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Simple, robust and cost-effective approaches to guide industry in the development of safer nanomaterials and nano-enabled products (SAbyNA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Spain,Italy,Spain,Sweden,Finland,France,France,United States,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Safe by design, from science to regulation: metrics and main sectors (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-TO-IND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6146968.75
EU funding (EUR): 5999068.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Safe and sustainable innovation requires a good understanding of the potential health and environmental risks along the life cycle of a product. In the absence of specific and integrated regulatory guidelines for the management of risks associated to the use of nanomaterials (NMs) and nano-enabled products (NEP), numerous organizations have produced guidance documents with the aim of covering the obvious management gaps that exist in the different application domains (workers, consumers, environment). There is still a need to provide industry with easy to use and integrative guidance with clear workflows exploiting the most relevant resources for each evaluation case, so that industry can efficiently manage the potential risks associated to NMs and NEPs. The challenge now is to distil and integrate available resources (methods, models, frameworks and tools) to reduce their complexity, costs and delocalization. To address this challenge SAbyNA will develop an integrative user-friendly Guidance Platform with optimal workflows to support the development of safe-by-design of products (NMs and NEPs) and processes over the whole life cycle. A panel of safe-by-design strategies and risk mitigation measures will be incorporated in the Guidance workflow with hierarchies and decision trees to facilitate the identification of most suitable approaches for each case. SAbyNA will also develop specific modules of such Guidance Platform tailored to the Paints and 3D-printing industry, to showcase how usability can be increased by targeting specific industrial sectors. A continuous dialogue with different stakeholders and end-users will maximize the added value of the SAbyNA Safe-by-design Guidance Platform, which will also be demonstrated in real life industrial case studies.

Keywords: safe by design,risk assessment,exposure assessment,hazard assessment,tools,nano enabled products,nanomaterials,regulations
Revisioning the ‘Fiscal EU’: Fair, Sustainable, and Coordinated Tax and Social Policies (FairTax)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Austria,Norway,Sweden,Sweden,Czechia,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Canada,Brazil
Call: Resilient and sustainable economic and monetary union in Europe (H2020-EURO-SOCIETY-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2792250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2472750.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Plans for economic and monetary integration in the European Union call for fundamental changes in fiscal relations among EU member states and other countries. The 2012 Blueprint for the European Monetary Union (EMU) calls for deeper integration of fiscal policies at the level of domestic EU members, including establishing EU own-source revenues. The 2013 Social Dimension of the EMU emphasizes that this fiscal revisioning must also improve coordination of employment and social policies post-crisis to counteract declines in state revenues, evaluate fragmented policy initiatives during the crisis, and improve human well-being and capabilities ends in themselves and as preconditions to stable integration and sustainable growth. This project will carry out in-depth comparative, interdisciplinary research using constitutional, legal, technical, institutional, qualitative, and quantitative methods to address four core issues: * Options for expanding EU legislative competences or governance mechanisms for effective harmonization of member tax and social policies; * Reform options for state-level coordination of fairer, more stable, and more sustainable tax and social policy regimes; * Strategies for the increased effectiveness and harmonization of tax administration and compliance structures within the EU and non-EU areas; and * Recommendations for true own-source EU revenues. This project is relevant to fundamental political and structural challenges that face the EU as it pursues deep fiscal integration. Fiscal policies encompass both revenue production and state spending priorities, and have tremendous impact on life choices, business planning, and economic development. Whether under conditions of stable growth or disruption, state revenues remain at the heart of state governance capacities; throughout, the well-being of the population as a whole remains at the heart of social and political stability and productivity.

Keywords: tax law,tax compliance,tax policy,gender studies on taxation,sustainabel and fair taxation,ec jurisdiction on taxation
Women travelling to seek abortion care in Europe: the impact of barriers to legal abortion on women living in countries with ostensibly liberal abortion laws (BAR2LEGAB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 71.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495753.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495753.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In many European countries with ostensibly liberal abortion laws, women face legal restrictions to abortion beyond the first trimester of pregnancy, as well as other barriers to legal abortion, in particular shortages of providers willing and able to offer abortion due to poor training and to conscientious objection among physicians. The Council of Europe has recognized that conscientious objection can make access to safe abortion more difficult or impossible, particularly in rural areas and for low income women, who are forced to travel far to seek abortion care, including abroad. The WHO also highlights that delaying abortion care increases risks for women’s reproductive health. Despite the relevance of this topic from a public health and human rights perspective, the impact of procedural and social barriers to legal abortion on women in countries with ostensibly liberal abortion laws has not been studied by social scientists in Europe. This five-year research project is envisaged as a ground-breaking multi-disciplinary, mixed-methods investigation that will fill this gap, by capitalizing on previous, pioneer anthropological research of the PI on abortion and conscientious objection. It will contribute to the anthropology of reproduction in Europe, and particularly to the existing literature on abortion, conscientious objection and the medicalization of reproduction, and to the international debate on gender inequalities and citizenship, by exploring how barriers to legal abortion are constructed and how women embody and challenge them in different countries, by travelling or seeking illegal abortion, as well as their conceptualizations of abortion and their self perception as moral/political subjects. The project will be carried out in France, Italy and Spain, where the few existing studies show that women face several barriers to legal abortion as well as in the UK, the Netherlands and Spain, where Italian and French women travel to seek abortion care.

Keywords: social anthropology,reproductive politics,abortion governance,conscientious objection,stigma,gender and social inequalities
Gene Electro-Transfer Through the Lens of Polymer Physics (GETPolPhys)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-03-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150040.32
EU funding (EUR): 150040.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Application of pulsed electric field (PEF) can reversibly increase the permeability of the cell membrane allowing the access of otherwise impermeable DNA molecules to the inside of the cell. Introduction of foreign DNA molecules encoding immuno-modulatory proteins, antibodies and antigens into cells using PEF, known as Gene Electro-Transfer (GET), is increasingly used for the modulation of the immune system or immunotherapy. While GET based immunotherapy presents itself as a potent application for treatment of cancer and vaccination against infectious diseases, it is suffering from low levels of transgene expressions in vivo. This low efficiency can largely be attributed to our lack of fundamental understanding of the mechanisms by which DNA molecules overcome the barriers of the extra-cellular matrix and the cell membrane in the presence of an electric field. In this action, I aim to provide this required fundamental understanding using principles of polymer physics, soft matter and statistical mechanics. Experiments based on these principles will be conducted in vitro and in vivo to generate results that can be directly compared to theories and models of DNA transport through the extra-cellular matrix and the cell membrane. Understanding the mechanisms within the frameworks of polymer physics will radically improve the efficiency of GET immunotherapy, because it will provide a mechanistic ground for developing optimum protocols within complex tissue environments that can, at the same time, be readily transferred across tissue types and species.
Illes Balears INNOvation Management Services (IBINNO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Spain
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 24235.0
EU funding (EUR): 24235.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The overall IB INNO project objective is the establishment of a feasible and effective service for enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the Balearic Islands region. This will benefit the smart growth in the European Union by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation and by contributing to a better and more efficient connection of stakeholders in the innovation fabric. In order to realize this objective, the core actions are broken down as follows: • Help SMEs to sustainable high growth through innovation. • Achieve tangible managerial transformation. • Improve the commercial potential of SMEs. IB INNO will act as access point to the innovation and internationalization system in the Balearic Islands region, which will be in this new period covered by Balearic Islands Enterprise Network B2EN consortium, embedding the EEN innovation services in the regional innovation ecosystem.

Keywords: innovation management,growth,internationalization,capacity building,sme instrument
Tailored chemical complexity through evolution-inspired synthetic biology (SynPlex)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms, biotechnology for environment and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences, bioengineering and synthetic biology, biomass and biofuels, biohazards
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495755.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495755.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Creating true molecular complexity in a modular, combinatorial fashion is one of the great visions in applied enzymology and chemistry. Nature achieves this feat by using modular biosynthetic enzymes. These microbial proteins generate many of the most important natural products of therapeutic value, including antiinfective, anticancer, and immunosuppressive agents. To construct such compounds, each enzyme module incorporates and often modifies one building block in an assembly line-like process. Among the known modular enzymes, the recently discovered trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthases (trans-AT PKSs) exhibit an unparalleled biosynthetic diversity and tendency to form extensively mosaic-like hybrid enzymes during evolution. As a consequence, many bioactive polyketides generated by these enzymes exhibit combinatorial-like hybrid structures. This phenomenon provides unprecedented opportunities to understand the evolution of metabolic complexity and to apply these principles to metabolic engineering through parts-based synthetic biology. SynPlex will use a novel hypothesis-driven, multi-faceted strategy to interrogate and utilize the distinct combinatorial properties and metabolic richness of trans-AT PKSs. This multidisciplinary project aims to (i) unravel principles of how mosaic PKSs and their metabolites are formed in Nature, (ii) characterize non-canonical PKS components, (iii) create a toolbox of PKS parts for synthetic biology based on these evolutionary and biochemical principles, and (iv) harness the combinatorial potential of trans-AT systems to access complex natural as well as non-natural products. This innovative concept that merges evolutionary biology, enzymology, synthetic biology, and chemistry will result in a broad understanding of these most complex of all known proteins. It has the potential to provide generic, robust synthetic biology platforms to engineer complex polyketides with a wide range of features in a predictable way.

Keywords: bioactive natural products,secondary metabolism
The most accurate 3D scanner for boosting the uptake of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) (SmartEye)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Robots and vehicles play a crucial role in performing operations in unsafe environments, achieving high quality and overall producing a steep increase in competitiveness. While robots are capable of performing efficiently operations, their applicability is limited by their perception and understanding of the environment. Opening up new opportunities for robot applications require accurate, flexible and real time 3D vision technology. Ladimo is positioned at the forefront of the transition to safe and efficient industrial parading in Europe. Ladimo was founded in 2015 in Finland. The company has developed a new generation of 3D scanners. The novel Ladimo scanner, provides human-like vision - in real time and while in movement – 10 to 100 times more accurately than the current competition. Ladimo has independently developed the technology, hardware and software, which form the base of the product. However, when developing and adapting the product for the different application areas we are closely working with industrial partners, chosen to represent larger commercial potential. Direct impacts from the incorporation of Ladimo’s technology include: (1) Improved safety. Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) will provide a solution for performing operations in dangerous environments. (2) Improved competitiveness, by preventing defects, reducing waste, and increasing yield while achieving compliance with traceability requirements. (3) Enabling automation for SMEs. The objective of the overall innovation project is to commercialize an accurate and real-time 3D scanner at affordable cost for industrial automation and AGVs. In order to prepare for commercialisation, our aim is to perform larger scale real life customer pilots, needed to build solid commercial and technical references.

Keywords: vision,machine,laser,industrial,mining,robotics
The IntelliDogTrainer, a new high throughput training device to train high level security dogs (IDT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recently the threat of terroristic attacks dramatically increased. Therefore, global demand of bomb-sniffing dogs surged up to an unprecedented level while the supply of these dogs is stagnating worldwide. The reason for this stagnation lies in the fact that current training programs are reaching their limits in terms of capacity to deliver well trained, high level security dogs. TSE in Germany has a TRL6 prototype of an automated dog trainer (acronym: IDT) IDT will be an industrially manufactured product invented by TSE and it is the only system on the market allowing automated 24/7 behavioural testing of 5-10 dogs in a home-cage setting. IDT will train dogs, will support certification and re-certification and will result In high performing dogs at large scale. The device contains four operant conditioning trays equipped with a set of (presence) sensors to receive input from animals using the system, while integrated actors (motorized selection of pods containing a substance, delivery of a treat to confirm a wanted response) generate a pre-defined feedback to shape animal’s behaviour. The device consists of 4 essential configurations 1. The hardware 2. The software that integrates sensors and the monitoring systems 3. The use of neuroscientific theories in the training program. 4. The use of animal behavioural insights in the various training / sniffing experiments The IDT allows for: 1) fast training on relevant odours, 2) refresh the dogs training on relevant odours, 3) reliably detection. 4) customization of training procedures (high flexibility), controlling training, analysing performance, 5) easy cleaning 6) easy transportation to hard-to-reach training sites In phase 1 TSE will perform a feasibility study directed at better and deep understanding of the market of security. The technical feasibility will be focussed on the cross-over from TRL6 to TRL 8 and on the production technology. Both feasibility study will form the basis for a st

Keywords: terrorism,security sniffing dogs,automated training system,high throughput
Enhancing the research and innovation potential of Tecnico through Blockchain technologies and design Innovation for social Good (BIG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: ERA chairs
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERA Chairs (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020-6, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2456702.5
EU funding (EUR): 2456702.5
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are transformative and bring about a potential for improvement in the European citizenship and economic growth - enabling decentralised, trusted, transparent, user-centric digital services and stimulate new and improved business models and promote decentralised social innovations. For this purpose, the EC is considering these technologies strategic for the next decades, promoting a holistic approach to their deployment in multiple application domains. The overall goal of this proposal is to seek funding in order to expand the research and innovation potential of Tecnico – Lisbon contributing to foster a digital ecosystem taking advantage of Blockchain technologies and design Innovation for social Good through the hiring of an ERA Chair aiming at developing a critical mass of interdisciplinary research in deploying and testing blockchain technologies in strategic applications domains aligned with the smart specialization strategy of Portugal and Lisbon. BIG is particularly well suited to leapfrog the increasing potential of Lisbon as a European high-tech hub for the data economy. Powered by events such as the WebSummit Lisbon is developing a highly competitive digital ecosystem of companies that take advantage of the opportunities provided by distributed ledger and blockchain technologies with a focus on design innovation. BIG will be a campus-wide initiative in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and design innovation to better integrate Tecnico – Lisbon with the European Research Area (ERA) and, in particular, promote structural changes in the school and improving the participation of its associated ICT research labs LARSyS and INESC-ID in the Horizon 2020 and ESIF programmes.

Keywords: distributed ledger technologies,blockchain technologies,design innovation,human computer interaction,cloud computing