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A Systems medicine approach to chronic inflammatory disease (SYSCID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2022,

"The SYSCID consortium aims to develop a systems medicine approach for disease prediction in CID. We will focus on three major CID indications with distinct characteristics, yet a large overlap of their molecular risk map: inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematodes and rheumatoid arthritis. We have joined 15 partners from major cohorts and initiatives in Europe (e.g.IHEC, ICGC, Twins ...
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High-density cortical implants for cognitive neuroscience and rehabilitation of speech using brain-computer interfaces. (BrainCom)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

The goal of BrainCom is to develop a new generation of neuroprosthetic devices for large-scale and high density recording and stimulation of the human cortex, suitable to explore and repair high-level cognitive functions. Since one of the most invalidating neurospychological conditions is arguably the impossibility to communicate with others, BrainCom primarily focuses on the restoration of speech ...
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Testing the Untestable: Model Testing of Complex Software-Intensive Systems (TUNE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Software-intensive systems pervade modern society and industry. These systems often play critical roles from an economic, safety or security standpoint, thus making their dependability indispensible. Software Verification and Validation (V&V) is core to ensuring software dependability. The most prevalent V&V technique is testing, that is the automated, systematic, and controlled execution of a sys ...
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Energy Conversion and Information Processing at Small Scales (NanoThermo)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Thermodynamics provided mankind with the intellectual tools to master energy transfers and energy conversion in macroscopic systems operating close to equilibrium. It is now one of the most fundamental theories in physics. My goal is to establish a thermodynamic theory describing energy conversion and information processing in small synthetic or biological systems operating far from equilibrium. S ...
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SPIDIA for Personalized Medicine - Standardisation of generic Pre-analytical procedures for In-vitro DIAgnostics for Personalized Medicine (SPIDIA4P)

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

Molecular in vitro diagnostics and biomedical research have allowed great progress in personalised medicine but further progress is limited by insufficient guidelines for pre-analytical workflow steps (sample collection, preservation, storage, transport, processing etc.) as well as by insufficient quality assurance of diagnostic practice. This allows using compromised patients’ samples with post c ...
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Multi-scale Composite Material Selection Platform with a Seamless Integration of Material Models and Multidisciplinary Design Framework. (COMPOSELECTOR)

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

The mission of COMPOSELECTOR is to develop a Business Decision Support System (BDSS), which integrates materials modelling, business tools and databases into a single workflow to support the complex decision process involved in the selection and design of polymer-matrix composites (PMCs). This will be achieved by means of an open integration platform which enables interoperability and information ...
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The nanoparticle-scope : a new integrated instrument for accurate and reproducible physico-chemical characterisation of nanoparticles (npSCOPE) (npSCOPE)

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

The npSCOPE project aims at developing a new integrated instrument (the nanoparticle-scope) optimised for providing a complete physico-chemical characterisation of nanoparticles both in their pristine form or embedded in complex matrices such as biological tissues. Using sophisticated correlative data processing methodologies and algorithms based on statistical methods in conjunction with appropri ...
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Smart high-frequency environmental sensor networks for quantifying nonlinear hydrological process dynamics across spatial scales (HiFreq)

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

Regulators and industries are challenged by the difficulty to analyse and predict the impact of nonlinear environmental processes on short-term and long-term responses of ecosystems to environmental change. Until very recently, the development of most conventional monitoring, forecasting and prediction tools has been based on the assumption of stationary environmental systems. In the context of gl ...
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Production of Scandium compounds and Scandium Aluminum alloys from European metallurgical by- products (SCALE)

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

Scandium (Sc) is one of the highest valued elements in the periodic table and an element which is usually grouped in REEs as it shares many characteristics with Yttrium. Scandium technological applications are unique, as it is a key component in producing Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (Scandia-Stabilized-Zirconia solid electrolyte layer) or high strength Aluminum alloys used in aerospace and 3D printing ...
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Nature Based Solutions for re-naturing cities: knowledge diffusion and decision support platform through new collaborative models (Nature4Cities)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Based on a detailed mapping of urban challenges and relevant nature-based solutions (NBS), Nature4Cities aims at developing complementary and interactive modules to engage urban stakeholders in a collective-learning process about re-naturing cities, develop and circulate new business, financial and governance models for NBS projects, as well as provide tools for the impacts assessment, valorisatio ...
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Resituating the local in cohesion and territorial development (RELOCAL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

There is an increasing need for developing European Union Cohesion Policy in terms of greater sensitivity towards territorial specificities, more supportive of community-based development and the facilitation of greater civic participation. This also relates to the concern over decreasing identification with the European project among the population. Place-based development, endogenous regional de ...
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INTEGRATED MODEL GUIDED PROCESS OPTIMIZATION OF STEAM CRACKING FURNACES (IMPROOF)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The objective of the project IMPROOF is to drastically improve the energy efficiency of steam cracking furnaces by at least 20%, in a cost effective way, while simultaneously reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses and NOx per ton ethylene produced by at least 25%. One important way to reduce the energy input in steam cracking furnaces is to reduce coke formation on the reactor wall. The use of ei ...
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The artificial pancreas in children aged 1 to 7 years with type 1 diabetes (KidsAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

TYPE 1 DIABETES is one of the most COMMON CHRONIC diseases in children with a RAPID increase in number of cases particularly in young children. Type 1 diabetes is associated with LIFE-LONG dependency on insulin administration. POOR glucose control leads to diabetes COMPLICATIONS, e.g. eye, heart, kidney disease, including BRAIN changes in young children. Episodes of VERY LOW glucose levels may be ...
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Next Generation GEOSS for Innovation Business (NextGEOSS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

The NextGEOSS project will implement a federated data hub for access and exploitation of Earth Observation data, including user-friendly tools for data mining, discovery, access and exploitation. This data hub will be supported by a strong commitment to the engagement of Earth Observation and related communities, with the view of supporting the creation of innovative and business oriented applicat ...
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YOUNG OPERA MAKERS Programme by enoa

Start date: May 11, 2016, End date: May 10, 2020,

YOUNG OPERA MAKERS PROGRAMME by enoaThe role of creation, development of new forms, exploration of innovative creative processes and audience renewal are all major challenges facing today’s European opera world. Young artists must be the drivers of this change: their training and employability are crucial issues. In a globalized and competitive sector young artists should be fundamentally mobile a ...
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Sustainable Processes and Optimized Technologies for Industrially Efficient Water Usage (SPOTVIEW)

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Apr 2, 2020,

The objective of the SPOTVIEW project is to develop and demonstrate innovative, sustainable and efficient processes and technology components, in order to optimize the use of natural resources, especially water, in three industrial sectors (Dairy, Pulp and Paper and Steel) contributing to 44% of industrial water usage in EU. This resource optimization (including water, energy, raw materials and ad ...
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Intelligent Non-woven Textiles and Elastomeric Responsive materials by Advancing liquid Crystal Technology (INTERACT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

A grand challenge in today’s materials research is the realization of flexible materials that are also intelligent and functional. They will be the enablers of true breakthroughs in the hot trends of soft robotics and wearable technology. The standard approach to the latter is to decorate rubber sheets with electronic components, yielding two serious flaws: rubber is uncomfortable as it does not b ...
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Designing for People with Dementia: designing for mindful self-empowerment and social engagement (MinD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

This project aims to help people with dementia engage in social contexts to improve psychosocial wellbeing. People who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias often face cognitive, behavioural and psychosocial difficulties, including impairment and degeneration of memory and of perceptions of identity. In a social context, this can cause difficulties of recognizing, relating to and ...
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Automated diagnostic platform, data management system and innovative communication tool, for improving the impact of malaria vector control interventions (DMC-MALVEC)

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

Malaria is a life-threatening disease causing more than 500,000 deaths every year in sub-Saharan Africa. Prevention of the disease is best achieved by vector control which relies on the use of insecticides. Monitoring mosquito vector populations is an integral component of control programmes and a prerequisite for effective interventions. Several individual methods are used for this task, However, ...
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MIREL - MIning and REasoning with Legal texts (MIREL)

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

The management of large repositories of norms, and the semantic access and reasoning to these norms are key challenges in Legal Informatics. The MIREL project will create an international and inter-sectorial network to define a formal framework and to develop tools for MIning and REasoning with Legal texts, with the aim of translating these legal texts into formal representations that can be used ...
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Cancer treatment and monitoring through identification of circulating tumour cells and tumour related nucleic acids in blood (CANCER-ID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Blood-based biomarkers such as Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs), circulating free tumor DNA (cfDNA) and microRNAs (miRNAs) have the potential to improve the development of personalized medicines for cancer patients. This is of particular importance when biopsies of the primary tumor or metastases are not accessible (e.g. at early disease stages or in minimal residual disease) or possible and the ass ...
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Value Intellectual Property for SMEs (VIP4SME)

Start date: Dec 15, 2015, End date: Dec 14, 2019,

The main goal of the VIP4SME project is to sustainably enhance Intellectual Property (IP) support services to SMEs in order to allow them to understand the value of the intellectual capital they create and own, and to define strategies and management practices allowing them to better turn this capital into commercial values and competitiveness. This challenge will be jointly addressed by 31 Nation ...
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Systems Medicine of Mitochondrial Parkinson’s Disease (SysMedPD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

The overall objective of this project is to identify novel drug candidates capable of slowing down the progression of neurodegeneration in the subset of Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with overt mitochondrial dysfunction. Multi-modal phenotypic characterisation of cohorts of monogenic PD patients with overt mitochondrial dysfunction will be used as an anchor for the discovery of two extreme coh ...
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Holistic Approach of Spray Injection through a Generalized Multi-phase Framework (HAoS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Development of fuel injection equipment (FIE) able to reduce pollutant emissions from liquid-fueled transportation and power generation systems is a top industrial priority in order to meet the forthcoming EU 2020 emission legislations. However, design of new FIE is currently constrained by the incomplete physical understanding of complex micro-scale processes, such as in-nozzle cavitation, primar ...
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Reconnaitre les compétences transversales en lien avec l'employabilité et les certifications

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

...,- At the European francophone level: the international Erasmus+ conference, held in Brussels on 13 and 14 October 2015 at the initiative of three Erasmus+ European agencies (France, Belgium and Luxembourg) reiterated the necessity to establish links between the recognition of skills and employability, particularly for the poorly educated population,- At the national level: the ministries of educa ...
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Multilit Moocs

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

...national viewpoint, incorporating examples from many different national contexts.The project participants span universities, as well as a college and a school, from five different countries (Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, England and Spain). Each participating institution has expertise in at least two of the three relevant topic areas (multilingualism, inclusion, social disadvantage), resulting in ...
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SENSE in transnational transport in the EU

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

SENSE makes transport more Social, rules better ENforceable, the sector of international transport more Sustainable and, because of the Legal Navigation App, all of this will be made Easy. The EU transport sector is a genuine transnational sector. It involves many countries, each having its own different economic, social and legal systems. If goods are transported from the Netherlands to Poland an ...
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Intelligent Portable ContROl SyStem (iCROSS)

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

iCROSS envisages to enable faster thorough border control for third country nationals crossing the borders of EU, with technologies that adopt the future development of the Schengen Border Management. The project will present an optimal mixture of an enhanced, voluntary form of a Registered Traveller Programme and an auxiliary solution for the Entry/Exit System based on involving bona fide travell ...
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Decision SupporT and self-mAnagement system for stRoke survivoRs (STARR)

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

Stroke a leading cause of death and disability, with an estimated total cost of €65 billion per year in Europe. Even though preventive measures are in place to reduce the incidence of stroke, the number of persons having a stroke in Europe is likely to increase from 1.1 million/year in 2000 to more than 1.5 million/year in 2025 because of the increasing ageing population. Secondary stroke carries ...
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The Once Only Principle Project (TOOP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The “Once-Only” Principle Project (TOOP) explores and demonstrates the “once-only” principle through multiple sustainable pilots, using a federated architecture on a cross-border collaborative pan-European scale in order to identify drivers and barriers and to provide a basis for future implementations and wider use. Three pilots are implemented: (1) Cross-border e-Services for Business Mobility, ...
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FULLY INTEGRATED ANALYSIS, DESIGN, MANUFACTURING AND HEALTH-MONITORING OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES (FULLCOMP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Composite structures are massively exploited in many engineering fields. For instance, the state-of-the-art civil aircraft (B787 and A350) are mostly made of composite materials. The design of composites leads to challenging tasks since those competencies that stemmed from the adoption of metallic materials are often inadequate for composites. Insights on many different disciplines and tight acade ...
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European Joint Doctorate in Functional Materials Research (EJD-FunMat)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

EJD-FunMat is a European Joint Doctoral programme in the field of functional materials research. EJD-FunMat is embedded in an existing research network, with previous experience in co-tutelle doctorates, but the project will add new major elements, with the strategic aim of becoming a permanent reference European Joint Doctoral School in Materials Science and beyond.The key innovative aspects of t ...
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Advanced Tools to assEss and mitigate the criticality of ICT compoNents and their dependencies over Critical InfrAstructures (ATENA)

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

Over recent years, Industrial and Automation Control Systems (IACS) adopted in Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have become more complex due to the increasing number of interconnected devices, and to the large amount of information exchanged among system components. With the emergence of such an “Internet of Things” generation of IACS, the boundaries to be protected have grown well beyond that of th ...
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Green Electronics with Diamond Power Devices (GreenDiamond)

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

The key to the efficient transmission and conversion of low-carbon electrical energy is the improvement of power electronic devices. Diamond is considered to be the ultimate wide bandgap semiconductor material for applications in high power electronics due to its exceptional thermal and electronic properties. Two recent developments - the emergence of commercially available electronic grade single ...
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CrossCult: Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware crosscuts of European history (CROSSCULT)

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

CROSSCULT aims to make reflective history a reality in the European cultural context, by enabling the re-interpretation of European (hi)stories through cross-border interconnections among cultural digital resources, citizen viewpoints and physical venues. The project has two main goals. The first goal is to lower cultural EU barriers and create unique cross-border perspectives, by connecting exist ...
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European Training Network on Antiviral Drug Development (ANTIVIRALS)

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

Viral infections are a major cause of disease, mortality and economic losses worldwide. Antiviral therapy is an essential instrument to control virus infections. At present, however, licensed antiviral drugs have been developed only against a limited number of viruses (e.g. HIV, HCV, influenza, herpesviruses). There is a clear and unmet need for antiviral drugs to treat infections with other impor ...
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TWINNING for a Comprehensive Clinical Centre for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease (CENTRE-PD)

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

Unlike other EU member states, Luxembourg lacks a tradition for translation of fundamental research into clinical practice, which hampers health innovation and its adoption in cutting-edge medicine. During the last years, the Luxembourg Government made substantial efforts to position biomedicine as a key innovation driver. This highly successful biomedical initiative placed fundamental research on ...
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Versatile Integrated Accelerator-based Heterogeneous Data Centres (VINEYARD)

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

VINEYARD will develop an integrated platform for energy-efficient data centres based on new servers with novel, coarse-grain and fine-grain, programmable hardware accelerators. It will, also, build a high-level programming framework for allowing end-users to seamlessly utilize these accelerators in heterogeneous computing systems by using typical data-centre programming frameworks (e.g. MapReduce, ...
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Biomarker Development for Postoperative Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly (BioCog)

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

Postoperative delirium (POD) is characterized by the progressive deterioration of sensory/cognitive function after surgery with incidences of up to 30-80%. It is frequently followed by postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) which tends to persist over time. In elderly patients, POCD resembles chronic dementia and appears to accelerate the cognitive decline in Alzheimer dementia. POD is strongl ...
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Aetionomy – Organising Mechanistic Knowledge about Neurodegenerative Diseases for the Improvement of Drug Development and Therapy (AETIONOMY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

IMI’s Call 8 is geared to develop knowledge frameworks for ‘druggable mechanisms’ for two domains of pathophysiology. In response to this call, we propose (I) the development of a generic AETIONOMY pipeline to capture and infer over mechanistic knowledge of pathophysiology, and (II) the focused application of this pipeline to derive clinically significant mechanistic taxonomies of neurodegenerativ ...
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