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Thylakoid membrane in action: acclimation strategies in algae and plants (ASAP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Life on earth is sustained by the process that converts sunlight energy into chemical energy: photosynthesis. This process is operating near the boundary between life and death: if the absorbed energy exceeds the capacity of the metabolic reactions, it can result in photo-oxidation events that can cause the death of the organism. Over-excitation is happening quite often: oxygenic organisms are exp ...
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Kinetics for Drug Discovery (K4DD) (K4DD)

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

There is mounting evidence that the often ignored kinetic aspects of the interaction between a drug and its target are highly relevant for clinical success. This ignorance may be one of the reasons for the high attrition rates in drug discovery, as it has been analyzed that many recently marketed drugs had indeed improved kinetic profiles. This hindsight knowledge needs to be converted into data-d ...
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The Dynamic Protein Matrix in Photosynthesis: From Disorder to Life (PHOTPROT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

In photosynthesis solar light is harvested by an antenna, the energy is transferred to the photosynthetic reaction center where a charge separation occurs. These processes occur on an ultrafast timescale and result in a stable product. The photosynthetic apparatus consists of a complex set of pigment-proteins that perform these delicate processes with a quantum efficiency close to 1. Proteins are ...
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Brazilian-European partnership in Dynamical Systems (BREUDS)

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

"This is a project for a partnership between leading Brazilian and European research groups in dynamical systems, a prominent subject in mathematics. An extensive consortium of European and Brazilian institutions will collaborate to provide world leading critical mass and support for research on the very forefront of the field. Work Packages reflect parallel priorities in the research. Transfer o ...
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Chemical Manufacturing Methods for the 21st Century Pharmaceutical Industries (CHEM21)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

CHEM21 is a project that will develop a broad based portfolio of sustainable technologies for green chemical intermediate manufacture aimed at the pharmaceutical industry. Initially working with the EFPIA members the collaborators of CHEM21 will analyse a number of projects that are in development to decide which the priorities are for technology development. This analysis will also be used to upd ...
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Rosetta s Way Back to the Source: Towards Reverse Engineering of Complex Software (ROSETTA)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

We propose a research program (Rossetta) towards reverse engineering of complex software that is available only in binary form. Most of the commercial software industry assumes that compilation (the translation of source code to binary code), is irreversible in practice for real applications. The research question for Rosetta is whether this irreversibility assumption is reasonable. If successful, ...
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The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store (OPEN PHACTS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Drug discovery is data-hungry and all major pharmaceutical companies maintain extensive in-house instances of public data alongside internal. Analysis and hypothesis generation for drug-discovery projects requires assembly, overlay and comparison of data from many sources, requiring shared identifiers and common semantics. Expression profiles need to be overlaid with gene or pathway identifiers an ...
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Dissecting a minimal genome: a physical investigation of DNA transactions in mitochondria (PHYSGENE)

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

I propose to unravel parts of the mechanochemistry of two key genome transactions: replication and transcription using an array of single-molecule techniques. To this end, I propose to study the minimal genomic machinery of mitochondria. Mitochondria are organelles in eukaryotic cells that contain their own DNA (mtDNA). Significant understanding of the biochemistry of DNA transactions in mitochond ...
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The Integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures III (LASERLAB-EUROPE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

LASERLAB-EUROPE III is the European Consortium of major Laser Research Infrastructures, forming a FP7 Integrated Infrastructure Initiative. Geographically it covers the majority of European member states, following recent efforts to include partners from all over Europe 27. Scientifically, it covers many areas of laser science and applications with particular emphasis on short-pulses and high-inte ...
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Enabling information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and CAre (EURECA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

Description EURECA (Enabling information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and Care) aims to enable seamless, secure, scalable and consistent linkage of healthcare information, which resides in electronic health record (EHR) systems with information in clinical research information systems, such as clinical trials. Achieving semantic inter ...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HADRONPHYSICS3)

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

The Project promotes the access to five European Research Infrastructures, and it is structured into nine Networking Activities, plus the Management of the Consortium, and fourteen Joint Research Activities.The Project will profit of the success of the previous HadronPhysics project in FP6 and the current HadronPhysics2 in FP7, and originates from the initiative of more than 2.500 European scienti ...
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ViSTA-TV - Video Stream Analytics for Viewers in the TV Industry (ViSTA-TV)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2014,

Live video content is increasingly consumed over IP networks in addition to traditional broadcasting. The move to IP provides a huge opportunity to discover what people are watching in much greater breadth and depth than currently possible through interviews or set-top box based data gathering by rating organizations, because it allows direct analysis of consumer behavior via the logs they produce ...
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Research on Really Reliable and Secure Systems Software (R3S3)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"Current operating systems have poor reliability and security. Computers crash regularly whereas other electronic devices such as televisions and mobile phones never crash. Furthermore, practically every week one reads about another security hole in Windows. As computers become more essential for all aspects of society this situation is unacceptable. The goal of my proposed research is to conceive ...
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Reliable Operating Systems for Embedded Systems (ROSES)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"Current computer software, including operating systems, have poor reliability and security. Unfortunately, this lack of reliability also applies to embedded systems, that is physical systems controlled by a microprocessor, such as those used on cars, airplanes, MRI scanners, pacemakers, insulin pumps, cameras, set-top boxes, mobile telephones, appliances, and many more. Software failures in these ...
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Coordination Action for Self-Awareness \nin Autonomic Systems (AWARE)

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

The main aim of the AWARE Coordination Action is to provide a focal point for the wide range of research domains potentially addressed by the FET Proactive Initiative in AWARENESS. Self-awareness in autonomic systems can include ideas and concepts from artificial intelligence, network performance, distributed systems, machine learning, and artificial consciousness. This CA seeks to provide a commo ...
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Imaging and CONtrol In Chemistry - ICONIC (Iconic)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Velocity map imaging (VMI) has enabled a number of remarkable advances in the field of molecular dynamics over the past few years. Owing to the robustness of VMI, exciting new applications are anticipated. ICONIC will link 15 European partners using and improving VMI in a four year program spanning several areas of experimental physics and chemistry and underpinning technologies in lasers, imaging ...
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"Small, but many: scalability to volume production in fiber-top technology" (FTBATCH)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"Fiber-top devices (Iannuzzi et al., patents filed) are a new generation of small sensors for research, medical, and industrial applications, obtained by fabricating a minuscule diving board on the tip of an optical fiber. Light coupled from the opposite end of the fiber allows one to remotely detect any tiny bending of the board, and, thus, of the event that has caused that bending. Miniaturizati ...
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Precision measurements on cold molecules in a fountain (MOLFOUNTAIN)

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

"In a recent series of experiments, it has been shown that polar molecules can be decelerated, bunched, cooled, and trapped using time-varying electric fields. These experiments demonstrate an unprecedented level of control over molecules, which enables a variety of applications of great scientific interest. Here, I propose to use these techniques to create a molecular fountain. In this fountain, ...
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VOIce-based Community-cEntric mobile Services for social development (VOICES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

There is widespread agreement that ICT services have the potential to play a major role in furthering social development in developing economies such as those in Africa. However, while there is a great deal of potential and opportunity, the amount and scope of actual mobile ICT services currently in existence in African countries is very limited.The Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap, recen ...
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Wave-function theory embedded in density-functional theory with coupled excitations (WFTinDFTce)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Electronic excitations play an important role in several biological processes, such as photosynthesis and vision, as well as in technological applications like lighting materials---making the calculation of excitation energies an interesting and up-to-date challenge.Of special interest are influences of solvent molecules such as water or acetone.Typically (time-dependent) density-functional theory ...
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OPTImization of the automated Fitting to Outcomes eXpert with language-independent hearing-in-noise test battery and electro-acoustical test box for cochlear implant users (OPTI-FOX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"Patients suffering from sensori-neural hearing loss caused by damaged hair cells in the cochlea and diagnosed as being profoundly deaf, are potential candidates for cochlear implantation. Today, there are a number of important limitations with respect to the optimal use of these devices in deaf patients. Firstly, cochlear implant speech processors need to be adjusted so that sounds perceived by t ...
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Emission Comb Spectroscopy: Development of novel frequency comb spectroscopy methods based on stimulated Raman scattering (EmCoS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Coherent control of ultrafast lasers results in well-defined frequency combs revolutionizing many aspects in fundamental and applied science. Most recently, frequency comb technology was used to push the performance of Fourier transform spectroscopy to unprecedented levels. Multi-heterodyne spectroscopy is a rapidly growing research field opening new perspectives in terms of sensitivity, spectral ...
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LOD Around The Clock (LATC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Description The LOD Around-The-Clock (LATC) Support Action aims to help institutions and individuals in publishing and consuming quality Linked Data on the Web. Progress in the areas of large-scale data processing, data integration and information quality assessment increasingly depends on the ava ...
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Software Services and Systems Network (S-Cube) (S-Cube)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Description S-Cube, the Software Services and Systems Network, will establish an integrated, multidisciplinary, vibrant research community that will enable Europe to lead the software-services revolution...S-Cube, the Software Services and Systems Network will establish a unified, multidisciplinary, vibrant research community which will e ...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HadronPhysics2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The Project promotes the access to five European Research Infrastructures, and it is structured intop eight Networking Activities, plus the Management of the Consortium, and fourteen Joint Research Activities. The Project represents the continuation of the successful HadronPhysics project in FP6 and originates from the initiative of more than 2.500 European scientists working in the field of hadro ...
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New Principles of Unbound Embodied Evolution (EVOBODY)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

Evolutionary computation is an efficient optimizing and solution-generating mechanism inspired by biological evolution. It has been successfully applied in many branches ofengineering, business, artificial biological (synthetic biology) and technological (robotics) systems. Evolution-based models of computation in a broader sense are now ``invading'' newinterdisciplinary research areas in innovati ...
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Trust in Social Internetworking Systems (TruSIS)

Start date: Jun 7, 2010, End date: Jun 6, 2011,

Social media applications, such as blogs, multimedia and link sharing sites, question and answering systems, wikis and online forums, are growing at an unprecedented rate and are estimated to generate a significant amount of the contents currently available on the Web. In real cases a user can decide to affiliate to many social networks and to create an account for each of them and the resulting s ...
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Combating influenza using a novel drug strategy (FluDrugStrategy)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

Objective: To find and produce novel target compounds against the influenza virus. Influenza A capsid protein is the target since it does not mutate at the same rate as the Hemagglutinin or Neuraminidase proteins. We aim to develop new therapeutic antiviral solutions to combat the disease. Beyond state of the art: The project combines knowledge based design and synthesis of compounds with unique p ...
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European Laser Laboratories Integrated Initiative Continued (LASERLAB-EUROPE CONT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2009,

"LASERLAB-EUROPE, an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) in FP6, combines the majority of the largest national laboratories in the area of laser-based inter-disciplinary research at the European level. Together they represent a comprehensive collection of modern laser technologies and laser research, and pursue applications in sciences and life sciences through in-house research and services ...
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