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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Molecules against Gram Negative Infections (COMBACTE-MAGNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

...Clinical Practice (EFGCP), a not‐for‐profit, Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)‐ and FP7‐funded, organization specialized in delivering tailor‐made, practice‐relevant Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training activities in European Union (EU) countries. The clinical studies related to MEDI3902 and of AIC499 will be supported by innovative epidemiological studies, including mathematical modeling of ...
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Standardization and Development of Assays for Assessment of Influenza Vaccines Correlates of Protection (FLUCOP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

...ving international standardisation of serological assays to reduce inter laboratory variability and to generate supportive immunological assays to be used in studies aimed at developing clinically relevant surrogate markers of protection of influenza vaccines.Objectives: The main long-term aim of the FLUCOP project is to improve and standardize the existing immunological assays and to develop new ...
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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Carbapenem Resistance (COMBACTE-CARE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2020,

Multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB): the ultimate challenge!Antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern recently elevated to the top three threats identified by the WHO, and subject of numerous national and international government activities. Although focused strategies have beneficially influenced infection rates due to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (M ...
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European Gram Negative Antibacterial Engine (ENABLE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The intensive use and misuse of antibiotics has resulted in some level of antibiotic resistance in essentially all human bacterial pathogens. There is a growing concern that the loss of therapeutic options will present us with a post-antibiotic era where present and future medical advances are negated. Resistant bacteria dramatically reduce the possibilities of treating infections effectively, a ...
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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe (COMBACTE-NET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The emergence of Antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) is a global problem, having recently been elevated to the top three threats identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO), and subject of numerous national and international government activities, including the Trans-Atlantic Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance established by the US and EU presidencies. The estimated costs of ARB are aro ...
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READY

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

...tting and carrying out ambitious climate and smart city polices. Kaunas (LT - 300,000 inhabitants) will take part as an observer city in order to bring in Eastern European experience with a most relevant context. The project team consist of internationally well known industrial companies, energy supply companies, SME's, housing companies, universities, consultants and other organisations that form ...
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New Methods and Applications for Forecast Evaluation (Forecasting)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

...ata. How to obtain such robust methods and what they tell us about widely used economic models’ forecasts is the first task of this project.A second problem faced by forecasters in practice is to evaluate density forecasts. Density forecasts are important tools for policymakers since they quantify uncertainty around forecasts. However, existing methodologies focus on a null hypothesis that is not ...
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Labor Market Risk and Skill Diversity: Implications for Efficiency, Policy, and Estimation (RISK AND DIVERSITY)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

... and complementarities between differentially skilled workers is amongst the greatest challenges to firms' hiring decisions. The objective is to analyze the efficiency properties and as a consequence evaluate the role for policy. In order to establish the implications of the mechanisms that govern risk and diversity, I elaborate on concrete applications and discuss estimation in different labor ma ...
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Unravelling the unicellular prehistory of metazoans with functional analyses and single-cell genomics (PREMETAZOANEVOLUTION)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

...sing single-cell genomics. This research will not only markedly improve our understanding of a major biological question (the origin of metazoan multicellularity) but will also generate new data relevant to a broad range of researchers."
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Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (ATHEME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"The project Advancing The European Multilingual Experience (AThEME) takes an integrated approach towards the study of multilingualism in Europe by incorporating and combining linguistic, cognitive and sociological perspectives; by studying multilingualism in Europe at three different levels of societal magnitude, viz. the individual multilingual citizen, the multilingual group, and the multilingu ...
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UPF Fellows (UPFellows)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

...d the COFUND period.The applicant-oriented objectives are:- To enhance career prospects by providing structured postdoctoral training; scientific, technical and personal support; and monitoring and evaluation that will maximize fellows’ opportunities for continued professional development and the possibilities of continued success.- To benefit from the intensive research environment at UPF (11 ERC ...
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"The role of consciousness in adaptive behavior: A combined empirical, computational and robot based approach" (CDAC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"Understanding the nature of consciousness is one of the grand outstanding scientific challenges and two of its features stand out: consciousness is defined as the construction of one coherent scene but this scene is experienced with a delay relative to the action of the agent and not necessarily the cause of actions and thoughts. Did evolution render solutions to the challenge of survival that in ...
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Diagnostic Imaging Strategies for Patients with Stable Chest Pain and Intermediate Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: Comparative Effectiveness Research of Existing Technologies (DISCHARGE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

... may become the most effective strategy to reduce the ca. 2 million annual negative ICAs in Europe by enabling early and safe discharge of the majority of patients with an intermediate risk of CAD.To evaluate this, we propose the DISCHARGE project that will be implemented by a multinational European consortium. The core of the project is the DISCHARGE pragmatic randomised controlled trial. The pri ...
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Intelligent Assessment of Pharmaceutical in the Environment (IPIE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can be released to the natural environment during the manufacturing process, following use by patients or when unused medicines are disposed of. As APIs are biologically active compounds concerns have been raised about the potential effects of APIs in the environment on human and environmental health. Over the past 15 years, a substantial amount of work has ...
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Neuropathic pain: biomarkers and druggable targets within the endogenous analgesia system (NEUROPAIN)

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

...es. We will overcome these obstacles by an interdisciplinary collaboration between basic science groups, clinicians and leading private companies. This consortium will validate new animal models to evaluate the electrophysiological, behavioural, emotional and cognitive manifestations of neuropathic pain and the effectiveness of novel compounds. The use of these models in combination with other beh ...
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Biological origins of linguistic constraints (BIOCON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...terplay between general mechanisms shared across species and more specialized ones dedicated to the speech signal is at the heart of current debates in human language acquisition. This is a highly relevant issue for researchers in the fields of Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. By conducting experiments across several populations (human adults and infants) an ...
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Virtual Centre of Excellence for Research in Violent Online Political Extremism (VOX-Pol)

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

VOX-Pol is a 60-month, €5+ million project that integrates the world’s leading researchers and research groups in Violent Online Political Extremism (VOPE), to include those researching the intersection of terrorism and the Internet (incl. violent jihadists, violent separatists, etc.), the online activities of the extreme Right, the potential for violent online radicalisation, etc., in order to:1. ...
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Clonidine for Sedation of Paediatric Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (CloSed)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

The majority of critically ill children admitted to Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) will require sedation and analgesia which is commonly achieved with a combination of an benzodiazepine and an opioid. However, these agents have a significant side-effect profile, including tolerance, withdrawal and respiratory/circulatory depression. Clonidine is commonly used for sedation in PICU and recom ...
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Impacts and risks from higher-end scenarios: Strategies for innovative solutions (IMPRESSIONS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

IMPRESSIONS will provide empirically-grounded, transformative science that quantifies and explains the consequences of high-end climate scenarios for both decision-makers and society. IMPRESSIONS will develop and apply a novel participatory methodology that explicitly deals with uncertainties and strong non-linear changes focussing on high-end climate change, but also including intermediate warmin ...
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Information and Educational Materials for Refugees and Immigrants

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Europe is nowadays undergoing one of the most important crisis when it comes to migratory flows. People from different countries and cultures are forced to leave their homes searching for a better and safer place to live. At the same time, economic crisis is also affecting many European adults who have to face great difficulties to find a job and earn a decent living. In some cases, this critical ...
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Towards a new understanding of carbon processing in freshwaters: methane emission hot spots and carbon burial (HYDROCARB)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...ses regulating it, is insufficient. Here I propose a research program on tropical reservoirs in Brazil that takes advantage of recent developments in both concepts and methodologies to provide unique evaluations of GHG emission and OC burial in tropical reservoirs. In particular, I will test the following hypotheses: 1) Current estimates of reservoir CH4 emission are at least one order of magnitud ...
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Mechanisms of cognitive control and language learning (UNDER CONTROL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...matically computed over all available input information. However, the language learning situation is so rich and multidimensional that infants need to pinpoint the appropriate subset of dimensions relevant for computing statistics. How does the baby navigate through the immense search space, being such space dependent on each language?In this project, I will explore the relationship between mechan ...
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Quality-of-Experience Improvement for Mobile Multimedia across Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (QUICK)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

"With the rapid innovation in sophisticated wireless communication technologies, the past years have witnessed a dramatic growth of content-rich and resource-hungry mobile multimedia applications that demand high Quality-of-Experience (QoE). The overall objective of this project is to bring together a highly qualified group of researchers from both European countries and China to explore the strat ...
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Emigration of High-Skilled Individuals due to Short-Term Contracts (EXODUS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: May 3, 2018,

This proposal presents a study of the EXODUS of exceptionally gifted individuals due to the increased utilization of short-term contracts. The primary objective is to study the impact of Italian labour market reforms, specifically those related to the regulation and utilization of short-term employment contracts, on the departure of skilled workers towards other countries, which typically offer mo ...
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ICIQ International Postdoctoral Mobility Programme (ICIQ-IPMP)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

...lly promoted and open to worldwide researchers in an equal opportunity basis. Eligibility for the programme will require geographical mobility and other mobility experiences will be positively evaluated. The application procedure will be simple, clear and applicant friendly. The evaluation will have two stages (previous scientific achievements and research project) and the selection procedure will ...
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Sustainable Urban FUrniTURE: Tool design to perform environmental assessments in the green procurement framework (LIFE FUTURE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

...ated analysis of GPP for urban furniture in the EU, in particular focusing on Spain and Croatia; Validation and demonstration of the economic advantages of the proposed system for analysis and evaluation (GUF Tool); and Reduction of the environmental impacts of urban furniture using the GUF Tool. The average environmental impact benefits of urban furniture after applying eco-design criteria are ...
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ISOTOPIC TOOLS AS NOVEL SENSORS OF EARTH SURFACE RESOURCES (IsoNose)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Soil, water, and precious metals are major natural resources present at the Earth´s terrestrial surface and their efficient management is essential for future sustainable development. Their availability is regulated by massive biogeochemical transformations that take place as the chemical elements move from rock to soil, into plants, through ground water, into river water, and into ore deposits. T ...
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NANOCARRIERS FOR THE DELIVERY OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS TO FIGHT RESISTANCE MECHANISMS (CycloN Hit)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The worldwide spread of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms can be viewed as an ecological consequence of the systematic use of antimicrobial agents. Resistant bacteria prevail in healthcare environments where antibiotic selective pressure is intensive. Novel therapeutic approaches are urgently required to deliver the well-documented existing drugs in an optimized fashion to: i) protect them towar ...
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Analytical Sociology: Theoretical Developments and Empirical Research (ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGY)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

This proposal outlines a highly ambitious and path-breaking research program. Through a tightly integrated package of basic theoretical work, strategic empirical research projects, international workshops, and a large number of publications in leading journals, the research program seeks to move sociology in a more analytical direction.One part of the research program focuses on the epistemologica ...
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ADVANCING GOLD CATALYSIS (CATGOLD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

We plan to chase new goals by exploring the limits of gold chemistry and organic synthesis. A major goal is to promote copper to the level of gold as the catalyst of choice for the activation of alkynes under homogeneous conditions. Another major goal is to develop enantioselective reactions based on a new chiral catalyst design to overcome the inherent limitations of the linear coordination of d1 ...
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Ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and PROSPERITY for ALL stakeholders (Prosperity4All)

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

Over 2 billion people worldwide have different types, degrees, or combinations of disability, literacy, digital literacy or aging related barriers that impede or prevent use of ICT. Not long ago you could live without access to ICT quite well. However today access to ICT is required for most education, employment, and commerce, and is increasingly required for travel, health, safety, daily living ...
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Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship: Family Values and Youth Unemployment in Europe (CUPESSE)

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

The multi-disciplinary CUPESSE project carries out a comparative analysis of both the demand and supply side of youth unemployment in eleven Member States of the EU and Associated Countries (i.e. Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom). These ten countries represent the main empirical scope of the project, but whenever ...
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Protecting the health of Europeans by improving methods for the detection of pathogens in drinking water and water used in food preparation (Aquavalens)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The AQUAVALENS consortium has brought together SMEs, Industries, Universities and Research Institutes with the mission of protecting the health of European Citizens from contaminated drinking water and water used in food processing. We will achieve this by developing sustainable technologies to enable water system managers whether in large or small water systems or within food growers or manufactu ...
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Sprachcoaching im Englischunterricht der Primarstufe mit Job-Shadowing als Erfahrungserweiterung in integrative Formen des Unterrichts.

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Since 2004 English has been an integral part of foreign language learning in primary education in the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The first week of the two week course comprises intensive language training with native speakers which will bring new language competence. We wish to achieve a higher quality and increased efficiency alongside linguistic variety, thus improving the classroom te ...
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European Medical Information Framework (EMIF)

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

...different sources and collection of additional new information. EMIF will focus on two specific research objectives in order to guide the development of the Information Framework: identification and evaluation of biomarkers i) of the risk for metabolic complications in obesity; ii) of Alzheimer’s Disease onset in the preclinical and prodromal phase, which in both cases will identify high-risk ind ...
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Molecular basis of the outer membrane permeability (TRANSLOCATION)

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

Overcoming the barriers that the cell envelope and efflux pumps provide to Gram-negative bacteria is a major bottleneck in the discovery and development of new antibiotics. To respond to this Call we are extending our current network on antibiotic translocation and propose an ambitious project ranging from identification of novel resistance mechanisms in clinical bacterial isolates to crystallizat ...
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Long-term research activities in the area of advanced CO2 Capture Technologies for Clean Coal Energy Generation (CO2TRIP)

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

"Coal combustion is the main source for producing energy. Nowadays, the reduction of CO2 emission from energy sector is the most important field of research. Refinement and development of current technology are the main activities in this proposal. Transfer of knowledge and experience in the area of innovation CO2 capture technology is the main goal of the Proposal. Those activities allow to reduc ...
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Radio technologies for broadband mm-wave satellite communication systems (DORADA)

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

"An on-going and forecasted explosive growth of broadcast and broadband multimedia satellite communication services is putting extreme pressure to increase throughput. To meet the ever-increasing demand, future systems must exploit higher carrier frequencies and reconfigurable radio techniques. These systems are particularly demanding on the performance of RF front-ends, which are increasingly req ...
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European Lead Factory (EUC²LID)

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

The European Lead Factory concept proposed by the EUC2LID Consortium relates to the discovery of novel small molecule candidates to serve as starting points for subsequent optimization to either drug candidates or high-quality pharmacological tools for the experimental validation of targets. The concept intends to bridge academic and applied research interests. The European Lead Factory will provi ...
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Ageing Europe: An application of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for explaining and projecting trends in public finances (AGENTA)

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

"The AGENTA project aims at explaining the past and forecasting the future of taxes and public transfers and services in the light of demographic change in the European Union. Conceptually AGENTA puts a special emphasis on- the links between the public and the non-public sector (particularly households) in providing resources in the dependent periods of the life cycle;- the links between the diff ...
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