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Tuning Emergent Phases in 2D Materials (EMERGE)

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-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-08-04
End date: 2019-08-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of EMERGE is to create new types of two-dimensional materials of the highest quality, and exploit new types of quantum phenomena that emerge in the lower dimensional limit. By combining ultra-high purity fabrication of 2D materials with a high level of control, with high precision spectroscopy, we aim at being able to tailor the phase of these materials with atomic precision. Since the discovery of graphene, there has been an ongoing search for new Dirac materials which exhibit exotic electronic behavior in the two-dimensional limit, in which the spin and electronic degrees of freedom can be manipulated. Toward this end, the family of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) is extremely promising, as this family of materials exhibits semiconducting behavior, novel spin transport, charge ordering, and superconductivity, when simply selecting the transition metal ion and the interface. However, the role of the environment and how this determines the quantum phases of these materials is still not well understood, and moreover there are still many of these materials which have not been realized. The objective here will be to fabricate and tune TMDCs at the 2D limit, to realize new types of TMDCs, in order to realize exotic phases of matter to unravel the role of the environment and material in creating and discovering new types of quantum phases of matter in these materials. Our goals will be accomplished by combining CVD fabrication of TMDC single layers in ultra-high vacuum, with in-situ characterization of these films with cutting edge spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy at ultra-low temperature and high magnetic fields, and angular resolved photoemission in order to fully understand the electronic properties of our materials.

Keywords: dirac materials,arpes,transition metal dichalcogenides,superconductivity,emergence
“(De) Securitising Muslims in Cyber space: Social Media, Civil society and Marginalisation After Charlie Hebdo and the Islamic State” (DSMM)

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: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

DSMM proposes a two-year fellowship at the CNRS in Aix-en-Provence, France, with a six month secondment at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, UK. Europe faces one of the most significant security issues of recent years in the threats posed by Islamist terrorism. Prominent in this, and little researched, is the role of social media in this process. The project aims to fill this gap by applying cutting-edge research in a vital field for the future of Europe in assessing the effect of social media narratives on the (de) securitisation of Muslims in France and the UK. It does this through taking an original and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating quantitative and qualitative methods and concepts from sociology, political science and media studies. The key research objective is to create an analytical account of the means by which social media narratives work to construct and deconstruct Muslims in France and the UK as security threats. This account draws on data from a range of social media platforms, in addition to interviews of key actors in France and the UK. In terms of outputs, the project will generate 3 peer reviewed articles. In addition, the work will be presented at international conferences and will feature in blog posts and policy briefs.
Logic-based Verification of Privacy-Preservation in Europe's 2020 ICT (LV-Pri20)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-22
End date: 2017-06-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.81
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In line with the EU 2020 Flagship Initiative on a Digital Agenda for Europe and the upcoming EU Cybersecurity Strategy, the goal of the LV-Pri20 project is to aid our ICT-driven lives, by “safeguarding the human right of privacy in the digital society”. Concretely, the main focus of LV-Pri20 is the formal and automatic analysis of privacy-preservation in today’s ICT. LV-Pri20 will focus on the prevalent wireless media, e.g., RF-identification protocols, remote car-unlocking, wearables, machine-to-machine communication in the Internet of Things (IoT)/ubiquitous computing, but it will not neglect wired environments (given their common cloud-connection). LV-Pri20 will assess and automatically analyse privacy-sensitive applications, in their standalone execution, as well as in the more involved setting of multiple, concurrent executions thereof. This will be done systematically and taxonomically: distinct classes of applications (e.g., identification protocols using Electronic Product Codes vs. the Open Smart Grid Protocol) and different privacy properties (e.g., data non-leakage vs. data-user unlinkability) will be respectively analysed via tailored, well-defined techniques. To specify privacy, LV-Pri20 will design/refine different non-classical logic languages which have inherent semantics for privacy-like expression (e.g., strategy logics). For these, we will then develop new model checking algorithms. All will be incorporated in automatic verification software, which already proved efficient in analysing highly distributed systems, inline with, e.g., the IoT applications envisaged herein. LV-Pri20 will have a multi-disciplinary, collaborative nature, an academic core and industrial side. After an initial privacy scrutiny, new/patched RFID-based, privacy-preserving, communication protocols will be (re-)designed and implemented. For these, we will devise mathematical proofs for one-session security, and run automatic analysis of their multi-session executions.

Keywords: applied non classical logics,model checking,privacy
Transcriptional reprogramming of Clock at Shoot Apical Meristem in regulating plant organogenesis and growth. (Clock-SAM)

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-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Plant growth and organogenesis are coordinated by stem cells located in specialized tissues known as meristems. Virtually all the aerial parts of the plant derive from stem cells located in niches at the shoot apical meristem (SAM), where they process internal and external cues to sustain their function. As cells are continuously produced at SAM, it is essential for plants to precisely regulate the timing of proliferation as development and plant organogenesis occurs over time throughout the life cycle. The circadian clock is the primary timing device that enables an organism to measure the pass of the time to precisely coordinate biological activities with the internal cues and its surrounding environment. Despite the importance of stem cell function, the mechanisms controlling the timing of SAM activity in synchronization with the environment remain essentially unknown. we propose to investigate the role of the circadian clock as a flexible biological metronome orchestrating the SAM activity in plants. The Clock-SAM proposal aims to generate a road-map of clock function, defining circadian similarities and divergences among the different functional states at the SAM and establishing the correlation between the circadian pace of the clock and cell fate and specification. We will follow an ambitious integrative approach combining epigenetic and transcriptional regulatory mechanisms to understand stem cell function. Our studies will thus answer a fundamental question in plant cell biology by determining how the plant is temporally constructed in our rotating world. The results from this proposal will provide a framework that can be tested for regulating plant productivity and survival in different environmental conditions. Hence, in the long term our findings could be applied to crops of agronomical interest.

Keywords: circadian clock,shoot apical meristem,plant organogenesis,epigenetics,environmental change,plant performance
Pushing back the MARGINS: investigating the PPNC-Late Neolithic conquest of near-eastern arid lands through settlement pattern analyses and landscape studies (MARGINS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: France,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-08-29
End date: 2025-08-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 275619.84
EU funding (EUR): 275619.84
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

At the end of the Near Eastern neolithization process (PPNC-Late Neolithic, 7th-6th millennium), a wide conquest of arid margins occurred while large villages collapsed in the Fertile Crescent. Early hypotheses posited that population movements reflected demographic pressure and took place from the western greener valleys to eastern steppes. Despite a nowadays agreement on more dynamic processes of multi-directional cultural interchanges, the complexity of this wide phenomenon remains to be understood. To achieve this goal and thanks to an integrative approach, MARGINS aims to propose renewed scenarios of ‘conquest’ and to clarify its factors of influence, in particular the respective impacts of environmental components and socio-economic choices. To do so, the project will investigate settlement patterns and land use through subsistence activities and their adaptations to constraints of arid contexts. As an impetus for the project, I question in particular the role of the pastoral nomadism, later considered as a marginal way of life, as a central driving force for this sustainable occupation of arid lands, and the status of the Syrian steppes as a cradle for the conquest towards the south, in Jordan. The project will rely for the first time for the period and region under study on a multi-scalar and diachronic approach of socio-economic mechanisms implemented thanks to quantitative and spatial analyses with the help of statistics, GIS and remote sensing technics. MARGINS will break through barriers that have prevented a “big picture approach” of the Neolithic ‘conquest’ of near eastern arid lands by bringing together an unprecedented combination of methods, interdisciplinary specialists and renown international institutions – the CNRS research unit CEPAM in France and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in the USA – involved in the processing of the largest set of raw archaeological data gathered both in Syria and in Jordan in the past 50 years.

Keywords: neolithic,near east,arid margins,statistical analysis,remote sensing,landscape study,spatial archaeology,human land relationship,settlement patterns,territorial organisation
COntinuous variables Quantum COmplex Networks (COQCOoN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1990000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1990000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

At different scales, from molecular systems to technological infrastructures, physical systems group in structures which are neither simply regular or random, but can be represented by networks with complex shape. Proteins in metabolic structures and the World Wide Web, for example, share the same kind of statistical distribution of connections of their constituents. In addition, the individual elements of natural samples, like atoms or electrons, are quantum objects. Hence replicating complex networks in a scalable quantum platform is a formidable opportunity to learn more about the intrinsic quantumness of real world and for the efficient exploitation of quantum-complex structures in future technologies. Future trusted large-scale communications and efficient big data handling, in fact, will depend on at least one of the two aspects -quantum or complex- of scalable systems, or on an appropriate combination of the two. In COQCOoN I will tackle both the quantum and the complex structure of physical systems. I will implement large quantum complex networks via multimode quantum systems based on both temporal and frequency modes of parametric processes pumped by pulsed lasers. Quantum correlations between amplitude and phase continuous variables will be arranged in complex topologies and delocalized single and multiple photon excitations will be distributed in the network. I aim at: -Learn from nature: I will reproduce complex topologies in the quantum network to query the quantum properties of natural processes, like energy transport and synchronization, and investigate how nature-inspired efficient strategies can be transferred in quantum technologies. -Control large quantum architectures: I will experiment network topologies that make quantum communication and information protocols resilient against internal failures and environmental changes. I will setup distant multi-party quantum communications and quantum simulation in complex networks.

Keywords: complex networks,quantum simulation,quantum communication,continuous variables
Stray Light Suppression Coating for Additively Manufactured Aerospace Components (SolCoat)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: European SME innovation Associate - pilot (H2020-INNOSUP-2020-02, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-02
End date: 2022-03-01
Duration (months): 16.0
Total project cost (EUR): 108752.86
EU funding (EUR): 76127.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Thermo-optical coatings with high optical absorptance and high thermal emittance are a critical technology for a range of different space applications, including stray light suppression, and also passive thermal control of the internal surfaces of satellites. Development of new space coatings with high thermal emittance have also been highlighted as important for accurate absolute temperature calibration (Section 4.9.2 N28b of the European Commision/ESA/EDA Draft Critical Space Technologies for European Strategic Non-Dependence). In the past few years, the use of additive manufacturing for satellite components (both structural and functional elements) has increased rapidly. This has fuelled a shift towards topologically optimised hardware. Although topological optimisation reduces component mass, it typically results in very complex geometries, which are difficult to coat by conventional means. The applicant company is seeking to develop a thermo-optical coating for space applications with suitable optical properties for use as a stray light suppression coating, which is conducive to deposition on complex shaped geometries produced by additive manufacture (AM). Specifically, the coating would require high optical absorptance (≥ 0.96) and high thermal emittance (≥ 0.90), along with suitable rheological properties. A coating with these optical properties could additionally be used for coating the internal surfaces of satellites in order to maximise heat dissipation from high power density payloads.

Keywords: thermo optical,coating,stray light,protection,satellites,earth observation
Sustainability And Procurement in International, European, and National Systems (SAPIENS)

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,Belgium,Hungary,Poland,Romania,Sweden,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3944037.96
EU funding (EUR): 3944037.96
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Objectives: Sustainable public procurement – SPP is about incorporating considerations pertaining to the environment or to social aspects in purchasing decisions. SPP can considerably contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. SAPIENS will develop the scientific analyses needed for enhancing SPP and provide buyers in the public sector with tools to procure sustainably, in compliance with the applicable international and EU rules. Strategy: Unleashing the potential of SPP requires a new generation of experts capable of working across disciplines (law, economics, business sciences) and knowledgeable of the different relevant methodologies. SAPIENS will train the first generation of SPP experts sharing a common understanding of the challenges faced in achieving the SDGs. The PhD interdisciplinary research will focus on 15 innovative SPP topics articulated along three axes: (a) SPP from the international agenda to actual buying practices (actors, sustainable economics, new approaches to public buying), (b) procurement to achieve the SDGs (incl. human, workers, women rights, different environmental concerns, SMEs), and (c) sector-specific applied SPP (construction, textiles and catering). Relevance: Target 12.7 of the SDGs specifically focuses on promoting “public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities” but SPP is relevant for and may contribute to the achievement of most SDGs. Public procurement – PP also plays “a key role in the Europe 2020 strategy […] as one of the market-based instruments to be used to achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. Enabling and enhancing SPP on the lines of the SAPIENS fully answer a relevant societal need, as proposed by the H2020 program.

Keywords: sustainable procurement,environment,social rights,sustainable development
A network for supporting the coordination of High-Performance Computing research between Europe and Latin America (RISC2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: High Performance Computing
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Argentina,Uruguay,Germany,Spain,Italy,Spain,Colombia,France,Portugal,Chile,Mexico,Portugal,Costa Rica,Brazil
Call: International Cooperation on HPC (H2020-FETHPC-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 514912.5
EU funding (EUR): 499912.5
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

High-Performance Computing (HPC), used to be promoted mainly by the big science and defence communities. However, with the recent advent of AI and IoT, wider use of HPC is bringing new benefits to areas such as industry, healthcare and the economy. All regions now see intense investments in HPC as an essential in order to compete globally. In this context, coordination and capacity sharing between allied regions is crucial. The RISC2 project will gather eight key European HPC actors, and the main HPC actors from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Costa Rica and Chile, to encourage stronger cooperation between their research and industrial communities on HPC applications and infrastructure deployment. The project will be advised by an external Board made up of distinguished experts from Latin America and Europe. RISC2 will promote exchange of best practice through meetings, workshops and training, organised to coincide with major HPC events in Europe (like ISC and EuroHPCSW) and in Latin America (like CARLA and ISUM). RISC2 will build on the already strong relationships of the consortium partners; on the results of the previous RISC project, and on the use of platforms like the Ellalink Subsea Cable https://ella.link/. The main project deliverable will be a cooperation roadmap aimed at policymakers, the scientific community and industry, identifying key application areas, HPC infrastructure and policy requirements, and exploring ways for the activities established during the project to last beyond its lifetime. RISC2’s activities and results will be disseminated widely through dedicated project communication tools and will take advantage of existing platforms such as Campus Iberoamerica. The training carried out in the project will help capacitate Latin American HPC, and the structured interaction between researchers and policymakers in both regions will reinforce links and help define a coordinated policy and a clear roadmap for the future.

Keywords: societal challenges,roadmapping,artificial intelligence,bi lateral policy dialogue,hpc observatory,training