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Coordination Of Maritime assets for Persistent And Systematic Surveillance (COMPASS2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Strengthen security through border management
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Romania,Greece,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Portugal,Montenegro,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Demonstration of applied solutions to enhance border and external security (H2020-SU-SEC-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5952299.43
EU funding (EUR): 4838489.61
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The external borders of the EU have historically been under great pressure, subject to a variety of threats, which include irregular migration and trafficking of narcotics. Within this context, authorities in charge of border and maritime patrol are faced with different challenges that include the heterogeneity of the traffic that undertakes illegal activities in European waters, limitations in the ability to collect and share timely available data among institutional organizations, as well as a lack of assets by the relevant authorities to cover the wide maritime areas under their mandate. Although there has been an expressive investment done in the domain of surveillance technologies and tools, the intake by the competent authorities has been slow, due to lack of uniformity in the integration of such systems with existing surveillance infrastructures. In order to address these challenges, project COMPASS2020 aims to demonstrate the combined use and seamless coordination of manned and unmanned assets to achieve greater coverage, better quality of information and shorter response times in maritime surveillance operations. The proposed solution will be based on an innovative CONOPS that makes use of multiple aerial and underwater unmanned vehicles with improved capabilities, deployed from OPVs or from land, and will be supported by a central, multi-domain and interoperable Mission System (MS) that enables the operation of these platforms from both locations. UxVs may act as deported ship sensors, providing critical mission data to the MS that can then be exploited through dedicated services to be developed in the scope of the project (e.g. Data Fusion and Threat Risk Analysis). The major goal of COMPASS2020 is to demonstrate an operational solution to ensure long range and persistent surveillance, increasing the situational awareness of coast guards and maritime authorities, and, thus, increasing the cost-effectiveness, availability and reliability of the operations.

Keywords: maritime surveillance
Text, materiality, and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean (CROSSREADS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2484953.0
EU funding (EUR): 2137460.5
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

‘Crossreads’ will offer the first coherent account of the interactions and interplay of linguistic and textual material culture in ancient Sicily over a period of 1,500 years. Sicily was a multilingual, multicultural region at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean, colonised and invaded repeatedly by Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans. History has traditionally prioritised literary texts, creating a Helleno- and Romanocentric narrative, which often relegates the island to a footnote. However, the inhabitants, native and immigrant, did write and those texts survive, engraved on a variety of durable materials – the practice of epigraphy. These texts embrace a broad socio-economic range, across public and private life. Proceeding from an unparalleled unification and exploitation of all the texts from the island (7th cent. BCE – 7th cent. CE) in a single corpus, ‘Crossreads’ will combine the insights from the collected corpus with the insights and analysis resulting from three major subprojects. These will explore the historical linguistics of the texts, the social, economic and practical materiality of the stone texts, and the physical forms of the writing systems employed – and interactions between all these aspects. Building upon a successful pilot project (I.Sicily), ‘Crossreads’ will bring all these inscribed objects together for the first time in a comprehensive, open-source, digital corpus using international standards to encode text, images and contextual data. The project pioneers the use in ancient epigraphic studies of new digital tools in palaeography and linguistic annotation, and offers the first petrographic analysis of the use of stone on the island. No such analysis has been attempted on this scale nor across this range of material, and it promises unparalleled insights into the cultural interactions at the heart of the Mediterranean, between Greek East and Latin West, North Africa, indigenous voices, and others.

Keywords: epigraphy,sicily,digital humanities
Catalysing Digitisation throughout Europe (Smart4Europe2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Hungary,France,Netherlands
Call: Smart Anything Everywhere (H2020-DT-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999687.5
EU funding (EUR): 999687.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Today, innovation is to an increasing extent based on digitisation leading to new functionalities, products and services, but the speed of change is so quick that SMEs and mid-caps are struggling to keep pace. In order to address this, Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) have been set up to help companies with their digital transformation. This has been done at European, national and regional levels; however, the resulting community of DIHs is fragmented. The aim of the Smart4Europe2 is thus to bring together and link the DIHs as well as projects aligned to SAE (DEI CSAs, ECSEL, I4MS, etc.) and making DIH services more widely available to SMEs and mid-caps. Smart4Europe2 will: • Provide services supporting the SAE network including a single Innovation Portal, Market Place, Service Centre, broad dissemination activities and coaching & training of SMEs and DIHs • Strengthen the SAE community cohesion and facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer • Attract new stakeholders (SMEs and mid-caps) and achieve broad coverage by targeted outreach activities via own networks and multipliers (ENN, NCPs, and clusters) • Grow the SAE ecosystem by connecting with new stakeholders and multiplying the impacts by collaborating with related projects, initiatives and networks and enable brokering • Sustain the SAE network by creating a strategic roadmap based on a SAE technology and innovation radar, DIH business and collaboration models, strategic linkage of national and regional initiatives and via leveraging investment. The work will expand upon the successful Smart4Europe1 CSA, driven by a strong consortium of partners that have already demonstrated their commitment in shaping the SAE Initiative. Under the SAE umbrella there will be a growing number of projects, focusing on different technology domains which Smart4Europe2 will bring together to collaborate and link to other initiatives, helping it to grow organically to catalyse digitisation throughout Europe.

Keywords: sae initiative,dih ecosystem,digitisation,smartisation,sme support,innovation enhancement,innovation portal,best practice,technology radar,brokering,training,investors,linking initiatives
HOW DO SEASONAL CYCLES SHAPE LIFE CYCLES? A UNIFYING FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND VARIATIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE AND PREDICT SHIFTS IN A CHANGING WORLD (CyclesOfLife)

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-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-26
End date: 2023-10-25
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Seasonal fluctuations occur throughout the planet. Ecosystems and humans alike exhibit and depend crucially on species' phenology, the timing of seasonal biological activity. Climate change has been distorting the length of the warm ‘growing’ season (i.e. summer) around the world. The resulting 'phenological shifts' comprise the most dramatic and well-documented symptom of climate change. However, phenological research has focused on idiosyncratic case studies of shifts with proximate explanations. A unifying framework that ties together the disparate body of evidence with ecological and evolutionary principles has been lacking, making it difficult to understand the source of variations and forecast continued phenological shifts. CyclesOfLife will establish such a framework and make timely use of big data to test the framework at an ambitious, global scale. I will build the theoretical backbone based on a novel approach I developed recently, which leverages quantitative tools from life-history theory and evolutionary demography to calculate natural selection dynamics of phenological traits in cyclically fluctuating environments. Armed with the theoretical framework, I will utilize the gradient of growing season lengths that exists across the planet's latitudes as a 'natural experiment' to test the relationship between season length and phenology. I will analyze demographic and phenological big data now available openly online to inform, test, and refine this theoretical relationship. Lastly, with deepened understanding of how growing season length around the world shapes phenology, I will make predictions of how phenology might continue to change in the future under different climate change scenarios. Beyond meeting the research objectives, the fellowship will enable my training in eco-evolutionary theory and big data science at Oxford, both powerful and timely skills needed for my career development as a leading researcher in phenology and evolutionary demography.

Keywords: life history,phenology,demography,seasons
New Tetrarchic Reliefs from Nikomedia: Uncovering the Colorful Life of Diocletian’s Lost Capital (NIKOMEDIA)

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: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-12-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ancient Nikomedia, Emperor Diocletian’s administrative capital of the Roman Empire, now lies below the modern industrial city of İzmit in Turkey. Until recently very little has been known of its urban landscape, although it was famous from literary descriptions. However, recent salvage excavations have revealed polychromic reliefs and statues of a monumental imperial cult complex from Çukurbağ district of modern İzmit. The complex dates from Tetrarchy, when Diocletian ended the 3rd century crisis through several reforms including the rule of four emperors. The newly discovered reliefs include 75 monumental panels, the only surviving state reliefs with extensively preserved ancient paint, that bear imperial, historical, and mythological scenes. These illuminate civic life of the ancient metropolis under Diocletian’s new administration and provide crucial evidence for the little-known art of this period. Working as the director of Çukurbağ Archaeological Project since 2015, I have been conducting multidisciplinary scientific research on these new finds. This fellowship will enhance this research and introduce and analyse this unique discovery, the only known example of a Tetrarchic complex from Asia Minor, through an authoritative scholarly monograph.

Keywords: nikomedia,tetrarchy,emperor diocletian,late antique art,late roman state reliefs,ancient polychromy,roman art and archaeology
Functional interaction between a prefrontal and a thalamic nucleus for the consolidation of spatial memories (METHA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Memory consolidation is the process by which memories are converted into a long-lasting form allowing its recall later in time. It has been shown that memory consolidation is supported by the coordinated activation of a network of brain regions. In this regard, the hippocampus-cortical communication has been largely studied. Recent evidences point to the thalamus as a key region mediating this dialogue. In particular, the Laterodorsal Nucleus of the Thalamus (LD) activity has been shown to be essential for remote memory recall. Moreover, the LD shows high anatomical and functional connectivity with the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) which is a key structure for consolidation and remote memory recall. These data suggest that this LD-ACC pathway may be crucial during memory consolidation. The LD is known to harbor Head Direction (HD) cells which are neurons that fire to specific orientations of the animal head. Therefore, we hypothesized that the activity of the LD-ACC circuit represents spatial information that is required for recall of contextual fear memory. The present project was designed to test this hypothesis using a multi-level approach, that is unique in the field. First, we will address the causal role of the LD-ACC pathway in the recall of fear memory, by modulating its activity using optogenetics. Then we will investigate how LD cells, and LD-ACC projecting cells, are processing acquired information during the training to consolidate and recall them at a remote time point by directly visualizing the activity of the LD during acquisition and recall of contextual conditioned fear. The expected results will have a significant impact in the memory and in the spatial navigation field, and are of key importance to better understand memory and related pathologies such as post-traumatic stress disorder and dementia.

Keywords: memory consolidation,memory recall,thalamus,laterodorsal thalamus,anterior cingulate cortex,optogenetics,in vivo calcium imaging
Advanced Universal Control and monitoring solution to remotely manage complex power systems (U-Control)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

To successfully transition to renewable energy and reach its goals of phasing out of fossil fuels by 2050 to cut CO2 emissions by 95%, millions of Hybrid Power Systems (HPS) will need to be deployed in the EU to assure a reliable and secure electricity supply. However, HPS are complex systems (made up of dozens of different components by a variety of manufacturers) that require a control and management solution to assure this high performance and reliability. Without such a solution, it would be impossible for the EU to transition to large scale renewable energy deployments and guarantee a stable and decentralized electricity grid. At Infinite Fingers GmbH, we identified the potential of this unexploited market niche, and came up with a unique solution, U-Control: an innovative control and management solution for Hybrid Power Systems (HPS) which is able to integrate all components. With U-Control, we will create a fully customizable control system that consists of a cloud software and hardware controller. We’ve already verified the interest for our solution in the market (with 70 units of our first prototype deployed in the market by or commercial partners). Thus, we are now determined to finalize the development of our solution, so as to put into the market the most versatile control and management solution for HPS worldwide, and take advantage of the €324 million opportunity of the global HPS market. Our goal is to become a leading technology company for the EUs renewable energy revolution, for which we count with a multinational team (from Germany, England, Hungary, South-Africa and Spain) with combined exceptional experience in LIB technology, renewable energy and energy efficiency and a strong business background, and an extensive network of international partners, such as Firefly Clean Energy (UK) or AutarcTech (Germany).

Keywords: hybrid power systems,universal,monitoring,controlling,remote,hardware,cloud server,customizable software,white brand
Future Experiments seek Smart Technologies (FEST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Sweden,Switzerland,China,Poland,United Kingdom
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2134400.0
EU funding (EUR): 2106800.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Future Experiments (FE) in Particle Physics face new challenges both in terms of large areas and high rates. Extended R&D activities on existing detectors such as GEM, MicroMegas, micro-RWell, silicon detectors, large volume drift chambers, as well as detectors still to be fully developed like Dual Readout Calorimeters, are the ingredients to build any experiment at future accelerators (as CepC, FCC, ILC or Muon Collider). The very large scales of future detectors require new and improved production techniques. Their industrialization would allow for: a plethora of non-academic applications such as homeland security, monitoring devices as well as medical imaging applications; a better production yield and a reduced construction time; a significant cost reduction. This is one of the main goals of our intersectorial activities within the Project. FE will face unprecedented experimental conditions, with strong magnetic fields and extremely high luminosities. New Front End Electronics (FEE), and new digitization, clustering and tracking algorithms must be developed and optimized. An ideal playground for such processes is the BESIII Cylindrical GEM Inner Tracker (CGEM-IT) that is being built and will be installed at IHEP, Beijing, by mid of Reporting Period 2. This will be the first time that a GEM is operated in a 1 T magnetic field being readout in micro-TPC mode and exploiting the TIGER, a fully custom ASIC for MPGD readout. Another aim of the project is to develop a new generation of general purpose ASICs, capable of interfacing with several different detector types. FEST also aims to perform MonteCarlo simulations of FE, improving and updating event generators to the new experimental scenarios. All these activities require a large computing power. A possible approach involving cloud and HPC techniques on micro infrastructures will be investigated; special care will be devoted to applications that could ease the access of SMEs to local cloud technologies.

Keywords: particle physics,detector,higgs factory,micromegas,microrwell,mpgd,dual readout,calorimetry,sipm,pixelized asic,mtpc readout,medical applications,cloud computing,for sme
Origins of the Molecular Cloud Structure (PROMISE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1266750.0
EU funding (EUR): 628987.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding the physical processes that control the life-cycle of the interstellar medium (ISM) is one of the key themes in the astrophysics of galaxies today. This importance originates from the role of the ISM as the birthplace of new stars, and therefore, as an indivisible component of galaxy evolution. Exactly how the conversion of the ISM to stars takes place is intricately linked to how the internal structure of the cold, molecular clouds in the ISM forms and evolves. Despite this pivotal role, our picture of the molecular cloud structure has a fundamental lacking: it is based largely on observations of low-mass molecular clouds. Yet, it is the massive, giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in which most stars form and which impact the ISM of galaxies most. I present a program that will fill this gap and make profound progress in the field. We have developed a new observational technique that provides an unparalleled view of the structure of young GMCs. I also have developed a powerful tool to study the most important structural characteristics of molecular clouds, e.g., the probability distribution of volume densities, which have not been accessible before. With this program, the full potential of these tools will be put into use. We will produce a unique, high-fidelity column density data set for a statistically interesting volume in the Galaxy, including thousands of molecular clouds. The data set will be unmatched in its quality and extent, providing an unprecedented basis for statistical studies. We will then connect this outstanding observational view with state-of-the-art numerical simulations. This approach allows us to address the key question in the field: Which processes drive the structure formation in massive molecular clouds, and how do they do it? Most crucially, we will create a new, observationally constrained framework for the evolution of the molecular cloud structure over the entire mass range of molecular clouds and star formation in the ISM.