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Biocontamination survey for Microbially Influenced Corrosion exposure TEST (MICTEST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain
Call: Bio contamination survey (H2020-CS2-CFP08-2018-01, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 497933.75
EU funding (EUR): 497933.75
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Microbially influenced corrosion (MIC) is a costly problem caused by microorganism growing in the hydrocarbon-water interphase, affecting fuel production and processing equipment, fuel storage tanks, fuel handling systems and other infrastructure. Anti-microbial and/or antibiofilm materials and coatings are promising solution to passively control bio-contamination by preventing the adherence and growth of species to surrounding surfaces. However, methods for assessing antimicrobial materials under industrially-relevant environments are still missing. Studies defining real bio-contamination and key parameters are fundamental. MICTEST will develop new bio-contamination exposure protocols for lab-scale validation of materials, coatings and components for aircraft fuel systems. MICTEST will be focused on: i) performing an exhaustive sampling of contaminated fuels and materials, ii) defining representative core microbiomes of microorganisms isolated from real samples, iii) determining key parameters mimicking real environments, iv) selecting representatives coatings, materials and components, and v) proposing the most appropriate combination of technologies for assessing antimicrobial/antibiofilm properties correlated with material degradation, coating performance and the potential effects on fuel properties. Different protocols will be developed and adapted to fuel type, material and environmental conditions that are representative of the bio-contamination developed in real scenarios. The added value of the new protocols will be demonstrated by performing validation studies in a list of materials (metallic elements, coatings, polymers) in 25L pilot tanks in climatic chambers for comparing the biofilms obtained following the new methods, current methods and the ones using real contaminated fuel samples. A final document including all the sections of international guidelines will be presented to IATA to explore the possibilities for standardization.

Keywords: biocontamination,aircraft fuel system,exposure protocols,bacteria,funghi,antimicrobial materials,antimicrobial coatings,material qualification
GLOBAL LITERARY THEORY (GlobalLIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498982.0
EU funding (EUR): 1434742.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Literary theory is often regarded as a twentieth century invention, with no precedents prior to modernity. This relegates older discourses on literature to the status of source material, pertaining to literature’s past, rather than as springboards for literature’s future. While the self-understanding of literary theory’s modernity helped to bring about the discipline’s birth, and hence was innovative in its own time, at present it accounts for many gaps and limits within its current structure, whereby European aesthetic categories remain normative and lesser-known geographies are marginalized within synthetic accounts of literary form. Even when the literatures studied are non-European, the literary theory used to understand these texts often circulates within a restricted set of modern European traditions. A more pluralistic approach to literary knowledge that takes account of the radically different temporalities in the genesis of literary form across different literary traditions, and which explores the different meanings of literature across varying historical and cultural contexts, will reinvigorate the discipline of literary studies with new understandings of the capacity of critique, new views of the role of aesthetic judgment and its ontological foundations, and new ways of imagining the status of literature—poetry in particular—in the public sphere. Through four case studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkic, and Georgian literary theory in the Islamic world (especially the Caucasus), we will produce co-authored articles, individual monographs, and a cumulative anthology of key contributions to literary theory from the Islamic world. Moving beyond the parameters of modernity itself, GlobalLIT seeks to invigorate the discipline of literary studies with new answers to ancient questions. While some of our texts have been studied before, most have not been the subject of sustained scholarly research, and have never before been placed into systematic comparison.

Keywords: world literature,literary theory,poetics,rhetoric,translation,transnational,caucasus,islam,middle east
From photoreceptors to perception: linking visual pigment biophysics to the speed of vision. (ConeOpsinsToPercept)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Finland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 190680.96
EU funding (EUR): 190680.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Vision operates across a billion-fold range of light intensities from a moonless night to a sunny beach. One mechanism contributing to this outstanding performance is the division of labor between two types of light-sensitive receptor cells, rods and cones. In dim light, vision is mediated by slow but highly sensitive rods. In brighter light, cones mediate vision with fast signal kinetics but lower sensitivity. It has been hypothesized that this division of labor corresponds to a fundamental tradeoff between sensitivity and speed common to any (man-made or biological) sensory system. However, the precise nature of this trade-off has remained unresolved, partly because changes in light levels involve fundamental changes in the neural circuits that read out and process rod and cone signals. This research plan proposes to resolve the trade-off between sensitivity and speed end-to-end from photoreceptor signal kinetics to retinal output and to visually-guided behavior with the resolution of single amino acid mutations. To address this ambitious goal, I will contribute my expertise in cone physiology and a battery of genetically modified mice in which single amino acid mutagenesis speeds-up or slows-down cone responses. The Ala-Laurila laboratory will provide the expertise and infrastructure required to causally link opsin biophysics to photoreceptor signaling, photoreceptor signaling to neural processing by the retina, and neural processing to mouse behavior and human perception. This combination of technologies and expertise is unique. As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, this proposal will enable my dream of returning to Europe to take on my first academic faculty job. Professionally, it will empower me to bridge the skills acquired during my Ph.D. to an integrative approach in neuroscience, and will allow me to form my own niche in the international scientific community.

Keywords: retina,physiology,photoreceptors,neural circuits,neural computations,opsins,vision
gan-on-Silicon Efficient mm-wave euRopean systEm iNtegration plAtform (SERENA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,Sweden,Sweden,Greece,Belgium,France
Call: Micro- and nanoelectronics technologies (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 47.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3910185.0
EU funding (EUR): 3910185.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Millimetre-wave (mm-wave) frequencies are currently being exploited for a wide range of applications such as radars, wireless communication, and imaging. There is a strong industry pull to substantially reduce the cost of mm-wave systems for future key markets such as 5G wireless communications and autonomous vehicles (automotive radar sensors). These systems will increasingly rely on active antenna arrays and electronic beam-steering. A fundamental challenge is to bring into production high performance mm-wave active antenna systems, at a viable price-point and low energy consumption. The objective of SERENA is to scale the functional performance of mm-wave beam-steering systems in terms of improved output power and efficiency (2x), reduced form factor (4x), increased data rate (up to 100x), and increased affordability (10x). To reach these goals, SERENA will provide an optimized hybrid analog/digital mm-wave beam-steering system architecture. A proof-of-concept prototype will be built using state-of-the-art GaN-on-Silicon technology, SiGe/CMOS integrated circuits and a novel heterogeneous 3D integration approach to reach low-cost with beyond state-of-the-art performance (high output power and efficiency). The SERENA project will contribute to doubling the economic value of semiconductor component production in Europe within the next 10 years by a two-pronged approach. First, the SERENA consortium spans the whole electronics manufacturing and supply chain (from wafers to system providers) and world class academic institutions. Hence, SERENA considerably strengthens the design ecosystem for key semiconductors (GaN-on-Si, SiGe/CMOS) and advanced 3D packaging. Second, the SERENA integration platform will enable “mass customization” of advanced mm-wave systems, where the front-end circuitry can be adapted for specific market needs.

Keywords: mm wave,packaging,wireless,beamforming
Services to enhance innovation management capacities of SMEs in England, Northern Ireland and Wales (ENIW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: H2020 ENTREPRISE EUROPE NETWORK SGA4 2020-2021 (H2020-EEN-SGA4-2020-2021, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2992540.0
EU funding (EUR): 2992540.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

A national service in support of recipients of the H2020 SME Instrument and for the improvement of innovation management in SMEs, with the purpose of more companies with growth potential achieving global scaling. Innovation is a vital ingredient of growth and an important element of the future success of the UK. With some 95% of R&D and innovation conducted outside of the UK and many major and lead-market shaping companies being of non-UK origin, access to knowledge, markets, skills and partners is increasingly taking place on a global basis. To ensure UK business stays competitive it is important that it is able to effectively access and exploit the growing trend towards global investment in research and innovation. Through our fully integrated EEN ENIW activities we will help businesses build collaborations and partnerships and access the finance, knowledge, skills, networks and customers to more rapidly move a concept through to commercialisation and to scale their business.

Keywords: innovation,innovation management,growth,scale up,collaborations,commercialisation,investment,internationalisation,account management,growth showcase,connections,global,markets,partners
Transversal Exploratory Research Activities for Railway (TER4RAIL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: European rail initiative
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: Shift2Rail (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Belgium,France,United Kingdom
Call: Transversal exploratory research activities and knowledge transfer (H2020-S2RJU-OC-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 499992.5
EU funding (EUR): 499992.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The Shift2Rail Multi Annual Action Plan (MAAP) will play a central role in the establishment of future interoperable railway systems suitable for European society and environment. However, it is necessary to be aware of the novel possibilities that can enable an increasingly sustainable progress in this regard. TER4RAIL will identify and monitor new opportunities for innovative research and facilitate the cross-fertilisation of knowledge from other disciplines, at what is referred to as the Rail Innovative Research Observatory. Permanent contact with other relevant sectors will have a prominent role in importing disruptive perspectives from other disciplines and facilitating interactions. TER4RAIL will determine and assess the existing roadmaps that drive the future of railways and compare them with the interpretations obtained from the observatory. This analysis will indicate the gaps that require to be covered and serve as the anchor for the prospective roadmaps. TER4RAIL considers railways as the backbone of future European mobility, as stated in the rail sector’s European Railway Research Advisory Council’s (ERRAC) Rail 2050 Vision published in December 2017, and therefore, it is necessary that TER4RAIL raise arguments that can sustain this essential system. To that end, data analysis and statistical reporting are foreseen and conducted. Finally, the work performed under TER4RAIL will be communicated to the transport community, liaising with the Shift2Rail communication team with a correlated communication strategy. A strategy of exploitation of the results will guarantee that these are properly employed in this area with maximum impact. TER4RAIL will be able to select and synthetize a considerable amount of information regarding railways’ futures and transmit them in a consolidated, improved, clear, and understandable manner. This should facilitate the realisation of TER4RAIL’s ambition of being the CSA of reference for the evolution of EU railways.

Keywords: transversal,exploratory,rail,research,errac
Nanoscale Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser and its Arrays (NOVEL)

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: Türkiye
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157845.6
EU funding (EUR): 157845.6
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Significant advances are needed to improve the speed and efficiency of future communication and computing systems. Photonic interconnect components are the only solution to offer both high speed and low power consumption. To this end, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have been widely deployed as optical interconnects in the last two decades. Even though the current VCSEL technology has been very successful, its processing approach has been proven to be particularly challenging for miniaturization, it reduces the reliability for small lasers and its high thermal resistance substantially degrades the lasers’ performance. This project addresses all these bottlenecks by focusing on the development of a nanoscale VCSEL (NOVEL) device for ultra-low threshold, energy efficient and ultra-fast operation for future optical interconnects and light sources. The driving idea of this proposal is based on using a lithographically defined laser concept to develop a novel growth and fabrication process for GaAs-based VCSELs. This will employ buried electrical- and optical-confinement method to provide us with a unique opportunity to scale the cavity down to 500 nm diameter to demonstrate the viability and performance of the NOVEL device. Additionally, this research proposal aims to investigate the potential of NOVEL array architectures for applications in sensing and innovative high beam quality lasers. This project is expected to have a strong impact both in academia and industry as it will open the way for great flexibility in the design of VCSELs and nanolasers with high reliability essential for commercialization of research. The NOVEL devices with their fundamentally new capabilities hold special promise in a wide range of scientific disciplines including optical communication, computer science, quantum electrodynamics, laser physics, on-chip nanophotonics and biosensing.

Keywords: semiconductor laser,nanolaser,vcsel
Targeting tubular reabsorption for kidney protection (RENOPROTECT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology of ageing, pathophysiology, interorgan and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition, metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1945250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1945250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Many forms of chronic kidney disease are featured by the loss of protein into the urine (proteinuria). When the cause of proteinuria lies within the glomerulus, such as in diabetic kidney disease, then the protein overload in the tubular lumen may lead to damage of the downstream tubular cells. Particularly vulnerable are proximal tubular cells (PTCs), because these cells are specialized in protein reabsorption and have a high metabolic demand. Dysfunction of the main albumin uptake receptor cubilin (encoded by the CUBN gene) leads to the reduction of albumin uptake and albuminuria. Here, we hypothesize that genetic variants in CUBN are key for providing a cell-to-cell variability that is beneficial for PTC homeostasis and resistance against proteinuric kidney disease. This hypothesis is based on our recent findings that 1.) CUBN mutations are well tolerated by humans despite their proteinuric effects and that 2.) the CUBN locus shows signatures of balancing selection during human evolution. To address this hypothesis, we will first functionally validate common CUBN variants and haplotypes in a humanized Drosophila model and test whether they provide protection against renal disease in mice. Second, we will explore monoallelic CUBN expression and partial cryptic exon inclusion as two possible genetic mechanisms by which CUBN variants could promote proximal tubule fitness and tissue repair. Finally, taking advantage of cubilin dysfunction as a “safe” means to avoid PTC overload, we will target PTC protein uptake in proteinuric mice with the help of a nanoparticle delivery method. Altogether, our integrative translational approach will combine human genetics and experimental studies to explore a new mechanism of proximal tubule homeostasis that may also be applicable to other tissues. Based on evolutionary genetics, we aim to establish a novel paradigm for kidney protection with high relevance for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of proteinuric kidney disease.

Keywords: human genetics,proteinuria,chronic kidney disease,monoallelic expression,cell competition
European Master for High Performance Computing (EUMaster4HPC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: European High Performance Computing
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EuroHPC (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Austria,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Cyprus,Switzerland,Türkiye,Bulgaria,Greece,Hungary,Poland,Poland,Poland,Slovenia,Slovenia,Slovenia,Sweden,Sweden,Poland,France,France,France,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Luxembourg,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Training and Education on High Performance Computing (H2020-JTI-EuroHPC-2020-03, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6999999.53
EU funding (EUR): 6999999.03
Participants: 52
Project status: SIGNED

Advancing education and training in High Performance Computing (HPC) and its applicability to HPDA and AI is essential for strengthening the world-class European HPC ecosystem. It is of primary importance to ensure the digital transformation and the sustainability of high-priority economic sectors. Missing educated and skilled professionals in HPC/HPDA/AI could prevent Europe from creating socio-economic value with HPC. The Hpc EuRopean ConsortiUm Leading Education activities (HERCULES) aims to develop a new and innovative European Master programme focusing on high performance solutions to address these issues. The master programme aims at catalysing various aspects of the HPC ecosystem and its applications into different scientific and industrial domains. HERCULES brings together major players in HPC education in Europe and mobilises them to unify existing programs into a common European curriculum. It leverages experience from various European countries and HPC communities to generate European added value beyond the potential of any single university. HERCULES emphasizes on collaboration across Europe with innovative teaching paradigms including co-teaching and the cooperative development of new content relying on the best specialists in HPC education in Europe. Employers, researchers, HPC specialists, supercomputing centres, CoEs and technology providers will constitute a workforce towards this master in HPC pilot programme. This pilot will provide a base for further national and pan-European educational programmes in HPC all over Europe and our lessons learned and the material development will accelerate the uptake of HPC in academia and industry. The creation of a European network of HPC specialists will catalyse transfers and mutual support between students, teachers and industrial experts. A particular focus on mobility of students and teachers will enable students to rapidly gain experience through internships and exposure to European supercomputing centres

Keywords: high performance data analytics,digital transformation,education,research,innovation