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Development of MODELICA Libraries for ECS and Thermal management architectures (MALET)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The goal of this project is the development of Modelica libraries (Dymola compatible) to simulate Electrical Environmental Control System (E-ECS) architectures including thermal management perimeter. The efforts will be focused on developing an optimized model to simulate vapour cycle systems (VCS) and liquid loop systems at both steady state and transient operational conditions. In addition, an a ...
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Humidity Optimisation Tool (HOT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"Humidity Optimisation Tool:Outside humidity treatment is a main contributor to aircraft ECS (environmental control system) power requirements. To reduce this power it is needed to know exactly the not to exceed outlet humidity at the pack outlet. Liquid water at Low Pressure ducting participates to cabin cooling but, if this quantity is too high, a fog can be seen.The purpose of the “Humidity Opt ...
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Photosynthesis in PHYTOplankton Mixtures to Investigate Community Structuration. (PhotoPHYTOMICS)

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

...physiological responses from each microalga species within mixtures, which prevail in the Ocean. I recently developed an innovative approach based on a physical phenomenon, the Electro-Chromic Shift (ECS) of the photosynthetic pigments, to extract the photosynthetic responses of each species within an assembly. Photosynthesis is an ideal probe, i.e., a gateway to investigate both biotic interactio ...
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Interspecies endotheliarization for organ xenotransplantation (INTEREXT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Apr 12, 2016,

...he xenotransplantation of animals’ organs has been proposed. Unfortunately, despite the big effort of the last decades, organs are severely rejected upon xenotransplantation, the endothelial cells (ECs) playing a fundamental role in this process. ECs are the first target of the immune system reactions; moreover molecular incompatibilities between host’s coagulation system and the exogenous ECs enh ...
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From extracellular matrix rigidity to vascular aging (STIFFMATRIXVASC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...t is now well established that arterial stiffening significantly contributes to cardiovascular disease (CVD) development. Recent studies have highlighted that ECM stiffness affects endothelial cells (ECs) and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) differentiation, proliferation and motility, suggesting that the cellular response to ECM stiffness may play an important role during the development of a ...
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Massive Open Online courses eNhancing LInguistic and Transversal skills for social inclusion and Employability

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

.... Apart from virtual mobility arrangements among selected universities, partnerships in ICT-supported teaching and consequent recognition of achieved learning outcomes are scarce in European HEIs.The ECs 2013 Communication on Opening up Education states that “In addition to broadening access to education, wider use of new technology and open educational resources can contribute to alleviating cost ...
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REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION (REGTRANS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

"During the first step of gene expression, RNA Polymerase (RNAP) transcribes RNA from a DNA template in every living cell. Crystal structures of RNAP core as well as RNAP elongation complexes (ECs) have revolutionized our understanding of transcription. This groundwork paved the way for more complex questions addressing the regulation of transcription. Because of its fundamental role, transcriptio ...
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Aging Lungs in European Cohorts (ALEC)

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

This programme of work will advance the understanding of the combined effects of factors that cause poor lung function, respiratory disability and the development of COPD . This will be achieved by examination of determinants of lung growth and lung function decline within existing cohorts that cover the whole life course, and which have followed, in detail, the respiratory health status of over 2 ...
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Integrated Components for Complexity Control in affordable electrified cars (3Ccar)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

The 3Ccar project will provide highly integrated ECS Components for Complexity Control in thereby affordable electrified cars. The new semiconductors for Complexity management (Control, reduction) will offer the next level of energy efficiency in transportation systems.3Ccar’s impact is maximizing pragmatic strategy: Use semiconductor technology innovations to manage functionality & complexity inc ...
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Enhanced substrates and GaN pilot lines enabling compact power applications (PowerBase)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The key objective of PowerBase “Enhanced substrates and GaN pilot lines enabling compact power applications” is to ensure the availability of Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) for key markets and for addressing societal challenges, aiming at keeping Europe at the forefront of the technology development, bridging the gap between research and exploitation, creating economic and employment grow ...
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Advanced Distributed Pilot Line for More-than-Moore Technologies (ADMONT)

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

...apabilities like semiconductor process equipment and materials, design technology and smart system integration. The project consortium is organized and working along the value chain for ECS technologies in Europe.
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Developing the economic potential of the territorial assets of the Rhine corridor." (DEMARRAGE)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

...Route as well as its needs. As a result, they developed eleven business concepts which give clear instruction on how to realize a product or a service.- Established a European Certification Standard (ECS). The ECS' goal is to improve the quality of long distance routes by identifying critical deficiencies in the network and motivation decision makers to invest in solutions to the identified proble ...
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Involvement of the endocannabinoid system in posttraumatic stress disorder (CANNASTRESS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...m of the brain plays an important role in the modulation of processes occurring in PSTD and is pointed out as a potential therapeutic target for this neuropsychiatric disorder. The involvement of ECS in the development of PTSD symptoms seems to critically depend on the neuronal population affected. For instance, CB1 on glutamatergic neurons constrain the expression of fear responses, once the aver ...
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Power Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing 4.0 (SemI40)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

...g 4.0” (SemI40) project responds to the urgent need of increasing the competitiveness of the Semiconductor manufacturing industry in Europe through establishing smart, sustainable, and integrated ECS manufacturing. SemI40 will further pave the way for serving highly innovative electronic markets with products powered by microelectronics “Made in Europe”. Positioned as an Innovation Action it is t ...
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Integrin specificity in rigidity sensitive proliferation, activation and directional migration of endothelial cells (ISPADMEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...ive integrin ligands at the nanometer and micrometer length scales, on substrates with tunable viscoelasticity and mechanics. The anticipated effects of integrin engagement and substrate mechanics on ECs will shed light on how the microenvironment affects their proliferation, activation and directional migration, and help correlate these finding with pathological scenarios where blood vessel mecha ...
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Flexible FE/BE Sensor Pilot Line for the Internet of Everything (IoSense)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

...turing in Europe being one of the key drivers for innovation and employment and creator for answers to the challenges of the modern society. Aim of IoSense is to boost the European competitiveness of ECS industries by increasing the pilot production capacity and improving Time-to-Market for innovative microelectronics, accomplished by establishing three fully connected semiconductor pilot lines in ...
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Laser Ignition - A Twinning Collaboration for Frontier Research in Eco-Friendly Fuel-Saving Combustion (LASIG-TWIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...e of LASIG-Twin is to create a networking collaboration between the Romanian National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR) and its Laboratory of Solid-State Quantum Electronics (ECS) and four other high renowned institutes from Germany, the UK and France, providing a unique opportunity for INFLPR and its partners to significantly increase their science excellence and visibili ...
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Fostering Information and Communication Capacity in Promoting European Studies

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

... year on the EU subjects aiming at providing greater visibility to the EU studies;- to publish conference papers in “European Studies” Journal to be distributed for free;- to organise lectures by ECSA-Moldova professors on the EU subjects with high school students for fostering new debating approaches on European integration;- to publish leaflets on the EU subjects to be distributed for free at le ...
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Regeneration and zonation by ZEB2 of Liver Endothelium (REZONABLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

...e damage to the sinusoids that may lead to liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. Formation of new sinusoids is an indispensible step for liver regeneration. Furthermore, liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) produce agents that stimulate hepatocyte proliferation. Time-dependent expression of different proteins in the developing liver is important for sinusoid formation. The host lab found that the tr ...
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Translating fundamental insights in endothelial metabolism: PFKFB3 drug discovery and development (PFKFBLOCK)

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

...nic strategies. In our ERC Advanced research grant (ECMetabolism), we developed an entirely novel anti-angiogenic concept and strategy, based on targeting key metabolic pathways in endothelial cells (ECs), cells lining blood vessels. More in particular, we identified - for the first time - that PFKFB3, a key glycolytic regulator, as a novel and promising target for anti-angiogenic therapy. Our fin ...
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EU spatial policy, REgional Competitiveness and sustAinable development

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

... sensitive to cultural and institutional differences across Europe, and are capable of successful territorial cooperation on spatial development. An integrated joint Masters programme of 2 years (120 ECs) is envisaged as result of this project. The focus of the proposed joint Masters programme is on the international and EU dimension of spatial policy, economic competitiveness and sustainable deve ...
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A New Energy Culture: Sustainability and Territories

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

In line with the EC Europe 2020 strategy objectives of energy sustainability, and with those of social inclusion, growth and innovation of the Education and Training programme, the NECST project aims at developing an alternative educational offer. The approach will be innovative, inclusive, focused on the energy issues and based on the potential offered by the information and communication technol ...
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Dynamic Interactive Perception-action LEarning in Cognitive Systems (DIPLECS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2007, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

The DIPLECS project aims at designing an Artificial Cognitive System architecture that allows for learning and adapting hierarchical perception-action cycles in dynamic and interactive real-world scenarios. The architectural progress will be evaluated within the scenario of a driver assistance system that continuously improves its capabilities by observing the human driver, the car data, and the e ...
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Dynamic imaging the mucosal immune system (GutImmunoImaging)

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

Dendritic cells (DCs) resident just beyond the epithelial cells (ECs) monolayer are able to extend dendrites from the lamina propria across ECs into the intestinal lumen to capture bacteria (1-3). During my post-doctoral studies, I visualized in vivo (1), for the first time, by two-photon (2P) intravital microscopy, the ability of intestinal DCs to project dendrites into the lumen to capture lumen ...
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Reproductive effects of environmental chemicals in females (REEF)

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

"It is increasingly evident that in-utero exposure to environmental chemicals (ECs), including endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and heavy metals, disturbs reproductive development in wildlife, domestic species and humans. Current thinking is that exposure to ECs is part of the mechanism driving increasing incidences of reproductive dysfunction in males and females, the latter characterised by ...
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Collaborative HIV and Anti-HIV Drug Resistance Network (CHAIN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

..., strong links to Eastern Europe through the existing FP6 funded cohort network Europe HIVresistance and strategic links to relevant pan-European cohort networks and national cohort networks (PENTA/ECS, CASCADE, EuroSIDA, COHERE, ICoNa, UK-CHIC, SHCS). Our balanced programme of work is informed by optimising the synergistic skills represented by the applicants, and also through harmonising with ...
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Micro fabrication production technology for MEMS on new emerging smart textiles/flexibles (MICROFLEX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

This proposal concerns flexible materials in the form of high added value smart fabrics/textiles which are able to sense stimuli and react or adapt to them in a predetermined way. The challenge for the European textile industries is to add advanced functions to textiles and the recent progress of new technologies such as electronic inks provide an opportunity for a breakthrough by incorporating ME ...
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European Education Connectivity Solution (EECS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

"The EECS project brings together three European SMEs and three academic researchers in order to develop a prototype campus card management system that will serve the unique needs and requirements of European Higher Education Institutions. EECS will recommend standards for campus card systems to the ISO and will build the prototype to the recommended standards in order to facilitate interoperabil ...
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Europejski staż zawodowy uzupełnieniem wiedzy nabytej w Polsce

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

...iliated to the CC in Wiesbaden.Defined, interrelated tasks will be carried out as specified in the project. First, necessary agreements will be concluded between WCC and the German CC, ECs and Polish schools defining a detailed programme of the internship, principles and fundamental rules of cooperation and ways of communication. Next, participants will be recruited and offered pre-departure class ...
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Design Support and Tooling for Embedded Control Software (DESTECS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...ading to sub-optimal designs and long development lead times. Moreover, the design gap is widening because of increasing system complexity and increasing capabilities of the system artifacts used.DESTECS will create a methodology and supporting open tools platform for the collaborative and multidisciplinary development of dependable embedded real-time control systems. We will develop a methodology ...
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Neurocircuitry of endocannabinoid regulation of food intake (ENDOFOOD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

... of these mechanisms can lead to pathological states threatening the survival of the individual.The main brain region regulating food intake behaviour is the hypothalamus. The endocannabinoid system (ECS), formed by cannabinoid receptors, their endogenous ligands (endocannabinoids) and the enzymatic machinery for the synthesis and degradation of endocannabinoids is centrally involved in the regula ...
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Endothelial Gluconeogenesis: a novel target for tumor anti-angiogenesis? (EC GNG metabolism)

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

...anti-angiogenic strategies targeting endothelial growth factors suffer from limited efficacy and toxicity. The host laboratory pioneered the novel concept that blood vessel forming endothelial cells (ECs) reprogram their metabolism to become glucose-addicted and rely on glycolysis to generate ATP required for angiogenesis. Furthermore, to increase biomass production and maintain redox homeostasis, ...
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Angiogenesis Research to Improve Therapies for Vascular Malformations (CVM THERAPY)

Start date: Mar 15, 2011, End date: Mar 14, 2015,

...ar components of the CVM have not been isolated and analyzed, and there is no animal model for most CVM. One attractive treatment strategy is to induce transdifferentiation of the endothelial cells (ECs) of the lesion. Transdifferentiation is the reprogramming of one specialized cell type into another, without reversion to pluripotent cells.The goal of my research is to isolate and characterize t ...
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Demonstration project on land use and environmental management of the physical planning in Gallecs as a biological and stable connector in the fringe space of Barcelona metropolitan area (GALLECS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2001, End date: Nov 30, 2004,

Background Gallecs is a rural area on the outskirts of Barcelona. The zone, which in the 1970s was foreseen as building land for the city’s future expansion, is now meant to serve as one of the metropolitan area’s greenbelts. As is the case with many peri-urban areas in Europe, however, Gallecs is increasingly characterised by dispersed urbanisation ...
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New optical functions for endoscopic capsules (SMART PILL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

...or technological breakthrough in medical technology that has facilitated an unprecedented level of patient-friendly diagnosis of small bowel diseases. The propulsion of commercially available passive ECs is provided by the natural motility of the intestine, known as peristalsis. Moreover, the EC vision system uses only white-light and a CMOS imager that collects the images (2-4 frames per second). ...
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Novel conducting copolymErs for Multicolor Electrochromic DEviceS (ECDs) (NEMEDES)

Start date: Mar 25, 2013, End date: Jul 17, 2015,

...optical change in a material induced by application of an external voltage. Many inorganic and organic species show electrochromism. Conducting polymers (CPs) are a class of electrochromic materials (ECs) which gain importance rapidly, due to the combination of processability, fast response times, and high optical contrasts and the ability to modify their structure to create multicolor ECDs. The m ...
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Design and manufacture of a flight worthy intake system (scoop/NACA divergent intake) SCOOP AND NACA DIVERGENT INTAKE TRIAL (SANDIT) (SANDIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

...cessful acoustically optimised nacelle application technology, GKN has a foundation in providing design solutions for key technologies that support bleed less technology application and see the scoop ECS divergent intake system as a key step in providing all electric aircraft ice protection systems to support a change in systems architecture for future generations of aircraft. The scoop technolog ...
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Nanowires for Energy STorage (NEST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

...d for energy containers in the form of electrochemical storage. In this context, the NEST project aims to demonstrate and develop a new kind of integrated supercapacitors, electrochemical capacitors (ECs), as well as novel pseudocapacitors devices able to drastically enhance the energy storage capacity. The primary target of the project is to produce a micro-supercapacitor with integrated electrod ...
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NOVEL PRECIOUS AND NON-PRECIOUS ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR PEMFC (NECPEM)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

...er investments. Global attempts are focused on developing catalyst systems with less Pt or no Pt at all. In this regard, macromolecules with N4-chelate structure are considered as alternatives for Pt ECs especially for the ORR. Recently, non-precious carbon alloy catalysts (CAC) received considerable attention as the addition of nitrogen and metal atoms into the CNT matrix tend to improve their ca ...
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Integrated Design of Optimal Ventilation Systems for Low Cabin and Ramp Noise (IDEALVENT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...dpoint, good thermal and acoustic comfort is important to minimize both stress symptoms and tiredness. Required to provide satisfactory air quality and temperature, the Environmental Control Systems (ECS) currently used are key contributors to the acoustic nuisance within the cabin and around the grounded aircraft. Reducing the amount of noise produced by the ECS will therefore have a direct impac ...
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