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Improved Coherence Fast Swept Source Lasers for Optical Imaging Applications (ICOFAS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an exciting new technique capable of high-resolution, three-dimensional imaging to depths of a few millimeters. The technology has unique advantages as non-invasive, being an imaging method for a variety of imaging applications such as medical diagnostics and industrial testing in manufacturing lines. The tunable laser sources used in OCT are required to have wide spectral range (to improve resolution), fast tuning speeds (to improve imaging times) and narrow instantaneous linewidth (to enhance imaged depth). The preferred wavelength for OCT is 850nm due to better resolution and less attenuation at this wavelength and compatibility with cheap Si detection, but have been hampered by the quality of the laser sources for this region and have tended instead to be developed at the telecom wavelengths of 1300nm and 1550nm. To meet the need for fast speed imaging of deeper structures, we will 1) investigate novel approaches to reach mode-hop free operation for swept sources at 1550nm and 2) develop an optical source around 850nm with a wide band (>70nm), high sweep rate (1MHz) and narrow instantaneous linewidth due to mode-hop free operation. The ICOFAS project targets (a) the training of a young researcher in the field of photonic devices, optical imaging and research commercialisation; (b) the development of novel optical sources with advanced coherence properties and fast sweeping rate; and (c) the industrial validation and commercialising of the developed technology. The training program for the researcher includes new skills in the design and fabrication of multi-section semiconductor fast sweeping lasers, characterisation and optimisation of the laser performance, and implementation of the advanced sources to optical imaging systems. In addition, strong commercialisation and entrepreneurial skills will be developed, with keen interest from two commercial partners ensuring focus on an industrial roadmap.

Keywords: swept source laser,semiconductor laser,optical imaging
Marian Apocryphal Representations in Art: From Hagiographic Collections to Church Space and Liturgy in Fourteenth-to-Sixteenth-Century France (MARIA)

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-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168277.2
EU funding (EUR): 168277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this two-year project is to carry out an exhaustive analysis on the dissemination of Marian apocryphal iconography in religious contexts specific for fourteenth and sixteenth century France. My investigation will be the first comprehensive study which determines the contribution of liturgy and liturgical tradition to the development and dissemination of Marian apocryphal depictions and their transition from hagiographic collections to church space. While previous scholarship on Marian iconography has traced its developments from textual to visual sources, this project aims at furthering existent research by demonstrating that changes in the liturgical context, in which depictions of Mary were used, were far more significant to their evolution, popularity, and dissemination. This study, therefore, builds on a range of scholarship which has outlined the importance of sacred space to our understanding of religious cultures. The project also offers a comparative approach on (visual and textual) Apocryphal material by concentrating on the analysis of religious (liturgy, epigraphy, hagiography) sources in connection to iconographic patterns and their transition from hagiographic collections to church space with particular emphasis on the early life of the Virgin. The successful completion of the project, the publication of the research outcomes, and the training offered by Ca’Foscari University in Venice will enhance the candidate’s academic career perspectives and contribute substantially to her development as a researcher by offering her the opportunity of a permanent teaching/research postion.

Keywords: middle ages,cultural history,iconography,apocrypha,virgin mary,liturgy,hagiographic collections
Stable Chromium Isotopes as a Productivity Tracer (SCrIPT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Switzerland,Switzerland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1077106.25
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The overall concept of this proposal is to investigate the main biogeochemical processes modulating spatial and temporal changes in marine export productivity, and assess their role in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, both under present conditions and in the geological past. The exchange of CO2 between the atmosphere and ocean interior mediated by the oceanic ecosystem is a pivotal mechanism modulating the global carbon cycle, and thus, a substantial driver of the Earth’s climatic evolution. The overarching objective of this research proposal is to develop a novel proxy to trace changes in the global strength of the marine biological carbon pump (BCP) based on stable Chromium (Cr) isotopes. Despite its significance for the global carbon cycle, the BCP is still poorly constrained. This project will explore a tracer that has recently been developed to investigate the rise of atmospheric oxygen in the early history of the Earth and develop it thoroughly through a comprehensive, multidisciplinary calibration program and apply it to the much more subtle redox variations associated with organic matter remineralization in the ocean. The proposed approach includes phytoplankton culture experiments, water-column investigations and sedimentary analysis and will aim at elucidating the mechanisms governing the reduction of Cr and its associated isotopic fractionation. The proxy will subsequently be used to reconstruct export production variability in the past and assess its role in modulating glacial/interglacial climate oscillations. These past changes tended to be much slower than the current, anthropogenic change. Nonetheless, they can help to appraise sensitivities and point toward potentially dominant mechanisms of change. The observations gathered within the framework of this research program will enable refining the evolution of the marine carbon cycle and the rapidly declining buffering capacity of the ocean.
The Sound of Light: using underwater soundscapes to understand changes in coral reef communities exposed to artificial light at night (CORALAN)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Artificial light at night (ALAN) has been rapidly increasing over the past century, causing widespread environmental change. This ALAN can interfere with biological and ecological systems by masking natural light rhythms that regulate daily behaviours and physiology for many organisms. While research in this field is growing, the focus has primarily been on terrestrial systems whilst the impacts of ALAN on marine environments, and in particular on coral reef systems, are still relatively unexplored. To date, the only research on the impacts of ALAN on coral reefs examines the effects of light exposure at the organism level. How these changes in individual fitness and behaviour scale up to influence population and community level dynamics is still entirely unknown. This project, therefore, aims to explore how ALAN can influence the structure and function of near-shore coral reef communities. Using a combination of manipulative field experiments, and innovative acoustic methods, this project will investigate how ALAN modifies coral reef communities through 1) influencing settlement and post-settlement survival of recruiting larval fish, and 2) changing biological rhythms of the reef community. Furthermore, this project will 3) assess the recovery potential of coral reef communities following removal of ALAN. As we currently know very little about how ALAN affects marine organisms, understanding the extent and impacts of light pollution on marine ecosystems have been identified as key ecological research gaps that urgently need attention. The findings of this research will contribute to our understanding of coral reef community dynamics, and advance the larger field of global change ecology. Furthermore, the novel use of underwater soundscapes to quantify community change on coral reefs exposed to ALAN will provide support for the use of this tool as a rapid, efficient and cost-effective method of monitoring responses of marine communities to environmental change.

Keywords: light pollution,artificial light at night,coral reefs,soundscapes,community shifts
AI-based video compression for emerging technologies (AISTREAM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,United Kingdom
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4139897.5
EU funding (EUR): 2999928.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Deep Render combines the fields of artificial intelligence, statistics and information theory to unlock the fundamental limits of video compression. The best data compressor known to mankind is the human eye, with compression ratios at least 2,000 times better than anything developed to date. Our Biological Compression technology mimics the neurological processes of the human eye through a non-linear, learning-based approach, creating an innovative class of highly efficient compression algorithms. By building an entirely new foundation for compression, avoiding the limitations of current codecs, our objective is to develop a video compression approach 80% more efficiency than the state-of-the-art. With 85% of all internet traffic being video data, growing exponentially, bandwidth supply is being used up at an unsustainable rate. Even worse, emerging video technologies such as VR-streaming, Medical and Satellite Imaging, and Autonomous driving are bottlenecked by the unavailability of sufficient bandwidth. Further, the amount of energy used and CO2 generated with online video is now being recognised as a major problem. If the EU Digital Single Market and economic growth are to be delivered, and Climate Change obligations met, a more efficient compression system is vital to free up bandwidth and reduce energy usage. Our value proposition is simple, by reducing file sizes by 80%, we directly increase the bandwidth supply of the internet by a factor of 5, thus reducing data transport and storage requirements, reducing energy usage and CO2 emissions. Initially, the end-users of our technology will be content delivery networks, online streaming services and media production organisations. The video encoding market is estimated to be worth €1.5Bn a year. Our collaboration, including TU Wien and Contentflow (end-user), will develop, demonstrate and pilot the codec in a streaming service and begin extending the codec to new high growth, high value and high need markets.

Keywords: compression,codec,video,technology,human visual system,visual quality,entropy,neural,network,artificial intelligence,deep learning,machine learning,licensing,statistics,mathematics
Multi messenger Imaging of Cancer (MIC)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175572.48
EU funding (EUR): 175572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cancer remains the second leading cause of death worldwide (World Health Organization), involving various pathological processes across multiple biological scales . Ultrasound is increasingly used in clinical oncological practice for patient diagnosis, therapy guidance, and monitoring, however do not allow for imaging of the metabolic and vascular onset of cancer at the microscale . Here, I aim to develop multi-messenger ultrasound imaging for the early metabolic and vascular detection of cancer in a pre-clinical model and a pilot human head and neck oncology study. This interdisciplinary proposal will build on three recent breakthroughs in ultrasound and synthetic biology: (1) 4D ultrasound imaging at the millisecond timescale, (2) ultrasound super-resolution imaging at the microvascular scale and (3) biomolecular ultrasound imaging at the cellular scale.I will develop non-linear sound sheet imaging (NSSI) for the 3D imaging of ultrasound contrast agents regardless of their motion. Combined with localization algorithms, this method will enable 3D ultrasound microscopy (SSLM) of capillary networks perfused with clinically approved contrast agents. Using this vascular message we will characterize rat brain tumors in preclinical research. We will also evaluate the potential of the ultrasound microscopy technique to detect metastatic sentinel lymph nodes in a pilot human study. Furthermore, NSSI will be capable of imaging GVs that are small enough to extravasate the leaky vasculature of tumors. In this specific aim, I will rely on genetically engineered pH-sensing GVs developed in my host laboratory (NWO Start-up Grant STU.019.021 of the Dutch Research Council). Using this metabolic message we will detect hypoxia induced acidosis, an important biomarker of cancer. The non-invasive observation of structural and metabolic messages arising from tumors with sound, named multi-messenger ultrasound imaging of cancer (MIC), will significantly advance the potential of medica

Keywords: super resolution,microscopy,biomolecular ultrasound
Earth Observation based services for Monitoring and Reporting of Ecological Status (EOMORES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Italy,Lithuania,Finland,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Downstream applications (H2020-EO-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2020-01-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2219318.0
EU funding (EUR): 2005861.66
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

EOMORES (Earth Observation-based Services for Monitoring and Reporting of Ecological Status) aims to develop new highly efficient commercial services for operational inland and coastal ecological water quality monitoring. Inland and coastal water bodies constitute essential components of ecology and biodiversity, they buffer climate change and influence many aspects of economy (recreation, fisheries) and human welfare (e.g. drinking water supply). Knowledge about the state of these waters is therefore of great importance. This is recognized by the Water Framework Directive (WFD) requiring the EU member states to monitor and improve the status of these water bodies. EOMORES will develop fully-automated commercial, reliable and sustainable services based on the integration of Earth observation (Sentinel 1, 2 and 3), in situ monitoring using optical in situ sensors with integrated GNSS positioning, and ecological modeling. The validated data from these components will be flexibly combined into higher-level products to fit the users’ information needs. Three service concepts are envisaged: 1) operational water quality monitoring and forecasting for operational water management, 2) implementation of validated EO-based water quality indicators for WFD and other reporting and 3) historic compilation of data for specific ecological analysis. The target users of EOMORES are international, national and regional authorities responsible for monitoring and management of water quality and for WFD reporting. Additional targeted users are private entities dealing with water quality. Thirteen users from six countries have committed to collaborate with the consortium to define and evaluate the EOMORES services. The services are expected to result in lower operational costs, more reliable and more timely water quality datasets for water managers. By introducing these services into the worldwide market, an increase in annual turnover of €3.000.000 by 2020 is expected.

Keywords: water quality,reporting,monitoring,operational services,ecological indicators,spatial analysis,in situ,ecological forecasting
Market maturation of Floating Power Plant’s Floating Wind- Wave- Energy Device (POSEIDON)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1634500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1144150.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Europe has a large amount of unexploited resources across the offshore renewable sector due to the inexistence of suitable technologies for deep waters, where a large amount of high energy intensity combined resource (wind and wave) exists. Also, in a long term, offshore wind farms will be required to move to deeper waters (> 45m), due to the lack of suitable shallow water sites and the desire to harness better energy resources. At these depths, fixed foundations are not economically viable. For this reason, there is a clear need to approach different concepts that enable deployment in deeper waters, such as floating devices. Floating Power Plant A/S and linked third pary Floating Power Plant Ltd (FPP), aims to pursue a major opportunity by bringing its innovative hybrid concept – an offshore-proven, floating, wind and wave power plant – to commercial maturity. Specifically, with POSEIDON, FPP aims to go a step further in its business strategy by overcoming the key barriers that may hinder the successful market uptake of its commercial-scale device – the P80.The innovation project activities will be focused in the UK (primary target market). P80 is based on a unique patented technology, which presents several advantages when compared with current offshore renewable concepts: facilitates deployment in deeper waters; enables higher energy yields; allows a reduction in capital costs due to shared foundations, grid infrastructure, and platform (between wind and wave); and allows a reduction in O&M costs due to its unique safe harbour. Overall this translates into a reduction of LCOE (up to € 0.13/kWh), which is the ultimate objective of the EU offshore renewables industry in order to become competitive. POSEIDON is expected to significantly enhance the profitability of FPP, with an expected turnover of €1 billion, 5 years post-project. Moreover, the successful achievement of the project objectives is expected to advance Europe along the path to an energy system that will deliver a competitive and secure energy supply.

Keywords: hybrid device,deep water offshore renewables sector,floating devices,wind energy,wave energy
subTerranean Haptic INvestiGator (THING)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Robotics SPARC (cPPP)
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,Poland,Poland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: System abilities, SME & benchmarking actions, safety certification (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4071685.0
EU funding (EUR): 4071685.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

THING will advance the perceptual capabilities of highly mobile legged platforms through haptic perception and active exploration. In this light, THING will deliver: 1) Novel foot designs for enhanced tactile perception and locomotion, 2) Improved perceptual capability, enriching existing modalities (lidar, vision) with haptic information, 3) Heightened physical sense of the environment, including friction, ground stability (difficult through vision alone), and 4) Enhanced mobility through improved perception, prediction, and control.

Keywords: quadrupedal locomotion,haptic perception