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Marine Micro-Algae as Global Reservoir of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Degraders (MARPAH)

Start date: Oct 20, 2008, End date: Oct 19, 2011,

...the major taxonomic groups. Together with the applicant’s extensive experience, and the skills and techniques (C14 PAH degradation, respirometry etc) offered by the return host (University of Lancaster), these objectives will be accomplished through the initiation of a trans-Atlantic collaboration between the European Union and the USA in a study that for the first time aims to define a link betwe ...
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Supply Chain Demand Forecasting based on Unobserved Components models (SCDFUC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

...ssociated to these prediction errors. The present project will accomplish a thoroughly investigation about the possible sources of this inefficient use of the FSS by means of a collaboration with the Lancaster University Management School (LUMS). Thus, the different ingredients which act on the FSS will be analyzed in order to suit the main objectives of the organization in the best way. Firstly, ...
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Requirements-aware systems (requirements@runtime)

Start date: May 16, 2011, End date: May 15, 2013,

...ut its requirements. The project aims to address the need of having systems requirements-aware by reifying requirements as run-time objects. Dr. Nelly Bencomo, who is currently a senior researcher at Lancaster University (UK) and has experience in the development of reflective adaptive applications and requirement specification, will implement the 18-months-project. Dr. Valérie Issarny from INRIA ...
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Training network on tRAcking in compleX sensor systems (TRAX)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...m comprises two large companies (Thales Nederland B.V., Ericsson A.B.); two SMEs (Rinicom Limited, Xsens Technologies B.V.); a research institute ( Fraunhofer) and three universities (University of Lancaster, Linköping University and University of Twente); and is supported by two associated partners: SME SenionLab A.B. and University of Bonn. 12 early stage researches and 3 experienced researchers ...
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An Optimization Framework for Trajectory Based Operations (OptiFrame)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

...earch Project”, research topic “Trajectory Based Operations (TBO)” (ER-09-2015), within the area “ATM Applications-Oriented Research”. The project consortium comprises University of Lancaster (Project Coordinator), the Consorzio Futuro in Ricerca, Eurocontrol and the Stichting Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (NLR).OptiFrame is motivated by the need of studying a number of fundamental q ...
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Sheep, Wool, Landscape and Connectivity (SWLCONNECTIVITY)

Start date: Jan 10, 2016, End date: Jan 9, 2018,

The purpose of the proposed Marie Sklodowska-Curie action is to enable Paolo Palladino, Professor of History and Theory in the Department of History at Lancaster University, to advance his scientific career by means of further training through research. The programme of research, which Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Professor of History and Theory of International Relations in the Faculty of Arts at the Univ ...
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Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks (SynaNet)

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

...d the mobility of early stage researchers between the Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM) at the University of Lisbon, the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Rome La Sapienza, and the Lancaster University at UK.IMM has widely recognized research groups in basic or clinical neuroscience but aims to foster translation. SynaNet partners are strong in translational approaches and will ...
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Understanding the discourse-semantic shift towards risk in the UK and Germany (UnRi)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

... who will further develop his skills and expand his networks among eminent European sociologists and corpus linguists. The IF will be placed with Prof McEnery, a leading scholar in corpus research at Lancaster University, who is the Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS). This will be complemented by a secondment with Prof Kämper, an expert in historical linguis ...
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Evaluación fiable de lenguas extranjeras. Nuestro reto.

Start date: Jul 14, 2014, End date: Jul 13, 2015,

...e target topic. The University of Lancarter has a great deal of experience teaching specific courses regarding this topic and the the one offered by the department of Linguistics 'Language Testing at Lancaster' is a model in Europe. Therefore, the opportunity for a group of teachers from the school to take it as a complement and support to the training we are already carrying out would be unique ...
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EUROVET1618

Start date: Jul 11, 2016, End date: Jul 10, 2018,

... areas with the biggest pool of 'hidden talent' among 16-24 year olds is Tyne and Wear (43%) In 2015, in their report “The Geography of Youth Unemployment", The Work Foundation at the University of Lancaster found that youth unemployment in most major UK cities was considerably higher than comparable cities in Germany, and that in the Newcastle conurbation it is currently running at 21-25%The regi ...
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Evaluation of school leadership and teaching practice

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

...ement. PARTICIPANTS Five School Inspectorates: Basque Country-Spain; Lower Saxony, Germany; Prahova County, Romania; Venice, Italy; Kaunas, Lithuania; and two universities: University of Cumbria (Lancaster, England) as Scientific Collaborator; and Open University of Cyprus as External Observer. OBJECTIVES 1. To identify dimensions, criteria, indicators, strategies, sources of evidence and good pr ...
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EUROVET1517

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

...reas with the biggest pool of 'hidden talent' among 16-24 year olds is Tyne and Wear (43%) This year, in their report “The Geography of Youth Unemployment, The Work Foundation at the University of Lancaster found that youth unemployment in most major UK cities was considerably higher than comparable cities in Germany, and that in the Newcastle conurbation it is currently running at 21-25% The reg ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The aim of this project is to support Lancaster students studying or working abroad which is a key element of Lancaster University?s Strategic Plan and part of its internationalisation strategy. Lancaster University?s application for the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education referred to its then Strategic Plan (2009-2015) which aimed to: 'broaden the horizons of our students; - by achieving a step ...
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Language bootstraps cognitive complexity (LANGBOOT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2017, End date: May 31, 2022,

Language and cognition have a close, but cryptic, relationship. Is language just another tool in humans' diverse cognitive toolkit; vital for communication, but not necessary for complex, high-level thought? Or is language what allows us to form and manipulate complex thoughts in the first place, by allowing words to act as placeholders in ideas that would otherwise be too unwieldy to handle? Dist ...
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New Science and Technology of Artificial Layered Structures and Devices (MATTERDESIGN)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

The extensive and growing library of layered crystals opens up the exciting possibility of exfoliating them into single atomic layers and stacking these atomic layers back together in new sequences to fabricate a new class of artificial van der Waals solids, with novel properties and functionalities. The principal objectives of this proposal are to study the fundamental physics and chemistry of no ...
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Personal Technologies for Affective Health (AffecTech)

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

Personalized health is a European priority and one of the strategic research areas for Horizon 2020. This project advances the state-of-the-art of personal health technologies for affective disorders, estimated to be the highest ranking cause of disease by 2020. It marks a significant shift from the current wearable technologies capturing emotional responses whose understanding usually requires ph ...
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Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

SIMRA seeks to advance understanding of social innovation (SI) and innovative governance in agriculture, forestry and rural development (RD), and how to boost them, particularly in marginalised rural areas across Europe, with a focus on the Mediterranean region (including non-EU) where there is limited evidence of outcomes and supporting conditions. These objectives will be achieved by: 1. Develop ...
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Advancing the state of the art of MIMO: the key to the successful evolution of wireless networks (ATOM)

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

The world is experiencing an explosion in wireless broadband usage and global wireless data traffic is expected to grow at an annual rate of 78% through 2016. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technologies have been envisioned as a key to the successful deployment of next generation networks, which are challenged by many practical constraints, such as spectrum scarcity and dynamical wireless e ...
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New geomodels to explore deeper for High-Technology critical raw materials in Alkaline rocks and Carbonatites (HiTech AlkCarb)

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

Five of the 20 raw materials identified by the European Commission as critical are commonly found in association with alkaline rocks and carbonatites (heavy and light rare earth elements, niobium, fluorspar, and phosphate). Other elements increasingly important for ‘hi-tech’ applications, and found in these rocks include hafnium (Hf), tantalum (Ta), scandium (Sc) and zirconium (Zr). In fact, there ...
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OBSERVATORY OF THE DYNAMICS OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIETIES AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE AMAZON (ODYSSEA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Achieving a sustainable development trajectory in Amazonia is one of the key challenges facing Brazil, and is also an important international concern. ODYSSEA assembles an internationally renowned European and Brazilian multidisciplinary and intersectoral team. We aim to produce fundamental science and tools in order to build an innovative multi-and interdisciplinary observatory to monitor and ass ...
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Novel materials architecture based on atomically thin crystals (HETERO2D)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

We propose a new paradigm in materials science – heterostructures based on two-dimensional atomic crystals (and their hybrids with metallic and semiconducting quantum dots and nanostructures), and develop several devices which are based on such concept. Two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals (such as graphene, monolayers of boron nitride, molybdenum disulphide, etc) possess a number of exciting prop ...
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Big data meeting Cloud and IoT for empowering the citizen clout in smart cities (BigClouT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

As we enter 2016, the world is facing a number of critical challenges such as global warming, economic crisis, security threats, inequality, natural disasters and ageing society. Urban areas are particularly affected, given that the world population is increasingly concentrated in those areas. ICT solutions have the potential to change the world and improve the quality of life and security of its ...
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Climate Security with Local Authorities (CLISEL) From insecurity takers to security makers: mobilizing local authorities to secure the EU against the impacts of climate change in Third Countries (CLISEL)

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

CLISEL proposes an innovative approach to the question of how Europe can be secured from the impacts of climate change in Third Countries. Most academic and policy initiatives to date have focused on the direct security impacts of climate change in Third Countries and/or on the indirect impacts on international security (e.g. concerning regional economic or political stability). While those initia ...
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Integrated Activities for the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

We propose a set of integrated Activities in the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD) in response to the INFRAIA-2014-2015 call Research Infrastructures for High EnergyAstrophysics.The overall objective of AHEAD is to integrate national efforts in high-energy Astrophysics and to promote the domain at the European level, to keep its community at the cutting edge of science and technology in this ...
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Comparing the effectiveness of palliative care for elderly people in long term care facilities in Europe (PACE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"Aging populations, rising costs and sustainable delivery of high-quality care are increasingly common concerns in all EU countries. PACE aims to perform comparative effectiveness research concerning palliative care in long term care facilities (LTCFs) in Europe. While a growing number of older people will require palliative care in institutionalized settings, palliative care has only recently beg ...
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Mobile Age (Mobile-Age)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The Mobile Age project will focus on open government data, mobile technology, and the provision of public services in relation to Europe’s elderly population. Europe’s senior citizens are growing steadily and are predicted to comprise of 28% of Europe’s population by 2020. However, senior citizens do not normally share the same level of connectivity to the Internet as younger generations, and whil ...
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Service Design for Innovation (SDIN)

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

Service Design for Innovation (SDIN)-ETN aims to integrate service design and service innovation approaches that are now dispersed into an innovative research training framework; doing so leverages the creative power of service design to foster innovation. Specific objectives are: creating a mass of researchers who can drive widespread application of service design to leapfrog innovation in Europe ...
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Improving Design, Evaluation and Analysis of early drug development Studies (IDEAS)

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

Drug development is a long and costly process which suffers from the major shortcoming that frequently failure is often only determined during the final stage. Recently, it has been recognised that more care needs to be taken during the early stages of development to avoid going into lengthy and costly confirmatory studies with ineffective or harmful treatments. To achieve this goal it is essentia ...
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Postgraduate Research on Dilute Metamorphic Nanostructures and Metamaterials in Semiconductor Photonics (PROMIS)

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

Photonics, nanotechnology, advanced materials, and advanced manufacturing technologies have been identified as key enabling technologies (KETs) for the EU. Today the photonics global market alone is around €300 billion and Europe has established a strong position with a total share of 20%, directly employing about 290,000 people. However, the shortage of sufficient skilled labour and entrepreneurs ...
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Complex Oscillatory Systems: Modeling and Analysis (COSMOS)

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

Many natural and artificial systems are often composed of oscillatory elements which, besides evolving according to their own non-trivial internal dynamics, mutually interact. As a result, many temporal and spatial scales are typically present, often accompanied by the spontaneous emergence of collective properties. Altogether, such features make the task of understanding the resulting evolution a ...
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Advance Care Planning; an Innovative Palliative Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Cancer Patients - a Multi-Centre Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial (ACTION)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

"Advanced cancer typically involves multiple symptoms and seriously affects patients´ quality of life. Anxiety and depression are common. Medical care for patients with advanced cancer should be aimed at symptom control, psychosocial support, spiritual needs, and practical issues. Patients’ preferences regarding care should be central. Open and respectful communication are of key importance, but h ...
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Cultural Heritage and Economic Development in International and European Law (HERITAGE)

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

Can states promote economic development without infringing upon their cultural heritage? Although economic globalization and international economic governance have spurred a more intense dialogue and interaction among nations - potentially promoting cultural diversity and providing the funds to recover and preserve cultural heritage - these phenomena can also jeopardize the cultural wealth of nati ...
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Cultures of Disaster Resilience among children and young people (CUIDAR)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Cultural sensitivity is essential to effective disaster management and disaster risk reduction, yet disaster plans still largely ignore the needs and capacities of children and young people. Addressing Topic 2 of this call, the ‘given cultural group’ is therefore children, not viewed as a homogenous group, but one which offers diverse cultural perspectives and diverse experiences of roles taken on ...
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Cross-layer Research on Green Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks and Services (CROWN)

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

"The objective of the CROWN project is to increase researchers’ mobility between EU countries and China to obtain better understanding of green cooperative cognitive radio for future mobile Internet infrastructure. In particular, the transfer of knowledge, mainly as a result of researcher’s mobility, will focus on a new vision of green Cooperative CR paradigm or CCR. This new vision advocates the ...
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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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"MOLECULAR-SCALE ELECTRONICS: Concepts, Contacts and Stability ""MOLESCO""" (MOLESCO)

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

"The MOLESCO network will create a unique training and research environment to develop a pool of young researchers capable of achieving breakthroughs aimed at realising the immense potential of molecular electronics. In part this will involve the major challenges of design and fabrication of molecular-scale devices. To deliver this step-change in capability, MOLESCO will coordinate the activities ...
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Ice, Climate, and Economics - Arctic Research on Change (ICE-ARC)

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

The ICE-ARC project aims to understand and quantify the multiple stresses involved in the change in the Arctic marine environment. Particular focus is on the rapid retreat and collapse of the Arctic sea ice cover and to assess the climatic (ice, ocean, atmosphere and ecosystem), economic and social impacts of these stresses on regional and global scales.It is not possible to look at one aspect of ...
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