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The European IoT HUb - Growing a sustainable and comprehensive ecosystem for Next Generation Internet of Things (EU-IoT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Denmark,Luxembourg
Call: Next Generation Internet of Things (H2020-ICT-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997293.75
EU funding (EUR): 1997293.75
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

EU-IoT will act as an accelerator for the whole European IoT ecosystem towards transforming the current IoT community of researchers and innovators in Europe into an increasingly cohesive, dynamic, participatory and sustainable ecosystem, as an essential part of the Next Generation Internet initiative. It will intervene to assist stakeholders to engage and create value, as well as set up a self-sustaining European IoT community. This requires tackling a number of challenges related to the complex interplay among stakeholders and the many relevant initiatives. The overarching need is the consolidation of fragmented IoT verticals and the still disconnected research and technology domains. To this purpose, EU-IoT set up a strong consortium and plan of action for the establishment of an open and inclusive ecosystem facilitating interactions of all players, know-how exchange, creation of strategic partnerships and durable liaisons. Agility of planning and action is paramount to meet the demand and needs of an ecosystem that is in continuous transformation. EU-IoT will a) help to create a common strategy aligned with the NGI vision to achieve the H2020 goals, while supporting the transition to Horizon Europe; b) foster synergies, liaisons and exchange among all key players in the European landscape; c) support and coordinate outreach and impact creation activities of upcoming ICT-56 projects and Large Scale Pilots; d) pave the way for the development of business models, innovation activities and skills building that lower adoption and deployment barriers for IoT solutions; e) provide a collaborative framework, including content, tools and processes, to engage all EU researchers, developers, integrators and users, thus overcoming fragmentation and assisting further development of a strong European IoT-empowered economy as core building block of the Digital Single Market and Digital Europe altogether.

Keywords: research and innovation roadmap,community building,communication task force,impact assessment,skills development,standardization,pre standardization,next generation internet
Koç University Transplant Immunology Research Center of Excellence (TIREX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: ERA chairs
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: ERA Chairs (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020-6, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499937.5
EU funding (EUR): 2499937.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The strategic goal of TIREX is to place KU School of Medicine (KU SoM) at the forefront of Transplant Immunology Research, Development and Innovation (R&D+I) by the establishment of a Transplant Immunology Research Centre of Excellence, anchored in Istanbul. The Centre will entail the vision and ambition to: (i) fully leverage on the considerable national and South-Eastern Europe potential in the research and clinical field of transplant immunology, (ii) liaison and act as a Key Knowledge Hub to link local and regional research capacities in the field with the main European Centres of Excellence; (iii) provide a direct interface with well-established international research and clinical communities in particular in Middle-East and Asia, and (iv) effectively address the health, demographic change and wellbeing societal national, regional and European challenges through successive scientific advancements. Furthermore, TIREX is expected to help KU design and deploy a sustainable structural change management process that will be initiated with the recruitment of the ERA Chair Holder and its team of promising researchers and which will be in line with the ERA priorities and best practices that similar European outstanding institutions apply to promote scientific and research excellence.

Keywords: transplant immunology research,pre treatment and improvement of preservation of the donor,organ,post transplant care,prevention and treatment of sensitisation in patients with a failing,transplan
Investigating the electron uptake mechanisms of bacteria on bio-cathodes for microbial electrosynthesis (BioCat)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-01-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159815.04
EU funding (EUR): 159815.04
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project „BioCat“ investigates electron uptake mechanisms of electroactive bacteria catalyzing reduction processes on biocathodes at the protein membrane level. Thus, the project will significantly contribute to the basic understanding and optimization of microbial electrosynthesis. The driving force for the increasing interest in microbial electrosynthesis is the intriguing capacity of this technology to produce high value chemicals from carbon dioxide and electricity. This conversion addresses carbon capture and storage issues of renewable power sources and will contribute to a carbon neutral economy and society. The project will be conducted at the Inorganic Biochemistry and NMR group (IBN) of the ITQB NOVA in Lisbon with a secondment at the University of Tübingen at the Laboratory of Prof.Dr. Lars Angenent. BioCat is divided into three main objectives. First of all a basic understanding of the role of c-type cytochromes and the indirect or direct nature of the electron transfer will be investigated with Shewanella oneidensis. Subsequently Sporomusa ovata and its membrane proteins carrying out electron transfer are studied, while the production of acetate from CO2 is monitored. Both will be analyzed as a function of operating parameters (electrode potential and pH). To round up the project, an optimized continuous run prototype reactor will be operated and characterized. The project will enable the researcher Joana Madjarov to get trained in the whole chain of basic to applied research. The main focus lies in the fundamental biochemical research, but the project directly links the findings to application relevant acetate production yields and efficiency.

Keywords: bioelectrochemistry,microbial electrosynthesis,bio cathode,acetate,electron transfer,mechanisms,outer membrane proteins,carbon capture
The geometry of Higgs bundles (GoH)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-11-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Higgs bundles play a fundamental role in the current panorama of mathematics and theoretical physics through their many connections. Amongst the latter is the link with the geometric Langlands programme, a suitable generalization of the relation between a curve and its Picard variety, which moreover admits a natural quantum field theoretical interpretation. According to this, any G- local system on a curve yields a perverse sheaf on the moduli stack of G*-bundles (where G* is the Langlands dual to G). A simpler (abelianised) version of the geometric Langlands programme has been proven for Higgs bundles by Donagi and Pantev. A programme initiated by these two scientists aims at inducing the full Langlands correspondence from its abelianised version. Building on the work of the researcher and the hosts, we will fill in the gaps of this program and provide alternative tools broadening the current state of the art also beyond this action. In doing so, we will study central elements of the geometry of Higgs bundles from a new perspective. More precisely, we will give a way to understand the Bialynicki-Birula stratification via algebraic techniques, and, related to that, carefully study the irreducible components of the nilpotent cone, applying also the theory of SU(p,q)-Higgs bundles. Finally, we will explore the case of positive characteristic, with the aim to shed light on the Hecke eigenproperty in this setting.

Keywords: moduli spaces,higgs bundles,geometric langlands programme,nilpotent cone,bialynicki birula,stratification
Automated 3D Thermal Imaging of Industrial Plants and Residential Buildings by Drones (THERMIDRONE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain,Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

At TECHNIDRONE we develop and manufacture cutting edge technology for the small UAV industry sector. Together with IDEYA, an engineering company specialised in the environmental and energy efficiency sector, we have a strategic vision relying the design and development of an automatic vision UAV system able to collect images of buildings and structures in three dimensions (3D) and to include thermal profiling in order to produce 3D thermal models giving useful information for different applications, such as industrial or urban area energy auditing. Current energy audits represents the thermal radiation from the objects using infrared thermal pictures in two dimensions (2D) taken from the ground. However 2D images are not sufficiency accurate and lacks information on the geometry and location of objects preventing any quantitative calculation of the actual energy performance losses. Moreover, terrestrial images do not get any building-envelope scans, so cannot really determine if the envelope or which part on it is indeed the culprit. However, up to 25% of the energy leaks at home are usually lost through the roof, and other 35% through the walls. In that sense, the solution that we propose using 3D thermal images taken by UAVs is actually the only way to detect such losses on the roof and top of the walls. In addition, by the utilization of innovative vision technologies we will be able to produce 3D-reconstruction of buildings and structures from images from drones in which thermal imaging overlay will be applied to generate precise 3D models of objects with augmented temperature and visible information. Such information will allow the accurate thermal analysis, calculation of energy losses and can lead to energy savings up to 30-40% compared to current energy auditing methods.

Keywords: thermal imaging,thermography,3d modelling,energy audit,drone,energy efficiency
Magnification of Asthma by human memory Group 2 Innate lymphoid Cells (MAGIC)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Allergen-sensitized individuals may develop chronic airway inflammation, typically found in asthmatic patients. This process is thought to be mediated by the generation of antigen-specific memory Th2 cells, which respond stronger during subsequent encounters with the same allergen. The characterization of memory T cells has led to the development of vaccination therapies to produce desensitization towards specific antigens. However, these treatments are not always effective as some asthmatic patients respond to a wide range of allergens in a non-specific manner. The causes for this non-specific allergic response are currently unknown. This action postulates that Group 2 innate lymphoid cells, critical players in lung allergic inflammation, fill this gap of knowledge. The researcher showed that allergen-experienced mouse lung ILC2s acquire memory functions: remember previous allergen exposures and react stronger upon subsequent exposure to an unrelated allergen. The goal of this proposal is to demonstrate that human memory ILC2s are involved in asthma exacerbation and that IL-25 might be a target to ameliorate memory ILC2-mediated lung inflammation in these patients. The supervisor is an expert in human ILCs. Humanized mice will be used to define the phenotype and function of human memory ILC2 and the results will be further validated on peripheral blood and sputum samples from asthmatic patients. Asthma is considered by the World Health Organization the most common chronic lung disease worldwide with a substantial social and economic burden due to its high rate of under-diagnosis and under-treatment. Specific focus will be to raise awareness of clinicians and pharmaceutical companies about the potential of memory ILC2 as a target to improve diagnosis and treatment. This project will translate the researcher’s knowledge in to a human setting and provide a wealth of data to obtain further funding and become a research group leader in Europe.

Keywords: innate lymphoid cells,allergy,asthma,type 2 inflammation,immunological memory
Educating for Equitable Health Outcomes- the Promise of School Health and Physical Education (EDUHEALTH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Norway,New Zealand,Sweden
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 112500.0
EU funding (EUR): 67500.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Educating for Equitable Health Outcomes - the Promise of School Health and Physical Education (EDUHEALTH) is a collaborative research project that will build on an existing working relationship and create long-lasting networks between three universities in Sweden, Norway and New Zealand. The project’s primary goal is to make a meaningful contribution to the European Union (EU) strategy to promote physical activity and health for all citizens. The World Health Organisation (WHO) states that everybody has the right to attain ‘health’ and advocates ‘equal health’ for all citizens of all nations. As researchers of Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) and Health and Physical Education (HPE) we recognise that HPE plays a crucial role in attaining this goal. However, the way HPE is taught and conceptualised does not always provide equitable health outcomes across gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion and social class. The EDUHEALTH project aims to contribute to improved individual and societal health by examining the role that school HPE can play in contributing to equitable health outcomes for the people of the EU and beyond. Our common understanding and experiences of working with socially-critical perspectives in PETE draws us together and provides a shared belief that health equity goals could be more effectively reached when socially-critical perspectives are at the core of HPE pedagogy. EDUHEALTH aims to share knowledge and study HPE teachers practices from a ‘bottom-up’ perspective by observing in schools. More specifically, by drawing on a Critical Incident Technique (CIT) methodology we will identity effective/productive socially-critical HPE teaching practices. These practices will be used to develop intervention strategies that are intended to assist teachers in other HPE contexts to further refine and develop their practices to become more inclusive and engaging thus helping contribute to healthier citizens and societies.

Keywords: health,physical activity,equity,social justice,physical education,teacher education,critical incident technique
Kolibri – Ultra-Small Plasmonic Modulators for Terabit Communications (Kolibri)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2020-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Polariton Technologies Ltd.'s objective is to deliver the world's fastest and smallest modulators, overcoming the current limitations in telecommunications and sensing applications. In particular, we address the transport bottleneck due to faster evolution in electronic signal generation than in fiber optical transport capability. Modulators that are key components in today’s communication infrastructure perform the conversion from an electrical signal to an optical signal. Today’s electro-optic modulators cannot deliver the speed required for future high-speed telecommunications; they are too large in footprint and hence expensive in fabrication, and energy inefficient. All of this is caused by the photonic nature of current electro-optic modulators. Through recent advances in our endeavor, we could demonstrate plasmonic modulators that are 10 times faster and 100 times smaller than current devices. Further, our devices are extremely energy efficient, thus reducing the carbon footprint for future telecommunication systems. Coming out of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Polariton Technologies Ltd. is a newly incorporated start-up. Our preliminary results and the echo from our partners make us confident that we are on the right way for closing the gaps with respect to our objectives. We are currently on the way to prepare the first pilots. In order to produce the first devices we still need to invest in R&D in different sectors to achieve the stability and the ideal packaging for the different applications. The expected outcome of this feasibility study is to have reached TRL6 with demonstrations of the technology in relevant environment. The EU funding will accelerate market entry by supporting to solve the remaining technical and business related challenges that are relevant to the industry.

Keywords: plasmonics,modulators
Integrated mineral technologies for more sustainable raw material supply (ITERAMS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,South Africa,Germany,Spain,Finland,Finland,Finland,Türkiye,Finland,Finland,France,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: New solutions for sustainable production of raw materials (H2020-SC5-2016-OneStageB, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7915364.25
EU funding (EUR): 7915364.25
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of ITERAMS is to develop a proof of concept for more environmentally friendly and economic mine site operations, in Europe and globally. For that, the ITERAMS project focuses on the isolation of process waters completely from the adjacent water systems. This will require development of new methods for optimising and controlling water qualities at each process step. As a bonus, this will also facilitate the recovery of additional valuable constituents. The ITERAMS project will develop research and dimensioning protocols suitable for use at the mines processing different ores. In this context, validation of the concepts will have an essential role. In the planned project, it will be performed at selected mine sites processing sulphide ores, although the concepts will be generic and thus also suitable for other types of ores like gold, rare earth, and phosphate ores. The closure of water cycles at each process stage will inevitably increase their thermodynamical and kinetic unstability (as is also the case with conventional tailing ponds). In addition, water temperatures will also increase, causing higher bacterial growth, especially for iron and sulphur oxidising species. This will result in a dynamic situation that has never so far been worked on. The ITERAMS project will create new academic and industrial knowledge and capabilities to tackle such questions. The tightly closed water cycles can be realised only if the tailings can be filtered and stacked dry. ITERAMS will demonstrate the use of geopolymerisation to create water and oxygen tight covers on the deposited tailings. For that, the tailings streams will be modified for their easier geopolymerisation. The ITERAMS water and waste efficient methods will be validated at mine sites in Finland, in Portugal and additionally either in Chile or South Africa.

Keywords: water quality,geopolymerization