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Family, Power, Memory: Female Monasticism in Italy from 700 to 1100 (ITNUN)

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: Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180277.2
EU funding (EUR): 180277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recent history amply demonstrates the importance of religious belief as a fundamental historical force. In studying early medieval Europe, we see how crucial it has been in the creation of our own identity, underlying our belief systems, cultural assumptions and core values, as well as our institutions. Modern history and anthropology help us pose questions of immediate concern on ethnicity and nationality, women and gender, identity and belief. I have engaged with these issues previously, with a multidisciplinary mix of history, anthropology, art history and archaeology. This research project on Italian female monasteries from 700 to 1100 is also comparative and interdisciplinary. To understand medieval society, it is essential to understand monasticism, and crucial to include Italy. I propose to bring together an integrated and broad-sweeping perspective by joining these together, and to approach the study of religious women as a laboratory for exploring the complex relationship between gender and power. Royal or aristocratic monasteries have sources detailing the names, background and activities of nuns, representative of the political and ethnic composition of Italian society. To study the evolution of nunneries makes it possible to trace changes in Italian political, social and cultural patterns, with the intermingling of family and politics. Understanding the tensions between early medieval Italian society’s male-controlled political and religious power, and the influence of noble women as queens and nuns, is essential for grasping women’s ideological and spiritual power, and for recognizing the changing configurations of medieval Italy, a key factor for comprehending some issues still at stake in Italian society today. Generally, a study of key mechanisms concerning the relationship between women, religious belief and behaviour, and politics and society can, through comprehending these in the past, illuminate key aspects of modern European societies.

Keywords: ethnicity,social change and integration of elites,gender and power,religious belief in society,women in society
A panEuropean framework for strengthening Critical Infrastructure resilience to climate change (EU-CIRCLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Cyprus,Croatia,Poland,Greece,Croatia,Norway,Greece,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Disaster Resilience & Climate Change topic 1: Science and innovation for adaptation to climate change: from assessing costs, risks and opportunities to demonstration of options and practices (H2020-DRS-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7283525.0
EU funding (EUR): 7283525.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

It is presently acknowledged and scientifically proven than climate related hazards have the potential to substantially affect the lifespan and effectiveness or even destroy of European Critical Infrastructures (CI), particularly the energy, transportation sectors, buildings, marine and water management infrastructure with devastating impacts in EU appraising the social and economic losses. The main strategic objective of EU-CIRCLE is to move towards infrastructure network(s) that is resilient to today’s natural hazards and prepared for the future changing climate. Furthermore, modern infrastructures are inherently interconnected and interdependent systems ; thus extreme events are liable to lead to ‘cascade failures’. EU-CIRCLE’s scope is to derive an innovative framework for supporting the interconnected European Infrastructure’s resilience to climate pressures, supported by an end-to-end modelling environment where new analyses can be added anywhere along the analysis workflow and multiple scientific disciplines can work together to understand interdependencies, validate results, and present findings in a unified manner providing an efficient “Best of Breeds” solution of integrating into a holistic resilience model existing modelling tools and data in a standardised fashion. It, will be open & accessible to all interested parties in the infrastructure resilience business and having a confirmed interest in creating customized and innovative solutions. It will be complemented with a webbased portal.The design principles, offering transparency and greater flexibility, will allow potential users to introduce fully tailored solutions and infrastructure data, by defining and implementing customised impact assessment models, and use climate / weather data on demand.

Keywords: european infrastructures
Feasibility study on the development of LipVerify - a new viseme based user authentication service. (LipVerify)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Engaging SMEs in security research and development (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The LipVerify project will explore the feasibility of commercialising a new service which provides secure access to sensitive data, applications and physical areas via a unique biometric authentication technique - based on analysis of the users lip movements. Significant R&D carried out over the last ten years within the Centre for Secure IT (CSIT) in Belfast has resulted in the development of a number of unique algorithms in the area of VISEME ANALYSIS. CSIT is a €40M innovation and knowledge centre based at Queen's University Belfast (QUB). With over 90 research staff in information security and cyber-physical security, it is the UK’s largest research centre in cyber security. It is recognised by the UK Research Council and GCHQ as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, specialising in fields such as applied cryptography, network security systems, critical infrastructure protection and intelligent surveillance systems. Implementation of the Viseme Analysis algorithms has demonstrated, through testing with a number of large and independent data sets, that leveraging the technology for user authentication can be highly accurate and secure. When accessing a sensitive application on e.g. a mobile device, the user is asked to say or mouth a random challenge phrase which is displayed on screen. The system provides secure user authentication AND verifies "liveness" to ensure that the system is not being "spoofed" - a common weakness with most biometric techniques. In 2015 Liopa Limited was formed as the commercial vehicle to onward develop and productise this technology. This feasibility study aims to do a detailed study of the market for biometric authentication systems, determine market requirements and potential market verticals, demonstrate an early version of the technology to a prospective customers in their environment, and product a high level business plan for the development and market introduction of a commercial product.

Keywords: viseme analysis,lip based biometrics,biometric user authentication
Safe and Complete Algorithms for Bioinformatics (SAFEBIO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498367.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498367.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Many real-world problems are modeled as computational problems, but unfortunately with incomplete data or knowledge. As such, they may admit a large number of solutions, and we have no way of finding the correct one. This issue is sometimes addressed by outputting all solutions, which is infeasible for many practical problems. We aim to construct a general methodology for finding the set of all sub-solutions common to all solutions. We can ultimately trust these to be part of the correct solution. We call this set "safe". Ultimately, we aim at creating automated and efficient ways of reporting all safe sub-solutions of a problem. The main motivation of this project comes from Bioinformatics, in particular from the analysis of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) of DNA. One of the main applications of HTS data is to assemble it back into the original DNA sequence. This genome assembly problem admits many solutions, and current research has indeed considered outputting only partial solutions that are likely to be present in the correct original DNA sequence. However, this problem has been approached only from an experimental point of view, with no definite answer on what are all the safe sub-solutions to report. In fact, the issue of safe sub-solutions has been mostly overlooked in Bioinformatics and Computer Science in general. This project will derive the first safe algorithms for a number of fundamental problems about walks in graphs, network flows, dynamic programming. We will apply these inside practical tools for genome assembly, RNA assembly and pan-genome analysis. This is very relevant at the moment, because HTS goes from research labs to hospitals, and we need answers that are first of all accurate. Our approach changes the perspective from which we address all real-world problems, and could spur a new line of research in Computer Science/Bioinformatics. The grand aim is a mathematical leap into understanding what can be safely reported from the data.

Keywords: genome assembly,rna transcripts,pan genomes,edit distance,variant calling,graph algorithms,walks,network flows,shortest paths,bipartite matching,dynamic programming
Production back to Europe – through a novel/green manufacturing process of TERbinafine API synthESis (TERES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Synthetics Int. AG is a Swiss company strongly R&D driven which holds a variety of IP/commercial processes in the chemical business focused on the custom manufacturing and multi-customer products for the fine chemical market and the supply of polyfunctional cross linkers, tailor made manufacturing equipment, and natural products for treatment of wood. With a consolidated 20 years of history, Synthetics is a reference in the fine chemistry market. Within this project, in order to improve the synthesis of one of the most efficient dermatologic antifungals in the market, Terbinafine Hydrochloride, Synthetics has developed TERES, an innovative manufacturing process for this API, achieving a cycle time reduction from 6 steps to 2 steps by using a clever catalyst in order to accelerate the reaction. This implies a lower operation time and, at the same time, raw materials savings and environmental costs reduction (water/air, energy, solvents and toxic products). In addition, a better impurity profile is achieved, what means less risk of side effects in the drug product and purifying costs reduction. Consequently, Synthetics can ease the move Terbinafine manufacturing back from India (currently 80% of production) to a manufacturing plant in Denmark with an extreme competitive pricing.

Keywords: terbinafine,chemist,antifungals,catalysts
Feasibility study on nature based more efficient 2-step bioleaching technology producing methane gas and metal compounds from “low grade” multimetallic European ores/wastes containing organometallics. (MetLeach)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SME is developing new nature based bioleaching routes for different organics and metals containing ores/wastes having metal compounds trapped in metallo-organic complexes. The effectiveness of the bioleaching process of ores considered so far as “low grade” is raised by 3 factors in BiotaTec (BT) approach: higher yield of metals, lower energy costs due to generation of methane gas, no additional costs for cooling of bioleaching. Bioleaching is growingly popular for processing low-grade ores as a cheap, reliable, efficient and environmentally friendly way to extract metals. In many ores, metals are present in 2 forms - as sulphides or in organo-metallic compounds called metallo-porphyrins. Although there is an extensive list of bioleaching studies using sulphide concentrates, much less is known about the microbial decomposition of organo-metallic complexes. The presence of organic material is believed to be the obstacle of efficient bioleaching of metals from specific European ores. The key component of the BT solutions is nutritional medium which is effective in activating special consortia of microorganisms. BT has found and deposited a mixture of hetherotrophic neutrophils and methanogenic archaea - a consortium of microorganisms that degrades the organic complex in anaerobic conditions at neutral pH and also leaches some metal compounds in the same anaerobic process. BiotaTec has drafted a new possible route for a low-grade ore /end of life products bioleaching process. The objective of a project is to evaluate the economic feasibility of the developed technological solution for ores in Europe - in situations where extracting valuable metals from ores has been either impossible or not cost-efficient and environmentally friendly due to large quantities of strong acids needed to break the complex. BiotaTec foresees becoming a provider of proprietary nutritional medium and support services for mining industries.

Keywords: bioleaching,nature based solution,raw materials,black ore,electronic waste,organometallic complexes,methane production
Interglacial Collapse of Ice Sheets revealed by Subglacial Drilling of Bedrock (INCISED)

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: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3430317.0
EU funding (EUR): 1345960.75
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) stores a substantial volume of freshwater on land. It is thought to be inherently unstable and so projections of future sea level rise require robust numerical ice sheet models, fully calibrated against geological data. The WAIS is widely believed to have collapsed in past warm interglacial periods, raising sea level by up to 3.3m, but perhaps surprisingly we do not yet have direct evidence of collapse from Antarctica that can be securely dated. Instead global sea level data have been used to infer that some combination of WAIS, Greenland and the East Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed in one or more past interglacials, but with substantial uncertainty as to how this mass loss was partitioned between the ice sheets. This matters because it means that models projecting future sea level are calibrated against an assumption of how small the WAIS became during past warm periods. I argue that a fresh approach is needed, one that provides direct evidence of WAIS retreat that can be dated and quantified. INCISED will provide this by rapid drilling to the ice sheet bed to retrieve direct records of past collapse. New modelling of cosmogenic isotope concentrations shows that hypotheses of past WAIS collapses can be tested by analysis of subglacial bedrock from carefully selected sites. INCISED exploits recent engineering advances in ice coring and a new subglacial rock drill to take bedrock samples which will be used to determine past lowering of the ice surface to test for WAIS collapse. Numerical ice sheet modelling will link changes in past ice levels to quantify the range of possible sea level contribution. By determining and quantifying the configuration of WAIS during warm periods I will provide firm targets for ice sheet model calibration and thus more secure future sea level projections. INCISED will deliver a transformative change in modelling of WAIS sea level contributions as well as a significant equipment legacy.

Keywords: sea level,cosmogenic isotopes,subglacial engineering
Revealing the function of dormant soil microorganisms and the cues for their awakening (DormantMicrobes)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 80.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499356.25
EU funding (EUR): 1499356.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Soils are considered the last scientific frontiers that harbor one of the most diverse microbial communities on Earth. It is hypothesized that this diversity allows for redundancy in microbial key processes, thereby ensuring ecosystem stability. Much of this functional redundancy is embodied in non-active, dormant microorganisms that represent the ‘microbial seed bank’, which is characterized by a high number of low abundant taxa. Based on the recent theory of a ‘dynamic rank-abundance curve’, it is hypothesized that the rare dormant organisms can be recruited to participate in a given function upon resuscitation with environmental cue(s). In this project I will test this hypothesis on a level that matters for ecosystem processes – the functional level – by an innovative approach combining stable isotope probing (SIP) and sequencing with process-level and single-cell activity analysis. By testing 4 hypotheses, we will (1) reveal environmental cues that resuscitate dormant microorganisms involved in major soil functions and identify the activated microorganisms. The activity of the resuscitated communities will be analyzed at the process level, as well as at the single-cell by NanoSIMS, thereby allowing us to elucidate the impact of dormancy/resuscitation dynamics on targeted processes at the population and ecosystem level. (2) We will investigate the genetics of microbial dormancy-resuscitation strategies in a natural model environment for dormancy, an arid ecosystem, by metatranscriptome analysis of critical dormancy-resuscitation steps. (3) We will retrieve genomic information of primarily rare, but after resuscitation active, microorganisms involved in important soil processes, as they presumably contain so far unknown genomic potential. In summary, this project will generate essential knowledge on the stability of microbial key processes and on the diversity, the function and the genetics of the dormant majority in terrestrial ecosystems.

Keywords: soil microbial ecology,dormancy,microbial seed bank,stable isotope probing,nanosims
Real-time optimal control of the CO2 heat pump system for residential use (ROCOCO2HP)

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: Norway
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202158.72
EU funding (EUR): 202158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to develop efficient real-time optimal control (RTOC) for the carbon dioxide (CO2) heat pump as a part of a building energy supply system and validate its reliability experimentally. This is necessary to increase the system efficiency. For a high system efficiency with CO2 heat pumps for heating purpose, a low water return temperature from building heating systems is crucially important. However, this is still difficult to achieve due to well-established heating solutions and control strategies that are not suitable for CO2 heat pumps. CO2 is considered as one natural refrigerant, which has the merit of nonflammability, non-toxicity, and low price when compared with traditional refrigerants. Current well-functioning control methods are developed for heat pumps based on HFCs. Current RTOCs have the disadvantage of large computational load, which makes them difficult to operate with real building energy systems. Furthermore, experimental validations for the developed RTOC cannot be conducted due to lack of advanced experimental conditions. A reliable and experimental-validated RTOC for CO2 heat pump systems is urgently needed. This project will be developed by combining my scientific expertise on RTOCs with advanced experimental conditions with the CO2 heat pump for residential heating use at the host laboratory. Model-based predictive control (MPC) will be used to develop the RTOC. Machine learning methods will be used to develop the non-linear system model. Further, the RTOC with multiplexed optimization strategy (MOS) will be implemented in simulation environment. After the reliability of the developed RTOC in simulation environment is validated, the RTOC will be tested in experimental conditions. Finally, the reliability of the developed RTOC will be validated in experimental conditions. This project will bring new knowledge and theories to develop the RTOC for CO2 heat pump systems and will help me become an independent researcher.

Keywords: co2 heat pump,real time optimal control,residential use,energy efficiency,thermodynamics,simulation,experimental study