scholarly journals Developing a Co-Creative Methodology of Narrative Artwork Production for the BEACONING Platform Metagame.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Calderwood ◽  
Rachael Till ◽  
Vytautas Vasiliauskas
Keyword(s):  
Comic Book ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Book Art ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Educational Barriers ◽  
Interactive Narratives ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Process Creation ◽  
Gamified Learning ◽  
Media Learning

This paper presents an emergent co-creative methodology for the conception, making and sharing of narrative artwork for a gamified learning platform. Drawing on cinema, the graphic novel, and comic book art, two unusual characters were developed by Student Activators working with researchers at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Coventry University. The creative process began by using Clean Language and Clean Space to bring the artists’ character sketches to life, and developed into a series of basic, linear and interactive narratives with original working practices. Extending this collaboration, the paper is co-authored with the two students involved. The authors reflect from their different perspectives on the Collaborative process, creation of narrative artwork and building of a series of metagames for the BEACONING platform ‘Breaking Educational Barriers with Contextualised Pervasive and Gameful Learning’, co-funded by Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union.

Monitoring and assessment of an oil spill event with very high resolution tools. 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana M. Mancho ◽  
Guillermo García-Sánchez ◽  
Antonio G. Ramos ◽  
Josep Coca ◽  
Begoña Pérez-Gómez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
In Situ Observation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Port Authorities ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Very High

<p>This presentation discusses a downstream application from Copernicus Services, developed in the framework of the IMPRESSIVE project, for the monitoring of  the oil spill produced after the crash of the ferry “Volcan de Tamasite” in waters of the Canary Islands on the 21<sup>st</sup> of April 2017. The presentation summarizes the findings of [1] that describe a complete monitoring of the diesel fuel spill, well-documented by port authorities. Complementary information supplied by different sources enhances the description of the event. We discuss the performance of very high resolution hydrodynamic models in the area of the Port of Gran Canaria and their ability for describing the evolution of this event. Dynamical systems ideas support the comparison of different models performance. Very high resolution remote sensing products and in situ observation validate the description.</p><p>Authors acknowledge support from IMPRESSIVE a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 821922. SW acknowledges the support of ONR Grant No. N00014-01-1-0769</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>[1] G.García-Sánchez, A. M. Mancho, A. G. Ramos, J. Coca, B. Pérez-Gómez, E. Álvarez-Fanjul, M. G. Sotillo, M. García-León, V. J. García-Garrido, S. Wiggins. Very High Resolution Tools for the Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Hazards in Coastal Areas.  Front. Mar. Sci. (2021) doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.605804.</p>

scholarly journals Aerial Campaigns for Cal/Val purposes in the Context of Copernicus - Survey Results of the Project “Copernicus Cal/Val Solution (CCVS)”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Holzwarth ◽  
Martin Bachmann ◽  
Bringfried Pflug ◽  
Aimé Meygret ◽  
Caroline Bès ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gap Analysis ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Metrological Traceability ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Data Policy ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Essential Contribution

<p>The objective of the H2020 project “Copernicus Cal/Val Solution (CCVS)” is to define a holistic Cal/Val strategy for all ongoing and upcoming Copernicus Sentinel missions. This includes an improved calibration of currently operational or planned Copernicus Sentinel sensors and the validation of Copernicus core products generated by the payload ground segments. CCVS will identify gaps and propose long-term solutions to address currently existing constraints in the Cal/Val domain and exploit existing synergies between the missions. An overview of existing calibration and validation sources and means is needed before starting the gap analysis. In this context, this survey is concerned with measurement capabilities for aerial campaigns.</p><p>Since decades airborne observations are an essential contribution to support Earth-System model development and space-based observing programs, both in the domains of Earth Observation (radar and optical) as well as for atmospheric research. The collection of airborne reference data can be directly related to satellite observations, since they are collected in ideal validation conditions using well calibrated reference sensors. Many of these sensors are also used to validate and characterize postlaunch instrument performance. The variety of available aircraft equipped with different instrumentations ranges from motorized gliders to jets acquiring data from different heights to the upper troposphere. In addition, balloons are also used as platforms, either small weather balloons with light payload (around 3 kg), or open stratospheric balloons with big payload (more than a ton). For some time now, UAVs/drones are also used in order to acquire data for Cal/Val purposes. They offer a higher flexibility compared to airplanes, plus covering a bigger area compared to in-situ measurements on ground. On the other hand, they also have limitations when it comes to the weight of instrumentation and maximum altitude level above ground. This reflects the wide range of possible aerial measurements supporting the Cal/Val activities.</p><p>The survey will identify the different airborne campaigns. The report will include the description of campaigns, their spatial distribution and extent, ownership and funding, data policy and availability and measurement frequency. Also, a list of common instrumentation, metrological traceability, availability of uncertainty evaluation and quality management will be discussed. The report additionally deals with future possibilities e.g., planned developments and emerging technologies in instrumentation for airborne and balloon based campaigns.</p><p>This presentation gives an overview of the preliminary survey results and puts them in context with the Cal/Val requirements of the different Copernicus Sentinel missions.</p><p>This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 101004242.</p>

scholarly journals The Influence of the European H2020 Program on the Development of Regions: The Multiplier Impact of EU Funding in the Regions under Horizon 2020 in NUT III - North

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 853-871
Author(s):  
Natacha Jesus Silva ◽  
Diamantino Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Regional Economy ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Regional Investment ◽  
Partnership Agreement ◽  
The Eu

The partnership agreement between the European Union and the Member States for the implementation of the European Structural and Investment Funds for the period 2014 to 2020 is in its final phase. This study analyzes the multiplier impact on regional investment of the European funds made available to the northern region of Portugal - NUTS III, until September 2018 and intends to answer the following questions: What is the amount invested in the regional economy for each euro of support allocated by the EU through the H2020 program, and what is the percentage distribution of community support versus investment per area of intervention?

scholarly journals Social Isolation - a Prerequisite for Forced and Intensive Development of Media Literacy and Digital Education of Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-84
Author(s):  
Zhivko Rachev
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
The Media ◽  
Level Of Training ◽  
Crisis Conditions ◽  
Media Learning ◽  
Media Data ◽  
Intensive Development

The paper analyzes the behavior of society in a crisis and social distance and the increased influence of the media. Data on the level of training of teachers, students and parents related to media and information literacy are presented. The degree of forced media literacy in crisis conditions is measured. Models and methods of distance and media learning within the European Union are compared. In conclusion, examples are given of media connections and media literacy in the absence of a social environment and live communication among children and students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Studying new particle formation from chemical emissions from sea surface using  ship-borne air-sea-interaction tanks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maija Peltola ◽  
Manon Rocco ◽  
Neill Barr ◽  
Erin Dunne ◽  
James Harnwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marine Biology ◽  
Cloud Condensation Nuclei ◽  
Aerosol Particles ◽  
Chemical Species ◽  
Particle Formation ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
The European Union ◽  
New Particle Formation ◽  
Aerosol Formation ◽  
Horizon 2020

<p>Even though oceans cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface, the ways in which oceans interact with climate are not fully known. Marine micro-organisms such as phytoplankton can play an important role in regulating climate by releasing different chemical species into air. In air these chemical species can react and form new aerosol particles. If grown to large enough sizes, aerosols can influence climate by acting as cloud condensation nuclei which influence the formation and properties of clouds. Even though a connection of marine biology and climate through aerosol formation was first proposed already over 30 years ago, the processes related to this connection are still uncertain.</p><p>To unravel how seawater properties affect aerosol formation and to identify which chemical species are responsible for aerosol formation, we built two Air-Sea-Interaction Tanks (ASIT) that isolate 1000 l of seawater and 1000 l of air directly above the water. The used seawater was collected from different locations during a ship campaign on board the R/V Tangaroa in the South West Pacific Ocean, close to Chatham Rise, east of New Zealand. Seawater from one location was kept in the tanks for 2-3 days and then changed. By using seawater collected from different locations, we could obtain water with different biological populations. To monitor the seawater, we took daily samples to determine its chemical and biological properties.</p><p>The air in the tanks was continuously flushed with particle filtered air. This way the air had on average 40 min to interact with the seawater surface before being sampled. Our air sampling was continuous and consisted of aerosol and air chemistry measurements. The instrumentation included measurements of aerosol number concentration from 1 to 500 nm and  chemical species ranging from ozone and sulphur dioxide to volatile organic compounds and chemical composition of molecular clusters.</p><p>Joining the seawater and atmospheric data together can give us an idea of what chemical species are emitted from the water into the atmosphere and whether these species can form new aerosol particles. Our preliminary results show a small number of particles in the freshly nucleated size range of 1-3 nm in the ASIT headspaces, indicating that new aerosol particles can form in the ASIT headspaces. In this presentation, we will also explore which chemical species could be responsible for aerosol formation and which plankton groups could be related to the emissions of these species. Combining these results with ambient data and modelling work can shed light on how important new particle formation from marine sources is for climate.</p><p>Acknowledgements: Sea2Cloud project is funded by European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 771369).</p>

An integrated approach to assess both risk and impacts related with geo-resources exploration and exploitation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Vittoria Gargiulo ◽  
Alexander Garcia ◽  
Ortensia Amoroso ◽  
Paolo Capuano
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Probabilistic Approach ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Risk Sources ◽  
New Perspective

<p>To the welfare of both economy and communities, our society widely exploits geo-resources. Nevertheless, with benefits come risks and even impacts. Understanding how a given project intrinsically bares such risks and impacts is of critical importance for both industry and society. In particular, it is fundamental to distinguish between the specific impacts related to exploiting a given energy resource and those shared with the exploitation of other energy resources. In order to do so, it is useful to differentiate impacts in two categories: routine impacts – caused by ordinary routine operations, investigated by Life-cycle assessment with a deterministic approach – and risk impacts – caused by incidents due to system failure or external events, investigated by risk assessments with a probabilistic approach. The latter category is extremely interesting because it includes low probability/high consequences events, which may not be completely independent or unrelated, causing the most disastrous and unexpected damages. For this reason, it is becoming more and more crucial to develop a strategy to assess not only the single risks but also their possible interaction and to harmonize the result obtained for different risk sources. Of particular interest for this purpose is the Multi-Hazard/Multi-Risk Assessment.</p><p>The aim of our work is to present an approach for a comprehensive analysis of impacts of geo-resource development projects. Routine operations as well as risks related to extreme events (as e.g.,seismic or meteorological) are linked using a Multi-Hazard Risk (MHR) approach built upon a Life-Cycle analysis (LCA). Given the complexity of the analysis, it is useful to adopt a multi-level approach: (a) an analysis of routine operations, (b) a qualitative identification of risk scenarios and (c) a quantitative multi-risk analysis performed adopting a bow-tie approach. In particular, after studying the two tools, i.e. LCA and MRA, we have implemented a protocol to interface them and to evaluate certain and potential impacts.</p><p>The performance of the proposed approach is illustrated on a virtual site (based on a real one) for geothermal energy production. As a result, we analyse the outcome of the LCA, identify risk-bearing elements and events, to finally obtain harmonised risk matrices for the case study. Such approach, on the one hand, can be used to assess both deterministic and stochastic impacts, on the other hand, can also open new perspective in harmonizing them. Using the LCA outputs as inputs of the MRA can allow the analyst to focus on particular risk pathways that could otherwise seem less relevant but can open new perspective in the risk/impact evaluation of single elements, as we show in this case study.</p><p>This work has been supported by S4CE ("Science for Clean Energy") project, funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 - R&I Framework Programme, under grant agreement No 764810 and by PRIN-MATISSE (20177EPPN2) project funded by Italian Ministry of Education and Research.</p>

Estimating Individual Sea Vessel NO2 Emissions using Spatial Autocorrelation on S5P-TROPOMI Satellite Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomiia Kurchaba ◽  
Cor J. Veenman ◽  
Jasper van Vliet ◽  
Fons J. Verbeek
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Autocorrelation ◽  
Heuristic Algorithms ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Background Concentration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Open Sea

<p>Starting from January 2020, new IMO regulations limiting the Sulphur content of the fuel used by seagoing vessels came into force. As of 2021, new and stricter NOx emission standards are applied for newly built ships entering the North and Baltic Sea. There are various methods that are used to measure the pollution produced by ships in ports or off the coastal areas. Due to practical limitations, however, the conduction of such monitoring above the open sea has not been possible up to now.</p><p>The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument onboard the Copernicus Sentinel 5 Precursor satellite (TROPOMI/S5P) provides the atmosphere monitoring data with an unprecedented spatial resolution. With this instrument plumes produced by individual ships of substantial size can be detected. In our study we focus on application of the TROPOMI NO2 tropospheric column for tracking back the emission produced by individual ships at open sea.</p><p>On a global scale, individual ships are considered to be low-source pollution emitters. As a result, it is difficult to separate an emission plume from the background pollution, especially, in case of comparable background concentration. In order to improve the distinction between the plume and the background, we propose the use of the local spatial autocorrelation measure Moran’s I. This measure amplifies regular shaped high-concentration structures and suppresses random co-occurring concentration peaks. By means of the Automated Identification Signal (AIS) data that records historical ship locations, the detected structures can be associated with individual ships. We further propose heuristic algorithms using local weather conditions (wind speed/direction) for an efficient ship-plume matching and NO2 concentration estimation.</p><p>We evaluate the quality of a ship-plume assignment by comparing the estimated NO2 concentration with model-based emission estimations determined from speed and length of the ship. Notable linear correlation between our estimations and the model-based values supports the proposed method.</p><p>This work contributes to realising global scale verification/estimation of emission plumes with satellites by providing automated and enhanced processing of satellite retrievals for identifying and quantifying of NOx plumes produced by individual seagoing vessels.</p><p>This work is funded by the Netherlands Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, and the SCIPPER project which receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nr.814893.</p>

The low-energy ion event on 2020 June 19 measured by Solar Orbiter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angels Aran ◽  
Daniel Pacheco ◽  
Monica Laurenza ◽  
Nicolas Wijsen ◽  
Evangelia Samara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Wind ◽  
Energy Range ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Solar Rotation ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Forbush Decrease ◽  
Solar Wind Plasma ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Horizon 2020

<p>Shortly after reaching the first perihelion, the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) onboard Solar Orbiter measured a low-energy (<1 MeV/nuc) ion event whose duration varied with the energy of the particles. The increase above pre-event intensity levels was detected early on June 19 for ions in the energy range from ~50 keV to ~1 MeV and lasted up to ~12:00 UT on June 20. In the energy range from ~10 keV to < 40 keV, the ion event spanned from June 18 to 21. This latter low-energy ion intensity enhancement coincided with a two-step Forbush decrease (FD) as displayed in the EPD > 17 MeV/nuc ion measurements. On the other hand, no electron increases were detected. As seen from 1 au, there is no clear evidence of solar activity from the visible disk that could be associated with the origin of this ion event. We hypothesize about the origin of this event as due to either a possible solar eruption occurring behind the visible part of the Sun or to an interplanetary spatial structure. We use interplanetary magnetic field data from the Solar Orbiter Magnetometer (MAG), solar wind electron density derived from measurements of the Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument to specify the in-situ solar wind conditions where the ion event was observed. In addition, we use solar wind plasma measurements from the Solar Orbiter Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) suite gathered during the following solar rotation, for comparison purposes. In order to seek for possible associated solar sources, we use images from the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter. Together with the lack of electron observations and Type III radio bursts, the simultaneous response of the ion intensity-time profiles at various energies indicates an interplanetary source for the particles. The two-step FD shape observed during this event suggests that the first step early on June 18 was due to a transient structure, whereas the second step on June 19, together with the ~50 –1000 keV/nuc ion enhancement, was due to a solar wind stream interaction region. The observation of a similar FD in the next solar rotation favours this interpretation, although a more complex structure cannot be discarded due to the lack of concurrent solar wind temperature and velocity observations.</p><p>Different parts of this research have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870405 (EUHFORIA 2.0) and grant agreement No 01004159 (SERPENTINE).</p>

The European Union and Israel since Oslo

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry van Bommel
Keyword(s):  
The European Union ◽  
Cooperation Agreement ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Peace Initiatives ◽  
The Eu

This chapter discusses the strengthening of ties between the EU and Israel during the breakdown of Oslo as well as during other fruitless peace initiatives. Shortly after the Oslo process began, the EU and Israel initiated negotiations on broadening their cooperation. This led to the signing of the EU–Israel Association Agreement in 1995. As well as economic cooperation, which was established as early as 1975 in a cooperation agreement, this new treaty included other areas, such as scientific and technical research. In more recent years the relationship between the EU and Israel has been deepened further. In 2014 the EU and Israel signed the Horizon 2020 scientific cooperation agreement, which gives Israel equal access with EU member states to the largest-ever EU research and innovation program. In itself, there is nothing wrong with the deepening of economic, scientific, cultural, and political relations between countries. However, the deepening of relations between the EU and Israel means indirect support for the Israeli occupation and the policy of expanding the settlements.

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