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Novel closed-cage system for high-value marine aquaculture (NEPTUN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Cross-cutting marine and maritime research
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: Supporting SMEs efforts for the development - deployment and market replication of innovative solutions for blue growth (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2686875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1880812.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The vision of the NEPTUN project is to address and implement the findings of our SME Phase 1 Feasibility Study (GA#728996) to upscale, pilot, and commercialise our patented Closed-Cage Aquaculture System [CCAS] for wholly sustainable and cost-effective inshore aquaculture. NEPTUN will be the first CCAS capable of withstanding the whole grow-out cycle of fish, securing solid waste removal up to 90% (highest in the market), reducing mortality rate down to 0.4% (e.g. average rate in salmon farming in Norway: 10%) and feed costs in 10%, allowing adult fish densities of 50 kg/m3 (current limits for salmon farming in Norway: 25 kg/m3) without further depleting marine ecosystems. NEPTUN has the potential to increase e.g. global salmon production levels from current 2.2m t to 4.7m t (or 500,000t extra of fish protein), while minimizing the environmental impact of aquaculture activities (i.e. eliminate 363 t C, 45.5 t of N, and 8.5 t of P discharges from salmon farming in Norway alone). We have defined a subset of specific objectives covering final prototyping, validation, and commercialisation readiness activities. Achieving them will bring us to a wide market uptake. 1) Final prototyping objectives (WP1) to integrate and optimise the functionalities of NEPTUN’s subsystems, and deploy our prototype at our piloting facilities, raising NEPTUN TRL from TRL7 to TRL8. 2) Validation objectives (WP2) to demonstrate NEPTUN's technical and economic performance through a large-scale piloting in real-life operating settings, elevating our CCAS from TRL8 to TRL9. 3) Commercialisation readiness objectives (WP3-5) enabling us to successfully bring NEPTUN to the market and reach sales traction beyond Phase 2. Through the NEPTUN SME Phase 2 project we will significantly boost the growth in our company. We estimate that by year 5 after project closure, we will reach annual revenues of €411m, generate at least 76 new full-time positions, and accumulate profits of €127m, with 12.11 ROI.

Keywords: closed cage aquaculture system,ccas,mariculture technology,fish grow out,sustainable aquaculture,blue growth,competitive european aquaculture
Compressed Sensing Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks (COMPRESS NETS)

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: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185857.2
EU funding (EUR): 185857.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The emerging Compressed Sensing theory provides an entirely new perspective on the basic principles governing data acquisition, compression, and reconstruction. The main goal of this project is to understand the fundamental design principles and investigate the ultimate capabilities of Compressed Sensing techniques in wireless sensor networks. What distinguishes this project from prior related work is that it addresses large sensor networks that rely only on wireless interconnections and are subjected to arbitrary temporal and spatial variability (caused, e.g., by channel fading, addition/removal of nodes, node mobility, etc.). We propose an optimization-based methodology which integrates compressed sensing and wireless data transport into a unified optimization framework which will serve as the mathematical basis for a systematic design and, ultimately, will reveal the performance limits. This work will provide: 1) mathematical characterizations of the optimal tradeoffs between different fundamental performance criteria (e.g., energy versus sensing accuracy), and 2) practical algorithms and hierarchically structured network protocols (i.e., key enablers for Internet of Things (IoT) applications) able of handling large amount of data with lower energy and bandwidth consumption than in existing systems. The ultimate goal is to develop the foundations for a general theory of compressive sensing in wireless sensor networks which includes all aspects mentioned above. Such theory will have a breakthrough-making impact both through direct application on the wireless sensor networks, and in the science of network and data processing in other fields, including economics, transportation, biology, etc. From a career development perspective, the main goal is to strengthen the researcher’s interdisciplinary competence and research-leadership skills for pursuing the next level of career: becoming an internationally recognized, top-tier research leader in ICT.

Keywords: compressed sensing,wireless sensor networks
ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SECONDARY SYSTEM (EC2S)

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: France,France,France
Call: Innovative recirculation/air treatment system. (H2020-CS2-CFP08-2018-01, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1769567.13
EU funding (EUR): 1397047.01
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The Environment control system plays a significant role in guaranteeing air quality and thermal comfort in the aircraft cabin. Nevertheless, standard ECS remains one of the main power consumer function in the aircraft. Our EC2S solution proposes to reduce the need of fresh flow from 70% to a much lower percentage by recycling and treating cabin air, downsizing the ECS system weight, fuel consumption, pollution and costs. Our ambition is to design the first Air Recirculation System (named EC2S Environment Control Secondary System) by integrating the smartest Air treatment processes and Sensors and demonstrate its efficiency and certifiability on the CS2 regional aircraft ground demonstrator. The Consortium - made of Hutchinson (coordinator, and world leader for ECS solutions in Aeronautic domain), Ecologicsense and Tera Environment (SMEs specialized in sensors and air quality monitoring), and a research center (CEA, working on indoor air treatment) - presents complementary skills to the success of the project. This solution is based on four main pillars: • A multi-technology approach for Air treatment, covering the largest Temperature / air flow conditions • World class sensors transferred from the automotive industry, ensuring reliability and cost • A compact EC2S pack that can be easily connected to a “in service” aircraft ECS system • A common monitoring system to split the ECS function between the primary ECS and the secondary based on the optimization of fuel consumption. The innovation potential of the project goes beyond the call objectives by providing a more comprehensive on-line monitoring chain of the air quality of the cabin and by its capacity to trap CO/CO2. The consortium will ensure demonstration of the system both in laboratory and cabin demonstrator and will perform an economic study. The EC2S project has a 1,77 M€ budget. The introduction of this disruptive solution might generate a business over 30 M€ per year.

Keywords: ecs environmental control system air treatment conditionning thermal sensors cabin regional commercial aircarft voc co2 co e ecs
INCLISAFE BLACKBOX (INCLISAFE BLACKBOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of the present proposal is the launching to the market of an innovative product called INCLISAFE BLACKBOX, which will be oriented to protection and safety of drivers of vehicles (firefighting trucks, tractors, logistics vehicles). Currently, there are lots of truck and tractor accidents (rollovers) due to the lack of stability of the vehicle in dynamic mode. At present, apart from DTA first generation of INCLISAFE products (IS1 and VEXT), there are not solutions that measure the stability of a truck in a dynamic mode. Current commercial products are basically inclinometers (that measures potential rollovers but only have reliability in static mode because it doesn´t take into account parameters such as momentum of inertia that has a great impact in dynamic mode) or accelerometers (that don´t take into account parameters such as angular velocity or momentum of inertia that impact in vehicle stability). INCLISAFE BLACKBOX will allow preventive detection, tilt warning and also will have data logging capabilities, making INCLISAFE BLACKBOX an EDR (Event Data Recorder), which will have superior characteristic that currently INCLISAFE line of products (IS1 and VEXT). INCLISAFE BLACKBOX has also advantages such as cost reductions (less accident mean less repairing’s). This proposal is key to DTA, as safe and smart solutions is the Core Business for the Company, after successfully developed a product with prove the main algorithms but have a lot of features missing and requested by the customers.

Keywords: tilt warning,rollover
Variation in Institutional Oversight of Police Misconduct (VINO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Sweden
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): 1968835.0
EU funding (EUR): 1968835.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How do states address police misconduct? Police violence and abuse occurs throughout the democratic world, presenting a challenge for states committed to exercising coercive force with discretion. One of the ways states address this problem is with police misconduct oversight institutions, which facilitate civilian reporting and state investigation of misconduct. But there is vast variation in the ways democracies design these institutions, and there is no systematic cross-national comparative research which can help us understand how different types of oversight institutions influence citizens’ behavior and attitudes to the state. As a consequence, decisionmakers lack the empirical basis necessary for developing informed policy. This project will develop a theoretical framework which contains a wider array of facets of institutional design than have been considered in previous research. It then asks how these institutional facets impact on citizen perceptions of police legitimacy and willingness to file complaints. The project studies these relationships within all OECD democracies using a multi-method approach. It first collects new, systematic data in order to conduct the first cross-national, statistical analysis. It complements this analysis with a series of survey experiments in order to overcome challenges to causal inference. Five case studies anchor this effort by helping to validate and contextualize the empirics. This project contributes by developing a new conceptual framework, innovating new and nuanced theoretical arguments, and studying them with rigorous, comparative methods. This research agenda is important because understanding how these oversight institutions are designed and whether they work can provide us with important leverage on understanding the foundations of democratic governance and state respect for the civil rights of its citizens.

Keywords: policing,oversight,misconduct,human rights,democratic governance
Treatment of contaminated land using a biochar/media mixture (TOOLBOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-10
End date: 2019-07-09
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187866.0
EU funding (EUR): 187866.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Waste disposal and treatment is a major source of contamination of soils, surface and groundwater, and accounts for 35% of the 1.1 million contaminated sites in Europe. Leaching of the organic solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) into groundwater has been identified as a primary issue with unlined landfills , affecting up to 70% of leachates tested. Mainly used as a metal degreaser and dry-cleaning reagent, TCE is difficult to treat; current treatment methods, such as anaerobic digestion or air stripping , are ineffective and/or expensive. This project will investigate the use biochar, or other appropriate media, for treatment of TCE contaminated water via two technologies - permeable reactive interceptors (PRIs) and permeable contaminant retaining filter (PCRF) bags. This novel, low-cost solution will address the requirements of European Union (EU) legislation, including the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The project will be based at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) with supervision by Dr Mark Healy (GeoEnvironmental Engineering Research Group – GENE) and support from Dr Florence Abram (Functional Environmental Microbiology - FEM). As the applicant has experience in TCE treatment from a microbial background, this highly novel, interdisciplinary proposal will compliment and strengthen her existing skillset by approaching this technology from an engineering perspective, with support from a research group that has a strong track record in this research area. With detailed career development assistance, multiple opportunities to further her strong publication record, access to numerous and varied fora for dissemination of results and support for IP exploitation, this proposal will have a significant impact in reintegrating the applicant back into the EU research community from her current research position in New Zealand.

Keywords: biochar,trichloroethylene,landfill leachate,soil contamination,multidisciplinary,engineering,microbiology,molecular biology,chemistry
Assisting European SPACE Start-ups in scaling UP (SpaceUp)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Belgium
Call: Technology transfer and business generators (H2020-COMPET-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997982.5
EU funding (EUR): 1997982.5
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The SpaceUp project aims at giving Europe's innovative start-ups in the space sector every opportunity to become world-leading companies. SpaceUp promotes technology transfer, networking, outreach and matchmaking with business angels, crowd funders, investors, human resource specialists and CEOs from corporates, culminating in six European SPACE ACADEMIES. Exposure to strategic corporate investors is being increased by engaging actively with relevant high tech industries like automotive, robotics. SpaceUp experts offer advice on how to best profit from the opportunities represented by European Public Funds (H2020/SME Instrument, EIB and EIF) and by the European Space Agency. Promising tech start-ups are being guided through already existing services offered like ESA-BICs, EEN, space-related clusters and NCPs. SpaceUp builds on activities carried out by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO) and ESA BICs, and fosters the uptake of space data and services by non-space industrial and service players for further commercial applications. SpaceUp reinforces the spin-out efforts of ESA through cross-fertilization by enhancing connection and networking with non-space technology experts, e.g. in maritime, logistics, land-use and security sectors. It also fosters spin-in activities from these into the space sector. Up to 360 start-ups in total can attend the six SPACE ACADEMIES taking place across Europe incl. the widening countries. Of these the most advanced 60 start-ups, applying for the SpaceUp coaching services, selected on the basis of the most viable cases (business, products and/or services) by the SpaceUp evaluation committee, are being invited not only to attend the SPACE ACADEMIES. They also get access to all partners’ services and to customized one-to-one coaching within areas of expertise they need to reach their next commercial stage (up to 10 per academy). Finally, recommendations on best practice and lessons learnt will be established for start-ups, SMEs and existing BICs and the sustainability of offering future European SPACE ACADEMIES will be explored.

Keywords: spin in,esa bic,european funds,business angels,copernicus,egnoss,galileo,artes,space2id,crossfertilization,incubation,hubs,cluster,space,finance,sme instrument,support,start up
Climate forecast enabled knowledge services (CLARA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Fighting and adapting to climate change
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Sweden,France,Netherlands
Call: Exploiting the added value of climate services (H2020-SC5-2016-TwoStage, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3773702.53
EU funding (EUR): 3459075.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Climate variability and change (CVC) embody sizeable economic, social and environmental risks in Europe and globally . Climate services (CSs) (Brasseur and Gallardo, 2016; Brooks, 2013; Lourenco et al., 2015) are essential for catalysing economic and societal transformations that not only reduce these risks and/or improve societal resilience, but also unlock Europe’s innovation potential, competitiveness and economic growth. As a part of European efforts to catalyse the potential of climate services for more efficient natural resource management and improved disaster risk management and resilience, the CLARA project will boost innovation and uptake of climate services based on front line seasonal and decadal forecasts and climate projections. Building upon the advancements in climate modelling and science in the context of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the CLARA project will illustrate genuine benefits and economic value of CSs in the face of climate variability and short-term climate change. A portfolio of user co-designed and co-developed climate services will help to improve policy and decision makings in the five priority areas GFCS: disaster risk reduction, water resource management, agriculture and food (security), renewable energy sources, and public health. Carefully designed business and marketing strategies will promote their uptake, help to energise the European market with climate services, and foster the European innovation potential.

Keywords: copernicus climate change services,climate seasonal and decadal forecasts,disaster risk reduction,agriculture,air pollution,water availability
Finance/Security practice after 9/11: Following the Money from Transaction to Trial (FOLLOW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999858.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999858.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of FOLLOW is to understand and analyse the security practices that render financial transactions into security intelligence, into court evidence. The novel approach is to map the path of the suspicious financial transaction as a ‘chain of translation.’ I ask what gets lost and added in the process of translating financial records from banks to courts. I deliver fine-grained empirical analysis of four key elements – privacy challenges, knowledge practices, situated judgement, and effects – at each link in the chain: banks, Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and courts. I focus on four European Union member states that are most different cases: UK, Netherlands, Spain and Poland. Since 11 September 2001, banks and financial institutions have been positioned in the frontline of security and fighting terrorism. They have become arbiters of the normal and the suspicious. They report to Financial Intelligence Units, which cooperate with police and prosecutors. Terrorism financing cases are increasingly reaching the courts, which have to judge terrorist facilitation and intent. The security practices of ‘financial warfare’ have important implications for citizens, yet remain largely invisible. There is a striking gap between policy and practice in this field. Sub-projects analyse: practices within banks (PhD1); within FIUs (PhDs 2 + 3); and within courts (Post-docs 1 + 2). The PI focuses on the chain of translation as a whole, including data-exchange with the US. The approach is ground-breaking because it uses participant observation to analyse practices of security knowledge and judgement. FOLLOW opens significant new research horizons at the intersection between security studies and the sociology of knowledge practices. It introduces security studies to the chain of translation, across public/private domains and across jurisdictions. It introduces the literature on knowledge practices to the study of security, which entails its own unchartered kind of knowledge

Keywords: european security,security practice,finance,security,security technology,counter terrorism financing,privacy,critical security studies,counter terrorism practice,social studies of finance