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BIOfilm management and CLEANing by leveraging fundamental understanding of biological, chemical and physical combined approaches (BIOCLEAN)

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

BIOCLEAN addresses the urgent need to create a sustainable training network across academia, industry and the healthcare sector which will fill the gap in Europe and beyond to produce highly skilled multi-disciplinary young scientists competent in chemistry, engineering and experimental wet lab biology. BIOCLEAN will deliver this network of young scientists who can apply their proven skill sets g ...
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NEXT GENERATION CERAMIC COMPOSITES FOR COMBUSTION HARSH ENVIRONMENTS AND SPACE (C3HARME)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

There is an increasing demand for advanced materials with temperature capability in highly corrosive environments for aerospace. Rocket nozzles of solid/hybrid rocket motors must survive harsh thermochemical and mechanical environments produced by high performance solid propellants (2700-3500°C). Thermal protection systems (TPS) for space vehicles flying at Mach 7 must withstand projected service ...
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Brain injury and trauma monitoring using advanced photonics (BitMap)

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

Our vision is to develop a suite of standardised non-invasive devices that will provide essential information about brain health in neurocritical care and neuromonitoring, with a particular emphasis on 1. traumatic brain injury: the “silent epidemic of the third millennium” and 2. hypoxia in newborn children. Survivors present permanent neurological conditions that have a profound impact on the qu ...
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PREPARATORY PHASE FOR THE PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE DANUBIUS–RI “THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES ON RIVER-SEA SYSTEMS (DANUBIUS-PP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

DANUBIUS-PP is a three-year project to raise DANUBIUS-RI (International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems) to the legal, financial and technical maturity required for successful implementation and development. DANUBIUS-RI is a pan-European distributed research infrastructure (RI) building on existing expertise to support interdisciplinary research on river-sea (RS) systems, spanning ...
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Low Cost Materials Processing Technologies for Mass Production of Lightweight Vehicles (LoCoMaTech)

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

The overall aim of LoCoMaTech is, in the first place, to enable the novel HFQ® process, (patented by ICL) in its latest most advanced form, which includes 10 recently patented refining technologies (TRL4), to be used for the manufacture of lightweight, high strength body and chassis structures and components for low-cost vehicles, by establishing a prototype, full scale pilot production line (TRL6 ...
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Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDA-2020)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Particle physics is at the forefront of the ERA, attracting a global community of more than 10,000 scientists. With the upgrade of the LHC and the preparation of new experiments, the community will have to overcome unprecedented challenges in order to answer fundamental questions concerning the Higgs boson, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model. Major developments in detector technology ...
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Cognitive Interaction in Motion (CogIMon)

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

Compliant control in humans is exploited in a variety of sophisticated skills. These include solitary actions such as soft catching, sliding, pushing large objects as well as joint actions performed in teams such as mainpulation of large scale objects or mutual adaptation through phyiscal coupling for learning, in walking or in execution of joint tasks. We refer to this advanced ability of organiz ...
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Computational and functional annotation of genomic elements during development of the model vertebrate zebrafish (ZENCODE)

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

The recent explosion of next generation sequencing (NGS) data has caught Europe unprepared and led to a critical shortage of computational biology expertise. As NGS methods are expected to become pervasive from basic science to personalised medicine there is an urgent need for highly skilled young scientists trained in both computational biology and experimental wet lab biology. Our network addres ...
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EURO EWING Consortium – International Clinical Trials to Improve Survival from Ewing Sarcoma (EEC)

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

Ewing Sarcomas (ES) are fatal, rare bone cancers particularly affecting young people. About 60% of patients achieve long term survival with current treatment but there has been no improvement in this proportion for 25 years. Treatment is unsuccessful because chemotherapy fails to prevent the development of, or to effectively treat established, metastases. In addition, of the 600 new cases of ES o ...
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PhenoMeNal: A comprehensive and standardised e-infrastructure for analysing medical metabolic phenotype data (PhenoMeNal)

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

In the coming decade a significant number of the 500.000.000 European (EU/EEA) citizens will have their genome determined routinely. This will be complemented with much cheaper (currently ~20 Euro per measurement) acquisition of the metabolome of biofluids (e.g. urine, saliva, blood plasma) which will link the genotype with metabolome data that captures the highly dynamic phenome and exposome of p ...
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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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Praxe, pramen inspirace?

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Practice, Source of Inspiration?•Thanks to the long-time experience with foreign exchanges, both as sending and receiving institution (awarded with Quality Mark), and thanks to experienced organizational team and wide network of partner organizations we can prepare quality mobilities and exchanges according to the individual demands and school needs for our students and teachers of technical and a ...
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European Consortium for Communicating Stem Cell Research (EuroStemCell)

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

The European Consortium for Communicating Stem Cell Research (EuroStemCell) unites 33 partner institutions, that collectively represent >400 stem cell research groupings across Europe. Our common goal is to provide trusted high quality information on stem cells accessible to citizens and stakeholders across Europe, through support and further development of the multi-lingual European Stem Cell Inf ...
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Neurobiology and Treatment of Adolescent Female Conduct Disorder: The Central Role of Emotion Processing (FEMNAT-CD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Conduct Disorder (CD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder with symptoms of Conduct Disorder (which is included among the abbreviation “CD” throughout the proposal) has a highly negative impact for the affected individual as well as for families and society. Although the number of females exhibiting serious aggressive behaviours is growing, the majority of studies on aetiology and treatment of CD hav ...
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Addressing Fundamental Challenges in the Design of new generation fuels (GENFUEL)

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

...and six partner universities. This will link their collective combustion, lifecycle and fuel handling expertise directly with Shell’s longstanding R&D fuel design capability.In the first two years, university researchers will participate via secondments to interdisciplinary R&D projects. Industry approaches to R&D will be conveyed to each university via the short term secondments of Shell research ...
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Framework to respond to regulatory needs of future nanomaterials and markets (FutureNanoNeeds)

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

Rapidly developing markets such as green construction, energy harvesting and storage, advanced materials for aerospace, electronics, medical implants and environmental remediation are potential key application targets for nanomaterials. There, nanotechnology has the potential to make qualitative improvements or indeed even to enable the technology. Impacts range from increased efficiency of energy ...
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UCB VET Workers in Europe

Start date: Dec 31, 2016, End date: Dec 30, 2017,

University College Birmingham is an experienced promoter of mobility projects and plans to send a group of further education to six different destinations across Europe. By using existing and in some cases new partnerships we are able to offer suitable placements to our students who are studying a range of level 3 vocational subjects in specialist areas to include Travel & Tourism, Sport, Hair, B ...
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Pathogen COinfection: HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Hepatitis C virus (PathCO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Acquired immune deficiency (AIDS), tuberculosis (TB) and malaria are the primary infectious diseases causing death world wide. In addition to these pathogens, 170 million people are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), which leads to chronic liver disease. Because of shared routes of transmission, HCV co-infection is recognized as a major cause of morbidity and mortality among HIV-1 infected per ...
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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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Stem cells for Biological Assays of Novel drugs and prediCtive toxiCology (StemBANCC) (STEMBANCC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

StemBANCC, comprising internationally renowned investigators, is ideally positioned to deliver a unique European biorepository and drug discovery pipeline based upon human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC). This unrivalled opportunity will address the pressing therapeutic need in neurodegeneration, neurodysfunction and diabetes. We have immediate access to richly phenotyped subjects with a we ...
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Business Education for Sustainability: Teaching Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Local and Regional Development

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

In response to the effects of the economic crisis, curtailed public budgets and the magnitude of future challenges, social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerge as a key policy priority in the EU. They are sources of social innovation and a contributing factor to building up the innovation capacity and competitiveness of EU economies. This turns them into increasingly c ...
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Quantitative Tools for Sustainable Food and Energy in the food chain

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The food chain comprises agricultural production, manufacturing, distribution, retail and consumption. The agro-food sector is not only one of the largest manufacturing sector in Europe but also has a direct impact on the (environmental) health and vitality of the population. Food security and energy sustainability worldwide faces increased challenges arising from the globalisation of food trade, ...
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Eco Management Solutions Tenerife

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

... the animal rescue centres and shelters, liaising with tour operators and hotel groups. The timing of each cohort's mobilisation will be agreed by the AWF, the UK partner colleges, Kingston Maurwood, University College Birmingham, Gloucestershire College and City and Islington College and the host partner organisations, taking account of the availability of students due to exams and UK holidays, t ...
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UCB VET Workers in Europe

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

...some participants and complete a write up on their experience which will be shown on UCB’s website and Facebook page. Information will also be used to promote the project in the University prospectus and at open events. The project coordinator will be in communication with all host partners on a regular basis to ensure as much preparation as possible is completed in advance of the placement period ...
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European Multicentre Tics in Children Studies (EMTICS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2017,

This project will undertake pre-clinical and cohort studies that address susceptibility factors for paediatric and adolescent tic disorders, with a particular focus on comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptomatology, from clinical, epidemiological, genetic, microbiological and immunological angles. EMTICS aims to elucidate the complex aetiology of the onset and clinical course of chronic tic disorder ...
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High-Resolution Solar Physics Network (SOLARNET)

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

This project aims at integrating the major European infrastructures in the field of high-resolution solar physics. The following actions will be taken: (i) realise Trans-national Access to external European users; (ii) enhance and spread data acquisition and processing expertise to the Europe-wide community; (iii) increase the impact of high-resolution data by offering science-ready data and facil ...
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A FAST process and production system for high-throughput, highly flexible and cost-efficient volume production of miniaturised components made of a wide range of materials (Micro-FAST)

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

The aim of the project is to develop a completely new manufacturing system for the volume production of miniaturised components by overcoming the challenges on the manufacturing with a wide range of materials (metallic alloys, composites, ceramics and polymers), through: (i) developing a high-throughput, flexible and cost-efficient process by simultaneous electrical-forming and electric-fast-sinte ...
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Engineered nanomaterial mechanisms of interactions with living systems and the environment: a universal framework for safe nanotechnology (NANOMILE)

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

The NanoMILE project is conceived and led by an international elite of scientists from the EU and US with the aim to establish a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of nanomaterial interactions with living systems and the environment, and uniquely to do so across the entire life cycle of nanomaterials and in a wide range of target species. Identification of critical properties (physico-che ...
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E.M. Project

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

REY Europe is a Social Enterprise and not-for-profit organisation based in central London. We deliver a range of projects related to employment, training and the provision of work based learning opportunities. Our projects aim to address the emerging skills gaps across a variety of sectors by providing direct support to unemployed people, and facilitating work placement opportunities in Europe and ...
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Services to enhance innovation management capacities of SMEs in England, Northern Ireland and Wales 2015 -2016 (ENIW)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

A national service in support of recipients of the H2020 sme instrument and for the enhancement of innovation management in SMEsInnovation is a vital ingredient of growth and an important element of the future success of the UK. With some 95% of R&D and innovation conducted outside of the UK and many major and lead market shaping companies being of non-UK origin, access to knowledge, markets, ski ...
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A Framework Model on MNE’s impact on global development challenges in emerging markets (MNEMERGE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

MNEmerge Project aims to address the issues raised in this call together with a consortium that consists of top European universities, international organisations and multinational enterprises. We wish to provide a comprehensive framework, case study methodology and policy analysis of the activities of MNE and organisations operating in- and outside of EU. We are mostly interested on activities th ...
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An industry system enabling the use of a patented materials processing technology for Low Cost forming of Lightweight structures for transportation industries (LoCoLite)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

... vehicles. Reduced pollution is a natural corollary of low energy consumption.Exploitation of this groundbreaking technology will be achieved through refinement of its laboratory scale development by university, research institution and manufacturing SME collaboration, leading to production lines being established in Tier 1 companies. Two such lines are anticipated as an outcome of the project. In ...
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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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Developing predictors of the health benefits of exercise for individuals (META-PREDICT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2016,

Physical activity is a powerful lifestyle factor that on average reduces risk for development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Nevertheless, we have demonstrated that following supervised endurance exercise training, 20% of subjects show no change in fitness and 30% demonstrate no improvement in insulin sensitivity or worse-still an adverse response. Our concept is that by using molecular p ...
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Collaborative EuropeaN Digital/Archival Infrastructure (CENDARI)

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

The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) will provide and facilitate access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history through the development of an ‘enquiry environment’. This environment will increase access to records of historic importance across the European Research Area, creating a powerful new platform for a ...
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UCB Work Experience in Europe

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

University College Birmingham is an experienced promoter of mobility projects and plans to send a group of further education to six different destinations across Europe. By using existing and in some cases new partnerships we are able to offer suitable placements to our students who are studying a range of level 3 vocational subjects in specialist areas to include Travel & Tourism, Sport, Hair, B ...
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Zebrafish Regulomics for Human Health (ZF-HEALTH)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

In recent years, the zebrafish has emerged as a new vertebrate model organism for biomedical research which offers a unique combination of traits: a short generation time, small size and efficient breeding procedures make it the best choice among vertebrates for forward genetic screening and small-molecule screens, including toxicology, while the transparent embryo and larva offers unique opportun ...
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EUROPEAN NETWORK for CANCER research in CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS (ENCCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"ENCCA aims to establish a durable, European Virtual Institute clinical and translational research in childhood and adolescent cancers that will define and implement an integrated research strategy and will facilitate the necessary investigator-driven clinical trials to introduce the new generation of biologically targeted drugs into standard of care for children and adolescents with cancer. This ...
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Standarization and orthogonalization of the gene expression flow for robust engineering of NTN (new-to-nature) biological properties (ST-FLOW)

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

The ST-FLOW Project merges the efforts of 14 leading European research groups for developing material and computational standards that enable the forward-design of prokaryotic systems with a degree of robustness and predictability that is not possible with customary Genetic Engineering. The central issue at stake is the identification and implementation of rules that allow the conversion of given ...
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TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND PATIENT SAFETY IN EUROPE (TRANSFoRm)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

TRANSFoRm will develop rigorous, generic methods for the integration of Primary Care clinical and research activities, to support patient safety and clinical research via:1.\tRich capture of clinical data, including symptoms and signs rather than just a single diagnosis. A generic, dynamic interface, integrated with electronic health records (EHR), will facilitate both diagnostic decision support ...
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