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Hannover – automatic monitoring of horses (HANNOVER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Poland
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cyberbajt has for many years been a EU market leader in the sector of radio antennas for unlicensed frequency bands. Currently, our distribution network includes a total of 35 countries. Since 2013, the company has been involved in the researching the possibilities of development and manufacturing of equestrian accessories. Our analysis showed that the use of modern technology in this sector has great potential. There are 7 mln of equines in the EU, 9.2 mln in the US, and 58 mln worldwide. Equine sector in the EU is worth EUR 100 billion a year, including EUR 34 billion sector of sport horses, and is growing 5% a year. HANNOVER is a digital system for horses automatic observation in loose boxes, which allows: - maintenance-free monitoring of vital signs - automatic detection, inference and reporting on the state of health - alarming in case of endangered life, health or welfare The key innovation of HANNOVER system is to ability to remotely (without placing sensors on the body of animals) record vital signs, intelligent behavior analysis and detection of symptoms of injury or disease. None of the solutions in the world operates on the same basis as our system! Assumptions and product prototype was demonstrated for potential users, breeder and veterinary experts - the feedback confirmed the high potential of the product. The feasibility study will be the key element of the overall plan to reach market. It will enable precise identification of clients and their expectations, determining the optimal method of implementing the project from the technical and technological perspectives, profound identification of the market, preparing a marketing strategy and determining resources necessary for the execution of R&D project and the commercialization, identification of risk and ways of minimizing it. Preliminary financial assumptions showed that within 6 years (3 years of R&D and commercialization + 3 years of sales) ROI will amount to nearly 33% annually.

Keywords: horses monitoring health care innovation
The History and Politics of Human Shields (HPHS)

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,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to examine the history and politics of human shields, a growing phenomenon related to the increasing “weaponization” of human bodies and the fact that urban settings have increasingly become common sites for contemporary conflicts. Human shielding denotes the deployment of civilians in order to deter attacks on military sites as well as their transformation into a technology of warfare. While the majority of the scholarly literature characterizes human shielding as the “weapon of the weak,” one of my assumptions is that the category of human shields is also becoming a weapon deployed by the strong to justify the increasing number of civilian deaths in the battlefield. The legal significance of human shields emerges from the fact that civilians who are defined as shields lose some of the protections traditionally assigned to them by international law. Human shields, I propose, can be a weapon for those who use them, but also for those who accuse the enemy of using them. I hypothesize: 1) that the diverse situations in which civilians become shields and the specific way they are categorized shape our understanding of both the violence deployed and its ethical significance; and 2) that the different kinds of human shields operate in distinct ways and serve radically different military and political purposes. Accordingly, I will pursue two objectives: 1) offer a historical-legal investigation of human shielding, thus facilitating our understanding of the military and ethical function of this legal category; and 2) identify and theorize the various forms of human shielding currently being utilized in theatres of violence, both to improve our understanding of the diverse contexts in which human shields appear and to demonstrate how the conception of human shields shapes our perceptions of violence. Ultimately, HPHS hopes to contribute to research on political violence and EU’s obligations to international law.

Keywords: warfare,international humanitarian law,civilians,human shields,human rights
Resituating the local in cohesion and territorial development (RELOCAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Inclusive societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Romania,Greece,Hungary,Poland,Sweden,Finland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Spatial justice, social cohesion and territorial inequalities (H2020-SC6-REV-INEQUAL-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4885750.0
EU funding (EUR): 4885750.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

There is an increasing need for developing European Union Cohesion Policy in terms of greater sensitivity towards territorial specificities, more supportive of community-based development and the facilitation of greater civic participation. This also relates to the concern over decreasing identification with the European project among the population. Place-based development, endogenous regional development and territorial capital are some of the policy approaches that have been invoked to facilitate a reorientation of Cohesion Policy and territorial development policy. These need to be connected more specifically to notions of the local and localism. RELOCAL will target this objective by exploring in depth the two dimensions underlying the challenge described in the Call text. The project will be based on case studies of local contexts (e.g. cities and their regions) that exemplify development challenges in terms of spatial justice. Among the research questions that have been identified are the following: - How can spatial justice be conceptualised, operationalised, adapted? - How processes of territorial inequalities in different localities be understood and analysed? - How does the local relate to cohesion in an EU context? - What factors and filters are operating that enhance or limit the relation between the local and cohesion? What might bridge abstract notions of spatial justice and local practises on the one hand and CP on the other? - Is there a territorial trap in thinking locally, endogenously? Can enhanced autonomy contribute to spatial justice? How can processes of place-making be related to spatial justice? - What is the scope for alternative development, stabilisation, sustainability, solidarity models/scenarios?

Keywords: spatial justice,european cohesion
Wireless Surgical Nerve Monitoring System (WiNerve)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is a strong demand for support tools that help surgeons avoid the accidental damage of nerves, which too frequently occurs during surgery. The existing solution known as IntraOperative Neuromonitoring (ION) uses an amplifier, stimulator and a set of electrodes to test the propagation of electrical signals by a specific nerve while operating. Not surprisingly, the use of ION is being considered by surgical teams of virtually all specialties. The market size of ION, including the sales of ION equipment and associated supplies (mostly electrodes), surpassed the €1 milliard mark in 2016 and a CAGR of 9% is forecast for 2017. And yet the strong willingness to invest in ION by clinical customers is in stark contrast to the relative rudimentary technology offered by existing products. Particularly harsh criticism by surgeons relates to connectivity in the Operating Room. In an already wire-crowded OR, surgical teams seeking to continuously monitor a nerve at risk, are asked to hook an electrode to the nerve and operate for hours while attempting not to inadvertently swing or pull the cable, and as a result damage the nerve that was to be protected by ION in the first place. This market opportunity can now be tackled with a wireless approach to ION, our experience in the development of electrodes, amplifiers and stimulators and recently developed miniaturized low-power RF electronics. In this Phase I project we wish to focus on a feasibility study to establish the customer-driven system specifications, acceptable end-customer price range, desirable distributor list price and sales forecast as well as IPR freedom-to-operate. Going forward these data will inform our Business Plan in the ongoing fundraising process prior to Phase II.

Keywords: electronics,surgical devices,nerve,safety
Evidence-based market and policy instruments Implementation across EU to increase the demand for eNergy Skills across conSTRUCTion sector value chain (INSTRUCT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Bulgaria,Finland,Poland,France,United Kingdom,Luxembourg
Call: Stimulating demand for sustainable energy skills in the construction sector (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999062.5
EU funding (EUR): 999062.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The European Construction sector faces unprecedented challenges to achieve ambitious energy efficiency objectives, that can be met only if successful training initiatives and supporting policy instruments are put in place, acting as a springboard to stimulate the demand for energy efficiency skills. The INSTRUCT project aims to act at a market level by providing an operational framework and set of services serving a new generation of skilled and certified workers and fitters and paving the way to legislative changes that overall will stimulate the demand for energy skills across lifecycle and supply chains. Key outputs include: (a) quantitative and qualitative evidences that corroborate and reinforce the correlation between (i) skills and education and (ii) energy performance and quality; (b) a set of tools and instruments facilitating the mutual recognition of energy skills and qualifications in the construction sector; (c) real-world demonstrations (in 5 geographical European areas) of the usefulness and ease of use of the deployed instruments for recognition of energy skills and qualifications; (d) dissemination and awareness raising actions in consortium members countries, scaled up to the wider Europe; (e) new legislative frameworks enabling reliance on skilled workers in public / private procurement. The Consortium draws on (a) the engagement of internationally leading industry best practice and vocational training, (b) the educational excellence of leading institutions in Europe, (c) the robust experience of accrediting bodies in the construction domain. It provides a Europe-wide coverage with 7 participating countries, scaled up to 5 clusters, representing a multi-expertise ensemble of stakeholders and energy value chains deploying the INSTRUCT methodology and supporting tools in country-based pilots. It is supported by a network of stakeholders, involving the Build Up Skills chapters across Europe, and a Europe wide community of interest of 200+ members.

Keywords: policy instruments,vocational training,energy efficiency,demand for energy skills,qualifications,construction,clusters,build up skills,industry
Ofi, pool management at your fingertips! (Ofi)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In ensuring safe, hygienic swimming environment, spas and pools need to be frequently checked and adjusted to maintain optimum levels of pH, chlorine/bromine/salt and water hardness. As most pool/spa owners perform the checks manually and constantly using visual analysis colorimetry-based solutions, users do not always get accurate results, posing health and wellness risk when corrective chemicals are added based on inaccurate readings. Delays in water analysis leads to increased quantities of corrective chemical products (>20%), wall damages, continuously running filtration systems, all resulting in increased maintenance costs. There is need for a solution that can leverage the home automation and connected device trend to remotely control, monitor and maintain water quality with minimal direct visits to the pool and reduce annual maintenance cost. Asamgo, a passionate French company has developed Ofi, is an intelligent floating device which floats on the surface of the pool/spa analysing the pH, chlorine/bromine/salt, alkalinity and water hardness values of the water in real time via the electrochemical analysis method. These values are accurately returned on Smartphone App and are accompanied by advice on maintenance actions to be carried out if necessary. Our target customers are private pool and spa owners, pool professionals, pool maintenance distributors and retailers. Ofi eliminates the recurring manual water analysis tasks and will offer 20% reduction of amounts of chemicals required for ideal pool condition, real-time feedback on status of the pool and immediate notification when levels are not right, 99.99% accuracy on recommended remedy measures and reduced overall maintenance costs. In addition, maintenance products recommended by Ofi can be ordered through the Ofi App. Within a 4-year period, we expect to generate a cumulative revenue of €20.10-million, gross profit of €7.04-million while creating a total of 13 jobs.

Keywords: pools,water,leisure products,algorithms,electronics,manufacturing,materials,engineering,networks communication network,sensor networks,health,wellness
Harmonised Transport Infrastructure Monitoring in Europe for Optimal Maintenance and Safety (IM-SAFE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced manufacturing and processing
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Norway,Switzerland,Poland,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Monitoring and safety of transport infrastructures (CSA) (H2020-NMBP-TO-IND-2020-singlestage, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999978.75
EU funding (EUR): 1999978.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Transport infrastructure is highly important on the EU Strategic Agenda. This infrastructure is facing real challenges due to ageing, rapid growth of traffic loads, and natural and man-made resilience threats. Safety risks have become critical in the recent years and manifested in major disasters caused a.o. by structural failures due to maintenance deficiencies. Optimal maintenance is only possible with the right policies and decisions enabled by timely and accurate information from monitoring. Unfortunately, monitoring is not adequately addressed in the existing standards (CEN TC/250 Eurocodes) and there are gaps in the monitoring practices at national level. Therefore, IM-SAFE aims to support the European Commission and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) to prepare a new standard in monitoring for optimal maintenance and safety of transport infrastructure based on a comprehensive insight into the trends, challenges, best practices, and technology developments, including the integration of digital innovations. As the effectiveness of the new standard depends on societal acceptance, IM-SAFE simultaneously aims to coordinate and enable public authorities and industries to contribute to standardisation, roll-out, and implementation. The key targeted results from IM-SAFE are: 1) formulation of an EC mandate to CEN; 2) consolidated technical background materials for CEN; and 3) active engagement of stakeholders and experts in the Community of Practice (CoP) and Standardisation Advisory Group (SAG). The IM-SAFE consortium represents a European network of standardisation experts from research and higher educational institutes, large industries, SMEs, and a non-profit platform working on the transport infrastructure along the EU TEN-T and regional corridors. The consortium collaborates with leading infrastructure asset owners and operators as well as monitoring and maintenance companies. These stakeholders and the consortium together have initiated IM-SAFE.

Keywords: transport infrastructure,bridge and tunnel,structural health monitoring,safety monitoring,risk management,damage detection,condition based maintenance,standardisation,eurocodes
Multidisciplinary Adjoint Design Optimisation of Gasturbines (MADDOG)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Adjoint based design optimization techniques are widely recognized as having a large potential to revolutionize the design process of modern gasturbines. By applying such techniques, the optimization of the entire gasturbine system with million degrees of freedom is within reach of the current available computational power. Such simulations include inherently all interactions between the different components avoiding sub-optimal designs. However, today’s reality is far from this prospect. Current adjoint design optimization techniques only consider aerodynamic performance, preventing the optimization of complete systems, as they are by their very nature multidisciplinary. This project will develop an adjoint optimization methodology that goes beyond only aerodynamic considerations and includes other disciplines such as structural mechanics and vibration dynamics concurrently for the first time, such that in the longer term optimization of complete systems will be achievable. The key to achieving a true multidisciplinary adjoint design optimization is to work with a master CAD geometry that is shared between all the different disciplines. This differs significantly from the current practice in adjoint techniques, which mainly considers parameterisations that are suitable for only aerodynamic optimizations. The involvement of a master CAD geometry requires the differentiation of a CAD system, until now this has not been performed as CAD systems are invariably proprietary and as such not accessible. In addition, the extension of the methodology to multiple disciplines requires for a highly skilled researcher with a background in aerodynamics as well as structural mechanics. The fellow of this proposal is a research leader at the Von Karman Institute, which has gained significant experience in the area of multidisciplinary design optimization of turbomachinery over the past 9 years and is the developer of a gradient free optimization system which includes a dedicated

Keywords: multidisciplinary optimisation,adjoint methods,computational fluid dynamics,computational structural dynamics
INTEGRATED MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR PROTEOMIC AND GENETIC EXOSOME DETECTION (IMPED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: France,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2023-07-19
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 225381.36
EU funding (EUR): 225381.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In order to adapt treatment to the multicity of cancer types, cancer patient management has been revolutionized in the past decades by personalized medicine. As part of this strategy, liquid biopsy has emerged as a non-invasive approach for personalized diagnostics and treatment. So far, this approach has focused on circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA. However, extracellular vesicles termed exosomes, which are implicated in cellular communication and molecule transfer, have risen as promising biomarkers for earlier and more accurate detection. The IMPED project aims at developing a next-generation technology able to extract and analyse single exosomes or sub-groups of exosomes on both the proteomic and genomic level. This platform will offer beyond state-of-the-art information on the involvement of exosomes in cancer development. It has the potential to increase the precision of liquid biopsy analysis and provide clinically relevant insight for personalized cancer management. Toward this goal, the IMPED project will gather three technologies allowing low-cost extraction and analysis of exosomes from human plasma: (1) Continuous label-free extraction of exosomes from complex matrices (plasma) using thermophoresis (2) Proteomic profiling of single exosomes immobilized on a nanoarray with possibility of release (3) Droplet-based reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of exosomes for RNA content analysis To our knowledge, this would be the first technology to couple intra- and extra-vesicle detection on a single/subpopulation exosome level within a single platform. The IMPED project is interdisciplinary, connecting physics, microfluidics and bioassay development for biomedical applications.

Keywords: microfluidics,exosomes,bioassay,rt pcr,liquid biopsy,thermophoresis