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Bioenergetic Remodeling in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (Foie Gras)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

FOIE GRAS provides innovative training for 13 early stage researchers (ESRs) to answer two critical and unanswered questions: a) Is hepatic bioenergetic remodelling involved in NAFLD pathogenesis, and target for stratification or therapeutic/lifestyle interventions? and b) Is the disruption of the gut-liver axis involved in NAFLD progression? In Western Societies, there has been a recent surge of ...
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Xylella Fastidiosa Active Containment Through a multidisciplinary-Oriented Research Strategy (XF-ACTORS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

XF-ACTORS aims to establish a multidisciplinary research program to answer the urgent need to improve prevention, early detection and control of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf). Recently, Xf was introduced into Italy, where it is causing severe damage to olive crops, and in France, where so far it is limited to ornamental plants and some landscape trees. The overall goal of the research program is to asse ...
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Semantic EO Data Web Alert and Retrieval Framework (SEO-DWARF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Technological advances in remote sensing have increased the availability of satellite images with different spatiotemporal and spectral characteristics.There is difficulty for retrieving the most appropriate data for each user's needs.One key challenge is to connect the quantitative information of the EO images with the qualitative (high-level user queries) and be able to mine these connections in ...
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Pest Organisms Threatening Europe (POnTE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

This proposal SFS-03a-2014-aligned focuses to minimize the risk of introduction/impact of emerging pests threatening EU agriculture and forestry. The targets are: 1) Xylella fastidiosa and its vectors in olive, grapevine, citrus, stone fruit, ornamentals and landscape trees of high socio-economic importance; 2) ‘Ca. Liberibacter solanacearum’ and its vectors affecting a number of strategic crops s ...
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GEMex: Cooperation in Geothermal energy research Europe-Mexico for development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems and Superhot Geothermal Systems (GEMex)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The GEMex project is a complementary effort of a European consortium with a corresponding consortium from Mexico, who submitted an equivalent proposal for cooperation. The joint effort is based on three pillars: 1 – Resource assessment at two unconventional geothermal sites, for EGS development at Acoculco and for a super-hot resource near Los Humeros. This part will focus on understanding the tec ...
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Renal Molecular Pathologist network

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Rationale and background The prevention and care of chronic diseases are among the priorities of the EU's current health strategy. Chronic kidney disease (CKD), one of the most common chronic degenerative diseases, is often accompanied by a high mortality and morbidity, and has a high socio-economic impact. Objectives•Strengthen the cooperation among Universities in order to boost innovation and e ...
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Institutional framework for development of the third mission of universities in Serbia

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The IF4TM project has an overarching aim to contribute to the establishment of institutional framework for the third mission of the universities in Serbia, encompassing three dimensions: technology transfer and innovation, continuing education and social engagement. Six specific objectives are:1. To define legal and policy framework supporting the development of universities’ third mission in Serb ...
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Developing and Communicating the Impact of Youth Work across Europe

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

This is a unique project which simultaneously both develops and communicates the impact of youth work across 5 European countries (United Kingdom [lead partner], France, Italy, Finland, Estonia). It is the first project of its type to do this. It utilizes a recently devised method for this process - Transformative Evaluation (TE) - which in the UK context has been shown to both significantly deve ...
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Ultra-fast Laser Surfacing of Teeth for Resistance to Erosion (LUSTRE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"The “LUSTRE-IAPP” has emerged from a background of successful bilateral academic and industrial collaborations within the UK and Italian partners, in which the knowledge transfer and training of ERs and ESRs are centred on four key aspects of academic research leading to KT and commercialisation activities. These are in the areas of: a) in the engineering and fabrication of laser glass hosts for ...
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Monitoring biodiversity by a Citizen Science approach for solving environmental problems (CSMON-LIFE)

Start date: Jun 2, 2014, End date: Dec 2, 2017,

Background The increasing loss of biodiversity can be attributed to the influence of human beings on the world’s ecosystems. The EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy foresees various actions with the aim of halting the loss of biodiversity, conserving and restoring natural habitats, and maintaining and enhancing ecosystems and their services. This strategy req ...
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Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy (GREEN SURGE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"GREEN SURGE will identify, develop and test ways of connecting green spaces, biodiversity, people and the green economy, in order to meet the major urban challenges related to land use conflicts, climate change adaptation, demographic changes, and human health and wellbeing. It will provide a sound evidence base for green infrastructure planning and implementation, exploring the innovation potent ...
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Integrated Methods for Advanced Geothermal Exploration (IMAGE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"The IMAGE project will develop a reliable science based exploration and assessment method to ""IMAGE"" geothermal reservoirs using an interdisciplinary approach based on three general pillars:1 Understanding the processes and properties that control the spatial distribution of critical exploration parameters at European to local scales. The focus will be on prediction of temperatures, in-situ str ...
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Open up entrepreneurship

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Internet and the WWW is changing our lives: the way we communicate, work, shop, socialise, play and educate. Digital technologies also reshape traditional industries and totally transform the business environment. They speed up and improve the way new innovative products and services are produced and accessed. ICT is also changing the very nature of consumption, competition and how markets operat ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Organic Bioelectronics (ORGBIO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Organic Bioelectonics is a new discipline which holds promise to shape, direct, and change future medical treatments in a revolutionary manner over the next decades. At the moment Europe has a unique leading position in this area, being almost all the world-leading groups in this field located in Europe and constituting the core of this international training network. However, realizing the promis ...
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IMAging GEnetics for MENtal Disorders (IMAGEMEND)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Mental disorders are leading causes of disability, absence from work and premature retirement in Europe. While magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities are broadly available and a vast research literature exists, few neuroimaging applications have reached clinical practice in psychiatry. A major problem is that mental illnesses are currently diagnosed as discrete entities defined clinically. I ...
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CREATive Urban Sharing in Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

BACKGROUND The crisis has highlighted the major role which Adult Learning (AL) can play in achieving the Europe 2020 goals, by enabling adults — in particular the low-skilled and older workers — to improve their ability to adapt to changes in the labor market and society. AL provides a means of up-skilling or reskilling those affected by unemployment, restructuring and career transitions, as well ...
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Control of metabolic and inflammatory pathways by nuclear receptors (NR-NET)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

NR-NET is a multidisciplinary consortium, whose activities are directed towards the understanding of the role of Nuclear Receptors (NRs) and coregulators in metaflammatory disease. Metaflammation - metabolic disorders linked to chronic inflammation – is an emerging concept explaining the pathogenesis of a wide-spectrum of diseases. Since several nuclear receptors can directly sense metabolic alter ...
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European Multicentre Tics in Children Studies (EMTICS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2017,

This project will undertake pre-clinical and cohort studies that address susceptibility factors for paediatric and adolescent tic disorders, with a particular focus on comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptomatology, from clinical, epidemiological, genetic, microbiological and immunological angles. EMTICS aims to elucidate the complex aetiology of the onset and clinical course of chronic tic disorder ...
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COoperative loGISTICS for sustainable mobility of goods (CO-GISTICS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Key logistics stakeholders from seven European cities/logistics hubs (Bordeaux, Frankfurt, Thessaloniki, Trieste, Arad, Bilbao and Vigo) have joined forces to deploy, validate and set-up after project life of five piloted cooperative logistics services combining cooperative mobility services and intelligent cargo with real-life logistical aspects. CO-GISTICS services will increase energy efficienc ...
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Learning from Massive, Incompletely annotated, and Structured Data (MAESTRA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The need for machine learning (ML) and data mining (DM) is ever growing due to the increased pervasiveness of data analysis tasks in almost every area of life, including business, science and technology. Not only is the pervasiveness of data analysis tasks increasing, but so is their complexity. We are increasingly often facing predictive modelling tasks involving one or several of the following c ...
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OFET biosensors for point-of-care applications (sense-of-care)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Electronic, label-free biosensors characterized by rapidity and detection proved to be very promising being able to directly detect biological recognition events without the need of markers. In this respect, organic bioelectronics has gained a huge interest among scientists coming from different disciplines and sectors due to its high impact on medical, clinical, food and environmental fields. Pre ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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STRATEGY TO INHIBIT TGF-Beta IN LIVER DISEASE (IT-LIVER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Chronic liver diseases (CLD) and their end-stages, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide with enormous socio-economic costs. Patients with liver cirrhosis are at high risk of deadly hepatic failure and over 80% of HCC develop on a cirrhotic background. HCC ranks as the 5th most common cancer and with >600,000 deaths per annum it const ...
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Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

EAGLE is a Best Practice Network that brings together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy, to provide Europeana with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources which constitute a veritable pillar of European culture. In particular, it will supply inscriptions coming from 25 EU countries, providing more than 1.5 M of ...
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Demonstration of cyclodextrin techniques in treatment of waste water in textil industry to recover and reuse textil dyes (LIFE DYES4EVER)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Background Textile industries commonly create wastewater containing potentially hazardous contaminants for the environment. Dye compounds are one of the wastewater contaminants that often need special treatment. T he percentages of unfixed dyes remaining in wastewater can range from approximately 1% in pigments to as much as 50% for reactives. The reacti ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The international mobility is nearly a necessary requirement and in this frame all the members of the “Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro” are involved. Students are stimulated to spend abroad Erasmus study periods for many reasons, especially they need to complete their own academic career with an european experience, they wish to be more open-minded, to grow, living and studying in a new c ...
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Turning biowaste into sustainable products: development of appropriate conversion technologies applicable in developing countries (BIOWASTE4SP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The project will develop environmentally appropriate and socio-economically sustainable biotechnological processes for converting biodegradable fractions of identified African and Mediterranean agricultural and industrial waste as well as fractions of municipal and animal solid waste into food, feed, value-added products for nutraceuticals and healthcare, biogas and organic based fertilizer. Integ ...
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Ion Transport Proteins in Control of Cancer Cell Behaviour (IonTraC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"With over 3 million new cases and 1.5 million arising deaths each year in Europe, cancer is a major public health problem with an urgent need for new therapies. This proposal builds upon mounting evidence that ion channels and transporters underlie many of the hallmarks of cancer. Thus, proteins involved in membrane transport, long known as important drug targets in other pathologies (channelopat ...
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Overcoming clinical relapse in multiple myeloma by understanding and targeting the molecular causes of drug resistance (OVER-MYR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a currently incurable rare malignant plasma cell disease, which invariably relapses despite therapy. The objective of OVER-MYR is to understand the causes of drug resistance and relapse, develop novel strategies to overcome these, provide proof of principal for phase I/II trial, and thus impact on MM-patient’s survival.Currently-used drugs target both MM cells (MMC) and c ...
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OPtimizing TArgets and Therapeutics In high risk and refractOry Multiple Myeloma (OPTATIO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Multiple Myeloma (MM) is an incurable disease with rapidly growing prevalence and poor prognosis. Consequently, it is the goal of the OPTATIO consortium to seek out novel strategies for the development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic options. The MM pathogenesis involves not only genetic changes within the tumour cells but also the emergence of supportive conditions by the bone marrow microenv ...
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Planetary Entry Integrated Models (Phys4Entry)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

One of the major technological challenges associated with the access to planetary surfaces is the entry of the space vehicle in the planetary atmospheres at superorbital speeds. The problem is the very large heat released to the vehicle surface by the surrounding gas either as convective heating or as radiation. Optimization of the thermal shield design can have a profound impact on the overall mi ...
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Gas Sensors on Flexible Substrates for Wireless Applications (FlexSMELL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The FlexSMELL concept is to realize a hybrid (organic-inorganic) very low-cost, ultra low-power olfaction system based on bio-receptor and implemented on a flexible substrate. Such a system is to be compatible with wireless read-out, setting the ground for the future development of smart sensing RFID tags. The FlexSMELL technology platform will be in principle suitable for different applications w ...
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BIOdiversity Multi-Source Monitoring System: from Space TO Species (BIO_SOS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"BIO_SOS (BIOdiversity multi-SOurce monitoring System: from Space TO Species is a response to the Call for proposals FP7- SPACE-2010-1, addressing topic SPACE.2010.1.1-04 “Stimulating the development of GMES services in specific areas"" with application to (B) BIODIVERSITY.BIO_SOS is a pilot project for effective and timely multi-annual monitoring of NATURA 2000 sites and their surrounding in supp ...
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Electrolyte-Gated Organic Field-Effect BIOsensors (BioEGOFET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

Electronic transduction can open new perspectives for point-of-care diagnosis and treatment monitoring. In this respect, label free, organic field-effect transistor (OFET) sensors have recently raised the interest of the organic-electronic community. The EGOFET biosensor aims at an electronic transduction of a bio-recognition event, eventually leading to an amplified response. The sensor combines ...
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Smart Membrane for hydrogen energy conversion: All fuel cell functionalities in One Material (SMAllinOne)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

A breakthrough of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) requires a radical performances improvement of the key fuel cell material components (catalysts and protonic membrane) as well as highly innovative solutions to overcome the membrane assembly and integration limitations. Actual PEM fuel cells presents Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) architecture corresponding to a proton conductive me ...
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Localised environmental and health information services for all: User-centric collaborative decision support network for water and air quality management (LENVIS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

The main goal of the LENVIS project is to develop an innovative collaborative decision support network for exchange of location-based environmental and health services between all stakeholders, for enhanced capacity to assess population exposure and health risks and better management of the concerned ecosystems. LENVIS will include health indicators as integral part of the environmental management ...
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"An unforgettable night for well-being with researchers of the Federative Universities of Basilicata, Molise and Puglia Regions in the Mediterranean Area" (UNIFEDERLAB)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

"UniFederLab will be animated by several different actions all focused on “Innovation and well-being” in important cities of the south part of Italy such as Bari, Foggia, Lecce, Brindisi, Barletta, Campobasso, Potenza and Matera. Events can be of different types: demonstrations, quizzes, games, exhibitions, shows, concerts, talk shows, competitions with prizes. A EU corner will be present in each ...
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Raising Awareness on Climate change and Energy Savings for teachers, families and stakeholders. (R.A.C.E.S.)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

Background The European Union has agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 compared with 1990 levels as a step towards reducing the negative impacts of climate change. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its fourth assessment report (published in 2007), warned that "warming of the climate system is u ...
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Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age (VisMaster CA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

One of the most important challenges of the emerging Information Age is to effectively utilise the immense wealth of information and data acquired, computed and stored by modern information systems. On the one hand, the appropriate use of available information volumes offers large potential to realize technological progress and business success. On the other hand, there exists the severe danger th ...
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