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Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

The MAiSI is a two year Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity and is an innovative multidisciplinary programme that will be a catalyst for a new profession within sports administration. It brings together high level scholars in a consortium of Higher Education Institutions with a focus on vocationally orientated concerns. MAiSI will equip students for high-level careers...
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Evolution of herbivory in vertebrates: developing combined isotope (Ca, Sr) and dental surface texture analysis as deep time diet proxies (VERTEBRATE HERBIVORY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Diet is a key factor driving vertebrate evolution. Exploring dietary traits and trophic relationships in fossil food webs is fundamental for understanding radiation and extinction events. This project aims to constrain the evolution of herbivory (plant feeding) and trophic interaction of extinct vertebrates at different spatiotemporal scales by analysing their teeth with isotopic and dental wear t...
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Experimental Searches for Oscillating and Transient effects from the Dark Sector (Dark-OsT)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2021,

The objective of the proposed project is to pioneer a magnetometry-based experimental framework for the detection of time-varying signatures of the ‘dark sector’. This novel approach will enable systematic searches for particles contributing to the dark matter and for dark-energy components.The nature of dark matter and that of dark energy are among the central open problems in modern physics. The...
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Multifunctional Spin Crossover Materials (SPINSWITCH)

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

This project deals with an exchange programme of seven research teams with the aim to establish and consolidate a network for the design of innovative multifunctional materials based upon iron(II) spin crossover complexes: their synthesis, magnetic and spectroscopic studies, investigations on their crystalline, liquid crystalline and morphological structures, pressure effects on spin crossover pro...
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Ultrasensitive chiral detection by signal-reversing cavity polarimetry: applications to in-situ proteomics, single-molecule chirality, HPLC analysis, medical diagnostics, and atmospheric studies (ULTRACHIRAL)

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

Chirality is a fundamental property of life, making chiral sensing and analysis crucial to numerous scientific subfields of biology, chemistry, and medicine, and to the pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetic, and food industries, constituting a market of 10s of billion €, and growing.Despite the tremendous importance of chiral sensing, its application remains very limited, as chiroptical signals are t...
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“In Vivo Click PET Imaging Agents”: Improving clinical companion diagnostics (Click-It)

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

Companion diagnostics are crucial for drug development and disease management with regard to patient selection, therapy planning and monitoring. Nanomedicines such as antibodies have been proven to be optimal disease-targeting agents because they generally exhibit superior target uptake and retention. However, to date, nuclear imaging of nanomedicines has been limited to the use of long-lived isot...
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New Directions in Theoretical Neutrino Physics (nuDirections)

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

"Thanks to tremendous advances in terrestrial, astrophysical and cosmological experiments, neutrino physics has again become one of the driving forces of progress in astroparticle physics. The proposed project nuDirections provides the indispensable theoretical counterpart to the rapid experimental developments. Our goal is to investigate from a theoretical point of view a multitude of unexplored ...
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Spin-charge conversion and spin caloritronics at hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces (SC2)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2020,

Organic semiconductors are enabling flexible, large-area optoelectronic devices, such as organic light-emitting diodes, transistors, and solar cells. Due to their exceptionally long spin lifetimes, these carbon-based materials could also have an important impact on spintronics, where carrier spins, rather than charges, play a key role in transmitting, processing and storing information. However, t...
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European Nuclear Science and Application Research 2 (ENSAR2)

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

ENSAR2 is the integrating activity for European nuclear scientists who are performing research in three of the major subfields defined by NuPECC: Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Tools and Applications. It proposes an optimised ensemble of Networking (NAs), Joint Research (JRAs) and Transnational Access Activities (TAs), which will ensure qualitative and qua...
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TRANSPORT OF SOFT MATTER AT THE NANOSCALE (NANOTRANS)

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

We propose a Multi-Partner ITN-ETN network on Transport of Soft Matter at the Nanoscale. The scientific topic, which is the focus of the proposal, is an emerging field of science and technology. Challenges such as design of environmentally friendly engineering materials or understanding the principles of biological organization crucially depend on fundamental understanding of transport of fluids a...
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Role of European Mobility and its Impacts in Narratives, Debates and EU Reforms (REMINDER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The overarching goal of the project is to understand the economic, social, institutional and policy factors that have shaped the impacts of free movement and public debates about it. It aims to help European policymakers develop policy responses that inspire public trust, ensure the fairness and sustainability of free movement, and maintain inclusive policies that reduce inequalities across the co...
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QUantitative paleoEnvironments from SpeleoThems (QUEST)

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

Speleothems (cave deposits, e.g. stalagmites) represent unique terrestrial archives that allow for accurately dated, high-resolution (often annual), continuous and long (many millennia) climate reconstructions. Such records are vital for understanding how climate varies and how our environments respond on seasonal to millennial timescales. However, current speleothem studies can only make qualitat...
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Periodically bent crystals for crystalline undulators (PEARL)

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

The PEARL project aims at advancing the technologies for manufacturing of high quality Periodically Bent Crystals (PBCr). The PBCr developed in the course of this project will be utilised for the construction of novel light sources of high-energy (hν≥102 keV up to GeV range) monochromatic electromagnetic radiation by means of a Crystalline Undulator (CU) [1]. The technological and experimental par...
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OpenRiskNet: Open e-Infrastructure to Support Data Sharing, Knowledge Integration and in silico Analysis and Modelling in Risk Assessment (OpenRiskNet)

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

Toxicology and risk assessment are undergoing a paradigm shift, from a phenomenological to a mechanistic discipline based on in vitro and in silico approaches that represent an important alternative to classical animal testing applied to the evaluation of chronic and systemic toxicity risks. Large databases and highly sophisticated methods, algorithms and tools are available for different tasks su...
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mobile learning in higher education

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

Mobile technologies are an important part of our daily life and we carry them all the time with us. Mobile learning is already used a lot in informal and non-formal learning, but in the context of formal learning it´s till now not much used. The projekt MINE (mobile learning in higher education) aims to increase the use of mobile technologies in higher education. it´s not about developing a new ap...
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DigiLing: Trans-European e-Learning Hub for Digital Linguistics

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

DigiLing will create a transnational e-learning hub for Digital Linguistics containing online core modules covering the essential skills and competencies as identified through the labour market survey. Digital Linguistics is a new interdisciplinary field which develops knowledge and skills for understanding, processing and exploiting language content in the digital era. Currently no European unive...
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Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDA-2020)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Particle physics is at the forefront of the ERA, attracting a global community of more than 10,000 scientists. With the upgrade of the LHC and the preparation of new experiments, the community will have to overcome unprecedented challenges in order to answer fundamental questions concerning the Higgs boson, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model. Major developments in detector technology...
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Complex RhEologies in Earth dynamics and industrial Processes (CREEP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The CREEP Innovative Training Network is a training and career development platform for early stage researchers (ESRs) in Geodynamics, Mineral Physics, Seismology, Fluid Mechanics, and Materials Sciences. It aims to structure the collaboration in research and doctoral training between 10 leading academic centers in Earth Sciences in Europe: the CNRS (FR), represented by Geosciences Montpellier and...
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MEDICIS-produced radioisotope beams for medicine (MEDICIS-PROMED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Pure accelerated radioisotope beams have been used for 50 years in fundamental physics R&D, e.g. for nuclear structure studies (pear shaped exotic nuclei, Nature 2013); CERN-ISOLDE plays a central role in developing accelerator technologies and fostering collaborative approaches to advance this field of isotope mass separation online. Our most recent contribution was the use of nanomaterial target...
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Integrating Cultural Diversity in Higher Education

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

HE4u2 will contribute to the reform of teaching and learning in higher education and the improvement of the retention and attainment of migrants and ethnic minority students.There is a clear need and demand for training of teachers in relation to migrant students, for reform in the delivery of support for these learners, and in the intercultural dimension for all learners. HE4u2 will develop an in...
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An innovative Cylindrical Gas Electron Multiplier Inner Tracker for the BESIII Spectrometer (BESIIICGEM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Inner Trackers (IT) are key detectors in Particle Physics experiments; excellent spatial resolution, radiation transparency and hardness, and operability under high occupancies are main requirements. While planar Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors are common in modern spectrometers, only one Cylindrical-GEMs (CGEM) detector has been produced up to now by the KLOE2 Collaboration and is being c...
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BigStorage: Storage-based Convergence between HPC and Cloud to handle Big Data (BigStorage)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"The consortium of this European Training Network (ETN) "BigStorage: Storage-based Convergence between HPC and Cloud to handle Big Data" will train future data scientists in order to enable them and us to apply holistic and interdisciplinary approaches for taking advantage of a data-overwhelmed world, which requires HPC and Cloud infrastructures with a redefinition of storage architectures underpi...
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Hybrid atom-ion Quantum Systems (HYQS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

This project focusses on realizing and studying a new hybrid ultra-cold atom-ion system for studying quantum many-body physics. It combines state-of-the-art technologies in quantum optics and quantum gases. The proposed system of cold (fermionic) atoms interacting with ion crystals has surprising analogies with natural solid state systems and molecules, with now by fermionic 6Li atoms i...
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The research of spin orbit torques in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy systems. (Standard EF)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The current semiconductor devices are facing physical limitations and need a new technology to replace them. Spintronics technologies have been recently identified as the most likely technology for the next generation of non-volatile random access memory. However, current spintronic approaches based on magnetic bits made of “single domain” spin structures or “domain walls” result in limited stabil...
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Jean Monnet Center of Excellence "EU in Global Dialogue"

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

European external governance in different policy fields is confronted with global power shifts. Against this background, global dialogue is crucial and there is a need to incorporate expertise on the EU across disciplines. Thus, the objective of CEDI is to establish a regional hub of expertise on the EU’s external relations. Cooperation with Cuba is planned in order to establish EU Studies in the ...
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The Digital Language Diversity Project

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

As a cornerstone and valuable cultural heritage of Europe, linguistic diversity needs effective measures to ensure its safeguard and promotion. Any sustainable policy in this respect cannot ignore the digital world, as a prominent context of use of the languages. To date, this linguistic diversity is only partially reflected in the digital world: a small subset of the world's languages (about 6%, ...
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Multilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora (MULTILEX)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

"Given large collections of parallel (i.e. translated) texts, it is well-known how to, by successively applying a sentence- and aword-alignment step, establish correspondences between words across languages. However, parallel texts are a scarceresource for most language pairs involving lesser-used languages. On the other hand, human second language acquisitionseems not to require the reception of ...
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Sub-Universal Quantum Circuits in Continuous Variables (CV SUBUNIQC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

"Three decades ago, it was proposed that quantum computers (i.e. quantum systems where information can be encoded, processed and read out) could outperform classical devices for information processing. For instance, they may allow the factoring of integer numbers in a time which scales polynomially with the size of the input, while known classical algorithms require an exponential time. However, i...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

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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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

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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APERIM: Advanced bioinformatics platform for PERsonalised cancer IMmunotherapy (APERIM)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Cancer treatment platforms that involve the use of the adaptive immune system have demonstrated profound tumour regressions including complete cure. Importantly, technological advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) allow for the first time the development of personalised cancer immunotherapies that target patient specific mutations. However, clinical application is currently hampered by spec...
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Hemozoin Detection using Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in Diamond (HEMOTECT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Advances in chemistry, biology and medicine have been historically promoted by physical tools, with notable examples x-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and microscopy. A new physical tool has recently emerged as a unique electromagnetic-field sensor and it is based on the exploitation of the remarkable magneto-optic properties of one particular color center in diamond, ...
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In-situ experiments on the chemical composition of high altitude aerosols and clouds in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (EXCATRO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

"Clouds and aerosols are the most important component of the global climate system, but the least understood. The general goal of EXCATRO is to enhance the understanding of TROPICAL clouds/aerosols at high altitudes, and in particular to quantify the ORGANIC and ANTHROPOGENIC contributions. This is of fundamental importance for the global climate and ozone chemistry since (1) the highest solar ene...
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Rydberg Quantum Simulators (RYSQ)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Quantum Simulators provide new levels of understanding of equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of many-body quantum systems, one of the most challenging problems in physics. The main objective of the RYSQ project is to use Rydberg atoms for quantum simulations, because their outstanding versatility will allow us to perform a great variety of useful quantum simulations, by exploiting diffe...
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Volcanic ash: field, laboratory and numerical investigations of processes during its lifecycle (VERTIGO)

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

Explosive volcanic eruptions are an unavoidable natural hazard: Volcanic ash, the ejected lethal mixture of crystals, lava, glass and older rocks, is the most far-reaching threat. In April 2010, the ash cloud from Eyjafjall volcano in Iceland, a comparatively small event, paralysed large parts of Europe for up to one week in a manner unique in history. The impact was dramatic: several million pass...
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Salt Tectonics and Dynamics (SALTED)

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

Many of the world’s oil and gas reservoirs occur in the vicinity of salt structures within sedimentary basins. Because salt is a weak and low-density rock, it flows on geological timescales and forms kilometre-high structures that strongly deform nearby sedimentary layers. This poses several challenges for the industry: 1) Finding new oil and gas fields requires a geological reconstruction of how...
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solving CHAllenges in Nuclear DAta (CHANDA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"The CHANDA project main objective is to address the challenges in the field of nuclear data for nuclear applications and its acronym stands for solving CHAllenges in Nuclear DAtaThe project will prepare a proposal for an organization that will coordinate the nuclear data research program, and the infrastructures and capabilities of the EU Member States in a stable structure, well integrated with ...
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Non-coding RNAs in neurogenic and neuropathic pain mechanisms and their application for risk assessment, patient stratification and personalised pain medicine (NCRNAPAIN)

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

Neuro-immune alterations in the peripheral and central nervous system play a role in the pathophysiology of chronic pain, and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) regulate both immune and neuronal processes. Therefore, ncRNAPain proposes that ncRNAs are critically important master switches for chronic pain.ncRNAPain represents a multidisciplinary consortium of clinical partners, molecular and systems-level n...
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Oral biopharmaceutics tools (ORBITO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The OrBiTo project will deliver novel methods and a framework for rational application of predictive biopharmaceutics tools for oral drug delivery. This will be achieved through novel propsective studies to define new methodlogies which will be validated using historical datasets from EFPIA partners. A combination of high quality in vitro or in silico characterizations of API and formulations will...
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Textual and Literary Cultures in Medieval Europe. Ein best-practice-Model zu Kompetenzerwerb und Berufsfeldorientierung in der geisteswissenschaftlichen Lehre

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

The present project (TALC_ME) addresses the employability of students from a number of disciplines in the humanities which are currently in high demand: the field of medieval studies, which links approaches from cultural studies and literary analysis. Because the subjects studied in this field – texts, images and written records from the European Middle Ages – seem to have no immediate implication...
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