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European Network of National Schizophrenia Networks Studying Gene-Environment Interactions (EU-GEI)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

The aim of EU-GEI is to identify the interactive genetic, clinical and environmental determinants involved in the development, severity and outcome of schizophrenia (EU-GEI, Schiz. Res. 2008; 102: 21-6). In order to identify these interactive determinants, EU-GEI will employ family-based, multidisciplinary research paradigms, which allow for the efficient assessment of gene-environment interaction ...
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Nature Inspired Computation and its Applications (NICaiA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The proposed exchange programme will allow us to strengthen the infrastructure of intellectual exchange between the EU (UK, Netherlands and Spain) and China. The short-term transfer of academic staff will facilitate the mutual exchange of domain specific knowledge and know-how, and by means of seminars and workshops, we intend to widen the scope of the programme, including as many (self-supported) ...
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Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity (TESIS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

TESIS, “Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity”, is an integrated ITN programme to investigate the foundations of human sociality. It brings together the complementary expertise of 13 European research institutes, clinical centres and private enterprises that span the biomedical sciences and the humanities. Thus, TESIS provides critical mass in the fields of philosophy, cognitive neurosc ...
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Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition (eSMCs)

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

Description The majority of current robot architectures is based on a perception-then-action control strategy. This project will adopt a theoretical perspective that turns this classical view upside-down and emphasizes the constitutive role of action for perception. The key concept of our project is based on that of sensorimotor contingencie ...
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Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticosteroids in the Central Nervous System (GCs-CNS-IS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Sep 2, 2014,

Glucocorticoids (GCs), the adrenal steroid hormones released during stress, can have an array of adverse effects in the nervous system, including disruption of hippocampal-dependent plasticity and cognition. Of relevance to this proposal, GCs can also compromise the ability of hippocampal and cortical neurons to survive an array of necrotic neurological insults. Amid this picture of deleterious ef ...
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Mixed-Matrix Interfaces for Enhanced Fine Chemicals Downstream Processing and Monitoring (MATRIX)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"In the production of fine chemicals the downstream processing may amount up to 75 % of the total manufacturing costs, particularly when the product is aimed at nutritional or therapeutic use which demands a maximum purity. Current downstream processing strategies can face limitations whenever existing purification and separation processes are based on physico-chemical principles and thus exhibit ...
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Spectroscopic insight with nanoscale resolution on model photovoltaic systems (nanoPV)

Start date: May 2, 2011, End date: May 1, 2014,

Engineering of cheap nanoscale elements based on self-assembled organic molecular materials with spatially distributed p-n interfaces is envisaged as a promising alternative to the expensive inorganic photovoltaic cells. In this frame, we plan to explore nanophotovoltaic interfaces to advance our understanding of the processes of sunlight conversion into usable electrical energy in molecular-scale ...
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Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces (PATHS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description Significant amounts of cultural heritage material are now available through online digital library portals. However, this vast amount of cultural heritage material can also be overwhelming for many users who are provided with little or no guidance on how to find and interpret this information. The situation is very different in m ...
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Verb agreement encoding during language production and comprehension (Verbagrencoding)

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

This project aims to make a broad characterization of agreement encoding processes, both during language production and comprehension, by proposing a cross-linguistic research project. We aim to characterize verb agreement encoding with its arguments by means of the number attraction phenomenon. Most psycholinguistic research has only considered subject-verb agreement, mainly because it is the onl ...
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Digital Mechanism and Gear Library goes Europeana (thinkMOTION)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

The thinkMOTION project as part of Europeana leads to the world's largest, free access digital library of content in the field of motion systems, which is essential for all technical domains. The thinkMOTION project helps to make a significant improvement in the quantity and quality of digital content and establishes a new kind of digital library in Europeana with focus on technical knowledge. It ...
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Extended service-life and improved properties of wood products through the use of functional nanoparticles in clear coating and adhesive systems (WOODLIFE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

The long term objective of the WOODLIFE project is to provide coated and glued wood products with substantially improved durability for a more sustainable society. The project aims to develop new water-based clear coating systems for wood with improved UV-absorbing properties, and to develop new water-based thermoplastic wood adhesives with improved mechanical properties. The new coating and adhes ...
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From Minimally Autonomous Biological Individuals to Collectively Associated Autonomous Adaptive Agents (ABIADA)

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

"A great difficulty in theorizing and explaining living systems and their evolutionary patterns, is due to their individual-systemic and collective-evolutionary characteristics being so strongly and deeply intertwined. Biological individuals aggregate to collectively form more complex and diverse forms of biological organization in time, thus new forms of functionally and interactively diverse ada ...
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Thermal management with carbon nanotube architectures (THEMA-CNT)

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

To overcome the difficulties in the contemporary thermal management of Si components and packages made of ceramics and organic laminates, in this project we propose novel and scaleable cooling technologies that utilize carbon nanotubes and their architectures integrated on various electrical components to achieve cooling efficiency of 100 W/m2 on large area Si chips, 10 W/cm2 on ceramics/polymer p ...
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THE REACTIVITY AND TOXICITY OF ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES: RISKS TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH (NanoReTox)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

NanoReTox will identify the potential risks to the environment and human health posed by free engineered (i.e. manmade) nanomaterial by comprehensively addressing five key questions: (1) How does the environment into which nanoparticles are released affect their physicochemical properties and their bioreactivity? (2) How does this impact on their ability to interact with and/or penetrate mammalia ...
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United Europeans for the Development of Pharmacogenomics in Multiple Sclerosis (UEPHA-MS)

Start date: Sep 15, 2008, End date: Sep 14, 2012,

"Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory, disabling disease of the central nervous system. Recent studies suggest that over the last 50 years a disproportional increase in incidence of MS in women has taken place. The lifetime costs of MS exceed 1.5 million € per case in the UK, and are likely to be similar in other European countries. There is no definitive cure for MS. Immunomodulatory ...
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Interaction Dynamics and Autonomy in Social Cognition (INDYNAUTS)

Start date: Aug 2, 2010, End date: Aug 1, 2012,

"Social cognition is concerned with how cognitive agents understand and navigate the social world. Most social cognition research today – whether in cognitive science, psychology or neuroscience – focuses only on the individual mechanisms needed to figure out others’ mental states. But this view over-emphasises the individual and gives social dynamics no more than a contextual role. However, there ...
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A New Agenda for European Security Economics (EUSECON)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"EUSECON analyses the newly emerging field of European security economics by identifying the nature and scope of this research field, by bringing together the leading European research players in this field and by building new analytical and conceptual insights on the most pressing research needs in this field. By implementing these research activities, EUSECON will establish an operational networ ...
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Nano-scale ICT Devices and Systems Coordination Action (NanoICT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

In the semiconductor industry, CMOS technology will certainly continue to have a predominant market position in the future. However, there are still a number of technological challenges, which have to be tackled if CMOS downscaling should be pursued until feature sizes will reach 10 nm around the year 2015-2020.The NanoICT Coordination Action activities will reinforce and support the whole Europea ...
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AIRCRAFT INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT II (AISHA II)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

"The safe use of complex engineering structures such as aircrafts can only be guaranteed when efficient means of damage assessment are in place. Whereas the design of civil structures is nowadays based on a damage tolerance approach and time based inspection cycles, it is envisaged that the large cost associated with this approach can be drastically reduced by switching to a condition based mainte ...
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European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility I3 (ETSF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

The European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility addresses an important need of European science and technology by providing experimental, industrial and other researchers with access to state-of-the-art computer simulation tools for electronic excited states in matter, together with high-quality support from ETSF personnel, mirroring the massive progress in the power and resolution of new European ...
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Regenerative medicine in Europe: emerging needs and challenges in a global context (REMEDiE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

The globalization of regenerative medicine is gathering pace yet has not been examined with respect to its medium and long term implications for European regulators, the corporate sector or patients located within different member states. Over the coming years it is hypothesised that the global pace of change in this field will be extensive and this needs to be both tracked and assessed for health ...
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Knowledge Yielding Ontologies for Transition-based Organization (KYOTO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description A collaborative tool for environmental organisationsKYOTO is a generic system offering knowledge transition from any domain of knowledge and information, across different target groups in society and across linguistic, cultural and geographic borders. It represents a new concept of information mining through knowledge mining. ...
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ADAptative Management of mediA distributioN based on saTisfaction orIented User Modelling (ADAMANTIUM)

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

The predominant candidate for current trend of multimedia services convergence with mobile/fixed networks and broadcast-interactive applications is the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). IMS entails novel business opportunities for pioneering and emerging multimedia services, such as IPTV and VoIP video call applications. However, this strong commercial interest on this promising convergent IMS enviro ...
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