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Changing biodiversity in changing environments: Trait Changes across space and time (TraChange)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-15
End date: 2023-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Global concern about human impact on biological diversity has triggered an intense research agenda on drivers and consequences of biodiversity change in the Anthropocene. Recent evidence across biomes and taxonomic groups has revealed variable spatial patterns of losses and gains. However, little is known about the characteristics (i.e., traits) of the outgoing and incoming species in local assemblages undergoing rapid compositional turnover. Nor is it known how the magnitude of the different environmental drivers (e.g., climate change, land use change) influence such patterns. This points to a clear need for a deeper understanding of (I) identities and traits of incoming and outgoing species, (II) spatio-temporal differences in community trait distributions, and (III) the possible drivers behind such differences. The project aims to tackle this knowledge gap by determining whether there are consistent and directional changes in community traits unfolding in the Anthropocene. I will conduct in-depth studies at two different levels of ecological organization (species and community), using a range of modelling approaches to further our understanding of large-scale trait changes and test key assemblage trait distributions hypotheses. This will require the integration of research from diverse disciplines, including the development of new methods and tools. The research is proposed as a 2-year EF. USTAN will be the beneficiary host, while UoN will host me for two 2-month-long secondments. This MSCA will allow me to build a novel scientific profile, consolidate my position in the field, and progress towards achieving professional maturity. This research has great potential for scientific advancement and it will open up the best career possibilities for my career and new collaboration opportunities for me and the host organisations.

Keywords: functional traits,community change,macroecology,time,global,biodiversity change
Low-cost / energy Efficient Oleds for lighting (LEO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Micro- and nanoelectronics and photonics: Key enabling technologies related to micro- and nanoelectronics and to photonics, covering also quantum technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Italy,Belgium,France
Call: Development of novel materials and systems for OLED lighting (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3986262.5
EU funding (EUR): 3986262.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

LEO ambitions innovative manufacturing concept & routes towards high performance bendable and low cost OLEDs for general and mood lighting, merging conventional and proven technologies with disruptive approaches (e.g. substrate, architecture, hybrid processing, layouts). R&D activities will be ramped-up from lab scale feasibility to pilot line scale demonstration, delivering show off lighting systems with the help of external lighting manufacturers (Artemide, Technology Luminaires). The project targets the introduction of novel materials combinations (conformable & functionalized metallic substrate, Indium free electrodes and solution-processable organic materials) in large area colour tuneable top emission white OLEDs. Besides dry processing of large area tandem stacks (> 500 cm2), a novel hybrid process flow will be set-up whereby stacks will be wet processed up to the 1st emitting layer prior device completion by dry processing. With common and innovative building blocks (substrate with integrated interconnecting, 80 % transparent top electrode, 1E-6 g/m²/day WVTR scratch resistant thin film encapsulation, 50 % out-coupling efficiency), these two complementary approaches will lead to demonstrations of large area warm/cold white macro-pixels and hybrid full colours RGB OLEDs. LEO will address cost reduction at materials and process levels which represent more than 80% of the total cost of OLED lighting devices, according to a recent study. Leverage will be sought at mostly all layers of the stack with cost impacts at materials, device and system scales. In order to combine necessary and complementary capacities to reach its ambitious goals, LEO has gathered all stakeholders of the OLED lighting device fabrication value chain (except equipment supplier), including substrate and organic materials suppliers (AC&CS, Cynora), an OLED manufacturer (OSRAM OLED) and recognized research centres in the field of OLEDs and life cycle analysis (CEA, CNR, Gaiker).

Keywords: color tunable,high energy efficiency,top emission,low cost,large area,rare earth free materials,flexible steel substrate,dry deposition,scratch resistant tfe,light outcoupling
Quality management for building performance - improving energy performance by life cycle quality management (QUANTUM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Sustainable, resource-efficient and low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive process industries
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Norway,Greece,Belgium,Latvia,Czechia,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: New tools and methodologies to reduce the gap between predicted and actual energy performances at the level of buildings and blocks of buildings (H2020-EeB-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6889097.5
EU funding (EUR): 5651990.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The estimated average gap between calculated and actual energy performance of the European building stock is 25% for energy performance and 1,5% for comfort performance (as scored by building occupants). Comprehensive research has shown that faultily commissioned and operated building management systems are a main cause for this gap mainly caused by the lack of appropriate and coherent quality management systems for building performance. The objective of this project is therefore to develop and demonstrate pragmatic services and appropriate tools supporting quality management in the design, construction, commissioning and operation phase as a means to close this gap in European buildings. The project will integrate different innovative ICT-driven tools supporting the quality management process into building and energy services, and will apply them to a representative set of European buildings (taking into account different climate zones and different energy services). The result of this project will be a comprehensive QUANTUM quality management platform integrating tools, services and processes. The partners will implement EU-wide dissemination activities to inform the stakeholders about the advantages of comprehensive quality management systems for the building industry, and to promote the tools validated in the project. Stakeholders that will benefit from the results of this project include building owners, tenants, ESCOs, developers, architects, engineering and consulting firms, students and public authorities. Aside from savings on the energy costs CO2 emissions will be reduced and employee productivity in buildings equipped with the tools and services will increase as well due to increased occupant comfort. From previous preliminary data and own estimations, the QUANTUM partners expect that the reduction in energy consumption achieved by coherent quality management for building performance to be more than 10%.

Keywords: quality management,active funtional specifications,energy performance,comfort
New transversality techniques in holomorphic curve theories (TRANSHOLOMORPHIC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1624500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1624500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the study of symplectic and contact manifolds, a decisive role has been played by the theory of pseudoholomorphic curves, introduced by Gromov in 1985. One major drawback of this theory is the fundamental conflict between "genericity" and "symmetry", which for instance causes moduli spaces of holomorphic curves to be singular or have the wrong dimension whenever multiply covered curves are present. Most traditional solutions to this problem involve abstract perturbations of the Cauchy-Riemann equation, but recently there has been progress in tackling the transversality problem more directly, leading in particular to a proof of the "super-rigidity" conjecture on symplectic Calabi-Yau 6-manifolds. The overriding goal of the proposed project is to unravel the full implications of these new transversality techniques for problems in symplectic topology and neighboring fields. Examples of applications to be explored include: (1) Understanding the symplectic field theory of unit cotangent bundles for manifolds with negative or nonpositive curvature, with applications to the nearby Lagrangian conjecture and dynamical questions in Riemannian geometry; (2) Developing a comprehensive bifurcation theory for Reeb orbits and holomorphic curves in symplectic cobordisms, leading e.g. to a proof that planar contact structures are "quasiflexible"; (3) Completing the analytical foundations of Hutchings's embedded contact homology (ECH), a 3-dimensional holomorphic curve theory with important applications to dynamics and symplectic embedding problems; (4) Developing new refinements of the Gromov-Witten invariants based on super-rigidity and bifurcation theory; (5) Defining higher-dimensional analogues of ECH; (6) Proving integrality relations in the setting of 6-dimensional symplectic cobordisms, analogous to the Gopakumar-Vafa formula for Calabi-Yau 3-folds.

Keywords: symplectic topology,contact topology,pseudoholomorphic curves,symplectic field theory,transversality,bifurcation theory,hamiltonian dynamics,gromov witten invariants,super rigidity
European Training Network to Diagnose, Understand and Treat Stargardt Disease, a Frequent Inherited Blinding Disorder (StarT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Spain,Italy,Switzerland,Switzerland,Belgium,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3776714.28
EU funding (EUR): 3768605.55
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

StarT will create an interdisciplinary and intersectorial European training network focusing on different aspects of autosomal recessive Stargardt disease (STGD1), a frequent inherited blinding disorder that affects an estimated 925,000 persons worldwide. StarT research aims to uncover the regulation of its disease gene ABCA4 and its missing heritability, in order to develop novel treatments. StarT training will give young researchers unparalleled training opportunities in outstanding vision research groups with unique expertise in omics technologies, bio-informatics, stem cell biology, animal models of disease, and therapeutics, providing each ESR with the necessary competences in state-of-the-art academic and industrial research. STGD1 is due to ABCA4 mutations, however up to 35% of STGD1 cases carries one or no ABCA4 coding mutation. New unconventional classes of ABCA4 mutations were recently discovered by us, the significance of which largely remains elusive. In order to understand the mechanisms triggered by these missing ABCA4 mutations and to design new therapies for STGD1 cases, challenging research questions will be addressed by the integration of unique skills from this network. Early-Stage Researchers will perform cutting edge research using innovative and interdisciplinary approaches: (functional) genomics and transcriptomics, bio-informatics, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, generation of stem cell and animal disease models and design of new treatments. The training objectives will be met through academic and industrial training-by-research via individual research projects, secondments, and network-wide training sessions.

Keywords: genomics,transcriptomics,functional genomics,bio informatics,genome editing,stem cell biology,animal disease models,therapy development,photoreceptor cells,blindness,stargardt disease
A community platform for building peace through information-driven dialogue (ISOOKO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Uganda,Greece,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Kenya,Rwanda,United Kingdom
Call: International partnership building in low and middle income countries (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2223251.25
EU funding (EUR): 2172963.75
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In any society that has emerged from civil conflict there is a risk of recurrence unless the underlying divisions are addressed. Peace education has been shown to promote reconciliation by developing empathy, critical thinking and moral responsibility. Various factors for building resistance to conflict have been identified as key: the provision of access to an ‘evidence base’ of balanced information; active engagement with information to familiarise users with concepts of evidence, authenticity and critical thinking; and inclusive spaces for dialogue between communities, in which reconciliation is forged through participation. We take these participatory approaches and map them into the digital sphere. While social media are widely used for participation, their potential for abuse makes them unsuitable for such dialogue. More focused platforms have emerged to support the public’s engagement with information, issues and each other, such as Ushahidi, which focuses on collecting and sharing data about unfolding situations, to involve communities in dealing with them. We will build on this software to develop a participatory platform that supports active engagement with bodies of information, allowing communities to share, organise, enhance, and reuse it, within a digital space for information-driven processes of reflection and informed, constructive dialogue. The platform will be piloted and evaluated in two countries recovering from civil conflict, Rwanda and Kenya, and the reach of the trials will be extended into areas of poor connectivity via BRCK hotspot devices. We will follow a living labs methodology based on social innovation and co-creation, involving close engagement with citizens and communities in participatory design and evaluation events throughout the project. Evaluation will also use quantitative methods from data science to assess the relevance, innovation and impact of the platform, and analyse the behavioural responses of the platform’s users.

Keywords: peacebuilding,education,reconciliation,conflict,rwanda,kenya,uganda,genocide,democracy,participation,engagement
Thermal Evolution Modeling of Icy objects in the Solar System (THEMISS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494493.75
EU funding (EUR): 1494493.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Comets can be used as tracers of the conditions prevailing during the formation of the solar system. We have been studying them for decades, yet we still have not answered this foreground question: how do comets work? To answer that question is to understand which of comets properties are actually relevant to characterize the early solar system, and how primitive comets really are. Icy objects in the solar system are stored in different reservoirs, where they evolve very slowly owing irradiation, collisions and thermal processing. When they enter the inner solar system, they become comets, i.e. objects loosing mass. If comets are deemed very primitive due, for example, to their high content in very volatile species, some observations including ESA/Rosetta’s, have brought us a conundrum. Indeed, some comet properties indicate that they could have suffered from a long-term processing, which lead their basic properties (like shape, composition or size) to evolve significantly since the time they were formed. This proposal will explore the thermal processing of comets from their storage in the Oort Cloud, the Kuiper Belt and the Main Belt, and the thermally-induced variations in their physical and chemical characteristics, in order to understand whether such effects were important for shaping comets as we observe them today. Based on observational constraints obtained both from the ground and the latest space missions, an unprecedented modeling effort will be undertaken to evaluate under which conditions comets can preserve pristine material, what the long-lasting effects of thermal processing are for the various comet populations, and provide tools for deciphering between primitive properties and properties affected by evolution. Finally, this work will be shared via a web application, allowing the community to work from this foundation to prepare the future of our field, including the next generation of space missions exploring comets from sample returns.

Keywords: solar system,comets,asteroids,evolution
Rapid 90Sr determination using laser ablation ICP-QQQ-MS (STROMASS)

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: Slovenia
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-02-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150040.32
EU funding (EUR): 150040.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As the Fukushima nuclear accident proved, the analytical laboratories cannot provide a rapid response for 90Sr contamination using the classic radiometric measurement methods resulting in poor public information which significantly decreases the trust towards governmental institutes. However, the monitoring of 90Sr is important since it is a “bone-seeker” element and is easily accumulated in bone tissues causing long term radiation exposure among the population. As a pure beta particle emitter radionuclide, the determination of 90Sr is a complex and time-consuming task (min. 1 day) due to the necessity of sample preparation and chemical separation of Sr. The scientific aim of this research project is to maximize the merit of mass spectrometry to fulfil the request of society for prompt and reliable information in case of a nuclear event. For this purpose, the latest state-of-the-art instruments, Agilent 8800 ICP-QQQ-MS and Cetac Teledyne Excite Excimer Laser ablation system will be used in an interdisciplinary approach to shorten the analysis time (<2 hours) and minimise the sample intake (<1 g). The new method will have a positive impact on environment protection because of the reduction of corrosive chemical usage. There will be further opportunities to determine radionuclides, such as U, Pu, I, and Cs isotopes giving benefit to the industrial application. To diversify the applicant’s competence and mend his shortcomings, training will be provided in student supervision, leadership, research funding and networking. The host and his institute will benefit from experiences related to the Fukushima accident, 90Sr analysis with mass spectrometry and explore new cooperation opportunities with Japanese and Hungarian researchers. With the help of this action, the applicant will be successfully reintegrated into Europe and set up his own research network and laboratory that will motivate further collaboration in the future.

Keywords: 90sr,inorganic mass spectrometry,radiochemistry,radionuclide analysis
The first ingestible capsule for eradicating Helicobacter pylori infection through photodynamic therapy (Capsulight)

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: 2019-02-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a bacterium of the stomach which affects on average 50% of the world population, reaching up to 70% in some European Countries. Once it is diagnosed, it has to be eradicated, since it is a carcinogen agent and around 90% of all gastric cancers can be attributable to its infection. The only available treatment is a pharmacological therapy based on the assumption of proton-pump inhibitor and a mix of 2-3 antibiotic drugs. Unfortunately, due to increasing antibiotic resistance, up to 30% of the affected population cannot be cured, despite several cycles of antibiotic therapy and usually endoscopic biopsy to determine antibiotic-resistance. Probiomedica is a spin-off of the University of Florence and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna specialized in photobiology and robotics applied to medicine, which has developed and patented CapsuLight, the first ingestible capsule able to eradicate H. Pylori infection through intragastric photodynamic therapy, that is through the power of light. The device is based on the established technology and safety of endoscopic capsules for diagnostic use, and our preliminary in vitro tests showed 97% efficacy in killing the bacterium. The advantages for infected population are unparalleled: the possibility to eradicate the bacterium for those who cannot be cured due to antibiotic resistance (our first target market); the higher efficacy rate, no side effects due to antibiotic cycles, and easy posology for all the infected population (secondary market). CapsuLight will also provide high economic savings to National Healthcare Systems, by reducing drug therapies cycles and endoscopic biopsies and related costs for hospitalization. Probiomedica has already presented the product to several gastroenterology and microbiology centers and will optimize the capsule design for further miniaturization and mass production, and to undergo the necessary clinical validation for getting the CE mark during the Phase 2 project.

Keywords: helicobacter pilory infection,gastric diseases,gastroenterology,antibiotic resistance,phototherapy,non invasive therapy,swallawable device,led sources