The project aims to develop metamaterials, implemented as metasurfaces, to function as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). These metasurfaces will be controlled using light waves transmitted through optical waveguides on a substrate carrier. The absorption of light at the waveguides crossings generates heat to switch the phase changing materials (PCMs) in the unit-cells of the metasurface on or off. Simulation assisted metasurface design, PCM preparation, characterization, and deposition are part of the project. The RIS ability to tailor mm-waves will be evaluated through free-space measurements. Potential applications are in wireless communication, radar, sensing, and imaging requiring precise control of electromagnetic fields. Besides the demonstration of the technological potential of the concept, the project is expected to generate fundamental knowledge in wave-matter interactions taking place at the intersection of the fields of material science, optics and metasurfaces.

In the context of a European initiative already launched and currently under building (Call NMBP 22-2017) the ‘PSS-EURO-Network’ MRSEI has the ambition to create and establish a European scientific network on the management of the transformation of industrial Business Models, through servitization innovation strategies. Within the scientific and industrial community which is currently actively working on Product-Service-Systems, a strong originality of the PSS-EURO-Network is to put the focus of the research on the methods and tools to transform the industrial organizations themselves and their Business Models, as a way to go beyond current European researches focusing mainly on the engineering of the PSS solution. With the ambition to create, then deploy concretely via European projects, a consistent set of methods and tools aiming at strongly increasing the success rate of industrial Business Models transformations towards PSS solutions, the PSS-EURO-Network can bring important societal impacts via the transformation of consumptions behaviors thanks to the product-service approach. The first European project answer taken in charge by this PSS-EURO-Network is already quite mature, and the definition of the scientific aims, research program and full consortium is already well advanced for the first phase of the submission: a summary is given in the following sections. The project coordinated by ARMINES-Mines Saint Etienne has a large European representation, first based on 5 key scientific laboratories gathering strong complementary competencies on PSS and Business Models (France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, and United Kingdom). But, additionally, the consortium includes a rather large network of industrial and transfer actors (still under building), aiming at a large European impact of these research works. The activity program defined in the MRSEI project has the ambition not only to build a first submission to a European call (covering the finalization of phase 1 and all the phase 2) , but also to build a longer term active Network, with a clear Strategy of European project building. This PSS-EURO-Network would also use Digital Technology through a living internet virtual community, which would be created and implemented operationally thanks to the MRSEI project

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) will play a crucial role in the successful implementation of the European Biodiversity Strategy and the European Green Deal. They are locations where we can concentrate efforts to restore biodiversity and support the diversification of the blue economy to boost the sustainable use of marine resources. We have paid a lot of attention to the best ways to design and establish MPAs; yet with more than 17,000 MPAs now designated globally, less than a quarter have a clear management plan. Managing complex socioecological systems (SES) is harder and navigating them towards sustainability is even harder. That is particularly the case for MPAs for which biodiversity targets and the exploitation of regional ecosystem services have to be balanced. This project aims to find practical solutions to guide MPA managers in the best approaches to yield positive biodiversity outcomes while maintaining the ability of neighbouring communities to benefit from marine ecosystem services sustainably. Managers of MPAs in Madeira, France, Denmark and Sweden will together with scientists co-create the insights needed to develop this guide, based on a global synthesis of MPA data and detailed functional analyses at three case study sites. We will use data science and statistical modelling to determine the structure of interactions between biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services (ES) in all current MPAs depending on their SES characteristics. We will then extend recent advances in theoretical ecological modelling to these socio-ecological networked systems to understand how management actions can tip MPA SES towards favorable states using three MPA case studies to benchmark models. With this insight, we will determine the characteristics that will yield desirable SES states. Monitoring is crucial to guide adaptive management plans along this MPA restoration journey. We will determine whether readily available biodiversity and ES indicators can be integrated with rapid sampling to develop a standardized ‘citizen monitoring’ approach that can provide the necessary and sufficient level of information needed to manage the transformative change at MPAs. Finally, we will tackle the policy interaction hurdles managers face when developing plans in regions where multiple MPAs have been designated with varied policy targets. We will determine how best to manage these MPA networks to add value for regional biodiversity and ES targets. This project will produce a decision support system for MPA managers, which we will make available in a user-friendly format complementing current international MPA guidelines to help increase the uptake of management plans for existing MPA networks. In addition, it will produce tangible advice on integrative governance for our practitioners that will meet current urgent needs for the three case study regions.

New approaches are needed to reduce the emission of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). Some sources contribute strongly to such emissions, which has driven the focus of PRESAGE on innovative decentralized wastewater treatment (WWT), based on anaerobic and aerobic compact systems. An integrated analysis of the behaviour of organic micropollutants (OMPs), antibiotic resistant microorganisms and genes (ARMs/ARGs) and pathogens (viruses and bacteria) will be carried out. This will allow better understanding the relation between the operational parameters of reactors, the microbiological evolution in the system, the removal of OMPs and pathogens, and the development of ARMs and ARGs. The contribution of such a complex mixture on the final effluent ecotoxicity will be assessed. The technologies will be validated at 4 demosites treating black and grey water, and effluents from hospitals and an antibiotic industry, in close collaboration with the industrial sector. This high readiness level anticipates a good impact of project results on wastewater innovation. Experts in the field of advanced WWT, microbiology and ecotoxicology will strongly cooperate and participate in a mobility plan focusing on complementary skills. PRESAGE impacts society and economy, boosting the water industry and protecting the environment from effluent discharges containing CECs. In the proposed treatment strategy a minimum global impact is targeted, preferentially promoting the onsite water reuse.