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Preventing Explosions: How do Powder Flows Electrify? (PowFEct)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1471225.0
EU funding (EUR): 1471225.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The electrification of powder flows is one of the most pervasive phenomena in environmental processes and of tremendous importance for technical applications. In industrial plants, excessive electrostatic charges can even lead to hazardous sparks, which have caused numerous catastrophic dust explosions in the past. However, despite its long history of investigation, it is not currently possible to predict the buildup, transport, and accumulation of charge. Starting from 2015, I developed a numerical approach with the important capability to couple the involved scientific disciplines – fluid mechanics (turbulent carrier flow), surface science (triboelectric particle charging), and electrostatics (forces between charges). The first ever fully-resolved simulations revealed that the occurrence of distinct physical flow mechanisms determines the charging rate of powder. This knowledge opens a new way to control the electrification through triggering these mechanisms and, thus, to solve the problem finally. To this end, this proposal aims to develop a novel interdisciplinary computational tool. This task includes establishing several new numerical concepts, such as a single-particle charging model. Beyond the state-of-the-art single-particle and powder flow electrification experiments which both employ innovative measurement methodologies will support the theoretical efforts. The proposed test set-ups will bring about a paradigm shift by quantifying, for the first time, reproducible, facility independent data, tailored specifically to complement the model formulation. The successful project will provide an open-source tool that enables the prediction, evaluation, and limitation of electrostatic charges. To this respect, the research aims not only to prevent accidents in industrial facilities but also to understand the physics of other kinds of electrifying powder flows and to solve a long-standing scientific riddle.

Keywords: electrostatics,triboelectricity
Ultra Legionella Inmunoanalysis System for Early Sensing (ULISENS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Dedicated support to biotechnology SMEs closing the gap from lab to market (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1098470.0
EU funding (EUR): 768929.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The general objective of ULISENS project is focused on the development and further commercialization of an automatic early warning system able to detect and quantify Legionella species in water. The system integrates an innovative fast detection biotechnology with an automatic module able to carry out “in situ” analysis in real-time to minimise time to results. ULISENS reduces the legionellosis lethality from 12% to 2% because of TIMELY AND COST-EFFECTIVE INFORMATION to risk owners to take appropriate effective preventive measures as soon as possible. Therefore, it prevents shutdown times and costs, penalties of fines and discredit in face to their customers and the society. The benefit from each early detection using ULISENS (around 120,000€ per case) far exceeds the initial investment (20,000-60,000€). ULISENS technical specifications: - Faster response time, reducing time to result up to 99% compared to laboratory tests - ICT Early warning system to prevent users from infection risks in real time. - Lower cost, with reductions of up to 80% compared with standard laboratory tests - Direct sampling from user’s network in real-time, no technical staff needed. - Sustainable detection biotechnology without maintenance or biological waste generation. - Great reduction of penalties and the discredit of the mark by human infections. BIOTICA is a Spanish company specialized in the development of fast techniques for the microbiological detection and quantification based on the combination of recognition biomolecules, like antibodies, with advanced nanomaterials like paramagnetic particles. Up to now, they have focused on the research and development of the ULISENS system, by means of two R&D regional and national projects aimed at developing the prototype of the system and to validate in industrial facilities its performance and functionalities. The system is ready to go a step further in the development towards the future exploitation and commercialization.

Keywords: legionella,early sensing,biotechnology,water,cooling towers,business plan,commercialization,exploitation,health
FUture Cabin for the Asian Market (FUCAM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Germany,Finland,Belgium,France,United Kingdom
Call: International cooperation in aeronautics with Japan (H2020-MG-2015_SingleStage-A, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1797665.0
EU funding (EUR): 1797663.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

In many respects, the evolution of the Japanese airline passenger represents an anticipation of the societal trends for the world's future airline passenger (ageing and being connected from point to point for instance). If the design of the future human-centered passenger cabin is able to satisfy the highly demanding expectations from the Japanese customer (in terms of safety, perceived quality, comfort, connectivity), it will also most likely please the customers in Asia and elsewhere in the world. The objective of the FUCAM project (FUture Cabin for the Asian Market) is thus to develop a 2025+ conceptual cabin design devoted to the Asian market, for short and medium range aircraft. The FUCAM project will analyze the user requirements from the airlines and passengers in Japan and two other key markets representative of the Asian area (China, South-East Asia). In parallel, the project will establish a panorama of the innovative cabin technologies emerging in Europe and Japan. From these inputs, it will compose a cabin concept capable of answering the collected requirements, while incorporating the most promising enabling technologies. Furthermore, thorough studies will be conducted on the integration of this cabin concept into the aircraft (installation, reconfiguration, power and data compatibility), in order to raise its maturity level to TRL3. This will include several validation steps, involving first a functional mockup produced in Europe and later a full-scale customer validation mockup produced in Japan. FUCAM is a 3-year collaborative project with Japan comprising 8 research and industrial partners from 7 European countries.

Keywords: cabin,concept,asia,japan,aircraft seat,market,aircraft systems,connectivity
Developing a high-innovative portable cold plasma device for efficient healing of chronic wounds in veterinary medicine (kINPen)

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

The veterinary sector urgently needs to revolutionize their treatment methods in order to solve the present antibiotic overconsumption and related growing resistance. This constitutes an important market opportunity for new technologies. Current non-pharmacological infection treatments such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, laser or LED, are less efficient, given their cost, unpleasant feeling, treatment-time or required area. Therefore, neoplas GmbH successfully developed kINPen®VET, a non-pharmacological, high-innovative and portable cold plasma device for efficient healing of chronic wounds in farm and pet animals. It stimulates and accelerates physiological wound healing and is highly effective against typical wound bacteria, multidrug-resistant microorganisms and fungi, obtaining antiviral, antimicrobial, antifungal and anti-inflammatory effects on the treated surface without the need of antibiotics or developing microorganism resistance. It is based on cold plasma and uses the advantages of the Plasma Effect (ionized gas, electrons and ions, as well as radicals, excited species, UV radiation and electromagnetic fields). KINPen®VET will provide a 100% safe and manoeuvrable device, leading to a more cost-effective and sustainable veterinary medical treatment. kINPen®VET’s commercialization will generate high revenues in the targeted market segments of animal health and wellbeing and organic animal farming (market share 50%). This equals to an approximate number of more than 110.000 systems presenting a turnover of €950 million only in Europe. This ambitious target is reachable by forming a European network of regional suppliers, representatives and costumers in each targeted country. The production costs have been calculated with 5.900 €/ unit in the first 3 years and with a rising production the costs will be reduced to ca. 4.600 €/unit. The sales price is targeted with 8.900 €/unit and will allow a calculated return on investment in under 18 months.

Keywords: non pharmacological wound treatment,cold plasma,wound healing,animal health
Southern Ocean Carbon Uptake (SO-CUP)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Southern Ocean (SO) is a disproportionately important region, relative to its size, for mitigating the consequences of the anthropogenic climate change, being responsible for 43% and 75% of the ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO2 and heat, respectively. The Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) and Antarctic Intermediate Waters (AAIW) effect the bulk of this uptake. Yet the dynamical processes that control the formation of these water masses in the thick winter mixed layers to the north of the SubAntarctic Front (SAF), and the associated drawdown of carbon, are not well understood, primarily as a result of the scarcity of data during winter in this remote region. Hence, the present and future evolution of the SO carbon sink remains the subject of vigorous debate. The main goal of the SO-CUP project is to identify and quantify the processes that control the amount of inorganic carbon that is subducted with the SAMW/AAIW. To do so, the work plan integrates the use of recent in situ observations from biogeochemical Argo floats and a state-of-the-art data-assimilating, high-resolution coupled biogeochemical-physical ocean model (B-SOSE). Through analysis of these novel datasets, which allow for unprecedented data coverage of the SO in winter, the SO-CUP project will produce a major step forward toward understanding the ventilation and carbon uptake processes in the SO, and will help to predict their response to ongoing and future climatic changes. This proposal will also enable Dr. Fernández-Castro to decisively broaden his expertise on ocean physics and biogeochemistry, and to gain experience in the state-of-the-art technologies in these disciplines. These new skills and knowledge will propel Dr. Fernández-Castro’s career toward a status of independent scientist with high international visibility. Further, the SO-CUP project will establish new links between the EU and US communities for the investigation of the fundamental role of the SO in the climate system.

Keywords: southern ocean,meridional overturning circulation,carbon cycle,mixed layer,ocean ventilation
Carbon Intensive Regions in Transition - Unravelling the Challenges of Structural Change (CINTRAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Robust decision making and public engagement
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Estonia,Germany,Germany,Estonia,Germany,Austria,Germany,Greece,Norway,Sweden,Poland,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) aspects of the Clean-Energy Transition (H2020-LC-SC3-2019-NZE-RES-CC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3072190.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999405.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

In order to meet the climate change mitigation objectives of the European Union as well as the objectives of the Paris Agreement, it is inevitable that the European Union phases out fossil fuel consumption in the power sector and decarbonizes fossil-fuel dependent industries. These industries are not spread evenly across the EU but concentrated in a number of carbon-intensive regions. Decarbonization will lead to deep structural changes with implications for regional economies, labour markets, as well as for the regions’ social, political, cultural and demographic composition. If not managed well, these structural changes may cause serious economic impacts, societal upheaval, aggravated social inequalities and hardship. To minimize such consequences it is necessary to better understand the patterns and dynamics of structural change in response to decarbonization at the regional level, to understand which parameters determine the pace of transformation as well as the capacity of regional actors to adapt and pro-actively create alternative structures. This project aims to enable these activities through highly integrated, inter- and transdisciplinary research working in close collaboration with regional stakeholders. It combines quantitative model-based research with qualitative in-depth analysis. The qualitative research will focus on four highly fossil-fuel dependent regions: Western Macedonia (Greece), Silesia (Poland), Ida-Virumaa (Estonia) and the Rhenish mining area (Germany). The regions were selected to cover a diverse set of different fuels, state of economic development, diversification of the regional economy, political economy, and spatial composition. This diversity will enable the project to derive generalizable insights about the patterns and dynamics of decarbonization and the corresponding structural adjustments that hold relevance for all carbon-intensive regions in the EU and its neighbouring countries.

Keywords: structural change,coal phase out,decarbonization,just transition,destabilization,exnovation,climate policy,energy transition,transformative change,regional development
Nutrients in anoxic oceans – Trace metals in modern and ancient environments (BioGeoMetal)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The global oceanic oxygen content has decreased by more than 2% since 1960 and is projected to drop further in the near future. This decline could drastically impact ocean nutrient cycles and marine life, but the exact progression of ocean anoxia and its impacts are hard to predict. Earth's history is punctuated by intervals of widespread ocean anoxia that manifest themselves in the sedimentary record as specific intervals of enhanced organic-carbon burial. These intervals last for 10,000-100,000s years, are marked by perturbations to global climate and biogeochemical cycles, represent major environmental disturbances, and are often associated with mass extinctions. The study of such past climate disturbances can improve projections of future ocean anoxia and environmental change by providing better constraints on the model boundary conditions. However, this requires the detailed reconstruction of past environmental parameters based on the sedimentary record. This project aims to develop and apply new ways of using geochemical tracers for past ocean environments. The focus is on the role of trace metals in anoxic waters and their impact on marine life and biogeochemical cycles. Trace metals are essential to life and are taken up in phytoplankton cells but are also reactive towards dissolved sulphide. Though such processes leave diagnostic geochemical imprints on the isotope composition of the marine sedimentary record, their interpretation is often complicated as a result of this dual sensitivity. This research project will establish new methods to distinguish between these two controls. These methods will then be applied to samples from a variety of modern environments to establish a thorough understanding of trace metal cycling in anoxic waters. Combined with biogeochemical modelling, these new methods will then be used to reconstruct the interplay between global warming and biogeochemical cycles during an interval of widespread anoxia in the Cretaceous.

Keywords: ocean anoxia,trace metals,nitrogen fixation,nickel,climate perturbations,cretaceous,palaeoceanography,oceanic anoxic events
Providing the right care to the right patient with MyeloDysplastic Syndrome at the right time (MDS-RIGHT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,Italy,Spain,Spain,Italy,Sweden,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Comparing the effectiveness of existing healthcare interventions in the elderly (H2020-PHC-2014-two-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5999998.75
EU funding (EUR): 5999997.75
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are chronic bone marrow malignancies of the elderly, complicated by severe anaemia. MDS significantly affects quality-adjusted survival and it imposes an increasing financial burden on patients and healthcare (HC) systems. The burden of disease is expected to worsen in the future, given the aging EU population and newly identified MDS cases among those diagnosed with ‘Anaemia of the Elderly’. EUMDS - a unique registry with prospective, observational data on 1600 lower-risk MDS patients from 16 EU countries - enables comparison of existing MDS HC interventions (HCI). Objectives 1) Comparison of outcomes and costs of existing HCI, using established and new core outcome sets. This, alongside health technology assessment, will provide robust evidence to underpin sustainable use of HC resources; 2) Enhanced compliance with diagnostic procedures in MDS by introducing new minimally-invasive diagnostic methods. This will increase the number of correctly and timely diagnosed MDS patients; 3) Raised awareness of the relevance of obtaining the right diagnosis in elderly by comparing HRQoL between EUMDS and against a non-MDS cohort. This will improve HRQoL of individual patients through better tailoring of HCI; 4) Better outcome predictability of available HCI by refining classification of cases using molecular characterisation to incorporate response to HCI and to provide evidence for personalised medicine; 5) Improved, evidence-based, guidelines supporting the regulatory process, and providing information to patients and physicians to promote personalised decisions in MDS care; 6) Establishment of a European MDS competence network encompassing all stakeholders in the MDS field. Relevance Better treatment compliance, a more evidence-based use of HCI and an increasing tailored use of existing HC options will contribute to an efficient and cost effective (personalised) use of HC resources for elderly patients with MDS and their co-morbidities.

Keywords: myelodysplastic syndromes,anaemia in elderly of unknown origin,health related quality of life,quality adjusted life years,new endpoints cos,comorbidities,genetic markers,flow cytometry
Youth Language and Cultural Practices in Postcolonial Cameroon (YouthLangCult)

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: France,United States
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): 257619.84
EU funding (EUR): 257619.84
Participants: 2
Project status: TERMINATED

Focusing on the case of urban youth styles in Duala, Cameroon, this research project will analyze the role of language and cultural practices in the construction of youth social identities in postcolonial Africa, at the crossroads of gender and race power relations. It will also analyze the forms and meanings of subaltern cosmopolitanisms at work in these multilingual and multicultural practices. My research will take three different angles. First, I will describe how gender identities are constructed through the use of Camfranglais, a hybrid youth language, while taking into account the multilingual and multi-semiotic dimensions of youth language practices. Second, I will analyze the construction of subaltern cosmopolitanisms through these youth linguistic, bodily, cultural practices, and their social meanings in the context of postcoloniality and globalization. I will show how, through processes of 'whitening', these young people can negotiate in interaction among a variety of racialized and gendered subjective positionings. Third, I will analyze the discursive processes of creating boundaries between ideological constructs such as 'languages', 'registers' or 'styles' in young people's reflexive discourses about language practices. I will also shed the light on the tensions between these discourses and youth semiotic practices observed in situ. Thus, I will propose a more in-depth understanding of the ambivalencies of racialized and gendered youth subjectivities as produced by postcolonial power relationships in a globalized economy. Methodologically, this project is highly innovative in that it combines Sociolinguistics, Language Contact, Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology,Visual Anthropology, Anthropology of Youth, Anthropology of Globalization, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Gender Studies. The dissemination of research results outside academia through an ethnographic film will improve understandings of African languages and cultures among a large audience.

Keywords: youth language,race,style,postcolonial studies,gender,language and body,semiotics,multilingualism,global south,cameroon