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Quantum fluids of photons in optically-induced structures (Q-PHOTONICS)

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: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A variety of classical optical systems exhibiting rich and complex matter-like behavior have been explored in recent years. Unfortunately in the optical regime, photons – the fundamental constituents of light – do not interact strongly with one another, and therefore cannot be used for studying many-body effects. It is only in the extreme regime of quantum nonlinear optics where effective interactions between photons are made strong. In an atomic gas, strong long-range interactions can be achieved by coupling photons to interacting atoms. First experiments have indicated the formation of a two-photon bound state via this mechanism. The main goal of the proposed research is to develop an optical system based on atomic interactions that realizes quantum many-body physics with optical photons subject to a rich variety of model problems. The proposed method relies on reconfigurable, optically-induced, three-dimensional, structures, which are fully compatible with the underlying atomic process. These structures enable the spatial compression of photons for enhancing the interactions, wave guiding for one-dimensional confinement in long media, and a rich variety of two-dimensional potentials with tunable interactions, from nearly-free photons to various tight-binding models with a controllable level of disorder. Optically-induced structures also offer advantages to optical quantum information, enabling better gate fidelities due to stronger nonlinearities and multimode coupling for processes such as photon routing. Our method has the potential to realize quantum gases and fluids of interacting photons. We can manipulate the effective mass and the band structure, control the potential landscape, and tune the scattering length in the system from attractive to repulsive. In particular, we intend to study few-photon bound states, quantum solitons, Luttinger liquids of photons, and Wigner crystallization in one and two dimensions.
Vibrational Polariton Nonlinear Optics and Chemistry (PlaN)

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: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The strong coupling of a quantum state to a cavity light field has just recently revealed many fascinating effects: Chemical reactions have been dramatically slowed down and nonlinear effects have been enhanced by orders of magnitude. These findings motivate to significantly extend the research on this novel type of light-hybridized matter. The objective of this proposal is to investigate dynamics and structural properties of molecules under vibrational strong coupling for the first time by virtue of mid-infrared femtosecond light pulses. The proposed studies will lead to a significant advancement of the research field with respect to the fundamental understanding of strong coupling induced modifications of matter and applications of vibrational strong coupling in photonics as well as chemistry. The objectives of the proposal are firstly to study the individual contributions of the nonlinear refractive index of carbon disulfide under vibrational strong coupling in a Fabry-Perot cavity. Z-scan and pump-probe experiments with ultrashort near-IR pulses will be conducted. A strong enhancement of the liquid’s nonlinear response is expected and shall be revealed for the first time. It will be employed in low-energy supercontinuum generation triggered by mid-infrared femtosecond pulses. Secondly, chemical reactions of strongly coupled molecules will be investigated by pump-probe spectroscopy in the mid-infrared. Strong coupling induced changes of molecular structure will be revealed by this method and applied to site-selective chemistry enabled by light-matter-hybridization. As a prerequisite, the third objective of the proposal is the development of a widely tunable pump (3000 nm – 10000 nm), broadband mid-IR probe setup. It will be realized by means of a sequential two-stage optical parametric amplification scheme and allows to study novel effects induced by vibrational strong coupling with unprecedented structural and temporal resolution.

Keywords: polariton,strong coupling,cavity chemistry,nonlinear optics,infrared,ultrafast lasers,supercontinuum generation
A multidisciplinary training network for the bioinspired development of glycomimetics tuning the Siglec-Sialoglycan axis (GLYTUNES)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,Italy,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3744223.56
EU funding (EUR): 3744223.56
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

GLYTUNES is a multidisciplinary European Training Network on glyco-immune checkpoints built to address the main priorities of the National and European research council regarding the use of innovative methodological, interdisciplinary approaches for the treatment of human diseases. The GLYTUNES program is based on high-level multidisciplinary and multisectoral training to i) understand at the molecular and dynamic level how (aberrant) interactions between the immunomodulatory receptors Siglecs and their sialylated cognate ligands contribute to the etiology of immune-related diseases (infectious, and cancer diseases), ii) how to tune this axis to provide new therapeutic approaches for the rational design and development of glycomimetics targeting the Siglec glyco-immune checkpoints. To achieve this aim, an interdisciplinary, intersectoral, international European-based training programme within an outstanding collaborative research environment has been established, guided by leaders in their respective fields of research and in close association with industrial partners. GLYTUNES involves 7 academic partners and 4 companies (SMEs) from 7 European countries, combining world-class expertise in carbohydrate chemical and structural biology, drug design and computational chemistry, synthetic and medicinal chemistry, biophysics, biochemistry, glycoimmunology and molecular and medical microbiology. GLYTUNES will train 14 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in a highly integrated and collaborative environment, underpinned by extensive interactions between academic and industrial partners and by their experience in higher education, training and mentoring, and endowed with state-of-the art scientific and technical expertise and infrastructures. The ESRs will thus acquire scientific and transferable skills to make them highly competitive and new leaders in top EU academia and research institutions, healthcare and biotech job markets.

Keywords: glyco immunology,glycobiology,molecular recognition,microbiology,enzymatic synthesis,siglec glycan axis,glycomimetics,chemical biology
Go Fresh - Fresh and Quick Prepared, Healthy and Affordable Meal Solution (Go Fresh)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Slovenia,Slovenia
Call: SME business model innovation (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Due to the longer working hours, lack of time for preparation of fresh food and because of diseases caused by unhealthy fast food, health conscious consumers in developed world seek for convenient food products that provide more value and functionality: natural, healthy, time efficient and affordable. Protein diet has been recognized as one possible answer to this request due to its several positive effects on health (hearth health, maintaining muscle mass, weight management and anti-aging effects). The Go Fresh solution is a beyond state-of-the-art innovation on the market of vending machines. Key novelty of the solution is that it is changing the way healthy meals are delivered and served to consumers since they are freshly mixed on the spot, with no human intervention required for the food preparation process. The innovation is a new generation of distribution services for mass market that offer fresh prepared shakes, produced by newly developed vendor appliances for in-house and “on the street” use. Vending machine mixes healthy “meal replacement” shakes per order out of quality ingredients (whey, superfoods, and natural essences), delivered on the spot in biodegradable cups, accessible everywhere, at home, in the office, on the street, at an affordable price. Main benefits for end users of the Go Fresh solution is: fresh, healthy, easily accessible, time saving, cost affordable, with top quality ingredients, which positively affects consumer’s health, energy levels and long-term well-being. The Go Fresh solution contributes to several European strategies, objectives and policies regarding employment, investment in R&D, food (resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing) and health related issues (nutrition, overweight and diseases caused by it).

Keywords: whey,fresh,meal,vending machine,superfoods,fruits,protein
Art Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe An Inquiry from the Perspective of Entangled Histories (ArtHistCEE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Romania
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2021-07-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 638618.7
EU funding (EUR): 638618.7
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our project proposes a fragmentary account of the art histories produced in present-day Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia between 1850 and 1950, from an entangled histories perspective. We will look at the relationships between the art histories produced in these countries and the art histories produced in Western Europe. But, more importantly, we will investigate how the art histories written in the countries mentioned above resonate with each other, either proposing conflicting interpretations of the past, or ignoring uncomfortable competing discourses. We will investigate the art histories written between 1850 and 1950 because we are interested in how art history contributed to nation building discourses. Therefore, we will focus on those art histories that concur to nationalising the past. Our project is articulated around three crucial concepts – periodisation, style and influence – set in the context of relevant contemporary historiographies produced in Western Europe, and analysing the entanglements with competing historiographies in each of the countries considered. We will focus on two main issues: 1. How did Central and Eastern European art historians adopt, adapt and respond to theoretical and methodological issues developed elsewhere, and 2. What are the periodisations of art produced on the territory of Central and Eastern European countries; what are the theoretical and methodological strategies for conceptualising local styles; and how was the concept of influence used in establishing hierarchical relationships. Researching the conceptualisation of a theoretical framework that would accommodate the artistic production of the past will show the difficulties in dealing with a complex reality without simplifying and essentializing it along ideological lines. The research will also show that the three concepts that we focus on are not neutral or strictly descriptive, and that their use in art history needs to be reconsidered.

Keywords: art historiography,central and eastern europe,19th century,20th century
Biological routes for CO2 conversion into chemical building blocks (BioRECO2VER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Spain,Sweden,Poland,Belgium,France,France,France,Netherlands,United States
Call: Microbial platforms for CO2-reuse processes in the low-carbon economy (H2020-NMBP-BIO-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7239148.84
EU funding (EUR): 6812187.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The high-level goal of BioRECO2VER is to demonstrate the technical feasibility of more energy efficient and sustainable non-photosynthetic anaerobic and micro-aerobic biotechnological processes for the capture and conversion of CO2 from industrial point sources into 2 valuable platform chemicals, i.e. isobutene and lactate. To overcome several of the existing technical and economic barriers for CO2 conversion by industrial biotechnology, the project will focus on minimizing gas pretreatment costs, maximizing gas transfer in bioreactors, preventing product inhibition, minimizing product recovery costs, reducing footprint and improving scalability. To this end, a hybrid enzymatic process will be investigated for CO2 capture from industrial point sources and conversion of captured CO2 into the targeted end-products will be realized through 3 different proprietary microbial platforms which are representative of a much wider range of products and applications. Bioprocess development and optimization will occur along 2 lines: fermentation and bioelectrochemical systems. The 3 microbial platforms will be advanced to TRL 4, and the most promising solution for each target product will be validated at TRL 5 on real off gases. To prepare for industrial implementation and contribute to public acceptance, the technological activities will be complemented with virtual plant design, economic and sustainability assessments and extensive dissemination. All activities will be executed by a well-balanced and experienced group of 2 Research and Technology Organizations, 2 universities, 4 SMEs and 4 large industries.

Keywords: co2 conversion,enzymatic capture,microbial platforms,new reactor concepts
Enabling Chemical Propulsion System for the Growing Small Satellite Market (EPSS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Lithuania
Call: SME Instrument (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

NanoAvionics is developing novel small satellite (below 150 kg) market oriented product – green chemical propulsion system which is innovative, as it makes use of an environmentally friendly propellant, and is a low cost integral plug and play design offering great economic advantages to the growing small satellite market, which presently suffers from the availability of a low cost high performance propulsion solution. High performance propulsion systems are one of the technologies required by small satellites in order to allow them to fulfill their full market potential enabling small satellites to be as capable as those well above 150 kg. This feasibility study will help to determine and set the targets for the final shape of the product according to the requirements of the target customer groups as TRL-6 (current maturity level of the product) is a crucial point at which extensive product design decisions must be undertaken and finalized. This feasibility study will perform the following tasks: 1. Identify the market potential of the proposed propulsion system; 2. Determine the level of customer demand and market interest in the product; 3. Develop a technology IPR strategy, and develop a solid business model for development of the product within the company. The business model will include a sales strategy and a plan for productionizzation of the design and subsequent manufacturing. This project will result detailed feasibility report, including a business plan which will summarize small satellite propulsion system market research, IPR strategy, business model including sales strategy, and consideration of strategic partnerships for production and manufacturing operations. NanoAvionics plans to carry out this feasibility study and prepare an elaborated business plan during the 6 months period.

Keywords: chemical propulsion,green propulsion,adn based propulsion,propulsion system for small satellites
Secretariat for the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (IC PerMed) (ICPerMed Secretariat)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Health care provision and integrated care
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,France
Call: Coordinating personalised medicine research (H2020-SC1-2016-RTD, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996722.5
EU funding (EUR): 1996722.5
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The potential of Personalised Medicine (PM) is to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases by taking into account individuals' genotypes and phenotypes as well as other biomedical, life style and environmental data. In the last decade, significant advancements have been made especially for cancer or rare diseases. However, due to fragmentation and high upfront-investments the implementation of PM remains challenging, besides the various ongoing research and implementation actions on European, national and regional level. To overcome these hurdles, the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) is currently being initiated as a joint endeavour of the European Commission (EC) and more than 20 Member States. ICPerMed aims at aligning present as well as future efforts in all areas of PM by fostering international coordination of research and innovation funding. For this purpose, ICPerMed will develop and operate a European platform for collaboration between funders of PM research. It will promote an interdisciplinary approach to PM and generate policies, best practices, guidelines, and standards. ICPerMed secretariat will substantially contribute to the success of ICPerMed by efficiently coordinating all consortium activities, by implementing an effective dissemination plan and by assisting in the development of a sustainability strategy. By monitoring ongoing research funding activities in Europe and beyond, the secretariat will serve as the basis for evidence-informed allocation of research funding. ICPerMed secretariat will provide professional support in organising ICPerMed events and the meetings of ICPerMed bodies. In addition, ICPerMed secretariat will guide the dialogue with relevant stakeholders and initiatives. The organisational and logistical support of a secretariat will maximise the unique and long-term impact of ICPerMed by strengthening Europe's leading role in the successful implementation of PM in the global context.

Keywords: international consortium,secretariat,research funding,alignment,policy development,personalised health and care,precision medicine,targeted medicine,stratified medicine
Archaeological and Anthropological Unravelling of Chickens using Ancient DNA in Neotropical America (ARAUCANA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Argentina,France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 186876.96
EU funding (EUR): 186876.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

With three chickens for every human being at any given time, poultry production is a key agricultural player, providing an efficient source of protein to billions of people regardless of religion or culture. Neotropical America contributes over a fifth to global poultry production, yet chickens only arrived on the continent 500 years ago. Since, they have played a central societal and economic role in local communities and are now well embedded within the continent’s numerous cultures. Though details surrounding their European and Polynesian introductions and spread throughout Neotropical America remain unclear, these birds have adapted to the continent’s diverse environments including diseases, leading them to display a unique genetic pool of phenotypic, productivity, adaptation and disease-resilient traits. Yet with an increasing consumer demand, local populations are being crossbred with commercial stock, and a lack of identification, characterisation and conservation of the indigenous gene pool is leading to the erosion and loss of that unique genetic make-up. Combining archaeology, anthropology, history and ancient population genomics, ARAUCANA aims to document the cultural history of chickens in Neotropical America (such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and the Caribbean), as well as begin mapping the evolution of indigenous traits linked to environmental adaptation, disease resistance and productivity by characterising the past genetic diversity of local chicken populations through time. It will also attempt to recover ancient (partial) pathogen genomes in order to trace their evolution and spread through time in relation to specific lifeways and environments. This will enrich our understanding of the biomolecular mechanisms and pathogenesis of infectious diseases. As the first study of its kind, it will shine new light on cultural and biological Neotropical American heritage while also informing on conservation measures, food security and safety

Keywords: chicken,ancient dna,neotropical america,human animal interactions,animal domestication,infectious diseases,genomics,adaptation,food security,one health