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MIME - MOBILITY AND INCLUSION IN MULTILINGUAL EUROPE (MIME)

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

Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, MIME will generate an organised body of policy-relevant propositions addressing the full range of questions raised in the call. Our aim is to identify the language policies and strategies that best combine “mobility” and “inclusion”.MIME emphasises complementarity between disciplines, and brings together researchers from sociolinguistics, political s ...
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Mechanisms controlling transcription of the plastid genome (POLSPEC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Mar 28, 2018,

Nucleus-encoded phage-type RNA polymerases are indispensable for the transcription of the mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes. They have fundamental roles in the biogenesis of the respiratory and photosynthetic compartments of plant cells. My previous research on mitochondrial transcription in the model plant Arabidopsis has led to the discovery of gene-specific transcriptional functions of the ...
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Ark of Inquiry: Inquiry Awards for Youth over Europe (Ark of Inquiry)

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

The Ark of Inquiry project aims to raise youth awareness to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) by providing young European citizens (7 to 18-year-olds) with a pool of engaging inquiry activities to improve their inquiry skills, increase their awareness and understanding of conducting ‘real’ science, and prepare them to participate in different roles in the European research and innovation p ...
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Light-controlled and Light-driven Molecular Action (Light4Function)

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

Important processes carried out by Nature’s machinery rely on proper regulation mechanisms. To achieve such control over various functions in man-made materials and devices light offers a superior advantage as an external stimulus and beyond as energy source. Photoswitchable entities provide an ideal platform to interface light with matter and therefore the proposed research program “Light 4 Funct ...
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SPECIFICALLY INTERACTING POLYMERS – From Selective Adhesion toward Specific Recognition (SIP)

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

"The ability to control interactions in synthetic polymers as precisely as in proteins will have a significant impact on polymer and material sciences. The present proposal explores broadly applicable routes toward synthetic polymers having the capability of specifically interacting with distinct targets such as small molecules, surfaces, or material interfaces.Novel design strategies for peptide- ...
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Innovative interfaces for energy-related applications (INTERNEW)

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

"In this project we propose the development and investigation of a new class of composite nanomaterials for specific energy-related applications. In fact, in most cutting edge applications related to energy harnessing, harvesting and storage, nanomaterials are playing mayor role in enhancing and optimizing device performances, while maintaining affordable production costs for their effective explo ...
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Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy (GREEN SURGE)

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

"GREEN SURGE will identify, develop and test ways of connecting green spaces, biodiversity, people and the green economy, in order to meet the major urban challenges related to land use conflicts, climate change adaptation, demographic changes, and human health and wellbeing. It will provide a sound evidence base for green infrastructure planning and implementation, exploring the innovation potent ...
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Macroeconomics and Financial History (MACROHIST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"The current macroeconomic and financial crisis has given rise to a vigorous debate about the state of macroeconomics and macroeconomic training. Among the voices arguing most strongly for a change in the way that young macroeconomists are trained are those coming from employers in the private and public sector. Strikingly, many employers are also arguing that a knowledge of economic history might ...
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Foundations in medieval societies: Cross-cultural comparisons (FOUNDMED)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

"In the present foundations are ascribed a central role in overcoming social and political problems, be it in the field of social welfare or the sponsorship of science and the arts. But they were also in the past always an indicator of the condition of a society and lend themselves to deducing its overall structure. In a historical perspective they permit an intercultural comparison because there ...
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Printed Logic for Applications of Screen Matrix Activation Systems (PLASMAS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The EU has lost a significant share of the electronics manufacture sector to the Far East, resulting in a negative trade balance of >€100bn/year within this sector. This is (in part) due to the current manufacturing technologies that are based on subtractive processing that are expensive, wasteful and energy intensive, making manufacture in the EU economically and environmentally unfeasible. Print ...
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Ideational Change through Collective Learning: Public Deliberation and the Decentring and Re-centring of Structures of Meaning (LearningDemoi)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jan 29, 2017,

This proposal pursues three objectives. First, to contribute to our understanding of the processes of ideational change that are triggered by public communication. In particular, it concentrates on the decentring and re-centring of socially shared structures of meaning. This is a topic that will be addressed empirically through three case studies. Second, by dealing with this question, this projec ...
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Gauge Theory as an Integrable System (GATIS)

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

"Gauge Theories provide the most successful framework for the description of nature at its most basic level, and in particular of high energy physics. However, extracting reliable predictions relevant for experiment from gauge theory has remained a major challenge which so far requires massive use of computer algebra. Over the last decade an entirely new approach to quantum gauge theories has begu ...
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Embodied Audition for RobotS (EARS)

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

The success of future natural intuitive human-robot interaction (HRI) will critically depend on how responsive the robot will be to all forms of human expressions and how well it will be aware of its environment. With acoustic signals distinctively characterizing physical environments and speech being the most effective means of communication among humans, truly humanoid robots must be able to ful ...
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GRAPHENE-BASED SINGLE-PHOTON NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES (GRASP)

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

Finding an approach to actuate nonlinear optical effects at ultra-low powers and on chip-scale devices is one of the outstanding challenges in optics. The ultimate limit is the quantum regime where individual light quanta strongly interact with each other. This limit has so far been technologically impossible, but if achieved would have far-reaching consequences in information technologies. In par ...
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Sustainable futures for Europe’s HERitage in CULtural landscapES: Tools for understanding, managing, and protecting landscape functions and values (HERCULES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

European cultural landscapes are valued as everyday living environment, countryside, heritage, scenery with aesthetic and recreational qualities and unique biodiversity, and as a source of ecosystem services that they provide to society. Cultural landscapes, however, are undergoing rapid and fundamental transformations across Europe, mainly as a result of an on-going polarization of land use, with ...
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Global Governance and Gender Disparities. Explaining Developments in Key Labor related Human Rights Indicators (GloGender)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

How successful are current initiatives at furthering a fairer globalization? Employing women’s equitable integration into the labor market as a paradigmatic case, this proposal suggests ways to examine the impact of global governance structures on key labor market and other indicators. Research in this project so far has shown that for an adequate assessment of women’s equity it is not sufficient ...
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Nanoelectronic COupled Problems Solutions (nanoCOPS)

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

Designs in nanoelectronics often lead to problems that are large to simulate and that include strong feedback couplings. Industry demands to include variability to guarantee quality and yield. It also requests to incorporate higher abstraction levels to allow for system simulation in order to shorten design cycles, while preserving accuracy. The nanoCOPS project considers the simulation of two pro ...
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Quality Translation by Deep Language Engineering Approaches (QTLeap)

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

In the last decade, the incremental advancement of mainstream research on Machine Translation (MT) has been obtained by encompassing increasingly sophisticated statistical approaches and fine-grained linguistic features that add to the surface level alignment on which these approaches are ultimately anchored.It has been ventured recently, in some leading academic and industry circles, that the inc ...
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SEiSMiC, Societal Engagement in Science, Mutual learning in Cities (SEISMIC)

Start date: Oct 29, 2013, End date: Oct 28, 2016,

The European Research Area is targeting efforts in research and innovation on thecurrent challenges faced by society. These challenges are complex, multidimensional and require the engagement of different actors alongside researchers, particularly relating to integrated and sustainable urban development.In an effort to bridge the gap between the scientific community and society, SEiSMiC (Societal ...
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Dual Citizenship Recognition and Equal rights in Germany: Construction of a (Trans)national Form of Citizenship in 21st Century Europe (TransforNation)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Migration, E-U integration and equalisation of rights between men and women as to maintaining and passing nationality have led to the increase of dual citizenship, which has become a main political issue in many European countries and a key topic to understand the transformation of civil societies.Built on political anthropology of the State, the project focuses on nowadays’ Germany to see how iss ...
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Imaging dendrites across wake and sleep: fiberoptic measurements of calcium activity in freely behaving animals (PERISLEEP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The aim of this project is to look at changes in dendritic calcium activity during sleep and how these changes are influenced by waking experience in freely behaving animals. Sleep promotes brain plasticity and processes dependent upon plasticity (i.e. memory consolidation). But the cellular events that mediate these effects are poorly understood. We hypothesize that sleep promotes brain plasticit ...
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State dependent flow of excitation and activation of inhibition in cortical columns (Imaging Columns)

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

A central tenet of cortical operations is that excitation and inhibition rise in tandem through out a column, and over the somatic and dendritic compartments of single neurons. The details of how excitation flows in a column, how inhibition arises in different lamina to balance excitation, and how excitation and inhibition interact along the dendrite of pyramidal neurons – especially in vivo -- ar ...
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Novel miniaturized photoacoustic cell integrated with compact mid-infrared widely-tunable laser for gas-detection applications (MICEPAS MIR-EC-QCL)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Compact laser-spectroscopy gas detectors capable of analyzing the traces of chemical compounds in gas samples of small volume are in strong demand of applications, which need reliable substance-selective high-sensitivity analysis of gas media. Such gas detectors can be used as leak detectors for localizing explosive, toxic or narcotic substances in public accommodations. The detectors may be appli ...
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ENTITLE. European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

"ENTITLE will train 17 researchers in the emerging supra-disciplinary field of Political Ecology, giving them the theoretical, analytical and complementary skills that will make them employable in jobs related to environmental policy analysis and advocacy. Research and training are framed around five key cluster sub-programmes concerned with the analysis of: environmental conflicts; environmental ...
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Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe (WWWFOREUROPE)

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

"The objective of this 4-year project is to provide the analytical basis for a socio-ecological transition in Europe: the change to a new growth path with smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as is envisaged in the EU 2020 strategy. In order to support the transition, we analyse the need, the feasibility and best practice for change, specifying the institutional changes needed at all policy lev ...
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Multiphoton processes using plasmonics towards advanced nanobiophotonics (MULTIBIOPHOT)

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

Proposal summaryBiophotonics is an emerging interdisciplinary field. Modern laser spectroscopic methods in combination withmicroscopy open up exciting new ways to study biological objects. For biological applications, multi-photonor non-linear spectroscopy can offer several advantages over one-photon excitation. The aim of this projectis to explore novel spectroscopic strategies based on multi-pho ...
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Scalable, Secure Storage of Biobank Data (BiobankCloud)

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

Description BiobankCloud - your PaaS for BiobankingThe storage infrastructure for human biological material is generally known as a biobank. One of the main tenets of biobanking is the digitization of our genomic information for its archival and analysis. That is, in the future, vast amounts of genomic data will be derived from biomateria ...
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Appropriating the 'Legitimate': Far-Right Discourses on Ecology (Far-RightEco)

Start date: Nov 4, 2013, End date: Nov 3, 2015,

Modern societies have increasingly thematised themselves with ecological issues as their basic problems. However, the ‘legitimacy’ publicly ascribed to ecology renders its appropriation possible by groups widely viewed as ‘illegitimate’, enabling such actors to attract not only their core audience, but also a moderate wider public. This project analyses such appropriation, i.e. both the assessment ...
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Development of Advanced Renewable Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation Technology (NRforHF)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The project is aimed at developing the nanoscience and technology required for efficient production of hydrogen fuels by using H2O and solar energy as sources. It is basically a laboratory based research work, which includes the design and development of hierarchical Schottky nanostructures (HSNs) and thereby Solar Fuel Cells (SFC) for hydrogen fuels. Today, the realization of technology to harves ...
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Evolution equations for composite operators and AdS/CFT integrability (IEET2)

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

Quantum field theory gives the excellent description for the electromagnetic, weak and strong fundamental interactions by means of perturbative expansion in the coupling constant. It allows to obtain results, which can be compared with experiments. In some cases the large logarithms are appeared in perturbative calculations and they should be sum exactly, i.e. in all orders of perturbative theory. ...
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Solar Collectors made of Polymers (SCOOP)

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

The international solar thermal market has progressed strongly over the last years. Especially in China, the USA and Europe, the manufacturing and commissioning of installations has grown rapidly. The major share of worldwide installed solar-thermal collectors consists of vacuum tube and glazed flat plate collectors. Both types are currently produced by time-consuming and cost-intensive manufactur ...
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Language policy and linguistic justice in the European Union (LAPO)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"The goal of our project is address the question of the distributive consequences of a change in the current EU language regime and to estimate them using data contained in the Adult Education Survey (AES), published by Eurostat in 2011. The first aim of the project LAPO is to explore whether a correlation between skills in a foreign language and other socio-economic variables can be established. ...
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COMPARATIVE EDUCATION THEORY (CETH)

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

"The proposed project is an interdisciplinary theoretical investigation in the field of comparative education studies. The main purpose is to create a knowledge base intended to contribute to our understanding of education systems across cultures, under the conditions created by the Europeanisation and globalisation of education policy.These novel conditions indicate that it is time to improve ou ...
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Mitigation of risk and control of exposure in nanotechnology based inks and pigments - NANOMICEX - (NANOMICEX)

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

The main aim of NANOMICEX project is to reduce the potential risk upon workers’ exposure to the engineered nanoparticles employed in the operative conditions of the inks and pigments industry, by addressing at the health and environmental consequences associated with the inclusion of nanoadditives within all stages of nanotechnology based products (production, use and disposal). To achieve it, new ...
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Application of novel cyclic ligation auxiliaries in the study of Transthyretin and derived pathologies (CycLATTR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The area of influence of proteins comprise most biochemical reactions and recognition process that govern a living body. However, its malfunction often lead to devastating diseases, like the ones related to Transthyretin:famylial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), famylial amyloid cardiomyopathy (FAC) and systemic senyl amyloidosis (SSA), cureless to date. Chemical approaches to some of these biomacrom ...
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The cultural transfer and the diffusion of physical education and sport in Europe, 1918-1945: the Anglo-German case (CTDPES)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

This project will explore cultural transfer between European states through a study of the diffusion, adoption and appropriation of physical education and sport. The period chosen for the study covers both the dramatic growth of ‘English’ sports in Germany and the less familiar influences of Germanic traditions of physical education in Britain. During the interwar period the governments of most Eu ...
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Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E)

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

The projects aims to technically enable as many content providers as possible to integrate their content into Europeana. Since different providers make their data available in different formats, a tool has to be developed that converts metadata from a diverse range of source formats into the EDM (Europeana Data Model). During the project, this will exemplarily be done for the autograph database Ka ...
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"Integrability, Symmetry and Quantum Space-time" (ISAQS)

Start date: Aug 19, 2010, End date: Aug 18, 2014,

"String theory is a prime candidate for a consistent theory of quantum gravity. It should therefore be able to address fundamental questions, such as the origin and structure of space-time. The key to an understanding of these deep problems is to uncover of the symmetry principles that underlie string theory and to gain control of string theory in its non-perturbative regime. This project is motiv ...
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Regulating Emerging Robotic Technologies in Europe: Robotics facing Law and Ethics (RoboLaw)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2014,

"The main objective of the research in this proposal is to investigate the ways in which emerging technologies in the field of (bio-)robotics (e.g. bionics, neural interfaces and nanotechnologies) has a bearing on the content, meaning and setting of hard versus soft law. We will research the ways in which regulation (both in terms of soft and hard law) may be affected by, and even in need of adjus ...
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Europeana Collections 1914-1918: Remembering the First World War – a digital collection of outstanding sources from European national libraries (Europeana Collections 1914-1918)

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

Europeana Collections 1914-1918 will create by 2014 – the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War - a substantial digital collection of material from national library collections of ten libraries in eight countries that found themselves on different sides of the historic conflict. In the run-up to 2014 and in the following years, strong interest in the topic is expected from a wide variet ...
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