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Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe (IMAJINE)

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

IMAJINE aims to formulate new integrative policy mechanisms to enable European, national and regional government agencies to more effectively address territorial inequalities within the European Union. It responds to evidence that spatial inequalities within the EU are increasing, contrary to the principle of territorial cohesion embedded as a third dimension of the European Social Model in the Tr...
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Resolving subglacial properties, hydrological networks and dynamic evolution of ice flow on the Greenland Ice Sheet (RESPONDER)

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

The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at a growing rate and has since 2010 caused sea level rise of 1 mm/year. The most severe changes occur in the drainage basins of marine-terminating glaciers, which flow rapidly and drain 88% of the ice sheet. The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that the widespread acceleration of these glaciers in recent years was a re...
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Microorganisms in Warming Arctic Environments (MicroArctic)

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

The Arctic plays a key role in the Earth’s climate system and is an area of growing strategic importance for European policy. In this ETN, we will train the next generation of Arctic microbiology and biogeochemistry experts who, through their unique understanding of the Arctic environment and the factors that impact ecosystem and organism response to the warming Arctic, will be able to respond to ...
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EUROPLANET 2020 Research Infrastructure (EPN2020-RI)

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

The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (EPN2020-RI) will address key scientific and technological challenges facing modern planetary science by providing open access to state-of-the-art research data, models and facilities across the European Research Area. Its Transnational Access activities will provide access to world-leading laboratory facilities that simulate conditions found on planetar...
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Knowledge on International Relations in Russia (RuKNOW)

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

Against the backdrop of EU-Russia relations reaching the lowest point since the end of the Cold War, this project is dedicated to understanding what representations and principles underscore Russian policies vis-à-vis the EU, by specifically exploring the relations between Russian academic knowledge of world politics and Russian foreign policymaking. This entails examining the interface between th...
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Novel Cell Migration Assay Based on Microtissue Technology and Tissue-Specific Matrices (MATRIXASSAY)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Cell migration assays are commonly used to study wound healing, cancer cell invasion, and tissue development. Problems associated with the gap closure assays typically employed are that: (i) the stopper or scratch used to make the migration zone damages the extracellular matrix (ECM), (ii) the migration zone size is limited by the size of the stopper, and (iii) the scratched migration zone shapes ...
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de-FLuoridation technologies for imprOving quality of WatEr and agRo-animal products along the East African Rift Valley in the context of aDaptation to climate change. (FLOWERED)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

FLOWERED objective is to contribute to the development of a sustainable water management system in areas affected by fluoride (F) contamination in water, soils and food in the African Rift Valley countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania), thus to improve living standards (environmental, health and food security) of its population. FLOWERED aims to study, test and implement innovative defluoridation te...
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The Global Countryside: Rural Change and Development in Globalization (GLOBAL-RURAL)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"GLOBAL-RURAL aims to advance our understanding of the workings and impact of globalization in rural regions through the development and application of new conceptual and methodological approaches. Globalization has a pervasive influence in transforming rural economies and societies, with implications for the major societal challenges of environmental change and resource security. However, in comp...
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A SOCIOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (SOCIOLOGY OF UK IR)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Aug 30, 2018,

The proposed research is an in-depth sociological investigation of the production of knowledge in the field of International Relations (IR) in the United Kingdom. Its main objective is to understand how social, institutional and individual factors affect the production of IR scholarship and IR teaching in the country, as well as the dispositions, perceptions, and practices of IR scholars and their...
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"Trans-Atlantic Micromechanics Evolving Research ""Materials containing inhomogeneities of diverse physical properties, shapes and orientations""" (TAMER)

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

"The project addresses materials with realistic - heterogeneous and anisotropic - microstructures that contain inhomogeneities (pores/cracks/inclusions) of diverse shapes, orientations and physical properties. An important feature of such microstructures, that complicates the analysis but has a profound impact on their overall behavior, is their “irregular” character. For example, pores typically...
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LEGumes for the Agriculture of TOmorrow (LEGATO)

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

The project has been conceived to promote the culture of grain legumes in Europe by identifying priority issues currently limiting grain legume cultivation and devising solutions in term of novel varietal development, culture practices, and food uses. LEGATO will develop tools and resources to enable state of the art breeding methodology and to exploit fully the breadth of genetic resources avail...
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A functional analytic approach for the analysis of nonlinear transmission problems (FAANon)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

The purpose of the research plan is the development of the method called Functional Analytical Approach (FAA) for the analysis of singular perturbations of nonlinear transmission problems. The techniques proposed are based on potential theory and functional analysis and aim at describing the effect of perturbations in terms of real analytic functions. Both perturbations of the shapes of the domain...
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Development of improved perennial non-food biomass and bioproduct crops for water stressed environments (WATBIO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"The goal of WATBIO is to use the power of next generation sequencing to develop an accelerated route for producing new germplasm with enhanced drought tolerance whilst maintaining biomass productivity and quality in water scarce, marginal environments unsuitable for food crops.This will be achieved for three non-food crops (Populus, Miscanthus and Arundo), suitable for growth on water scarce, mar...
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New ceramic technologies and novel multifunctional ceramic devices and structures (CERMAT2)

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

"The CERMAT2 project is aimed to train young researchers in understanding the modelling of Solid Mechanics problems applied to the process and design of advanced ceramics in a synergic collaboration between academia and industry, in view of social developments related to enhancement of industrial production and pollution reduction.In the EU, the ceramic industry is employing about 200,000 people a...
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Plant adaptation to heavy metal and radioactive pollution (PLANT DNA TOLERANCE)

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

Anthropogenic activities continue to impact the environment causing soil and ground water contamination in many regions and the effects are often persistent especially where heavy metals and radioactive substances have been released. Ecological problems can be particularly severe in the case of atomic power facilities and recent occurrences (Japan) indicate that the Chernobyl incident in 1986 was ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Application of crop genetics to improve Calcium content in millets and other crops for promoting health benefits in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis (CaMILLET)

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

With osteoporosis becoming an increasing threat to human health, this project is directed towards finding an inexpensive solution to this problem using crop genetics. Biofortification of human diet with food that are naturally rich in Calcium (Ca) is proposed. Among all cultivated cereals, finger millet (Eleusine coracana), an annual small millet of Africa and Asia, has been found to have the high...
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The impacts of global environmental change for marine biotic interactions and ecosystem functioning (GLOBEF)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Jan 18, 2017,

Oceans cover 70% of our planet, provide 90% by volume of its biosphere, support 50% of global primary production and provide vital ecosystem services, including climate regulation, carbon sequestration and the provision of protein, on which large proportions of the global population rely. The Earth’s oceans are, however, increasingly subject to multiple interacting anthropogenic stressors. At the ...
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Impact of Research on EU Agriculture (IMPRESA)

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

"The project will:• describe the contemporary evolution of traditional public and private agricultural research, particularly as its boundaries with food processing, biotechnology and bioeconomy activities (for example, renewable energy) are becoming increasingly blurred, and its objectives are broadening, using on-going structured interaction with an expert stakeholder panel• survey the trends, s...
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Improving the resistance of legume crops to combined abiotic and biotic stress (ABSTRESS)

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

ABSTRESS applies combined, integrated systems biology and comparative genomics approaches to conduct a comprehensive study of the gene networks implicated in the interaction of drought stress and Fusarium infection in legumes. It uses Medicago truncatula as a model to rapidly identify characteristics for introgression into elite pea varieties and a field test of their performance against existing ...
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Porte aperte sull'Europa

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND I.C. “Marconi-Antonelli” has been carrying out its school education project for years by focusing on the relationship among I.C.T. , linguistic competences and methodological innovation concerning teaching/learning processes. “Comenius” Project and Classi 2.0 form a part of the Institute educational proposal. OBJECTIVES • Ability to use new technologies in teaching • ability...
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Citizen Observatory Web (COBWEB)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

COBWEB will leverage the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR). Concentrating initially on the Welsh Dyfi Biosphere Reserve, we will develop a citizens’ observatory framework, and then validate the work within the context of the UK National Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and internationally, within the WNBR; specifically, within Greek and German Reserves. The infrastructure we devel...
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Literary Europe Live

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Literary Europe Live is a project of Literature Across Frontiers - European Platform for Literary Exchange, Translation and Policy Debate, established in 2001 at Aberystwyth University, and developed with successive grants from the Culture Programme of the EU. The key aim of the LAF Platform has been to contribute to a vibrant and diverse European literary culture and ensure that it can be experie...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Early Mastery 21th century literacy - Learn2Code & Code2Learn How to playfully motivate school kids to master computer programing

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

Early Mastery 21th century literacy - Learn2Code & Code2Learn How to playfully motivate school kids to master computer programing "Co-creation, user involvement, environmental and societal challenges increasingly drive innovation today." OECD, New Nature of Innovation "I see coding (computer programming) as an extension of writing. The ability to code allows you to “write” new types of things – in...
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Sustainable Organic and Low-input Dairying (SOLID) (SOLID)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"Organic and low-input dairy farming systems are increasingly noted as delivering multifunctional benefits to the agricultural industry and society but technical and economic constraints prevent widespread adoption. SOLID will deliver an innovative toolbox of novel methodologies that will contribute to the competitiveness of the dairy industry and increase the effectiveness with which these benefi...
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Optimizing Miscanthus Biomass Production - OPTIMISC (OPTIMISC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Miscanthus is a C4 perennial rhizomatous grass that has become a leading candidate crop for production of lignocellulosic feedstocks due to its rapid biomass accumulation in temperate climates. There is currently a single commercial clone, M. x giganteus, which has a number of limitations. Research over the past 20 years has shown that a few key species and their interspecific hybrids have a high ...
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Planetary Robotics Vision Data Exploitation (PRoViDE)

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

The international community of planetary science and exploration has launched, landed and operated dozens of human and robotic missions to the planets and the Moon. They have collected various surface imagery that has only been partially utilized for further scientific application purposes. Few attempts have been made so far to bring these data into a unified spatial context, or to exploit spatial...
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Microbially enhanced geologic carbon capture, trapping and storage (CO2TRAP) (CO2TRAP)

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

Geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide, also known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), is one strategy to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases generated through the combustion of fossil fuels. Geologic sequestration of CO2 involves the injection of supercritical CO2 into underground brine formations such as oil bearing formations, deep un-mineable coal seams, and deep saline aquifers.Sites w...
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"Towards an Atlantic area? Mapping trends, perspectives and interregional dynamics between Europe, Africa and the Americas" (ATLANTIC FUTURE)

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

"Mesmerized by the contrast between spectacular growth in Asia and the Pacific Rim and the West’s hard times, many observers have overlooked a major reconfiguration of the Atlantic space. The North America – Europe link continues to be the strongest and largest of the relationships between any two continents. But their decline in relative terms is slowly being matched by the rise of Africa, Latin ...
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VIBRO-IMPACT MACHINES BASED ON PARAMETRIC RESONANCE: Concepts, mathematical modelling, experimental verification and implementation (PARM-2)

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

The aim of the project is to enhance the potential and output of vibrating machines and decrease their ecological footprint by implementation of parametric resonance (PR). Compared with the regular resonance, the PR is characterized by a much higher intensity within a wide range of frequencies. The advantage of a PR-based machine was demonstrated with a prototype PR screener (PRS) developed and pr...
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European Plant Phenotyping Network (EPPN)

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

The ability to quantitatively analyze plant phenotypic traits (from single cells to plant and stand level) and their dynamic responses to the environment is an essential requirement for genetic and physiological research, and the cornerstone for enabling applications of scientific findings to bioeconomy. Whereas molecular profiling technologies allow today the generation of a large amount of data ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Aberystwyth University's Erasmus+ mobility exchanges for students and staff. Our programme is in place to promote cross-cultural awareness, to increase foreign language fluency amongst our students and staff, to promote the exchange of best practice and expertise, to help add to the diversity of student and staff experience and increase international experience amongst students and staff. Our 2...
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Modelling and optimal design of ceramic structures with defects and imperfect interfaces (INTERCER2)

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

"Ceramic industry is broadly developed in Europe and the current investment is estimated at € 26 billion. With its € 9,2 billion segment, Italy is a leader country in the production of traditional ceramics, while France, UK and Germany are driving countries for advanced ceramics, growing at 21% per year.Advanced ceramics are crucial for new technologies and nano-tech applications addressed to ther...
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Optimization of Perennial Grasses for Biomass Production (OPTIMA)

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

OPTIMA will integrate an ambitious biology system approach for perennial grasses such as switchgrass, miscanthus and giant reed in the Mediterranean environment. Moreover the perennial species cardoon, which has been proven to be particularly adapted to the Mediterranean climate, will be used as a control species.The main objective of the OPTIMA project is to identify high-yielding perennial grass...
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Enhanced plant productivity through control of lifespan (CROPLIFE)

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

The world-wide demand for primary plant products to be used for food, feed and fuel is increasing dramatically. The foreseen climate changes are expected to have a negative impact on plant productivity in addition. Future agriculture urgently needs new crop plant varieties with enhanced and sustainable productivity. To meet this challenge, “CropLife” focuses on leaf lifespan as a major determinant...
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AN Integration of Mitigation and Adaptation options for sustainable Livestock production under climate CHANGE (ANIMALCHANGE)

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

ANIMALCHANGE will provide scientific guidance on the integration of adaptation and mitigation objectives and design sustainable development pathways for livestock production in Europe, in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. ANIMALCHANGE will inform public policy development in EU27 and propose cooperation programs addressing smallholder livestock farming in selected developing count...
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Enhancing hydraulic fracturing on the basis of numerical simulation of coupled geomechanical, hydrodynamic and microseismic processes (HYDROFRAC)

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

The project aims to enhance the hydraulic fracturing techniques for increasing productivity of oil and gas reservoirs. The objective will be reached by developing numerical simulation of coupled geomechanical, hydrodynamic and microseismic processes for proper choices of equipment, regimes and parameters of hydraulic fracturing. Simulation of microseismicity will also provide a unique means to imp...
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The targeted development of a new generation Vaccine for Schistosomiasis (TheSchistoVac)

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

The aim of this project is to develop a new generation vaccine for schistosomiasis. The vaccine will be based on exposed proteins and/or glycans of the vulnerable skin stage schistosomula, making it safe and effective. The life stage-specific vaccine target selection strategy is based on state-of-the-art schistosomal transcriptomics and glycomics technologies and data, and unique serum and sample ...
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Control of Microtubule Nucleation and Dynamics in Plant Cells (CoMNaDiPC)

Start date: Mar 14, 2012, End date: Mar 13, 2014,

During land plant evolution, genetic and functional changes of regulatory mechanisms drive morphological innovations. One of such innovations is the loss of centrioles and the gain of properties of plant microtubules that allow them to self-nucleate in acentriolar cells. The nature of this proposed research is to study the evolution of the microtubule-organizing gene network during the conquest of...
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