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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus (ECHORD Plus Plus)

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

Description ECHORD++ will create new opportunities for European robotics researchers to work directly with SME/start-ups and new users/customers to create innovative products. ECHORD++ will continue ECHORD’s two pillars, “experiments” and “structured dialogue”, taking advantage of experience and investment in the infrastructure. In addition, ...
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New drugs targeting influenza virus polymerase (FLU-PHARM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

The 2009 H1N1 pandemic and the ongoing threat of highly pathogenic H5N1 strains have focused attention worldwide on the urgent need for effective anti-influenza drug options when the public is not protected by vaccination. The need is pressing since several circulating strains are resistant to currently stock-piled anti-neuraminidase drugs. In this project, we will exploit our recent advances in t ...
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European Friedreich's Ataxia Consortium for Translational Studies (EFACTS)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

EFACTS (the European Friedreich’s Ataxia Consortium for Translational Studies) assembles a body of expertise to adopt a translational research strategy for the rare autosomal recessive neurological disease, Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA). FRDA is a severely debilitating disease that leads to loss of the ability to walk and dependency for all activities. Some patients have cardiomyopathy that can cause ...
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Status and Trends of European Pollinators (STEP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Pollinators form a key component of European biodiversity, and provide vital ecosystem services to crops and wild plants. There is growing evidence of declines in both wild and domesticated pollinators, and parallel declines in plants relying upon them. STEP will document the nature and extent of these declines, examine functional traits associated with particular risk, develop a Red List of some ...
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Nanostructured Lithium Conducting Materials (NANOLICOM)

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

Solid State Ionics, as an interdisciplinary science, covers chemistry, physics and materials science. The applied perspectives, that include high-energy-density batteries, fuel cells, electrolysis cells, chemical sensors, electrochromic devices and solar cells, and the need for their improvements are an important catalyst for designing new materials. Besides these attractive applications, academic ...
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Climate change - Learning from the past climate (Past4Future)

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

Past4Future will combine multidisciplinary paleoclimate records from ice cores, marine cores, speleothems, pollen and other records, concentrating on a global distribution of the records, to reconstruct climate change and variability during the present interglacial (the Holocene) and the last interglacial (known as the Eemian in northwestern Europe and as marine isotope stage 5e in the marine sedi ...
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Evolutionary Conservation of Regulatory Network Controlling Flower Development (EVOCODE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

This research exchange programme focuses on plant reproduction. The world population depends for its nutrition on agricultural crop products, mainly as seeds and fruits. Improvements of crop plants to achieve better yields under suboptimal growth conditions will be essential to keep up with the increase in world population and to reduce the impact of high yield farming on the environment. Most agr ...
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Microbiota of Andean Food: tradition for healthy products (µ-Andes)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Synergies between European countries and Andean regions will deal for the revalorization of indigenous resources represented by Andean traditional foods. The aim of this project will be the construction of a network based on complementary competences between partners; fruitful exchange between researchers will be aimed by a common scientific project that will be the opportunity to an effective int ...
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Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Bacterioplankton Functioning: Effects on Proteorhodopsin-containing Marine Bacteria (AcidiBacLight)

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

The increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere and its high uptake by the oceans are lowering the pH of the oceans. Dramatic changes in ocean pH have been shown to negatively affect ocean biota such as phytoplankton and coral reefs. However, there is little known regarding the impact of decreasing ocean pH on marine bacteria. This project seeks to evaluate the effects of the ocean acidification on th ...
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Sustainable Approaches to Reduce Oomycete (Saprolegnia) Infections in Aquaculture (SAPRO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The oomycete family contains some of the world’s most destructive fish pathogens. In Europe alone, these microorganisms collectively account for multimillion-Euro losses annually in the fish farming industry. Saprolegnia parasitica in particular is a major problem in the aquaculture industry where it has been estimated that 10% of all hatched salmon and eggs succumb to Saprolegniosis. Until 2002, ...
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"Food Refrigeration Innovations for Safety, consumer Benefit, Environmental impact and Energy optimization along cold chain in Europe" (FRISBEE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"The objective of the FRISBEE (Food Refrigeration Innovations for Safety, consumers’ Benefit, Environmental impact and Energy optimisation along the cold chain in Europe) project is to provide new tools, concepts and solutions for improving refrigeration technologies along the European food cold chain. At all stages the needs of consumer and European industry will be considered.The project will de ...
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Effective use of ecosystem and biological knowledge in fisheries (ECOKNOWS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The general aim of the ECOKNOWS project is to improve the use of biological knowledge in fisheries science and management. The lack of appropriate calculus methods and fear of statistical overparameterisation has limited biological reality in fisheries models. This reduces biological credibility perceived by many stakeholders. We solve this technical estimation problem by using up-to date methodol ...
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Strategies for Organic and Low-input Integrated Breeding And Management (SOLIBAM)

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

SOLIBAM will develop specific and novel breeding approaches integrated with management practices to improve the performance, quality, sustainability and stability of crops adapted to organic and low-input systems, in their diversity in Europe and taking into account small-scale farms in Africa. SOLIBAM will: 1. Identify traits specific for adaptation to low-input/organic conditions over a wide ran ...
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Oxidative Coupling of Methane followed by Oligomerization to Liquids (OCMOL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The general objectives of the OCMOL project, focussed on the development of an alternative chemical route based on oxidative coupling of methane followed by oligomerization to liquids, are twofold: 1. To develop a small-scale process: process intensification via cutting-edge micro reactor technologies will enable to skip the expensive scaling up stage to provide a proof of concept of the OCMOL liq ...
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European NoVel Imaging Systems for ION therapy (ENVISION)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

Following the pioneering experiences which lasted several decades, particle therapy has become a recognized way of curing cancer. 2 new European dual-ion facilities (Heidelberg, Pavia) will soon become operational, followed by several others which are today at different stages of planning and construction. Hadron therapy faces the challenge of improving treatment outcomes with tools able to provid ...
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New tools and approaches to control Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) in the EU and Asia (PoRRSCon)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is the major cause of reproductive and respiratory problems in pigs worldwide. Controlling this disease is a top priority in pig producing countries. Due to mutations at a high frequency, new variants of the virus appear that are no longer effectively controlled by the commercial vaccines. In addition, highly virulent variants emerge, lea ...
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A multiple space and time scale approach for the quantification of deep saline formations for CO2 storage (MUSTANG)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2014,

The objectives of MUSTANG are to develop and disseminate a comprehensive set of methodologies and tools for the assessment and characterization of deep saline aquifers for CO2 storage, providing measures of performance and risk that are necessary for a cost-benefit analysis, ensuring public confidence and acceptance and promoting its deployment. Novel CO2 storage specific field investigation techn ...
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Signaling circuitry controlling fungal virulence: identification and characterization of conserved and specific fungal virulence genes as common antifungal targets (ARIADNE)

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

"Fungi are heterotrophic microorganisms with devastating impact on agriculture and human health. Agricultural production worth billions of € is destroyed annually by fungal diseases. Human fungal infections have severe consequences on the growing number of immuno-compromised patients, with high mortality rates associated with Aspergillus and Candida infections. There is a critical need to further ...
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Impact of climate change and globalisation on safety of fresh produce – governing a supply chain of uncompromised food sovereignty (VEG-i-TRADE)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

VEG-i-TRADE provides platforms to identify impacts of anticipated climate change and globalisation on food safety, microbiological and chemical hazards, of fresh produce and derived food products. Control measures of managerial and technological nature will be developed in the supply chain of crop production, post-harvest processing and logistics to minimize food safety risks. The assessment of th ...
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Land and Ecosystem Degradation and Desertification: Assessing the Fit of Responses (LEDDRA)

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

"LEDDRA aims to advance the comprehensive study of the socio-environmental fit of responses to land and ecosystem degradation and desertification (LEDD) in various contexts. It adopts the ecosystem approach and an integrated methodology with continuous feedbacks between theory, methods and applications. It focuses on response assemblages (combinations of response types and prevailing environmental ...
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The role of phylogenetic relatedness in invasion success: A multidisciplinary study of marine biological invasions (MarInvasPhylogen)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The recent expansion in the field of molecular biology, and its implementation within other fields, has inevitably changed our perception of many biological sciences. As a result, new fields including community genetics and community phylogeny have emerged, which have greatly influenced the study of biological invasions. Our understanding of biological invasions has benefited from the use of commu ...
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Molecular Approaches and MetaGenomic Investigations for optimizing Clean-up of PAH contaminated sites (MAGICPAH)

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

"MAGICPAH aims to explore, understand and exploit the catalytic activities of microbial communities involved in the degradation of persistent PAHs. It will integrate (meta-) genomic studies with in-situ activity assessment based on stable isotope probing particularly in complex matrices of different terrestrial and marine environments. PAH degradation under various conditions of bioavailability wi ...
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Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems (REFRESH)

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

Understanding how freshwater ecosystems will respond to future climate change is essential for the development of policies and implementation strategies needed to protect aquatic and riparian ecosystems. The future status of freshwater ecosystems is however, also dependent on changes in land-use, pollution loading and water demand. In addition the measures that need to be taken to restore freshwat ...
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Arctic Health Risks: Impacts on health in the Arctic and Europe owing to climate-induced changes in contaminant cycling (ArcRisk)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Long-range transport of contaminants to the Arctic, the resulting exposures observed in Arctic human populations, and impacts of such exposures on human health have been the subject of considerable work in recent years, providing a baseline against which to compare future developments. Global climate change has the potential to remobilize environmental contaminants and alter contaminant transport ...
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ROLE OF ASTROCYTES IN NEURONAL NETWORK FUNCTION IN VISUAL CORTEX (NeuGliaNET)

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

The biology of astrocyte–neuron interaction has emerged as a rapidly expanding field and has become one of the most exciting topics in current neuroscience that is changing our understanding of the physiology of the nervous system. In the last few years, evidence obtained by many laboratories has established the existence of neuron-astrocyte communication in culture preparations and brain slices. ...
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Sustainable Peace Building (SPBuild)

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

SPBuild is created and developed by a solid and dynamic network of 11 institutions (EDEN Network for Peace and Conflict) with a proven commitment and capacity to deliver high-quality training in the rapidly developing field of Peace and Conflict research. These universities have undertaken joint research, published, and jointly created a European Doctoral Enhancement Programme on Peace and Conflic ...
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Use of genomic and proteomic tools for the development of contaminant specific biomarkers for the environmental risk assessment of aquatic ecosystems (GENERA)

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

"The use of genomic tools is rapidly increasing in ecotoxicology, and results from transcriptomic and proteomic studies of the effects of environmental pollutants are becoming more and more available. Apart from the knowledge of the mechanisms involved in toxic processes, the aim of conducting research on genomic and proteomic level is the development of contaminant specific biomarkers for the ris ...
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Operation of Cavity Optomechanics in Fluids for Ultrasensitive Mass Detection (OPTONANOMECH)

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

"In cavity nanomechanics, researchers are racing towards the mechanical quantum ground states, however, it remains unclear how these interesting system could be usable in real applications. This project proposes that the cavity nanomechanics could find important use 
in a broad range of applications in chemical and biological detection. The use of cavity nanomechanics as sensitive mass detection c ...
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Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (FUME)

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

Fire regimes result from interactions between climate, land-use and land-cover (LULC), and socioeconomic factors, among other. These changed during the last decades, particularly around the Mediterranean. Our understanding of how they affected fire regime in the past is limited. During this century temperatures, drought and heat waves will very likely increase, and rainfall decrease. These and fur ...
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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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Development and field test of an efficient YBCO Coated Conductor based Fault Current Limiter for Operation in Electricity Networks (ECCOFLOW)

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

"The project aims at developing a unique device for electricity networks: A superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) based on coated conductor YBCO tape (cc-tape) or 2nd Generation HTS tape. The general trend in Europe to a higher meshing of distribution networks and the rapid growing integration of renewable energy sources leads to an increase of the fault current level by every new installat ...
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The Microme Project: A Knowledge-Based Bioinformatics Framework for Microbial Pathway Genomics (Microme)

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

The exponential increase in microbial genome and metagenome sequencing throughput has widened the gap between sequence and functional understanding. A clear picture of metabolic processes across the spectrum of bacterial species is essential to enable the exploitation of microbial genomics for the purposes of environmental biotechnology. The Microme project endeavors to extend the scope of microbi ...
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Pan-European training in computational cosmology: modelling cosmic structures (CosmoComp)

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

European scientists lead the world in the modelling of the formation of cosmic structures using computer simulations. The objective of the CosmoComp proposal is to reinforce Europe's world standing in this field by training the next generation of computational cosmologists. CosmoComp builds on and extends existing research collaborations between major European centres, and has a global element wit ...
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Event Shapes in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (ESSCET)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The aim of the project is to study jet cross sections in electron-positron, and hadron-hadron collisions. Event-shape distributions for electron-positron collisions have been measured extensively with small experimental uncertainties. On the theoretical side event shapes are accessible to high order analytic computations. This information can be used to make precise determinations of the strong c ...
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Joint training and research on Hedhehog-Gli signalling and its pharmacological modulation for regenerative medicine (HEALING)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"Debilitating degenerative diseases such as non-healing wounds and neurodegeneration do not yet have a cure. They represent a huge unmet medical need worldwide, especially in the aging European population. To reduce the incidence and improve recovery from such ephitelial diseases there is an major need to understand molecular signaling in order to promote stem cell behavior and enhance regeneratio ...
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Enlightenment and Global History (ENGLOBE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"ENGLOBE (""Enlightenment and Global History"") is a projected network of researchers concerned with Europe’s role in the process of globalization. Its thematic aims are located in the newly emerging supra-disciplinary field of Global History which provides a highly useful mode of reflection on the cultural and historical dimension of globalization processes. The Enlightenment has a double signifi ...
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Molecular and ecological approaches to study soil food webs for enhancing biological control of insect pests and monitoring disturbances (ECOLOGY-EPN-FOOD WEB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"Soil is a largely non-renewable resource with high socio-economic and natural value. Soil ecosystems sustain high biodiversity involved in complex food webs that interact with abiotic factors. Understanding these complex interactions could provide a model for monitoring soil disturbances as well as optimizing ecological scenarios to favour biological control. The aim of this post-doctoral researc ...
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Scientific Training in Antimicrobial Research Strategies (STARS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Researchers who aspire to work in drug discovery need to adapt to constantly changing technology and be able to harness new tools both to ask and to answer pertinent scientific questions. Structural biology was going to rationalize drug design. Next, combinatorial chemistry was to be the industrial panacea, only to be superseded by high-throughput screening of chemical libraries. Technologies such ...
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GENOMICS-BASED INVESTIGATIONS INTO OROBANCHE-HOST INTERACTIONS (Orobanche)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Parasitic weeds are among the most destructive and difficult-to-control of all weeds and cause important crop losses across Europe and neighbouring regions. The intimate connection establishes by the parasite with the host vascular tissues makes unsuccessful the selective control of the parasite. Our ability to understand the complexities of this parasitic plant-host interaction is limited by a la ...
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Nonlinear Mechanisms of Spatial Symmetry Breaking in Living Systems (NMSSBLS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"The study of experimental pattern formation mechanisms and its relevance to biology has been restricted to nonlinear chemical systems that produce spatial Turing patterns (CDIMA reaction), spiral waves (BZ reaction), propagating fronts and pulses (GO reaction). The important differences between these artificial systems and the natural spatial differentiation occurring in living cells do not allow ...
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