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Collaborative learning for enhancing practical skills for patient-focused interventions in gait rehabilitation after orthopedic surgery

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

...a serious need of complementarity between vocational training and higher education. Although in many specialties, computer assisted education has long been integrated into educational curriculum, in medical education, this happens sporadically, despite the great interest of medical specialists for this type of training. A growing number of reports draw attention to the need of adjustment of the ...
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European Sudden Cardiac Arrest network: towards Prevention, Education and NEw Treatment (ESCAPE-NET)

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

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) causes ~20% of all deaths in Europe. SCA is lethal within minutes if left untreated and survival rates are presently only 5-20%. Therefore, there is a large medical need to improve SCA prevention and treatment. Designing effective individualized prevention and treatment strategies requires knowledge on genetic and environmental risk factors. So far, these efforts have b ...
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ScanBalt Campus – a European model case for transnational and transectoral institution building in education, research and development. (ScanBalt Campus)

Start date: Mar 9, 2005, End date: Jun 8, 2007,

...nal training should also encompass a broad view on societal activities.ScanBalt Campus: Knowledge formation•8 ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Networks, (SBC KN)-Molecular Diagnostics University of Gdansk/Medical University of Gdansk.-Regenerative Medicine University of Rostock and BioCon Valley, Germany-Environmental Biotechnology Centre for environment and sustainability, GMV, at Chalmers and Universit ...
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CB Peloid and Highly-mineralised water research (PARES)

Start date: Jul 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

...ched through the realization of overall objective which is going to contribute to the promotion and development of application of peloids and highly mineralized water from Orlovača locality through medical and geological researches. With the realization of this objective will be resolved the main defined problems in border areas. Orlovacas site has big unexploited capacity and therefore it is nece ...
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no PILLS in waters! (noPILLS)

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2015,

...n antibiotic resistant bacteria from different sources and their resilience. Partner 5 accompanied Partner 6 in the development of stakeholder investigations to work on the knowledge gaps of medical staff.The projects are continuously filmed to portray the regions and projects. End results will be presented in the Brussels final conference May 27/28 2015. Documents- piratas do rio (Children bo ...
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Innovation Policy in University City Regions (INNOPOLIS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

... KE practices. During the study visit partners identified 2 further particularly good KE practices: Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology & Innovation & Biomedicum Helsinki, the centre for medical research and training. The focal point of Semester3 was the Manchester Study Visit & seminar. At the seminar a draft framework for BP simulation was tested. Participants were introduced to the ...
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Framework for Continuing Educational Development of Trainers in General Practice in Europe

...T) observation (through many years of its functioning) of urgent needs related to development of common European framework of educational expertise in family medicine. Although educators in different medical schools in Europe are considered experts in GP training, there is neither an actual framework that would support the understanding of the need for educational experts in the field of family me ...
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Teaching biotechnology for human health: from the bench to the market

Start date: Dec 22, 2014, End date: Jun 21, 2017,

Graduate programmes in Medical Biotechnology have their foundations in providing scientific knowledge and related technical skills, to be applied in research or professional laboratories. Existing MSc/DSc courseworks are poorly homogeneous with no attitude to serve as a bridge between Industry and Academia. Medical biotechnology has been a major industrial sector in expansion during the 21st cent ...
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Structured and validated training programmes for robotic surgery in the field of urology

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

...gery differ across various countries in Europe. This is problematic because, as stated by the European Commission, all citizens of Europe need to reap the benefits from safe, effective and innovative medical devices. The quality of the skills of a surgeon on the use of robotic surgery should not vary across countries in Europe. To address the training needs of surgeons and trainees best, three tra ...
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INTEgrating and Strengthening GEnomic Research in South-Eastern Europe (INTEGERS)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

...s resulted in award of several research grants from the Croatian Ministry of Science, as well as international grants with EU partners (from The British Council, Royal Society UK, The Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council UK, National Institutes of Health USA and European Union). This proposal therefore seeks to strengthen and reinforce Centre for Functional Genomics of the Zagreb Medical Schoo ...
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EU Intersex Citizenship (EUICIT)

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

The EUICIT action addresses the rights claims and agendas of intersex people and those with Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD), in response to recent Council of Europe recommendations to revise medical and policy approaches. The term 'Intersex' refers to people born with sex characteristics (chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical) not easily classifiable as either male or female; at least 1 per ...
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The Sociological Aspects of the Management of Intersexuality (INTERSEXIONS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...“normalize” primary and secondary sexual characteristics in intersex children. The present project aims to investigate, in a comparative and diachronic way with an interdisciplinary approach, the medical, juridical, and social practices adopted in the management of intersexuality in Europe (focusing on the Italian case, where a conspicuous intersex movement does not exist yet) and in the U.S. (the ...
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Developing science-driven therapies after trauma: Neural mechanisms underlying the modification of intrusive emotional memories (Farewell flashbacks)

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

...training will include courses on advanced MRI, media training and project management, and disseminating my results through scientific papers, conferences, and the media. A fellowship at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) in Cambridge would help me establish an network with leading scientists from all over the world, while being based at a premier establishme ...
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Transformations to Sustainability (T2S)

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

...eeks to bring into being and nurture integrated teams of scientists from relevant academic disciplines including, as appropriate, social, natural, human, natural, engineering, agricultural and health/medical sciences disciplines and societal stakeholders to produce new knowledge and perspectives that can contribute to finding equitable and durable solutions to the challenges of sustainability in s ...
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The power of imagination – Breaking through behavioural avoidance in depression with mental imagery (MENTAL IMAGERY)

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

...ed to a training condition or a control condition: the training consists of daily mental imagery of behavioural activities for 7 days and builds on previous ground-breaking work of researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge where I will conduct the study. By working closely together with the supervisor at the host institution, prof. Emily Holme ...
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Optical Ultrasound Imaging for Real-time Guidance of Intracardiac Procedures (MOPHIMPOC)

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

This European Research Council Proof of Concept grant is focused on translating a new medical device for interventional cardiology from a proven laboratory prototype to a commercial prototype. The core innovation in this medical device is a new type of ultrasound imaging probe that can be readily integrated into medical devices to guide minimally invasive procedures. Current generation probes, whi ...
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Early Detection of Cancer using Lasers Demonstrator (EDOCALD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

...tates to take common action to implement national cancer screening programs.Reports from the US state that Oral Cancer is the most expensive to treat. Most oral cancers require costly and disfiguring medical intervention, and even then the five-year survival rate is only 57%. There are 124.000 new cases diagnosed each year. This gives an additional cost to the medical health care system of €6.944 ...
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“Science against Poverty” Conference under the Spanish Presidency (Science against Poverty)

Start date: Mar 3, 2010, End date: Jan 2, 2011,

...enda of the Competitiveness Council of Ministers of the EU on 26 May 2010.The topic of the conference covers multiple facets of knowledge and action: some as urgent as global access to innovative medical technologies and medicines and the fight against the digital gap, but also an understanding of the social dynamics that cause poverty and the mechanisms to create and maintain economically sustain ...
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Healthy minds from 0-100 years: Optimising the use of European brain imaging cohorts (Lifebrain)

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

Our main objective is to identify determinants of brain, cognitive and mental health at different stages of life. By integration, harmonisation and enrichment of major European neuroimaging studies of age differences and changes, we will obtain an unparalleled database of fine-grained brain, cognitive and mental health measures of more than 6.000 individuals. Longitudinal brain imaging, genetic an ...
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Optimizing a deployable high efficacy malaria vaccine (OptiMalVax)

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

A highly effective malaria vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum should help prevent half a million deaths from malaria each year. New vaccine technologies and antigen discovery approaches now make accelerated design and development of a highly effective multi-antigen multi-stage subunit vaccine feasible. Leading malariologists, vaccine researchers and product developers will here collaborate in ...
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An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Program Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st Century (EU-ToxRisk)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

The vision of EU-ToxRisk is to drive a paradigm shift in toxicology towards an animal-free, mechanism-based integrated approach to chemical safety assessment. The project will unite all relevant disciplines and stakeholders to establish: i) pragmatic, solid read-across procedures incorporating mechanistic and toxicokinetic knowledge; and ii) ab initio hazard and risk assessment strategies of chemi ...
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CryoEM studies of the spliceosome (SPLICE3D)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2021,

The protein coding sequences of the majority of eukaryotic genes are interrupted by non-coding introns. The spliceosome is an immense and intricate molecular machine that catalyses the excision of introns from pre-mRNAs and splicing together of exons to produce mature mRNA. This is a crucial process in eukaryotic gene expression and we aims to greatly increase our understanding of its molecular me ...
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Discovery and characterization of functional disordered regions and the genes involved in their regulation through next generation sequencing (IdrSeq)

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

A large fraction of any eukaryotic genome (>40%) encodes protein segments that do not adopt a defined tertiary structure. These proteins or regions are called intrinsically disordered proteins/regions (IDPs/IDRs). IDRs are enriched in critical functions such as transcription and signaling, and have been linked with numerous diseases including neurodegeneration and cancer. In contrast to structured ...
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EXpansion of the European Joint Programming Initiative on Drug Resistance to Antimicrobials (EXEDRA)

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

EXEDRA, an EXpansion of the European Joint Programming Initiative on Drug Resistance to Antimicrobials, will build on, and further support the structure and activities of JPIAMR to address the two major objectives of HCO-04-2016 topic: extending JPIAMR globally and creating a long-term sustainable structure for future expansion and governance which will coordinate national funding and collaborativ ...
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Towards enduring mouse resources and services advancing research into human health and disease (INFRAFRONTIER2020)

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

The INFRAFRONTIER RI integrates European Mouse Clinics and the European Mouse Mutant Archive with the common goal to ensure access to mouse models for basic research of human health and disease, and to translate this knowledge into therapeutic approaches for the benefit of the European society. The expanded INFRAFRONTIER2020 network, coordinated by the INFRAFRONTIER GmbH, includes 3 SMEs and is st ...
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Understanding asthma phenotypes: going beyond the atopic/non-atopic paradigm (AsthmaPhenotypes)

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

Fifteen years ago it was widely believed that asthma was an allergic/atopic disease caused by allergen exposure in infancy; this produced atopic sensitization and continued exposure resulted in eosinophilic airways inflammation, bronchial hyper-responsiveness and reversible airflow obstruction. It is now clear that this model is at best incomplete. Less than one-half of asthma cases involve allerg ...
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Systematic Genetic Code Reprogramming (SGCR)

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

We will build an orthogonal translation system for the encoded synthesis of unnatural polymers in cells. The steps towards this goal are each significant and substantial and, importantly, our solutions for each step are both scalable and modular with those for other steps in the process. In the first step we create a scalable and modular route to multiple new aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs ...
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Genetics and function of neuronal circuits controlling goal oriented movements (Space and Motion)

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

With this proposal I plan to dissect, at the genetic level, those circuits controlling goal-oriented movements in mice. In particular, we will focus on the very feature that makes goal-oriented movements so unique in the world of motor control, the spatial awareness of such movements, the fact that their execution is likely to obey a precise metric. I want to understand: (1) which neuronal circuit ...
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Personalised Risk assessment in febrile illness to Optimise Real-life Management across the European Union (PERFORM)

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

The management of febrile patients is one of the most common and important problems facing healthcare providers. Distinction between bacterial infections and trivial viral infection on clinical grounds is unreliable, and as a result innumerable patients worldwide undergo hospitalization, invasive investigation and are treated with antibiotics for presumed bacterial infection when, in fact, they ar ...
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Regulated Assembly of Molecular Machines for DNA REPAIR: a Molecular Analysis training Network (DNAREPAIRMAN)

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

The European Training Network DNAREPAIRMAN aims to train a new generation of innovative young scientists in cutting edge biophysical research methodology to address central questions in biology concerning the mode of action of critical molecular machines with relevance for human health. The Network consists of a highly collaborative consortium consisting of 12 participants coming from academia, in ...
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ERA NET NEURON in the area of brain-related diseases and disorders of the nervous system (NEURON Cofund)

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

The ERA-NET NEURON Cofund will coordinate and align European and international research funding programmes in the area of brain-related diseases and disorders of the nervous system. Key activity is the implementation of an EC co-funded joint transnational call for research proposals. The mission of NEURON is based on the fact that disorders of the brain are the major cause for impaired quality of ...
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ERA-NET for establishing synergies between the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Horizon 2020 (JPI-EC-AMR)

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

Antibiotic resistance is a global problem. It is considered by the World Health Organization as one of the three greatest threats to human health for the next decades. ’Enhanced coordination across national boundaries is needed to accelerate the efforts to tackle this grand challenge. Such synergies have been created among 19 countries in Europe and beyond through the EU JPI on Antimicrobial Resis ...
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Regulation of mitochondrial expression (REMIX)

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

Mitochondria are essential organelles found in every eukaryotic cell, required to convert food into usable energy. The mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system, which produces the majority of cellular energy in the form of ATP, is controlled by two distinct genomes: the nuclear and the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA). Mutations in mitochondrial genes encoded by either genome could caus ...
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Advanced solutions for assuring the overall authenticity and quality of olive oil (OLEUM)

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

The OLEUM project will generate innovative, more effective and harmonized analytical solutions to detect and fight the most common and emerging frauds and to verify the overall quality of olive oils (OOs). By a core group of 20 partners from 15 countries OLEUM will undertake RESEARCH ACTIVITIES based on the development of IMPROVED and NEW ANALYTICAL METHODS by targeted and omics approaches with th ...
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OlfSwitch: Neural circuit switches from molecules to behaviour (OlfSwitch)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

This proposal seeks to understand the logic of neural circuit switches in the relatively simple nervous system of Drosophila. Our goals are to examine the developmental, physiological and behavioural logic of several of these elementary circuit motifs. We will use innate olfactory behaviour as our primary model, investigating behaviours triggered by single or convergent odour stimuli and their mod ...
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Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

...aumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability, leading to great personal suffering to victim and relatives, as well as huge direct and indirect costs to society. Strong ethical, medical, social and health economic reasons therefore exist for improving treatment. The CENTER-TBI project will collect a prospective, contemporary, highly granular, observational dataset of 5400 pat ...
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European Vascular Interventions and Therapeutic Innovation Network (EVOluTION)

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

...sts will gain valuable knowledge and multidisciplinary skills: only interdisciplinary and cross-cutting research can lead to novel therapeutic tools and scientific angles to address these challenging medical, societal and industrial issues. EVOluTION provides a conducive structure by bringing 5 leading academic institutions and 1 SME, together with 6 Pharma and biotech companies, 1 Policy-maker, a ...
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The EU-HEALTH INNOVATION MARKETPLACE, the valorization platform for (FP7 Health and H2020 SC1) research results (UTILE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

A recent evaluation of FP7 projects executed by the EC, showed that an estimated 80% of funded Health projects lacks valorisation. The “UTILE” proposal presents the EU-Health Innovation Marketplace, an online tool to better valorise the FP7 Health and Horizon2020 SC1 project results. This marketplace will actively bring together Innovation Providers (i.e. technology push) and the Innovation Develo ...
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European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia Consortium (EPAD)

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

Background:The secondary prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) is achievable if we can identify individuals at risk of disease progression defined by biomarker evidence of AD pathology and no or only minimal clinical symptoms and engage them in a standing adaptive clinical trial, of the highest quality, testing multiple interventions. To achieve this, EPAD will also provide the analytical infras ...
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ERA-NET for establishing synergies between the Joint Programming on Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Horizon 2020 (JPco-fuND)

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

Over 12 million people in Europe suffer from neurodegenerative diseases (ND), yet treatments that prevent or stop the progression of neurodegeneration are still lacking. Tackling this grand challenge requires enhanced coordination of national efforts to accelerate discovery. Such synergies have been created among 28 countries in the pilot EU JPI on Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND). JPND h ...
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