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Memory of empire: the post-imperial historiography of late Antiquity (MEPIHLA)

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

"The current project aims at offering the first comprehensive interpretation and reconstruction of the historiographical traditions in the Mediterranean from the fourth to the eighth centuries AD, the crucial transitional period from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. In particular, it advances the hypothesis that the historiography of this period should be understood as ‘post-imperial’, in the sense t ...
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Emulsion-templated structuring of liquid oil for future development of saturated fat-free food products (SAT-FAT-FREE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"The dangers of consuming high amounts of saturated fats have been well-documented in the past couple of decades. Surprisingly, even after much negative publicity and consumer concerns, the replacement of saturated fats in manufactured food products has been very slow. Some promising alternative systems have been identified as the future of oil structuring without the presence of saturated fats. H ...
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The Efficiency of Futures Markets (Futures)

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

The project is a cooperation between Ghent University, Belgium, Queen's University Belfast , UK, and the SME Risk & Portfolio Management AB, Stockholm, Sweden.It makes use of a unique, private data set provided by the SME involved. The data is on transactions of futures traders, so-called CTAs. These are often referred to as hedge funds, although the institutional setup and trading mechanisms show ...
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Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents (I.Family)

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

Nutrition-related diseases caused a loss of over 56 million years of healthy life of European citizens in 2000. I.Family will make a significant contribution to reduce this burden by studying the interplay and impact of the main drivers of dietary behaviour and food choice. It will take advantage of the unique opportunity to follow-up the large IDEFICS children’s cohort to not only provide added v ...
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Interdisciplinary Modelling of Climate Change in Coastal Western Antarctica - Network for Staff Exchange and Training (IMCONet)

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

The proposed European-US and South American network IMCONet will advance climate and (eco-) system change research at the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), a region of recent rapid aerial warming. WAP glaciers contribute to global sea level rise, and functioning and services of coastal ecosystems are massively threatened by the fast regional warming. Data sets from recent interdisciplinary Europe ...
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Power networks and fractured modernities: a political history and geography of electrification in Palestine-Israel (Fabric of Life)

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

This research project investigates the ways in which electrification, and the ‘roll out’ of electricity infrastructures, comes to matter socially, politically, economically and spatially both symbolically and as a set of materials. An interdisciplinary analytical focus on how these ‘large technical systems’ are constructed and used in Palestine-Israel offers a powerful way of thinking about electr ...
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INCREASING THE PENETRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN THE DISTRIBUTION GRID BY DEVELOPING CONTROL STRATEGIES AND USING ANCILLARY SERVICES (INCREASE)

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

The significant rise in distributed renewable energy sources has placed an enormous burden on the secure operation of the electrical grid, impacting both the transmission system operators (TSOs) and distribution system operators (DSOs). The massive increase of the intermittent DRES in low (LV) and medium (MV) networks has led to a bidirectional power flow which raises the urgent need for new oper ...
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"Political centralization, economic integration and language evolution in Central Africa: An interdisciplinary approach to the early history of the Kongo kingdom." (KONGOKING)

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

"The magnificent Kongo kingdom, which arose in the Atlantic Coast region of Equatorial Africa, is a famous emblem of Africa’s past. It is an important cultural landmark for Africans and the African Diaspora. Thanks to its early introduction to literacy and involvement in the Trans- Atlantic trade, the history of this part of sub-Saharan Africa from 1500 onwards is better known than most other part ...
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Study of the functional role of Alveolar Macrophages in vivo (Role of Alveolar MFs)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Nov 28, 2016,

The lung is a fascinating tissue at the level of immune regulation. As barrier to the outside world it is in constant contact with innocuous environmental antigens, but is also the entrance site for many pathogens. Importantly, loss of immune tolerance against environmental antigens, including pollen and house-dust-mite antigens, can cause severe allergic asthma. Dendritic cells (DCs) and Macropha ...
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Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation (MIDAS)

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

The MIDAS project addresses fundamental environmental issues relating to the exploitation of deep-sea mineral and energy resources; specifically polymetallic sulphides, manganese nodules, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, methane hydrates and the potential mining of rare earth elements. These new industries will have significant impacts on deep-sea ecosystems, in some cases extending over hundre ...
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Beneficial effects of dietary bioactive peptides and polyphenols on cardiovascular health in humans (BACCHUS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"The main objective of the BACCHUS project is to develop tools and resources that will facilitate the generation of robust and exploitable scientific evidence that can be used to support claims of a cause and effect relationship between consumption of bioactive peptides and polyphenols, and beneficial physiological effects related to cardiovascular health in humans. To achieve this, the BACCHUS c ...
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Designing Trees for the future (TREES4FUTURE)

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

TREES4FUTURE will make a significant contribution to helping the European forestry sector respond, in a sustainable manner, to increasing demands for wood products and services (among which preservation of forest biodiversity) in a context of changing climatic conditions. To do so TREES4FUTURE will integrate for the first time major, yet rarely interacting forestry communities (and their resources ...
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Functional profiling and therapeutic tolerization of macrophages in type 1 diabetes (Macrophages in T1D)

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

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic condition that results from the specific destruction of pancreatic beta cells by the immune system. As a consequence, affected individuals can no longer regulate their blood sugar levels and become dependent on glucose monitoring and insulin injections. Despite careful disease management, serious neuronal and vascular long-term complications can often not be avoi ...
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Development of a multidisciplinary platform for the screening of new preventive and therapeutic strategies against oral mucositis (MUCOSITIS PLATFORM)

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

Both from the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods and worldwide, there is a general call for the reduction, refinement or replacement of the use of laboratory animals. However, while in vivo animal models of chemotherapy and radiotherapy-induced oral mucositis have been successfully established, alternative methods such as in vitro tools for mucositis are still missing.Oral m ...
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Total Diet Study Exposure (TDSEXPOSURE)

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

Total Diet Studies (TDS) allow getting information on real dietary exposure to food contaminants consumption (heavy metals, mycotoxins, POPs...) and estimating chronic exposure to pesticide residues in food and food additives intake. TDS consider total exposure from whole diets and are based on food contamination as consumed rather than contamination from raw commodities, thus ensuring a realistic ...
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Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health: reducing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity in the year after childbirth through combined facility- and community-based interventions (MOMI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Improving maternal and newborn health requires innovative approaches that maximise opportunities for impact throughout the continuum of care. In the past decade, maternal health services have largely focused on the management of intrapartum complications and on rationalising the package of antenatal services to include emergency obstetric care provided by skilled birth attendants. These interventi ...
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Social Innovation - Empowering the Young (SocIEtY) for the Common Good (SOCIETY)

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

“Social Innovation–Empowering the Young (SocIEtY) for the Common Good” will both focus on and integrate disadvantaged young people into the research process to improve their quality of life and to foster social innovation. Therefore SocIEtY will extend the given informational basis for designing and implementing policies to reduce inequalities by giving voice and opportunities for developing aspir ...
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Sustainable Zero Carbon ECO-Town Developments Improving Quality of Life across EU - ECO-Life (ECO-LIFE)

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

The objective of ECO-Life project is to establish a replicable planning & implementation approach and to demonstrate innovative and integrated energy concepts in supply and demand side in municipalities in LT, BE and DK to reach the goal of zero CO2. The local ECO-life projects are integrated in large climate action initiatives in the municipalities. The project will use 100 % RES. Concerning RUE, ...
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Linking living plant traits to soil biogeochemical functions in ecosystem patches under different land use regimes using an isotope-based assessment (PlaBioF)

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

Nitrogen cycling is an important aspect of ecosystem functioning and global change. Plants affect soil N cycling through a series of direct and indirect mechanisms. It is therefore essential to understand how human-induced shifts in plant communities modify soil N cycling. One emerging approach to assess these links is by expressing vegetation data based on the functional characteristics (‘traits’ ...
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Adaptive polymer assemblies (AdaptPoly)

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

The adaptivity of natural systems is mostly controlled by shifting dynamic supramolecular equilibria or supramolecular recognition based on changes in the environmental conditions. In many adaptive processes, proteins, folded natural polymers, play a vital role to transfer the recognition of a change in environmental conditions into a macroscopic response event. Therefore, the combination of supra ...
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New strategies for corrosion inhibition coatings for lead and its characterization by in-situ spectroelectrochemical studies (Pbcoatings)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

Lead is susceptible to corrosion in the presence of organic acids and humidity. This accelerated degradation seriously affects cultural heritage objects, it takes place in display cases in museums and is has become a serious issue on organ pipes in churches or concert halls. The pipes of ancient organs are made from lead and the organic acids are emitted from the wooden parts in the organ (the win ...
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Microbially catalyzed electricity driven bioproduction from CO2 at the cathode in bioelectrochemical systems (MicrobioElectrosyn)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

The breakthroughs in extracellular electron transfer abilities of several bacteria and other technological advancements during last decade facilitated the development of bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) like microbial fuel cells, which are on the threshold from a lab bench to technological realization for electricity generation. The electricity driven microbial metabolism at cathode has recently ...
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Geometric Mechanics (GEOMECH)

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

"Geometric mechanics is the common name that is given to those research activities that are devoted to the application of differential geometry to various fields of theoretical physics, in particular to classical mechanics (Lagrange and Hamilton mechanics), dynamical systems theory and control theory. This proposal concerns a joint exchange programme in this broad field, centered around the follow ...
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BIOTREATMENT OF DRINKING WATER RESOURCES POLLUTED BY PESTICIDES, PHARMACEUTICALS AND OTHER MICROPOLLUTANTS (BIOTREAT)

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

BIOTREAT brings together six research institutions and four SMEs to develop much-needed water treatment biotechnologies for removing pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other organic micropollutants from contaminated drinking water resources. These biotechnologies will be developed into prototype biofilter systems ready for subsequent commercialisation. The biofilters will contain non-pathogenic pollu ...
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Strengthening the European Court of Human Rights: More Accountability Through Better Legal Reasoning (ECHR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

Human rights are under pressure, in Europe as elsewhere, due to several developments, namely [1] War on terror: the pressures generated by competing discourses [2] Coping with the dangers of rights inflation [3] Conflicting rights: how to handle rights as contested claims [4] The challenges of dealing with universality under fire In this context, the human rights leadership of the European Court o ...
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"Australian/Chinese connections in the world city network: specification, modelling, and EU implications" (CITYCONNECT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"The overall scientific objective of this IOF research training project is to examine recent world city network (WCN) evolutions, with a specific focus on (i) how for Australia’s leading cites (Sydney and Melbourne in particular) this evolution is being driven and shaped by the booming economies/connectivities of China’s leading cities (Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong in particular) and (ii) the w ...
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The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate. Political Traditions and State Formation in 15th century Egypt and Syria (MMS)

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

"I aim to radically reconsider standard views of late medieval Islamic history. Positing that prosopographical research will allow for a welcome reconstruction of the political traditions that dominated the Syro-Egyptian Mamluk sultanate in the 15th century, I endeavour to show how new traditions emerged that were constructed around the criterion of military slavery, and how this actually reflects ...
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Biomolecules of the sea for environmental remediation and healthcare (BioCare)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

BioCare will build a cross-border network of expertise in identifiying and utilising marine biomolecules, found in the 2 Seas area, for the benefit of its inhabitants' health and the environment in which they live. BioCare will gather together partners from universities, research centres and the Private sector. This network will implement research and development activities and develop new product ...
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Functional analysis of dispersal mechanisms of fungal endophytes in a tropical lowland rainforest (Endophyte Dispersal)

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

Highly diverse communities of endophytic fungi ― fungi that colonize plant tissues without causing symptoms of disease ― live cryptically in all higher plants ranging from mosses to flowering plants. While knowledge of the biodiversity and biogeography of endophytes is rapidly increasing, the mechanisms that maintain their diversity and control their dispersal among plants in natural ecosystems ar ...
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European NoVel Imaging Systems for ION therapy (ENVISION)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

Following the pioneering experiences which lasted several decades, particle therapy has become a recognized way of curing cancer. 2 new European dual-ion facilities (Heidelberg, Pavia) will soon become operational, followed by several others which are today at different stages of planning and construction. Hadron therapy faces the challenge of improving treatment outcomes with tools able to provid ...
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New tools and approaches to control Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) in the EU and Asia (PoRRSCon)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is the major cause of reproductive and respiratory problems in pigs worldwide. Controlling this disease is a top priority in pig producing countries. Due to mutations at a high frequency, new variants of the virus appear that are no longer effectively controlled by the commercial vaccines. In addition, highly virulent variants emerge, lea ...
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Banking Rhizosphere Micro-Organisms. European - Russian initiative to set up a network of rhizosphere microbiological resources centres (BRIO)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Soil microbes play key roles in ecosystems and influence ecosystem processes, including nutrient acquisition, nitrogen cycling, carbon cycling, and soil formation. Soil microbes are the majority in soil and a large portion of the genetic diversity on Earth. Many microbes live in association with plant roots and can promote plant productivity and provide protection against stress and disease. Other ...
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Mediating and Moderating variable analysis in energy balance behaviours change interventions- an International collaboration (MeMo International)

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

The prevalence of obesity has increased steadily for the past several decades. The great public health burden of overweight and obesity requires effective intervention programs targeting energy balance behaviours (e.g. active transport, tv viewing, soft drink and snacking consumption). However, up to now the efforts to prevent overweight had disappointing effects. To better inform future systemati ...
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Adaptive Modular Architecture for Rich Motor Skills (AMARSi)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Description Richness of biological motor behavior in robotic systems The motor skills of today’s robots still must be qualified as poor. The AMARSi Integrated Project aims at a qualitative jump toward biological richness of robotic motor skills. To achieve this goal, a number of innovative scienti ...
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Intrinsic Catalytic Kinetics Analyzed and Reconciled with Industrial Conditions (ICKARUS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"Catalytic propane dehydrogenation is the most important alternative route to propylene, the world’s second largest petrochemical commodity. We will study this reaction over novel bimetallic Pt-Ga catalysts which demonstrate improved resistance to coking. Specific research objectives of the project are: 1) perform a comprehensive investigation of propane dehydrogenation over the Pt-Ga catalysts, i ...
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West Nile Integrated Shield Project: Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Prevention of West Nile Virus in Europe (WINGS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The world is facing a variety of viral infections of high pathogenic potential. These are either novel or formerly only endemic in specific areas of the world. It is intrinsic to such emerging diseases that actions to prevent and fight them must be taken while the number of infections is still relatively low and geographically restricted. Therefore, research efforts are required well before large ...
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"Measurement, Effect Assessment and Mitigation of Pollutant Impact on Movable Cultural Assets. – Innovative Research for Market Transfer." (MEMORI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"The MEMORI proposal will provide the conservation market with innovative measurement technology, improved pollution effects knowledge and evaluation and control methods for the reduction of gaseous pollutant impact on movable cultural assets, - facilitating increased and safe use of protective enclosures for cultural heritage (CH) objects located indoors in new or rebuilt buildings for collection ...
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Development and application of standardized methodology for the PROspective SUstaInability assessment of TEchnologies (PROSUITE)

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

"The main goal of PROSUITE is to develop a framework methodology, operational methods and tools for the sustainability assessment of current and future technologies over their life cycle, applicable to different stages of maturity. The project will apply the methodology for four technology cases with close consultation of the stakeholders involved, which includes cases from biorefineries, nanotech ...
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Accessing Medicines in Africa and South Asia (AMASA)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"The main aim of the proposed research is to investigate how the interplay of patent regimes, pharmaceutical regulation, availability of drug production facilities, health care infrastructure and service provision, and engagement by foreign donors influence appropriate, affordable access to medicines in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We aim to map patterns of production, distribution, supply a ...
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Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas (MESMA) (MESMA)

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

The increasing pressures upon the marine realm call for a well planned approach of further spatial development of this area. An ecosystem-based approach to fisheries, the increasing demand for sustainable energy, coastal defence systems, building materials and safe transport routes and the need to protect marine habitats and species all compete for the same valuable space. At the same time climate ...
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