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VACTEC_Responsive corrosion inhibiting Vacuum Technology-based fire protection system (VACTEC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The property damage as well as the environmental and human impact caused by the increased number of fire damages has resulted in an annual loss of €153-billion in the EU. This has seen an increased spend on fire protection systems both within the EU and globally. However, these systems have had major challenges which include leaks, obstructions, accidental activations and freezing that necessitate the ambition to deliver a more reliable system in a bid to protect and maintain critical infrastructure while avoiding catastrophic disasters due to fire systems malfunctions. There is therefore a need for developing a solution that is suited for different operational environments but maintain a high level of efficiency and effectiveness. As EXEC, we have developed that very solution Vactec a vacuum technology-based solution that is highly responsive and reliable with a <5s activation sequence. Vactec will enable us to provide a solution that suits new installations as well as upgrade existing systems with minimal disruptions. Our solution maintains a vacuum atmosphere within the pipe network and has double activation sequence to avoid both false activations and flooding. Vactec is able to reduce operation costs by 30% and enables the reduction of fire protection system installation cost as well as minimise building maintenance costs by use of mesh-type networks that uses less pipe length and lowers the load on the building’s structure. Furthermore, our solution prolongs the pipe lifespan through real-time monitoring of the vacuum atmosphere as well as removing residual water and air- making very difficult for the corrosion process to initiate. By the fifth year of commercialisation, we anticipate that we will generate a cumulative turnover of €19 million and cumulative profit of about €8.5 million creating a total of 47 jobs.

Keywords: security,crisis management,emergency systems,safety engineering,design innovation
Two Are Better Than One: Bimetallic Catalysts for the Conversion of Lignin-Derived Aryl-Ethers (BiMetaCat)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Aromatic building blocks are essential for the production of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and plastics but are mainly produced from finite fossil resources. Lignin, a complex biopolymer that is rich in aromatic rings, can serve as a renewable source for aromatic base chemicals. Significant advances towards the depolymerization of lignin now give access to a plethora of small aromatic compounds with a variety of valuable functional groups. However, current catalyst systems are unable to convert these compounds into aromatic building blocks without loss of these desirable functional groups. Hence, there is a need for the development of new catalysts that are capable of handling these oxygen-rich materials that are derived from biomass. The objective of the proposed research is to develop novel bimetallic base metal catalysts for the conversion of lignin-derived compounds into aromatic building blocks. These bimetallic catalysts will be designed to specifically target the robust aromatic C-O ether bonds that are present in lignin-derived compounds. I will synthesize new ligand frameworks that can host two low-valent base metals, which strongly bind and activate aromatics. In contrast to conventional homogeneous catalysts, the envisioned catalysts will have active sites in close proximity to each other, enabling cooperative making and breaking of chemical bonds by multiple metal centers. The tunable nature of these ligands will enable obtaining detailed understanding on how to facilitate the bottleneck oxidative addition of aryl-ethers. The development of new catalytic methodologies that allow valorization of highly oxygenated biomass-derived compounds is essential to decrease our dependence on fossil resources. This research will fundamentally advance understanding of how multiple metals can activate strong chemical bonds, which will be employed to develop catalysts that use lignin-derived compounds for the synthesis of valuable aromatic building blocks.

Keywords: multimetallic catalysis,cooperative ligands,biomass valorization,ligand design
Cloud-Phase Feedback and Climate: bridging the gap between observation and simulation (CPFC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Norway
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-08-08
End date: 2024-08-07
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214158.72
EU funding (EUR): 214158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Earth’s climate is rapidly changing, with major socioeconomic consequences. A key scientific challenge is to improve climate-model projections by reducing uncertainty in cloud-climate feedbacks. The proposed research will investigate a cloud-feedback mechanism that has a potentially powerful but highly uncertain effect on global climate change. The feedback involves a conversion of ice cloud to liquid cloud that is caused by a warming atmosphere. Our goal is to attain the first quantitative estimate of this feedback based on satellite observations and to develop climate-model software that enables a direct model-to-observation comparison of the feedback. This will close gaps between observational and modeling studies of cloud feedbacks, and it will provide a clear benchmark for assessing climate projections. This fellowship will be carried out in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Oslo under the supervision of Prof. Trude Storelvmo. The research will leverage my expertise in satellite observations and that of the host in climate modeling, thus facilitating a two-way transfer of knowledge. I will gain several new experiences during the fellowship, including working in an interdisciplinary research group, studying in Europe, co-advising graduate students, and engaging with different outlets for public communication. The skills, knowledge, and international network that I will develop will put me in an excellent position to achieve my long-term goal of leading a research group.

Keywords: cloud climate feedbacks,mixed phase clouds,climate sensitivity,global climate modeling,radiative transfer
Private Law and the Energy Commons (PLEC)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171473.28
EU funding (EUR): 171473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

PLEC is the first to examine how the ‘Energy Commons’ wish to regulate themselves, where national private law poses unnecessary obstacles to these wishes, and how such obstacles could be removed. The Energy Commons are self-governing projects set up by local communities to jointly produce renewable energy. They are vital to the energy transition in the EU, providing urgently needed renewable energy. As current research shows, national private law may conflict with the wishes of the Energy Commons, deterring their contribution to the energy transition. PLEC will use an innovative empirically-based approach to uncover how the Energy Commons wish to regulate themselves. Through interviews in two German and two Italian Energy Commons, PLEC will determine the decisions taken by Energy Commons. Doctrinal legal research will show which decisions are subject to their national private law. A questionnaire will show how the Energy Commons wish to regulate those decisions. Doctrinal legal research will uncover where German or Italian private law conflicts with the rules made by the Energy Commons and, to determine whether such obstacles are unnecessary, whether a deviation from conflicting private law according to the needs of the Energy Commons would contravene public interests pursued by that private law. Comparative legal research will show whether solutions from the other country may help remove unnecessary obstacles from, respectively, German or Italian law, and provide a legal toolkit for other countries. At Turin University, the researcher, with broad experience in private law and empirical research, will benefit from extensive expertise on Commons and empirical methods and the gE.CO (H2020-SC6_CSA)-project’s comprehensive network and the supervision by its Coordinator. PLEC will be essential to law-makers, legal practitioners, and representatives of Energy Commons for insights on how private law reform can facilitate the energy transition.

Keywords: private law,comparative law,empirical legal studies,commons,energy law,renewable energy communities
Location Based Suggestion of Keyword Queries (LBSKQ)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 164653.2
EU funding (EUR): 164653.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Query suggestion is a recent and important add-on feature of Web search engines (e.g., Google), which helps users to express their information needs precisely. Specifically, given the fact that the user may not be able to find appropriate keywords for her search, the system recommends to her a small set of keyword queries that are likely to match her original intention. As an example, when a user searches for “convertible car,” she may miss all the documents indexed under “cabriolet.” Therefore, the engine suggests “cabriolet” as a follow-up query to the user. There has been extensive research in the past decade on effective query suggestion. However, none of the existing keyword query suggestion methods consider the user’s location. We argue that the queries suggested to a user not only should be semantically relevant to her original query, but also should give results near the user’s location, especially when these queries are expressed by a mobile user; otherwise, the suggested queries might not be of interest to the user. Therefore, there is a need for effective location-based keyword query suggestion (LBKQS) models. The objectives of this project are (1) the development of LBKQS models, (2) the evaluation of the proposed models, (3) the development of efficient and scalable LBKQS techniques based on the most effective models. In the end, we expect our system to provide appropriate query suggestions to mobile users in real-time. The subject of this project is timely and of great interest to the research community and IT industries, therefore the research publications that will arise from it will improve the visibility of European research internationally. The Experienced Researcher (ER) has a notable publications record and extensive experience in subjects related to the proposal (spatial, textual, spatio-textual data management and mining). The project will help him to (i) enhance his skills in the areas of recommender systems, distributed/mobile data managem

Keywords: keyword search,query suggestion,location based search
Robust and Reliable technology concepts and business models for triggering deep Renovation of Residential buildings in EU (4RinEU)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership:  (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Norway,Norway,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Supporting accelerated and cost-effective deep renovation of buildings through Public Private Partnership (EeB PPP) (H2020-EE-2016-PPP, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4597455.21
EU funding (EUR): 3999961.38
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

4RinEU will define robust, cost-effective, tailorable deep renovation technology packages supported by usable methodologies, feeding into reliable business models. The project will minimize failures in design and implementation, manage different stages of the deep renovation process, from the preliminary audit up to the end-of-life, and provide information on energy, comfort, users’ impact, and investment performance. The 4RinEU deep renovation strategy is based on 3 pillars: (i) technology (driven by robustness) to decrease net primary energy use (60 to 70% compared to pre-renovation), allowing a reduction of life cycle costs over 30 years (15% compared to a typical renovation) (ii) methodology (driven by usability) to support the design and implementation of the technologies improving the information flow and knowledge sharing among stakeholders to sustain participative design, ensuring to halve the current renovation time (iii) business models (driven by reliability) to enhance the level of confidence of deep renovation investors, increasing the EU building stock transformation rate up to 3% by 2020. The 10 main results of 4RinEU will address the following objectives: Technology: to reduce demand (Prefab Multifunctional Façade, Comfort Ceiling Fan), to improve energy efficiency (Plug&Play Energy Hub, Objective-based RES Implementation), to improve building operations (Sensible Building Data Handler), and to reduce construction waste (Strategies for Components End-Of-Life). Methodology: to accurately understand renovation issues and potentials (Cost-Optimal Energy Audit), to ensure an effective and participated design (Investor and Building User-Oriented Design Tool and Method based on BIM), to reduce construction time and failures (Deep Renovation Implementation Management). Business model: to identify the level of risk of renovation process and to enable well-founded investments supported by tailor-made financial tools (Cost-effectiveness Rating System).

Keywords: robust renovation technology packages,usable building life cycle supporting methodologies,reliable deep renovation business models
Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (BioMEP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Doctoral programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Finland,Sweden,Finland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND-DP) (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3139200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1569600.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The BioMEP brings together complementary expertise of 8 leading research groups in Biomedical Engineering (BM) and Medical Physics (MP) across Europe to offer unique inter-disciplinary and intersectorial research and training opportunities for Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs). BioMEP aims to fulfill the demand for highly-qualified BM and MP addressing the needs of the academic, healthcare and industry sector, and thus to fully prepare them to meet the increasing demands of the European labor market. The specific objectives of BioMEP are: to attract highly-qualified international ESRs and offer them excellent expertise in diverse areas of BM and MP research and thus stimulate successful careers both in academia and beyond; to promote excellence in BM and MP research area; to foster long-term collaboration at the European level; to strengthen the international dimension of BioMEP. BioMEP is structured around five interrelated focus research areas: Musculoskeletal biomechanics, Molecular, cell and tissue engineering, Biosignals, Multimodal neuroimaging, Biomedical devices and diagnostics combined with specific research and training, internet-based training, regular seminars and summer schools. BioMEP intends to attract highly-qualified ESRs, through of a widely disseminated call for proposals, a merit-based selection process founded on international peer-review, appealing working conditions, research skills and courses specific to the area (e.g. Biomedical signal analysis, Biomechanics) and complementary training skills (e.g.entrepreneurship, ethics) to support ESRs career development. BioMEP will widen the career perspectives of ESRs by enhancing their professional experiences through the inclusion of secondments in private companies and hospitals. Thus, BioMEP will increase the national and as well European competitiveness by providing a new generation of highly-qualified experts in BM and MP able to translate basic science research results into healthcare solutions.

Keywords: biomedical engineering,medical physics,health technology
SuperAbsorbent Polymers Through Oxidized Starch (SAPTOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed work in this SuperAbsorbent Polymers Through Oxidized Starch [SAPTOS] initiative is aimed at the scale-up of Rodenburg’s novel SAP platform towards fully biodegradable disposable diapers, build on cheap starch side streams and a low cost continuous reactor process. Such platform will be a breakthrough in solving a major global waste problem. Specific objectives in this feasibility study are: - Explore promising business cases for our bio-degradable starch based polymer platforms (i.e. DiAldehyde Starch and Solanyl stretch films) with potential customers in diaper industries, evaluating required specifications for polymer derivates, and required characteristics of SAP-based applications. - Elaborate on a detailed business plan (D1).
How the third wave of global judicial (and social) activism is filling ecological governance gaps and challenging the liability-remedy paradigm. (CURIAE VIRIDES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1336875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1336875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project conceptualises the worldwide progressive transformation of human rights litigation into more ecocentric litigation and the emerging but important role of (activist) courts in addressing ecological governance gaps. In addition, it will inquire how this greening of social litigation challenges the legal concept of attribution of liability in transnational lawsuits and influences access to effective remedy for victims of transnational ecological harms. The main hypothesis is that ecocentric lawsuits mostly seek to nudge the choice architects of ecological governance, i.e. policymakers and global value chain (GVCs) coordinating firms, to implement effective actions for the sustainability of ecosystems while not necessarily seeking concrete remedies for victims. Although the effectiveness of this activism could be questioned by considering that only a minority of transnational ecological conflicts become lawsuits, ecocentric case law has nevertheless the ability to nudge ecologically responsible behaviour of policymakers and firms. The project will inquire how this instrumentalist use of the judiciary may hide the necessary debate on the quality of ecocentric case law as courts lack technical knowledge on ecological and economic issues and on the type of remedies actual or potential victims (e.g. future generations) can obtain from ecocentric judgments. The combination of systematic (quantitative and qualitative) empirical analysis of global data should lead to a high gain project that sheds light on the transformation of social claims, on the synergies among social and judicial activism and soft law production and implementation, on the institutional quality of courts to understand global ecological and economic conflicts, on the patterns of innovative ecocentric case law, on whether triggering courts contributes to filling ecological governance gaps, and on whether this has (or not) a waterfall effect on access to remedy for victims of ecological harm.
Sustainable Hybrid Dual Burner (bioburner)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

bioburner is the answer to the market to use biomass on industries with uninterrupted heating needs and strict production times. We have developed a hybrid dual burner that combines the best of two technologies on a single burner, avoiding the problems associated with them, with a payback < 1 year. On the one hand biomass: - pros:,low cost of operation and neutral CO2 emissions; - cons: high inertia, which means stop/start times very high; On the other, fossil: - pros: instantaneous response time and already present in most installations; - cons: high OPEX and CO2 emissions; bioburner is compact, safe, plug and play, scalable, cost-effective, efficient, reducing thermal energy cost by 50%, reliable, being able to operate automatically with two fuels and sustainable, reducing CO2 emissions by 95%.

Keywords: burner,hybrid,dual,biomass,fossil,diesel,industry,sustainable,efficient,affordable technology,cost effective,alternative fuel,resource efficient,low opex,reduce co2 emissions