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Comorbid Conditions of Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (CoCA)

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

Understanding mechanisms underlying comorbid disorders poses a challenge for developing precision medicine tools. Psychiatric disorders are highly comorbid, and are among the last areas of medicine, where classification is driven by phenomenology rather than pathophysiology. We will study comorbidity between the most frequent psychiatric conditions, ADHD, mood/anxiety, and substance use disorders,...
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Lifecourse biological pathways underlying social differences in healthy ageing (LIFEPATH)

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

"The dramatic differentials in healthy ageing, quality of life and life expectancy between individuals of different socioeconomic groups, is a major societal challenge facing Europe. The overarching aim of the LIFEPATH project is to understand the determinants of diverging ageing pathways among individuals belonging to different socio-economic groups. This will be achieved via an original study de...
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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Translational Research In Conduct Syndromes (MATRICS)

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

Conduct Disorder (CD) is the key paediatric disorder characterized by severe aggression. It is heterogeneous, and our understanding of the neurobiology to subtype aggression is limited. MATRICS is a multidisciplinary consortium of academic partners and SMEs that focuses on the subtyping of aggression both within CD and of the broader cross-disorder trait of aggression. MATRICS will test the hypoth...
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Heart OMics in AGEing (HOMAGE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

As more people survive into old age, the prevalence of heart failure (HF), one of the most common and debilitating diseases in older people, will rise still further. Delaying or preventing HF will have great benefit to those at personal risk, their families, society and the economy. HOMAGE aims to provide a biomarker (BM) approach that will a) help identify i. patients at high risk of developing ...
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Aggression subtyping for improved insight and treatment innovation in psychiatric disorders (AGGRESSOTYPE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

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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MicroRNAs in the Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention of Epilepsy (EPIMIRNA)

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

Epilepsy is a major burden for patients and health systems worldwide. It is a common chronic neurological disorder affecting people of all ages, and the shortfall in existing treatments means that 30% of patients continue to suffer uncontrolled seizures. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are a recently-discovered, network-level layer of gene expression regulation that controls protein levels of entire signaling p...
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Rud videregående Mobilitet 2016

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

After the first year of Erasmus+ funds there has been much positive development within the skin care (HO) subject area for all involved. Students on the exchange program have now acquired, for example, the ability to use digital tools in new situations. We also see increased levels of self-confidence, and the students say they have a better understanding of the English language, not least because ...
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European Mobility for Teachers in Akershus (EMTA)

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

The background for this project is an initiative in Akershus called "Den gode akershusskolen (Dga)". In brief Dga is about improving students' skills through a professionalisation of all levels of upper secondary education in Akershus. One of the main intitiatives is the "professionalisation of teachers' through incorporating common core competencies and common attitudes in the upper secondary sch...
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European Consortium for Communicating Stem Cell Research (EuroStemCell)

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

The European Consortium for Communicating Stem Cell Research (EuroStemCell) unites 33 partner institutions, that collectively represent >400 stem cell research groupings across Europe. Our common goal is to provide trusted high quality information on stem cells accessible to citizens and stakeholders across Europe, through support and further development of the multi-lingual European Stem Cell Inf...
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Decoding Domesticate DNA in Archaeological Bone and Manuscripts (CodeX)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Through animal domestication humans profoundly altered their relationship with nature, controlling the breeding of their major food sources for material, social or symbolic profit. Understanding this complex process is a compelling research aim. There is a need to develop new high-resolution genetic tools to put flesh on the bones of this two-millenium long transition. These will take advantage...
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Rud mobilitetsprosjekt 2015

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

Rud High School is abbreviated as RVG and York College as YC. During this first year with Erasmus+ funds there has taken place a fundamental development for both students and teachers who have been involved in the project. The students have increased their worth in the job market and we wish therefore to expand our cooperation to include Electricity and Electronics studies in addition to Healthcar...
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Fostering Human Rights Among European (external and internal) Policies (FRAME)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

FRAME, a 4-year multidisciplinary project, represents a consortium of 19 internationally recognized and globally networked human rights institutes from across Europe and strategic regions around the world. Through FRAME, more than 100 leading researchers and practitioners - with a strong gender balance - aim to provide the necessary building blocks for a coherent EU human rights policy comprised ...
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Rud mobilitetsprosjekt

Start date: Aug 15, 2014, End date: Aug 14, 2016,

Background To improve and develop the field of skin care at Rud High School, we have wanted to find a partner school outside of Norway. York College seemed as a natural choice, as they already successfully work with other Norwegian schools and have the necessary expertise to satisfy the requirements of the Norwegian authorities. We believe that studying at a foreign school with different methods,...
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Go further Reach higher

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

Go Further Reach Higher is a VET mobility project aimed at targeting 90 trainees with fewer opportunities and 32 staff who work with them being sent by five diverse UK vocational institutions, a mixture of academies, colleges and training organisations. Trainees will undertake a two week traineeship in either animal management studies or wood occupations. Trainees and staff working in the field of...
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"We are what we eat" Nutrition and Care - A Mediterranean Approach to Improve Health

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

Demographics in York and North Yorkshire have been changing over the last decade and this trend is continuing thus posing a number of challenges in providing Health and Wellbeing for the citizen of the city and county. This is as a result of influx of European immigrants (and change in age demographic of the inhabitant) to fill vacancies created by the need and demands for jobs in the local labour...
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Developing International Business, Hospitality & Travel VET in York & North Yorkshire

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

York College is the main provider of Vocational Education Training in York and North Yorkshire, Business Finance. Hospitality & Tourism form the major economy for York and its surroundings and there is a large demand for skilled workforce to meet the needs of local SMEs. York College was involved is setting up a new International Hospitality and Tourism Academy in partnership with the City of York...
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Investigating Speech Processing in Realistic Environments (INSPIRE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

In everyday life, people listen to speech under a wide range of conditions that are “non-optimal” relative to the controlled conditions in laboratory experiments. Classical research methods can only deal with the effects of individual “adverse” conditions. This has contributed to the fragmentation of speech communication research in numerous sub-disciplines that have little interaction. While each...
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"From the earliest modern humans to the onset of farming (45,000-4,500 BP): the role of climate, life-style, health, migration and selection in shaping European population history" (ADNABIOARC)

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

"The colonisation of Europe by anatomically modern humans (AMHs) ca. 45,000 years before present (BP) and the transition to farming ca. 8,000 BP are two major events in human prehistory. Both events involved certain cultural and biological adaptations, technological innovations, and behavioural plasticity which are unique to our species. The reconstruction of these processes and the causality betw...
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Postgraduate Research on Photonics as an Enabling Technology (PROPHET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"Photonics is an important enabling technology for a wide range of applications in diverse areas. The photonics industry in Europe accounted for revenues of €49 billion in 2006, and is expected to soon exceed that of microelectronics. In the training network proposed here, a cohort of 14 early stage researchers and 5 young experienced researchers will be trained in the full gamut of skills require...
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Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe (EMBRACE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

In an interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative context, emBRACE aims to improve the framing of resilience in the context of disasters in Europe. It will develop a conceptual and methodological approach to clarify how the resilience capacity of a society confronted with natural hazards and disasters can be characterized, defined and measured. On the basis of a systematic evaluation o...
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Combined Highly Active Anti-retroviral Microbicides (CHAARM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

This proposal is for a large scale collaborative project in which we propose both to develop novel microbicides directed against new intracellular targets and to investigate novel combinations of highly active anti-retroviral drugs which may be particularly effective as microbicides. Combinations may enhance efficacy but equally importantly will increase the genetic barrier to the development of r...
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Building a global multidisciplinary digital governance and policy modelling research and practice community (eGovPoliNet)

Start date: Aug 15, 2011, End date: Feb 15, 2015,

eGovPoliNet sets up an international community in ICT solutions for governance and policy modelling. The international community of researchers and practitioners will share and advance research and insights from practical cases around the world. To achieve this, eGovPoliNet will build on experiences accumulated by leading actors bringing together the innovative knowledge of the field. Capabilities...
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Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity: mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa (HEALTHY FUTURES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The HEALTHY FUTURES project is motivated by concern for the health impacts of environmental changes. HEATHLY FUTURES aims to respond to this concern through construction of a disease risk mapping system for three water-related high-impact VBDs (malaria, Rift valley fever and schistosomiasis) in Africa, accounting for environmental/climatic trends and changes in socio-economic conditions to predic...
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Optimizing delivery of health care interventions (ODHIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

ODHIN is a Europe wide project involving research institutions from nine European countries that will help to optimize the delivery of health care interventions by understanding how better to translate the results of clinical research into every day practice. ODHIN will use the implementation of identification and brief intervention (IBI) programmes for hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption (H...
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On the reduction of health effects from combined exposure to indoor air pollutants in modern offices (OFFICAIR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"Modern offices usually have several sorts of electronic equipment and other dominant heat sources indoors, making them almost unaffected by local climatic conditions. Air conditioning and mechanical ventilation coupled with the often excessive levels of artificial lighting, require high levels of energy. At the European Union (EU) level, the Directive 91/2002, (EPBD), is a major step towards rati...
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Synthesis of Systematic Resources (SYNTHESYS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

SYNTHESYS IA will aid in the evolution of a European resource through the creation an accessible, integrated infrastructure for researchers in the natural sciences in Europe and globally. By focusing the JRA on DNA extraction, SYNTHESYS IA will increase the opportunities for Users to exploit a largely untapped facet of the 337 million strong collections. Users will be able to play an active role ...
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Alcohol Measures for Public Health Research Alliance (AMPHORA) (AMPHORA)

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

"AMPHORA is a Europe wide project involving researches and research institutions from 14 European countries, and counterparts and organizations from all 27 Member States, that will provide new scientific evidence for the best public health measures to reduce the harm done by alcohol through addressing social and cultural determinants, marketing and advertising, taxes and pricing, availability and ...
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Lactase persistence and the Cultural History of Europe (LeCHE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The ideal training for future researchers in Europe, draws together leading groups in the world, state-of-the-art methods and a clearly focused, important and emotive questions with widespread repercussions, and integrates them using sophisticated tools and training devices; welcome to LeCHE. This large (14 researcher, 24 participant) training network explores the origin and impact of dairying Eur...
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Regenerative medicine in Europe: emerging needs and challenges in a global context (REMEDiE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

The globalization of regenerative medicine is gathering pace yet has not been examined with respect to its medium and long term implications for European regulators, the corporate sector or patients located within different member states. Over the coming years it is hypothesised that the global pace of change in this field will be extensive and this needs to be both tracked and assessed for health...
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Preparing for the construction of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (PREPARINGDARIAH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

The grand vision for the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) is to facilitate access to research material for the humanities and for supporting the preservation of digital heritage material in Europe. DARIAH connects information users (researchers), information managers and information providers. It gives them a technical framework that enables enhanced data sharin...
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A specific support action to investigate the risk benefit analysis for foods (BRAFO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2007, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The aim is to develop a framework that allows quantitative comparison of human health risks and benefits of foods and food compounds based on a common scale of measurement. This will be based on the evaluation of changes in the quality/duration of life using a system that allows weighting of data quality and severity of effect, with quantification by QALY or DALY-like methodology. The framework wi...
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Integration of Self-management and Paliation: Implications for Health policy and nursing education

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

The nursing experts from two European Union (EU) institutions and two United States (US) institutions and associated networks will reassess traditional approaches to the self-management of chronic ill-health, including palliative care, education and practice standards, across the continuum of patient care, in the age range aged 40 through 100. Research and key policy documents will be examined fo...
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EHEMATim@ge – Création d’un dispositif multilingue de formation continue interactive basé sur le e-learning destiné aux professionnels en charge des examens hématologiques de base dans les laboratoires de biologie

The project addresses the medical sector and intends to develop a multilingual e-learning tool for the medical staff in charge of doing laboratory blood examinations. Main target groups are the laboratory staff, biologists and technicians, and the training organisations. In three phases, a platform and content for the training of basic haematology in several languages (EN, NL, DE, PL, IT, ES, PT, ...
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FENICIA: The Future of Mainstream Education through New Instruments for Distance/Distributed Learning

The ´Fenicia´ project will develop an alternative to traditional face-to-face approaches in vocational training in Commercial Management and Marketing, while maintaining the officially recognised character of the resulting qualification. The goal of this project is to provide an adequate response to current special training requirements for small businesses. The experience of different partners sh...
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CARIBU-Cooperation with ACP countries in Regional and International Bridging of Universities

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

The CARIBU consortium consist of 8 EU and 12 non EU HEIs partners of which the general management is shared between the coordinator Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the joint coordinator Jimma University (JU) in Ethiopia. The composition of this consortium takes into account the geographical distribution, teaching languages, study fields, experience as well as types of university (public, priv...
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