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ReEngineering asphalt mixture for circular road PAVements (REcircularPAV)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2023-10-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171473.28
EU funding (EUR): 171473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A methodology to implement sustainability in road pavement engineering is offered by the circular economy main principle of replacing the conventional linear model for product design and consumption with a circular one "based on sharing, leasing, reuse, repair, refurbishment and recycling, in an (almost) closed loop, where products and the materials they contain are highly valued". In this sense, the road pavement sector offers a great opportunity, in fact the asphalt material is generally considered 100% reusable, however, despite several efforts towards the use of total asphalt recycling have been made over the past 30 years, a massive constraint still exists: the dependance on using fossil fuel-based materials as binders, recycling agents and engineered polymers. It’s within this context that part of this consortium (UNIPA, EIFFAGE) have participated in the first-of-its-kind project “BioRePavation 2015 - 2018” (http://biorepavation.ifsttar.fr) aiming at investigating the feasibility of using bio-materials, used along with asphalt pavement recycling, to reduce the use of virgin aggregates and petroleum bitumen for road pavements. BioRePavation showed that bio-asphalt mixtures can have even superior performances to conventional asphalt mixtures, however they still include products derived from oil and are two times more expensive. These limitations can be overcome with REcircularPAV, a training-through-research project aiming at engineering cost-effective circular asphalt mixtures for road pavement in a fossil fuel-free society, incorporating very high-content of reclaimed asphalt together with end-of-life tyres and bio-based materials. The technology will be investigated at laboratory level and upscaled to assess operational issues during plant manufacturing and laying processes. Once the mixtures are engineered, predicted performances will be assessed in terms of mechanical properties, aging behavior and environmental and economical impact.

Keywords: circular asphalt,biomaterial,tyre rubber,road pavements,circular economy
Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilization to nation-state consolidation. A comparative study of local and regional transitions in post-Habsburg East and Central Europe (NEPOSTRANS)

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: Hungary
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1963075.0
EU funding (EUR): 1963075.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project’s goal is to provide a new, overall narrative of how the Habsburg Empire was replaced by nation states at the end of WWI and reconsider in the light of its results categories and concepts like state and statehood, local, regional and national, transition and transformation. A novel combination of historical comparison and histoire croisée enables the in-depth analyses of a set of local transitions in diverse regions (agrarian, industrial, commercial, urban, rural, multi-and mono-ethnic, borderland and mainland, litoral) and the combination of these results with the existing literature on other localities. The team addresses four main themes: state, elites, identities and discourses. The focus is always local, the question is how these societies faced the momentous changes and found their place within empire and nation-state(s). It will look at interactions, cultures and especially rupture and continuity of people, norms, practices, institutional cultures in order to discover patterns of transitions and the social factors influencing them. Besides a typology of transitions, it also aims at gaining a new perspective on empire and nation state from this crucial moment of collapse and state-building. The project is informed by New Imperial history, the idea of phantom boundaries, everyday ethnicity, integrated urban history. At the methodological level it builds on a symmetrical comparison of the selected cases and on an asymmetrical one with the existing literature, while the object of comparison is the transition that we conceptualize as an “intercrossing”. Through analysing this ‘transformation from below’ and connecting for the first time what has remained scattered both in historiography and in the social representations, the project aims to write a new history of modern Eastern Europe as a common legacy for an integrated European history.

Keywords: habsburg monarchy,empires,nation states,transition,transformation
MULTIPLAYERS' PARTNERSHIPS TO ENSURE MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENCE AND RESEARCH (MULTIPLIERS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Encourage citizens to engage in science through formal and informal science education, and promote the diffusion of science-based activities, namely in science centres and through other appropriate channels
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Cyprus,Slovenia,Sweden,Finland
Call: Open schooling and collaboration on science education (H2020-SwafS-2020-2-two-stage, 2020)
Start date: 2021-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1381375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1381375.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

We are facing complex societal challenges, such as protecting the environment, promoting healthy living and fighting climate change. To address such challenges, citizens must be equipped with the ability to responsibly engage in scientific discussions and decisions. Traditional formal schooling has not been able to achieve this goal: There is a wide-spread lack of scientific knowledge at all level of society and students' interest in science tends to decline within school years. One reason is the decontextualised way in which science is taught. MULTIPLIERS aims to facilitate the transition of schools into innovative and open collectors of new ideas, practices, scientific approaches, able to offer to the communities in which they are embedded a space for open, inclusive and inquiry-based learning on science issues which have an impact on citizens' lives. This will be achieved by establishing multiplayers' partnerships (Open Science Communities, OSCs) involving schools, families, civil society organisations, informal education providers, policy-makers, the media and a vast range of science institutions in six EU countries, very different in terms of geographical and economic situation. OSCs will jointly select socio-scientific issues to be tackled and develop real-life projects to be implemented in schools involving more than 1500 students of all educational levels across six EU countries. Students will interact with a broad spectrum of science professionals and be involved in data collection and decision-making processes. Via open community events, they will then share and rethink their findings and experiences, liaising with families and society, acting as science multipliers. To ensure the results' transferability and uptake, final recommendations, guidelines, and learning materials will be published in an multilingual open webspace; OSCs will be maintained and enlarged after the end of the project to further pursue the MULTIPLIERS open schooling process.

Keywords: inquiry based learning,decision making,knowledge transfer,career awareness
World`s first innovative method for recycling of elastomers and plastics from industrial waste (Elastomer Recycling)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

World`s first innovative method for recycling of elastomers and plastics from industrial waste The demand of plastics is increasing constantly. More than 300 million tons of plastic are consumed each year. This leads to 30 million tons of plastic waste per year. The HLW TEC GmbH can handle this waste. The HLW TEC GmbH will provide environmental friendly solution for industrial thermoplastic and elastomeric waste, as well as an efficient access to high quality raw material. Our goal is to increase the ratio of significant feedstock recycling by utilizing industrial plastic and elastomer waste. Nowadays there are no conclusive solutions for the recovered substance cycle for plastic material which can ensure the same quality as the primary synthetic materials. The HLW method allows to preserve industrial waste, even elastomers, in the raw material cycle. Processed materials are brought into the original mixture without any loss of characteristics. Since the demand for plastic materials increased by 9.5% every year since 1950 Europe faces austerity of feedstock. In addition to that one of EU’s goals to reduce waste dumping up to 0% which seems to be difficult regarding the nowadays waste salvage in Europe. The HLW-TEC method can serve as a solution. Main goal of phase one is to collect all relevant information for a reliable feasibility study. Phase two is to bring our innovative method to every plastic processing company across the globe.

Keywords: co2 extraction,shock wave process,micrometer range 1 100,high quality raw material
Promising Images of Love. The Mediatisation of Values and Norms in Religious and Secular Wedding Narratives (Promising Images)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-03-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183473.28
EU funding (EUR): 183473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Digital and electronic media play a central role in contemporary wedding rituals, be it during the preparation, the ritual itself or afterwards. Wedding photographers and videographers stage the couple during the wedding ritual and reception/party and these depictions shape the wedding couple’s and their guests’ memories in the future. The research question is: How do contemporary media representations of religious and secular weddings in Europe communicate norms and values? Weddings are understood as a constitutive rite de passage that is commonly practiced in religious traditions as well as in a variety of cultural and secular contexts. Secular and religious traits of wedding rituals produce a complex and often complementary relationship. Wedding practices shape and communicate gender, social, cultural and economic values of individuals and groups. The interdisciplinary research considers theories from the study of religion, cultural studies, media ethics, and political philosophy and applies a multi-methodological approach that includes media analysis, ethnographic studies, and qualitative methods. The project scrutinizes how media representations and practices enclose and reshape religious and secular norms and values as well as stereotypes with the intent to highlight the performativity of their mediatisation. Due to the power of images media ethical questions arise and the research provides a theoretical framework to discuss it. One of the intended short-term results is to suggest best practice for social actors in the field of wedding media productions and to develop research tools for analysing the mediatisation of values and norms. Long-term results are to increase social awareness of the performativity of images (that express hierarchical relationships among individuals, genders and in religions), in order to strengthen a more inclusive, secure, innovative, and reflective European society and culture, to improve respect and to prevent subordination.

Keywords: weddding,mediatisation,rites de passage,gender,religion,secularisation,media ethics,ethnographic methods,media analysis,cultural studies,private and public sphere
Optical Injection Locked Modulator (OILMOD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Video, mobile and cloud have driven network bandwidth to grow at astonishing rates, estimated at about 40% growth year over year. Between 2000 and 2009 channel data rates in commercial optical fibre networks were peaking at 10Gb/s. Introduction of coherent technology caused a step change and around 2011 rates jumped to 100Gb/s for long haul transmission. It was enabled by advances in digital signal processing, narrow linewidth lasers, coherent receivers and optical modulators. Such modulators are used to control both the level and phase of the optical signal to send data and are the main topic of this proposal. State of the art modulators are based on a common optical transmitter circuit (a Mach-Zehnder Modulator) to encode the data. In 2012 researchers at the Univ. Southampton invented a new device and applied for a patent on the concept. It is based on optical injection locking (OIL) and allows directly modulated lasers to be used to encode the data. Demonstration systems were developed in partnership with Eblana Photonics who provided the OIL laser devices and is the exclusive licensee to the patent IP. Eblana, established in Dublin in 2001, provides laser sources for sensing and high volume comms applications. The technique has received strong interest from the scientific community and, significantly, network system manufacturers who have stated eagerness to trial prototypes. Differentiators are that the output is linear, drive electronics are fundamentally simpler and uses half the number of high speed connections compared to the competition. Key advantages include low cost, low power consumption and amenable to miniaturisation to very small sizes. Coherent 100G transmission will migrate to shorter reach and wider usage in metropolitan networks (60-800km range) and in enterprise and access at shorter distances and these are the market focus. Eblana Photonics will exploit this technology to become the highest volume supplier of such modulators in the world.

Keywords: iq modulator,advanced modulation formats,qpsk,ofdm,optical fibre communications,photonic integration,metropolitan area networks,access networks,optical injection locking
Compositions for use in the treatment of insulin deficiency conditions (LifeWithoutInsulin)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology of ageing, pathophysiology, interorgan and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition, metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Tens of millions suffer from insulin deficiency (ID); a condition caused by pancreatic β-cell loss. If untreated, ID is a lethal catabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia. Thus, the focus of ID research and drug development has been mainly on improving strategies to lower hyperglycemia without causing life-threatening hypoglycemia. However, in addition to increased circulating glucose level β-cell loss leads to several “other defects”, some of which (e.g. severe hyperketonemia and ketoacidosis) are life-threatening. Therefore, it is important to develop strategies that in addition to improve hyperglycemia can also rescue the “other defects” (e.g. increased ketogenesis) caused by ID. For example, we have recently published results underscoring the importance of ameliorating hyperglycemia and the “other defects”. Indeed, our data indicate that despite the presence of slightly improved hyperglycemia a normalization of hyperketonemia and hypertriglyceridemia is associated with a significant extension in lifespan of mice with β-cell loss (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11498-x). Untreated ID rapidly leads to death. However, since insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, ID has been treated with insulin therapy; an approach that converted this lethal disease into one a person can live with. Yet, insulin therapy is unsatisfactory. Indeed, ID subjects have higher risks for developing kidney failure, blindness, nerve damage, heart attack, stroke, and hypoglycemia. Some of these defects are favored by insulin therapy itself. Our goal is to diminishing the amount of insulin dosage and hence reducing the risks associated with insulin therapy (e.g. life-threatening hypoglycemia). The present application aims at providing a composition for improving the treatment of ID. If successful, we will be able to commercialize our composition and improve therapy in millions suffering from ID.

Keywords: insulin deficiency,therapy,insulin,combination therapy
Characterizing neural mechanisms underlying the efficiency of naturalistic human vision (NATVIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1978194.0
EU funding (EUR): 1978194.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Our daily-life visual environments, such as city streets and living rooms, contain a multitude of objects. Out of this overwhelming amount of sensory information, our brains must efficiently select those objects that are relevant for current goals, such as cars when crossing a street. The visual system has developed and evolved to optimally perform tasks like these, as reflected in the remarkable efficiency of naturalistic object detection. Little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying this efficiency. NATVIS aims to fill this gap, presenting a comprehensive multi-method and hypothesis-driven approach to improve our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the efficient detection of objects in natural scenes. fMRI, MEG, and TMS will be used to study the neural basis of rapid attentional guidance based on scene context and episodic memory, resulting in a full characterization of when, where, and how context- and memory-based expectations interact with attentional templates in visual cortex and beyond. The powerful effects of scene context on object recognition will be studied by testing how context-disambiguated objects are represented in visual cortex, characterizing when context-based predictions bias object processing, and testing for causal interactions between scene- and object-selective pathways in visual cortex. NATVIS will study how the brain uses real-world regularities to support object grouping and reduce clutter in scenes, modelling the cortical representation and neural dynamics of multiple simultaneously presented objects as a function of positional regularity. Finally, advanced multivariate modelling of fMRI data will test the functional relevance and representational content of internally generated templates that are hypothesized to facilitate object detection in scenes. This program of research tackles the next frontier in the neuroscience of high-level vision and attention, embracing the complexity of naturalistic vision.

Keywords: selective attention,visual search,object perception,natural scenes,neuroimaging,fmri
Pre-Classical Anatolian Languages in Contact (PALaC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1233750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1233750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of the PALaC project is to provide a systematic and complete study of language-contact in pre-classical Anatolia, from the XVIII century BCE up the Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian cultures of the Iron ages. Language contact is a specific phenomenon present in all phases of modern and historical languages, and requires to be investigated using the language-internal methodologies of contact-linguistics. The project will provide a rigorous and complete description of the linguistic interactions in ancient Anatolia, a unique historical and geographical gateway where Indo-European, Semitic and isolated languages interacted with each other, on the ideal boundary between the East and the West. PALaC will deal with the analysis of the textual data from the different Ancient Anatolian corpora, that will be assessed both from a linguistic and from philological perspective. The final results will also be integrated in the general framework of historical and cultural contact in the Ancient Mediterranean world by a dedicated work-package. The project will take advantage of the methodological expertise of a team of researchers who are well trained both in the philological study of the Ancient Near Eastern texts and in the linguistic study of languages in contact.

Keywords: anatolia,contact linguistics,historical linguistics,language contact,indo european,cultural contact