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Optomechanics for Virology (VIRUSCAN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

Viral infections diagnosis demands novel, cheaper and rapid technologies to overcome present constraints. Current gold standard for diagnosis of viral infections is based on pathogen-targeted nucleic acid identification; thus, it cannot discern infectious stages from latent ones and it demands time consuming adjustments when mutations occur or new emerging viruses are to be included in the diagnos ...
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The cerebral representation of sequences and roles : investigating the origins of human uniqueness. (NeuroSyntax)

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

What are the origins of humans’ remarkable capacities to grasp, memorize, and produce complex sequences and rules, as manifested in language and mathematics? During its evolution, the human brain may have acquired a capacity to represent nested rules, based in part on the expansion of circuits involving the inferior frontal gyrus. This hypothesis will be tested using behavioral measures, functiona ...
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CONTROLLING AND MEASURING RELATIVISTIC MOTION OF MATTER WITH ULTRAINTENSE STRUCTURED LIGHT (ExCoMet)

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

Femtosecond lasers can now provide intensities such that the light field induces relativistic motion of large ensembles of electrons. The ultimate goal of this Ultra-High Intensity (UHI) Physics is the control of relativistic motion of matter with light, which requires a deep understanding of this extreme regime of laser-matter interaction. Such a control holds the promise of major scientific and ...
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Neural mechanisms of learning in the infant brain : from Statistics to Rules and Symbols (Babylearn)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Infant is the most powerful learner: He learns in a few months to master language, complex social interactions, etc. Powerful statistical algorithms, simultaneously acting at the different levels of functional hierarchies have been proposed to explain learning. I propose here that two other elements are crucial. The first is the particular human cerebral architecture that constrains statistical co ...
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non-LinEar sigNal processing for solving data challenges in Astrophysics (LENA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Astrophysics has arrived to a turning point where the scientific exploitation of data requires overcoming challenging analysis issues, which mandates the development of advanced signal processing methods. In this context, sparsity and sparse signal representations have played a prominent role in astrophysics. Indeed, thanks to sparsity, an extremely clean full-sky map of the Cosmic Microwave Backg ...
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Emergent spacetime and maximally spinning black holes (Emergent-BH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

One of the greatest challenges of theoretical physics is to understand the fundamental nature of gravity and how it is reconciled with quantum mechanics. Black holes indicate that gravity is holographic, i.e. it is emergent, together with some of the spacetime dimensions, from a lower-dimensional field theory. The emergence mechanism has just started to be understood in certain special contexts, s ...
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Charge orders, Magnetism and Pairings in High Temperature Superconductors (CHAMPAGNE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2021,

For nearly thirty years, the search for a room-temperature superconductor has focused on exotic materials known as cuprates, obtained by doping a parent Mott insulator, and which can carry currents without losing energy as heat at temperatures up to 164 Kelvin. Conventionally three main players were identified as being crucial i) the Mott insulating phase, ii) the anti-ferromagnetic order and iii) ...
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Interpreting Dust Polarization Maps to Characterize the Role of the Magnetic Field in Star Formation Processes (MagneticYSOs)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

"Rotation and angular momentum transport play a critical role in the formation and evolution of astrophysical objects, including the fundamental bricks of astrophysical structures: stars. Stars like our Sun form when rotating dense cores, in the interstellar medium, collapse until they eventually reach temperatures at which nuclear fusion begins; while planets, including the Earth, form in the rot ...
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Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at ultra-fast sample spinning and ultra-low temperature (ULT-MAS-DNP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

The goal of the project is to develop a new hyperpolarization approach called Magic Angle Spinning Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (MAS-DNP) to reach levels of sensitivity and resolution that have never been achieved, in order to tackle highly relevant chemical and biological questions that remain unanswered so far. Firstly this will provide major advances in NMR crystallography (solving 3D structure ...
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Electron quantum optics in Graphene (COHEGRAPH)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

Quantum computing is based on the manipulation of quantum bits (qubits) to enhance the efficiency of information processing. In solid-state systems, two approaches have been explored: • static qubits, coupled to quantum buses used for manipulation and information transmission,• flying qubits which are mobile qubits propagating in quantum circuits for further manipulation. Flying qubits research le ...
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New siRNA Nanotherapy for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, targeting Janus kinase 3 (NEW DEAL)

Start date: Feb 1, 2017, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are the second most common immune-mediated disorders in Europe, affecting more particularly young people. The current therapies, including antibodies, show three main drawbacks: efficacy, tolerability and convenience. NEW DEAL solution will offer radical therapeutic progress for all IBD patients, thanks to the improved efficacy and increased safety of the specific ...
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Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020)

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

The IoF2020 project is dedicated to accelerate adoption of IoT for securing sufficient, safe and healthy food and to strengthen competitiveness of farming and food chains in Europe.It will consolidate Europe’s leading position in the global IoT industry by fostering a symbiotic ecosystem of farmers, food industry, technology providers and research institutes.The IoF2020 consortium of 73 partners, ...
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Integrating National Research Agendas on Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (INSHIP)

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

Despite process heat is recognized as the application with highest potential among solar heating and cooling applications, Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP) still presents a modest share of about 0.3% of total installed solar thermal capacity. As of today’s technology development stage – economic competitiveness restricted to low temperature applications; technology implementation requiri ...
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Advanced Materials technologies to QUADRUPLE the Concentrated Solar Thermal current POWER GENERATION (IN-POWER)

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

The benefits of high efficiency concentrated solar power (CSP) and photovoltaic (PV) are well known: environmental protection, economic growth, job creation, energy security. Those technologies can only be applied properly in regions with annual mean radiation values higher than 1750 kWh/m2 per year. CSP has advantages in front of PV: possible 24h continuous electricity production, electricity and ...
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MetaMaterials antenna for ultra-high field MRI (M-CUBE)

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

M-Cube aims at changing the paradigm of High-Field MRI and Ultra High-Field antennas to offer a much better insight on the human body and enable earlier detection of diseases. Our main objective is to go beyond the limits of MRI clinical imaging and radically improve spatial and temporal resolutions. The clinical use of High-field MRI scanners is drastically limited due to the lack of homogeneity ...
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Development of continuous two-dimensional defect-free materials by liquid-metal catalytic routes (LMCat)

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

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, silicene and others, are currently amongst the most intensively studied classes of materials that hold great promise for future applications in many technological areas. However, the main hurdle against practical utilization of 2DMs is the lack of effective mass production techniques to satisfy the growing qualitative and ...
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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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Open transPREcision COMPuting (OPRECOMP)

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

Guaranteed numerical precision of each elementary step in a complex computation has been the mainstay of traditional computing systems for many years. This era, fueled by Moore's law and the constant exponential improvement in computing efficiency, is at its twilight: from tiny nodes of the Internet-of-Things, to large HPC computing centers, sub-picoJoule/operation energy efficiency is essential f ...
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Photonic Integrated Circuits Assembly and Packaging Pilot Line (PIXAPP)

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

PIXAPP will establish the world’s first open access Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) assembly & packaging Pilot Line. It combines a highly-interdisciplinary team of Europe’s leading industrial & research organisations. PIXAPP provides Europe’s SMEs with a unique one-stop-shop, enabling them to exploit the breakthrough advantages of PIC technologies. PIXAPP bridges the ‘valley of death’, providing ...
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Composable Models and Software for Robotics Systems (RobMoSys)

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

RobMoSys will coordinate the whole community’s best and consorted effort to build an open and sustainable, agile and multi-domain European robotics software ecosystem.RobMoSys envisions an integration approach built on-top-of, or rather around, the current code-centric robotic platforms, by means of the systematic application of model-driven methods and tools that explicitly focus on (system-of-) ...
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European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS)

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

Within the European Research Area (ERA), the ERA4CS Consortium is aiming to boost, research for Climate Services (CS), including climate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management, allowing regions, cities and key economic sectors to develop opportunities and strengthen Europe’s leadership. CS are seen by this consortium as driven by user demands to provide knowledge to face impacts of cl ...
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MAGnetic nanoparticle based liquid ENergy materials for Thermoelectric device Applications (MAGENTA)

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

MAGENTA proposes a brand new technological path in thermoelectric materials research for waste-heat recovery applications. The originality of the project is based on the newly discovered thermal-to-electric energy conversion capacity of ionic-liquids and ferrofluids; i.e., colloidal dispersions of magnetic nanoparticles in ionic liquids (IL-FFs). It is an inter-disciplinary and cross-sector R&D pr ...
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Smart optical and ultrasound diagnostics of breast cancer (SOLUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

SOLUS is a trans-disciplinary 48-month project bringing together 9 partners: industries (4), academic and clinical institutions from 5 countries (engineers, physicists and radiologists) representing cutting-edge expertise in their fields, to develop an innovative non-invasive, point-of-care, low-cost, easy-to-operate, multi-modal imaging system (diffuse optics and ultrasounds/shear wave elastograp ...
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CMOS/magnetoelectronic Integrated Circuits wil Multifunctional Capabilities (MAGICAL)

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

Spin Transfer Torque Magnetic memories (STT-MRAM) are receiving a growing R&D effort within the microelectronic industry aiming at the replacement of DRAM or SRAM at sub-20nm nodes. MAGICAL seeks to significantly innovate through groundbreaking advances in ultra-low power multifunctional systems based on hybrid CMOS/magnetic technology. With the development of portable electronics and of the Inter ...
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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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NDTonAIR: Training Network in Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring ofAircraft structures (NDTonAIR)

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

The “NDTonAIR” consortium involves Universities, Research Organisations and major European companies working on new Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) techniques for aerospace, of which both are key technologies. The goal is to train a new generation of scientists and engineers with a wide background of theoretical and experimental skills, capable of developing th ...
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The Hall Plateau Transition and non-unitary Quantum Field Theory (NuQFT)

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

I propose to solve the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) describing the transition between plateaus of quantized Hall conductance in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE). The existence of the plateaus and their topological origin are certainly well understood. In sharp contrast, the transition, which mixes the effects of disorder, magnetic field and possibly interactions, remains very mysterious. Numer ...
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Spintronic-Photonic Integrated Circuit platform for novel Electronics (SPICE)

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

The main objective of SPICE is to realize a novel integration platform that combines photonic, magnetic and electronic components. Its validity will be shown by a conceptually new spintronic-photonic memory chip demonstrator with 3 orders of magnitude higher write speed and 2 orders of magnitude lower energy consumption than state-of-the-art spintronic memory technologies. This enables, e.g., futu ...
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Stars: dynamical Processes driving tidal Interactions, Rotation and Evolution (SPIRE)

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

The rotational dynamics of stars strongly impacts their evolution and those of their planetary and galactic environment. Space helio- and asteroseismology recently allowed an observational revolution in this domain. They revealed, e.g., that the core of the Sun is close to a uniform rotation while those of subgiant and red giant stars slow down drastically during their evolution. These important r ...
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Electric Vehicle Enhanced Range, Lifetime And Safety Through INGenious battery management (EVERLASTING)

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

Batteries are not yet the ideal energy container they were promised to be. They are expensive, fragile and potentially dangerous. Moreover the current EV cannot compete yet with traditional vehicles when it comes to driving range and flexibility. EVERLASTING intends to bring Li-ion batteries closer to this ideal by focusing on the following technology areas.• Predicting the behavior of battery ...
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Building Distinct Actin Filament Networks in a Common Cytoplasm (SegregActin)

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

"The ability of cells to use the actin cytoskeleton for a diversity of cellular processes is due to the fact that actin filaments, although assembled from identical subunits, are organized in a wide variety of structures of appropriate geometrical, dynamical and rheological properties. Key players in this regulation are specific sets of actin binding proteins (ABPs) interacting with each actin net ...
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Effects of phosphorus limitations on Life, Earth system and Society (IMBALANCE-P)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

P is an earthbound and finite element and the prospect of constrained access to mineable P resources has already triggered geopolitical disputes. In contrast to P, availabilities of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) to ecosystems are rapidly increasing in most areas of the globe. The resulting imminent change in the stoichiometry of available elements will have no equivalent in the Earth’s history and w ...
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ACTivating InnoVative IoT smart living environments for AGEing well (ACTIVAGE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

ACTIVAGE is a European Multi Centric Large Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments. The main objective is to build the first European IoT ecosystem across 9 Deployment Sites (DS) in seven European countries, reusing and scaling up underlying open and proprietary IoT platforms, technologies and standards, and integrating new interfaces needed to provide interoperability across these heterogeneous ...
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European Joint Programme for the Integration of Radiation Protection Research (CONCERT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

The proposed European Concerted Programme on Radiation Protection Research (acronym: CONCERT) aims to contribute to the sustainable integration of European and national research programmes in radiation protection. It will do so by focusing resources and efforts in five key directions:• Bring together the elements of the European scientific communities in the fields of radiation effects and risks, ...
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Strategic Predictions for Quantum Field Theories (preQFT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2020,

Ambitious Questions:* How does the relatively calm macroscopic universe survive and emerge from the violent quantum fluctuations of its underlying microphysics? * How do classical notions of space and time emerge from fundamental principles, and what governs their evolution? These questions are difficult to answer---perhaps impossible given current ideas and frameworks---but I believe a strategi ...
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Probing quantum fluctuations of single electronic channels in model interacting systems (NSECPROBE)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is a prominent milestone in Physics: It links the dissipative response of a physical system to its fluctuations, and provides a microscopic understanding of macroscopic irreversibility. Recent theoretical advances that have generalized the original fluctuation-dissipation theorem to non-linear quantum systems even far from equilibrium, ask for an experimental te ...
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Smart integrated Robotics system for SMEs controlled by Internet of Things based on dynamic manufacturing processes (HORSE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

HORSE aims to bring a leap forward in the manufacturing industry proposing a new flexible model of smart factory involving collaboration of humans, robots, AGV’s (Autonomous Guided Vehicles) and machinery to realize industrial tasks in an efficient manner. HORSE proposes to foster technology deployment towards SMEs by developing a methodological and technical framework for easy adaptation of robot ...
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European Research Infrastructure supporting Smart Grid Systems Technology Development, Validation and Roll Out (ERIGrid)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

Renewable energy sources are key enablers to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and to cope with the anthropogenic global warming. The intermittent behaviour of them and their limited storage capabilities present new challenges to power system operators in maintaining power quality and reliability. However, the increased availability of advanced automation and communication technologies has also pr ...
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Balancing Human and Automation Levels for the Manufacturing Workplaces of the Future (MANUWORK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Future manufacturing will be characterized by the complementarity between humans and automation, especially regarding the production of highly customizable products. This requires new methods and tools for the design and operation of optimized manufacturing workplaces in terms of ergonomics, safety, efficiency, complexity management and work satisfaction. MANUWORK aims to focus on the development ...
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Building and district thermal retrofit and management solutions (THERMOSS)

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

The 20% primary energy consumption reduction targets set by the European Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), published in 2012, call for effective and wide-scale building heating and cooling systems upgrade strategies. These will be successful only if they base upon the right combination of technology innovation, industrial commitment and building owners awareness.In line with this statement, THERM ...
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