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"ERA CHAIR FOR ISOTOPE TECHNIQUES IN FOOD QUALITY, SAFETY AND TRACEABILITY" (ISO-FOOD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

"The “ISO-FOOD” ERA Chair for isotope techniques in food quality, safety and traceability will act as an independent Centre hosted by the Jožef Stefan institute (JSI), which will be a sustainable and leading research and educational institution in the field of food (including fodder and forage) analysis in the region, embedded into the national and European research area through collaboration with ...
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MANAGING THE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS UNDER WATER SCARCITY (GLOBAQUA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

Water and water-related services are major components of the human wellbeing, and as such are major factors of socio-economic development in Europe; yet freshwater systems are under threat by a variety of stressors (organic and inorganic pollution, geomorphological alterations, land cover change, water abstraction, invasive species and pathogens. Some stressors, such as water scarcity, can be a st ...
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Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys (HEALS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Assessing individual exposure to environmental stressors and predicting health outcomes implies that both environmental exposures and epi/genetic variations are reliably measured simultaneously. HEALS (Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys) brings together in an innovative approach a comprehensive array of novel technologies, data analysis and modeling tools th ...
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"Sources, Interaction with Matter, Detection and Analysis of Low Energy Electrons 2" (SIMDALEE2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

"The purpose of the SIMDALEE2 (Sources, Interaction with Matter, Detection and Analysis of Low Energy Electrons) network is to establish a world-class research training platform for the science and technology of nanoscale manipulation and analysis using low energy electrons. Apart from an effective and well-structured training programme, the network will pursue the following scientific goals: (1) ...
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Coherent trajectories through symmetry breaking transitions (TRAJECTORY)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

We propose to investigate the coherent trajectories of many-body systems undergoing symmetry-breaking transitions (SBTs) in real time, where trajectories are meant here in a mathematical sense used to describe the dynamics of nonlinear systems. The key idea which makes this project possible is the development of a specific femtosecond laser spectroscopy technique which allows us to distinguish the ...
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Scalable cost-effective facilitation of professional identity transformation in public employment services (EmployID)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

EmployID aims to support and facilitate the learning process of Public Employment Services (PES) practitioners in their professional identity transformation process. To perform successfully in their job they need to acquire a set of new and transversal skills, develop additional competencies, as well as embed a professional culture of continuous improvement. EmployID will offer efficient use of te ...
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Yeasts for the Sustainability in Viticulture and Oenology (YeSVitE)

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

Modern viticulture and oenology were born in the last century responding to the need to innovate in traditional technologies. However, current economic, ecological and social changes require new strategies for wine production that take an integrated view of the entire wine production chain to ensure sustainability. Current management systems of vineyards and fermentations are indeed not economical ...
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Open Platform for Innovative SMEs (OPENISME)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

In the face of current economic challenges SMEs are widely recognised as potential engines of growth that have the necessary attributes of agility, flexibility and technological innovation. It is also recognised that they find it exceptionally difficult to mobilise the resources needed to help them bring breakthroughs to market quickly, costing time and money and inhibiting economic growth. In par ...
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solving CHAllenges in Nuclear DAta (CHANDA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"The CHANDA project main objective is to address the challenges in the field of nuclear data for nuclear applications and its acronym stands for solving CHAllenges in Nuclear DAtaThe project will prepare a proposal for an organization that will coordinate the nuclear data research program, and the infrastructures and capabilities of the EU Member States in a stable structure, well integrated with ...
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Fluorinated Weakly Coordinating Anions for Coordination Chemistry of Unusual Ligands (FluoCoorChem)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The aim of the project is to prepare metal-complexes of weakly coordinating anions and unusual ligands (nitrous oxide, dihydrogen trioxide, krypton difluoride, xenon tetrafluoride, xenon difluoride, and hydrogen fluoride) and subject them to single crystal X-ray diffraction in order to obtain a detailed structural information of the ligand (dihydrogen trioxide) or the metal-ligand interaction (nit ...
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A laser made entirely of living cells and materials derived from living organisms (LIVINGLASER)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"The aim of this proposal is to make a laser composed entirely of living cells and materials derived from living organisms. The central part of the laser will consist of human embryonic kidney cells engineered to produce enhanced green fluorescent protein. The cells will provide gain for the laser. The resonant cavity will be made in three different ways, either using butterfly wings as highly ref ...
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Diagnosis-aided control for SOFC power systems (DIAMOND)

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

The DIAMOND project aims at improving the performance of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) for CHP applications by implementing innovative strategies for on-board diagnosis and control. Advanced monitoring models will be developed to integrate diagnosis and control functions with the objective of having meaningful information on the actual state-of-the-health of the entire system. A holistic view ove ...
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Code for European Severe Accident Management (CESAM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The Fukushima accidents highlighted that both the in-depth understanding of such sequences and the development or improvement of adequate severe accident management measures is essential in order to further increase the safety of the nuclear power plants operated in Europe. CESAM (Code for European Severe Accident Management) is a R&D project that aims in particular at the improvement of the Europ ...
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Whole-body Compliant Dynamical Contacts in Cognitive Humanoids (CoDyCo)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Description The aim of CoDyCo is to improve the current control and cognitive understanding about robust, goal-directed whole-body motion interaction with multiple contacts. CoDyCo will go beyond traditional approaches: proposing methodologies for performing coordinated interaction tasks with complex systems; combining planning and complianc ...
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Nanoelectronics based on two-dimensional dichalcogenides (MoWSeS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Semiconductor industry rapidly approaches the performance limits of silicon-based CMOS technology. This proposal aims to pave the wayto electronic circuits based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), newly emerging semiconducting analogues ofgraphene. TMDs can be rapidly exfoliated in the liquid phase into single layers starting from powders and provide solutions of 2D materi ...
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Sustainable and robust networking for smart electricity distribution (SUNSEED)

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

SUNSEED proposes an evolutionary approach to utilisation of already present communication networks from both energy and telecom operators. These can be suitably connected to form a converged communication infrastructure for future smart energy grids offering open services. Life cycle of such communication network solutions consists of six steps: overlap, interconnect, interoperate, manage, plan an ...
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Learning from Massive, Incompletely annotated, and Structured Data (MAESTRA)

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

The need for machine learning (ML) and data mining (DM) is ever growing due to the increased pervasiveness of data analysis tasks in almost every area of life, including business, science and technology. Not only is the pervasiveness of data analysis tasks increasing, but so is their complexity. We are increasingly often facing predictive modelling tasks involving one or several of the following c ...
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Advanced Safety Assessment : Extended PSA (ASAMPSA_E)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan resulted from the combination of two correlated extreme external events (earthquake and tsunami). The consequences (flooding in particular) went beyond what was considered in the initial NPP design. Such situations can be identified using PSA methodology that complements the deterministic approach for beyond design accidents. If the performance of a Level 1 ...
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Supporting Postgraduate Research with Internships in industry and Training Excellence (SPRITE)

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

SPRITE is a multi-disciplinary European training network which brings together Europe’s premier research institutes in technology and applications of ion beams. Those involved are already actively collaborating, for example in the recently very favourably reviewed EC Infrastructure project SPIRIT.SPRITE addresses the urgent European need - identified in a recent Foresight Review - to train the ne ...
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Industrial innovations based on EU intellectual property assets in the field of atmospheric plasma technology (IP4PLASMA)

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

The IP4Plasma project aims to bridge the gap between IPR protected laboratory-scale innovations in the field of atmospheric pressure plasma assisted chemical vapour deposition (AP-PA-CVD) technology and its industrial implementation for advanced surface treatment and nano-scale coating of materials. This will be done by demonstrating the suitability of the technology for existing and new industria ...
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Development of Cost efficient Advanced DNA-based methods for specific Traceability issues and High Level On-site applicatioNs (DECATHLON)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The Decathlon project will bring together a broad range of experts and expertise to jointly work on the development of new or improved methods that are needed in the field of 1) food pathogens, 2) traceability of GMOs and 3) customs issues. The project will develop advanced methods for all three application areas with method characteristics that meet the requirements of the individual areas, as wi ...
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Financial Systems Simulation and Policy Modelling (SIMPOL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

This project proceeds from the vision that fundamental advances of policy modelling in finance and climate finance can only stem from a genuinely interdisciplinary approach where network science, big data and ICT's meet economics and financial regulation. Accordingly, on the one hand we will develop new methods to assess the systemic importance of market players in (climate) financial networks and ...
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xLiMe – crossLingual crossMedia knowledge extraction (xLiMe)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Europe is different from other large media markets such as the US or China in that information is being generated in different languages and distributed via diverse streams of localised media channels. Automatic analysis is complicated further by different content types (audio, video, text) and different channels (mainstream, social media). Thus, information can only be analysed independently for ...
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The Proactive Sensing Enterprise (ProaSense)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

A new class of enterprise systems, proactive enterprises, that will be continuously aware of that what "might happen" in the relevant business context and optimize their behavior to achieve that what "should be the best action", are emerging nowadays. ProaSense's core goal in this context is to pave the way for an efficient transmission from Sensing into Proactive enterprises. By being one of earl ...
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Assessment of Regional CApabilities for new reactors Development through an Integrated Approach (ARCADIA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"The ARCADIA project has been conceived so as to provide a twofold support to the further development of nuclear research programs in the NMS, targeting two major areas included in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of SNETP: ESNII, through the support of the ALFRED project towards its realization in Romania, and NUGENIA, approaching remaining safety aspects of Gen III/III+ that could be ...
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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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Federation for FIRE (Fed4FIRE)

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

A federation of experimentation facilities will significantly accelerate Future Internet research. Fed4FIRE will deliver open and easily accessible facilities to the FIRE experimentation communities, which focus on fixed and wireless infrastructures, services and applications, and combinations thereof. The project will develop a demand-driven common federation framework, based on an open architect ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Enabling Science and Technology through European Electron Microscopy (ESTEEM 2)

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

ESTEEM2 is an integrated infrastructure of electron microscopy facilities providing access for the academic and industrial research community in the physical sciences to some of the most powerful characterization techniques available at the nanoscale. Transnational access to ESTEEM2 centres is obtained through a transparent, simple peer review process based on merit and scientific priorities. Serv ...
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Concept Creation Technology (ConCreTe)

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

ConCrete aims to study conceptual creativity in humans and machines. Hierarchical memory representations and techniques for conceptual blending are implemented in context of a cognitive architecture of creativity based on information theoretic measures. ConCreTe serves a long-term vision of computer systems that can behave in ways comparable with human creativity, autonomously and interactively, w ...
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Preparing NUGENIA for HORIZON2020 (NUGENIA-PLUS)

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

Preparing NUGENIA for HORIZON 2020The objective of the NUGENIA+ project is to support the NUGENIA Association in its role to coordinate and integrate European research on safety of the Gen II and III nuclear installations in order to better ensure their safe long term operation, integrating private and public efforts, and initiating international collaboration that will create added value in its a ...
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COgnitive & Perceptive CAMeraS (COPCAMS)

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

Vision systems are becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives. Complex analysis of images from multiple cameras will become the norm in the future, from cars to industrial systems, from smart cities to facility monitoring, aimed at extracting meaningful, context-dependent information.Today’s market is dominated by a combination of relatively simple, fixed function, configurable cameras that stream vid ...
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New permanent magnets for electric-vehicle drive applications (MAG-DRIVE)

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

"The future of road transport is electric - within the foreseeable future, pure electric vehicles (EVs) will populate our roads. Vital to the success of this transition is improved, next-generation motors based on improved magnetic materials; which provide high levels of flux at elevated temperatures, while retaining resistance to reverse magnetic fields and the corrosion problems associated with ...
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The What-If Machine (WHIM)

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

In Computational Creativity research, we study how to engineer software which can take on some of the creative responsibility in arts and science projects. There has been much progress towards the creative generation of artefacts of cultural value such as poems, music and paintings. Often, when produced by people, such artefacts embed a fictional idea invented by the creator. For instance, an arti ...
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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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Promoting the Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity (PROSECCO)

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

Creativity is a long-cherished and widely-studied aspect of human behavior that allows us to re-invent the familiar and to imagine the new. Computational Creativity (CC) is a recent but burgeoning area of creativity research that brings together academics and practitioners from diverse disciplines, genres and modalities, to explore the potential of computers to be autonomously creative or to colla ...
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Emergency Responder Data Interoperability Network (REDIRNET)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Over the past 5 years the majority of the REDIRNET consortia have participated in Projects SECRICOM and FREESIC; this has involved partners engaging significantly with a wide range of public safety officers across the EU. A benefit of this engagement has been the recognition that in addition to agency interoperability of communications a pressing need exists for agency interoperability of addition ...
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Technology Transfer in Computing Systems (TETRACOM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The mission of the TETRACOM Coordination Action is to boost European academia-to-industry technology transfer (TT) in all domains of Computing Systems. While many other European and national initiatives focus on training of entrepreneurs and support for start-up companies, the key differentiator of TETRACOM is a novel instrument called Technology Transfer Project (TTP). TTPs help to lower the barr ...
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Electron Spin Noise Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (ESNSTM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

"The final goal of this proposal is to develop an SPM technique which is capable of identifying the type of atom which is under the tip while tunneling. The idea is to exploit the recent success in detection the hyperfine coupling between electron and nuclear spins on the surface and to detect the hyperfine coupling between the electron spin on the tip and a nuclear spin on the surface.ESN-STM is ...
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Learning and Execution of Action Categories (ACAT)

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

Description ACAT focuses on the problem of how artificial systems (robots) can understand and utilize information made for humans. The ultimate purpose of ACAT is to equip a robot – on an on-going basis – with abstract, functional knowledge about relations between actions and objects, leading to a system which can act meaningfully. The robot ...
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