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Durham University Researchers' Night 2009 (RN2009UDURTNS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

"The participants in this proposal are Durham University (UDUR) and Naked Science Ltd. (TNS). UDUR is a world-class university that is committed to the communication of knowledge and learning, encouraging and supporting engagement in dissemination of knowledge to a broader community. TNS currently produce a weekly science radio programme that is broadcast in the East of England, and made available...
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MICSED - Molecular Interactions in Complex Systems (MICSED)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

"This proposal brings together Procter and Gamble (the world’s largest producer of packaged consumer goods), with Durham University (a world top-50 science faculty in a research-intensive university) to train ESRs capable of bringing market-changing research innovations to a wide range of product areas. Modern consumer products have to be highly sophisticated to achieve the performance levels con...
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"Europa als Erlebnis" durch EAESOVET - European Attributes, Employability Skills and Opportunities in Vocational Training and Education

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

English summary: With Europe becoming more and more of a cultural and economic unity and with globalisation making high demands on the international labour market, qualifications and job requirements changed significantly. Young people do not only need to have expert knowledge but also interdisciplinary skills, as well as proficiency in foreign languages and intercultural skills to be qualified f...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Durham University’s commitment to improving the employability of all its students is explicit in its Strategy 2010-2020, a key aim of which is “To provide our students with outstanding and distinctive opportunities for personal development, ensuring future success and employability.” To achieve this goal the University ensures that its students are comprehensively engaged in extending, recording a...
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"Arbeitswelten in Europa erleben"

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

English summary: With Europe becoming more and more of a cultural and economic unity and with globalisation making high demands on the international labour market, qualifications and job requirements changed significantly. Young people do not only need to have expert knowledge but also interdisciplinary skills, as well as proficiency in foreign languages and intercultural skills to be qualified f...
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Intercultural Work Experience in Europe

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

English summary: With Europe becoming more and more of a cultural and economic unity and with globalisation making high demands on the international labour market, qualifications and job requirements changed significantly. Young people do not only need to have expert knowledge but also interdisciplinary skills, as well as proficiency in foreign languages and intercultural skills to be qualified f...
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"Arbeiten und Lernen in Europa"

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

English summary: With Europe becoming more and more of a cultural and economic unity and with globalisation making high demands on the international labour market, qualifications and job requirements changed significantly. Young people do not only need to have expert knowledge but also interdisciplinary skills, as well as proficiency in foreign languages and intercultural skills to be qualified fo...
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Limerick Youth Service - Share Our Stories

Start date: Sep 2, 2013,

Venue: Limerick Youth ServiceType of project: Training Course for Youth Workers (paid or voluntary)Title of Project: Share Our Stories (SOS)Theme of Project: This project will be based on the theme of 'Storytelling'. This theme has evolved from Limerick Youth Service's involvement in a project of storytelling as a means of capturing the 'cornerstones' of youth work and the unique aspects that dist...
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Hybrid simulations of flow properties using atomistic – fluctuating hydrodynamics modelling for nanoconfined water (HIPPOGRIFFE)

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

The goal of this Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, entitled “Hybrid simulatIons of flow ProPerties using atOmistic – fluctuatinG hydRodynamics modellIng For nanoconFined watEr” (HIPPOGRIFFE) is to train a talented Experienced Researcher (ER), Dr. Ivan Korotkin through a research project focused on the development of novel multiscale modelling methods, which offer a unique tool for guiding the hig...
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Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition (DiseaseRecognition)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

An astounding example of human social complexity is the global healthcare industry, in which we perform lifesaving surgeries, eradicate childhood diseases, provide global vaccinations, and track the evolution and outbreak of novel zoonotic diseases. Surprisingly, all of this hinges on a cognitive ability whose evolutionary origins are largely unknown: the ability to recognize disease in others. Un...
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Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise (DIFeREns2)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise (DIFeREns2) will greatly expand and enhance a successful COFUNDed fellowship scheme at Durham University. DIFeREns2 will provide fellowships across all areas of the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities for both early-career and established researchers seeking to address challenging problems in the 10 interdisciplinar...
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Boosting the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in organic electronics of the Silesian University of Technology (ORZEL)

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

The overall aim of the ORZEL project is to boost the scientific excellence and technology-transfer capacity in organic electronics of the Silesian University of Technology (SUT) by creating a network with the high-quality Twinning partners: University of Durham (UDUR), Institute of Nanoscience and Cryogenics, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (INAC) and Eindhoven Unive...
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Mineral scale platinum-group-element osmium isotope constraints on planet formation ‘late’ accretion (PGE-PLANETS)

Start date: Jul 20, 2015, End date: Jul 19, 2017,

Platinum group element (PGE) abundances & 187Os-isotope compositions determined for magmas of Earth, the Moon, Mars, & asteroidal bodies place important constraints on planetary evolution but these data, & current analytical approaches, have largely focused on whole-rock analyses. Interpretations of planetary PGE fractionation & parent-body mantle reservoir compositions often appeal to knowledge o...
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Novel Type of Terahertz Devices (NOTEDEV)

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

"The realization of efficient, cheap, reliable, scalable and portable terahertz (THz) radiation sources and detectors is one of the important objectives in modern applied physics. THz emitters and detectors have potential applications in biology, medicine, security and nondestructive in-depth imaging. However none of the existing THz devices satisfy the application requirements. The project consor...
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High Precision Simulation of particle collisions at the LHC (MCatNNLO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The recent discovery of a Higgs-boson like resonance at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is a major landmark in the quest to understand the fundamental nature of the Universe. Precise measurements of the properties of the new boson are now mandatory and must be reflected in a similar quest for higher precision from the theory side. We aim to meet this challenge by developing a theoretical f...
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Archaeology of the European Medieval Earthquakes (AD 1000 - 1550) (ARMEDEA)

Start date: Apr 7, 2014, End date: Apr 6, 2016,

Historical seismic catalogues such as SHARE (Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe) and AHEAD (European Archive of Historical Earthquakes Data 1000-1899) play a significant role in hazard mitigation across the European Union. These EU-funded projects are based mainly on documentary surveys but the archaeological verification for seismic activity remains under-researched. The aim of ArMedEa is to ...
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Maritime Enclosures. Fishing communities facing the effects of the South China Sea dispute (MARENCLOSURES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The South China Sea (SCS) is a hotly contested area, subject to claims for sovereignty and marine enclosures by China, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian states and involving global powers (US, India). Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in China and Vietnam, archival research and cartographic analysis, the proposed project shifts the gaze from the geopolitical conflict between the major states conce...
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Vegetation shifts in desert environments: a multi-scale ecogeomorphic approach for the analysis of grassland-shrubland transitions (VEGDESERT)

Start date: Jul 16, 2013, End date: Jul 15, 2015,

"Climate change and the massive alteration of natural habitats are major drivers of land degradation. Their effects may be especially significant in drylands, where ecosystems are particularly sensitive to degradation, usually involving irreversible landscape changes (i.e. desertification). A common form of desertification in drylands includes the encroachment of shrub species into historic produc...
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Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise (DIFeREns)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Durham University proposes a high-profile international Fellowship scheme. An entirely new Junior Research Fellowship scheme will be launched, aimed at early career researchers with 2-5 years of postdoctoral experience. These Fellowships will be associated with one of Durham’s eight interdisciplinary Research Institutes to provide a supportive and intellectually challenging research environment. ...
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The pluton-volcano connection: Integrating processes, volumes and time scales in magma plumbing systems (iMAPS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2014,

Volcanoes frequently affect our lives and thus have been studied since people started living and farming on their nutrient-rich, ash-covered flanks. The processes that cause eruptions also control the compositions and volumes of erupted material and ultimately the eruption styles. These processes and the time scales at which they operate are not well understood. Part of the reason is that many pro...
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Solar Cells Based on Nanowire Arrays (SOBONA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"The area of photovoltaic devices is a very promising field for technological developments, with a very strong ecological and economic impact. The purpose of this exchange program is to create novel photovoltaic devices with record efficiencies using interdisciplinary expertise of the partners, and thereby to propose new concepts for solar cells. Joint experiments and training of researchers and...
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"Integrability, Symmetry and Quantum Space-time" (ISAQS)

Start date: Aug 19, 2010, End date: Aug 18, 2014,

"String theory is a prime candidate for a consistent theory of quantum gravity. It should therefore be able to address fundamental questions, such as the origin and structure of space-time. The key to an understanding of these deep problems is to uncover of the symmetry principles that underlie string theory and to gain control of string theory in its non-perturbative regime. This project is motiv...
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A Complete CEnsus of Star-formation and nuclear activity in the Shapley super-cluster (ACCESS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"We propose a joint research programme aimed at determining the importance of cluster assembly processes in driving the evolution of galaxies as a function of galaxy mass and environment, studying the Shapley super-cluster, the richest and the most dramatically active region in the local Universe. The participants will benefit from already available multi-wavelength observations, including panora...
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Innovative Network for Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC Physics (MCnetITN3)

Start date: Apr 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

We propose a European Training Network that will provide a total of 540 ESR-months of training in Monte Carlo event generator physics and techniques, and related applications in experimental particle physics.Monte Carlo event generators are central to high energy particle physics. They are used by almost all experimental collaborations to plan their experiments and analyze their data, and by theo...
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by rock-derived organic carbon oxidation (ROC-CO2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

The global carbon cycle controls Earth’s climate by the emission and drawdown of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. One of the major sources of CO2 is thought to be the oxidation of organic carbon contained in rocks during chemical weathering. Since the industrial revolution, this flux has been accelerated by burning fossil fuels. However, the natural rates of CO2 emission by rock-derived o...
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Innovative Nanowire DEvicE Design (INDEED)

Start date: Feb 1, 2017, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

Nanowires (NWs) exhibit unique properties that make them potential building blocks for a variety of next generation NanoElectronics devices. Recent advances have shown that NWs with predefined properties can be grown, offering a new paradigm enabling functional device prototypes including: biosensors, solar cells, transistors, quantum light sources and lasers. The critical mass of scientific knowl...
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Environmentally best practices and optmisation in hydraulic fracturing for shale gas/oil development (BESTOFRAC)

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

This research brings together the complementary expertise of our consortium members to gain a better understanding of the physics in hydraulic fracturing (HF) with the final goal to optimize HF practices and to assess the environmental risks related to HF. This requires the development and implementation of reliable models for HF, scaled laboratory tests and available on-site data to validate the...
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Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy (OPTICON)

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

Europe has become a global leader in optical-near infrared astronomy through excellence in space and ground-based experimental and theoretical research. While the major infrastructures are delivered through major national and multi-national agencies (ESO, ESA) their continuing scientific competitiveness requires a strong community of scientists and technologists distributed across Europe’s nations...
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Uncertainty Treatment and OPtimisation In Aerospace Engineering (UTOPIAE)

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

In an expanding world with limited resources and increasing uncertainty, optimisation and uncertainty quantification become a necessity. Optimisation can turn a problem into a solution, thus the main focus of this ETN is to explore and develop new approaches to treat uncertainty in complex engineering systems and use novel optimisation techniques to efficiently deal with large scale problems with ...
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Realising Innovation in Transitions for Decarbonisation (REINVENT)

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

It is high time for the EU to develop pathways and strategies for decarbonisation also in emissions intensive sectors such as steel, plastics, paper, and meat and dairy. These are sectors where low carbon transitions are still relatively unexplored. Some progressive companies and other actors are just beginning to consider such pathways. The overall aim of REINVENT is to help Europe achieve its lo...
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Knowledge For Use [K4U]: Making the Most of Social Science to Build Better Policies (K4U)

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

‘Research is an investment in our future’ says Horizon 2020. That’s only true if you know what to do with it. When it comes to social policy, we don’t really know how to put our research results to use. K4U aims to remedy this. K4U will construct a radically new picture of how to use social science to build better social policies. This picture will be founded on an ambitious philosophical study ...
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Nature Based Urban Innovation (NATURVATION)

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

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have the potential to respond to climate change, enhance biodiversity and improve environmental quality while contributing to economic regeneration and social well-being. Yet there is a substantial gap between the promise of NBS and their uptake. To unlock the potential of NBS for sustainable urban development, NATURVATION will take a transdisciplinary, internationally...
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Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers (AMBER)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

Rivers rank among some of the most threatened ecosystems in the world, and are the focus of costly restoration programmes that cost billions to taxpayers. Much of Europe depends on water from rivers for drinking, food production, and the generation of hydropower, which is essential for meeting the EU renewable energy target. Yet only half the EU surface waters have met the WFD’s 2015 target of goo...
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Community-Based Policing and Post-Conflict Police Reform (ICT4COP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

The challenges of international police reform assistance are formidable. Conventional top-down institutional reform has proven neither effective nor sustainable. Community-based policing (COP) holds promise, however evaluations have pointed to a lack of in-depth understanding of police-community relations in police reform assistance. This project will conduct integrated social and technical resear...
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The Elusives Enterprise: Asymmetries of the Invisible Universe (ELUSIVES)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

NEUTRINOS and DARK MATTER (DM) are the most abundant and also the most elusive building-blocks of nature because of their tenuous couplings to the ordinary matter we are made of. Each particle has a mirror image with identical mass and opposite charge: its antiparticle. What is the essential nature of particles and antiparticles? This is a most fundamental open question in science. The laws of phy...
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Virus-X: Viral Metagenomics for Innovation Value (Virus-X)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Biological sequence diversity in nowhere as apparent as in the vast sequence space of viral genomes. The Virus-X project will specifically explore the outer realms of this diversity by targeting the virosphere of selected microbial ecosystems and investigate the encoded functional variety of viral gene products. The project is driven by the expected large innovation value and unique properties of ...
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Understanding subduction zone topography through modelling of coupled shallow and deep processes (SUBITOP)

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

The SUBITOP ETN is a framework for training and career development of young researchers in Geodynamics, Geophysics, Geology and Geomorphology. It has a scientific focus on the dynamics of continental margins where tectonic plates are recycled through subduction. Subduction processes have shaped and govern many aspects of the topography of Europe, and other continents, and they determine the patte...
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InvisiblesPlus

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

NEUTRINOS (Ns) and DARK MATTER (DM) are the most abundant particles in the universe. Their couplings to ordinary matter are so tenuous that they remained undiscovered -invisible- until very recently. N masses and DM constitute the first evidence ever of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The path to build the New Standard Model must confront the fundamental nature of the partic...
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Testing and Evaluating Sophisticated information and communication Technologies for enaBling a smartEr griD (TESTBED)

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

Smart grid represents a significant new technology of improving the efficiency, reliability, and economics of the production, transmission, and distribution of electricity. It is crucial to exchange and use information for performing smart grid applications. However, in reality the exchange of information over multiple networks is unreliable, leading to unpredictable network Quality-of-Service and...
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