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Multi-Use offshore platforms demoNstrators for boostIng cost-effecTive and Eco-friendly proDuction in sustainable marine activities (UNITED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Cross-cutting marine and maritime research
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Greece,Greece,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark,Portugal
Call: Multi-use of the marine space, offshore and near-shore: pilot demonstrators (H2020-BG-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11373761.13
EU funding (EUR): 9822668.5
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

The UNITED (multi-Use platforms and co-locatioN pilots boosting cost-effecTive, and Eco-friendly and sustainable production in marine environments) project provides evidence by means of pilot demonstrators that the development of multi-use platforms or co-location of different activities in a marine and ocean space is a viable approach (economically, socially and environmentally) for European maritime industry and local ecosystems. The main activities centre around 5 pillars defined through the BG-05 call (i.e. Technology, Economy, Legal/Governance/Policy, Society, and Environment). The technological pillar comprises the need for synchronization of multiple operation and maintenance systems, local market stakeholders impact, support in management and planning decisions for new developments, as well as improvements in current design, safety and infrastructure set-ups for multi-use extensions. The economic pillar will investigate insurance issues, profitability/threshold to finance/investment pay off of multi-use developments while also paying consideration to risk/health impact on business, zoning and offshore, and economic sustainability. The Legal/Policy/Governance pillar focuses on the lack of dialogue between public institutions which issue permits; the lack of health and safety regulation and standards for multi-use, zoning and offshore as well as the absence of a framework for legal responsibility in multi-use. The societal pillar includes societal debates and concerns, societal perception of multi-use social preference of multi-use versus single use, societal ownership and acceptance issues, trust issues between sectors, required improvements in professional skills and competences. The environmental pillar includes determining the impacts of the various structure designs and the overall environmental feasibility of the pilot site developments and implementation regimes.
The Inter-Nationalist (INT-NAT)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-12-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171473.28
EU funding (EUR): 171473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Inter-Nationalist explores the complex nexus between right wing populism in South Asia and the global networks that have contributed to its success, as well as their implications for populism in the Global North. The urgency of this project is evident in the rise of populism in different parts of the world, necessitating an exploration of transnational networks. The uniqueness of this project is its focus on South Asian populist networks in the UK and US. The study focuses on the Indian ruling political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in relation to its international affiliates the Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP), and the Pakistani ruling political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its Office of International Chapters-PTI (OIC-PTI), as located in London and New York. The study makes an innovative contribution to major EU policies including ‘crisis management in fragile countries’, ‘combating discrimination’, ‘justice and fundamental rights’, ‘foreign affairs and security’, and ‘gender equality’. The project uses mixed methods with the objective to map horizontal and vertical trajectories of these network thereby creating a multidimensional framework, to examine diversity within these groups in relation to gender, religion, ethnicity, caste, class, sect and sexualities, and to explore intergenerational differences through younger members of these groups and members of Indian and Pakistani university student societies. The study also examines support of such groups for populists in the UK and US. Trained as a qualitative researcher focusing on securitization and education in the UK and Pakistan, the ER will expand her interdisciplinary skills across Sociology, International Relations, Political Science and Human and Political Geography. She will publish three journal articles and a monograph, with the aim of expanding this research through future grants, and securing a tenure-track job.

Keywords: right wing populism,transnationalism,hindutva,diaspora,islamophobia,critical ethnic studies
The Power of Randomization in Uncertain Environments (UncertainENV)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Much of the research on the foundations of graph algorithms is carried out under the assumption that the algorithm has full knowledge of the input data. In spite of the theoretical appeal and simplicity of this setting, the assumption that the algorithm has full knowledge does not always hold. Indeed uncertainty and partial knowledge arise in many settings. One example is where the data is very large, in which case even reading the entire data once is infeasible, and sampling is required. Another example is where data changes occur over time (e.g., social networks where information is fluid). A third example is where processing of the data is distributed over computation nodes, and each node has only local information. Randomization is a powerful tool in the classic setting of graph algorithms with full knowledge and is often used to simplify the algorithm and to speed-up its running time. However, physical computers are deterministic machines, and obtaining true randomness can be a hard task to achieve. Therefore, a central line of research is focused on the derandomization of algorithms that relies on randomness. The challenge of derandomization also arise in settings where the algorithm has some degree of uncertainty. In fact, in many cases of uncertainty the challenge and motivation of derandomization is even stronger. Randomization by itself adds another layer of uncertainty, because different results may be attained in different runs of the algorithm. In addition, in many cases of uncertainty randomization often comes with additional assumptions on the model itself, and therefore weaken the guarantees of the algorithm. In this proposal I will investigate the power of randomization in uncertain environments. I will focus on two fundamental areas of graph algorithms with uncertainty. The first area relates to dynamic algorithms and the second area concerns distributed graph algorithms.

Keywords: graph algorithms,distributed computing,dynamic algorithms,randomized algorithms
Computational Propaganda: Investigating the Impact of Algorithms and Bots on Political Discourse in Europe (COMPROP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1980112.0
EU funding (EUR): 1980112.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Social media can have an impressive impact on civic engagement and political discourse. Yet increasingly we find political actors using digital media and automated scripts for social control. Computational propaganda—through bots, botnets, and algorithms—has become one of the most concerning impacts of technology innovation. Unfortunately, bot identification and impact analysis are among the most difficult research challenges facing the social and computer sciences. COMPROP objectives are to advance a) rigorous social and computer science on bot use, b) critical theory on digital manipulation and political outcomes, c) our understanding of how social media propaganda impacts social movement organization and vitality. This project will innovate through i) “real-time” social and information science actively disseminated to journalists, researchers, policy experts and the interested public, ii) the first detailed data set of political bot activity, iii) deepened expertise through cultivation of a regional expert network able to detect bots and their impact in Europe. COMPROP will achieve this through multi-method and reflexive work packages: 1) international qualitative fieldwork with teams of bot makers and computer scientists working to detect bots; 2a) construction of an original event data set of incidents of political bot use and 2b) treatment of the data set with fuzzy set and traditional statistics; 3) computational theory for detecting political bots and 4) a sustained dissemination strategy. This project will employ state-of-the-art “network ethnography” techniques, use the latest fuzzy set / qualitative comparative statistics, and advance computational theory on bot detection via cutting-edge algorithmic work enhanced by new crowd-sourcing techniques. Political bots are already being deployed over social networks in Europe. COMPROP will put the best methods in social and computer science to work on the size of the problem and the possible solutions.

Keywords: political communication,socio computational systems
Seismic Moment and Recurrence (SMR) using Luminescence Dating Techniques (SMR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Greece,Japan
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 254871.0
EU funding (EUR): 254871.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

During a seismic-geodynamic process, frictional heating and pressure are generated on sediments fragments resulting in deformation and alteration of minerals contained in them. The luminescence signal enclosed in minerals crystal lattice can be affected and even zeroed during such an event. This has been breakthrough in geochronological studies as it could be utilized as a chronometer for the previous seismic activity of a tectonically active area. Although the employment of luminescence dating has in some cases been successfully described, a comprehensive study outlining and defining protocols for routine luminescence dating applied to neotectonic studies has not been forthcoming. This is due to the fact that the required resetting mechanism of minerals luminescence signal under the influence of friction caused by the relative motion of a fault has been poorly investigated. The proposed project is the experimental investigation, recording and parameterization of the effects of tectonic phenomena on minerals luminescence signal and the development of detailed protocols for the standardization of the luminescence methodology for directly dating deformed geological formations, so that the long-term temporal behaviour of seismically active faults could be reasonably understood and modeled. This will be achieved by: a) identifying and proposing brittle fault zone materials suitable for luminescence dating using a multi-analytical approach which combines Petrological, Mineralogical and Chemical analyses, b) investigating the “zeroing” potential of the luminescence signal of minerals contained in fault zone materials by employing experimental simulations of tectonic processes in the laboratory, combined with luminescence measurements on samples collected from real fault zones (not subject to laboratory simulations). The proposed project will provide new tools for geo-hazards evaluations, adding to the efforts for “Securing societies” and contributing to EU sustainability.

Keywords: geochronology,luminescence dating,seismology
Smart Autonomous Robotic Assistant Surgeon (SARAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Robotics SPARC (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Austria,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: System abilities, SME & benchmarking actions, safety certification (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4225831.25
EU funding (EUR): 4225831.25
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Currently during a laparoscopic operation, several units of medical personnel are requested to stay in the operating room for supporting the main surgeon teleoperating the surgical robot. In particular one assistant is always present for taking care of simple surgical procedures (e.g. aspiration of dead tissue after a cut in laparoscopy, moving organs or tissue to make room for cutting or suturing) that the leading surgeon cannot perform with the laparoscopic tools s/he is teleoperating. It is common that an expert surgeon has to play the role of an assistant during an operation led by another surgeon. Furthermore, the assistant is performing critical tasks only for the 30% of the time of the operation and s/he has to stand, waiting, most of the time. Considering the hourly cost of a surgeon, the current practice is very inefficient from an economic point of view but also from a social point of view, leading to unnecessary long waiting lists. The goal of the project is to develop a surgical robotic platform that allows to decrease the number of surgeons necessary for one operation, increasing the social and economic efficiency of a hospital and guaranteeing the same level of safety for the patients. We will focus on laparoscopic surgery, where the surgeon is teleoperating a surgical robot for executing some procedure (e.g. nephrectomy, prostatectomy). The goal of the project is to develop a surgical robotic platform that allows only one surgeon to execute R-MIS operations. SARAS will develop: 1. two assistive robotic arms designed to implement the tasks currently done by the assistant surgeon by holding off-the shelf laparoscopic instruments, 2. a cooperative and cognitive supervisor system able to infer the actual state of the procedure by analysing the information coming from the sensing system and to act accordingly with the surgeon’s needs. Having these technologies available we are in a position to develop a solo surgery system.
The New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early Modern South India (NEEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2009153.0
EU funding (EUR): 2009153.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Southern India in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries comprised a single, strongly interwoven, multilingual cultural world that generated innovative literary, musical, theatrical and visual masterpieces as well as a theoretical erudite literature that explored the aesthetic and philosophical bases of these new works. New literary genres such as the compact, self-contained prabandha narratives crossed linguistic boundaries, emerging in and rapidly coming to dominate Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and the trans-local languages of Sanskrit, Persian, Marathi and Dakhni. Such texts, seen together with major genres evolving in the other expressive domains (the early varnams and kirttanas in music, the great mural paintings of the Tamil and Karnataka regions, Kudiyattam drama), were building blocks of an eco-system whose rules, themes, forms, and intertextual relations have never been studied as a whole. We propose to explore this large corpus in relation to the new grammars of language, poetics, music, drama, and painting that evolved at the same time. Among major themes common to all these traditions are the interiority and states of mind of the individual human person, the question of how such a person is created and fashioned, the problem of the fate or destiny that a person faces or generates out of himself or herself, and the autonomy of the natural world within which he or she lives and acts. All the major expressive domains, with their thematic and theoretical continuities, give voice to a historic shift in the dynamics and underlying axioms of south Indian civilization at the start of the modern age; this shift becomes fully articulate and apparent only when we see the expressive eco-system as a whole.

Keywords: south india,tamil,telugu,malayalam,kannada,sanskrit,persian,carnatic music,kerala theatre,kutiyattam,deccan sultanates,prabandha,poetics,grammar,dakhni,musicology
Autonomous emergency manoeuvring and movement monitoring for road transport security (TransSec)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Austria,Spain
Call: EGNSS Transport applications (H2020-GALILEO-GSA-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3007613.75
EU funding (EUR): 2527229.38
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The TransSec project addresses a new danger in European countries, the increasing number of terror attacks. Recent terror attacks with trucks in Nice and Berlin have shown drastically the damage a heavy truck can cause, how easy it is to misuse a truck for attacks and that newest safety systems cannot prevent these attacks. As a consequence road transport safety has to be supplemented by road transport security. TransSec aims to initiate the development of this Security Truck. The project objective is: Development and evaluation of systems built-in or to be used by trucks for secure road transport of (dangerous) goods. Preventing trucks and transport of goods to be misused for other purposes such as terror attacks. Specific objectives are: • Precise vehicle positioning and navigation on road (lane) and off road • Vehicle movement monitoring for dangerous goods with critical area alarm/eCall • Vehicle communication security for critical information exchange • Onboard precrash environment detection of vulnerable objects on/ off road • Non-defeatable autonomous emergency manoeuvring for crash prevention on/off road The implementation is done in an explorative and incremental development cycle with early prototypes adding functionality step by step. Demonstrations with a truck on and off road will show solutions after 12, 24 and 36 months. Testing and pilots on public roads and public areas will prove a higher level of security.

Keywords: truck,terror attacks,nice,berlin,truck security,non defeatable autonomous emergency manoeuvring,ecall,critical area alarm,precise vehicle positioning,on road,off road,crash prevention
Action “Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SME's in the Enterprise Europe Network” (EEN INNO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Serbia,Serbia,Serbia
Call: INNOSUP (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14437.5
EU funding (EUR): 11550.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Fifteen Serbian SMEs will be provided with the 7-day service packages out of which 10 companies will be in the innovating SMEs client group while 5 will belong to the group of beneficiaries of the SME instrument. Selection of the SMEs will be done in the following way: 10 SMEs with the best innovation performances will be selected for enhancement segment, accompanied with additional 5 SMEs who have successfully applied for SME instrument. Seven members Jury consisting of the experts from EEN Serbia consortium, representing each of the seven partners in EEN Serbia will make final selection. Seven members Jury will include three coaches /experts who will lead the action plan implementation in this project, described in WP1 and WP2. The engagement on WP1 will be divided into three phases: internal capacity building; KAM service provision for 5 SMEs (7 day-packages). meaning either support for SMEs qualifying for SME instrument, or provision of further support for accessing other financial instruments in case of failing for entering SME instrument; and integration and follow up(s). The engagement on WP2 will be conducted through assessment and needs/gap analysis, after which the coaching session will start. Coaching session will combine three days coaching session in relevant topics for development of IPs for 10 SMEs and two days coaching session one-to-one with the each of 10 SME. Fourth day of one-to-one coaching will be delivered within three weeks of coaching in relevant topics for IPs while the fifth coaching day will be delivered in the course of project duration in order to identify appropriate international/nation call for proposals. Assessment work and dissemination of relevant information will involve all seven partners in EEN Serbia consortium. WP1 will be done by partner 4 (UBG) while WP2 will be performed by partner 2 (MPI) and partner 3 (UNS). The action is coordinated by partner 1 (NARD).

Keywords: innovation management system,service package