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Worldwide unique, resource-conserving and energy-efficient treatment of industrial wastewater polluted by oils and heavy metals for implementing the EU Water Framework Directive in a company (CPB 4.0)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In most of the countries in Europe and throughout the world, industrial effluents which are not sufficiently treated or not treated at all are supplied to municipal wastewater treatment plants via the sewage system or directly into water bodies, resulting in severe damage to the environment. In order to resolve these problems and to achieve the objectives of the European Water Framework 2000/60/EC on improving water quality, OKO-tech has developed the method OKO-CPB 4.0 for treating industrial wastewaters which is unique worldwide. A holistic and sustainable concept for treating industrial wastewaters is put into effect here for the first time. Energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by more than 90 % compared to the conventional methods in an average treatment plant, which corresponds to the annual electricity consumption of 900 single-family homes. The achieved water quality allows both reuse and direct discharge into water bodies. There is a strong demand in Germany alone, as for about 21,000 treatment plants for industrial wastewater - treatment volume about 2.1 billion m³/a - a retrofit is required in the short and medium term. Thus, industrial enterprises and waste recyclers throughout Europe can use a method that implements the 2000/60/EC requirements and reduces energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions at the same time – a major contribution to climate protection. On a global scale, the world’s rising industrial demand of water can be covered by water reuse only. For international market launch, potential users require verification of the functionality in form of a pilot system or reference systems as a basis for their investment decisions. As part of phase 1 of the project, feasibility and market entry strategy will be worked out with an intensive market analysis and subsequent business plan. The results will be used for calculating in a transparent way the funding needs for the market entry measures required in phase 2.

Keywords: water framework directive,wastewater treatment,resource conservation,zero waste,energy efficiency,reuse,sustainability,best available techniques
The Early Romantic Theory of Language: Experimental linguistics around 1800 (Lingua)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2021-04-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212194.8
EU funding (EUR): 212194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

German early Romanticism is known as one of the most important intellectual movements in Germany around 1800. Almost unknown, however, is the fact that the early Romantics developed an avantgarde theory of language. With my project, I pursue two objectives: (1) I will give the first written account of this theory by describing its emergence, development, and main ideas. (2) I will then demonstrate the relevance of these ideas for contemporary philosophy and sciences. The early Romantic theory of language is based upon the concept of the universality of language. As language structures our perceptions and emotions, it also constitutes our knowledge, comprising thus all parts of human existence – sciences, arts, society. Consequently, the early Romantics considered the function of language with regard to such different matters such as truth, personality, political and social processes, education, poetry. Moreover, they began to study language as a phenomenon in its own right, thereby establishing historical-comparative grammar as a new linguistic method. It seems as if this extended perspective on language can be applied on several problems that contemporary sciences are dealing with: e. g. intersubjectivity, identity, transformational grammar, artificial intelligence etc. In most of these sciences, particularly in natural sciences, a communication model is dominating which explains language as a mere exchange of information between a sender and a receiver. Only recently, it has been realized that this concept of language is insufficient. While modern sciences tend to reduce language to its logical functions, the early Romantics theorized about and experimented with ambiguous, paradoxical, or even contradictory figures that classical logic is unable to deal with. Instead of a static, closed frame, they favoured a highly exploratory and open thinking. It is very important to recover these ideas and offer an epistemological alternative to prevailing scientific models.

Keywords: german early romanticism,philosophy of language,history of ideas
Market maturation of innovative Flexible modules for temporary sealing of construction Buildings (FLEXBUILD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2516590.0
EU funding (EUR): 1761613.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Danish SME Altiflex aims to revolutionize the way buildings are sealed during construction by presenting a completely new system - FlexBuild - with several advantages when compared to the solutions based on wood frames and plastic. Given the drawbacks of existing solutions, Altiflex has developed a unique, yet simple modular concept that seals buildings under construction in an effective way. These modules are flexible and adjustable in size, and can be connected together in countless ways. Moreover, FlexBuild has an outstanding durability (high impact-resistant) and long-life span (15 years), which enables its re-use in construction projects, and initial calculations have shown that its use can save up to 60% on energy costs during the cold winter months (when compared with plastic seals).Therefore, the use of Altiflex solution improves sustainability of construction processes by reducing both CO2 emission and waste disposal from construction sites. Building upon the experience with a preliminary version of the modular solution and patent-protected know-how (developed in-house at the SME), the current innovation project aims to bring Altiflex technology from prototype level to industrial and commercial readiness – by overcoming technical and market-related barriers – in order to effectively tackle a huge business opportunity. We aim to be a first mover and become established in the increasingly important market of sustainable construction – in the EU alone, the whole construction sector turnover amounts to more than €1600 billion. Overall, this opens not only an important economic opportunity for Altiflex – expecting over €58million revenues, 5-years post-project – but will ultimately lead to a sustainability and lower environmental footprint of construction processes, as well as important cost savings for the end-users.

Keywords: temporary building enclosure,construction buildings,environmental sustainability,energy,savings,insulation,flexible modules
Trigeneration systems based on heat pumps with natural refrigerants and multiple renewable sources. (TRI-HP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Belgium,Norway,Switzerland,Sweden,Switzerland,Switzerland,Denmark
Call: Renewable energy system integrated at the building scale (H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-TwoStages, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4993080.0
EU funding (EUR): 4993080.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The overall goal of the TRI-HP project is the development and demonstration of flexible energy-efficient and affordable trigeneration systems. The systems will be based on electrically driven natural refrigerant heat pumps coupled with renewable electricity generators (PV), using cold (ice slurry), heat and electricity storages to provide heating, cooling and electricity to multi-family residential buildings with a self-consumed renewable share of 80%. TRI-HP systems will include advanced controls, managing electricity, heat and cold in a way that optimizes the performance of the system and increases its reliability via failure self-detection. The flexibility will be achieved by allowing for three heat sources: solar (with ice/water as storage medium), ground and ambient air. The innovations proposed will reduce the system cost by at least 10-15% compared to current heat pump technologies with equivalent energetic performances. Two natural refrigerants with very low global warming potential, propane and carbon dioxide, will be used as working fluids for adapted system architectures that specifically target the different heating and cooling demands across Europe. The newly-developed systems will find application in both new and refurbished multi-family buildings, allowing to cover the major part of Europe’s building stock. The new systems reduce GHG emissions by 75% compared to gas boilers and air chillers. The TRI-HP project will provide the most appropriate knowledge and technical solutions in order to cope with stakeholder’s needs, building demand characteristics, local regulations and social barriers. Two system concepts will be developed for two different combinations of heat sources, i) dual ground/air source and ii) solar with ice-slurry as intermediate storage. These two concepts combined with the two heat pump types developed (CO2 and propane) will lead to three complete systems (CO2-ice, propane-ice and propane-dual) that will be tested in the laboratory.

Keywords: heat pumps,solar thermal,ice slurry
COllaborative Consortium for the early detection of LIver CANcer (COCLICAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Belgium,Lithuania,France,France,France,France,Lao People's Democratic Republic,Peru
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 450800.0
EU funding (EUR): 450800.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Hepatitis B (HBV) and C virus (HCV) are the most important etiologic agents of Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is the second leading cause of tumour related death in the world. The burden of HCC in developing countries represents a major challenge in global public health for the oncoming decades. Clinically, HCC patients have a very poor prognosis and high 5-year mortality rate except when detected early. As a result, HCC early detection is a critical parameter to anticipate the initiation of a tumour process, but affordable and discriminant diagnostic tools are lacking. A consortium of European and Third Countries institutions (Peru and Laos) gathered within the project COCLICAN proposes to tackle this issue through the analysis of metabolomics serum profiles of a large cohort of HBV-HBC infected patients to delineate a bunch of molecules predictive of the emergence of liver cancer. The performance of a low-cost and open-source echo-stethoscope connected to a smartphone will also be assessed, to allow early detection of tumorogenesis in health care underserved areas. This will be possible, thanks to the construction of a sustainable scientific and academic network of engineers, researchers and clinicians mobilised to exchange expertise, skills, technologies, biological material, deployed in three continents: Europe, South America and Asia. COCLICAN has been designed to improve research collaborations, to reinforce capacities, to enhance knowledge of partners and students involved in the project, but also to raise awareness of policy makers and to participate to the innovation potential improvement at the European and global levels. COCLICAN will therefore respond to the health needs of left behind populations, all around the world.

Keywords: liver cancer,hepatitis,metabolomics,diagnostic imaging,developing countries
Development of a Decision Support System for Improved Resilience & Sustainable Reconstruction of historic areas to cope with Climate Change & Extreme Events based on Novel Sensors and Modelling Tools (HYPERION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Cultural heritage
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Italy,Cyprus,Greece,Norway,Greece,Greece,Norway,Greece,Finland,Switzerland
Call: Resilience and sustainable reconstruction of historic areas to cope with climate change and hazard events (H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5997728.75
EU funding (EUR): 5997728.75
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

HYPERION aims to introduce a research framework for downscaling the created climate and atmospheric composition as well as associated risk maps down to the 1x1 km (historic area) scale, and specific damage functions for Cultural Heritage (CH) materials. Applying atmospheric modelling for specific Climate Change (CC) scenarios at such refined spatial and time scales allows for an accurate quantitative and qualitative impact assessment of the estimated micro-climatic and atmospheric stressors. HYPERION will perform combined hygrothermal and structural/geotechnical analysis of the CH sites (indoor climate, HVAC, related strains and stresses, etc.) and damage assessment under normal and changed conditions, based on the climatic zone, the micro-climate conditions, the petrographic and textural features of building materials, historic data for the structures, the effect of previous restoration processes and the environmental/physical characteristics of the surrounding environment. The data coming from the integrated monitoring system will be coupled with simulated data (under our holistic resilience assessment platform-HRAP) and will be further analysed through our data management system, while supporting communities’ participation and public awareness. The data from the monitoring system will feed the DSS so as to provide proper adaptation and mitigation strategies, and support sustainable reconstruction plans for the CH damages. The produced vulnerability map will be used by the local authorities to assess the threats of CC (and other natural hazards), visualize the built heritage and cultural landscape under future climate scenarios, model the effects of different adaptation strategies, and ultimately prioritize any rehabilitation actions to best allocate funds in both pre- and post-event environments. The project outcomes will be demonstrated to four European historic areas in Norway, Spain, Italy and Greece (representing different climatic zones).

Keywords: downscaled climatic maps,hygrothermal,structural and geotechnical simulation tool,computer vision and machine learning,holistic resilience assessment platform,social platform for awareness
MAgneto-elastic coupling eXploitation in Bulk Acoustic Resonators (MAXBAR)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is an ever increasing amount of data that needs to be transmitted, processed, and stored by mobile communication technologies like today’s smartphones and tomorrow’s numerous connected devices. Presently, the raw measurement signals need to be amplified, pre-conditioned, and converted to digital signals before they can be processed. Thus, there is clear impetus to supplement next generation radio technologies with analog signal processing functionalities to perform computation directly on the measured signals. By conducting research at the interface between nanomagnetism, acoustics, microwave engineering and micro-electromechanical systems, MAXBAR aims to integrate low power spin-wave signal processing capabilities with state-of-the-art acoustic wave resonators widely used in RF communication systems to distinguish between signals at different frequencies. It is motivated by the premise that the coupling between spin-waves and acoustic waves in nanosystems can be leveraged (i) to overcome the intrinsic limitations plaguing acoustic wave technology, and (ii) to simultaneously deliver an energy efficient microwave interface for spin waves – the holy grail of magnonics. The primary objective is to establish a platform in which strongly hybridized magneto-elastic resonant modes enables new technological functionalities, such as the tunability of bulk acoustic wave filters and the development of non-reciprocity in acoustical wave based delay lines. The project builds upon the host institution’s expertise in microwave measurements of spin-wave propagation, interference processes and magnetization dynamics, while relying on next-generation acoustic wave resonators developed at the secondment institute to demonstrate its objectives. The applicant is an expert in the design, fabrication and characterization of nanomechanical microwave devices and will thus complement its skills by adding nanomagnetism and acoustics in his competences.

Keywords: microwave filter tunability,microwave non reciprocity,tunable acoustic resonators
Model theory of groups in NIP theories (GROUPNIP)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project is in model theory (mathematical logic), with close connections to algebra, especially group theory. Model theory concerns expressibility in logical languages of properties of mathematical structures (e.g. graphs or groups). A key notion is that of a `definable set' (generalising algebraic varieties). Model theory identifies `tame' classes of structures/theories such as stable theories, or the much richer class of NIP theories in which definable sets are well-understood, and finds/applies generalisations of geometric notions such as algebraic independence. This project focusses on groups in NIP theories, both as invariants and as definable objects. The three research Workpackages (with specific objectives) concern (1) Applying methods from the recently-developed `Polish structures' to problems of topological dynamics of type spaces in NIP theories, (2) finding methods to compute homology groups (which measure `n-amalgamation') of generically stable types in NIP theories, and characterising the homology groups for algebraically closed valued fields, (3) examining the fine structure of NIP profinite groups, viewed in a 2-sorted language with open subgroups uniformly definable. The Fellow, Dobrowolski, will receive training through research in the model theory groups in Leeds and (on a 3-month secondment) in Lyon. There will be knowledge transfer to Dobrowolski of expertise in model theory, group theory, and topological dynamics in Leeds and Lyon, and Dobrowolski will transfer to Leeds and Lyon the understanding he has built up in Wroclaw and Seoul, on Polish structures and homology groups of first order theories. He will be supervised by Macpherson in Leeds and Wagner in Lyon, but also interact with the large model theory groups in both centres. He will receive complementary training in Leeds on a range of professional academic skills, including outreach, and will take advantage of opportunities for outreach activities in Leeds related to his research.

Keywords: model theory,group theory,stable theory,nip theory,topological dynamics,model theoretic amalgamation,p adic analytic group
Mobility in situ: Debating emigration and return in Western Mali (MOBILIMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: France,Mali
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2021-08-02
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173212.2
EU funding (EUR): 173212.2
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Located in Western Mali, at the junction with Senegal and Mauritania, the area of Kayes has a long history of sustained involvement in transnational migration, notably towards France. The region bears the material and social imprints of decades of international migration in its infrastructures, buildings, family relations, and local notions of success and failure. Though this migration and its social effects have been the topic of a wide range of studies, the local understandings and discussions of these dynamics have been under-researched. Dwelling on developments in anthropology and African studies that highlight the importance of local expressive practices, this project focuses on three arenas where emigration and, more specifically, return have been debated: a village created by returnees in 1977; a local radio initiated by emigrants in 1987; individual trajectories of returnees from France to one village. In each field-site, biographical narratives will be combined with corpora of local productions of distinct sorts: personal documents such as family letters or cassettes; public discourses such as listeners’ letters to the radio and songs; and personal archives including photographs. The project will discuss the issue of return, a heavily politically and morally loaded one, by bringing together the individual and collective stories of returnees from distinct generations (those returning as adults in the 1970s and those returning in the 2000s), and the public discourses of each time. It will also question the way it is currently memorialized. While contributing to anthropological discussions on return migration, the ambition of the project is also to offer a better understanding of a key zone of emigration to Europe. Since the European Union is committed to address the root causes of migration, and funds initiatives to prevent migration, providing knowledge on local debates on migration can offer resources for designing effective programs in this field.

Keywords: migration,return migration,local radios,african expressive cultures,mali west africa,soninke language