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Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Long-Term Social Interaction (ALIZ-E)

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

Description From theory to practice: Methods for an adaptive and prolonged child-robot interaction The goal of ALIZ-E is to develop novel methods for developing and testing interactive, mobile robots which will be able to socially interact with human users over extended periods of time, i.e. a pos ...
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Intelligent amputee sockets employing real time advanced photonic sensors for optimum fit and pressure relief through active controls (SMARTSOCKET)

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

SmartSOCKET aims at realizing an intelligent amputee socket with optimum fitting and pressure relief utilizing embedded fiber sensors for strain/shear measurement and countershear actuators for readjusting the pressure map distribution across the knee-socket interface. SmartSOCKET will be the first project addressing fiber sensing configurations in true rehabilitation and biomechanic applications, ...
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Coastal Research Network On Environmental Changes (CREC)

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

Coastal wetlands experience dramatic changes as a consequence of temperature increase, sea level rise, or nutrient accumulation. This has raised great concern about the future fate of such systems, their functioning and services. Conservation policies are in need of new approaches in order to understand the complex feedback mechanisms driving organismic responses to environmental changes, and impr ...
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SOLUTIONS for ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRASTS in COASTAL AREAS (SECOA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Urban settlements, following the economic crisis of the 70s, entered in a process of regional and urban restructuring to gain a new image at the international level. As a result of the renewed economic success new flows of permanent, semi-permanent, temporary and daily “human mobility” followed: (i) for consumption (leisure and tourism), (ii) for production (economic migration). The world competi ...
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Embryonic Stem cell-based Novel Alternative Testing Strategies (ESNATS)

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

"ESNATS aims at developing a novel toxicity test platform based on embryonic stem cells (ESC), especially human ESC (hESC), to accelerate drug development, reduce R&D costs and propose a powerful alternative to animal tests (3 Rs). ESNATS will address current drug-testing shortcomings: - testing takes place late in the development cycle - animal test systems bear the risk of non-prediction due to ...
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Quantum Contextual Information Access and Retrieval (QONTEXT)

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

"The huge number and diversity of the users, the advertising products and services, the rapid growth of online resources have imposed new challenges to the conventional search. Queries are becoming even more broad and complex essentially due to context of the search process (e.g. the system, user, language, the word and action meaning, socio-psychological dimensions, interface and interaction meth ...
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Use of innovative strategies for beta-cell imaging in diabetes mellitus (BetaImage)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The development of sensitive, non-invasive methods for the characterisation and quantification of beta-cell mass would greatly enhance our means for gaining understanding of the pathophysiology of diabetes and allow the development of novel therapies to prevent, halt and reverse the disease. The aim of this project is to develop and apply innovative approaches for beta-cell imaging, the emphasis b ...
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Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment (PRESCIENT)

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

Privacy is a multifaceted concept, a moving target and a salient topic in technology policy-making. PRESCIENT will provide an early identification of privacy and ethical issues arising from emerging technologies and their relevance for EC policy. It will contribute to the quality of research in the field of ethics, by distinguishing between privacy and data protection and analysing the ethical, le ...
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towards a PHOtonic liquid state machine based on delay-CoUpled Systems (PHOCUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The aim of this project is to design and implement a photonics realization of a liquid state machine (LSM), with the potential for versatile and fast signal handling. We target to achieve high computational performance with only a small number of photonics components, using dynamical systems with time delay to realize the required high dimensionality for the LSM. This ambitious aim is motivated by ...
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RISK ASSESSMENT OF ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES (ENPRA)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

Engineered Nanoparticles (ENP) are increasingly produced for use in a wide range of industrial and consumer products. Yet it is known that exposure to some types of particles can cause severe health effects. Therefore it is essential to ascertain whether exposure to ENP can lead to possible health risks for workers and consumers. We have formed a consortium of well-known scientists from European U ...
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Network of Excellence for Biophotonics (PHOTONICS4LIFE)

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

Today Biophotonics is an emerging multidisciplinary research area, embracing all light-based technologies applied to the life sciences and medicine. Enhancing diagnosis, therapy and follow-up care, Biophotonics drives the trend towards personalized medicine and plays a crucial role in limiting health-care costs and appropriately addressing the accelerating challenges associated with population agi ...
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Variable Impedance Actuation Systems Embodying Advanced\nInteraction Behaviours (VIACTORS)

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

Most of today's robots have rigid structures and actuators which require complex software control algorithms and sophisticated sensor systems in order to behave adaptable, compliant, and safe in contact with unknown environments or with humans. Moreover, in terms of energy efficiency, peak force and speed, these robots are still considerably weaker than their biological archetypes. An alternative ...
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Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services (TAS3)

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

The TAS3 (Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services) proposes an Integrated Project that will develop and implement an architecture with trusted services to manage and process distributed personal information. This architecture will be dependable, robust but at the same time also cost-effective and reliable. The personal information that will be processed and managed can consist of any typ ...
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AIRCRAFT INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT II (AISHA II)

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

"The safe use of complex engineering structures such as aircrafts can only be guaranteed when efficient means of damage assessment are in place. Whereas the design of civil structures is nowadays based on a damage tolerance approach and time based inspection cycles, it is envisaged that the large cost associated with this approach can be drastically reduced by switching to a condition based mainte ...
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Infrared Imaging Components for Use in Automotive Safety Applications (ICU)

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

The objective of ICU is to develop the core photonic components for a Far Infrared (FIR) camera module aimed at high volume automotive Night Vision Enhancement Systems (NVE) of the future. FIR imaging provides a high-contrast signal for warm (living) objects. This makes FIR systems very attractive for the detection of living objects and thereby helping to reduce fatalities and injuries. However, t ...
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Evolutionary epistemology applied to universal symbiogenesis and universal punctuated equilibrium (EEUSUP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"Evolutionary theory currently extends the biological realm because it is applied to the humanities, leading to new disciplines such as evolutionary archaeology, evolutionary linguistics and evolutionary psychology. These disciplines are characterized by a universal selectionist approach, i.e. mostly the theory of natural selection is applied to study phenomena such as cognition, language and the ...
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Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment (GRAPPLE)

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

Description GRAPPLE has delivered a truly generic and extensible technical infrastructure to support life-long adaptive learningProject GoalTo deliver to learners a technology-enhanced learning environment that guides them through a life-long learning experience, automatically adapting to personal preferences, prior knowledge, skills and ...
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Artificial Language Evolution on Autonomous Robots (ALEAR)

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

This tightly integrated focused project aims at fundamental breakthroughs in understanding and synthesising the mechanisms achieving cognition and language. It engages in carefully controlled experiments in which autonomous humanoid robots self-organise rich conceptual frameworks and communication systems with similar features as those found in human languages. Language and cognition are seen as c ...
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Copper Interconnects for Advanced Performance and Reliability (CopPeR)

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

The CopPeR project will provide a novel copper deposition process based on the useof non-aqueous solvents to overcome the limitations of currently employedinterconnect formation processes enabling device scaling beyond the 32 nmtechnology node. This non-aqueous process will open novel routes to implementdirect on barrier plating, focussing on tantalum and ruthenium as diffusion barriers.As another ...
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Scientific and technological issues in alternatives research in drug development and Union politics (START-UP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2010,

"Scientific and technological issues in alternatives research in drug development and Union politics START-UP The START-UP project concerns the identification and proposals to abolish bottlenecks in the 3Rs approach in pharmaceutical discovery and development. The goal of the project is organising 3 Workshops to determine the state of the art of each of the 3Rs in the EU, assess European strength ...
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Belgian Researchers Animating Sport and Innovation Links (BRASIL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

"During the night of September 25th, several events will be organized in eight Belgian cities (Brussels (3), Gent, Kortrijk, Liège, Louvain-la-Neuve, Mechelen, Namur and Redu-Transinne) in the frame of the European Researchers’ Night. So, nine partners are cooperating under the coordination of the Belgian Science Policy Office: six universities (Brussels (French- and Flemish speaking), Liège, Louv ...
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SOCIAL ETHICAL AND PRIVACY NEEDS IN ICT FOR OLDER PEOPLE: A DIALOGUE ROADMAP (SENIOR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

SOCIAL ETHICAL AND PRIVACY NEEDS IN ICT FOR OLDER PEOPLE: A DIALOGUE ROADMAP (SENIOR) is a 24 month support action which aims to provide a systematic assessment of the social, ethical, and privacy issues involved in ICT and Ageing, to understand what lessons should be learned from current technological trends, and to plan strategies for governing future trendsThere are three main ideas that led t ...
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