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• D6.3 (WP6): Report on monitoring the project developments

  E. Sanz, P. Alonso, J. García-Espinosa

  prodPhD OA (2023). 8

  
  

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  Deliverable D6.3, ‘Report on monitoring the project developments’, aims to monitor the mid-term progress of the prodPhD project. This deliverable monitors the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the actions in each work package of the project and provides an overall assessment of the results of each pilot action. KPI monitoring was based on the descriptive and evaluative operationalization of the KPIs in D6.1 and the structure developed in D6.2. The KPIs corresponding to each work package were monitored by the leader of each work package in line with their operationalization in D6.1. This end of the project monitoring of the progress of the prodPhD project shows that most of the implemented activities met their targets

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  Deliverable D6.3, ‘Report on monitoring the project developments’, aims to monitor the mid-term progress of the prodPhD project. This deliverable monitors the [...]

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• D5.3 (WP5): Report on the development results of the pilot actions

  E. Sanz, P. Alonso, J. García-Espinosa

  prodPhD OA (2023). 7

  
  

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  Deliverable D5.3, ‘Report on the development results of the pilot actions,’ aims to monitor the pilot actions carried on by the partners to test the entrepreneurship courses proposed during the project. The pilots consisted on the collaborative development of entrepreneurship projects, using the ‘learning by doing’ methodology and materials developed in WP3, and were implemented by using the customized social network platform and collaborative work tools developed in WP4. The evaluation of the pilot actions was carried out using surveys directed towards the students of the courses, and technical staff. As two pilot actions were organized, two surveys were distributed: one to the students of the first demonstration action (July 2022) and one to the students of the second action (January 2023). In the case of technical staff one survey was distributed at the end of the second pilot. The results show that the course improved between the first and the second pilot. However, there are still some issues to address. Some students find it difficult to compaginated the course with their PhD duties. The partners tested the possibility of designing shorter seminars that might be easier for the students to fit in their schedules. As students’ satisfaction with the seminars was high, this might be a possibility for future courses at the PhD level

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  Deliverable D5.3, ‘Report on the development results of the pilot actions,’ aims to monitor the pilot actions carried on by the partners to test the entrepreneurship [...]

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• D5.2 (WP5): Call for the Selection of Interested Students

  I. Ergas, N. Dozic, E. Sanz, P. Alonso, J. García-Espinosa

  prodPhD OA (2023). 6

  
  

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  This document presents the actions taken under Task 5.2 “Selection of students for the demonstration actions”, to launch the call for candidates to participate in the ProdPhD pilot action and prepare the ground for their selection. This call for candidates was open to all the fields of studies of the WEGEMT associates and other collaborating universities (see Table 1) and reached an estimated number of 500 PhD candidates from 29 universities at 16 European countries. The development of the pertinent actions commenced in the end of 2021 and was completed in M19 (June 2022), where communication via e-mails, video calls, phone calls and (limited, due to covid restrictions) physical visits was utilized. 

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  This document presents the actions taken under Task 5.2 “Selection of students for the demonstration actions”, to launch the call for candidates to participate [...]

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• D4.3 (WP4): Documentation of the Online Training Environment

  C. García

  prodPhD OA (2023). 5

  
  

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  The current report aims to provide all the information necessary to access to the prodPhD Online Training Environment. This document includes a description and the way to use the main platform capabilities for collaborative work, including social network solutions.

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  The current report aims to provide all the information necessary to access to the prodPhD Online Training Environment. This document includes a description and the way to [...]

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• D4.2 (WP4): prodPhD Online Training Environment

  C. García

  prodPhD OA (2023). 3

  
  

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  The purpose of this document is to provide the information to access to the framework of the prodPhD Online Training Environment, which has been developed to meet the specific requirements of the project.

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  The purpose of this document is to provide the information to access to the framework of the prodPhD Online Training Environment, which has been developed to meet the specific [...]

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• D3.2 (WP3): Adaptation of the training material

  B. Diep, C. García, E. Sanz

  prodPhD OA (2023). 1

  
  

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  This document presents the trained material IPAG has adapted from its existing material following the needs and expectations collected and analysed by WP1 and the specifications of WP3’s task T3.1. The overall goal of the adapted training material is to provide PhD students with the necessary and sufficient knowledge and skills to reflect on entrepreneurship and possible start and run their business, be they aspiring or confirming entrepreneurs. The different courses are therefore designed to allow them to tackle each of the business model template widely used to design businesses in terms of offering, customers, infrastructure and finances. That represent ten hard skills to be addressed. In addition, seven soft skills deemed as crucial for business success are proposed. All the materials will be proposed under PowerPoint format.

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  This document presents the trained material IPAG has adapted from its existing material following the needs and expectations collected and analysed by WP1 and the specifications [...]

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• Influence of boundary conditions on oxygen distribution in an organ-on-a-chip platform

  V. Carvalho, N. Rodrigues, R. Rodrigues, M. Bañobre, R. Lima, S. Teixeira

  eccomas2022.

  
  

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  Organ-on-a-chip (OoC) platforms have revolutionized the drug development process by offering an effective alternative to animal models. These advanced microfluidic platforms mimic the organ functions at a microscale, and they can be produced at a large scale and at a lower price. Despite the variety of OoC models developed up to now, the combination of numerical simulations with experimental procedures has been of paramount importance in the development of more realistic and effective OoC devices. In addition, a better understanding of the physical phenomena happening in OoC can be obtained. In the present work, fluid flow numerical simulations were carried out in an OoC aiming to evaluate the influence of imposing different inlet velocities on the oxygen distribution along the device. This is of great importance to understand if the oxygen that reaches the cells is adequate for their culture. The results showed that for the geometry tested, with four organ models in parallel, by increasing the inlet velocity, the dissolved oxygen where cells are cultured also increases. This proves the importance of using numerical simulations for improving the performance of the experimental tests and optimizing the flow conditions. 

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  Organ-on-a-chip (OoC) platforms have revolutionized the drug development process by offering an effective alternative to animal models. These advanced microfluidic platforms [...]

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• A method for communication between user materials during runtime in ABAQUS®

  P. Rose, L. Münch, M. Linke, P. Middendorf

  eccomas2022.

  
  

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  The application of the Finite Element Method (FEM) has developed considerably in recent decades. While in the early days of the FEM only linear-elastic material models were available in commercial Finite Element (FE) programs, today non-linear and also damage-considering material models are offered. But even these are often not capable of correctly representing the complex material behaviour of modern composite materials. Therefore, FE programs often provide the users with the option of integrating their own material models into the simulation. These programs, often called "user subroutines" or "user materials", represent an intensively researched area in the simulation of material behaviour, which is reflected in the large number of publications on such developments (exemplarily see [1-14]). These material models often require a large amount of data values if they are introduced within the simulation model by finite elements [2]. Especially in the field of composites there is a need to use a separate "user material" for each constituent material. Since there is a mutual interaction between the components in real composites, it is obvious that this interaction must also be represented The 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering ECCOMAS Congress 2022 5 – 9 June 2022, Oslo, Norway PHILIP F. ROSE, LUKAS MÜNCH, MARKUS LINKE AND PETER MIDDENDORF 2 between the material models within a simulation in order to make accurate predictions about the material behaviour. To enable such an interaction between different material models in a simulation, a communication during runtime is required in which additionally needed data from the surrounding elements is exchanged between the user materials. In this paper, a method is presented to enable such information exchange during simulation runtime in the commercial FE software ABAQUS/CAE 2019 (Dassault Systèmes, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France) using external databases as well as structured global arrays and some built-in functions of the software. This allows the simultaneous application of several advanced user material models within one simulation and enable them to communicate during runtime, resulting in the possibility of making high accurate simulations of composite materials.

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  The application of the Finite Element Method (FEM) has developed considerably in recent decades. While in the early days of the FEM only linear-elastic material models were [...]

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• Impact performance of out of die UV cured pultruded profiles for vessel structures

  I. Eguino, I. Saenz-Dominguez, I. Tena, A. Arruti, M. Sarrionandia, J. Aurrekoetxea

  This presentation was made at the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM20) on 29 June 2022.

  
  

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  The main objective of FIBRE4YARDS project is to maintain European global leadership in ship building and ship maintenance, through implementation of the Shipyard 4.0 concept in which advanced and innovative FRP manufacturing technologies are successfully introduced. This project has received funding from European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n°101006860.

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  The main objective of FIBRE4YARDS project is to maintain European global leadership in ship building and ship maintenance, through implementation of the Shipyard 4.0 concept [...]

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• On the existence of compression-only discrete force networks that support assigned sets of nodal forces

  A. Amendola, O. Mattei, A. Fortunato, P. Seppecher, F. Fraternali, G. Milton

  eccomas2022.

  
  

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  We formulate a linear programming approach to the limit analysis of discrete element models of masonry structures. Numerical results show the ability of the given procedure to predict the limit value of the multiplier of variable horizontal forces, which are applied to masonry walls in association with a fixed vertical loading.

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  We formulate a linear programming approach to the limit analysis of discrete element models of masonry structures. Numerical results show the ability of the given procedure [...]

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