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Flexible Hyperspectral Infrared Detectors (FLAIR)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2018-09-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the major driving forces for current research in electronics is the desire to realize the so-called internet of things, an autonomous information network that enables communication between objects without external human intervention. To this end, much of the research effort in device physics is currently directed into sensors technology, and specifically, to photodetectors. The infrared (IR) region of the spectrum is of particular interest as it can carry information about an object’s temperature, and its chemical composition. IR waves are also used for long-range waveguided communication, as well as short-range free space signaling. In IR systems, the readout noise is reduced by exploiting multicolor IR detection, so-called hyperspectral IR, thus lowering false positive detection. Nowadays, IR detectors are not transparent in the visible wavelength and they are made of brittle materials. Hence their potential in technology such as food and drug packaging, textile fabrics-embedded devices for health care and homeland security systems, has yet to be realized. In this proposal we will harvest the unique potential of emerging atomically thin materials to pioneer a new class of flexible hyperspectral infrared detectors (FLAIR) which are imperceptible to the human eyes and yet highly efficient. These FLAIR detectors will consist of a layered structure with an active graphene bilayer, sandwiched between two dielectric h-BN layers and two outer gates made of heavily doped graphene. The top gate will be patterned as a continuous array of anti-discs to enhance the light absorption at the plasmon excitation frequency. A perpendicular electric field applied to bilayer graphene will be used to open a tuneable energy gap unique to this material and cut off the absorption of the lower frequencies to ensure a superior signal-to-noise ratio. Arrays of detectors with different plasmon absorption frequencies will enable the hyperspectral response of the device.

Keywords: graphene
Advanced manufacturing solutions tightly aligned with business needs (AVANGARD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies for Factories of the Future
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy,Israel,Italy,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,Finland,Greece,Greece,Greece,Belgium,Finland,Greece,Poland,France,France,Portugal
Call: Pilot lines for modular factories (IA 50%) (H2020-NMBP-FOF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-15
End date: 2022-10-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 23217375.0
EU funding (EUR): 14027312.5
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The AVANGARD project addresses the integration of three novel processing units into an existing Microfactory test bed conceived to produce urban electric vehicles. The units are state of-the-art multipurpose and multifunctional demonstrators on their own, specifically: Robotized integration of laser cutting-shaping-welding for 3D components Supersonic deposition of metallic powders for high speed 3D printing Large volume and high-speed 3D polymeric printing The operation of the AVANGARD pilot will be demonstrated manufacturing I-Bikes, I-CARS and innovative battery packs. The proposed innovations target urban mobility where we are entering an era of rapid transformation and disruption which are also challenging traditional paradigms on manufacturing and business models characterized by an unprecedented speed, scale and scope of technological change. The project will prepare the environment for novel forms of collaborative distributed manufacturing amongst different EU regions. Innovative value chains will be pursued to overcome the scale (giga) and speed being established in planned economies (China) with market development controlled by the governments attitudes, targets and policy tools. To manage the IPRs and the supply chain, AVANGARD will implement a hybrid public-private Blockchain platform where the public chain increases security through distributed consensus and validation and the private sidechain increases speed while keeping sensible data stored in the facilities of partners. The platform will allow auditability of sources, traceability, verification of sources, still with private control of documentation and compliance to data retention policies. The theme of Blockchain-powered manufacturing is relatively new. AVANGARD will address it with Ideas Forward PC, an SME that runs specialized BC tech commercialization projects.

Keywords: robotized integration,blockchain,collaborative distributed manufacturing,replicable microfactory
A Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine (CompBioMed2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: European Data Infrastructure
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: HPC PPP (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,France,United States,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: HPC PPP - Centres of Excellence on HPC (H2020-INFRAEDI-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8345472.5
EU funding (EUR): 7992822.5
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

CompBioMed2 is a proposal for the second phase of the Computational Biomedicine Centre of Excellence (CoE), CompBioMed, an outward facing CoE comprising members from academia, industry and the healthcare sector. CompBioMed has established itself as a hub for practitioners in the field, successfully nucleating a substantial body of research, education, training, innovation and outreach within the nascent field of Computational Biomedicine. Computational Biomedicine is an emergent technology that will enable clinicians to develop and refine personalised medicine strategies ahead of their clinical delivery to the patient. Medical regulatory authorities are currently embracing the prospect of using in silico methods in the area of clinical trials and we intend to be in the vanguard of this activity, laying the groundwork for the application of HPC-based Computational Biomedicine approaches to a greater number of therapeutic areas. The HPC requirements of our users are as diverse as the communities we represent. We support both monolithic codes, potentially scaling to the exascale, and complex workflows requiring support for advanced execution patterns. Understanding the complex outputs of such simulations requires both rigorous uncertainty quantification and the embrace of the convergence of HPC and high performance data analytics (HPDA). CompBioMed2 seeks to combine these approaches with the large, heterogeneous datasets from medical records and from the experimental laboratory to underpin clinical decision support systems. CompBioMed2 will continue to support, nurture and grow our community of practitioners, delivering incubator activities to prepare our most mature applications for wider usage, providing avenues that will sustain CompBioMed2 well-beyond the proposed funding period.

Keywords: personalised and precision medicine,multi scale modelling,simulation,high performance computing,community development,exascale
Transcriptional and epigenetic control of tissue regenerative HB-EGF in autoimmune CNS inflammation (H I C I)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499706.0
EU funding (EUR): 1413406.99
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS), in which chronic inflammation and failure of regenerative mechanisms lead to progressive tissue destruction and accumulation of neurological deficits. Glial cells such as astrocytes induce regenerative processes in acute inflammation, but fail to inhibit tissue destruction for yet unknown reasons in chronic disease. In preliminary studies, we identified heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF) in astrocytes as novel tissue protective factor. Indeed, knock-down of HB-EGF in astrocytes led to exacerbated disease and failure to recover in an animal model of MS. Promoter studies revealed induction of HB-EGF by the ligand-induced transcription factor aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) in acute inflammation. However, astrocytic HB-EGF decreased in chronic stages concomitantly with progressive disease worsening. Analyses of AHR binding sites in the HB-EGF promoter revealed epigenetic modifications mediated by DNA-Methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) in chronic inflammation, which inhibited promoter activation by AHR. Knocking down DNMT1 prevented epigenetic changes and increased HB-EGF production in chronic stages. Thus, we have discovered astrocytic HB-EGF as a novel regenerative factor and its regulation by AHR and DNMT1, which could be targeted therapeutically to enhance tissue regeneration in chronic stages. In this project, we will define the role of HB-EGF in acute and chronic autoimmune CNS inflammation (Aim 1), its regulation by AHR and DNMT1 (Aim 2), and the therapeutic value of nasal HB-EGF application or DNMT1 blockade (Aim 3). In a translational approach, we will validate AHR ligands, HB-EGF and HB-EGF promoter methylation status in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients as novel biomarkers for MS (Aim 4). These high risk/high gain studies explore novel concepts for monitoring and therapy of yet untreatable stages of MS and other degenerative diseases of the CNS.

Keywords: cns regeneration,tissue protection,hb egf,astrocyte,epigenetic modification
Making Wind Energy More Profitable...Faster! (ZephyCloud-2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1822610.0
EU funding (EUR): 1275827.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Market trends show clearly that the wind energy sector keeps growing up in Europe and worldwide. However, this industry faces serious investor confidence which hinders many wind projects from taking off. The viability, profitability and trustworthiness of any wind energy project is crucial to make the project bankable and de-risk the investment for our clients, namely utilities, investors, greenfield developers, consultants, wind turbine manufacturers and operators. At MeteoPole Zephy-Science we have developed a disruptive, opensource wind modelling software package called ZephyTOOLS to help our clients in performing critical tasks during wind farm project development. We have recently made a step ahead and launched ZephyCloud, a cloud-based simulation platform that brings unlimited computational power to accelerate ZephyTOOLS calculations and enables users to gain a significant amount of time (hours instead of weeks!) and reduce dramatically the IT costs thanks to our pay-per-use model. On top of it, we aim to build ZephyCloud-2, a major evolution of the current ZephyCloud platform towards an integral solution for wind analysis and optimization along the entire project lifecycle by (1) scaling up ZephyCloud and building a completely new user experience based on web applications, (2) opening our advanced cloud calculation engine to third-party developers thus encouraging open innovation and (3) extending our toolbox ZephyTOOLS with innovative post-construction applications that will help our clients to optimize wind turbine performance and reduce O&M costs. ZephyCloud-2 is the result of our willingness to reduce natural uncertainties and maximize the economic value of wind energy sites. With Phase 2, we will be able to accelerate the development of our next-generation wind power simulation and analysis cloud platform with the aim of boosting the deployment of renewables and contributing to the achievement of EU and global objectives for clean energ

Keywords: project bankability,cloud,platform,investor confidence,wind modelling,energy yield prediction,optimization,power performance,market de risk,open source,financial return,big data,saas
Pricing carbon with a dedicated currency to empower economic agents (PCCE)

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: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

450 is the SME operating and promoting a digital platform for the management of the CO2 digital currency (CO2s) based on the CO2 reductions achieved by a CO2Account owner. A CO2Account is held in the platform to register the CO2 consumption, to calculate the yearly reduction, and to provide the relevant credit, expressed in units of CO2. CO2 is the alternative digital currency which rewards the account owner by the verified reduction of 1 kg of CO2 emissions through the reduced use of fossil fuel in heating and/or transport. CO2s can be credited to, and debited from (notably with CO2Cards -payment card, or with a mobile App) the account. The CO2/€ exchange rate prices carbon.

Keywords: energy efficiency,fintech,climate change,digital currency,blockchain,nudge,behavioural economics,mitigation banking,co2 emissions reductions,public engagement
Diamond Converter and Arc fault DEtection for high-altitude operations (DCADE)

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: Spain,France,France,France
Call: Advanced High Power Electrical Systems for High Altitude Operation (H2020-CS2-CFP11-2020-01, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1257816.25
EU funding (EUR): 1257816.25
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing demand for clean aviation is pushing the industry towards the all electrical aircraft, with cero emissions. The green deal of the European Commission is a clear high-level example of the commitment that all the countries all over the world should have. Recent advances in the last few decades in power semiconductors is moving the industry to the electrical propulsion, where the generation and electrical consumers are connected together in a small weak electrical grid. The amount of power to be managed by the electrical system is expected to be increasing in the following decade from a few Megawatts to power small aircraft to several tens of MWs to power long haul aircrafts. Although the technology to manage this amount of power is well known for typical ground distribution power grids, the concepts and components cannot be directly applied to aircraft application due to the size/weight required for an aircraft application and the fact of high altitude flying which means a lower pressure and air density. The evolution of aircraft electrical power management system to higher power is critical in the next few years to reach the objective of a future clean sky program. In this context, the overall objective of DCADE is the evaluation of potential technologies that will allow higher voltage converters while maintaining the power density and arc detection techniques that will increase the safety of high altitude, high power A/C distribution systems. Due to the nature of this CfP, DCADE proposal will focus on 2 of the 3 technologies described in the call text, these technologies are power electronics and electric power distribution. DCADE project will implement two demonstrators, one related to each topic. The first demonstrator will be at the facilities of Skylife in Seville (Spain) and the second will be in the facilities of IRTSE in Toulouse (France).

Keywords: diamond,wide band gap,power electronics,high voltage,high altitude,arc fault detection,hvdc,semiconductor
Single Molecular Devices by Atomic Manipulation (MolDAM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Switzerland
Call: ERC Synergy Grant (ERC-2020-SyG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9068885.0
EU funding (EUR): 9068885.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Breakthroughs in on-surface chemistry and characterization techniques have recently enabled the creation of novel molecules and the direct imaging of reaction intermediates at the single molecule level. Here, by employing the novel concepts of charge manipulation within molecules and coherent control of reactions by lightwave scanning tunnelling microscopy, we will bring the control and resolution of chemical reactions to an unparalleled level. We will combine our expertise in solution synthesis of dedicated organic molecules, on-surface chemistry, atomic manipulation and single-molecule characterization with ultimate resolution in space and time. The combination of on-surface chemistry with charge-state control, possible by working on insulating supports, will unlock a plethora of novel charge-driven reaction pathways far from equilibrium. Employing ultrafast pulses, we will resolve chemical reactions with unprecedented resolution in the space and time domain step-by step unravelling the mechanisms of relevant molecular transformations. We will discover and characterize novel on-surface reactions, elusive molecules, intermediates and transition states and fabricate molecular machines and complex molecular networks with engineered topologically protected band structures. Charge control within molecular devices on insulating supports will allow us to study electron transfer, carrier generation and recombination, redox-reactions and electroluminescence at the molecular level. Novel molecular machines will be directed by controlling single-electron charges within the device. Logic functions based on single-electron transfer will be implemented in molecular networks. Controlling and investigating these atomically defined devices on their intrinsic length and time scales will revolutionize our fundamental understanding of the molecular world with impact on fields as diverse as chemical synthesis, light harvesting, molecular machinery and computing.

Keywords: atomic manipulation,on surface synthesis,single electron devices,molecular machines
Pest Organisms Threatening Europe (POnTE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Israel,Spain,Spain,Spain,Germany,Germany,Italy,Austria,Italy,Serbia,Norway,Finland,Belgium,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Costa Rica,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Native and alien pests in agriculture and forestry (H2020-SFS-2014-2, 2014)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6919796.5
EU funding (EUR): 6850000.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal SFS-03a-2014-aligned focuses to minimize the risk of introduction/impact of emerging pests threatening EU agriculture and forestry. The targets are: 1) Xylella fastidiosa and its vectors in olive, grapevine, citrus, stone fruit, ornamentals and landscape trees of high socio-economic importance; 2) ‘Ca. Liberibacter solanacearum’ and its vectors affecting a number of strategic crops such as potato, tomato and carrot; and 3) Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus (anomorph. Chalara fraxinea) and Phytophtora spp. seriously affecting broadleaf and conifer species in forest ecosystems. Targeted pests, their vectors and the host response will be explored using innovative approaches (NGS, transcriptomic). Diseases surveillance and epidemiology given by current methods will integrate improved survey protocols and remote sensing. Innovative IPM will include studies of microbiome to develop sustainable solutions in line with the EU plant health legislation. New knowledge gained with POnTE will result in an outcome-based pest prevention and management work plan to: a) implement area-wide pest risk assessments; b) prevent the entry and develop surveillance and early detection tools (diagnostic kits, lab-on-chip, new biomarkers); c) mitigate the spread and reduce the socio-economic impact; d) IPM based on disease resistance, disease-free seeds, cultural practices and physical environmentally-friendly treatments; e) support knowledge-based decision-making policies at EU level. The proposal fosters and promotes a multi-actor approach and transnational research collaborations among 25 Partners at the forefront of research in plant protection, agro-engineering and economics. It involves key industries/SMEs that develop diagnostic kits and services, agrochemical and seed companies, stakeholder groups. End-users will participate in the development of the project and immediately implement the practical solutions derived from the outcomes to solve these serious emerging diseases.

Keywords: xylella fastidiosa,ca liberibacter solanacearum,hymenoscyphus,chalara,phytophtora,olive,potato,forests