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The physical basis of cellular mechanochemical control circuits (CellMechanoControl)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

Biological cells possess a chemical “sense of smell” and a physical “sense of touch”. Structure, dynamics, development, differentiation and even apoptosis of cells are guided by physical stimuli feeding into a regulatory network integrating biochemical and mechanical signals. Cells are equipped with both, force-generating structures, and stress sensors including force-sensitive structural proteins ...
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Network for Cloud Computing Eco-System (CleanSky)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

With the increasing demand for cloud computing services and rapid development and advances in data center techniques, cloud computing is moving from small data centers towards a large scale, highly efficient new computing infrastructure with low cost. The proposed CleanSky network is intended to provide a stimulating and structured platform for the training of young researchers, for the developmen ...
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European Identity, Cultural Diversity and Political Change (EUINDEPTH)

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

The strategic objective of the whole FP7 is to support research in all areas, including the Science in Society. The major goal of the Seventh Framework Programme for research and Technological Development is to keep the EU as a world leader. The European identity, cultural diversity and political changes could be the key issue in the encouragement of societal dialog on research policy, stimulating ...
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Novel activity-based proteome and lipidome profiling of Arabidopsis in response to a changing environment: An opportunity to identify new key players in plant lipid metabolism (LIPIDQUEST)

Start date: Feb 28, 2013, End date: Dec 26, 2017,

LIPIDQUEST is based on new cutting edge developments in the area of proteomics and mass spectrometry and focuses on identifying new key players in lipid biology in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Short term output will advance our understanding of lipid biosynthesis and turnover and has the potential to contribute to medical applications; ultimately, such research will increase the world’s c ...
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The Value Chain from Microalgae to PUFA (PUFAChain)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The overall goal of the project is to develop a robust scientific and technological basis for substan-tiating strategic and technical decisions for the industrial development of high-value products from algae. This shall contribute to develop this new and sustainable resource for market. The concept of the proposal is strictly oriented to the value chain of microalgae. Starting at the very end of ...
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Plant adaptation to heavy metal and radioactive pollution (PLANT DNA TOLERANCE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Anthropogenic activities continue to impact the environment causing soil and ground water contamination in many regions and the effects are often persistent especially where heavy metals and radioactive substances have been released. Ecological problems can be particularly severe in the case of atomic power facilities and recent occurrences (Japan) indicate that the Chernobyl incident in 1986 was ...
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"High resolution monitoring, real time visualization and reliable modeling of highly controlled, intermediate and up-scalable size pilot injection tests of underground storage of CO2" (TRUST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"TRUST aims at conducting CO2 injection experiments at scales large enough so that the output can be extrapolated at industrial scales. It relies on four sites: the heavily instrumented sites of Heletz (Israel, main site) and Hontomin (Spain), access Miranga (Brazil) and the emerging site in the Baltic Sea region. The objectives are to: carry out CO2 injection with different strategies, displaying ...
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Development of improved perennial non-food biomass and bioproduct crops for water stressed environments (WATBIO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"The goal of WATBIO is to use the power of next generation sequencing to develop an accelerated route for producing new germplasm with enhanced drought tolerance whilst maintaining biomass productivity and quality in water scarce, marginal environments unsuitable for food crops.This will be achieved for three non-food crops (Populus, Miscanthus and Arundo), suitable for growth on water scarce, mar ...
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Vitrified Metals Technologies and Applications in Devices and Chemistry (VitriMetTech)

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

VitriMetTech aims at educating a group of young researchers to implement methods for cutting edge research on new metallic glasses (e.g. Fe, Mg, Al, Ti-based), also in bulk form, and their amorphous/crystalline composites, for functional, bio-mechanical, chemical and structural micro-part applications. Transfer of results to industrial companies will boost innovation in a part of the Metal sector ...
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Quantitative Biology for Fungal Secondary Metabolite Producers (QuantFung)

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

QuantFung represents the first European training platform for the production of novel bioactive compounds based on fungal synthetic biology. The ITN will train 11 early-stage (ESR) and 4 experienced researchers (ER) as new problem-solving, creative European scientists in interdisciplinary and intersectorial biotechnological research ranging from modelling, network analysis, systems biology (genomi ...
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Sensing and integration of signals governing cell polarity and tropism in fungi (FUNGIBRAIN)

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

"Cell polarity and directed growth (tropism) are fundamental biological processes. Most fungi are dependent on these processes because they grow as polarised filaments called hyphae, whose growth and developmentare governed by physical and chemical cues from the environment. Such cues include surface-contact, light, nutrients, mating partners, host organisms, or ‘self’ hyphae from within the fung ...
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Sustainable Catalytic C-H Bond Functionalization (CatCHFun)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The impressive progress in synthetic organic chemistry during the past century has propelled this discipline to its current central place as the key enabling technology in the physical and life sciences. Despite these remarkable advances, our ability to construct molecules of even moderate structural complexity remains unsatisfactory, since these syntheses continue to be inefficient, rely on a hig ...
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Activation of Hydrogen by Organic Frustrated Lewis Pairs. Applications in catalysis (Frustrated Hydrogen)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2017,

Activation of H2 is typically a domain of transition metal catalysis -even nature uses metal-centred reactions for this process. However, very recently Stephan and Erker have described metal free systems able to activate dihydrogen by the use of Frustrated Lewis Pairs (FLP), a combination of sterically hindered Lewis acids and Lewis bases that for this geometric reason are not able to quench each ...
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Heliospheric Cataloguing, Analysis and Techniques Service (HELCATS)

Start date: Apr 25, 2014, End date: May 1, 2017,

The advent of wide-angle imaging of the inner heliosphere has revolutionised the study of the solar wind and, in particular, transient solar wind structures such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and Co-rotating Interaction Regions (CIRs). CMEs comprise enormous plasma and magnetic field structures that are ejected from the Sun and propagate at what can be immense speeds through interplanetary spac ...
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Towards improving biofuel production - Oil synthesis and accumulation pathways in promising oleaginous microalgae (ALGAEOILSYNTH)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The AlgaeOilSynth project aims at identification and characterization of oil synthesis and accumulation pathways in two promising oleaginous microalgae - Nannochloropsis oceanica and Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Photosynthetic microalgae are promising biofuel resource and can provide sufficient liquid fuels on a few per cent of available land when compared to plants. The key feature of oleaginous mi ...
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Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics (PERICLES)

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

A new approach is needed to ensure that the digital objects created today are available and useful for future generations of users. As scientific, engineering, and media assets and their related metadata are generated across different lifecycle phases, in a continually evolving environment, the concept of a fixed and stable "final" version becomes less relevant. The highly dynamic and complex digi ...
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Advanced Multidisciplinary Training in Molecular Bacteriology (AMBER)

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

"The advancement in life sciences has created a growing number of disciplines that are required to elucidate the increasingly complicated biological questions. This has led to an unsurpassed level of knowledge, but it has also resulted in a continuous specialization in PhD trainings, which makes the students less prepared for complex present day biological questions. To provide a better comprehens ...
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Linking Sino-European Research Institutions in the Mobile Cloud Computing Era (MOBILECLOUD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Mobile Cloud Computing emerges as a new computing paradigm where mobile devices exploit the available cloud computing platform for performing specific tasks and/or accessing data on demand rather than on the individual devices themselves. A key element missing in current mobile cloud computing design is the need of sufficient consideration on mobile network bandwidth availability and energy consum ...
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Training Network for Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC Physics (MCnetITN)

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

We propose a multi-site ITN consisting of 8 Full and 3 Associated Partners that will deliver a total of 500 ESR-months of training in the physics and techniques of Monte Carlo event generators to a total of at least 15 long-term and 40 short-term appointed researchers.Monte Carlo event generators are central to high energy particle physics. They are used by almost all experimental collaborations t ...
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Development of new wavelength standards for the search for habitable planets (WAVELENGTH STANDARDS)

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

"The search for extrasolar planets is moving into the domain of Earth-like, habitable planets with more precise measurement techniques and a focus on low-mass, very cool stars. New spectrographs are being developed with the goal to find Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of stars other than the Sun. Extensive photometric programs, both ground- and space-based are running and being planned t ...
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Computational Lithography for Directed Self-Assembly: Materials, Models and Processes (CoLiSA.MMP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers is one of the most promising techniques to enable the continued miniaturization of ICs and to boost the performance in More Moore. It combines top-down photolithography for creation of guiding patterns with engineered new materials and processes to facilitate cost effective bottom-up techniques for pattern density multiplication and defect rectifica ...
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PRACTICE: Privacy-Preserving Computation in the Cloud (PRACTICE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The traditional computing paradigm is experiencing a fundamental shift: organizations no longer completely control their own data, but instead hand it to external untrusted parties - cloud service providers, for processing and storage. There currently exist no satisfactory approach to protect data during computation from cloud providers and from other users of the cloud.PRACTICE has assembled the ...
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FACILITATE OPEN SCIENCE TRAINING FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH (FOSTER)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

FOSTER is a coordination initiative that aims to support different stakeholders, especially young researchers, in adopting open access in the context of the European Research Area (ERA) and in complying with the open access policies and rules of participation set out for Horizon 2020 (H2020). It will focus on integrating open access principles and practice in the current research workflow by targe ...
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Learning and Execution of Action Categories (ACAT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Description ACAT focuses on the problem of how artificial systems (robots) can understand and utilize information made for humans. The ultimate purpose of ACAT is to equip a robot – on an on-going basis – with abstract, functional knowledge about relations between actions and objects, leading to a system which can act meaningfully. The robot ...
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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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Architecture and Applications of Green Information Centric Networking (GreenICN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a new paradigm where the network provides users with named content, instead of communication channels between hosts. Research on ICN is at an early stage, with many key issues still open, including naming, routing, resource control, security, privacy and a migration path from the current Internet. Also missing for efficient information dissemination is seaml ...
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Collaborative EuropeaN Digital/Archival Infrastructure (CENDARI)

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

The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) will provide and facilitate access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history through the development of an ‘enquiry environment’. This environment will increase access to records of historic importance across the European Research Area, creating a powerful new platform for a ...
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Robots Bootstrapped through Learning from Experience (Xperience)

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

Description Xperience will implement a complete robot system for automating introspective, predictive, and interactive understanding of actions and dynamic situations based on structural bootstrappingHumans are able to rapidly create new concepts and react to unanticipated situations using their experience. They use generative mechanisms, ...
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Innovative biological products for soil pest control (INBIOSOIL)

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

"INBIOSOIL is a timely project that proposes novel eco-efficient environmentally friendly technologies substantially contributing to the reduced input of conventional chemical pesticides for the control of subterranean crop pests of global economic importance. This would be accomplished through the generation of new formulations of biological control agents (BCAs) based on entomopathogenic fungi ...
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Innovative Paper Packaging Products for European SMEs Based on Functional Modification of Recovered Fibres (FIBRE+)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The project's objective is the creation of an innovative process based on modification of recovered fibres to be used to produce new functional packaging products with high level of standardization in EU, reducing the need of the sector for virgin fibres and supporting the competitiveness of the SMEs in EU packaging sector, through:- study and develop potential treatments for recovered fibre modif ...
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Optimization and its Applications in Learning and Industry (OPTALI)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The aim of our proposal is to enhance and extend existing networks with the goal to develop and transfer optimization models and solution techniques from theory to practice.Since this step is often neglected in academic optimization theory there is the need to motivate research by real world problems in order to bridge the current gap between theory and practice. Each of the participating sites r ...
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Analytic Number Theory: Higher Order Structures (ANTHOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

This is a proposal for research at the interface of analytic number theory, automorphic forms and algebraic geometry. Motivated by fundamental conjectures in number theory, classical problems will be investigated in higher order situations: general number fields, automorphic forms on higher rank groups, the arithmetic of algebraic varieties of higher degree. In particular, I want to focus on- comp ...
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Understanding and coping with food markets voLatilitY towards more Stable World and EU food SystEmS (ULYSSES)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

The literature published in the last 3 years trying to explain agricultural markets instability during 2007-2009 offers inconclusive results about its causes and impacts. On balance, available scientific evidence gives insufficient guidance for prioritizing policy initiatives, and for effectively averting and mitigating new food crises. Based on an integrated approach, Project ULYSSES seeks to pro ...
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"RESPECT – Rules, Expectations & Security through Privacy-Enhanced Convenient Technologies" (RESPECT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

"Convenience and cost-effectiveness are the two key considerations for both citizens and security forces when deciding which technologies to embrace or avoid in the Information Society. State actors and private corporations adopt information communication technologies (ICTs) because they are cost-effective. The motivation for adoption may be different in the private and public sectors but once ado ...
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Near Hydrodynamic Type Systems in 2 +1 Dimensions (HYDRON)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

"Systems of hydrodynamic type are first-order quasi-linear PDEs (partial differential equations). Their solutions are generically singular. As certain limits of more general nonlinear PDEs, modelling e.g. the evolution of physical systems, they describe critical phenomena, like shock waves. An embedding in (or deformation to) a more general nonlinear PDE typically ""regularises"" such a critical p ...
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European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)

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

In the year the world commemorates the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project sets out to support research into the Holocaust. EHRI’s main objective is to support the European Holocaust research community and help initiate new levels of collaborative research through the development of innovative methodologies, research guides a ...
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Environment for Human Exploration and RObotic Experimentation in Space (eHEROES)

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

The consortium e-HEROES aims at exploiting the existing data gathered on severalEuropean and international space missions, and to produce new value-added dataproducts to provide the best estimate and prediction of the threats thatmissions of exploration will encounter in reaching beyond the Earth orbit, tothe Moon, to Mars and beyond. The scope of the project is to characterise theenvironment in s ...
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Compatibility of Agricultural Management Practices and Types of Farming in the EU to enhance Climate Change Mitigation and Soil Health (CATCH-C)

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

The Catch-C project assesses the farm-compatibility of ‘Best Management Practices’ (BMPs) that aim to promote productivity, climate change mitigation, and soil quality. These are the three overall goals of sustainable soil management. Catch-C will first (WP2) set up a typology of the main farm types and agro-ecological zones across Europe. This frame, coupled to a pan-European database of socio-ec ...
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Predicting and monitoring the long-term behavior of CO2 injected in deep geological formations (PANACEA)

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

PANACEA aims at developing methods and tools for improved prediction and validation of the long-term behavior of sequestered CO2. The objectives are to: 1) Identify and quantify the factors responsible for the long-term stability of the stored CO2, thus requiring a clear understanding of the dynamics of the injected CO2, chemical interactions with the host rock, and the evolution in time of its pa ...
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2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIREplus)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

OpenAIREplus will build a 2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure by significantly expanding in several directions the outcomes of the OpenAIRE project, which implements the EC Open Access (OA) pilot. Capitalizing on the OpenAIRE infrastructure, built for managing FP7 and ERC funded articles, and the associated supporting mechanism of the European Helpdesk System, OpenAIREplus will "develop an o ...
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