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Pushing the Frontier of Brittlness Damage Resistant Glasses (DAMREG)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

"In order to improve the strength of a glass part (flat display, window, lens, fiber, etc.), most investigations so far were devoted to thermal and chemical surface treatments aimed at generating compressive stresses at the surface. The DAMREG project focuses on the incidence of the glass composition and atomic network structure on the mechanical properties, and specifically on the cracking and fr ...
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"Structure, strength and invasibility of aphid food webs" (APHIWEB)

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

"The project aims at characterizing and comparing food webs associated with aphids developing on 6 distinct ecosystems in native vs. invaded areas (continents). By considering food webs associated with pest insects and comparing food web structure & functioning on an international scale, we will broaden our understanding of processes underpinning food web functioning and herbivore population regul ...
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Heterogeneous and Distributed Services for the Future Computing Continuum (HEADS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Most things we rely on in our everyday life will contain sensors and electronic-based information and have enough computing power to run embedded software applications which connect to the Internet and clouds to get access to virtually unlimited resources. This future computing continuum, composed of a wide set of heterogeneous platforms, promises to be a fertile environment to engineer advanced s ...
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Role of genome merger and redundancy in plant evolution and adaptation (GENOMERGE)

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

"Genome merger has played a central role in the origin, evolution and diversification of eukaryotes with critical impact on species ecology and adaptation. The GENOMERGE project will explore the consequences of genome merger in two contexts that played a major role in angiosperm evolution: lateral gene transfer through endosymbiosis and allopolyploid speciation. While the merging of two lineages t ...
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Mechanism-Based Integrated Systems for the Prediction of Drug-Induced Liver Injury (MIP-DILI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The current test systems employed by Industry are poorly predictive for Drug induced liver injury (DILI). The ‘MIP-DILI’ project will address this situation by the development of innovative preclinical test systems which are both mechanism-based and of physiological, pharmacological and pathological relevance to DILI in humans. An iterative, tiered approach with respect to test compounds, test sys ...
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Beyond 2020 heterogeneous wireless network with millimeter wave small cell access and backhauling (MiWaveS)

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

Providing broadband wireless communications to a majority of European citizens is a major objective of the EC at the horizon of 2020. With a current annual growth rate in the range of 70%, the mobile data traffic of smartphones, tablets, machine-to-machine and other portable devices dramatically challenges the 4G wireless cellular network currently under deployment. To sustain this growth, high da ...
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Energy efficient Silicon transmittEr using heterogeneous integration of III-V QUantum dOt and quantum dash materIAls (SEQUOIA)

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

Silicon photonics is a powerful way to combine the assets of integrated photonics and CMOS technologies. The SEQUOIA project intends to make significant new advances in silicon photonic integrated circuits by heterogeneously integrating novel III-V materials, namely quantum dot and quantum dash-based materials on silicon wafers, through wafer bonding. Thanks to the superior properties of those inn ...
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Large scale elucidation of the biological functions of the Staphylococcal RNome in genetic hybrid systems (SarHyb)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Every year in the European Union, an estimated 25000 patients die because of a serious resistant bacterial infection acquired in hospital. The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is a main opportunistic pathogen responsible for food poisoning, skin infections and nosocomial infections. In the recent years, small ribonucleic acids (sRNAs) have attracted great interests as ubiquitous regulators. Some o ...
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Electronic Health Record systems for Clinical Research (EHR4CR)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Current medical needs, the growth of targeted therapies and personalized medicines, and escalating R&D costs result in formidable cost pressures on healthcare systems and the pharmaceutical industry. Clinical research is also growing in complexity, labour intensity and cost. There is a growing realization that the development and integration of Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) for medical ...
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Modeling TEL/AML1 childhood lymphoblastic leukemia in zebrafish (ALLRUN)

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

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common childhood malignancy and is diagnosed in about 5000 children in Europe every year. The most frequent B-type acute lymphoblastic leukemia, called TEL/AML1, is due to a chromosomal translocation that results in the fusion of two transcription factors, TEL with AML1 (also called RUNX1). Most treatments of TEL/AML1 acute lymphoblastic leukemia result in ...
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Role of the chromatin architecture in the regulation of gene transcription (CHROMATRANSCRIPT)

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

The complex architecture displayed by the chromatin inside the nucleus of eukaryotic cells plays an important role in several key cellular processes such as the regulation of gene expression, DNA replication and DNA repair. The dynamics of this chromatin architecture remains however poorly characterized. While at “steady state” the chromatin organization is thought to be relatively stable along th ...
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Stromal Cell- Immune Cell Interactions in Health and Disease (STROMA)

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

STROMA is an Initial Training Network promoting the study of stromal cell – immune system interactions during stroma development and function in health and disease. In STROMA we have bought together world leading experts from academia and industry in Europe to address the key scientific questions in this emerging field. STROMA will promote the training of three Experienced Researchers (ER) and s ...
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Statistical methods for 3D imaging mass spectrometry in proteomics and metabolomics (3D-MASSOMICS)

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

Since biology is by and large a 3-dimensional phenomenon, 3D imaging has a significant impact on many challenges in life sciences. 3D matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) is an emerging label-free 3D imaging technology with high potential in proteomics and metabolomics. 3D MALDI-IMS is based on 2D MALDI-IMS, which in the last years has proven its valu ...
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Eco Friendly Tuneable Microwave continuous Flow Reactor for the Synthesis of Lecucettamines in Therapeutic Activity Against Alzheimer's Disease (MICRO-THERAPY)

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

"The four-year MICRO-THERAPY is a fully integrated interdisciplinary proposal which will develop a new area of competence in the three partners, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Rennes1 and ManRos Therapeutics. It brings together a powerful set of partners covering fully the three key aspects - microwave engineering, chemistry and biology to create new technology and sustainable tec ...
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Hardware- and Network-Enhanced Software Systems for Cloud Computing (HARNESS)

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

The dominant approach in offering cloud services is based on homogeneous commodity resources: large numbers of inexpensive machines, interconnected by off-the-shelf networking equipment, supported by stock disk drives. This is consistent with the predominant business model for data centre cloud computing, which leverages homogeneous computation, communication, and storage to provide low-cost appli ...
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Secondary metabolites of Microcystis aeruginosa (Cyanobacteria): study of their production and role by a metabolomic approach (CYANOMIC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Cyanobacteria are a prolific source of diverse bioactive secondary metabolites. However, some of them are toxic and have a deleterious impact on human health and ecosystem sustainability. But others with potent biological activities have gathered considerable attention due to their potential therapeutic and agrochemical applications. Unfortunately, the biotic factors governing the production of th ...
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Paleomagnetic applications for dating and identifying Holocene climate variability in southwestern Europe and Azores Islands as recorded by lake sediments (PALEOCLAK)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

"Over the last years, a strong multidisciplinary effort is being done by several Spanish research groups in order to recover pristine sediment cores from lakes at different biogeographic provinces throughout the Iberian Peninsula and Azores Islands. The lacustrine sequences recovered constitute an irreplaceable record of past environmental and climatic changes. The paleomagnetic and environmental ...
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Self adaptive heterogeneous manycore based on Flexible Tiles (FlexTiles)

Start date: Oct 15, 2011, End date: Apr 14, 2015,

Description To develop an energy-efficient programmable heterogeneous manycore platform with self-adaptive capabilities that apply to cognitive radio, video processing, embedded devices and ambient computingA major challenge in computing is to leverage multi-core technology to develop energy-efficient high performance systems. This is cri ...
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Disentangling landscape and climate effects on insect communities to inform engineering solutions to enhance biological control in a changing climate (CLIMLAND)

Start date: Apr 8, 2013, End date: Apr 7, 2015,

"The impact of climate and landscape components on individuals, populations and communities is largely studied in isolation. In addition, interest in the role of landscape management in the control of agricultural pests is a developing research area. This proposal is an ambitious development of an innovative multi-disciplinary research aimed at understanding the effects of climate and landscape on ...
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Trans-European Research Training Network on Engineering and Provisioning of Service-Based Cloud Applications (RELATE)

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

Background and motivation:The combination of cloud computing, service-orientation, and on-demand application delivery is bringing about a paradigm shift in our ways of computer usage. As the software industry moves closer to service-based application engineering and cloud-based application delivery, the traditional models, methodologies, and technologies for developing and offering software applic ...
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Architecture oriented paraLlelization for high performance embedded Multicore systems using scilAb (ALMA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Description To develop a tool-chain, that will enable the efficient mapping of applications on multiprocessor platforms from high level of abstraction, with applications to wireless communication systems Not only traditional PCs but also novel chips in consumer electronics like PDA or mobile phone ...
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Channel Catchments Cluster (3C)

Start date: Apr 22, 2013, End date: Jan 29, 2015,

The aim of the 3C “Channel Catchments Cluster” is to gather, share and disseminate best practices and tools developed in the context of various Interreg IV A France (Channel) - England projects to make scientific recommendations for better water quality.
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Sculpting the Earth’s topography: insights from modelling deep–surface processes (TOPOMOD)

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

TOPOMOD is a training project designed for a team of early-stage and experienced researchers to investigate and model the origin and evolution of topography of the continents over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and using a multi-disciplinary approach, coupling geophysics, geochemistry, tectonics and structural geology with advanced geodynamic modeling.TOPOMOD involves 8 European resea ...
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Luminescent Hybrid Nanomaterial showing liquid crystalline properties (LH-NAN-LC)

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

In recent years the growing awareness of the merits to use renewable energies as well as the high oil prices have led to a new approach in the use of liquid crystal materials. One of their main applications is the LCD screens. In order to minimize the energy consumption of such devices, new arising technologies based on organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are now used in the design of flat low-p ...
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Innovative Synthesis in Continuous-Flow Processes for Sustainable Chemical Production (SYNFLOW)

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

The SYNFLOW vision is the paradigm shift from batch-wise large volume processes in pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals and intermediates production comprising many separate unit operations towards highly integrated but yet flexible catalytic continuous flow processing. For this purpose, SYNFLOW develops a unique integrative approach combining molecular understanding of synthesis and catalysis with eng ...
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Saliency-aware High-resolution Video Processing (SHIVPRO)

Start date: Aug 20, 2012, End date: Aug 19, 2014,

"The ever-increasing spatial/temporal resolution of video such as ultra high definition has raised new challenges on storage, transmission and display for business, home, and mobile video applications, and thus efficient representation, compression, and retargeting of high-resolution (HR) videos become the key issues for effective deployment of these applications. Saliency models can facilitate to ...
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Profiling the toxicity of new drugs: a non animal-based approach integrating toxicodynamics and biokinetics (Predict-IV)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The overall aim of Predict-IV is to develop strategies to improve the assessment of drug safety in the early stage of development and late discovery phase, by an intelligent combination of non animal-based test systems, cell biology, mechanistic toxicology and in-silico modelling, in a rapid and cost effective manner. A better prediction of the safety of an investigational compound in early develo ...
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Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators - Phase 2 (WHERE2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The availability of position information plays an increasing role in wireless communications networks already today and will be an integral part of future systems. They inherently can offer the ability for stand-alone positioning especially in situations where conventional satellite based positioning systems such as GPS fail (e.g., indoor). In this framework, positioning information is an importan ...
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TransForm: Theoretical Foundations of Transactional Memory (TransForm)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Major chip manufacturers have shifted their focus from trying to speed up individual processors into putting several processors on the same chip. They are now talking about potentially doubling efficiency on a 2x core, quadrupling on a 4x core and so forth. Yet multicore is useless without concurrent programming. The constructors are now calling for a new software revolution: the concurrency revol ...
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Pursuing ROadmaps and BEnchmarks for the Internet of Things (PROBE-IT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Many projects are currently undertaking research and development in order to gain results in the short and medium term, whilst others are focusing on long term strategies for IoT deployments and future research needs. In all cases, securing all research investment in particular in Europe with worldwide market accepted standards is vital. Unfortunately there is a vast amount of evidence based upon ...
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Building a biological knowledge-base on fish lifecycles for competitive, sustainable European aquaculture (LIFECYCLE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

LIFECYCLE (14 partners, 9 countries) will deliver a knowledge-base to improve competitiveness and sustainability of European aquaculture, through a combination of question-problem driven approaches. The focus will be on early developmental events, growth and environmental adaptation throughout the lifecyle, and on the physiology and immunology of key life-stage transitions, such as metamorphosis, ...
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Compact Otdm/wdm oPtical rEceiveRs based on photoNic crystal Integrated CircUitS (COPERNICUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

COPERNICUS aims to develop compact demultiplexing receivers for 100 Gb/s optical time division multiplexed (OTDM) and wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals, based on photonic crystal technology. There is a pressing need for these devices for ultra-high bandwidth data links in server farms, optical storage networks and on-board internet/entertainment systems, where demand is driving the dat ...
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ChemCatSusDe: Chemical Catalysis towards a Sustainable Development: Transformation of Bio-Resources and Atom-Efficient Reactions Catalyzed by Bio-Metals (ChemCatSusDe)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

ChemCatSusDe addresses some of the industrial and economical issues of our society: fossil fuel depletion, use of renewable resources derived from the biomass, environmentally friendly chemistry for a sustainable future. At its core lies the versatility of complexes of zinc, magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium (the so-called bio-metals): green catalysts able to perform both the polymerisation ...
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PlantPower - Living plants in microbial fuel cells for clean, renewable, sustainable, efficient, in-situ bioenergy production (PlantPower)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Living plants in microbial fuel cells might be used as future large-scale Europe wide green energy providers. Such a system can produce in-situ 24 hours per day green electricity or biohydrogen without harvesting the plants. That this might become true was indicated by our first small scale proof of principle experiments describing the so called Plant Microbial Fuel Cell (Plant-MFC) (Strik, 2008, ...
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OLEFIN METATHESIS AS A PRACTICAL SYNTHETIC TOOL (EUMET)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

Catalysis is a well-established area that is well known for shortening molecular assembly protocols. The beneficial overall environmental impact emerging from catalytic uses is also well understood. Making use of catalysis, we plan to develop a program focusing on a very important reaction in organic and homogeneous catalysis that has not yet reached its potential; Olefin Metathesis. The 2005 No ...
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Developmental effects of environment on reproductive health (DEER)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The multidisciplinary research teams in this consortium have played lead roles in establishing that fetal and childhood periods are vulnerable to environmental disruption leading to common reproductive disorders. This proposal will investigate: (1) connections between normal/abnormal perinatal reproductive development and maturation of reproductive function at puberty and in adulthood; (2) system ...
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Coordinating the Antenna Research in Europe (CARE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

The European antenna research received great benefits from the structuring efforts provided by the Network of Excellence ACE (2004-2007). The ACE NoE produced a long list of outstanding results, such as the Antenna Expert Groups (AEG), the European School of Antennas (ESoA), the European Conferences on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), the Antenna Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) and the Europea ...
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Reactive transport in subsurface flows. Imaging the flow organization and predicting solute motion, mixing and reactivity (ReactiveFlows)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

The scientific goal of the project is to develop methods for characterizing and predicting contaminant transport in aquifers. The sustainable management of groundwater has been a topic of greatest interest within the European strategy for improving the environment due to the growing risk of contamination of groundwater resources from a wide variety of stresses including point and diffuse sources o ...
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Towards a “Topography” of Tolerance and Equal Respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies (RESPECT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Tolerance has been increasingly invoked as the inspiring ideal of a number of social policies in European democracies. Appeals to tolerance have animated especially the political debates on those policies addressed to accommodate minorities’ requests. Among such requests those for the allocation of public spaces have recently acquired pride of place in the political agendas of many European and ex ...
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Stochastic recursions and limit theorems (SCHREC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"The project concerns investigations of stochastic recursions, related limit theorems and their applications in branching processes. Recently we have proved many properties of matrix recursions, when the Lyapunov exponent is negative, including precise description of the tail of the stationary measure and resulting limit theorems. We are going to develop further the methods we have used and apply ...
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