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Femtosecond Temporally Coherent Supercontinuum Fiber Laser for Multi-Photon Microscopy (FEMTOCOLORS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: European SME innovation Associate - pilot (H2020-INNOSUP-02-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-29
End date: 2018-09-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 73750.0
EU funding (EUR): 73750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The mail goal of this proposal is the recruitment of a postdoctoral researcher from other countries to explore an innovation business idea, the development of a Femtosecond (Fs) Temporally Coherent Supercontinuum (SC) Fiber Laser for Multi-Photon Microscopy (MPM). FYLA LASER S.L. expects to recruit a highly qualified specialist in photonics, that is not available on the Spanish job market, but whose knowledge would be crucial to open up opportunities for innovation and significant growth for the enterprise. This project will contribute to place FYLA in an advanced position versus competitors in the field of non-linear microscopy, as the first worldwide manufacturing company of Fs Temporally Coherent SC Fiber Laser. FEMTOCOLORS will develop the technologies necessary to realize efficient laser emission in the visible in the all-fiber laser configuration. With this regard, the Innovation Associate will address the challenges currently not overcome to develop coherent SC lasers of pulsewidths down to 10 fs, covering the VIS region.

Keywords: recruitment,postdoctoral researcher,supercontinuum fiber laser,non linear microscopy,spectral reach
Scaling-up biodegradable nanomedicines for multimodal for multimodal precision cancer immunotherapy (PRECIOUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Poland,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Nanomedicine therapy for cancer (H2020-NMP-2015-two-stage, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8291217.5
EU funding (EUR): 8291217.5
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

PRECIOUS aims at scaling-up biodegradable nanomedicines for multimodal precision cancer immunotherapy. With 3.5 million cancer patients in Europe every year, new cancer medicines are eagerly awaited, notably for prostate and ovarian cancer. Systemically applied new immunotherapies are promising, but their toxicity is a hurdle. Vaccination against cancer is safe but rather the efficacy can be disappointing, i.e. the microenvironment shuts down anti-tumour immunity. PRECIOUS will tackle 2 bottlenecks: 1. Production of non toxic multimodal nanomedicines, which induce vigorous immune responses, and at the same time reverse immunosuppression 2. Large scale GMP production of nanomedicines, and initiate a multimodal immunotherapy Phase I trial. We want to solve these bottlenecks by: Objective 1: Two types of GMP biodegradable nanoparticles: 1) a nanovaccine, containing tumour antigens and immune activators, and 2) a nanoparticle composed of compounds, which reverses the suppression and reactivates immunity in the tumour. Objective 2: Clinical Phase I trial to show efficacy. Nanomedicines will be used by 1) injection of vaccines to evoke immune responses and 2) injection of nanoparticles in the tumour microenvironment, which slowly release compounds that reverse suppression. To achieve this, a platform is formed with 6 leading industrial partners to produce large scale GMP nanomedicines and an excellent immunomodulator track record, together with 5 renowned academic partners to perform clinical studies. Relevance to call: Large scale GMP production, industrial leadership, nanotechnology and advanced manufacturing KET technologies, translation to the clinic, marketing development.

Keywords: biodegradable nanomedicines,plga,immunosuppression,tumour microenvironment,cancer immunotherapy,scaling up gmp production,local administration,phase i trials
SPAce-CompatiblE- Filters_in_dIelectric waveguide Technology (SPACEFIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME Instrument (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Satellite telecommunication systems are in continuous evolution, offering various types of interactive services. In order to provide such services in a cost effective manner, innovative and miniaturized technologies (low weight and volume) are required, allowing for increasing the density of the satellite payloads, offering new services and thus reducing the cost of the satellite missions. SATFIT project aims to investigate the possible introduction into the space market of miniaturized and low-mass RF filters and multiplexers in L/S bands based ondielectric waveguide resonatorsusing an innovative solution for thermal compensation that will make the filters space compatible. The SATFIT technology will lead to a drastic reduction of the resonator dimensions and weight (up to 50%) while maintain good performancewith respect to existing technology (heavy waveguide and combline/coaxialfilters).The proposed devices will replace these filters in satellite transponders operating in L/S band. Preliminary market survey identified TTC&M (Telemetry Tracking Command & Monitoring)as first application and MSS(Mobile Satellite Services) and Navigation systems (Galileo, GPS) as future ones. The market segment that can be taken, replacing standard components is potentially 20% of the total market of L/S band filters for space. According to the preliminary business plan, the entering into the space market of SATFIT products would increase the companyturnover of more than 30%. Phase 1 of the project is devoted to the study of the technical feasibility, analysis of the critical technical issues and risks, potential market survey (including the estimation of market share) and the analysis of the technical and economical requirements.Also a business and strategic plan for next project phases will be performed. RFM will make a deep analysis on possible partners and collaborations, especially for manufacturing and qualification activities foreseen for project phase 2.

Keywords: dielectric waveguide technology
Predictive Reliability for High Power RF MEMS (PRIME)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 153085.44
EU funding (EUR): 153085.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

None of us can even imagine spending a day without using a mobile phone or staying far away from a wi-fi area. A deeper insight however reveals that high-power wireless communication systems, such as Radars and Satcoms, have even greater impact on our everyday lives by supporting safe and effective transportation and long-distance communications. This is practically enabled only thanks to electronic components capable to deal with the corresponding signals. Among others, Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems for Radio Frequency applications (RF MEMS) are now widely accepted as superior to their counterparts, with their reliability however remaining an open issue and a general concern. This is not only due the demanding scientific nature of the problem but also due to the difficulty to generalize the outcomes of even well-organized studies. Further to these, working in the high-power regime, RF MEMS will have to deal with an additional bunch of issue, presently marginally studied, making failure prediction an even more complicated accomplishment. PRIME aspires to address this issue by identifying the proper high-power reliability testing and to combine this with the strength of machine learning techniques towards failure prediction. This will be achieved through an interdisciplinary approach relying on placing a fellow with expertise on device reliability physics to a host group working on high power RF electronic devices and systems, supported by two carefully designed secondment, for RF design and for machine learning techniques. Overall, PRIME envisions to equip RF MEMS scientists, engineers and stakeholders with a powerful tool that enables predictive diagnostics paving the way for overcoming the persisting reliability bottleneck, particularly concerning state of art high power applications.

Keywords: rf mems,high power,reliability,machine learning,predicitve diagnostics
International mobility, local economics and European cooperation policies in the central Sahara (MOLECOPS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Migration by nationals of sub-Saharan countries to the Sahara, often assimilated by African and European public institutions to departures to Europe, have, over the last decade, become the object of increased surveillance. The European Union has put migration at the heart of its relations with Africa, and finances a broad range of programmes that aim at a better management of migration in the Sahara. Ranging from encouragement of legal reforms to assistance in the repatriation of migrants, via equipping border posts with sophisticated means of control, EU interventions in the area take different forms, but they all have in common that little is known of their actual impact and side-effects on the ground. The aim of this research project is to study the nature and practical results of European intervention in migration issues in the central Sahara, and its global cost, by combining an exhaustive analysis of European policies with empirical fieldwork, with a view towards understanding and correcting the representations and assumptions that underpin them. The project will be hosted by the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford. The IMI is a leading research centre with regards to international migration and the legality and legitimacy of international intervention. Training at and collaboration with the IMI would allow the researcher to develop an innovative theoretical framework for future research, leading to a critical turn in his career. Results of the research will be of considerable academic and public interest. Most importantly, it will have important implications for European migration policy, producing reports that should become required reading for everybody involved in these matters. The candidate will do his utmost, during and after the fellowship, to reach this potential institutional audience.

Keywords: migration,policies,development,state,border management,sahara,niger,chad
Whole Earth Systems During Neoproterozoic Animal Evolution (NEOEARTH)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-03-08
End date: 2023-04-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The late Neoproterozoic Era marks some of the most important changes in the biogeochemical evolution of our planet. During the late Cryogenian,Ediacaran and Early Cambrian Periods (ca. 650–520 Ma), our planet was marked by a global icehouse event (‘Snowball Earth’), a rapid rise in oxygen content of the atmosphere, evolution of animals and complex life forms and the amalgamation of the Gondwanian supercontinent, which formed the earliest ‘modern’ style mountain belts with the deep burial of continental crust resulting from massive continental-continental collisions. So far, biogeochemical modelling, geochemical analysis and general circulation climate models (GCMs) have linked all these key events to plate tectonic processes. However, there is yet to be a fully complete linked tectonic-biogeochemical-climate model, where geologically grounded parameters are passed directly into both biogeochemical and GCMs, principally because there is no full tectonic model of this time. Recent advancements in plate tectonic modelling have produced models that map the explicit kinematic evolution of plate boundaries and tectonic plates back to 1 Ga. Using this model as a foundation, I propose to construct secondary tectonic parameters (palaeobathymetry, palaeotopography, carbon flux) of the world between 650 and 520 Ma in order to act as a series of boundary conditions for a GCM and biogeochemical model. The GCM is constructed using the surface conditions from the tectonic parameters (palaeobathymetry, palaeotopography, continental positions) to produce surface temperature and hydrological estimates at key time intervals. These estimates, along with carbon flux estimates—calculated using the same plate model—are used to derive self-consistent biogeochemical cycles (e.g. O2, CO2, P cycles) which can then be evaluated against independent proxies from the geological record, allowing us to independently evaluate the impact of tectonic drivers on these pronounced global events.

Keywords: plate tectonics,neoproterozoic,snowball earth,biogeochemical box model,animal evolution
Ultra-strong light-matter coupling in quantum infrared detectors (UNIQUE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1550627.0
EU funding (EUR): 1550627.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the majority of optoelectronic devices emission and absorption of light are considered as perturbative phenomena. The objective of my project is to explore the ultra-strong light-matter coupling regime in a new type of optoelectronic semiconductor-based devices operating in the THz and MIR frequency range (lambda=3-300µm). These devices will allow the first time experimental observation of intrinsically quantum features of the ultra-strong coupling regime, such as quantum vacuum radiation (dynamical Casimir effect) and squeezing of polaritons states. In these devices, generically acting as detectors, the light-matter coupled states (polaritons) will be efficiently converted into electrical signals. The matter excitation is based on the electronic transitions in semiconductor quantum wells, where the light-matter interaction is strongly enhanced owe to collective effects. To achieve the ultra-strong coupling regime, the collective electronic excitation is coupled with metamaterial nano-resonator acting as high frequency inductor-capacitive circuit. In such resonator, very high electric field intensity is achieved into effective volume of sizes comparable with the electron De Broglie wavelength. The photoconductivity of such detectors will be dominated by polariton–assisted fermionic transport. The metamaterial detectors will be supplied with sensitive read-out based on the single-electron transistor concept, which will allow the observation of quantum vacuum radiation as well as the non-classical photo-counting statistics of polaritons. In these device architectures I will also implement the dynamical Coulomb blockade, where the single electron charging energy e²/2C becomes comparable with the metamaterial resonator energy ћw. This effect will be exploited as a disruptive approach to sense the quantum-optical properties of light-matter coupled states by all-electronic means.

Keywords: ultra strong light matter coupling,metamaterials,quatum wells,electronic transport,quantum optics
Brazil-EU Cooperation for Development of Advanced Lignocellulosic Biofuels (BECOOL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Alternative fuels and mobile energy sources
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Finland,Greece,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: International Cooperation with Brazil on advanced lignocellulosic biofuels (H2020-LCE-2016-RES-IA, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999955.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999955.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the BECOOL (EU) and BioVALUE (Brazil) projects is to strengthen EU-Brazil cooperation on advanced lignocellulosic biofuels. Information alignment, knowledge synchronization, and synergistic activities on lignocellulosic biomass production logistics and conversion technologies are key targets of both projects and will bring mutual benefits. Both projects are structured in 3 main pillars covering in a balanced way the whole range of activities of the biofuels value chain (biomass production, logistics, conversion and exploitation). The BECOOL consortium is composed by 14 partners from universities, research institutes, large industries/SMEs, from 7 EU countries. Together with improved logistics, the establishment of the BECOOL innovative cropping systems will enable to increase biomass feedstock availability by at least 50% without negatively impacting food production, soil quality, and customary land uses. The improvements in gasification process efficiency of new feedstocks will allow to achieve an optimal gas quality from non-conventional sources (e.g. lignocellulosic crops and residues). The use of energy carrier in gasification will allow to overcome a major logistics barriers for low-energy density feedstock, while the valorization of lignin-rich residues will dramatically improve the energy efficiency of the overall value chain. Technological breakthroughs on pre-treatment, hydrolysis and enzymatic saccharification and fermentation steps will increase the competitiveness of biochemical advanced ethanol. The cross-project model benchmarking, carried out between EU and Brazil, will decrease present limitations on growth, logistics and process academic models, making them more reliable, opening opportunities for business, new jobs, reduced land pressure, and enhanced environmental benefits in EU and Brazil.

Keywords: lignocellulosic crops,advanced biofuels,biomass supply logistics,cropping systems,lignin rich,bioethanol,aviation fuels
BovINE Beef Innovation Network Europe (BovINE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Estonia,Italy,Spain,Spain,Germany,Italy,Ireland,Ireland,Belgium,Poland,Belgium,France,Portugal,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Thematic networks compiling knowledge ready for practice (H2020-RUR-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999966.25
EU funding (EUR): 1999966.25
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

BovINE will tackle urgent sustainability challenges faced by beef producers by bringing together beef farmers, farming organisations, advisors, researchers and all relevant actors across 10 member states to close the divide between research and innovation in Europe. There are 255,000 farms in the EU bovine meat sector, yet no network focused solely on their needs has been established to date. Coordinated by Teagasc (IE), BovINE is built around the multi-actor approach to implement more intense cooperation between researchers, advisors, farmers and relevant actors to facilitate greater exchange and acceptance of co-created solutions. BovINE draws on the EU, national and regional connections of the 18 consortium members to appropriate networks, on the four related key themes of socio-economic resilience, animal health and welfare, production efficiency & quality and environmental sustainability. Using the multi-actor approach BovINE will (i) capture and share innovative ideas and methods from practice across Europe and (ii) identify and conserve research findings that have not yet been widely adopted, enhancing their potential for integration into practice by assessing feasibility at demonstration farms. BovINE’s strategic and targeted dissemination and communication actions are designed to raise awareness of the project’s innovation potential, and deliver engagement with farmers, their intermediaries and knowledge providers. Through driving effective cooperation between beef producers and researchers, and utilising trusted gatekeepers, BovINE will form a transnational ecosystem to stimulate knowledge exchange at international level to boost the economic viability and sustainability of the European beef-producing sector.

Keywords: beef farming