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Microbiome Influence on Energy balance and Brain Development-Function Put into Action to Tackle Diet-related Diseases and Behavior (MyNewGut)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Emerging evidence indicates that the gut microbiome contributes to our ability to extract energy from the diet and influences development and function of the immune, endocrine and nervous systems, which regulate energy balance and behaviour. This has led to hypothesize that developing microbiome-based dietary interventions can be cost-effective measures to prevent diet-related and behavioural diso ...
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Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship: Family Values and Youth Unemployment in Europe (CUPESSE)

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

The multi-disciplinary CUPESSE project carries out a comparative analysis of both the demand and supply side of youth unemployment in eleven Member States of the EU and Associated Countries (i.e. Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom). These ten countries represent the main empirical scope of the project, but whenever ...
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Developing Improved Estimations of Soil CO2 Effluxes at ecosystem Level (DIESEL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Most studies consider soil CO2 effluxes as directly corresponding to soil respiration. However, in the short term the soil CO2 efflux can deviate from instantaneous soil respiration whenever a change occurs in the amount of CO2 stored in the soil pore-spaces. Gaps in soil CO2 efflux measurements usually are filled using the soil temperature as a predictor. The relationship between soil temperatur ...
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The Higgs quest - exploring electroweak symmetry breaking at the LHC (HiggsTools)

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

The main goal of the project is to provide excellent initial training to young researchers in the field of high energy particle physics, paving the road for new discoveries about the fundamental nature of the Universe at a time when new discoveries are expected, and when the new Standard Model of Particle Physics is going to be forged.The research goal of HiggsTools is the investigation of electro ...
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MEditerranean MOntainous LAndscapes: an historical approach to cultural heritage based on traditional agrosystems (MEMOLA)

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

"The project is an interdisciplinary approach to cultural landscapes of Mediterranean mountainous areas, taking as a central axis the historical study of two natural resources essential to generate agro-systems: water and soil. The proposal focuses on Sierra Nevada (Spain), Monti di Trapani (Italy), Colli Euganei (Italy) and Vjosa Valley (Albania).Landscapes and their structure are strongly condit ...
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GLobal cOntemporary art market: the intrinsiC and sociologicAL components of FINancial and artistic valuE of ARTtworks (GLOCALFINEART)

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

The Contemporary Art world and market lack the basic information support and analytical tools that are widely available in similar environments and even for Pre-impressionist and Modern art. The huge amount of information (magazines, fairs, galleries etc.) available in various languages, creates chaos and is not summarised in any useful way which takes into account the different weight that phenom ...
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Sustainable Pavements & Railways Initial Training Network (SUP&R ITN)

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

"The design, construction, maintenance, use and end-of-life management of road pavements and railways is associated with a number of important impacts on the environment; namely the consequences of energy consumption, unsustainable use of materials/resources, waste generation and release of hazardous substances into the environment. It is estimated that over 80% of all these environmental impacts ...
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Simulation based control for Energy Efficiency building operation and maintenance (Energy IN TIME)

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

Buildings Operational stage represents 80% of building’s life-cycle cost of which 50% is consequence of the energy use. Up to 90% of the buildings’ life cycle carbon emissions occur during their operational phase, mainly as consequence of the HVAC, lighting and appliances’ energy use. Therefore, energy and cost saving strategies addressing this building operation phase will have a major impact in ...
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The immigration of Romanian Roma to Western Europe: Causes, effects, and future engagement strategies (MIGROM)

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

The presence of Roma migrants from Romania on the streets of major western European cities has been the centre of public debates, and regarded by many as a challenge to social integration, law and order, human rights and EU mobility principles. The project will investigate the experiences, motivations, and ambitions of Roma migrants and popular, media and official reactions to Roma immigration. We ...
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EU BON: Building the European Biodiversity Observation Network (EU BON)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

Sustainable governance of our biological resources requires reliable scientific knowledge that meets the needs of society. Current biodiversity observation systems and environmental datasets are unbalanced in coverage and not integrated, limiting integrative analyses and implementation of environmental policies.EU BON presents an innovative approach towards integration of biodiversity information ...
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Theoretical predictions and analyses of LHC physics: advancing the precision frontier (LHCtheory)

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

The primary goal of this research proposal is to push to new levels of precision the predictive power of theoretical analyses of the phenomena observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The start-up of the LHC has opened a new era in the exploration of the fundamental laws of Nature. This is expected to lead, among other results, to the clarification of the mechanism breaking the electro ...
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Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning (ECO)

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

Open Educational Resources (OER) has the potential to widen access to education and to improve the quality and cost-efficiency of teaching and learning in Europe. The most successful way to achieve a practical implementation of OERs are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are large-scale online courses and represent one of the latest developments in open education in its continuous e ...
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Gender and Citizenship (GENDERCIT)

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

The overall aim of the proposal is to implement an exchange program and to promote a mutual and beneficial transfer of knowledge between Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy and France) and Latin America (Argentina and Mexico) in the field of Gender Studies, in order to enrich the theoretical framework, to consolidate the institutional dimension of the different research programs having gender as focus ...
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China-EU FDI (CHEUFDI)

Start date: Jan 7, 2013, End date: Jan 6, 2017,

The CHEUFDI (China-EU FDI) project aims at providing a comprehensive outlook of Chinese companies’ investment behaviour in the EU, together with an assessment of their positive and negative impacts on the European economy and growth strategies. The objectives are to map and analyse outward Chinese investments in the EU, highlighting their areas of concentration and countries/sectors of choice, and ...
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CHEMiRNA: Chemical-based Platforms for micro-RNA Detection. Towards Novel OncomiR Assays (CHEMiRNA)

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

Thos proposal present novel reagents and tools for the detection and quantification of microRNAs (miRNAs) with a particular focus on miRNA species involved in solid tumours and hematologic cancers. The proposed project will thus provide a new chemical toolbox which will allow the rapid detection of miRNAs involved in cancers. This proposal intends to take advantage of the novel dynamic chemistry a ...
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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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Gene Expression Regulation and Cancer (miSWI)

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

Cancer remains the most predominant cause of premature death in Europe. It constitutes a major public health problem with 1.28 million predicted deaths in the European Union in 2011. Changes in the gene expression patterns are a key feature of cancer cell transformation through an increase in expression of genes that promote carcinogenesis (oncogenes) and/or a decrease in expression of genes that ...
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Robust N-donor ligand based Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for capture and degradation of harmful gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (DUSTBINMOF)

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

Environmental pollution has progressively increased, becoming today a real danger for nature and particularly humankind. Nanoporous solids, in particular Metal–Organic Framework (MOFs), have shown to be materials with large capacities and high potentials for environmental remediation. In this regard, the outperforming adsorptive and catalytic properties of MOFs can be exploited in a synergetic way ...
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PSYcho-Social Support in CRISis Management (PsyCris)

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

With the overall objective to improve psycho-social support in crisis management, the proposed project PsyCris (36-months) has the following goals: (1) status quo analysis of psychological and medical support in crises in European countries, (2) improvement of support strategies for victims and crisis managers, (3) enhancement of psycho-medical preparedness for major incidents (contingency planni ...
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MEDiterranean SUpersite Volcanoes (MED-SUV)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

This project will improve the consortium capacity of assessment of volcanic hazards in Supersites of Southern Italy by optimising and integrating existing and new observation/monitoring systems, by a breakthrough in understanding of volcanic processes and by increasing the effectiveness of the coordination between the scientific and end-user communities. More than 3 million of people are exposed t ...
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Real-time understanding of dexterous deformable object manipulation with bio-inspired hybrid hardware architectures (REAL-TIME ASOC)

Start date: May 7, 2013, End date: May 6, 2016,

The ability to perceive and understand our dynamic real world is critical for the next generation of multi-sensory robotic systems. One of the most important tasks is searching, but the biological mechanism is seen as an adaptive process that searches for an object of interest managing the limited available processing. Actually, cognitive robots require attention mechanisms to determine what parts ...
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Effects of early programming on child's neurodevelopmental outcomes (NUTRIOMICS)

Start date: Apr 15, 2013, End date: Apr 23, 2016,

Diet plays an important role on the effects of neurodevelopment and there is evidence that early nutrition can influence later neurodevelopmental outcomes. Folate and polyunsaturated fatty acids, nutrients obtained via diet, are considered of extreme importance for neurodevelopment. However, the current knowledge on this field is largely based on animal, retrospective, short-term nutritional inter ...
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European Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime (EFFACE)

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

Environmental crime is a threat to environmental, social and economic sustainability and is in conflict with key commitments and strategies of the European Union, including the Europe 2020 Strategy. EFFACE will propose effective and feasible policy options for the EU to combat environmental crime. The recently adopted Environmental Crime Directive, the Ship-Source Pollution Directive, and the new ...
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High precision flavour physics using lattice QCD (HPFPLATTICEQCD)

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

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been supported by experiment for four decades. Ongoing high energy experiments in the LHC at CERN and the Tevatron at Fermilab are pursuing the last missing element of experimental support, the discovery and measurement of the Higgs boson. Nevertheless, at the edge of the experimental program hints of possible divergence from theory have appeared, es ...
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early Pursuit against Organized crime using envirOnmental scanning, the Law and IntelligenCE systems (ePOOLICE)

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

Organized crime is becoming more diverse in its activities and methods including “greater levels of collaboration between criminal groups, greater mobility in and around the EU, a diversification of illicit activity, and a growing dependence on a dynamic infrastructure, anchored in key locations and facilitated by widespread use of the Internet” (the Director of Europol, in his foreword to the OCT ...
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Integrated non-CO2 Greenhouse gas Observing System (INGOS)

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

InGOS will support and integrate the observing capacity of Europe for non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGHG: CH4, N2O, SF6, H2 and halocarbons). The emissions of these gases are very uncertain and it is unknown how future climate change will feedback into the land use coupled emissions of CH4 and N2O. The NCGHG atmospheric abundances will increase further in the future and the emissions of these gases a ...
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Cooperativity in Highly Excited Rydberg Ensembles - Control and Entanglement (COHERENCE)

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

"The central goal of the ""COHERENCE"" network is the training of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and Experienced Researchers (ERs) to the highest level of international excellence within the rapidly growing field of electronically highly excited (Rydberg) gases and aggregates. The systems range from single atoms to large mesoscopic ensembles with full control over motional and internal degrees of ...
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Novel Strategies for Microsphere-Mediated Cellular Control - A Technology to generate induced pluripotent stem cells for Regenerative Medicine (RSM-Microsphere-IPSC)

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

A crucial goal of regenerative medicine is to generate desired cells, to build a specific tissue, from pluripotent stem cells directly derived from a patient's cells. These cells are known as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and they have a potential therapeutic use as they offer an alternative to the controversial use of embryonic stem cells and, additionally, they avoid the issue of immune r ...
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The Evolutionary Ecology OF underground Fruits (TEE-OFF)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Sep 25, 2014,

"How an organism disperses is expected to strongly influence its geographic distribution and degree of local adaptation. However, empirical tests of these assumptions are lacking and it is unclear why closely related organisms differ in their dispersal behavior. Here, we propose to elucidate the consequences of dispersal by investigating why some organisms do not disperse. Plants with non-dispersi ...
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Real-time understanding of dexterous deformable object manipulation with bio-inspired hybrid hardware architectures (FASTDEFORM)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012, End date: Jul 14, 2014,

"The ability to perceive and understand dexterous object manipulation from visual information, irrespective of an object’s physical characteristics, is critical for next generation robotic systems. It enables fluent interaction outside the highly constrained environments of today’s applications and allows robots to enter domestic settings and natural environments. Many approaches have been propose ...
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Mouse Model of CoQ deficiency: pathogenesis and treatment (COQMITMEL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) deficiency is an autosomal recesive disorder where the encephalomyopathy and nephropathy seems to be the most important clinical presentations. Some patients respond to CoQ10 supplementation but others do not. In my Postdoctoral stay in Columbia University I identified the first mutation in PDSS2, which encoded the protein responsible for the syntesis of decaprenyl chain. Mor ...
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