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Ensuring Equability in Education for Migrant and Refugee Pupils

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Migrant students (or synonymously students or pupils/children of migration background or minority students) are disadvantaged in terms of enrolment in type of school, duration of attending school, indicators of achievement, drop-out rates and types of school diploma reached. The topic of education and migration is relevant in the context of European economic development, social cohesion and the st ...
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Low Emissions Core-Engine Technologies (LEMCOTEC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The main objective of the LEMCOTEC project will be the improvement of core-engine thermal efficiency by increasing the overall pressure ratio (OPR) to up to 70 leading to a further reduction of CO2. Since NOx increases with OPR, combustion technologies have to be further developed, at the same time, to at least compensate for this effect. The project will attain and exceed the ACARE targets for 20 ...
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New Horizons Biomedical Informatics Observatories in Mediterranean Region (BIOMed)

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

The main strategic objective of BIOMed is to enhance the scientific collaboration between North-South Euro-Mediterranean countries. The purpose is to: 1) Initiate the establishment of national BioMedical Informatics (BMI) associations, aligned with IMIA, for remodelling the national strategies; 2) Structure the BMI Strategic Plans for MEDA; 3) Define the requirements for targeted BMI new projects ...
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Stardust-The Asteroid and Space Debris Network (Stardust)

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

Asteroids and space debris represent a significant hazard for space and terrestrial assets; at the same time asteroids represent also an opportunity. In recent years it has become clear that the increasing population of space debris could lead to catastrophic consequences in the near term. The Kessler syndrome (where the density of objects in orbit is high enough that collisions could set off a ca ...
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Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe (BASE)

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

Climate change can disrupt ecological, social and economic systems, with some regions and sectors suffering significantly. Therefore, adaptation plays a paramount role in responding to climate change. Progress has been made, but there are still important obstacles. Knowledge of the benefits and costs of adaptation is sparse, unsystematic and unevenly distributed across sectors and countries. Plan ...
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OPerating RAck For Full-Electric Vehicle (OPERA4FEV)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

To improve deployment of electrical vehicles in Europe, large scale production processes for Rack, cells and electrical components need to be developed. The OPERA4FEV project aims to develop a cost effective innovative thermoplastic battery rack, able to integrate any type of cylindrical cells. The solution proposed by OPERA4FEV project, adaptable to any Full Electric Vehicle model, will indeed in ...
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make it ReAAL (ReAAL)

Start date: Jan 16, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Description In the last decade numerous dedicated ICT solutions have been developed to deliver services in support of sustainable independent living and the promotion of active ageing of older people. The research community has spent a lot of resources developing personalised solutions covering the different perspectives of the problem - soc ...
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MOSAIC - MOdels and Simulation techniques for discovering diAbetes Influence faCtors (MOSAIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

MOSAIC will address two very specific aspects linked to the prediction of risk of developing diabetes (type 2 and gestational) and complications associated to diabetes. These objectives respond to a widely recognized problem related to diabetes management and have the potential to have a major impact in the way diabetes is currently diagnosed and followed in Europe.\nThe MOSAIC consortium counts w ...
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POWER SoC With Integrated PassivEs (PowerSwipe)

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

Europe is a world leader in innovative automotive systems with competencies covering the full supply chain from the main OEMs (Audi, BMW, Daimler, Fiat, PSA, RSA, VW) to Tier1 suppliers (Bosch, Continental, Magneti Marelli) to leading semiconductor companies (Infineon, ST). The vision for electronic automotive control units in 2020 is that the battery will supply multi-core µControllers via multip ...
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A Systems Biology approach to disclose auxin synthesis in plants (SYSBIOAUX)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Because plants have a sessile lifestyle, they must adjust to various external cues and coordinate their developmental program accordingly. To facilitate survival in often hostile environments, plants have evolved a notable developmental plasticity that allows them to shape their body and optimise their metabolism according to specific environmental demands. As with other multicellular organisms, t ...
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Exploring the Effects of Emotion on Human Cognition (EMOTIONCOG)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Emotions evoke a profound modulation of human cognition. Emotional events are susceptible to preferential perceptual processing and are more likely to be remembered than neutral ones. But how does the emotionality of a stimulus lead to enhanced perception and memory? The series of experiments proposed will investigate the underlying human neurobiological mechanisms by which emotion modulates these ...
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Fast Reactor Experiments for hYbrid Applications (FREYA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"Building up on the former activities accomplished in the previous FPs, namely MUSE in FP5 and EUROTRANS in FP6, it is proposed in the FREYA project to extend the investigations of the subcritical configurations for validation of the methodology for on-line reactivity monitoring of ADS systems. The investigations will be related to the different subcriticality levels for the nominal operation mode ...
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Regulation of Plant Potassium Channels (REGOPOC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Potassium (K+) is the most abundant mineral element in plants, and together with nitrogen and phosphorous, is limiting for plant production in many natural and agricultural habitats. Voltage-gated K+ channels are key players in the acquisition of K+ from the soil and in its redistribution within the plant. Interestingly, members of the family of plant voltage-gated K+ channels are structurally ver ...
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Post-transcriptional networks regulating organ-specific and general infection mechanisms in the rice blast fungus (RICEBLAST-NETWORKS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The rice blast fungus M. oryzae has emerged as a paradigm for the understanding of fungal aerial attack. M. oryzae also infect roots. Consequently, M. oryzae-rice interaction represents an excellent pathosystem for comparative studies of the distinct organ-specific mechanisms that occur during fungal colonisation of rice leaves and roots. We have characterised two pathogenicity-deficient mutants ...
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Multiscale dynamics of turbulent flows (MULTIFLOW)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"Turbulence is a fundamental unsolved problem, at whose core are the multiscale processes that transfer, for example, energy across the inertial range of scales, or momentum across wall-bounded shear flows. Turbulence is also key to applications, from industrial design and energy generation to climate dynamics, where the worst uncertainties are often due to its modelling. Its practical computati ...
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Innovative integrative tools and platforms to be prepared for radiological emergencies and post-accident response in Europe (PREPARE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

This proposal aims to close gaps that have been identified in nuclear and radiological preparedness following the first evaluation of the Fukushima disaster. It addresses the call Fission-2010-3.3.1: Update of emergency management and rehabilitation strategies and expertise in Europe. The consortium intends to review existing operational procedures in dealing with long lasting releases, address th ...
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USA and Europe Cooperation in Mini UAVs (UECIMUAVS)

Start date: Jan 5, 2012, End date: Jan 4, 2016,

"Unmanned Aerial Systems have been an active area of research in recent years all around the world. Top research centres in the word are working on new applications, improving previous ones, solving specific problems in the different areas. Each centre has taken a special area of the whole field into focus and they are taking specialization on it. It makes a huge scattered network of knowledge.The ...
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NUCLEAR REACTOR SAFETY SIMULATION PLATFORM (NURESAFE)

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

After the 2011 disaster that occurred in Japan, improvement of nuclear safety appears more clearly as a paramount condition for further development of nuclear industry. The NURESAFE project addresses engineering aspects of nuclear safety, especially those relative to design basis accidents (DBA). Although the Japanese event was a severe accident, in a process of defense-in-depth, prevention and c ...
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New design principles fostering safety, agility and resilience for ATM (RESILIENCE2050.EU)

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

The Air Transport in general and the Air Traffic Management system are formed by a high number of elements, human, organisational and technological, that interact with each other creating a unique system of intrinsic complexity. The variability of the initial conditions and the high number of potential scenarios makes the system performance particularly difficult to predict. As a consequence, the ...
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Rapid Aptamer based diagnostics for bacterial meningitis (RAPTADIAG)

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

The overall objective of this proposal is to develop a fast and cost-effective diagnostic tool for bacterial meningitis, i.e. the detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis in cerebrospinal fluid.Kits, consisting of disposable sensing chips and separate detector units, will be developed. The tool shall be low priced and easy to use so that health workers with limited analytic ...
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Guiding Patients Anytime Everywhere (MobiGuide)

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

Description The MobiGuide project has developed an intelligent decision-support system for patients with chronic illnesses, such as cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes and high blood pressure. The patient wears sensors that can monitor biosignals (e.g. heart rate, blood pressure); these signals are transmitted to their smartphone and from there to ...
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Cloud platforms Lead to Open and Universal access for people with Disabilities and for All (CLOUD4all)

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

As we move inextricably into a digital economy there is a looming crisis for a growing number of increasingly marginalized individuals. The accessibility technologies we have are meeting the needs of only some, at high cost, and will not work with many new technologies. The path and pace of technological change predestines these approaches to fail in the very near future. At the same time the inci ...
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Hard Material Small-Batch Industrial Machining Robot (Hephestos)

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

Description Hard materials machining has recently attracted great attentions from the European automotive, the aerospace and the biomedical industries. However, the existing technology failed to cope efficiently with small-batch production of large and complex-shaped products. The project Hephestos shall give rise to a cost-efficient solutio ...
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Sustainable farm Management Aimed at Reducing Threats to SOILs under climate change (SMARTSOIL)

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

Farming practices that lead to declining returns and inputs of carbon (C) to soils pose a threat to soil functions by reducing availability of organic matter for soil microbes and by affecting soil structure, and soil C stocks that are key to regulating greenhouse gas emissions. SmartSOIL focuses on arable and mixed farming systems in Europe and will develop an innovative approach using the soil C ...
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Role Of Biodiversity In climate change mitigatioN (ROBIN)

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

To realise the full potential of tropical forests in climate change mitigation (CCM) & the provision of other ecosystem services in the face of ongoing global change we must improve our understanding of the relationships between biodiversity (BD) and the socio-ecological processes through which we respond & adapt to change.ROBIN will provide information for policy & resource use options under scen ...
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Sustainable-Smart Grid Open System for the Aggregated Control, Monitoring and Management of Energy (e-GOTHAM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The main objective of project e-GOTHAM is to implement a new aggregated energy demand model (based on the microgrid concept) in order to effectively integrate renewable energies sources, increase management efficiency by dynamically matching demand and supply, reduce carbon emissions by giving priority to green energy sources, raise energy consumption awareness by monitoring products and services ...
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Optimization of Perennial Grasses for Biomass Production (OPTIMA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

OPTIMA will integrate an ambitious biology system approach for perennial grasses such as switchgrass, miscanthus and giant reed in the Mediterranean environment. Moreover the perennial species cardoon, which has been proven to be particularly adapted to the Mediterranean climate, will be used as a control species.The main objective of the OPTIMA project is to identify high-yielding perennial grass ...
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Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems (ECLAIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

ÉCLAIRE investigates the ways in which climate change alters the threat of air pollution on European land ecosystems including soils. Based on field observations, experimental data and models, it establishes new flux, concentration and dose-response relationships, as a basis to inform future European policies.Starting with biosphere-atmosphere exchange measurements, ÉCLAIRE quantifies how global w ...
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Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures (SARISTU)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The project proposal concerns the challenges posed by the physical integration of smart intelligentstructural concepts. It addresses aircraft weight and operational cost reductions as well as animprovement in the flight profile specific aerodynamic performance.This concerns material concepts enabling a conformal, controlled distortion of aerodynamicallyimportant surfaces, material concepts enablin ...
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Enabling information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and CAre (EURECA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

Description EURECA (Enabling information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and Care) aims to enable seamless, secure, scalable and consistent linkage of healthcare information, which resides in electronic health record (EHR) systems with information in clinical research information systems, such as clinical trials. Achieving semantic inter ...
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Test of Digital Services for Buildings Energy Efficiency (TEDS4BEE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

TEDS4BEE aims to run the Digital Service in the 16 buildings located in 5 countries. The Digital Service is EMMOS (Energy Management and Monitoring Operational System), that makes possible to collect, storage and analyse consumption data and other parameters that influences the energy consumption.The buildings where EMMOS will be implemented are:• Italy: University of Salento canteen in Lecce• Pol ...
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Elevated Concentration photovoltaic solar energy generator and fully automated machinery for high throughput manufacturing and testing (ECOSOLE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

Today most of HCPV (High Concentration PhotoVoltaic) generators are built with refractive lenses. A few companies have developed efficient solutions and set up manufacturing lines for these kind of products, but there aren’t effective reflective optics HCPV systems in Europe.ECOSOLE regards the realization and demonstration of an innovative HCPV generator made of:• New high efficiency,very high co ...
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From data sharing and integration via VPH models to personalised medicine (p-medicine)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

Medicine is undergoing a revolution that is transforming the nature of healthcare from reactive to preventive. The changes are catalyzed by a new systems approach to disease which focuses on integrated diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in individuals. This will replace our current mode of medicine over the coming years with a personalized predictive treatment . While the goal is clea ...
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Design, Monitoring and Operation of Adaptive Networked Embedded Systems (DEMANES)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Large scale societal challenges require large scale monitoring and control solutions. Technological developments will make it possible to design and build these large systems. A major obstacle in realizing these systems is the lack of a versatile methodology to design and implement adaptive monitoring and control systems taking into account intrinsic properties of system of systems (decentralizati ...
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The sustainable freight railway: Designing the freight vehicle – track system for higher delivered tonnage with improved availability at reduced cost (SUSTRAIL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

"A sustainable and efficient freight transport in Europe plays a vital role in having a successful and competitive economy. Freight transport is expected to grow by some 50 % (in tonne-kilometres) by 2020. However rail has, in many areas, been displaced from a dominant position as road transport services have grown and developed in capability and levels of sophistication that have not been matche ...
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Development of a new generation of CIGS-based solar cells (NANOCIS)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

The main objective of NanoCIS is the establishment of a cooperative partnership between research organizations through a joint program of exchange of researchers for developing a new generation of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells. This new generation of PV solar cells will be based in approaches involving the use of new materials with high conversion efficiencies and low-cost fabrication techniques.T ...
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Development of a methodology and tool to evaluate the impact of ICT measures on road transport emissions (ICT-EMISSIONS)

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

ICT-EMISSIONS aims at developing a novel methodology to evaluate the impact of ICT-related measures on mobility, vehicle energy consumption and CO2 emissions of vehicle fleets at the local scale, in order to promote the wider application of the most appropriate ICT measures. The proposed methodology combines traffic and emission modelling at micro and macro scales. These will be linked with interf ...
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European CYber Security Protection Alliance (CYSPA)

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

The goal of CYSPA is to address trustworthy ICT through a European strategy to protect cyberspace, with target audiences ranging from research communities and industry to public authorities and infrastructure operators.This goal builds on the analysis that the entire cyberspace which embodies our connected society has been created by technology but evolving towards trustworthy ICT requires taking ...
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European Field Operational Test on Safe, Intelligent and Sustainable Road Operation (FOTsis)

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

FOTsis (European Field Operational Test on Safe, Intelligent and Sustainable Road Operation) is a large-scale field testing of the road infrastructure management systems needed for the operation of seven close-to-market cooperative I2V, V2I & I2I technologies (the FOTsis Services), in order to assess in detail both 1) their effectiveness and 2) their potential for a full-scale deployment in Europe ...
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nSafety Certification of Software-Intensive Systems with Reusable Components (nSafeCer)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

European industry has a great potential to achieve a leading position in the growing global market of safety-relevant embedded systems, provided it is able to devise efficient and industrial-strength methods and processes for their development and certification.nSafeCer targets increased efficiency and reduced time-to-market by composable safety certification of safety-relevant embedded systems. A ...
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