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African Vector Control: New Tools (AvecNet)

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

The AvecNet consortium will develop practical solutions to the current limitations of vector control strategies in Africa using a combination of translationally-aware, state of the art science and end user analysis to ensure successful development and uptake of the new and improved approaches to malaria control and elimination. Our carefully balanced, multidisciplinary team of European and Africa ...
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Visions Of LANd use Transitions in Europe (VOLANTE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

VOLANTE aims to develop a new European land management paradigm, providing an integrated conceptual and operational platform which allows policy makers to develop pro-active and context-sensitive solutions to the challenges for the future, rather than to react on largely autonomous external land systems developments.Objective of VOLANTE is to provide European policy and land management with critic ...
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Fuel Injector Research for Sustainable Transport (FIRST)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

FIRST will deliver key enabling technologies for combustion emission reduction by developing improved design tools and techniques for modelling and controlling fuel sprays and soot.Aviation’s environmental impact must be reduced to allow sustainable growth to benefit European industry and society. This is captured in ACARE’s 2020 goals of reducing CO2 by 50%, NOx by 80% and in SRA1/2 proposed redu ...
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High resolution tools to understand the functional role of protein intrinsic disorder (IDPBYNMR)

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

Recent evidence shows that a large share of proteins gain functional advantages by remaining natively unstructured, either completely or partially, thus challenging well-established concepts in structural biology. In order to characterize the highly dynamical nature of such “intrinsically disordered proteins”, and follow their (possible) reorganization by interacting with partners, new integrated ...
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CALIPSO: Connect All IP-based Smart Objects! (CALIPSO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Smart Objects and the Internet of Things provide unparalleled means toconnect the physical world with the digital world, enabling importantapplications such as Smart Infrastructures, Smart Cities, and SmartToys. But existing systems are typically proprietary and tailored toone specific application and sacrifice interoperability for low powerconsumption. This hinders widespread adoption.CALIPSO bu ...
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A NOVEL NON-INTEGRATING REPLICATION LIMITED LENTIVIRAL-BASED VECTOR FOR HIV VACCINATION (HIVNONILV)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"Innovative vectors and strategies are hardly needed to generate safe and efficacious HIV vaccines. Many types of recombinant viruses and DNA vectors have been used to induce protective immunity in the macaque model of HIV vaccine. However, the extent of protection achieved by these vaccines remains disappointing compared to Live-attenuated vaccines. We focused in development of lentiviral-based v ...
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ADVANCED METAL HYDRIDE TANKS FOR INTEGRATED HYDROGEN APPLICATIONS (ATLAS-H2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

ATLAS-H2 is an Industry-Academia Partnership on hydrogen storage in solid materials aiming to develop and test (in the short term) and bring to the market (in the medium to longer term) integrated advanced metal hydride tanks with high added value applications especially for stationary systems and hydrogen compression. Storing H2 without compression and energy losses is a challenge for the widespr ...
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Vegetation dynamics and ecosystem services provision in a fragmented landscape in response to global change (DYVERSE)

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

"Anthropogenic land use change, caused by increasing needs for energy and resources, is driving dramatic changes in biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and consequently ecosystem services, such as water quality or crop pollination. New quantitative tools are needed to refine our understanding and projections of these processes into the coming century. Such tools are needed to develop policies and ...
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Connectivity in Complex Networks of interacting stochastic nonlinear systems. Applications in neuroscience (CoCoNet)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The context of the project is the study of networks of interacting nonlinear systems with application to neuroscience. The project adresses two timely and innovative questions: - Are we able to estimate the connectivity/directivity graph from the observation? - What is the influence of the network topology on the information processing of the network? To answer the questions we develop four tracks ...
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Thermodynamic investigation of magnetic field induced quantum phase transitions (MFIQPT)

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

"The central objective of the present proposal is to improve our understanding of quantum phase transitions and related emergence of novel quantum phases, such as unconventional superconductivity or Bose-Einstein condensation of magnetic excitations observed in heavy fermion compounds, quantum spin systems, and antiferromagneti molecular wheels.The proposed project will address this matter via an ...
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Demonstration of superradiance in a semiconductor nanostructure (SUPERRAD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"Superradiance (SR) refers to spontaneous quantum phase transition, in which a self-organized build up of coherent radiation within an ensemble of quasi-degenerate emitters occurs. It was first noted by Dicke back in 1954 that, with increasing their density, the collection of N radiators starts to emit much faster and stronger comparing to spontaneous emission of individuals. More precisely, when ...
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Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Pathways and Evaluation of the Robustness of Mitigation Cost Estimates (AMPERE)

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

"Climate policy needs to aim at ambitious long-term climate stabilization. This will require managing the transition from carbon intensive to low carbon economies within this century. Research on mitigation pathways to a low carbon society and the associated mitigation costs is indispensable for informing policy makers. The project AMPERE is aiming for a broad exploration of mitigation pathways an ...
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Secure Provision and Consumption in the Internet of Services (SPaCIoS)

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

The vision of the Internet of Services (IoS) entails a major paradigm shift in the way ICT systems and applications are designed, implemented, deployed and consumed: they are no longer the result of programming components in the traditional meaning but are built by composing services that are distributed over the network and aggregated and consumed at run-time in a demand-driven, flexible way. In ...
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Deposition of Energy and Photochemistry for the generation of Titan's Haze (DEPTH)

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

"Our goal is to understand aerosol growth in Titan’s atmosphere. This requires the description of the initial energy deposition and subsequent ionization processes in the upper atmosphere to the chemical formation and sedimentation of aerosols on the surface. This implies sharing knowledge from various fields of research, from physics to chemistry and planetary sciences. We propose to extend an on ...
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GRaphenE for NAnoscaleD Applications (GRENADA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The semiconductor industry has been able to improve the performance of electronic system by making ever-smaller devices. However, this approach will soon encounter both scientific and technical limits, which is why the industry is exploring alternative device technologies. Carbon-based nano-electronic is currently investigated. Discovered recently, the graphene is rapidly raising star on the horiz ...
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Anticipating climate change and biospheric feedbacks within the Earth system to 2200 (GREENCYCLESII)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"There is a pressing need to improve our understanding of climate processes and their impacts in order to develop appropriate adaptation and mitigation measures. Increasing concentrations of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) are known to be causing changes in global climate patterns, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. However, our ability to predict future climatic states i ...
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Development and field test of an efficient YBCO Coated Conductor based Fault Current Limiter for Operation in Electricity Networks (ECCOFLOW)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The project aims at developing a unique device for electricity networks: A superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) based on coated conductor YBCO tape (cc-tape) or 2nd Generation HTS tape. The general trend in Europe to a higher meshing of distribution networks and the rapid growing integration of renewable energy sources leads to an increase of the fault current level by every new installat ...
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Ice2sea - estimating the future contribution of continental ice to sea-level rise (ice2sea)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The melting of continental ice (glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets) is a substantial source of current sea-level rise, and one that is accelerating more rapidly than was predicted even a few years ago. Indeed, the most recent report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted that the uncertainty in projections of future sea-level rise is dominated by uncertainty concerning continen ...
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EUROPEAN MICROKELVIN COLLABORATION (MICROKELVIN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"It is an unfortunate truth that the current electronics is facing a brick wall in a decade or so when Moore's law has finally run its course and no further miniaturization is possible. We need something new. Coherent electron circuitry may provide that entirely new alternative. In nanocircuits the electrons can behave coherently over the circuit dimension and thus follow the rules of wave motion ...
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INitial TRAining network on Mass Independent Fractionation (INTRAMIF)

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

"Molecules containing the element oxygen can be further characterized by the distributions of the stable oxygen isotopes. In some cases, these isotopes have an anomalous distribution, which is evidence of Mass Independent Fractionation (MIF). MIF has become a powerful research tool in earth system science and its use is expected to spread from the core science disciplines to industrial application ...
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Beyond CMOS Nanodevices for Adding Functionalities\nto CMOS (NANOFUNCTION)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Description NANOFUNCTION addresses the merging of advanced More than Moore (MtM) devices with Beyond-CMOS. Topics: Si nanowires for sensing, on-chip energy harvesting, nano-cooling and porous Si for RF passives.The NANOFUNCTION project aims to integrate at the European level the excellent European research laboratories in order to strengt ...
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Revealing the role of intrinsically disordered proteins in transcription and replication of measles and sendai paramyxoviruses using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (VIRAL_IDP)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"Over the last decade it has become increasingly clear that a large fraction (up to 40%) of the proteins encoded by the human genome are disordered. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) remain functional despite a lack of a well-defined structure, such that the classical structure-function paradigm breaks down, and new insight into the relationship between primary sequence and molecular functi ...
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Formation and evolution of planetary systems (DiskEvol)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

The goal of this research project is to obtain a global and precise view of protoplanetary disks. This DiskEvol program will tackle the complex problem of combining consistently the constraints on the gas phase of a disk, provided by the Herschel observations, with our existing studies of the dust phase. This is of particular importance as the dissipation of abundant gas remnant from star formatio ...
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Large Area Molecularly Assembled Nanopatterns for Devices (LAMAND)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Scaling has driven the microelectronics industry for over 40 years and revolutionised information and communication technologies, health care, education, engineering, etc. Maintaining progress has becomes more challenging and costs of fabrication facilities are rising exponentially. Possible technical/cost solutions centre on development of ‘bottom-up’ techniques to (nano)pattern (the patterns yie ...
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A universal approach for analyzing the diet of omnivorous mammals based on DNA barcoding and next generation sequencing: application to the brown bear population in northern Italy (BearMolecularDiet)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The brown bear population in northern Italy is the result of a recent translocation and is of conservation concern also due to the high impact of human activities in the modern Alpine ecosystem. Diet studies are particularly important for endangered species or for population of conservation interest because accurate knowledge of animal diet is fundamental for evaluating the ecology of animals in t ...
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Conservation Genetic Resources for Effective Species Survival (CONGRESS)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

Genetic biodiversity is recognised by the Convention on Biological Diversity and the EC Biodiversity Strategy as one of three essential elements of living diversity, yet it is poorly represented at the policy level, compared to the two other components, species and ecosystems. The CONGRESS consortium aims to rectify this situation by delivering dissemination tools which policy makers and conservat ...
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Quantum Nano Optomechanics (QNAO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The applicant has been recruited as a Chargé de Recherche for CNRS and will start soon at the Institut Néel (Grenoble, France) his own research activities. The Marie Curie Reintegration Grant will help him start his independent research career and support his installation at the Institute. The goal of the project is to extend the thematic of cavity optomechanics down to the nanoscale and observe ...
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Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning 2 (PASCAL2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Description Creating new technologies in the area of Machine Learning through networking and technology transfer PASCAL2 builds on the PASCAL Network of Excellence that has created a distributed institute pioneering principled methods of pattern analysis, statistical modelling, and computational l ...
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The European Digital Mathematics Library (EuDML)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

In the light of mathematicians reliance on their discipline's rich published heritage and the key role of mathematics in enabling other scientific disciplines, the European Digital Mathematics Library strives to make the significant corpus of mathematics scholarship published in Europe available online, in the form of an authoritative and enduring digital collection, developed and curated by a net ...
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POLicy for NAtural RESouces (POLINARES)

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

"POLINARES concentrates on the global challenges faced with respect to access to oil, gas and mineral resources over the next 20 years and proposes solutions for the various policy actors, including the EU. Combined theoretical and empirical analyses will use expertise from a wide range of disciplines including political science, economics, geology, engineering, technology, law and security studie ...
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Carbohydrate Multivalent Systems as tools to study Pathogen interaction with DC-SIGN (CARMUSYS)

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

"The importance of glycosciences in the development of biology and medicine and the central role played by chemistry in this process have recently been pointed out by ESF. However, it appears that exposure of young scientists in their training phase to the chemical biology of carbohydrates is still lacking. This multidisciplinary project intends to approach the design and synthesis of carbohydrate ...
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Titan Atmospheric Composition: Tholins and Ionospheric Chemistry (TACTIC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is a fascinating object, with its dense atmosphere, mostly constituted of nitrogen and methane. Solar radiation and energetic particles from Saturn’s magnetosphere induce a complex chemistry in this atmosphere, leading to the formation of hydrocarbons and nitriles. Very recently, the Cassini-Huygens space mission has revealed the presence in the ionosphere of ne ...
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Development of carbohydrate array technology to systematically explore the functional role of glycans in healthy and diseased states (EuroGlycoArrays)

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

The development and production of glycoarrays will provide the foreground knowledge necessary to lead to a step change in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases ranging from cancers to autoimmune diseases. Carbohydrates play a pivotal role in the molecular interactions that govern biological events at the centre of health and disease. This has become more evident as the characterisation and ident ...
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Evolution Meets MAcroecology - integrating rapid adaptation into predictions of future plant species' ranges (EMMA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

"The current rate of anthropogenic climate change is predicted to be unmatched in earth's history. The associated potential loss of biodiversity and ecosystem function is one of the most critical issues our society is facing. Thus, a major aim of global change research is the development of reliable predictions on future geographic distributions of species, communities and functional diversity. Th ...
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"Measuring and modelling nitrous acid (HONO) emissions at Dome C, Antarctica" (ANTARCTIC HONO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

"The goal of this research project is to understand the nitrous acid (HONO or HNO2) emissions from snow in Antarctica and their contributions to the oxidative capacity of the Antarctic atmosphere. Nitrous acid is an important atmospheric trace gas. Upon photo-dissociation, it forms hydroxyl radical (OH) and nitrogen monoxide (NO). It therefore enters both the HOx (OH + HO2) and NOx (NO + NO2) budg ...
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Lattice QCD Calculations in Hadron Physics (HPLQCD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The theory that describes interactions among elementary particles carrying the color charge (quarks and gluons) is called Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). QCD has not been solved analytically and becomes non-perturbative at low energies. As a result, the quantitative prediction from first principles of much of its rich low-energy phenomenology remains a big challenge. Due to the lack of a coherent t ...
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Nanopatterning, Production and Applications based on Nanoimprinting Lithography (NaPANIL)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

The NaPANIL project aims to develop processes, materials and tools, both for manufacturing and for control, for truly 3-dimensional nanosurfaces with feature dimensions ranging from 50 nm to several m. The nanosurfaces will be realised using various variants of nanoimprinting lithography. The dedicated application is to control light at nanostructured surfaces and a few potential high impact prod ...
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Development and pre-operational validation of upgraded GMES Marine Core Services and capabilities (MyOcean)

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

MyOcean is THE PROJECT to set up infrastructures, services and resources to prepare the operational deployment of first Marine Core Services. My Ocean answers to the topic SPA.2007.1.1.01 - development of upgraded capabilities for existing GMES fast-track services and related (pre)operational services. MyOcean is proposed by a consortium of 67 partners spread in maritime countries: - federated aro ...
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REDOX PHENOMENA CONTROLLING SYSTEMS (RECOSY)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Main objectives of ReCosy are the sound understanding of redox phenomena controlling the long-term release/retention of radionuclides in nuclear waste disposal and providing tools to apply the results to Performance Assessment/Safety Case. Although redox is not a new geochemical problem, different questions are still not resolved and thus raised by implementers and scientists. From a top-down appr ...
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Novel Nanocomposites for Hydrogen Storage Applications (NanoHy)

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

In order to meet the international goals for hydrogen storage materials, the work in NANOHy aims at combining the latest developments in the metal hydride field with novel concepts for tailoring materials properties. Leading expertise in the field of complex hydride synthesis, synthesis and functionalization of nanostructured carbon, nanoparticle coating, structural characterization, and computati ...
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