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Archaeogenomic analysis of genetic and cultural interactions in Neolithic Anatolian societies (NEOGENE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2556250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2556250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Neolithic Transition in the Near East (c.10,000-6,000 BC) was a period of singular sociocultural change, when societies adopted sedentary life and agriculture for the first time in human history. This project will jointly use genomic and quantitative cultural data to explore Transition societies’ organisation, interactions, and their social and demographic evolution in time. (1) We will start by dissecting social structures within Neolithic communities in Anatolia, studying the role of kinship, postmarital residence customs, and endogamy. For this end, we will produce genotype data for c.250 individuals interred within five Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic villages in South East and Central Anatolia, and analyse genomic relatedness patterns in the context of bioarchaeological similarity (e.g. by measuring genetic relatedness among Çatalhöyük individuals buried within the same house over generations). (2) We will study the means of cultural interaction among Near Eastern Neolithic societies by documenting which cultural traits -from skull removal customs to pottery- were most likely propagated through emulation and acculturation, and which ones by gene flow, when and where. Here we will produce whole genome data, compile genomic and material culture similarity matrices for >30 Near Eastern pre-Neolithic and Neolithic populations, and develop frameworks for integrated analysis of quantitative material culture and genomic similarity among populations (also including obsidian and sheep exchange connections as factors). The data will be analysed on multiple levels: within regions, interregional, and diachronic. (3) The work will conclude by examining the evolution of social organisation and population interaction patterns through the Neolithic Transition. While enriching and revising current Transition models, the project will set precedents for employing archaeogenomics to study social structures and for systematic co-analysis of genomic and archaeological data.

Keywords: neolithic transition,near east,pre pottery neolithic,pottery neolithic,archaeogenomics,human adna,kinship,patrilocality,demography,population admixture,migration,sheep ancient dna
Team Awareness Enhanced with Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality (TeamAware)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Increase Europe's resilience to crises and disasters
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,Austria,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Greece,Türkiye,Türkiye,Türkiye,Romania,Türkiye,Belgium,France,Netherlands,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Technologies for first responders (H2020-SU-SEC-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6964702.5
EU funding (EUR): 6964702.5
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

First responders are the groups of people, services and organisations with specialised skills and qualifications whose duty is to arrive first to the emergency zone, search, save and rescue operations, and perform crisis management in natural or human-made disasters. Although first responders provide secure and safe societies by protecting the communities, responding to the disasters and rescuing lives, they often use inefficient, weak and obsolete technologies in the operations. With respect to the current situation, the operational capabilities of the first responders can be dramatically boosted by the advances in technology and engineering fields such as smart sensor systems, wearables, data processing, data fusion, data analytics, communication infrastructure, and artificial intelligence tools. The main objective of TeamAware Project is to develop an integrated and cost-efficient situational awareness system for first responders from different sectors with heterogeneous and hardly interoperable sensor units including drone mounted, wearable, and external sensor systems, existing first responder services, and operation centres. The purpose is to enhance crisis management, flexibility and reaction capability of first responders of different sectors through real-time, fused, refined, filtered, and manageable information by using highly-standardized augmented reality and mobile human machine interfaces.

Keywords: situational awareness,first responder remote monitoring,real time risk assessment
Immune Safety Avatar: nonclinical mimicking of the immune system effects of immunomodulatory therapies (imSAVAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Innovative Medicines Initiative 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: IMI2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Norway,Sweden,Switzerland,Belgium,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United States,Luxembourg,United Kingdom
Call: Emerging translational safety technologies and tools for interrogating human immuno-biology (H2020-JTI-IMI2-2018-15-two-stage, 2018)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 21750812.25
EU funding (EUR): 10999316.25
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

The vision of Immune Safety Avatar (imSAVAR) is to develop a platform for integrated nonclinical assessments of immunomodulatory therapy safety and efficacy. Existing nonclinical models do not adequately represent the complexity of the immune system and its interactions in both immunoncology and immunmediated diseases. They also do not accurately reflect the diversity of response to new therapies that is seen in clinical medicine. We will, thus, constantly refine existing and develop new nonclinical models with the final goal of validation aiming at: (i) understanding the value of nonclinical models for predicting efficacy and safety of immunomodulators incorporating cellular high throughput assays, complex organisms models and micro physiological systems, (ii) developing new endpoints and better monitoring approaches for immune function tests, and (iii) designing cellular and molecular biomarkers for early detection of adverse effects. The platform imSAVAR will be based upon case studies for prioritized therapeutic modalities and has been built around institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft which has strong track records in applied science and in particular toxicology. The consortium will improve the prediction of the transferability of safety and efficacy of immunomodulators from pre-clinical models to first-in-human studies in collaboration with the private sector, pharma, regulators and technology providers. We will share experience on customized models that can be deployed (w.r.t. the 3Rs principles), establish the necessary infrastructure, conduct the analyses and provide wider disease domain expertise. This conjoint effort assures that the platform imSAVAR constantly benefits the field of immune safety evaluation, and will generate opportunities for European businesses. A guiding principle of this consortium is the meaningful engagement of multiple stakeholders including patients and regulators. A multi-stakeholder community will be established.

Keywords: toxicology,micro physiological systems,nonclinical assessment,computational immunology
Photoelectrochemical Solar Light Conversion into Fuels on Colloidal Quantum Dots Based Photoanodes (QuantumSolarFuels)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Italy,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 237768.0
EU funding (EUR): 237768.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The efficient use of solar energy is vital for the future of our Planet and to ensure to the next generations our and even superior welfare standards. Photoelectrochemical water splitting is a promising way to convert solar light into storable fuels, such as H2. However, an ideal photoanodic material for the oxygen evolution half-reaction has not been identified yet. Technologies based on solution-processed colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are promising for producing effective photoanodes because of their low manufacturing costs and the possibility of controlling the band gap of the material through the quantum size effect. The main scientific aim of the QuantumSolarFuels project is the preparation of photoanodes for water splitting based on CdSe, CdTe and CdSeTe CQDs and their protection against photocorrosion. The CQDs will be assembled in flat electrodes effectively protected against photocorrosion and activated toward water oxidation through: a) the deposition of amorphous TiO2 and subsequent coating with metal based oxygen evolution catalysts or b) by direct coating them with the oxygen evolution catalysts. Further objectives are: 1) the identification of the optimal CdSeTe composition and CQDs size for the preparation of efficient photoanodes; 2) the use of Cd-chalcogenide CQDs in solar cells and photo- and electro-catalysis for renewable fuels production. Thanks to this action the researcher will become a World expert in these areas, in particular in the innovative use of CQDs for photoelectrochemical water splitting applications. Taking full advantage of the complementary competences of the two involved research groups, the one at the beneficiary institution expert in the fundamental chemical aspects of photocatalysis and the partner group more focused on the engineering and industrial exploitation of CQD science, the QuantumSolarFuels project will provide crucial achievements for the future preparation of industrially compelling photoelectrochemical devices.

Keywords: photoelectrochemistry,photoanode,quantum dots,nanocrystals,cdse,cdte,water splitting,solar,light conversion
Cryptography with Low Complexity (CLC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1265750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1265750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The efficiency of cryptographic constructions is a fundamental question. Theoretically, it is important to understand how much computational resources are needed to guarantee strong notions of security. Practically, highly efficient schemes are always desirable for real-world applications. More generally, the possibility of cryptography with low complexity has wide applications for problems in computational complexity, combinatorial optimization, and computational learning theory. In this proposal we aim to understand what are the minimal computational resources needed to perform basic cryptographic tasks. In a nutshell, we suggest to focus on three main objectives. First, we would like to get better understanding of the cryptographic hardness of random local functions. Such functions can be computed by highly-efficient circuits and their cryptographic hardness provides a strong and clean formulation for the conjectured average-case hardness of constraint satisfaction problems - a fundamental subject which lies at the core of the theory of computer science. Our second objective is to harness our insights into the hardness of local functions to improve the efficiency of basic cryptographic building blocks such as pseudorandom functions. Finally, our third objective is to expand our theoretical understanding of garbled circuits, study their limitations, and improve their efficiency. The suggested project can bridge across different regions of computer science such as random combinatorial structures, cryptography, and circuit complexity. It is expected to impact central problems in cryptography, while enriching the general landscape of theoretical computer science.

Keywords: cryptography,computational complexity
Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (Freach)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Freach is a disruptive IT software innovation to optimize online therapies of patients with speech disorders or psychological diseases. It is used for daily and intensive therapy sessions, providing not only a video conference tool for patients, therapists and doctors but also automatic evaluations for speech- and psychotherapy (e.g. real time analysis of voice curves and individual training sessions).The benefit are time savings for the patients (treatment from home), cost savings for the insurances and private payers (standardized group and individual training sessions) and treatment improvement (automated real time analysis of speech). The scientifically proven facilitation of therapy for patients with speech disorders is embedded into a globally scalable B2B business model and several international clinic chains are interested to use the system (e.g. Schoen clinics as one of the largest German hospital chains). Furthermore, several listed Communication Technology Providers would like to offer the service in their portfolio since it has recently won several prices, like e.g. the ConhIT Medicine Management Price 2015. The key objective of the innovation project is to extend the automated processes of the speech and psychotherapy based therapy software in more depth and to roll out into European and global markets.

Keywords: therapy
Water Works 2016-2020 in Support of the Water JPI (WaterWorks2015) - Sustainable water use in agriculture, to increase water use efficiency and reduce soil and water pollution (WaterWorks2015)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: ERA-NET Cofund
Partnership: WaterWorks2015 (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Germany,Egypt,Germany,Spain,Italy,South Africa,Germany,Ireland,Cyprus,Taiwan, Province of China,Norway,Tunisia,Belgium,Finland,Poland,Sweden,Moldova, Republic of,Türkiye,Türkiye,Romania,France,Netherlands,United States,Denmark,Portugal,Canada
Call: Stepping up EU research and innovation cooperation in the water area (H2020-WATER-2015-one-stage, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20524924.0
EU funding (EUR): 6267994.92
Participants: 37
Project status: CLOSED

The WaterWorks2015 proposal responds to the Horizon 2020 (H2020) Societal Challenge 5 2015 Call topic Water-3 [2015]: Stepping up EU research and innovation cooperation in the water area. WaterWorks2015 aims at pooling resources from the 32 participating research programme owners / managers of 23 countries to implement a joint call for proposals, with EU co-funding in the area of sustainable water use in agriculture and forestry. It's a collaboration between the Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs), Water JPI “Water Challenges for a Changing World” and FACCE JPI “Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change”. Achieving a “sustainable water use in agriculture, to increase water use efficiency and reduce soil and water pollution” is at the intersection of the two JPIs, contributing to the implementation of their respective Strategic Research Agendas. WaterWorks2015 includes 9 organisations from associated and third countries in an effort to reinforce international cooperation. Additional Activities will also be carried out to further support the implementation and strategy of the Water JPI. The overall aims include: • Increasing the value of relevant national and EU R&D funding by concerted and joint planning, implementation and evaluation of national research programmes; • Pooling financial resources from participating states towards the definition and implementation of a Co-funded transnational and multi-disciplinary Call for research and innovation proposals. The aim of the Call will be to support the implementation of initiatives and environmental policies, in particular those related to water and agriculture & forestry, as a way to increase water use efficiency and to reduce soil and water pollution; • Overcoming the fragmentation of European water and agriculture/forestry-related research and innovation activities; • Supporting the implementation and the development of the two Joint Programming Initiatives, seeking synergies in overlapping research issues.

Keywords: resource efficiency
Functionality by Structure (FAST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is an immediate need from the European plastics industry to add value to everyday products and to advance the moulding technology. There are several reasons for this including global competition, regulation on chemical additives, recyclability and environmental legislation. Decoration of plastics, reduction of food waste and easy to paint plastics are just a few areas where our patented FBS technology (currently TRL6) will have significant impact. FBS will upgrade and advance current injection moulding tools by integration of functional nanopatterns; thereby achieving Functionality by Structure (FBS). Marketing activities started a year ago, and the feedback has been overwhelming. We experience a loud and clear request from the market for specific demonstrators. Our task is to validate our business model, prepare for establishment of in-house production and prepare a detailed market analysis (Phase 1). Our current capacity cannot meet requests, and investments are needed to make demonstrators and to mature FBS for production (Phase 2). Applying for funding is part of NILTs strategy to make FBS a viable and scalable business. Today, NILT is serving the nanotechnology industry with state-of-the-art masters for nanoimprint and we will expand through commercialization of FBS. FBS will be the killer technology that escalates NILTs growth. Innovation and commercialisation is in the DNA of NILTs organisation and expanding from niche nanotechnology to mature industry is in-line with our vision: “To implement nanostructuring production solutions for better health and sustainable living”. FBS is a versatile patented technology that can add value to almost any plastic product with minimal entry barriers and risk for the industry. The technology is needed, the market is enormous and the impact is high. This is the business opportunity that our innovation project address.

Keywords: functional surfaces,injection moulding,super hydrophobicity
ENLARGE – ENergies for Local Administrations: Renovate Governance in Europe (ENLARGE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Reflective societies - cultural heritage and European identity
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Estonia,Italy,France
Call: Understanding the transformation of European public administrations (H2020-SC6-CULT-COOP-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 492587.5
EU funding (EUR): 492587.5
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Co-design and co-production processes are promising horizontal governance tools to innovate public administrations and the public sector in general. In particular, co-design processes aim at improving policy effectiveness by including a wide range of viewpoints in the formulation of public policies and in the design of public services, while co-production processes are designed and managed to involve ‘responsible citizens-users’ in the implementation of the policies and in public service delivery, and aim not only at improving policy effectiveness, but also at sustaining public sector intervention in the recent austerity era, during which governments (especially local governments) must face new social needs and complex problems with decreasing public resources. Notwithstanding the high potential of these processes as innovative and effective governance tools, practical evidence about their usefulness and sustainability for local administrators is still lacking, and local governments proceed mostly incrementally and unaware of potentials and pitfalls. ENLARGE project aims to shed some light on the ‘how and why’ issues of co-design and co-production processes through an intense policy dialogue between policy makers, experts in participatory governance and civil society actors. The specific focus is on sustainable energy and more in general all the solutions aiming at generating more efficiency and effectiveness in public services and public endowments. In detail, the project intends to: EXPLORE the existing models of co-design and co-production of public policies and services; EVALUATE – measures for the assessment of the outcomes; mechanisms and intervening factors favouring the effectiveness of participatory processes; PRODUCE - Raising awareness among public administrators about the options at their disposal and the potential consequences of these choices; COMMUNICATE and DISSEMINATE the project results.

Keywords: energy,co production,co design,participation,governance