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An affordable Cyber Biological System combining swarming biosensors and robotics (CyBioSys)

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: Switzerland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175419.6
EU funding (EUR): 175419.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Bio-inspiration is a main driving force for the development of innovative and adapted artificial systems. Going one step further, the fundamental goal of this proposal is to design a cyber biological system (CBS) that interfaces a swarm of animals with a distributed artificial system. Our objective is to demonstrate that such CBS can benefit from advantages of both artificial and natural systems and outperform their constituents. Here, the goal of the CBS is to explore the environment searching for resources and to exploit them as soon as discovered. For this purpose, we integrate a model organism of biological societies, the ants, with an artificial system based on mobile robots, the Thymio. More specifically, the CBS will be composed by an ant nest coupled to static sensors that communicate with mobile robots. The ants will explore the environment and evaluate potential food sources. Once a source is discovered, static sensors placed at the nest exits will detect the increasing flow of ants recruited toward the resource and transmit this information to the mobile robots. Once alerted, the mobile robots will navigate in the environment and follow the ants until the food source to convey it to the nest. Thus, the CBS will benefit from the efficient exploration pattern of the ants to discover and evaluate potential resources and the ability of the robots to rapidly convey these resources to the nest. This synergy will save the energy that should be consumed by the robots for constantly exploring the environment and quicken the collect of the food, making the ants more rapidly available for further exploration. This project is the first to consider an insect swarm as a biosensor and to embed in a robot the ability to extract data from such swarm. In addition, this interdisciplinary project at the crossroads of biology and robotics ensures the development of skills and transfer of knowledge for the ER as well as the host organisation.

Keywords: cyber biological systems,bio sensors,bio hybrid systems,bio inspiration,mixed societies,distributed robotics,swarm
The most advanced micromotors in the world (MicroMotors)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3377673.75
EU funding (EUR): 2364371.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Micromotors are ubiquitous, used in your electric toothbrush, in your dentist’s drill and in modern industrial robots. The most important component that determines motor performance, functionality and longevity, is the copper winding, which dictates how much power a motor can generate for a given current. The way these copper windings are produced has not changed much over the last 40 years: they are either wound by hand for prototyping or for small production runs, or they are produced by expensive machines that are complex to operate, inflexible and viable only for large production runs. Mirmex is transforming the way micromotor windings are produced: instead of winding copper wire by hand, Mirmex prints them on PCB’s before rolling them with high precision. This approach to producing windings has many user benefits: motors are easier and less costly to prototype, they are more flexible in design terms, more durable, lighter, become hot less quickly, feature higher torque and greater dynamics - and all at a lower cost than the incumbent technologies. The go-to-market strategy will focus initially on the surgical/dental power tools segments because they care more about performance, weight and other value-added features than about price. Mirmex will then address the industrial/automotive sector and begin producing motors, in addition to windings. Demand is already strong: Mirmex has received purchase orders worth €80k for small quantities of prototype products and 8 LOIs. In order to fully exploit the very high commercial potential of our innovation, Mirmex needs to demonstrate that (i) it is able to manufacture windings of exceptional quality in commercial volume, (ii) the products meet the stringent requirements for autoclavability from medical customers and (iii) our winding design software tool can interface with a higher number of materials and motor architectures. Mirmex then expects rapid scale-up, targeting revenues of €31.5m and EBITDA of €11.7m by 2024

Keywords: electric motor,micromotor,micro motor,motor winding,electrotechnics,medical power tool,surgical instrument,flexible pcb
Creating the French Dyson: European leader on home appliances for tomorrow’s households. (Bob)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Daan Tech has developed Bob, world’s smallest (35*45*40cm), lightest (9kg) & fastest (20mins) plastic injection mould dishwasher; first autonomous 2 place settings countertop, which cleans & dries daily dishes, with low water (3L) & energy (0.25kWh) consumptions thanks to its ultrasonic & steam cleaning combination. New generation biodegradable gel cartridge dispenser (patentable) will also be developed by Daan Tech; winner of French PEPITE R&D challenge. Worldwide, white appliances such as dishwashers are primarily designed for family households, hence completely neglecting the ever-growing single person or couples (in EU-28, 2/3 of all households were composed of one or two persons in 2016: most common type was composed of a single person with 33.1% & recorded the highest increase since 2006 (3.4 percentage points); two persons corresponded to 31.7% (0.8 pp increase since 2006 ) living in small apartments with small kitchens. Hence, Bob is an ideal solution, relying on a patent-pending technology (FR1870069), already received 400k€ from the French government. Extra funding is required to launch the product at the European scale (increasing commercial attractiveness), hence, more attractive for private investors. SME Phase 1 & 50k€ lump sum funding will considerably help explore & assess the technical feasibility, defining manufacturing process, complete the market research & business feasibility of Bob innovative dishwasher, which is fully aligned with Daan Tech business strategy, helping both internal growth & targeted transnational business opportunities. Daan Tech aim is to release the final prototype by the end of 2018, ready for manufacturing & reach TRL8. Endurance tests are required on pre-series to reduce technological risks & bring to TRL9. The positive outcome of SME phase 1 will allow applying for an additional funding in SME phase 2 in view of commercialisation.

Keywords: home appliances,mechanical engineering,electrical engineering,industrial renewal,manufacturing
Multi-Scale Coronal Heating: A New Approach to an Old Question. (CORONALDOLLS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CORONALDOLLS will tackle the long-standing question of the extremely high temperatures in the Sun’s outer atmosphere (corona) by taking a modern, progressive approach: forward modelling (creating synthetic observations) will be used to (i) link 3D numerical simulations of in-depth models with large scale computational experiments and (ii) provide observational diagnostics to compare models to high resolution, multi wavelength observations both qualitatively and quantitatively. This timely, multi-scale (‘russian dolls’) approach will achieve an innovative synergy between coronal heating and coronal seismology, where the coronal heating models will use input from, and be benchmarked against, information gained about the solar atmosphere through coronal seismology. From a series of in-depth, 3D numerical studies, considering, in turn, three of the most promising heating processes (Taylor relaxation, braiding and Alfvén wave heating) at their particular spatial and temporal scales, we will determine: - the cadence of the heating: low-frequency (‘bursty’) vs high-frequency (‘near-continuous’); - the range of parameters for which heating is most efficient (i.e. reaches a threshold temperature and is distributed throughout the 3D volume); - observational diagnostics to compare with large scale computational experiments and observational data. This systematic, comprehensive study will allow CORONALDOLLS to answer the fundamental question: Can we unambiguously identify physical heating mechanisms and determine their relative contributions, both in large-scale numerical simulations and high resolution observations and, if so, how? In parallel, the advanced 3D computational models will provide a ‘proof of concept’ for coronal seismology, i.e. establish the robustness of the currently used simple models and how the interpretation of observed waves and oscillations in the optically thin solar atmosphere is affected by line-of-sight integration and instrument resolution.

Keywords: corona,coronal heating,coronal seismology,magnetic fields,numerical modelling,observational data analysis
Explicit Methods for the Darmon Programme (ExplicitDarmonProg)

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-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Elliptic curves are the heart of contemporary research in number theory. For example, their modularity played a crucial role in Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Understanding their rational points is the subject of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture (BSD), one of the seven $1M Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prizes. This proposal is concerned with rational points on elliptic curves and linked to both BSD and modularity. The Darmon Programme is an ambitious project initiated by Henri Darmon, aiming to provide constructions of points on elliptic curves over number fields, and to prove new cases of BSD. The proposed action is an initiative to extend the Darmon Programme, make known constructions explicit and algorithmic to provide extensive data that will be invaluable to researchers in the field, and guide further theoretical work. Warwick has one of the largest and most active explicit number theory groups in the world, consisting of 2 professors, 3 lecturers, 8 research fellows and 12 PhD students, making it a natural host for the project. The supervisor Siksek, is a leading expert on elliptic curves, rational points and modularity, with considerable experience in supervising research including 5 Marie Curie fellows. Masdeu did his undergraduate studies in Barcelona. He completed his PhD (McGill) under the supervision of Darmon, and therefore has intimate understanding of the Darmon Programme. Masdeu then worked as Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University before joining Warwick as a postdoc in 2014. Therefore his research experience has almost entirely been confined to North America, even though his ambition is to establish himself as an independent researcher at a prestigious European university. Masdeu has substantial research results with 8 papers accepted in strong journals. This project will integrate him into the European research environment, and give him new skills and research directions to enable him to realize his goal.

Keywords: modular symbols,modularity,shimura curves,stark heegner points,darmon points
NEW ECOLOGIC PRODUCT THAT INDUCE PLANT DEFENCE MECHANISMS TO INCREASE ORGANIC CROP PROTECTION AGAINST POWDERY MILDEW PEST (LBS-PROTECTION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

LBS-PROTECTION project is born to bring an innovative and ecologic product to increase organic crop protection against powdery mildew pest. In this context, LBS-PROTECTION focuses on the commercial development and further commercialization of a prototype based on a sulphur reformulation as an organic molecule in liquid form that is transported through xylem, ensuring its bioavailability for plants. This is called as Liquid Bioassimilable Sulphur (LBS). LBS formulation is based on biocontrol mechanism that improves plant resistance and inducing plant defence mechanisms to prevent from future attacks of the phytopathogens. Pesticides, which are crucial to combat plant diseases and secure quality and yield in crop production, represent one of the main pressures from agriculture on human health and ecosystems. In this regard, consumers and the food chain alike are increasingly demanding food products that are residue-low or residue-free and produced in more sustainable ways. This applies particularly to fruit and vegetables, which are often consumed fresh without prior processing. Therefore, achieving a sustainable pest control is one of main challenges for the future development of organic agriculture. In this context, LBS-PROTECTION will increase the effectivity of controlling powdery mildew pest in organic crops, incrementing up to 90% its prevention activity, potentiating up to 15% the plant growth and reducing 20% of costs. All this benefits will be provided from a natural and ecologic perspective that significantly increases taste, smell and shape of foodstuff. Although LBS-PROTECTION is mainly addressed to the organic market, since it can be also used in traditional agriculture and powdery mildew affects a wide variety of crops, including vineyards, vegetables, fruit trees and cereals, the commercial scope of this product is very large.

Keywords: organic farming,powdery mildew,organic crop protection,liquid bioassimilable sulphur,biocontrol
Generalized geometry: 3-manifolds and applications (GENERALIZED)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170121.6
EU funding (EUR): 170121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Generalized geometry is a revolutionary approach to geometric structures pioneered by Hitchin in 2003, soon becoming an active topic catching the interest and bringing together the expertise of geometers and theoretical physicists. Generalized complex structures, defined for even-dimensional manifolds, are both a genuinely interesting mathematical structure, providing insight of complex and symplectic geometry, and the suitable notion for some physical theories like mirror symmetry. Odd-dimensional manifolds within generalized geometry have not been satisfactorily studied until the recent introduction of generalized geometry of type Bn and its study in my PhD thesis. There, the case of 3-manifolds drew special attention thanks to the recent Thurston's geometrization theorem and the fact that the type-change locus of a 3-manifold is a link, bringing in knot and link theory. This action combines the generalized geometry expertise of the experienced researcher with the host’s expertise on 3-manifold and knot and link theory in order to set a novel geometrical framework for structures on odd-dimensional manifolds, understand the case of 3-manifolds in depth, and create a two-way bridge between these previously unrelated areas, with innovative applications in both.

Keywords: generalized,3 manifolds,applications,knot,link,thurston,geometrization,complex,symplectic,k hler,structures,contact,sasakian,dirac,metric,character,variety,4 manifold
Reduced Order Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of Coupled systems (ROMSOC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Industrial Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Mathematics
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Austria,Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Israel,Switzerland,Poland,France,France,Netherlands
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2661418.08
EU funding (EUR): 2661418.08
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

The development of high quality products and processes is essential for the future competitiveness of the European economy. In most key technology areas product development is increasingly based on simulation and optimization via mathematical models that allow to optimize design and functionality using free design parameters. Best performance of modelling, simulation and optimization (MSO) techniques is obtained by using a model hierarchy ranging from very fine to very coarse models obtained by model order reduction (MOR) techniques and to adapt the model and the methods to the user-defined requirements in accuracy and computational speed. ROMSOC will work towards this goal for high dimensional and coupled systems that describe different physical phenomena on different scales; it will derive a common framework for different industrial applications and train the next generation of researchers in this highly interdisciplinary field. It will focus on the three major methodologies: coupling methods, model reduction methods, and optimization methods, for industrial applications in well selected areas, such as optical and electronic systems, economic processes, and materials. ROMSOC will develop novel MSO techniques and associated software with adaptability to user-defined accuracy and efficiency needs in different scientific disciplines. It will transfer synergies between different industrial sectors, in particular for SMEs. To lift this common framework to a new qualitative level, a joint training programme will be developed which builds on the strengths of the academic and industrial partners and their strong history of academic/industrial cooperation. By delivering early-career training embedded in a cutting-edge research programme, ROMSOC will educate highly skilled interdisciplinary researchers in mathematical MSO that will become facilitators in the transfer of innovative concepts to industry. It will thus enhance the capacity of European research and development.

Keywords: model hierarchy,model coupling,model reduction,error estimation,adaptive optics,computational finance,pulsative blood pumps,industrial flow,power networks,transport,network,blast furnaces
Renewables-based drying technology for cost-effective valorisation of waste from the food processing industry (DRALOD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Sweden
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2468152.5
EU funding (EUR): 1906892.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The EU27 annually generates 90 million tonnes of food waste, with a 39% generated in the manufacturing processes. The food processing industry critically needs sustainable solutions for waste valorisation and re-use. Our Proposition: DRALOD, a disruptive replicable drying process 100% environmentally-friendly and extremely cost-effective: - Environmentally: DRALOD uses renewables only, to allow valorisation of plant-origin waste into highly valuable functional ingredients as demanded by the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industry. - Cost-effectiveness: DRALOD drying plant has a pay-back period shorter than 6 years for an average plant with 35,000 tonnes/year capacity. Our Assets: - Consortium´s technological background: The Coordinator (PERNIA) is experienced in solar drying plants with licensing rights on a leading solar heating technology. OKOTHERM is specialist in the development and manufacturing of innovative biomass heating systems since 1995, while RTDPs DFBZ and RISE bring world-class knowledge for implementation of energy recovery and smart control units for DRALOD combined solar-biomass drying system. - Industry-driven vision: PERNIA´s turnover is over €2.2million in 2017, with a net profit increase growth of 32% with respect to 2016, operating in solar drying for BSG valorisation, evidencing a high potential. Target market: The generated volume of high-water content waste from plant-origin food processing, leads to an SAM estimated at €1,395 million in 2024. Business model: Commissioning of DRALOD drying plants under a franchise business model, designed to overcome the up-front investment barriers by lowering our customers´ required initial investment in 30%. Commercialisation strategy: The Brewery sector is our beachhead market. We currently work for the largest Spanish Brewery group. Our follow-on markets will include wineries, fruit juice and the olive oil sectors. Financial projections: 44 million € and 80 new direct jobs by 2024.

Keywords: high growth business,environment