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Serendipity in Science, Technology and Innovation (Serendipity)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The Serendipity project aims to investigate the role, management and impact of serendipity on research performance. The key focus of the project is on the under-researched topic of ""serendipity"", the notion in science policy that basic research leads to unexpected valuable outcomes, and since the outcomes of basic research are impossible to predict, research itself is difficult and perhaps even...
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Sustainable Management for European Local Ports (SuPorts)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

This project will help smaller ports and the local authorities managing them to address environmental issues. Most EU ports are small ports often combining shipping, fishing and leisure activities. Despite their small size they have important economic, social and environmental links with their surroundings. Together, the thousands of European local ports have a large cumulative impact. They face e...
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AlcoBinge

Start date: Mar 14, 2009, End date: Mar 28, 2013,

Objectif général :L'alcoolisation chez les jeunes, et notamment le phénomène d’ivresse express dit « binge drinking » est un problème de santé publique présent dans de nombreux pays européens, particulièrement dans le Nord de l'Europe. Il s’agit d’un sujet de recherche prioritaire pour la Commission Européenne. Le projet ALCOBINGE a pour but de faire progresser l’état des connaissances sur les ivr...
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WASTE IN ACTION (AGISSONS AUTOUR DES DECHETS)

Start date: Nov 30, 2007, End date: May 30, 2011,

Objectif général :Le projet « Agissons autour des déchets » vise à développer des actions durables favorisant une optimisation de la gestion des déchets et une meilleure protection de l’environnement. Ce partenariat transfrontalier et multi-secteurs, entre la France et l’Angleterre, est développé par des intervenants disposant d’approches et d’expériences différentes en ce qui concerne la gestion ...
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SIGNALL III - Working with the Deaf Community

Deaf people continue encounter barriers to education, employment and access to the provision of goods and services. It is necessary to understand Deaf culture and equip those working with deaf people with necessary education,training and qualifications so that they are better skilled in bridging (at least) a communication gap as well as being able to better under Deaf people’s needs. The education...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

The project consisted of student study mobility, student placement mobility, staff training mobility and teaching mobility. Sussex has been participating in the Erasmus programme since its inception in the 1980s. It has been a valuable framework within which to create and manage our study abroad programme: developing institutional partnerships for student and teacher mobility and fostering relati...
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Lower ability maths teaching

Start date: Oct 10, 2014, End date: Oct 9, 2015,

'Maths teaching and learning for lower-ability students -the Finnish model' Priory School has a need to develop more effective ways of teaching compulsory subjects, especially Maths. Maths teaching at the middle and top end of the ability scale is successful and realises very strong results. However, more creative, innovative teaching is required lower down the ability range in order to secure hi...
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EBBD BRiDGES 2

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

As a VET college with a focus on business located in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region with global players such as BASF, SAP and IBM an international orientation is essential for a distinctive profile of our college. It also gives us a competitive edge compared to upper secondary education in colleges providing general education. Continuation in creating this international profile is crucial. ...
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Europakaufmann und European Business Baccalaureate Diploma

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

As a VET college with a focus on business located in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region with global players such as BASF, SAP and IBM an international orientation is essential for a distinctive profile of our college. It also gives us a competitive edge compared to upper secondary education in colleges providing general education. Continuation in creating this international profile is crucial. H...
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Computational Modelling and Analysis of Automotive Vehicle Body Noise and Vibration (COMVEBONOV)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

"This Marie Curie IAPP involves two partners – the University of Sussex UK, and CDH AG, a German SME employing around 30 people, supplying high-quality computer-aided engineering to the global automotive industry. A 4-year project is proposed involving secondments of both early-stage and experienced researchers. The proposed topic of research is on the probabilistic modelling and analysis of uncer...
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Electroweak Baryogenesis in the Era of the LHC (EWBGandLHC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) constitutes a milestone in a major work programme to test the Standard Model and search for new physics, in order to obtain a global picture of electroweak symmetry breaking and its possible connections to open questions in particle cosmology. A key question relating the high-energy, precision and cosmic frontiers in partic...
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The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa, 1880 - present (DIRTPOL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Dirt permeates everyday life in urban Africa, but it is more than an empirical substance: dirt is also an idea—or a complex set of representations—that shapes local perceptions of sexuality and the body, and influences people’s attitudes towards waste, recycling, urbanisation, ethnicity and migration. Dirt is a vital category for understanding urban cultures in Africa, and it has a history that ha...
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Searching for the remaining unknown neutrino oscillation parameters using the NOvA long baseline experiment (NEUTRINOSNOVA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"The following proposal presents a comprehensive research programme based at the University of Sussex, UK on the NOνA long baseline neutrino experiment. This work addresses major questions in particle physics that are at the forefront of experimental and theoretical physics research today. The specific objectives are: the discovery of electron anti-neutrino appearance in a muon anti-neutrino beam;...
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Do nutritionally poor environments promote sociality? Testing a long-standing hypothesis in two socially plastic insect groups (INSSOCPLAS)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"Why individuals cooperate is an evolutionary puzzle. One longstandingtheory is that nutritionally poor environments reduce individuals’chances of breeding independently, forcing cooperation with otherindividuals. The proposed project will focus on testing this in thefield, using socially plastic species - insects that can be social orsolitary: Acacia thrips (Thysanoptera) and Halictine bees(Hyme...
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Asian Regional Capacity Development for Research on Social Determinants of Health (ARCADE RSDH)

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

"This project will add new research training capacity at low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, for promoting research on social determinants of health (RSDH). The focus is doctoral and post doctoral training, institutional strengthening for education, financial and administrative research management, and LMICs-based network building. Novel capacity building approaches will reduce brain ...
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African Regional Capacity Development for Health Systems and Services Research (ARCADE HSSR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

This project will add new research training capacity at Sub Saharan African (SSA) universities, for health systems and services strengthening. The focus is doctoral and post doctoral training, institutional strengthening for education, financial and administrative research management, and South-South network building. Novel capacity building approaches will reduce brain-drain, be more climate frie...
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Towards the investigation of the nature of neutrinos with SNO+ (NeutrinosSNOPlus)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

SNO+ is a high potential, multi-faceted neutrino experiment consisting of a kiloton liquid scintillator detector surveyed by about 10,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Its main goal is the determination of the nature of the neutrino, Dirac or Majorana, via the search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 150Nd. This is recognized to be one of the most important current topics in particle physics b...
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Secondary movements of Somalis within Europe (Secondary Movements)

Start date: Feb 15, 2008, End date: Feb 14, 2010,

"This research project will examine the recent phenomenon of secondary movements from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom among a differentiated group of Somali refugees and (rejected) asylum seekers. Researching the various reasons legal as well as illegal Somalis may have for this specific secondary movement will tell us something about contemporary asylum migration in Europe. The different m...
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SHARING A GENOME: CASTE ANTAGONISM AND COADAPTATION IN SOCIAL INSECTS (CASTECON)

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

Eusociality, in which workers sacrifice their own reproduction to rear the offspring of queens, is a major focus of interest in evolutionary biology. A key aim during recent decades has been to understand the conflicts of interest within eusocial groups. In contrast, however, little is known about the underlying genetic architecture. In this proposal, we will use a mixture of field experiments and...
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Women travelling to seek abortion care in Europe: the impact of barriers to legal abortion on women living in countries with ostensibly liberal abortion laws (BAR2LEGAB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

In many European countries with ostensibly liberal abortion laws, women face legal restrictions to abortion beyond the first trimester of pregnancy, as well as other barriers to legal abortion, in particular shortages of providers willing and able to offer abortion due to poor training and to conscientious objection among physicians. The Council of Europe has recognized that conscientious objectio...
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Defective DNA Damage Responses in Dominant Neurodegenerative Diseases (SIDSCA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

DNA single-strand breaks (SSBs) are the most frequent DNA lesions arising in cells and are a major threat to cell survival and genome integrity, as indicated by the elevated genetic deletion, embryonic lethality, or neurological disease observed if single-strand break repair (SSBR) is attenuated. In particular, SSBR defects are associated with hereditary neurodegeneration in humans, as illustrated...
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Zebrafish vision in its natural context: from natural scenes through retinal and central processing to behaviour. (NeuroVisEco)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2021,

All visual systems are specialised to best serve an animal’s sensory niche, yet how such specialisations are achieved through phylogenetic and developmental adaptations of the ‘common vertebrate visual system blueprint’ are poorly understood. I will study these adaptations in the visual system of zebrafish. I will use two-photon functional imaging and computational modelling to investigate how the...
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Genetic and Small Molecule Modifiers of Lysosomal Function (LysoMod)

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

LysoMod will innovate in the area of personalized medicine for disorders linked to lysosomal dysfunction. This will be achieved by implementing a collaborative staff-exchange program between highly complementary and multidisciplinary academic and non-academic partners with expertise in pharmacology, medicinal chemistry, cell biology, biochemistry, mouse and human genetics, transcriptomics, proteom...
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Levitation with localised tactile and audio feedback for mid-air interactions (Levitate)

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

"This project will be the first to create, prototype and evaluate a radically new human-computer interaction paradigm that empowers the unadorned user to reach into levitating matter, see it, feel it, manipulate it and hear it. Our users can interact with the system in a walk-up-and-use manner without any user instrumentation.As we are moving away from keyboards and mice to touch and touchless int...
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Innovation pathways, strategies and policies for the Low-Carbon Transition in Europe (INNOPATHS)

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

The Paris Agreement substantially increased the need for countries and regions to understand the full economic, social and environmental implications of the deep decarbonisation to which the global community is now committed. The EU has long had decarbonisation ambitions, but there remains considerable uncertainty as to precisely how these ambitions will be achieved, or what the impacts of such ac...
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Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International City (TRODITIES)

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

Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International CityYiwu, a city of 2 million in China’s commercially vibrant Zheijang province, is known by traders from countries including Afghanistan and Syria, the Ukraine and Mexico, and the UK and Russia, as being the world’s hub for wholesale of ‘small commodities’. Journalists have recently been struck both by Yiwu’s significance to consu...
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge (SOGICA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

This project will generate the first ever theoretically and empirically-grounded comparative and comprehensive picture of the status and legal experiences of asylum-seekers across Europe claiming international protection on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI), and determine how the European asylum systems can treat more fairly asylum claims based on the claimant’s SOGI....
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Evaluating mHealth technology in HIV to improve Empowerment and healthcare utilisation: Research and innovation to Generate Evidence for personalised care (EmERGE)

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

EmERGE will develop a mHealth platform to enable self-management of HIV in patients with stable disease. The platform will build upon and integrate the existing mHealth solutions operated by pioneering healthcare providers in the UK and Spain and apply a rigorous co-design approach to ensure patient and clinician input to the solution. The platform will provide users with web based and mobile devi...
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Sensory Experiences for Interactive Technologies (SenseX)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

The senses we call upon to interact with technology are still very limited relying mostly on visual and auditory senses. The grand challenge and vision of this project is to gain a rich and integrated understanding on touch, taste, and smell experiences for interactive technologies.We aim to achieve this ambitious grand vision by 1) creating a ‘sensory interaction framework’ on the bases of a syst...
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Systems Biology of Alcohol Addiction: Modeling and validating disease state networks in human and animal brains for understanding pathophysiolgy, predicting outcomes and improving therapy (SyBil-AA)

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

Alcohol addiction ranks among the primary global causes of preventable death and disabilities in human population, but treatment options are very limited. Rational strategies for design and development of novel, evidence based therapies for alcohol addiction are still missing. Within this project, we will utilize a translational approach based on clinical studies and animal experiments to fill thi...
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In the eye of the observer: Visual processing at the heart of the retina (switchBoard)

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

All visual information is broadcasted by an intra-retinal pathway formed by a group of neurons called bipolar cells. They collect photoreceptor signals in the outer retina and relay the signals to the inner retinal neurons. This transfer of visual information is far from passive: Each of the at least 10 bipolar cell types transforms the photoreceptor signals in a unique and highly specific way. As...
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Modelling and Computation of Shocks and Interfaces (ModCompShock)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

"The proposed ITN entitled "Modelling and computation of Shocks and Interfaces" will focus on the training of young researchers in the general area of nonlinear hyperbolic and convection dominated PDEs with emphasis on innovative modelling and computational methods.The research program of the proposed ITN is centered on an important field (in terms of both history and scope), that is placed at th...
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Efficacy and safety of low-dose IL-2 (ld-IL-2) as a Treg enhancer for anti-neuroinflammatory therapy in newly diagnosed Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients (MIROCALS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal degenerative disorder of the brain and spinal cord affecting some 40,000 individuals in Europe, causing 11,000 deaths each year. Our pioneering work on riluzole showed that it is possible to modify ALS progression but all subsequent trials of potential neuroprotective agents have failed. Thus, drug development in ALS, including trial design, patient s...
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Healing from Enclosure: A Political Agroecology of a Science-and-Society Potato Controversy in Belgium (HealingFromEnclosure)

Start date: Sep 1, 2017, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Against the background of the ongoing crisis of the world’s food systems, this research project investigates how agricultural knowledge shapes, and is shaped by, its broader cultural, economic, socio-technical and socio-ecological context. A transdisciplinary approach –theoretically and empirically explorative, methodologically innovative, and action-oriented—to the production, transmission and ap...
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Precision Cosmological Parameters (CosmoPars)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Proposal summary (half page, possibly copy/paste abstract from the administrative form A1)Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) allow us to see 98% of the way to the big bang, back to a time when the Universe was only a few hundred thousand years old. Other forthcoming data will probe the more local universe in great detail. To test different possible universe models we need accura...
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Graphene-based nanomaterials for touchscreen technologies: Comprehension, Commerce and Communication (Enabling Excellence)

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

“Enabling Excellence” offers integral R&D training at PhD level around one of the most active and exciting topics at the forefront of nanoscience and nanotechnology, graphene-based nanostructures and materials. We propose a training experience built on three interrelated pillars, namely COMPREHENSION AND CONTROL, COMMERCE, and COMMUNICATION.*Comprehension & Control* covers fundamental knowledge of...
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Connectors – an international study into the development of children’s everyday practices of participation in circuits of social action (CONNECTORS)

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

Participation – defined in this project as the social practice of engaging in personal and social change – links private and public life, biography and history, and forms a mechanism for social action. Twenty years after the ratification of the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child (1989) the international community is no closer to identifying what constitutes a ‘good enough’ model...
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Fast transformation between episodic and semantic memories: Interactions between the hippocampal formation and related regions and their breakdown in Alzheimer’s disease (TRANSMEM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"Our memories define who we are and allow us to live independently. Conscious memory is commonly split into two components; “episodic memory” for events that are specific in time and place, and “semantic memory” for our conceptual knowledge about the world. The acquisition of both episodic and semantic memories depends upon the hippocampal formation (HF) and its interactions with other brain regio...
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Research Training Network on Integrated Component Cycling in Epithelial Cell Motility (InCeM)

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

Cell migration (cell motility) is a fundamental biological process that is pivotal in (i) tissue formation and repair (health) and (ii) tissue invasion during carcinogenesis (disease). Understanding and controlling cell migration will have major clinical impact. Clarifying mechanisms driving cell motility has been challenging due to the complex underlying cellular mechanisms; these involve multipl...
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Dobutamine for NEOnatal CIRCulatory failure defined by novel biomarkers (NEO-CIRC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Dobutamine and adrenaline are widely used as second line therapy for systemic hypotension in infants. Dopamine is currently the most widely used first line drug. In neonates, sustained hypotension may, and impaired organ perfusion will, cause brain injury and poor neurodevelopmental outcomes. All three catecholamines are currently used off-label and have different modes of action which may result ...
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