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RECYCLING ALKALINE BATTERIES INTO MICRONUTRIENT FERTILIZER (RENUTRI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The majority of alkaline battery recycling plants are working at maximum capacity and cannot cope with increasing demand. Safety issues, vast energy consumption and high process temperatures make smelting plants a dangerous and outdated technology. Battery manufacturers have produced and distributed over 10 billion alkaline batteries worldwide and the amount of used batteries increases at six percent annually. Many countries are unable to keep up with the environmental impacts. Fifty-one percent of global agricultural land and thus food plants globally suffer from micronutrient deficiency. Tracegrow introduces new recycling capabilities for alkaline battery and an innovative end product—micronutrient fertilizer. The proposed feasibility study enhances the company’s potential for international expansion and capability to create a new niche market in recycling used minerals into ecological soil micronutrients.

Keywords: battery recycling,foliar fertilization
La MaMa Experimental Theatre: a lasting bridge between cultures (MariBet)

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: Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 251002.56
EU funding (EUR): 251002.56
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

MariBet is focused on the activity of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club of New York, founded by Ellen Stewart (1919-2011) in 1961 in order to give voice to artists marginalized by both the institutional theatres of Broadway and the Off-Broadway scene: a theatre conceived as an integration point in overcoming cultural and geo-political barriers and engaging artists in a common artistical research. Nowadays La MaMa produces performances always addressed to current social issues like immigration and welcoming refugees. The topic of the research is then in line with the current European political situation marked by the debate on migration flow. Main objectives are: 1. fill the gap in the field of theatre studies with an in-depth study of the history of La MaMa on which there are no exhaustive investigations yet; 2. analyse its engagement in promoting intercultural dialogues both in the past and in the present. These objectives will be reached through an interdisciplinary research, combining the historical and semiological investigation to the sociological analysis of the issues related to the performances presented by La MaMa. This project is timely because the historical distance from the facts allows a critical objectivity in the study of the subject, the emerging interest on the comparison between Avant-Garde theatre and contemporary theatre, the principles investigated by La MaMa over the years still impact on our society today. The project (36 months) will be hosted at the Department of Cultures and Civilizations (CUCI - UNIVR, Italy) and in the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC, Graduate Center – CUNY, US), involving the non-academic cultural institution La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club of New York. The detailed research and training program will be supervised by prof. Simona Brunetti (main supervisor) and by prof. Marvin Carlson (in US), both renowned scholars of theatre with expertise in History and Theory of Theatre.

Keywords: theatre,american avant garde,off off broadway,cross cultural theatre,integration,american culture,migration
Support towards the Europe PMC initiative-Contribution for 2014-2016 (ERC-EuropePMC-1-2014)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: ERC other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: European Research Council (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230000.0
EU funding (EUR): 230000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed action will provide continued support to the European Research Council (ERC) in the implementation of its Open Access strategy for projects funded in the Life Sciences domain. It follows on from the project "Support towards the Europe PMC initiative-Contribution for 2013"(ERC-EuropePMC-SUP-2013) which has allowed the ERC to offer the benefits of Europe PMC to its funded researchers for the first time in 2013. The ERC Open Access strategy, and how the present project will assist the ERC in its implementation, is explained below

Keywords: open access,europe pmc,repository
Titanium Oxide Nanocomposites for Scalable Optimized Perovskite Solar cells (TONSOPS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-16
End date: 2018-03-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170121.6
EU funding (EUR): 170121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The European commission recognizes the importance of nanotechnology, semiconductors and advanced materials as key enabling technologies. The application of functional nanostructured materials in industrial processes and advanced science is of capital and strategic importance for the European economy and society. Their inclusion as reliable, standard and affordable components will boost the competitiveness of European industry, specifically in the fabrication of 4th generation solar cells. Sensitized Perovskites Solar cells (PSC) represent advantages in terms of cost manufacturing, energy generation and integration in flexible and semitransparent devices. However, the viability of their mass scale fabrication is hindered by economic and technical difficulties. Some of these technical issues arise from inefficient infiltration of the perovskite absorber into a fragile mesoporous (mp) TiO2 layer. My project addresses these problems applying a recently developed straightforward method for secure TiO2 nanotube layers (TNL) to commodity thermoplastic polymers. This novel method combined with optimized solution synthesized perovskites will result in the production of flexible and pliable PSC. Specifically, I propose to produce a step change in the standardization and fabrication of functional nanostructured materials, and its implementation in optimized PSCs. Lastly, the study on the life cycle management and viability of the industrial production of these PSC will be evaluated in an innovative photovoltaic manufacture company, ONYX SOLAR. Hence, the project is designed to generate disruptive, but easily scalable technology that may be rapidly adopted by European industry to boost its competitiveness in functional nanostructured composites and 4th generation solar cells.

Keywords: solar cells,perovskites,nanocomposites,tio2 nanotubes,thermoplastics
Are marine living microorganisms influencing clouds? (Sea2Cloud)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999329.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999329.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Earth, as a whole, can be considered as a living organism emitting gases and particles in its atmosphere, in order to regulate its own temperature (Lovelock, 1988). In particular oceans, which cover 70% of the Earth, may respond to climate change by emitting different species under different environmental conditions. At the global scale, a large fraction of the aerosol number concentration is formed by nucleation of low-volatility gas-phase compounds, a process that is expected to ultimately determine the concentrations of Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN). Nucleation occurrence over open oceans is still debated, due to scarce observational data sets and instrumental limitations, although our recent findings suggest biologically driven nucleation from seawater emissions. Marine aerosol can also be emitted to the atmosphere as primary particles via bubble bursting, among which living microorganisms are suspected to act as excellent ice nuclei (IN) and impact clouds precipitation capacities. The main goal of this proposal is to investigate how marine emissions from living microorganisms can influence CCN, IN and ultimately cloud properties. We will investigate the whole process chain of gas-phase emissions, nucleation and growth through the atmospheric column, and impact on the CCN population. We will also quantify marine primary bioaerosol emissions and evaluate how they impact IN and cloud precipitation capabilities. Experiments will be performed in the Southern Hemisphere, especially sensitive to the natural aerosol concentration variability. We will use an original approach of field mesocosms enclosing the air-sea interface, to link marine emissions to the biogeochemical properties of natural seawater, combined with ambient aerosol measurements simultaneously at low and high altitude sites. At last, a modelling study will help merging process studies and ambient measurements, and assess the role of biologically driven marine emissions on cloud properties.
Stochastic Processes on Random Surfaces (SPRS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1489406.0
EU funding (EUR): 1489406.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the last several decades, two canonical theories of random surfaces have emerged. The first, so-called Liouville quantum gravity (LQG), has its roots in conformal field theory and string theory from the 1980s and 1990s. The second, so-called random planar maps (RPM), has its roots in combinatorics from the 1960s. There has been immense progress in recent years in making rigorous sense of LQG, in the study of the large-scale behavior of RPM, and developing connections between them as well as with other mathematical objects such as the Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE). The purpose of this project is to study stochastic processes on LQG and RPM. The first part of the proposed research is focused on developing a theory of growth processes on LQG, the so-called quantum Loewner evolution (QLE). QLE, introduced in joint work with Sheffield, is a family of processes which conjecturally describe the scaling limits of discrete growth processes such as diffusion limited aggregation (DLA), the Eden model, and the dielectric breakdown model (DBM) on LQG. QLE has proved to be a powerful tool in the study of LQG and RPM and was used in joint work with Sheffield to unite LQG with gamma=sqrt(8/3) with the Brownian map, the metric space scaling limit of random planar maps. Nevertheless, the development of QLE is still in its infancy and many important problems remain to be solved. It has long been conjectured that large RPM equipped with a statistical physics model, such as percolation or a uniform spanning tree, embedded into the plane in a conformal manner should be described by a form of LQG decorated by an SLE. The embedding problem is intimately connected to understanding random walk on a RPM, which has proved to be challenging. The second part of the proposal is aimed at developing new methods to settle long-standing questions about random walk on RPM, and ultimately the embedding problem for RPM.

Keywords: schramm loewner evolution,gaussian free field,liouville quantum gravity,random planar maps,statistical mechanics
Sustainable Jet Fuel from Flexible Waste Biomass (GreenFlexJET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Alternative fuels and mobile energy sources
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Enabling pre-commercial production of advanced aviation biofuel (H2020-LCE-2017-RES-IA, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19418275.18
EU funding (EUR): 9999732.51
Participants: 18
Project status: TERMINATED

FlexJet will build a pre-commercial demonstration plant for the production of advanced aviation biofuel (jet fuel) from waste vegetable oil and organic solid waste biomass (food waste), successfully demonstrating the SABR-TCR technology (traditional transesterification (TRANS) and Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR) combined with hydrogen separation through pressure swing adsorption (PSA), and hydro deoxygenation (HDO) and hydro cracking/ isomerisation (HC)) to produce a fully equivalent jet fuel (compliant with ASTM D7566 Standards). This project will deliver respective environmental and social sustainability mapping and it will validate a comprehensive exploitation business plan, building on already established end user interest with existing offtake agreements already in place with British Airways. The project plant installed at the source of where the waste arises in BIGA Energie at Hohenstein (Germany) will produce 1,200 ton of jet fuel from 3,482 tonnes of dried organic waste and 1,153 tonnes of waste vegetable oil per year. A subsequent scale-up first commercial plant would be constructed immediately after the project end to produce 25,000 tonnes per year of aviation fuel. The FlexJet project consortium has undoubtedly bought together the leading researchers, industrial technology providers including airline off takers and renewable energy experts from across Europe, in a combined, committed and dedicated research effort to deliver the overarching ambition. Building and extending from previous framework funding this project is designed to set the benchmark for future sustainable aviation fuel development and growth within Europe and will provide a real example to the rest of the world of how sustainable aviation biofuels can be produced at both large and decentralised scales economically whilst simultaneously addressing social and environmental needs.
The Political Economy of African Development. Ethnicity, Nation, and History (ORDINARY)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1555679.0
EU funding (EUR): 1555679.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal aims to measure, document, and understand the historical origins of contemporary African inequality that has a strong ethnic component. The focus is on the interplay of the nation and the ethnicity that co-evolve, sometimes violently and sometimes peacefully across the continent. The proposal consists of four closely related projects. The first project develops a large database portraying the evolution of inequality and intergenerational mobility in education covering the full post-independence period using census data from many countries. Decomposing inequality and mobility in education into a between-ethnicity and a within-ethnicity component, it provides an autopsy of the cross-country, cross-region, and dynamic patterns. Then it examines the mechanisms linking inequality with well-being, employing a plethora of geo-referenced micro data. The second project extends widely-used anthropological maps and cross-cultural data on pre-colonial Africa to examine the legacy of deeply-rooted ethnic-specific institutional and economic traits on development. The project aims exploring the key mechanisms and examining exactly which aspects of statehood (courts, land rights, bureaucracy) matter for development. The third project assesses the impact of colonial “divide-and-rule” strategies and ethnic-based favouritism/discrimination on contemporary African political economy. To this end it compiles an original database of ethnic power relations during colonization and then examines whether ethnic political power and inequality post-independence is related to the differential treatment of ethnicities from the colonial administration. The fourth project assesses the long-run development impact of colonial concessions to private corporations and their main features (e.g., forced labour, violence, method of extraction), compiling a pan-African dataset covering all concessions and applying state-of-the-art econometric techniques to establish causal relationships.

Keywords: africa,instititions,ethnicity,history,political economy,colonisation,inequality,mobility
A data streaming platform to empower companies with intelligence through their entire business and value chains (ACTIVITY EXCHANGE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Iceland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Activity Stream was established in 2015 in Iceland, to provide AI-enhanced data platforms, developing industry-specific functionalities. Our multidisciplinary and committed team of 28 people counts with over decades worth of experience developing online software solutions. In that way, we have already developed the Activity Stream (AS) platform for big data analysis. Our next milestone is to develop AS Exchange (Ase), a project that goes a mile further to solve the challenges that companies currently face to turn their data into timely actionable insights: 1) Raw data must be processed to have insights and it is a costly process 2) data from disparate sources is stored in siloes with little accessibility 3) such service for a secure information ecosystem currently does not exist in the market. ASe is the most complete data analysis system in the market: combines data integration, operation intelligence and an exchange solution, ensuring the maximum data value, going from raw data to actionable insights that can be shared across the business network. Our platform reduces 80% of the workload of a data analyst. Due to fast and timely actions can improve a 10% sales and 35% costs savings, ASe is a cost-efficient possibility for SMEs. Moreover, ASe is the only B2B solution in the market that provides the necessary trust, security and data ownership control to collaborate or monetize data-driven insights. AS platform has been already sold to some customers within sport and life-entertainment industry. With ASe we will now target new industries such as manufacturers and retail businesses, subject to complex supply chains; in this context, big players such as Nike are already waiting for ASe. With ASe we bring a disruptive approach towards data analysis, taking us and Europe to the world forefront of data analytics, generating sales of near €40M in 3 years and creating 30 new direct jobs.

Keywords: big data,data siloes,data analytics,business intelligence,artificial intelligence
Early warning system for enteropathies in intensive broiler farming. (BEAWARE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

BloomVet developed a new disruptive Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) analysis technology called EnteroDetectAVI able to early identify in the environmental air any early signs of enteric disease. BloomVet has also developed Prediction Service for farmers, offering them a valid alternative to traditional diagnostic methods. The promising approach of VOCs analysis is emerging as a new frontier in both human and veterinary medicine, because it is non-invasive and affordable, since odours reflect animal health status and, and in particular, enteric problems are characterised by peculiar odour properties. EnteroDetectAVI is easily installable in poultry sheds, monitors animal health status 24/7, is affordable, reliable, and fast. EnteroDetectAVI warns the farmer as soon as the first signs of enteropathy appear, allowing him to treat animals timely. Early warning means a tangible advantage for farmers, as the yearly economic loss for enteric disease could be up to 18.000 €/shed. EnteroDetectAVI will be commercialised through a Business to Business (B2B) approach targeting farmers through Meat Groups in Italy and worldwide through a Company producing additives for animal feed. The profits will be realized by selling EnteroDetectAVI (2000€/unit) and by an annual fee (500€/unit) for the prediction service (alerts on tablet, smartphone, pc, etc.). The payback time of EnteroDetectAVI is 6 months. By 2022, BloomVet has estimated to sell 22400 EnteroDetectAVI units worldwide with a revenue of 17.892.500 €. BloomVet team is equally balanced between academia and industry, with a well-known expertise in the field of animal science, pathology, engineering and finance.

Keywords: prediction service,enteropathies detection,intensive broiler farming,early warning,early diagnosis,precision livestock farming