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Belgian Researchers Animating Sport and Innovation Links (BRASIL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

...echnology International vzw) which will hold its activities in Mechelen (Technopolis) and a private body, Créaction (the activities will be held at the EuroSpaceCenter in Redu-Transinne). The ‘Vrije Universiteit Brussel’ will cooperate with the ‘Erasmushogeschool’. Ghent University and ‘Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen’ will cooperate with their association partners ‘Hogeschool Gent’ and ‘Arteveldehoges ...
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Promoting Active Ageing: Developing Age-Friendly Cities (AGE-FRIENDLY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

...tist working at the University of Manchester, UK (Prof. Chris Phillipson) and an ambitious post-doctoral researcher currently based in Belgium (Dr. Tine Buffel). The research fellow, Dr. Tine Buffel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), is one of Belgium’s most accomplished young researchers in the field of ageing. The host, Prof. Chris Phillipson has been a key figure in the development of social geronto ...
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Vietnamese-European Knowledge and Technology Transfer Education Consortium

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

...esearchers, policy makers and entrepreneurs…)- Lay the foundations for a Vietnamese KTT Network - Develop innovative course materials on Vietnamese KTT The VETEC Consortium consists of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Lead, BE), Universidad de Aveiro (PT), TU Dresden (DE), Hanoi University of Sciences and Technology (VN), Hué University (VN) and Can Tho University (VN) as well as a 6 Associated Partner ...
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Flood Risks Management and Resilience in Europe

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

...nburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany), (ii) Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain), (iii) Newcastle University (UK), (iv) Polytechnic University of Warsaw (Poland) and (v) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). HydroEurope is dedicated to the development of unique pedagogic resources focus ed on flood management strategies and dedicated to MSc students from the partner u ...
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MSc Digital Communication Leadership

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

...f two communication departments and one engineering department from three universities located in three different countries of the European Union: Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS, Austria), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Belgium), and Aalborg University (AAU, Denmark). Teaching in the master programme is delivered following the Problem Based Learning (PBL) method; hence, students do no ...
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Mehrsprachiges Lesetheater zur Förderung von Lesemotivation und Leseflüssigkeit

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

...rtners of the EU project include several institutions that focus on teacher education and training. These are the Universities of Education in Weingarten (DE), St. Gallen (CH) and Vorarlberg (A), the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE), the Ministry of Education, SCRIPT, in Luxembourg, and four partner schools with grade 6-8 classes. At the core of the project is the didactic-methodological design for ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

...Agency on 6th June 2014). Flanders Knowledge Area vzw is consortium coordinator. The consortium members are: all Flemish higher education institutions, with the exception of Hogere Zeevaartschool and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 2016, Vrije Universiteit Brussel joins as member. Setting up the consortium is a logic continuation of the TOI-Reconfirm-project (www.reconfirm.eu). The project objectiv ...
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CARIBU-Cooperation with ACP countries in Regional and International Bridging of Universities

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

The CARIBU consortium consist of 8 EU and 12 non EU HEIs partners of which the general management is shared between the coordinator Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the joint coordinator Jimma University (JU) in Ethiopia. The composition of this consortium takes into account the geographical distribution, teaching languages, study fields, experience as well as types of university (public, priv ...
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EMII A2 S1L3B EMECW Lot 3

Start date: Oct 18, 2010,

Lot 3b is a partnership of 16 European and Palestinian universities, led by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Its aim is to stimulate academic mobility at ali levels and both ways, but especially at PhD level since the project will support the Palestinian universities in setting up doctoral programmes. VUB and most of the European partners have extensive experience in academic cooperation with ...
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L03 - South Med. - oPt/Israël

Start date: Jul 15, 2009,

Lot3.emecw.com is a partnership of 20 European, Israeli and Palestinian institutions for higher education, led by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Its aim is to stimulate academic mobility at all levels (undergraduate, master, doctoral, postdoctoral and academic staff) from Israel and Palestine to Europe and vice versa.VUB and its European partners have extensive experience in academic cooperati ...
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Increase of EU's economic potential in relations with China

...of four partners: Akademickie Centrum Informacji i Edukacji Europejskiej (hereinafter referred to as: ACIEE), Uniwersytet Warszawski (hereinafter referred to as: Warsaw University), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (hereinafter referred to as: VUB) and University of Chester. All of them are prestigious institutions providing educational services at the highest, international level. They are all experi ...
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Seniors Network Support (SeNS)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

... tissue.SeNS has developed the so called Page model, a 6-step process with instruments to develop support networks for senior citizens. The authors are Prof. Dominique Verté and Sarah Dury, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. This transnational model is helping project partners create and support sustainable networks on the ground. SeNS partners support more than 50 senior-related networks involv ...
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Evaluating a Combination of Immune-based Therapies to Achieve a Functional Cure of HIV Infection (HIVACAR)

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

The main goal of HIVACAR proposal is to change the current paradigm of HIV treatment by obtaining a functional cure for HIV (i.e., control of viral load to levels below the threshold of 50 copies/ml and maintenance of high CD4+ T-cell count after discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy) thanks to effectively targeting residual virus replication and viral reservoirs. In order to do so, the planne ...
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Arranging the Particles: Step Changing Chemical Measurement Technology (PrintPack)

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

The progress in liquid chromatography (LC), basically following Moore’s law over the last decade, will soon come to a halt. LC is the current state-of-the-art chemical separation method to measure the composition of complex mixtures. Driven by the ever growing complexity of the samples in e.g., environmental and biomedical research, LC is constantly pushed to higher efficiencies. Using highly opti ...
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Neogenesis of new functional Beta Cells through Modulation of Neurogenin-3 Expression to provide Regenerative Therapy for Diabetes Patients (Neobetacell)

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

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by elevated blood sugar levels with increased risk of cardiovascular complications. The currently available therapy for type 1 diabetes (TIDM) consists of daily injections of exogenous insulin in order to delay disease progression. However, these treatments do not provide a real cure since long-term secondary complications cannot be a ...
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Exploiting vortices to suppress dispersion and reach new separation power boundaries (EVODIS)

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

The 21st century is expected to develop towards a society depending ever and ever more on (bio-)chemical measurements of fluids and matrices that are so complex they are well beyond the current analytical capabilities. Incremental improvements can no longer satisfy the current needs of e.g. the proteomics field, requiring the separation of tens of thousands of components. The pace of progress in t ...
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Quantum Information Access and Retrieval Theory (QUARTZ)

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

Quantum Information Access and Retrieval TheoryWe aim to establish an European Training Network (ETN) on QUantum information Access and Retrieval Theory (QUARTZ). Towards a new approach to Information Access and Retrieval (IAR) addressing the challenges of the dynamic and multimodal nature of the data and user interaction context, QUARTZ aims to educate its Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to adopt ...
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Future Research, Advanced Development and Implementation Activities for Road Transport (FUTURE-RADAR)

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

The FUTURE-RADAR project will support the European Technology Platform ERTRAC (the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council) and the European Green Vehicle Initiative PPP to create and implement the needed research and innovation strategies for a sustainable and competitive European road transport system. Linking all relevant stakeholders FUTURE-RADAR will provide the consensus-based plan ...
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European HIV Vaccine Alliance (EHVA): a EU platform for the discovery and evaluation of novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine candidates (EHVA)

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

Many HIV vaccine concepts and several efficacy trials have been conducted in the prophylactic and therapeutic fields with limited success. There is an urgent need to develop better vaccines and tools predictive of immunogenicity and of correlates of protection at early stage of vaccine development to mitigate the risks of failure. To address these complex and challenging scientific issues, the Eur ...
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The CYBERnetic LowEr-Limb CoGnitive Ortho-prosthesis Plus Plus (CYBERLEGs Plus Plus)

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

The global goal of the CYBERLEGs Plus Plus project is to validate the technical and economic viability of the powered robotic ortho-prosthesis developed within the framework of the FP7-ICT-CYBERLEGs project as a means to enhance/restore the mobility of transfemoral amputees and to enable them to perform locomotion tasks such as ground-level walking, walking up and down slopes, climbing/descending ...
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Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Spaces (ODYCCEUS)

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

Social media and the digitization of news and discussion fora are having far-reaching effects on the way individuals and communities communicate, organize, and express themselves. Can the information circulating on these platforms be tapped to better understand and analyze the enormous problems facing our contemporary society? Could this help us to better monitor the growing number of social crise ...
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Optimised Real-world Cost-Competitive Modular Hybrid Architecture for Heavy Duty Vehicles (ORCA)

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

The ORCA Project proposal addresses topic GV-03-2016, of the Transport Work Programme. The work proposed will, in a single coordinated project, address all the aspects of the domain 2 “For pure and plug-in hybrids, power-train system integration and optimisation through the re-use of waste heat, advanced control, downsizing of ICEs, innovative transmissions and the integration of electronic compon ...
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Fibre Nervous Sensing Systems (FINESSE)

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

The unprecedented properties of optical fibres make them ideal to be implemented as 'artificial nervous systems', enabling any tool or structure to become a sensitive and smart object. Conventional optical fibres are small, low-cost and can be seamlessly integrated in materials, in engineering structures and in the environment. By exploiting the most advanced light-matter interactions, these tiny ...
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Beta Cell Generation by Stem Cell-Derived Implants in Diabetes (BetaCellTherapy)

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

Despite improved treatment, diabetes remains a chronic disease with major health risks and heavy burden on patients and society. Serious forms are caused by depletion in pancreatic beta cells and associated loss in insulin’s homeostatic control throughout life. Their cure requires restoration of a metabolically adequate beta cell mass. Implants of beta cell grafts prepared from human pancreases ha ...
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PET Imaging in Drug Design and Development (PET3D)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

The drug development strategy currently pursued by the pharmaceutical industry worldwide is inefficient and unsustainable for the health care system. To keep the latter affordable, drug development should become more efficient and drug treatment should become more “personalized” and “rationalized”. Molecular imaging can play a pivotal role in changing the landscape of drug design/development and i ...
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Searching for The Origin of Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos with LOFAR (LOFAR)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

The origin of cosmic rays remains one of the largest mysteries in astrophysics. Innovative and accurate radio measurements of cosmic rays and neutrinos with LOFAR promise to provide new answers.It is generally believed that ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are produced in extragalactic sources like gamma- ray bursts or active galactic nuclei, while the lower energy cosmic rays come from our own Galax ...
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Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (INDUCT) (INDUCT)

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

Dementia raises complex challenges for people with dementia, their families, and society. The European Parliament has called for investment in high quality, innovative technology research to improve dementia care but so far there has been little benefit because research has generally been limited, small scale and methodologically flawed. In particular: the poor understanding between research and b ...
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Connecting Science with Society (EU-PolarNet)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The rapid changes occurring in the Polar Regions are significantly influencing global climate with consequences for global society. European polar research has contributed critical knowledge to identifying the processes behind these rapid changes but, in contrast to lower latitudes, datasets from the Polar Regions are still insufficient to fully understand and more effectively predict the effects ...
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Enhanced brown adipose tissue activity using nanotechnology approaches (nanoBAT)

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

The use of nanotechnology and nano-materials in biological applications is being widely explored and is considered a valuable approach to ameliorate human wellbeing. Specifically, nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes are of great scientific interest as they are currently used clinically as delivery systems for a wide range of drugs. An interdisciplinary approach that considers knowledge in chemistry ...
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Production of fully synthetic paraffinic jet fuel from wood and other biomass (BFSJ)

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

"Swedish Biofuels AB, as the co-ordinator of a broad ranging international consortium, proposes the construction of a pre-commerical demonstration plant for the production of fully synthetic paraffinic jet fuel from wood and other biomass. The consortium is to design, construct, commission and operate the plant, which will take a variety of raw materials and produce jet fuel that is compatible, wi ...
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New Geometry of Quantum Dynamics (QUANTUM DYNAMICS)

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

The Project aims to make significant advances to the field of noncommutative geometry by developing new methods through substantial interaction within sub-fields of noncommutative geometry and two other areas of pure mathematics. The main focus will be to determine the topological non-triviality of new types of quantum fibrations. Also, we aim to construct quantum metric geometries of crossed prod ...
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Spinal Exoskeletal Robot for Low Back Pain Prevention and Vocational Reintegration (SPEXOR)

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

Low-back pain is the leading cause of worker absenteeism after the common cold, accounting for 15% of sick leaves and hundreds of millions of lost work days annually [Walking 2.0, Nature, 2015].Most of today's robotic assistive devices are in forms of exoskeletons that augment the motion of legs and arms and neglect the role of spinal column in transferring load from the upper body and arms to the ...
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Development of an innovative gene therapy platform to cure rare hereditary muscle disorders (MYOCURE)

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

The objective of MYOCURE is to develop an innovative gene therapy platform to cure rare hereditary muscle disorders, specifically focusing on myotubular myopathy (MTM) and glycogen storage disorder (GSD) type II. These are attractive diseases for gene therapy since they compromise a diverse family of rare genetic diseases typically caused by single gene defects that often provoke significant morbi ...
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Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Network for Safety, Efficacy, Treatment and Quality improvement of care (PIBD-SETQuality)

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

"The incidence of paediatric onset Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (PIBD) has risen dramatically in recent decades. Compared to adult forms, PIBD reflects a more severe disease, more often requiring aggressive treatment with immunomodulators, and thereby exposing children to a life-long risk of serious disease and treatment-related adverse events, such as infections and malignancies. Therefore, there ...
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Conquering New Frontiers in Conceptual Density Functional Theory: Going Beyond the Single Slater Determinant. (High level CDFT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Although it is much newer than orbital-based approaches, conceptual density functional theory (CDFT) has established itself as an important tool for understanding the properties and chemical reactivity of molecules and materials. Until now, CDFT has been mainly applied using single Slater determinant (single-reference) quantum chemistry methods, chiefly Kohn-Sham density functional theory. In cont ...
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COP21: Results and Implications for Pathways and Policies for Low Emissions European Societies (COP21 RIPPLES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

The COP21 outcome represents an important new strategic context for EU climate policy. Analysing the implications of this new context requires an interdisciplinary approach, combining analysis of the evolution of the international climate regime as well as of NDCs and their socio-economic implications. Such analysis is also urgent, given the timelines imposed by the Paris Agreement for a “facilita ...
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Introducing modules on law and rights in programmes of teacher training and educational sciences: a contribution to building rights-based education systems in countries in transition

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

ELA starts from the idea of inclusive education and equity of access and equality of educational opportunity. Teacher training in countries in transition do not equip their students with knowledge about law. ELA’s underlining assumption is that enhancing equality in education requires a collaboration between educators and lawyers to promote rights based teaching, learning, school leadership and go ...
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Apprentissage Hybride Mutualisé et Ouvert dans les Universités Marocaines

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

The project MarMOOC, entitled «apprentissage hybride mutualisé et ouvert dans les universités Marocaines» (Shared blended and open learning for Moroccan universities), aims to support a thoughtful integration and wide distribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as an efficient teaching support for Moroccan universities. In order to reduce the impact of massification of higher ...
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