce the energy intensity during loading/unloading processes: ii) novel catalytic system architecture ranging from the catalyst to the heat exchanger to minimize the internal heat loss and to increase space-time-yield and iii) novel catalyst testing, system validation and demonstration in demo unit (>10 kW, >200h); to drastically improve their technical performances and energy storage efficiency of LOHCs: A combination of challenges for the catalyst material, catalyst system and their related energy storage capabilities will constitute the core of a catalyst system for LOHC, that will be validated first at a lab scale, then in a demo unit > 10kW. As a whole they will enable the reduction of Energy intensity during loading/unloading processes, a higher efficiency and increased lifetime. Technological, economical and societal bottlenecks are considered to determine the economic viability, balance of energy and the environmental footprint of novel catalyst synthesis route. Scale-up of the obtained solutions will be carried out together with technology comparison with other hydrogen logistic concepts based on LCA and TCO considerations to finally improve economic viability of the LOHC technology.

Keywords: catalyst material,catalyst architecture,energy storage,liquid organic hydrogen carrier lohc,hydrogenation,dehydrogenation,hydrogen technology
Tools and Actions for Impact Assessment and Policy makers Information (TAIPI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Switzerland,Sweden,France,France
Call: 2014: Policy environment for FET Flagships (H2020-FETFLAG-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 873442.5
EU funding (EUR): 799837.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

TAIPI, Tools and Actions for Impact Assessment and Policy makers Information, is a CSA proposal to the “Policy environment for FET Flagships” topic of the call H2020-FETFLAG-2014. TAIPI addresses the scope of the this topic by undertaking actions related to: (i) Assessing the impacts of FET Flagship initiatives, including through metrics and indicators; (ii) Collection of information need for policy making, e.g. through consultation actions and surveys. The general objective of TAIPI is to support and strengthen the FET Flagship Initiative and the two selected Flagships. Specific objectives of TAIPI are: (i) To develop assessment methodologies along with the required toolkits which will be applied respectively to HBP and Graphene Flagships, (ii) To carry out the impact assessment of both Flagships and the Flagship policy by applying the specifically developed methodology and tools, (iii) To collect and provide information for policy makers and funding organizations participating to Flagships initiative, (iv) To transfer to the Flagships these developed toolkits, and to enable them to use these tools after the end of the CSA, thus ensuring the sustainability of the project activities. TAIPI is composed of 5 work packages: WP1 Management, WP2 Development of methodology, WP3 Impact assessment, WP4 Support to policy makers, WP5 Dissemination. TAIPI will assess the impacts of HBP and Graphene, enhance the flow of information from the Flagships towards policy makers, relevant stakeholders and wider public, improve the understanding of the impacts of the Flagships on science, technology, economy and society and contribute to create a stable and structured environment for the benefit of the FET Flagships. The environment created by TAIPI will thus benefit to the Flagships, allowing them to concentrate on the fields where they bring the highest added value to their stakeholders while they rely on up-to-date tools, developed by TAIPI, to monitor in real time their impacts.

Keywords: policy making,flagships,impact,assessment,indicators
Eco-Solar Factory - 40%plus eco-efficiency gains in the photovoltaic value chain with minimised resource and energy consumption by closed loop systems (Eco-Solar)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies for Factories of the Future
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Norway,Norway,Norway,Lithuania,France,Netherlands
Call: Re-use and remanufacturing technologies and equipment for sustainable product lifecycle management (H2020-FoF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5642707.75
EU funding (EUR): 5642707.5
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

EcoSolar envisions an integrated value chain to manufacture and implement solar panels in the most ecologic way by maximising resource efficiency, taking into account reuse of materials during production and repurposing solar panel components at end of life stage. EcoSolar will demonstrate that during the lifetime of a solar electricity producing field, individual panels can be monitored, allowing to identify defaulting panels at an early stage, replacing or repairing them and thus to increase the overall energy yield. In WP1, SINTEF&Norsun will work on recovery & reuse during silicon ingot crystallisation, addressing recovery of argon purge gas and work with Steuler on reusable crucibles. In WP2 Garbo will recover Si-kerf-loss during wafering, and with SINTEF work on potential reuse applications, like as Si-feedstock in crystallisation processes, or as resource in crucible manufacturing or lithium ion battery production. In WP3, ISC&SoliTek will look into potential for re-using process water; reducing material resources, like chemicals and silver, by smarter solar cell design, more efficient processes and recovery and reuse of chemicals; AIMEN will develop solar cell monitoring and repair for inline processing in an industrial plant, to enable remanufacturing. In WP4 Apollon will use a module design that results in reduced bill of materials, enables remanufacturing and reuse of components from modules that showed failures after assembly or have been identified as malfunctioning in operating PV installations, based on integrated diagnosis techniques for the detection of failure modes. bifa will collect data from all previous WPs to assess environmental impact of the intended innovations (WP5). Bifa will identify waste streams that are costly and hard to recycle and find opportunities to repurpose those waste products. BCC will disseminate the results and will support the partners with the exploitation and replication potential of the results (WP6).

Keywords: crystalline silicon technology,solar cells,repair,reuse,recycling,remanufacturing,module,disassembly,resource efficiency,aluminum,silver,silicon
Innovative adhesives for ear drum healing (STICK2HEAL)

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: Germany
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2018-PoC, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149000.0
EU funding (EUR): 149000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ERC ADG “Engineering of biomimetic surfaces – Switchable micropatterns for controlled adhesion and touch” (SWITCH2STICK) has developed micropatterned polymer surfaces for innovative adhesive functions without glues, based on the “gecko adhesion principle”. While robotic applications were originally in the focus of these developments, a radically new application field of these microstructures will be taken to the initial steps of application and subsequent commercialization: the repair of injuries of the human tympanic membrane. Tympanic membrane damage is a frequent medical affliction, affecting over 30 million patients worldwide each year. It results in hearing loss, associated with a dramatic impact of the patients’ quality of life and a significant healthcare burden. Our invention suggests a new therapeutic option to replace conventional therapies: Wound management with a novel gecko-inspired surface structure. In collaboration with clinicians, the feasibility of the new technology has been demonstrated. When designed for interaction with skin, our surfaces cling reliably to mouse ear drums for up to 28 days. In addition to the adhesive function, they provide support for cell growth and proliferation and allow the option of local drug delivery due to the micropattern. Besides detailed market analyses and dissemination, activities in the proposed project range from a technical and pre-clinical validation in an animal model to establishing an IPR strategy and an initiation of the medical product certification. Our invention will overcome several critical limitations of existing solutions. Besides ear-drum repair, the project enables a wide field of additional medical applications ranging from electrode fixation to the fitting of wearable healthcare electronics. This PoC project is therefore to be seen as a preparatory step for exploring the market potential of various micropatterned medical surfaces and preparing a solid commercialization in this field.

Keywords: materials engineering,bioinspiration,shaping,biomaterials,adhesion,wound dressing,cellular scaffold,otolaryngology
TOPOLOGICALLY PROTECTED AND SCALABLE QUANTUM BITS (TOPSQUAD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Switzerland,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3175358.75
EU funding (EUR): 3175358.75
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Our vision is to enable the world of quantum computing through an unprecedented stable and scalable many-qubit system. This platform will allow us to establish important scientific breakthroughs such as the observation of Majorana bound states, which can lead to the new field of non-Abelian many-body physics. A universal quantum computer can be exponentially faster than classical computers for certain scientific and technological applications. This long-awaited innovation can help solve many global challenges of our time related to health, energy and the climate, such as quantum chemistry problems in order to design new medicines, material property prediction for efficient energy storage, big data handling problems, needed for complexity of climate physics. Such a quantum computer has not yet been realized because of qubit fragility and qubit scalability. The output of TOPSQUAD lays the foundation for universal quantum computing with stable and scalable qubits: We will address qubit fragility by creating topological states, which are insensitive to decoherence. We will address qubit scalability by developing waferscale fabrication technology, using CMOS-compatible processes. After TOPSQUAD, existing integrated-circuit technology can then serve to scale up from individual qubits to 100,000s. These two approaches have not been combined within a single system, but our recent results show that we can be the first to address the key challenges: 1. For the first time we will synthesise Ge wires on silicon wafers using scalable CMOS-compatible processes. 2. We will devise an unprecedented silicon system with the required topological properties: Ge wires with a silicon shell. 3. The thin Si shell will suppress metallization, thus avoiding the destruction of topological states by proximity-induced superconductivity, a typically overlooked problem. With this, TOPSQUAD can realize a scalable, CMOS-compatible, topologically protected system.

Keywords: si core,shell nanowires,proximity effect,hybrid superconducting semiconducting nanowires,topological superconductivity,majorana fermions,topological qubit,spin orbit interaction