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A Comparative Anthropology of Conscience, Ethics and Human Rights (AnCon)

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

This project is a comparative anthropology of conscience, ethics and human rights. Numerous international human rights documents formally declare their commitment to protect freedom of conscience. But, what is conscience and how do we know it when we see it? How do we distinguish it from self-interest or fanaticism? And what happens when the concept, often associated with a distinct Christian or l ...
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EU Centre's Policy Research and Debate on Challenges to Multiculturalism and Multilateralism in Europe and Southeast Asia

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

...briefs, discussion papers, blog posts and two edited volumes, one on the subject of Challenges to Multiculturalism and the other on Challenges to Multilateralism.The Network will contribute to international scholarship on issues challenging multiculturalism such as migration, radicalisation and terrorism, and those concerning the EU’s and ASEAN’s approach to multilateralism and their cooperation i ...
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European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy (EL-CSID)

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

...U operates in the domains of cultural and science diplomacy in the current era; comparing its bilateral and multilateral cultural and science ties between states, regions, and public and private international organisations.2) To examine the degree to which cultural and science diplomacy can enhance the interests of the EU in the contemporary world order and to identify:(a) How cultural and science ...
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EUTW Trans Continental Cooperation on the EU Studies

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

...U studies, offered a wide and in-depth gateway for the advancement of knowledge of the EU and has become a platform for academic exchange within the Taiwan EU Studies community. The host university, National Taiwan University, is a world-class interdisciplinary university and the Chinese-speaking world’s flagship educational institution. EUTW is also the contact point for the regional EU Studies ...
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NAIP: Training Artists Without Borders

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

... to develop new and sustainable curriculum structures, both in the physical as well as the virtual classroom, exploring the possibilities of new cross-art joint modules. The project utilizes the international conversation and cross-fertilization in the partnership to enhance curriculum development, and create new approaches for creative collaborative learning in a cross-art setting. The project ex ...
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Early warning signals of ageing in human stem cells and age-related disorders (SYSTEMAGE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The regenerative power of a living organism is linked to the potential of its stem cells to replace the corresponding damaged tissue. Therefore organisms are as old as their stem cells. Whereas the vulnerability to cancer and chronic inflammation is associated with a decline of the immune system, the latter is in turn a sum product of interactions among hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), endothelial ...
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NAIP: Innovation in European Higher Music Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

This strategic partnership is based on years of collaboration of several European conservatoires where the music masters programme for New Audiences and Innovative Practice, NAIP, was developed and implemented. The partnership does also include new partners, which have in the recent years witnessed the progress of the NAIP programme and thus gained interest in its methodologies and ideology. This ...
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Innovative tools and strategies for surveillance and control of dengue (DengueTools)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Current surveillance systems and control efforts are clearly insufficient to combat dengue in endemic countries and to prevent spread to previously uninfected areas (including Europe). We will focus on the following aspects of the call: better diagnosis, surveillance, prevention as well as prediction and/or prevention of the spread of Dengue fever to previously uninfected regions (including Europe ...
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Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity: mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa (HEALTHY FUTURES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The HEALTHY FUTURES project is motivated by concern for the health impacts of environmental changes. HEATHLY FUTURES aims to respond to this concern through construction of a disease risk mapping system for three water-related high-impact VBDs (malaria, Rift valley fever and schistosomiasis) in Africa, accounting for environmental/climatic trends and changes in socio-economic conditions to predic ...
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Identification of epigenetic markers underlying increased risk of T2D in South Asians (EPI-MIGRANT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

This project focuses on identification of epigenetic risk factors underlying the increased rates of type-2 diabetes (T2D) amongst South Asians in their home countries, migrants to Europe and other parts of the world. Known environmental and genetic factors explain only a small part of the increased risk of T2D among South Asians, who constitute the highest numbers of people with T2D worldwide.We h ...
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All-carbon platforms for highly efficient molecular wire-coupled dye-sensitized solar cells (MOLESOL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"The proposed project comes with a visionary approach, aiming at development of highly efficient molecular-wire charge transfer platform to be used in a novel generation thin film dye-sensitized solar cells fabricated via organic chemistry routes. The proposed technology combines the assembled dye monolayer’s, linked with organic molecular wires to semiconducting thin film deposited on optically t ...
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Ethics in Public Policy Making: The Case of Human Enhancement (EPOCH)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

...n of the human body aimed at improving performance and realized by scientific-technological means). On the basis of comparative analyses of current governance and normative frameworks at European and national level (including non-EU countries), a comprehensive approach to the governance of contentious developments in science, technology and society will be outlined. It will include guidance and st ...
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"HOMELAND SECURITY, BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND PERSONAL DETECTION ETHICS" (HIDE)

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

...addressed in the context of a particular technology alone. Research is needed with a more comprehensive approach to the continuum between personal detection, authentication and identification. **International controversies can be faced by promoting structured conversation. These controversies are often based on diverse interpretations of shared principles (e.g., proportionality principle, right to ...
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