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Solutions for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management (SOLUTIONS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

"SOLUTIONS will deliver a conceptual framework for the evidence-based development of environmental and water policies. This will integrate innovative chemical and effect-based monitoring tools with a full set of exposure, effect and risk models and assessment options. Uniquely, SOLUTIONS taps (i) expertise of leading European scientists of major FP6/FP7 projects on chemicals in the water cycle, (i ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where ...
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Taking Nanotechnological Remediation Processes from Lab Scale to End User Applications for the Restoration of a Clean Environment (NANOREM)

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

NANOREM is designed to unlock the potential of nanoremediation and so support both the appropriate use of nanotechnology in restoring land and aquifer resources and the development of the knowledge-based economy at a world leading level for the benefit of a wide range of users in the EU environmental sector.NANOREM uniquely takes a holistic approach to examining how the potential for nanoremediati ...
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Membrane Protein Nanocrystallography (NanoMem)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Modern structural biology builds upon synergies between lab-bench scale science on the one hand and large scale research infrastructure on the other. NanoMem recognises the transformative opportunities that are created by current X-ray source and detector developments to impact strongly on membrane protein structure, a challenging sub-field of structural biology. We will exploit synchrotron based ...
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TWO!EARS

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

TWO!EARS replaces current thinking about auditory modelling by a systemic approach in which human listeners are regarded as multi-modal agents that develop their concept of the world by exploratory interaction. The goal of the project is to develop an intelligent, active computational model of auditory perception and experience in a multi-modal context. Our novel approach is based on a structural ...
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EUMSSI- Event Understanding through Multimodal Social Stream Interpretation (EUMSSI)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The main objective of EUMSSI is developing technologies for identifying and aggregating data presented as unstructured information in sources of very different nature (video, image, audio, speech, text and social context), including both online (e.g., YouTube) and traditional media (e.g. audiovisual repositories), and for dealing with information of very different degrees of granularity. The multi ...
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Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought (MARSOL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region are facing the challenge of managing its water resources under conditions of increasing scarcity and concerns about water quality. Already, the availability of fresh water in sufficient quality and quantity is one of the major factors limiting socio economic development. Innovative water management strategies such as the storage of reclaimed water or ex ...
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COllaborative CrEative design PlaTform (COnCEPT)

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

Description A platform to assist professional designers when in remote collaboration during the creative stages of the design process. Industrial design and development is performed through a range of processes such as analysis, process planning, design engineering, assembly planning, manufacturin ...
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BRilliant Industrial Diode LasEr (BRIDLE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The BRIDLE project seeks to harness the power and efficiency of diode lasers to develop an affordable direct diode laser source for industrial applications requiring the cutting and welding of sheet metal. Specifically, BRIDLE's diode laser will have a power >2kW from a 100um diameter (NA 40%. (This is ~2.5x more powerful, 10x brighter and 1.7x more efficient than the best spectral beam combined d ...
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Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe (EMBRACE)

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

In an interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative context, emBRACE aims to improve the framing of resilience in the context of disasters in Europe. It will develop a conceptual and methodological approach to clarify how the resilience capacity of a society confronted with natural hazards and disasters can be characterized, defined and measured. On the basis of a systematic evaluation o ...
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Distributed Infrastructure for EXPErimentation in Ecosystem Research (EXPEER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

EXPEER will bring together, major observational, experimental, analytical and modelling facilities in ecosystem science in Europe. By uniting these highly instrumented ecosystem research facilities under the same umbrella and with a common vision, EXPEER will form a key contribution to structuring and improving the European Research Area (ERA) within terrestrial ecosystem research.EXPEER builds ...
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Correlated Multielectron Dynamics in Intense Light Fields (CORINF)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Application of intense light fields opens the opportunity to image structures and dynamics of individual molecules with the combination of sub-Angstrom spatial and attosecond temporal resolution. However, intense light fields inevitably excite complex dynamics. The success of imaging techniques depends on our understanding of these largely unknown dynamics, creating demand for the theory of comple ...
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Mechanistic Effect Models for the Ecological Risk Assessment of Chemicals (CREAM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

There is widespread concern about how production and use of chemicals affect the environment. Yet food production and benefits of chemical products are vital for the functioning of European societies. In order to ensure sustainable use, EU regulations require extensive risk assessment before a chemical is approved for use. Current risk assessments focus on risk at the level of individual organisms ...
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Transforming SMEs into successful experience stagers (StageIt)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The goals of the StageIt project are to develop knowledge about how SMEs can take advantage of experience staging as a means to improve their competitiveness and put this knowledge into practice in three SMEs. The point of departure is the recognition that technological innovation alone does not necessarily insure market acceptance. Instead, competitive environments require innovation that goes be ...
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Pattern REcognition-based Statistically Enhanced MT (PRESEMT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

This proposal describes PRESEMT, a flexible and adaptable MT system, based on a language-independent method, whose principles ensure easy portability to new language pairs. This method attempts to overcome well-known problems of other MT approaches, e.g. bilingual corpora compilation or creation of new rules per language pair. PRESEMT will address the issue of effectively managing multilingual con ...
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Marie Curie Training Network on Particle Detectors (MC-PAD)

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

"The challenging questions of particle physics, like the origin of mass, the existence of new forms and states of matter, can only be addressed in technically complex and expensive large-scale research facilities. Well coordinated international effort is required to design, build and operate world class infrastructure comprising accelerators of highest energy and/or intensity and detector systems ...
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Model driven Soil Probing, Site Assessment and Evaluation (ModelPROBE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Conventional techniques for site characterization are time consuming, cost intensive, and do not support decision making. Therefore, new techniques for step by step site characterization strategy with smart feed back loops are necessary. These will be able to support a future “soil framework directive”. Advanced geophysical site characterization techniques combined with new types of vegetation ana ...
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Governance of shrinkage within a European context (Shrink Smart)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

It is the aim of SHRINK SMART to study the role of policies and governance systems in different types of shrinking urban regions. It is based on comparative case studies from seven urban regions throughout Europe with a focus on disadvantaged urban regions in Eastern and Southern Europe that will provide a basis for analyzing different trajectories of shrinkage, understanding main challenges for u ...
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