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Integration of European Simulation Chambers for Investigating Atmospheric Processes – Towards 2020 and beyond (EUROCHAMP-2020)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Atmospheric simulation chambers are the most advanced tools for elucidating processes that occur in the atmosphere. They lay the foundations for air quality and climate models and also aid interpretation of field measurements. EUROCHAMP-2020 will further integrate the most advanced European atmospheric simulation chambers into a world-class infrastructure for research and innovation. A co-ordinate ...
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The Sky is the Limit: Recognising the Potential of VET learners through Engagement in European Mobility

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

Leeds City College is committed to providing high quality, innovative learning opportunities which are inspiring and transformative. This ambition is embodied within the college's mission and will be achieved through the continued implementation of outstanding teaching & learning and enrichment opportunities to drive employability and progression prospects and to challenge and extend the student a ...
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Silicon Nitride Coatings for Improved Implant Function (LifeLongJoints)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Articulating joint replacements represent a medical market exceeding €14 billion p.a. that is expected to rise as demographics reflect an ageing population. However, faster growth has been seen in the revision market, where prosthetic joints are replaced, than in primary interventions. The major cause of these revisions is that all joint replacements are prone to wear leading to loss of implant fu ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens (Dropsa)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The DROPSA consortium will create new knowledge and understanding of the damage and losses of fruit crops resulting from pests and pathogens, with a specific focus on the new and emerging threats due to Drosophila suzukii and quarantine pathogens Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas fragariae and X. arboricola. The project will deliver a cost effective approach that can be widely implemented by the E ...
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Lärarfortbildning med Europeiska kurser , jobbskuggning och samarbete mellan lärare från olika länder.

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

The project aims to broadly develop the skills of various categories of teachers at Virginskagymnasiet in Örebro. The aim is that our teachers will be better and more professional in their meetings with our students and by their new insights, experience and skills also improve achievement among our students. Students are always at the centre of everything we do at Virginskagymnasiet and what we d ...
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VET mobility

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

MCAST is promoting the VET mobility project to reach a fundamental aim regarding our work in the vocational sector. We aim at giving our students an international dimension to their vocational education programmes. Together with their local work experience this project will give these students an unforgettable and unequalled international experience that will boost their working knowledge, their ...
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Quantitative T cell Immunology (QuanTI)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The primary objective of this ITN is to train a new generation of European quantitative immunologists, who will be able to address challenges arising in Systems Immunology. This will be achieved with the proposed Network, Quantitative T cell Immunology (QuanTI), that will train 11 ESRs and 4 ERs, bringing together renowned experimental and theoretical scientists from private and academic instituti ...
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A common European approach to the regulatory testing of nanomaterials (NANOREG)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The innovative and economic potential of Manufactured Nano Materials (MNMs) is threatened by a limited understanding of the related EHS issues. While toxicity data is continuously becoming available, the relevance to regulators is often unclear or unproven. The shrinking time to market of new MNM drives the need for urgent action by regulators. NANoREG is the first FP7 project to deliver the answe ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Techno-economic Assessment of CO2 Quality Effect on its Storage and Transport (CO2QUEST)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The CO2QUEST proposal addresses the fundamentally important issues regarding the impact of the typical impurities in the gas or dense phase CO2 stream captured from fossil fuel power plants on its safe and economic transportation and storage.The proposed work programme will focus on the development of state-of-the art mathematical models backed by laboratory and industrial-scale experimentation ut ...
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VET mobility

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

MCAST is promoting the VET mobility project to reach a fundamental aim regarding our work in the vocational education sector. We aim at giving our students an international dimension to their vocational education programmes. Together with their local work experience this project will give these students an unforgettable and unequalled international experience that will boost their working knowle ...
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Changing Lives : Opening Minds - Leeds City College skills' development across Europe

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

...ated in the Lisbon Treaty, they also need to be empowered to participate actively in society, to develop their professionalism and to enhance their social skills. This project will underwrite the Leeds City College strategic aim to extend the employability skills (defined as “a set of attributes, skills and knowledge to ensure effectiveness in the workplace to the benefit of themselves, their empl ...
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Stärkt lärarkompetens - Rudbecksskolan

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

...our students. Students are always the centre of everything we do at Rudbecksskolan and what we do in these various international activities we do for the sake of our students. In the SPRINT and IB ( Leeds and Malta) , we want to improve our teachers' English skills , and give them tools to enable them more professional teaching about the EU. VO (Leeds) , we want to give teachers the tools so that ...
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EUROPEAN NETWORK for CANCER research in CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS (ENCCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"ENCCA aims to establish a durable, European Virtual Institute clinical and translational research in childhood and adolescent cancers that will define and implement an integrated research strategy and will facilitate the necessary investigator-driven clinical trials to introduce the new generation of biologically targeted drugs into standard of care for children and adolescents with cancer. This ...
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Managing Risks of Nanoparticles (MARINA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

While there are standard procedures for product life cycle analysis, exposure, hazard, and risk assessment for traditional chemicals, is not yet clear how these procedures need to be modified to address all the novel properties of nanomaterials. There is a need to develop specific reference methods for all the main steps in managing the potential risk of ENM. The aim of MARINA is to develop such ...
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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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Understanding Transport for Concrete which is Eco friendly iNnovative and Durable (TRANSCEND)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Cement is the primary binding phase of concrete. It is millennia old and ubiquitous worldwide. As a building material, it is unrivalled in terms of tonnage used, price per tonne, and CO2 production per tonne. Yet its very success means that cement production account for about 5% of global man-made CO2 emissions.The cement industry urgently requires more sustainable cement based products with equal ...
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Management of Emergent Technologies for Economic Impact (ManETEI)

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

The ManETEi network offers a research-led training programme to create a rigorous collaborative research agenda centred on the multifaceted phenomenon of managing emergent technologies for maximum economic and societal impact. It will have advanced capacity-building and career development that will benefit the early-career and experienced researchers needed to ensure Europe becomes a leading knowl ...
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Advanced coexistence technologies for radio optimisation in licensed and unlicensed spectrum (ACROPOLIS)

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

Wireless communications, perpetually a source of innovation, is entering new and uncharted territory. In order to enhance system performance and cater for the services and applications of the future, there is the need for cooperative and cognitive communications paradigms that support advanced coexistence technologies for radio optimization. In short, wireless communications is moving towards a di ...
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Mechanisms to Attack Steering Effectors of Rheumatoid Syndromes with Innovated Therapy Choices (Masterswitch)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

Objective: To delineate the biological and molecular pathways that initiate and drive chronic inflammatory disease and to transform the knowledge obtained into the development of novel anti-inflammatory interventions. Focus will be given to Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) since longitudinal data indicate that intensive treatment can prevent persistency and chronicity. State of the Art and beyond: The ...
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Quantitative Failure Consequence Hazard Assessment for Next Generation CO2 Pipelines (CO2PipeHaz)

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

This project addresses the fundamentally important and urgent issue regarding the accurate predictions of fluid phase, discharge rate, emergency isolation and subsequent atmospheric dispersion during accidental releases from pressurised CO2 pipelines to be employed as an integral part of large scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) chain. This information is pivotal to quantifying all the hazard c ...
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Genomics biomarkers of environmental health (EnviroGenomarkers)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

This project concerns the first large-scale application of the full range of –omics technologies in a population study aiming at a) the discovery and validation of novel biomarkers predictive of increased risks of a number of chronic diseases, b) the exploration of the association of such biomarkers with environmental exposures, including high-priority pollutants and emerging exposures, and c) the ...
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EUROPEAN DRUG INITIATIVE ON CHANNELS AND TRANSPORTERS (EDICT)

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

"The European Drug Initiative on Channels and Transporters, EDICT, allies for the first time, partners with world-class expertise in both the structural and functional characterisation of membrane channels and transporters. State-of-the-art facilities and personnel for X-ray crystallography, Electron Microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the latest throughput technology, will provide infra ...
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HYBRID INFORMATION PROCESSING (HIP)

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

Scaling quantum information processors beyond the present small-scale devices is challenging as communication between parts of the processor, single site addressability and scaling are dificult to reconcile. HIP addresses these issues with the experimental realization of elementary hybrid atom-photon devices, and the theoretical development of schemes for their integration on platforms capable of ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC)

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

"MACC (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for the pilot Core GMES Atmospheric Service. The project has been prepared by the consortia of the FP6 project GEMS and the GSE project PROMOTE, whose core service lines will provide the starting point for MACC. From mid-2009 MACC will continue, improve, extend, integrate and valida ...
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EINET - European Network for Entrepreneurial and Innovative Training & Support

EINET will establish itself as a multi-level network to encourage entrepreneurship and innovative training amongst young European citizens. Partners representing 17 countries will be established at 4 levels (local, regional, national & transnational) comprising core players, permanent relay points and occasional correspondents.Primary activities of the network will include the creation of a 'Virtu ...
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Landscape Education:New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe III

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

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A Sporting Chance

Start date: Oct 1, 2003,

The Sporting Chance project aimed at establishing support centres at local sports clubs in order to enhance personal development opportunities for the young and socially disadvantaged and to better integrate such individuals into society. The positive image of sports clubs was clearly beneficial in encouraging the target group to participate and to become active in the local community. Having orig ...
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