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Frequency-to-current conversion with coherent Josephson crystals (FREQUJOC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

This project aims at exploring the coherence of Josephson crystals (JC) and to apply this coherence for frequency-to-current conversion. A Josephson crystal can be realized by a Josephson junction chain, formed by repeating a single junction or SQUID in space to form a one-dimensional ladder structure. Such a crystal can show a macroscopic coherent behavior due to the coherent superposition of qua ...
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Critical State Soil Mechanics Revisited: Fabric Effects (SOMEF)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The theory of Critical State Soil Mechanics (CSSM) has become a paradigm within the framework of which elastoplastic soil constitutive models have been developed for the last 50 years. The present project will constructively challenge this paradigm from a missing fundamental perspective, namely the effect of soil fabric on the premises of CSSM.The current CSSM postulates that at critical state the ...
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Driven Glasses: from statistical physics to materials properties (GLASSDEF)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Amorphous systems form a large fraction of the solid materials that surround us, from polymer glasses to mineral or metallic glasses, from toothpaste (a colloidal paste) to granular materials. Still, a theoretical framework for describing the mechanical properties of such materials, comparable to the dislocation theory that describes crystalline systems, is still missing. Our understanding of prom ...
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Investigating Tectonism-Erosion-Climate-Couplings (ITECC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Tectonics and climate are interdependent. The tectonics of orogens are moderated by climate through erosion. Exposure of rock by tectonics or erosion is critical to the feedback which governs changes in global climate, whilst topography influences rainfall. The principle objective of iTECC is to use the Himalaya as a natural laboratory to train young scientists in understanding such coupled proces ...
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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser ...
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Scalable ProactivE Event-Driven Decision making (SPEEDD)

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

SPEEDD (Scalable ProactivE Event-Driven Decision making) will develop a system for proactive event-based decision-making: decisions will be triggered by forecasting events -whether they correspond to problems or opportunities- instead of reacting to them once they happen. The decisions and actions will be real-time, in the sense that they will be taken under tight time constraints, and require on- ...
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Flow in Transforming Porous Media (FlowTrans)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The FlowTrans Initial Training Network is a unique environment for career development, built on joint challenges of Industry and University partners in a newly emerging supra-disciplinary field, spanning from Physics to Earth Sciences and aiming to understand Flow in Transforming Porous Media. Training will be hosted by 8 Universities in synergy with 2 full and 4 associated industry partners with ...
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Evolution of Evolution (EvoEvo)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Evolution is the major source of complexity on Earth, at the origin of all the species we can observe, interact with or breed. On a smaller scale, evolution is at the heart of the adaptation process for many species, in particular micro-organisms (e.g. bacteria, viruses...). Microbial evolution results in the emergence of the species itself, and it also contributes to the organisms' adaptation to ...
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Compound Semiconductors for 3D integration (COMPOSE3)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

COMPOSE3 aims to develop 3D stacked circuits in the front end of line of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology, based on high mobility channel materials. The final objective is a 3D stacked SRAM cell, designed with gates length taken from the 14nm technology node. This technology will provide a new paradigm shift in density scaling combined with a dramatic increase in the power ...
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Mont-Blanc 2, European scalable and power efficient HPC platform based on\nlow-power embedded technology (Mont-Blanc 2)

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

The Mont-Blanc project aims to develop a European Exascale approach leveraging on commodity power-efficient embedded technologies. The project has developed a HPC system software stack on ARM, and will deploy the first integrated ARM-based HPC prototype by 2014, and is also working on a set of 11 scientific applications to be ported and tuned to the prototype system.The rapid progress of Mont-Blan ...
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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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Harmonized approach to stress tests for critical infrastructures against natural hazards (STREST)

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

Critical Infrastructures (CIs) provide essential goods and services for modern society; they are highly integrated and have growing mutual dependencies. Recent natural events have shown that cascading failures of CIs have the potential for multi-infrastructure collapse and widespread societal and economic consequences.Moving toward a safer and more resilient society requires improved and standardi ...
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Architecture for Multi-criticality Agile Dependable Evolutionary Open System-of-Systems (AMADEOS)

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

Description The objective of this research proposal is to bring time awareness and evolution into the design of System-of-Systems (SoS), to establish a sound conceptual model, a generic architectural framework and a design methodology including tools for prototyping, for the modeling, development and evolution of time-sensitive SoSes with po ...
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Information, Fluctuations, and Energy Control in Small Systems (INFERNOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Strong statistical fluctuations in meso- and nano-scale structures make their thermodynamic properties extremely dependent on the information available about them. The most basic process illustrating the importance of information to statistical systems is the information-to-energy conversion in the famous Maxwell's Demon (MD). Our primary goal is to study both experimentally and theoretically the ...
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Distributed MILS for Dependable Information and Communication Infrastructures (D-MILS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Modern critical systems bear great responsibilities and face escalating challenges. Distributed systems for critical applications are costly and time-consuming to develop and to certify. Since there is little automated support for early assurance that a system faithfully implements its architectural design and satisfies its requirements, qualification testing and certification processes often reve ...
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Efficient Tumor Targeting and Therapy Using Near-Infrared Nanoparticles (NanoPDT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a clinically approved cancer treatment relying on the use of a photosensitizer, i.e., a fluorescent molecule producing cytotoxic species upon irradiation with light. PDT also provides the ability to image and locally treat diseased tissues without ionizing radiations, thus sparing healthy tissue. Yet, only five photosensitizers are now approved for clinical applicatio ...
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Towards continuous monitoring of the continuously changing Earth (Whisper)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

This project is focused on the use of the seismic ambient noise to monitor slight changes of properties in the solid Earth. Processing of noise records allow s to mimic a situation in which a perfectly repeatable source is activated at the location of a passive recorder. The implication is the detection of changes of strain at depth with applications in different contexts. A major field of applic ...
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AnThocyanin and polyphenol bioactives for Health Enhancement through Nutritional Advancement (ATHENA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Anthocyanins are health promoting dietary polyphenols that protect against cardiovascular disease, caner and obesity in preclinical studies with animals. The ATHENA project will address how good dietary anthocyanins are in protecting against chronic disease, by addressing the following questions: • Benefits and risks: What is the dose response to anthocyanin phytonutrients? Are anthocyanins from d ...
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Quantum Nano-Electronics Training (Q-NET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Q-NET will provide initial training in the general field of Quantum Nano-Electronics, in particular spintronics, molecular electronics, single-electronics, quantum dots and nanowires, nano-cooling. The recruited researchers will be trained to state-of-the-art technologies of nanofabrication, near-field microscopies, transport measurement under extreme conditions (low temperatures, magnetic field, ...
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Cyber-Physical European Roadmap and Strategy (CyPhERS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The ongoing integration of software-intensive embedded systems and global communication networks into Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is considered to be the next revolution in ICT with a lot of game-changing business potential and novel business models for integrated services and products. CPS will be a core enabling technology for securing economic leadership in embedded systems/ICT, having an enor ...
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A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (BioASQ)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

BioASQ will push for a solution to the information access problem of biomedical experts by setting up a challenge on biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA). Biomedical knowledge is dispersed in hundreds of heterogeneous knowledge sources and databases; many of them are connected on the Linked Open Data cloud. Biomedical experts, on the other hand, are in constant need of highly s ...
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Ice Dynamic Investigations with Seismological Components (IceDISC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Glacier ice mass loss presently contributes 1.8 mm per year to global sea level rise. The cause of this loss can be divided into two primary categories: negative surface mass balance and increases in ice discharge into the ocean. The latter is also known as dynamic mass loss. Predicting global sea level changes is primarily limited by gaps in our understanding of glacier sliding and iceberg calvin ...
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Development of a novel tandem ring closing metathesis process as a general route to the first syntheses of various lycorine type alkaloids (metalk)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide and therefore a continued need exists for new drugs with new modes of action. To date, over 60% of drugs employed to target cancer are natural product derived or inspired and this places significant importance on research into the total synthesis of natural products. It also supports the need for the “next generation” of researchers to receive trainin ...
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Interferometry in the near-infrared: a very high angular resolution insight into the accretion/ejection process in young stars (accretion/ejection)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

A crucial problem in star formation is to understand the physical mechanism by which mass is ejected by young stars and collimated into stellar jets and the nature of the link with the accretion process. The interaction of outflowing material with the parental cloud is observable on scales from hundreds of astronomical units (AU) up to parsec scales and is relatively well understood. Conversely, b ...
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Solid State Systems for Quantum Information Processing (SOLID)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The SOLID concept is to develop small solid-state hybrid systems capable of performing elementary processing and communication of quantum information. This involves design, fabrication and investigation of combinations of qubits, oscillators, cavities, and transmission lines, creating hybrid devices interfacing different types of qubits for quantum data storage, qubit interconversion, and communic ...
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