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The Elementary Theory of Partially Commutative Groups (PCG)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

"The solution of Tarski's problems on the first-order theory of freegroups has uncovered deep connections between Model Theory, Geometryand Group Theory and served as a nexus and motivation for manyclassical results in Geometric Group Theory and Theoretical ComputerScience.Just as the Tarski problems connected the theory of free groups withthe geometry of trees, our goal is to point at a new dire ...
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Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (ATHEME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"The project Advancing The European Multilingual Experience (AThEME) takes an integrated approach towards the study of multilingualism in Europe by incorporating and combining linguistic, cognitive and sociological perspectives; by studying multilingualism in Europe at three different levels of societal magnitude, viz. the individual multilingual citizen, the multilingual group, and the multilingu ...
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Life in a cold climate: the adaptation of cereals to new environments and the establishment of agriculture in Europe (ADAPT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"This project explores the concept of agricultural spread as analogous to enforced climate change and asks how cereals adapted to new environments when agriculture was introduced into Europe. Archaeologists have long recognized that the ecological pressures placed on crops would have had an impact on the spread and subsequent development of agriculture, but previously there has been no means of di ...
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MANAGING THE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS UNDER WATER SCARCITY (GLOBAQUA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

Water and water-related services are major components of the human wellbeing, and as such are major factors of socio-economic development in Europe; yet freshwater systems are under threat by a variety of stressors (organic and inorganic pollution, geomorphological alterations, land cover change, water abstraction, invasive species and pathogens. Some stressors, such as water scarcity, can be a st ...
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Innovative Polymers for Energy Storage (IPES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

iPes project aims to provide adequate support to Dr. David Mecerreyes (DM) who is at the stage of consolidating an independent research team. During his scientific career, DM has demonstrated creative thinking and excellent capacity to carry out research and going beyond the state of the art. His meritorious record of research, scientific publications (128 ISI articles, h index = 33), project conc ...
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Network for Sensor Knowledge Transfer (IBS-NETWORK)

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

The aim of Research Exchange programme Ionophore Based Sensor Network (IBS-NETWORK) is to establish the scientific basis from which the utility and potential for IBSs can be extended in a range of new sectors. To achieve this requires the combined expertise from a number of disciplines and backgrounds, including analytical science focused on IBSs, organic synthesis, material science, microfluidics ...
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Magnetoelectric couplings in solids and related phenomena: First-principles theory (MagnetoOrbital)

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

This proposal deals with theoretical and computational studies of megnetoelectric couplings and related phenomena in solds.The first goal is to develop and apply first-principles methods capable to describing the full magnetoelectric response ofantiferromagnetic insulators to static fields. Previous work has successfully deal with the response associated with the spin of theelectrons, but the orb ...
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Affordable and Adaptable Public Buildings through Energy Efficient Retrofitting (A2PBEER)

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

Buildings consume about 40% of total final energy in Europe, and those built before 1980 represent 95% of this energy consumption. The low renovation rate of building stock (1% per year) means that boosting energy efficient buildings’ retrofitting is the only way to reach EU’s “20-20-20” targets. The higher impact will be achieved through interventions in non-residential buildings, as their energy ...
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NAPES - Next Generation Analytical Platforms for Environmental Sensing (NAPES)

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

GOALS:The current state-of-the-art for autonomous environmental instruments monitoring the chemical and biological status of our water is based on flow systems that employ conventional approaches to sample/liquid handling, which makes them prohibitively expensive (often >€20K per unit) in terms of up-scaling deployments. This project will investigate ways to deliver revolutionary advances in liqui ...
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Identification of new molecular and genetic basis of ammonium use efficiency in plants (AMUSE)

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

"Sustainable agriculture means to maintain equilibrium between obtaining a product at the best possible yield and with the best possible quality at the same time that the minimum environmental impact is provoked. Among the major challenges that the European Commission Horizon 2020 describes to be faced by researchers in the near future for building a better society, resources efficiency and sustai ...
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Archaeology of Commons: cultural Heritage and Material Evidence of a Disappearing Europe (ARCHIMEDE)

Start date: Sep 3, 2014, End date: Feb 20, 2017,

The main goal of the project is to attain the intimate social dimension at the base of the common lands management in the context of South Europe Mountain regions, by means of historical and archaeological analysis.The existence of common lands, the complexity of their different uses and the permanence of common rights on lands were crucial in shaping rural landscapes, so they are nowadays protect ...
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End-user driven DEmo for cbrNe (EDEN)

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

The accidental or deliberate release of CBRNE materials are low probability events that can have a significant impact on citizens and society. Whenever and wherever they occur, they usually require a gradual and multi-facetted response as they tend to provoke severe and unexpected physical, psychological, societal, economical and political effects that cross EU-borders. Successful CBRNE resilience ...
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Electrical spin manipulation in electroACtive MOLecules (ACMOL)

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

The project "Electrical spin manipulation in electroACtive MOLecules" (ACMOL) has the ambitious goal of fabricating a switchable, room-temperature spin-polarizer employing electro-active and magnetic molecules, which are integrated into graphene-type electrodes modified with ferromagnetic materials. The combination of these molecules with ferromagnetic electrodes is a new route in spintronics. Exp ...
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Coupling effects in magnetic patterned nanostructures (COEF-MAGNANO)

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

The scientific objective of this programme is to achieve a comprehensive knowledge of magnetically coupled systems of reduced dimensionality. Spin configuration, magnetic and electrical properties of patterned nanostructures will be investigated in three kinds of magnetically coupled materials: antiferromagnetic / ferromagnetic (AF/FM), very thin multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy and super ...
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Innovative Ionic polymers from Natural Sources for Energy&Environment (IONRUN)

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

IONRUN (Innovative Ionic polymers from Natural Sources for Energy&Environment) International Research StaffScheme aims to stregthen research partnerships through staff exchanges and networking activities between threeEuropean Research organizations: University of the Basque Country (Spain), University Cergy-Pontoise (France) andUniversity Nova of Lisbon (Portugal) and five non-EU Research Organiza ...
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Expanding Capability in Heterocyclic Organic Synthesis (ECHONET)

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

"ECHONET is an Initial Training Network (ITN) comprising 8 full network participants from 6 countries, spanning 6 academic institutions and two private sector organisations, the latter representing SME and Global fine chemicals companies. The network is also supported by 2 associated partners from the private sector. Taken together, the consortium will offer research training and generic skills de ...
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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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Polymer - Carbon Nanotubes Active Systems for Photovoltaics (POCAONTAS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Organic solar cells (OSC) feature several advantages over “classical” silicon solar cells: low cost, energy effective production, low weight and semi-transparency. This makes them apt for novel applications like, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) with high market potential. However, both the efficiency and the long-term stability must be enhanced for OSCs to become profitable. POCAONTAS wil ...
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TRAINING NETWORK ON ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS INTEGRATED WITH LIVING SYSTEMS FOR NEUROSCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS AND APPLICATIONS (OLIMPIA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"OLIMPIA is a training network initiative built on research and development of innovative organic optoelectronic devices interfaced and integrated with living systems. The living systems of choice are neural cells (glia and neuron) that will be interfaced and integrated in vitro and in vivo with different organic electronic and optoelectronic devices (such as OLED, OFET/OLET, OECT, OPD). The major ...
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Learning to Create (Lrn2Cre8)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Lrn2Cre8 aims to understand the relationship between learning and creativity by means of practical engineering, theoretical study, and cognitive comparison. We begin from the position that creativity is a function of memory, that generates new structures based on memorised ones, by processes which are essentially statistical. Thus, the project is situated in the tradition of frequentist statistica ...
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Optical charge transfer processes in early stages of photosynthesis from first-principle computational techniques (OptChaTra)

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

Optically exited charge-transfer states play a crucial role in the early stages of photosynthesis but are notoriously difficult to describe efficiently with first-principles computational techniques. This difficulty not only limits the current understanding of the detailed atomistic processes in photosynthesis but is also an obstacle in simulating novel designs of photovoltaic materials that are ...
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More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

The More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB) consortium evolved from the highly successful FP6 project, New Medicines for TB (NM4TB), that delivered a candidate drug for clinical development two years ahead of schedule. Building on these firm foundations and exploiting its proprietary pharmacophores, MM4TB will continue to develop new drugs for TB treatment. An integrated approach will be impleme ...
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Novel Amide Based Polymeric ionic Liquids: Potential Candidates for CO2 capture (NABPIL)

Start date: Jun 19, 2014, End date: Jun 18, 2016,

Global warming is certainly an alarming environmental issue at present owing to rising CO2 level in the atmosphere that needs to be addressed instantly1. Carbon dioxide has been proven to be a greenhouse gas (GHG), which contributes to the increase in earth’s surface temperature, ocean acidity and air toxicity, and may cause adverse climate changes. Existing scenario reveals the demand to reduce C ...
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TRAINING NETWORK IN INNOVATIVE POLYELECTROLYTES FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT (RENAISSANCE)

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

The introduction of new ionic moieties (cations and anions) into polymers is giving rise to a new family of functional polymers with particular properties and new applications which is provoking a RENAISSANCE of the chemistry and applications of classic polyelectrolytes. However, further developments and a better understanding of the properties and applications of innovative polyelectrolytes are ...
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Unifying Cloud and Carrier Networks (UNIFY)

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

Telecom providers struggle with low service flexibility, increasing complexity and related costs. Although cloud computing and networking have been two very active fields of research, there is currently little integration between the vast networking assets and data centres of telecom providers. UNIFY addresses this by considering the entire network, from home networks up to data centre, as a "unif ...
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Photophysics of Fluorescent Proteins (PhotoProtein)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Fluorescent fusion tags have revolutionized many fields in molecular biology. Since the first applications of the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) extracted from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, the photophysical properties of the protein have been improved and modified to optimize their application in various novel in vivo imaging techniques. These applications exploit, unique properties of fluore ...
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Local content in a Europeana cloud (LoCloud)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

LoCloud aims to build on the achievements of CARARE in establishing a repository-based aggregator for Archaeological and Architectural heritage and of Europeana Local in its work with local institutions and their regional and national aggregators, which resulted in the contribution to date of well over 5 million items to Europeana.The main goals of LoCloud are: to continue to ease the task of ena ...
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Scalable Superconducting Processors for Entangled Quantum Information Technology (ScaleQIT)

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

The ScaleQIT vision is to "develop a conceptual platform for potentially disruptive technologies, advance their scope and breadth and speed up the process of bringing them from the lab to the real world." ScaleQIT will address the engineering side of quantum information processing (QIP), analyzing and implementing realistic scenarios for scaling-up superconducting hybrid systems for quantum compu ...
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Bio-based polyurethane composites with natural fillers (BIOPURFIL)

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

"The overall aim of this proposal is to create multinational partnership between European and South American research teams in order to exchange knowledge and experience concerning ""state of the-art"". Such solution will strengthen research cooperation and transfer ofknowledge between partners from Poland (Cracow University of Technology), Latvia (Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry), Spain ...
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Palaeolithic Plant Use in the Western Mediterranean (PALEOPLANT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

This project deals with one of the big gaps of knowledge in prehistory, how plant foods and resources were used by preagrarian societies. Plants have been fundamental for human societies across the planet. However, it is a blank when it comes to archaeological evidence of humans eating and exploiting them during most part of Prehistory. This work aims at changing the meat/hunting centred paradigm ...
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Building structured event indexes of large volumes of financial and economic data for decision making (NewsReader)

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

The volume of news data is enormous and expanding, covering billions of archived documents and millions of documents as daily streams, while at the same time getting more and more interconnected with knowledge provided elsewhere. Professional decision-makers that need to respond quickly to new developments and knowledge or that need to explain these developments on the basis of the past are faced ...
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European Soft Matter Infrastructure (ESMI)

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

The central objective of this ESMI proposal is to create a top-level interdisciplinary research infrastructure available to a broad European materials research community. This is of crucial importance to the EU in view of the European strategy for nanosciences and nanotechnology and its implementation report that identifies “a lack of leading interdisciplinary infrastructures”.ESMI offers the mos ...
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Nanocomposite materials for photocatalytic degradation of pollutants (LIMPID)

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

Limpid aims at generating new knowledge on photocatalytic materials and processes in order to develop novel depollution treatments with enhanced efficiency and applicability. The main goal of LIMPID is to develop materials and technologies based on the synergic combination of different types of nanoparticles (NPs) into a polymer host to generate innovative nanocomposites which can be actively appl ...
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High speed metallic material removal under acceptable surface integrity for rotating frame (HIMMOVAL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

"The HIMMOVAL project aims to develop a new rapid metal removal concept under acceptable surface integrity for fabricating typical jet engine components made of high resistant super alloys that will be based on smart use of non-conventional machining methods, namely water jet technologies and low plasticity burnishing surface treatment, optimized conventional machining and a well-defined sequence ...
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EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF STRUCTURAL POLICIES ON HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND THEIR SOCIAL DETERMINANTS AND FOSTERING CHANGE (SOPHIE)

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

The need to deal with health inequalities is now on the agenda of key supranational institutions, such as the European Commission (EC). To tackle the so-called “causes of the causes of health inequity”, the focus should be put on structural policies, policies that – especially in the current times of financial and employment crisis – influence patterns of social stratification, living and working ...
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Quantum Propagating Microwaves in Strongly Coupled Environments (PROMISCE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The aim of PROMISCE is to provide the foundations for a novel research field: propagating quantum microwave technologies in strongly and ultrastrongly coupled environments. In particular, its potential for scalable quantum information and communication technology (Q-ICT) applications will be demonstrated. PROMISCE is born from a challenging and controversial idea, which is that microwave photons c ...
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FLAX AND HEMP ADVANCED FIBER BASED COMPOSITES (FLHEA)

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

Agriculture is one of the biggest sectors in Europe, representing a gross value added around EUR 148 billion, employing almost 25 million people in the EU-27(2011). However, this sector faces nowadays several challenges: competition with cheaper products from other countries, lower margins, and stringent policies, while keeping required productivity, safety and sustainability within EU. Developmen ...
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First-principles theory of spatial dispersion in electromagnetic response of solids: Applications to natural optical activity and magnetoelectric effect (RespSpatDisp)

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

The global objective of the project is to develop a theoretical framework for the first-principles description of the macroscopic electromagnetic response of solids with a full and accurate account of the spatial dispersion and memory effects. The new scheme will be applied to study two fundamental properties of extended systems: the natural optical activity and the magnetoelectric effect in cryst ...
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Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3plus)

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

This proposal details activities that will ensure the continued enhancement and ongoing operation of the leading-edge GÉANT network, supporting a range of network and added-value services, targeted at users across the GÉANT service area.In the area of multi-domain network service operation, GN3plus plans to deliver fast, efficient provisioning of advanced services, develop operational support acro ...
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Electron Correlation - The Electronic Ground State of Graphene Nanoribbons (Electron Correlation)

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

Graphene nanoribbons are derivates of graphene. Since its discovery in 2004 by Andre K. Geim and Konstantin S. Novoselov it has received enormous attention earning its discoverers the 2010 nobel prize. The great interest in graphene originates in its unique properties.Graphene nanoribbons are an interesting building block for spintronics. In standard electronics the information carrier is the char ...
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