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Facilitating the Bi-Regional EU-ASEAN Science and Technology Dialog (SEA-EU-NET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

SEA-EU-NET will increase the quality, quantity, profile and impact of the bi-regional S&T cooperation between SEA countries of ASEAN and MS and AS of EU. S&T, essential for a strong knowledge-based economy, underpins policies necessary for governance, and contributes to cohesive social visions and models. S&T excellence also requires global connectivity and an ongoing dialogue. This proposal suppo ...
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EarLy unIverse eXploration with nIRspec (ELIXIR)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"This network proposes to develop European expertise in searches for primeval galaxies and in the extraction of key physical information from deep sky observations, to ensure the maximum scientific return of the European instrument NIRSpec on board the future James Webb Space Telescope that will be launched in 2013. The accomplishment of this goal requires the combined expertise of four different ...
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Co-ordination for optimal decisions in dynamic environments (CODDE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"Everyday actions and social interactions depend on making prompt decisions in a dynamic world. Despite the seeming ease with which we are able to recognise targets for attention and direct our actions, understanding how the brain extracts the key information from the complex input of the natural world to support successful behaviour is one of the greatest open scientific challenges. Meeting this ...
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SCience, Innovation, FIrms and markets in a GLObalized World (SCIFI-GLOW)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

In 2000, EU leaders committed to the objective of making Europe ‘the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs, greater social cohesion and respect for the environment.’ They drew up the ‘Lisbon agenda’ to achieve this goal by 2010. The central strategy was based on policies to encourage investment in knowle ...
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An inquiry into the health and safety at work; a European Union perspective (HEALTHatWORK)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

This proposal aims to review current knowledge and issues related to the economic impact of health at work, to assemble, organise, analyse and synthesise data from national projects and surveys, and to recommend future actions for research and policy development aiming at improving health and safety at work in a changing labour market environment in the European Union in an era of ageing populatio ...
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LiquidPublication:\nInnovating the Scientific Knowledge Object Lifecycle (LiquidPublication)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

This project explores how ICT and the lessons learned from the social Web can be applied to provide a radical paradigm shift in the way scientific knowledge is created, evaluated, and maintained. We argue that the novel technologies can enable a transition of the "scientific paper" form its traditional "solid" form, (i.e. a crystallization in space and time of a scientific knowledge artifact) to a ...
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"Evaluation of Legislation and Related Guidelines on the Procurement, Storage and Transfer of Human Tissues and Cells in the European Union – an Evidence-Based Impact Analysis" (TISS.EU)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"The Tiss.EU project will analyse the impact of current EU legislation and guidelines on biomedical research which is based on the procurement, storage and transfer of human tissues and cells in and across the European Union. The importance of tissue derived from the human body for biomedical research is ever increasing. In the Theme ""Translating research for human health"" of FP7, the EU activel ...
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Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Socio-economic sciences and the Humanities (NET4SOCIETY)

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

A strong and efficient Network of National Contacts Points (NCP) is not only elementary to the success of the Seventh EU Framework Programme but also to the realization of the European Research Area. The trans-national project “NET4SOCIETY” will strive to achieve this declared goal. For its proposed duration of three years, “NET4SOCIETY” will support the creation and establishment of a functional ...
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Unveiling galaxy assembly from next generation photometry (photo-EV)

Start date: Oct 15, 2008, End date: Oct 14, 2010,

The primary goal of this project is to develop a new type of statistical approach to constrain the assembly of the evolving population of galaxies over cosmic time using modern multi-waveband photometric surveys. This work combines uniquely the expertise of: (1) the proposed fellow, in the development and application of state-of-the-art statistical techniques to interpret galaxy spectral energy di ...
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"Competitiveness, Innovation and Intangible Investment in Europe" (COINVEST)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"We aim to understand the contributions of intangible investments to innovation, competitiveness, growth and productivity in Europe. Such a project is, we feel, vital to help EU policy formation and deepen our understanding of some of the most crucial questions facing EU economic policy. The reason is simple. Currently, (almost all) intangible investments are either not measured, or treated as an ...
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Conflict Management, Cross-border relations and the Struggle for maritime Hegemony in the North Atlantic (XVIth-XVIIth centuries) (Maritime Hegemony)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

War between the French and Spanish crowns, the two Grand Powers of the sixteenth century, had important consequences in shaping collective identities and cross-border relations of frontier communities of both monarchies. That was the case of the Basque maritime provinces of Guipúzcoa in Spain, and Labourd in France. The hostility between these two frontier communities was not limited to the border ...
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Global System Dynamics and Policies: \nsimulation and visualisation technologies (GSD)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

Society currently faces a set of new challenges that are both global in scale and highly dynamic. Some of the most critical are: climate change, energy, security, the spread of new diseases such as HIV and the continued devastating effects of old diseases, such as malaria. These issues involve resources and impacts which no single group in society controls, but which affect all people worldwide. T ...
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PREPARATORY PHASE PROJECT FOR A MAJOR UPGRADE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVES (CESSDA) RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE (CESSDA-PPP)

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

"This proposal for a major upgrade to the CESSDA Research Infrastructure is a response to the general principles and vision set out in the 2004 Blueprint for the European Research Obsrvatory for the Humanities and Social Science and will meet the goals set out in that report to ‘strengthen interdisciplinary and cross-border collaboration and comparative research on a European dimension… enhance th ...
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