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OPtimisation for low Environmental Noise impact AIRcraft (OPENAIR)

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

Reducing noise from aircraft operations perceived by airport neighbouring communities is a major challenge facing the aircraft manufacturing industry, social society and the air transport business. By adopting a whole aircraft approach based on the latest developments in active / adaptive technologies, flow control techniques and advances in computational aero-acoustics applied to the major causes ...
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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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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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Translational Science for Vascular Inflammation and Remodelling (TranSVIR)

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

The rapid advance of biology is providing new insights into the causes of some of today’s most pressing medical problems as well as huge opportunities to develop and evaluate novel and more effective treatments. The challenge is to exploit these advances effectively and this will require a new breed of translational scientist with expertise in a specific discipline coupled with a broad understandi ...
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Chromatin diseases: from basic mechanisms to therapy (DisChrom)

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

The scope of this ITN is to promote research and training in the field of chromatin diseases. Chromatin diseases (CD) are genetic pathologies resulting from mutations in structural components of chromatin or in enzymes that biochemically modify chromatin, altering chromatin status and thereby causing drastic effects on gene expression. CD frequency ranges from very rare to quite common pathologies ...
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SUPramolEculaR functional nanoscale archItectures for Organic electronics: a host-driven network (SUPERIOR)

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

SUPERIOR aims at providing top-quality cross-disciplinary and supra-sectoral training to a pool of promising young researchers, in an area at the interface between Supramolecular Chemistry, Materials- and Nano-Science, Physics and Electrical Engineering. SUPERIOR appointees will be formally trained in lecture courses, dedicated schools and workshops, and through an ambitious and carefully planned ...
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Characterization and modelling of dietary effects mediated by gut microbiota on lipid metabolism (ETHERPATHS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"Dysregulation of lipid homeostasis is related to multiple major global healthcare problems today, including aging, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It has already been shown that nutritional modulation of lipid homeostasis via direct supplementation, e.g., n-3 fatty acids, or via indirect mechanisms, e.g., dietary polyphenols, has beneficial effects on human health. There is growing evidence ...
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Stratospheric ozone: Halogen Impacts in a Varying Atmosphere (Shiva)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

SHIVA aims to reduce uncertainties in present and future stratospheric halogen loading and ozone depletion resulting from climate feedbacks between emissions and transport of ozone depleting substances (ODS). Of particular relevance will be studies of short and very short-lived substances (VSLS) with climate-sensitive natural emissions. We will perform field studies of ODS production, emission and ...
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Origins and spread of agriculture in the south-western Mediterranean region (AGRIWESTMED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"This project focuses on one of the most fascinating events of the long history of the human species: the origins and spread of agriculture. Research over the past 40 years has provided an invaluable dataset on crop domestication and the spread of agriculture into Europe. However, despite the enormous advances in research there are important areas that remain almost unexplored, some of immense int ...
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Controlled Component and Assembly-Level Optimization of Industrial Devices (CASOPT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The CASOPT Project Consortium consisting of ABB, University of Cambridge, Technical University of Munich and Technical University of Graz proposes to facilitate a paradigm change from state-of-the-art Simulation-Based Design to novel Optimisation-Based Design of complex electromagnetically-driven industrial products. This new design philosophy will first enable automatic, physics-governed re-siz ...
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Aquired Environmental Epigenetics Advances: from Arabidopsis to maize (AENEAS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

This proposal, entitled “Acquired Environmental Epigenetics Advances: from Arabidopsis to maize” (acronym: AENEAS), aims to assess the impact of environmental conditions on epigenetic states in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and then transfer knowledge to maize (Zea mays): an important European crop. Advances in understanding the detailed mechanisms of epialleles formation in response to env ...
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Adhesion and Cohesion at Interfaces in High Performance Glassy Systems (ADGLASS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

The present project aims to establish a European Consortium bringing together leading experts in the fields of computational materials modelling, experimental materials research and industrial development of high-performance glass materials. The scientific and technological activities of the consortium shall be devoted to improving the efficiency, functionality and reliability of glass products fo ...
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Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways on Stratified Combustion for Quiet Low Emissions Aero-Engines (IAPP-STRATEGI)

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

The objective of this proposal is to create long-term collaboration between industry and academia within Europe in critical areas of science and technology to develop clean and efficient combustion in aeroengines. Specific goals of the partnership are: • To create a network of highly trained scientists and engineers in a key area of gas turbine combustion research, with both industrial experience ...
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Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center (VAMDC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Many research groups and institutes within the European Research Area (ERA) are playing a central role in the production of a vast range of atomic and molecular (AM) data, data that is of critical importance across a wide range of applications such as astrophysics, atmospheric physics, fusion, environmental sciences, combustion chemistry and in industrial applications from plasmas to lighting.Thro ...
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Collaborative & Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation (CRESCENDO)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The IMG4 project CRESCENDO addresses the Vision 2020 objectives for the aeronautical industry by contributing significantly to the fulfilment of three specific targets of the aeronautical industry’s Strategic Research Agenda. CRESCENDO will develop the foundations for the Behavioural Digital Aircraft (BDA), taking experience and results from VIVACE, and integrating these into a federative system ...
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Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in the Post-genomic Era (GP-TCM)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"In contrast to the reductionist approach of Western medicine that is based on modern anatomy, cell and molecular biology, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) uses a unique theory system and an individualised and holistic approach to describe health and disease, based on the philosophy of Yin-Yang balance and an emphasis on harmony of functions. These two medicine systems disagree with each other i ...
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Resurrection of Developmental Pathways in the Evolution of the Petal (PETALEVODEVO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Our project concerns the evolution of petal conical cells in a group of flowering plants, the Caryophyllales. The fellow has determined that following a loss of petals in the Caryophyllales, petals have subsequently re-evolved 9 times. Conical cells, which perform a vital role in interacting with pollinators, often occur on these re-evolved petals. The host has demonstrated that MIXTA-like R2R3 M ...
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Stability in algebraic geometry and its relationship with canonical Kahler metrics (STABILITYMETRICS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"The proposal centers around the conjectural equivalence between the existence of special Kahler metrics and stability notions for projective manifolds coming from Geometric Invariant Theory. The stability condition is called K-stability, and the metrics in question are the extremal metrics, which includes the class of Kahler-Einstein metrics and the constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics. The p ...
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NANO-OPTICAL MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (NOMS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Nano-optical mechanical actuation based on nanotube-enriched polymeric materials is a much sought-after technology. In this scheme, light sources promote mechanical actuation of the polymeric materials producing a variety of nano–optical mechanical systems such as tactile displays, artificial muscles, and nano-grippers among others. The purpose of the NOMS project is to fabricate microsystems capa ...
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Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe (RadioNet-FP7)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

RadioNet is an integrating activity that has pulled together ALL of Europe's leading radio astronomy facilities to produce a focused, coherent and integrated proposals that will significantly enhance the quality and quantity of science performed by European astronomers. RadioNet FP7 has 25 partners. They range from operators of major radio telescope facilities to laboratories that specialise in m ...
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Novel Receptor:Ligand Interactions in Osteolytic Diseases (NRLIOD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

"Pathological bone loss (osteolysis), the process whereby osteoclasts erode mineralised bone matrix, remains an unresolved challenge in the pathology of osteolytic diseases, such as osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteolytic bone cancers. Identification of the receptors involved in osteoclast development (osteoclastogenesis) is currently a high priority in osteoclast research. The goal ...
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Technology for Wafer-scale Carbon Nanotube Applications (TECHNOTUBES)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

Carbon nanotubes are materials with a set of unique electrical, mechanical, surface and thermal properties. Yet their adoption in mainstream applications has been limited by mass production and device integration. This project develops the first 300mm wafer-scale equipment for production of carbon nanotubes on surfaces. The project will cover the design, engineering, process control, quality assur ...
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Innovative Materials for Future Generation Excitonic Solar Cells (INNOVASOL)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

INNOVASOL aims to develop radically new nanostructured materials for photovoltaic (PV) excitonic solar cells (XSCs) really competitive with traditional energy sources. The main objective is to leapfrog current limitations of third-generation PV devices through a drastic improvement of the materials used for assembling XSCs. The first step is the substitution of the liquid electrolytes, currently u ...
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Realistic Local Models in Moduli Stabilised String Compactifications (STRING MODELS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

"String theory has the promise to provide answers for many of the puzzles in our current understanding of particle physics and cosmology. In string theory, space time has ten dimensions; four of them corresponding to the dimensions we observe, the six extra dimensions are curled up at an unobservable scale (compactified). One of the long standing problems in string theory was that known solutions ...
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An integrated concept of tumor metastasis: implications for therapy (TuMIC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

From many perspectives our concept of the process of metastasis is inadequate and needs to be revised. In particular, the potential impact of recent ideas about the cellular basis of tumor growth (cancer stem cells) and the establishment by remote tumors of special permissive microenvironments in target organs prior to metastasis (metastatic niches) remains to be explored. In the TuMIC project we ...
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Finance, Innovation and Growth: Changing Patterns and Policy Implications (FINNOV)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

The long-term economic performance of Europe depends on its ability to generate new knowledge and inventions, and, to translate invention into innovation and innovation into economic adaptation and growth.This ability is central to achieving the objectives of the Lisbon Agenda and the new industrial policy in an enlarged EU.However, innovation involves more than invention, more than the funding of ...
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Climatic forcing and local controlling factors in the sedimentary evolution of high-latitude continental margins (CLIFORM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

"This project focuses on the application of the “source-to-sink” approach to the study of paleo-ice streams with the main objective of analysing and comparing the climatic forcing and its interaction with local factors in high-latitude continental margins (Southern and Northern hemispheres) during the last glacial cycle, from morphological and sedimentological studies. The “source-to-sink” approac ...
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Arctic Tipping Points (ATP)

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

The broad interdisciplinary consortia assembled in the Arctic Tipping Points (ATP) project will be managed (WP1) to identify the elements of the Arctic marine ecosystem likely to show abrupt changes in response to climate change, and establish the levels of the corresponding climate drivers inducing the regime shift for these tipping elements. ATP will evaluate the consequences of crossing those t ...
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Structural characterisation of early alpha-synuclein amyloidogenic species relevant to Parkinson's disease: Validation as therapeutic targets (Early amyloid states)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Alpha-synuclein (AS) is the major constituent of Lewy bodies, a pathological signature of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Amyloid-like deposits of AS are generated by toxic pre-fibrillar species of the protein which are now considered to be a major cause of cell death in PD. The mechanisms by which oxidative stress is linked to AS aggregation are not yet known and are a subject of intense research in th ...
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SAW-driven single-electron quantum devices with optical readout of the spin (SAWQUBIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"The proposal is aimed at the experimental development of a novel solid-state quantum computation scheme and its interface to quantum optics. The computation scheme, put forward at the University of Cambridge, uses the spin of an electron trapped in the dynamic potential associated with a surface acoustic wave (SAW) as a “flying” qubit. The capture of single electrons in moving quantum dots occurs ...
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"Systems-Level, Multi-layer Understanding of Cellular Responses to Ionizing Radiation" (TRIREME)

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

"The TRIREME project aims at developing and implementing a multidisciplinary strategy for a systems-level analysis of a cornerstone of cellular homeostasis – the DNA damage response (DDR). The DDR is a complex signaling network that is responsible for maintaining the stability and integrity of the cellular genome in the face of DNA damage. DDR defects underlie acute and chronic forms of human ailm ...
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Information Role Models with Applications (IRMA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

"Picking a role model is a natural way of deciding what to do by emulating a person we admire: children look up to superheroes; chemists and physicists follow Marie Curie. When faced with a difficult choice, solving the problem on our own may seem difficult. Instead, we seek shelter behind our role model and try to imagine what Superman or Marie Curie would have done. There is a parallel to this a ...
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Organelle interactions in iron-sulphur protein biogenesis (Org Int ISP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

Iron-sulphur (Fe-S) proteins are crucial to life-sustaining processes such as respiration, photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation. These metalloproteins contain ancient but versatile co-factors, called Fe-S clusters, consisting of iron and acid-labile sulphide. In plant cells, evolutionary conserved Fe-S cluster assembly pathways have been localized to the mitochondria, plastids and the cytosol. Whe ...
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SUBVERSION OF INSECT RESISTANCE: A NOVEL ROLE FOR A PLANT VIRAL SILENCING SUPPRESSOR (VIRUSES AND APHIDS)

Start date: Oct 16, 2009, End date: Oct 15, 2011,

"Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is one of the two most important viruses of field-grown and glasshouse crops in the EU and worldwide, causing considerable losses annually. Moreover CMV attacks more crop and wild-plant species than any other virus. A key contributor to the success of CMV is a recently-discovered factor made by the virus: the 2b protein. Until recently the most important known role for ...
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Spastic paraplegia genes and endosomal signaling in Drosophila (Paraplegia endosomes)

Start date: Oct 12, 2009, End date: Oct 11, 2011,

The hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs) are a group of neurodegenerative conditions characterised by the degeneration of longer spinal cord motor tract axons. The normal function of the 13 cloned spastic paraplegia genes (SPGs) is largely unknown, but most encode intracellular membrane-associated proteins. Recently, the host laboratory has established that one of these genes, SPG6, encodes an en ...
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Dialectal variation and the definition of finiteness: finite and non-finite dependent clauses in two dialect clusters (DIALFIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"Despite its importance in modern linguistics as both a theoretical and descriptive tool, the notion of finiteness still lacks a widely accepted definition. In the literature it is often assumed that the finite or non-finite status of a clause is actually the result of a complex interaction of several semantic and syntactic features, yet there is no agreement on which features are relevant and how ...
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Electrochemical Silicon Layers Formation in Fused Salts (ELSI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"The goal of this project is to create new electrochemical methods of silicon layer formation in fused salt electrolytes in the range of thicknesses from nanometres to micrometres. The research aims to achieve results of high technological significance – formation of silicon thin films for photovoltaic applications (e.g. solar cells). The advantages of the proposed electrochemical SiO2 deoxidation ...
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Discovering New Determinants of Epithelial Cell Polarity (New Polarity Factors)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

Multicellularity requires the organization of cells into specialized tissues. Cells that make up epithelial tissue are polarized; distinct outer (apical) and inner (basal) faces are central to their purpose. Previous studies in animal and cell culture model systems have revealed a number of polarity determinants that act coordinately to establish and maintain epithelial cell polarity under normal ...
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New metal catalised C–H bond activation strategies for chemical synthesis (CHACTSCS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"The capacity to selectively functionalise either small molecules or more complex structures represents a persistent and ever increasing challenge in chemical synthesis. Transition metal catalysed coupling reactions have offered a revolutionary solution to the problem of selective derivatisation that has transformed the way we do synthesis over the last 30 years. However, while these precise react ...
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FIRST MILLENNIUM AD PATTERNS OF SETTLEMENT AND ECONOMIC CHANGE IN TUSCANY AND SICILY (ITALY): DEVELOPING NEW RESEARCH TECHNIQUES AND COMPARING ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES (TECHCOMPARCHLAND)

Start date: Sep 28, 2009, End date: Sep 27, 2011,

"Italy, in light of its central position in the Mediterranean and complex histories throughout the period, represents the ideal context for analysing how patterns of continuity and discontinuity determined medieval Europe’s birth. The proposed project aims at comparing 1st millennium AD economic and settlement patterns between two territories of Italy, using an innovative cross-disciplinary approa ...
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