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Valorization trajectory of a 3D particle image velocimetry instrument (3D-PIV)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Actual implementation of impactful applications for microfluidic devices in a commercial setting has been surprisingly limited so far. The cause can be to a great extent attributed to the main feature of microfluidic devices: their small dimensions. While miniaturized structures are essential in generating key functionalities, they are also ideal nucleation and anchor sites for solid material present in the liquid that flows through the channels, a phenomenon called fouling. This subsequently results in a reduced or loss of functionality and eventually plugging of the entire flow system. The solution to avoiding fouling is measuring the flow in microfluidic devices in 3D, by particle image velocimetry (PIV), either when designing or using them. However, achieving 3D imaging of flows is currently an extremely difficult task due to the amount of work, high costs and lengthy timelines required. Our value proposition in the ERC Proof of Concept project ‘3D-PIV’ is a table-top device able to efficiently analyse the velocimetry of particles in 3D, offering an unprecedented level of detail of the fluid motion through micron-sized channels/inlets/outlets, opening new possibilities in microfluidics design and validation with significant impact on multiple applications. One of the killer applications we envision, and our focus in this ERC Proof of Concept project, is in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, for the manufacturing of drugs or chemical components, to enable, adjust or improve their separation. In this project we will focus on building a strong business case for our 3D-PIV technology through prototyping, optimizing software, market analysis and business development.

Keywords: microfluidic devices,fouling,3d particle image velocimetry,flow tracking,chemical manufacturing
Collaborative and Confidential Information Sharing and Analysis for Cyber Protection (C3ISP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Poland,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Information driven Cyber Security Management (H2020-DS-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5000045.0
EU funding (EUR): 4176445.63
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

C3ISP mission is to define a collaborative and confidential information sharing, analysis and protection framework as a service for cyber security management. C3ISP innovation is the possibility to share information in a flexible and controllable manner inside a collaborative multi-domain environment to improve detection of cyber threats and response capabilities, still preserving the confidentiality of the shared information. C3ISP paradigm is collect, analyse, inform, and react. In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, the project aims to create an efficient and flexible framework for secure data analytics where data access and data analytics operations are regulated by multi-stakeholders data sharing agreements. In particular, C3ISP will: • facilitate the definition, analysis, management, enforcement and dissolution of data sharing agreements; going from high level descriptions (close to natural language) to system enforceable data usage policies; • consider the most appropriate data protection techniques used in the analytics infrastructure, from data centric policy enforcement mechanisms to homomorphic encryption techniques that enable to work directly on encrypted data (considering also intermediate solutions as anonymization techniques); • address key challenges for compliant sharing of cyber security related information. By taking a “compliance by design” approach, the project places an early emphasis on understanding and incorporating regulatory requirements into the data sharing agreements. • validate the framework through four Pilots covering several relevant areas as enterprise security, governmental CERTS, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and, in particular, for SMEs interested in holistic cyber protection solutions (including managed security services). The project Consortium combines strong industry players with research institutions that will deliver high quality innovation; it also includes SMEs and digital innovation promoters.

Keywords: data sharing agreement,data usage control,data analytic for security,managed security services
Efficient methods for radiative heat transfer analysis in fires and water sprays for fire suppression (RAD-FIRE)

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-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 146591.1
EU funding (EUR): 146591.1
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The annual cost of losses due to fires is estimated at €126bn, equivalent to 1% of European global gross domestic product (GDP). The use of performance-based fire safety engineering which relies on fire modeling is seen as a good step to reduce fire losses. Thermal radiation is the most dominant mode of heat transfer in fires and its rigorous and efficient modeling is therefore critical for the reliability of fire safety codes employed in fire engineering. The project aims to improve the current modeling strategies of radiative heat transfer in fires and in fire suppression by water sprays where the interaction between fires and water droplets should be taken into account. Current computational methods used in fire modeling and fire suppression suffer from the main following drawbacks: (1) They use the optically gray Planck mean radiative properties of the composite medium, which are too crude to describe the real spectral behavior of thermal radiation (2) The angular dependence of the radiation intensity is usually approximated with too much details without accounting for the real radiation field; (3) The computational mesh taken from the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) part of the general fire code is too detailed and not appropriate for radiative transfer calculations; (4) the computational requirements for current fire CFD codes are prohibitive and this is an obstacle. It is proposed in the scientific part of the project to develop simplified and rigorous radiative approaches which retain the physics and significantly reduce the computational time. This will lead to more efficient CFD fire codes and enhance their wider use for safety applications. The action also aims to train the Experienced Researcher in developing and acquiring knowledge in advanced fire combustion and turbulence modeling using LES (large eddy simulation) approach, CFD methods and gain a general knowledge of multidisciplinary fire safety science.

Keywords: thermal radiation,radiative heat transfer modeling,fires,water sprays,water droplets,spectral models,iterative computation,computational fluid dynamics cfd
Developing a standard modularised solution for flexible and adaptive integration of heat recovery and thermal storage capable of recovery and management of waste heat (Smartrec)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership:  (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Norway,Greece,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Valorisation of waste heat in industrial systems (SPIRE PPP) (H2020-EE-2016-PPP, 2016)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4627192.89
EU funding (EUR): 3705625.02
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Waste heat is a problem common to high temperature processing industries as a significantly underused resource, often due to challenges in economic heat valorisation. Secondary aluminium recycling and ceramic processing were identified as key examples with economically recoverable waste heat. Several challenges are inherent; these processes are batch-based rather than continuous with corrosive particulate-laden flue gas over a wide temperature range. The Smartrec system meets these challenges by development of a standard, modular solution for integration of heat recovery with thermal storage that valorises medium to high grade waste heat, adaptable to different temperatures and industries. Following end-user analysis and characterisation of exhaust streams and waste products, full life cycle costing and assessment will be carried out with candidate molten salts selected for thermal storage and heat transfer fluid, validated by corrosion testing. A custom heat pipe heat exchanger will be modelled and designed around the requirements of heat transport capacity wick structure and capable of heat exchange with a molten salt pumping loop. This loop will include dual media thermocline thermal storage system with cost/system modelling, validation and instrumentation incorporated. A pilot Smartrec system will be constructed and deployed in a secondary aluminium recycler and/or ceramic processor valorising high grade heat for continuous energy-intensive salt-cake recycling. Smartrec will be validated by integration with existing systems with >6 months operation including a fully developed instrumentation framework. A knowledge-based tool will be developed containing all relevant Smartrec parameters and information to model the system fully and allow users to determine their requirements, potential benefits and integrate Smartrec into their own systems via an open access workshop hosted by the consortium.

Keywords: heat pipe,heat exchanger,thermal storage,secondary aluminium,molten salt
Connecting authors and publishers with the world`s best publishing professionals to create high-quality books (Reedsy)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1581872.5
EU funding (EUR): 1107310.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Reedsy is the world’s only curated self-publishing digital marketplace, connecting authors with the world`s best freelance publishing professionals, who, working together collaboratively, using Reedsy’s well-integrated set of online editing and publishing tools, can create high-quality books, beautifully designed and typeset, and promote them to a wide audience through multiple channels. It is the only digital marketplace from Europe of its kind that can compete with the major global publishing platforms such as Amazon, offering high quality self-publishing at a competitive cost point, and thereby enabling both (i) the growth of Europe’s creative economy in this creative industry pillar and (ii) supporting Europe’s authors and creative minds to find a global audience in a hyper-competitive publishing world. Reedsy’s innovation excellence was rewarded by awarding them the 2016 The Quantum Publishing Innovation Award, one of Europe’s top innovation awards for the publishing industry. With more than 10,500 authors signed up already, and 750 books created, Reedsy is now planning to expand with the support of the SME Instrument by developing (i) Reedsy for Publishers, a version of their marketplace that will be designed to address publishers’ requirements, as well as (ii) Reedsy Discovery, a powerful suite of pre-publication marketing tools integrated with its already existing and very popular, Book Editor. The company will use the funds to develop and test the functionalities and undertake partnership building efforts with key partners in the publishing ecosystem as a crucial component of its expansion strategy, and based on the recommendation of a patent expert as well as devise and implement its IP strategy to protect its innovation.

Keywords: self publishing platform,digital market place,authors,publishing professionals,books,international expansion,scaling up
An advanced biological remedy against jellyfish stings (SOS Jelly)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Dedicated support to biotechnology SMEs closing the gap from lab to market (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years anomalous proliferations of jellyfish are increasing in all seas: human envenomation by jellyfish toxins produce immediate toxicity (from minutes to few hours), with allergic responses, generally determining local symptoms (dermatitis, oedema and swelling, itching, stiffness, necrosis, pain) or more severe systemic effects. These can also be life threatening and, sometimes, bring to death. It has been estimated there are 150 million jellyfish stings a year, about 200,000 people are annually stung by jellyfish in the only Florida. $350 million in losses to the Black Sea’s fishing and tourism industries resulted from the invasion of the comb jelly into the Black Sea. Therefore, beyond a public health issue, jellyfish also constitute a threat to tourism. Sea anemones can kill other fish that touch them; clownfish is therefore immune to the poison, thanks to generation of a biomimetic film on the fish skin. Toxins in the different types of Cnidarian (e.g. medusa and anemones) are similar, as they developed from common ancestors and belong to the same lineage. The project SOSJelly intends to evaluate the feasibility of the development, manufacturing method, technological transfer and industrial scale-up and to third parties manufacturers, and licensing for commercialization of a completely new biosynthetic molecule or mix of molecules, with bio-mimetic properties, for the first time, able to protect human skin from the jellyfish contact effects. Furthermore, ABICH laboratory will formulate creams and gel without preservatives at all, suitable for allergic people. At the end of the Phase I, a pre-commercial advanced SOS Jelly “package” (ingredient, formulation, laboratory test, regulation compliance, etc.) will be offered to manufacturers of sunscreen products. Target market is a high volume and growing market (millions of people, only in Europe); a first entry in Mediterranean market is foreseen (France and Italy, as the main market).

Keywords: skin protection,public health prevention,venom prophylacsys,sunscreen market,cosmetic development,product formulation and design,jellyfish stings,natural product,biotechnology,biomimetic form
A ground-breaking medical system selecting the most viable embryo for successful IVF pregnancy (Fertissimo)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2751973.5
EU funding (EUR): 2711973.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Low rates of pregnancy in IVF procedure is due to being unable to identify viable embryos for transfer. As a result, multiple embryo transfer (MET) is practiced to increase the chances of pregnancy. This is a costly procedure with riskier outcomes, which on average only equates to a 1 out of 4 rate of pregnancy success. In order to minimise the cost and risk outcomes with MET, there are increasing trends have been adopted to accommodate single embryo transfer (SET). SET however, requires more efficient embryo selection tools than current legacy morphology methods. Fertissimo utilises a novel biomarker of oxidative stress (OS) qualities that will enable the physician’s selection of viable embryos in a rapid, non-invasive, and accurate manner. Fertissimo will provide a quantitative assessment of an embryo’s reproductive potential based on the oxidative profile of its incubated culture media. It will increase IVF pregnancy outcomes by an unprecedented 25% and beyond. The Phase 2 project’s ultimate aim is to lay the foundation for dependable IVF pregnancies of the future. Fertissimo will set the gold standard for IVF procedure in all relevant IVF facilities, located in hospitals, medical centres, centres of IVF excellence, and clinics. Carmel Diagnostics will conduct a series of clinical validation studies, both retrospective and prospective, in order to qualify the novel OS biomarker to effectively predict embryo viability Carmel Diagnostics (established in 2009) joins forces with Aran R&D, a leading engineering and product development company, forming a solid basis with all necessary knowledge capabilities, infrastructure and finances to support the innovation project. This would allow Carmel, and Aran, to develop, test, certify, and create the production line required for Fertissimo’s mass production. The industrially produced Fertissimo can then be qualified in a conclusive clinical trial with Global IVF Leader IVI Valencia to the benefit of soon-to-be mothers

Keywords: oxidative stress,fertility,infertility,embryo selection,pregnancy
Batch Optimization of Process Parameters for Hot Working of High Nitrogen Stainless Steels and Thermodynamic Validation (BOHNS-TV)

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: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-11-16
End date: 2022-05-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 219312.0
EU funding (EUR): 219312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

High nitrogen stainless steels are becoming an increasingly important new class of engineering materials due to its favorable combination of mechanical, chemical and physical properties: high strength and toughness, nickel-saving and excellent corrosion, which enable its application in extensive fields such as military, marine equipment, petrochemical, etc. Hot working of high nitrogen stainless steel is always the challenge to engineers and researchers due to the diversity of the hot working window, which is strongly affected by nitrogen content. Moreover, there are still open questions on nitrogen content effect on thermodynamic theories (e.g. dynamic recrystallization and stacking fault energy). The primary objective of this project is to develop a novel approach for batch optimization of hot working processes of high nitrogen stainless steels, validate the thermodynamic theories and transfer scientific results into application. A gradient model will be synthesized using chemical heat treatment to support the modelling and experiments in a mechanical processing area. Both modelling and experimental studies will be carried out in close collaboration with Sandvik (a world-leading manufacturer of stainless steel) and KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (one of the world-leading universities on first-principles study of the stacking fault energies in advanced alloys). These international collaborations help to ensure that the project will be successfully completed and the findings of the project will be transferred to and implemented in industry. In broader terms, the project will contribute to the enhancement of traditional nitrogen alloying theory and improvement of manufacturing capacities of high nitrogen stainless steel, reducing the energy consumption and emission pollution, and thus helping to attain socioeconomic and environmental targets in the context of the EU 2020 vision.

Keywords: advanced engineering materials,high nitrogen stainless steels,surface engineering,manufacturing industry,hot forging,emission pollution,energy consumption
Interactive and agile/responsive sharing mesh of storage, data and applications for EOSC (CS3MESH4EOSC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Australia,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Poland,Switzerland,Poland,Switzerland,Czechia,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Prototyping new innovative services (H2020-INFRAEOSC-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5956696.25
EU funding (EUR): 5858571.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

In recent years Cloud Services for Synchronization and Sharing (CS3) have been widely deployed in the research and educational space. The services are operated and funded by major e-infrastructure providers, NRENs (National Research & Education Networks) and major research institutions. The CS3 services have become successful on a national level at the scale of individual institutions and started becoming an indispensable element of daily workflows for hundreds of thousands of users including researchers, students, scientists and engineers. The community deploying these services grew bottom up and found its home at the yearly CS3 conferences (cs3.cern.ch). However, these services remain largely disconnected, and they are developed and deployed in isolation from each other. At the current state of maturity and community uptake however, combining these various systems and services would allow to boost open-science by presenting a joint, coordinated service to the users in the research and education space on a pan-European level. CS3MESH4EOSC implements a service for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) with a built-in sustainability model using the on-premise service delivery by utilizing existing key technology enablers: Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) standardized protocol and EduGAIN service. It consolidates and integrates the existing application ecosystem by promoting vendor-neutral APIs and protocols following the open-source strategy for delivering services -- a platform for a thriving application ecosystem in EOSC. CS3MESH4EOSC empowers service providers in delivering state-of-the-art, connected infrastructure to boost effective scientific collaboration across the entire federation and data sharing according to FAIR principles.The project delivers the core of a scientific and educational infrastructure for cloud storage services in Europe through a lightweight federation of existing sync/share services and integration with multidisciplinary application workflows.

Keywords: cloud,storage,synchronization,applications,eosc,mesh