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EUROlinkCAT: Establishing a linked European Cohort of Children with Congenital Anomalies (EUROlinkCAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Over 130,000 children born in Europe every year will have a congenital anomaly (CA; birth defect). These CAs, which are often rare diseases, are a major cause of infant mortality, childhood morbidity and long-term disability. EUROCAT is an established European network of population-based registries for the epidemiologic surveillance of CAs. EUROlinkCAT will use the EUROCAT infrastructure to suppor ...
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Periodically bent crystals for crystalline undulators (PEARL)

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

The PEARL project aims at advancing the technologies for manufacturing of high quality Periodically Bent Crystals (PBCr). The PBCr developed in the course of this project will be utilised for the construction of novel light sources of high-energy (hν≥102 keV up to GeV range) monochromatic electromagnetic radiation by means of a Crystalline Undulator (CU) [1]. The technological and experimental par ...
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Self-Sustaining Cleaning Technology for Safe Water Supply and Management in Rural African Areas (SafeWaterAfrica)

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

This project focuses on a major challenge in African countries: In the 15 sub-Saharan African countries 108 million people have limited or even no access to clean water. The SafeWaterAfrica project will research and develop an autonomous and decentralized water treatment system for rural and peri-urban areas which is highly efficient in the degradation of harmful pollutants and at the same time ve ...
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International Master in Quaternary and Prehistory Master International en Quaternaire et Préhistoire

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Objective The main objective of the International Master in Quaternary and Prehistory is to train young researchers in the fields of prehistory, paleo-anthropology, palaeontology, methods and techniques for prehistoric and archaeological research, quaternary’s geology and heritage preservation.Course duration Two years (120 ECTS)Brief DescriptionThe International Master in Quaternary and Prehistor ...
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Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling (INCEPTION)

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

INCEPTION realises innovation in 3D modelling of cultural heritage through an inclusive approach for time-dynamic 3D reconstruction of artefacts, built and social environments. It enriches the European identity through understanding of how European cultural heritage continuously evolves over long periods of time. INCEPTION’s Inclusive approach comprises: time dynamics of 3D reconstruction (‘foreve ...
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High Performance Computing in Life Sciences, Engineering And Physics (HPC-LEAP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Progress in computers and algorithms in the last years has made numerical simulation and modelling a key research methodology in both academia and industry, which in turn drives exascale computing in order to maintain excellence in research and innovation. A disruptive evolution in computer technologies is required for attaining exascale performances in the coming years bringing challenges that ur ...
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Integrated Activities for the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

We propose a set of integrated Activities in the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD) in response to the INFRAIA-2014-2015 call Research Infrastructures for High EnergyAstrophysics.The overall objective of AHEAD is to integrate national efforts in high-energy Astrophysics and to promote the domain at the European level, to keep its community at the cutting edge of science and technology in this ...
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European Global Transition Network on Eco-Innovation, Green Economy and Sustainable Development (green.eu)

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

In the last two decades the world has experienced several crises. In light of these trends and to more effectively move towards sustainable development, several organisations and international actors have developed the concept of green economy as action-oriented approaches. Priority interventions are aimed at triggering technology adoption, and stimulate behavioural change. In fact, eco-innovation ...
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Targets and biomarkers for antiepileptogenesis (EPITARGET)

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

Epilepsy is a devastating condition affecting over 50 million people worldwide. This multidisciplinary project is focused on the process leading to epilepsy, epileptogenesis, in adults. Our main hypothesis is that there are combinations of various causes, acting in parallel and/or in succession, that lead to epileptogenesis and development of seizures. Our central premise and vision is that a comb ...
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Toward an Open Resources Upon Services : Cloud Computing of Environmental Data

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The TORUS project (Toward an Open Resources Upon Services: Cloud of environmental data) aims to make operational techniques of cloud computing (CC) in the disciplinary field of environmental science and massive databases (Big Data) for future training and projects in partner countries. Schematically, the CC is the mutualisation of hardware and software resources via the Internet. It reduces the co ...
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Creative Regions for Innovation, Skills, Technology, Accessibility and Learning.

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

... bring specific, diversified and complementary knowledge and skills to the project. The coordinator, Husavik Academic Center (HAC), which is dedicated to promoting and facilitating lifelong learning, university studies and interdisciplinary researches, has established an "Educluster" in the municipality of Nordurthing in North-Iceland that will serve as a pilot-community in the CRISTAL project. Te ...
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Better e-Learning for All

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Based on the partners' experience on barriers to e-Learning, 'Better e-Learning for All' ('Better-E') proposes a global approach to create better e-Learning. The Project's name is already providing information about its objectives by demanding an upgrading on the quality of e-Learning practices and simultaneously an enhancement on the number and characteristics of the Organizations and people to i ...
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Meeting Darwin's last challenge: toward a global tree of human languages and genes (LANGELIN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Beyond its theoretical impact, the rise of molecular biology has brought about great progress also in the historical classification of species and populations. Sokal (1988) and Cavalli Sforza et. al. (1988, 1994) advocated a correspondence between some proposed language families and classical genetic markers, i.e. between biological evolution and transmission of cultural traits (languages), in agr ...
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Integrated European –omics research project for diagnosis and therapy in rare neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases (Neuromics)

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

Neurodegenerative (ND) and neuromuscular (NM) disease is one of the most frequent classes of rare diseases, affecting life and mobility of 500,000 patients in Europe and millions of their caregivers, family members and employers. This NEUROMICS project brings together the leading research groups in Europe, five highly innovative SMEs and relevant oversea experts using the most sophisticated Omics ...
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Development of sustainable, lower carbon, pre-cast concrete infrastructure (EiroCrete)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

It is estimated that concrete products represent at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint from CO2 emissions. Additionally, concrete infrastructure such as bridges, marine structures for coastal defence and off-shore renewables suffer from premature ageing, rapid deterioration, structural deficiency and the safe management of risk. Most of this deterioration is a result of the corrosion ...
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MAnagement of mental health diSorders Through advancEd technology and seRvices – telehealth for the MIND (MASTERMIND)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The MastermMind Consortium to avoid dispersing efforts has narrowed the scope of the services to just one, non-organic, mental disorder: depression. This because of its high incidence, social cost and proven clinical effectiveness of ICT in its treatment. MasterMind intends: 1) to implement at scale (almost 5.000 patient overall) evidence based computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (cCBT) ser ...
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THALAssaemia MOdular Stratification System for personalized therapy of beta-thalassemia (THALAMOSS)

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

...o patient subgroups and (b) guide conventional and novel therapeutical approaches for β-thalassaemia, including personalised medical treatments.Key researchers of THALAMOSS are R.Gambari (Ferrara University, Italy), M. Kleanthous (The Cyprus Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy Research, Cyprus), S.Philipsen (Erasmus Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam, The Netherlands), E.Katsantoni (Biomedical R ...
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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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District Information Modeling and Management for Energy Reduction (DIMMER)

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

...alization; User/social profiling, visualization and feedback; Energy efficiency and cost analysis engine; Web interface and interaction.In order to validate the DIMMER innovative system, both public (university campuses, schools) and private buildings included in mixed-up (mixité) urban districts are considered in two different cities, in the North and South Europe, Turin (IT) and Manchester (UK). ...
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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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Airway Disease PRedicting Outcomes through Patient Specific Computational Modelling (AirPROM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The airways diseases asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease affect over 400 million people world-wide and cause considerable morbidity and mortality. Airways disease costs the European Union in excess of €56 billion per annum. Current therapies are inadequate and we do not have sufficient tools to predict disease progression or response to current or future therapies. Our consortium, Air ...
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Choosing Efficient Combinations of Policy Instruments for Low-carbon development and Innovation to Achieve Europe's 2050 climate targets (CECILIA2050)

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

Europe needs to transform itself to a low-carbon economy by mid-century. The existing instrument mix needs to be scaled up drastically to initiate the changes needed across the economy. As the scale and scope of instruments increases, their interaction becomes more important, as do constraints on the political, legal and administrative feasibility. To evaluate their efficiency and effectiveness, i ...
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EXtension of POtentiality of Adriatic Unesco Sites (EX.PO AUS)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Aug 30, 2015,

The eligible territories of the programme are very rich of UNESCO sites (and also of sites aspiring to this recognition). This is an important indicator of the strong effort made by the local communities to preserve historical, artistic or natural heritage of great value, but, at the same time, this trend must stimulate them to consider the UNESCO acknowledgment as a starting point, because this a ...
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Accessibility and development for the re-launch of the Adriatic internal (ADRIA A)

Start date: Dec 30, 2013, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

The project ADRIA A, funded in range of the Cross-border Cooperation Programme Italy-Slovenia 2007-2013, aims to reorganize the accessibility and the transport of the entire cross-border Italy and Slovenia area and establish an integrated metropolitan area. Achievements: ...
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EU and North African Migrants: Health and Health Systems (EUNAM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The coordinates of human health are complex even in a single population but they are even more complex in migrants whose life situation is always influenced by the host country and the country of origin. Some migrants may experience several host countries and some return to the country of origin. Thus it is important to survey well being, health status, disease panorama and use of health services ...
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Engineering the POlicy-making LIfe CYcle (ePolicy)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The e-POLICY project presents a multi-disciplinary research effort whose goal is to support policy makers in their decision process across the engineering of a policy making life-cycle. The life-cycle integrates, in a unique way, global and individual perspectives on the decision process, bringing to the policy maker's attention both global concerns (e.g., impacts, budget constraints and objective ...
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Adriatic model forest (AMF)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Today forest areas and people concerned are dealing with a range of challenges such as: improve biodiversity, improve living conditions, make increment in growth and forest yield, develop environmentally friendly transport, promote job creation, minimize anthropogenic risks, host influx of green tourists, integrate awareness campaigns into the education systems, promote use of renewable energies, ...
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Slovenian-Italian genetics network (SIGN)

Start date: Oct 31, 2011, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

Coordination between public health institutions and their cooperation with universities, as well as access to key experts in cross-border region Expected Results: The establishment of cross-border functional center in the fiel ...
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TRANS2CARE - Transregional Network for Innovation and Technology Transfer to Improve Health Care (TRANS2CARE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The project Trans2Care involves and integrates the expertise of 13 institutes of research, training, health care and technology transfer. It seeks to establish a permanent two-way flow of knowledge transfer between the partners, industrial companies and other stakeholders, aimed at establishing a system that can generate innovative products and services to public health, in particular for the prev ...
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Interregional Centre of Photonic Technologies for Ultrafast spectroscopy (CITIUS)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 29, 2014,

The project is based on a joint initiative of innovation centres, science and technology parks and research centres, located in various regions of the Programme area Expected Results: Expected results: construction, purchase a ...
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Groundwater and dependent Ecosystems: NEw Scientific basIS on climate change and land-use impacts for the update of the EU Groundwater Directive (GENESIS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Groundwater resources are facing increasing pressure from consumptive uses (irrigation, water supply, industry) and contamination by diffuse loading (e.g. agriculture) and point sources (e.g. industry). This cause major threat and risks to our most valuable water resource and on ecosystems dependent on groundwater. New information is need on how to better protect groundwaters and groundwater depen ...
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Support Patients through E-services Solutions (SPES)

Start date: Mar 31, 2011, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

The topic of telemedicine offers potential for greater social cohesion in Europe as well as numerous advantages and has already begun to fill a major role in, and to change, the manner in which people interact with healthcare. Transnational cooperation in the respective field may lead to innovative and shared solutions in order to fulfil the goal to move towards a "European eHealth Area", recognis ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (ECHORD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description Strengthening the knowledge transfer between scientific research and industry in robotics and stimulating their cooperation In Europe the robotics industry is strong, but still fragmented and dispersed. The objective of ECHORD is to provide new opportunities for coordinated and target- ...
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Internet of Things Architecture (IoT-A)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

Description The Lighthouse Project IoT-A proposes the creation of an architectural reference model for the IoT as well as the definition of a set of key building blocks to lay the foundation for a ubiquitous IoT.There has been much hype about the “Internet of Things”. The idea of a globally interconnected continuum of devices, objects and ...
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Fostering continuous research and technology application (FORT)

Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Oct 30, 2013,

Innovation is a results-oriented concept with science and technology as the key to the complex innovation processes embracing many related actors such as technology transfer centres, venture capital, entrepreneurs, etc. Innovation systems are focusing more on relationships and processes between innovation actors in achieving the presence of key factors such high level of research capability, enoug ...
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Risk Management and Risk Reporting (RISK)

Start date: Sep 15, 2009, End date: Sep 14, 2013,

"The financial markets turbulence in recent months serves to highlight the key roles of risk management and risk reporting in both private and public sectors. The rapid innovations of financial structured products and the difficulty in valuing and reporting them present a huge challenge to both investors and risk regulators. The developments of Basel II and Insolvency II regulatory frameworks have ...
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Toolkit for building low cost robot co-workers in assembly lines (LOCOBOT)

Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

The European automotive industry and their component manufacturers are facing the biggest shift in their history. The transition from combustion engines to electric drives (e-vehicle) requires pro-duction facilities that can initially deal with low and varying production volumes and can quickly be up-scaled to large numbers at need. LOCOBOT provides a solution to this problem by developing a flexi ...
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Multi-APprOach for high efficiency integrated and inteLLigent cONcentrating PV modules (Systems) (APOLLON)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"APOLLON proposal concerns the optimisation and development of Point focus and Mirror Based Spectra Splitting photovoltaic concentrating (CPV) systems (multi-approach). The different technology paths will be followed with due focalisation on the recognised critical issues related to each system component in order to increase CPV efficiency, assure reliability, reduce cost and environmental impact. ...
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Compact Otdm/wdm oPtical rEceiveRs based on photoNic crystal Integrated CircUitS (COPERNICUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

COPERNICUS aims to develop compact demultiplexing receivers for 100 Gb/s optical time division multiplexed (OTDM) and wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals, based on photonic crystal technology. There is a pressing need for these devices for ultra-high bandwidth data links in server farms, optical storage networks and on-board internet/entertainment systems, where demand is driving the dat ...
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Conservation Genetic Resources for Effective Species Survival (CONGRESS)

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

Genetic biodiversity is recognised by the Convention on Biological Diversity and the EC Biodiversity Strategy as one of three essential elements of living diversity, yet it is poorly represented at the policy level, compared to the two other components, species and ecosystems. The CONGRESS consortium aims to rectify this situation by delivering dissemination tools which policy makers and conservat ...
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