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Boost Brittle Bones Before Birth (BOOSTB4)

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

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is, in its severe forms, a devastating inherited disorder characterised by brittle bones. A person with severe OI is affected throughout their lifetime with repeated, multiple fractures, considerable pain and handicap. There is no curative or effective treatment for OI. Our preclinical studies and initial clinical cases have demonstrated that transplantation of fetal m...
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This ITN will train 10 ESRs to meet the urgent need for translation of Auditory Neuroscience into commercial and pharmaceutical products to treat hearing disorders including tinnitus. Tinnitus is the debilitating perception of imaginary sound that is often associated with hearing loss. This Liaison in Scientific Training for European auditory Neuroscience (LISTEN) is a consortium of top hearing sc...
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Integrated Activities for the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

We propose a set of integrated Activities in the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD) in response to the INFRAIA-2014-2015 call Research Infrastructures for High EnergyAstrophysics.The overall objective of AHEAD is to integrate national efforts in high-energy Astrophysics and to promote the domain at the European level, to keep its community at the cutting edge of science and technology in this...
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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are frequent, chronic and highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorders. Despite their societal importance, progress in understanding disease biology has been slow and no curative treatment options are available.The pan-European training network MiND aims to educate a new generation of researchers in the field of n...
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Aggression is a basic physiological trait with important roles throughout evolution, both in defence and predation. When expressed in humans in the wrong context, aggression leads to maladjustment, social impairment and crime. Despite this, knowledge about aggression aetiology is limited and current treatment strategies are insufficient. Contingent to a subdivision into impulsive and instrumental ...
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Leicester College Construction Project

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

This project will target learners from Leicester Colleges construction department, who are studying one of the following Level 3 qualifications:- Electrical Installation- Plumbing- Construction and the Built EnvironmentThe participants will complete a 4 week Mobility in Seville, Spain where they will work within several construction companies, improving their work based knowledge and skills and in...
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Large scale crises are affecting critical infrastructures with a growing frequency. This is a result of both basic exposure and dependencies between infrastructures. Because of prohibitive costs, the paradigm of protection against extreme events is expanding and now also encompasses the paradigm of resilience. In addition to strengthening and securing systems; system design objectives are now bein...
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European Medical Information Framework (EMIF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

In response to the need to tackle increasingly complex medical research questions, a growing amount of human health data is being collected, either in routine Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) databases, through research-driven cohort studies, in biobanks or related efforts. However, data sources are typically fragmented and contain information gaps which prevent their full exploitation. EMIF aim...
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Drug development in TB requires new integrated methods to transition the novel combination regimens needed to shorten first-line therapy and combat multi-drug resistance. Although new agents are emerging, the path to registration of such regimens remains uncertain while capacity for pivotal trials is limited. Selection and optimization of drug combinations for development depends on preclinical sy...
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Sustainable Tourism and Sports Work Placement

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

Leicester College is one of the largest public further education colleges in the United Kingdom, with a student body of approximately 27400, offering a comprehensive range of technical, vocational and higher education qualifications across a broad range of programme areas from entry-level up to bachelor's degree level. Leicester College is committed to enriching the lives of all members of our com...
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BBMRI - Large Prospective Cohorts (BBMRI-LPC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

In recent years, biomedical research has crossed international borders in large, collaborative studies showing the value of multidisciplinarity and scale advantage. This has yielded valuable insights and some led to new and better medicines and treatments for diseases. However, disease-focused studies provide less insight in the real disease onset, the relative disease burden in the population, an...
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Electrical Maintenance Experience

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Leicester College is one of the largest in the UK with more than 27,400 learners studying with us on a wide range of courses, from many backgrounds and with different ambitions and aspirations. This project aims to address the labour market demands of the UK's expanding construction industry, specifically in relation to the sub-sector of electrical installation. The project will address the exis...
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The airways diseases asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease affect over 400 million people world-wide and cause considerable morbidity and mortality. Airways disease costs the European Union in excess of €56 billion per annum. Current therapies are inadequate and we do not have sufficient tools to predict disease progression or response to current or future therapies. Our consortium, Air...
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Integrated non-CO2 Greenhouse gas Observing System (INGOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

InGOS will support and integrate the observing capacity of Europe for non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGHG: CH4, N2O, SF6, H2 and halocarbons). The emissions of these gases are very uncertain and it is unknown how future climate change will feedback into the land use coupled emissions of CH4 and N2O. The NCGHG atmospheric abundances will increase further in the future and the emissions of these gases a...
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Near-Earth Space Data Infrastructure for e-Science (ESPAS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The ESPAS project will provide the e-Infrastructure necessary to support the access to observations, the modeling and prediction of the Near-Earth Space environment. This includes the plasma and energetic particle environments that surround our planet as well as the neutral atmosphere at altitudes above 60 km. These environments are an important target for future research in areas such as space we...
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Computing systems are getting ever more ubiquitous, making usdependent on their proper functioning. Therefore we require that theyare correct (i.e. they conform their intended behavior), safe (i.e.itsoperation does not have catastrophic consequences), reliable,available to provide the intended service, and secure (i.e., no userwithout appropriate clearance can access or modify protected data).Guar...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate -III (MACC-III)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

MACC-III is the last of the pre-operational stages in the development of the Copernicus Atmosphere Service. Its overall institutional objective is to function as the bridge between the developmental precursor projects - GEMS, PROMOTE, MACC and MACC-II- and the Atmosphere Service envisaged to form part of Copernicus Operations.MACC-III will provide continuity of the atmospheric services provided by...
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Betriebspraktikum Fremdsprachenassistenten

Start date: Jul 3, 2014, End date: Jul 2, 2015,

The eight-week work placement in summer/autumn 2014 is an integral part of the course "Commercial Assistant with Languages (English/French/Spanish)" at the commercial college Berufskolleg Kaufmannsschule Krefeld, a college in the fields of economics and business administration. This full-time course provides profound knowledge of any form of business communication in two foreign languages as well ...
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Chemical Bioanalysis (CHEBANA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Chemical Bioanalysis aims for retrieving selective information out of complex biological systems. Sensors, probes and devices are the future tools of medicinal diagnostics, environmental monitoring, food analysis and molecular biology. The ITN CHEBANA provides interdisciplinary research training for early stage and experienced researchers and focuses on the most important techniques in the field. ...
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MACC II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for prototype operational GMES services for the atmospheric domain. From late-2011 MACC II will continue the operation and development of the GMES service lines established by the MACC project and prepare for its transition in 2014 to become the atmospheri...
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European Paediatric Oncology Off-Patent Medicines Consortium (EPOC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Cancer chemotherapy has a key role in the successful treatment of a number of childhood cancers. Nevertheless, at least 20% of patients are not cured by current therapies and a significant number experience debilitating toxicities. Given the high cure rates and potential life-span of survivors of childhood cancer, it is particularly important to minimize the impact of potential chronic toxicities....
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"The proposed project ECNIS2 aims at continuing the integrative and coordinative works initiated during ECNIS network with an ultimate goal of transforming network into a virtual centre, the European Centre for Research and Education on Cancer, Environment and Food (ECRECEF).ECNIS has already laid foundations for the development of the centre by bringing together researchers from different discipl...
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"European authorities and the international scientific community acknowledge the importance of Inquiry-Based Science and Mathematics Education (IBSME) to develop an integrated strategy for scientific literacy and awareness from primary to secondary school, reinforcing scientific careers. Scienceduc and Pollen FP6 projects as well as SINUS-Transfer have successfully implemented IBSME in a large num...
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European Network for Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology (ENGAGE)

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

"ENGAGE (European Network for Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology) has, as its central objective, the translation of the wealth of data emerging from large-scale research efforts in molecular epidemiology into information of direct relevance to future advances in clinical medicine. ENGAGE will do this through the integration of very large-scale genetic and phenotypic data already available from a sub...
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Planetary Robotics Vision Scout (ProViScout)

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

ProViScout will demonstrate the combination of vision-based autonomous sample identification & sample selection with terrain hazard analysis for a long range scouting/exploration mission on a terrestrial planet. It brings together major European groups currently working on planetary robotic vision, supported by NASA-JPL from USA. Most robotic planetary space missions performing in situ exploration...
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"The large-scale migration caused all sorts of tensions in the receiving countries, particularly when it became clear that immigrants planned to settle permanently and eventually claimed to participate socially and politically in their countries of settlement. However, the presence of immigrants did not yet become a politically contested issue everywhere. In some countries such as Spain, Ireland i...
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Nasal Pandemic Influenza Vaccine (NASPANVAC)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The project is being undertaken in response to the need to develop an effective, user friendly, heat stable vaccine to control the highly pathogenic form of avian influenza virus (H5 and H7 subtypes) which has the potential to cause another global influenza pandemic. The overall objective of this programme is to develop a nasal avian influenza vaccine using ChiSys® (chitosan), which is a chitosan...
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IT Future of Medicine (ITFoM)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

Data-rich, individualised medicine poses unprecedented challenges for IT, in hardware, storage and communication. We propose a data-driven, individualised medicine of the future, based on molecular/physiological/anatomical data from individual patients. We shall make general models of human pathways, tissues, diseases and ultimately of the human as a whole. Individualised versions of the models,...
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Around an inspiring virtual learning world in eighty days (80Days)

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

Description 80DAYS has developed a demonstrator for a compelling game to support learning and teaching geography.Project GoalsThe European research project 80Days is inspired by Jules Verne’s novel “Around the world in eighty days”. The project ran from April 2008 to September 2010 and aimed at developing psycho-pedagogical and technologi...
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Project partners from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and the UK worked together to develop and promote a new approach to learning specifically targeting older adults. Acknowledging a shift towards learner-centred education, partners agreed upon a pan-European approach that engages older people at every step of the learning process. Project activities centred round the ...
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The EFA wider objectives: Increase Equal Opportunity and reducing the disparity in English proficiency; Increase opportunities for study and teach abroad through improved English language skills; Increase in institutional and national prestige; Increase institutional standardization and internationalization - supporting students and lecturers towards the use of academic literature and teaching ma...
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Wider objectives: Standardize new national curricular framework for EFL programs in Israeli HEI; harmonize new curriculum with ECTS and Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR); reduce socioeconomic gaps by helping students attain English proficiency levels needed in local and global labour markets; inter-tempus coaching to share EU EFL expertise on ECTS and CEFR with Israeli pa...
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The SCENE project is inspired by the EU need to support the initial and continuous training of all professionals (teachers and school managers) involved in the education field, both at secondary school and Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector, by developing their competences and qualifications. The SCENE Project intends to realize a multilingual PBL working environment, comprising an e-...
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