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Machining and Commercialising Diamond Anvil Cells (MaCDAC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The diamond anvil cell (DAC), a simple but versatile device, is the standard method of experimentally producing static high pressures. It consists of two movable parts containing opposing diamond "anvils" with a sample compressed between the polished culets (tips) and held by a metal gasket. We are able to build DACs in the Mechanical Workshop at our institution. During the ERC-Hecate project we have developed many new innovations on making and using DACs. Several groups around the world have expressed interest in using DACs made in Edinburgh. The PoC grant will examine whether this presents a viable commercial opportunity. We will manufacture demonstration DACs which can be trialled by our collaborators for acceptable cost, ease of use, reliability and performance. Different designs are optimised for different purposes, and we need to know more about other groups' usage patterns. Feedback from this process, particularly of failure rates and modes, will enable us to refine and tailor the designs. We anticipate a worldwide growth in the use of high pressure science as it moves from the specialism of a handful of leading labs to a standard method of chemical analysis and materials synthesis. The DACs required for such routine use may be different from those we use to reach the highest pressures with highly reactive materials. Moreover, new experimental applications like high temperature, NMR and magnetic measurements may require additional innovations. The PoC grant will allow us to assess this future market, both for size and specification. We have no experience of commercialisation and marketing, so another essential aspect will be to bring these skills into the Hecate research team. We have identified China as the largest potential market where scientists lack the design and machining skill to make their own, and are currently looking to buy high-specfication DACs.

Keywords: pressure,machining
Friendly gamification business model based on intelligent data analysis to enrich consumers personalized e-commerce experiences (FRIENDKHANA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Business Opportunity: within the e-commerce market - specially for SMEs, do not have the knowledge or the resources to use and/or accesses consumers’ data properly due the high investment they need in terms of costly tools & human resources. The best information that the ecommerce can gather comes directly from the consumers, which implies surveying them, which requires a big effort from the participants (to fill) and from the brands (requiring validation and analysis). Friendkhana added value: provides an innovative SaaS solution to make short, intuitive quizzes that can be integrated with a single line of code in our client´s on line stores. It generates real-time information about the users, - enhanced seamless with their social network data - to enrich user profiles to cluster a new data base, while they are having a more personalized experience. Friendkhana offers a SMEs e-commerce with a competitive customizable solution that provides a richer database of their users to make better ROI-directed marketing campaigns while they benefit for better recommendations and a better customer experience. Phase 1 objectives is to accelerate the market adoption and international penetration of Friendkhana focus on preparing ourselves for the commercialization of at the international level (including route-to-market, marketing strategy, growth strategy, etc.) by evolving the product from TRL6 to TRL9 stage Impact: As a result of this project, Friendkhana will grow considerably, generating 55 new qualified jobs by five years after the project ending and generating a cumulative EBITDA of 58,9 M€

Keywords: marketing,e commerce,gamification,quizzes
Out of the blue: membrane-based microcavity lasers from the blue to the ultraviolet wavelength regime (UV-LASE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996276.0
EU funding (EUR): 1996276.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Achieving ultraviolet (UV) emission has proven to be difficult, in particular for microcavity lasers due to high optical losses and defect densities. Our group, with a world-leading position in microcavity laser research, has identified new possibilities to combat these challenges in both ultraviolet and blue-emitting devices. By using these breakthroughs, we aim to develop the first electrically injected blue microcavity laser with good enough performance to be useful in real-world applications and project out of the blue and into the ultraviolet to realize the very first electrically injected UV microcavity laser. Our two recent breakthroughs are: 1. The discovery of an overlooked loss mechanism in microcavities and schemes to circumvent it. Our proposed designs to circumvent this unintentional anti-guiding are being implemented worldwide and have led to a tenfold increase in optical output power in blue lasers. 2. A unique membrane technique to enable microcavity lasers with highly reflective dielectric mirrors on both sides of the cavity – a device concept previously un-realizable for UV-lasers. The method is based upon electrochemical etching of the chemically inert material AlGaN (the material of choice for UV), which enables lift-off of device membranes with smooth surfaces from the substrate and mirror-deposition on the bottom side. Our recent demonstration of the world’s first thin-film, flip-chip UV-B LED with this technique holds great promises for microcavity lasers. These two new approaches will be combined with a focused effort to circumvent the problem of low electrical conductivity of p-doped materials. We will strengthen our capabilities by developing tunnel junctions, allowing highly conductive n-doped material to be used throughout virtually the entire laser. This will drastically reduce losses, which cause degradation within minutes in blue microcavity lasers, and might be the only solution to electrically driven UV microcavity lasers.

Keywords: vcsel algan ultraviolet blue gan vertical cavity surface emitting laser,electrochemical etching uvb microcavity laser optical guiding antiguiding tunnel junction
Cellular modulation by the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (mitoUPR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cellular, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Panel description: Structure and function of the cell, cell-cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1437500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1437500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mitochondrial function is central for cellular metabolism and energy balance. However, many diseases, including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, affect mitochondrial function and proteostasis. Upon mitochondrial protein misfolding, mitochondria activate the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPRmt) to restore proteostasis, a poorly characterized pathway in mammalian cells. Notably, the effects of the UPRmt on its direct environment – mitochondria – and on cytosolic homeostasis remain unknown. Strikingly, non-cell autonomous signaling of metabolism and folding state has been described in recent years, particularly in worms. However, the possible role of UPRmt in such processes is undescribed. Using newly available tools to acutely induce the UPRmt in mammalian cells, combined with cutting-edge quantitative mass spectrometry, microscopy, next generation sequencing, and gene editing approaches, we propose to address these important open questions by studying the influence UPRmt exerts on the environments of i) mitochondria (including to study the composition and regulation of RNA granules), ii) cytosol (adjustments of translation, metabolism, and proliferation) and iii) neighboring cells (modification by non-cell autonomous signaling). Additionally, we aim to develop an iPSC-based UPRmt model. On cellular and organismal level, there ought to be mechanisms to signal changes in metabolism and proteostasis to increase robustness in neighboring environments. Studying these effects will be crucial for a better understanding of human disease and carries severe implications: i) the possibility of therapeutic treatment by modulating neighboring compartments or cells and ii) the possibility that diseases inducing the UPRmt could have unknown paracrine and endocrine effects on the organism. This proposal holds the potential to uncover a novel layer of regulation of cellular stress with an extensive influence on our understanding of the UPRmt and disease.

Keywords: mitochondrial unfolded protein response,protein misfolding,proteostasis,non cell autonomous signaling,ageing,mitochondrial rna processing,rna granules,metabolism,quantitative proteomics
Automated System for Total Fouling Removal of Heat Exchangers (ShellSideJet)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1723387.5
EU funding (EUR): 1206371.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In Oil & Gas, fouling, i.e. deposition of unwanted materials on heat transfer surfaces, is a notorious problem with severe effects on refinery economics, energy efficiency and carbon footprint. The total heat exchanger fouling costs were shown to exceed US$4.4 billion annually for industrialised countries. Shell-and-tube heat exchangers, prevalent in refineries and petrochemical plants, experience most of the fouling on external tube surfaces. Traditional water jet systems (manual and automated) are unable to penetrate the 6mm space between the tube rows, thereby leaving approximately 40%-60% of fouling uncleaned. Tube Tech, a market leader with more than 25 years of experience in fouling removal, have developed ShellJeTT, an innovative cleaning technology carefully engineered to go through these corridors, enabling 98% fouling removal. This keeps heat exchangers free from fouling; enabling considerable financial savings for the refinery operators. Specifically, results achieved from two case studies where ShellJeTT was applied (TRL-6), evidenced Return on Investment (ROI) of 5:1 to 20:1. During ShellSideJet, we target to enhance our current system’s automation capabilities, allowing our operators to deploy ShellJeTT in a robotic mode. This will move them further away from the blasted area and reduce the deployment time. Project’s activities are structured to raise the technology readiness of ShellSideJet to TRL-9, through an extended period of market replication and demonstration activities. ShellSideJet is poised to have a tremendous impact in both economic and environmental terms; it will enable the oil refining industry to reduce operational costs by $2.46bn per year while reducing CO2 emissions by 313200 tonnes per year. Over a 5-year period after ShellSideJet’s market launch we aim to increase our revenue by €6.75 million up to €33.75 million per year. In 2025, our cumulative net profits are calculated at €24 million, having generated more than 120 jobs.

Keywords: shell and tube heat exchangers,oil and gas industry,oil refineries,industrial cleaning and,maintenance sector,fouling removal,water jet cleaning
Gender Equality Academy (GE Academy)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Promote gender equality in particular by supporting structural change in the organisation of research institutions and in the content and design of research activities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Austria,Italy,Hungary,Norway,Belgium,Greece,France,Czechia
Call: Gender Equality Academy and dissemination of gender knowledge across Europe (H2020-SwafS-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999800.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The general goal of the GE Academy project is to develop and implement a coherent and high-quality capacity-building programme on gender equality (GE) in research and innovation (R&I) as well as in Higher Education (HE). GE Academy will develop and provide a series of comprehensive training formats and tailor-made training materials for trainers, practitioners and researchers, making these available to the widest possible audience in Europe and beyond. The GE Academy, with its full capacity-building programme including different training formats (Train-the-Trainers, online trainings and interactive workshops, Summer Schools, webinars, online Distributed Open Collaborative Courses), will be built and executed in at least 15 countries. Through its ambitious setup, the project aims at filling a gap in the current EU research landscape, marked by ongoing gender inequality in research organisations, the gender dimension of R&I being ignored or under-addressed, whereas needs in terms of gender awareness and capacity are recognised, but efforts to remedy the situation are still fragmented. The project will respond to the needs of those who contribute to and are involved in institutional change towards gender equality in R&I as well as in HE. The GE Academy will both tackle issues of gender equality in research institutions and research teams through structural change and address the gender dimension of research contents, following the three main ERA objectives for gender equality in research. At the same time, a pan-European network of gender trainers will be established, trained, coached and upskilled for delivering gender training sessions to R&I and HE communities in Europe and beyond. Throughout the project’s lifetime, attention will be paid to seeking modalities and solutions for ensuring the sustainability of the GE Academy project beyond the EU funding period.

Keywords: training on gender equality,knowledge transfer,capacity building,gender dimension in research,training standards,trainers network,structural change
The Impact of the International Right to Housing on National Legal Discourse: Using Data Science Techniques to Analyse Eviction Litigation (EVICT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Netherlands
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): 1499018.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499018.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Eviction – the involuntary loss of one’s home – has a devastating impact on people’s wellbeing and has severe consequences for society as a whole. During and after the financial crisis of 2007-2011, over 700,000 people in Europe either lost their homes or were at risk of losing them. National courts use national laws to rule on whether an eviction is just. However, the right to housing, as laid down in international and European law, often demands more protection of the power- and propertyless than national laws prescribe. As a result, national courts are at the centre of the complex interaction between national and international law. In times of growing national resistance towards international law, the questions whether, how, and why international law impacts on national law are among the most topical that legal scholars face. Evictions provide a timely opportunity to determine why international rights, such as the right to housing, may or may not have an impact on national law. The financial crisis has led to an enormous amount of case law (legal big data). The combination of the developed, but understudied, international right to housing and these vast amounts of national data offers a unique opportunity to examine the interaction between international law and national law. It is impossible to analyse all judgments manually. Therefore, I will use a data-driven approach that is unique in the legal discipline. Using citation network analysis, I conceptualise the right to housing as a network of international rights and conduct the first empirical analysis of the impact of this right in case law from national supreme courts and lower level courts. With the use of machine learning, I will identify predictors for courts’ decisions, and explain how these predictors may mirror the right to housing. This approach has long been called for but, so far, rarely been executed. If successful, it could be used in future research projects in other areas of the law.

Keywords: right to housing,eviction,housing law,data science
Satellite Data Acquisition in the Blink of an Eye (BLINK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Croatia
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1850913.75
EU funding (EUR): 1265997.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is widely known that key information used in many industries such as meteorology, logistics, navigation, oil and gas, agriculture, ecology and others, comes from space, via Earth observation (EO) satellites. Having this data in a short time frame is becoming essential. Existing ground segment solutions are heavily based on hardware. They are not following technology advances like space hardware do which causes a bottleneck in EO data acquisition: required volume of data is not available quickly or with sufficient value! The objective of this proposal is to provide an innovative, completely software-based data acquisition solution for EO market – Blink, disruptive enough to compete with existing oligopoly in this market segment. The EO market is very interesting as it is being boosted by skyrocketing growth of start-ups in NewSpace industry like SpaceX, OneWeb and Planet, to name a few, and increasing trend of moving from thick hardware solutions towards flexible and dynamic software solutions as well as moving satellite ground systems and services in the cloud environment. The expected project outcome is a Blink device, a software-based solution for EO ground stations which will enable assembling a full performant ground station at a fraction of time and cost that are usual at a time being. This will bring benefit not just to growing segment of start-up companies, but also to big governmental missions worldwide, including Copernicus – the EU flagship mission for Earth observation. Humanitarian missions will also benefit from Blink. Construction of a larger number of ground stations and a faster GS deployment will significantly reduce time to get satellite images of disaster-struck areas. Therefore, rescue teams will be able to act faster, and hence save thousands of lives and homes. The successful implementation of the project, which already successfully passed Phase 1, with the support of the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument will ensure the company’s fast expansion of disruptive innovation for space technology market on EU level and beyond.

Keywords: remote sensing,telecommunications,algorithms and complexity,software engineering,operating systems,computer languages,communication networks,high speed satellite data acquisition,newspace
Beyond 5G: 3D Network Modelling for THz-based Ultra-Fast Small Cells (5G-ACE)

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-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

5G-ACE is engineered to be a two year Standard European Fellowship (EF) that aims to strengthen the ER (Experience Researcher)’s repository of scientific and transferable skills to place him in a strong position towards professional maturity, either at the host (University of South Wales) by targeting an “Academic Position by Research”, or as an independent researcher at leading international research centres and universities in Europe. The personalized training will identify key use cases and frequency bands for THz-based mobile communications, develop new 3D network models that take into account spatial coupling by re-examining legacy engineering tools such as stochastic geometry through interdisciplinary design, and involve practical experimentation that will be implemented as scheduled secondments at Nokia Bell Labs (Belgium), and Sigint Solutions Ltd (Cyprus). To complement the scientific training, the ER’s skill set will be enriched through a tailor-made Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP) that not only includes the core transferable skills (e.g, academic teaching, IPR management, research commercialization), but will identify other relevant complementary skills to provide a well-rounded research personality ready to embark on his 5G legacy and beyond.

Keywords: stochastic geometry,5g networks,network modelling,simulation methodologies,3d network deployment