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Biomedical Data Fusion using Tensor based Blind Source Separation (BIOTENSORS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"Summary: the quest for a general functional tensor framework for blind source separationOur overall objective is the development of a general functional framework for solving tensor based blind source separation (BSS) problems in biomedical data fusion, using tensor decompositions (TDs) as basic core. We claim that TDs will allow the extraction of fairly complicated sources of biomedical activity ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus (ECHORD Plus Plus)

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

Description ECHORD++ will create new opportunities for European robotics researchers to work directly with SME/start-ups and new users/customers to create innovative products. ECHORD++ will continue ECHORD’s two pillars, “experiments” and “structured dialogue”, taking advantage of experience and investment in the infrastructure. In addition, ...
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Design of novel high performance catalysts and biosensors based on deposited mass-selected clusters assisted by computational theoretical screening (CATSENSE)

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

"The main S&T objective of CATSENSE is to design novel high performance catalysts and biosensors by a new interactive approach combining i. the production of mono and bi-metallic gas-phase clusters of controlled homogeneity, ii. the extensive characterisation of their morphology, structure (ex and in situ) and optical properties, iii. theoretical modelling and screening, and iv. catalytic and bios ...
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Efficacy and safety of MRI-based thrombolysis in wake-up stroke: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (WAKE-UP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

WAKE-UP is an investigator-initiated, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial designed to test efficacy and safety of MRI-based intravenous thrombolysis in patients with wake-up stroke. Every year 1.5 million patients suffer a stroke in the EU. Up to 20% of stroke patients wake up with stroke symptoms. Currently these patients are excluded from thrombolysis which is the onl ...
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Analytical Research In ADME profiling (ARIADME) (ARIADME)

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

The integration of absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) profiling into early drug discovery has been put forward as a strategy for reducing drug candidate attrition. Europe is challenged to develop novel ADME screening methodologies with increased efficiency and predictive power to profile the multitude of lead compounds currently being generated. The principal objective of th ...
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Supramolecular assembly of polymeric structures: a novel route to enhance soft materials properties (SUPOLEN)

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

"Supramolecular polymeric assemblies represent an emerging, promising class of systems with superior versatility compared to their covalent polymeric counterparts. They offer exciting new opportunities for stimuli-responsive structures exhibiting reversible tunable properties, with applications in foodstuff, coatings , cost-efficient processes or biomedical areas. To explore their potential and de ...
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Initial Training Networks for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our Past to the Future (ITN-DCH)

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

"Cultural Heritage (CH) is an integral element of Europe and vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job creation. However, the current research training activities in CH are fragmented and mostly design to be of a single-discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage ( ...
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The manufacturing of a biological tissue: REgeneration of the JOINt by Developmental engineering (REJOIND)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"The general aim of REJOIND is to provide proof-of-principle for the in vitro manufacturing of a growing bone, with a bioartificial growth plate as a “driving engine” at its core. To achieve this, we propose a developmental engineering approach, based on the modular design of in vitro processes consisting of sequential units corresponding to in vivo developmental stages. These processes follow a ...
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DR HIPERGAS

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

"This project is called DoctoRate on HIgh PERformance GAS separation membrane (DR HIPERGAS) and the consortium consists of two level one partners, the Catholic University of Leuven and Fujifilm, and two level two partners, TNO and the Unversitat der Bundeswehr Munchen.The main research objective of the research program is to answer the scientific key questions concerning gas separation (GS) membr ...
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A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points (FASTPASS)

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

FastPass will establish and demonstrate a harmonized, modular approach for Automated Border Control (ABC) gates. FastPass brings together key players of the entire ABC value chain - system and component producers, research institutions, governmental authorities and end-users.The development of a harmonized ABC gate will be accomplished with continuous end-user involvement. The entire innovation pr ...
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Computational Horizons In Cancer (CHIC): Developing Meta- and Hyper-Multiscale Models and Repositories for In Silico Oncology (CHIC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Developing robust, reproducible, interoperable and collaborative hyper-models of diseases and normal physiology is a sine qua non necessity if rational, coherent and comprehensive exploitation of the invaluable information hidden within human multiscale biological data is envisaged. Responding to this imperative in the context of both the broad Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) initiative and the ...
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Transforming Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy into a Clinical Tool (TRANSACT)

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

"In vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Imaging (MRS(I)) are unique, indispensable techniques for non-invasive metabolic imaging. Important areas where MRS(I) can make a difference are oncology and neurology, where metabolic changes due to, e.g., tumour formation, can be detected earlier and more sensitively than with morphological imaging modalities alone. Despite its huge prov ...
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"Simulation, Optimization and Control of High-Altitude Wind Power Generators" (HIGHWIND)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"A new class of large scale wind power generators shall be investigated viamathematical modelling, computer simulation and multidisciplinary optimization methods. The underlyingtechnical idea is to use fast flying tethered airfoils that fly in altitudes of several hundredmeters above the ground. They will perform specially controlled loops accompanied by line lengthand line tension variations, tha ...
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Spaces of possibility for the creative re-use of Europeana's content (Europeana Space)

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

The objective of Europeana Space is to increase and enhance the creative industries' use of Europeana by delivering a range of resources to support their engagement. The use of Europeana by the creative industries is still limited by factors including issues around the IPR status of content and the need for business models demonstrating the potential for exploitation of available content. In addr ...
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"Perceptual Representation of Illumination, Shape and Material" (PRISM)

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

"Visual perception provides us with a richly detailed representation of the surrounding world, enabling us to make subtle judgements of 1) 3D shape, 2) the material properties of objects, and 3) the flow of illumination within a scene. Together, these three factors determine the intensity of a surface in the image. Estimating scene properties is crucial for guiding action and making decisions like ...
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Supporting Postgraduate Research with Internships in industry and Training Excellence (SPRITE)

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

SPRITE is a multi-disciplinary European training network which brings together Europe’s premier research institutes in technology and applications of ion beams. Those involved are already actively collaborating, for example in the recently very favourably reviewed EC Infrastructure project SPIRIT.SPRITE addresses the urgent European need - identified in a recent Foresight Review - to train the ne ...
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Improved Communication through Applied Hearing Research (ICanHear)

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

ICanHear will develop models based on emerging knowledge about higher-level processing within the auditory pathway and exploit that knowledge to develop creative solutions that will improve the performance of hearing instruments. New signal processing methods will be implemented on a unified open signal processing platform and will be evaluated in terms of user benefits on common evaluation scenar ...
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The changing nature of employment in Europe in the context of challenges, threats and opportunities for employees and employers (ChangingEmployment)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Europe is today facing several major challenges. These go beyond the future of the euro and the instability of the financial system to some of the underlying issues concerned with the work activities that underpin the European economy. How can Europe retain manufacturing and production as restructuring and relocation towards lower-wage costs economies gathers pace? As demographic change lifts the ...
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Ultrasound guided cardiac arrythmia treatment (USART)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"Every 30 second, a person in the Western world suffers sudden cardiac death and/or death from heart failure. These two conditions remain the major challenges in modern cardiology. However, new treatments now emerging offer hope in combating these events.Despite significant advances in new therapeutic approaches, current tools for risk stratification are insufficient, and treatment using ablation ...
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Bright Farm by Precision Livestock Farming (EU-PLF)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The objective of the EU-PLF project is to deliver a validated Blueprint for an animal and farm-centric approach to innovative livestock farming in Europe proven through extensive field studies. This blueprint represents a manual for farmers and their surrounding industry including high tech SME’s and other stakeholders. It is a reference tool offering pragmatic guidance on how Precision Livestock ...
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A Life-cycle Autonomous Modular System for Aircraft Material State Evaluation and Restoring System (ALAMSA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Accurate quantification of damage in aircraft structures during their life cycle through an automated monitoring system could ensure airframe integrity and long term durability. Nonlinear Elastic Wave Spectroscopy are an innovative class of non-destructive techniques providing an extreme sensitivity in diagnosing manufacturing defects such as porosity, component assembly contact conditions, and in ...
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Nanoelectronic COupled Problems Solutions (nanoCOPS)

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

Designs in nanoelectronics often lead to problems that are large to simulate and that include strong feedback couplings. Industry demands to include variability to guarantee quality and yield. It also requests to incorporate higher abstraction levels to allow for system simulation in order to shorten design cycles, while preserving accuracy. The nanoCOPS project considers the simulation of two pro ...
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PRACTICE: Privacy-Preserving Computation in the Cloud (PRACTICE)

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

The traditional computing paradigm is experiencing a fundamental shift: organizations no longer completely control their own data, but instead hand it to external untrusted parties - cloud service providers, for processing and storage. There currently exist no satisfactory approach to protect data during computation from cloud providers and from other users of the cloud.PRACTICE has assembled the ...
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Plasmonics-based Energy Harvesting for Catalysis (PLASMHACAT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Many critical photochemical and photophysical processes, from photosynthesis in plants, to photocatalytic reactions, and to generation of electricity in solar cells, depend on an efficient light-matter interaction. In order to increase, for example, the efficiency of photocatalysis, the interaction of the photocatalyst with light has to be increased. This project will pursue two lines of investig ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Heterogeneous Ad-hoc Networks for Distributed, Cooperative, and Adaptive Multimedia Signal Processing (HANDiCAMS)

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

The project is aimed at developing a new ICT paradigm, which considers multiple heterogeneous devices that cooperate in multiple signal processing tasks. This is radically different from current ICT paradigms, in which stand-alone devices merely focus on individual tasks or multiple devices perform one joint task, e.g., in a wireless sensor network (WSN). Examples of the heterogeneous devices cons ...
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Soft Matter at Aqueous Interfaces (SOMATAI)

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

Soft nanotechnology is generally considered as a field that will have a major impact on technological developments in near future. However, the fundamental understanding of the wealth of new structures lacks far behind, despite supporting activity from material science. Such an understanding is indispensable for sustainable growth of this important research domain and its applications. A physics-o ...
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Web-enabled and Experience-based Cognitive Robots that Learn Complex Everyday Manipulation Tasks (ROBOHOW.COG)

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

Description In order to make robots achieve robust, adaptive, effective and natural performance of everyday manipulation tasks, it is not feasible to expect that programmers can equip the robots with plan libraries that cover such open-ended task spectrum competently. ROBOHOW.Cog targets at enabling autonomous robots to perform expanding set ...
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EUropean Training and Education for Medical Physics Experts in Radiology (EUTEMPE-RX)

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

"Medical exposures for radiological examinations represent the highest and fastest growing contribution to manmade radiation exposure in the EU underlying the need for medical physics experts (MPEs), regulators and scientists in industry to bring in new research results and expertise and to deploy resources in addressing this important issue. The EC recognized the urgency and the EU tender ‘Europ ...
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Robotics Coordination Action for Europe (RockEU)

Start date: Jan 17, 2013, End date: Jul 16, 2016,

The European robotics community has grown significantly over the last few years. At the same time public funding enabled the community to become more organised on both the research (EURON) and the industrial (EUROP) side and to develop the currently valid Strategic Research Agenda (SRA).Very recently EURON and EUROP decided to combine their portfolio of activities and member base within a new non- ...
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Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

EAGLE is a Best Practice Network that brings together the most prominent European institutions and archives in the field of Classical Latin and Greek epigraphy, to provide Europeana with a comprehensive collection of unique historical sources which constitute a veritable pillar of European culture. In particular, it will supply inscriptions coming from 25 EU countries, providing more than 1.5 M of ...
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Television Ring - Testbeds for Connected TV services using HbbTV (TV-RING)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Description TV-Ring, testing advanced network infrastructures and Connected TV applications.The TV-Ring project joins European broadcasters, research centres, software developers and service providers with a common objective: to develop and test applications and infrastructures that will shape the future internet-based television, aiming ...
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Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT)

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

"Identity management using Biometrics is deployed in a growing number of applications ranging from identification platforms (e.g. biometric passports) to access control systems for border checks or banking transactions.Unfortunately, the reliability of these technologies remains difficult to compare. There are no european-wide standards for evaluating their accuracy, their robustness to attacks or ...
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Fast and trustworthy Identity Delivery and check with ePassports leveraging Traveler privacy (FIDELITY)

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

Significant efforts have been invested to strengthen border ID checks with biometrics Travel Documents embedding electronic chips (ePassport). However, problems appeared regarding fraud in the ePassport issuing process, citizen losing control on their personal data, difficulties in certificates management, and shortcomings in convenience, speed, and efficiency of ID checks, including the access to ...
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Open Semantically-enabled, Social-aware Access to Scientific Data (OpenScienceLink)

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

OpenScienceLink will introduce and pilot a holistic approach to the publication, sharing, linking, review and evaluation of research results, based on the open access to scientific information. OpenScienceLink will pilot a range of novel services that could alleviate the lack of structured data journals and associated data models, the weaknesses of the review process, the poor linking of scientifi ...
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Patient-specific predictions for bone treatments (CAD-BONE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

CAD-BONE addresses a multidisciplinary research that will transform current technology by radically improving the development of patient-specific computer models for the modelling of bone remodelling/healing to predict short and long-term bone response after surgical interventions. Specifically, CAD-BONE will combine image processing, musculoskeletal modelling tools, finite element analyses and bo ...
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The CONsumer COmpetence Research Training (CONCORT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Consumer science is touching the lives of 493 million EU Consumers with their consumption representing 58% of the EU GDP, yet the insights of consumer research typically fail to have a substantial impact on consumer welfare. The EC acknowledges the problem and places it high on its policy priorities. Consumer research is scattered across several disciplines in the social sciences with little commu ...
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Shaping the future of electronic identity (FutureID)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The FutureID project builds a comprehensive, flexible, privacy-aware and ubiquitously usable identity management infrastructure for Europe, which integrates existing eID technology and trust infrastructures, emerging federated identity management services and modern credential technologies to provide a user-centric system for the trustworthy and accountable management of identity claims.The Future ...
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Multiplatform Usable Endpoint Security (MUSES)

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

The overall purpose of MUSES is to foster corporate security by reducing the risks introduced by user behaviour.Data security and privacy are of fundamental importance to organizations, where they are defined and managed via Security Policies. Most security incidents are caused by organization insiders, either by their lack of knowledge or inadequate or malicious behaviour.Nowadays, information is ...
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A Source code analysis Toolbox for software security AssuraNCE (STANCE)

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

The immunity of a system to malicious third parties trying to modify its behaviour (e.g. to perform unauthorized actions) is called security. Ensuring this feature in information and communication technologies is a requirement for establishing a trustworthy Information Society. Several strategies can be explored to deal with this problem. One of them, called program analysis, relies on formal tech ...
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