Search for European Projects

Over 40 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 16

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 26

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 3

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 20

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 15

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 23

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 50

 FINISHED 

Homomorphic Encryption Applications and Technology (HEAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Homomorphic cryptography offers the tantalizing goal of being able to process sensitive information in encrypted form, without needing to compromise on the privacy and security of the citizens and organizations that provide the input data.The HEAT proposal brings together Europe's leading researchers on homomorphic cryptography (KU LEUVEN, UNIVBRIS and UL), with the leading expertise on lattice ba ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

Learning Agreement Online System

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The EU has adopted, within the modernisation agenda for higher education systems in Europe, the very ambitious goal of reaching 20% of mobile students by 2020. While in some member states this number is far from being reached, in other member states, such as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, over 95% of students spend part of their studies abroad. However, the aim of making mobility rather the rule t ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Delivering European Translational Information & Knowledge Management Services (ETRIKS)

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

Since its inception the IMI has funded over 30 public-private partnership projects. Many of these projects are centered upon data intensive translational research and are employing integrative analysis approaches to achieve their goals. Although a common KM platform for IMI projects was envisioned in the original IMI Strategic Research Agenda it has not yet been implemented. The lack of a common p ...
Read Project

 17

 FINISHED 

European Identity, Culture, Exchanges and Multilingualism

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

The Jean Monnet Network European Identity, Culture, Exchanges and Multilingualism brings together Jean Monnet Chairs, a JM Centre of Excellence and four partners not yet in receipt of Jean Monnet funding. European identity formation is identified as an overarching theme with three dimensions of more focused research (patterns of European identity and citizenship among students studying courses in ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

#dariahTeach

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The DARIAH-RC Strategic Partnership presents a unique new approach to curriculum development: an international consortium consisting of 7 institutions from 7 European countries will join forces to establish an open source, freely-available modular reference curriculum and key benchmarking criteria in the rapidly expanding field of Digital Humanities along with an extensible collection of high-qual ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Coordinating Action Systems Medicine – Implementation of Systems Medicine across Europe (CASYM)

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

The aim of CASyM is a combined large scale effort to sustainably implement Systems Medicine across Europe. For that purpose CASyM will function as a managing and coordinating platform in bringing together a critical mass of relevant European stakeholders such as Systems Biology scientists, clinicians, programme managers, industry/SMEs as well as healthcare providers and patient organizations. The ...
Read Project

 24

 FINISHED 

Multilingual Exploration of Languages in Europe

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

...ject partners from four European countries (Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain) will cooperate in the creation of this project, including universities (Talinn University, Goethe University, Université du Luxembourg, Universitat Pompeu) and local schools. Description of activities & methodology to be used in carrying out the project This strategic partnership aims at the development of a gamified ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

Towards real time multiscale simulation of cutting in non-linear materials with applications to surgical simulation and computer guided surgery (RealTCut)

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

"Surgeons are trained as apprentices. Some conditions are rarely encountered and surgeons will only be trained in the specific skills associated with a given situation if they come across it. At the end of their residency, it is hoped that they will have faced sufficiently many cases to be competent. This can be dangerous to the patients.If we were able to reproduce faithfully, in a virtual enviro ...
Read Project

 2

 FINISHED 

Beta-cell function in juvenile diabetes and obesity (Beta-JUDO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The number of individuals with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is increasing. An alarming aspect is decline in age of onset of T2DM, which is coupled to rise in childhood obesity. Accentuated insulin secretion is observed early in young obese individuals. In many subjects insulin hypersecretion is evident when insulin sensitivity is essentially normal. Based on these observations we pr ...
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

Training for sustainable low cost PV technologies: development of kesterite based efficient solar cells (KESTCELLS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The overall objective of this project is the creation of an ITN network for the structured interdisciplinary training of researchers in advanced thin film photovoltaic (PV) technologies.The project proposes the development of new technologies compatible with the cost, efficiency, sustainability and mass production requirements that are needed to become areliable and future alternative to conventi ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

EUscreenXL, the pan-European audiovisual aggregator for Europeana (EUscreenXL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

EUscreenXL is a three-year project that aggregates a comprehensive body of professional audiovisual content and makes it accessible through Europeana and the EUscreenXL portal. The project consortium consists of 20 leading audiovisual archives, excellent media scholars, skilled technical service providers and the EBU. The partnership has established alliances with key stakeholders as the Europeana ...
Read Project

 31

 FINISHED 

Epilepsy Pharmacogenomics: delivering biomarkers for clinical use (EpiPGX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The purpose of the project is to identify genome-based biomarkers for use in clinical practice to individualise treatment of epilepsy, and stratify patients for clinical trials, aiming to avoid chronicity, prevent relapse and reduce adverse drug reactions (ADRs).The need for improved treatments in epilepsy is undoubted. Epilepsy is affects 50,000,000 people of all ages worldwide. Epilepsy is serio ...
Read Project

 15

 FINISHED 

COgnitive RAdio for SATellite Communications (CoRaSat)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The CoRaSat project aims at investigating, developing, and demonstrating cognitive radio techniques in satellite communication systems for spectrum sharing. Outcomes of the study will drive the definition of strategic roadmaps to be followed by industry stakeholders, European Institutions, and Governmental actors towards regulatory and standardization groups in order to ensure that the necessary a ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet (CONFINE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Community networks are an emerging and successful model for the Future Internet across Europe and far beyond. The CONFINE project complements existing FIRE infrastructure by establishing a new facility built on the federation of existing community IP networks constituted by more than 20,000 nodes and 20,000 Km of links. These community networks incorporate a large and wide variety of commodity ...
Read Project

 24

 FINISHED 

Lifelong Learning, Innovation, Growth and Human capital Tracks in Europe (LLLIGHT'in'Europe)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

LLLight’in’Europe –LifeLong Learning, Innovation, Growth and Human capital Tracks in EuropeAmong all Europeans between 24 and 65 years old who had a tertiary educational degree in 2010, 82.8% were working. In the same age group, 68.3% who completed secondary schooling were working. Only 46% of those who did not complete secondary schooling were working. It is apparent that if Europe wants to be wo ...
Read Project

 12

 FINISHED 

Development and scale-up of nanostructured based materials and processes for low cost high efficiency chalcogenide based photovoltaics (SCALENANO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

This project will exploit the potential of chalcogenide based thin film photovoltaic technologies for the development and scale-up of new processes based on nanostructured materials for the production of high efficiency and low cost photovoltaic devices and modules compatible with mass production requirements. Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 (CIGS) chalcogenide based devices have the highest efficiency of all th ...
Read Project

 14

 FINISHED 

Live Video-to-Video Supporting Interactive City Infrastructure (LiveCity)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The aim of LiveCity is to empower the citizens of a city to interact with each other in a more productive, efficient and socially useful way by using high quality video-to-video (v2v) over the Internet. Video-to-video can be used to save patients' lives, improve city administration, reduce fuel costs, reduce carbon footprint, enhance education and improve city experiences for tourists and cultural ...
Read Project

 18

 FINISHED 

2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIREplus)

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

OpenAIREplus will build a 2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure by significantly expanding in several directions the outcomes of the OpenAIRE project, which implements the EC Open Access (OA) pilot. Capitalizing on the OpenAIRE infrastructure, built for managing FP7 and ERC funded articles, and the associated supporting mechanism of the European Helpdesk System, OpenAIREplus will "develop an o ...
Read Project

 42

 FINISHED 

Innovative Energy Recovery Strategies in the urban water cycle (INNERS)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Currently. a transition is taking place in Europe towards an increasing awareness of the effects of our behavior on the environment. Instead of using fossil fuels. the focus slowly shifts towards minimizing energy consumption or using renewable sources of energy with the purpose to reduce carbon emissions. There is an enormous amount of energy within the urban water cycle that is ignored and l ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

uBiquitous, secUre inTernet-of-things with Location and contExt-awaReness (BUTLER)

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

Recent ICT advances are bringing to reality a world where sensors, actuators and smart portable devices are interconnected into an Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem reaching 50 Billion devices by 2015.The IoT major challenges are, from a systemic viewpoint, smart resource management and digital security; and from a user/service perspective, the pervasiveness (uniformity of performance anytime an ...
Read Project

 23

 FINISHED 

Universal Integration of the Internet of Things through an IPv6-based Service Oriented Architecture enabling heterogeneous components interoperability (IoT6)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The IoT6 project aims at exploiting the potential of IPv6 and related standards (6LoWPAN, CORE, COAP, etc.) to overcome current shortcomings and fragmentation of the Internet of Things, in line with the CERP-IoT and EC recommendations.Its main challenges and objectives are to research, design and develop a highly scalable IPv6-based Service-Oriented Architecture to achieve interoperability, mobili ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

DYNAMICS OF INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (INCOOP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

This ITN brings together Universities, think-tanks and high-level officials that all share a long-term interest in a better understanding of the functioning of institutions in the European system of Multi-level governance (MLG) and who have extensive academic and practical expertise in this field. Their interdisciplinary knowledge and experience is pooled with the main objective of improving the E ...
Read Project

 8

 FINISHED 

Multifactorial evidence based approach using behavioural models in understanding and promoting fun, healthy food, play and policy for the prevention of obesity in early childhood: ToyBox (ToyBox)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Objective The ToyBox proposal addresses KBBE-2009-2-1-03 - Behavioural models for prevention of obesity, with a particular focus on children. It will primary aim to influence children’s behaviours and prevent obesity in early childhood. Strategy The proposal will identify key behaviours related to early childhood obesity and their determinants and evaluate behavioural models and educational strate ...
Read Project

 18