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Revolutionary rib-welding system for the worldwide first fully automated production of large, high quality, on-site welded tanks, bringing considerable cost savings to drinking water applications (TechTanks)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2218287.5
EU funding (EUR): 1552801.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

LIPP GmbH, based in Tannhausen in the south of Germany, is one of the leading tank manufacturers in Europe, having been in existence since the 1950’s. In the past decades, Lipp has patented over 170 different manufacturing, material and tank design technologies and is an innovative highly awarded (Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille) SME. Altogether, over 50,000 tanks and containers have been constructed globally with the internationally marketed and licenced LIPP Double-Seam Technology. Recent R&D has applied the experiences of the Double-Seam to develop a revolutionary, automated Rib-Welding System for the on-site erection of novel, flexible and large scale welded stainless steel tanks at superior quality and lower costs. An investment of € 2 million has led to the completion of 2 prototypes. Significant material and manufacturing cost reductions (up to – 45%) are possible due to the efficient, fast and automated on-site welding units. Cost reductions will lead to a unique selling position for applications in water and food industries, especially in drinking water storage. The water and food industries mainly use such types of tanks because of the strict hygienic regulations in this sector. Conservative estimations of the drinking water market allow yearly revenue of € 13 million in a billion Euro market segment after successful introduction of the technology in the next five years. The new technology is a central element for the future growth of the LIPP company. Additionally, the LIPP Rib-Welding System can be applied to conventional welded steel tanks and opens the market for large oil and pharmaceutical/chemical tank applications. This will strongly enhance profitability and growth performance of LIPP by transferring a substantially improved technology and existing knowledge into innovative, disruptive and competitive solutions, seizing European and global business opportunities.

Keywords: drinking water,tank,manufacturing,stainless steel,welding,automation,storage,in line
Global Value Chains and Local Innovation Systems in Southern Europe: The Coevolution of Technology, Trade and Finance, and the Technological Divide (GlobaLISe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Greece
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-02
End date: 2020-07-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 152653.2
EU funding (EUR): 152653.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the post-Bretton Woods world economy, global value chains (GVC) have become the principal pipelines not only of trade, but also of capital and technology flows, with a decisive impact on the industrial structure of local economies and the technological dynamics of their innovation systems. The proposed project aims to investigate from an empirical, theoretical and normative perspective this impact, as well as its macroeconomic repercussions in terms of productivity, growth, employment, income distribution and the core-periphery technological divide. It will also examine the industrial policies needed to mitigate the technology gaps and to enhance the value capture capacities of peripheral innovation systems by ‘upgrading’ within GVCs, against the backdrop of the financial crisis. At the empirical level, the project will focus on GVCs of knowledge-based manufacturing industries in crisis-afflicted Southern European economies. It will employ advanced statistical, computational and analytical methods at different geographical scales, ranging from econometric to social network analysis, agent-based, and stock-flow consistent modelling. At the theoretical level, it aspires to combine evolutionary, institutionalist, Schumpeterian and (post) Keynesian economic theories under a ‘systemic’ research programme on the crossroads of international economics, economic geography, innovation economics, theory of the firm, industrial organisation, and political economy of development. At the normative level, it will have significant implications for industrial, RTDI, trade, and regional development policies. This highly topical project aims to frame the post-crisis EU policy discourse on the future of the ERA, the Innovation Union, Europe 2020 growth strategy, and the ‘European investment plan’, as well as related national policy discourses. It is designed to boost the researcher’s career and to consolidate his expertise and research skills through high-quality training.

Keywords: global value chains,innovation systems,technology gap,trade in value added,global production network,technology diffusion
ADL monitoring of Elderly in homes using Gas sensors (EDGE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: European SME innovation Associate - pilot (H2020-INNOSUP-2019-02, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-17
End date: 2020-12-16
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 86875.0
EU funding (EUR): 86875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

nvision is keen to hire an Innovation Associate (IA) to add a new line of research to its R&D strategy for elderly ADL (activities of daily living) monitoring in homes applying gas sensors. The SME has developed a solution, enSenior which is addressed to the elderly care market that uses conventional IoT sensor data like (motion, magnetic, pressure, etc.) and machine learning algorithms to monitor daily ADL and detect anomalous events. But one or more of these sensors need to be fixed per room which makes the solution more complex and costly, with further possibilities for ‘dead spots’ resulting in inaccurate detections. From our preliminary research, we have identified the potential of gas sensors to overcome these drawbacks. But our R&D team lacks the necessary expertise in gas sensors and its application for ADL monitoring. The lack of financial resources and difficulty of finding researchers with this specific knowledge and skills in the local job market is the main motivation for nvision to apply for this call. We strongly believe this innovation idea has tremendous potential to add new functionalities and reduce cost of our solution making it more competitive. According to the requirements, nvision has proposed a tailored training programme and a comprehensive career development plan for the hired IA. The IA will be completely integrated in the R&D group, sharing an office with other team members, having access to all equipment and participating in all departmental activities. The IA will perform all the tasks related to project, both technical and management as detailed in the work package descriptions, supported always by the supervisor. The IA will also acquire know-how on global market approach in the IoT industry in general and elderly care in particular. nvision is fully committed to developing the career prospects for the IA and will explore all possibilities to extend IA’s position in the company after the completion of this project.

Keywords: gas sensors,artificial intelligence,elderly monitoring,elderly care
MicrovehicLE fOr staNd-Alone and shaReD mObility - LEONARDO (LEONARDO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: EGVI (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Israel,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Poland
Call: Next generation electrified vehicles for urban and suburban use (H2020-LC-GV-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2203945.0
EU funding (EUR): 1923655.76
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The objectives of LEONARDO are: 1) to develop a new microvehicle based on the smart fusion of the concepts of monowheel and scooter. The monowheel and the scooter have the best characteristics to be used as a means of daily transport and to fully exploit the intermodality. The new microvehicle will take the best features of these two vehicles and eliminate the disadvantages, obtaining a silent, clean, energy efficient and safe vehicle, as well as attractive and affordable to the public so that the barriers for adopting it are minimized. The development includes a) the consolidation of already outlined conpects, through analysis of functionality and comparison with existing vehicles, on the basis of an extensive analysis of user's needs and safety and regulamentary aspects b) structural and electrical / electronic design c) in-house testing 2) to do an extensive demonstration and re-design activity. The vehicle will be tested in a real environment in 5 European cities: Rome, Palermo, Eilat and 2 others that will be identified with a tender. In these demonstration tests, a fleet of vehicle will be tested for free by hundreds of users, on a rotating basis. Each vehicle can be used in stand alone mode or in battery sharing mode, through a system already developed by UNIFI, made available for the project. Operating data will be automatically collected through a platform and users will be asked to give feedback weekly. The pilot in Rome and Palermo will start with 50 vehicles and will be used for a revision and re-design process, to arrive up to a TRL 7. Afterwards, the other pilots will start, in sequence, for 3 months in each city, in which 100 vehicles will be tested. These tests will be used to refine the vehicle up to the TRL8-9 and to do a physical demonstration of the technical and economic feasibility. During the pilots, pre-orders will be accepted. A detailed exploitation strategy and a draft business plan for the vehicle will be draft with the data collected.

Keywords: innovative electric microvehicle
The fate of black holes in high-energy physics -- exploring their dynamical instabilities (BHstabNL)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-09-29
End date: 2018-09-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Humankind has always been on a quest to uncover the secrets of our universe and ``detect the inmost force that binds the world and guides its course''. We intend to take important steps towards a more profound understanding of nature's mysteries by employing black holes (BHs). These exciting objects have been predicted by Einstein's general relativity (GR), one of the most successful models to-date to describe our universe, and they also appear in more fundamental theories attempting to marry GR with quantum physics. BHs can be viewed as the point-particle analogue of classical mechanics and play a key role in vastly different fields ranging from astrophysics and cosmology to high-energy physics. The latter enters the game in the context of higher dimensional gravity and the gauge/gravity duality which offers a unique tool to explore hard-to-tackle phenomena in field theories by investigating gravity in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes. Despite recent progress concerning the properties of BHs in these scenarios, most studies have been restricted to the linear regime. We wish to push these limits beyond the state-of-the-art and investigate the non-linear, dynamical behaviour and stability of BHs in asymptotically AdS and higher dimensional spacetimes, thus opening up an entirely new window to gain insight into the mechanisms that make our world tick. Specifically, we wish to explore the superradiant (SR) instabilities and the recently discovered gravitational turbulence in the former case and the non-linear response of BHs towards both the bar-mode and ultra-spinning instabilities in the latter. With the latest progress on the conceptual, theoretical and methodological level the time is ripe to accomplish these challenging goals by establishing novel techniques combining numerical relativity (NR), ``standard'' perturbative methods and the large-D expansion recently developed by leading European researchers.

Keywords: numerical relativity,black holes,high energy physics
European Union Contest for Young Scientists 2014 (EUCYS 2014)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: SCIENCE WAF SOCIETY (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1467500.0
EU funding (EUR): 800000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The European Union Contest for Young Scientists, an initiative of the European Commission, was set up in 1989 to promote the ideals of cooperation and interchange between young scientists. The Contest is the annual showcase of the best of European students’ scientific achievements and as such addresses the Union’s specific challenge of attracting young boys and girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The 26th EU Contest of Young Scientists (EUCYS’14) will be organized on 19th-24th September 2014, in Warsaw, Poland. The Host Organizer is the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Polish Children’s Fund (the organizer of the Polish National Contest) and the Copernicus Science Centre. This has been already accepted by the Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, following the offer presented by the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland. The EU Contest gives students the opportunity to compete with the best of their contemporaries at European level. The young scientists also have the chance to meet others with similar abilities and interests and to be guided by some of the most prominent scientists in Europe. In this way, the Commission seeks to strengthen the efforts made in each participating country to attract young people for careers in science and technology and to boost their creativity and competitiveness. The EUCYS creates the link between creativity and science by making opportunities for young people to work with open-access educational resources and understand the practical value of research ethics and integrity. It also makes platform for the EC campaign “Science: It’s a Girl Thing”. The Contest will contribute towards improving STEM skills among young people and increasing the range of innovative products that reflect societal needs.

Keywords: eucys,career in science,showcase,young scientists,contest,warsaw,education,stem skills
DE NOVO GENERATION OF SOMATIC STEM CELLS: REGULATION AND MECHANISMS OF CELL PLASTICITY (DENOVOSTEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology of ageing, pathophysiology, interorgan and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition, metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2014-ADG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498934.0
EU funding (EUR): 2239422.75
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The possibility to artificially induce and expand in vitro tissue-specific stem cells (SCs) is an important goal for regenerative medicine, to understand organ physiology, for in vitro modeling of human diseases and many other applications. Here we found that this goal can be achieved in the culture dish by transiently inducing expression of YAP or TAZ - nuclear effectors of the Hippo and biomechanical pathways - into primary/terminally differentiated cells of distinct tissue origins. Moreover, YAP/TAZ are essential endogenous factors that preserve ex-vivo naturally arising SCs of distinct tissues. In this grant, we aim to gain insights into YAP/TAZ molecular networks (upstream regulators and downstream targets) involved in somatic SC reprogramming and SC identity. Our studies will entail the identification of the genetic networks and epigenetic changes controlled by YAP/TAZ during cell de-differentiation and the re-acquisition of SC-traits in distinct cell types. We will also investigate upstream inputs establishing YAP/TAZ activity, with particular emphasis on biomechanical and cytoskeletal cues that represent overarching regulators of YAP/TAZ in tissues. For many tumors, it appears that acquisition of an immature, stem-like state is a prerequisite for tumor progression and an early step in oncogene-mediated transformation. YAP/TAZ activation is widespread in human tumors. However, a connection between YAP/TAZ and oncogene-induced cell plasticity has never been investigated. We will also pursue some intriguing preliminary results and investigate how oncogenes and chromatin remodelers may link to cell mechanics, and the plasticity of the differentiated and SC states by controlling YAP/TAZ. In sum, this research should advance our understanding of the cellular and molecular basis underpinning organ growth, tissue regeneration and tumor initiation.

Keywords: mechanobiology,hippo signaling
DACUSNEX COMBI, the first complete solution for the olive fly (Bactrocera oleae) pests in olive trees (DACUSNEX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The olive culture is widely distributed around the world, with more than 11 million ha of culture (the biggest area of permanent crop in the world) and it means a very important socio-economic resource due to its cultivation in dry areas, where it becomes one of the few economic opportunities for inhabitants. The olive fruit fly (Batrocea oleae) is considered the most devastating insect pest of olives in the world, being known in the Mediterranean region for over 2000 years and having reached every other olive oil production area throughout the time. It affects the most important competitiveness factor for this culture, the fruit quality, for both table olive and olive oil production, even with low infestation levels. All solutions developed until now have not achieved an optimal performance of the treatment together with no environmental side-effects and low cost for farmers. This is precisely the aim of DACUSNEX COMBI, a product joining the action of semiochemicals (a pheromone or other chemical that conveys a signal from one organism to another so as to modify the behaviour of the recipient organism) and specific traps. It has been already developed and tested in more than 6,000 ha of olive cultivation with perfect performance results, environmental soundness and a low cost, improving the performance of current options. The company, ECONEX, has been working for more than 25 years in the development of biocontrol solutions and is now facing the development of world commercialization of this product. To do that, the company needs to prepare for a fast and wide market uptake and to solve production constraints, finish the IP issues and develop the final commercial kit. Currently, the company has more than 8,000 customers in 27 countries and has 30 delegations in 11 different countries. With DACUSNEX COMBI, ECONEX expects to become the world leader in the control of the olive fruit fly..

Keywords: olive tree,olive fly,bio pesticide,organic,farming,bactrocera oleae
UltraCLEAN thermoforming equipment for food PACKaging, a cost-effective alternative to clean rooms (CleanPack)

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: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1372291.25
EU funding (EUR): 960603.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays only big food processors can count with aseptic packaging conditions. CleanPack the packaging machine provides the food safety standards of a clean room at a small scale. In response to our customers needs, TECSELOR has developed the CleanPack prototype that allows the ultraclean/aseptic packaging of food products which will represent a cost-effective alternative for a clean room providing the same level of food safety. CleanPack goes beyond clean rooms in terms of shelf-life extension of foods. This goal could be achieved, as the encouraging results of the CleanPack new packaging technique, which combines 3 patented technologies: sterile thermoforming and packaging, filling with surface decontamination of perishable fresh foods, and ultraclean laser cutting of trays. The integration of these techniques in a whole CleanPack machine will allow SME packaging to maintain the same level of food safety than clean rooms and extend shelf-life and freshness of their packed foods even more than big producers. The food industry sector of preparation and packaging of solid refrigerated foods such as dairy products, meat, fish, ready meals and salads or cut fruits and vegetables is demanding increasing levels of hygiene, which enable the product to be packaged with minimal microbial contamination or commercial sterility conditions (aseptically). CleanPack retains the fresh-like characteristics of foods as clean label, since no need for addition of further chemical preservatives, being able to extend the products shelf-live a minimum of 150%. The implementation of this milder technology also has the potential to reduce energy consumption, besides reducing the dependence from cold-chain logistics which enables decentralized production, adding sustainability and reducing costs in the distribution chain. Therefore, a huge array of SME food industries would achieve better products with extended shelf-life thanks to CleanPack improving the competitiveness of the sector.

Keywords: food safety,thermoforming machine,food packaging,shelf life,clean room