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Sleep on Command: a breakthrough technology for sleep, pain relief, enhanced performance and regenerative health. (Sana)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Approximately 30% of the population have difficulty initiating and maintaining sleep. This proportion is continually increasing due to growing geriatric populations and various modern lifestyle habits such as frequent use of stimulants and longer working hours. Existing solutions such as sleeping pills, cognitive behavioural therapy and sleep devices are costly, time-consuming and have poor efficacy. Sleeping pills can also cause dependency issues among other adverse health effects. Currently, there is no solution that is effective for the most extreme cases of insomnia associated with chronic pain and severe post-traumatic stress disorder. Sana Sleep is a cost-effective and prescription-free sleep aid that enables users to fall asleep quickly, easily and safely on command. The device can uniquely be applied as a tool for pain relief, enhanced performance (in our tests we found military fine motor skills improved by 20% and speed driving times in the special air force increased in 19/20 trials) and regenerative health (the device can help treat concussion, stroke and traumatic brain injuries). The device is a wearable mask that puts users to sleep via tailored light and sound pulses in a unique pattern coupled with real-time, heart rate variability biofeedback. Users save significant time, hassle and potentially thousands of euro using this portable device while also gaining life-changing health benefits. The most hard-core sufferers of insomnia that have associated chronic pain and/or stress will be able to find relief for the first time by using the device to put themselves to sleep in 8-10 minutes. Its comfortable design and multi-mode capability (sleep, meditation and nap modes available) are additional benefits of using Sana Sleep.

Keywords: sleep aid,insomnia,pain relief,enhanced performance,ict device,regenerative health
Detection of Early seismic signal using ARtificiaL Intelligence (EARLI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499518.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499518.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Earthquakes caused nearly one million fatalities in the last two decades. The hazardous nature of earthquakes is largely due to their unpredictability. The question of whether this unpredictability is ontological (i.e. earthquakes are a chaotic phenomenon that physics cannot predict) or a consequence of our incapacity to model them is still open. In the first case, one may never hope to predict earthquakes and efforts should be focused towards developing early-warning approaches so that the population can prepare for imminent shaking and tsunami. In the second case, earthquake prediction becomes theoretically achievable. In both cases, Artificial Intelligence (AI) may lead to giant steps in anticipating destructive events. I propose here to use AI to identify weak early seismic signals to both speed up early-warning and explore the possibility of earthquake prediction. The first part of the project will be devoted to implementing an early-warning approach not based on P-waves as all current systems but on an earlier signal recently identified. This signal is due to the perturbation of the gravity field generated by an earthquake – which propagates at the speed of light – but is ~6 orders of magnitude smaller than seismic waves, strongly limiting its detection with standard techniques. AI has proven very efficient at detecting low-amplitude signals. I will implement an AI algorithm to systematically detect gravity perturbations generated by magnitude > 7 earthquakes and rapidly estimate from them the location and magnitude of the earthquake. Though the existence of earthquake precursors (i.e. signals preceding the origin of earthquakes themselves) is hypothetical, AI represents a new prowerful mean to discover them. In the second part of the project, I will adapt the AI algorithm developed in the first part to search for earthquake precursors.

Keywords: earthquakes,machine learning,early waning,prompt elasto gravity signal
Land-use change and the resilience of food production systems (LucFRes) (LucFRes)

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: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203149.44
EU funding (EUR): 203149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Securing food production remains a critical challenge in many world regions. Environmental change, in particular land-use change, constrains food production especially in contexts characterised by competing land demands, high population pressure and food insecurity that got compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Land-use change has long-term impacts through land degradation which affects food production systems (FPSs). Hence, an understanding of how changing land-uses shape the resilience of FPSs is therefore urgently needed to enhance agriculture’s adaptation. LucFRes aims to examine the processes operating at the interface of agricultural land-use and food production. Agricultural land-use change will be characterised in terms of the change intensities and the driving factors using Intensity Analysis, a spatially explicit, land change accounting framework. Relevant land-based resilience indicators for FPSs will be identified and validated with stakeholders for Southwest Nigeria. The combination of the satellite remote sensing-based land-use change intensities with stakeholders’ perspectives of likely land-use changes will provide the empirical-basis for modelling FPSs behaviour under changing policy and land management scenarios. To better optimise agricultural land-use change, the modelling will account for trade-offs and options for enhancing synergies between food production and other land uses. Thematically, LucFRes goes beyond the impacts of land-use on agricultural productivity by examining how changes in agricultural land-use build or undermine the resilience of food production systems in Southwest Nigeria, an area that have received little research attention. LucFRes’ integrative and policy-oriented approach will develop trajectories for enhancing the resilience of food production systems in Southwest Nigeria. Conceptually, it will provide a methodology for assessing the resilience of food production systems that is applicable to similar world regions.

Keywords: land use change,food production systems,resilience,environmental change,scenario based modelling,policy dialog,remote sensing
Unique Virtual Reality solution recreating live indoor sports to increase audience (spike)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays, a major multibillion dollars battle about sports TV rights is going on between new digital players and traditional broadcasters. Sports TV rights on sports broadcasting images have never been so expensive. Increasing each year they reached more than € 40Bn in 2016. Stakeholders are looking urgently for new alternatives solutions to maintain attractiveness in an ocean of contents. Mac-Lloyd has designed SPIKE a new extended reality (XR) broadcasting solution, alternative to TV images for indoor sports, based on a precise and powerful tracking system. It is a significant new business opportunity for innovative virtualised sport contents associated to “live” or “on demand” immersive user experience. Mac Lloyd comes from outdoor sports and events tracking systems. Indoor sports synthetic images are the natural next market. From a technological perspective it is challenging area. SPIKE requires real time tracking data for indoor sports. The interest of potential clients is big. Several discussions are on-going with international organizations, such as European sports teams, USA NBA and event organizers. Sports media is a growing worldwide market (€40Bn, +5%/year), and indoor sports is taking a large part of it. Major leagues like NBA gathers 13% of North America media rights and 6% of worldwide rights. SPIKE SME Instrument project will allow the company to develop and industrialize its advanced XR solution, necessary for a global commercialisation. Mac-Lloyd will first complete a feasibility study to further analyze risks and costs, targeted markets regulatory frameworks and will conduct in-depth analysis of the global indoor sports XR broadcasting market. Mac-Lloyd plans to make deals with some of the 50 most valuable sport events worldwide (NBA playoffs, summer Olympic games, North American Hockey..) to become a European and worldwide champion of live indoor sports XR market with a planned turnover of €50 million by 2024 and the creation of 80 new jobs.

Keywords: extended reality,virtualization,digital game,artificial intelligence,tracking system,sports,broadcasting,media,augmented reality,synthetic images
A Reduction Theory for Codes and Lattices in Cryptography (ARTICULATE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Netherlands
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): 1497888.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497888.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Codes and lattices are two major mathematical platforms to build quantum-resistant cryptosystems. Theose cryptosystems will soon be standardized and deployed, replacing historical solutions threatened by Shor's quantum algorithm. These new cryptosystems rely on the hardness of finding short vectors in a code or in a lattice, a computational problem called reduction. Our confidence in their security relies on the relentless effort of cryptanalysis: quantifying, elucidating and trying to invalidate such hardness assumptions. *My ERC project aims at discovering faster cryptanalytic algorithms and at building better cryptography via the development of a unified reduction theory enabling a systematic transfer of techniques between codes and lattices.* As an underpinning example for this project, I have successfully transferred the seminal LLL reduction algorithm to binary codes, an algorithm still playing a central role in the cryptanalysis of lattices. This unified theory will also lead to better mathematical and algorithmic abstractions, improve the clarity, generality, and composability of known techniques. Such qualitative enhancements will also help to obtain quantitative ones. In turn, I will implement these enhancements into open-source libraries, designed for either high-performance or ease-of-use, in order to stimulate further algorithmic exploration by the community. Beyond algorithms, my approach will also create new connections between existing mathematical theories and the hardness of code and lattice problems. For instance, it leads to consider moduli spaces as a new powerful tool for proving average-case hardness. By its contributions to both the theoretical and practical aspects of the hardness of lattice and code problems, this project will play a key role in the ongoing transition to quantum-resistant cryptography.

Keywords: quantum resistant cryptography,lattices,codes,computational number theory,geometry of numbers
Biopolymer based Single-Ion Conducting Gel Polymer Electrolytes for Highly Performant and more Sustainable Batteries (BIOSIC)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-10-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To properly ensure safe batteries, the development of safer and more environmentally-friendly ‘green’ electrolytes is urgently needed. The research aim of this project is to create performant single-ion conducting gel polymer electrolytes (SIC GPEs) from bio-sourced, abundant, reliable and low-cost materials such as cellulose, chitosan, agarose and alginate. This fellowship will address the electrolyte development from raw material to its application in a sodium-ion battery. The success of this proposal will be achieved by combining the knowledge and expertise of different laboratories. The synthesis and characterisation of the electrolyte will be realised at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG), Germany, where the fellow will be hosted under the supervision of Prof. Markus Antonietti. The advanced electrochemistry analysis will be carried out during the fellow’s secondments at Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), Spain, with Prof. Rosa Palacín and Dr. Alexandre Ponrouch. The implications of practical realisation will be evaluated by Volvo Cars Corporation, Sweden, under the mentoring of Dr. Hanna Bryngelsson. The fellow will ensure the connection between the different laboratories’ expertise and will so also extend each partner’s research focus. During the 2-year project, the fellow and mentors will disseminate their results to both industry, academia and the general public through patents as well as articles in newspapers and scientific journals.
FAST Rotorcraft societal Integration and Performance assessments 2050 (FASTRIP2050)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Airport and ATS Level Assessment for Rotorcraft (H2020-CS2-CFP11-2020-01, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 534506.25
EU funding (EUR): 534506.25
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Within CS2, the Technology Evaluator (TE) is positioned as a dedicated evaluation platform, with a critical role of assessing the environmental impact of the technologies developed. Apart from assessing the level of success achieved by the novel technologies and their contribution to well-defined environmental goals, the TE is also tasked with establishing any societal benefits that may be accrued. The aim of project FASTRIP2050 (FAST Rotorcraft societal Integration and Performance assessments 2050) is to undertake techno-economic and environmental risk assessments of future advanced tilt-rotor and compound rotorcraft configurations. The focus of the work is to undertake, at the airport and Air Traffic System (ATS) levels, assessments of potential environmental (emissions and noise) and mobility (connectivity and productivity) improvements that may be accrued through replacement of reference technology over the designated time scales. Additionally, the scope of the work includes the investigation of fast rotorcraft concepts utilising hybrid-electric propulsion and for larger passenger capacities. The consortium proposes to continue their collaborative activity from DEPART2050, TE’s ongoing project on Fast Rotorcraft assessments. Led by Cranfield University, the consortium includes NLR, ANOTEC, and the University of Padua and has been specially chosen based on their individual strengths in the field of rotorcraft research and their past collaborative experience in EU projects.

Keywords: rotorcraft,fast rotorcraft,compound rotorcraft,tilt rotor aircraft,hybrid electric,environmental emission,assessments
Pheno-connectomics of human neurodevelopmental diseases (PhenoConnectomics)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174167.04
EU funding (EUR): 174167.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

There is much we don't know about how neurons connect in our brains, but we know that their connectivity is essential for brain function in health and disease. Many psychiatric diseases coincide with the miswiring of the brain: to understand these, we need to know how neurons connect in each condition. I will develop a new approach to map single-cell synaptic connectivity, and use it to study joint connectome & transcriptome changes in an established monogenic autism spectrum disorder (ASD) organoid model. Change in synaptic connectivity is a key feature of ASDs, such as Rett-syndrome, which is caused by a mutation of the epigenetic regulator, MECP2. To understand how Rett-syndrome manifests on both transcriptional and connectivity levels, I will compare healthy & MECP2-KO human cortical organoids. I will combine single-cell mRNA sequencing and transsynaptic viral tracing techniques with barcoding. I will subsequently develop the required computational analysis entailing multi-omics integration and network analysis, and use statistical reconstructions to study the global properties of the organoid connectome. In essence, the project aims at four advances: Technology: – Develop a connectome-by-sequencing assay to chart synaptic networks of thousands of neurons. Basic biology: – Find out how many, and what kind of connections do single neurons form? – Do ‘lonely’ neurons have a different transcriptome than highly connected ones? Concept: – Introduce single-cell connectomics as a phenotype (pheno-connectomics) to understand diseases, and find their earliest manifestation. Disease mechanism: – How genetic defects affect gene expression, and concurrently the connectome? – Are all cell types affected the same way?

Keywords: connectomics,transsynaptic tracing,single cell multi omics,organoids,synapse,neural networks,autism spectrum disorders asd
SCIENCE IN MOTION FOR FRIDAY NIGHT COMMOTION 2014-15 (SCIMFONICOM 2014-15)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Serbia,Serbia
Call: European Researchers' Night (NIGHT) (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163755.0
EU funding (EUR): 140000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

SCIMFONICOM 2014-15 is a two years project organized by the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Institute for Biological Research and Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade. “Science in the Past” (2014) and “Science in the Future” (2015) will be organized in five cities and five rural communities in Serbia. Several cultural/educational institutions (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade City Library, Regional Center for Talents, French Institute, The Educational Museum, etc.), non-profit humanitarian NGO Youth Association against AIDS, Regional Team for Science, Education and Art Support in Central Serbia and recycling companies have supported the project. NIGHT activities will include: Science Vans (mobile researchers’ teams in rural areas); Grand Science Adventure (interactive demos in different research fields); Treasure Hunt (win award by solving hands-on experiments); Green Science (hands-on recycling); Scientist in Private Life (visitors accompanying researchers in their hobbies); Travel with Science (scientific trolleybus party ride to NIGHT venues); Peek in the Lab (scientific lab model to peek in); Science in the Living room (scientific background of everyday life); Science (in) Fiction (discussion with researchers on science/scientists illustrated in literature/movies); European Corners (quiz about European scientists and interactive display of EU projects in Serbia). SCIMFONICOM 2014-15 is expected to continue to raise public awareness about researchers and to bring researchers closer to visitors by offering attractive new activities and locations, while obtaining greater support of cultural/educational institutions, NGO and companies towards RN main ideas. Project will take a part in RN network (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Italy, Sweden, UK, Portugal), bringing the greater synergy at the regional and European level, emphasizing European character of Researchers’ Night activity.

Keywords: science in the past,science in the future,green science,science vans,science in the living room,grand science adventure,scientist in private life,treasure hunt