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Unravelling the microbial carbon pump in the ocean: Linkage between gene expression and RDOM generation by marine bacteria (CARAMBA) (CARAMBA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-03-06
End date: 2019-03-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ocean is one of the largest carbon reservoirs on Earth, absorbing 30% of anthropogenic CO2. It also contains an amount of carbon in the form of oceanic dissolved organic matter (OM; 660 Gt) similar to that in atmospheric CO2 (829 Gt). Hence knowing how this organic matter is cycled has interest in the study of the planetary carbon cycle. Bacterioplankton (the community of heterotrophic prokaryotes composed by bacteria and archaea, hereafter bacteria) play a key role in OM processing throughout all aquatic ecosystems, with consequences on the cycling of carbon and other elements. Although bacterial consumption and reprocessing of OM has been extensively studied, the production of refractory DOM (RDOM) by bacteria, or the so-named microbial carbon pump, is a recent and relatively unknown concept with large consequences on carbon storage and cycling in the ocean. The main objective of the CARAMBA project is to better understand the taxonomic, genomic and metabolic underpinnings of the bacterial production of refractory DOM through the microbial carbon pump. For this purpose, we will combine for the first time laboratory work with single bacterial strains with OM characterization using cutting-edge techniques and genomics/transcriptomics work. Using this approach we will be able to identify the main organic compounds produced by bacteria and the expressed genes, thus the underlying mechanisms, involved in such processes.
Next Generation ‘Unified Guest Engagement System’ for Smart Hospitality Services and Unparalleled Guest Loyalty. (UNIGEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Greece
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed innovation project aims to deploy HSTech’s next generation disruptive ‘Unified Guest Engagement System’ (UNIGEM) that relies on the company’s proven and award winning cloud-based guest engagement platform: ‘m-hospitality’ which demonstrates outstanding results by generating increased revenue for hotels, improved guest satisfaction, optimized operations, enhanced brand image and loyalty, and improved quality of customer service. As such, UNIGEM introduces a new paradigm in the travel sector by expanding and automating the operation of local business ecosystems in hospitality and tourism sector. Ultimately, the proposed solution challenges the dominance of Online Travel Agents (OTAs) by interconnecting hotels and Tourism Service Providers (TSPs) under a federated loyalty programme, creating this way a single point of access for guest bookings. UNIGEM uses big data technology to integrate hotel and TSPs data, and data from their interaction with guests. Through its advanced analytics engine it extrapolates on personal tastes and needs and through real-time data evaluation, it enables guests to enjoy individualized experiences leading this way the hospitality industry from personalization to individualization. UNIGEM will stimulate an ecosystem-oriented symbiotic business culture between hotels & TSPs, driven by quantified economic benefits. Guests will also enjoy fulfilling experiences through effortless interaction with service providers, while winning rewards from service consumption. In addition, UNIGEM will increase employment opportunities in local communities and promote the cultural uniqueness of each destination. By investing in UNIGEM HSTech expects an NPV ranging from 15M€ to 35M€ & IRR from 31% to 85% (worst-case and baseline scenario respectively) over a 5 year period. Phase 1 will last 6 months to address 5 specific aspects of the overall feasibility. A leading research institute & a specialized consultancy participate in P1 as subcontractors.

Keywords: unigem,guest engagement platform,ecosystem,loyalty,tsps,otas,hotel
Quantifying urban mines in Europe and related implications for the metal-energy-climate change nexus (QUMEC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180277.2
EU funding (EUR): 180277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Securing access to raw materials is of particular concern for countries highly dependent on imports. This is the case of many EU States. Because of issues related to decreasing ore grades and scarcity of supply of primary metal forms, recycling of above-ground deposits of metal-bearing waste (or “in-use stock”) will become an increasingly important means of securing resources to provide essential building blocks to the European industry. Recycling of metal in-use stock has the further potential of avoiding consuming the large amounts of energy required in primary metal production, and of reducing related greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, however, because of metal losses during and after use, end-of-life recycling rates for many metals are often very low, so the potential for improving those recycling efficiencies is an important consideration for the achievement of a more resource efficient economy and sustainable development in Europe. This project proposes a comprehensive, exemplary research line that merges complementary drivers in the assessment of the metal-energy-climate change nexus for (i) estimating the size of current urban mines for selected, critical metals; (ii) assessing future opportunities and barriers to their recycling, and (iii) related potentials for carbon emissions reduction. The results of this project are expected to reach a wide impact in the research community and will timely inform an evidence base for future decision-making, and for enhancing the growth of European economy improving resource efficiency and recycling. While pursuing the objectives of this high-quality research proposal, the candidate will acquire new, desirable knowledge and competences that will open to him the best opportunities for achieving a leading position in research. A transfer of knowledge from the candidate to the host organisation will also contribute to implement a valuable, outstanding asset to UNIBO in the Industrial Ecology field.

Keywords: in use stock,critical raw materials,material flow analysis,carbon emissions,metal production,life cycle assessment,urban mining,indium,europium,neodymium,copper,industrial ecology
A novel healthcare tool for the active ageing with chronic kidney disease (CKDSens)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Frequent monitoring of the renal function is required for hundreds of millions of people (90m in the EU): patients suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetes and cardiovascular problems. The monitoring of these patients is still mostly done in hospitals, because the technology involved is too specialized to be handled by patients. Some companies offer limited qualitative monitoring in a near-patient care scenario, but quantitative monitoring is still centralized at hospitals. In this market, CDKSens can make a notable difference. CreatSens, a technology-based company from Spain, is developing a new point-of-care platform for the personalized management of the kidney function. CKDSens aims to improve current healthcare by introducing new synthetic membranes to detect several relevant biomarkers. CKDSens is a low-cost innovation requiring little expertise, ideal in a near-patient care scenario. By decentralizing the biomarkers’ analysis with new diagnostic systems (i.e. moving it from the hospital to the patient’s home), healthcare professionals will waste less time and money on analyses. This helps sustain our healthcare system. Individual patients will be able to lead a more active life, while health inequalities get tackled along the way. Direct stakeholders are pharmaceutical companies, technological healthcare companies and foundations. CreatSens wants to assess the technological and economic viability in the first 6 months (phase 1), to deliver a feasibility plan for phase 2 where the key steps for CreatSens to grow as a company in the European context will be introduced. CreatSens' 5-year growth plan is focused on selling the technology in 5 EU countries. We foresee 40 M€ turnover in the next 5 years, with the creation of 50 direct jobs and over 100 indirect jobs.

Keywords: biotechnology based device,synthetic membranes,diagnostic system,biomarkers,biotechnology,platform,industrial biotechnology,tele health,money saving
Perception Ultrasound for Reassuring Fetal Echo Clinical Trainees (PURFECT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Perception Ultrasound for Reassuring Fetal Echo Clinical Trainees (PURFECT) builds on the results of ERC Advanced Grant PULSE to develop an AI-assistive system to guide a user to find a standard mid-trimester fetal ultrasound imaging plane. Such a system would provide reassurance to newly qualified sonographers as they begin to perform real-world diagnostic imaging, may support experts perform scanning more efficiently, and would contribute to the desired trend to use ultrasound more widely in healthcare delivery. The novelty of the proposed system is that the guidance provided by the PURFECT solution is provided by artificial intelligence (AI) multi-modal deep learning models which predict where an expert would look. These models have been built from ultrasound video and gaze tracking of full ultrasound scans as part of the PULSE project. The Proof of Concept award aims to build on the algorithm research conducted in PULSE to systems engineer a working PURFECT prototype of an AI-assisted ultrasound image guidance system. This will require an inter-disciplinary approach to design, build and test a system suitable for use by the intended user. In addition to addressing the engineering challenges, the project will also conduct a series of pilot usability studies to understand how AI-assisted image plane guidance can assist a trainee in diagnostic imaging and give them reassurance just as a human tutor or more experienced colleague might do. The project aims to generate licensable intellectual property and therefore will consider as well commercialization options for the developed technology for post-project follow up.

Keywords: ultrasound imaging,biomedical image analysis,machine learning,diagnostic ultrasound,obstetrics ultrasound,clinical skills training and assessment
An innovative solid lubricant based nano-dimensional coatings for industrial production (TVARC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Friction, the resistance to motion that occurs when two surfaces are in contact, is close to one quarter of all energy consumed worldwide. Whether it is transportation, industrial, manufacturing, power generation or in the residential sector (housing equipment), friction is everywhere and represent 20% of the world’s total energy consumption. Within the transportation sectors, the automotive and bearing industries are facing the major difficulties with friction. Car consumes about 169 liters of fuel only to overcome mechanical friction in the powertrain, bearings contribute to 32.5% of the total friction lost, pistons 59.5%. In Europe, cars are responsible for around 12% of total EU CO2 emissions and recent EU regulations have introduced stringent limitations for the average car CO2 emission. To provide enhanced productivity with cars that have less environmental impact, low fuel consumption and improved operating efficiency, the automotive and bearing industries are today facing a major challenge in reducing frictions which consumes a great deal of energy and causes wear one of the main reasons for failure of a material. To address the frictional and wear challenge, TVARC has developed a new concept of nano-material coating which provide improved frictional behaviors between components. TVARC innovation is a Thermionic Vacuum Arc (TVA) system, a unique machine able to apply a nano-dimensional thin film of material (i.e. Boron, Graphite, Diamond like carbon, hexagonal Boronnitride, Molybdenum disulfide, Titanium Nitride, Silicon Carbide, Zirconium dioxide or Aluminum oxide) to improve frictional properties between moving parts. Thanks to TVARC, 30% friction reduction (3x higher than current competing solution) can be provided to bearings and pistons which, in term of value, could translate in €145 million economic savings and 453 MtCO2 emission reductions. Targeting engine, motor and car manufacturers,TVARC has an important potential market of over 1000 customers

Keywords: thermionic vacuum arc,nano material coatings,lubricants,thin film,mechanical friction,bearings,automotive engines
Cooperation Of Space NCPs as a Means to Optimise Services under Horizon 2020 (COSMOS2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Iceland,Spain,Israel,Italy,Germany,Cyprus,Switzerland,Belgium,Lithuania,Slovakia,Slovenia,Türkiye,Bulgaria,Greece,Poland,Romania,Latvia,France,France,Czechia,Portugal,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Transnational and international cooperation among NCPs (H2020-COMPET-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 53.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2221150.16
EU funding (EUR): 2071615.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

National Contact Points (NCPs) for Space provide support on Space funding under EU Framework programmes. In 2007 under FP7 the EU started funding an NCP Space network which was named COSMOS. This enabled the NCPs to benefit from each other’s experience and thus raise the level of the overall quality of their services. Additional services were established like a joint website and news service providing information about Space and EU Framework Programme related topics. Furthermore they organised international information days in support of the European Commission with emphasis on bringing potential project partners together. Last but not least they implemented a country independent helpdesk for EU framework Space research related questions. While the project partners are core of the network the full group comprises the other Space NCPs from EU member states and Associated Countries as well as Space contact points in international partner countries, mainly from Space faring nations. Within COSMOS2020 the network activities are continued under Horizon 2020. Capacity building, information services, project partner search support and more activities will once again reinforce the cooperation of the NCPs and raise the overall quality level of services. This is even more important since their role as only official support entity was decided for Horizon 2020.

Keywords: participant support,national contact points,space,network
INTERnational cooperation to restore and connect urban environments in Latin AmeriCa and Europe (INTERLACE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Protection of the environment, sustainable management of natural resources, water , biodiversity and ecosystems
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Germany,Ecuador,Spain,Germany,Poland,Colombia,Norway,Belgium,Poland,France,Netherlands,Costa Rica,Mexico
Call: Strengthening international cooperation on sustainable urbanisation: nature-based solutions for restoration and rehabilitation of urban ecosystems (H2020-SC5-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5476165.0
EU funding (EUR): 5476165.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

INTERLACE brings together a uniquely positioned consortium to empower and equip European and CELAC cities to effectively restore and rehabilitate (peri)urban ecosystems towards more liveable, resilient and inclusive cities. The project applies an integrative, city-driven approach to address urban challenges through the restoration, rehabilitation and (re)connection of natural and social processes between places. A three-tiered mechanism for city and wider stakeholder exchange and learning – the City Network Accelerator – will strengthen cooperation and peer-to-peer interactions on the local, regional (EU and CELAC) and global scales. Innovative forms of inclusive participation will optimise the collection of available knowledge and experiences and the co-production of governance instruments and tools for restorative NBS. Six committed EU and CELAC partner cities are central to this process, providing and sharing experiences with other cities globally and building technical and procedural capacities. The international city network partners UNGL, Climate Alliance and UCLG will facilitate a wide dissemination and application of project outputs through effective pathways to impact. The web-based Innovation Hub will support these efforts by disseminating INTERLACE’s City NBS Tool for urban ecosystem restoration and rehabilitation and promoting project result exploitation. Comprised of integrated assessment systems, a catalogue of policy and governance instruments, city impulse papers, business cases, guidance documents, and more, the tool will support decision-making processes for urban ecological restoration in EU and CELAC cities and beyond. INTERLACE will advance knowledge and awareness of restorative NBS, foster more ecologically coherent and integrated city planning processes, and lay the foundation for sustained multi-directional cooperation and exchange between EU and CELAC cities for wider transformative impact.

Keywords: urban ecosystem restoration,sustainable urban development,multi directional cooperation between eu and celac,nature based solutions,resilient and inclusive cities,co production of knowledge
Soul and writing, language and painting. Elements of comparison in Philip Melanchthon's and Giordano Bruno's notions of the soul and of language (LEUKOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 310968.0
EU funding (EUR): 310968.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

With the proposed project, I will compare Philip Melanchthon’s and Giordano Bruno’s philosophy of language and doctrine of the soul to clarify (1) the reception of Melanchthon’s works on rhetoric, dialectic, and psychology in Bruno’s works published or composed during his stay in Wittenberg (1586-1588), and (2) Bruno’s reconsideration of his opinion about the Lutheran Reform during his stay in Germany. These two aspects of the research question will be investigated through a textual analysis of Melanchthon’s and Bruno’s works, and in a historical reconstruction of the social and intellectual environments which Bruno joined during his stay in Wittenberg. This project, informed by the approaches of gender studies, will profit from engaging with the role of women in shaping Bruno’s experience of the Reformation. From an historical perspective this will be achieved through a focus on how the reformed women in Wittenberg contributed to the production and dissemination of knowledge, and from the perspective of textual analysis through paying special attention to the gendered dimension of the notion of soul in Bruno’s works. The Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is the perfect choice of host institution for this project. UCPH boasts a unique interdisciplinary research environment comprised of renowned researchers, whose expertise will be a great help in realizing the objectives of LEUKOS: namely expertise in Reformation history including studies of the leading Reformers, history of rhetoric, university history, Renaissance philosophy, gender studies, and Giordano Bruno. The required literary sources are readily available for scholars at UCPH via The Royal Danish Library. The training for the fellow has been planned to enhance (1) my profile as an interdisciplinary scholar (philosophy and theology), and (2) as project manager at a cultural institution, (3) opening career paths for me also in the Nordic countries.

Keywords: reformation,renaissance,language,soul,university,liberal arts,rhetoric,dialectic,mnemonics,philosophy,theology,metaphor,metaphorology,women,gendered concepts,wittenberg,leucorea