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Advanced toolbox for rapid and cost-effective functional metagenomic screening - microbiology meets microfluidics. (METAFLUIDICS)

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

Metagenomes comprise enormous reservoirs coding for proteins with useful activities. Unfortunately, harvesting this reservoir is difficult, because useful candidates are rare and hidden in an overwhelming majority of irrelevant genes. Screening campaigns of metagenomic libraries thus require massive capital-expenditure for robotic systems and much manpower, making them expensive, slow and availab...
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New technology and strategy for a large and sustainable deployment of second generation biofuel in rural areas (BABET-REAL5)

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

The business model currently under development for second generation ethanol is a replication of the model used for first generation which is plants with massive annual production capacities. Such high production rates require high capital investment and huge amounts of biomasses (250-350,000 tons per year) concentrated in small radius catchment areas to afford transportation costs (50 km). Under ...
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Research and training network on MIniaturized Gas flow for Applications with enhanced Thermal Effects (MIGRATE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Depletion of natural resources combined with the extending footprint of mankind has led to a shift in importance of research and development topics. In the 1970s and 1980s process yield was primarily targeted, but emphasis is now focussed on resource efficiency as a primary objective. Routes for resource efficiency have to be identified and implemented to provide a more environmental and resource-...
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Development of VOCs and ozone Micro-analysers based on microfluidic devices for Aircraft Cabin Air mOnitoring (MACAO) (MACAO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

The origins of pollutants inside the aircraft cabin are various. Ozone comes from outside, particularly when the aircraft is flying at high altitudes near the stratospheric ozone layer. In addition to the materials emissions, carbonyl species can be also produced in the cabin by reaction of ozone with unsaturated VOCs.Ozone and VOCs can cause acute respiratory problems, aggravate asthma and increa...
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MicroElectronics Cloud Alliance

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

mCloud Alliance brings together 18 higher education institutions (HEIs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop Cloud-based European infrastructure and organisation for education in microelectronics providing a range of open educational resources (OERs), remote access and sharing of educational and professional software, remote and practice-based learning facilities. Neither university ...
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Screening, characterisation and engineering of carbohydrate harvesting machineries of microbial ecosystems (CaTSYS)

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

Mammals rely entirely on their symbiotic microorganisms to digest complex glycans, issued from dietary fibers, yeasts, and the host itself. To that purpose, gut bacteria have evolved sophisticated machineries to face the structural diversity and complexity of carbohydrates, consisting of gene clusters coding for carbohydrate-hydrolysing, -binding and -transporting proteins. Since the last decade, ...
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Second Generation BIoethanol sustainable production based on Organosolv Process at atmospherIc Conditions (2G BIOPIC)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: May 1, 2018,

The purpose of the 2G BIOPIC project is to demonstrate the performance, the reliability and the sustainability, of the whole value chain of production of bioethanol from agricultural residues and wood. 2G BIOPIC aims to design, construct and optimize a second generation (2G) demonstration plant with a capacity of 1 T of biomass/h. This 2G plant is based on the scale-up and optimization of bioethan...
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European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC)

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

Description The EuRoC project proposes to launch three industry-relevant challenges aimed at sharpening the focus of European manufacturing through a number of application experiments, while adopting an innovative approach which ensures benchmarking and performance evaluation. Within an open call framework, three stages of increasing complex...
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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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More Affordable Aircraft structure through eXtended, Integrated, and Mature nUmerical Sizing (MAAXIMUS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Even though composite materials are more and more used in modern airframes, many significant improvements are still achievable. Firstly, the substitution of the assembly of many small composite parts by a single one-shot large part provides additional weight reduction. Secondly, the final assembly line process must be adapted to composite properties (lack of ductility, stiffness). Thirdly, if the ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

INSA Toulouse is a state engineering school with a 5 years curriculum (recruitment after high school graduation). International relations are one of the key points in terms of positioning and strategy for our institution. Financial and human resources are in place to develop and strengthen exchanges at all levels : research staff and students. Student mobility has been mandatory since 2006 and inv...
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ACTUATION 2015: Modular Electro Mechanical Actuators for ACARE 2020 Aircraft and Helicopters (ACTUATION2015)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The All-Electric Aircraft is a major target for the next generation of aircraft to lower consumption of non-propulsive power and thus fuel burn. To eliminate hydraulic circuits, pumps and reservoirs, Electro Mechanical Actuators (EMA) are mandatory but now need to meet cost, reliability and weight requirements from the airframers.ACTUATION2015 aims to develop and validate a common set of standard...
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Pragmatic solution for parasitic-immune design of electronics ICs for automotive (AUTOMICS)

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

Smart Power ICs are extensively used in automotive embedded systems due to their unique capabilities to merge low power and high voltage devices on the same chip, at competitive cost. In such devices, induced electrical coupling noise due to switching of the power stages, when integrating such high voltage (HV) devices with low voltage (LV) functions, is a big issue. During switching, parasitic vo...
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Multifunctional Nanotechnology for selective detection and Treatment of cancer (MULTIFUN)

Start date: Jun 13, 2011, End date: Jun 12, 2015,

The aim of the MultiFun consortium is to develop and validate a novel and minimally-invasive nanotechnology system to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment. MultiFun nanotechnology is based on multifunctionalised magnetic nanoparticles to selectively target and eliminate breast and pancreatic cancer (stem) cells. The improved magnetic features of the MultiFun magnetic nanoparticles will lead to p...
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RARE EARTH FREE PERMANENT MAGNETS (REFREEPERMAG)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"This proposal aims at developing a new generation of novel materials for high performance permanent magnets (PM) with energy product 60 kJ/m3 5) nanostructures by environmentally friendly synthesis methods and b) using high-throughput (HT) thin film synthesis and characterization techniques to identify new PM candidate phases. The first strategy, through the control of the nanostructure will le...
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Reductive Transformations of Carbon Oxides (RTCO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The development of new approaches to the activation and functionalisation of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide is a highly topical and significant challenge for chemistry. The use of biomass and coal derived carbon monoxide as a fundamental building block for simple organic molecules is a key objective in energy research, and the latter, coupled with global warming considerations, dictate that ne...
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Products from methanol by synthetic cell factories (PROMYSE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

There is a high societal need for a sustainable production of key chemistry, food and health care compounds. Microbial cell factories are logical production systems, but up to now they use sugars and other food derived raw materials as substrates. Sugars originating from plants demand cultivable land which is more and more needed for human nutrition. Methanol - with a worldwide production capacity...
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NANOTECHNOLOGICAL TOOLKITS FOR MULTI-MODAL DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT MONITORING (NAMDIATREAM)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

NAMDIATREAM will develop a cutting edge nanotechnology-based toolkit for multi-modal detection of biomarkers of most common cancer types and cancer metastases, permitting identification of cells indicative of early disease onset in a high-specificity and throughput format in clinical, laboratory and point-of-care devices. The project is built on the innovative concepts of super-sensitive and highl...
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Improvement of research capacities of the Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax in Bio-Processes for biotech applications, tying up with the European Research Area (BioProtech)

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

On the way to a more knowledge based economy and in accordance with scientific and technological agreements with the European Union, Tunisia launched necessary policies and measures to set up and improve the efficiency of research centres such as the Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax (CBS). As a key element of the Tunisian Biotechnology Plan the CBS focuses on applied research particularly in terms ...
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Spin effects for quantum optoelectronics (SPIN-OPTRONICS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"We propose to join the forces of ten leading European teams in order to achieve a critical mass in the new research field of Spin-Optronics, a vast novel research area at the crossroads of fundamental physics of quantum-mechanical spin, optoelectronics and nanotechnology, and establish the European leadership in this area on a world-wide scale. All three main directions of the Network research ac...
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New feedstock and innovative transformation process for a more sustainable development and production of lignocellulosic ethanol (BABETHANOL)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"Today, USA and Brazil have massively invested in ethanol mono-production, taking advantage of their respective native crops, intensive culture practices and large availability of land. These renewable biofuel production models cannot be applied to most of the industrial and emerging countries. For these countries with limited land use, one of the best solutions to comply with their objectives of ...
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Collaborative & Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation (CRESCENDO)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The IMG4 project CRESCENDO addresses the Vision 2020 objectives for the aeronautical industry by contributing significantly to the fulfilment of three specific targets of the aeronautical industry’s Strategic Research Agenda. CRESCENDO will develop the foundations for the Behavioural Digital Aircraft (BDA), taking experience and results from VIVACE, and integrating these into a federative system ...
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Gas Flows in Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (GASMEMS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Gas flows in microsystems are of great interest for various applications that touch almost every industrial field. This diversity is typified through the following examples: fluidic microactuators for active control of aerodynamic flows, vacuum generators for extracting biological samples, mass flow and temperature micro-sensors, pressure gauges, micro heat-exchangers for the cooling of electronic...
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A comprehensive dissection of pneumococcal-host interactions (PNEUMOPATH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"This project is a fundamental, comprehensive study of the host-pathogen interactions during infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae. The expectation is that the basic knowledge gained from this work will give new targets for vaccination, diagnosis and treatment. In PNEUMOPATH, academic and industrial partners will work together in six scientific workpackages. 1) The molecular epidemiology of anti...
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Alternative Fuels and Biofuels for Aircraft Development (ALFA-BIRD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"ALFA-BIRD aims at developing the use of alternative fuels in aeronautics. In a context where the price of oil is increasing and with impact of fossil fuels on climate change, the sustainable growth of the civil aviation is conditioned by the respect of the environment. In this context, using biofuels and alternative fuels in aeronautics is a great challenge, since the operational constraints (e.g...
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Red transpirenaica para el Estudio y Aplicación de Nanomateriales Metálicos (METNANO)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

MET-NANO surge tras la realización con éxito del proyecto de creación de una red en nanotecnologías en el eje transpirenaico (NANORET, Interreg IIIA). Supone un nuevo paso en la interrelación entre las instituciones de uno y otro lado de los pirineos y pretende alcanzar nuevos hitos dentro de la cooperación, con nuevos objetivos y elementos de interrelación, apostando por el desarrollo conjunto de...
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NEtwork of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications++ (NEWCOM++) (NEWCOM++)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

NEWCOM++ is the acronym of a proposed Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications, submitted to Call 1 of the VII Framework Programme under the Objective ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future, mainly in its target direction "Ubiquitous network infrastructure and architectures". The current proposal draws inspiration, shape/form, and substantive direction from its successful predecessor, t...
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Biological rational for the mannosidase super family in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (Bt alpha mannosidase)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The human intestine is colonized by over 10 trillions symbiotic bacteria which play a critical role in human health such as preventing inflammation and cancer. These microorganisms hydrolyse complex carbohydrates polymers from our diet that are not degraded by “our” own enzymes and thus, in addition to preventing cancer and inflammation, increase the nutrients available to the human host. Indeed,...
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Latin American Engineering and Information Technologies Network (Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentine, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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