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Artificial Mitochondria for Health (mitochon)

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

Mitochondria are cell organelles that provide the energetic requirements of the body. The majority of cellular ATP is produced by the membrane protein ATP synthase through a proton gradient across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Alterations in ATP synthase biogenesis can result in severe mitochondrial diseases affecting tissues with high energy requirements as brain and muscles. Mitochondrial di ...
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Chiral Allotropes of Carbon (CHIRALLCARBON)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The aim of the present project is to answer fundamental questions about how to introduce chirality into a variety of carbon nanostructures and how it modifies the properties in the search for new applications in materials science and nanotecnology. Thus, it describes a fundamental and technological research program designed to gain new knowledge for the development of novel covalent and supramolec ...
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ECO-EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT OF AQUACULTURE, AQUASEF (LIFE-AQUASEF)

Start date: Jun 2, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Background Around 50% of the fishing products consumed in the world today come from aquaculture (FAO, 2010) and this percentage is set to gradually to increase. Marine aquaculture will increase its production by more than 20 times by 2050 (FAO). Over the coming years, however, developing countries will cease to be net exporters to the more developed count ...
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Transforming organisational culture for gender equality in research and innovation (GENOVATE)

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

"GENOVATE is an action-research project based on the implementation of Gender Equality Action Plans (GEAPs) in six European universities. It brings together a consortium with diverse experience with gender equality mainstreaming approaches, with varying institutional and disciplinary backgrounds and located in different national contexts. All, however, share common challenges for women engaged in ...
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Dynamic regulation of cytokine signalling in lymphocytes during inflammation (DCS)

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

"Cytokines are key regulators of immune responses and inflammation. However, excessive pro-inflammatory cytokine stimulation promotes chronic inflammatory pathologies. Commonly used cytokine-neutralizing therapeutic drugs cause severe side effects and in some patients are not effective. We thus expect that study of the intracellular signalling triggered by cytokine stimulation will provide new, mo ...
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Production of Coatings for New Efficient and Clean Coal Power Plant Materials (POEMA)

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

"The overall objective is the development of new coatings for supercritical steam power plants for efficient and clean coal utilization. A significant reduction of emissions is expected by increasing efficiencies to ŋ > 50%. Currently, an efficiencies of 45% have been achieved in the last 30 years from subcritical 180 bar/540ºC to ultra-supercritical 300 bar/600-620ºC corresponding to a specific ...
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Smart photo-activable devices based in plasmonic nanoparticles: Microfluidic-assisted engineering of a third generation of lipid vesicles (GUVs-3G)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Dec 21, 2016,

Giant lipid vesicles can be potentially used as biocompatible carriers with a large lumen cavity adequate for lodging large biomacromolecules in an aqueous compartment. New developments in controlled delivery are strongly troubled by the high polydispersity of the preparations and the limitations in the encapsulation abilities inherent to conventional preparative methods. Engineering smart vesicle ...
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Innovative Policy Modelling and Governance Tools for Sustainable Post-Crisis Urban Development (INSIGHT)

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

Cities embody the twofold challenge currently facing the European Union: how to improve competitiveness while achieving social cohesion and environmental sustainability. They are fertile ground for science and technology, innovation and cultural activity, but also places where problems such as environmental pollution, unemployment, segregation and poverty are concentrated.INSIGHT aims to investiga ...
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Training and Research AImed at Novel Antibacterial Solutions in Animals and People (TRAIN-ASAP)

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

TRAIN-ASAP addresses a very urgent public health issue. The lack of effective antibacterial drugs against resistant bacteria poses a serious threat to human health and has huge economical consequences to the healthcare system. The objective of this ITN is to fill the current gap between the burden of infections due to resistant bacteria and the strong need for alternative solutions to combat antib ...
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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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Economically and Ecologically Efficient Water Management in the European Chemical Industry (E4WATER)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Chemical Industry provides the highest potential for increasing eco-efficiency in industrial water management. E4Water addresses crucial process industry needs, to overcome bottle necks and barriers for an integrated and energy efficient water management. The main objective is to develop, test and validate new integrated approaches, methodologies and process technologies for a more efficient and s ...
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ELECTROWEAK PROCESSES IN SYSTEMS BOUND BY THE STRONG INTERACTION (ELECTROWEAK)

Start date: Apr 25, 2013, End date: Apr 24, 2016,

The aim of this proposal is to deepen our knowledge of the role played by the electroweak interaction in systems bound by the strong interaction. Two main physical processes are due to the interplay of these fundamental forces of nature, and are therefore the focus of this proposal: lepton (electron, neutrino) scattering by atomic nuclei, and nuclear beta decays. Advanced theoretical methods will ...
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Detailed Anatomy of Galaxies (DAGAL)

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

We propose an ambitious network based on a combination of training through high-level astrophysical research and a comprehensive package of complimentary skills training. Our network exploits a unique data set: a combination of very deep mid-infrared imaging of over 2300 local galaxies which we are obtaining with the Spitzer Space Telescope, with ground- and space-based UV, optical, and radio data ...
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European Particle physics Latin American NETwork (EPLANET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"The High Energy Physics (HEP) European scientific community has developed cutting-edge, large-scale facilities that make it a world leader. Particle Physics Programmes in Europe are attracting participation of groups from non-European countries, in particular from Latin America. In the reciprocal direction, the Pierre Auger Observatory for High Energy Cosmic Rays, recently established in Argentin ...
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Computational study of assisted assembly of colloids (COSAAC)

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

Colloids are particles of about a millionth of a meter that,when dispersed in a solvent, may assemble into sophisticatedstructures and form materials whose properties can be exploited:gels, microcapsules for drug delivery, catalytic media.Most studies so far seek that particles spontaneously “self-assemble” into these structures at constant conditions.This is the most straightforward and desirable ...
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Under the light of electrons (STEMOX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Here, we propose to explore and characterize new emerging phenomena in low dimensional (LD) and artificially structured oxide based systems by means of advanced electron microscopy techniques. Complex oxides have a large range of applications, since their properties change drastically as their precise composition and structure changes. When obtained in LD configurations new functionalities arise w ...
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Providing a new generation of methodologies and tools for cost-effective risk-based animal health surveillance systems for the benefit of livestock producers, decision makers and consumers (RISKSUR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The risk of occurrence of exotic, new (emerging), re-emerging as well as endemic diseases has increased substantially, particularly due to globalisation and intensification of animal production. While the need for effective animal health surveillance is widely recognised for the management of such threats, the currently used systems do not take optimal advantage of recent advances in epidemiologic ...
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Targeted research effort on African swine fever (ASFORCE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"African Swine Fever (ASF) is a devastating disease affecting swine caused by a complex virus, the only member of the Asfarviridae family. Disease transmission is maintained under different and complex epidemiological scenarios involving domestic and wild swine and arthropod vectors (soft ticks Ornithodoros sp). Due to the fact that no vaccine has been obtained so far, prevention, control, and era ...
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Evolution and Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance (EVOTAR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Antibiotics are essential therapeutics in the treatment of bacterial infections. However, the indiscriminate use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria that pose a major threat to human health as options for treating infections by these bacteria have become limited. The evolution, emergence and spread ofantibiotic resistance genes are still only poorly understood ...
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Rapid Field Diagnostics and Screening in Veterinary Medicine (RAPIDIA-FIELD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

"This proposal addresses the call under KBBE.2011.1.3-02: Development of field test for rapid screening of pathologies as well as simple laboratory test in animals.Sustainable food production capable of feeding a growing global population is a significant challenge that is faced by agricultural industries throughout the world. The demand for safe, efficient and high quality animal protein will ris ...
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European Ice Sheet Modeling Initiative (EURICE)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"Continental ice sheets play an important role in the Earth system, holding enough water to raise sea level by several tens of meters. Due to the size and complexity of these systems, numerical models are needed to gain insight into their behavior and so computation has become a central part of the science. With these ideas in mind, this project has three goals: (1) the development of a new couple ...
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Fostering European Drought Research and Science-Policy Interfacing (DROUGHT-R&SPI)

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

The project will reduce future Europe’s vulnerability and risk to drought by innovative in-depth studies that combine drought investigations in six case study areas in water-stressed regions (river basin and national scale) with drought analyses at the pan-European scale. Knowledge transfer across these scales is paramount because vulnerability is context-specific (e.g. physical, environmental, so ...
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A Nanoscale Artificial Nose to easily detect Volatile Biomarkers at Early stages of Lung Cancer and Related Genetic Mutations (LCAOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The LCAOS project will develop and test a new diagnostic tool, able to detect:(i) the presence of lung cancer (LC), and(ii) an increased risk of a patient developing LC in the future.Diagnostic tests currently available are unsuitable for widespread screening because they are costly, occasionally miss tumours, are not time-efficient, nor free of complications.LCAOS will overcome these problems by ...
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Social IMpact Policy Analysis of Technological Innovation Challenges (SIMPATIC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The objective of SIMPATIC is to provide policy makers with a comprehensive and operational tool box allowing for a better assessment of the impact of research and innovation policies in Europe. SIMPATIC represents a unique bottom-up project proposal, bringing together micro and macro researchers with expertise in evidence-based policy analysis and impact assessment of research and innovation poli ...
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Tackling socioeconomic inequalities in smoking: learning from natural experiments by time trend analyses and cross-national comparisons (SILNE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

For any strategy aimed to reduce socioeconomic inequities in health in Europe it is vital to tackle the large and widening inequalities in smoking. However, there is only limited evidence on effectiveness of tobacco control policies in terms of reducing inequalities. Especially lacking are evaluations of the effects of policies that have actually been implemented in different European countries. I ...
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European Nuclear Science and Applications Research (ENSAR)

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

ENSAR is the Integrating Activity of Nuclear Scientists from almost all European countries performing research in three of the major subfields of Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Astrophysics and Applications of Nuclear Science. It proposes an optimised ensemble of Networking (NAs), Transnational Access and Joint Research Activities (JRAs), which will ensure qualitative and quantitative ...
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Peptide-based Nanoparticles as Ocular Drug Delivery Vehicles (PANOPTES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

"This project will develop methodology for the manufacture of novel peptide-based nanoparticles and nanocapsules to satisfy an unmet clinical need: sustained drug delivery to the posterior segment of the eye. The proposed consortium brings together internationally leading groups in self-assembling polypeptide nanoparticle and nanocapsule preparation by chemical (Durham) and genetic (Nijmegen) appr ...
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ROBOT FLEETS FOR HIGHLY EFFECTIVE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY MANAGEMENT (RHEA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

In the last two decades, a precise management of agricultural land has been made possible due to the availability of new technologies, including global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), sensors, automation of agricultural machinery, and high resolution image sensing. As a result, the concept of Precision Agriculture has emerged as the management strategy that uses in ...
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Systematic analysis of factors controlling meiotic recombination in higher plants (MEIOsys)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Meiotic recombination has underpinned plant breeding for the generation of new traits of agronomic, environmental and economic importance, although we still have little understanding of the controlling mechanisms involved in this process. We will combine approaches in genomics and systems biology to obtain a detailed understanding of the factors that control recombination and will provide a basis ...
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Equilibrium properties and kinetics of self-assembly of anisotropic colloids and molecular liquids (ANISOKINEQ)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"The proposed research project aims to studyself-assembly of new materials made of anisotropic colloids as building blocks and to unravel the mechanism of crystallization in molecular liquids, such as water.The last few decades have seen a huge growth in the research on novel soft materials to be exploited in nanotechnology, and an efficient route to build them is to make use of self-assembly. Th ...
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"Development of Vaccines for bTV, EHDV and AHSV" (ORBIVAC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"The major outstanding challenges of orbivirus vaccine research is to develop vaccines that can afford a broad protective immune response against as many serotypes of each virus as possible, and to develop a high throughput DIVA assay (e.g. an ELISA). This project will use a coordinated multipartner approach to address these issues, to develop new experimental prototype vaccines and diagnostic app ...
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Development of strategic research and engineering roadmaps in Systems of Systems Engineering and related case studies (Road2SoS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The emerging System-of-Systems (SoS) concept describes the large scale integration of many independent self-contained systems to satisfy global needs or multiple requests. The increasing number of interacting (mostly embedded) systems in our strongly connected society and industry as well as the growing overall complexity of systems have triggered a paradigm shift and the need to enhance the class ...
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Nanoelectronics: Concepts, Theory and Modelling (NanoCTM)

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

The NanoCTM network will tackle major challenges in the theory of nanoelectronics. Ten internationally-leading European theory-of-condensed-matter groups from nine different countries [including one of Europe’s leading industrial electronics-research groups (QinetiQ)] have joined forces as full participants, combining theoretical expertise in nanowires, quantum dots, carbon-based electronics, and ...
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Fronts and Interfaces in Science and Technology (FIRST)

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

Space-time phenomena giving rise to fronts and interfaces are central issues in many contexts of Science and Technology. A selection of some of the most challenging ones, most often of multi-disciplinary character, will be pursued by a team of 10 Full Partner Members (8 universities of different countries and two industries, Guigues Environnement (France) and Siemens (Germany)) with the help of 4 ...
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Building service testbeds on FIRE (BonFIRE)

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

Description BonFIRE will design, build and operate a multi-site Cloud prototype FIRE facility to support research across applications, services and systems at all stages of the R&D lifecycle, targeting the services research community on Future Internet.The BonFIRE vision is to give researchers in these areas access to a facility that support ...
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The physics of Ion Coulomb Crystals: Thermodynamics, Quantum control, and Quantum Simulators (PICC)

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

In the quest for the realization of quantum information processors, trapped ions occupy a prominent position. The challenge of realizing large-scale processors and quantum simulators based on ions will, however, require that one deals with more complex structures, which may include mesoscopic ordered ion ensembles, i.e., ion Coulomb crystals. In this regime, it is expected that the effect of noise ...
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Wind Resource Assessment Audit and Standardization (WAUDIT)

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

"The objective of WAUDIT is the generation of a pool of researchers, in the field of wind resource assessment, in order to support the technological development of wind energy as one of the fastest growing industries worldwide (annual increase rate of 20%). The scientific motivation of the project is grounded on current state-of-the-art at industrial level. A technical audit to industry provides t ...
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DISCOVER THE COSMOS: e-Infrastructures for an Engaging Science Classroom (Discover the COSMOS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

The Discover the COSMOS coordination action aims to demonstrate innovative ways to involve teachers and students in eScience through the use of existing e-infrastructures in order to spark young people's interest in science and in following scientific careers. It aims to support policy development by a) demonstrating effective community building between researchers, teachers and students and empow ...
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Building the PaaS Cloud of the Future (4CaaST)

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

To survive in today's economy; short time-to-market and efficiency are paramount for the creation of innovative products and to survive in the current economic climate. This is especially true for IT services which will dominate the way people work and live in the future.Cloud computing is essentially changing the way services are built, provided and consumed. Despite simple access to Clouds, buil ...
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"Developing European standards for bee pollen and royal jelly: quality, safety and authenticity" (APIFRESH)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"The competitiveness of the European beekeeping sector is progressively falling due to the reduction of beekeepers’ production as a direct consequence of decrease in bee population, implying lower economies of scale, underutilised resources and higher relative production costs. In addition, beekeeping products produced in countries with much lower quality standards, even sometimes adulterated with ...
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