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novel bioreactor Platform for reprOducible, Scalable ExpansIonand cardiac DifferentiatiON of hiPSC in suspension culture (POSEIDON)

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

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have the potential to revolutionize biomedical sciences, however the standardised mass production, indispensable for their industrial and therapeutic use, is still a major challenge. Impeller stirred-tank bioreactors, currently used for hiPSC bioprocessing, impose detrimental stresses on cultured hiPSCs, resulting in heterogeneity of cells and cell-agg ...
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STRATEGIE PER FAVORIRE LINNOVAZIONE DELLE AZIENDE (S.F.I.D.A.)

Start date: Feb 22, 2010, End date: Feb 22, 2012,

The S.F.I.D.A. project seeks to increase the standard of competitiveness of the industrial production system and indirectly in all sectors of the territories in the border region, by networking universities, research centers, science centers / technology and business. The overall project objective is to improve the level of willingness to innovate of local productive systems of the 4 regions, thro ...
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Adaptive nanostructures in next generation metallic materials: Converting mechanically unstable structures into smart engineering alloys (SMARTMET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

"The design of advanced high strength and damage tolerant metallic materials for energy, mobility, and health applications forms the engineering and manufacturing backbone of Europe's industry. Examples are creep-resistant Ni-alloys in power plants and plane turbines; ultrahigh strength steels, Al- and Mg-alloys for light-weight mobility and aerospace design; or Ti-implants in aging societies.Sinc ...
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Strategic Partnership for the Development of Training Workshops and Modeling Clinic for Industrial Mathematics

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

"There is a very close link between higher education and development. Universities are key institutions that help to create new knowledge, to develop new skills, and in that respect contribute very directly to economic growth, and productivity. Apart from developing the skills and knowledge necessary for economic growth, they also play a key role in the building of democratic societies.”- Adriana ...
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EDUTRONIX – Interactive Education Module for Mechatronics

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

The development of technology gives you a new perspective on the flow of information processes in machines and training the future mechatronics skills that are necessary in such work. At the outset, the partners identified in detail the real needs of market participants in training and mechatronic market, made a diagnosis of the problem of vocational training in this field, which allowed to constr ...
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Environmentally Friendly Facade Elements made of thermal insulated Textile Reinforced Concrete (INSU-SHELL) (INSU-SHELL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

Background Concrete is the main building material used in civil engineering construction. Due to the immense energy consumption and the large amounts of cement used, the production of cement contributes 5% of the man-made annual CO2 emission worldwide. Objectives The INSU-S ...
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Online labs and virtual simulators for engineering education

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

The project idea is to offer online lab platform combined with curriculum module and open learning content for educational institutions. The online lab platform is integrating existing and new remote and virtual labs into one portal by creating unified interface and sharing functionality. There is strong need in the educational sector to offer real and virtual lab access to students. Europe needs ...
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The discovery of future neuro-therapeutic molecules (NEUROSCREEN)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

NEUROscreen is an industry-lead project combining novel neural stem cell bioassays & post-genomic chemical genetics to discover potential drugs of relevance to neurological diseases, regenerative medicine & cancer. Small molecule inhibitors of the growth of clonal, human neural cancer stem cells have the prospect of being unique medicines targeting the elusive cancer stem cell. Chemical modulators ...
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NanoBioEngineering of BioInspired BioPolymers (Nano3Bio)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The Nano3Bio project convenes a consortium of world renowned experts from 8 EU universities, 1 large company, and 14 SME, to develop biotechnological production systems for nanoformulated chitosans. Chitosans, chitin-derived polysaccharides varying in their degree of polymerisation (DP), degree of acetylation (DA), and pattern of acetylation (PA), are among the most versatile and most promising bi ...
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Soft and Small: Acoustic Transducers Inspired by Nature (SASATIN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"The use of sound by humanity is ubiquitous. We utilise sound across a far greater range than we can hear for numerous extremely beneficial tasks. In Nature many animals have evolved ears, many of which are sensitive to sounds beyond human audibility. This includes an enormous variety of insects whose miniature ears detect sound to communicate, to detect their prey, or to avoid their own predators ...
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MOdel-Driven Approach for design and execution of applications on multiple Clouds (MODAClouds)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Current Cloud's offer is becoming day by day wider providing a vibrant technical environment, where SMEs can create innovative solutions and evolve their services. Cloud promises cheap and flexible services to end-users at a much larger scale than before. However, Cloud business models and technologies are still in their initial hype and characterized by critical early stage issues, which pose spe ...
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Systematic Models for Biological Systems Engineering Training Network (SyMBioSys)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Mathematical, computational models are central in biomedical and biological systems engineering; models enable (i) mechanistically justifying experimental results via current knowledge and (ii) generating new testable hypotheses or novel intervention methods. SyMBioSys is a joint academic/industrial training initiative supporting the convergence of engineering, biological and computational science ...
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Heb je al gehoord van de Europese zevensprong?

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

Have you already heard about the European cross section? The Wijnpers is a secondary school of the province of Vlaams-Brabant, with professional, technical and artistic training modules and it accommodates 600 students between the ages of 12 and 20. The school stands out with education in specific areas as biotechnology, zoology, environmental and horticultural studies, a specialized refrigeratio ...
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Hybrid Models for Tailoring Nano-Architectures of polymers (NANOPOLY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The large scale production of commodity polymers is increasingly shifting overseas. Europe still plays a major role in polymer processing and product development, but the competition with the US and Asia requires distinctive efforts to sustain this leadership. Thus, it is decisive for European researchers and companies to design innovative, specialised commodities and optimise current production s ...
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Next Generation Digital Mock-Ups for Multi-Physics Simulation (MUMPS)

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

ACARE’s vision 2050 for aerospace requires technological leadership in terms of managing the complexity of multidisciplinary design and development. Computational Simulation is essential to meet these challenges, but setting up complex numerical simulations for large assembly structures is extremely time-consuming and requires highly-skilled engineers. Even though solve time is often used as a key ...
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Concepts of roadside infrastructure and rest areas (Roadside rest areas)

Start date: Feb 19, 2012, End date: May 18, 2013,

The proposed project is aimed to highlight the main problems and propose the considered solution of well-functioning freight and passenger road infrastructure. There are three main issues that are to be solved jointly by municipal, public and private bodies by both countries: road safety, cargo and passengers security and roadside environment protection. Managing road safety issues are associated ...
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EuroSTEAM

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

CONTEXTEuroSTEAM is a 3 year project consisting of 7 partners from 5 EU countries (UK, BE, IT, ES, PT) who directly deliver STEM education & enrichment activities for and within schools. The project is seeking to address the key objective of Erasmus+ Key Action 2 by “co-operating for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices enabling educational organisations to work together in order to improve t ...
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EUlektro

Start date: Sep 14, 2016, End date: Sep 13, 2017,

The EUlektro project is scheduled to run for 12 months, beginning on 14 September 2016 and ending on 13 September 2017. It is designed for students of the second, third, and fourth year of the Electrical Engineering study programme. 18 students overall will participate. These students will set out to Portugal to acquire new work skills. During their two-week internship they will work for companies ...
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Perceptual Organization and Eye Movements (POEM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The process by which the brain transforms visual input into coherent objects is called perceptual organization. State-of-art research in this domain does not offer much insight into the bridge between the realm of perceptual organization and information acquired by eye movements, which consist of fixations that are discrete and serial. The project proposed here, “POEM”, is designed to bridge this ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The Lycée Cantau has been holding an Erasmus charter for several years and has entertained a long tradition of international cooperation, with students carrying out internships abroad every year since 25 years.. The variegated trainings that are taught in the school focus on construction, civil engineering, energy and space design. Most students’ researches for a placement have been carried out in ...
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Project to Lead Ecodesign Integration with Aerospace Development and Engineering Systems (PLEIADES)

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

The primary industrial objective of the PLEIADES project is to enable an integrated approach to the industry focused eco-design of aerospace products as part of existing engineering development workflows. The project will focus on the further development of the existing eco-design tools developed in collaboration with Rolls-Royce during the SAMULET project to enable a progressive transition from e ...
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Frontiers in Mechanism Design: Methodology and Applications (Frontiers in Design)

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

Mechanism design is the engineering side of economics. Research findings in this field have helped governments and practitioners worldwide design better institutions: auctions that are more profitable or efficient; labour markets that improve the match between employees and employers; and better ways to assign students to public schools. The cornerstone of mechanism design is the revelation princ ...
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Business Transformation towards Digitalization and Smart Systems

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

The idea of Business Transformation towards digitization and smart systems – BITTMAS is to prepare SMEs’ processes and their managers’ and employees’ competencies to deal with the challenges of the “Internet of things” and the opportunities from technological change. Their realization requires the commitment of each enterprise to identify its individual potential and develop a roadmap for implemen ...
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Lossless Photon management – Optical design for manufacture at different length scales (NOLOSS)

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

The target of this project is to prepare and train future engineers for the design challenges and opportunities provided by modern optics technology. Such challenges include lossless photon management, modelling at the system, components and feature level, and the link between design and technology. Today all optical designs are often perceived following different approaches, namely geometrical op ...
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Advanced Carbon Materials from Biowaste: Sustainable Pathways to Drive Innovative Green Technologies (GreenCarbon)

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

The energy crisis, environmental pollution and global warming are serious problems that are of great concern throughout the world. Around 40% of the world’s energy consumption is dedicated to the production of materials and chemicals. Thus, there is a need to develop high-performance materials based on renewable resources, simpler to synthesise and cost effective. Carbon materials derived from ren ...
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Dynamics of cultural landscapes and heritage management

Start date: Oct 15, 2014, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

REFERENCE: 553719-EPP-1-2014-1-FR-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB_DYCLAMTITLE: Dynamics of cultural landscapes and heritage management, DYCLAMObjectiveThe Master on Dynamics of cultural landscapes and heritage management (DYCLAM) aims to train future managers of territorial and human development through the cultural landscape and managers of labelled site able to understand the complexity of cultural landscapes (P ...
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Reengineering and Enabling Performance And poweR of Applications (REPARA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

In recent years, traditional processors have not been able to translate the advances of silicon fabrication technology into corresponding performance gains. This has been due to weaknesses inherent in the current sequential programming model, which has not changed significantly since the late 1940's, as well as due to physical constraints, such as practical limits on the energy consumption and the ...
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Development of Partnerships with SMEs in BA by Virtual Engineering Network

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

The project’s goal is to contribute in the growing of capacity bulding in HE institutions in the BA, by development of partnerships between university- enterprises/SMEs with the principles on EUs modernization agenda and national priorities through sustainable long term partnerships by VirtualEngineering technologies. First part of this project will be establishment of Collaboration Focal Points ( ...
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Conducting organic materials for tissue engineering and drug delivery (COMET)

Start date: Mar 15, 2011, End date: Mar 14, 2014,

"Tissue engineering aims to facilitate the re-growth of damaged or diseased tissues through the design of three-dimensional scaffolds and has implications for society in terms of treating spinal cord injuries and degenerative brain diseases. The overall objective of this research programme is to design, synthesize and develop new conducting and biodegradable scaffold materials with the capacity to ...
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ENgineering COMPASS (ENCOMPASS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The ENCOMPASS project principally aims to create a fully digital integrated design decision support (IDDS) system to cover the whole manufacturing chain for a laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) process encompassing all individual processes within in. The ENCOMPASS concept takes a comprehensive view of the L-PBF process chain through synergising and optimising the key stages. The integration at digita ...
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Multi-phase Lattice Materials (MULTILAT)

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

The integration of materials and architectural features at multiple scales into structural mechanics changed the way buildings were designed and gave us the Eiffel Tower, for example. This approach led to the development of computational design approaches used in modern day construction and it is believed that similar principles can be applied to the design and manufacture of new lattice-based mi ...
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Energy-efficient CFRP remanufacture from regenerated carbon fibres, using fast demoulding high pressure spray injection (CRESIM)

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

Background Carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP, or CF for carbon fibre) composites are increasingly used in several applications for their unique combination of low weight, strength and rigidity. The current market demand of some 38,000 tonnes/yr is expected to double by 2014. Using CFRP composites in structural parts to replace metals has many advantag ...
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INnovaTive Enzymes and polyionic-liquids based membRAnes as CO2 Capture Technology (INTERACT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

A major task addressed in the Strategic Energy Technology Plan of the EU is the sustainable power generation from fossil fuels. A crucial step here is the separation of CO2 from flue gas. INTERACT investigates the scientific and technological basis of radically innovative materials and processes. Strong improvement of the energy penalty of the capture process below 5 % points and reduction of the ...
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Robotics-based learning interventions for preventing school failure and Early School Leaving

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

The problem of school failure and early school leaving (ESL) challenges European education systems and economies influencing negatively personal, professional, economic and societal growth. Many students failed in school or early school leavers identify the curriculum and teaching practices as discouraging factor towards staying at school. Students claim they are rarely offered with opportunities ...
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Programme for the conservation of the Rhône-Apron (Zingel asper) and its habitats (Apron II)

Start date: Apr 1, 2004, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

Background The apron (Zingel asper) is a small, nocturnal bottom-dwelling fish listed in Annex II of the Habitats Directive. It only occurs in the Rhône river basin. It is about 15 to 20 cm in size and thrives in clear, oxygen-rich waters with clean gravel bottoms. The apron's behaviour is sedentary and territorial. At daytime, it remains hidden among r ...
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Bio-inspired Hierarchical Super Nanomaterials (BIHSNAM)

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

"Nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes or graphene sheets represent the future of material science, due to their potentially exceptional mechanical properties. One great drawback of all artificial materials, however, is the decrease of strength with increasing toughness, and viceversa. This problem is not encountered in many biological nanomaterials (e.g. spider silk, bone, nacre). Other biologic ...
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Exploiting Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Computing and the Internet of Things to promote Science Education (UMI-Sci-Ed)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Nowadays we are lucky to have many exciting new technologies available, like Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Mobile Computing (MobiCom) and the Internet of Things (IoT); in the following, we shall refer to them collectively as UMI. These technologies are so modern and powerful that can be both an educational means and end, thus fostering innovation and supporting promising scientific careers. The ...
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Development and demonstration of Manufacturing and Operation of clean and efficient power generation based on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (DEMO SOFC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

Background Fuel cells are considered to be one of the most promising new technologies for providing clean, safe and secure supplies of energy. Fuel cells convert fuel and air into electricity, heat and water through an electrochemical process, and offer low-carbon and climate change mitigation benefits. The profitable production of fuel cells at an indus ...
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MIEDT: Modeling and Implementation of Expert Driving Techniques towards the Development of New Active Safety Systems for Passenger Vehicles (MIEDT)

Start date: Mar 16, 2009, End date: Mar 15, 2011,

"In response to the public mandate and governments directives the automotive industry strives to develop and implement new technologies to increase safety of passenger vehicles. Supported by the advances in sensor technologies, which have resulted in increased situational awareness capabilities of modern vehicles, as well as the incorporation of drive-by-wire control systems to perform driver assi ...
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Engineering Semantic Rich Internet Applications (SeMaRi)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Web Science is a newly established field of science, which exclusively focuses on the study of the Web. Two main challenges are set: 1/ to study the Web on a macro scale, 2/ to engineer the Web to facilitate further development. This proposal is set within the field of Web Science, and addresses the second challenge: to engineer modern Web applications that, through their intrinsic design features ...
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