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EUROlinkCAT: Establishing a linked European Cohort of Children with Congenital Anomalies (EUROlinkCAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Over 130,000 children born in Europe every year will have a congenital anomaly (CA; birth defect). These CAs, which are often rare diseases, are a major cause of infant mortality, childhood morbidity and long-term disability. EUROCAT is an established European network of population-based registries for the epidemiologic surveillance of CAs. EUROlinkCAT will use the EUROCAT infrastructure to suppor ...
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AMBER - enhAnced Mobile BiomEtRics (AMBER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Over recent years the ubiquity of mobile platforms such as smartphones and tablets devices has rapidly increased. These devices provide a range of untethered interaction unimaginable a decade previously. With this ability to interact with services and individuals comes the need to accurately authenticate the identity of the person requesting the transaction many of which carry financial/legally-bi ...
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Continuous Resolution and Deracemization of Chiral Compounds by Crystallization (CORE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Industries are in need of highly skilled academically trained experts and powerful sets of tools enabling the design, control & prediction of optimized & efficient production process of future high-value products such as chiral pharmaceuticals. The CORE Network will in parallel train 15 ESRs and develop tools, approaches and methods within the area of Continuous Resolution (CORE), the process to o ...
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Adaptive ADAS to support incapacitated drivers Mitigate Effectively risks through tailor made HMI under automation (ADASANDME)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

ADAS&ME (“Adaptive ADAS to support incapacitated drivers &Mitigate Effectively risks through tailor made HMI under automation”) will develop adapted Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, that incorporate driver/rider state, situational/environmental context, and adaptive interaction to automatically transfer control between vehicle and driver/rider and thus ensure safer and more efficient road usage ...
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Knowledge Exchange for Efficient Passage of Fishes in the Southern Hemisphere (KEEPFISH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The decline of freshwater fish biodiversity is proceeding at an alarming and persistent rate. Given that most fish must undertake some form of migration in order to complete their life-cycle, of particular concern is the proliferation of hydropower schemes that block migration routes, as well as a variety of other barriers such as weirs and culverts. Several locations in the southern hemisphere ar ...
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Systems Biology of Alcohol Addiction: Modeling and validating disease state networks in human and animal brains for understanding pathophysiolgy, predicting outcomes and improving therapy (SyBil-AA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Alcohol addiction ranks among the primary global causes of preventable death and disabilities in human population, but treatment options are very limited. Rational strategies for design and development of novel, evidence based therapies for alcohol addiction are still missing. Within this project, we will utilize a translational approach based on clinical studies and animal experiments to fill thi ...
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European Glaucoma Research Training Program-Plus (EGRET-Plus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Glaucoma is the most common age-related neurodegenerative eye-disease in western society and one of the four major blinding eye diseases. If untreated or detected too late, glaucoma will end in blindness, yielding a profound loss of quality of life for the individual and major costs to society. Given the vast complexity of glaucoma, to advance assessment and therapy beyond the current state-of-the ...
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INternationaliSation of master Programs In Russia and China in Electrical engineering

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

Nowadays Russian and Chinese universities have to offer programs which facilitate graduates’ adaptation to the real manufacturing and business environment and raise their competitiveness at the labor market. In order to develop a qualitative program is necessary to establish close links with business community as well as European universities which have rich experience in development of similar pr ...
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Stories of Tomorrow - Students Visions on the Future of Space Exploration (STORIES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The STORIES project aims to contribute to a dynamic future of children’s ebooks evolution by a) developing user-friendly interfaces for young students (10-12 years old) to create their own multi-path stories expressing their imagination and creativity and b) by integrating the latest AR, VR and 3D printing technologies to visualize their stories in numerous innovative ways. In the heart of this in ...
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A drug strategy targeting stabilised mutant p53 to fight metastatic platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (GANNET53)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal gyncaecological malignancy causing 41900 deaths annually in Europe. The predominance of aggressive Type II tumours, which are characterised by a high frequency of p53 mutations, and primary or acquired resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy profoundly contribute to the high mortality rate. With current standard therapy the median overall survi ...
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Training the Next Generation of European Visual Neuroscientistsfor the benefit of innovation in health care and high-tech industry (NextGenVis)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The human visual brain can learn and adapt to change, which solves many of the problems posed by an ever-changing visual environment. However, to maintain a consistent overall representation of the visual world, the brain also has to retain previously acquired neuronal mechanisms. The key is to strike a balance between plasticity and stability.Increasing our knowledge about the stability and plast ...
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modernising human Resource management In South mediterranean higher Education

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

There is a worldwide consensus today on the relevance of quality human resource management (HRM) for the optimisation of Higher Education Institutions’ performance. HEIs are facing increasingly complex contexts which require HRM models able to respond to new challenges in the selection, development and motivation of their staff. HR approaches focused on staff recruitment, organisation of employmen ...
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EUCA-INVEST (Investing in Entrepreneurial universities in Caucasus and Central Asia)

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

In conditions of very low youth labor force participation and unappealing perspectives in employment upon graduation, universities lack capacity to equip their students with entrepreneurial skills. Lack of internships and other professional training opportunities during studies, among others, lead to discouragement, lack of motivation and inactivity among the youth. Large group of GE and KG youth ...
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European cooperative framework for Dual LEarning

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

EuroDuaLE want to open the road for transnational cooperation for the provision of dual learning programmes. HEIs are asked to strenghten the quality of the education provided, for example with the use of ICT solutions and more innovative training approaches, open up to cross-national cooperation and relate more efficiently with the labour market (EU Modernisation Agenda for HE, 2011) . With Euro ...
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Individualised Diagnostics and Rehabilitation of Attention (INDIREA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"We propose a training network based around a linked set of research projects which attempt to improve the diagnosis and rehabilitation of neuropsychological disorders of attention, with each project linked to an external industrial partner in order to commercialise emerging diagnostic and rehabilitation procedures. New diagnostic procedures will link clinical measures of attentional disorders to ...
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OnCreate

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Study programmes following blended-learning or even pure online approaches are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. Two main drivers for this development are increasing international cooperations among universities and with industry partners and the special requirements of students in continuing education programmes. But even regular courses use online platforms to establish a perman ...
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Sign Language Teachers in Europe: an Open Educational Resource

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The SignTeach project will develop, implement and evaluate an Open Educational Resource (OER) for sign language teachers and their trainers in EU member states. The OER will include information for new and experienced sign language teachers about a.o. didactics, class management, the CEFR for sign languages, meta-linguistics, ICT and entrepreneurial skills, as well as interviews with beginning and ...
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Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability (GLAMURS)

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

The overall aim of GLAMURS (Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability) is to develop a theoretically-based and empirically-grounded understanding of the main obstacles and prospects for transitions to sustainable lifestyles and a green economy in Europe, as well as of the most effective means to support and speed them up. The call states explicitly that for transit ...
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Enabling the drying process to save energy and water, realising process efficiency in the dairy chain (ENTHALPY)

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

Saving energy and water in the Dairy industry, by introducing innovations in the processing plant. Namely RF heating, solar thermal energy, mono-disperse atomising, dryer modelling, inline monitoring, cleaning with enzymes and membrane technology. With these technologies energy and water loops are closed instead of lost in the plant. These technologies will be demonstrated in pilot facilities.The ...
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Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (HiMR)

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

The High field Magnetic Resonance (HiMR) Initial Training Network aims to train the future leaders of academic and industrial research in the fundamental science and novel applications of ultra-high field (UHF) in vivo magnetic resonance (MR), in order to address an increasing and currently unmet demand from academia and industry for such specialists. The highly complex and multi-faceted nature of ...
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Concept Invention Theory (COINVENT)

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

The capacity of combinational creativity---i.e., when novel ideas are produced through unfamiliar combinations of familiar ideas---is difficult to recreate computationally. In particular, it is a hard task for autonomous computational systems to tackle the combinatorial explosion of potential combinations, and to be capable of recognizing the value of newly created ideas (concepts, theories, solut ...
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Development of a new generation of DIABetic footwear using an integrated approach and SMART materials (DIABSMART)

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

DiaBSmart project aims to generate, transfer and exchange the clinical, academic and production knowledge between the partners to create a new generation of diabetic footwear through a newly developed patient assessment system.The transfer of knowledge(TOK) between various sectors ensures that the need of patients is considered and transferred effectively to product development using a scientific ...
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The European Network for Translational Research in Atrial Fibrillation (EUTRAF)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

"The initiation and perpetuation of atrial fibrillation (AF) can be regarded as a complication of a progressive transformation of the structure and functional properties of the atria. This transformation is the result of complex and multiple changes at the molecular, cellular and organ levels which interact to form the basis for proarrhythmic mechanisms in AF. Numerous individual and environmental ...
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RE-Block

Start date: Jan 31, 2013, End date: Apr 29, 2015,

RE-Block demonstrates how introducing a smart model building on innovative public-private partnership and participatory co-operation contributes to integrated social and economic development of deprived urban areas. The model elaborated in the frame of intensive exchange (peer review sessions, Urban Idea Hub) follows two thematic (physical & social) and one overarching (governance) axe. Main outpu ...
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Tracking and Tracing solutions for improvement of intermodal transport of dangerous goods in CEE (ChemLog-T&T)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Dangerous goods are nowadays primarily transported by trucks – despite higher safety risks and higher environmental costs compared to other transport modes like rail. Intermodal transport offers an alternative but developing efficient interfaces between different transport modes is a challenge to be solved. Regions in central Europe are further disadvantaged due to missing connections across the ...
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Euro-BioImaging - Research infrastructure for imaging technologies in biological and biomedical sciences (Euro-BioImaging)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

Euro-BioImaging brings together imaging technologies stretching from basic biological imaging with advanced light microscopy, in vivo molecular imaging of single cells to animal models up to the clinical and epidemiological level of medical imaging of humans and populations. Euro-BioImaging, in close consultation with its stakeholders, will address the imaging requirements of both biological and m ...
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ArchitecturE for Service-Oriented Process - Monitoring and Control (IMC-AESOP)

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

IMC-AESOP will investigate a Service-oriented Architecture approach for monitoring and control of Process Control applications (batch and continuous process). Large process industry systems are a complex set of multi-disciplinary, connected, heterogeneous systems that function as a complex system of which the components are themselves systems. They link many components from individual groups of se ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (ECHORD)

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

Description Strengthening the knowledge transfer between scientific research and industry in robotics and stimulating their cooperation In Europe the robotics industry is strong, but still fragmented and dispersed. The objective of ECHORD is to provide new opportunities for coordinated and target- ...
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Systems Biology of T-cell Activation in Health and Disease (SYBILLA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

T-cell activation, whether induced by pathogens or auto-antigens, is a complex process relying on multiple layers of tightly controlled intracellular signalling modules that form an intricate network. Defects in this network can cause severe and chronic disorders such as autoimmune diseases. Although 5% of the population suffer from these diseases, only a few therapeutic treatments are available. ...
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Interplay of microbiota and gut function in the developing pig – Innovative avenues towards sustainable animal production (INTERPLAY)

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

"Low input farming occurs under non-SPF (specific pathogen free) conditions. The European ban on in-feed antibiotics exposes the piglets to a higher microbial environmental pressure. The postnatal priming of piglets with a diverse microbiota may affect the development of the piglet’s host-defense and gut functionality. By reversal, the piglets developing host-defense may affect the development of ...
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Micro fabrication production technology for MEMS on new emerging smart textiles/flexibles (MICROFLEX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

This proposal concerns flexible materials in the form of high added value smart fabrics/textiles which are able to sense stimuli and react or adapt to them in a predetermined way. The challenge for the European textile industries is to add advanced functions to textiles and the recent progress of new technologies such as electronic inks provide an opportunity for a breakthrough by incorporating ME ...
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High quality Material and intrinsic Properties of InN and indium rich Nitride Alloys - (The RAINBOW ITN) (RAINBOW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Indium nitride is a new narrow gap semiconductor (
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Building RAPPORT Between Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises And Public Or Private Research Capabilities (RAPPORT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"This project has three aims: i) To develop a reference guide of good practices including benchmarks for strengthening the knowledge exchange and transfer between research and SMEs ii) To develop a blueprint paper on new emerging forms of SMEs support for research with the involvement of large corporations in a context where open innovation and public-private partnerships have increasingly gained ...
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Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg (SHAMAN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2007, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

Description This project will develop and test a next generation digital preservation framework including tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and dataThe SHAMAN Integrated Project aims at developing a new framework for long-term digital preservation (more than one century) by exploring the p ...
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Bisociation Networks for Creative Information Discovery (BISON)

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

Description Humans are gifted at uncovering hidden similarities between concepts, even illogical ones. Computers aren't... yet. Thus uniquely human gift is the basis of our creativity and humour. The concept of association is at the heart of many of today’s powerful ICT technologies such as inform ...
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The Evolution of European Identity: Using biographical methods to study the development of European identity (EUROIDENTITIES)

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

The development of a sense of positive identification with the 'European project' by ordinary citizens is crucial for the long-term success of the European Union. The current state-of-the-art in research into European identity has been driven almost exclusively by a 'top down' elitist perspective that focuses upon the development of an identification with 'Europe' through centrally-driven policies ...
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Development of a heelless shoe to reduce injury during running (HEELLESS)

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

"As healthy as it is to keep fit by running, the repetitive stresses and strains on joints cause a large percentage of the injuries experienced during this sport. HEELLESS aims to develop a novel type of running shoe that prevents joint injury and muscle strain by mitigating the impact force that results from impact force when the foot strikes the ground during running; notably the peak force when ...
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The organisation of a common two-year master programme in three Georgian universities on "European Integration and Employment Relations"

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

The project’s aim is to contribute to the modernisation of the higher education system in Georgia by introducing a new 2-year master programme on “European Integration and Employment Relations”. Its broader objective aims at improving the education of specialists in the field of employment relations able to play a transformative role in facilitating a policy change that brings Georgia closer to EU ...
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Signs2Cross: Linguistic mobility for Deaf people in Europe

Start date: Jan 1, 2013,

Signs2Cross focuses upon a unique linguistic fact: while deaf people rely on their national sign languages for intracommunal communication, they are often able to transcend national sign languages and practice an international form of sign language use in transnational encounters. The various national sign languages have been increasingly recognised in many European countries while "International ...
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Exporting Master Programme in Enterprise Systems Engineering to Jordan, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

Today, there is a major lack of knowledge and experiences in the field of ESE and Business Informatics in the EU southern neighboring region. The overall aim of this project is to create a master’s curriculum in ESE at JO/SY/TN/EG universities to be taught in a new master’s programme that will be established through the project at one university in each country (4 in total) where the lectures will ...
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