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EISCAT_3D: A European three-dimensional imaging radar for atmospheric and geospace research (Preparatory Phase) (EISCAT_3D_2)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

EISCAT_3D is a next generation incoherent scatter radar system for high-latitude atmosphere and geospace studies that will be built in northern Fenno-Scandinavia. The facility will consist of multiple large phased-array antenna transmitters/receivers in three countries, comprising tens of thousands of individual antenna elements. The new radars will collect data from the upper stratosphere to the ...
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"A new, ground based data-assimilative modeling of the Earth's plasmasphere - a critical contribution to Radiation Belt modeling for Space Weather purposes" (PLASMON)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"The security of space assets are affected by the high-energy charged particle environment in the radiation belts. The controlling principal source and loss mechanisms in the radiation belts are not yet completely understood. During a geomagnetic storm the length of time during which space assets are in danger is determined by the loss mechanisms, particularly by relativistic electron precipitatio ...
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Data Services and Analysis Tools for Solar Energetic Particle Events and Related Electromagnetic Emissions (SEPServer)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The SEPServer project will address the topic SPA.2010.2.1-03, Exploitation of space science and exploration data, of the call FP7-SPACE-2010-1. Through its impact, the project may also support other projects funded through the topic SPA.2010.2.3-01, Security of space assets from space weather events.The main objective of the SEPServer project is to produce a new tool, which greatly facilitates the ...
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Nanotecnology platform for electronics and photonics (NAPEP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"The project focuses on creating a nanotechnology platform at Baku State University through cooperation with nanotechnology centers in EU countries which is important for the development of research in nanoelectronics and photonics in the collaborating countries. The project addresses the increasing cooperation capacity between NanoCenter Baku State Uiversity and EU research centers in the area o ...
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Structural and Functional Studies of Human Adenosine A2A Receptor G protein Complex: Toward Understanding GPCR Activation (ADORA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"This application is to partially fund a junior research position at the Oulu Biocenter (BCO) and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu, concerning structural determination of human adenosine receptor subtype selectivity and allosteric modulation. As a basis of this project, we recently determined the crystal structure of the human adenosine A2A receptor. By the research described in ...
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Quality of Service and MObility driven cognitive radio Systems (QoSMOS)

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

QoSMOS is a 3-year Integrated Project that aims at researching, developing and integrating a Cognitive Radio (CR) framework to enable mobile broadband systems to improve utilisation of licensed and/or unlicensed bands, by adding dynamic exploitation of under-utilised spectrum. The technical focus is on opportunistic use of spectrum combined with managed Quality of Service (QoS) and seamless mobili ...
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Structural and functional studies on Plasmodium formins (FORMIN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Mar 2, 2013,

"Funding is applied to carry out research on formin-mediated regulation and dynamics of actin-based motility of apicomplexan parasites, such as Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria. Formins are large multi-domain proteins, which regulate microfilament formation by triggering actin monomer addition from actin-profilin complexes at the barbed end. Formins bear two formin homology (FH) domains. ...
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Thermal management with carbon nanotube architectures (THEMA-CNT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

To overcome the difficulties in the contemporary thermal management of Si components and packages made of ceramics and organic laminates, in this project we propose novel and scaleable cooling technologies that utilize carbon nanotubes and their architectures integrated on various electrical components to achieve cooling efficiency of 100 W/m2 on large area Si chips, 10 W/cm2 on ceramics/polymer p ...
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Low-cost Miniature Laserscanner for Environment Perception (MiniFaros)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Description Novel low-cost miniature Laserscanner for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems enhancing road safety The wish and determination for considerably fewer accidents have been pronounced by a number of European stakeholders, like the EU programme ‘Halving the number of road accident victims i ...
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Infrafrontier The European infrastructure for phenotyping and archiving of model mammalian genomes (INFRAFRONTIER)

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

Medically related Life Sciences use the mouse as a model system to understand the molecular basis of health and disease in humans (>95% similarity of genes in humans and mice). An essential task for Biomedical Sciences in the 21st century will be the functional analysis of mouse models for every gene in the mammalian genome. The major bottlenecks identified by the user community will be proper ...
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Novel tree breeding strategies (NOVELTREE)

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

"The challenges facing forest geneticists and tree breeders include recognition of changing demands on forests for a wider range of high value forest products and sustainability of forest ecosystems under climate change. NOVELTREE is designed to enable significant genetic improvement of tree characteristics and forest products properties to satisfy the needs (quality, quantity, sustainability, vul ...
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Broadband Evolved FEMTO Networks (BeFEMTO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

BeFEMTO is a timely proposal to address broadband communications, an important stimulus to the European economy. It aims to research and develop evolved femtocell technologies that accelerate cost-effective provision of ubiquitous broadband services by smoother convergence between fixed and wireless broadband.The approach adopted is pragmatic in two ways: near-term solutions as enabler for early d ...
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Energy Aware Radio and neTwork tecHnologies (EARTH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Telecommunication networks and in particular mobile communications are increasingly contributing to global energy consumption. The EARTH proposal tackles the important issue of energy saving by enhancing the energy efficiency of mobile broadband systems thereby reducing CO2 emissions. It is a highly ambitious and unique proposal, applying an integrated approach to investigate the energy efficiency ...
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New Antimicrobials (NAM)

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

"Antibacterial resistance is spreading globally at an alarming rate and continues to increase. New potent antibacterial agents and therapies are therefore continually needed. In recent years, new antibacterial compounds have mainly been additions to the existing classes of drugs and very few new structures have been developed. Pharmaceutical industry has little interest in developing novel structu ...
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Forest ecosystem genomics research: supporting Transatlantic Cooperation (FORESTTRAC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

The main aim of FoResTTraC is to prepare future coordinated research plans, via a strategic research roadmap, between Europe and North America regarding adaptation of forest trees to climate changes, linking different disciplines: ecology, genetics, genomics and evolution. FoResTTraC brings together a critical mass of research expertise in these disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic with 6 lea ...
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Computation of Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in Paramagnetic Systems (CNMRPS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

"The spectral parameters of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) provide information on molecular structure and properties. Furthermore, NMR relaxation conveys information on molecular dynamics, rotation, chemical exchange and collisions. Paramagnetic NMR (pNMR) is gaining importance in chemistry, structural biology, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and materials science. Open-shell molecules experien ...
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Set up and comparison of multiple stem cell approaches for kidney repair (STAR-T REK)

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

"With the increasing rate of end-stage renal failure and limited alternatives for its treatment, potential regenerative approaches for kidney damages are urgently needed. Because of the complexity of the organ, the development of stem cell therapies for kidney is still in its infancy. Identifying which cell types are capable of beneficial effects is the critical step required to realize the potent ...
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EUWB - Coexisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology (EUWB)

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

Description EUWB – Coexisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio TechnologyMain ObjectivesEUWB is an industry-led initiative of 21 major industrial and excellent academic organisations all around Europe and Israel. Its key objective is to explore the enormous economic potential of innovative and disruptive radio technology ...
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Structural studies on protein recognition and regulation (HDAC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

"With this application, funding is applied for a new project to be started at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu in 2008. The focus of the project will be on structural aspects of protein recognition and regulatory events. To start with, the project will concentrate on selected histone deacetylases and profilins as well as members of the formin family of proteins. X-ray crystallogr ...
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Mobile Biometry (MOBIO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Portable personal devices (PDAs or mobile phones) are indeed widely used.They provide the mobile worker or the customer with portable computing and wireless access to Telecom networks. It is then possible to access many services (phone card reloading, remote purchase or telephone banking). The conventional means of identification (passwords, secret codes and PINs) can easily be compromised, shared ...
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NoE PolyNET - Network of Excellence for the exploitation of organic and large area electronics (PolyNet)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Description Network of Excellence for the exploitation of organic and large-area electronicsThe Network of Excellence (NoE) PolyNet aims to establish Europe in the area of organic and large area electronics as the world leader in science, technology development and subsequent commercial exploitation of printing and large area technologies ...
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Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future (SENSEI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

In order to realise the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications via universal service interfaces. SENSEI creates an open, business driven architecture that fundamentally addresses the scalabilit ...
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Integrated Circuit/EM Simulation and design Technologies for Advanced Radio Systems-on-chip (ICESTARS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

A big challenge awaits for technological developments to keep up with the demands in the market due to both the large variety of wireless communication channels as well as the fact that they are essentially all used at the same time by widely varying applications. For planned developments of wireless communication channels in the SHF and EHF bands, IC design automation tools are indispensable. The ...
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Novel Antimicrobials from Endophytes of Northern Medicinal Plants (TEJAM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

"Antibacterial resistance is spreading globally at an alarming rate and continues to increase. New potent antimicrobials are therefore continually needed. In recent years, new antibacterial compounds have mainly been additions to the existing classes of drugs and truly new structures have rarely been developed. The derivatives of existing drugs however raise bacterial resistance much faster than c ...
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Real-Time database for high resolution Neutron Monitor measurements (NMDB)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

We propose to set up a European digital repository for cosmic ray databy pooling existing data archives and by developing a real-time databasewith the data of as many European neutron monitor stations as possible.The data will be available through internet. Cosmic rays provide adiagnostic tool to analyze processes in interplanetary space and at theSun. Cosmic rays also directly affect the terrestr ...
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