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FeREDCOUPLS - Reduced Iron Catalysts for Reduction and Coupling Reactions (FeREDCOUPLS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

The aerobic conditions on our planet enable the accumulation of oxidized matter whereas reduced chemicals are the most valuable energy carriers. Future shortages of energy-rich resources make efficient reductive transformations one of the greatest scientific challenges. To address this societal, economic and environmental demand, we propose new approaches to the design and application of stabilize...
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Modification and regulation of coding and non-coding RNA pathways (moreRNA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2021,

Coding and non-coding RNAs are regulated at numerous levels. For example, microRNA (miRNA) expression can be influenced at various steps of biosynthesis. Furthermore, it has been reported that direct RNA methylation events can also affect gene expression in many different organisms and systems. The aim of this project is to identify and characterize factors that affect the maturation of miRNAs. We...
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Training Network to Understand and Exploit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception in Bacteria (PATHSENSE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

The PATHSENSE (Pathogen Sensing) ETN will bring together an interdisciplinary team of world-leading researchers from Europe to tackle a highly ambitious scientific project, focusing on the molecular mechanisms of sensory perception in bacterial pathogens. PATHSENSE will establish an innovative doctoral training programme that will deliver 13 PhD graduates and high-impact scientific outputs. The re...
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Mid- and far-IR optoelectronic devices based on Bose-Einstein condensation (MIR-BOSE)

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

Optoelectronic devices typically operate in the weak coupling regime between light and matter, for example in conventional lasers relying on population inversion to achieve optical gain. Recently there has been a surge of interest in quantum systems operating instead in the strong coupling regime, when the coupling strength of the light-matter interaction is so strong that new states – cavity pola...
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European HIV Vaccine Alliance (EHVA): a EU platform for the discovery and evaluation of novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine candidates (EHVA)

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

Many HIV vaccine concepts and several efficacy trials have been conducted in the prophylactic and therapeutic fields with limited success. There is an urgent need to develop better vaccines and tools predictive of immunogenicity and of correlates of protection at early stage of vaccine development to mitigate the risks of failure. To address these complex and challenging scientific issues, the Eur...
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Repair of tissue and organ damage in refractory chronic graft versus host disease after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation by the infusion of purified allogeneic donor regulatory T lymphocytes (TREGeneration)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Our proposal encompasses parallel clinical trials addressing the feasibility and the effectiveness of donor-derived regulatory T cells (Treg) as a therapeutic agent in the treatment and prevention of tissue and organ damage resulting from graft versus host disease (GVHD) after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).We propose a collaborative clinical study in which Treg therapy for GHVD is...
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ELIS - evidenzbasierte Leseförderung in Schulen

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

Society, the EU and other communities place multiple developmental tasks on the educational system. For the present project, the following developmental tasks will be focused upon: advancement and consolidation of reading literacy, advancement of participation in society through reading literacy and advancement of readiness for life-long learning.Through these developmental tasks, it will be possi...
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Implementing Inclusion in Schools

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

Pursuing the goal of Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to provide all persons with or without disabilities with equal rights and equal opportunities in education, the project consortium of 7 partners from DE, AT, FI , ES and BE (Landes-Caritasverband Bayern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Pädagogische Hochschule Salzburg, Kehitysvammaisten Palvelusäätiö, F...
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Constructing an Alliance for Value-driven Cybersecurity (CANVAS)

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

The growing complexity of the digital ecosystem in combination with increasing global risks entail the danger that enforcing cybersecurity may bypass other fundamental values like equality, fairness or privacy, whereas downplaying cybersecurity would undermine citizens’ trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure. Technology developers as well as legal and philosophical scholars and empiric...
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Design Principles of Ion Pairs in Organocatalysis – Elucidation of Structures, Intermediates and Stereoselection Modes as well as Assessment of Individual Interaction Contributions (IONPAIRSATCATALYSIS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Ions are nearly omnipresent in chemistry and biochemistry. By providing the highest intermolecular interaction energies, ionic interactions have an extreme impact on molecular structures, which are the key to molecular functions. Experimentally determined structures of small contact ion pairs in solution are very rare and sometimes lacking in complete research fields. In addition, despite the amaz...
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Design and Self-Assembly of Organometallic-Based Polypnictogen Materials and Discrete Nano-sized Supramolecules (SELFPHOS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

In view of current developments in the fields of porous materials and discrete nano-sized molecules and aggregates the lack of organometallic-based compounds acting as nodes together with functionalized organic linkers in such materials and as linkers and building blocks for nano-sized spheres and aggregates is obvious. By using organometallic polyphosphorus compounds it was possible to synthesize...
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Metallocomplexes of macrocyclic compounds for photonic devices (METCOPH)

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

The key objective of the METCOPH multidisciplinary project is to intensify and consolidate cooperation between several research groups from member states and third countries on topics within the field of fundamental interdisciplinary science. The project combines the basic ideas of organic chemistry, solid state physics, photochemistry and spectroscopy of metallocomplexes of macrocyclic compounds ...
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Microbiome Influence on Energy balance and Brain Development-Function Put into Action to Tackle Diet-related Diseases and Behavior (MyNewGut)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Emerging evidence indicates that the gut microbiome contributes to our ability to extract energy from the diet and influences development and function of the immune, endocrine and nervous systems, which regulate energy balance and behaviour. This has led to hypothesize that developing microbiome-based dietary interventions can be cost-effective measures to prevent diet-related and behavioural diso...
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Philosopher in Residence

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

1) Project BackgroundEducation 2030 is UNESCO’s new challenge, which is to engage in dialogue on the new visions of future learning in the 21st century. The aim is to provide inclusive education of an equally high standard for all. At a time of immigration Europe is undergoing cultural changes. It is therefore important to strive for or rather promote cultural differences, active cooperation, the ...
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Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys (HEALS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Assessing individual exposure to environmental stressors and predicting health outcomes implies that both environmental exposures and epi/genetic variations are reliably measured simultaneously. HEALS (Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys) brings together in an innovative approach a comprehensive array of novel technologies, data analysis and modeling tools th...
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Ultrashort Pulse Generation from Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (ULTRAQCL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The generation of ultrafast and intense light pulses is an underpinning technology across the electromagnetic spectrum enabling the study of fundamental light-matter interactions, as well as industrial exploitation in a plethora of applications across the physical, chemical and biological sciences. A benchmark system for such studies is the modelocked Ti:Sapphire laser, which has grown from being ...
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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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Ultrafast quantum physics on the sub-cycle time scale (QUANTUMSUBCYCLE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The physics of condensed matter depends on ultrafast dynamics of its atomic constituents. Femtosecond light pulses have been exploited to monitor these phenomena by stroboscopic means. Yet, the time resolution is limited by the duration of the intensity envelope of the light pulses used. We propose a new class of sub-cycle optics, which harnesses the absolute optical phase and amplitude of ultrash...
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Incentives through Transparency: European Rental Housing Framework for Profitability Calculation of Energetic Retrofitting Investments (RentalCal)

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

The current level of energy efficiency investments in the rental housing sector is in danger of missing EU policy targets. RentalCal aims to develop models and tools for assessing the commercial viability of energy efficiency retrofitting in the rental housing stock. This will reduce split incentive barriers, price in green added value and show a clear road map towards a sustainable housing stock....
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Neurobiology and Treatment of Adolescent Female Conduct Disorder: The Central Role of Emotion Processing (FEMNAT-CD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Conduct Disorder (CD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder with symptoms of Conduct Disorder (which is included among the abbreviation “CD” throughout the proposal) has a highly negative impact for the affected individual as well as for families and society. Although the number of females exhibiting serious aggressive behaviours is growing, the majority of studies on aetiology and treatment of CD hav...
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Identification and targeting of somatic changes initiating sporadic cancers (ISIS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Cancer drugs are extremely ineffective, generally because current therapies do not address cellular heterogeneity. While hypothesis-driven research and functional genomics identify ever more novel putative therapeutic targets, the scientific community lacks rationales to attack the cellular heterogeneity in cancer, to select among the targets the most promising, and to design combination therapies...
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Dynamics of and in Complex Systems (DIONICOS)

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

With the statics of a wealth of model systems in statistical and condensed-matter systems being relatively well understood, an increased effort in research in these fields is channelled towards the understanding of dynamical phenomena. This agenda is even more pressing as dynamic effects are of crucial importance for many experimentally observed and technologically important phenomena.In the first...
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Mars Analogues for Space Exploration (MASE)

Start date: Dec 13, 2013, End date: Jan 1, 2018,

Assessing the habitability of Mars and detecting life, if it was ever there, depends on knowledge of whether the combined environmental stresses experienced on Mars are compatible with life and whether a record of that life could ever be detected. However, our current ability to make these assessments is hampered by a lack of knowledge of how the combined effect of different environmental stresses...
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"MOLECULAR-SCALE ELECTRONICS: Concepts, Contacts and Stability ""MOLESCO""" (MOLESCO)

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

"The MOLESCO network will create a unique training and research environment to develop a pool of young researchers capable of achieving breakthroughs aimed at realising the immense potential of molecular electronics. In part this will involve the major challenges of design and fabrication of molecular-scale devices. To deliver this step-change in capability, MOLESCO will coordinate the activities ...
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Molecular Mesoscopics for Organic Nano-Optoelectronics (MOLMESON)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

This project explors the boundary between the individual molecule and the bulk solid in the context of polymeric organic semiconductors by constructing and studying molecular aggregates from the single molecule level upwards. Using time-resolved and steady-state spectroscopies at elevated and at cryogenic temperatures, the interaction of individual molecular units will be revealed. For example, th...
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Electric Control of Magnetization Dynamics (ECOMAGICS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

In this proposal a new electric field based approach for the control of magnetization dynamics is discussed. The advantage of using electric fields compared to magnetic fields is twofold: (i) electric fields are easy to confine in nano-structures (screening), and (ii) no current flow is required which may allow for the development of new spintronic devices with ultra low power consumption.Physical...
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A Unified Approach to Evaluating Cellular Immunotherapy in Solid Organ Transplantation (THE ONE STUDY)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Preventing immunological rejection of transplanted organs without the need for long-term use of pharmacological immunosuppression is a primary objective in transplantation medicine. Reducing the need for immunosuppression would dramatically improve the outcome for transplant recipients and reduce health costs for society. The means to achieve this goal has not been realised with pharmacological or...
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Personalized minimization of immunosuppression after solid organ transplantation by biomarker-driven stratification of patients to improve long-term outcome and health-economic data of transplantation (BIO-DrIM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Organ transplantation has emerged as the “gold standard” therapy for end-stage organ failure. Incomplete control of chronic allograft injury but also the adverse effects of long-term immunosuppression (IS) continue to challenge the long-term success of transplantation. The paradigm is shifting from increasing “net”-IS by novel drugs to the concept of minimizing long-term IS as early as possible. H...
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Chromatin in Plants – European Training and Mobility (CHIP-ET)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"The Research Training Network CHIP-ET will focus on the study of protein complexes that modulate chromatin structure to activate RNA polymerase II–mediated transcription. Research will address how developmental and environmental stimuli such as light and circadian rhythm signal to these complexes to modulate transcription. The interactome of the complexes will be determined, as well as their geno...
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The European non-coding RNA network (RNATRAIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is a new research field in rapid development. It holds the potential to explain many fundamental biological phenomena and there is a vast prospective for the development of ncRNA-derived diagnostic and therapeutic tools. Hence, biotech and pharmaceutical companies are actively looking into this unexplored territory for novel targets. Therefore, there is a substantial and un...
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Synthetic Biology for the production of functional peptides (SYNPEPTIDE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"Peptides are among the most versatile natural products that nature provides to cater for a broad set of biotechnological applications ranging from antibiotics to personal hygiene. Their diversity comes from a broad variety of posttranslational modifications that is used to provide additional functionality beyond to what is possible with the classic proteinogenic set of 20 amino acids. In SYNPEPTI...
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Small satellites’ strategic analysis of realization potential and commercialization techniques (SatStart)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"A formation of small satellites, as developed within the ERC Advanced Grant "NetSat", promises great market potential because of failure tolerance and low cost at the same time, and large growth prospects for small satellites - a disruptive technology with the potential to change current “rules of the game”, becoming a feasible option for industrial application thanks to tremendous cost reduction...
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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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Brain image processing with Alpha-Stable distributions. Applications to intensity normalization, segmentation and diagnosis of Parkinsonian syndrome and Alzheimer's disease (ALPHA-BRAIN-IMAGING)

Start date: Jul 16, 2014, End date: May 3, 2017,

In this project, D. Salas-Gonzalez proposes to develop brain image processing with alpha-stable distributions with applications to intensity normalization, segmentation and diagnosis of Parkinsonian syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. The expected results of this interdisciplinary project will definitely have applications and impact in the European society and its health, which is an objective of th...
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DEEP Extended Reach (DEEP-ER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The proposed project DEEP-ER (DEEP-Extended Reach) addresses two significant Exascale challenges: the growing gap between I/O bandwidth and compute speed, and the need to significantly improve system resiliency. DEEP-ER will extend the Cluster-Booster architecture of the Dynamical Exascale Entry Platform (DEEP) project by a highly scalable I/O system and will implement an efficient mechanism to re...
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Actuation and characterisation at the single bond limit (ACRITAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"Scanning probe microscopy(SPM) has now evolved to the point where not only is imaging and manipulation with single atom resolution achievable but the state of the art in the field involves sub-molecular and sub-atomic resolution: individual chemical bonds can be resolved, their properties measured, and their spatial symmetry exploited.SPM is, however, increasingly a victim of its own success. The...
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Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles and their Application in Chemistry and Biomedicine (MAG(NET)ICFUN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Functionalized magnetic nanoparticles are proposed as smart platforms for applications in chemistry - emphasizing catalysis -, environmental chemistry - emphasizing catalytic detoxification, or biomedicine - emphasizing delivery of biomolecules and drugs. The magnetic properties of the entities offer an additional dimension for their manipulation by external magnetic fields, e.g. for flow reactors...
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Spin Currents (SpinIcur)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

SPINICUR (from spin currents) is a training network of European experts dedicated to providing state-of-the-art education and training for early stage and experienced researchers. We have concentrated on an aspect of spintronics – pure spin currents – and specific technical goals in order to secure a very high level of industrial involvement and strong network connectivity through a sharp focus. ...
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