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Development and Epilepsy - Strategies for Innovative Research to improve diagnosis, prevention and treatment in children with difficult to treat Epilepsy (DESIRE)

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

DESIRE will focus on epileptogenic developmental disorders EDD, i.e. early onset epilepsies whose origin is closely related to developmental brain processes. A major cause of EDD are malformations of cortical development (MCD), either macroscopic or subtle. EDD are often manifested as epileptic encephalopathies (EE), i.e. conditions in which epileptic activity itself may contribute to severe cogni ...
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"Therapeutic Beta-Lactam Monitoring for Stratified Treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia, improved dose-dependent efficacy, decreased treatment duration, and prevention of emergence of resistance" (MON4STRAT)

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

"Stratified clinical treatment interventions meeting patient-specific efficacy (pharmacodynamics) while at the same time lowering the risk of emergence of drug resistance (EDR) and minimizing adverse effects are particularly needed in Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-Associated pneumonia [HAP/VAP] where morbidity, mortality and health care costs remain high. β-lactam antibiotics are at the corners ...
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Quality Assurance for Essential Climate Variables (QA4ECV)

Start date: Sep 27, 2013, End date: Jan 1, 2018,

Policy makers are increasingly relying on Earth Observation (EO) data to make decisions on mitigating and adapting to climate change. These decisions need to be 'evidence-based' and this requires complete confidence in EO-derived products. Although EO data is plentiful, it is rare to have reliable, traceable and understandable quality information. The situation is often further confused because va ...
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Demonstration of Small 4-Wheel fuel cell passenger vehicle Applications in Regional and Municipal transport (SWARM)

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

This project will establish a demonstration fleet of small passenger vehicles that builds on and expands existing hydrogen refuelling infrastructure. Three European regions will be participating in this effort: the UK (the Midlands and Plymouth), the Brussels area and Wallonia, and the Weser-Ems region in NorthWest Germany. Each of these regions will deploy a new hydrogen refuelling site to close ...
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Transformative Social Innovation Theory project (TRANSIT)

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

The aim of TRANSIT (Transformative Social Innovation Theory) is to build a theory of social innovation that is useful not only to academics, but also to policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders. The starting point for TRANSIT is the need to understand transformative social innovations: social innovations that contribute to systemic changes that address urgent societal challenges ...
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Enhancing prediction of tropical Atlantic climate and its impacts (PREFACE)

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

Tropical Atlantic climate recently experienced pronounced shifts of great socio-economic importance. The oceanic changes were largest in the eastern boundary upwelling systems. African countries bordering the Atlantic strongly depend upon their ocean - societal development, fisheries, and tourism. They were strongly affected by these climatic changes and will face important adaptation challenges a ...
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MULTISCALE APPROACH TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF MOLECULAR BIOMARKERS IN ACUTE HEART FAILURE INDUCED BY SHOCK (Shockomics)

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

The management of cardiovascular stability in shock patients is of paramount importance in critical care. New, cutting edge knowledge is necessary to overcome the shortcomings of available therapies, in order to cope with the challenges that anesthesiologists, intensive care specialists and emergency physicians face when dealing with shock patients.Current therapies are targeted to reduce symptoms ...
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ADvanced Electric Powertrain Technology (ADEPT)

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

The goal of the ADEPT program is to produce a virtual development environment for E-propulsion systems and to train and establish a multi-disciplinary research network. The ADEPT program will raise the profile and to improve career perspectives for 12 ESRs, and 2 ERs, offering a high-quality structured consortium providing personalized training opportunities in E-propulsion systems and in compleme ...
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Macroeconomics and Financial History (MACROHIST)

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

"The current macroeconomic and financial crisis has given rise to a vigorous debate about the state of macroeconomics and macroeconomic training. Among the voices arguing most strongly for a change in the way that young macroeconomists are trained are those coming from employers in the private and public sector. Strikingly, many employers are also arguing that a knowledge of economic history might ...
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Integrated Macro-Financial Modelling for Robust Policy Design (MACFINROBODS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"During the global financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession, economists at policy-making institutions had little choice but to augment macroeconomic models with ad-hoc assumptions and adjustments in order to provide analysis and advice for policy makers. Our consortium’s proposal aims to move policy-focused macroeconomic modelling beyond this approach to the endogenous modelling of the dynamic ...
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Gaia European Network for Improved data User Services (GENIUS)

Start date: Sep 20, 2013, End date: Apr 1, 2017,

GENIUS is designed to boost the impact of the next European breakthrough in astrophysics, the Gaia astrometric mission. Gaia is an ESA Cornerstone mission scheduled for launch in October 2013 and aims at producing the most accurate andcomplete 3D map of the Milky Way to date. A pan-European consortium named DPAC is working on the implementation of the Gaia data processing, of which the final resul ...
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"(IN)FORMING CONFLICT PREVENTION, RESPONSE AND RESOLUTION: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN VIOLENT CONFLICT" (INFOCORE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"INFOCORE focuses on the conditions that bring about different media roles in the cycle of conflict and peace building. It generates knowledge on (1) the social processes underlying the production of conflict news, and (2) the inherent dynamics of conflict news contents, (3) in a systematically comparative fashion. Based on this perspective, we identify the conditions under which media play specif ...
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DEsign, MOdelling and TESTing tools for Electrical Vehicles powertrain drives (DeMoTest-EV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Advanced automotive system design and development requires a multidisciplinary and intersectoral approach connected to the integration of new powertrain concepts, such as electric and hybrid ones. This approach involves knowledge concerning the NVH issues, and/or electric motor, associated power electronics to control motor speed and torque, the transaxle that transfers the mechanical energy to t ...
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The changing nature of employment in Europe in the context of challenges, threats and opportunities for employees and employers (ChangingEmployment)

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

Europe is today facing several major challenges. These go beyond the future of the euro and the instability of the financial system to some of the underlying issues concerned with the work activities that underpin the European economy. How can Europe retain manufacturing and production as restructuring and relocation towards lower-wage costs economies gathers pace? As demographic change lifts the ...
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Solar Thermochemical Compact Storage System (SOTHERCO)

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

SoTherCo’s major objective is to install, monitor and assess an innovative modular, compact and seasonal thermo-chemical solar heat-storage system, namely the SoTherCo HSS (Heat-Storage System). The modular design, based on the proper arrangement of ~1000L heat-storage modules, is intended to offer the needed flexibility and adaptation to answer the space-heating demand of low-energy buildings, fr ...
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"From Brain Gene Transfer Towards Gene Therapy: Pharmacological Assessment of AAV, CAV and LVV" (BRAINVECTORS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"BRAINVECTORS aims devising new gene therapy(GT)-based treatments for Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, in substitution of current systemic treatments, by delivering neurotrophic factors (GDNF) into the CNS with new vectors derived from adeno-associated (AAV), canine adenoviruses (CAV) and lentiviruses (LV) with inducible gene expression.Although AAV, CAV and LVV are considered acc ...
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Cooperation for European Research in Economics (COEURE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The European Union is the world's largest economic entity, yet its ability to design and implement effective economic policies is not commensurate with its size. While the field of economics has seen an impressive growth, the economic research remains fragmented across the Member States. Developing an efficient research area is essential for growth and to the process of European integration. Howev ...
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Efficient Systems and Propulsion for Small Aircraft (ESPOSA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The ESPOSA project will develop and integrate novel design and manufacture technologies for a range of small gas turbine engines up to approx. 1000 kW to provide aircraft manufacturers with better choice of modern propulsion units. It will also deal with engine related systems which contribute to the overall propulsion unit efficiency, safety and pilot workload reduction. Through the newly develop ...
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Awareness and Migration: Organizations for bi-national family Rights Empowerment (AMORE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

AMORE (Awareness & Migration: Organizations for bi-national family Rights Empowerment) aims to bring an action-research approach to the study of migration policies and administrative practices regulating access to citizenship and residence permits. This project will focus on bi-national married families formed by a third country national (TCN) and a European Union (EU) citizen. A TCN is a citizen ...
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Quantum Algorithmics (QALGO)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

We will study the algorithmic aspects of quantum information. Our goal is to find new algorithms for quantum computers and new quantum communication protocols that are more efficient than the classical protocols. We will pursue this goal in a number of different ways.Firstly, we will study concrete problems that may have fast quantum algorithms and develop methods for constructing quantum algorith ...
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Cost-effective, high-efficient micro gas turbine for micro CHP applications (ECOJET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The EcoJet consortium – comprising a value chain of three European SME manufacturers of gas turbines and sub-systems, and suppliers of high-performance materials and coatings, together with an SME developer of CHP systems - aims to address a major market opportunity through the optimization and deployment of a proprietary 10 KWe radial micro gas turbine into an innovative system solution tailored ...
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Europeana Cloud: Unlocking Europe's Research via The Cloud (eCloud)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Europeana Cloud is a Best Practice Network, submitted under Objective 2.1.a and coordinated by the Europeana Foundation, designed to establish a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators. Europeana Cloud will provide new content, new metadata, a new linked storage system, new tools and services for researchers and a new platform - Europeana Research. Content providers and aggregators, a ...
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Collective Adaptive System SynThesIs with Non-zero-sum Games (CASSTING)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

CASSTING will develop a novel approach for analysing and designing collective adaptive systems in their totality, by setting up a game theoretic framework. Here components are viewed as players, their behaviour is captured by strategies, system runs are plays, and specifications are winning conditions.The design of collective adaptive systems, as they occur, for example, in home automation, health ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Search for new physics at the LHC and preparations for the CMS detector upgrade (LHC-PHYSICS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"With the discovery of the Higgs boson last summer at the CERN laboratory's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), decades of searches for this predicted fundamental particle in the Standard Model theory of particle physics concluded with a triumph of science. Compelling reasons remain, however, to expect new physics to appear at the collision energies generated by the LHC. In 2015, the LHC will resume with ...
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Toolbox Implementation for Removal of Anti-personnel Mines, Submunitions and UXO (TIRAMISU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Clearing large civilian areas from anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions is a difficult problem because of the large diversity of hazardous areas and explosive contamination. A single solution does not exist and many mine action actors have asked for a toolbox from which they could choose the tools best fit to a given situation. Some have built their own toolboxes, usually specific to som ...
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Performance and qualification tests of lubrication system equipment (LuBEST)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

"ULB-ATM will adapt its current test benches for lubrication equipment to the new requirements imposed by the CROR application. The lubrication equipment to be tested are lubrication pumping units (one at a time or several together), oil tanks, heat exchangers and various associated components as filters, valves and other accessories like sensors or monitoring devices.All tests will be performed w ...
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Test of advanced lubrication equipment (LubSEP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"Oil consumption by aero-engines is a major concern for both ecological and autonomy reasons. The air-oil separation technologies (de-oiler and de-aerator) have been long time enherited from past generation engine architectures. Based on current oil system requirements (oil consumption, mass, compactness, reliability) and technologies (brush and lift carbon seals), ULB-ATM and his partners will de ...
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Operational Global Carbon Observing System (GEOCARBON)

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

Today, countries use a wide variety of methods to monitor the carbon cycle and it is difficult to compare datafromcountry to country and to get a clear global picture. The current global observational and modelling capabilitiesallow us to produce estimates of carbon budget at different level (from local to global) but many uncertainties stillremain. Decision makers need now more than ever systemat ...
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Quantifying Environmental and Social Interactions for Tuna fisheries Management (QUAESITUM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 8, 2014,

"Despite the social and economic importance of fisheries, quantitative approaches capable of predicting the spatial distributions of different fish species and their variations with respect to human activities are still missing. Recently, new proposals for an ecosystem-based fisheries management raised remarkable interests in the scientific community. These approaches demand answering fundamental ...
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Legendrian contact homology and generating families (ContactMath)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

A contact structure on an odd dimensional manifold in a maximally non integrable hyperplane field. It is the odd dimensional counterpart of a symplectic structure. Contact and symplectic topology is a recent and very active area that studies intrinsic questions about existence, (non) uniqueness and rigidity of contact and symplectic structures. It is intimately related to many other important disc ...
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Euro-Mediterranean research cooperation on gender and science: SHE Euro-Mediterranean Research Area (SHEMERA)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The overall objective of this proposal is enhancing research cooperation on gender and science between the European Union and the Mediterranean countries.Research cooperation is aimed at better understand the roots of gender inequality in science in the area, taking into account cultural diversities and traditions, and analyse how the Mediterranean countries are addressing this issue. It will deal ...
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Collective Cognitive Robots (CoCoRo)

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

Description The CoCoRo project aims at developing a swarm of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that are able to interact with each other and which can balance tasks such as ecological monitoring, searching, maintaining, exploring and harvesting resources in underwater habitats. The swarm will maintain swarm integrity under conditions of ...
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Porous Silicon Carbide as a support for Co metal nanoparticles in Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (SiCCatalysis)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Searching for the alternative energy sources and particularly for liquid fuel is strategic task for the nearest future. Renewable biomass, large deposits of natural gas and coal can be such sources. A major challenge for this direction is to develop efficient the gas-to-liquid process. The heart of such process is Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis (CO hydrogenation by hydrogen) that takes place on Co ...
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A quantitative model of thrombosis in intracranial aneurysms (THROMBUS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Rupture risk of intracranial aneurysms (IA) has been studied at length. However, very little is known about the healing mechanism, namely the formation of a clot inside the cavity after insertion of a stent. The multiscale interaction between biological and hemodynamic processes is the central ingredient of this proposal. The core of the project is to develop and validate a biological model of spo ...
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Standardising the nano-scratch test (NANOINDENT-plus)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

This project will further develop, validate and draft standards for nano-scratching, which is an important new tool to investigate the tribological properties of materials on a scale relevant to the fundamental mechanisms of wear. It will facilitate the development of new coatings and engineered surfaces that will give impact through improved competitiveness of industry and a better quality of lif ...
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Market Design and the Evolution of Markets (MaDEM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The broad aim of this research program is to understand how markets get created, how they evolve, and how specific market organizations affect economic outcomes. It combines theoretical and empirical analyses of specific markets and includes the development of new methods to map theory to data and vice versa. Each market provides a concrete ground to explore the broad questions the project address ...
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Quantum control and error correction with discrete and continuous variables (QCEC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The goal of the project is to develop novel methods for quantum control and error correction with discrete and continuous quantum variables. The scope of investigation includes quantum feedback control, quantum control through dissipation, approximate quantum error correction, and fault-tolerant quantum computation. Some of the topics aim at developing novel tools for both discrete and continuous ...
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Stem cells in epithelial cancer initiation and growth (CancerStem)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Cancer is the result of a multi-step process requiring the accumulation of mutations in several genes. For most cancers, the target cells of oncogenic mutations are unknown. Adult stem cells (SCs) might be the initial target cells as they self-renew for extended periods of time, providing increased opportunity to accumulate the mutations required for cancer formation. Certain cancers contain cells ...
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Coupled multi-scale modelling of mechanical degradation and transport phenomena in damaging multi-phase geomaterials for environmental applications (MULTIROCK)

Start date: Jul 12, 2011, End date: Oct 11, 2013,

"The objective of the project is to develop and apply multi-scale modelling techniques for multi-physical processes in multi-phase geomaterials for the identification of evolving macroscopic properties due to their mechanical degradation (rocks, geomaterials). Multi-scale modelling of mechanical damage is the field of expertise of the applicant. The proposed work will focus on fluid transport thro ...
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