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MEthane goes MObile - MEasurements and MOdelling (MEMO2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Mitigation of climate change is a key scientific and societal challenge and also a headline target of the EU2020 strategy. Strong reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are necessary to reach the global warming target agreed on at the 2015 United Nations Convention of Parties in Paris. Such emission reductions can only be achieved if sources are properly quantified and mitigation efforts are verif...
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Honeybee communication: animal social learning at the height of social complexity (BeeDanceGap)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

Learning from others is fundamental to ecological success across the animal kingdom, but a key theme to emerge from recent research is that individuals respond differently to social information. Understanding this diversity is an imposing challenge, because it is hard to replicate the overwhelming complexity of free-living groups within controlled laboratory conditions. Yet here I propose that one...
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Comorbid Conditions of Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (CoCA)

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

Understanding mechanisms underlying comorbid disorders poses a challenge for developing precision medicine tools. Psychiatric disorders are highly comorbid, and are among the last areas of medicine, where classification is driven by phenomenology rather than pathophysiology. We will study comorbidity between the most frequent psychiatric conditions, ADHD, mood/anxiety, and substance use disorders,...
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European AIDS Vaccine Initiative 2020 (EAVI2020)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

HIV-1 is responsible for a global pandemic of 35 million people, and continues to spread at a rate of >2 million new infections/year. It is widely acknowledged that a protective vaccine would be the most effective means to reduce HIV-1 spread and ultimately eliminate the pandemic, while a therapeutic vaccine may help mitigate the clinical course of disease and lead to strategies of viral eradicati...
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Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International City (TRODITIES)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International CityYiwu, a city of 2 million in China’s commercially vibrant Zheijang province, is known by traders from countries including Afghanistan and Syria, the Ukraine and Mexico, and the UK and Russia, as being the world’s hub for wholesale of ‘small commodities’. Journalists have recently been struck both by Yiwu’s significance to consu...
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Water - Sustainable Point-Of-Use Treatment Technologies (WATERSPOUTT)

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

The WHO estimates that in 2015 in Africa ~156 million people relied on untreated sources for their drinking water. WATERSPOUTT will design, develop, pilot and field-test a range of, sustainable point-of-use solar disinfection (SODIS) technologies that will provide affordable access to safe water to remote and vulnerable communities in Africa and elsewhere. These novel large-volume water treatment ...
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A holistic multi-actor approach towards the design of new tomato varieties and management practices to improve yield and quality in the face of climate change (TomGEM)

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

The world demographic growth and global climate change are major challenges for human society,hence the need to design new strategies for maintaining high crop yield in unprecedented environmental conditions.The objective of TomGEM is to design new strategies aiming to maintain high yields of fruit and vegetables at harsh temperature conditions, using tomato as a reference fleshy fruit crop.As yie...
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Orchestration and Reconfguration Control Architecture (ORCA)

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

ORCA offers experimentation facilities to promote wireless innovation in several market segments, including manufacturing, automotive industry, healthcare, ambient assistant living, public events, home automation, and utilities. Within the manufacturing market, for instance, application requirements vary from very low latency, up to real-time 3D video-driven interaction between collaborative robot...
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Imaging the Force of Cancer (FORCE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in EU member states with ~90% of all cancer deaths caused by metastatic spread. Despite its significance, measuring metastatic potential as well as potential indicators of therapy efficacy remain unmet clinical challenges. Recently, it has been demonstrated in vitro, that aggressive metastatic cells pull on their surroundings suggesting that metastat...
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European Union Budget for Results

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

This application will fill an important gap in Jean Monnet provision in the United Kingdom by providing excellent teaching for university students in European Union public policy and administration, with a particular focus on the European Union’s budget and the reform of the financing of the budget. Teaching will also include the institutional politics of the European Union, the roles of public op...
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Austro-German exile in America 1930-45: interrogating the relationship between science, technology and modern selfhood in cultural and musical discourses. (Exile and Technology)

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

This project examines the relationship between technology, selfhood, and modernity in the context of the music and thought of Austrian and German émigré musicians and cultural theorists in America from 1930 to 1945. The project looks beyond the boundaries of the nation state and the nexus of composer and musical work that tend to structure musicological enquiry. Instead, transnational historical m...
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Lifecourse biological pathways underlying social differences in healthy ageing (LIFEPATH)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

"The dramatic differentials in healthy ageing, quality of life and life expectancy between individuals of different socioeconomic groups, is a major societal challenge facing Europe. The overarching aim of the LIFEPATH project is to understand the determinants of diverging ageing pathways among individuals belonging to different socio-economic groups. This will be achieved via an original study de...
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Interactive Education in 360°

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

A virtual educational system - Interactive Education in 360° The goal of the project is the emergence of an electronically web based system for the creation of educational content, teaching in a close-to-reality environment and a subsequent testing of the achieved outcomes. Why interactive 360° education?75% of human perception is performed through the visual analyzer. Based on that fact, it is ou...
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European Integrated Research Training Network on Advanced Cryptographic Technologies for the Internet of Things and the Cloud (ECRYPT-NET)

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

The goal of this ETN is to develop advanced cryptographic techniques for the Internet of Things and the Cloud and to create implementations that offer a high level of security and increased usability, for a wide range of physical computation platforms. The ITN will equip a group of 15 early stage researchers with a set of interdisciplinary skills combining mathematics, computer science and electri...
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Perceptual Awareness in the Reorganizing Brain (Perceptual Awareness)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"The present project aims at casting light on the neural and cognitive reorganization of visual function following unilateral lesion at various levels of the central visual system such as optic tract, optic radiation, primary visual cortex, extrastriate visual areas. In the first part of the project we will employ behavioural as well as brain imaging methods to study the basic neural mechanisms of...
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Heart OMics in AGEing (HOMAGE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

As more people survive into old age, the prevalence of heart failure (HF), one of the most common and debilitating diseases in older people, will rise still further. Delaying or preventing HF will have great benefit to those at personal risk, their families, society and the economy. HOMAGE aims to provide a biomarker (BM) approach that will a) help identify i. patients at high risk of developing ...
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Europe-Japan Accelerator Development Exchange Programme (E-JADE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The Europe-Japan Accelerator Development Exchange Programme (E-JADE) addresses the urgent need of exchange of ideas on R&D and implementation of future accelerators for particle physics. It does so by exchanging accelerator scientists and experts between Europe and Japan.The recent European Strategy for Particle Physics and the Japanese Roadmap identify similar pressing goals of research for the n...
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Aggression subtyping for improved insight and treatment innovation in psychiatric disorders (AGGRESSOTYPE)

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

Aggression is a basic physiological trait with important roles throughout evolution, both in defence and predation. When expressed in humans in the wrong context, aggression leads to maladjustment, social impairment and crime. Despite this, knowledge about aggression aetiology is limited and current treatment strategies are insufficient. Contingent to a subdivision into impulsive and instrumental ...
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Analysis of the regulation of stress tolerance and growth to improve stress responses under water scarcity in crops (ReadyToGo)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Drought is a major constraint on crop production and food security. Plant adaptation to water scarcity induces stress responses and the reduction of shoot growth to preserve and redistribute resources. Abscisic acid (ABA) and jasmonate (JA) signalling pathways are central to modulate growth rate to match the environment. This involves a transient growth arrest upon drought, an ambivalent so called...
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ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE LEARNING

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Active Citizenship for Sustainable Learning is a three-year ERASMUS+ strategic school partnership. It involves eight secondary schools from Croatia, England, France, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Spain. The latter cater for pupils of diverse ethnic and cultural origins. Most of these learners come from underprivileged families with low opportunities for learning, travelling and self-educati...
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Crisis, Conflict and Critical Diplomacy: The EU Perceptions in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The proposal establishes a Network - "Crisis, Conflict and Critical Diplomacy: EU Perceptions in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine" (C3EU) - focused on EU images in key issue areas of economy, politics, foreign policy, energy, climate change, RS&I, civil society and culture/education.The EU aims to engage more effectively with 3rd country publics and stakeholders. Ukraine and Israel/Palestine are curre...
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Outside circulationplace

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

Gullmarsgymnasiet is an upper secondary school with a general aim to meet students from various backgrounds and with different aspirations. The school, which is open to all students, is geographically distant from the bigger cities, but we can offer a broad spectrum of experiences. Gullmarsgymnasiet works deliberately in order to give our students good knowledge of industry and working life, and c...
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Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration and Markets (GEMM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission provides an important opportunity for advancement of our knowledge of growth and innovation in the European Union labour markets as well as the dynamism that creates inclusive but competitive social environments. The GEMM project relates in particular to the Migration, Prosperity and Growth Dimension of the Call on the European Growth Agenda. W...
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Exascale Compound Activity Prediction Engine (ExCAPE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Scalable machine learning of complex models on extreme data will be an important industrial application of exascale computers. In this project, we take the example of predicting compound bioactivity for the pharmaceutical industry, an important sector for Europe for employment, income, and solving the problems of an ageing society. Small scale approaches to machine learning have already been trial...
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Russia's strategic narrative of the West: A study of influence in Ukraine (STRATNARRA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

This project investigates the relationship between mass communication and influence in 21st Century international relations. It does so through a study of Russia’s official and media narratives about the West and their reception in Ukraine. Success in today’s information age is said to depend on ‘whose story wins’. Emerging powers such as Russia have developed various policies and instruments unde...
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MicroRNAs in the Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention of Epilepsy (EPIMIRNA)

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

Epilepsy is a major burden for patients and health systems worldwide. It is a common chronic neurological disorder affecting people of all ages, and the shortfall in existing treatments means that 30% of patients continue to suffer uncontrolled seizures. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are a recently-discovered, network-level layer of gene expression regulation that controls protein levels of entire signaling p...
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Synchronizing Palaeoclimate data for better understanding of the Solar effect on European Climate (SYNC)

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

The sun activity is decreasing since 1996 and a grand solar minimum is expected to occur from 2020 to 2070. The magnitude of solar forcing on the current climate is still uncertain. This project aims to test the existence of quasic-periodic decadal to centennial natural climate variability modulated by grand solar minima during the Late Holocene, which resulted in abrupt climate changes in Europe ...
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Reaching Enhanced Achievement and Learning In Skills for Europe

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

The Reaching Enhanced Achievement and Learning In Skills for Europe (REALISE) project has been developed to address the identified needs of local communities and individuals. New College Lanarkshire (NCL) serves the most deprived communities in North Lanarkshire and the REALISE project is designed to increase the capacity of people living in these areas.The aim of the REALISE project is to improve...
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Improving students and teachers competences, motivation and skills through students work placement and staff training abroad.

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

Our school aims to establish a solid cooperation with European Vocational organizations ,will raise the image of our School,Improve communication among staff and between students and staff Promote staff competence,Improve students' learning,help students to understand and come closer to a European multicultural, internationalized environment and Improve students' employability through practical tr...
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Un passé qui ne passe pas. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Contemporary French Holocaust Literature (HOLOFRENPOSTMOD)

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

The project addresses the controversial interplay between postmodern narrative strategies and Holocaust representations in recent French fiction. The project’s innovative quality lies in applying Anglo-American theories of postmodernism to French literature, deemed largely immune to the influence of the ‘alien’ and negatively connoted postmodern poetics. The project’s aims are a) to establish the ...
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The Adoption of New Technological Arrays in the Production of Broadcast Television (ADAPT)

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

"Since 1960, the television industry has undergone successive waves of technological change. Both the methods of programme making and the programmes themselves have changed substantially. The current opening of TV’s vast archives to public and academic use has emphasised the need to explain old programming to new users. Why particular programmes are like they are is not obvious to the contemporary...
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‘The re-privatization of the contemporary art world: private collectors and artist-entrepreneurs in the changing geographies of European art’ (Art market)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

This project examines the idea that there is an on-going re-privatization of the European art world, in which increasingly it is private art collectors and communities of artist-entrepreneurs that are creating commercial value in the contemporary art market and redrawing our cultural landscape. The rapid expansion of the global art market has meant that art has entered a period of radical institut...
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Echanges de pratiques franco-écossais en techniques esthétiques

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

Vocational school located in Haute-Savoie, we opened a European section in English for our beauticians. We are partner with many institutes and spas in the area, seeking estheticians able to communicate with their foreign customers, they are many during the touristic seasons. Our first objective is to adapt the skills of our students at the request of professionals by providing an additional and s...
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Démarche académique d'échange d'expertises éducatives européennes

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

DA4E (« Démarche académique d’échange d’expertises éducatives européennes » - « Regional approach based on the exchange of European educational expertises”) is a collective project with a regional dimension, spread out over two school years (2016-2017 and 2017-2018) and whose main purpose is to grasp the international dimension of education in order to enrich the knowledge andknow-how of our staff...
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Novel THz radiation source based on compact linear accelerator (TeraClear)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

There are more than thirty thousand accelerators in the world starting from small-scale linear accelerators used for medical applications and in industry, large-scale third and fourth generation light sources used to probe the molecular and atomic properties of matter, and ending with giant “atom-smashers” such as Large Hadron Collider used to unlock the secrets of creation. Operation of these mac...
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PhD on Innovation Pathways for TES (INPATH-TES)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Following the EC SET-Plan Education and Training Roadmap, the concept of this proposal is to develop a joint PhD programme between universities and research centres, on the topic of Thermal Energy Storage (TES). The goal of INPATH-TES is to create a network of universities and research institutes to implement a joint PhD programme on TES technologies. The final result of such a network is to educa...
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Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens (Dropsa)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The DROPSA consortium will create new knowledge and understanding of the damage and losses of fruit crops resulting from pests and pathogens, with a specific focus on the new and emerging threats due to Drosophila suzukii and quarantine pathogens Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas fragariae and X. arboricola. The project will deliver a cost effective approach that can be widely implemented by the E...
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Wireless Software and Hardware platforms for Flexible and Unified radio and network controL (WiSHFUL)

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

Wireless testbeds have become an essential tool to develop and validate innovative wireless solutions. However, due to the increasing diversity of wireless solutions and competing radio technologies, along with the ever more stringent requirements on the reliability of test results, wireless test facilities have evolved to very complex systems with steep learning curves for innovators. To speed up...
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A FRAMEWORK FOR USER CENTRED PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN THE CLOUD (CLARUS)

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

Although cloud computing offers many benefits, security issues such as confidentiality and privacy are still major concerns to those intending to migrate to the cloud. Traditional cloud security has been based on assurance to customers that cloud providers follow sound security practices. As a result, current security mechanisms are commonly located within the cloud platform, hence compelling cust...
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Dialogues on ICT to Support COoperation Ventures and Europe-North AmeRica (Canada and USA) sYnergies (DISCOVERY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"DISCOVERY aims at supporting dialogues between Europe and North America (US and Canada); and fostering cooperation in collaborative ICT R&I, both under Horizon 2020 and under US and Canada funding programmes. With this purpose, DISCOVERY proposes a radically new approach to engage more actively and strategically in supporting dialogues and partnership building for ICT R&I cooperation. At the core...
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