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Extremozymes for wood based building blocks: From pulp mill to board and insulation products (WoodZymes)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,France,France,France,France,France,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Exploiting extremophiles and extremozymes to broaden the processing conditions to convert biomass into high-value building blocks (H2020-BBI-JTI-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5207318.75
EU funding (EUR): 3253873.75
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Several crucial steps in wood industries involve extreme operation conditions (such as high temperature and pH) to remove or modify recalcitrant lignin that protects cellulose in the plant cell wall. Enzymes can substitute harsh and energy-demanding chemical treatments for sustainable production of bio-based building blocks and products in wood biorefinery. However, wild enzymes, evolved to act under natural environmental conditions, cannot be integrated into the current industrial processes. WoodZymes partners already have available extremozymes resisting very high temperature and pH that will be further optimized to be used as biocatalysts in wood industries. Enzyme application will include the recovery of phenolic compounds from enzymatic breakdown of technical lignin, and of lignin and hemicellulose compounds from enzymatic delignification and bleaching of kraft pulp (also resulting in more sustainable final cellulosic pulp). Extremophilic enzymes will also be used to valorize the latter compounds as bio-based precursors for adhesives in the manufacture of medium-density fiberboards, and as components of insulation polyurethane foams (substituting fossil building blocks), as well as for obtaining renewable sugar-based papermaking additives. WoodZymes illustrates the potential of extremozymes in the global bio-based economy, contributing to the sustainability and competitiveness of cellulose and board/polyurethane manufacture (as suggested by techno-economic and environmental analyses), and establishing a direct link between the pulp and wood industrial sectors. The feasibility of these objectives is based on a consortium from four EU countries formed by: i) four world-leading companies of the above industrial sectors; ii) a highly-active biotech SME commercializing extremophilic enzymes; and iii) four reputed research institutes of the wood, cellulose, lignin and enzymes sectors, being able to demonstrate the extremozyme-based technology at the pilot scale.

Keywords: biotechnology,laccases,xylanases,kraft mill,lignin,phenols,fibreboards,insulation products
International Doctoral Training in Mathematical Sciences in Paris (MathInParis)

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,France,France
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 65.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6278400.0
EU funding (EUR): 3139200.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

COFUND MathInParis programme will create and build upon existing networks to attract exceptional Doctoral students coming from abroad, to ensure a very high standard of Doctoral training and to disseminate good practice in terms of selection and mentoring throughout all its Doctoral schools by means of those implemented within this programme. The programme is expected to significantly improve follow-up and mentoring conditions through the presence of dedicated personnel and to develop the scope and modes of provision in Doctoral education. COFUND MathInParis will enhance opening of training in mathematics towards industry and other disciplines, develop new targeted mechanisms for transition of doctoral students to businesses during their training and promote public-private mobility. COFUND MathInParis will promote the increase and dissemination of a new generation of international mathematicians trained in Paris, as many scientific ambassadors worldwide. It will create a new network of young innovating Doctors integrated in the European Union who will develop a new key areas of expertise in their home country. New ambitions, more mobility and more curiosity, more awareness for the impact of mathematics in the new economy, more taste for risk taking, innovation and entrepreneurship will emerge. One of the major objectives of COFUND MathInParis is also to break the Berlin wall between academic and industrial research, by widely promoting closer relationships between our teams and laboratories in universities, and partners from the private sector, in industries, banks, etc. Mathematics have been recognized as an important vector for innovation, and it is important to ensure transfer to companies. However our relationships still lack a solid and efficient structure, and one of our aims is to use FSMP as a platform to enable, improve technological transfer and promote bridges to companies.

Keywords: mathematics,applied mathematics,interactions,theoretical computer science
Innovative STATOR (InnoSTAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Romania,France,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative low noise fan stator technologies for 2030+ powerplants (H2020-CS2-CFP09-2018-02, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2787850.0
EU funding (EUR): 2787850.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The noise reduction measures for engine related noise from the intake, but also for rearward radiation is highly targeted during the last 15 to 20 years. Most effort has been made in passive technologies for intake liner concepts, but also for the low noise design of fan and stator blades. From all the current available technologies a noise reduction related to engine sources by 6 dB can be expected, which is a big achievement, but still does not suffice to reach the goals. Thus, a further refinement of possible technologies has to be re-opened, like in the case of innovative stator technology. The proposed work of InnoSTAT consists in a systematic procedure, which has not been performed yet for considered OGV technologies. InnoSTAT will be the first project where the activities are focused on the above process with the only goal of bringing at least 3 OGV concepts to demonstrator level at TRL3 on full scale. This has not been achieved yet in any other programme for one OGV concept. The project’s objectives are • to define 5 novel low noise stator concept designs, to develop and test them on prototype level TRL2 to TRL3, • to select and develop 3 novel stator concepts for further advanced design, characterisation and full 3D stator stage large-scale testing of 2 OGV stages to TRL4, • to define, design and manufacture 1 demonstrator OGV at TRL3 on full-scale. The project’s goal will be achieved in 3 major steps by 1) testing and improving the technologies 5 concepts on small-scale prototype level, 2) down selection of 3 technologies for further test of two of them on large-scale, each as a fully equipped stator stage, and 3) finally 1 selected concept demonstrator to be manufactured and perform an integration study regarding engine environment. This 51-months project with its ambitious goals will request 2,788 k€ in total. Its contribution to the noise reduction on ultra-advanced long-range and ultra-advanced short-/medium-range will be significant.

Keywords: aeroacoustics,aircraft engine noise,aircraft noise reduction,fan noise,stator interaction noise,low noise concept fan,stator interaction
Pluralistic Economics for Development in Green Economic Enhancement (PEDIGREE)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The question of which economic framework (or sets of frameworks) is (are) appropriate for providing policy prescriptions conducive to ecological sustainable has gained renewed interest within the community of ecological economists and political economists. To help answer this question I propose to investigate the suitability of four economic frameworks — neoclassical environmental economics, non-Walrasian neoclassical environmental economics, institutional ecological economics, and ecological Marxian political economy, for providing effective and coherent policy prescriptions for renewable and sustainable energy resources, specifically for electricity generation. The inquiry will be both philosophical/methodological and empirical. The four frameworks will be interrogated against case studies of the UK, Germany, Norway, France, Canada, and the US. The case studies will be comprised of analyses of the socio-economic, historical, political, and cultural backdrop of energy resources in each country. The results of this interrogation will then be used to assess the suitability of the four frameworks for providing policy prescriptions conducive to ecological sustainability with regards to their respective methodologies including ontology, epistemology, methodology (to include methods as well), and ideology. The case for methodological pluralism will be assessed and a notion of pluralism developed for economic frameworks concerned with ecological sustainability. The benefits that will be gained from undertaking this research program at the ERA level will accrue to economists and social scientists first by giving them better analytical and conceptual tools, and all those, including policy makers, politicians, and business leaders who depend on those tools afterwards through better results.

Keywords: pluralism,ecology and political economy,european energy policy,north american energy policy
New CUBic shElter concepT TO foster living responses (CUBETTO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Engaging SMEs in security research and development (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Cubetto project aims to standardize and offer the first comprehensive bottom-up answer to displaced people living needs, being the first construction model of a shelter made of concrete materials that guarantees: full construction with human and material resources found locally; easy installation, removal and repositioning of all modules (concrete panels, SPF and bent plate structure); highest level of security; energy efficiency and environmental resilience. CUBETTO will impact the urgent emergency problems in EU's border areas, as it's the first process and technologies based solution to provide a shelter that is more a home than a bed, giving a complete European response to practical, psychological and social problems of the global housing needs affecting people living in conflict zones, migration routes, crowded urban and poor rural areas. First results achieved with our tested construction model (awarded in European contest of housing solutions) and the endorsement of companies interested in our building concept, brought us target the sector in which the housing need is higher and imperative. A first recognition of global market opportunities (worth to 4 billion in the next five years) and the overall definition of our shelter model features, have allowed us to roughly evaluate the investment needed (€ 1.25 million) and first deployment projections based on our capabilities, to estimate an overall ROI of 3.32 in the fifth year. In this phase the objective is to assess how to improve the building organization method to standardize the intervention in post-emergency contexts and in crowded urban areas, considering different scenarios for materials use, supply and works streamlining; on the other side we aim to analyze the problematic circumstances in their practical and social components, the intervention procedures and exploitation channels in each environment, along with the precise esteem of economic and financial profitability of the business model.

Keywords: shelter,security,refugees,migrants,slum,housing,living,concrete
Energy Efficient Embedded Non-volatile Memory Logic based on Ferroelectric Hf(Zr)O2 (3eFERRO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Greece,Romania,France,France,France,France
Call: Micro- and nanoelectronics technologies (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3989571.41
EU funding (EUR): 3989570.2
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Edge computing requires highly energy efficient microprocessor units (MCU) with embedded non-volatile memories (eNVM) to process data at the source that is the IoT sensor node. eFLASH technology is limited by low write speed, high power and low endurance. Alternative fast, low power and high endurance eNVM could greatly enhance energy efficiency and allow flexibility for finer grain of logic and memory. FeRAM has the highest endurance of all emerging NVMs. However, perovskite-based eFeRAM is incompatible with Si CMOS, does not easily scale and has manufacturability and cost issues. We introduce new ferroelectric material Hf(Zr)O2 to make FeRAM competitive NVM candidate for IoT. HfO2 compatibility with Si processing will facilitate integration, improve manufacturability and allow better scaling. Different cell architectures based on capacitors or ferroelectric FETs will give unprecedented flexibility for “fine-grained” logic –in-memory (LiM) circuits, which allows data storage close to logic circuits, reduces energy cost of data transfer and allows smart gating for “normally-off” computing. The project is built around four objectives: i) Optimization of Materials, ii) LiM design & architecture, iii) Integration of Hf(Zr)O2-based NVM arrays, iv) Memory test & validation & benchmarking. The work calls on the full spectrum of expertise from advanced materials synthesis and characterization, processing, design and integration and benchmarking to make substantial progress towards a truly disruptive energy efficient memory and logic technology. A team of 8 partners, including a major European semiconductor company, the leader in the field of ferroelectric HfO2 and a large technology laboratory, originating from 5 EU states, will join forces to deliver experimental demonstrators creating the opportunity for the EU industry to establish a dominant position in IoT innovative components market and make an impact on the future roadmap for embedded systems and applications.

Keywords: hfo2,non volatile memory,ferroelectric,low power,internet of things,cmos,process,interface layer,logic design
The Rise of Placental Mammals: Dissecting an Evolutionary Radiation (PalM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1418195.0
EU funding (EUR): 1418195.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mammals are ubiquitous, with over 5000 species across the globe. But how did mammals become so successful? There is vigorous debate among palaeontologists: did mammals explosively diversify after a sudden environmental crisis knocked out dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous (~66 million years ago) or rise to dominance more slowly, alongside the dinosaurs? The debate persists because we still know very little about those mammals that flourished during the ~10 million years after the end-Cretaceous extinction (the early Paleogene), as they are largely ignored because their ‘archaic’ anatomy has long confounded palaeontologists. This project will use a wealth of newly discovered fossils and state-of-the-art analytical techniques to finally untangle the evolutionary story of these ~200 critical species. We will comprehensively study the anatomy of ‘archaic’ species using state-of-the-art imaging technology and build a species-level genealogy placing these long-mysterious mammals in the context of their Cretaceous forebears and modern mammals. Cutting-edge quantitative methods for studying evolution, including novel techniques developed here, will be applied to the family tree to date the origin of placental mammals and the major modern groups, determine what effect the end-Cretaceous extinction had on mammalian biodiversity, quantify the tempo and mode of the placental radiation, and explicitly test for potential drivers of mammalian diversification. This will give ground-breaking insight into how major groups become successful over evolutionary time and how biodiversity is affected and reset by dramatic environmental changes, a pressing concern in today’s rapidly changing world.

Keywords: palaeontology,macroevolution,evolution,mass extinctions,phylogenetics,mammals
H3PS – High Power High Scalability Aircraft Hybrid Powertrain (H3PS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Hungary
Call: Breakthrough innovation (H2020-MG-2017-Two-Stages, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 47.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4000000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The H3PS starts in a completely new, challenging and probably never seen before revolution in General Aviation (GA). The main driver behind the H3PS project is to develop a new, greener propulsion system (a parallel hybrid powertrain) to pioneer one of the aviation industry’s solutions in reducing the environmental impact of air travel. The propulsion system to be designed and developed within the project will be suitable for powering four-seat GA aircraft, a market segment which employs today piston-powered engines, where the leading engine manufacturers are providing components whose basic technology, although constantly updated and reliable, is now over 50 years old and, in most cases, still needs leaded fuels to operate. The objective of the project is to put the basis for the development, manufacturing and in-flight test of a parallel hybrid powertrain for General Aviation by the involvement of three European GA market leaders: an aircraft manufacturer (TECNAM), an aircraft engines manufacturer (ROTAX) and an electric motors manufacturer (Rolls-Royce). The H3PS project objective is to fly a GA aircraft with the parallel hybrid powertrain demonstrating the challenging advantages of the configuration but also its high scalability level. “Breakthrough” concept will be achieved by demonstrating the feasibility of a power scalability for up to 11 seats airplanes. The main impact of the project will be related to the introduction of a really marketable solution to bring GA in the hybrid vehicles arena. Hybrid solution is today the most realistic intermediate way to step from gasoline operated powerplants to full electric systems offering the same performances, comparable initial acquisition costs and weights but featuring a more-than-acceptable cost saving in operations. The H3PS project will contribute to the main EU challenges in transportation sector, particularly leadership position of its aeronautics industry and reliable and sustainable air transport system.

Keywords: hybrid,aircraft,parallel hybrid powertrain,propulsion system,general aviation,engine,aeronautics industry,air transport system,all electric aircraft
Geoanatomy. The Body as a Model in Greco-Roman Conceptions of the Earth and the Environment (GEOANATOMY)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2023-03-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the most ancient, still puzzling, philosophical questions concerns how one should explain the structure of the surrounding world while being herself part of it. Believing that all bodies are part of the cosmos in the sense that they are governed by the same causal principles, ancient scientists communicated their observations by using analogy. Evidence of the various forms of communicative analogical scientific exposition is traditionally taken to reveal that medicine and natural science, though sharing a common interest in accounting for natural phenomena, manifest a keen eagerness to delimit their boundaries. There is, however, a largely underexplored type of analogical reasoning in which these disciplines are seen to create a trans-boundary scientific mixture, enabling us to speak of cross-disciplinary influence and assimilation. This project aims to determine the impact of ancient Greek and Roman medicine on the causal explanations of meteorological and geological phenomena offered by Aristotle (4th c. BCE), Lucretius (1st c. BCE) and Seneca (1st c. CE) by investigating the course of reasoning within which such explanations are embedded, what I call ‘the medical argument’. An analysis of this single, unified cross-disciplinary argumentative system will ultimately lead to a redefinition of our present historical knowledge about the beginnings of modern environmental conscience and consciousness. As its strategic intent, GEOANATOMY encompasses the following set of specific goals: (a) To reassess the relationship between ancient biomedicine and natural philosophy, two disciplines which are traditionally thought to have had clearly demarcated boundaries; (b) To bring to light for the first time and clearly identify the ‘fruit’ of this cross-boundary scientific collaborative amalgam; and (c) To advance awareness in both the academic world and the wider public of issues concerning proto-ecology and care for the environment.

Keywords: ancient meteorology,ancient medicine