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Advancing the circular economy in wind energy with cutting-edge wind turbine blades recycling technology (LIBRIBLADE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Recycling wind turbine blades is a significant challenge as European and global wind capacity continues to grow. Traditional recycling methods for turbine blades are inefficient, energy-intensive, and often environmentally harmful. Our solution, the Librixer machine, employs a unique dry, chemical-free comminution process that precisely separates blade materials—glass and carbon fibres, epoxy, balsa wood, and foam—along their natural boundaries and make sorting more efficient . This approach preserves material integrity, reduces energy consumption, and minimizes environmental impact. Our technology is adaptable across various sectors, including food processing, recycling, and mining, demonstrating its broad applicability and market potential. The Librixer technology for wind turbine blade recycling is at TRL 5 and feasibility studies have validated our technology's effectiveness in wind turbine recycling. Our existing development projects with various customers demonstrate the robustness and credibility of our technology. The EIC Accelerator funding will be pivotal in advancing our R&D, scaling production, and facilitating market entry, particularly in Europe, where wind turbine decommissioning is increasing. This project aligns with the European Green Deal and the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan, contributing to sustainability and climate resilience. With the support of the EIC, we anticipate achieving significant revenue growth, reaching 42.6 MEUR by 2032 and breaking even on EBITDA in 2028. Partnering with Afterwind as a reference customer, our project not only promises financial success but also substantial societal, economic, and environmental benefits by promoting sustainable industrial practices and reducing waste in the renewable energy sector.

Keywords: wind turbine recycling comminution technology circular economy sustainability renewable energy micronization
Investigating the moral ideals and social norms of economic discrimination (EcoDisc)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Denmark,Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214934.4
EU funding (EUR): 214934.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Do individuals consider economic discrimination rooted in statistical differences to be any fairer or more permissible than that rooted in dislike? Economists recognize two canonical types of discrimination: that based on distaste of some groups, taken as morally objectionable, and that based on statistical differences between groups, sometimes conjectured to be much more acceptable. Surprisingly, the literature stays silent on the types of discrimination that individuals actually hold to be morally correct (moral ideals) and says little about what they collectively recognize to be morally correct (social norms). A clear answer is important because ideals and norms have been shown to influence economic behavior and because it is a prerequisite for welfare analyses, policymaking, and proper societal debate. The possible application domains range from governmental policies on discriminatory practices in labor and residential markets to police search strategies and workplace training. EcoDisc will first develop a novel method using incentivized experiments to evaluate discriminatory behavior and underlying ideals and norms, for different types of ethnic and gender discrimination. Then, it will empirically estimate the distribution of such discrimination behavior, ideals, and norms using a countrywide representative sample of Denmark. The research is to be conducted at Aarhus University under the guidance of Professor Daniele Nosenzo, with a secondment at NHH Norwegian School of Economics FAIR under the guidance of FAIR director, Professor Bertil Tungodden.

Keywords: experiment,moral ideals,social norms,discrimination,ethnicity,gender,justice,fairness,social preferences,laboratory experiment,online experiment
X-Bolt Femur (X-Bolt Femur)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The problem of osteoporotic bone fractures in elderly patients is an increasing social and economic problem, for taxpayers and society, as well as for surgeons, hospitals and patients. 620,000 hip fractures are estimated each ear in the EU27 with a total economic burden of €21Bn. The goal for all elderly patients is regaining personal independence, versus being institutionalised and needing higher levels of care. Good fracture fixation and return of mobility is key to maintain, as best as possible, the independence for the individual patient.

Keywords: hip fracture,osteoporosis,femur fracture,fixation,orthopaedic surgery,expanding bolt
feMAle fundRaisIng leAdership in advanced techNologies for brAin diSorders (MARIANAS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107142.86
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this project is to run a fundraising campaign taking into account the very impactful core of our business at Alpha Brain Technologies. As the business lead and CEO, I am responsible for every financial and investment related aspect of the company. In the past two years, we have achieved a tremendous amount of technical advancement for epilepsy while not disconnecting from the patients and caregivers community. In this project, I am aiming at taking this stakeholders involvement in further pursuing their active participation in our fundraising campaign to run clinical trials and commercialise our developed solution. A solution that has no other goal but solving some of the stakeholders' most devastating problems.

Keywords: epilepsy,neurology,brain disorders,wearables
Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, Localisation and Characterisation using Ultrasound (PCAVISION)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Transition Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITIONOPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4790500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1950000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Prostate cancer (PCa), is a type of cancer with the highest incidence (19%) and second mortality rate (8%) in western men. In 2018 in Europe, 140,000 male patients were newly diagnosed with PCa and over 100,000 patients have died from Prostate cancer. Numbers are rising due to the ageing EU population. The present medical diagnosis procedures are largely based on the execution of multi-biopsy procedure(s) on the patient. Each multi-biopsy procedure is invasive, painful for the patient and incurs significant risk (10%-20%) of adverse health events such as sepsis (8%). Screening programs - comparable to breast cancer screening for woman - are not possible based on biopsy. In recent years, in a few EU countries, an image-based diagnosis method has been added to the PCa diagnosis pathway: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). A dedicated MRI imaging protocol offers an additional diagnosis tool for detecting and characterising PCa tumour growth. However, MRI based PCa diagnosis has drawbacks: scarce patient access (no public healthcare coverage in multiple EU countries) and long waiting times of 35 days median, increased national healthcare cost and dependent on availability of highly trained radiologist. The gap between the need for image based diagnosis and the availability is rapidly widening. PCaVision is a novel PCa imaging diagnostic method relying on modern ultrasound imaging equipment and advanced signal processing algorithms. Advantages are: equipment costs 96% less and there is not need for a specialised radiologist; the urologist performs the diagnosis. Hence PCaVision makes broad scale access for patients possible, improves PCa healthcare and reduces national healthcare cost. With PCaVision the gap can be closed for the benefit of all EU patients. The result of the Transition project is to complete, validate, and certify the PCaVision solution enabling roll-out to 16 EU clinics for clinical long-term demonstration enabling future broad utilisation.

Keywords: medical imaging,urology,ultrasound imaging,prostate cancer
Influence of forest fire severity on BVOC emission and underlying gene expression in Scots pine (VOCFire)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Finland,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242116.8
EU funding (EUR): 242116.8
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Boreal Forests are important emitters of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), which have both warming and cooling effects on the Earth’s climate. These emissions are modulated by the frequency and severity of forest fires, which themselves increase due to climate warming. Forest fires drastically change ecophysiology of plants, that are responsible for the production of these gases. Yet, despite this significance, the effects of fire severity on BVOC emissions and the underlying plant metabolism remain poorly understood. In the EU-funded VOCFire project, I will address this knowledge gap by measuring post fire BVOC (particularly isoprenoids) emission from above- and below-ground in the boreal forest. Post-fire genetic level study of some BVOC-genes from Scots pine’s tissues will be explored. The VOCFire project will allow me to work in a world-leading group focused on the forest ecology and BVOCs fluxes. Together, we will bridge laboratory based experiments and field-based investigations through state-of-the-art metabolic networking to get a new understanding of emission of BVOCs, their specific functions and the gene expression associated with BVOC at three different level of forest fire severity, i.e., low, moderate and high. Reaching the project goal will require i) The quantification of above- and below-ground BVOC fluxes, and ii) the differential expression of BVOC producing genes of post-fire Scots pine.

Keywords: biogenic volatile organic compounds,forest fire,boreal forest,tree,gene expression
Dimers, Markov chains and Critical Phenomena (DMCP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-08-29
End date: 2015-08-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 124621.4
EU funding (EUR): 124621.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project proposes a 12-month mobility of the applicant F. Toninelli from the University of Lyon 1 to the Mathematics and Physics Department of Roma Tre. The applicant will be supervised by local scientists F. Martinelli and A. Giuliani. The scientific project focuses on the probabilistic study of dynamical and equilibrium properties of discrete random interfaces, spin models and dimer models. One of the main goals is to derive, starting from a microscopic stochastic dynamics, a macroscopic deterministic evolution (often, an anisotropic mean curvature flow) in the scaling limit. Another important issue are equilibrium fluctuations of random discrete interfaces and dimer models. The proposed research has tight links with mathematical physics, discrete geometry and rigorous quantum field theory. Mathematical tools to be employed include Markov Chains, conformal invariance, random walks on graphs, rigorous Renormaliazation Group techniques... More specific problems that will be attacked include: 1) Dynamics and equilibrium fluctuations of random dimer coverings (perfect matchings) of bipartite graphs: these are a central object in combinatorics and discrete geometry and can be seen as discrete interfaces. How does their geometry evolve under stochastic dynamics? What is the dynamical consequence of the conformal invariance properties of their equilibrium fluctuations? How quickly can one sample a random perfect matching (mixing time)? 2) Universality for two-dimensional statistical mechanics models. We will study the critical properties of weakly interacting dimers on the square lattice (the non-interacting case being exactly solvable). As a long-term goal, we wish to study the spin-spin correlation functions of two-dimensional, non-integrable critical Ising models. 3) Discrete SOS model. What large-deviation equilibrium properties and the dynamical metastability phenomena of the two-dimensional Solid-on-Solid discrete interface model?

Keywords: dimer models,stochastic dynamics,mean curvature motion,discrete random interfaces,renormalization group,critical phenomena,universality
Dance Performances in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Continuity, Creativity and Identity (RWANDANCE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 110803.2
EU funding (EUR): 110803.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Over the last decade, Rwanda has witnessed a revival of ‘traditional’ dances, which are staged as a unified cultural performance. This revival gives expression to the dynamism that characterizes this East-African country in its drive to reconstruct itself after the devastation of the 1994 genocide. It also testifies to the country’s willingness to bypass the ‘ethnic’ and regional cleavages that were so critical during the period of genocide and to achieve a true sense of national unity and identity. The object of the project, which is situated at the intersection of Dance Studies and Anthropology, is to study the evolution of Rwandan dances with regard to their role in constructing the ‘New Rwanda’. The study will be microscopic and will be based on long-term fieldwork combining participation, observation and in-depth interviews. It will focus on the troupe Inganzo Ngari, which is currently considered Kigali’s best dance troupe and which performs very regularly at government sponsored or directly government related events. The study will analyse the creative reconfiguration of the troupe’s repertoire and especially the way elements stemming from different regions, periods and sociocultural belonging are creatively assembled in order to communicate the image of a unified, modern Rwanda which, nonetheless, remains rooted in its past. Attention will also be given to the growing emphasis on the spectacular side of the performance and the increased attention being given to uniformity. In line with the affirmation of Inganzo’s choreographers that Chinese folkloric dances have inspired them in reconfiguring Rwandan dances, the study will further examine how processes of globalization contribute to remodel Rwandan specificity. More broadly, by exploring dance in its dual aspect of rhythmic flow and visual form it intends to shed light on the role of this medium in contemporary societies, inasmuch as they manifest a tension between global circulation and rigid nationalism.

Keywords: social and cultural anthropology,dance,tradition,creativity,change,reconstruction,national identity,globalization,rwanda,postcolonial africa
Civil society and new migrants in superdiverse contexts (SUPERDIVERSITY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-04-13
End date: 2017-10-27
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299558.4
EU funding (EUR): 299558.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project investigates the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) for new migrants in superdiverse contexts. It explores whether CSOs are instrumental in the building of social relations during their settlement process. This social aspect of settlement, also described as social integration, is crucial regarding other aspects of settlement such as access to education, housing and the labour market. The project also looks at the role of CSOs regarding the relationships which long-term residents, both of ethnic majority and minority backgrounds, form with newcomers, addressing issues surrounding integration as ‘two-way-process’. The project will lead to novel findings because: • Rather than focussing on established ethnic minorities, it investigates patterns of integration of people originating from relatively new source countries who settle into already superdiverse contexts • It is situated within an emerging research field on new conditions of superdiversity which have rarely been explored systematically • It goes beyond existing quantitative work on civil society participation • It will develop theory around social contact, social capital and integration nuancing current thinking around the role of CSOs in settlement Superdiversity has resulted from changing immigration patterns into Europe, with people entering cities in substantial numbers, and from far more countries of origin than ever before. This has resulted in a condition of more ethnicities, languages, religions, migration experiences, work and living conditions and legal statuses than many cities have ever faced (Vertovec 2007). By way of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in two UK urban neighbourhoods, and drawing on existing theory, method and policy, the project will elicit how new migrants settle in such contexts, how long-term residents deal with unprecedented population changes, and what the role of CSOs is in this process.

Keywords: superdiversity,civil society organisations,integration,new migrants,neighbourhoods,immigration
Development of Advanced Magnetic Filtration System for Industrial Lubricants (MAGFIS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-11-10
End date: 2017-11-10
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 243847.8
EU funding (EUR): 243847.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Scope of proposed research include the sustainable design and development of advanced magnetic filtration systems and modelling of their behaviour that will assist to achieve a step change in fluid management technology used in industrial lubricant filtration systems, for example metalworking and washing process. The emphasis of the research lies in the development and validation of industrial prototype of media-free magnetic system that can capture and recycle fine particulates and contaminations from fluids. The designed system will provide a range of benefits including a) improved cost and efficiency of filtration process, b) savings of expensive lubricants and processed materials and c) reducing environmental impact from industrial fluids and materials. Fundamental study and modelling of turbulent flows within a filtration process will be closely combined with an experimental work conducted at TU Delft laboratories and in collaboration with industrial partners. The main contributions and novelty of the proposed research include (1) development of commercial prototype and an integrated design of advanced magnetic filter for industrial application, (2) development of computational methods and tools to predict performance of filtration system in various operational regimes subjected to intense heat-mass transfer and magnetic fields (up to 12,500 Gauss), (3) computational modelling of multi-phase flows and supporting measurements using invasive and non-invasive 2D/3D fluid mechanics techniques. Integration and product trial of a system prototype with commercial metalworking machines is expected to be completed during this project. Results of this research can stimulate the application of advanced environmentally friendly technology in broad industries and will provide a platform for Industry-Academic Knowledge Transfer Partnership and integration of the fellow into local community.

Keywords: filtration,separation,media free,fluid mechanics,turbulent flow,metalworking,grinding,particles,contaminations,sustainable design,thermo-mechanical engineering and modeling,recycling,power