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Variational approach to the regularity of the free boundaries (VAREG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1330325.0
EU funding (EUR): 1330325.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The focus of this project is the regularity theory of free boundary problems. This is a fascinating topic, which combines methods from Analysis and Geometry, and has numerous applications to a large variety of problems in Physics, Engineering and Economy, which involve partial differential equations on domains whose boundary is free, that is, it is not a priori known. Typical examples are the Stefan problem, describing the evolution of a block of melting ice, and the American stock options. Since the shape of the boundary is free, it is a deep and usually extremely difficult question to study its fine structure. The regularity theory is precisely the art of deducing the local structure of the free boundary just by looking at a global energy-minimization property of the state function. In this project I aim to develop new techniques to study the regularity of the free boundaries and to give a precise description of the structure of the free boundaries around singular points. I will introduce a new variational method for the analysis of the free boundaries, aiming to solve several major open questions related to the classical one-phase, two-phase and the vectorial Bernoulli problems, the obstacle and thin-obstacle problems, which are the most important models both from a theoretical and applicative point of view. The techniques that I will develop in this project will have an impact on several domains, including the minimal surfaces, harmonic maps, free discontinuity problems, parabolic and non-local free boundary problems.

Keywords: free boundary,regularity,singularities,one phase,alt caffarelli,two phase,alt caffarelli friedman,obstacle problem,thin obstacle problem,epiperimetric inequality,monotonicity formulas,shape optimization
Nanoparticle and Multielement Quantification in Single Cells: Exploring New Analytical Methods (NanoMuSiC)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 131104.8
EU funding (EUR): 131104.8
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Genetically identical cells observed as a population can be significantly heterogeneous when studied individually, and this heterogeneity can change the behavior of entire cell populations. In particular, some trace elements play important roles in cell processes. Classical analytical methods to measure (trace) elemental composition in cells (naturally present or taken up by them, e.g. nanoparticles) provide information only about the average of the cell population thus disregarding important cell-to-cell variances. In this context, single-cell inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry has been gaining special attention to evaluate elements and nanoparticles as well as multiparameters in single cells. However, our currently available information and quantitative data on multielemental composition and uptake of toxic elemental species and metal oxide nanoparticles in single cells are still scarce. NanoMuSiC project will develop new sensitive and accurate analytical methods based on the coupling between a microdroplet generator to the state-of-the-art inductively coupled plasma-time of flight-mass spectrometry for multielement quantification and for evaluating the uptake of elemental species and metal-based nanoparticles in single cells. These methods will be applied to proof-of-concept ecotoxicological applications employing diatoms (single cells) and environmentally relevant elemental species and nanoparticles. Through these developed methodologies and results, the NanoMuSiC project will provide new insights on cellular elemental composition and elemental species-cell and nanoparticle-cell interactions. Besides, they will support further investigations of effects and potential risks of elemental species and nanoparticles to the environment and human health, two relevant issues within EU Commission priorities for 2019-24, e.g. European Green Deal strategy to protect the environment and human health by cutting pollution.

Keywords: single cell icp tof ms,multielemental information,nanoparticles,new ecotoxicological testing tools
“Between the Times”: Embattled Temporalities and Political Imagination in Interwar Europe (BETWEEN THE TIMES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 75.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1425000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1425000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed project offers a new, pan-European intellectual history of the political imagination in the interwar period that places the demise of historicism and progressivism – and the emerging anti-teleological visions of time – at the center of some of its most innovative ethical, political and methodological pursuits. It argues that only a distinctively cross-disciplinary and European narrative can capture the full ramifications and legacies of a fundamental rupture in thought conventionally, yet inadequately confined to the German cultural space and termed “anti-historicism”. It innovates narratively by exploring politically and theoretically interlaced reinventions of temporality across and between different disciplines (theology, jurisprudence, classical studies, literary theory, linguistics, sociology, philosophy), as well as other creative fields. It experiments methodologically by reconstructing the dynamics of political thought prosopographically, through intellectual groupings at the forefront of the scholarly and political debates of the period. It challenges the sufficiency of the standard focus in interwar intellectual history on one or two, at most three (usually “Western” European) national contexts by following out the interactions of these groupings in France, Britain, Germany, Russia, Czechoslovakia, and Romania – groupings whose members frequently moved across national contexts. What were the political languages encoded in the reinventions of time, and vice versa – how were political aims translated into and advanced through theoretical innovation? How did these differ in different national contexts, and why? What are the fragmented legacies of this rupture, disbursed in and through the philosophical, methodological and political dicta and dogmas that rooted themselves in post-1945 thought? This project provides the first comprehensive answer to these fundamental questions about the intellectual identity of Europe and its historicities.

Keywords: history of political thought,international history,european inter war period,history of humanities and social sciences,progressivism,history of theology and religious studies
Sound and Early Assessment of Leakage for Embedded Software (SEAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Austria,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1946995.0
EU funding (EUR): 1766803.95
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Side channel attacks use, alongside information such as plaintexts or ciphertexts, leakage about the (secret) key-dependent intermediate state(s), and deliver a `key ranking' as a result. Kocher's attacks [15] [16] showed that for many practical implementations, observing a few encryptions made complete key recovery possible in practice. The academic research into combating these attacks so far has largely focused on approaches and tools to equip specialised cryptographic engineers with access to a specialist lab and tools. The research hypothesis of this CoG is that one can make meaningful statements about the leakage behaviour of arbitrary implementations on small devices by utilising a-priori derived (instruction level) leakage models. Our vision is to enable developers with limited domain-specific knowledge to perform side channel evaluations at design time without access to a fully equipped lab, by creating tools and methodologies that integrate a priori derived instruction-level leakage models into a standard compiler. This vision is articulated in three overarching research objectives: 1. Designing novel profiling strategies (WP1) including novel leakage acquisition techniques to generate leakage models for a specific target device. 2. Developing fast and comprehensive methods to support rapid evaluations (WP2). 3. Integration (WP3) of semantics, syntax and tools capable of using profiling information into a standard compiler with the aim to evaluate and improve the side channel resilience of the target code. Addressing these goals simultaneously is required to make substantial progress towards the overall vision of this project. As a final result, we will make demonstrators available (WP4): using a off-the shelf components, we supply the necessary tools and compiler enhancements including samples of cryptographic implementations to conduct analyses and demonstrate improvements regarding side channel resilience.

Keywords: side channel analysis,leakage resilient,physical security
Miniature beam-driven Plasma ACcelerators (M-PAC)

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: France,France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499472.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499472.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

As we push the frontier of particle physics to higher particle energies, conventional accelerator techniques are attaining their limits and new concepts are emerging. The use of an ionized gas —or plasma— circumvents the most significant barrier of conventional techniques by increasing the energy gained per unit length by several orders of magnitude. One class of plasma accelerators, relevant for high energy physics applications, consists in using a particle beam, « the driver », to excite a plasma wave, that is then used to accelerate the main particle beam. Research in this field requires large facilities, due to stringent conditions on the driver. In the M-PAC project, I propose to power plasma accelerators with laser-accelerated electron beams based on 100-TW-class laser systems, so as to miniaturize the so-called “beam-driven plasma accelerators”. The project crosses the boundary of the fields of research of laser acceleration and of beam-driven plasma acceleration. With these innovative miniature versions, the goal of the M-PAC project is then to tackle, through experiments and simulations, the next Grand Challenges facing the field of beam-driven plasma acceleration, bringing plasma accelerator technology to viability for high energy physics collider applications. They include the generation and preservation of the excellent beam quality required for high-energy colliders and next-generation light sources, the demonstration of high drive-to-main-beam energy efficiency and the acceleration of the antimatter counterpart of the electron, the positron. Finally, the miniature beam-driven plasma accelerators open new opportunities to push university-scale plasma-based light sources to the next level, both in terms of brightness and spectral range.
New industrial process for shoe manufacturing using 3dbonding technology (3DBonding)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Simplicity Works Europe, S.L. is a company created in 2011 by Adrián Hernández, whose mission is to simplify production processes through 3DBONDING technology. 3DBonding is a disruptive project in the way the industry designs, manufactures and distributes, bringing production closer to the final consumer and returns production to Europe. It is an innovative technology that joins all pieces into a mould in few seconds (The current industry process joins pieces one by one on an assembly line), simplifying the curreThe 3DBONDING technology consists in the injection of polyurethane in a system of channels designed in a silicone spine that is introduced in an injection matrix where all the pieces of the shoe are prepared to be joined. It is a system that, adapted to the current industry, reduces the number of footwear manufacturing steps from 70 to 10 with the consequent reduction of labor and material, increased productivity and shoe quality in terms of impermeability, durability and three-dimensional stability, as well as an increase in the possibilities of design and personalization. Given the advantages that 3DBONDING offers to the sector, potential clients are collaborating in the development of technology, as well as technological partners that offer material and machinery to continue with the design of the system. To scale and its implementation in a pilot plant that will serve to advance in the footwear segments (security, professional) where the technology is easier and more cost-effective to implement. The prospects of the project are very high considering the high possibilities offered by bringing industry 4.0 to reality in different sectors such as footwear and the automobile. Our main business objective is to offer 3DBonding technology to the European industry as a universal manufacturing system. The main business objective is to offer 3DBonding technology to the European industry as a universal manufacturing system.

Keywords: advanced manufacturing advanced processes simplification of the manufacturing processes,footwear sector
Food treatment process based on high voltage nanopulsed electric discharges in liquid phase (EMILK)

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: Italy
Call: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project intends to explore the feasibility of introducing to the market a small milk steriliser unit based on a patent pending device developing high voltage (>100kV) nanopulsed electric discharge in liquids, to be used mainly by farmers selling directly their fresh dairy products through vending machines. Wider objective met by EMILK: increased nutritious food production opportunities in Europe and in developing Countries. EMILK has the potential to develop into a viable sterilisation solution suitable for use in areas without infrastructure to support the refrigerated collection of food. The European organic market is growing by approximately six percent (24 billion euros in 2013). In this scenario direct sales (e.g. from farmer to customer) weigh about 5% and it is continuously increasing since «zero km» food is perceived as higher value by final customer. The milk market is particularly interesting since raw milk is paid by industry to farmers at a very low price (0.32€/l for best quality organic milk) while final customer is often willing to pay up to 2€/l for the same product. Raw milk sterilising solutions that keep intact nutrients and organoleptic qualities, while ensuring the standards of hygiene and safety are required to enable more Europeans to enjoy raw milk. The feasibility study intends to check the attractiveness of the innovation to the market, define the opportunities both for the integration of the device in milk vending machines and for further developments, through identification of partners in the dairy industry supply chain; fine tune the business plan already drafted in this application and applying for further funding (SME instrument Phase2, local regional funding, private investments).

Keywords: raw milk,vending machines,milk processing,liquid food processing,high voltage discharges,nanopulsed discharges
Well-being, Ecology, Gender, and cOmmunity (WEGO)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Australia,India,Uruguay,Indonesia,Norway,Sweden,New Zealand,Netherlands,United States,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3870806.62
EU funding (EUR): 3870806.62
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

WEGO (Well-being, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity) is a trans-national network aims to develop a shared research and training agenda to educate the next generation of interdisciplinary social-environmental scientists on feminist political ecology in Europe. WeGO’s research examines gender relations in community organizing from a feminist-informed political ecology (FPE) framework. From an international and interdisciplinary perspective, WEGO looks at gender and power relations in community responses to the current climate, economic and environmental crises in different socio-ecological contexts. WEGO aims to provide insightful and compelling analysis about the importance of gendered community response to climate, economic and environmental change as well as more detailed knowledge about what changes are required for greater resilience and sustainability. Gender is understood as a critical variable in shaping resource access and control, interacting with class, caste, race, culture, and ethnicity to shape processes of ecological change and the prospects of any community for sustainable development. WEGO research will look at resilience and sustainability by examining the gendered role of women in care work for the community and for the environment. The cases chosen – from in and outside of Europe are sites that can feed into innovative European Policy on sustainable development.

Keywords: gender,political ecology,community,development policy,social studies
Innovative Acrylic(PMMA- Polymethyl methacrylate) Recycling Technology Complying with Regulations (P2L)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

P2L(Plant for 2nd Life), is a new generation technology for recycling polymethyl methacrylate(PMMA) wastes. This technology recycles PMMA to methyl methacrylate(MMA) monomer which in turn will be used for the production of PMMA sheets known as Acrylic or Plexiglas(TM). A plant to second life is the first step towards an endless cycle. MMA is the only plastic that can be eternally reincarnated, but only under the perfect technique. Our proposal provides this perfect technique and thus, it promotes sustainability. M-D2, a technopolis R&D company, developed a new pyrolysis technique for safe, cheap and eco-friendly recovery of MMA. P2L technology is not the only PMMA recycling technique, however it is the most eco-friendly, lowest power consuming one. Its product RMMA(regenerated MMA) has a purity more than 99%. These make P2L the future PMMA recycling technology for European Countries and many more developed countries complying the regulations. Making an innovative technology investment with high profit and fast return in a low competition sector is the unique selling point of P2L. PMMA is used in the production of TV screens, LED’s, automobile rear lights, aeroplane windows, mobile phone screens and many more in optical or surface/coating solutions. Wide usage(~3.36 M tons annually) of PMMA and the expects of 100% consumption increase in 15 years, results considerable waste production. PMMA wastes are collected and shipped to developing countries as China and India. Today a global crisis is on the way after China decided in 2017 to stop importing waste plastics. China started this waste ban in 01.01.2018. Conventional PMMA recycling techniques are restricted by regulations in the developed countries so it is a shocking threat stopping to export their waste PMMA. PMMA recovery becomes more important than the other plastics because of its technical difficulties and the lead (extreme poisonous heavy metal) pollution caused by the conventional methods.

Keywords: pyrolysis,recycling,plastic waste,scrap,acrylic,polymethyl methacrylate,regenerated methyl,mehacrylate,induction heating,plant