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THERAPEUTIC AND PREVENTIVE IMPACT OF NUTRITIONAL LIPIDS ON NEURONAL AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN AGING, ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND VASCULAR DEMENTIA (LIPIDIDIET)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Major objective: It is our aim to develop a lipid based diet that is able to delay or prevent onset of Alzheimer’s disease and related diseases and has a stabilizing effect on cognitive performance in aging. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that there is a large overlap between risk factor of these three diseases. Importantly, there is equally strong evidence that prevention and treatment of the ...
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Molecular Targets Open for Regulation by the gut flora – New Avenues for improved Diet to Optimize European health (TORNADO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"Europe is facing major diet related health problems. Attitudes to eating habits have to be changed and the benefits of alternative treatment regimes substantiated. This can only be achieved by providing guidelines regulating health claims based on scientific data. Thus, there is a unique opportunity to use gut flora in potential treatment regimes and as a preventive target for major diet related ...
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European Obesity Consortium studying the Hypothalamus and its Interaction with Peripheral organs (EurOCHIP)

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

The past decade has seen tremendous progress in our understanding of homeostatic regulators controlling energy balance. Insights from human and murine genetics have illuminated multiples pathways within the hypothalamus, brainstem and higher brain regions that play a key role in the control of food intake, whilst physiological studies focusing on the gastrointestinal tract have revealed a panoply ...
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Characterization and modelling of dietary effects mediated by gut microbiota on lipid metabolism (ETHERPATHS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"Dysregulation of lipid homeostasis is related to multiple major global healthcare problems today, including aging, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It has already been shown that nutritional modulation of lipid homeostasis via direct supplementation, e.g., n-3 fatty acids, or via indirect mechanisms, e.g., dietary polyphenols, has beneficial effects on human health. There is growing evidence ...
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Blue biotechnology for sustainable innovations

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The marine environment has great potential for providing us with food, industrial raw materials and energy, but this potential remains largely unused.In the light of this situation and taking into account today’s climate change problems in the marine environment, especially the decline of phytoplankton over the past century, the University of Gothenburg in Sweden (lead partner) has in collaboratio ...
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Multi-layer network modules to identify markers for personalized medication in complex diseases (MultiMod)

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

The symptoms of complex disease like allergy, obesity and cancer depend on the products of multiple interacting genes. High-throughput techniques have implicated hundreds of genes. There are also considerable individual variations. A clinical implication of this may be inadequate treatment response, which is increasingly recognized as a cause of increased suffering and costs. Ideally, physicians s ...
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Lipid droplets as dynamic organelles of fat deposition and release: Translational research towards human disease (LipidomicNet)

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

Lipids are central to the regulation and control of cellular processes by acting as basic building units for biomembranes, the platforms for the vast majority of cellular functions. Recent developments in lipid mass spectrometry have set the scene for a completely new way to understand the composition of membranes, cells and tissues in space and time by allowing the precise identification and quan ...
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European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observation (EMSO)

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

"The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observation - Preparatory Phase (EMSO-PP) is a 4-year project with the main objective of establishing the legal and governance framework for EMSO, an infrastructure servicing scientists and other stakeholders in Europe and outside Europe for long-term deep water observation and investigation. The Preparatory Phase will handle all further actions towards the ...
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GENETIC FACTORS FOR OSTEOPOROSIS (GEFOS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"Osteoporosis is a common, age-related disease with a strong genetic component. With increasing age of the population, Europe and industrialised countries across the globe are facing a substantial increase in osteoporotic fractures, which account for considerable disease-burden and costs. Early identification and treatment of subjects at risk can help preventing this, and genetic susceptibility al ...
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Spin-Thermo-Electronics (STELE)

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

New magneto-transport phenomena have been discovered in magnetic multilayers and are now being optimized for industrial applications, extending the conventional electronics with new functionality. However, most of the current research on magnetic multilayer materials and its device applications rely on conventional equilibrium electron transport. The full potential of nano-structuring, which leads ...
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EUROPEAN DRUG INITIATIVE ON CHANNELS AND TRANSPORTERS (EDICT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"The European Drug Initiative on Channels and Transporters, EDICT, allies for the first time, partners with world-class expertise in both the structural and functional characterisation of membrane channels and transporters. State-of-the-art facilities and personnel for X-ray crystallography, Electron Microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the latest throughput technology, will provide infra ...
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Bacterial Abiotic Cellular Stress and Survival Improvement Network (BACSIN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

BACSIN is a 16-member consortium with the main focus to improve rational exploitation of the catalytic properties of bacteria for the treatment and prevention of environmental pollution. Current application of bacteria in the environment is hindered by the lack of knowledge on the effects of stresses on cellular activity, most importantly abiotic stresses prevailing on site (e.g., desiccation or n ...
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European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The overall goal of the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) is to fill the numerousgaps in our understanding of the effects and implications of ocean acidification.EPOCA aims to document the changes in ocean chemistry and biogeography across space and time.Paleo-reconstruction methods will be used on several archives, including foraminifera and deep-seacorals, to determine past variab ...
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Changing Multilateralism: The EU as a Global-regional Actor in Security and Peace (EU-GRASP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

"GRASP aims to contribute to the analysis and articulation of the current and future role of the EU as a global and regional actor in multilateral security governance, in a context of challenged multilateralism, where the EU aims for “effective multilateralism”. This project will examine the notion and practice of multilateralism in order to provide the required theoretical background for assessin ...
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Property-based Testing (ProTest)

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

Description This project will develop software engineering approaches to improve reliability in future service-oriented networks.In order to improve reliability and functionality in Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures, PROTEST will develop software engineering approaches based on specified properties of the system wh ...
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On the Margins of the European Community Young adult immigrants in seven European countries (EUMARGINS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

The extents to which different groups of young adult migrants are socially included or excluded, and the factors that facilitate inclusion or help cause exclusion is a vital issue for young adult immigrants, the nations they have joined, and the European Union whose policies have facilitated large volumes and rapid rates of change in migrant flows. Our central concept is that there are a range of ...
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Relating Expectations and needs to Participation and Empowerment of children in Clinical Trials (RESPECT)

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

"There are two objectives for this project, firstly to clarify the expectations and needs of children and their families who have participated or who might participate in clinical trials for new drugs in Europe. Secondly, to identify methods by which the expectations and needs can be translated into empowering and motivating participants in future clinical trails research. This will be achieved in ...
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Targeting alpha-particle emitting radionuclides to combat cancer (TARCC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"This project aims at improving drug delivery to cancer cells by developing targeted radiotherapy with alpha-emitting radionuclides. Alpha particles emitted by radionuclides have short tracks (about 100 microns) in body tissues. As a result, they should be most appropriate to treat small-size tumours and isolated cancer cells. This project proposes the development of improved vectors and targeting ...
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Sustainable knowledge platform for the european maritime and logistics industry (SKEMA)

Start date: Jun 16, 2008, End date: Jun 15, 2011,

SKEMA aims to establish a Sustainable Knowledge Platform to be used by policy makers and stakeholder groups in the European Maritime and Logistics Industry. The SKEMA Knowledge Platform will contain a Knowledge Base that will be populated by Consolidation Studies and associated Periodic Studies and outputs from Thematic Activities addressing key challenges for the European maritime transport and l ...
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Mucosal protease and their inhibitors in inflammatory bowel disease: From etiopathogenetic insight to innovative therapy (IBDase)

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

IBDase addresses the etiology and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with a multidisciplinary plan for innovative diagnosis and therapy focused on mucosal proteases and their inhibitors (P/PIs). The incidence of IBD, a multifactorial disease influenced by environmental factors in a background of complex genetic susceptibility, is rising, particularly among European children. Current ...
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Strategies for the protection of shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea against forthcoming attack by wood degrading marine borers. A synthesis and information project based on the effects of climatic changes (WreckProtect)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

Today the Baltic sea is a brackish marine environment, enclosing a unique well preserved historical collection of wooden shipwrecks and settlements. These objects and constructions are protected from aggressive marine borer due to the low salinity in the waters, and therefore it is one of the few localities in the world where historical shipwrecks are found so intact and available for historical ...
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Life Watch (LIFEWATCH)

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

"The Life Watch e-Science and Technology Infrastructure for biodiversity data and observatories will be a large-scale European research infrastructure bringing together: -a system of marine, terrestrial and freshwater observatories; -common access to a huge amount of interlinked, distributed data from databases and monitoring sites; -computational facilities in virtual laboratories with analytic ...
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Young people from a public care background: pathways to education in Europe (YIPPEE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

"This project will investigate post-compulsory educational pathways among young people who spent at least one of their childhood years in the care of public authorities or child protection agencies. Young men and women from a public care background are among the most economically and socially excluded groups in European nations yet the pathways by which they might overcome their childhood disadvan ...
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PREPARATORY PHASE PROJECT FOR A MAJOR UPGRADE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVES (CESSDA) RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE (CESSDA-PPP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

"This proposal for a major upgrade to the CESSDA Research Infrastructure is a response to the general principles and vision set out in the 2004 Blueprint for the European Research Obsrvatory for the Humanities and Social Science and will meet the goals set out in that report to ‘strengthen interdisciplinary and cross-border collaboration and comparative research on a European dimension… enhance th ...
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