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Improving the resistance of legume crops to combined abiotic and biotic stress (ABSTRESS)

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

ABSTRESS applies combined, integrated systems biology and comparative genomics approaches to conduct a comprehensive study of the gene networks implicated in the interaction of drought stress and Fusarium infection in legumes. It uses Medicago truncatula as a model to rapidly identify characteristics for introgression into elite pea varieties and a field test of their performance against existing ...
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PRACE - Third Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-3IP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

PRACE-3IP supports the accelerated implementation of the pan-European HPC Research Infrastructure (RI) created in April 2010. It continues, complements, and extends the work of the PRACE-1IP and -2IP projects.PRACE-3IP addresses the computational and simulation needs of European scientific communities and of industry to keep them at the forefront of discovery. Our vision is the formation of an int ...
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Proton Ionization Molecular Mass Spectrometry (PIMMS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

"The need for quantitative and fast identification of trace gaseous compounds in complex chemical matrices continuously pushes the limits of analytical chemistry in many areas of relevance to the EU, including food, health, the environment, and security. A relatively new broad-based and rapidly growing analytical technique, proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS), combines excellent c ...
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INVISIBLES

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

"NEUTRINOS AND DARK MATTER are the most abundant particles in the universe and yet they remained unnoticed -invisible- for a long time, due to their tenuous couplings to the ordinary matter we are composed of.Neutrino masses inferred from neutrino oscillations and the existence of dark matter constitute the first evidence ever of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. A wide experimental prog ...
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BRilliant Industrial Diode LasEr (BRIDLE)

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

The BRIDLE project seeks to harness the power and efficiency of diode lasers to develop an affordable direct diode laser source for industrial applications requiring the cutting and welding of sheet metal. Specifically, BRIDLE's diode laser will have a power >2kW from a 100um diameter (NA 40%. (This is ~2.5x more powerful, 10x brighter and 1.7x more efficient than the best spectral beam combined d ...
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Statistical Physics Approaches to Networks Across Disciplines (NETADIS)

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

"Networks are ubiquitous in all aspects of human existence. They manifest themselves in everyday life, they underpin the most advanced information and communication technologies, and they provide a powerful framework for addressing a wide spectrum of complex problems in the natural sciences, in engineering, and in economics and the social sciences. Networks, network-related science, and network-ba ...
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Coherent Information Processing in Rare-earth Ion doped Solids (CIPRIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Rare-earth ions (lanthanides) play an increasingly important role in modern optical technologies. Lanthanides are extensively used in solid-state laser physics, e.g. as key components in telecommunication networks. Rare-earths are also employed as luminescent materials in lamps or as radiation detectors in X-ray imaging. Rare-earths are already commercially omnipresent.However, the full potential ...
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Zebrafish Regulomics for Human Health (ZF-HEALTH)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

In recent years, the zebrafish has emerged as a new vertebrate model organism for biomedical research which offers a unique combination of traits: a short generation time, small size and efficient breeding procedures make it the best choice among vertebrates for forward genetic screening and small-molecule screens, including toxicology, while the transparent embryo and larva offers unique opportun ...
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Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications # (NEWCOM#)

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

NEWCOM# is a Network of Excellence (NoE) proposal submitted in response to challenge FP7-ICT-2011-8 1.1, "Future Networks". A group of 14 partners in 14 different countries (12 of which come from the former FP7 NoE NEWCOM++) decided to capitalize on the high degree of integration in research they already at-tained to build an NoE with the following objectives: i) to produce medium to long term res ...
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Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems (ECLAIRE)

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

ÉCLAIRE investigates the ways in which climate change alters the threat of air pollution on European land ecosystems including soils. Based on field observations, experimental data and models, it establishes new flux, concentration and dose-response relationships, as a basis to inform future European policies.Starting with biosphere-atmosphere exchange measurements, ÉCLAIRE quantifies how global w ...
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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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Systems Biology of Mitosis (MitoSys)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

"MitoSys will generate a comprehensive mathematical understanding of mitotic division in human cells, a process of fundamental importance for human health. To create the critical mass and multidisciplinarity that is needed to achieve this ambitious goal, internationally leading mathematicians, biochemists/biophysicists and biologists working at twelve universities, research institutes, internation ...
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NeuGRID for you: expansion of NeuGRID services and outreach to new user communities (N4U)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Unprecedented growth in the accessibility of imaging data of persons with brain diseases has led to the development of computational infrastructures offering scientists access to image databases and e-Science services. FP7 neuGRID is the leading e-Infrastructure where neuroscientists can find core services and resources for brain image analysis. "neuGRID for Users" (N4U) will provide an e-Science ...
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Governing ultrafast the conductivity of correlated materials (GO FAST)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The aim of this research project is to develop novel schemes to study electronic, optical and structural properties of correlated materials driven out of equilibrium , in view of achieving an ultrafast optical control of their electronic properties. In particular, we will extend the most advanced techniques for correlated systems, i.e. Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) and the Gutzwiller variatio ...
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Correlated Multielectron Dynamics in Intense Light Fields (CORINF)

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

Application of intense light fields opens the opportunity to image structures and dynamics of individual molecules with the combination of sub-Angstrom spatial and attosecond temporal resolution. However, intense light fields inevitably excite complex dynamics. The success of imaging techniques depends on our understanding of these largely unknown dynamics, creating demand for the theory of comple ...
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Atopic diseases in changing climate, land use and air quality (ATOPICA)

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

There is an urgent need to understand how global and regional climate, land use and air quality changes will impact human health. Our consortium constitutes an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to explore the combined pan-European impact of changes in climate, land use and air pollution on allergen pollen-induced diseases through a chain of quantitative physical and statistical models. We ...
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TreatPolyQ – Industrial Academic Initial Training Network towards treatment of Polyglutamine Diseases (TREATPOLYQ)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many late onset neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), prion diseases as well as the group of polyglutamine diseases (polyQ). The aim of this proposal is to create a network of European partners bridging important basic mechanisms involved in proteinopathies, research of mod ...
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"Neutralizing antibodies against botulinum toxins A,B,E" (ANTIBOTABE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), the most toxic substances known, are susceptible for use as bioweapons (listed as class A agents by CDC). Currently licensed animal derived antibodies or F(ab’)2 preparations, are at a high risk of inducing adverse effects and their privately-owned stockpiles are limited. In this project, we will target the most lethal types of BoNTs: A (subtypes A1 and A2), B (B1 a ...
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European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE)

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

Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is becoming increasing dependent on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage resources linked by high-performance networks).The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transitio ...
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Common Operations of Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

"Frontier environmental research increasingly depends on a wide range of data and advanced capabilities to process and analyse them. The ENVRI project, “Common Operations of Environmental Research infrastructures” is a collaboration in the ESFRI Environment Cluster, with support from ICT experts, to develop common e-science components and services for their facilities. The results will speed up t ...
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Coordination of Research e-Infrastructures Activities Toward an International Virtual Environment for Biodiversity (CReATIVE-B)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

ESFRI initiatives with a need to work on a global scale will have to collaborate with international comparable partners. The CReATIVE-B project will seek to support the interaction between the LifeWatch ESFRI Research Infrastructure with RI on biodiversity and ecosystems research in other parts of the world. The immediate objective is to define a road map for interoperability on the technological ...
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PRACE - Second Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-2IP)

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

PRACE-2IP supports the accelerated implementation of the pan-European HPC Research Infrastructure created in April 2010 as the result of the preparatory phase PRACE project. It complements and extends the work of the PRACE-1IP project that was started in July 2010.PRACE-2IP addresses the computational and simulation needs of European scientific communities to keep them at the forefront of discover ...
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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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Next Generation Hybrid Interfaces for Spintronic Applications (HINTS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

The development of conceptually new materials following a “double beyond” trend, that is going “beyond CMOS” with “beyond silicon” materials, is one of the most challenging issues for the next generation of products for Information and Communication applications. Future devices for information processing able to increase the public wealth and occupation require a further material downscaling, toge ...
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Statistical Mechanics Inspired Methods for Green Autonomous\nNetworking (STAMINA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

STAMINA will leverage statistical physics inspired methods to deliver a novel foundational framework for managing complexity in information network mega-structures and for efficientlly solving large-scale network optimization problems that are intractable by classical methods.Recent success stories like the effective decoding of LDPC codes in information theory support the great promise of the app ...
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Control of reproductive behaviors in an equatorial sub-oscine bird: Implication for biodiversity studies (LIPAUGUS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"Although birds are the best studied vertebrate group, most studied species are endemic to the temperate zones while about half of all bird species life in the tropics. Further, among the tropical species many belong to the so-called sub-oscine passerines while the temperate zones are dominated by their sister group, the oscines or songbirds. The knowledge of the biodiversity of reproduction mecha ...
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PRACE - First Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-1IP)

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

Large scale simulations are the third pillar of science today alongside theory and experiment. They produce scientific insights, technological advances, and solve problems in many fields of society. Their tools are high-end computers and effective software. PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing, has been created as a not for profit association in May 2010 as a permanent pan-European High P ...
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Magnetic Nanowires for High Density Non Volatile Memories (MAGWIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Fast, high capacity, low form factor and low power non-volatile memories are a crucial enabler of today's ICT. They are already an important part of all electronic systems, representing a growing market segment, and should increase their importance in the future en route towards the "Storage everywhere" society. The market today is divided between Flash NAND and hard disk, which both face severe l ...
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Novel multifunctional cyclodextrin-based nanocarriers for drug encapsulation and delivery as a strategy to overcome current therapeutic drawbacks (CYCLON)

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

"There is a high demand for the development of new drug delivery strategies to combat major diseases in our society, particularly cancer. Current treatments are based on high efficacy drugs, however their non-selective uptake by both normal and tumor cells as well as the development of multidrug resistance (MDR), constitute major hurdles. Resistance is also associated with the use of nucleoside an ...
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Logarithmic conformal field theory as a duality between Brauer-type algebras and quantum groups at roots of unity (LCFTdual)

Start date: Sep 18, 2011, End date: Sep 17, 2013,

This project concerns the little studied class of logarithmic two-dimensional conformal field theories (LCFTs) - with unusual properties such as non-unitarity and non-semisimplicity. LCFTs have applications in statistical mechanics (sand-piles, percolation, polymers, disordered electrons) and in the AdS/CFT conjecture. They have come under increased interest in the mathematical physics com ...
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ACcess To Micro-Optics Expertise, Services and Technologies (ACTMOST)

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

Micro-optics holds tremendous potential for SMEs and large companies to develop competitive products and to boost product innovation. Micro-optics however continuously requires advanced knowledge as well as a complex technology supply chain, which are very often not affordable. This project targets to pro-actively provide companies with timely, cost-effective, investment-free Access to a unique "o ...
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Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States - Initial Training Network (FACETS-ITN) (FACETS-ITN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

FACETS-ITN is a research and training network involving partners from 11 universities and research centres, 3 industrial companies and 1 semi-industrial research centre from 6 European countries. It combines competencies in neurobiology, computational neuroscience, information science, physics and electrical engineering. The scientific goal is to experimentally and theoretically explore the struct ...
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Neurobiological Mechanisms of Memory Loss in Alzheimer's Disease (MEMOLOAD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"The MEMOLOAD project will focus on the molecular and biological mechanisms underlying memory loss that occurs in Alzheimer’s disease, the leading cause of dementia and an enormous medical, social and economic challenge to Europe. Several lines of evidence point to accumulation of beta-amyloid peptide (Aß) in the brain as the key pathologic event in the disease. There is growing evidence that ...
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Synchrony among Neighbor Neurons in Cerebellum (SYNC)

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

"The scientific objective of the proposal is to investigate the role of synchronous activity in local neuronal networks of the Cerebellum in motor coordination and learning. Specifically, we will test whether synchronous Complex Spike activity in neighboring Purkinje cells encodes errors guiding motor adaptation during locomotion in mice. This investigation is made possible by a novel fluorescence ...
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Quantum Repeaters for Long Distance Fibre-Based Quantum Communication (QuRep)

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

The goal of QuRep is to develop a Quantum Repeater - the elementary building block required to overcome current distance limitations for long-distance quantum communication. Quantum Repeaters are the analogue of classical optical amplifiers that permit the cascading of successive fibre optic communication links. Quantum Repeater technology is centred around quantum light-matter interactions at the ...
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Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2013,

Description The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE), 2008-2013, served as a rallying point and source of best-practice information for the VPH community.  This role has now has been passed to the VPH Institute (http://www.vph-institute.org/).  The tools and educational/outreach materials developed by the VPH NoE – and ...
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Novel si/miRNAs in epigenetic regulation of salt stress responses in M. truncatula (MEDEPIMIR)

Start date: May 9, 2011, End date: May 8, 2013,

"The lifestyle of plants requires them to constantly adapt their growth and development to environmental variation. While highly related plants coding transcriptome are conservated, the non-protein-coding RNA (npcRNA) trascriptome diverges during evolution and within species. It is known that npcRNA can modificate spatio-temporal gene expression patterns, and play a key role in developmental adapt ...
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Spin triplet proximity effect and spin-injection in High Tc superconductor/ferromagnetic hybrids (PIXIE)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"This proposal is dedicated to hybrid systems combining High-Tc superconductors (HTCS) with (oxide or not) ferromagnets (FM). This project aims at experimentally underpinning the microscopic mechanisms of interaction between HTCS and FM. Our goals are to understand how the d-wave superconductivity of HTCS diffuses into a FM material (in particular to determine if new quantum states such as spin-tr ...
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Marine Ecosystem Evolution in a Changing Environment (MEECE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

MEECE is a scientific research project which aims to use a combination of data synthesis, numerical simulation and targeted experimentation to further our knowledge of how marine ecosystems will respond to combinations of multiple climate change and anthropogenic drivers. With an emphasis on the European Marine Strategy (EMS), MEECE will improve the decision support tools to provide a structured l ...
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Technologies for the Multilingual European Information Society (T4ME Net)

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

Linguistic diversity is a corner stone of our multicultural European society. To preserve this essential asset in the age of the emerging information and knowledge society, Europe needs ICT technologies and applications at affordable costs that• enable communication, collaboration and participation across language boundaries• secure their language users equal access to the information and knowledg ...
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