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"Atmospheric Exchange of Persistent Chemicals in Bothnian Bay, Northern Baltic Sea" (BAYEX)
Start date: Apr 15, 2011, End date: Apr 14, 2013,
...eden and arctic Finland, and linking with the EU project ARCRISK at Svalbard by providing measurements for a common suite of chemicals at a continental subarctic site. The applicant brings to Umeå University more than 30 years’ experience in atmospheric transport a"
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Disentangling the contributions of dopamine and amyloid burden to age-related changes in cognition and brain network connectivity in healthy older adults (AMYDA)
Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,
...research will take place during the 24-months outgoing phase at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, USA, and be followed by a 12-months reintegration phase at the Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging in Sweden. This IOF will lead to new insights into the neurobiological processes of cognitive aging and early Alzheimer’s disease, contribute to the accumulation o ...
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A progress of tuberculosis and HIV/tuberculosis treatment assessed by fingerprinting of small molecule-biomarkers in patients from Eastern Europe (TB prognosis)
Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,
A dramatically high incidence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extended drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) was reported in WHO European Region. Countries in Eastern Europe still fail to control TB and in, for example, Ukraine, a number of new TB cases is as high as 100-299 per 100 000 (data for 2010). TB is often accompanied by HIV on this territory. In EU countries, patients with MDR and XDR- ...
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Liveable disabilities: Life courses and opportunity structures across time (DISLIFE)
Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2021,
...e disabilities. The proposal aims to establish me at the forefront of disability research. It benefits from my scholarship in history and demography and from three excellent centres at Umeå University I am connected to, funded by the Swedish Research Council. One centre researches populations, another gender. The third provides expertise in disability studies and ready access to stakeholders ou ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,
Umeå university has been active within the Erasmus programme since the mid nineties. Within the framework of the programmeUmeå university has had the opportunity to build up an extensive collaboration with European universities within the areas of research, teaching, education development and students and staff mobility. We have developed well- established strategic processes to ensure that partne ...
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Quality Assurance and Enhancement Marketplace for Higher Education Institutions
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,
...igher education institutions: Reykjavik University, Iceland; Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland ; Aarhus University, Denmark; Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Umeå University, Sweden; Telecom Bretagne, France; Aston University, United Kingdom and Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom.
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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,
The Erasmus project is an integral part of internationalization of activities of CEVRO Institute which - among other goals - seeks to increase the volume of academic exchange. CEVRO Institute is particularly concerned with the goal to increase the number of outgoing students who were outnumbered by incoming students in the past few years. Since CEVRO Institute started its participation in the Eras ...
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EUROVERSITY
Start date: Dec 1, 2011,
... framework will then be evaluated in contexts, such as: to support digital design and language learning at the University of Hull; to support the delivery of Sami, a threatened indigenous language at Umeå University; and in pan-European language courses including teacher training courses. The short term impact is to exploit existing resources and knowledge from past as well as ongoing projects th ...
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NE©XT2 - NEW EUROPEAN CREATIVE TALENT
Start date: May 2, 2013,
... to offer to an international audience. Essentially the project entails an annual Online selection of excellent graduate work, combined with Live events in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2013 and in Umeå, Sweden in 2014, presenting the best graduate work in a range of creative disciplines. Capitalizing on best practice in audience development and social capital produced in and through the arts will ...
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...ivt samarbete mellan svenska och finska designinstitutioner (Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, Design Västernorrland Ab, Design Västerbotten/Almi Nord, Västra Finlands designcentrum Muova/Aalto universitetet). Det i Sverige bekanta av Svensk Industridesign regisserade "Sommardesignkontor"-konceptet genomfördes i Vasa under namnet Designcamp. Fem studerande under handledning av designcentrum Mu ...
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Sustainable Aquaculture of Arctic Charr 2.12 (Northcharr)
Start date: May 31, 2008, End date: May 30, 2011,
...ng and marketing services. There are long gone plans for starting four new farms. Iceland: Presentation of the project: Presenting the project at the national project meeting in Sweden (Umeå). Governmental representatives. Presenting the project at the 6th International charr symposium Stirling 2009 Organizing the National Aquaculture workshop meeting in Lysekil 8-9 October were the ...
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...e under övningar samt bidragit med sin expertis vid möten, seminarier och utbildningsinsatser. Svenska Sjöräddningssällskapet (SSRS) i Holmsund deltagit vid planering samt genomförande under övningar samt bidragit med sin expertis vid möten, seminarier och utbildningsinsatser.• Sjöräddningssällskapet i Vasa deltog under hypotermiutbildningen. • RG Line Ab deltagit vid planering samt genomförande u ...
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...sh Forest Research Institute, Mellersta Österbottens Landsbygdsinstitut, Centria and Mellersta Österbottens Skogsägarförbundet in Finland and SLU, the University of Umeå and BioFuel Region in Sweden. The total budget of the project was 3 639 126 € of which EU financed 48% €. The project used 94,3% of their total budget. In addition the Norwegian part was allocated 5 352 000 NOK from Norwegian fina ...
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Healthy minds from 0-100 years: Optimising the use of European brain imaging cohorts (Lifebrain)
Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,
Our main objective is to identify determinants of brain, cognitive and mental health at different stages of life. By integration, harmonisation and enrichment of major European neuroimaging studies of age differences and changes, we will obtain an unparalleled database of fine-grained brain, cognitive and mental health measures of more than 6.000 individuals. Longitudinal brain imaging, genetic an ...
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Rotterdam, Umea and Glasgow: Generating Exemplar Districts In Sustainable Energy Deployment (Ruggedised)
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,
The RUGGEDISED project will create urban spaces powered by secure, affordable and clean energy, smart electro-mobility, smart tools and services. The overall aims are:1. Improving the quality of life of the citizens, by offering the citizens a clean, safe, attractive, inclusive and affordable living environment.2. Reducing the environmental impacts of activities, by achieving a significant reducti ...
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Training Network to Understand and Exploit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception in Bacteria (PATHSENSE)
Start date: Apr 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2021,
The PATHSENSE (Pathogen Sensing) ETN will bring together an interdisciplinary team of world-leading researchers from Europe to tackle a highly ambitious scientific project, focusing on the molecular mechanisms of sensory perception in bacterial pathogens. PATHSENSE will establish an innovative doctoral training programme that will deliver 13 PhD graduates and high-impact scientific outputs. The re ...
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Network of Leading European AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Mountains to Oceans from the Arctic to the Mediterranean (AQUACOSM)
Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,
Experimentation in mesocosms is arguably the single most powerful approach to obtain a mechanistic quantitative understanding of ecosystem-level impacts of stressors in complex systems, especially when embedded in long-term observations, theoretical models and experiments conducted at other scales. AQUACOSM builds on an established European network of mesocosm research infrastructures (RI), the FP ...
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Smart capture phases for proteomics, glycomics and biomarker assays (BioCapture)
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,
The overall objective of BioCapture is to develop novel robust assays for proteinaceous biomarkers associated with cancer and to develop innovative tools for assaying elusive cancer related posttranslational modifications in proteins. This will be achieved by exploiting robust glycan, peptide and protein binders in the form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) or plastic antibodies alongside g ...
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SOcial Cognitive Robotics in The European Society (SOCRATES)
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,
SOCRATES is a PhD training program for 15 young researchers, created to develop the field of Social Robotics with an application focus on Robotics in Eldercare. The research in Social Robotics has a common theme of Interaction Quality, which is a concept for characterization of how a specific mode of interaction is fit for a given task, situation, and user. Interaction Quality often changes, for i ...
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Solar Energy to Biomass - Optimisation of light energy conversion in plants and microalgae (SE2B)
Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,
In the face of the increasing global consumption of fossil resources, photosynthetic organisms offer an attractive alternative that could meet our rising future needs as clean, renewable, sources of energy and for the production of fine chemicals. Key to the efficient exploitation of these organisms is to optimise the conversion of Solar Energy into Biomass (SE2B). The SE2B network deals with this ...
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Reliable Capacity Provisioning and Enhanced Remediation for Distributed Cloud Applications (RECAP)
Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,
Large-scale computing systems are today built as distributed systems (for reasons of scale, heterogeneity, cost and energy efficiency) where components and services are distributed and accessed remotely through clients and devices. In some systems, in particular latency-sensitive or high availability systems, components are also placed closer to end-users (in, e.g., radio base stations and other s ...
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ACTivating resource efficiency and large databases in the CLOUD (ACTiCLOUD)
Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,
Despite their proliferation as a dominant computing paradigm, cloud computing systems lack effective mechanisms to manage their vast amounts of resources efficiently, leading to severe resource waste and ultimately limiting their applicability to large classes of critical applications that pose non-moderate resource demands. This creates a significant need to lift existing technological barriers o ...
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Energy Saving Lighthouse Cities in the NPA region (e-Lighthouse)
Start date: Apr 26, 2016, End date: Apr 25, 2019,
Description (EN): Project actions will support increased energy efficiency in buildings (40% of EU energy consumption) and increase the uptake of renewable energy, thus decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. Our goal is to support and follow-up the retrofit of more than 250 public buildings. In the private sector with the consultation of building supervisory authorities, the project a ...
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Revisioning the ‘Fiscal EU’: Fair, Sustainable, and Coordinated Tax and Social Policies (FairTax)
Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,
Plans for economic and monetary integration in the European Union call for fundamental changes in fiscal relations among EU member states and other countries. The 2012 Blueprint for the European Monetary Union (EMU) calls for deeper integration of fiscal policies at the level of domestic EU members, including establishing EU own-source revenues. The 2013 Social Dimension of the EMU emphasizes that ...
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Parallel Numerical Linear Algebra for Future Extreme-Scale Systems (NLAFET)
Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,
The NLAFET proposal is a direct response to the demands for new mathematical and algorithmic approaches for applications on extreme scale systems, as identified in the FETHPC work programme and call. This project will enable a radical improvement in the performance and scalability of a wide range of real-world applications relying on linear algebra software, by developing novel architecture-aware ...
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Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: Cumulative Disadvantage, Coping Strategies, Effective Policies and Transfer (EXCEPT)
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,
Against the background of increasing labour market insecurities among youth during the recent crisis, the aim of this interdisciplinary and internationally comparative project is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the consequences of youth labour market vulnerability for risks of social exclusion in Europe. A multidimensional dynamic perspective on both objective and subjective dimensions ...
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)
Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,
This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Sweet Pepper Harvesting Robot (SWEEPER)
Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,
In modern greenhouses there is a high demand to automate labour. The availability of a skilled workforce that accepts repetitive tasks in harsh greenhouse climate conditions is decreasing rapidly. The resulting increase in labour costs and reduced capacity puts major pressure on the competitiveness of the European greenhouse sector. Present robotization of this labour has entered an high level of ...
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Higher Education Internationalisation and Mobility: Inclusion, Equalities and Innovations (HEIM)
Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
...nationalisation programmes in the partner organisations via co-written papers, statistical datasets, literature reviews, training and workshops. The Partnership is between three universities (Sussex, Umeå and Seville) and a non-academic organisation, the Roma Education Fund (REF). Via secondments, staff exchange, training and collaborative inquiry, the project will investigate internationalisation ...
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Promoting Attainment of Responsible Research and Innovation in Science Education (PARRISE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
The overall aim of the EC call is building up a scientifically literate society, which enables its citizens to participate in the research and innovation process as part of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). This calls for democratic citizenship education, in which two educational approaches, often presented independently in schools, are integrated, viz. Inquiry-Based Science Education (IB ...
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Erasmus Without Paper
Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 30, 2017,
Every year more than 200.000 students from over 2.000 higher education institutions (HEI) go to study abroad under the LLP flagship programme Erasmus. For each of these 200,000 students several paper documents and information was sent back and forth between institutions. Although the majority of HEIs in Europe use software to handle mobility, to transfer the locally stored data, this data is repro ...
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Adenovirus Vector Technology: Next Generation Systems for Medical Therapy (AD-VEC)
Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,
We propose a programme (AD-VEC) involving two industrial and three academic partners with the aim to identify new adenoviral vectors as vehicles in novel medical applications for cardiovascular disease and infectious disease.This will be achieved through broad knowledge exchange between partners with complimentary and cutting edge technological and in-depth skills relating to adenovirus phylogeny, ...
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Improving Popoulation Health Through Research Exchanges (IPHTRE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
"The quality of data on health at the population level varies widely across the world. In areas which lack general routine data (and which are often also impoverished in other respects), much can be learnt from detailed studies of populations in specific local areas. One such population in South Africa, the Agincourt Centre, occupies a world-leading position in this respect, having followed a defi ...
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End-user driven DEmo for cbrNe (EDEN)
Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
The accidental or deliberate release of CBRNE materials are low probability events that can have a significant impact on citizens and society. Whenever and wherever they occur, they usually require a gradual and multi-facetted response as they tend to provoke severe and unexpected physical, psychological, societal, economical and political effects that cross EU-borders. Successful CBRNE resilience ...
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Infrastructure for Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems (ANAEE)
Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,
ANAEE will provide Europe with a distributed and coordinated set of experimental, analytical and modelling platforms to analyse and predict in a precise manner the response of the main continental ecosystems to environmental and land use changes. ANAEE will consist of highly equipped in natura and in vitro experimental platforms associated with sophisticated analytical and modelling platforms coup ...
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Media in Context (MICO)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,
With the tremendous increase in multimedia content on the Web and in corporate intranets, discovering hidden meaning in raw multimedia is becoming one of the biggest challenges. Analysing multimedia content is still in its infancy, requires expert knowledge, and the few available products are associated with excessive price tags, while still not delivering sufficient quality for many tasks. This m ...
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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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Context-Aware Cloud Topology Optimisation and Simulation (CACTOS)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
User demand and new technologies are driving a drastic increase in cloud infrastructure scale, heterogeneity and complexity. The demand for better energy efficiency has led to a variety of technological options to build servers from different CPU architectures as well as specialised options for highly parallel tasks such as manycore systems or General Purposed GPUs. At the same time, service provi ...
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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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