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Framework to respond to regulatory needs of future nanomaterials and markets (FutureNanoNeeds)

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

Rapidly developing markets such as green construction, energy harvesting and storage, advanced materials for aerospace, electronics, medical implants and environmental remediation are potential key application targets for nanomaterials. There, nanotechnology has the potential to make qualitative improvements or indeed even to enable the technology. Impacts range from increased efficiency of energy ...
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Developing an European American NGS Network (DEANN)

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

The DEANN project is a network formation initiative that involves six research institutions and universities from four EU countries and equivalently, six research entities from four Latin American countries. The overall goal is to strengthen research partnership among the participants by developing a shared scientific knowhow in the field of Next Generation Sequencing data analysis. More specific ...
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Risk, Stem Cells and Tissue Kinetics – Ionising Radiation (RISK - IR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The magnitude of cancer risk in humans exposed to low radiation doses (
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High-Resolution Solar Physics Network (SOLARNET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

This project aims at integrating the major European infrastructures in the field of high-resolution solar physics. The following actions will be taken: (i) realise Trans-national Access to external European users; (ii) enhance and spread data acquisition and processing expertise to the Europe-wide community; (iii) increase the impact of high-resolution data by offering science-ready data and facil ...
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New Technologies for Tunnelling and Underground Works (NETTUN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The NeTTUN 54M project will enable groundbreaking change in the construction, management and maintenance of tunnels in pursuit of the goals of NMP.2011.4.0-2 via 9 focussed WPs addressing key scientific and technical challenges: (i) a multi-sensor ground prediction system for TBMs to enable effective look-ahead during boring; (ii) a robotic maintenance system that enables automation of inspection ...
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Satiety Innovation (SATIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The SATIN project has been devised to develop food products produced by novel food processing that control satiety through modification of food structure. To achieve this the SATIN project will:1. Integrate advanced technologies to screen novel food structures through in vitro models toisolate and refine products according to their satiating potential.2. Develop novel food processing technologies ...
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Seven League Boots for Music Creation and Performance (GiantSteps)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The GiantSteps project aims to create the "seven-league boots" for music production in the next decade and beyond. We envision digital musical tools that unleash the creative potential of practitioners by targeting three directions:1 Developing and integrating musical expert agents, supportive and inspirational systems for melody, harmony, rhythm, structure or style, providing suggestions from sam ...
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COnvergence of fixed and Mobile BrOadband access/aggregation networks (COMBO)

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

Fixed and mobile networks have been subjects to significant technological and architectural evolutions in the past years, with e.g. deployments of 4G mobile networks and FTTH fixed networks, as well as significant increase in traffic demand and access bandwidth both in fixed and mobile access networks. All these network evolutions lead to enormous investments in independent network infrastructures ...
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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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Bioreactor-based, clinically oriented manufacturing of engineered tissues (BIO-COMET)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Despite significant achievements in the field of regenerative medicine and the enormous potential for engineered tissue products, significant hurdles have prevented cellular therapies from gaining wide-spread clinical adoption. Manufacturing related issues have been proposed as key challenges to be addressed for the translation of regenerative therapies to the clinic and the successful commerciali ...
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Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems (ECLAIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

ÉCLAIRE investigates the ways in which climate change alters the threat of air pollution on European land ecosystems including soils. Based on field observations, experimental data and models, it establishes new flux, concentration and dose-response relationships, as a basis to inform future European policies.Starting with biosphere-atmosphere exchange measurements, ÉCLAIRE quantifies how global w ...
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Cost Effective Integration and Fusion of SME Communities with Network Research Tools and Facilities (Fusion)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

SMEs are developing new applications and services, which could benefit from testing facilities. There are number of FIRE testbeds, which have been developed and are ongoing in the European research community. The goal of the FUSION project is to bring SMEs that have needs in testing new applications together with these FIRE testbeds. The FIRE facilities will at their turn benefit from the specific ...
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Activation of vasculature associated stem cells and muscle stem cells for the repair and maintenance of muscle tissue (Endostem)

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

We propose to develop new strategies to mobilize skeletal muscle tissue-associated stem cells as a tool for efficient tissue repair. This will be combined with exploring novel approaches that limit tissue damage, and will focus on agents that modify muscle and muscle vasculature progenitor cells. These molecules include nitric oxide associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, HMGB1, Cri ...
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Protecting the food chain from prions: shaping European priorities through basic and applied research (PRIORITY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) started, 20 years ago, a devastating health and food crisis throughout Europe. Classical BSE is now under control as a result of the meat and bone meal ban. However, tonsil analyses suggest that there may be an alarmingly high number of asymptomatic PrPSc positive cases. Transmission through blood transfusion is another important concern, as are recent “atyp ...
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Next Generation Hybrid Interfaces for Spintronic Applications (HINTS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

The development of conceptually new materials following a “double beyond” trend, that is going “beyond CMOS” with “beyond silicon” materials, is one of the most challenging issues for the next generation of products for Information and Communication applications. Future devices for information processing able to increase the public wealth and occupation require a further material downscaling, toge ...
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eHealth Innovation - Scaling up eHealth facilitated personalised health services: Developing a European roadmap for sustained eHealth Innovation (eHealth Innovation)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

eHealth Innovation TN will develop consensus among stakeholders and recommendations to-wards making innovative integrated, and therefore interoperable eHealth services operational and deployed at large scale in Europe.The focus will be to analyse, achieve consensus on and deliver a detailed summary report on how to achieve in the medium-term more patient/person-centred health services for an agein ...
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European Study to Establish Biomarkers of Human Ageing (MARK-AGE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The rate of ageing in humans is not uniform, due to genetic heterogeneity and the influence of environmental factors. Age-related changes in body function or composition that could serve as a measure of “biological” age and predict the onset of age-related diseases and/or residual lifetime are termed “biomarkers of ageing”. Many candidate biomarkers have been proposed but in all cases their variab ...
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Ambulatory Magneto-Enhancement of Transdermal High Yield Silver Therapy (AMETHYST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

There are approximately 2 million people who suffer from chronic wounds such as venous leg ulcers in Europe at the present time. These wounds typically take between 12 and 24 weeks to heal, but 30% take over two years. This represents a cost to the European healthcare services of at least €8 billion a year in treatment. Two thirds of cases are released immediately for treatment in the community, ...
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Flutter-Free Turbomachinery Blades (FUTURE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"FUTURE brings together European and international well reputed centres-of-excellence in order to reach major scientific & technical objectives in striving towards flutter-free turbomachine blades. By advancing the state-of-the-art in flutter prediction capabilities and design rules, the FUTURE project will lead to benefits in terms of decreased development cost, reduced weight and fuel consumptio ...
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Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2013,

Description The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE), 2008-2013, served as a rallying point and source of best-practice information for the VPH community.  This role has now has been passed to the VPH Institute (http://www.vph-institute.org/).  The tools and educational/outreach materials developed by the VPH NoE – and ...
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The FIBONACCI Project - Large scale dissemination of inquiry based science and mathematics education (FIBONACCI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"European authorities and the international scientific community acknowledge the importance of Inquiry-Based Science and Mathematics Education (IBSME) to develop an integrated strategy for scientific literacy and awareness from primary to secondary school, reinforcing scientific careers. Scienceduc and Pollen FP6 projects as well as SINUS-Transfer have successfully implemented IBSME in a large num ...
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Computer-aided food processes for control engineering (CAFE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"The objective of the CAFE project is to provide new paradigms for the smart control of food processes, on the basis of four typical processes in the areas of bioconversion, separation, preservation and structuring. The novelty of the project lies in the capacity of combining PAT and sensing devices with models and simulation environment with the following objectives : (1) to extract as much as po ...
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Thermohaline Overturning - at Risk? (THOR)

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

"THOR will establish an operational system that will monitor and forecast the development of the North Atlantic THC on decadal time scales and access its stability and the risk of a breakdown in a changing climate. Together with pre-existing data sets, ongoing observations within the project will allow precise quantitative monitoring of the Atlantic THC and its sources. This will, for the first ti ...
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The Heliophysical Integrated Observatory (HELIO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

The Heliophysics Integrated Observatory, HELIO,will deploy a new Europe-wide distributed network of services that will address the needs of a broad community of researchers in heliophysics.This new research field explores the "Sun-Solar System Connection" and requires the joint exploitation of solar, heliospheric, magnetospheric and ionospheric observations. HELIO will provide the most comprehensi ...
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Novel tree breeding strategies (NOVELTREE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The challenges facing forest geneticists and tree breeders include recognition of changing demands on forests for a wider range of high value forest products and sustainability of forest ecosystems under climate change. NOVELTREE is designed to enable significant genetic improvement of tree characteristics and forest products properties to satisfy the needs (quality, quantity, sustainability, vul ...
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Legal Technical Framework for Privacy Preserving Data Management (ENDORSE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Privacy and data protection are of concern to many stakeholders, including the data subjects (end-users), the data controllers (organisations) as well as legislative bodies, data protection agencies, consumer rights organisations and human rights advocates. End-users require assurances that their personal data is being fairly and correctly collected and managed for purposes for which they, ideally ...
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GRID INITIATIVES FOR E-SCIENCE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA (GISELA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The GISELA objective is to guarantee the long-term sustainability of the European – Latin American e-Infrastructure and thus ensure the continuity and enhancement of the Virtual Research Communities (VRC) using it. The project will focus on:•\tImplementing the Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) sustainability model rooted on National Grid Initiatives (NGI) or Equivalent Domestic Grid Structures ...
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ANGuilliform robot with ELectric Sense (ANGELS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

The aim of the ANGELS project is to design and build a prototype of a reconfigurable Anguilliform swimming robot able to split into smaller agents (and vice-versa), each equipped with a bio-inspired "electric sense" used both for recognition of objects and communication between agents. This mode of active perception, present in some fish, is based on the polarisation of certain regions of their bo ...
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Development of Photovoltaic Textiles based on novel fibres (DEPHOTEX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The goal of the project is to research and develop textile solar cells in order to get flexible photovoltaic textiles based on novel fibres allowing taking benefit from the solar radiation so as to turn it into energy. Photovoltaic solar energy is being widely studied as one of the sources of renewable energy with major application potential, being considered a real alternative to fossil fuels. Si ...
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HIGH PERFORMANCES PREDICTION, DETECTION AND MONITORING PLATFORM FOR PATIENT SAFETY RISK MANAGEMENT (REMINE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

According to recent studies, Risks Against Patient Safety (RAPS) represent one of the most important factors of dead in hospitals: during therapy, more then 8% of patients recovered in hospitals suffer for additional disease that in almost 50% of the cases produce either dead or significant additional health problems. RAPS occur in any stage of the patient care process.REMINE project idea origina ...
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Integrated synthesis and purification of single enantiomers (INTENANT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

Several industries have an increasing interest in improving their access to pure single enantiomers of biologically active substances. The latter often form the basis for valued added products relevant for, among others, the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food industries. Up to now there exist two generally rivalling concepts for producing pure enantiomers. One approach is based on developing and a ...
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Silicon-based nanostructures and nanodevices for long term nanoelectronics applications (NANOSIL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

NANOSIL Network of Excellence aims to integrate at the European level the excellent European research laboratories and capabilities in order to strengthen scientific and technological excellence in the field of nanoelectronic materials and devices for terascale integrated circuits (ICs) and disseminate the results in a wide scientific and industrial community.NANOSIL will explore and assess the sc ...
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E-SCIENCE GRID FACILITY FOR EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA (EELA-2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

EELA-2 aims to build, on the current EELA e-Infrastructure, a high capacity, production-quality, scalable Grid Facility providing round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing, storage and network resources for a wide spectrum of applications from European and Latin American scientific communities. The project will provide an empowered Grid Facility with versatile services fulfilling ...
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Support Action for the NEM European Technology Platform (4NEM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2007, End date: Nov 30, 2009,

In 2004, the Networked and Electronic Media (NEM) industrial sector launched the NEM European Technology Platform. Three years later, the NEM community has grown to more than 500 members.In the early time of FP7, the NEM platform intends to help to the birth of the NEM industry sector, develop its influence on the European organisations, and improve its presence on the international scene.The 4NEM ...
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Linking Interdisciplinary Integration Studies by Broadening the European Network

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

Reason: A New Focal Point for Teaching EU StudiesAs of December 2009, the Lisbon Treaty has become the EU's new fundamental framework for the foreseeable future. The analysis of altered or novel treaty provisions becomes a high priority for interdisciplinary research-based teaching curricula in EU studies. Only a European academic network will be able to exploit input from the relevant disciplines ...
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