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Minimum Wages, (Mis)Allocation of Labour, and Inequality (MW_INEQ)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1102262.0
EU funding (EUR): 1006274.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Over the last two decades, wage and income inequality have increased sharply in most developed countries which is causing ever greater concern in the economic and political debate. A central challenge for policymakers is to develop measures that can simultaneously improve the distribution of economic resources and also foster economic growth. In our proposed research, we will study the effectiveness of a particular prominent instrument to achieve this goal - the minimum wage. First, we will provide a comprehensive assessment of how minimum wages affect the allocation of resources. We will examine whether minimum wages improve the efficiency of worker-firm sorting by reallocating workers to more efficient firms, how an increase in mandated wage floors ripples through the wage distribution and affects job flows among firms, and how the policy affects the assortativity of firm-to-firm relationships. Second, we will look at the impact of the minimum wage on different groups in the population by studying its effect on the allocation of jobs among immigrant and native workers. Recent research suggests that there is a link between inequality and intergenerational mobility but whether public policies that alleviate inequality can also contribute to higher intergenerational mobility remains an open question. To fill this gap in the literature, we will study the effect of minimum wages on maternal labour supply, on child development and eventually on intergenerational mobility. The comprehensive agenda outlined in this proposal therefore addresses a more general call for understanding the roots of inequality and for unbundling the structure of low-wage labour markets. We will achieve this by exploiting a combination of high-quality data, unique policy changes and richer models that explicitly consider the role of firms, their wage setting power, and the networks they are operating in.

Keywords: minimum wages,allocation of labor,inequality,productivity,intergenerational mobility
Reversible solid oxide cell development for the utilisation of alternative fuels and hydrogen strategic production (FleXelL)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-08-01
End date: 2023-10-11
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The flexible cell project (FleXelL) aims at developing a proof of concept for a highly efficient energy converter based on ceramic reactors that can be reversed into an electrolyser whenever needed. We will be developing a device capable of converting liquid and gaseous fuels such as ethanol, methane or natural gas into energy, but also, steam and electricity into hydrogen for strategic reserve purposes or simply for renewable energy surplus storage. For this purpose, we here propose a knowledge transfer scheme between Dr Sarruf and the Centre for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) at the University of Birmingham (UoB), herein represented by Prof Robert Steinberger-Wilckens. We build on UoB’s ceramic processing techniques, materials characterisation capacity, project management capabilities, teaching expertise, communications and leadership skills, and Dr Sarruf’s knowledge in materials development for fuel flexibility conversion within solid oxide cells (SOCs). Dr Sarruf, under Prof. Steinberger-Wilckens’ supervision, will develop and optimise an anode-supported reversible solid oxide cell (RSOC) capable of operating directly with primary fuels, as aforementioned, and electrolysing water to produce hydrogen. The reproducibility of the cells’ manufacturing process as well as the performance will be developed aiming at rousing industrial interest via the development of a product’s business plan.

Keywords: fuel cells,sofc,rsoc,ethanol,methane,natural gas,hydrogen,alternative fuels
CONtributing to Shift2Rail's NExt generation of high Capable and safe TCMS PhAse 3 (CONNECTA-3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: European rail initiative
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Shift2Rail (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Slovenia,France
Call: Validation of new technologies for the TCMS (H2020-S2RJU-CFM-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5536604.51
EU funding (EUR): 3875623.16
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Continuation project of CONNECTA-2 (GA 826098) which targets the high TRL deployment and validation in two relevant laboratory demonstrators and field tests for urban and regional scenarios of the following technologies: - Wireless TCMS, including wireless train backbone, wireless consist network and standardized train-to-ground according to IEC 61375-2-6. - NG-TCN including high safe (SIL4) communication networks to support the drive-by-data concept, including brake-by-wire. - Functional Open Coupling (FOC) - Functional Distribution Framework (FDF) instantiated with two different approaches (modified AUTOSAR and selfimplemented on top of specific operating system), together with relevant application profiles. - The virtual certification simulatiom framework, with hardware-in-the-loop and remote connectivity to subsystems The goal is to reach TRL6/7 in most developments.

Keywords: tcms
A nationwide artificial intelligence risk assessment for primary prevention of cardiometabolic diseases (AI-PREVENT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1550057.0
EU funding (EUR): 1550057.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Diabetes, stroke and coronary artery disease (cardiometabolic diseases) are the leading cause of death in Europe. Given that effective pharmacological and lifestyle interventions are available, it is important to identify high risk individuals at an early stage. Traditionally, this is done using clinical prediction models. However, the established models have substantial limitations: they are often used by doctors only when an underlying disease is already suspected, they are not developed on updated nationally-representative data and they require time-consuming clinical measurements. Thus, a substantial part of the population is not provided with risk assessment. I propose to revolutionize the existing approaches to primary prevention by providing risk assessment of cardiometabolic diseases before an individual even steps into the doctor’s office for a visit. To this end my project has three main objectives: 1) Development of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to model health trajectories based on nationwide registry data on medications, diagnoses, familial risk and socio-demographic information to obtain accurate risk estimates for cardiometabolic disease. I will integrate high quality data from selected countries that have long traditions of registry data (Finland and Sweden, over 7.5 million individuals). 2) To identify health trajectories that maximize the clinical utility of genetic scores by integrating genetic and registry-based data on > 1 million people to identify subgroups of individuals for whom genetic information might improve risk prediction. 3) Validation of AI and genetic-based risk assessment as first-stage screening via a clinical study in 2800 individuals. My project leverages the latest developments in AI and high-quality data of unprecedented scale to deliver a paradigm shift with important public health consequences by potentially changing the way cardiometabolic disease risk is assessed.
Replenishing the limited Aluminium reservoir of MAX phase coatings in harsh environments (REALMAX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-17
End date: 2022-08-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Phase stability is likely to be the single most important specification which determines the lifetime of materials operating in extreme environments. Whether a phase will react with the environment or decompose at high temperature is an essential limitation for the use of the material for any given applications. MAX phases are a family of layered ternary ceramics currently being developed for extreme environment applications because of their tolerance to heat, their ceramic-metallic hybrid properties and more importantly because of their self-healing behaviour. However, similarly to other self-healing materials, aluminium-based MAX phases tend to decompose locally as soon as Al reacts to form the protective oxide scale. Upon decomposition, the unique set of properties deteriorates rapidly. The REALMAX project will tackle the outward diffusion of Al from MAX phase coatings in oxidising environments, by providing solutions for supplying Al to the coating from a MAX phase substrate which will act as Al-reservoir. Furthermore, the REALMAX project will engage in ground-breaking research to develop multifunctional coatings and validate the concept of “high-entropy” MAX phases. In fact, these multielement MAX phases constitute a new and exciting research line which is in the early stages of being developed. The REALMAX project will be carried out by the experienced researcher (ER) who has gained experience on MAX phase coatings during her current postdoctoral position. The ER has aligned a team of experts in MAX phases, coatings and material processing who will collaborate to offer innovative solutions to increase phase stability in MAX phase systems while mentoring her to achieve her career plans. In fact, she will be well positioned to pursue her academic career in Europe, while simultaneously adding genuinely novel expertise approaches to the research environment and the group she will be joining. Therefore, the mutual benefit and impact of this proposal is extensive.

Keywords: max phases,oxidation,bulk processing
Diagnostic tool for Vaginitis (VagX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Vaginitis is a frequently occurring medical disorder in women associated with substantial morbidity and formerly undetected complications. It is one of the most common problems in clinical medicine, and it is the reason cited most often for visits to obstetricians and gynaecologists. Today, there is no point-of-care diagnostic tool that can diagnose all six possible causes to vaginitis correctly, rapidly and in a comprehensive manner. It is estimated to be misdiagnosed in around 50% of first non-expert physicians' clinic visits and about 30% of women with vaginal complaints remain undiagnosed despite extensive testing. GynTools has developed a unique (patent pending) vaginal discharge collection tool, composed by two products: (1) VagX I™ a rapid point of care diagnostic device for Gynaecology clinics and (2) VagX II™, a Vaginitis self-test kit for home use. VagX is the first diagnostic system that can diagnose all six Vaginitis conditions; does not require special skills or training and it is faster and cheaper from any current alternative. VagX system provides a comprehensive point of care vaginitis diagnostic tool for gynaecologists and primary caregivers that are not experts in vulvovaginal disorders. Leveraging AI and Deep Machine Learning, VagX allows any caregiver to correctly diagnose all six vaginitis conditions, within minutes. GynTools seeks funding to conduct a feasibility study to prove technical and commercial viability, conducting an analytical exercise to position the product. The objective is to test the economic viability of the device among a larger pool of potential clients (user-acceptance), and to assess if the chosen commercialisation approach will be conducive of the projected growth on the European level.

Keywords: medical devices,vaginitis,vulvovaginal disorders,obstetricians,gynaecologists
A novel bioarchaeological approach to ancient textile manufacture (AIRLOOM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-03-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157941.12
EU funding (EUR): 157941.12
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Textile manufacturing is one of the oldest crafting activities in human history, linking the use of natural resources and technological innovations to complex cultural and social processes. Despite the enormous economic importance of textile production, marred by its severe health impact, long-term perspectives on the history of this craft are elusive in the archaeological record, due to the perishable nature of the evidence it leaves behind, and the lack of specific and reliable skeletal markers of past occupations that would allow the osteoarchaeological identification of textile workers. AIRLOOM addresses these issues by investigating the human mouth and the respiratory tract as a ‘depositional environment’ where concentrations of textile fibres, dyes and other environmental particles can accumulate and preserve inside mineralised dental plaque (dental calculus) as a result of accidental ingestion and inhalation during manufacturing. AIRLOOM will employ cutting edge cross-disciplinary methods to skeletal collections and natural mummies from ancient Egypt, Sudan, and Lebanon (4000 BC-1000 AD). These regions are home to well-documented crafting traditions and technologies (metal, glass, textile, stone work, art), underpinning enormous inequality of living conditions for the labourers (today and in the past). AIRLOOM will integrate approaches from bioarchaeology, archaeological materials studies, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology and environmental sciences to generate a novel multidisciplinary understanding of textile manufacturing in antiquity and its impact on health, with important direct implications for the practising of traditional textile work today. AIRLOOM is the first project of its kind in bioarchaeology, pushing current boundaries and establishing a novel archaeological focus on textile manufacturing, from ‘how and where’ textiles were made to ‘who’ made them, and at what human cost.

Keywords: bioarchaeology,osteoarchaeology,environmental archaeology,pollution,respiratory health
Musica Restituta. Retrieving Hidden Chant from Medieval Palimpsest Manuscripts (MUSRES)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171473.28
EU funding (EUR): 171473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

To this day, thousands of melodies that witness the early history of music in Europe remain hidden within the pages of palimpsest manuscripts, ancient books reused in later centuries to host a new, usually non-musical text. The medieval 'recycling' often completely erased the original content, making an impressive corpus of early chant inaccessible. This treasure trove of concealed musical heritage is one missing key towards unlocking the dynamics behind the beginnings of musical notation for vocal music. Recovering this centuries-long lost scripts will advance our understanding of the cognitive and material processes, as well as of the graphic forms and techniques employed by early singers to represent the sounds of music. The MSCA-IF project 'Musica Restituta (MUSRES) Retrieving Hidden Chant from Medieval Palimpsest Manuscripts' will provide for the first time to musicologists, performers, and the wider scholarly community (theologians, philologists, art and science historians, etc.) new material evidence and innovative digital tools for understanding early written music through its most obscure sources. The core object of the research will be a reconstruction, full study, and edition of five among the most important surviving chant palimpsests. The project will achieve this by combining cutting-edge digital photography and image editing with the creation of 'MusRes 1.0', the first on-line virtual research environment for the digital edition of early music palimpsests. Based at the University of Trento, and in collaboration with the Universities of Oxford (UK) and Würzburg (D), MusRes aims at redefining the landscape of available primary sources for the study of early chant, as well as considerably advancing the state of the art in the digital retrieval and editing of hidden musical information in manuscript texts, also for potential application beyond musicology.

Keywords: gregorian chant,palimpsests,manuscript studies,musical notation,digital humanities,digital imaging,medieval liturgy
EuroScience Open Forum 2016 (Manchester) (ESOF2016)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: SCIENCE WAF SOCIETY (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2015)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 16.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999999.0
EU funding (EUR): 999999.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The broad aim of this proposal is to advance the Horizon 2020 aims embodied in the Science WAF Society programme by organising the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). As Europe’s largest science communication event this will support the programme aims of addressing European societal challenges, building capacities and developing innovative ways of connecting science to society. It will promote the concept of responsible research and innovation in the context of Horizon 2020 and the ERA. Engagement will be sought from the full range of stakeholders including researchers, citizens, policy makers, business, third sector organisations and others. First held in Stockholm in 2004, ESOF is a biennial, interdisciplinary, pan-European, general science meeting taking place in a major European city, which aims to showcase the latest advances in scientific research and innovation; promote dialogue on the role of S&T in society and public policy; stimulate and provoke public interest and engagement, excitement and debate about S&T, and engage the European science community with global partners and perspectives, including business. ESOF is a platform created by EuroScience to provide the European research and innovation community with a multi-disciplinary forum to discuss new discoveries and debate the direction that research is taking in the sciences, humanities and social sciences, and to provide a focus for attracting global researchers and innovators to Europe. ESOF2016 (‘Science As Revolution’), will take place in Manchester and will showcase the very best of UK and European scientific thought and discovery across all fields (including social science and humanities). It will discuss and explore world-class research within the mainstream of scientific culture and debate without compromising on excellence, and by doing this ESOF2016 aims to support the sustainability of the European research and innovation ecosystem by engaging and inspiring the next generation.

Keywords: euroscience open forum 2016,scientific conference,science engagement,responsible research and innovation,public dialogue,science with and for society,science and innovation policy