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Innovative outdoor solar and kinetic energy harvesting pavement system (PLATIO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

PLATIO outdoor solar and kinetic energy harvesting pavement system is developed by our start-up company, Innovatív Térburkolatfejlesztő Kft. We are an enthusiastic team of professionals with engineering and sales/marketing background. With our flagship project PLATIO, an unconventional primarily outdoor energy producing paving system our mission is to offer a viable solution to harvest and exploit renewable energy in urban environments. Our project gained serious awareness and managed to involve venture capital from angel investors to create the prototypes of our pavement system. We are also a mentored project within Design Terminal, a leading technological and startup mentor program in Hungary. PLATIO is an unconventional, a primarily outdoor energy producing paving system and an alternate to usual pavements. Contrary to most of the applied pavements nowadays, PLATIO does not take material (such as stone, gravel, cement and wood) and energy from nature to build human environment, but uses the normally appearing garbage and energy. Consequently PLATIO is a paving platform made of recycled plastic. The planned product integrates different types of environmental friendly technologies such as solar panels to use the solar power and kinetic energy converters to transform the energy of human steps or any other means of vibration. The units are compact and modularly connect together making electronic contact without additional wiring by a powerline communication system which connects automatically during the establishment. Combining recycled plastic, solar panels and piezoelectric kinetic energy converters we created the PLATIO technology that can be used for several scenarios from household (B2C) to B2B solutions, such as smart advertisement providers. Instead of trying to create the cheapest consumer solution we had learned from the market that

Keywords: energy harvesting,solar energy use,piezoelectronic kinetic energy,smart cities,smart pavement
BETTER UNDERSTANDING the METAPHYSICS of PREGNANCY (BUMP)

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: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 103.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1273290.0
EU funding (EUR): 291667.75
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Every single human is the product of a pregnancy: an approximately nine-month period during which a foetus develops within its mother’s body. Yet pregnancy has not been a traditional focus in philosophy. That is remarkable, for two reasons: First, because pregnancy presents fascinating philosophical problems: what, during the pregnancy, is the nature of the relationship between the foetus and the maternal organism? What is the relationship between the pregnant organism and the later baby? And when does one person or organism become two? Second, because so many topics immediately adjacent to or involved in pregnancy have taken centre stage in philosophical enquiry. Examples include questions about personhood, foetuses, personal identity and the self. This project launches the metaphysics of pregnancy as an important and fundamental area of philosophical research. The core aims of the project are: (1) to develop a philosophically sophisticated account of human pregnancy and birth, and the entities involved in this, that is attentive to our best empirical understanding of human reproductive biology; (2) to articulate the metaphysics of organisms, persons and selves in a way that acknowledges the details of how we come into existence; and (3) to start the process of rewriting the legal, social and moral language we use to classify ourselves and our actions, so that it is compatible with and can accommodate the nature of pregnancy. The project will investigate these questions in the context of a range of philosophical sub disciplines, including analytic metaphysics, philosophy of biology and feminist philosophy, and in close dialogue with our best empirical understanding of the life sciences – most notably physiology.

Keywords: philosophy of biology,gender studies,ethics and law
Signal proCEssing in optical communication NeTworks Using ReservoIr cOmputiNg (CENTURION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170121.6
EU funding (EUR): 170121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Optical fiber communication technologies substantially support high-speed, long-distance or/and terabit capacity networks all around the globe. Contemporary applications oblige the network operation to respond efficiently and rapidly to any user request. To achieve such demands, optical label switching (OLS) techniques have been developed to support data traffic in fiber networks. The reliable and fast processing of data headers is highly critical for trustworthy transmission flow. All-optical header recognition has been investigated lately through diverse physical implementations that offer competitive advantages; however, these configurations have been proposed as basic processing units with practically small or non-existing intelligence. Reservoir computing (RC) as a method of applying intelligence to physical systems has been lately proposed to exploit the inherent nonlinearities of photonic devices and components that are commercially available towards proficient processing of light. Lately, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) modules have been engaged to exploit nonlinearities through the fast implementation of algorithms that work towards this direction. CENTURION project aims at joining several multidisciplinary research aspects that belong to the fields of non-linear dynamics, optical communications, FPGA programming and informatics and establish FPGA-assisted and photonic RC as intelligent high-speed methodologies in data traffic management of broadband optical signals. The objective is to train the experienced researcher in FPGA programming and the concepts of reservoir computing, in order to append intelligence to the decision making processes in optical communication networks and to offer sophisticated solutions for routing and switching in telecom applications and to reduce storing requirements in sensing applications.

Keywords: reservoir computing,signal processing,optical networks,fpga modules,intelligent decision making
Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943 (LAWHA)

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,Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498813.0
EU funding (EUR): 1332236.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project takes an ambitious approach to investigating the trajectories of artists and their works in and from Lebanon since its independence in 1943. In the absence of an institutionalised local art history, artists are often stereotyped according to the agendas of labelling institutions. The project proposes a shift of perspective in approaching Lebanon’s art world by placing emphasis on the multi-dimensionality of artists’ individual trajectories. It investigates (1) the forces that have shaped the emergence of a professional field of art in their local, regional and global contexts, (2) how to rethink the impact of the political, social and economic environment on the art world and its protagonists, Lebanon often being defined by its experience of violence and conflict, (3) how artists are represented in relation to the nation, and (4) how the trajectories of individuals shape the field. The focus will be on artists in and from Lebanon using the forms of painting (Arabic: lawha), sculpture and new media art. The specificity of Lebanon’s history after gaining independence from France in 1943 makes it particularly worthwhile to study the power-relations between artists and institutions at home and abroad. The project’s objectives are to (1) develop a new approach to rethink artistic production from a cultural-political perspective while placing the trajectory of artists and their works at the centre, (2) re-evaluate the impact of war and migration on a country’s artistic production, (3) build a collaborative digital platform and database (DDP) to create a central and open-access repository and innovative tool for future research and preserving Lebanon's cultural heritage, and (4) to connect the scientific cultures of academic research and museums/art institutions. The project’s five thematic clusters and DDP will identify new methods on how to interrelate context and artistic production, serving as a model for revisiting art histories in post-colonial contexts.

Keywords: cultural policies,arts education,art market,global art history
The creation of the Department of Plant Nanotechnology to maximise the impact of the ERA Chair culture on the IPG PAS (NANOPLANT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: ERA chairs
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: ERA Chairs (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-04, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The superior idea of the NANOPLANT project is to build up the interdisciplinary research competence, scientific excellence, international visibility, intensity of collaborations and academia- industry partnerships at Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPG PAS) by promoting a new cutting edge research area and creating the Department of Plant Nanotechnology. This project will enable us to attract top-class experts needed for the implementation of the new area of research and step up the scientific excellence. Special attention will be paid to foster structural changes at the Institute and a synergy between the new and existing departments and research teams will be established to maximise the effect of the ERA Chair culture on the IPG PAS. Objectives of the project will be realized through a coherent set of support actions namely, recruitment of the ERA Chair holder and team, intra institutional and international collaborations, networking, knowledge transfer through workshops, seminars and lectures, participation in conferences, exchange of know-how and experience, study visits to transfer best practices, secondments to private sectors as well as wide promotion of the project and various outreach activities.

Keywords: era chair,scientific excellence,plant nanotechnology,interdisciplinary,enhanced research performance and competence,collaboration,brain gain,structural changes
Virtual IMMERsion for DRIVEr training and evaluation (ImmerDrive)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ImmerDrive is a business-to-business innovation project conducted by NERVteh, a Slovenian company aiming to launch a high-performance and affordable driving simulator for the training and evaluation of drivers. Our solution is specifically tailored for the needs of insurance companies, having also commercial applicability for research entities, road safety stakeholders and the automotive industry.In 2014, almost 25,700 people died on European roads and more than 200,000 people suffered life-changing, serious injuries. Indeed, road accidents are the main cause of death among population between 15 and 29 years, and cause up to €4,600 billion per year of global damages, with €100 billion in insurance claims only in Europe. 90% of these accidents are caused by drivers’ incorrect behaviours such as speeding, distractions, influence of alcohol or other substances, etc. At NERVteh we are committed to improve road safety with ImmerDrive. Our patented motion platform combined with next-gen traffic environment SW delivers a true life experience and lets drivers learn effectively in complete safety, just as pilots in flight simulators, but in a scalable and affordable way. Based on our research and previous experiences, we are confident that drivers trained by ImmerDrive will have 30% to 60% more chances of driving safely, and we will be able to reduce from 5% to 10% the cost of insurance claims thanks to improved driving skills. Only in Europe, €10 billion savings could be reached in the insurance industry. Through this project, we seek to prepare the international commercialisation of ImmerDrive through: technical activities, intended to enhance the following features of our current solution; and commercial actions, devoted to create a proper infrastructure for the commercialization of ImmerDrive. We foresee a potential turnover of €22.4 million for the fifth year of commercial activity (624 units sold) and the generation of about 58 new job positions thanks to ImmerDrive.

Keywords: driver training,driver evaluation,virtual reality,virtual immersion,road safety
Reactor optimisation by membrane enhanced operation (ROMEO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Sustainable, resource-efficient and low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive process industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Austria,Belgium,Denmark
Call: New adaptable catalytic reactor methodologies for Process Intensification (H2020-SPIRE-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-09-14
End date: 2019-09-13
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5958802.5
EU funding (EUR): 5958802.5
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The integration of reaction and downstream processing steps into a single unit is of central importance in order to achieve a new level of process intensification for catalytic driven and eco-friendly reaction systems. This disruptive technology concept has the ability to reduce the total energy consumption of large volume industrial processes by up to 78%. Additionally, emissions can be reduced by up to 90% To achieve this, HOMOGENEOUS catalysts are supported on membranes. Embedding the homogeneous catalysts in thin films of non-volatile ionic liquids (SILP technology) will maintain their catalytic abilities as in the homogeneous phase while the anchoring directly on the membrane ensures a most efficient separation. The new technology concept will be proven by two prominent large volume reaction types: a) Processes with undesired consecutive reactions like hydroformylation and b) Equilibrium driven reactions like water gas shift (WGS) reaction. These processes for bulk chemicals and bio energy applications have been chosen to demonstrate the high impact of the ROMEO technology in an industrial near environment. Nonetheless, it is a core task to also get a detailed understanding of the general processes on a molecular level for the different required functionalities. One achievement will therefore be to provide a modelling “tool-box” that can be applied to any other process in order to check the benefits of the ROMEO technology for a specific reaction in a short time. The ROMEO reactor methodology allows being highly flexible and adapting to both different process and volume requirements. An increase in production volume can then be achieved by a simple numbering up of reactor modules.

Keywords: process intensification,reactor methodology,membranes,catalysis,silp,micro tubes,hydroformylation,water gas shift
multireSponsive hybrid Transition mEtaL dichaLcogenides-bAsed optoelectRonics – A European Fellowship for career development (STELLAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

STELLAR will offer world-class training through research in the cross-disciplinary and supra-sectorial field of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs)-based multiresponsive optoelectronics to an extremely talented and promising young researcher, with a PhD in physics and an extraordinary track record. The proposed research lies at the interface between physics, chemistry and electrical engineering, in the interdisciplinary realms of supramolecular sciences, materials science and nanoscience. The overall mission is to train the fellow to become an independent scientist and to prepare him for a leading position in academia/public sector or industry. The research programme in STELLAR targets a fundamental breakthrough in the field of 2D TMDCs by combining switchable molecular systems to construct multiresponsive hybrid molecules/TMDC structures and optoelectronic devices. For this purpose, TMDC nanosheets will be engineered via ion bombardment to create chalcogen vacancies as anchoring sites for molecules. Specially designed molecules with multiple responsive moieties (photochromic and electrochemically switchable moieties) and suitable head groups (thiol or selenol groups) will be chemisorbed on the defective TMDC surface. This novel hybrid system can respond to multiple independent external stimuli and exhibit distinct physical and chemical properties in different stable states. Electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors (FETs) with a hybrid molecules/TMDC channel will be exploited to realize multiresponsive optoelectronic devices. These FETs can be controlled or switched not only by gate voltage, but also by multiple external stimuli. Such smart devices can work as multi-bit memories, chemical sensors and diodes. In conclusion, STELLAR aims at developing high-performance multiresponsive optoelectronic devices with hybrid molecules/TMDC systems to replace the state-of-the-art Si-based and organic electronic devices.

Keywords: tmdcs,defect engineering,supramolecules,molecular switches,chemisorption,charge transfer,multiresponsivity,optoelectronics,photochromism,electrochemical switches
DIGItal MAterials CharacterisatioN proof-of-process auto assembly (DIGIMAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Manufacturing technologies for PEMFC stack components and stacks (H2020-JTI-FCH-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3486965.0
EU funding (EUR): 3486965.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The project’s proposition and charter is to advance (MRL4 > MRL6) the critical steps of the PEM fuel cell assembly processes and associated in-line QC & end-of-line test / handover strategies and to demonstrate a route to automated volume process production capability within an automotive best practice context e.g. cycle time optimization and line-balancing, cost reduction and embedded / digitized quality control. The project will include characterization and digital codification of physical attributes of key materials (e.g. GDLs) to establish yield impacting digital cause and effects relationships within the value chain, from raw material supply / conversion / assembly through to in-service data analytics, aligning with evolving Industry 4.0 standards for data gathering / security, and line up-time, productivity monitoring. The expected outcome will be a blueprint for beyond current state automotive PEM fuel cell manufacturing capability in Europe. The project will exploit existing EU fuel cell and manufacturing competences and skill sets to enhance EU employment opportunities and competitiveness while supporting CO2 reduction and emissions reduction targets across the transport low emission vehicle sector with increased security of fuel supply (by utilizing locally produced Hydrogen).

Keywords: digital manufacturing,quality assurance,automotive pem fuel cell manufacturing,digital materials characterization,dfma