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Paraplegia Prevention in Aortic Aneurysm Repair by Thoracoabdominal Staging with ‘Minimally-Invasive Segmental Artery Coil-Embolization’: A Randomized Controlled Multicentre Trial (PAPA-ARTIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Chronic aortic aneurysms are permanent and localized dilations of the aorta that remain asymptomatic for long periods of time but continue to increase in diameter before they eventually rupture. Left untreated, the patients’ prognosis is dismal, since the internal bleeding of the rupture brings about sudden death. Although successful treatment cures the disease, the risky procedures can result in ...
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Combinatorics with an analytic structure (CASe)

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

"Combinatorics, and its interplay with geometry, has fascinated our ancestors as shown by early stone carvings in the Neolithic period. Modern combinatorics is motivated by the ubiquity of its structures in both pure and applied mathematics.The work of Hochster and Stanley, who realized the relation of enumerative questions to commutative algebra and toric geometry made a vital contribution to the ...
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ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO EXOTIC EARTHWORM INVASION IN NORTHERN NORTH AMERICAN FORESTS (ECOWORM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Earth is experiencing substantial biodiversity losses at the global scale, while both species gains and losses are occurring locally and regionally. Nonrandom changes in species distributions could profoundly influence ecosystem functions and services. However, few experimental tests have examined the influences of invasive ecosystem engineers, which can have disproportionally strong impacts on na ...
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Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Spaces (ODYCCEUS)

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

Social media and the digitization of news and discussion fora are having far-reaching effects on the way individuals and communities communicate, organize, and express themselves. Can the information circulating on these platforms be tapped to better understand and analyze the enormous problems facing our contemporary society? Could this help us to better monitor the growing number of social crise ...
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Form-frequency correspondences in grammar (FormGram)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

This project will document and explain a substantial number of grammatical universals by demonstrating a link between cross-linguistic patterns of language form and general trends of language use. The claim is that frequently expressed meanings tend to be expressed by short forms, not only at the level of words, but also throughout the grammars of languages around the world (form-frequency corresp ...
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Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry Master's Course

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

... is jointly operated by five universities that form the ASC Consortium: Alma Mater University of Bologna (Italy), University Lille1 (France), Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland), University of Leipzig (Germany) and University of Helsinki (Finland). The ASC programme includes a mandatory mobility of students within the ASC Consortium based on their choice of a specialization according to our ...
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Breast Cancer Risk after Diagnostic Gene Sequencing (BRIDGES) (BRIDGES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Breast cancer affects more than 360,000 women per year in the EU and causes more than 90,000 deaths. Identification of women at high risk of the disease can lead to disease prevention through intensive screening, chemoprevention or prophylactic surgery. Breast cancer risk is determined by a combination of genetic and lifestyle risk factors. The advent of next generation sequencing has opened up th ...
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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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A multi-center randomized, placebo-controlled trial of mirabegron, a new beta3-adrenergic receptor agonist on left ventricular mass and diastolic function in patients with structural heart disease (BETA3_LVH)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

Patients with cardiovascular risk factors, e.g. hypertension and obesity are at risk of developing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), a highly prevalent disease in the elderly, mostly women population. There is currently no specific, defined treatment for HFpEF, beyond control of risk factors. Activation of cardiac and vascular Beta3-adrenergic receptors (B3AR) represents a ne ...
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Triangulum: The Three Point Project / Demonstrate. Disseminate. Replicate. (Triangulum)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

...ll test the SIP across three lighthouse cities: Manchester, Eindhoven and Stavanger, which represent the main typologies of European cities. They will be complemented by our follower cities Prague, Leipzig and Sabadell. This powerful combination reflects an urban population of between 100k and 1,2m inhabitants across six different countries, allowing us to demonstrate successful replication across ...
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Imaging the Force of Cancer (FORCE)

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

Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in EU member states with ~90% of all cancer deaths caused by metastatic spread. Despite its significance, measuring metastatic potential as well as potential indicators of therapy efficacy remain unmet clinical challenges. Recently, it has been demonstrated in vitro, that aggressive metastatic cells pull on their surroundings suggesting that metastat ...
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Restoring tissue regeneration in patients with visceral Graft versus Host Disease. (RETHRIM)

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

Stem cell regenerative therapies hold great promise for patients suffering from a variety of disorders that are associated with tissue or organ injury. Regeneration relies on tissue or organ-specific stem and progenitor cells, but can also aim at promoting the endogenous repair capacity of the body. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are undergoing clinical testing in a variety of clinical conditions ...
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Energy CHOices supporting the Energy union and the Set-plan (ECHOES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

ECHOES is a multi-disciplinary research project providing policy makers with comprehensive information, data, and policy-ready recommendations about the successful implementation of the Energy Union and SET plan. Individual and collective energy choices and social acceptance of energy transitions are analysed in a multi-disciplinary process including key stakeholders as co-constructors of the know ...
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Global Studies - A European Perspective

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Objective The objective of the Global Studies - A European Perspective Master Programme is to qualify students to deal responsibly and on an advanced scientific level with phenomena of globalisation and its accompanying processes in countries of the North and the South on the basis of findings, theories and methods from the Humanities and Social Science, History and Cultural Science.Course duratio ...
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MASS Spectrometry TRaining network for Protein Lipid adduct ANalysis (MASSTRPLAN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

MASSTRPLAN will train the next generation of interdisciplinary research leaders in advanced molecular analytical techniques to detect oxidized phospholipids & proteins in biological & clinical samples, evaluate their biochemical roles in inflammation, and translate these findings to develop new diagnostic tools. Chronic inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) & cancer ...
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Aktuelle Krisen und EU Integration

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

...e active engagement and discussion about prevailing challenges and contemporary crises of EU integration.First, it improves undergraduate teaching for political science and neighboring disciplines at Leipzig University (LU), which did not receive JMC funding so far. To this aim the new Chair for Multilevel governance (holder: applicant) will complement and improve existing teaching and develop inn ...
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SUstainability-driven international/intersectoral Partnership for Education and Research on modelling next generation CONCRETE (SUPERCONCRETE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

SUPERCONCRETE is a synergetic cross-disciplinary international/intersectoral project addressing theoretical models for next-generation concretes, characterised by a significant sustainability enhancement for the construction industry. Three advanced concrete classes (CCs) are selected which represent the projects’ key research lines:- Low-Carbon Concrete (LCC), characterised by non-conventional co ...
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Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ)

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

"The overall objective of READ is to implement a Virtual Research Environment where archivists, humanities scholars, computer scientists and volunteers are collaborating with the ultimate goal of boosting research, innovation, development and usage of cutting edge technology for the automated recognition, transcription, indexing and enrichment of handwritten archival documents. This Virtual Resear ...
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Integrating Epidemiology and Experimental Biology to Improve Risk Assessment of Exposure to Mixtures of Endocrine Disruptive Compounds (EDC-MixRisk)

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

A large body of evidence supports associations between exposure to anthropogenic chemicals and endocrine disruptive effects, leading to disorders in humans and wildlife. Based on the scientific documentation it is beyond doubt that endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are of concern and need to be handled according to the risks they pose, as single chemicals or as mixtures. To develop chemical ri ...
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P4SB – From Plastic waste to Plastic value using Pseudomonas putida Synthetic Biology (P4SB)

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

P4SB is about the utilization of the conceptual and material tools of contemporary Synthetic Biology to bring about the sustainable and environmentally friendly bioconversion of oil-based plastic waste into fully biodegradable counterparts by means of deeply engineered, whole-cell bacterial catalysts. These tools will be used to design tailor-made enzymes for the bio-depolymerization of PET (polye ...
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Hybrid Drug Delivery Systems upon Mesoporous Materials, Self Assembled Therapeutics and Virosomes (HYMADE)

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

HYMADE focuses on the development of capsules and engineered colloidal particles for drug delivery combining mesoporous colloids, the Layer by Layer (LbL) technique and virosomes. The capsules and particles have potential applications in cancer and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and uveitis. The project is based on the secondments of Early Stage Researchers and Experienced Rese ...
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Diagnostic Imaging Strategies for Patients with Stable Chest Pain and Intermediate Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: Comparative Effectiveness Research of Existing Technologies (DISCHARGE)

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

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in high-income countries. Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) is the reference standard for the diagnosis of CAD and allows immediate therapy. However, only 40% of patients undergoing ICA actually have obstructive CAD and ICA has relatively rare but considerable risks. Coronary computed tomography (CT) is the most accurate diagnostic test ...
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Multi-country cOllaborative project on the rOle of Diet, FOod-related behaviour, and Obesity in the prevention of Depression (MooDFOOD) (MOODFOOD)

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

MooDFOOD is a Multi-country cOllaborative project on the rOle of Diet, Food-related behaviour, and Obesity in the prevention of Depression. Depression is one of the most prevalent, severe and disabling disorders in the EU and places a heavy burden on individuals and families. A large proportion of the EU population is overweight which increases depression risk. Improving food-related behaviour and ...
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Accelerating photoredox catalysis in continuous-flow systems (Photo4Future)

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

The use of visible light energy to induce chemical transformations constitutes an interesting and green activation mode of organic molecules. However, implementation of this energy source in organic synthetic methodologies and in the industrial production of fine chemicals has been challenging. The Photo4Future Innovative Training Network establishes a training network with five beneficiaries from ...
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Stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes for better climate predictions (StratoClim)

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

StratoClim will produce more reliable projections of climate change and stratospheric ozone by a better understanding and improved representation of key processes in the Upper Troposphere and Stratosphere (UTS). This will be achieved by an integrated approach bridging observations from dedicated field activities, process modelling on all scales, and global modelling with a suite of chemistry clima ...
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Europejska praktyka uczniów ZST w Strzyżowie inwestycją w przyszłość

Start date: Nov 30, 2016, End date: Nov 29, 2018,

The main objective of the project is the career development of the students and graduates of the Technical School Complex in Strzyżów, to increase their employability and mobility in the labor market through participation in the internship abroad. The specific objectives of the project are:• to acquire key qualifications to increase chances of obtaining future employment, confirmed by an internati ...
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Energy Training in Europe 2016

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The Fundación Axencia Enerxética Provincial da Coruña (Galicia/Spain), along with a consortium of vocational centres, fosters this project with the goal of offering mobilities to recent graduates and VET staff of the members of the said consortium. It seeks to provide a first work experience in European companies to students to gain technical and language competences. The second type of mobility i ...
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Metagenomics in Cardiometabolic Diseases (METACARDIS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

METACARDIS applies a systems medicine multilevel approach to identify biological relationships between gut microbiota, assessed by metagenomics, and host genome expression regulation, which will improve understanding and innovative care of cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) and their comorbidities. CMD comprise metabolic (obesity, diabetes) and heart diseases characterized by a chronic evolution in ag ...
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Modernizing Health Education in Universities

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Overall wider objective of the project is supporting public health in Uzbekistan by modernization of Curriculum of Health Sciences in universities of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and therefore following steps will be undertaken: adapting, modernizing, restructuring health sciences education, and bring innovative teaching technologies into training process as multimedia and audio-visual components; el ...
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Modernization of tEaching meThodologies in higher educatiOn: EU experience for jorDan and paleStinian territory

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The project aims at modernization of Higher education methodologies with cooperation of EU experiences, by establishing well equipped center, which engage technology with teaching process and it will be used to train Professors, Lecturers, Trainers whom already exist in Partner countries and Trainees in best practices of ICT in education. The project aims to ensure that universities in Jordan and ...
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Licence professionnelle en formation ouverte et à distance pour la performance énergétique et environnementale des bâtiments en Fédération de Russie, en Chine et en Azerbaïdjan

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

...ing for the energy and environmental performance of buildings and a lifelong training program.ACADEMIC KEY PARTNERS:- CNAM Paris- GIPFIPAG - CRVEP - UNINETTUNO- AGCNAM - Universidad de Sevilla- HTWK Leipzig - Azerbaijan Technical University- Harbin Institute of Technology- North-Eastern Federal University - POLITECNICO DI TORINO- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA- Siberian Transport University- Tuv ...
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Promotion of Innovation Culture in the Higher Education in Jordan

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

INVENT project responds to one of Jordan’s priorities in promoting innovation and R&D to boost economy. It responds to the need for a professional profile able to work with an interdisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge and expertise in R&D on one hand, and in innovation-driven business on the other hand. The basic results of the project activities are the establishment of Centers for tr ...
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ocational training center for undergraduate university students and teachers in Jordan

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The reason of this project is to assess and describe the need for introducing vocational education at higher and tertiary levels and for establishing a Vocational Centers in Jordan universities and transfer of the EU experience in vocational training system and teaching.This project will focus on developing a vocational training program by constructing a vocational training center in Jordan univer ...
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Formare de calitate pentru integrare cu usurinta pe piata muncii europene

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The project entitled "Quality trening for seamless integration on the European labor market" addresses students in technical and vocational education.This project targets students in 11th grades, from all of our school qualifications, and supports the quality development of the professional training from our school, with local, regional, national and European level impact. One of the school’s prio ...
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The Language Magician

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

...ers network, ALL, have been extremely helpful and influential in discussing the need to address the imbalance of language learning in the UK and other member states. The Universities of Reading and Leipzig were identified as leading primary language research experts while the University of Perugia was chosen as assessment expert. In order to ensure the necessary practical focus, the Education Mini ...
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Modernising European Higher Music Education through Improvisation

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

The ‘Modernising European Higher Music Education through Improvisation - METRIC’ project wants to contribute to improving the employability of future music graduates through the artistic, pedagogical and entrepreneurial development of higher music education studies in the area of improvisation as a response to the rapidly changing employment situation in the music profession. In performance curric ...
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MIME - MOBILITY AND INCLUSION IN MULTILINGUAL EUROPE (MIME)

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

Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, MIME will generate an organised body of policy-relevant propositions addressing the full range of questions raised in the call. Our aim is to identify the language policies and strategies that best combine “mobility” and “inclusion”.MIME emphasises complementarity between disciplines, and brings together researchers from sociolinguistics, political s ...
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Qualifizierung der Berufsausbildung im kaufmännischen Bereich durch volks- und betriebswirtschaftliche Aspekte des europäischen Binnenmarktes und Mobilitäten

Start date: Aug 29, 2016, End date: Aug 28, 2018,

...ing and the German and French partners improve the quality of their training as much as their communication and cooperation skills and the relationship among each other.The vocational college BSZ1 in Leipzig increases its quality of learning, in particular the satisfaction of students and teachers, with regard to the advancement of the school program.NUMBER AND PROFILE OF APPRENTICESHIP OF THE PAR ...
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JA:hr für Europa

Start date: Aug 15, 2016, End date: Aug 14, 2018,

The project links five EVS hosting organizations, 13 European volunteers and seven sending organizations. Common theme is to get to know, to work on, to exchange about and to build up integration measures for people, especially for children and adolescents, with asylum background. It includes the dealing and discussion of the topic of coexistence in diversity and tolerance, which will be intensifi ...
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Deutsch-polnische Austausche in der Berufsbildung im Bereich Kraftfahrzeugtechnik

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

... Walbrzych; Zespół Szkół Technicznych „Mechanik”, Jelenia Góra – and Germany – namely Berufliches Schulzentrum für Technik „August Horch“, Zwickau and Karl-Heine-Schule, Leipzig – have come together in order to enable young adult trainees to take part in an ERASMUS+ mobility project and by doing so to train their vocational skills, to enlarge their knowledge as well as competence in automotive en ...
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