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Innovative nanotech-based detection equipment in the area of homeland security (NASUM)

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: 2016-10-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Following the January and November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, the need of Governments for identification and security checking systems to provide safety and control to critical infrastructure and people have increased dramatically. It is expected in next years that nations will invest billions of dollars in security systems to upgrade and improve the safety and security of the country (European ETD market will be worth $4.2 billion with a CAGR of 14% during 2015-2020). NTA strategic intent is to develop, manufacture and sell sophisticated systems for the security, safety and defense industries. NTA has developed proprietary technologies used in explosives and narcotics trace detection (“ETD” and “NTD”, respectively) applications. These systems are used by private companies and government agencies to screen baggage, cargo, other objects and people for the detection of trace amounts of explosives and narcotics. More specifically, NTA aims at launching on the market a new generation of universal instruments for pressure and chemical measurements providing at the same time huge system simplification and high effectiveness. NTA Value Proposition is to provide its customers with instruments for selective and sensitive detection of explosives that are characterized by significant design simplification and high cost efficiency. The proposed feasibility study has the aim to evaluate the technological, economic and financial sustainability of the project. In particular, the specific objectives of the feasibility study are: - complete final layout and product design, prototype experimental set up and select key suppliers; - define the certification phases; - enhance all measures to protect company’s knowledge; - fine tune the executive dissemination and exploitation plan; - elaborate the executive business plan. The overall project will allow NTA to reach a leadership role in the ETD sector, attaining a strong growth in market share, turnover and employment.

Keywords: mems,nems,nanotechnology,nano mechatronic,homeland security,transportation and aviation,security,force protection,law enforcement,critical infrastructure protection,public safety
Control of current-induced heat exchange in molecular junctions by molecular scale design of the electronic properties (HEATEXMOL)

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: Czechia
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 142720.8
EU funding (EUR): 142720.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project will investigate the current-induced vibrational heating and cooling of molecular junctions with relatively sharp molecular resonances. These systems are interesting because, depending on the atomistic details of the metal/molecule interface and the chemical structure of the molecule, an extremely rich variety of heating/cooling dynamics under an external bias is possible. A detailed study of the connection between the electronic structure (both at equilibrium and in presence of a bias) and the inelastic processes associated to the emission and absorption of molecular vibrations represents a necessary step toward the comprehension and control of the junction heating and cooling dynamics and thus of its stability. We will study a broad range of systems where the sharp DOS features are originated by two different physical mechanisms: i) structural and chemical details of the metal/molecule interface, and ii) destructive interference in the molecule. In the first case, we will focus on the effect of electrode shape on the heating and cooling of the molecule and consider a wide range of molecule-electrode couplings. The molecules we will consider are examples of these classes of systems, namely carbenes (strong coupling to the electrodes), bypiridine (intermediate coupling), PTCDA (weak coupling). In the case of destructive interference, we will focus on conjugated linear molecules where quantum interference features originate from the coupling of side-groups to the molecular backbone. Finally the project will extend the state-of-the-art approach for the calculation of the heating and cooling dynamics by introducing self-consistency between vibrations populations and the electronic structure. For this we will make use of a series of approximations in the derivation of the equations for vibration emission and absorption rates. We expect this new approach will reveal complex dynamics in systems with sharp resonances and close to vibrational instabilities.
artificial Intelligence threat Reporting and Incident response System (IRIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Improve cyber security
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Estonia,Spain,Italy,Cyprus,Belgium,Finland,Romania,Greece,Greece,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Luxembourg,Portugal
Call: Intelligent security and privacy management (H2020-SU-DS-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5687628.5
EU funding (EUR): 4918790.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Uptake of IoT and AI driven ICT systems in Europe is crucial for our common future, but it is dependent on our strategic ability to protect these systems from cyber threats and attacks on their privacy. IRIS addresses this challenge with a collaborative-first approach centered around CERTs/CSIRTs. From a technological perspective, it deploys (i) autonomous detection of IoT and AI threats, enriched with (ii) privacy-aware intelligence sharing and collaboration, and (iii) advanced data protection and accountability. Crucially, IRIS introduces (iv) the first dedicated online training and cyber exercises to prepare CERTs/CSIRTs to collaboratively protect critical infrastructures and systems against cross-border AI and IoT threats. IRIS will be validated in three pilot demonstrators, focussing in the IoT, AI and cross-border dimensions, across three existing smart city environments (in Helsinki, Tallinn and Barcelona), involving the associated national/governmental CERTs/CSIRTs, cybersecurity authorities and municipalities. The scenarios will contain real-life inspired cyber incidents that will build up into pilots at all levels (from local to national and to cross-border) to showcase the versatility of the IRIS solution. With 19 key partners from around Europe and 5 CERTs/CSIRTs as Associated Partners, IRIS’s solid consortium composition and work plan prioritises the effectiveness needed for quick real-world adoption and impact. Moreover, integration will be carried out on the EU’s existing MeliCERTes platform, with the support of NETCOMPANY-INTRASOFT, while training will build upon THALES’s existing cyber range, and ECSO will ensure the contribution to standards and policymaking. With the formal support of the four H2020 Cybersecurity Competence Network Pilot Projects, IRIS will also actively engage with the full scope of the cybersecurity ecosystem in Europe.

Keywords: autonomous cyber threat analytics,collaborative threat intelligence,melicertes enhanced trusted and secure collaboration,cyber range for training and testing automated remediation strategies
Illuminating every sound with lasers, coding words and complex sounds with light. (LIGHTCODESWORDS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept (ERC-2017-PoC, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

An estimated 360 million people worldwide are living with disabling hearing impairment. This number is rising mainly due to a growing global population and longer life expectancies and increasing noise exposure. Unaddressed hearing loss poses an annual global cost of 750 billion international dollars. Interventions to prevent, identify and compensate or cure hearing loss are cost-effective and can bring great benefit to individuals. Currently available auditory prostheses based on mechanical or electrical energy are not sufficiently supplying the hearing impaired population. The main reasons are insufficient frequency specificity, feedback and discomfort due to occlusion effect and/or recurrent auditory canal inflammations. Light is a form of energy that can be very well focused, can be applied without the need of direct contact and may be the alternative energy for the stimulation of the hearing organ. With our LaserHearingAids Starting Grant we have developed a novel activation strategy of each individual frequency of the hearing spectrum using monochrome laser pulses. It has the advantage of a non-contact, very precise energy transfer in vibratory structures and shall be used to improve hearing and further auditory pathologies. In preparation for the prototype of the optoacoustic auditory prostheses we will continue testing the market, build up the started cooperation with industry partners and ask for ethical approvals for the first clinical studies. In parallel we will work on to coding speech and more complex sounds like e.g. music using the optoacoustic vibrations and improve loudness modulation within the biocompatibility margins. Our laser based coding strategy will revolutionize the auditory prostheses by replacing the speaker or the sound transducer with laser pulses. This new technique will improve patients’ quality of life and reduce the financial burden on the society due to work disability caused through these sensory deficits.

Keywords: laser,light,optoacoustic,hearing,auditory prostheses,words,speech understanding,sound transmission,ear function
Global Optimization of integrated PhotoVoltaics system for low electricity cost (GOPV)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,France,France
Call: Reducing the cost of PV electricity (H2020-LCE-2017-RES-IA, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11148682.49
EU funding (EUR): 9403873.42
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Scenarios have forecasted a long lasting amplification with PV electricity becoming the cheapest electricity source in many regions with costs in the range of 4 to 6 c€/kWh for EU by 2024, while 2.2 c€/kWh has been achieved for a 800 MW PV plant planned in Abu Dhabi for 2019. The PV market will continue to expand in the coming years with more than a doubling in the production capacity expected for 2024. At the same time investment in production capacities is foreseen to keep growing hence maintaining the sector highly competitive. For the European PV industry, which is struggling to survive after years of massive investments in China and south-east Asia, the growth of the market represents a chance to come back as a prime player on high-efficiency premium technologies. This is the positioning of GOPV to develop highly competitive technologies for the PV utility market and strong synergies between European players. The project will accelerate reduction of electricity cost implementing advanced PV features and creating synergies across 5 topic areas: Light Management; Energy Efficiency; Material Efficiency; System Reliability; and System configuration and O&M. Ultimately, it will set up an integrated 250 kW PV system to demonstrate a competitive electricity cost of 0.02 €/kWh for irradiation levels of 1900 kWh/m²/year GHI in Southern Europe. The levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) will hence be reduced by 50% (currently 0,04 €/kWh) and the energy payback time reduced by 40%, both in respect to actual standard solution and to PERC best in class mono-facial solution. GOPV project will deliver a 35 years lifetime for the PV string instead of 25 years standards. Beyond GOPV, the global turnover for the six industrial partners exploiting the results of the project will be close to 48 M€ (2022) and will reach 680 M€ in 2027 (x 14 compare to 2020) with an expectation of creating more than 2000 jobs on the 2022-27 period.

Keywords: levelized cost of electricity,heterojunction,module,one axis tracker,csi inverter,pv plant,light management,energy efficiency,material efficiency,bifacial,epbt,lcoe
Children Born of War - Past, Present and Future (CHIBOW)

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: Germany,Germany,Germany,Israel,Germany,Uganda,Austria,Germany,Belgium,Lithuania,Poland,Russian Federation,Latvia,France,Czechia,Netherlands,United States,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3729290.65
EU funding (EUR): 3729290.4
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

The physical and psychosocial impact of armed conflict on children is immense and particularly so, if these children are associated with the enemy. Overwhelming evidence suggests that children born of war (CBOW), i.e. children fathered by foreign soldiers and born to local mothers have been and continue to be a major obstacle to successful integration of both their mothers and themselves into post-conflict societies. At a global level, previous UN studies have further emphasized the lack of research on children born out of forced pregnancies in armed conflict. The proposed network addresses the described shortcomings by advancing the knowledge base through systematic analysis of lived experiences of CBOW in a variety of 20th century conflict and post-conflict situations. The main research goal is to further our understanding of how (if at all) CBOW in conflict and post-conflict situations are integrated into society; how (if at all) militaries, governments, and nongovernmental policy makers assist this integration process; and how the children's lived experiences reflect broader societal attitudes to memories of war and vice versa. Our vision is to promote scientific excellence by exploiting the specific research expertise and infrastructure of the co-ordinating partner and all participants in order to advance the research competencies and employability of early career researchers. Their enhanced understanding of the challenges of CBOW in volatile societies will inform the normative debates and, ultimately, policies on the reintegration of CBOW into post-conflict societies. By combining historical, social empirical, psychiatric, political, legal, memory, public health and development studies with the discourse surrounding currently enacted humanitarian intervention, insights gained from this network will surpass existing knowledge and will help improve on current integration efforts.

Keywords: children born of war,gender based violence,memory studies,cultural heritage,trauma,stigma,adverse childhood experiences,post conflict reconstruction,education
Building a reproducible single-cell experimental workflow to capture tumour cell persistence (PERSIST-SEQ)

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: Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Sweden,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Tumour plasticity (H2020-JTI-IMI2-2020-20-two-stage, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15320480.0
EU funding (EUR): 7057980.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

It is the ambition of PRESIST-SEQ to provide a new gold standard in single-cell experimental workflows the cancer research community by developing best practices, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and high-quality FAIR data, with the ultimate aim to empower them to unravel therapeutic resistance. Such, that the community can identify urgently needed markers to predict, prevent, and target tumour resistance. Cancer takes 9.6 million lives each year, 90% of which result from untreatable metastatic relapse occurring after initially (seemingly) effective treatment. Therapeutic resistance is hence a primary cause of cancer death that clinically cannot be predicted, prevented, or treated. Addressing the urgent need for smarter therapeutic strategies is however held back by the lack of standardised experimental approaches that enable studying the biology of residual disease and drug tolerant persister cells in full detail. This need encompasses best practices for single-cell sequencing, advanced modelling techniques using patient-derived organoids and xenografts, and data FAIRification for integrated experiments. To address this need, PERSIST-SEQ brings together globally leading groups in single-cell sequencing technologies, cancer modelling and therapeutic resistance. Furthermore, the consortium has a broad range of clinical samples, cell lines, 3D models (PDX and PDOs) and mice models (GEMMs) at its disposal that can be leveraged to answer a broad range of emerging questions. This positions the consortium excellently to (1) design and standardise single-cell experimental approach to study the biology of therapeutic resistance and (2) initiate the largest single-cell profiling initiative on therapeutic resistance. Importantly, PERSIST-SEQ is organised such that it can quickly adapt to emerging insights and techniques during the project, and that ensures the capture of learnings in manners that stimulate replication of workflows elsewhere.

Keywords: single cell sequencing,therapeutic resistance in cancer,spatial transcriptomics,single cell transcriptomics,single cell epigenomics,patient derived organoids,patient derived xenografts
Sustainable Building Lime Applications via Circular Economy and Biomimetic Approaches (SUBLime)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Belgium,Poland,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3713424.48
EU funding (EUR): 3713424.48
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Lime is one of the earliest industrial commodities known to man and it continues to be one of the essential building blocks of modern Society. The global lime market is anticipated to approach the value of 44 Billion Euros by the end of 2026 and resulting in various growth opportunities for key players. The SUBLime network aims to develop the most advanced technology in lime-based materials modelling and characterization for industrial use that will go beyond the limitations of existing solutions in new construction and conservation in the built heritage. It is firstly dedicated to recruit and train fifteen PhD students in multiple scientific and engineering fields towards a better understanding and development of sustainable innovations in both added functionalities and sustainability aspects in lime mortars and plasters, strongly based on novel biomimetic and closed-loop recycling approaches. The project covers the main features of lime-based applications analysis, including material characterization, numerical non-linear modelling of multiphysics behaviour, functionality and sustainability in lime use and performance-based design. These new developments include capacities such as: self-cleaning, (super-) hydrophobicity, self-healing, enhanced (catalysed) CO2 capture capabilities, and considers closed-loop recycling. The crossdisciplinary approach throughout the SUBLime value chain, leveraging the knowledge of the academic (6) and industrial members (11), such as lime producers, mortar/plaster/block producers, and end-users for the prioritization of industrial needs, will dramatically increase the transfer of scientific knowledge to the lime-consuming industries in the EU, ensuring their progress on social, environmental and economic aspects, and product understanding.

Keywords: lime,mortars,plasters,multiphysics,sustainability,performance based,digital fabrication,recycling,co2 capture,self healing,numerical modelling,end users,training,knowledge transfer