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Centre for Europe-Brazil Business and Innovation Cooperation (CEBRABIC)

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

This CSA intends to establish and deploy the Centre for Europe-Brazil Business Innovation Cooperation (CEBRABIC). The Centre will connect and support European Research & Innovation & Business (R&I&B) organizations in the Brazilian market, while strengthening the European Union’s position as a world leader in Science, Technology and Innovation. The Centre will achieve these goals by sustainably off ...
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Business Transformation towards Digitalization and Smart Systems

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...A are eager to disseminate and apply the results of BITTMAS in broad educational activities, from company trainings to learning factories, run together with industrial partners. Sabanci will use their academic and industrial network to disseminate the results and include them in curricula. IBK will use its Europe-wide distribution network for dissemination. IIC will use the results in their intern ...
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The Future of EU-Turkey Relations. Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios (FEUTURE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The EU and Turkey face mounting challenges both in relation to one another and internationally. The EU is confronted with an economic crisis which is likely to make differentiation a growing phenomenon. Turkey faces polarisation between different political forces, the state and civil society. The neighbourhood is unravelling to the east and south and a power shift is under way at global level. Thi ...
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TACTILENet: Towards Agile, effiCient, auTonomous and massIvely LargE Network of things (TACTILENet)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The vision for the 5th generation of mobile networks (5G) includes at its heart the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, leading to a new era of connectivity where billions of devices exchange data and instill intelligence in our everyday life. The EU has set out to play a leading role in developing 5G technologies by consolidating and building upon the most important research and innovation result ...
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Generation Y’s Virtual Guide to Skill Development and Personal Branding in Social Media

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Today, university students in the scope of their academic lessons, can acquire variety of information and skills and graduate as equipped with technical skills like computer literacy and language. However, at the stage of hiring, employers would also like to see a certain level of competence in behavioral skills such as leadership, teamwork and innovation along with technical knowledge and experi ...
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An integrated approach to diversify the genetic base, improve stress resistance, agronomic management and nutritional/processing quality of minor cereal crops for human nutrition in Europe (HealthyMinorCereals)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Consumers have increasing demands for healthy, nutritious, and innovative food produced sustainably. Minor cereals can address these points, as well as contributing to feed and non-food markets. However, they have been hardly developed as commercial varieties, with no major investment to exploit genetic diversity in breeding programmes, and have low yields. There has been little research to optimi ...
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A Mechanism Design and Cheap Talk Approach to Mediation (Mediation)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) technique. If two or more parties are in disagreement, then they can take the case to a court and let the judge give the final decision. Alternatively, the disputing parties can get the help of an experienced, neutral third party (i.e., the mediator) who facilitates a negotiation and help the disagreeing parties reach an agreement short of litig ...
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Smart and Networking UnderWAter Robots in Cooperation Meshes (SWARMs)

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

Nowadays, the major part of offshore operations is done by divers in dangerous missions. Since their number is limited, the dependency on their work represents a real threat to the offshore industry. The extended use of unmanned underwater vehicles (AUVs/ROVs) could solve this problem but since they are usually tailor-made for a specific task and difficult to operate their deployment is very expen ...
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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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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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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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PANACHE

Start date: Jan 2, 2014, End date: Jan 2, 2018,

Pilot line for Advanced Nonvolatile memory technologies for Automotive microControllers, High security applications and general Electronics :The PANACHE project objective is to set-up a pilot line for embedded Flash technology design and manufacturing platform for the prototyping of innovative µcontrollers in Europe.The current 40nm technology platform as well as the already defined 55nm technolog ...
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Contextualizing Europe in International Political Economy

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project IPE aims to expose students and other groups to the study of international political economy with a specific focus on contextualizing Europe. It has three major components: 1. a course designed for mainly undergraduate students; 2. a workshop designed for graduate students and faculty; 3. a seminar series geared towards general public and specialized NGOs. 1. This course aims to introd ...
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Interparliamentary Cooperation in EU External Action - Parliamentary Scrutiny and Diplomacy in the EU and Beyond

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Focusing and analysing inter-parliamentary cooperation and parliamentary diplomacy is the objective of PACO. The project aims to discover and explain if and why inter-parliamentary cooperation in the field of external relations (i.e. CFSP/CSDP, human rights, development, trade, etc.) has added to an increased scrutiny via the EP and national parliaments, and if and why parliamentary diplomacy can ...
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A New Solution to Matching Problems (NSMP)

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

"In many real-life object allocation problems, objects' priorities involve indifference classes. The common practice to deal with ties is to randomly break them to obtain strict priorities. From the ex-ante point of view, random tie breaking induces random priorities. In this setting, Dr. Afacan will introduce a fairness notion generalizing the usual stability of Gale and Shapley (1962) to the ran ...
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Investing in Europe (EURO-INVEST)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"The financial crisis of 2008 quickly turned into a debt crisis of Europe by 2010. On one hand, there are millions of people suffering due to austerity measures, which results in severe cuts both in public and private spending, on the other hand, there are economies which find it, extremely hard to grow. Unfortunately, there is a big dilemma and a self fullfilling probhecy regarding this huge econ ...
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Strengthening the web entrepreneurship ecosystem in Europe for young people by creating a pan-European network of actively engaged student networks and student entrepreneurship centres (MY-WAY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

MY-WAY aims at enhancing and improving the collaboration and efforts of web entrepreneurship initiatives (hubs, projects, accelerator networks, contests, etc.), web/business experts (accelerators, mentors, etc.), educational actors (business teachers and trainers) and the young adults as the final beneficiaries (through student networks, their alumni and student entrepreneurship centres, the stude ...
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INcreasing the InNOVation Management Capacity of SMEs in ISTanbul (INNOVIST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Main objective of INNOVIST is to increase the competitiveness and the growth rate of SMEs in Istanbul by further developing their innovation management capacities. Innovation management performance of the company will be assessed by IMP3rove in a holistic approach and a well structured documentation of the results will be shared with the company. With this diagnosis, areas for increasing the innov ...
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Maximizing the integration capacity of the European Union: Lessons and prospects for enlargement and beyond (MAXCAP)

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

The ‘big bang enlargement’ of the European Union (EU) has nurtured vivid debates among both academics and practitioners about the consequences of ‘an ever larger Union’ for the EU’s integration capacity. The research project MAXCAP will start with a critical analysis of the effects of the 2004- 2007 enlargement on stability, democracy and prosperity of candidate countries, on the one hand, and the ...
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A Comparative Perspective on Parliamentary Legislative Activity and Bureaucratic Delegation (CPAD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"In all parliamentary democracies, governments delegate some policymaking competence to bureaucrats. The very conception of cabinet governments comprised of ministers, who are derived from the party majorities and held in toe with the party line, implies a certain overlap between the executive and legislature. Policy delegation in both presidential and parliamentary systems may be motivated by lim ...
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Revealing Antibiotic Resistance Evolution (RARE)

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

"Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health problem. Bacteria can quickly develop resistance against many of the existing antimicrobials, and consequently prolonged treatment periods lead to human suffering, loss of productivity, and high health care costs. In order to tackle the antibiotic resistance problem, either new antibiotics or methods for using the current collection of antibiotic ...
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Automated Textual Recognition and Classification of International Conflict Events (CONFTEXT)

Start date: Jan 7, 2013, End date: Jan 6, 2016,

...and extend one of the most popular datasets, the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Dataset from the Correlates of War project.In this exchange program, experienced and early-stage researchers from Sabanci University (SU) and University College, London (UCL) will be trained at The Pennsylvania State University (PSU). As a result of the collaboration od the CONFTEXT exchange program, the hosting ...
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Drought-tolerant yielding plants (DROPS)

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

DROPS will develop novel methods and strategies aimed at yield maintenance under fluctuating water deficit and at enhanced plant water-use efficiency. We deal with high genotype x environment interaction in the field (any trait can have positive, negative or no effect depending on drought scenarios) with an approach combining Physiology, Genetics, field testing and Ecophysiological modelling. The ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

2014 Erasmus + KA 103 projesi kapsam?nda Sabanc? Üniversitesi (SÜ) ve partner kurumlar? aras?nda i?birliklerinin güçlendirilmesi, lisans ö?renim, staj ve personel hareketlili?i hedeflenmi?tir. Projemiz kapsam?nda, Sabanc? Üniversitesi'nden 19 farkl? ülkeye 200 ki?inin hareketlili?i gerçekle?mi?tir. Proje dahilinde, ö?renim hareketlili?i için 54 farkl? kuruma 141, staj hareketlili?i için 22 farkl? ...
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THE LIMITS TO THE TRANSFER OF FIRMS’ STATUS ADVANTAGES IN CROSS-BORDER INVESTMENTS (STATUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

"The performance benefits of firm status have been well-documented in the literature. While recent work in management has shown that status advantages may be transferable across markets as a proxy of entering firm’s quality, the limits to the transferability of status advantages, particularly across national borders, have not been fully studied. This research program proposes to study this questio ...
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Separation of Nanoparticles (NP) in Multiphase Systems (MuPSs) (NPinMuPSs)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

In biological systems, functions involving molecular recognition are crucial since key interactions in the body, such as protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions, depend on molecular binding events (e.g., hydrogen-bonding, π -stacking, and electrostatic interactions). Nanoparticles with molecular recognition properties found promising applications in biotechnology due to the advantages tha ...
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Redefining the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance (TRANSWORLD)

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

In an era of global flux, emerging powers and growing interconnectedness, transatlantic relations appear to have lost their bearings. As the international system fragments into different constellations of state and non-state powers across different policy domains, the US and the EU can no longer claim exclusive leadership in global governance. Not only the ability, but also the willingness of the ...
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Boosting Innovation Management Capacity through EEN Services (INNOVEEN)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The general objective of the project is to increase the SMEs’ innovation and innovation management capacity to enhance the regional innovation ecosystem in which they exist. In order to reach this objective the project will focus on two specific activities.The first specific objective is to act as a “Key Account Manager” to make sure that the beneficiaries of the SME Instrument in the region would ...
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ADAPTIVE, HETEROGENEOUS, INCENTIVE-COMPATIBLE, LOCALIZED AND SECURE NETWORKING (AGILENet)

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

Cognitive radio networking is in its infancy, but there is now an orchestrated effort to stimulate pertinent R&D activities in Europe and the US, following major regulatory initiatives to release previously reserved bands. Cognitive radio network research is now widely acknowledged to be central in enabling the next leap towards seamless spectrum/energy/cost-efficient operation and cohabitation of ...
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Partisan Ties that Matter? Exploring the Advantages of National Incumbency for Local Governments (Local Partisan Ties)

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

This project explores whether and how politicians in local governments benefit from their partisan ties to the national incumbents. The empirical analysis will cover local governments in two highly centralized unitary countries – Chile and Turkey. First, local election results (in Chile between 1992 and 2008 and in Turkey between 1984 and 2009) will be analyzed to understand the political and soci ...
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Bio-mimetic Multi-functional Active Porous Structures (Bio-MAPS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The objective of this research plan is to develop mathematical foundations and geometric computational algorithms to bio-mimetically model fully customized and complex three-dimensional (3D) heterogeneous (multi-material) structures with controlled material composition and distribution. The proposed work will be used to model active multi-functional porous structures with controlled micro-architec ...
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Stimuli Responsive Polymer Nanotubes by Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (SRPNiCVD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

One dimensional nanotubular structures have a wide range of applications due to their unique physical and chemical properties that are different from the bulk materials. Metal and semiconductor nanotubes are being used as sensors, optoelectronic devices or transistors. Furthermore, polymeric nanotubes have great potential as biomedical devices due to the biocompatible nature of the polymers used. ...
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"Improving nutrient efficiency in major European food, feed and biofuel crops to reduce the negative environmental impact of crop production" (NUE-CROPS)

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

"The MAIN AIM of the proposed integrating project NUE-CROPS is to develop knowledge, models and tools required to (a) breed/select NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENT (NUE) CROPS and (b) integrate NUE-crops with AGRONOMIC INNOVATIONS to significantly reduce fertiliser use and associated negative environmental impacts of crop production, while maintaining or improving crop yield and quality. The consortium incl ...
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High Efficiency Nanostructured Electrodes for Organic Solar Cells Using Solution Processed LiF (NIOS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"Conventional electrode structures for organic electronics often rely on interlayers to enhance the efficiency at inorganic electrodes. In this project, we propose to implement improved electrodes in organic solar cells by introducing solution processed LiF interlayers. The performance of devices would be compared with state- of-the-art production devices. A potential increase of performance of 1- ...
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Joining innovative Approaches for the integration and Development of transnational knowledge of clusters policies related to independent of Elderly (JADE)

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

"Citizens are getting older and are increasingly living with chronic diseases, because although their health condition is better than that of earlier generations, they live longer helped by advanced medical care ending up to chronic conditions and minor disabilities well manageable by home care. This has highlighted shared concerns by regional Governments about implications for future provision of ...
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Sustainable Peace Building (SPBuild)

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

SPBuild is created and developed by a solid and dynamic network of 11 institutions (EDEN Network for Peace and Conflict) with a proven commitment and capacity to deliver high-quality training in the rapidly developing field of Peace and Conflict research. These universities have undertaken joint research, published, and jointly created a European Doctoral Enhancement Programme on Peace and Conflic ...
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Mathematical Methods for Financial Risk Management (FiRM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

Since the pioneering works of Black & Scholes, Merton and Markowitch, sophisticated quantitative methods are being used to introduce more complex financial products each year. However, this exciting increase in the complexity forces the industry to engage in proper risk management practices. The recent financial crisis emanating from risky loan practices is a prime example of this acute need. This ...
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AUTOMATED NMR STRUCTURE-BASED ASSIGNMENTS (NMR-SBA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"While automation is revolutionizing many aspects of biology, the determination of three-dimensional protein structure remains a long, hard, and expensive task. Novel algorithms and computational methods in biomolecular NMR are necessary to apply modern techniques such as structure-based drug design on a much larger scale. The goal of this project is to address a key computational bottleneck in NM ...
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Training Network in Electoral Democracy (ELECDEM)

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

"This Initial Training Network in electoral democracy will bring together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries, including 1 from an associated country and 2 new Member States and 2 full industry partners. The goals of the ELECDEM network are encapsulated in three linked, inter-dependent themes which evaluate the effects of globalisation, communication and institutions on the quality of electo ...
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Ultra Low Energy Vertically Integrated Circuits (ULEVIS)

Start date: Sep 15, 2010, End date: Sep 14, 2013,

"The current integrated circuit scaling hits two major roadblocks or walls. One wall is the atomic level feature sizes of the current devices forcing the capabilities of even nano-scale implementations. The other wall is the total power consumed per unit area exceeding the capabilities thermal dissipation techniques limiting the maximum device densities. The solution to the feature size problem is ...
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