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ADVanced communicAtions and iNformaTion processing in smArt Grid systEms (ADVANTAGE)

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

"Smart Grid systems represent a significant new technology to provide more energy efficient power delivery systems that reduce carbon emissions and can handle a mix of energy sources from small scale renewable energy to large power stations. The design and implementation of the smart grid will be very complex, involving a large number of systems, layers and relationships. In order to make the infr ...
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Multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective: EU-Latin America (GOVDIV)

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

"The overall aim of this proposal is to create a transnational interdisciplinary research and training network between European and Latin American Universities and Research centres in order to promote transfer of knowledge and to produce innovative research in the field of the multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective. The governance of cultural diversity is a key is ...
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NeutAndalus: boosting interdisciplinary neutron science in Spain and Europe (NeutAndalus)

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

Neutrons are not only essential components of matter, their interactions with nuclei are crucial in many of the important processes occurring in nature. Among others, neutron capture reactions in stars are responsible for the creation of all elements beyond iron, fission reactions drive nuclearpower reactors, neutron absorption reactions are the base of promising cancer therapy techniques, scatter ...
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Europe and America in contact: a multidisciplinary study of cross-cultural transfer in the New World across time (CULTURECONTACT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"At the core of this research proposal is the aim of reconstructing and understanding the nature, exact trajectories, mechanisms and implications of cross-cultural contact and transfers between Europeans and the native people of the Americas, focusing on, but not limited to, the Nahuatl-speaking zone of central Mexico. A major innovation of this project is to study this process of cross-cultural c ...
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Fostering Human Rights Among European (external and internal) Policies (FRAME)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

FRAME, a 4-year multidisciplinary project, represents a consortium of 19 internationally recognized and globally networked human rights institutes from across Europe and strategic regions around the world. Through FRAME, more than 100 leading researchers and practitioners - with a strong gender balance - aim to provide the necessary building blocks for a coherent EU human rights policy comprised ...
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Optimised Microturbine Solar Power system (OMSoP)

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

The overall objective of this project is to provide and demonstrate technical solutions for the use of state-of-the-art concentrated solar power system (CSP) coupled to micro-gas turbines (MGT) to produce electricity. The intended system will be modular and capable of producing electricity in the range of 3-10 kW. The aim is to make such a system available to provide energy needs for domestic and ...
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Language and Perception (LanPercept)

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

"This network provides a unique approach to understanding the interaction between two central cognitive systems: language and perception. Traditionally these systems have been studied independently, with training provided from a single discipline perspective. This training network offers an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of the bidirectional relationships between language and percep ...
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Energy Efficient Manufacturing Process of Engineering Materials (EFFIPRO)

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

The aim of the project to develop and implement at pilot plant scale a novel field assisted sintering technology. The secuential application of two different technologies will be used: Electrical Discharge Compaction (EDC) and Electrical Resistance Sintering (ERS). The technology will be studied at fundamental level and a pilot plant scale equipment will be designed and built.Higher performances m ...
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Brazilian-European partnership in Dynamical Systems (BREUDS)

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

"This is a project for a partnership between leading Brazilian and European research groups in dynamical systems, a prominent subject in mathematics. An extensive consortium of European and Brazilian institutions will collaborate to provide world leading critical mass and support for research on the very forefront of the field. Work Packages reflect parallel priorities in the research. Transfer o ...
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Relevance of double strand break repair pathway choice in human disease and cancer (DSBRECA)

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

"Double strand breaks (DSBs) repair is essential for normal development. While the complete inability to repair DSBs leads to embryonic lethality and cell death, mutations that hamper this repair cause genetically inherited syndromes, with or without cancer predisposition. The phenotypes associated with these syndromes are extremely varied, and can include growth and mental retardation, ataxia, sk ...
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A cost effective and efficient approach for a new generation of solar dish-Stirling plants based on storage and hybridization (BIOSTIRLING-4SKA)

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

In the context of the Energy SET-Plan of the European Commission relevant research and developments channelled to increase the percentage of renewable energy sources. It is crucial the collaboration of the Industry, SME’s and research institutions to bring together the step forward to finally integrate renewable energies as the main source of electricity.Renewable energies represent a wide field u ...
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Dynamic Management of Physically Coupled Systems of Systems (DYMASOS)

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

The well‐being of the citizens in Europe depends on the reliable and efficient functioning of large interconnected systems, such as electric power systems, air traffic control, railway systems, large industrial production plants, etc. Such large systems consist of many interacting components, e.g. generation plants, distribution systems, and large and small consumers. The subsystems are usually ma ...
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Development Of Scintillator-Based Fast-Ion Loss Detectors For Fusion Devices Using Low-Energy Particle Accelerators (FILDDEV)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities are ubiquitous in laboratory as well as in astrophysical plasmas. Their interplay with energetic (suprathermal) ions is of crucial importance to understand the energy and particle exchange in astrophysical plasmas as well as to obtain a viable energy source in magnetically confined fusion devices such as ITER. Experimentally, a detailed knowledge of the wa ...
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Sustainable Water ActioN: building research links between EU and US (SWAN)

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

"The project promises to strengthen European research capacity in the USA, promote competitiveness of European research and industry while informing and involving policy-makers and the general public.Opening the UMI to European partners responds to the need for 21st Century interdisciplinary and multiregional collaboration regarding water sustainability. We have exhausted the 20th century paradigm ...
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Integrating chemical approaches to treat pancreatic cancer: making new leads for a cure (Panacreas)

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

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) causes 34000 deaths in the EU every year. Conventional cancer treatments have close to no impact on this disease. As a result, almost all patients diagnosed with PDAC develop metastases and eventually die. Given this poor outlook, the search for new therapeutics is mandatory. These will have to target relevant cancer pathways and be designed based on the ava ...
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ESTIMATION AND CONTROL FOR SAFE WIRELESS HIGH MOBILITY COOPERATIVE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS (EC-SAFEMOBIL)

Start date: Jul 15, 2011, End date: Jan 14, 2016,

Autonomous systems and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), can play an important role in many applications including disaster management, and the monitoring and measurement of events, such as the volcano ash cloud of April 2010. Currently, many missions cannot be accomplished or imply a high level of risk for the people involved (pilots and drivers), as unmanned vehicles are not available or not perm ...
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optimization of Particle Accelerators: A Marie Curie Initial Training Network (oPAC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

There are more than fifteen thousand particle accelerators in the world, ranging from the linear accelerators used for cancer therapy in modern hospitals to the giant 'atom-smashers' at international particle physics laboratories used to unlock the secrets of creation. For many decades these scientific instruments have formed one of the main pillars of modern research across scientific disciplines ...
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Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly System (ARCAS)

Start date: Nov 28, 2011, End date: Nov 27, 2015,

Description The ARCAS project proposes the development and experimental validation of the first cooperative free-flying robot system for assembly and structure construction. The project will pave the way for a large number of applications including the building of platforms for evacuation of people or for landing aircrafts, the inspection an ...
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Physiology of the adult carotid body stem cell niche (CBSCS)

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

The discovery of adult neural stem cells (NSCs) has broaden our view of the physiological plasticity of the nervous system,and has opened new perspectives on the possibility of tissue regeneration and repair in the brain. NSCs reside in specializedniches in the adult mammalian nervous system, where they are exposed to specific paracrine signals regulating theirbehavior. These neural progenitors ar ...
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Optimization of Oxygen-based CFBC Technology with CO2 capture (O2GEN)

Start date: Oct 18, 2012, End date: Oct 17, 2015,

The project objective is to demonstrate the concept of the second generation oxyfuel combustion that reduce significantly (50%) the overall efficiency penalty of CO2 capture into power plants, from approximately 12 to 6 efficiency points.One of the main drawbacks of CCS is the additional energy used for operation. This energetic penalty reduces the power plant efficiency, and increases the cost of ...
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Transboundary Drought Risk Management - an application to the Guadiana River Basin (TransDRiM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

TransDRiM is an advanced training and research project focused on transboundary drought management at the river basin scale, in the context of the Water Framework Directive implementation.The proposed methodologies are applied to the Guadiana river basin, the fourth largest within the Iberian Peninsula, where shared watersheds between Portugal and Spain account for over 2/3 of its territory. The G ...
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Highly-complex and networked control systems (HYCON2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

ICT developments both enable and also enforce large-scale, highly-connected systems in society and industry. Knowledge to cope with these emerging systems is lacking. HYCON2 will stimulate and establish the long-term integration of the European research community, leading institutions and industry in the strategic field of control of complex, large-scale, and networked dynamical systems. It will i ...
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Zinc-Air flow batteries for electrical power distribution networks (POWAIR)

Start date: Nov 22, 2010, End date: Nov 21, 2014,

The concept of the project is to create a new class of electrical energy storage system with the unique combination of characteristics of high energy density, modularity, fast response and low cost. To achieve these aims, the project will radically extend performance of a zinc – air batteries from small scale single primary cells to rechargeable redox flow battery modules, which at production scal ...
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Fabrication of particles with photo receptors: bio-analytical application such as controlled drug delivery (Photorelease)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The importance of carbon-based materials in biological applications has been recognized. Especially, nanodiamond particles (referred to as nanodiamonds, NDs) have started to emerge as novel candidate for promising applications in the field of nano-biotechnology as imaging probes and drug carriers. NDs do not show the toxicity of other nanoparticles, notably gold, making them ideal nanoscale drug d ...
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Generation of asymmetry in mitotic exit network (MEN) signaling (Asymmetry in MEN)

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

The mitotic exit network (MEN) is a signaling pathway that promotes exit from mitosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by maintaining the protein phosphatase Cdc14 released from the nucleolus into the nucleus and the cytoplasm, where it eventually promotes mitotic cyclin degradation. MEN resembles a RAS-like signaling cascade. The GTPase Tem1 and the two component GTPase-activating protein Bfa1-Bub2, w ...
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Automated and cost effective maintenance for railway (ACEM Rail)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

ACEM-Rail project deals with automation and optimisation of railway infrastructure maintenance. It focuses on the track. The final goal is to reduce costs, time and resources required for maintenance activities and increase the availability of the infrastructure. The project includes both conventional and high speed lines.ACEM-Rail project will mean an important step forward in railway infrastruct ...
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Topoisomerase-induced DNA breaks: link with cancer and neurodegeneration (Topo-breaks)

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

DNA topoisomerases are conserved nuclear enzymes that regulate DNA topology by transiently cleaving and resealing the DNA molecule, fulfilling a fundamental role in virtually every aspect of chromosome metabolism. Nevertheless, erroneous or abortive topoisomerase activity can result in persistent DNA strand breaks with the enzyme covalently attached to 3’ or 5’ DNA ends by a phosphotyrosyl bond, a ...
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Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas (KnowSeas)

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

Europe’s four regional seas (Baltic, Black, Mediterranean and NE Atlantic) have suffered severe environmental degradation due to human pressure. Existing measures to manage pressures have proven inadequate and the EC has responded by proposing a new policy (Maritime Strategy Blue Book) and environmental legislation (Marine Strategy Directive), both currently close to adoption. These instruments re ...
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The semantics of tolerance and (anti-)racism in Europe: public bodies and civil society on a comparative perspective (TOLERACE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"The TOLERACE project proposes a contextualised comparative analysis that focuses on the semantics and regimes of (anti-)racism and tolerance in different European contexts, exploring how they are shaped through the mediation of public institutions and policies at the European, national, regional and local level, and civil society organisations. We seek to explore how the different meanings given ...
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Coordination Action in R&D in Accessible and Assistive ICT (CARDIAC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

The major aim of the Coordination Action would be to improve the overall success of Challenge 7 ICT 2009 7.2 'Accessible and Assistive ICT'.It would assist those involved in the research aspects of Challenge 7 by identifying the research and development that is needed in this field, both immediately and in the near future, by raising the level of knowledge and understanding of Accessible and Assis ...
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Model-based synthesis of digital electronic circuits for embedded control (MOBY-DIC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Description To develop a unique paradigm for the design of embedded control systems that will reduce the gap between control and circuit worlds and reduce the costs in automotive productsEmbedded integrated circuits (ICs) are a larger market segment than embedded software and embedded boards. A functionality of paramount importance in emb ...
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novel DIagnostic Techniques for future particle Accelerators: A Marie Curie Initial Training NETwork (DITANET)

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

"The Council of the European Union expressively welcomed the development of a first European roadmap for research infrastructures. The aim of this recently published roadmap was to identify vital new infrastructures that are crucial for the future European research area, in particular for capacity building. These multi-disciplinary projects require substantial investments, forty percent of which ...
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Feedback design for wireless networked systems (FeedNetBack)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

Revolutionary developments in microelectronics over the past decades have led to the production of cheap yet powerful devices that communicate with one another, sense and act on their environment and are deployed in large numbers to deliver an abundance of data. Such devices and the networks they form (wireless sensor networks) bring together communication, computation, sensing and control and hav ...
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Service Oriented Architectures for All (SOA4ALL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

Description Towards a Web of billions of servicesComputer science is entering a new generation, a generation that starts by abstracting from software and hardware components and sees all resources as services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). With this in mind, the aim of SOA4ALL is to create a 'web of billions of services' and he ...
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