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Infrastructure and integrated tools for personalized learning of reading skill (iRead)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The overarching aim of the iRead project is to develop a software infrastructure of personalised, adaptive technologies and a diverse set of applications for supporting learning and teaching of reading skills. The specific goals of the project proposed are to:1. Develop a scalable, cloud-based software infrastructure of open, interoperable components, including real-time user modelling and domai ...
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HARMONIzation and integrative analysis of regional, national and international Cohorts on primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) towards improved stratification, treatment and health policy making (HarmonicSS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

HarmonicSS vision is to create an International Network and Alliance of partners and cohorts, entrusted with the mission of addressing the unmet needs in primary Sjogren Syndrome; working together to create and maintain a platform with open standards and tools, designed to enable secure storage, governance, analytics, access control and controlled sharing of information at multiple levels along wi ...
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OPtimising thERapy to prevent Avoidable hospital admissions in the Multimorbid elderly (OPERAM)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

Most older adults have multiple chronic diseases (multimorbidity) and multiple medications (polypharmacy). However, multimorbid patients are often excluded from clinical trials and most guidelines address diseases in isolation. Inappropriate drug prescription and poor drug compliance are common and contribute to up to 30% of hospital admissions. OPERAM investigators developed STOPP/START criteria ...
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Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings. An integrated solution for residential building energy storage by solar and geothermal resources (TESSe2b)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

There is a compelling need of encouraging energy efficiency in buildings, enhance green technologies and promote advance thermal energy storage solutions. TESSe2b will enable the optimal use of renewable energy and provide one of the most advantageous solutions for correcting the mismatch that often occurs between the supply and demand of energy in residential buildings. The target of TESSe2b is t ...
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An Advanced Methodology for the Inspection and Quantification of Damage on Aerospace Composites and Metals using an Innovative Approach (CompInnova)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

There is an innovative need for more efficient and reliable damage inspection, reducing time and cost of aircraft infrastructures, as well as maintenance-especially C and D Checks- without compromising the safety of passengers and goods transported. The CompInnova project is focused upon the development of an innovative inspection methodology, with automated and manual capabilities, for any type o ...
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Enhancing water quality by developing novel materials for organic pollutant removal in tertiary water treatments (MAT4TREAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The MAT4TREAT project consists in a consortium of 8 Universities, 5 of them European (UNITO, AAU, POLITO, UPV and UOI), and the other three from outside the EU (UNLP, McGill, SU), as well as two non academic institutions (ACEA and LQT). These groups are committed to work in the development of novel materials to be used in innovative integrated water tertiary treatments (to remove, for instance, E ...
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An Innovative Method for Improving the Structural Integrity using SMA Revolutionary Technology (InnoSMART)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

The project proposes to develop a revolutionary coating that will be able to alter and control the mechanical properties of materials by external stimuli. This novel coating will be able to contribute to the stiffness and rigidity of an elastic metallic structure, to withstand the expected loading conditions safely, to enhance the integrity of a damaged structure and at the same time to protect it ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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mhealth platform for Parkinson’s disease management (PD_manager)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

PD_manager aims to build and evaluate an innovative, mhealth, patient centric ecosystem for Parkinson’s disease (PD) management. The analysis of experts’ diagnostic behaviour and the decomposition of tasks undertaken by the various actors during the disease management will enable the validation of technology against routine clinical judgment measures . Primary motor symptoms such as tremor, bradyk ...
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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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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Real time monitoring of SEA contaminants by an autonomous Lab-on-a-chip biosensor (SEA-on-a-CHIP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

Early warning systems that can provide extreme sensitivity with exquisite selectivity are required to assess chemical contamination of estuarine and coastal areas. SEA-on-a-CHIP aims to develop a miniaturized, autonomous, remote and flexible immuno-sensor platform based on a fully integrated array of micro/nano-electrodes and a microfluidic system in a lab-on-a-chip configuration combined with ele ...
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Location Based Suggestion of Keyword Queries (LBSKQ)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Query suggestion is a recent and important add-on feature of Web search engines (e.g., Google), which helps users to express their information needs precisely. Specifically, given the fact that the user may not be able to find appropriate keywords for her search, the system recommends to her a small set of keyword queries that are likely to match her original intention. As an example, when a user ...
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Incorporating real-life clinical data into drug development (GETREAL)

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

When a new medicine reaches the market, it is accompanied by an extensive data package that provides information about the safety and efficacy of the medicine in a clinical trial setting. However, assessing the expected future value of the medicines when used in “real world” clinical practice requires additional information next to traditional (pre-authorisation) clinical trials. Regulatory, HTA ...
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Development of smart machines, tools and processes for the precision synthesis of nanomaterials with tailored properties for Organic Electronics (Smartonics)

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

The target of the Smartonics project is the development of Pilot lines that will combine smart technologies with smart nanomaterials for the precision synthesis of Organic Electronic (OE) devices.The Smartonics objectives are:1.Development of smart Nanomaterials for OEs (polymer & small molecule films, plasmonic NPs and super-barriers) by process and computational modeling optimization.2.Developme ...
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SELF-HEALING POLYMERS FOR CONCEPTS ON SELF-REPAIRED AERONAUTICAL COMPOSITES (HIPOCRATES)

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

A composite aero-structure with self-repair capabilities will offer durability, extend its service life and prolong maintenance protocols leading to lower aircraft operational costs. Despite the extensive research activities in the area of self-healing resins applied to composite materials, the research for aeronautical applications is currently very limited. To this end, the main objective of HIP ...
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Jointly Mining User Generated Content Sources (JMUGCS)

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

"The advent of web 2.0 empowered users to actively interact with the Web instead of passively consuming web content. Today, Web users contribute content to blogs, wiki sites, review portals, and organize themselves into online social networks where they form relationships post their thoughts and activities, and interact with each other. Individuals can now have a “presence” on the web that goes we ...
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TRAINING TO FARMERS THROUGH SERIOUS GAMES

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The increasing worldwide demand for agricultural products - which is attributable to population growth - has a twofold impact, affecting on the one hand the value of the aforementioned commodities and securing on the other the real agricultural income per labour unit according to Eurostat. Agricultural trade data confirm the specific trends as they showed a net trade of €14.3 Bn for the year 2012. ...
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SMEs & eLEARNING

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

This SMEELEARN Project has as its aim to test and transfer elearning practices that are common in the formal education sector to SMEs in order to address the vocational skills needed to develop and sustain SME growth in Europe. This involved working closely with SMEs employees and managers and VET providers. Research has shown that SMEs have limited resources for offering training and what they re ...
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Environmental POrtfolio for Quality in University Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The project ÉPOQUE promotes a smart specialisation of prospective teachers, scientists and engineers through an environmental portfolio ready to be integrated into the university syllabuses. It creates a new generation of green teachers, green scientists, green engineers in the context of higher education modernisation agenda connected to SMEs and organisations (including schools). This way it aim ...
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Managing Social Relations in Schools

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Anti-discrimination has been one focus of the European policy since 1997 (Treaty of Amsterdam). Despite its long history, diversity has not become a strictly defined concept, but tends to change its scope and priorities according to the different settings, societies and needs. In this context, diversity, especially in education, is not a static phenomenon, but needs to be developed through differ ...
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Credits-based, people-centric approach for the adoption of healthy life-styles and balanced Mediterranean diet in the frame of social participation and innovation for health promotion (CREDITS4HEALTH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The CREDITS4HEALTH project’s main goal is to develop a person centric approach based on the “credits for health” concept to reduce sedentary behavior and enhance the level of physical activity and healthy dietary styles in people living in Euro-Mediterranean Countries. The concept of credits is simple and effective: this means that each participant will earn credits from his local, regional or nat ...
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Genetic and environmental factors of insulin resistance syndrome and its long-term complications in immigrant Mediterranean populations (MEDIGENE)

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

MEDIGENE project will study genetic and environmental (G x E) determinants of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in recent immigrants in Europe by a novel approach integrating ancestry of Mediterranean populations in epidemiology, locus refining and Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). West Mediterranean shores are place of pre-historical termini of population expansion from Southern Europe and Nort ...
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Vortex Robot for Rapid Low Cost Scanning and Improved Non-Destructive Testing of Large Concrete Structures (VORTEXSCAN)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Large public infrastructure facilities around the world like dams, cooling towers and bridges use cement as the main building material. Although made from a durable material many of these large assets have begun to age and are in need of periodic inspection to ensure their integrity. Current inspection routine involves setting up scaffolds that have to be moved around for personnel to reach to the ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

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

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Magnetic Nanoparticles and Thin Films for Spintronic Applications and High Performance Permanent Magnets (NanoMag)

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

This proposal aims to establish a research network in the Area of magnetic nanostructured materials for novel spintronic, novel permanent magnets and biomedical applications, through collaboration and exchange of staff among six Prominent European Union Universities and Research Institutes, with top-class International laboratories, three from USA and one from Korea.The scientific objectives of th ...
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Nanocapsules for targeted delivery of radioactivity (RADDEL)

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

The consortium RADDEL (RADioactivity DELivery) has a research-based approach for the training of the new generation of scientists in the development of novel functional nanomaterials . A well structured training program will be provided with a balanced combination of local and network-wide training through secondments, joint network meetings, workshops, schools, industrial training and the final n ...
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Integrating the Multiple Meta-Analysis: a framework for evaluating and ranking multiple health care technologies (IMMA)

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

Health care practitioners face daily questions and make choices regarding the effectiveness and quality of several health technologies (e.g. alternative interventions). On this regard they usually consider meta-analysis; the statistical synthesis of results from relevant experiments. The main drawback of the current state of the art is that meta-analysis focuses on comparing only two alternatives. ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

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Development of Low Band Gap Conjugated Polymers by EcoFriendly Synthetic Methodologies for High Performance Organic Photovoltaics (ECOCHEM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

"Novel low band gap (LBG) conjugated polymers and state-of-the-art electron donor polymeric materials used in high performance organic photovoltaics (OPVs) will be developed with the aim to replace existing hazardous ones for cleaner and environmentally friendly laboratory and industrial processes. Direct Arylation (DAr) represents an economically attractive and ecologically benign alternative to ...
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Innovative aircraft ice protection system – sensing and modelling (InAIPS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The overall aim of this project is a novel approach for increased sensitivity of laminar wings to ice accretion in all flight phase. The CfP topic will address three main objectives therefore:1. Development of a system architecture model for an active ice protection system;2. Development of innovative sensing options to support the active ice protection strategy;3. Overall aircraft model that demo ...
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Epigenetic Deregulation of Apoptotic Gene Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) (HCC EPIGENETICS)

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

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and thus constitutes a major health problem involving more than half a million new cases every year. During its promotion stage, HCC has been associated with defective apoptosis and increased cell proliferation. Only recently, gene expression has been shown to be regulated by epigenetics (reversible heritable changes in gene ...
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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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Academic-Industrial Initial Training Network on Innovative Biocompatible Titanium-base Structures for Orthopaedics (BIOTINET)

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

BioTiNet ITN is an inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral and multinational initiative, which has the primary goal of training researchers who will help to improve the overall efficiency of metallic implants in orthopedic treatment by minimizing the stress shielding effect, and promote technical, biological and clinical developments at a pan-European level, for the benefit of all European inhabitants. ...
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Study of Solar Eruptive Phenomena: Understand their Early Phases and Determine their Arrival Times to Earth (SEP)

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

"Our Sun is a violent star. Frequently the solar atmosphere is the set of gigantic eruptions. These can be either confined (flares) or ejective (Coronal Mass Ejections; CMEs). Flares release huge amounts of energy while CMEs launch several billion tons of mass into the interplanetary space. Sometimes large scale coronal waves are observed in association with the above phenomena. Flares and CMEs r ...
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Development of COMBInatorial BIOmarkers for subclinical atherosclerosis (COMBI-BIO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"Systems biology involves the analysis of relationships among the elements in a system, viewed as an integrated and interacting network of genes, proteins and biochemical reactions. We have pioneered the use of metabolic profiling and the metabolome-wide association study (MWAS) approach, involving high-throughput spectroscopic screening, to capture comprehensive data on a range of exposures affec ...
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On the reduction of health effects from combined exposure to indoor air pollutants in modern offices (OFFICAIR)

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

"Modern offices usually have several sorts of electronic equipment and other dominant heat sources indoors, making them almost unaffected by local climatic conditions. Air conditioning and mechanical ventilation coupled with the often excessive levels of artificial lighting, require high levels of energy. At the European Union (EU) level, the Directive 91/2002, (EPBD), is a major step towards rati ...
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Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (FUME)

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

Fire regimes result from interactions between climate, land-use and land-cover (LULC), and socioeconomic factors, among other. These changed during the last decades, particularly around the Mediterranean. Our understanding of how they affected fire regime in the past is limited. During this century temperatures, drought and heat waves will very likely increase, and rainfall decrease. These and fur ...
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