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Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability (ARTS)

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

The objective of ARTS is to benefit policy, practice and theory related to accelerating sustainability transitions and to create opportunities for innovation (including social innovation) by coupling, rescaling and accelerating sustainability initiatives in European city-regions. ARTS will create interfaces between policy, practice and theory that are spaces for co-creation, theory building, polic ...
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Route to On-Chip Resonating Optical Clocks via Nonlinear Optics (CHRONOS)

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

“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so” (Galileo). Optical frequency comb sources are devices capable to emit light with a comb spectrum composed by narrow lines (i.e. colours) with a fixed frequency spacing. Their introduction gave to Science powerful clockworks capable to measure the frequency of the light and create ultrafast clocks with unprecedented accuracy, unveili ...
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Latin Amercian Chinese European Galaxy Formation Network (LACEGAL)

Start date: May 15, 2011, End date: May 14, 2015,

The focus in cosmology is shifting from the determination of the basic cosmological parameters to developing an understanding of how galaxies formed. Progress in this field has been driven by a combination of computer simulation and observational breakthroughs. Over the next few years, groundbreaking new facilities will come online and will provide data of unprecedented quality with which to test ...
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Integrated Quantum Information Technology (iQIT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

IQIT will develop and demonstrate novel routes towards scaling up physical devices for quantum in-formation science (QIS). Communication between different parts of a quantum processor by means of a quantum bus will receive particular attention. Developing a scalable technology will be pursued by first advancing two successful solid-state and atom-optical devices, namely A) arrays of superconductin ...
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The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDs)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDS) project will develop novel, integrated technologies to support human experience, analysis and understanding of very large datasets.Making use of humans' implicit processing abilitiesCEEDS will develop innovative tools to exploit theories showing that discovery is the identification of patterns in complex data sets by the implicit informati ...
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ntelligent Modern System Design (I-Mosyde)

Start date: Feb 28, 2014, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

I-Mosyde "Intelligent MOdern SYstem DEsign" in automation is based on embedded system design and (industrial) data communication, and uses advanced diagnostics.Not only industry, but also automation in general services, in health-care (assistive technology for mobility for communication or for living at home independently for elderly people), in building automation, ..., all these "fields" are usi ...
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Low Emission Gas Turbine Technology for Hydrogen-rich Syngas (H2-IGCC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The overall objective of this project is to provide and demonstrate technical solutions which will allow the use of state-of-the-art highly efficient, reliable gas turbines in the next generation of IGCC plants, suitable for combusting undiluted hydrogen-rich syngas derived from a pre-combustion CO2 capture process, with high fuel flexibility. The recognised challenge is to operate a stable and co ...
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Pan-European training in computational cosmology: modelling cosmic structures (CosmoComp)

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

European scientists lead the world in the modelling of the formation of cosmic structures using computer simulations. The objective of the CosmoComp proposal is to reinforce Europe's world standing in this field by training the next generation of computational cosmologists. CosmoComp builds on and extends existing research collaborations between major European centres, and has a global element wit ...
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Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN-LCG)

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

The Initial Training Network - Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN LCG) investigates European languages from an interdisciplinary perspective to expand current knowledge of how language influences and forms the cognitive representations of women and men. The diversity of Europe offers a unique opportunity to investigate the impact of language and culture in establishing and maintaining gender ine ...
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Next generation atom chips. Planar microwave traps for experiments with cold atoms and ions/electrons (NGAMIT)

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

"The scope of this project is the experimental implementation of the next generation atom chip. Atom chips consist of planar microstructures (several µm down to 100 nm), which generate the magnetic/electric fields for confining and cooling of neutral atoms. Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) can be regularly achieved on atom chips. The key feature of the new chips will be trapping of neutral atoms b ...
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A Comparative Study of LGBTQ Rights and Art in the UK and Poland within the Context of the EU Idea of Sexual Diversity (EU Sexual Diversity)

Start date: Jan 10, 2011, End date: Jan 9, 2013,

My research focuses on the condition of LGBT rights and art in the UK and Poland within the context of the EU idea of sexual diversity. The state of LGBT rights as civil rights in the EU differs significantly between member countries. My intention is to research comparatively Poland and the United Kingdom. The Anglo-Polish perspective on sexual politics of human rights would let me analyze the sta ...
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"Climate Change, Hydro-conflicts and Human Security" (CLICO)

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

"Media headlines are dominated by the prospect of regional water wars. Clearly, climate change poses several threats to human security; in particular, hydro-climatic hazards such as droughts and floods have a considerable capacity to exacerbate social tensions, intra- and inter-state conflict. Still, cooperation often trumps conflict. There are surprisingly few peer-reviewed studies rigorously add ...
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Destabilisation of sociotechnical regimes as the key to transitions towards sustainability (DESTABLE)

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

"Sociotechnical transitions are important to address environmental problems. The present literature focuses on green options that break through and replace existing sociotechnical regimes. The project turns the analytical focus upside down, seeing the destabilisation and decline of existing regimes as the key to transitions. Regimes refer to the rules (knowledge base, belief system, mission, strat ...
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Towards the investigation of the nature of neutrinos with SNO+ (NeutrinosSNOPlus)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

SNO+ is a high potential, multi-faceted neutrino experiment consisting of a kiloton liquid scintillator detector surveyed by about 10,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Its main goal is the determination of the nature of the neutrino, Dirac or Majorana, via the search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 150Nd. This is recognized to be one of the most important current topics in particle physics b ...
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High Resolution Microscopy in the DNA Damage Response (Image DDR)

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

Background: The DNA damage response (DDR) is a specialised stress response fundamental to maintaining genome integrity and suppressing tumour formation. Traditional molecular and cellular biology, combined with genetics and biochemistry, have led to an understanding of the architecture of the DDR in a variety of model organisms and in human cells. These studies have employed populations of cells/ ...
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Advancing knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and innovation for growth and social well-being in Europe (AEGIS)

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

The proposed research project will study the interactions between knowledge, economic growth and social wellbeing in Europe. It focuses on knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship as a necessary mechanism and an agent of change mediating between the creation of knowledge and its transformation into economic activity. Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship is perceived herein as a core interface between ...
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Between evolutionary games and life history theory (mathecoevo)

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

The objective of this project is to develop mathematical structure that will be connection of evolutionary game paradigm with life history theory. In classical life history optimization models there are no interactions among individuals or density dependence: "Life history evolution usually ignores density and frequency dependence. The justification is convenience, not logic or realism" (Stearns 1 ...
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Building RAPPORT Between Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises And Public Or Private Research Capabilities (RAPPORT)

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

"This project has three aims: i) To develop a reference guide of good practices including benchmarks for strengthening the knowledge exchange and transfer between research and SMEs ii) To develop a blueprint paper on new emerging forms of SMEs support for research with the involvement of large corporations in a context where open innovation and public-private partnerships have increasingly gained ...
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Effects of pleiotropy and drift on adaptation in static and changing environments (PleioChange)

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

A species response to environmental change is one of today’s most challenging issues for life scientists; it contributes to determine the extent to which human-induced environmental perturbations will affect human society. While theory is expected to play a key role in the understanding this complex and topical issue, current investigations are typically limited to the study of evolution of a sing ...
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Financial Services Governance in the European Union (FINGOVEU)

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

This project examines the governance of financial services in the European Union (EU). This research is both academically interesting and policy relevant. Academic research has not kept pace with new developments in this field, and interdisciplinary research is very much needed, as financial services governance is at the cross road between politics, economics and law. At the practical level, the f ...
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"Inferring adaptation, population size and lifecycle, from population genomics in a marine picoplanktonic species : Ostreococcus tauri (Chlorophyta)" (PICOPOP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

"Planktonic eukaryotes are keystone players in the global carbon cycle, yet knowledge about their population diversity is late. This is not surprising since we are still actively investigating species richness, within these very diverse organisms. Phytoplankter are difficult to isolate and grow in the lab, so that direct analysis of their DNA sequence is the unique way to gain knowledge into their ...
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Finance, Innovation and Growth: Changing Patterns and Policy Implications (FINNOV)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

The long-term economic performance of Europe depends on its ability to generate new knowledge and inventions, and, to translate invention into innovation and innovation into economic adaptation and growth.This ability is central to achieving the objectives of the Lisbon Agenda and the new industrial policy in an enlarged EU.However, innovation involves more than invention, more than the funding of ...
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"Impact of Networks, Globalisation, and their Interaction with EU Strategies" (INGINEUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"INGINEUS addresses the evolution of global production networks (GPNs) into global innovation networks (GINs), and the impact this new process of global capitalism has on knowledge intensive activities in the EU. Global sourcing and assembly arrangements have been around for some three decades. They were principally based on efficiency considerations. Thus, multinational firms (MNCs) outsourced pa ...
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Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot (ECCEROBOT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Description Anthropomimetic robot with the inner human body structure and mechanisms Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form, but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in ...
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Plebiscitary Politics in European Integration: Analysing the Causes and Effects of Holding Referendums on the EU (PlebPolEuInt)

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

The primary objective of the project is to contribute to the theoretical integration of the domestic-level dynamics of plebiscitary politics into the study of European integration. Plebiscitary politics, in this context, is taken to refer to the politics by governments of voluntarily committing to popular consultations on European issues which are neither constitutionally required nor forced upon ...
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Policy Influence of indicators (POINT)

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

Our overall aim is to help find better ways of using indicators in all aspects of policy, but with a thematic focus on the role of indicators in fostering and supporting change in areas of policy making towards ‘Sustainable Development’. The research area of indicators in the presumed service of sustainability will provide a rich ground for addressing the actual use, influence and impacts of indic ...
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The changing nature of Internationalization of Innovation in Europe: impact on firms and the implications for innovation policy in the EU (GlobInn)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

The overall purpose of the GlobInn project is to improve our understanding of the changing nature of internationalization of Europe’s innovation systems by studying the international knowledge sourcing strategies of European firms and their effect on performance. The starting premise of the project is that Europe’s knowledge resources and its role in the global economy will be increasingly shaped ...
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Fostering Regional Innovation and Development through Anchors and Networks: A Cross Regional Comparison in an Evolving International Context (FRIDA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"The FRIDA (‘Fostering Regional Innovation and Development through Anchors and Networks’) project aims to improve regional policy making within the EU, by advancing state of the art understanding of the importance of anchor firms to regional development and cohesion. Anchor firms are known to be increasingly important to regional development as highly entrepreneurial, multi-national firms restruct ...
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Absolutism as political language in early modern European discourse on statecraft (Absolutism)

Start date: Jan 5, 2009, End date: Jan 4, 2011,

The chief goal of the project is to provide a thorough, accurate and historiographically timely study of the political language of “early modern European absolutism”. Covering a major scholarly gap, my research explores the political vocabularies and philosophical paradigms employed by English, French and Spanish absolutist theorists to defend the cause of an unrestrained monarchy depicted along p ...
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Art Festivals and the European Public Culture (EURO-FESTIVAL)

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

"This research is a contribution to the comparative cultural sociology of contemporary European society. The aim of the research is to examine the role of festivals as sites of trans-national identifications and democratic debate. Analytically, the project objectives are to: (1) Explore how festivals use aesthetic forms to symbolize, represent and communicate social and political life (European, n ...
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