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Hybrid atom-ion Quantum Systems (HYQS)

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

This project focusses on realizing and studying a new hybrid ultra-cold atom-ion system for studying quantum many-body physics. It combines state-of-the-art technologies in quantum optics and quantum gases. The proposed system of cold (fermionic) atoms interacting with ion crystals has surprising analogies with natural solid state systems and molecules, with now by fermionic 6Li atoms i ...
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In-situ experiments on the chemical composition of high altitude aerosols and clouds in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (EXCATRO)

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

"Clouds and aerosols are the most important component of the global climate system, but the least understood. The general goal of EXCATRO is to enhance the understanding of TROPICAL clouds/aerosols at high altitudes, and in particular to quantify the ORGANIC and ANTHROPOGENIC contributions. This is of fundamental importance for the global climate and ozone chemistry since (1) the highest solar ene ...
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Oral biopharmaceutics tools (ORBITO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The OrBiTo project will deliver novel methods and a framework for rational application of predictive biopharmaceutics tools for oral drug delivery. This will be achieved through novel propsective studies to define new methodlogies which will be validated using historical datasets from EFPIA partners. A combination of high quality in vitro or in silico characterizations of API and formulations will ...
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Annually-resolved archives of marine climate change - development of molluscan sclerochronology for marine environmental monitoring and climatology (ARAMACC)

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

Proposal for a multi-partner ITN (“ARAMACC”: Annually Resolved Archives of MArine Climate Change) based around the newly emerging field of molluscan sclerochronology/climatology. ARAMACC is a network of eight Full Participants and three Associated Partners. Training will be provided to ten ESRs and one ER.ARAMACC science will consist of four work packages, which will address (1) the construction o ...
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Quantitative Imaging of Liver Fibrosis and Fibrogenesis (LiverFibrosisImaging)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

Chronic liver disease can progress to cirrhosis, with death due to liver failure and cancer. Cirrhosis prevalence in the EU is 0.5%-1%. However, development of therapies that prevent progression to cirrhosis is hampered by the lack of a sensitive, non-invasive method to quantify fibrosis or fibrosis progression (fibrogenesis). Liver biopsy 1) is risky, 2) shows high sampling variability, and 3) is ...
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Decoding Domesticate DNA in Archaeological Bone and Manuscripts (CodeX)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Through animal domestication humans profoundly altered their relationship with nature, controlling the breeding of their major food sources for material, social or symbolic profit. Understanding this complex process is a compelling research aim. There is a need to develop new high-resolution genetic tools to put flesh on the bones of this two-millenium long transition. These will take advantage ...
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Inverse Design on an Atomic scale: Multifunctional Heusler compounds! (IDEA Heusler!)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Heusler compounds are a remarkable material, a vast collection of more than 1000 members with a large number of functionalities. The prototype Cu2MnAl is a ferromagnetic compound, even though none of its elemental constituents are magnetic. This is typical for this material class; the properties of many of the Heuslers can be forecast simply by counting the number of their valence electrons. Most ...
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Actuation and characterisation at the single bond limit (ACRITAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"Scanning probe microscopy(SPM) has now evolved to the point where not only is imaging and manipulation with single atom resolution achievable but the state of the art in the field involves sub-molecular and sub-atomic resolution: individual chemical bonds can be resolved, their properties measured, and their spatial symmetry exploited.SPM is, however, increasingly a victim of its own success. The ...
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An Effective Field-Theory Assault on the Zeptometer Scale: Exploring the Origins of Flavour and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EFT4LHC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"Questions about the origins of electroweak symmetry breaking and of the striking hierarchies ob-served in the spectrum of fermion masses and mixing angles are among the most pressing problems in fundamental physics. While the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was built to explore the physics of electroweak symmetry breaking on tiny distance scales of an attometer, the absence of clear hints for new p ...
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Standard and non-standard hyperon beta decays (HYP BETA DEC)

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

"We aim to provide the first comprehensive analysis of the physics reach of the hyperon beta decays using an effective field theory setup. The project includes assessing the experimental sensitivity required in different hyperon decay observables to perform critical tests of the s->u transitions of the Standard Model, and to identify prominent observables particularly sensitive to non-standard eff ...
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Molecular technology for nuclear imaging and radionuclide therapy (TRACEnTREAT)

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

Cancer is undoubtedly becoming the second largest cause of death in the EU. Future predictions are very somber expecting worldwide 17.5 million deaths and 27 million new cases annually by 2050. New innovative research and properly educated generation of young scientists in fields related to cancer prevention, diagnostics, treatment and management is the only way to ensure progress in solving this ...
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Neuro-Enhancement: Responsible Research and Innovation (NERRI)

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

This project aims to contribute to the introduction of Responsible Research and Innovation in neuro-enhancement (NE) in the European Research Area and to the shaping of a normative framework underpinning the governance of NE technologies. These will be achieved through mobilization and mutual learning (MML) activities engaging scientists, policy-makers, industry, civil society groups and the wider ...
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Supramolecular Biomedical Materials (SUPRABIOMAT)

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

Nanostructured functional materials are undoubtedly one of the main focal points in academic and industrial research communities. Nature’s own ‘bottom-up’ strategy for the construction of immensely complex and sophisticated nanoscaled systems have served as an inspiration for ground-breaking developments in the field of supramolecular chemistry. I aim to combine self-assembly and self-organization ...
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Single metal nanoparticles as molecular sensors (SINGLESENS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Optical spectroscopy of single plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) has evolved into a recognized tool for nanoscopic sensing applications, using the sensitivity to the NP's environment,charge, size, shape, and proximity to other NPs. Here, I propose taking advantage of the nanoparticle s minuscule size approaching molecular dimensions in novel ways. Single particle plasmon sensors are in many ways the s ...
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"From the earliest modern humans to the onset of farming (45,000-4,500 BP): the role of climate, life-style, health, migration and selection in shaping European population history" (ADNABIOARC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"The colonisation of Europe by anatomically modern humans (AMHs) ca. 45,000 years before present (BP) and the transition to farming ca. 8,000 BP are two major events in human prehistory. Both events involved certain cultural and biological adaptations, technological innovations, and behavioural plasticity which are unique to our species. The reconstruction of these processes and the causality betw ...
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Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment (VERE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

VERE aims to carry out research on the fusion of the human body with virtual or physical surrogates. By fuse we mean that human participants would operate under the illusion that the virtual body is their own, or that they are actually in the physical space of the real world in a robotic body that they perceive as their own. As well as providing a radical extension of traditional virtual reality ...
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Technology and Innovation for Smart Publishing (TISP)

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

The TISP network aims at creating a platform for publishers and technology providers to promote wider collaboration so to make available expertise and tools on innovation and technology to publishing industry in a mutual exchange of ideas and experience between the two sectors.TISP results from the merging of two pre-existing networks, lead by the two European federations of publishing and ICT ind ...
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Interfacing Oxides (IFOX)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The goal of IFOX is to explore, create and control novel electronic and magnetic functionalities, with focus on interfaces, in complex transition metal oxide heterostructures to develop the material platform for novel ‘More than Moore’ (MtM) and ‘beyond CMOS’ electronics, VLSI integratable with performance and functionality far beyond the state-of-the-art. To this end it will:-Establish a theoreti ...
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Spin currents in magnetic nanostructures (MASPIC)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"MaSpic will create an autonomous team at the University of Konstanz to investigate the interaction between magnetization, spin - polarized and pure diffusive spin currents using novel instrumentation and innovative theoretical approaches. A thorough understanding of the fundamental charge and spin transport interaction mechanisms, key to use of the spin degree of freedom for Spintronics, will be ...
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Fighting blindness of Usher syndrome: diagnosis, pathogenesis and retinal treatment (TreatRetUsher) (TREATRUSH)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Usher syndrome (USH) is the most frequent hereditary cause of deafness associated to blindness. It is a rare disease, affecting 1 in every 10.000 individuals, with an autosomal recessive monogenic inheritance. Deafness is congenital while the retinitis pigmentosa is not detected before the age of 8 to 10. These patients suffer from a dreadful disability as their two major senses are impaired. Impo ...
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Islamic Law materialized: Arabic legal documents (8th to 15th century) (ILM) (ILM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The project examines edited and unedited Arabic legal documents from a new comparative perspective. Documents, immediate manifestations of legal practice, were instruments to assure subjective rights of persons for whom the copy had been issued. Most studies on early Islamic legal practice however focus on literary sources (notarial manuals, responsae, juridical treaties) and neglect documents mai ...
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Synthesis of Systematic Resources (SYNTHESYS)

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

SYNTHESYS IA will aid in the evolution of a European resource through the creation an accessible, integrated infrastructure for researchers in the natural sciences in Europe and globally. By focusing the JRA on DNA extraction, SYNTHESYS IA will increase the opportunities for Users to exploit a largely untapped facet of the 337 million strong collections. Users will be able to play an active role ...
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Circulating Knowledge, Making Europe. Cultural and scientific communication between Rome and the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War (CiKME)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

The project sets out to investigate the spaces and borders of knowledge circulation between Rome and the Holy Roman Empire, during the decades leading up to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War and witnessing the growth of confessional antagonisms (1590-1648). Major aim is to chart the texture of such a complex cultural space. The result will be a highly composite picture, strongly influenced by t ...
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Nanodesigning of Atomic and MolEcular QUAntum Matter (NAME-QUAM)

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

The Project investigates ultracold atom/molecule quantum matter technology for quantum information computational tasks. Our efforts concentrate on atoms/molecules confined in periodic nanostructures, either externally imposed by optical lattices, or self-generated by atomic/molecular interactions. Parallel quantum processing in periodic nanostructures is expected to lead to significant advances in ...
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Nano Optics for Molecules on Chips (CHIMONO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

This project aims at the demonstration of detailed control of molecules realized by means ofintegrated electric, magnetic, radio frequency, micro wave and optical fields. The possibility ofintegrating all these components on a microchip and scaling down to the micro-meter scale andbeyond will be combined with the ability of preparing and storing molecules in the electronicground state in close pro ...
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Ultracold quantum gases in optical lattices with single site addressability (ADDRESSING)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

"Ultracold atoms in optical lattices hold the potential as ideal testbeds for many condensed matter models such as those related to high-Tc-superconductivity. Due to their high degree of purity and regularity, they could also be a candidate for a scalable quantum computation architecture. So far, however, it has not been possible to address individual sites of optical lattices with a sufficiently ...
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