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Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability, leading to great personal suffering to victim and relatives, as well as huge direct and indirect costs to society. Strong ethical, medical, social and health economic reasons therefore exist for improving treatment. The CENTER-TBI project will collect a prospective, contemporary, highly granular, observational dataset of 5400 p ...
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The Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Few advances in neuroscience could have as much impact as a precise global description of human brain connectivity and its variability. Understanding this ‘connectome’ in detail will provide insights into fundamental neural processes and intractable neuropsychiatric diseases.The connectome can be studied at millimetre scale in humans by neuroimaging, particularly diffusion and functional connectiv ...
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Engineering Bio-inspired Materials for Biosensing and Regenerative Medicine (Naturale CG)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

In Naturale CG I propose transformative bioengineering approaches that will overcome severe limitations in current materials in two main areas, namely 1) Biosensing and 2) Regenerative Medicine. A key focus is on understanding and engineering the biomaterial interface using innovative designs and state of the art materials characterisation methods. Firstly I aim to transform the way that we can cu ...
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Development of a Bio-Inspired Blood Factory for Personalised Healthcare (BioBlood)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Personalized medicine is a medical model that proposes the customization of healthcare, with decisions and practices being tailored to the individual patient by use of patient-specific information and/or application of patient-specific cell-based therapies. BioBlood aims to deliver personalised healthcare through a “step change” in the clinical field of haemato-oncology. BioBlood represents an eng ...
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The role of mechanical forces induced by prenatal movements in joint morphogenesis (MechJointMorph)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Most joints start off the same during embryonic development, as two opposing cartilage surfaces, and are moulded into the diverse range of shapes seen in the adult in a process known as morphogenesis. While we understand very little of the biological or mechanobiological processes driving joint morphogenesis, there is evidence to suggest that fetal movements play a critical role in joint shape dev ...
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Fractal-generated fluid flows: new flow concepts, technological innovation and fundamentals (Multiturbulence)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The unprecedented requirements set by thedramatically evolving energy, environmental and climatic constraintsmean that industry needs new turbulent and vortical flow concepts fornew flow-technology solutions. The full potential and economic impactof radically new industrial flow concepts can only be realised with astep change (i) in the ways we generate and condition turbulent andvortical flows an ...
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An Intelligent Implantable MOdulator of Vagus nervE function for treatment of Obesity (i2MOVE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Obesity is one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century. Affecting over half a billion people worldwide, it increases the risk of stroke, ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, many cancers, depression and complications in pregnancy. Bariatric surgery is currently the only effective treatment available but is associated with significant risks of mortality and long-term complicatio ...
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Silicon Nitride Coatings for Improved Implant Function (LifeLongJoints)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Articulating joint replacements represent a medical market exceeding €14 billion p.a. that is expected to rise as demographics reflect an ageing population. However, faster growth has been seen in the revision market, where prosthetic joints are replaced, than in primary interventions. The major cause of these revisions is that all joint replacements are prone to wear leading to loss of implant fu ...
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Smart Nano-objects for Alteration of Lipid-bilayers (SNAL)

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

"SNAL is a multidisciplinary programme specially designed to provide scientific and transferable skill training and career development for early stage researchers and experienced researchers in membrane research. Working in a multidisciplinary network will give the researchers a broad perspective on their research field as well as the basic ability of pursuing a research project from basic science ...
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How force regulates cell function: a molecular and cellular outlook (ForceRegulation)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Force is ubiquitous in nature and physical stimuli are crucial for cell function. How cells process forces determines key physiological processes such as cell growth and differentiation, in which cells divide or differentiate according to the chemical and physical cues cells receive from the extracellular matrix. Physical stimuli have also been involved in the development of pathological processes ...
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ASCENT - Advanced Solid Cycles with Efficient Novel Technologies (ASCENT)

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

"ASCENT will provide a robust proof-of-concept of three related high temperature processes; each will lead to a step-change in efficiency of carbon removal in three types of pre-combustion capture, producing the hydrogen needed for highly efficient low-carbon power production. The project brings together five small and medium enterprises preparing to launch these concepts with the support of leadi ...
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Addressing Fundamental Challenges in the Design of new generation fuels (GENFUEL)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

There is a pressing need at the European and global levels to address challenges in the design of a new generation of fuels in order to achieve significant efficiency and emissions benefits in modern downsized boosted engines employing gasoline and ethanol blends. Abnormal combustion phenomena are a severe constraint to the use of much higher boosting pressures which are needed for significant ga ...
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From Patient Data to Clinical Diagnosis in Neurodegenerative Diseases (PredictND)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Dementia is a growing health problem with enormous costs to society: the costs currently equal 1% of the global gross-domestic product and a three-fold increase to 115 million dementia cases is expected by 2050. Addressing this grave human and economic challenge requires efficient solutions that do not exist yet: tools to detect and diagnose persons at an early phase, and interventions for delayin ...
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Training in Embedded Predictive Control and Optimization (TEMPO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

"TEMPO addresses the needs of European companies and society for embedded control technology, through training on cutting edge research in the rapidly emerging inter-disciplinary field of embedded predictive control and optimization. The key objectives are:- to expand the scientific and technical knowledge platform for Embedded Predictive Control and Optimization in Europe;- to exploit this platfo ...
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Preparing for Extreme And Rare events in coastaL regions (PEARL)

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

"Coastal floods are one of the most dangerous and harmful natural hazards affecting urban areas adjacent to shorelines. Rapid urbanisation combined with climate change and poor governance means a significant increase in the risk of local surface flooding coinciding with high water levels in rivers and high tide or storm surges from the sea, posing a greater risk of devastation to coastal communiti ...
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Advanced coupling of low order combustor simulations with thermoacoustic modelling and controller design (ACOULOMODE)

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

"Combustion is essential to the world’s energy generation and transport needs, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Mitigating its impact on the climate and human health, by reducing its associated emissions, is thus a priority. One significant challenge for gas-turbine combustion is combustion instability, which is currently inhibiting reductions in NOx emissions (these damage human hea ...
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RENESENG

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

"RENESENG aims to prepare a new generation of highly-qualified researchers in Biorefinery and biobased chemicals Systems Engineering Sciences in Europe, expected to bear high impact in the design of newly establishing industrial complexes in biorefinering and more generally in eco-industries. The effort requires to bring together academic and industrial teams, with particularly interdisciplinary a ...
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"High resolution monitoring, real time visualization and reliable modeling of highly controlled, intermediate and up-scalable size pilot injection tests of underground storage of CO2" (TRUST)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"TRUST aims at conducting CO2 injection experiments at scales large enough so that the output can be extrapolated at industrial scales. It relies on four sites: the heavily instrumented sites of Heletz (Israel, main site) and Hontomin (Spain), access Miranga (Brazil) and the emerging site in the Baltic Sea region. The objectives are to: carry out CO2 injection with different strategies, displaying ...
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Production and Reliability Oriented SOFC Cell and Stack Design (PROSOFC)

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

This project aims at improving the robustness, manufacturability, efficiency and cost of SOLIDpower’s state-of-the-art SOFC stacks so as to reach market entry requirements. We propose a focused project addressing the key issues that have manifested themselves in the course of the ongoing product development efforts at SOLIDpower SA. The key issues are the mechanical robustness of solid oxide fuel ...
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"Scandium-based multifunctional nitrides for optoelectronic, polaritonic and ferro/magnetoelectric devices" (SCOPE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"Device performance is ultimately limited by material properties. To break existing performance limits, I plan to develop a new multifunctional Sc-based nitride materials platform in which tuneable semiconducting, ferroelectric and magnetic functionalities may be achieved for the first time. I can then address three major challenges: (1) solving a 20-year-old problem in solid-state-lighting using ...
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Solution for cost-effective integration of renewable intermittent generation by demonstrating the feasibility of flexible large-scale energy storage with innovative market and grid control approach (ESTORAGE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The objective of eStorage is to develop cost-effective solutions for the widespread deployment of flexible, reliable, GWh-scale storage across EU, and to enhance grid management systems to allow the integration of large share of renewable.The key issue we plan to address is the need for power regulation during low demand periods, when only inflexible baseload generation and intermittent renewable ...
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Delivering European Translational Information & Knowledge Management Services (ETRIKS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Since its inception the IMI has funded over 30 public-private partnership projects. Many of these projects are centered upon data intensive translational research and are employing integrative analysis approaches to achieve their goals. Although a common KM platform for IMI projects was envisioned in the original IMI Strategic Research Agenda it has not yet been implemented. The lack of a common p ...
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Experimental and Computational Tools for Combustion Optimization in Marine and Automotive Engines (ECCO-MATE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"ECCO-MATE aims to create a research and training platform for the development and implementation of novel fuel mixture preparation, injection profiling, air management and staged/low temperature combustion technologies both in marine and light-duty automotive diesel engines. The marine (slow speed, large-sized, two-stroke engines) and land-transport (high speed, small-to-medium-sized, four-stroke ...
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Symbiotic man-machine interactions in wearable exoskeletons to enhance mobility for paraplegics (Symbitron)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

SYMBITRON targets a major technological leap for symbiotic man-machine interactions. In particular, the project results will markedly improve the lives of (partially) paralyzed persons through the development of a superior wearable exoskeleton. Such systems are designed to offer Spinal Cord Injured (SCI) patients the ability to walk and overcome obstacles in their daily life. To date, wearable exo ...
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Materials for Ageing Resistant Li-ion High Energy Storage for the Electric Vehicle (MARS-EV)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

MARS-EV aims to overcome the ageing phenomenon in Li-ion cells by focusing on the development of high-energy electrode materials (250 Wh/kg at cell level) via sustainable scaled-up synthesis and safe electrolyte systems with improved cycle life (> 3000 cycles at 100%DOD). Through industrial prototype cell assembly and testing coupled with modelling MARS-EV will improve the understanding of the age ...
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FREVUE VALIDATING FREIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN URBAN EUROPE (FREVUE)

Start date: Mar 15, 2013, End date: Sep 14, 2017,

Eight of Europe’s largest cities, will demonstrate that electric vehicles operating “last mile” freight movements in urban centres can offer significant and achievable decarbonisation of the European transport system. Demonstrators will be deployed in Amsterdam, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Rotterdam and Stockholm. The demonstrators have been designed to ensure FREVUE covers the breadth of ...
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Complex Fluid Interfaces in Biomedical and Industrial Multiphase Flows (COMPFLIX)

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

"The focus of my research is on interfacial fluid dynamics in complex multiphase flows. Fluid interfaces in biomedical flows and industrial processing flows present complex microstructures due to adsorption of surfactants or solid particles. The interfacial rheological properties of these complex fluid interfaces are crucial parameters for implementing predictive models of complex multiphase flows ...
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Graded Membranes for Energy Efficient New Generation Carbon Capture Process (GREEN-CC)

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

Major sources for human made CO2 emissions comprise the energy and the industrial sector including cement production. One of the most appropriate concepts to capture CO2 from such point sources is the oxyfuel combustion. The main energy demand for this method results from the O2 generation, which is usually done by air liquefaction. This energy demand can substantially be lowered using thermally i ...
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European-wide field trials for residential fuel cell micro-CHP (ENE.FIELD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

ene.field will deploy up to 1,000 residential fuel cell Combined Heat and Power (micro-CHP) installations, across 11 key Member States. It represents a step change in the volume of fuel cell micro-CHP (micro FC-CHP) deployment in Europe and a meaningful step towards commercialisation of the technology.The programme brings together 9 mature European micro FC-CHP manufacturers into a common analysis ...
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improvement in Bearing Technology Through European Research Collaboration (iBETTER)

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

The iBETTER project aims to join industrial and academic forces to develop a new prognostic methodology that predicts the useful life after a fault has occured in these bearings. Thirty researchers from the fields of tribology, condition monitoring and rolling bearing technology from two industrial and two academic partners will be seconded from one sector to the other, to implement a common resea ...
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Balance Augmentation in Locomotion, through Anticipative, Natural and Cooperative control of Exoskeletons (BALANCE)

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

Description The goal of the BALANCE project is to realize an exoskeletal robot that improves the balance performance of humans, targeted at users facing balance-challenging conditions or suffering from a lack of ability to walk or maintain balance during walking. The proposed exoskeleton is human-cooperative in the sense that the control of ...
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Innovative Reuse of All Tyre Components in Concrete (ANAGENNISI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

An estimated one billion tyres are discarded each year. Post-Consumer tyre arisings for EU countries (2010) are 3.4M tonnes per year. At the moment nearly 50% of all recycled tyres/components still end up as fuel, in low grade applications or in landfill.All tyre constituents (rubber, high strength steel cord and wire, high strength textile reinforcement) are high quality materials and deserve to ...
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Technology Options for Coupled Underground Coal Gasification and CO2 Capture and Storage (TOPS)

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

The main objective of the proposed project is to develop a generic UCG-CCS site characterisation workflow, and the accompanying technologies, which would address the dilemma faced by the proponents of reactor zone CO2 storage, and offer technological solutions to source sink mismatch issues that are likely to be faced in many coalfields. This objective will be achieved through integrated research ...
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"Conceptually new, multi-scale solutions to industrial flow problems." (MULTISOLVE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"Efficient use of energy and suppression of environmental pollution due to harmful emissions and noise (e.g. from aircraft near urban areas) are of paramount importance for sustainable development. New techniques are urgently needed for process intensification, reduced fuel consumption, pollution and noise. The central aim of this proposal is to address some of these problems by applying a new cla ...
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Combined Efficient Large Scale Integrated Urban Systems (CELSIUS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The CELSIUS City Consortium is going to deploy 12 new technically and economically innovative demonstrators. Another up to 20 state-of-art demonstrators (already in operation) will proof the CELSIUS City Concept covering the full FP7 8.8.2 requirements.CELSIUS has a clear strategy and a pro-active approach to Market Outreach, which will strive to commit 50 new cities to the CELSIUS Roadmap by the ...
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VPH Dementia Research Enabled by IT (VPH-DARE@IT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The DementiA Research Enabled by IT project responds to the European Parliament's 2011 resolution for a European Initiative on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and the EU Year of the Brain 2014 Initiative. It delivers the first patient-specific predictive models for early differential diagnosis of dementias and their evolution. Its mechanistic/phenomenological models of the ageing brain ac ...
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Remediation and mitigation of CO2 leakage (MIRECOL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Safety, reliability and controllability are essential elements influencing the public perception and licensing of CO2 storage. Therefore a thorough analysis of leakage mechanisms and threats to the safety and security of storage will be the first activity in the MiReCOL project. This will form the basis for an analysis of mitigation and remediation options. Both existing (state-of-the-art) and new ...
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A FAST process and production system for high-throughput, highly flexible and cost-efficient volume production of miniaturised components made of a wide range of materials (Micro-FAST)

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

The aim of the project is to develop a completely new manufacturing system for the volume production of miniaturised components by overcoming the challenges on the manufacturing with a wide range of materials (metallic alloys, composites, ceramics and polymers), through: (i) developing a high-throughput, flexible and cost-efficient process by simultaneous electrical-forming and electric-fast-sinte ...
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Water analytics and Intelligent Sensing for Demand Optimised Management (WISDOM)

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

Growing water demand caused by climate change, urbanization and population growth requires new business and technology platforms to manage the increased level of diversity and complexity of urban water resources management. The increasing variability of both supply and consumption will also require more sophisticated and optimized decision making.To achieve a step change in water and energy saving ...
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Targeting potential of carbon nanotubes at the blood brain barrier (CNTBBB)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Targeted drug delivery across the blood brain barrier (BBB) to the central nervous system is a large challenge for the treatment of neurological disorders. This 4 year ERC program is aimed towards the evaluating the BBB penetration capacity and toxicological potential of novel carbon nanotube (CNT) carriers using an integrated multidisciplinary approach. State-of-art characterisation techniques de ...
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