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Bio-Inspired Hierarchical MetaMaterials (BOHEME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Poland,Switzerland,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3226250.0
EU funding (EUR): 3226250.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

BOHEME’s ambitious goal is to design and realize a new class of bioinspired mechanical metamaterials for novel applicative tools in diverse technological fields. Metamaterials exhibit exotic vibrational properties currently unavailable in Nature, and numerous important applications are emerging. However, universally valid design criteria are currently lacking, and their effectiveness is presently restricted to limited frequency ranges. BOHEME starts from an innovative assumption, increasingly supported by experimental evidence, that the working principle behind metamaterials is already exploited in Nature, and that through evolution, this has given rise to optimized designs for impact damping. The “fundamental science” part of the project aims to explore biological structural materials for evidence of this, to investigate novel optimized bioinspired designs (e.g. porous hierarchical structures spanning various length scales) using state-of-the-art analytical and numerical approaches, to design and manufacture vibrationally effective structures, and to experimentally verify their performance over wide frequency ranges. Through this disruptive approach, BOHEME will provide a pipeline to the technological development of a new class of bioinspired metamaterials in innovative applicative sectors over various wavelength scales, from non-destructive testing, to noise reduction, to low-frequency vibration control (including seismic), to coastal protection or energy harvesting from ocean waves. Industrial partners will provide know-how for proof of principle experiments and possible prototypes. The project is ambitious and inherently multidisciplinary, involving research in biology, mathematics, physics, materials science, structural and ocean engineering, drawing from scientific excellence of the partners. It involves theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects, and is a high-impact endeavour, from which basic science, EU industry and society can benefit.

Keywords: bioinspired materials,hierarchical structure,metamaterials,wave dynamics,seismic isolation,acoustics,non destructive evaluation,finite element methods
Sharp Isoperimetric Inequalities - Old and New (ISOPERIMETRY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1745000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1745000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Isoperimetric inequalities constitute some of the most beautiful and ancient results in geometry, and play a key role in numerous facets of differential geometry, analysis, calculus of variations, geometric measure theory, minimal surfaces, probability and more. Isoperimetric minimizers have classically been determined on Euclidean, spherical, hyperbolic and Gaussian spaces. The isoperimetric problem is well-understood on surfaces, but besides some minor variations on these examples and some three-dimensional cases, remains open on numerous fundamental spaces, like projective spaces, the flat torus or hypercube, and for symmetric sets in Gaussian space. When partitioning the space into multiple regions of prescribed volume so that the common surface-area is minimized, the Euclidean double-bubble conjecture was established by Hutchings-Morgan-Ritoré-Ros, and the Gaussian multi-bubble conjecture was recently established in our work with Neeman, but the Euclidean and spherical multi-bubble conjectures remain wide open. Isoperimetric comparison theorems like the Gromov-Lévy and Bakry-Ledoux theorems are well-understood under a Ricci curvature lower bound, but under an upper-bound K ≤ 0 on the sectional curvature, the Cartan-Hadamard conjecture remains open in dimension five and higher despite recent progress. In the sub-Riemannian setting, the isoperimetric problem remains open on the simplest example of the Heisenberg group. The above long-standing problems lie at the very forefront of the theory and present some of the biggest challenges on both conceptual and technical levels. Any progress made would be extremely important and would open the door for tackling even more general isoperimetric problems. To address these questions, we propose adding several concrete new tools, some of which have only recently become available, to the traditional ones typically used in the study of isoperimetric problems.

Keywords: isoperimetric minimizers,functional inequalities,constant mean curvature,localization
Robots to Re-Construction (Bots2ReC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Robotics SPARC (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Italy,France,France,France
Call: Robotics (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4768875.0
EU funding (EUR): 3964162.5
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Despite the high degree of industrial automation, robotic solutions are not yet prevalent in construction and demolition industry due to the complex environment and demanding requirements. For hazardous tasks, like the removal of asbestos contamination from a flat (rehabilitation site), manual performance is very inefficient, due to the intense safety measures. This leads to the main objective of Bots2ReC: “Introducing, testing and validating an operational process for the automated removal of asbestos contamination at a real world rehabilitation site using a robotic system.” After the necessary clearing from furniture and containment, the site is less complex and separated from human workers. In this environment safe automated robotic operations can be realized with current state of the art technology. The proposed robotic system will consist of multiple robotic units (lightweight robotic arms with abrasive tools and aspiration on a mobile platform) and a central process control system. Optical and radar sensors will allow environmental perception and navigation and local monitoring of the asbestos-removal, even in dusty conditions. The developed control system allows the user to specify and supervise automated tasks (e.g. disk grinding of contaminated paint from a wall), supported by a virtual representation of the site. The process and robotic system will be developed and enhanced in several iterations, supported by permanent testing on a test rehabilitation site benchmarked on a real life rehabilitation site at project end. Bots2ReC will have strong impacts to the robotics industry and society in Europe: It provides a step change towards a system prototype demonstrated in the operational environment of the demolition and construction industry and will strengthen the European robotic industry by later commercialisation of the system. Avoiding exposure to highly dangerous asbestos fibres will sustainably help protect the health of humans in Europe and worldwide.
Enhancing electrocatalysis in low temperature fuel cells by ionic liquid modification (IL-E-CAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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 Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999465.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999465.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The commercialization of low temperature fuel cells is restricted by the high cost and low durability of cathode catalysts. Intense efforts have been devoted to tackle this issue by engineering the structure of Pt-based catalysts. Herein, a novel concept towards enhancing the performance of low temperature fuel cell catalysts is proposed, namely by tuning the local active site microenvironment with an immobilized ionic liquid (IL) phase. As demonstrated by the applicant in preliminary work, a suitable IL layer strongly influences the active catalytic site in a very promising manner, apparently via a highly complex interplay of solvent-, ligand- and electrostatic-stabilization effects. As the structural versatility of ILs allows for rational engineering of this modification at molecular level, the proposed project aims for a full scientific exploration of the remarkable activation and stabilization effects in ORR, to enable the realization of an innovative fuel cell cathode with dramatically enhanced performance. To achieve this ambitious goal, a sound fundamental understanding of the interaction of ILs with electrocatalytic sites will be derived by making use of the excellent research infrastructure and longstanding experience in ionic liquid design and catalytic materials at our institute. To demonstrate the general applicability, the deduced principals will also be applied to CO2 electrochemical reduction. The approach will not stop at the design of novel catalyst systems, but will address solutions to ensure long-term stability of the IL modification. To avoid IL leaching from the catalyst over time, the recent success of the applicant in the synthesis of novel core/shell carbon materials will be employed. The IL will be synthesized in situ within a mesoporous core and the steric demanding ions fixed through a molecular sieving shell surrounding each catalyst particle. A model-assisted strategy will be applied for optimization of the core/shell pore structures.

Keywords: ionic liquids,carbon supported catalysts,electrocatalysis
ERA-NET for materials research and innovation (M-ERA.NET 2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: ERA-NET Cofund
Partnership: M-ERA.NET 2 (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Estonia,Germany,Iceland,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Israel,South Africa,Germany,Austria,Cyprus,Taiwan, Province of China,Russian Federation,Norway,Belgium,Belgium,Bulgaria,Hungary,Lithuania,Poland,Poland,Slovenia,Sweden,Türkiye,Romania,Slovakia,Latvia,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Brazil,Luxembourg,Portugal
Call: ERA-NET on Materials (including Materials for Energy) (H2020-NMP-ERA-NET-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 52015473.73
EU funding (EUR): 12750000.0
Participants: 48
Project status: CLOSED

M-ERA.NET 2 aims at coordinating the research efforts of the participating EU Member States, Associated States and Regions as well as of selected global partners in materials research and innovation, including materials for low carbon energy technologies and related production technologies. A large network of 43 national and regional funding organisations from 23 EU Members States and Associated States and 5 countries outside Europe will implement joint calls to fund excellent innovative transnational RTD cooperation, including one call for proposals with EU co-funding and additional non-cofunded calls. Continuing the activities started under the predecessor project M-ERA.NET (2/2012-1/2016), the M-ERA.NET 2 consortium will support relevant thematic areas, such as -for example- surfaces, coatings, composites, additive manufacturing or computational materials engineering. Research on materials enabling low carbon energy technologies will be particularly highlighted as a main target of the cofunded call (Call 2016) with a view to implementing relevant parts of the Materials Roadmap Enabling Low Carbon Energy Technologies (SEC(2011)1609), and relevant objectives of the SET-Plan (COM (2009)519). The appropriate scope of the cofunded call and the additional joint calls will be defined in cooperation with relevant stakeholders including national and regional RTD communities, the EC and the EMIRI (Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative) as well as an external Strategic Experts Group. M-ERA.NET 2 will support the whole innovation chain, clarifying for each topic the appropriate Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) to be addressed through the transnational RTD projects. The consortium will be aware of the TRLs which are covered by the EC through Horizon 2020 topics as well as by other schemes. Gaps will be identified and M-ERA.NET 2 will aim at offering a complementary support scheme.

Keywords: international cooperation,innovation chain,materials research
Is it fresh. Keeping it fresh digitally (Is it fresh)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1924510.0
EU funding (EUR): 1347157.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Roughly 1/3 of produced food is wasted globally. A significant amount of this waste is a result of inefficient logistics of food and perishables in general. In addition to the issue of food waste, the food industry around the globe is regularly hit by various food scandals, also often caused by improper storage or logistics. For example, cold chain is often broken in transit by transportation companies to save costs by switching off refrigeration. To overcome this issue, one requires low-cost tracking capabilities to enable all the participants along the food value chain, from manufacturers to logistic companies, retailers, and customers, to monitor the product freshness. Among the monitored parameters, there shall be not only manufacturing date and the temperature but also additional biochemical parameters providing the product's freshness status in real time. Nowadays, a product often spends most of its lifetime in transit or storage, actual monitoring during these stages is still missing though. Is it fresh wireless sensor technology will enable affordable food freshness data on a single packaging unit scale. Every package will be able to report its freshness status for the product inside in real time. This will provide each partner in the food value chain with unique and wirelessly accessible data about product's current freshness status as well as origin and transport logs. In addition, it will give the end customer a valuable insight into the freshness status of their food products, for example, by addressing the sensors via a fridge or smart shelf. We have a contract in place with The willingness to pay is guaranteed by a contract with a major packaging company (you are using their products on a daily basis more likely than not), in which after our product is market ready, they are obliged to equip 5% of their production with freshtags – up to 10% if they want to keep us in exclusivity. This would mean up to 3 billion units of freshtags annually.

Keywords: food waste,smart packaging
CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1944162.0
EU funding (EUR): 1944162.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Considerable investments have been made in Europe and worldwide in research data infrastructures. Instead of a general lack of data about data, it has become apparent that the pivotal factor that drastically constrains the use of data is the absence of contextual knowledge about how data was created and how it has been used. This applies especially to many branches of SSH research where data is highly heterogeneous, both by its kind (e.g. being qualitative, quantitative, naturalistic, purposefully created) and origins (e.g. being historical/contemporary, from different contexts and geographical places). The problem is that there may be enough metadata (data about data) but there is too little paradata (data on the processes of its creation and use). In contrast to the rather straightforward problem of describing the data, the high-risk/high-gain problem no-one has managed to solve, is the lack of comprehensive understanding of what information about the creation and use of research data is needed and how to capture enough of that information to make the data reusable and to avoid the risk that currently collected vast amounts of research data become useless in the future. The wickedness of the problem lies in the practical impossibility to document and keep everything and the difficulty to determine optimal procedures for capturing just enough. With an empirical focus on archaeological and cultural heritage data, which stands out by its extreme heterogeneity and rapid accumulation due to the scale of ongoing development-led archaeological fieldwork, CAPTURE develops an in-depth understanding of how paradata is #1 created and #2 used at the moment, #3 elicits methods for capturing paradata on the basis of the findings of #1-2, #4 tests the new methods in field trials, and #5 synthesises the findings in a reference model to inform the capturing of paradata and enabling data-intensive research using heterogeneous research data stemming from diverse origins.

Keywords: research data,paradata,context,information studies,metadata,data reuse,data production,information management,documentation
Living Lab research concept in Rural Areas (LIVERUR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Austria,Italy,Austria,Germany,Spain,Italy,Malta,Tunisia,Slovenia,Türkiye,Greece,Latvia,France,France,France,France,Czechia,Czechia,Portugal
Call: Business models for modern rural economies (H2020-RUR-2017-2, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4107005.0
EU funding (EUR): 4107005.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

LIVERUR aims at expanding an extremely innovative business model called Living Labs among the rural regions. Living labs are user-centred, open-innovation ecosystems often operating in a territorial context, integrating concurrent research and innovation process within a public-private partnership. The basis for the strategic development of a rural Living Lab is in establishing a sustainable stakeholder partnership; users, policy-makers, companies, researchers enter into agreements on the basis of which they may engage in longer term collaboration. However, a successful Living lab business design can be expected to be highly affected by the specific context of the Living Lab rural environment and by its specific objectives and ambitions. LIVERUR project identifies Living Labs as innovative business models that are currently developing in rural areas, and it will undertake socio-economic analysis to identify, describe and benchmark differences between the new Living Lab approach and more entrepreneurial traditional approaches (mass production, development of prices, optimising the cost structures with the enterprises, rationalisation). LIVERUR project pays particular attention to Living Labs, since they foster a more sustainable mobilisation of resources, improved cooperation between operators along the value chain and lead to new services. Living Lab utilizes the open innovation concept in a wider sense, with success/failure rate determined by empirically based research key factors. Since there is still a lack of empirically grounded studies, the short term objective of LIVERUR is to improve knowledge of business models growing in rural areas, including a through understanding of their potential. In the long term the project will increase the potential for rural economic diversification.

Keywords: living lab concept,smaes,open innovation,social cohesion,public,private,people partnership,climate resiliance
Quantum networks wired by multi-spin entanglement (QNETWORK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1625000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1625000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Entanglement is arguably the most defining and yet counterintuitive feature of quantum theory. The non-local nature of entanglement provides exciting opportunities for fundamentally new science and technologies. As a prime example, recent theoretical work has uncovered the unique potential of a future quantum network: a network of nodes consisting of multiple well-controlled quantum particles “wired” by quantum entanglement. Such a network would enable distributed quantum computing and simulation, secure communication, enhanced metrology and new fundamental studies of nature. Although recent pioneering advances in quantum control have made quantum networks a realistic prospect, remote entanglement has so far been limited to two long-lived spins in trapped ions, atoms, quantum dots and diamond defect centers. My QNETWORK project will realize a multi-node entanglement-based quantum network. The network will have fully controlled multi-spin nodes at individual diamond defects connected by single-photon links. Using this quantum network I will demonstrate supremacy of a quantum repeater node over direct photon transmission, generate multi-spin entanglement and study its decoherence, realize quantum teleportation across multiple nodes and finally exploit the network for new scientific experiments ranging from super-activation of entanglement distillation to foundational tests to quantum secret sharing. To achieve these ambitious goals, this proposal will capitalize on two recent breakthroughs with single electron spins trapped in diamond defects in my group. First, we have entangled electron spins on different chips (most recently over a distance >1km). Second, we have achieved full control over a handful of nuclear spins near one such electron, providing the required quantum memories. If successful, QNETWORK will yield a versatile multi-node quantum network that will serve as a novel platform for groundbreaking science and as a test-bed for a future quantum Internet.

Keywords: diamond color center,electron spin,nuclear spin,solid state,quantum network