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Bottom up Processes - Aiming at Sustainable Development in Rural Areas (Bottom up Processes)

Start date: Dec 31, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

Bottom Rules is a project that foremost aims to enable local level organisations to collect knowledge and experience of development and economic growth in rural areas through a transnational exchange of experience. The Bottom Rules project will, through close collaboration with another Northern Periphery project DESERVE, operate a mutual exchange of knowledge and experience where both the projects ...
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Systems Chemistry from Bottom Up: Switching, Gating and Oscillations in Non Enzymatic Peptide Networks (BOTTOM-UP_SYSCHEM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The study of synthetic molecular networks is of fundamental importance for understanding the organizational principles of biological systems and may well be the key to unraveling the origins of life. In addition, such systems may be useful for parallel synthesis of molecules, implementation of catalysis via multi-step pathways, and as media for various applications in nano-medicine and nano-electr ...
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Bottom-up reconstitution of a biomimetic bioartificial liver (RE-LIVER)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

The liver, by way of its central role in both endogenous and exogenous metabolism, is one of the most well-studied organs in the human body.Hepatic tissue and its derivatives have a wide range of in-vivo and in-vitro applications from whole organ or partial lobe transplant, bioartificial ex-vivo devices, treatment of metabolic disorders to toxicology, drug metabolism and tissue regeneration. On th ...
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Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe (BASE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Climate change can disrupt ecological, social and economic systems, with some regions and sectors suffering significantly. Therefore, adaptation plays a paramount role in responding to climate change. Progress has been made, but there are still important obstacles. Knowledge of the benefits and costs of adaptation is sparse, unsystematic and unevenly distributed across sectors and countries. Plan ...
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From Fermi to Planck : a bottom up approach (NuBSM)

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

The Standard Model of particle physics is a hugely successful theory that has been tested in experiments at ever increasing energies, culminating in the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Nevertheless, some major riddles cannot be addressed by the Standard Model, such as neutrino oscillations, the existence of Dark Matter, the absence of antimatter in the Universe. New fundamental principles, in ...
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"Bottom Up selection, collection and management of URBAn waste" (BURBA)

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

"The aim of the BURBA project is to develop an automatic system to be used for intelligent waste management. The system consists of intelligent waste containers and an IT tool for waste collection and transport management, including RFID’s (Radio Frequency Identification) ability to reliably identify individual receptacles, users, single marked items or waste categories, and cell-phone-based LBS’ ...
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Reconstitution of the basic molecular mechanism of phagocytosis – a bottom-up synthetic biology approach (minimal-phagocyte)

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

The ability of cells to engulf large objects, such as invading microorganisms or apoptotic cells, is crucial to innate immunity and tissue remodelling. The molecular basis of this process - phagocytosis - is complex, involving numerous receptors and signalling pathways. Nevertheless, the biophysical process is always the same: the cell membrane deforms and reshapes to wrap around the particle, and ...
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Bottom-up IntegRated Approach for sustainabLe grouNdwater mAnagement in rural areaS (BIR AL-NAS)

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

Groundwater resources represent the largest volume of all unfrozen fresh water on Earth. However the knowledge and understanding of this precious resource is very little, if compared to surface water, especially to the general public and policy makers. Indeed, groundwater resources if carefully managed can make a significant contribution to meet increasing water demand, agricultural needs and to a ...
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Programmable BioMolecular Circuits: Emulating Regulatory Functions in Living Cells Using a Bottom-Up Approach (BioCircuit)

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

Programmable biomolecular circuits have received increasing attention in recent years as the scope of chemistry expands from the synthesis of individual molecules to the construction of chemical networks that can perform sophisticated functions such as logic operations and feedback control. Rationally engineered biomolecular circuits that robustly execute higher-order spatiotemporal behaviours typ ...
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Autocatalysis: A bottom-up approach to understanding the origins of life (Autocat)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

"The origin of life is not well understood, and is one of the great remaining questions in science. Autocatalytic chemical reactions have been extensively studied with the aim of providing insight into the principles underlying living systems. In biology, organisms can be thought of as imperfect self-replicators, which produce closely related species, allowing for selection and evolution. Autocata ...
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Bottom-up Resolution of Functional Enantiomers from Self-Organised Monolayers (RESOLVE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The high throughput identification of resolution systems for industrially important chiral chemicals will be approached using the bottom-up hierarchichal assembly from self-organised chirally nanostructured surfaces and the “Dutch resolution” family method to isolation of enantiomers. Molecular modelling, surface science, supramolecular chemistry and the critically important resolving library des ...
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Bottom-up Approaches to Machines dedicated to Bayesian Inference (BAMBI)

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

We propose a theory and a hardware implementation of probabilistic computation inspired by biochemical cell signaling. We will study probabilistic computation following three axes: algebra, biology, and hardware. In each case, we will develop a bottom-up hierarchical approach starting from the elementary components, and study how to combine them to build more complex systems. We propose Bayesian g ...
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Physical bottom Up Multiscale Modelling for Automotive PEMFC Innovative performance and Durability optimization (PUMA MIND)

Start date: Dec 17, 2012, End date: Dec 16, 2015,

"Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) are complex nonlinear systems. In order to improve their durability, efficiency and to decrease the cost, time of development, design of new diagnostic tools is crucial.Powerful mathematical models of the dynamic behaviour of PEMFCs are necessary for the design and improvement of diagnostic tools. The project PUMA MIND will enhance the understanding of ...
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Community Dynamics and Phenotypic Changes of Limnic Bacteria During Experimental Manipulation of Bottom-up and Top-down Factors (COMPLEX)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

"Bacteria in freshwaters are key players in the degradation of organic carbon. Their important functional role is related to the specific growth features of different genotypes within mixed assemblages. Limitation by substrates and nutrients (bottom-up factors) and high predation by bacterivorous protists (top-down factors) together shape the composition of microbial assemblages. Bacterial species ...
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Bottom-up hybrid control and planning synthesis with application to multi-robot multi-human coordination (BUCOPHSYS)

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

Current control applications necessitate the treatment of systems with multiple interconnected components, rather than the traditional single component paradigm that has been studied extensively. The individual subsystems may need to fulfil different and possibly conflicting specifications in a real-time manner. At the same time, they may need to fulfill coupled constraints that are defined as re ...
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Urban Cooks Platform. Bottom-up urban planning.

Start date: Aug 15, 2013,

European cities have empty/neglected spaces, that could be bring back to life by citizens´ initiatives . In some cases, this initiatives have been an innovative example of how public space could be managed and created. However, these citizen initiatives face diverse barriers that make difficult to develop and manage a project in the public space. The main problems are legal ones, security issues a ...
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TOP DOWN & BOTTOM UP - communication and political systems

Start date: May 2, 2016, End date: Jan 1, 2017,

Young people between 15-17 years from each of the countries France, Spain, Italy, Poland and Germany will get together at the area of Kulturkosmos Müritz e. V. The area in the middle of the Mecklenburg Lake District offers very good infrastructural and personal conditions to realize this project.In the last several years we already made good experiences with combining sociopolitical topics with cu ...
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Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning - Empowering Youth in the Region

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The Post-YU Trilateral Bottom Up Learning (PYTBUL) is a strategic partnership project in the field of youth primarily aimed for developing new, innovative and complementary tools and models for empowering youth in the region and fostering youth self-employability. Three partner organizations, Zavod Bob from Slovenia, Volonterski centar Istra from Croatia and Impact Hub Belgrade from Serbia, have g ...
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bottom-UP blueprinting GRAphene baseD Electronics (UPGRADE)

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

UPGRADE targets a fundamental breakthrough by achieving the first proof-of-concept of chemically controlled engineering of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), through a novel and fast bottom-up patterning technique, which will enable the atomically-controlled fabrication of patterned GNRs over large areas. GNRs combine the advantages of graphene with the semiconducting properties required for the design ...
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Graphene Heterostructures by Self-Assembly:Top-down meets Bottom-up (2D-HETEROSTRUCTURES)

Start date: Oct 30, 2016, End date: Oct 30, 2018,

One-atom thin two-dimensional nanomaterials possess unique properties different from their bulk counterparts. Initiated by the discovery of graphene, many stable one atom-thick layers such as boron nitride, molybdenum disulphide, tungsten disulphide etc., have been isolated and characterized. However, the individual properties of such 2D-atomic crystals (except graphene) were modest. The combinati ...
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Bottom-up fabrication of nano carbon-inorganic hybrid materials for photocatalytic hydrogen production (CARINHYPH)

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

CARINHYPH projects deals with the hierarchical assembly of functional nanomaterials into novel nanocarbon-inorganic hybrid structures for energy generation by photocatalyic hydrogen production, with Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) and graphene the choice of nanocarbons. The scientific activities include the development of new functionalisation strategies targeted at improving charge transfer in hybrids an ...
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Novel bottom-up nanofabrication techniques for future carbon-nanoelectronics (NANOFAB4CNT)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"This research program aims at pioneering and developing new nanofabrication techniques for carbon-nanoelectronics using a so-called 'bottom-up' approach. Individual building blocks for carbon-based nanodevices, such as catalyst nanoparticles, horizontally aligned carbon-nanotubes and ultra-scaled contacts and dielectrics will be precisely placed directly on the chip, without the use of lithograph ...
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MEDRESET.A comprehensive, integrated,and bottom-up approach to reset our understanding of the Mediterranean space, remap the region,and reconstruct inclusive, responsive,and flexible EU policies in it (MedReset)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Euro-Mediterranean policies, as well as research on them, have been characterized by a Euro-centric approach based on a narrow geopolitical construction of the Mediterranean. Moreover, stakeholders, policy instruments, and policy issues have been defined from a European standpoint, marginalizing the perspectives and needs of local states and people, and ignoring the role played by new and powerful ...
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Walser Alps - modernity and tradition in the heart of Europe The Walser settlements area - a laboratory to experience a post-industrial sustainable Alpine society in a bottom-up process (WALSER ALPS)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The minority of Walser settle dispersed over six countries in the heart of Europe. Most of them suffer under economic disadvantage, but have conserved traditional rural knowledge.The Walser Alps project aims to experience - as a pilot action based on the Agenda 21 process - the transfer from a pre-industrial to a sustainable competitive post-industrial society integrating youth.Landscape is the li ...
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Competition between bottom-up and top-down mechanisms of auditory attention: neurophysiological and physiopathological mechanisms of distractibility (DISTRACTIBILITY)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Attention is the brain function by which we, voluntarily or not, improve the processing of specific information in our environment while other information is disregarded. In principle, the entry of information to the limited-capacity system is controlled by two types of processes: top-down (TD) and bottom-up (BU) processes. TD attention enables the good performance of an on-going task by selecting ...
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Bottom-up Nanowires as Scanning Multifunctional Sensors (NWScan)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Advances in growth and fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures have led to both the production of exquisitely sensitive force transducers and the development of solid-state quantum devices. Force transducers, typically monolithic Si cantilevers, are central to techniques such as AFM, and MFM. On the other hand, quantum devices including quantum wells, quantum dots (QDs), and single electron tr ...
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Management of urbanization processes of coastal areas. From the regional urban plan to bottom-up participation (GE.CO.)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2007,

Background Coastal areas are threatened by increasingly serious conflicts amongst their users, and by institutional and political problems that may lead to a progressive, sometimes irreversible, decay. There is a lack of a holistic and integrated approach to address these problems but this is not due to an absence of tools, and rather to lack of coordinat ...
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Casebook on Judicial Review of Administrative Action: a bottom-up, case-based comparative examination of judicial review systems and how they have been shaped by EU law

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The proposed project consists in the preparation and launch of a casebook on Judicial Review of Administrative Action and its underlying website. By comparing the French, German, English, Dutch and EU legal orders, this casebook aims at investigating the similarities and differences between the legal systems, as well as the influence of European legislation and case law in this area.This casebook ...
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A bottom-up approach for opening up education in South-Mediterranean countries

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The project explores the adoption of strategies and channels that embrace the principles of openness and reusability within the context of South-Mediterranean HEIs. The project intends to foster the adoption and pilot of open educational practices (OEP), and open educational resources (OER) in South-Mediterranean countries as a bottom-up approach to support the modernisation, accessibility and int ...
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MULTIfuncTional organic electronics throUgh nanoscale controlleD bottom-up tailoring of interfacES: an Intra-European Fellowship for career development (MULTITUDES)

Start date: May 7, 2013, End date: May 6, 2015,

"MULTITUDES is aimed at providing multidisciplinary and multisectorial training and mobility to a very promising researcher in order to further his career development so that he may become an independent and leading scientist either in the university or private sector. The researcher will receive training in an emerging field at the interface between Physics Materials-/Nano-/Supramolecular -Scienc ...
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A bottom-up approach for the design and development of a joint Master Course in Cross-MEDia Journalism

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The Cross-MEDia Journalism Project aims at contributing to the modernisation of the higher education sector in Tunisia through the development of a “Master Course in Digital Journalism”. The Master Course targets young people studying communication and the young professionals in the journalism sector who wish to specialise in the central and strategic field of the digital and cross-media journalis ...
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Graphene Heterostructures by Self-Assembly:Top-down meets Bottom-up (2D-HETEROSTRUCTURES)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

One-atom thin two-dimensional nanomaterials possess unique properties different from their bulk counterparts. Initiated by the discovery of graphene, many stable one atom-thick layers such as boron nitride, molybdenum disulphide, tungsten disulphide etc., have been isolated and characterized. However, the individual properties of such 2D-atomic crystals (except graphene) were modest. The combinati ...
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Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity: mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa (HEALTHY FUTURES)

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

The HEALTHY FUTURES project is motivated by concern for the health impacts of environmental changes. HEATHLY FUTURES aims to respond to this concern through construction of a disease risk mapping system for three water-related high-impact VBDs (malaria, Rift valley fever and schistosomiasis) in Africa, accounting for environmental/climatic trends and changes in socio-economic conditions to predic ...
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EU-China Innovation Platform on Sustainable Urbanisation (URBAN-EU-CHINA)

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

The key objective of URBAN-EU-CHINA is to develop a robust, evidence-driven bottom-up approach to complement the existing top-down EU-China strategic approach to sustainable urbanisation. This will be accomplished via a coordinated series of actions including: a strategic R&I agenda, scoping and assessment, networking events, peer-to-peer exchanges, benchmarking and monitoring, and joint demonstra ...
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DEVAPPRENT - Development of apprenticeship in Lithuania referring to experience from Germany, France, UK and Netherlands

Although the apprenticeship concept has been recently introduced by the law concerning Vocational Education and Training in Lithuania, there was still a lack of institutional, methodical implementation procedures and measures to facilitate the effective establishment and functioning of an apprenticeship system in practice in Lithuania. Lithuania does not have strong traditions of apprenticeship, s ...
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Measuring and Improving Return on Marketing Investment with actionable dashboards: which marketing actions yield most returns in fast moving economies? (ROMIDASHBOARD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

"Driving profitable growth is the No.1 priority of companies and their leaders across the world. While many look to marketing as a prime responsible for creating and sustaining that growth, they are often disappointed in the ability of marketing managers to deliver on the promise. Faced with increased pressure from demanding customers, powerful channel partners and activist shareholders, companies ...
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UP-grading of landfillgas for lowering CO2 emissions (UPGAS-LOWCO2)

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

Background Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the waste management sector account for around 3% of total emissions in the EU (2006 data). Emissions in the waste management sector are primarily a result of methane emissions from landfills, caused by the anaerobic break down of biodegradable materials. Methane emissions from the waste management sector fel ...
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Ecosystem-based Responsive Fisheries Management in Europe (EcoFishMan)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

EcoFishMan seeks to develop a responsive fisheries management system (RFMS) based on results-based management (RBM) principles. The intended context of application of the RFMS is complex, mixed-fisheries and multi-stakeholder fishery sectors like those found in the EU/Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) area. It will be an ecosystem-based sustainable management system under a precautionary framework tha ...
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Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The AIAS-COFUND fellowship programme is a new international fellowship programme initiated by Aarhus University (AU) that provides for transnational mobility among the most talented researchers, as a means of helping them in their training and career development. The target group of the programme is talented researchers with at least two years of fulltime experience after completing their PhD.The ...
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Novel dynamic self-assembling system: from hierarchical and biomimetic morphogenesis to functional materials (BIOMORPH)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

"There is great need for radically new paradigms that significantly push forward the complexity, multiscale control, and functionality of novel materials. Molecular self-assembling strategies are continuously being explored for developing ever more precise and organized materials. The development of adaptive materials that can be morphed into complex shapes of hierarchical structure through bottom ...
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