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Persistent virus infection as a cause of pathogenic inflammation in type 1 diabetes - an innovative research program of biobanks and expertise (PEVNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

"Type 1 diabetes is caused by an inflammatory process which damage insulin-producing beta-cells in the pancreas. It is one of the most common chronic diseases and its incidence is rapidly increasing. Due to its complications it causes a significant medical and economic burden to European society. A causal association between enterovirus and type 1 diabetes has become more and more likely. The aim ...
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Novel immunotherapies for type 1 diabetes (NAIMIT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

This proposal will pioneer the concept of tailored interventions with minimal immune system interference in new onset T1DM, leading to beta-cell protection and restoration, based on a solid understanding of the disease pathogenesis. This will enable experimental findings to be adopted for future clinical application. Four work packages are grouped around ‘Reversal of autoimmunity’, in which two ke ...
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Pan-European network for the study and clinical management of drug resistant tuberculosis (TB PAN-NET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"This proposal will establish an integrated and synergistic network to address the challenge of multiple drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) facing the EU. The objective will be attained through the establishment of a European consortium of expert partners with extensive experience in the conduct of basic and clinical research relating to MDR-TB, TB control and epidemiology. This Consortium will ...
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The Hand Embodied (THE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

Description Advancing the state of the art in artificial system architectures for the "hand" as a cognitive organ The scientific goals of The Hand Embodied concern the reciprocal linkages between the physical hand and its high-level control functions, and about the way that the embodiment enables ...
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EMBRC preparatory phase (EMBRC)

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

The Preparatory Phase for a pan-European MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE CENTRE(EMBRC) research Infrastructure. This application focuses on the technical, legal, governance, and financial issues to prepare a memorandum of understanding to begin to construct EMBRC. It will build on existing Marine Biological Institutes and Research Centres which will be complemented with innovative components and pro ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (ECHORD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description Strengthening the knowledge transfer between scientific research and industry in robotics and stimulating their cooperation In Europe the robotics industry is strong, but still fragmented and dispersed. The objective of ECHORD is to provide new opportunities for coordinated and target- ...
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Scientific Training in Antimicrobial Research Strategies (STARS)

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

Researchers who aspire to work in drug discovery need to adapt to constantly changing technology and be able to harness new tools both to ask and to answer pertinent scientific questions. Structural biology was going to rationalize drug design. Next, combinatorial chemistry was to be the industrial panacea, only to be superseded by high-throughput screening of chemical libraries. Technologies such ...
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Nanochemistry and self-assembly routes to metamaterials for visible light (METACHEM)

Start date: Sep 15, 2009, End date: Sep 14, 2013,

The objective of the METACHEM collaborative project is to use the extreme versatility of nano-chemistry to design and manufacture bulk meta-materials exhibiting non-conventional electromagnetic properties in the range of visible light. This spectral domain requires nano-scale patterns, typically around 50 nm in size or less. Our strategy consists in designing and synthesizing ad-hoc nano particles ...
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An Integrated Tool-Kit for the Clinical Evaluation of Microbial Detection and Antibiotic Susceptibility Point-of-Care Testing Technologies (TEMPOtest-QC)

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

The TEMPOtest project proposal addresses the need to “design integrated tools for closing the gap between microbiological point-of-care technologies and actual clinical need”, by designing, developing and implementing a microbiological point-of-care “tool-kit” comprising i) a survey providing information on Europe-wide demand for point-of-care microbiological tests, ii) an archive of freely availa ...
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Active Distribution networks with full integration of Demand and distributed energy RESourceS (ADDRESS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2013,

"ADDRESS will research, develop and deploy technologies and processes to increase usage of Distributed Generation and Renewable Energy Resources thereby engaging in a new relationship between customers, generators and network operators. ADDRESS aims to develop new innovative architectures for Active Distribution Networks (ADN) able to balance in real time power generation and demand allowing netwo ...
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Confronting the clinical relevance of biocide induced antibiotic resistance (BIOHYPO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"Biocides have been in use for hundreds of years for antisepsis, disinfection and preservation. Despite this widespread and ever increasing use most bacterial and fungal species remain susceptible to biocides. The dramatic increase and spread of resistance to antibiotics linked to reports of co- and cross-resistance between antibiotics and biocides raised speculations on potential hazard of bioci ...
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Intervention strategies against malaria (InterMalTraining)

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

Malaria exacts a devastating social and economic cost across the globe. Europe is at the forefront of the battle against this disease. It contains many of the leading malaria research groups, most of which are members of at least one of two consortia; BioMalPar, a Network of Excellence focused on basic research into the biology and pathology of malaria; and AntiMal, an integrated project aiming ...
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A comprehensive dissection of pneumococcal-host interactions (PNEUMOPATH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"This project is a fundamental, comprehensive study of the host-pathogen interactions during infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae. The expectation is that the basic knowledge gained from this work will give new targets for vaccination, diagnosis and treatment. In PNEUMOPATH, academic and industrial partners will work together in six scientific workpackages. 1) The molecular epidemiology of anti ...
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Translational Research on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance (TROCAR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"The health care systems of most European countries are based on a continuum from acute care hospitals, though other health care facilities to the community. Such a framework provides the perfect opportunity for the wide-spread dissemination of high-risk resistant clones or genetic resistant elements. The driving concept of TROCAR is to investigate the fundamentals of the epidemiology of new high ...
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Coordinating the Antenna Research in Europe (CARE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

The European antenna research received great benefits from the structuring efforts provided by the Network of Excellence ACE (2004-2007). The ACE NoE produced a long list of outstanding results, such as the Antenna Expert Groups (AEG), the European School of Antennas (ESoA), the European Conferences on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), the Antenna Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) and the Europea ...
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Nasal Pandemic Influenza Vaccine (NASPANVAC)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The project is being undertaken in response to the need to develop an effective, user friendly, heat stable vaccine to control the highly pathogenic form of avian influenza virus (H5 and H7 subtypes) which has the potential to cause another global influenza pandemic. The overall objective of this programme is to develop a nasal avian influenza vaccine using ChiSys® (chitosan), which is a chitosan ...
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SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND EUROPEAN PUBLIC ETHICS (STEPE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"This proposal is to establish a Consortium to provide academic input into the planned Eurobarometer Survey on the Life Sciences and Sensitive Technologies in 2008. It is also intended to add value to the survey and thereby enhance its impact and policy relevance with extensions of a conceptual, contextual and a methodological nature. First, we introduce the concept ‘public ethics’, moving beyond ...
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"How to achieve sustainable water ecosystems management connecting research, people and policy makers in Europe" (AWARE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

"The issue of concern of the AWARE project is the anthropogenic deterioration of water ecosystems, in particular in coastal areas. The new approach proposed by the AWARE project to enhance connectivity between research and policy-making exploit the concept of integrated adaptive ecosystem management, engaging scientists, policy makers and the public (the latter including both stakeholders and lay ...
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Cross-Diffusion and pattern formation in reaction diffusion systems (crossdiffusionrossi)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

We propose to study spatiotemporal patterns that occur in chemically reacting systems as a result of cross-diffusion, the phenomenon whereby gradients in the concentration of one species affect the diffusion of another species. Patterns that arise by this mechanism appear to constitute a new class of self-organized structures that lies between thermodynamically stable structures like micelles or m ...
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Empowering Biomedical and Bioengineering SMEs to promote participation in FP7 projects (SM-BIO-POWER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"The SM-BIO-POWER project aims to stimulate, promote and support the participation of high-tech, research intensive SMEs operating in the medical technology and biomedical engineering sectors of the health field for long term research interest and increased participation in the context of FP7 European Research activities. The proposed project is largely based on the outcomes and the experience ga ...
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A new platform for fast molecular detection of MDR and XDR resistant strains of M. tuberculosis and of drug resistant malaria (TM-REST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"Recent developments in molecular tools combined with updated epidemiological data provide novel challenges to the development of modern molecular diagnostics. The increasing threat of infections due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, including multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) infections poses important questions that call for development of integrated tools for rapid dia ...
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ADAptive circuit techniques for current-mode ultra low-power diGItal Integrated Circuits (ADAGIO)

Start date: May 10, 2009, End date: May 9, 2011,

"In the last years, the demand for ultra-low power integrated circuits with sub-1mW power consumption has been rapidly growing, due to the diffusion of applications relying on a large number of circuit nodes that are powered with tiny batteries or extract their energy from the environment (e.g., wireless sensor networks). These circuits must also be provided with sufficient computing capability fo ...
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T-SENIORITY: EXPANDING THE BENEFITS OF INFORMATION SOCIETY TO OLDER PEOPLE THROUGH DIGITAL TV CHANNELS (T-SENIORITY)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

T-SENIORITY objective is to significantly improve quality of life and ensure efficient health and social care for the ageing population by specifying and demonstrating innovative ICT enabled products and services.The proposal is based in the integration of digital services addressed to elders and info-marginated audiences that will be accessed by TV channels and where the important segment of peop ...
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ROBot and SENSors INtegration as Guidance FOR Enhanced Computer Assisted Surgery and Therapy (ROBOCAST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The ROBOCAST project aims to develop ICT scientific methods and technologies which focus on robot assisted keyhole neurosurgery. A modular system, allowing a reduction of the footprint, will be developed with two robots and one active bio-mimetic probe, able to cooperate among themselves in a biomimetic sensory-motor integrated framework. A gross positioning 3-axes robot will support a miniature p ...
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Antenna Research and Technology for the Intelligent Car (ARTIC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

Antenna Research is a strategic enabling technology for intelligent vehicles and road safety services. Car-to-car communications, real time congestions localisation, obstacle and collision radars, on board sensor networks, etc. are based on novel antennas solutions and subsystems integration.Antenna Research in Europe received great benefits from the structuring efforts provided by the Network of ...
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EuroPolis: A deliberative polity-making project (EuroPolis)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

EuroPolis explores the forms of democratic deficit that directly affecting EU citizens. We test the hypothesis that citizen involvement in inclusive, informed, and thoughtful deliberation about the EU increases access to politically relevant information, citizens’ political engagement in EU public affairs, perceptions of the legitimacy of EU institutions, a sense of belonging to the EU, and voter ...
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Road mapping technology for Enhancing Security to Protect Medical and Genetic Data (RADICAL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

RADICAL coordination action aims at approaching coherently, studying in depth and revealing scientifically, the beyond the state-of the art research and policy roadmap for security and privacy enhancement in Virtual Physiological Human, tak-ing into consideration technology advancements, business and societal needs, eth-ics and challenges that should be addressed and answered.RADICAL objectives a ...
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Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Trimeric Influenza Virus Polymerase Complex (FLUINHIBIT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

"The clock is counting down to the next influenza pandemic. Since 1997, the avian influenza virus strain H5N1 has infected over 250 people worldwide with a fatality rate of ~60%, although so far without sustained human-to-human transmission. In view of the very few efficacious drugs against influenza virus infections and the time it takes to develop a matching vaccine, there is an unmet worldwide ...
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