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Low Enriched Uranium Fuels fOR REsEarch Reactors (LEU-FOREvER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Poland,France,France,France,France,Czechia
Call: Support for the EU security of supply of nuclear fuel for research reactors (NFRP-2016-2017-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6923147.5
EU funding (EUR): 6598148.25
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Securing the nuclear fuel supply for European research reactors is the overall objective of the LEU-FOREvER project. Our analysis points out two main risks of shortage: (i) the very challenging conversion of High Performance Research Reactors (HPRRs) from High to Low Enriched Uranium fuels (LEU), (ii) the ROSATOM monopoly to fuel medium power research reactors (MPRRs) with original Soviet design. On HPRRs, a multi-disciplinary consortium composed of fuel/core designers, operators and fuel manufacturer has been built to tackle both issues. Five European organisations (AREVA NP, CEA, ILL, SCK•CEN, TUM), which compose the HERACLES group, have been strongly involved for almost 20 years now in the development of LEU fuels. To enter the qualification phase in 2021, HERACLES is pushing towards the completion of an understanding phase. The baseline lies on the development of UMo fuels and their variants. Within LEU-FOREvER, optimisation of both manufacturing process (up to the design of pilot equipment) and modelling of the in-pile behaviour of these fuels are proposed. As a result of an independent review undergone in 2015, an alternative to UMo fuels has to be considered: this will be high-loaded U3Si2. Within LEU-FOREvER, it will be optimised to prepare an ambitious in-pile test (“High PROSIT”). For European MPRRs, the ultimate goal is to design a new core which could work with both the original ROSATOM and European elements that would be developed, licensed and qualified (“4EVERTEST”) within LEU-FOREvER. The Czech LVR-15 reactor (CV Rez) has been selected as a case study, and preliminary design by AREVA-TA is based on U3Si2/Al flat fuel plates. To improve economic competitiveness, AREVA NP will reinvestigate its manufacturing process and propose optimisations. Strong synergies are expected between both activities. The modernization of research reactors appears as a key element in the mitigation of the risks surrounding the supply of isotopes, as expressed in the NFRP-11 topic.

Keywords: research reactor nuclear fuel umo u3si2 hprr mprr
Transforming Gender Justice for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: The Gender Justice Prototype Framework for Analysis and Action (TRANSFORM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149995.0
EU funding (EUR): 149995.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

How to provide justice for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) has now become a highly visible and challenging global problem with few solutions. The TRANSFORM project addresses this problem by creating a prototype Gender Justice Framework to guide analysis of, and responses to, conflict-related sexual violence. The ERC Gender of Justice Project (GoJ) provides a unique array of justice indicators and innovative methods that can deliver ground-breaking strategies to combat impunity for conflict-related sexual violence. The prototype Framework exploits these cutting edge analytics and insights by building them into an integrated package of guiding principles and tools for policy-makers and practitioners. These ‘how to’ guides and instruments map patterns of sexual violence and affected groups, assess the adequacy of criminal and social justice responses, and generate new justice strategies. This prototype framework for analysis and action in this difficult field has wide application for those working in the human rights, international criminal law, transitional justice, and peace building and security sectors in conflict-affected contexts.

Keywords: conflict related sexual violence,gender harms,sexual violence as an international crime,gender justice,criminal justice,accountability,social justice,diagnostic and action framework
Interactive Music Science Collaborative Activities (iMuSciCA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland,Belgium,Greece,Hungary,Greece,France,France
Call: Technologies for Learning and Skills (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3224970.0
EU funding (EUR): 2673745.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

iMuSciCA will – through engagement in music activities – support mastery of core academic content on STEM subjects (Physics, Geometry, Mathematics, and Technology) for secondary school students (aged 12-16) alongside with the development of their creativity and deeper learning skills. To reach this goal, iMuSciCA introduces new methodologies and innovative technologies supporting active, discovery-based, collaborative, personalised, and more engaging learning. These technologies provide students and teachers with opportunities for collaboration, co-creation, and collective knowledge building. In particular, iMuSciCA will deliver a suite of software tools and services on top of market-ready new enabling technologies integrated on a web-based platform. These include: a 3D design environment for personalized virtual musical instruments; advanced music generation and processing technologies to apply and interpret related physics and mathematics principles; gesture and pen-enabled multimodal interaction functionality for music co-creation and performance; and 3D printing for realizing the actual/tangible physical instrument. The platform will be complemented with a suite of interdisciplinary project/problem based educational scenarios for STEAM integrating innovative and stimulating methods in teaching and learning. The iMuSciCA framework will be pilot-tested and evaluated in real learning contexts by a substantial number of students and teachers in three European countries (Belgium, Greece, and France). The project will be implemented in close collaboration of academic and industrial partners, bringing together existing technologies and promoting ground-breaking research in STEAM pedagogy and the involved core enabling technology. As such, iMuSciCA will be a pioneering approach using music for fostering creativity and deeper learning, thereby setting new grounds in the European curricula of STEAM.

Keywords: steam learning,music science lab,3d musical instrument design,enabling technologies,virtual instrument multimodal interaction,3d printing,pen and multimodal interaction
Fostering responsive mental health systems in the Syrian refugee crisis (STRENGTHS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Health care provision and integrated care
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Australia,Türkiye,Switzerland,Switzerland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Implementation research for scaling-up of evidence based innovations and good practice in Europe and low- and middle-income countries (H2020-SC1-2016-RTD, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7582426.0
EU funding (EUR): 6018758.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

STRENGTHS aims to provide effective community-based health care implementation strategies to scale-up the delivery and uptake of effective mental health interventions in different country contexts. The current refugee crisis across Europe and the Middle East effects both individual refugees’ psychological well-being, as they face extreme stressors in their flight from their home country, but also has large effects on the healthcare systems of countries housing refugees. In reponse to this crisis, the STRENGTHS project aims to provide a framework for scaling-up the delivery and uptake of effective community-based mental health strategies to address the specific needs of refugees within and outside Europe’s borders. STRENGTHS will outline necessary steps needed to integrate evidence based low-intensity psychological interventions for common mental disorders into health systems in Syria’s surrounding countries taking up the majority of refugees (Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan), a LMIC (Egypt) and European countries (Germany, Switzerland the Netherlands and Sweden). The consortium is a unique partnership between academics, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), international agencies and local partners with the responsibility to provide and scale-up evidence-based mental health and psychosocial support interventions for refugees. Key preparatory steps in the local political, regulatory and governance processes for uptake and scaling-up of the intervention and key contextual and system-related factors for integration will be validated for the real-life impact on the responsiveness of the system. The low-intensity interventions and training materials will be adapted and implemented in Syrian refugees within Syria’s surrounding countries taking up the majority of refugees (Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan), a LMIC (Egypt) and European countries (Germany, Switzerland the Netherlands and Sweden). STRENGTHS will disseminate and promote ‘buy-in’ of a validated framework for large-scale implementation of the low intensity interventions to providers of health and social services, policy makers and funding agencies.

Keywords: implementation evaluation,mental health,scaling up psychosocial interventions,psychological distress
Innovative Infusion Airframe Manufacturing System (IIAMS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Innovative & Flexible pilot plant Means for highly integrated AFP infusion wing box aiming at flying demonstrator manufacturing (H2020-CS2-CFP07-2017-02, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2846625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1992637.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

IThe IIAMS project is related to the advanced low-weight and high-performance structures domain. More specifically, it is included inside the ITD Airframe development area and it involves the manufacturing and assembling of a new concept of a composite wing box structure that will be tested on the turboprop aircraft prototype of the programme. The main objective is develop an innovative pilot system able to manufacture an integrated R/H and L/H composite wing box structure according with JTI-CS2-2017-CFP07-AIR-02-53 topic specifications. This pilot system will be based on Out of Autoclave resin infusion technology, and its ultimate purpose is to demonstrate that an alternative technology (to prepreg + autoclave) with lower costs, reduced lead times and lesser environmental footprint can achieve similar design tolerances and quality levels. The result of this development will also allow portability. Mtorres will optimise its AFP technology to manufacture with the maximum productivity the spar and stringers to simplify the movement of the hot forming station. They propose to use a light table design to enable the human collaboration with robots as well as to facilitate the direct taping of dry fibres on the mould. Mtorres will use multi-function connections and optimise the ancillaries to simplify the subsequent infusion and curing processes. The infusion process will be simulated using specific software and CFD to avoid dry spots, increase the speed, minimise waste materials, decrease the exothermal risk and viscosity development. Then, experimental trials will be carried out using a precise control of the temperature and measuring the resin and hardener flows. It will be validated the use of self-heated mould and blankets but also "onsite" air ovens that can be placed on top of the tools during the cure process. It will be design, build and test lightweight tooling and modular and collapsible moulds to facilitate the demoulding process.

Keywords: wing box,afp lay up,hot forming shape,mould,out of autoclave,infusion,dummy materials,dry fibre
Innovative Network for Next Generation Training and Sequencing of Virome (INEXTVIR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Slovenia,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3737141.88
EU funding (EUR): 3737141.88
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

INEXTVIR is an innovative training and research programme that aims at providing to the next generation of young researchers unparalleled professional experiences and core competencies to resolve significant challenges across multiple disciplines in the academic, industrial and regulatory sectors. INEXTVIR proposes the use of cutting-edge Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies for studying at an unprecedented depth the virome of selected agricultural crops and ecosystems across Europe and evaluating the impact and benefits it provides at the agricultural, socio-economic and policy levels. This is a timely and exciting research field suited to and benefiting from a trans-disciplinary pan European network approach. The work will cover virus discovery, characterization and the identification of ecological factors determining the structure and dynamics of virus populations in agricultural and wild ecosystems. This is critical to understand the epidemiology of disease and will enable informed risk assessment and decision making by the scientific and regulatory communities. In addition, the different stakeholders’ risk/benefit perceptions will be assessed enabling the development of effective communication strategies. Finally, the bioinformatics work (including data classification and presentation) and NGS method development and validation will facilitate the transfer, adoption and exploitation of innovations in plant protection and routine diagnostic settings. In summary, INEXTVIR will enable the fellows to understand the wider context behind their research, which will maximize the impact of their work in contrast to conventional PhDs. Furthermore, they will receive training in transferable skills including project, people, quality and IP management, communication and presentation skills which jointly with the cross-border and cross-sectorial mobility will provide a unique opportunity for their career development and for improving their employability prospects.

Keywords: plant viruses,ngs technologies,diagnostic tools,bioinformatics,socio economic impact of,virome
Oxygen, telomeres and sex: experimental elucidation of oxidative stress effects in life history evolution (UnravelOxStress)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-03-02
End date: 2022-03-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Oxidative stress -the imbalance between antioxidants and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated during aerobic respiration- has often been hypothesized to play a central role in disease and life history evolution, including ageing. However, whether oxidative stress modulates patterns of growth, reproduction and survival is still an enigma, largely because the high reactivity of ROS makes oxidative stress difficult to measure. In addition to this, the experimental manipulation of oxidative stress levels without toxic side-effects has also proven difficult. I propose to elucidate oxidative stress effects on (cellular) ageing and key fitness components using a novel non-invasive experimental approach that bypasses side effects of pharmacological approaches. To this end, I will expose birds to hyperoxic air, which is known to increase oxidative stress. This will be combined with alleviation of oxidative stress through the administration of antioxidants in a 2x2 design, to verify that the observed effects of hyperoxia can be attributed to oxidative stress. First, I will test the effect of both interventions on sexual ornamentation, sperm quality and future reproduction using captive adult zebra finches. Second, by applying the same 2x2 design to nestlings I will test how oxidative stress affects future reproduction and cellular ageing (telomere attrition). The latter aims to resolve the long-standing question whether the effect of oxidative stress in vitro is also observed in vivo, at physiological oxidative stress levels. In this way, this Action will shed light on the conundrum of the roles of oxidative stress in life history evolution and telomere dynamics. Moreover, through mutual knowledge transfer and the extension of my scientific network (both in the host institution and through dissemination events that I will organize around Europe), this Action will critically advance my career towards the establishment as independent researcher.

Keywords: oxidative damage,antioxidant protection markers,carotenoids,melanins,ornamentation,early life conditions,vitamin supplementation,fecundity,sperm quality,taeniopygia guttata
European Researchers' Night: Researchers' For a Better Future (OurFuture)

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: Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain
Call: European Researchers' Night (NIGHT) (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 345040.0
EU funding (EUR): 180000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The OurFuture: Researchers For a Better Future proposal consists in a two years proposal with different activities that are deeply related. The first activity consists of twelve main Events on the 26th September 2014 and 25th September 2015, organised by five universities, 3 public foundations, one scientific association, one autonomic government and a scientific installation around Spain as well as a Science Museum. A second activity consists on a Drawing Competition, which will be performed before and after the both events. Also special emphasis will be done on the 2.0 tools, using games and videos edited in the previous edition of European Researchers’ Night (ERN). These tools, together with the Drawing Competition, will be used to disseminate Friday Event Activities. The main objective of the project is to enhance the recognition of researchers and their role in society, showing that Researchers are among us. In general, all around the world the economic crisis causes an important decrease of budget for research and Researchers. This fact is particularly hard in Spain, where the decrease is about 40% in the past three year. Important economic cuts do not help to improve the image of Science and Scientist; on the other hand, they make people think that one can do with no Research and Researchers. It is necessary to show the society that With No Researchers there is No Future. For this purpose, Researcher will be participating in Researcher’ Night activities to show the importance of Scientists in the current economic context. On the other hand, the Communicative facet of researchers together with some hands-on experiments will be used to bring them closer to the large public enhancing public recognition of Researchers and their Work, as well as convincing young people to embark on scientific careers. It is important also to settle down between Researchers that non-communicated Research is no Research.

Keywords: europe,researchers,research communication,hand on experiments,drawing contest,fun with researchers,edutaiment,science
A FRAMEWORK FOR USER CENTRED PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN THE CLOUD (CLARUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Future Internet: Software, hardware, Infrastructures, technologies and services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Belgium,France,France,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4193548.0
EU funding (EUR): 4193548.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Although cloud computing offers many benefits, security issues such as confidentiality and privacy are still major concerns to those intending to migrate to the cloud. Traditional cloud security has been based on assurance to customers that cloud providers follow sound security practices. As a result, current security mechanisms are commonly located within the cloud platform, hence compelling customers to trust cloud providers. However, customers might be reluctant to outsource sensitive data due to lack of control over data storage and management. To reach its full potential, cloud computing needs solid security mechanisms that enhance trust in cloud computing by allowing cloud customers to have a greater control over the security and privacy of their data. Moreover, it is also necessary to consider countermeasures to ensure that vulnerabilities or attacks do not have a negative impact on cloud security and that applications continue to operate and provide a good level of service even during an attack. The main objective of CLARUS is to enhance trust in cloud computing services by developing a secure framework for the storage and processing of data outsourced to the cloud that allows end users to monitor, audit and retain control of the stored data without impairing the functionality and cost-saving benefits of cloud services. The CLARUS solution will provide the end user with a dedicated proxy located in a trusted domain implementing security and privacy features towards the cloud provider. The proxy is intended to be deployed within the client computer, in a server within the user’s domain, in an edge device (e.g. a router), or in any other location trusted by the user. CLARUS will also provide a set of security auditing services enabling the user to supervise the security operations performed by the CLARUS framework as well as other trust-enhancing features.

Keywords: software as a service saas,saas application security,security as a service,user centred cloud security and privacy,tunable securityandprivacy,availability,reliability