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iABC Programme (IABC PROGRAMME)

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

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a common fatal inherited disease with a frequency of 1 in 2500 live births, affecting approximately 36,000 (0.737/10,000) people in the EU. Chronic bacterial pulmonary infection leading to an irreversible decline in lung structure and function is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with CF, with more than 95% of deaths due to respiratory failure. Pseudomon ...
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Improving European aquaculture by advancing selective breeding to the next level for the six main finfish species (FISHBOOST)

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

Only about 10% of today’s global aquaculture production use genetically improved stocks. In Europe, some breeding programmes consist of only the basic components of a breeding scheme. Hence, there is large potential to increase efficiency and profit by domestication and genetic improvement of farmed finfish. The main challenge of FISHBOOST is to realise this potential into economic and social acce ...
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"Health and the Understanding of Metabolism, Aging and Nutrition" (HUMAN)

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

"Recently intense research identified around 4,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with human age related diseases such as metabolic disorders. Despite their highly significant association to pathology, the functional role of these genetic variants is, in most cases, yet to be elucidated. The evolutionary distance of most animal models from humans represents a major limitation fo ...
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Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations (FAMILIESANDSOCIETIES)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The main objectives of this project are to investigate the diversity of family forms, relationships, and life courses in Europe; to assess the compatibility of existing policies with these changes; and to contribute to evidence-based policy-making. The project will extend our knowledge on how policies promote well-being, inclusion and sustainable societal development among families. Our approach r ...
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PRIMES: Protein interaction machines in oncogenic EGF receptor signalling (PRIMES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"PRIMES focuses on the role of protein interactions to assemble dynamic molecular machines that receive and process information to coordinate cellular responses. PRIMES investigates the following: (i) How do protein interactions contribute to the generation of biological specificity in signalling? (ii) How do pathogenetic perturbations affect protein interaction networks? (iii) How can we exploit ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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European Soft Matter Infrastructure (ESMI)

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

The central objective of this ESMI proposal is to create a top-level interdisciplinary research infrastructure available to a broad European materials research community. This is of crucial importance to the EU in view of the European strategy for nanosciences and nanotechnology and its implementation report that identifies “a lack of leading interdisciplinary infrastructures”.ESMI offers the mos ...
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Integrated control of neglected zoonoses: improving human health and animal production through scientific innovation and public engagement (ICONZ)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"This project aims at Improving Human Health and Animal Production in developing countries through Integrated Control of Neglected Zoonoses in animals, based on Scientific Innovation and Public Engagement. Neglected zoonoses, such as anthrax, rabies, brucellosis, bovine TB, zoonotic trypanosomiasis, echinococcosis, cysticercosis and leishmaniasis, are major causes of ill-health in developing coun ...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HADRONPHYSICS3)

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

...arly Universe.The Networking Activities are related to the organization of experimental and theoretical collaborative work concerning both ongoing activities at present Research Infrastructures and planned experiments at future facilities.In hadron physics the close interaction between experimentalists and theoreticians is of paramount importance. The Joint Research Activities concentrate on techn ...
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Fire risks assessment and increase of passenger survivability (AircraftFire)

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

The project aims for the increase of passenger survivability in the case of fire aboard aircraft focused on the next generation of aircraft. The composite materials and other combustible materials are increasingly used in order to reduce the weight of the aircraft or to higher the passenger comfort, but they raise the fire load significantly. Although these materials have passed the certification ...
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Strong Interaction Supercomputing Training Network (STRONGnet)

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

The research aims at a deeper understanding of properties of strongly interacting matter. This is mainly done by means of numerical simulations of the underlying theory (QCD) on supercomputers (Lattice QCD). We wish to understand QCD for its own sake and as a prototype of a strongly interacting fundamental theory. Therefore we will calculate the spectrum of mesons, baryons and of exotic states, th ...
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Marketable sludge derivatives from sustainable processing of wastewater in a highly integrated treatment plant (END-O-SLUDG)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

This project researches, develops and demonstrates a toolkit of novel processes together with market development for advanced sludge-derived products and integration methodologies that can be applied to a range of wastewater treatment plants based on a typical municipal scenario. Supporting economic and life cycle assessment of the resulting gains in energy efficiency and conversion of renewable c ...
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Developing Genetic Tools to Mitigate the Environmental Impact of Dairy Systems (GreenhouseMilk)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

... output of dairy systems and develop innovative tools to help farmers’ select “environmentally friendly” bulls to suit their system and how to manage those bulls’ daughters in an appropriate manner. GREENHOUSEMILK will harness statistical and genetic tools to elucidate the genetics of emissions in dairy cattle and develop innovative and integrative tools that address the environmental impact of da ...
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No Pain during infancy by adapting off-patent medicines (NeoOpioid)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Preterm and newborn infant may suffer from pain in the same way as adults. They are even more sensitive to pain due to immaturity of endogenous modulation. Thus, they should have the same human right to be alleviated from pain. The overall aim of this project is to assess effects and safety of opioid treatment in very preterm up to full term newborn infants in relation to pharmacokinetics predisp ...
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Do nanoparticles induce neurodegenerative diseases? Understanding the origin of reactive oxidative species and protein aggregation and mis-folding phenomena in the presence of nanoparticles (NeuroNano)

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

As the use of nanoparticles becomes more prevalent, it is clear that human exposure will inevitably increase. Considering the rapidly ageing European population and the resulting increase in the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases, there is an urgent need to address the risk presented by nanoparticles towards neurodegenerative diseases. It is believed that nanoparticles can pass through the bl ...
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Developing Versatile and Robust Perception using Sonar Systems that Integrate Active Sensing, Morphology and Behaviour (ChiRoPing)

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

Versatile and robust systems able to respond sensibly to challenges not precisely specified in their design, as envisaged in Challenge 2 target outcome (a), depend on (amongst other competences) effective perception systems able to function in complex and variable conditions. The principal objective of the proposed project is to discover how to engineer such systems, specifically embodied active ...
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