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Efficient pore-scale kinetic simulation of gas flows in ultra-tight porous media (EPSKS)

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: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-15
End date: 2020-07-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The conventional Darcy-type of models based on continuum fluid theory fail to capture the non-equilibrium flow physics of gas transport in ultra-tight porous media such as shale rocks. Instead of using these conventional models, this project aims to develop a new gas kinetic solver which is computationally efficient to allow direct pore-scale simulations of gas flows using 3D scanned digital images of rock samples, which can uncover often non-intuitive flow phenomena in ultra-tight porous media. This work has far reaching impact from quantifying extraction of natural gas from unconventional gas reservoirs to optimising design of porous material based thermal protection systems of entry vehicles. The gas kinetic solver will be based on the Boltzmann-BGK equation which can accurately describe low-speed gas flows in the entire range of Knudsen number, thus provides a unified approach for simulating gas flows in ultra-tight porous media where the pore sizes are widely distributed from a few nanometres to several hundred microns. Specifically, the Fellow will (a) develop an efficient numerical scheme and a massively multi-level parallel kinetic solver; (b) perform pore-scale simulations, experimental validations and systematic examination of the current phenomenological Darcy-type of models based on the realistic porous media samples. The new simulation capability will help us to shape the emerging research area of gas transport in ultra-tight porous media. The Fellow is currently at forefront of international advances in modelling and simulation of the gas flows at micro/nano scales. With support from three hosting institutions i.e. University of Strathclyde, Aix-Marseille University and Heriot-Watt University, a timely award of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship will provide the applicant the necessary resources and access to expertise to make rapid progress in this emerging research area and become an independent researcher, ready to compete globally.

Keywords: porous media,rarefied gas flow,micro gas flow,pore scale simulation,boltzmann equation
INNOVATIVE GROUND INTERFACE CONCEPTS FOR STRUCTURE PROTECTION (INSPIRE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,Belgium,Belgium,Greece,Belgium,Greece,France,France,France
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3878821.08
EU funding (EUR): 3878821.08
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

IINSPIRE aims to foster a new generation of highly qualified researchers and engineers, which will create a critical mass kernel, able to implement a holistic and novel soil-foundation-structure concept for the efficient protection of structures from all ground induced hazards, including earthquakes and all other sources of low-frequency noise and vibration excitations. This concept offers a drastic breakthrough over the existing approaches in crucial aspects: A)Wave inhibition capabilities over broadband low-frequency excitation in all three spatial directions B)General applicability to broad classes of structures and infrastructures C)Simple, reliable and resilient design, leading to easy and low-cost implementation and maintenance INSPIRE mainly relies on recent innovative scientific and technological concepts, mainly developed within the broad concept of meta-materials. The notion of “meta-materials” refers to natural or artificial materials or structures which exhibit extraordinary properties for inhibiting or conditioning wave propagation in all spatial directions over broad frequency bands. Quite recently, the feasibility of the application of meta-material concepts has been also demonstrated for seismic and infrasound waves. These general developments of metamaterials will be further enriched and advanced through novel absorption and isolation concepts, such as negative effective mass and stiffness

Keywords: seismic protection noise protection meta materials
The chickpea protein revolution – a novel plant-based food ingredient (CHICKPRO70)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

InnovoPro has developed a new protocol enabling the commercialisation of chickpea protein as a new food ingredient (patent US 2013-0196028). We expect this product to take a relevant share of the growing plant-based protein market which is expected to reach a market size of USD 7.14b by 2021. The chickpea protein provides the food industry with a unique protein source which can easily be integrated in food products, reduces or removes for the need for various emulsifier and other artificial ingredients and is highly environmental friendly. This makes the chickpea protein an alternative for artificial emulsifiers and alternative for the heavily used soy protein which, amongst others is a GMO crop. InnovoPro can also compete with pea protein which is becoming more popular but has drawbacks which make integration in food more difficult. We expect the commercialization phase of the InnovoPro chickpea protein to start in 2019, when the product will be launched as a premium ingredient. We have the attention of leading European food producers several of which are currently testing our samples and developing prototypes of food products with “InnovoPro inside". Our operational team is highly experienced as is our board and circle of external advisors and we aim to use this SME Phase 1 project to further organize the work with our existing test-clients, develop a detailed scale-up plan, professionalize our market research and lead identification and, last but not least, organized our (financial) business planning to support our expected market entrance and growth from 2018 through 2023.

Keywords: clean label,natural,chickpea,protein,plant based,non gmo,ingredient,food industry
Hydrogen PROduction by MEans of solar heat and power in high TEmperature Solid Oxide Electrolysers (PROMETEO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Netherlands
Call: Highly efficient hydrogen production using solid oxide electrolysis integrated with renewable heat and power (H2020-JTI-FCH-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2765206.25
EU funding (EUR): 2499531.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

PROMETEO aims at producing green hydrogen from renewable heat & power sources by high temperature electrolysis in areas of low electricity prices associated to photovoltaic or wind. Solid Oxide Electrolysis (SOE) is a highly efficient technology to convert heat & power into hydrogen from water usually validated in steady-state operation. However, the heat for the steam generation may not be available for the operation of the SOE when inexpensive power is offered (e.g. off-grid peak, photovoltaics or wind). Thus, the challenge is to optimize the coupling of the SOE with two intermittent sources: non-programmable renewable electricity and high-temperature solar heat from Concentrating Solar (CS) systems with Thermal Energy Storage (TES) to supply solar heat when power is made available. In PROMETEO a fully integrated optimized system will be developed, where the SOE combined with the TES and ancillary components will efficiently convert intermittent heat & power sources to hydrogen. The design will satisfy different criteria: end-users’ needs, sustainability aspects, regulatory & safety concerns, scale-up and engineering issues. The players of the value-chain will play key roles in the partnership created around the project: from developers and research organizations, to the electrolyzer supplier, system integrator/engineering and end-users. A fully-equipped modular prototype with at least 25 kWe SOE (about 15 kg/day hydrogen production) and TES (for 24 hours operation) will be designed, built, connected to representative external power/heat sources and validated in real context (TRL 5). Particular attention will be given to partial load operation, transients and hot stand-by periods. Industrial end-users will lead to techno-economic & sustainability studies to apply the technology upscaled (up to 100 MW) in on-grid & off-grid scenarios for different end-uses: utility for grid balancing, power-to-gas, and hydrogen as feedstock for the fertilizer & chemical industry.

Keywords: hydrogen production,renewable heat and power sources,solar energy,high temperature electrolysis,solid oxide cells,heat storage,concentrating solar
A Lagrangian approach: from conservation laws to line-energy Ginzburg-Landau models (Lagrangian)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-03-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171473.28
EU funding (EUR): 171473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The core of this project is the Lagrangian Representation (LR) and the interplay of this novel Geometric Measure Theory (GMT) tool with the study of 1st-order, nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Several nonlinear PDEs arise in important models from physics, engineering, biology and chemistry. The lack of regularity is an intrinsic feature of these models and reflects actual properties of the underlying real-world systems, as for example shock waves in fluid dynamics or traffic flow. Handling irregular solutions capable to capture the peculiar features of these systems poses great mathematical challenges since most of the tools developed in the smooth setting (specifically the method of characteristics) cannot be employed in this context. In the first line of research of the project I propose a new and innovative extension and exploitation, for the multidimensional case and for non entropic weak solutions, of the recently introduced LR for nonlinear conservation laws. Such a (characteristic-like) representation has proved to be a powerful technique to analyze the geometric structure and the regularity of solutions to nonlinear PDEs. In the second line of research, I will employ the LR to investigate fine properties of the 2d eikonal equation in the context of a surprisingly related celebrated conjecture in the calculus of variations by Aviles-Giga. In the last line of research, I will exploit the LR techniques to address challenging questions in the analysis of nonlinear conservation laws from the point of view of control theory, concerning controllability issues and necessary conditions for optimality, which have also application in recent mixed models of traffic flow (involving for example E-scooters in addition to cars). The Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship and the consequent close collaboration with Prof. Ancona and the top research group in PDEs and GMT of University of Padova are a great and unique opportunity of fulfillment of this project.

Keywords: hyperbolic conservation laws,aviles giga conjecture,lagrangian flow,characteristics,geometric measure theory,controllability of conservation laws
When States Prohibit: the politics of drugs and ‘addiction’ across the Mediterranean (ProMENAd)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Lebanon
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 236011.2
EU funding (EUR): 236011.2
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project tackles the question of what happens when states prohibit mind-altering drugs, taking the case of Italy and Lebanon since the ‘psychoactive 1960s’ and the outset of the ‘war on drugs’. It explores the modern history of drugs, their prohibition and the practice ‘addiction’ recovery. In his seminal contribution, David Musto referred to drug prohibition as The American Disease. Following Musto’s work, revisionist studies have emerged in other regions of the world. One region that had been left out of this picture is the Mediterranean. The dearth of scholarship about illicit drugs remains however intellectually unjustified. The region has historically adopted staunch prohibitionist policies. It is currently experiencing the highest surge in drug use worldwide, witnessing a surge in HIV/AIDS contagion caused by dangerous consumption patterns. Italy has seen unprecedented levels of heroin overdoses since 2013, whereas Lebanon has become a new hub for synthetic drug production amidst the destabilizing effect of the Syrian civil war (2011-20…). In both countries, the fight against drugs and the demand for recovery for ‘addiction’ have influenced state-society relations over the last five decades. In light of this, the project will: 1) Study drug consumption from the ‘psychoactive revolution’ of the 1960s through moments of historical ruptures and changing public ethics under the ‘War on Drugs; 2) Analyse the development of prohibitionist policies and governmental practices within the context of the ‘War on Drugs’; 3) Deconstruct the symbiotic connection between drug prohibition and the biomedical category of ‘addiction’, a fact that had ethical, political and health-related effects; 4) Investigate the grassroots, religious/spiritual forms of ‘addiction recovery’ and their impact on political life; 5) Theorise the Mediterranean drug ecology as a geo-cultural space in interdisciplinary approaches to health and security.

Keywords: drug history,middle eastern politics,comparative history
Establishing services eNhancing the Innovation MAnagement capacity of SME's in the Enterprise Europe Network in Estonia (ENIGMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: INNOSUP (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7000.0
EU funding (EUR): 5600.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to enhance the innovation management capacity of Estonian SMEs. The action is aimed at two kinds of SMEs - beneficiaries of the SME Instrument of Horizon and SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalisation. For beneficiaries of the SME Instrument, the service package (the Key Account Management service) consists of identifying weaknesses in the innovation capacities of the beneficiary; identifying suitable coaches (based on the assessment in the first step) to address the identified weaknesses and moderating the coach-client relationship; and accompanying the beneficiary through the SME Instrument project. The service packages outside the scope of the SME Instrument (the “Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SME's” service) consist of carrying out a diagnostic audit of the selected SMEs; and developing and implementing a tailored action plan to improve the SME’s capacity to manage innovation processes. Within the current action, the ESTINNO-NET consortium aims to provide the innovation management capacity enhancement services to at least 7 SMEs.

Keywords: innovation management capacity,sme instrument,key account management
Novel 3D nano-antennas for optoelectronic applications in the mid-infrared (NANO-MIR)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This research proposal aims at implementing novel functionalities for mid-infrared optoelectronic devices and to study novel physical phenomena, enabled by a new class of 3D plasmonic nanostructures that provide access to electromagnetic field confinements. The specific goal is to fully develop and exploit the potential of nano-antenna-mediated light confinement, funneling energy onto optically active materials with unprecedented efficiency. This will be done by tackling two main broad challenges, one applicative and a second one more exploratory. On one hand, we will develop devices with high non-linear response, targeting especially second harmonic generation, thanks to the giant field enhancements available. We expect this development to yield record-high conversion efficiencies, paving the way for a more broadband use of IR laser sources. Inherently effective in absorbing optical energy, this architecture has a great potential also a a tool for complementary device families, such as mid-IR detectors. On the other hand, we will pioneer the field of single-object cavity-electrodynamics in the mid-infrared, bringing to a further level the energy concentration capabilities of 3D nanostructures and demonstrating strong light-matter coupling between a single nano-antenna and a mid-IR electronic excitation, with an extremely small number of electrons involved. This approach will permit access to currently unexplored regimes of light-matter interaction.
A cloud based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for data management and operations of smart meters (Metercloud)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2679125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1875387.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The attention on the smart grids and smart grid technologies has grown significantly over the last few years as they represent key enablers towards a low carbon energy scenario. The smart grid promises to drastically change the way power is produced, exchanged and traded. In 2017, almost 40% of the 281M electricity customers in Europe had a smart meter, a share that is set to increase to 70% over the coming years. As a consequence, annual shipments of smart electricity meters will reach a peak of around 28M units per year in 2019/2020. To date, Member States have committed to rolling out close to 200M smart meters for electricity by 2020 at a total potential investment of €45B. A smart meter system employs several control devices, various sensors to identify parameters, software and communication protocols to transfer the data and command signals. Furthermore, each business case is unique, varying according to the regulatory system, business objectives and design of the existing grid. Therefore, the design, deployment and maintenance of the smart meter system involve many challenges. Integration of devices for modulation, demodulation and additional memory for storing the data logs could take months, hence increasing the overall deployment costs. Whereas, operation of a smart meter system involves a huge quantity of data transfer between a smart meter and the server located. The traditional system integration approach is inefficient and slows downs utilities’ digital transformation, due to: expensive and long deployment, poor flexibility and expensive scale up. Metercloud is a cloud based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for data management and operations of smart meters, smart cities and IIoT. Metercloud enables utility companies to optimise smart grid operations, capitalise on dark data, and become a platform operator for smart city infrastructure.Metercloud makes the integration, update and scale-up simple, smooth and fast.

Keywords: utility,electricity,smart meters,smart grids
Mapping Practices under Pressure. The Everyday Experience of Socio-Economic Change in Deindustrialising Cities, 1960-2000 (MPP)

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: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178320.0
EU funding (EUR): 178320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project uses a Geographic Information System (GIS) to map how everyday practices changed in European cities under the pressure of deindustrialization between the 1960s and 1990s. It will substantiate the hypothesis that the processes of social transformation, which have led to phenomena of social and cultural polarization, cannot simply be deducted from socio-economic factors alone, but hinge on the (re-)production of social status, gender and ethnicity in everyday routines. Spatial analysis using GIS offers a suitable tool to reconstruct the relevance of practices in processes of social transformation because everyday routines aggregated around places, nodes and networks, and these localizations in turn become important references in defining social relations. Accessing and analysing information about past practices brings with it methodological challenges which the project addresses by combining oral history interviews with digital mapping techniques. With this, the project will contribute to the ongoing efforts to devise methodologies, which allow to further expand research in the field of digital spatial humanities into the realm of qualitative data and “deep mapping”. It will build on the extensive expertise of the HI (University of Antwerp Centre for Urban History) and will be integrated in the HI’s initiatives to refine the DARIAH and CLARIN infrastructures in the ‘Spatial Humanities’. The project will therefore contribute to the field of contemporary urban history and to the methodological advancement of GIS as a tool of historical research.

Keywords: urban history,deindustrialization,social practices,historical gis