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Center of Excellence for Global Systems Science (COEGSS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Global Systems Science – GSS – is an emerging research field focused on the risks and opportunities involved in global coordination problems. Examples of global systems include the internet, financial markets, intellectual property rights, global energy use and others. Developing evidence and understanding in view of such systems and of related policies is rapidly becoming a vital challenge for mo ...
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Size effects in fracture and plasticity (SIZEFFECTS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Understanding how materials respond to external mechanical perturbation is a central problem of science and engineering. While for most practical purposes it is useful to idealize the mechanical response of a material as a deterministic function of the externally applied perturbation, disorder and fluctuations are unavoidable, leading to sample-to-sample variations and non-trivial size effects. Th ...
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Natural sense of vision through acoustics and haptics (Sound of Vision)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Sound of Vision (Vision restoration through sound and haptics) will design, implement and validate an original non-invasive hardware and software system to assist visually impaired people by creating and conveying an auditory representation of the surrounding environment. This representation will be created, updated and delivered to a blind person continuously and in real time. This system will he ...
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Bringing CItizens, Models and Data together in Participatory, Interactive SociaL EXploratories (CIMPLEX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

We propose visionary research to develop modeling, computational, and ICT tools needed to predict and influence disease spread and other contagion phenomena in complex social systems. To achieve non-incremental advances we will combine large scale, realistic, data-driven models with participatory data-collection and advanced methods for Big Data analysis. In particular we will go beyond the one-di ...
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Controlling domain wall dynamics for functional devices (WALL)

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

"WALL is a training network on the topic of domain walls in nanoscale magnetic structures, which will provide the next generation of researchers in this area of advanced technology. Domain walls (DWs) are the interfaces separating magnetic domains, their high speed manipulation in nanostructures will lead to the next generation of new and low power functional devices for computation and communicat ...
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Preparedness, Prediction and Prevention of Emerging Zoonotic Viruses with Pandemic Potential using Multidisciplinary Approaches (PREDEMICS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The capacity of zoonotic RNA viruses to emerge as major agents of human disease can appear limitless. Current intervention strategies have demonstrated limited success. Rapid, innovative and effective solutions are needed to reduce the apparently accelerating process of zoonotic disease emergence. We will study the following zoonotic viruses with epidemic potential in Europe: influenza virus, hepa ...
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Foundational Research on MULTIlevel comPLEX networks and systems (MULTIPLEX)

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

Future advancements in ICT domain are closely linked to the understanding about how multi-level complex systems function. Indeed, multi-level dependencies may amplify cascade failures or make more sudden the collapse of the entire system. Recent large-scale blackouts resulting from cascades in the power-grid coupled to the control communication system witness this point very clearly. A better unde ...
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Topology driven methods for complex systems (TOPDRIM)

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

Many complex systems are characterized by multi-level properties that make the study of their dynamics and of their emerging phenomena a daunting task. The huge amount of data available in modern sciences can be expected to support great progress in these studies, even though the nature of the data varies. Given that, it is crucial to extract as much as possible features from data, including quali ...
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StudioLab - a new European platform for creative interactions between art and science (STUDIOLAB)

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

Inspired by the merging of the artist’s studio with the research lab to create a hybrid creative space, STUDIOLAB proposes the creation of a new European platform for creative interactions between art and science. STUDIOLAB brings together major players in scientific research with centres of excellence in the arts and experimental design and leverages the existence of a new network of “hybrid” spa ...
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Enhance environmental awareness through social information technologies (EveryAware)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

There is now overwhelming evidence that the current organisation ofour economies and societies is seriously damaging biologicalecosystems and human living conditions in the very short term, withpotentially catastrophic effects in the long term. The enforcement ofnovel policies may be triggered by a grassroot approach, with a keycontribution from information and communication technologies (ICT).Now ...
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Complexity and predictability of epidemics: toward a computational infrastructure for epidemic forecasts (EPIFOR)

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

The advantage provided by the increasingly interconnected nature of our world has generated a dangerous by-product: the possibility for rapid worldwide spread of epidemics. The ability to forecast epidemic evolution – as much accurately as we can now do for weather conditions – would be of invaluable help in fighting the emergence or re-emergence of viruses such as SARS, avian influenza, HIV-AIDS, ...
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Global Systems Dynamics and Policy (GSDP)

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

GSDP is an initiative to develop a research program for the study of global systems in an ongoing dialogue with decision makers. GSDP will operate as an open network evolving through workshops, working papers, publications, and open conferences. It will consolidate an international community of researchers engaged in dialogues with decision-makers, and will generate a variety of research and consu ...
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Developing the Framework for an Epidemic Forecast Infrastructure (EPIWORK)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

In recent years a huge flow of quantitative social, demographic and behavioural data is becoming available spurring the quest for innovative technologies that can improve the traditional disease-surveillance systems, providing faster and better localized detection capabilities and resulting in a broad practical impact. Improved ICT techniques and methodologies support the inter-linkage and integra ...
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Collective quantum operations for information technologies (COQUIT)

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

The purpose of this project is to study quantum systems which allow only a partial control by a constrained set of quantum operations. Typical examples are many particle quantum systems like cold atoms in optical lattices or other multi-atom ensembles, which can be manipulated collectively but not individually (e.g. because the spatial resolution of the used devices is not good enough to address s ...
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Harnessing ICT-enabled collective social behaviour (ICTeCollective)

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

The last decades have seen a tremendous change of society as a whole, driven by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The dynamics of building and strengthening social relationships have evolved through the use of ICT, and new ICT-mediated groups and communities have emerged. Individuals, communities, society, and ICT have become deeply intertwined in a dynamic feedback process. The fu ...
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Computing Real-World Phenomena with Dynamically Changing Complex Networks (DYNANETS)

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

Recent advances in experimental techniques such as detectors, sensors, and scanners have opened up new windows into physical and biological processes on many levels of detail. The complete cascade from the individual components to the fully integrated multi-science systems crosses many orders of magnitude in temporal and spatial scales. The challenge is to study not only the fundamental processes ...
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Action for the Science of complex SYtems for Socially intelligent icT (ASSYST)

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

Description ASSYST will coordinate research around the call Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT (COSI-ICT) in the context of the wider science of complex systems (CS).ASSYST will make Complex Systems science and the potential of COSI-ICT better understood by scientific policy makers and funders at national and internation ...
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