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"Membrane-active peptides across disciplines and continents: An integrated approach to find new strategies to fight bacteria, dengue virus and neurodegeneration." (MEMPEPACROSS)

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

...e. The project includes a strong component of Science communication and management. The expertises of two European institutions – Institute of Molecular Medicine (Lisbon, Portugal) and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) – and of three Brazilian institutions – the Federal Universities of Rio de Janeiro and Ceará, and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – will come together with common goals and a c ...
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Consumer Behavior and Market Equilibrium in Industrial Organization: Identification of Structural Parameters and Implications to Public Policy (consbehavior)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 21, 2012,

... competencies since it focuses on firm behavior and market equilibrium, whereas before I have concentrated on consumer responses. It is to be hosted by the Department of Economics and Business at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. The Department is an ideal host for the project given its top quality multidisciplinary research environment and its many international connections, which ...
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Statistical Inference and Malliavin Calculus (STATINF)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Jul 21, 2017,

...ddition to the three research projects, the proposal aims to develop a research network on Stochastic Analysis and applications, by organizing weekly seminars and two international conferences at the University Pompeu Fabra, where the researcher has been offered a permanent associate professor position.
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LEarning of Archaeology through Presence (LEAP)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Jul 14, 2016,

...experts and audiences through the experiencing of immersive, populated, interactive reconstructions of archaeological sites.Based at the Department of Humanities and the SPECS Lab of the Pompeu Fabra University, LEAP will firstly build a new theoretical and methodological framework. Secondly, it will design and implement different virtual reconstructions of the Bronze Age site of Cerro de la Encin ...
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B-reactable: multimodal tabletop system for collaborative physiology monitoring and training (B-reactable)

Start date: Feb 22, 2013, End date: Feb 21, 2015,

...hnology for collaborative physiology monitoring and training in future health and professional applications. This interdisciplinary research project is based on the joint pilot work with Prof. Jorda, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona in 2010-11. The project is designed to be a vehicle for the training and consolidation of the research outcomes for further exploitation in the EU. In the envisio ...
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REVIVOS - REVIVING SINGERS THROUGH VOICE SYNTHESIS (REVIVOS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

...d in singing voice synthesis. Cofounders are experts with more than 15 years of research and industrial experience. Founded in 2011, it is a spin-off of the Music Technology Group of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, a world-renowned research lab in sound and music computing.
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HEIRRI (Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation) (HEIRRI)

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

...f 5 European HEI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Universitetet I Bergen (UiB), Aarhus Universitet (AU), Institut Fuer Hoehere Studien und Wissenschaftliche Forschung (IHS), Sveuciliste u Splitu (University of Split, UNIST)), the European network of science centres and museums (AEESTI / Ecsite), Fundación Bancaria Caixa D'estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona La Caixa (FBLC), a network of universities ...
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The Global-Local Nexus of Armed Conflicts: The interlinkages between resource-fuelled armed conflicts and the EU’s raw materials supply (GLONEXACO)

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

The project GLONEXACO is coordinated by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), an inter-university institute of Barcelona’s public universities (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and will be conducted in collaboration with the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence (OCV) at Yale University. By merging methods of Economic Geogr ...
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Chromosomal rearrangements and diversification on environmental gradients (INVERTIDAL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

... modelling and existing ecological and behavioural information; aiming to provide a more complete view of adaptation and diversification when facing abrupt environmental changes. Prof. Butlin, at the University of Sheffield, will give me access to a leading research group in adaptation and speciation genomics and to a highly stimulating department in evolutionary biology; while during two secondme ...
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Linking European judges: between the Charter and the Convention

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...ce of protection of fundamental rights is an important phenomenon for national constitutionalism.This Jean Monnet Chair proposal aims at reformulating the official curriculum of the Faculty of Law of University Pompeu Fabra to include the teaching of the impact of the Charter and the ECHR on national constitutional law and promote a better understanding of this subject-matter by students. Thanks t ...
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Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

...s required to develop sports integrity. Semester 1 comprises advanced study of sports ethics, ethical theory, and sports policy, including anti doping, illegal gambling and match fixing at Swansea University. Semester 2 focuses on the experience of sport as a social practice in relation to athlete welfare, child protection and safegaurding, equality, integrity and fair play across able bodied an ...
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Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Governance

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

...ination activities on issues related to European Union (EU) governance, EU policy-making and EU public policies. This will help to not only create a powerful learning environment on EU studies at the University of Pompeu Fabra, but will also foster and raise the profile of the learning and research contexts related to EU issues. Furthermore, it will redesign the EU subjects to enhance students wit ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

...research, and cultural and social activities. One of the main objectives of the Campus Carlos III Project presented for the Campus of International Excellence (ICE) is the internationalization of the University. UC3M has already made progress in achieving this goal through several different programs. 1- UC3M is one of the most active Spanish universities in relation to international research col ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), created in 1990, has always had a strong international outlook that has led it to establish links and set up international projects with the best universities in the world. Through an extensive and selective network of exchange agreements, mobility programmes enrich the campus with international students and at the same time allow more than 30% of its graduates to in ...
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SIMVASTATIN AND RIFAXIMIN AS NEW THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH DECOMPENSATED CIRRHOSIS (LIVERHOPE)

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

Liver cirrhosis is a very common chronic disease and one of the leading causes of death in European. Moreover, cirrhosis has a marked impact in patients quality of life and represents a major burden for health systems. Treatment of cirrhosis is currently based on symptomatic management of complications and has not changed substantially in the last 20 years. There is an unmet need for therapies tha ...
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An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Program Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st Century (EU-ToxRisk)

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

The vision of EU-ToxRisk is to drive a paradigm shift in toxicology towards an animal-free, mechanism-based integrated approach to chemical safety assessment. The project will unite all relevant disciplines and stakeholders to establish: i) pragmatic, solid read-across procedures incorporating mechanistic and toxicokinetic knowledge; and ii) ab initio hazard and risk assessment strategies of chemi ...
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The Sign Hub: preserving, researching and fostering the linguistic, historical and cultural heritage of European Deaf signing communities with an integral resource (SIGN-HUB)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

SIGN-HUB aims to provide the first comprehensive response to the societal and scientific challenge resulting from generalized neglect of the cultural and linguistic identity of signing Deaf communities in Europe. It will provide an innovative and inclusive resource hub for the linguistic, historical and cultural documentation of the Deaf communities' heritage and for sign language assessment in cl ...
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Role of European Mobility and its Impacts in Narratives, Debates and EU Reforms (REMINDER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The overarching goal of the project is to understand the economic, social, institutional and policy factors that have shaped the impacts of free movement and public debates about it. It aims to help European policymakers develop policy responses that inspire public trust, ensure the fairness and sustainability of free movement, and maintain inclusive policies that reduce inequalities across the co ...
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A Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine (CompBioMed)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

This Centre of Excellence will advance the role of computationally based modelling and simulation within biomedicine. Three related user communities lie at the heart of the CoE: academic, industrial and clinical researchers who all wish to build, develop and extend such capabilities in line with the increasing power of high performance computers. Three distinct exemplar research areas will be purs ...
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ELIXIR-EXCELERATE: Fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early user exploitation across the life-sciences. (ELIXIR-EXCELERATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The life sciences are undergoing a transformation. Modern experimental tools study the molecules, reactions, and organisation of life in unprecedented detail. The precipitous drop in costs for high-throughput biology has enabled European research laboratories to produce an ever-increasing amount of data. Life scientists are rapidly generating the most complex and heterogeneous datasets that scienc ...
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Retrieval and Analysis of Heterogeneous Online Content for Terrorist Activity Recognition (TENSOR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) across Europe face today important challenges in how they identify, gather and interpret terrorist generated content online. The Dark Web presents additional challenges due to its inaccessibility and the fact that undetected material can contribute to the advancement of terrorist violence and radicalisation. LEAs also face the challenge of extracting and summarising ...
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Labor Market Risk and Skill Diversity: Implications for Efficiency, Policy, and Estimation (RISK AND DIVERSITY)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Labor market risk and skill diversity are central features of the labor market. Arguably, employment risk is one of the biggest sources of uncertainty most individuals face in their life time. Likewise, exploiting the synergies and complementarities between differentially skilled workers is amongst the greatest challenges to firms' hiring decisions. The objective is to analyze the efficiency prope ...
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Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (ATHEME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"The project Advancing The European Multilingual Experience (AThEME) takes an integrated approach towards the study of multilingualism in Europe by incorporating and combining linguistic, cognitive and sociological perspectives; by studying multilingualism in Europe at three different levels of societal magnitude, viz. the individual multilingual citizen, the multilingual group, and the multilingu ...
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Audio Commons: An Ecosystem for Creative Reuse of Audio Content (AudioCommons)

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

The democratisation of multimedia content creation has changed the way in which multimedia content is created, shared and (re)used all over the world, yielding significant amounts of user-generated multimedia resources, big part shared under open licenses. At the same time, creative industries need to reduce production costs in order to remain competitive. There is, therefore, an opportunity for c ...
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DiasporaLink

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

...xchange of staff is built around research in common WP’s and around regular and touring workshops both internal and external. The objective is to create a global, extended university network with the mission to monitor the entrepreneurship in migration corridors, define obstacles and support the corridor stakeholders with information and tuition. Essential is close contacts with diaspora entrepren ...
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Innovative peptides against cancer and pathogenic bacteria, with advances in science, biopharmaceutical drug development, product market targeting, training , and communication. (INPACT)

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

...a, Spain), a consolidated media partner specialised in science communication (Ciencia Hoje, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and experts in international science funding from one of the top US universities (University of Stanford). The consortium will be the perfect environment for young researchers to acquire knowledge and skills in science, technology, entrepreneurship, business, and communication so the ...
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Neuropathic pain: biomarkers and druggable targets within the endogenous analgesia system (NEUROPAIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Neuropathic pain has a high incidence in Europe and often affects the patient’s emotional balance and quality of life. Recent meta-analyses have shown that conventional analgesic drugs are not sufficiently effective in these patients and are limited by serious side effects. The search for new analgesics is extremely difficult despite identification of several new potential targets and enormous inv ...
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Intelligent Assessment of Pharmaceutical in the Environment (IPIE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can be released to the natural environment during the manufacturing process, following use by patients or when unused medicines are disposed of. As APIs are biologically active compounds concerns have been raised about the potential effects of APIs in the environment on human and environmental health. Over the past 15 years, a substantial amount of work has ...
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Socialising Sensori-Motor Contingencies (socSMCs)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

As robots become more omnipresent in our society, we are facing the challenge of making them more socially competent. However, in order to safely and meaningfully cooperate with humans, robots must be able to interact in ways that humans find intuitive and understandable. Addressing this challenge, we propose a novel approach for understanding and modelling social behaviour and implementing social ...
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Complex Oscillatory Systems: Modeling and Analysis (COSMOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Many natural and artificial systems are often composed of oscillatory elements which, besides evolving according to their own non-trivial internal dynamics, mutually interact. As a result, many temporal and spatial scales are typically present, often accompanied by the spontaneous emergence of collective properties. Altogether, such features make the task of understanding the resulting evolution a ...
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ChangeMakers | Nurturing the design thinking mindset of children through gaming

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

In the Future of Learning, published by the EU, the authors highlighted three key concepts that should guide learning in the future: personalisation, collaboration and informalisation. And despite the terms are not new, the urgency of placing them at the centre of the learning design and facilitation still lacks priority and action.As the OECD reported in 2015 (Schooling Redesigned: Towards Innova ...
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History of Nuclear Energy and Society (HoNESt)

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

HoNESt (History of Nuclear Energy and Society) involves an interdisciplinary team with many experienced researchers and 24 high profile research institutions.HoNESt’s goal is to conduct a three-year interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of nuclear developments and its relationship to contemporary society with the aim of improving the understanding of the dynamics over the last 60 years. HoN ...
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Creating medically-driven integrative bioinformatics applications focused on oncology, CNS disorders and their comorbidities (MedBioinformatics) (MedBioinformatics)

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

Progress in biomedical research and healthcare requires profiting from the huge amount of data and knowledge that are generated. However, most of the potential users have no means to efficiently exploit this wealth of information. Up to now, many of the efforts done for developing bioinformatics methods and applications have not produced the expected societal impact for different reasons, includin ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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Exploiting transmedia skills and informal learning strategies to improve formal education (TRANSLITERACY)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The aims of the TRANSLITERACY project are to understand how teenagers are learning outside the school and to introduce those experiences into it. The ethnographic identification and analysis of the (trans)media skills will be at the centre of the research program. Once identified the informal learning strategies applied by young people outside the formal institutions, the team will translate them ...
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Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship: Family Values and Youth Unemployment in Europe (CUPESSE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The multi-disciplinary CUPESSE project carries out a comparative analysis of both the demand and supply side of youth unemployment in eleven Member States of the EU and Associated Countries (i.e. Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom). These ten countries represent the main empirical scope of the project, but whenever ...
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Developing an European American NGS Network (DEANN)

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

The DEANN project is a network formation initiative that involves six research institutions and universities from four EU countries and equivalently, six research entities from four Latin American countries. The overall goal is to strengthen research partnership among the participants by developing a shared scientific knowhow in the field of Next Generation Sequencing data analysis. More specific ...
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European Medical Information Framework (EMIF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

In response to the need to tackle increasingly complex medical research questions, a growing amount of human health data is being collected, either in routine Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) databases, through research-driven cohort studies, in biobanks or related efforts. However, data sources are typically fragmented and contain information gaps which prevent their full exploitation. EMIF aim ...
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