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4-Dimensional printing for adaptive optoelectronic components (xPRINT)

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

This project aims at developing four-dimensional printing of new adaptive systems, namely printing of complex, three-dimensional polymer objects embedding functional compounds and able to change or adapt their physical properties responding to environmental stimuli. Additive manufacturing of three-dimensional objects relies on depositing or curing materials in a layer-by-layer fashion, starting fr ...
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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF REGIME CHANGE: SICILY IN TRANSITION (SICTRANSIT)

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

This project will throw new light on human experience during changes of political regime, selecting medieval Sicily as the primary area of study. Between the 6th century and the 13th century, this island experienced four radical changes in regime: from Byzantine to Aghlabid to Fatimid to Norman to Swabian. Potentially, each of these transitions saw new groups of migrants, new forms of agriculture ...
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The combination of embedded electronics and communication capability in almost any mobile or portable device has turned this century into the age of cyber-physical networks. Smart communicating devices with their sensing, computing and control capabilities promise to make our cities, transportation systems, factories and living environments more intelligent, energy-efficient, safe and secure. This ...
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Since the rise of emerging economies in the global scenario, it has been critical to better understand the role of knowledge and innovation played in this process. We focus on researching not only how knowledge and innovation is managed and generated in emerging markets, but also how traditionally they learned from advanced economies to enhance their innovation capability, and recently the reverse ...
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Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes ...
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ENVRIPLUS is a cluster of research infrastructures (RIs) for Environmental and Earth System sciences, built around ESFRI roadmap and associating leading e-infrastructures and Integrating Activities together with technical specialist partners. ENVRIPLUS is driven by 3 overarching goals: 1) favoring cross-fertilization between infrastructures, 2) implementing innovative concepts and devices across R ...
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The main objective of the SafeShore project is to cover existing gaps in coastal border surveillance, increasing internal security by preventing cross-border crime such trafficking in human beings and the smuggling of drugs. It is designed to be integrated with existing systems and create a continuous detection line along the border. One of the treats to the maritime coast are small Remotely Pilot ...
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Elderly-friendly City services for active and healthy ageing (City4Age)

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

The first and core objective of City4Age is to enable Ambient Assisted Cities or Age-friendly Cities, where the urban communities of elderly people living in Smart Cities are provided with a range of ICT tools and services that - in a completely unobtrusive manner - will improve the early detection of risks related to cognitive impairments and frailty while they are at home or in the move within t ...
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This project aims to understand what kind of social identity change is going on within European societies. For policy-making, the analysis of social identity is highly valuable because the social identity moderates the impact of policies. And this is particularly true in times of crisis. In particular, the project aims: A) to verify whether the symbolic universes grounding the social identity ha ...
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The project HERCULES-2 is targeting at a fuel-flexible large marine engine, optimally adaptive to its operating environment. The objectives of the HERCULES-2 project are associated to 4 areas of engine integrated R&D:• Improving fuel flexibility for seamless switching between different fuel types, including non-conventional fuels.• Formulating new materials to support high temperature component ap ...
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"Marine jellyfish are recognized as subject to proliferations in many coastal areas. When they are exceedingly abundant, jellyfish cause substantial ecological impacts on marine biodiversity, interfere with economic and recreational human activities, and may be harmful to public health. For these reasons, jellyfish “blooms” are regarded as a multi-billion Euro problem for human activities in the s ...
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"This project ultimately targets the application of polymer nanofibers in new, cavity-free lasers. To this aim, it wants to tackle the still unsolved problems of the process of electrospinning in terms of product control by the parameters affecting the dynamics of electrified jets. The electrospinning is based on the uniaxial elongation of polymeric jets with sufficient molecular entanglements, in ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Urban Layers - New Paths in Photography

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Mar 1, 2017,

Urban Layers—New Paths in Photography is a project intended to describe and stimulate a broad audience to gain an active role—through urban photography and outdoor artistic comsumption—in the social life of its territory. The project will analyse—before and during its activities—the reactions to this stimulation. There are three main phases:1. An inquiry on the urban cultural frame will be coordin ...
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We the young people of Europe

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Promoting democracy and the democratic process are central to the purpose of the European Union (EU). The project “We the young people of Europe” uses simulation and role play to mirror the workings of the European Union Parliament allowing the project's participants the opportunity to gain an insight into the challenges of representative democracy within today's EU, whilst developing valuable ski ...
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"This proposal aims at providing fundamental research results in computational mechanical modelling of structural interfaces at different scales, encompassing debonding and contact phenomena. Interfaces are present everywhere in the physical reality, and have a deep impact in civil, mechanical and electronic engineering, biomechanics and material science. Interface mechanical problems are thus mul ...
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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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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Technology Transfer in Computing Systems (TETRACOM)

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

The mission of the TETRACOM Coordination Action is to boost European academia-to-industry technology transfer (TT) in all domains of Computing Systems. While many other European and national initiatives focus on training of entrepreneurs and support for start-up companies, the key differentiator of TETRACOM is a novel instrument called Technology Transfer Project (TTP). TTPs help to lower the barr ...
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The emergence of a new breed of Chinese global technology companies stirs up mixed feelings in the West. Regardless of the kind of feeling, all mirror the need to know and understand more about China’s technology rise. The assessment of the impacts of the Chinese scale up and the development of strategic cooperation in technology and innovation are increasingly higher on the agenda of the EU and i ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The University of Salento pursues the strategic goal of the orientation of university study pathways towards European integration and the free circulation of professionals. This is accomplished through the promotion of curricula embedding mobility experienceds within universities, companies and enterprises, that are fully recognised at the end of the mobility period. This action - along with a ...
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The voice, especially the singing voice, is a vehicle of a complex variety of messages. Not all these messages are related to the languages itself, many of them relay a more articulated heritage. In particular, vocal styles developed within the boundaries of African Diasporas go back to the African origin and African vocal traditions. So that, the singing voice could be considered as the place whe ...
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The use of High Performance Computing (HPC) is commonly recognized a key strategic element both in research and industry for an improvement of the understanding of complex phenomena. The constant growth of generated data - Big Data - and computing capabilities of extreme systems lead to a new generation of computers composed of millions of heterogeneous cores which will provide Exaflop performance ...
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Buildings Energy Advanced Management System (BEAMS)

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

BEAMS strategic goal is the development of an advanced, integrated management system which enables energy efficiency in buildings and special infrastructures from a holistic perspective (i.e. considering the indoors areas, the public spaces around the facility and the interaction of the overall compound with the grid and urban network outside it).The project will include an open interoperability g ...
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Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts is a joint PhD programme (2009-2013) that studies the medieval transmission of learning from the ecclesiastical and academic elites of the professional intellectuals to the wider readership that could be reached through the vernacular. The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low Countries, nowadays div ...
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Partnerships for Sustainable Shrimp Aquaculture (PASSA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

Aquaculture effluents represent a main environmental concern because of their high polluting potential. While fish farms of advanced countries adopt a medium/high-tech approach to this issue, less industrialised countries rely on low-tech systems, if any. Shrimp culture is an important economic sector in which Asian countries are the main producers/exporters and industrialised countries are the ma ...
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"The IMG4 project CRESCENDO addresses the Vision 2020 objectives for the aeronautical industry by contributing significantly to the fulfilment of three specific targets of the aeronautical industry’s Strategic Research Agenda. CRESCENDO will develop the foundations for the Behavioural Digital Aircraft (BDA), taking experience and results from VIVACE, and integrating these into a federative system ...
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During last years, there has been a strong research effort in order to cut down photovoltaics costs. Several possible alternative technologies to silicon-based photovoltaics have been proposed and Organic PhotoVoltaics (OPV) could represent the cheapest way to convert solar energy into electricity. The Bulk Heterojunction (BHJ) solar cell represents a photovoltaic system that can be processed from ...
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BIOELECTRONIC OLFACTORY NEURON DEVICE (BOND)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Recently, the use of smell in different fields has been rediscovered due to major advances in odour sensing technology and artificial intelligence. However, current electronic noses, based on electronic sensors, have significant limitations concerning sensitivity, reliability and selectivity, amongst others. These limitations are at the basis of recurrent troubles of this technology to reach essen ...
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RFID from Farm to Fork (RFID-F2F)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The pilot aims at showcasing to SMEs in the food sector what is needed in terms of technology, business processes, skills and management for an RFID implementation delivering in-house business value and identifying which food information is required to fulfil society's, citizens and/ or organisations needs.Related to this call for pilot projects, the European Commission funds through the FP7 RTD p ...
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"WISER will support the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) by developing tools for the integrated assessment of the ecological status of European surface waters (with a focus on lakes and coastal/transitional waters), and by evaluating recovery processes in rivers, lakes and coastal/transitional waters under global change constraints. The project will (1) analyse existing data ...
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Description Development of an advanced multi-robot system for underwater environments Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) represent one of the most challenging frontiers for robotics research. AUVs work in an unstructured environment and face unique perception, decision, control and communicatio ...
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"UniFederLab will be animated by several different actions all focused on “Innovation and well-being” in important cities of the south part of Italy such as Bari, Foggia, Lecce, Brindisi, Barletta, Campobasso, Potenza and Matera. Events can be of different types: demonstrations, quizzes, games, exhibitions, shows, concerts, talk shows, competitions with prizes. A EU corner will be present in each ...
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Scalability, reconfigurability, and security are three aspects of paramount importance in developing efficient, predictable and safe control architectures for large-scale networked industrial automation. CHAT is about developing core components (algorithms, protocols and procedures) of the next-generation of distributed control systems, able to tackle the supervision and control of larger and mor ...
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"We propose a two years work, aiming at optimising sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus rearing, in order to enrich pre-existing aquaculture farms (based on sea bass, bream, and/or different bivalves) . Sea urchin breeding will be performed starting from adult specimens obtained from capture. Sea urchin roe (gonads) are first class food and are worldwide commercialised. This project arises from the in ...
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In a rapidly urbanizing world, cities are the first line of defense against local and global climate change. The ultimate aim of such actions should be to enhance urban quality of life in a sustainable and equitable manner. In EU, a key challenge is to retrofit cities to adapt to changing climate in the short term while contributing to the mitigation of climate change in a sustainable manner. The ...
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L`azione intende a promuovere e migliorare la conoscenza del patrimonio culturale, storico, letterario e linguistico albanese attraverso un approccio di tipo interdisciplinare che coinvolge i settori di lingua e letteratura albanese, delle scienze storiche e sociali. Il filo conduttore di questo progetto è costituito dalla diaspora albanese che in diverse fasi storiche si è diretta verso le oppost ...
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The AESOP multidisciplinary and intersectorial Erasmus Mundus consortium co-coordinated by the University Paul Sabatier-Toulouse 3 (France) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) is composed of 11 European and 9 South African university partners, as well as six additional associate members. AESOP involves 8 thematic fields and encourages the collaboration between different sectors a ...
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The project aims to build a structured and sustainable partnership between the European and Eastern Europe region Universities to strengthen academic, cultural, economic collaboration between the countries. The Partnership is built around 8 European Universities (from Lithuania, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Slovakia, Spain, and UK) diverse in their geographical location, size, profile and 13 H ...
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The project intends to pursue the objective of Lisbon declaration by developing Biotechnology sector at European level. Its aims are to develop a formation more pertinent to the modern needs of enterprises, to avoid academic constrains by favouring international courses which are capable to attract students from outside Europe. On the other hand we are expecting an increase on employability of you ...
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