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Low-profile/drag Electronically Steerable Antennas for in-Flight connectivity (LESAF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom
Call: Low-profile/drag electronically steerable antennas for In-Flight Connectivity (H2020-CS2-CFP10-2019-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1400000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Abstract The aviation industry has deployed a wide set of broadband networks and services to offer high-speed connectivity to passengers and crews. The aircraft terminal antenna is a critical item with a high impact on the total cost of ownership for the airline connectivity services. Electronically Steered Antennas (ESAs) are expected to disrupt the market thanks to their unique capacity to track two or more satellites simultaneously due to the multi-beam capability. The advantages of the ESAs over traditional mechanically steered antennas are especially valued by aviation sector customers because of their reduced size (less additional fuel burn costs due to the less additional drag) and improved reliability. The objective of LESAF project is to propose low-profile and highly efficient ESA solution for the next generation of In-Flight Connectivity services. This will be achieved through the requirements definition, system analysis, technology assessment, prototyping and validation of this type of new generation directional antennas. It will be demonstrated that this type of antennas can meet the stringest requirements impose by the aviation market while bringing superior benefits over their alternative technological solutions. Two electronically steered antenna prototypes will be produced and tested (TRL 6) in order WP1.4.4 partners to perform testing in a representative test environment representative of an aircraft installation (installation on real aircrafts is not envisaged). The main characteristics and innovations of LESAR are: 1) Separated Tx and Rx apertures based on a multilevel modular concept 2) Innovative vertical assembly model maximizing the efficiency and reducing the size, number of elements, power consumption and heat dissipation 3) End-fire contactless radiating elements 4) Broadband Analogue beamforming with phase delay compensation 5) Multibeam steering and signal processing.

Keywords: esas,beamforming,phased array,ka band,modular concept,multi beam,wideband,mmic
Scattering and Amplification of fundamental photonic-hydrodynamic excitations in Kerr non-linear media (SOUNDCONE)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-11-02
End date: 2017-11-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Intense light beams propagating in nonlinear defocusing media behave identically to fluids. This raises the fascinating perspective of studying fluid dynamics using light. These ``photon fluids" and have been shown to exhibit remarkable properties such as superfluidity and condensation (similar to Bose-Einstein condensation). Here, we wish to use photon fluids for the creation of artificial flowing spacetime geometries otherwise thought to be the object of more complex and less (experimentally) accessible theories such as event horizons and black holes. The advantage of photon fluids over real fluids in this context is related to the great precision with which the fluid flow is determined by controlling the spatial phase profile of the laser beam. This will allow us for example to also include angular momentum in our black holes, something that has never been done before. In essence, we will study photon fluids with vorticity and look for novel effects including super-radiance amplification at the expense of the rotational motion of the black hole. My studies will develop these ideas and account for the full experimental complexity, paving the way for experiments. These complexities include nonlocal effects within the photon fluid and possible deviations of the standard dispersion relation. These studies will also bridge the gap between Bose-Einstein condensate physics (BEC) and photon fluid physics and will focus on the presence of superfluidity within the photon fluid and novel methods for detecting related effects such as frictionless flow. We will develop a quantised model for the photon fluid fluctuations and thus pave the way for the study of true quantum effects in these artificial fluids. Examples of these effects would be the amplification from quantum fluctuations. These studies will on the one the hand push the boundaries of general relativity applied to condensed matter systems and on the other pave the way for room-temperature superfluid physics.

Keywords: ergoregion gravity analogue superfluid hydrodynamics condensate
dynamic FEATure sensing in Self-Educating Neural Signal Entities (FEATSENSE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: FET Innovation Launchpad (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-4, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 142857.14
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

FEATSENSE intends to bring a conceptually novel AI-technology platform based on the results of the FET Open project ph-coding into a commercial environment. To achieve this goal, the FEATSENSE project will work to; (1) understand the current AI market structure, (2) identify the potentially most fruitful developmental adaptations of our technology, (3) develop a company business strategy and plan, (4) establish benchmarks and develop demonstrators showing the strength of our technology, and (5) establish and identify key partnerships and customers within the industry.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,computational architecture,neuroscience,sensing,information processing,autonomous systems
Strengthening the CLARIN Infrastructure. (CLARIN-PLUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Czechia,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Individual implementation and operation of ESFRI projects (H2020-INFRADEV-1-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495300.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495300.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

CLARIN, the Common Language Resource and Technology Research Infrastructure, has gained force and momentum over the last 10 years. It is being constructed as a distributed e-infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences to enable sustainable access, exploitation and integration of Europe’s vast amount of language-based data and related technology. As stipulated by the ESFRI roadmap, CLARIN is now in the later part of its implementation phase. Indeed, the implementation is already far advanced in many aspects, among these the technical core elements of the infrastructure. However, at this crucial phase, several aspects need additional focused efforts. The 2013 ESFRI high level expert group assessment identified key areas where concentrated actions are needed in order to ensure the broadest possible success of CLARIN. Also following the recommendations of that report, CLARIN-PLUS proposes to accelerate the implementation and to strengthen and consolidate CLARIN in the following areas: 1) The central (technical) hub – Extend the Service Provider Federation; improve metadata quality; tighten webservice integration; improve infrastructure gateways. 2) The central office – Further the internal and external information platforms; work on a professional branding and a higher usability level. 3) Partnerships with other infrastructure initiatives – Beyond existing cooperations, coordinate and implement or strengthen joint services with EUDAT, GÉANT, DARIAH, RDA, Europeana and Hathi Trust. 4) Outreach – Work out a concrete value proposition and use it to attract new countries, centres and users; demonstrate the potential of CLARIN to new user groups. 5) Governance: Revise the statutes, perform a financial analysis and focus on sustainability. This project will help to adjust the balance between the national CLARIN consortia and centres and CLARIN ERIC, and will improve crucial aspects of CLARIN as a robust European infrastructure.

Keywords: language resources,language technology,data management,data service,open access,humanities,social sciences,e infrastructure,research infrastructure,e science,science
Towards common digital government indicators and support for European cities (UserCentriCities)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Estonia,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Finland,Netherlands
Call: Citizen-centric public services in local and regional administrations (H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1483232.5
EU funding (EUR): 1483232.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Cities are at the forefront of delivering digital government in Europe, but they are not sufficiently involved in the policy debate and do not encounter sufficient support. UserCentriCities is a project driven by six cities and regions to deliver the goals of the Tallinn declaration at local level, supported by Eurocities, the largest association of European cities, VTT, a world-class research centre, and led by the Lisbon Council, a Brussels based think tank which has advised the Estonian presidency on the Tallinn declaration. UserCentriCities aims at delivering a better buy-in of the Tallinn declaration by local authorities, a set of common indicators to benchmark progress, a toolkit and mutual learning activities to share insight, and the involvement of a large number of new cities. The goal is to help cities move towards user centric services by providing data and support. In addition, UserCentriCities aims to stimulate healthy competitions among cities and to involve them on a permanent basis in EU-level technical debates.
Nature Based Urban Innovation (NATURVATION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany,Hungary,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: New governance, business, financing models and economic impact assessment tools for sustainable cities with nature-based solutions (urban re-naturing) (H2020-SCC-NBS-1stage-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7797877.5
EU funding (EUR): 7797877.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have the potential to respond to climate change, enhance biodiversity and improve environmental quality while contributing to economic regeneration and social well-being. Yet there is a substantial gap between the promise of NBS and their uptake. To unlock the potential of NBS for sustainable urban development, NATURVATION will take a transdisciplinary, internationally comparative approach to: advance assessment approaches (Objective 1) to capture the multiple impacts & values of NBS to deliver a robust evidence base for decision-making; enable innovation (Objective 2) to identify the most promising governance, business/finance and participation models and how to overcome the systemic conditions that currently limit their use to support systemic integration; and generate momentum to realise the potential of NBS through co-design, co-development & co-implementation of new partnerships, knowledge, recommendations, processes and tools required to build capacity, enable replication and foster cultural change (Objective 3). Our transdisciplinary approach working with ‘urban-regional innovation partnerships’ in six different cities and a Task Force of highly respected international organisations working in this arena integrates science, social science and humanities (SSH) and practical expertise and experience to achieve a step-change in the use of NBS for urban sustainability.

Keywords: social and technical innovation,governance,ecosystem services,environmental economics,environmental assessment,transdisciplinary
Strengthening the web entrepreneurship ecosystem in Europe for young people by creating a pan-European network of actively engaged student networks and student entrepreneurship centres (MY-WAY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Future Internet: Software, hardware, Infrastructures, technologies and services
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Türkiye,Hungary,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Web Entrepreneurship (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 772080.75
EU funding (EUR): 766124.5
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

MY-WAY aims at enhancing and improving the collaboration and efforts of web entrepreneurship initiatives (hubs, projects, accelerator networks, contests, etc.), web/business experts (accelerators, mentors, etc.), educational actors (business teachers and trainers) and the young adults as the final beneficiaries (through student networks, their alumni and student entrepreneurship centres, the student support centres). This coordination will create synergies and find ways to embed flexible services based on the existing best practices to be sustained by the student support centres in any European country at low cost. The social network of young adults across Europe will enable a wide spread of information, discovery of synergies and linkages between the actors and their services. The active engagement of student support centres and connecting them with business networks within the web entrepreneurship ecosystem and its activities, e.g. the development of the support services (training, mentoring, access to funding, regulation, policy, etc.) will strengthen the ecosystem and will also increase the visibility and impact of the web entrepreneurship initiatives and services. A network of student support centres will act as multipliers and successfully represent the targeted young adults boosting web entrepreneurship in the long term. Primary, secondary as well as emerging web entrepreneurship hubs will be involved across Europe into the project activities. The project partnership contains representatives from across the support chain for web entrepreneurs with adequate expertise and network infrastructure to successfully engage the critical mass of stakeholders. The project will implement support actions boosting the entrepreneurial spirit, especially changing the mindset, confidence and readiness of young people for starting their own business. Special attention will be paid to female web entrepreneurship and social web entrepreneurship support.

Keywords: student networks,student entrepreneurship,networking,coordination
Smart Assembly Robot with Advanced FUNctionalities (SARAFun)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Advanced interfaces and robots: Robotics and smart spaces
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Robotics SPARC (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Sweden,Sweden,Greece,Sweden
Call: Robotics (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4037266.25
EU funding (EUR): 4037265.5
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

While Industrial robots are very successful in many areas of industrial manufacturing, assembly automation still suffers from complex time consuming programming and the need of dedicated hardware. ABB has developed FRIDA (Friendly Robot for Industrial Dual Arm Assembly), a collaborative inherently safe assembly robot that is expected to reduce integration costs significantly by offering a standardized hardware setup and simple fitting of the robot into existing workplaces. Internal Pilot testing at ABB has however shown that when FRIDA is programmed with traditional methods the programming time even for simple assembly tasks will remain very long. The SARAFun project has been formed to enable a non-expert user to integrate a new bi-manual assembly task on a FRIDA robot in less than a day. This will be accomplished by augmenting the FRIDA robot with cutting edge sensory and cognitive abilities as well as reasoning abilities required to plan and execute an assembly task. The overall conceptual approach is that the robot should be capable of learning and executing assembly tasks in a human like manner. Studies will be made to understand how human assembly workers learn and perform assembly tasks. The human performance will be modelled and transferred to the FRIDA robot as assembly skills. The robot will learn assembly tasks, such as insertion or folding, by observing the task being performed by a human instructor. The robot will then analyze the task and generate an assembly program, including exception handling, and design 3D printable fingers tailored for gripping the parts at hand. Aided by the human instructor, the robot will finally learn to perform the actual assembly task, relying on sensory feedback from vision, force and tactile sensing as well as physical human robot interaction. During this phase the robot will gradually improve its understanding of the assembly at hand until it is capable of performing the assembly in a fast and robust manner.

Keywords: bi manual robot,assembly of two tasks,learning,teaching by demonstration,automated 3d finger generation,vision based and tactile sensing for learning object manipulation,customized grasping
FOSTERING INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS FOR A SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE INTENSIVE INDUSTRY ACROSS THE EXTENDED CONSTRUCTION VALUE CHAIN (FISSAC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Spain,Germany,Spain,Türkiye,Belgium,Türkiye,Sweden,Belgium,Sweden,Hungary,Czechia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Moving towards a circular economy through industrial symbiosis (H2020-WASTE-2014-two-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11214564.94
EU funding (EUR): 8892406.34
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of FISSAC project is to develop and demonstrate a new paradigm built on an innovative industrial symbiosis model towards a zero waste approach in the resource intensive industries of the construction value chain, tackling harmonized technological and non technological requirements, leading to material closed-loop processes and moving to a circular economy. A methodology and a software platform will be developed in order to implement the innovative industrial symbiosis model in a feasible scenario of industrial symbiosis synergies between industries (steel, aluminium, natural stone, chemical and demolition and construction sectors) and stakeholders in the extended construction value chain. It will guide how to overcome technical barriers and non technical barriers, as well as standardisation concerns to implement and replicate industrial symbiosis in a local/regional dimension. The ambition of the model will be to be replicated in other regions and other value chains symbiosis scenarios. The model will be applied based on the three sustainability pillars. FISSAC will demonstrate the applicability of the model as well as the effectiveness of the innovative processes, services and products at different levels: - Manufacturing processes: with demonstration of closed loop recycling processes to transform waste into valuable secondary raw materials, and manufacturing processes of the novel products at industrial scale - Product validation: with demonstration of the eco-design of eco-innovative construction products (new Eco-Cement and Green Concrete, innovative ceramic tiles and Rubber Wood Plastic Composites) in pre-industrial processes under a life cycle approach, and demonstration at real scale in different case studies of the application and the technical performance of the products - FISSAC model, with the demonstration of the software platform and replicability assessment of the model through living lab concept

Keywords: waste industrial symbiosis resource intensive industries construction value chain
Shedding Light on the Nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy with Multi-Wavelength All-Sky Surveys (DarkQuest)

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: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Despite two decades of intensive efforts after the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe, the nature of dark energy that dominates 68 percent of the energy density remains unknown. The majority of the remainder is in dark matter. Similarly, the elementary particles which constitute its mass is unidentified. Galaxy clusters trace the highest peaks in the cosmic density field and offer an independent and powerful probe of the growth of structure. Their overall abundance on the sky is strongly dependent on underlying cosmology. With the new availability of all sky surveys of galaxy clusters in the X-ray band with eROSITA and the utility of weak lensing signal in accurate estimation of cluster masses, we are on the verge of constraining cosmology with percent level precision. We propose to measure the energy density of the total matter, the normalization of the power spectrum of dark energy, the dark energy equation-of-state, and neutrino masses with a percent level accuracy. All sky survey observation with eROSITA and complimentary weak lensing observations with HSC also offer new prospects to test general relativity at large scales, and constrain well-motivated dark matter models (e.g. warm dark matter and self-interacting dark matter). Europe will have an opportunity to be on the forefront of observational cosmology and set the stage for the upcoming experiments if this proposal is funded. Given my expertise in the field of galaxy clusters and my role as the chair of the clusters and cosmology working group of the eROSITA consortium, I am uniquely suited to lead this effort and accomplish the goals of this proposal.

Keywords: all sky surveys,weak lensing,x rays,clusters of galaxies,dark matters,dark energy,cosmology