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Study of the stellar-mass to super-massive Black Hole connection (GBH-AGN connection)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

...is world recognised as expert in XRB, jet, timing and AGN/XRB connection related studies and physics. A two year fellowship will provide the reseacher with a deep knowledge of the XRB physics and the University of Southampton with highly skilledman power to perform the research they are most famous for. The results of the studies will deepen our understanding of the accretion/ejection process, the ...
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Low-cost paper-based microfluidic devices for the detection of waterborne pathogens (enVIRO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Nov 29, 2017,

... amplification technology (INAAT) for sensitive quantitation of pathogens in environmental samples. This will only be possible by joining the expertise in molecular biology and nanotechnology at the University of Southampton (UoS) with the pioneering excellence in paper-based microfluidics at the group of the inventor of the field, George Whitesides, at Harvard University (HU). The enVIRO project ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

...s, hosting a large number of foreign students on its campus and developing international research projects. Now, it is compulsory for French engineering students do a 3-month minimum stay abroad in a university or in a company to be granted the Diplôme d’Ingénieur of Ecole centrale de Lyon. In September 2012, ECL launched a degree in Energy Engineering open to apprenticeship and continuous profes ...
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Effects of multi-scale rough patches on hydrodynamics and scalar dispersion in turbulent boundary layers (Turb. Bound. Layers)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...s elements will be designed using fractal patterns in order to isolate the multi-scale effects of the roughness geometry. Measurements will be performed in a wind tunnel and in a water channel at the University of Southampton (UoS), using a force balance to directly measure the wall friction, particle image velocimetry to measure the local flow structure, and planar-laser-induced fluorescence to m ...
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Green and Blue Space Adaptation for Urban Areas and Eco Towns (GRaBS)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,

...amme, and Study Visits to Malmo and Amsterdam. Mentoring visits were hosted by the Northwest Regional Development Agency, Southampton City Council and the London Borough of Sutton in the UK; Klaipeda University Coastal Research and Planning Institute in Lithuania; Etnambiente and the University of Catania in Sicily; the Province of Genoa in Italy; and REC Slovakia. In addition to understanding how ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

The Erasmus+ Mobility funding under project Key Action 103 has been very successful for Southampton Solent University and has seen a year of great change and development. At the University our priority for all dimensions of internationalisation is rapidly growing. That said we have been involved in mobility and its various forms for many years. We approached our application to Key Action 103 with ...
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Colours, Sweeteners and Calories in Food Products

In Southampton University in England a research among children was carried out where it was found that artificial colours as E102, E 104, E110, E122, E124, E129 used in sweets may increase hyperactivity and lessen concentration as well as learning ability. Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the UK stated that using artificial colours in sweets should be finished in Europe. Costumers can find more and ...
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Open Data INcubator for Europe (ODINE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

...ccelerator), Fraunhofer IAIS and the ODI (both data facilitators and incubators), Telefonica (providing computing infrastructure and strong links to data protection and privacy stakeholders), and the University of Southampton (renowned for its open data research and home of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt), we plan to establish a EU-wide, industry-focused network of open data companies ...
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Sustainable Wetland Restoration in the New Forest (New Forest)

Start date: Jul 1, 2002, End date: Dec 31, 2006,

...ects in the UK. The project has carried out a range of useful surveys within the SAC. Baseline surveys were undertaken at the beginning of the project. A subsequent survey by Southampton University has monitored physical features of the Black water and Highland Water Rivers. The project has also surveyed macro-invertebrates, fisheries and wading birds. A thorough dissemination programme was carr ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

...ions within the EU. Credit awarding study placements are offered to first, second and third cycle students and teaching and training opportunities to academic and administrative staff throughout the University and to our partners.
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Κατάρτιση σε συστήματα Οπτοηλεκτρονικής και Μικροηλεκτρονικής, για την υποστήριξη προηγμένων εφαρμογών Ψηφιακής Πληροφορίας, Τηλεπικοινωνιών και εφαρμογών Laser.

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

...consists of the training of 16 Greek instructors (electrical engineers, electronic engineers, physicists),of tertiary and higher education, at the Optoelectronics Research Centre Laboratories in the university of SOUTHAMPTON.In our days the most modern electrical installation practice of transmitting data, such as wide area networks (WAN), is carried out through the use of optical fibers and las ...
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TEXTIL PRO BUDOUCNOST - UMĚNÍ TEXTILU

Start date: Aug 25, 2016, End date: Aug 24, 2018,

...is specific programme is not taught anywhere else in the Czech Republic. Indeed, one of our aims is to introduce a programme whose content will be comparable with the programmes abroad. The Solent University in Southampton has offered us collaboration in a link-up one-year study and scholarship ended with a bachelor degree, as a follow-on of the graduation at our higher vocational school's progra ...
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3D Design of Flap Side Edge Flow Control (3DFSE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

...imization will be performed on the chosen flow control technique to maximize its aeroacoustic performance. Details of a wind tunnel test campaign will also be given. The work will be conducted at the University of Southampton, which has extensive experience in both computational and experimental aeroacoustic studies. The university also has access to several high performance computing clusters, wh ...
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Compétences Linguistiques et Interculturelles au Service des Entreprises en Europe

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

...vel graduates by providing education and training which answers the needs of businesses looking for these skills. Planned changes in training include a more extensive use of digital technologies by University teaching staff. Research carried out by partner universities, and supported by national studies, shows low levels of use of digital technology in university courses at Masters’ level. Partner ...
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"Clinical and public health research to improve maternal, newborn health and to control sexually transmitted infections" (MNSIRSES)

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

...h each other but mainly on an ad hoc basis and not as a network:1. The International Health Research Centre of Barcelona (CRESIB), Spain2. The Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium3. University Mohamed V Soussi – Rabat, Morocco4. University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah of Fez, Morocco5. University of Marrakech, Morocco6. The Ministry of Health of Morocco - National Institute of Healt ...
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Assessing early social complexity in the Late Prehistory of Southern Iberia: Spatial technologies applied to the study of chalcolithic walled and ditched enclosures (IBERENCLOGIS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

...gs of social complexity in Western Europe. In order to achieve the project's objectives, the fellow will first complete postgraduate taught modules in Archaeological GIS and Social Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
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Πιστοποιημένη Κατάρτιση εκπαιδευτών σε διαφανή - αμιγώς Οπτικά - Δίκτυα Τηλεπικοινωνιών, για την υποστήριξη εφαρμογών web2.0

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

...consists of the training of 14 Greek instructors (electrical engineers, electronic engineers, physicists),of tertiary and higher education, at the Optoelectronics Research Centre Laboratories in the university of SOUTHAMPTON. In our days the most modern electrical installation practice of transmitting data, such as wide area networks (WAN), is carried out through the use of optical fibers and la ...
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Pedagogų kvalifikacijos kėlimas: kompetencijų įgijimas ir ugdymas

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...h and Italian as a second language. The participant has experience in some other European projects, such as Erasmus exchange project for students, or the exchange program which was organized by the University of Szeged (Hungary). The participant was selected based on these criteria: she has the lowest type of teachers' qualification; has a less than 2 years of experience working for the gymnasium; ...
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Identification of vaccine candidates using reverse vaccinology (RevVac)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

... respect to reverse vaccinology and gene expression biomarker analysis in the EU. In addition, I will bring a plethora of longstanding collaborations solidified while working in the USA. Finally, the University of Southampton is fully committed to my long-term EU integration vaccinology (RevVac) is an emerging field that uses bioinformatics to identify vaccine candidates directly from the genome s ...
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European Master in Embedded Computing Systems

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

...ed Computing Systems (ECS).Course durationTwo years (120 ECTS credits).Brief descriptionThe participating institutions of EMECS are the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (Germany), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) and the University of Southampton (UK). Students will spend one year at each of the two selected universities and will be trained in three major areas, nam ...
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Development and application of new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance methodologies for structure determination of solid or semi-solid samples (SSNMRMETHOD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

...mic resolution and its requirement for only local order. I plan to develop new NMR methods, based on Switched Angle Spinning, to study these kinds of materials. The group of Prof. M. H. Levitt at the University of Southampton is highly recognized in the scientific community for the development of a theory that allows NMR experiments useful to specific purposes, as structure determination, to be de ...
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'Get Rid Of Traditional Handicaps, Be More Communicative'

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2016,

...communication, sense of necessity of a foreign language, using rich classroom materials, colloboration of taechers, teaching grammar as a communicative tool. Teachers are lack of refreshment of their university knowledge, using modern teaching methods and integrating English with the international disciplines. The existing educational policy and classic teaching methods-techniques cannot overlap t ...
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Age-modified forms of Amyloid-β as initiator of Alzheimer Disease pathogenesis and mediator of Aβ-tau interaction: a study in a Drosophila model and Aβ immunized human Alzheimer patients (ALZPROTAGEING)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

...id-Beta (Aβ), upstream of tau phosphorylation, is considered a driving force in AD pathogenesis, and the major target of the clinical trials of immunotherapy. The first clinical trial at Southampton University (UoS) showed Aβ removal but also reduced phospho-tau, supporting a link between these proteins. Similar evidence emerged in bigenic tau/Aβ Drosophila, a neurodegeneration model. During agein ...
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Federation for FIRE Plus (Fed4FIREplus)

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

The Fed4FIRE+ project has the objective to run and further improve Fed4FIRE’s “best-in-town” federation of experimentation facilities for the Future Internet Research and Experimentation initiative. Federating a heterogeneous set of facilities covering technologies ranging from wireless, wired, cloud services and open flow, and making them accessible through common frameworks and tools suddenly op ...
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Early-life stressors and LifeCycle health (LIFECYCLE)

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

Early life is an important window of opportunity to improve health across the full lifecycle. European pregnancy and child cohort studies together offer an unique opportunity to identify a wide range of early life stressors linked with individual biological, developmental and health trajectory variations, and to the onset and evolution of non-communicable diseases. LIFECYCLE will establish the Eur ...
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Integrated Intelligent Bearing Systems for UHPE Ground Test Demo (I²BS) (UHPE)

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

Conventional and Smart Bearings for Ground Test DemoThe overall objective of the I²BS project is to develop innovative smart bearings for an Ultra High Propulsion Efficiency (UHPE) Ground Test Demonstrator that not only meet the demo specification but also provide significant safety improvement compared to existing standards. I²BS pursues an integrated approach comprising the development of sensor ...
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Brain network based stratification of mental illness (STRATIFY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

To reduce the burden of mental disorders it is a formidable aim to identify widely applicable disease markers based on neural processes, which predict psychopathology and allow for targeted interventions. We will generate a neurobehavioural framework for stratification of psychopathology by characterising links between network properties of brain function and structure and reinforcement–related be ...
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Antiresonant Hollow Optical Fibres for a Quantum Leap in Data and Optical Power Transmission (LightPipe)

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

Fibre optics has revolutionised telecommunications, enabled the widespread diffusion of the internet and profoundly impacted industrial manufacturing, metrology, medical endoscopy and structural sensing, to name but a few. In many applications however, fibres are now being operated very close to fundamental physical limits of the glass that forms their core, and this is already providing hard limi ...
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SCALEFORES: Scaling Rules For Ecosystem Service Mapping (SCALEFORES)

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

It is now widely recognized that sustainably managing ecosystem services – the benefits humans obtain from nature – is essential for humanity’s prospects in the 21st century and beyond. However, at present there is little data on the distribution of most services in most places.To date, the discipline of ecosystem service mapping has tried overcome this lack of data by using proxies to map ecosyst ...
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Next generation Pass-By Noise approaches for new powertrain vehicles (PBNv2)

Start date: May 1, 2017, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

With transportation noise being the second most deadly environmental pollutant in Europe, engineering for future mobility must be inspired by ecology, economy and health to enable green and silent vehicles. Legislations define maximum noise emission limits that have to be complied with during standardized pass-by noise test procedures. Given novel, often electrified, vehicle powertrain concepts, n ...
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Dust in the wind — a new paradigm for inflow and outflow structures around supermassive black holes (DUST-IN-THE-WIND)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent the active growing phases of supermassive black holes. For the first time, we are able to resolve the dusty gas on parsec scales and directly test our standard picture of these objects. While this “unification scheme” relates the parsec-scale IR emission with a geometrically-thick disk, I have recently found that the bulk of the dust emission comes from the p ...
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Experiment to Unearth the Rheological Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary (EURO-LAB)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

Plate tectonics has been a fundamental tenet of Earth Science for nearly 50 years, but fundamental questions remain, such as where is the base of the plate and what makes a plate, “plate-like?” A better understanding of the transition from the rigid lithospheric plate to the weaker mantle beneath – the rheological lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) - has important implications for the drivin ...
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BETTER UNDERSTANDING the METAPHYSICS of PREGNANCY (BUMP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

Every single human is the product of a pregnancy: an approximately nine-month period during which a foetus develops within its mother’s body. Yet pregnancy has not been a traditional focus in philosophy. That is remarkable, for two reasons: First, because pregnancy presents fascinating philosophical problems: what, during the pregnancy, is the nature of the relationship between the foetus and the ...
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Arctic Impact on Weather and Climate (Blue-Action)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Blue-Action will provide fundamental and empirically-grounded, executable science that quantifies and explains the role of a changing Arctic in increasing predictive capability of weather and climate of the Northern Hemisphere.To achieve this Blue-Action will take a transdisciplinary approach, bridging scientific understanding within Arctic climate, weather and risk management research, with key s ...
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MULTI-site organic-inorganic HYbrid CATalysts for MULTI-step chemical processes (MULTI2HYCAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The main goal of MULTI2HYCAT is to design, obtain proof of concept (2 gr.) and upscale in a pre-pilot reactor (20-50 gr.) a new class of hierarchically-porous organic-inorganic hybrid materials, which will be used as active catalysts to carry out multi-step asymmetric catalytic processes with predominantly high conversions (up to 90%) and selectivity (in the range of 80-90%) towards the desired fi ...
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Plasma Antenna Technologies (PATH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

PATH is intended to promote a collaborative researches focused in the development of high density plasma sources implemented with the Exchange of staff personnel between the partners of the network. The research will also address transfer of knowledge and training of the researchers in the specific field of plasma sources and its applications in the telecommunication sector.High density plasma sou ...
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Integrated Tissue Slice Culture and NMR Metabolomics – A Novel Approach Towards SystemicUnderstanding of Liver Function And Disease (TISuMR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

We propose the development of a groundbreaking technology platform that, for the first time, integrates nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomics and micro-imaging with microfluidic perfusion tissue slice culture. This will revolutionise life science research with unprecedented local insight into life processes in intact tissues under highly controlled conditions. We focus on liver tissue slice cult ...
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Smart mitigation of flow-induced acoustic radiation and transmission for reduced aircraft, surface transport, workplaces and wind energy noise (SmartAnswer)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

A step change in our noise mitigation strategies is required in order to meet the environmental targets set for a number of sectors of activity affecting people through noise exposure. Besides being a hindrance to our daily life and subject to regulations, noise emission is also a competitive issue in today’s global market. To address these issues, new technologies have been emerging recently, bas ...
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Gridded Ion Engine Standardised Electric Propulsion Platforms (GIESEPP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The consortium proposes an innovative activity to develop, build and test to TRL5 the first European Plug and Play Gridded Ion Engine Standardised Electric Propulsion Platform (GIESEPP) to operate Airbus Safran Launchers and QinetiQ Space ion engines. These are the only European ion engines in the 200-700W (LEO) and 5kW (GEO) domains that are space-proven, and the consortium’s intention will be to ...
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Fibre break models for designing novel composite microstructures and applications (FiBreMoD)

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

Limiting the climate change-induced temperature increase to less than 2°C will require strong reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Lightweight materials and fibre-reinforced composites in particular, are a key enabling technology to achieve this goal. Current composite applications are however strongly overdesigned due to a lack of reliable design tools and predictive models for their mechanica ...
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