Progetti di ricerca

Sito web: http://Website:http://www.dsi.unive.it/~glocom/

IRSES GLOCOM (Global Partners in Contaminated Land Management)

VII PQ - VII Programma Quadro - People

IRSES EPSEI (Evaluating Policies for Sustainable Energy Investments: towards an integrated approach on national and international stage)

VII PQ - VII Programma Quadro - People

RAFFAETA' Alessandra, RONCATO Alessandro, SILVESTRI Claudio

SEEK - SEmantic Enrichment of trajectory Knowledge discovery (project N. 295179)

VII PQ - VII Programma Quadro - People

Sito web: http://www.seek-project.eu/

ECONANOSORB: Ecological application of nanosorbents on the base of natural and synthetic ionites and carbons (2012-2016, contract number 295260)

VII PQ - VII Programma Quadro - People

Sito web: http://Website: https://sites.google.com/site/econanosorbpublic/

IRSES ECONANOSORB (Ecological application of nanosorbents on the base of natural and synthetic ionites and carbons)

VII PQ - VII Programma Quadro - People

Marie Curie IEF project “NEXUS - Network-based Expert-Stakeholder Framework for Sustainable Remediation”

VII PQ - VII Programma Quadro - People

PENTELI Xanthi Xanthipi, VARIN Cristiano

Marie Curie Fellowship. Fellow Dr. Xanthi Penteli. Role: Supervisor

VII PQ - VII Programma Quadro - People

Sito web: http://scout-eu-project.weebly.com/

NANORESTART, NANOmaterials for the REStoration of works of ART (2015–2019, project ID 646063)

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Industrial Leadership - LEIT

NANORESTART è un progetto H2020 che coinvolge 26 partner internazionali e che ha come obiettivo lo sviluppo di nanotecnologie per la conservazione dell’arte moderna e contemporanea, a basso impatto ambientale e sostenibili. In particolare verranno sviluppati nuovi formulati nanotechnologici per la pulitura di superfici plastiche e pittoriche, il consolidamento di tele e strati pittorici, la rimozione di materiali indesiderati e la protezione di opere d’arte in musei e aree esterne. Tali formulati saranno testati, nell’ambito del progetto, su numerosi casi studio.
Sito web: http://www.nanorestart.eu/

caLIBRAte - Performance testing, calibration and implementation of a next generation system-of-systems Risk Governance Framework for nanomaterials (2016-2019, project ID 686239)

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Industrial Leadership - LEIT

CAVINATO Cristina, PAVAN Paolo

caLIBRAte è un progetto H2020 che coinvolge 24 partner internazionali e si propone di fare il punto sullo stato dell’arte nella ricerca riguadante la sicurezza in ambito nanotecnologico (nanosafety) e unirlo allo stato dell’arte in tema di governance del rischio e scienze della comunicazione, al fine di sviluppare un framework di governance del rischio per l’analisi e la gestione dei rischi per la salute umana e l’ambiente derivanti dai nanomateriali e dai prodotti nanotecnologici. Uno degli strumenti che in questo progetto saranno ulteriormente sviluppati, per poter essere incluso nel framework di governance del rischio, è il sistema di supporto alle decisioni SUNDS (sviluppato nel progetto EU SUN).
Sito web: http://www.nanocalibrate.eu/home

RES URBIS (01/01/2017 - 31/12/2019): RESources from URban BIo-waSTE

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Industrial Leadership - LEIT

BIORIMA | BIOmaterial RIsk MAnagement - grant agreement No 760928

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Industrial Leadership - LEIT

RiskGONE – Risk Governance of Nanotechnology (2019-2023 project ID: 814425)

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Industrial Leadership - LEIT

AI4EU: A European AI On Demand Platform and Ecosystem

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Industrial Leadership - LEIT

PELILLO Marcello

Artificial Intelligence is a disruptive technology of our times with expected impacts rivalling those of electricity or printing. Resources for innovation are currently dominated by giant tech companies in North America and China. To ensure European independence and leadership, we must invest wisely by bundling, connecting and opening our AI resources. AI4EU will efficiently build a comprehensive European AI-on-demand platform to lower barriers to innovation, to boost technology transfer and catalyse the growth of start-ups and SMEs in all sectors through Open calls and other actions. The platform will act as a broker, developer and one-stop shop providing and showcasing services, expertise, algorithms, software frameworks, development tools, components, modules, data, computing resources, prototyping functions and access to funding. Training will enable different user communities (engineers, civic leaders, etc.) to obtain skills and certifications. The AI4EU Platform will establish a world reference, built upon and interoperable with existing AI and data components (e.g. the Acumos open-source framework, QWT search engine..) and platforms. It will mobilize the whole European AI ecosystem and already unites 80 partners in 21 countries including researchers, innovators and related talents. Eight industry-driven AI pilots will demonstrate the value of the platform as an innovation tool. In order to enhance the platform, research on five key interconnected AI scientific areas will be carried out using platform technologies and results will be implemented. The pilots and research will showcase how AI4EU can stimulate scientific discovery and technological innovation. The AI4EU Ethical Observatory will be established to ensure the respect of human centred AI values and European regulations. Sustainability will be ensured via the creation of the AI4EU Foundation. The results will feed a new and comprehensive Strategic Research Innovation Agenda for Europe.
Sito web: https://www.ai4eu.eu

ELISE: European Learning and Intelligent Systems Excellence

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Industrial Leadership - LEIT

PELILLO Marcello

APACHE – Active & intelligent PAckaging materials and display cases as a tool for preventive conservation of Cultural Heritage (2019-2022 project ID: 814496)

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Science with and for society

VILLA Roberta Ida, ZOLLO Fabiana

QUEST - QUality and Effectiveness in Science and Technology communication

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Science with and for society

Sito web: https://questproject.eu

CLIMEFISH Studio degli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici su pesca ed acquacoltura in ambiente marino e di acqua dolce

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Societal Challenges

BRIGOLIN Daniele, FRANZOI Piero, PRANOVI Fabio, ZUCCHETTA Matteo

Sito web: http://climefish.eu/

EQUAL-IST 2016

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Societal Challenges

CORTESI Agostino, FRATTINI Romana, PADOAN Ivana Maria, SANGIULIANO Maria

Sito web: https://equal-ist.eu/

GAIN - Green Aquaculture INtensification in Europe

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Societal Challenges

PASTRES Roberto

GAIN is designed to support the ecological intensification of aquaculture in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA), with the dual objectives of increasing production and competitiveness of the industry, while ensuring sustainability and compliance with EU regulations on food safety and environment. Ecointensification of European aquaculture is a transdisciplinary challenge that requires the integration of scientific and technical innovations, new policies and economic instruments, as well as the mitigation of social constraints. Successful eco-intensification of aquaculture will provide more and better aquatic products, more jobs, and improve trade balance by reducing imports. GAIN, besides looking at innovative ways of integrating cultured species, will seek integration with other sectors, in order to promote the implementation of the principles of circular economy in Aquaculture. The GAIN Consortium includes a wide range of complementary expertise and a well blended mix of research institutes and industrial partners, which will ensure the achievement of the following specific objectives: (i) Develop and optimize sustainable feeds, without increasing the pressure on land and fish stocks; (ii) Add value to cultivation, by means of innovative processes, which turn both by-products and side-streams into valuable secondary materials, thus increasing profits and minimizing the environmental footprint; (ii) Improve the management of finfish and shellfish farms, in terms of FCR, fish welfare and reduction of wastes, through the use of sensors, biomarkers, Big Data, IoT (Internet of Things) and predictive mathematical models; (iv) Support integrated policies and address current barriers to the implementation of the principles of circular economy in aquatic production.
Sito web: http://www.unive.it/gainh2020eu

NETCHER - NETwork and digital platform for Cultural Heritage Enhancing and Rebuilding

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Societal Challenges

PITTARELLO Fabio, SILVESTRI Claudio, TONGHINI Cristina, TRAVIGLIA Arianna

The last decades have witnessed a variety of initiatives promoted by a diverse set of actors engaged in the protection of endangered cultural heritage and in stopping illicit trade, initiatives that have tried to bring solutions, remediation, methods and approaches to tackle looting and trafficking. NETCHER seeks to address the complex challenge of harmonising and bringing together these worthy, but often disconnected initiatives by using a participative approach that will result in the establishment of a structured network (defined as a Social Platform) drawing together a broad range of players such as international bodies, umbrella organizations, national governments, researchers, public policy makers, NGOs, as well as public and private foundations. In light of the significance of these uncoordinated efforts, the Platform will take charge of the systematizing and framing of all the emerging best practices in order to enhance and capitalize on the experiences of the partnership members at an international level for building a joint action plan with shared toolkits and a research and innovation roadmap.
Sito web: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/822585

DC-ren - Drug combinations for rewriting trajectories of renal pathologies in type II diabetes

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Societal Challenges

SILVESTRI Claudio, SLANZI Debora

Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD) is highly prevalent in type 2 diabetes, with major impact on patients and healthcare systems. The complex disorder, further modulated by cardiovascular comorbidities, presents as an accumulation of risk factors, which we treat with drug combinations. While the overall benefit of this approach is evident on a cohort level, individual patients show remarkable heterogeneity in drug response, and lack of guidance on personalized medication results in suboptimal control of the disorder. For resolving variability, we propose a new concept for personalization of drug combinations beyond the cohort-centric perspective. We improve patient stratification based on equivalence relations of clinical presentation, disease pathophysiology and drug combinations. The approach is derived from dynamical systems theory, aimed at reducing probabilistic assignment of patient-specific disease evolution and matching drug combinations. The availability of a large European repository holding DKD patients in routine care with diverse drug combinations, complemented by high-throughput screening for improving patient phenotyping, and molecular network modelling of pathology, embedded risk factor combinations and consequence of drug effect allows a systems representation of patient groups. Integrating clinical presentation and molecular architecture in a novel computational framework will establish a decision support software prototype. We will validate this tool for predicting optimized personalized drug combinations in a study using given clinical trial repositories. Demonstration will expand to other available drugs, which in combination with approved drugs promise benefit for groups of DKD patients. With a clear route toward uptake in the clinical setting, and generalization capacity of our approach to other complex disorders we foster next steps in personalization, anticipate major patient benefit, and see novel translation and business opportunities.
Sito web: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/848011

MEMEX: MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Societal Challenges

PELILLO Marcello, SILVESTRI Claudio, VASCON Sebastiano

Smartphones can help build social cohesion The future of our cultural heritage is augmented thanks to inclusive digital storytelling tools. Memories will be intertwined with physical places, locations and objects to promote social cohesion. This is the aim of the EU-funded MEMEX project. It will create assisted augmented reality experiences in the form of stories that intertwine the memories of participating communities. It will develop techniques to (semi-)automatically link images to location and connect to a new open-source knowledge graph that will facilitate assisted storytelling. MEMEX will focus on Barcelona's migrant women. It will also throw the spotlight on residents in Paris' XIX district (home to one of the city's largest immigrant communities) and on second- and third-generation Portuguese migrants in Lisbon.
Sito web: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/870743

EUMEPLAT

Horizon2020 - H2020 - Societal Challenges

ZOLLO Fabiana

The EUMEPLAT project aims at analyzing the role of media platforms in fostering or dismantling European identity. The assumption we will draw on is that European dimension has rarely been dominant in media history. In most cases – i.e., movie – market shares are mainly divided among national productions and importations from the most influential country. In broadcasting both regional and national patterns emerge, with properly European exchanges being the exception more than the rule. Web platforms are usually owned by US companies, with a new threat appearing in our media landscape. We will focus on the “platformization” process, as the rise of new closed Web architectures, so as to inquire its positive and negative externalities, functional and dis-functional consequences. Positive externalities are beneficial to society at large, in a way that explains the overall ambition of the project. Detecting the insurgence of negative effects is a fundamental duty for scholars and policy-makers, as externalities of both kinds tend to reinforce themselves, giving rise to positive loop feedbacks and critical vicious circles. Negative externalities include misinformation, toxic debate, exclusion of independent voices; positive externalities encompass European co-productions, or practices able to bring people out of the information bubble. For this purpose, we will run a multidisciplinary analysis of platformization in three fields: news, video sharing, media representations, with the final goal to offer a theoretical synthesis. The research question is whether or not new platforms – YouTube, Netflix, NewsFeed - are making European culture more European, based on indicators related to production, consumption and representation. Patterns will be detected by comparing national, regional and European and level. Advanced methods will be applied for data analysis, so as to provide guidelines for decision-makers (i.e., fake news prevention; best practices in co-productions).

Fisheries and aquaculture‐Oriented Research Capacity in Egypt (FORCE

VII PQ - VII Programma Quadro - Capacities

BRIGOLIN Daniele, FRANZOI Piero, MALAVASI Stefano, PASTRES Roberto, PRANOVI Fabio

FORCE - Fishery & aquaculture oriented research capacity in Egypt

VII PQ - VII Programma Quadro - Capacities

Sito web: http://www.forceproject.eu/

ECOlogical supporting for traffic Management in cOastal areas By using an InteLlIgenT sYstem (Ecomobility)

Interreg - Interreg V Italia - Croazia

GAMBARO Andrea, MORABITO Elisa, TOSCANO Giuseppa

Il progetto ECOMOBILITY è un progetto europeo Interreg Italia-Croazia. Durerà 18 mesi, dal 1 Gennaio 2018 al 30 Giugno 2019. Il Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica dell’Università Ca’ Foscari è il capofila del progetto. Gli altri partner sono: Regione Veneto (con ARPAV) e l’istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISAC-CNR) in Italia, l’Università di Rijeka e la municipalità di Rijeka in Croazia. L'obiettivo generale di ECOMOBILITY è quello di promuovere l’innovazione nella gestione dei principali mezzi di trasporto nelle aree costiere, utilizzando un approccio eco-compatibile. Durante il progetto ECOMOBILITY verrà messo a punto uno strumento di supporto per il sistema di gestione del traffico, che consentirà agli organismi di gestione del traffico di organizzare il flusso dei veicoli in base alla concentrazione di inquinanti, riducendo i picchi di inquinamento nelle aree già critiche. Il sistema raccoglierà i dati ambientali dalle stazioni di monitoraggio distribuite nella zona urbana e trasmetterà le informazioni, sotto forma di mappe, agli organi di gestione del traffico in tempo reale, consentendo così di intervenire preventivamente con l'azione più appropriata. Il sistema verrà testato a Venezia e a Rijeka (Fiume, in Croazia). Allo scopo di coinvolgere anche i cittadini, i dati ambientali real-time verranno utilizzati anche per alimentare un'applicazione per dispositivi mobili, che avrà lo scopo aiutare l’utente a pianificare itinerari più “green”, aggirando le aree critiche più inquinate o scegliendo il mezzo di trasporto meno inquinante. ECOMOBILITY avrà anche una parte più propriamente scientifica, che si occuperà di studiare il contributo del traffico navale e delle altre fonti di inquinamento sulle nano particelle, argomento di grande interesse e di frontiera nel campo delle scienze ambientali.

Valorisation of SMall-scale ARTisanal FISHery of the Adriatic coasts, in a context of Project title sustainability (AdriSmartFish)

Interreg - Interreg V Italia - Croazia

Artisanal Small-Scale Fishery (SSF) according to EU is the one employing vessels smaller than 12m LOA, not using towed gear. World-over, it is the most relevant fishery segment, deeply rooted in local traditions, adapted to the environment through coevolution, and inherently sustainable. For this, and for its potential to provide sustainable growth and jobs, in harmony with the marine environment, it is acknowledged at many levels (FAO GFCM, EU CFP, ERDF, EUSAIR) to play an important role in the pursuit of Blue Growth. In the Programme area, SSF sector represents the 50% of the Italian and 90% of the Croatian fleets operating in the FAO Geographic Subarea (GSA)17 (Northern Adriatic). The common challenge it faces, proven also through previous CB projects (e.g. ArtFishMed) is a lack of competitiveness in comparison with other fleets (e.g trawling and/or dredges), difficult access to market, low prices, decreasing stocks and biodiversity in the catches, decreasing market values and increasing running costs. Due to the common characteristics of SSF throughout the Area, and to the fact that it exploits natural resources shared and freely moving between the waters of the two Countries, it is a challenge that calls for a cross-border cooperation approach. The general objective of the Project is to strengthen the Small-Scale Fishery role in the GSA 17 in the near future, by fostering their potential for innovation within the Blue Growth context. In a sector like the SSF, which has evolved in strong connection with local tradition and in balance with the ecosystem, the elements of innovation most likely to bring the greatest benefits won’t be found in processes and technologies, but rather in the approach to management and in the valorisation of the products, in an effort to boost its resilience and sustainability, and market value. Exploiting the great adaptability of SSF, the Project will promote its assumption as a paradigm for the implementation of integrated management strategies, through an Ecosystem-Based Approach. The project will involve all the actors responsible for the management of the coastal area with a bottom-up approach; strategies to mitigate risk and exploit opportunities will be identified in cooperation with stakeholders, and will serve to strengthen the scientific advice, to improve medium term planning and the policy making process. The outputs of the project will be: - A comprehensive body of knowledge on the current state of SSF in GSA17 to drive policy-makers and operators, and to give scientific soundness to the project itself; - Market and product innovation for the SSF sector, based on knowledge-transfer, cocreation, resilience and sustainability; this will benefit also the coastal environment and consumers; - Management innovation in the SSF sector, by both empowering its self-management capabilities and streamlining regulations; this will benefit also environmental resources and other users of same coastal areas

ECOlogical observing System in the Adriatic Sea: oceanographic observations for Project title biodiversity (ECOSS)

Interreg - Interreg V Italia - Croazia

The Adriatic sea calls for cross border actions in the field of preservation of ecosystem and biodiversity, one of the main territorial challenges. The whole area is under the influence of climate change and pollution that requires for joint, systemic and integrated management of coastal and marine resources that could be enhanced only adopting a cross-border approach. Challenges related to the health and function of the marine ecosystem needs an innovative integration of ecological and oceanographic research with conservation programmes, across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, linking and integrating the coastal and the offshore areas. A collaborative effort at transnational level is necessary to align the present ocean observing capacities, foster sustainability of marine-related policies, narrow existing technological gaps and sustain the training of the new generation of marine scientists and operators. ECOSS overall objective is the establishment of the ECOlogical observing system in the Adriatic Sea (ECOAdS), shared between Italy and Croatia, able to integrate ecological and oceanographic research and monitoring with Natura 2000 conservation strategies. Building on the facilities, infrastructures and long term ecological data existing in the Programme area and developing specific case studies, ECOSS will enhance the marine observational capacities for improving the conservation status and the expansion of the marine component of Natura 2000 network. The synergies and feedbacks among the main conservation management questions, ecological variables and key oceanographic processes will be assessed, basing on the connectivity among habitats and species in coastal and offshore waters. For the first time in the area, the holistic view of marine ecosystem health, at the base of the MSFD, will be merged with the traditional nature conservation approach, evidencing and developing the interconnections and synergies among the MSFD and H&BD. ECOSS will activate, develop and stabilize a process of Public Engagement so that all the societal actors (researchers, citizens, policy makers, business, third sector organisations, etc.) work together during the whole process in order to better align the project outcomes with the values, needs and expectations of society. ECOSS will develop, building on the existing ICT facilities, a robust data management infrastructure, following the principles of open science, facilitating access to the results and maximizing the re-use and the transferability of project outputs. ECOSS will realize a permanent and stable partnership among different actors in the science-society-policy context, thus producing a real joint management of ecosystem, biodiversity, services and resources that will be crucial for identifying and addressing environmental problems and proper adaptive solutions.

“East Antarctic International Ice Sheet Traverse" (EAIIST) [PNRA16_00049 – B]

Bandi ministeriali - PNRA - RICERCA IN ANTARTIDE

STENNI Barbara

This project is an international collaboration between a group of Australian, French, Italian and United States scientists, in the framework of the international SCAR-ITASE (International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expeditions) program. The Project EAIIST (East Antarctic International Ice Sheet Traverse) proposes to unite the knowledge and capability to study the interior of the Antarctic plateau between the French-Italian Concordia station (75°S, 123° E) at Dome C, and the US Amundsen-Scott Station at South Pole (90°S). The scientific objectives of EAIIST are to study the icy terrain of the Antarctic continent in its driest places. We propose an integrated, international research project to study the impacts of very low and highly variable accumulation rates on surface mass balance, mega-dune formation, and near-surface snow and boundary layer chemistry. To minimize costs and maximize flexibility while investigating a broad range of accumulation rates and environmental conditions, we will conduct this research primarily using a surface traverse along a route from Dome C to South Pole. This international consortium of scientists is built around the idea to explore and study the geophysical (snow physics, surface mass balance, density, temperature, seismicity, etc.), geochemical (impurities, aerosols, air-snow transfer, water isotopes, etc.) and meteorological dimensions (AWS, atmospheric dynamic, air mass transport, etc.) of these most inhospitable and remote place on Earth thank to a terrestrial scientific traverse. These objectives will be accomplished through a coordinated program of field observations, remote sensing, laboratory measurements, and data synthesis and integration. The bulk of the field research will be conducted on two overland traverses in East Antarctica: 1) from the Dome C to South Pole Station during 2018-2019 season; and 2) returning from South Pole to Dome C during the 2019-2020 season.

Sostenibilità Integrata e innovazione sociale (SI2)

Fondi regionali (FSE, FESR, Leggi Regionali) - POR FSE (2014-2020)