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Art / culture / economy to democratize society. Research in placemaking for alternative narratives (trans-making)

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

The project trans-making aims to establish a multilateral network of research and innovation staff active in the fields of placemaking/place-based art activities as a space to create alternative narratives for social, economic and democratic renewal.It will investigate and experiment with placemaking to contribute actively to the democratization/well-being of society, educating and empowering indi ...
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Open transPREcision COMPuting (OPRECOMP)

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

Guaranteed numerical precision of each elementary step in a complex computation has been the mainstay of traditional computing systems for many years. This era, fueled by Moore's law and the constant exponential improvement in computing efficiency, is at its twilight: from tiny nodes of the Internet-of-Things, to large HPC computing centers, sub-picoJoule/operation energy efficiency is essential f ...
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NDTonAIR: Training Network in Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring ofAircraft structures (NDTonAIR)

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

The “NDTonAIR” consortium involves Universities, Research Organisations and major European companies working on new Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) techniques for aerospace, of which both are key technologies. The goal is to train a new generation of scientists and engineers with a wide background of theoretical and experimental skills, capable of developing th ...
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Advanced solutions for assuring the overall authenticity and quality of olive oil (OLEUM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The OLEUM project will generate innovative, more effective and harmonized analytical solutions to detect and fight the most common and emerging frauds and to verify the overall quality of olive oils (OOs). By a core group of 20 partners from 15 countries OLEUM will undertake RESEARCH ACTIVITIES based on the development of IMPROVED and NEW ANALYTICAL METHODS by targeted and omics approaches with th ...
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HARMONIzation and integrative analysis of regional, national and international Cohorts on primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) towards improved stratification, treatment and health policy making (HarmonicSS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

HarmonicSS vision is to create an International Network and Alliance of partners and cohorts, entrusted with the mission of addressing the unmet needs in primary Sjogren Syndrome; working together to create and maintain a platform with open standards and tools, designed to enable secure storage, governance, analytics, access control and controlled sharing of information at multiple levels along wi ...
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Sexual Plant Reproduction – Seed formation (SexSeed)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

By 2050, it is estimated that the human population will reach 9 billion. To feed this growing population, it will be necessary to at least double agricultural yields, without increasing the amount of arable land. Understanding the factors that regulate sexual reproduction will enable this critical aspect of agricultural production to be engineered for increased productivity, without increasing ara ...
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Geospatial based Environment for Optimisation Systems Addressing Fire Emergencies (GEO-SAFE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

In EU and Australia, every year thousands of square miles of forests and other lands burn due to wildfires. These fires cause important economic and ecological losses, and often, human casualties. Both EU and Australian governments are aware of how crucial it is to improve wildfires’ management and containment. Scientists from different specialties, both in EU and Australia, have already developed ...
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Achieving near Zero and Positive Energy Settlements in Europe using Advanced Energy Technology (ZERO-PLUS)

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

"In ZERO-PLUS, a comprehensive, cost-effective system for Net Zero Energy (NZE) settlements will be developed and implemented. The system will be composed of innovative solutions for the building envelope, for building energy generation and management, and for energy management at the settlement level. A reduction of operational energy usage to an average of 0-20 kWh/m2 per year (compared with the ...
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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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Impact of invasive alien true bug species in native tropich webs (INVASIoN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Insects can be accidentally introduced into non-native ecosystems by humans, or expand their geographical range toward the poles as a consequence of global warming. As they invade new environments, exotic species interact with local species, modifying the structure of local food webs. New associations arising from with biological invasions can impact the strength of existing links with effects cas ...
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Bioresources For Oliviculture (BeFOre)

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

The project aims at establishing a multi-lateral network of research and innovation staff active in olive germplasm access, conservation, evaluation and exploitation, strengthening research capacities through the exchange of knowledge and expertise on a shared research programme focused on developing integrated common protocols to phenotype and characterize plants at molecular, morphological and p ...
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The Language Magician

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

... need to address the imbalance of language learning in the UK and other member states. The Universities of Reading and Leipzig were identified as leading primary language research experts while the University of Perugia was chosen as assessment expert. In order to ensure the necessary practical focus, the Education Ministry of Tenerife supports the development of the tool for Spanish and together ...
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PhD on Innovation Pathways for TES (INPATH-TES)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Following the EC SET-Plan Education and Training Roadmap, the concept of this proposal is to develop a joint PhD programme between universities and research centres, on the topic of Thermal Energy Storage (TES). The goal of INPATH-TES is to create a network of universities and research institutes to implement a joint PhD programme on TES technologies. The final result of such a network is to educa ...
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Genetic High Throughput Screenings by random mutagenesis to identify Plasmodium falciparum critical genes for asexual growth, sexual differentiation and virulence affecting host immune responses (GeneticHTS reveal Pf)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Feb 21, 2018,

Malaria is a global health problem that demands immediate practical actions to contain the high infection and mortality rates caused by Plasmodium species. Protective vaccine is still missing. Available drugs diminish their impact against Plasmodium as resistances are rising and expanding on the territories. While no vaccine of the current portfolio showed ideal protection and low-cost feasibility ...
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Volcanic ash: field, laboratory and numerical investigations of processes during its lifecycle (VERTIGO)

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

Explosive volcanic eruptions are an unavoidable natural hazard: Volcanic ash, the ejected lethal mixture of crystals, lava, glass and older rocks, is the most far-reaching threat. In April 2010, the ash cloud from Eyjafjall volcano in Iceland, a comparatively small event, paralysed large parts of Europe for up to one week in a manner unique in history. The impact was dramatic: several million pass ...
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Coordinating European Research on Molecular Communications (CIRCLE)

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

In recent years, several research groups have been created in the emerging research area of molecular communications. This is seen as a fundamental enabler for nano-scale networked devices. The heterogeneity of the biological environments that can host nano-scale communications has produced different proposals (e.g. neuronal networks, molecular diffusion, flow-based carrier mobility) analyzed by m ...
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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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Anticorruption Policies Revisited. Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption (ANTICORRP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The central objective of ANTICORRP is to investigate and explain the factors that promote or hinder the development of effective anticorruption policies and impartial government institutions. ANTICORRP directly addresses the objective in the Work Program by examining what the causes of corruption are, how corruption can be conceptualized, measured and analysed, what the impact of corruption on s ...
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Monitoring air pollution effects on children for supporting Public Health Policy (MAPEC_LIFE)

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

Background Several epidemiological studies have demonstrated the association between exposure to air pollution and mortality and morbidity in humans. In 2005, an estimated 5 million years of life were lost due to fine particle pollution in 32 European countries (European Environment Agency Technical report no. 12/2011, Air quality in Europe). Urban pollut ...
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Co-ordinating Research Efforts of the ICT-Energy Community (ICT-Energy)

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

The goal of this proposal is to create a coordination activity among consortia involved in the ICT-ENERGY subject with specific reference to bringing together the existing "Toward Zero-Power ICT" community organized within the ZEROPOWER C.A. and the novel "MINECC" (Minimising energy consumption of computing to the limit) community recently funded under the FET Proactive Call 8 (FP7-ICT-2011-8) Obj ...
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The MEtabolic Road to DIAstolic Heart Failure (MEDIA)

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

More than 50% of heart failure (HF) patients present without a major deficit of left ventricular (LV) systolic function and are presumed to suffer from diastolic HF (DHF) because diastolic LV distensibility is usually impaired in these patients. The vast majority (~80%) of DHF patients is exposed to metabolic risk factors. The MEDIA consortium therefore investigates:1) how metabolic derangements c ...
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The Political Economy of Youth Unemployment (YOUTHUNEMPLOYMENT)

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

"In recent decades, global and European policy makers have been very slow in recognising youth unemployment and underemployment as a priority challenge requiring decisive policy responses. While an urgent concern at the global level, youth employment is not only an issue for developing countries: in recent decades, both developed countries and countries in transition have seen their labour markets ...
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Prediction of cognitive properties of new drug candidates for neurodegenerative diseases in the early clinical development (PHARMA-COG)

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

PHARMA-COG aims to develop a new integrated model to accelerate the development of drug cindidates for MS, PKD and AD. The innovation relies on a 'multidimensional matrix' approach, integrating all available and renewed inputs (biomarkers/animal, human models/physiological and pharmcological challenges, Phase 0/1/1b to reduce the attrition rate, to allow an early and pertinent GO/NOGO decision bef ...
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Integrating European Infrastructure to support science and development of Hydrogen- and Fuel Cell Technologies towards European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy (H2FC)

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

"The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) recognizes in its roadmap for Research Infrastructures that ""in the near future, hydrogen, as an energy carrier derived from a number of other fuels, and fuel cells, as energy transformers, are expected to play a major role, for mobile and stationary applications"". With the current fragmentation of the European R&D infrastructures ...
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Floods and fire risk assessment and management (FLIRE)

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

Background Floods and forest fires can be among the most devastating natural disasters, causing severe socioeconomic impacts, including loss of life, the destruction of private and public property and the disruption of economic activities and cultural heritage. Floods and fires also contribute to the degradation of Europe's ecosystem services. This ecolo ...
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Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3plus)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

This proposal details activities that will ensure the continued enhancement and ongoing operation of the leading-edge GÉANT network, supporting a range of network and added-value services, targeted at users across the GÉANT service area.In the area of multi-domain network service operation, GN3plus plans to deliver fast, efficient provisioning of advanced services, develop operational support acro ...
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Content and cOntext aware delivery for iNteraCtive \nmultimEdia healthcaRe applicaTiOns (CONCERTO)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

During the last century, significant scientific progress has more than doubled the average lifetime of developed countries inhabitants. This amazing result is the indirect consequence of X-rays discoveryin 1901, of antibiotics in the late 20s, of advances in surgery with the first heart transplant in the late 60s, to name just a few representative examples. In the new millennium, eHealth will like ...
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European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE)

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

Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is becoming increasing dependent on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage resources linked by high-performance networks).The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transitio ...
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Transnational cooperation for the improvement of buildings energy performance and efficiency  (TRACE)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

The building sector, responsible for about 40% of the EU's total final energy consumption and CO2 emissions, provides many cost-efficient opportunities for action, while contributing at the same time to the welfare of EU citizens. The EU is making a real effort to improve the energy efficiency of Europe's buildings and recently revised its legislation to prompt faster improvements. The Energy Perf ...
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Joint easily wafted East laboratory Model  (JEWEL Model)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

Background Crisis of the function and character of the historical town centre in the territory and the loss of identity of its renewed community. Overall aims Develop integrated strategies for metropolitan areas for contribute to the future development of South East Europe. Project wishes to contribute to innovative solutions to tackle crucial problems affecting metropolitan areas, such as local g ...
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Zero-Impact Cultural Heritage Event Network (ZEN)

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

...critical impact on local context and, more in general, on the environment. In the UK alone, it is estimated that live music events produce 400,00 t Co2 annually and a 2007 survey carried out by the University of Buckinghamshire on behalf of A Greener Festival on 649 festival goers in Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands found out that 80% were concerned about noise, 82% thought waste had a ...
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Novel characterization of crop wild relative and landrace resources as a basis for improved crop breeding (PGR Secure)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The goal of agrobiodiversity conservation, unlike other forms of conservation, is not only the conservation of species and intra-specific genetic diversity related to agriculture, but also to promote its sustainable use in facilitating agricultural production. Although significant progress has been made in the conservation and management of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) ...
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Strategies for Organic and Low-input Integrated Breeding And Management (SOLIBAM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

SOLIBAM will develop specific and novel breeding approaches integrated with management practices to improve the performance, quality, sustainability and stability of crops adapted to organic and low-input systems, in their diversity in Europe and taking into account small-scale farms in Africa. SOLIBAM will: 1. Identify traits specific for adaptation to low-input/organic conditions over a wide ran ...
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"Fungi in the setting of inflammation, allergy and autoimmune diseases:Translating basic science into clinical practices" (ALLFUN)

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

"The ALLFUN proposal aims at defining the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which ubiquitous airborne or commensal fungi contribute to immune homeostasis and its dysregulation leading to allergy and inflammatory diseases. Breakthroughs in understanding how mucosal homeostasis is established, maintained or disrupted in the presence of fungi should be sources of new therapeutic targets and drugs ...
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Planetary Entry Integrated Models (Phys4Entry)

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

One of the major technological challenges associated with the access to planetary surfaces is the entry of the space vehicle in the planetary atmospheres at superorbital speeds. The problem is the very large heat released to the vehicle surface by the surrounding gas either as convective heating or as radiation. Optimization of the thermal shield design can have a profound impact on the overall mi ...
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Research capacity for the implementation of genetic control of mosquitoes (INFRAVEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Mosquitoes transmit a variety of infectious diseases that cause a tremendous burden to public health. Due to climate changes and to the increase in international trade and tourism the threats posed by mosquitoes are increasingly affecting large parts of Europe, causing understandable concerns among the populations of many Member States. Control methods, mainly based on insecticide usage, are strug ...
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Co-ordinating Research Efforts Towards Zero-Power ICT (ZEROPOWER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The goal of this project is to create a coordination activity among consortia involved in "Toward Zero-Power ICT" research projects (FET proactive call FP7-ICT-2009-5, Objective 8.6) and communities of scientists interested in energy harvesting and low power, energy efficient ICT. This activity is aimed at assessing the impact of our research efforts and proposing measures to increase the visibili ...
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Finding biomarkers of anti-microbial drug resistance via a systems biology analysis of fungal pathogen interactions with the human immune system (SYBARIS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

We propose a systems biology study of the specificity of response of the cell-mediated immune system to fungal microorganisms in order to investigate the genetic basis of susceptibility to fungal disease and elucidate molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in fungal pathogens. An integrative approach, combining high-throughput and traditional wet-lab work with computational and bioinformatics met ...
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Pathogenomics and Systems Biology of Fungal Infections – An Integrative Approach (FINSysB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The vision of the FINSysB Network is to generate bright, ambitious and well-trained young researchers capable of contributing significantly to the knowledge-base and economy of the European Union. We will achieve this goal by providing a strong, multidisciplinary training for early stage and experienced researchers in the pathobiology, genomics, molecular biology, bioinformatics and systems biolo ...
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Testing innovative strategies for clean urban transport for historic European cities (RENAISSANCE)

Start date: Sep 15, 2008, End date: Sep 14, 2012,

RENAISSANCE aims to develop a valid, reliable and integrated package of access and mobility measures for historic cities. These will make possible the rediscovery, preservation and enhancement of historic cities in Europe, together with the sustainable development of the local economy, to the benefit of visitors, residents and local business alike. RENAISSANCE brings together a group of historic/t ...
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