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Virtual Prototyping of Tactile Displays (PROTOTOUCH)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"It is estimated that touch screen module revenues will reach $23.9 billion by 2017. These user interfaces have become one of the most common input devices for digital media, e.g. in mobile phones and computers. Current devices incorporate relatively primitive vibrotactile haptic-feedback. The aim of PROTOTOUCH is to develop tactile displays with high fidelity haptic recognition, so that buttons w ...
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Whole-body Compliant Dynamical Contacts in Cognitive Humanoids (CoDyCo)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Description The aim of CoDyCo is to improve the current control and cognitive understanding about robust, goal-directed whole-body motion interaction with multiple contacts. CoDyCo will go beyond traditional approaches: proposing methodologies for performing coordinated interaction tasks with complex systems; combining planning and complianc ...
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Intangible Treasures - Capturing the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Learning the Rare Know-How of Living Human Treasures (i-Treasures)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Cultural expression is not limited to architecture, monuments or collections of artifacts. It also includes fragile intangible live expressions, which involve knowledge and skills. Such expressions include music, dance, singing, theatre, human skills and craftsmanship.These manifestations of human intelligence and creativeness constitute our Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). ICH is at the same t ...
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TWO!EARS

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

TWO!EARS replaces current thinking about auditory modelling by a systemic approach in which human listeners are regarded as multi-modal agents that develop their concept of the world by exploratory interaction. The goal of the project is to develop an intelligent, active computational model of auditory perception and experience in a multi-modal context. Our novel approach is based on a structural ...
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CARBON BASED SMART SYSTEMS FOR WIRELESS APPLICATIONS (NANO RF)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

Description New technologies and new wireless architectures identified as Beyond CMOS and More than Moore From the strategic agendas of ENIAC,EPoSS and ITRS it is evident that wireless applications are gaining more and more importance that results to new requirements in terms of miniaturization an ...
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Social situation-aware perception and action for cognitive robots (SPENCER)

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

Description SPENCER will break new ground for cognitive systems in populated environments. While there is an increasing focus on making robots more socially aware, related approaches are still limited in their capacity to perceive, model and learn human social behavior and respond with appropriate actions in real-time from mobile platforms. ...
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European and Chinese Platform for Robotics and Applications (ECROBOT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The project “European and Chinese Platform for Robotics and Applications (ECROBOT)” focuses on the staff exchange between the partners of EU and China, and on the development of new technologies and applications in the field of robotics on the macro, micro and nano scales. It meets the objectives and requirements of the Marie Curie Action: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES), by s ...
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Aero-Thermodynamic Loads on Lightweight Advanced Structures II (ATLLAS II)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

ATLLAS II is a logical follow-up of a recently finalized FP6 project which has as objectives the identification and assessment of advanced light-weight and high-temperature resistant materials for high-speed vehicles up to Mach 6.The material requirements are first defined through an in-depth feasibility study of a Mach 5-6 vehicle. The consortium has now this capability at hand as they can rely o ...
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Management of Resistance to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors with Advanced Nanosystems (NANORESISTANCE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

NANORESISTANCE introduces for the first time (i) receptor -independent targeting of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-kinase activity, (ii) nuclear delivery of anti-Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor therapy with novel grafting techniques and (iii) the deciphering of resistance and lack of responsiveness to anti-EGFR therapies in the preclinical setting with mathematical models of interstitial biodi ...
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Multi-proxy approach of marine Silicon and Carbon biogeochemical Cycles (MUSICC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Though decoupled in time and space in the ocean, Si and C cycles are closely linked. The role played by these elements on climate and marine ecosystems is essential and their biogeochemical cycle is undergoing dramatic changes. MuSiCC proposes to bring unique know-how, developed abroad by the applicant, to UPMC, a leading French university where he now has a permanent position. This project is com ...
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Dynamics of Weakly Bound Quantum Systems (DWBQS)

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

...e atomic structure problem in Super Heavy Elements (SHE) based on experience of many body physics in systems like large clusters and quantum dots. The DWBQS group with its new collaborative constellation of theorists and experimentalists, atomic and nuclear physicists, has a background which is well suited to secure the achievement of the proposed goals.
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Symbiomics: Molecular Ecology and Evolution of Bacterial Symbionts (Symbiomics)

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

Symbiosis research is currently in the midst of a revolution as molecular techniques are leading to major breakthroughs in our understanding of interactions between animals and microbes. There is an emerging recognition that all animals are intimately associated with a complex community of beneficial microbes that are essential for their development, nutrition, and health. Thus, modern symbiosis r ...
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Fuel Injector Research for Sustainable Transport (FIRST)

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

FIRST will deliver key enabling technologies for combustion emission reduction by developing improved design tools and techniques for modelling and controlling fuel sprays and soot.Aviation’s environmental impact must be reduced to allow sustainable growth to benefit European industry and society. This is captured in ACARE’s 2020 goals of reducing CO2 by 50%, NOx by 80% and in SRA1/2 proposed redu ...
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The Hand Embodied (THE)

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

Description Advancing the state of the art in artificial system architectures for the "hand" as a cognitive organ The scientific goals of The Hand Embodied concern the reciprocal linkages between the physical hand and its high-level control functions, and about the way that the embodiment enables ...
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Exciton-polaritons in microcavities: physics and devices (CLERMONT4)

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

The discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of exciton-polaritons in 2006 and the demonstration of room-temperature polariton lasing in 2007 have opened the way to realisation of a new generation of optoelectronic devices referred to as polariton devices. The research on exciton-polaritons and polaritonics allows the quantum effects of superfluidity, entanglement, squeezing of light to be br ...
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Biology of Liver and Pancreatic Development and Disease (BOLD)

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

Aims: provide a cutting edge research training programme encompassing complementary approaches to the investigation of liver and pancreatic development and disease. Provide early stage researchers with a balanced mix of experience and skills in academic and industry based research. Give early stage researchers a set of transferrable skills which will improve their employment and career prospects. ...
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International sensor development network (SENSEnet)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

This ITN project will train young investigators to enable them make significant advances in the field of in situ sensor technology. It will bring together 15 research groups and 2 industrial partners from across the European Union. The ITN will provide training for 16 PhD students, early stage researchers (ESRs) and 1 Postdoctoral student, experienced researcher (ER). The programme will combine th ...
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The Approximation Problem in Computational ElectroMagnetics (ApProCEM)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The proposal is focused on computational electromagnetics (CEM) with emphasis on the moment method (MoM) and its application to the numerical solution of integral equations (IEs) arising in electromagnetic (EM) scattering by either perfectly-conducting or homogeneous dielectric objects in both 2-D and 3-D geometries. Particularly it addresses four research objectives (ROs). RO1 concerns a priori a ...
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Stochastic Laplacian Growth (SLG)

Start date: Feb 19, 2010, End date: Feb 18, 2013,

"Recent breakthrough in the theory of 2D growth, due to application of analytic theory of stochastic conformal mappings, opened new prospectives for solution of fundamental long-standing problems in the studies of interface dynamics and pattern formation. The research field has been enriched by new effective approaches, emerged from theory of integrable systems and analytic function theory, to dea ...
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Assistive Technology Rapid Integration & Construction Set (AsTeRICS)

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

Description More than 2,6 million people in Europe have problems with their upper limbs and therefore many of them depend on Assistive Technologies (AT) to access a PC or any other ICT, including mobile technology, and to control their environment (to switch on equipment, to open doors etc).One problem of existing AT devices is that they can ...
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Mechanisms of Exertional Dyspnea in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (EDPAH)

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

"Activity-related dyspnea appears to be the earliest and dominant symptom limiting exercise in the majority of patients afflicted by pulmonary arterial hypertension. This symptom progresses relentlessly with time leading invariably to avoidance of activity with consequent skeletal muscle deconditioning and poor perceived quality of life. Unfortunately, effective management of this disabling symp ...
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Real-time experimental study of pattern selection dynamics in eutectic solidification (EUSOL)

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

"This proposal (EUSOL) is an experimental research program (at INSP, UPMC, Paris, France) on the formation dynamics of EUtectic SOLidification microstructures, of both interest in nonlinear physics and materials science. Real-time directional solidification (DS) of transparent and metallic alloys will be performed, with recent videomicroscopy devices, and new setups under current or planned develo ...
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Chloroplast Signals (COSI)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

... expertise in various aspects of photosynthesis in algae and higher plants and in plant signal transduction. This unique combination will be used to identify major regulatory principles of plant organellar metabolism principally also applying far beyond the plant field. Thus training and knowledge can be transferred to many other fields in life sciences. An integrated working programme consisting ...
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Validation of the disease model and therapy for retinitis pigmentosa 11 (RP11MOUSE)

Start date: May 18, 2009, End date: May 17, 2012,

"With a prevalence of 1 in 3500 retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a significant cause of blindness in the Western world. RP is a group of hereditary retinal disorders, for which there is no effective treatment. It is mostly caused by mutations in genes related to the biochemistry of photoreceptors. PRPF31, however was the first ubiquitously expressed gene implicated in this disorder. Mutations in this ...
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Environmnental stresses in a scleractinian coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis: a genomics approach (ESCOR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

...e change and symbiosis. The great success of corals as ecosystem engineers lie in their extraordinary ecology and physiology that is based on a mutualistic symbiosis between a photosynthetic dinoflagellate algae (zooxanthellae) and the anthozoan animal host. Within the last several decades, scleractinarian corals have been affected by the phenomenon of mass coral bleaching, caused by the breakdow ...
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