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Conservative iron chelation as a disease-modifying strategy in Parkinson’s disease: a multicentric, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial of deferiprone (FAIR-PARK-II)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a major, chronic, non-communicable disease and the 2nd most frequent neurodegenerative disorder worldwide. Excess iron is primarily detected in the substantia nigra pars compacta, where dopaminergic neurons are exposed to high levels of oxidative stress produced by mitochondrial disorders and dopamine metabolism. Our previous preclinical, translational and pilot clinica ...
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A training network for the chemical site-selective modification of proteins: Preparation of the next-generation of therapeutic chemically-defined protein conjugates (ProteinConjugates)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

ProteinConjugates is an inter- and multi-disciplinary network for the education of talented young scientists who will learn how to rationally design and construct the next generation of chemically-defined and innovative protein drug-conjugates for the targeted treatment of serious conditions such as cancer or rheumatoid arthritis. A complementary interaction between academy and pharmaceutical indu ...
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eHealth Eurocampus

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

The eHealth Eurocampus project aims at preparing innovative professionals able to cope with the challenge of fostering a spirit of innovation in eHealth in Europe as the way forward to ensure better health and better and safer care. The main objectives of the eHealth Eurocampus are improving the relevance and quality of higher education in the field of ICT applications for health, and fostering em ...
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Development of a non-invassive breath test for early diagnosis of tropical diseases (TROPSENSE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

This project aims at demonstrating the feasibility of a non-invasive, safe and patient-friendly methodology for on-site rapid diagnosis of tropical diseases. The proposed approach is based on breath samples analyses, which are easy to obtain and present no discomfort or risk for patients health. In this study will be enrolled patients with three different types of neglected tropical diseases (Hyda ...
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TBVAC2020; Advancing novel and promising TB vaccine candidates from discovery to preclinical and early clinical development (TBVAC2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The TBVAC2020 proposal builds on the highly successful and long-standing collaborations in subsequent EC-FP5-, FP6- and FP7-funded TB vaccine and biomarker projects, but also brings in a large number of new key partners from excellent laboratories from Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and Australia, many of which are global leaders in the TB field. This was initiated by launching an open call for Express ...
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RD-CONNECT: An integrated platform connecting registries, biobanks and clinical bioinformatics for rare disease research (RD-CONNECT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Despite examples of excellent practice, rare disease (RD) research is still mainly fragmented by data and disease types. Individual efforts have little interoperability and almost no systematic connection between detailed clinical and genetic information, biomaterial availability or research/trial datasets. By developing robust mechanisms and standards for linking and exploiting these data, RD-Con ...
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Integrative Analysis of Gene Functions in Cellular and Animal Models of Pancreatic Cancer (CAM-PAC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Cancers are genetic disease arising from the accumulation of multiple molecular alterations in affected cells. Large-scale genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses have established comprehensive catalogues of molecules which are altered in their structure and/or abundance in malignant tumors as compared to healthy tissues. Far less developed are concepts and methods to integrate data from di ...
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Aggression subtyping for improved insight and treatment innovation in psychiatric disorders (AGGRESSOTYPE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Aggression is a basic physiological trait with important roles throughout evolution, both in defence and predation. When expressed in humans in the wrong context, aggression leads to maladjustment, social impairment and crime. Despite this, knowledge about aggression aetiology is limited and current treatment strategies are insufficient. Contingent to a subdivision into impulsive and instrumental ...
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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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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Knowledge-Based Information Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities (KRISTINA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

In Europe, migration is tradition – and not only since the European legislation changed towards free migration of European citizens. This is not free of challenges. Especially in the case of care, migrants, often face a double challenge: (i) not to speak the language and not to be acquainted with the culture of the resident country, and (ii) be unfamiliar with the care and health administrations o ...
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Quantum Simulation on a Photonic Chip (QUCHIP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Simulation is a fundamental computational tool for modern science with applications ranging from drug design to materials science. Quantum simulators have the potential to revolutionize the way simulations are performed by accessing system sizes that are untractable in classical machines. As a result, they will become a suite of powerful and precise instruments enabling the investigation of releva ...
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Rydberg Quantum Simulators (RYSQ)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Quantum Simulators provide new levels of understanding of equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of many-body quantum systems, one of the most challenging problems in physics. The main objective of the RYSQ project is to use Rydberg atoms for quantum simulations, because their outstanding versatility will allow us to perform a great variety of useful quantum simulations, by exploiting diffe ...
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Cold Molecular Ions at the Quantum Limit (COMIQ)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"COMIQ (COld Molecular Ions at the Quantum limit)will investigate how cooling, trapping, and control techniques applied molecular ion can expand the realm of quantum technology, enhance precision meaurements on molecular systems and lead to chemistry at the ultracold quantum limit."
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European Autism Interventions - A Multicentre Study for Developing New Medications (EU-AIMS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Despite dramatic advances in molecular and imaging technologies, there are currently no effective pharmacological treatments for the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Major obstructions to this include a lack of aetiologically-driven or pathophysiologically-accurate animal models; an absence of tests that indicate efficacy; and reliance of clinical trials on DSM/ICD10 categories wh ...
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A BLUEPRINT of Haematopoietic Epigenomes (BLUEPRINT)

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

In response to the call for a high impact initiative on the human epigenome, the BLUEPRINT Consortium has been formed with the aim of generating at least 100 reference epigenomes and studying them to advance and exploit knowledge of the underlying biological processes and mechanisms in health and disease. BLUEPRINT will focus on distinct types of haematopoietic cells from healthy individuals and o ...
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Emulators of Quantum Frustrated Magnetism (EQuaM)

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

Among complex systems with emergent behaviours, frustrated quantum magnets are predicted to exhibit novel, highly nontrivial phases of matter that may play a major role in future and emerging quantum technologies such as the synthesis of innovative materials for energy harnessing and storage, entanglement-enhanced metrology, and topological quantum computing.Unfortunately, due to the intrinsic lev ...
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Simulators and Interfaces with Quantum Systems (SIQS)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The overarching goal of our project is to develop systems based on direct and deterministic interactions between individual quantum entities, which by involving large-scale entanglement can outperform classical systems in a series of relevant applications.We plan to achieve that by improving technologies from atomic, molecular and optical physics as well as from solid-state physics, and by develop ...
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Biomarker for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Europe (BiomarCaRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Biomarkers are considered as tools to enhance cardiovascular risk estimation. However, the value of biomarkers on risk estimation beyond European risk scores, their comparative impact among different European regions and their role in the drive towards personalised medicine remains uncertain.Based on harmonised and standardised European population cohorts we have built significant research collabo ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

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

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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European multidisciplinary ALS network identification to cure motor neuron degeneration (Euro-MOTOR)

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

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is one of the most devastating diseases in neurology affecting in Europe 50,000 individuals at any time, and causing around 10,000 deaths each year. ALS is characterized by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in brain and spinal cord leading to muscle weakness. ALS affects otherwise healthy people at any time in adulthood. The patient becomes paralyzed and dies ...
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Realizing the European Network in Biodosimetry (RENEB)

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

Creating a sustainable network in biological dosimetry that involves a large number of experienced laboratories throughout the EU will significantly improve the accident and emergency response capabilities in case of a large-scale radiological emergency. A well organised cooperated action involving EU laboratories will offer the only chance for a fast and trustworthy dose assessment urgently neede ...
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Regenerating Bone defects using New biomedical Engineering approaches (REBORNE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Bone is among the most frequently transplanted tissue with about 1 million procedures annually in Europe. The worldwide market of bone replacement materials is currently estimated at 5 billion € with a 10% annual growth. Despite their considerable disadvantages, including the risk of disease transfer and immunologic rejection, limited supply of bone, costs and complications, allografts and autogra ...
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Multi-disciplinary biodosimetric tools to manage high scale radiological casualties (MULTIBIODOSE)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"In the event of a large scale radiological emergency biological dosimetry is an essential tool that can provide timely assessment of radiation exposure to the general population and enable the identification of those exposed people, who should receive medical treatment. A number of biodosimetric tools are potentially available, but they must be adapted and tested for a large-scale emergency scena ...
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European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

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

"European policy making is hampered by considerable uncertainty about the magnitude and nature of the impacts of long term exposure to air pollution on human health. ESCAPE is a collaboration of more than 30 European cohort studies including some 900,000 subjects. It is aimed at quantifying health impacts of air pollution and at reducing uncertainty. ESCAPE will also test new hypotheses on specifi ...
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Correlated Noise Errors in Quantum Information Processing (CORNER)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

Any form of manipulation of quantum information (QI), be it storage or transfer, may be represented as a quantum channel, i.e. a map transforming the input state of the sender into the receiver's output state. Given the extreme sensitivity of QI to noise, it is crucial to study the impact of incoherent effects on QI processing and communication if technological applications are to become a reality ...
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Cultivated Adult Stem Cells as Alternative for Damaged tissue (CASCADE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Rapid progress in stem cell research pave the way for the development and use of new cell therapy products in regenerative medicine. The objective of CASCADE is to provide the European Community with unique expertise which focuses on the GMP production of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and their use in treating skin and corneal wounds, so that quality and safety criteria are paramount and match the ...
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Genomic instability and genomic alterations in pre-cancerous lesions and/or cancer (GENINCA)

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

"GENINCA will address two tumor entities, for which we have good access to pre-malignant lesions and in which genomic instability is a common feature: colorectal and liver cancer. Colorectal cancer amounts to 13.2% of all incident cases of cancer, the second most common form of cancer, surpassed only by lung cancer (13.3%). Liver cancer accounts for about 2% of total cancers, however, the most com ...
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Privacy Enabled Capability In co-Operative systems and Safety Applications (PRECIOSA)

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

The goal of PRECIOSA is to demonstrate that co-operative systems can comply with future privacy regulations by demonstrating that an example application can be endowed with technologies for suitable privacy protection of location related data. The objectives are the following :- define an approach for evaluation of co-operative systems, in terms of communication privacy and data storage privacy,- ...
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Atomic QUantum TEchnologies (AQUTE)

End date: Feb 1, 2010,

The overall objectives of the AQUTE project areA) To develop quantum technologies based on atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) systems for* scalable quantum computation;* entanglement-enabled technologies like metrology and sensing.B) To establish and exploit new interdisciplinary connections, coming from AMO physics, but also including concepts and experimental settings of solid state systems, in ...
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L02- Egypt

Start date: Jul 15, 2009,

The FFEEBB project has a long term socio-economical dimension: besides ensuring equal opportunity to all the candidates (gender issue, students from vulnerable groups) it will assist Egyptian Universities to create course on entrepreneurship, to create professionalized curricula and to develop work placements. One of the projects objective's is to develop the Egyptian students employability in the ...
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ICT4T - ICT Training for Trainers - Meeting Senior Learner Needs

Start date: Oct 1, 2006,

Targeting the specific needs of older persons in terms of the use of new technologies, the ICT4T project supported adult educators and trainers in the design of programmes for the ICT-supported training of senior citizens, developing skills in the use of modern media and new technologies in learning. Following an initial state-of-the-art reflection in terms of the use of new technologies and new m ...
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eLearning in Later Life

Start date: Feb 1, 2006,

The aim of the 2 year project eLiLL (eLearning in Later Life) is to contribute to digital literacy of older adults 60+ in Europe with special focus on the use of the new media in life long learning.
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Senior European Volunteers Exchange Network

This thematic network is the result of several pilot projects that experimentedtransnational exchanges of senior European Volunteers. This proved to be a powerfuleducational tool not only for the senior volunteers who take part in projects based in adifferent European country, but also for the organisations of the civil society and thelocal communities hosting them. The network is based on 4 Europ ...
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ANEBO

Projektziel war die Abschätzung der ökologischen und ökonomischen Folgen der Ausbreitung von Neozoen (wasserlebende nicht heimische Tierarten) sowie die sich daraus ergebende Formulierung von Handlungsoptionen (z. B. Erarbeitung von Maßnahmen zur Vorsorge und Schadensbegrenzung) für die Gewässerschutzarbeit in der Bodenseeregion.Durch verschiedene Ursachen war es bereits zu einer verstärkten Einsc ...
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European Computer Network – Opening the internet for the elderly

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is of increasing importance within Europe. Much information about social and political development is only accessible on the Internet. More and more Europeans have Internet access, but so far many older people have been excluded from recent ICT developments. Within this Grundtvig Learning Partnership all EuCoNet partners from seven different European ...
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Danube Networkers

The partnership "Danube Networkers" aimed at creating through joint activities an intercultural network of older adults from the Danube countries AT, BG, DE, HU, RO, SK. U3A at Zagreb, HR, had joined as associated partner in 2009.In the participating organisations, seniors’ groups worked in the way of activating seniors' education on jointly selected themes about the river Danube. Through texts an ...
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G&G UPDATE

The Grandparents & Grandchildren project is about adult digital literacy improvement: it was aimed to promote and facilitate digital active citizenship of elderly people.The project dream was to foster a process of local stakeholders involvement in supporting low cost training initiatives aimed to allow elderly people to gain full citizenship in the digit society.The original aspect of the initiat ...
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New technologies for Voice-converting in barrier-free learning environments

Context:As outline by European Union in the webpage on "Learning: anytime, anywhere foreveryone" http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/edutra/index_en.htm, modern,effective education and training systems are vital to a vast array of social dimensionfrom economic competitiveness to social inclusion. Information and communicationstechnologies (ICTs) are part of the answer, improving traditional ed ...
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