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waste in humanitarian operations reduction and minimisation

waste in humanitarian operations reduction and minimisation worms overall objective is designing guidelines and support actions for circular economy in the humanitarian sector worm focuses on two selected settings field hospital deployments and humanitarian livelihood programmes with a waste picking component across these settings the project focuses on several crosscutting focus areas the integration of biobased technological innovation solutions in the humanitarian context using procurement as a gatekeeper for waste avoidance and gateway to integrate innovative solutions improvements in waste management and the use of less polluting waste treatment methods a specific focus on the sustainable livelihoods of waste pickers and policy development advocacy and a heightened local awareness of improved waste management in the relevant local contextsfollowing a multiactor approach worm brings together medical humanitarian organisations and humanitarian organisations with livelihood programmes with innovation and supplier clusters procurement service providers logistics service providers waste management service providers and academic partners worm seeks to involve a myriad of different stakeholders in data collection and policy development including but not limited to humanitarian actors positioned in the field during an operation local waste management companies startups focusing on biobased solutions policymakers both local and global and research institutions worm includes partners from low and middleincome countries esp kenya viet nam since humanitarian operations are often implemented in these contexts worm will focus on these contexts in their local awareness campaigns for improved waste management
solutions testing for regions through insurance for climate adaptation

the soteria project aims to advance innovative insurance solutions for climate change adaptation in different european regions and communities to do so soteria will work through three main tracks forming the core of our approach i documenting best practice in relation to data new insurance and robust enabling frameworks ii testing of some of these solutions and iii the creation of communities of practice for regions and insurance as legacy we aim to help reducing the protection gap by documenting best practice and the testing of insurance products and services that reward proactive prevention measures while seeking to increase coverage through codesigned solutions we will also consider the enabling framework that analyses the role of public sector modernisation and how to develop affordable insurance schemes that leave no one behind through our communities of practice engaged in climate resilience societyinsurance dialogues soteria will take these solutions from the levels of research to demonstration and testing with some at the level of precommercial procurement in at least three cases thanks to a network of three pilots and 5 satellites that span different geographical areas and needs the project legacy a set of best practice materials as well as a community of practice to support other regions interested to design andor adopt innovative insurance solutions soteria will contribute to the wider goal of the mission adaptation to increase europes resilience and preparedness to face unavoidable consequences of climate change by filling the gaps on insurance coverage for climate adaptation
forgetting unwanted memories in sleep

what we remember and forget lies at the core of who we are but how do our brains shape our memories of the past sleep promotes the flexible use of memory by reactivating and thereby strengthening information that is most relevant to our future needs whether memory reactivation in sleep also weakens unwanted components of prior experience is unknown but represents a major gap in our understanding of memory and how sleep influences our autobiographical identities sleepaway combines an innovative technique for manipulating labbased and realworld memories with an unprecedented array of neuroimaging methodologies to test the novel hypothesis that memory reactivation during sleep weakens unwanted memories in service of adaptive forgetting using magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers opmmeg i will first determine whether reactivating a target memory in slowwave sleep weakens unwanted memories from the same experience making them less accessible second i will bring together opmmeg fmri and immersive virtual reality to obtain the first anatomically localised evidence of emotional memory reactivation in human rapid eye movement sleep closing an important translational gap with extant animal models third i will employ fmri and eeg to examine the intriguing possibility that memory reactivation in sleep facilitates emotion regulation by weakening negative interpretations of realworld events fostering a concrete pathway towards clinical intervention finally to advance understanding of the symbiotic relationship between endogenous memory operations in the waking and sleeping brain i will use opmmeg to test the prediction that active forgetting during wakefulness inhibits spontaneous memory reactivation in later sleep in sum sleepaway will make a substantial novel theoretical contribution by delineating the basic mechanisms through which our brains eradicate unwanted details of the past to support our cognitive and emotional goals
learning to synthesize interactive 3d models

visualizing our surroundings and imagination has been an integral part of human history in todays era we have the privilege to immerse in 3d digital environments and interact with virtual objects and characters however creating digital representations of environments ie 3d models often requires excessive amount of manual effort and time even for trained 3d artists over the recent years there have been remarkable advances in deep learning methods that attempt to reconstruct 3d models from realworld data captured in images or scans however we are still far from automatically producing 3d models usable in interactive 3d environments and simulations ie the resulting reconstructed 3d models lack controllers and metadata related to their articulation structure possible motions and interaction with other objects or agents automating the synthesis of interactive 3d models is crucial for several applications such as a virtual and mixed reality environments where objects and characters are not static but instead move and interact with each other b automating animation pipelines c training robots for object interaction in simulated environments d 3d printing of functional objects e digital entertainment in this project we will answer the question how can we automate the generation of interactive 3d models of objects and characters our project will include the following thrusts 1 we will design deep architectures that automatically infer motion controllers and interactionrelated metadata for input 3d models effectively making them interactive 2 we will develop learning methods that replace dynamic realworld objects and characters captured in scans and video with highquality interactive and animated 3d models as digital representatives 3 we will develop generative models that synthesize interactive 3d objects and characters automatically and further help reconstructing them from scans and video more faithfully
ai enabled healthcare services during crossborder medical emergencies and regular patient services

the goal of escort project is to bring prominent advances in iot wearables artificial intelligence ai and machine learning ml to facilitate enhanced patient treatment services for the enrichment of patient experience and european health and care service resilience the proposed innovations to be carried out in the project will assist int eh development of ethicsbydesign policy intervention based on the evidence collected and analysed from the pilot studies spanning across 36 months the escort project brings together the experiences of leading healthcare service providers from five 5 european greece italy belgium sweden ireland and one 1 associated member israel states specialising in emergency medicine and offering regular health and care service providers across six 6 countries auth ucsc vub ki nh mda the development of digital services will be designed in consultation with the stakeholders including patients patient advocacy groups health and care service professionals health and care providers the development of technology will be supported by research experts uth complementing the expertise of smes rini mkm cosi mds the overall integration of the proposed tools and services will be achieved by intra the origins of escort conceptualisation can be traced back to the supplier network creation within nofear csa project in which validation of individual tools catering the demands of urgent and emergency medicine has been carried out building on the success of the nofear project the workplan of escort has been designed to enable integration of core technologies to develop digital services addressing patient needs and requirements to achieve this project the escort consortium has identified three 3 scenarios which represents the pre and post clinical patient care and the needs of victims requiring support for urgent and emergency medical care all the scenarios will be validated across six 6 countries
innovative hv solidstate transformer for maximizing renewable energy penetration in energy distribution and transmission systems

the ongoing energy transition towards a decarbonized economy is changing profoundly the infrastructure of the power grids worldwide conventional highpower transformers are not fully prepared to overcome these challenges as they do not have intrinsic capabilities regarding active system support instead solidstate transformers ssts have emerged in the last years as a disruptive technology able to extend the typical functionalities of a regular transformer optimizing the power flows and introducing a high degree of digitalization and intelligence in the network however ssts are not still a mature technology and only prototypes of up to 15 kv and 15 modules have been developed in the range of high frequency 40 khz so far therefore their use is currently restricted to lowvoltage applications in this context sstar aims to increase the operation voltage level of ssts to enlarge their applications within the energy power sector while improving its performance in a reliable costoptimized and sustainable way to do so three main ri lines will be developed 1 sustainable biobased dielectric fluid able to increase the sst modules insulation voltage while achieving up to 50 of co2 saving comparing to traditional oils 2 new sst module based on sic with a bidirectional inductive power transfer ipt system able to increase the individual voltage and switching frequency of sst modules up to 15 kv and 50khz respectively with a total efficiency of 985 and 3 decentralized control cascade hbridge chb converter to scaleup the number of modules in a single sst device to achieve the voltage levels of transmission grids the combined effect of these innovations will be validated at trl 4 in two certified testbeds in spain and portugal hence sstar seeks to pave the way for the development of new disruptive hv sst devices more attractive for commercial purposes than the prototypes made so far and able to be used in distribution and transmissions grids
small flows with big consequences wave turbulence and shear currentdriven mixing under a water surface

the triple interactions of surface waves turbulence and shear currents wts in the upper layer of the ocean play a key role in the earths climate and ecology by controlling fluxes of heat gas and momentum between ocean and atmosphere climate simulations have large systematic errors because the mixing of waters due to wts flow is not properly modelled yet these flows remain little investigated and poorly understood we urgently need to learn how wts mixing depends on flow parameters but none of todays research approaches can produce the empirical data which is needed waturshed presents the only practical way out of this stalemate an extensive experimental campaign where each wts parameter is individually controlled and systematically varied i will make use of the new large water channel laboratory at ntnu the only facility where such an experimental campaign is currently possible and combine experiments with new theory and a novel data analysis method through waturshed the wtsdriven mixing in the upper ocean can for the first time be modelled based on direct empirical evidence waturshed is a unique opportunity for progress combining my groups specialised expertise on wavecurrent interactions through both theory and experiment and oneofakind laboratory where my team can create a faithful fully tuneable scale model of upper ocean wts flow the theory framework for ocean waves and currents must be advanced in order to accommodate the new insights a task i will attend to myself we will develop a completely new way to analyse nearsurface turbulence by detecting the imprints they leave on the surface using a computer vision technique the most essential turbulent structures can be selected allowing trends in wts data to emerge which would otherwise be obscured by fast fluctuations all watursheds components will unite towards its final goal a universal scaling law for wts flows valid from centimetres to hundreds of metres
solutionprocessed toxic metalfree alloy colloidal quantum dots for selfpowered nearinfrared photodetector application

selfpowered nearinfrared nir 0725 m deteselfpowered nearinfrared nir 0725 m detection technologies attract immense interest both from scientists and industry experts due to their vital applications in environmental monitoring night vision and imaging in remote locations however available conventional nir photodetectors pds are based on costly fabricated inorganic semiconductor materials or toxic heavy metalcontaining quantum dots qds which restrict their use in electronics and biomedical applications silver chalcogenidebased ag2e e s se te qds have recently joined as new promising toxic heavy metalfree materials for nir detection making them appealing from health and environmental safety perspectives nevertheless the development of ag2ebased nir pds is in its initial stage and far behind the commercially available devices due to the lack of protocols for devicerelevant thin film fabrication with favourable device architecturein this project we propose a novel approach to solve this issue which consists of two strategies i chemical synthesis of small ag2e and mage alloyed qds followed by thin film preparation with favourable legend and thickness ii pd architecture with proper electrode and electrode distance to achieve this the first strategy will develop synthesis protocols to control the size of ag2e qds and optimize their absorption and electronic properties by ligand exchange for nir pds application with different metal electrodes and electrode distances in the next stage the potential metal alloy will be introduced into ag2e qds by cation exchange followed by studying the optical and electrical properties to optimize the synthesis and thin film quality for selfpowered nir pds in the last stage the work will concentrate on the optimization of photodiodes using the bestsuited ag2e and mage qds and demonstrate the application potential and related extensive characterization of these devices for upscaling
international cooperation for sustainable aviation biofuels

the icarus consortium has identified critical technology steps that at present limit the wider deployment of three sustainable aviation fuel saf production routes namely biocrude from hydrothermal liquefaction to saf isobutanol from lignocellulosic biomass to saf and synthetic fischertropsh from biomass gasification to saf these three value chains have been strategically selected by icarus since they are close to market deployment and are needed to meet european and international saf deployment targets icarus aims to improve them with innovative solutions while at the same time addressing the whole value chain novel biomass production concepts such as sequential cropping and mix cropping are also addressed aiming to ensure increased sustainable biomass availability for saf production along the complete value chain technoeconomic environmental and social assessments will be carried out icarus has a very strong international consortium of 20 reputed partners including 5 from 3 mission innovation countries mic canada india and brazil who will carry out innovative research with common targets and objectives with the european ones ensuring international collaboration in this critical area two more partners from a 4th mic usa are joining research activities as members of the external executive advisory board eeab the icarus results will significantly improve the cost effectiveness of saf and therefore have global significance and reach and will facilitate scalingup of these technologies and value chains enabling market deployment of saf on a global scale guidelines assessments best practices and improved concepts will be used throughout the project to disseminate the results on global scale via targeted and effective dissemination and communication outreach activities to all stakeholders
online data intensive solutions for science in the exabytes era

this project federates efforts from 3 paneuropean esfri infrastructures hllhc skao and slicesri in physical sciences big data and in the computing continuum supporting flagship instruments that will maintain and strengthen european leadership in highenergy physics and astronomy the main goal is to enable key science projects with the search for dark matter serving as a pilot program combining the complementary capabilities of these three unique research infrastructures odissee will deliver evolutionary and revolutionary hardware and software platforms to address the corresponding digital challenges in a highly competitive international context developed through a joint and comprehensive rd program with industry partners as well as access to cutting edge experimental facilities from slicesri so as to enable hllhc and ska to process and analyze the vast volumes of raw data they produce targeting such dataflow driven applications opens the way to a new range of technologies and services feeding slicesri with a unique yet representative set of specifications to progress their operational experimental capacities at an unprecedented scale increasing the dissemination potential bringing these 3 infrastructures to their full capacity as well as operating and maintaining them pose similar grand challenges across the digital continuum and require addressing the 3 dimensions of sustainability codesign and close partnership of academia with european companies will foster competitiveness of european industry and promote digital sovereignty the project is deeply embedded into both regional and international ri ecosystems with strong connections to several major european initiatives and associated partnerships with main technology providers strong and lasting impact is builtin the twofold exploitation strategy including the development of unique indepth training for ri staff and extensive transsectoral dissemination
spins interfaced with light for quantum silicon technologies

leveraging the success of the microelectronics and integrated photonics industries silicon is one of the most promising platforms for developing largescale quantum technologies quantum chips already available in silicon rely on either longlived electrical qubits based on individual quantum dots or single donors or on photonic qubits probabilistically generated by nonlinear optical processes another type of quantum system could combine the advantages of both former qubits by featuring at the same time a stationary qubit with long coherence times and an optical interface adapted to longdistance exchange of quantum information however such a qubit that would be associated to opticallyactive spin defects is still to be demonstrated in silicon this is the challenging objective of the current project the starting point of the sileqs project is the recent discovery that silicon hosts many fluorescent point defects that can be optically isolated at single scale and furthermore emit at the nearinfrared range and telecom bands associated with minimal losses in optical fibers this project aims to demonstrate for the first time in silicon 1 the indistinguishable singlephoton emission from individual defects and 2 the control over their spin degrees of freedom to create multispin quantum registers coupled to single photons such achievements would open the door to developing siliconintegrated deterministic sources of photonic qubits and spin qubits interfaced with light for longdistance quantum communications in a platform adapted to largescale nanofabrication and integration considering the advanced nanotechnology based on silicon the sileqs project could have significant impact in quantum technologies including quantum integrated photonics largescale quantum networks and solidstate hybrid quantum systems
midblastula transition in mammalian embryos

early animal embryos undergo a profound reprogramming of cell behaviour at the blastula stage in a major developmental transition known as the midblastula transition mbt earlier studies demonstrated that mbt is an essential transition for embryonic development across various species involving simultaneous changes in key cellular activities activation of zygotic genome transcription zga cell cycle elongation loss of division synchrony and onset of cell motility in contrast little is known for mammalian embryos which are often viewed as not having an mbt because of their slow initial cell cycle and early zga however mbt also exhibits a switch in the cell growth mode from reductive cleavage divisions to proliferative growth and our recent findings suggest that this switch occurs at the blastocyst stage in mouse embryos this project aims to identify the mammalian mbt define its fundamental features and investigate the mechanisms that control its timing employing lightsheet microscopy to image mouse embryos at high spatiotemporal resolution automatic cell segmentation and singlecell tracking i will quantitatively characterise the cell volume dynamics in early embryogenesis this will allow me to identify the transition from cleavage to proliferative growth and use this time reference to characterise novel mbt features specifically i will focus on 18 hours within the blastocysts stage to test the hypothesis that mammalian mbt entails changes in cell fate metabolism spindle assembly andor cell cycle control through temporally controlled perturbations i will determine if there is a causal link between these changes and identify the upstream regulator the trigger for the mammalian mbt as well as the mechanism by which the mbt timing is controlled the identification and characterisation of mammalian mbt may provide a new definition and mechanism regulating this key transition in animal development