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The EuroFIR Food Platform: Further integration, refinement and exploitation for its long-term self-sustainability (EuroFIR-Nexus)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The objective is to further integrate/refine the EuroFIR Food Platform (EFP), to improve/support the ways research is undertaken into relationships between food, diets and health in Europe. Our focus is on extending application and exploitation of validated food data and tools for pan-European nutrition studies and networked usage, implementation of standards and best practice. This together forms ...
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The Nexus: an experimental system to study marine larval dispersal (Nexus)

Start date: Feb 18, 2017, End date: Feb 17, 2020,

...inute larvae in the ocean, we are still lacking critical insights into the internal and external causes and consequences of LD. Here, we propose the development of an experimental infrastructure, the Nexus, composed of 25 interconnected larval rearing/settlement tanks, designed to study larval movements as a model of dispersal. We aim to use the Nexus framework to investigate central questions in ...
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Furthering Strategic Urban Research (URBAN-NEXUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

...prawl, and the longer-term implications of climate change and resource scarcity. To face up to and overcome these challenges, it has become urgent for all concerned stakeholders to collaborate.URBAN-NEXUS, a coordination action, will develop and use structured dialogues to encourage communication, exchange knowledge and experiences, and build partnerships to promote joint research. The dialogues ...
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Platelets: at the nexus of brain aneurysm (PANDORA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Intracranial aneurysms (IA) with and without subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) linger as a potentially devastating clinical problem. Current therapeutic options are limited to invasive therapies, namely microsurgical clipping and endovascular treatment, both of which carry a significant risk of procedural morbidity. Increasing evidence points to inflammation as one of the leading factors in the patho ...
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The Global-Local Nexus of Armed Conflicts: The interlinkages between resource-fuelled armed conflicts and the EU’s raw materials supply (GLONEXACO)

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

...re a safe supply of raw materials for Europe’s industry.It brings together two different research fields in an innovative and multidisciplinary analytical framework, called the “Global-Local Nexus of Armed Conflicts” (GLONEXACO). On the one hand, GLONEXACO will incorporate the concept of Global Production Networks (GPN) from the field of Economic Geography to map international trade streams and th ...
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The Home-Migration Nexus: Home as a Window on Migrant Belonging, Integration and Circulation (HOMInG)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

The experience of home lies at the core of everyday life, but only through migration is it revealed as a complex and elusive social construction, whose micro analysis illuminates macro social issues and problems. How home works in the life trajectories of those who left it behind, and what the search for home says of immigrant integration and of the influence of mobility on domesticity, are the ce ...
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Moving Towards Adaptive Governance in Complexity: Informing Nexus Security (MAGIC)

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

...ity of Barcelona (UAB) in collaboration with partners which have a proven and track record in their respective fields of competence.Our objective is to open the path towards a new way of managing the Nexus in which researchers and decision makers work together in the search for development strategies that can contribute to the smart, sustainable and inclusive economic growth required by the EU 202 ...
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The Privacy Policies of Internet Intermediaries: High-tech Responsibility in the Multi-stakeholder Nexus (INTERNET PRIVACY)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"This project advances and interrelates two new conceptual insights – i.e. the ‘high-tech responsibility’ and ‘multi-stakeholder nexus’ concepts – and uses these concepts to conduct an empirical analysis of the privacy policies, and broader political context, of the four internet intermediaries (IIs) that dominate the European search engine and social media market: i.e. Facebook, Google, Microsoft ...
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Integrated Assessment of the water-energy Nexus: the water metabolism of hydraulic fracturing (IANEX)

Start date: Jan 5, 2015, End date: Apr 26, 2018,

... fracking activities to contribute to Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM).Water connects human and ecosystem processes at different spatial-temporal scales which form part of the water-energy nexus. IWRM aims at dealing with multiscale and nexus issues but due to its relative youth, its methodological body faces important analytical challenges like i) the connection between social and envi ...
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Nexus of European Centers Abroad for Research on EHEA

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

...ucation policy and academic internationalization. The project intends to establish Bologna Resource Centers (BRC), for the study and research of European HE, within and outside Europe and to create a nexus among them. These BRCs will evolve into a network of prominent academic units in the field of European Studies to further deepen the academic discourse on European HE policy and the EHEA. This g ...
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DAFNE: Use of a Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and trans-boundary water resources systems of fast growing developing countries. (DAFNE)

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

...cal tensions, and cause lasting environmental damage. DAFNE advocates an integrated and adaptive water resources planning and management approach that explicitly addresses the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus from a novel participatory and multidisciplinary perspective. This includes social, economic, and ecologic dimensions, involves both public and private actors and is socially inclusive, enhances ...
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Exploring the Security-Democracy Nexus in the Caucasus (CASCADE)

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

CASCADE will:- scrutinise Caucasian states and societies for the root causes of conflict and insecurity, conduct synergetic research on democracy and security in the Caucasus and investigate their interaction,- analyse the links between the region and its wider neighbourhood,- provide forward-looking analysis on regional security and democratisation processes,- and develop a set of proposals on ho ...
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NEXUS 1492. New World Encounters in a Globalising World (NEXUS1492)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

NEXUS1492 investigates the impacts of colonial encounters in the Caribbean, the nexus of the first interactions between the New and the Old World. This Synergy Programme intends to rewrite a crucial and neglected chapter in global history initiated by European colonisation by focussing on transformations to indigenous, Amerindian cultures and societies. NEXUS1492 will address intercultural Amerind ...
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Migration-Security Nexus in the EU

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

...nterculturalism, racism and discrimination, which are vital for the future of European integration. Therefore, the purpose of this module is to present a course content on the migration-security nexus in Europe for researchers, graduate students, NGO representatives, journalists and professionals from public bodies that working on migration and asylum issues. The module is innovative with its’ c ...
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Quantifying urban mines in Europe and related implications for the metal-energy-climate change nexus (QUMEC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

...conomy and sustainable development in Europe. This project proposes a comprehensive, exemplary research line that merges complementary drivers in the assessment of the metal-energy-climate change nexus for (i) estimating the size of current urban mines for selected, critical metals; (ii) assessing future opportunities and barriers to their recycling, and (iii) related potentials for carbon emissio ...
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European Union Approaches to Corruption and the Crime- Terror Nexus

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

The proposed Jean Monnet Module develops new teaching and policy engagement activities on the EU’s approaches to corruption and to the crime-terror nexus. Although Justice and Home Affairs is the fastest growing policy field the EU has known in recent years, there has been little emphasis on pedagogical activities that explore the European Union’s understanding of, as well as responses to, the int ...
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Sustainable Integrated Management FOR the NEXUS of water-land-food-energy-climate for a resource-efficient Europe (SIM4NEXUS)

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

Land, food, energy, water and climate are interconnected, comprising a coherent system (the ‘Nexus’), dominated by complexity and feedback. The integrated management of the Nexus is critical to secure the efficient and sustainable use of resources. Barriers to a resource efficient Europe are policy inconsistencies and incoherence, knowledge gaps, especially regarding integration methodologies and ...
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STARTS Prize - Grand prize of the European Commission honoring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts (STARTS Prize)

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

Science, technology and arts limn a nexus at which observers have identified extraordinarily high potential for innovation. And innovation is precisely what’s called for if we’re to master the social, ecological and economic challenges that Europe will be facing in the future. The STARTS Prize initiative will focus on the most forward looking collaborations at the crossings of art, science, techno ...
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Linking European, African and Asia Academic Networks on Climate Change

Start date: Sep 1, 2011,

...titutions, each with complementary and high quality educational programmes. The choice of partners reflects the need to link theory and applied, practical knowledge on the climate change - adaptation nexus (in both a rural and urban context). The partners understand that the project is intended to allow EU higher education institutions to promote EU HE and their programs, knowledge and skills and ...
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Building Next-Generation Computational Tools for High Resolution Neuroimaging Studies (BUNGEE-TOOLS)

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

...ures that are visible in present-day scans, and this inability to capitalize on the vast improvement of MR is hampering progress in the neuroimaging field.In this ambitious project, which lies at the nexus of medical histology, neuroscience, biomedical imaging, computer vision and statistics, we propose to build a set of next-generation computational tools that will enable neuroimaging studies to ...
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Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions (MIDLAND)

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

Land is a nexus for crucial societal and environmental challenges including food security, access to water, land degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change. Development of solutions to balance these tradeoffs and synergies is currently hindered by the lack of theories explaining the conditions under which different pathways of land change occur and lead to different outcomes, integrating h ...
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Investigating the interactions between civil wars and migration. (MIGWAR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

... the qualitative research and relying on economic tools – both theoretical and empirical – this project will allow to build the first comprehensive investigation of the diasporas – conflict nexus.
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Textile Fibre in Italy Before Roman Empire (FIBRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"The FIBRE project investigates the development and use of textile fibres in Italy from prehistory until the Roman period. Wool and flax fibres constitute a nexus between agriculture and textile craft, two of the oldest and socio-economically most important human technologies. Issues addressed through the investigation of archaeological fibre include ancient agriculture, husbandry, trade and econo ...
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Social and ecological networks supporting biodiversity and food security (SENet)

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

...effects in similar settings worldwide. Globally, SENet will be the first research to apply (graph-theoretic) network analysis to understand synergies and tradeoffs in the food security–biodiversity nexus. I will develop the integrated model using data from a landscape in Ethiopia, where agricultural expansion and human-wildlife conflicts are driving deforestation. SENet differs from existing appro ...
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Launching (g)local level heritage entrepreneurship: strategies and tools to unite forces, safeguard the place, mobilize cultural values, deliver the experience. (SAGITTARIUS)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

...xity of heritage, the use of cultural values for development is feasible, only if multilateral interactions are understood and reflected in policy and delivery. Required is a multivalent and flexible nexus at local-global level to mitigate the protection-use conflict reconciling national and international strategies. SAGITTARIUS provides the Cooperation Area with an activity mix to fully realize t ...
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Climate Security with Local Authorities (CLISEL) From insecurity takers to security makers: mobilizing local authorities to secure the EU against the impacts of climate change in Third Countries (CLISEL)

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

...ption that many indirect impacts on Europe’s security emerge and are felt at the local scale, within Europe itself. This is overlooked by most existing initiatives on the so called climate-security nexus, and the conditions under which local authorities act upon climate change (in)security within their operations are not well understood. To fill this gap, CLISEL explores the climate-security nexus ...
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Dissecting the function and regulation of centriolar satellites: key regulators of the centrosome/cilium complex (CentSatRegFunc)

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

Centrosomes are the main microtubule-organizing centers of animal cells. They influence the morphology of the microtubule cytoskeleton and function as the base of primary cilium, a nexus for important signaling pathways. Structural and functional defects in centrosome/cilium complex cause a variety of human diseases including cancer, ciliopathies and microcephaly. To understand the relationship be ...
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Diversity and uniqueness of four representatives of European literature written by women at the start of the 21st Century

Start date: Sep 15, 2014, End date: Sep 14, 2016,

...eflections. This facet of analysis and objective observation of the environment, which brings them into contact with their extensive existential and intellectual experiences, generates a subterranean nexus between the four works presented. An example of this is the interest in the environment and animal rights in Tokarciuk’s "Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych" and the problems of communicatio ...
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The Elementary Theory of Partially Commutative Groups (PCG)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

"The solution of Tarski's problems on the first-order theory of freegroups has uncovered deep connections between Model Theory, Geometryand Group Theory and served as a nexus and motivation for manyclassical results in Geometric Group Theory and Theoretical ComputerScience.Just as the Tarski problems connected the theory of free groups withthe geometry of trees, our goal is to point at a new dire ...
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Multi-scale Service for Monitoring NATURA 2000 Habitats of European Community Interest (MS.MONINA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

...ng. Today, with (i) GMES as an umbrella for utilizing latest EO-based achievements form both space- and in-situ sensors to provide European solutions for global problems of the environment-security-nexus, (ii) INSPIRE as a pan-European endeavor of obeying standards and other prerequisites of interoperable use, and (iii) the vision of a unified and integrated (i.e. single) European Information Spac ...
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Tree demography, functional traits and climate change (DEMO-TRAITS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

...nderstanding of the link between functional traits and response of demographic rates to competition, (iii) dissecting multiple trade-offs in the demographic space and analyse their relations with a nexus of interrelated functional traits and (iii) use these results to develop a new forest dynamics models for mountain forests based on tree functional traits (and not the species level) to forecast ...
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Our shared sea: mechanisms of ecosystem change in the western Channel (MARINEXUS)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

Objectif général :Le projet MARINEXUS a pour but de réduire limpact des activités humaines sur les écosystèmes marins et de favoriser le développement durable de la Manche. En effet, la Manche fait face à de nombreuses problématiques environnementales liées au développement de diverses activités en zone marine. Pour cela, les partenaires souhaitent contribuer à la mise en place dune politique envi ...
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A Transatlantic Dual Masters degree in ICV

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

...rts of 6 US, 3 French, and 3 German students will matriculate as a tightly integrated cohort in a 2-year dual masters degree in international cognitive visualization a brand new field of study at the nexus of cognitive science, applied computer graphics, communication, education, and business emerging from the ubiquity of visualization tools and media in international commerce. Studying a year at ...
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New connections in low-dimensional topology: Relating Heegaard Floer homology and the fundamental group (HFFUNDGRP)

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

...vibrant and active field of research exhibiting new ties to physics (e.g. recent work of Witten). This project will treat a major open problem, raised by Ozsvath and Szabo, that is positioned at the nexus of these two areas:PROBLEM: Establish a relationship between the fundamental group of a three-manifold and its Heegaard Floer theory.Heegaard Floer homology presents a new tool -- with origins i ...
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JihlavaLerma: palabras, canciones, bailes, trajes

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

...h musicians, publishing materials and improving linguistic competences in Czech, Spanish and English. This will motivate the musical link of two countries and towns which, aparently, have no common nexus, but with a similar procedure, which strengthens the idea of European citizenship. Some way or other, all the students and teachers of both schools will take part in the project. Nevertheless, in ...
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"Monetary, Fiscal and Structural Policies with Heterogeneous Agents" (POLHIA)

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

...ors which are certainly no less important than inflation, as the current sub-prime crisis has emphasized. POLHIA aims at exploring the role of macroeconomic policies in this wider sense and the nexus of macroeconomic and microeconomic/structural policies in an heterogeneous agents setting. Modern macroeconomic thinking must in fact go beyond the Representative Agent assumption because agents are i ...
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WATER AND ENERGY ADVANCED MANAGEMENT FOR IRRIGATION (WEAM4I)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

... a significant increase in energy consumption, both per irrigated surface and per volume unit of water. The WEAM4i project will mainly address 2 of the priorities of the EIP on Water: “Water-Energy nexus” and “Decision support systems (DSS) and monitoring”. The WEAM4i proposal is based on two innovative management concepts:1. A water&energy smart grid for irrigation: allowing interactive energy us ...
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"Building today from yesterday to tomorrow"

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...s have been the general of this project, every day it looked like they learned from each other as they shared experiences. The language used mostly in this exchange was English, which was the perfect nexus of union between the different groups. This section will highlight some of the most representative body actions of this project, as were the cultural visits in the city center of Palencia (day a ...
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Settlement and spatial dynamics along the Appian way, between the Suburbium and the city of Rome (SaSDAppia)

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

...ams. More generally, this is an investigation into the ways in which structures and places and their internal components were spatially organised. Within the study of spaces, the project explores the nexus of social, political and economic flows with the result of assessing the interaction and integration of the city and its hinterland. To achieve these goals, the project focuses on all ambiguous ...
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Conquering New Frontiers in Conceptual Density Functional Theory: Going Beyond the Single Slater Determinant. (High level CDFT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

...valuate alchemical changes in molecular decomposition, the inverse design problem (designing molecules with specified properties) will be addressed. This establishes a new research niche at the nexus between modern interpretative tools, the latest developments in quantum chemistry, and emerging areas of chemical application.
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