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Probing the history of matter in deep time (DEEPTIME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495496.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495496.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The solar system represents the archetype for the formation of rocky planets and habitable worlds. A full understanding of its formation and earliest evolution is thus one of the most fundamental goals in natural sciences. The only tangible record of the formative stages of the solar system comes from ancient meteorites and their components some of which date back to the to the birth of our Sun. The main objective of this proposal is to investigate the timescales and processes leading to the formation of the solar system, including the delivery of volatile elements to the accretion regions of rocky planets, by combining absolute ages, isotopic and trace element compositions as well as atomic and structural analysis of meteorites and their components. We identify nucleosynthetic fingerprinting as a tool allowing us to probe the history of solids parental to our solar system across cosmic times, namely from their parent stars in the Galaxy through their modification and incorporation into disk objects, including asteroidal bodies and planets. Our data will be obtained using state-of-the-art instruments including mass-spectrometers (MC-ICPMS, TIMS, SIMS), atom probe and transmission electron microscopy. These data will allow us to: (1) provide formation timescales for presolar grains and their parent stars as well as understand how these grains may control the solar system’s nucleosynthetic variability, (2) track the formation timescales of disk reservoirs and the mass fluxes between and within these regions (3) better our understanding of the timing and flux of volatile elements to the inner protoplanetary disk as well as the timescales and mechanism of primordial crust formation in rocky planets. The novel questions outlined in this proposal, including high-risk high-gain ventures, can only now be tackled using pioneering methods and approaches developed by the PI’s group and collaborators. Thus, we are in a unique position to make step-change discoveries.

Keywords: solar system formation,meteorites,isotopes,chronology,nucleosynthesis,planet formation
Solid state diffusion for atomically sharp interfaces in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures (SuperCONtacts)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-15
End date: 2023-07-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171473.28
EU funding (EUR): 171473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The emerging field of superconducting optoelectronics has the potential to impact future quantum processing, communication and encryption. Hybrid light-emitting diodes exhibit emission of entangled photons enhanced by the superconducting state, while novel superconductor (Su) based lasers and quantum light sources have been proposed. Despite the amount of research done in semiconductor (Se) p-n physics and superconductivity, the practical integration between these two field of research is poor mainly due to the weak control of high quality Se/Su interfaces. This project proposes to overcome these limitations with a new fabrication technique, based on the metallic diffusion of metals in Se nanowires (NWs), for the realization of atomically sharp Su/Se interfaces with an epitaxial relationship. Starting from a material search I will then investigate the Al (Tc~1K) diffusion into n-doped InAs NWs as well as V and Nb (all Tc>5 K) diffusion into InAs, Si, Ge and GAs NWs. The band structures and resulting contact types (Schottky or Ohmic) of the different material systems will be studied numerically and tested at cryogenic temperatures to find the best material combination. Doping of the nanowires will be tuned to demonstrate superconducting correlations in both p- and n-doped NWs, an essential step for the realization of superconducting diodes. Diffusion through in-situ (S)TEM heating experiments will allow me to control the Su/Se/Su junctions up to the ultimate limit of few nanometers. These ultra-short JJs will allow to enhance the superconducting correlations. Ballistic transport will be probed down to ultra-low temperatures (~10 mK). and the quantification of the mean free path and the quality of the interfaces will take place. By embedding these ultra-short JJs in a superconducting quantum interference device I will be able to control the intensity supercurrent as well as achieving ultimate magnetic-sensitivity ready for novel technological applications.

Keywords: solid state diffusion,cooper pair injection,josephson junction,quantum dot
Safe Robot Navigation in Dense Crowds (CROWDBOT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Robotics SPARC (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,France,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Advanced robot capabilities research and take-up (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3997660.0
EU funding (EUR): 3997660.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

CROWDBOT will enable mobile robots to navigate autonomously and assist humans in crowded areas. Today’s robots are programmed to stop when a human, or any obstacle is too close, to avoid coming into contact while moving. This prevents robots from entering densely frequented areas and performing effectively in these high dynamic environments. CROWDBOT aims to fill in the gap in knowledge on close interactions between robots and humans during navigation tasks. The project considers three realistic scenarios: 1) a semi-autonomous wheelchair that must adapt its trajectory to unexpected movements of people in its vicinity to ensure neither its user nor the pedestrians around it are injured; 2) the commercially available Pepper robot that must navigate in a dense crowd while actively approaching people to assist them; 3) the under development robot cuyBot will adapt to compact crowd, being touched and pushed by people. These scenarios generate numerous ethical and safety concerns which this project addresses through a dedicated Ethical and Safety Advisory Board that will design guidelines for robots engaging in interaction in crowded environments. CROWDBOT gathers the required expertise to develop new robot capabilities to allow robots to move in a safe and socially acceptable manner. This requires achieving step changes in a) sensing abilities to estimate the crowd motion around the robot, b) cognitive abilities for the robot to predict the short term evolution of the crowd state and c) navigation abilities to perform safe motion at close range from people. Through demonstrators and open software components, CROWDBOT will show that safe navigation tasks can be achieved within crowds and will facilitate incorporating its results into mobile robots, with significant scientific and industrial impact. By extending the robot operation field toward crowded environments, we enable possibilities for new applications, such as robot-assisted crowd traffic management.
Development of thin film Solar cells based on WIde band Gap kesterite absorbers (SWInG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: New knowledge and technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Belgium,Sweden,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands
Call: New knowledge and technologies (H2020-LCE-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3254755.0
EU funding (EUR): 3254755.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is to develop wide band gap thin film solar cells based on kesterite absorbers for future application in high efficiency and low cost tandem PV devices. The SWInG working group will focus both on the development of the processes for the synthesis of such solar cells based on the Cu2ZnXY4 (CZXY with X=Sn, Si, Ge and Y= S, Se) compounds and on the understanding of the physical and electrical properties of the high band gap absorber in order to reach high conversion efficiency. The key research challenges will be: developing up-scalable processes for the synthesis of the absorbers; defining the specifications for high quality wide band gap absorbers as well as suitable back contact and buffer/window layers; assessing the potential of this technology for PV applications. The wide band gap thin films solar cells developed in this project are expected to reach a stable efficiency of 15 % on a laboratory scale and 12 % for a mini-module prototype. The publications of specifications for the synthesis of high quality Cu2ZnXY4 absorber as well as suitable back/front contact are expected. The lead users will be PV modules manufacturers that work so far with thin films technologies, as well as the companies that design and produce the machines for the synthesis of such devices. The results will be disseminated and communicated to the European PV industries and the scientific community. The intensive exchange of researchers between the partners during the project will also lead to an enhanced European collaboration in the research field of thin film solar cells.

Keywords: thin film,photovoltaic,semiconductor,kesterite,cztsse,wide band gap,high efficiency,tandem
Zebrafish avatar as a real-time in vivo platform for personalized cancer therapeutics (MY FISH CURE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector (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

The Zebrafish Lab is a biotechnological company leader in the development and commercialization of novel, tailor-made solutions based on in vivo zebrafish assays. Thanks to the extensive knowledge acquired by the R&D projects performed in the field by our team for many years and a close collaboration with Hospitals and Cancer Research Institutions, we have identified a remarkable opportunity in MY FISH CURE project that will mean a 5-year after tax-R.O.I of 490% according to our estimations. The ultimate goal of the project presented as MY FISH CURE is to complete the clinical studies required to bring to the healthcare market a novel real time in vivo platform for personalized cancer treatment based on the use of zebrafish “avatars” as personalized, living test tubes. Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality with approx. 35 million people affected by this disease and more than 7 million deaths per year. A major difficulty found in effective cancer treatment is the complexity of the biological mechanism underlying cancer onset and disease progression. As such, different people respond differently to the same therapy. Personalized cancer therapy can provide a solution to these challenges in cancer treatment. In MY FISH CURE project we seek overcoming the mayor barriers currently preventing the use of zebrafish avatars as in vivo models for patient-directed interventions, so for their use in a clinical context instead of a research or drug development context. Thanks to MY FISH CURE project, we will become the first company in the world offering zebrafish avatar models for personalized cancer care.

Keywords: personalized medicine,in vivo drug screening,cancer
Cold Ion Chemistry - Experiments within a Rydberg Orbit (CICERO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2130088.0
EU funding (EUR): 2130088.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

To date no experiment has investigated ion-molecule reactions at temperatures significantly below about 20 K, for two reasons: (i) Cooling the translational and internal degrees of freedom of ions and molecules is extremely challenging. (ii) Even very weak stray electric fields accelerate the ions. A potential difference of only 1 mV across the reaction volume imparts a kinetic energy of 1 meV to ions, which corresponds to a temperature of about 12 K. Quantum mechanical effects arising from the translational and the frozen or hindered rotational motion of the reactants in the intermolecular potential are only expected to be significant below 20 K and have therefore not been observed yet in ion-molecule reactions, even for reactions involving the lightest ions and molecules. This proposal aims at developing a new experimental method to study ion-molecule reactions at temperatures down to 100 mK and to study ion-molecule reactions involving light species, with particular emphasis placed on the observation and quantification of quantum effects in low-temperature ion-molecule chemistry. To reach this goal, we will study the ion-molecule reactions within the orbit of a highly excited Rydberg electron, which will shield the reaction from stray fields without affecting its outcome. To reach very low collision energies, we will use a merged-beam approach relying on a surface-electrode Rydberg-Stark deflector. In the preparatory phase of this proposal, we have carried out a proof-of-principle measurement of the H2+ + H2 -> H3+ + H reaction below 1 K using a simplified version of the "ideal" instrument and demonstrated the feasibility of our method. We now plan to exploit the full potential of our new approach and study important ion-molecule reactions in a temperature range thought until now to be experimentally inaccessible.

Keywords: ion molecule reactions,cold chemistry,rydberg molecules
SMart mobILity at the European land borders (SMILE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Strengthen security through border management
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Norway,Greece,Romania,Bulgaria,Hungary,Greece,Greece,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Towards reducing the cost of technologies in land border security applications (H2020-SEC-2016-2017-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999276.25
EU funding (EUR): 4999276.25
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

SMILE proposes a novel mobility concept that addresses the aforementioned challenges by designing, implementing and evaluating in relevant environments (TRL6) prototype management architecture, for the accurate verification, automated control, monitoring and optimization of people’ flows at Land Border Infrastructures. It leverages the capabilities of the smart mobile devices in biometric control for secure and trusted authentication, and elaborates on their exploitation as part of a multimodal biometric verification process that supplements / complements existing approaches. Furthermore, SMILE’s mobility concept builds upon Private Cloud Infrastructure technologies which communicate with remote SMILE handhelds through a secure gateway. SMILE ecosystem will target EU land borders which will be the beneficiaries of the proposed solutions. In fact, the proposed technology and business framework developed in SMILE will be validated through pan-European demonstrations in 3 BCPs. The operational properties of the technologies and overall solution will be validated and evaluated against cost, performance, effectiveness and usability indicators. Use cases will be supported by different architectural designs, which will be classified according to the operation mode. BCPs participating in the project’s pilots will deploy and evaluate the solution at business as usual and emergency situations across various status operations. SMILE aims to (1) minimise the exposure of BCPs to security risks and threats, and (2) help them successfully respond to security incidents, while relieving them from all unnecessary and costly efforts of identifying, acquiring and using the appropriate technology. To this CNBP, HBP & RBP BCP partners will deploy and validate the proposed secure & reliable ecosystem in two use cases (Romania Bulgaria), in which the adaptation of SMILE framework to focused applications will be performed.

Keywords: mobile biometrics at land bcps,multimodal and multifactor fusion,smart authentication and encryption,group biometric signature,low cost mobile integrated border identity management system
Renewable Energy and Connectivity Hub (REACH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Being a world leader in e-learning, e-banking and remote healthcare, EU companies are yet struggle to access the potential market of 1.4 billion off-grid people in developing regions. Off-grid communities in these regions rely on mobile phones for communication and to access essential services such as money transfer, healthcare. Without viable renewable alternatives, off-grid power in developing regions is currently provided through highly unsustainable fossil fuelled methods, and internet connectivity is exceptionally limited. This creates a significant business opportunity for providing reliable, clean and affordable charging for mobile phones and internet access. BuffaloGrid has developed a unique solar power based Hub system and a patent-pending remote payment control mechanism by which mobile phones (or other devices) can be charged under the control of a central server to ensure accountability, transparency and market insights. By combining renewable power and internet connectivity, BuffaloGrid enables EU companies to deliver essential internet-based services (e.g., e-health, e-education, e-governance etc) in developing regions. BuffaloGrid supplies Hubs free to local agents, offering them opportunities to provide mobile charging and internet access to their local communities. This will stimulate local enterprise, encourage entrepreneurship and boost economic development. BuffaloGrid’s unique model of providing the Hub for free, and unlocking access to power, allows demand to be met without charging high fees. Powered by solar energy, BuffaloGrid Hubs are emission-free during use and BuffaloGrid will take back Hubs for upgrade/ remanufacture/recycling at EoL (End-of-Life). During this project BuffaloGrid will develop a detail design of cost-optimised, mass-producible BuffaloGrid Hub with EU supply chain. It will also develop a detail business plan which will include partnership with potential local agents and EU online-based service providers.

Keywords: social business,off grid internet,community economic development,micro enterprise
Engaged humanities in Europe: Capacity building for participatory research in linguistic-cultural heritage (ENGHUM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Twinning (H2020-TWINN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999836.25
EU funding (EUR): 999836.25
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw aims at reaching the scientific excellence in the area of participatory action research in linguistic-cultural heritage and revitalization of endangered languages. The project will make it possible to bridge several huge gaps in current humanistic research, including its relatively limited impact on a broader society, the lack of connection between research and its practical applications, restricted access to generated knowledge and strong division, artificial as it is, between linguistic and cultural studies. By overcoming these challenges, AL UW will become a leading institution in this area of research representing a strong innovation potential. The ENGHUM project will implement an innovative scientific strategy and capacity building for this institution in close cooperation with two partner institutions: the Department of Linguistics at SOAS, University of London and Leiden University’s Centre for Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and the Department of Archaeological Heritage within the Faculty of Archaeology. Both partners, leading European institutions in their fields, provide high-level expertise as well as research and teaching experience related to linguistic studies, including language revitalization and community-oriented programs, digital humanities, advanced methods of fieldwork and ethnolinguistic documentation, heritage studies as well as novel forms of collaboration with non-academic partners. All these lines of expertise are essential components of participatory research in linguistic-cultural heritage and language revitalization that forms the core area of the ENGHUM project. They relate closely to a fast developing line of research at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, recognized as the main vehicle toward its research excellence, but strongly underrepresented in the research experience developed so far in this centre.

Keywords: participatory action research,community based research,language revitalization,linguistic cultural heritage