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Power through Attraction: British, Greek and Turkish Cultural Diplomacy in Cyprus, 1945-1974 (CuDiCy)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-01-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-02
End date: 2021-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157941.12
EU funding (EUR): 157941.12
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CuDiCy will investigate the cultural diplomacy (CD) of three states: the UK, Greece and Turkey, as it was practiced in Cyprus between 1945 and 1974. The action will be conducted by Dr. Maria Hadjiathanasiou, at the University of Nicosia (Cyprus), under the supervision of Hubert Faustmann, Professor of History and Political Science at the Department of Politics and Governance. Τhe action includes Secondments at the Embassy of Greece in Nicosia and, at the British Council in London. Timely and relevant, CuDiCy aspires to set a new paradigm in the growing field of CD, by becoming the study model for an innovative approach towards the exploration of external cultural influence in countries which accommodate ethnically diverse populations, for example Syria and Lebanon. It will contribute to the discussion about the conceptualisation of power, politics, authority and governance and, on the formation and transformation of identity. CuDiCy will achieve this by tracing and analysing the ways state and non-state cultural actors influenced the progress of events in Cyprus, from the end of the Second World War to the Turkish invasion. Time, location, concept and structure will be used as critical determinants to consider CD’s role. The methodology is crucial to CuDiCy’s main objective which is to expose the diverse and complicated functions, actions, visions and interpretations of what constituted CD during this period, to understand what its aim was, and to investigate how and if it accomplished its tasks. CuDiCy has a strong cross-sectoral multidisciplinary focus, involving the fields of History, IR, Political Science and the Humanities. It includes both the transfer of knowledge to the host institution and the training of the candidate in new methodologies and theoretical concepts. CuDiCy’s results will enrich and expand the discussion on global CD significantly, shedding light on a little researched region, with implications on what constitutes successful CD today.

Keywords: cultural diplomacy,diplomacy,decolonisation,cyprus,greece,united kingdom,turkey,soft power,influence,power,control,culture
Video gamEs foR Skills trAining (VERSA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Make scientific and technological careers attractive to young students, and forster sustainable interaction between schools, research institutions, industry and civil society organisations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Spain,Netherlands
Call: Research innovation needs & skills training in PhD programmes (H2020-SwafS-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 297500.0
EU funding (EUR): 297500.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

VERSA aims to challenge the current paradigm of soft skills development at PhD level by implementing an innovative methodology for soft skills training using commercially available video games. We target the training of eight innovation related skills, namely Creativity, Critical Thinking, Complex Problem Solving, Cognitive Flexibility, People/Team Management, Time Management, Judgement and Decision Making and Goal Setting, all these skills being very desirable choices for the non-academic sector. There is a dual scope to VERSA's approach...one one hand, we aim to modernize the PhD programmes at the partner universities, by offering innovative digital tools for soft skills training, and on the other hand, we aim to prove this as a consistent methodology for future use in any PhD's programme curricula, which has the potential to shape the way Universities of the future offer soft skills training for Doctoral Education.

Keywords: doctoral training,soft skills,entrepreneurship
Next-Generation Thyristor pulse technology for testing of high power magnetic components in DC Smart Grids (PulseTester)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Driven by the soaring demand for hybrid and electric vehicles and the large investments in renewable energies, the soft magnetic materials market is expected to reach the €100 billion mark by 2026. Together with increasing number of stringent regulations (particularly in the EU), this growth is expected to drive the emergence of advanced material testing equipment for the automotive and semiconductor industries. Accurate soft magnetic component testing is therefore becoming essential to select and develop efficient materials for key grid components and thus limit power loss and maximize system efficiency. However, there is still a clear lack of accurate measuring systems to test nonlinear high power magnetic components in DC voltage grids. This leads to a pressing market demand for innovative advanced quality testing solutions for these materials. Bs&T’s innovative prototype, PulseTester, has been designed specifically to fill this technical gap. Using the latest thyristor semiconductor technology and implementing an innovative circuit measuring system, we have been able to establish a revolutionary and effective pulsed technique capable of characterizing inductive component for middle voltage soft magnetic components. We can measure energy loss of magnetic components with unparalleled accuracy, offering a unique advantage in comparison with current alternatives, for a much lower price. With the final validation and full commercial release of PulseTester, we will help improve energy efficiency by facilitating adoption of highly optimized soft magnetic components in DC Smart Grids and renewable energy systems. We will gain a strategic advantage in the market, selling a cumulated 3,000 units by 2024 and raise our turnover by over €23 million. PulseTester will provide us increased visibility and allow us to consolidate our brand as a reference in the magnetic material testing market, leading to the creation of over 50 jobs in the EU across the value chain.

Keywords: renewable energies,electromagnetism,semiconductors
Beyond Boycott: Musical Internationalism and the Making of Race in Apartheid South Africa (Beyond Boycott)

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: South Africa,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2025-06-20
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215163.84
EU funding (EUR): 215163.84
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project proposes to investigate the relationship between Western art music, cultural boycott, and the making of race in apartheid South Africa. In recent years people around the world have been encouraged to participate in political activism by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, #RhodesMustFall, and numerous fossil fuel divestment campaigns. Artists and musicians, too, have contributed to these movements both as activists and through their work. But in a world where the arts are often celebrated for their capacity to promote peaceful dialogue, the confrontational nature of protest movements has prompted artists, scholars, and activists to ask, ‘How do cultural exchange and political activism intersect?’ ‘Beyond Boycott’ addresses this question from a historical perspective by turning to one of the most important precursors of current boycott movements: the global cultural boycott of apartheid South Africa (c.1954-1991). The proposed project develops a social and cultural history of the South African boycott, focusing especially on the hidden histories of Western art music performers—commonly described as ‘classical’ musicians—who defied sanctions to perform in the country. Through archival research, the project maps the extent of classical musicians’ breaking of the boycott, before asking how these performers interacted with the anti-apartheid movement, and how their appearances in South Africa contributed to a racial classification system that viewed culture as a marker of race. The main research objectives are to trace the extent of musical activity by international performers in defiance of the boycott, and to investigate the apartheid government's use of these performances to develop racial classifications and to advance political objectives. ‘Beyond Boycott’ fosters a new area of interdisciplinary research on the relationship between art music, race, and transnational politics.

Keywords: western art music,apartheid,race,cultural boycott,cultural diplomacy,south africa
AI powered Digital twin for lighting infrastructure in the context of front-end Industry 4.0 (AI-TWILIGHT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Components and Systems
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: ECSEL (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Austria,Austria,Germany,Hungary,Switzerland,Hungary,Poland,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: ECSEL-2020-2-RIA (H2020-ECSEL-2020-2-RIA-two-stage, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18089914.66
EU funding (EUR): 5187309.15
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

In all lighting sectors, warranty and customisation are becoming key product differentiators. In addition to that, the integration of more electronics and sensors in lighting systems will change what we call lighting today. While the concepts of digitalisation and Industry 4.0 are progressing fast into the manufacturing world, in the lighting industry, the front-end product design is still using traditional simulation techniques. An innovative approach is to couple digital twins with Artificial Intelligence to offer unlimited possibilities to the “first build and then tweak” approach. The main goal of AI-TWILIGHT is to merge the virtual and physical worlds to pave the way for innovations in fields where the European lighting industry is likely to be competitive. Self-leaning digital twins of lighting systems (LED source, driver of a lighting application) will be created and used as input for predicting performance and lifetime of product and infrastructure design and management in an autonomous world. Tests will be carried out in selected application domains e.g. automotive, horticulture, general and street lighting. The key technical and exploitation objectives of the AI-TWILIGHT consortium are: • To create and digital twins of LED light-sources and electronics (driver) • To create self-learning models using AI and analytics techniques • To facilitate the implementation of the digital twins in digitalized design flow (for SSL product design) and facilitate their applications upstream, up to digital twins of lighting systems of large infrastructures (e.g. for building design). • To implement the AI-TWILIGHT methods, models and tools within consortium partners to harvest its benefits When translated to business goals, objectives will result in the introduction of more customised and connected products by 20% while reducing the time to market by 30%, and reducing by 25% the total cost of ownership of a “AI-TWILIGHT powered system.

Keywords: digital twin,lifetime prediction,digitalised design flow,industry 4 0,lighting infrastructure and product
Normalization of Multimodal Brain Networks for Integral and Predictive Mapping of Neurological Disorders (NormNets)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-02-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 145355.52
EU funding (EUR): 145355.52
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Modern network science has introduced exciting new opportunities for understanding the brain as a complex system of interacting units in both health and disease and across the human lifespan. Despite the rapidly growing interdisciplinary science of complex networks, which spans the range from genetic and metabolic networks all the way up to social and economic systems, it remains a formidable challenge to identify the most representative and shared brain alterations caused by a specific disorder (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease), namely ‘disorder signature’, in a population of brain networks, let alone multi-modal brain networks where each brain network is derived from a particular neuroimaging modality (e.g., functional or diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI or dMRI)). Such integral signature can be revealed by what I name as a multimodal connectional brain template (CBT), which would constitute an unprecedented contribution to network neuroscience, rooted in firstly learning brain connectivity normalization and secondly foreseeing its evolution. During this fellowship, I will develop NormNets, a novel technique leveraging the power of geometric deep-learning to meet this challenge by normalizing a population of multimodal brain networks. Particularly, NormNets tools will substantially advance the field of network neuroscience by estimating not only an integral but also a predictive mapping of neurological disorders. In addition to the multi-disciplinary high-quality training I will receive at both host and secondment institutions, this fellowship will remarkably consolidate and accelerate my career on the international landscape scene in the new cross-disciplinary area of “geometric deep learning & integration connectomics” I will pioneer during this fellowship. With the endorsement of international multi-sectoral stakeholders, open NormNets resources will impact on and contribute towards the development of connectomics-rooted predictive precision medicine.
Leading Innovative measures to reach gender Balance in Research Activities (LIBRA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Promote gender equality in particular by supporting structural change in the organisation of research institutions and in the content and design of research activities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Germany,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Support to research organisations to implement gender equality plans (H2020-GERI-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2456265.75
EU funding (EUR): 2291640.75
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The main goals of LIBRA are to implement innovative Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) that will empower women researchers to achieve successful careers in science, remove gender barriers and biases at an institutional level, and raise awareness of gender aspects in the experimental design of pre-clinical research projects. To achieve these goals we will: 1) conduct an initial external assessment of each partner organisation to identify gender bias at an institutional level, including a tailored version of the Gender Career-Family Implicit Association Test to analyse the current cultural and institutional attitudes towards gender issues; 2) design and implement innovative strategies to remove any identified biases or barriers, including the identification of best practices and subsequently the development of training programmes to improve the recruitment of women in science, the raising awareness of the central importance of including gender aspects in experimental design, mentoring schemes and family-friendly policies; and 3) define targets, agree on quantitative and qualitative indicators, monitor results, and ensure sustainability of the project. LIBRA will be in a position to impact gender equality and mainstreaming of sex and gender issues in research throughout Europe. It will contribute to the European Research Area objectives to boost women’s careers, promoting their leadership in research and in decision-making processes. Our partners are also involved in other national and European (e.g. ERC working group on gender) initiatives, such that our results will also contribute to structural, institutional and sustainable changes well beyond the lifetime of the project.

Keywords: gender equality plans,gender biases,mainstreaming in gender issues,recruitment,career development and training,work life balance,gender and sex dimensions in research
Hypoglycaemia - REdefining SOLutions for better liVEs (Hypo-RESOLVE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Innovative Medicines Initiative 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: IMI2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Switzerland,Switzerland,France,United States,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Understanding hypoglycaemia: the underlying mechanisms and addressing clinical determinants as well as consequences for people with diabetes by combining databases from clinical trials (H2020-JTI-IMI2-2016-10-two-stage, 2016)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 26923832.5
EU funding (EUR): 13450057.12
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

Diabetes is one of the most prevalent global non-communicable diseases, affecting 60 million people in Europe, 10% of whom with type 1 diabetes. Normalising elevated glucose levels decreases symptoms, prevents microvascular complications, improves cardiovascular health and saves lives, but creates a significant risk for hypoglycaemia when insulin treatment is required. Hypoglycaemia is a serious event associated with cognitive decline, reduced quality of life, cardiovascular events and mortality. Hypoglycaemia remains the principal barrier to achieve glucose levels necessary to prevent diabetic complications of chronic hyperglycaemia. The overall objective of Hypo-RESOLVE is to alleviate the burden and consequences of hypoglycaemia, to be achieved by answering several key questions through a unique public-private partnership. Hypo-RESOLVE will construct secure sustainable databases with data from 100-150 clinical trials offering huge statistical power to establish the glucose threshold(s) below which hypoglycaemia constitutes a risk for poor outcomes in various populations. This will provide valuable input for an evidence based classification of hypoglycaemia to be adopted by regulators, patient organisations and other stakeholders, for application in future trials, the clinic and epidemiologic studies. The basic science and translational research line of Hypo-RESOLVE will advance our understanding on mechanisms underlying consequences of hypoglycaemia and explore novel pathways for the restoration of impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia. Finally, we will determine the significance of CGM-detected low glucose and investigate psychological and economic impacts of hypoglycaemia to quantify the burden of hypoglycaemia both for the individual and next-of-kin, as well as for society. Altogether, Hypo-RESOLVE will importantly further our knowledge of hypoglycaemia, (facilitate to) reduce its burden and contribute to a better life for patients with insulin-treated diabetes

Keywords: diabetes,hypoglycaemia,trial data,data harmonization,outcomes,pros,classification
Restoring complete motor and sensory ability for natural walking of amputees (SENSY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Lower limb amputations are consequence of trauma, cancer, congenital or diabetes complications, and vascular diseases. Although currently available prostheses are becoming increasingly sophisticated, these solutions still lack of sensory feedback and therefore prevent correct generation of postural reflexes at the spinal level of the amputee. Amputees, not having sensory feedback from their prosthesis, do not feel trampled obstacles, slopes or holes, risking continuously falling. They report phantom pain from the missing extremity and do not feel the prosthesis as part of their body (low embodiment). All these factors cause abandonment of the prosthesis or reduced engagement in activities of daily leaving. SENSY is a unique product, which allows amputees to feel again their missing limbs by restoring a complete motor-sensor ability that enables their natural walking (and standing) capability. The device is composed of implantable transversal multi- and intra- fascicular neural electrodes, an implantable neurostimulator, an external controller and a sensorized sole (artificial skin). The neurostimulator is implanted in the limb and is wired to the intraneural electrodes that are inserted transversally into the peripheral leg nerves. Stimulation of sensory nerves is driven wirelessly by an external controller, which transforms the readout of the sensors embedded in the sensorized sole into stimulation parameters. The sensorized sole is adaptable to the prostheses currently available in the market (e.g., Rheo Knee, C-Leg). SENSY is the only neuro-prosthetic device that restores amputee’s sensory feedback from his/her missing limb and meets all major needs associated with the use of existing artificial legs: regain natural walking, avoid falls, perceive the prosthesis as part of the body, and treat phantom limb pain.

Keywords: amputation,lower limb,sensors,artificial skin,neural transmission,prosthesis,wireless communication,encoding system,neurostimulation