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Innovative interfaces for energy-related applications (INTERNEW)

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

"In this project we propose the development and investigation of a new class of composite nanomaterials for specific energy-related applications. In fact, in most cutting edge applications related to energy harnessing, harvesting and storage, nanomaterials are playing mayor role in enhancing and optimizing device performances, while maintaining affordable production costs for their effective explo ...
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Evaluation and certification schemes for security products – Capability Project (CRISP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

CRISP aims at facilitating a harmonised playing field for the European security industry by developing a robust methodology for security product certification. CRISP will enhance existing security evaluation and certification schemes by offering an innovative evaluation methodology that integrates the security, trust, efficiency and freedom infringement assessment dimensions. The proposed scheme w ...
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ERMES: An Earth obseRvation Model based RicE information Service (ERMES)

Start date: Sep 5, 2013, End date: Mar 1, 2017,

ERMES (An Earth obseRvation Model based RicE information Service) aims to develop a prototype of downstream service dedicated to rice sector based on assimilation of EO and in situ data within crop yield modelling. The objective of this service, targeted to European needs, is to: a) contribute to the regional authorities in the implementation of agro-environmental policies;b) support farming activ ...
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European-COMPARative Effectiveness research on online Depression (E-COMPARED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

In 2010, 30 million Europeans were affected by depression and their number is still growing. Half of Europeans in need of mental care for depression do not have access to care services, do not always receive evidence-based treatments, are confronted with long waiting lists or high care expenditures. Internet-based treatment has the potential to addresses the drawbacks of standard care and keep dep ...
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Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance: Expectations, Constraints and Interaction of Agents (FINMAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The ability of financial markets to bear risk is central to economic welfare and stability. Growth and economic wellbeing is inhibited if financial markets are unable to transfer resources efficiently from the suppliers of liquidity to entrepreneurs. However, this proper functioning of financial markets has been distorted by levels of volatility considerably in excess of those implied by fundament ...
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DyE SensiTized solar cells wIth eNhanced stabilitY (Destiny)

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

The DESTINY initial training network will tackle major challenges in the development of stable dye-sensitized solar cells, DSC. DSC offer exciting possibilities for applications in building integrated photovoltaics and consumer electronics. However they possess a complex structure with disparate materials. For DSC to be marketable and to compete with its inorganic counterparts, fundamental science ...
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Soft Materials Advanced Research Training Network (SMARTNET)

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

"SMARTNET (“Soft materials advanced training network”) is an ITN at the interface of chemistry, physics, and biology, and deals with the science and technology of molecular soft materials. Soft matter (e.g. gels, emulsions, membranes) is of great societal and economic impact in fields such as food industry, cosmetics, oil extraction and increasingly in high value areas such as biomedicine and nano ...
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Orchestrating Information Technologies and Global Systems Science for Policy Design and Regulation of a Resilient and Sustainable Global Economy (SYMPHONY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Over the last few years, the greatest concern of the global political agenda has been to find a way to overcome the crisis and therefore to look for effective policy instruments and even for new theoretical economic frameworks. Some effort has been made in order to respond to this concern, but we still miss adequate tools for exploring and governing the complex global dynamics of our economic and ...
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A new paradigm in drug use and human health risk assessment: Sewage profiling at the community level (SEWPROF)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"SEWPROF aims to develop inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral research capability for the next generation of scientists working in the newly-emerging field of sewage epidemiology. It will provide an integrated approach towards public health monitoring at a community level based on innovative sewage epidemiology techniques. The approach will deliver real-time profiling of community-wide health and ...
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Bioelectrochemical systems for metal recovery (BIOELECTROMET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Global primary metal resources are rapidly dwindling and the mining and metallurgical industries are increasingly turning to lower grade minerals for metal extraction, typically increasing costs. Innovative environmental metal extraction techniques are required to increase mining sustainability, increase revenues and lower its impact on the environment. In this project, bioelectrochemical technolo ...
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SUstainable Novel FLexible Organic Watts Efficiently Reliable (SUNFLOWER)

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

Organic photovoltaics (OPV) represent the newest generation of technologies in solar power generation, offering the benefits of flexibility, low weight and low cost enabling the development of new consumer nomadic applications and the long term perspective of easy deployment in Building Integrated Photo Voltaics (BIPV) and energy production farms. This is a key opportunity for the EU to further e ...
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Photogenerated Hydrogen by Organic Catalytic Systems (PHOCS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Aim of the project “Photogenerated Hydrogen by Organic Catalytic Systems (PHOCS)” is the realization of a new-concept,photoelectrochemical system for hydrogen production, based on the hybrid organic/inorganic and organic/liquid interfaces. PHOCS takes the move from the recent demonstration of reduction/oxidation reactions taking place, under visible light and at zero bias, at the interface of an o ...
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Novel Composite Oxides by Combinatorial Material Synthesis for Next Generation All-Oxide-Photovoltaics (ALLOXIDEPV)

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

The global market for photovoltaic (PV) cells that are converting sunlight into electricity almost doubled in 2010 to reach a massive 18.2 GW, nearly three times size of the market back in 2008. Crystalline silicon is the most common PV material today with a market share of more than 80%. New developments such as electrolyte based dye-sensitized solar cells as well as organic polymer cells have ex ...
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Energy-Aware Sustainable Computing on Future\nTechnology – Paving the Road to Exascale Computing (EXA2GREEN)

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

The EXA2GREEN project aims at developing a radically new energy aware computing paradigm and programming methodology for exascale computing. The key aspect of the proposed approach is that the issue of energy consumption and the resulting trade-off with the performance and the accuracy of the overall simulation process will be taken into account in all simulation levels: from the kernel, numerical ...
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Emotional learning and extinction: integration of central and peripheral neural correlates (EMOLEARN)

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

With a life-time prevalence of 25%, anxiety disorders are the most frequent psychiatric disorders and alone accounted for 147 billion Euros EU health care costs in 2004.The aim of this Marie Curie collaborative research project is to combine and share scientific expertise and shed more light on the dysfunctional neurocircuitry of anxiety disorders.Our current understanding has largely benefited fr ...
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Strategies for the eradication and containment of the invasive pests Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier and Paysandisia archon Burmeister (PALM PROTECT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"The PALM PROTECT consortium aims to develop reliable methods, for use by national plant protection organisations (NPPO), inspection services, growers and other end-users, for early detection, eradication, control and containment of the red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus and the moth Paysandisia archon. The methods will be developed for use at origin, point of entry, in transit and on-site ...
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Solar Cells Based on Nanowire Arrays (SOBONA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"The area of photovoltaic devices is a very promising field for technological developments, with a very strong ecological and economic impact. The purpose of this exchange program is to create novel photovoltaic devices with record efficiencies using interdisciplinary expertise of the partners, and thereby to propose new concepts for solar cells. Joint experiments and training of researchers and ...
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ORDERED INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRIDS USING IONIC LIQUIDS FOR EMERGING APPLICATIONS (ORION)

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

ORION puts together a multidisciplinary consortium of leading European universities, research institutes and industries with the overall goal of advancing the fabrication of inorganic-organic hybrid materials using ionic liquids. Maximum research efforts within ORION will be addressed to achieve inorganic-organic hybrids with an ordered nanostructure and to understand and characterize the new gene ...
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Ultra-high reslution pulse shaping: from communications to biophotonics applications (ULTRA-PASION)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"In the last decades, the generation of lasers delivering pulses with durations in the order of femtosecond has constituted an important research topic for the Physics and Engineering communities. The characteristics of this kind of radiation make it an indispensable tool in order to develop many applications in different fields of science and technology. Ultrafast laser technology is ready to off ...
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Marine Robots and Dexterous Manipulation for Enabling Autonomous Underwater Multipurpose Intervention Missions (TRIDENT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Description Developing new methodology to provide multipurpose dexterous manipulation capabilities for intervention operations in unknown, unstructured and underwater environments There is an ever increasing demand for technology which provides autonomous assistance in underwater scenarios, rangin ...
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Towards EXaflop applicaTions (TEXT)

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

With top systems reaching the PFlop barrier, the next challenge is to understand how applications have to be implemented and be prepared for the ExaFlop target. Multicore chips are already here but will grow in the next decade to several hundreds of cores. Hundreds of thousands of nodes based on them will constitute the future exascale systems.TEXT is centered on the vision that the key component ...
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European approach to GEOSS (EUROGEOSS)

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

EuroGEOSS demonstrates the added value to the scientific community and society of making existing systems and applications interoperable and used within the GEOSS and INSPIRE frameworks. The project will build an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and Biodiversity. It will then undertakes the research nec ...
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