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Molecular materials for a new generation of artificial muscles (E-MOTION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: France,France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2666152.0
EU funding (EUR): 2666152.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Actuator devices converting energy into motion are a fundamental part of everyday life. However, there is currently an unmet need in actuation technologies to provide soft, smooth, noiseless movement that can mimic human motion and dexterity. The development of such “artificial muscles” is burgeoning in both interest and importance as it would enable significant advances in areas as important as robotics, medicine and aeronautics. To enable a step-change in this field, E·MOTION proposes to develop unprecedented macroscopic-scale soft materials based on switchable spin crossover molecules with remarkable actuating performances. Using an innovative combination of material engineering methods these materials will be endowed with electrical actuation, self-sensing and energy harvesting properties, which will be a major breakthrough. More fundamentally, E·MOTION aims at understanding in-depth structure vs. mechanical property relationships in these switchable materials, which is essential for processing and optimizing their function. A multiscale experimental and theoretical approach will be used to assess how the molecular deformation and change in molecular connectivity under external stimuli affect macroscopic mechanical properties as well as the cycle life. Finally, E·MOTION will take a major shift on the side of actuator design by the development of original fibre-braided actuators as well as 3D-printed, microfluidic actuator devices made of these materials. These advanced actuator designs will then be thoroughly analysed for their ability to mimic complex muscular schemes. This ambitious, multidisciplinary project that brings together various aspects of molecular and polymer chemistry, condensed matter physics, mechanical engineering and advanced manufacturing, will enable a new departure in my career and a significant leap forward in the state-of-the-art that shall expedite the societal exploitation of these novel, molecule-based actuator technologies.

Keywords: molecular materials,spin crossover,polymer composites,mechanical properties,actuators
Space Assisted Water Quality Forecasting Platform for Optimized Decision Making in Water Supply Services (SPACE-O)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Greece,Sweden,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: Downstream applications (H2020-EO-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2469948.75
EU funding (EUR): 2002087.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Satellite remote sensing has been evolved into a powerful tool for global monitoring of surface waters. Earth Observations (EO) and remote sensing are widely used for quantifying the physical parameters of reservoirs as well as for retrieving selected water constituents concentrations. Space-O aims at the integration of state of the art (EO) and in situ monitoring with advanced hydrological, water quality models and ICT tools into a powerful decision support system (DSS) for generating real time, short to medium term forecasting water flows and quality data in reservoirs which will be used for the optimization of water treatment plants (WTPs) operations, establishing a complete service line from EO to water business sector. An operational service platform will be designed to facilitate increased interoperability among EO and modeled services. Data acquisition and integration of almost real time EO data in the hydrological and water quality models will be implemented in order to provide improved real-time, short to medium term water quantity and quality forecasting in reservoirs. A risk-based DSS will be developed in order to enable cost-effective and environmental sustainable Water Treatment Plants (WTPs) operation, based on the water quality parameters forecasts at the reservoir, the in situ monitoring data and the data collected through supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems used in WTPs for operation control. Additionally, developing Copernicus Services (C3S) will be jointly assessed with site-specific data sets generated through the satellite, modeling, in situ and citizens monitoring services, to produce continuous monitored indicators for enabling water quality Risk Assessment analysis on a catchment level.

Keywords: hydrological modelling,water quality,data assimilation,water utilities,performance indicators,decision support system,copernicus
Sustainability of Agriculture in Neolithic Europe (SUSTAIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999812.0
EU funding (EUR): 670326.21
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of SUSTAIN is to elucidate how early agricultural societies in Europe maintained their capacity to self-generate and persist through time. It examines societies that have only recently settled in new environments and begun to practice mixed agro-pastoral husbandry. This at the time novel way of interaction with the environment involved a different scale of interference with the life cycles of plants and animals, and was of fundamental importance for subsequent developments in Europe. While archaeological research traditionally centres on the question of how societies and livelihoods changed, the project asks what made them capable to carry on, i.e. to remain sustainable. The project weaves together approaches from social anthropology, biogeography, bioarchaeology and complexity science in a manner that has not been attempted previously. We will examine the relationship of domesticates’ past range expansions and climate using correlative species distribution models (SDMs) and will derive past agropastoral practices from isotope signals in plant and animal remains. Novel approaches of quantitative inference will allow us to estimate parameters of crop and livestock productivity and to directly compare agropastoral performance across time and space in Europe. Using this knowledge, we will employ spatially explicit agent-based simulation to explore the social parameters of growth and decline of the first agricultural societies in Europe in previously unconsidered detail. We will examine the role of social webs of lateral insurance in colonising populations, and the extent to which fragmentation of these relationships constrained population expansion into new regions. The project will produce insights that challenge conventional wisdom about farming and environmental sustainability, particularly in regard to social connectedness, relations of sharing, and mobility, which will have value and impact beyond archaeology.

Keywords: stable isotope analysis,agent based modelling,bioarchaeology,biomolecular archaeology,model based archaeology,neolithic archaeology,computational social science,sustainability science,environmental humanities
Easy-to-use diagnostic tool for the killing efficacy of antibiotics on clinical isolates (SurviDisk)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Israel
Call: Call for proposals for ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2020-PoC, 2020)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal aims to develop a low-cost diagnostic tool (SurviDisk) that can evaluate the killing efficacy of antibiotic treatments on bacterial strains isolated from patients. Current methods, such as the disk diffusion assay, only evaluate the ability of antibiotics to arrest the growth of bacteria. The size of the inhibition zone in the disk diffusion assay indicates the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) i.e. the resistance level of the strain, but cannot distinguish between a cidal drug from an antibiotic that only stops the growth of bacteria without killing. It is today recognized that antibiotics that are able to kill bacteria are crucial for hard to treat infections that persist for many days despite treatment. However, bacterial strains can evolve to become tolerant and avoid killing by antibiotics. This tolerance is distinct from resistance, and only allows the strains to survive under antibiotic treatments but does not increase their MIC. The enhanced survival of these strains under antibiotics is not detected in the current antibiotic susceptibility tests done in hospitals. In the parent ERC-CoG grant, we have recently shown that measuring the survival of clinical strains isolated from life-threatening bloodstream infections enables to choose better treatments. Based on these results, we propose to develop a single disk easy-to-use low-cost assay for a semi-quantitative measurement of survival of bacteria under antibiotics, the Survidisk. We will develop the Survidisk prototype and evaluate its efficacy at predicting the treatment outcome on a retrospect analysis of a collection of clinical strains. Contacts for the production and commercialization by companies selling disk diffusion assays will be developed. We expect that the routine use of the SurviDisk for guiding antibiotic therapy in persistent infections should greatly treatment outcome, reducing death rates and shortening significantly hospitalization duration.

Keywords: antibiotic persistence,tolerance,antibiotic susceptibility testing
Positron resonant annihilation into darK mattER (POKER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1484853.0
EU funding (EUR): 1484853.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of POKER is to establish and demonstrate a new approach to search for light dark matter, based on a missing energy measurement with a positron-beam, active thick-target setup. Light dark matter is the new compelling hypothesis that identifies dark matter with new sub-GeV "Hidden Sector" states, neutral under Standard Model interactions and interfacing with our world through a new force. Accelerator-based searches at the intensity frontier are uniquely suited to explore it. However, current and planned efforts are either limited by the low sensitivity or the high backgrounds. This calls for a major breakthrough in the field. The proposed approach overcomes this challenge. The new technique, based on light dark matter production through positron annihilation on atomic electrons, is characterized by a larger signal yield compared to previously explored reactions, and by a unique signal signature resulting from the underlying reaction dynamics: a peak in the missing energy distribution. The re-analysis of “traditional” electron-beam missing energy results, where low-energy secondary positrons are present, has already shown the potential of this technique. POKER will demonstrate its sensitivity by preparing and running a pilot experiment at the CERN H4 beamline with an optimized detector. The test must fulfill strong requirements: the active thick-target must be capable of detecting each impinging particle at very large (MHz) rate, with excellent energy resolution, and to operate in a high radiation dose environment. POKER will set the basis of the first optimized light dark matter search at a positron-beam facility, enabling sensitivity to a large variety of physics cases, from minimal models to more elaborate Hidden Sectors scenarios - such as the "Strongly Interacting Massive Particles" conjecture. The pilot run itself will explore a currently unknown territory in the Hidden Sector parameters space, strengthening even more the POKER physics case.

Keywords: dark matter,dark sector,dark photon,electron positron annihilation,missing energy experiment
Non-invasive volatiles test for canine leishmaniasis diagnosis (CANLEISH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Estonia,Algeria,Spain,Sweden,Colombia,Tunisia,Thailand,Romania,Morocco
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1881400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1881400.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Canine leishmaniasis is among the most important vector-borne parasitic diseases of dogs. This study will focus on investigating the feasibility of a non-invasive methodology for the diagnosis of canine leishmaniasis in dogs via the analysis of non-invasive volatile samples emitted by dogs’ breath and hair, employing analytical methods and a system composed of different chemical gas sensing devices.

Keywords: canine leishmaniasis,diagnosis,volatile organic compounds,biomarkers,gc ms,nanomaterials,chemical gas sensors electronic nose
Expecting the unexpected and know how to respond (DARWIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Israel,Italy,Italy,Ireland,Sweden,Norway,Sweden
Call: Crisis management topic 7: Crises and disaster resilience – operationalizing resilience concepts (H2020-DRS-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998896.25
EU funding (EUR): 4998896.25
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years crises and disasters (Eyjafjallajökull and Deepwater Horizon 2010, Fukushima Daiichi 2011) have made it obvious that a more resilient approach to preparing for and dealing with such events is needed. DARWIN will improve response to expected and unexpected crises affecting critical infrastructures and social structures. It addresses the management of both man-made events (e.g. cyber-attacks) and natural events (e.g. earthquakes). The main objective is the development of European resilience management guidelines. These will improve the ability of stakeholders to anticipate, monitor, respond, adapt, learn and evolve, to operate efficiently in the face of crises. Guidelines will be presented in formats for easy usage and maintenance to avoid them being dust-collectors on a shelf. To enable dynamic, user-friendly guidelines the project will adapt innovative tools (e.g. serious gaming, training packages), test and validate the guidelines, and establish knowledge about how organisations can implement guidelines to improve resilience. A multidisciplinary approach is applied, involving experts in the field of resilience, crisis and risk management, social media and service providers in the Air Traffic Management and health care domains. To ensure transnational, cross-sector applicability, long-term relevance and uptake of project results, a Community of Crisis and Resilience Practitioners (CoCRP) will be established, including stakeholders and end-users from other domains and critical infrastructures and resilience experts. The CoCRP will be involved in an iterative evaluation process to provide feedback on the guidelines. The target beneficiaries of DARWIN are crisis management actors and stakeholders responsible for public safety, such as critical infrastructures and service providers, which might be affected by a crisis, as well as the public and media. The project duration will be 36 months, requesting financing of €4.9M.

Keywords: resilience,resilience engineering,serious gaming,social media,risk reduction,risk management,disaster management
Research for UNITA (Re-UNITA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Romania,France,France,Portugal
Call: Support for the Research and Innovation Dimension of European Universities (Part II) (H2020-IBA-SwafS-Support-2-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999997.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999997.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The Alliance UNITA- Universitas Montium relies on the cooperation of six European universities, all romance language speaking, committed to foster the socio-economic development of their rural and cross border mountain areas. This project will focus on the aim for the Alliance to become a major player in the construction of the new European Research Area, by developing a common strategy for Research and Innovation. The project implements the first steps in order to develop a common research and innovation agenda around three core research topics that are Cultural heritage, Renewable energies and Circular economy. Further actions will also focus on brain circulation and attractiveness among the Alliance territories, sharing infrastructures, reinforcing the cooperation with non-academic actors (including citizens and civil society), knowledge transfer, and developing open science practices.

Keywords: renewable energies,circular economy,cultural heritage,science agenda,human capital,knowledge transfer,citizen,academia business collaborations,infrastructures,open science
Transform 4 European Research and Innovation (T4ERI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Estonia,Italy,Germany,Bulgaria,Lithuania,Poland
Call: Support for the Research and Innovation Dimension of European Universities (Part II) (H2020-IBA-SwafS-Support-2-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999782.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999782.5
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Transform4Europe (T4E) is a university alliance of proven excellence in strategic collaboration. It has been awarded European funding to pursue joint strategies in education and mobility, focussing on collaboration between the universities and a wealth of non-university stakeholders from the surrounding regions in a multi-actor knowledge and innovation ecosystem. For the T4E universities, the logical next step is to capitalise on this ecosystem to transform their achievements in research and innovation. Together, the diverse actors in the T4E ecosystem can serve as powerful engines for the mutual development of innovation and performance capacities, jointly fostering both research of excellence and impact, and smarter, sustainable, competitive regions. Transform 4 European Research and Innovation (T4ERI) will devise new strategies to harness this untapped potential, with the focus mission digital and environmental transformation for smart, sustainable and inclusive regions. It will develop a joint agenda for research and innovation, a joint strategy for attracting and retaining outstanding researchers, and a joint strategy to open science to all members of the T4E ecosystem. True to the essence of the alliance, T4ERI will systematically collaborate with regional stakeholders from business and industry, culture, politics and civil society at every step of the process. By 2024, T4ERI will have significantly increased collaboration in research and innovation across all disciplines, will have enabled joint access to key research infrastructure across the alliance, and will have targeted joint action plans to launch one or more major joint research centres relating to its focus mission, to attract and retain excellent junior and established researchers, and to foster engagement and involvement of civil society in research and innovation, further paving the way towards the European University of the future.

Keywords: university alliance,research and innovation,joint strategy,digital and environmental transformation,smart regions
Rethinking Container Management Systems (RCMS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Israel,Italy,Spain,Italy,Poland,Slovenia
Call: Next generation transport infrastructure: resource efficient, smarter and safer (H2020-MG-2014_TwoStages, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4182954.16
EU funding (EUR): 4182954.16
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Container terminals serve thousands of ships, store billions of TEUs, compete to serve the next vessel, and introduction of larger ships will result in new challenges. While advances have been made in terminal automation (Automated Ground Vehicle (AGV), gate control, yard cranes, etc.), with current technologies terminals are limited by their ability to maintain growth and quality of service. To address these trends and demands the Robotic Container Management System (RCMS) has been developed. As a contribution to its implementation, Project main objectives are: A. to develop a detailed simulation model for RCMS to be evaluated in 2 Terminals (Gdansk and Koper) plus a set of generic simulation tools to be used in all terminals; B. to assess and compare RCMS performance with other state-of-the-art container handling technologies for 2 Terminals (Gdansk and Koper) with different features; C. to assess and compare RCMS performance with other state-of-the-art container handling technologies for 2 ports (Gdansk and Koper), with focus on comparison between RCMS solution and port surface extension; D. to assess impact of RCMS in a simulated transport network in terms of efficiency, reliability, capacity, performance indicators (travel times, average speed, etc.) and impacts (noise and air pollution) in the Port of La Spezia. Main results will be: a well-defined RCMS control logic; a dynamic physical AGV model to test AGV behavior; definition of operational procedures for RCMS; a generic simulation tool enabling testing of RCMS for various sites by non-simulation experts; an efficient entire terminal design with RCMS; a set of validated and quantified benefits of RCMS compared to commonly used handling systems; a set of Key Performances Indicators of the transport network using RCMS. Consortium is made by leading industries, SMEs, Research/Academic Centers and 3 ports/terminals as End-users. Project duration is 21 months and estimated eligible costs are 4 million €

Keywords: port,container,terminals,efficiency,overall,logistic,chains,improvement,resources