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The mechanical evolution from biting-chewing to piercing-sucking in insects (MECH-EVO-INSECT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499891.0
EU funding (EUR): 823536.19
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Insects are extremely efficient feeders that impact on the world's ecosystems and our agriculture with their feeding capabilities. Insects evolved diverse mouthpart types during ~400 million years of evolution which allowed them to conquer many food recourses. How this feeding system evolved, in particular the transition from one mouthpart type to the other, is unclear. My idea represents the first extensive assessment of insect head mechanics applying latest semi-automatic workflows and engineering approaches to unravel the factors driving insect mouthpart evolution and performance. Specifically, I will study the mechanical evolution from early biting-chewing to piercing-sucking mouthparts and head types, considering recent as well as fossil species. In contrast to earlier studies, I aim to quantify mechanical evolution for the whole head which has never been attempted before for insects. This will be done using engineering software to simulate insect feeding, followed by 3D shape analysis and finally evolutionary modelling using algorithms based on likelihood models of evolutionary processes. The project is therefore positioned at the interconnection between experimental biology, engineering and biological simulation. The results will impact our understanding of insect evolution, with the project identifying which mechanical factors made insects such extraordinarily successful feeders, and why their mouthparts evolved into so many different types. To achieve an integrative understanding, my idea will furthermore take into account ecological, evolutionary and life history factors. Understanding the mechanical head evolution has never been tried before in a systematic way at this scale. However, my project idea also delivers results for industry: Since modern engineering methods are used, the results can be readily exported to the industry for the design of lighter robot arms with better lifting capabilities, thus advancing robotic techniques.

Keywords: insects,morphology,evolution,functional morphology,finite element analysis,multibody dynamics analysis,statistical shape modelling
Replicable business models for modern rural economies (RUBIZMO)

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: Germany,Ireland,Italy,Germany,Spain,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Romania,Poland,Sweden,Greece,Sweden,France,Denmark,Denmark
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): 3928852.04
EU funding (EUR): 3928852.04
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

RUBIZMO will identify business models with high potential for empowering rural communities to take advantage of the opportunities arising from improved value chain optimisation. It will directly supporting the creation of sustainable jobs and growth in rural economies, supporting a multi-actor approach for generation of shared-value. Ultimately, the project looks to contribute to rural development in Europe, supporting the Europe 2020 Strategy for Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, as well as supporting Regional and Rural Development policy. To do this, the project will identify innovative business models (developed or identified in existing projects under FP7, H2020, Interreg, Central Europe, etc.) with a significant potential to support modernisation and sustainable growth in rural economies, and relevant to the food sector, bio-based value chains and ecosystem services. Business models with the potential to contribute to the modernisation and sustainable growth of rural economies will be selected, packaged and classified according to their nature, comprising technologies, services, business support structures, financing mechanisms, etc. This will result in the creation of four practical, user-oriented tools: - Virtual library of business cases, to inspire and inform potential entrepreneurs about business opportunities; - Guidelines on creating favourable conditions for the deployment of innovative business models, to help public authorities and rural networks create adequate framework conditions for rural innovation; - Toolkit for clustering and network development in rural areas; - Transformation support tool, to help individual entrepreneurs understand which business models are best adapted to their situation, and how to go about implementing change. The project will then prepare Europe-wide upscaling and replication in rural areas using real life cases, taking account of the complexity of transferring value chains.
PanINSULA - The next first commercially sustainable and therapeutically effective beta cell therapy for diabetes (PanINSULA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Prevalence of diabetes is increasing among all ages in the European Region, mostly due to increases in overweight and obesity, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity. Today there are about 60 M people with diabetes in the EU, of which Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) accounts for between 5% and 10%. T1D patients must cope with a lifetime of intensive self-care (testing their blood sugar levels several times a day to inject insulin when required) and the risk of premature death. Even with careful management T1D patients can still have difficulties keeping a steady blood glucose level and over time these lifethreatening fluctuations, especially the chronic high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia), can cause serious complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and amputations due to nerve damage. Currently there is no cure for T1D and no new significant development or permanent therapy for diabetes has emerged in the last 70 years. Islet transplantation while effective is not a scalable therapy and limited to only the most severe T1D patients due to the shortage of cadaveric donor islets. Recent advances in generating insulin producing beta cells from pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), positions stem cell-based therapy as a promising treatment for a wider population of T1D patients. A stem cell based therapy would replace the damaged beta cells in the patients and allow for a natural production and secretion of insulin to regulate the blood glucose levels. To make stem cell therapy a clinically and commercially viable treatment in diabetes, the following technical hurdles need to be addressed: safety (lack of purity), cost-effective scalability, and lack of immune protection of the implanted cells. Pancryos patented technology, in contrast to other available competing technologies, enables both purification and automation ensuring unparalleled safety and cost-efficient scalability and manufacturability of the final cell product PanINSULA.

Keywords: diabetes,insulin,beta cells,cell therapy,glucose
Leveraging Multiphase Flow and Physical Chemistry to Engineer the Next Generation of Flotation Processes (FlotSim)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Industrial Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1303570.96
EU funding (EUR): 1303570.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

FLSmidth (FLS) is a world leading manufacturer providing service and technology to extract base metals and critical raw materials by flotation processes. Flotation is extremely complex and today still barely understood, so that a lot of energy and resources are wasted. Based on a long-term collaboration, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and FLS propose the EID FlotSim to drastically improve the recovery rates of flotation by science-based development. Highly improved next generation flotation cells are mandatory to remain economically competitive and to respond to the massive desire of citizens for ecology-friendly mining. FlotSim addresses these societal challenges through its research and development as well as the recruitment and training of five early stage researchers. They will jointly investigate and model the flotation process with its complex interactions between valuable mineral particles, gas bubbles, and turbulent flow, addressing phenomena from the nanoscale to the scale of pilot machines. With FlotSim, FLS, TUD and seven associated non-academic partners join forces to integrate top-notch scientific expertise and computational know-how into an industry-driven network. FlotSim will jointly develop new sophisticated quantitative models of the relevant micro-processes and integrate them into a novel predictive simulation framework for the entire flotation process. The structured training approach provides a balanced mix of high-level scientific courses and transferable skills by the partners together with on-site application-focussed secondments in industry. Network events target further young innovators and the industrial and scientific public. FlotSim strives for sustained impact by a portfolio of IPRs such as patents, joint publications in leading journals and, most of all, the transfer of the results into unprecedented simulation software, technological solutions, and the next generation of flotation machines by FLS and other stakeholders.

Keywords: mineral processing,resource efficiency,mining,flotation,multiphase flow,turbulence,computational fluid dynamics cfd
Concerted Action EPBD IV (CAIV_EPBD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Estonia,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Cyprus,Malta,Hungary,Lithuania,Norway,Bulgaria,Croatia,Romania,Sweden,Greece,Poland,Finland,Slovenia,Belgium,Slovakia,Latvia,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Portugal,Luxembourg,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Energy (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3054123.25
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

The 'Concerted Action EPBD IV', supporting transposition and implementation of Directive 2010/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings, is an activity which aims to foster exchange of information and experience among Member States and participating countries with regards to the implementation of the specific Community legislation and policy on the energy performance of buildings. It involves the national authorities implementing the Directive, or those bodies appointed and entrusted by them to do so. It is carried out under the coordination of Danish Energy Agency, DEA. The CA consortium is composed of organisations designated by all 28 Member States plus Norway. The CA is financed by the EU's Horizon 2020 Programme. The CA is the continuation of the first Concerted Action, CA EPBD, which ran from January 2005 to June 2007, then continued as the CA EPBD II from December 2007 until November 2010 and then CA EPBD III from March 2011 to October 2015. The CA IV will organise 4 CA Plenary meetings and some supporting activities over a period 30 months or approximately one meeting every 7-8 months, similar to the CA III. The work will be organised in Central Teams, which includes: a) 3 Core Teams on 'New Buildings', 'Existing Buildings' and 'Certification & Quality of Inspection'; b) 3 Cross-Cutting teams on 'Technical Elements', 'Policy & Implementation' and 'Compliance, Capacity & Impact'; c) 2 central functions on 'Collaboration with other actors' and 'Internal & External Communication'; and some additional functions and supporting measures. For each Central Team, issues are addressed on which the Directive does not require harmonised national implementation but where coordinated implementation would increase the impact of the Directive and reduce the implementing costs.

Keywords: epbd,concerted action,energy performance in buildings
Standardised administration device for raw medical herbs (In-Heal)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the recent years public interest towards natural medicine in particular to phytotherapy (herbal medicine) is increasing. However, the administration of medicinal herbs is not yet standardised and medically acceptable administration device is still not commercially available. We have developed high-end smart vaporiser for medicinal herbs. Our In-Heal device enables very efficient and precise dosing of useful ingredients by vaporising valuable active ingredients from raw herbs directly, without the emission of any harmful compounds as opposed to combustion (e.g. e-cigarettes). Our overall objective is to provide the world’s first medical grade inhaler device for controlled administration of medical herbs. We aim to revolutionize the use of medical herbs by standardising their administration and dosage. In the future we need to carry out clinical validation, establish necessary partnership, prepare for serial production, as well as seek for furher grants and investment to support these activities. Phase 1 objective: preparation for clinical validation, investor ready business plan.

Keywords: phytotherapy,medical herb inhalation,vaporisation,temperature control
Paris Region Fellowship Programme (ParisRegionFP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7650240.0
EU funding (EUR): 3825120.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Paris Region Fellowship Programme (ParisRegionFP) aims to foster excellence in research, by training and developing international mobility and careers of outstanding Experienced Researchers (ER) from a large panel of disciplines and of all nationalities. ERs will design and implement their original research project in a first-class research group of his/her choice belonging to one of the 13 “Domain of Major Interest” labels endorsed by the Paris Region. The DIMs are key research sectors on which the Paris Region focuses policy support and investments to strengthen its international attractiveness and inter-sectoral mobility. ParisRegionFP will launch two calls of 2-year postdoctoral fellowships, 26 applications each, in order to recruit a total of 52 ERs. ParisRegionFP will offer a novel international, inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral training programme for ERs, covering scientific, academic and industrial topics in the identified key sectors (or DIMs scientific themes) as well as hands-on knowledge in non-research oriented transferable skills. For the first time at regional level, such an educational and research program will be implemented by leading universities and 20 extra-academic partner organizations, covering actors from prestigious culture-related organizations and human resource actors to large industries and SMEs in various economic sectors. The scientific actors will ensure infrastructure capacity and high-level environment to conduct excellent research. Extra-academic partners will contribute to the implementation of ParisRegionFP by hosting ERs during secondments or visits and/or by providing training, mentoring or career development opportunities. ParisRegionFP will reinforce network structuration and complete the existing programmes of the Paris Region and its partners for increased impact, by focusing on the recruitment and the training of international emerging leaders to foster research and innovation in the Paris Region.

Keywords: paris region competitiveness,international attractiveness,intersectoral mobility,interdisciplinary training,career development
Catholicism and the “Negro Question”: Religion, Racism, and Antiracism in a Transnational Perspective (United States and Europe, 1934-1968) (US-E AntiRacism)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2022-07-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 262269.0
EU funding (EUR): 262269.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal aims to investigate how the Roman Catholic Church responded to the issue of anti-black racism from the 1930s to the age of decolonization and the US civil rights movement. What emerges is the Church’s pivotal contribution to the recasting of racial discourse(s) and behaviors. For the first time, the project carries out an overall transnational analysis on this subject, focusing on Catholic “interracialism” as a peculiar third way between racism and anti-racism: • How did interracialism spread and become common sense in Catholicism on both sides of the Atlantic? • Did interracialism really change traditional race thinking? • What were the ideological interactions between American-style interracialism and mainstream European Catholic colonial and postcolonial culture? The starting point will be the figure of Fr. John LaFarge, the American Jesuit pioneer of the interracial movement, and his entourage. The research’s key contribution lies in making a history of the circulation of these ideals across the European press, ecclesiastical networks, and the intellectual panorama, taking into consideration some specific poles, i.e. Vatican environments and three Catholic colonial powers (France, Belgium, Italy). Following a perspective of religious, cultural and transnational history, the project’s main objective is to focus on the inter-crossing of ideologies, images and practices. It will foreground the “speakers” of that discourse, as well as the features and limits of such an interracialism as a “sound” antiracism. The University of Florence and Fordham University will perfectly support the scientific and civil contents of this proposal. The expertise offered by the faculty at these institutions, in tandem with both universities’ resources, is crucial to reaching the project's goals. These include a book, three articles, as well as research dissemination and professional networking via conference presentations, workshops, teaching, and outreach activities.

Keywords: roman catholicism,racism,antiracism,interracialism,imperialism,nationalism,transnational history,lafarge john,s j,interracial justice
West African Coastal Ocean - Finescale physics, biogeochemistry and climate change (WACO)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Coastal oceans are essential to our societies but their health status is degrading rapidly in many parts of the world. Anticipating or remedying environmental evolutions/degradations, including those resulting from global changes, is particularly difficult. This is largely because the knowledge and information we currently have on the ocean functioning do not encompass scales finer than a few tens of kilometers, which is notably insufficient close to shores. WACO will clarify the role of fine-scale processes (turbulent and wave processes with scales < 10 km) in the present-day functioning and future evolutions of the West African coastal dynamics and biogeochemistry. To do so, it will take advantage of a new generation of ocean models that is truly apt to simulate coastal dynamics/biogeochemistry/ecosystems in a fully integrated and multi-scale manner. Precisely, the project will be focused on the senegalese and mauritanian coastal oceans from which state-of-the-art ocean observations are available to complement and evaluate the modelling effort, a robust and interdisciplinary collaborative framework, and unmatched opportunities for social benefits of the research. The project relies on a massively parallel computing plan that will serve as a demanding training ground for the applicant. Overall WACO will contribute to a deeper understanding of climate change, which is a key goal of EU research.

Keywords: eastern boundary upwelling system,submesoscale turbulence,internal waves,physical biogeochemical coupling