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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT: The Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici di Pisa is a small-sized private HEI, which has 300 students enrolled. SSML provides translation and interpretation courses, representing one of the main examples for linguistic education at a bachelor's level. The Degree Course in Linguistic Mediation is based on the study of three foreign languages, among them are...
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Best practice guidelines for instruments of regional development and spatial planning in an enlarged EU (GRIDS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2005,

The GRIDS project is closely linked to previous EU initiatives, including both the INTERREG IIC projects on spatial planning, and the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP 1999) which identified principles of good practice in preparing Regional Development Strategies (e.g. polycentric rather than monocentric development). The GRIDS project involves sharing good (and bad) practice in prepa...
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European Network on Electric Vehicles and Transferring Expertise (ENEVATE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Funding for climate-relevant research has been substantially increased in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) covering 2007-2013. This research will support international processes in the framework of the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol. Research under FP7 is focused on four main thematic areas. of which energy and transport are two. Both aim at higher efficiencies and increased use of sustainable...
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Economic Crises: Resilience of Regions (ECR2)

Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

The economic crisis had a asymmetric impact on the different European regions. The fast and successful recovery of some particular regions and the stagnancy of others strikes the eye and raises the question of what is behind this success. The economic crisis and recovery are at the core of all recent policy initiatives that set the framework for territorial development and cohesion policy. The obj...
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Noise Management in European Ports (NoMEPorts)

Start date: Mar 1, 2005, End date: Aug 31, 2008,

Background Two EU projects, HARMONOISE and IMAGINE, have respectively developed a new method to measure noise and a noise database. However, these projects did not cover the specific noise problem in ports, which is a source of a combination of industrial and traffic noise. The NoMEPorts project was focused on developing and demonstrating a structured app...
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DREAM - Dynamizing Research and Education for All through Mobility in ACP

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

DREAM includes 20 partners: 8 EU (UP, ULg, ULille, UR, UNICA, ULE, UVA, Cardiff), 9 African (UNDJ, USTM, DU, UA, UJES, UEM, CBU, UNICV, UNN), 1 Caribbean: UWI (ranging 11 countries: Antigua & Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Dominica; Grenada; Jamaica; St Kitts & Nevis; St Lucia; St. Vincent & the Grenadines; T&T) and 2 Pacific: UNTL (East Timor) and USP (ranging 11 countries: Cook Isl., Fiji, ...
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EU-METALIC II - EU-Morocco-Egypt-Tunisia-Algeria-Libya International Cooperation

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

There are many problems facing the LOT 2 countries but there is consensus amongst all that the problems must be solved by the countries themselves and a major tool is education. Strong international experiences are therefore important so these countries to see and experience different systems and adapt the best to their own situations. The potential for meaningful international cooperation is in...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Cardiff Metropolitan University throughout the years has grown from strength to strength implementing its Internationalisation and Outward Mobility Strategy resulting in the creation of new collaborations with partners and increase in outward and inward student and staff mobility. The objective for Cardiff Metropolitan University is to integrate international, intercultural and global dimensions...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Cardiff University is already an international organisation. We attract a geographically diverse range of staff and students; collaborate with institutions, governments and businesses worldwide; and conduct research that is proven to have global significance and impact, host international conferences and have staff that win international prizes. Cardiff University has been involved in the Erasmus...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

The ENSA-M project is principally a student mobility project; this project is incorporated into the framework of European and international politics, along with the development of pedagogical and scientific partnerships. This project is run by both the international relations committee (IRC) and by the ENSA-M management team; implemented by the International Relations and Student Mobility office...
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Enlightened or just less threatened: Education and anti-immigrant attitudes (educationimmigration)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

This research proposal combines the strengths of sociology and social psychology to investigate the effect of education on anti-immigrant attitudes. Many studies in the last fifty years have found that the higher educated have less negative anti-immigrant attitudes. Anti-immigrant prejudice can have many negative consequences for social integration in communities but also for EU integration. Howev...
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Co-operating for Leadership in Tourism

Start date: Nov 11, 2015, End date: Nov 10, 2017,

The Co-operating for Leadership in Tourism (CoLead) project will establish a "Strategic Partnership for Innovative Leadership in Tourism" to develop and test existing professional trainings and tools to develop teams of professionals, trainers and students with appropriate management, leadership and entrepreneurial skills and expertise who can directly assist destinations and enterprises to suppor...
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Ortaöğretim Müfredatında Bilişim Sistemleri Entegrasyonu

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2016,

This project aims to develop a new learning strategy in order to motivate students for the lessons, to study lessons more effectively and efficiently, to integrate technology into our courses and by this way to make students graduate from secondary school with having the appropriate requirements for university education in terms of foreign language and technological aspects. We made a need analysi...
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Dil Öğretiminde Teknolojinin Etkin Kullanımı

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2016,

The main factor in the formation of our Project is to provide ease in the implementation of DyNED and EBA systems, prepared by Ministry of Education for the use of technology in language teaching and to be a model for other institutions located in our district is in using these systems. With these systems, Blended Learning has taken the place of the existing teaching techniques, and language cla...
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Netzwerk/ICP Cardiff Mental Health Support: Sending Simon Deckert

Start date: Sep 1, 2011,

Through this group of projects, young people from a wide range of European countries share the experience of living together, meeting together weekly with their common supervisor and contributing their enthusiasm and a real European dimension to the mental health services provided in Wales’ capital city, Cardiff. The volunteers come from a genuinely comprehensive range of educational and social ba...
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Low Coordinate Transition Metal Single Molecule Magnets (LoCo)

Start date: Feb 13, 2017, End date: Feb 12, 2019,

The Fellow, Maialen Espinal (MEV) from the University of Bath, outlines a case for support to work alongside the Host, Prof Mike Whittlesey (MKW: University of Bath, UK), on the design of novel two-coordinate complexes of Ni, Co and Fe as single molecule magnets (SMMs).The rationale for the work is the 2013 report by the MKWs group of a cationic Ni(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complex that exhibited ...
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New Perspectives in Tropospheric Chemistry (NPTC)

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

The last two hundred years have seen new anthropogenic emissions dramatically change the chemical composition and chemistry of the troposphere, creating a diverse set of atmospheric conditions based on location and level of human population. Reducing climate change and reversing the negative impacts humans have on the atmosphere is a clear European Commission target moving forward towards 2020. Al...
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Ultimate growth characterization for development of new semiconductor technologies (USEMITE)

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

The integration of III-As structures with Silicon is of major importance to industry. Currently nanostructures are already being applied to information and communication technologies and their integration with Silicon electronics is being developed. Current fabrication techniques allow patterning of nanostructures from bulk layers but modify the properties of the materials by introducing defects. ...
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Multi-Agent Systems and Secured coupling of Telecom and EnErgy gRIds for Next Generation smartgrid services (MAS2TERING)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The success of the European vision of a low carbon electricity grid that minimises greenhouse gas emissions; and enhances security, quality and reliability of supply depends on how smart infrastructures, combining energy and telecom, are developed and implemented for the wider integration of security-aware distributed energy resources into the increasingly decentralised grid. MAS2TERING, a 3-year ...
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Three-dimensional Clinical Coherent Chemically-sensitive Imaging (3D3CSI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"Three-dimensional Clinical Coherent Chemically-sensitive Imaging A multimodal imaging project between the fellow Dr. Unterhuber with expertise in laser physics and optical instrumentation from Cardiff University, and the host, Prof. Drexler from the Center of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University Vienna, is proposed. The purpose is to synergistically integrate state-of-th...
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Understanding creativity and problem solving through sleep-engineering (SolutionSleep)

Start date: Feb 1, 2017, End date: Jan 31, 2022,

Innovative problem solving is critical for all spheres of organised endeavour, including science and industry, and thus forms the cornerstone of a successful society. Such creative thinking often requires suppression of preconceptions and restructuring of existing knowledge. Pioneering work has shown that sleep facilitates problem solving, but exactly how, and which sleep characteristics are imp...
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The Genus Haslea, New marine resources for blue biotechnology and Aquaculture (GHaNA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

The GHaNA project aims to explore and characterize a new marine bioresource, for blue biotechnology applications in aquaculture, cosmetics and possibly food and health industry. The project will determine the biological and chemical diversity of Haslea diatoms to develop mass-scale production for viable industrial applications by maximising biomass production and associated high-value compound pro...
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Engineering optoelectronic INterfaces: a global action intersecting FUndamental conceptS and technology implementatION of self-organized organic materials (INFUSION)

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

Investing in energy efficiency and saving is crucial to support energy accessibility and environmental protection, and it is the world’s best interest to share and implement forms of energy efficiency. This implies a stronger and effective transnational policy to promote and disseminate know-how about new technologies both at the market and R&D level. In this respect, development of projects cente...
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Comorbidity and Synapse Biology in Clinically Overlapping Psychiatric Disorders (COSYN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

COSYN integrates outstanding European academic and three large Pharma to exploit genomic findings for intellectual disability (ID), autism, and schizophrenia. We capitalise on comorbidity, from clinic to cells and synapses, and have access to large existing samples. We focus on rare genetic variants of strong effect in patients with clinical comorbidity. Our aims are: (1) Understand comorbidity by...
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Training, Research and Raising of Public Awareness in Cell Biology and Pathology of Neuroglia (EU-GliaPhD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

The research in which the young scientists of the EU-GliaPhD consortium will be trained is centred on the role of neuron-glia interactions in brain function and pathology.Prompted by exciting discoveries of recent years, many academic research groups are currently focussing their research on the field of neuron-glia interactions for a better understanding of brain function. Also the private sector...
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The psychology and neurobiology of cognitive control training in humans (CCT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Cognitive control regulates our thoughts and actions, helping us avoid impulsive behaviours that are inappropriate, costly or dangerous. In recent years, evidence has emerged that training in behavioural tasks that promote response inhibition or avoidance of specific stimuli can enhance cognitive control, reducing overeating and alcohol consumption. Despite the promising nature of cognitive contro...
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Mapping gravitational waves from collisions of black holes (BlackHoleMaps)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Breakthroughs in numerical relativity in 2005 gave us unprecedented access to the strong-field regime of general relativity, making possible solutions of the full nonlinear Einstein equations for the merger of two black holes. Numerical relativity is also crucial to study fundamental physics with gravitational-wave (GW) observations: numerical solutions allow us to construct models that will be es...
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ENTREPRENEURING DYNAMIC SELF-ORGANIZED INTERFACES IN PHOTOCATALYSIS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING NETWORK CONVERTING LIGHT INTO PRODUCTS (PHOTOTRAIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

The global need to move current human technologies into a sustainable future will have a great impact for the world of chemistry and related industries. In close concert with other disciplines, chemistry will be increasingly solicited to identify solutions that are practical, affordable and ultimately sustainable. To meet these objectives, not only research, but also chemical education will need p...
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Lighting up the dark - the evolution of dust throughout cosmic time (CosmicDust)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

After more than two decades of infrared astronomy, we still know very little about the origin and evolution of cosmic dust in galaxies, responsible for obscuring half of all starlight since the Big Bang. This obscured starlight is re-radiated in a region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is still relatively unexplored. Herschel provides a unique opportunity to resolve this by revealing the 90% ...
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Superconducting Diamond Quantum Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (SUPERNEMS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

In this project, the fabrication and characterisation of all diamond superconducting Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS) is proposed for the investigation of macroscopic quantum states. This involves state of the art Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) of diamond, doping, nanofabrication and modelling of devices. The fundamental properties of superconducting diamond, the associated mechanical prop...
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Formal lexically informed logics for searching the web (FLEXILOG)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

Semantic search engines use structured knowledge to improve traditional web search, e.g. by directly answering questions from users. Current approaches to semantic search rely on the unrealistic assumption that all true facts about a given domain are explicitly stated in their knowledge base or on the web. To reach their full potential, semantic search engines need the ability to reason about know...
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Building and district thermal retrofit and management solutions (THERMOSS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The 20% primary energy consumption reduction targets set by the European Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), published in 2012, call for effective and wide-scale building heating and cooling systems upgrade strategies. These will be successful only if they base upon the right combination of technology innovation, industrial commitment and building owners awareness.In line with this statement, THERM...
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Calcium-Sensing Receptor (CaSR): Therapeutics for Non-Communicable Diseases (CaSR Biomedicine)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) is a class C Gprotein-coupled receptor that plays a pivotal role in systemic calcium metabolism by regulating parathyroid hormone secretion and urinary Ca excretion. Abnormal CaSR function is implicated in calciotropic disorders, and in non-calciotropic disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes (DM), sarcopenia and cancer...
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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Carbapenem Resistance (COMBACTE-CARE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2020,

Multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB): the ultimate challenge!Antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern recently elevated to the top three threats identified by the WHO, and subject of numerous national and international government activities. Although focused strategies have beneficially influenced infection rates due to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (M...
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European Gram Negative Antibacterial Engine (ENABLE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The intensive use and misuse of antibiotics has resulted in some level of antibiotic resistance in essentially all human bacterial pathogens. There is a growing concern that the loss of therapeutic options will present us with a post-antibiotic era where present and future medical advances are negated. Resistant bacteria dramatically reduce the possibilities of treating infections effectively, a...
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Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms (PANDORA)

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

PANDORA (Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms) shall assess the global impact of engineered nanoparticles (NP) on the immune responses of representative organisms covering all evolutionary stages and hierarchical levels from plants to invertebrates and vertebrates. Immunity is a major determinant of the survival and fitness of all living organisms,...
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European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia Consortium (EPAD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background:The secondary prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) is achievable if we can identify individuals at risk of disease progression defined by biomarker evidence of AD pathology and no or only minimal clinical symptoms and engage them in a standing adaptive clinical trial, of the highest quality, testing multiple interventions. To achieve this, EPAD will also provide the analytical infras...
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Unlocking European grid local flexibility trough augmented energy conversion capabilities at district-level (PENTAGON)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Pentagon is a 3-years research and innovation project that will investigate the potential of wider deployment of energy conversion technologies and strategies at district-level, with the aim to foster flexibility in the low-voltage and medium-voltage grid. The rationale that underlies Pentagon approach is that multi-vector smart districts can be the key enablers of future smart grids, provided the...
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Changing Energy Efficiency Technology Adoption in Households (CHEETAH)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Modelling analyses typically suggest that policies accelerating the adoption of energy-efficient technologies (EETs) by overcoming barriers to energy efficiency in the residential sector provide benefits for individual households, the energy system and for society as a whole. Yet, implicit discount rates, employed to reflect households’ decision criteria and response to policy, are disputed in pol...
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A Gaia and Herschel Study of the Density Distribution and Evolution of Young Massive Star Clusters (StarFormMapper)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

We propose to use a combination of data from the ESA space missions GAIA and Herschel, alongside other satellite and European-led ground-based observations, to map the density distribution of star formation regions. This will allow us to identify the mechanisms that underlie both how massive stars themselves form, but more fundamentally, how their natal clusters evolve around them. Our work wi...
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