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A Systems medicine approach to chronic inflammatory disease (SYSCID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2022,

"The SYSCID consortium aims to develop a systems medicine approach for disease prediction in CID. We will focus on three major CID indications with distinct characteristics, yet a large overlap of their molecular risk map: inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematodes and rheumatoid arthritis. We have joined 15 partners from major cohorts and initiatives in Europe (e.g.IHEC, ICGC, Twins ...
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Testing the Untestable: Model Testing of Complex Software-Intensive Systems (TUNE)

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

Software-intensive systems pervade modern society and industry. These systems often play critical roles from an economic, safety or security standpoint, thus making their dependability indispensible. Software Verification and Validation (V&V) is core to ensuring software dependability. The most prevalent V&V technique is testing, that is the automated, systematic, and controlled execution of a sys ...
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Energy Conversion and Information Processing at Small Scales (NanoThermo)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Thermodynamics provided mankind with the intellectual tools to master energy transfers and energy conversion in macroscopic systems operating close to equilibrium. It is now one of the most fundamental theories in physics. My goal is to establish a thermodynamic theory describing energy conversion and information processing in small synthetic or biological systems operating far from equilibrium. S ...
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Nature Based Solutions for re-naturing cities: knowledge diffusion and decision support platform through new collaborative models (Nature4Cities)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Based on a detailed mapping of urban challenges and relevant nature-based solutions (NBS), Nature4Cities aims at developing complementary and interactive modules to engage urban stakeholders in a collective-learning process about re-naturing cities, develop and circulate new business, financial and governance models for NBS projects, as well as provide tools for the impacts assessment, valorisatio ...
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Resituating the local in cohesion and territorial development (RELOCAL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

There is an increasing need for developing European Union Cohesion Policy in terms of greater sensitivity towards territorial specificities, more supportive of community-based development and the facilitation of greater civic participation. This also relates to the concern over decreasing identification with the European project among the population. Place-based development, endogenous regional de ...
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Intelligent Non-woven Textiles and Elastomeric Responsive materials by Advancing liquid Crystal Technology (INTERACT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

A grand challenge in today’s materials research is the realization of flexible materials that are also intelligent and functional. They will be the enablers of true breakthroughs in the hot trends of soft robotics and wearable technology. The standard approach to the latter is to decorate rubber sheets with electronic components, yielding two serious flaws: rubber is uncomfortable as it does not b ...
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Designing for People with Dementia: designing for mindful self-empowerment and social engagement (MinD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

This project aims to help people with dementia engage in social contexts to improve psychosocial wellbeing. People who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias often face cognitive, behavioural and psychosocial difficulties, including impairment and degeneration of memory and of perceptions of identity. In a social context, this can cause difficulties of recognizing, relating to and ...
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MIREL - MIning and REasoning with Legal texts (MIREL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The management of large repositories of norms, and the semantic access and reasoning to these norms are key challenges in Legal Informatics. The MIREL project will create an international and inter-sectorial network to define a formal framework and to develop tools for MIning and REasoning with Legal texts, with the aim of translating these legal texts into formal representations that can be used ...
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Systems Medicine of Mitochondrial Parkinson’s Disease (SysMedPD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

The overall objective of this project is to identify novel drug candidates capable of slowing down the progression of neurodegeneration in the subset of Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with overt mitochondrial dysfunction. Multi-modal phenotypic characterisation of cohorts of monogenic PD patients with overt mitochondrial dysfunction will be used as an anchor for the discovery of two extreme coh ...
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Reconnaitre les compétences transversales en lien avec l'employabilité et les certifications

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

This project is in connection with, and operates as a complement to, the works of the European Agenda for Adult Education (Agenda Européen pour la Formation des Adultes, AEFA) in relation to cross-functional skills applied in professional situations. The choices of the Belgian, French and Luxemburgian partners, acting in a consortium promoted by the Public Interest Group (Groupement d’Intérêt Publ ...
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Multilit Moocs

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

Within the European Union, teaching staff have been confronted with great challenges in heterogenous classrooms. One of these challenges relates to identifying suitable programmes for the teaching of language and literacy.Children may have a number of reasons for facing difficulties in this area, e.g. learning disabilities, a right to an individual special educational needs programme, social disad ...
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SENSE in transnational transport in the EU

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

SENSE makes transport more Social, rules better ENforceable, the sector of international transport more Sustainable and, because of the Legal Navigation App, all of this will be made Easy. The EU transport sector is a genuine transnational sector. It involves many countries, each having its own different economic, social and legal systems. If goods are transported from the Netherlands to Poland an ...
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Decision SupporT and self-mAnagement system for stRoke survivoRs (STARR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

Stroke a leading cause of death and disability, with an estimated total cost of €65 billion per year in Europe. Even though preventive measures are in place to reduce the incidence of stroke, the number of persons having a stroke in Europe is likely to increase from 1.1 million/year in 2000 to more than 1.5 million/year in 2025 because of the increasing ageing population. Secondary stroke carries ...
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European Joint Doctorate in Functional Materials Research (EJD-FunMat)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

EJD-FunMat is a European Joint Doctoral programme in the field of functional materials research. EJD-FunMat is embedded in an existing research network, with previous experience in co-tutelle doctorates, but the project will add new major elements, with the strategic aim of becoming a permanent reference European Joint Doctoral School in Materials Science and beyond.The key innovative aspects of t ...
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Advanced Tools to assEss and mitigate the criticality of ICT compoNents and their dependencies over Critical InfrAstructures (ATENA)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Over recent years, Industrial and Automation Control Systems (IACS) adopted in Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have become more complex due to the increasing number of interconnected devices, and to the large amount of information exchanged among system components. With the emergence of such an “Internet of Things” generation of IACS, the boundaries to be protected have grown well beyond that of th ...
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CrossCult: Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware crosscuts of European history (CROSSCULT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

CROSSCULT aims to make reflective history a reality in the European cultural context, by enabling the re-interpretation of European (hi)stories through cross-border interconnections among cultural digital resources, citizen viewpoints and physical venues. The project has two main goals. The first goal is to lower cultural EU barriers and create unique cross-border perspectives, by connecting exist ...
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TWINNING for a Comprehensive Clinical Centre for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease (CENTRE-PD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Unlike other EU member states, Luxembourg lacks a tradition for translation of fundamental research into clinical practice, which hampers health innovation and its adoption in cutting-edge medicine. During the last years, the Luxembourg Government made substantial efforts to position biomedicine as a key innovation driver. This highly successful biomedical initiative placed fundamental research on ...
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Biomarker Development for Postoperative Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly (BioCog)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

Postoperative delirium (POD) is characterized by the progressive deterioration of sensory/cognitive function after surgery with incidences of up to 30-80%. It is frequently followed by postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) which tends to persist over time. In elderly patients, POCD resembles chronic dementia and appears to accelerate the cognitive decline in Alzheimer dementia. POD is strongl ...
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Aetionomy – Organising Mechanistic Knowledge about Neurodegenerative Diseases for the Improvement of Drug Development and Therapy (AETIONOMY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

IMI’s Call 8 is geared to develop knowledge frameworks for ‘druggable mechanisms’ for two domains of pathophysiology. In response to this call, we propose (I) the development of a generic AETIONOMY pipeline to capture and infer over mechanistic knowledge of pathophysiology, and (II) the focused application of this pipeline to derive clinically significant mechanistic taxonomies of neurodegenerativ ...
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EU-China study on IoT and 5G (EXCITING)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Europe and China are at the forefront of technological advances in areas related to the Future Internet (especially 5G and IoT). While both parties share common technological objectives, there is still room for improvement in what concerns bilateral co-operation. As a result, the main purpose of EXCITING is to support the creation of favourable conditions for co-operation between the European and ...
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Building an IoT OPen innovation Ecosystem for connected smart objects (bIoTope)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings opportunities for creating new services and products, reducing costs for societies, increasing the service level for the citizens in a number of areas, and changing how services are sold and consumed. Despite these opportunities, current information system architectures create obstacles that must be addressed for leveraging the full potential of IoT. One of the ...
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Exploiting MELanoma disease comPLEXity to address European research training needs in translational cancer systems biology and cancer systems medicine (MEL-PLEX)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Novel treatment options and associated personalised, patient-tailored therapies need to be explored and developed for highly heterogeneous and chemotherapy resistant cancers, such as malignant melanoma. This can only be achieved by industry-academia collaborations in newly emerging, innovative research disciplines such as translational cancer systems biology and systems medicine. These disciplines ...
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FIRE+ online interoperability and performance test tools to support emerging technologies from research to standardization and market launchThe standards and innovations accelerating tool (F-Interop)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

F-Interop will develop and provide remotely accessible tools to support and accelerate standardisation processes and products developments, by offsetting several cost and time barriers. It will research and develop a new FIRE experimental platform to support the development of new technologies and standards, from their genesis to the market for: online interoperability tests and validation tools, ...
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Super high efficiency Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film solar cells approaching 25% (Sharc25)

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

Prime objective of the Sharc25 project is to develop super-high efficiency Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) solar cells for next generation of cost-beneficial solar module technology with the world leading expertise establishing the new benchmarks of global excellence. The project partners ZSW and EMPA hold the current CIGS solar cell efficiency world records of 21.7% on glass and 20.4% on polymer film, achie ...
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Favoriser l'accrochage scolaire

Start date: Oct 10, 2016, End date: Oct 9, 2018,

The purpose of our project is to find strategies to avoid that young people "drop out" from the education and training system. To do this, we need to know what the reasons are. It is at this level that the project starts. Indeed, we have many intervention approaches and compensation measures that take when young people are about to leave or have left the school, but we have no real strategies that ...
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The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the study of European Integration and the European Union

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the study of European Integration and the European Union will function as a source of ideas and concepts for the development of policies of relevance to Luxembourgish and broader European society. The centre will thus focus on cross-cutting issues linking matters such as economic integration, constitutional and institutional evolution, the conceptual unders ...
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The Academic Research Network on Agencification of EU Executive Governance

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

EU agencies have now become a core element within efforts to establish good EU governance. Yet, this agencification process is also a cause for critical concern, especially as regards legitimate and effective agency-led administration. This project aims to fill two particular lacunae in current agency research by:• Promoting in-depth multi- and interdisciplinary research to integrate isolated disc ...
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Analyse und Vergleich europäischer und chinesischer bautechnischer Normen der Tragwerksplanung - unter besonderer Beachtung der Stahlbeton- und Stahlverbundbaunormen.

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Since 2013 the successive implementation of the harmonized European building codes is taking place. This opens new chances for companies, engineering firms and young engineers as well as technicians. Simultaneously, the most important building industry worldwide is developing in China. This building industry is based on Chinese building codes. The aim is to understand the respective codes, to stat ...
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MASTER GEOGRAPHICAL MODELLING CAMPUS+e

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The increased complexity of urban and regional systems and the rise of massive digital and open data require that future students master an enlarged portfolio of geographical modelling tools and can relate them with other types of models in order to innovate in research and in planning practice. Likewise, trainers of geographical models and researchers across Europe also need to cross-fertilize th ...
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Mehr-sprachliche Bildung - Entwicklung und Erprobung von Language Awarenesskonzepten im Unterricht aller Fächer

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The project "Multi-language education" aims at the development and testing of Language Awareness concepts in all subject teaching. In this case, the project will focus professionalizing of teachers and the school profile development. The focus is on raising awareness of multilingualism at individual, institutional and societal levels and the further development of the European Union thought. Centr ...
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PainDynamics: Research on the dynamics of attention bias for pain in daily life. (PainDynamics)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Chronic pain is a major health care problem in Europe which results in huge economic costs. Available cognitive-affective accounts of pain, distress and disability suggest that attention plays a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of pain problems. In particular the presence of an attentional bias towards pain-related information (AB) is thought to initiate or exacerbate pain problems ...
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Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe 2020 (OpenAIRE2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

OpenAIRE2020 represents a pivotal phase in the long-term effort to implement and strengthen the impact of the Open Access (OA) policies of the European Commission (EC), building on the achievements of the OpenAIRE projects. OpenAIRE2020 will expand and leverage its focus from (1) the agents and resources of scholarly communication to workflows and processes, (2) from publications to data, software ...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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ON THE COSTS OF KNOWLEDGE PRIVATIZATION (SOFTPAT)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Patent systems are supposed to spur incentives to innovate 1) by granting inventors temporary monopoly rights that allow them to recoup their research and development (R&D) investment and 2) by facilitating follow-up inventions by making information about technical inventions available to the public. In other words, patents make technical information available to society at the cost of “privatizat ...
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Training Augmented Reality Generalised Environment Toolkit (TARGET)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

TARGET will deliver a pan-European serious gaming platform featuring new tools, techniques and content for training and assessing skills and competencies of SCA (Security Critical Agents - counterterrorism units, border guards, first responders (police, firefighters, ambulance services civil security agencies, critical infrastructure operators).Mixed-reality experiences will immerse trainees at ta ...
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Optimising time-to-FLY and enhancing airport SECurity (FLYSEC)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Complementing the ACI/IATA efforts, FLYSEC project aims to develop and demonstrate an innovative integrated and end-to-end airport security process for passengers, enabling a guided and streamlined procedure from the landside to airside and into the boarding gates, and offering for the first time an operationally validated innovative concept for end-to-end aviation security. On the technical side, ...
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Mapping mobility – pathways, institutions and structural effects of youth mobility in Europe (MOVE)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The overall ambition of MOVE is to provide a research-informed contribution towards an improvement of the conditions of the mobility of young people in Europe and a reduction of the negative impacts of mobility through the identification of ways of good practice thus fostering sustainable development and wellbeing. The consortium of MOVE is built up of nine partners within six countries: Luxembour ...
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Categorical Interoception Project: How generalization and classification strategies link anxiety and interoception (CIP)

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

Bias in the perception of bodily sensations (interoception) can be dangerous or even fatal; for example, if we do not recognize signs of a stroke or take medication anytime we feel the slightest change in our body. Research consistently reports that anxiety is closely related to interoception and (mis)interpretation of bodily sensations, but little is known about more fundamental processes underly ...
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Incentivizing Collaborative Mobility by means of Multimodal Sharing Services (InCoMMune)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This research aims to acquire insight into the mobility needs and activity-travel patterns of the users in order to provide collaborative solutions offering the flexibility and comfort of privately owned cars. To do so, we focus on the development of travel behavior models able to quantify the impact of these services in the whole activity-travel chain. These models will facilitate the design and ...
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Shared Access Terrestrial-Satellite Backhaul Network enabled by Smart Antennas (SANSA)

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

The aim of SANSA project is to boost the performance of mobile wireless backhaul networks in terms of capacity and resilience while assuring an efficient use of the spectrum. Recently, a global mobile traffic increase of 11-fold between 2013 and 2018 was predicted, so novel solutions are required to avoid backhaul becoming the bottle neck of future mobile networks. The solution envisaged in SANSA ...
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