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DAFNE: Use of a Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and trans-boundary water resources systems of fast growing developing countries. (DAFNE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Global trends in population growth and rising economic prosperity will increase the demand for energy, food and water, with more severe impact in fast-growing economies, such as in several African countries. The constraints on water, energy, and food could well hamper economic development, lead to social and geopolitical tensions, and cause lasting environmental damage. DAFNE advocates an integrat...
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Insect-inspired capillary nanostamping (INCANA)

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

Aim of the proposed project is a) development and establishment of insect-inspired capillary nanostamping (IICN) as next-generation contact nanolithography, b) replacing state-of-the-art lithographic and synthesis protocols requiring use of sacrificial templates or time-consuming self-assembly steps by IICN and c) significant IICN-driven acceleration and upscaling of the production of extended nan...
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Hijacking cell signalling pathways with magnetic nanoactuators for remote-controlled stemcell therapies of neurodegenerative disorders (MAGNEURON)

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

Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, are a major public health issue given the aging population in Europe and beyond. While curative pharmacological treatment of these diseases is not in sight, cell replacement therapies (CTs) are considered very promising, in particular with the advent of stem-cell reprogramming technologies. However, a fundamental challenge in the medical app...
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Socialising Sensori-Motor Contingencies (socSMCs)

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

As robots become more omnipresent in our society, we are facing the challenge of making them more socially competent. However, in order to safely and meaningfully cooperate with humans, robots must be able to interact in ways that humans find intuitive and understandable. Addressing this challenge, we propose a novel approach for understanding and modelling social behaviour and implementing social...
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Didaktisch-methodische Konzepte für die berufsorientierte Fremdsprachenvermittlung als Beitrag einer europäischen Berufsausbildung

Start date: Sep 30, 2015, End date: Aug 29, 2018,

According to the data from the Statistical Office of the European Union the unemployment rate in the euro area amounted 11.2% in February 2015. A massive problem remaining is the high youth unemployment rate from under 25 years-old persons. Most notably affected with rates over 50% are the crisis-shaken states Greece and Spain, as well as Italy and Portugal with youth unemployment rates over 40% o...
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

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

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Berufsbildung

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

(A) Background:Since the publication of the study on the future of the world economy "The Limits to Growth" by the Club of Rome over forty years ago the number of publications on the effects of destructive handling of natural resources, especially in the industrialized countries, has not only reached a confusing extent. Their results and conclusions, in a frighteningly dramatic way, point out a th...
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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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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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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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Knowledge Transfer for Climate Change Adaptation (KNOW2ADAPT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: May 1, 2017,

As a result of climate change, the frequency of floods and droughts is expected to increase in many European river basins. Adaptation measures are a top priority of the European Commission and are crucial for protecting populations, economies and ecosystems. This research will contribute to the challenges associated with climate change adaptation by questioning the transferability of relevant wate...
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URBan land recycling Information services for Sustainable cities (URBIS)

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

The URBIS project aims to develop, implement and validate in real environment innovative information services related to urban vacant land, based on open geospatial data, to support planning of European Large Urban Zone's (LUZs) in a sustainable way.It is meant to support European spatial urban planning in general and land use planners and land (re-)development agencies in particular and will answ...
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Innovation Enhacement and Key Account Activities iwithin EEEN Niedersachsen 2015-2016 (N-Supp_INNO-15)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The general objective of this proposal is to offer services for SMEs that help increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation and by contributing to a better and more efficient connection to providers to more special support in this field of action. Partners will deliver these services in the NUTS-1 region Niedersachsen DE9 (Germany) in the years...
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Concept Invention Theory (COINVENT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The capacity of combinational creativity---i.e., when novel ideas are produced through unfamiliar combinations of familiar ideas---is difficult to recreate computationally. In particular, it is a hard task for autonomous computational systems to tackle the combinatorial explosion of potential combinations, and to be capable of recognizing the value of newly created ideas (concepts, theories, solut...
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The merging of the senses: understanding multisensory experience (MULTISENSE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"The integration of information across different sensory channels is a fundamental problem that we have to solve in every moment of daily life. We will study four key aspects of multisensory processing that are currently unresolved: (1) the role of dynamic binding in multisensory experience; (2) the role of action and sensorimotor contingencies in multisensory processing; (3) the modulation of mul...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

Nach ihrer Gründung 1974 wurden an der Universität Osnabrück schnell die Notwendigkeit und der Mehrwert internationaler Zusammenarbeit erkannt. Bereits 1978 wurden die ersten Kooperationsverträge geschlossen, zunächst innerhalb Europas, anschließend in der ganzen Welt. Die Einführung des Erasmus Programms in 1987 ging also zeitlich einher mit den Anfängen der Internationalisierung an der Universi...
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Sphingolipid homeostasis: from basic biology to applications (SPHINGONET)

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

SPHINGONET was inspired by a common vision of its partners on the training of researchers in the field of sphingolipid homeostasis and body-wide sphingolipid signaling networks using innovative technological approaches. Dysregulation of sphingolipid balances contributes to a broad range of pathological processes, spanning neurodegeneration, asthma, autoimmune disease, insuline resistance, obesity ...
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Mind the Gap: Mechanism and Impact of Ceramide Trafficking at the ER-Mitochondrial Interface (MeCeTERMitI)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

A principal cause of failure in the treatment of cancer is that cancer cells develop resistance to chemo- and radiotherapy, leading to recurrence of the disease or even death. Sphingolipid molecules can modulate the ability of malignant cells to grow and resist anticancer regimens, with some molecules promoting tumorigenesis and others acting as tumor-suppressors. The tumor-suppressor activity of ...
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Polygeneration through gasification utilising secondary fuels derived from MSW (POLYSTABILAT)

Start date: Oct 17, 2008, End date: Apr 16, 2015,

In Osnabrück, Germany, Herhof Recyclingcenter Osnabrueck GmbH (HRO) operates, under patented technology (biological drying), a 90.000 tons/a Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) recycling plant, where appr. 50% of incoming MSW (45.000 tons/a) is converted into a secondary fuel (marketed under the name Stabilat), currently used in cement plants. A portion of Stabilat (appr. 500 kg/h) will be converted to e...
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Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition (eSMCs)

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

Description The majority of current robot architectures is based on a perception-then-action control strategy. This project will adopt a theoretical perspective that turns this classical view upside-down and emphasizes the constitutive role of action for perception. The key concept of our project is based on that of sensorimotor contingencie...
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Support for Enhancing Innovation Management in SME and Key Account Managementin Niedersachsen (N-SUPP_INNO)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The general objective of this proposal is to offer services for SMEs that help increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation and by contributing to a better and more efficient connection to providers to more special support in this field of action. Partners will deliver these services in the NUTS-1 region Niedersachsen DE9 (Germany).To achieve t...
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Robustness by Autonomous Competence Enhancement (RACE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Description The aim of RACE is to develop an artificial cognitive system, embodied by a service robot, able to build a high-level understanding of the world it inhabits by storing and exploiting appropriate memories of its experiences. In this way, experiences provide a detailed account of how the robot has achieved past goals or how it has ...
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DYNAMICS OF INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (INCOOP)

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

This ITN brings together Universities, think-tanks and high-level officials that all share a long-term interest in a better understanding of the functioning of institutions in the European system of Multi-level governance (MLG) and who have extensive academic and practical expertise in this field. Their interdisciplinary knowledge and experience is pooled with the main objective of improving the E...
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Light Scattering on Micro Structured Surface Coatings (Riblet Sensor)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

The project aims to develop a preliminary configuration of an optical sensor that is able to detect sub-mum-degradations of microstructured coatings (e. g. riblets) with highest accuracy. The availability of such sensor is mandatory for the establishment of drag-reduction riblet structures on aircraft wings and/or body components. Any type of degradations of the riblet structure are unfavorable fo...
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towards a PHOtonic liquid state machine based on delay-CoUpled Systems (PHOCUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The aim of this project is to design and implement a photonics realization of a liquid state machine (LSM), with the potential for versatile and fast signal handling. We target to achieve high computational performance with only a small number of photonics components, using dynamical systems with time delay to realize the required high dimensionality for the LSM. This ambitious aim is motivated by...
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A system view on the differential activities of human type I interferons (IFNaction)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Type I interferons (IFNs) form a restricted network of highly related immune cytokines that elicit differential biological responses through a single cell surface receptor comprised of the subunits IFNAR1 and IFNAR2. We have shown that differential signal activation correlates with differential interaction and conformational dynamics of the receptor induced by binding of different member of the IF...
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Policy Science Interactions: connecting science and policy through innovative knowledge brokering (PSI-connect)

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

European policy makers and researchers recognise the large policy potential of research in the field of sustainable development, but the potential is not fully used. PSI-connect wants to contribute to bridging the gap between science and policy in the field of the impacts of climate change on water management. The decoupling challenge from the EU Sustainable Development Strategy implies that impac...
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Bridging the gap between adaptation strategies of climate change impacts and European water policies (ClimateWater)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The Project ClimateWater is aimed as the first step on the analysis and synthesis of data and information on the likely (known, assumed, expected, modelled, forecasted, predicted, estimated etc.) water related impacts of the changes of the climate with special regard to their risk and to the urgency of getting prepared to combat these changes and their impacts. The Project will identify all adapta...
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Coordinating Twinning partnerships towards more adaptive Governance in river basins (Twin2Go)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

Over the past years, the EU has funded several projects that undertook research on specific integrated water resources management (IWRM) issues in case studies carried out on twinned river basins from Europe and from developing countries. The aim of Twin2Go now is to review, assess, synthesize and consolidate the outcomes of these projects in order to make them transferable and applicable to other...
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Artificial Language Evolution on Autonomous Robots (ALEAR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

This tightly integrated focused project aims at fundamental breakthroughs in understanding and synthesising the mechanisms achieving cognition and language. It engages in carefully controlled experiments in which autonomous humanoid robots self-organise rich conceptual frameworks and communication systems with similar features as those found in human languages. Language and cognition are seen as c...
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Synthetic Forager (SF)

Start date: Jan 15, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The single overarching goal of the SF consortium is to identify the neuronal, cognitive and behavioral principles underlying optimal foraging in rodents and to implement these principles in a real-world foraging artefact or the Synthetic Forager (SF.01). SF.01 constitutes a novel biologically based cognitive technology for autonomous exploration and foraging in real-world man-made indoor and outdo...
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Context Casting (C-CAST)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

Project Context Casting (C-Cast) main objective is to evolve mobile multimedia multicasting to exploit the increasing integration of mobile devices with our everyday physical world and environment. The key motivation for this project and why we believe Europe needs a project on Context Casting is because multicasting is the key enabler that will make mobile context aware services commercially attr...
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