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Philosophy of History and Globalisation of Knowledge. Cultural Bridges Between Europe and Latin America (WORLDBRIDGES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

"Bridges are built to interchange not only goods, but also knowledge, received historical heritage and ethical-political projects that can complement one another. International cooperation can only be fruitful if it is based on real dialogue, interaction and engagement, in this specific case that of Europe, Euro-Mediterranean and Latin America. The exchange scheme WORLDBRIDGES consists in facilita ...
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Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications (OPERAs)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Human use and exploitation of the biosphere is increasing at such a pace and scale that the sustainability of major ecosystems is threatened, and may not be able to continue to function in ways that are vital to the existence of humanity. Re-framing environmental resource use has led to the emergence of the concepts of ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC). This discourse indicates not ...
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Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe (ENHANCE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The main goal of the ENHANCE project is to develop and analyse new ways to enhance society’s resilience to catastrophic natural hazard impacts, by providing new scenarios and information in selected hazard cases in close collaboration with stakeholders, and by contributing to the development of new multi-sector partnerships (MSPs) to reduce or redistribute risk. Innovation in MSPs is essential, a ...
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Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (ITARS)

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

"This proposal brings together a group of universities, research organisations and high-tech companies from different disciplines (meteorology, geosciences, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics) with the aim to foster training and further development in the area of remote sensing of the atmosphere. The last years have brought a rapid development in instrumental techniques, i.e. lidar, rad ...
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Epigenetics towards systems biology (EPIGENESYS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The ‘EpiGeneSys’ Network of Excellence aims to enable European epigenetics research to enter the arena of systems biology, a new step forward with major implications for human health. Many diseases, not explained solely by gene mutation, have rather been associated with epigenetic disorders. Following the identification of key epigenetic regulators, a move towards a systems biology approach is nee ...
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Network for Integrated Cellular Homeostasis (NICHE)

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

"There is a need for greater understanding of integrated cellular physiology to exploit cells and to tailor their activities to optimise microbial productivity in synthetic circuits and to limit microbial activity in food and pharmaceutical products. Understanding the integration of the cellular metabolic processes is fundamental to developing and exploiting cells. We have assembled a team of inte ...
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"From the earliest modern humans to the onset of farming (45,000-4,500 BP): the role of climate, life-style, health, migration and selection in shaping European population history" (ADNABIOARC)

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

"The colonisation of Europe by anatomically modern humans (AMHs) ca. 45,000 years before present (BP) and the transition to farming ca. 8,000 BP are two major events in human prehistory. Both events involved certain cultural and biological adaptations, technological innovations, and behavioural plasticity which are unique to our species. The reconstruction of these processes and the causality betw ...
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Grammar and memory: Evidence from agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer's disease in German, Italian and Greek (MemoGram)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

"In Europe, there is an increasing number of people with neurological problems, such as probable Alzheimer’s disease (pAD) or aphasia, which often result in severe language and memory impairments. It has been argued that memory deficits contribute to the language problems brain-damaged populations face and, further, can predict these populations’ patterns of linguistic impairment. Interestingly, w ...
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ATR7, a novel player of oxidative stress tolerance in plants: interrogation of its mode of action through an integrative omics approach (PlantSurvivor)

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

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are important modulators of plant development and they accumulate in tissues upon various kinds of abiotic stresses imposed by e.g. elevated temperature or drought. ROS are also intimately linked to programmed cell death (PCD). Cellular ROS activity is controlled by a large cohort of ROS forming and scavenging enzymes, signalling proteins and transcription factors tha ...
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Repetition and Seriality in the Age of Television Studies 3.0 (REPEAT)

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

Researches in Media and Television Studies until today focus either on media industry, content, audiences or media technology. Recent developments regarding the globalization of television formats and the intermedial distribution and reception of television content via the internet and mobile media have been analyzed merely with regard to audience reception and participation.The research project ‘ ...
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Distributed Infrastructure for EXPErimentation in Ecosystem Research (EXPEER)

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

EXPEER will bring together, major observational, experimental, analytical and modelling facilities in ecosystem science in Europe. By uniting these highly instrumented ecosystem research facilities under the same umbrella and with a common vision, EXPEER will form a key contribution to structuring and improving the European Research Area (ERA) within terrestrial ecosystem research.EXPEER builds ...
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Dynamics and Cooperative Phenomena in Complex Physical and Biological Media (DCP-PhysBio)

Start date: Apr 25, 2011, End date: Apr 24, 2015,

The goal of the DCP-PhysBio exchange program is to bring together several European teams (France, Germany, UK), Israel, as well as partners from Russia and Ukraine. We want to use our combined expertise to study various challenging dynamical and cooperative phenomena taking place in complex physical and biological systems. All the teams have a track record of research in these areas concentrating ...
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Grasping the Links in the Chain: Understanding the Unintended Consequences of International Counter-Narcotics Measures for the EU (LINKSCH)

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

Since the end of the Cold War there has been an explosion in the international drugs market and a consequent general desire to review and reform the existing international control regime. Academic understanding of the role of the drugs market in the international economy has increased, but the cumulative impact of counter-narcotics measures in transit chain countries between source and market rema ...
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Telemedicine System Empowering Stroke Patients to Fight Back (StrokeBack)

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

Stroke is a disease with very high socio-economic impact. In average the healthcare expenditure cost for Strokes across different countries in Europe and USA is 3% of their entire healthcare expenditure. This includes inpatient treatment cost, outpatient hospital visits and long-term rehabilitation and care. Analysis showed that costs of long-term care have increased from 13% to 49% of overall cos ...
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Broadening the Bioinformatics Infrastructure to unicellular, animal, and plant science (ALLBIO)

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

The main aim of AllBio will be the coordination of the partner's activities that are aimed at the extension of a large number of bioinformatics facilities towards applicability in target life science areas beyond human health. Bioinformatics facilities developed for the human health area will be extensively tested on unicellular (incl. bacterial), plant and (farm) animal genomes, and they will be ...
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Social Media Analytics and Decision Support Tools Enabling Sustainable Integration Policies and Measures (UniteEurope)

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

The integration of third-country nationals is one of the most important topics for governments and policy makers in the European Union and has risen in prominence on the agenda because it is seen as one of the most visible challenges of globalization. UniteEurope aims at building scalable and flexible Social Media analytics and decision support tools enabling sustainable integration policies and m ...
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Qualitative indicators of tourism’s role in poverty alleviation (QUAL-POT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"This research project addresses the knowledge gap that exists in the assessment of qualitative indicators of poverty alleviation in tourism.Currently measurement of poverty and its alleviation is based chiefly on quantitative measures, arguably because qualitative indicators are difficult to operationalise in evaluation efforts. If poverty is understood as a multi-dimensional phenomenon, measurin ...
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Quantitative Estimation of Earth's Seismic Sources and Structure (QUEST)

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

"Storing CO2 in the subsurface to reduce global warming, finding hydrocarbon and other resources and monitoring their extraction, generating energy with Earth’s internal heat, and forecasting natural hazards (earthquake-induced ground motion, volcanic eruptions) requires high-resolution tomographic images of the Earth’s interior. The main goal of QUEST is research and training in the development o ...
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Enlightenment and Global History (ENGLOBE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"ENGLOBE (""Enlightenment and Global History"") is a projected network of researchers concerned with Europe’s role in the process of globalization. Its thematic aims are located in the newly emerging supra-disciplinary field of Global History which provides a highly useful mode of reflection on the cultural and historical dimension of globalization processes. The Enlightenment has a double signifi ...
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Massive Sets of Heuristics for Machine Learning (MASH)

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

Description New tools for the collaborative development of very complex machine learning systems. The MASH project aims at creating new tools for the collaborative development of very complex machine learning systems. Machine learning is concerned with the design of software able to learn from exa ...
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Quantum Interfaces, Sensors and Communication based on Entanglement (Q-ESSENCE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

Quantum entanglement has the capacity to enable disruptive technologies that solve outstanding issues in: - Trust, privacy protection, and security in two- and multi-party transactions; - Novel or enhanced modes of operation of ICT devices; - Reference standards, sensing, and metrology. The development of entanglement-based strategies addresses these challenges and provides the foundations for qua ...
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Quantum Dot-Based Highly Sensitive Immunoassays for Multiplexed Diagnostics of Alzheimer's Disease (NANOGNOSTICS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"6.1 million people currently live with a form of dementia in the European Union with an addition of 1.4 million new cases every year. Combination of psychological testing, brain-imaging and exclusion of other neurological disorders makes the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease complicated and time consuming (taking up to 20 months). A rapid, sensitive and specific immunoassay for protein markers ins ...
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Elucidating the control of cell size in plants (CeSiCoP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Cell size is a crucial determinant of overall organ size. The size of a cell can be influenced by various hormones; it depends on the identity of the cell; and it is positively correlated with the cell’s ploidy level. However, the molecular mechanisms that determine when cell expansion stops to ensure an appropriate cell size are poorly understood. In plants, the presence of a cell wall means that ...
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Quantum dots having molecularly imprinted nanoshell for recognition of antibiotics (QUANTUMDOTIMPRINT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Molecular imprinting of polymers (MIP) is a method to obtain highly functionalised polymers containing binding sites that are able to selectively recognize analyte molecules. In general, this method is based on co-polymerisation of functional monomers around the analyte. Consequently, a cavity formed in the polymer is complementary to the analyte not only in size and shape, but also by the electr ...
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Anthropological Materialism: a Neglected European Tradition (AMEUR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"The purpose of the project “Anthropological Materialism: a Neglected European Tradition” (AMEUR) is, from the perspective of Walter Benjamin, to circumscribe “anthropological materialism” as a neglected part of European identity, from the 19th to the 21th century. The task is double. On the one hand, it is to build the concept of “anthropological materialism” as a world vision that, explicitly an ...
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Worldscience: Scientific Experts in Trans-European Networks (1770-1840) (worldscience)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

This project focuses on a limited number of highly mobile polyvalent savants -civilians or military- who were invited by the ruling elites of a foreign country to promote scientific-technological policies. The researcher will study the role of these men of science in multidirectional cultural transfer from a comparative perspective. A uniting factor which makes the comparison feasible is achieved ...
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REDOX PHENOMENA CONTROLLING SYSTEMS (RECOSY)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Main objectives of ReCosy are the sound understanding of redox phenomena controlling the long-term release/retention of radionuclides in nuclear waste disposal and providing tools to apply the results to Performance Assessment/Safety Case. Although redox is not a new geochemical problem, different questions are still not resolved and thus raised by implementers and scientists. From a top-down appr ...
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Exploring Cellular Dynamics at Nanoscale (EXCELL)

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

EXCELL is a novel innovative approach to explore interaction mechanisms between biological materials and systems/nanostructures. It involves a forward-looking cross-disciplinary and design-based research to generate an integrated, biologically inspired technological platform of high complexity, able to monitor cell dynamics at nano-scale. Expertise in cellular and molecular biology, nanosciences, ...
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Micro- and Nano-Optomechanical Systems for ICT and QIPC (MINOS)

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

Micro- and Nanomechanical systems have the potential to revolutionize Information Science Technologies (IST) by bringing back mechanics as an essential component to information processing with completely new versatility. Already now, these systems are about to provide a broad range of novel applications with impact in a variety of fields such as life sciences, optical sciences, materials science a ...
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Evolution of floral size control in the genus Capsella (evo_flore)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

A fascinating challenge in biology is to understand how the evolution of molecular mechanisms leads to phenotypic variation. In plants, the morphology of flowers is subject to strong selective pressures, given their central role for reproduction. A common trend of flower evolution is the reduction of floral display following the transition from out-breeding via animal pollinators to selfing. This ...
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IT[t] Simply Works (ITSy)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The primary goal of the proposed effort is to generate a set of innovative research topics on thenotion of simplicity as a driving paradigm in ICT development, maintenance and use. We believethat the philosophy of simplicity is strategically important, yet poorly understood, and rarelysystematically applied. Instead, design principles attempt to focus on increased functionality withinthinly disgui ...
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COmputing with Mesoscopic Photonic and Atomic States (COMPAS)

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

In the recent years, continuous variables (CV) have emerged as a viable and very promising alternative to the traditional quantum bit-based approaches to quantum information processing. Encoding CV information onto mesoscopic carriers such as the quadratures of light modes or the collective spin of atoms offers several distinct advantages, such as the deterministic generation and manipulation of e ...
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