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A small, portable cold plasma device for the treatment of chronic and acute wounds. (plasmaCare)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

terraplasma GmbH has developed a small, portable and battery-operated device – plasma care – for the treatment of chronic and acute wounds. Besides ensuring a sufficient supply of oxygen, avoiding an infection is the most important criterion to enable fast and uncomplicated wound healing. Hard-to-heal wounds have a negative impact on patient wellbeing, are challenging for clinicians to manage and are costly to the health economy. plasmaCare incorporates its innovative cold plasma technology where plasma care will allow for a disruptive wound therapy that can save healthcare costs by facilitating early discharge from hospital, reducing wound dressing frequency (e.g. nursing time) and promote faster healing processes. terraplasma’s ambition is to reach the European market in 2020 with the innovation project boosting their efforts to fulfil this strategy: results of clinical studies on plasmaCare and their dissemination through the European network of skin specialists will be crucial to gain traction among patients, and healthcare providers in order to achieve the new product acceptance among customers and ultimately, their trust. Incorporated in Germany in 2011 and maintaining its core business in Europe with an annual balance sheet of ~ €1M and a staff headcount of 9, the company has evolved along the years from a pure R&D start-up into a commercial enterprise. The proposed work in Phase 1 of the SME instrument fits into the overall terraplasma plan to reach market by contributing the financial resources needed to plan a fast, sound and wider deployment of the plasmaCare solution and the market uptake. It will also allow the SME to accomplish key feasibility activities and reduce the business risks, such as business planning, customer identification and outreach, and stronger IP management strategy.

Keywords: wound treatment,portable,medical device
Cortical gradients of functional integration (CORTIGRAD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998961.01
EU funding (EUR): 1110634.58
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Historically, cognitive neuroscience has focused on discrete, mutually exclusive modules or networks, however, current network-level descriptions of brain organization fail to account for integrated features of cognition. I recently described a principal gradient in cortical connectivity that reflects how activity from primary sensory/motor areas is integrated into transmodal regions of the default-mode network. This novel line of research led me to hypothesize that coherent aspects of cognition are an emergent property of a whole brain architecture consisting of multiple zones of integration. In particular, I hypothesize that each region of transmodal cortex is the apex of a zone of integration that is anchored by multiple unimodal cortical regions. To investigate the mechanism that allows abstract representations to form in transmodal systems, I first propose structural studies to investigate covariance in zone geometry across healthy adults, how zones have emerged through evolution and how they change across the lifespan. I will then explore the functional consequence of zones of integration for higher-order human cognition. I will examine if individual differences in cognition emerges from variation in the architecture of different zones, and how brain activity is altered when simple decisions depend on integrating information from multiple zones. Finally, I will examine how the absence of input from a sensory modality (through congenital deafness or blindness) alters the structure and function of transmodal regions in a zone-specific manner. By describing how the spatial layout of the cortex shapes its functions, this research provides a radically new framework for understanding the structural constraints that underpin the integrated nature of human cognition.

Keywords: functional connectivity,cortical anatomy,cortical gradients
Turbulent and Explosive Lives of Massive Stars (TEL-STARS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499696.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499696.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Stars are the basic building blocks of the visible Universe. Understanding how they transformed the pristine Universe into the one we live in today is at the heart of astrophysical research and vital for many areas in astrophysics. Massive stars, in particular, are cosmic powerhouses because of their radiative, mechanical and chemical feedback from stellar winds and supernova explosions. Thanks to new telescopes and observatories, massive star research is entering a golden era, as exemplified by transient surveys and the dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy. Yet, our understanding of the lives and final fates of massive stars is incomplete. Binary stars are of particular importance because the vast majority of all massive stars will exchange mass with a companion during their life, thereby completely changing their evolution and final fates. About 25% of massive stars are even thought to merge. The merger phase is largely unexplored and the consequences of binary mass exchange for supernovae are poorly understood. To remedy this situation, I propose to build the essential theoretical framework to help understand massive stars. My group will conduct the first 3D magnetohydrodynamical simulations of stellar mergers, develop merger prescriptions for stellar evolution codes, compute grids of massive single and binary stars that cover all relevant phases, and build the required statistical methods to compare models with observations. We will unravel whether merging can explain the origin of strong magnetic fields in 10% of massive stars and thereby also that of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe, namely those of magnetars. Moreover, we will study the asteroseismic properties of mergers and will understand how binary mass exchange affects pre-SN structures and hence the explosions of massive stars. In this way, we will push the frontiers of massive star research and help to approach a truly comprehensive picture of the lives and final fates of massive stars.

Keywords: massive star evolution,binary stars,stellar mergers,statistical methods
MOBILE FIELD HOSPITAL INTEGRATED INTO 40-FEET HI-CUBE MARINE CONTAINER FOR RAPID DEPLOYMENT (HEALTH-IN-A-CONT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In hard to reach, remote rural areas with no power or direct water supply and in humanitarian settings (natural disasters, i.e. flooding, earthquakes, conflicts), insufficient health facilities availability, lack of emergency medical transportation, violence, and insecurity result in barriers for timely access to emergency care for vulnerable populations. With the increase in the number of natural hazards, there is a widespread need for innovative solutions for good quality, cost-effective and timely health care in emergency situations. Current solutions face high costs for deployment (specialized personnel required), assembly, withdraw (20%-40% of medical equipment is abandoned) and redeployment. Our mobile, rapid deployment model aims to provide “on demand” field hospital services (surgical, diagnostics, laboratory, general consultation services and trauma box) for citizens living in remote areas or humanitarian/emergency settings. The innovation of our fully autonomous mobile field hospital designed for rapid deployment stands in its autonomy (no need for supporting infrastructures thanks to the Service Container integating power supply, gas and liquid processing, waste management systems, and the Plug-and-Play set-up), ease of transportation (in its 40-feet high cube container, by road, rail, plane, boat), and rapid deployment (<2 hours, no assembly, no specialized personnel, no dismantling, time and cost saving). The global mobile hospital market represents our target market, expected to growth at a CAGR 36.7%, and reach €19.9 billion (2019-2025). HealthPoint Europe SL is an Spanish enginnering start-up company, specialized in hospital equipment, e-health, and infrastructure deployment. Our Business Model includes leasing, renting, direct selling, and selling through intermediaries to different customer segments: B2B (private hospitals, health agencies), B2G (governments, civil protection and emergency units, national and regional health services), and NGO.

Keywords: mobile hospital,medical container,mobile surgical hospital,emergency,mobile consultation,humanitarian settings,operating room,surgery room,diagnostic,surgical care,rapid dadiological diagnostic
The Dematerialization of Fashion and France's Couture Propaganda during the 1960s and 1970s (FASHION IN IR)

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: Norway
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-26
End date: 2022-08-25
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214158.72
EU funding (EUR): 214158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

FASHION IN IR aims to study the role of French women’s sartorial fashion in its international relations with a focus on both its interaction with the Common Market and its influence on the American mass market during the 1960s and 1970s. This approach is meant to open up the fields of Fashion History and International Relations History to each other. This will be done through the analysis of the influence of women’s sartorial fashion on the American mass market as well as within the context of the Common Market through the prism of the French authorities (industrial, governmental and diplomatic). In so doing, the added-value of diplomatic archival materials in the study of fashion–its influence and dissemination–will be compounded by the added-value of integrating fashion as an independent and unavoidable variable on the international stage. This project brings the political perspective of international relations as a new approach to the study of both the creative industry and the ways intellectual property can be appropriated by states as well as influence public authorities to act in certain ways at the behest of those creators of immaterial products such as fashion (both ideas and images). In so doing, the goal of this project is to generate a new interdisciplinary perspective pertaining to the study of European cultural heritage in the context of international and transnational competition of immaterial cultural goods. This project uses the renewal of an aid to couture program at the end of the 1960s in France as a case study of the instrumentalization of a part of European culture in the form of haute couture as a means to gain influence in the United States.

Keywords: fashion studies,transnationalism,business history
Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX) (SPACEX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Ireland,Austria,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Germany,Cyprus,Greece,Greece,Finland,Palestine, State of,Czechia,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 690000.0
EU funding (EUR): 690000.0
Participants: 33
Project status: SIGNED

Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX) is a transdisciplinary research action that utilises secondments between academic institutions and third sector organisations in order to scope and map European spatial practices. It provides a body of findings that can be easily accessed by commissioning agencies, policy makers and publics through its open source web-site (spacex-rise.eu). SPACEX aims to test, map, analyse, communicate and maximise the ways in which spatial practices in art, architecture and design instigate public exchange and promote empathetic ways of living together in urban space. It responds to the troubling rise of populist nationalism and conflict in European societies by engaging new publics and forging a culture that embraces diversity, difference, and discursive exchange within cities, towns and urban sites. The lack of interdisciplinary knowledge by those working in the cultural sector has significantly affected the way in which the social benefit of cultural activities is understood, articulated and applied. SPACEX proposes that inventing new and inclusive ways of living together, requires the implementation of new transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral practices and methods, that connect spatial practice with cultural sociology, cultural policy, critical pedagogies and behavioural economics. The comprehensive transdisciplinary composition of the SPACEX consortium- 27 partners in 9 EU countries and 1 TC, Palestine – will enable its ERs and ESRs to undertake secondments in a range of world-renowned academic institutions, research institutes, arts organisations, biennials, urban agencies, a film festival and a creative media agency.

Keywords: social art practice,value and function of cultural activity for society,policy making,open access archives,inter sector collaboration to explore the role of culture in the public domain
Accellerating CCS technologies as a new low-carbon energy vector (ACT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: ERA-NET Cofund
Partnership: ACT (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Norway,Switzerland,Greece,Norway,Türkiye,Greece,Romania,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions (H2020-LCE-2015-3, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 38507310.59
EU funding (EUR): 11889929.23
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

This ERA-NET Cofund action is a transnational collaboration on CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) technology. CCS is regarded as one of the main routes for Europe to mitigate climate change. Our initiative "Accelerating CCS technology as a new low-carbon energy vector" (ACT) targets mainly the energy sector, but will also have benefits for energy intensive industries. The vision of ACT is to ensure that the energy sector makes a better contribution to climate protection by developing a collection of different CCS technologies ready for commercialisation. The consortium consists of 10 partners from 9 countries highly engaged to further development of CCS. The partner contribution for the first call is Euros 28.8 million. The consortium has received Letter of Support (LOS) from several important stakeholders in the CCS area in Europe. The main objective of ACT is to facilitate the emergence of CCS by significant transnational joint calls that will stimulate close cooperation between researchers and industry in order to accelerate the deployment of CCS. During these calls the consortium will address the most relevant RD&D gaps in the CCS chain. ACT will bring researchers and CCS stakeholders from a number of countries closer together in a joint effort that will generate momentum towards deployment of CCS technology in Europa. ACT will fund transnational R&D and innovation projects, facilitate meeting places for knowledge sharing, ensure synergies with pilots and demonstration projects, and invite to discussions with stakeholders in the CCS field. ACT will also ensure dissemination of results from ACT funded projects as part of an extensive outreach program targeting the research community, policymakers and the public in general. The result will be new knowledge which in turn will close gaps and accelerate CCS deployment. ACT has seven work packages, of which five are directly related to the first call and the last two are dedicated to additional activities.

Keywords: carbon capture,carbon storage,low carnon energy
Multidisciplinary tools for improving the efficacy of public prevention measures against smoking (SmokeFreeBrain)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Taiwan, Province of China,Cyprus,Bulgaria,Greece,Greece,Serbia,Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases. Prevention and treatment of lung diseases (H2020-HCO-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3187865.2
EU funding (EUR): 2981001.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Smoking is the largest avoidable cause of preventable morbidity worldwide. It causes most of the cases of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and contributes to the development of other lung diseases. The control of smoking is considered as a highly important intervention for the prevention of lung diseases. Tobacco consumption is highly influenced by socioeconomic factors. SmokeFreeBrain aims to address the effectiveness of a multi-level variety of interventions aiming at smoking cessation in high risk target groups within High Middle Income Countries (HMIC) such as unemployed young adults, COPD and asthma patients, as well as within the general population in Low Middle Income Countries (LMIC). The project addresses existing approaches aiming to prevent lung diseases caused by tobacco while at the same time it develops new treatments and analyzes their contextual adaptability to the local and global health care system. SmokeFreeBrain follows an interdisciplinary approach exploiting consortium’s expertise in various relevant fields in order to generate new knowledge. State of the art techniques in toxicology, pulmonary medicine, neuroscience and behavior will be utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of: (i) Public Service Announcement (PSA) against smoking, (ii) the use of electronic cigarettes with and without nicotine as a harm reduction approach and/or cessation aid, (iii) a specifically developed neurofeedback intervention protocol against smoking addiction, (iv) a specifically developed intervention protocol based on behavioral therapy, social media/mobile apps and short text messages (sms) and (v) pharmacologic interventions. The main objective of the project is to evaluate the interventions in terms of health economics, by studying their cost-effectiveness, and proposing a scalable plan and a clear pathway to embedding the proposed interventions into policy and practice both in LMIC as well as in HMIC.

Keywords: e cigarette,health economics,smoking cessation,intervention,neurofeedback,neuroscience,toxicology
SecUre iNFormation SHaring in federated heterogeneous private clouds (SUNFISH)

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: Austria,Italy,Austria,Italy,Israel,Estonia,Malta,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): 4520047.5
EU funding (EUR): 4520029.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Today the European Public Sector Players lack the necessary infrastructure and technology to allow them to integrate their computing clouds. Furthermore, legislative barriers often make it difficult to use available commercial technological solutions. The SUNFISH project aims to provide a specific and new solution to face these issues. SUNFISH will enable the secure federation of private clouds based on the Public Sector needs: federated private clouds belonging to different Public Sector Entities will be able to share data and services transparently, while maintaining required security levels. The SUNFISH project will develop and integrate software enabling secure cloud federation as required by European Public Sector bodies. The project will achieve this by meeting firstly the specific challenges faced by the Maltese and Italian Ministries of Finance, as well as by the UK Regional Cyber Crime Units, the three SUNFISH selected use cases. Solutions will be developed to be usable by other European Public Organisations, and potentially also by private sector players. SUNFISH will improve security in federated “cross-border” clouds, boosting the development of a cloud computing market in sectors where privacy and control of information propagation are essential (e.g., e-government, e-health etc.) while encouraging a better resource utilisation of Public Administration cloud infrastructure. The secure system for federated private clouds developed through the project will guarantee a high level of safety, a continuous monitoring of inter-cloud communications, and the ability to roll out services cheaply, in a fast, flexible and secure way even between different private clouds. The SUNFISH project aims to reduce the management cost of private clouds owned by Public Administrations, and - beyond pure costs savings – to accelerate the transition to 21st century interoperable and scalable public services, boosting enforcement of the European Digital Single Market.

Keywords: cloud interoperability,cyber security and cyber threats,federated clouds,information security assurance,information sharing,networking and large scale distributed comput