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SiliconLaser (SiLAS)

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

Our research aims to revolutionize the electronics industry by adding intra-chip and chip-to-chip communication at the speed of light, offering a significantly reduced energy consumption. Cubic crystal phase SiGe is known to be great for electronics. We propose to develop hexagonal crystal phase SiGe (Hex-SiGe) which features a direct bandgap and will add photonic capabilities to electronics. Dire ...
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Deictic Communication - A Multidisciplinary Training (DCOMM)

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

Deictic communication is fundamental to understanding communication in both typical and atypical populations, and forms the key connection between language and objects/locations in the world. It is therefore critical to understanding human-human interaction, and human-system interaction in a range of technology applications – from mobile phones to cognitive robotics – and to the enhancement of cli ...
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Detecting changes in essential ecosystem and biodiversity properties – towards a Biosphere Atmosphere Change Index: BACI (BACI)

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

The alarming rate of biodiversity loss and ecosystem transitions make it clear that new strategies are required to sustain functioning of the coupled ecological-societal system. Existing space data archives and data streams from the ESA Sentinels, offer unprecedented opportunities to provide rapid, high quality indicators necessary for informed management of key ecosystem services. Yet, it remains ...
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Critical Transitions in Complex Systems (CRITICS)

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

Complex systems research has been on the forefront of scientific priorities of many national research councils and the EU for more than a decade. Many very interesting phenomena have been identified and explored, but the development of the underpinning mathematical theory has been lagging behind. The proposed training network builds on an emerging development in applied mathematics to provide prop ...
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Shared Memories and Dialogues

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

The project promotes migrant-background children’s inclusion and learning, through facilitation of children’s production of shared memories in dialogic communication. The project involves 48 classrooms of 9-11 years children, in three countries. It fosters recognition and empowerment of migrant-background children, avoiding their differentiation from non-migrant children. The project implements t ...
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CONNECT 2.0 - Intercultural Learning Network 4 Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Mobility measures of Erasmus+ enable young people in Europe to gain valuable and essential intercultural experiences for their personal and professional development. Whereas participants of non-formal youth exchanges (e.g. EVS) are provided with in-person pedagogical support, only few students who take part in the Erasmus program have the opportunity to attend instructed intercultural learning and ...
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Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European Youth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions (CATCH-EyoU)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The proposal will investigate young people’s views of the EU and of their role in building the EU through their participatory practices at EU, national, regional and local levels. These issues will be examined from an interdisciplinary perspective (Political Sciences, Sociology, History, Media and Communications, Education, Psychology) as building blocks for a new and groundbreaking conceptualiza ...
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History of Nuclear Energy and Society (HoNESt)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

HoNESt (History of Nuclear Energy and Society) involves an interdisciplinary team with many experienced researchers and 24 high profile research institutions.HoNESt’s goal is to conduct a three-year interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of nuclear developments and its relationship to contemporary society with the aim of improving the understanding of the dynamics over the last 60 years. HoN ...
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Financial and Institutional Reforms for the Entrepreneurial Society (FIRES)

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

In this project we will analyse the broader contexts of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth in Europe to support implementation of the Commission’s 'Europe 2020' growth strategy and to restore Europe’s ability to innovate, grow and create jobs over the coming decades. In this proposal we argue that entrepreneurship must play a central role in that effort. 'Entrepreneurship' tends to make peopl ...
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Utility of omic-based biomarkers in characterizing older individuals at risk for frailty, its progression to disability and general consequences to health and well-being - The FRAILOMIC Initiative (FRAILOMIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The forecasted increase in the number of older people for this century will be accompanied by an increase of those with disabilities. Disability is usually preceded by a condition named frailty that encompasses changes associated with ageing, life styles and chronic diseases. To detect and intervene on it is of outstanding importance to prevent disability, as recovery from disability is unlikely. ...
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ADvanced OPtical SYStem Design (ADOPSYS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"There is a severe shortage in the European photonics industry of graduates and PhDs with broad expertise in modelling and design of industrially relevant optical systems and components. This shortage is aggravated because most applied design methodologies are strongly based on previous experience of the designer. In general, these methods also have a limited efficiency because they heavily rely o ...
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Photonic Integrated Compound Quantum Encoding (PICQUE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"Quantum information was born from the merging of information science and quantum physics. Its main objective consists of harnessing the quantum nature of information and learning how to process it by using physical systems operating according quantum mechanics laws. Being supported by numerous proofs-of-principle, the field is now ready to proceed to move to the next level of applications, where ...
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ET-LCGT Telescopes: Exchange of Scientists (ELiTES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

A new way to investigate the Universe will be possible when the new generation of gravitational wave telescopes becomes operative. First, the advanced detectors, then the 3rd generation observatories will allow to detect the gravitational wave signal emitted in catastrophic event in the Universe. The Large-scale Cryogenic Gravitational wave Telescope (LCGT, now named KAGRA) in Japan and the Einste ...
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Exploring the Security-Democracy Nexus in the Caucasus (CASCADE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

CASCADE will:- scrutinise Caucasian states and societies for the root causes of conflict and insecurity, conduct synergetic research on democracy and security in the Caucasus and investigate their interaction,- analyse the links between the region and its wider neighbourhood,- provide forward-looking analysis on regional security and democratisation processes,- and develop a set of proposals on ho ...
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Speed of Adaptation in Population Genetics and Evolutionary Computation (SAGE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Biological evolution has produced an extraordinary diversity of organisms, even the simplest of which is highly adapted, with multiple complex structures. Evolutionary computation has found that many innovative solutions to optimisation and design problems can be achieved by artificial evolution via random variation and selection.Despite the centrality of evolution to biology and the usefulness of ...
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Light-Matter Coupling in composite Nano-Structures (LIMACONA)

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

"The academic exchange aims to establish and support multi-lateral transfer of knowledge among several European research teams and teams from Russia, Ukraine and Armenia, striving to advance the research on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures. This programme will combine unique expertise of partners in Nonlinear Physics and Optics, Materials Science, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ...
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Hierarchical Analysis of Complex Dynamical Systems (HIERATIC)

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

The central aim of HIERATIC is to develop a new framework for understanding complex systems as a multi-level hierarchy of sub-systems using non-linear decompositions.To achieve this goal, HIERATIC is structured in three interlinked sets of activities: theoretical work, deriving the novel mathematics required to identify suitable non-linear state space reductions of complex systems; software develo ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

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

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Quantum Integrated Light Matter Interface (QuILMI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This project brings together an interdisciplinary team of young, ambitious and internationally recognized researchers. The aim of the proposed research is to create a highly integrated device, which permits to manipulate, store and control light on a single-photon level using tailored quantum matter. Specifically, we will implement a three-dimensional optical lattice on an atom chip together with ...
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Metrics for Sustainability Assessment in European Process Industries (MEASURE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The aim of the CSA MEASURE is to provide support and guidance, how to reach the H2020 SPIRE Public Private Partnership goals on reduction in fossil energy intensity, non-renewable, primary raw material intensity and greenhouse gas emissions in the most effective way. MEASURE will deliver a roadmap how to evaluate processes in a standardised, comparative way. Benefiting from the strong support of o ...
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Smart nano-structured devices hierarchically assembled by bio-mineralization processes (SMILEY)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

"SMILEY aims to develop and apply a ""bottom-up"" approach to build nano-structured devices with smart multi-functional properties: bio-mineralization, self-assembly, self-organization are an ensemble of concomitant phenomena, inspired by nature, that will be properly directed to generate elementary nano-sized building blocks organized in macroscopic devices for application in EHS (Environment, He ...
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European-Russian Centre for cooperation in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic environmental and climate research (EURUCAS)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The general objective of the project is to use the Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NIERSC) established in St. Petersburg, Russia, and funded by Norway and Germany, as the joint research facility to extend, consolidate and strengthen scientific cooperation between researchers from the EU Member States and Associated Countries with those from Russia through the joint st ...
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Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement (MYPLACE)

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

MYPLACE explores how young people‟s social participation is shaped by theshadows (past, present and future) of totalitarianism and populism in Europe.Conceptually, it goes beyond the comparison of discrete national „political cultures‟or reified classifications of political heritage („postcommunist‟/‟liberal democratic‟);it is premised rather on the pan-European nature of a range of radical and po ...
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Distributed Infrastructure for EXPErimentation in Ecosystem Research (EXPEER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

EXPEER will bring together, major observational, experimental, analytical and modelling facilities in ecosystem science in Europe. By uniting these highly instrumented ecosystem research facilities under the same umbrella and with a common vision, EXPEER will form a key contribution to structuring and improving the European Research Area (ERA) within terrestrial ecosystem research.EXPEER builds ...
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Expanding EPNOE leadership towards Food and Health related materials, and increasing industrial participation (EPNOE CSA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The need for a transition towards a CO2 neutral biobased economy or bioeconomy, increasing population and globalisation of economies will have the consequence of a need for enhanced supplies of biobased resources. To this end, polysaccharides will be at the central point of the world of tomorrow for sustainable fuel, food, materials and medicine production. EPNOE (European Polysaccharide Network o ...
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GMES Initial Operations – Network for Earth Observation Research Training (GIONET)

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

"GIONET will create a European Centre of Excellence in the training of early stage researchers in the Earth Observation to provide skilled personnel for the emerging GMES land monitoring services during the GMES Initial Operations period (2011-2013) and beyond. The principal aims of this distributed centre will be to:• Provide a broad postgraduate training in Earth Observation Science that exposes ...
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Exchanges around Femtosecond Laser Applications in Glasses (e-FLAG)

Start date: Nov 8, 2010, End date: Nov 7, 2014,

The concept is to collect the best researchers on the topic of the interaction of femtosecond laser with glasses for discussion and exchanges. On the other hand, it is to train students and young researchers on one of the most promising new research field which is the 3D local shaping of linear and non linear optical properties in glasses; the knowledge of the expert being shared with the novices. ...
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Semiconductor nanowires: from fundamental physics to device applications (NANOWIRING)

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

The interest in bottom-up fabricated semiconductor nanowires (NWs) has been growing steadily in the last years due to their potential as basic building blocks of nanoscale devices and circuits. Investigations performed so far try to exploit three unique properties of NWs: First, they are the smallest dimension structures that allow optical guiding and electrical contacting simultaneously. Second, ...
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COMPOSITE PHENOTYPIC TRIGGERS FOR BONE AND CARTILAGE REPAIR (OPHIS)

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

Osteoarthritis (OA) and osteoporosis (OP) are disabling, degenerative bone diseases with significant economic and societal impacts. The incidence of these conditions increases with age but in recent years the number of younger patients has increased, due mainly to factors related to modern life-styles. The efficiency of current pharmacologic and implant-based solutions are limited and often poorly ...
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Coordination of Biological & Chemical IT Research Activities (COBRA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

COBRA is a coordination action to help organize the international CHEM-IT community towards the next major science and technology revolution, involving the integration of information processing with production during deployment. The industrial revolution mechanized production with factories, and the information revolution mechanized information processing with computers. The next large-scale techn ...
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Modern polymer-based catalysts and microflow conditions as key elements of innovations in fine chemical syntheses (POLYCAT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

POLYCAT provides an integrated, coherent and holistic approach utilizing novel polymer based nanoparticulate catalysts in pharmaceutical, crop protection and vitamin syntheses in conjunction with the enabling functions of micro process technology and “green” solvents such as water or ethyl lactate. This provides a discipline bridging approach between fine chemistry, catalysis and engineering. This ...
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Computational Geometric Learning (CG Learning)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

High dimensional geometric data are ubiquitous in science and engineering, and thus processing and analyzing them is a core task in these disciplines. The Computational Geometric Learning project (CG Learning) aims at extending the success story of geometric algorithms with guarantees, as achieved in the CGAL library and the related EU funded research projects, to spaces of high dimensions. This ...
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Low-cost highly conductive high resolution structures for flexible \nlarge area electronics by high throughput \nlow temperature processing (LOTUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Description The LOTUS project aims at providing the materials, technology and understanding needed to produce the "electric wiring" in flexible large area electronicsThe LOTUS proposal addresses the urgent need for a technology to produce the highly conductive patterns required for high throughput large volume manufacturing of flexible la ...
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Artificial Wet Neuronal Networks from\nCompartmentalised Excitable Chemical Media (NEUNEU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

This research programme will be concerned with the development ofmass-producible chemical information processing components and theirinterconnection into functional architectures. The project has threecomplementary objectives. The first is to engineer lipid-coated waterdroplets, inspired by biological cells, containing an excitable chemicalmedium and to connect the droplets into networks in which ...
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Combining Process Intensification-driven Manufacture of Microstructured Reactors and Process Design regarding to Industrial Dimensions and Environment (COPIRIDE)

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

The ultimate ambition of COPIRIDE is to develop a new modular production and factory concept for the chemical industry using adaptable plants with flexible output. This concept will be superior, intellectual property (IP) protected, and enable a much wider spread of know-how and education of this skill-intensive technology. Key functional enabling units are new production-scale, mass-manufactured ...
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Robust Robot Locomotion and Movements Through Morphology and Morphosis (Locomorph)

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

Locomorph's goal is to push beyond the state of the art in robotic locomotion and movements, by increasing efficiency, robustness, and thus usability in unknown environments. As robotic research and industry are competing to increase robots' usability towards the highly-in-demand service robotics, advancements in robotic locomotion today would give Europe a significant competitive advantage. Locom ...
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Surface functionalisation of cellulose matrices using cellulose embedded nano-particles (Surfuncell)

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

The projects main R&T objective is to create new, smart and bio-based surface nanostructured polymer composites showing exceptional surface functionality (mechanical, chemical, selective interaction properties). These new materials will be composed of nano-scaled polysaccharides layers with embedded nano-particles, coating different celluloses matrices. The compounding is restricted to the biopoly ...
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Soil Contamination: Advanced integrated characterisation and time-lapse Monitoring (SoilCAM)

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

This project is aimed at improving current methods for monitoring contaminant distribution and biodegradation in the subsurface. Currently proven methods (based on invasive sampling of soil, soil water and gaseous phase) are unable to provide sufficiently accurate data with high enough resolution. Resulting in inability to assess of bioremediation progress and quantification of the processes invol ...
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Deterministic and Stochastic Controlled Systems and Applications (CONTROLLED SYSTEMS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Experienced Researchers from the Universities of Iasi, Brest, Jena, Manchester, Marrakech and Milano propose an Initial Training Network Marie Curie on the theme ""Deterministic and Stochastic Controlled Systems and Applications"". This project aims to unite the six teams with their complementary competences in - Controlled Systems: Deterministic and Stochastic Control, Game Theory, - Stochastic ...
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