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Industrialization and path to commercialization of a patented innovative industrial kit to modify COLD cycle in order to drastically reduce ENERGY consumption (Cold Energy)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Romania,France
Call: Fast Track to Innovation Pilot (H2020-FTIPilot-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3441980.0
EU funding (EUR): 2409385.63
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Cold supply means an important share of electricity consumption (up to 30%) in certain market domains, mainly in Food and Chemical industries. However, refrigeration systems are a mature technology and there is no commercial solution in the market reflecting recent innovations, mainly because of the limited economic and energetic benefits offered by researched solutions, and of the complexity increase for the compression system. COLD ENERGY is the first disruptive innovation in refrigeration systems in the last decade. The innovation is related to the introduction of an energy recovery heat exchanger and a turbocharger -a technology coming from the automotive industry- into a conventional refrigeration plant. The comparison with current alternative solutions in terms of Coefficient of Performance and cooling power shows how COLD ENERGY significantly improves the efficiency of the system, increasing those parameters more than 30% and 50% respectively. In this way, our solution is able to increase energy efficiency for refrigeration appliances, achieving up to 23% of energy savings at -25ºC of Exercise Temperature. The action is strongly Industry oriented, performed by five partners from four different EU countries, each partner representing a different stakeholder in the value chain of the new sustainable product: TURBOALGOR from Angelantoni Group (Coordinator), AVL SCHRICK (turbocharger developer), ENEL.SI (ENEL Energy Service Company), AMORINO and AGRICOLA PAGNAN (both experts in Cold Energy management in the food sector). Forecasted cumulative turnover is EUR 60 million by 2022, only for the 5 core targeted countries (IT, DE, FR, UK, ES) and only for food processing and large scale distribution sector, which is the first envisioned market to reach. COLD ENERGY will boost TURBOALGOR, AVL and ENEL business models while helps to increase energy efficiency in AMORINO and PAGNAN, providing them with a disruptive solution to increase their margin of benefits.

Keywords: turbocharger,refrigerating cycle,refrigerator,industrial refrigeration,freezing,cold storage,food industry,pharmaceutical,cooling power,business model,white certificate
From Hazardous Waste to Reusable Raw Materials (EPSETECH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2805067.5
EU funding (EUR): 1905380.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hazardous wastewaters generated by chemical production, manufacturing, mining and other industrial activities can cause substantial harm to human health and to the environment. There are several treatment technologies in use to limit these negative effects. However, these technologies do not solve the issue for good. The sludge that is left over after the treatment is still hazardous and has to be stored in costly controlled landfill deposits for indefinite period of time. Improper hazardous waste storage or disposal frequently contaminates surface and groundwater supplies. Continuing accumulation of hazardous waste is increasing the risk of leakages that threat the wildlife as well as the safety of our drinking water. Finnish SME Global EcoProcess Services Oy has developed, patented and tested a simple new technology that enables to remove metals from the wastewater completely, so that just purified water and solid metals are left after the process. Both are reusable in manufacturing as valuable raw materials. The SMEI project focuses on speeding up our sales and piloting processes. We will develop and build portable pilot equipment for efficient on-site technology demonstrations and test the new equipment and process together with actual customers.

Keywords: industrial wastewater treatment,hazardous waste
Effects of hydrological changes on coastal ecosystems (HyChanCEs)

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-02-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2022-10-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159815.04
EU funding (EUR): 159815.04
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Groundwater dynamics and water table level can greatly influence the physiological performance of plant species, composition of vegetation and ecosystem productivity. Understanding ecosystem sensitivity to hydrological changes such as groundwater decline, and the ecophysiological processes involved, are important challenges. This is particularly relevant in seasonally dry semi-arid coastal dune ecosystems of the Iberian Peninsula, where the human pressure is currently high, exacerbating climatic trends of groundwater scarcity. Community-level assessments and integrated trait syndromes that can point out vegetation vulnerability to the reduction of groundwater resources are greatly needed. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the effects of hydrological drought, particularly water table lowering, on semi-arid coastal dune ecosystems, and define their vulnerability to groundwater limitation, helping to mitigate the impact of water-resources’ changes on relevant coastal ecosystems. The project will be based on physiological measures, manipulative approaches, functional diversity, vegetation structure, remote sensing, water-table depth modeling, up-scaling processes and assessment of integrated vegetation responses to groundwater changes. Through a multi-level (plant to ecosystem), cross-scale (local to regional) approach, I will define suitable indicators of the impact of groundwater changes on coastal dune ecosystems and map their vulnerability to hydrological droughts. The outputs of the project will have great implications for water-management plans, by signaling vulnerable and endangered coastal areas to current and future groundwater changes. Ultimately, it will contribute to better outline sustainable management strategies conciliating habitat conservation and water-resources use.

Keywords: eco hydrology,functional ecology,ecophysiology,water resources,groundwater drawdown,dune ecosystems,water table depth,woody vegetation,remote sensing,hydrological drought,cross scale
Ice Nucleating Particles in the Marine Atmosphere (MarineIce)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2681881.0
EU funding (EUR): 2681881.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The formation of ice in clouds is fundamentally important to life on our planet since clouds play a key role in climate and the hydrological cycle. Despite the significance of ice formation, our quantitative understanding of sources, properties, mode of action and transport of Ice-Nucleating Particles (INP) is poor. In order to improve our representation of clouds in models we need to understand the ice-nucleating ability of all major aerosol types, including those from the world’s oceans. Despite oceans covering over 70% of the planet and sea spray being one of the dominant aerosol types in the atmosphere, its role in the formation of ice in clouds remains poorly understood. There are strong indications that biological organic components of sea spray can nucleate ice, but there is a lack of data to quantify it. In contrast, the ice-nucleating ability of major aerosol species from terrestrial sources, such as mineral dusts or bacteria, has received significant attention over the past few decades. A similar effort now needs to be made to understand marine INP. The key limitation to accurately representing INP in models over the world’s oceans is the lack of field data, a deficiency which I intend to address during this ERC fellowship. I propose to develop and deploy a new semi-autonomous INP instrument based on novel microfluidics technology which will cover the full range of mixed phase cloud conditions, unlike existing instruments. It will be housed in a unique highly instrumented mobile laboratory, which will allow us to access the remote oceans from atmospheric observatories and research ships. The data from these campaigns will be used to constrain the oceanic INP source and define the spatial and temporal distribution of marine INP in a state-of-the-art global aerosol model. In combination, these activities will allow us to quantify this potentially important source of INP which is needed to underpin the next generation of weather and climate models.

Keywords: ice nucleation,ice nuclei,ice nucleating particles inp,marine aerosol,aerosol cloud interactions,marine organic aerosols,biogenic ice nuclei,exopolymer secretion,marine gels,marine colloid
HCA|Organoid: Pilot action to establish a multi-tissue human organoid platform within the Human Cell Atlas as a booster of future disease-centric, mechanistic, and translational research (HCA Organoid)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Understanding health, wellbeing and disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Netherlands
Call: Pilot actions to build the foundations of a human cell atlas (H2020-SC1-2019-Single-Stage-RTD, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998687.5
EU funding (EUR): 4998687.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Excellence: The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) is descriptive by definition, as it seeks to map all cells in the human body. Yet its goal of “understanding fundamental human biological processes and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease” (HCA Whitepaper) depends on our ability to draw functional/causal/mechanistic conclusions relevant to human diseases. Personalized organoid technology aptly fills this gap, as it makes human tissue amenable to functional studies and faithful disease modeling in vitro. This project will firmly establish a "Human Organoid Atlas" within the HCA. Initially focusing on two organs (colon and brain: 100 distinct organoid lines each). We will establish single-cell transcriptomes, single-cell epigenomes, and time-series imaging for several thousand organoids and matched primary tissue. This resource will primarily quantify normal population variation and provide a baseline for disease studies. Moreover, the project will include data generation and analysis of >20 colorectal cancer organoid lines with matching organoid lines derived from normal (healthy) material as well as the respective matching primary tissue. We will show the practical utility of the resource by proof-of-concept disease modeling for genetic epilepsy (brain) and large-scale characterization of disease-linked genetic variants (colon). Impact: 1. Deeply characterized organoid collection enables functional and disease-centric studies pursuing HCA insights. 2. Single-cell dataset provides reference of population variation under highly standardized conditions. 3. Linking single-cell profiling and organoids will boost HCA’s impact on human health. Implementation: The project connects the European founders of organoid research (Hans Clevers, Jürgen Knoblich) with expertise in large-scale epigenome/transcriptome profiling (Christoph Bock, Henk Stunnenberg), advanced imaging (Prisca Liberali, Anne Rios), bioinformatics and systems genetics (Oliver Stegle, Michael Boutros), data management (Laura Clarke/EBI), and strong SME contribution (Hubrecht Organoid Technology, Eurice). The project is fully committed to the HCA's values. It implements extensive data sharing and sustainability measures.

Keywords: organoids,single cell sequencing,genome,epigenome,transcriptome,automated microscopy,healthy tissue reference,population variation,integrative analysis,data portal,colon,brain,liver,pancreas
A disruptive cost-efficient industrial technology using bioreactor to boost compounds yields in roots, shoots, leaves for agri-food, flavors, biopesticides (AlkFood)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Plants compounds have been used for ages as food additives & flavors. Chemistry has offered solutions on the last 30 years to produce simple and low cost compounds, but some have been now considered as dangerous (glucose-fructose) and even toxic. Food safety and quality have been a big issue for consumers for which natural products demand is bombing. Food industry requires now innovative solutions to produce natural compounds at a competitive price with sustainable technologies but also to find natural solution to cope with obesity and diabetes for which they look responsible for. One of the most exciting solutions is in-vitro propagation of plants inside bioreactors. This field once too limited in yield or too expensive has reached new horizons thanks to Alkinnov’s technologies supported by a team of world renowned scientists and executed by a brilliant R&D team. Alkinnov, after having obtained exceptional results in Cosmetics, has improved its technological platform to enter the food additives & flavors markets. Its new bioreactor “Alkaburst 2.0” has been designed and patented to produce high volumes production where cost can be divided by a factor of 50 to first target unsuppliable natural expensive sweeteners & flavors. Indeed the performance of production yields can reach up to 1000 times the ones on soil today with room for improvement using A.I. and biostimulation. The project focuses on the development of a 100t/year pilot plant for 5 major food addition/flavors to reshape the consumption of the natural compounds in food. In addition, the technology has been validated for 70 other leaves, shoots & root varieties and has the potential to support in-vitro cultivation of any plant plant tissue, covering numerous applications in pharmaceuticals, fragrances, pest-control, phyto-protection and food additives, among others.

Keywords: bioreactor,natural additives,flavors,biopesticides,hyperactives extracts,elicitators,plant hacking
Consequences of conspiracy theories (CONSPIRACY_FX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499185.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499185.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The rise of conspiracy theories is often framed as a cause of various social ills such as declining public trust in democracy, the growing allure of populist and extremist politics, and the rejection of scientific consensus in favour of hearsay and fake news. However, the extent to which conspiracy theories contribute to these problems is not clear. Despite hundreds of academic articles on this topic in recent years, and significant interest in conspiracy theories in both academic and non-academic circles, there has never been a systematic investigation of their consequences. In fact, we know very little about when, how, and why conspiracy theories affect the decisions and wellbeing of individuals and societies. The current project will address this issue, pulling together a team of three postdoctoral researchers, two PhD students, one Masters student, and senior collaborators from a range of academic disciplines. To discover when and how conspiracy theories are influential, three sub-projects will each focus on one of the key contexts in which conspiracy theories have shown the most potential to shape people’s beliefs and behaviours: politics, vaccination, and climate change. To understand why conspiracy theories are influential, a fourth sub-project will focus on the consequences of conspiracy theories for the persons who spread them, concentrating in particular on the use of conspiracy theories by politicians and other elites. A project on this scale, and with this level of sophistication, has never been attempted before. It will adopt a mixed-methods approach using archival and social media analyses, interviews, cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, and experiments (including attitude, behavioural, cognitive/neuropsychological and physiological techniques). This project will move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art in the literature to identify when, how, and why conspiracy theories matter.

Keywords: conspiracy theories,social psychology,politics,vaccination,climate change,communication
Unlocking the community energy potential to support the market uptake of bioenergy heating technologies (BECoop)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,Spain,Poland,Greece,Poland,Greece,Belgium,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Market Uptake support (H2020-LC-SC3-2020-RES-IA-CSA, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999375.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999375.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

While community energy is about to play a huge role for the future energy transition, bioenergy has a very slow development in decentralised energy production. BECoop’s ambition is to foster a broad deployment of bioenergy technologies in the heating sector (across Europe by providing all the necessary conditions and support tools for unlocking the underlying market potential of community bioenergy. By using BECoop support services and tools, energy communities and authorities will be able to (i) mobilize citizens around existing or new community bioenergy initiatives, (ii) boost local bioenergy demand by improving its image and social acceptance, and (iii) increase feasibility of their endeavors by identifying suitable technical, business and financial solutions, as well as by pooling expertise and partnerships from the wider EU bioenergy ecosystem. In order to showcase and build trust to our approach, we pilot our to a complementary set of 4 cases across Europe, targeting existing energy communities seeking to include bioenergy heating projects, and local/national authorities aiming at initiating novel bioenergy community structures in support of their clean energy transition goals. BECoop moves beyond local challenges as we replicate our concept to more EU cases, thus, improving the robustness and attractiveness of community bioenergy investments. BECoop will also create links between the international Bioenergy Community, increase its audience, and foster new partnerships. Relevant policy and regulatory structures will be empowered with empirical evidence indicating ways to transfer the community energy approach in bioenergy and heating. Finally, the project is backed by a multidisciplinary consortium covering all relevant stakeholders and knowledge requirements. It also includes key stakeholders that are considered natural recipients of its results (existing energy communities, RESCoop Federations and local/national authorities).

Keywords: renewable energy cooperatives,bioenergy communities,local,national authorities,social,technical,business,financial support services,bioenergy market uptake,energy policy,training,market analysis
Fast-tracking Offshore Renewable energy With Advanced Research to Deploy 2030MW of tidal energy before 2030 (FORWARD-2030)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,Sweden,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative land-based and offshore renewable energy technologies and their integration into the energy system (H2020-LC-GD-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 27987218.75
EU funding (EUR): 21509866.26
Participants: 12
Project status: SUSPENDED

There is 10 GW of predictable, high value tidal stream potential in European waters, with up to 100 GW of capacity globally. It is an entirely unharnessed resource, with just 13 MW currently deployed . FORWARD-2030 has an overall objective to fast track 2030MW of tidal energy deployment by 2030. The project has five specific objectives: 1. Reducing Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) from ?200/MWh to ?150/MWh, 2. Enhancing environmental and societal acceptance, 3. Complete industrial design for volume manufacture rollout for 10 and 100+ MW projects, 4. Reducing life cycle carbon emissions by 33% from 18 gCO2 eq/kWh to 12 gCO2 eq/kWh, 5. Enhancing commercial returns and energy system integration (with battery storage and green hydrogen production). Objective 1 is focused on fast-tracking innovation to support the development of a technically and commercially viable tidal energy solution by rapidly reducing LCOE. This will be achieved by developing and verifying seven high priority cost reduction innovations to reduce CAPEX, reduce OPEX, increase efficiency and increase availability. Objectives 2, 3, 4 and 5 are focused on the regulatory and commercial barriers that must be overcome to achieve the project vison of installing 2030MW of tidal energy by 2030. It will be achieved by developing three market uptake innovations: an integrated environmental monitoring system, an energy management system, and an operational forecasting tool. Four market rollout initiatives will be completed: a supply chain plan for large scale roll out, Societal Cost of Energy (SCOE) assessment tool, marine spatial planning to encompass floating tidal and a life cycle carbon reduction assessment.

Keywords: tidal stream energy,energy systems,power to x