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A micro-scale perspective on alpine floras under climate change. Linking observations and models to improve our understanding of the future of European high mountain plants (MICROCLIM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Austria,Austria
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2493795.0
EU funding (EUR): 2002653.75
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The diversity of organisms, one of the most striking features of life on Earth, is under threat, and climate change may become a major driver of the biodiversity crisis in the decades to come. However, climate effects on species will vary across ecosystems and regions. The fate of the rich and peculiar alpine flora in a warming world is particularly contentious. While some researchers expect massive loss of cold-adapted plants because they have little options to escape the heat (‘mountaintop extinction’), others assume low sensitivity of high-mountain floras due to widespread microclimatic refugia in the topographically complex alpine terrain. MICROCLIM aims to assess the evidence for these contradictory expectations by linking so far separated research strands of monitoring and predictive modelling of alpine plant distribution. In particular, we will, first, provide a comprehensive evaluation of standard modelling approaches by comparing their predictions with Europe-wide monitoring of mountain top floras and analyse the role of spatial scale for possible mismatches between models and observations of change. Second, we will develop a novel modelling framework that simulates the simultaneous range dynamics of many interacting species. We will parameterise this model by means of experiments and observational data and evaluate it against monitoring data on an exemplary mountain. We will then apply the model to simulate the dynamics of the flora of this mountain over the 21st century at a very fine spatial resolution to evaluate the proposed rescue effect of microclimatic variation in alpine terrain. We will finally generalize the results achieved in these dynamic simulations to all summits included in the European mountaintop monitoring network. The results of MICROCLIM will help understanding how threatened the unique alpine flora of Europe actually is in a warming world and whether mitigating conservation measures will be required to secure its long-term survival.

Keywords: alpine plant diversity,climate change,distribution modelling,monitoring,microrefugia,microclimate,plant demography,plant species interaction,remote sensing
Artificial Intelligence for optimal contract management and enhanced legal teams' collaboration (IURIO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Legal services are key for EU economy (~1% GDP), and digital innovation is critical to overcome technical challenges and fully exploit business opportunities in the sector. The novel fixed-fee tendency forces legal companies to optimize in efficiency, focusing their technical developments on automation, since 30-50% of their tasks may be automated. Within these, contract management is an ideal candidate for automation, since it shares a common structure, and represent a major source of revenues: 70% of enterprises' revenues are generated from contractual agreements. However, no IT tool today offers a high degree of automation, and 71% of legal professionals still manage contracts manually. Thus, the potential market is huge, and includes all Legal Service Providers (either law firms or in-house legal departments) commonly managing high volumes of legal documents. IURIO overcomes current drawbacks of contract management by integrating the latest techniques in Artificial Intelligence, cloud-computing and data-encryption into a simple SW tool to (1) enable smart drafting of contracts and to (2) optimize legal parties' collaboration during the contracting process; all seamlessly integrated as a Microsoft Word add-on. In this way, IURIO eliminates repetitive tasks, reducing contracts drafting time by up to 90% and improving post-execution contract compliance by up to 90% (reducing on average 22.5% the financial risk due to poor contract management). IURIO is already arising great interest: we are currently piloting in 2 Austrian law firms and count with the support of 14 international companies, key actors within the Central European legal-tech scene and some of the most innovative German-speaking law and technical universities. In this sense, we expect a major impact upon commercialization, reaching accumulated profits of €14.46M by 2026 and growing our team in over 100 people.

Keywords: legal,contracts,digitalization
Innate-Like T-Cells In Sepsis (ILTIS): Implications for Early Diagnosis and Rescue of Immune Suppression. (ILTIS)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 97727.4
EU funding (EUR): 97727.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Research on infectious diseases has high priority for the scientific and medical communities worldwide, to tackle the alarming spread of multidrug resistant bacteria and to fight and prevent virus outbreaks. On the French island of La Réunion, infections such as leptospirosis and chikungunya pose considerable threats for public health. My career aspiration is to establish myself as a clinical scientist in the field of immunology of microbial infections, especially in severe conditions such as septic shock and leptospirosis. I am also interested in deciphering the emerging role of host cell-derived factors (HSDF) in shaping the innate immune response. The immune response to pathogens and HSDF involves numerous cell types and soluble factors such as cytokines but remains ill-characterized. A better understanding of the cellular and molecular signatures in acute disease may pave the way to better and earlier diagnosis, targeted treatment and improved outcomes. The aim of the proposed study is to study the phenotype and function of innate immune cells during sepsis, with a particular focus on γδ T-cells, neutrophils and monocytes. This translational research involves bed to bench-side approaches (clinical investigations on septic shock during community-acquired pneumonia) and in vitro studies in cell culture, by analysing cell viability and activation as well as key cellular functions such as cytokine release, phagocytosis and antigen presentation in relation to the causative pathogen. I am keen to link this project with my previous studies on immune-mediated cell death during septic shock and on the early immune response to leptospirosis. The possibility to join the internationally renowned immunology teams at Cardiff University will be of great benefit to my research and will allow me to further my skills and expertise as well as create a network of productive collaborations for my future career when returning to Reunion.

Keywords: innate immunity,sepsis,septic shock,pneumonia
CHROMIUM (CHROMIUM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2595000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Why the Universe is void of anti-matter is one of the remaining Big Questions in Science.One explanation is provided within the Standard Model by violation of Charge Parity (CP) symmetry, producing differences between the behavior of particles and their anti-particles.CP violation in the neutrino sector could allow a mechanism by which the matter-anti matter asymmetry arose.The objective of this proposal is to enable a step change in our sensitivity to CP violation in the neutrino sector. I have pioneered the concepts and led the deployment of a small prototype using a novel approach which could eventually lead to the construction of a revolutionary Mega-ton scale Water Cherenkov (WC) neutrino detector.The goal of my research program is to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach via the construction of an intermediate sized prototype with an expandable fiducial mass of up to 10-20kt. It will use a low-cost and lightweight structure, filled with purified water and submerged for mechanical strength and cosmic ray shielding in a 60m deep flooded mine pit in the path of Fermilab’s NuMI neutrino beam in N. Minnesota.The European contribution to this experiment will be profound and definitive.Applying the idea of fast timing and good position resolution of small photodetectors, already pioneered in Europe, in place of large-area photodetector, we will revolutionize WC design.The game-changing nature of this philosophy will be demonstrated via the proof of the detector construction and the observation of electron neutrino events form the NuMI beam.The successful completion of this R&D program will demonstrate a factor of up to 100 decrease in cost compared to conventional detectors and the proof that precision neutrino measurements could be made inside a few years rather than the presently needed decades. The project describes a five year program of work amounting to a total funding request of €3.5M, including an extra €1M of equipment funds.

Keywords: neutrinos
The role of size in the sustainability of irrigation systems (SIZE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Norway,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276330.6
EU funding (EUR): 276330.6
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Irrigated areas contribute c. 40% of the worldwide crop production and consume c. 70% of all freshwater resources. Knowing how to meet the food demands of an ever-growing population without compromising environmental integrity is thus a pressing issue of global concern. Following the line of evidence gathered for organisms, financial corporations and cities, size (e.g. the area, the dimensions) seems to be a master variable conditioning the behavior of irrigation systems as well. However, our knowledge on how size conditions irrigated systems is comparatively fragmentary and lacks in formalization due to overreliance in case studies. This sets our capacity to ensure their sustainability in very fragile ground. My project will break through this limitation by combining allometry, the study of global irrigation datasets and the collection of field data in irrigation systems of Spain with the techniques to be learned at the host institutions: dynamic modeling in Princeton University (USA) and uncertainty/sensitivity analysis in University of Bergen (Norway). My project will specifically tackle two questions: 1) Which attributes of ISs scale with size? 2) How does a change in size condition the behavior of ISs against shocks?. This research project will turn me into one of the most transdisciplinar, comprehensive specialists on irrigation systems on the international scene, and will yield highly relevant results for both the scientific and policy-making community: it will increase our knowledge on size as a universal constraint, and endow us with better understanding of the risks and benefits associated with the creation/management of small and large irrigation systems.

Keywords: irrigation agriculture,social ecological systems,sustainability,dynamic modelling,uncertainty,sensitivity analysis
Innovative SaaS platform for assessment, training and support to companies Innovative SaaS platform for assessment, training and support to companies and employees embracing the digital transformation (MyKeople)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Digital culture changes the world! It is a new era that is opening up. Our company KEOPLE proposes to unlock digital culture in companies to improve the innovation and performance of organisations. Our solution, MyKeople, is a cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS) that directly addresses digital talent management in organisations, in the form of an integrated digital skill evaluation platform, a complex algorithm and a continuous monitoring platform that provides managers with real-time dashboards about the evolution of digitalisation of their company or team. MyKeople helps employees and managers alike be aware of the issues and digital challenges, to adopt the best posture and empower agility and business performance by the improvement of collaborative intelligence. Our platform is able to diagnose three important factors in a company to assess its digital maturity in less than a week: 1.The environment (focused on digital marketing, sales strategy and resources); 2.The management (focused on management skills and vision about digital transformation); and 3. The employees (assessment of digital skills per employee). As a result, a dashboard of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) is provided, as well as a training plan and customised recommendations for each employee or role in the company. In addition, our platform is able to identify high potential individuals for promoting and accelerating digital transformation in the company. The successful commercialisation of MyKeople will allow our company KEOPLE to sustainably grow, achieving +€23.2M in revenues and +€11.7M in profit 8 years after commercial launch.

Keywords: learning management system,digital transformation,talent management,digital skills,digital learning,big data,analytics,decision support,online learning,training,cloud platform
Simulation and Control of Renewable COmbustion (SCIROCCO) (SCIROCCO)

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: France,France
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): 2495335.0
EU funding (EUR): 1976835.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Most renewable energies can only be delivered intermittently. Without massive long-term storage capacities they will never provide 65 % of our energy mix by 2050, as required to limit global warming to 2°. Throughout this period and beyond, energy generation from combustion will remain a key component of this mix. SCIROCCO has two goals: (1) provide effective storage for renewable energies and (2) significantly improve existing combustion systems. Objective (1) is addressed by extending ‘Power to Gas (PtG)’ strategies, where excess electricity from renewable sources is converted into fuel, usually hydrogen (H2), which is easy to store over long periods and burn when power is needed. Objective (2) is addressed by burning the ‘renewable’ H2 in smart combustors with higher efficiencies and reduced emissions. Today, H2 is diluted in methane lines ('drop-in' strategy) to burn in existing devices. This strategy ignores the exceptional properties of H2, which burns and ignites faster than all other fuels. We will exploit these properties in new chambers that (1) burn H2 within a wide range of fossil fuel mixes and (2) use H2 as a powerful actuator to increase performance. Rather than diluting H2 in other fuels, we will inject H2 into the chamber separately. Research is needed to analyse the structure of these new dual-fuel flames that burn a fossil fuel and H2 simultaneously. This is a challenge for combustion science, requiring a re-think of chamber design and control. These fundamental issues will be addressed for two applications with fundamental societal impact: (1) laminar gas-burning flames (stoves, heaters) and (2) swirled liquid fuel turbulent flames (aerospace and power gas turbines). All cases will be studied experimentally (at IMFT) and numerically (with CERFACS simulation codes). SCIROCCO will develop fundamental knowledge on multi-fuel flames and have a direct societal impact as SCIROCCO burners will pave the way for smart combustors burning renewable H2

Keywords: renewable energy storage combustion hydrogen power to gas
FAST and Nano-Enabled SMART Materials, Structures and Systems for Energy Harvesting (FAST-SMART)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Greece,Romania,Belgium,France,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Smart materials, systems and structures for energy harvesting (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-ST-IND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6945201.26
EU funding (EUR): 6945201.24
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The project's overall concept is centred on the scaling up of novel, mass-production nano-manufacturing techniques invented by FAST-SMART partners for synthesis of nano-structured smart materials and component manufacturing for energy harvesting applications to significantly improve the material quality and structural reliability (>50%~100% improvement) and reduce overall materials and processing costs (by 30%) through shortening the process chains and improving material processing efficiency, being focused on less and free rare-element dependence materials (such as lead-free piezoelectric and Hf-free half-Heusler thermoelectric materials) as well as on new energy harvester designs considering environmental strategy, thus to bring about positive, environment-related impacts to Europe (greenhouse gas emission down by 50%, waste reduction by 50%), increased EU’s market share worthy hundreds million Euros initially, and to promote wide implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) and Digital Single Market (DSM) in Europe, due to introduction of the new energy harvesting products, design and manufacturing services created through the FAST-SMART’s partnership. Current obstacles to the large-scale introduction of energy harvesters that use materials with less rare-element dependence and/or that are toxicity-free are associated largely with inadequate material performance and reliability, high manufacturing cost, and inadequately developed product design strategy addressing needs for sustainable developments. The main driver of the proposal lies in a need to meet challenges particularly for the development and applications of Piezoelectric (PE) and Thermoelectric (TE) materials, associated structures and systems for new-generation energy harvesters, and for dealing with energy generation, storage and uses related issues with a systematic approach, and hence, to help to meet EU’s targets on the social, economic and environmental developments.

Keywords: nano structured piezoelectric and thermoelectric materials,energy harvesting structures and systems,nanomanufacturing processingandthin film fabrication,recycling,sustainable product design
Evolution in wild populations (EVOWILD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1818417.0
EU funding (EUR): 1818417.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The impact of global environmental change on natural populations is both an urgent concern, and an invaluable opportunity to understand how environmental variation shapes evolutionary and ecological processes. This project will combine state-of-the-art genomic and statistical technology with globally distributed studies to build a ground-breaking new understanding of the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of wild populations. At the same time, it will deliver much-needed application of both long-standing and new evolutionary theory. My track record of building the field of wild quantitative genetics together with the new multi-species consortium I have created, means I am uniquely positioned to exert powerful leverage over core questions. My project has three major objectives: (1) to understand variation in fitness and current rates of evolutionary adaptation in the wild, including contributions from social evolution; (2) to determine the effects of environmental variation on natural selection and adaptive evolutionary responses; and (3) to provide comprehensive assessment of the contribution of evolutionary genetic adaptation vs ecological responses to the dynamics of phenotypic traits and population numbers. It will do so using seven exceptional long-term studies of wild mammal populations from across the world: red deer, bighorn sheep, Soay sheep, spotted hyaenas, meerkats, eastern grey kangaroos and Tasmanian devils, all experiencing environmental change such as the effects of climate or disease. The multi-species consortium will enable valuable insight into the generality of the results, which can inform the management of wild populations. The project will also develop new analytical approaches, bringing together the latest quantitative genetic and genomic developments with hierarchical population modelling, which will have application across a broad range of systems.

Keywords: evolutionary theory,natural selection,climate change,phenotypic plasticity