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Emerging Network Structures and Neuromorphic Applications (NEUROMORPH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1945713.0
EU funding (EUR): 1945713.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Network structures arise in many applications like for biological tissues, neuron systems, and nanoelectronic devices. Neuronal network structures are inspiring novel neuromorphic computer architectures, overcoming physical scaling limits in traditional hardware. The project NEUROMORPH focuses on the interplay of emerging structures in biological neuron systems and electronic circuit models. The problems we address are formulated in terms of nonlinear partial differential systems, including stochastic and nonlocal terms. Examples include transport through ion channels, chemotaxis-fluid systems, mean-field network models, and memristor networks. The aims of this mathematics-oriented project are to explore the structure of the multiscale systems, prove their well-posedness, and devise structure-preserving numerical methods. Mathematical challenges are coming from the cross-diffusion character, the coupling of different types of equations (partially diffusive, stochastic, algebraic), the nonstandard degeneracies of the equations, and the hierarchy of scales, ranging from the molecular to the cellular to the network level. To achieve these goals, we develop new tools by combining variants of the boundedness-by-entropy method, compensated compactness, stability theory, and stochastic analysis. We build on the expertise of the PI on semiconductor device modeling, theory of cross-diffusion systems, numerical analysis, and recent work on stochastic differential equations. Concepts from thermodynamics, cell biology, and electrical engineering will be condensed into innovative mathematical theories for cross-diffusion systems and multiscale models. The project culminates in the simulation of small bio-inspired neuromorphic circuits, where memristor devices model the behavior of synapses or ion channels and mimic neuronal connectivity. The combination of bio-physical and device-circuit models is expected to make a vital progress for the design of neuromorphic structures.

Keywords: cross diffusion systems,ion transport,chemotaxis,network models,memristor devices,neuromorphic computing,existence analysis,numerical analysis
Our Science 2021 (Our Science 2021)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Iceland
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020bis, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185462.5
EU funding (EUR): 110000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The impact of researchers' work on society and citizens has never been more apparent than now. Unprecedented challenges such as climate changes and fast-spreading global pandemic, calls for science to react - and the role of researchers is crucial. At the same time, there is an impending risk of loosing citizens' trust in science, due to increased amount of misinformation about science and research. Therefore, it is important to promote the key role that researchers have for the development and growth of our societies in a national and international context, and for keeping the public informed about critical challenges and scientific discoveries that have an impact on our daily lives. In Iceland, science has a crucial role to play in a society that relies to a great extent on nature and responsible use of natural resources, from renewable energy and sustainable blue growth to societal and cultural implications of living at the edge of the Arctic. In order to ensure and facilitate interaction with the public and society at large, the project Our Science aims to organise European Researchers Night in Iceland, inviting researchers to engage with the public to communicate their work, their passion and their findings in order to increase the awareness of research and innovation activities. The objective is to enhance a positive public perception of researchers by facilitiating an open and active dialogue between researchers and citizens of all ages, especially focusing on children and young people that could consider a career in research. In addition to higlighting the importance of researchers work, the initiative provides a rare opportunity for researchers to communicate directly with the public at all ages and even to involve citizens in the road to scientific discoveries, thus contributing to the transparency of their work and enhancing the attractiveness of scientific careers, which is instrumental in encouraging young people to embark on a career in science.

Keywords: researchers,science communication,innovation,science career,citizen engagement,global challenges,researchers night,public awareness
Decontamination of emerging pollutant using porous Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and silica-MOFs composites (Cleanup-MOFs)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2018-12-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products as Pollutants (PPCPs) are regarded as an emerging class of contaminants and are often released directly into the environment after passing through wastewater treatment plants that are not equipped to remove them. Some PPCPs are easily broken drown and processed, but others are not easily degraded and processed, so they enter sewers. Although little is known about potential adverse effects on non-target species, these substances can be endocrine disruptors that mimic, enhance or inhibit the action of hormones. These compounds are a source of concern because they are widely used and then released in large quantities. On the other hand, the therapeutic misadventures, illicit drug ingestion or attempted suicide by using of harmful substances is a major worldwide public health problem that causes both a significant cost and severe heath problems, even death. Unfortunately, for the vast majority of these poisoning, there are no specific pharmacological antidotes and currently available detoxification methods are weak (<25% PPCPs adsorbed) and poorly prescribed. In this context, a new class of crystalline nanoporous materials known as Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) has attracted an increasing attention from academic and industrial domains. Compared to classical adsorbent materials, MOFs present several advantages: a versatile composition, which allows almost infinite combinations, a large structural variability, an important porosity with a large panel of pore sizes and shapes, ranging from the micro to the mesopore, and the easy modulation of their physicochemical properties by the simple functionalization of the organic linker, including different functional groups. Taking into account MOFs advantages, the objective of the present project is to develop MOFs specially tailored for the removal and degradation of very harmful pollutant from wastewater, as well as for human detoxification.

Keywords: metal organic frameworks,toxin,adsorption,catalysis,bioapplications,wastewater
Council of Coaches (COUCH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Active ageing and self-management of health
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Personalised coaching for well-being and care of people as they age (H2020-SC1-2017-CNECT-1, 2017)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3704000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3704000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Despite the proliferation of ICT solutions for personalized healthcare, there is still no easy way to provide older adults with integrated coaching services. Council of Coaches (COUCH) introduces a radically new virtual coaching concept based on multiple autonomous, embodied virtual coaches, which form together a personal council that fulfills the needs of older adults in an integrated way. Each Coach has his own expertise, personality and style of coaching; they might not always agree with each other, but they all share a single goal: to support you across every aspect of well-being, including physical, social, cognitive and mental support. The Council members listen to you, inform you, help you to set personal goals and inspire you to take control of your health. Give the council your thoughts, or listen and observe how the individual Coaches exchange their views on numerous issues. Apply your new skills in daily life and if the need arises, contact any of the coaches anytime, anywhere. COUCH will be empowered by a novel Open Agent Platform, providing core functionalities for the development and deployment of Coaches, including technologies for non-obtrusive interactions between the user and the Coaches. To this end, leading edge spoken dialogue interaction technologies will be provided as embodied conversational agents that will join in conversations with the user. The platform will not be confined to a constrained number of Coaches – rather it will enable developers and innovators to introduce new Coaches that provide additional knowhow and services. Hence, COUCH will enable a new virtual coaching ecosystem, bringing together healthcare services providers with innovators to implement novel ideas. Plans for the sustainability and wider use of its paradigm will be based on the expansion and support of this ecosystem at EU scale, including linking with the partners’ business networks and the FIWARE & universAAL communities.

Keywords: embodied virtual agents,human computer interaction,multi agent systems,natural dialogue
Collective Adaptive Systems Enabler Kit (CASEK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: FET Innovation Launchpad (H2020-FETOPEN-4-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In 2008 Apple introduced the App Store. It was a watershed moment in the history of digitalization and it made a huge impact on human society. With the App Store, Apple created a sustainable model to leverage the potential of mobile computing by tapping into the creativity of developers at large. We're currently on the cusp of a new chapter in the history of digitalization: the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Things has been heralded as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and promises creative solutions to pressing business and societal problems. The Cassting project, from which CASEK arises, made important theoretical and methodological contributions to the Internet of Things. But developments in the IoT have fallen short of expectations, and due to the complicated and fragmented context of the IoT, nobody has been able to do the same for the IoT that the App Store did for mobile computing – until now. The CASEK project sets the stage to dramatically accelerate developments in IoT through its sustainable marketplace model. CASEK will leverage the potential of the Internet of Things by tapping into the creativity of developers at large, powered by the Cassting framework. During the CASEK project, we will focus on two aspects to support our ambition: business and technology. The business focus has as its objective to solidify a business and marketing plan. The technology focus has as its objective to develop a viable product offering. To best reach these objectives, the CASEK project seeks to galvanize and learn from a community consisting of researchers on the one hand and emerging entrepreneurs on the other, as we see these groups as the vanguard to mainstream commercial adoption, which is our ultimate goal. Both the business and technical focus will be executed cyclically in iterative cycles where emerging results from each focus can be taken as input for forthcoming cycles.

Keywords: collective adaptive systems,community marketplace,cloud services,iot platform,enabling technology,makers movement
Providing services under Horizon 2020 enhancing the innovation management capacity of Hungarian SME's within the framework of the Enterprise Europe Network - 2017-18 (INNO-HUN2017-18)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary
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): 139117.64
EU funding (EUR): 139117.64
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of Hungarian SME's in the Enterprise Europe Network The global objective of the services delivered under this project is to effectively contribute to the innovation driven competitiveness and sustainable growth of the European economy via improving the innovation management processes in SMEs enabling them to get their products, services successfully on the market. The concept of this project focuses on the development of Innovation Management capabilities via two different types of high-added value services: • “Key account management” for the beneficiaries of the SME Instrument • “Enhancing SME innovation management capacity” provided independently from a specific project to innovating SMEs with a clear potential to go international

Keywords: enterprise europe network,horizon 2020,key account management,enhancing sme,innovation management capacity,sme instrument
Bio-Inspired Microfluidics Platform for Biomechanical Analysis (Bio-Plan)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3083625.0
EU funding (EUR): 3083625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biomechanical interactions between cells and their environment are essential in almost any biological process, from embryonic development to organ function to diseases. Hence, biomechanical interactions are crucial for health and disease. Examples are hydrodynamic interactions through fluid flow, and forces acting directly on cells. Existing methods to analyze and understand these interactions are limited however, since they do not offer the required combination of precisely controlled flow and accurate applying and sensing of forces. Also, they often lack a physiological environment. A breakthrough in biomechanical analysis is therefore highly needed. We will realize a novel microfluidic platform for biomechanical analysis with unprecedented possibilities of controlling fluid flow and applying and sensing time-dependent forces at subcellular scales in controlled environments. The platform will be uniquely based on bio-inspired magnetic artificial cilia, rather than on conventional microfluidic valves and pumps. Cilia are microscopic hairs ubiquitously present in nature, acting both as actuators and sensors, essential for swimming of microorganisms, transport of dirt out of our airways, and sensing of sound, i.e. they exactly fulfill functions needed in biomechanical analysis. We will develop novel materials and fabrication methods to realize microscopic polymeric artificial cilia, and integrate these in microfluidic devices. Magnetic actuation and optical readout systems complete the platform. We will apply the novel platform to address three fundamental and unresolved biomechanical questions: 1. How do hydrodynamic interactions with actuated cilia steer cellular and particle transport? 2. How do local and dynamic mechanical forces on cells fundamentally influence their motility and differentiation? 3. How do hydrodynamic interactions between cilia steer embryonic development? This unique platform will enable to address many other future biomechanical questions.

Keywords: microfluidics,biomechanics,analysis platform,micro actuators,mechanotransduction,cilia
Microbiota and immune responses at weaning predict the susceptibility to chronic inflammatory diseases in adulthood (WePredict)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Immunity, Infection and Immunotherapy
Panel description: The immune system, related disorders and their mechanisms, biology of infectious agents and infection, biological basis of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, innovative immunological tools and approaches, including therapies
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1555650.0
EU funding (EUR): 1555650.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Microbiota dysbiosis is associated with chronic inflammatory diseases such as allergy, inflammatory bowel diseases, cancer and metabolism-related disorders. It has been reported that exposure to microbial and dietary components early in life may program the immune system to develop tolerance or susceptibility to chronic inflammatory diseases with age. We have recently shown that vigorous immune response induced by gut microbiota at weaning, prevents the development and exacerbation of chronic inflammatory diseases in adult mice. Such immune response is termed the “weaning reaction”. Antibiotic exposure and/or excessive fats intake during this critical window dysregulate the weaning reaction and increase the subsequent susceptibility to develop immunopathology. However, our current knowledge of the biological processes underlying the weaning reaction remains largely unknown. Here we aim to determine the biological processes of the weaning reaction and define the microbial and nutritional signatures at weaning that predict the susceptibility to adult pathology. These aims will be assessed using high-throughput sequencing, machine-learning algorithms and axenic and gnotobiotic mice models. Our project will help deciphering how nutrition and microbiota at weaning orchestrate the immune system development and impact adult chronic inflammatory pathologies susceptibility.

Keywords: microbiota,intestine,early life,inflammatory bowel diseases,obesity,predict,immune memory,tolerance,susceptibility,b cells,regulatory t cells,epigenetic
Enhancing Motion Interaction through Music Performance (MIM)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: France,Canada
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-04
End date: 2019-01-03
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 232160.4
EU funding (EUR): 232160.4
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims to enhance Human Motion–Computer Interaction by leveraging on a multidisciplinary approach between experimental psychology, music technology and computational modelling. Firstly, the project looks at skilled activities, in particular music performance, in order to understand fundamental cognitive and psychological aspects of control and expression in human motion. The project involves computational models of motor control and expressive variations built from music performance data collected during psychophysical studies. Secondly, the project broaches the implementation of these models in Digital Musical Instruments (DMI), thus creating a new type of digital instrument based on sensorimotor learning mechanisms. The resulting DMI is then assessed through a user study in which elements of exploration and engagement will be tested over several sessions. Therefore, the project contributes to two main uncharted research areas. Firstly it contributes to the fundamental understanding of sensorimotor learning processes by considering complex human motion, specifically motion in music performance. Secondly, it represents an original application of computational modelling by modelling expressive musical gestures and transferring these models to interactive systems.

Keywords: musical interaction,human motion,interactive systems,machine learning