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Industrial Cooling through Hybrid system based on Solar Heat (HyCool)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Spain,Austria,Italy,Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,Switzerland,Türkiye
Call: Near-to-market solutions for the use of solar heat in industrial processes (H2020-LCE-2017-RES-IA, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7740440.0
EU funding (EUR): 5818971.87
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

HyCool Project Mission is increasing the current use of Solar Heat in Industry Processes, and to do so the project proposes the coupling of a new Fresnel CSP Solar thermal collectors (FCSP) with specially build Hybrid Heat Pumps (HHP) (a “two-in one” combination of adsorption and compressor based heat pumps) for a wider output temperature range (Solar Heating & Cooling –SHC-), and to provide a wide range of design and operational configurations to better fit each case, hence increasing the potential implementation of the proposed Solar Heat in industrial environments. The two main features of HyCool System are Flexibility and Efficiency an they will allow different strategies for a technically and economically viable system. During Capital Expeditures phase simplicity will be aimed pursuing easiness in design configuration optimization, modular construction and ITS for commissioning. During Operational Expenditures the optimum balance between the HyCool System Operational Flexibility and Efficiency will be targeted to maximize HyCool cost effectiveness to each individual case. Following this, the pilots proposed will demonstrate both opposed strategies in two selected key leading industry sectors: Food Case Pilot targets specialized small Food industries in high solar irradiation areas with cooling needs in their processes. Here narrow configurations are aimed to optimize Efficiency, so a simple system will be selected to obtain maximum outputs based on the conditions of use. Chemical Case Pilot target industries with several processes in high solar irradiation areas with steam and cooling needs. Here a more complex configuration is aimed to optimize Operational Flexibility, so a more complex system will be implemented, able to be switched among different options based on weather, season and production schedule. Finally, special consideration will be taken in building trust during HyCool communication and results dissemination during the project.

Keywords: fresnel high concentration solar panels,thermal storage,hybrid heat pumps,gis bim based intelligent training system
Establishing the European Geological Surveys Research Area to deliver a Geological Service for Europe (GeoERA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: ERA-NET Cofund
Partnership: GeoERA (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Ukraine,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Albania,Iceland,Austria,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Cyprus,Malta,Serbia,Greece,North Macedonia,Belgium,Belgium,Hungary,Lithuania,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Norway,Belgium,Finland,Croatia,Poland,Romania,Slovakia,Slovenia,Sweden,Latvia,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Luxembourg,Denmark,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Cross-thematic ERA-NET on Applied Geosciences (H2020-LCE-2016-ERA, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 62.0
Total project cost (EUR): 30578033.96
EU funding (EUR): 10000000.0
Participants: 56
Project status: CLOSED

The GeoERA proposal is put forward by the national and regional Geological Survey Organisations (GSO) of Europe. Its overall goal is to integrate the GSO’s information and knowledge on subsurface energy, water and raw material resources, to support sustainable use of the subsurface in addressing Europe’s grand challenges. The GeoERA consortium will organise and co-fund together with the EC a joint call for transnational research projects that address the development of 1) interoperable, pan-European data and information services on the distribution of geo-energy, groundwater and raw material resources; 2) common assessment frameworks and methodologies supporting better understanding and management of the water-energy-raw materials nexus and potential impacts and risks of subsurface use; 3) knowledge and services aimed at European, national and regional policy makers, industry and other stakeholders to support a more integrated and efficient management and more responsible and publicly accepted exploitation and use of the subsurface. The transnational projects selected in the call will be implemented by the consortium partners themselves, who provide their co-funding in-kind. GeoERA will contribute to the overall EU objective of building the ERA through enhanced cooperation and coordination of national and regional Geological Survey research programmes. GeoERA will also include forward looking activities, including the creation of opportunities for future collaborative research, and the feasibility assessment of an Article 185 initiative in Applied Geoscience as follow-up to the GeoERA ERA-NET towards the development of the ultimate goal of delivering a Geological Service for Europe.

Keywords: applied geoscience,geo energy,raw materials,groundwater,information platform,geological service,geological survey organisations
Discovering functional protein-RNA interactions through data integration and machine learning. (DeepRNA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

RNA-binding proteins are implicated across a wide spectrum of human genetic disorders, with molecular mechanisms ranging from aggregation of proteins and RNAs to defects in splicing and translation. Examples include heterogeneous and life-threatening genetic disorders such as Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, spinocerebellar ataxia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) among others. The DeepRNA project targets genetic diseases via disease-associated variants in the human transcriptome and is enabled by recent data on expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) and experimentally determined RNA-protein and RNA-RNA interactions. The data will be complemented with high-quality RNA-protein interaction predictions carried out in the host group that has a strong track record in computing and validating RNA-protein associations. To my knowledge the use of eQTL variants to study RNA-protein interactions is a novel approach and is useful for developing new tools for personalised medicine. My approach will expand the human interactome in a genome-wide manner beyond experimental data, which is currently available for only 352 of the 1,542 recently described RNA-binding proteins. Complementing experimentally determined interactions with predictions will allow me to expand my analyses of the human interactome to the genomic scale while maintaining accuracy, by using the experimental dataset as a gold standard. I will employ methods such as graph partitioning and graph neural network encoding to rationalise the effects of disease-associated variants on the human interaction network, and make quantitative predictions of polymorphisms associated with genetic diseases, thereby aiding personalised medicine. I am confident that this fellowship will equip me with the domain knowledge, independence and transferrable skills to confidently and creatively build an interdisciplinary, globally recognised research team within Europe that will focus on medically relevant human signalling systems.

Keywords: protein rna interactions,rna binding proteins,expression quantitative trait loci,eqtls,artificial intelligence,machine learning,natural variation,disease associated variation
Synthesis of sp3-Rich Organofluorine Compounds through Homologation of Boronic Esters (FOOTLOOSE)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-27
End date: 2019-07-26
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Organofluorine compounds are highly sought after owing to diverse and numerous applications that take advantage of the unique properties imparted by the presence of one or more C–F bonds. The chemical stability and conformational landscape of molecules, together with the small size of the fluorine atom, has the made the replacement of a C–H or C–OH bond with a C–F one of the most rewarding modifications during the hit-to-lead stage in medicinal chemistry programs. Because many applications are dependent on the absolute and relative configuration of the fluorine-containing group, methods that can introduce such groups in a stereoselective manner are particularly attractive. The host laboratory has shown that substituted carbon chains can be grown one carbon atom at a time with exquisite control of relative and absolute configuration through iterative homologation of boronic esters with stereochemically-defined lithiated carbamates or benzoates. The latter are formed at low temperature, either through sparteine-mediated enantioselective deprotonation of primary carbamates/benzoates or the enantiospecific deprotonation or tin–lithium exchange of enantiomerically pure secondary carbamates/ benzoates. Although the process works well for extending a carbon chain with incorporation of carbon-based substituents, the incorporation of carbon atoms bearing electronegative substituents, such as oxygen- or fluorine-containing groups, is challenging. Herein we propose a programme of research to investigate the preparation of enantiomerically enriched organofluorine molecules, specifically those containing trifluoromethyl groups, through lithiation–borylation. The challenges outline above would make such a programme the ideal sharpening stone for the further development of lithiation–borylation. Indeed, a protocol that can introduce carbon atoms bearing electronegative groups would bring us a big step closer to assembly-line synthesis being able to make any molecule.

Keywords: organofluorine,organoboron,carbanions,homologation,boronic esters,lithiated carbamate,trifluoromethyl,lithiation borylation,trifluoromethyl epoxides
Enhancing INNovation management capacity of CATalan small and medium enterprises 2019 (INNCAT19)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EEN H2020 SGA3 (H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 119026.25
EU funding (EUR): 119026.25
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The current proposal fully describes advising services to SMEs with the objective of increasing and accelerating the economic returns from innovation and proves ACCIÓ capacity to successfully deliver them. The services will be provided to two specific groups of enterprises: beneficiaries of the SME instrument, FTI, FET-Open; and SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalisation. ACCIÓ, as the Enterprise Europe Network Catalan node coordinator, is specialised in promoting innovation and internationalisation among SMEs and has implemented several successful programmes over the last 20 years. For instance, since 2014 INNCAT has provided advice services with IMP3rove, Innovation Health Check (IHC) and KAM methodologies. For next year, 2019, INNCAT will close a minimum of 49 KAM and EIMC cases of mentoring to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs; it is an increase of 22.5% compared to the services planned per year in the current INNCAT1718 project. The involved staff is fully committed to deliver the foreseen cases using the above mentioned methodologies and have a broad and extensive expertise in innovation, business support and management services. Moreover, 6 of the involved 8 staff members already participate in the implementation of INNCAT1718 for the delivery of KAM and EIMC cases. Therefore, they are fully capable to implement the described services and successfully advise Catalan SMEs in 2019. Additionally, a majority of staff members also offering EEN standard network services will enhance synergies and ensure the principle of the client centric approach.

Keywords: key account management,innovation capacity,sme instrument,h2020,impr3ove,enterprise europe network,fet open,innovation management
A new PhD training for the next generation of sustainable science leaders (EPFLglobaLeaders)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Doctoral programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10414080.0
EU funding (EUR): 5207040.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is one of the two Federal Institutes of Technology in Switzerland. The School has three missions: i) education, ii) research, and iii) technology transfer. EPFL is successful in fulfilling these missions, being ranked as one of Europe’s top institutions with respect to education, research, training-through-research and innovation. As a world-leading scientific institution, EPFL needs to play a critical role in the transition towards a sustainable society based on technology and innovation. In addition to new knowledge and technology, this requires scientific leaders with the ability to see problems as a whole and to think across boundaries. 'EPFLglobaLeaders' is a new and innovative doctoral initiative, which aims to attract to EPFL outstanding PhD candidates from all over the world seeking to - and with the potential to - become leaders in the transition towards sustainable societies. The programme aims to (i) increase their knowledge and awareness – from the very beginning of their PhD studies - on pressing societal questions, (ii) increase their capacity to come up with technological and innovative answers that address global challenges, (iii) and prepare them to take leadership roles - with a focus on global challenges and a sustainable society - in private companies, academic research, non profit organisations, etc. The programme will bring to excellent PhD candidates the appropriate training, experience, and guidance to boost their career as well as their readiness and aptitude for societal impact. The PhD programme is open to applicants in any of the disciplines available at EPFL. Selected candidates will carry out their PhD studies to a large extent at one of the five EPFL campuses, and will benefit from a multifaceted training programme - including a secondment in the non-academic sector and a formal Leadership Training.

Keywords: university non academic leadership sustainability
A reliable, fast and comfortable body dryer (BD Body Dryer)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hotels, gyms, hospitals, and elderly residences depend on washing machines for towel maintenance, which requires water, electricity, and chemical substances. These institutions face an environmentally unsustainable situation with the use of water and electricity, without mentioning the laundry wastewater and expenses of billions of euros. In spite of similar technology used to reduce the use of towels in restrooms, the hand dryer devices; still, the use of the body towels remains invariable in the market due to inefficient devices and low-user acceptance. In response, we have developed a unique premium body dryer able to completely dry the body within 1 min and a half, three times faster than the only two inefficient solutions in the market. Our product consists of a column held on the bathroom wall that generates warm air by a powerful engine hidden inside the tower. The warm air is delivered to the body by a central groove through descending movements of the turbine. The column mirror finished also integrates aromatherapy and color-therapy technologies for an end-user wellness unique experience. Our product is designed to reach firstly the premium hotels market and gyms, a market that needs to reduce the towel use urgently. Indeed, BD Body Dryer will represent yearly savings of 65% of the laundry costs (estimated in €40k savings/year for a 200-room hotel). Because of the advantages of our technology, we also manufacture BD Body Dryer with a second non-mirrored wellness presentation (an slim model). This model is an assistive device for people with reduced mobility (our second target) and for the gyms. We have already protected our prototype with two patents and one utility model in the main Markets (Europe, USA, and Japan). Thus, after 5-year cumulative sales in these markets of 26,300 units sold, BD Body Dryer will give net revenues of ~€47.5M, net profits of ~23M and, considering the investment of €1.5M, an ROI of ~14.37 euro per euro invested.

Keywords: body dryer,environmental and social sustainability,a solution for people with reduced mobility
Additive Manufacturing of Magnesium Bioresorbable ImplanTs (AMBIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196590.72
EU funding (EUR): 196590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Congenital anomalies, affecting 6% of all babies, are a major cause of infant mortality and childhood morbidity, of which craniomaxillofacial (CMF) anomalies are often a component part. CMF defects are severely debilitating, where the patient not only suffers physically but also psychologically. CMF implants are used to facilitate and accelerate the healing process upon which a second operation is routinely required to remove these devices as most implants comprise of non-resorbable materials (Titanium-Ti, PEEK), with limited patient-specific customisation, that may lead to stress-shielding, infection or lack of growth, particularly in vulnerable paediatric population. The AMBIT project aims to optimise and customise Bioresorbable Magnesium Implants (BMgI) for CMF applications, to overcome the limitations of current clinical gold-standard non-resorbable Ti-based implants. This action combines my expertise in metallurgy and alloy design with Dr. Eoin O'Cearbhaill’s (UCD Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBE)) and Dr. Ted Vaughan’s (NUIG) expertise in medical device development, testing and translation. This highly interdisciplinary approach will make a significant contribution to the development of bioresorbable CMF implants that will not only improve the post-operation experiences and lives of CMF implant recipients but ultimately decrease the cost burden on national health systems. Through advanced and well-designed training in research (medical device design, cell-studies for biocompatibility, 3D-Printing) and transferable skills (project management, mentorship, entrepreneurship) that go beyond my current field of specialty, and through the networking opportunities that the host will offer, this action will facilitate my reintegration in Europe, while allowing me to become a research leader in biodegradable Mg alloy design & processing for medical device applications, translating alloy design concepts from ideation to clinical use.

Keywords: bioresorbable magnesium implants
An astrochemical study of the early evolutionary stages of sub-stellar mass objects (ABDES)

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: Germany
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159460.8
EU funding (EUR): 159460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Astrochemistry is an inter-disciplinary field that provides an insight into the complex physical and chemical processes at play during the early evolutionary stages in star-formation. Over the last decade, while astrochemical studies have been conducted to understand the early evolutionary stages in high- and low-mass stars, similar work is essentially missing for the least massive stars, called brown dwarfs (BDs). BDs are ‘sub-stellar’ objects with insufficient mass to burn hydrogen in their cores and shine like stars, but are found as abundantly as Sun-like stars in star-forming regions, making them an equally vital constituent of our Galaxy. ABDES is an innovative inter-disciplinary project, which will deliver radically new advancements in our understanding of the astrochemical processes that occur during the early evolutionary stages in BD-formation. The objectives of ABDES are to characterize the physical and chemical structure of early-stage BDs, and study the fundamental role played by the accretion and outflow processes in shaping their evolution. With the advent of high-class telescopes and instruments with unparalleled sensitivities, it is now feasible to probe deep into the early evolutionary stages of BDs. To achieve these objectives, I have built the largest sample to date of early-stage BDs, using a new set of deep, high-sensitivity, multi-wavelength observations. ABDES will combine these observations with chemical/physical modelling techniques, and provide the first measurements on the astrochemical properties of early-stage BDs. Being an inter-disciplinary research division, the Centre for Astrochemical Studies at MPE, under the supervision of Prof. Caselli, is a great fit to this project, and provides excellent expertise and infrastructure for its successful implementation. ABDES is a pioneering study that will highlight the origins of the faintest stars in our Galaxy, and complete our understanding of star-formation toward the lowest mass end.

Keywords: star formation and evolution