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New Thermodynamic for Frequency Conversion and Photovoltaics (ThforPV)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Shockley Queisser (SQ) limits the efficiency of single junction photovoltaic (PV) cells and sets the maximum efficiency for Si PV at about 30%. This is because of two constraints: i. The energy PV generates at each conversion event is set by its bandgap, irrespective of the photon’s energy. Thus, energetic photons lose most of their energy to heat. ii. PV cannot harness photons at lower energy than its bandgap. Therefore, splitting energetic photons, and fusing two photons each below the Si bandgap to generate one higher-energy photon that match the PV, push the potential efficiency above the Shockley Queisser limit. Nonlinear optics (NLO) offers efficient frequency conversion, yet it is inefficient at the intensity and the coherence level of solar and thermal radiation. Here I propose new thermodynamic concepts for frequency conversion of partially incoherent light aiming to overcome the SQ limit for single junction PVs. Specifically, I propose entropy driven up-conversion of low energy photons such as in thermal radiation to emission that matches Si PV cell. This concept is based on coupling "hot phonons" to Near-IR emitters, while the bulk remains at low temperature. As preliminary results we experimentally demonstrate entropy-driven ten-fold up-conversion of 10.6m excitation to 1m at internal efficiency of 27% and total efficiency of 10%. This is more efficient by orders of magnitude from any prior art, and opens the way for efficient up-conversion of thermal radiation. We continue by applying similar thermodynamic ideas for harvesting the otherwise lost thermalization in single junction PVs and present the concept of "optical refrigeration for ultra-efficient PV" with theoretical efficiencies as high as 69%. We support the theory by experimental validation, showing enhancement in photon energy of 107% and orders of magnitude enhancement in the number of accessible photons for high-bandgap PV. This opens the way for disruptive innovation in photovoltaics

Keywords: optical frequency conversion,photovoltaics,thermodynamic of radiation
Cutting-edge High Throughput Nanoscopy: the future of imaging is here (HT-SAFe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2019)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1718800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1203160.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Abbelight is a French company created in 2016 as a result of 20 years of academic research in microscopy for biology. The company won the H2020 SMEi1 in 2017, developed, protected and launched its high performing SAFe nanoscope solution (revenue of €1.3 million between July 2017 and June 2019), set-up a strong team of 15 full-time employees and secured €2.66 million in public funds and private equities. Today, Abbelight is planning to go further and open a new market of promising and demanding high-throughput and high-content nanoscopy together with Olympus its new distributor partner. HT-nanoscopy will become an invaluable asset in translational medicine resulting in even better diagnostic tools and new tailor-made treatments, increasing 10-fold nanoscopy client base. However, HT-nanoscopy requires an imaging output increase of 1000 times the current standard. This represents a massive technological challenge, but Abbelight is ready to answer. The key pain points to which Abbelight will respond are current lack of automation of nanoscopy workflow and lack of solution for storage, mining and analysis of huge quantity of data that will be generated by HT-nanoscopy. The Accelerator project will allow Abbelight to transform the existing manual and low-throughput SAFe nanoscopy solution to the industrial HT-SAFe: fully automated, high-throughput turnkey platform. The platform will include automated sample preparation and imaging instruments, and the new SaaS cloud for data storage, mining and analysis. This ambitious development will be done using cutting-edge automation and microfluidic technologies, as well as neural network and deep learning strategies. The Accelerator project will accelerate Abbelight’s go-to-market through faster development, earlier pre-series and larger market reach in Europe. With the objective to reach over 70 customers and a turnover of 30 M€ in 2023 Abbelight will become the leader in the new emerging HT-nanoscopy market.

Keywords: single molecule localization microscopy smlm,nanoscopy,high throughput imaging,high content,screening technology,super resolution microscopy,saas
Spin-orbit materials, emergent phenomena and related technology training (SPEAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Belgium,Sweden,France,France
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): 3975822.36
EU funding (EUR): 3975822.3600000003
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Spin Orbitronics provides a challenging and innovative framework for training early-stage researchers (ESRs) with excellent prospects for a career in industry and academia. In this promising area, the SPEAR project proposes a multidisciplinary European network, composed of 7 universities, 3 research centres and 7 small and medium sized companies, which will provide state-of-the-art training for ESRs in the field of fundamental and applied Spin Orbitronics. The overarching scientific and technological objective of our research programme is to study materials with strong spin-orbit coupling, novel phenomena in these materials, and to build devices based on these phenomena for the next generation of memories, such as magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), and beyond-CMOS technology, such as spin-orbit-based logic, machine learning or neuromorphic computing. SPEAR will train 15 ESRs through research in the physics of spin-orbit torques, spin-to-charge conversion, 2D magnetic materials, spin Hall nano-oscillators, voltage control of magnetic anisotropy, and skyrmions. The ESRs to be recruited will develop state-of-the-art technologies and materials, including device nanofabrication, high-resolution microscopies, and theoretical calculations. The results to be achieved by SPEAR are already identified to be of commercial interest for the emerging MRAM industry. Interdisciplinary secondments will be organised, including for every researcher a secondment of 3 months to the industrial sector. SPEAR will organise 5 focus topic sessions on various sub-fields in Spin Orbitronics and open them to junior researchers outside the consortium. It will also organize 5 special training sessions on transferable skills, which is of primary importance for increasing the employability of the ESRs. SPEAR ultimate goal is to train a new generation of highly-skilled researchers able to address future memory technologies and nanoelectronics beyond CMOS.

Keywords: spin orbitronics,spin orbit torques,spin hall effect,edelstein effect,skyrmions,voltage control of magnetic anisotropy,nano oscillators,topological materials,2d magnets,mram,spin logic
Smart5Grid - Demonstration of 5G solutions for SMART energy GRIDs of the future (SMART5GRID)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: 5G PPP (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Cyprus,Greece,Bulgaria,Greece,Belgium,Portugal
Call: 5G PPP – 5G innovations for verticals with third party services (H2020-ICT-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8248750.5
EU funding (EUR): 5999988.0
Participants: 30
Project status: SIGNED

5G is envisioned to be the first global technology standard that will address the variety of future use cases of the energy sector, by ensuring that both the radio and core network performance requirements can be met in terms of end-to-end latency, reliability and availability. Up-to-now, the main discussion for 5G has been to support the next wave of smart grid features and efficiency at the behind-the-meter level, by integrating many low-voltage devices into the power grid through low-cost connections, managing demand and load balance domestically, aiming the reduction of the electricity peaks and energy costs. However, it is expected that, as the emergence of smart grids will grow, a lion share of the growth will take place in the medium-voltage levels: towards secondary substations and distributed energy resources, as well as between secondary substations and primary substation. Smart5Grid aims to revolutionise the Energy Vertical industry through the successful establishment of four fundamental functions of modern smart grids, i.e., (i) automatic power distribution grid fault detection, (ii) remote inspection of automatically delimited working areas at distribution level, (iii) millisecond level precise distribution generation control, and (iv) real-time wide area monitoring in a creative cross-border scenario, thus assisting power grid operators and other energy stakeholders (e.g., smart grid operators, distribution system operators/transmission system operators, energy service providers, etc.) Not only this. Smart5Grid introduces an open 5G experimental facility, supporting integration, testing and validation of existing and new 5G services and NetApps from third parties (i.e., SMEs, developers, engineers, etc., that do not belong in the consortium) since underpinning experimentation with a fully softwarised 5G platform for the energy vertical industry is one of the key targets of the proposal. Moreover, in order to supply start-ups and newcomers with the opportunity to accelerate their growth in the high impact industry of the energy vertical, Smart5Grid provides an open access NetApp repository, provisioning support and assistance to third parties through a clear and trustworthy experimentation roadmap.

Keywords: energy vertical,netapps experimentation,open service repository,network softwarisation,devops,renewable energy sources,smart grids
HW-free indoor navigation: augmented reality app-based SW for mobile devices (IN-do)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
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

GPSis currently established in or society -it is a powerful tool that we easily use to efficiently navigate in our daily tasks. Despite its excellent precision in outdoors positioning, GPS technology is unable to locate people or objects within buildings. As of today, there is no a comparable technology that enables accurate, fast and reliable positioning indoors without the use of an expensive hardware to be pre-installed in the building to be tracked. Indeed, the lack of a standard for indoor positioning has led to the adaptation of existingtechnologies such as Bluetooth, WLAN / WI-FI or illumination (LED’s). Regardless the efforts, these technologies are not optimal for indoor positioning because (1) lack accuracy (2-5 m)and (2) require the installation of costly hardware inside the facility.INS Insider Navigation Systems GmbH(Austria)has developed IN-do,a novelsolution for mobile indoor navigation. IN-do ishardware independentandcompatible with any venueand mobile device based onreal-time optical tracking enabled by INSpatent pending HyMoTrack.Integratingfloor plan of the building with image acquisition through the device’s cameraallows final users toexperience accurate indoor positioning(cm accuracy)with dynamic navigation and augmented reality(AR)thanks to the rich virtual content.IN-do’s excellence will increase visibility, productivity and profitability of large business areas such as airports, malls, museums, and large industrial facilitiesboosting their growth bylocation sharing, asset tracking, emergency management, navigation, and advertising context-aware delivery.In 2016 Frost and Sullivan describedIN-do as thetechnology with the highest market opportunity forindoor navigation.Thesetechnologies will grow at an impressive 37% rate to reach €18 billion globally by 2021. IN-do uniqueness will drive the profitability of INSto generate €23.7 million accumulated revenue.

Keywords: indoor navigation,augmented reality adds,accuracy,indoor positioning,hymotrack
Functional Keratin Kerasol (KERASOL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Keratin as a key structural material has been used in cosmetics as a raw material in skin and hair care products in a generalized way since several years, marking a trend in all cosmetic manufacturers offering keratin treatment lines. The human body takes advantage of this cosmetic contribution of keratin through contact with products that Incorporate it, getting the protein to adhere to the damaged areas in order to regenerate the skin and hair. Now, although the exploitation of these keratin sources is a well-known industrial process, most of the methods of obtaining keratin from agricultural waste are based on very aggressive thermal or chemical treatments. As a result of the aggressiveness of these treatments, the protein obtained is much denatured and has lost most of the properties that make keratin a protein of industrial interest. In this context with our project, we bring to the market a new solution, which will not only reduce the environmental impact of a waste produced in slaughterhouses, but optimize the keratin production process for cosmetics purposes too, in a sustainable, reliable and cost-effective way Based on an exclusive patent whose rights we have acquired, we obtain a new keratin product as no one has yet achieved it. By its method of obtaining we have got a unique product in the world that preserves all the functional properties of keratin and therefore its bio availability for the human being. We obtain our product at a low cost thanks to the low energy needs in the production and to the raw material that we use at cost 0, the hair and the hooves of pigs, a residual waste of meat processing. Our processing plant will produce 1.500Kg/day of keratin KERASOL, a registered trademark of our property, which will make the difference in the cosmetic keratin market valued at €500M in 2017 an estimated to reach €600M by 2023. This will give us an annual net income of €5 million/year with a production of 386 tons/year for each plant installed.

Keywords: keratin,fiber,waste,protein,functional,hydrolysis,cosmetics,hair repair,slaughterhouses,environment,pig hair,hoof,by products,processes,patent,rendering plant,industrial
BIOfuels production from Syngas FERmentation for Aviation and maritime use (BioSFerA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Alternative fuels and mobile energy sources
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,Spain,Greece,Finland,Belgium,Greece,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Development of next generation biofuel and alternative renewable fuel technologies for aviation and shipping (H2020-LC-SC3-2019-NZE-RES-CC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998653.75
EU funding (EUR): 4998653.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

BioSFerA aims to develop a cost-effective interdisciplinary technology to produce sustainable aviation and maritime fuels. Thus, biogenic residues and wastes will be gasified and the syngas will be fermented to produce bio-based triacylglycerides (TAGs). Bio-fuels will be produced via TAG hydrotreatment. The overall process, combining thermochemical, biological and thermocatalytic parts is based on the gasification of biomass and other biogenic waste in a Dual Fluidized Bed gasifier and the 2-stage fermentation of the produced syngas. Through this process the syngas is converted to acetate (1st stage) and then the acetate is converted to TAGs (2nd stage). The produced TAGs contained medium and long fatty acids are hydrotreated and isomerized after the necessary separation and purification and the end-products are jet- and bunker-like biofuels, respectively. BioSFerA aims to evolve the proposed technology from TRL3 to TRL5. In the TRL3 phase, extensive lab scale tests will take place in order to optimize the process and increase its feedstock flexibility in terms of non-food bio-based blends. The best acetogenic bacterial strain will be identified based on its tolerance to syngas contaminants. Moreover, oleaginous yeasts will be genetically modified to convert the acetate derived from the first stage into C14 and C16-18 TAGs. Then, building upon lab tests, the pilot scale runs (TRL5) will investigate the overall process. At least two barrels of Hydrotreated TAGs will be produced as drop-in biofuels for aviation and marine. By exploiting the synergies between biological and thermochemical technologies, BioSFerA achieves a total carbon utilization above 35% and a minimum selling price <0.7-0.8 €/l. A process model of the overall BioSFerA process will be developed exploiting the know-how gained during piloting and used for realistic up-scaling calculations. Finally, techno-economic, market, environmental social and health and safety risk assessments will be performed.

Keywords: gasification,dual fluidized bed,biogenic residues,gas fermentation,acetate fermentation,microbial oil hydrotreatment,pilot testing
Sail PLAn service for energy efficient SHipping (SPLASH) - innovative and revolutionary sail planning (SPLASH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Anguilla
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Shipping and offshore are in great need for energy efficient methods, whereby optimised voyage planning and weather routing are among the two most well-known. The main challenge today is that while there are several prospective and useful solutions out there, a uniform or standardised procedure to evaluate fuel and emission gain or loss by implementing one or another solution is lacking. Consequently, it is impossible for a ship owner/operator/charterer to know if a vessel saves more fuel or reduce more emissions by integrating solution X or solution Y. This in turn impedes the industry's ability to adapt their operations to become more environmentally friendly as well as more efficient. It also hinders new innovations (such as the results of several EU projects referenced within this proposal) to successfully be absorbed or bought by the industry. The primary project objective is to conduct a feasibility study of a generic fuel consumption module (FCM) that accurately estimate fuel consumption burning rate of any ship under various environmental conditions. It will evaluate if one fuel/emission saving solution is more favourable than another. The FCM can be integrated into an existing sail plan service for routing optimisation based on already established weather module inputs. The final objective is to prepare a business plan for the commercialisation of the ‘standalone’ FCM as well as the integrated sail plan service containing the FCM.

Keywords: energy efficiency,shipping,sail planning,remote sensing
Improving Resilience to Emergencies through Advanced Cyber Technologies (I-REACT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Italy,Italy,Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Finland,Norway,Serbia,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Crisis management topic 1: potential of current and new measures and technologies to respond to extreme weather and climate events (H2020-DRS-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6655277.5
EU funding (EUR): 5393866.75
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

Society as a whole is increasingly exposed and vulnerable to natural disasters because extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, are becoming more frequent and longer. To increase the resilience of European citizens and assets to natural disaster we propose I-REACT: Improving Resilience to Emergencies through Advanced Cyber Technologies. The proposed system targets public administration authorities, private companies, as well as citizens in order to provide increased resilience to natural disasters though better analysis and anticipation, effective and fast emergency response, increased awareness and citizen engagement. I-REACT integrates existing services, both local and European, into a platform that supports the entire emergency management cycle. Leveraging on innovative cyber technologies and ICT systems, I-REACT will be able to enable early planning of disaster risk reduction actions, achieve effective preparedness thanks to risk assessment and early warnings, and efficiently manage emergency responses by empowering first-responders with up-to-date situational information and by engaging citizens through crowdsourcing approaches and social media analysis. I-REACT will integrate multiple systems and European assets, including the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS), the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), and European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (E-GNSS), e.g. Galileo and EGNOS.I-REACT will be structured as a user-driven project, integrating the requirements from all main stakeholders as well as the guidelines that emerged during European workshops and seminars related to emergency management. I-REACT services will also enable new business development opportunities around natural disasters triggered by extreme weather conditions, which will reduce the number of affected people and loss of life, lowering the environmental and economic costs due to damaged assets within society.

Keywords: bigdata,egnos,copernicus,galileo,decision support system,resilience,risks,climate change,extreme weather events,early warning,natural disasters,awareness,crowdsourcing,social media