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Making Sense of Games: A Methodology for Humanistic Game Analysis (MSG)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

Making Sense of Games (MSG) will build a methodology for the humanistic study of games, and develop a theory of how ludic meaning is produced. Following the pervasive, global growth of video gaming culture and the games industry, the multi-disciplinary field of game studies has grown exponentially in the last 15 years, with numerous new journals, conferences, university programs and research depar...
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ROS-Industrial quality-assured robot software components (ROSIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

ROSIN will create a step change in the availability of high-quality intelligent robot software components for the European industry. This is achieved by building on the existing open-source “Robot Operating System” (ROS) framework and leveraging its worldwide community. ROS and its subsidiary ROS-Industrial (European side led by TU Delft and Fraunhofer) is well-known, but its European industrial p...
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Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

This Project aims to address an increasingly pressing global challenge: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying within two degrees global warming and avoid transgressing other planetary boundaries.EU policies must align with sustainable development goals (Article 11 TFEU). The impacts of climate change and glo...
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Meaningful Personalization of Hybrid Virtual Museum Experiences Through Gifting and Appropriation (GIFT)

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

"A main challenge with the development of virtual museums is establishing meaningful user experiences that allow for personal, complex and emotional encounters with art and cultural heritage. The GIFT project suggests creating meaningful personalization through digital gifting and emotional appropriation: Designs for allowing visitors to create their own museum tours as digital "mixtapes", and to ...
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Values and ethics in Innovation for Responsible Technology in EUrope (VIRT-EU)

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

The networked future promises new relationships between people and artifacts, the private and the public, the individual and the collective. The increased networking capabilities of pervasive technologies mean that of personal data are being produced, analyzed, monetized and connected to other data streams in ways that hold both enormous potential and pose profound challenges for European society....
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Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators (COFFERS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Since 2008 'fiscal leaks' have become an immediate policy challenge for EU governments, partly as a result of tax abuse. The COFFERS project unfolds as EU tax authorities transition to a new era in tackling tax abuse based upon policy innovation at the OECD, EU and national levels. COFFERS recognizes this creates a state of flux where much tax authority expertise regarding past regulations, system...
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Advancing Modelling for Process-Product Innovation, Optimization, Monitoring and Control in Life Science Industries (ModLife)

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

The ModLife project is a European Training Network initiative that brings together 5 leading European universities, 4 global industrial players and 2 SMEs to undertake research and training in the area of product-process innovation, optimization monitoring and control for life sciences and biotechnology industries. Modlife aims to develop Advanced Model-Based Optimization, Monitoring and Control a...
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Scalable Similarity Search (SSS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Similarity search is the task of identifying, in a collection of items, the ones that are “similar” to a givenquery item. This task has a range of important applications (e.g. in information retrieval, patternrecognition, statistics, and machine learning) where data sets are often big, high dimensional, andpossibly noisy. State-of-the-art methods for similarity search offer only weak guarantees wh...
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Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe (CoHERE)

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

CoHERE explores the ways in which identities in Europe are constructed through heritage representations and performances that connect to ideas of place, history, tradition and belonging. The research identifies existing heritage practices and discourses in Europe. It also identifies means to sustain and transmit European heritages that are likely to contribute to the evolution of inclusive, commun...
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Flora Robotica: Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids as Social Architectural Artifacts (flora robotica)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

This project's objective is to develop and to investigate closely linked symbiotic relationships between robots and natural plants and to explore the potentials of a plant-robot society able to produce architectural artifacts and living spaces. We will create a society of robot-plant bio-hybrids functioning as an embodied, self-organizing, and distributed cognitive system. The system grows and dev...
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Revisioning the ‘Fiscal EU’: Fair, Sustainable, and Coordinated Tax and Social Policies (FairTax)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Plans for economic and monetary integration in the European Union call for fundamental changes in fiscal relations among EU member states and other countries. The 2012 Blueprint for the European Monetary Union (EMU) calls for deeper integration of fiscal policies at the level of domestic EU members, including establishing EU own-source revenues. The 2013 Social Dimension of the EMU emphasizes that...
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Knowledge Alliance for Urban Challenges

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

This Knowledge Alliance aims at creating an international educational programme, the Urban Challenge Programme (KAUC), as we have identified a need to create a foundational unit for students, teachers, municipalities and businesses across disciplinary backgrounds and national borders to cooperate on addressing urgent challenges and sustainability issues in different European urban settings. The fu...
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The Neurobiology of Decision-Making in Eating - Innovative Tools (NUDGE-IT)

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

Nudge-it engages internationally leading experts in the neurobiology of motivational behaviour, the neuroscience of reward pathways, the neuroendocrinology of homeostatic regulation of appetite, experimental psychology, functional brain imaging, behavioural economics, and computational modelling. They will work together to develop new tools and approaches that can provide the evidence needed to in...
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Trash-2-Cash: Designed high-value products from zero-value waste textiles and fibres via design driven technologies (Trash-2-Cash)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Within Trash-2-Cash, growing problems with paper fibre waste from the paper industry and textile fibre waste, originating from a continuously increasing textile consumption, will be solved through design-driven innovation. This will be performed by using the wastes to regenerate fibres that will be included into fashion, interior and other products. The cotton production suffers from non-sustainab...
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Creative Leadership & Entrepreneurship - Visionary Education Roadmap

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

Global labour markets are in constant change in response to emerging mega trends like ageing societies and rapid urbanisation. We are witnessing the replacement of traditional occupations by creative communities whose raw material is their ability to address those challenges, imagine new solutions and innovate. A major role in this change is played by the creative industries (CI) defined as “ind...
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Targeting and exploiting B cell functions for treatment in cardiovascular disease (Athero-B-Cell)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and morbidity is predicted to increase in Europe and worldwide in the next decades due to aging and the rise of diabetes and obesity. The link between metabolic and inflammatory disease is getting stronger, raising hopes for novel therapeutic targets to be exploited clinically. Clinical evidence generated by the Academic partners of the Athero-B-Cell Consorti...
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Targeting novel lipid pathways for treatment of cardiovascular disease (Athero-Flux)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Lipid lowering has significantly reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in EU. However, the aim to abolish CVD in EU is far from achieved and attempts to improve on the benefits of statins with new agents have not yet delivered new therapeutics. The Consortium Athero-Flux builds on FP7-generated large-scale lipidomics data showing that specific sphingolipids and in particular distinct cer...
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Calculating and Operationalising the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency Improvements in Europe (COMBI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

In recent years, research has shown that energy savings resulting from energy efficiency improvements have wider benefits for the economy and society such as increases in employment, GDP, energy security, positive impacts on health, ecosystems and crops or resource consumption. In order to develop more cost-effective energy efficiency policies and optimised long-term strategies in the EU, these mu...
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Technological Evolution of Synergy Between Physicochemical and Living Systems (EVOBLISS)

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

We will develop artificial, technological evolution and use it to design functional ecosystems consisting of up to three forms of living technology, namely, artificial chemical life, living microorganisms, and complex chemical reaction networks for the purpose of improved treatment and cleanup of wastewater for energy generation. The goals of this project are i) develop a general, robotic platform...
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Collaborative learning for enhancing practical skills for patient-focused interventions in gait rehabilitation after orthopedic surgery

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

The Recommendation of the EU Parliament and of the Council of the Establishment of ECVET are taking place in a framework in which there is a serious need of complementarity between vocational training and higher education. Although in many specialties, computer assisted education has long been integrated into educational curriculum, in medical education, this happens sporadically, despite the g...
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Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The overriding aim of this project is to conduct a comparative EU wide analysis on youth unemployment that is sensitive to gender, ethnic and class differences and the historical legacies of multi-level institutions shaping relevant policies.This aim will be achieved through 10 objectives organized around 12 research, management, dissemination and scientific coordination work packages.There are th...
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GLOBAL VALUE - Assessing the Impacts of Multinational Corporations on GLOBAL Development and VALUE Creation (GLOBAL VALUE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"The GLOBAL VALUE project develops an innovative framework for assessing impacts of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) on issues related to the Millennium Declaration, sustainable development, human rights, transparency, and anti-corruption. To ensure utility, we will monitor the policy debate on global and sustainable development and deliver a regularly updated catalogue of goals and indicators. W...
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Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents (I.Family)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Nutrition-related diseases caused a loss of over 56 million years of healthy life of European citizens in 2000. I.Family will make a significant contribution to reduce this burden by studying the interplay and impact of the main drivers of dietary behaviour and food choice. It will take advantage of the unique opportunity to follow-up the large IDEFICS children’s cohort to not only provide added v...
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Practice-based Experiential Learning Analytics Research And Support (PELARS)

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

The PELARS project generates, analyzes, uses and provides feedback for analytics derived from hands-on, project-based and experiential learning scenarios. The project produces and evaluates technology designs for analytic data generation for constructivist learning scenarios in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) topics, including: technology solutions, infrastructure, activities, ass...
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Research and Competence Training Network for Sustainability-Driven Innovation (I4S)

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

The EC is committed to a research and innovation policy that drives ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’. The I4S training network is designed to study sustainability-driven innovation (SDI) in support of this objective. This is much needed as SDI is poorly understood, with companies only now experimenting with practice in this emerging field. This provides opportunity for a new program of r...
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Sustainable Lifestyles 2.0: End User Integration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EU-INNOVATE)

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

Typically, end users or “consumers” are perceived as adopters of sustainable products and services, developed by companies. Thus, a lot of attention is paid to the (non-) diffusion of sustainable products and services. From this perspective end users are seen as – more or less – passive recipients of sustainable products and services.We propose to investigate the active roles of end users in shapi...
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Smartphones Meet Online Social Networks (SmartOSN)

Start date: Sep 2, 2012, End date: Sep 1, 2016,

This project will investigate problems at the intersection of two important socio-technical threads: online social networks and smart mobile devices. Each of them independently has seen tremendous success over the last years and we recently experience the convergence of the two. Example problems that involve a social network as an application/overlay and a mobile network as the underlying communic...
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Exchange of Excellence in Ubiquitous Computing Technologies to Address Healthcare Challenges (UBIHEALTH)

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

"Pervasive Healthcare is focused on working out how to cope with the next generation challenges in healthcare. Addressing these challenges will require expertise and knowledge exchange with countries beyond European borders as well as training of the next generation of researchers in order to gain the expertise necessary to be able to address the upcoming challenges. Moreover, research on Pervasiv...
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Creativity for Innovation & Growth in Europe (CRE8TV.EU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Creativity is a fundamental transformative mechanism of the European economy. To study this mechanism, this project brings together 11 of Europe’s leading innovation research centres, and is structured around six themes: 1. Mapping and measuring the creative-cultural industries and their impacts; 2. Understanding and modelling creativity and design; 3. Entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics in ...
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International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT)

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

Environmental change and particularly amplified global climate change are accelerating in the Arctic. These changes already affect local residents and feedback from the Arctic’s land surface to the climate system, will have global implications. However, climate change and its impacts are variable throughout the wide environmental and land use envelopes of the Arctic. Unfortunately, the Arctic is g...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

The IT University of Copenhagen does not, like many other universities, have an International Office. The role of an international office and all tasks included is held within the department of the Student Affairs and Programs (SAP), as a ‘one-person-office’ by the international coordinator. The daily guidance of students wanting to know more about going abroad is mainly maintained by the Student ...
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Stimulating Enterprising Environments for Development and Sustainability (SEEDS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Derelict buildings and empty spaces threaten economic competitiveness, territorial cohesion and performance. SEEDS addresses the urgent need for revised policies and robust EU steer by promoting innovative land-use strategies and modern governance. It develops skills and opportunities for those furthest from labour markets, transforming growth prospects. It tackles changing land-use patterns deman...
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VARiability In safety critical Embedded Systems (VARIES)

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

"In order to succeed or even to survive, manufacturers and system integrators must be able to deliver new products with speed, diversity, high quality, and at an acceptable cost.Embedded Systems (ES) are rarely entirely conceived from scratch. Companies developing ES constantly face decisions about using and adapting existing products or product assets versus new developments. Determining the long...
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Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks (GREEN)

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

"GREEN will study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock-taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities. It aims at an understanding of the prospective directions of the emerging global governance structures and Europe’s place in them.Analysis will focus on the extant actors from the 20th century, the 21st century risin...
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European Museums in an Age of Migrations (MeLa)

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

“Migration” is a key word that indicates a complex condition of contemporary society, in which mobility doesn’t only pertain to people, but to objects, information and knowledge too. Hence, the “age of migrations” that MeLa adopts as its framework reflects a set of global processes that do not only involve the transnationalization of labor, but also the refashioning of the cultural and political s...
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Intelligent Context-Aware Systems for Healthcare, Wellness, and Assisted Living (iCareNet)

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

Context awareness has the potential to revolutionise the way people interact with information technology. Whereas conventional computers merely interpret explicit user input, context-aware systems analyse and automatically respond upon users’ behaviour and situation he/she is in. This enables electronic systems to assist users in situations in which the use of conventional computers and mobile d...
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Deploying the added value of water in local and regional development (Aqua-add)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

European regions and cities face important challenges related to water management: storage and discharge after (heavy) rainfall, quality, periodic water stress, etc. To address these challenges, it is evident that water must become an integral part of spatial development policies and their implementation.However, until now, water management issues are often secondary. Water issues compete with oth...
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A Centre for Cardiac Arrest in the Oresundregion

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The purpose of the project is to establish a Centre for Cardiac Arrest in Oresundsregionen as a collaborative effort to increase knowledge, developments in assessment, treatment and outcome in cardiac arrest victims. Expected Results: ...
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Energy Oresund

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Strategic energy planning is a cooperative theme for the project. In the project, municipalities and energy companies across Oresund implement concrete demonstration projects, which address the challenges connected with integrating renewable energy in the existing energy system. Achie...
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Green STRING Transport Corridor

Start date: Nov 30, 2011, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

Identify the sectors and companies which will have special growth opportunities through the establishment of a green transport corridor between Öresund and Hamburg. This will be of interest to logistics and goods transportation. To identify the physical, organisational and legal barriers limiting the full capitalisation of the value available for the business community in the Öresund Region with t...
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