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From waste to value: Transforming organic waste into biodegradable bioplastics (VEnvirotech)

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

Every year 8M tonnes of plastics trash enter the sea. Plastic materials that leak into the environment are a global pollution problem as they may take up to 2.000 years to degrade. The European Parliament agreed on measures to eliminate single-use plastics by 2030 as part of the EU Plastics Strategy. We have to be aware about the need to shift our industry and the use of biodegradable bioplastics. A potential solution are PHA bioplastics, biodegradable and produced by bacteria. Unfortunately, because of their costly production process, currently marketed PHA (5-20€/kg) cannot compete with conventional plastics (1-2€/kg) VEnvirotech Biotechnology is a biotechnology start-up founded in April 2018 aiming to offer a solution to the plastic problem by transform organic waste into biodegradable PHA bioplastics while using bacteria. Our innovation relies on the application of biotechnology to organic waste treatment processes at industrial scale to obtain a revalorized product in the form of bioplastic. We have developed two processes: a waste treatment process that uses bacteria to digest organic waste from industrial companies. By inducing feeding and famine cycles to bacteria with the grinded and fermented organic waste, bacteria accumulate PHA bioplastic as energy reserve. This selective pressure process is repeated in our VE-Box a portable processing plant capable of producing high quality PHA biodegradable bioplastics as added-value from organic waste. The bacteria with PHA is taken from the VE-Box to VEnvirotech’s centralized plants to extract, purify and formulate our VE-0plastic. We can reduce by 30% the costs of waste management and by 50% the price of bioplastic. The opportunity in the global waste management market and bioplastics market represents a combined TAM of €447B by 2024. We have defined a commercialization strategy to start in Spain by 2022 and expand to Europe in the following years. By 2024 we expect to have €75M in revenues and a net profit of €11M

Keywords: waste management,organic waste,pha bioplastic,circular economy,biodegradable,plastic,ecology,ecosystem,wastewater,sustainability
Changing the world of urban mobility thanks to Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence (UrbanDynamics)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The booming urbanisation poses several challenges for cities such as growing traffic volumes, safety, and increasing environmental pressures. Enhancing the use of soft transportation modes (cycling and walking) will make cities more sustainable by reducing congestion and pollution. However city authorities are currently struggling to guarantee the safety of those vulnerable road users: they account for almost 70% of the road victims in urban areas. The objective of increasing the use of soft transport modes can only be achieved with a re-design of current urban mobility models. A holistic approach for managing urban traffic is one the most urgent needs of traffic authorities. Correspondingly, the associated traffic management market is projected to grow at a CAGR = 21% and reach the €19.4 billion by 2022. At ViNotion, a Dutch leading expert in intelligent image interpretation since 2007, we have developed UrbanDynamics, a real-time traffic monitoring and managing system that uses raw traffic data from cameras to recognise, track, and analyse the behaviour of all urban traffic participants, including bicycles and pedestrians. Our solution collects data from pre-existing cameras and by means of machine- and deep learning, analyses the behaviour of all traffic participants providing an in-depth insight into complex urban traffic scenarios. Our competitive advantages rely on the high accuracy, even in broad areas with only one system (false detections < 1% in 18m width lane), and versatility of the traffic information obtained (counting, speed, direction, queue length, waiting time, etc.). At ViNotion we aim at making EU cities more friendly for pedestrians and bicycles and reduce associated traffic fatalities by facilitating an optimal integration of the soft transportation modes into the urban environment. UrbanDynamics will boost our growth with revenues surpassing the €18 million in the 3rd year after market uptake and the creation of up to 15 new position.

Keywords: urban dynamics,computer vision,image analysis,multi modal urban transportation,cars,bicycles,pedestrians,high accuracy
A model for potato storage organ differentiation from the cambial meristem (POSTCAMB)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-10-15
End date: 2023-10-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Plant species forming storage organs like bulbs, tubers, or tuberous roots are cultivated as staple food and feed crops because of their high starch caloric content, and elevated yields per hectare. These organs can differentiate from the petioles, stems or the roots, in a secondary growth program whose control is little understood. Tubers and bulbs serve as propagation organs to the plant and remain dormant in soil during winter, to be reactivated the following spring and generate a new plant that is genetically identical to the mother plant. Plants sense short days and cool nights as an indicator of the approaching winter. In potato, these external cues activate expression of a member of the FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) gene family acting as a main tuberigen signal, on be transported to the underground stolons. In this proposal I aim at characterizing the genes acting downstream of FT, and to identify the cells that respond to this mobile signal, thereby serving as tuber initials. As storage organs can initiate from different tissues, my working hypothesis is that this secondary growth process relies on the cambium meristem, which is induced to divide and differentiate into storage parenchyma instead of its default pathway to xylem vessels. Outcomes of this work will not only contribute to a better comprehension of cambium function, but unveil key regulators for storage organ identity which will imply a major breakthrough in our understanding on how these highly economical relevant plant organs are differentiated.

Keywords: plant developmental biology,potato tuber development,plant cambium differentiation,secondary growth,proteomics,transcriptomics
Fully integrated solution to both monitor and control indoor air quality thanks to a network of inbuilt sensors array combined with an AI driven management of the HVAC system (SAB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Luxembourg
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

We spend 90% of our time in enclosed environments. Indoor air quality can be up to 5 times more polluted than outside, caused by factors such as the emission of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Particulate Matter (PM), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3), etc. Indoor air management is responsible for 30% to 50% of building energy costs. It is often difficult for facility managers who control ventilation inside buildings to obtain real-time indoor air quality (IAQ) data, and hence resort to overventilation to ensure safe levels of pollutants in their buildings. Current solutions are only solving part of the problem: They process air treatment but they have no feedback loop. Many technologies are available for air purification (e.g. Plasma Air purification, Electrostatic filtration, UV) but they do not provide any air monitoring to assess the quality of the air, thus they are always turned on which result in high energy costs. Some stand-alone air purifiers exist to monitor and control air quality, but the monitoring is very basic, the control of air treatment system very limited and energy consumption remain high. SAB is the first fully integrated solution to both monitor air quality and control air treatment systems thanks to its inbuilt multiple sensors combined with AI driven data processing which 1) reduce up to 50% the HVAC energy cost, 2) Improve the air quality by up to 15% (especially for the parameters PM 1, 2.5 and 10, tVOC, CO2, CO, NO2, O3), 3) improve comfort by fine tuning temperature on a pro-active mode, 4) offer an excellent return on investment (less than 3 years) and reduce maintenance up to 30%. AIRBOXLAB S.A. is a well-established engineering SME created in 2013 with an annual turnover around 3M€ and 16 full time employees. We already sold 15,000 units worlwide of our star product Foobot (ranked “best connected air monitor” by Berkeley Laboratory).

Keywords: indoor air quality,air monitoring,air quality control,retrofit system,hvac,artificial intelligence,deep learning technology,deep reinforcement learning,air filtration,air purification
SET Plan/ENVE Conference 2019 (SET PLAN ENVE 2019)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Romania
Call: Support to the Romanian Presidency Conference on the European Strategic Technology Plan (SET-Plan) 2019 with a focus on regional dimension (H2020-IBA-ENERGY-SETPLAN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 249750.0
EU funding (EUR): 249750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The 12th SET Plan Conference will be held during 12 - 14 June 2019, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest – Romania, under the auspices of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU and will be conjoined with the external ENVE (Environment, Climate change and Energy) Commission and Conference within the European Committee of the Regions. ENVE is the Committee of the Regions’ Commission where more than 120 EU local and regional leaders are working for environment, climate change, energy and space policies. The main organizer of the Conference is the Romanian Municipalities Association (AMR), being the first time in the SET-Plan history, when an association of local authorities will organize this conference. The organisation of the conference will be performed in close cooperation with the European Commission DG Energy, DG Research and Innovation and DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Committee of the Regions, Ministry of Energy of Romania and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Romania; the Global Covenant of Mayors; the Permanent Representation of Romania to the EU and Cityhall of the District 3 of Bucharest. The main objective of the 12th year anniversary SET Plan conference is to perform an exchange of numerous innovative ideas and good practices with a clear involvement of local and regional leaders from the European Union in areas as: Integrated energy systems; Energy poverty and management of the energy transition in vulnerable regions; Improving performance and reducing cost of renewable energy; Energy Efficiency in Buildings; Energy Efficiency in Industry; Smart Cities; e-Mobility; Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage; Digitalization and ICT in energy; Blue energy. Since this exchange should be inclusive, pragmatic and forward looking, we intend to involve a large number of EU, national, local and regional public and private stakeholders, academia, as well as a consistent number of political leaders.

Keywords: integrated energy systems,energy poverty and management of the energy transition in vulnerable regions,improving performance and reducing cost of renewable energy
WHO - ITU mHealth Hub in EU (WHO-ITU-mHealth)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Methods and data
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland
Call: EU mHealth hub including evidence for the integration of mHealth in the healthcare systems (H2020-IBA-SC1-mHealth-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal from the WHO-ITU is a request for financial support and links to existing European research networks on mHealth from the EC. This will enable both the: 1. Development of national mHealth interventions in selected EU member states to champion the uptake of mHealth 2. Foundation and maintenance of a centralised ‘Knowledge and Innovations Hub for mHealth’ to monitor and enable mHealth adoption and innovation. With the support of the WHO-ITU, the selected national implementations will create precedence for mHealth at scale in Europe, pave the way for other member states to follow suit and serve as a transfer of knowledge and experience from the global WHO-ITU Be Healthy Be Mobile initiative to the mHealth Hub in Europe. In future, the mHealth Hub will serve as a standalone resource for EU member states to support them in deploying and regulating mHealth in their national health services. The Hub will work as a unifying convening platform for existing national country programs on mHealth. It will bring together researchers, projects, knowledge and lessons learnt from individual mHealth projects and clinical trials. From these it will create a “big picture” which will both allow the identification of best practices and standardized guidelines, and also enable researchers to identify gaps in current research which can then help shape new studies. The support requested from the EC in the following proposal will help the initiative and WHO to assist countries to fulfil their commitment of achieving Universal Health Coverage, avoiding vertical intervention models and moving towards integrated health care systems. This will be critical in the coming years for the reduction of national health expenditures without a loss in quality or quantity of national health services.

Keywords: mhealth,knowledge and innovations hub
Copernicus - eoSC AnaLytics Engine (C-SCALE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Greece,Belgium,Poland,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Increasing the service offer of the EOSC Portal (H2020-INFRAEOSC-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999670.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999670.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The EU Copernicus programme has established itself globally as the predominant spatial data provider, through the provision of massive streams of high resolution earth observation (EO) data. These data are used in environmental monitoring and climate change applications supporting European policy initiatives, such as the Green Deal and others. To date, there is no single European processing back-end that serves all datasets of interest, and Europe is falling behind international developments in big data analytics and computing. This situation limits the integration of these data in science and monitoring applications, particularly when expanding the applications to regional, continental, and global scales. The proposed C-SCALE (Copernicus - eoSC AnaLytics Engine) project aims to federate European EO infrastructure services, such as the Copernicus DIAS and others. The federation shall capitalise on the European Open Science Cloud’s (EOSC) capacity and capabilities to support Copernicus research and operations with large and easily accessible European computing environments. That would allow the rapid scaling and sharing of EO data among a large community of users by increasing the service offering of the EOSC Portal. By making such a scalable Big Copernicus Data Analytics federated services available through EOSC and its Portal and linking the problems and results with experience from other research disciplines, C-SCALE will help to support the EO sector in its development and furthermore will enable the integration of EO data into other existing and future domains within EOSC. By abstracting the set up of computing and storage resources from the end-users, C-SCALE will enable the deploying of custom workflows to quickly and easily generate meaningful results. The project will deliver a blueprint, setting up an interaction model between service providers to facilitate interoperability between commercial (e.g. DIAS-es) and public cloud infrastructures.

Keywords: copernicus,european open science cloud,eosc,dias,collaborative ground segments,earth observation,data federation,big data analytics,compute federation,cloud computing,scalable
Interfaces in opto-electronic thin film multilayer devices (INFORM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Israel,Germany,Cyprus,Switzerland,Switzerland,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3866472.5
EU funding (EUR): 3866472.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Development of new materials over the past decade paved the way for organic/hybrid electronics into commercial applications. Now, perfection of material interfaces in organic/hybrid thin-film devices is key to drive the technology further and enable new, more advanced applications. INFORM offers a paradigm shift from focusing on materials to focusing on devices by probing, modelling and controlling relevant processes that take place at interfaces, e.g. charge transfer, injection and collection. By training researchers in this exciting, highly multidisciplinary area, INFORM contributes to the need for skilled, knowledgeable researchers in the field of multilayer thin-film devices in Europe. INFORM will generate fundamental insights and apply them to improve the performance and reliability of relevant devices that will allow INFORM’s industrial partners to grow their markets and take full advantage of the low-temperature, low-cost and large-area processing potential of new generation semiconductors. The challenges are wide-ranging and thus require a cross-European, multidisciplinary, intersectorial and multifaceted approach. The INFORM network consists of partners with complementary skills and toolboxes, including 9 academic groups fully equipped, experienced and knowledgeable in multilayer device research and supervision. The involvement of 4 non-academic partners at the highest level, through supervision of 2 ESRs and secondments, ensures ESR exposure to the industrial workplace and simultaneously provides benefits to the non-academic partners. Complementary training activities in personal skills (e.g writing and communicating), is given by a specialist partner. The combination of high level research and intense training endows the ESRs with multidisciplinary know-how and hands-on skills for careers that impact not only the field of multilayer devices, but also the broader quests for renewable energy resources and development of nanotechnology.

Keywords: interfaces,mulitlayer devices,photophysical processes
St. Bernard - Emergency EEG and auditory evoked potentials for earlier diagnostics and treatment planning of unconscious patients (St. Bernard)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: Clinical research for the validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices (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

An ambulance crew is dispatched to help an unconscious man lying in the street. Is he having a stroke? Is he haemorrhaging in the brain? Has he hit his head? Is he an epileptic? Should the crew start thrombolytic treatment, stabilize the patient or give benzodiazepine? What next? These decisions need to be made every minute, every day around the world by first aid response units. Brain-related injuries and dysfunctions cause high costs to society. The earlier the patient can be diagnosed, the more optimised the treatment path is, and the treatment outcome improves. All this saves money and time in one of the most expensive treatments and rehabilitation. Mega Electronics has developed a solution for emergency brain (EEG) monitoring and plans to develop it into a new business concept. The concept allows easy-to-use, sub-hairline emergency EEG and auditory evoked potential (AEP) recordings and continuous monitoring during the entire patient care chain from emergency scene to hospital. The recorded EEG signals (and biomarkers extracted from them) can be visualized and monitored both locally and remotely, even during medical imaging. Previous studies have proven excellent signal quality. Future challenges lie in expanding the signal information content while maintaining ease-of-use for emergency situations and in inclusion of AEP monitoring. The product consists of an innovative, easy-to-use electrode strip, wireless transmission module and a remote monitoring system. No equivalent solutions are in the market yet. Users are medical professionals working in ambulances, hospitals and health care centres. Feasibility assessment (phase 1) will develop the business concept, study the benefits of AEPs in emergency medicine, plan the technical modifications needed to current products, plan the validation measurements (for phase 2) and assess the risks of the system. Mega has a dealer network of 32 companies covering all continents and can start sales right away.

Keywords: emergency,brain injury