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SOlar Calcium-looping integRAtion for Thermo-Chemical Energy Storage (SOCRATCES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Spain,Germany,Spain,Italy,Spain,Greece,France,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling (H2020-LCE-2016-RES-CCS-RIA, 2016)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4975402.5
EU funding (EUR): 4975402.5
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Lime (CaO) has been long proposed as an energy-intensive material for the storage of energy in a chemical form by means of carbonation/calcination cycles. This Calcium-looping process (CaL) is the basis of a proven pilot-scale technology for CO2 capture, which is accomplished by carbonation of CaO and its regeneration in a calciner reactor operated under high CO2 partial pressure and high temperature. The wide availability of limestone (<10€/ton) is a key factor for the feasibility of the CaL process. However, the huge potential for lime also to store energy has been inhibited by its propensity to sinter at the high temperatures of the standard CaL cycle for CO2 capture, which reduces dramatically its multicycle conversion. SOCRATCES will be built on previous R&D results of the partners indicating that the CaL process can be integrated into CSP plants for thermochemical energy storage and power generation by means of a simple closed CO2 loop. High global efficiencies (>45%) are achieved under new CaL conditions implying carbonation under high temperature (>850ºC) at high CO2 partial pressure compatible with high-efficiency power blocks. Moreover, fast calcination is carried out at temperatures < 700ºC by the Flash Calcination technology, which allows using mature and inexpensive solar receiver technology. Circulating Fluidized Bed reactors of proven efficiency. The new CSP-CaL integration yields high storage energy density (3.2 GJ/m3) with possible long-time gaps between load and discharge. SOCRATCES is aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of this integration by erecting a pilot-scale plant that uses cheap, abundant, and non-toxic materials as well as mature solar and fluidized bed reactor technologies. SOCRATCES will confer the EU a leading role in the development of efficient and non-toxic CSP with low-cost storage (<12€/kWh) and LCOE <7c€/kWh. The consortium involves the full value chain, in a well-balanced distribution between R&D groups and companies

Keywords: solar storage
Improvement of Innovation Management Capacity of SMEs from Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBH) through the Enterprise Europe Network (BITNET-INNOSUP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — EC Treaty
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Call: EEN H2020 SGA2 2D BATCH (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13045.0
EU funding (EUR): 13045.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

A single network of excellence will be created covering territory of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter FB&H) implementing “no-wrong door” concept. This Network (Business, Innovation and Technology Network-BITNET) will build on the results of the Business Information and Technology Innovation Network-BITIN that has been successfully operating since 2009 offering integrated services in support to business and innovation. The partners agreed to work together within the Enterprise Europe Network 2017-2020 offering to their clients a variety of the Network services. This Network will be a member of the Enterprise Europe Network giving its contribution to increased competitiveness of FB&H (B&H) and EU companies. The network of competent and proficient partners will implement the project. Consortium partners are: The Foreign Trade Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FTC), located in Sarajevo (FTC)- coordinator; Sarajevo Economic Region Development Agency (SERDA) located in Sarajevo, University of Sarajevo (UNSA) located in Sarajevo, INTERA Technology Park (INTERA) located in Mostar, Zenica Economic Development Agency (ZEDA) located in Zenica, BIT Centre (BIT) located in Tuzla and Development Agency of the Una-Sana Canton (DAUSC) located in Bihać. All the partners are strategically chosen and positioned in FB&H, namely the cities are the main centres of economic activities in FB&H and most of SMEs are concentrated around these cities. The Consortium partners that will be delivering Key Account Management (KAM) services and services to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs, within the project, will be UNSA, INTERA and BIT. All these activities will support SMEs on their way of becoming more competitive internationally.

Keywords: technology development,innovation management,sme instrument,internationalization,coaching for smes,enterprise europe network
Implementation of Risk Governance: meeting the needs of nanotechnology (Gov4Nano)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,South Africa,Germany,Austria,Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Switzerland,Sweden,Korea, Republic of,Switzerland,Switzerland,Switzerland,Bulgaria,France,France,United States,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Risk Governance of nanotechnology (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-TO-IND-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9642384.75
EU funding (EUR): 7795549.0
Participants: 40
Project status: SIGNED

Gov4Nano will design and establish a well-positioned and broadly supported Nano Risk Governance Council (NRGC). Organizing, connecting and engaging are key activities in Gov4Nano and its creation of a sustainable NRGC. Gov4Nano will develop an operational trans disciplinary Nano Risk Governance Model (NRGM) for nanotechnologies, building on an established governance framework developed by the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC). Engaging stakeholders (including regulators) to proactively address nano-specific safety and seek dialogue for joint activities. NRGC and its precursor project Gov4Nano will engage, in order to support these activities, with the broad variety of stakeholders across all relevant nano-disciplines (chemical, biocides, food and feed, pharma and medical devices and materials development) and draft a review on our knowledge progress over the last decade whilst initiating dialog. To boost the quality of the dialog it will create a platform for dialogues between stakeholders in a “trusted environment” inclusive of civil society. The NRGC core business is to coordinate, guide and harmonize in order to overcome the fragmentation of current knowledge, information and needs over various sectors and disciplines (workers, consumers/patients, environmental safety) and to prepare the transfer of this knowledge. To that end, the NRGC will be equipped with a self-sustainable NanoSafety Governance Portal (NSGP) consolidating state-of-the-art and progressive nanosafety governance tools including ones for dialogues and measuring risk perception. Major efforts will be towards requirements for data harmonization and data curation to be defined and laid down in guidance on obtaining harmonized and standardized quality-scored data collections promoting a big data approach for nano-toxicology. Research activities will be initiated for regulatory sound knowledge in support of harmonized (OECD) guidance for characterization and testing of nanomaterials.

Keywords: risk governance,risk assessment,safe by design,data management,technical guidance,risk perception,risk governance council,governance framework,stakeholder engagement,monitoring
Citizen-driven open consultation on Next Generation Internet (SpeakNGI.eu)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: Next Generation Internet (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 700000.0
EU funding (EUR): 700000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The SpeakNGI.eu project aims to establish and enact an open, dynamic and continuous consultation process with initially 8 key stakeholder groups on a citizen centric quest to discover their needs for the Next Generation Internet (NGI). The multi-facet consultation process will be governed by a SpeakNGI.eu established, self-sustaining European Champions Panel (ECP) that will initially be composed of carefully selected stakeholder representatives. SpeakNGI.eu will ensure that the ECP along with the established consultation processes will sustain right through to support the highly ambitious NGI Flagship.

Keywords: consultation,next generation internet,champion panel
Truly refreshing document digitalisation Unlock the full potential of your documents using machine learning (MINT.extract)

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: 2019-02-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Around 80% of relevant business data is unstructured. To make valuable information from documents available for further analysis, lots of resources are invested in repetitive, time-consuming, error-prone and costly manual work. Efficient alternative solutions could reduce by 90% the time and costs employed in such tasks by any business. Digitization, i.e. transformation of human-readable documents into a digital form, is among the most common factors driving digitalization and a fundamental pre-requisite for automated text and data analytics. Digitization in EU could add €2.5trillions to GDP in 2025 MINT.extract is a disruptive information retrieval engine that delivers incredibly advanced document analysis capabilities, thanks to our innovative own-developed purpose-built document query language and AI based learning system. Using methods of artificial intelligence to transform unstructured documents into structured representations (database, XML…) and to read document elements (text, images, tables) as a human would do, our technology goes beyond current template-based solutions by automating many routine business processes and enables big data by integrating data from documents. We aim to create a generic learning system that can be applied to a diverse set of document types (e.g. insurance policies, purchase orders...) and delivers fully automated results in a quality that is superior to current manual data extraction. With MINT.extract we will help businesses to transform their documents to value: making valuable information accessible for everyone. For our company, Turicode. We estimate that 5 years after Phase 2 completion, MINT.extract will bring us additional revenues of €18,7M (x54 revenues of 2018), allowing us to hire 50 new employees and generate €8,25M accumulated profit, reaching a ROI of 3,13.

Keywords: digitization,data analytics,automated text,artificial intelligence,big data,insurances
Joint Bodies in Bilateral Agreements (JBinBA)

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: Austria
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2022-10-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 186167.04
EU funding (EUR): 186167.04
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will put a spotlight on joint bodies (JBs), which refers to common institutions set up between the European Union (EU) and third countries through their bilateral agreements. They bring together representatives from the EU (Commission and/or Council) and the third country to oversee implementation. Beyond the ability to discuss common problems and issue recommendations, they are sometimes even empowered to amend the agreement or adopt binding decisions, which raises concerns about their democratic legitimacy. Although the number of JBs run into the hundreds and their decision-making powers attract increasing attention, our knowledge about them is limited. This project would help to significantly narrow this discrepancy. The objective of this project is to explain Commission discretion in these bodies. We draw on principal–agent theory to highlight that, in designing international institutions, states rationally weigh expected benefits of delegation against expected costs. We argue that the size of agency losses is determined by whether agreements are concluded in an area of high politics, the need for policy expertise, the duration of an agreement, and the underlying decision rule among principals. In terms of third-country characteristics, we theorize that size and regime type (democracy) play a role in states’ determination of agency losses. To test these expectations, we will first generate an original dataset mapping JBs across ca. 550 bilateral agreements and primarily use regression analyses, albeit with some qualitative evidence from interviews to corroborate the causal mechanisms. Second, we will use stratified random sampling to conduct a survey among at least 100 Commission officials active in JBs and interpret the data employing both quantitative and qualitative methods. This project will be empirically innovative, theoretically informed, and methodologically rigorous and produce findings relevant for scholars, policy makers, and citizens.

Keywords: rational design of international institutions,principal agent pa theory,commission discretion
The Causal Effect of Public Policy and Income on Child Health and Human Capital (MISSINGMIDDLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1048750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1048750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A recent literature in economics on the “fetal origins hypothesis” has documented that a range of early (prenatal and postnatal) shocks and interventions can have substantial effects on long-term human capital formation (e.g. adult health, wages). However, we still know little about the years in between early infancy and adulthood, referred to as the “missing middle”. How do early shocks affect health and human capital formation during childhood? How do the effects of different types of interventions, or shocks at different ages, compare? What are the most cost-effective ways of improving young children’s future outcomes? I aim to fill this gap in the literature by taking advantage of a range of natural experiments in a country, Spain, for which high quality administrative data are available for the past 35 years. State of the art econometric techniques, combined with large sample sizes, will allow me to evaluate credibly and precisely the causal effects of a number of different public policies and shocks on child development. I will consider five different “shocks” in early childhood (at different ages), affecting: i) Household material resources (an unconditional mother’s allowance); ii) Parental time (subsidized paternity leave); iii) Medical treatments around birth (elective delivery); iv) The availability of family planning services (access to abortion); and v) Aggregate demand shocks to different sectors of the economy. I will evaluate their impact on health and cognitive development at ages 0-15, as measured in hospital and primary health care records, school grades, and standardized test scores, among other data sources. I will also study the potential channels linking treatments to child outcomes, including family size (fertility), parental time use and labor market outcomes, expenditure patterns, etc. My results will help us understand how shocks in early life can have long-term effects on human capital, with direct policy implications.

Keywords: children,health,fertility,human capital,female labor force participation,public benefits,social policy,early childhood,infant health,fetal origins,policy evaluation,natural experiments
5 services of Drones for increased airports and waterways safety and security. (5D-AeroSafe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Greece,Greece,Belgium,Poland,Greece,France
Call: Innovative applications of drones for ensuring safety in transport (H2020-MG-2019-TwoStages, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3799911.25
EU funding (EUR): 3497475.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

5D-AeroSafe is a 36-month project that will develop a set of drone-based services to increase the safety and security of airport and waterway, while reducing operational costs through the offering of five services, namely: CNS/GNSS equipment inspection and calibration, security checks in the airport perimeter and approaches, runways and taxiways inspections, aircraft inspections, waterways operation and inspections. The challenge is to integrate the flight of drones in restricted areas where they will co-exist with numerous commercial flights without increasing risks. The integration UTM/ATM is thus studied in detail in the project to propose these efficient solutions. The services are based on the use of several drones (fixed wings for large area monitoring, and VTOLs for detailed inspections and calibrations) integrated in a generic ground station equipped with innovative ITC capabilities, connected to the airport legacy systems. The 5D-AeroSafe modules will be connected, via SWIM, to airport maintenance systems for infrastructure inspection and calibration aspects, operations systems for the aircraft inspections, and finally with the local ATM for the ATM/UTM integration aspects. The project will be implemented under the control of relevant end-users’ stakeholders (airport and water airport operators), and authorities (Civil Aviation Authorities). The tests and validation of the system will be performed through three operational test pilots at different stages of the project as the implementation will be incremental, and will take place in real locations and in as much as possible real conditions. As the technological and operational innovations are multiple, the project will target a final TRL of 6-7. The consortium and the advisory board encompass a large set of end-users and authorities which is a guaranty of the operationality of the project outcomes, and the industry and research partners have been involved for a long time in drone services development.

Keywords: airport safety,drone services,utm integration,inspection,calibration
A Swarm Robotics Construction System (SRoCS)

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: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166320.0
EU funding (EUR): 166320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal details an investigation into the development of control software for swarms of robots tasked with building structures. The behavior of the individual robots in this work will be fully autonomous and will be based on the nest building behavior of social insects. It is of interest to investigate whether the building behavior of social insects can be transferred to and implemented in a swarm of robots since the social insect behavior has been shown to be parallel, robust, and scalable. I outline in this proposal the second milestone of my ambitious research project that I have devised to investigate how swarm robotics can be applied to construction. I completed the first milestone of this research project during my doctoral studies, where I implemented and validated a swarm robotics construction system using both hardware and simulation. I have organized the second milestone of my research project into four work packages. In these work packages, I will develop, implement, and validate control software for a swarm of robots, which must perform a construction task. These work packages use a combination of the simulation and hardware tools that I developed during my doctoral studies to efficiently and accurately answer a number of open research questions. I have designed these work packages to be completed at IRIDIA where I have access to world-class facilities such as a computer cluster with more than 1000 CPUs for running simulations and a state-of-the-art arena and tracking setup for running hardware experiments. I believe that by undertaking the second milestone of this project at IRIDIA under the supervision of Prof. Marco Dorigo, I will be able to successfully establish myself as an independent researcher.

Keywords: swarm robotics