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European Intellectual Property Institutes Network - Innovation Society (EIPIN IS)

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

EIPIN IS is a comprehensive project at the forefront of multidisciplinary research, examining the role of intellectual property (IP) as a complex adaptive system in innovation. The focus will be on the European regulatory framework for fostering innovation with the aim of enhancing Europe’s capacity for innovation-based sustainable economic growth. The longstanding European Intellectual Property I...
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Systemic approach to Reduce Energy demand and CO2 emissions of processesthat transform agroforestry waste into High Added value Products. (REHAP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Europe's position in the production of biochemicals from biomass and by-products is limited to a few compounds, while their demand is among the largest in the world. However, Europe has a lot of world leader chemical companies. On the other hand, lignocellulosic waste constitutes one of the most abundant resources without competing with food chain.REHAP’s 16 partners aim at revalorizing agricultur...
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A Comparative History of Insurance Law in Europe (CHILE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The objective of the project is to work out interactions between the national developments of insurance law in Europe, to explore the possibility of common historical roots of European insurance law, and to reassess the history of insurance law in Europe. The project does, thereby, aim at creating a historical basis for a European legal scholarship in the field of insurance law.Today’s state of re...
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Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence - European Integration - Rule of Law and Enforcement

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

Legal work requires no longer only to be familiar with national codes and to apply them. Rather European law influences national legal systems. European law affects more and more areas of national law. This progress happens either directly by means of regulations or indirectly by means of directives. However, only the substantive law is in focus in the provisions. To answer the question of effecti...
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Dynamic electromechanical control of semiconductor nanostructures by acoustic fields (SAWTrain)

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

The dynamic modulation of semiconductor structures using vibrations provides a powerful tool for the control of the materials properties required for novel functionalities. Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) with GHz-frequencies and micrometre-size wavelength can be generated using piezoelectric transducers fabricated with standard integrated circuit technology. Their small propagation velocity and hig...
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Study of Religions Against Prejudices and Stereotypes

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Religious and cultural diversity are today more than ever a critical and political challenge as the recent emergencies related to geo-political and economical global transformations show. Stereotypes and prejudices about religions and in religions can jeopardize an already fragile social fabric and lead to discrimination, ghettoization and radicalization. Responses to these challenges can be repre...
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MIME - MOBILITY AND INCLUSION IN MULTILINGUAL EUROPE (MIME)

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

Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, MIME will generate an organised body of policy-relevant propositions addressing the full range of questions raised in the call. Our aim is to identify the language policies and strategies that best combine “mobility” and “inclusion”.MIME emphasises complementarity between disciplines, and brings together researchers from sociolinguistics, political s...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

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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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS...
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Knowledge-Based Information Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities (KRISTINA)

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

In Europe, migration is tradition – and not only since the European legislation changed towards free migration of European citizens. This is not free of challenges. Especially in the case of care, migrants, often face a double challenge: (i) not to speak the language and not to be acquainted with the culture of the resident country, and (ii) be unfamiliar with the care and health administrations o...
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Artificial Retrieval of Information Assistants - Virtual Agents with Linguistic Understanding, Social skills, and Personalised Aspects (ARIA-VALUSPA)

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

The ARIA-VALUSPA project will create a ground-breaking new framework that will allow easy creation of Artificial Retrieval of Information Assistants (ARIAs) that are capable of holding multi-modal social interactions in challenging and unexpected situations. The system can generate search queries and return the information requested by interacting with humans through virtual characters. These virt...
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Children's Identities and Citizenship - Best Practice Guides

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

This proposal has focus on European Integration promoting active citizenship in young people through guidance for the training of education professionals and young researchers. It links 25 institutions from 17 states that are involved in training education professionals and concerned with citizenship education (CE) and the development of identities in young people. We emphasise that our concern is...
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Zintergrowane nauczanie przedmiotów ścisłych z perspektywą obliczeniową

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

The project is implemented in an international inter-sectoral collaboration involving institutions of higher education, secondary schools and non-governmental organization. Its main objective is to develop, in the transnational consortium, a methodology for the integration of computer science with teaching mathematics and physics in secondary schools on the basis of a pilot project activities in 1...
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EuroLab-4-HPC: Foundations of a European Research Center of Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems (EuroLab-4-HPC)

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

Europe has built momentum in becoming a leader in large parts of the HPC ecosystem. It has brought together technical and business stakeholders from application developers via system software to exascale systems. Despite such gains, excellence in high performance computing systems is often fragmented and opportunities for synergy missed.To compete internationally, Europe must bring together the be...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 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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Narratives in health communication –a multi-disciplinary approach to strengthen understanding of the roles and uses of narratives in conveying health information and changing health behaviors (HealthNar)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Narratives play an increasingly important role in (online) communication about health issues. News reporters not only report the cold facts about an upcoming epidemic, but also increasingly employ techniques that are used in novels and movies; serious games use interactive storytelling techniques to improve the health of children; health campaigns use celebrities and role models in order to convin...
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Brazilian-European partnership in Dynamical Systems (BREUDS)

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

"This is a project for a partnership between leading Brazilian and European research groups in dynamical systems, a prominent subject in mathematics. An extensive consortium of European and Brazilian institutions will collaborate to provide world leading critical mass and support for research on the very forefront of the field. Work Packages reflect parallel priorities in the research. Transfer o...
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The Ontology of Personal Identity (OntoPerson)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"Animalism and the so-called simple view, among many others, constitute competing theories of personal identity. According to the first, persons are biologically individuated animals whose persistence through time consists of some kind of biological continuity. According to the latter, there are no criteria of personal identity: no sort of continuity is both necessary and sufficient for a person t...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

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GRAPHENE ON SILICON FREE ELECTRON LASER (GOSFEL)

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

The aim of this project is to demonstrate an entirely new type of compact laser source by exploiting the unique properties of graphene to realise a solid-state free electron laser. Free electron lasers (FELs) represent a radical alternative to con-ventional lasers as they do not have the restrictions of conventional lasers on op-erating wavelengths, and they are potentially the most flexible, high...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo...
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The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDs)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDS) project will develop novel, integrated technologies to support human experience, analysis and understanding of very large datasets.Making use of humans' implicit processing abilitiesCEEDS will develop innovative tools to exploit theories showing that discovery is the identification of patterns in complex data sets by the implicit informati...
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Training young Adult's Regulation of emotions and Development of social Interaction Skills (TARDIS)

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

The number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) is increasing across Europe. Current research reveals that NEETs often lack self-confidence and the essential social skills needed to seek and secure employment. Youth inclusion associations across Europe provide social coaching programmes, in order to help young people acquire and improve their social competencies. Howeve...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HADRONPHYSICS3)

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

The Project promotes the access to five European Research Infrastructures, and it is structured into nine Networking Activities, plus the Management of the Consortium, and fourteen Joint Research Activities.The Project will profit of the success of the previous HadronPhysics project in FP6 and the current HadronPhysics2 in FP7, and originates from the initiative of more than 2.500 European scienti...
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Incorporating Laughter into Human-Avatar Interactions: Research and Evaluation (ILHAIRE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Laughter is a significant feature of human communication, and machines acting in roles like companions or tutors should not be blind to it. So far very limited progress has been made towards allowing computer-based applications to deal with laughter.ILHAIRE will lay the foundations of truly multimodal, multicultural laughter-enabled man-machine interaction, by associating experts of the different ...
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Multi-Core Execution of Parallelised Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analysability (parMERASA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Engineers who design hard real-time embedded systems express a need for several times the performance available today while keeping safety as major criterion. A breakthrough in performance is expected by parallelising hard real-time applications. parMERASA targets a timing analysable system of parallel hard real-time applications running on a scalable multi-core processor. Several new scientific a...
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Industrialised energy efficient retrofitting of resident buildings in cold climates (E2REBUILD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The vision of E2ReBuild is to transform the retrofitting construction sector from the current craft and resource based construction towards an innovative, high-tech, energy efficient industrialised sector.E2ReBuild aims to- investigate, promote and demonstrate cost effective and advanced energy efficient retrofit strategies that create added value for existing apartment buildings and endorse end-u...
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The geometry of topological quantum field theories (TQFT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"The predictive power of quantum field theory (QFT) is a perpetual driving force in geometry. Examples include the invention of Frobenius manifolds, mixed twistor structures, primitive forms, and harmonic bundles, up to the discovery of the McKay correspondence, mirror symmetry, and Gromov-Witten invariants. Still seemingly disparate, in fact these all are related to topological (T) QFT and thereb...
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Exploiting dataflow parallelism in Teradevice Computing (TERAFLUX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Dataflow parallelism is key to reach power efficiency, reliability, efficient parallel programmability, scalability, data bandwidth. In this project we propose dataflow both at task level and inside thethreads, to offload and manage accelerated codes, to localize the computation, for managing the fault information with appropriate protocols, to easily migrate code to the available/working componen...
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Education in Cultural Understanding, Technologically-Enhanced (eCUTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

In 21stC Europe, many cultural, ethnic and religious groups must live and work together. This is not always a smooth process; cultural differences can lead to social stresses and sometimes outright conflict. Thus education in cultural awareness and understanding has a very significant role. This is an educational domain in which attitudes and behaviours count much more than knowledge alone, and wh...
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Materials and Interfaces for Energy Conversion and Storages (MATCON)

Start date: Dec 15, 2009, End date: Dec 14, 2013,

"There is a consensus today that supplying a growing world population with energy is one of the biggest – if not the biggest – challenge mankind is facing in the 21st century. The reasons for this are numerous and are among others related to the observation that energy is critical to human development, including economic growth, equity and employment, and that fossil fuels – our current energy bac...
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The FIBONACCI Project - Large scale dissemination of inquiry based science and mathematics education (FIBONACCI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"European authorities and the international scientific community acknowledge the importance of Inquiry-Based Science and Mathematics Education (IBSME) to develop an integrated strategy for scientific literacy and awareness from primary to secondary school, reinforcing scientific careers. Scienceduc and Pollen FP6 projects as well as SINUS-Transfer have successfully implemented IBSME in a large num...
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Engineering Exotic Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces (OxIDes)

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

Emergent phenomena at oxide interfaces have been recognized as one of 2007’s top ten breakthroughs, exciting great interest. Just as the engineering of physical properties at semiconductor interfaces was the crucial step in Si-based electronics, the next great advance might rely on the multiple novel functionalities of oxide interfaces. The consortium OxIDES will (i) develop theoretical and simula...
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Controlling Chronic Diseases related to Metabolic Disorders (METABO)

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

The aim of METABO is to set up a comprehensive platform, running both in clinical settings and in every-day life environments, for continuous and multi-parametric monitoring of the metabolic status in patients with, or at risk of, diabetes and associated metabolic disorders.The type of parameters that will be monitored, in addition to traditional clinical and biomedical parameters, will also inc...
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DynaLearn - Engaging and informed tools for learning conceptual system knowledge (DynaLearn)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

Description Despite this importance, there is an alarming decline in the number of students choosing science subjects. Reasons for this include the perceived complexity, the idea that these subjects are uninteresting and tedious, and the lack of effective cognitive tools that enable learners to acquire the expertise in a way that fits its qu...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HadronPhysics2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The Project promotes the access to five European Research Infrastructures, and it is structured intop eight Networking Activities, plus the Management of the Consortium, and fourteen Joint Research Activities. The Project represents the continuation of the successful HadronPhysics project in FP6 and originates from the initiative of more than 2.500 European scientists working in the field of hadro...
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Integrating Research in Interactive Storytelling (IRIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Description Virtual Centre of ExcellenceInteractive Storytelling is a major endeavour to develop new media which could offer a radically new user experience, with a potential to revolutionise digital entertainment. European research in Interactive Storytelling has played a leading role in the development of the field, and this creates a u...
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Multi-core Execution of Hard-real-time Applications Supporting Analysability (MERASA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2007, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

The increasing demand for functionality in current and future real-time embedded systems is driving an increase in performance of processors. However at the same time, in developing safety-related real-time embedded systems, there is a need to prove that the timing requirements are met. Multi-core processors are increasingly being considered as the solution to achieve the increased processor perfo...
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