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Portable, high-performance, and all-in-one digital data recovery lab for digital forensics to greatly enhance efficiency and capabilities of European investigation authorities (SALUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Engaging SMEs in security research and development (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The digital revolution is fundamentally changing the world regarding quality of life, efficiency of our economy, communication and data handling. It’s not surprising, that digital data is nowadays - intentionally or not - involved in most criminal activities and is of upmost importance in the investigation process. Moreover, with cyber-crimes, a whole new area of criminal offences is emerging. To face this fast-growing threat, and close the “digital gap” in investigations, law enforcement agencies established digital forensics units to find, extract and analyse digital data for fighting crimes, terrorism, espionage and improve cyber defence. Here, forensics experts are also confronted with damaged disks, deleted or compromised data. Most of them are not even looked upon, because forensic units are understaffed, lack data recovery specialists and don’t have the necessary hard- and software infrastructure, to legally suitable extract the evidence inhouse. This could mean the failure of the investigation or a crucial time delay! mh SERVICE, a leading specialist for digital forensics, developed the fastest, most efficient and powerful data recovery device that ever existed: SALUS. The portable system is designed for usage at any forensics lab and in the field by trained forensics experts. The system covers nearly all types of media interfaces, data storage technologies and recovery techniques. The fool-proof software guidance and performant hardware allows to significantly enhance efficiency and capabilities of forensic units. In the feasibility study, a detailed analysis of the best-fitting market segments within the IT forensics market will be conducted, including the involvement of pilot customers for the validation of the business idea, as well as the elaboration of a thorough business plan for commercialisation. The findings of the feasibility study will be integrated into the subsequent SME Phase 2 project to perfectly facilitate the market introduction of SALUS.

Keywords: digital forensics,data recovery,it forensics,cyber defense,criminal investigations,criminalistics
Past Futures: Long-Time Thinking in South American “Living Well” Epistemologies (PAST-FUTURES)

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: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This ambitious and timely project aims to produce the first study of South American “Living Well” epistemologies as an intellectual corpus. The wider objective is to expand modern conceptualisations of the future and produce new and original biocentric imaginations. The Andean and Amazonian notion of “Living Well” – Buen Vivir in Spanish; Sumak Kawsay in Quechua; Suma Qamaña in Aymara – is rooted in indigenous cosmovisions and is a community-centred and bio-centred approach to sustainable living. It was first formulated in the 1960s and has been co-opted by Latin American environmental and political movements over the last decade and a half. Existing studies have looked at it from a social science perspective rather than as an intellectual production. PAST-FUTURES will produce the first monograph on Buen Vivir within the history of modern thought. The corpus selected, which goes from the 1960s to the most recent eco-feminist interpretations, will be analysed as historically intertwined with euro-western frames of thought both linguistically and conceptually. To this end, the proposed study will employ methods from global intellectual history in order to allow for original connections and deeper intersections to be brought to light. This framework will be combined with decolonial theories and post-humanist approaches. Therefore, PAST-FUTURES firstly explores these works as an integral yet disregarded part of a broader intellectual history of the modern world and, secondly, treats them as an original conceptual repository for new ways to reimagine the future through notions of interdependence and relationality in order to foster inter-generational and inter-species responsibility. The project responds to pressing societal challenges about Health, Well-Being and Climate Action set by the European Green Deal and the UN 2030 Agenda and seeks to contribute ambitious imaginations about a long-time holistic vision of what it means to live well.

Keywords: buen vivir,indigenous thought,latin america,global south,global intellectual history,post humanism,environmental humanities,sustainability
Crises as Opportunities: towards a Level Telling Field on Migration and a New Narrative of Successful Integration (OPPORTUNITIES)

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: Italy,Italy,Italy,Germany,Austria,Belgium,Romania,Belgium,Belgium,France,Netherlands,Portugal,Ghana,Senegal
Call: Narratives on migration and its impact: past and present (H2020-SC6-MIGRATION-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3276421.0
EU funding (EUR): 3276421.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The humanitarian tragedy of 2015-16 fuelled anti-European sentiment, allowing populists to successfully reframe the refugee crisis as a crisis of Europe itself. OPPORTUNITIES shows how we can move beyond this current impasse by creating a forward-looking and productive debate grounded in new principles for a fair dialogue on immigration and successful integration. These new principles form what we call a level telling field: Adopting the economic metaphor of the “level playing field” (i.e. “fair play” in the single market), we propose, apply, evaluate, and advocate “fair storytelling” in the migration debate. Based on the principle of multi-perspectivity, an ethics of listening, and a politics of recognition, this new debate strategically unites African countries of origin and transit with European countries of arrival and destination. Our collaboration establishes level telling fields on local levels, initiating encounters and conversations among migrants, citizens, and stakeholders. These “cross-talk” experiments, creating and re-enacting experiential narratives of migration and integration in local communities, build on, and are supported by, novel theoretical concepts as well as qualitative and quantitative research on national and transnational migration discourses in media. We seek in this way to demonstrate, in both theory and practice, how a reactive mode of crisis management can be transformed into a shared new narrative of integration, using the potential of stories to foster cross-cultural understanding. OPPORTUNITIES uses an innovative dissemination strategy which includes policy recommendations promoting level telling field rules and a touring stage production by a leading European theatre company to re-open a fair dialogue on migration. In the short term, this will allow for a new consensus to emerge in local conversations; in the long run, it will have a significant and lasting impact on how we envision opinion-making in the European public sphere.

Keywords: crisis,integration,narrative dynamics,originandtransit,social media,attitudes,level telling rules,multiperspectivity,fair dialogue,cross talk experiments,art based dissemination,eu public sphere
Post-Industrial Chimneys seen Through Urban Regeneration Imaginaries: toward a Networked GeoHumanities (PICTURING)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 259398.72
EU funding (EUR): 259398.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This research explores industrial heritage and urban regeneration in European cities and the cultural, social, and economic implication of the regeneration of postindustrial districts. The proposed research action looks at a specific element of the urban built environment that has served as the predominating symbol of industrial—and postindustrial—cities: the industrial chimney. Through a perspective that compares policies, impacts and perceptions of industrial heritage-driven urban regeneration strategies, I aim to explore Barcelona, Manchester, and Łódź. The societal challenges of deindustrialization and questions of how to manage economic and physical transition in formerly industrial cities is one that drives difficult conversations about collective memory, gentrification, and community development. These three cities have become focal points in industrial heritage and postindustrial reinvention, and are thus ideal comparative case studies to explore different approaches to conservation and regeneration strategies through exploring the totemic presence (or conspicuous absence) of smokestacks. How have each of these cities approached, and responded to, these massive spatial, social, and economic shifts spurred on by the restricting of the global economy, how has this manifested in what has been preserved and what has been demolished in the historical built environment, and how have local communities fared in the process? My proposed research contributes to the emerging field of the GeoHumanities, and UPF is one of the leading centers of GeoHumanities scholarship. It will involve comparative case studies of these three cities based on qualitative fieldwork, documentary analysis, and photographic/curatorial methods. In Barcelona, it will also include an innovative new photo-elicitation method involving community response to a visual taxonomy of chimneys throughout the city, as well as a final exhibition at the city’s MACBA museum, where I would have a Secondment.

Keywords: industrial,postindustrial,preservation,public space,urban memory,industrial heritage,regeneration,deindustrialization,built environment,geohumanities,landscape,heritage,conservation
Spin Engineering in Flexible and Functional Two-Dimensional Quantum Material Devices (SPINNER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Can spin integrated circuits (Spin-ICs) with low power-high speed processing capabilities be realized? What are the key ingredients necessary to catapult present-day spintronics to make such a leap? The emergence of two-dimensional (2D) quantum crystals provides new impetus for exploring ambitious ultralow-power and ultrafast speed prospects of spintronics and nanomagnetism. Atomically thin 2D quantum materials like graphene have created novel possibilities for pure spin current communication, functionalities, and controlling spin phenomena, for inventing entirely new kind of spin components, that could pave the way for spin ICs. SPINNER aims to unleash these prospects leveraging the PI’s pioneering leadership and recent innovations in flexible graphene spin circuits, breakthrough longest spin communication in graphene, and precision characterization of 2D magnetic crystals, aiming for three highly ambitious objectives: (1) Achieving strain control of spin currents and spin Hamiltonian in 2D materials. (2) Enabling field-free pure spin current torque functionalities in graphene spin circuits. (3) Controlling ultrafast spin currents at 2D spinterfaces. The proposed new experiments in SPINNER build upon the PI’s expertise in state-of-the-art spin and charge transport, µ-Hall magnetometry, advanced nanofabrication, and device engineering, augmented with new strengths in magneto-optic Kerr effect and ultrafast spin dynamics experiments. Designed for unprecedented engineering of spin materials and devices, the success of SPINNER will reveal new performance, low-power spin functions, determining the ultimate efficiency and speed of pure spin-current operations for Spin-ICs, leading to multiple new scientific and technological breakthroughs. Realizing SPINNER will make a significant impact on 2D quantum materials, flexible nanoelectronics, nanomagnetism and spintronics, and device physics, proving its high multidisciplinary worth.

Keywords: graphene,two dimensional materials,flexible nanoelectronics,nanomagnetism,ultrafast spin dynamics
Mapping the First Millennium Glass Economy (GlassRoutes)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1982401.0
EU funding (EUR): 1982401.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The production of raw glass up until the early medieval period was restricted to few primary glassmaking centres in the Levant and Egypt producing glasses with distinct chemical fingerprints that were then shipped all over the Mediterranean. The study of glass thus provides a unique perspective on long-distance communications and shifts in economy, trade and cultural interactions. This project explores the production, trade and consumption of glass as a major economic activity in the medieval Mediterranean. The chronological parameters are the 4th to 12th centuries CE, covering a period of significant diversification and technological innovations in glass production. The project addresses three broad gaps in our understanding of these developments: Byzantine glassmaking; the spread of Islamic plant ash glass; and the role of the Iberian peninsula. GlassRoutes will push the frontiers of glass research by integrating chemical, archaeological and documentary data about these three key players in the medieval glass economy. By comparing the material and artistic aspects of glass assemblages from selected Mediterranean sites it will identify patterns in the manufacture, trade and usage of glass. The aim of GlassRoutes is to establish the socio-cultural and geopolitical dimensions of glass. What types of primary (raw) glass are found at different sites? How do they compare in terms of secondary use (types of artefacts)? What are the reasons for the differential use of glass and its colours? Research will examine the provenance of the material in relation to its use for selected artefacts to reveal the economic and cultural mechanisms underlying the culture-specific use of glass. This project is unique in its interdisciplinary approach; it combines archaeological, historical and analytical data as well as statistic tools to characterise the dynamic relationship between supply and consumption and its implications for artistic practices and technological innovation.

Keywords: byzantine glass,early islamic glass,technological innovation,cross cultural connections
Instant Foam for Fighting Forest Fires (I4F)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Hungary,Hungary
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1253375.0
EU funding (EUR): 877362.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

R-Fire is a company founded by firefighters and pilots who have used their corresponding experience to create a novel solution to fight forest fires. They have joined forces with TFEX Engineering Ltd and together developed the I4F technology and validated it with our prototype to tackle forest fire by using foam. TFEX has broad range of firefighting products and also own the Instant Foam technology. Water is the most commonly used extinguishing material, but when it comes to forest fires there are many problems with it. Water has limited cooling capacity and a lot of water goes to waste during refilling the buckets and also during the transportation from the water resource to the fire front. Dropping water also causes problems: pilots can miss the target, distribution on surface is not homogeneous, and much of it is below or above the effectively threshold where the water is useless. There are some technical initiatives to raise the efficiency of the use of pure water for forest fires. Airplanes and some helicopters use inside tanks to reduce the waste of refilling and transportation. Short and long term retardants are also used. The long term retardants are extremely expensive but undoubtedly efficient. Foam as short term retardant also increase the efficiency of the water that is much cheaper than retardants but its efficiency and duration is usually below the long term retardant. Instant Foam for Fighting Forest Fire (I4F) technology creates homogeneous foam, ensures long lasting and it reduces the waste compared to traditional foam. The main novelty of our solution, which is built upon Instant Foam technology is that we can use our foam based extinguishing material for aerial application and ensure fast refilling. In this proposal we would like to present the economic advantages of the I4F technology we have developed and the steps to be taken with the corresponding costs in order to become a market leading commercial product.

Keywords: aerial firefighting,forest fire,foam technology,aerial vehicles
Parental leave policies in the UK: an intersectional analysis of policy development and use (PLPUK)

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
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2022-09-22
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Parental leave is a popular topic that has been the subject of much parliamentary debate, news articles and scholarly examination. The scholarship on parental leave has revealed that despite the stated intentions of policy-makers, parental leave has not always had positive impacts on women’s ability to return to the workforce and is not widely used by fathers, perpetuating the idea that mothers are best suited to the work of raising children. Given the importance of the work of child-raising, how can parental leave be organised in a way that benefits mothers, fathers, children and broader society? These questions can only be answered by the critical examination of existing policies, including its most recent changes, and interviews with parents’ use of leave. This examination must acknowledge the ways that gender, race and social class influence how such policies are developed and how parents use leave, particularly as policies and parents’ use of leave reflect widely held beliefs about what ‘good’ parenting looks like. Scholarship on parental leave has begun to address some of these questions, considering how parental leave impacts on breastfeeding rates, women’s working patterns and fathers’ involvement in childrearing but this scholarship has not done enough to critically consider how gender and race and class influence these factors. Unpicking the racial and class ideologies that shape socially constructed notions of ‘good’ parenthood, and ‘good’ motherhood, in particular, will help to shift the way we approach parental leave policy-making and perhaps other, related parenting policies. This work of considering race, gender and class is a necessary intervention in the study of parenting culture more broadly, which has not given sufficient attention to these ideas in analyses of ‘good’ parenting. This research will make an important contribution to this emerging field of parenting culture studies and to British policy-making in the field of parenting.

Keywords: parental leave,parenting culture,intersectionality,black feminist theory