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ANTIcipating the Global Onset of Novel Epidemics (ANTIGONE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

In recent years, an increased number of zoonotic viruses and bacteria have crossed the species barrier to humans and caused or threatened to cause human pandemics with high morbidity and mortality. Because of our inability to predict the emergence of these pathogens, it is difficult to take preventive measures. It is known that zoonotic pathogens need to cross barriers at the animal-human interfac ...
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A BLUEPRINT of Haematopoietic Epigenomes (BLUEPRINT)

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

In response to the call for a high impact initiative on the human epigenome, the BLUEPRINT Consortium has been formed with the aim of generating at least 100 reference epigenomes and studying them to advance and exploit knowledge of the underlying biological processes and mechanisms in health and disease. BLUEPRINT will focus on distinct types of haematopoietic cells from healthy individuals and o ...
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BEAN – Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic: Demography, Migration, and Lifestyle at the Advent of Civilization (BEAN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

One of the most interesting questions in prehistory is that of the origins of European peoples following the introduction of settled farming life to the continent some 8,000 years ago. The interdisciplinary BEAN network will address this by combining teaching and research in three different fields: i) Anthropology and genetics, ii) computer simulation and modelling, and iii) prehistoric archaeolog ...
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Towards new Brain-Machine Interfaces: state-dependent information coding (SI-CODE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Brain Machine Interfaces (BMIs) are devices mediating communication between a brain and the external world, and hold the potential for a) restoring motor or sensory functions to people who lost them due to illness or injury, and b) understanding neural information processing through controlled interactions between neurons and external devices. However, the success of BMIs is hampered by the proble ...
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Data without Boundaries (DWB)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

While access to anonymised official microdata for researchers is still uneven both at national and at European level, access to highly detailed and sensitive microdata is now increasingly on the agenda. Different member states have substantially different outcomes for research access to Official data, and the issue is not just efficiency, but real harm to the contribution of the social sciences to ...
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Grasping the Links in the Chain: Understanding the Unintended Consequences of International Counter-Narcotics Measures for the EU (LINKSCH)

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

Since the end of the Cold War there has been an explosion in the international drugs market and a consequent general desire to review and reform the existing international control regime. Academic understanding of the role of the drugs market in the international economy has increased, but the cumulative impact of counter-narcotics measures in transit chain countries between source and market rema ...
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Training young Adult's Regulation of emotions and Development of social Interaction Skills (TARDIS)

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

The number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) is increasing across Europe. Current research reveals that NEETs often lack self-confidence and the essential social skills needed to seek and secure employment. Youth inclusion associations across Europe provide social coaching programmes, in order to help young people acquire and improve their social competencies. Howeve ...
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Incorporating Laughter into Human-Avatar Interactions: Research and Evaluation (ILHAIRE)

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

Laughter is a significant feature of human communication, and machines acting in roles like companions or tutors should not be blind to it. So far very limited progress has been made towards allowing computer-based applications to deal with laughter.ILHAIRE will lay the foundations of truly multimodal, multicultural laughter-enabled man-machine interaction, by associating experts of the different ...
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Vanquishing fear and apathy through E-inclusion: \nPersonalised and populated Realistic Virtual Environments for clinical, home and mobile platforms (VERVE)

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

Description The project will develop ICT tools to support the treatment of people who are at risk of social exclusion due to fear and/or apathy associated with a disability. These tools will be in the form of personalised Virtual Reality (VR) scenarios and serious games specifically designed for therapeutic targets and made broadly available ...
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Neural mechanisms of vocal learning: role of the basal ganglia (NMVLRBG)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"Motor skills are acquired through sensorimotor learning and can be executed without awareness. Experimental evidence suggests that the acquisition and execution of motor skills rely on multiple neural networks. On one hand, the basal ganglia (BG) are necessary for the acquisition of a motor skill through sensorimotor learning, but not for its execution later on. On the other hand, premotor networ ...
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Urban Chances: City growth and the sustainability challenge; Comparing fast growing cities in growing economies (CHANCE2SUSTAIN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

In this programme we want to examine how governments and citizens in cities with differing patterns of urban economic growth make use of participatory(or integrated) spatial knowledge management to direct urban governance towards more sustainable development (SD). Participatory spatial knowledge management is the main concept we use to study this issue, as it reflects a strategic resource, which a ...
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The Innovation Society, Sustainability, and ICT (INSITE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

Our society is organized around a positive feedback dynamic that produces innovation cascades. In these cascades, new artifacts are inextricably linked with transformations in social organization and the generation of new "needs" for individual and society. Besides desired effects, these cascades produce disruptive changes in the environment and in society itself, ultimately leading to sustainabi ...
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cerebellar molecular layer Interneuron network imaging in awake animal (Interneuron Network)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Molecular layer interneurons form an interconnected network in the cerebellar cortex that controls the activity of Purkinje cells. Even though much is known about the properties of these interneurons in isolated preparations, their activity pattern in vivo remains largely unknown. The present project proposes to investigate the functional status of the interneurons in awake, head-restrained mice, ...
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Combining holographic optogenetics and STED microscopy for studying synaptic plasticity in Alzheimer ’s disease (HOLOSTED)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"New perspectives are opening in neuroscience: the era of electricity is transitioning into the era of light. Super-resolution microscopy was elected “Method of the year 2008” and optogenetics “Method of the year 2010” by the Journal Nature Methods.HOLOSTED is a biophysics project using these modern optical methods to study the effects of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) on synaptic plasticity. It has two ...
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Learning Greek in the Renaissance: Marcus Musurus, philologist, editor of Greek texts and teacher (Musurus)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The ancient texts transmitted by the humanists of the Renaissance are the direct source of our cultural heritage. It is therefore important to understand how humanists have worked to establish a continuous link between antiquity and our time and to enter the duration in the originality of our own thinking. In this perspective the case of Marcus Musurus offers an investigation particularly favorabl ...
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Revealing the response of the coral and its endosymbiotic algae to climate changes by molecular techniques (CoralClimRespons)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Tropical coral reefs shelter a high rate of marine biodiversity and provide a sizeable amount of ecological services. These ecosystems of interest face tremendous and pervasive challenges from human demography sky-rockets and inherent development pressures, as well as climate change and associated sea level rise. Prospects of coral reefs conservation, critically inevitable, will achieve through th ...
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Vascular niche and tumor microenvironment (vntme-GAVARD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

Cancer progression is a complex process where cells acquire aberrant proliferative, survival and migratory properties, as well as the ability to trigger the formation of a dedicated tumour blood supply. There is now compelling evidence that the bulk of the malignant cells in cancers contained a rare fraction of self-renewing, multi-potent, and tumour-initiating cells, termed stem-like cancer cells ...
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A closed-loop neural prosthesis for dizziness suppression (CLONS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The main goal of the CLONS project is to develop suitable technological solutions to increase the quality of life of people affected by vestibular disorders. Toward this aim, an innovative closed-loop sensory neural prosthesis will be developed and tested in animal models and in selected humans. This neural prosthesis will be able to restore vestibular information by stimulating the semicircular c ...
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Tools and Expertise for 3D Collection Formation (3D-COFORM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Description New tools for the digitisation of cultural heritage artefacts will result in richer and more realistic representations, better documentation and higher cost effectiveness of digitisationThe project addresses all aspects of 3D-capture, 3D-processing, the semantics of shape, material properties, metadata and provenance, integrat ...
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"Globalization, Investment, and Services Trade" (GIST)

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

"Services are currently of great interest and importance to both policy-makers and businesses in Europe, and are a major factor in maintaining European growth and competitiveness over the coming decades. Previously, data relating to the interactions between trade flows, regulatory regimes and the European political economy has been inconsistent and fragmented. Now, thanks to the efforts of the EC, ...
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EUROPEAN UNION & THE WORLD SEEN FROM ABROAD (EUROBROADMAP)

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

Geographers are the most critical social scientists when it comes to the delimitation of borders of the so-called European continent. Continents as Huntington’s civilisation are ideological productions that are certainly not based on natural facts. But they are deeply enhanced in the mind of European citizens and policy makers because they were historically produced by Europeans as a tool of world ...
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Molecular coding and subset specification of dopamine neurons generating the the meso-limbic and nigro-striatal system (mdDANEURODEV)

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

This project aims to elucidate the molecular coding of meso-diencephalic dopaminergic (mdDA) neurons forming the complex meso-limbic and nigro-striatal dopaminergic system in the vertebrate central nervous system. Recent advances in molecular and developmental biology have shown that this system harbors u multitude of functional units that are defined by spatial and temporal cues and are represen ...
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Stimulating and facilitating the participation of European researchers in Korean R&D programmes (KORRIDOR)

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

"Korea is one of the global leaders in Science and Technology, one of the most important RTD partners of Europe with well established legal frameworks for cooperation. At the same time, the level of public awareness of cooperative opportunities for European researchers in Korean RTD and Innovation Programmes (directly foreseen by the EU-Korea Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement) is still ...
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Migrant workers across European Labour markets. Mobility, citizenship and urban resources in the pre-industrial cities - XVIth-XVIIIth century (MigrantWorkEuroLab)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

The project focus on mobility related to one of the central element of every society: labour market. One of the reasons more frequently adduced at the base of the choice of emigrate is the research of a job. Many scholars have analysed migratory chains and professional specializations of ethnic groups , stressing as immigrants communities were able to conquer relevant places on the labour market. ...
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Diagram Based Reasoning (DBR)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2010,

"Diagrams are massively used in many reasoning processes and in the very practice of science; however, there is in general no consensus about the reasons why a diagram can be successfully used, and whether it represents only an auxiliary aid for reasoning or is something more fundamental for it. The aim of the present project is the in depth investigation into the capacity of diagrams to convey i ...
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (STACHEM)

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

"The Eastern Mediterranean is one of the world’s richest areas in terms of archaeological remains, and cultural heritage in general; it has yielded an extraordinary variety of finds spanning all aspects of human activity. However, due to the scarcity of scientific and technological resources in the region, the analysis of these finds has occurred largely in research institutions far removed from t ...
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