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Integrated Air Cooling Oil Cooled System (ACOC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Integrated air-oil cooling system (H2020-CS2-CFP03-2016-01, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-16
End date: 2020-01-15
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 949988.75
EU funding (EUR): 664276.38
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims is focused on the design and manufacture of a novel air-oil engine cooling system to be integrated into the engine bay. The project will investigate any better configurations to achieve the same heat rejection with lower weight and smaller overall dimensions than conventional ACOC systems. In addition, improved integration into the engine system (without impairing cooler efficiency) will be designed through the use numerical simulations via Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to assess the hydraulic, structural and aerodynamic impact of the ACOC installation. In addition to this an assessment of the heat management for the engine system will be required using 1D AMESIM simulation leading to a proposed heat management model and finally demonstrator hardware will be delivered for engine ground tests

Keywords: air oil engine cooling,heat exchanger,amesim
Marine Environmental DynamIcs and seX-based analysis for climate change adaptation in marine spatial planning (MEDIX)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-12-28
End date: 2023-12-27
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269002.56
EU funding (EUR): 269002.56
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

To effectively adapt to climate change (CC), a novel more dynamic approach in governing the oceans is needed. Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) – a public process aimed to allocate human uses at sea while maintaining multiple ecosystem services (ES) – as currently implemented is too static to adequately incorporate climate refugia and CC responses of marine life. The goal of my project is to provide a stronger, more complete model for the sustainable planning of marine ES in the California Current. MEDIX will significantly improve the traditional MSP process in a context of a fast-changing climate by creating a novel approach to MSP that incorporates a dynamic ES assessment under CC scenarios with a sex-based analysis of CC effects on species and ecosystems, to elaborate a guideline for adaptation actions in MSP. The California Current will provide an ideal case study to test the new approach for adaptation strategies to maintain the ES. Through the MSCA Global Fellowship, I will reinforce my expertise in ecosystem-based management in MSP with new interdisciplinary expertise and skills in ES modeling under CC and gendered innovations, which I will transfer back to Europe, where the development of adaptive strategies for MSP is relevant and timely. The GF envisages: i) an outgoing period at Stanford University, USA, where I will be involved in a major initiative to revise and adapt the marine protected areas network of the California Current within the national MSP initiative, in collaboration with governments, and ii) a return period at CNR, Italy, where I intend to build on and transfer the skills acquired to elaborate the adaptive MSP guidelines that I will make accessible to relevant European stakeholders through a process of science-to-policy and science-for-society engagement in the Mediterranean. At the end of my MSCA, CNR is expected to offer me a full-time research contract to enable me to continue expanding my research and taking its impact to further areas.

Keywords: marine spatial planning,climate change adaptation,climate refugia,environmental responses,ecosystem service supply,marine ecology,sex based analysis,gendered innovations,science to policy
Bio Innovation of a Circular Economy for Plastics (BioICEP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Greece,China,Serbia,Belgium,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Microorganism communities for plastics bio-degradation (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-BIO-CN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6904714.25
EU funding (EUR): 4997789.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The Bio Innovation of a Circular Economy for Plastics (BioICEP) is a pan European-Chinese collaboration formed to reduce the burden of plastic waste in the environment. Different mixed plastic pollution environments are represented, with specific partners selected which have the expertise and facilities to carry out the necessary technical innovations. A number of innovative booster technologies are at the core of this solution accentuating, expediting, and augmenting mixed plastics degradation to levels far in excess of those current achievable. Our approach is The Bio Innovation of a Circular Economy for Plastics (BioICEP) consortium is a pan European-Chinese collaborative formed to reduce the burden of plastic waste in the environment. The countries have been selected to represent different mixed plastic pollution environments, with specific partners selected which have the expertise and facilities to carry out the necessary technical innovations. Three innovative booster technologies are at the core of this solution accentuating, expediting, and augmenting plastics degradation to levels far in excess of those current achievable. Our approach is a triple-action depolymerisation system where plastic waste will be broken down in three consecutive processes: 1) mechano-biochemical disintegration processes, including a new proprietary sonic-green-chemical technology to reduce the polymer molecular weight of the base polymer to make it amenable to biodegradation; 2) biocatalytic digestion, with enzymes enhanced through a range of innovative techniques including accelerated screening through novel fluorescent sensor and directed evolution; and 3) microbial consortia developed from best in class single microbial strains, which combined leads to highly efficient degradation of mixed plastic waste streams. The outputs from this degradation process will be used as building blocks for new polymers or other bioproducts to enable a new plastic waste-based circular economy.

Keywords: biocatalysis,mechano biochemical,microbial consortia,depolymerisation,bioproducts,bioplastics,bioprocessing,circular economy for plastics,low greenhouse gas emissions,sustainable
Cognitive Control of a Hearing Aid (COCOHA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Content technologies and information management: ICT for digital content, cultural and creative industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,France,Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Multimodal and Natural computer interaction (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3998125.0
EU funding (EUR): 3217500.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to design a hearing aid system that can be mentally (cognitively) steered so as to allow a more “natural communication” for the hearing disabled, a population that forms over 7% of Europeans (50 million people). Hearing disabilities lead to a degraded quality of life, exclusion, and associated costs for society. Hearing aids (and cochlear implants), while effective in quiet, are still unreliable in noisy reverberant environments typical of realistic everyday life situations. Based on recent success in decoding non-invasive cortical recordings (EEG, MEG), and our multidisciplinary team (of engineers, neurophysiologists, psychophysicists, and audiologists), we propose to develop and implement algorithms to decode brain signals picked up by EEG electrodes to extract intention signals, and to match them to acoustic sources within the environment. These in turn will steer an acoustic beam-former towards the targeted speaker or sound source. We propose to implement the design within a real hearing aid, and to evaluate the outcome with normal and hearing impaired subjects. The results of this project will benefit hearing aid and cochlear-implant industries (well represented in Europe), and the end users who are the elderly and hearing impaired. It will also lead to increased scientific understanding and knowledge of attention mechanisms, and how they might be harnessed to control sensory inputs. We hope the results of this project will be a forerunner for broader applications of cognitive brain imaging to decipher and exploit human intentions in prosthetic sensory systems, especially given the increased availability, miniaturization, and affordability of EEG recording setups in scientific research and medical diagnostics.

Keywords: hearing,audition,deafness,intelligibility,hearing aid,cochlear implant,microphone array,beamforming,brain computer interface,auditory scene analysis
Sustained Release Ocular Bevacizumab for the treatment of wet acute macular degeneration (STROBE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sustained Release Ocular Bevacizumab for the treatment of wet acute macular degeneration This feasibility study is to verify the technical and economic viability of a sustained release bevacizumab product (SR Bevacizumab) to improve the safety, cost-effectiveness and patient acceptability for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is the leading cause of blindness in those aged over 50 and causes blurring, distortion and loss of central vision and almost always affects quality of life. Prototype SR Bevacizumab products will be manufactured using CriticalMix, an advanced manufacturing and processing technology developed by Critical Pharmaceuticals, which will encapsulate bevacizumab in biodegradable polymers suitable for sustained release of the drug in the eye.

Keywords: ocular drug delivery polymer sustained release macular
SmartClot: Personalized platform for the combined evaluation of platelet and coagulation factor in haemostasis or during antithrombbotic therapy (Smart Clot)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Today there is a big concern about cardiovascular diseases (CVD); because each year, it causes 3.9 million deaths in Europe and over 1.8 million deaths in the European Union. With almost 49 million people living with cardiovascular disease in the EU, these problems have a huge impact on public health and on health and economic resources, with a total cost of € 2.10 billion/year. Unfortunately, over the last 25 years the number of cardiovascular diseases cases has increased in Europe. The current medical devices monitor just platelet aggregation or coagulation providing inaccurate estimations and in consequence observing insufficient therapy in thrombosis treatment or excessive therapy dosage in bleeding cases in individual patients. In response, we at SEDICIDODICI have developed, SMART CLOT, a cutting-edge technology for the combined evaluation of coagulation and platelet function for monitoring i) haemostasis (process which causes bleeding to stop, keeping the blood within a damaged blood vessel) as diagnosis tool and ii) antithrombotic treatment to control patients with diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, thrombosis, diabetes, pulmonary embolism. It is a user-friendly, automated and real-time platform that provides qualitative/quantitative information based on an instrument and an array of multifunctional flow cartridges designed to interrogate specific pathways of both coagulation and platelet activation under relevant arterial and venous flow conditions. Before reaching market maturity we need in Phase 1 to run a Feasibility Study that helps us organise technical, commercial and financial plan of the project. Finally, SMART CLOT will bring an effective platform for the diagnosis and antithrombotic treatment. SEDICIDODICI will concentrate on the growth of SMART CLOT and in 5 years from launch we expect to earn € 22.3 million in profits, 24 new people and a ROI of 6.08 per euro invested.

Keywords: cardiovascular diseases,medical device,diagnosis
Discrete harmonic analysis for computer science (HARMONIC)

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: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1473750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1473750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Boolean function analysis is a topic of research at the heart of theoretical computer science. It studies functions on n input bits (for example, functions computed by Boolean circuits) from a spectral perspective, by treating them as real-valued functions on the group Z_2^n, and using techniques from Fourier and functional analysis. Boolean function analysis has been applied to a wide variety of areas within theoretical computer science, including hardness of approximation, learning theory, coding theory, and quantum complexity theory. Despite its immense usefulness, Boolean function analysis has limited scope, since it is only appropriate for studying functions on {0,1}^n (a domain known as the Boolean hypercube). Discrete harmonic analysis is the study of functions on domains possessing richer algebraic structure such as the symmetric group (the group of all permutations), using techniques from representation theory and Sperner theory. The considerable success of Boolean function analysis suggests that discrete harmonic analysis could likewise play a central role in theoretical computer science. The goal of this proposal is to systematically develop discrete harmonic analysis on a broad variety of domains, with an eye toward applications in several areas of theoretical computer science. We will generalize classical results of Boolean function analysis beyond the Boolean hypercube, to domains such as finite groups, association schemes (a generalization of finite groups), the quantum analog of the Boolean hypercube, and high-dimensional expanders (high-dimensional analogs of expander graphs). Potential applications include a quantum PCP theorem and two outstanding open questions in hardness of approximation: the Unique Games Conjecture and the Sliding Scale Conjecture. Beyond these concrete applications, we expect that the fundamental results we prove will have many other applications that are hard to predict in advance.

Keywords: computational complexity
Turning manure into fuel: a container based LBG plant for small to medium scale farms (Biofrigas)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
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: 2017-02-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The demand for renewable fuels is growing, mainly by increasing environmental concern, coupled with stringent government regulations pertaining to air pollution and waste management. Liquefied biogas (LBG) is an environmentally sustainable fuel. Livestock manure is also an excellent source of LBG, turning waste product into energy. However, currently, it is only possible to generate LBG through large scale plants. This means that it is not economically viable to utilize manure from small and medium sized farms, which makes up 40% of the total biogas production potential, as small, decentralized plants are currently not economically efficient. The major reason for this due to the lack of a commercially viable technology that can generate liquid biogas at a small scale. This means that less than 1% of the potential biogas production is being produced. Biofrigas Sweden AB has developed and piloted an effective, decentralised, small-scale and affordable, containerized energy plant that converts manure into 97% pure liquefied biogas (LBG) and separates the CO2 it contains. This has several advantages: -No need to transport sludge to LBG plant – the plant is onsite; -Biogas produced is in liquefied form that allows easy storage and transportation, reducing transport costs by 84% -The container is a temporary and moveable structure that allows an innovative financing model which does not require farmers to invest in the plant, therefore speeding up market penetration. BFG plan to use the SME instrument to the Biofrigas LBG plant to the market. Should the feasibility study confirm current beliefs about the market and the technology, the aim is to use the phase 2 to complete, certify and demonstrate the commercial plant in small and medium farms in 4 European countries, before launching the BFG plant on the market in 2019. By 2022 it is anticipated that we will have 240 sites across Europe and be earning an operating profit of over 7M€ and employing almost 100 people.

Keywords: manure treatment,circular economy,manure revalorisation,renewable fuels,liquefied biogas,lower ghg,small to medium scale farms,energy plant
SELENE: Self-monitored Dependable platform for High-Performance Safety-Critical Systems (SELENE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Austria,Austria,Spain,Sweden,France
Call: Computing technologies and engineering methods for cyber-physical systems of systems (H2020-ICT-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4996526.25
EU funding (EUR): 4996523.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Existing HW/SW platforms for safety-critical systems suffer from limited performance and/or from lack flexibility due to building on specific proprietary components, which jeopardize their wide deployment across domains. While some research attempts have been done to overcome some of these limitations, their degree of success has been low due to missing flexibility and extensibility, which would ensure that industry can take that path, as many industries need technologies on which they can rely during decades (e.g. avionics, space, automotive). A number of high-performance computing (HPC) commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms offer the computation capabilities needed by autonomous systems in domains such as automotive, space, avionics, robotics and factory automation by means of multicores, GPUs and other accelerators. Unfortunately, the utilization of HPC platforms has been traditionally considered out of the reach of the safety critical systems industry due to the difficulties or roadblocks these platforms bring to the certification process. SELENE follows a radically new approach and proposes a Safety-critical Cognitive Computing Platform (CCP) with self-awareness, self-adapting, and autonomous capabilities. SELENE’s CCP uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to adapt the system to the particular internal and external (environmental) conditions with the aim of maximizing the efficiency of the system being able at the same time of meeting application requirements. AI techniques are feed with information provided by the on-line monitors and external sensors and are applied in a transparent way without compromising the safety of the system. To ensure safety requirements are preserved SELENE’s CCP relies on the strong isolation capabilities provided at hardware and software levels.

Keywords: computer hardware and architecture,autonomous systems,hypervisors
TOwards imProved screening for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer in Eastern-Europe: Equitable, Actionable, Sustainable and Trustworthy (EU-TOPIA-EAST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Romania,Slovenia,Hungary,Georgia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Montenegro
Call: Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) - Prevention and/or early diagnosis of cancer (H2020-SC1-2020-Single-Stage-RTD, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3117336.25
EU funding (EUR): 3117336.25
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Colorectal, breast and cervical cancer cause 155,000 deaths each year in middle income countries (MIC) in Eastern Europe, while there is good evidence that a large proportion could be prevented by organized screening. Although many MIC in Eastern Europe have implemented some form of cancer screening, this screening is often non-organized, leading to lack of data and quality assurance systems. Also, coverage is commonly low and minority groups are not reached. In a previous HORIZON2020 project ‘EU-TOPIA’, we developed road maps to improve cancer screening programmes in Europe. In the current project, EU-TOPIA-EAST, these roadmaps will be refined and translated into action plans for three MICs: Georgia (breast), Romania (cervix) and Montenegro (colorectal). These action plans will take the local health and social system into account by performing detailed barrier and stakeholder analyses, leading to feasible changes to current screening programs. Next, we will implement these action plans: e.g. in Georgia, we will increase coverage of the programme by establishing a new screening unit; in Romania, we will develop new IT infrastructure to allow invitation-based cervical cancer screening; and finally in Montenegro we will establish a new colonoscopy center to increase programme capacity decrease travel time for participants. The implemented programs will be monitored and evaluated using key indicators and sophisticated decision models to predict the long-term and country-wide benefits, harms and cost-effectiveness. During workshops and roundtable discussions for policymakers and screening program coordinators from all countries in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to build capacity and upscale the implementation of these intervention(s) in Equitable, Accessible, and SusTainable (EU-TOPIA-EAST) ways. In this way, the project will improve the prevention and early diagnosis of cancer in real-life settings in Eastern European and Mediterranean countries.

Keywords: cancer screening,organised programmes,equity